November 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike kick off Hour 3 by breaking down legendary sports agent Scott Boras’ comments about Cody Bellinger and Pete Alonso as free agency heats up. Then, NBA insider Ric Bucher joins the show to discuss LeBron James’ return, whether the Pistons are for real, and Nico Harrison’s departure as Mavericks GM. All that and more coming up in Hour 3 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Fox Sports Radio, Greetings, welcome in side our three, The
Jason Smith Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon. They
are who we thought they were, and we let about
the hook could be saying that about the Lakers. Hey,
our chance to prove our start is not a fluke.
(00:46):
We got the defending chance tonight. We're gonna show you.
I'm Luca, I'm Austin. We don't need Lebron James. I
think they need Lebron James. One one ninety two is
the final. This game was not close from the three
minute mark of the first quarter. That sounds about right.
That's where the game started to get away from the
(01:07):
Lakers and it never never got back thirty eighteen after one,
and then they.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Got doubled up in the second quarter forty to twenty
and it's been a laugh for ever since. We just
had sad Luca sitting on the bench. It's like, where's
my phone? This will be let me play candy Crush
or something else or solitaire too soon.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, no, no, no, you can't do the solitaire thing. Dude.
That's bad. Nobody, that's a bad joke now. Man. There's
a lot of upset people about that. There's a lot
of people want people's careers to end, and people are
apologizing on social media. The solitaire is I.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mean, wow, I didn't look into it. I just took
the cash. No, that doesn't doesn't excuse you. Yeah, you're
supposed to be the smartest person in the room. That's
what people keep telling me all these years. You're a brilliant,
brilliant equation breaking through in math petition, and you're smarter
than the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And no, who knew. One guy bored with his career
and playing solitaire in an incredibly embarrassing situation turns out
to be great for him and bad for everybody else
who didn't like it or tried to help him within it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah kind of weird, right, I have that spiraled out
of control. But whatever Luca was doing, we laughed at it.
His pregame it was the all right, we're about to
go take on the defending champs, and they did the
locker room shot where they're just sitting there, legs folded,
hanging out on their phones and then all of a
sudden they go out and absolutely get bludgeoned from pillar
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to post.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Solitaire. No, get you look, big day in Major League Baseball,
school Ball and schemes of your cy Young Award winners.
And now we get to the point of the of
the year whenever, Hey, when someone wins something, it becomes
about what's next. Now, for for Trek school Ball and
Paul Skins, it's okay, they won. Now when are they
gonna get traded? Right? Because now we get it, it's
the silly see and the time of the year that
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is usually owned by Scott Boris MLB super Rago to
the stars. Because now when you hear something about somebody,
yes it's a Boris client. Great, you just know. If
I know a guy's a Boris client, I know he's
leaving my team, right, I know he's not staying right.
If it's a guy's a Boris client, I know he's
leaving my team. And you knew that today was schoobl
He's a Boris client's while we're talking about school getting
traded away from the Tigers, because you know he's not
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gonna stay. You know, he's gonna hit free agency after
this year. But even if you are like me and
you're hot and cold on Scott Boris, now I love
the guy after this today, certain things will get me
to your side. Love Scott Boris will get me to
your side today, and this is one of them. So
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now that Boris is talking a lot winter meetings, you know,
closing tomorrow and and you know, figuring out where things
are gonna sit for his clients as we get into
December and Hot Stove and January, he had this to
say about Cody Bellinger, who he says, is like basically
thinks that Willie Mays is coming on the markt as
a free agent, not even the best outfielder coming on
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the market. But that's okay. His job is to sell.
Listen to him talk about the virtues and talents of
Cody Bellinger, and you'll understand why I love the guy.
Now when you.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Look at twenty five season twenty five I'd say among
all the free Asian outfielders, he was the top nun
of the class. You know, he was defensively a certainly
a versatile viper in the outfield, playing both first base
and all three outfield positions. And he was kind of
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offensively a middle lineup Merlin in the sense that he
felt that, you know, providing power and production.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Top gun viper. He went Merlin, he went Tim Robbins.
He didn't want to say, I don't want to just
hit you off the top with Maverick and Iceman and Goose. No, no,
I'm gonna hit you with Viper. I'm gonna you with Merlin.
I was waiting for him to get a jesterre in
there or a Sundown or a Hollywood and Wolfman. Now
I love the guy. He loves top Gun like I do.
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I mean, really he does. I mean, now I love
the guy. Now I want to get him on and
just talk about top gun with him. Did they How
much more did he did he go on? In the
next answer? Did he add a couple more? Again? He
did add a Maverick at the end. But clearly you know,
I think you know I want to I want to
tell you, but you know, I want to get back
to it, but you go Merlin Man, Like, not a
lot of people remember Merlin. No, it's good, you know.
Oh yeah that was Cougar. Cougar lost it turned in
(05:33):
his wings. You guys are number one, like you you
don't even know, like I think they mentioned Merlin's name
like once in the beginning. Of course I know it
because you know Tim Robbins all of a sudden, like,
oh it's Tim Robbins in this movie. You see him
at the very end, like eight feet taller than everybody else's.
But I'm like, dude, you want Merlin man. That's a
that's a deep pull, that's a deep po. I if
I had Scott Boris on the on our show tomorrow night,
I would just want to talk about top Gun. Don't
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you want to talk about Pete a Lonzo and it?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Top Gun, top Gun, And then you run some Hamilton line.
See if he's as well versed in that the whole show.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That would be being on a heater if I would
do that, But I would I would stick with top Gun. No,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So Scott Boris, You're you're now okay, philosophically. For as
long as you and I have been doing this show together,
you mentioned his name and then you normally kind of
mutter something under your breath to where you're not, you know,
the biggest advocate, well as a guy who is a
very good advocate, because if I'm going into negotiations, that
guy's got nine billion pages of datus. Oh you'll tell
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you how great I am. But but that, but that,
that was part.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Of what it was with Scott bar because I tell
you that when I met Scott Bors. This is about
going back like fifteen years. I want to say a
little bit more than that, back when Manny Ramirez was
in that big run with the with the Dodgers and uh,
you know was Manny would in twenty Bucks. I remember
being I was a panelist for Jim Rome is burning
right on Jim rome Show, and he was coming in
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as the guest, and he and I are in the
green room together and we're we're sitting there and we're
talking and he goes, he sends to me, he says, so,
how to feel about Manny? And I said, well, I
think I'm gonna make it happy today. He goes, why
is that? I go cause I'm gonna say back when
when this was, you know, a contract you never got
to go. I think the Dodge should give him like
three years and one hundred million dollars. And Boris looked
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at me and said, well, don't sell them short. And
I was like, I like that. I mean that was back.
I mean you're talking about fifty where the idea of
making thirty million dollars a year was like, that's never
gonna happen. But that's how big Manny Ramirez was with
the Dodgers. When he comes in, yeah, he just don't
sell him short. But I always got with Boris, I'm like, okay, here,
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I'm gonna tell you why he's so valuable, like having
to talk about his clients, go, this guy's the best.
He's a five tool athlete. No one's a better five
tool than him. He does this, he does like okay,
you are you do you really walk into these meetings
and and and try to tell the gms and the
owners this like they don't know this already, Like they go, wait, wait, wait,
he had an ops of nine under this year. I
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don't I didn't get that information anywhere. Really, Oh you
mean you think we can sell more hot dogs if
we sign him because people will come to games. Really,
that's fascinating. Really did well wait a minute, wait a minute,
he was third in the league at home runs. How
did I not know this? Like this is what he does.
I'm like, okay, they know the resume.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But it's also the kind of thing that it's been
built up all these years, of all of the documentation.
Obviously I say that with you know, tongue in cheek
laughing about it, because does that mean every other agent
just sucks that they don't bother to uh to do
any of this or bring any of the research of
how a guy compares against the rest of the free agent.
