May 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike tell you where the Pope being American ranks in U.S. upsets globally. Ric Bucher joins the guys for all things NBA Playoffs. And proof Celtics legend Paul Pierce listens to the show
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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videos on YouTube. So we have a big Pope question
(00:52):
to get to in a few minutes here and okay, good.
It gets into the world of sport, not just the
fact that the new pop Poplio is a White Sox fan,
which clearly he knows a lot about pain suffering and
trying to bring joy to people who need it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So that's he also knows elation, as one photo has
started making the rounds.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah him from that one series in two thousand and five, right,
but maybe.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That means he was at the same game I was.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Let's go, but can you catch a pop up? I
could catch you with my pope head, with my Pope hat,
I can wear that. I can catch it with.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That running under it with his uh Pontiff's hat.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
To just catch it right in the top of that hat.
And I don't even need a glove. I'm good. I'm good.
Uh So, maybe maybe was it the Pope that that
made Doug Eddings not call uh the the ball and
that's what helped the.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Ah well maybe, but you know what, I also am
looking at it from the the concept of the new
trading cards.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I'm gonna try to get the white smoke parallel for us.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, you know that, you know the thing. White smoke
used to be a fun joke, like like just a
buff fun punch line. Oh like white smoke like the
new But now it's like everybody knows white smoke. It's
not as funny anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
No, they used to be inside got inside joking.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Now it's like, oh, white smoke like the Pope. Yeah yeah, No,
not as funny as he used to be.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, but then the conclave was less than seventy two hours.
It was nearly enough for the type of intrigue and
chaos from the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, that's because they said, my son, my son the
car card. He is. He is a white Sox fan.
He will be able to spread the message of how
to help people who go through great sorrows. He is
our new Pope. Yes Pope, yes Pope, White Sox Pope,
white size, white Sox Pope. That's what he is. Deep
dish Pope's what they should ca him, Deep dish Pope.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
One more recently than you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He's from Chicago. Hey, I'm here, I'm here. I know
about pain and suffering. Okay, just let you know all
about that. I had to watch that Hail Mary because
that guy was waving to me in the crowd and
I said, turn around, Jaydeen Dangiels is gonna throw it
deep and he did and we lost and I walked
out of that game. Haven't been to a Bears game since.
Wells going their favorite, don't they?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They did the first American Pope. And then there's something
to be said for all of the double doinks, for
all of the Hail Mary issues and and bad coaching
and all of these things.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
They Now, I gotta ask.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
There are two trading cards running simultaneously.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You've got the tops that's just a picture with the
white smoke parallel.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The other is a company called Leaf, and they have
put backgrounds that include a fully loaded Chicago dog, deep
Dish pizza and other Chicago specialties like the Garrett popcorn
and things of that nature. Behind him is the Neon
Green relish parallel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
See. I know you're going to say the picture that's
been going around the day of Tibbs as the Pope
with a nixes.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's not bad.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I do like the the the folks that were having
a little fun with that Shadoor Sanders joke right coming
off the b or to somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Da mel kiper is furious this is true.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But that they put on the back of his vestiment
like all the prior pope's names, like it's that Browns quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
He's still in less days than Shador. Yeah, it took
them in. Took two days more time to draft Shador
Sanders than it did to election day three. Yeah, yeah,
and the pope was day two. He's a day two selection.
He's great day too. He get a good pick. Mel
Kiper saying, Paul, that's value. He's a good Day two
pick the Pope. You want to get him early in
the second round. There's been thirteen other leos, now the
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fourteenth leo. You want to get him. You want to
get in before other popes get in the mix. Other
teams can jump in front of you to draft the
new pope. You want to make sure you get Oh yeah, absolutely, and.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Right now, because I am currently in the mobile Fox
Sports Radio studios here in Chicago WGN News, I'm now
at six minutes of Pope to them, including the interview
with his brother.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's all. I mean, what else is there? The Pope
is from the United States. I mean it's it's like
the Watchman. Superman is here and he's American. The Pope
is here and he's American. The first thing. It's been
like two hundred and sixty seven popes and we finally
got an American pope. You watch now, watch what happens now.
Because of that, I want to ask you, that's a
big deal. There's a big deal.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You and Frostber were going to talk about.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
This here Southside.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
This is a big This is a really big deal
that the pope is American. Now, I'm gonna give you
some things where the United States does not rank number
one in the world in and you tell me what
the bigger achievement is. Okay, that's getting an American pope
or what I'm gonna say. All right, you guys ready, Okay,
(05:39):
what's what would be a bigger achievement the United States
if we won the World Cup in soccer? Or the
pope is American pope? Really bigger than us winning the
World Cup? Well, happen. But if it does American.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Pope, Yeah, I mean, the American Pope was a bit
of a law jod.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We believe.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I believe that we will win.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I mean, you're still trying to speak it into existence here,
but yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now, the pope being American is great. But just think
about like everybody's crazy today about the pope, right, Okay,
but that's gonna subside in a couple of days. Everybody
go great for the World Cup for like a month,
and it would be Ah, every time you think about
the countries that we beat, you would think about us winning.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Ah yeah, yeah, but that's us in our little sports vacuum. Yeah,
like even some of the most ardent supporters of sporting
competition that have been in our business for years.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
People, you know, whatever, you try to get them jacked
about soccer, it's very it doesn't stay very long.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Even the national pride of a US men's or run
to a World Cup, and I don't think it has
the same juice.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm gonna disagree than the pope. Now the other ones,
I'm gonna give you. That was it, but definitely win.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
SOX fans us winning America.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Carold, just think about what I can't think of. Wuld
be like, no, but we didn't think we're gonna get
an American pope either. You didn't think the Knicks would
be up to zip over the Celtics after the first
two games. But guess what, we go, New York go,
New York Ghosts.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So we've already seen the impossible.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So okay, so here's your next one. American pope or
America winning the gold medal in hockey in the Olympics. Oh,
they've done that, yeah, but in nineteen eighty well we've also.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Seen them go.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
We've also seen them perform well, right, but soccer thing,
it was just crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Winning gold medal in hockey in the Olympics, which again worldwide,
or carrying the new.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Pope, pope as an American Okay, Frostburg, I gotta go
with the pope here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You know, I'm with you. I'm with you. It would
be close, but I'm with you, Pope, because we wouldn't
get excited about the that until probably you got to
the semi finals of the gold medal game. So yeah,
I'm with you on that, the American US having a
pope bigger than us winning the gold medal in hockey.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
But also, I mean think about we were talking about
what was going on with the tournament that we had,
and how many times did we get a why are
you guys talking about hockey?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Great, she was a great tournament, but we were still
getting the hey, what do you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Everybody got to see Hella Bu collapsed before the playoffs.
I got to see that's what's gonna happen here. Now
here's the next one. Okay, next one, Okay, next one?
United States? The United States getting the pope or the
United States being known as the country with the greatest
classical music in the world. Think about this. I've only
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been around three hundred years right, like Bach and moz
are now all from different countries. All of a sudden,
if the United States was known as the home of
classical music, best country average, Hey, nobody does classical music
like the United We got classic rock. Baby Well, I.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Was gonna say it, but there's also too many British
bands in the British invasion that come in. So I
mean you're excizing. I mean the who just finally announced
they were finally done tour.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
No, no classical classical music. Harmon classically, I said, Mozart
and Bach, but no.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Classical man, that's out of our age. Demograph eisde No,
you lose.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That music's for baby Beethoven. I mean you would be
known as better having a country with better music than
all of those guys.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
An infant.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, well, I'm telling you it's a big to classical
music on the world stage. Yeah, you're aware, lunch.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Who would you ascribe that to now? Eight seven seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't know, not US, I would say, I know,
but I.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Mean, is it is it? Yeah? The England, Austria, France.
