July 10, 2026 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discussed potential landing spots for LeBron James. And the guys weighed in on the Spurs’ play-by-play announcer losing his job after his girlfriend accused him of cheating on her with the sister of a player on the team.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Concrete Jungle Wild, Dreams of Made.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Welcome back Jordan Clarkson. Look at the Knicks front office cooking.
They're just cooking, you know, just just miss that one
glue guy, just for a second. The Knicks now have
brought back everybody on their team except for Mitchell Robinson. Right,
They got three players they wanted to bring back to
take as much money as it would take them to
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just bring back Mitchell Robinson. Brunson's hurt. They have cut.
We just won the championship. It doesn't matter. It's hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We want He's not even gonna be cleared to wrestle
Dan Housen, or we want Dan Housen next week.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Never wrestling Dan I won four thousand dollars, right, remember
when he wanted to fight? Yea yeah come yea yeah
yeah yeah. But this, this tells you that that we're
living absolutely in the bizarre world where the Knicks front
office is doing things that every NBA front office should
(01:28):
look at them and say, I aspire to be able
to get guys to take less money to come back.
Not just Jalen Brunson taking hundreds of millions of dollars
less money to keep the team together, but even the
guys like Landry Shaman and Jordan Clarkson who decide, yes,
I'm gonna take less money too to come back because
I want to come back here, because this is where
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I want to be, because winning in New York, this
experience I had is incredible. Those three guys and Alvarado,
they all come back for as much money as it
took the Celtics to go get Mitchell Robins, who, oh,
by the way, was going at it with Celtics fans
on social media today. Uh, the Knicks front office is
absolutely cooking in this offseason. They're probably not done. Maybe
(02:09):
DeMar derozen wants to go there, maybe somebody else, but
they are showing you that, Oh hey, in New York,
we're getting people to take less money. Not not not
in a smaller mart, Not in Sacramento. We can convince
people to take less money, Not in Oklahoma City. In
New York, we're convincing guys to take less money to
keep a team together. God's still getting paid, but they're
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leaving money out there because they want to win that.
The Knicks are the model franchise in the NBA. Think
about that. They are the They blow They blow out
everybody through the playoffs and dominate all the way through
their record, the championship, and now everybody is staying they're
taking less money. The Knicks, the long time laughing stock
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of the NBA, are now the model franchise, the model
Stop you look how guys took less money. I mean,
are there any no show is Dan Housen?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Are there any more no.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Show tree jobs out in the greater New York area
to make it greater. But legitimately, one of the things
that can be considered here obviously one of the higher
tax rates in the country. We understand all that stuff
cost a living, but what I think these guys also
recognize and we talked about it with kat and respect
and all that that that's all find and good, that
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that's not paying a bill, but the fact that you
sell out every appearance. Look at Landry Shammitt probably did
twenty appearances.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
He's got a mural.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
He's got a mural outside of legitimately one hundred and
fifty plus the autography. Like to meet and hang out
and be in the room with this guy. He's made
hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last month being
part of this team, recognizing that that gravy train don't
end because if you win, especially in the city like
New York, he's gonna still cashing out. He's gonna sign
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pictures of that three that bounced off the rim four
times for one hundred bucks a pop for the rest
of his life.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But you saw.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The sales for the other jerseys, right, We talked about
the pron Sandy On Andobi went for a quarter million dollars.
That was the game one jerseys from the finals. But
all of that to say, I think some of them
sat down with their accountants and their agents realized we
can go play there, We're not gonna win, and a
lot of these guys have experienced not winning. Yeah right,
That's the other part is like they're not fresh to
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the league. They've all had their experience either because of injury,
rotation issues, falling out of favors with a coach.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
They like me here, i might not have huge minutes,
might not top out my salary, but I'm in a
good spot and I've got a lot of good will,
never paying for another meal or drink here again. And
any time I decide I want to go to a
card shop or anywhere else where, I'm gonna sign autographs
and post for pictures. I'm making bank right, fanatics fests
get ready to go on. The amount of money those
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guys are making just for walking can into the door
makes up a lot of that cash they left on
the table.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But again, getting them to buy in to do it
like the model franchise, Well, it's like it's like Jerry maguire,
why don't we have that kind of relationship, and and
and and the Knicks are making the rest of the
NBA go crazy, like all the crazy free agent moves
because the Knicks won, and all the all the trolling
they've done. Boy, they they're just been crushing the Spurs.
And now maybe this is a Knicks aspect of it.
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Maybe this is the NIXT story that's got this happening
with the Spurs today. But I thought you were going
to do the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And here's how they've categorized all the celebrities and people
they have to look at when they come into the low.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Thread high threat c major. Don't let that guy in.
That guy's face, yeah, leave him out, let him in.
Let Charles Oakley in before you let him in. But
apparently no, it's so bad that the Spurs lost Knicks
is so it's affecting their play by play guys. Uh,
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this story out of the NBA today, the insanity of it.
Jacob Toby has been the Spurs play by play guy
for the last couple of years. He is now the
ex play by play voice of the San Antonio Spurs
because he has been fired after allegations have been having
an affair with a sister of one of the Spurs players. Okay,
(06:21):
all right, how did we find out about this, glad,
you asked? Late Tuesday night, his Instagram account had a
post that appeared and it said, this is my girlfriend
of six years, but I cheated on her with Lauren Waters,
So feel free to continue following me if you really
think I'm a good guy, because I'm not. Now when
I see something like that, I go, Okay, that's a
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guy that got hacked, but all right, we'll see. Turns
out his girlfriend got according to her, according reports, she
got on his phone posted that picture on Instagram because
she found out he was cheating on her with Lauren Waters,
against sister of Spurs player, and then later on in
the post was a picture of Toby with Waters. One
of those the strip films where you go into a
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booth you take like four pictures in a row. Guy
goes he lost his Fantasy League and you gotta out
yourself that you're having an affair. So this is not
this is you know, this is him and his girlfriend
and he gets fired because of this. And I've seen
a lot of reports today and I had a feeling
we would this is where people would go with when
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I knowing knowing that the angle I think we could
take on it for people would talk about during the
day is that boy, the guy's got a case to
keep his job. Why do you get fired off of this?
This isn't you know? What did he do. Was anything
illegal happen, Well, he has a big case to keep
his job, And yes, I get that in the world,
we have really blurred that line between what is acceptable
and unacceptable in the world when an embarrassing event happens. Uh.
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It used to be, Hey, if you don't protect the shield,
you're gonna be let go. Now there's so many different
angles to it, and you're gonna find your supporters online
and it's much more difficult, and you don't see teams
making decisions like this like they normally would. But there's
part of me that, you know, to go the other
way on this is that I kind of feel good
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that the Spurs have a standard that they feel they
want their players to and and they're franchise to live
up to. You just got to work on Wenby for
the flagrant fouls. But I kind of like the fact that, Hey,
this is the story that's incredibly embarrassing to us. Here's
our play by play announcer and his girlfriend gets on
his phone and puts this tweet out there, puts this
Instagram post out there, which, okay, kind of a live
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wire relationship we're dealing with here, Who's this guy that
we have employed is our play by play guy, right,
her future relationships now as well, because I mean, who's
getting on board that Burt, Like the end of Keith
r Nandez's fanast is right, it's Burt. It's Burt. So
you're the Spurs and you're saying, Okay, here's a young guy.
We hire, this up and coming play by play guy,
very highly rated, people said many good things about him.
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But now his girlfriend gets his phone posts this. This
is embarrassing for us. Affair with a player's sister embarrassing
for us. So we're going in another direction, and there's
a large part of this is I'm glad that they
are living up to a standard of you know, just
because we've seen this line blurred so much doesn't mean
we're not going to do what we feel is right
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in the situation. Because this is the definition of not
protecting the shield. Right, This is embarrassing for the for
the franchise. Involve somebody that's directly employed by the franchise
and is a player on the team. So yeah, I
get the Spurs letting him go, and I kind of
feel that, Okay, maybe all sorts of decorum isn't lost
in the world when you still see teams making a
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decision like this, when it'd be easy to go the
other way and go, well, who do you really hurt? Well?
