July 30, 2022 • 34 mins
Jason and Mike react to what everyone on the crew would do if they won the Mega Millions, Aaron Judge will win the AL MVP after tonight's game, and Charles Barkley will not be a analyst for LIV tour!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon. A
few minutes ago, we gave you the mega millions numbers
for tonight website crashing. We found them all in case
you missed them. Here they are again. Decipher them for yourselves.
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Don Maynard, Jerry Kuzman, Pedro Martinez, Johan Santana, Damien Woody,
Neil O'donnald Slash, Kill Hodges Slash, Richard Toddlas good stuff,
right there, Sam Donald. But those are your number, you know.
I went out a few minutes ago and my wife
and she's, oh, so you got the numbers you gave
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out And said yeah, And she said and she said, uh,
did you guys all talk about what you do if
you want? I said, well, we did, that a little
bit ago. She goes, how long would you work? I said,
what do you mean? She goes, if we won tonight, like,
if we won the Mega Millions tonight, how long would
you work? And I said, oh, it's nine o'clock right now.
I'd go on for ten minutes and tell everybody I
won that. Then then it would be the Mike Harmon
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Show for the rest of the night. She no, right,
I said, yeah, of course you kidding. I wouldn't be
able to speak. She said, how long would you want
to work for? Really? And I said, okay, let me
think about this. I said, if I won one point
to eight billion dollars, I want to I want to
say that I would continue to to do, you know,
to do the show every night. Um, But in reality,
I think anybody who wins, you're busy being a billionaire, right,
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you'd be bankrolling movies. You're gonna have meetings with people
like Steve Cohen and Woody Johnson. And yeah, it's gived me.
You know, if it's gonna be you know your your
life is gonna be different. And so I said, I said, well,
first thing I would do is I would definitely say
I need time off. Because I need to be able to,
you know, figure out what's going on after winning the
lottery and now I'm thinking about it, I go, Okay,
So I would probably take the next week off and
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that would probably stretch into ten days or two weeks,
and then I would probably announce Okay, I'm gonna come
back and do a certain number of days worth of shows,
and then that would be it. And she goes, you
wouldn't tell Fox and give them like like like like
time to to find your replacement. And I said, well,
I got a bunch of vacation days. I can stop
taking off vacation. Yeah, lots of stuff to run out
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the clock. I'm gonna come back for one more week.
Because that's what I would probably do. I would take
two weeks off, or I would take all my vacation
days off. Then I would come back for two more
for another week, I would do shows, and then I
would and then that would be it. That's kind of
what I think I would do. Well, I would say
I'd finished the year, go through the football So you'd
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finish the year you go through the football season. Okay,
all right, committed, Okay, all right, he's been working on
Sunday morns working Sunday morning to really, I would honor
my agreements. Oh now I'm a bad guy. Now because
I'm I'm a bad guy, I'm not saying that at all.
You Now you're getting none of the money. You would get,
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none of that. I would would have you. I would
give from you anyway, of course I was gonna. I
would give Tie Shirt money to bankroll his healthy food
slash on a me whatever he's on, Senpie Hero you can't.
I would build a replica of these studios that he
keeps tauting everybody that he's been working over at the
Fox Lot. We might rent a space at the Fox
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Lot for him there. I would have that giant Sempie
cartoon that he's got. It would be all over the place.
That would be amazing side of one of the buildings
on Pico. Yeah, we take care of Tie Shirt. I
take care of Frostburg. I'd buy him his own Dodger
and charge your only radio station and put him in
charge of it, and he can do whatever he wants
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to with it. And I would give you money for
purple shorts and Shaunty has. But now forget it now,
because now I'm not honoring my agreement. That I would
say that I don't know your agreement. I know my agreements.
I would leave your share to Steve, to Sayer so
he could go out and buy all the memorabilia he
would want to. Now that's what's it's gonna happen. Now, No,
that's fine. And and again it all I was trying
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to say was there, I have a deal. I would
finish the deal. I'm not gonna say I would be
putting in four hours of homework or anything like that. Murray,
suddenly you're just mailing. You're showing up to mail it in.
All right, I'm still gonna be better than anything else here.
But the reality is, yeah, you'd start planning for what
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was next, trying to figure out, you know, what games
you were gonna be able. You would do just like me,
you would do a couple more days and then say
that said I'm done. You would do cup more days
and then say you were think I'd like to think
I wouldn't, but I don't know. Nobody's handed me a
giant novel tea check yet. But now you would do.
But that's what happened. You go, okay, because look, i'd
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like to think that. You know, I'm one of those people.
How many people go, well, I would still want to
work if I want a billion dollars, because that's who
I am, and that's who I've been brought up to me.
You want a billion dollars so you don't have to work,
and you can do all kinds of great things with
your money if you're investment well enough. You're you're talking
about after after taxes, the lump sum literally in and
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just conservative response to the the investments you'd make. You're
looking at still pulling in fifty million dollars a year
in investment money on top of what your principle is
sitting there. So it it just be absurd very quickly.
And all the greatness that you could have. I mean, well,
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I'd be having a villa villa next to uh, you know,
Clooney on Lake Como. You wouldn't pay taxes either. You
would try to get out on that, you know, like
legitimate I got. You know, I already had some thoughts
on because I'm actually child, You've already had some thoughts
on it. Okay, Hey where can I escape? It doesn't know? Hey,
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Shakira is getting ready to go to jail for a
number of years for tax evasion. Who doesn't have an
extradition treaty with the United States for tax evasion. That's
where I'm gonna go, offshore bank accounts, shaking it out
like it's show. It's the Mike Harmon Show, Live from Greenland.
I'm the only one here. There's a lot of penguins
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and some polar bears, but I'll tell you it's a
barren sports landscape there, David Gascon, what do you have? Look,
you can do some wonderful work within your community and
and cities, and for some of the charitable organizations. Uh.
And and for things that the government fails to get right. Uh,
you can privatize some of that and help to jump
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start those things. You can do a lot of a
lot of social good uh. And certainly I can watch
a lot of ball games and travel a lot. See.
That's the thing. I could be like Christian Bale at
the end at the end of Batman and have a
guy that like Michael Caine that come and nod at me. No,
maybe that's what I do. I buy, Yeah, no, no,
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I buy or have constructed a complete reproduction of Wayne
Manor and I hire people to do it, and I
actually act like Emo Robert Pattinson Batman, and I just
sulk and brood around my my big mansion all night.
And then every night where when I feel like it,
I would get in a souped up batmobile car and
I would dress up in and I would go out
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and I would try to fight crime and then you know,
drive back home and you know, brewed and listen to Nirvana. No,
maybe that's what I do. I do. I just just
you know, I'm sorry, family, I can't be with you.
I have to live out my life as a superhero.
I'd buy it for store and old theater and every
night it's like, hey, come on, we're in Los Angeles.
Come sing a song. I went Batman, you went Jim
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Carrey in the Majestic. Really, that's what you would do.
I would would renovate the old theater. I would all
those people that wanted that shot, that never got that shot,
damn it on my stage. I'd be like sing. I'd
be like little Koala Bear, Matthew McConaughey, making everybody have
feeling good about themselves. With a billion dollars, I'm gonna
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renovate an old and I'm gonna show all the greatest movies.
