May 30, 2024 • 40 mins
Jorge Lopez TRIPLED DOWN on the Mets being the worst BLEEPIN team in baseball. As expected; Bronny James will keep his name in the NBA Draft. And all charges have been dropped against Scottie Scheffler!
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A big night in sports, unfortunately, and it is headlined
by the New York Mets. Now you know the Mets
proving there is no such thing as rockbottom. No matter
how low you get, no, you can still dig deeper.
Maybe you just want to do it with your hands
and watch your your fingers bleeding from the fingernails. At
let's keep we can get lower, we can get all
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the way through the center of the Earth and fall
out the other side. Oh, we can do it. I
would have never thought. Even after the Mets lost to
the Dodgers today and the pretty embarrassing thing where Mets
reliever and now former Mets reliever or Hey Lopez threw
his glove into the stands because he was upset after
getting thrown out of the game. Hey, that's kind of
a minor headline. Something fun. We'll talk about tonight. Frostburg
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is gonna laugh. The Dodgers sweep the Mets, and Lopez,
who gets lit up in the eighth inning, gives up
a home run. To Otani gets thrown out by the
third base umpire for arguing balls and strikes, throws his
glove into the stands. Okay, that'll be fun. No, no, no,
The Mets decide, Hey, if we're gonna do embarrassing things, no, no,
it's gonna be all the way, man. We are going
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all the way to the wall with this, and we
are gonna be the dominant story in sports tonight. There
is an opening. There is no end game. The only
NHL game involves Edmonton. Hey, no, there's an opening for
us to really take over and the Mets, say what
you want, Mike Carmon. They jumped into that opening, and
they jumped in with Gusto.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, and that's the beauty of it. Right as a
team went all in. We've got player meetings, We've got
the level of absurdity, not only from the player involved,
but his teammates as they met with the media and
tried to well back him a little bit, which leaves
everybody just scratching their heads.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
If you're gonna go into this kind of thing right
where the team is spiraling, and there's gonna be that
big moment that you know, Heath Ledger walking away from
the hospital in the dark night kind of moment. I mean,
this is it go full in? Not Eh, there's a
little bit of unrest. Some guys are upset about playing
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time or how skip works the bullpen. Nope, to hell
with it. We got gloves flying into the stand. There'll
be a lawsuit because I'm claim they got hit in
the head, and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
There's embarrassing and then there's the Mets who proved that
just this story. Hey, look, it will get bigger and
it will get as big as we want it. To
be sure. So following the game, look the Mets lose again,
the season's over, right, seasons over? And let me just
say for a second, after the game is over, the
Mets have a twenty minute closed door media that Francisco
Lindor calls, Okay, hey, great idea, right, great leadership. Yeah yeah, sure,
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you know, look great, great, great idea, great idea. And
look the Lopez thing. You're still waiting for the big
hammer to drop on Lopez. But what happened next after
the Mets lose, Lopez gets thrown out of the game,
throws his love. The Mets are an embarrassment right now.
They're in absolute embarrassment, and Lindor called a twenty minute meeting,
called it really good. That's a great idea, and I
love that, But dude, how about you have it before
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the season's over. You have the fourth worst record in
Major League Baseball. You're ten and twenty five in the
last month and a half, and now is when you
have a meeting. When you're twelve games under five hundre
and again, fourth worst team in baseball. You're gonna have
a worse record than the A's pretty soon. And no
one even knows if they're gonna make it the Sacramento
to play next year. This is how embarrassing is and
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you wait till now now is we're gonna have a meeting,
you know, I mean I get that you don't want
to panic too early, but just all season long, I've
seen Carlos Mendoza, the Mets manager, to go, yeah, no, yeah,
you know, we'll go through these are ups and downs.
We're going through. Everything is fine. You keep telling me
everything is fine until the season is bleeping over. Oh yeah,
it didn't work. Wait, I thought it was still early.
How do we go from it being early this season
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being over? How does last night David Stearns, president of
the operations for the Mets say, Oh, we're still evaluating.
The season's done. Man, it's over. Everything you're finished? This
season is is could put? Everybody should be on the block.
Everybody should be available via trade. This invention of the Mets,
with Lindor and and Alonso and Nimmo and McNeil be
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in the core, they had their chance. They're all over thirty.
If you could trade all of them, trade all of them,
spend money in the offseason, bring up all the good
young players you've traded for the last couple of years.
This is how you do it. But no, no, let's have
a closed door meeting now. No, the season's done now,
but let's have a meeting.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, well, but this was a huge moment, right there's losing,
and there's feeling like you're starting to move a little bit.
And all the public comments have been we don't know
what talents kind of team we are, we're still gelling
whatever else, even though it's our after Memorial Day and
you normally have a pretty good idea of the squad
jar but all the forward facing statements have been about
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hope and that this team will find its bearings. Lynn
Orrell start to hit all these other players, you know, Diez, Well,
now he's hurt, but that he was gonna suddenly become
that closer again. Again, he's hurt. But the movement away
into a situation like you had today, we're just manifesting
that big spot. And yeah, there's no shame in Otani
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hitting home runs or losing to the Dodgers. Plenty of
people will take the ls. But to have the guy
getting the argument on a check swing get thrown out,
throw the glove, everything else, you know, you have a
flashpoint moment, and that's that's what the team did, right.
It's because technically it could still spiral for other squads,
and with the wild cards as they are, you're, what
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six and a half games out of a wild card spot.
Not insurmountable, not easy, and certainly with the roster assembled,
it'll be tough sledding. But you're trying to sell hope still,
even if you know things are burning inside.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Uh. This is where things really come off the rails.
Because Lopez does an interview this following the closed door meeting.
He's the guy everybody wants to talk to. He had
the meltdown, he threw his glove into the stands, and
I know maybe they gave him his glove back, maybe not.
You know, Mets fans keep it. After what he said,
he's asked if he regrets throwing his glove into the stands,
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and then he gives us this quote that's gonna dominate
news cycles for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the standard
was unacceptable. Looking back on it, do you regret doing that.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I don't regret it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I think I've been looking the worst steaming brought in
the whole MLB. So, you know, whatever happened happened. So
whatever they want to do it, I'll be tomorrow here
if they want me, you know, whatever they want to do.
So I'm gonna keep doing this thing, you know, so
I'm healthy on whatever, you know, whatever to do. You know,
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I'm ready to come back tomorrow Day one, me be here.
So I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay. So in the first hour of the show, this
was the story and it was pretty embarrassing. Second hour
of the show we got another update on it. He
was even more embarrassing. Now Here in the final hour
of the show, we have a third update and it's
even more embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But wait, there's four.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So after this happened, Steve Gelibs, who did this report,
did the interview for then why we talked about him
last hour, did a great job saying, Hey, I want
to give you the chance to make sure you said
what you want to say that that you said you
wanted people to make sure you said the Mets are
the worst team in baseball because maybe there's a there's
a language barrier of some kind. Maybe you didn't get along,
get get out what you had to say. Let me
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give you a chance to walk it back if you
want to, so, Steve Gellips, anyway, just to be sure
what you said, let me ask you.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And here it is just to clarify what what you said.
Just I didn't fully understand. Did you say I'm on
the worst team? Is that? Is that what you had said?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah? Probably it looked like.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, so it's it's bad enough the first hour, worst
team in baseball? Okay, but then then okay, now I
asked to make sure and he said double down and said,
oh yeah, worst team in baseball. That's what that's right there.
Probably we're worst team in baseball. That's exactly what I
meant to say. Well, now we have this Anthony Dicomo,
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who is the Mets beat writer and covers the Mets
for MLB dot Com. It's kind of been piggybacking on
this story with Steve Gelbs, and he just put out
a tweet a few moments ago saying actually went back
to Lopez a third time, Hey, one more time, not one,
not two? They went back to him a third time
to say, hey, dude, did you really mean this man?
(09:19):
Did you really mean worst team in baseball? And Diacomo
is reporting that what he really The message he wanted
out there was I feel like one of the worst
teammates on the worst team in Major League.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh again, well I am the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, So three times he wanted to make sure people knew, Wow,
this is the worst team in baseball. Like three times,
I'm taking my team and throwing it under the bus
three times. If you're not flattened enough the first time,
Hey flat Stanley, I'll throw you under the bus again.
You're still not flat Again, Hey flat Stanley, will throw
you under the bus again. I mean, this is so embarrassing.