Did anybody that was it was an affair? Other people
have affairs. People have affairs. Here's the people on social
media that are coming to his defense. Boy, look at
the retweets on this. Ah, we'll keep him. It's going
to be a bit of a firestorm. No, I kind
of like that. Here's the spurs saying, no, we have standards.
This is not it when we're looking for somebody else standards.
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Morality clause is whatever you want to invoke. Uh talk
about what the old don't insert word here where you eat,
all right? I mean kind of thing. What it does
locker room?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I mean, does that become a talking point in the
locker room where everybody's looking around relatives and whatever else?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I mean, this is a plot line from a movie
where the person steals the other person's phone and posts
on social media. There's a movie plot line that's certainly problematic.
And for the young lady.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I mean, if I'm sorry, she was wrong, feels wrong,
she was mad. Now his life is ruined, her life
out to uh, you know, for the Spurs. They don't
have a currently have a local TV deal, so it's
also a well, we're in a spot where we can
make this go away. It'll be uncomfortable from it's in
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the off season. People stop talking about Mitch Johnson and
questionable maneuvers and deer and Fox no showing and all
of those things.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But but they wouldn't get past this, like this guy
being the voice. They wouldn't get past this embarrassment of oh, yeah,
you're messing around with me. Blank you man, here you go,
here's a social media post. I got your phone and
I'm posting this.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But it keeps going back to you know, you've got
to comment on the games, right, assuming Waters would still
be a member of the Spurs. And even if you say,
well that's that's it, it's like, well, no, other people
have sisters, they have wives, they have girlfriends, they have whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
And I'm not saying these some predatorial.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Kind of thing, but it's stuff that can get in
and be pervasive in a locker room. And we've heard
millions of stories through the years working media. Some of
them have leaked out. Others are urban lore about how
teams get fractured over things. A lot of it just coach,
player or players whatever, but you had the broadcast, or
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they're traveling with the team, they're around whatever. I mean,
it's yeah, it's the the idea of all right, here's
an organization that was always about quiet.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Just go do your work.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This did not allow them to be quiet, you know,
just go back into an off season of retooling.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And there's usually a couple of times a year. I
think about this. One of the most truthful things I've
ever been told about working in the media is this.
And JT. The Brick, who is here for a long
time and now he's in Vegas doing his thing, is
he told me. This is twenty years ago. Twenty years
ago he told me. He said, you are going to
see in your life that you are gonna get your
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opportunities because people in front of you can't handle success
and they blow themselves up more than you will get
chances on your own talent. And I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah,
the thing you're just saying that and that is one
hundred percent true. There is what because now somebody's gonna
get a chance to be a play by play voice
to the San Antonio Spurs and they're getting it. They
never thought they'd get it, but they're gonna get it
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because of this. Because Jacob Toby's relationship went sideways and
this life, everything that happened to him just came crashing
down on him. I mean, he's again, it's it's a
sitcom story, it's a it's a streaming TV show story,
and that's gonna happen. And I've seen it throughout my life.
I've gotten most of my opportunities have been because you know,
somebody that had it, that had a gig, couldn't handle it,
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so I was able to get it, Like, Okay, that's great.
But you know I see stories like this and I go, man,
not twenty years and that that still happens. People can't
handle success and that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Do you think the inbox slash voicemail had enough room
for all of the entrees for the Spurs, because I
mean Rich Paul was set up for what twenty seven voicemails?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, do you think maybe one of the voicemails was
actually about, Hey, I hope this is the number to
call for lebron Uh? Is this Rich Paul's number is?
I'm sorry, I'm just you know what, I'll call back.
I'll call back. I'll send my tape. Moral of the story, guys,
go ahead where you eat? Oh, I mean that's that's
you see. Yeah, that dropped the Mike Crossberg No, whoa,
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whoa ty shirt whoa. It's emphasis.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Mike was drawing fastest on the slabs and the mic
was dropped. It's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Something else.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My bas
friend Mike Harmon. A World Cup story so upsetting. Alex
Tyscher is upset about it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Wait when he texted me early today when this story broke,
I'm like, man, he is really upset about this, absolutely upset. Uh.
You know, not that uh you want to put any
conspiracy theory out there, but what do you mean? Basically,
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right before the beginning of France and Morocco today, word
comes in that England defender Jurell Kwanza has been banned
for two World Cup games after his red card in
the win over Mexico and obviously with the red card
going Balligan's way, and then President Trump making a phone
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call or he says he made a phone call at
getting overturned. Well wait a minute, wait a minute. Now
you have England who's missing one of their one of
their starting players now and uh not just missed for
this game, but missing for the next game. Two games, yeah,
two games. So it's one thing if you just said, hey,
you know what we're doing this now he's missing the
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next tickets, which means he would not be there if
there was a showdown with Argentina and Lionel Messi to
get to the final.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Oh, surprise, surprise. This is when Alex Tyser texted me today.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He said, wait a minute, hold on where he came
up at the new acronym. Yeah, dude, I mean it.
You need to because I after you said this, you
sent me this text and and you talked about how
you know, fixing things for for MESSI. I said, hmmm,
is that a thing? I don't know that ever? And
I and I typed it into Google and it didn't
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come up like it was something that's been said a lot. Dude,
you need to patent this phrase and get it on
t shirts if you can find a way to mass
produce it. And you know, Harmon's always talking about monetizing
stuff like you would make a lot of money on
this if you could get this out there in the
next three or four days. You down Harmony your feet.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, yeah, okay, because this is my issue, Jason, Well
tell everybody what you said. So after I saw the
news that as you said, that England's gonna have to
suffer a two game suspension now, which is crazy. Which
is crazy because when I went back and watched both plays,
the one via Anglen versus Mexico and then the one
where Bellagan basically took the guy's legout and then stretched
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his ankle sideways on the field and he got his waved.
I thought to myself, Wow, why is that possible? Who
would they end up playing? Like you said, Argentina. So
I looked it up. Not only were all the reps
for today's game for France Argentinian, but the thing that
just pisses me off the most, I went back to
look at their group stage, every team they played. They
haven't played a top twenty team yet. I guess what
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I said. You know what FIFA stands for, fix it
for Argentina FIFA.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Patent pending pat and tell me I'm wrong, though, tell
me I'm wrong. Oh no, no, I love the fixing
it for Argentina. No great, Oh oh game, No dude,
That's all you have to do is just show me
the replay of the foul. Oh, we weren't gonna call it,
but then you scored a goal.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
We had that we had to call it, and messy
pointing to the official to say it like in this case, right,
he gets the ball, but the spikes stay up as
he's sliding on me on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Suday night, So upholding the one game? Wow, two games?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Two games, but you know, but they extended it and
said two games.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And they didn't even cite article twenty seven. No, I
think you need to cite article twenty Yes, we can
do whatever the hell we want article.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Twenty seven whatever. That's my problem is known for being corrupt.
It's a thing. Really, Yes, this is like this, Jason,
I'm sorry this week.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I think people are just kind of coming around to
this that are interested in this.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like the fan that around two thousand found out. You know,
I think every team cheats in college. Yes, I think
every team. It's just I think every team college basketball too.
I think I think there's I think they're scandalous everywhere.