I mean, you've got a lot of US folks that
represented you. Shocked.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This question made the list.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
We're really looking you know this year you're digging. Look,
there's not this should have been first.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There's not. There's well, I gotta keep you, I gotta
keep you off balanced. No, there's not. There's not a
ton of things that we can say. Boy, the United
States is really getting lapped by the world. But you
want to talk about soccer and hockey and classical music,
three big things right there.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
We do have a suggestion.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You want me to go to healthcare next because that
that would be that would be the greatest thing. Wow,
whoa we got We got better healthcare than the rest
of the world. That's amazing. I don't have to watch
videos of people in Canada just showing up walking in,
getting a heart transplant, walking out going Thanks a lot.
I don't know if I could pay you. It's okay,
congratulations and congratulations on the newskoy was Canadian? He'd been
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playing tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Ooh, why didn't he take a supersonic jet for the
blood treatments and stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay, well that what that dad is going to another
country to do that. That's going another country. I think
the only thing is winning the world Winning winning the
World Cup is bigger than the pope being American and
then the other things come after that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
To disagree with you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Right, you got you got? You said you had another
suggestion there.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Well it was U. C. L.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
A Dodger, Frank chiming in with going, Hey, the America
can Pope sounds like a rejected nineties TGIF sitcom on ABC.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
No, Chicago Pope is better. I don't know me. You know,
Chicago Chicago Pope sounds like a show that gets greenlit
for the fall.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, it goes right after Chicago Fire.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, Mandy Patinkin is gonna be Chicago Pope. It's a
big crossover, right. They get him in from Criminal Minds
in and now he's going to be the Chicago Pope.
Then it comes on after Chicago Gym. Hello, my name
is Chicago Pope. You killed the other pope? Prepared to die?
That's the show. Wow, Chicago Pope.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He solves problems with an iron hand.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'll throw you in the river, and what's gonna happen
is you'll bleed to death and get eaten by alligators
that I'll put in that river for you. Because I'm
the Pope. I get an alligator hidden in my hat
right now, that will jump out in the pack you
and eat you like in two bites, and you'll be
in that stomach and the stomach at his looking around, going,
oh my goodness, is this like Captain Hook? Is this
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like that Hope eater pan thing? And meanwhile you'll be
dead and I got this game. And then it gets
back in the that stays there just since there in
digest you with the top of my head.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I really thought you were saying that you were throwing
the guy in after you've you know, done your ceremony
to make it holy water, thereby baptizing and freeing him
of his sins as hes same time, it's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Not every day Mike has something in common with the
pope man. Oh no, no, that is true. They're both
white Sox fans.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm feeling pretty good right now.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I am riding high with the election of a pope
that was at evidently a sporting event the same day
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Now, I'll give you one more. I'll give you one more. Okay,
talking about you know at the bottom that nobody's any
any chance at Oh think I'm going healthcare getting.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
If you go random films or something, I'm gonna be afraid.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What What's what's a bigger, bigger thing the pope being
American or the White Sox winning the World Series? Well
again the impossible. Yeah, look at Harmon, he doesn't even know.
I don't know I got. I get a Chicago pope.
I got Chicago white Sox. I don't know what I
got here.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Look, I mean I'm always gonna have two thousand and five.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, there's a status was the matrix.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Now I have an American pope who is a white
Sox fan.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
And if he when he goes to throw out a
first pitch at Rate Field, I will have to be there.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Exit alvouta Fresca exit Swallen doll again, us winning the
World Cup. Only thing bigger than the American pope.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That's in Jason's mind. I just have to disagree.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You expect you hate sports. It's okay, you hate sports.
I understand. I understand you hate sports. White white Sox.
I know, Yeah, I got it, I got it. He
hates it. He's a Bears fan, even though now he's
got Divine intervention is gonna be on all of our
sides now because I'm the pope.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Except for the Cubs because he did is declare a
White Sox fan.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
This is the greatest time in the city.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm taking away Dawson's MVP from eighty seven, just so
you know I'm taking that away.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
You know what, you could make the argument that that
should have happened. Last place team? What were you valuable to?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Coming up next, Rick Buker stops by FS one NBA
Insider Extraordinary Tea. Wolves tie the series up with the Warriors.
Should they win this series? Going away with no Steph Curry?
Do the Celtics have a shot? Do the Cavs have
a shot?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Boy? Must listen radio? Coming up next, right here, Jason
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after we get off the air. Well, it is over,
mercifully In Minnesota, the Tea Wolves tie that series up
with the Golden State Warriors at one game apiece. Steph
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Plenty of big NBA drama to get to and joining
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Nobody better than Fox Sports won NBA Insider extraordinary Rick Bucker,
(15:26):
host of the Amaball podcast. But before we get to
what happened, I got to say I need a preview
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is correct, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Just be ready come March Madness. CBU will be winning
the whack and getting the automatic bit, and we'll just
see how far they go, whether they can knock off
USC and Yukon, whether they're going to have an easier path.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Now, look now, We're friends a long time, and you know,
I'm a ringos to have a hot take for you.
I think I think this is a bad move by her.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Okay, because the nil money says, you know, old money
says otherwise.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, no, no, this is a bad move for her.
Let me tell you why. Okay, the Celtics need her
more right now.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The Celtics, the Calves. Yeah, there's there's a there's there's
a list right now of teams that could probably use
a shooter and a ball hammer. So yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
If she can hit a three, If she can hit
a three, that's the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Needer man.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
If she can hit a three, that's it.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
That's exactly Uh, that's that's her. That's her bread and butter.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So yeah, better than twenty five out of one hundred,
break because I need to.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I need someone to shut Jason up here.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
All right, thank you the compliments. I'm not going to
set her up for trouble.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No, that's so well, seriously, congratulations, that's an awesome move,
and congret that's so fantastic. But yeah, the Celtics are
now down O two. You've feared a lot of different
reasons behind it. What's going on the last couple of days.
If I said to you fill in the blank, Rick,
the Nix, Lee, the Celtics two. Is it because blank?
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What would you tell me?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Because they are more prepared to play the physical style
of basketball that we're seeing in the postseason. I think
that they're comfortable playing with force. I think that force
is one of the reasons why you're seeing the Celtics
miss as many threes as they are, and even wide
open threes. I mean, for the most part, the shots
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have been good, but I think that the physicality of
the game is taking their legs out a little bit,
and they're finding that with the physicality. Having you know,
the physicality is one going to stop finishes at the rim.
You get a little more contact, it's a little more
difficult to finish at the rim. And then if a
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team is energetic and is willing to run guys off
the line, then it's and and they're going to meet
them at the rim. Then it comes down to your
mid range game. And the Knicks have a guy in
Jalen Brunson who shoots the mid range as well as
anybody in the league and can do it in a
variety of ways and under pressure, and conversely, the Celtics
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have just been so so focused on either threes or
layups that I was looking at the numbers and Jason
Tatum nearly half of his shots this season we were threes,
and shot the fewest, took the fewest shots at the
rim this season as he has in any of his
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seven seasons in the league. So uh, that's that's one
of the one of the elements here. In the fourth quarter,
I checked the shot chart and I was just curious.
And Game two, in the mid range, the Boston Celtics
were zero for seven and the New York Knicks for
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six for ten. That's where they're that's where they're winning
this game. They can once they can get the pace
down and they can make it a half court game.
They can get to their spots and score. And Boston
is not nearly as comfortable playing that way.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Rick, I'll tell you how strange these two games have been.
Jason issued a nationwide and global apology to Bridges based
on the ending of both of these games. That's how
big and monumentally shifting. This is like me and my
New White Sox loving pope. It's it's Smith apologizing to
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the world for wanting to ship Bridges out of town.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
I yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Almost called him sick on this episode because I wasn't
sure if I was going to be able to I
was going to be able to handle.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Jason and the outright gloating that would be going that
would be going on. You know, you know, you're in
a really happy place when you are running the show
and you're issuing apologies at the same time.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
That is that is very strong. That's very strong.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, well listen because I and I know you know
you could have called him sick here. But you sat
next to Paul Pierce when he said on Speak a Day,
oh god, hey, if the Celtics lose Game two, walk
to work the next day, and he sort of walked
to work today, Rick, What was that like? Man?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
We we we tried to stop him. The best part,
quite honestly, the best part of it all was we
were on a tech string while that game was going
on last night, and so we had like we had
like why reaction. Paul time texted us and he said,
you're never gonna see me again. I'm just I'm just going.
