June 25, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike react to the Florida Panthers winning Game 7 of The Stanley Cup Final. And the guys debate if Caitlin Clark has gotten too “passive”.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
We are on the cusp of history, and the Florida
Panthers said, now we're just playing with you. They close
out the Edmonton Oilers. They win Game seven in the
Stanley Cup Final two to one. The second period goal
by Ryan Hart a goal that Skinner Skinner is gonna
see in his sleep for quite a long time. The
(01:11):
Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, former Whaler's head coach Paul Maurice,
the last Whaler guy that's connected to the NHL. Former
Whaler's head and coach Paul Maurice, is your Stanley Cup champion?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, baxs to the wall, right, the old play with
your food. We use that analogy a lot with the
the Boston Celtics, and that was them giving up one
game O. The Panthers said here's three, and then we
watched tonight. As you know, shots mounted ice time became
the metric of note why because you had to track
(01:45):
Connor McDavid. It was one of those things where I
thought they were just gonna start showing him like he
was an air tag. What's he doing on the bench?
Trade now? In between shifts? Let's have a picture and
picture because it became all about him in the final minutes.
When's he checked back in on the ice? When's the
next shift? When's the change? How do you when do
you pull the goalie? All of that stuff on the
(02:07):
anticipation of it. Steve de Sager was up on his
feet in the final seconds. You and I are, you know,
leaning in our chairs. Are they gonna get one last rush? Instead?
It ended up with a giant mush in the corner
to run out the clock.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And now, listen, everybody's gonna be hitting refresh in their
computers like every five seconds rest of to night, waiting
for Kate the Oilers fan, to have some kind of
She's got to have something tonight, right, Well, everybody's gonna
she's gotta have How does this make.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Us feel better? It's a final for her. She's got
but she's got to have.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Because she teased us today and it's you can't go back.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, she signed with Playboy Sigoy, But there's got to
be She's.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Gotta have a video from a shower.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, but this is after the Oilers have won the
Stanley Cup. There's got to I don't know what the
con I'm not saying what the cop, but there's gotta
be something.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
From Oh my god, what's work.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I mean, she's telling people, her critics to go blank
themselves went like she did in that video she was walking.
I mean, it's where I come to think.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Dwn waters it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean, I mean, there's gotta be some kind of
content from her tonight. I mean, he's got to have
something going on. I mean, this is this is people go, Okay,
I know it's eleven o'clock on the Florida something.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I mean, I know we lost, but here's the after party.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, I mean this is it all Florida parties they
do they also, I mean, look what happened to the Celtics,
said Dell with this.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We're going down to Florida. We're not staying in Boston
the party. And there's no to my end, there's no
six foot rule from me hitting refresh on my computer,
so they don't. But she's got I mean, she's gotta
there's gotta be some kind of content. I mean, she
was very okay, bad word I was going to use
that she would no, no, no, she was very forthright with
how upset she was at her critics who didn't like
(03:51):
the fact that she flashed the cabin and they said,
if you don't like my lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well yeah, go blank yourself, right yeah uh And and
so I was, okay, So she did that, and then
you put out the video again, Okay, well hear that
now they lost.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, it's got to be like this is the demand,
like now, like when the Knicks lost, you wanted to
hear what I had to say. Because the Bleep and
Knicks lost like you wanted to hear, like when when
this time? Are you kidd that's the greatest podcast ever.
Uh you got to hear from Kate the Oilers fan.
She's got it, she's got there's some kind of content.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
In the end.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're you've got your fifteen minutes of fame. You got
a maximum is the end of this? No, no, no,
it is, You've got a twenty minute. That's exactly it,
which is why you've got a thirsty society. I'm calling
it what it is. People have been waiting with baited breath.
You're talking about it, reciety. It's a thirsty society. Wait
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society we're gonna do next? I mean they were hoping
for more imitators to try to rally the team today.
What a thirsty society we live in?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So I would expect some kind of truer words ever
been spoken. No, no, no, you're right, No, you're absolutely
right there, literally and figuratively.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We are a thirsty side. It's hot out there. It's
hot out there, I know, and people want, you know,
their spicy content as well. Keep hitting the body like
you want content now, so you want it as well.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Right now, you know it or not, we.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Got to get some kind of content. But they are
awarding the Stanley Cup right now. Gary Bettman probably getting booed.
I'm just no question. We don't have to sound not now.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Everybody's now. But they're too busy filming. No, no, no,
I think they're actually playing boos off their phone. So
they continuously booing because from all the crowd shots at
this point, it's he's not being lustily booed her appearances.
Where's that booing app where I can just put a
boo and I have to worry about it. I save
my throat, I can just hold it out there.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's either he's getting booed or the five White Sox
fans there, you.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Know, I go. Now, look, I was in the middle
of a module on workplace violence earlier. Don't make me
have to revisit it.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So they're awarding the Stanley Cup and then look, the
thirsty Panthers are going to be Stanley Cup. But listen now,
I'll tell you the story about how the guy that
travels with the cup yelled at me. Okay, this was
and I can't and you know, does Les. I don't
know because I may be incredibly memorable to him as
the guy who did this.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Even with all the years of experience. Yeah, because I
don't know how many people try to do what I did,
and I thing trying to eat him. No, no, no,
eat the Stanley cup. No, when when it was a
tin foil a cup?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Is the top of this where the chocolate fountain comes
out of and I could just dip my marshmallow under it?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Where is that really just a fondue fountain, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So the guy and so the guy who travels with
the cup, the guy with the hair the guy with
the Mark Davis haircut. That's the guy, right, you see
him all the time. He's got the white gloves, travels
with the cup. So there's been a couple of times
in my life where I have gotten to see the
cup from work. One time they brought in when I
was working at ESPN and and you got to go
take pictures with it, which was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Right, that's great. Uh, you're not allowed to do anything.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You can't put anything on the cup, Like I wanted
to put my whaler's jersey on the cup, Like, no,
you can't do that. Can't let anybody take a picture. Okay,
I'm like, all right, that's fine, I understand. So but
that was where where they hustled you in. You got
a picture, you got out. Now this is about I
want to say about twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And they brought the Stanley Cup to KABC in LA.
That's where I was producing local sports. Sure, Bill Weird,
Rob Fukuzaki. They brought the Stanley kin. I don't know
why they brought the Stanley cupp And it's like, okay,
the Stanley Cup was on some kind of tour and
so they brought was like wow, So the Stanley kin.
And they brought the Stanley Cup into.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The office and it's in our sports office, in our
bullpen office, where like four of us sit, and the
cup is right there, and I'm looking at because I'm
looking for where like they spelled Adam dead Marsh's name wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They called him.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They had a dead March on the cup when the
Avalanche won in ninety six, and looking for all the names.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It was, I'm like, I'm right up on. I put
my fingers on. It was so great. And so he's
sitting there and we're doing this. You know, he's standing
there we're with the cup and we're good. Then we're
gonna get some people to come in. We're gonna do
a story on it. We're gonna interview him, all this
kind of stuff. And I said, you know, and we
talked about how heavy it was. I go, you know,
it's forty pounds or wherever it was. And I said,
but you know, and some of the players you would
(08:08):
see that they can't lift it. Uh. And you know,
when they win, they can lift, but the adrenaline. But
when they can't, it's a tough thing to lift. And
I said, oh, let me see. And I take the
Stanley Cup and I take it by the top, and
I take it by the bottom and I try to
pick it up and I go, oh, to pick it
up over my head. And I get it up to
the point where it's about even with my head. And
the guy goes, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing.
(08:28):
What are you doing? I said, well, why why? He goes,
put it down? Put it down? And I saidod, He goes,
what are you doing? I go, I try to put
the Stanley Cup on right. Hecuse, you can't do that,
And I said why not. He goes, there's got to
be something for the players. I go, the players can't
do it because I did. He goes, oh, that's a
player thing. You can't do that. I'm like, why can't
I do that? It's a player thing. The players get that,
and I go, the players play and actually get the
(08:48):
Stanley Cup. I'm here for two minutes with the cup
in my whole life. And he got really mad at
me because the parents you're really smart off back. Yeah,
I said why, Well, I said, why what did I do?
