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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Mike Harmon back after a night going to see the
Rolling Stones getting to see Mitt Jagger one more time
(00:57):
at the age of eighty one. All right, I ask
you rate this one being this was the worst concert
I've ever been to and I went to see actually
went to see Millie Vanillion concert about what one worst?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And ten?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
This is the greatest experience I've ever had? What were
the Stones?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I put it at it and you know, a good
solid seven and a half eight. Okay, man, I'm not
gonna say it was the best concert I've ever been to.
I just went and saw my my Afghan Wigs experience
last Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So yeah, but dude, you've been to see them like
five thousand times. You can't even judge them anymore. You're like,
you're like a You're like a dead fan light with
the Afghan Wigs, Like do you make jewelry when you
go see the wigs play? Do you do all kinds
of stuff outside? And dress and tight eye? Because I think,
what have you seen them?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Probably he wears a different wig, not quite, but he's
got the Fletch wig. Then he's got the the Daniel
Boone wig, and then the one.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I don't know for a fact. I just know it's true.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think you're I would look good in a will
It is even like fifty times that doesn't count, That
doesn't I would.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Say, in very different variations, probably not thirty five times, yea,
But yeah, they're they're far and away the most uh
in different iterations when we're talking Gutter Twins and the
Twilight Singers and solo and whatever, yeah, duly, and the
wigs probably the most, no question, all right, and then
(02:27):
it's out three times for the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I remember when I remember saying this is this is
what it's like. I saw the stones at the Carrier
Dome in eighty eight, right when I first got to
eighty eight, eighty nine, maybe eighty nine Steel Wheels. Eighty
nine would have been steel Mick Jagger was seventy Yeah,
so no, so Mick Jaggert.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Wait wait wait, how old was Mick Jagger at that point?
Smith Jagger was hanging on eighty eight, so take off thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean it's Mick Jagger was born in forty three,
So in eighty nine he was forty three, he was
forty six, Okay, in eighty nine, it's like, okay, wow,
forty it's like how much luck. And I remember thinking, God,
the stones have to stop. I mean, how many more
tours are they really gonna have? This is in nineteen
eighty nine, going to see the Steel Wheels tour, and
(03:14):
I'm like, their hits are done. I haven't had a
big hit since Start me Up.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And it's like twenty seven songs that night. Okay, yeah,
I know. It was a good concert like it was fun.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I remember you got before they make me run? I
got that last night.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But I remember going.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I remember thinking in eighty nine going, yeah, this is Stibban.
Come on, they've been they've been together since sixty two.
Come on, man, how much luck? And here it is nineties,
the aughts, the teens and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
They're still playing.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Me, still getting after it. I'm fortunately no more Charlie,
but still getting after it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, at some point, don't you just go I can't sing.
You can't always get what you want one more time,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'm done. I'm done getting the getting the rush and
the joy of being on stage.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And so I'm done. I've said I don't. I don't
care if I sing that song again. I really don't.
I can't do satisfaction one more time.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm ready to just sit home and just do whatever
I want to with the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Well, you know, he's a graduate of the London School
of Economics. There were some fifty thousand people there. Dynamic
pricing was in effect, so when folks bought in early,
you had some hefty prices for tickets. So I think
his bank accounts like it, and like Keith Richard said
years ago, coming out of COVID, they're like, what the
(04:31):
hell else am I gonna do at this point, which
I think is part of it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
What the hell else you gonna do with the fill
of the days.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Mick Jagger is worth six point five billion dollars. He's
a soccer fan. He should buy a soccer Maybe he
owns a side, maybe he don't bunch side.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He could buy the English Premier League if he wants to.
But like he's a huge soccer fan. I would do
something like that. I take this money, I'm gonna buy
it there. I could still leave with juniors.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
For my kids. You said estimate of billions. Yes, he's
worth six six and a half billion dollars. Mick Jaggers.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He's been touring for one hundred and twenty years.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's pretty good the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
So yeah, my great grandfather saw them.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean it's been a minute, but like it's a celebration. Like,
my kids enjoyed the show. We had a good time.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I really wish I had some of the songs that
were on the set list from Your Carrier Dome though
on the cover of the night Sad Sad Sad was on.
I was actually taunting Madeline with that song, thinking that
maybe I could get that speak that into his exist,
into exists and she goes, that's like poems that they
made us write when I was like in fourth grade, Like,
listen to the song and tell me that again.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Jerk and.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Rock in a Hard Place was part of their I
mean miss you. We did not get miss You. Yes,
oh okay, yeah, so I mean the set lists changed
up a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know. We had some some.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Spirituality with a couple of the songs that take you
like you feel like going back to church.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I don't know. We had a good time. It
was a good road trip for us.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
One day and back and now Madeline gets into the
next run of soccer stuff with the big tournament, and
Eleanor had to be at work.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
At two o'clock. So it was very very fast turn around. Here.
I am yelling at you, it's good now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Let's as Harmon is back now from the Rolling Stones
And speaking of people over the age of seventy, you
didn't think we'd be talking about tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Hulk Hogan brother appeared.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
At the RNC tonight, final night of the RNC convention,
which Donald Trump accepted the nomination for.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
President as he's going to run again.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Obviously we know all this, it's every day, but Hulk
Hogan was one of the keynote speakers tonight, and it's
something all day you're sitting here wondering, is he really
just gonna do his thing, like like he's not gonna
He's gonna give a speech right and talk about what
he thinks about about Trump and about running about He's
not just gonna go and do his like he's not
(06:55):
gonna do that. Oh no, no, Hulk Hogan gave you
the full Hull Cogan.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Here's the end of Hogan's speech from the RNC tonight.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
But what happened last week when they took a shot.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And my hero and they tried to kill the next
president of the United States? Shirt is coming off?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh laws enough said, look stop a Meania bron wild brother.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Lookopa Meania rule again. Let tropa media night ka right again.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
When I say the shirt's coming off and going yeah, no, no, no,
that's not euphemistically he actually he take while he's doing it,
he takes off his jay.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He's wearing a jacket.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, so he's wearing an actual jacket, and you know,
being over seventy, you know, it's not quite the Hulkamania.
I'm gonna hold and just kind of ri rip like
he did, you know growing up when you knew. But
he takes off the jacket and he's in door and
he takes his shirt that he's wearing on that I
believe is a shirt with his picture on it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Right, it's like a Hulkamania, a shirt with his picture
on it. Real American. Yeah, let's get He already rips
that shirt off that says Trump Vance on it.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So he does his entire act at the end, and
everybody is going crazy for it, and I'm watching this, going,
this is the only thing that would be better. The
only be better is if you say, hey, let's just
not do that. Let's go full into this, Like if
he does that speech and then in the middle he
turns heel and suddenly he goes, oh, I know, but
here's the real people. And he then he rips off
(08:38):
the Trump vance and it says Biden Harris or Harrison TBA,
and he rips that off and he's like, now let's
go and everybody starts booing, and then you get wrestlers
running in from the dressing room and there's a big
fight on stage and people are throwing stuff and there's
body slamming, and at the end they hold hands up
and everybody like, let's go full and do it, man,
(08:59):
let's just not let's just go full into story lines.
And then before they even throw back to the to
the studio where CNN or Foxes ever go, they go wow,
and then they just they just cut to mean gene.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oakerley who goes and there it is Hulk Cogan.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Don't forget August the twenty second Madison Square Garden. Tickets
are on sale right now that Ticketmaster. We'll be back
with Piper's Pit right after this.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I really thought you were gonna dive to the promo
being about the election day.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Don't forget to go out and vote. Oh yeah, no,
can't happen.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, the rip of the shirt, I mean there was
always you know, a little bit of question of whether
there was a notch cut to be ready to uh yeah,
Now that the.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thing is now and look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm not saying I'm showing you how the sausage is
made here, but when if you rip a shirt right,
And obviously when Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt, the shirts
were already pre ripped right, so it made it much
easier because he his shirts were already what.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're doing in PROS three break you're breaking is his brain.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't no, no, I don't mean when look when
Hogan did it when he was younger, you already had
like the slashes in the shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So it made it much easier. Like he had a
yeah no, but but it was like a half shirt
and it was a guy picked up Rocky and threw
him over the ropes Adrian catch me.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So it was easy to rip that off the time.
But now he's seventy, he needs a little more help.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Like if you're just.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Ripping a shirt and this is just a T shirt
he's wearing, Like if I try to rip a shirt off,
like I'm gonna struggle and I'm gonna really have to
like yet, like yank the neck and it's gonna it's
not gonna rip straight down the middle. It's gonna rip
like at an angle or however the thing rips. He
rips this thing straight down the middle almost like he
was unzipping it. And then it comes and I'm taking you.