In other words, all the stuff, And I'd ask Zoe
for her input, all the stuff that you hated that
your dad made you watch. Oh, let's paying let's playing
on Friday, not Top Gun. It's on every Friday, all day,
every day. Now, this is where if you wanted, I
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would say, hey, that's a great idea. But instead I'm
just gonna raise the old movie theater, build a huge
multiplex that stayed in the yard to get more people there.
That's what I would do. But are you Are you
motivated then to to run businesses? No, you're probably buying
property all over and hiring people to manage it. Maybe
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you've got someone that you know is living. Maybe maybe
you go and hire a celebrity chef. Oh, I definitely
hire a celebrity chef. Can you create this big mac days? So? Like,
what did he buy? He bought him McDonald's. Does he
actually have sales? No? I has three people that work there,
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one every three eight hours shifts. And what do they do?
They just cook for him? What he shows up? I
have a McDonald's in my house. Like when you go
to Ikea and there's a Starbucks in it. I got
a McDonald's in my house. I go downstairs and eat
in the morning. What do you got, Frostberg? If you
guys really want to help the people, which you don't,
but if you did, okay, you buy the patent and
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get the recipe for the Choco taco. Yo. Yeah, that
would be like fifteen minutes on a Monday. Hey, what
do we got here? We need some money for the
Choco Taco. How much you need? Well, we need one
and a half million. Take it here, here's a check,
take it, go, go right there. I'll give it. Tax
you a lot more for being a Mets fan. I'm
walking out, but I'm doing something good. I'm bringing back
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the Chaco taco. They up a social good and that
that's like humanitarian is and it's finest right there is
here Take the money and go take the money. I
gave it five minutes of thought earlier, just kind of
like my mom engaged me in that conversation and I
was like, well, and she goes, that's pretty boring. I'm
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a pretty boring guy when he when it gets down
to it, I'm sorry, no, sameir, You're missing the point
of the exercise. How many nacho helmet smith. That would
be one thing you'd have to do. You go buy
a nacho helmet for every person in the stadium, and
then he would eat them all and he Now I
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got a better idea. Instead of just having a McDonald's
downstairs in my house, I have like a whole food
court one. Right, then I have never a good Then
I have to talk area like they have it at
at at Dodger Stadium, where it's just get the helmet nachos. Right. Oh,
then I have Then I have like a Jersey Mikes,
oh you know working here. Yeah, mini a mini theater.
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Now it's worth from the playground area, Yeah, no, no question.
It suthingly looks like the mall from fat Restore restore
all the old McDonald's playland toys that are now looking
like they're from some creepy orror movie. Go and find
those and restore those. No, that's good. I like that.
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There's lots of good ideas. But yeah, I'd have a
bunch of you know, match Warren and event Warren boots
and robes, like what's what's that is? Museum? I would
pay today, Oh what are you getting paid for the
next ten years. I would tell I would tell Steve Cohen, listen,
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how much do I have to donate to you to
be able to get a once a week, thirty minute
phone call with Buck show Walter, Like, this is what
I want. I don't want to take them away from
the bets that much, but once a week, thirty minutes
Buck and I talk about Hey, Buck, I saw that
you didn't bat McNeil in the ninth inning and you
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let Thomas Needle hit Why did you do that? Buck?
Let's let's tell me tell me about that. Oh, you
know that I would see what I could donate and
I could get a thirty minute phone call from Buck
show Walter once a week. That's good. You would found
and uh bankroll a film production company and distributorship out
of cat Chatsworth. No, I'm really kind of digging the
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idea of like being a real life Bruce Wayne. I
really kind of like that. And then once so and
then like once a month, I would be kid No no, no, no,
not well out of the outside of the crime fighting. Yeah,
because what would it would get expensive? Because listen, if
I'm spending the money on recreating Wayne Manner and I'm
getting the Batmobile and all the other stuff, and I'm
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hiring you know, the people who worked in Wayne Manner,
and I'm you know, you would do it like the Joker.
You would do it like Joker did in the Lego
bat I would, I would have, you know, And and
once a month or once every couple of weeks, I
dress up in the Batman outfit and I drive out
and I try to fight crime. I would I would
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need to make sure that the crime I am fighting
was kind of like fixed so I would win, because
I don't know that I could go out and fight
crime and win like I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm fifty,
so I'm getting of the I don't know difficult. So
I would need to kind of fix it so I
would win. So maybe it would be like a fake crime,
like it would be a crime that people was just
like a wrestling match, heyd Like I would show up
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at at a at a you know, a crime there's
something like someone trying to break into a car or something,
you know not and I would go in and break
it up and people would watch it real and then
they would go back and I would brood in my
manner for the next couple of weeks, but at least
once a month. I would also have to pay a
bunch of people to go to a dinner where I
would show up and I would look I would just
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dress really sloppily and not talk to anyone, and people
look at me and go, that's Jason Smith, that's Jaye,
that's Bruce Wayne, that's Bruces. Well, my goodness, and I
would have that persona all through the dinner, and then
I would leave very abruptly at the end because something happened,
like Catwoman called me, and then I would leave and
go and they go, there, he is leaving a five
thousand dollar a plate dinner, what is he doing? And
then I would bank roll stuff that people would want,
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but it would all be fake because they'd be there.
You know that, you know the ballet has canceled. He
took his yacht. Yeah, and then there to play a part.
So that I think that's kind of I think I
would be really they could be really happy doing that.
You really loved doing Tuesday and Harmon's theater. Jason Smith's
having open casting call for super Villains. Oh well, yeah,
well if you, but I would actually buy you a
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theater because I would need your theater to host the
fake Times that I would be breaking up as Batman,
so you would have boy boy this theater they want.
They get robbed all the time, I know, but luckily
Batman is here. Lui, people this year, what the hell
were you doing? You can Jason and only show Cubs games?
Why does Batman? Why does this outfit have a big
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Mets logo all across the chests In the script it
says Mets and it said Strawberry on the back and
it had number eighteen. What is going on? You know?
You should do, Jason. You should travel around the US
and fix every single McDonald's ice cream machine. That'd be amazing. Yeah,
I mean you want to talk about peace price right there?
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If I did that, man, I could then run for
president after that. Look at what he did. The guy
went and fixed all the ice cream machines. Let's vote
this guy into office. He's fantastic. And I wouldn't be
in anybody's pocket because I have money up to worry about.
You would eat, I would try it, would make sure,
I would make sure it would were and I would
make sure they all serve chocolate, none of this vanilla
only that's the one thing about McDonald's. Come on, man,
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give me a variety, kid. Just give me vanilla ice cream.
You gotta give me chocolate too. So that I would
fix him and I would make sure. Be sure to
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Mike harm Sure, I'd like to spank your bald head.
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I hope you won the Mega Millions. If you did
not win the Mega Millions, you can play it again,
so goes, I'll play it again. It'll start again, I mean,
because I think the other one was going for uh
like one seventy five and everyone. Yeah, I'm playing that
one eight billion. Yeah, it's not been confirmed if there
is a winner yet. Uh. The numbers that were announced
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last hour will give them to you again, Incasion, Miss
m Don Maynard, Jerry Kuzman, Pedro Martinez, yo On Santana,
Damien Woody and Richard to slash Sam Donald slash nil o'donald.