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And then I texted, I said, you know what, we need.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
To alert the authorities because if they see Paul.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Wandering around barefoot in a bathrobe, they're gonna think he's
been eating bath salt and they're gonna haven't committed because
you've got to look out for him. So look, I mean,
I'm really happy that he did that because he gave
me cover because I was just confident about myself.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
He was.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I just wasn't making ridiculous, ridiculous claims. But you know,
it's it's really interesting how this physicality in the game.
I mean, we saw it ratchet up in last year's playoffs,
but I don't think it's ever been like this in
oh maybe twenty twenty five years, And I think it's
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why the games have been so good and entertaining and
relatively close, because the players are now able to play,
and they're allowed, and they're able to show their emotion
and they're able to to get after it and you
have to earn your buckets. It's not you know, stopping
every five minutes to look at a replay to send
somebody to the free throw line. There's a lot more
(22:14):
natural flow to the game. So I'm loving that. But
in looking at teams going into the playoffs and looking
at how they matched up in typical matchups like there's there's.
It does change the dynamic, it does change the game.
And a team like New York is much more formidable
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playing this style than they were during the regular season,
obviously against the Boston Celtics, who just you know, ran
away with games. None of those games were close, and
but but this is a different game, and and right
now the Knicks are more suited for it, and I
don't think that's I don't think that's going to change.
Celtics might shoot the three a little bit better, but
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if you look at the at the width and breath
of the season, the Knicks and the Celtics are are
just about dead. Even when it comes to three point
shooting percentage. They shoot it just about as well, and
they have as many guys who can shoot it well.
The only difference is that Boston shoots more of them.
So if you can limit the number of shots that
you that they take, then you or or they're just
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missing a ton of them, that evens the scales. And
then it goes to who has an advantage in other places.
And I think that the Knicks just by value of
because they think we've seen at the end of games,
Like everybody knows the Knicks know how they're going to play,
they know who their go to guy is, they know
where he wants to operate from, so everybody can work
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off of that with a sense of understanding. The Boston
Celtics don't know where Jason Tatum's going to shoot the ball,
if he's going to shoot the ball, and so it
leaves them uncertain in these nip and tough games, and
most playoff games come down to that.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Rick, let's go to the Cavaliers and the Pacers Calves
get the oh here's your apology on official letterhead about
lane violations.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
That might be the only win they get the series
at this point.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, it's you know, I was I was sleeping on
the Paces because I watched them earlier in the year
and kind of through the course of the year, and
they didn't look that much different than the team that
I saw in in the playoffs last year, which I
just thought was a crazy kind of running, gun up
and down team that kind of got favorable matchups, ran
(24:41):
into a next team that was already already beaten up,
and you know, just basically broke down because of the
pace that the Pacers played and uh and then got
swept by by the Celtics, and so I really wasn't
expecting that much. And then whatever whatever reason, Andrew never
Nemhart becomes like Superman in the postseason. Aaron Smith. Aaron
(25:03):
Ne Smith is legit. I mean, if you look at
if you look at them, Hard's numbers like he is,
his numbers are crazy high compared to what he does
in the regular season. That's usually not the case in playoffs.
Aaron Ne Smith has taking a nice step. Benedict Matherin,
I've always liked uh Ty Halliburton got the you know,
the rocket booster of his peers saying that he's the
(25:26):
most overrated player in the league has really juiced him up.
And and they got a sneaky pickup in Thomas Bryant
from Miami midseason that's given them just enough size, uh
to be able to battle and not be you know,
little aputian when when Miles Turner goes to the bench,
so uh. And then Rick Carlo is actually coaching this
(25:46):
team this year, it looks like a Rick Carlisle coach team.
They're they're defending their executing on offense, and honestly, I
think that I would not be the least bit surprised
if we see Pacers Nicks and and I that that's
gonna be a real battle. I think that could easily
go seven games decide who goes to the finals or
in nex.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Sweep because we owe them like like I'm thinking, I'm
thinking that the crowd, the Knicks fans a TV guardless
like Jet Nixon four, that's the next round to Rick
Nixon four.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
This is why I almost called in here right right there.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right, well, look, well, speaking of four, you know,
four is a big number. We just watched the t
Wolves beat the Warriors even that series up at one
game at piece, and Steph Curry says, hey, gonna be
out through game four. I'm you know, I've never had
this injury before where we're being smart with it. Rick,
I have a hard time believing that if the if
the Warriors are down to one, I expect them to
be down to one because this tip Timberwolves team is
(26:47):
better than the Warriors. When the Warriors don't have Steph,
I have a hard time believing if they're down to one,
with the possibility of them going down three to one.
He's not playing in game four it is.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
It is a tricky thing, and I I mean, I
see that, but I also because his mobility and his
quick movement is so vital to his game. I also
don't like how demoralizing would it be if you trot
him out there and in the first five minutes he
(27:17):
makes a move and he pulls it and he's done. Like,
I think that's where they have to be really careful
with something like that. And we were having a debate
on the morning show in the green room about where
he grabbed his hand string, because the football guys on
the show were saying, if you grab it high, it's
(27:40):
not as bad as if you grab it sort of
in the middle of the back of your thigh, and
I thought I saw him grab it in the middle.
And so even if it's maybe a you know, a
first degree, I just looked with the way he has
to play to be effective, I would lean toward them
not to pishing it as opposed to trying to get
(28:03):
him out there if he's if he's at all compromised,
because he's either going to make it worse, which at
thirty seven, I don't know that you want to create
a hamstring problem for yourself long term, and I just
don't know how effective he would be if he's at
all compromised.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, That is at Rick Buker.
Check him out tomorrow morning, Rick, you'll be on with
Paul Pierce. Are you going to walk to work tomorrow?
Are just you're gonna hear? Take a car and and everything.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I'm staying in Manhattan Beach, so I'll have my driver.
Patrick out there bright and early, ready to go.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Well played.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well with
Rick an hour and a half talks about the shot
selection of Jalen Brunson. Rick as always Buddy, appreciated and
congratulations again to your daughter. All about man, that's fantastic
you brother. All right, there goes Rick Buker. I think
he's all nervous when I said, I think it's the
wrong move, and he's like, Okay, what are you gonna say?
(29:09):
The hell are you gonna say? Man?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, there's always that fear that you might have done
a snippet of research and found that one hankle.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
It's like, oh, we didn't have that, hey man, potential
for chaos in this universe. But no, we appreciate Rick.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All the relationships we have with our our guests and
friends of the show, it's it's Rick rolls with the
punches and even just saying I thought about calling out sick.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I mean, it's he's not kidding, by the way, He's not.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
He was. I have no doubt.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I bet as soon as the Knicks won last night,
he was like, ah, I can't.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Was more of a game time decision than Steph Curry.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But as always, thanks to Rick for stopping by with us. Also,
I liked you got the Rick rolled into That was
very nice, Harmon. I liked that. Well, you know, time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. So someone who's been called the Rick Astley
of Fox Sports Radio, she's never gonna give you up,
never gonna let you down, never going to run and
round and hurt you. It's I might hurt you, wow,
(30:07):
I might wow.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
And I should have seen me on Tuesday night in
my volleyball game, this girl like talks back to me
through the net and I was like, oh, because I
claimed that she blocked my tip. Because I had to,
I went in for a tip and she absolutely did,
And so I played it and I.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Was like, no, she touches you, keep playing it. She's like,
I did not touch your ball. I did not touch
your ball at all.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
And I turned around.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I was like, my bad.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I thought you had hops.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
My bad, And.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So wait, you can spike it in volleyball?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah I can.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I mean, I'm like Draymond Green. I'm too short to
be playing the position I play.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Wait wait, how tall are you on five feet?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's reverse co ed.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
So I played with boys on a girl's net, and
the girls are the only ones that get hit in
the front, So I'm obviously the third option.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'm there for defense and for passing and all that.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
But yeah, the guy set and the girls hit and
we can only block.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
So I can't block that.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I can soft block.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
I can touch and slow down the ball. Okay you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, yeaheah yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
But I was like, do not, do not and then
we won. So jokes on her, jokes.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
On her, I was, I was not about any guys.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I was like, don't say anything back, don't say anything back,
and I still did.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I can't helpide.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
No idea, you have no idea.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I am literally a version of Draymond Green. It's so
bad it's I would get a technical immediately. Speaking of
Draymond Green, he did get his fifth technical in today's game.