What did I do? Like, you know, what do you mean?
Side feel? I felt, mean I couldn't do it. There's
times in I get when when I'm in a back
and forth with someone where sometimes I'll get a little standoff.
She go, what are you tell me? What are you
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yelling at me for?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And he goes, oh, you can't do what do you doing?
What are you doing? And I said, I said what,
I can't do that. He goes, it's got to be
something for the players, right, that was his whole thing.
And I said, well, the players play and they win
the cup and they keep it and they make a
lot of money. So I'm just trying to see if
I could pick up the cup. No, no, can't do it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
If he had told me, hey, we don't want you
to drop it and break it, I was like, really
probably should have been if he said that, I said, oh,
you know what, I completely understand because if I break
the Stanley Cup, boy, I'm not going to be line completely.
I'm not going to be that guy.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But but the fact that he told me no, you're
you're I was breaking some kind of run.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It seemed like a ground rule that should have been
established before the cup was left to thinking like you
won the Cup and no touching on the Stanley Cup,
of course, But I mean it's like he didn't walk
up and try to pour a forty in it and
drink from it. No, I mean that's for the players.
They can do that, and I want you to pour
off ice light and in it.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I wanted to tell a couple of stories of what
I knew some players did with the cup and say
so they could do that, But I can't do this, Like,
I like, I know a couple of things that that's
pretty good Stanley Cup Lord, you know that I could have.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I can't say it on the air. I mean, I
know a couple of things well, this letter.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
S I know some things that have happened and it's
not the S word you think.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm thinking. It's not that it's it's no.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The word is sandwich no and I and I'm like, okay,
there's been something, but I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I mean, really, you're gonna get mad at me for pam.
I know other people. But I get it if it
was a safety thing, because you have to because maybe
he didn't see your tries and you you I wore
my sleeveless T shirt today so I could lift the
Stanley Cup over my head. And here's the other.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Thing is that I've seen pictures of people in their
lives holding the Stanley Cup over their heads. These are people,
you know, these are people who are like doctors and
somehow I have the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Here or just you know, there's a guy.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Who was friends with one of my guy hang on,
there's a guy.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
There's a guy.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
There's a guy who is good friends with one of
my wife's good friends. Who happen it was on the
beach holding the Stanley cup oversad look at the picture
that what.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Was saying, just look at the TV right now, that's
what they get to do. Yeah, but I can't be
doing it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I get to do it in a in an office
by myself if I want to. It's the Stanley Cup. Now,
if I drop it, that's on me. But I should
be able to do that. Why can't I brought the
Stanley Cup in.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That guy's entire life is center around keeping the cup
safe and preserving the sanctity of that cup for the players.
So I wonder if I'm the only guy with him
that's ever tried to pick the Stanley Cup up. Oh no,
all right, but man, that that's how he knows he's alive.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Good.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I got to yell at a guy today.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I got to yell at this guy with curly hair
tell him to put the Stanley Cup down.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was crazy. He's like a rent a cop. That's
his one chance.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, he came actually came in on a segway when
he's not one.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He can't do it. Remember, I remember him looking at
me in the disdain he had on his face for me.
I was like, wow, man, you think like I just
like I just took it in spray paint of it
to be fair, though, I like, I will give you that.
You know, there should have been some ground rules like
no touching in the hair or face. I mean, you
got to know these things before you go to reach
for the cup. Mike, look who you're talking about, though. No, No,
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he would have gone quickly, and there might have been
a big mac already inserted at the top citizens arrested.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'm eating a big mac and fries out of the
top of the Stanley cup.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Boy, this is really good.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I'm not gonna do that knowing full well what
I know has been in the top of that cup.
And some stories again that stuff. You don't that story,
Hey ha, what a great fun story that as well.
But this dude who's five nine that if he can
lift the cup over his head, it's a pretty good achievement.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, not gonna let him do it. Okay, I got
the cup even even with my eyes, even with my head. Now,
the thing is, I was in an office, so I
don't know if I could have picked up because I
might have touched the ceiling. And I'm then again, I
don't want to bring one important question I have.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, and it's one of the most important questions I'm
ever gonna ask you. Okay, was that story before twenty twelve?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
That story. Oh yeah, story was n It was two
thousand something like that. Yeah, I was before twenty twenty.
Hey man, it's a thirsty world, what I tell you.
But dude, that had to be about twelve years. The
Cup in twenty twelve. Yeeah, Well, you know, maybe they
watched the Maye. Why you're connected to legends.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Maybe they're a plunger forever. The thing is the Cup changes.
What people don't know is that the Cup changes that
once you get to too many names, they take the
bottom rung like bottom plates off and it just becomes
the name of the team. So your name is only
on the Stanley Cup for a certain amount of no grant.
It's on there a long time because it takes them
a long time to have to take the names off.
But like when they run out of room, they replace
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the bottom level with here's the names of the teams,
like nineteen seventy five, Pittsburgh, peng in nineteen seventy six.
So and then when you get later on, you still see.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
The names on the Cup. So I don't know, I
don't I don't know where they are with the names
right now, like where the teams are and where the
names are but you.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Know, yeah, they're taking the black Hawks off for you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You're close there, Frostburg close. Just keep thinking about your
lips on the cup there? Yeah, no thanks, yeah yeah.
What part of the cup did you kiss?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Stop, what part of it?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Tell me if you kiss the top of the cup. Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna wear a mask, a joke.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't even think I can. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
If you if you just if you just kissed the
outside of the cup, Okay, that's fine because that but
if you kiss, if you kiss the top of the cup,
if you kiss the top of the cup.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Go see I hate only you, Go see a doctor,
Go see, go see.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Tomorrow it's gonna be like it's gonna be like a
contagion with every everybody's gonna be in the beds going
I kissed the top of the Stanley cut.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah you did, Yeah, you did? Well, you know what
I mean. When we announced the end of the show
in like fifteen years, maybe that's the last story you tell,
that's last I got. I got receipts. Let me talking
about that guy and that guy and the thing I
heard over there.
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Panthers on the ice enjoying the Stanley Cup. There your
twenty twenty three, twenty four Stanley Cup champions, beating Edmonton
by the final of two to one. Edmonton's near historic
come back falls just short. But what did it sound
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like on both of the radio stations? What did it
sound like for the Oilers call? What did it sound
like the five seconds for the Florida Panthers, Because the
end of the game was the puck was in the corner.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
There was no shot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
There was the puck in the corner, and it was
a scrum and the puck was still loose enough for
the referee not to blow a whistle, and the game
ended with the Panthers protecting the puck in the corner.
The Oilers couldn't get at it, and they are your
Stanley Cup champion. So let's let's hear the Oilers side
of it first. Okay, how did the final second sound?
The Oilers the clock ticking off, knowing they will fall
(17:20):
just short of winning the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Ten seconds left, two Panthers, a dream thirty.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Years hit the he's a real.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
The Florida Pitthers seven seconds, Florida two edits in one
oilers pulling ten seconds?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What second?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
The season is over?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
The FLA wants this Stanley Cup two one high gate seven.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
That's enough for his voice? This season is I've done.
I'm taking my microphone off. I'd slam it down, take
my headphones off. The season is over. We lostpropriately ty
shirt and bringing us back in with summers kiss somebody
kisses over baby?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
What's over?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Play the play that one back again? Because a guy
sounded like somebody play about.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Seconds four to two edits and one boilers pulling six seconds?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
What second?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
The season is over?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Soil Panthers? What this stay?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come now? I got it?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It sounds like John Kappenera, the comedian doing uh a
Harry Carry impression.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, Parker's sitting in the corner. There's ten seconds left.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
The season is over.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm trying to think I'm picturing actor though, like doing
a rant, but I'm not putting it in context. No, no,
not Bob Hope, not Bob Hope.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No again, one more time John Kappanera doing a Harry
Carry impression.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
One more time?
