May 21, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to former Denver Nuggets head coach Mike Malone giving Shai Gilgeous-Alexander his props after OKC's Game 1 win over the Wolves in the Western Conference Finals. Max Muncy walks it off in extras for the Dodgers. And the biggest NFL story of the day!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. And before we
get into the NBA, just really quick, boy, how things
have turned. It looks like the Dodgers are gonna lose
their fifth in a row thanks to home running the
ninth inning to tie at Corbyn. Carrol has gone deep
here in the tenth fertilizer Diamondbacks lead the Dodgers three
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to one. Sing so bad for the Dodgers. Only the
Dodgers absolutely blow yoshinobah Yamamoto's near no hit her right
yet and no hit her into the sixth inning. And
not only that, but they cooked their bullpen along the way.
Yeah no, he got into the seventh. There could be
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a three to one laws like it's so bad, like
they finally get a big game pitched, and now, well,
guess what sop embarrassing, we're cooking the bullpen as we're
gonna lose this game potentially three to one. But Otani
does bat in the tenth inning for the Dodgers, so
again three to one going to the bottom of the tenth.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Came into the game with an era just above a two.
He's been fantastic. And all we've been talking about with
the troubles, uh managing the arms rotation or bullpen with
a number of guys going in and out like a
damn revolving door. That you've had Yamamoto every fifth day
to be able to just say, all right, he's gonna
give you an effort, and then he goes into the
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seventh and you still ended up in the bullpen and
working guys and Dave Roberts what was on a cruise
control kind of night became all nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Meanwhile, the Angels have won five in a row, so that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
My face chang but literally seven innings pitch the one
hit aloud, nine strikeouts, goes one hundred and ten pitches.
Man gave them everything he had and then some and
for it all to go asunder this embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's fertilizer. Fertilizer. So again, but the Dodgers coming up
in the bottom of the tenth. We'll see how this
shakes out.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But to give credit on the other side, right, Nelson
goes five. Now you have four relievers for the Diamondbacks
to get you to this point.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So tonight we watched the Oklahoma City Thunder just take
off in the second half and beat the Ta Wolves one,
fourteen to eighty eight to take a one game to
then lead in the Western Conference Final. We'll get to
that coming up in a minute. But tonight was the
Mike Malone. We can call him Mike now because he's
a broadcaster, not a coach. Mike Malone, former Nuggets head coach,
made his debut with the ESPN. Yeah all right, so
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how was the coach gonna do? You know, how was
he gonna do? Well? He had this comment from tonight,
look Sga has a big night in the second half.
Didn't start out for a big game for shake Gildess Alexander,
but carries the team in the second half when they
turned a four point deficit into a big lead. They
wound up winning SGA winds up with thirty one points,
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nine s, five rebounds. Here's Mike Malone on the court
after the game talking about the night that gild Justs
Alexander had. That's what they do.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
They do it at an elite level and then shake
Gilges Alexander.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He showed wise he's the MVP. It's took over in the.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Second half, DIDs so in a very efficient manner and
put the team on his back when they needed needed
him to do. So.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, so shake Gildas Alexander showing why he's the MVP. Right,
So Michael Malone by sorry, Mike Malone, why shake Gilders
Alexander is the MVP in the league. Did he let
the cat out of the bag? Well, I'm just saying,
I'm just saying no, no, he said. And the reason
this is so interesting is because this is Mike Malone
from about six weeks ago talking about Nicola Jokic and
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being the MVP.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
My thing is this, You know, if you didn't know
that Nicola won three MVPs, and I put player A
and player B on paper and you had no idea
that the guy who's averaging a triple double, the guy
who's top three in the three major statistical categories, things
that no one's ever done. He wins the MVP ten
times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I believe. He went on to say, And if you
don't think so, you guys are all full of blank, right,
I believe, But this is what you know. I was,
Jokic is the EF. So now wait a minute, Wait
a minute. So six weeks ago, Jokic was the MVP.