(10:48):
I'm like, this is a shirt. I guarantee it. Well
that's a I guarantee you that was pre ripped. And
it was like right because he just goes right down
to like I'm just gonna pull this off right now,
and the shirt is gone.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, at least it wasn't a belcrow. We just have
the he's talking now one making the rounds is that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Remember President Trump is a WWE Hall of Famer, So
you know there's some great clips back in the day
with Stone Cold Steve Austin standing there when uh, you know,
Trump slapped Vince McMahon in the face. I mean, you
can go full on bring them all back in and
and certainly plenty of other wrestlers have chimed in wanting
(11:33):
part of the action, and even from beyond the iron
cheek with the famous message of blank the hogan became
a thing trending today. So yeah, there's a lie.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Really, you know what, I really, I really could have
used the iron cheek like I mean, I mean, I
mean you imagine that he was around and suddenly he
shows up and he walks on stage and he grabs
the microphone.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He starts yelling on no better, v heat on, no better.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
He's wearing the big steel toed boots and he starts
kicking a cogain and he goes USA tweet look at USA,
and people are booing the crap out of there, Like
I could have really gone for that today, Man, I
could have really gone to see it. Just go, just
go all the way it. Don't get Hey, Hulk was great,
but just get dive into the story line. Get He'll
Billy Jim on the side clapping and then running in
(12:17):
to do something. Get everybody going, man, bring it. And
the thing is all these rethlers that I'm thinking about
in my head, going no, no, he's dead, Nope, can't
use it, Nope, Nope, Nope. Boy, it's a lot of holograms. Nope,
that's a hologram. That's a hologram. Nope, that's a hologram. Nope,
that's a hologram too. Okay, but just go bring it
all in, bring it. I'll get everybody you can and
just go crazy with it. That would have been the best.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, the wrestling life was not kind. The other mean
that made the rounds, And of course I thought you'd
be entertained by this was Terry Crews from Idiocracy two
thousand and six, the Mike Judge vehicle talking about the
electoral process and Terry Cruise's outfit not too far from
white Hole Gogan was walking around with today.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay, it's got elect your lights.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Why people keep saying it's got electrolytes, I don't understand. Yeah, no,
anytime idiocracy trends, I know. Okay, something happened that is crazy.
Someone made a statement about the future that just is
is going to be prophesied by idiocracy.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And that's a oh yeah, no Terry Crews. Okay, no,
that that's pretty similar there. Okay, now I'm with you
right there, it does work. Yeah, and then right right there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But I mean think about the speeches and you know,
before he did an interview, you know, went up to
the podium and did the whole Hull Cogan run and
what you would expect from a you know, a promo.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Shoot.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Uh, he didn't sit down with an interview and he
talked about all his different concerns and it's it's it's
just odd, right, It's a very jarring thing. Where here
here's whole Cogan and you're expecting the over the top
and he's trying to have the calm rational here I
am as a concerned citizen.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a pretty different look. Yeah. I'm not saying he
can't be, but it's a little bit jarring.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Come on it if you would, Holk, Hogan, Holp, What
do you think of the education pop in this country?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
We know be a geen man when I'm hanging in
bagging in the gym and I'm thinking about taking those
apeak credits in high school and I want to see
if they can translate to college or do I got
to go to a community college and then take those
classes over again.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm thinking I want to just take it once in
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where tonight Mike Harmon decided, Hey, I'll come into work,
and because he came in, he got to see a
Bronnie James three pointer cat hearing one skip the night
(15:47):
last night missed the first two. Rich Ornberger was in
for you, and he and I now are We're new
best friends because we share that experience of hearing Bronnie
James's first three pointer ever.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Together.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This should have been you and I, but no, no, no,
I gotta go see Mick Jagger and the Stones. So
I miss Bronnie James's first three pointer and as a result,
we can't play the one he had tonight because you
were working.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
If you were not working, we could have played it.
But now we can't do it. And now Harmon's not
even speaking. Is order to try to steal my seat?
Now or what?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well? Apparently so maybe he turned off your microphone there
for a couple of time. Might have I mean, just
trying to take me down.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You shirped the role I mean, And now the audio
won't play of Bronnie James hitting a three points.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Because you're well min all it is it is you
miss You should have been there for an NBA moment
you are never going to see again, Bronnie. The stats
don't count. It doesn't matter. We said, did Bronnie James
hit a three last night? Was it a professional game?
Was it on television?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It counts you miss it? Yeah? I mean, in the end,
you know how much sleep I'm gonna lose over this?
A lot of it. You shouldn't use a lot, You
should lose a lot. Tell me and I don't sleep
particularly well.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But I don't think the thoughts of Bronnie James hitting
it three and not me not seeing it instantly, you know,
not that I didn't get a billion notifications or tweets
about it. Oh look, as Broddy James becoming the player
you guys said he.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Could be, Like, No, he hit a shot, not just
any shot, Mike, that was three.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Well, I mean not just any shot.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Isn't that one of those where everybody would normally start
screaming he was due?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
He is outscoring alex Saar, the number two overall pick
in the draft.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Man, come on, dude, certainly you know our guy Martin
Weiss on the updates tonight, he has taken it upon
himself that he will be the guy to keep saying
Alexander stars.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Although the thing Rick Puker were talking.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
About sars struggles from the field one of his last
twenty one but the fact that Rick Bueker also brought
up the body language, the ignoring of coaches, like that's
a much bigger thing that's festering right when.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We start talking about it. Yeah, fifty fifth.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Pick versus second pick, and yes, the noise and the
cacophony of voices not nearly loud into the bubbling cauldron
effect that we have for Bronnie James. Guess what, nobody knows?
Who the hell Alexander. Sorry, that's why there's a bit
of difference.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I held James beers.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
That is true of the show on Tuesday. I mean,
Sar did give us a lot of run and content
with that effort that this guy stinks. Yeah, but not
as bad as this guy. Oh hey, you're right, you
stay here and be back with you in a second.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But this is where I mean, And maybe maybe this
is because Bronnie James actually, you know, hit a couple
of shots now the last couple of games. Yeah, but
believe it or not, more bets have been placed on
Brownie James to win Rookie of the Year than any
other player at multiple sports books in Vegas. Now, is
(18:59):
thatack Edie is the most popular choice to win the
betting folloor realistic?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well yeah, because you know he's gonna get minutes and
he's gonna play, and it's gonna and there's a lot
of questions about Edie coming in. Is he gonna trans
this game going to translate? And so far Hey, Zach
Edy's game kind of translates.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I do like the fact that he actually got drafted
where you know he should have, because remember, everybody's like,
I don't know if that guy's even gonna get picked. Yeah,
that doesn't work in today's NBA Man the Year.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh well wait a minute, but more bets have been
placed on Brownie than anybody else. And it's this story
that makes me wish I could open up my own
pop up gambling odds because I would take any bet
you want on Bronnie James.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Winning Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, I mean I will can I will take your
money and just put it in my pocket and go
out and spend it right after I see you. Well,
you're not gonna hold onto it just yet, No, because
I'm never gonna have to pay you out because Bronnie
James is not gonna win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You're just giving money away for the social currency.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That you could tell your friends, you know what a
sports book, And I bet Bronnie James win Rookie the Year.
So if that thing comes put one hundred bucks on that.
If that thing comes through, oh I'm gonna be rich.
Bronnie Dude, Well, okay, is it worth it? You just
gave away a hundred dollars. Give it to me, Give
it to me and I'll pay you out. And I'm
gonna take that money and go spend it right away.
I will come in with new kicks and new pants
(20:21):
and new shirts and all kinds of crazy ass new
mets and jets. That's where'd you get all that money, Jason?
All all the money I'm taking on people saying that, hey,
they bet Bronnie James win Rookie of the Year because
I'm never gonna have to pay it out because it's
not gonna happen. Why wait, I'm not gonna have to
save this money until the actual award is given out.
I'm gonna spend it all now because no one's gonna
come looking to me for it because he's not gonna
(20:43):
win it. It's insane.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
People are giving money away just because they want to be.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Able to say, yeah, yeah, I was in Vegas the
other day and I or I went online to put
up put some money on Bronnie to to win Rookie
of the Year. Yeah, don't I sound cool by putting
money on Bronnie to win Rookie the year and then
five seconds lady realized, Oh yeah, I just I just
gave money away. I just gave cash away for that. Well,
I think part of it is at two hundred and
fifty or three hundred to one.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yes, it is something you'd be able to pocket and
just run off like you're a rogue fantasy fantasy commissioner. Yeah,
I'll be the guy commissioner this year. Why it's like
my cash flow is a little problematic, but I get everybody,
actually give me the one hundred bucks ahead up front.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'll be able to, you know, use that as the float.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And you can do that certainly in California obviously no
legalized gambling, so you're you're not able to do that
right now, Smith, but you know you go in and
apply for a gaming license.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So that's why I got to do a pop up.