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They just kind of come in winging it. Here's my guy,
he just sitting and chair next to you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He had, uh, how many how many RBIs? One hundred
and ten hundred and ten RBI's that's that's that's that's
really good. Would you what was your ops? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I mean I had it, I could get it on
my phone, but I did. Okay by his ops, I'm
sure was great.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Now the stuff out parking attendance and whether little Johnny
or Susie is gonna get an extra half an ice
cream per home game is actually kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I mean that's very creative. Wait, you can guarantee me
that if Little Susie comes to the game, because if
we sign Manny Ramirez, I'm gonna get that extra ice
cream salt.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Really, can you estimate how many Little Susie's are gonna
be in the crowd?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Because I need one ice cream? Isn't getting it getting
it done here?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But but but again, that was the old me where
I was suspicious sometimes with Scott boris now the guy's
top Gun like me. I love the guy. I mean
I want all of his references to be made in
Top Merlin and everything else in there Merlin. Okay, so wait,
so if Bellinger is a cut wait wait, if Bellinger
is a combination of Viper and Merlin and Maverick, what
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the hell is scooball?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But it's I mean, come on, oh maybe laugh though
you start the quote, you get Viper in and it's like,
it's an interesting way to describe your guy, and then
he circles back, goes wait for it, wait for it, mid.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Mr, good morning, General Attemp. There's one hundred and ten
degrees Holy Blankets Viper. I bet he's saying, Holy Blanket's
Maverick and Goose. Yeah, I'm sure he's saying that. But
that's not it for Scott Boris today. Scott Boris has jokes.
Of course. Pete Alonzo, one of his famous clients, getting
another bite at the Apple in free agency this year.
(10:20):
And oh look, I said goodbye, I say to Apple
and uh, you know that thing that they float when
you win. I said goodbye to ped Alonzo when I
knew that Boris was a client, because I know it's
not going to be long term. He's gonna leave at
some point. But with Alonso coming off the year he had,
now the question was going to be to him about, hey,
what what con what are you expecting this year? Pete
coming off of a great season. And here was Scott Boris,
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the tongue twisting expert, explaining the present and possible future
of Peden Alonzo.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I think Pete, at this point in his career, he's
about winning, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Okay, had that question a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Okay, there's no doubt that peace pursuers are prime to
pay the power piper. You know, Pete picked the perfect
period to play pre eminently at a really a primary position,
a playoff perched plethora will pounced to participate in the
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Polar punge.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, at the end, he was just saying words to
begin with p bringing it down back to the polar plunge.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, but there's gotta be a lot of people taking
that plunge to go after Pete alone.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I don't know if he was reading that off of
some sort of mobile teleprompter or a guy had the
words on his back, but that was pretty impressive to
get all those words. You know, good Pete Alonso picked
a peck of pickled peppers. I mean that was that
kind of like that. That was good. Look, I want
to hear you do that again. How bleep and bore
that again. It's like I have to show up to
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these meetings, youn't really want to. Well, I think he
knows that you got a prime the pump to be
able to see where your power goes with Pete. I'm
gonna try to do all the Pete things to myself.
We just had Halloween, had a lot of pumpkins, had parties.
Now Pete prime to pounce in a prime market.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's too bad you can't call him a panther too,
penguin polar bear.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Sure, well, that's what I'm saying, is the penguin tell
you he hasn't played in fifty years. No, that is,
it's just been a long time. He's still mad. But
but now now now I love Now, I love Scott Boris.
Now he's fun.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm like, okay, great, because he got all those peas
out about your guy, you know, because it's funny. As
he starts that whole literation thing there, there was just
a little the hesitancy before you know, he's going down
this road oh yeahs and showing off reading off a dictionary.
Is that it was like he was choosing his words
(13:03):
carefully and say I.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Don't think there's really much of a market here. But
I'm like, yeah, what do I say here to take?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I have that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Then hear him again say, and if you sign him
and you're competing, the money you make on parking is
basically he pays for himself. Like that, that's his point
is that you give him all this money, but the
money you're gonna make, he pays for himself. But what
I want to turn back and say, Okay, so if
all the money I'm gonna make I got to give
to him. Well, I'm not making money. I'm breaking even
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right because I'm giving him all this money. I want
to make money. I still own the team, i still
want to make money, like that's the whole thing I
want to So I'm not making money if he pays
for himself, because I'm giving you money. This is this
is not you're giving me his services for free. I
have to give you money to make sure and we
have to make sure we win because if we don't win,
people are not gonna be primed to come out to
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the park and pay to buy pumpkin juice to see
us lose in prime situations.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They're not gonna do it. They're gonna stay a spell.
Going with a pumpkin juice is yeah, I think that
you can do. But see now you just killed Scott Bores.
No more peas, no more top gun references. Look what
you did there. It's all your fault. It's amusspemous, Tom
Felton have been hanging out on on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Now, I think I think it's better when you can go.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I love Scott Bars now he's your guy, he's you're now,
He's all fun until he goes back into a boardroom
with your owner now to discuss your free agent.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Now I think we should hear. Here's what I would say. Okay,
here's how we play. We play a game of volleyball,
me and my friend, and we have our shirts off,
and you and your friend and what you can keep
your shirt on like Goose does. And whoever wins he
plays for us for free, or if you guys win,
I pay him a lot of money. And you're all
wearing jorts.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, well, well, well okay, Maverick is wearing jeans, okay,
and Slider is wearing the dirtiest pair of pants possible.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Ice also wearing pet No one's wearing jeorts. No one's
wearing to I'm updating it for today's game. Maverick is
where Maverick is playing beach volleyball and jeans. That's what's happening.
There's no gene shorts. There are Now you're thinking of
the SNL skit. We play volleyball and jean shorts. That's
something Nobe wearing jeans. Oh well yeah, Bill Hayter and
(15:25):
all the top gun auditions. It says here we play
volleyball and jean shorts. Is that true h exit out
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Buker on The Ball Podcast, Rick, I need I need
your investigative mind here right off the bat. I need
to know something, and I think only you would know this. Okay,
(17:14):
you ready, I'm very scared, but yes, yeah, Well, final
two minutes on the second night of back to backs
where the only type of minutes Jalen Brunson plays is
heavy minutes when they're losing by thirteen. Shouldn't he be
out of the game in avoiding any type of injury
(17:35):
like he had tonight when he has an ankle injury
and he leaves MSG in a walking boot and on crutches.
Can you tell me did Tibbs actually coach the team tonight?
In said of Mike.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Brann No, no, no, no, I got no answer for
you on that night. Why are you putting me on
the spot. You know what, We've had such great opportunity
to talk about the Knicks the previous three weeks with
(18:08):
really interesting things to talk about, and now Danlon Brunson
goes down and we got to find out whether Tibbs
is still somehow secretly pasting the team. You're hurting me.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Here, Rick, Rick.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's a big change from twenty four hours ago. I mean,
it was a big long dance in the studio about
the minutes being played by the reserves.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Here's roster. I'll tell you, Mike, look twenty four hours ago. Rick,
after the game, I'm really on the show last night,
like third straight game over one hundred and thirty points.
Mcal Bridges looks like a different guy. Karl Anthony Towns
looks like he's bought in. He's playing, he's playing the
bench guys and they're playing big minutes, and Clarkson's playing minutes.
And Josh Hart he's gonna be dinged up all year,
but he's back in the I'm like, okay, they got
(18:53):
everything going right now. But you know, the Knicks game
and have nice things.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I would not over dramatizes, you know, basically because of
all of the uh, the the ancillary players stepping up.
That should give you confidence that with or without Jalen Brunston.
The New York Knicks are just going to keep rolling,
and this is actually an opportunity for him to rest
and be a little fresher at the end of the
season when they make their run for the finals.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh okay, that made you feel better than Rick.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's great, Rick, spin doctor Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Got nothing on me.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I love Rick. That's the greatest thing. I'm going to
get that on a loop and play. It's gonna be
my ringtone on my phone from now on.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Daily Positivity just sell that one burst run into the finals.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Yeah, I only, I only.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Uh, I got about two or three of those a year, and.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Let's say it. I'm spent. We'll get you one after.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
The holidays, maybe maybe a while before you hear another one.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, all right, let's take a look at one of
the games that just finished up. Lakers go out and
get absolutely thumped by Okay, see but Lebron James working
out with the G League squad And I mean, was
this just a step up in class and a thumping
or does this get to we reset the Lakers a
little bit as to where they are in the packing order? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I think I said when they when they went on
the when they went on this road trip, or before
they went on the road trip, that I really wanted
to see them on this trip because if you look
at if you really break down the teams that they
played getting to eight and three, particularly before the trip,
they're the only team of consequence that they played was Minnesota,
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and Minnesota doesn't look like Minnesota right now. I mean
everybody else, the memphisis and some of the other teams
that they had played. I just I wanted to see what,
you know, I didn't think they were a true reflection
of who the Lakers are, particularly when you have a
Luca Donson's coming back. He's in shape, playing with Slovenia
and EuroBasket. He has a little something to prove. Austin
(20:59):
Reaves is obviously gunning for a thirty million dollars a
year contract and has a lot to prove. But I
just felt everything was tilting in their direction. What's really
going to be interesting here is Lebron James potentially coming
back in the fold, but also them getting this dose
of reality of what the best teams in the league.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Really look like.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
And this is an Oklahoma City team that was missing
Jalen Williams and Luke Dort. I mean, they're not even
at full strength. I just don't know in the big
picture that the Lakers have enough to really be competing
for anything more than getting into the playoffs and potentially
winning around That's just the reality this team. Nothing's changed dramatically.
