July 15, 2025 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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first things first.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
NBA Summer League.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Right now, three minutes to go on the second quarter,
Clippers lead the Laker thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Okay. In the last thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thirteen minutes of real time, real time, Okay, thirteen minutes
of real time, two points have been scored in this game.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, right, it's a defensive battle.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It was thirty to twenty one when I said, wow,
wait till we tell you what's going on with Bronnie
James right now?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And it was thirty to twenty one at that point.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That was which that was at eight forty nine West
Coast time. It is now nine oh three. It is
thirty to twenty three. Dalton Connect had a jumper. Oh good,
that's what we got in thirteen minutes of real time.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Two points.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But it's funny as we're watching it, I got sin
of making plays whatever. NBA Summer League, it's fantastic. Well,
if they're gonna bring back cash, they should bring back
that line too while we're at it, right, NBAS, it's fantastic.
But you said, Ronnie James, and I just looked at
you and I said, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
As if it was something die right? What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I saw you was playing well, but didn't realize quite
how well. But I thought maybe you saw something that
had been picked up in a video like what's going viral?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
What am I missing?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
No, he's three or three from the field, two for
two from beyond the arc, ten points with two assists.
Brownie James is having that kind of night. He has
nearly half of all of the Lakers points near halftime.
And if you think that, hey, the play by play
is not recognizing that, well, you would be wrong because
(02:30):
this is what it sounds like in Vegas on NBA TV, Bronnie.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Over Sanders, Welcome to the Bronnie James Show, the Lakers
eight seed, sparse.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Ronnie James Show.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's like he was over the loudspeaker trying to hype
this sparse crowd here cheer for him, yet loud. It's like, hey,
is a microphone on, because I'm gonna get real excited
about Bronnie James if he hit something.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, just go, oh my, the Bronny James Show. Welcome
to the Bronny Show, My goodness. But yeah, in nine minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And so I don't know why he's only played nine minutes,
but it seems like the Lakers are just you know,
they're going through rotation now and everybody's playing around eight
nine minutes. He's got ten, three assists, two rebounds. As
you said, he's got a couple of threes. Bronnie is
having and has had so far a pretty good start
to summer league and not the okay, you know, talk
(03:37):
about something serious in summer League. But it is because
for Bronnie this is his chance to show that I
can be an NBA player. Because we talked about it
last hour on the show. We'll get into it later on.
Dad ain't gonna be around for much longer with the Lakers. Okay,
so this whole Hey, I got you on the team,
I got you in the league, I got you on here,
this whole league of their own. Oh and Dottie got
(03:58):
Kid into the league. That's gonna go away when Lebron
leaves and suddenly their loyalty to Bronnie James isn't gonna
be there. He's got a very short window. In fact,
this window is summer league and the preseason to show
I can be a rotation player with the Lakers, because
that's really what his ceiling is. It's not gonna be
he's gonna be a starting two guard in the league.
(04:20):
It's gonna be, Hey, can I carve out a nice
NBA career being the seventh or eighth or ninth guy.
I come in with the second unit and we have
a good we have a good few minutes, and we
either keep the game where it's at with the lead,
or we cut into the lead a little bit, we
don't lose the lead. Can I be that guy where
I can score a few points, I can dish out
a couple of assists, I can get a couple of rebounds,
(04:41):
I can play pretty good defense, and I can keep
this game at a zero sum, or I and and
provide some sort of rest for the players I'm coming
in for, or hey hey, I play a little bit
in spurts where I can be effective, like but this
is his time to do it, because after this, that's
gonna be it Like a Lake is still gonna go
for with Bronnie James. If Lebron's not a Laker next year,
(05:02):
really you think that's gonna happen. He's got But if
he's part of the rotation and JA, I can see
JJ Reddick saying, hey, no, he's one of my guys.
He's our eighth guy. He carves that out this year.
He's got a future, but he's got.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
To look at him.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is the stakes when you go to the summer league,
sometimes summer league and the preseason. For Bronnie James, his
whole NBA career hinges on what happens now and can
he be a part of the Lakers rotation in a
more regular way when the season starts. What is fun
to see is the growth development and him being more assertive.
(05:35):
We talked about it a little bit with the Cooper
flag conversation about operations shut down and everything. All Right,
you saw what you needed, right, proof of concept for
Bronnie James. He went through a whole season and it
was a punchline and a lot of negativity and hate
watching and stories and certainly even the most ardent of
Laker fans we're still looking at the front office and
(05:57):
waving their hands, going what are we doing here? You
know a lot of arguments about nepotism and everything else.
But in these five games, now, is he shooting a
high percentage every game? No, he played pretty well the
other night. What was he five of eleven? I think
from the field with his fourteen points. But he's showing
you that he can move the ball, that he plays
(06:20):
pretty good defense, and he's got more confidence in the shot.
Now does that translate into a long run? I don't know,
but it's becoming more of a guy that's standing on
his own. He's always going to be criticized for the
entry point.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
That is the case.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And we see that in broadcasting. We see that in
every job, right unless it's a business that's literally called
blank and son or sons. But when we look at
it for what we've seen in these few games here
in the Summer League, it's a different player than we
saw last summer.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And to his credit, he's put in the work, put
on some muscle, and really trying to find his space
and his way into the game. So perhaps once Dad's
gone from being a Laker, he can stand on his own,
even in LA or somewhere else in the twenty nine
(07:16):
other cities. Yeah, I mean, look, could he wind up
getting picked up someplace else, Sure like I could see that.
But this is the team the drafted you. They're gonna
give you the biggest chance to succeed because this shows you, hey,
we knew what we were doing in the draft. You're
gonna get more of a benefit of the doubt, especially
with Lebron there. But when Lebron leaves, or if you
can't show that I'm a valuable piece of this rotation,
(07:38):
you're a second round pick that we have no loyalty
to a million bucks or whatever it is, that's money spent,
someunk cost as we always talk about here on the show,
going into the business of sports. But yeah, your point
is is right on right, He's gonna get a long
look and whatever is left in that stand in the
hour glass for Lebron James, whether it's a week or
(08:00):
a month or three months before a trade's consummated, or
a buyout situation occurs, or it's the end of the year,
that clock is ticking.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So Brownie James making the most of every minute.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He's had a hell of a game tonight, and one
that gets a little extra attention because it is against
the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. I mean, look, yeah, it's
Clippers at Summer League.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But in terms of the microscope here because it had
backed off a bit. Yeah, except for the way they
hid the flag. The browny, Well, nobody else is playing.
Who else is the face that you're gonna put on
the billboard. It's like we watched all those Sunday night,
Monday night put up there on either of your offenses.
So here this is what you got. Same thing here
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at Lakers. Who is putting up there? Nobody playing? And
Dalton connect was was the guy they tried to ship
out last year. No, it's got to be Brownie because
people at least pay attention.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Who do we put up on?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How about for the Patriots to put up James White
and for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
To put a TJ.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Wattch But he's not playing. What happens about it? Bronni's
got this preseason summer league in preseason to show I
can be part of the rotation or that could be
it for him, And at the end of the year,
that's just gonna be That's just gonna be it for
him with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
No, that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You get your shot and a second year, maybe you
get a third. We'll see how it all plays out.
But and as we you always have to do the
tag on anything summer league related. It's it's summer league.
So a lot of these guys, you know, like Bronnie James,
are doing everything they can to be in the league.
One of the guys that's in the Lakers rotation right
(09:36):
now is Baisley, right, who decided he wasn't gonna go
to Syracuse, did a job for a year, and now
he's kind of been wandering trying to get himself back
into an NBA roster. It's an interesting story, no question
about it. But those are the guys you're competing with,
guys that are just trying to extend their professional careers.
So you take it all with a bit of a
(09:56):
grain of sault. But the feel of belonging and growth
of his game can't be denied. And what does that
translate to once we get to October November. Uh, I
think there's there's still a curiosity about it, which is
a fun story and a side story to what's going.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
On with his old man.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I mean, all of a sudden, it goes to, hey,
he's got a great future, this is your last chance
with the team. Like that's because the Lebron thing is,
of course, is hanging over everything. Is true, possible trade?