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Seven seconds, seven more two edits and one boilers like
two peconds?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What second?
Speaker 9 (19:03):
The stage.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
It is over this Danley co d seven.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
In that time. Hearing it a second time, I figured
out who it was. Godhead. It is Jack Klampus. You
know what I mean to drive?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That car?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Actually sounds like I'm drinking tequila in this greasy No, No,
Grimace's voices, Holy cow, Grimace's.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Voice to be more about hey, that would be Grimace's voice. Yeah,
I went to Sandy bearn Jack Clamps from Seinfeld. Creep goodness?
You trying to say about creep goodness? Creep goodness? Cousins
of Patrick Starr? Yeah, a little bit. Okay, should be
down that highway way. Remember he was supposed to be
evil when he was first. Is it an evil?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But evil in nineteen seventy one. Okay, he's had time
to change. We've seen it. Was it an time to change?
Because you haven't. Did you really give him time to change? Right?
A film series about the evolution of Grimace. That's who
he would say from the office, Gribbis.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
This is Kevin Malone. I am not Grimace. Stanley is
more Grimace, so is Phyllis than I am.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's pretty good Kevin Malone, It's not terrible, Okay, it's
not your worst. I channel the episode when Rain Wilson
impersonated everybody when he made the phone call that David
Wallace a better.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Job Jim was doing, and he was everybody is Kevin Malone,
this is Stanley Hudson, this is Toby Flanderson, Jim. I
don't know what Jim is doing with this employee of
the one thing. I don't know his.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Grim Grimm.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Let's go Mets. Let's go Mets, Grim grape Gribbitts. Let's
go Mets, Gribbitts, gribbits.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So that was the oiler side of it. How did
it sound from the Panthers side of it? I'm thinking
a little bit more excited and a little bit more
excited that the season was over.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Ten seconds left, two what Pitthers a dream?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Thirty years at the Behin's weal.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
The Florida Pithers heave one.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Let's Stanley Cup.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
Rod, Stanley is coming home.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
You always have the presidents of Florida, Baker.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
The Pithers won the Stanley Cup for the first time
hid history.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Start the celebration. Shutup Florida. The Panthers have done it.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
Stanley top shot.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Be Yeah, that was that was classy, Freddy Blassie Destiny.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Come on, Matters Garden, I'll rap you with Mike Caine.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You penciled that geek.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Valentine's Day, Dustiny.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
How about how about this? You're the play by play guy, right,
and you have this calleague? What am I gonna say
if you win? Right? And you have this call thirty
years in the making. Right, And not only do you
have to worry about the other guy jumping in, but
he just jumps in with a.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Here's away up the Florida Pitters.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Heaven, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Playbacks were getting the guy's got an all play. Hey,
let the play by play guy do his thing.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
You come in right after.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's awesome. But instead, no, just write when he starts saying,
guys ahead, one more time?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Ten seconds left, two rock Pitthers. A dream thirty years.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
In the making.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Here's away up.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
The Florida Pitters Heaven. The Stanley Cook.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Rod Sally is coming.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You always have the President.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Up Florida, Oh big gun the Pithers.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
He won the Stanley Cup for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I had to drown my analyst because he kept talking
and wouldn't stop talking. Grabbed him by the scruff of
the who poured a pitcher of water down a s
bag gun.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
We had our.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Replica Stanley cup at the ready, and I had to
take my handlet's face.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
And shove it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'm just gonna yell, no, it hit me another thing?
What what it sounded like again? I'm gonna say this.
I gotta hear it one more time. Let's play it
with more coll I get it. I gotta have more guys,
gotta have cowbell one more time.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Ten the seconds left?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Two? What Pithers? I dreamed thirty years at.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
The behin He's a real be Fourida Pitthers.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Have one Stanley cup.
Speaker 11 (23:52):
Ron Sally is coming home. You always have the presents
up Florida.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I know who that is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
When did Ron Wolf start doing?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, I got you one better? That's that's Frank the Tank.
That is Frank the Tank. Oh come on, man, of
course he does. That's what he would yell.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He's hanging with Grimace, dude. They actually mentioned Frank the
Tank on Sunday like baseball last night? The peede a lonzo?
Who would you rather hang out with you, buddy? Frank? Yeah?
Well not good because because who would you?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Who would you rather hang out with Frank the Tank
or Grimace and a Grimace one hundred percent Grimace.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You didn't even hesitate.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
No, I'm not gonna say Frank the Tank, come on, man,
But really that's how Frank the Tank would yell if
if the Mets won the world, he would say something
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And floods and queens. I can't get to my game
right now because they're incompetence. That's when you know what
I mean for me, he's long jumped to shark at
this point. Boy, God bless that he keeps uh the
cash flowing in trading cards and memorabilia or whatever else.
But if he went away, that'd be okay. Ah. No,
(25:07):
I mean, come on, man, did the comedy that's there?
It's not comedy anymore, sure it is, you know the
bit that does. But it doesn't matter. Just the stuff
that he says sometimes, and I know he's not even
thinking off the top of his head that he's saying
about Lindor or Jeff McNeil or.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Whatever else it is.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Although I gotta say the analyst there when he was
being drowned or whatever didn't kind of sound like when
Frank bites the towel or whatever the hell he's got going.
The Jerry Tarkanian kind of moved and he and he
keeps kind of jibber jabbler.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's like the play by play guy was
doing his thing, and then he turned to a producer
nodded his head. The producer grabbed the picture of water
walk in and just start pouring it down his throat. Now,
when I signal to you, if he starts feeling, when
I'm given my final call and I've been waiting thirty
years to make, if he starts.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Talking, you just bore that picture of water down his throat.
Do you think there was a pregame meeting with you know,
all the technical folks and Alex you can answer this
question of you know, we're gonna have this this moment
right and when it gets down in the final second,
I know he's gonna scream. How do we separate the
tracks so I can get a clean one of my
(26:14):
call at the end, you know that conversation was hasting. Yeah,
oh yeah, sure, sure this a blankety blanker is not
screwing up my call that I've been waiting for for
all these years. I'm sure. In the production meeting, they
said all right, look, look, when it happens, let the
call go, then come in plan what you're going to say,
(26:34):
and that's how it's gonna go. But to how we
fix this in post, look's been too often the analyst,
you know, our former players who play with the team,
and they're just excited and start screaming yeah, kind of
like me when Devincenzo. We've been running it as a
promo on the network for the last month and a half,
when Devincenzo hit that big shot and I just went, ah,
to which I have been asked, I think by every
(26:56):
person that has come into this studio where you and
I sit when they they've they've all heard the promo
and they say, how do you do that? And I smile,
And now I'll tell you talk about how the drowning
effect is what we're gonna use in the studio going forward. Well,
if it's diet coke, I'll drink it. That's fine, you
(27:18):
have no problem, Just bring her out. I'll just start
drinking leg leg leg leg liquor. I'll just go yeah.
I mean excited, utterance. I mean there's there's that visceral reaction.
I know I will never get to have that on air.
Let's see because my team stinks white socks Bears. Bears
are gonna be good. This year will be okay, not
after you just said that. Yeah, but see now you
(27:38):
join the cacophony of buses that are trying to put
them into some great things. This is bad for me.
I don't see anything that could go wrong with the
Bears this year. There's nothing that could go wrong. Every
it's gonna be great. There's nothing, no, nothing, podcast everything.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You know, you won like eleven championships in the NBA
in the nineties, so you had that. You won the
super Bowl. You won the Super Bowl in eighty five.
