June 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike debate if Tyrese Haliburton really suffered a strained right calf in Game 5. We react to Dave Roberts getting ejected following Shohei Ohtani getting hit by a pitch. And Jason tells you why the Florida Panthers are a throwback to the Islanders/Oilers dynasties of the 80s!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I gotta tell you. If you thought there was
a lot of dust ups going on in the WNBA
game tonight between Caitlin Clark and the Fever and the Sun,
let me introduce you to Dodgers Padres bottom of the
third inning. Uh, we'll get to that coming up in
a couple minutes. We'll get to Tyres Halliburton. But let
me tell you what's happening right now. The best rivalry
in baseball continuing to prove that it is the best
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rivalry in baseball. Padres and the Dodgers. Padres lead this
one three to two in the bottom of the third inning.
There's already been some hbp's in this game for Nano
Tatist Junior got hit in the back. Well shut, that'll
be what they say at the end of the game. Yeah,
but he deserved it. Uh. Tatis gets hitt in the back.
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Now Otani is hit in the leg. David David Roberts
is losing his mind right now, out to argue after
this what just happened in the bottom of the third inning.
He is screaming at the umpires. Uh. This game is
on the verge of getting out of control. I believe
Roberts has been tossed from the game. Uh he got
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his money's worth while he was out there. Uh three two.
And Otani's laughing at first base while it's happening right now.
Dave Roberts get tossed and Otani.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is laughing right that that's general demeanor. Man, he's the
the face of boy I love playing this game and
everything else is silly. But go back to yesterday, right,
they plunked Pahez with your guy Michael Conforto on deck.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And then Shilts was screaming of senate ease at Paz
when he stared down.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Dylan sees to guys, got hit today, took him deep. Well, yeah,
then guys are getting hit a guy that's that's just it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Then it then it starts getting ugly and and a
little bit crazy. So it's good though. It's good for baseball,
good for rivalries, as long as you keep it low.
If he gets hitting the leg, that's all finding good.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
God, no, it's least.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Frostburg wants the Padres thrown out of Major League baseball.
He wants a thrown out again. Three to two, bottom
of the third inning, Otani at first Dave Roberts was
tossed a lot of hbps and you and you know
it's this is what makes this rivalry so good, right,
Just a couple of subtle things. Since Roberts was thrown out, Uh,
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they tried to pick Otani off at first base, and
it was kind of a physical tag and Otani is
able to stay on the base, and he gave a
stare to the umpire after it was over, to make
I tell you, Otani looked madder about that that he
was Dave Roberts getting thrown out because he was laughing
after Roberts got tossed, and then Manny Machado just caught
a pop up to retire Mookie Betts, and he stopped.
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He slammed the ball in his glove and he turned
and yelled across the diamond after he caught it, Like,
come on, man, you the Yankees Red Sox looks like
the Rays and the Astros compared to what we see
the last couple of years of the dog where we
are now.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I remember being in the bleachers in right field Yankees
Red Sox back in ninety eight. There were as many
security guards in that section as they were fans.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So it's changed a bit, sure, But now this is
getting getting a bit out of sorts. So we'll see
if they can adjudicate things a little better than we've
seen some of the other sporting events of the last
forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, good luck, good luck, good luck to that. Eventually
we get it all out brawl.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But you know, Johnny, you know salty salty about the
the little extras here.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Remember with a franchise, right, It's like when they swipe
that day Caiton, Caitlyn's Clark eyes like she's not the basilisk. Okay,
you can't have her blinder blind because she is the franchise.
Same thing with Otani people, the asses and seats. Man,
he's box office. Don't be taking cheap shots.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And it's only the bottom of the third inning. We
got a long way to go in this game. Yeah,
we have a long way to go and still bought.
There's many more guys that can get it. Look, at
some point, I think the tensions will boil over and
the Dodgers and Padres will brawl. I don't know if
it's gonna be tonight, but at some point during the
season I'll go I'll go, bulb. There will be someone's
gonna get hit and it's just gonna be a brawl
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because the tension is just too high between both of
these teams. They're eventually going to fight at some point.
I don't Again, it might not be tonight, but it's
gonna happen at some point this season. They're gonna fight, guarantee. Well,
I mean they lit the fuse.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It all goes back to future All Star PAJZ getting
plunked yesterday and then it escalates from there.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, not a superstar Maya.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I am really getting behind Andy Pa has the All
Star game. I'm telling you I'm behind that right now. Man,
he is really really good. A big home run tonight.
Of course he gets hit as well. Like this is again,
we got some time.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Jason, there's so much time left in this game that
Miguel Azuna could clear the bases two more times.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, okay, okay, we're done with that. That has nothing
to do with this. Okay, Marcelo Zuna had a great
hit tonight. Congratulate. The Braves are forty five games place.
It's okay, the Braves are forty five games out. What
am I worried about?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hey, is fine? Which New York team is going worse?
Right now? The Yankees are the Mets eight seven seven night.
At least the Mets have scored, right. The Yankees haven't
scored since Saturday. I mean really haven't scored since Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Either that or they have been way too often so
they've weakened their legs.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, my dad, it's hard to even talk to him.
The last couple of days. He's so upset. Well, he said,
we're never gonna score again. We're never gonna score again.
That's talking. We're not gonna score. We're gonna go zeros
the rest of the season. That's just good. Judge's gonna
wind up hit in one forty seven when it's all
said and done. My dad is like doom and gloom
the entire way. It is the middle of June. Give
him my goodness, but middle of June is a much
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bigger deal in the NBA. And as we get ready
for game six Thursday night, where the Pacers try to
stay alive, potentially and I say potentially just because the
way it's reporter, because has no way he's not gonna play,
Tari's Halliburton is going to have an MRI on a
calf strain. Remember the game. We watched the game last
night in the first quarter, kind of stumbled a bit,
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going down, left the game with a bit of a
calf strain, came back, got some treatment on it, came
back in the game. Still played the second most minutes
of any pacer last night. But it was reported earlier
today going to have an MRI to determine the severity
of the strain. This according to Shams Tarania. Now, as
we heard Halliburton say, as long as he's able to
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be ambulatory and can stand on two feet, he plans
to play on Thursday. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean's gonna be final. It's the finals, man.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I've worked my whole life to be here, and I
want to be out there to compete, you know, help
my teammates anyway I can. You know, I was not
great tonight by any means, but uh, you know, it's
not really a thought of mine to to not play here.
You know, if I fucking uh you know, walk, then
I want to play. So you know they understand that,
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and uh, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Is what it is.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
And uh you know, got be ready to go for
game six.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, So here's where I'm I. I I don't believe
that he's not dinged up, right. I firmly believe that
he is dealing with a cap strain. I firmly believe that.
But the severity of it, I really, I really have
to see what the results of this MRI are because
right now I kind of feel like is he being
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protected because we know his game is all mental right
when he's playing with confidence and he's terrific. But again,
he played thirty four minutes lest night, the second most
minutes of anybody on the team. If all of a
sudden today he's got to have an MRI and it's
really bad, well guess what that's like a fireable offense
for whoever is on the medical team of the Pacers
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that all of a sudden. His strained CAF was so bad,
but they allowed him back in the game last night, right,
I mean, come on, man, I mean, that's not a
game where you allow your star player to continue to
play if he is really hurt, and you know, they
look at it and they can tell what's going on
with him. He's looked at it. If they really thought
it was bad, they would have said, you're not coming back,
because it's not a game we have to have. It's
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not game seven, it's not an elimination game. We're playing
on the road. We're already down by ten if we lose, okay,
let's hope we get you back for game six. And
because we have an extra couple of days healthy, and
we're gonna sit you out because we think it might
be something. That's what would have happened last night if
this injury was really bad. And again, if it is,
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if we find out tomorrow, oh he's got then I
gotta say, what the hell were the Pacers doing with
him during the game where they allowed him to come
back in this game? Right? And I don't think that
happens at this level. We don't see that, we don't
see any sort of medical malpractice where guys are allowed
to play when when clearly they're at an injury risk.
And this is Tyre's Halliburton, who was at an injury
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risk after getting hurt and getting examined and looked at
by the Pacers medical staff. So that's why I look
at this and I go, is this a thing? Is
this just you know, to show, hey, he is hurt
and we wanna we want to protect him a little
bit because you know, he's getting all kinds of all
kinds of criticism for how we played last night. Look,
I'm not saying he's not banged up. I'm not saying
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he's not dinged up. I'm sure he is a little bit.
