June 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike give the reason why Aaron Rodgers won’t be a Pittsburgh Steeler. The Bad News Bears Movie comes to real life. And the guys dish out their NBA Finals picks!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon, coming up in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Whe whether you saw it tonight or not. Unbelievable moment where.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Bad News Bears movie came to life in a large way.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's funny because we drove past Bad News Bears field.
We did, We did, you and I We did do
that much. We did. But old stomping grounds over there. Uh.
Thanks to Jason Cole who joined us.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Last hour of the show, we talked about Saquon Barkley
and the potential comment said he could retire.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, booty boat at some point.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah we had Booty Bow too, But real quick about
Barkley before we get into and Aaron Rodgers conversation that
nobody has had yet. Okay, just all right, because because
this this now is going to make you look at
Roger and the Steelers from a different perspective. Barkley said
that his retirement could come out of nowhere. Okay, he's
got two years and and and forty one million dollars
(01:23):
coming Okay, so he's not retiring in the next two years. Okay,
So retiring coming out of nowhere. If you retire when
you're and you're a running back, in you're thirty one
or thirty two, I don't think that's coming well, but
it would be if you're still performing at a high level. Right,
Like he gets hurt and misses time, so where it's like,
all right, you know, I miss six games and kind
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of limp to the literally and figuratively to.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
The end of a season. The Eagles get bounced from
the playoffs early, all.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Of those things. Then well that's the natural progression of
a runner.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
But still, but still, you'd say he's still at eighty
percent better then yeah, X number of running backs.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And here's the thing, let's just say two years from now, right,
he's still playing really well, and he's thirty years old,
he's playing really well, you know, thirty thirty one and
the Eagles say, hey, how about you know, let's do
two more years and twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's gonna retire. Come on, think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You're gonna retire the last time you're ever gonna get
paid like this in your life. You're gonna who walks away.
Nobody walks away from money. Nobody, Nobody walks away from money,
especially in the NFL where your career is so short.
You like Jimmy Fallon's were almost famous. You gotta grab
what you can when you can while you can. Because
you think mister Mick Jagger be busy being a rock
star when he is fifty years old, you are sadly,
(02:40):
sadly mistaken.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I went and saw him three times after he turned eighty,
so and he's still getting my money.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So I mean, just think, do you really think if Barkley, Look,
if he's not playing well, of course he's not gonna
be played, but his retirement's not gonna if he's playing
well in two years, and hey, here's two more. Because
we saw Derek Henry got a nice deal right being
over thirty. Uh, yeah, he will get paid, he will
get picked and he's not gonna walk away at that point,
so it's not gonna be a shock when he retires.
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Now you're in a space in a team that has
always valued and evaluated offensive lineman brilliantly.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It's been the old uh as an analogy I've used
for years because I mean, we'll get to Shark week
soon enough. It's the anniversary of Jaws, all those things. Right,
what happens they take a bite and the next tooth
pops into place and need to get the bite again.
That that's been the offensive line for the Eagles for
a long time. Yeah, oh wow, they're gonna lose this guy,
(03:35):
Jason Kelsey's retiring.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Who cares? Next guy is? He's great? He was great.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I take nothing. He's probably a Hall of Famer. But
all of that to say, they've got the infrastructure and
the evaluation process down to where, all right, they give
up a bit but not a ton, which means Barkley's
still gonna be running behind a bunch of top notch players.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Jim Johnson, you're still playing, yea, all right, I'll still
play then, Okay, I'm good, I'll play.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
But the average five zo point eight yards for per
carry a year ago double digit touchdowns for the third
time in his career. He's had seventy two hundred career yards.
You start talking about Hall of Fame, legacy, history, all
those things. If he has two years that are reminiscent
of what he did in twenty twenty two with the Giants,
where you're at thirteen, one hundred and ten touchdowns, how
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do you walk away from that? It's not I think
it would be interesting as hell. The only guy he's
still in sports that I say is that wild guard
is Nikola Jokic. That guy I think legitimately could walk away. Hell,
he might decide after this offseason he ain't coming back.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I've decided to stay here. But we really know I'm staying.
Oh here's a catch of me and my horse. All right, great,
see talk to you guys. So yeah, I really it's
not going to be out of nowhere, and it's not
going to be if he's playing well. Now, this conversation
about Aaron Rodgers, this, I guarantee you is a conversation
you have not heard so far about him, and it
tells me why he ain't going to the Steelers next
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week when they finally hit their mandatory practice, says, right,
the entire offseason, it's been Hey, there's been an understanding
that Rogers and the Steelers are gonna get together.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's been throwing with DK Metcalf a little bit, but
he said he didn't want to make a commitment to
a team right now as a friend going through or
going through a cancer. And you know, I'm dealing with
this right now, and I understand all of this, and
and I know that generally the perception has been, well,
if he's not there by the by the by the
mandatory offseason uh mini camp, then then he's not going
(05:29):
to be there. But I'll tell you why he's not
going to be there, and he's not going to play
for the Steelers. Just think about this for a second. Okay,
So you're saying he's not gonna play for him saying
that's it. I'm saying he's not. No, he's gonna wait
and see if another position where he wants to play
opens up, and maybe that's where he goes. But it's
not going to be Pittsburgh. And I'll tell and I'll
tell you why, and you'll say, oh my god, that
completely makes sense. Right, He's gonna sign with the Hyahuascas.
(05:50):
If it's been he's already signed there, he's signed. He's
got to wait and off shoot at the Bananas. He's
in the middle of a big contract with them already.
It's between them and the party animals. Mike, he can okay,
he can do. Let's just say, for instance, let's just say,
for argument's sake, that you believe everything. And he's gonna
show up with the Steelers when he feels like he's
taking his time in the off season. He's doing all
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of these things right. He knows that he's making the
Steelers a little nervous, and he's making them upset. And
there's players who are gonna say you're right, or already
saying you're either with us or you're not. If you're
our future leader, you want to walk in there and
be put in a position to succeed. You don't want
to walk in there having pissed off players, not being
(06:33):
there for OTA's, not being there for any other activities.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But but Aaron Rodgers, he's got some time. Okay, Yeah,
I get it, I get it. But you don't want
to walk in there being really pissed. And if you're
really gonna go, but you need some time. You need
some time. I can need some time. I can't commit
right now. If he was gonna be a Steeler, we
said this in the offseason. He's had plenty of time
to make that decision. If he wanted to be a Steeler,
he would be there, okay, But he's not. But all
(06:59):
way want it's wa He wants to wait it out
and draw it out. Knowing what I just said is
the truth. You don't want to upset your team. You
want to make sure people know you're in there. Wouldn't
you have agreed to sign and you would tell the Steelers, hey,
I'm going through this, but I'll see you for the
mandatory mini camp. Wouldn't you have done that if you're
Aaron Rodgers, right, so you put all this to bed
(07:21):
and and you know everybody Okay, the Steelers, Hey he's here.
I want to be here. I'm happy, I'm a Steeler.
I'm ready. I have things going on in my life.
I will be there for the mandatory mini camp. Don't worry.
I will be there. That happens, and that would have
happened by now. So suddenly he's gonna sign and just
show up next week when when they're ready for the
final minute, it's not gonna happen. Right If if he
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was gonna be there, the nuts and bolts would have
been taken care of, and it would have been about
showing up when I promised to be there. He would
have a contract, he would and that would tamp down
all the nervousness with the Steelers and their fans and
Steelers Nation and their team and the teammates who were
getting a little restless with him saying hey, are you
coming here or not? And then more practices that go
on where he's not there and Mason Rudolph gets reps
(08:04):
and Will Howard gets reps. If you really were gonna
go and and you needed time, the x's and o's
would have been dotted by now. You would have had
that contract and you would have said, Hey, Omar Khn,
Mike Tomlin, here's the thing, I got this stuff going on.
I'm thrown with DK. Get me the playbook right and
get me everything you need.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll be looking at it, but I'll be there for
mandatory mini camp. Okay, but I that's when I'm coming, okay.
And then there's no story. There's no contrast, everything is
taken care of. You do that if you want to
play there. The fact that we're still sitting here. He
has no contract, he has no show update, he's got
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
He's gonna go there.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Really, I mean, I'll be the most stun guy in there,
and I'll say I was wrong, you know, I mean,
I'll say I was wrong. But if he, if he
would really wanted to be there, that stuff would have
been taken care of by now.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, this is fun on a number of levels because,
first off, with Rogers not in the fold, I don't
think the Steelers thought they were gonna spend any of
their off season doing pr control and damage control and spinning.
