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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
From the Fox Sports Radio studios, where right now Dennis
Eckersley is warming up to pitch the sixth inning for
the A's. The Dodgers lead the Athletics fifteen to two
as the A's are batting in the top of the
sixth inning. Still early Dodgers got three in the first,
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three in the second, seven, and a third two in
the fourth. That's like the Jets line score field goal
in the first quarter, field goal the second quarter, touchdown,
the third quarter, safety in the fourth quarter, but not enough.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
They lose twenty one to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah, this has reached a level of absurdity at this point.
How many how many positioned players? What's the over under
if you could lie bet.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It telling you man Keik Hernandez is gonna get a
three inning save tonight. He's gonna come in and pitch
the seventh, eighth, and ninth, and.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
He's gonna get a three innings.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Say, just don't overthrow it, that's all. Just don't overthrow it.
Too many pitchers on the I hel.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Show Hey Otani on his fifty to fifty bobblehead night,
which tell you they should have a fiftyeo bobblehead night
all the time. Shotani has not won but two home
runs tonight.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Yeah, you want to hear him?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
He had a three? We can hear him, Sure, go
ahead from him?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
We can't.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Oh, okay, there's a long drive for.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He's got a three run homer and a two run
home He is a solo home run and a grand
Slam away from the home run cycle in this game.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, I mean, by.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Calling it a pressing news item, does that get us
an exemption?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think, I really, I have a good mustache while
doing it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I really, I mean he is shoo Tani is two
home runs away from the home run cycle.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh my goodness, Uh oh you want to I gotta
you want to go Dennis Ecresy story, I gotta go,
Denis exsly story.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Mustache Well, yeah, sure.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
What about a mustache ride?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I went to.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, it's not that kind of STORYTI, It's it's not
ten o'clock yet for us. I can't tell that story
in somewhere yea.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I was going to say, you know, it's five am somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
When I was, I think I was. Right after I
graduated college, I went to go with my best friend
is from Delaware, right, and I went to go visit him,
and we went to an Orioles game because you know,
it wasn't that far.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Your best friend's Biden, So we.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Got Yeah, we went on our friend, well, he's my
best friend, and coylein. I didn't know you and Kyle,
you were still talking to people Northwestern about financial aid.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Okay, when when I didn't know you, you're still doing that.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Okay, sounds so dismissive of the you were doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Are you really helping people?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I was helping people. Now I just try to entertain
them and piss them off.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So we go to the We go to the Orioles
get first I've ever been to Canden Yards. I wanted
they got like Canada Yards, Camden Yards in the nineties,
Like think about what it is to see it, like
an incredible ballpark, right, it was the first time I
was going to get to go. This is in the nineties, right,
like I'm going back, like, you know, thirty years. That's
first time get to go to Camden Yards. Like this
is so great. So we go and we go to
buy tickets, and the A's are still really good, right,
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so you know it's it's an A's Orioles game. Like,
all right, great, So we go to buy tickets and
and uh, we didn't know if we were going to
actually get regular tickets or you could get the standing
tickets where you where you sit behind where you stand
and you just watch over the the back of the
uh we watch over the fence.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So we're sitting there. We don't where to go.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We're just standing there and we're waiting to see what
kind of tickets we're gonna get. We're in that area,
and all of a sudden, my friend he excuse me,
excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And it's this.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Guy coming out from the ballpark and he's got like
a tank top and running shorts and running shoes, and
he's got his head down and we're like, oh, yeah,
what are you doing. Oh it's Dennis Eckersley going for
his pregame jog. He just left the stadium and he's
coming out jogging around the neighborhood because that's what he
got his work at it right, You're not gonna need
me in the first inning or before the first inning,
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so I go get my job. And he came out
to jogging. He probably does his jog and then he
came back in and I didn't think about that till
way later.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I said, Wow, I don't know if him just because.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
He's pretty distinctive, Like you see him with the mustache
and the hair.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It's like, yeah, he was living on the edge too.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I don't know, man, Like, is that a thing that
you're okay with? Like, Hey, I'm a i'm a i'm
a I'm a baseball superstar and I'm out just jogging
on the street, you know, while the game's going out.
The greatest neighborhood Ball to Laura is the epitome of
clean and safe cities.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
All right, I'm waiting for the laugh.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well because I was trying to come up with my
best wire line.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Said, I really thought that was I was going to
feed the roll of decks.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Thing all the cities in America, not the jog around
that's probably at the top.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
No, it's it certainly would be in the rankings, there's
no question about it. Can't wait to go late in
October when the Bears take on the Rings.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Whatever. Hey, Caleb Williams not just his own team, he's
going to go to away games thinking good, I'm getting
away from all the booing that I get at home
because I said, you's got to go to Vegas. Quarterbacks
go to die. So that's my Dennis Eckersley story.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
He's walking up like, Okay, it was really really weird.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Did you decide to go to for a jog with him?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
No, no, no, come on, I don't run.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh even back then when I was playing sports, like,
I didn't run just to run because running is the
worst thing in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Why would you just run.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
The most honest you've ever been.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, but but I'm like, okay, like, but it was
I really I didn't think I don't run. I didn't
think about this. Still, so late of it, I don't
know that that's the greatest thing to do. But apparently
he was okay, right even he made it made it back,
and so tells me Akershley, he's been a scrap or
two where he'd be able to handle himself. Okay, I mean,
I mean if he's running with a baseball and someone
comes up to hit him and he gives you the.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Big, you know, submarine throw.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh, I didn't see that baseball coming from so low
and hit me in the head.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
No, I don't think you don't want me the mustache.
They go away. Yeah, you don't mess with a.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Guy like that just really takes care of that mustache.
He's someone I gotta be careful. I'm trying to think
who I could see. If there's anybody in the world,
not just an athlete, anybody in the world that if
I saw them walking out of some place.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
To go for a jog, I would go and jog
with them. Like I don't know that I don't know
that there's.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Any No, No, can't, I can't. You know he's gonna
run up the steps. I'd get tired after like eight steps. Ah,
you keep going, Oh my god. That woman's name he
used to bring up all the time, justin Bartolo Cologne.
Well he might jog with him because he could beat him.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, that's who I'm thinking Bartolo.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
There's no jogging, He's walking, and I'd be walking alongside him.
It's that's how would go. But the jogging, the yogi.
I hear about this, I forget it, Like I I
don't know that there's one person world I want to
hang out with that much that I would go jogging
with them.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Like that's that's the worst. Oh, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I can't think of like Lindor I like, I don't know.
I mean Tom Seaver when he was alive. Maybe I
don't know. But really Joe Namath, when I go jogging
with Joe new Like, I don't know, I don't like yeah,
no no, no, no no no, I would.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Walk wi mom No no not his mom's gonna be there,
and maybe some of her friends.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't know that. I really I don't know that
there is somebody that I would do that for. I
really don't. I really don't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, Nick Cage.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You could you could. Hey, I want to talk to
you about Madden. Hey, Hey I can a play? Hey,
you know if you can catch up with me. It's okay,
just run alongside. Now, I'm kind of like that's kind
of like Nick Cage and Owen Wilson. Hey, it's all right,
just kind.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Of whoo, just just.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Run along side. Added to armis yeah, uh no, the Battlerena,
she would kick my ass on. No, so that would
that would make you think twice about trying to try to.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Yog about what oh ah.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
He's still pining to be a Yankee.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I don't think one soda jobs. I don't have the
chance to strike me as a jogger.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I don't think talking about people that you can keep
up with.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, oh oh okay, sure sure, yeah keep up with?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
What about Chris Berman? Uh no, no, I worked I
worked with for a few years. No, not happening.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Not happening. I really, I don't think there's anybody. I
don't think there's anybody that's it.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I choose not to run.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
That's what we gotta know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
What, here's a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
What do I have to do? You have to jog
fifteen miles without stopping? Ah, give that million to somebody else.