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Now he's been dfad by the match and he's not
going to play for them again, and I'm I'm sure
the Braves will pick him up and he'll be a
big part of the Braves Bowl in October. No, No,
the Braves like to troll.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
He's gonna Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Listen, Phillies are gonna do it. Nobody trolls the Mets
like like the Braves do, right, whether it's Kelnick or
Travis Darno. No, no, No, they're the ones that are
gonna get him. I'm sure. Oh you're gonna you're gonna
get the great They're gonna headline it in the summer.
And what what a journey for or hey Lopez, Oh
all the craziness of May twenty ninth when he called
the Mets the worst team in baseball, He's DFA and
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now here he is his sparkling one point two eight
e ra a second only to show to him and
Aga over the course of this year, and now he's
proven to be the best setup man in all of baseball. Like,
I know that's gonna happen, but this is how embarrassing
it is for the Mets that you got Look forget
about the you know, the embarrassment of the of the
meeting for a second. Here's a guy who three times
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has thrown your team under the bus three times, and
after that and you still I still haven't gotten anything
strong from any of the Mets on this. Adam Montavino
was asked about he said, well, you know, look, Lope,
is this he says this? He said, he said, you're
the worst team in baseball. Man, I'm sorry, but you
gotta stand up for the other guys in the locker
room knowing full well, Hey, I gotta show some fight here, right,
(11:13):
I gotta see something. I gotta see something from the
Mets tomorrow, from Lindor, from Alonzo hopefully is not injured
too bad because oh, by the way, on top of this,
Alonzo misses the game after he gets hit in the hand.
I'm sure he's got five broken fingers. And Edwin Diaz
is on the il with his shoulder injury. This is
Wednesday for the Mets. This is one day, one day
for the Mets. Is this I'm hoping something tomorrow we
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get something, whether it's Carlos Mendoza, somebody's got to stand
up and go. This guy doesn't know what the hell
he's talking about. We've been underperforming, but blank that guy
and him saying we're the worst team in baseball. He
can go figure it out someplace else. He can stop
giving up runs, he can stop getting Who is the guy.
I don't think it was Jeff McNeil's fault. As bad
as he's been, it's not Jeff McNeil's fault. Lopez has
been given up runs. It's not Francisco Lindor's fault. Even
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though he's sitting two hundred and chasing breaking pitches like
he's seen a breaking pitch for the first time, it's
not his fault. He's given up home runs. I want.
I want to see some fight from somebody and say,
this guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about,
and now it's time for us to take ownership of this.
I don't care if they win or not, but they
got to show something, man, because then I'm gonna say, Okay,
not only do we all need all new players, we
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need a new manager to like, this is where you
can't do You're kidding, I can, I can? I mean
you've been trying to kick him out for weeks. Man,
I've told you listen. I still need JJ Reddick to
be named head coach of the Lakers. Look, Doug Gottlieb
being head coach of Wisconsin Green Bay helps a lot.
Reddick would help to going from broadcasting to the NBA.
I need that to happen so I can say, hey, look, man,
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you got a couple of guys at jobs college, and
I can manage the Mets. I might be a year away.
I mean, I mean I would want to follow Mendoza
because the Mets are such a disaster right now, but stuff,
I might wind up being a year or two away.
I gotta change, I gotta, I gotta meet people. No,
come on, man, Hayes could not do that. She can
come on absolutely, that's hat saying, let's go. That's no.
(13:00):
I might need I gotta I just got a pipeline
to David Sterns now with John Paul Morosi. I need
I need. No, I need a little bit of I
need a.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Little bit of time. No, no, no, because I love
the good I well, there's no positive you gotta fe now,
you got forty minutes to figure out a positive spin
on this. There's no positives because all we've done is
you've been playing a fiddle, dancing around all this Burns
in the background right now. That's exactly what we've done
since seven o'clock Pacific time, is watching it burn and
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castigating them for doing so. So you trying to now
save your relationship with Sterns, he and JP. Good luck,
let's see that spin pas.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. I've
not said team sucks. I've not said anything not positive
to David Sterns through through John Paul Moros will I got.
I gotta keep this going for a year until I
get David Sterns on my side. Then I could manage it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He's gonna send him a note tomorrow justin he's gonna go,
I really like how you hand this situation.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Apearance.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Things are good.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
JP's given up being a baseball inside. He's blocked David
Stearns on his social media. That's what's happening. I mean,
this is I mean, it's just I need something from
them tomorrow to say this guy doesn't know what the
hell he's talking about. He should stop giving up home
runs and we're gonna show you what kind of team
we are. I need something big, I need something other
than that. Then it really is time. I told you
it's time for the Mets to to to completely wholesale
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anybody they can, because they need to start over again
with money they can spend in the off season. Octu.
They didn't spend money this this season. Money they can
spend in the off season players they've already traded for
a year ago, who are very close to getting to
the majors. You need something new there, you need something
completely new. And if I don't get anything tomorrow. That's
just gonna reinforce it. It's just gonna reinforce that that
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the Mets are are just sitting around and they're just
putting in their time and they're waiting for the season
to end because there there's nothing that should stop them
from standing up and saying, this guy he doesn't know
what he's talking about. This guy's full of it, this
guy's full load of crap. You gotta be responsible. Those
are the twenty five guys in the locker room. And
that's what I need from Lindor Alonzo, Nimmo McNeil. That's
what I need from the soul called leaders of the Mets. Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
That's not happening.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
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We'll keep trolling the Mets by signing all the guys
who stunk there and now they're good with us. Why
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not we'll do it.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Is he actually get a pitch for you? Nope, there
just to stare and wave at you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
But we'll put him on the forty man roster so
we get a ring at the end of the year.
He's gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That is right, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike car I really like,
can't what a story? I mean, this is just you
talk about something that again. Anytime there I see something
like this and I see the Mets trend or I
saw what I saw Lopez trending, because after the game
was over, I turned it off, Like I didn't see
what Lopez said after like the game ended, you know,
I said, okay, well we'll talk about him throwing his
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glove into the stands because it's just unbelievably watch the game.
My wife goes, why do you throw his glove in
the stands? A go, because he's an idiot, because he's
mad that he stinks. That's why I threw his glove
in this name.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
There's one thing I don't believe there.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What don't you believe you didn't turn it off? Yeah,
Oh no, No, I didn't turn the game off. No,
after the game was over, I turned it on.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I didn't watch the pot No, no, because I don't
get the postgame at home. I get the Dodger post game,
and all they're talking about is, hey, look how great
it was for the Dodgers who were on death's door
after they lost twelve games in a row. And Otani's
hitting a buck ninety four nothing like three game against
the Mets. Now, I wasn't gonna sit her and watch that.
I didn't need that. But I mean, it's just just
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to see that. My wife is like, what's going I go,
He's just I don't know, And she was, what's gonna happen?
I go, they'll probably send him to Syracuse. That that's
not him, and they'll send him in baby to Syracuse.
She goes, who's baby? I said, this conversations over all, Right,
it's done. We're done, We're done.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
He was a guy from Deliverance.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Who's baby. He's a guy, you know, I never mind,
I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Don't you remember? He was Dick Tracy.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Benny.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Your dog?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Does he cover his eyes or like hide behind the
couch when you put the Mets on.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh, he runs away and starts screaming.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
He runs away, yelping. He went to absolutely yelping. He's
like Baxter, he just runs away.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, you could be arrested for that. That's dog torture.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Baxter bark twice twice and the Mets are losing in Milwaukee.
Uh As, today was as bad a day it was
for the Mets. A great day for the doctors, obviously
bad for the Mets. It's not often when you get
your reliever calling his team the worst team in all
of blanking Major League Baseball and tripling down on it. Ye,
are you sure you know that's what I said?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Clarify it?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, I said it. I said it. I said it.
I had a girlfriend atrisca Geez said, atriscate a biscuit. No, No,
I said it. I said. Now he's been DFAD and
it's you know, is one of those one of those days, man,
I'm telling you, also known as Wednesday for the Mets.
But today was a big day for the NBA and
it was probably the biggest day non game day for
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a while because we found out today that Bronnie James
is staying in the NBA draft. Now, why is today
a big day? This is this is where I zag
when you think I'm gonna zig like I still believe
what's going on with Bronnie and I'm speaking of triple down,
tripling down on things. Will the Lakers draft Bronnie in
the second round of fifty five?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Maybe, but maybe they get him as an undrafted free agent.
You see Rich Paul and and and Clutch Sports saying
things like he's starting to work out, but he's only
gonna work out for a couple of teams. He's only
gonna do a one way, not gonna do a two
way contract, which is very popular with second round players.
Not gonna do a two way deal's got to be
an NBA deal. Trying to scare everybody away so Bronny
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can get to his preferred destination, which is, of course,
with Lebron with the Lakers. Now, how much he's gonna
play there, probably just a little bit. They'll go through
training camp together, they'll play a couple of preseason games together.