You were in the Super Bowl in two thousand and eight,
so you've had a super Bowl in your lifetime.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You know, you're okay.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You got a World Series in your lifetime, You're okay. No,
on the grand scale, I've been blessed. Blackhawks won a
couple of championships. There, You're all right. They may be
reduced to just the team on the cup at this point,
it's been it's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeez, yeah, all right, better yell me when Devincenzo hit
that shot or or this guy yelling at the end,
which let's hear.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Let's hear you with the devincenzo.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right, we'll let me wear that. Well, let's hear
the first one. Let's hear the guy again. Let's hear
let's hear.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
The Let's hear him again.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Let's hear the Panthers guy again, yelling leading the witnesses.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Let's hear the Panthers yelling and screaming, and the guy
the Panthers analysts here, the Panthers guy again.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Ten seconds left, two Panthers leave, thirty years the.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
One.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Let's say, like, coo, what silly is coming home?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
You always the presidents of Florida.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Bag Lord Stanley has to suck And it's just Lord
Stanley's coming home.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
What do you mean it's coming home? You've never won
the cup before. That's visiting. You've never been there for
Stanley's gonna melt in South Florida. All right, So so
that was so that was that was the call. But
that was met. Oh I'm sorry, we took that cup
out to the salvage yard. Oh well, you don't get
it just melts. So what's the metal worth in a pool?
So those are those are the guys whose job it
(29:39):
was to call the game. All right, so here's me.
It's not my job to be excited.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But this is when the Knicks were trailing the Sixers
by five with twenty five seconds left, and it was
how are we gonna blow this game? But then Devincenzo
hits that big three to give the Knicks the lead
with about eight seconds left. And this was how we
broke it down and analyzed it very carefully on our air.
Speaker 11 (30:03):
Ten seconds left.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, we need me now, tight shirt, we need ten seconds? No, no, no,
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I thought you had with me when I yelled with
the halt with the Devincenzo, that's you said. Wait you
know went, oh, well, the promo that we've been running
for the last three weeks, it's a promo that runs
on our air.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
What do you mean we don't have Seger's just laughing
at it. I thought that's what was getting the whole
because that vein's sticking out of your head. Now we've
been playing this for the last five minutes.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Yeah, what do you mean? Wait?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Wait, wait, wait, we've been hitting the button. You just
hit it refreshed one. But I thought you Steve getting
the Devincenzo when I was yelling when we know you
weren't getting that just like this one, not you boy.
And just because it's in a promo doesn't mean we
have it. That's true, that's true. I'm just saying, all right,
(30:53):
that's fine, that's fine. All right. I don't even have
your show from Friday, I know. Yeah, do you know
where we are? No? No, it's fine. I'm sure it is.
The open you have is the open you have.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Steve Hartman and Patt O'Brien's there. Okay, Look, the the
award that Connor McDavid wins is not the Stanley Cup
Final MVP. It's the con Smith as the postseason's most
Outstandley player. So having the postseason that yeah, I mean
the guy at forty two points in the playoffs, I mean,
come on, so yes, I get that if it was
(31:26):
a Stanley Cup. But if the con Smyth is most
valuable in the playoffs forty two points in the play
I mean, that's that's a season, you know, That's that's
a decent season for a third or second line winger
scored forty two points. Now, uh so there we go.
H The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman.
I wanted to bring their perspectives of those final calls.
But straight ahead, we'll get into the biggest controversy, biggest
(31:48):
game from the weekend that's gonna resonate for quite a while.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
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Speaker 1 (32:03):
It is The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. That's the best thing you've said in five years.
Thank you five years. We'll have more in the Stanley
Cup Final coming up in a few minutes. The final
calls of both teams incredible, absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But look the so much stuff to get to this weekend.
You know, we have the Copa going on the same
time as the Euro but more television ratings, ticket records
were broken yesterday Fever in the Sky Caitlyn Clark and
Angel Reese, a game that came down to the final
play where Caitlin Clark finds Leah Boston who misses a jumper.
(32:49):
Angel Reese has the best game of her WNBA career
and the Sky Escape with a one point win, and
it was incredible to watch. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You had the fever with a big lead and the
sky just just eat away at it all the way through.
There's a lot to take away from this, but there's
two things to two big things. First one, I don't
want to hear Angel resay again some people get special whistles,
because there's a couple of whistles she got in the
fourth quarter where it was you've got to be kidding me.
You didn't even get touched by Boston or Smith and
(33:22):
you went down and somehow you got a free throw
out of it. Don't tell me that you don't get
These are like superstar calls that she's getting at the EDD,
So don't tell me people get special whistles. She got
him and she had a great game.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And we're gonna we'll get into the whole deal because
I think there's gonna be a new head coach for
Caitlin Clark at some point soon. But the end of
this game, there's a lot of blame. Caitlyn Clark didn't
take any shots in the last three minutes. It intro
a plays for and that's legit and we'll get to that.
But the final play, I look at that and I go,
that's on Caitlin Clark, right, because she's got an easy
(33:56):
path to the hoop. Right Cardoso comes out to defend her.
But what happened was she got caught up in what
was she doing really well in the game. She was
dishing right. She is at a new level in her
development where now when other team whatever teams throw at
her defensively, she is able to find the right player
for a pass sure, and her and Boston were working
so well at the two man game was phenomenal, and
(34:20):
she's hit that next level where instead of ten turnovers
because she tries to force something, she knows where to
move and find. If you're throwing, if you're rolling this
defense towards me here, I know her. I'm going to
find an open player, and she was doing that. They
look thirteen assists is thirteen assists. But that final play,
I think she got caught up in the fact that
I'm going to pass this off because she passes the
ball over to Boston who's like three feet from her,
(34:44):
and she's taking a contested shot from the top of
the arc, where if Caitlin Clark gets this ball, everybody's
out of her. Cardoso comes all the way out of her.
She's got an easy.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Path to the hoop for either a layup or she's
going to the free throw line to win the game,
and she I think she got caught up in this
entire game was more of a was more of a
passive past first game for her, and she was trying
to find her places for her shot, where her first
default was I'm gonna find the open player because they're
gonna the'ren they're gonna all, you know, get get on me,
and they're all they're gonna suck their coverages towards me.
(35:15):
So I'm gonna find somebody open. But Boston wasn't open
across the floor pause it was three feet for so
just someone with it. I know she just hit a three,
but that's not what she does.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And someone gets a hand in her face when Caitlyn
Clark has an easy path to the basket. So you
can blame anybody you want to blame, Christy Sides, but
that final play, that's where Kaitlyn Clark has to say,
I'm taking this shot right. That's not something that's Draweda.
This is where hey I gotta see this and I
gotta take that shot. So that final one that's on
Caitlyn Clark. But it just keeps going back to the
(35:42):
idea of trying to establish more of that rapport and
with as you said, the thirteen assists, it's the Lebron
James making the quote right basketball play and sometimes you
have to be selfish. Sometimes you gotta go and make
the take a shot, make the shot, live or die,
(36:03):
you know, as the star of the squad that way.
And yeah, much has been made about the coaching acumen
or lack of stepping forward, stopping the bleeding at points
when they do have big leads, et cetera. So you know,
it's the blame goes around. And to your point with
Caitlin Clark, yeah, absolutely, you know there are moments where
(36:26):
I think there becomes too much of a reliance on
the I need to get everybody involved, because the early
part of the season was the discussion of does she
take too many shots? Even though a lot of the
you know, the the turnovers or whatever were balls, and
part of.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It, like you saw that one passed yesterday that went
was like what's going on exactly, But that's part of
her adjustment to the game is Okay, when can I
force my shot?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
When can I pass? But this should have been an
easy moment. Oh, I have the lane, I can get
in there and at least get to the free throw line.
Or you think that's the shot you want. I'm gonna
set up Aliah Boston from from the arc and that
and that's a shot. No, it's not a shot you want.
Even though she just made one, it's not the shot
you want. And and that was an easier way to
get there. That's on her again part of her development.