Those are your winning numbers in the Mega Millions lottery.
But speaking of well things, I wish I could predict
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the future like I predicted this, because then I would
have won megamillions. Um. The two biggest stories tonight in
sports are going on in Major League Baseball. The first
one is well Tonight, July twenty nine will be known
as the night Aaron Judge one American League Most Valuable Player.
What he has done this year is absolutely outstanding. And
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you know, not for enough, and but I just want
to say, before the season started, I told you Aaron
Judge was gonna win a l m v P. I
told you that was gonna happen. I laid it all
out for you, said he's gonna win forty one home
runs eighty nine RB I to home runs tonight, including
a Grand Slam, is gonna win it. And more so
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than that, Mike Carmen, I'll tell you this, with forty
one home runs now before we get to August, right,
he Babe Ruth and Roger Marris the only Yankees to
get to forty home runs before August begins. If he
hits more than sixty one home runs, it's not gonna
matter how many home runs he winds up. But you
can wind up with sixty two, could wind up with
sixty five, sixty seven said it doesn't matter if he
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has more than sixty one home runs. Yankee fans will
push that he is the real home run champion single
season of all time because of the controversy surrounding Mark McGuire,
the controversy surrounding Barry Bonds and Belco. And they will
start that campaign. And I'll tell you what, there will
be a ton of non Yankee fans, which is everybody
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else in Major League Baseball, who will agree with that
and say, yes, Aaron Judge is the real all time leader.
Barry Bonds may have the record and the record books,
but Aaron Judge is the all time leader. It will
be a big debate and it will be something that
we we bat around in sports for a long time.
But Judge will be that guy. He's a Yankee, He's
got over sixty one home runs. He did it. He's
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not doing anything illegal. He's Aaron Judge at least, and
yeah he hold on there, you think he's doing something illegal.
But what I'm saying is the we we I didn't
don't think of anybody, no, no, no. But that's the point.
Because people go back in history and they decide which
guys they like and they believe their stories or say
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well he never got caught. Well he got a lot
of those guys that are either in the Hall of
Fame or highly celebrated guys, you have no idea what
they did or didn't do. So to categorically, you know,
with a blanket statement, say hey, he's done nothing. I
don't know, okay, and I'm not casting expersions to that effect,
But to just go and say he's the rightful guy,
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I don't. I don't know about that really, Okay, Mike.
I think you might be committing crimes when you're away
from the radio. I think you're stealing cars. I don't
know that you're not. Think you're stealing I think, well, yeah, no,
that's gone. I think you're trusting like Cameron Poe and
you're stealing cars. Wait, you're not stealing cars. But I
don't know that you're not. I don't know. I mean
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that that's kind of what you're saying. You can't do that.
You can't just say that, And that's I'm not saying
that he is. I'm just saying that given our history
with the sport, there's very uh. I mean, we just
had David Ortiz is going into the Hall of Fame.
But look, there's things you know, and look I can't
which we know. I can't say anybody is something that
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I don't know when what they're doing. But when we
know something that we know, right, I mean, that's what
we know, we know what happened. Yes, so you're saying,
you're you could be suspicious of every single baseball player
going on right now, that they could be doing something,
justicious of everybody about everything. Yeah, it's not a healthy
way to live. I got it's but I'm gonna get
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higher will because I just lost that. I don't even
know that's it. I'm hiring all those guys. How we
start talking about illegal stuff that one up, Well, that's
what happens to you. You keep getting bounced because you're
up to no good smith you I mean probably dripping
secret sauce. All did you cut me off? You know
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you're saying illegal stuff. I'm the guy saying you can't
talk about people doing illegal stuff. You don't know what
I lose my feet. No, no, no, no, no. Look,
I hope for the best. I always hope for the best.
I'm a glass have full kind of guy. But I'm
also a realist as we go through these processes, and
I hope to God that it's saying you know, training,
saying your prayers and eating your vitamins and it becomes
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the greatest season in baseball history. Now, they never took
away the records of those other guys, so it still
becomes a great fight and great debate because you know,
all the guys that got really rich in the media
are now the ones that get up on their soap
boxes and wag their fingers uh and shower with the
loudest But you know, it's it's gonna be a curious
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time as you get towards the end of the season.
That's all I'm saying it is, wait for those debates. Well,
because all the other guys are all just speculative thing.
I can't say anybody has done something when they haven't
been accused of anything. You can't can't do no, no, no.
But again, there there's the keywords you just said, accused,
because the other guys never it was never proven they
did anything. But now you're tearing them down even though
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their records still stand. Well, the numbers my fault. That
dope Hall of Fame voters can't get things right. The
numbers are still there. But you're talking about being the
people's champion. What who who they can say didn't do
anything wrong, did it the right way? And you're saying, no,
you can't say that. I think you can't say. How
do you tear down the other guys that they was
never proven that they did anything because the hat size.
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Come on, a guy went to jail for Barry Bonds
rather than test to come on, I went to jail
for a while. That's just the Tuesday. It's Tuesday. In
that story. There was a long story. But in the end,
did they prove he did anything? Answers that's a long
three still stand and that one you do not need
to prove everybody else maybe big hat size, hat size,
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very No, he cheated, he's a liar. Wow, there he go.
He dr fran justin Flotsburgh. There. How do you feel
allegedly Bonds, it's still alleged Verry Bonds. I'm only talking
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about that guy. Everybody else out of it. Is it
still allegedly? The Balco scandal was proven pretty big? Yeah, no, no, no,
no, no no no no. But I'm just saying, in terms
of the ingestion of anything, those guys were all indicted
and and and he and he was, I mean, he
wasn't indicted, but he was. Remember he had his purchase
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tested positive. So bad job by him, he was. He
was convicted of obstruction of justice for for giving an
incomplete answer to questions. I mean yeah, I mean yeah,
would you want to be saying you always want to
be safe and say allegedly around something when you're talking legally,
But you know that's a that was a pretty big deal. Alright,
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very good, alright, alright Frostberg's okay, uh yeah it look
it's it right now is just a ridiculous effort as
to how locked in he is and that people are
still pitching to him at this point. In Barry bonds
Best Seasons, it was, yeah, I'll throw to anybody. I
don't care if the basis you know, runners on runners
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on first second, whatever, just load them. I don't care.
And honestly, can I tell you something And this is
something that is not really talked about a lot, but
just think about this for a second. Right, how many
times did Barry bonds get walked? Right? How many times? Right?
Hundred and fifty one year? I think a two thousand,
where he got walked like two thirty times. Right, Now,
that wasn't one game Bonds, right, That wasn't what right?
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And so what did Barry Bonds do for the majority
of his career? He hit third or fourth right, That
was he hit third or fourth in in the Giants
line up when he was playing. Okay, now think about
this when you think about at bats and what he's
able to do and what Aaron Judge is able to do.
How many times did a game start where the first
two batters got out and Barry Bonds is up with
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two outs and nobody on it he gets walked, or
you got two outs and runner at first and Barry
Bonds gets walked because I'd rather pitch the number five
batter than Barry Bonds. His first inning at bats, by
and large, were useless. Right, he would get on base.