(21:46):
I mean, you need to build a specific team around
Luca to take advantage.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Of what he does.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
And maybe the most interesting thing for me is the
fact that the league is moving toward less dominance, less
ball dominant by the superstars, and more distribution and more
depth and versatility being the key. And that's not how
Luca plays. That's not how Luca has ever played. And
(22:11):
it's going to be interesting whether he's capable even in
this kind of shape, if he's able to sustain his
excellence over the course of the season with everybody else
taking a different approach.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, because I feel it's gonna be like this. Luca
is Jordan, Austin Reeves is Pippin, and now Lebron can
come back and be Horace Grant.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
If he wears the goggles see see Kindred Spirits there, right,
You know, I think it's it's kind of weird rick
that you know, because you know Lebron, it's hard to
not think that everything is calculated.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But boy, on the day the Lakers go to Oklahoma City,
where they know they're likely going to get pounded, he
gets back to.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Practice with the South Bay Lakers. Hey, I'm on the Hey,
I know we're gonna get killed tonight. Hey maybe I'm
the future. Maybe you need me now?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I look, I don't I agree with you. I think
everything that he does is calculated. There's there's a design
and a plan that serves him behind everything that he does.
That's being he has been very successful in doing exactly that.
I just honestly, I don't see him as being the
(23:23):
answer to whatever ills that they have, no matter how
he comes back, no matter what kind of attitude he
has coming back.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And the hardest part for me to see is what.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
They really need is for him to say, you know what,
I'm forty one years old. This is Luka Doncish's team now.
And Austin Reeves is ascending. I don't know if I
can put star quite on it, but ascending quality player.
I love the chemistry between Luca and and Reeves. I
(23:55):
mean they just they seem to genuinely like playing with
each other. I would say the same for Smart, Marcus Smart.
And so I would love to see Lebron realizing this
is probably my last, you know, significant run. Let me
see how I can sit in, Let me be a
part of this, let me let me contribute in any
(24:16):
way that I can, because it's no longer my show.
I just don't know if he's capable of doing that,
of letting letting go, and this, this little maneuver here
would suggests.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Now, I still I need that spotlight.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
That spotlight. That spotlight is like oxygen for me. I
can't I can't live without the attention being on me.
And and I think as a result, this is going
to be an awkward exit when it when it shouldn't be.
It doesn't have to be. But the idea that somehow
they're going to feature Lebron at this point in his
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career with what else the Lakers have and don't have, just.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
But I don't know that he's I don't know that
he's conscious of that, because I think if he was,
I think we would have seen a different demeanor on
the bench up to this point. But it's almost like
he's I'm going to pretend like I'm not part of
this guy. You're not extending me. It's not my show
that I'm just going to be. I'm going to be
over here, and and for a guy of his ability
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and basketball IQ in the various ways that what his
support means to the rest of the players on that roster,
that he's decided that he's going to be a stoic,
it doesn't suggest that he's ready to play the role
that I think, for all concern would be the role
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to play.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I really thought as you started breaking that down, Rick,
you were going to start singing a little I Live
for the applause, applause, a little Lady Gaga describing Lebron James.
But let's go to one of his former teammates there
in Dallas as they await his return from a calf strain,
maybe a trade piece and.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But Nico Harrison's not there to make any decisions as
he was finally ousted and Dallas gets to close that
chapter kind of on the trade that was.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah, Nico Harrison, I understand is is legally going to
change his name to fall guy because that's ultimately what
he was here by owner Patrick Durmont DeMont.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Excuse me, they don't.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
They don't. They don't rush into that deal when they did,
they don't keep it undercover and you know, not not
open the doors to the best deal possible. In fact,
Nico Harrison doesn't begin looking to trade Luka Datcic actively
unless ownership says, hey, you know what, we want him gone.
And you can say the same thing for the little
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deal that everybody's busting his chops on, the Quinton Grimes
Caleb Martin deal. Caleb Martin has signed up for ten
million for the next couple of years. Quentin Brian's Quentin
Grimes thinks that he's a thirty million dollar a year player,
and I'm sure made that clear to the Dallas Mavericks.
And right now the new ownership is like, we're not
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paying thirty million dollars a year for Quinton Grimes, and
we're not paying three hundred and sixty five million dollars
for Let's not forget I mean, I feel like we've
forgotten the fact that Luka Dotson's missed what I think
thirty two of the first forty nine games last season
and they were struggling to stay above five hundred, and
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you had new ownership. That's looking at the possibility of
we got to give this guy three hundred and sixty
five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I mean, if you're going to move him, if you
decide you don't.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Want to gamble that, then you open it up and
you trade him for more than We're going to try
to still chase a championship right now. But I can't
help but feel that that Niko Harrison was doing the
bidding of the ownership and at the very least, well,
you may want to take the heat off and you
want to satisfy the fans. I would have liked ownership
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to take some culpability and responsibility and say, hey, we
signed off on this. Maybe you don't say you initiated all.
I think that's what happened, but at least at least
carries some of the water. And now you know, MAVs
fans are all MAVs fans are all giddy because Nico
Harrison and out of the building. Well, guess what you
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know what you got? You got Mike Sinley. You don't
even have a GM.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You got an owner.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Who has named two guys to fight it out over
who's going to be GM and which tells me that
he doesn't know which one should be. And one of
them is the guy who grabbed the.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Beer out of out of Luka Dantych's.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Hand in the locker room when they were celebrating getting
to the twenty twenty four finals.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Mike Finley, so good luck with all of.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
That MAVs fans you've got.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Now you're in a worse place than you were before.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Because here's the thing, whatever you want to say, Nico
Harrison built a roster, built a team that went to
the twenty twenty four finals, and as of the trade
deadline in twenty twenty four, they were not headed toward
the finals. They were a playing team. And he made
the moves to get Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington for
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a number of guys who are not even in the
league right now, and off they go. And certainly Luka
Doncis was phenomenal until they got up against Boston. I mean,
he was a big reason, the biggest reason, without questioning,
why they got to the finals. But he wasn't the
only reason. And Nico Harrison was one of those other reasons.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
And the fact that we're just going to dismiss.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
All of that because ownership didn't want to pay Luka Doncic.
I just got a I have real issue with all
of the revisionist history in terms of what's happened with
the Dallas Mavericks over the last year.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Great stuff as always find him on Twitter at Rick Buker.
That is at Rick Buker, Fox Sports One on the
Ball podcast. Rick is always Buddy. Appreciated, my friend. We'll
talk to you next.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Week Walking Boots Show.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Well done, Rick, Thanks buddy. I curt my ankle in
the final two minutes. They didn't take me out of
the game, and now I'm gonna be out until Christmas Day. Wow,
who knows that's a bold proclamation, uh fact that you
may after that rant, you made it all about the
Nicks again. Come on, that was fantastic. He said, we're
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going to the finals if she's getting the injury out
of the way. Now I dig thatre it.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Is he's gonna be rested and ready to go and
all of the ancillary players will rise up. That was
like a holiday gift. I don't think you're getting the
Jam of the Month or anything this year. Time out
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
If someone who's told me many times, no matter what happens,
you gotta find a fall guy, it's Monty Belagno's.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I don't want to talk about this right now.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Wait, well, do you want to talk about what's wrong?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I don't want to give you an update.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh okay, how about do all the other games except
for the fact that the Nuggets are beating the Clippers by
twenty two? When did this happen, like over the course
of the last two and a half hours.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I just y'all, y'all, it was such a good game.