Like that's why I do a pop up and do
it that way. I have to leave if the cops
come to shut me down.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I gotta be like, you know, show, hey, guess what,
Jason's going to be here for a half hour only
because by then that's too long the cops might show up.
So half hour come place your bets. Then I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I have like this big cardboard thing that I stand
up and I stand behind it, like line of selling
the lemonade in panuts, and I just I can just pour.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It right down and go. I'm done, put it under
my shoulder walking around. I'll let you know what. I'm
gonna be open for business again. Guys. I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I was gonna say you could do it like being
you know, someone operating a hot dog card outside of
concert venue. Oh wait, they don't bother to legislate any
of that. But the guy with the T shirt, they
did chase him off. I did see him get run
yesterday up in Santa Clair. But you know, in when
I was in Ireland, you had the different betting operators.
(22:29):
Basically you were betting against them. You know, they'd print
out a ticket, you know John John Barley Corn's you
know betting outfit, Come on and bet with me, or
you could bet you know standard that was at the racetrack.
So you could do that, you know, because you could
shop for odds like you do online. But you know,
I think this is a good venture for you to
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actually do that in Vegas and go through in the
gaming board and get a license and start making a
book on these preposterous odds. Yeah, you don't do anything else.
You don't do anything that no no legitimate shot of
actually coming through. It's just the you know, the Browny
James Rookie of the Year, or you know, pick your
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favorite MBP odds, like, hey, this guy's.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
A fan favorite. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I liked about the Yankees to win the Nope, take
your business someplace else.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What you're not gonna Nope, not taking a bet on that? No, no, no, no, no,
this is what I'm taking a bet on.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
No, I only take White Sox futures, White Sox Marlins.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You want to bet on them to win the World Series,
I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I'll take that bet right here again, and don't worry.
If you win, I will make sure to pay you.
Don't worry about it. We specialize only in long shots.
It's long shot betting with Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Odds have to be at least fifty to one for
us to even let you place a place a bet
on anything we're doing.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
We're gonna make a big bull prediction for the second
half of the Major League Baseball season coming up in seconds.
But first, Martin Weiss has what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Martin Weiss, who actually took all the
money he's made this week from the extra update ships,
has put him on Bronnie James to win rope that
year in Vegas.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Well, you know, Harmon, I'm just I'm just here to
do my duty, and my duty tonight is to say
that Alexander Saar.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Finishing with two points on one for six shooting from
the floor. You guys, you've got a baseball bat in
your hands there while you're doing it.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
They bat one shot made and his last twenty one
attempts from the floor for the number twelve overall pick
and bad body language per Rick Buker.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Hey, only one shot more than the three of us
have hit.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
That is you know what, Hey, you don't know what
I used to do in the past. It might be
not I'm just kidding, but it's also.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
One more than he hit the other night. So he
is getting better. I have seen improvement that is get
much worse.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Even though Mike Harmon is here today, Brianni James did
hit a three the future rookie of the Year, Just kidding,
finished with thirteen points on five for ten. Dalton connect
finish was twenty points on seven for sixteen shooting. The
Clipper is trading Russell Westbrooks in a second round, picking
cash to the Utah Jazz. They're getting Chris dunnback. Westbrook
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expected to agree to a contracted buyout with the Utah
clearinghouse there and eventually signed with the Denver Nuggets. The
Alabama I'm sorry University of Alabama plans to honor former
coach Nick Saban. They're gonna name the football field for
him there at Bryant Denny Stadium. Jacksonville Jaguars suit Amid Patel.
He's a staffer who stole twenty two million dollars from
the team in a three and a half year period
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to pay off gambling debts and fund the life of luxury.
You see, guys, that's what was Mitzuhara. That's what he
was missing, the life of luxury. You know, he had
all the gambling debts, none of the life of luxury.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Anyways, what the.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Thing is the other guy I think was at least
winning like Ebe was, Like he would win like one
out of every seventeen bets, Like he was the worst
better ever.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
True, true, Well, Patel, he's now losing because he's being
sued by the Jacksonville Jaguars for six stay six.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Point six million, triple the loss tripple Loody stole for
the embarrassment of looking like a bunch of dopes because
they lost track at twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That this guy, they're.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Trying to say that he's Satan suing him for sixty
six point six Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's in a Florida state court.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Looking at the open right now. Daniel Brown at six
under leads after the first round, Shane Lowry's five under,
Justin Thomas three unders, Andrew Softley two, Brooks Kopka and
Scottie Scheffler both one under, Tiger Woods eight over, Roy
McRoy seven over, Bryson d. Chambeau five over. That second
round is about to get started any minute now. The
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Dolphins placed Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips on the pup list,
and Saint Petersburg has approved plans for the Ray's new
one point three billion dollars stadium. It will have thirty
thousand seats and other news, just ten thousand more than
the largest high school football stadium in Texas, which is
Happy State Banks Stadium and Kenyon to capacity twenty thousand.
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Well the race, and I raise you ten thousand seats
from my major league team. It's got a fixed roof
as well, and expect it to be ready for Opening
Day twenty twenty eight. I know the Tampa area is
just waiting with baited breath for that one. Back to
you guys, Thanks so much, Marty, appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
Tirech dot Com Studios. So at this time tomorrow night,
we'll be in full swing with the second half of
the Major League Baseball season second halffish. Obviously we're through
ninety inch games, but with the All Star break looking ahead,
the next couple of nights are gonna have big, bold predictions.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Going ahead for the rest of the year. And I'll
tell you this, this this big one. For now.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
My concern for a team that's in a World Series
or bus season is about it a ten. And it's
not because they're terrible team that's in first place. My
concern for them is about a ten because the Dodgers
have a lot of problems right now, all right, They
started out the season exactly how we thought they were
going to. Right, They're going to roll over everybody, big
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lead in the West show. Hey, Otani is hitting exactly
how they hoped he would hit. It was a great start.
But the Dodgers have been five hundred under five hundred
for the last two plus months. The Mets have had
a better record than the Dodgers the last two months.
Dodgers sitting around meander around of twenty three and twenty four.
And the reason my concern is out of ten is
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because their needs are not going to be met at
the deadline. They have zero starting pitching.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And this is in an off season where it's an
a we save money on Otani's let's go give Yoshinobu
Yamamoto three hundred million dollars. What do I always say, Mike,
I'm never going to be upset if I lose a
bidding war for a starting pitcher, because it's such a
dicey investment.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You're down that road, come through, right, you've been down
that road.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Remember, you had the greatest rotation that we'd seen since
the what nineteen seventy Orioles assembled. They were going to
dominate for years. Ye one by one, Yeah, oh went away.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
The one guy they should have kept was the one
guy they trade. We'll keep everybody but Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
No, he was a guy to keep. He was the
guy to keep. But the Dodgers they have no starting
pitching right none. And you're they're banking right.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Now that Clayton Kershaw will come back whenever he comes back,
and he will be great.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, Clayton's been look.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Obviously first ballot Hall of Fame pitcher, best left handed
pitcher I've seen in thirty years. He is just unreal.
But he's thirty six, coming off yet another injury, and
you're banking on him, who has had playoff failures his
entire career. You're banking on Kershaw. You're banking on Walker Buehler,
who came back from after being gone for two years
and got racked up and down. He's now in the
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minor leagues trying to figure it out. You're banking that
he's gonna come back and be able to do something.
You're banking that Bobby Miller's gonna come back up from
the miners and get it, because he's someone that you
thought was gonna be great. No, not him, Yamamoto Now
sixty day d L and when's he going to Is
he gonna even pitch again this year?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, but you're talking about these are this is what
you thought.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Your starting pitch, you're starting rotation was gonna be in
addition to Tyler Glass now and Glass now has been great,
but he's hurt now I gotta think. Look, it's not suddenly. Hey,
Glass now looks like he's gonna be fine. He'll be
back to pitch in a week or so, so I'm
fine with him. But all of this, you're not gonna
fix this because look at the starting pitching that's available
to deadline.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
There's nobody.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
There's no star players, there's no Verlander, there's no Sures
or there's no guy. Hey, we'll go get these guys
the deadline and get somebody because it's gonna help us.
Because there's no big names, you're gonna have to take
chances on smaller names that you're gonna have to give
up big prospects for.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And not only one. You're the Dodgers. You need two starters.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You don't need one, and you I would even go
for three because you know after you say, how much
can you count on guys coming back? But if you're
going to be the World Series or bust here because
if you're not in the World Series, if you're the Dodgers,
this year, this year.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Is a failure.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What you went out, the money you went out to
spend getting Hernandez to throwing him the money you spent.