As related to the quarterbacks currently on their roster. Believe
what you will and decide where you lie. Mason Rudolph
(09:12):
and they had to put out statements because he appeared
at a Trump rally, so they were upset. People were
upset about that, and He's like, like, the opinions of
one Mason Rudolph and the players here do not necessarily
reflect that of the organization.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But the fact that you've got to acknowledge that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Just find it funny that you're waiting on Aaron Rodgers,
who we've had teams had to do that for before anyway,
Also to say we're invoking the name of Aaron Rodgers,
which means there's always wild cards in the mix. Going
back to threatening to retire years ago as a member
of the Packers, go through all the podcasts, what's he
going to say next?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Nobody likes hearing about himself.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
More than Aaron Rodge than perhaps Lebron James, Like those
are the only two guys I think that really like
to have people talk about them at that level.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Right, So the fact that nothing, but he'll still be
talking about it, I mean still be talking about it. Oh,
where's he gonna go? Because it's not like when he
was when he was gonna when he wound up going
to the Jets. Where's Oh, it could be the Jets,
it could be this team, it could be there, like
it's either the Steelers or nowhere right now, like it's
the Steelers are nowhere.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, that's just it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Right, He's got the tenth is their beginning of their
mandatory mini camp. And at this point I wouldn't be
surprised if he just took a backpack and he did
start to walk the earth in search of the greatest
ayahuasca that he could find or whatever natural wonders of
the world.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Wouldn't shock me at all.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It also wouldn't surprise me if that's six o'clock in
the morning, you know, he's trying to use a badge
that hasn't been activated yet to get into the facilities
for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like, that's how.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Big a wildcard Aaron Rodgers is at this point in
his career in terms of what he wants to do.
And I do agree with you. I mean, part of
it is the wait and see what kind of chaos ensues.
Will the Steelers have to break glass in case of
the emergency We've been talking about the John news Smith
on again off again trade rumors, the Kirk Cousins thing
we banned about six eight weeks ago of well what if. Well,
(11:04):
we're still at the what if possibility there because you
can't tell me that come the second week of September,
that guy's still on the Atlanta Falcons roster.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah right, I mean so.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
And then the rash of injuries, inconsistencies and fears that
material lies over the next eight to ten weeks are
really a lesson in steadfastness and the craziness that occurs
in front offices in the NFL now and.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Also, you know, to play into the Barkley thing, where
you know, Jason Coles said, look, I could see Barkley retiring.
He's a bit of a different dude. Aaron Rodgers is
the original different Yeah. Right, And again, if he wanted
to be a Steeler, he'd be there right, if he
was gonna go, he'd have a contract, he'd have an
agreement and I'll tell you when I'm showing up, and
that would put it all the rest because he wants
to succeed on the football field. But Rogers is one
(11:55):
of those guys where Okay, the Steelers may not, you know,
clearly aren't the number one destination for me, whether he's
holding out for Minnesota or somewhere else. And Rogers easily
could be one of those guys we just don't get. Yeah,
the timing's not right for me. I'm gonna wait, and
he's willing to say I'll wait it out this summer
and if a team that want that needs to calls
(12:18):
me that I want to be to be there where
I know I can go right in and pick up
the offense, and I know I can succeed because he
knows where you can see it to succeed and where
he can't. Yeah, that's where I'm gonna go. And if not,
I'm okay, I'm okay being done.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Are you telling me they have at least open the
door to where the Fred Rogers Heritage and and Foundation
hasn't reached out. Here's a sweater and some shoes. Come
make it mister Rogers neighborhood again, please right? Fred Rogers
was a yinsur high neighbor. I'm Aaron Rodgers. Today's word
of the day is ayahuasca. A y You know what,
(12:52):
don't worry about spelling it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Just drink it. Brought to you. He just pulls like
the t bag out of his the pocket on the cart. Again.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Wow, that's a whole other show. I mean I can
see him just say. Yeah, I'm willing to roll the
dice and if the opening is not out there for me,
I won't play because he would go out on the
highest possible note he could, because look, he's still finish
in the top ten with touchdowns and yardage last year.
That's how it goes. You know, Quarterbacks get hurt during
the season. Maybe he's thinking, you know what, yeah, I
(13:27):
got more rest, and if somebody gets hurt, if the
Niners lose brock Purty or if JJ McCarthy stinks, Rogers
is always good for four, I can show I should
show up for a hanfla like it wouldn't surprise me.
If that's as far as he would go, as well
to say I'm gonna wait, No, I'm good, I'm ready.
I'm working out because I know somebody is gonna call
me during the season. If Josh Allen gets hurt, somebody's
(13:49):
gonna call me.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
How many season ticket holders, like people that bought the
last two or three months for the Steelers would form
a class action lawsuit based on that appearance He did
a couple of weeks ago where they kid asked about
playing for the Bears, and he replied with, oh, there's
a team that plays the Bears. Ah by my seasons,
he's coming, he's coming, he's going, And then he has
(14:09):
a gum and he can say what for emotional trauma
and stuff? Can I get damages?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's punitive damages that you're giving me. Yes, yes, mister, yes,
mister Rosenberg. Yes, I'm sorry. It's punitive damage. Can I
Can I sue them? I would sue everybody some beauty.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Of damages that you're giving me. There's a callback right there,
how about that?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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I thought we were trying to figure out after the
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I'll watch that tomorrow in between my naps. We're all
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You have any I'm in you know any people she's
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Oh okay, they're gonna kill people, will be asleep. They're
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like it's gonna be other films and it's gonna be
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Speaker 3 (17:15):
Anybody in the studios is gonna drop people? You mean
like in the TV show The Studio Seth Rogan. Yeah,
oh that's a pretty good show. That would be. That'd
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Five minutes later, Mike, I may know a guy that
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(17:52):
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I know what happens with them.
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I know you give them a little bit, you get
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Out cookies, I give you an inch and you take
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Speaker 2 (18:09):
Selfish bastard.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Wait wait what was he saying about Genie? Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Nothing, No, that's why I don't stop. We stop.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We can't just say that and then tell me to
stop we can say anything we want to and stop
at any time.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
No, we're moving on. We're moving on. We're moving on.
We're moving on.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Moving because I'm moving on. So the Bad News Bears
movie came to life tonight, and you know, in a way,
in a shocking way.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And I you know, seeing this, watching it when it happened,
thinking about it after, it's absolutely insane. Now, how did
the Bad News Bears come to life? Well, you remember
the final get sorry spoiler alert, the final game against
the Yankees when Kelly Lee comes up with the bases
loaded in the last inning and they're losing by four runs, right,
and their intent to intentionally walk him, and and and
(18:56):
Walter Matthew yells, what are you doing, Turner, You're putting
a pit intentional winning run at first base, and Vic
Morrow says, eh, whatever, go clean somebody's pool. And Matthew
looks up to Kelly Leak and you know, so they
start intentionally walking him, and Kelly Leek gets really mad
and he looks over and he looks over and Walter
Matthew looks out to the outfield and he gives him
(19:16):
a swing. Hit it, right. So the intentional walk is coming.
Kelly Leak swings at a pitch far out strike zone,
clocks all the way to right center field, all the
runs score. Of course, he gets thrown out at the plate.
The Bears lose, but they really win the battle because
all they became a team.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And they were.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
But the swing at the intentional walk is you know,
I mean, that's a play apart from a movie that
we've never seen that before. Like it's it's an amazing
bit of movie in baseball folklore, swinging a pitch on
the intentional walk.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, now we don't have to throw it far enough
outside right, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And now we don't have that anymore in Major League
baseball because the intentional walk is now just you just
go down to first.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
By the way, that sucks. It's one of the many
rule changes that people go, oh, it's great, it shaves
off the side.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
No, so take him throw it tonight, Game one of
the Women's College World Series, and it's Texas and Texas Tech, right.
Nija Kennedy, who was the first million dollar nil player,
you know, in softball history, and she's a tremendous pitcher,
and boy, you know, here's how much I love her
as a picture is that I look at it as
(20:20):
a batter, and you know, playing baseball my whole life,
that ease every strikeout, she screams at the batter after
she strikes out, and then she has a big miningchial
slammer face mask down. Like I say to myself, man,
she would be so in my head because all I
would think of is I get a base hit or I.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hit a home run.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I am screaming in her face after I hit this ball,
and then she gets you obviously out of out of
your mind what you're doing, because that's a big strategy part.
Like she does it all the time well.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
And she's also been dominant enough to where the Greg
Maddox effect comes into play. It's like if it's there, no,
I mean, she doesn't miss, so she's going to get
the strike call because we saw it bats as you
and I were watching going that's nother one nearest right now.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And she's thrown every pitch of every inning coming into
tonight for Texas Tech. Right she's the big rock Star
College of college softball. Texas Tech is winning one nothing
in Game one in the in the sixth inning and
and bottom of the six for Texas they've been having
trouble with her. I think she only give up one
or two hits in the game. And but then bottom
(21:21):
of the six, Texas gets a little blooper, gets an
infield hit and a steal a second base. So now
there's runners at second and third and two out with
Texas tech up one nothing right, so what are they
going to do here? Well, Reesatwood is coming up for Texas,
and the strategy is we're going to intentionally walk her,
(21:44):
and so we have the basis load. So you have
a force at any base, right, you want to be
able to have that because any the runners at second
any way, you want to force any.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Base easier to get out of the inning.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So I'm watching this and they're intentionally what And the
first pitch comes in and it's like a high pitch
in the strike zone, but it's really high, and I go,
ooh was that a oh? They are intentionally walking here?
