August 1, 2024 • 40 mins
On tonight's edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the hosts start the hour by discussing Katie Ledecky's impressive victory in the 1500-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Next, Jason Smith explores the MLB scene and considers that this could be a pivotal year for the Padres following their sweep of the Dodgers. Finally, Jason and Mike delve into the 'New Era' of Team USA Women's Soccer. Tune in to Hour 3 for all this and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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com is the way tire buying should be. So before
we get to a big Olympic topic that has everybody
in the world divided, an appreciation moment today for what
absolute dominance looks like in the Olympics. Katie Ladecci winning
the fifteen hundred meter freestyle today was just insane. I mean,
(01:10):
here's the part of me thinks, oh, ESPN stealing from
me again, because right after the event was over, right
when I'm watching her swim the final length of the pool.
I'm like, nobody is even in the frame with her,
and I took a picture and I put it up
on social media. I go, this is what dominance looks like.
And it's just her swimming in the middle. And then
five minutes later, ESPN puts up a picture of Ladeki
(01:33):
like three seconds after the picture I took with her
touching the wall, going oh, look how dominant Katie Ladeci is.
I'm like, wow, really, I'm taking my picture from my
cell phone on my television in my house and here
I'm like, come on, man, come on. Five minutes I
just put this up there. My wife even goes, did
you see this? Did you see this? Can you call?
She's always like anytime someone steals something from it, she's
(01:55):
always like, can you call and get money? Can you call? Who?
Can you call? How could you stop this from But
I'm like, I wish I could. What do you want
me to say? Information is free? When? When? When when
Mike and I retire, It's gonna be a really difficult place.
It's gonna be like when when Bart had to come
up with an itchy and scratchy cartoon on his own
and he couldn't come up with anything. It's gonna be
a really difficult place in sports talk radio. No, that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I mean like hopefully that's not for a little while. Uh,
you know, Lord Willing, But you know the.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Way to Bobby be the last Bobby be? Yeah, no,
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And that's what I'm trying to say that you know,
we're here a while so, as we always joke, information
is free, lots of thoughts, and the fact that Lidecki
is that dominant in the long run, right, you know,
you have the different events and remember she got the
bronze earlier this week and everybody was pissed. It's like
it's not her events, not event. Wait just wait for it,
(02:50):
wait for it. Okay, are you happy now? Are you
happy now? As the medals pile up and you recognize
how absolutely dominated she is and anything beyond you know, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The equivalent of a first step, right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You might be able to beat someone in a race
if it's a little bit longer, debatable but possible, but
you're not beating anybody off the blocks. That's not you,
that's not who you are. For Ladeci, what's the same. Hey,
let's see over the fifteen hundred. I'm like doing a
backstroke and laughing at you, spitting like a porpoise as
a coach to another victory.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, you know, because I told you how much
my wife likes the likes swimming, right, swimming. She loves
swimming and track and field of her two big things.
And she's so she loves. I wake up every day
and we have conversations about like I get up and
I'm like, I open my eyes, I still got crust
in my eyes. I come down. All right, let me
tell you what's happened. Okay, all right, let's go. What
do we got, Let's go, let me sit down, let
me get let me let me get a call. All right,
(03:49):
at least get the coffee going here? And what's on? Now?
What's happened here? All right, here's what going on with Kayladeki? Okay,
all right, here we go. Is that you know to
watch her go? You know, my wife tells me this
is how good she is. I said, okay, And my
wife swam competitively in high school like she was. She
was a really good competitor swimmer in high school. And uh,
she said, you know, and she still swims now and
she said, in the time it took me to swim
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my fat because she was breaking down Katy Lidecki's time
each lap of the pool, you know, ten ten seconds,
ten se you know, ten seconds here, and she said,
in the time would take me if I'm swimming my
fastest from one end of the pool to the from
one from one end of the pool to the to
the other end, and I came back. Right, Let's just
say I swam to one end and I came back,
and I'm swimming as fast as I can. This is
(04:35):
Katie lad Decky. Obviously in the fifteen hundred you you
know you uh uh, you know you gotta pace yourself,
but out because it's the longest race possible. And she
said to me judging because I she I know what
my times were. If I did this by the time
I made it up and back, just one just one
time up and one time back, she would have lapped me.
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She would have lapped me in that and then then
and and that's something that is just insane to believe
because you watch her. She doesn't look like she kicks
a lot, you know, like she just moves and moving
and just a couple of kicks here and there, and
all of a sudden, it's like, how is she just
blowing the doors off of everybody? It's just, I mean,
to win a race that much like you see a
you see a swimming race that's hey, someone wins, wins
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by by a body length, and you go, oh, that
was a blowout. I mean, really she won. She won
that race by twelve seconds. Today you gotta wait to
hear where is someone coming in the screen? Okay? Okay,
and and and now here's a race for second and third.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
He such a big deal is that we've talked so
much about the other events, other swimming events, and how
narrow the margins are between not just hey, you know
gold and silver, but golden fourth, right where we're talking
point seven point one two, whatever those margins are, they're minuscule, right,
(05:57):
It's the the length of a fingertip that we're talking
about between you know, that's four years of training, right,
is just that much? Right, one extra bit of extension,
a slightly cleaner turn, whatever the case is, that that's
the difference between first, third, fourth place, and then you've
(06:19):
got ldeki and there's a ten second, twelve seconds different
between the Just to the runner up let alone whoever's
finishing last.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean, it's just an amazing thing. When we watched
the race today and here's how long the race was, right,
tell you about how long the race is is that
we watched the beginning and she's already like up by
maybe almost half a pool length on some people. And
the basketball game was coming back from commercial, and it
was like in the early part of the second half
when South Sudan was making that run when they came
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out in the United States a little loose defensive lead
to start the second half in South Sudan cut it
from nineteen to like twelve. And she goes, oh, you
want to go back to the game, And I go no,
it's okay, you want to watch the rest of this race, right,
we can go back to the couple and she goes, oh, no,
this race is gonna go forever. Now. We we got time,
So we go back. The basketball game comes back from commercial,
they go through what however long they play until the
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next commercial, and we go back and she goes back.
I go, oh my god, we forgot to go back.
She goes, no, it's fine, and we go back and
the race is still going. They played time out to
time out and the katy lidecy race was still going.
We tuned back in for the last like I think
the last four laps like up in, like two up
and backs like i'd be I go, wow, we didn't
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really miss anything. She goes, no, look at the lead
and said, oh, you're right, you're didn't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, for the uninitiated, you know, I've got the two daughters,
eleanor the elder of the two. She comes downstairs, she
goes what she got on, and she looks at my
iPad and there's the four box going.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
She goes, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing?
And I'm like, I don't know, watching a lot of
Olympic events. I'll tell you I like the four box. Man.
I thought she was just trying to say, my man,
just focus. Like my whole thing about her is, you know,
preaching about focus and planning out.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, here's like right now she's looking at transferring,
you know, colleges, so it's the here's the spreadsheet and
prerequisites that these people need whatever. So it's all about
focus and planning. She's like she got to throw it
back at me. It's like, just pick one event man,
pick one event.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Did you say to her, Hey, just good luck in
the portal? Okay, you threw your name in the portal
and now just wait and see maybe somebody will call you. Okay,
so just let me watch the four Box on my
screen and I'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, I more or less said, you're working towards job.
This is mine, and I took another sip of coffee.
He goes, oh, you haven't had that full cup of
coffee yet, have you either? Like, oh, okay, this is
where it's going. No, look, I got two smart asses
in the house.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Go figure. I really like the four Box because it's
it's so hard to see. I mean, look an NBC
honestly is doing a great job of letting everybody know
this is where the events are. And they're even putting
games on different play Like I thought, Okay, I gotta
get up today. I gotta get on Peacock because that's
where they're gonna put the soccer game. No was on
E Like, wow, people turn it into to watch aj
(09:11):
Benza on like you know, Hollywood Mysteries Unsolved. No, you
got an aj Benza reference in Look At You Fame? Yeah,
would you like to explain to the kids what you're
talking about. Oh, I gotta explain to millennials who aj
Benz is a boy? No, but I'm like, oh, the
game is on E okay, all right, it's Audie. But
(09:31):
but really, I mean, this has been a great experience.