But again, the guy played thirty four minutes. If he
was really a detriment to the team, they would have
pulled him off the floor. But he's able to play
thirty four minutes. So yeah, I gotta think he's gonna
be okay. In this MRI that gets out, it's like, okay, okay. Again,
either way is not gonna be great for the Pacers
because either the MRI is fine, that's what we thought
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it was, and this was just something to throw us
off center to get people to stop criticizing him, or hey,
it was more serious, in which case it's why didn't
you sit the guy down like there's no win for
the Pacers here other than to say, hey, we're just
gonna kick the can down the road. As far as
Halliburt and his injury and what's going on right, it's
really it's a really big thing to suddenly come out
the next day and say, yeah, he's got to have
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an MRI. So I really want to see which way
this thing goes. And I hope he's healthy. I want
him to play. I want him to play at a
high level because look, the games are better and the
league is better when when he's playing at a high level.
I want the guy to be healthy because his NBA
Finals has been terrific so far. I want him to
be I want him to play. But I see this
and I don't know. I just I've seen a lot
of games. I've seen a lot of situations. I've seen
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a lot of gamesmanship, and I just wonder how this
is going to come back, and when it comes back.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, we talked about the level of passivity. Yesterday, thirty
four minutes played just a handful of shots, taken.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Four for four from the free throw.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Line, and all the lines we ran about scoring droughts,
you know, Yankees for versus Halliburton and so many others.
Insert your own joke here at how about a Fresco
at swollen dome punchlines for days? But MRIs, there you go, MRIs,
what thirty to sixty minutes is what the estimate says.
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You know, in my quick medical research, I've not had
one yet, so I don't know. But so it's not
like they were gonna do it in game, but they
seemingly took all precautions. He's taped up, he's banded, he's ice,
he's all of these things, and then he's able to
talk his way back on to the court. So clearly
the medical staff got on board with that. To your point,
they wasn't the active desperation other than hey, you're gonna
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fall behind three two, But you know it's not series ending,
it's not any of those. And either way, he's your
he's not necessarily your leader. That's probably Siakam, but he's
two times third team All NBA guy. He's kind of
an important deal. So if you thought this was a
bigger deal and we've talked about calf strains and what
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they lead to potentially in larger issues. You know, the
another guy we've been talking about a lot, that Durant guy,
right going back a couple of years, that you wouldn't
put that to chance.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So but it doesn't take much for the MRI.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Hey, guess what after breakfast you need to go report
to the tube.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, cool, but you put it out there and and now.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I don't know if you want to do the excuse
making ego satisfaction to give him an out because you
know you can lose him for a stretch, as we've
talked about throughout these playoffs. But all that to say,
hopefully it's it's just an innocuous Hey, we're just taking
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all precautions and checking all the boxes to make sure
there's nothing else there.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And then he comes out and plays like his hair's
on fire. At least that's the hope. Exit out about
a Fresca exit swallowed do I just I wanted it's
kind of curious timing. I want to see how this
thing comes out, because look again, you saw thirty four
minutes last night, didn't come out of the game, wasn't
limping what it really something just really doesn't add up
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the best rivalry in baseball, really the best rivalry at
all of sports. Right now, continuing to prove how great
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it is. Andy pa has hit last night in the
Padres Dodgers game, which kind of sparked what went on today.
Tatiase gets hit, Otani gets hit, gets hit. Pahes has
responded with his second home run of the game. It
is now three to three in the top of the
fifth inning. As boy, I can't wait to see what
we have the rest to this game. Le'm make them
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popcorn just to watch him.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
My question to you guys, is he a star guy?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh? If I was eighty percent before, I am one
hundred percent on board with Andy Paez all star one
hundred percent. He looks like it's gonna be there for years.
He's solid everywhere at center field. He's a good enough fielder.
He does that. He hits for power, he knocks and runs,
he does he is he is just becoming a fantastic player.
Now you see why they stuck with him most of
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the year last year where he struggled a lot, because look,
the Dodgers knowing we got a guy coming up, we
know how good he is. Right, they knew Paez was
coming And look at the guy. Now he's going to
play center field for the next decade and be an
All Star.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Only twenty four years old, one hundred and sixteen games
played last year, bad at two forty eight, already up
a good thirty five points on the year. Plus he's
already matched his home run in RBI production before tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
So you both are on board.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh one hundred percent. I get on board.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So there's only one stupid dummy here.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Don't care who's Who's that?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
He's standing at the top of the stairs of the
Padre dugout.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, I mean, if I was Pa Has, I would
have gone and walked over and said, don't you know
who I am?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, well I think he knows who he is.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now I think about the bowling guy line, right, yeah,
the Pete Weber line.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Love me or hate me?
You you watch me? Yeah? Uh so again, Yes, I'm
one hundred percent in with Andy pos for the All
Star Game, right, I mean coming out just making sure
two eighty thirteen homers forty six RBIs got two more tonight.
His ops is pretty good. It's just over eight hundred
like this is. He just does it all, right. Yeah,
he's not someone he's not Otani, he's not someone that's good,
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but he does it all and he gives you offense
and defense from the center field position, and it's it's
above average. Yeah. I'm completely down for him, man. I mean,
I'm twenty four years old. He's gonna be All Star
the next ten years.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, he's starting like Connor McDavid.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, that's true. He does finish the job.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Twenty twelve US Open was when Pete Weber looked at
a Heckler and said, who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I am right there you go. S We'll have more
on this game coming up again. Three three Padres and
Dodgers in the top of the fifth inning. But you
just mentioned Connor McDavid. We watched the Panthers win the
Stanley Cup a big night, Sam Reyanhart four goals and
you haven't seen that in the Stanley Cup final game
since nineteen fifty seven. The Panthers win back to back
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Stanley Cups to beat the Oilers for the second time.
And you know, just just a second, because you know,
to give you something, and I'm sure people will see
this Tomorrow's like, what am I gonna say about the NFL?
They're not gonna say anything about the Panthers. What they're terrific.
Let me talk about how great they are. This Oilers
team is incredibly talented, right, you have two of the
top five players in the game in Connor McDavid and
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Leandre and McDavid still, you know, he's been in the
league near a decade now, so the question about him
is going to be Kenny win. But you're talking about
a team that is powered by two of the top
five players, right. This is this is the Bulls having
Jordan and pippin you know, at their disposal dirt in
the course of their careers and still here they are
falling short twice to the Florida Panthers. Now, what is it?
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Why the Panthers went back to back Cups. I'll tell
you exactly what it is. You watch the Panthers playing.
Unfortunately I get to watch a lot of them because
they go through my team to get to the Stanley
Cup final every bleeping year. They're a throwback to the
like the Islander and the Oiler dynasties of the eighties,
and if you want to talk about the the Mini
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Red Wings dynasty in the mid to late nineties early
two thousands, like, that's what their throwbacks to because these
were teams that were just better than you everywhere. Right,
they have three lines that all do damage. Right Nowaday,
you don't have that in the NHL. You don't have
that kind of depth everywhere. You don't have you don't
have three lines that can all score goals. And they
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go out and get brad marshand and now they have
young players and veteran players who are able to contribute.
These are how these dynastic teams are made, right, This
was the Islanders of the eighties, right. It was Bossy
and Tracy and Potvan and then Pat la Fontaine comes
in and same thing for the Oilers. It's Gretzky and Messi.
But then here comes Yari Curry and Paul Coffee, and
they keep these guys together and they're better than you everywhere.
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Then the Red Wings with Eiserman and Federoff and Larionoff,
and then and then all the all the when they
had the five Russians playing together all the time. Then
here comes Darren McCarty and Chris Draper. They were just
better and more solid than you everywhere. And their defencemen
were good. Nicholas Linchen was one of the best defenders
in the NHL for a long time. Right, whether it
was Osgar or Vernon made no difference. That's what this
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Florida Panthers team is like, and it's really incredible to watch.
Also very frustrating to see a team. But they're just
better than everybody everywhere. There's no weakness, there's no week,
there's no hey. If you're gonna win this series, you
have to make sure you convert on the power play,
you have to make sure that you are controlling, controlling whatever.
There's nothing, there's nothing you can say there, there's there
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there's nothing you can say, Okay, this is how you
beat this team. You have to hope your your goalie
stands on his head and you can get those times
and clearly that wasn't happening in the Stanley Cup Final
where the Oilers couldn't even figure out who their goalie
was going to be. But that's what this Panthers team
they throw. They remind me when I watched the Islanders
and I watched the Oilers and then the Red Wings.
It's like, yes, they all had really good players, but
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they just had the right mix up and down the
roster where you could put the third line out there
and expect a big game, clinching Stanley Cup goal. Right,
you could do that, right, the Red Wings could put
their third line out there and you could get something
from Darren McCarty and Chris Draper. Right, you could do that.