But what are you doing with a guy on first
and two out, right, because that would happen Aaron Judge
hit second. Can't just walk Aaron Judge to start a game, right,
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one out, one out, runner at first. Okay, that's a
big advantage. You got a pitch to Aaron Judge. So
it's it's not always just that, Hey in the first inning.
He's gonna hit home runs, but he's gonna see more pitches.
He's gonna be more engaged. He's going to be able
to hit more and get more opportunities because that first
at bat, he's getting one at bad a game more
than Barry Bonds to be able to do damage because
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that first time you got a pitch to him. When
you're batting Barry Bonds, third and fourth, you don't always
have to pick playing in a bandbox too. Too bad
the Yankees can't get the can't get the the air
to blow out to left field, then they would really
have something. Yeah, Bonds at two thousand, one hundred seventy
seven walks, two thousand two in a hundred forty three games,
hundred ninety eight walks, two thousand, two thousand, four hundred
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forty seven games played, two hundred thirty two walks, he
only had three hundred seventy three official at bats. It's
just fun theater. In the end, I celebrate whatever I
see on the field. He will. I'm telling you Aaron
Judge would wind up being the People's home run champ.
And there it would be a huge debate and there
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will be a lot of people that would have his back,
trust me, so many say he's the real home He'd
be doing interviews and they would be asking him, Aaron,
people think you're the real home run champion. How do
you feel about that? And he would say, well, I'm
waiting for my new contract from the Yankees because I
want now. He wants really bolstered my room at the
bargaining table. He would do the interview wearing a crown,
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having a scepter like the king in Hamilton's and he
would say to Brian Cashman, you'll be back. Really, you
gotta pay him now before he winds up getting more
money than one Soto. What are you doing, Aaron Judge
in the middle of the season. They're not taking any
deal right now. They're waiting at you, going let's go
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Got a big NFL story coming your
way in a few minutes. Happy Friday. But a big
controversy ended this week, and it's exactly how we told
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you was going to end. Charles Barkley after this dance
with the Live Tour, which maybe a lot more dancing
on his part, maybe t J he was dancing with himself,
Barkley enough, he is staying with t n T. Was
very thankful to the Live Tour for the interest they
showed in him, and well, he said they didn't have
an offer, so I don't know what kind of interest
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level there was, But Barkley in the end is staying
with T n T and he's gonna stay and be
a basketball broadcaster for the rest of his career. Now
we told you this is how it was going to end.
Two things happened this week and then the last week
I told you this was going to be the case
number one. Barkley talked about it yesterday about how, um,
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he's very flattered, but he knows he has to give
an answer to t NT. There are sponsors involved. What
Barkley did was see an opportunity that either, hey, the
lifter wants to give me more money than I can
possibly imagine or more than likely. What he wanted was
t NT to give him extra money to do something
and sweeten up what they were going to give him.
Maybe they were going to extend his contract or give
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him more money. But that's what this looked like because
Barkley was the guy keeping the story alive. There was
no statements from the live tour, there was no statements
from Greg Norman. There was just a meeting that Barkley had,
and maybe Barkley was the guy who pushed for the meeting,
but it was more of a business opportunity when someone
else is interested in you, Hey, I could leave to
go here, Um, maybe you give me a little bit more.
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So we knew it was gonna end with Charles Barkley staying.
He stayed at t n T. The other part of
it is this Mike, and this is that he saw
that if he went to the Live Tour. He knew
that he would be the face of the guys and
the athletes and all the golfers who took money from
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the Saudi Back League and would get a lot of
hate for it. He would be the face of it
because he's more popular than Phil Mickelson. He's more popular
than Surgery. Any of these guys golfers are. You know,
they're popular, but they're popular in golf. Charles Barkley has
a nationwide popularity that goes far beyond basketball. One of
the most recognizable analysts and talking heads in all of sports.
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He would be the face of this, and he would
get a lot of hate. He also knew he'd be
irrelevant if he went to this tour because who's gonna
really care what he's talking about if he's talking about
the Live Tour on television on a match that no
one's gonna watch. Because that's the big thing about this
that no one's gotten to is that how is his
live Tour gonna have relevance here? People suddenly gonna start
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watching this? The Live Tour is the USFL with more money.
That's what a r Hey, We're trying to get all
the players to come play for US, but we got
more money to do it, so we can. We're deep pockets.
We can hang around longer than the USFL can. But
in the end, we're trying to launch a new sport.
We're trying to it's gonna be a team sport. There's
only fourteen events. Barkley knew I'm going to lose all
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kinds of relevancy because in reality, the Live Tour is
trying to start a new sport, and they do have
a lot of money, and that's a big thing because
you can get by a lot of ills by having
by having a lot of money. But in the end,
who's gonna watch this? Are people gonna go crazy? And
what No, they're not. They're not gonna go watch philm.
Nicholson play on the Live Tour? Not not enough. That's
gonna make a big difference. And Barkley would go and
he would talk and people wouldn't pay attention to what
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he had to say because he'd be doing it on
something that no one was watching. People watch inside the NBA,
they watch the NBA. They stay watching the post game
of a forty point blowout just to see what Charles
and Shock and all the guys say he knew he
would lose that because, like I said, he's god, he
would be going to the USFL with more money. Yeah,
I would assume if he if he had made the
move that part of his deal, he was still gonna
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be doing media appearances and talking basketball or maybe doing
a podcast or they buy airtime somewhere or launches a
podcast or whatever the case would be to where that
would still be part of his overall media portfolio. To
your point, I mean, you know, he only he can
answer UH for what he's gotten in terms of calls, backlash,
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cat calls, whatever you want to call it. Right, he
did an interview without kick. He did UH an interview
with Dan Patrick earlier the week this week for the
network UH and talked about it, and a lot of
it was very much unless they really came over the top,
and they might have had some preliminary you know, bandy
bandy about some numbers and ballparks and whatever, but it
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never got down to a formal Here's here's an offer sheet, right,
I mean it's in semantics, but that's where we're at.
And all, you know, for him, maybe he'll get a
little bit of a sweetener from the good folks at
Turner and maybe maybe not maybe ten ten a year
for the next three and whatever. The potential extension if
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he wants to keep going, is all it took. But
when you talk about the viability, I mean, we're we're
doing updates that include the leaders in these tournaments, right,
So it's at least crossed into that how much viability
you have when Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson is just
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you know, running out the string, and even him he
started going to the guy who's had a lot of goodwill,
walked up to the te box and started getting heckled
and had to back away. Right, that was one of
the things that happened today. So you know that you're
gonna you're gonna take some incoming for sure, and at
the in the end, you gotta be able to look
in the mirror and live with yourself. And maybe he decided,
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for all that he invites from opposing fan bases and
cities that he's taken his shots at in the past,
this was a bridge too far. So unless it was
really an obscene amount of money, it wasn't worth the trouble.
And now it becomes a non issue and they go
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon. A
few minutes ago, we gave you the mega millions numbers
for tonight website crashing. We found them all in case
you missed them. Here they are again. Decipher them for yourselves.
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Don Maynard, Jerry Kuzman, Pedro Martinez, Johan Santana, Damien Woody,
Neil O'donnald Slash, Kill Hodges Slash, Richard Toddlas good stuff,
right there, Sam Donald. But those are your number, you know.
