July 4, 2025 • 40 mins
In Hour 3 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys kick things off with some NBA talk as Jason explains why the Knicks are facing expectations like never before. Then, they react to Joey Chestnut returning to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest to reclaim his crown. All that and more in Hour 3 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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and the best of version posted right after we get
off the air. So here we are tonight, getting set
for the fourth of July and get to a big
NBA story in a second. But we need to address
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this for a second because you know will tomorrow. We're
gonna see a hot dog eating contest. Yeah, the next fourth,
the next fourth of July, we may see something even bigger.
President Trump announcing today that to celebrate the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the United States next year, we
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could see a UFC match on the White House Grounds
with upwards of twenty thousand spectators. Now, he's been a
big UFC enthusiast for a long time, he said, quote,
we have a lot of land there, and he's close
friends with Dana White, the president of the league, So
we could wind up seeing a UFC event on White
(01:56):
House Grounds.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, it's not unlike bringing in theater troops or whatever else, right,
I mean, Hamilton started from Lynn Manuel Miranda performing in
front of Obama.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Why not have some fighters? Oh I want oh no, no, Hey,
I want to see that, But I want to see
this in a place I recognize, Like I don't want
to you know, there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Of lamb Rose Guard and he got knocked into the
rose guarden. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, isn't he redoing aren't they redoing the rose
Guarden anyway? Like, isn't it that the statues are going up?
Like a babe Bruce statue is gonna go out on something. Sure,
I mean, so if this is what, this is what
it's gonna be, Like I, it's got to be where
Oh I recognize that. That's where you gotta have the event.
Like it can't just be oh, we're we're on this
far away part of the White House and part of
the legend. No, no, I want to say, Oh look
(02:39):
I see the columns of the Why I de sand
where we are. Oh look that's that Lincoln statue. Wow,
he's gonna you're gonna walk past the Lincoln statue to
go like, that's kind of what I want to see.
If we're gonna go go big with something like this,
you know me, I like spectacle. So this is this
is glorious.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I saw this headline earlier today and I just smiled
and said, I can get on board this because I mean,
pretty soon now you can have a WWE Live live event.
Oh my god, he's coming off of the roof.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh now wait a minute, wait a minute, you had
now waiting. Now here's an idea. Okay, now here's an idea.
Here's an idea.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I opened the portal and then you said yes, and
what yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Caause here it is right. This is a way to
take wrestling into an entirely new stratosphere. Okay, because what's
wrestling always been all the wrestlers in one place, the
squared circle. Uh, sometimes there's a steel cage match, you
know a lot of times a battle royal where they're
all in the ring at once fighting each other.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, but occasionally a leather strap or some part.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean there's lot of stuff. You got leather straps at
home that I know you use on for different things.
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You've never seen a strap match.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Come on, man, you've never been harmon re enacts strap matches.
It is it is off times.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh, bust out the kendo stick. Come on.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now, what if you did this right? What if you
did this right? You had a big battle royal type event, right,
except instead of hey, we're all in you know, Madison
Square Garden, or we're all you know, wherever we are,
we're all in you know, Cowboys Stadium. You know we're
gonna sell sixty thousand tickets. Gonna be that way. What
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if you had some sort of wrestling and I don't
mean actual killing people, but like you had some kind
of wrestling Hunger Games where you just let like twenty
wrestlers loose on White House property and you filmed it right,
and you broadcast it and they all had to come
and it was and then you know, they would find
each other and and fight, and their references.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
All twenty four to seven title falls counts anywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, you just all the nowt here and you go
and here are the uh, here are the the wrestlers
who are who are you know? Uh? Let in at
the south entrance and here they are at the west
entrance and they get to go by and there there's
there's all kinds of events in all different places. Partis
of the White House, you believe, and you have to
have to find each other and wrestle and have all
these referees are just all over the place and when
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they see two guys going at it, they go over
and officiate. And then hey, one, two, three out You
lose it and you keep going and the and the
you know, the one person left, the final ones left.
At the end, there's your winner. That's as like.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Unger games, where I can send things and implement it.
I sent him some brass knuckles and it goes into
a giant pool for the winner.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh see now that see that's even better.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Set them down there, you know, the great kaboogie. I'm just.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm send in this cane for you to trip somebody with.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I got into the marketplace and they have a bunch
of WWE props and Houston from the past, so you
can actually use mister Fuji's cane. Yeah, I'm bidding on
that to send it to tick that guy's ass. Oh yeah, no,
I like this.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The brass knuckles that macho man Randy Savage used to
beat Tito Santana and win the under Continental Championship. Oh
all the way when he gets some throze them away.
Oh come on, Jesse, you could see him throw away
right there. How does Danny Davis not see.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That seven two by four from Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, under someone wears the iron cheeks steel toe tip boots,
and yeah, you send in the iron cheeks boots to
somebody and they can wear them. I mean that all
givens in the world. Uh, I mean, because that's what
you did. If you if you channel the eighties WWE,
We've really yeah, it's like the uh well it's the world. Yeah,
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to open up and wrestle it, wrestling, Hunger Games Man extend.
It's all brought like that would be amazing. That would
be and really.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Could actually be bigger than Love Island, especially once we
start air dropping in uh, implements of destruction from the past.
Because when I went to Vegas for WrestleMania if depending
on what stores you went to, they had some of
the old costumes, they had some of the old masks
and whatever. It's like all of a sudden, here we
go because they've had that show for years. Wweh lost
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treasures when they go back into the marketplace and find
people that had robes or or stuff that was used
in matches. Yeah, I like this, This is good.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh I mean, I mean just just think about that, like,
uh uh you could you could have you could have
like like John Cena, Hey, judge John Cena who got
dropped in whatever he gets dropped in and it was
wrapped in Hult Cogan's tights that he used to win
the belt at WrestleMania one. And he's going up against
you know, up against Cody, your owns or you know,
you're hitting people with the spray can ye from the
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nWo era.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, and then and then you get to tag
him at the end and.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He's wearing the iron cheeks steals called curved boots, like
I really love those bos, I know because the whole
thing with those boots like, oh you get kicked with those,
how sharp that's gonna be. And meanwhile, of course the
boots were curved in so that so that the tip
was never touching you. It was just a big curve
part of the boot.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I mean recently you've had uh Chad Gable as El Grande,
a mayorcanoh, like, people are really upset. But he would
load up the front of his mask and do the
flying headbut off the turnbuckle to take me. He just
you would have shoulder surgery. So he shelled for a while,
but by next year he should be ready.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, you would have. You would have legends in there.
You would have it'd be like the Hunger Games, right,
like the the Hunger Games and the second one where
they brought back all the winners because they wanted to,
you know, kill Catnus and Pita. So they said, hey,
last year as losers the last twenty five years, so
here's here's like eighty five year old winners you know,
coming in you have to compete to win, like you
have some legends and you have some people that are
(08:35):
big stars now and there it is Wrestling Hunger Games. Boom.
We just did it right there. That is it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We get Tito Santana out of the classroom and back
into the squared circle.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
He's been a teacher, Santana, Yes, oh that would be so.
I love Tito Santana. He was my favorite. And then
I really Baron.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Von Rashk is still running around. He's gotta be like
ninety two if he's a day. But I mean this
is good. And you've watched the Rock and you've seen
the bloodline stuff. I mean those guys all have like
seven kids each. So we could run this for years.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh yeah, I mean I forget UFC at the White
House Wrestling, WWE Hunger Games at the White House. I mean,
I really want to see someone drop in the iron cheeks,
steel toad boots, like someone would have some sort of
injury and they're limping and someone would send there you
see the parachute come in. You know I'm gonna one
up here already. It's the progeny of Damian Oh no, oh,
(09:35):
and that would get somebody like that would have to
get somebody like all the snakes that would get the odds.
I'm sorry the person didn't make it. Uh yeah, the
bit by a snake, they're out like it would obviously
obviously it's not, you know that the wrestler's dying, but
it would be like, oh, that person got bit by
a snake. They're out. They can't, they can't wrestle anymore.
They're done. They had they had to go get the
you know, yeah, and then the venom triple h. The
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venom gets sucked out by there by by by someone
else who then becomes their tag team partner, and that
becomes a hot new thing out of the wrestling Hunger Games. Oh.
I just think about that man, that that that.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean that you want to talk about reality shows
right here?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's a billion dollar idea.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well there's no question about it. I mean, you can't
you can't have it own and then you bet on it.