Somebody else needs it more. Than me, go ahead, give
it and give it up. No, you get all up
in your head going, well, I could do fourteen, but
that fifteenth mile I could do. Sportine, I could jog
to the end of the street, but then I need
to stop and change my shirt. So that's uh yeah, No,
it's not happening anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Sweaty jogging.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
They'd have to saw your underpants off like they were
a cast.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't know how I played sports as much, with
all the running I did, and all the up and down,
like whether it was football or hockey or or you know,
the skating, or or with with with softball, I.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Don't know how I did that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I don't know how you spoke with such conviction, more
so than any take you've ever given in the eleven
years we've been doing this show, Frostbury, you'd agree with me,
right his sure blanket, I running the worst.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I mean, you're beyond Matt Damon. Oh yeah, in that
Nike movie.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, I mean, I I mean, I don't know, because
I wonder, really I'm being serious about this when when
I start, I never had a thought about running it all.
I always wanted to be I was never fast, so
maybe That's why one thing, because I was never fast.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
She's really really slow because I have a.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Long torso and shorter legs like and that that you
know that's going to be a fast runner. So but
when we were when when I first started really getting
into working out right or working out, was freshman year
of high school and I went to go play football,
and football I think I still have some kind of
PTSD from from the freshman and sophomore year uh practices
(10:44):
because they were the absolute worst. I mean like we
would start every full equipment practice with leg raisers and
arm circles, and we'd be exhausted by the time we
finished stretching, and then we would run two miles in
in heavy equipment. On the track, we would run two
miles at least, sometimes more than that. And I remember
we wouldn't even get to start practice, like practice started
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at two forty five and by the time we did
all that and are running and it was like almost
four o'clock, I'm like, how is this help us? Right
then varsity was like yeah, we don't run that much.
I'm like, thank you, why the hell are we running?
The JV like that was everywhere I know, Freshman and
sophomore year of football was only September October, in the
first two weeks in November, but it feels like it
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was like three years long right now when I think
about it, Like I would be so exhausted waking up
every morning, and then we'd go, we would hit, and
we would have full equipment practices and we would do
crazy tackling drills and then we would finish every practice
by running thirty forty yard sprints. Right that's in full equipment.
And we never had a half equipment day or you know,
just shoulder pads and helmets, never.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Had a day like that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It was the absolute worst. And I don't know if
maybe it's my running thing goes back to that, but
ever since then, I'm like, yeah, no running, no, no, no, no, no, no, like,
don't leg it, don't leg it.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
So when it came time to coach soccer and softball,
did you just leave that part of the curriculum out
or I mean, how did you integrate that when it
was clear you had no desire to take four steps
in any direction yourself? Well, first of all, I'm coaching,
not running. Secondly, I would always say, I would always
say to the team Okay, we don't have to do
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a lot of running, because you know, we'll get a
lot of running. And I always want of those coaches
that A is like, hey, you'll get a lot of
running in these drills that we do.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You're just not gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Realize it because we're going to be doing up and down,
two on two, breakaways or different things. So you're getting
your running in. But I'm never gonna make you just
run at you know, to run to do whatever I said,
unless I see us wilting at the end of games.
And if we're tired at the end of games, it
means we need more stamina and we need to run
a little bit more. So as long as you show
me you're not tired the end of games, we can
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do it. And I'll tell you what I hardly ever
had to do that, whether they were tired or not,
they're like, we don't want to run. So they always
busted their asses the last few minutes of a game
to make sure that we weren't tired, weren't giving up
an odd man break or something else happening. And and
and it was good, Like I found a way to
get them get the conditioning in when they didn't even
realize it. But the whole running thing. I was like, hey, listen,
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I don't like it, so I'm not going to make
you do it unless you show me that we need
to do it, and they never did. Might have been
a little bit better if you'd add some more sprints.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, we won a lot of games.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was okay with it. We won a lot of games.
That was all right. I mean you could sleep at night.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I'm a Hall of Fame coach in who's mind, in
whatever mind I wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I'm a Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Which which earth that you're currently in that mind of yours, I.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Am a hall of fan. Not many coaches won as
many games as I did in soccer and softball.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Not many did, not many.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I'm telling you that I got skills. I got skills,
and another and another earth.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Maybe I'm I'm the head coach of the Jets, but
in this earth, I'm here with you when I'm coaching
youth sports.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's what that's me.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
You and Liam Neeson got the words, that's right.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Special set of skills, absolutely special set exit. How about
a fresco exit swollen dough all right, we have to
be done talking because now I'm just getting upset, I'm
getting sweaty talking about running.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So now we have to stop. We're done with the running.
We're done with the running conversations for the night. We're done.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Coming up next, Rick Buker stops by Fox Sports One
NBA Insider extraordinaire, who takes Game seven between the Thunder
and the Nuggets, Who takes Game six nixt tomorrow night
between the Knicks and the Celtics, all the big NBA news.
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Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Looks like the Jets and their offensive explosion
are going to win tonight. Jets, you matter that it's hockey,
the Jets offensive explosion. Jets lead the Stars right now,
three nothing, three minutes ago on the third period, empty
(16:01):
net for the Stars. It looks like this serie is
gonna continue. But no, you got hellabook on the road,
which okay, good luck not getting pulled. So it's gonna
be a Stars three to two lead over Winnipeg in
about two minutes and forty seven seconds. Jetsy, Jets you meanwhile,
tonight we watched to no one's surprise, the Nuggets and
(16:26):
the Thunder advanced.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
To Game seven nice plus five and a half Denver
at home.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Once SGA had four fouls in the first half.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I kinda knew, well, I think this game is gonna
go Denver's just like when Jalen Brunson fouled out last
night and kat had four fouls in the first eight seconds. Like, yeah,
I think I know how this game is gonna go.
I think I know that we're extending. Anytime a home
team is down in a series, what a surprise that
(16:57):
the visiting team that can close out all of a sudden,
they're in foul trouble and the star players shake Gildess Alexander,
who never fouled out of a game all year, I
had to play the entire second half with four fouls.
He's minus eight for the game. The Thunder don't really
threaten in the fourth quarter, and the Nuggets win by twelve,
(17:18):
just like the Knicks never threatened last night. Brunton in
foul trouble, Karl Anthony Towns Celtics did whatever the hell
they wanted to. So yeah, both teams were up three
games to one. In three games to two, chance to
close it out. No, no, no, no no, We're going
back home for another game, everybody. Don't you worry. Those
hometown calls are just going to continue to slide right through.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
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Good for you, good man, the NB.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
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Speaker 5 (17:49):
What is curious to be though, right is you got
two guards you know, called for a number of reach
in files. I'd love to go back into the regular season,
something you and I have talked about quite a bit,
like the change of officiating and what you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Normally you let more go and we saw plenty of
times where wow, that's an awful lot of physicality. There
were a couple of times where you got Aaron Gordon
being knocked off his spot with no call.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's a lot of man to move and not get
a call. And then you have the touch.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Fall as a guy's driving by, Ah, he stuck his
hand down. He's like, it's a fall. But is that
something you called regularly during the regular season.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Don't think so.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
But we have it here and you have to adjust
and change your tact accordingly. And unfortunately, for the Oklahoma
City Thunder with SGA and foul trouble, a little bit
of a change as to how they had to operate,
and then the fourth quarter. I mean, look, it was
the Strawther and Brown game. Everybody else kind of stepped up,
had their spots. Jamal Murray, whatever illness he was dealing with,
(18:51):
he filled up the stat sheet. He had all sorts
of random things affixed to his body whenever he sat out.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I'm like, I want to know what those are? Those
heat pads or those cooling pads? Are they beside?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Like?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
What are those things?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Like?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
All?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, but they look like like you could lay them
down for as tile. That's how big they were.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
What's today?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
What is today? Is today? Wednesday? Or Thursday?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Today is Thursday?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I thought it was Friday all day.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I saw something early Friday till Sunday to play game seven.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Now they want to give everybody extra rest. Don't feel
like they're the NBA likes to do this for games.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
What they like that game should be Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
They like to take one extra day off between games
five and game seven. Right when we're moving back, we're
playing game six and Game seven because it's one because
instead of two games. You play, then you fly to
another location, play two games. Okay, when you play five, six,
and seven, you're flying three times. They'd like to give
everybody an extra day off. Usually it's between you know,
(19:52):
sometimes it's between game five and game six, but this
times swing game six and game seven.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
So when is game one and Celtics Pacers, h that'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That'll be next year. That'll be opening night Celtics Pacers.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, be opening night where where the Knicks will be playing.