Now tonight, Shay Gilders Alexander, So let me think about it.
Let me think of this for a second, because something
had to have changed for Mike Malone to change to
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go from Jokic. And if ten times out of ten
not nine out of ten, where hey, I said nine
out of ten, this is the tenth time you it's
ten times out of ten. Ten he said that Jokic
is the MVP. Okay, so there's new information. Something might
have happened. Let me think about stuff. So hang on,
So Yokic was the MVP, Nuggets were playing well, Jamal
Murray came back, No, probably not there. Well, can I
guess go through?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Go ahead, Frostford, what do you got because I'm coming
up with a blank right now? They fired his ass.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So is this his way of saying that jokicch had
a conversation with the kros which resulted in him and
Calvin Booth Good and both getting shown the door.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You may all have said anybody but Jokicic, Yet no
times out of ten. Now, look, there's the school of
thought to be fair, to be fair to Mike Malone.
There's a school of thought that, well, he's saying he's
the MVP, right because shaegild As Alexander is going to
win the MVP, right, Okay, Now I get that. I
get you that. Okay, Shagil Lexander's going to win the MVP,
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because I think he is. But there's but you said
ten out of ten that Nicola Jokicic is the MVP.
This is what it means to work in the media,
Mike Malone. This is what it means. You say things
and you go counter opposite to what you said not
very long ago. Uh, this is gonna get brought up.
So yeah, I get that. There could be well, and
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that'll be his way to get out of it. I'm sure, Well,
how do I get out of this? Well, So, well,
he's going to win the I think he's gonna win
the MVP. But no, no, ten times out of ten
you said Jokis was the MVP ten times out.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Of ten Because this was an extraneous comment in the
middle of an analysis of a game, right, he didn't
have to say anything about the MVP trophy related to
this particular comment. This is when you say an SGA
took over you at twenty points in the second half
efficient blah blah blah. You decided to do the sideswipe,
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drive past a guy, maybe drive through a puddle and
get him all wet, or maybe do one of those
deals where you can open the door real fast and
hit him and then shut your door and keep driving on.
That's what you did to Jokich by saying, and he's
gonna you know, he's the MVP, Like you didn't need
to talk about the MVP. Oh, that wasn't the question.
The question was about second half of this game and
how it got away, and let's talk about the greatness
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that is the thunder in this particular game.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's gonna learn a lesson. This is petty.
He's gonna learn a lesson. Look, he's gonna and it's
going to be. It's going to be brought up and
I get, like I said, it's gonna be easy for
him to deflective, cause that's what I would say, is Well,
what I'm saying is I believe that he's the no
no no, But but you said a month a month ago,
yoge's ten times out of ten? How can you call
this guy the MVP. Now he'll be able to downplay it,
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but it's gonna be a big expensive lesson that remembered
Hey in the media, Yeah, I him and Andy Pettt. Yeah,
they're misremembering. Uh, but he's gonna he's gonna get that.
Oh boy, I did say that a few weeks ago.
Or he's just gonna say, yeah, he's the MVY pedal
stump for Yokich anymore. Can't stand any of those guys.
They didn't listening, they didn't want to watch film, they
don't want to listen to what I had stuff for him. Yeah,
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blake those guys, s GA, s GA. I'd like to
see that.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Now if he did that, I mean I'd buy a shirt. Yeah,
I'd buy a Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Malone don't call me Mike Mike T shirt.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I whatever slogan he wants to put on there in
whichever name he wants to be Mike, he wants to
be Michael, I don't care. I'd wear that shirt and
proudly say that's my guy. If that's what he came
back with. Like the Kronkeys, I know, Nicola had me
thrown out. You know what, I carried his ass for years.
I got him to three MVP's and that's how I'm thanked.
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If he did all of that, then I'm in. Then
I become the biggest Mike Michael Malone guy you could
possibly have Otherwise. Oh, what we did before they were
ousted in Game seven was the fact that I wanted
to see the Nuggets continue on for the fact that
they had the bold strategy that the Kronkys said, forget it,
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this is fool's gold. Let's cut this and move on
with the organization. That's why I wanted them to win,
whether Adamman was doing anything on the coaching sideline or not.