Seven technicals would be a suspension. The Timberwolves have even
the series against the Warriors, coming out on top in
Game three or Game two, excuse me, one seventeen to
ninety three. Game three will be on Saturday. Anthony Edwards
(31:40):
with a scare early in the second quarter, but came
back in the second half despite that ankle injury into
what twenty points, nine rebounds, and five assists. We'll move
on to the NHL. The Capitals even their series against
the Hurricanes three to one. Was a final score. Oilers
and Golden Knights still going at it. Very exciting second period.
Edmonton is up three to two after those two periods.
They also lead the series one zero. In baseball, Yoshinobu
(32:04):
Yama Moto, not his greatest night, gave up a season
high six hits, including two homers, and the Diamondbacks are
just all over the Dodgers five zero, top of the
eighth inning. In Arizona, the Angels were up not anymore.
Blue Jays have taken the lead. It's seven to four.
Top of the seventh inning, and just in the NFL today,
you know, a couple of first rounders signed their rookie deals,
(32:26):
like Las Vegas Raiders signed their first round pick Ashton
Genty and the Bears signed their first round pick tight
end Colston Loveland.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And also Texans and rookie.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Wide receiver Jaden Higgins have agreed to a fully guaranteed,
four year, eleven plus million dollar contract, making him the
first second round pick in NFL history to have a
fully guaranteed contract.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Wow. Yeah, lucky him make that paper all of a sudden,
the second round right, no, thank you, guys and Bears
also got the pope. They did Hail Mary's will go
their way. That happened. Coming up next, I'm pretty sure
Paul Pierce listens to the show because wait till we
(33:07):
tell you. We have to tell you about Paul Pierce
and his walk to work today. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Definitely no underwear. Everybody
walked to work. Everybody walked to work. Dude dude doo
to the Celtics down to the Knicks O two.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon as we wait for the hammer to fall.
I am pretty sure Paul Pierce listens to our show. Yah,
you know, call me crazy Brady alone. Pretty sure he
listens to the show. Now. Paul Pierce, of course Celtics
legend on speak on FS one yesterday he said, Hey,
(33:55):
if the Celtics lose Game two, I will walk to
work tomorrow in a robe barefoot aha. And Rick Buker,
who joined a few minutes ago, said, man, the group
text we were on last night, Paul Pierce said, you're
never gonna see me again. But Paul Pierce, man of
his word, walked to work today. Of course was brought
(34:17):
in via wheelchair, because of course that's Paul Pierce. But
you know, we talked about this about an hour ago
and said, yeah, did he really walk? I said, yeah,
I think he walked part of the way, maybe some
of the way. Did he walk all the way. It's
an eight hour walk for him to get there. Yeah,
I don't know. Forty minutes ago, okay, so we would
have talked about this and twenty minutes went by. Paul
(34:39):
Pierce on his Twitter page put up his total number
of steps for the day. Right now, you go all
the way down his steps from like Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
or like five thousand, so he hasn't been walking that much,
but all of a sudden Thursday, he's got himself at
thirty three thousand, four hundred and sixty five steps. So
(35:00):
of course, you know me, I went to Google. And
this is the best part of AI now is that
you could ask AI and Google any question and you
get the answer right away. Like there's no Hey, I
want to I want to ask a question about Hey,
who won the Academy Award for this in nineteen fifty six?
And you get Academy Award List nineteen fifty You get
the answer right away. Hey, I saw this.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Year before.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That was Marty. I think that was Marty. Marty. That
was that was that was a quiz show Marty. How
did I forget Marty? So I loved you get the
answer now right away. So I went and I typed
in how many how many miles is thirty three thousand,
four hundred steps? And the AI answer comes up thirty
three thousand miles is approximately thirty two thousand steps is
approximately fifteen miles. And I'm like, okay, it's pretty convenient
(35:47):
that thirty three thousand steps is exactly the fifteen miles,
which is what Paul Pierce put out there last night.
What about Okay, but I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt that this is something that he put up
and did and you know, manipulate anyway. Okay, maybe he
did walk thirty three I mean I doubt it. Maybe
he did walk thirty three thousand steps in fifteen miles.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
Come on, that kind of surgery could have been done
over the weekend. I mean, I know I couldn't do it.
It's tough for someone who walks like less than ten
thousand steps a day to suddenly do thirty three thousand
in the eighty degree heat, walking where it's really hot,
and then go in and do it. Okay, that's a
lot to I'm just saying, it's a lot to ask.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
It's a lot.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
It means he won't he'll be tired tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I mean this is.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Why we always advise never skip leg day because then
one day you're gonna get caught and you know, helping
somebody move instead of just saying you know it, I'll
pay for the mover. Or you're going to have to
do some heavy lifting around your own house. Maybe you
need to chase the kids, or your your relatives are
in towns, or you're doing extra touristy stuff. I don't know,
(36:54):
he can't skip leg day, but for Paul Pierce, yeah,
ice up, he'll be ready for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
No, okay, okay, But it's really about the thirty three
thousand steps today after coming off of maybe hang on,
maybe four thousand steps on Wednesday, maybe eight thousand steps.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Ever ramped up before? When you're suddenly traveling somewhere else,
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I can tell you I did it. He ran up.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But the Celtics loss, that wasn't ramping up. That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
No, no, But I'm just saying, like you and your
normal day to day life, you don't have days where
suddenly you're walking a lot more than maybe you did
the fucking.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I don't know that I have said, you know, I
don't know that I have six days in a row
of under eight thousand steps a day. I don't think
I have that.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I well, maybe you do, maybe you don't. But I'm
just trying to get to.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
The to the heart of the matter, right, is if
suddenly you're in a misstrange land, you travel like you know,
I walk a lot because I walk my dog or whatever.
But I've taken the opportunity since I don't have a
bunch of the other scheduled stuff, you know, where I
have to be somewhere ridiculously early. I've probably walked or
(38:00):
in my two days here in Chicago than I do
necessarily on a daily basis. Now, is it a three
or four to one rashil like ball beer. No, But
I'm saying it's not completely out of the question. Right,
you go to Vegas, all of a sudden, you're just
wandering for hours. You may be doing so drunkenly. You
may not be actively really even thinking about the fact
(38:21):
that you're walking miles in between casinos, but you do it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, but here's the thing, your walking. You don't walk
that much, and now you walk this much in the
heat and wheeled. Everything is still I'm coming in coming
on the air coming. Yeah, I don't know, man, I'll
make it very simple. Go ahead, Frostburg. He's lying, Well, you.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Could either do that or you could say that that
shame is a powerful motivator.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
He gave he gave his phone.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Well that's the other part, like that secret option. See
someone else carried it or got on a treadmill.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
For eight hours. But he attached it to his.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Dog and had him chase a squirrel that was on
a string.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Look look at all these steps from side to side
and backwards that you did. This is amazing. How did
you move so.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Latterly that I was doing rumba?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I will I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
He's a Fox Sports. It don't sound like I'm saying what.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt. That
he walked fifteen miles towards.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
It, and you're gonna say he wasn't hurt and he
didn't need that wheelchair too.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I think he said he wasn't hurt, he needed the
wheelchair for other reasons. It's again Exit Out about a
Fresca Exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we get back
into the biggest NBA story of the night, and I
can tell you exactly how one NBA second round. Series
(39:45):
is gonna end. Some people are gonna like it, some
people not so much. And it's not the Knicks of
the Celtics because we know how that's gonna end. That's next.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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videos on YouTube. So we have a big Pope question
(00:52):
to get to in a few minutes here and okay, good.