Is he gonna go?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Is he not? Like?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's everything like that that that's everything that's hanging over
the situation with him, like this might be his last
chance already.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
With the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, I mean guaranteed money, dad did, okay, So he'll
he'll be okay, he'll fall on his feet.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He'll fall on his If you fall on your feet,
then you're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
New what what happened? I fell on my feet. He'll
fall and I'll he'll have a safe landing.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
So again, we'll keep you up there.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
If Lebrony continues to score half the Lakers points, we'll uh, we'll.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Keep you up. That might become a bigger story obviously.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Look, if he's the only guy shooting with any confidence,
just keep chucking.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
So uh.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We watched cal Rally win the home run derby tonight,
beating Junior Commonero in the final round. There's controversy surrounding
how he got to the final round because he won
a tie breaker with Brent Rooker, a home run that
he hit the tie longest home run in the first
round him versus Rooker. His longest home run was less
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than an inch or or less than an inch an
inch further than Rooker's longest home run, and there's a
lot of controversy over at Rooker said, I thought we
were gonna have a swing off. I was getting ready.
I didn't know this, and if the league is gonna
do it this way, they should make sure we know
about it because I didn't know about it. Like the
broadcast put it out there that Okay, hey, make no mistake,
(11:51):
we have the we have the winner, right, I know,
it's it's an inch, and really you have it within
an inch? Really? Okay, I mean I know we have technology,
but wow, you have it within an inch for cal rally,
really you have it within an inch? Okay, that's fine,
But look, I gotta be honest here. I know this
is gonna get blown up, it to be a much
bigger deal than it is. I don't really care. I
mean really, and I don't know. I get that if
(12:12):
you're a rooker, you're a little upset because you want
to think maybe I could have won in a swing off,
maybe I could have gone all the way and I
could have won a million dollars, and that would be
that would certainly be a big deal. I understand that.
But in the end, it's a home run derby. It's
a found money kind of experience.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And these were the rules.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I mean, I mean, really, the the the the scrutiny
that all Star games and all star events have on
each other is just way too over the top because
it's it's it's almost like as as pundits and experts
and and and you know, you see people on TV
and hear them on the radio. Hey, I'm upset about this.
(12:50):
This is a really important, really hot take on this
all throughout the regular season. Then we get to an
all same no same thing. I'm just as upset about
what goes on at All Star game during the regular season. Okay,
how about you just calm because it's an All Star game.
It's a home run derby. Okay, that's what it is.
It's like getting upset that your kid doesn't win a
prize at a kid's birthday party. Oh, you should have
won the jumping frog right there, because ah, you are
(13:12):
right that, I mean, understand what it is. Your kid
had fun at a at a at a party. Just
because they didn't take home one of the bigger party favors,
doesn't mean they had a bad time, doesn't mean they
even care about it. But yet this is the way
it's going to be presented as, Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Can you believe this? This this gross injustice that was
done to Brent Rock.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'd like to think there's a little bit better way
to do it than really within an inch and we
have the technology, okay, but in the end, it's it's
the home run derby. I mean, I can't sit here
and and talk about it like it's a regular season
thing or a playoff thing.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Raleigh four to seventy point six y one Rooker for
seventy point five to three. Rookers comments after the fact
of hey, it should have been displayed what you were
going to try to hit it point oh nine further
in the next swing that was gonna be it. It's
all estimated at that point anyway, right, So you want
to fight about that with the pinpoint accuracy of wear
(14:07):
a ball. I mean, how many times have we seen
a home run it gets estimated like three twenty and.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Like that landed in the second deck. What are we doing?
Or or vice versa. Wow, they gave that a huge
get barely clear.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So it's it's a mess because now it'll, to your point,
become the latest hot take nonsense. But it keeps us
a lot, keeps the blood pumping, the endorphin rush of
it all as it goes. For Rooker, I understand the
frustration that it's that close a margin, but you're kind
of pissed at yourself because it's that close of a margin,
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knowing that you could have gone on and you are
still battling for the million dollar prize, the accolades, the history,
blah blah blah. So you're a little salty there, but
don't tell me that suddenly if it was up on
the big board, it changes a little bit of confusion,
a little.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Bit of sadness. But rules of the rules, they're written
to somewhere right Look at you.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Someone had the stone tablet with the home run Derby
rules will.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Be the longest home run? We we can do that. Yep,
we can absolutely do it within an inch. Sure fund
of the odds that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh wow, Okay, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
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Speaker 3 (16:20):
So Home Run Derby tonight. We'll get to that in
a second.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The two biggest things tonight, Home Run Derby and Love
Island apparently crown their winner. Yeah, I saw that it
got spoiled for me. I was trying to avoid it. Okay, well,
what's it's kind of hard, that's a that's a tough
one to avoid. Well, I think that one my algorithm
was just gonna be filled with Bronnie James and the
big big Dumper, Bronnie James, Big Dumper, Love Island. Now
(16:43):
it's over, and so many people I know the why.
I still haven't watched it. I'm still trying to figure
stuff out. But because Mary who's in Fralex Tyser tonight,
no watches Love Island.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Okay, but no, no, no, no, no, non do that. I
don't don't do that. Don't do that on Twitter? No no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know for someone who says I don't want you
knew everything about it last week we talked.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
About it because look like it was all over the timeline.
Everybody was spoiling it. It was like you already watched it.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Okay, but but let me let me ask you this.
I need you to do this. Now.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Explain to me the ending of Love Island in like NFL.
Explain to me the Love Island in NBA. Turn like
if we're doing sports, explain to love Love Island ending
with if you explained it in NBA terms.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Warriors winning twenty twenty two championship, the.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
One after everybody had gotten old. We didn't think they
were gonna win again. Yeah, and the Warriors won.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Yeah okay, because like you're not you're not mad at it.
I'm just like, there's definitely better teams I could have won. Oh,
like the Lakers win in a bubble year, like it
don't really county.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It's like, you know what, here's all right?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Game?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Like yeah, okay, okay, all right, I'm I'm with you, Okay,
I can understand.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
That more so more bubble year, Like if take Warriors
twenty twenty two, but put it COVID where it's like, dude,
it doesn't really count. It's a terrible season anyways, Like
low effort. That's what I would say.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, see now I know now I can, and I'm
gonna steal that for you tomorrow. Hey, it's like the
Lakers bubble championship in twenty twenty. You know that's pretty good.
I was here and gone. No, you could use that
at lunch tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, definitely going to do you means you've got to
buy her some mac and cheese or something. Yeah, we
could do some wings later on this week, marry you
and the rest of this week.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I'm not Now, we'll see Tyscher. We'll see Tysher will
be out one of that he always is. He has
it right now. No, but we'll see. All right.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Tysher is the Jacob de Gram of Fox Sports Radio.
Just when you count on him for coming in, I'm
not coming in. No, it was She'll be back okay,
and then starts singing it like it's Hambleton it'll be back.
So if I were to say more Lakers Bubble Championship
than Warriors twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, it's okay. They didn't really deserve it, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, But again this go ohs to the fact that
she really does have a deep intimate knowledge of the
way the show has gone. No, that he even had
that opinion. So she betrayed herself as she gave you.
And I didn't buy that for a second. I don't
know what's going to come on.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's like, but she tried tweets.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
This is like when players say I had no idea,
I was traded. I was blindsided by it. I found
out watching television. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, yeah right, but
he probably.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Really did find.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I found it out on ESPN like the rest of you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Very good, thank you, and again I'll give you credit
for that tomorrow. No, probably had lunch now at lunch,
at lunch, because I though that'll be where the conversation
happens at lunch. So cal Rally wins the home run
Derby tonight, and honestly, and I say this, I say
this because I want to make it happen. I feel
like I need to make it happen for the guy.
But the one thing I miss every single year on
(19:44):
the home run Derby is and I get, look, he
just turned seventy, So how do you not have Berman
come out and do the home run derby?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Get irration? Because really, how.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Much more exciting would the home run derby be if
you just had Berman?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It does even matter. You can just be sitting in
the roofers.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Going back back back back back, gone, back back, back,
back back gone.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But his inluence on baseball and sports culture is so
immense that even if it's not being said out loud,
it's in your damn head.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh and there's no way.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And I don't think I'm now obviously not only watching
a little bit of it sound full because we came
on the air doing the show. But I wonder if
like Rabbits and those guys are going, I'm not gonna
say the word back whatever, you're not going to say
the word back. No, it's probably on a sheet. It's
it's out of here, it's it's a home run. It's
that they're not saying back, back, back, back back or gone. Well,
(20:40):
it's like if you're calling a basketball game, you can't
say bang, double bang or trouble bang bang, boom boom,
double boom, big boom, big boom mic got it, big
boom mic big boomer.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
But if you start saying booms and how you're talking,
like the Costco guys, that's fine, big booms, back back, back, back,
back back, go.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
On, like really let him do primetime, right, but they
still do.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I think they still do it on ESPN plus they
were yeah, they right, and if they still do it,
but that and this, like, let them come out and
do it. More people would watch if you knew Berman
was coming out to do the home run derby back
back back more. I guarantee you more people would watch.