That it was cool that they had the guts to
take Malone and Booth and throw them off the ship.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But now this Michael Malone, if he took that tact.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Strumming a guitar like he was the rock back in
the day, singing about guys or whatever the case was.
But to say that, you know what, screw it. I
don't have to stump for him. I'm not the coach
anymore and begging for calls or anything else. Like SGA
gets now that that if Malone did that, I'd love it.
I mean that'd be I'd give him a Capitol jay
in his jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean, he's learning a big lesson tonight. All I
did was saying, s j Z. Yeah. But here's the thing, Mike,
this is what you said. Here's a oh wow. Okay.
So this is what it's like to be in the media.
Everybody that thinks they can do it, Hey, I can
do the media. I can say things, I can give
you hot takes. I get that, but understand that it's
a little bit more to it's a skill. It's a
little bit more difficult than you think is Wait, people
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remember it, yeah, people, it took all of eight seconds.
I walked away. I walked out here after he said SJAZMFP.
I said, Shay, like six weeks ago, he said, Yokich
is the MVP, and something to the effect of blank
you if you don't think it's true. Can you find
that for like a half hour from now, I said,
I know he said it. He said it. He said
it like a month and a half ago. This is
when he was on the diatribes about it, and Shady
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was like, oh yeah, I found it. Boom and here
it is. It's that easy, it gets found that far.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But it's funny we saw that one where he did
the ten out of ten and anything, and then like
two weeks later, before he'd been fired, he doubled down
on it and went into not with the ten of
ten and whatever, but still talking about Jokic as the
MVP because that became the topic dajure as you got
down the stretch of the regular season. But like very
emphatic in both cases about it here, like I said,
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I mean, it's almost like a tongue in cheek. Let
me just throw in, oh, well, you know this is
why he's the MVP. Kind of notice that that gets
it done right. And for Michael Malone, at no point
did he need to address that award in giving his
answer about what the thunder were doing. So the fact
that he decided to jam that in also I think
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very intentional.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah, he's not fooling anybody. That's not the only gem
we found, TJ.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He's maybe listening to a little too much Tom Petty
before he goes on to give it.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Also found the clip where Mike Malone pass the Lakers
and calls him the greatest team ever assembled.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You do you found that clip? Yeah? Wow? Can we
hear it? I love the Lakers, I'm Mike Malone. Here's
the greatest team ever. That's a Michael kay. Uh uh
sound like that, Mike, that's a Mike ka right there.
They're gonna deny it, but they're gonna see uh so yeah,
look so again, really, I mean, is it a little petty?
I am sure there's pettiness? He knows. Look, he's he's
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a guy that even if it wasn't, he would understand that.
But he's gonna learn a lesson tonight about his pet
about saying things like that, because look, you gotta think
there's a little bit of pettiness in there. But I'm
sure the reaction to it overall is gonna surprise him.
WHOA you said this? You said this? Oh okay, okay, okay.
Then media isn't always easy. You think it's gonna be
welcome to the party. Pal speaking of things not as
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easy as you think it's gonna be. I submit to you.
