August 25, 2023 • 39 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon, in for Covino and Rich, react to a controversy in the world of soccer. Jason breaks down what is next for Shohei Ohtani after his injury. Jason believes Carli Lloyd should become the new head coach for the US Women's National Team. Plus, Giannis is laying out some demands for the Milwaukee Bucks!
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Well, here we are, Mike Harmon, the final weekend of
the preseason in the National Football League. That is right,
we're gonna find out what players you took flyers on
at the end of your fantasy draft could wind up
splitting the job at running back.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Shawn Tucker all together. Yeah, that's you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's always something that always makes me feel like, did
I really do a good enough job with this draft?
Like if you draft a guy that gets cut like
I'm like, oh, I really do a good of the round.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That means you had a deeper draft, right, with a
couple extra rounds, because you and I are in a
couple of leagues together in this crazy fantasy world where
you're drafting eighteen man rosters twenty guy rosters. So it's like,
all right, I guess he's the third or fourth guy
in a rotation. This guy's coming off injury issues, this
(01:36):
guy's got problems. You know, maybe you drafted a random
guy that's part of whatever mix. Because it becomes in
Indianapolis when Jonathan Taylor finally gets traded or hevn't help
you if he actually comes back in plays and they
come to some sort of agreement. But it's that kind
of I guess he's the odd man out. Next off
(01:59):
to the way of why are we going?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, gets through what I'm down at the end of going,
I guess I'll draft Eon Jackson. He may wind up
getting carries. If Jonathan Taylor gets traded, you could also
get cut. You know, I don't know, Okay, I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I'll be a wide receiver or whatever. I was like,
all right, this could be WR four. He may never
play it down, you have no idea. That's the danger
of drafting your leagues way too early as well, as
we're inside of two weeks. But you get the iyewatch
Flex podcast where I yell at you and bring you
all sorts of goodness as well. Berschinger tries to keep
(02:32):
me on task so it doesn't become a five hour
marathon of me just spouting out names while looking at
football cards. But sometimes we go that way too.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Twitter at how about a Fresca Mike, get swollen dome
as we're in for the guys today and getting ready
for a big weekend in the NFL. But there is
no story right now that has blown up more than
this over the past few hours. Now, you've probably saw
the video. In the past few days after Spain wins
the Women's World Cup, the president of the Football Federation,
Luis Rubiales, was seen kissing a player on the lips
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during the awards ceremony for Jenny Hermoso.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And it was really weird. It was really odd.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It was one of those stories when it first came out,
you saw the video said, ooh, that's weird. Well he'll
apologize for that, Uh, not so much, and things have
gotten to the point where yesterday it looked like Spain
was going to oust Rubyales or he was going to
step down. Instead, things have changed and now Spain is
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trying to do their best to part ways with Rubyalies,
who refuses to step down. He said that the kiss
that he gave Hermoso was consensual, which you're like, wait,
what what are you saying? He said a couple of
times that it was a consensual kiss. He's very surprised
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with what's going on. He's not going to step down.
There are laws that are going to have to go
through this, and hopefully I will not have to lose
my position. This was a consensual kiss. And you watch
this and you see this as anything but a consensual kiss.
Now you can throw hey. In Europe, maybe things are
a little bit different. No, no, this was I grabbed
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her and I kissed her on the lips, and Hermoso
put out a statement saying, at no time was this
kiss consensual. And now many players have decided to boycott
the Spain team as long as he is in control
of the football federation. And this story has become such
an unbelievable mess. And you know, I'll give you the
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first part of it and then the second part, Mike,
because the first part did he get a little carried
away during a metal ceremony. Okay, I'll give him the
benefit of the doubt for that that he got a
little carried away kissed and kissed her mosa on the lips. Now,
in no way is that okay. And there in no
way is that okay. And you have to come out
and say, you know what, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I was over exuberant. I'm sorry, and you got to
deal with whatever the faul out of it is. Now
Formoso accepts your your apology, and everything is all right, Okay, great,
we move on. But clearly it was not okay. And
not only that, but the fact that he goes on
to say that it was consensual and and you're not
gonna get rid of me and and and I don't
know why I'm getting in trouble for a consensual kiss
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that the other party says was no way consensual. You know,
that's when he's got to go. I mean that, now
he's got you. You can't stay on here, because not
only does this show you that I'm going to try
to hold onto my power and in a situation makes
me look like I made a forward sexual advance towards
a woman, but to double down on it, it shows
you what he thinks about women and where he thinks
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about that. Again, the the the fake feminist stories that
that that he is, or the fake feminist that he
is citing people that are against him in this. Yeah,
you know, I'm not the first guy to sit here
and say so and so should be fired. This guy's
got to be let go. But you can't stay after this. Man.
You you look like you're someone that's saying, hey, men,
women are not equal to men. I can do this
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was consentual. I could grab a player and kiss them
if I want to. WHOA, No, dude, you absolutely cannot
do this. And I don't know what the final outcome
of this is other than he is no longer running
the Spanish football federation. Hopefully it's not as sticky to
get there, but already it's sticky because you have a
federation stace. We're trying to get him out, and the
players saying we're not going to play as long as
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he's still running the football federation. Man, this is terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, remember before everything went down, Jorge Vilda the coach.
You had fifteen players with the document and statements that
they wouldn't play for him before the World Cup even
was even in the distance. Twelve of those players followed
through and did not join the squad, which eventually wins
the World Cup. But in this you've got a twenty
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three women that make the statement they're not playing again.
You've got fifty eight former players who condemned the action,
condemned him, uh, Ruby Alis saying they're not returning and
won't have anything to do with the national team as
it goes forward. So now they get it into the
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leggious part of it. And this is uh the Spanish
Sports Council U Victor Francos, it's their secretary of State
for sport. Uh that this council is going and bringing
a complaint to the countries. Get this administrative sports court
all sports abreviating somehow it's court. I don't know what
the translation is, but thecre but the parenthetical here is
(07:32):
it's abbreviated as tad okay, so this now goes to tad.
Uh Francos says that, uh, the explanations that Ruby Allas give, he.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Doesn't run ted, does he don't tell me Ruby Aalis
is the guy. Oh yeah, by the way I run
Ted's you'd be appealing to me like, no, he does not.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
He does not because he later says, quote, uh, the CSD,
which is again this sports Council nor its president can
remove him quote I can't sack any buddy, but we
could take the case to TAD if we believe a
serious offense has been committed, and then they decide whether
to approve it or not. And that's where we're at.
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Hermoso had her statement once again, I quote, I didn't
want to interfere in the multiple ongoing legal processes, but
I feel obliged to state that the words of Luis
Rubialis explaining the unfortunate incident are categorically false and part
of the manipulative culture he himself has created. She goes
on to say the situations as shock passing of time
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and analyzing in more details, I need to denounce this
act and she can go continues to go on. We've
now seen a number of players from other nations joining in,
including the United States Alex Morgan amongst others. The Angel
City FC right, the squad that plays here in Los Angeles,
(08:55):
they retweeted and put out a statement in support of
Hermoso on their official social media this afternoon. So it's
a it's a burgeoning case because it again goes back to,
you know, trying to make sure that the battles that
the women's team for the US have thought equality and everything,
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fair pay, et cetera, that that gets carried forward, that
that wasn't just all right, we got our settlement. Move on,
know that that is still active. And in this particular
case with Ruby, Allis's action and again and speaking in
front of a large crowd of people, you know, raising
his fist and yell and I'm not resigning, I'm not
(09:38):
bleeping leaving, he went Wolf of Walson.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, It's like, how can he? How can he? I mean,
really he has people that would support him on this.