The Knicks will be playing the Nuggets in the in
the NBA Finals rematch. That'll be the big game.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Opening So you got the Nuggets winning Game seven.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I got the I'll make my official pick tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But it sounded like that I'm gonna have the Nuggets
winning Game seven, I think so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It would.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It would ruin Isaiah Hartenstein. It would ruin my my
my big vision of the Knicks Final four with the
final four teams in the NBA Playoffs being the Knicks,
the Pacers who are synonymous with the Knicks in the playoffs,
Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo, former Knicks from last year,
and Isaiah Hartenstein like that would be the perfect that's.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The Nicks wore right there.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Did you see that two minute span that Hartenstein had.
He was like a one man wrecking crew. That was
a guy running into the ring WWE style. I don't
need my damn music. I'm going in there and beat
some ass.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Joining us now the hot line to take a look
at the two big games coming up the next couple
of days. Fox Sports one Insider Extraordinary. You can follow
him on Twitter at Rick Buger. It is Rick Buker, man,
what's happening about?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I am?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I am good. I'm good. We uh we sprung a
leak here at the Bucher household, and so I had
a little work to do, had a little plumbing issue
I had to deal with. So a man of many
a man of many talents, and but this is why
I like being in the studio and away from home,
so that it's hit the phone call, you know, hey, honey,
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okay called the plumb We're good.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So it wasn't Matt Bucker getting upset that that SGA
had four fouls called on him in the first half
and doing something that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Actually, Matt Buker did have a hand in it, but
we'll leave that alone.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
From that pad.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Wow, I got to tell you this. In the Rick
Buker Children Power rankings, his daughter with that basketball scholarship,
has jumped in number one. Matt Buker after a three
dred and seventy four week run, a number one drops
the number two.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Well, I will have to be to me a month
now going asunder.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, the daughter extended her lead. He was just we
just heard that she's a candidate for NCAA Woman of
the Year. How about that?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Wow, all right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I don't know if there's like one hundred and fifty
candidates or what.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, but Rick, what does it mean?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It means that she she was the captain of a
basketball team that that had to survive two hurricanes to
play this season. So I guess guessing that's what I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, what's your community service? I was saving the lives
of my much teammates. That's to go over Well.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, right, what else you got? Okay, what else?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Exactly exactly? Well, what do you do the rest of
the time?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I hit a big three from the corner Oh great
that oh big three from the corner. Yes, all right, great,
that that's.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
A Wednesday flight, perfect right, exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
So now, before we get to the coronation of the
Knicks to the Eastern Conference Finals, we just watched the
Nuggets force game seven with a big win over the Thunder,
big night from Yokichen Murray and Brawn with twenty three
and eleven. Can the Nuggets pull this win off in
game seven or are we looking at the Thunder and
the and the Tea Wolves in the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, that is the great look, it's it's it is
what I love about a Game seven and a Game
seven between these two particular teams because we're we're looking
speaker coronations like we're waiting for, okay, see to really
validate that they are the next coming team and that
they are a legit title contender and and a Game
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seven win would would certainly would be a step forward
and a step closer to.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
On the other hand, you have the Denver Nuggets who
are trying to extend one prove that you know what,
we were like honestly tired of playing with Mike Malone.
It was him, not us. And that we still have
a championship pedically, obviously they don't have the depth. I'm
going to lean just because it's so hard to eliminate
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a champion. I'm going to lean Denver, particularly since for
the most part these games have been close, and I
think that I'm trying to think which game it was
in Oklahoma City where they could have won except that
Aaron and Jokic were missing free throws down the stretch
like that game was to be had, and they let
it get away from them.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
And so.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I just I think the youth of Oklahoma City has
showed itself at various points in this series, as has
their talent, as has their depth, as has their hunger.
But I think in a Game seven, I'm gonna lean.
I'm gonna lean Denver getting it done, even though it's
going to be on Okayse's home floor. Rick.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Let me lean back into something Jason started to talk about.
He's very conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
This week.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
He's had his tintaal hat on to where I think
it's now melted onto his head. Between the draft lottery
and the last two nights with Brunson and SGA's foul trouble, yeah,
officiating differently, if we went back during the regular season
or those regions things we normally just kind of shrugged at,
you know what, what can we take from it?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I don't you know, I don't want to go the
conspiracy you know, I don't want to take the conspiracy angle.
Like five fouls on on Brunson in one quarter is
pretty extraordinary, especially as physical as they have allowed the
game to be. But I think that if we if
we look at the width and breadth of all of
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the calls, include including some tonight. You know, there's a
couple that were that were made tonight on Denver, and
you would think, okay, if we're you know, we're trying
to milk all of this, we want a game seven,
we're going to be making calls in favor of Denner.
I think there were some questionable calls that went against them.
I think it's just a matter of like the referees
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that you have who are attuned to calling this game
in a physical way and being consistent, and then I
wouldn't be surprised if every once in a while the
synapsis fired the wrong direction and they're thinking of fouls
that like the way the game was previously called. They
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see something and they react and they call it the
way they previously did, or they're not used to that,
and they don't blow the whistle because they're thinking, Okay,
I'm not supposed to call the whistle because we're letting
this be a lot more physical. And that's that's the
challenge for the officials when I mean, just we all
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know the speed of the game. We know how quickly
they have to make a decision and blow the whistle.
And when you're asking them to literally officiate the game
and the contact between players going one hundred miles an
hour in a different way, I think you're going to
have mistakes. And so I'm not there's a part of
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me that feels for the referees being asked what they're
they're being asked to do. I hate to see when
you know, in the case of Brunson, like Brunson can't
finish the.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Game like that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's where I don't know, you know, in the old
days when I first started covering the league, like your
sixth foul have to be a foul, like you have
to hammer somebody to be to be fouled out, and
then you know, but then the flip side was the
conspiracy was, Oh, they're you know, they never foul out
the Stars or there's certain players that they're not going
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to allow the foul out. So in some ways, I
don't know that you can win. I think there's the
there's the material when it comes to officials, there's material
for conspiracy theories in either direction. And in this case, though,
I look at the fact that these guys on the fly,
and I think we can all agree, right, the game's
being allowed to They're being allowed to play much more
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physically in these playoffs than we've seen in years. I mean,
is that fair? And and and so you're but that's
not the way it was called during the regular season
for the most part. So you're now asking these referees
to immediately be making split second decisions with the gauges
set in a different place, and and I just think
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that's a that's a huge challenge.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah. See, Rick, because we talked about this last night
and I said, look, I understand I've gotten to the
point of acceptance with NBA appreciating in the playoffs, right,
I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I was fine last night.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I knew the Knicks were going to show up for
a game and say, well, if it's there for us
in the second half, but really.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
We're okay putting it away and coming back to MSG.
And also I.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Knew that I knew there was going to be foul.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I knew Arl Anthony Towns was going to get four
in the first eight seconds of the game, right, I
knew it was.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So I've come to the player, I've accepted that, and
I'm ready for the big party tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
So that that's kind of where my focus is.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Why just like I didn't know how you were able
to speak so eloquently and clearly with your tongue firmly
in cheek right there. I just was.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was an address line we started the next pregame
show tonight, like I want to win an MSG.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And say goodbye to the Celtics. Oh god, this is great,
this is great.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
I was.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
If I had known you were going to take this tack,
I would have put a raincoat on because you are
dripping with sarcas, ripping.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
He's already dealing with plumbing stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Smith. What are you doing? So I asked you this,
smart guy? Or are we going back to Are we
going back to Boston for Game seven?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Or then are we previewing.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No, no, no, no, I think the I think the
Boston Celtics showed their teeth. They did the honorable thing.
They didn't you know, they didn't lose it on their
home floor. But I to your point, like, you know,
what's interesting is sometimes I think teams go into a game.