You could see that, And that's kind of what this
Panthers team's remind me of. And this has been a
big run they have and it's not going anywhere like
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this is not a team that suddenly, hey, it's gonna
get torn apart or ripped apart, like that's what's's been
doing for the last couple of years. This could be
one of those teams that, hey, three cups in a
row and we're saying, wait, wait are they going back?
They going back to the oiler that the the halcyon
days of the eighties when teams are winning three and
four Stanley Cups in a row, like, that's how good
this Panthers team is? Well, but that's beauty of it.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Right, You build and I don't know how much you
discount like the commission there did and many other folks
did about you know, Florida and income tax, because we
talk about it for every other sport. Right, in terms
of getting guys to sign buying into a culture or
staying put, it's like, hey, you save ten percent if
you stay here versus going there, and you've got a
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winning culture and a nice life, so why would you
want to leave? So part of that is is just
what you've built as a roster. So yeah, they're not
going anywhere, and they come at you in waves. We've
seen the quick starts and obviously some legends in the making.
And who's not gonna want to sign on to try
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to go for a third right, any of the free
agency issues and conversations they have, unless someone's really gonna
hit a multiplier like they're scratching off the bottom of
a scratch off lottery.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Ticket.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
They're staying in Florida, so you're gonna have to run
through them again. So for the oilers for your squad,
for my woe begone Blackhawks squad, it's been fifteen years
since greatness.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
There all of those things to say, you're chasing what
has been a machine.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's something we've talked about a lot with our NBA
discussions of what the thunder might be. For a moment
it looked like maybe it was going to be torn
asunder by these pacers, but now very firmly planted towards
the finish line, you know, toes in full straight, straight line,
towards the endgame, perhaps tomorrow or Thursday night. Keep trying
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trying to advance it so we can get it done with.
But you know, it's an extra day of talking about it.
But all of that of how you build a franchise
with your draft choices, free agency, rookie contracts, and the
right blend of things, Florida has hit on a formula
that works. So yeah, barring some unforeseen disaster, they're not
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going anywhere a while.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I mean it, man, I mean I would not be
surprised if we are talking about them like we are
the Islanders won for it, right, I mean I was
one Forida roll right now. For the Canadians won four
in a row, right with Geelah Floor and Steve Shutt
and Ken Dryden and all. I mean, this was that
was some kind of run. I mean, I'm going back aways,
but I mean it's not gonna surprise me if we're
talking about the Panthers doing this over the course of the
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next couple of years, because they're just that good everywhere.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Go ahead, justin sorry Mike, but we got to talk
about Brad march Shan for a second.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, I guess, go ahead, I guess we do. Guys,
what do you mean just gave him away? Yeah, we're
done winning. I yes, Brad mar Shand is great and
the Bruins just said, yeah here, yeah we're done, go ahead,
take him. Wait what what the hell's going on here?
But look, that's what teams do, right, That's what teams
that are great. They find the right, that right veteran
to come in and say okay, And it's like you
can't imagine their team before you got them, right, Like
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you can't imagine this this team before they got Brad
mar Shan. You thought having the kachuks and all the
big goals they had last the last couple of years
have been great. Now now now Marshan shows up. But
it's like you felt like he's been there for seven years.
He's only been there.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
How old is he?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh? Man, Probably not as old as you want him
to do. Yeah, seven in a row, I'm telling you man,
not is probably four Stanley cups in a row. I
would not be surprised.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, I was chuckling because you know awful announcing. All right,
I should say the freezing cold takes account does not
miss Uh. They found one from November of twenty one
by Jerry Sullivan covering stuff out there on the East
Coast in Uh. Sam Reinhardt, highest paid Panthers, no goals,
won't assist his last six games. Ice time is declining.
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Where are the Sabers fans who told me how much
they would miss it? When I hear of all the
positive qualities the team lacked in the past.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I think of Ryan Hart from twenty to twenty one that.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Got undearthed as that game went final.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh wow, that outstanding.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
The internet is forever man.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Jason, what should be with.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Him?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
By the way, with who really march on.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh with Marshall. Oh dude as a Whaler fancs. You
guys know you no, no, you think I. I can't
refer anything Bruins being a Whaler fan. No, I can't
do that. It's impossible. That was Those are the best
hockey games of my life. Was going to go on
hard for the Bruins come in and everybody's just scripted.
We spend the entire game just screaming at each other,
the fans. That was the best part.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Wait, wait, wait, justin You guys have just found common
ground and it's not you know, a playoff series where
it's the lesser of evils.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You you both now I really hate Boston. Yay.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Let's get to the story of the night.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
I still can't figure out why Connor McDavid's not celebrated.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Sad.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I can't wrap my hand around what is Grosburg is.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Having the greatest night in the world. Right the Oilers lost?
You know, the Dodgers have tied the game against the
podres Pa has hits two home runs. We say he's
gonna be an All Star like everything's coming up Frostburg tonight.
Who just aren't dry?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Like, what is going on.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I was lied to through surnames Corey Perry.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
You don't have to cry.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, poor Corey Perry. Right, Oh, Corey Perry. What was
he twenty two when he won the Cup? And now
it's like, wow, it's been a while, Corey. Did he
really it's been a while time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Connor McDavid of Fox Sports Radio,
he's never lifted the Stanley Cup either. It's steep to.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Say, wow, it's just giving it from all sides here.
Corey Perry, I think, keeps going to the final with
different teams and I believe this is five times in
recent years he has.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Lost the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I do have a trivia question for you both, and
I'll give you a minute to think about it.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
But now that we have had this.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Florida team win the Cup against the same opponent in
the final back to back years, the Montreal team that
you just brought up did the same in the late
nineteen seventies, beat the Boston Bruins back to back seasons
to win the Cup nineteen seventy seven to seventy eight. Okay,
trivia question in the other three major sports in the
last fifty years. If it's happened, how has it happened
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with whom to win the title in your sport beating
the same opponent in the final back to back years.
We'll come back to that.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Nice. I thought you were gonna say Canadian team won
a Stanley.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Not hockey, but the other three major sports in the
last fifty years. Okay, Florida Panthers took Game six of
the Stanley Cup Final tonight over Edmonton five to one.
Sam Reinhart with four goals, including two empty netters. He
is the first NHL player all time to have his
first career four goal game come in the final. And
(28:44):
you mentioned coach Paul Maurice. How about this multiple championships
on his resume now after winning none in his first
twenty five season, the first head coach in the four
major sports to have that happened to him late in life.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
And yet again it.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Was Florida not falling behind Sam Bennett winds up playoff MVP.
But Sportsnet in Canada points out that in the six
games of this series, the Edmonton Oilers led less than
thirty five minutes total Florida led two hundred and fifty
five minutes, setting the all time record for a championship series.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
WOW.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
NBA Finals Game six will be Thursday at Indiana Pacers
guard Tyrese Halliburton reportedly as a strained calf. WNBA wins
for Minnesota, which is eleven and one, for New York
which is ten and one, and for Indiana, which beat
Connecticut eighty eight seventy one. Caitlin Clark with twenty points.
Late night baseball, we've got four late games. Padres at
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Dodgers tied three to three going to the six. Andy
Pahes against the Padres with two solo homers and it's
I was about to say. At Oakland in Sacramento, a
Houston Astros lead of seven to nothing over the A's
in the time of the fifth. Cleveland Guardians leading at
San Francisco three to two in the bottom of the seventh,
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although Raphael Devers of the Giants as an RBI double
and the Mariners got an early grand slam from Cal
Rawley off Walker Buehler. Seattle eight nothing over the Red
Sox in the bottom of the seventh. Boston, for the
moment has won sixth straight Atlanta came back to beat
the Mets in ten Miami came back to beat the Phillies.
Wins for Kansas City and Saint Louis. Do we have
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a nominee on the trivia question in any of the
four major sports? Well, the other three not hockey to
the title against the same opponent back to back years.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You know, you say, and I thought, I'm thinking back,
it's because my first tie going okay, let me think baseball.
And it's funny because I was just talking about this
series these two years yesterday to one of my friends.
I'm like, and Reggie Jackson stuck is fat hipping away,
Yet they didn't call it. It wants up being a
ball that goes off, Steve Garvey's yelling and screaming, and
the Yankees wind up.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Tommy Losorda is still spitting up his.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Chaw eight Yankees Dodger. I was just talking about that
the other day. What do you mean, like he's stuck. Yeah,
he was out and he's supposed to move and he
sticks his hipping the way in the ball And I
can still see Guardy yelling at the first place up
by your point and going construction. How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
And in Super Bowls.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
The Bills lost to the Dallas Cowboys back to back
years in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And that eight years in a row they lost to
the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Felt like it.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
The Calves less than a decade ago, the Golden State back.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, that was three finals in a row. They all
played against each other. At least, that was three finals
in a row. Where it was it was Warriors cat.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Michael Jordan's last two with the Bulls beat Utah.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Jeeve, how much you want to bet Jason googled all up? No,
the Reggie Jackson is pretty easy to remember. Come on, man,
and here are you clicking? Yes, hear you, that's how
he walks.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's just right back. It's my back playing
softball on Sunday. That's what it is. Oh N's feeling
it today?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Steve see that said, yes, sir, I'm feeling great, feeling
spry today. My back's clicking, and I'm feeling all of
my years.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Thanks about Steve O. I like that. Oh yeah, seventy seven,
seventy eight. I couldn't stand that. You know how many
when we would go to when I had baseball camp
and when I went to baseball camp like in seventy
nine and eighty I was nine and ten years old.