I mean really he has supporters on that. I mean
I get, I get the way things go in politics
now it's you say what you say, and if you
do something really awful, you just lean into it the
other way and you'll find supporters.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, I get that part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That that's politics that is in that way. But this
is nothing new.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You just have social media and yeah, but now it
works to help it, right, because now it works more.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It works more because you have more ardent followers who
will say, yes, I will support you for something like this.
But this is like, who can who's supporting this? Really?
I mean, who's he's standing up like I'm being really
done wrong? No, dude, you you're you're you should have
been luck. You were lucky that you still have the job,
and now you're gonna stand here and say, yes, my
kiss was fine. I mean, I mean, this is like,
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this is morally one of those things where it's like,
I don't I don't see the other side of this, man,
I really I don't see the other side where oh
I can see what he's talking about here. This is
I'm important. I'm not going to lose my job for
something that was consensual. I'm gonna lie about what it
was just to keep my job. And I'm players a
boy thotting. I'm glad that I certainly I'm not defending it.
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But in his mind he may think he did nothing wrong.
Exactly know, but but that shows me it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
A matter of flying. It's it's a matter of this
is where he's standing, and now it's to Tad, whatever
the composition of that group is, to make the determination.
I think we'd all love a window in there, to
be the fly on the wall to see the arguments
and discussion points that get made. But certainly finding some
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folks that'll approve you and approve of this or dismiss it.
I don't know that i'd say one hundred percent that
I'd ever believe that it's that easy, as much as
you might want you might believe it that it should be. Jason.
Remember we're still talking about systems that are changing, memberships
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that are changing. You may still get a little more
resistance in Tad to categorically condemn his actions and try
to rationalize it. Again, not saying it's right, but I
think we've watched enough in politics and even in some
of these cases that get adjudicated in front of us,
as would be lawyers in the sports media world, to
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know that things don't go necessarily as easily as they
should be in these circumstances.
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Speaker 4 (12:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean, look, you look.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
At Spain right and this this team, this team that
won the World Cup, and you go, wait a minute,
I mean, what what kind of what kind of football
federation program are they running?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I look, I looked, I look.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
At the United States and the reasons that that we're
thrown out there for not winning the World Cup. That's like, hey,
they they have the sweatsuits are too expensive? Are they
doing too many commercials? And I go, here's a here,
here's a here's a group of players that first they
didn't want to play for the coach that won the
World Cup, so they won without twelve of their best
players because they don't want to play for the guy
(12:49):
because they hate him. Now you have this situation where
this guy won't even resign after he unlawfully kisses someone
and says, yes, no, I was fine to do something
like That's like, what what the hell is going on? Man?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How did they win the World Cup?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
They have all this crap going they win the World Cup,
and over here in the United States, it's well, you know,
the players assystem what they've been going on, and they've
been doing too many doing too many things, and you know,
they're they've been doing too many commercials and and they
they're worried about that. They're throwing their sweatsuits on the
ground and making other people pick them up. And I'm going,
oh my, what what this is? This is like what
are we really talking about? Like what's really an issue
(13:24):
for how hard it is to win something? When Spain
can go through all of this and be the best
team in the world, I don't get.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, especially when twelve of their women don't show up
to playing and they still roll through. Uh, and they
were great late in games. Look, maybe maybe it goes
back to some of that common enemy thing uh, because
they had a liking problem with the coach as well.
So yeah, there's a lot swirling under the surface here
that just continues to grow. So we'll keep an eye
(13:51):
on tad uh in the in the weeks to come.
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silver lining of seeing show, Heo Tani continue to play
because that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's in the lineup tonight.
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League Baseball that needs it. Sho Heo Tani at DH
to against the Mets as he continues to play after
a UCL tear in his elbow has ended his season
and maybe his career as a pitcher. Now here's the thing, Mike,
I don't care what he does tonight because the Mets,
we stink. We're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So we can.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Me and ten runs and start beating the hell. Lug
at it, lug at it. All we needed to do
was get rid of those high priced divas and look
at us. Now.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
All I had to do is put Pete a Lonzo
on the trading block and look what happens. No, no, no, look,
whatever happens, it's great for baseball, and it's great that
he's playing. Right. We talked to John Paul Morosi, MLB
Network insider last hour on the show, and he said, look,
you know, for him to continue to play when he
can easily say shut me down, I have free agency
to go to.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
This is a great thing, and it is a great thing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And he doesn't want anybody coming and stealing his MVP either.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, if I set out now, suddenly, hey, wait a minute,
I could I could lose the MV. Door gets open
to me. Wait a minute, I'm not doing that. I'm
coming home with the m V. I'm gonna win it again.
But going forward, it's it's what is next now, And
it's tough because Major League Baseball's lost their unicorn.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
We talked about it this week there on our night show.
There's four guys in sports, when they do something, everything stops.
And if they do something big, if they suck, it
becomes front page news. Aaron Rodgers, Lebron James shoeo, Tani
Leonel Messi. That's only trying to shoehorn that Aaron Rodgers. Dude,
come on, man, Aaron Rodgers has been the only story.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Man, He's been the No, there's one hundred million stories
just don't matter as much as Aaron rod.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, they don't much matter as much as Aaron Rodgers. No,
they don't, they don't, they don't.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Come on. Macchio was at camp this week. Man, You
at Macchio.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
At That's where we're at. That's the level of Jets
fan you're bringing. You at Machio at camp and he
was cursing you reluctant and cursing. They had to beat
it out of him almost literally. You saw guys stepping forward.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm like, come on, it is kind of weird that
he didn't want to curse, you know, in front of
a football team where it was kind of sting all
the time.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, considering Robert Salah can't go four words.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Without him, it doesn't make him a bad person, and
you understand him Hey, I got your attention because I'm
using four little or well right. But for baseball, they've
lost their unicorn because Otani is not that guy anymore,
because to be realistic, he's someone now who has had
two major arm injuries in the last five years, Tommy
(17:27):
John surgery in twenty eighteen and now a UCL injury
that's going to keep him out for at least the
rest of the season, potential surgery that could keep him
out of the lineup entirely for nine months. That's the
normal recovery time after ulner collateral ligament surgery. So when
you're coming into free agency, I mean all the the
the images we had in our head of Otani getting
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this seven hundred, seven hundred and fifty million dollar contract
to go somewhere to pitch and play. That's out the
window now because nobody's going to pay him to pitch,
because nobody knows he's going to be able to. Right,
He's gonna try to come back and pitch, But can
you trust that he's gonna pitch. You look at guys
like Jacob deGrom. The Rangers gave him all kinds of money.
He's not only not pitching this year, he's not gonna
pitch next year either. Right, he's out for a long
(18:12):
long time. You can't spend that kind of money with pitching,
especially if they have an injury history, right, pitching. I
always told you starting pitching is a bad investment. But
when you have a guy that's coming off of a
couple of major injuries, you're not gonna get paid for that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The good news for Otani is that whatever he does
become a free agent, he's still gonna get a Bryce
Harper Aaron Judge kind of contract, probably more money because
he's a bigger drawing card. People will come to the
games even if the team stinks to see show. Hey
Otani play. He's a bigger star. He's the biggest star
in baseball. He's like, whatever he does, we stop and
look at what he would stop and look at Otani.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So he's all, yeah, the international ad sales, I mean,
talk to the Angels, go watch a game. Anytime he's
at the play to he's pitching, it's all the signages
in Japanese. Yeah, it's all companies abroad because they've broken
the deal to be able to watch those games.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah. So he'll still get his money, but that kind
of deal. He's not gonna get and it's kind of tough.
But to spin this a little a little bit differently
is to think is to think about it like this.