(30:21):
In fact, I know teams go into a game thinking,
you know what, we're not going to get a good whistle,
We're not going to get where where's you know? And
then and then when a couple of whistles don't go
their way, then it's like see see what, see what?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I knew it right?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
And they buy they buy into their own conspiracy, and
and I don't think they play quite the same way.
They kind of like look at it like, yeah, we
weren't meant you know, we'll give it a try, but
we really weren't meant to win to win this game,
and then they make it a self fulfilling prophecy, and
uh so but all that said, I just I just
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then I think they are in some ways. I know
that my friend Emanuacho got killed for this. I do
think that, you know, the Celtics play harder and tougher
in the absence of a star like Jason Tatum. That's
like everybody tries to do a little bit more, to
play a little harder, to do everything a little bit
(31:21):
better to make up for that, and that can go
a long way. But as it stands, I just I
think the Knicks, if they're allowed to play a physical game,
they are more suited to playing a physical game. And
they get it done in Game six.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
There it is the greatest NBA insider ever known to Pansheim.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
It is FO Sports One's Rick Bucker.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
He is on Twitter at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Rick when the Knicks win tomorrow, The On the Ball podcast,
All in the next the next one?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Why not? Why not?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You up close and personal with Landry Shammon.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Take it easy, buddy, we'll talk to you next.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Good luck, buddy.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Thanks, up close and personal with Landry Shaman. Oh, I
can't wait. Great names of all time come, I gotta watch.
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
For a guy who just got done pitching the seventh
inning for the A's, it's Isaac Lohenkron.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
That's right, I got a nice pop out and then
I quit while I'm ahead. And by the way, for
athletics employees, don't check your social media mentions.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
We'll get to that in just a moment.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
We start with more positive sports news, and that would
be Denver forcing the two most magical words in sports.
Game seven this in the Western Conference semi finals, thanks
to a one nineteen one oh seven win over Oklahoma
City in Game six on Thursday evening. Nikoli Jokics twenty
nine points, fourteen rebounds, eight assists. Jamal Murray scored twenty
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five Game seven at Oklahoma City on Sunday at three
thirty Eastern in Game five with the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Little accountability in here, boys, It's got some accountability going
here now.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
The Jets put the win in Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Niklai Elers Chips, Nikolaiealers.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
We're the second of the night, second empty net goal.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The series, and Winnipeg will make it four nothing what
forty five seconds a maining in this.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Third turn, Paul Edmonds, the call cjob is the Jets
would win it four to I think Dallas still leads
the series three games to two.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Game six at Dallas on Saturday.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Earlier Thursday, Carolina eliminated the Washington Capitals three to one
to take the series in five. Hurricanes advanced to the
Eastern Conference Finals. And finally, here we go, guys, major
League Baseball in the bottom of the eighth and get
Dodgers Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers lead the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Nineteen to two.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Show hey Otani six RBI, including two home runs.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
He now has.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Fifteen home runs this year, tied for the major league lead.
And finally, just I thought I'd do a random search
of the athletics present Twitter mentions at Athletics. Here's a
quick sample at Tucker Rule, what a efing joke at
(34:30):
Athletics at Oakland fans, bleep John Fisher hashtag f JF
the A's belong in Oakland at the check one eighty two,
not to be confused with blink one eighty two, evidently
posting lol. Just realized the Athletics are so bleeping soft
(34:53):
they don't even allow replies. No wonder this trash team
doesn't have a fan base. And that's kind of a
sample of the A's Twitter mentions over the last few
minutes alone. At least the ones I can repeat over
the radio back to you.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Well, the Dodgers now have the bases loaded with two
outs in the bottom of the eighth Inny Mercy roll
and I think Ron Say is batting for the Dodgers
when everybody's getting in on.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Deck circle.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Deep cut.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Swinging abat is Rafael Landestoy. Okay, so nineteen to two,
the Dodgers lead. This game begins.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Way, do I tell you what happened next segment?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Really?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Something incredible from this game.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
That's what we call a tease. Coming up next, We'll
give you that.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We'll give you our big Draft Kings pick six play
of the day, and I'll tell you, honestly, what worries
me the most about tomorrow night. Because there is something
what worries me the most about tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Be sure to catch live edition of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 4 (36:08):
Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith's Show with my best friend
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
We got.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
It's been so of the fact the guy in charge
of the broadcast schedule's name is Mike North. For the NFL,
it really is rich stuff, isn't it. I never got
gottail and I hate Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Right now, before we get into our draft Kings pick six,
pick of the day, Frostburg, you got something for us
that was going on while we were talking to Rick
Buker if.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
You meant yes, and it was glorious. Okay when I
say that, that's an understatement.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
What position player?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
You know?
Speaker 7 (36:44):
Catcher Johnny Piida, uh huh for the A's he was
pitching because they sucked out badly, especially tonight.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
They were down seventeen to two, and Showy Otani was
up with a chance to make history, right, oh yeah, yeah, okay, sure,
two on there was a man on second and third.
Joe Hey could have apparently or didn't hit his third
home run of the game.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
But we got some gem like this. You ready, yeah,
go ahead, hit me.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Oh my gosh, you know he was putting that one
in the scrap book. Eighty nine miles an hour. It
looks like one hundred and gen Johnny Parady get retired.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
So he struck Otani out and then threw the ball
to the dugout to save it.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
No, that's fantastic. Good for Hill. My god, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
He get him to sign it. It'll be something on
his mantle forever.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Oh that's I would do that. In this eye struck out.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Show hayo, I was laughing my ass off.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
That really is funny.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
That's kind of on the top of the resume.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Sure, yeah, I mean I struck out show.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Hell.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I faced show hal Tani once and I struck him
out night.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Oh hey, dominating everybody else, homering and launching balls did
the end of the good night.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
But me, I got him show. Hey, will you sign
all this gear from tonight? Signed the ball, sign the bobble,
signed my cleats. We're gonna send this to the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Already called they want my glove because I struck you.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Out swinging so great, kept the ball. That is the
absolute best, right there. I need a position player struck
out out TONI throwing the ball.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Save this. I don't care save it, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
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Speaker 4 (39:06):
I'm gonna give you my big pick for tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I was thinking of Jalen Brunson, but boy, that over
under for Jalen Brunson is like at sixty points now
he said.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Thirty and a half.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
But I'm gonna take Carl Anthony Towns. He has the
big game tomorrow night. As we talked to Rick Buker,
the game will be more physical, it will be a
Karl Anthony Towns game. The over for him is twenty
and a half. I'll take the over for Cat. He
has the big elimination game for the Celtics. Over for
him for tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Points.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Wow, it's fun. There were a lot of a lot
of juicy and enticing lines. Derek White twenty and a
half points. You look at what Jalen Brown had his numbers.
I went Jalen Brunton as well. Yeah, staying with the
Knicks theme over two and a half turnovers.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
No, okay, all right, I can see that.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Sure, sure he you know it doesn't mean any anything
other than he's trying to make plays and a couple
of balls get battered away.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
But I saw it at two and a half.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
I'm like, oh, I'll take that.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, thirty eight points, fifteen assists,
three turnovers.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, that'll be how tomorrow just streams into my negativity.
But no, I mean a lot of options.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
There's a lot of the points, rebound assists out there
and three point makes and all. But like that one
just just screamed to me of all right, we're up
in transition, get a little flipant with the ball, try
to lob and it gets picked off. All of those
kind of things those all count just the same.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I'll tell you the one thing I'll be honest with you,
the one thing I'm scared about that scares me for
tomorrow night, right because it should be a coronation. The
nick should win. We're gonna get pizza. The thing that
keeps sticking my head is that I could just see
Derek White hitting three after three after three and keeping
the Celtics close or in the lead. That's the guy
that the Knicks have to shut down, like if he
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goes crazy beyond the arc, Like, that's the guy I
see open three, open three.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
That's the only thing that scares me for tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Yeah, there was some numbers on Pritchard stuff, so keep
an eye out.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Coming up next, we get back into the NFL story
that is just absolute fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Well dressed hobot live.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
From the Fox Sports Radio studios, where right now Dennis
Eckersley is warming up to pitch the sixth inning for
the A's. The Dodgers lead the Athletics fifteen to two
as the A's are batting in the top of the
sixth inning. Still early Dodgers got three in the first,
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three in the second, seven, and a third two in
the fourth. That's like the Jets line score field goal
in the first quarter, field goal the second quarter, touchdown,
the third quarter, safety in the fourth quarter, but not enough.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
They lose twenty one to fifteen.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah, this has reached a level of absurdity at this point.