You'd have a little less hate watching too, because a
lot of folks here going and criticizing the style of
the format. The fact that Berman isn't there has been
(21:23):
all over my timeline. And maybe it's the algorithm. Y're
of a certain age, you love the boomerisms. I talked
about it with you earlier tonight and certainly in the past.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
They did a whole trading card set. The Tops put
out a.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Set that's got a cartoon Berman in the bottom right,
and it's a set and then it's got an insert
set that has like twenty guys and their nicknames, Paul
diabolical schemes. I'm picturing him at home during the derby,
just like sitting in a big easy chair, watching on
like a thousand foot TV, just.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Sitting there going back back back back, gone, back back
back back gone.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, this is from mid May, back back gone.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He signed a deal that'll keep him there at least
through twenty twenty nine, so he's.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
There, foul ball back back back back gone, back back gone.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I fixed sad for the guy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I'm starting to get on Terry the way he said that,
because I'm picturing it and sitting there slumped in a chair.
I'm just sitting there doing like I don't picture him
like full of energy, doing like like when you were
a kid and you would call the game yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
You're going cal Rawley. There's a video of him as
an eight year old at the home run derby Champy. No,
he's not sitting there.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Going back back back, brack brack gone back brack ben
And all of a sudden, the knocking the door, Yeah,
why are you here? Police or your neighbors are complaining
that you've been really loud. This is the only house
for Miles. Yeah, sir, they can all hear. Can you
just keep it down?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
All right? A little bit? Can can you keep it down?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What if you the cops came in and they opened
the door and he's got a full recreation of the
set and he's suitcoat, tie in shorts with bright lights
around it.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
It's made it look like the sports center desk in
the nineties. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was like there's a
cardboard bob. It's just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, almost a full jinkes because and that's the cop
comes in and goes, what's going on in here?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Nothing? Just just watching, just you know, doing that. But
I feel i'd be really this is down to the
card back picture. Do you want a cigarette? General? Do
you want a cigarette? Do you want to have it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
All right, that's great, I mean right, I feel about
because of all because they pushed him out, they can
pushed him the side and clearly he would the guy
bleep and built ESPN, Right, the guy built it, And
why can't you have him at least do this because
I know, hey, one day a year, Yeah, okay, great
back back back.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
People would love it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
People I get that the that ESPN has always worried
about what's being set on social media. It's why shows
get canceled, it's why shows get greenlit, it's why people
get hired and fined because, oh, look at what happened
on social media. We need seventeen new Monday night football
booths because everybody's complaining about this booth with Whitton and McFarlane.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
People are complaining are people not watching? Are people not watching?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What do you care about? If people are watching, what
does it matter? Oh, we just can't have this, So
I get that. There's you know, when Burmer would say something,
there would be people, oh, Berman, Wendy, Oh we got
to get rid of. We can't put Burman on as
much because look at what people are saying on social media.
But this would be the one day people go. People
would say, oh my goodness, I'm so excited. Look at him,
back back, look at him.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Back back, back, back, back back, announcing, and then after
the derby gone.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Back back back, he's back back, back back gone. But
for all of its changes and all of the implementation
of new rules, some of which are still dopey as
hell as far as I look at him, but I
get it, get him on, get him over, get him in.
The whole idea of baseball is they've always done nostalgia
and bridging to the past better than any of sport
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right traditions. As best they can keep them in a
modern era they do. I know what people are still
mad that that the pitchers don't go up and pretend
to hit. I thought it was kind of fun, but
it was an easy out. But you look at it
with Berman, it's the throwback to your baseball history and
(25:22):
who's your general. I know you're trying to grow your audience,
so fine, have multiple multicast. You do it for every
other big event that you own. A piece of here,
give give the old heads what they want, give them
their Berman, let them scream. I mean, like, I mean,
come on, let's come on, let's let's do it. Would
kill you, kill you guys, Ben to do that, would
kill you to do it. Come on, But Baseball at
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every turn, like, what are we getting ready for for Cooperstown?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
What is it about?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It's the presentation of all the guys that have gone
in in the past, and all of them giving love
in their interview processes to the teammates down to the
twenty fifth man all these years. So give Boomer his run,
especially since you re upped him. He's on payroll. It's
not like he went and retired to Del Boca Vista
and you say, hey, Boomer, you want to come back
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out for you know, he's shopping at the bit waiting.
I know, new quips for the Buffalo Bills. Oh, I
came up with this one for for Josh Josh Ethan Allen,
an American hero, Ethan all American hero during the war.
Was he it's a big furniture Yeah. I want to
make sure he wasn't like Benedict Arnold was. He wasn't
(26:34):
to make sure well, I mean I don't think they
would name a furniture store. They might have, don't well
that would be a bad name.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Though, depending on the time.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What kind of furniture can I get? Can I come
in here and steal the furnitures?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
He was the.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Leader in the capture of Tykonderoga and his advocacy for
the creation of Vermont. After you're gonna say captured ty Comody,
say that needed to have allan ty cop caught stealing
has run.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
None of us can stand.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I mean, Burman even did an interview a few weeks ago,
saying I do it?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I mean, real what this would be the time to
have it. It's like, yeah, baseball's about nostalgia fun. Who
doesn't want to see him do that? But every time
they do a big event to commemorate the history, like
there's just guys you expect to be part of it. Right,
it's the way we go on our calendar sports. I
showed you my Dick Stockton football autograph card that I watched,
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and then Jerry Glheadville, like Dick Stockton was on calls forever.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So it's like, all right, it's that time of year.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
This is what we're doing Baseball, the All Star Game,
the home Run Derby, in particular, it was his entertaining
to watch Boomer about fall out of his chair because
he was out of breath.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
His voice was gone by the final round, by the
end of the first round, No Frank Thomas and back
god forbid, somebody went on a heater. Yeah, now he's
on a street because he can't get the glass of water. Yeah,
back back power, like when the home runs would when
when the next one would be hit before the other
one lands, when you know it's gone Oh that's why.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's past the Potomac, that's past the Alleghany River, that's
past the Hudson River.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
And research guy, can you get me more? Right? I
need I need, I need more.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I need more landmarks here in the city of Pittsburgh
that I can say over there, it's not over one river,
not over two rivers, but it was over three rivers
and Mickey rivers back back, back back gone. But tell
me you don't want nothing like rivers, nothing on me rivers.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You didn't give me anything on Mickey rivers. Rivers.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Wow, man, Wow, celebrate his entire cat. I cannot believe
he'd give me nothing on the three rivers and Mickey River.
I could have just mailed it in and said Philip Rivers,
but I said, no, I.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Give you Mickey rivers. Come on, history could have given
you rivers, Cuomo, what could have given you? Who is it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But on this does he have cameo or anything? Because
I want to have him do a call of the o'neion.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Cruise backpack can't sit, can't see it, can't see it,
apparently gone gone, and that home run cruises into the seats.
Oh TJ like like a slam dunk from Shaquille O'Neil.
Cruz hammers this one into the seats.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's been a tough cruise for the Pirates for the
better part of the last thirty years, but at least
they have this guy and schemes, at least for now, TJ.
And if there was a pause in the action, he
can go off on the commissioners quote today talk about
how the Pirates have been runs many years, which is
a nice little subplot to the Acary camp. But that
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was a hell of a run. That's all in step
RANI to speak, no notes here, people, no notes and
Raleigh hits one all the way to North Carolina, TJ.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I mean, all the things that are there, all the
things out of there. Could you get a rally with
a Rade Durham a h exit up about a Fresca exit?
Swollen down?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, from special Delivery Steve to Sager, Steve,
what do you got for us?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
My friend?