I don't want to say that it was inevitable that
Otani was gonna get hurt, but I can't say I'm
really surprised that he had elbow injury, because this is
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what happens to pitchers.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Pitchers get hurt. It's it's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
We've seen great pitchers get hurt, seen their their careers
get cut short for many different reasons. It's not surprising
that here's a guy who, oh, by the way, had
an injury five years ago and is dealing with the
day to day stress of I'm playing every day and
then every fifth day I'm pitching. I'm sure that has
a lot to do with it too, because it is
stressed to play every day. You know, if you're not pitching,
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you're sitting and watching the game. Right, Otani is mentally
mentally locked into the game. He's physically locked into the
game because he's deaching, right, He's not playing the field,
but he's still playing. And that's a lot of stress
to put on somebody when every fifth day, you're ramping
up your your mental engagement, which is what he's done.
And I look at it this way, where I can't
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believe what we've seen for the last three years that
he was able to accomplish this.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
If you get to like.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Twenty twenty eight, twenty thirty, when Otani is winding down
his career, he's in the latter stages of his career
and he's not pitching anymore. Because may I'll throw it
out there that maybe he could be a closer, he
might be able to close if he gets back there,
I'll throw that out there. But to be this dominant
pitcher that he is, yeah, I don't see that happening
for him. Again, We're going to look back at this
three year run and go, I can't believe he did
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it for that long. Look at the look at the
look what he was able to do for three bleep
in years. And for you and I who grew up
hearing stories about Babe Ruth and talking about Babe Ruth
who played fifty years before you and I were kids,
In fifty years, people are gonna be talking about show
Heale going, can you see remember what he did there
in that run? From twenty twenty one twenty twenty twenty
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three was a starting pitcher, and he was great, and
he was and he was the biggest hitter in baseball
and he won a couple of MVPs. Can you imagine
what it must have been like to be able to
watch that happening. That's how I think we're gonna look
back at the Otani era when he pitched any hit,
because from here on out, it's really going to be
him as a hitter.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, as it goes through, right, if you get the
bonus of him being able to throw down the line,
that's great. We just saw coming across the old twitterverse,
the I mean exaverse. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
But it does. You just made up a word.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's fine, just made but you know, a podcast off
of John Boy Media talking baseball, they just cited Angels
GM berry Manassian saying the Angels hadn't done any imaging
related to arm fatigue until this past week, despite the
number of times that we had starts pushed back through
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the sea. So that one again level of discomfort, you know,
err on the side of caution. All of those things
we can get into due diligence and battles of what
folks might have been able to see coming. You know,
it's the don't be sad that it's over, be glad
it happened. Nonsense that you try to tell yourself in
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the wake of tragedies or you know, changes in your
life that maybe weren't something that you were an active
voice in or didn't have a choice. And in this case,
it's it's unfortunate for the baseball universe. Maybe more teams
get involved and think they can put their deck together
to do an elevator pitch. But for Otani and this run, yeah,
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I mean we got to watch some craziness. Right every
sixth day, we got to watch them pitch. Sometimes it
was electric, sometimes it wasn't. But it was so out
of the ordinary that it builds builds a legend in
and of itself. Because look, it's not like he was
going Bob Gibson numbers on the mound, right, or you
(23:05):
mentioned de gram even at his best, right when when
he was putting up numbers, or can I pick all
the Mets guests in the guard you want to keep going.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Oh, sure, he's not a guy, he's not throwing ninety nine. No,
But physically blowing you away.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
But yeah, the point was that it wasn't a physically
imposing Hey he's finishing after six innings and he's got
nine strikeouts, right, he's at eleven strikeouts, those kind of games.
It was just the totality of it and watching that unfold,
because look, there's a lot of people that played little
league baseball, maybe into high school, and and at some
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point you get told you got to choose, or the
choice is made for you where you're now a hitter
and when once upon a time you pitched as well, well,
now you're not doing that or you're not getting to
bat as regularly, especially now that the d H is
universal as you get up the ladder. But it's that
that dream of all right, he had it all and
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he and he did that, and then he said, hey,
when I was twelve, I was dominating, you know those
kind of things. So you had that relatability on some
minor level, but just the unicorn status. Well, now it
moves on and he'll be great and he'll be a
draw and internationally you still sell tickets, but it's it's
not the same, and that's okay. We got to see
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it for three three plus years now, the inevitability of it.
I just to figure it. Figured the effectiveness would get
to a point where the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
And that's maybe me just hoping that, you know, the
arm arms stays solid. And I you know, I hate
the the notion of all of the the injuries that
(24:45):
we see all the time with pitchers. Yes, a bit
of inevitability given the torque and number of repetitions, et cetera.
But you know, I had hoped that it would just
meet it to normal grizzly conclusion of he's pitching for
the Angels and you know they're not good. Instead, we
have this new world order to navigate, and now a
(25:05):
lot of people get to try to photoshopping into their
team's uniform. Meanwhile, Dodger fans are salivating.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Twitter at how about a fresca?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Mike gets swollen dome Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for
Cavino and Rich today, just it's time to look back
and say, let's appreciate what he did as this unicorn,
and now let's appreciate what he's going to do because
he's gonna keep it and he's gonna keep breaking it's
just gonna be different.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Are you gonna start singing the Last Unicorn? You're so right?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's a song. Yeah, that's a song. Really, it was
a movie in a song. It was a movie in
a song.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No, yeah, from nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'm gonna sing Grand Turismo. No, I'm not. I don't know.
I just I just said that.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Okay, did you see it?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You know what? Grand Tarismo is one of those movies
where I think people will go see it just because
they've seen everything else, and there's and nothing else has
gotten pulled, everything else gotten pulled off the schedule because
of the writers' strike. So it's a David Harbor Orlando Bloom. Yeah,
maybe it's on. I'll go see it because I can't
see Barbie again. I've seen Barbie three times. Alright, I
can't sit through Oppenheimer again. Sitting through it.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You didn't like it?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You were cran Terismo.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
When when? When? When? When my wife turned to me
and said, there's an hour left in in in Oppenheimer,
I said, no way, no way, there's no way there's
an hour left in the Nope, there was an hour
left in the movie.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I enjoyed the hell out of it. It's really one
of my favorite cinematic experiences. Oh doesn't I mean resonate,
you know, the same way as people doing Rocky Horror
Picture Show and singing along with I'm just ken. But
it's anybody gets there and then look you got strays
is out? Blue Beetle? Yeah? Yeah, uh the Equalizer three? Yeah, anybody, anybody? Yeah,
(26:49):
retribution another Liam Neeson is mad at Somebody movie.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well he is.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
My kids went and saw, actually my older daughter went
and saw The Trench Part MEG two.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh that was good. I liked.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, I said it was
a lot of fun. Yeah, the acting was awful, but
it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh yeah. Yeah. And there's the most the most unbelievable
non realistic scene involving Jason Stathan that when it happened
in the movie, we all cackled laughing that they were
going to actually try to do this in the movie.
It was so fun. I'll tell you, I don't want
to spoil anything because people are still going to go
see The Big Two. Hey, I'm all in.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I just liked that. About a month ago, I went
to a movie and three of my trailers were Jason Statham,
and both of my daughters looked at me and going
why is this guy? And everything? Well, let me explained this.
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Speaker 3 (27:49):
Now, how about this story? This story came out speaking
of a double barrels of big soccer stories, The newest
ranking world rankings for the women's team teams came out
and a big headline today, the US women's national team
is out of the top two for the first time
in twenty years since FIFA started ranking teams. The US
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women's national team is outside of the top two. It's insane,
but yeah, they're not good enough. They lost the World Cup.