The last thing we always did because it was too hot.
At the end of the day, we played a bunch
of games. Like from three to four when and this
was when you know, people came to pick up the campers.
(32:31):
Right from three to four we were in air condition
room and we were watching the World Series in review, right,
like one of those you know reels that they put
together for Hey, here's what the seven the Fall Classic
was like, you know, all these different years we watch
all different years, and it was a thing where they said, listen,
we're just watching come pick up your kid whenever, you know,
whenever you're ready, anytime between three and four o'clock. Right.
(32:53):
So so the first so the first day, you know,
four o'clock, my grandfather comes in a game. He says,
what you do? It said, oh my god, we just
watched the night teen seventy World Series. Brooks Robinson made
these unbelievable plays against the Reds. It was fantastic. Pop goes, oh, so,
but I can come get you anytime between three and four.
I said, no, you come get me at four. We're
gonna do this every day I'm gonna get to watch
that every single day, come at four o'clock. And I
(33:15):
was always the last camper there watching the end of Hey, look,
can we start it again? Let's I want to watch
it again. And we watched the Dodgers Yankees things probably
two or three times, because you know, we're in New
York growing up. Sure it was the Yankees champions. We
probably watched that like two or three times. Maybe upset,
but I still watched it. Yeah, wait, wait, wait, you
didn't hear how it ended. We won Apple Original Films.
(33:38):
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on the biggest screen possible. Trust me, you want to
see this on the big screen. You want to be
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I got to see it a couple of weeks ago.
It is a terrific summer blockbuster only in theaters in Imax.
June twenty seventh, rated PG. Well, coming up next, we
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have a big basketball story. Well we thought so. The
NBA Finals are going on Indiana is a big story.
What's gonna happen there? Yes, there is a huge story
involving Indiana basketball, but not that team. That's next Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:29):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. That's certain. They played as the Mets left
the field tonight in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Uh, I thought your best friend was Miguel Azuna.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Dude, let's see, you don't need to bring up You
don't need to bring up Marcelo Zuna anymore. It's oh,
you don't need to bring him up. What about he's
not Maybe that's his brother, all right, you don't need
to bring up any of them, anybody named. I don't
need to. I don't could be it, could You never know?
George Foreman had a lot of George's he did. There
(35:03):
was George the fourth, George the fifth. There was a lot.
Uh like royalty for crying out loud, one of the biggest.
I would say, highlights the night because you're gonna see
this everywhere is what happened tonight between the Indiana Fever
the Connecticut son in a Commissioner's Cup game. Oh by
the way, yeah, a little Fever move on to the
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championship of the Commissioner's Cup. Caitlin Clark's second game back
from injury, twenty point six assists. She had four threes.
Indiana beats Connecticut pretty handily eighty eight seventy one, but
the game was extremely physical and there's a couple of
sequences you're gonna see all over the place, beginning in
the third quarter, when Caitlin Clark gets poked in the
(35:45):
eye by J. C. Sheldon of Connecticut. She kind of
flops a little bit, right because Kitlyn Clark is a
good flopper, right, I'll tell you she's a good flopper.
And then Marina Maybrey comes in and kind of shoves
Caitlin Clark, while right after that happens Caitlyn Clark again,
Caitlyn Clark is a good flopper. She falls to the ground,
but still very physical play. The sides have to be separated.
(36:07):
And then Sheldon late in the game, when the game
was already decided, steals races the other way and then
Sophie Cunningham of the Fever just wraps her up for
a hard foul. Is both arms wrapped around her shoulders
and there's a shoving match between two of them. Three
players all get tossed, and quite honestly, this is gonna
be the next way that teams try to combat the fever. Right,
(36:30):
we talked about this last night. By game thirty, they're
gonna be viewed as the best team in the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
They made a lot of change to their team in
the offseason. Need a little bit of time for them
to gel, but they brought in some big time players,
and Caitlyn Clark is on the big middle finger tour
of blank you you hate me, watch me go through you. Right,
She's loved by everybody, but there's a look, there's a
lot of haters. You know, the players in the league
are jealous of her. She's like, okay, okay, you watch
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you thought I was good last year. I'm stronger, I'm
bit more threes. Now I'm gonna a hot knife through
butter you. And this is gonna be the next thing
of what teams try to do. They're gonna try to
be physical and see if they can dominate the fever physically.
And you know, seeing how this went in this game
in the third quarter, when this happened with Caitlyn Clark.
Caitlyn Clark gets poked in the eye, then she gets
(37:16):
pushed to the floor. She gets up and walks away, right,
and this is this happened but the last time with
Angel Reason And I'm like, Okay, at some point I
get she doesn't want to be in the middle of
a fracas because you know, look, you're the show, you're
the league, but you kind of have to stand on
your ground at some point, right, So when that happened,
I was like, man, she really has to kind of
stand in there and someone who's gonna push her and
not just go where's the foul, where's the foul and
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leave her teammates to it. Right. I understand it because
Caitlyn Clark is on a different level and wants to
stay in the game, doesn't want to get technical fouls,
doesn't want to get any sort of suspension, doesn't want
to leave anything up to the league to say, oh, here,
Caitlyn Clark is this. But at some point you kind
of have to stand up. But you saw Sophie Cunningham
stand up for at the end with that big, hard
foul on Sheldon, So I find it hard to believe
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you're gonna be able to physical intimidate the Indiana Fever. Right,
it'll be a strategy that's used, and it's just not
gonna happen because this Fever team is really talented. But
if I could say just one thing, the next time
that happens, Caitlyn Clark kind of has to stand up
for herself a little bit too, and not always just
walk away like it's a second time that's happened. Not
saying she got to stand there and throw hay makers.
But you gotta do the fake you know, the fake
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tough guy thing is say, yeah, come on, you want
to fight, you what, You're gonna get broken up and
people are gonna push you aside, but you gotta stand
there and make it at least look like you know
you want to do that to me, I'm coming back
at you. You gotta give me a little bit of
that when it happens.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
No, and that's that's on her, you know, because she's
got no problem mixing it up. And then as soon
as it starts to escalate, it's the turn and walk
say all right, now it's someone else's problem to clean up. Fortunately,
she's got Sophie Cunningham, who is you know, being revered.
She put up on Instagram kind of a shoulder shrug
laughing emoji from a photo shoot alongside the video of
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the play, which, by the way, Sheldon was gonna clear
her out with the elbow if she didn't come over
the time.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
By the way, going for that for that layup.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
But you know it's the you know, my my love
of the WWE kind of goes in because it's Sophie Cunningham,
beloved by all right, her fit and everything walking into
the arena is the one of the things that that
draws eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
And and and and all of that.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
So you wouldn't think she'd be the one going and
becoming the enforcer. Guess what, uh she she's going full
live Morgan before the shoulder injury or Alexa Bliss or whatever,
to be the combination of both. I could be your
champion and still kick your ass, you know that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Uh So, it's it's a.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Great development that you've got the enforcer role there because
you're gonna see more of this. But for Gitalin Clark,
she does welcome in in. So eventually her teammates will
have to put their arm around your shoulder and go
can we not do this for one game?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Can we? Now? In this case it was a physical
thing Sheldon and she no love loss.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I think Sheldon's oh to twelve against her going back
to collegiate days and and certainly you get those frustration moments.
You don't get the shrug of the shoulders like you
had with Haley van lit here. You got a lot
of physicality and bumping before the eye scratch that that
we saw that precipitated this. But all of that to
say the physicality is something that we've seen time and
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again with Caitlin Clark and how it gets adjudicated. I
think the officials are going to get a finger wagging
from the league as well, because they got called out
by the announcing crew for the duration of the game
for the lack of control that they showed in that
instance that then blew all the way up into that
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Cunningham file at the end.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Doesn't mean the physical strategy is gonna work, but it's
a strategy born out of desperation because again in the
coming weeks, the Fever gonna show they're the best team
in the w Just well and get ready. Every game
is going to be a show exit about a Fresca exit,
swollen dome, Jason Smith, Mike Carmen Lack from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next. My absolute favorite story
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Give you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, I gotta tell you. If you thought there was
a lot of dust ups going on in the WNBA
game tonight between Caitlin Clark and the Fever and the Sun,
let me introduce you to Dodgers Padres bottom of the
third inning. Uh, we'll get to that coming up in
a couple minutes. We'll get to Tyres Halliburton. But let
me tell you what's happening right now. The best rivalry
in baseball continuing to prove that it is the best
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rivalry in baseball. Padres and the Dodgers. Padres lead this
one three to two in the bottom of the third inning.