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Obviously, when you were listing Rivers and losing your voice,
you should have said, Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Oh sod that home run.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I thought, I really thought for a second, you're gonna say,
Joan Rivers, Well, she's not speaking anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Back back back, back, back, back, back back.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
It is gone.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It's good, it's gone. It's gone. It's not my fault, though,
it's gone. It's not my For the record brought up
the dead guy, not me. We do have the home run.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Derby was old, back back, back, back, back, gone, gone, gone,
it's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
By the honest, he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
That phrase was not used off in the jazz Chisholm
went back today. No the Yankee quote slugger's he had
three three out of the park tonight while the co
leaders had twenty one in the first round.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
He tried those co leaders, by the way, where Junior
cam and Aro of Tampa Bay O'Neil Cruz of Pittsburgh
the Pirate Star Cruise had won at five hundred thirteen
feet that home run.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Did we find out how many inches?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, I've thirteen point.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
On in a tiebreaker, you see, the A's Brett Rooker
did not advance out of the first round. Cal Raley
did just due to a tiebreaker of the longest between
the two. Raleigh made it to the semifinals, eliminated the Pirates,
o'neial Cruiz, Cam and Arrow in the seminies, beat Byron
Buxton of the Twins, a Georgia native, and the winner
tonight is cal Raleigh of the Mariners. A switch hitter
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takes at first catcher to win it, beating Cam and
Arow eighteen fifteen. In the final, Raleigh had his dad
pitching to him. The winner gets a million dollars, the
runner up a half million. V eight sho Heyotani of
the Dodgers will be leading off of the National League
and Tuesday Night's All Star Game in Atlanta. The Braves
owned Ronald Acunya will beat second for the American League.
Aaron Judge will bet third than cal Raley fourth and
(32:06):
in use for the All Star Game tomorrow night, the
Automated Ball Strike system to challenge ball and strike calls.
It was tested during spring training. The Tampa Bay Rays
will be sold for one point seven billion dollars, according
to the Athletic. The buyers are led by a Florida
based developer. The new deal could close by September. Cal
Raleigh of Seattle has committed to play for Team USA
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and next year's World Baseball Classic. The Americans are due
to play games in Houston and Miami next March. The
US manager again is Mark De Rosa. The MLB draft
finished today, twenty rounds total. MLB's regular season games resume
on Friday. Former Blue Jays pitcher Jim Clancy passed away
at the age of sixty nine. He was an All
Star in nineteen eighty two. The Jets gave wide receiver
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Garrett Wilson a four year extension worth ninety million dollars guaranteed,
potentially worth one hundred and thirty mil since he was
drafted in the top ten from Ohio State. Wilson's had
three straight thousand yard season and he had one hundred
and one receptions last year. Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams
will start training camp on the pup list. Forty nine
Ers wide out Juwan Jennings is due to report to
(33:09):
camp even though he wants another extension or a trade.
Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was suspended from his high school coaching
job for giving his players illegal benefits to the NBA
Spurs center Victor wembin Yama is cleared to return after
the blood clot in his shoulder. Last season, seventy six
Ers Paul George had Arthur scopigknee surgery after an injury
and a recent workout. He played half a season in
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his first year in Philly. The Cavaliers gave team president
Kobe Altman an extension through twenty thirty as for the
games in Las Vegas. Among the seven in the Summer League,
the Lakers are down forty eight forty two nearing the
end of the third quarter. Bronnie James twelve points, five rebounds,
five assists. Spurs won in overtime against Utah at the buzzer.
Dylan Harper sixteen points, Kyle Philipowski you taught thirty five
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points tonight. By the way the Rockets reed. Shepherd was
shut down after playing two games already for Dallas. Cooper
Flag was shut down after playing too now Saturday. Flag
had thirty one points out of the sixty nine they
scored Tonight. Mavericks lost eighty seven to sixty nine to
the Hornet. Charlotte first rounder khon Kaneppel with sixteen points.
(34:14):
WNBA wins for Phoenix and Minnesota. Atlanta all star Ryan
Howard is out for the rest of the month with
a knee injury.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now, I know these games are only forty minutes long,
but wow, going to the fourth quarter forty eight forty three.
Wow in a Summer league game. That's S's did Summer
league action? It's fantastic. Well that Laker game on Saturday,
it was terrible and they still had a decent point total.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
This just missed forty eight forty three going to the
fourth quarter coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Hey, the most underrated player at his position in the
NFL got paid today.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
That's next. Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
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 (35:04):
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Lebron drama coming up in ten minutes. At Summer League tonight,
he had an interaction with Lakers GM Rob Polinka, which
(35:44):
we'll get into.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Did he body slam it will again? What we can say.
We'll get into that in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
However, big story out of the NFL today, the most
underrated wide receiver in.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
The league got paid.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
The most underrated wide receiver, a guy who is a
combination of Keishawn Johnson and Tim Brown. Right now, now,
who's doing the rating? Oh well I am, I'm doing
the rating.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Okay, I'm just in.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Garrett Wilson gets a four year, one hundred and thirty
million dollar extension with the New York Jets, and it's
a great move. Not just me because I'm Jason Smith
Jets fan, but there is no more underrated receiver in
the game than Garrett Wilson. Okay, first of all, why
Tim Brown? Why do I say Garrett Wilson is Tim Brown?
(36:37):
The numbers that Wilson's been able to put up in
the first three years of his career and he's only
twenty four years old. Every year his receptions have gone
up from eighty three to ninety five to one hundred
and one, his yards have gone up, his touchdown's gone up.
Every year it goes up despite the fact he has
played with a bunch of guys at quarterback that run
the gamut from just okay to out and out terrible. Right,
(37:01):
he's played with six quarterbacks, Okay, starting quarterbacks in the
last three years. Half of them have been Zach Wilson, right,
But Tim Boyle and Mike White and Trevor Simeon and
Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers. I mean, these are guys
that are just they're just guys. Rogers the best guy
he's played with. Right, he's got Flacco near. Of course,
Flacco was really good and now he left. I wasn't
(37:24):
any good with the Browns. He was good, But he's
playing with just guys who are barely there, right, and
still he's able to put these numbers up, to put
these numbers up in a year where when they get
Devonte Adams midway through the season, he becomes Aaron Rodgers
go to guy because they've been tight and have had
that report and still Garrett Wilson does this right Key Shawn,
because this is the kind of receiver he is kind
(37:45):
of a Key Shawn two point zero. He's a big
red zone threat. He is a guy that will catch
the ball over the middle. He will catch the ball deep,
he will catch the ball in a deep out. He
will he can run any pattern and do anything you need.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Him to do.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
He's not a guy that has a big specialty. He's
not a guy that, well, we're gonna he's a deep threat.
He's a guy that's going to move the chains. He
can do everything. That's the key showing part of this.
He is the most underrated receiver.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
In the NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
And honestly, I don't think you got a lot of
pushback on this because, yeah, look at what he's been
able to put up despite the fact that he's playing
with guys that most of them have just been absolutely terrible.
And still he's got eighty three ninety five hundred and
one catches by the time he's twenty four years old. No,
but we watched him and certainly last year, like I
had to go back and look at the twenty twenty
(38:28):
four average draft position, the expectation was that things would
click with Rogers, so he was still seventh overall, So
fantasy owners were certainly buying into your jets even if
well and a lot of pundits did too. At the
Super Bowl, Yeah, you know, things happened along the way.
Funny thing happened on the way. But he put up
huge numbers and what he'll be curious to see. And
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this is also last year he has Adams alongside it,
but this year he got nothing, got a rookie and
Mason Taylor come in. As you're tight end, Josh Reynolds
is your number two. He's catching all the passes, all
of them. Lazard's still under Conte. Yeah, but they're trying
to they're trying to get rid of. Is he gonna
go to Pittsburgh? You would think Garrett Garrett Wilson. There
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There is no bigger difference between the team's number one
and number two wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Than what's on the gym.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Malachai Corley, is he breakthrough? Just don't spike the ball
before you parf.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
The goal line. I mean that Exhale said it off.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
But that's that's what I'm setting up here, is that
you put up those kind of numbers, and we watched
great struggles for that offense. Curious with the dual backfield
whether that actually helps in the process here, Justin Fields
is just a massive wild card because we've seen some
pretty good spots. Even in Pittsburgh last year, he got
(39:45):
I think unfairly demoted. I never seen saw the field
again after Russell Wilson took over. But now you have
the opportunity with a guy like Wilson, you can put
the ball up and he's gonna go get it. And
he's a guy with great familiarity history. Together will make
things easy for the OC. I want to say, don't
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be nervous about him this year because even though Justin
Fields is the quarterback, clearly he's got his guy now, yeah,
that he was with in college. This is going to continue.
Like I'm not nervous about him at all, because again,
look at some of the other guys he did it with,
and he's still a guy who's catching one hundred passes
a year. The guy, he's just that good man, most
underrated receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Well, he got paid as he should be commensurately with
his acumen and what the expectations are going forward because
they don't need any holdout issues with the other Jets history.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
They have more NFL on the way, but coming up
next the big news surrounding Lebron James and the Lakers.