The tenth inning for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Wow, it was
just eight minutes ago. Hey, Dodgers, tough luck. They're gonna
lose their fourth and their fifth in a row. The
Angels have won five in a row. They they give
up Yamamoto's big night, and all of a sudden, the
relievers get worked. The tenth inning, the Dodgers just walked
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off a four to three win over the Diamondbacks. Part
of this inning was a hit by pitch to Will
Smith that forced it in the tying run. Max Munsey's
sacrifice fly wins it for the Dodgers. They break the
losing streak and they walk off in ten innings against
the Diamondbacks four to three. Big play in this inning
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show Heyo Tani with a hit and a steal of
second that forced a walk to Freddie Freeman that then
resulted the next pitch a hit by pitch of Will
Smith that tied the game. So the Dodgers do Dodger things. Hey,
you think we're down and out? No, no, no, we
got it there. This is great what's that that they
won this game?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh yeah, I mean, how do you face Yamamoto in
the clubhouse if you don't a double back to back
intentional walks and a hit by pitch.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Me, That's insanity, Zach Fly.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But to your point again, as we started with Yamamoto,
the start that he gave them on a night where
they needed it, talking about the struggles of that rotation,
the number of the injuries, and then you give give
him one run, give him one run support.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
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to the NBA Finals. And the reason I told you
last night is exactly why the Thunder won tonight. That's
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Hey Tay, he comes home and we go home. Stephen Elson,
Dodgers TV on the call. A three to one deficit,
Dodgers turned that in into a four to three win
with some walks and hit my pitches in the tenth
inning walk off sackfly by Max Munsey and suddenly everything this.
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But this is what the Dodgers do, right, Hey, just
when you think it's done, all you gotta do is
close out the bottom of the ninth inning, Especially when
the Dodgers are at home, ninth inning, tenth inning, they
find a way to do it. The confidence they have
in these situations, I've not seen a team, really, I
in twenty years, you know, have this kind of confidence
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where when the ninth inning comes and you're trailing, or
the tenth inning and you're trailing, where it's really not
as big a deal. Right, It's not like usually you
get too okay, we're shutting it down the closers on
the mound and it's gonna be difficult. We're not. But
the Dodgers just have that kind of confidence. They're the
only team I seen like this really. I mean I
can't remember a team like when I go to the
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bottom of the ninth inning, bottom of the tenth and
you're trailing, Hey, guess what it's fill a toss up. Well,
what's been funny is you got a team.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
When we talk about payrolls, right, and that's always the narrative,
Look at what the Dodgers spend forget about the deferred
money whatever. We talk about the size of the contracts,
but then you watch how they win at small ball
and the excellence of execution late in games, hitting wise.
Situation like this is a sequence I was talking with
Shane in the back right. It's something we've been talking about.
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Who is a Jason Stark the every night you see
something in baseball that you haven't seen before. How many
times you see intentional walk, intentional walk hit by pitch
to give the team an opening that comes take a
game from you? I mean, that is just insane.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
What I mean, And don't forget this like you talk
about small but yes, you had the intentional walk to Todd.
Tommy Edmund comes up and you know, I can't stand
Tommy Van because I didn't go to the World sell me. Ah,
So he doubles down the line to bring in the
tying run. Right then show Tani is intentionally walked. Okay,
So it's a three to two game, Dodgers have runners
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at first and second, and Mookie Betts flies out to
center field. Right. It's not particularly deep, it's a it's
a little bit to the right field side, but he
flies out to center. Edmond tags up and goes to third,
which is a big deal because that allows show Hey
Otani to steal second without a throw. That means Freddy
Freeman has walked intentionally. So now it's bases loaded in
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one out, and then Will Smith gets hit by a
pitch and you have a sacrifice fly by Max Munci, Right,
like that was the end. One hit, three runs, one hit,
three runs, one hit, three runs, one hit and and
certain plays that standing there, and it's just I don't
know if they win without the the tagging up and
going to third. No, but which is not a sacrifice fly,
but it's a big play, right, But the pressure always
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on like the opposition, Right.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You can't leave any room for air open decision making
asks to be a precision because they will come and
get you. Because you go back to last season, right,
the number of times that you had to go to
the pen. How many relievers got worked all of those
four inning starts by their rotation, Like, all right, here's
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Dave Roberts. You're ready for October because you've been managing
the bullpen. Just a matter whether the arms hold up.
Even this year they got off to that great start,
A lot of those were comeback wins. Right, They didn't
have great starting pitching off the jump. There you had
the seven game winning streak. Now here you end a
losing streak in dramatic fashion at home on a big
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celebratory night. I think they gave out some kind of jerseys.