How many how many positioned players? What's the over under
if you could lie bet.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It telling you man Keik Hernandez is gonna get a
three inning save tonight. He's gonna come in and pitch
the seventh, eighth, and ninth, and.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
He's gonna get a three innings.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Say, just don't overthrow it, that's all. Just don't overthrow it.
Too many pitchers on the I hel.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Show Hey Otani on his fifty to fifty bobblehead night,
which tell you they should have a fiftyeo bobblehead night
all the time. Shotani has not won but two home
runs tonight.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Yeah, you want to hear him?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
He had a three? We can hear him, Sure, go
ahead from him?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
We can't.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Oh, okay, there's a long drive for.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He's got a three run homer and a two run
home He is a solo home run and a grand
Slam away from the home run cycle in this game.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, I mean, by.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Calling it a pressing news item, does that get us
an exemption?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think, I really, I have a good mustache while
doing it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I really, I mean he is shoo Tani is two
home runs away from the home run cycle.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh my goodness, Uh oh you want to I gotta
you want to go Dennis Ecresy story, I gotta go,
Denis exsly story.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Mustache Well, yeah, sure.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
What about a mustache ride?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I went to.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, it's not that kind of STORYTI, It's it's not
ten o'clock yet for us. I can't tell that story
in somewhere yea.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I was going to say, you know, it's five am somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
When I was, I think I was. Right after I
graduated college, I went to go with my best friend
is from Delaware, right, and I went to go visit him,
and we went to an Orioles game because you know,
it wasn't that far.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Your best friend's Biden, So we.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Got Yeah, we went on our friend, well, he's my
best friend, and coylein. I didn't know you and Kyle,
you were still talking to people Northwestern about financial aid.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Okay, when when I didn't know you, you're still doing that.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Okay, sounds so dismissive of the you were doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Are you really helping people?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I was helping people. Now I just try to entertain
them and piss them off.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So we go to the We go to the Orioles
get first I've ever been to Canden Yards. I wanted
they got like Canada Yards, Camden Yards in the nineties,
Like think about what it is to see it, like
an incredible ballpark, right, it was the first time I
was going to get to go. This is in the nineties, right,
like I'm going back, like, you know, thirty years. That's
first time get to go to Camden Yards. Like this
is so great. So we go and we go to
buy tickets, and the A's are still really good, right,
(03:47):
so you know it's it's an A's Orioles game. Like,
all right, great, So we go to buy tickets and
and uh, we didn't know if we were going to
actually get regular tickets or you could get the standing
tickets where you where you sit behind where you stand
and you just watch over the the back of the
uh we watch over the fence.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So we're sitting there. We don't where to go.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We're just standing there and we're waiting to see what
kind of tickets we're gonna get. We're in that area,
and all of a sudden, my friend he excuse me,
excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And it's this.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Guy coming out from the ballpark and he's got like
a tank top and running shorts and running shoes, and
he's got his head down and we're like, oh, yeah,
what are you doing. Oh it's Dennis Eckersley going for
his pregame jog. He just left the stadium and he's
coming out jogging around the neighborhood because that's what he
got his work at it right, You're not gonna need
me in the first inning or before the first inning,
(04:35):
so I go get my job. And he came out
to jogging. He probably does his jog and then he
came back in and I didn't think about that till
way later.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I said, Wow, I don't know if him just because.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
He's pretty distinctive, Like you see him with the mustache
and the hair.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It's like, yeah, he was living on the edge too.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I don't know, man, Like, is that a thing that
you're okay with? Like, Hey, I'm a i'm a i'm
a I'm a baseball superstar and I'm out just jogging
on the street, you know, while the game's going out.
The greatest neighborhood Ball to Laura is the epitome of
clean and safe cities.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
All right, I'm waiting for the laugh.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well because I was trying to come up with my
best wire line.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Said, I really thought that was I was going to
feed the roll of decks.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Thing all the cities in America, not the jog around
that's probably at the top.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
No, it's it certainly would be in the rankings, there's
no question about it. Can't wait to go late in
October when the Bears take on the Rings.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Whatever. Hey, Caleb Williams not just his own team, he's
going to go to away games thinking good, I'm getting
away from all the booing that I get at home
because I said, you's got to go to Vegas. Quarterbacks
go to die. So that's my Dennis Eckersley story.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
He's walking up like, Okay, it was really really weird.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Did you decide to go to for a jog with him?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
No, no, no, come on, I don't run.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh even back then when I was playing sports, like,
I didn't run just to run because running is the
worst thing in the world.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Why would you just run.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
The most honest you've ever been.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, but but I'm like, okay, like, but it was
I really I didn't think I don't run. I didn't
think about this. Still, so late of it, I don't
know that that's the greatest thing to do. But apparently
he was okay, right even he made it made it back,
and so tells me Akershley, he's been a scrap or
two where he'd be able to handle himself. Okay, I mean,
I mean if he's running with a baseball and someone
comes up to hit him and he gives you the.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Big, you know, submarine throw.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh, I didn't see that baseball coming from so low
and hit me in the head.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
No, I don't think you don't want me the mustache.
They go away. Yeah, you don't mess with a.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Guy like that just really takes care of that mustache.
He's someone I gotta be careful. I'm trying to think
who I could see. If there's anybody in the world,
not just an athlete, anybody in the world that if
I saw them walking out of some place.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
To go for a jog, I would go and jog
with them. Like I don't know that I don't know
that there's.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Any No, No, can't, I can't. You know he's gonna
run up the steps. I'd get tired after like eight steps. Ah,
you keep going, Oh my god. That woman's name he
used to bring up all the time, justin Bartolo Cologne.
Well he might jog with him because he could beat him.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, that's who I'm thinking Bartolo.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
There's no jogging, He's walking, and I'd be walking alongside him.
It's that's how would go. But the jogging, the yogi.
I hear about this, I forget it, Like I I
don't know that there's one person world I want to
hang out with that much that I would go jogging
with them.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Like that's that's the worst. Oh, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I can't think of like Lindor I like, I don't know.
I mean Tom Seaver when he was alive. Maybe I
don't know. But really Joe Namath, when I go jogging
with Joe new Like, I don't know, I don't like yeah,
no no, no, no no no, I would.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Walk wi mom No no not his mom's gonna be there,
and maybe some of her friends.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't know that. I really I don't know that
there is somebody that I would do that for. I
really don't. I really don't.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, Nick Cage.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You could you could. Hey, I want to talk to
you about Madden. Hey, Hey I can a play? Hey,
you know if you can catch up with me. It's okay,
just run alongside. Now, I'm kind of like that's kind
of like Nick Cage and Owen Wilson. Hey, it's all right,
just kind.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Of whoo, just just.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Run along side. Added to armis yeah, uh no, the Battlerena,
she would kick my ass on. No, so that would
that would make you think twice about trying to try to.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Yog about what oh ah.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
He's still pining to be a Yankee.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I don't think one soda jobs. I don't have the
chance to strike me as a jogger.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I don't think talking about people that you can keep
up with.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, oh oh okay, sure sure, yeah keep up with?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
What about Chris Berman? Uh no, no, I worked I
worked with for a few years. No, not happening.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Not happening. I really, I don't think there's anybody. I
don't think there's anybody that's it.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I choose not to run.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
That's what we gotta know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
What, here's a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
What do I have to do? You have to jog
fifteen miles without stopping? Ah, give that million to somebody else.