Oh yeah, think about the live betting action on this, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Wub level of trust and improvisation here, I mean next
level stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Think about all.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
The camera operators that now have freelance jobs for however
long this lasts.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
This is this is good.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
We we We're rebuilding America on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, that would be something that would really Oh man,
I'm just seeing all the action in front of me now,
I'm seeing it all in front of you. Now how
it can all work?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And you keep trying to figure out how you can
get a pair.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Of those iron Yeah, I really want the boots. I
really want the boots. So look, while that is happening,
I'll go into the marketplace. We're gonna go find you
a pair of those boots. Yeah, Okay, if it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Takes selling off a couple of autographs in my collection
to make that happen, or Andre at the Giants, Uh,
you know Strap, we have the Giants, Strap we have
from so many years ago. I'll think a couple of shares,
and you know, the market hasn't exactly been on fire
for that, but I'll donate at all for a pair
of those.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Boots, and I come in and kick everybody with him.
I just got to I'm sorry, Jason, what are you doing?
I'm where I know it's got a mind of its own.
I gotta just keep kicking the boots. I don't know
what it is. It's like one of those horror movies
where I put the mask on and suddenly I'll become
a I'll become a devil or a demon. I'm just
kicking somebody with the boot. WWE got into low budget
horror movies for a while too.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
They've made a bunch of money there. We can reboot
WWE films there.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We are, right w The Hunger Games of the White
House done. Uh. Now, I mentioned this a few minutes
ago because you know, after this week in the NBA,
I'm at a point now where as happy as I am,
now I'm scared. It's weird, but I'm scared now, right.
So the Knicks hied they're hiring. No, no, no, no, no, okay,
(12:08):
I know I know how that sounds. I did not
do that the right way, like you know, you know,
I love I love you. Oh now, ty Shirt says
something two and a half hours he's building grunts and
playing Fortnite. Now, oh hey, thanks got that now, paying attude.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
He's trying to figure out and triangulate where he's gonna
run into you in the desert. You can't.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh yeah, that's it. So Mike Brown and I and
I love Mike Brown, and I told you he was
the right guy from the beginning, when the day Tims
got fired, I said, Mike Brown is the guy, and
this is who the Knicks are gonna go get. But
immediately after the Knicks, after news of the Knicks and
Mike Brown was was was let go right And we're
(12:46):
waiting for the official word, but the Knicks are getting
Mike Brown. Immediately, the Knicks became the favorite in the
Eastern Conference, the betting favorite, the favor I mean, obviously
the injuries to Jason Tatum and Tyre's halliburt and have
a lot to do with it. And the Bucks, you know,
losing Damian Lillard now and they're trying to rebuild on
the fly. But the Knicks became the overwhelming favorite in
(13:09):
the Eastern Conference right away. Didn't have a coach. Hard
to make a favorite need a coach. Now they have
a coach Boom and all of a sudden they are
the favorites, and they should be because they have the
most talented roster. You saw how far they got this year,
and it was an incredible playoff run by the Pacers
in a miracle shot by Halliburton, which beats them in
Game one and one of the biggest comebacks that we've
(13:30):
never seen before in NBA history. But now I'm scared.
Now I'm scared because generally in my life, my teams
do very poorly when there's expectations. By when my teams
have no expectations, we can be great. And ay, okay,
when the Jets have no expectations. Also, that's why I
think we're gonna be five hundred this year. We're gonna
be an eight to nine win team and stay in
(13:51):
the playoff. We have no ex But last two years,
huge expectations. We were terrible, right, and the Mets every
time expectations terrible, now have expectations. They didn't have it.
They were always a team up and coming very grudgingly.
That God credit, Yes, Jalen Brunson is a star. Finally
will admit he's a star after it was a star
for like two years. Oo, will finally met he's a star.
(14:13):
Finally admit the Knicks are on the right track. Finally
will admit that they're doing the right thing. This is
how it's going for the Necks. But now suddenly they've gone, oh,
now they're the favorites, and this is what scares me,
because I really am. I am. My teams scare me
when there's expectation because they have never been able to
handle it. They've never be able to handle be in a
position of succeeding and handling success. And here are the
(14:36):
Knicks now, who came within a whisker of the NBA
Finals and lost to a team that they probably should
have beaten and instead, now, okay, now we're installved. How
is this going to go? I'm it's great, but now
I'm anxious and I'm scared because I know, and I
don't know this more than other than the history of
the last forty years, that my teams don't do well
(14:57):
in this situation. Yeah, I mean, part of it is
you become number one by default, so you know, expectation
is you're a little better than all these other flawed teams.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So you know, you can take some solace in that.
I believe, because you know, as we talked about earlier
in the week, it becomes the hey who's ready to
volunteer to be the leader and everybody steps back.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Knicks didn't step back. They're the same team with
a couple of additions that make you kind of go eh,
and then you add it finally added a coach, So
there's really nothing substantive that changed about them, whereas every
other team lost huge to injury.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Right, we would have been talking about it last season
of going, hey, all those guys coming back healthy, don't know,
don't know? And then you make the deal and cat
and all that, and he plays through and now you
at least know where to some level your floor is.
Will they have a better rounded out roster? I gotta
assume so part of the reports that we had was
(15:56):
not just players may have been bristling with tib know
and quote, we don't know our roles.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You know your roles. There's only seventy year that are
gonna play. Unless things go to hell, then the other
guys get off the bench.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
We knew that.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But to that point it'll be a deeper rotation. It'll
be a little more of a flow to where Brunson
isn't working as hard as he is for forty two
minutes a game. So yeah, by default you step forward.
Does that mean you're great? No, just means everybody else
step back. Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
We're still waiting to see what the next iteration of
things are. Ty Jerome who was pretty good for them,
basically on his exit after signing a deal in Memphis, said, eh,
it pretty much told me they didn't want me to
come back, Like, really, you were a key contributor off
the bench'd scored.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I didn't want to match it. So what the hell
are they doing over there? Right?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Are they planning some other big move as yet unseen?
Don't know, but the Knicks weren't too far off the lead,
even though we had a giant question mark for a
coach a week Yeah right, I mean it was Cleveland
barely as the conference favorite.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So yeah, now you are the favorite. I heavy is
the head who wears the crown, even if it's a
gesture crown. Hey, hey, hey hey, jug head Jones by
the Jester sang for the King and Queen and a
cody borrowed from James Dean. Come on, man, have some
respect for that. Put some you know me. I'm a
big Don McLain guy. Come on and fun, you're done.
(17:26):
If you're Don McClain, the former us LA basketball player, I.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Celebrate him too.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The snake killer himself has heard on Clippers broadcasts. Uh
so yeah, no, I'm scared and and that feeling is
not gonna go away. I'm I'm I'm just gonna be going.
This is when it's all gonna fall because now people
expect things. Now they expect things of us, and now
how are we gonna be able to do this? They're expected?
(17:52):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Also, I'm gonna start singing Vincent before it's done too. Storry,
starry night, exit out about a esca exit swallen down.
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Speaker 1 (19:01):
Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my base
friend Mike Harmon. So here we are getting set for
the fourth of July, and Joey Chestnut is back and
the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest right a year away,
I'm doing stuff with Vegan Franks and we got to
(19:22):
eat regular ones and this is not gonna work and all,
but now he's back back tomorrow for all the pageantry
and oh, by the way, the best part of the
hot Dog Eating Contest is listening to the guy do
the achievements of what all the competitive competitor eaters have
done and talking about them like they have won the
(19:43):
Peloponnesian War, you know, against Alexander the Great back in
you know, in three point fifty BC. Like his his
his description of the of the different competitors is just awesome. Right,
But here comes Joey chest Nut. He is back, and look,
it's bigger. It's a bigger deal when the best person
of all time is doing something. We're gonna watch, right,
(20:04):
I'm sure more people will watch as Joey chest got
his back. But I will tell you this, I don't
know the odds because you have to really get involved
to get them right. You have to really get involved
to get them. But with seventy six being his record
here in the in the hot dog eating contest, he's
coming back after your way. He wants to tell everybody
(20:26):
I am still dominant, I'm still in my prime, I
am still the goat. I would go, if I'm betting,
I know the over under is seventy one and a
half hot dogs, I'd say, what odds you give me
for eighty? He's gonna hit the eighty mark tomorrow because
he wants it. He knows he's extra motivated after missing
(20:46):
last year and beating Kobayashi as bad as he did
a few months ago. Give me eighty for him tomorrow
to win. I will take over eighty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, I'm trying to find I've got a bunch of
the prop that's out here. To win by twenty five
or more hot dogs is fifteen to one. To win
by twenty or more is plus four fifty So four
and a half to one for your dollar.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So the hot dog spread is twenty five, is what
you're saying. Basically, the spread is twenty five hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well, then let's see, I'm trying to look at the
other individuals here.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Because the odds actually let me, let me do this
for you. The odds for any other eater plus seven
seventy five, wow, for anybody else. So it's so anybody,
anybody with chestnut yep, wow, chestnut or the field, you
get plus seven seventy.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Five, will the world record be broken? Plus two seventy five? Okay,
So in your theory, you can nearly triple your money
because look, that's what you think, right, you have to
because eighty three last year, in that competition he did
against Kobayashi, the type of dog it was, well, but
(22:07):
it's showing the gastronomic power. But what you now, it
wasn't a Nathan's hot dog.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, but it wasn't sanctioned. I don't think that was sanctioned. No, no,
it's not. But that's what I'm saying, though, like we've
seen him cross that threshold by all measurements.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was a hot dog, right, I mean it was
and it was.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But it's like when Rocky fought Drago there was there
was no money and no belt, right, it was that's right.