They had a wrestling ring out there and Lucha Doors
made the whole nine yards celebration time at Chavez.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You know what the best part is? What's funny? What's that?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
How's the easy part of the schedule. We get the
Mets for six and the Yankees for three?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, good luck? Yeah, you're getting the Mets at the
right time. Wait, wait, wait, Doc, I think peter A
Lonzo just threw an air head? There is that?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I mean, they couldn't get a better time. Will they
help send Juan Soto?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's either it's either it's either the perfect time for
the Mets to play the Dodgers because they'll break out
of this slump therein or it's the absolute worst time
Dodger show.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Throughout eighteen relievers, they were calling up guys from trip
LA for each of the games.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Eric Danye threw an inning and didn't give up a run.
So look at that tonight, we watched the Thunder beat
the t Wolves one fourteen eighty eight. We made our
picks last night. You had the ts wrong, right, you
had the t Wolves going, you picked the t Wolves
before the playoffs started. I had the Thunder and look,
it's been a great run for the t Wolves. Te
Golves is a great pick. I went with the Thunder
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for two reasons, and I said, you my my. My
minor reason was, look, I like the Thunder defense a
little bit more, right, I like what they can do
a little bit more. They can be a little bit
more Amba esque where they can do a lot of
different things. Look, having Caruso front Jokichen game seven, that's
that's a stroke of genius, right, And you saw the
defense played really well tonight, holding the holding the t
Wolves to eighty eight points. But the main reason I picked,
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what did I say and it came true so so
big time tonight, is that I trust Gildas Alexander to
have more of a consistent Superstar series than I trust
Ann Edwards. Right, Gildes Alexander still look at what he
did tonight started out awful tonight two for nine in
the first quarter, two for thirteen, overall, but then gets
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it going, finishes with thirty one, finds a way to
take over and affect the game when it's not his night.
Did a lot of it at the free throw line, right,
kil just Alexander proving why he's the MVP. Thanks Mike Malone,
you stole that take from my day last I dare
you stealing takes from Mike Malone? So this is what
MVPs do, and I have confidence that that's what you're
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gonna get from every night because he is consistently great
that way, and Edwards not the same. Edwards is a
phenomenally talented player. He's terrific and when he's rolling, he's rolling.
But he'll have too many games in a series in
which you need more from him, and tonight was one
of those nights where you needed more from Ann Edwards. Right,
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Julius Randall kept them afloat in the first half or
hitting five threes. He's hitting Caitlin Clark logo threes, going
back down court smiling and shrugging his shoulders. Hey, I'm
not right. He had five threes in the first half
and they had a four point lead. Ann Edwards five
of thirteen from the floor, overall tight just took thirteen shots,
five points in the third quarter, zero points in the
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fourth quarter. Yeah, all right, this is one of those
games where you need more from Ann Edwards either he does.
He's too passive. He doesn't take over a game. He
doesn't set the tone. Remember that was something that Chris
Finch talked about after Game one in the last round,
Hey needed more from you an Edwards, and ed Edwards said, no,
I thought I played a pretty good game defensively, A
couldn't hit anything on offense. Right, that was it. And
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we played you that quote early. If we can grab that,
Chris Finch is miles fit, Miles Finch, Miles Finch, peaches
are vulnerable. Let me know, let me know, we have that.
Chris Finch. This is after game one. They look, whoaa wha,
what just happened? Says he needed more out of from
Anthony Edwards was asked about it after the game and
he basically says, hey, you know what, we needed more
and Edwards disagreed with him. He has games like this
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and Edwards has at least a couple of games a
series where you need more from me. You need him
to set that tone, and he didn't do it tonight,
and he was passive and it was a ten point
deficit going to the fourth quarter and he didn't score, right,
I know, he went to the locker room, he was
dinged up a little bit, and he came back he
played the second half. Well, you're on the court and
you played right. Here is here is Chris Finch from
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ten days ago, And he may as well have said
it tonight after the game again ten days ago, talking
about and Edwards and his effort in a loss. What
is there to talk about.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I mean, they're the leader of the team, and you
got to come out and set the tone. You know
in all ways that that happens, and if your SHOT's
not going like, you still have to carry the energy,
you know. So I don't think there's if I got
to talk to guys about having the right energy coming
into opening around game, opening the second round game, then
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you know we're not you know, we're not on the
same page.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So again, he could have said that after the game tonight.