You know where everything is. Yes, some of the stuff
is on streaming, but but between NBC and USA and
and look, you find it very easy on your you know,
it's not it's not just Olympic events now that they
describe it really great on your on your channel guide,
Like this is the way it should be. Like I
feel like all the bugs the last few years of
(09:53):
all you're only gonna get the game here, You're gonna
get this. There's no complaining about finding the events. Everybody's
got it. And boy, I'll tell you. You go to
Peacock and if you have that streaming, it is so
easy to find anything. What do you want? I want
the third round of archery? Got it right here here,
you go right, Like it's so easy to find because
there's so many different they just make it available so easy.
(10:15):
It's just it's just fantastic. But like still to have
the four screen experience, it's like okay, like red zone
is great, you know for NFL, but you know, hey,
i'd like to see four games at a time.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh, I got yeah, I think there were televisions now
are Yeah, the televisions now are big enough or it's
not like I'm squinting and I can't see anything.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, TV's are big enough now. I can watch four
games at once, like I want four events at once,
like I would have wanted to if if it was
if it was a big deal, like if they weren't
coming out of halftime. You know, I would say, listen,
I'll go watch the basketball in here. But no, but
I could have I could have done with if I
had to put Katie Lidecki and the basketball on the
same skin, it would have been fine. Now you still
can do that, and it's it's worked out great. I
(10:56):
gotta say, for the first few days, there's been for
all the concerns do we normally have about about streaming
and people going into it, I don't know what do
I you know, how am I gonna find this? I
can't find the swimming, I can't find the track and field. Like, no,
it's been really smooth, which tells you now it's gonna
all fall apart tomorrow. But I mean that's one thing
that no one is talking about, but is the hesitancy
(11:17):
that everybody had coming into this Olympics of how am
I gonna find everything? Where's it gonna be? Because that
was the story just going back to the last Winter Olympics,
the last Summer Olympics, the last four years where streaming
has really arisen, it's been how do I find these events?
Am I not gonna be able to see it? Are
you gonna hold it hostage? And have this game behind
this behind the streaming wall here, it's been really really easy.
(11:42):
And maybe because it's during the day, there's less pressure.
It's all I can find this. You're kind of hanging
out watching stuff during the day because of the time change.
But it really has been as as smooth as process
as possible. And I think this is this has got
to be the blueprint now going forward for This is
how you do it. This is how you have events,
whether it's the Olympics or the World Cup or something
else where you have many events on different channels. This
(12:05):
is how you make it available. This is how you
bring people the information. This is how you stream it
like this this should be how they teach it to
everybody else who has the rights for events like this
going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, I think all of it just becomes a maturation, right.
I mean, and the learning curve and the adjustment curve
is it's just so steep because the stakes are so high.
I mean, look at how much money is spent for
the rights on all of these events. So you got
to get it right, right, you don't get the grace
otherwise you're lambasted. You have to fight with your advertisers
(12:38):
who are going to want to do make goods because
people couldn't find it, and that's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You don't want to do that, right.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's like, hey, we didn't get near the numbers you
promised because your you know, output was glitchy, and the
transitions between events or communication about what channel it's on,
it wasn't seamless. So we low all of these people.
They couldn't find a basketball or soccer whatever the event was,
(13:04):
and they're bombarding our stations nationwide because they can't find. Yeah,
it's just a headache you don't need. Because the NFL
has had the example as much as they've got all
their lawsuit stuff going Jason the four Box and the
way they've done Sunday ticket again, legal issues aside, they've
(13:26):
shown how it can work, easy digestible. Here's your cluster
of stations. Just scroll on through right YouTube TV here
it is. You've got NBC whatever, but then everything at
the bottom of your station channel guide. It's just stacked
one after another, including several international feeds, which is great.
(13:48):
So if English is not your chosen or language for
the event, or is not your native tongue, they've got
options for you. So yeah, it's the blueprint, right, it's
the global event. How do you bring everybody together?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
This is it. You gotta get the TV part right. Yeah,
it's been an absolute masterclass. I'm telling you, it really is.
And it's it's kind of flown under the radar a
little bit, but because it's so smooth, no one's talking
about it. So hey, a little man, listen. Sometimes you
gotta have appreciation moments, whether it's Katy Lideki or how
the Olympics are saying. You gotta have that bit of positivity. Right,
(14:25):
we can talk about we can talk about who's not
playing for t busa men zoops, and who's gonna be
the next game, and is Steve Kerry gonna sit Steph
Curry because Steph Curry deserves to sit because he sticks.
But we gotta have the positivity moments as well. That's
how it goes.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, you needed aj Benzo's music behind you, then I'm
going to get a spotlight and a fog machine.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I used to love those Benza commercials, but it would be,
you know, the the holly true Hollywood mysteries like Black
Dahlia or Jane Mansfield, whatever it was, and he would
close by saying Fame hated a blanket and that was
the end of every problem. And then he'd walk off,
and every time it's the best. See now I want
(15:11):
to go find some of those Oh is he still
doing stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Agent?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah? Yeah, he shows up with Stern. I think a
bunch as usual. Really, Like I'm wondering, like is he
Like like I would be surprised to find, Oh, aj
Ben's the guy doing oh getting cab getting coffee and
cabs with comedians, now, like that's what he's doing. Where
the hell is aj Ben's been Reddit read about aj
Ben's a roll every once in a while. Okay, all right,
(15:37):
that's cool, all right, very good as long as you
go on high stakes poker. Oh poker, ain'ted a blank?
Maybe just changes changes out of that flop. Ain't a blank.
That's his tagline for everything. Now, Hey, aj Ben's what
do you think about the Olympics? Olympics, ain'ted a blank?
Sixty two years old? What do you think about? What
(15:59):
do you think about? And curse you out tonight? No strikeouts,
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We'll tell you about that team I told you to
watch out for here they come coming up in a
couple of minutes. But controversy today that could have been
much bigger and a much bigger deal in the Olympics.
(17:33):
And you know, I gotta say, I'm kind of on
the side of I'm kind of anti us on this controversy.
Look at you. Yeah, let's go the lad how about
a Fresco. I know, here's what the women's national team
won today over Australia two to one in soccer. And
we'll get to the triplets coming sorry Trey Akman hashtag
(17:54):
Paton Pennick. We'll get to the triplets in there, and
there impact coming up in a bit. But they win
two to one and the first goal is scored by
Trinity Rodman off a corner kick, and they went back
and looked at it, and they looked at it for
about five minutes looking for offside. Now there was a
discrepancy whether or not var was working. They didn't know.
(18:17):
And it came back and they allowed the goal and
clearly Sam Coffee of the United States was offside. And
this is this is but this is where I get
into the wow really and I understand the Australia coach
was really mad and that, you know, and they talked
about it a lot at halftime. Is a real controversial
goal because look, the rule in soccer is you can
(18:39):
you can blow off and offside if it's deemed the
player is not involved in the play. And normally that
happens if a player is you know, is wide breaking
down the field and they don't get the ball. Right,
someone's breaking down the left side, they're offside, they don't
get the ball. And I see this play and I go, wow, man,
you know, in theory, I get it because Sam Coffee
(18:59):
doesn't touch the ball and it goes in, but she's
in front of the net. She's in front of the ghalie, right,
I mean, yeah, she touched it the goalie.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You had to had to push her off to clear
the bath for to see where the ball was.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, and you had And she's taking up a defender's
attention because she's in front of the net, and you
don't know where that would have gone because you know
she's still affecting the play. And for it to still
be allowed, I'm like, boy, I get Australia on that. Like,
she was clearly offside. She touches the goalie, she's she's
(19:33):
right in front of the goalie and she's distracting and
and it's still yeah, it's not offside. She wasn't really
involved in the play. I thought the United States kind
of got a gift on that because that that rule
is such open to interpretation. But I'm watching this, I'm
going really really that that that goal is allowed to stand.
Why that one for the United States. I never thought
the United States had that goal stand. I never thought
(19:54):
they would allow that goal stand. I'm like, Okay, they're
oh man, she's offside, she's right in the middle of
the play. Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna disallow that no
goal the United States one nothing, here's the here's the
here's the kickoff. We're putting the ball right back on
the end of the field.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, I thought it was gonna be a truncated version
of what the match was that got everything started right
where we had an hour and a half delay before
Vaar comes back and makes a determination. Here a lot shorter,
but same idea of we don't have any video monitors.