And I said when that first pitch came in, and
I said, boy, that was a little too close for
an intentional walk. Okay, little too close for comfort for
me for that, but okay, But they start throwing the
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pitches and then maybe the ghost of Morris Buttermaker caught
rees Atwood's eye and he gave her a little hey,
hit it if you can. Here's the pitch, supposed to
be an intentional walk, and instead it turns into this series.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
World Series. ESPN.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Beth Mowens on the call, Resat would decides to swing
because this is kind of it's it's not a dominant fastball.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It's one of those fastballs up high in the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Rather that's up high, and maybe she's throwing a rise
ball like a like a like a set And I'm
just guessing here being a coach, I'm just guessing maybe
it's like a seventy five percent rise ball, which is
what she's throwing. And there's different kinds of fastballs, right
you hear the two team, the two seam in the
fourcing fastball in Major League baseball, there's a regular fastball
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in college softball. And then there's the rise ball, which,
with its certain grip you throw it and it's a
fastball that just rises through the strike zone. So maybe
that's what she was throwing, because you know, she wanted
to throw a ball and not going to throw it
at one hundred percent. Obviously you don't want to throw
a wild pitch and resat Would liked it and knocks
it through the left side for a base hit, brings
in two runs. Texas tech up two to one. They
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win it two to one because of the intentional walk.
That the pitches were way too far over the plate.
And I'm surprised that nobody said anything or sought or
anything else, because look, these games are coached down to
the down to the most minute bit of minutia, and like, hey,
wait a minute, Like I don't know how you don't
shout out, hey, a little bit more outside. Right, You're
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you're throwing the ball over the plate. It's high, but
it's over the plate. You don't want to do that
because you're not throwing a pitch that that that you're
trying to get somebody out on. It's a dangerous gamble
to take for Atwood because if you ground out, you
know the inning's over instead of bases loaded with two
outs and a chance. You've gotten cocky and knocked yourself
out of the inning. But you know that the team
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wasn't ready in the field because they were watching an
intentional walk. But boy, I mean from the beginning, I'm
watching these pitches and I'm saying you could take a
swing at one of these. Like the first thing I thought, wow,
is she like me? My question was is that an
intentional walk? The catcher's getting out of her crouch a
little bit. And after the first two pitches I said, okay, well,
obviously intentional walk. You're not gonna do that more than okay,
it is an intentional walk. And then but clearly this
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was something. This is this is over the plate three.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
To zero, swinging on the pitch. To her credit, I'm
a college pitch trub and junior. Now I should be
able to do that. When asked about completing the intentional walk. Now,
for Atwood, she was for ten in the World Series
to that point, and it had been lost at the play.
That's all the post as they talk about the sequencing
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of events to decided to take matters into her own
hand usually three and oh you're not swinging, which means
maybe thought she could get back into the count at
three to one and sneak one buyer, and instead Atwood
was waiting for it.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, and the thing is is like at this point
the catcher is standing up and here's and again it's
a bad pitch, right and Tarren Kennedy owned it, and
she said, listen, I gotta do a better job of
that than you do, because it really again the entire
at bat, I thought she could swing at these pitches,
you know, and let's just say she swings through it. Okay,
well it's three and one. Are you still gonna pitch too?
You're gonna try to walk her? What are you gonna
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you know, you're still gonna try to walk her. You
get a free swing at something I can that's my
best chance to collaborate pitches when she's just trying to
throw the ball off the strike zone. But I guarantee
you reesat would be you know, because all these players,
they're all high D one players, are all big commits.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
They know.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
After that first pitch, it was, oh, hey, she's throwing
us off. If I get something I like at two
and oh or three and O, I'm gonna take a swing.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
But for the intentional walk purposes, maybe thinking I've been
able to nibble and my strike zone has gotten bigger
as this game goes on, then maybe you do get
a high strike right, so if it's near enough to
the zone, it's the intentional unintentional walk kind of thing.
Maybe I get an early strike call and the strategy
completely changes.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Again.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
She's zero for ten for the series, and maybe you
get her to swing through and it's three to one
and you can battle back because you know you have
your rise ball, yet you have everything at your arsenal
and you've been so dominant. What's that their first loss
in months?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, I mean you go, you go back like it
sometime in February, February or something like that. Yeah, I
mean this, this, this Women's College World Series has been
you know, every year we see new stars that come
in and and and it's great stories. But there has
not been a more fun, more newsworthy, more hey a
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sport cutting through than this year with the Women's College
World too. Is going back to Oklahoma Ella Parker's home
run and you look, it's all on in the middle
of the day and people are watching this all kinds
of drama.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Look.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I saw the drama tonight when Texas Tech was able
to score a run because their player got thrown out
stealing and they ruled that the shortstop was obstructing.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'm like, how is that obstructed? She slid into the base,
How is that obstruction? I mean I get that.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You know, yeah, you're trying, you're looking for something, but
she's able to slide right into the base.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I don't know how you call obstruction, but that rule in.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
The last week, go back to the Oregon game in
the College World Series. On the baseball side of things,
obstruction is just being thrown out there. It's got to
like the coaches challenge. I really don't know that we're
going to get it, but we can use it out.
You never know, so let's do it. Sad thing here,
it's like I go back and look at it. Maybe
you get a call, maybe you don't. Because there were
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a couple of other times when they went to video review.
I think the umpire got about thirty five minutes of
screen time. That's got to be worth extra points on
your sad card or something. I don't know, but for
both sides, it's been a pretty exciting, you know, end
of spring, early summer kind of situation as we get
ready to trump at the end of the NBA and
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NHL seasons, that we're getting this kind of level play
at the collegiate level while continuing to complain about playoffs
in the other revenue sports.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
What do you got Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
So I read this whole bad News Bearers thing the
wrong way here, Okay, I totally thought you were going
with like Brandon Nemo playing that fly ball last night.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Loopis yeah, ye lupus, loopas, Yeah to Lupas. You're a
good kid. Wipe your nose a little.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Bit, the highlight ready and everything.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
God, what do you got? No, let's hear it. We
can hear.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
The other way back those demo still back, still back,
This is over pretty.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
No mention of Nemo being a dummy.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, well he was, no, Carmen under it done a
hard hit ball, right, uh you No, he didn't know,
he didn't. It was a flyout to left center field,
to the warning trial.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No it was.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It was a fly It landed on the ground. It
didn't hit the wall. It landed on the ground. That
should have been a flyout. It should it's a flyout.
And Brandon it's a twister. It's a twister and him
and m yeah that's what he did last night, and
your little dog too.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I melt and you were there, and you were there?
What it is?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
That the worst scarecrow, the worst ending ever though, Yeah,
you're melting.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Come on, Okay, well what you should never got wet.
It's not as a kid.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They didn't make that accident as a child to where
bad things happened.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's nineteen thirty nine. He wanted to fall in a
hall of bullets.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Come on, the kids are gonna run screaming from the
It was in the newsreels for everything going on in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
They had mobsters everywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
My friend, Hey, wicked Witch of the West, guess what
you're going south?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Jesus, it's somebody starts spoiler alert with a house falling
on somebody.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So I mean, you know, you have to ever tied
on the ground like Joel and the Last of Us
and Dorothy breaks off a golf club and just comes
over to d.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Is that what you wanted?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Tell me?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You want to know.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I went and watch Final Destination last week, so I
got a lot of possible endings.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh boy, Uh, out of frosts it's a swollen dumb
and then the ten men, the Cowardly Line go looking
for revenge. Oh boy, where's Abby? Where's Abby? Where's Abby?
Where's Abby?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from Monci Belagos who has a big
update from Dodger Stadium. Monci, I want you to I
understand this is gonna be very difficult, but my internet
is out and my TV is out.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
What just happened in the in the eighth inning, Well.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Let me tell you that Pete Alonso has hit his
second homer of the game, the longest by a Met
this season, four hundred and forty seven feet. Even Freddie
Freeman stared at it in awe from first base.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
He is now up to fifty three rbi on this season.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Peet Alonzo rap behind Raphael Devers, who leads with fifty
four RBI. And the Mets are shutting out the Dodgers
six zero bottom of the eighth inning. But show hay
Otani just got on first base. So here comes a comeback. Okay,
get ready in that first step.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And it is the Mets bullpen, which has actually been
statistically what top or top three?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
But any that's right, anything can happen. The Twins just
outscored the A's six to one. The A's have lost.
I thought it was seven in a row. They've already
been eight in a row, so now it's a nine
in a row that they've lost. For the A's, The
Giants had a six to five comeback win over the Padres.