This has to be a World Series year or it's
an absolute failure. And I don't see where things get better.
The Dodgers, Hey, well they get to the playoffs. Of
course they're a team. They're regular season good. We know
they've been regular season good for a decade. But in
the playoffs, look what happens to them. Look what happened
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last year. We thought they were gonna roll through the
first round of the playoffs. Kershaw gives up five in
the first inning of Game one and the Dodgers never recover.
The Dodgers look like they could be a first round
and out again. Because I just don't see how they're
gonna solve the starting pitching thing, Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I don't see how suddenly players will shake loose.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Oh boy, these are guys are gonna give you in
the twelve or thirteen starts they're gonna make. They're gonna
give you ten quality ones. I just don't see that
being out there for the Dodgers to go get. And
because of the situation they're in, I bet you they
shy away from it and they rely and say, well,
we'll hope our guys coming back. We'll hold our breath
and hope they can wind up doing it for us.
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My concern for the Dodgers is about at a ten. Yeah,
the curiosity it becomes for the deadline.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
With the second wildcard, we've seen so many more teams
that just lean into the we're a potential contender and
if we get in, who the hell knows, right, So
you don't see a massive amount of deals necessarily to
be swung here, and the starters that are out there,
you're gonna have great competition for those teams that are
all in. I mentioned the Oriels just for the fact
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that they're looking for another starter. So now there's the
competition for Crochet or School or Flaherty or whoever else
it might be there. But it dips pretty fast in
terms of quality options, and the price of poker goes up, right,
because you've got some serious contenders that wanted to want
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to go into this limited space right position scarcity that
we always talk about in fantasy comes to major League
Baseball in terms of quality options that can help you.
And again for the Dodgers, it's not that you need
one more arm. You really do need some help. You
need some help probably at the back end of your
lineup as well. I mean, you've had some great performances
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thus far. Freeman and obviously Otani and Tao scar Or
however we're pronouncing his first name, Hernandez, who's one of
the great bargains who you know, didn't get his his
off big off season deal, a guy who becomes a priority.
But beyond that, Will Smith's been great, and Spurts knows
how to handle the staff and maybe you know, some
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experience with handling some of these other guys gives you
an opportunity. But you're looking at, you know, banking on
two or three fifths of your starting rotation to come
back from injury and immediately go back to form. Did
you imagine Glass now? All right, probably the most likely
to step back in. Kershaw had another good rehab start,
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so is you know his start to the twenty twenty
four campaign does that mean he's able to finish it
and finish it well, I don't know a lot of
question mark, and I'm not banking on Yamamoto back based
on the recent move to the sixty day even if
they say mid August. So well, hey, it's a lot
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of wishing and hoping. Right, Mookie's gonna come back. That's good.
So we'll get to say Mooky bleeping bets again down
the stretch and maybe that'll help jump start some things.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
But yeah, nervousness certainly there.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
But you know, across the National League outside of the Phills,
is there a team that stands out that you're really
that in Atlanta? I guess that you're really that nervous
about me, and.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's the Mets. Sure, shut up. There you go. There's
summary statement right there.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Concern for the Dodgers is about because it's only because
it's World Series or bust. It's that, look, they'll make
the playoffs, like but World's yeah, out of the ten exit,
out out of Fresco exit, swalling down. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon coming up next.
We had a big train in the NBA to day
and the big question to ask is why next?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Speaker 2 (35:21):
Studios, where we saw big trade in the NBA today.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
And I say big and I go eh, and I
really want to say, well, why I don't understand. Russell
Westbrook is going to eventually end up with the Denver Nuggets.
The Clippers making a move, deciding to move on trade
into the Utah Jazz. The Jazz are going to buy
out the remainder of his contract, which is only four million,
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So it's not like we're talking about a thirty million
dollar buy out.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's four million. It's a rounding error for the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They're going to buy him out and that's going to
clear his way to sign with the Nuggets. The Nuggets
have talked about adding another member of the backcourt. Some look,
they need a little bit more depth. They want somebody
a little more dynamic to come in back up Jamal Murray,
and they're gonna go with Russell Westbrook and I get it.
I understand, but I look at us and I go,
(36:19):
how to teams? What's still the fascination with Russell Westbrook? Right?
It's you know, I always go back to dude. People
just look at the back of his basketball card and go, boy,
we can get this guy. Dude, he's thirty six y.
He hasn't been really good for years, and even then,
he's a hard guy to fit in to whatever you
want to do, unless you have a second unit where
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it's going to be Russ's gonna come in and he's
gonna play a certain number of minutes and it's only
with the second unit, and it's gonna be he's gonna
get subbed out when everybody comes out.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
How's he going to fit in? He's always been a
difficult fit.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Like we talked to Rick Buker about it a couple
hours ago on the show and he said, you know,
the love that players have for him is insane, and
I go, you know, that's great, but you want to
try to win, and don't players see that, Hey, no
one's a Russell Westbrook away from winning anything like this
is okay. It's great that the Nuggets went in and
there they're getting someone in the backcourt here. But you
see Russell Westbrook and I go, eh, it's it's just
(37:17):
a move. And is it something that's gonna work or
is it something where we tried and we have to
move on because the Clippers thought he was going to
be a big addition to the team. And now at
least they've moved on from two of the overpriced older guys.
They had to move on from Uvan, from Paul George,
which was great. They move on from Westbrook, which is great.
They're still sunk in on Kawhi and James Harden, which
is not great. But hey, okay, at least I got
(37:38):
rid of two of the guys. But you know, when
I see Westbrook go wow, Okay, Westbrook got traded. But really,
the the impact of it for me is kind of man. Okay, yeah,
Nuggets went and got a backup point guard, and the
Clippers probably did better by moving on from him and
getting into something else. But you know, I mean, look,
it's been years since it is and nobody can look
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back and say, hey, going and getting Russell Westbrook, that
turned our season around, going bringing him in, that turned
us into a great team. Nobody can say that. And
he's had a few teams now he's put up great
numbers that four years where he's average triple doubles. But
nobody can walk back, cal walk around and say, hey,
going to get him. That was the move that put
us over the top. It's not an over the top
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move that Denver nuggets and simply we need a guy playing.
That's what they may think. It's bigger than that, and
we're gonna run him out there and the mile high
air and he's go up and down the floor and
everybody tired, and all these things are gonna happen. None
of those things are gonna happen. Right, this is you're
adding Russell Westbrook. Okay, it's a man move.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, you take your shot based on history. And if
you're Michael Malone and staff Calvin Booth, you know, alluding
to the imminent move in his presser that you can
coach some of the best out of him, maybe you
get a little bit of that Kyrie Irving kind of
turn again.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The Bucker thing is really fascinating.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I can't wait to either hear the podcast recapping his
findings or reading an article about it, because it is
one of those situations whereby he moves around and players
are reverential.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You know, we've talked about it.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I love the the effort that he gives on a
court results and how how it flows in terms of
actual winning.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
That's a whole other thing. So when we look at
Denver trying.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
To get some depth at a piece, can he be
that that guy like we watch Gyrie in Dallas where
he gets some positive performance, but also that that he
is a leader and takes on that role. I don't know,
because clearly they didn't have enough depth to get after
it this last year and now trying to shuffle deck
(39:46):
chairs to bring in a guy, uh, to to re
establish some of that bench because because this is not.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
A guy that you're bringing in to say, hey, he's
coming in and we need a point guard. Right, Like
that's where Hey, the fit with Washington in five years
ago was actually pretty good. Right, that means average a
triple double for the last time in his career. Hey,
that that worked out really well. But when you're trying
to win a championship, look at the teams that have
done this and said, hey, we're gonna go after him
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to win a championship. Houston didn't work right, the Lakers
didn't work, Clippers didn't work.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Okay, So really, like like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Like like championship teams that have this, this fascination that
a Russell, Will Russell, Wilson, Russell Westbrook's gonna come in
he ain you either.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
No, he's not.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
He's not either. He'll lose his job to Justin Fields.
It will happen. Uh, you know, I just I just
look at it, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I don't get the fascination with it, and and and
and why teams say, yes, this is a move we
have to make, especially teams that are going after and
saying this is our over the top championship move.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
We can fix him. We can always fix him.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
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Mike Harmon back after a night going to see the
Rolling Stones getting to see Mitt Jagger one more time
(00:57):
at the age of eighty one. All right, I ask
you rate this one being this was the worst concert
I've ever been to and I went to see actually
went to see Millie Vanillion concert about what one worst?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
And ten?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
This is the greatest experience I've ever had? What were
the Stones?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Last night?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I put it at it and you know, a good
solid seven and a half eight. Okay, man, I'm not
gonna say it was the best concert I've ever been to.