It'll be fun video to see Lebron play with Bronny.
Lebron will get to answer questions about it and then
Bronny will go play in the G League for the
next couple of years until he's really ready to contribute.
(20:31):
So I'm tripling down on that. But that's why this
is good and it's great for the NBA draft because
this is a buzzless draft. Man, there is no buzz.
There is no excitement about who's getting taken. There's no
conversation who should go number one? Who are the big
players in this draft? I think that we think are
gonna be impact players right away from the beginnings to
(20:52):
Fon Castle's my guy. He's a guy. Take number one overall.
I know how great an NBA player he's gonna be,
and people are crazy if they take him anywhere lower
than number one. But still there's not a lot of
buzz around him, not a buzz around anybody. But now
you have Bronny James in the draft, and no matter what,
he's a conversation and it's gonna be a conversation for
the next month. Who's he working out for? Does this
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mean if he works out for the Suns, lebron will
go to the Suns. If he works out for the
Celtics and go to the Celtics, it will be the conversation. Right,
it'll be the the NBA version of the quarterbacks we
talk about going into the NFL draft. You need something
with buzz that people are gonna talk about. And Lebron
James's kid in the most average of NBA fans, the
most casual of NBA fans. Oh, Lebron's kid's gonna get drafted.
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Who's gonna take him? It will be a bigger story
as we get closer to the draft. And here's even
better part of it. Normally, when the NBA Draft comes,
the big players get taken early overall.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Right, you see viewership fall off a cliff because, Okay,
I've seen the guys get taken, and I see the
guys I've heard about. Now it's a bunch of guys
I don't know. I don't need to watch a draft anymore.
I can just check in right now. There's a bunch
of guys playing Europe and guys from small colleges I
haven't seen play. It doesn't matter. I'm done. But Bronni
is not gonna get taken. If he does get taken
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until the second round of the draft, which means you're
watching this draft from the beginning. Now, the draft is
must see because it's where does Bronny end up? Does
Greg Popovich say, blank, you Lakers, We're taking Bronny here
and I'm gonna team him up with Wemby and we're
gonna win championship after championship for the next fifteen years,
right like you gotta see? How is that gonna go?
Is another team gonna draft Browny? Are the Lakers gonna
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draft Browny in the second round? If he doesn't get drafted,
the news will break right after the draft that he
signs as an undrafted free agent with somebody. So this
story becomes what the draft is all about, and the
draft needs it. And it's a story that plays out
over the course of the entire broadcast and the entire night,
not something that builds up to the announcement of the
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first picket at eight oh seven and then everybody turns
their TV off. No, this has become a mussy event.
It's given juice to the month before it. This is
the best news the NBA has had in a while
for a kid who is is a middling prospect that
we don't know how good he's gonna be. He has potential,
but look you're throwing a dart when you get to
the second round of the NBA draft. Anyway, who knows
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how good he's gonna be, but for the next month
and then the night of the draft. This is an
absolute gift. The NBA got an absolute gift today with
Brownie staying in the draft.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well just remember a couple of weeks ago they had
the draft lottery. I think we mentioned it once outside
of an update, right, I mean, it just doesn't matter.
It's not registering the same way. I mean, part of
it is you've got a lot of foreign players coming in,
so we could say their name, but you can't speak
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to having done your due diligence at this point and
watched a bunch of well, what's gonna be grainy footage
from a lot of these guys or stuff that's been
pieced together on a YouTube video. It's like, all right,
all it's gonna be his highlights. So you know what
versus college we see that the EBB and flow of things.
You got guys from Kentucky that'll be up there, uh,
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and and a few others. Your guy Castle, uh, top
ten pick by most mock drafts. But beyond that, there's
just not the the fever forward this year. There's just
not that guy that's bringing everybody to the table except
for Brownie James, because everybody has an opinion regardless of
how many of the minutes he played at USC they
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actually saw, right, whether it's whether it's I met well
because if me think about it, it's packed and you're
dark and it's modal season, right, how many people really
watched any of this except for I saw the box score.
A couple of points he had, They say he plays
pretty good defense. Oh by the way, he measured in it,
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you know, two and a half inches tall, shorter than
what he was listed at and you know he still
does have the wingspan and maybe you get a growth spurt.
Maybe they were projecting forward hoping if he stuck around
another year, Uh, he'd get to six four. But you
get my point, Like, there's there's a lot that flows
out right because you then have all of the Lebron
James conversations because at that point he won't have had
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to exercise you know, the player option or opted out,
you know, much like Rich Paul had already said, well
he's a free agent. Well we anticipate that because then
you can go back and sign your two or three
year deal at sixty million or whatever that that math becomes.
But it's all the different storylines that fall off of
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Bronni James that are gonna fill the gaps between Yeah,
this guy's six ' eight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I don't know, got any comps? Nope, But you know
what James, no idea, couldn't even tell you, no idea. Yeah,
it says here on my sheet that he picked up
big minutes for his national team, you know, his national
uh Ua team team last year. I mean, that's kind
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of the good gonna be the initial part of the draft.
And then immediately what can you talk about the Lakers
and if Lebron stays and AD's there, who do they
pair them with? And if you draft Bronnie, is he
gonna play blah blah blah. I mean all of that.
I mean it serves that whole night, and it serves
this the next month.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, and look, it's you know, to win. And the
other the other part of this is, as you hit
on something that's a pretty big deal, is that it's
hard for anybody to really project Bronnie James because he's
a second round pick you're throwing a dart. You can't.
Really there's no comp to say, Hey, this is a
guy we've watched and evaluated and we think this is
what his ceiling is in the NBA. Nobody knows what
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his ceiling is. Nobody knows what his floor is, Nobody
knows what kind of player he's going to be, Nobody
knows what kind of skills that he's gonna have. Because
he's nineteen, he hasn't had a lot of minutes, hasn't
had a lot of exposure, and we're gonna get to
see developmentally what he is in the next couple of years.
But yeah, it's hard. It's hard for for when you're
talking about a guy that even the even the most
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seasoned of experts and animals and the experts are gonna go, yeah,
I don't know. I mean, I don't know about that.
That looks like you even had Jay Wright when he
was asked about Jalen Brunts his success as playoffs, saying,
you know, I knew he'd be a good player in
the NBA. I didn't think he'd be this. This is
the guy's coach who's won two national championships that has
seen him every day and said, I didn't think he'd
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be this good. I mean, it's such a it's such
a dice roll. But at least with the players earlier
in the draft that have the better pedigree that you've seen, Okay,
I feel that this guy is. So it's really difficult
to talk about Browny James because you just don't know
he's gonna be well.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I think the the other thing, And we've talked about
this a lot. But to reiterate, audience always changing, welcome in,
if you're new to the show, welcome to the family.
You can go back and find ten years of content
in the iHeartRadio vault wherever you get podcasts. But just
the idea that because he's Lebron James Son, are you
getting honest evaluations from anybody, either those that are putting
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their name and face in front of a camera or
on a pot podcast or on a radio show or
writing columns whatever. Are you not to mention the anonymous ones?
Are you getting a real evaluation of what they truly
believe this player is going to be? And I hate
to say it because I hope, I hope great things
for the kid. He's Unfortunately the collateral he gets the
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collateral damage of all of this, uh, you know, the
love or hate of his father in the empire he's
built in the NBA and Rich Paul and all of
that that he wears a bunch of it and it's
not his fault. But are we honestly getting true evaluations
from many of these people that it's not lip service
because they don't want to lose access, They don't want
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to be on the outs with Paul and all of
the players represented from Clutch and everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, I hear you on that. But when you think
about how analysts talk about players that are that are
are you know, that could make it or not? No
one says this guy stinks, you know, No, it says
he stinks, doesn't listen. Yeah, he could wind up being good.
He might not, so you normally see, but do we.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Get more soft shoe here than we would normally?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
They've stopped well, but I mean including some of.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The before they they backed off. I mean, think about
some of the early mock drafts. Think about some of this,
and we talked with Dan Wake earlier. The number of
references to I don't know, first round maybe maybe Really
is that a real evaluation or is it just a well,
I don't know. We'll take him and then see what
falls out from there. That's not a strategy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We'll see what happens is not a strategy.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I don't think he really fits in our you know,
fifteen men rotation, at least not for a year or two.
But but you never know what I mean, you're drafting. Look,
an NBA draft has been this for a long time,
right we before they included the one and done rule
and ever after it's the well, we saw him for
a year, and now we're projecting forward that in two
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to three years he becomes a beast, whether it means
he grows, whether he's a veteran the post game, whether
he's gonna put on thirty pounds to work in the
low post, all of those things through the year, developing
an outside jump shot. We've wished and wanted and hoped
for all these guys, and right now we're in even
even a worse spot because who are these guys that
are getting drafted? Don't know picking names out of that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Could couldn't tell you. Yeah, I've never heard of them.