The Tigers held on five to four against the White
(32:17):
Song cm.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Orioles have won five in a row.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
They topped the Mariners in Seattle three to two, while
the Diamondbacks edged the Braves two to one. The Nationals
blank the Cubs two zero, and the Pirates shut out
the Astros three zero, while the Guardians took down the
Yankees in the Bronx four zero was the final score
in that one. Yes, you guys were just talking about
that College World Series game for the Women's College World Series.
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You can she when they were walking that girl. She
could have just stepped to the side right like the
catcher and made it like a very obvious walk. Yeah, okay,
that was legal.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
I was wondering. I was like, why is she standing there?
Speaker 7 (32:53):
All of these pitches are hit a ble yea every
single so I was very confused as you.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Start behind the plate and then when the ball was
thrown right, so.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
That's still legal.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
I just thought something changed because I was like, why
does it look like you're trying to walk her, but
you're pitching her like easy?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, no matter what you can't throw it right over
the plate. You know you can't, but she did.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
Yeah, but she did, so I was confused, but yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
So two to one was the final score with Texas
beating Texas Tech at the Stanley Cup Final Game one.
Leon Drycidle scored sixty six seconds into the game for
Edmonton and then he hit the game winner in overtime
as the Oilers came back to defeat the Panthers four
to three Game two of the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
We'll be on a Friday.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
And in case you missed it, those Phoenix Suns have
found their new head coach. It is Cleveland Cavaliers assistant
Jordan Ott. And lastly, here at the French Open on
the women's side, Coco Goff defeated fellow American Madison Keys.
So Coco Goff is headed to the semi finals. At
the French Open. On the men's side, Novak Djokovic is
headed to the semis to face number one seed Yanick Sinner.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch, mon Yes, Jason
Smith Mike Moroman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Hey, how did that, Monsie?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Again?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
My TV is not working? Tani got a single. How
did the eighth inning end for the Dodgers?
Speaker 8 (34:07):
It did it ended? Let's just say it okay? And
and the score is still what if if I'm six zero?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Still okay? Very just want to make sure you want
to make okay. It'll sound classier if you say nil nil.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
I don't want to sound class in this situation.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yes, Mills six in l A thank you? Coming up next,
how about we do this, Mike and I give you
our official picks for the NBA Finals. Who's coming home
with the Larry O'Brien try for you? More importantly, how
many games are gonna take? That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Larry O'Brien Trophy. My mouth got ahead
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of me there.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I'm pretty sure Jason had the knicks in the finals.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Nick Show, just score the Dodger game, Frostburg, Can I
get take us a break?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays. It's at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (35:03):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Man, we have made it to NBA Finals, Eve,
We made it after last weekend.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Next Thunder, right, yeah, Nick, Thunder ready for game one?
I am ready. I'm simulating that on video games? How
are we plowing this off? I'll get even when I'll
get you with the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I'll go play NBA twenty five and play the Knicks
against the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
See who wins that one. I'll show you a.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Lesson getting put in a giant green screen here and
put those tracking nodes on us so that they can
animate us or what?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yes, you look like yeah, like, you look like you're
a dolphin that they're you know, dead, tagging stuff with
before they let it go back out to sun.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, let's go. Look, I'm gonna be nice, all right.
And you think I'm not gonna be nice, he's Oh, Jason,
you just hate the Pacers. Yes, I do, but it
doesn't mean I'm not going to pick what I think.
And I'm gonna be nice, and I'm gonna say the
Pacers get a game in the NBA Finals. But if
this isn't the Thunder in five, I'll be stunned. I'll
(36:09):
be the first guy to say I'm wrong. But this
Thunder team is completely unlike anything the Pacers have seen.
First of all, most importantly, they play much better team
defense than the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Two right, the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
They watch this series where the Knicks couldn't keep up
with open players that don't normally have big offensive games,
and they're wide open for threes. That's not gonna happen.
Tyres Halliburton is not gonna be able to dribble through
the defense like he did against six. He was like
dipsy doodling his way all the way through. He would
go in and the old dipsy doodle, get into the
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get into the paint, and then come back out and
then go back to paint. He's not doing that against
the Thunder. The Thunder are too good. The Thunder is
such a good team, and they're so solid defensively. Again,
they're a perfectly constructed team. They have a superstar, they
have two ascending star players, they have all they have
an all NBA defense, They have three role players that
are important as any role players in the game, on
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Hartenstein and and in Caruso. This is gonna be a
walk for the Thunder. It's gonna be a walk because
the Pacers aren't gonna know what hits them, and it's
gonna they're gonna suddenly go, oh, wait a minute, we're
suddenly struggling to get these open shots that we had
the entire Eastern Conference Finals, right, because that's what they had.
And the couple of games where the Knicks decided we
(37:26):
had to turn it up defensively Game five, when all
they did was, hey, Brunson was a little more active
out on you know out in front. The Pacers couldn't score.
They couldn't hit those threes out there. You ninety eight points,
It's what And that was just with Brunson moving more
than he normally does. You had a really bad defensive
team in the Knicks, and still a couple of games
they shut them down. This is gonna be that on
(37:47):
steroids in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't see.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I wish I could see away because I would say it.
I would say, hey, you want the team to beat you,
to go win it all?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay, no, Jays, you just hate the Pacers. Yes, but
it doesn't matter. I'm still gonna tell you what I think. Again,
if they get more than a game, if they win
two games, that's a successful NBA Finals for the Indiana Paceer.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Now do is tyrese hurt Haliburton.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Is he able to take the snub of the Eastern
Conference Finals MVP award and the shame of starting to
walk to try to accept it? Is that kind of
like being called overrated by those thirteen or fourteen guys
that voted for him?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Can he use that as fuel at this point? Use
whatever you need, whatever you need to do you need.
It's gonna be that difficult for you, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
So looking at the odds, a thunder sweep is three
to one, A four to one finish is two ten,
And then you can get into betting props of the
order in which they go down four one wow?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Two one two is one? Okay? One one three? Is
it a three to one one?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Like, you get different odds based on how you want
it to finish.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Wow, that's pretty cool. I like that, I would say,
because that puts a degree of difficulty on it.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, So what do you think seven to one for
the two to one two? Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
See, that's the one that seems more likely because if
if they because I don't see the Pacers getting any
games in either Game one or Game two unless they're
suddenly Hey Scott Foster and Tony Brothers and there and
boy SGA has not been to the free throw line
at all. Tonight usually gets there twenty twenty five times
in a game, unless that happens if they get up threes,
if they're not gonna lose game four, right, So I'm
(39:24):
saying it's gonna go two, one, two two. They get
one in in in Indiana as as the thunder get you. Okay,
here's the backs, and then the Thunder win the last two.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
So I'll say two, one two, okay, So that's seven
to one, and then you go one to one three,
it's thirteen to one.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
That makes you more money.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
But again, I can't see I can't see the Pacers
any one of the first Just having.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Some fun fun with math and numbers along the way.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Fun with math and numbers. Take the Mike Harmon after
school class. Want more math? Haven't had enough school? From
eight to three, Mike Harmon does a fun with numbers
class and there's nobody signed up.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
You could be the first person in that.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
There may be a pot of goals at the end
of the rainbow. I say that I remember the teacher
like they tried to do that. Have like hey, if
you want more academic choices, like in elementary school, in
middle school. I'm like, wait, I just went to school
for seven hours.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I want to go out and play. I want to
play baseball. I don't want I don't want to go
to school anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yeah, I mean I did some math with baseball statistics,
football statistics for folks.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That worked a little bit.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Did Bible study where I had to relay it back
to nine O two one oh to make it make
sense for the kids.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
What. Uh, I'm sorry, I'm old? What what? What Bible
verse was it?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Where? Where?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Where Esau yells out? How Donna Martin graduates? Which one
is that? Give me enough time, I'll find the right. Like, No,
that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
He's in the Bible, right, he's okay, very good.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Yeah, I've got thunder four two. No, he just left
NYPD blew in my my rewatch. But I'll see him
in this weekend at the theater in Michigan. You will
see him, miss, you will see him Gabe.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
You'll see him as Gabriel exit out bout to Fresca
hexit swalling. Do more on the NBA Finals. Another big
NBA story next this is Fox,
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon, coming up in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Whe whether you saw it tonight or not. Unbelievable moment where.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Bad News Bears movie came to life in a large way.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's funny because we drove past Bad News Bears field.
We did, We did, you and I We did do
that much. We did. But old stomping grounds over there. Uh.