There's already been some hbp's in this game for Nano
Tatist Junior got hit in the back. Well shut, that'll
be what they say at the end of the game. Yeah,
but he deserved it. Uh. Tatis gets hitt in the back.
(01:12):
Now Otani is hit in the leg. David David Roberts
is losing his mind right now, out to argue after
this what just happened in the bottom of the third inning.
He is screaming at the umpires. Uh. This game is
on the verge of getting out of control. I believe
Roberts has been tossed from the game. Uh he got
(01:34):
his money's worth while he was out there. Uh three two.
And Otani's laughing at first base while it's happening right now.
Dave Roberts get tossed and Otani.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is laughing right that that's general demeanor. Man, he's the
the face of boy I love playing this game and
everything else is silly. But go back to yesterday, right,
they plunked Pahez with your guy Michael Conforto on deck.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And then Shilts was screaming of senate ease at Paz
when he stared down.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Dylan sees to guys, got hit today, took him deep. Well, yeah,
then guys are getting hit a guy that's that's just it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Then it then it starts getting ugly and and a
little bit crazy. So it's good though. It's good for baseball,
good for rivalries, as long as you keep it low.
If he gets hitting the leg, that's all finding good.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
God, no, it's least.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Frostburg wants the Padres thrown out of Major League baseball.
He wants a thrown out again. Three to two, bottom
of the third inning, Otani at first Dave Roberts was
tossed a lot of hbps and you and you know
it's this is what makes this rivalry so good, right,
Just a couple of subtle things. Since Roberts was thrown out, Uh,
(02:49):
they tried to pick Otani off at first base, and
it was kind of a physical tag and Otani is
able to stay on the base, and he gave a
stare to the umpire after it was over, to make
I tell you, Otani looked madder about that that he
was Dave Roberts getting thrown out because he was laughing
after Roberts got tossed, and then Manny Machado just caught
a pop up to retire Mookie Betts, and he stopped.
(03:11):
He slammed the ball in his glove and he turned
and yelled across the diamond after he caught it, Like,
come on, man, you the Yankees Red Sox looks like
the Rays and the Astros compared to what we see
the last couple of years of the dog where we
are now.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I remember being in the bleachers in right field Yankees
Red Sox back in ninety eight. There were as many
security guards in that section as they were fans.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So it's changed a bit, sure, But now this is
getting getting a bit out of sorts. So we'll see
if they can adjudicate things a little better than we've
seen some of the other sporting events of the last
forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, good luck, good luck, good luck to that. Eventually
we get it all out brawl.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But you know, Johnny, you know salty salty about the
the little extras here.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Remember with a franchise, right, It's like when they swipe
that day Caiton, Caitlyn's Clark eyes like she's not the basilisk. Okay,
you can't have her blinder blind because she is the franchise.
Same thing with Otani people, the asses and seats. Man,
he's box office. Don't be taking cheap shots.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And it's only the bottom of the third inning. We
got a long way to go in this game. Yeah,
we have a long way to go and still bought.
There's many more guys that can get it. Look, at
some point, I think the tensions will boil over and
the Dodgers and Padres will brawl. I don't know if
it's gonna be tonight, but at some point during the
season I'll go I'll go, bulb. There will be someone's
gonna get hit and it's just gonna be a brawl
(04:39):
because the tension is just too high between both of
these teams. They're eventually going to fight at some point.
I don't Again, it might not be tonight, but it's
gonna happen at some point this season. They're gonna fight, guarantee. Well,
I mean they lit the fuse.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It all goes back to future All Star PAJZ getting
plunked yesterday and then it escalates from there.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, not a superstar Maya.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I am really getting behind Andy Pa has the All
Star game. I'm telling you I'm behind that right now. Man,
he is really really good. A big home run tonight.
Of course he gets hit as well. Like this is again,
we got some time.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Jason, there's so much time left in this game that
Miguel Azuna could clear the bases two more times.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, okay, okay, we're done with that. That has nothing
to do with this. Okay, Marcelo Zuna had a great
hit tonight. Congratulate. The Braves are forty five games place.
It's okay, the Braves are forty five games out. What
am I worried about?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hey, is fine? Which New York team is going worse?
Right now? The Yankees are the Mets eight seven seven night.
At least the Mets have scored, right. The Yankees haven't
scored since Saturday. I mean really haven't scored since Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Either that or they have been way too often so
they've weakened their legs.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh, my dad, it's hard to even talk to him.
The last couple of days. He's so upset. Well, he said,
we're never gonna score again. We're never gonna score again.
That's talking. We're not gonna score. We're gonna go zeros
the rest of the season. That's just good. Judge's gonna
wind up hit in one forty seven when it's all
said and done. My dad is like doom and gloom
the entire way. It is the middle of June. Give
him my goodness, but middle of June is a much
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bigger deal in the NBA. And as we get ready
for game six Thursday night, where the Pacers try to
stay alive, potentially and I say potentially just because the
way it's reporter, because has no way he's not gonna play,
Tari's Halliburton is going to have an MRI on a
calf strain. Remember the game. We watched the game last
night in the first quarter, kind of stumbled a bit,
(06:31):
going down, left the game with a bit of a
calf strain, came back, got some treatment on it, came
back in the game. Still played the second most minutes
of any pacer last night. But it was reported earlier
today going to have an MRI to determine the severity
of the strain. This according to Shams Tarania. Now, as
we heard Halliburton say, as long as he's able to
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be ambulatory and can stand on two feet, he plans
to play on Thursday. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean's gonna be final. It's the finals, man.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I've worked my whole life to be here, and I
want to be out there to compete, you know, help
my teammates anyway I can. You know, I was not
great tonight by any means, but uh, you know, it's
not really a thought of mine to to not play here.
You know, if I fucking uh you know, walk, then
I want to play. So you know they understand that,
(07:23):
and uh, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Is what it is.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
And uh you know, got be ready to go for
game six.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Okay, So here's where I'm I. I I don't believe
that he's not dinged up, right. I firmly believe that
he is dealing with a cap strain. I firmly believe that.
But the severity of it, I really, I really have
to see what the results of this MRI are because
right now I kind of feel like is he being
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protected because we know his game is all mental right
when he's playing with confidence and he's terrific. But again,
he played thirty four minutes lest night, the second most
minutes of anybody on the team. If all of a
sudden today he's got to have an MRI and it's
really bad, well guess what that's like a fireable offense
for whoever is on the medical team of the Pacers
(08:14):
that all of a sudden. His strained CAF was so bad,
but they allowed him back in the game last night, right,
I mean, come on, man, I mean, that's not a
game where you allow your star player to continue to
play if he is really hurt, and you know, they
look at it and they can tell what's going on
with him. He's looked at it. If they really thought
it was bad, they would have said, you're not coming back,
because it's not a game we have to have. It's
(08:36):
not game seven, it's not an elimination game. We're playing
on the road. We're already down by ten if we lose, okay,
let's hope we get you back for game six. And
because we have an extra couple of days healthy, and
we're gonna sit you out because we think it might
be something. That's what would have happened last night if
this injury was really bad. And again, if it is,
(08:57):
if we find out tomorrow, oh he's got then I
gotta say, what the hell were the Pacers doing with
him during the game where they allowed him to come
back in this game? Right? And I don't think that
happens at this level. We don't see that, we don't
see any sort of medical malpractice where guys are allowed
to play when when clearly they're at an injury risk.
And this is Tyre's Halliburton, who was at an injury
(09:18):
risk after getting hurt and getting examined and looked at
by the Pacers medical staff. So that's why I look
at this and I go, is this a thing? Is
this just you know, to show, hey, he is hurt
and we wanna we want to protect him a little
bit because you know, he's getting all kinds of all
kinds of criticism for how we played last night. Look,
I'm not saying he's not banged up. I'm not saying
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he's not dinged up. I'm sure he is a little bit.