When he's walking around kind of shrugging his shoulders, you've
got the coach who eventually gets the yellow card for
(20:29):
cursing at him.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But and eventually they got to the.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Monitor to look at it, but there's a long delay,
and every replay they show, I'm like, I know, there's,
you know, some wiggle room in the offside rule. It's like,
this seems fairly textbook. Here what am I missing? And
then once he said, hey, the goal was confirmed, I'd
let out a very audible well, I'll be damned, thinking
(20:57):
that was clearly gonna get taken off, and then we'd
have the explosion from the US side. But again, it's
it's funny sometimes these Olympic and international rulings.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I mean, really and and and usually they don't go
our way. That's the whole thing is, like, why are
we get we don't get everybody hates the United States?
Why are we gonna get that? Go? Nope, nope, nope,
we're gonna allow it to stand. That just makes me
think that there really was something up and they didn't
want to admit l v a R is not working
whatever it is, because how bad does that look that?
Oh well we need var for this, Yeah, the United
States got Yeah, we don't have that. Sorry, so yeah
(21:30):
we don't. We were looking at it. We don't. Yeah,
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To tell you my favorite police shows. As I go
into the mini mark, can we check your tapes? Oh no,
that's that's just for show.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We're just trying. We're just trying to scare people off.
It's like every time in a in a movie they
go in and they go, we'll see what the uh
you know what? What the what the cameras have recorded?
Oh no, we don't turn those on. We haven't turned
them on in a month. We don't have the to
we we don't have the money for anymore. Yeah, we
didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, we can't get videotapes anymore, so we can't ride.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
We go back. No, we record new over the videotapes.
Every day we record I'm sorry, we can't get it,
and then you put.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It back in and it's part of head Banger's Ball
instead of whatever was going on in the mini mart.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
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up later we have accept and also the new one
from the Scorpions and the Michael Schenker group. Wow, dude,
I got Agent and Adam Curry in the show in
the last fifteen minutes. I am old god.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, both guys known for their hair. He has a
slip back with a lot of pat Riley like grease.
Oh yeah, Curry couldn't tease his high enough.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, Adam Kurry. He hit it big right when Guns
and Roses hit it big and Apsel Rose had the
big hair and he had the big hair. Okay, we
got it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That might have been the smallest leather jacket ever though
he's a very narrow man.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
A uh no, how about are you ready for a
hot take? Let's get ready for a hot take. Net
just go. We mentioned a few minutes ago Clayton Kershaw
first time in nine thousand starts. He didn't have a strikeout,
got knocked out of the game early tonight, and the
Padres swept the Dodgers. Yes, we've talked about Kershaw. You
don't know what you're gonna get from him. This is
(23:14):
why it was very important the Dodgers go get Jack Flaherty. Okay,
and they did. But here's your big hot take. I
told you the Padres were coming last week. I said,
watch out for the Padres. They're coming. And at the
deadline they get two great relievers. All right, you're talking
about Scott and Adam. And now suddenly the bullpen looks
(23:34):
unbeatable and they're going for it this year. All right.
It's a big emotional year for the Padres, and and
they're going for it. And again they were playing well.
They seem to figured it out. Now they make the
big moves of the deadline. They are five games out
of first place, and they just swept the Dodgers for
the first time this season. The possibility of the Dodgers
(23:56):
being a wild card team is out there because they've
just been a five hundred team now for a couple
of months, right, I mean, you know, they're high point
there were twenty games over five hundred. For the last
couple months, they've been just hanging around at five hundred. Now,
they've had a lot of injuries, and they're hoping that
these moves they made the deadline are gonna help them.
And yet you want to throw it out there. Yes,
(24:17):
you're waiting for Munsey to come back, You're waiting for
Mookie Bets to come back. All of this is true.
But for the first time, the possibility the Dodgers could
be walking in the playoffs is hey, wild card, first round?
Good luck? Oh whoa, whoa, whoa whoa? Wait a minute,
that could happen. The Padres have really made a huge
statement this week, and five games is nothing when you're
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talking about still. You know, July thirty first, right, the
Mets made up ten games in the standings in a month.
The Astros caught the Mariners with ten games in the
standings in a month. This is just five games. And
this is a Dodgers team that has struggled and has
kind of meandered around. They need to kick it up
a little bit here, and I'm hoping they had that
extra gear. But until these players come back, you don't know.
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But for the first time in this season. Dodgers wild Card.
That's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Because I'm I'm a nerd. I immediately go to my
good friends at Tankathon strength the schedule remaining. Guess who's
got the easiest schedule remaining in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Oh, Jason Smith, Fox Sports Radio, the San Diego Padres. Yeah, Hey,
what do I wait? Socks?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
What do?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
What do I? What buy you? Sand? Which you next week?
Where do you got the Mets? With the takathon? Where
are the Mets?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Mets are twenty third? Composit record is for eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's not good.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, well, but you got three against the White Sox,
three against the Rockies, three against the Cars, three against
the A's, three against the Angels, and three against Washington. Okay,
that's up bad Dodgers, middle of the pack. They're eighteenth,
nice even five hundred the rest of the way for
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the teams that they played, just because we make fun
of the White Sox all the time. Fifteenth, hardest schedule remaining.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't think it matters. I really don't think.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I like this is one where there's lies, damn lies
and statistics that mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This this is one of those nothings process.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Thats where hardest schedule remaining, Tampa Bay, followed by Kansas City.
In Kansas City, a team that I picked to come
up and take the Al Central. So we'll see what happened.
Was there Bobby with Junior? What are the idiot?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Five hundred this month, almost five for eighty eight this month.
It was insane. Forty four hits in a month. That's unbelievable.
You know how long it takes anybody on the Mets
to get forty four hits. This guy's still looking for
forty that play every day they're looking for their forty four.
He's a wizard, Harry. At least forty four hits in
a month, dude, I mean this, that's just and inside.
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What's only four people I think in the history of
baseball have had a better batting average in a single
month of the calendar month than he had.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's absolutely insane. And the other day I forget who
it was. You know, hot take nonsense that scrolls through
your your Twitter feed talking about Bobby Witt and trying
to figure out where he ranks among the game's best.
If you don't want to put him one, he's sure
as hell in the conversation right nowhney.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Man, I'll tell you that may be the new strategy.
Win the World Series, tank for close to a decade
and get all good players get good again. There's your
royal friend Mets in the World Series. Oh Man, you
open the door? No I did? I did? I did.
I strolled right in and said hello. He looked like
Lenny and Squiggy. But who could be that stupid? Hello? Hello?
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You know I do that to my dad all the time.
Every time I know he's coming, because you know, we
have the ring doorbell on the front. He always he
usually comes around the back because he comes to the
back of the house because that's where we are. Like,
I always know he's coming, and right before he gets
ready to walk to the door, I go, yeah. But
there's nobody in the world that's stupid. And my dad
every time he walks in, he goes hello. He plays
it all the time. He does the bit, he does
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the bit.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You know what, you gotta lean into the bit. That's
a good bit right there. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
A guy who's got a really good bit is Isaac Lowenkron.
He's got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports. I love.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Well, we'll start with a baseball Squiggy update because you
just mentioned Squiggy. I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure you guys
probably know this, but most people out there probably don't.
The actor who played Squiggy went on to be an
actual Major League Baseball scout in the Angels organization and
the Mariners organization. I think David Lander, that's right. He
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Squiggy went on to be a real working baseball scout.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
He was. He was a play by play guy in
the league in their own.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I that's right, head said, drop them all said, dropped the.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Ball voice of the Rockford Peaches. Not a real peachy
night on Wednesday for the Los Angeles Dodgers or Claytonshaw
that's the medium sized dollars, right, Yes, I majored in
segues and.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I really want to line up for your class on segues.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Spend all that money for tuition, and he's riding a
segway down the block. So we got our lines crossed there.
Padres over the Dodgers eight to one. San Diego's won
nine of ten. Dylan Cease is the eleventh win of the season.
Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw, making just his second start of
the season, lasted three and two thirds innings, did not
record a strikeout, and that ended his major league record
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streak of appearances with at least a strikeout at four
hundred and four. Last time he appeared in a game
without a strikeout September twenty eighth, two thousand and eight,
Giants over the Ages.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Before you get to you tell me, because I can't
find my computer's down right now, Dylan ceaes, Boy, he's
really good. What team did he play for up until
this year?