It was such a good game until it wasn't. Clippers
were in it and then they got outscored by Denver
in the third quarter. Bet it twenty two?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You bet this game day? Of course, I bet everything.
Clippers all day, every day? All right, okay, all day.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
You call a Yokich making it look easy, all annoyed
that he has to play basketball.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Fifty two points.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
You know it's true, he's mad that he has to
make a levee play basketball. But he has fifty two
damn points, eleven rebounds, six assists. Nuggets up on the
Clips one twenty to one hundred. Speaking of injuries, as
you mentioned Jalen Brunson right now, Kawhi Leonard apparently didn't
just sprain his ankle, he also suffered a significant foot spring.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So he's making good progress.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
He's gonna go on the road trip with the Clippers,
but they're gonna have a better availability, a better idea
on his availability next week. Another injury Anthony Davis. He
missed his seventh straight game today for Dallas. His return
date is up in the air as Mavericks Governor Patrick
Dumont has requested a medical information that Davis is not
at risk of aggravating the capstrain that has had him out.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
They do need him though.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Because the Mavericks lost again today to the Suns one
twenty three to one fourteen. Phoenix has won four in
a row. All five of the starters for Phoenix ended
in double digits. They were led by Devin Booker, who
had twenty six points. Victor Ie Banyama and Stefan Castle
both had a triple double. It did not matter. The
Warriors beat Spurs in San Antonio one twenty five to
one twenty. Steph Curry led the way with forty six points.
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The thunder blew out the Lakers one twenty one to
ninety two. Shay Gil just Alexander thirty points and nine assists.
LA had twenty turnovers in the loss. Today, the Magic
hand the Nicks their first lost at home, coming out
on top one twenty four to one. Oh seven. Pistons
have won eight in a row. They defeated the Bulls
one twenty four to one thirteen. No Josh Giddy for
a second straight game for Chicago. No Kid Cunningham for
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the Pistons in this one. Victory is also for the Cavaliers,
who handed Miami their first home loss. The Rockets, the Celtics,
the Hornets, Trailblazers, and Hawks, who recently crushed the King's
in Sacramento, won thirty three to one hundred. In the NHL,
there were four games. Rangers top the Lightning seven to three,
Oilers beat the Flyers two to one, Mammoth outscored the
Sabers five to two, and the Devils over the Blackhawks
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four to three in overtime. When it comes to the NFL,
couple of news bits here Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving
and wide receiver Chris Godwin, we're limited in practice today.
The Broncos held running back JK. Dobbins out of practice
as they contemplate on whether to put him on IR
with that foot injury. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson miss practice today,
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but he should be on the field tomorrow. He's just
dealing with they sort nee. He's expected to start Sunday
in Cleveland. And in case you missed it, in college football,
Michigan State Football's the Michigan State football program must vacate
fourteen wins from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four
seasons because of three ineligible players appearing in games.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
So all of their wins, mel Tucker is the gift
that keeps on giving. They're still playing them. They're still
still playing many different ways. Yeah, and now you're losing
the wins. Stanton, Michigan. Yeah, uh huh, thank you very much,
Jas Jess. Coming up next are two Superstar Award winners
about to get traded. That's next Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 8 (34:31):
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Speaker 1 (34:42):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, where MLB gave out hardware Today, Tarrek Scooble,
Paul Skeins are your cy young winners in the American
National League. And now that well we all thought was
gonna happen. Sure we can get to the more important
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questions about these guys. When are they getting traded?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
But it's also another great example in the pantheon of
our Major League Baseball world to show you that wins
mean less than they ever did for a starting pitch.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Hey, come on, man, Jacob de Grom can win back
to back saw Young's with four wins in each year,
ten wins A it's big by between them. They had
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, once upon a time when you and I and
dinosaurs roam the earth, you had guys winning twenty three games.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Oh, now you're lucky if they start twenty three years.
So this is the big question, because rumors are are
abound for both players. Right, we'll do Schooble first. I
love Schooble, it's fantastic. No desire to trade for him
because he's gonna cost too much. The Tigers want all
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sorts of They've already said we want all sorts of
prospects and players for him right now. If we're gonna
trade him a year ahead of free agency. He's a
Scott Boris client, so you know he's going to free agency.
So if you trade for him, you're only gonna have
him for this year, right He's not gonna be moved
because no one's gonna pay the Tigers price. And quite honestly,
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the Tigers, they're a World Series caliber team. They're not
just gonna get rid of him now. They're gonna say, no,
we're gonna keep them this year and see if we
can get to the bleeping World Series. If the deadline
comes and the Tigers are out of it, yes, then
schoobl will get traded somewhere as a rental for a
couple of months, knowing full well he's gonna hit free agency.
But that's the only scenario he gets dealt because it's
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just too much, because no one's gonna trade for him.
No one's gonna give up the prospects now, no one's
gonna trade for him knowing he's gonna be a free
agent because Scott Boris is never gonna re sign during
the season, So yeah, that's kind of a non starter.
So yeah, all this talk about schoobl getting Delta, the
Mets are gonna jump in all this like that's not
gonna happen. The Mets aren't gonna give up the top
five guys in their farm system for Terrek School. They're
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just not gonna do it. Yeah, that's just.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
The price we're talking about is you know, major league
ready players, probably two or three, and then let's raid
your farm systems. So it's a question of do you
have the backdoor deal of all right, we already know
the ballpark of what that deal is gonna look like, right,
five years, seven years, whatever the max money is, he's
(37:18):
gonna be twenty nine years old. Back to back Sye
Young's You know, I'd celebrate all South pause rolling through.
But if you're the Tigers, I mean, even if you
do have an opportunity to say, hey, we're in this,
I appreciate the cut of your jib of saying hey
we have to run this out, but you may be
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left just holding the bag altogether because you don't win anything. No,
but right, and so and then you watch him walk
and you know, and you don't even get some low
level prospects.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I don't know that you want to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I mean, it's a completely different scenario than that what
already Marino did because at least there he still got
to hold on to get guess.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
What a lot of money show? Hey O, Tonnie.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Sure he didn't rate anybody's farm system, but he got
to hold the bag with the the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I don't think they get either. Yeah, it's gonna it's
it's a difficult situation to be a knowing full well
that he's going to be a free agent and the title. Look,
you know what, let's just go. If we're good and
we can win the World Series, great, if we lose
them with that, that's how baseball goes right. Every time
he starts, you say, this could be the last time
in a Tigers uniform. Tune in to a very special
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broadcast only four episodes before the two episodes that precede
the mid season finale of an All New House. Now,
when it comes to Paul Skeens, it's a little different.
He went house. I did uh. Reports today from a
couple of different sources that Skeens wants to be a
(38:52):
Yankee and the Pirates know.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
This, Temmage, I'm starting to swirl about the and I
got it.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
We know he's not gonna stay in Pittsburgh. We know
it's not gonna happen. But I want a different to
you instead of saying, oh the yank because I'm sure
the Yankees will pony up, because again, the fans will
put too much pressure on the team to get Paul
Skins right. And that's gonna just like the the Mavericks
fans fired Nko Harrison. Yankee fans will get them Paul Skins.
But if you're Pittsburgh, okay, you know what, suck it up.
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You got him under control for another two or three
years unless he makes a demand of I'm not playing
for this team anymore. I want out. Go sign a
couple of players so you can compete. Don't give me this. Well,
we're not gonna trade him because he's such an asset
to us. You're gonna go seventy and ninety two with
him unless you make some changes. I'm not saying, go
give guys seven years and two hundred and fifty million dollars,
but go sign a couple of guys for two years
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and fifty million. Go go try to compete while you
have this, guy. Don't give me a oh, We're not
just gonna be a farm system for the teams that
are rich, like the Yankees and the Mets and the Dodgers. No,
go actually do something and spend some money. Don't sit
here tell me, oh, we don't have the cash. You
can go spend some money and go do it. I know,
I know you have money. I know revenue sharing is
a big deal. You can go get a couple of
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guys under control.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Through twenty twenty nine, according to the two pieces of
information I find, we've got the Pirates spending eighty four
point four million dollars on payroll to go seventy one
to ninety one. They got one hundred and ten million
dollars from revenue sharing.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Go take some cash, Go go do it, dude. Do
your fans a favorite and maybe schemes will want to
stay you never know. But don't sit here and say, oh,
what can we do? What can we do? Coming up next,
we get back into the biggest basketball story of the night.