He was fighting to avenge Apollo. Right, That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
But I'm just saying, we've already done the theory testing
last year against Kobayashi. Can he cross that threshold if
he wants to push himself? And here he wanted to
bludgeon the rival, because remember, Kobayashi became this thing, right,
the little one hundred and five pounds, soaking wet guy
(22:52):
who had tested the boundaries of how much he could
make his stomach extend and extend, and he had a
tops Allen and Ginter card. I still have it from
back in the day celebrating his greatness. I also have
a Joey chestnutrookie if you want one of those. I
don't have any of the autographs. Unfortunately there's no reversal
(23:14):
cards out there, but there were certified autographs.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Why the hell would you want a reversal car? Come on, man,
why would you want that?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, it's gonna be encapsulating, and I'm not gonna smell it.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I just know what it is. Oh, oh, it's a
scratching stiff card. Oh guess Oh it smells them. It
smells awful.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Special. Will the contest feed get hacked by peta?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Ah? This is hey. Part of what's on there, part
of it is a game used hot dog. We can't
we throw right out there. We can put that right
on there, don't. Well, I mean think about it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
If he goes right to signing your card after ingesting
all that, I mean there's some hot dog juices for you.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
If the card is dipped in the hot dog juices
like that, I think that's a thing. Well, you think
it's start to degrade.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Good enough?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
What if though, but you dip the cart in the
hot dog juices and then you laminate it like right away.
Oh yeah, okay, I could.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Get on board that. I don't think that's been done yet. Okay,
you can go contact Lee for some of those companies.
They might get on board with you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
There.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Uh the over under for Chestnut and Mickey, Pseudo, the
Women's favorite over one sixteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's if you want to parlay both of them.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, if you want the you want to parlay the
favorites together one hundred and sixteen and a half hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But so his record is seventy six hers is uh
fifty one?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Right, Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That's not a big money maker though.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well No, I mean, look, you want to get into
some of the other exotics. I mean, this is where
you start getting into Nick Weary at fifteen to one. Yeah,
but I'm not stand for it at fifty to one. Look,
if you love your long odds, the only way those
guys are winning is if Chestnuts suddenly sprains an ankle
getting too excited about his lead and rolls over on
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the on the ground. Oh no, I think he could
one less, which I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It would have to be some sort of gullet injury
like he I mean, if he's on a if he
if he sprains an ankle, like it doesn't matter, you're
standing on one foot needing. I mean, the guy's the goat.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No, I get it, but that's what I look. I
wasn't going anything more nefarious than that. It's a family
show and I'm a positive guy. Hey, a holiday weekend,
But something Runner seventy one and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, but something like this. Though you want to be
the sexy better, you don't want to be the Oh hey,
what's my value? I'm looking for? So and say you
want Hey, I'm betting the hot Dog eating Calm going
eighty hot dogs. Wow, that's cool, that's sexy, that's fun.
Like that, that's how you should bet this. Like look, man,
just say't helping you pick up women or men or
whatever whatever you're you're in New I mean sexy.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Looking at you going and people.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You know what? I had an eight to one parlay
on the hot Dog Eating Champ Championship. Looking I placed
these five knuckleheads in these straight bet and look at
what I got. I got a two hundred to one
bet because I had Esper over Chestnut with Bertoltni coming
in third.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Look at me, that's not getting anything. Well, sexy has
a bunch of money, Sexy.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Has a lot of meaning. Sexy could be money, Sexy
could be with notoriety, Sexy could be a Hey, that's
a sex that's a sexy pick. We say, oh, hey,
that's a sexy pick. Hey picking the the the Texans
to win the Super Bowl, that's a sexy pick. I'm
not sitting here saying, hey, I'm picking the Texas to win.
A woman's gonna go oh, I gotta go home with
you tonight. You picked the Texans. But now Sexy has
(26:46):
a bunch of different I mean, well, I mean, if
you find the right Texans fan, that might work again.
She might like your relentless enthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I'm starting from Jim Harbon.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Now I can't go home with you. Why you just
don't have confidence that CJ. Stroud's gonna lead us to
the That's just it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
If you're a bowl, if you're sitting there and you're
carnival barking in a bar, and you're able to sell
like we do on air. Your thoughts, Because what have
I always said about the fantasy space? If I convinced
you to toggle yes on the player that I'm espousing,
then that means I can talk you into things and
you can be led down the rabbit hole. You can
(27:24):
blame me if it goes wrong. But I made the
compelling case for you to click yes on that quarterback,
running back, wide receiver, tight end, flex position. Do I
watch your flex podcast? Of course? Dan and I getting
ready to bring you in another season.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But if I'm able to convince you same thing, if
I'm I'm espousing the virtues of CJ.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Stroud and a bar, I might have just convinced you
to click yes and toggle yes on me.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So what you're saying is like, instead of the scene
at a bar where hey, the guy is looking around
and sees the and sees, you know, a couple together,
and he sees the girl and it looks like they're
and you know, but and and clearly something's up, and
he goes over and buys a drink or sidles his
way in saying, yeah, I'm gonna steal her and we're
gonna leave tonight. Like, So what you're saying is the
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version of that is, you know, a Texans fan sees
two Texans fans together, sees that they're fighting, goes over
and hears that she's upset with a boyfriend. Because hey,
you clearly don't think we have the running game to
get it done in the AFC's out, Just say it
out loud, Just say the quiet part out loud so
we can really have a conversation. No, I don't think
we have the running game and they start fighting and
then like I would walk over and slide over and say, hey,
(28:33):
have a drink. Not only that, I don't think they
need a running game. They just have to be able
to throw the football. This division is terrible. They're gonna
win this division by five games. And she turns and says,
what's your name? And I say my name is Jason.
She goes, Jason, this is John, my boyfriend. How you doing?
And she goes, John, this is goodbye, Jason. Let's go.
Let's go Texans. Well that's and we're talking about the
(28:55):
Texans and drafting you know what else, drafting David Carr
and all kinds of fun stuff and Ben Tate and
all the history of that and oh chant gaily Ah.
It's suddenly so you're saying that's the equivalent though, Yeah, no,
you slide the beer forward and give it here of
zero running back strategy. Hey, have you ever you know,
had the the simulation. Let me let me pretend I'm
(29:18):
a defensive lineman and your David Carr. I'd be all
over you boom exit out about a fresco exit swallen dove. Okay,
so I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that,
but I'm still going sexy and I'm going over eighty
hot dogs for Joey Chat. I think that's kind of
that's the money I did this. Yeah, that's the money.
(29:39):
The just take what's offered. You know, you can go
in and find your exotics. I'm sure if you had
a relationship with a book in Vegas, you can get
them to give you odds at eighty plus. I'm sure
if you placed the call right now, after you go
through all of the menu and they you know, get
you past the gatekeepers, you could probably get someone to
(30:00):
give you that line.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
No compariders are standing.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
By, all right, all right, I'll I haven't found it yet, though,
I yeah, eighty, that's right. That's why. That's where that's
where I'm going.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
As not eats eighty or more. Let's let's do the
quick search here, because I obviously I I did a
little bit the uh I.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Mean the the over under being at seventy one and
a half is I mean, that's way. That's why I
think there's gotta be money there at eighty because it's
not like, hey, the over unders at seventy six where
he set the record at You're like, okay, like the
one and a half, like right, get it out last year. Yeah,
the guy that won only had fifty eight last year.