They got knocked out in the first game they played
the knockout round because they just weren't good enough. The
talent level just isn't there, and you can cut it
up a lot of different ways, but they're just not
good enough and they need a change.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
They are. You're gonna have a new head coach come in.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
They're gonna wind up meeting new players because what they
put out there wasn't good. You can have a lot
of excuses up and down and back and forth, but
they just weren't good enough. Now, let me throw this
out here to you, Mike, because me but wow, my god,
yeahs women's national team needs a change. The biggest winner
United States player, who was the biggest winner of the
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World Cup is someone who didn't play a minute.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And that's Carly Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Right. She has her debut on Fox. She makes a
business decision to say, I could be an analyst that
goes on TV and just says, hey, I hope the
hope the women start getting it together. Oh here's the
need to do in the second half, and instead, no,
I'm gonna tell you what I see that I don't
like about this team. Now agree or disagree about what
was at stake for the women and why they lost
(29:20):
Women's World Cup. Everybody paid attention to her. She's a
legend that everybody still knows. You still remember her playing
or playing days were just a couple of years ago.
She's kind of at arm's length a little bit with
US Soccer right now. So it was a little bit
easy for her to take the attack of Hey, you
know what, this is what I see. I don't like this.
I don't like the way they're they're signing autographs before
(29:42):
the game. I don't like the way they're doing this. Mentally,
I don't like where they were. And you can agree
or disagree, but the bottom line is everybody paid attention her.
Lexi Lallas, who's been the biggest voice in American soccer
for the last twenty years.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yes, listen to Carly Lloyd. Let me support what she
is saying.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
She's the big winner because now she's kind of the
authority on the women's national team, because she's someone who
is telling it like it is now that the women
need a new head coach. And you've heard a lot
of names run out there. You know the English coach.
They like a lot of coaches out there. Might the
best coach for this team be Carly Lloyd? And maybe
this is part of Carly Lloyd doing her Hey, I'm
(30:19):
gonna politic a little bit for this job. I'm gonna
come out here and tell you what's wrong with the
with the women's national team. It's not the program I
left in twenty twenty one. The things are being done
that I disagree with. Maybe that's a whole reason why
she took the attack that she did in saying such
critical things about the US women's national team. Maybe the
(30:40):
best choice for a head coach is Carly Lloyd.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Maybe it is look at you creating chaos. I say,
let's go back to Jill ellis.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh talking about someone like, hey, no, no, but you
got results.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You got results, you won, you had a common enemy.
You're also younger and able to separate yourself from the
pack kind of breakout and traverse the field with with
cross passes, crossing passes and everything else which got gobbled
up pretty easily by opponents. This time around, you see
(31:12):
the gap. I thought the gap would have been bigger.
I'm surprised the third that they're in front of England,
to be honest with you, as well as and a
couple of other teams. You know, as you go through
the rankings, like there's three or four other teams, I'm like,
the United States was not better than any of these teams.
And developmentally, as you're watching international competitions, they're not excelling.
(31:34):
I mean, I like the cut of your jib brass
tax someone who's a name that people know and have
watched involved and and someone that's not going to just
come out with the kid gloves, right. What do we
always talk about in NFL commentators, NBA commentators, et cetera,
like stop sugarcoating and I see what I see with
my eyes. The worst thing you could do is lie
(31:56):
to me. Look, if you're a local broadcaster and you
have a contract and you're working for a team, I
get it. There's only so far. And we've got plenty
of friends who well walk had to walk the plank
after some of the stuff in battles inside those booths.
We had the whole thing with the kid from the Orioles.
All he did was cite history and he got sent
(32:17):
away for a month. I get it, But you don't
want to be lied to. And anybody that watched those games,
watched the competition, realize that the product right now is
not good enough. There's a disconnect. So you need to
shake things up. And like I said, either bring back
ls you you brought up weakman, or you know we're
looking at Carly Lloyd. Uh shake it up. It's a
(32:40):
new new team going forward. A lot of these players
are moving into their post career, uh playing post playing
career side of things. Maybe they'll be in the media,
maybe they'll go with the kid gloves and whatever else.
But you know, sometimes you need folks to be real
with you at every level.
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Jannisnica Kunpo, Hey may not be happy with the Milwaukee Bucks,
a story that broke late yesterday into today. Yeah, he'll
(35:50):
re sign with the Bucks when it's time from to
sign that big extension coming up soon, but he wants
to see a commitment to continuing to build a champion
and chip team before he re signs with them long term.
Now this is exactly what the Bucks want. Hey, Yeah, oh,
we gotta commit to being a title content. I don't
(36:12):
care about what the Bucks want. This is good for me. Yeah, well, look,
it's great for it's great for the NBA because, to
be quite honest, this is the most interesting thing Janis
has said in years, right outside of being a being
a freak in between the sheets and on the court,
which was I mean, when is he When has he
ever said something that's really really interesting?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
He was, well, we had the ladder shoving controversy when
he wanted to get his shots up and.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
He was there was the last Yeah, there was the ladder.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
And then we had when he was trying to explain,
you know that there's no failure in sports, which uh.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, when he fell down in the final possession it
couldn't get a shot off.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's a failure to keep your feet.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
So yeah, we've had a couple of times and there's
been a little little cracks in the uh veneer, but
this one kind of big deal. Right.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Here's why I like it, because Yannis, this is like,
you know, the movies, and I'm trying to think about.
All I can think of is to Live and Die
in La which is a which is a movie nobody
where where you have a character who comes into the
beginning of the movie and they're wide eyed and and
and and just innocent, and they're the big protagonist and
they get teamed up with somebody who is jaded and
(37:23):
mean and I've seen the world so many times and
flicking cigarettes out and over the course of the movie,
the wide eyed young kid who comes in that sees
the world. By the end of the movie, he's the
hard jaded guy because he learned so much all the
way through. Like that's kind of where I feel Jannis
is because he came into the league and yay, Jannis
is great, he's fun, he's all these great things.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Look out talent that he is.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
And now here he is going, hey, I've learned from
guys like Lebron and everybody else. I want you to
make sure you're committing to building a championship roster around
me before I resign. It's like he's now at the
end of the movie, where now I'm gonna be this
NBA guy. Now I'm confident in saying what I want
to say, and maybe now he says a lot of
things that are interesting instead of saying nothing the last
(38:07):
few years.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Well, He also said, quote the way Lebron James or
Michael Jordan is for the States, the same way I
am for Greece, maybe larger. So he told Tanya Gangouli
of The New York Times, I think he's.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Right about that. He's the Michael Jordan of Greece.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Sure, though he said he's bigger. He's bigger than Michael.
Jordan's the global guy. Come on, he is, Okay, But
in Greece, though, I can see.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
How many people are wearing Yanni's shoes versus walking around
in Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
In Greece, I think a lot of people wearing Giannis.
I think, yeah, okay, let's go do a body count.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Let's go do my show from Greece one week and
we'll see. We'll do the show.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I think that would be great. If you're wearing Jordan's
line up over here, I think we are Afternoon Drive.
Our night show is Afternoon Drive in Greece. I think
that would be fantastic. I will start stumping for all
their greatest exports any minute now. But no, I like
a little bit of salty. I'm now a grizzled veteran,
honest because he recognizes how he's going to be judged.
(39:03):
You're no longer a guy that was a middle first
round pick that overachieved. You're expected to be at the
finish line and to be great at the finish line
each and every year. And so when we talk about Milwaukee,
it's like Damian Lillard in Portland, they always see him
fixed and it was like, oh, they'd be together forever.
It's like, you know what, starry eyes, bigger, bigger lights.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I love this Jannis. I love this Joannis. I love
this Yiannis. He stays this Yiannis. That'd be awesome, uh.
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we're gonna find out what players you took flyers on
at the end of your fantasy draft could wind up
splitting the job at running back.
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Shawn Tucker all together. Yeah, that's you know what.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That's always something that always makes me feel like, did
I really do a good enough job with this draft?
Like if you draft a guy that gets cut like
I'm like, oh, I really do a good of the round.