Remember he said that, and Edwards blew him off after
the game, right, we say have Yeah, I thought I
played well defensive. Yeah, I don't go you're gonna you
get too many games from him that are like that.
And and in a series in which you're playing a
team where you're matched evenly against, or you have a
little bit of advantage, you're younger, you can maybe get
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away with that. You're not getting away with that against
the Thunder. They're the best team in the NBA. This
was a game you could have stolen because you were
up by four and a half time and Edwards had get
to play well, but Julius Reynolds said, hey, I'll carry
I got big shoulders, I'll carry us. Right. Randall had
a great first half. This game was out there for you,
like this was out there for for the for the Wolves,
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because you gotta steal something, right, you can't. You can't
rely on on a we'll get do this, go back
and tie the series at two. This game was out there,
but and Edward was just too passive, couldn't take over,
couldn't set the tone. All these things you want your
superstar to do. And if you're gonna win series at
this point, your superstars gotta play like a super So
there's nobody that's won championships and one NBA Finals and
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one Super Bowls where yeah, we won despite the fact
our Superstar was terrible. No, you don't win that way.
You needed that. That's why I picked the thunder because
I know I'm gonna get that from SGA every night.
I'm not gonna get it from n Edwards.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, only the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning Hi. Anyway,
as we go through it, I mean a lot of
things at play here, right, good first half for Julius
Randall shooting the lights out, and it's enough because everybody
else is shooting terribly. Nine of thirty five in the
first half for everybody else. Anthony Edwards to your point,
fourth quarter, he took a single shot.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
One shot.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
He had one fewer shot attempt on the night than
Dante DiVincenzo did off the bench.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
He just kept shooting three of thirteen from three over
the course of the evening. But when we look at Edwards,
and it's something that Finch had to address in the
post game, is there were just a number of instances
where they started doing the full on let's stalk referees,
let's stand around and complain and delay of game warnings
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and sequences where you're yelling at officials because you're mad
about the inequity of foul calls forty four total for
the night. Gobert was on the bench with two quick
ones and for Finch he talked about quote, we talked
about that before the series started, and we have to
be able to put that to the.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Side and get on with the next play. Mentally, at
one point, Anthony Edwards so frustrated on a foul call
as SGA flew towards the basket and he's laying underneath
splayed out, he just flipped the ball towards SGA's crotch
like technical full already a two shot foul plus the
technical and keep on going. But you saw that multiple
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times right on offense where you couldn't get into sets
because you've got Cruso, who is this generation's Dennis Rodman
or insert your favorite defender here, that he gets to
do what he wants for better for it, I mean,
because we've watched it all playoffs right with shorts, the
physicality of the playoffs. What you're looking at is you
want star calls. You've got to force the issue. If
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you're Anthony Edwards, you can't be passive, and the passivity
of only having thirteen shot attempts and yes he did
go down with the same ankle that afflicted him a
little bit last round. He played thirty seven minutes. You're
on the court, you have to be impacting, and he
did early on because he was part of the sequencing
that would lend getting the ball into Julius Randall's hands,
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recognizing the hot hand. But on offensive sets where he's
not touching it and your only shot is attempt in
the fourth quarter is a three point shot, that's not
you take it to the rack, because that's the one
thing that the Thunder did consistently. They didn't settle for
three point shots. With bad, bad ball handling early seven
turnovers in the first quarter, what do they want to do?