He's competing against himself. Like again, like in Rocky four
(30:44):
when Rocky tells Apoddle, you have to think, uh, study
you against him. It's you against you. Like that's what
goats do. They compete against each other. But now he's
two good Rock four references in.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
No, that was really good. I I'm really impressed.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Throw a damn dow. So there you go. I just
won uped you own all of that. But I'm really surprised.
And I'm looking on a couple of books that I
don't see see more than that. You know that that
I can't go all right, well, what are my odds
at seventy seven? What are my odds at seventy You
know what I mean? Like, I don't have that all
(31:21):
the way through.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Total hot dogs eaten by Joey Chestnut odd or even
there's no there's no advantage there. It's literally the coin
flip Men's Division. Will a reversal of fortune occur in
the Men's contest plus four hundred for yes, Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
There's absolutely going to be a reversal. Someone will have
a reversal. I think it's made out that Hey, listen,
if you're losing and you want some attention, if you
have a reversal, we'll talk about it like.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
You'll get some screen time.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That exit ou about a Fresco exit, swollen dome. Time
out to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. For man who I once saw eat two
hot Dogs in one hole night, it's Martin Weiss. Well,
that's just that's just a lie. I'm I'm just messing
with you.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
The Dodgers just beat the White hot six to two.
Max Buntsey suffered the bone Brews and Wednesday's game he'll
be on the Dodgers injurys lest he'll likely miss h
reportedly up to six weeks. Mookie Bets hit his tenth
home running season tonight. Angels beat the Braves five to one.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Zach.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
That'll finish a triple shy of this cycle. Blue Jays
up a game in the AL East now they're in
first first time since they've been this position in the
AL Ease this late in the season since twenty sixteen.
Clark Smith left in the third inning with right arm
for him tightness. That beat the Yankees eight to five.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
The Guardian.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Starting pitcher Louis Ortiz has been placed on paid leave
over reported Baseball investigation into gambling. Betting integrity firm flagged
two individual pitchers from Mortiz. Both in June, Nationals beat
the Tigers eleven and seven. James Wood five for five.
Just a couple of days ago, he was into ationally
walked four times, so he's had a busy week. He
also had his twenty third home run of the year
(33:05):
and this Tigers of this win over the Tigers, and
he also announced that he'll be participating in the home
run Derby. Lakers have agreed to a one year deal
to bring back big man Jackson Hayes. The Dallas Mavericks
are finalizing an agreement that Frank Vogel joined the team
as the lead assistant coach. Dallas losing an assistant coach
as well. Jared Dudley finalizing a deal to become the
(33:27):
top assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets under David Adelman.
And the Steelers have announced that gm Omar Khan has
be signed a three year contract extension. He'll be with
the team through at least the twenty to twenty eight season,
So you know that quarterback situation.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It didn't break him. I guess he did not break him.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I tried my best.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I didn't I must break you. Nicely done. I tried
my best. Thanks guys, back team, I said, put your
hands up, chump. I said, it's time to go to school.
You will lose. Exit up about a fresco exit. Swalling home,
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Okay,
coming up next, how about this on? As we as
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we looked at the end of the first week of
NBA Free agency. All right, we've told you that, hey,
potentially the Orlando Magic could be the Houston Rockets Oklahoma
City Thunder of next season where they spend some time
outside of the spotlight, build their team up and suddenly, boy,
hey they're really good all of a sudden, what team
(34:30):
can be the Pacers of next season? Wait, don't we
tell you that's next? Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Home.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So here we sit the end of the first week
of NBA free agency and coming off the NBA Final, say,
it's only natural to ask, boy, we saw the Oklahoma
City Thunder win a championship, and how did they build
their team? Well, they were to do it out of
the spotlight with a lot of number one picks, and
they had the perfect blend. They obviously they have a
(35:13):
superstar and Jay Gilgess Alexander and and here come the Thunder. Right,
they're perfectly set up team to win. Hey, who could
be the Thunder of next season? Or the Rockets who
had the same type of regular season as the as
the Thunder did, accept the Thunder one of the titles. Well, okay, hey,
look at Orlando. They got a superstar and Palo upon Carrow.
They make the big trade for Desmond Bain. Hey, Orlando's
(35:35):
going to be a top three team in the East
next year. Now, how about who could be the Pacers
of next season? Up forty five fifty win team with
some talent that you understand that they're good, maybe you
don't get how good they really are, and they could
have some kind of run in the playoffs where they
(35:56):
take teams by surprise. They have a deer team. Then
you think they do. They're coached very well, and all
of a sudden they just jump onto the national spotlight
and make a big run through the playoffs, just like
the Pacers did. Let me tell you the team I'm
gonna give you, Mike Carmen. Don't do it next ye
don't do it. That city already hates you. No, no, no, no,
(36:18):
no no no. The Knicks. Knicks are going to the finals.
We're fine, the Knicks, We're going to final. It's fine.
Well they hate you too, No, it's absolutely fine.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
You don't go to New York City anyway, so you're okay.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I haven't been back to New York in a while.
I was just thinking about that the other day. I
guess I go to Detroit more than I go to
go to New York. Well, that's why I figured you
were gonna try to get mad at you again. I
felt what you did to the Lions, and and that's
who I'm gonna get mad at me. What are you doing?
The Pistons can be the Pacers of next season. Right,
(36:48):
you can't go home again. Obviously they've lost a couple
of guys, right, and look they they lost Dennis Shrewder. Fine,
they're most likely gonna lose ma Leak Beasley. Uh for
just be a oh well, I mean they're not going
to re sign him, rather because I think Malik Beasley's
in a little bit of trouble with the end.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
How great is it that that this doesn't have to
work on your books to where you have to go
in front of the league and beg them on your
hands and knees. Can we get some sort of cap
relieve for this guy? Oh wait, he's a free agent?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Hey? Can I could we negate that offer that we
just sent out to him? Right? So you needed to
fix and and and figure out you know, some production
there that you lost. But you go out and get LeVert,
you go get Duncan Robinson. We've seen Duncan Robinson heat
his way up in the playoffs. They have not just
(37:39):
filled their holes going to next season, but I think
they've augmented them a little bit. Plus, you're gonna get
a return to health by Jade and Ivy who played
thirty games last year and he is terrific. I can
see the Pistons being that team that hey, yeah, fifty wins, Hey,
that's great. Look the Hey, the big success story of
the Pistons continues. Look what a great story they are.
(38:01):
They're winning. It's really fun. And then all of a sudden,
Cad Cunningham becomes Tyre's Halliburton the playoffs and suddenly the
Pistons take off and it's a couple of upsets. Look,
the series with the Knicks was closer than it then
it looked on paper, and what you saw. If I'm
looking for a teen, they could be the Pacers of
next season. Give me the Pistons.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
They're certainly a curiosity as we go forward. They are
at plus thirteen hundred to win the Eastern Conference. That
rates them as the sixth favorite. Certainly superstars, and you
did try to make them happen.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
What was it three years ago? Four years ago? And
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was way ahead. I was
way ahead, way ahead as you as you go through,
I'm looking at Toronto at fifty plus fifty five hundred
if we want to go down that road of let's
go long shot and upset the apple cart, because you know,
Milwaukee's a bit of a price shot right now, but
(38:57):
you know it's still some work to do and still
a superstar who they decide, Hey, you know that picture
I put up of all my trophies and whatever.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, I'm gonna take those and we're actually gonna move
with those. So potentially some chaos there. But as we
sit with the Raptors right now looking at some depth opportunities, RJ.
Barrett's kind of stepped into his own. Still some guys
with some injury history, but Grady Dick and some others
who are still looking to make to that next level.
(39:26):
So yeah, at plus fifty five hundred, the active desperation
that they're the last last team standing when the injuries
start to fall, y'all.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I'm telling you, man, give me the They're young, they're
on the rise. They look like they're ready to win.
They didn't go into the playoffs thinking, hey, we're just
happy to be here and look where we're back. No, no, no,
this is a team now that is ready to win.
They have a star, they have other good young players.
They have really good young players they rely on. I'm
telling you, man, watch out for the Pistons, man. The
(39:56):
Pistons could be that to you. All of a sudden,
we're talking about the Pistons in the playoffs, and maybe
maybe it's Piston's nicks in the Eastern Conference Finals next year.
Get ready, man.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Yeah, a couple of years ago people forgave you because
the Lions were on the come and they were rising up.