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That means you had a deeper draft, right, with a
couple extra rounds, because you and I are in a
couple of leagues together in this crazy fantasy world where
you're drafting eighteen man rosters twenty guy rosters. So it's like,
all right, I guess he's the third or fourth guy
in a rotation. This guy's coming off injury issues, this
(01:36):
guy's got problems. You know, maybe you drafted a random
guy that's part of whatever mix. Because it becomes in
Indianapolis when Jonathan Taylor finally gets traded or hevn't help
you if he actually comes back in plays and they
come to some sort of agreement. But it's that kind
of I guess he's the odd man out. Next off
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to the way of why are we going?
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Yeah, gets through what I'm down at the end of going,
I guess I'll draft Eon Jackson. He may wind up
getting carries. If Jonathan Taylor gets traded, you could also
get cut. You know, I don't know, Okay, I guess.
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I'll be a wide receiver or whatever. I was like,
all right, this could be WR four. He may never
play it down, you have no idea. That's the danger
of drafting your leagues way too early as well, as
we're inside of two weeks. But you get the iyewatch
Flex podcast where I yell at you and bring you
all sorts of goodness as well. Berschinger tries to keep
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me on task so it doesn't become a five hour
marathon of me just spouting out names while looking at
football cards. But sometimes we go that way too.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Twitter at how about a Fresca Mike, get swollen dome
as we're in for the guys today and getting ready
for a big weekend in the NFL. But there is
no story right now that has blown up more than
this over the past few hours. Now, you've probably saw
the video. In the past few days after Spain wins
the Women's World Cup, the president of the Football Federation,
Luis Rubiales, was seen kissing a player on the lips
(03:05):
during the awards ceremony for Jenny Hermoso.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And it was really weird. It was really odd.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It was one of those stories when it first came out,
you saw the video said, ooh, that's weird. Well he'll
apologize for that, Uh, not so much, and things have
gotten to the point where yesterday it looked like Spain
was going to oust Rubyales or he was going to
step down. Instead, things have changed and now Spain is
(03:33):
trying to do their best to part ways with Rubyalies,
who refuses to step down. He said that the kiss
that he gave Hermoso was consensual, which you're like, wait,
what what are you saying? He said a couple of
times that it was a consensual kiss. He's very surprised
(03:54):
with what's going on. He's not going to step down.
There are laws that are going to have to go
through this, and hopefully I will not have to lose
my position. This was a consensual kiss. And you watch
this and you see this as anything but a consensual kiss.
Now you can throw hey. In Europe, maybe things are
a little bit different. No, no, this was I grabbed
(04:15):
her and I kissed her on the lips, and Hermoso
put out a statement saying, at no time was this
kiss consensual. And now many players have decided to boycott
the Spain team as long as he is in control
of the football federation. And this story has become such
an unbelievable mess. And you know, I'll give you the
(04:39):
first part of it and then the second part, Mike,
because the first part did he get a little carried
away during a metal ceremony. Okay, I'll give him the
benefit of the doubt for that that he got a
little carried away kissed and kissed her mosa on the lips. Now,
in no way is that okay. And there in no
way is that okay. And you have to come out
and say, you know what, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I was over exuberant. I'm sorry, and you got to
deal with whatever the faul out of it is. Now
Formoso accepts your your apology, and everything is all right, Okay, great,
we move on. But clearly it was not okay. And
not only that, but the fact that he goes on
to say that it was consensual and and you're not
gonna get rid of me and and and I don't
know why I'm getting in trouble for a consensual kiss
(05:20):
that the other party says was no way consensual. You know,
that's when he's got to go. I mean that, now
he's got you. You can't stay on here, because not
only does this show you that I'm going to try
to hold onto my power and in a situation makes
me look like I made a forward sexual advance towards
a woman, but to double down on it, it shows
you what he thinks about women and where he thinks
(05:42):
about that. Again, the the the fake feminist stories that
that that he is, or the fake feminist that he
is citing people that are against him in this. Yeah,
you know, I'm not the first guy to sit here
and say so and so should be fired. This guy's
got to be let go. But you can't stay after this. Man.
You you look like you're someone that's saying, hey, men,
women are not equal to men. I can do this
(06:03):
was consentual. I could grab a player and kiss them
if I want to. WHOA, No, dude, you absolutely cannot
do this. And I don't know what the final outcome
of this is other than he is no longer running
the Spanish football federation. Hopefully it's not as sticky to
get there, but already it's sticky because you have a
federation stace. We're trying to get him out, and the
players saying we're not going to play as long as
(06:24):
he's still running the football federation. Man, this is terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, remember before everything went down, Jorge Vilda the coach.
You had fifteen players with the document and statements that
they wouldn't play for him before the World Cup even
was even in the distance. Twelve of those players followed
through and did not join the squad, which eventually wins
the World Cup. But in this you've got a twenty
(06:49):
three women that make the statement they're not playing again.
You've got fifty eight former players who condemned the action,
condemned him, uh, Ruby Alis saying they're not returning and
won't have anything to do with the national team as
it goes forward. So now they get it into the
(07:09):
leggious part of it. And this is uh the Spanish
Sports Council U Victor Francos, it's their secretary of State
for sport. Uh that this council is going and bringing
a complaint to the countries. Get this administrative sports court
all sports abreviating somehow it's court. I don't know what
the translation is, but thecre but the parenthetical here is
(07:32):
it's abbreviated as tad okay, so this now goes to tad.
Uh Francos says that, uh, the explanations that Ruby Allas give, he.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Doesn't run ted, does he don't tell me Ruby Aalis
is the guy. Oh yeah, by the way I run
Ted's you'd be appealing to me like, no, he does not.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
He does not because he later says, quote, uh, the CSD,
which is again this sports Council nor its president can
remove him quote I can't sack any buddy, but we
could take the case to TAD if we believe a
serious offense has been committed, and then they decide whether
to approve it or not. And that's where we're at.
(08:11):
Hermoso had her statement once again, I quote, I didn't
want to interfere in the multiple ongoing legal processes, but
I feel obliged to state that the words of Luis
Rubialis explaining the unfortunate incident are categorically false and part
of the manipulative culture he himself has created. She goes
on to say the situations as shock passing of time
(08:34):
and analyzing in more details, I need to denounce this
act and she can go continues to go on. We've
now seen a number of players from other nations joining in,
including the United States Alex Morgan amongst others. The Angel
City FC right, the squad that plays here in Los Angeles,
(08:55):
they retweeted and put out a statement in support of
Hermoso on their official social media this afternoon. So it's
a it's a burgeoning case because it again goes back to,
you know, trying to make sure that the battles that
the women's team for the US have thought equality and everything,
(09:17):
fair pay, et cetera, that that gets carried forward, that
that wasn't just all right, we got our settlement. Move on,
know that that is still active. And in this particular
case with Ruby, Allis's action and again and speaking in
front of a large crowd of people, you know, raising
his fist and yell and I'm not resigning, I'm not
(09:38):
bleeping leaving, he went Wolf of Walson.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, It's like, how can he? How can he? I mean,
really he has people that would support him on this.
I mean really he has supporters on that. I mean
I get, I get the way things go in politics
now it's you say what you say, and if you
do something really awful, you just lean into it the
other way and you'll find supporters.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, I get that part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That that's politics that is in that way. But this
is nothing new.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You just have social media and yeah, but now it
works to help it, right, because now it works more.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It works more because you have more ardent followers who
will say, yes, I will support you for something like this.
But this is like, who can who's supporting this? Really?