But you say, hey, fault Blaine, that was on her
(37:14):
for that final player. You're at the spots when you're
gonna get a call, when you're gonna have a lane,
how quickly that closes. But also Aleah Boston has been
phenomenal the last couple of weeks, right, defending player of
the Week, So I think you know, hey, feed the
hot hand is part of what she was thinking there
as well, exit out about a Fresca exit, swalling down
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
We are on the cusp of history, and the Florida
Panthers said, now we're just playing with you. They close
out the Edmonton Oilers. They win Game seven in the
Stanley Cup Final two to one. The second period goal
by Ryan Hart a goal that Skinner Skinner is gonna
see in his sleep for quite a long time. The
(01:11):
Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, former Whaler's head coach Paul Maurice,
the last Whaler guy that's connected to the NHL. Former
Whaler's head and coach Paul Maurice, is your Stanley Cup champion?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, baxs to the wall, right, the old play with
your food. We use that analogy a lot with the
the Boston Celtics, and that was them giving up one
game O. The Panthers said here's three, and then we
watched tonight. As you know, shots mounted ice time became
the metric of note why because you had to track
(01:45):
Connor McDavid. It was one of those things where I
thought they were just gonna start showing him like he
was an air tag. What's he doing on the bench?
Trade now? In between shifts? Let's have a picture and
picture because it became all about him in the final minutes.
When's he checked back in on the ice? When's the
next shift? When's the change? How do you when do
you pull the goalie? All of that stuff on the
(02:07):
anticipation of it. Steve de Sager was up on his
feet in the final seconds. You and I are, you know,
leaning in our chairs. Are they gonna get one last rush? Instead?
It ended up with a giant mush in the corner
to run out the clock.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And now, listen, everybody's gonna be hitting refresh in their
computers like every five seconds rest of to night, waiting
for Kate the Oilers fan, to have some kind of
She's got to have something tonight, right, Well, everybody's gonna
she's gotta have How does this make.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Us feel better? It's a final for her. She's got
but she's got to have.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Because she teased us today and it's you can't go back.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, she signed with Playboy Sigoy, But there's got to
be She's.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Gotta have a video from a shower.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, but this is after the Oilers have won the
Stanley Cup. There's got to I don't know what the
con I'm not saying what the cop, but there's gotta
be something.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
From Oh my god, what's work.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I mean, she's telling people, her critics to go blank
themselves went like she did in that video she was walking.
I mean, it's where I come to think.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Dwn waters it.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean, I mean, there's gotta be some kind of
content from her tonight. I mean, he's got to have
something going on. I mean, this is this is people go, Okay,
I know it's eleven o'clock on the Florida something.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I mean, I know we lost, but here's the after party.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, I mean this is it all Florida parties they
do they also, I mean, look what happened to the Celtics,
said Dell with this.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We're going down to Florida. We're not staying in Boston
the party. And there's no to my end, there's no
six foot rule from me hitting refresh on my computer,
so they don't. But she's got I mean, she's gotta
there's gotta be some kind of content. I mean, she
was very okay, bad word I was going to use
that she would no, no, no, she was very forthright with
how upset she was at her critics who didn't like
(03:51):
the fact that she flashed the cabin and they said,
if you don't like my lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Well yeah, go blank yourself, right yeah uh And and
so I was, okay, So she did that, and then
you put out the video again, Okay, well hear that
now they lost.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, it's got to be like this is the demand,
like now, like when the Knicks lost, you wanted to
hear what I had to say. Because the Bleep and
Knicks lost like you wanted to hear, like when when
this time? Are you kidd that's the greatest podcast ever.
Uh you got to hear from Kate the Oilers fan.
She's got it, she's got there's some kind of content.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
In the end.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're you've got your fifteen minutes of fame. You got
a maximum is the end of this? No, no, no,
it is, You've got a twenty minute. That's exactly it,
which is why you've got a thirsty society. I'm calling
it what it is. People have been waiting with baited breath.
You're talking about it, reciety. It's a thirsty society. Wait
(04:42):
society we're gonna do next? I mean they were hoping
for more imitators to try to rally the team today.
What a thirsty society we live in?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So I would expect some kind of truer words ever
been spoken. No, no, no, you're right, No, you're absolutely
right there, literally and figuratively.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
We are a thirsty side. It's hot out there. It's
hot out there, I know, and people want, you know,
their spicy content as well. Keep hitting the body like
you want content now, so you want it as well.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Right now, you know it or not, we.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Got to get some kind of content. But they are
awarding the Stanley Cup right now. Gary Bettman probably getting booed.
I'm just no question. We don't have to sound not now.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Everybody's now. But they're too busy filming. No, no, no,
I think they're actually playing boos off their phone. So
they continuously booing because from all the crowd shots at
this point, it's he's not being lustily booed her appearances.
Where's that booing app where I can just put a
boo and I have to worry about it. I save
my throat, I can just hold it out there.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's either he's getting booed or the five White Sox
fans there, you.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Know, I go. Now, look, I was in the middle
of a module on workplace violence earlier. Don't make me
have to revisit it.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So they're awarding the Stanley Cup and then look, the
thirsty Panthers are going to be Stanley Cup. But listen now,
I'll tell you the story about how the guy that
travels with the cup yelled at me. Okay, this was
and I can't and you know, does Les. I don't
know because I may be incredibly memorable to him as
the guy who did this.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Even with all the years of experience. Yeah, because I
don't know how many people try to do what I did,
and I thing trying to eat him. No, no, no,
eat the Stanley cup. No, when when it was a
tin foil a cup?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Is the top of this where the chocolate fountain comes
out of and I could just dip my marshmallow under it?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Where is that really just a fondue fountain, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So the guy and so the guy who travels with
the cup, the guy with the hair the guy with
the Mark Davis haircut. That's the guy, right, you see
him all the time. He's got the white gloves, travels
with the cup. So there's been a couple of times
in my life where I have gotten to see the
cup from work. One time they brought in when I
was working at ESPN and and you got to go
take pictures with it, which was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Right, that's great. Uh, you're not allowed to do anything.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You can't put anything on the cup, Like I wanted
to put my whaler's jersey on the cup, Like, no,
you can't do that. Can't let anybody take a picture. Okay,
I'm like, all right, that's fine, I understand. So but
that was where where they hustled you in. You got
a picture, you got out. Now this is about I
want to say about twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And they brought the Stanley Cup to KABC in LA.
That's where I was producing local sports. Sure, Bill Weird,
Rob Fukuzaki. They brought the Stanley kin. I don't know
why they brought the Stanley cupp And it's like, okay,
the Stanley Cup was on some kind of tour and
so they brought was like wow, So the Stanley kin.
And they brought the Stanley Cup into.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The office and it's in our sports office, in our
bullpen office, where like four of us sit, and the
cup is right there, and I'm looking at because I'm
looking for where like they spelled Adam dead Marsh's name wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They called him.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They had a dead March on the cup when the
Avalanche won in ninety six, and looking for all the names.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It was, I'm like, I'm right up on. I put
my fingers on. It was so great. And so he's
sitting there and we're doing this. You know, he's standing
there we're with the cup and we're good. Then we're
gonna get some people to come in. We're gonna do
a story on it. We're gonna interview him, all this
kind of stuff. And I said, you know, and we
talked about how heavy it was. I go, you know,
it's forty pounds or wherever it was. And I said,
but you know, and some of the players you would
(08:08):
see that they can't lift it. Uh. And you know,
when they win, they can lift, but the adrenaline. But
when they can't, it's a tough thing to lift. And
I said, oh, let me see. And I take the
Stanley Cup and I take it by the top, and
I take it by the bottom and I try to
pick it up and I go, oh, to pick it
up over my head. And I get it up to
the point where it's about even with my head. And
the guy goes, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing.
(08:28):
What are you doing? I said, well, why why? He goes,
put it down? Put it down? And I saidod, He goes,
what are you doing? I go, I try to put
the Stanley Cup on right. Hecuse, you can't do that,
And I said why not. He goes, there's got to
be something for the players. I go, the players can't
do it because I did. He goes, oh, that's a
player thing. You can't do that. I'm like, why can't
I do that? It's a player thing. The players get that,
and I go, the players play and actually get the
(08:48):
Stanley Cup. I'm here for two minutes with the cup
in my whole life. And he got really mad at
me because the parents you're really smart off back. Yeah,
I said why, Well, I said, why what did I do?