I just went and saw my my Afghan Wigs experience
last Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So yeah, but dude, you've been to see them like
five thousand times. You can't even judge them anymore. You're like,
you're like a You're like a dead fan light with
the Afghan Wigs, Like do you make jewelry when you
go see the wigs play? Do you do all kinds
of stuff outside? And dress and tight eye? Because I think,
what have you seen them?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Probably he wears a different wig, not quite, but he's
got the Fletch wig. Then he's got the the Daniel
Boone wig, and then the one.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I don't know for a fact. I just know it's true.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think you're I would look good in a will
It is even like fifty times that doesn't count, That
doesn't I would.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Say, in very different variations, probably not thirty five times, yea,
But yeah, they're they're far and away the most uh
in different iterations when we're talking Gutter Twins and the
Twilight Singers and solo and whatever, yeah, duly, and the
wigs probably the most, no question, all right, and then
(02:27):
it's out three times for the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I remember when I remember saying this is this is
what it's like. I saw the stones at the Carrier
Dome in eighty eight, right when I first got to
eighty eight, eighty nine, maybe eighty nine Steel Wheels. Eighty
nine would have been steel Mick Jagger was seventy Yeah,
so no, so Mick Jaggert.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Wait wait wait, how old was Mick Jagger at that point?
Smith Jagger was hanging on eighty eight, so take off thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean it's Mick Jagger was born in forty three,
So in eighty nine he was forty three, he was
forty six, Okay, in eighty nine, it's like, okay, wow,
forty it's like how much luck. And I remember thinking, God,
the stones have to stop. I mean, how many more
tours are they really gonna have? This is in nineteen
eighty nine, going to see the Steel Wheels tour, and
(03:14):
I'm like, their hits are done. I haven't had a
big hit since Start me Up.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And it's like twenty seven songs that night. Okay, yeah,
I know. It was a good concert like it was fun.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I remember you got before they make me run? I
got that last night.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But I remember going.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I remember thinking in eighty nine going, yeah, this is Stibban.
Come on, they've been they've been together since sixty two.
Come on, man, how much luck? And here it is nineties,
the aughts, the teens and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
They're still playing.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Me, still getting after it. I'm fortunately no more Charlie,
but still getting after it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, at some point, don't you just go I can't sing.
You can't always get what you want one more time,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I'm done. I'm done getting the getting the rush and
the joy of being on stage.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And so I'm done. I've said I don't. I don't
care if I sing that song again. I really don't.
I can't do satisfaction one more time.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm ready to just sit home and just do whatever
I want to with the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Well, you know, he's a graduate of the London School
of Economics. There were some fifty thousand people there. Dynamic
pricing was in effect, so when folks bought in early,
you had some hefty prices for tickets. So I think
his bank accounts like it, and like Keith Richard said
years ago, coming out of COVID, they're like, what the
(04:31):
hell else am I gonna do at this point, which
I think is part of it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
What the hell else you gonna do with the fill
of the days.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Mick Jagger is worth six point five billion dollars. He's
a soccer fan. He should buy a soccer Maybe he
owns a side, maybe he don't bunch side.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
He could buy the English Premier League if he wants to.
But like he's a huge soccer fan. I would do
something like that. I take this money, I'm gonna buy
it there. I could still leave with juniors.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
For my kids. You said estimate of billions. Yes, he's
worth six six and a half billion dollars. Mick Jaggers.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He's been touring for one hundred and twenty years.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's pretty good the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
So yeah, my great grandfather saw them.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean it's been a minute, but like it's a celebration. Like,
my kids enjoyed the show. We had a good time.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I really wish I had some of the songs that
were on the set list from Your Carrier Dome though
on the cover of the night Sad Sad Sad was on.
I was actually taunting Madeline with that song, thinking that
maybe I could get that speak that into his exist,
into exists and she goes, that's like poems that they
made us write when I was like in fourth grade, Like,
listen to the song and tell me that again.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Jerk and.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Rock in a Hard Place was part of their I
mean miss you. We did not get miss You. Yes,
oh okay, yeah, so I mean the set lists changed
up a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know. We had some some.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Spirituality with a couple of the songs that take you
like you feel like going back to church.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I don't know. We had a good time. It
was a good road trip for us.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
One day and back and now Madeline gets into the
next run of soccer stuff with the big tournament, and
Eleanor had to be at work.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
At two o'clock. So it was very very fast turn around. Here.
I am yelling at you, it's good now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Let's as Harmon is back now from the Rolling Stones
And speaking of people over the age of seventy, you
didn't think we'd be talking about tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Hulk Hogan brother appeared.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
At the RNC tonight, final night of the RNC convention,
which Donald Trump accepted the nomination for.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
President as he's going to run again.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Obviously we know all this, it's every day, but Hulk
Hogan was one of the keynote speakers tonight, and it's
something all day you're sitting here wondering, is he really
just gonna do his thing, like like he's not gonna
He's gonna give a speech right and talk about what
he thinks about about Trump and about running about He's
not just gonna go and do his like he's not
(06:55):
gonna do that. Oh no, no, Hulk Hogan gave you
the full Hull Cogan.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Here's the end of Hogan's speech from the RNC tonight.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
But what happened last week when they took a shot.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And my hero and they tried to kill the next
president of the United States? Shirt is coming off?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh laws enough said, look stop a Meania bron wild brother.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Lookopa Meania rule again. Let tropa media night ka right again.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
When I say the shirt's coming off and going yeah, no, no, no,
that's not euphemistically he actually he take while he's doing it,
he takes off his jay.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He's wearing a jacket.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, so he's wearing an actual jacket, and you know,
being over seventy, you know, it's not quite the Hulkamania.
I'm gonna hold and just kind of ri rip like
he did, you know growing up when you knew. But
he takes off the jacket and he's in door and
he takes his shirt that he's wearing on that I
believe is a shirt with his picture on it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Right, it's like a Hulkamania, a shirt with his picture
on it. Real American. Yeah, let's get He already rips
that shirt off that says Trump Vance on it.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So he does his entire act at the end, and
everybody is going crazy for it, and I'm watching this, going,
this is the only thing that would be better. The
only be better is if you say, hey, let's just
not do that. Let's go full into this, Like if
he does that speech and then in the middle he
turns heel and suddenly he goes, oh, I know, but
here's the real people. And he then he rips off
(08:38):
the Trump vance and it says Biden Harris or Harrison TBA,
and he rips that off and he's like, now let's
go and everybody starts booing, and then you get wrestlers
running in from the dressing room and there's a big
fight on stage and people are throwing stuff and there's
body slamming, and at the end they hold hands up
and everybody like, let's go full and do it, man,
(08:59):
let's just not let's just go full into story lines.
And then before they even throw back to the to
the studio where CNN or Foxes ever go, they go wow,
and then they just they just cut to mean gene.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oakerley who goes and there it is Hulk Cogan.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Don't forget August the twenty second Madison Square Garden. Tickets
are on sale right now that Ticketmaster. We'll be back
with Piper's Pit right after this.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I really thought you were gonna dive to the promo
being about the election day.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Don't forget to go out and vote. Oh yeah, no,
can't happen.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, the rip of the shirt, I mean there was
always you know, a little bit of question of whether
there was a notch cut to be ready to uh yeah,
Now that the.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thing is now and look at it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm not saying I'm showing you how the sausage is
made here, but when if you rip a shirt right,
And obviously when Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt, the shirts
were already pre ripped right, so it made it much
easier because he his shirts were already what.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're doing in PROS three break you're breaking is his brain.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't no, no, I don't mean when look when
Hogan did it when he was younger, you already had
like the slashes in the shirt.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So it made it much easier. Like he had a
yeah no, but but it was like a half shirt
and it was a guy picked up Rocky and threw
him over the ropes Adrian catch me.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So it was easy to rip that off the time.
But now he's seventy, he needs a little more help.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Like if you're just.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Ripping a shirt and this is just a T shirt
he's wearing, Like if I try to rip a shirt off,
like I'm gonna struggle and I'm gonna really have to
like yet, like yank the neck and it's gonna it's
not gonna rip straight down the middle. It's gonna rip
like at an angle or however the thing rips. He
rips this thing straight down the middle almost like he
was unzipping it. And then it comes and I'm taking you.