I went out a few minutes ago and my wife
and she's, oh, so you got the numbers you gave
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out And said yeah, And she said and she said, uh,
did you guys all talk about what you do if
you want? I said, well, we did, that a little
bit ago. She goes, how long would you work? I said,
what do you mean? She goes, if we won tonight, like,
if we won the Mega Millions tonight, how long would
you work? And I said, oh, it's nine o'clock right now.
I'd go on for ten minutes and tell everybody I
won that. Then then it would be the Mike Harmon
(01:27):
Show for the rest of the night. She no, right,
I said, yeah, of course you kidding. I wouldn't be
able to speak. She said, how long would you want
to work for? Really? And I said, okay, let me
think about this. I said, if I won one point
to eight billion dollars, I want to I want to
say that I would continue to to do, you know,
to do the show every night. Um, But in reality,
I think anybody who wins, you're busy being a billionaire, right,
(01:49):
you'd be bankrolling movies. You're gonna have meetings with people
like Steve Cohen and Woody Johnson. And yeah, it's gived me.
You know, if it's gonna be you know your your
life is gonna be different. And so I said, I said, well,
first thing I would do is I would definitely say
I need time off. Because I need to be able to,
you know, figure out what's going on after winning the
lottery and now I'm thinking about it, I go, Okay,
So I would probably take the next week off and
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that would probably stretch into ten days or two weeks,
and then I would probably announce Okay, I'm gonna come
back and do a certain number of days worth of shows,
and then that would be it. And she goes, you
wouldn't tell Fox and give them like like like like
time to to find your replacement. And I said, well,
I got a bunch of vacation days. I can stop
taking off vacation. Yeah, lots of stuff to run out
(02:36):
the clock. I'm gonna come back for one more week.
Because that's what I would probably do. I would take
two weeks off, or I would take all my vacation
days off. Then I would come back for two more
for another week, I would do shows, and then I
would and then that would be it. That's kind of
what I think I would do. Well, I would say
I'd finished the year, go through the football So you'd
(02:56):
finish the year you go through the football season. Okay,
all right, committed, Okay, all right, he's been working on
Sunday morns working Sunday morning to really, I would honor
my agreements. Oh now I'm a bad guy. Now because
I'm I'm a bad guy, I'm not saying that at all.
You Now you're getting none of the money. You would get,
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none of that. I would would have you. I would
give from you anyway, of course I was gonna. I
would give Tie Shirt money to bankroll his healthy food
slash on a me whatever he's on, Senpie Hero you can't.
I would build a replica of these studios that he
keeps tauting everybody that he's been working over at the
Fox Lot. We might rent a space at the Fox
(03:39):
Lot for him there. I would have that giant Sempie
cartoon that he's got. It would be all over the place.
That would be amazing side of one of the buildings
on Pico. Yeah, we take care of Tie Shirt. I
take care of Frostburg. I'd buy him his own Dodger
and charge your only radio station and put him in
charge of it, and he can do whatever he wants
(03:59):
to with it. And I would give you money for
purple shorts and Shaunty has. But now forget it now,
because now I'm not honoring my agreement. That I would
say that I don't know your agreement. I know my agreements.
I would leave your share to Steve, to Sayer so
he could go out and buy all the memorabilia he
would want to. Now that's what's it's gonna happen. Now, No,
that's fine. And and again it all I was trying
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to say was there, I have a deal. I would
finish the deal. I'm not gonna say I would be
putting in four hours of homework or anything like that. Murray,
suddenly you're just mailing. You're showing up to mail it in.
All right, I'm still gonna be better than anything else here.
But the reality is, yeah, you'd start planning for what
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was next, trying to figure out, you know, what games
you were gonna be able. You would do just like me,
you would do a couple more days and then say
that said I'm done. You would do cup more days
and then say you were think I'd like to think
I wouldn't, but I don't know. Nobody's handed me a
giant novel tea check yet. But now you would do.
But that's what happened. You go, okay, because look, i'd
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like to think that. You know, I'm one of those people.
How many people go, well, I would still want to
work if I want a billion dollars, because that's who
I am, and that's who I've been brought up to me.
You want a billion dollars so you don't have to work,
and you can do all kinds of great things with
your money if you're investment well enough. You're you're talking
about after after taxes, the lump sum literally in and
(05:26):
just conservative response to the the investments you'd make. You're
looking at still pulling in fifty million dollars a year
in investment money on top of what your principle is
sitting there. So it it just be absurd very quickly.
And all the greatness that you could have. I mean, well,
(05:47):
I'd be having a villa villa next to uh, you know,
Clooney on Lake Como. You wouldn't pay taxes either. You
would try to get out on that, you know, like
legitimate I got. You know, I already had some thoughts
on because I'm actually child, You've already had some thoughts
on it. Okay, Hey where can I escape? It doesn't know? Hey,
(06:08):
Shakira is getting ready to go to jail for a
number of years for tax evasion. Who doesn't have an
extradition treaty with the United States for tax evasion. That's
where I'm gonna go, offshore bank accounts, shaking it out
like it's show. It's the Mike Harmon Show, Live from Greenland.
I'm the only one here. There's a lot of penguins
(06:30):
and some polar bears, but I'll tell you it's a
barren sports landscape there, David Gascon, what do you have? Look,
you can do some wonderful work within your community and
and cities, and for some of the charitable organizations. Uh.
And and for things that the government fails to get right. Uh,
you can privatize some of that and help to jump
(06:52):
start those things. You can do a lot of a
lot of social good uh. And certainly I can watch
a lot of ball games and travel a lot. See.
That's the thing. I could be like Christian Bale at
the end at the end of Batman and have a
guy that like Michael Caine that come and nod at me. No,
maybe that's what I do. I buy, Yeah, no, no,
(07:13):
I buy or have constructed a complete reproduction of Wayne
Manor and I hire people to do it, and I
actually act like Emo Robert Pattinson Batman, and I just
sulk and brood around my my big mansion all night.
And then every night where when I feel like it,
I would get in a souped up batmobile car and
I would dress up in and I would go out
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and I would try to fight crime and then you know,
drive back home and you know, brewed and listen to Nirvana. No,
maybe that's what I do. I do. I just just
you know, I'm sorry, family, I can't be with you.
I have to live out my life as a superhero.
I'd buy it for store and old theater and every
night it's like, hey, come on, we're in Los Angeles.
Come sing a song. I went Batman, you went Jim
(07:57):
Carrey in the Majestic. Really, that's what you would do.
I would would renovate the old theater. I would all
those people that wanted that shot, that never got that shot,
damn it on my stage. I'd be like sing. I'd
be like little Koala Bear, Matthew McConaughey, making everybody have
feeling good about themselves. With a billion dollars, I'm gonna
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renovate an old and I'm gonna show all the greatest movies.
In other words, all the stuff, And I'd ask Zoe
for her input, all the stuff that you hated that
your dad made you watch. Oh, let's paying let's playing
on Friday, not Top Gun. It's on every Friday, all day,
every day. Now, this is where if you wanted, I
(08:38):
would say, hey, that's a great idea. But instead I'm
just gonna raise the old movie theater, build a huge
multiplex that stayed in the yard to get more people there.