Speaker 5 (29:50):
I actually don't even need a computer for that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh where did he play? Boy? I mean, because whoever
let him go? Boy, that's a that's a really bad
decision right there. He could really help them.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
How you doing, Mike?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Really good idea to trade him in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, White Sox Baseball, you have got to be kittings ies.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Those tweets continued tonight, as they certainly did when he
only pitched a no hitter or back on Thursday at
Washington Giants over the Eighties one nothing. San Francisco's Logan
web a complete game, five hitch shutout. He struck out
sixty threw one hundred and six pitches. Rockies over the
Angels in Anaheim two to one, Brenton Doyle's go ahead
home run on the top of the eighth inning of
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the difference their Olympics. On Wednesday, the US men's basketball
team clinched a spot on the quarterfinals with a one
to three to eighty six win over South Sudan. The
US women's soccer team over Australia two to one, winning
its group. They went three and oh. They will face
Japan in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Finally, in swimming, Wednesday,
the story was Katie ledecky, this time in the fifteen
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hundred freestyle.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Twenty five meats left for Laducky Toby four. I guess
he won the gold in Tokyo. It's gonna back it
up again.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Here in Paris, and the greatest swimming machine we've ever.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Seen rose up to another goal here in Paris with
a new Olympic record.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Dan Hicks the call on NBC eighth the gold medal
of Katie Ledecki's career. Jason and Michae all yours.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it, my friend. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carben live
from the tirek dot com studios. Now here's the thing,
harm and here here's the thing. Is is that you
know I did math before the show. I know, I
remember you. I really went down that rabbit hole. I
feel the need to bring this up because this is
this is very important because I did math before the show.
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We are getting to the point where we have to
start paying attention to your White Sox every single day
because they could set an all time record for worst
MLB record in history. Go all the way back to
more abouteling better about your day. No no, no, no, no,
not your day.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I mean the collective, youth, the collective of society. You
didn't have as bad a day as the White Sox have.
We can't count the Cleveland Spiders. It was before nineteen hundred,
they disbanded. Maybe they would have got hot at the end,
who knows. But the Mets in nineteen sixty two have
the consensus that's the worst team ever, worst record. They
only won forty games. They were forty to one twenty.
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The White Sox.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right now are playing at a pace of two forty
three winning percentage. Right, two forty three winning percentage. If
they're gonna not finish as the worst team of all time,
they need to go fourteen and thirty one in their
in the rest of their games, Okay, or fourteen to
thirty seven, sorry, fourteen seven, fourteen and thirty seven in
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their last fifty one games. That is a two seventy
four winning percentage. That is thirty points higher than the
winning percentage they have been at so far through all May, June,
and all of July. They have to amp it up
if they're gonna not be the worst team of all time.
This is gonna become a daily store. We're gonna we're
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gonna interrupt NFL games on Monday nights. In September, Togo
White Sox lost again. That's lost number one hundred and eighteen,
lost one hundred and nineteen. That we're gonna have to
do that. It's gonna be that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Boy, it's a really good thing. Caleb Williams has won
more games in September than the White Sox have since August. First,
I can already hear it, and that means he's won
one game, right, he wins the open. He already has
more wins than they had in August. I mean they're
already doing this right, this team, you know, more wins
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or this player more wins than the White Sox have
had at home in the last two months, like all
those like there's just so many punchlines flowing out of
the city of Chicago because don't forget the Cubs aren't
much better. I mean, they're better off, but they still.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Let me ask you, really, I'm a miserable throw this
at you right now. Who wins more games the White
Sox the rest of the season or the Bears counting
the regular season and the preseason. Who wins more preseason?
Let's see, Bears could win ten, I mean ten eleven games,
they could win ten eleven games. I think the White
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Sox could have win twelve. Yeah, I think you over
unders eight and a half. I'll take the White Sox,
but it's going to be close, Okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Because I mean you get three pre well, actually they
get four because they've got the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah yeah, good luck. I'm not telling so you win
three of them. Saying you win three of these, what
if you win three of those games? That could happen?
Could happen? I watch out why you want you do that?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You're supposed to be my best friend. Absolutely, you just
keep kicking me in the ribs, White Sox at how
about a Fresca exit?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Swalling down? The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmon. Coming up next, the birth of a new
era in one sport in the Olympics today. You were
looking for it, you were waiting for it. It's here.
What is it that's next? Fox?
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tyraq dot Com Studios.
Got a big double barrel of NFL stories coming your
way next to our two big quarterback stories. Got men's
USA basketball reaction. I think we're asking the wrong question.
After they beat South Sudan today, who are these guys?
But let me just say this all right. After the
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women's national team in soccer one as big as they
did over Germany a couple of days ago, the way
the three forwards played together, Mallory Swanson Rodman, Sophia Smith.
This could have been the day that was the birth
of the new era of women's soccer in the United States.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Thought you were going to say it was almost today.
You also almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow. It's like, what
the hell's he got to do with?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Then he'll remember today as the day you almost captured
and we would look to today as the oh the
cementing of it, like what was this one great game?
What are they like? Because the chemistry the three forwards
had was incredible, the way they played as fast as
they were. And look, you've heard me talk a lot
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about Marrillory, Mallory Swans and how I think about her
as a player. She's the key. I wonder, if you're
a cop, I wonder if we would have won the
World Cup if she was healthy. Right that That's how
good she's. That's how good she is. That's what she
is to this team. After today, you could see these
are the three players that are the new era of
women's soccer. As in we went from Mia Hamm Julie
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Foudy to Abby Woan back to Alex Morgan, Meghan Rapino
and now we're at the triplets right, and I don't
mean Aikman, Irvin and Emmittsmith unless he unless he doesn't
own the unless Trey Aikman doesn't own the rights to that.
They need a nickname because the three of them, this
is who the United States team is built around. You
can tell watching the game it was let's get the
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ball up to the forwards. They made Lindsay Horan look good.
They made Rose Level look good. Neither of them can
run with either of these three because they're just so
incredibly fast, and their chemistry and their confidence is off
the charts. You can see how panicked the opponent gets.
Anytime one of these three players has the ball. I
mean anytime one of them has it in the open field,
it's a big scoring chance because they're so fast and
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they're so skilled, and they already play so well together,
like this is the dawn of the new era. This
is what we've been waiting for for the next two
for the rest of this Olympics and the next two
World Cups. These are the three players this team is
built around. Because they're all in their early in the
mid twenties. You know, once you start getting into your thirties. Okay,
let's see how how effective you are, because we saw
Alex Morgan at thirty five is basically done. But for
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the next two next the next two Olympics, the next
two World Cups. These are the three players. This is
the identity of the women's national team. Because I guarantee
you the entire world watched them play today and they
all sat back and said wow. So that gap between
the changeover from the old guard in the United States
the new guard, it was that last World Cup because now,
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good luck, they'll be the number one team in the
world again. They'll win the gold medal, they'll blitz to it,
they'll beat everybody, and it'll be because of these three players.
They have fourteen to the sixteen goals under Emma Hayes.
Like she's walked in and said, you three are you
three are the future. You're our present and look what
they're doing so far. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Well, the way you get consistent pressure up front, it's
sucking up other defenders, right, so you start getting more
space like you're talking about for Haran and for others
to find opportunity. Right, you see a big drive off
of rebound. Why because there's no defender in the space
to lead to another goal. With Rodman, you've also got
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size and physicality, so you've got to go to the
double team. And what happens as soon as you vacate
that space enough ball skills to find whoever's cutting or
to kick it back out to Haran or whoever's filling
that space and again setting up more scoring opportunity. Like
that's the most exciting part of it, right, And we
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keep lamenting it and waiting for it, and when we
see it on the men's side, you get all excited.
It's like attacking right to where it's not a wrong
build up. It's like we can actually get out and run.
And on the women's side, that's the thing that's been
exciting goal opportunities and creating a lot of chances. Need
to finish better than we did today, right, I mean, look,
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you had that pinball off a defender, off one post,
off another post, somehow does not find the back of
the net.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is just curious. You don't get it, do you get it?
Don't get a double post all that often, and we
don't at that double post today.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Which would have gone down as an own goal. So
I mean it's just chaos. But again, just the amount
of pressure that they put on. It's exciting to watch
this next iteration as you fill up that starting eleven.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
They just need a nickname. The triplet's something. They need
a nickname because that's how good they are. The new
era of women's soccer is here. We saw it the
last two people saw the birth of it.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
People forgot that threes a crowd existed with John Ritters,
so we can steal that.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Coming up next as far as Three's Company sequels go,
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com is the way tire buying should be. So before
we get to a big Olympic topic that has everybody
in the world divided, an appreciation moment today for what
absolute dominance looks like in the Olympics. Katie Ladecci winning
the fifteen hundred meter freestyle today was just insane. I mean,
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here's the part of me thinks, oh, ESPN stealing from
me again, because right after the event was over, right
when I'm watching her swim the final length of the pool.