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Guys?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
In the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Oilers have even the
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They erased an early two goal.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Deficit Wednesday night in Edmonton, and then they end up
skating past the Stars five to two the final scoring
Game four of the Western Conference Final, and yes, the
series is even two games apiece. Other Honkey news, Minnesota
beat Boston to win the inaugural Walter Cup and the
Professional Women's Honckey League. In the NBA, the Wizards have
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removed the interim tag from coach Brian Keef. He is
now their full time head coach. The Clippers and coach
Tyleru agreeing on a new five year deal worth seventy million.
Wednesday was the deadline for players to withdraw from the
draft and returned to school. Some notable names Yukon's Alex Caravan,
Arizona's Caleb Love, and Alabama's Marcus Spears. The Jefferson County
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DA's office in Kentucky has dropped all charges against Scottie Scheffler.
In baseball, the Dodgers sweeping the Mets with a ten
to three win on Wednesday, and they have now won
their last three. Will Smith homerd twice Yankees with the
Angels two to one, New York starter Luis gill A
Lounge his two hits in eight innings, Mariners walked off
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the Astros and ten innings, two to one. The final
four straight win for Seattle matches the season best Pirates
and Tigers split a double header.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
In Game two.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Rookie Paul Skens had nine strikeouts in six innings, celebrating
his twenty second birthday with the Pittsburgh win ten to two.
Philly salvage the series against the Giants to six to
one win. Meanwhile, the Braves watch to the Nationals seven
to two, Orioles six to two over the Red Sox
on the back of a gunner Henderson Grand Slam Rangers
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finished off the sweep of the Diamondback six to one.
Royals bounce back from a three game losing streak to
beat the Twin six one, and the Brewers passed the
Cubs ten to six. Finally, in the NFL, the forty
nine Ers re signed receiver Jwan Jennings a two year
deal worth up to fifteen point four million. Ten and
a half million of that is guaranteed money. Jason Smith,
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Speaker 1 (33:17):
I really needed this song after my night tonight. I
had a player three times say the Mets are the
worst team in blanket team in Major League Baseball. You
just strayed for the Mets. Granny lies told show. There
are no lies told, except you don't say that about
the team you're playing.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
On well, and you're hurt. Chris Perfett in tonight. Thanks Chris.
I he came over the top, said this is how
I closed the night, So get over it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The Mets make my brain hurt. They just make my
brain hurt. You gotta let it go, buddy, for a
couple of I can't go.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
It's you're going to You're gonna forget. You're gonna do
the men in black thing where you forgetting tomorrow. You're
coming back for more. Oh, I'd love to do that
for more Mets pots like.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Fifty first dates. Man, No, no, I'm back. And then
we show you a video of your misery and get
your right back to the oblivion in which you've been suffering.
It's like happy. He comes walking down, He's whistling, What
a great day, great day to be alive. Here watch
this tape scrap.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I've never seen this team before.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh my goodness, what's happening now?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
White is memory? Oh my god, just thinking about yell,
just think about what you'd have to wipe my memory
from just the das blown said. The three blown saves
in the last week, the doubleheader loss to the Dodgers.
This game today, Jorge Lopez saying, I play on the
worst blanking team in Major League Baseball. And he says
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it three times. I mean, man, and you know whose
fault it is. It's always my fault. No, it's my fault.
It's my faultcause I look at it this way. Before
I attended a game in person this year, the we're
twelve and eight, right, that was their high watermark, four
games over five hundred. Things are great. I went to
a game. The Mets record since that day ten and
twenty five, ten and twenty five, fifteen games under five.
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It's my fault. All of this is my fault, or
he Lopez is my fault. All the bad home runs
he has given up, it is all my fault, all
my fault. I'll take that. I will wear it. It's
my fault.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
I understand it's a tough thing to admit, but you
know the first thing is of course, admitting that you
do have a problem and taking responsibility for your failures.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, like I said, I'll own it. I'll own it.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
A Yankee fan who was it? There was a video
going around to We're a guy talking about his uh,
his Mount Rushmore or top three guys, and he was
in a Mets uniform and he named all Yankees.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Who's that, oh, Harrison Bader?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Yeah yeah, was at him?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Well it's okay, judge and bold. Dude.
Let me tell you, first of all, Beader play with
the Yankees a long time. He's a big he was
big in the postseason a couple of years ago. Rison
Bader has been our best player. I'm not lying to you.
This is how bad it is. They get signed him
for ten million dollars to play center field because I
got to move Nimo over the left because they paid
him all this money because they thought he'd be a
great center fielder. Now they got to move in the
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left field, which is a big problem. But Harrison Bader,
who's going to be dealt the deadline. He's been our
best player. We have Lindor Alonso batting champion McNeil, Harrison
Bader's been our best player.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's okay, that's okay. Then it just you can trumpet
that if you're sternsy as. Look how shrewd we were
to bring him in. You're only ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Hey, look go smart, we are Now who can we
trade him to? So while the Mets are dealing with this,
and again, good luck Orgelopez, good luck Hey, congratulations on
likely landing with the Braves or the Phillies. A story
that we've talked about for the last week that's been
a pretty notorious one is finally at an end. Charges
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against Scottie Scheffler have been dropped. Remember he was arrested
charge of the felony after trying to get into the
PGA Championship a couple of weeks ago. Driving in for
his round early in the morning, there was an unfortunate
fatality that they were trying to clear. A horrible story.
Your heart goes out to the family the worker who
was who was trying to work the tournament and got
hit by a bus. The police were trying to clear
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the scene and Scheffler there was some kind of misunderstanding
and when he drove away from a police officer. The
video gets out. The officer runs to the to the
cab of the car that chef that Scheffler's in, leans
into the window and really treating him like he caught
him stealing the car or he caught him at a crime.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
This video gets out and it doesn't look good. Compounded
with the fact that the officer in question didn't turn
on his body cam. We told you a week ago.
Chargers are getting dropped. I mean, I'm not a only
know law something. Yeah, these these are getting dropped because
these are just really bad optics. And when the officer
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couldn't you, you couldn't carre operate the conversation you had
with Scheffler where supposedly the officer said don't go anywhere
and he decided to drive away when you couldn't corroborate,
and there's no body cam, and the video that gets
out makes you look like the police officer was out
of control. Of course, of course his charges are gonna
get dropped. Anybody, I didn't even need to watch all
(38:19):
the TV. I coulda stop watching law shows with La
Law in nineteen ninety one and I still would have
known these are gonna get dropped. And it was just
a matter of time. And I'm sure they waited as
long as they could to have put as much distance
between this story as they could. And now today the
charges get dropped, and Scheffler has a pretty good statement
out there when he says, hey, I hold no ill.
Will police do a very very difficult job, and they
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try to do it. It's a very classy statement. And
now this ends. But we knew a few days ago
this story wasn't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah, from the jump. Misunderstanding was the term he used,
and his lawyer very assertive in the claims and saying, look,
we're not taking any deals, we're not pleading out like
we'll take this to its end. And no further video
came out to help corroborate any of the officers' claims, right, Gillis,
His track record came to surface, which did not help
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matters in any way, shape or form. And the two
clips of video you had didn't help his case, right,
And still wondering about the eighty dollars pants, Oh yeah, sure,
you know. I mean, all of that comes to say
there's nothing on video to where he was thrown violently
or that Scheffler was belligerent on his side. So it
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gets to this point of all right, we can pursue it,
but it's flimsy at best. And I know the old
line is you can indict a ham sandwich, but in
this case, better to you know, learn lessons about communications
and being forthright and everything else, and calmer heads prevail
and new policies and procedures, probably for the PGA tour
(39:57):
eventually as well about guys driving themselves in and all too.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
You would think, you would think, and because there are
other ways to also there are other ways to get in,
and it could have been avoided. But now now it's
over and now we can go back to really doing
our most, our most I would say one of the
best things we do, and that is being able to
give legal advice without harm and I ever taking a
law class.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
So we're gonna have a new podcast or radio show,
just Handle on the Law on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
What do you got frostburg nuts?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
I am so glad. Ben Mallor is up next.
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A big night in sports, unfortunately, and it is headlined
by the New York Mets. Now you know the Mets
proving there is no such thing as rockbottom. No matter
how low you get, no, you can still dig deeper.