I mean, who's he's standing up like I'm being really
done wrong? No, dude, you you're you're you should have
been luck. You were lucky that you still have the job,
and now you're gonna stand here and say, yes, my
kiss was fine. I mean, I mean, this is like,
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this is morally one of those things where it's like,
I don't I don't see the other side of this, man,
I really I don't see the other side where oh
I can see what he's talking about here. This is
I'm important. I'm not going to lose my job for
something that was consensual. I'm gonna lie about what it
was just to keep my job. And I'm players a
boy thotting. I'm glad that I certainly I'm not defending it.
(10:48):
But in his mind he may think he did nothing wrong.
Exactly know, but but that shows me it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
A matter of flying. It's it's a matter of this
is where he's standing, and now it's to Tad, whatever
the composition of that group is, to make the determination.
I think we'd all love a window in there, to
be the fly on the wall to see the arguments
and discussion points that get made. But certainly finding some
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folks that'll approve you and approve of this or dismiss it.
I don't know that i'd say one hundred percent that
I'd ever believe that it's that easy, as much as
you might want you might believe it that it should be. Jason.
Remember we're still talking about systems that are changing, memberships
(11:37):
that are changing. You may still get a little more
resistance in Tad to categorically condemn his actions and try
to rationalize it. Again, not saying it's right, but I
think we've watched enough in politics and even in some
of these cases that get adjudicated in front of us,
as would be lawyers in the sports media world, to
(11:59):
know that things don't go necessarily as easily as they
should be in these circumstances.
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Speaker 4 (12:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I mean, look, you look.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
At Spain right and this this team, this team that
won the World Cup, and you go, wait a minute,
I mean, what what kind of what kind of football
federation program are they running?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I look, I looked, I look.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
At the United States and the reasons that that we're
thrown out there for not winning the World Cup. That's like, hey,
they they have the sweatsuits are too expensive? Are they
doing too many commercials? And I go, here's a here,
here's a here's a group of players that first they
didn't want to play for the coach that won the
World Cup, so they won without twelve of their best
players because they don't want to play for the guy
(12:49):
because they hate him. Now you have this situation where
this guy won't even resign after he unlawfully kisses someone
and says, yes, no, I was fine to do something
like That's like, what what the hell is going on? Man?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How did they win the World Cup?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
They have all this crap going they win the World Cup,
and over here in the United States, it's well, you know,
the players assystem what they've been going on, and they've
been doing too many doing too many things, and you know,
they're they've been doing too many commercials and and they
they're worried about that. They're throwing their sweatsuits on the
ground and making other people pick them up. And I'm going,
oh my, what what this is? This is like what
are we really talking about? Like what's really an issue
(13:24):
for how hard it is to win something? When Spain
can go through all of this and be the best
team in the world, I don't get.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, especially when twelve of their women don't show up
to playing and they still roll through. Uh, and they
were great late in games. Look, maybe maybe it goes
back to some of that common enemy thing uh, because
they had a liking problem with the coach as well.
So yeah, there's a lot swirling under the surface here
that just continues to grow. So we'll keep an eye
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on tad uh in the in the weeks to come.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
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silver lining of seeing show, Heo Tani continue to play
because that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
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Speaker 3 (14:15):
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League Baseball that needs it. Sho Heo Tani at DH
to against the Mets as he continues to play after
a UCL tear in his elbow has ended his season
and maybe his career as a pitcher. Now here's the thing, Mike,
I don't care what he does tonight because the Mets,
we stink. We're not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So we can.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Me and ten runs and start beating the hell. Lug
at it, lug at it. All we needed to do
was get rid of those high priced divas and look
at us. Now.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
All I had to do is put Pete a Lonzo
on the trading block and look what happens. No, no, no, look,
whatever happens, it's great for baseball, and it's great that
he's playing. Right. We talked to John Paul Morosi, MLB
Network insider last hour on the show, and he said, look,
you know, for him to continue to play when he
can easily say shut me down, I have free agency
to go to.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
This is a great thing, and it is a great thing.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And he doesn't want anybody coming and stealing his MVP either.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, if I set out now, suddenly, hey, wait a minute,
I could I could lose the MV. Door gets open
to me. Wait a minute, I'm not doing that. I'm
coming home with the m V. I'm gonna win it again.
But going forward, it's it's what is next now, And
it's tough because Major League Baseball's lost their unicorn.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
We talked about it this week there on our night show.
There's four guys in sports, when they do something, everything stops.
And if they do something big, if they suck, it
becomes front page news. Aaron Rodgers, Lebron James shoeo, Tani
Leonel Messi. That's only trying to shoehorn that Aaron Rodgers. Dude,
come on, man, Aaron Rodgers has been the only story.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Man, He's been the No, there's one hundred million stories
just don't matter as much as Aaron rod.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
No, they don't much matter as much as Aaron Rodgers. No,
they don't, they don't, they don't.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Come on. Macchio was at camp this week. Man, You
at Macchio.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
At That's where we're at. That's the level of Jets
fan you're bringing. You at Machio at camp and he
was cursing you reluctant and cursing. They had to beat
it out of him almost literally. You saw guys stepping forward.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm like, come on, it is kind of weird that
he didn't want to curse, you know, in front of
a football team where it was kind of sting all
the time.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, considering Robert Salah can't go four words.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Without him, it doesn't make him a bad person, and
you understand him Hey, I got your attention because I'm
using four little or well right. But for baseball, they've
lost their unicorn because Otani is not that guy anymore,
because to be realistic, he's someone now who has had
two major arm injuries in the last five years, Tommy
(17:27):
John surgery in twenty eighteen and now a UCL injury
that's going to keep him out for at least the
rest of the season, potential surgery that could keep him
out of the lineup entirely for nine months. That's the
normal recovery time after ulner collateral ligament surgery. So when
you're coming into free agency, I mean all the the
the images we had in our head of Otani getting
(17:49):
this seven hundred, seven hundred and fifty million dollar contract
to go somewhere to pitch and play. That's out the
window now because nobody's going to pay him to pitch,
because nobody knows he's going to be able to. Right,
He's gonna try to come back and pitch, But can
you trust that he's gonna pitch. You look at guys
like Jacob deGrom. The Rangers gave him all kinds of money.
He's not only not pitching this year, he's not gonna
pitch next year either. Right, he's out for a long
(18:12):
long time. You can't spend that kind of money with pitching,
especially if they have an injury history, right, pitching. I
always told you starting pitching is a bad investment. But
when you have a guy that's coming off of a
couple of major injuries, you're not gonna get paid for that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
The good news for Otani is that whatever he does
become a free agent, he's still gonna get a Bryce
Harper Aaron Judge kind of contract, probably more money because
he's a bigger drawing card. People will come to the
games even if the team stinks to see show. Hey
Otani play. He's a bigger star. He's the biggest star
in baseball. He's like, whatever he does, we stop and
look at what he would stop and look at Otani.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So he's all, yeah, the international ad sales, I mean,
talk to the Angels, go watch a game. Anytime he's
at the play to he's pitching, it's all the signages
in Japanese. Yeah, it's all companies abroad because they've broken
the deal to be able to watch those games.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah. So he'll still get his money, but that kind
of deal. He's not gonna get and it's kind of tough.
But to spin this a little a little bit differently
is to think is to think about it like this.
I don't want to say that it was inevitable that
Otani was gonna get hurt, but I can't say I'm
really surprised that he had elbow injury, because this is
(19:29):
what happens to pitchers.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Pitchers get hurt. It's it's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
We've seen great pitchers get hurt, seen their their careers
get cut short for many different reasons. It's not surprising
that here's a guy who, oh, by the way, had
an injury five years ago and is dealing with the
day to day stress of I'm playing every day and
then every fifth day I'm pitching. I'm sure that has
a lot to do with it too, because it is
stressed to play every day. You know, if you're not pitching,
(19:55):
you're sitting and watching the game. Right, Otani is mentally
mentally locked into the game. He's physically locked into the
game because he's deaching, right, He's not playing the field,
but he's still playing. And that's a lot of stress
to put on somebody when every fifth day, you're ramping
up your your mental engagement, which is what he's done.