I'm like, nobody is even in the frame with her,
and I took a picture and I put it up
on social media. I go, this is what dominance looks like.
And it's just her swimming in the middle. And then
five minutes later, ESPN puts up a picture of Ladeki
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like three seconds after the picture I took with her
touching the wall, going oh, look how dominant Katie Ladeci is.
I'm like, wow, really, I'm taking my picture from my
cell phone on my television in my house and here
I'm like, come on, man, come on. Five minutes I
just put this up there. My wife even goes, did
you see this? Did you see this? Can you call?
She's always like anytime someone steals something from it, she's
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always like, can you call and get money? Can you call? Who?
Can you call? How could you stop this from But
I'm like, I wish I could. What do you want
me to say? Information is free? When? When? When when
Mike and I retire, It's gonna be a really difficult place.
It's gonna be like when when Bart had to come
up with an itchy and scratchy cartoon on his own
and he couldn't come up with anything. It's gonna be
a really difficult place in sports talk radio. No, that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I mean like hopefully that's not for a little while. Uh,
you know, Lord Willing, But you know the.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Way to Bobby be the last Bobby be? Yeah, no,
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And that's what I'm trying to say that you know,
we're here a while so, as we always joke, information
is free, lots of thoughts, and the fact that Lidecki
is that dominant in the long run, right, you know,
you have the different events and remember she got the
bronze earlier this week and everybody was pissed. It's like
it's not her events, not event. Wait just wait for it,
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wait for it. Okay, are you happy now? Are you
happy now? As the medals pile up and you recognize
how absolutely dominated she is and anything beyond you know, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The equivalent of a first step, right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You might be able to beat someone in a race
if it's a little bit longer, debatable but possible, but
you're not beating anybody off the blocks. That's not you,
that's not who you are. For Ladeci, what's the same. Hey,
let's see over the fifteen hundred. I'm like doing a
backstroke and laughing at you, spitting like a porpoise as
a coach to another victory.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, you know, because I told you how much
my wife likes the likes swimming, right, swimming. She loves
swimming and track and field of her two big things.
And she's so she loves. I wake up every day
and we have conversations about like I get up and
I'm like, I open my eyes, I still got crust
in my eyes. I come down. All right, let me
tell you what's happened. Okay, all right, let's go. What
do we got, Let's go, let me sit down, let
me get let me let me get a call. All right,
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at least get the coffee going here? And what's on? Now?
What's happened here? All right, here's what going on with Kayladeki? Okay,
all right, here we go. Is that you know to
watch her go? You know, my wife tells me this
is how good she is. I said, okay, And my
wife swam competitively in high school like she was. She
was a really good competitor swimmer in high school. And uh,
she said, you know, and she still swims now and
she said, in the time it took me to swim
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my fat because she was breaking down Katy Lidecki's time
each lap of the pool, you know, ten ten seconds,
ten se you know, ten seconds here, and she said,
in the time would take me if I'm swimming my
fastest from one end of the pool to the from
one from one end of the pool to the to
the other end, and I came back. Right, Let's just
say I swam to one end and I came back,
and I'm swimming as fast as I can. This is
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Katie lad Decky. Obviously in the fifteen hundred you you
know you uh uh, you know you gotta pace yourself,
but out because it's the longest race possible. And she
said to me judging because I she I know what
my times were. If I did this by the time
I made it up and back, just one just one
time up and one time back, she would have lapped me.
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She would have lapped me in that and then then
and and that's something that is just insane to believe
because you watch her. She doesn't look like she kicks
a lot, you know, like she just moves and moving
and just a couple of kicks here and there, and
all of a sudden, it's like, how is she just
blowing the doors off of everybody? It's just, I mean,
to win a race that much like you see a
you see a swimming race that's hey, someone wins, wins
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by by a body length, and you go, oh, that
was a blowout. I mean, really she won. She won
that race by twelve seconds. Today you gotta wait to
hear where is someone coming in the screen? Okay? Okay,
and and and now here's a race for second and third.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
He such a big deal is that we've talked so
much about the other events, other swimming events, and how
narrow the margins are between not just hey, you know
gold and silver, but golden fourth, right where we're talking
point seven point one two, whatever those margins are, they're minuscule, right,
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It's the the length of a fingertip that we're talking
about between you know, that's four years of training, right,
is just that much? Right, one extra bit of extension,
a slightly cleaner turn, whatever the case is, that that's
the difference between first, third, fourth place, and then you've
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got ldeki and there's a ten second, twelve seconds different
between the Just to the runner up let alone whoever's
finishing last.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I mean, it's just an amazing thing. When we watched
the race today and here's how long the race was, right,
tell you about how long the race is is that
we watched the beginning and she's already like up by
maybe almost half a pool length on some people. And
the basketball game was coming back from commercial, and it
was like in the early part of the second half
when South Sudan was making that run when they came
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out in the United States a little loose defensive lead
to start the second half in South Sudan cut it
from nineteen to like twelve. And she goes, oh, you
want to go back to the game, And I go no,
it's okay, you want to watch the rest of this race, right,
we can go back to the couple and she goes, oh, no,
this race is gonna go forever. Now. We we got time,
So we go back. The basketball game comes back from commercial,
they go through what however long they play until the
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next commercial, and we go back and she goes back.
I go, oh my god, we forgot to go back.
She goes, no, it's fine, and we go back and
the race is still going. They played time out to
time out and the katy lidecy race was still going.
We tuned back in for the last like I think
the last four laps like up in, like two up
and backs like i'd be I go, wow, we didn't
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really miss anything. She goes, no, look at the lead
and said, oh, you're right, you're didn't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, for the uninitiated, you know, I've got the two daughters,
eleanor the elder of the two. She comes downstairs, she
goes what she got on, and she looks at my
iPad and there's the four box going.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
She goes, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing?
And I'm like, I don't know, watching a lot of
Olympic events. I'll tell you I like the four box. Man.
I thought she was just trying to say, my man,
just focus. Like my whole thing about her is, you know,
preaching about focus and planning out.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, here's like right now she's looking at transferring,
you know, colleges, so it's the here's the spreadsheet and
prerequisites that these people need whatever. So it's all about
focus and planning. She's like she got to throw it
back at me. It's like, just pick one event man,
pick one event.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Did you say to her, Hey, just good luck in
the portal? Okay, you threw your name in the portal
and now just wait and see maybe somebody will call you. Okay,
so just let me watch the four Box on my
screen and I'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, I more or less said, you're working towards job.
This is mine, and I took another sip of coffee.
He goes, oh, you haven't had that full cup of
coffee yet, have you either? Like, oh, okay, this is
where it's going. No, look, I got two smart asses
in the house.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Go figure. I really like the four Box because it's
it's so hard to see. I mean, look an NBC
honestly is doing a great job of letting everybody know
this is where the events are. And they're even putting
games on different play Like I thought, Okay, I gotta
get up today. I gotta get on Peacock because that's
where they're gonna put the soccer game. No was on
E Like, wow, people turn it into to watch aj
(09:11):
Benza on like you know, Hollywood Mysteries Unsolved. No, you
got an aj Benza reference in Look At You Fame? Yeah,
would you like to explain to the kids what you're
talking about. Oh, I gotta explain to millennials who aj
Benz is a boy? No, but I'm like, oh, the
game is on E okay, all right, it's Audie. But
(09:31):
but really, I mean, this has been a great experience.
You know where everything is. Yes, some of the stuff
is on streaming, but but between NBC and USA and
and look, you find it very easy on your you know,
it's not it's not just Olympic events now that they
describe it really great on your on your channel guide,
Like this is the way it should be. Like I
feel like all the bugs the last few years of
(09:53):
all you're only gonna get the game here, You're gonna
get this. There's no complaining about finding the events. Everybody's
got it. And boy, I'll tell you. You go to
Peacock and if you have that streaming, it is so
easy to find anything. What do you want? I want
the third round of archery? Got it right here here,
you go right, Like it's so easy to find because
there's so many different they just make it available so easy.