Maybe you just want to do it with your hands
and watch your your fingers bleeding from the fingernails. At
let's keep we can get lower, we can get all
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the way through the center of the Earth and fall
out the other side. Oh, we can do it. I
would have never thought. Even after the Mets lost to
the Dodgers today and the pretty embarrassing thing where Mets
reliever and now former Mets reliever or Hey Lopez threw
his glove into the stands because he was upset after
getting thrown out of the game. Hey, that's kind of
a minor headline. Something fun. We'll talk about tonight. Frostburg
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is gonna laugh. The Dodgers sweep the Mets, and Lopez,
who gets lit up in the eighth inning, gives up
a home run. To Otani gets thrown out by the
third base umpire for arguing balls and strikes, throws his
glove into the stands. Okay, that'll be fun. No, no, no,
The Mets decide, Hey, if we're gonna do embarrassing things, no, no,
it's gonna be all the way, man. We are going
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all the way to the wall with this, and we
are gonna be the dominant story in sports tonight. There
is an opening. There is no end game. The only
NHL game involves Edmonton. Hey, no, there's an opening for
us to really take over and the Mets, say what
you want, Mike Carmon. They jumped into that opening, and
they jumped in with Gusto.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, and that's the beauty of it. Right as a
team went all in. We've got player meetings, We've got
the level of absurdity, not only from the player involved,
but his teammates as they met with the media and
tried to well back him a little bit, which leaves
everybody just scratching their heads.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
If you're gonna go into this kind of thing right
where the team is spiraling, and there's gonna be that
big moment that you know, Heath Ledger walking away from
the hospital in the dark night kind of moment. I mean,
this is it go full in? Not Eh, there's a
little bit of unrest. Some guys are upset about playing
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time or how skip works the bullpen. Nope, to hell
with it. We got gloves flying into the stand. There'll
be a lawsuit because I'm claim they got hit in
the head, and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
There's embarrassing and then there's the Mets who proved that
just this story. Hey, look, it will get bigger and
it will get as big as we want it. To
be sure. So following the game, look the Mets lose again,
the season's over, right, seasons over? And let me just
say for a second, after the game is over, the
Mets have a twenty minute closed door media that Francisco
Lindor calls, Okay, hey, great idea, right, great leadership. Yeah yeah, sure,
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you know, look great, great, great idea, great idea. And
look the Lopez thing. You're still waiting for the big
hammer to drop on Lopez. But what happened next after
the Mets lose, Lopez gets thrown out of the game,
throws his love. The Mets are an embarrassment right now.
They're in absolute embarrassment, and Lindor called a twenty minute meeting,
called it really good. That's a great idea, and I
love that, But dude, how about you have it before
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the season's over. You have the fourth worst record in
Major League Baseball. You're ten and twenty five in the
last month and a half, and now is when you
have a meeting. When you're twelve games under five hundre
and again, fourth worst team in baseball. You're gonna have
a worse record than the A's pretty soon. And no
one even knows if they're gonna make it the Sacramento
to play next year. This is how embarrassing is and
(04:09):
you wait till now now is we're gonna have a meeting,
you know, I mean I get that you don't want
to panic too early, but just all season long, I've
seen Carlos Mendoza, the Mets manager, to go, yeah, no, yeah,
you know, we'll go through these are ups and downs.
We're going through. Everything is fine. You keep telling me
everything is fine until the season is bleeping over. Oh yeah,
it didn't work. Wait, I thought it was still early.
How do we go from it being early this season
(04:30):
being over? How does last night David Stearns, president of
the operations for the Mets say, Oh, we're still evaluating.
The season's done. Man, it's over. Everything you're finished? This
season is is could put? Everybody should be on the block.
Everybody should be available via trade. This invention of the Mets,
with Lindor and and Alonso and Nimmo and McNeil be
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in the core, they had their chance. They're all over thirty.
If you could trade all of them, trade all of them,
spend money in the offseason, bring up all the good
young players you've traded for the last couple of years.
This is how you do it. But no, no, let's have
a closed door meeting now. No, the season's done now,
but let's have a meeting.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, well, but this was a huge moment, right there's losing,
and there's feeling like you're starting to move a little bit.
And all the public comments have been we don't know
what talents kind of team we are, we're still gelling
whatever else, even though it's our after Memorial Day and
you normally have a pretty good idea of the squad
jar but all the forward facing statements have been about
(05:29):
hope and that this team will find its bearings. Lynn
Orrell start to hit all these other players, you know, Diez, Well,
now he's hurt, but that he was gonna suddenly become
that closer again. Again, he's hurt. But the movement away
into a situation like you had today, we're just manifesting
that big spot. And yeah, there's no shame in Otani
(05:52):
hitting home runs or losing to the Dodgers. Plenty of
people will take the ls. But to have the guy
getting the argument on a check swing get thrown out,
throw the glove, everything else, you know, you have a
flashpoint moment, and that's that's what the team did, right.
It's because technically it could still spiral for other squads,
and with the wild cards as they are, you're, what
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six and a half games out of a wild card spot.
Not insurmountable, not easy, and certainly with the roster assembled,
it'll be tough sledding. But you're trying to sell hope still,
even if you know things are burning inside.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Uh. This is where things really come off the rails.
Because Lopez does an interview this following the closed door meeting.
He's the guy everybody wants to talk to. He had
the meltdown, he threw his glove into the stands, and
I know maybe they gave him his glove back, maybe not.
You know, Mets fans keep it. After what he said,
he's asked if he regrets throwing his glove into the stands,
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and then he gives us this quote that's gonna dominate
news cycles for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the standard
was unacceptable. Looking back on it, do you regret doing that.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I don't regret it.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I think I've been looking the worst steaming brought in
the whole MLB. So, you know, whatever happened happened. So
whatever they want to do it, I'll be tomorrow here
if they want me, you know, whatever they want to do.
So I'm gonna keep doing this thing, you know, so
I'm healthy on whatever, you know, whatever to do. You know,
(07:35):
I'm ready to come back tomorrow Day one, me be here.
So I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay. So in the first hour of the show, this
was the story and it was pretty embarrassing. Second hour
of the show we got another update on it. He
was even more embarrassing. Now Here in the final hour
of the show, we have a third update and it's
even more embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
But wait, there's four.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So after this happened, Steve Gelibs, who did this report,
did the interview for then why we talked about him
last hour, did a great job saying, Hey, I want
to give you the chance to make sure you said
what you want to say that that you said you
wanted people to make sure you said the Mets are
the worst team in baseball because maybe there's a there's
a language barrier of some kind. Maybe you didn't get along,
get get out what you had to say. Let me
(08:17):
give you a chance to walk it back if you
want to, so, Steve Gellips, anyway, just to be sure
what you said, let me ask you.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And here it is just to clarify what what you said.
Just I didn't fully understand. Did you say I'm on
the worst team? Is that? Is that what you had said?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah? Probably it looked like.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, so it's it's bad enough the first hour, worst
team in baseball? Okay, but then then okay, now I
asked to make sure and he said double down and said,
oh yeah, worst team in baseball. That's what that's right there.
Probably we're worst team in baseball. That's exactly what I
meant to say. Well, now we have this Anthony Dicomo,
(08:56):
who is the Mets beat writer and covers the Mets
for MLB dot Com. It's kind of been piggybacking on
this story with Steve Gelbs, and he just put out
a tweet a few moments ago saying actually went back
to Lopez a third time, Hey, one more time, not one,
not two? They went back to him a third time
to say, hey, dude, did you really mean this man?
(09:19):
Did you really mean worst team in baseball? And Diacomo
is reporting that what he really The message he wanted
out there was I feel like one of the worst
teammates on the worst team in Major League.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh again, well I am the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, So three times he wanted to make sure people knew, Wow,
this is the worst team in baseball. Like three times,
I'm taking my team and throwing it under the bus
three times. If you're not flattened enough the first time,
Hey flat Stanley, I'll throw you under the bus again.
You're still not flat Again, Hey flat Stanley, will throw
you under the bus again. I mean, this is so embarrassing.
(09:56):
Now he's been dfad by the match and he's not
going to play for them again, and I'm I'm sure
the Braves will pick him up and he'll be a
big part of the Braves Bowl in October. No, No,
the Braves like to troll.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
He's gonna Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Listen, Phillies are gonna do it. Nobody trolls the Mets
like like the Braves do, right, whether it's Kelnick or
Travis Darno. No, no, No, they're the ones that are
gonna get him. I'm sure. Oh you're gonna you're gonna
get the great They're gonna headline it in the summer.