What did I do? Like, you know, what do you mean?
Side feel? I felt, mean I couldn't do it. There's
times in I get when when I'm in a back
and forth with someone where sometimes I'll get a little standoff.
She go, what are you tell me? What are you
(09:09):
yelling at me for?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And he goes, oh, you can't do what do you doing?
What are you doing? And I said, I said what,
I can't do that. He goes, it's got to be
something for the players, right, that was his whole thing.
And I said, well, the players play and they win
the cup and they keep it and they make a
lot of money. So I'm just trying to see if
I could pick up the cup. No, no, can't do it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
If he had told me, hey, we don't want you
to drop it and break it, I was like, really
probably should have been if he said that, I said, oh,
you know what, I completely understand because if I break
the Stanley Cup, boy, I'm not going to be line completely.
I'm not going to be that guy.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But but the fact that he told me no, you're
you're I was breaking some kind of run.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It seemed like a ground rule that should have been
established before the cup was left to thinking like you
won the Cup and no touching on the Stanley Cup,
of course, But I mean it's like he didn't walk
up and try to pour a forty in it and
drink from it. No, I mean that's for the players.
They can do that, and I want you to pour
off ice light and in it.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I wanted to tell a couple of stories of what
I knew some players did with the cup and say
so they could do that, But I can't do this, Like,
I like, I know a couple of things that that's
pretty good Stanley Cup Lord, you know that I could have.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I can't say it on the air. I mean, I
know a couple of things well, this letter.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
S I know some things that have happened and it's
not the S word you think.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm thinking. It's not that it's it's no.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
The word is sandwich no and I and I'm like, okay,
there's been something, but I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I mean, really, you're gonna get mad at me for pam.
I know other people. But I get it if it
was a safety thing, because you have to because maybe
he didn't see your tries and you you I wore
my sleeveless T shirt today so I could lift the
Stanley Cup over my head. And here's the other.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Thing is that I've seen pictures of people in their
lives holding the Stanley Cup over their heads. These are people,
you know, these are people who are like doctors and
somehow I have the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Here or just you know, there's a guy.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Who was friends with one of my guy hang on,
there's a guy.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
There's a guy.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
There's a guy who is good friends with one of
my wife's good friends. Who happen it was on the
beach holding the Stanley cup oversad look at the picture
that what.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Was saying, just look at the TV right now, that's
what they get to do. Yeah, but I can't be
doing it.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I get to do it in a in an office
by myself if I want to. It's the Stanley Cup. Now,
if I drop it, that's on me. But I should
be able to do that. Why can't I brought the
Stanley Cup in.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That guy's entire life is center around keeping the cup
safe and preserving the sanctity of that cup for the players.
So I wonder if I'm the only guy with him
that's ever tried to pick the Stanley Cup up. Oh no,
all right, but man, that that's how he knows he's alive.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Good.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I got to yell at a guy today.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
I got to yell at this guy with curly hair
tell him to put the Stanley Cup down.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
It was crazy. He's like a rent a cop. That's
his one chance.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, he came actually came in on a segway when
he's not one.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He can't do it. Remember, I remember him looking at
me in the disdain he had on his face for me.
I was like, wow, man, you think like I just
like I just took it in spray paint of it
to be fair, though, I like, I will give you that.
You know, there should have been some ground rules like
no touching in the hair or face. I mean, you
got to know these things before you go to reach
for the cup. Mike, look who you're talking about, though. No, No,
(12:32):
he would have gone quickly, and there might have been
a big mac already inserted at the top citizens arrested.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'm eating a big mac and fries out of the
top of the Stanley cup.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Boy, this is really good.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I'm not gonna do that knowing full well what
I know has been in the top of that cup.
And some stories again that stuff. You don't that story,
Hey ha, what a great fun story that as well.
But this dude who's five nine that if he can
lift the cup over his head, it's a pretty good achievement.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, not gonna let him do it. Okay, I got
the cup even even with my eyes, even with my head. Now,
the thing is, I was in an office, so I
don't know if I could have picked up because I
might have touched the ceiling. And I'm then again, I
don't want to bring one important question I have.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, and it's one of the most important questions I'm
ever gonna ask you. Okay, was that story before twenty twelve?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
That story. Oh yeah, story was n It was two
thousand something like that. Yeah, I was before twenty twenty.
Hey man, it's a thirsty world, what I tell you.
But dude, that had to be about twelve years. The
Cup in twenty twelve. Yeeah, Well, you know, maybe they
watched the Maye. Why you're connected to legends.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Maybe they're a plunger forever. The thing is the Cup changes.
What people don't know is that the Cup changes that
once you get to too many names, they take the
bottom rung like bottom plates off and it just becomes
the name of the team. So your name is only
on the Stanley Cup for a certain amount of no grant.
It's on there a long time because it takes them
a long time to have to take the names off.
But like when they run out of room, they replace
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the bottom level with here's the names of the teams,
like nineteen seventy five, Pittsburgh, peng in nineteen seventy six.
So and then when you get later on, you still see.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
The names on the Cup. So I don't know, I
don't I don't know where they are with the names
right now, like where the teams are and where the
names are but you.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Know, yeah, they're taking the black Hawks off for you.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You're close there, Frostburg close. Just keep thinking about your
lips on the cup there? Yeah, no thanks, yeah yeah.
What part of the cup did you kiss?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Stop, what part of it?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Tell me if you kiss the top of the cup. Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna wear a mask, a joke.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't even think I can. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
If you if you just if you just kissed the
outside of the cup, Okay, that's fine because that but
if you kiss, if you kiss the top of the cup,
if you kiss the top of the cup.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Go see I hate only you, Go see a doctor,
Go see, go see.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Tomorrow it's gonna be like it's gonna be like a
contagion with every everybody's gonna be in the beds going
I kissed the top of the Stanley cut.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah you did, Yeah, you did? Well, you know what
I mean. When we announced the end of the show
in like fifteen years, maybe that's the last story you tell,
that's last I got. I got receipts. Let me talking
about that guy and that guy and the thing I
heard over there.
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Panthers on the ice enjoying the Stanley Cup. There your
twenty twenty three, twenty four Stanley Cup champions, beating Edmonton
by the final of two to one. Edmonton's near historic
come back falls just short. But what did it sound
(16:47):
like on both of the radio stations? What did it
sound like for the Oilers call? What did it sound
like the five seconds for the Florida Panthers, Because the
end of the game was the puck was in the corner.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
There was no shot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
There was the puck in the corner, and it was
a scrum and the puck was still loose enough for
the referee not to blow a whistle, and the game
ended with the Panthers protecting the puck in the corner.
The Oilers couldn't get at it, and they are your
Stanley Cup champion. So let's let's hear the Oilers side
of it first. Okay, how did the final second sound?
The Oilers the clock ticking off, knowing they will fall
(17:20):
just short of winning the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Ten seconds left, two Panthers, a dream thirty.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Years hit the he's a real.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
The Florida Pitthers seven seconds, Florida two edits in one
oilers pulling ten seconds?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What second?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
The season is over?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
The FLA wants this Stanley Cup two one high gate seven.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
That's enough for his voice? This season is I've done.
I'm taking my microphone off. I'd slam it down, take
my headphones off. The season is over. We lostpropriately ty
shirt and bringing us back in with summers kiss somebody
kisses over baby?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
What's over?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Play the play that one back again? Because a guy
sounded like somebody play about.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Seconds four to two edits and one boilers pulling six seconds?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
What second?
Speaker 9 (18:17):
The season is over?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Soil Panthers? What this stay?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come now? I got it?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It sounds like John Kappenera, the comedian doing uh a
Harry Carry impression.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah, Parker's sitting in the corner. There's ten seconds left.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
The season is over.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm trying to think I'm picturing actor though, like doing
a rant, but I'm not putting it in context. No, no,
not Bob Hope, not Bob Hope.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No again, one more time John Kappanera doing a Harry
Carry impression.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
One more time?