(10:15):
It's just it's just fantastic. But like still to have
the four screen experience, it's like okay, like red zone
is great, you know for NFL, but you know, hey,
i'd like to see four games at a time.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh, I got yeah, I think there were televisions now
are Yeah, the televisions now are big enough or it's
not like I'm squinting and I can't see anything.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, TV's are big enough now. I can watch four
games at once, like I want four events at once,
like I would have wanted to if if it was
if it was a big deal, like if they weren't
coming out of halftime. You know, I would say, listen,
I'll go watch the basketball in here. But no, but
I could have I could have done with if I
had to put Katie Lidecki and the basketball on the
same skin, it would have been fine. Now you still
can do that, and it's it's worked out great. I
(10:56):
gotta say, for the first few days, there's been for
all the concerns do we normally have about about streaming
and people going into it, I don't know what do
I you know, how am I gonna find this? I
can't find the swimming, I can't find the track and field. Like, no,
it's been really smooth, which tells you now it's gonna
all fall apart tomorrow. But I mean that's one thing
that no one is talking about, but is the hesitancy
(11:17):
that everybody had coming into this Olympics of how am
I gonna find everything? Where's it gonna be? Because that
was the story just going back to the last Winter Olympics,
the last Summer Olympics, the last four years where streaming
has really arisen, it's been how do I find these events?
Am I not gonna be able to see it? Are
you gonna hold it hostage? And have this game behind
this behind the streaming wall here, it's been really really easy.
(11:42):
And maybe because it's during the day, there's less pressure.
It's all I can find this. You're kind of hanging
out watching stuff during the day because of the time change.
But it really has been as as smooth as process
as possible. And I think this is this has got
to be the blueprint now going forward for This is
how you do it. This is how you have events,
whether it's the Olympics or the World Cup or something
else where you have many events on different channels. This
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is how you make it available. This is how you
bring people the information. This is how you stream it
like this this should be how they teach it to
everybody else who has the rights for events like this
going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, I think all of it just becomes a maturation, right.
I mean, and the learning curve and the adjustment curve
is it's just so steep because the stakes are so high.
I mean, look at how much money is spent for
the rights on all of these events. So you got
to get it right, right, you don't get the grace
otherwise you're lambasted. You have to fight with your advertisers
(12:38):
who are going to want to do make goods because
people couldn't find it, and that's a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You don't want to do that, right.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's like, hey, we didn't get near the numbers you
promised because your you know, output was glitchy, and the
transitions between events or communication about what channel it's on,
it wasn't seamless. So we low all of these people.
They couldn't find a basketball or soccer whatever the event was,
(13:04):
and they're bombarding our stations nationwide because they can't find. Yeah,
it's just a headache you don't need. Because the NFL
has had the example as much as they've got all
their lawsuit stuff going Jason the four Box and the
way they've done Sunday ticket again, legal issues aside, they've
(13:26):
shown how it can work, easy digestible. Here's your cluster
of stations. Just scroll on through right YouTube TV here
it is. You've got NBC whatever, but then everything at
the bottom of your station channel guide. It's just stacked
one after another, including several international feeds, which is great.
(13:48):
So if English is not your chosen or language for
the event, or is not your native tongue, they've got
options for you. So yeah, it's the blueprint, right, it's
the global event. How do you bring everybody together?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
This is it. You gotta get the TV part right. Yeah,
it's been an absolute masterclass. I'm telling you, it really is.
And it's it's kind of flown under the radar a
little bit, but because it's so smooth, no one's talking
about it. So hey, a little man, listen. Sometimes you
gotta have appreciation moments, whether it's Katy Lideki or how
the Olympics are saying. You gotta have that bit of positivity. Right,
(14:25):
we can talk about we can talk about who's not
playing for t busa men zoops, and who's gonna be
the next game, and is Steve Kerry gonna sit Steph
Curry because Steph Curry deserves to sit because he sticks.
But we gotta have the positivity moments as well. That's
how it goes.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, you needed aj Benzo's music behind you, then I'm
going to get a spotlight and a fog machine.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I used to love those Benza commercials, but it would be,
you know, the the holly true Hollywood mysteries like Black
Dahlia or Jane Mansfield, whatever it was, and he would
close by saying Fame hated a blanket and that was
the end of every problem. And then he'd walk off,
and every time it's the best. See now I want
(15:11):
to go find some of those Oh is he still
doing stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Agent?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah? Yeah, he shows up with Stern. I think a
bunch as usual. Really, Like I'm wondering, like is he
Like like I would be surprised to find, Oh, aj
Ben's the guy doing oh getting cab getting coffee and
cabs with comedians, now, like that's what he's doing. Where
the hell is aj Ben's been Reddit read about aj
Ben's a roll every once in a while. Okay, all right,
(15:37):
that's cool, all right, very good as long as you
go on high stakes poker. Oh poker, ain'ted a blank?
Maybe just changes changes out of that flop. Ain't a blank.
That's his tagline for everything. Now, Hey, aj Ben's what
do you think about the Olympics? Olympics, ain'ted a blank?
Sixty two years old? What do you think about? What
(15:59):
do you think about? And curse you out tonight? No strikeouts,
first time in two thousand and eight strikeouts. Ain't in
a blank?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
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all those years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
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from the ti raq dot Com studios. Coming up next,
we'll get into a little bit of controversy from today
that actually could have been much bigger controversy. And also
a team I told you to watch out for. Here
they come, and now everybody's got to watch out for him.
That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com studios.
We'll tell you about that team I told you to
watch out for here they come coming up in a
couple of minutes. But controversy today that could have been
much bigger and a much bigger deal in the Olympics.
(17:33):
And you know, I gotta say, I'm kind of on
the side of I'm kind of anti us on this controversy.
Look at you. Yeah, let's go the lad how about
a Fresco. I know, here's what the women's national team
won today over Australia two to one in soccer. And
we'll get to the triplets coming sorry Trey Akman hashtag
(17:54):
Paton Pennick. We'll get to the triplets in there, and
there impact coming up in a bit. But they win
two to one and the first goal is scored by
Trinity Rodman off a corner kick, and they went back
and looked at it, and they looked at it for
about five minutes looking for offside. Now there was a
discrepancy whether or not var was working. They didn't know.
(18:17):
And it came back and they allowed the goal and
clearly Sam Coffee of the United States was offside. And
this is this is but this is where I get
into the wow really and I understand the Australia coach
was really mad and that, you know, and they talked
about it a lot at halftime. Is a real controversial
goal because look, the rule in soccer is you can
(18:39):
you can blow off and offside if it's deemed the
player is not involved in the play. And normally that
happens if a player is you know, is wide breaking
down the field and they don't get the ball. Right,
someone's breaking down the left side, they're offside, they don't
get the ball. And I see this play and I go, wow, man,
you know, in theory, I get it because Sam Coffee
(18:59):
doesn't touch the ball and it goes in, but she's
in front of the net. She's in front of the ghalie, right,
I mean, yeah, she touched it the goalie.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You had to had to push her off to clear
the bath for to see where the ball was.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, and you had And she's taking up a defender's
attention because she's in front of the net, and you
don't know where that would have gone because you know
she's still affecting the play. And for it to still
be allowed, I'm like, boy, I get Australia on that. Like,
she was clearly offside. She touches the goalie, she's she's
(19:33):
right in front of the goalie and she's distracting and
and it's still yeah, it's not offside. She wasn't really
involved in the play. I thought the United States kind
of got a gift on that because that that rule
is such open to interpretation. But I'm watching this, I'm
going really really that that that goal is allowed to stand.
Why that one for the United States. I never thought
the United States had that goal stand. I never thought
(19:54):
they would allow that goal stand. I'm like, Okay, they're
oh man, she's offside, she's right in the middle of
the play. Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna disallow that no
goal the United States one nothing, here's the here's the
here's the kickoff. We're putting the ball right back on
the end of the field.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, I thought it was gonna be a truncated version
of what the match was that got everything started right
where we had an hour and a half delay before
Vaar comes back and makes a determination. Here a lot shorter,
but same idea of we don't have any video monitors.
When he's walking around kind of shrugging his shoulders, you've
got the coach who eventually gets the yellow card for
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cursing at him.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But and eventually they got to the.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Monitor to look at it, but there's a long delay,
and every replay they show, I'm like, I know, there's,
you know, some wiggle room in the offside rule. It's like,
this seems fairly textbook. Here what am I missing? And
then once he said, hey, the goal was confirmed, I'd
let out a very audible well, I'll be damned, thinking
(20:57):
that was clearly gonna get taken off, and then we'd
have the explosion from the US side. But again, it's
it's funny sometimes these Olympic and international rulings.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I mean, really and and and usually they don't go
our way. That's the whole thing is, like, why are
we get we don't get everybody hates the United States?