I think they're giving money to players that players aren't
supposed to get them. I really think so.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I just think that when you were talking about did
Egypt shit coach head coach say this about them getting
a bag of money?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, I don't know. They might have.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm just saying, by the way, that game look, Magic
Johnson Twitter game will go down in the hall Halls
of Fame of made up games now that that yesterday
was really good.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, I'm just saying, Jason, I'm not a big sports fan. Shocker,
I know, right, I'm not a big sports fan. But
I love soccer. I love the sport. I think it's
a beautiful game. The fact that anybody anywhere can play
it with just a ball, and you can make a
goal out of rocks, cups, your shoes, whatever, right, And
some of the poorest people you've ever known have become
multi millionaires because of soccer. It's a beautiful sport. The
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world plays it. It's the biggest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I played it, my family watches it, families from out
of the country. I love soccer so It's just like
the one thing where I'm like, you know what, I'll
plug in for a little bit and act like I
like sports and watch it and get into it right,
But then I'm just beat over the head with just
the BS and the stuff they do, the bad calls,
the good calls, and I sit there, I'm like, dude,
I know you guys want to have your own Lebron,
your own Michael Jordan. You want Messy to be that guy.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Fine. The problem I have.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Though, is just stop making it so obnoxiously obvious, Alex
but Polisic is great.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Hey, hey, hey Captain America. No there, Look when you
have you have teams now who were just don't care
about saying you want to keep Argentina in. I mean,
would that call have happened Argentina in England, probably not.
Would that have happened Argentina in France probably not, But
Argentina in Egypt one hundred percent. Right. It's like, would
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a call like that happen favoring the Knicks if it
was Nick Celtics, No, If it was Nick Spurs in
the finals, no. If it was Nicks the Hawks in
the first round, yeah, one hundred percent. That would happen right,
like I mean to think of you think about there's
so much correlation between NBA officiating and FIFA officiating with well,
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we we want to call it a certain way unless
we need to come keep somebody in a game, unless
we want to keep somebody around for long. We want
to keep more games happening, because listen, I can't tell
anybody who says to me, do you think the officiating
is rigged for Argentina to move on when they can
not one hundred percent? But when they can, when it
can go fifty to fifty, they look the other way.
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I can't tell you no. I can't tell you know.
And when I can't, when I can't tell you know
about something like that, that should tell you I can't
tell you no when it comes to Argentine.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
But how active is the group threat been, particularly during
Argentina matches right where we've been like wow, okay, you
know there's another and another one and it's ZJ Khaled
just over another one, and then you see the super
cut that people put together within a half hour of
the game ending. It's like, okay, so everybody else is
kind of watching the same thing, and you're trying to
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look for the counter right where you're gonna let that
physicality go. But how many times do we see a
guy the ball he's been dispossessed or he's kicked it
ahead and then he's getting trucked on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Like that's that's not soccer, Like.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's no but and the referee at the ar standard
right there just kind of looks and goes, okay, we'll
play on. We've seen a number of those and and look,
I don't love tinfoil hat conspiracies, but there have been
a number. And then fill being called one hundred yards
back is really tough to argue.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
You know, ce Jason, this is the lasting to touch
on too. That really annoys me. Yeah, people say momentum
is not real, and soccer it's everything. That's what big
problem I had with hydration Branks is that's a big
gap within your momentum and slowing down a team. My
biggest issue with these refs aren't that's supposed to be
a three zero game with Egypt. That disallow goal changed everything?
Oh yeah, of course it did everything. Of course it did.
That's my problem is they barely survived Cape Verde. They
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should not have survived Egypt. Well, that's the thing is,
then they're in trouble. If Egypt are the one going on.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, and look, honestly, if the English Prime Minister had
the sway of President Trump, he could call and get
that red card overturned, right and say, wait, you're gonna
let quonsa play in the next game. Aren't just holding
up a twenty seven man? So I'm thinking about you
want something crazy, right, you want something of course? This
is great? This, this is this is where I always
love when when a sports story takes me somewhere unexpected.
(22:25):
You know, we talk a lot about how teams you
can't just hire and fire head coaches and gms all
the time because you can't win. You gotta have some
kind of stability. You got to keep people around, right,
you know, all the all the talk this year the
Met's got to fire David Stearns. He's terrible, and Steve
Cohen says, we got to see his vision through. We
can't keep it, keep it a revolving door. We have
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to be a destination for people. So you get that.
You can't just keep changing every few years.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So what I'm thinking about this today and you sent
me that text, and I'm going, boy, I guess we
know the juice of the British you know, prime minister.
And I'm saying to myself, I'm going, it's still Starmer, right,
who's the because I because I just you know, listen,
you know, knowing the world and politics, every them going
Starmer's still there. Because I thought I remember going that
they're gonna have a new prime minister, right, So I
(23:12):
look it up. Okay, so I look up. Yes, Starmer
is still the prime minister in England. How many prime
ministers do you think England has had in the last
ten years? This sounds fun? How many prime ministers has
England had in the last ten Because the average person,
I'll help you a little bit, the average person. I
think the average person would say, Okay, well, I don't
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think it's Johnson anymore, and it's somebody else and maybe
there was one other person. That's what I think the
average person would say. If I said to you, how
many prime ministers has England had in the last ten years?
How many do you think?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I would guess four? And they're gonna get a fifth
because this he's resigned. Okay, yes, say like seven? Okay, seven?
That's like Jets head coaches.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That's it rounds. You're done every two years. Five Yeah,
Arizona Cardinals they they will be on their sixth. So
short since twenty sixty, I missed one like that. Teresa
May didn't make it three years than Boris Johnson made
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it about three years. Trust made it like a month
and she was replaced and soon again I was close.
You were close Frostburg. Soon I was a couple of years.
And now it's Starmer and now it's gonna be somebody else,
somebody else. They're gonna have said, no juice. Six leaders
of a country over a ten years, I mean it, man,
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like that is like head coach of the Jets. That's
really what. In fact, I will tell you. In the
last ten years, the Jets have had less head coaches
than Great Britain has had prime ministers. And that's something, man,
in a ten year span, that is a whole other world,
my friend, they've had Fuck. I mean when I watched
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the Crown and I and I see how they used
to Like obviously the Crown is about the rule of
Queen Elizabeth and and most of the politics is done
in the early time. You know, the Crown is just fat.
The first couple of years of the Crown is just fascinating.
And you see how they how they pick their prime
ministers and their elections are a little bit different, and
(25:26):
and it's still it's real. It's like you know, watching
baseball and trying to understand cricket and you go, okay,
I kind of get a little bit of it, but
oh god, that's a little weird. Okay, but like seeing
how they'd like all right, But now it's like just
the fact that like I don't even know, like calling
for a snap election, like you're call it, like, oh,
I can just have an election, remember I want to really, yeah,
but you can't lose. You lose a snap election.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's just so strange. But no matter what kind of
system you have, it boils down to in ten years,
in a ten year span, they're gonna have six prime
ministers total, whenever whoever.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Takes And then there's a guy standing in out of
his storycone. I'll never get this pothole film.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Really it is a New York Jets like run for
Great Britain. So there's there's no way that that starting.
There's no way story I mean started two hundred and
fifty years ago. Say, I just have to put the
stamp on this for you real quick. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
These are who Argentina's played. Austria ranked twenty two, Algeria
twenty nine, Jordan's seventy three, Cape very Day sixty four,
Egypt twenty four. Yeah, they're doing so good, so good,
just annoying, so a.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Lot better than us. They're still playing. No, that is true,
that is true. You know why two oaces? Uh, just
to let you know, the Jets have had five head
coaches in the last ten, five head coach. So I
was mistaken. I guessed five new coming in. It is
somewhat similar in that, you know, Todd Bowles was three years,
(26:54):
Gas was a couple of years. How about the Sola
was three years? Then Jeff Olbrick was very very brief.
You can go back to Aaron Rode Rode goodbye. On
a note about the Knicks and Mets. They've had a
bunch too. The Knicks won the title, so you can't
you can't put the Knicks in. Man, it wasn't here.