Thanks to Jason Cole who joined us.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Last hour of the show, we talked about Saquon Barkley
and the potential comment said he could retire.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, booty boat at some point.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah we had Booty Bow too, But real quick about
Barkley before we get into and Aaron Rodgers conversation that
nobody has had yet. Okay, just all right, because because
this this now is going to make you look at
Roger and the Steelers from a different perspective. Barkley said
that his retirement could come out of nowhere. Okay, he's
got two years and and and forty one million dollars
(01:23):
coming Okay, so he's not retiring in the next two years. Okay,
So retiring coming out of nowhere. If you retire when
you're and you're a running back, in you're thirty one
or thirty two, I don't think that's coming well, but
it would be if you're still performing at a high level. Right,
Like he gets hurt and misses time, so where it's like,
all right, you know, I miss six games and kind
(01:44):
of limp to the literally and figuratively to.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
The end of a season. The Eagles get bounced from
the playoffs early, all.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Of those things. Then well that's the natural progression of
a runner.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
But still, but still, you'd say he's still at eighty
percent better then yeah, X number of running backs.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And here's the thing, let's just say two years from now, right,
he's still playing really well, and he's thirty years old,
he's playing really well, you know, thirty thirty one and
the Eagles say, hey, how about you know, let's do
two more years and twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He's gonna retire. Come on, think about it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You're gonna retire the last time you're ever gonna get
paid like this in your life. You're gonna who walks away.
Nobody walks away from money. Nobody, Nobody walks away from money,
especially in the NFL where your career is so short.
You like Jimmy Fallon's were almost famous. You gotta grab
what you can when you can while you can. Because
you think mister Mick Jagger be busy being a rock
star when he is fifty years old, you are sadly,
(02:40):
sadly mistaken.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I went and saw him three times after he turned eighty,
so and he's still getting my money.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So I mean, just think, do you really think if Barkley, Look,
if he's not playing well, of course he's not gonna
be played, but his retirement's not gonna if he's playing
well in two years, and hey, here's two more. Because
we saw Derek Henry got a nice deal right being
over thirty. Uh, yeah, he will get paid, he will
get picked and he's not gonna walk away at that point,
so it's not gonna be a shock when he retires.
(03:07):
Now you're in a space in a team that has
always valued and evaluated offensive lineman brilliantly.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It's been the old uh as an analogy I've used
for years because I mean, we'll get to Shark week
soon enough. It's the anniversary of Jaws, all those things. Right,
what happens they take a bite and the next tooth
pops into place and need to get the bite again.
That that's been the offensive line for the Eagles for
a long time. Yeah, oh wow, they're gonna lose this guy,
(03:35):
Jason Kelsey's retiring.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Who cares? Next guy is? He's great? He was great.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I take nothing. He's probably a Hall of Famer. But
all of that to say, they've got the infrastructure and
the evaluation process down to where, all right, they give
up a bit but not a ton, which means Barkley's
still gonna be running behind a bunch of top notch players.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Jim Johnson, you're still playing, yea, all right, I'll still
play then, Okay, I'm good, I'll play.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
But the average five zo point eight yards for per
carry a year ago double digit touchdowns for the third
time in his career. He's had seventy two hundred career yards.
You start talking about Hall of Fame, legacy, history, all
those things. If he has two years that are reminiscent
of what he did in twenty twenty two with the Giants,
where you're at thirteen, one hundred and ten touchdowns, how
(04:21):
do you walk away from that? It's not I think
it would be interesting as hell. The only guy he's
still in sports that I say is that wild guard
is Nikola Jokic. That guy I think legitimately could walk away. Hell,
he might decide after this offseason he ain't coming back.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I've decided to stay here. But we really know I'm staying.
Oh here's a catch of me and my horse. All right, great,
see talk to you guys. So yeah, I really it's
not going to be out of nowhere, and it's not
going to be if he's playing well. Now, this conversation
about Aaron Rodgers, this, I guarantee you is a conversation
you have not heard so far about him, and it
tells me why he ain't going to the Steelers next
(04:57):
week when they finally hit their mandatory practice, says, right,
the entire offseason, it's been Hey, there's been an understanding
that Rogers and the Steelers are gonna get together.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's been throwing with DK Metcalf a little bit, but
he said he didn't want to make a commitment to
a team right now as a friend going through or
going through a cancer. And you know, I'm dealing with
this right now, and I understand all of this, and
and I know that generally the perception has been, well,
if he's not there by the by the by the
mandatory offseason uh mini camp, then then he's not going
(05:29):
to be there. But I'll tell you why he's not
going to be there, and he's not going to play
for the Steelers. Just think about this for a second. Okay,
So you're saying he's not gonna play for him saying
that's it. I'm saying he's not. No, he's gonna wait
and see if another position where he wants to play
opens up, and maybe that's where he goes. But it's
not going to be Pittsburgh. And I'll tell and I'll
tell you why, and you'll say, oh my god, that
completely makes sense. Right, He's gonna sign with the Hyahuascas.
(05:50):
If it's been he's already signed there, he's signed. He's
got to wait and off shoot at the Bananas. He's
in the middle of a big contract with them already.
It's between them and the party animals. Mike, he can okay,
he can do. Let's just say, for instance, let's just say,
for argument's sake, that you believe everything. And he's gonna
show up with the Steelers when he feels like he's
taking his time in the off season. He's doing all
(06:12):
of these things right. He knows that he's making the
Steelers a little nervous, and he's making them upset. And
there's players who are gonna say you're right, or already
saying you're either with us or you're not. If you're
our future leader, you want to walk in there and
be put in a position to succeed. You don't want
to walk in there having pissed off players, not being
(06:33):
there for OTA's, not being there for any other activities.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But but Aaron Rodgers, he's got some time. Okay, Yeah,
I get it, I get it. But you don't want
to walk in there being really pissed. And if you're
really gonna go, but you need some time. You need
some time. I can need some time. I can't commit
right now. If he was gonna be a Steeler, we
said this in the offseason. He's had plenty of time
to make that decision. If he wanted to be a Steeler,
he would be there, okay, But he's not. But all
(06:59):
way want it's wa He wants to wait it out
and draw it out. Knowing what I just said is
the truth. You don't want to upset your team. You
want to make sure people know you're in there. Wouldn't
you have agreed to sign and you would tell the Steelers, hey,
I'm going through this, but I'll see you for the
mandatory mini camp. Wouldn't you have done that if you're
Aaron Rodgers, right, so you put all this to bed
(07:21):
and and you know everybody Okay, the Steelers, Hey he's here.
I want to be here. I'm happy, I'm a Steeler.
I'm ready. I have things going on in my life.
I will be there for the mandatory mini camp. Don't worry.
I will be there. That happens, and that would have
happened by now. So suddenly he's gonna sign and just
show up next week when when they're ready for the
final minute, it's not gonna happen. Right If if he
(07:42):
was gonna be there, the nuts and bolts would have
been taken care of, and it would have been about
showing up when I promised to be there. He would
have a contract, he would and that would tamp down
all the nervousness with the Steelers and their fans and
Steelers Nation and their team and the teammates who were
getting a little restless with him saying hey, are you
coming here or not? And then more practices that go
on where he's not there and Mason Rudolph gets reps
(08:04):
and Will Howard gets reps. If you really were gonna
go and and you needed time, the x's and o's
would have been dotted by now. You would have had
that contract and you would have said, Hey, Omar Khn,
Mike Tomlin, here's the thing, I got this stuff going on.
I'm thrown with DK. Get me the playbook right and
get me everything you need.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll be looking at it, but I'll be there for
mandatory mini camp. Okay, but I that's when I'm coming, okay.
And then there's no story. There's no contrast, everything is
taken care of. You do that if you want to
play there. The fact that we're still sitting here. He
has no contract, he has no show update, he's got
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
He's gonna go there.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Really, I mean, I'll be the most stun guy in there,
and I'll say I was wrong, you know, I mean,
I'll say I was wrong. But if he, if he
would really wanted to be there, that stuff would have
been taken care of by now.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah, this is fun on a number of levels because,
first off, with Rogers not in the fold, I don't
think the Steelers thought they were gonna spend any of
their off season doing pr control and damage control and spinning.
As related to the quarterbacks currently on their roster. Believe
what you will and decide where you lie. Mason Rudolph
(09:12):
and they had to put out statements because he appeared
at a Trump rally, so they were upset. People were
upset about that, and He's like, like, the opinions of
one Mason Rudolph and the players here do not necessarily
reflect that of the organization.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But the fact that you've got to acknowledge that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Just find it funny that you're waiting on Aaron Rodgers,
who we've had teams had to do that for before anyway,
Also to say we're invoking the name of Aaron Rodgers,
which means there's always wild cards in the mix. Going
back to threatening to retire years ago as a member
of the Packers, go through all the podcasts, what's he
going to say next?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Nobody likes hearing about himself.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
More than Aaron Rodge than perhaps Lebron James, Like those
are the only two guys I think that really like
to have people talk about them at that level.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Right, So the fact that nothing, but he'll still be
talking about it, I mean still be talking about it. Oh,
where's he gonna go? Because it's not like when he
was when he was gonna when he wound up going
to the Jets. Where's Oh, it could be the Jets,
it could be this team, it could be there, like
it's either the Steelers or nowhere right now, like it's
the Steelers are nowhere.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, that's just it.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Right, He's got the tenth is their beginning of their
mandatory mini camp. And at this point I wouldn't be
surprised if he just took a backpack and he did
start to walk the earth in search of the greatest
ayahuasca that he could find or whatever natural wonders of
the world.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Wouldn't shock me at all.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It also wouldn't surprise me if that's six o'clock in
the morning, you know, he's trying to use a badge
that hasn't been activated yet to get into the facilities
for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Like, that's how.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Big a wildcard Aaron Rodgers is at this point in
his career in terms of what he wants to do.