That's what I would do. But are you Are you
motivated then to to run businesses? No, you're probably buying
property all over and hiring people to manage it. Maybe
(08:59):
you've got someone that you know is living. Maybe maybe
you go and hire a celebrity chef. Oh, I definitely
hire a celebrity chef. Can you create this big mac days? So? Like,
what did he buy? He bought him McDonald's. Does he
actually have sales? No? I has three people that work there,
(09:23):
one every three eight hours shifts. And what do they do?
They just cook for him? What he shows up? I
have a McDonald's in my house. Like when you go
to Ikea and there's a Starbucks in it. I got
a McDonald's in my house. I go downstairs and eat
in the morning. What do you got, Frostberg? If you
guys really want to help the people, which you don't,
but if you did, okay, you buy the patent and
(09:47):
get the recipe for the Choco taco. Yo. Yeah, that
would be like fifteen minutes on a Monday. Hey, what
do we got here? We need some money for the
Choco Taco. How much you need? Well, we need one
and a half million. Take it here, here's a check,
take it, go, go right there. I'll give it. Tax
you a lot more for being a Mets fan. I'm
walking out, but I'm doing something good. I'm bringing back
(10:10):
the Chaco taco. They up a social good and that
that's like humanitarian is and it's finest right there is
here Take the money and go take the money. I
gave it five minutes of thought earlier, just kind of
like my mom engaged me in that conversation and I
was like, well, and she goes, that's pretty boring. I'm
(10:33):
a pretty boring guy when he when it gets down
to it, I'm sorry, no, sameir, You're missing the point
of the exercise. How many nacho helmet smith. That would
be one thing you'd have to do. You go buy
a nacho helmet for every person in the stadium, and
then he would eat them all and he Now I
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got a better idea. Instead of just having a McDonald's
downstairs in my house, I have like a whole food
court one. Right, then I have never a good Then
I have to talk area like they have it at
at at Dodger Stadium, where it's just get the helmet nachos. Right. Oh,
then I have Then I have like a Jersey Mikes,
oh you know working here. Yeah, mini a mini theater.
(11:19):
Now it's worth from the playground area, Yeah, no, no question.
It suthingly looks like the mall from fat Restore restore
all the old McDonald's playland toys that are now looking
like they're from some creepy orror movie. Go and find
those and restore those. No, that's good. I like that.
(11:40):
There's lots of good ideas. But yeah, I'd have a
bunch of you know, match Warren and event Warren boots
and robes, like what's what's that is? Museum? I would
pay today, Oh what are you getting paid for the
next ten years. I would tell I would tell Steve Cohen, listen,
(12:01):
how much do I have to donate to you to
be able to get a once a week, thirty minute
phone call with Buck show Walter, Like, this is what
I want. I don't want to take them away from
the bets that much, but once a week, thirty minutes
Buck and I talk about Hey, Buck, I saw that
you didn't bat McNeil in the ninth inning and you
(12:22):
let Thomas Needle hit Why did you do that? Buck?
Let's let's tell me tell me about that. Oh, you
know that I would see what I could donate and
I could get a thirty minute phone call from Buck
show Walter once a week. That's good. You would found
and uh bankroll a film production company and distributorship out
of cat Chatsworth. No, I'm really kind of digging the
(12:44):
idea of like being a real life Bruce Wayne. I
really kind of like that. And then once so and
then like once a month, I would be kid No no, no, no,
not well out of the outside of the crime fighting. Yeah,
because what would it would get expensive? Because listen, if
I'm spending the money on recreating Wayne Manner and I'm
getting the Batmobile and all the other stuff, and I'm
(13:05):
hiring you know, the people who worked in Wayne Manner,
and I'm you know, you would do it like the Joker.
You would do it like Joker did in the Lego
bat I would, I would have, you know, And and
once a month or once every couple of weeks, I
dress up in the Batman outfit and I drive out
and I try to fight crime. I would I would
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need to make sure that the crime I am fighting
was kind of like fixed so I would win, because
I don't know that I could go out and fight
crime and win like I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm fifty,
so I'm getting of the I don't know difficult. So
I would need to kind of fix it so I
would win. So maybe it would be like a fake crime,
like it would be a crime that people was just
like a wrestling match, heyd Like I would show up
(13:54):
at at a at a you know, a crime there's
something like someone trying to break into a car or something,
you know not and I would go in and break
it up and people would watch it real and then
they would go back and I would brood in my
manner for the next couple of weeks, but at least
once a month. I would also have to pay a
bunch of people to go to a dinner where I
would show up and I would look I would just
(14:15):
dress really sloppily and not talk to anyone, and people
look at me and go, that's Jason Smith, that's Jaye,
that's Bruce Wayne, that's Bruces. Well, my goodness, and I
would have that persona all through the dinner, and then
I would leave very abruptly at the end because something happened,
like Catwoman called me, and then I would leave and
go and they go, there, he is leaving a five
thousand dollar a plate dinner, what is he doing? And
then I would bank roll stuff that people would want,
(14:36):
but it would all be fake because they'd be there.
You know that, you know the ballet has canceled. He
took his yacht. Yeah, and then there to play a part.
So that I think that's kind of I think I
would be really they could be really happy doing that.
You really loved doing Tuesday and Harmon's theater. Jason Smith's
having open casting call for super Villains. Oh well, yeah,
well if you, but I would actually buy you a
(14:57):
theater because I would need your theater to host the
fake Times that I would be breaking up as Batman,
so you would have boy boy this theater they want.
They get robbed all the time, I know, but luckily
Batman is here. Lui, people this year, what the hell
were you doing? You can Jason and only show Cubs games?
Why does Batman? Why does this outfit have a big
(15:19):
Mets logo all across the chests In the script it
says Mets and it said Strawberry on the back and
it had number eighteen. What is going on? You know?
You should do, Jason. You should travel around the US
and fix every single McDonald's ice cream machine. That'd be amazing. Yeah,
I mean you want to talk about peace price right there?
(15:44):
If I did that, man, I could then run for
president after that. Look at what he did. The guy
went and fixed all the ice cream machines. Let's vote
this guy into office. He's fantastic. And I wouldn't be
in anybody's pocket because I have money up to worry about.
You would eat, I would try it, would make sure,
I would make sure it would were and I would
make sure they all serve chocolate, none of this vanilla
only that's the one thing about McDonald's. Come on, man,
(16:05):
give me a variety, kid. Just give me vanilla ice cream.
You gotta give me chocolate too. So that I would
fix him and I would make sure. Be sure to
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Mike harm Sure, I'd like to spank your bald head.
(16:29):
I hope you won the Mega Millions. If you did
not win the Mega Millions, you can play it again,
so goes, I'll play it again. It'll start again, I mean,
because I think the other one was going for uh
like one seventy five and everyone. Yeah, I'm playing that
one eight billion. Yeah, it's not been confirmed if there
is a winner yet. Uh. The numbers that were announced
(16:51):
last hour will give them to you again, Incasion, Miss
m Don Maynard, Jerry Kuzman, Pedro Martinez, yo On Santana,
Damien Woody and Richard to slash Sam Donald slash nil o'donald.
Those are your winning numbers in the Mega Millions lottery.