(10:48):
I'm like, this is a shirt. I guarantee it. Well
that's a I guarantee you that was pre ripped. And
it was like right because he just goes right down
to like I'm just gonna pull this off right now,
and the shirt is gone.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, at least it wasn't a belcrow. We just have
the he's talking now one making the rounds is that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Remember President Trump is a WWE Hall of Famer, So
you know there's some great clips back in the day
with Stone Cold Steve Austin standing there when uh, you know,
Trump slapped Vince McMahon in the face. I mean, you
can go full on bring them all back in and
and certainly plenty of other wrestlers have chimed in wanting
(11:33):
part of the action, and even from beyond the iron
cheek with the famous message of blank the hogan became
a thing trending today. So yeah, there's a lie.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Really, you know what, I really, I really could have
used the iron cheek like I mean, I mean, I
mean you imagine that he was around and suddenly he
shows up and he walks on stage and he grabs
the microphone.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He starts yelling on no better, v heat on, no better.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
He's wearing the big steel toed boots and he starts
kicking a cogain and he goes USA tweet look at USA,
and people are booing the crap out of there, Like
I could have really gone for that today, Man, I
could have really gone to see it. Just go, just
go all the way it. Don't get Hey, Hulk was great,
but just get dive into the story line. Get He'll
Billy Jim on the side clapping and then running in
(12:17):
to do something. Get everybody going, man, bring it. And
the thing is all these rethlers that I'm thinking about
in my head, going no, no, he's dead, Nope, can't
use it, Nope, Nope, Nope. Boy, it's a lot of holograms. Nope,
that's a hologram. That's a hologram. Nope, that's a hologram. Nope,
that's a hologram too. Okay, but just go bring it
all in, bring it. I'll get everybody you can and
just go crazy with it. That would have been the best.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, the wrestling life was not kind. The other mean
that made the rounds, And of course I thought you'd
be entertained by this was Terry Crews from Idiocracy two
thousand and six, the Mike Judge vehicle talking about the
electoral process and Terry Cruise's outfit not too far from
white Hole Gogan was walking around with today.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Okay, it's got elect your lights.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Why people keep saying it's got electrolytes, I don't understand. Yeah, no,
anytime idiocracy trends, I know. Okay, something happened that is crazy.
Someone made a statement about the future that just is
is going to be prophesied by idiocracy.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
And that's a oh yeah, no Terry Crews. Okay, no,
that that's pretty similar there. Okay, now I'm with you
right there, it does work. Yeah, and then right right there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But I mean think about the speeches and you know,
before he did an interview, you know, went up to
the podium and did the whole Hull Cogan run and
what you would expect from a you know, a promo.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Shoot.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Uh, he didn't sit down with an interview and he
talked about all his different concerns and it's it's it's
just odd, right, It's a very jarring thing. Where here
here's whole Cogan and you're expecting the over the top
and he's trying to have the calm rational here I
am as a concerned citizen.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a pretty different look. Yeah. I'm not saying he
can't be, but it's a little bit jarring.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Come on it if you would, Holk, Hogan, Holp, What
do you think of the education pop in this country?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
We know be a geen man when I'm hanging in
bagging in the gym and I'm thinking about taking those
apeak credits in high school and I want to see
if they can translate to college or do I got
to go to a community college and then take those
classes over again.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm thinking I want to just take it once in
high school. Exit Up out of Fresco, Exit Swollen Dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Garvith liveth Tirec dot
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a great story out of the NBA and a Big
Bowl prediction to help kick off the second half of
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Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 1 (15:26):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tyrac dot Com studios
where tonight Mike Harmon decided, Hey, I'll come into work,
and because he came in, he got to see a
Bronnie James three pointer cat hearing one skip the night
(15:47):
last night missed the first two. Rich Ornberger was in
for you, and he and I now are We're new
best friends because we share that experience of hearing Bronnie
James's first three pointer ever.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Together.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
This should have been you and I, but no, no, no,
I gotta go see Mick Jagger and the Stones. So
I miss Bronnie James's first three pointer and as a result,
we can't play the one he had tonight because you
were working.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
If you were not working, we could have played it.
But now we can't do it. And now Harmon's not
even speaking. Is order to try to steal my seat?
Now or what?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well? Apparently so maybe he turned off your microphone there
for a couple of time. Might have I mean, just
trying to take me down.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You shirped the role I mean, And now the audio
won't play of Bronnie James hitting a three points.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Because you're well min all it is it is you
miss You should have been there for an NBA moment
you are never going to see again, Bronnie. The stats
don't count. It doesn't matter. We said, did Bronnie James
hit a three last night? Was it a professional game?
Was it on television?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It counts you miss it? Yeah? I mean, in the end,
you know how much sleep I'm gonna lose over this?
A lot of it. You shouldn't use a lot, You
should lose a lot. Tell me and I don't sleep
particularly well.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But I don't think the thoughts of Bronnie James hitting
it three and not me not seeing it instantly, you know,
not that I didn't get a billion notifications or tweets
about it. Oh look, as Broddy James becoming the player
you guys said he.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Could be, Like, No, he hit a shot, not just
any shot, Mike, that was three.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Well, I mean not just any shot.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Isn't that one of those where everybody would normally start
screaming he was due?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
He is outscoring alex Saar, the number two overall pick
in the draft.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Man, come on, dude, certainly you know our guy Martin
Weiss on the updates tonight, he has taken it upon
himself that he will be the guy to keep saying
Alexander stars.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Although the thing Rick Puker were talking.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
About sars struggles from the field one of his last
twenty one but the fact that Rick Bueker also brought
up the body language, the ignoring of coaches, like that's
a much bigger thing that's festering right when.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We start talking about it. Yeah, fifty fifth.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Pick versus second pick, and yes, the noise and the
cacophony of voices not nearly loud into the bubbling cauldron
effect that we have for Bronnie James. Guess what, nobody knows?
Who the hell Alexander. Sorry, that's why there's a bit
of difference.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I held James beers.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
That is true of the show on Tuesday. I mean,
Sar did give us a lot of run and content
with that effort that this guy stinks. Yeah, but not
as bad as this guy. Oh hey, you're right, you
stay here and be back with you in a second.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But this is where I mean, And maybe maybe this
is because Bronnie James actually, you know, hit a couple
of shots now the last couple of games. Yeah, but
believe it or not, more bets have been placed on
Brownie James to win Rookie of the Year than any
other player at multiple sports books in Vegas. Now, is
(18:59):
thatack Edie is the most popular choice to win the
betting folloor realistic?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well yeah, because you know he's gonna get minutes and
he's gonna play, and it's gonna and there's a lot
of questions about Edie coming in. Is he gonna trans
this game going to translate? And so far Hey, Zach
Edy's game kind of translates.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I do like the fact that he actually got drafted
where you know he should have, because remember, everybody's like,
I don't know if that guy's even gonna get picked. Yeah,
that doesn't work in today's NBA Man the Year.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh well wait a minute, but more bets have been
placed on Brownie than anybody else. And it's this story
that makes me wish I could open up my own
pop up gambling odds because I would take any bet
you want on Bronnie James.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Winning Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, I mean I will can I will take your
money and just put it in my pocket and go
out and spend it right after I see you. Well,
you're not gonna hold onto it just yet, No, because
I'm never gonna have to pay you out because Bronnie
James is not gonna win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You're just giving money away for the social currency.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
That you could tell your friends, you know what a
sports book, And I bet Bronnie James win Rookie the Year.
So if that thing comes put one hundred bucks on that.
If that thing comes through, oh I'm gonna be rich.
Bronnie Dude, Well, okay, is it worth it? You just
gave away a hundred dollars. Give it to me, Give
it to me and I'll pay you out. And I'm
gonna take that money and go spend it right away.
I will come in with new kicks and new pants
(20:21):
and new shirts and all kinds of crazy ass new
mets and jets. That's where'd you get all that money, Jason?
All all the money I'm taking on people saying that, hey,
they bet Bronnie James win Rookie of the Year because
I'm never gonna have to pay it out because it's
not gonna happen. Why wait, I'm not gonna have to
save this money until the actual award is given out.
I'm gonna spend it all now because no one's gonna
come looking to me for it because he's not gonna
(20:43):
win it. It's insane.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
People are giving money away just because they want to be.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Able to say, yeah, yeah, I was in Vegas the
other day and I or I went online to put
up put some money on Bronnie to to win Rookie
of the Year. Yeah, don't I sound cool by putting
money on Bronnie to win Rookie the year and then
five seconds lady realized, Oh yeah, I just I just
gave money away. I just gave cash away for that. Well,
I think part of it is at two hundred and
fifty or three hundred to one.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yes, it is something you'd be able to pocket and
just run off like you're a rogue fantasy fantasy commissioner. Yeah,
I'll be the guy commissioner this year. Why it's like
my cash flow is a little problematic, but I get everybody,
actually give me the one hundred bucks ahead up front.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'll be able to, you know, use that as the float.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And you can do that certainly in California obviously no
legalized gambling, so you're you're not able to do that
right now, Smith, but you know you go in and
apply for a gaming license.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So that's why I got to do a pop up.