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first things first.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
NBA Summer League.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Right now, three minutes to go on the second quarter,
Clippers lead the Laker thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Okay. In the last thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thirteen minutes of real time, real time, Okay, thirteen minutes
of real time, two points have been scored in this game.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, right, it's a defensive battle.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It was thirty to twenty one when I said, wow,
wait till we tell you what's going on with Bronnie
James right now?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And it was thirty to twenty one at that point.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That was which that was at eight forty nine West
Coast time. It is now nine oh three. It is
thirty to twenty three. Dalton Connect had a jumper. Oh good,
that's what we got in thirteen minutes of real time.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Two points.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
But it's funny as we're watching it, I got sin
of making plays whatever. NBA Summer League, it's fantastic. Well,
if they're gonna bring back cash, they should bring back
that line too while we're at it, right, NBAS, it's fantastic.
But you said, Ronnie James, and I just looked at
you and I said, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
As if it was something die right? What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I saw you was playing well, but didn't realize quite
how well. But I thought maybe you saw something that
had been picked up in a video like what's going viral?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
What am I missing?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
No, he's three or three from the field, two for
two from beyond the arc, ten points with two assists.
Brownie James is having that kind of night. He has
nearly half of all of the Lakers points near halftime.
And if you think that, hey, the play by play
is not recognizing that, well, you would be wrong because
(02:30):
this is what it sounds like in Vegas on NBA TV, Bronnie.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Over Sanders, Welcome to the Bronnie James Show, the Lakers
eight seed, sparse.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Ronnie James Show.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's like he was over the loudspeaker trying to hype
this sparse crowd here cheer for him, yet loud. It's like, hey,
is a microphone on, because I'm gonna get real excited
about Bronnie James if he hit something.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Okay, just go, oh my, the Bronny James Show. Welcome
to the Bronny Show, My goodness. But yeah, in nine minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And so I don't know why he's only played nine minutes,
but it seems like the Lakers are just you know,
they're going through rotation now and everybody's playing around eight
nine minutes. He's got ten, three assists, two rebounds. As
you said, he's got a couple of threes. Bronnie is
having and has had so far a pretty good start
to summer league and not the okay, you know, talk
(03:37):
about something serious in summer League. But it is because
for Bronnie this is his chance to show that I
can be an NBA player. Because we talked about it
last hour on the show. We'll get into it later on.
Dad ain't gonna be around for much longer with the Lakers. Okay,
so this whole Hey, I got you on the team,
I got you in the league, I got you on here,
this whole league of their own. Oh and Dottie got
(03:58):
Kid into the league. That's gonna go away when Lebron
leaves and suddenly their loyalty to Bronnie James isn't gonna
be there. He's got a very short window. In fact,
this window is summer league and the preseason to show
I can be a rotation player with the Lakers, because
that's really what his ceiling is. It's not gonna be
he's gonna be a starting two guard in the league.
(04:20):
It's gonna be, Hey, can I carve out a nice
NBA career being the seventh or eighth or ninth guy.
I come in with the second unit and we have
a good we have a good few minutes, and we
either keep the game where it's at with the lead,
or we cut into the lead a little bit, we
don't lose the lead. Can I be that guy where
I can score a few points, I can dish out
a couple of assists, I can get a couple of rebounds,
(04:41):
I can play pretty good defense, and I can keep
this game at a zero sum, or I and and
provide some sort of rest for the players I'm coming
in for, or hey hey, I play a little bit
in spurts where I can be effective, like but this
is his time to do it, because after this, that's
gonna be it Like a Lake is still gonna go
for with Bronnie James. If Lebron's not a Laker next year,
(05:02):
really you think that's gonna happen. He's got But if
he's part of the rotation and JA, I can see
JJ Reddick saying, hey, no, he's one of my guys.
He's our eighth guy. He carves that out this year.
He's got a future, but he's got.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
To look at him.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is the stakes when you go to the summer league,
sometimes summer league and the preseason. For Bronnie James, his
whole NBA career hinges on what happens now and can
he be a part of the Lakers rotation in a
more regular way when the season starts. What is fun
to see is the growth development and him being more assertive.
(05:35):
We talked about it a little bit with the Cooper
flag conversation about operations shut down and everything. All Right,
you saw what you needed, right, proof of concept for
Bronnie James. He went through a whole season and it
was a punchline and a lot of negativity and hate
watching and stories and certainly even the most ardent of
Laker fans we're still looking at the front office and
(05:57):
waving their hands, going what are we doing here? You
know a lot of arguments about nepotism and everything else.
But in these five games, now, is he shooting a
high percentage every game? No, he played pretty well the
other night. What was he five of eleven? I think
from the field with his fourteen points. But he's showing
you that he can move the ball, that he plays
(06:20):
pretty good defense, and he's got more confidence in the shot.
Now does that translate into a long run? I don't know,
but it's becoming more of a guy that's standing on
his own. He's always going to be criticized for the
entry point.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
That is the case.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And we see that in broadcasting. We see that in
every job, right unless it's a business that's literally called
blank and son or sons. But when we look at
it for what we've seen in these few games here
in the Summer League, it's a different player than we
saw last summer.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And to his credit, he's put in the work, put
on some muscle, and really trying to find his space
and his way into the game. So perhaps once Dad's
gone from being a Laker, he can stand on his own,
even in LA or somewhere else in the twenty nine
(07:16):
other cities. Yeah, I mean, look, could he wind up
getting picked up someplace else, Sure like I could see that.
But this is the team the drafted you. They're gonna
give you the biggest chance to succeed because this shows you, hey,
we knew what we were doing in the draft. You're
gonna get more of a benefit of the doubt, especially
with Lebron there. But when Lebron leaves, or if you
can't show that I'm a valuable piece of this rotation,
(07:38):
you're a second round pick that we have no loyalty
to a million bucks or whatever it is, that's money spent,
someunk cost as we always talk about here on the show,
going into the business of sports. But yeah, your point
is is right on right, He's gonna get a long
look and whatever is left in that stand in the
hour glass for Lebron James, whether it's a week or
(08:00):
a month or three months before a trade's consummated, or
a buyout situation occurs, or it's the end of the year,
that clock is ticking.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
So Brownie James making the most of every minute.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
He's had a hell of a game tonight, and one
that gets a little extra attention because it is against
the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. I mean, look, yeah, it's
Clippers at Summer League.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But in terms of the microscope here because it had
backed off a bit. Yeah, except for the way they
hid the flag. The browny, Well, nobody else is playing.
Who else is the face that you're gonna put on
the billboard. It's like we watched all those Sunday night,
Monday night put up there on either of your offenses.
So here this is what you got. Same thing here
(08:41):
at Lakers. Who is putting up there? Nobody playing? And
Dalton connect was was the guy they tried to ship
out last year. No, it's got to be Brownie because
people at least pay attention.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Who do we put up on?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How about for the Patriots to put up James White
and for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
To put a TJ.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Wattch But he's not playing. What happens about it? Bronni's
got this preseason summer league in preseason to show I
can be part of the rotation or that could be
it for him, And at the end of the year,
that's just gonna be That's just gonna be it for
him with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
No, that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You get your shot and a second year, maybe you
get a third. We'll see how it all plays out.
But and as we you always have to do the
tag on anything summer league related. It's it's summer league.
So a lot of these guys, you know, like Bronnie James,
are doing everything they can to be in the league.
One of the guys that's in the Lakers rotation right
(09:36):
now is Baisley, right, who decided he wasn't gonna go
to Syracuse, did a job for a year, and now
he's kind of been wandering trying to get himself back
into an NBA roster. It's an interesting story, no question
about it. But those are the guys you're competing with,
guys that are just trying to extend their professional careers.
So you take it all with a bit of a
(09:56):
grain of sault. But the feel of belonging and growth
of his game can't be denied. And what does that
translate to once we get to October November. Uh, I
think there's there's still a curiosity about it, which is
a fun story and a side story to what's going.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
On with his old man.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I mean, all of a sudden, it goes to, hey,
he's got a great future, this is your last chance
with the team. Like that's because the Lebron thing is,
of course, is hanging over everything. Is true, possible trade?
Is he gonna go?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Is he not? Like?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
That's everything like that that that's everything that's hanging over
the situation with him, like this might be his last
chance already.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
With the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, I mean guaranteed money, dad did, okay, So he'll
he'll be okay, he'll fall on his feet.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He'll fall on his If you fall on your feet,
then you're gonna get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
New what what happened? I fell on my feet. He'll
fall and I'll he'll have a safe landing.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
So again, we'll keep you up there.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
If Lebrony continues to score half the Lakers points, we'll uh, we'll.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Keep you up. That might become a bigger story obviously.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Look, if he's the only guy shooting with any confidence,
just keep chucking.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
So uh.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
We watched cal Rally win the home run derby tonight,
beating Junior Commonero in the final round. There's controversy surrounding
how he got to the final round because he won
a tie breaker with Brent Rooker, a home run that
he hit the tie longest home run in the first
round him versus Rooker. His longest home run was less
(11:28):
than an inch or or less than an inch an
inch further than Rooker's longest home run, and there's a
lot of controversy over at Rooker said, I thought we
were gonna have a swing off. I was getting ready.