And I do agree with you. I mean, part of
it is the wait and see what kind of chaos ensues.
Will the Steelers have to break glass in case of
the emergency We've been talking about the John news Smith
on again off again trade rumors, the Kirk Cousins thing
we banned about six eight weeks ago of well what if. Well,
(11:04):
we're still at the what if possibility there because you
can't tell me that come the second week of September,
that guy's still on the Atlanta Falcons roster.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah right, I mean so.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
And then the rash of injuries, inconsistencies and fears that
material lies over the next eight to ten weeks are
really a lesson in steadfastness and the craziness that occurs
in front offices in the NFL now and.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Also, you know, to play into the Barkley thing, where
you know, Jason Coles said, look, I could see Barkley retiring.
He's a bit of a different dude. Aaron Rodgers is
the original different Yeah. Right, And again, if he wanted
to be a Steeler, he'd be there right, if he
was gonna go, he'd have a contract, he'd have an
agreement and I'll tell you when I'm showing up, and
that would put it all the rest because he wants
to succeed on the football field. But Rogers is one
(11:55):
of those guys where Okay, the Steelers may not, you know,
clearly aren't the number one destination for me, whether he's
holding out for Minnesota or somewhere else. And Rogers easily
could be one of those guys we just don't get. Yeah,
the timing's not right for me. I'm gonna wait, and
he's willing to say I'll wait it out this summer
and if a team that want that needs to calls
(12:18):
me that I want to be to be there where
I know I can go right in and pick up
the offense, and I know I can succeed because he
knows where you can see it to succeed and where
he can't. Yeah, that's where I'm gonna go. And if not,
I'm okay, I'm okay being done.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Are you telling me they have at least open the
door to where the Fred Rogers Heritage and and Foundation
hasn't reached out. Here's a sweater and some shoes. Come
make it mister Rogers neighborhood again, please right? Fred Rogers
was a yinsur high neighbor. I'm Aaron Rodgers. Today's word
of the day is ayahuasca. A y You know what,
(12:52):
don't worry about spelling it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Just drink it. Brought to you. He just pulls like
the t bag out of his the pocket on the cart. Again.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Wow, that's a whole other show. I mean I can
see him just say. Yeah, I'm willing to roll the
dice and if the opening is not out there for me,
I won't play because he would go out on the
highest possible note he could, because look, he's still finish
in the top ten with touchdowns and yardage last year.
That's how it goes. You know, Quarterbacks get hurt during
the season. Maybe he's thinking, you know what, yeah, I
(13:27):
got more rest, and if somebody gets hurt, if the
Niners lose brock Purty or if JJ McCarthy stinks, Rogers
is always good for four, I can show I should
show up for a hanfla like it wouldn't surprise me.
If that's as far as he would go, as well
to say I'm gonna wait, No, I'm good, I'm ready.
I'm working out because I know somebody is gonna call
me during the season. If Josh Allen gets hurt, somebody's
(13:49):
gonna call me.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
How many season ticket holders, like people that bought the
last two or three months for the Steelers would form
a class action lawsuit based on that appearance He did
a couple of weeks ago where they kid asked about
playing for the Bears, and he replied with, oh, there's
a team that plays the Bears. Ah by my seasons,
he's coming, he's coming, he's going, And then he has
(14:09):
a gum and he can say what for emotional trauma
and stuff? Can I get damages?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's punitive damages that you're giving me. Yes, yes, mister, yes,
mister Rosenberg. Yes, I'm sorry. It's punitive damage. Can I
Can I sue them? I would sue everybody some beauty.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Of damages that you're giving me. There's a callback right there,
how about that?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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Speaker 3 (14:36):
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all going to see Ballerina.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Now we're going.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I thought we were trying to figure out after the
show we're gonna go see because we went to see
John Wick four last year. Harmon fell asleep midway through.
I'll watch that tomorrow in between my naps. We're all
I'm ready, We're all gonna go after the show, right,
we'll go see how justin to go go see Balfo.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Hey you went to see John Wick four? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I never said I was going, Oh you're not going?
Oh okay, all right, then I'll buy tickey that. Oh okay,
Oh go to or do you want to go Friday night?
Friday Night after we do Friday Night too, tomorrow or Friday,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Ballerinio.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You have any I'm in you know any people she's
gonna kill in this movie, like thousands.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Come on, they got the Elton Joe yeah three using
that like it's gonna be amazing me. Great. Yeah, I
bought an umpire clicker for this one.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Oh okay, they're gonna kill people, will be asleep. They're
gonna kill people in the previews in this in this
like it's gonna be other films and it's gonna be
spliced in with her.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Anybody in the studios is gonna drop people? You mean
like in the TV show The Studio Seth Rogan. Yeah,
oh that's a pretty good show. That would be. That'd
be a good crossover be a big crossover. See that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna buy the biggest damn cup of coffee
they'll sell me, and I'll be ready to go.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You'll still fall, You'll still.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yes, you beat me to it, Frotzburg, you will still
fall asleep. You'll you'll be one of those guys. Hey,
I've got to drink this. Yeah, I'll be up all night.
Five minutes later, Mike, I may know a guy that
is in connections with the Lakers owner that can get
you some stuff. Oh okay, okay, okay, let's just stop
right there, stop right there. We have to stop right there,
(17:52):
stop right there, stop right there, stop right there.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Stop coffee.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, no, I know, I know, but I'm gonna stop
it before because I know what Tysher does.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I know what happens with them.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I know you give them a little bit, you get
like like my like my second grade teacher, missus Gross
used to always say, if you give him.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Out cookies, I give you an inch and you take
a foot.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Selfish bastard.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Wait wait what was he saying about Genie? Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Nothing, No, that's why I don't stop. We stop.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We can't just say that and then tell me to
stop we can say anything we want to and stop
at any time.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
No, we're moving on. We're moving on. We're moving on.
We're moving on.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Moving because I'm moving on. So the Bad News Bears
movie came to life tonight, and you know, in a way,
in a shocking way.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And I you know, seeing this, watching it when it happened,
thinking about it after, it's absolutely insane. Now, how did
the Bad News Bears come to life? Well, you remember
the final get sorry spoiler alert, the final game against
the Yankees when Kelly Lee comes up with the bases
loaded in the last inning and they're losing by four runs, right,
and their intent to intentionally walk him, and and and
(18:56):
Walter Matthew yells, what are you doing, Turner, You're putting
a pit intentional winning run at first base, and Vic
Morrow says, eh, whatever, go clean somebody's pool. And Matthew
looks up to Kelly Leak and you know, so they
start intentionally walking him, and Kelly Leek gets really mad
and he looks over and he looks over and Walter
Matthew looks out to the outfield and he gives him
(19:16):
a swing. Hit it, right. So the intentional walk is coming.
Kelly Leak swings at a pitch far out strike zone,
clocks all the way to right center field, all the
runs score. Of course, he gets thrown out at the plate.
The Bears lose, but they really win the battle because
all they became a team.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And they were.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
But the swing at the intentional walk is you know,
I mean, that's a play apart from a movie that
we've never seen that before. Like it's it's an amazing
bit of movie in baseball folklore, swinging a pitch on
the intentional walk.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, now we don't have to throw it far enough
outside right, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And now we don't have that anymore in Major League
baseball because the intentional walk is now just you just
go down to first.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
By the way, that sucks. It's one of the many
rule changes that people go, oh, it's great, it shaves
off the side.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
No, so take him throw it tonight, Game one of
the Women's College World Series, and it's Texas and Texas Tech, right.
Nija Kennedy, who was the first million dollar nil player,
you know, in softball history, and she's a tremendous pitcher,
and boy, you know, here's how much I love her
as a picture is that I look at it as
(20:20):
a batter, and you know, playing baseball my whole life,
that ease every strikeout, she screams at the batter after
she strikes out, and then she has a big miningchial
slammer face mask down. Like I say to myself, man,
she would be so in my head because all I
would think of is I get a base hit or I.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Hit a home run.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I am screaming in her face after I hit this ball,
and then she gets you obviously out of out of
your mind what you're doing, because that's a big strategy part.