But speaking of well things, I wish I could predict
(17:12):
the future like I predicted this, because then I would
have won megamillions. Um. The two biggest stories tonight in
sports are going on in Major League Baseball. The first
one is well Tonight, July twenty nine will be known
as the night Aaron Judge one American League Most Valuable Player.
What he has done this year is absolutely outstanding. And
(17:35):
you know, not for enough, and but I just want
to say, before the season started, I told you Aaron
Judge was gonna win a l m v P. I
told you that was gonna happen. I laid it all
out for you, said he's gonna win forty one home
runs eighty nine RB I to home runs tonight, including
a Grand Slam, is gonna win it. And more so
(17:56):
than that, Mike Carmen, I'll tell you this, with forty
one home runs now before we get to August, right,
he Babe Ruth and Roger Marris the only Yankees to
get to forty home runs before August begins. If he
hits more than sixty one home runs, it's not gonna
matter how many home runs he winds up. But you
can wind up with sixty two, could wind up with
sixty five, sixty seven said it doesn't matter if he
(18:18):
has more than sixty one home runs. Yankee fans will
push that he is the real home run champion single
season of all time because of the controversy surrounding Mark McGuire,
the controversy surrounding Barry Bonds and Belco. And they will
start that campaign. And I'll tell you what, there will
be a ton of non Yankee fans, which is everybody
(18:39):
else in Major League Baseball, who will agree with that
and say, yes, Aaron Judge is the real all time leader.
Barry Bonds may have the record and the record books,
but Aaron Judge is the all time leader. It will
be a big debate and it will be something that
we we bat around in sports for a long time.
But Judge will be that guy. He's a Yankee, He's
got over sixty one home runs. He did it. He's
(18:59):
not doing anything illegal. He's Aaron Judge at least, and
yeah he hold on there, you think he's doing something illegal.
But what I'm saying is the we we I didn't
don't think of anybody, no, no, no. But that's the point.
Because people go back in history and they decide which
guys they like and they believe their stories or say
(19:23):
well he never got caught. Well he got a lot
of those guys that are either in the Hall of
Fame or highly celebrated guys, you have no idea what
they did or didn't do. So to categorically, you know,
with a blanket statement, say hey, he's done nothing. I
don't know, okay, and I'm not casting expersions to that effect,
But to just go and say he's the rightful guy,
(19:45):
I don't. I don't know about that really, Okay, Mike.
I think you might be committing crimes when you're away
from the radio. I think you're stealing cars. I don't
know that you're not. Think you're stealing I think, well, yeah, no,
that's gone. I think you're trusting like Cameron Poe and
you're stealing cars. Wait, you're not stealing cars. But I
don't know that you're not. I don't know. I mean
(20:07):
that that's kind of what you're saying. You can't do that.
You can't just say that, And that's I'm not saying
that he is. I'm just saying that given our history
with the sport, there's very uh. I mean, we just
had David Ortiz is going into the Hall of Fame.
But look, there's things you know, and look I can't
which we know. I can't say anybody is something that
(20:30):
I don't know when what they're doing. But when we
know something that we know, right, I mean, that's what
we know, we know what happened. Yes, so you're saying,
you're you could be suspicious of every single baseball player
going on right now, that they could be doing something,
justicious of everybody about everything. Yeah, it's not a healthy
way to live. I got it's but I'm gonna get
(20:58):
higher will because I just lost that. I don't even
know that's it. I'm hiring all those guys. How we
start talking about illegal stuff that one up, Well, that's
what happens to you. You keep getting bounced because you're
up to no good smith you I mean probably dripping
secret sauce. All did you cut me off? You know
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you're saying illegal stuff. I'm the guy saying you can't
talk about people doing illegal stuff. You don't know what
I lose my feet. No, no, no, no, no. Look,
I hope for the best. I always hope for the best.
I'm a glass have full kind of guy. But I'm
also a realist as we go through these processes, and
I hope to God that it's saying you know, training,
saying your prayers and eating your vitamins and it becomes
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the greatest season in baseball history. Now, they never took
away the records of those other guys, so it still
becomes a great fight and great debate because you know,
all the guys that got really rich in the media
are now the ones that get up on their soap
boxes and wag their fingers uh and shower with the
loudest But you know, it's it's gonna be a curious
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time as you get towards the end of the season.
That's all I'm saying it is, wait for those debates. Well,
because all the other guys are all just speculative thing.
I can't say anybody has done something when they haven't
been accused of anything. You can't can't do no, no, no.
But again, there there's the keywords you just said, accused,
because the other guys never it was never proven they
did anything. But now you're tearing them down even though
(22:26):
their records still stand. Well, the numbers my fault. That
dope Hall of Fame voters can't get things right. The
numbers are still there. But you're talking about being the
people's champion. What who who they can say didn't do
anything wrong, did it the right way? And you're saying, no,
you can't say that. I think you can't say. How
do you tear down the other guys that they was
never proven that they did anything because the hat size.
(22:50):
Come on, a guy went to jail for Barry Bonds
rather than test to come on, I went to jail
for a while. That's just the Tuesday. It's Tuesday. In
that story. There was a long story. But in the end,
did they prove he did anything? Answers that's a long
three still stand and that one you do not need
to prove everybody else maybe big hat size, hat size,
(23:13):
very No, he cheated, he's a liar. Wow, there he go.
He dr fran justin Flotsburgh. There. How do you feel
allegedly Bonds, it's still alleged Verry Bonds. I'm only talking
(23:34):
about that guy. Everybody else out of it. Is it
still allegedly? The Balco scandal was proven pretty big? Yeah, no, no, no,
no, no no no no. But I'm just saying, in terms
of the ingestion of anything, those guys were all indicted
and and and he and he was, I mean, he
wasn't indicted, but he was. Remember he had his purchase
(23:57):
tested positive. So bad job by him, he was. He
was convicted of obstruction of justice for for giving an
incomplete answer to questions. I mean yeah, I mean yeah,
would you want to be saying you always want to
be safe and say allegedly around something when you're talking legally,
But you know that's a that was a pretty big deal. Alright,
(24:19):
very good, alright, alright Frostberg's okay, uh yeah it look
it's it right now is just a ridiculous effort as
to how locked in he is and that people are
still pitching to him at this point. In Barry bonds
Best Seasons, it was, yeah, I'll throw to anybody. I
don't care if the basis you know, runners on runners
(24:43):
on first second, whatever, just load them. I don't care.
And honestly, can I tell you something And this is
something that is not really talked about a lot, but
just think about this for a second. Right, how many
times did Barry bonds get walked? Right? How many times? Right?
Hundred and fifty one year? I think a two thousand,
where he got walked like two thirty times. Right, Now,
that wasn't one game Bonds, right, That wasn't what right?
(25:04):
And so what did Barry Bonds do for the majority
of his career? He hit third or fourth right, That
was he hit third or fourth in in the Giants
line up when he was playing. Okay, now think about
this when you think about at bats and what he's
able to do and what Aaron Judge is able to do.
How many times did a game start where the first
two batters got out and Barry Bonds is up with
(25:26):
two outs and nobody on it he gets walked, or
you got two outs and runner at first and Barry
Bonds gets walked because I'd rather pitch the number five
batter than Barry Bonds. His first inning at bats, by
and large, were useless. Right, he would get on base.