I didn't know this, and if the league is gonna
do it this way, they should make sure we know
about it because I didn't know about it. Like the
broadcast put it out there that Okay, hey, make no mistake,
(11:51):
we have the we have the winner, right, I know,
it's it's an inch, and really you have it within
an inch? Really? Okay, I mean I know we have technology,
but wow, you have it within an inch for cal rally,
really you have it within an inch? Okay, that's fine,
But look, I gotta be honest here. I know this
is gonna get blown up, it to be a much
bigger deal than it is. I don't really care. I
mean really, and I don't know. I get that if
(12:12):
you're a rooker, you're a little upset because you want
to think maybe I could have won in a swing off,
maybe I could have gone all the way and I
could have won a million dollars, and that would be
that would certainly be a big deal. I understand that.
But in the end, it's a home run derby. It's
a found money kind of experience.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And these were the rules.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I mean, I mean, really, the the the the scrutiny
that all Star games and all star events have on
each other is just way too over the top because
it's it's it's almost like as as pundits and experts
and and and you know, you see people on TV
and hear them on the radio. Hey, I'm upset about this.
(12:50):
This is a really important, really hot take on this
all throughout the regular season. Then we get to an
all same no same thing. I'm just as upset about
what goes on at All Star game during the regular season. Okay,
how about you just calm because it's an All Star game.
It's a home run derby. Okay, that's what it is.
It's like getting upset that your kid doesn't win a
prize at a kid's birthday party. Oh, you should have
won the jumping frog right there, because ah, you are
(13:12):
right that, I mean, understand what it is. Your kid
had fun at a at a at a party. Just
because they didn't take home one of the bigger party favors,
doesn't mean they had a bad time, doesn't mean they
even care about it. But yet this is the way
it's going to be presented as, Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Can you believe this? This this gross injustice that was
done to Brent Rock.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'd like to think there's a little bit better way
to do it than really within an inch and we
have the technology, okay, but in the end, it's it's
the home run derby. I mean, I can't sit here
and and talk about it like it's a regular season
thing or a playoff thing.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Raleigh four to seventy point six y one Rooker for
seventy point five to three. Rookers comments after the fact
of hey, it should have been displayed what you were
going to try to hit it point oh nine further
in the next swing that was gonna be it. It's
all estimated at that point anyway, right, So you want
to fight about that with the pinpoint accuracy of wear
(14:07):
a ball. I mean, how many times have we seen
a home run it gets estimated like three twenty and.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Like that landed in the second deck. What are we doing?
Or or vice versa. Wow, they gave that a huge
get barely clear.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So it's it's a mess because now it'll, to your point,
become the latest hot take nonsense. But it keeps us
a lot, keeps the blood pumping, the endorphin rush of
it all as it goes. For Rooker, I understand the
frustration that it's that close a margin, but you're kind
of pissed at yourself because it's that close of a margin,
(14:41):
knowing that you could have gone on and you are
still battling for the million dollar prize, the accolades, the history,
blah blah blah. So you're a little salty there, but
don't tell me that suddenly if it was up on
the big board, it changes a little bit of confusion,
a little.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Bit of sadness. But rules of the rules, they're written
to somewhere right Look at you.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Someone had the stone tablet with the home run Derby
rules will.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Be the longest home run? We we can do that. Yep,
we can absolutely do it within an inch. Sure fund
of the odds that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh wow, Okay, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Jason tinfoil hat off Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios, and next we have more on the
home run Derby and a big, big payday for one
NFL star. Keep me right here.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
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Speaker 2 (15:30):
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yes her, Now, I we gotta do
this here because we promised we would do this when
it happened.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
So Home Run Derby tonight. We'll get to that in
a second.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The two biggest things tonight, Home Run Derby and Love
Island apparently crown their winner. Yeah, I saw that it
got spoiled for me. I was trying to avoid it. Okay, well,
what's it's kind of hard, that's a that's a tough
one to avoid. Well, I think that one my algorithm
was just gonna be filled with Bronnie James and the
big big Dumper, Bronnie James, Big Dumper, Love Island. Now
(16:43):
it's over, and so many people I know the why.
I still haven't watched it. I'm still trying to figure
stuff out. But because Mary who's in Fralex Tyser tonight,
no watches Love Island.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Okay, but no, no, no, no, no, non do that. I
don't don't do that. Don't do that on Twitter? No no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know for someone who says I don't want you
knew everything about it last week we talked.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
About it because look like it was all over the timeline.
Everybody was spoiling it. It was like you already watched it.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Okay, but but let me let me ask you this.
I need you to do this. Now.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Explain to me the ending of Love Island in like NFL.
Explain to me the Love Island in NBA. Turn like
if we're doing sports, explain to love Love Island ending
with if you explained it in NBA terms.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Warriors winning twenty twenty two championship, the.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
One after everybody had gotten old. We didn't think they
were gonna win again. Yeah, and the Warriors won.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Yeah okay, because like you're not you're not mad at it.
I'm just like, there's definitely better teams I could have won. Oh,
like the Lakers win in a bubble year, like it
don't really county.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It's like, you know what, here's all right?
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Game?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Like yeah, okay, okay, all right, I'm I'm with you, Okay,
I can understand.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
That more so more bubble year, Like if take Warriors
twenty twenty two, but put it COVID where it's like, dude,
it doesn't really count. It's a terrible season anyways, Like
low effort. That's what I would say.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Okay, see now I know now I can, and I'm
gonna steal that for you tomorrow. Hey, it's like the
Lakers bubble championship in twenty twenty. You know that's pretty good.
I was here and gone. No, you could use that
at lunch tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, definitely going to do you means you've got to
buy her some mac and cheese or something. Yeah, we
could do some wings later on this week, marry you
and the rest of this week.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I'm not Now, we'll see Tyscher. We'll see Tysher will
be out one of that he always is. He has
it right now. No, but we'll see. All right.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Tysher is the Jacob de Gram of Fox Sports Radio.
Just when you count on him for coming in, I'm
not coming in. No, it was She'll be back okay,
and then starts singing it like it's Hambleton it'll be back.
So if I were to say more Lakers Bubble Championship
than Warriors twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, it's okay. They didn't really deserve it, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, But again this go ohs to the fact that
she really does have a deep intimate knowledge of the
way the show has gone. No, that he even had
that opinion. So she betrayed herself as she gave you.
And I didn't buy that for a second. I don't
know what's going to come on.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's like, but she tried tweets.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
This is like when players say I had no idea,
I was traded. I was blindsided by it. I found
out watching television. Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, yeah right, but
he probably.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Really did find.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I found it out on ESPN like the rest of you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Very good, thank you, and again I'll give you credit
for that tomorrow. No, probably had lunch now at lunch,
at lunch, because I though that'll be where the conversation
happens at lunch. So cal Rally wins the home run
Derby tonight, and honestly, and I say this, I say
this because I want to make it happen. I feel
like I need to make it happen for the guy.
But the one thing I miss every single year on
(19:44):
the home run Derby is and I get, look, he
just turned seventy, So how do you not have Berman
come out and do the home run derby?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Get irration? Because really, how.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Much more exciting would the home run derby be if
you just had Berman?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It does even matter. You can just be sitting in
the roofers.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Going back back back back back, gone, back back, back,
back back gone.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But his inluence on baseball and sports culture is so
immense that even if it's not being said out loud,
it's in your damn head.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh and there's no way.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And I don't think I'm now obviously not only watching
a little bit of it sound full because we came
on the air doing the show. But I wonder if
like Rabbits and those guys are going, I'm not gonna
say the word back whatever, you're not going to say
the word back. No, it's probably on a sheet. It's
it's out of here, it's it's a home run. It's
that they're not saying back, back, back, back back or gone. Well,
(20:40):
it's like if you're calling a basketball game, you can't
say bang, double bang or trouble bang bang, boom boom,
double boom, big boom, big boom mic got it, big
boom mic big boomer.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
But if you start saying booms and how you're talking,
like the Costco guys, that's fine, big booms, back back, back, back,
back back, go.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
On, like really let him do primetime, right, but they
still do.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I think they still do it on ESPN plus they
were yeah, they right, and if they still do it,
but that and this, like, let them come out and
do it. More people would watch if you knew Berman
was coming out to do the home run derby back
back back more. I guarantee you more people would watch.