This time they won't be as nice. You won't be
able to go get your musquet and go get your
muskrat dinner.
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and the best of version posted right after we get
off the air. So here we are tonight, getting set
for the fourth of July and get to a big
NBA story in a second. But we need to address
(01:11):
this for a second because you know will tomorrow. We're
gonna see a hot dog eating contest. Yeah, the next fourth,
the next fourth of July, we may see something even bigger.
President Trump announcing today that to celebrate the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the United States next year, we
(01:34):
could see a UFC match on the White House Grounds
with upwards of twenty thousand spectators. Now, he's been a
big UFC enthusiast for a long time, he said, quote,
we have a lot of land there, and he's close
friends with Dana White, the president of the league, So
we could wind up seeing a UFC event on White
(01:56):
House Grounds.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, it's not unlike bringing in theater troops or whatever else, right,
I mean, Hamilton started from Lynn Manuel Miranda performing in
front of Obama.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Why not have some fighters? Oh I want oh no, no, Hey,
I want to see that, But I want to see
this in a place I recognize, Like I don't want
to you know, there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Of lamb Rose Guard and he got knocked into the
rose guarden. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, isn't he redoing aren't they redoing the rose
Guarden anyway? Like, isn't it that the statues are going up?
Like a babe Bruce statue is gonna go out on something. Sure,
I mean, so if this is what, this is what
it's gonna be, Like I, it's got to be where
Oh I recognize that. That's where you gotta have the event.
Like it can't just be oh, we're we're on this
far away part of the White House and part of
the legend. No, no, I want to say, Oh look
(02:39):
I see the columns of the Why I de sand
where we are. Oh look that's that Lincoln statue. Wow,
he's gonna you're gonna walk past the Lincoln statue to
go like, that's kind of what I want to see.
If we're gonna go go big with something like this,
you know me, I like spectacle. So this is this
is glorious.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I saw this headline earlier today and I just smiled
and said, I can get on board this because I mean,
pretty soon now you can have a WWE Live live event.
Oh my god, he's coming off of the roof.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh now wait a minute, wait a minute, you had
now waiting. Now here's an idea. Okay, now here's an idea.
Here's an idea.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I opened the portal and then you said yes, and
what yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Caause here it is right. This is a way to
take wrestling into an entirely new stratosphere. Okay, because what's
wrestling always been all the wrestlers in one place, the
squared circle. Uh, sometimes there's a steel cage match, you
know a lot of times a battle royal where they're
all in the ring at once fighting each other.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, but occasionally a leather strap or some part.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean there's lot of stuff. You got leather straps at
home that I know you use on for different things.
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You've never seen a strap match.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Come on, man, you've never been harmon re enacts strap matches.
It is it is off times.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh, bust out the kendo stick. Come on.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now, what if you did this right? What if you
did this right? You had a big battle royal type event, right,
except instead of hey, we're all in you know, Madison
Square Garden, or we're all you know, wherever we are,
we're all in you know, Cowboys Stadium. You know we're
gonna sell sixty thousand tickets. Gonna be that way. What
(04:18):
if you had some sort of wrestling and I don't
mean actual killing people, but like you had some kind
of wrestling Hunger Games where you just let like twenty
wrestlers loose on White House property and you filmed it right,
and you broadcast it and they all had to come
and it was and then you know, they would find
each other and and fight, and their references.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
All twenty four to seven title falls counts anywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, you just all the nowt here and you go
and here are the uh, here are the the wrestlers
who are who are you know? Uh? Let in at
the south entrance and here they are at the west
entrance and they get to go by and there there's
there's all kinds of events in all different places. Partis
of the White House, you believe, and you have to
have to find each other and wrestle and have all
these referees are just all over the place and when
(05:04):
they see two guys going at it, they go over
and officiate. And then hey, one, two, three out You
lose it and you keep going and the and the
you know, the one person left, the final ones left.
At the end, there's your winner. That's as like.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Unger games, where I can send things and implement it.
I sent him some brass knuckles and it goes into
a giant pool for the winner.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh see now that see that's even better.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Set them down there, you know, the great kaboogie. I'm just.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I'm send in this cane for you to trip somebody with.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I got into the marketplace and they have a bunch
of WWE props and Houston from the past, so you
can actually use mister Fuji's cane. Yeah, I'm bidding on
that to send it to tick that guy's ass. Oh yeah, no,
I like this.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The brass knuckles that macho man Randy Savage used to
beat Tito Santana and win the under Continental Championship. Oh
all the way when he gets some throze them away.
Oh come on, Jesse, you could see him throw away
right there. How does Danny Davis not see.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That seven two by four from Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, under someone wears the iron cheeks steel toe tip boots,
and yeah, you send in the iron cheeks boots to
somebody and they can wear them. I mean that all
givens in the world. Uh, I mean, because that's what
you did. If you if you channel the eighties WWE,
We've really yeah, it's like the uh well it's the world. Yeah,
(06:32):
to open up and wrestle it, wrestling, Hunger Games Man extend.
It's all brought like that would be amazing. That would
be and really.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Could actually be bigger than Love Island, especially once we
start air dropping in uh, implements of destruction from the past.
Because when I went to Vegas for WrestleMania if depending
on what stores you went to, they had some of
the old costumes, they had some of the old masks
and whatever. It's like all of a sudden, here we
go because they've had that show for years. Wweh lost
(07:00):
treasures when they go back into the marketplace and find
people that had robes or or stuff that was used
in matches. Yeah, I like this, This is good.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Oh I mean, I mean just just think about that, like,
uh uh you could you could have you could have
like like John Cena, Hey, judge John Cena who got
dropped in whatever he gets dropped in and it was
wrapped in Hult Cogan's tights that he used to win
the belt at WrestleMania one. And he's going up against
you know, up against Cody, your owns or you know,
you're hitting people with the spray can ye from the
(07:32):
nWo era.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, and then and then you get to tag
him at the end and.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He's wearing the iron cheeks steals called curved boots, like
I really love those bos, I know because the whole
thing with those boots like, oh you get kicked with those,
how sharp that's gonna be. And meanwhile, of course the
boots were curved in so that so that the tip
was never touching you. It was just a big curve
part of the boot.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I mean recently you've had uh Chad Gable as El Grande,
a mayorcanoh, like, people are really upset. But he would
load up the front of his mask and do the
flying headbut off the turnbuckle to take me. He just
you would have shoulder surgery. So he shelled for a while,
but by next year he should be ready.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, you would have. You would have legends in there.
You would have it'd be like the Hunger Games, right,
like the the Hunger Games and the second one where
they brought back all the winners because they wanted to,
you know, kill Catnus and Pita. So they said, hey,
last year as losers the last twenty five years, so
here's here's like eighty five year old winners you know,
coming in you have to compete to win, like you
have some legends and you have some people that are
(08:35):
big stars now and there it is Wrestling Hunger Games. Boom.
We just did it right there. That is it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We get Tito Santana out of the classroom and back
into the squared circle.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
He's been a teacher, Santana, Yes, oh that would be so.
I love Tito Santana. He was my favorite. And then
I really Baron.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Von Rashk is still running around. He's gotta be like
ninety two if he's a day. But I mean this
is good. And you've watched the Rock and you've seen
the bloodline stuff. I mean those guys all have like
seven kids each. So we could run this for years.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh yeah, I mean I forget UFC at the White
House Wrestling, WWE Hunger Games at the White House. I mean,
I really want to see someone drop in the iron cheeks,
steel toad boots, like someone would have some sort of
injury and they're limping and someone would send there you
see the parachute come in. You know I'm gonna one
up here already. It's the progeny of Damian Oh no, oh,
(09:35):
and that would get somebody like that would have to
get somebody like all the snakes that would get the odds.
I'm sorry the person didn't make it. Uh yeah, the
bit by a snake, they're out like it would obviously
obviously it's not, you know that the wrestler's dying, but
it would be like, oh, that person got bit by
a snake. They're out. They can't, they can't wrestle anymore.
They're done. They had they had to go get the
you know, yeah, and then the venom triple h. The
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venom gets sucked out by there by by by someone
else who then becomes their tag team partner, and that
becomes a hot new thing out of the wrestling Hunger Games. Oh.
I just think about that man, that that that.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I mean that you want to talk about reality shows
right here?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's a billion dollar idea.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well there's no question about it. I mean, you can't
you can't have it own and then you bet on it.