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They wanted to get out on the break and force
the issue.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So what did you do?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You got a lot of fall attempts right you're living
at the free throw line, and with go bear sideline,
you had to go deep into that roster. Guys that
hadn't gotten their name called in a long time. We're
suddenly up off the bench for Finch trying to buy
some minutes. That's when your superstar needs to take the
realm that the helme and just say it's mine and
(27:22):
I've got a battle this guy one on one. If
you're the face of the league, you show up in
the fourth quarter, right what you If you're the face
of the league, you show up in the second half,
you show you show up there, you show up for
that game. Face of the league shows up.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I got three or four jokes, but I I'm gonna
be kind face the leaf. If you're the face of
Fox Sports Radio, you show up four hours a night.
I show up every damn right time now to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. A
guy who was the face of Fox Sports Radio, it's
Steve Desager. He has what's trending that doesn't bude well
(27:54):
for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
To the NBA Game one of the Western Conference Finals
that okay see did go to the thunder and that
come back against Minnesota one fourteen to eighty eight. Shay
gil Jess Alexander had shot two of thirteen from the
floor first half, but finished thirty one points and nine
assists on the stat sheet. Julius Randall twenty eight points
in defeat. The rest of his team finished twenty of
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seventy from the field. The East Finals starred Wednesday, with
Indiana at New York to Spurs. Stefan Castle headlines the
NBA All Rookie Team WNBA wins for Las Vegas and Atlanta,
which won at Indiana ninety one to ninety twenty one
points for Brittany Grinder. In the loss, Caitlin Clark had
twenty seven points eleven assists. Game one of the NHL's
East Final to Florida five to two at Carolina. Dallas
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will host Edmonton and the opener of the West Final Wednesday.
The Boston Bruins gave general manager Don Sweeney a two
year extension. NFL teams will allow players to compete in
flag football at the LA Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
The Bears gave former chiefs guard Joe Tooney a two
year extension. Kurt Busch was voted into the NASCAR Hall
of Fame. Fox TV will have the Indy five hundred
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this Sunday. In baseball's late game, the Dodgers ended a
four game losing streak, getting three runs in the bottom
of the tenth to beat Arizona four to three. The
Diamondbacks had hit homers in the ninth and tenth innings,
both off closer for LA to enter Scott, but the
Dodgers do get the victory and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, tonight's LA
starter did have a no hitter through six innings, eventually
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had seven innings of work, nine strikeouts, one hundred ten
pitches thrown. The Angels won their fifth game in a row,
seven to five at the A's, who've lost seven straight.
Giants won again three to two over Kansas City and
another win for the Phillies. That's five straight Phillies with
a record of thirty and eighteen. They won seven to
four at Colorado, Kyle Schwarber his seventeenth home run, Jesus
(29:43):
Lozardo five and.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh got the win.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
Detroit a five to four winner at Saint Louis with
a run in the top of the ninth. Riley Green
of the Tigers three hits, four RBIs. Chicago White Sox
ended a five game losing streak beating Seattle one nothing.
Milwaukee sent Baltimore to an eighth straight loss, five to two.
Cleveland at Minnesota was rained out after last night's game
was suspended by rain. Toronto shut out San Diego and
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Dylan cee'ze three nothing Blue Jays only had three hits,
but two of them were homers. The Yankees got a
sixteenth homer this year from Aaron Judge. He's batting four
oh three. Yanksby Texas five to two. Winning pitcher Will
Warren had ten strikeouts in his five and two third
scoreless innings. Tampa Bay had Houston three to two with
two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth.
Pittsburgh ended a four game losing streak, shutting out the
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Reds won nothing. Cincinnati had won five straight. Washington over
Atlanta five to three. The lost to Spencer Strider, just
off the injured list. Cubs won fourteen to one at Miami.
Boston shut out the Mets to nothing. Rafael Devers his
tenth home run. Walker Bueller, just off the injured list,
was kicked out in the third inning, but the Mets offense.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Went four for twenty twenty. That was a strike. I
believe that was the was right down the Blanke in middle,
something like that. You fertilizer, you Mets fan, Thank you, Steve. Yeah,
that was terror. And Walker Buller gets thrown out of
the game and they bring in six relievers and the
Mets just can't hit any of them. It is awful.