It gets into the world of sport, not just the
fact that the new pop Poplio is a White Sox fan,
which clearly he knows a lot about pain suffering and
trying to bring joy to people who need it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So that's he also knows elation, as one photo has
started making the rounds.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah him from that one series in two thousand and five, right,
but maybe.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
That means he was at the same game I was.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Let's go, but can you catch a pop up? I
could catch you with my pope head, with my Pope hat,
I can wear that. I can catch it with.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That running under it with his uh Pontiff's hat.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
To just catch it right in the top of that hat.
And I don't even need a glove. I'm good. I'm good.
Uh So, maybe maybe was it the Pope that that
made Doug Eddings not call uh the the ball and
that's what helped the.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Ah well maybe, but you know what, I also am
looking at it from the the concept of the new
trading cards.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I'm gonna try to get the white smoke parallel for us.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, you know that, you know the thing. White smoke
used to be a fun joke, like like just a
buff fun punch line. Oh like white smoke like the
new But now it's like everybody knows white smoke. It's
not as funny anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
No, they used to be inside got inside joking.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Now it's like, oh, white smoke like the Pope. Yeah yeah, No,
not as funny as he used to be.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, but then the conclave was less than seventy two hours.
It was nearly enough for the type of intrigue and
chaos from the movie.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, that's because they said, my son, my son the
car card. He is. He is a white Sox fan.
He will be able to spread the message of how
to help people who go through great sorrows. He is
our new Pope. Yes Pope, yes Pope, White Sox Pope,
white size, white Sox Pope. That's what he is. Deep
dish Pope's what they should ca him, Deep dish Pope.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
One more recently than you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
He's from Chicago. Hey, I'm here, I'm here. I know
about pain and suffering. Okay, just let you know all
about that. I had to watch that Hail Mary because
that guy was waving to me in the crowd and
I said, turn around, Jaydeen Dangiels is gonna throw it
deep and he did and we lost and I walked
out of that game. Haven't been to a Bears game since.
Wells going their favorite, don't they?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
They did the first American Pope. And then there's something
to be said for all of the double doinks, for
all of the Hail Mary issues and and bad coaching
and all of these things.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
They Now, I gotta ask.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
There are two trading cards running simultaneously.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You've got the tops that's just a picture with the
white smoke parallel.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The other is a company called Leaf, and they have
put backgrounds that include a fully loaded Chicago dog, deep
Dish pizza and other Chicago specialties like the Garrett popcorn
and things of that nature. Behind him is the Neon
Green relish parallel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
See. I know you're going to say the picture that's
been going around the day of Tibbs as the Pope
with a nixes.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's not bad.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I do like the the the folks that were having
a little fun with that Shadoor Sanders joke right coming
off the b or to somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Da mel kiper is furious this is true.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But that they put on the back of his vestiment
like all the prior pope's names, like it's that Browns quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
He's still in less days than Shador. Yeah, it took
them in. Took two days more time to draft Shador
Sanders than it did to election day three. Yeah, yeah,
and the pope was day two. He's a day two selection.
He's great day too. He get a good pick. Mel
Kiper saying, Paul, that's value. He's a good Day two
pick the Pope. You want to get him early in
the second round. There's been thirteen other leos, now the
(04:35):
fourteenth leo. You want to get him. You want to
get in before other popes get in the mix. Other
teams can jump in front of you to draft the
new pope. You want to make sure you get Oh yeah, absolutely, and.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Right now, because I am currently in the mobile Fox
Sports Radio studios here in Chicago WGN News, I'm now
at six minutes of Pope to them, including the interview
with his brother.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's all. I mean, what else is there? The Pope
is from the United States. I mean it's it's like
the Watchman. Superman is here and he's American. The Pope
is here and he's American. The first thing. It's been
like two hundred and sixty seven popes and we finally
got an American pope. You watch now, watch what happens now.
Because of that, I want to ask you, that's a
big deal. There's a big deal.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You and Frostber were going to talk about.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
This here Southside.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
This is a big This is a really big deal
that the pope is American. Now, I'm gonna give you
some things where the United States does not rank number
one in the world in and you tell me what
the bigger achievement is. Okay, that's getting an American pope
or what I'm gonna say. All right, you guys ready, Okay,
(05:39):
what's what would be a bigger achievement the United States
if we won the World Cup in soccer? Or the
pope is American pope? Really bigger than us winning the
World Cup? Well, happen. But if it does American.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Pope, Yeah, I mean, the American Pope was a bit
of a law jod.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We believe.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I believe that we will win.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I mean, you're still trying to speak it into existence here,
but yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Now, the pope being American is great. But just think
about like everybody's crazy today about the pope, right, Okay,
but that's gonna subside in a couple of days. Everybody
go great for the World Cup for like a month,
and it would be Ah, every time you think about
the countries that we beat, you would think about us winning.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Ah yeah, yeah, but that's us in our little sports vacuum. Yeah,
like even some of the most ardent supporters of sporting
competition that have been in our business for years.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
People, you know, whatever, you try to get them jacked
about soccer, it's very it doesn't stay very long.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Even the national pride of a US men's or run
to a World Cup, and I don't think it has
the same juice.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm gonna disagree than the pope. Now the other ones,
I'm gonna give you. That was it, but definitely win.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
SOX fans us winning America.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Carold, just think about what I can't think of. Wuld
be like, no, but we didn't think we're gonna get
an American pope either. You didn't think the Knicks would
be up to zip over the Celtics after the first
two games. But guess what, we go, New York go,
New York Ghosts.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So we've already seen the impossible.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So okay, so here's your next one. American pope or
America winning the gold medal in hockey in the Olympics. Oh,
they've done that, yeah, but in nineteen eighty well we've also.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Seen them go.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
We've also seen them perform well, right, but soccer thing,
it was just crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Winning gold medal in hockey in the Olympics, which again worldwide,
or carrying the new.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Pope, pope as an American Okay, Frostburg, I gotta go
with the pope here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You know, I'm with you. I'm with you. It would
be close, but I'm with you, Pope, because we wouldn't
get excited about the that until probably you got to
the semi finals of the gold medal game. So yeah,
I'm with you on that, the American US having a
pope bigger than us winning the gold medal in hockey.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
But also, I mean think about we were talking about
what was going on with the tournament that we had,
and how many times did we get a why are
you guys talking about hockey?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Great, she was a great tournament, but we were still
getting the hey, what do you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Everybody got to see Hella Bu collapsed before the playoffs.
I got to see that's what's gonna happen here. Now
here's the next one. Okay, next one, Okay, next one?
United States? The United States getting the pope or the
United States being known as the country with the greatest
classical music in the world. Think about this. I've only
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been around three hundred years right, like Bach and moz
are now all from different countries. All of a sudden,
if the United States was known as the home of
classical music, best country average, Hey, nobody does classical music
like the United We got classic rock. Baby Well, I.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Was gonna say it, but there's also too many British
bands in the British invasion that come in. So I
mean you're excizing. I mean the who just finally announced
they were finally done tour.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
No, no classical classical music. Harmon classically, I said, Mozart
and Bach, but no.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Classical man, that's out of our age. Demograph eisde No,
you lose.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That music's for baby Beethoven. I mean you would be
known as better having a country with better music than
all of those guys.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
An infant.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, well, I'm telling you it's a big to classical
music on the world stage. Yeah, you're aware, lunch.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Who would you ascribe that to now? Eight seven seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't know, not US, I would say, I know,
but I.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Mean, is it is it? Yeah? The England, Austria, France.
I mean, you've got a lot of US folks that
represented you. Shocked.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This question made the list.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
We're really looking you know this year you're digging. Look,
there's not this should have been first.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There's not. There's well, I gotta keep you, I gotta
keep you off balanced. No, there's not. There's not a
ton of things that we can say. Boy, the United
States is really getting lapped by the world. But you
want to talk about soccer and hockey and classical music,
three big things right there.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
We do have a suggestion.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You want me to go to healthcare next because that
that would be that would be the greatest thing. Wow,
whoa we got We got better healthcare than the rest
of the world. That's amazing. I don't have to watch
videos of people in Canada just showing up walking in,
getting a heart transplant, walking out going Thanks a lot.