It doesn't count, dude. You talk about the Mets, that's fine,
(27:15):
but you can't put the Knicks in there. You guess
how many Jason, guess how many? How many? For what
coaches for the Knicks? Oh in the last ten years? Loh? Oh, well,
hang on, hang on one, come on, two, three, four, five,
it's more. No no for sure, No no, no, no, no,
(27:36):
no no no Jason, no no wait wait I'm going back.
Hang on such a big Knicks Feld Yeah, I said five.
I'm hold on, I hang on a second. Who you're
missing two? I'm missing two?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Weight?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
There were no seven?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, Miller, yeah, Fizzdale, Fizzdale, Hornison, Oh right right, horn
Scond Yeah, okay, that's five. Randis Yeah, okay, that's five.
Fisher Well, okay, okay, keep going. They got rid of
they got no, no, that's it, they got sixteen. Yes, yes,
it is okay. You just don't want to claim Derek Fisher.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
No, no, no, I knew, you know, I went back
to Fisher, but I forgot when he got fired. They
had a couple, you know, Rambis coach Hornerseck was a
couple of years. Okay, so they had more interim guys
that I missed because I'm thinking, oh, who was a coach?
I wasn't thinking the guy wasn't I wasn't. I wasn't
sixteen eight of the interim guys. I think number six
(28:29):
ye man, Well, but it doesn't matter because the next
one at all won the time. I need more fizzdale,
I was off by one. Uh. Turn out that for data.
Turn out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Dan Buyer stepping in. What do you
got my friend? What's going on? Guys?
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Back to you.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Thanks a bunch. dB appreciated my friend. I mean, well,
I didn't know this this English you know, English prime
minister would start such a conversation. But boy, I really
feel like my teams they've been telling it really really
went down a rabbit hole. An I'll tell you, uh.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, Beheim was there way because yeah, eighty three, like
the Mets have had six matt Like the Mets have
had as many managers as England's gonna have prime ministers.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
They got good six. No, it's not good. It's not good.
The Dodgers, who's had one. Who's it worse for the
Mets or England. Who's in worse shape right now? All
the Mets. Yeah, I mean England's one step away from
the from the semi finals, so I guess it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I mean in theory, Cohen can still buy his way out.
The Mets don't have Harry Kane, Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
No, no, no, no Harry Kane, No Hurry Kane, ty shirt,
no Hurricane, no Hurrycane. Exit. Up about a Fresco exit
swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, A football story from today.
I thought was absolutely big NFL story from today I
thought was false. When it was reported, I did my
(31:44):
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It's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 1 (32:00):
Andrews History the touchdown run on fourth and one in
the Super Bowl against the Dolphins. I said, there's no way,
there's no way, John Riggins. No, they've not retired John
Riggins Jersey yet. I mean this is a guy. He's
the most famous player in franchise history, Super Bowl, MVP,
Pro Football, Hall of Fame in the nineties, and they
(32:22):
hadn't retired his jersey, Like, are you and sad? How
did this? How did this not happen yet? Daniel Snyder?
That's how it doesn't happen. But nineteen ninety two, I
understand he has a Hall of Famer now, not good
enough to have a jersey.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
They were really bad and getting Art Monk pushed over that.
But show and he was the leading receiver. But he
still he went to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
He's a Hall of Famer and his jersey isn't retired
by the Commanders yet.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Twentieth all time rushing yards, eleven three, All Decade Team,
all of that. Yeah, well, I'm sure there are plenty
of other teams if we really wanted to go around there.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I don't know about that. I mean, this might be.
Are there some questionable guys where guys that had great careers?
But are they should they get mommortalized and had their
jersey retired? Y? No, whatever you could say, as you
said All Decade Team, Now, he was a volume running back.
He was not a guy that was going to carry
off ten times in the game and run for one
(33:26):
hundred and twenty five yards like Jamior Gibbs. No, he
was thirty eight carries for one hundred and twenty one
yards and three touchdowns. But in the fourth quarter you
were getting run over. I mean by that offensive line,
the fact that he had that kind of of responsibility
and that number of carries again when he was thirty
four and thirty five years old, like that you think,
(33:48):
I'm thinking those were the best years of his career
when he was thirty four and thirty five and he
was a fun personality. Uh, you know throughout his time
in the league, had the mohawk with the Jets, now
with the mohawk. But I still, I really I thought
it was a fake Storytell like, there's no way as
Jersey's not retired, there's no.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Nineteen eighty three thirteen hundred and forty seven rushing yards,
twenty four touchdowns. Yeah, nineteen eighty four, twelve hundred and
thirty nine rushing yards, fourteen touchdowns, nineteen eighty five six
hundred and seventy seven yards in his twelve games, eleven starts,
eight touchdowns, and then he's out of the league.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Those are his final three years. Well that's because in
the game at a diesel right at three okay, okay,
before the shack just he was the dease. You want it,
you want to get crazy, right, we talk about Saquon
Barkley and all the touches he had two years ago,
right and running for two thousand yards winning MVP. When
John Riggins was thirty four years old, he carried the
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ball three hundred and seventy five times, caught another four
Washington a couple of eighty three when they went to
the Super Bowl, and then the next year. Okay, well
he's thirty five. They're gonna take it easy, don him. No,
three hundred and twenty seven towns. The guy had seven
hundred carries, told to what he was thirty four and
thirty five years old. So you're thinking about that, he's
(35:10):
averaging like three point seven yards of carry. But it
doesn't matter, doesn't matter, No, I know.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We gotta do the deep dive, though, who is actually
in their ring of honn and the jerseys for a time.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I mean, I really I can't. I can't believe that
that wasn't the case. I really and I felt I
didn't feel bad, Like sometimes I feel bad, like if
there's a sports thing that I don't know if, boy,
I feel like I should have known that this. I
was like, no, there's no there's just assumed it away.
There's no way. John Riggins, the greatest Washington Redskins slash
commander of all time, does not have his jersey. So
(35:42):
let's have some fun.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Sean Taylor legend, yep, Darryl Greene, the aforementioned art Monk,
Bobby Mitchell, Sonny Jurgensen, and Sammy Ball. So we were
talking about some old school guys and then the late
great Sean Taylor. Now John Riggins finally enters.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
The Uh you want the essence of John Riggins. Yeah,
let's go. Justin Frospers found this. This is Vin Scully
interviewing John Riggins after a game. But what's your high?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Do you keep track of how many carries you have
in a game?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Well, my high will probably come in about another hour
after the ball game.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, I like thatd Vin laughed about that too, Like,
wait a minute, I know Vin Scully did football. Vin
Scully did NFC championship, everything legend, and I can't I
can't believe Riggins is shameful. The iconic forty four Now
they're staying on Washington coming up next. Are we in
(36:42):
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Hello, Welcome in Side hour three The Jason Smith Show
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Concrete Jungle Wild, Dreams of Made.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Welcome back Jordan Clarkson. Look at the Knicks front office cooking.
They're just cooking, you know, just just miss that one
glue guy, just for a second. The Knicks now have
brought back everybody on their team except for Mitchell Robinson. Right,
They got three players they wanted to bring back to
take as much money as it would take them to
(00:58):
just bring back Mitchell Robinson. Brunson's hurt. They have cut.
We just won the championship. It doesn't matter. It's hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We want He's not even gonna be cleared to wrestle
Dan Housen, or we want Dan Housen next week.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Never wrestling Dan I won four thousand dollars, right, remember
when he wanted to fight? Yea yeah come yea yeah
yeah yeah. But this, this tells you that that we're
living absolutely in the bizarre world where the Knicks front
office is doing things that every NBA front office should
(01:28):
look at them and say, I aspire to be able
to get guys to take less money to come back.