But what are you doing with a guy on first
and two out, right, because that would happen Aaron Judge
hit second. Can't just walk Aaron Judge to start a game, right,
(25:49):
one out, one out, runner at first. Okay, that's a
big advantage. You got a pitch to Aaron Judge. So
it's it's not always just that, Hey in the first inning.
He's gonna hit home runs, but he's gonna see more pitches.
He's gonna be more engaged. He's going to be able
to hit more and get more opportunities because that first
at bat, he's getting one at bad a game more
than Barry Bonds to be able to do damage because
(26:09):
that first time you got a pitch to him. When
you're batting Barry Bonds, third and fourth, you don't always
have to pick playing in a bandbox too. Too bad
the Yankees can't get the can't get the the air
to blow out to left field, then they would really
have something. Yeah, Bonds at two thousand, one hundred seventy
seven walks, two thousand two in a hundred forty three games,
hundred ninety eight walks, two thousand, two thousand, four hundred
(26:34):
forty seven games played, two hundred thirty two walks, he
only had three hundred seventy three official at bats. It's
just fun theater. In the end, I celebrate whatever I
see on the field. He will. I'm telling you Aaron
Judge would wind up being the People's home run champ.
And there it would be a huge debate and there
(26:55):
will be a lot of people that would have his back,
trust me, so many say he's the real home He'd
be doing interviews and they would be asking him, Aaron,
people think you're the real home run champion. How do
you feel about that? And he would say, well, I'm
waiting for my new contract from the Yankees because I
want now. He wants really bolstered my room at the
bargaining table. He would do the interview wearing a crown,
(27:18):
having a scepter like the king in Hamilton's and he
would say to Brian Cashman, you'll be back. Really, you
gotta pay him now before he winds up getting more
money than one Soto. What are you doing, Aaron Judge
in the middle of the season. They're not taking any
deal right now. They're waiting at you, going let's go
(27:39):
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way in a few minutes. Happy Friday. But a big
controversy ended this week, and it's exactly how we told
(28:25):
you was going to end. Charles Barkley after this dance
with the Live Tour, which maybe a lot more dancing
on his part, maybe t J he was dancing with himself,
Barkley enough, he is staying with t n T. Was
very thankful to the Live Tour for the interest they
showed in him, and well, he said they didn't have
an offer, so I don't know what kind of interest
(28:45):
level there was, But Barkley in the end is staying
with T n T and he's gonna stay and be
a basketball broadcaster for the rest of his career. Now
we told you this is how it was going to end.
Two things happened this week and then the last week
I told you this was going to be the case
number one. Barkley talked about it yesterday about how, um,
(29:05):
he's very flattered, but he knows he has to give
an answer to t NT. There are sponsors involved. What
Barkley did was see an opportunity that either, hey, the
lifter wants to give me more money than I can
possibly imagine or more than likely. What he wanted was
t NT to give him extra money to do something
and sweeten up what they were going to give him.
Maybe they were going to extend his contract or give
(29:27):
him more money. But that's what this looked like because
Barkley was the guy keeping the story alive. There was
no statements from the live tour, there was no statements
from Greg Norman. There was just a meeting that Barkley had,
and maybe Barkley was the guy who pushed for the meeting,
but it was more of a business opportunity when someone
else is interested in you, Hey, I could leave to
go here, Um, maybe you give me a little bit more.
(29:49):
So we knew it was gonna end with Charles Barkley staying.
He stayed at t n T. The other part of
it is this Mike, and this is that he saw
that if he went to the Live Tour. He knew
that he would be the face of the guys and
the athletes and all the golfers who took money from
(30:10):
the Saudi Back League and would get a lot of
hate for it. He would be the face of it
because he's more popular than Phil Mickelson. He's more popular
than Surgery. Any of these guys golfers are. You know,
they're popular, but they're popular in golf. Charles Barkley has
a nationwide popularity that goes far beyond basketball. One of
the most recognizable analysts and talking heads in all of sports.
(30:34):
He would be the face of this, and he would
get a lot of hate. He also knew he'd be
irrelevant if he went to this tour because who's gonna
really care what he's talking about if he's talking about
the Live Tour on television on a match that no
one's gonna watch. Because that's the big thing about this
that no one's gotten to is that how is his
live Tour gonna have relevance here? People suddenly gonna start
(30:54):
watching this? The Live Tour is the USFL with more money.
That's what a r Hey, We're trying to get all
the players to come play for US, but we got
more money to do it, so we can. We're deep pockets.
We can hang around longer than the USFL can. But
in the end, we're trying to launch a new sport.
We're trying to it's gonna be a team sport. There's
only fourteen events. Barkley knew I'm going to lose all
(31:18):
kinds of relevancy because in reality, the Live Tour is
trying to start a new sport, and they do have
a lot of money, and that's a big thing because
you can get by a lot of ills by having
by having a lot of money. But in the end,
who's gonna watch this? Are people gonna go crazy? And
what No, they're not. They're not gonna go watch philm.
Nicholson play on the Live Tour? Not not enough. That's
gonna make a big difference. And Barkley would go and
he would talk and people wouldn't pay attention to what
(31:39):
he had to say because he'd be doing it on
something that no one was watching. People watch inside the NBA,
they watch the NBA. They stay watching the post game
of a forty point blowout just to see what Charles
and Shock and all the guys say he knew he
would lose that because, like I said, he's god, he
would be going to the USFL with more money. Yeah,
I would assume if he if he had made the
move that part of his deal, he was still gonna
(32:02):
be doing media appearances and talking basketball or maybe doing
a podcast or they buy airtime somewhere or launches a
podcast or whatever the case would be to where that
would still be part of his overall media portfolio. To
your point, I mean, you know, he only he can
answer UH for what he's gotten in terms of calls, backlash,
(32:27):
cat calls, whatever you want to call it. Right, he
did an interview without kick. He did UH an interview
with Dan Patrick earlier the week this week for the
network UH and talked about it, and a lot of
it was very much unless they really came over the top,
and they might have had some preliminary you know, bandy
bandy about some numbers and ballparks and whatever, but it
(32:48):
never got down to a formal Here's here's an offer sheet, right,
I mean it's in semantics, but that's where we're at.
And all, you know, for him, maybe he'll get a
little bit of a sweetener from the good folks at
Turner and maybe maybe not maybe ten ten a year
for the next three and whatever. The potential extension if
(33:09):
he wants to keep going, is all it took. But
when you talk about the viability, I mean, we're we're
doing updates that include the leaders in these tournaments, right,
So it's at least crossed into that how much viability
you have when Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson is just
(33:30):
you know, running out the string, and even him he
started going to the guy who's had a lot of goodwill,
walked up to the te box and started getting heckled
and had to back away. Right, that was one of
the things that happened today. So you know that you're
gonna you're gonna take some incoming for sure, and at
the in the end, you gotta be able to look
in the mirror and live with yourself. And maybe he decided,
(33:51):
for all that he invites from opposing fan bases and
cities that he's taken his shots at in the past,
this was a bridge too far. So unless it was
really an obscene amount of money, it wasn't worth the trouble.
And now it becomes a non issue and they go
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