You'd have a little less hate watching too, because a
lot of folks here going and criticizing the style of
the format. The fact that Berman isn't there has been
(21:23):
all over my timeline. And maybe it's the algorithm. Y're
of a certain age, you love the boomerisms. I talked
about it with you earlier tonight and certainly in the past.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
They did a whole trading card set. The Tops put
out a.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Set that's got a cartoon Berman in the bottom right,
and it's a set and then it's got an insert
set that has like twenty guys and their nicknames, Paul
diabolical schemes. I'm picturing him at home during the derby,
just like sitting in a big easy chair, watching on
like a thousand foot TV, just.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Sitting there going back back back back, gone, back back
back back gone.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, this is from mid May, back back gone.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He signed a deal that'll keep him there at least
through twenty twenty nine, so he's.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
There, foul ball back back back back gone, back back gone.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I fixed sad for the guy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I'm starting to get on Terry the way he said that,
because I'm picturing it and sitting there slumped in a chair.
I'm just sitting there doing like I don't picture him
like full of energy, doing like like when you were
a kid and you would call the game yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
You're going cal Rawley. There's a video of him as
an eight year old at the home run derby Champy. No,
he's not sitting there.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Going back back back, brack brack gone back brack ben
And all of a sudden, the knocking the door, Yeah,
why are you here? Police or your neighbors are complaining
that you've been really loud. This is the only house
for Miles. Yeah, sir, they can all hear. Can you
just keep it down?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
All right? A little bit? Can can you keep it down?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What if you the cops came in and they opened
the door and he's got a full recreation of the
set and he's suitcoat, tie in shorts with bright lights
around it.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
It's made it look like the sports center desk in
the nineties. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was like there's a
cardboard bob. It's just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, almost a full jinkes because and that's the cop
comes in and goes, what's going on in here?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Nothing? Just just watching, just you know, doing that. But
I feel i'd be really this is down to the
card back picture. Do you want a cigarette? General? Do
you want a cigarette? Do you want to have it? Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
All right, that's great, I mean right, I feel about
because of all because they pushed him out, they can
pushed him the side and clearly he would the guy
bleep and built ESPN, Right, the guy built it, And
why can't you have him at least do this because
I know, hey, one day a year, Yeah, okay, great
back back back.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
People would love it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
People I get that the that ESPN has always worried
about what's being set on social media. It's why shows
get canceled, it's why shows get greenlit, it's why people
get hired and fined because, oh, look at what happened
on social media. We need seventeen new Monday night football
booths because everybody's complaining about this booth with Whitton and McFarlane.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
People are complaining are people not watching? Are people not watching?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What do you care about? If people are watching, what
does it matter? Oh, we just can't have this, So
I get that. There's you know, when Burmer would say something,
there would be people, oh, Berman, Wendy, Oh we got
to get rid of. We can't put Burman on as
much because look at what people are saying on social media.
But this would be the one day people go. People
would say, oh my goodness, I'm so excited. Look at him,
back back, look at him.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Back back, back, back, back back, announcing, and then after
the derby gone.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Back back back, he's back back, back back gone. But
for all of its changes and all of the implementation
of new rules, some of which are still dopey as
hell as far as I look at him, but I
get it, get him on, get him over, get him in.
The whole idea of baseball is they've always done nostalgia
and bridging to the past better than any of sport
(25:01):
right traditions. As best they can keep them in a
modern era they do. I know what people are still
mad that that the pitchers don't go up and pretend
to hit. I thought it was kind of fun, but
it was an easy out. But you look at it
with Berman, it's the throwback to your baseball history and
(25:22):
who's your general. I know you're trying to grow your audience,
so fine, have multiple multicast. You do it for every
other big event that you own. A piece of here,
give give the old heads what they want, give them
their Berman, let them scream. I mean, like, I mean,
come on, let's come on, let's let's do it. Would
kill you, kill you guys, Ben to do that, would
kill you to do it. Come on, But Baseball at
(25:44):
every turn, like, what are we getting ready for for Cooperstown?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
What is it about?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It's the presentation of all the guys that have gone
in in the past, and all of them giving love
in their interview processes to the teammates down to the
twenty fifth man all these years. So give Boomer his run,
especially since you re upped him. He's on payroll. It's
not like he went and retired to Del Boca Vista
and you say, hey, Boomer, you want to come back
(26:11):
out for you know, he's shopping at the bit waiting.
I know, new quips for the Buffalo Bills. Oh, I
came up with this one for for Josh Josh Ethan Allen,
an American hero, Ethan all American hero during the war.
Was he it's a big furniture Yeah. I want to
make sure he wasn't like Benedict Arnold was. He wasn't
(26:34):
to make sure well, I mean I don't think they
would name a furniture store. They might have, don't well
that would be a bad name.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Though, depending on the time.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What kind of furniture can I get? Can I come
in here and steal the furnitures?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
He was the.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Leader in the capture of Tykonderoga and his advocacy for
the creation of Vermont. After you're gonna say captured ty Comody,
say that needed to have allan ty cop caught stealing
has run.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
None of us can stand.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I mean, Burman even did an interview a few weeks ago,
saying I do it?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I mean, real what this would be the time to
have it. It's like, yeah, baseball's about nostalgia fun. Who
doesn't want to see him do that? But every time
they do a big event to commemorate the history, like
there's just guys you expect to be part of it. Right,
it's the way we go on our calendar sports. I
showed you my Dick Stockton football autograph card that I watched,
(27:34):
and then Jerry Glheadville, like Dick Stockton was on calls forever.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So it's like, all right, it's that time of year.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
This is what we're doing Baseball, the All Star Game,
the home Run Derby, in particular, it was his entertaining
to watch Boomer about fall out of his chair because
he was out of breath.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
His voice was gone by the final round, by the
end of the first round, No Frank Thomas and back
god forbid, somebody went on a heater. Yeah, now he's
on a street because he can't get the glass of water. Yeah,
back back power, like when the home runs would when
when the next one would be hit before the other
one lands, when you know it's gone Oh that's why.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's past the Potomac, that's past the Alleghany River, that's
past the Hudson River.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
And research guy, can you get me more? Right? I
need I need, I need more.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I need more landmarks here in the city of Pittsburgh
that I can say over there, it's not over one river,
not over two rivers, but it was over three rivers
and Mickey rivers back back, back back gone. But tell
me you don't want nothing like rivers, nothing on me rivers.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You didn't give me anything on Mickey rivers. Rivers.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Wow, man, Wow, celebrate his entire cat. I cannot believe
he'd give me nothing on the three rivers and Mickey River.
I could have just mailed it in and said Philip Rivers,
but I said, no, I.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Give you Mickey rivers. Come on, history could have given
you rivers, Cuomo, what could have given you? Who is it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But on this does he have cameo or anything? Because
I want to have him do a call of the o'neion.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Cruise backpack can't sit, can't see it, can't see it,
apparently gone gone, and that home run cruises into the seats.
Oh TJ like like a slam dunk from Shaquille O'Neil.
Cruz hammers this one into the seats.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's been a tough cruise for the Pirates for the
better part of the last thirty years, but at least
they have this guy and schemes, at least for now, TJ.
And if there was a pause in the action, he
can go off on the commissioners quote today talk about
how the Pirates have been runs many years, which is
a nice little subplot to the Acary camp. But that
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was a hell of a run. That's all in step
RANI to speak, no notes here, people, no notes and
Raleigh hits one all the way to North Carolina, TJ.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I mean, all the things that are there, all the
things out of there. Could you get a rally with
a Rade Durham a h exit up about a Fresca exit?
Swollen down?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, from special Delivery Steve to Sager, Steve,
what do you got for us?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
My friend?
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Obviously, when you were listing Rivers and losing your voice,
you should have said, Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Oh sod that home run.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I thought, I really thought for a second, you're gonna say,
Joan Rivers, Well, she's not speaking anymore.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Back back back, back, back, back, back back.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
It is gone.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It's good, it's gone. It's gone. It's not my fault, though,
it's gone. It's not my For the record brought up
the dead guy, not me. We do have the home run.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Derby was old, back back, back, back, back, gone, gone, gone,
it's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
By the honest, he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
That phrase was not used off in the jazz Chisholm
went back today. No the Yankee quote slugger's he had
three three out of the park tonight while the co
leaders had twenty one in the first round.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
He tried those co leaders, by the way, where Junior
cam and Aro of Tampa Bay O'Neil Cruz of Pittsburgh
the Pirate Star Cruise had won at five hundred thirteen
feet that home run.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Did we find out how many inches?