And what what a journey for or hey Lopez, Oh
all the craziness of May twenty ninth when he called
the Mets the worst team in baseball, He's DFA and
(10:30):
now here he is his sparkling one point two eight
e ra a second only to show to him and
Aga over the course of this year, and now he's
proven to be the best setup man in all of baseball. Like,
I know that's gonna happen, but this is how embarrassing
it is for the Mets that you got Look forget
about the you know, the embarrassment of the of the
meeting for a second. Here's a guy who three times
(10:52):
has thrown your team under the bus three times, and
after that and you still I still haven't gotten anything
strong from any of the Mets on this. Adam Montavino
was asked about he said, well, you know, look, Lope,
is this he says this? He said, he said, you're
the worst team in baseball. Man, I'm sorry, but you
gotta stand up for the other guys in the locker
room knowing full well, Hey, I gotta show some fight here, right,
(11:13):
I gotta see something. I gotta see something from the
Mets tomorrow, from Lindor, from Alonzo hopefully is not injured
too bad because oh, by the way, on top of this,
Alonzo misses the game after he gets hit in the hand.
I'm sure he's got five broken fingers. And Edwin Diaz
is on the il with his shoulder injury. This is
Wednesday for the Mets. This is one day, one day
for the Mets. Is this I'm hoping something tomorrow we
(11:35):
get something, whether it's Carlos Mendoza, somebody's got to stand
up and go. This guy doesn't know what the hell
he's talking about. We've been underperforming, but blank that guy
and him saying we're the worst team in baseball. He
can go figure it out someplace else. He can stop
giving up runs, he can stop getting Who is the guy.
I don't think it was Jeff McNeil's fault. As bad
as he's been, it's not Jeff McNeil's fault. Lopez has
been given up runs. It's not Francisco Lindor's fault. Even
(11:58):
though he's sitting two hundred and chasing breaking pitches like
he's seen a breaking pitch for the first time, it's
not his fault. He's given up home runs. I want.
I want to see some fight from somebody and say,
this guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about,
and now it's time for us to take ownership of this.
I don't care if they win or not, but they
got to show something, man, because then I'm gonna say, Okay,
not only do we all need all new players, we
(12:18):
need a new manager to like, this is where you
can't do You're kidding, I can, I can? I mean
you've been trying to kick him out for weeks. Man,
I've told you listen. I still need JJ Reddick to
be named head coach of the Lakers. Look, Doug Gottlieb
being head coach of Wisconsin Green Bay helps a lot.
Reddick would help to going from broadcasting to the NBA.
I need that to happen so I can say, hey, look, man,
(12:40):
you got a couple of guys at jobs college, and
I can manage the Mets. I might be a year away.
I mean, I mean I would want to follow Mendoza
because the Mets are such a disaster right now, but stuff,
I might wind up being a year or two away.
I gotta change, I gotta, I gotta meet people. No,
come on, man, Hayes could not do that. She can
come on absolutely, that's hat saying, let's go. That's no.
(13:00):
I might need I gotta I just got a pipeline
to David Sterns now with John Paul Morosi. I need
I need. No, I need a little bit of I
need a.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Little bit of time. No, no, no, because I love
the good I well, there's no positive you gotta fe now,
you got forty minutes to figure out a positive spin
on this. There's no positives because all we've done is
you've been playing a fiddle, dancing around all this Burns
in the background right now. That's exactly what we've done
since seven o'clock Pacific time, is watching it burn and
(13:29):
castigating them for doing so. So you trying to now
save your relationship with Sterns, he and JP. Good luck,
let's see that spin pas.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. I've
not said team sucks. I've not said anything not positive
to David Sterns through through John Paul Moros will I got.
I gotta keep this going for a year until I
get David Sterns on my side. Then I could manage it.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He's gonna send him a note tomorrow justin he's gonna go,
I really like how you hand this situation.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Apearance.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Things are good.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
JP's given up being a baseball inside. He's blocked David
Stearns on his social media. That's what's happening. I mean,
this is I mean, it's just I need something from
them tomorrow to say this guy doesn't know what the
hell he's talking about. He should stop giving up home
runs and we're gonna show you what kind of team
we are. I need something big, I need something other
than that. Then it really is time. I told you
it's time for the Mets to to to completely wholesale
(14:29):
anybody they can, because they need to start over again
with money they can spend in the off season. Octu.
They didn't spend money this this season. Money they can
spend in the off season players they've already traded for
a year ago, who are very close to getting to
the majors. You need something new there, you need something
completely new. And if I don't get anything tomorrow. That's
just gonna reinforce it. It's just gonna reinforce that that
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the Mets are are just sitting around and they're just
putting in their time and they're waiting for the season
to end because there there's nothing that should stop them
from standing up and saying, this guy he doesn't know
what he's talking about. This guy's full of it, this
guy's full load of crap. You gotta be responsible. Those
are the twenty five guys in the locker room. And
that's what I need from Lindor Alonzo, Nimmo McNeil. That's
what I need from the soul called leaders of the Mets. Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
That's not happening.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I'm not saying it will, but I'm saying it's what
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We'll keep trolling the Mets by signing all the guys
who stunk there and now they're good with us. Why
(16:51):
not we'll do it.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Is he actually get a pitch for you? Nope, there
just to stare and wave at you.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
But we'll put him on the forty man roster so
we get a ring at the end of the year.
He's gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That is right, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike car I really like,
can't what a story? I mean, this is just you
talk about something that again. Anytime there I see something
like this and I see the Mets trend or I
saw what I saw Lopez trending, because after the game
was over, I turned it off, Like I didn't see
what Lopez said after like the game ended, you know,
I said, okay, well we'll talk about him throwing his
(17:28):
glove into the stands because it's just unbelievably watch the game.
My wife goes, why do you throw his glove in
the stands? A go, because he's an idiot, because he's
mad that he stinks. That's why I threw his glove
in this name.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
There's one thing I don't believe there.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What don't you believe you didn't turn it off? Yeah,
Oh no, No, I didn't turn the game off. No,
after the game was over, I turned it on.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I didn't watch the pot No, no, because I don't
get the postgame at home. I get the Dodger post game,
and all they're talking about is, hey, look how great
it was for the Dodgers who were on death's door
after they lost twelve games in a row. And Otani's
hitting a buck ninety four nothing like three game against
the Mets. Now, I wasn't gonna sit her and watch that.
I didn't need that. But I mean, it's just just
(18:06):
to see that. My wife is like, what's going I go,
He's just I don't know, And she was, what's gonna happen?
I go, they'll probably send him to Syracuse. That that's
not him, and they'll send him in baby to Syracuse.
She goes, who's baby? I said, this conversations over all, Right,
it's done. We're done, We're done.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
He was a guy from Deliverance.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Who's baby. He's a guy, you know, I never mind,
I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Don't you remember? He was Dick Tracy.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Benny.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Your dog?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Does he cover his eyes or like hide behind the
couch when you put the Mets on.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh, he runs away and starts screaming.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
He runs away, yelping. He went to absolutely yelping. He's
like Baxter, he just runs away.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, you could be arrested for that. That's dog torture.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Baxter bark twice twice and the Mets are losing in Milwaukee.
Uh As, today was as bad a day it was
for the Mets. A great day for the doctors, obviously
bad for the Mets. It's not often when you get
your reliever calling his team the worst team in all
of blanking Major League Baseball and tripling down on it. Ye,
are you sure you know that's what I said?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Clarify it?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, I said it. I said it. I said it.
I had a girlfriend atrisca Geez said, atriscate a biscuit. No, No,
I said it. I said. Now he's been DFAD and
it's you know, is one of those one of those days, man,
I'm telling you, also known as Wednesday for the Mets.
But today was a big day for the NBA and
it was probably the biggest day non game day for
(19:29):
a while because we found out today that Bronnie James
is staying in the NBA draft. Now, why is today
a big day? This is this is where I zag
when you think I'm gonna zig like I still believe
what's going on with Bronnie and I'm speaking of triple down,
tripling down on things. Will the Lakers draft Bronnie in
the second round of fifty five?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Maybe, but maybe they get him as an undrafted free agent.
You see Rich Paul and and and Clutch Sports saying
things like he's starting to work out, but he's only
gonna work out for a couple of teams. He's only
gonna do a one way, not gonna do a two
way contract, which is very popular with second round players.
Not gonna do a two way deal's got to be
an NBA deal. Trying to scare everybody away so Bronny
(20:11):
can get to his preferred destination, which is, of course,
with Lebron with the Lakers. Now, how much he's gonna
play there, probably just a little bit. They'll go through
training camp together, they'll play a couple of preseason games together.
It'll be fun video to see Lebron play with Bronny.
Lebron will get to answer questions about it and then
Bronny will go play in the G League for the
next couple of years until he's really ready to contribute.