Like she does it all the time well.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
And she's also been dominant enough to where the Greg
Maddox effect comes into play. It's like if it's there, no,
I mean, she doesn't miss, so she's going to get
the strike call because we saw it bats as you
and I were watching going that's nother one nearest right now.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And she's thrown every pitch of every inning coming into
tonight for Texas Tech. Right she's the big rock Star
College of college softball. Texas Tech is winning one nothing
in Game one in the in the sixth inning and
and bottom of the six for Texas they've been having
trouble with her. I think she only give up one
or two hits in the game. And but then bottom
(21:21):
of the six, Texas gets a little blooper, gets an
infield hit and a steal a second base. So now
there's runners at second and third and two out with
Texas tech up one nothing right, so what are they
going to do here? Well, Reesatwood is coming up for Texas,
and the strategy is we're going to intentionally walk her,
(21:44):
and so we have the basis load. So you have
a force at any base, right, you want to be
able to have that because any the runners at second
any way, you want to force any.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Base easier to get out of the inning.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So I'm watching this and they're intentionally what And the
first pitch comes in and it's like a high pitch
in the strike zone, but it's really high, and I go,
ooh was that a oh? They are intentionally walking here?
And I said when that first pitch came in, and
I said, boy, that was a little too close for
an intentional walk. Okay, little too close for comfort for
me for that, but okay, But they start throwing the
(22:13):
pitches and then maybe the ghost of Morris Buttermaker caught
rees Atwood's eye and he gave her a little hey,
hit it if you can. Here's the pitch, supposed to
be an intentional walk, and instead it turns into this series.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
World Series. ESPN.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Beth Mowens on the call, Resat would decides to swing
because this is kind of it's it's not a dominant fastball.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It's one of those fastballs up high in the strike zone.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Rather that's up high, and maybe she's throwing a rise
ball like a like a like a set And I'm
just guessing here being a coach, I'm just guessing maybe
it's like a seventy five percent rise ball, which is
what she's throwing. And there's different kinds of fastballs, right
you hear the two team, the two seam in the
fourcing fastball in Major League baseball, there's a regular fastball
(23:19):
in college softball. And then there's the rise ball, which,
with its certain grip you throw it and it's a
fastball that just rises through the strike zone. So maybe
that's what she was throwing, because you know, she wanted
to throw a ball and not going to throw it
at one hundred percent. Obviously you don't want to throw
a wild pitch and resat Would liked it and knocks
it through the left side for a base hit, brings
in two runs. Texas tech up two to one. They
(23:42):
win it two to one because of the intentional walk.
That the pitches were way too far over the plate.
And I'm surprised that nobody said anything or sought or
anything else, because look, these games are coached down to
the down to the most minute bit of minutia, and like, hey,
wait a minute, Like I don't know how you don't
shout out, hey, a little bit more outside. Right, You're
(24:02):
you're throwing the ball over the plate. It's high, but
it's over the plate. You don't want to do that
because you're not throwing a pitch that that that you're
trying to get somebody out on. It's a dangerous gamble
to take for Atwood because if you ground out, you
know the inning's over instead of bases loaded with two
outs and a chance. You've gotten cocky and knocked yourself
out of the inning. But you know that the team
(24:24):
wasn't ready in the field because they were watching an
intentional walk. But boy, I mean from the beginning, I'm
watching these pitches and I'm saying you could take a
swing at one of these. Like the first thing I thought, wow,
is she like me? My question was is that an
intentional walk? The catcher's getting out of her crouch a
little bit. And after the first two pitches I said, okay, well,
obviously intentional walk. You're not gonna do that more than okay,
it is an intentional walk. And then but clearly this
(24:47):
was something. This is this is over the plate three.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
To zero, swinging on the pitch. To her credit, I'm
a college pitch trub and junior. Now I should be
able to do that. When asked about completing the intentional walk. Now,
for Atwood, she was for ten in the World Series
to that point, and it had been lost at the play.
That's all the post as they talk about the sequencing
(25:09):
of events to decided to take matters into her own
hand usually three and oh you're not swinging, which means
maybe thought she could get back into the count at
three to one and sneak one buyer, and instead Atwood
was waiting for it.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, and the thing is is like at this point
the catcher is standing up and here's and again it's
a bad pitch, right and Tarren Kennedy owned it, and
she said, listen, I gotta do a better job of
that than you do, because it really again the entire
at bat, I thought she could swing at these pitches,
you know, and let's just say she swings through it. Okay,
well it's three and one. Are you still gonna pitch too?
You're gonna try to walk her? What are you gonna
(25:44):
you know, you're still gonna try to walk her. You
get a free swing at something I can that's my
best chance to collaborate pitches when she's just trying to
throw the ball off the strike zone. But I guarantee
you reesat would be you know, because all these players,
they're all high D one players, are all big commits.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
They know.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
After that first pitch, it was, oh, hey, she's throwing
us off. If I get something I like at two
and oh or three and O, I'm gonna take a swing.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
But for the intentional walk purposes, maybe thinking I've been
able to nibble and my strike zone has gotten bigger
as this game goes on, then maybe you do get
a high strike right, so if it's near enough to
the zone, it's the intentional unintentional walk kind of thing.
Maybe I get an early strike call and the strategy
completely changes.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Again.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
She's zero for ten for the series, and maybe you
get her to swing through and it's three to one
and you can battle back because you know you have
your rise ball, yet you have everything at your arsenal
and you've been so dominant. What's that their first loss
in months?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, I mean you go, you go back like it
sometime in February, February or something like that. Yeah, I
mean this, this, this Women's College World Series has been
you know, every year we see new stars that come
in and and and it's great stories. But there has
not been a more fun, more newsworthy, more hey a
(27:02):
sport cutting through than this year with the Women's College
World too. Is going back to Oklahoma Ella Parker's home
run and you look, it's all on in the middle
of the day and people are watching this all kinds
of drama.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Look.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I saw the drama tonight when Texas Tech was able
to score a run because their player got thrown out
stealing and they ruled that the shortstop was obstructing.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'm like, how is that obstructed? She slid into the base,
How is that obstruction? I mean I get that.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You know, yeah, you're trying, you're looking for something, but
she's able to slide right into the base.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I don't know how you call obstruction, but that rule in.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
The last week, go back to the Oregon game in
the College World Series. On the baseball side of things,
obstruction is just being thrown out there. It's got to
like the coaches challenge. I really don't know that we're
going to get it, but we can use it out.
You never know, so let's do it. Sad thing here,
it's like I go back and look at it. Maybe
you get a call, maybe you don't. Because there were
(27:52):
a couple of other times when they went to video review.
I think the umpire got about thirty five minutes of
screen time. That's got to be worth extra points on
your sad card or something. I don't know, but for
both sides, it's been a pretty exciting, you know, end
of spring, early summer kind of situation as we get
ready to trump at the end of the NBA and
(28:14):
NHL seasons, that we're getting this kind of level play
at the collegiate level while continuing to complain about playoffs
in the other revenue sports.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
What do you got Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
So I read this whole bad News Bearers thing the
wrong way here, Okay, I totally thought you were going
with like Brandon Nemo playing that fly ball last night.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Loopis yeah, ye lupus, loopas, Yeah to Lupas. You're a
good kid. Wipe your nose a little.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Bit, the highlight ready and everything.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
God, what do you got? No, let's hear it. We
can hear.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
The other way back those demo still back, still back,
This is over pretty.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
No mention of Nemo being a dummy.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, well he was, no, Carmen under it done a
hard hit ball, right, uh you No, he didn't know,
he didn't. It was a flyout to left center field,
to the warning trial.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No it was.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It was a fly It landed on the ground. It
didn't hit the wall. It landed on the ground. That
should have been a flyout. It should it's a flyout.
And Brandon it's a twister. It's a twister and him
and m yeah that's what he did last night, and
your little dog too.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I melt and you were there, and you were there?
What it is?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
That the worst scarecrow, the worst ending ever though, Yeah,
you're melting.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Come on, Okay, well what you should never got wet.
It's not as a kid.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They didn't make that accident as a child to where
bad things happened.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's nineteen thirty nine. He wanted to fall in a
hall of bullets.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Come on, the kids are gonna run screaming from the
It was in the newsreels for everything going on in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
They had mobsters everywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
My friend, Hey, wicked Witch of the West, guess what
you're going south?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Jesus, it's somebody starts spoiler alert with a house falling
on somebody.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So I mean, you know, you have to ever tied
on the ground like Joel and the Last of Us
and Dorothy breaks off a golf club and just comes
over to d.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Is that what you wanted?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Tell me?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You want to know.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I went and watch Final Destination last week, so I
got a lot of possible endings.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh boy, Uh, out of frosts it's a swollen dumb
and then the ten men, the Cowardly Line go looking
for revenge. Oh boy, where's Abby? Where's Abby? Where's Abby?
Where's Abby?