I don't know if I could pay you. It's okay,
congratulations and congratulations on the newskoy was Canadian? He'd been
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playing tonight.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Ooh, why didn't he take a supersonic jet for the
blood treatments and stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay, well that what that dad is going to another
country to do that. That's going another country. I think
the only thing is winning the world Winning winning the
World Cup is bigger than the pope being American and
then the other things come after that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
To disagree with you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Right, you got you got? You said you had another
suggestion there.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Well it was U. C. L.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
A Dodger, Frank chiming in with going, Hey, the America
can Pope sounds like a rejected nineties TGIF sitcom on ABC.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
No, Chicago Pope is better. I don't know me. You know,
Chicago Chicago Pope sounds like a show that gets greenlit
for the fall.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well, it goes right after Chicago Fire.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, Mandy Patinkin is gonna be Chicago Pope. It's a
big crossover, right. They get him in from Criminal Minds
in and now he's going to be the Chicago Pope.
Then it comes on after Chicago Gym. Hello, my name
is Chicago Pope. You killed the other pope? Prepared to die?
That's the show. Wow, Chicago Pope.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He solves problems with an iron hand.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I'll throw you in the river, and what's gonna happen
is you'll bleed to death and get eaten by alligators
that I'll put in that river for you. Because I'm
the Pope. I get an alligator hidden in my hat
right now, that will jump out in the pack you
and eat you like in two bites, and you'll be
in that stomach and the stomach at his looking around, going,
oh my goodness, is this like Captain Hook? Is this
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like that Hope eater pan thing? And meanwhile you'll be
dead and I got this game. And then it gets
back in the that stays there just since there in
digest you with the top of my head.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I really thought you were saying that you were throwing
the guy in after you've you know, done your ceremony
to make it holy water, thereby baptizing and freeing him
of his sins as hes same time, it's.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Not every day Mike has something in common with the
pope man. Oh no, no, that is true. They're both
white Sox fans.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm feeling pretty good right now.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I am riding high with the election of a pope
that was at evidently a sporting event the same day
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Now, I'll give you one more. I'll give you one more. Okay,
talking about you know at the bottom that nobody's any
any chance at Oh think I'm going healthcare getting.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
If you go random films or something, I'm gonna be afraid.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What What's what's a bigger, bigger thing the pope being
American or the White Sox winning the World Series? Well
again the impossible. Yeah, look at Harmon, he doesn't even know.
I don't know I got. I get a Chicago pope.
I got Chicago white Sox. I don't know what I
got here.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Look, I mean I'm always gonna have two thousand and five.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, there's a status was the matrix.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Now I have an American pope who is a white
Sox fan.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
And if he when he goes to throw out a
first pitch at Rate Field, I will have to be there.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Exit alvouta Fresca exit Swallen doll again, us winning the
World Cup. Only thing bigger than the American pope.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That's in Jason's mind. I just have to disagree.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You expect you hate sports. It's okay, you hate sports.
I understand. I understand you hate sports. White white Sox.
I know, Yeah, I got it, I got it. He
hates it. He's a Bears fan, even though now he's
got Divine intervention is gonna be on all of our
sides now because I'm the pope.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Except for the Cubs because he did is declare a
White Sox fan.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
This is the greatest time in the city.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm taking away Dawson's MVP from eighty seven, just so
you know I'm taking that away.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
You know what, you could make the argument that that
should have happened. Last place team? What were you valuable to?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Coming up next, Rick Buker stops by FS one NBA
Insider Extraordinary Tea. Wolves tie the series up with the Warriors.
Should they win this series? Going away with no Steph Curry?
Do the Celtics have a shot? Do the Cavs have
a shot?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Boy? Must listen radio? Coming up next, right here, Jason
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
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Speaker 1 (14:38):
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after we get off the air. Well, it is over,
mercifully In Minnesota, the Tea Wolves tie that series up
with the Golden State Warriors at one game apiece. Steph
Curry out at least through game four, at least for now.
Plenty of big NBA drama to get to and joining
us now, I'm the hotline to break it all down.
Nobody better than Fox Sports won NBA Insider extraordinary Rick Bucker,
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host of the Amaball podcast. But before we get to
what happened, I got to say I need a preview
of next season's California Baptist Lancers women's basketball team because
someone's daughter is signed, sealed, delivered to go play basketball
for them for the next four years. Congratulations, Rick, that
is correct, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Just be ready come March Madness. CBU will be winning
the whack and getting the automatic bit, and we'll just
see how far they go, whether they can knock off
USC and Yukon, whether they're going to have an easier path.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Now, look now, We're friends a long time, and you know,
I'm a ringos to have a hot take for you.
I think I think this is a bad move by her.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Okay, because the nil money says, you know, old money
says otherwise.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, no, no, this is a bad move for her.
Let me tell you why. Okay, the Celtics need her
more right now.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
The Celtics, the Calves. Yeah, there's there's a there's there's
a list right now of teams that could probably use
a shooter and a ball hammer. So yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
If she can hit a three, If she can hit
a three, that's the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Needer man.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
If she can hit a three, that's it.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
That's exactly Uh, that's that's her. That's her bread and butter.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So yeah, better than twenty five out of one hundred,
break because I need to.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I need someone to shut Jason up here.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
All right, thank you the compliments. I'm not going to
set her up for trouble.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No, that's so well, seriously, congratulations, that's an awesome move,
and congret that's so fantastic. But yeah, the Celtics are
now down O two. You've feared a lot of different
reasons behind it. What's going on the last couple of days.
If I said to you fill in the blank, Rick,
the Nix, Lee, the Celtics two. Is it because blank?
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What would you tell me?
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Because they are more prepared to play the physical style
of basketball that we're seeing in the postseason. I think
that they're comfortable playing with force. I think that force
is one of the reasons why you're seeing the Celtics
miss as many threes as they are, and even wide
open threes. I mean, for the most part, the shots
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have been good, but I think that the physicality of
the game is taking their legs out a little bit,
and they're finding that with the physicality. Having you know,
the physicality is one going to stop finishes at the rim.
You get a little more contact, it's a little more
difficult to finish at the rim. And then if a
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team is energetic and is willing to run guys off
the line, then it's and and they're going to meet
them at the rim. Then it comes down to your
mid range game. And the Knicks have a guy in
Jalen Brunson who shoots the mid range as well as
anybody in the league and can do it in a
variety of ways and under pressure, and conversely, the Celtics
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have just been so so focused on either threes or
layups that I was looking at the numbers and Jason
Tatum nearly half of his shots this season we were threes,
and shot the fewest, took the fewest shots at the
rim this season as he has in any of his
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seven seasons in the league. So uh, that's that's one
of the one of the elements here. In the fourth quarter,
I checked the shot chart and I was just curious.
And Game two, in the mid range, the Boston Celtics
were zero for seven and the New York Knicks for
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six for ten. That's where they're that's where they're winning
this game. They can once they can get the pace
down and they can make it a half court game.
They can get to their spots and score. And Boston
is not nearly as comfortable playing that way.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Rick, I'll tell you how strange these two games have been.
Jason issued a nationwide and global apology to Bridges based
on the ending of both of these games. That's how
big and monumentally shifting. This is like me and my
New White Sox loving pope. It's it's Smith apologizing to
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the world for wanting to ship Bridges out of town.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
I yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Almost called him sick on this episode because I wasn't
sure if I was going to be able to I
was going to be able to handle.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Jason and the outright gloating that would be going that
would be going on. You know, you know, you're in
a really happy place when you are running the show
and you're issuing apologies at the same time.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
That is that is very strong. That's very strong.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, well listen because I and I know you know
you could have called him sick here. But you sat
next to Paul Pierce when he said on Speak a Day,
oh god, hey, if the Celtics lose Game two, walk
to work the next day, and he sort of walked
to work today, Rick, What was that like? Man?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
We we we tried to stop him. The best part,
quite honestly, the best part of it all was we
were on a tech string while that game was going
on last night, and so we had like we had
like why reaction. Paul time texted us and he said,
you're never gonna see me again. I'm just I'm just going.