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Seven seconds, seven more two edits and one boilers like
two peconds?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What second?
Speaker 9 (19:03):
The stage.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
It is over this Danley co d seven.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
In that time. Hearing it a second time, I figured
out who it was. Godhead. It is Jack Klampus. You
know what I mean to drive?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That car?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Actually sounds like I'm drinking tequila in this greasy No, No,
Grimace's voices, Holy cow, Grimace's.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Voice to be more about hey, that would be Grimace's voice. Yeah,
I went to Sandy bearn Jack Clamps from Seinfeld. Creep goodness?
You trying to say about creep goodness? Creep goodness? Cousins
of Patrick Starr? Yeah, a little bit. Okay, should be
down that highway way. Remember he was supposed to be
evil when he was first. Is it an evil?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But evil in nineteen seventy one. Okay, he's had time
to change. We've seen it. Was it an time to change?
Because you haven't. Did you really give him time to change? Right?
A film series about the evolution of Grimace. That's who
he would say from the office, Gribbis.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
This is Kevin Malone. I am not Grimace. Stanley is
more Grimace, so is Phyllis than I am.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's pretty good Kevin Malone, It's not terrible, Okay, it's
not your worst. I channel the episode when Rain Wilson
impersonated everybody when he made the phone call that David
Wallace a better.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Job Jim was doing, and he was everybody is Kevin Malone,
this is Stanley Hudson, this is Toby Flanderson, Jim. I
don't know what Jim is doing with this employee of
the one thing. I don't know his.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Grim Grimm.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Let's go Mets. Let's go Mets, Grim grape Gribbitts. Let's
go Mets, Gribbitts, gribbits.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
So that was the oiler side of it. How did
it sound from the Panthers side of it? I'm thinking
a little bit more excited and a little bit more
excited that the season was over.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Ten seconds left, two what Pitthers a dream?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Thirty years at the Behin's weal.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
The Florida Pithers heave one.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Let's Stanley Cup.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
Rod, Stanley is coming home.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
You always have the presidents of Florida, Baker.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
The Pithers won the Stanley Cup for the first time
hid history.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Start the celebration. Shutup Florida. The Panthers have done it.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
Stanley top shot.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Be Yeah, that was that was classy, Freddy Blassie Destiny.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Come on, Matters Garden, I'll rap you with Mike Caine.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You penciled that geek.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Valentine's Day, Dustiny.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
How about how about this? You're the play by play guy, right,
and you have this calleague? What am I gonna say
if you win? Right? And you have this call thirty
years in the making. Right, And not only do you
have to worry about the other guy jumping in, but
he just jumps in with a.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Here's away up the Florida Pitters.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Heaven, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Playbacks were getting the guy's got an all play. Hey,
let the play by play guy do his thing.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
You come in right after.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's awesome. But instead, no, just write when he starts saying,
guys ahead, one more time?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Ten seconds left, two rock Pitthers. A dream thirty years.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
In the making.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Here's away up.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
The Florida Pitters Heaven. The Stanley Cook.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Rod Sally is coming.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
You always have the President.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Up Florida, Oh big gun the Pithers.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
He won the Stanley Cup for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
I had to drown my analyst because he kept talking
and wouldn't stop talking. Grabbed him by the scruff of
the who poured a pitcher of water down a s
bag gun.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
We had our.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Replica Stanley cup at the ready, and I had to
take my handlet's face.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
And shove it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'm just gonna yell, no, it hit me another thing?
What what it sounded like again? I'm gonna say this.
I gotta hear it one more time. Let's play it
with more coll I get it. I gotta have more guys,
gotta have cowbell one more time.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Ten the seconds left?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Two? What Pithers? I dreamed thirty years at.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
The behin He's a real be Fourida Pitthers.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Have one Stanley cup.
Speaker 11 (23:52):
Ron Sally is coming home. You always have the presents
up Florida.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I know who that is.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
When did Ron Wolf start doing?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No, I got you one better? That's that's Frank the Tank.
That is Frank the Tank. Oh come on, man, of
course he does. That's what he would yell.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He's hanging with Grimace, dude. They actually mentioned Frank the
Tank on Sunday like baseball last night? The peede a lonzo?
Who would you rather hang out with you, buddy? Frank? Yeah?
Well not good because because who would you?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Who would you rather hang out with Frank the Tank
or Grimace and a Grimace one hundred percent Grimace.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You didn't even hesitate.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
No, I'm not gonna say Frank the Tank, come on, man,
But really that's how Frank the Tank would yell if
if the Mets won the world, he would say something
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And floods and queens. I can't get to my game
right now because they're incompetence. That's when you know what
I mean for me, he's long jumped to shark at
this point. Boy, God bless that he keeps uh the
cash flowing in trading cards and memorabilia or whatever else.
But if he went away, that'd be okay. Ah. No,
(25:07):
I mean, come on, man, did the comedy that's there?
It's not comedy anymore, sure it is, you know the
bit that does. But it doesn't matter. Just the stuff
that he says sometimes, and I know he's not even
thinking off the top of his head that he's saying
about Lindor or Jeff McNeil or.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Whatever else it is.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Although I gotta say the analyst there when he was
being drowned or whatever didn't kind of sound like when
Frank bites the towel or whatever the hell he's got going.
The Jerry Tarkanian kind of moved and he and he
keeps kind of jibber jabbler.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's like the play by play guy was
doing his thing, and then he turned to a producer
nodded his head. The producer grabbed the picture of water
walk in and just start pouring it down his throat. Now,
when I signal to you, if he starts feeling, when
I'm given my final call and I've been waiting thirty
years to make, if he starts.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Talking, you just bore that picture of water down his throat.
Do you think there was a pregame meeting with you know,
all the technical folks and Alex you can answer this
question of you know, we're gonna have this this moment
right and when it gets down in the final second,
I know he's gonna scream. How do we separate the
tracks so I can get a clean one of my
(26:14):
call at the end, you know that conversation was hasting. Yeah,
oh yeah, sure, sure this a blankety blanker is not
screwing up my call that I've been waiting for for
all these years. I'm sure. In the production meeting, they
said all right, look, look, when it happens, let the
call go, then come in plan what you're going to say,
(26:34):
and that's how it's gonna go. But to how we
fix this in post, look's been too often the analyst,
you know, our former players who play with the team,
and they're just excited and start screaming yeah, kind of
like me when Devincenzo. We've been running it as a
promo on the network for the last month and a half,
when Devincenzo hit that big shot and I just went, ah,
to which I have been asked, I think by every
(26:56):
person that has come into this studio where you and
I sit when they they've they've all heard the promo
and they say, how do you do that? And I smile,
And now I'll tell you talk about how the drowning
effect is what we're gonna use in the studio going forward. Well,
if it's diet coke, I'll drink it. That's fine, you
(27:18):
have no problem, Just bring her out. I'll just start
drinking leg leg leg leg liquor. I'll just go yeah.
I mean excited, utterance. I mean there's there's that visceral reaction.
I know I will never get to have that on air.
Let's see because my team stinks white socks Bears. Bears
are gonna be good. This year will be okay, not
after you just said that. Yeah, but see now you
(27:38):
join the cacophony of buses that are trying to put
them into some great things. This is bad for me.
I don't see anything that could go wrong with the
Bears this year. There's nothing that could go wrong. Every
it's gonna be great. There's nothing, no, nothing, podcast everything.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You know, you won like eleven championships in the NBA
in the nineties, so you had that. You won the
super Bowl. You won the Super Bowl in eighty five.