Guess who could be on his way back to playing
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are who we thought they were, and we let about
the hook could be saying that about the Lakers. Hey,
our chance to prove our start is not a fluke.
(00:46):
We got the defending chance tonight. We're gonna show you.
I'm Luca, I'm Austin. We don't need Lebron James. I
think they need Lebron James. One one ninety two is
the final. This game was not close from the three
minute mark of the first quarter. That sounds about right.
That's where the game started to get away from the
(01:07):
Lakers and it never never got back thirty eighteen after one,
and then they.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Got doubled up in the second quarter forty to twenty
and it's been a laugh for ever since. We just
had sad Luca sitting on the bench. It's like, where's
my phone? This will be let me play candy Crush
or something else or solitaire too soon.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, no, no, no, you can't do the solitaire thing. Dude.
That's bad. Nobody, that's a bad joke now. Man. There's
a lot of upset people about that. There's a lot
of people want people's careers to end, and people are
apologizing on social media. The solitaire is I.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mean, wow, I didn't look into it. I just took
the cash. No, that doesn't doesn't excuse you. Yeah, you're
supposed to be the smartest person in the room. That's
what people keep telling me all these years. You're a brilliant,
brilliant equation breaking through in math petition, and you're smarter
than the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And no, who knew. One guy bored with his career
and playing solitaire in an incredibly embarrassing situation turns out
to be great for him and bad for everybody else
who didn't like it or tried to help him within it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah kind of weird, right, I have that spiraled out
of control. But whatever Luca was doing, we laughed at it.
His pregame it was the all right, we're about to
go take on the defending champs, and they did the
locker room shot where they're just sitting there, legs folded,
hanging out on their phones and then all of a
sudden they go out and absolutely get bludgeoned from pillar
(02:39):
to post.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Solitaire. No, get you look, big day in Major League Baseball,
school Ball and schemes of your cy Young Award winners.
And now we get to the point of the of
the year whenever, Hey, when someone wins something, it becomes
about what's next. Now, for for Trek school Ball and
Paul Skins, it's okay, they won. Now when are they
gonna get traded? Right? Because now we get it, it's
the silly see and the time of the year that
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is usually owned by Scott Boris MLB super Rago to
the stars. Because now when you hear something about somebody,
yes it's a Boris client. Great, you just know. If
I know a guy's a Boris client, I know he's
leaving my team, right, I know he's not staying right.
If it's a guy's a Boris client, I know he's
leaving my team. And you knew that today was schoobl
He's a Boris client's while we're talking about school getting
traded away from the Tigers, because you know he's not
(03:24):
gonna stay. You know, he's gonna hit free agency after
this year. But even if you are like me and
you're hot and cold on Scott Boris, now I love
the guy after this today, certain things will get me
to your side. Love Scott Boris will get me to
your side today, and this is one of them. So
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now that Boris is talking a lot winter meetings, you know,
closing tomorrow and and you know, figuring out where things
are gonna sit for his clients as we get into
December and Hot Stove and January, he had this to
say about Cody Bellinger, who he says, is like basically
thinks that Willie Mays is coming on the markt as
a free agent, not even the best outfielder coming on
(04:09):
the market. But that's okay. His job is to sell.
Listen to him talk about the virtues and talents of
Cody Bellinger, and you'll understand why I love the guy.
Now when you.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Look at twenty five season twenty five I'd say among
all the free Asian outfielders, he was the top nun
of the class. You know, he was defensively a certainly
a versatile viper in the outfield, playing both first base
and all three outfield positions. And he was kind of
(04:41):
offensively a middle lineup Merlin in the sense that he
felt that, you know, providing power and production.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Top gun viper. He went Merlin, he went Tim Robbins.
He didn't want to say, I don't want to just
hit you off the top with Maverick and Iceman and Goose. No, no,
I'm gonna hit you with Viper. I'm gonna you with Merlin.
I was waiting for him to get a jesterre in
there or a Sundown or a Hollywood and Wolfman. Now
I love the guy. He loves top Gun like I do.
(05:11):
I mean, really he does. I mean, now I love
the guy. Now I want to get him on and
just talk about top gun with him. Did they How
much more did he did he go on? In the
next answer? Did he add a couple more? Again? He
did add a Maverick at the end. But clearly you know,
I think you know I want to I want to
tell you, but you know, I want to get back
to it, but you go Merlin Man, Like, not a
lot of people remember Merlin. No, it's good, you know.
Oh yeah that was Cougar. Cougar lost it turned in
(05:33):
his wings. You guys are number one, like you you
don't even know, like I think they mentioned Merlin's name
like once in the beginning. Of course I know it
because you know Tim Robbins all of a sudden, like,
oh it's Tim Robbins in this movie. You see him
at the very end, like eight feet taller than everybody else's.
But I'm like, dude, you want Merlin man. That's a
that's a deep pull, that's a deep po. I if
I had Scott Boris on the on our show tomorrow night,
I would just want to talk about top Gun. Don't
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you want to talk about Pete a Lonzo and it?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Top Gun, top Gun, And then you run some Hamilton line.
See if he's as well versed in that the whole show.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That would be being on a heater if I would
do that, But I would I would stick with top Gun. No,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So Scott Boris, You're you're now okay, philosophically. For as
long as you and I have been doing this show together,
you mentioned his name and then you normally kind of
mutter something under your breath to where you're not, you know,
the biggest advocate, well as a guy who is a
very good advocate, because if I'm going into negotiations, that
guy's got nine billion pages of datus. Oh you'll tell
(06:31):
you how great I am. But but that, but that,
that was part.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Of what it was with Scott bar because I tell
you that when I met Scott Bors. This is about
going back like fifteen years. I want to say a
little bit more than that, back when Manny Ramirez was
in that big run with the with the Dodgers and uh,
you know was Manny would in twenty Bucks. I remember
being I was a panelist for Jim Rome is burning
right on Jim rome Show, and he was coming in
(06:57):
as the guest, and he and I are in the
green room together and we're we're sitting there and we're
talking and he goes, he sends to me, he says, so,
how to feel about Manny? And I said, well, I
think I'm gonna make it happy today. He goes, why
is that? I go cause I'm gonna say back when
when this was, you know, a contract you never got
to go. I think the Dodge should give him like
three years and one hundred million dollars. And Boris looked
(07:18):
at me and said, well, don't sell them short. And
I was like, I like that. I mean that was back.
I mean you're talking about fifty where the idea of
making thirty million dollars a year was like, that's never
gonna happen. But that's how big Manny Ramirez was with
the Dodgers. When he comes in, yeah, he just don't
sell him short. But I always got with Boris, I'm like, okay, here,
(07:39):
I'm gonna tell you why he's so valuable, like having
to talk about his clients, go, this guy's the best.
He's a five tool athlete. No one's a better five
tool than him. He does this, he does like okay,
you are you do you really walk into these meetings
and and and try to tell the gms and the
owners this like they don't know this already, Like they go, wait, wait, wait,
he had an ops of nine under this year. I
(08:00):
don't I didn't get that information anywhere. Really, Oh you
mean you think we can sell more hot dogs if
we sign him because people will come to games. Really,
that's fascinating. Really did well wait a minute, wait a minute,
he was third in the league at home runs. How
did I not know this? Like this is what he does.
I'm like, okay, they know the resume.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But it's also the kind of thing that it's been
built up all these years, of all of the documentation.
Obviously I say that with you know, tongue in cheek
laughing about it, because does that mean every other agent
just sucks that they don't bother to uh to do
any of this or bring any of the research of
how a guy compares against the rest of the free agent.