Not just Jalen Brunson taking hundreds of millions of dollars
less money to keep the team together, but even the
guys like Landry Shaman and Jordan Clarkson who decide, yes,
I'm gonna take less money too to come back because
I want to come back here, because this is where
(01:49):
I want to be, because winning in New York, this
experience I had is incredible. Those three guys and Alvarado,
they all come back for as much money as it
took the Celtics to go get Mitchell Robins, who, oh,
by the way, was going at it with Celtics fans
on social media today. Uh, the Knicks front office is
absolutely cooking in this offseason. They're probably not done. Maybe
(02:09):
DeMar derozen wants to go there, maybe somebody else, but
they are showing you that, Oh hey, in New York,
we're getting people to take less money. Not not not
in a smaller mart, Not in Sacramento. We can convince
people to take less money, Not in Oklahoma City. In
New York, we're convincing guys to take less money to
keep a team together. God's still getting paid, but they're
(02:30):
leaving money out there because they want to win that.
The Knicks are the model franchise in the NBA. Think
about that. They are the They blow They blow out
everybody through the playoffs and dominate all the way through
their record, the championship, and now everybody is staying they're
taking less money. The Knicks, the long time laughing stock
(02:50):
of the NBA, are now the model franchise, the model
Stop you look how guys took less money. I mean,
are there any no show is Dan Housen?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Are there any more no.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Show tree jobs out in the greater New York area
to make it greater. But legitimately, one of the things
that can be considered here obviously one of the higher
tax rates in the country. We understand all that stuff
cost a living, but what I think these guys also
recognize and we talked about it with kat and respect
and all that that that's all find and good, that
(03:29):
that's not paying a bill, but the fact that you
sell out every appearance. Look at Landry Shammitt probably did
twenty appearances.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
He's got a mural.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
He's got a mural outside of legitimately one hundred and
fifty plus the autography. Like to meet and hang out
and be in the room with this guy. He's made
hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last month being
part of this team, recognizing that that gravy train don't
end because if you win, especially in the city like
New York, he's gonna still cashing out. He's gonna sign
(04:01):
pictures of that three that bounced off the rim four
times for one hundred bucks a pop for the rest
of his life.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But you saw.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The sales for the other jerseys, right, We talked about
the pron Sandy On Andobi went for a quarter million dollars.
That was the game one jerseys from the finals. But
all of that to say, I think some of them
sat down with their accountants and their agents realized we
can go play there, We're not gonna win, and a
lot of these guys have experienced not winning. Yeah right,
That's the other part is like they're not fresh to
(04:28):
the league. They've all had their experience either because of injury,
rotation issues, falling out of favors with a coach.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
They like me here, i might not have huge minutes,
might not top out my salary, but I'm in a
good spot and I've got a lot of good will,
never paying for another meal or drink here again. And
any time I decide I want to go to a
card shop or anywhere else where, I'm gonna sign autographs
and post for pictures. I'm making bank right, fanatics fests
get ready to go on. The amount of money those
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guys are making just for walking can into the door
makes up a lot of that cash they left on
the table.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
But again, getting them to buy in to do it
like the model franchise, Well, it's like it's like Jerry maguire,
why don't we have that kind of relationship, and and
and and the Knicks are making the rest of the
NBA go crazy, like all the crazy free agent moves
because the Knicks won, and all the all the trolling
they've done. Boy, they they're just been crushing the Spurs.
And now maybe this is a Knicks aspect of it.
(05:26):
Maybe this is the NIXT story that's got this happening
with the Spurs today. But I thought you were going
to do the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And here's how they've categorized all the celebrities and people
they have to look at when they come into the low.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Thread high threat c major. Don't let that guy in.
That guy's face, yeah, leave him out, let him in.
Let Charles Oakley in before you let him in. But
apparently no, it's so bad that the Spurs lost Knicks
is so it's affecting their play by play guys. Uh,
(05:58):
this story out of the NBA today, the insanity of it.
Jacob Toby has been the Spurs play by play guy
for the last couple of years. He is now the
ex play by play voice of the San Antonio Spurs
because he has been fired after allegations have been having
an affair with a sister of one of the Spurs players. Okay,
(06:21):
all right, how did we find out about this, glad,
you asked? Late Tuesday night, his Instagram account had a
post that appeared and it said, this is my girlfriend
of six years, but I cheated on her with Lauren Waters,
So feel free to continue following me if you really
think I'm a good guy, because I'm not. Now when
I see something like that, I go, Okay, that's a
(06:43):
guy that got hacked, but all right, we'll see. Turns
out his girlfriend got according to her, according reports, she
got on his phone posted that picture on Instagram because
she found out he was cheating on her with Lauren Waters,
against sister of Spurs player, and then later on in
the post was a picture of Toby with Waters. One
of those the strip films where you go into a
(07:04):
booth you take like four pictures in a row. Guy
goes he lost his Fantasy League and you gotta out
yourself that you're having an affair. So this is not
this is you know, this is him and his girlfriend
and he gets fired because of this. And I've seen
a lot of reports today and I had a feeling
we would this is where people would go with when
(07:26):
I knowing knowing that the angle I think we could
take on it for people would talk about during the
day is that boy, the guy's got a case to
keep his job. Why do you get fired off of this?
This isn't you know? What did he do. Was anything
illegal happen, Well, he has a big case to keep
his job, And yes, I get that in the world,
we have really blurred that line between what is acceptable
and unacceptable in the world when an embarrassing event happens. Uh.
(07:50):
It used to be, Hey, if you don't protect the shield,
you're gonna be let go. Now there's so many different
angles to it, and you're gonna find your supporters online
and it's much more difficult, and you don't see teams
making decisions like this like they normally would. But there's
part of me that, you know, to go the other
way on this is that I kind of feel good
(08:10):
that the Spurs have a standard that they feel they
want their players to and and they're franchise to live
up to. You just got to work on Wenby for
the flagrant fouls. But I kind of like the fact that, Hey,
this is the story that's incredibly embarrassing to us. Here's
our play by play announcer and his girlfriend gets on
his phone and puts this tweet out there, puts this
Instagram post out there, which, okay, kind of a live
(08:33):
wire relationship we're dealing with here, Who's this guy that
we have employed is our play by play guy, right,
her future relationships now as well, because I mean, who's
getting on board that Burt, Like the end of Keith
r Nandez's fanast is right, it's Burt. It's Burt. So
you're the Spurs and you're saying, Okay, here's a young guy.
We hire, this up and coming play by play guy,
very highly rated, people said many good things about him.
(08:54):
But now his girlfriend gets his phone posts this. This
is embarrassing for us. Affair with a player's sister embarrassing
for us. So we're going in another direction, and there's
a large part of this is I'm glad that they
are living up to a standard of you know, just
because we've seen this line blurred so much doesn't mean
we're not going to do what we feel is right
(09:15):
in the situation. Because this is the definition of not
protecting the shield. Right, This is embarrassing for the for
the franchise. Involve somebody that's directly employed by the franchise
and is a player on the team. So yeah, I
get the Spurs letting him go, and I kind of
feel that, Okay, maybe all sorts of decorum isn't lost
in the world when you still see teams making a
(09:36):
decision like this, when it'd be easy to go the
other way and go, well, who do you really hurt? Well?
Did anybody that was it was an affair? Other people
have affairs. People have affairs. Here's the people on social
media that are coming to his defense. Boy, look at
the retweets on this. Ah, we'll keep him. It's going
to be a bit of a firestorm. No, I kind
of like that. Here's the spurs saying, no, we have standards.
This is not it when we're looking for somebody else standards.
(09:59):
Morality clause is whatever you want to invoke. Uh talk
about what the old don't insert word here where you eat,
all right? I mean kind of thing. What it does
locker room?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I mean, does that become a talking point in the
locker room where everybody's looking around relatives and whatever else?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I mean, this is a plot line from a movie
where the person steals the other person's phone and posts
on social media. There's a movie plot line that's certainly problematic.