Oh yeah, think about the live betting action on this, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Wub level of trust and improvisation here, I mean next
level stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Think about all.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
The camera operators that now have freelance jobs for however
long this lasts.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
This is this is good.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
We we We're rebuilding America on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, that would be something that would really Oh man,
I'm just seeing all the action in front of me now,
I'm seeing it all in front of you. Now how
it can all work?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And you keep trying to figure out how you can
get a pair.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Of those iron Yeah, I really want the boots. I
really want the boots. So look, while that is happening,
I'll go into the marketplace. We're gonna go find you
a pair of those boots. Yeah, Okay, if it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Takes selling off a couple of autographs in my collection
to make that happen, or Andre at the Giants, Uh,
you know Strap, we have the Giants, Strap we have
from so many years ago. I'll think a couple of shares,
and you know, the market hasn't exactly been on fire
for that, but I'll donate at all for a pair
of those.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Boots, and I come in and kick everybody with him.
I just got to I'm sorry, Jason, what are you doing?
I'm where I know it's got a mind of its own.
I gotta just keep kicking the boots. I don't know
what it is. It's like one of those horror movies
where I put the mask on and suddenly I'll become
a I'll become a devil or a demon. I'm just
kicking somebody with the boot. WWE got into low budget
horror movies for a while too.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
They've made a bunch of money there. We can reboot
WWE films there.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We are, right w The Hunger Games of the White
House done. Uh. Now, I mentioned this a few minutes
ago because you know, after this week in the NBA,
I'm at a point now where as happy as I am,
now I'm scared. It's weird, but I'm scared now, right.
So the Knicks hied they're hiring. No, no, no, no, no, okay,
(12:08):
I know I know how that sounds. I did not
do that the right way, like you know, you know,
I love I love you. Oh now, ty Shirt says
something two and a half hours he's building grunts and
playing Fortnite. Now, oh hey, thanks got that now, paying attude.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
He's trying to figure out and triangulate where he's gonna
run into you in the desert. You can't.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh yeah, that's it. So Mike Brown and I and
I love Mike Brown, and I told you he was
the right guy from the beginning, when the day Tims
got fired, I said, Mike Brown is the guy, and
this is who the Knicks are gonna go get. But
immediately after the Knicks, after news of the Knicks and
Mike Brown was was was let go right And we're
(12:46):
waiting for the official word, but the Knicks are getting
Mike Brown. Immediately, the Knicks became the favorite in the
Eastern Conference, the betting favorite, the favor I mean, obviously
the injuries to Jason Tatum and Tyre's halliburt and have
a lot to do with it. And the Bucks, you know,
losing Damian Lillard now and they're trying to rebuild on
the fly. But the Knicks became the overwhelming favorite in
(13:09):
the Eastern Conference right away. Didn't have a coach. Hard
to make a favorite need a coach. Now they have
a coach Boom and all of a sudden they are
the favorites, and they should be because they have the
most talented roster. You saw how far they got this year,
and it was an incredible playoff run by the Pacers
in a miracle shot by Halliburton, which beats them in
Game one and one of the biggest comebacks that we've
(13:30):
never seen before in NBA history. But now I'm scared.
Now I'm scared because generally in my life, my teams
do very poorly when there's expectations. By when my teams
have no expectations, we can be great. And ay, okay,
when the Jets have no expectations. Also, that's why I
think we're gonna be five hundred this year. We're gonna
be an eight to nine win team and stay in
(13:51):
the playoff. We have no ex But last two years,
huge expectations. We were terrible, right, and the Mets every
time expectations terrible, now have expectations. They didn't have it.
They were always a team up and coming very grudgingly.
That God credit, Yes, Jalen Brunson is a star. Finally
will admit he's a star after it was a star
for like two years. Oo, will finally met he's a star.
(14:13):
Finally admit the Knicks are on the right track. Finally
will admit that they're doing the right thing. This is
how it's going for the Necks. But now suddenly they've gone, oh,
now they're the favorites, and this is what scares me,
because I really am. I am. My teams scare me
when there's expectation because they have never been able to
handle it. They've never be able to handle be in a
position of succeeding and handling success. And here are the
(14:36):
Knicks now, who came within a whisker of the NBA
Finals and lost to a team that they probably should
have beaten and instead, now, okay, now we're installved. How
is this going to go? I'm it's great, but now
I'm anxious and I'm scared because I know, and I
don't know this more than other than the history of
the last forty years, that my teams don't do well
(14:57):
in this situation. Yeah, I mean, part of it is
you become number one by default, so you know, expectation
is you're a little better than all these other flawed teams.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So you know, you can take some solace in that.
I believe, because you know, as we talked about earlier
in the week, it becomes the hey who's ready to
volunteer to be the leader and everybody steps back.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Knicks didn't step back. They're the same team with
a couple of additions that make you kind of go eh,
and then you add it finally added a coach, So
there's really nothing substantive that changed about them, whereas every
other team lost huge to injury.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Right, we would have been talking about it last season
of going, hey, all those guys coming back healthy, don't know,
don't know? And then you make the deal and cat
and all that, and he plays through and now you
at least know where to some level your floor is.
Will they have a better rounded out roster? I gotta
assume so part of the reports that we had was
(15:56):
not just players may have been bristling with tib know
and quote, we don't know our roles.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You know your roles. There's only seventy year that are
gonna play. Unless things go to hell, then the other
guys get off the bench.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
We knew that.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But to that point it'll be a deeper rotation. It'll
be a little more of a flow to where Brunson
isn't working as hard as he is for forty two
minutes a game. So yeah, by default you step forward.
Does that mean you're great? No, just means everybody else
step back. Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
We're still waiting to see what the next iteration of
things are. Ty Jerome who was pretty good for them,
basically on his exit after signing a deal in Memphis, said, eh,
it pretty much told me they didn't want me to
come back, Like, really, you were a key contributor off
the bench'd scored.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I didn't want to match it. So what the hell
are they doing over there? Right?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Are they planning some other big move as yet unseen?
Don't know, but the Knicks weren't too far off the lead,
even though we had a giant question mark for a
coach a week Yeah right, I mean it was Cleveland
barely as the conference favorite.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So yeah, now you are the favorite. I heavy is
the head who wears the crown, even if it's a
gesture crown. Hey, hey, hey hey, jug head Jones by
the Jester sang for the King and Queen and a
cody borrowed from James Dean. Come on, man, have some
respect for that. Put some you know me. I'm a
big Don McLain guy. Come on and fun, you're done.
(17:26):
If you're Don McClain, the former us LA basketball player, I.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Celebrate him too.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The snake killer himself has heard on Clippers broadcasts. Uh
so yeah, no, I'm scared and and that feeling is
not gonna go away. I'm I'm I'm just gonna be going.
This is when it's all gonna fall because now people
expect things. Now they expect things of us, and now
how are we gonna be able to do this? They're expected?
(17:52):
You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Also, I'm gonna start singing Vincent before it's done too. Storry,
starry night, exit out about a esca exit swallen down.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
coming up next.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
As we are now, Hey, East Coast, Happy fourth of July.
We are getting set for a big nation's birthday. How
about a big bowld prediction for the biggest sporting event
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Speaker 1 (19:01):
Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my base
friend Mike Harmon. So here we are getting set for
the fourth of July, and Joey Chestnut is back and
the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest right a year away,
I'm doing stuff with Vegan Franks and we got to
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eat regular ones and this is not gonna work and all,
but now he's back back tomorrow for all the pageantry
and oh, by the way, the best part of the
hot Dog Eating Contest is listening to the guy do
the achievements of what all the competitive competitor eaters have
done and talking about them like they have won the
(19:43):
Peloponnesian War, you know, against Alexander the Great back in
you know, in three point fifty BC. Like his his
his description of the of the different competitors is just awesome. Right,
But here comes Joey chest Nut. He is back, and look,
it's bigger. It's a bigger deal when the best person
of all time is doing something. We're gonna watch, right,
(20:04):
I'm sure more people will watch as Joey chest got
his back. But I will tell you this, I don't
know the odds because you have to really get involved
to get them right. You have to really get involved
to get them. But with seventy six being his record
here in the in the hot dog eating contest, he's
coming back after your way. He wants to tell everybody
(20:26):
I am still dominant, I'm still in my prime, I
am still the goat. I would go, if I'm betting,
I know the over under is seventy one and a
half hot dogs, I'd say, what odds you give me
for eighty? He's gonna hit the eighty mark tomorrow because
he wants it. He knows he's extra motivated after missing
(20:46):
last year and beating Kobayashi as bad as he did
a few months ago. Give me eighty for him tomorrow
to win. I will take over eighty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah, I'm trying to find I've got a bunch of
the prop that's out here. To win by twenty five
or more hot dogs is fifteen to one. To win
by twenty or more is plus four fifty So four
and a half to one for your dollar.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So the hot dog spread is twenty five, is what
you're saying. Basically, the spread is twenty five hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Well, then let's see, I'm trying to look at the
other individuals here.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Because the odds actually let me, let me do this
for you. The odds for any other eater plus seven
seventy five, wow, for anybody else. So it's so anybody,
anybody with chestnut yep, wow, chestnut or the field, you
get plus seven seventy.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Five, will the world record be broken? Plus two seventy five? Okay,
So in your theory, you can nearly triple your money
because look, that's what you think, right, you have to
because eighty three last year, in that competition he did
against Kobayashi, the type of dog it was, well, but
(22:07):
it's showing the gastronomic power. But what you now, it
wasn't a Nathan's hot dog.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
No, but it wasn't sanctioned. I don't think that was sanctioned. No, no,
it's not. But that's what I'm saying, though, like we've
seen him cross that threshold by all measurements.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It was a hot dog, right, I mean it was
and it was.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But it's like when Rocky fought Drago there was there
was no money and no belt, right, it was that's right.