(08:39):
They just kind of come in winging it. Here's my guy,
he just sitting and chair next to you.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He had, uh, how many how many RBIs? One hundred
and ten hundred and ten RBI's that's that's that's that's
really good. Would you what was your ops? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I mean I had it, I could get it on
my phone, but I did. Okay by his ops, I'm
sure was great.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Now the stuff out parking attendance and whether little Johnny
or Susie is gonna get an extra half an ice
cream per home game is actually kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I mean that's very creative. Wait, you can guarantee me
that if Little Susie comes to the game, because if
we sign Manny Ramirez, I'm gonna get that extra ice
cream salt.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Really, can you estimate how many Little Susie's are gonna
be in the crowd?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Because I need one ice cream? Isn't getting it getting
it done here?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But but but again, that was the old me where
I was suspicious sometimes with Scott boris now the guy's
top Gun like me. I love the guy. I mean
I want all of his references to be made in
Top Merlin and everything else in there Merlin. Okay, so wait,
so if Bellinger is a cut wait wait, if Bellinger
is a combination of Viper and Merlin and Maverick, what
(09:45):
the hell is scooball?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But it's I mean, come on, oh maybe laugh though
you start the quote, you get Viper in and it's like,
it's an interesting way to describe your guy, and then
he circles back, goes wait for it, wait for it, mid.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Mr, good morning, General Attemp. There's one hundred and ten
degrees Holy Blankets Viper. I bet he's saying, Holy Blanket's
Maverick and Goose. Yeah, I'm sure he's saying that. But
that's not it for Scott Boris today. Scott Boris has jokes.
Of course. Pete Alonzo, one of his famous clients, getting
another bite at the Apple in free agency this year.
(10:20):
And oh look, I said goodbye, I say to Apple
and uh, you know that thing that they float when
you win. I said goodbye to ped Alonzo when I
knew that Boris was a client, because I know it's
not going to be long term. He's gonna leave at
some point. But with Alonso coming off the year he had,
now the question was going to be to him about, hey,
what what con what are you expecting this year? Pete
coming off of a great season. And here was Scott Boris,
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the tongue twisting expert, explaining the present and possible future
of Peden Alonzo.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I think Pete, at this point in his career, he's
about winning, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Okay, had that question a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Okay, there's no doubt that peace pursuers are prime to
pay the power piper. You know, Pete picked the perfect
period to play pre eminently at a really a primary position,
a playoff perched plethora will pounced to participate in the
(11:26):
Polar punge.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, at the end, he was just saying words to
begin with p bringing it down back to the polar plunge.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, but there's gotta be a lot of people taking
that plunge to go after Pete alone.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I don't know if he was reading that off of
some sort of mobile teleprompter or a guy had the
words on his back, but that was pretty impressive to
get all those words. You know, good Pete Alonso picked
a peck of pickled peppers. I mean that was that
kind of like that. That was good. Look, I want
to hear you do that again. How bleep and bore
that again. It's like I have to show up to
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these meetings, youn't really want to. Well, I think he
knows that you got a prime the pump to be
able to see where your power goes with Pete. I'm
gonna try to do all the Pete things to myself.
We just had Halloween, had a lot of pumpkins, had parties.
Now Pete prime to pounce in a prime market.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's too bad you can't call him a panther too,
penguin polar bear.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Sure, well, that's what I'm saying, is the penguin tell
you he hasn't played in fifty years. No, that is,
it's just been a long time. He's still mad. But
but now now now I love Now, I love Scott Boris.
Now he's fun.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm like, okay, great, because he got all those peas
out about your guy, you know, because it's funny. As
he starts that whole literation thing there, there was just
a little the hesitancy before you know, he's going down
this road oh yeahs and showing off reading off a dictionary.
Is that it was like he was choosing his words
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carefully and say I.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Don't think there's really much of a market here. But
I'm like, yeah, what do I say here to take?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I have that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Then hear him again say, and if you sign him
and you're competing, the money you make on parking is
basically he pays for himself. Like that, that's his point
is that you give him all this money, but the
money you're gonna make, he pays for himself. But what
I want to turn back and say, Okay, so if
all the money I'm gonna make I got to give
to him. Well, I'm not making money. I'm breaking even
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right because I'm giving him all this money. I want
to make money. I still own the team, i still
want to make money, like that's the whole thing I
want to So I'm not making money if he pays
for himself, because I'm giving you money. This is this
is not you're giving me his services for free. I
have to give you money to make sure and we
have to make sure we win because if we don't win,
people are not gonna be primed to come out to
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the park and pay to buy pumpkin juice to see
us lose in prime situations.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They're not gonna do it. They're gonna stay a spell.
Going with a pumpkin juice is yeah, I think that
you can do. But see now you just killed Scott Bores.
No more peas, no more top gun references. Look what
you did there. It's all your fault. It's amusspemous, Tom
Felton have been hanging out on on Broadway.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Now, I think I think it's better when you can go.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I love Scott Bars now he's your guy, he's you're now,
He's all fun until he goes back into a boardroom
with your owner now to discuss your free agent.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Now I think we should hear. Here's what I would say. Okay,
here's how we play. We play a game of volleyball,
me and my friend, and we have our shirts off,
and you and your friend and what you can keep
your shirt on like Goose does. And whoever wins he
plays for us for free, or if you guys win,
I pay him a lot of money. And you're all
wearing jorts.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yes, well, well, well okay, Maverick is wearing jeans, okay,
and Slider is wearing the dirtiest pair of pants possible.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Ice also wearing pet No one's wearing jeorts. No one's
wearing to I'm updating it for today's game. Maverick is
where Maverick is playing beach volleyball and jeans. That's what's happening.
There's no gene shorts. There are Now you're thinking of
the SNL skit. We play volleyball and jean shorts. That's
something Nobe wearing jeans. Oh well yeah, Bill Hayter and
(15:25):
all the top gun auditions. It says here we play
volleyball and jean shorts. Is that true h exit out
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Buker on The Ball Podcast, Rick, I need I need
your investigative mind here right off the bat. I need
to know something, and I think only you would know this. Okay,
(17:14):
you ready, I'm very scared, but yes, yeah, Well, final
two minutes on the second night of back to backs
where the only type of minutes Jalen Brunson plays is
heavy minutes when they're losing by thirteen. Shouldn't he be
out of the game in avoiding any type of injury
(17:35):
like he had tonight when he has an ankle injury
and he leaves MSG in a walking boot and on crutches.
Can you tell me did Tibbs actually coach the team tonight?
In said of Mike.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Brann No, no, no, no, I got no answer for
you on that night. Why are you putting me on
the spot. You know what, We've had such great opportunity
to talk about the Knicks the previous three weeks with
(18:08):
really interesting things to talk about, and now Danlon Brunson
goes down and we got to find out whether Tibbs
is still somehow secretly pasting the team. You're hurting me.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Here, Rick, Rick.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's a big change from twenty four hours ago. I mean,
it was a big long dance in the studio about
the minutes being played by the reserves.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Here's roster. I'll tell you, Mike, look twenty four hours ago. Rick,
after the game, I'm really on the show last night,
like third straight game over one hundred and thirty points.
Mcal Bridges looks like a different guy. Karl Anthony Towns
looks like he's bought in. He's playing, he's playing the
bench guys and they're playing big minutes, and Clarkson's playing minutes.
And Josh Hart he's gonna be dinged up all year,
but he's back in the I'm like, okay, they got
(18:53):
everything going right now. But you know, the Knicks game
and have nice things.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I would not over dramatizes, you know, basically because of
all of the uh, the the ancillary players stepping up.
That should give you confidence that with or without Jalen Brunston.
The New York Knicks are just going to keep rolling,
and this is actually an opportunity for him to rest
and be a little fresher at the end of the
season when they make their run for the finals.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh okay, that made you feel better than Rick.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's great, Rick, spin doctor Caroline Levitt.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Got nothing on me.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I love Rick. That's the greatest thing. I'm going to
get that on a loop and play. It's gonna be
my ringtone on my phone from now on.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Daily Positivity just sell that one burst run into the finals.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Yeah, I only, I only.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Uh, I got about two or three of those a year, and.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Let's say it. I'm spent. We'll get you one after.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
The holidays, maybe maybe a while before you hear another one.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, all right, let's take a look at one of
the games that just finished up. Lakers go out and
get absolutely thumped by Okay, see but Lebron James working
out with the G League squad And I mean, was
this just a step up in class and a thumping
or does this get to we reset the Lakers a
little bit as to where they are in the packing order? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I think I said when they when they went on
the when they went on this road trip, or before
they went on the road trip, that I really wanted
to see them on this trip because if you look
at if you really break down the teams that they
played getting to eight and three, particularly before the trip,
they're the only team of consequence that they played was Minnesota,
(20:36):
and Minnesota doesn't look like Minnesota right now. I mean
everybody else, the memphisis and some of the other teams
that they had played. I just I wanted to see what,
you know, I didn't think they were a true reflection
of who the Lakers are, particularly when you have a
Luca Donson's coming back. He's in shape, playing with Slovenia
and EuroBasket. He has a little something to prove. Austin
(20:59):
Reaves is obviously gunning for a thirty million dollars a
year contract and has a lot to prove. But I
just felt everything was tilting in their direction. What's really
going to be interesting here is Lebron James potentially coming
back in the fold, but also them getting this dose
of reality of what the best teams in the league.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Really look like.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
And this is an Oklahoma City team that was missing
Jalen Williams and Luke Dort. I mean, they're not even
at full strength. I just don't know in the big
picture that the Lakers have enough to really be competing
for anything more than getting into the playoffs and potentially
winning around That's just the reality this team. Nothing's changed dramatically.