And for the young lady.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I mean, if I'm sorry, she was wrong, feels wrong,
she was mad. Now his life is ruined, her life
out to uh, you know, for the Spurs. They don't
have a currently have a local TV deal, so it's
also a well, we're in a spot where we can
make this go away. It'll be uncomfortable from it's in
(10:53):
the off season. People stop talking about Mitch Johnson and
questionable maneuvers and deer and Fox no showing and all
of those things.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But but they wouldn't get past this, like this guy
being the voice. They wouldn't get past this embarrassment of oh, yeah,
you're messing around with me. Blank you man, here you go,
here's a social media post. I got your phone and
I'm posting this.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
But it keeps going back to you know, you've got
to comment on the games, right, assuming Waters would still
be a member of the Spurs. And even if you say,
well that's that's it, it's like, well, no, other people
have sisters, they have wives, they have girlfriends, they have whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
And I'm not saying these some predatorial.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Kind of thing, but it's stuff that can get in
and be pervasive in a locker room. And we've heard
millions of stories through the years working media. Some of
them have leaked out. Others are urban lore about how
teams get fractured over things. A lot of it just coach,
player or players whatever, but you had the broadcast, or
(11:53):
they're traveling with the team, they're around whatever. I mean,
it's yeah, it's the the idea of all right, here's
an organization that was always about quiet.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Just go do your work.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
This did not allow them to be quiet, you know,
just go back into an off season of retooling.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And there's usually a couple of times a year. I
think about this. One of the most truthful things I've
ever been told about working in the media is this.
And JT. The Brick, who is here for a long
time and now he's in Vegas doing his thing, is
he told me. This is twenty years ago. Twenty years
ago he told me. He said, you are going to
see in your life that you are gonna get your
(12:31):
opportunities because people in front of you can't handle success
and they blow themselves up more than you will get
chances on your own talent. And I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah,
the thing you're just saying that and that is one
hundred percent true. There is what because now somebody's gonna
get a chance to be a play by play voice
to the San Antonio Spurs and they're getting it. They
never thought they'd get it, but they're gonna get it
(12:51):
because of this. Because Jacob Toby's relationship went sideways and
this life, everything that happened to him just came crashing
down on him. I mean, he's again, it's it's a
sitcom story, it's a it's a streaming TV show story,
and that's gonna happen. And I've seen it throughout my life.
I've gotten most of my opportunities have been because you know,
somebody that had it, that had a gig, couldn't handle it,
(13:12):
so I was able to get it, Like, Okay, that's great.
But you know I see stories like this and I go, man,
not twenty years and that that still happens. People can't
handle success and that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Do you think the inbox slash voicemail had enough room
for all of the entrees for the Spurs, because I
mean Rich Paul was set up for what twenty seven voicemails?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, do you think maybe one of the voicemails was
actually about, Hey, I hope this is the number to
call for lebron Uh? Is this Rich Paul's number is?
I'm sorry, I'm just you know what, I'll call back.
I'll call back. I'll send my tape. Moral of the story, guys,
go ahead where you eat? Oh, I mean that's that's
you see. Yeah, that dropped the Mike Crossberg No, whoa,
(13:57):
whoa ty shirt whoa. It's emphasis.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Mike was drawing fastest on the slabs and the mic
was dropped. It's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Something else.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My bas
friend Mike Harmon. A World Cup story so upsetting. Alex
Tyscher is upset about it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Wait when he texted me early today when this story broke,
I'm like, man, he is really upset about this, absolutely upset. Uh.
You know, not that uh you want to put any
conspiracy theory out there, but what do you mean? Basically,
(14:44):
right before the beginning of France and Morocco today, word
comes in that England defender Jurell Kwanza has been banned
for two World Cup games after his red card in
the win over Mexico and obviously with the red card
going Balligan's way, and then President Trump making a phone
(15:06):
call or he says he made a phone call at
getting overturned. Well wait a minute, wait a minute. Now
you have England who's missing one of their one of
their starting players now and uh not just missed for
this game, but missing for the next game. Two games, yeah,
two games. So it's one thing if you just said, hey,
you know what we're doing this now he's missing the
(15:27):
next tickets, which means he would not be there if
there was a showdown with Argentina and Lionel Messi to
get to the final.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Oh, surprise, surprise. This is when Alex Tyser texted me today.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He said, wait a minute, hold on where he came
up at the new acronym. Yeah, dude, I mean it.
You need to because I after you said this, you
sent me this text and and you talked about how
you know, fixing things for for MESSI. I said, hmmm,
is that a thing? I don't know that ever? And
I and I typed it into Google and it didn't
(16:00):
come up like it was something that's been said a lot. Dude,
you need to patent this phrase and get it on
t shirts if you can find a way to mass
produce it. And you know, Harmon's always talking about monetizing
stuff like you would make a lot of money on
this if you could get this out there in the
next three or four days. You down Harmony your feet.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah, yeah, okay, because this is my issue, Jason, Well
tell everybody what you said. So after I saw the
news that as you said, that England's gonna have to
suffer a two game suspension now, which is crazy. Which
is crazy because when I went back and watched both plays,
the one via Anglen versus Mexico and then the one
where Bellagan basically took the guy's legout and then stretched
(16:41):
his ankle sideways on the field and he got his waved.
I thought to myself, Wow, why is that possible? Who
would they end up playing? Like you said, Argentina. So
I looked it up. Not only were all the reps
for today's game for France Argentinian, but the thing that
just pisses me off the most, I went back to
look at their group stage, every team they played. They
haven't played a top twenty team yet. I guess what
(17:02):
I said. You know what FIFA stands for, fix it
for Argentina FIFA.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Patent pending pat and tell me I'm wrong, though, tell
me I'm wrong. Oh no, no, I love the fixing
it for Argentina. No great, Oh oh game, No dude,
That's all you have to do is just show me
the replay of the foul. Oh, we weren't gonna call it,
but then you scored a goal.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
We had that we had to call it, and messy
pointing to the official to say it like in this case, right,
he gets the ball, but the spikes stay up as
he's sliding on me on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Suday night, So upholding the one game? Wow, two games?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Two games, but you know, but they extended it and
said two games.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And they didn't even cite article twenty seven. No, I
think you need to cite article twenty Yes, we can
do whatever the hell we want article.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Twenty seven whatever. That's my problem is known for being corrupt.
It's a thing. Really, Yes, this is like this, Jason,
I'm sorry this week.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I think people are just kind of coming around to
this that are interested in this.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Like the fan that around two thousand found out. You know,
I think every team cheats in college. Yes, I think
every team. It's just I think every team college basketball too.
I think I think there's I think they're scandalous everywhere.
I think they're giving money to players that players aren't
supposed to get them. I really think so.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I just think that when you were talking about did
Egypt shit coach head coach say this about them getting
a bag of money?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, I don't know. They might have.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I'm just saying, by the way, that game look, Magic
Johnson Twitter game will go down in the hall Halls
of Fame of made up games now that that yesterday
was really good.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yeah, I'm just saying, Jason, I'm not a big sports fan. Shocker,
I know, right, I'm not a big sports fan. But
I love soccer. I love the sport. I think it's
a beautiful game. The fact that anybody anywhere can play
it with just a ball, and you can make a
goal out of rocks, cups, your shoes, whatever, right, And
some of the poorest people you've ever known have become
multi millionaires because of soccer. It's a beautiful sport. The
(18:55):
world plays it. It's the biggest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
I played it, my family watches it, families from out
of the country. I love soccer so It's just like
the one thing where I'm like, you know what, I'll
plug in for a little bit and act like I
like sports and watch it and get into it right,
But then I'm just beat over the head with just
the BS and the stuff they do, the bad calls,
the good calls, and I sit there, I'm like, dude,
I know you guys want to have your own Lebron,
your own Michael Jordan. You want Messy to be that guy.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Fine. The problem I have.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Though, is just stop making it so obnoxiously obvious, Alex
but Polisic is great.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Hey, hey, hey Captain America. No there, Look when you
have you have teams now who were just don't care
about saying you want to keep Argentina in. I mean,
would that call have happened Argentina in England, probably not.