(20:31):
So I'm tripling down on that. But that's why this
is good and it's great for the NBA draft because
this is a buzzless draft. Man, there is no buzz.
There is no excitement about who's getting taken. There's no
conversation who should go number one? Who are the big
players in this draft? I think that we think are
gonna be impact players right away from the beginnings to
(20:52):
Fon Castle's my guy. He's a guy. Take number one overall.
I know how great an NBA player he's gonna be,
and people are crazy if they take him anywhere lower
than number one. But still there's not a lot of
buzz around him, not a buzz around anybody. But now
you have Bronny James in the draft, and no matter what,
he's a conversation and it's gonna be a conversation for
the next month. Who's he working out for? Does this
(21:15):
mean if he works out for the Suns, lebron will
go to the Suns. If he works out for the
Celtics and go to the Celtics, it will be the conversation. Right,
it'll be the the NBA version of the quarterbacks we
talk about going into the NFL draft. You need something
with buzz that people are gonna talk about. And Lebron
James's kid in the most average of NBA fans, the
most casual of NBA fans. Oh, Lebron's kid's gonna get drafted.
(21:36):
Who's gonna take him? It will be a bigger story
as we get closer to the draft. And here's even
better part of it. Normally, when the NBA Draft comes,
the big players get taken early overall.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Right, you see viewership fall off a cliff because, Okay,
I've seen the guys get taken, and I see the
guys I've heard about. Now it's a bunch of guys
I don't know. I don't need to watch a draft anymore.
I can just check in right now. There's a bunch
of guys playing Europe and guys from small colleges I
haven't seen play. It doesn't matter. I'm done. But Bronni
is not gonna get taken. If he does get taken
(22:08):
until the second round of the draft, which means you're
watching this draft from the beginning. Now, the draft is
must see because it's where does Bronny end up? Does
Greg Popovich say, blank, you Lakers, We're taking Bronny here
and I'm gonna team him up with Wemby and we're
gonna win championship after championship for the next fifteen years,
right like you gotta see? How is that gonna go?
Is another team gonna draft Browny? Are the Lakers gonna
(22:31):
draft Browny in the second round? If he doesn't get drafted,
the news will break right after the draft that he
signs as an undrafted free agent with somebody. So this
story becomes what the draft is all about, and the
draft needs it. And it's a story that plays out
over the course of the entire broadcast and the entire night,
not something that builds up to the announcement of the
(22:51):
first picket at eight oh seven and then everybody turns
their TV off. No, this has become a mussy event.
It's given juice to the month before it. This is
the best news the NBA has had in a while
for a kid who is is a middling prospect that
we don't know how good he's gonna be. He has potential,
but look you're throwing a dart when you get to
the second round of the NBA draft. Anyway, who knows
(23:12):
how good he's gonna be, but for the next month
and then the night of the draft. This is an
absolute gift. The NBA got an absolute gift today with
Brownie staying in the draft.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well just remember a couple of weeks ago they had
the draft lottery. I think we mentioned it once outside
of an update, right, I mean, it just doesn't matter.
It's not registering the same way. I mean, part of
it is you've got a lot of foreign players coming in,
so we could say their name, but you can't speak
(23:41):
to having done your due diligence at this point and
watched a bunch of well, what's gonna be grainy footage
from a lot of these guys or stuff that's been
pieced together on a YouTube video. It's like, all right,
all it's gonna be his highlights. So you know what
versus college we see that the EBB and flow of things.
You got guys from Kentucky that'll be up there, uh,
(24:02):
and and a few others. Your guy Castle, uh, top
ten pick by most mock drafts. But beyond that, there's
just not the the fever forward this year. There's just
not that guy that's bringing everybody to the table except
for Brownie James, because everybody has an opinion regardless of
how many of the minutes he played at USC they
(24:24):
actually saw, right, whether it's whether it's I met well
because if me think about it, it's packed and you're
dark and it's modal season, right, how many people really
watched any of this except for I saw the box score.
A couple of points he had, They say he plays
pretty good defense. Oh by the way, he measured in it,
(24:44):
you know, two and a half inches tall, shorter than
what he was listed at and you know he still
does have the wingspan and maybe you get a growth spurt.
Maybe they were projecting forward hoping if he stuck around
another year, Uh, he'd get to six four. But you
get my point, Like, there's there's a lot that flows
out right because you then have all of the Lebron
James conversations because at that point he won't have had
(25:07):
to exercise you know, the player option or opted out,
you know, much like Rich Paul had already said, well
he's a free agent. Well we anticipate that because then
you can go back and sign your two or three
year deal at sixty million or whatever that that math becomes.
But it's all the different storylines that fall off of
(25:28):
Bronni James that are gonna fill the gaps between Yeah,
this guy's six ' eight.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
What do you think.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I don't know, got any comps? Nope, But you know
what James, no idea, couldn't even tell you, no idea. Yeah,
it says here on my sheet that he picked up
big minutes for his national team, you know, his national
uh Ua team team last year. I mean, that's kind
(25:55):
of the good gonna be the initial part of the draft.
And then immediately what can you talk about the Lakers
and if Lebron stays and AD's there, who do they
pair them with? And if you draft Bronnie, is he
gonna play blah blah blah. I mean all of that.
I mean it serves that whole night, and it serves
this the next month.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, and look, it's you know, to win. And the
other the other part of this is, as you hit
on something that's a pretty big deal, is that it's
hard for anybody to really project Bronnie James because he's
a second round pick you're throwing a dart. You can't.
Really there's no comp to say, Hey, this is a
guy we've watched and evaluated and we think this is
what his ceiling is in the NBA. Nobody knows what
(26:36):
his ceiling is. Nobody knows what his floor is, Nobody
knows what kind of player he's going to be, Nobody
knows what kind of skills that he's gonna have. Because
he's nineteen, he hasn't had a lot of minutes, hasn't
had a lot of exposure, and we're gonna get to
see developmentally what he is in the next couple of years.
But yeah, it's hard. It's hard for for when you're
talking about a guy that even the even the most
(26:57):
seasoned of experts and animals and the experts are gonna go, yeah,
I don't know. I mean, I don't know about that.
That looks like you even had Jay Wright when he
was asked about Jalen Brunts his success as playoffs, saying,
you know, I knew he'd be a good player in
the NBA. I didn't think he'd be this. This is
the guy's coach who's won two national championships that has
seen him every day and said, I didn't think he'd
(27:19):
be this good. I mean, it's such a it's such
a dice roll. But at least with the players earlier
in the draft that have the better pedigree that you've seen, Okay,
I feel that this guy is. So it's really difficult
to talk about Browny James because you just don't know
he's gonna be well.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I think the the other thing, And we've talked about
this a lot. But to reiterate, audience always changing, welcome in,
if you're new to the show, welcome to the family.
You can go back and find ten years of content
in the iHeartRadio vault wherever you get podcasts. But just
the idea that because he's Lebron James Son, are you
getting honest evaluations from anybody, either those that are putting
(27:56):
their name and face in front of a camera or
on a pot podcast or on a radio show or
writing columns whatever. Are you not to mention the anonymous ones?
Are you getting a real evaluation of what they truly
believe this player is going to be? And I hate
to say it because I hope, I hope great things
for the kid. He's Unfortunately the collateral he gets the
(28:18):
collateral damage of all of this, uh, you know, the
love or hate of his father in the empire he's
built in the NBA and Rich Paul and all of
that that he wears a bunch of it and it's
not his fault. But are we honestly getting true evaluations
from many of these people that it's not lip service
because they don't want to lose access, They don't want
(28:39):
to be on the outs with Paul and all of
the players represented from Clutch and everything else.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, I hear you on that. But when you think
about how analysts talk about players that are that are
are you know, that could make it or not? No
one says this guy stinks, you know, No, it says
he stinks, doesn't listen. Yeah, he could wind up being good.
He might not, so you normally see, but do we.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Get more soft shoe here than we would normally?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
They've stopped well, but I mean including some of.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
The before they they backed off. I mean, think about
some of the early mock drafts. Think about some of this,
and we talked with Dan Wake earlier. The number of
references to I don't know, first round maybe maybe Really
is that a real evaluation or is it just a well,
I don't know. We'll take him and then see what
falls out from there. That's not a strategy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We'll see what happens is not a strategy.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I don't think he really fits in our you know,
fifteen men rotation, at least not for a year or two.