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from Monci Belagos who has a big
update from Dodger Stadium. Monci, I want you to I
understand this is gonna be very difficult, but my internet
is out and my TV is out.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
What just happened in the in the eighth inning, Well.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Let me tell you that Pete Alonso has hit his
second homer of the game, the longest by a Met
this season, four hundred and forty seven feet. Even Freddie
Freeman stared at it in awe from first base.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
He is now up to fifty three rbi on this season.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Peet Alonzo rap behind Raphael Devers, who leads with fifty
four RBI. And the Mets are shutting out the Dodgers
six zero bottom of the eighth inning. But show hay
Otani just got on first base. So here comes a comeback. Okay,
get ready in that first step.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And it is the Mets bullpen, which has actually been
statistically what top or top three?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
But any that's right, anything can happen. The Twins just
outscored the A's six to one. The A's have lost.
I thought it was seven in a row. They've already
been eight in a row, so now it's a nine
in a row that they've lost. For the A's, The
Giants had a six to five comeback win over the Padres.
The Tigers held on five to four against the White
(32:17):
Song cm.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Orioles have won five in a row.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
They topped the Mariners in Seattle three to two, while
the Diamondbacks edged the Braves two to one. The Nationals
blank the Cubs two zero, and the Pirates shut out
the Astros three zero, while the Guardians took down the
Yankees in the Bronx four zero was the final score
in that one. Yes, you guys were just talking about
that College World Series game for the Women's College World Series.
(32:42):
You can she when they were walking that girl. She
could have just stepped to the side right like the
catcher and made it like a very obvious walk. Yeah, okay,
that was legal.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
I was wondering. I was like, why is she standing there?
Speaker 7 (32:53):
All of these pitches are hit a ble yea every
single so I was very confused as you.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Start behind the plate and then when the ball was
thrown right, so.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
That's still legal.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
I just thought something changed because I was like, why
does it look like you're trying to walk her, but
you're pitching her like easy?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, no matter what you can't throw it right over
the plate. You know you can't, but she did.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
Yeah, but she did, so I was confused, but yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:15):
So two to one was the final score with Texas
beating Texas Tech at the Stanley Cup Final Game one.
Leon Drycidle scored sixty six seconds into the game for
Edmonton and then he hit the game winner in overtime
as the Oilers came back to defeat the Panthers four
to three Game two of the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
We'll be on a Friday.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
And in case you missed it, those Phoenix Suns have
found their new head coach. It is Cleveland Cavaliers assistant
Jordan Ott. And lastly, here at the French Open on
the women's side, Coco Goff defeated fellow American Madison Keys.
So Coco Goff is headed to the semi finals. At
the French Open. On the men's side, Novak Djokovic is
headed to the semis to face number one seed Yanick Sinner.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch, mon Yes, Jason
Smith Mike Moroman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Hey, how did that, Monsie?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Again?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
My TV is not working? Tani got a single. How
did the eighth inning end for the Dodgers?
Speaker 8 (34:07):
It did it ended? Let's just say it okay? And
and the score is still what if if I'm six zero?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Still okay? Very just want to make sure you want
to make okay. It'll sound classier if you say nil nil.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
I don't want to sound class in this situation.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yes, Mills six in l A thank you? Coming up next,
how about we do this, Mike and I give you
our official picks for the NBA Finals. Who's coming home
with the Larry O'Brien try for you? More importantly, how
many games are gonna take? That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Larry O'Brien Trophy. My mouth got ahead
(34:46):
of me there.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
I'm pretty sure Jason had the knicks in the finals.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Nick Show, just score the Dodger game, Frostburg, Can I
get take us a break?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays. It's at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Man, we have made it to NBA Finals, Eve,
We made it after last weekend.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Next Thunder, right, yeah, Nick, Thunder ready for game one?
I am ready. I'm simulating that on video games? How
are we plowing this off? I'll get even when I'll
get you with the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I'll go play NBA twenty five and play the Knicks
against the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
See who wins that one. I'll show you a.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Lesson getting put in a giant green screen here and
put those tracking nodes on us so that they can
animate us or what?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yes, you look like yeah, like, you look like you're
a dolphin that they're you know, dead, tagging stuff with
before they let it go back out to sun.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, let's go. Look, I'm gonna be nice, all right.
And you think I'm not gonna be nice, he's Oh, Jason,
you just hate the Pacers. Yes, I do, but it
doesn't mean I'm not going to pick what I think.
And I'm gonna be nice, and I'm gonna say the
Pacers get a game in the NBA Finals. But if
this isn't the Thunder in five, I'll be stunned. I'll
(36:09):
be the first guy to say I'm wrong. But this
Thunder team is completely unlike anything the Pacers have seen.
First of all, most importantly, they play much better team
defense than the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Two right, the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
They watch this series where the Knicks couldn't keep up
with open players that don't normally have big offensive games,
and they're wide open for threes. That's not gonna happen.
Tyres Halliburton is not gonna be able to dribble through
the defense like he did against six. He was like
dipsy doodling his way all the way through. He would
go in and the old dipsy doodle, get into the
(36:42):
get into the paint, and then come back out and
then go back to paint. He's not doing that against
the Thunder. The Thunder are too good. The Thunder is
such a good team, and they're so solid defensively. Again,
they're a perfectly constructed team. They have a superstar, they
have two ascending star players, they have all they have
an all NBA defense, They have three role players that
are important as any role players in the game, on
(37:05):
Hartenstein and and in Caruso. This is gonna be a
walk for the Thunder. It's gonna be a walk because
the Pacers aren't gonna know what hits them, and it's
gonna they're gonna suddenly go, oh, wait a minute, we're
suddenly struggling to get these open shots that we had
the entire Eastern Conference Finals, right, because that's what they had.
And the couple of games where the Knicks decided we
(37:26):
had to turn it up defensively Game five, when all
they did was, hey, Brunson was a little more active
out on you know out in front. The Pacers couldn't score.
They couldn't hit those threes out there. You ninety eight points,
It's what And that was just with Brunson moving more
than he normally does. You had a really bad defensive
team in the Knicks, and still a couple of games
they shut them down. This is gonna be that on
(37:47):
steroids in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
I don't see.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I wish I could see away because I would say it.
I would say, hey, you want the team to beat you,
to go win it all?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay, no, Jays, you just hate the Pacers. Yes, but
it doesn't matter. I'm still gonna tell you what I think. Again,
if they get more than a game, if they win
two games, that's a successful NBA Finals for the Indiana Paceer.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Now do is tyrese hurt Haliburton.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Is he able to take the snub of the Eastern
Conference Finals MVP award and the shame of starting to
walk to try to accept it? Is that kind of
like being called overrated by those thirteen or fourteen guys
that voted for him?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Can he use that as fuel at this point? Use
whatever you need, whatever you need to do you need.
It's gonna be that difficult for you, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
So looking at the odds, a thunder sweep is three
to one, A four to one finish is two ten,
And then you can get into betting props of the
order in which they go down four one wow?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Two one two is one? Okay? One one three? Is
it a three to one one?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Like, you get different odds based on how you want
it to finish.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Wow, that's pretty cool. I like that, I would say,
because that puts a degree of difficulty on it.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, So what do you think seven to one for
the two to one two? Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
See, that's the one that seems more likely because if
if they because I don't see the Pacers getting any
games in either Game one or Game two unless they're
suddenly Hey Scott Foster and Tony Brothers and there and
boy SGA has not been to the free throw line
at all. Tonight usually gets there twenty twenty five times
in a game, unless that happens if they get up threes,
if they're not gonna lose game four, right, So I'm
(39:24):
saying it's gonna go two, one, two two. They get
one in in in Indiana as as the thunder get you. Okay,
here's the backs, and then the Thunder win the last two.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
So I'll say two, one two, okay, So that's seven
to one, and then you go one to one three,
it's thirteen to one.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
That makes you more money.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
But again, I can't see I can't see the Pacers
any one of the first Just having.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Some fun fun with math and numbers along the way.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Fun with math and numbers. Take the Mike Harmon after
school class. Want more math? Haven't had enough school? From
eight to three, Mike Harmon does a fun with numbers
class and there's nobody signed up.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
You could be the first person in that.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
There may be a pot of goals at the end
of the rainbow. I say that I remember the teacher
like they tried to do that. Have like hey, if
you want more academic choices, like in elementary school, in
middle school. I'm like, wait, I just went to school
for seven hours.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I want to go out and play. I want to
play baseball. I don't want I don't want to go
to school anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yeah, I mean I did some math with baseball statistics,
football statistics for folks.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That worked a little bit.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Did Bible study where I had to relay it back
to nine O two one oh to make it make
sense for the kids.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
What. Uh, I'm sorry, I'm old? What what? What Bible
verse was it?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Where? Where?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Where Esau yells out? How Donna Martin graduates? Which one
is that? Give me enough time, I'll find the right. Like, No,
that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
He's in the Bible, right, he's okay, very good.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Yeah, I've got thunder four two. No, he just left
NYPD blew in my my rewatch. But I'll see him
in this weekend at the theater in Michigan. You will
see him, miss, you will see him Gabe.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
You'll see him as Gabriel exit out bout to Fresca
hexit swalling. Do more on the NBA Finals. Another big
NBA story next this is Fox,
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