He was fighting to avenge Apollo. Right, That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
But I'm just saying, we've already done the theory testing
last year against Kobayashi. Can he cross that threshold if
he wants to push himself? And here he wanted to
bludgeon the rival, because remember, Kobayashi became this thing, right,
the little one hundred and five pounds, soaking wet guy
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who had tested the boundaries of how much he could
make his stomach extend and extend, and he had a
tops Allen and Ginter card. I still have it from
back in the day celebrating his greatness. I also have
a Joey chestnutrookie if you want one of those. I
don't have any of the autographs. Unfortunately there's no reversal
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cards out there, but there were certified autographs.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Why the hell would you want a reversal car? Come on, man,
why would you want that?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, it's gonna be encapsulating, and I'm not gonna smell it.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I just know what it is. Oh, oh, it's a
scratching stiff card. Oh guess Oh it smells them. It
smells awful.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Special. Will the contest feed get hacked by peta?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Ah? This is hey. Part of what's on there, part
of it is a game used hot dog. We can't
we throw right out there. We can put that right
on there, don't. Well, I mean think about it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
If he goes right to signing your card after ingesting
all that, I mean there's some hot dog juices for you.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
If the card is dipped in the hot dog juices
like that, I think that's a thing. Well, you think
it's start to degrade.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Good enough?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
What if though, but you dip the cart in the
hot dog juices and then you laminate it like right away.
Oh yeah, okay, I could.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Get on board that. I don't think that's been done yet. Okay,
you can go contact Lee for some of those companies.
They might get on board with you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
There.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Uh the over under for Chestnut and Mickey, Pseudo, the
Women's favorite over one sixteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's if you want to parlay both of them.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, if you want the you want to parlay the
favorites together one hundred and sixteen and a half hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
But so his record is seventy six hers is uh
fifty one?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Right, Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
That's not a big money maker though.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well No, I mean, look, you want to get into
some of the other exotics. I mean, this is where
you start getting into Nick Weary at fifteen to one. Yeah,
but I'm not stand for it at fifty to one. Look,
if you love your long odds, the only way those
guys are winning is if Chestnuts suddenly sprains an ankle
getting too excited about his lead and rolls over on
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the on the ground. Oh no, I think he could
one less, which I'm not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
It would have to be some sort of gullet injury
like he I mean, if he's on a if he
if he sprains an ankle, like it doesn't matter, you're
standing on one foot needing. I mean, the guy's the goat.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No, I get it, but that's what I look. I
wasn't going anything more nefarious than that. It's a family
show and I'm a positive guy. Hey, a holiday weekend,
But something Runner seventy one and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, but something like this. Though you want to be
the sexy better, you don't want to be the Oh hey,
what's my value? I'm looking for? So and say you
want Hey, I'm betting the hot Dog eating Calm going
eighty hot dogs. Wow, that's cool, that's sexy, that's fun.
Like that, that's how you should bet this. Like look, man,
just say't helping you pick up women or men or
whatever whatever you're you're in New I mean sexy.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Looking at you going and people.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You know what? I had an eight to one parlay
on the hot Dog Eating Champ Championship. Looking I placed
these five knuckleheads in these straight bet and look at
what I got. I got a two hundred to one
bet because I had Esper over Chestnut with Bertoltni coming
in third.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Look at me, that's not getting anything. Well, sexy has
a bunch of money, Sexy.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Has a lot of meaning. Sexy could be money, Sexy
could be with notoriety, Sexy could be a Hey, that's
a sex that's a sexy pick. We say, oh, hey,
that's a sexy pick. Hey picking the the the Texans
to win the Super Bowl, that's a sexy pick. I'm
not sitting here saying, hey, I'm picking the Texas to win.
A woman's gonna go oh, I gotta go home with
you tonight. You picked the Texans. But now Sexy has
(26:46):
a bunch of different I mean, well, I mean, if
you find the right Texans fan, that might work again.
She might like your relentless enthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I'm starting from Jim Harbon.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Now I can't go home with you. Why you just
don't have confidence that CJ. Stroud's gonna lead us to
the That's just it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
If you're a bowl, if you're sitting there and you're
carnival barking in a bar, and you're able to sell
like we do on air. Your thoughts, Because what have
I always said about the fantasy space? If I convinced
you to toggle yes on the player that I'm espousing,
then that means I can talk you into things and
you can be led down the rabbit hole. You can
(27:24):
blame me if it goes wrong. But I made the
compelling case for you to click yes on that quarterback,
running back, wide receiver, tight end, flex position. Do I
watch your flex podcast? Of course? Dan and I getting
ready to bring you in another season.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But if I'm able to convince you same thing, if
I'm I'm espousing the virtues of CJ.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Stroud and a bar, I might have just convinced you
to click yes and toggle yes on me.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So what you're saying is like, instead of the scene
at a bar where hey, the guy is looking around
and sees the and sees, you know, a couple together,
and he sees the girl and it looks like they're
and you know, but and and clearly something's up, and
he goes over and buys a drink or sidles his
way in saying, yeah, I'm gonna steal her and we're
gonna leave tonight. Like, So what you're saying is the
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version of that is, you know, a Texans fan sees
two Texans fans together, sees that they're fighting, goes over
and hears that she's upset with a boyfriend. Because hey,
you clearly don't think we have the running game to
get it done in the AFC's out, Just say it
out loud, Just say the quiet part out loud so
we can really have a conversation. No, I don't think
we have the running game and they start fighting and
then like I would walk over and slide over and say, hey,
(28:33):
have a drink. Not only that, I don't think they
need a running game. They just have to be able
to throw the football. This division is terrible. They're gonna
win this division by five games. And she turns and says,
what's your name? And I say my name is Jason.
She goes, Jason, this is John, my boyfriend. How you doing?
And she goes, John, this is goodbye, Jason. Let's go.
Let's go Texans. Well that's and we're talking about the
(28:55):
Texans and drafting you know what else, drafting David Carr
and all kinds of fun stuff and Ben Tate and
all the history of that and oh chant gaily Ah.
It's suddenly so you're saying that's the equivalent though, Yeah, no,
you slide the beer forward and give it here of
zero running back strategy. Hey, have you ever you know,
had the the simulation. Let me let me pretend I'm
(29:18):
a defensive lineman and your David Carr. I'd be all
over you boom exit out about a fresco exit swallen dove. Okay,
so I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that,
but I'm still going sexy and I'm going over eighty
hot dogs for Joey Chat. I think that's kind of
that's the money I did this. Yeah, that's the money.
(29:39):
The just take what's offered. You know, you can go
in and find your exotics. I'm sure if you had
a relationship with a book in Vegas, you can get
them to give you odds at eighty plus. I'm sure
if you placed the call right now, after you go
through all of the menu and they you know, get
you past the gatekeepers, you could probably get someone to
(30:00):
give you that line.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
No compariders are standing.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
By, all right, all right, I'll I haven't found it yet, though,
I yeah, eighty, that's right. That's why. That's where that's
where I'm going.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
As not eats eighty or more. Let's let's do the
quick search here, because I obviously I I did a
little bit the uh I.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Mean the the over under being at seventy one and
a half is I mean, that's way. That's why I
think there's gotta be money there at eighty because it's
not like, hey, the over unders at seventy six where
he set the record at You're like, okay, like the
one and a half, like right, get it out last year. Yeah,
the guy that won only had fifty eight last year.