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, I've thirteen point.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
On in a tiebreaker, you see, the A's Brett Rooker
did not advance out of the first round. Cal Raley
did just due to a tiebreaker of the longest between
the two. Raleigh made it to the semifinals, eliminated the Pirates,
o'neial Cruiz, Cam and Arrow in the seminies, beat Byron
Buxton of the Twins, a Georgia native, and the winner
tonight is cal Raleigh of the Mariners. A switch hitter
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takes at first catcher to win it, beating Cam and
Arow eighteen fifteen. In the final, Raleigh had his dad
pitching to him. The winner gets a million dollars, the
runner up a half million. V eight sho Heyotani of
the Dodgers will be leading off of the National League
and Tuesday Night's All Star Game in Atlanta. The Braves
owned Ronald Acunya will beat second for the American League.
Aaron Judge will bet third than cal Raley fourth and
(32:06):
in use for the All Star Game tomorrow night, the
Automated Ball Strike system to challenge ball and strike calls.
It was tested during spring training. The Tampa Bay Rays
will be sold for one point seven billion dollars, according
to the Athletic. The buyers are led by a Florida
based developer. The new deal could close by September. Cal
Raleigh of Seattle has committed to play for Team USA
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and next year's World Baseball Classic. The Americans are due
to play games in Houston and Miami next March. The
US manager again is Mark De Rosa. The MLB draft
finished today, twenty rounds total. MLB's regular season games resume
on Friday. Former Blue Jays pitcher Jim Clancy passed away
at the age of sixty nine. He was an All
Star in nineteen eighty two. The Jets gave wide receiver
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Garrett Wilson a four year extension worth ninety million dollars guaranteed,
potentially worth one hundred and thirty mil since he was
drafted in the top ten from Ohio State. Wilson's had
three straight thousand yard season and he had one hundred
and one receptions last year. Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams
will start training camp on the pup list. Forty nine
Ers wide out Juwan Jennings is due to report to
(33:09):
camp even though he wants another extension or a trade.
Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was suspended from his high school coaching
job for giving his players illegal benefits to the NBA
Spurs center Victor wembin Yama is cleared to return after
the blood clot in his shoulder. Last season, seventy six
Ers Paul George had Arthur scopigknee surgery after an injury
and a recent workout. He played half a season in
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his first year in Philly. The Cavaliers gave team president
Kobe Altman an extension through twenty thirty as for the
games in Las Vegas. Among the seven in the Summer League,
the Lakers are down forty eight forty two nearing the
end of the third quarter. Bronnie James twelve points, five rebounds,
five assists. Spurs won in overtime against Utah at the buzzer.
Dylan Harper sixteen points, Kyle Philipowski you taught thirty five
(33:54):
points tonight. By the way the Rockets reed. Shepherd was
shut down after playing two games already for Dallas. Cooper
Flag was shut down after playing too now Saturday. Flag
had thirty one points out of the sixty nine they
scored Tonight. Mavericks lost eighty seven to sixty nine to
the Hornet. Charlotte first rounder khon Kaneppel with sixteen points.
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WNBA wins for Phoenix and Minnesota. Atlanta all star Ryan
Howard is out for the rest of the month with
a knee injury.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now, I know these games are only forty minutes long,
but wow, going to the fourth quarter forty eight forty three.
Wow in a Summer league game. That's S's did Summer
league action? It's fantastic. Well that Laker game on Saturday,
it was terrible and they still had a decent point total.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
This just missed forty eight forty three going to the
fourth quarter coming up next.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Hey, the most underrated player at his position in the
NFL got paid today.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
That's next. Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. You can stream the show all of
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rip the knob off. So we'll get into the latest
Lebron drama coming up in ten minutes. At Summer League tonight,
he had an interaction with Lakers GM Rob Polinka, which
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we'll get into.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Did he body slam it will again? What we can say.
We'll get into that in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
However, big story out of the NFL today, the most
underrated wide receiver in.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
The league got paid.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
The most underrated wide receiver, a guy who is a
combination of Keishawn Johnson and Tim Brown. Right now, now,
who's doing the rating? Oh well I am, I'm doing
the rating.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Okay, I'm just in.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Garrett Wilson gets a four year, one hundred and thirty
million dollar extension with the New York Jets, and it's
a great move. Not just me because I'm Jason Smith
Jets fan, but there is no more underrated receiver in
the game than Garrett Wilson. Okay, first of all, why
Tim Brown? Why do I say Garrett Wilson is Tim Brown?
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The numbers that Wilson's been able to put up in
the first three years of his career and he's only
twenty four years old. Every year his receptions have gone
up from eighty three to ninety five to one hundred
and one, his yards have gone up, his touchdown's gone up.
Every year it goes up despite the fact he has
played with a bunch of guys at quarterback that run
the gamut from just okay to out and out terrible. Right,
(37:01):
he's played with six quarterbacks, Okay, starting quarterbacks in the
last three years. Half of them have been Zach Wilson, right,
But Tim Boyle and Mike White and Trevor Simeon and
Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers. I mean, these are guys
that are just they're just guys. Rogers the best guy
he's played with. Right, he's got Flacco near. Of course,
Flacco was really good and now he left. I wasn't
(37:24):
any good with the Browns. He was good, But he's
playing with just guys who are barely there, right, and
still he's able to put these numbers up, to put
these numbers up in a year where when they get
Devonte Adams midway through the season, he becomes Aaron Rodgers
go to guy because they've been tight and have had
that report and still Garrett Wilson does this right Key Shawn,
because this is the kind of receiver he is kind
(37:45):
of a Key Shawn two point zero. He's a big
red zone threat. He is a guy that will catch
the ball over the middle. He will catch the ball deep,
he will catch the ball in a deep out. He
will he can run any pattern and do anything you need.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Him to do.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
He's not a guy that has a big specialty. He's
not a guy that, well, we're gonna he's a deep threat.
He's a guy that's going to move the chains. He
can do everything. That's the key showing part of this.
He is the most underrated receiver.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
In the NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
And honestly, I don't think you got a lot of
pushback on this because, yeah, look at what he's been
able to put up despite the fact that he's playing
with guys that most of them have just been absolutely terrible.
And still he's got eighty three ninety five hundred and
one catches by the time he's twenty four years old. No,
but we watched him and certainly last year, like I
had to go back and look at the twenty twenty
(38:28):
four average draft position, the expectation was that things would
click with Rogers, so he was still seventh overall, So
fantasy owners were certainly buying into your jets even if
well and a lot of pundits did too. At the
Super Bowl, Yeah, you know, things happened along the way.
Funny thing happened on the way. But he put up
huge numbers and what he'll be curious to see. And
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this is also last year he has Adams alongside it,
but this year he got nothing, got a rookie and
Mason Taylor come in. As you're tight end, Josh Reynolds
is your number two. He's catching all the passes, all
of them. Lazard's still under Conte. Yeah, but they're trying
to they're trying to get rid of. Is he gonna
go to Pittsburgh? You would think Garrett Garrett Wilson. There
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There is no bigger difference between the team's number one
and number two wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Than what's on the gym.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Malachai Corley, is he breakthrough? Just don't spike the ball
before you parf.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
The goal line. I mean that Exhale said it off.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
But that's that's what I'm setting up here, is that
you put up those kind of numbers, and we watched
great struggles for that offense. Curious with the dual backfield
whether that actually helps in the process here, Justin Fields
is just a massive wild card because we've seen some
pretty good spots. Even in Pittsburgh last year, he got
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I think unfairly demoted. I never seen saw the field
again after Russell Wilson took over. But now you have
the opportunity with a guy like Wilson, you can put
the ball up and he's gonna go get it. And
he's a guy with great familiarity history. Together will make
things easy for the OC. I want to say, don't
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be nervous about him this year because even though Justin
Fields is the quarterback, clearly he's got his guy now, yeah,
that he was with in college. This is going to continue.
Like I'm not nervous about him at all, because again,
look at some of the other guys he did it with,
and he's still a guy who's catching one hundred passes
a year. The guy, he's just that good man, most
underrated receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Well, he got paid as he should be commensurately with
his acumen and what the expectations are going forward because
they don't need any holdout issues with the other Jets history.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
They have more NFL on the way, but coming up
next the big news surrounding Lebron James and the Lakers.
That's next, right here, Chason of Mike Fox Sports Radio
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