But again, the guy played thirty four minutes. If he
was really a detriment to the team, they would have
pulled him off the floor. But he's able to play
thirty four minutes. So yeah, I gotta think he's gonna
be okay. In this MRI that gets out, it's like, okay, okay. Again,
either way is not gonna be great for the Pacers
because either the MRI is fine, that's what we thought
(10:00):
it was, and this was just something to throw us
off center to get people to stop criticizing him, or hey,
it was more serious, in which case it's why didn't
you sit the guy down like there's no win for
the Pacers here other than to say, hey, we're just
gonna kick the can down the road. As far as
Halliburt and his injury and what's going on right, it's
really it's a really big thing to suddenly come out
the next day and say, yeah, he's got to have
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an MRI. So I really want to see which way
this thing goes. And I hope he's healthy. I want
him to play. I want him to play at a
high level because look, the games are better and the
league is better when when he's playing at a high level.
I want the guy to be healthy because his NBA
Finals has been terrific so far. I want him to
be I want him to play. But I see this
and I don't know. I just I've seen a lot
of games. I've seen a lot of situations. I've seen
(10:42):
a lot of gamesmanship, and I just wonder how this
is going to come back, and when it comes back.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, we talked about the level of passivity. Yesterday, thirty
four minutes played just a handful of shots, taken.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Four for four from the free throw.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Line, and all the lines we ran about scoring droughts,
you know, Yankees for versus Halliburton and so many others.
Insert your own joke here at how about a Fresco
at swollen dome punchlines for days? But MRIs, there you go, MRIs,
what thirty to sixty minutes is what the estimate says.
(11:16):
You know, in my quick medical research, I've not had
one yet, so I don't know. But so it's not
like they were gonna do it in game, but they
seemingly took all precautions. He's taped up, he's banded, he's ice,
he's all of these things, and then he's able to
talk his way back on to the court. So clearly
the medical staff got on board with that. To your point,
they wasn't the active desperation other than hey, you're gonna
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fall behind three two, But you know it's not series ending,
it's not any of those. And either way, he's your
he's not necessarily your leader. That's probably Siakam, but he's
two times third team All NBA guy. He's kind of
an important deal. So if you thought this was a
bigger deal and we've talked about calf strains and what
(12:01):
they lead to potentially in larger issues. You know, the
another guy we've been talking about a lot, that Durant guy,
right going back a couple of years, that you wouldn't
put that to chance.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So but it doesn't take much for the MRI.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Hey, guess what after breakfast you need to go report
to the tube.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay, cool, but you put it out there and and now.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I don't know if you want to do the excuse
making ego satisfaction to give him an out because you
know you can lose him for a stretch, as we've
talked about throughout these playoffs. But all that to say,
hopefully it's it's just an innocuous Hey, we're just taking
(12:44):
all precautions and checking all the boxes to make sure
there's nothing else there.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And then he comes out and plays like his hair's
on fire. At least that's the hope. Exit out about
a Fresca exit swallowed do I just I wanted it's
kind of curious timing. I want to see how this
thing comes out, because look again, you saw thirty four
minutes last night, didn't come out of the game, wasn't
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the best rivalry in baseball, really the best rivalry at
all of sports. Right now, continuing to prove how great
(15:39):
it is. Andy pa has hit last night in the
Padres Dodgers game, which kind of sparked what went on today.
Tatiase gets hit, Otani gets hit, gets hit. Pahes has
responded with his second home run of the game. It
is now three to three in the top of the
fifth inning. As boy, I can't wait to see what
we have the rest to this game. Le'm make them
(16:01):
popcorn just to watch him.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
My question to you guys, is he a star guy?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh? If I was eighty percent before, I am one
hundred percent on board with Andy Paez all star one
hundred percent. He looks like it's gonna be there for years.
He's solid everywhere at center field. He's a good enough fielder.
He does that. He hits for power, he knocks and runs,
he does he is he is just becoming a fantastic player.
Now you see why they stuck with him most of
(16:26):
the year last year where he struggled a lot, because look,
the Dodgers knowing we got a guy coming up, we
know how good he is. Right, they knew Paez was
coming And look at the guy. Now he's going to
play center field for the next decade and be an
All Star.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Only twenty four years old, one hundred and sixteen games
played last year, bad at two forty eight, already up
a good thirty five points on the year. Plus he's
already matched his home run in RBI production before tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
So you both are on board.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh one hundred percent. I get on board.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
So there's only one stupid dummy here.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Don't care who's Who's that?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
He's standing at the top of the stairs of the
Padre dugout.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, I mean, if I was Pa Has, I would
have gone and walked over and said, don't you know
who I am?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, well I think he knows who he is.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now I think about the bowling guy line, right, yeah,
the Pete Weber line.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Love me or hate me?
You you watch me? Yeah? Uh so again, Yes, I'm
one hundred percent in with Andy pos for the All
Star Game, right, I mean coming out just making sure
two eighty thirteen homers forty six RBIs got two more tonight.
His ops is pretty good. It's just over eight hundred
like this is. He just does it all, right. Yeah,
he's not someone he's not Otani, he's not someone that's good,
(17:36):
but he does it all and he gives you offense
and defense from the center field position, and it's it's
above average. Yeah. I'm completely down for him, man. I mean,
I'm twenty four years old. He's gonna be All Star
the next ten years.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, he's starting like Connor McDavid.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, that's true. He does finish the job.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Twenty twelve US Open was when Pete Weber looked at
a Heckler and said, who do you think you are?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I am right there you go. S We'll have more
on this game coming up again. Three three Padres and
Dodgers in the top of the fifth inning. But you
just mentioned Connor McDavid. We watched the Panthers win the
Stanley Cup a big night, Sam Reyanhart four goals and
you haven't seen that in the Stanley Cup final game
since nineteen fifty seven. The Panthers win back to back
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Stanley Cups to beat the Oilers for the second time.
And you know, just just a second, because you know,
to give you something, and I'm sure people will see
this Tomorrow's like, what am I gonna say about the NFL?
They're not gonna say anything about the Panthers. What they're terrific.
Let me talk about how great they are. This Oilers
team is incredibly talented, right, you have two of the
top five players in the game in Connor McDavid and
(18:44):
Leandre and McDavid still, you know, he's been in the
league near a decade now, so the question about him
is going to be Kenny win. But you're talking about
a team that is powered by two of the top
five players, right. This is this is the Bulls having
Jordan and pippin you know, at their disposal dirt in
the course of their careers and still here they are
falling short twice to the Florida Panthers. Now, what is it?
(19:07):
Why the Panthers went back to back Cups. I'll tell
you exactly what it is. You watch the Panthers playing.
Unfortunately I get to watch a lot of them because
they go through my team to get to the Stanley
Cup final every bleeping year. They're a throwback to the
like the Islander and the Oiler dynasties of the eighties,
and if you want to talk about the the Mini
(19:28):
Red Wings dynasty in the mid to late nineties early
two thousands, like, that's what their throwbacks to because these
were teams that were just better than you everywhere. Right,
they have three lines that all do damage. Right Nowaday,
you don't have that in the NHL. You don't have
that kind of depth everywhere. You don't have you don't
have three lines that can all score goals. And they
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go out and get brad marshand and now they have
young players and veteran players who are able to contribute.
These are how these dynastic teams are made, right, This
was the Islanders of the eighties, right. It was Bossy
and Tracy and Potvan and then Pat la Fontaine comes
in and same thing for the Oilers. It's Gretzky and Messi.
But then here comes Yari Curry and Paul Coffee, and
they keep these guys together and they're better than you everywhere.
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Then the Red Wings with Eiserman and Federoff and Larionoff,
and then and then all the all the when they
had the five Russians playing together all the time. Then
here comes Darren McCarty and Chris Draper. They were just
better and more solid than you everywhere. And their defencemen
were good. Nicholas Linchen was one of the best defenders
in the NHL for a long time. Right, whether it
was Osgar or Vernon made no difference. That's what this
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Florida Panthers team is like, and it's really incredible to watch.
Also very frustrating to see a team. But they're just
better than everybody everywhere. There's no weakness, there's no week,
there's no hey. If you're gonna win this series, you
have to make sure you convert on the power play,
you have to make sure that you are controlling, controlling whatever.
There's nothing, there's nothing you can say there, there's there
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there's nothing you can say, Okay, this is how you
beat this team. You have to hope your your goalie
stands on his head and you can get those times
and clearly that wasn't happening in the Stanley Cup Final
where the Oilers couldn't even figure out who their goalie
was going to be. But that's what this Panthers team
they throw. They remind me when I watched the Islanders
and I watched the Oilers and then the Red Wings.
It's like, yes, they all had really good players, but
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they just had the right mix up and down the
roster where you could put the third line out there
and expect a big game, clinching Stanley Cup goal. Right,
you could do that, right, the Red Wings could put
their third line out there and you could get something
from Darren McCarty and Chris Draper. Right, you could do that.