You were in the Super Bowl in two thousand and eight,
so you've had a super Bowl in your lifetime.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You know, you're okay.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You got a World Series in your lifetime, You're okay. No,
on the grand scale, I've been blessed. Blackhawks won a
couple of championships. There, You're all right. They may be
reduced to just the team on the cup at this point,
it's been it's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeez, yeah, all right, better yell me when Devincenzo hit
that shot or or this guy yelling at the end,
which let's hear.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Let's hear you with the devincenzo.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right, we'll let me wear that. Well, let's hear
the first one. Let's hear the guy again. Let's hear
let's hear.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
The Let's hear him again.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Let's hear the Panthers guy again, yelling leading the witnesses.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Let's hear the Panthers yelling and screaming, and the guy
the Panthers analysts here, the Panthers guy again.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Ten seconds left, two Panthers leave, thirty years the.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
One.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Let's say, like, coo, what silly is coming home?
Speaker 5 (29:06):
You always the presidents of Florida.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Bag Lord Stanley has to suck And it's just Lord
Stanley's coming home.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
What do you mean it's coming home? You've never won
the cup before. That's visiting. You've never been there for
Stanley's gonna melt in South Florida. All right, So so
that was so that was that was the call. But
that was met. Oh I'm sorry, we took that cup
out to the salvage yard. Oh well, you don't get
it just melts. So what's the metal worth in a pool?
So those are those are the guys whose job it
(29:39):
was to call the game. All right, so here's me.
It's not my job to be excited.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But this is when the Knicks were trailing the Sixers
by five with twenty five seconds left, and it was
how are we gonna blow this game? But then Devincenzo
hits that big three to give the Knicks the lead
with about eight seconds left. And this was how we
broke it down and analyzed it very carefully on our air.
Speaker 11 (30:03):
Ten seconds left.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, we need me now, tight shirt, we need ten seconds? No, no, no,
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I thought you had with me when I yelled with
the halt with the Devincenzo, that's you said. Wait you
know went, oh, well, the promo that we've been running
for the last three weeks, it's a promo that runs
on our air.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
What do you mean we don't have Seger's just laughing
at it. I thought that's what was getting the whole
because that vein's sticking out of your head. Now we've
been playing this for the last five minutes.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Yeah, what do you mean? Wait?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Wait, wait, wait, we've been hitting the button. You just
hit it refreshed one. But I thought you Steve getting
the Devincenzo when I was yelling when we know you
weren't getting that just like this one, not you boy.
And just because it's in a promo doesn't mean we
have it. That's true, that's true. I'm just saying, all right,
(30:53):
that's fine, that's fine. All right. I don't even have
your show from Friday, I know. Yeah, do you know
where we are? No? No, it's fine. I'm sure it is.
The open you have is the open you have.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Steve Hartman and Patt O'Brien's there. Okay, Look, the the
award that Connor McDavid wins is not the Stanley Cup
Final MVP. It's the con Smith as the postseason's most
Outstandley player. So having the postseason that yeah, I mean
the guy at forty two points in the playoffs, I mean,
come on, so yes, I get that if it was
(31:26):
a Stanley Cup. But if the con Smyth is most
valuable in the playoffs forty two points in the play
I mean, that's that's a season, you know, That's that's
a decent season for a third or second line winger
scored forty two points. Now, uh so there we go.
H The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman.
I wanted to bring their perspectives of those final calls.
But straight ahead, we'll get into the biggest controversy, biggest
(31:48):
game from the weekend that's gonna resonate for quite a while.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
It is The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. That's the best thing you've said in five years.
Thank you five years. We'll have more in the Stanley
Cup Final coming up in a few minutes. The final
calls of both teams incredible, absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But look the so much stuff to get to this weekend.
You know, we have the Copa going on the same
time as the Euro but more television ratings, ticket records
were broken yesterday Fever in the Sky Caitlyn Clark and
Angel Reese, a game that came down to the final
play where Caitlin Clark finds Leah Boston who misses a jumper.
(32:49):
Angel Reese has the best game of her WNBA career
and the Sky Escape with a one point win, and
it was incredible to watch. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You had the fever with a big lead and the
sky just just eat away at it all the way through.
There's a lot to take away from this, but there's
two things to two big things. First one, I don't
want to hear Angel resay again some people get special whistles,
because there's a couple of whistles she got in the
fourth quarter where it was you've got to be kidding me.
You didn't even get touched by Boston or Smith and
(33:22):
you went down and somehow you got a free throw
out of it. Don't tell me that you don't get
These are like superstar calls that she's getting at the EDD,
So don't tell me people get special whistles. She got
him and she had a great game.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And we're gonna we'll get into the whole deal because
I think there's gonna be a new head coach for
Caitlin Clark at some point soon. But the end of
this game, there's a lot of blame. Caitlyn Clark didn't
take any shots in the last three minutes. It intro
a plays for and that's legit and we'll get to that.
But the final play, I look at that and I go,
that's on Caitlin Clark, right, because she's got an easy
(33:56):
path to the hoop. Right Cardoso comes out to defend her.
But what happened was she got caught up in what
was she doing really well in the game. She was
dishing right. She is at a new level in her
development where now when other team whatever teams throw at
her defensively, she is able to find the right player
for a pass sure, and her and Boston were working
so well at the two man game was phenomenal, and
(34:20):
she's hit that next level where instead of ten turnovers
because she tries to force something, she knows where to
move and find. If you're throwing, if you're rolling this
defense towards me here, I know her. I'm going to
find an open player, and she was doing that. They
look thirteen assists is thirteen assists. But that final play,
I think she got caught up in the fact that
I'm going to pass this off because she passes the
ball over to Boston who's like three feet from her,
(34:44):
and she's taking a contested shot from the top of
the arc, where if Caitlin Clark gets this ball, everybody's
out of her. Cardoso comes all the way out of her.
She's got an easy.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Path to the hoop for either a layup or she's
going to the free throw line to win the game,
and she I think she got caught up in this
entire game was more of a was more of a
passive past first game for her, and she was trying
to find her places for her shot, where her first
default was I'm gonna find the open player because they're
gonna the'ren they're gonna all, you know, get get on me,
and they're all they're gonna suck their coverages towards me.
(35:15):
So I'm gonna find somebody open. But Boston wasn't open
across the floor pause it was three feet for so
just someone with it. I know she just hit a three,
but that's not what she does.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
And someone gets a hand in her face when Caitlyn
Clark has an easy path to the basket. So you
can blame anybody you want to blame, Christy Sides, but
that final play, that's where Kaitlyn Clark has to say,
I'm taking this shot right. That's not something that's Draweda.
This is where hey I gotta see this and I
gotta take that shot. So that final one that's on
Caitlyn Clark. But it just keeps going back to the
(35:42):
idea of trying to establish more of that rapport and
with as you said, the thirteen assists, it's the Lebron
James making the quote right basketball play and sometimes you
have to be selfish. Sometimes you gotta go and make
the take a shot, make the shot, live or die,
(36:03):
you know, as the star of the squad that way.
And yeah, much has been made about the coaching acumen
or lack of stepping forward, stopping the bleeding at points
when they do have big leads, et cetera. So you know,
it's the blame goes around. And to your point with
Caitlin Clark, yeah, absolutely, you know there are moments where
(36:26):
I think there becomes too much of a reliance on
the I need to get everybody involved, because the early
part of the season was the discussion of does she
take too many shots? Even though a lot of the
you know, the the turnovers or whatever were balls, and
part of.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It, like you saw that one passed yesterday that went
was like what's going on exactly, But that's part of
her adjustment to the game is Okay, when can I
force my shot?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
When can I pass? But this should have been an
easy moment. Oh, I have the lane, I can get
in there and at least get to the free throw line.
Or you think that's the shot you want. I'm gonna
set up Aliah Boston from from the arc and that
and that's a shot. No, it's not a shot you want.
Even though she just made one, it's not the shot
you want. And and that was an easier way to
get there. That's on her again part of her development.
But you say, hey, fault Blaine, that was on her
(37:14):
for that final player. You're at the spots when you're
gonna get a call, when you're gonna have a lane,
how quickly that closes. But also Aleah Boston has been
phenomenal the last couple of weeks, right, defending player of
the Week, So I think you know, hey, feed the
hot hand is part of what she was thinking there
as well, exit out about a Fresca exit, swalling down
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon got more basketball
(37:36):
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