Why are we gonna get that? Go? Nope, nope, nope,
we're gonna allow it to stand. That just makes me
think that there really was something up and they didn't
want to admit l v a R is not working
whatever it is, because how bad does that look that?
Oh well we need var for this, Yeah, the United
States got Yeah, we don't have that. Sorry, so yeah
(21:30):
we don't. We were looking at it. We don't. Yeah,
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To tell you my favorite police shows. As I go
into the mini mark, can we check your tapes? Oh no,
that's that's just for show.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We're just trying. We're just trying to scare people off.
It's like every time in a in a movie they
go in and they go, we'll see what the uh
you know what? What the what the cameras have recorded?
Oh no, we don't turn those on. We haven't turned
them on in a month. We don't have the to
we we don't have the money for anymore. Yeah, we
didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, we can't get videotapes anymore, so we can't ride.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
We go back. No, we record new over the videotapes.
Every day we record I'm sorry, we can't get it,
and then you put.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It back in and it's part of head Banger's Ball
instead of whatever was going on in the mini mart.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I'm Adam Curry. Here's a new video from Crocus coming
up later we have accept and also the new one
from the Scorpions and the Michael Schenker group. Wow, dude,
I got Agent and Adam Curry in the show in
the last fifteen minutes. I am old god.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, both guys known for their hair. He has a
slip back with a lot of pat Riley like grease.
Oh yeah, Curry couldn't tease his high enough.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, Adam Kurry. He hit it big right when Guns
and Roses hit it big and Apsel Rose had the
big hair and he had the big hair. Okay, we
got it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That might have been the smallest leather jacket ever though
he's a very narrow man.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
A uh no, how about are you ready for a
hot take? Let's get ready for a hot take. Net
just go. We mentioned a few minutes ago Clayton Kershaw
first time in nine thousand starts. He didn't have a strikeout,
got knocked out of the game early tonight, and the
Padres swept the Dodgers. Yes, we've talked about Kershaw. You
don't know what you're gonna get from him. This is
(23:14):
why it was very important the Dodgers go get Jack Flaherty. Okay,
and they did. But here's your big hot take. I
told you the Padres were coming last week. I said,
watch out for the Padres. They're coming. And at the
deadline they get two great relievers. All right, you're talking
about Scott and Adam. And now suddenly the bullpen looks
(23:34):
unbeatable and they're going for it this year. All right.
It's a big emotional year for the Padres, and and
they're going for it. And again they were playing well.
They seem to figured it out. Now they make the
big moves of the deadline. They are five games out
of first place, and they just swept the Dodgers for
the first time this season. The possibility of the Dodgers
(23:56):
being a wild card team is out there because they've
just been a five hundred team now for a couple
of months, right, I mean, you know, they're high point
there were twenty games over five hundred. For the last
couple months, they've been just hanging around at five hundred. Now,
they've had a lot of injuries, and they're hoping that
these moves they made the deadline are gonna help them.
And yet you want to throw it out there. Yes,
(24:17):
you're waiting for Munsey to come back, You're waiting for
Mookie Bets to come back. All of this is true.
But for the first time, the possibility the Dodgers could
be walking in the playoffs is hey, wild card, first round?
Good luck? Oh whoa, whoa, whoa whoa? Wait a minute,
that could happen. The Padres have really made a huge
statement this week, and five games is nothing when you're
(24:37):
talking about still. You know, July thirty first, right, the
Mets made up ten games in the standings in a month.
The Astros caught the Mariners with ten games in the
standings in a month. This is just five games. And
this is a Dodgers team that has struggled and has
kind of meandered around. They need to kick it up
a little bit here, and I'm hoping they had that
extra gear. But until these players come back, you don't know.
(24:58):
But for the first time in this season. Dodgers wild Card.
That's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Because I'm I'm a nerd. I immediately go to my
good friends at Tankathon strength the schedule remaining. Guess who's
got the easiest schedule remaining in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Oh, Jason Smith, Fox Sports Radio, the San Diego Padres. Yeah, Hey,
what do I wait? Socks?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
What do?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
What do I? What buy you? Sand? Which you next week?
Where do you got the Mets? With the takathon? Where
are the Mets?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Mets are twenty third? Composit record is for eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's not good.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, well, but you got three against the White Sox,
three against the Rockies, three against the Cars, three against
the A's, three against the Angels, and three against Washington. Okay,
that's up bad Dodgers, middle of the pack. They're eighteenth,
nice even five hundred the rest of the way for
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the teams that they played, just because we make fun
of the White Sox all the time. Fifteenth, hardest schedule remaining.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't think it matters. I really don't think.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I like this is one where there's lies, damn lies
and statistics that mean absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This this is one of those nothings process.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Thats where hardest schedule remaining, Tampa Bay, followed by Kansas City.
In Kansas City, a team that I picked to come
up and take the Al Central. So we'll see what happened.
Was there Bobby with Junior? What are the idiot?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Five hundred this month, almost five for eighty eight this month.
It was insane. Forty four hits in a month. That's unbelievable.
You know how long it takes anybody on the Mets
to get forty four hits. This guy's still looking for
forty that play every day they're looking for their forty four.
He's a wizard, Harry. At least forty four hits in
a month, dude, I mean this, that's just and inside.
(26:47):
What's only four people I think in the history of
baseball have had a better batting average in a single
month of the calendar month than he had.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's absolutely insane. And the other day I forget who
it was. You know, hot take nonsense that scrolls through
your your Twitter feed talking about Bobby Witt and trying
to figure out where he ranks among the game's best.
If you don't want to put him one, he's sure
as hell in the conversation right nowhney.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Man, I'll tell you that may be the new strategy.
Win the World Series, tank for close to a decade
and get all good players get good again. There's your
royal friend Mets in the World Series. Oh Man, you
open the door? No I did? I did? I did.
I strolled right in and said hello. He looked like
Lenny and Squiggy. But who could be that stupid? Hello? Hello?
(27:36):
You know I do that to my dad all the time.
Every time I know he's coming, because you know, we
have the ring doorbell on the front. He always he
usually comes around the back because he comes to the
back of the house because that's where we are. Like,
I always know he's coming, and right before he gets
ready to walk to the door, I go, yeah. But
there's nobody in the world that's stupid. And my dad
every time he walks in, he goes hello. He plays
it all the time. He does the bit, he does
(27:58):
the bit.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You know what, you gotta lean into the bit. That's
a good bit right there. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
A guy who's got a really good bit is Isaac Lowenkron.
He's got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports. I love.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Well, we'll start with a baseball Squiggy update because you
just mentioned Squiggy. I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure you guys
probably know this, but most people out there probably don't.
The actor who played Squiggy went on to be an
actual Major League Baseball scout in the Angels organization and
the Mariners organization. I think David Lander, that's right. He
(28:34):
Squiggy went on to be a real working baseball scout.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
He was. He was a play by play guy in
the league in their own.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I that's right, head said, drop them all said, dropped the.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Ball voice of the Rockford Peaches. Not a real peachy
night on Wednesday for the Los Angeles Dodgers or Claytonshaw
that's the medium sized dollars, right, Yes, I majored in
segues and.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I really want to line up for your class on segues.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Spend all that money for tuition, and he's riding a
segway down the block. So we got our lines crossed there.
Padres over the Dodgers eight to one. San Diego's won
nine of ten. Dylan Cease is the eleventh win of the season.
Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw, making just his second start of
the season, lasted three and two thirds innings, did not
record a strikeout, and that ended his major league record
(29:30):
streak of appearances with at least a strikeout at four
hundred and four. Last time he appeared in a game
without a strikeout September twenty eighth, two thousand and eight,
Giants over the Ages.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Before you get to you tell me, because I can't
find my computer's down right now, Dylan ceaes, Boy, he's
really good. What team did he play for up until
this year?