(21:08):
And then I texted, I said, you know what, we need.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
To alert the authorities because if they see Paul.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Wandering around barefoot in a bathrobe, they're gonna think he's
been eating bath salt and they're gonna haven't committed because
you've got to look out for him. So look, I mean,
I'm really happy that he did that because he gave
me cover because I was just confident about myself.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
He was.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I just wasn't making ridiculous, ridiculous claims. But you know,
it's it's really interesting how this physicality in the game.
I mean, we saw it ratchet up in last year's playoffs,
but I don't think it's ever been like this in
oh maybe twenty twenty five years, And I think it's
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why the games have been so good and entertaining and
relatively close, because the players are now able to play,
and they're allowed, and they're able to show their emotion
and they're able to to get after it and you
have to earn your buckets. It's not you know, stopping
every five minutes to look at a replay to send
somebody to the free throw line. There's a lot more
(22:14):
natural flow to the game. So I'm loving that. But
in looking at teams going into the playoffs and looking
at how they matched up in typical matchups like there's there's.
It does change the dynamic, it does change the game.
And a team like New York is much more formidable
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playing this style than they were during the regular season,
obviously against the Boston Celtics, who just you know, ran
away with games. None of those games were close, and
but but this is a different game, and and right
now the Knicks are more suited for it, and I
don't think that's I don't think that's going to change.
Celtics might shoot the three a little bit better, but
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if you look at the at the width and breath
of the season, the Knicks and the Celtics are are
just about dead. Even when it comes to three point
shooting percentage. They shoot it just about as well, and
they have as many guys who can shoot it well.
The only difference is that Boston shoots more of them.
So if you can limit the number of shots that
you that they take, then you or or they're just
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missing a ton of them, that evens the scales. And
then it goes to who has an advantage in other places.
And I think that the Knicks just by value of
because they think we've seen at the end of games,
Like everybody knows the Knicks know how they're going to play,
they know who their go to guy is, they know
where he wants to operate from, so everybody can work
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off of that with a sense of understanding. The Boston
Celtics don't know where Jason Tatum's going to shoot the ball,
if he's going to shoot the ball, and so it
leaves them uncertain in these nip and tough games, and
most playoff games come down to that.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Rick, let's go to the Cavaliers and the Pacers Calves
get the oh here's your apology on official letterhead about
lane violations.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
That might be the only win they get the series
at this point.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, it's you know, I was I was sleeping on
the Paces because I watched them earlier in the year
and kind of through the course of the year, and
they didn't look that much different than the team that
I saw in in the playoffs last year, which I
just thought was a crazy kind of running, gun up
and down team that kind of got favorable matchups, ran
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into a next team that was already already beaten up,
and you know, just basically broke down because of the
pace that the Pacers played and uh and then got
swept by by the Celtics, and so I really wasn't
expecting that much. And then whatever whatever reason, Andrew never
Nemhart becomes like Superman in the postseason. Aaron Smith. Aaron
(25:03):
Ne Smith is legit. I mean, if you look at
if you look at them, Hard's numbers like he is,
his numbers are crazy high compared to what he does
in the regular season. That's usually not the case in playoffs.
Aaron Ne Smith has taking a nice step. Benedict Matherin,
I've always liked uh Ty Halliburton got the you know,
the rocket booster of his peers saying that he's the
(25:26):
most overrated player in the league has really juiced him up.
And and they got a sneaky pickup in Thomas Bryant
from Miami midseason that's given them just enough size, uh
to be able to battle and not be you know,
little aputian when when Miles Turner goes to the bench,
so uh. And then Rick Carlo is actually coaching this
(25:46):
team this year, it looks like a Rick Carlisle coach team.
They're they're defending their executing on offense, and honestly, I
think that I would not be the least bit surprised
if we see Pacers Nicks and and I that that's
gonna be a real battle. I think that could easily
go seven games decide who goes to the finals or
in nex.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Sweep because we owe them like like I'm thinking, I'm
thinking that the crowd, the Knicks fans a TV guardless
like Jet Nixon four, that's the next round to Rick
Nixon four.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
This is why I almost called in here right right there.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right, well, look, well, speaking of four, you know,
four is a big number. We just watched the t
Wolves beat the Warriors even that series up at one
game at piece, and Steph Curry says, hey, gonna be
out through game four. I'm you know, I've never had
this injury before where we're being smart with it. Rick,
I have a hard time believing that if the if
the Warriors are down to one, I expect them to
be down to one because this tip Timberwolves team is
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better than the Warriors. When the Warriors don't have Steph,
I have a hard time believing if they're down to one,
with the possibility of them going down three to one.
He's not playing in game four it is.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
It is a tricky thing, and I I mean, I
see that, but I also because his mobility and his
quick movement is so vital to his game. I also
don't like how demoralizing would it be if you trot
him out there and in the first five minutes he
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makes a move and he pulls it and he's done. Like,
I think that's where they have to be really careful
with something like that. And we were having a debate
on the morning show in the green room about where
he grabbed his hand string, because the football guys on
the show were saying, if you grab it high, it's
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not as bad as if you grab it sort of
in the middle of the back of your thigh, and
I thought I saw him grab it in the middle.
And so even if it's maybe a you know, a
first degree, I just looked with the way he has
to play to be effective, I would lean toward them
not to pishing it as opposed to trying to get
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him out there if he's if he's at all compromised,
because he's either going to make it worse, which at
thirty seven, I don't know that you want to create
a hamstring problem for yourself long term, and I just
don't know how effective he would be if he's at
all compromised.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, That is at Rick Buker.
Check him out tomorrow morning, Rick, you'll be on with
Paul Pierce. Are you going to walk to work tomorrow?
Are just you're gonna hear? Take a car and and everything.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I'm staying in Manhattan Beach, so I'll have my driver.
Patrick out there bright and early, ready to go.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Well played.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well with
Rick an hour and a half talks about the shot
selection of Jalen Brunson. Rick as always Buddy, appreciated and
congratulations again to your daughter. All about man, that's fantastic
you brother. All right, there goes Rick Buker. I think
he's all nervous when I said, I think it's the
wrong move, and he's like, Okay, what are you gonna say?
(29:09):
The hell are you gonna say? Man?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Well, there's always that fear that you might have done
a snippet of research and found that one hankle.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
It's like, oh, we didn't have that, hey man, potential
for chaos in this universe. But no, we appreciate Rick.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
All the relationships we have with our our guests and
friends of the show, it's it's Rick rolls with the
punches and even just saying I thought about calling out sick.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I mean, it's he's not kidding, by the way, He's not.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
He was. I have no doubt.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I bet as soon as the Knicks won last night,
he was like, ah, I can't.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Was more of a game time decision than Steph Curry.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But as always, thanks to Rick for stopping by with us. Also,
I liked you got the Rick rolled into That was
very nice, Harmon. I liked that. Well, you know, time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. So someone who's been called the Rick Astley
of Fox Sports Radio, she's never gonna give you up,
never gonna let you down, never going to run and
round and hurt you. It's I might hurt you, wow,
(30:07):
I might wow.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
And I should have seen me on Tuesday night in
my volleyball game, this girl like talks back to me
through the net and I was like, oh, because I
claimed that she blocked my tip. Because I had to,
I went in for a tip and she absolutely did,
And so I played it and I.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Was like, no, she touches you, keep playing it. She's like,
I did not touch your ball. I did not touch
your ball at all.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
And I turned around.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I was like, my bad.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I thought you had hops.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
My bad, And.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So wait, you can spike it in volleyball?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah I can.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I mean, I'm like Draymond Green. I'm too short to
be playing the position I play.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Wait wait, how tall are you on five feet?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's reverse co ed.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
So I played with boys on a girl's net, and
the girls are the only ones that get hit in
the front, So I'm obviously the third option.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'm there for defense and for passing and all that.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
But yeah, the guy set and the girls hit and
we can only block.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
So I can't block that.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I can soft block.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
I can touch and slow down the ball. Okay you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, yeaheah yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
But I was like, do not, do not and then
we won. So jokes on her, jokes.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
On her, I was, I was not about any guys.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
I was like, don't say anything back, don't say anything back,
and I still did.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I can't helpide.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
No idea, you have no idea.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I am literally a version of Draymond Green. It's so
bad it's I would get a technical immediately. Speaking of
Draymond Green, he did get his fifth technical in today's game.