Would that have happened Argentina in France probably not, But
Argentina in Egypt one hundred percent. Right. It's like, would
(19:48):
a call like that happen favoring the Knicks if it
was Nick Celtics, No, If it was Nick Spurs in
the finals, no. If it was Nicks the Hawks in
the first round, yeah, one hundred percent. That would happen right,
like I mean to think of you think about there's
so much correlation between NBA officiating and FIFA officiating with well,
(20:10):
we we want to call it a certain way unless
we need to come keep somebody in a game, unless
we want to keep somebody around for long. We want
to keep more games happening, because listen, I can't tell
anybody who says to me, do you think the officiating
is rigged for Argentina to move on when they can
not one hundred percent? But when they can, when it
can go fifty to fifty, they look the other way.
(20:32):
I can't tell you no. I can't tell you know.
And when I can't, when I can't tell you know
about something like that, that should tell you I can't
tell you no when it comes to Argentine.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
But how active is the group threat been, particularly during
Argentina matches right where we've been like wow, okay, you
know there's another and another one and it's ZJ Khaled
just over another one, and then you see the super
cut that people put together within a half hour of
the game ending. It's like, okay, so everybody else is
kind of watching the same thing, and you're trying to
(21:02):
look for the counter right where you're gonna let that
physicality go. But how many times do we see a
guy the ball he's been dispossessed or he's kicked it
ahead and then he's getting trucked on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Like that's that's not soccer, Like.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's no but and the referee at the ar standard
right there just kind of looks and goes, okay, we'll
play on. We've seen a number of those and and look,
I don't love tinfoil hat conspiracies, but there have been
a number. And then fill being called one hundred yards
back is really tough to argue.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
You know, ce Jason, this is the lasting to touch
on too. That really annoys me. Yeah, people say momentum
is not real, and soccer it's everything. That's what big
problem I had with hydration Branks is that's a big
gap within your momentum and slowing down a team. My
biggest issue with these refs aren't that's supposed to be
a three zero game with Egypt. That disallow goal changed everything?
Oh yeah, of course it did everything. Of course it did.
That's my problem is they barely survived Cape Verde. They
(21:57):
should not have survived Egypt. Well, that's the thing is,
then they're in trouble. If Egypt are the one going on.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, and look, honestly, if the English Prime Minister had
the sway of President Trump, he could call and get
that red card overturned, right and say, wait, you're gonna
let quonsa play in the next game. Aren't just holding
up a twenty seven man? So I'm thinking about you
want something crazy, right, you want something of course? This
is great? This, this is this is where I always
love when when a sports story takes me somewhere unexpected.
(22:25):
You know, we talk a lot about how teams you
can't just hire and fire head coaches and gms all
the time because you can't win. You gotta have some
kind of stability. You got to keep people around, right,
you know, all the all the talk this year the
Met's got to fire David Stearns. He's terrible, and Steve
Cohen says, we got to see his vision through. We
can't keep it, keep it a revolving door. We have
(22:45):
to be a destination for people. So you get that.
You can't just keep changing every few years.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So what I'm thinking about this today and you sent
me that text, and I'm going, boy, I guess we
know the juice of the British you know, prime minister.
And I'm saying to myself, I'm going, it's still Starmer, right,
who's the because I because I just you know, listen,
you know, knowing the world and politics, every them going
Starmer's still there. Because I thought I remember going that
they're gonna have a new prime minister, right, So I
(23:12):
look it up. Okay, so I look up. Yes, Starmer
is still the prime minister in England. How many prime
ministers do you think England has had in the last
ten years? This sounds fun? How many prime ministers has
England had in the last ten Because the average person,
I'll help you a little bit, the average person. I
think the average person would say, Okay, well, I don't
(23:33):
think it's Johnson anymore, and it's somebody else and maybe
there was one other person. That's what I think the
average person would say. If I said to you, how
many prime ministers has England had in the last ten years?
How many do you think?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
I would guess four? And they're gonna get a fifth
because this he's resigned. Okay, yes, say like seven? Okay, seven?
That's like Jets head coaches.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
That's it rounds. You're done every two years. Five Yeah,
Arizona Cardinals they they will be on their sixth. So
short since twenty sixty, I missed one like that. Teresa
May didn't make it three years than Boris Johnson made
(24:21):
it about three years. Trust made it like a month
and she was replaced and soon again I was close.
You were close Frostburg. Soon I was a couple of years.
And now it's Starmer and now it's gonna be somebody else,
somebody else. They're gonna have said, no juice. Six leaders
of a country over a ten years, I mean it, man,
(24:41):
like that is like head coach of the Jets. That's
really what. In fact, I will tell you. In the
last ten years, the Jets have had less head coaches
than Great Britain has had prime ministers. And that's something, man,
in a ten year span, that is a whole other world,
my friend, they've had Fuck. I mean when I watched
(25:06):
the Crown and I and I see how they used
to Like obviously the Crown is about the rule of
Queen Elizabeth and and most of the politics is done
in the early time. You know, the Crown is just fat.
The first couple of years of the Crown is just fascinating.
And you see how they how they pick their prime
ministers and their elections are a little bit different, and
(25:26):
and it's still it's real. It's like you know, watching
baseball and trying to understand cricket and you go, okay,
I kind of get a little bit of it, but
oh god, that's a little weird. Okay, but like seeing
how they'd like all right, But now it's like just
the fact that like I don't even know, like calling
for a snap election, like you're call it, like, oh,
I can just have an election, remember I want to really, yeah,
but you can't lose. You lose a snap election.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's just so strange. But no matter what kind of
system you have, it boils down to in ten years,
in a ten year span, they're gonna have six prime
ministers total, whenever whoever.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Takes And then there's a guy standing in out of
his storycone. I'll never get this pothole film.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Really it is a New York Jets like run for
Great Britain. So there's there's no way that that starting.
There's no way story I mean started two hundred and
fifty years ago. Say, I just have to put the
stamp on this for you real quick. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
These are who Argentina's played. Austria ranked twenty two, Algeria
twenty nine, Jordan's seventy three, Cape very Day sixty four,
Egypt twenty four. Yeah, they're doing so good, so good,
just annoying, so a.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Lot better than us. They're still playing. No, that is true,
that is true. You know why two oaces? Uh, just
to let you know, the Jets have had five head
coaches in the last ten, five head coach. So I
was mistaken. I guessed five new coming in. It is
somewhat similar in that, you know, Todd Bowles was three years,
(26:54):
Gas was a couple of years. How about the Sola
was three years? Then Jeff Olbrick was very very brief.
You can go back to Aaron Rode Rode goodbye. On
a note about the Knicks and Mets. They've had a
bunch too. The Knicks won the title, so you can't
you can't put the Knicks in. Man, it wasn't here.
It doesn't count, dude. You talk about the Mets, that's fine,
(27:15):
but you can't put the Knicks in there. You guess
how many Jason, guess how many? How many? For what
coaches for the Knicks? Oh in the last ten years? Loh? Oh, well,
hang on, hang on one, come on, two, three, four, five,
it's more. No no for sure, No no, no, no, no,
(27:36):
no no no Jason, no no wait wait I'm going back.
Hang on such a big Knicks Feld Yeah, I said five.
I'm hold on, I hang on a second. Who you're
missing two? I'm missing two?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Weight?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
There were no seven?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, Miller, yeah, Fizzdale, Fizzdale, Hornison, Oh right right, horn
Scond Yeah, okay, that's five. Randis Yeah, okay, that's five.