(21:46):
I mean, you need to build a specific team around
Luca to take advantage.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Of what he does.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
And maybe the most interesting thing for me is the
fact that the league is moving toward less dominance, less
ball dominant by the superstars, and more distribution and more
depth and versatility being the key. And that's not how
Luca plays. That's not how Luca has ever played. And
(22:11):
it's going to be interesting whether he's capable even in
this kind of shape, if he's able to sustain his
excellence over the course of the season with everybody else
taking a different approach.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, because I feel it's gonna be like this. Luca
is Jordan, Austin Reeves is Pippin, and now Lebron can
come back and be Horace Grant.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
If he wears the goggles see see Kindred Spirits there, right,
You know, I think it's it's kind of weird rick
that you know, because you know Lebron, it's hard to
not think that everything is calculated.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But boy, on the day the Lakers go to Oklahoma City,
where they know they're likely going to get pounded, he
gets back to.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Practice with the South Bay Lakers. Hey, I'm on the Hey,
I know we're gonna get killed tonight. Hey maybe I'm
the future. Maybe you need me now?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I look, I don't I agree with you. I think
everything that he does is calculated. There's there's a design
and a plan that serves him behind everything that he does.
That's being he has been very successful in doing exactly that.
I just honestly, I don't see him as being the
(23:23):
answer to whatever ills that they have, no matter how
he comes back, no matter what kind of attitude he
has coming back.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And the hardest part for me to see is what.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
They really need is for him to say, you know what,
I'm forty one years old. This is Luka Doncish's team now.
And Austin Reeves is ascending. I don't know if I
can put star quite on it, but ascending quality player.
I love the chemistry between Luca and and Reeves. I
(23:55):
mean they just they seem to genuinely like playing with
each other. I would say the same for Smart, Marcus Smart.
And so I would love to see Lebron realizing this
is probably my last, you know, significant run. Let me
see how I can sit in, Let me be a
part of this, let me let me contribute in any
(24:16):
way that I can, because it's no longer my show.
I just don't know if he's capable of doing that,
of letting letting go, and this, this little maneuver here
would suggests.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Now, I still I need that spotlight.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
That spotlight. That spotlight is like oxygen for me. I
can't I can't live without the attention being on me.
And and I think as a result, this is going
to be an awkward exit when it when it shouldn't be.
It doesn't have to be. But the idea that somehow
they're going to feature Lebron at this point in his
(24:56):
career with what else the Lakers have and don't have, just.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
But I don't know that he's I don't know that
he's conscious of that, because I think if he was,
I think we would have seen a different demeanor on
the bench up to this point. But it's almost like
he's I'm going to pretend like I'm not part of
this guy. You're not extending me. It's not my show
that I'm just going to be. I'm going to be
over here, and and for a guy of his ability
(25:24):
and basketball IQ in the various ways that what his
support means to the rest of the players on that roster,
that he's decided that he's going to be a stoic,
it doesn't suggest that he's ready to play the role
that I think, for all concern would be the role
(25:46):
to play.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I really thought as you started breaking that down, Rick,
you were going to start singing a little I Live
for the applause, applause, a little Lady Gaga describing Lebron James.
But let's go to one of his former teammates there
in Dallas as they await his return from a calf strain,
maybe a trade piece and.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
All of that.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But Nico Harrison's not there to make any decisions as
he was finally ousted and Dallas gets to close that
chapter kind of on the trade that was.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah, Nico Harrison, I understand is is legally going to
change his name to fall guy because that's ultimately what
he was here by owner Patrick Durmont DeMont.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Excuse me, they don't.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
They don't. They don't rush into that deal when they did,
they don't keep it undercover and you know, not not
open the doors to the best deal possible. In fact,
Nico Harrison doesn't begin looking to trade Luka Datcic actively
unless ownership says, hey, you know what, we want him gone.
And you can say the same thing for the little
(26:53):
deal that everybody's busting his chops on, the Quinton Grimes
Caleb Martin deal. Caleb Martin has signed up for ten
million for the next couple of years. Quentin Brian's Quentin
Grimes thinks that he's a thirty million dollar a year player,
and I'm sure made that clear to the Dallas Mavericks.
And right now the new ownership is like, we're not
(27:16):
paying thirty million dollars a year for Quinton Grimes, and
we're not paying three hundred and sixty five million dollars
for Let's not forget I mean, I feel like we've
forgotten the fact that Luka Dotson's missed what I think
thirty two of the first forty nine games last season
and they were struggling to stay above five hundred, and
(27:37):
you had new ownership. That's looking at the possibility of
we got to give this guy three hundred and sixty
five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I mean, if you're going to move him, if you
decide you don't.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Want to gamble that, then you open it up and
you trade him for more than We're going to try
to still chase a championship right now. But I can't
help but feel that that Niko Harrison was doing the
bidding of the ownership and at the very least, well,
you may want to take the heat off and you
want to satisfy the fans. I would have liked ownership
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to take some culpability and responsibility and say, hey, we
signed off on this. Maybe you don't say you initiated all.
I think that's what happened, but at least at least
carries some of the water. And now you know, MAVs
fans are all MAVs fans are all giddy because Nico
Harrison and out of the building. Well, guess what you
(28:29):
know what you got? You got Mike Sinley. You don't
even have a GM.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You got an owner.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Who has named two guys to fight it out over
who's going to be GM and which tells me that
he doesn't know which one should be. And one of
them is the guy who grabbed the.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Beer out of out of Luka Dantych's.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Hand in the locker room when they were celebrating getting
to the twenty twenty four finals.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Mike Finley, so good luck with all of.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
That MAVs fans you've got.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Now you're in a worse place than you were before.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Because here's the thing, whatever you want to say, Nico
Harrison built a roster, built a team that went to
the twenty twenty four finals, and as of the trade
deadline in twenty twenty four, they were not headed toward
the finals. They were a playing team. And he made
the moves to get Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington for
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a number of guys who are not even in the
league right now, and off they go. And certainly Luka
Doncis was phenomenal until they got up against Boston. I mean,
he was a big reason, the biggest reason, without questioning,
why they got to the finals. But he wasn't the
only reason. And Nico Harrison was one of those other reasons.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
And the fact that we're just going to dismiss.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
All of that because ownership didn't want to pay Luka Doncic.
I just got a I have real issue with all
of the revisionist history in terms of what's happened with
the Dallas Mavericks over the last year.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Great stuff as always find him on Twitter at Rick Buker.
That is at Rick Buker, Fox Sports One on the
Ball podcast. Rick is always Buddy. Appreciated, my friend. We'll
talk to you next.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Week Walking Boots Show.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Well done, Rick, Thanks buddy. I curt my ankle in
the final two minutes. They didn't take me out of
the game, and now I'm gonna be out until Christmas Day. Wow,
who knows that's a bold proclamation, uh fact that you
may after that rant, you made it all about the
Nicks again. Come on, that was fantastic. He said, we're
(30:33):
going to the finals if she's getting the injury out
of the way. Now I dig thatre it.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Is he's gonna be rested and ready to go and
all of the ancillary players will rise up. That was
like a holiday gift. I don't think you're getting the
Jam of the Month or anything this year. Time out
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
If someone who's told me many times, no matter what happens,
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Speaker 5 (30:58):
I don't want to talk about this right now.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Wait, well, do you want to talk about what's wrong?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I don't want to give you an update.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh okay, how about do all the other games except
for the fact that the Nuggets are beating the Clippers by
twenty two? When did this happen, like over the course
of the last two and a half hours.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I just y'all, y'all, it was such a good game.