And I look at it this way, where I can't
(20:16):
believe what we've seen for the last three years that
he was able to accomplish this.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
If you get to like.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Twenty twenty eight, twenty thirty, when Otani is winding down
his career, he's in the latter stages of his career
and he's not pitching anymore. Because may I'll throw it
out there that maybe he could be a closer, he
might be able to close if he gets back there,
I'll throw that out there. But to be this dominant
pitcher that he is, yeah, I don't see that happening
for him. Again, We're going to look back at this
three year run and go, I can't believe he did
(20:44):
it for that long. Look at the look at the
look what he was able to do for three bleep
in years. And for you and I who grew up
hearing stories about Babe Ruth and talking about Babe Ruth
who played fifty years before you and I were kids,
In fifty years, people are gonna be talking about show
Heale going, can you see remember what he did there
in that run? From twenty twenty one twenty twenty twenty
(21:05):
three was a starting pitcher, and he was great, and
he was and he was the biggest hitter in baseball
and he won a couple of MVPs. Can you imagine
what it must have been like to be able to
watch that happening. That's how I think we're gonna look
back at the Otani era when he pitched any hit,
because from here on out, it's really going to be
him as a hitter.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, as it goes through, right, if you get the
bonus of him being able to throw down the line,
that's great. We just saw coming across the old twitterverse,
the I mean exaverse. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
But it does. You just made up a word.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It's fine, just made but you know, a podcast off
of John Boy Media talking baseball, they just cited Angels
GM berry Manassian saying the Angels hadn't done any imaging
related to arm fatigue until this past week, despite the
number of times that we had starts pushed back through
(21:59):
the sea. So that one again level of discomfort, you know,
err on the side of caution. All of those things
we can get into due diligence and battles of what
folks might have been able to see coming. You know,
it's the don't be sad that it's over, be glad
it happened. Nonsense that you try to tell yourself in
(22:20):
the wake of tragedies or you know, changes in your
life that maybe weren't something that you were an active
voice in or didn't have a choice. And in this case,
it's it's unfortunate for the baseball universe. Maybe more teams
get involved and think they can put their deck together
to do an elevator pitch. But for Otani and this run, yeah,
(22:45):
I mean we got to watch some craziness. Right every
sixth day, we got to watch them pitch. Sometimes it
was electric, sometimes it wasn't. But it was so out
of the ordinary that it builds builds a legend in
and of itself. Because look, it's not like he was
going Bob Gibson numbers on the mound, right, or you
(23:05):
mentioned de gram even at his best, right when when
he was putting up numbers, or can I pick all
the Mets guests in the guard you want to keep going.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Oh, sure, he's not a guy, he's not throwing ninety nine. No,
But physically blowing you away.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
But yeah, the point was that it wasn't a physically
imposing Hey he's finishing after six innings and he's got
nine strikeouts, right, he's at eleven strikeouts, those kind of games.
It was just the totality of it and watching that unfold,
because look, there's a lot of people that played little
league baseball, maybe into high school, and and at some
(23:40):
point you get told you got to choose, or the
choice is made for you where you're now a hitter
and when once upon a time you pitched as well, well,
now you're not doing that or you're not getting to
bat as regularly, especially now that the d H is
universal as you get up the ladder. But it's that
that dream of all right, he had it all and
(24:01):
he and he did that, and then he said, hey,
when I was twelve, I was dominating, you know those
kind of things. So you had that relatability on some
minor level, but just the unicorn status. Well, now it
moves on and he'll be great and he'll be a
draw and internationally you still sell tickets, but it's it's
not the same, and that's okay. We got to see
(24:22):
it for three three plus years now, the inevitability of it.
I just to figure it. Figured the effectiveness would get
to a point where the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
And that's maybe me just hoping that, you know, the
arm arms stays solid. And I you know, I hate
the the notion of all of the the injuries that
(24:45):
we see all the time with pitchers. Yes, a bit
of inevitability given the torque and number of repetitions, et cetera.
But you know, I had hoped that it would just
meet it to normal grizzly conclusion of he's pitching for
the Angels and you know they're not good. Instead, we
have this new world order to navigate, and now a
(25:05):
lot of people get to try to photoshopping into their
team's uniform. Meanwhile, Dodger fans are salivating.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Twitter at how about a fresca?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Mike gets swollen dome Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for
Cavino and Rich today, just it's time to look back
and say, let's appreciate what he did as this unicorn,
and now let's appreciate what he's going to do because
he's gonna keep it and he's gonna keep breaking it's
just gonna be different.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Are you gonna start singing the Last Unicorn? You're so right?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's a song. Yeah, that's a song. Really, it was
a movie in a song. It was a movie in
a song.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
No, yeah, from nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'm gonna sing Grand Turismo. No, I'm not. I don't know.
I just I just said that.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Okay, did you see it?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You know what? Grand Tarismo is one of those movies
where I think people will go see it just because
they've seen everything else, and there's and nothing else has
gotten pulled, everything else gotten pulled off the schedule because
of the writers' strike. So it's a David Harbor Orlando Bloom. Yeah,
maybe it's on. I'll go see it because I can't
see Barbie again. I've seen Barbie three times. Alright, I
can't sit through Oppenheimer again. Sitting through it.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You didn't like it?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You were cran Terismo.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
When when? When? When? When my wife turned to me
and said, there's an hour left in in in Oppenheimer,
I said, no way, no way, there's no way there's
an hour left in the Nope, there was an hour
left in the movie.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I enjoyed the hell out of it. It's really one
of my favorite cinematic experiences. Oh doesn't I mean resonate,
you know, the same way as people doing Rocky Horror
Picture Show and singing along with I'm just ken. But
it's anybody gets there and then look you got strays
is out? Blue Beetle? Yeah? Yeah, uh the Equalizer three? Yeah, anybody, anybody? Yeah,
(26:49):
retribution another Liam Neeson is mad at Somebody movie.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well he is.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
My kids went and saw, actually my older daughter went
and saw The Trench Part MEG two.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh that was good. I liked.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, I said it was
a lot of fun. Yeah, the acting was awful, but
it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh yeah. Yeah. And there's the most the most unbelievable
non realistic scene involving Jason Stathan that when it happened
in the movie, we all cackled laughing that they were
going to actually try to do this in the movie.
It was so fun. I'll tell you, I don't want
to spoil anything because people are still going to go
see The Big Two. Hey, I'm all in.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I just liked that. About a month ago, I went
to a movie and three of my trailers were Jason Statham,
and both of my daughters looked at me and going
why is this guy? And everything? Well, let me explained this.
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Speaker 3 (27:49):
Now, how about this story? This story came out speaking
of a double barrels of big soccer stories, The newest
ranking world rankings for the women's team teams came out
and a big headline today, the US women's national team
is out of the top two for the first time
in twenty years since FIFA started ranking teams. The US
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women's national team is outside of the top two. It's insane,
but yeah, they're not good enough. They lost the World Cup.
They got knocked out in the first game they played
the knockout round because they just weren't good enough. The
talent level just isn't there, and you can cut it
up a lot of different ways, but they're just not
good enough and they need a change.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
They are. You're gonna have a new head coach come in.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
They're gonna wind up meeting new players because what they
put out there wasn't good. You can have a lot
of excuses up and down and back and forth, but
they just weren't good enough. Now, let me throw this
out here to you, Mike, because me but wow, my god,
yeahs women's national team needs a change. The biggest winner
United States player, who was the biggest winner of the
(28:55):
World Cup is someone who didn't play a minute.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And that's Carly Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Right. She has her debut on Fox. She makes a
business decision to say, I could be an analyst that
goes on TV and just says, hey, I hope the
hope the women start getting it together. Oh here's the
need to do in the second half, and instead, no,
I'm gonna tell you what I see that I don't
like about this team. Now agree or disagree about what
was at stake for the women and why they lost
(29:20):
Women's World Cup. Everybody paid attention to her. She's a
legend that everybody still knows. You still remember her playing
or playing days were just a couple of years ago.