Seven technicals would be a suspension. The Timberwolves have even
the series against the Warriors, coming out on top in
Game three or Game two, excuse me, one seventeen to
ninety three. Game three will be on Saturday. Anthony Edwards
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with a scare early in the second quarter, but came
back in the second half despite that ankle injury into
what twenty points, nine rebounds, and five assists. We'll move
on to the NHL. The Capitals even their series against
the Hurricanes three to one. Was a final score. Oilers
and Golden Knights still going at it. Very exciting second period.
Edmonton is up three to two after those two periods.
They also lead the series one zero. In baseball, Yoshinobu
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Yama Moto, not his greatest night, gave up a season
high six hits, including two homers, and the Diamondbacks are
just all over the Dodgers five zero, top of the
eighth inning. In Arizona, the Angels were up not anymore.
Blue Jays have taken the lead. It's seven to four.
Top of the seventh inning, and just in the NFL today,
you know, a couple of first rounders signed their rookie deals,
(32:26):
like Las Vegas Raiders signed their first round pick Ashton
Genty and the Bears signed their first round pick tight
end Colston Loveland.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And also Texans and rookie.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Wide receiver Jaden Higgins have agreed to a fully guaranteed,
four year, eleven plus million dollar contract, making him the
first second round pick in NFL history to have a
fully guaranteed contract.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Wow. Yeah, lucky him make that paper all of a sudden,
the second round right, no, thank you, guys and Bears
also got the pope. They did Hail Mary's will go
their way. That happened. Coming up next, I'm pretty sure
Paul Pierce listens to the show because wait till we
(33:07):
tell you. We have to tell you about Paul Pierce
and his walk to work today. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Definitely no underwear. Everybody
walked to work. Everybody walked to work. Dude dude doo
to the Celtics down to the Knicks O two.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
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Speaker 1 (33:34):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon as we wait for the hammer to fall.
I am pretty sure Paul Pierce listens to our show. Yah,
you know, call me crazy Brady alone. Pretty sure he
listens to the show. Now. Paul Pierce, of course Celtics
legend on speak on FS one yesterday he said, Hey,
(33:55):
if the Celtics lose Game two, I will walk to
work tomorrow in a robe barefoot aha. And Rick Buker,
who joined a few minutes ago, said, man, the group
text we were on last night, Paul Pierce said, you're
never gonna see me again. But Paul Pierce, man of
his word, walked to work today. Of course was brought
(34:17):
in via wheelchair, because of course that's Paul Pierce. But
you know, we talked about this about an hour ago
and said, yeah, did he really walk? I said, yeah,
I think he walked part of the way, maybe some
of the way. Did he walk all the way. It's
an eight hour walk for him to get there. Yeah,
I don't know. Forty minutes ago, okay, so we would
have talked about this and twenty minutes went by. Paul
(34:39):
Pierce on his Twitter page put up his total number
of steps for the day. Right now, you go all
the way down his steps from like Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
or like five thousand, so he hasn't been walking that much,
but all of a sudden Thursday, he's got himself at
thirty three thousand, four hundred and sixty five steps. So
(35:00):
of course, you know me, I went to Google. And
this is the best part of AI now is that
you could ask AI and Google any question and you
get the answer right away. Like there's no Hey, I
want to I want to ask a question about Hey,
who won the Academy Award for this in nineteen fifty six?
And you get Academy Award List nineteen fifty You get
the answer right away. Hey, I saw this.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Year before.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That was Marty. I think that was Marty. Marty. That
was that was that was a quiz show Marty. How
did I forget Marty? So I loved you get the
answer now right away. So I went and I typed
in how many how many miles is thirty three thousand,
four hundred steps? And the AI answer comes up thirty
three thousand miles is approximately thirty two thousand steps is
approximately fifteen miles. And I'm like, okay, it's pretty convenient
(35:47):
that thirty three thousand steps is exactly the fifteen miles,
which is what Paul Pierce put out there last night.
What about Okay, but I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt that this is something that he put up
and did and you know, manipulate anyway. Okay, maybe he
did walk thirty three I mean I doubt it. Maybe
he did walk thirty three thousand steps in fifteen miles.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
Come on, that kind of surgery could have been done
over the weekend. I mean, I know I couldn't do it.
It's tough for someone who walks like less than ten
thousand steps a day to suddenly do thirty three thousand
in the eighty degree heat, walking where it's really hot,
and then go in and do it. Okay, that's a
lot to I'm just saying, it's a lot to ask.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
It's a lot.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
It means he won't he'll be tired tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I mean this is.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Why we always advise never skip leg day because then
one day you're gonna get caught and you know, helping
somebody move instead of just saying you know it, I'll
pay for the mover. Or you're going to have to
do some heavy lifting around your own house. Maybe you
need to chase the kids, or your your relatives are
in towns, or you're doing extra touristy stuff. I don't know,
(36:54):
he can't skip leg day, but for Paul Pierce, yeah,
ice up, he'll be ready for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
No, okay, okay, But it's really about the thirty three
thousand steps today after coming off of maybe hang on,
maybe four thousand steps on Wednesday, maybe eight thousand steps.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Ever ramped up before? When you're suddenly traveling somewhere else,
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I can tell you I did it. He ran up.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But the Celtics loss, that wasn't ramping up. That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
No, no, But I'm just saying, like you and your
normal day to day life, you don't have days where
suddenly you're walking a lot more than maybe you did
the fucking.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I don't know that I have said, you know, I
don't know that I have six days in a row
of under eight thousand steps a day. I don't think
I have that.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I well, maybe you do, maybe you don't. But I'm
just trying to get to.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
The to the heart of the matter, right, is if
suddenly you're in a misstrange land, you travel like you know,
I walk a lot because I walk my dog or whatever.
But I've taken the opportunity since I don't have a
bunch of the other scheduled stuff, you know, where I
have to be somewhere ridiculously early. I've probably walked or
(38:00):
in my two days here in Chicago than I do
necessarily on a daily basis. Now, is it a three
or four to one rashil like ball beer. No, But
I'm saying it's not completely out of the question. Right,
you go to Vegas, all of a sudden, you're just
wandering for hours. You may be doing so drunkenly. You
may not be actively really even thinking about the fact
(38:21):
that you're walking miles in between casinos, but you do it.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, but here's the thing, your walking. You don't walk
that much, and now you walk this much in the
heat and wheeled. Everything is still I'm coming in coming
on the air coming. Yeah, I don't know, man, I'll
make it very simple. Go ahead, Frostburg. He's lying, Well, you.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Could either do that or you could say that that
shame is a powerful motivator.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
He gave he gave his phone.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Well that's the other part, like that secret option. See
someone else carried it or got on a treadmill.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
For eight hours. But he attached it to his.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Dog and had him chase a squirrel that was on
a string.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Look look at all these steps from side to side
and backwards that you did. This is amazing. How did
you move so.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Latterly that I was doing rumba?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I will I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
He's a Fox Sports. It don't sound like I'm saying what.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt. That
he walked fifteen miles towards.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
It, and you're gonna say he wasn't hurt and he
didn't need that wheelchair too.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I think he said he wasn't hurt, he needed the
wheelchair for other reasons. It's again Exit Out about a
Fresca Exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we get back
into the biggest NBA story of the night, and I
can tell you exactly how one NBA second round. Series
(39:45):
is gonna end. Some people are gonna like it, some
people not so much. And it's not the Knicks of
the Celtics because we know how that's gonna end. That's next.
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