Like that's why I do a pop up and do
it that way. I have to leave if the cops
come to shut me down.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I gotta be like, you know, show, hey, guess what,
Jason's going to be here for a half hour only
because by then that's too long the cops might show up.
So half hour come place your bets. Then I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I have like this big cardboard thing that I stand
up and I stand behind it, like line of selling
the lemonade in panuts, and I just I can just pour.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It right down and go. I'm done, put it under
my shoulder walking around. I'll let you know what. I'm
gonna be open for business again. Guys. I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I was gonna say you could do it like being
you know, someone operating a hot dog card outside of
concert venue. Oh wait, they don't bother to legislate any
of that. But the guy with the T shirt, they
did chase him off. I did see him get run
yesterday up in Santa Clair. But you know, in when
I was in Ireland, you had the different betting operators.
(22:29):
Basically you were betting against them. You know, they'd print
out a ticket, you know John John Barley Corn's you
know betting outfit, Come on and bet with me, or
you could bet you know standard that was at the racetrack.
So you could do that, you know, because you could
shop for odds like you do online. But you know,
I think this is a good venture for you to
(22:50):
actually do that in Vegas and go through in the
gaming board and get a license and start making a
book on these preposterous odds. Yeah, you don't do anything else.
You don't do anything that no no legitimate shot of
actually coming through. It's just the you know, the Browny
James Rookie of the Year, or you know, pick your
(23:11):
favorite MBP odds, like, hey, this guy's.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
A fan favorite. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I liked about the Yankees to win the Nope, take
your business someplace else.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
What you're not gonna Nope, not taking a bet on that? No, no, no, no, no,
this is what I'm taking a bet on.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
No, I only take White Sox futures, White Sox Marlins.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You want to bet on them to win the World Series,
I'm all for it.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I'll take that bet right here again, and don't worry.
If you win, I will make sure to pay you.
Don't worry about it. We specialize only in long shots.
It's long shot betting with Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Odds have to be at least fifty to one for
us to even let you place a place a bet
on anything we're doing.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
We're gonna make a big bull prediction for the second
half of the Major League Baseball season coming up in seconds.
But first, Martin Weiss has what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Martin Weiss, who actually took all the
money he's made this week from the extra update ships,
has put him on Bronnie James to win rope that
year in Vegas.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Well, you know, Harmon, I'm just I'm just here to
do my duty, and my duty tonight is to say
that Alexander Saar.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Finishing with two points on one for six shooting from
the floor. You guys, you've got a baseball bat in
your hands there while you're doing it.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
They bat one shot made and his last twenty one
attempts from the floor for the number twelve overall pick
and bad body language per Rick Buker.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Hey, only one shot more than the three of us
have hit.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
That is you know what, Hey, you don't know what
I used to do in the past. It might be
not I'm just kidding, but it's also.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
One more than he hit the other night. So he
is getting better. I have seen improvement that is get
much worse.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Even though Mike Harmon is here today, Brianni James did
hit a three the future rookie of the Year, Just kidding,
finished with thirteen points on five for ten. Dalton connect
finish was twenty points on seven for sixteen shooting. The
Clipper is trading Russell Westbrooks in a second round, picking
cash to the Utah Jazz. They're getting Chris dunnback. Westbrook
(25:11):
expected to agree to a contracted buyout with the Utah
clearinghouse there and eventually signed with the Denver Nuggets. The
Alabama I'm sorry University of Alabama plans to honor former
coach Nick Saban. They're gonna name the football field for
him there at Bryant Denny Stadium. Jacksonville Jaguars suit Amid Patel.
He's a staffer who stole twenty two million dollars from
the team in a three and a half year period
(25:33):
to pay off gambling debts and fund the life of luxury.
You see, guys, that's what was Mitzuhara. That's what he
was missing, the life of luxury. You know, he had
all the gambling debts, none of the life of luxury.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Anyways, what the.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Thing is the other guy I think was at least
winning like Ebe was, Like he would win like one
out of every seventeen bets, Like he was the worst
better ever.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
True, true, Well, Patel, he's now losing because he's being
sued by the Jacksonville Jaguars for six stay six.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Point six million, triple the loss tripple Loody stole for
the embarrassment of looking like a bunch of dopes because
they lost track at twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That this guy, they're.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Trying to say that he's Satan suing him for sixty
six point six Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's in a Florida state court.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Looking at the open right now. Daniel Brown at six
under leads after the first round, Shane Lowry's five under,
Justin Thomas three unders, Andrew Softley two, Brooks Kopka and
Scottie Scheffler both one under, Tiger Woods eight over, Roy
McRoy seven over, Bryson d. Chambeau five over. That second
round is about to get started any minute now. The
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Dolphins placed Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips on the pup list,
and Saint Petersburg has approved plans for the Ray's new
one point three billion dollars stadium. It will have thirty
thousand seats and other news, just ten thousand more than
the largest high school football stadium in Texas, which is
Happy State Banks Stadium and Kenyon to capacity twenty thousand.
(27:02):
Well the race, and I raise you ten thousand seats
from my major league team. It's got a fixed roof
as well, and expect it to be ready for Opening
Day twenty twenty eight. I know the Tampa area is
just waiting with baited breath for that one. Back to
you guys, Thanks so much, Marty, appreciate it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
Tirech dot Com Studios. So at this time tomorrow night,
we'll be in full swing with the second half of
the Major League Baseball season second halffish. Obviously we're through
ninety inch games, but with the All Star break looking ahead,
the next couple of nights are gonna have big, bold predictions.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Going ahead for the rest of the year. And I'll
tell you this, this this big one. For now.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
My concern for a team that's in a World Series
or bus season is about it a ten. And it's
not because they're terrible team that's in first place. My
concern for them is about a ten because the Dodgers
have a lot of problems right now, all right, They
started out the season exactly how we thought they were
going to. Right, They're going to roll over everybody, big
(28:02):
lead in the West show. Hey, Otani is hitting exactly
how they hoped he would hit. It was a great start.
But the Dodgers have been five hundred under five hundred
for the last two plus months. The Mets have had
a better record than the Dodgers the last two months.
Dodgers sitting around meander around of twenty three and twenty four.
And the reason my concern is out of ten is
(28:23):
because their needs are not going to be met at
the deadline. They have zero starting pitching.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And this is in an off season where it's an
a we save money on Otani's let's go give Yoshinobu
Yamamoto three hundred million dollars. What do I always say, Mike,
I'm never going to be upset if I lose a
bidding war for a starting pitcher, because it's such a
dicey investment.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You're down that road, come through, right, you've been down
that road.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Remember, you had the greatest rotation that we'd seen since
the what nineteen seventy Orioles assembled. They were going to
dominate for years. Ye one by one, Yeah, oh went away.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
The one guy they should have kept was the one
guy they trade. We'll keep everybody but Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
No, he was a guy to keep. He was the
guy to keep. But the Dodgers they have no starting
pitching right none. And you're they're banking right.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Now that Clayton Kershaw will come back whenever he comes back,
and he will be great.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, Clayton's been look.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Obviously first ballot Hall of Fame pitcher, best left handed
pitcher I've seen in thirty years. He is just unreal.
But he's thirty six, coming off yet another injury, and
you're banking on him, who has had playoff failures his
entire career. You're banking on Kershaw. You're banking on Walker Buehler,
who came back from after being gone for two years
and got racked up and down. He's now in the
(29:43):
minor leagues trying to figure it out. You're banking that
he's gonna come back and be able to do something.
You're banking that Bobby Miller's gonna come back up from
the miners and get it, because he's someone that you
thought was gonna be great. No, not him, Yamamoto Now
sixty day d L and when's he going to Is
he gonna even pitch again this year?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, but you're talking about these are this is what
you thought.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Your starting pitch, you're starting rotation was gonna be in
addition to Tyler Glass now and Glass now has been great,
but he's hurt now I gotta think. Look, it's not suddenly. Hey,
Glass now looks like he's gonna be fine. He'll be
back to pitch in a week or so, so I'm
fine with him. But all of this, you're not gonna
fix this because look at the starting pitching that's available
to deadline.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
There's nobody.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
There's no star players, there's no Verlander, there's no Sures
or there's no guy. Hey, we'll go get these guys
the deadline and get somebody because it's gonna help us.
Because there's no big names, you're gonna have to take
chances on smaller names that you're gonna have to give
up big prospects for.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And not only one. You're the Dodgers. You need two starters.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You don't need one, and you I would even go
for three because you know after you say, how much
can you count on guys coming back? But if you're
going to be the World Series or bust here because
if you're not in the World Series, if you're the Dodgers,
this year, this year.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Is a failure.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What you went out, the money you went out to
spend getting Hernandez to throwing him the money you spent.