Somebody else needs it more. Than me, go ahead, give
it and give it up. No, you get all up
in your head going, well, I could do fourteen, but
that fifteenth mile I could do. Sportine, I could jog
to the end of the street, but then I need
to stop and change my shirt. So that's uh yeah, No,
it's not happening anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Sweaty jogging.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
They'd have to saw your underpants off like they were
a cast.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't know how I played sports as much, with
all the running I did, and all the up and down,
like whether it was football or hockey or or you know,
the skating, or or with with with softball, I.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Don't know how I did that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I don't know how you spoke with such conviction, more
so than any take you've ever given in the eleven
years we've been doing this show, Frostbury, you'd agree with me,
right his sure blanket, I running the worst.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I mean, you're beyond Matt Damon. Oh yeah, in that
Nike movie.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, I mean, I I mean, I don't know, because
I wonder, really I'm being serious about this when when
I start, I never had a thought about running it all.
I always wanted to be I was never fast, so
maybe That's why one thing, because I was never fast.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
She's really really slow because I have a.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Long torso and shorter legs like and that that you
know that's going to be a fast runner. So but
when we were when when I first started really getting
into working out right or working out, was freshman year
of high school and I went to go play football,
and football I think I still have some kind of
PTSD from from the freshman and sophomore year uh practices
(10:44):
because they were the absolute worst. I mean like we
would start every full equipment practice with leg raisers and
arm circles, and we'd be exhausted by the time we
finished stretching, and then we would run two miles in
in heavy equipment. On the track, we would run two
miles at least, sometimes more than that. And I remember
we wouldn't even get to start practice, like practice started
(11:06):
at two forty five and by the time we did
all that and are running and it was like almost
four o'clock, I'm like, how is this help us? Right
then varsity was like yeah, we don't run that much.
I'm like, thank you, why the hell are we running?
The JV like that was everywhere I know, Freshman and
sophomore year of football was only September October, in the
first two weeks in November, but it feels like it
(11:27):
was like three years long right now when I think
about it, Like I would be so exhausted waking up
every morning, and then we'd go, we would hit, and
we would have full equipment practices and we would do
crazy tackling drills and then we would finish every practice
by running thirty forty yard sprints. Right that's in full equipment.
And we never had a half equipment day or you know,
just shoulder pads and helmets, never.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Had a day like that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It was the absolute worst. And I don't know if
maybe it's my running thing goes back to that, but
ever since then, I'm like, yeah, no running, no, no, no, no, no, no, like,
don't leg it, don't leg it.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
So when it came time to coach soccer and softball,
did you just leave that part of the curriculum out
or I mean, how did you integrate that when it
was clear you had no desire to take four steps
in any direction yourself? Well, first of all, I'm coaching,
not running. Secondly, I would always say, I would always
say to the team Okay, we don't have to do
(12:22):
a lot of running, because you know, we'll get a
lot of running. And I always want of those coaches
that A is like, hey, you'll get a lot of
running in these drills that we do.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You're just not gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Realize it because we're going to be doing up and down,
two on two, breakaways or different things. So you're getting
your running in. But I'm never gonna make you just
run at you know, to run to do whatever I said,
unless I see us wilting at the end of games.
And if we're tired at the end of games, it
means we need more stamina and we need to run
a little bit more. So as long as you show
me you're not tired the end of games, we can
(12:50):
do it. And I'll tell you what I hardly ever
had to do that, whether they were tired or not,
they're like, we don't want to run. So they always
busted their asses the last few minutes of a game
to make sure that we weren't tired, weren't giving up
an odd man break or something else happening. And and
and it was good, Like I found a way to
get them get the conditioning in when they didn't even
realize it. But the whole running thing. I was like, hey, listen,
(13:12):
I don't like it, so I'm not going to make
you do it unless you show me that we need
to do it, and they never did. Might have been
a little bit better if you'd add some more sprints.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, we won a lot of games.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I was okay with it. We won a lot of games.
That was all right. I mean you could sleep at night.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I'm a Hall of Fame coach in who's mind, in
whatever mind I wanted to be.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And I'm a Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Which which earth that you're currently in that mind of yours, I.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Am a hall of fan. Not many coaches won as
many games as I did in soccer and softball.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Not many did, not many.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I'm telling you that I got skills. I got skills,
and another and another earth.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Maybe I'm I'm the head coach of the Jets, but
in this earth, I'm here with you when I'm coaching
youth sports.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's what that's me.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
You and Liam Neeson got the words, that's right.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Special set of skills, absolutely special set exit. How about
a fresco exit swollen dough all right, we have to
be done talking because now I'm just getting upset, I'm
getting sweaty talking about running.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
So now we have to stop. We're done with the running.
We're done with the running conversations for the night. We're done.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Coming up next, Rick Buker stops by Fox Sports One
NBA Insider extraordinaire, who takes Game seven between the Thunder
and the Nuggets, Who takes Game six nixt tomorrow night
between the Knicks and the Celtics, all the big NBA news.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
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Speaker 1 (15:40):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Looks like the Jets and their offensive explosion
are going to win tonight. Jets, you matter that it's hockey,
the Jets offensive explosion. Jets lead the Stars right now,
three nothing, three minutes ago on the third period, empty
(16:01):
net for the Stars. It looks like this serie is
gonna continue. But no, you got hellabook on the road,
which okay, good luck not getting pulled. So it's gonna
be a Stars three to two lead over Winnipeg in
about two minutes and forty seven seconds. Jetsy, Jets you meanwhile,
tonight we watched to no one's surprise, the Nuggets and
(16:26):
the Thunder advanced.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
To Game seven nice plus five and a half Denver
at home.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Once SGA had four fouls in the first half.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I kinda knew, well, I think this game is gonna
go Denver's just like when Jalen Brunson fouled out last
night and kat had four fouls in the first eight seconds. Like, yeah,
I think I know how this game is gonna go.
I think I know that we're extending. Anytime a home
team is down in a series, what a surprise that
(16:57):
the visiting team that can close out all of a sudden,
they're in foul trouble and the star players shake Gildess Alexander,
who never fouled out of a game all year, I
had to play the entire second half with four fouls.
He's minus eight for the game. The Thunder don't really
threaten in the fourth quarter, and the Nuggets win by twelve,
(17:18):
just like the Knicks never threatened last night. Brunton in
foul trouble, Karl Anthony Towns Celtics did whatever the hell
they wanted to. So yeah, both teams were up three
games to one. In three games to two, chance to
close it out. No, no, no, no no, We're going
back home for another game, everybody. Don't you worry. Those
hometown calls are just going to continue to slide right through.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Look at you and your conspiracy theorist self coming through.
Good for you, good man, the NB.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I'm wrong, Tell me I'm wrong, You're wrong, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
What is curious to be though, right is you got
two guards you know, called for a number of reach
in files. I'd love to go back into the regular season,
something you and I have talked about quite a bit,
like the change of officiating and what you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Normally you let more go and we saw plenty of
times where wow, that's an awful lot of physicality. There
were a couple of times where you got Aaron Gordon
being knocked off his spot with no call.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That's a lot of man to move and not get
a call. And then you have the touch.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Fall as a guy's driving by, Ah, he stuck his
hand down. He's like, it's a fall. But is that
something you called regularly during the regular season.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Don't think so.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
But we have it here and you have to adjust
and change your tact accordingly. And unfortunately, for the Oklahoma
City Thunder with SGA and foul trouble, a little bit
of a change as to how they had to operate,
and then the fourth quarter. I mean, look, it was
the Strawther and Brown game. Everybody else kind of stepped up,
had their spots. Jamal Murray, whatever illness he was dealing with,
(18:51):
he filled up the stat sheet. He had all sorts
of random things affixed to his body whenever he sat out.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I'm like, I want to know what those are? Those
heat pads or those cooling pads? Are they beside?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Like?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
What are those things?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Like?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
All?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, but they look like like you could lay them
down for as tile. That's how big they were.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
What's today?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
What is today? Is today? Wednesday? Or Thursday?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Today is Thursday?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I thought it was Friday all day.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I saw something early Friday till Sunday to play game seven.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Now they want to give everybody extra rest. Don't feel
like they're the NBA likes to do this for games.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
What they like that game should be Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
They like to take one extra day off between games
five and game seven. Right when we're moving back, we're
playing game six and Game seven because it's one because
instead of two games. You play, then you fly to
another location, play two games. Okay, when you play five, six,
and seven, you're flying three times. They'd like to give
everybody an extra day off. Usually it's between you know,
(19:52):
sometimes it's between game five and game six, but this
times swing game six and game seven.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
So when is game one and Celtics Pacers, h that'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
That'll be next year. That'll be opening night Celtics Pacers.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, be opening night where where the Knicks will be playing.