Speaker 5 (29:50):
I actually don't even need a computer for that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Oh where did he play? Boy? I mean, because whoever
let him go? Boy, that's a that's a really bad
decision right there. He could really help them.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
How you doing, Mike?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Really good idea to trade him in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, White Sox Baseball, you have got to be kittings ies.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Those tweets continued tonight, as they certainly did when he
only pitched a no hitter or back on Thursday at
Washington Giants over the Eighties one nothing. San Francisco's Logan
web a complete game, five hitch shutout. He struck out
sixty threw one hundred and six pitches. Rockies over the
Angels in Anaheim two to one, Brenton Doyle's go ahead
home run on the top of the eighth inning of
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the difference their Olympics. On Wednesday, the US men's basketball
team clinched a spot on the quarterfinals with a one
to three to eighty six win over South Sudan. The
US women's soccer team over Australia two to one, winning
its group. They went three and oh. They will face
Japan in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Finally, in swimming, Wednesday,
the story was Katie ledecky, this time in the fifteen
(30:55):
hundred freestyle.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Twenty five meats left for Laducky Toby four. I guess
he won the gold in Tokyo. It's gonna back it
up again.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Here in Paris, and the greatest swimming machine we've ever.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Seen rose up to another goal here in Paris with
a new Olympic record.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Dan Hicks the call on NBC eighth the gold medal
of Katie Ledecki's career. Jason and Michae all yours.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it, my friend. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carben live
from the tirek dot com studios. Now here's the thing,
harm and here here's the thing. Is is that you
know I did math before the show. I know, I
remember you. I really went down that rabbit hole. I
feel the need to bring this up because this is
this is very important because I did math before the show.
(31:43):
We are getting to the point where we have to
start paying attention to your White Sox every single day
because they could set an all time record for worst
MLB record in history. Go all the way back to
more abouteling better about your day. No no, no, no, no,
not your day.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I mean the collective, youth, the collective of society. You
didn't have as bad a day as the White Sox have.
We can't count the Cleveland Spiders. It was before nineteen hundred,
they disbanded. Maybe they would have got hot at the end,
who knows. But the Mets in nineteen sixty two have
the consensus that's the worst team ever, worst record. They
only won forty games. They were forty to one twenty.
(32:24):
The White Sox.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right now are playing at a pace of two forty
three winning percentage. Right, two forty three winning percentage. If
they're gonna not finish as the worst team of all time,
they need to go fourteen and thirty one in their
in the rest of their games, Okay, or fourteen to
thirty seven, sorry, fourteen seven, fourteen and thirty seven in
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their last fifty one games. That is a two seventy
four winning percentage. That is thirty points higher than the
winning percentage they have been at so far through all May, June,
and all of July. They have to amp it up
if they're gonna not be the worst team of all time.
This is gonna become a daily store. We're gonna we're
(33:10):
gonna interrupt NFL games on Monday nights. In September, Togo
White Sox lost again. That's lost number one hundred and eighteen,
lost one hundred and nineteen. That we're gonna have to
do that. It's gonna be that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Boy, it's a really good thing. Caleb Williams has won
more games in September than the White Sox have since August. First,
I can already hear it, and that means he's won
one game, right, he wins the open. He already has
more wins than they had in August. I mean they're
already doing this right, this team, you know, more wins
(33:44):
or this player more wins than the White Sox have
had at home in the last two months, like all
those like there's just so many punchlines flowing out of
the city of Chicago because don't forget the Cubs aren't
much better. I mean, they're better off, but they still.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Let me ask you, really, I'm a miserable throw this
at you right now. Who wins more games the White
Sox the rest of the season or the Bears counting
the regular season and the preseason. Who wins more preseason?
Let's see, Bears could win ten, I mean ten eleven games,
they could win ten eleven games. I think the White
(34:21):
Sox could have win twelve. Yeah, I think you over
unders eight and a half. I'll take the White Sox,
but it's going to be close, Okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Because I mean you get three pre well, actually they
get four because they've got the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah yeah, good luck. I'm not telling so you win
three of them. Saying you win three of these, what
if you win three of those games? That could happen?
Could happen? I watch out why you want you do that?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You're supposed to be my best friend. Absolutely, you just
keep kicking me in the ribs, White Sox at how
about a Fresca exit?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Swalling down? The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmon. Coming up next, the birth of a new
era in one sport in the Olympics today. You were
looking for it, you were waiting for it. It's here.
What is it that's next? Fox?
Speaker 3 (35:12):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tyraq dot Com Studios.
Got a big double barrel of NFL stories coming your
way next to our two big quarterback stories. Got men's
USA basketball reaction. I think we're asking the wrong question.
After they beat South Sudan today, who are these guys?
But let me just say this all right. After the
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women's national team in soccer one as big as they
did over Germany a couple of days ago, the way
the three forwards played together, Mallory Swanson Rodman, Sophia Smith.
This could have been the day that was the birth
of the new era of women's soccer in the United States.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Thought you were going to say it was almost today.
You also almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow. It's like, what
the hell's he got to do with?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Then he'll remember today as the day you almost captured
and we would look to today as the oh the
cementing of it, like what was this one great game?
What are they like? Because the chemistry the three forwards
had was incredible, the way they played as fast as
they were. And look, you've heard me talk a lot
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about Marrillory, Mallory Swans and how I think about her
as a player. She's the key. I wonder, if you're
a cop, I wonder if we would have won the
World Cup if she was healthy. Right that That's how
good she's. That's how good she is. That's what she
is to this team. After today, you could see these
are the three players that are the new era of
women's soccer. As in we went from Mia Hamm Julie
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Foudy to Abby Woan back to Alex Morgan, Meghan Rapino
and now we're at the triplets right, and I don't
mean Aikman, Irvin and Emmittsmith unless he unless he doesn't
own the unless Trey Aikman doesn't own the rights to that.
They need a nickname because the three of them, this
is who the United States team is built around. You
can tell watching the game it was let's get the
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ball up to the forwards. They made Lindsay Horan look good.
They made Rose Level look good. Neither of them can
run with either of these three because they're just so
incredibly fast, and their chemistry and their confidence is off
the charts. You can see how panicked the opponent gets.
Anytime one of these three players has the ball. I
mean anytime one of them has it in the open field,
it's a big scoring chance because they're so fast and
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they're so skilled, and they already play so well together,
like this is the dawn of the new era. This
is what we've been waiting for for the next two
for the rest of this Olympics and the next two
World Cups. These are the three players this team is
built around. Because they're all in their early in the
mid twenties. You know, once you start getting into your thirties. Okay,
let's see how how effective you are, because we saw
Alex Morgan at thirty five is basically done. But for
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the next two next the next two Olympics, the next
two World Cups. These are the three players. This is
the identity of the women's national team. Because I guarantee
you the entire world watched them play today and they
all sat back and said wow. So that gap between
the changeover from the old guard in the United States
the new guard, it was that last World Cup because now,
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good luck, they'll be the number one team in the
world again. They'll win the gold medal, they'll blitz to it,
they'll beat everybody, and it'll be because of these three players.
They have fourteen to the sixteen goals under Emma Hayes.
Like she's walked in and said, you three are you
three are the future. You're our present and look what
they're doing so far. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Well, the way you get consistent pressure up front, it's
sucking up other defenders, right, so you start getting more
space like you're talking about for Haran and for others
to find opportunity. Right, you see a big drive off
of rebound. Why because there's no defender in the space
to lead to another goal. With Rodman, you've also got
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size and physicality, so you've got to go to the
double team. And what happens as soon as you vacate
that space enough ball skills to find whoever's cutting or
to kick it back out to Haran or whoever's filling
that space and again setting up more scoring opportunity. Like
that's the most exciting part of it, right, And we
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keep lamenting it and waiting for it, and when we
see it on the men's side, you get all excited.
It's like attacking right to where it's not a wrong
build up. It's like we can actually get out and run.
And on the women's side, that's the thing that's been
exciting goal opportunities and creating a lot of chances. Need
to finish better than we did today, right, I mean, look,
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you had that pinball off a defender, off one post,
off another post, somehow does not find the back of
the net.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is just curious. You don't get it, do you get it?
Don't get a double post all that often, and we
don't at that double post today.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Which would have gone down as an own goal. So
I mean it's just chaos. But again, just the amount
of pressure that they put on. It's exciting to watch
this next iteration as you fill up that starting eleven.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
They just need a nickname. The triplet's something. They need
a nickname because that's how good they are. The new
era of women's soccer is here. We saw it the
last two people saw the birth of it.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
People forgot that threes a crowd existed with John Ritters,
so we can steal that.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Coming up next as far as Three's Company sequels go,
we have a big story out of USA basketball. Fox
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