He's competing against himself. Like again, like in Rocky four
(30:44):
when Rocky tells Apoddle, you have to think, uh, study
you against him. It's you against you. Like that's what
goats do. They compete against each other. But now he's
two good Rock four references in.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
No, that was really good. I I'm really impressed.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Throw a damn dow. So there you go. I just
won uped you own all of that. But I'm really surprised.
And I'm looking on a couple of books that I
don't see see more than that. You know that that
I can't go all right, well, what are my odds
at seventy seven? What are my odds at seventy You
know what I mean? Like, I don't have that all
(31:21):
the way through.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Total hot dogs eaten by Joey Chestnut odd or even
there's no there's no advantage there. It's literally the coin
flip Men's Division. Will a reversal of fortune occur in
the Men's contest plus four hundred for yes, Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
There's absolutely going to be a reversal. Someone will have
a reversal. I think it's made out that Hey, listen,
if you're losing and you want some attention, if you
have a reversal, we'll talk about it like.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
You'll get some screen time.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
That exit ou about a Fresco exit, swollen dome. Time
out to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. For man who I once saw eat two
hot Dogs in one hole night, it's Martin Weiss. Well,
that's just that's just a lie. I'm I'm just messing
with you.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
The Dodgers just beat the White hot six to two.
Max Buntsey suffered the bone Brews and Wednesday's game he'll
be on the Dodgers injurys lest he'll likely miss h
reportedly up to six weeks. Mookie Bets hit his tenth
home running season tonight. Angels beat the Braves five to one.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Zach.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
That'll finish a triple shy of this cycle. Blue Jays
up a game in the AL East now they're in
first first time since they've been this position in the
AL Ease this late in the season since twenty sixteen.
Clark Smith left in the third inning with right arm
for him tightness. That beat the Yankees eight to five.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
The Guardian.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Starting pitcher Louis Ortiz has been placed on paid leave
over reported Baseball investigation into gambling. Betting integrity firm flagged
two individual pitchers from Mortiz. Both in June, Nationals beat
the Tigers eleven and seven. James Wood five for five.
Just a couple of days ago, he was into ationally
walked four times, so he's had a busy week. He
also had his twenty third home run of the year
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and this Tigers of this win over the Tigers, and
he also announced that he'll be participating in the home
run Derby. Lakers have agreed to a one year deal
to bring back big man Jackson Hayes. The Dallas Mavericks
are finalizing an agreement that Frank Vogel joined the team
as the lead assistant coach. Dallas losing an assistant coach
as well. Jared Dudley finalizing a deal to become the
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top assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets under David Adelman.
And the Steelers have announced that gm Omar Khan has
be signed a three year contract extension. He'll be with
the team through at least the twenty to twenty eight season,
So you know that quarterback situation.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It didn't break him. I guess he did not break him.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I tried my best.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I didn't I must break you. Nicely done. I tried
my best. Thanks guys, back team, I said, put your
hands up, chump. I said, it's time to go to school.
You will lose. Exit up about a fresco exit. Swalling home,
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Okay,
coming up next, how about this on? As we as
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we looked at the end of the first week of
NBA Free agency. All right, we've told you that, hey,
potentially the Orlando Magic could be the Houston Rockets Oklahoma
City Thunder of next season where they spend some time
outside of the spotlight, build their team up and suddenly, boy,
hey they're really good all of a sudden, what team
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can be the Pacers of next season? Wait, don't we
tell you that's next? Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
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Speaker 1 (34:46):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Home.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So here we sit the end of the first week
of NBA free agency and coming off the NBA Final, say,
it's only natural to ask, boy, we saw the Oklahoma
City Thunder win a championship, and how did they build
their team? Well, they were to do it out of
the spotlight with a lot of number one picks, and
they had the perfect blend. They obviously they have a
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superstar and Jay Gilgess Alexander and and here come the Thunder. Right,
they're perfectly set up team to win. Hey, who could
be the Thunder of next season? Or the Rockets who
had the same type of regular season as the as
the Thunder did, accept the Thunder one of the titles. Well, okay, hey,
look at Orlando. They got a superstar and Palo upon Carrow.
They make the big trade for Desmond Bain. Hey, Orlando's
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going to be a top three team in the East
next year. Now, how about who could be the Pacers
of next season? Up forty five fifty win team with
some talent that you understand that they're good, maybe you
don't get how good they really are, and they could
have some kind of run in the playoffs where they
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take teams by surprise. They have a deer team. Then
you think they do. They're coached very well, and all
of a sudden they just jump onto the national spotlight
and make a big run through the playoffs, just like
the Pacers did. Let me tell you the team I'm
gonna give you, Mike Carmen. Don't do it next ye
don't do it. That city already hates you. No, no, no, no,
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no no no. The Knicks. Knicks are going to the finals.
We're fine, the Knicks, We're going to final. It's fine.
Well they hate you too, No, it's absolutely fine.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
You don't go to New York City anyway, so you're okay.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I haven't been back to New York in a while.
I was just thinking about that the other day. I
guess I go to Detroit more than I go to
go to New York. Well, that's why I figured you
were gonna try to get mad at you again. I
felt what you did to the Lions, and and that's
who I'm gonna get mad at me. What are you doing?
The Pistons can be the Pacers of next season. Right,
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you can't go home again. Obviously they've lost a couple
of guys, right, and look they they lost Dennis Shrewder. Fine,
they're most likely gonna lose ma Leak Beasley. Uh for
just be a oh well, I mean they're not going
to re sign him, rather because I think Malik Beasley's
in a little bit of trouble with the end.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
How great is it that that this doesn't have to
work on your books to where you have to go
in front of the league and beg them on your
hands and knees. Can we get some sort of cap
relieve for this guy? Oh wait, he's a free agent?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Hey? Can I could we negate that offer that we
just sent out to him? Right? So you needed to
fix and and and figure out you know, some production
there that you lost. But you go out and get LeVert,
you go get Duncan Robinson. We've seen Duncan Robinson heat
his way up in the playoffs. They have not just
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filled their holes going to next season, but I think
they've augmented them a little bit. Plus, you're gonna get
a return to health by Jade and Ivy who played
thirty games last year and he is terrific. I can
see the Pistons being that team that hey, yeah, fifty wins, Hey,
that's great. Look the Hey, the big success story of
the Pistons continues. Look what a great story they are.
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They're winning. It's really fun. And then all of a sudden,
Cad Cunningham becomes Tyre's Halliburton the playoffs and suddenly the
Pistons take off and it's a couple of upsets. Look,
the series with the Knicks was closer than it then
it looked on paper, and what you saw. If I'm
looking for a teen, they could be the Pacers of
next season. Give me the Pistons.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
They're certainly a curiosity as we go forward. They are
at plus thirteen hundred to win the Eastern Conference. That
rates them as the sixth favorite. Certainly superstars, and you
did try to make them happen.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
What was it three years ago? Four years ago? And
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was way ahead. I was
way ahead, way ahead as you as you go through,
I'm looking at Toronto at fifty plus fifty five hundred
if we want to go down that road of let's
go long shot and upset the apple cart, because you know,
Milwaukee's a bit of a price shot right now, but
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you know it's still some work to do and still
a superstar who they decide, Hey, you know that picture
I put up of all my trophies and whatever.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, I'm gonna take those and we're actually gonna move
with those. So potentially some chaos there. But as we
sit with the Raptors right now looking at some depth opportunities, RJ.
Barrett's kind of stepped into his own. Still some guys
with some injury history, but Grady Dick and some others
who are still looking to make to that next level.
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So yeah, at plus fifty five hundred, the active desperation
that they're the last last team standing when the injuries
start to fall, y'all.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I'm telling you, man, give me the They're young, they're
on the rise. They look like they're ready to win.
They didn't go into the playoffs thinking, hey, we're just
happy to be here and look where we're back. No, no, no,
this is a team now that is ready to win.
They have a star, they have other good young players.
They have really good young players they rely on. I'm
telling you, man, watch out for the Pistons, man. The
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Pistons could be that to you. All of a sudden,
we're talking about the Pistons in the playoffs, and maybe
maybe it's Piston's nicks in the Eastern Conference Finals next year.
Get ready, man.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Yeah, a couple of years ago people forgave you because
the Lions were on the come and they were rising up.
This time they won't be as nice. You won't be
able to go get your musquet and go get your
muskrat dinner.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
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