The Knicks will be playing the Nuggets in the in
the NBA Finals rematch. That'll be the big game.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Opening So you got the Nuggets winning Game seven.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I got the I'll make my official pick tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But it sounded like that I'm gonna have the Nuggets
winning Game seven, I think so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It would.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It would ruin Isaiah Hartenstein. It would ruin my my
my big vision of the Knicks Final four with the
final four teams in the NBA Playoffs being the Knicks,
the Pacers who are synonymous with the Knicks in the playoffs,
Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo, former Knicks from last year,
and Isaiah Hartenstein like that would be the perfect that's.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The Nicks wore right there.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Did you see that two minute span that Hartenstein had.
He was like a one man wrecking crew. That was
a guy running into the ring WWE style. I don't
need my damn music. I'm going in there and beat
some ass.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Joining us now the hot line to take a look
at the two big games coming up the next couple
of days. Fox Sports one Insider Extraordinary. You can follow
him on Twitter at Rick Buger. It is Rick Buker, man,
what's happening about?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I am?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I am good. I'm good. We uh we sprung a
leak here at the Bucher household, and so I had
a little work to do, had a little plumbing issue
I had to deal with. So a man of many
a man of many talents, and but this is why
I like being in the studio and away from home,
so that it's hit the phone call, you know, hey, honey,
(21:35):
okay called the plumb We're good.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So it wasn't Matt Bucker getting upset that that SGA
had four fouls called on him in the first half
and doing something that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Actually, Matt Buker did have a hand in it, but
we'll leave that alone.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
From that pad.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Wow, I got to tell you this. In the Rick
Buker Children Power rankings, his daughter with that basketball scholarship,
has jumped in number one. Matt Buker after a three
dred and seventy four week run, a number one drops
the number two.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Well, I will have to be to me a month
now going asunder.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, the daughter extended her lead. He was just we
just heard that she's a candidate for NCAA Woman of
the Year. How about that?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Wow, all right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I don't know if there's like one hundred and fifty
candidates or what.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, but Rick, what does it mean?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It means that she she was the captain of a
basketball team that that had to survive two hurricanes to
play this season. So I guess guessing that's what I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, what's your community service? I was saving the lives
of my much teammates. That's to go over Well.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, right, what else you got? Okay, what else?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Exactly exactly? Well, what do you do the rest of
the time?
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I hit a big three from the corner Oh great
that oh big three from the corner. Yes, all right, great,
that that's.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
A Wednesday flight, perfect right, exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
So now, before we get to the coronation of the
Knicks to the Eastern Conference Finals, we just watched the
Nuggets force game seven with a big win over the Thunder,
big night from Yokichen Murray and Brawn with twenty three
and eleven. Can the Nuggets pull this win off in
game seven or are we looking at the Thunder and
the and the Tea Wolves in the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, that is the great look, it's it's it is
what I love about a Game seven and a Game
seven between these two particular teams because we're we're looking
speaker coronations like we're waiting for, okay, see to really
validate that they are the next coming team and that
they are a legit title contender and and a Game
(23:53):
seven win would would certainly would be a step forward
and a step closer to.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
On the other hand, you have the Denver Nuggets who
are trying to extend one prove that you know what,
we were like honestly tired of playing with Mike Malone.
It was him, not us. And that we still have
a championship pedically, obviously they don't have the depth. I'm
going to lean just because it's so hard to eliminate
(24:22):
a champion. I'm going to lean Denver, particularly since for
the most part these games have been close, and I
think that I'm trying to think which game it was
in Oklahoma City where they could have won except that
Aaron and Jokic were missing free throws down the stretch
like that game was to be had, and they let
it get away from them.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
And so.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I just I think the youth of Oklahoma City has
showed itself at various points in this series, as has
their talent, as has their depth, as has their hunger.
But I think in a Game seven, I'm gonna lean.
I'm gonna lean Denver getting it done, even though it's
going to be on Okayse's home floor. Rick.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Let me lean back into something Jason started to talk about.
He's very conspiracy theorists.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
This week.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
He's had his tintaal hat on to where I think
it's now melted onto his head. Between the draft lottery
and the last two nights with Brunson and SGA's foul trouble, yeah,
officiating differently, if we went back during the regular season
or those regions things we normally just kind of shrugged at,
you know what, what can we take from it?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I don't you know, I don't want to go the
conspiracy you know, I don't want to take the conspiracy angle.
Like five fouls on on Brunson in one quarter is
pretty extraordinary, especially as physical as they have allowed the
game to be. But I think that if we if
we look at the width and breadth of all of
(25:55):
the calls, include including some tonight. You know, there's a
couple that were that were made tonight on Denver, and
you would think, okay, if we're you know, we're trying
to milk all of this, we want a game seven,
we're going to be making calls in favor of Denner.
I think there were some questionable calls that went against them.
I think it's just a matter of like the referees
(26:18):
that you have who are attuned to calling this game
in a physical way and being consistent, and then I
wouldn't be surprised if every once in a while the
synapsis fired the wrong direction and they're thinking of fouls
that like the way the game was previously called. They
(26:40):
see something and they react and they call it the
way they previously did, or they're not used to that,
and they don't blow the whistle because they're thinking, Okay,
I'm not supposed to call the whistle because we're letting
this be a lot more physical. And that's that's the
challenge for the officials when I mean, just we all
(27:02):
know the speed of the game. We know how quickly
they have to make a decision and blow the whistle.
And when you're asking them to literally officiate the game
and the contact between players going one hundred miles an
hour in a different way, I think you're going to
have mistakes. And so I'm not there's a part of
(27:24):
me that feels for the referees being asked what they're
they're being asked to do. I hate to see when
you know, in the case of Brunson, like Brunson can't
finish the.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Game like that.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's where I don't know, you know, in the old
days when I first started covering the league, like your
sixth foul have to be a foul, like you have
to hammer somebody to be to be fouled out, and
then you know, but then the flip side was the
conspiracy was, Oh, they're you know, they never foul out
the Stars or there's certain players that they're not going
(27:59):
to allow the foul out. So in some ways, I
don't know that you can win. I think there's the
there's the material when it comes to officials, there's material
for conspiracy theories in either direction. And in this case, though,
I look at the fact that these guys on the fly,
and I think we can all agree, right, the game's
being allowed to They're being allowed to play much more
(28:19):
physically in these playoffs than we've seen in years. I mean,
is that fair? And and and so you're but that's
not the way it was called during the regular season
for the most part. So you're now asking these referees
to immediately be making split second decisions with the gauges
set in a different place, and and I just think
(28:42):
that's a that's a huge challenge.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah. See, Rick, because we talked about this last night
and I said, look, I understand I've gotten to the
point of acceptance with NBA appreciating in the playoffs, right,
I'm fine.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I was fine last night.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I knew the Knicks were going to show up for
a game and say, well, if it's there for us
in the second half, but really.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
We're okay putting it away and coming back to MSG.
And also I.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Knew that I knew there was going to be foul.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I knew Arl Anthony Towns was going to get four
in the first eight seconds of the game, right, I
knew it was.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So I've come to the player, I've accepted that, and
I'm ready for the big party tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
So that that's kind of where my focus is.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Why just like I didn't know how you were able
to speak so eloquently and clearly with your tongue firmly
in cheek right there. I just was.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was an address line we started the next pregame
show tonight, like I want to win an MSG.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And say goodbye to the Celtics. Oh god, this is great,
this is great.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
I was.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
If I had known you were going to take this tack,
I would have put a raincoat on because you are
dripping with sarcas, ripping.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
He's already dealing with plumbing stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Smith. What are you doing? So I asked you this,
smart guy? Or are we going back to Are we
going back to Boston for Game seven?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Or then are we previewing.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No, no, no, no, I think the I think the
Boston Celtics showed their teeth. They did the honorable thing.
They didn't you know, they didn't lose it on their
home floor. But I to your point, like, you know,
what's interesting is sometimes I think teams go into a game.