You could see that, And that's kind of what this
Panthers team's remind me of. And this has been a
big run they have and it's not going anywhere like
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this is not a team that suddenly, hey, it's gonna
get torn apart or ripped apart, like that's what's's been
doing for the last couple of years. This could be
one of those teams that, hey, three cups in a
row and we're saying, wait, wait are they going back?
They going back to the oiler that the the halcyon
days of the eighties when teams are winning three and
four Stanley Cups in a row, like, that's how good
this Panthers team is? Well, but that's beauty of it.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Right, You build and I don't know how much you
discount like the commission there did and many other folks
did about you know, Florida and income tax, because we
talk about it for every other sport. Right, in terms
of getting guys to sign buying into a culture or
staying put, it's like, hey, you save ten percent if
you stay here versus going there, and you've got a
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winning culture and a nice life, so why would you
want to leave? So part of that is is just
what you've built as a roster. So yeah, they're not
going anywhere, and they come at you in waves. We've
seen the quick starts and obviously some legends in the making.
And who's not gonna want to sign on to try
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to go for a third right, any of the free
agency issues and conversations they have, unless someone's really gonna
hit a multiplier like they're scratching off the bottom of
a scratch off lottery.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Ticket.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
They're staying in Florida, so you're gonna have to run
through them again. So for the oilers for your squad,
for my woe begone Blackhawks squad, it's been fifteen years
since greatness.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
There all of those things to say, you're chasing what
has been a machine.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's something we've talked about a lot with our NBA
discussions of what the thunder might be. For a moment
it looked like maybe it was going to be torn
asunder by these pacers, but now very firmly planted towards
the finish line, you know, toes in full straight, straight line,
towards the endgame, perhaps tomorrow or Thursday night. Keep trying
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trying to advance it so we can get it done with.
But you know, it's an extra day of talking about it.
But all of that of how you build a franchise
with your draft choices, free agency, rookie contracts, and the
right blend of things, Florida has hit on a formula
that works. So yeah, barring some unforeseen disaster, they're not
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going anywhere a while.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I mean it, man, I mean I would not be
surprised if we are talking about them like we are
the Islanders won for it, right, I mean I was
one Forida roll right now. For the Canadians won four
in a row, right with Geelah Floor and Steve Shutt
and Ken Dryden and all. I mean, this was that
was some kind of run. I mean, I'm going back aways,
but I mean it's not gonna surprise me if we're
talking about the Panthers doing this over the course of the
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next couple of years, because they're just that good everywhere.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Go ahead, justin sorry Mike, but we got to talk
about Brad march Shan for a second.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, I guess, go ahead, I guess we do. Guys,
what do you mean just gave him away? Yeah, we're
done winning. I yes, Brad mar Shand is great and
the Bruins just said, yeah here, yeah we're done, go ahead,
take him. Wait what what the hell's going on here?
But look, that's what teams do, right, That's what teams
that are great. They find the right, that right veteran
to come in and say okay, And it's like you
can't imagine their team before you got them, right, Like
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you can't imagine this this team before they got Brad
mar Shan. You thought having the kachuks and all the
big goals they had last the last couple of years
have been great. Now now now Marshan shows up. But
it's like you felt like he's been there for seven years.
He's only been there.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
How old is he?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh? Man, Probably not as old as you want him
to do. Yeah, seven in a row, I'm telling you man,
not is probably four Stanley cups in a row. I
would not be surprised.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well, I was chuckling because you know awful announcing. All right,
I should say the freezing cold takes account does not
miss Uh. They found one from November of twenty one
by Jerry Sullivan covering stuff out there on the East
Coast in Uh. Sam Reinhardt, highest paid Panthers, no goals,
won't assist his last six games. Ice time is declining.
(25:27):
Where are the Sabers fans who told me how much
they would miss it? When I hear of all the
positive qualities the team lacked in the past.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I think of Ryan Hart from twenty to twenty one that.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Got undearthed as that game went final.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh wow, that outstanding.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
The internet is forever man.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Jason, what should be with.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Him?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
By the way, with who really march on.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh with Marshall. Oh dude as a Whaler fancs. You
guys know you no, no, you think I. I can't
refer anything Bruins being a Whaler fan. No, I can't
do that. It's impossible. That was Those are the best
hockey games of my life. Was going to go on
hard for the Bruins come in and everybody's just scripted.
We spend the entire game just screaming at each other,
the fans. That was the best part.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Wait, wait, wait, justin You guys have just found common
ground and it's not you know, a playoff series where
it's the lesser of evils.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You you both now I really hate Boston. Yay.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Let's get to the story of the night.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
I still can't figure out why Connor McDavid's not celebrated.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Sad.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I can't wrap my hand around what is Grosburg is.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Having the greatest night in the world. Right the Oilers lost?
You know, the Dodgers have tied the game against the
podres Pa has hits two home runs. We say he's
gonna be an All Star like everything's coming up Frostburg tonight.
Who just aren't dry?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Like, what is going on.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I was lied to through surnames Corey Perry.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
You don't have to cry.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, poor Corey Perry. Right, Oh, Corey Perry. What was
he twenty two when he won the Cup? And now
it's like, wow, it's been a while, Corey. Did he
really it's been a while time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Connor McDavid of Fox Sports Radio,
he's never lifted the Stanley Cup either. It's steep to.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Say, wow, it's just giving it from all sides here.
Corey Perry, I think, keeps going to the final with
different teams and I believe this is five times in
recent years he has.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Lost the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I do have a trivia question for you both, and
I'll give you a minute to think about it.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
But now that we have had this.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Florida team win the Cup against the same opponent in
the final back to back years, the Montreal team that
you just brought up did the same in the late
nineteen seventies, beat the Boston Bruins back to back seasons
to win the Cup nineteen seventy seven to seventy eight. Okay,
trivia question in the other three major sports in the
last fifty years. If it's happened, how has it happened
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with whom to win the title in your sport beating
the same opponent in the final back to back years.
We'll come back to that.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Nice. I thought you were gonna say Canadian team won
a Stanley.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Not hockey, but the other three major sports in the
last fifty years. Okay, Florida Panthers took Game six of
the Stanley Cup Final tonight over Edmonton five to one.
Sam Reinhart with four goals, including two empty netters. He
is the first NHL player all time to have his
first career four goal game come in the final. And
(28:44):
you mentioned coach Paul Maurice. How about this multiple championships
on his resume now after winning none in his first
twenty five season, the first head coach in the four
major sports to have that happened to him late in life.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
And yet again it.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Was Florida not falling behind Sam Bennett winds up playoff MVP.
But Sportsnet in Canada points out that in the six
games of this series, the Edmonton Oilers led less than
thirty five minutes total Florida led two hundred and fifty
five minutes, setting the all time record for a championship series.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
WOW.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
NBA Finals Game six will be Thursday at Indiana Pacers
guard Tyrese Halliburton reportedly as a strained calf. WNBA wins
for Minnesota, which is eleven and one, for New York
which is ten and one, and for Indiana, which beat
Connecticut eighty eight seventy one. Caitlin Clark with twenty points.
Late night baseball, we've got four late games. Padres at
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Dodgers tied three to three going to the six. Andy
Pahes against the Padres with two solo homers and it's
I was about to say. At Oakland in Sacramento, a
Houston Astros lead of seven to nothing over the A's
in the time of the fifth. Cleveland Guardians leading at
San Francisco three to two in the bottom of the seventh,
(30:05):
although Raphael Devers of the Giants as an RBI double
and the Mariners got an early grand slam from Cal
Rawley off Walker Buehler. Seattle eight nothing over the Red
Sox in the bottom of the seventh. Boston, for the
moment has won sixth straight Atlanta came back to beat
the Mets in ten Miami came back to beat the Phillies.
Wins for Kansas City and Saint Louis. Do we have
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a nominee on the trivia question in any of the
four major sports? Well, the other three not hockey to
the title against the same opponent back to back years.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You know, you say, and I thought, I'm thinking back,
it's because my first tie going okay, let me think baseball.
And it's funny because I was just talking about this
series these two years yesterday to one of my friends.
I'm like, and Reggie Jackson stuck is fat hipping away,
Yet they didn't call it. It wants up being a
ball that goes off, Steve Garvey's yelling and screaming, and
the Yankees wind up.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Tommy Losorda is still spitting up his.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Chaw eight Yankees Dodger. I was just talking about that
the other day. What do you mean, like he's stuck. Yeah,
he was out and he's supposed to move and he
sticks his hipping the way in the ball And I
can still see Guardy yelling at the first place up
by your point and going construction. How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
And in Super Bowls.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
The Bills lost to the Dallas Cowboys back to back
years in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And that eight years in a row they lost to
the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Felt like it.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
The Calves less than a decade ago, the Golden State back.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, that was three finals in a row. They all
played against each other. At least, that was three finals
in a row. Where it was it was Warriors cat.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Michael Jordan's last two with the Bulls beat Utah.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Jeeve, how much you want to bet Jason googled all up? No,
the Reggie Jackson is pretty easy to remember. Come on, man,
and here are you clicking? Yes, hear you, that's how
he walks.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's just right back. It's my back playing
softball on Sunday. That's what it is. Oh N's feeling
it today?