Fisher Well, okay, okay, keep going. They got rid of
they got no, no, that's it, they got sixteen. Yes, yes,
it is okay. You just don't want to claim Derek Fisher.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
No, no, no, I knew, you know, I went back
to Fisher, but I forgot when he got fired. They
had a couple, you know, Rambis coach Hornerseck was a
couple of years. Okay, so they had more interim guys
that I missed because I'm thinking, oh, who was a coach?
I wasn't thinking the guy wasn't I wasn't. I wasn't
sixteen eight of the interim guys. I think number six
(28:29):
ye man, Well, but it doesn't matter because the next
one at all won the time. I need more fizzdale,
I was off by one. Uh. Turn out that for data.
Turn out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Dan Buyer stepping in. What do you
got my friend? What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 5 (28:44):
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France today advanced to the semi finals with the two
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(29:06):
and Bappe scored in the sixtieth minute. The newsmen de
Bele scored in the sixty sixth minute. Next up for
France the winner of Friday's match in Los Angeles between
Spain and Belgium that gets underway at three o'clock Eastern time.
More than thirty three million people in the US watched
Monday's Round of sixteen match between Belgium and the Americans.
It's the most watched soccer match in US television viewing history.
(29:30):
US midfielder Christian Polizic will miss several weeks after it
was revealed he has a microfracture and bone bruise in
his lower right leg. That's the reason why he was
slowed up. No slowing up. Those Phillies winning in Cincinnati
won nothing. Jesus Lozardo struck out eleven and seven innings
of work. Tomavacks meet the Padres three one. Giants took
(29:50):
care of the Rockies eight to two. Tigers were four
to one winners against the A's, while the Brew crew
doubled up the Cardinals eight to four. Rangers scoring the
ninth to walk off against the Angels seven to six.
Marlins took care the Mariners by account of eight to four.
How about some NBA Summer League one versus two Wizards
and Jazz aj de bonds so twenty seven points seven rebounds.
They topped Utah ninety two to eighty eighty. Second overall
(30:10):
pick Darren Peterson had twenty one points in the WNBA.
No Caitlin Clark fever still topped to Mercury eight ninety
two to eighty nine. Kelsey Mitchell had twenty nine points,
Asia Wilson thirty two and ten for the Aces and
their win against Portland eighty eight to eighty and the
dream took care of the Storm eighty nine seventy eight.
Angel reached the double double eighteen points and eleven rebounds,
trade sending Kawhi Leonard from the Clippers to the Raptors
(30:32):
on hold. NBA released the statement saying the investigation into
the Clippers could be completed. Guys in the coming weeks.
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Thanks a bunch. dB appreciated my friend. I mean, well,
I didn't know this this English you know, English prime
minister would start such a conversation. But boy, I really
feel like my teams they've been telling it really really
went down a rabbit hole. An I'll tell you, uh.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, Beheim was there way because yeah, eighty three, like
the Mets have had six matt Like the Mets have
had as many managers as England's gonna have prime ministers.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
They got good six. No, it's not good. It's not good.
The Dodgers, who's had one. Who's it worse for the
Mets or England. Who's in worse shape right now? All
the Mets. Yeah, I mean England's one step away from
the from the semi finals, so I guess it is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I mean in theory, Cohen can still buy his way out.
The Mets don't have Harry Kane, Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
No, no, no, no Harry Kane, No Hurry Kane, ty shirt,
no Hurricane, no Hurrycane. Exit. Up about a Fresco exit
swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, A football story from today.
I thought was absolutely big NFL story from today I
thought was false. When it was reported, I did my
(31:44):
own research, I realized, oh no, this is really true.
It's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (32:00):
Andrews History the touchdown run on fourth and one in
the Super Bowl against the Dolphins. I said, there's no way,
there's no way, John Riggins. No, they've not retired John
Riggins Jersey yet. I mean this is a guy. He's
the most famous player in franchise history, Super Bowl, MVP,
Pro Football, Hall of Fame in the nineties, and they
(32:22):
hadn't retired his jersey, Like, are you and sad? How
did this? How did this not happen yet? Daniel Snyder?
That's how it doesn't happen. But nineteen ninety two, I
understand he has a Hall of Famer now, not good
enough to have a jersey.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
They were really bad and getting Art Monk pushed over that.
But show and he was the leading receiver. But he
still he went to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
He's a Hall of Famer and his jersey isn't retired
by the Commanders yet.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Twentieth all time rushing yards, eleven three, All Decade Team,
all of that. Yeah, well, I'm sure there are plenty
of other teams if we really wanted to go around there.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I don't know about that. I mean, this might be.
Are there some questionable guys where guys that had great careers?
But are they should they get mommortalized and had their
jersey retired? Y? No, whatever you could say, as you
said All Decade Team, Now, he was a volume running back.
He was not a guy that was going to carry
off ten times in the game and run for one
(33:26):
hundred and twenty five yards like Jamior Gibbs. No, he
was thirty eight carries for one hundred and twenty one
yards and three touchdowns. But in the fourth quarter you
were getting run over. I mean by that offensive line,
the fact that he had that kind of of responsibility
and that number of carries again when he was thirty
four and thirty five years old, like that you think,
(33:48):
I'm thinking those were the best years of his career
when he was thirty four and thirty five and he
was a fun personality. Uh, you know throughout his time
in the league, had the mohawk with the Jets, now
with the mohawk. But I still, I really I thought
it was a fake Storytell like, there's no way as
Jersey's not retired, there's no.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Nineteen eighty three thirteen hundred and forty seven rushing yards,
twenty four touchdowns. Yeah, nineteen eighty four, twelve hundred and
thirty nine rushing yards, fourteen touchdowns, nineteen eighty five six
hundred and seventy seven yards in his twelve games, eleven starts,
eight touchdowns, and then he's out of the league.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Those are his final three years. Well that's because in
the game at a diesel right at three okay, okay,
before the shack just he was the dease. You want it,
you want to get crazy, right, we talk about Saquon
Barkley and all the touches he had two years ago,
right and running for two thousand yards winning MVP. When
John Riggins was thirty four years old, he carried the
(34:45):
ball three hundred and seventy five times, caught another four
Washington a couple of eighty three when they went to
the Super Bowl, and then the next year. Okay, well
he's thirty five. They're gonna take it easy, don him. No,
three hundred and twenty seven towns. The guy had seven
hundred carries, told to what he was thirty four and
thirty five years old. So you're thinking about that, he's
(35:10):
averaging like three point seven yards of carry. But it
doesn't matter, doesn't matter, No, I know.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We gotta do the deep dive, though, who is actually
in their ring of honn and the jerseys for a time.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I mean, I really I can't. I can't believe that
that wasn't the case. I really and I felt I
didn't feel bad, Like sometimes I feel bad, like if
there's a sports thing that I don't know if, boy,
I feel like I should have known that this. I
was like, no, there's no there's just assumed it away.
There's no way. John Riggins, the greatest Washington Redskins slash
commander of all time, does not have his jersey. So
(35:42):
let's have some fun.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Sean Taylor legend, yep, Darryl Greene, the aforementioned art Monk,
Bobby Mitchell, Sonny Jurgensen, and Sammy Ball. So we were
talking about some old school guys and then the late
great Sean Taylor. Now John Riggins finally enters.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
The Uh you want the essence of John Riggins. Yeah,
let's go. Justin Frospers found this. This is Vin Scully
interviewing John Riggins after a game. But what's your high?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Do you keep track of how many carries you have
in a game?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Well, my high will probably come in about another hour
after the ball game.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, I like thatd Vin laughed about that too, Like,
wait a minute, I know Vin Scully did football. Vin
Scully did NFC championship, everything legend, and I can't I
can't believe Riggins is shameful. The iconic forty four Now
they're staying on Washington coming up next. Are we in
(36:42):
for a really boring last couple of weeks of the
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