She's kind of at arm's length a little bit with
US Soccer right now. So it was a little bit
easy for her to take the attack of Hey, you
know what, this is what I see. I don't like this.
I don't like the way they're they're signing autographs before
(29:42):
the game. I don't like the way they're doing this. Mentally,
I don't like where they were. And you can agree
or disagree, but the bottom line is everybody paid attention her.
Lexi Lallas, who's been the biggest voice in American soccer
for the last twenty years.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yes, listen to Carly Lloyd. Let me support what she
is saying.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
She's the big winner because now she's kind of the
authority on the women's national team, because she's someone who
is telling it like it is now that the women
need a new head coach. And you've heard a lot
of names run out there. You know the English coach.
They like a lot of coaches out there. Might the
best coach for this team be Carly Lloyd? And maybe
this is part of Carly Lloyd doing her Hey, I'm
(30:19):
gonna politic a little bit for this job. I'm gonna
come out here and tell you what's wrong with the
with the women's national team. It's not the program I
left in twenty twenty one. The things are being done
that I disagree with. Maybe that's a whole reason why
she took the attack that she did in saying such
critical things about the US women's national team. Maybe the
(30:40):
best choice for a head coach is Carly Lloyd.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Maybe it is look at you creating chaos. I say,
let's go back to Jill ellis.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh talking about someone like, hey, no, no, but you
got results.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You got results, you won, you had a common enemy.
You're also younger and able to separate yourself from the
pack kind of breakout and traverse the field with with
cross passes, crossing passes and everything else which got gobbled
up pretty easily by opponents. This time around, you see
(31:12):
the gap. I thought the gap would have been bigger.
I'm surprised the third that they're in front of England,
to be honest with you, as well as and a
couple of other teams. You know, as you go through
the rankings, like there's three or four other teams, I'm like,
the United States was not better than any of these teams.
And developmentally, as you're watching international competitions, they're not excelling.
(31:34):
I mean, I like the cut of your jib brass
tax someone who's a name that people know and have
watched involved and and someone that's not going to just
come out with the kid gloves, right. What do we
always talk about in NFL commentators, NBA commentators, et cetera,
like stop sugarcoating and I see what I see with
my eyes. The worst thing you could do is lie
(31:56):
to me. Look, if you're a local broadcaster and you
have a contract and you're working for a team, I
get it. There's only so far. And we've got plenty
of friends who well walk had to walk the plank
after some of the stuff in battles inside those booths.
We had the whole thing with the kid from the Orioles.
All he did was cite history and he got sent
(32:17):
away for a month. I get it, But you don't
want to be lied to. And anybody that watched those games,
watched the competition, realize that the product right now is
not good enough. There's a disconnect. So you need to
shake things up. And like I said, either bring back
ls you you brought up weakman, or you know we're
looking at Carly Lloyd. Uh shake it up. It's a
(32:40):
new new team going forward. A lot of these players
are moving into their post career, uh playing post playing
career side of things. Maybe they'll be in the media,
maybe they'll go with the kid gloves and whatever else.
But you know, sometimes you need folks to be real
with you at every level.
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big day yesterday is the Dodgers sweep a double header.
When you talk about completing a suspended game, bets making
a late run at MVP. But look, I feel like voters,
(34:29):
everybody has wanted to give it to Ronald Lacuna all
season long. He's got a home run in two stolen bases.
He is just eighty stolen bases and thirty nine home
runs away from being the first forty eighty guy.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It's like they've wanted to give it to him. So fine,
give it to him, Just get it to hit him.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Three, ten, sixty nine extra base hits, eighty nine RB
high and ten stolen bases. Mookie bets. So there it is.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
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NFL store sorry, big NBA story coming your way, But
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Jannisnica Kunpo, Hey may not be happy with the Milwaukee Bucks,
a story that broke late yesterday into today. Yeah, he'll
(35:50):
re sign with the Bucks when it's time from to
sign that big extension coming up soon, but he wants
to see a commitment to continuing to build a champion
and chip team before he re signs with them long term.
Now this is exactly what the Bucks want. Hey, Yeah, oh,
we gotta commit to being a title content. I don't
(36:12):
care about what the Bucks want. This is good for me. Yeah, well, look,
it's great for it's great for the NBA because, to
be quite honest, this is the most interesting thing Janis
has said in years, right outside of being a being
a freak in between the sheets and on the court,
which was I mean, when is he When has he
ever said something that's really really interesting?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
He was, well, we had the ladder shoving controversy when
he wanted to get his shots up and.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
He was there was the last Yeah, there was the ladder.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
And then we had when he was trying to explain,
you know that there's no failure in sports, which uh.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah, when he fell down in the final possession it
couldn't get a shot off.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That's a failure to keep your feet.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
So yeah, we've had a couple of times and there's
been a little little cracks in the uh veneer, but
this one kind of big deal. Right.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Here's why I like it, because Yannis, this is like,
you know, the movies, and I'm trying to think about.
All I can think of is to Live and Die
in La which is a which is a movie nobody
where where you have a character who comes into the
beginning of the movie and they're wide eyed and and
and and just innocent, and they're the big protagonist and
they get teamed up with somebody who is jaded and
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mean and I've seen the world so many times and
flicking cigarettes out and over the course of the movie,
the wide eyed young kid who comes in that sees
the world. By the end of the movie, he's the
hard jaded guy because he learned so much all the
way through. Like that's kind of where I feel Jannis
is because he came into the league and yay, Jannis
is great, he's fun, he's all these great things.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Look out talent that he is.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
And now here he is going, hey, I've learned from
guys like Lebron and everybody else. I want you to
make sure you're committing to building a championship roster around
me before I resign. It's like he's now at the
end of the movie, where now I'm gonna be this
NBA guy. Now I'm confident in saying what I want
to say, and maybe now he says a lot of
things that are interesting instead of saying nothing the last
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few years.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Well, He also said, quote the way Lebron James or
Michael Jordan is for the States, the same way I
am for Greece, maybe larger. So he told Tanya Gangouli
of The New York Times, I think he's.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Right about that. He's the Michael Jordan of Greece.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Sure, though he said he's bigger. He's bigger than Michael.
Jordan's the global guy. Come on, he is, Okay, But
in Greece, though, I can see.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
How many people are wearing Yanni's shoes versus walking around
in Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
In Greece, I think a lot of people wearing Giannis.
I think, yeah, okay, let's go do a body count.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Let's go do my show from Greece one week and
we'll see. We'll do the show.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I think that would be great. If you're wearing Jordan's
line up over here, I think we are Afternoon Drive.
Our night show is Afternoon Drive in Greece. I think
that would be fantastic. I will start stumping for all
their greatest exports any minute now. But no, I like
a little bit of salty. I'm now a grizzled veteran,
honest because he recognizes how he's going to be judged.
(39:03):
You're no longer a guy that was a middle first
round pick that overachieved. You're expected to be at the
finish line and to be great at the finish line
each and every year. And so when we talk about Milwaukee,
it's like Damian Lillard in Portland, they always see him
fixed and it was like, oh, they'd be together forever.
It's like, you know what, starry eyes, bigger, bigger lights.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I love this Jannis. I love this Joannis. I love
this Yiannis. He stays this Yiannis. That'd be awesome, uh.
From mike Im Jason from the Tirech dot Com Studios.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
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