It was such a good game until it wasn't. Clippers
were in it and then they got outscored by Denver
in the third quarter. Bet it twenty two?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You bet this game day? Of course, I bet everything.
Clippers all day, every day? All right, okay, all day.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
You call a Yokich making it look easy, all annoyed
that he has to play basketball.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Fifty two points.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
You know it's true, he's mad that he has to
make a levee play basketball. But he has fifty two
damn points, eleven rebounds, six assists. Nuggets up on the
Clips one twenty to one hundred. Speaking of injuries, as
you mentioned Jalen Brunson right now, Kawhi Leonard apparently didn't
just sprain his ankle, he also suffered a significant foot spring.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So he's making good progress.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
He's gonna go on the road trip with the Clippers,
but they're gonna have a better availability, a better idea
on his availability next week. Another injury Anthony Davis. He
missed his seventh straight game today for Dallas. His return
date is up in the air as Mavericks Governor Patrick
Dumont has requested a medical information that Davis is not
at risk of aggravating the capstrain that has had him out.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
They do need him though.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Because the Mavericks lost again today to the Suns one
twenty three to one fourteen. Phoenix has won four in
a row. All five of the starters for Phoenix ended
in double digits. They were led by Devin Booker, who
had twenty six points. Victor Ie Banyama and Stefan Castle
both had a triple double. It did not matter. The
Warriors beat Spurs in San Antonio one twenty five to
one twenty. Steph Curry led the way with forty six points.
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The thunder blew out the Lakers one twenty one to
ninety two. Shay Gil just Alexander thirty points and nine assists.
LA had twenty turnovers in the loss. Today, the Magic
hand the Nicks their first lost at home, coming out
on top one twenty four to one. Oh seven. Pistons
have won eight in a row. They defeated the Bulls
one twenty four to one thirteen. No Josh Giddy for
a second straight game for Chicago. No Kid Cunningham for
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the Pistons in this one. Victory is also for the Cavaliers,
who handed Miami their first home loss. The Rockets, the Celtics,
the Hornets, Trailblazers, and Hawks, who recently crushed the King's
in Sacramento, won thirty three to one hundred. In the NHL,
there were four games. Rangers top the Lightning seven to three,
Oilers beat the Flyers two to one, Mammoth outscored the
Sabers five to two, and the Devils over the Blackhawks
(33:27):
four to three in overtime. When it comes to the NFL,
couple of news bits here Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving
and wide receiver Chris Godwin, we're limited in practice today.
The Broncos held running back JK. Dobbins out of practice
as they contemplate on whether to put him on IR
with that foot injury. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson miss practice today,
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but he should be on the field tomorrow. He's just
dealing with they sort nee. He's expected to start Sunday
in Cleveland. And in case you missed it, in college football,
Michigan State Football's the Michigan State football program must vacate
fourteen wins from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four
seasons because of three ineligible players appearing in games.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
So all of their wins, mel Tucker is the gift
that keeps on giving. They're still playing them. They're still
still playing many different ways. Yeah, and now you're losing
the wins. Stanton, Michigan. Yeah, uh huh, thank you very much,
Jas Jess. Coming up next are two Superstar Award winners
about to get traded. That's next Jason and Mike Fox
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National League. And now that well we all thought was
gonna happen. Sure we can get to the more important
(35:02):
questions about these guys. When are they getting traded?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
But it's also another great example in the pantheon of
our Major League Baseball world to show you that wins
mean less than they ever did for a starting pitch.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Hey, come on, man, Jacob de Grom can win back
to back saw Young's with four wins in each year,
ten wins A it's big by between them. They had
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, once upon a time when you and I and
dinosaurs roam the earth, you had guys winning twenty three games.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Oh, now you're lucky if they start twenty three years.
So this is the big question, because rumors are are
abound for both players. Right, we'll do Schooble first. I
love Schooble, it's fantastic. No desire to trade for him
because he's gonna cost too much. The Tigers want all
(35:53):
sorts of They've already said we want all sorts of
prospects and players for him right now. If we're gonna
trade him a year ahead of free agency. He's a
Scott Boris client, so you know he's going to free agency.
So if you trade for him, you're only gonna have
him for this year, right He's not gonna be moved
because no one's gonna pay the Tigers price. And quite honestly,
(36:14):
the Tigers, they're a World Series caliber team. They're not
just gonna get rid of him now. They're gonna say, no,
we're gonna keep them this year and see if we
can get to the bleeping World Series. If the deadline
comes and the Tigers are out of it, yes, then
schoobl will get traded somewhere as a rental for a
couple of months, knowing full well he's gonna hit free agency.
But that's the only scenario he gets dealt because it's
(36:34):
just too much, because no one's gonna trade for him.
No one's gonna give up the prospects now, no one's
gonna trade for him knowing he's gonna be a free
agent because Scott Boris is never gonna re sign during
the season, So yeah, that's kind of a non starter.
So yeah, all this talk about schoobl getting Delta, the
Mets are gonna jump in all this like that's not
gonna happen. The Mets aren't gonna give up the top
five guys in their farm system for Terrek School. They're
(36:55):
just not gonna do it. Yeah, that's just.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
The price we're talking about is you know, major league
ready players, probably two or three, and then let's raid
your farm systems. So it's a question of do you
have the backdoor deal of all right, we already know
the ballpark of what that deal is gonna look like, right,
five years, seven years, whatever the max money is, he's
(37:18):
gonna be twenty nine years old. Back to back Sye
Young's You know, I'd celebrate all South pause rolling through.
But if you're the Tigers, I mean, even if you
do have an opportunity to say, hey, we're in this,
I appreciate the cut of your jib of saying hey
we have to run this out, but you may be
(37:39):
left just holding the bag altogether because you don't win anything. No,
but right, and so and then you watch him walk
and you know, and you don't even get some low
level prospects.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I don't know that you want to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I mean, it's a completely different scenario than that what
already Marino did because at least there he still got
to hold on to get guess.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
What a lot of money show? Hey O, Tonnie.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Sure he didn't rate anybody's farm system, but he got
to hold the bag with the the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I don't think they get either. Yeah, it's gonna it's
it's a difficult situation to be a knowing full well
that he's going to be a free agent and the title. Look,
you know what, let's just go. If we're good and
we can win the World Series, great, if we lose
them with that, that's how baseball goes right. Every time
he starts, you say, this could be the last time
in a Tigers uniform. Tune in to a very special
(38:30):
broadcast only four episodes before the two episodes that precede
the mid season finale of an All New House. Now,
when it comes to Paul Skeens, it's a little different.
He went house. I did uh. Reports today from a
couple of different sources that Skeens wants to be a
(38:52):
Yankee and the Pirates know.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
This, Temmage, I'm starting to swirl about the and I
got it.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
We know he's not gonna stay in Pittsburgh. We know
it's not gonna happen. But I want a different to
you instead of saying, oh the yank because I'm sure
the Yankees will pony up, because again, the fans will
put too much pressure on the team to get Paul
Skins right. And that's gonna just like the the Mavericks
fans fired Nko Harrison. Yankee fans will get them Paul Skins.
But if you're Pittsburgh, okay, you know what, suck it up.
(39:20):
You got him under control for another two or three
years unless he makes a demand of I'm not playing
for this team anymore. I want out. Go sign a
couple of players so you can compete. Don't give me this. Well,
we're not gonna trade him because he's such an asset
to us. You're gonna go seventy and ninety two with
him unless you make some changes. I'm not saying, go
give guys seven years and two hundred and fifty million dollars,
but go sign a couple of guys for two years
(39:42):
and fifty million. Go go try to compete while you
have this, guy. Don't give me a oh, We're not
just gonna be a farm system for the teams that
are rich, like the Yankees and the Mets and the Dodgers. No,
go actually do something and spend some money. Don't sit
here tell me, oh, we don't have the cash. You
can go spend some money and go do it. I know,
I know you have money. I know revenue sharing is
a big deal. You can go get a couple of
(40:02):
guys under control.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Through twenty twenty nine, according to the two pieces of
information I find, we've got the Pirates spending eighty four
point four million dollars on payroll to go seventy one
to ninety one. They got one hundred and ten million
dollars from revenue sharing.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Go take some cash, Go go do it, dude. Do
your fans a favorite and maybe schemes will want to
stay you never know. But don't sit here and say, oh,
what can we do? What can we do? Coming up next,
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