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Steve see that said, yes, sir, I'm feeling great, feeling
spry today. My back's clicking, and I'm feeling all of
my years.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Thanks about Steve O. I like that. Oh yeah, seventy seven,
seventy eight. I couldn't stand that. You know how many
when we would go to when I had baseball camp
and when I went to baseball camp like in seventy
nine and eighty I was nine and ten years old.
The last thing we always did because it was too hot.
At the end of the day, we played a bunch
of games. Like from three to four when and this
was when you know, people came to pick up the campers.
(32:31):
Right from three to four we were in air condition
room and we were watching the World Series in review, right,
like one of those you know reels that they put
together for Hey, here's what the seven the Fall Classic
was like, you know, all these different years we watch
all different years, and it was a thing where they said, listen,
we're just watching come pick up your kid whenever, you know,
whenever you're ready, anytime between three and four o'clock. Right.
(32:53):
So so the first so the first day, you know,
four o'clock, my grandfather comes in a game. He says,
what you do? It said, oh my god, we just
watched the night teen seventy World Series. Brooks Robinson made
these unbelievable plays against the Reds. It was fantastic. Pop goes, oh, so,
but I can come get you anytime between three and four.
I said, no, you come get me at four. We're
gonna do this every day I'm gonna get to watch
that every single day, come at four o'clock. And I
(33:15):
was always the last camper there watching the end of Hey, look,
can we start it again? Let's I want to watch
it again. And we watched the Dodgers Yankees things probably
two or three times, because you know, we're in New
York growing up. Sure it was the Yankees champions. We
probably watched that like two or three times. Maybe upset,
but I still watched it. Yeah, wait, wait, wait, you
didn't hear how it ended. We won Apple Original Films.
(33:38):
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It is a terrific summer blockbuster only in theaters in Imax.
June twenty seventh, rated PG. Well, coming up next, we
(34:02):
have a big basketball story. Well we thought so. The
NBA Finals are going on Indiana is a big story.
What's gonna happen there? Yes, there is a huge story
involving Indiana basketball, but not that team. That's next Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:29):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. That's certain. They played as the Mets left
the field tonight in Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Uh, I thought your best friend was Miguel Azuna.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Dude, let's see, you don't need to bring up You
don't need to bring up Marcelo Zuna anymore. It's oh,
you don't need to bring him up. What about he's
not Maybe that's his brother, all right, you don't need
to bring up any of them, anybody named. I don't
need to. I don't could be it, could You never know?
George Foreman had a lot of George's he did. There
(35:03):
was George the fourth, George the fifth. There was a lot.
Uh like royalty for crying out loud, one of the biggest.
I would say, highlights the night because you're gonna see
this everywhere is what happened tonight between the Indiana Fever
the Connecticut son in a Commissioner's Cup game. Oh by
the way, yeah, a little Fever move on to the
(35:23):
championship of the Commissioner's Cup. Caitlin Clark's second game back
from injury, twenty point six assists. She had four threes.
Indiana beats Connecticut pretty handily eighty eight seventy one, but
the game was extremely physical and there's a couple of
sequences you're gonna see all over the place, beginning in
the third quarter, when Caitlin Clark gets poked in the
(35:45):
eye by J. C. Sheldon of Connecticut. She kind of
flops a little bit, right because Kitlyn Clark is a
good flopper, right, I'll tell you she's a good flopper.
And then Marina Maybrey comes in and kind of shoves
Caitlin Clark, while right after that happens Caitlyn Clark again,
Caitlyn Clark is a good flopper. She falls to the ground,
but still very physical play. The sides have to be separated.
(36:07):
And then Sheldon late in the game, when the game
was already decided, steals races the other way and then
Sophie Cunningham of the Fever just wraps her up for
a hard foul. Is both arms wrapped around her shoulders
and there's a shoving match between two of them. Three
players all get tossed, and quite honestly, this is gonna
be the next way that teams try to combat the fever. Right,
(36:30):
we talked about this last night. By game thirty, they're
gonna be viewed as the best team in the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
They made a lot of change to their team in
the offseason. Need a little bit of time for them
to gel, but they brought in some big time players,
and Caitlyn Clark is on the big middle finger tour
of blank you you hate me, watch me go through you. Right,
She's loved by everybody, but there's a look, there's a
lot of haters. You know, the players in the league
are jealous of her. She's like, okay, okay, you watch
(36:56):
you thought I was good last year. I'm stronger, I'm
bit more threes. Now I'm gonna a hot knife through
butter you. And this is gonna be the next thing
of what teams try to do. They're gonna try to
be physical and see if they can dominate the fever physically.
And you know, seeing how this went in this game
in the third quarter, when this happened with Caitlyn Clark.
Caitlyn Clark gets poked in the eye, then she gets
(37:16):
pushed to the floor. She gets up and walks away, right,
and this is this happened but the last time with
Angel Reason And I'm like, Okay, at some point I
get she doesn't want to be in the middle of
a fracas because you know, look, you're the show, you're
the league, but you kind of have to stand on
your ground at some point, right, So when that happened,
I was like, man, she really has to kind of
stand in there and someone who's gonna push her and
not just go where's the foul, where's the foul and
(37:38):
leave her teammates to it. Right. I understand it because
Caitlyn Clark is on a different level and wants to
stay in the game, doesn't want to get technical fouls,
doesn't want to get any sort of suspension, doesn't want
to leave anything up to the league to say, oh, here,
Caitlyn Clark is this. But at some point you kind
of have to stand up. But you saw Sophie Cunningham
stand up for at the end with that big, hard
foul on Sheldon, So I find it hard to believe
(37:59):
you're gonna be able to physical intimidate the Indiana Fever. Right,
it'll be a strategy that's used, and it's just not
gonna happen because this Fever team is really talented. But
if I could say just one thing, the next time
that happens, Caitlyn Clark kind of has to stand up
for herself a little bit too, and not always just
walk away like it's a second time that's happened. Not
saying she got to stand there and throw hay makers.
But you gotta do the fake you know, the fake
(38:19):
tough guy thing is say, yeah, come on, you want
to fight, you what, You're gonna get broken up and
people are gonna push you aside, but you gotta stand
there and make it at least look like you know
you want to do that to me, I'm coming back
at you. You gotta give me a little bit of
that when it happens.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
No, and that's that's on her, you know, because she's
got no problem mixing it up. And then as soon
as it starts to escalate, it's the turn and walk
say all right, now it's someone else's problem to clean up. Fortunately,
she's got Sophie Cunningham, who is you know, being revered.
She put up on Instagram kind of a shoulder shrug
laughing emoji from a photo shoot alongside the video of
(38:54):
the play, which, by the way, Sheldon was gonna clear
her out with the elbow if she didn't come over
the time.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
By the way, going for that for that layup.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
But you know it's the you know, my my love
of the WWE kind of goes in because it's Sophie Cunningham,
beloved by all right, her fit and everything walking into
the arena is the one of the things that that
draws eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
And and and and all of that.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
So you wouldn't think she'd be the one going and
becoming the enforcer. Guess what, uh she she's going full
live Morgan before the shoulder injury or Alexa Bliss or whatever,
to be the combination of both. I could be your
champion and still kick your ass, you know that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Uh So, it's it's a.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Great development that you've got the enforcer role there because
you're gonna see more of this. But for Gitalin Clark,
she does welcome in in. So eventually her teammates will
have to put their arm around your shoulder and go
can we not do this for one game?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Can we? Now? In this case it was a physical
thing Sheldon and she no love loss.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I think Sheldon's oh to twelve against her going back
to collegiate days and and certainly you get those frustration moments.
You don't get the shrug of the shoulders like you
had with Haley van lit here. You got a lot
of physicality and bumping before the eye scratch that that
we saw that precipitated this. But all of that to
say the physicality is something that we've seen time and
(40:22):
again with Caitlin Clark and how it gets adjudicated. I
think the officials are going to get a finger wagging
from the league as well, because they got called out
by the announcing crew for the duration of the game
for the lack of control that they showed in that
instance that then blew all the way up into that
(40:43):
Cunningham file at the end.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Doesn't mean the physical strategy is gonna work, but it's
a strategy born out of desperation because again in the
coming weeks, the Fever gonna show they're the best team
in the w Just well and get ready. Every game
is going to be a show exit about a Fresca exit,
swollen dome, Jason Smith, Mike Carmen Lack from the Fox
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