But but you never know what I mean, you're drafting. Look,
an NBA draft has been this for a long time,
right we before they included the one and done rule
and ever after it's the well, we saw him for
a year, and now we're projecting forward that in two
(29:55):
to three years he becomes a beast, whether it means
he grows, whether he's a veteran the post game, whether
he's gonna put on thirty pounds to work in the
low post, all of those things through the year, developing
an outside jump shot. We've wished and wanted and hoped
for all these guys, and right now we're in even
even a worse spot because who are these guys that
are getting drafted? Don't know picking names out of that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Could couldn't tell you. Yeah, I've never heard of them.
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Guys?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
In the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Oilers have even the
series with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
They erased an early two goal.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Deficit Wednesday night in Edmonton, and then they end up
skating past the Stars five to two the final scoring
Game four of the Western Conference Final, and yes, the
series is even two games apiece. Other Honkey news, Minnesota
beat Boston to win the inaugural Walter Cup and the
Professional Women's Honckey League. In the NBA, the Wizards have
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removed the interim tag from coach Brian Keef. He is
now their full time head coach. The Clippers and coach
Tyleru agreeing on a new five year deal worth seventy million.
Wednesday was the deadline for players to withdraw from the
draft and returned to school. Some notable names Yukon's Alex Caravan,
Arizona's Caleb Love, and Alabama's Marcus Spears. The Jefferson County
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DA's office in Kentucky has dropped all charges against Scottie Scheffler.
In baseball, the Dodgers sweeping the Mets with a ten
to three win on Wednesday, and they have now won
their last three. Will Smith homerd twice Yankees with the
Angels two to one, New York starter Luis gill A
Lounge his two hits in eight innings, Mariners walked off
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the Astros and ten innings, two to one. The final
four straight win for Seattle matches the season best Pirates
and Tigers split a double header.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
In Game two.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Rookie Paul Skens had nine strikeouts in six innings, celebrating
his twenty second birthday with the Pittsburgh win ten to two.
Philly salvage the series against the Giants to six to
one win. Meanwhile, the Braves watch to the Nationals seven
to two, Orioles six to two over the Red Sox
on the back of a gunner Henderson Grand Slam Rangers
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finished off the sweep of the Diamondback six to one.
Royals bounce back from a three game losing streak to
beat the Twin six one, and the Brewers passed the
Cubs ten to six. Finally, in the NFL, the forty
nine Ers re signed receiver Jwan Jennings a two year
deal worth up to fifteen point four million. Ten and
a half million of that is guaranteed money. Jason Smith,
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Mike Carmon have a good eight guys.
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put to bed. Should it happened sooner? We'll tell you
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Speaker 2 (33:09):
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Speaker 1 (33:17):
I really needed this song after my night tonight. I
had a player three times say the Mets are the
worst team in blanket team in Major League Baseball. You
just strayed for the Mets. Granny lies told show. There
are no lies told, except you don't say that about
the team you're playing.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
On well, and you're hurt. Chris Perfett in tonight. Thanks Chris.
I he came over the top, said this is how
I closed the night, So get over it.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The Mets make my brain hurt. They just make my
brain hurt. You gotta let it go, buddy, for a
couple of I can't go.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
It's you're going to You're gonna forget. You're gonna do
the men in black thing where you forgetting tomorrow. You're
coming back for more. Oh, I'd love to do that
for more Mets pots like.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Fifty first dates. Man, No, no, I'm back. And then
we show you a video of your misery and get
your right back to the oblivion in which you've been suffering.
It's like happy. He comes walking down, He's whistling, What
a great day, great day to be alive. Here watch
this tape scrap.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I've never seen this team before.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Oh my goodness, what's happening now?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
White is memory? Oh my god, just thinking about yell,
just think about what you'd have to wipe my memory
from just the das blown said. The three blown saves
in the last week, the doubleheader loss to the Dodgers.
This game today, Jorge Lopez saying, I play on the
worst blanking team in Major League Baseball. And he says
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it three times. I mean, man, and you know whose
fault it is. It's always my fault. No, it's my fault.
It's my faultcause I look at it this way. Before
I attended a game in person this year, the we're
twelve and eight, right, that was their high watermark, four
games over five hundred. Things are great. I went to
a game. The Mets record since that day ten and
twenty five, ten and twenty five, fifteen games under five.
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It's my fault. All of this is my fault, or
he Lopez is my fault. All the bad home runs
he has given up, it is all my fault, all
my fault. I'll take that. I will wear it. It's
my fault.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
I understand it's a tough thing to admit, but you
know the first thing is of course, admitting that you
do have a problem and taking responsibility for your failures.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, like I said, I'll own it. I'll own it.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
A Yankee fan who was it? There was a video
going around to We're a guy talking about his uh,
his Mount Rushmore or top three guys, and he was
in a Mets uniform and he named all Yankees.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Who's that, oh, Harrison Bader?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Yeah yeah, was at him?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Well it's okay, judge and bold. Dude.
Let me tell you, first of all, Beader play with
the Yankees a long time. He's a big he was
big in the postseason a couple of years ago. Rison
Bader has been our best player. I'm not lying to you.
This is how bad it is. They get signed him
for ten million dollars to play center field because I
got to move Nimo over the left because they paid
him all this money because they thought he'd be a
great center fielder. Now they got to move in the
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left field, which is a big problem. But Harrison Bader,
who's going to be dealt the deadline. He's been our
best player. We have Lindor Alonso batting champion McNeil, Harrison
Bader's been our best player.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's okay, that's okay. Then it just you can trumpet
that if you're sternsy as. Look how shrewd we were
to bring him in. You're only ten million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Hey, look go smart, we are Now who can we
trade him to? So while the Mets are dealing with this,
and again, good luck Orgelopez, good luck Hey, congratulations on
likely landing with the Braves or the Phillies. A story
that we've talked about for the last week that's been
a pretty notorious one is finally at an end. Charges
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against Scottie Scheffler have been dropped. Remember he was arrested
charge of the felony after trying to get into the
PGA Championship a couple of weeks ago. Driving in for
his round early in the morning, there was an unfortunate
fatality that they were trying to clear. A horrible story.
Your heart goes out to the family the worker who
was who was trying to work the tournament and got
hit by a bus. The police were trying to clear
(37:15):
the scene and Scheffler there was some kind of misunderstanding
and when he drove away from a police officer. The
video gets out. The officer runs to the to the
cab of the car that chef that Scheffler's in, leans
into the window and really treating him like he caught
him stealing the car or he caught him at a crime.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
This video gets out and it doesn't look good. Compounded
with the fact that the officer in question didn't turn
on his body cam. We told you a week ago.
Chargers are getting dropped. I mean, I'm not a only
know law something. Yeah, these these are getting dropped because
these are just really bad optics. And when the officer
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couldn't you, you couldn't carre operate the conversation you had
with Scheffler where supposedly the officer said don't go anywhere
and he decided to drive away when you couldn't corroborate,
and there's no body cam, and the video that gets
out makes you look like the police officer was out
of control. Of course, of course his charges are gonna
get dropped. Anybody, I didn't even need to watch all
(38:19):
the TV. I coulda stop watching law shows with La
Law in nineteen ninety one and I still would have
known these are gonna get dropped. And it was just
a matter of time. And I'm sure they waited as
long as they could to have put as much distance
between this story as they could. And now today the
charges get dropped, and Scheffler has a pretty good statement
out there when he says, hey, I hold no ill.
Will police do a very very difficult job, and they
(38:41):
try to do it. It's a very classy statement. And
now this ends. But we knew a few days ago
this story wasn't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah, from the jump. Misunderstanding was the term he used,
and his lawyer very assertive in the claims and saying, look,
we're not taking any deals, we're not pleading out like
we'll take this to its end. And no further video
came out to help corroborate any of the officers' claims, right, Gillis,
His track record came to surface, which did not help
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matters in any way, shape or form. And the two
clips of video you had didn't help his case, right,
And still wondering about the eighty dollars pants, Oh yeah, sure,
you know. I mean, all of that comes to say
there's nothing on video to where he was thrown violently
or that Scheffler was belligerent on his side. So it
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gets to this point of all right, we can pursue it,
but it's flimsy at best. And I know the old
line is you can indict a ham sandwich, but in
this case, better to you know, learn lessons about communications
and being forthright and everything else, and calmer heads prevail
and new policies and procedures, probably for the PGA tour
(39:57):
eventually as well about guys driving themselves in and all too.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
You would think, you would think, and because there are
other ways to also there are other ways to get in,
and it could have been avoided. But now now it's
over and now we can go back to really doing
our most, our most I would say one of the
best things we do, and that is being able to
give legal advice without harm and I ever taking a
law class.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
So we're gonna have a new podcast or radio show,
just Handle on the Law on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
What do you got frostburg nuts?
Speaker 7 (40:27):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
I am so glad. Ben Mallor is up next.
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