(30:21):
In fact, I know teams go into a game thinking,
you know what, we're not going to get a good whistle,
We're not going to get where where's you know? And
then and then when a couple of whistles don't go
their way, then it's like see see what, see what?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I knew it right?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
And they buy they buy into their own conspiracy, and
and I don't think they play quite the same way.
They kind of like look at it like, yeah, we
weren't meant you know, we'll give it a try, but
we really weren't meant to win to win this game,
and then they make it a self fulfilling prophecy, and
uh so but all that said, I just I just
(30:59):
then I think they are in some ways. I know
that my friend Emanuacho got killed for this. I do
think that, you know, the Celtics play harder and tougher
in the absence of a star like Jason Tatum. That's
like everybody tries to do a little bit more, to
play a little harder, to do everything a little bit
(31:21):
better to make up for that, and that can go
a long way. But as it stands, I just I
think the Knicks, if they're allowed to play a physical game,
they are more suited to playing a physical game. And
they get it done in Game six.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
There it is the greatest NBA insider ever known to Pansheim.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
It is FO Sports One's Rick Bucker.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
He is on Twitter at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Rick when the Knicks win tomorrow, The On the Ball podcast,
All in the next the next one?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Why not? Why not?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You up close and personal with Landry Shammon.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Take it easy, buddy, we'll talk to you next.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Good luck, buddy.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Thanks, up close and personal with Landry Shaman. Oh, I
can't wait. Great names of all time come, I gotta watch.
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
For a guy who just got done pitching the seventh
inning for the A's, it's Isaac Lohenkron.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
That's right, I got a nice pop out and then
I quit while I'm ahead. And by the way, for
athletics employees, don't check your social media mentions.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
We'll get to that in just a moment.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
We start with more positive sports news, and that would
be Denver forcing the two most magical words in sports.
Game seven this in the Western Conference semi finals, thanks
to a one nineteen one oh seven win over Oklahoma
City in Game six on Thursday evening. Nikoli Jokics twenty
nine points, fourteen rebounds, eight assists. Jamal Murray scored twenty
(32:59):
five Game seven at Oklahoma City on Sunday at three
thirty Eastern in Game five with the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Little accountability in here, boys, It's got some accountability going
here now.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
The Jets put the win in Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Niklai Elers Chips, Nikolaiealers.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
We're the second of the night, second empty net goal.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The series, and Winnipeg will make it four nothing what
forty five seconds a maining in this.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Third turn, Paul Edmonds, the call cjob is the Jets
would win it four to I think Dallas still leads
the series three games to two.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Game six at Dallas on Saturday.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Earlier Thursday, Carolina eliminated the Washington Capitals three to one
to take the series in five. Hurricanes advanced to the
Eastern Conference Finals. And finally, here we go, guys, major
League Baseball in the bottom of the eighth and get
Dodgers Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers lead the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Nineteen to two.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Show hey Otani six RBI, including two home runs.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
He now has.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Fifteen home runs this year, tied for the major league lead.
And finally, just I thought I'd do a random search
of the athletics present Twitter mentions at Athletics. Here's a
quick sample at Tucker Rule, what a efing joke at
(34:30):
Athletics at Oakland fans, bleep John Fisher hashtag f JF
the A's belong in Oakland at the check one eighty two,
not to be confused with blink one eighty two, evidently
posting lol. Just realized the Athletics are so bleeping soft
(34:53):
they don't even allow replies. No wonder this trash team
doesn't have a fan base. And that's kind of a
sample of the A's Twitter mentions over the last few
minutes alone. At least the ones I can repeat over
the radio back to you.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Well, the Dodgers now have the bases loaded with two
outs in the bottom of the eighth Inny Mercy roll
and I think Ron Say is batting for the Dodgers
when everybody's getting in on.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Deck circle.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Deep cut.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Swinging abat is Rafael Landestoy. Okay, so nineteen to two,
the Dodgers lead. This game begins.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Way, do I tell you what happened next segment?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Really?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Something incredible from this game.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
That's what we call a tease. Coming up next, We'll
give you that.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We'll give you our big Draft Kings pick six play
of the day, and I'll tell you, honestly, what worries
me the most about tomorrow night. Because there is something
what worries me the most about tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
That's next.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Be sure to catch live edition of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific with no handlebars.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith's Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
We got.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
It's been so of the fact the guy in charge
of the broadcast schedule's name is Mike North. For the NFL,
it really is rich stuff, isn't it. I never got
gottail and I hate Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Right now, before we get into our draft Kings pick six,
pick of the day, Frostburg, you got something for us
that was going on while we were talking to Rick
Buker if.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
You meant yes, and it was glorious. Okay when I
say that, that's an understatement.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
What position player?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
You know?
Speaker 7 (36:44):
Catcher Johnny Piida, uh huh for the A's he was
pitching because they sucked out badly, especially tonight.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
They were down seventeen to two, and Showy Otani was
up with a chance to make history, right, oh yeah, yeah, okay, sure,
two on there was a man on second and third.
Joe Hey could have apparently or didn't hit his third
home run of the game.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
But we got some gem like this. You ready, yeah,
go ahead, hit me.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Oh my gosh, you know he was putting that one
in the scrap book. Eighty nine miles an hour. It
looks like one hundred and gen Johnny Parady get retired.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
So he struck Otani out and then threw the ball
to the dugout to save it.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
No, that's fantastic. Good for Hill. My god, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
He get him to sign it. It'll be something on
his mantle forever.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Oh that's I would do that. In this eye struck out.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Show hayo, I was laughing my ass off.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
That really is funny.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
That's kind of on the top of the resume.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Sure, yeah, I mean I struck out show.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Hell.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I faced show hal Tani once and I struck him
out night.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Oh hey, dominating everybody else, homering and launching balls did
the end of the good night.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
But me, I got him show. Hey, will you sign
all this gear from tonight? Signed the ball, sign the bobble,
signed my cleats. We're gonna send this to the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Already called they want my glove because I struck you.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Out swinging so great, kept the ball. That is the
absolute best, right there. I need a position player struck
out out TONI throwing the ball.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Save this. I don't care save it, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
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Speaker 4 (39:06):
I'm gonna give you my big pick for tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I was thinking of Jalen Brunson, but boy, that over
under for Jalen Brunson is like at sixty points now
he said.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Thirty and a half.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
But I'm gonna take Carl Anthony Towns. He has the
big game tomorrow night. As we talked to Rick Buker,
the game will be more physical, it will be a
Karl Anthony Towns game. The over for him is twenty
and a half. I'll take the over for Cat. He
has the big elimination game for the Celtics. Over for
him for tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Points.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Wow, it's fun. There were a lot of a lot
of juicy and enticing lines. Derek White twenty and a
half points. You look at what Jalen Brown had his numbers.
I went Jalen Brunton as well. Yeah, staying with the
Knicks theme over two and a half turnovers.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
No, okay, all right, I can see that.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Sure, sure he you know it doesn't mean any anything
other than he's trying to make plays and a couple
of balls get battered away.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
But I saw it at two and a half.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
I'm like, oh, I'll take that.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, thirty eight points, fifteen assists,
three turnovers.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, that'll be how tomorrow just streams into my negativity.
But no, I mean a lot of options.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
There's a lot of the points, rebound assists out there
and three point makes and all. But like that one
just just screamed to me of all right, we're up
in transition, get a little flipant with the ball, try
to lob and it gets picked off. All of those
kind of things those all count just the same.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I'll tell you the one thing I'll be honest with you,
the one thing I'm scared about that scares me for
tomorrow night, right because it should be a coronation. The
nick should win. We're gonna get pizza. The thing that
keeps sticking my head is that I could just see
Derek White hitting three after three after three and keeping
the Celtics close or in the lead. That's the guy
that the Knicks have to shut down, like if he
(40:53):
goes crazy beyond the arc, Like, that's the guy I
see open three, open three.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
That's the only thing that scares me for tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Yeah, there was some numbers on Pritchard stuff, so keep
an eye out.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Coming up next, we get back into the NFL story
that is just absolute fire.
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