This has to be a World Series year or it's
an absolute failure. And I don't see where things get better.
The Dodgers, Hey, well they get to the playoffs. Of
course they're a team. They're regular season good. We know
they've been regular season good for a decade. But in
the playoffs, look what happens to them. Look what happened
(31:17):
last year. We thought they were gonna roll through the
first round of the playoffs. Kershaw gives up five in
the first inning of Game one and the Dodgers never recover.
The Dodgers look like they could be a first round
and out again. Because I just don't see how they're
gonna solve the starting pitching thing, Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I don't see how suddenly players will shake loose.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Oh boy, these are guys are gonna give you in
the twelve or thirteen starts they're gonna make. They're gonna
give you ten quality ones. I just don't see that
being out there for the Dodgers to go get. And
because of the situation they're in, I bet you they
shy away from it and they rely and say, well,
we'll hope our guys coming back. We'll hold our breath
and hope they can wind up doing it for us.
(31:54):
My concern for the Dodgers is about at a ten. Yeah,
the curiosity it becomes for the deadline.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
With the second wildcard, we've seen so many more teams
that just lean into the we're a potential contender and
if we get in, who the hell knows, right, So
you don't see a massive amount of deals necessarily to
be swung here, and the starters that are out there,
you're gonna have great competition for those teams that are
all in. I mentioned the Oriels just for the fact
(32:22):
that they're looking for another starter. So now there's the
competition for Crochet or School or Flaherty or whoever else
it might be there. But it dips pretty fast in
terms of quality options, and the price of poker goes up, right,
because you've got some serious contenders that wanted to want
(32:44):
to go into this limited space right position scarcity that
we always talk about in fantasy comes to major League
Baseball in terms of quality options that can help you.
And again for the Dodgers, it's not that you need
one more arm. You really do need some help. You
need some help probably at the back end of your
lineup as well. I mean, you've had some great performances
(33:08):
thus far. Freeman and obviously Otani and Tao scar Or
however we're pronouncing his first name, Hernandez, who's one of
the great bargains who you know, didn't get his his
off big off season deal, a guy who becomes a priority.
But beyond that, Will Smith's been great, and Spurts knows
how to handle the staff and maybe you know, some
(33:29):
experience with handling some of these other guys gives you
an opportunity. But you're looking at, you know, banking on
two or three fifths of your starting rotation to come
back from injury and immediately go back to form. Did
you imagine Glass now? All right, probably the most likely
to step back in. Kershaw had another good rehab start,
(33:49):
so is you know his start to the twenty twenty
four campaign does that mean he's able to finish it
and finish it well, I don't know a lot of
question mark, and I'm not banking on Yamamoto back based
on the recent move to the sixty day even if
they say mid August. So well, hey, it's a lot
(34:09):
of wishing and hoping. Right, Mookie's gonna come back. That's good.
So we'll get to say Mooky bleeping bets again down
the stretch and maybe that'll help jump start some things.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
But yeah, nervousness certainly there.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
But you know, across the National League outside of the Phills,
is there a team that stands out that you're really
that in Atlanta? I guess that you're really that nervous
about me, and.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's the Mets. Sure, shut up. There you go. There's
summary statement right there.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Concern for the Dodgers is about because it's only because
it's World Series or bust. It's that, look, they'll make
the playoffs, like but World's yeah, out of the ten exit,
out out of Fresco exit, swalling down. The Jason Smith
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We had a big train in the NBA to day
and the big question to ask is why next?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
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Speaker 2 (35:21):
Studios, where we saw big trade in the NBA today.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
And I say big and I go eh, and I
really want to say, well, why I don't understand. Russell
Westbrook is going to eventually end up with the Denver Nuggets.
The Clippers making a move, deciding to move on trade
into the Utah Jazz. The Jazz are going to buy
out the remainder of his contract, which is only four million,
(35:51):
So it's not like we're talking about a thirty million
dollar buy out.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's four million. It's a rounding error for the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They're going to buy him out and that's going to
clear his way to sign with the Nuggets. The Nuggets
have talked about adding another member of the backcourt. Some look,
they need a little bit more depth. They want somebody
a little more dynamic to come in back up Jamal Murray,
and they're gonna go with Russell Westbrook and I get it.
I understand, but I look at us and I go,
(36:19):
how to teams? What's still the fascination with Russell Westbrook? Right?
It's you know, I always go back to dude. People
just look at the back of his basketball card and go, boy,
we can get this guy. Dude, he's thirty six y.
He hasn't been really good for years, and even then,
he's a hard guy to fit in to whatever you
want to do, unless you have a second unit where
(36:41):
it's going to be Russ's gonna come in and he's
gonna play a certain number of minutes and it's only
with the second unit, and it's gonna be he's gonna
get subbed out when everybody comes out.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
How's he going to fit in? He's always been a
difficult fit.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Like we talked to Rick Buker about it a couple
hours ago on the show and he said, you know,
the love that players have for him is insane, and
I go, you know, that's great, but you want to
try to win, and don't players see that, Hey, no
one's a Russell Westbrook away from winning anything like this
is okay. It's great that the Nuggets went in and
there they're getting someone in the backcourt here. But you
see Russell Westbrook and I go, eh, it's it's just
(37:17):
a move. And is it something that's gonna work or
is it something where we tried and we have to
move on because the Clippers thought he was going to
be a big addition to the team. And now at
least they've moved on from two of the overpriced older guys.
They had to move on from Uvan, from Paul George,
which was great. They move on from Westbrook, which is great.
They're still sunk in on Kawhi and James Harden, which
is not great. But hey, okay, at least I got
(37:38):
rid of two of the guys. But you know, when
I see Westbrook go wow, Okay, Westbrook got traded. But really,
the the impact of it for me is kind of man. Okay, yeah,
Nuggets went and got a backup point guard, and the
Clippers probably did better by moving on from him and
getting into something else. But you know, I mean, look,
it's been years since it is and nobody can look
(38:00):
back and say, hey, going and getting Russell Westbrook, that
turned our season around, going bringing him in, that turned
us into a great team. Nobody can say that. And
he's had a few teams now he's put up great
numbers that four years where he's average triple doubles. But
nobody can walk back, cal walk around and say, hey,
going to get him. That was the move that put
us over the top. It's not an over the top
(38:21):
move that Denver nuggets and simply we need a guy playing.
That's what they may think. It's bigger than that, and
we're gonna run him out there and the mile high
air and he's go up and down the floor and
everybody tired, and all these things are gonna happen. None
of those things are gonna happen. Right, this is you're
adding Russell Westbrook. Okay, it's a man move.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, you take your shot based on history. And if
you're Michael Malone and staff Calvin Booth, you know, alluding
to the imminent move in his presser that you can
coach some of the best out of him, maybe you
get a little bit of that Kyrie Irving kind of
turn again.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The Bucker thing is really fascinating.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I can't wait to either hear the podcast recapping his
findings or reading an article about it, because it is
one of those situations whereby he moves around and players
are reverential.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You know, we've talked about it.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I love the the effort that he gives on a
court results and how how it flows in terms of
actual winning.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
That's a whole other thing. So when we look at
Denver trying.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
To get some depth at a piece, can he be
that that guy like we watch Gyrie in Dallas where
he gets some positive performance, but also that that he
is a leader and takes on that role. I don't know,
because clearly they didn't have enough depth to get after
it this last year and now trying to shuffle deck
(39:46):
chairs to bring in a guy, uh, to to re
establish some of that bench because because this is not.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
A guy that you're bringing in to say, hey, he's
coming in and we need a point guard. Right, Like
that's where Hey, the fit with Washington in five years
ago was actually pretty good. Right, that means average a
triple double for the last time in his career. Hey,
that that worked out really well. But when you're trying
to win a championship, look at the teams that have
done this and said, hey, we're gonna go after him
(40:13):
to win a championship. Houston didn't work right, the Lakers
didn't work, Clippers didn't work.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Okay, So really, like like what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Like like championship teams that have this, this fascination that
a Russell, Will Russell, Wilson, Russell Westbrook's gonna come in
he ain you either.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
No, he's not.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
He's not either. He'll lose his job to Justin Fields.
It will happen. Uh, you know, I just I just
look at it, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I don't get the fascination with it, and and and
and why teams say, yes, this is a move we
have to make, especially teams that are going after and
saying this is our over the top championship move.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
We can fix him. We can always fix him.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Uh huh, Bigger, faster, stronger, exit out bout of Fresca,
exit swollen down The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carman.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
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