(31:10):
But to be positive, I want to say this fantasy
baseball advice, What about Juan slow Mo, I don't I
don't care. If it's a guy making his MLB debut,
I don't care if it's a guy on a pitch count.
You stream whoever is facing the Rockies, You pick them up,
and you stream them and wave them the next day
(31:31):
here Baseball, pick up whoever is facing the rock Will
Warren tonight? Yes, pick them up, stream them, let them go.
That's how you do it. That's how you win.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Currently looking at the trying to bring up the odds
for tomorrowsk Yes, who's We'll get to it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, pitching coming up next. We pay our respects to
an absolute legend and get to the biggest NFL story
of the day that's both great and terrible. That's next.
Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Gin Smith's
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (32:06):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. And we'll remember
a legend coming up in a minute. But big story
from the NFL today. There will be flag football at
the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Oh boy, Justin Jefferson
very excited to win a gold medal. He had been
(32:26):
at the forefront of trying to push the NFL to
vote to let NFL players play in flag football in
twenty twenty eight here in Los Angeles when the Olympics come,
owners voted today thirty two to nothing to allow the
players to play in flag football. This is both great
and terrible. It's great because I get why they're voting it.
(32:48):
They're looking to push the NFL globally. No one's got bilt.
The Olympics is a once every two year event where
the entire globe watches. You're going to put the best
NFL players you can on the field during the Olympics.
It will be a front page story alongside basketball, track
and field. It's a big thing. You're gonna see great players.
No more than one per team per country. So like
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for the United States team, there's be one member of
the Vikings with our sulby Justin Jefferson, one member the
Dolphins to fill out your roster.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And if you go back in your twenty three and
meters and find out you've got heritage else where. I'm
I'm team Italy.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm gonna go play there. So it's great for the
NFL because they're gonna get incredible amount of publicity. The
games are gonna look like when the Dream Team first
played against other teams in basketball in nineteen ninety two.
It's gonna be like Dream Team one thirty eight and
Gola thirty seven, right like that. That's what it's gonna
look like. We have the best NFL players playing other
(33:46):
other countries. I can't imagine how bad that's gonna look.
Really well. I mean, look, you never know. I mean,
you get into athleticism.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
May maybe a guy's better at a pariette when he's
got a guy great reaching down, whereas in the NFL
you just go and blow them up.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Here, you've got to get to the flag. If it's
more than two plays for a touchdown, I'm gonna be disappointed. No, really,
three plays for a touch of really really three plays.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
But immediately I start thinking about the marketing, merchandising sales.
As you say, you know, the global expansion, here's the
individual player brands. Here's some of what you've seen in
the games that have been parsed out to European countries.
But it's also a if. So twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Five, Now, how soon is there an NFL sponsored flag
football league? No next year called the Pro Bowl? Absolutely? Yeah, well,
play well played football is more intense than the Pro Bowl, justin.
Come on, man, it's way more intense, way more Now.
Here's the bad part, right, here's the bad part. And
I say this right now, don't take anybody from my team.
(34:48):
I don't want anybody from the not that you would
take a jet but in two years, you never know,
because maybe we lose an archmeric justin Fields could be
one hell of a flag foot the elusiveness. Come on,
don't take anybody from my team because I don't want
one of my players getting hurt in a situation it
doesn't mean anything. Don't take any of my players for
this crazy ass event because it happens when players play
(35:10):
more often, when they're playing a game they're not used
to playing. All you do is come down wrong on
somebody's foot or a player on another team wants to
make their legend by hitting you. I don't need that.
I don't need to watch Edwin Diaz get hurt celebrating
a win in the World Baseball Classic. Don't take any
of my players, take somebody.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Else a bunch of different jump cuts and stop and
start and whatever again because it's the flag. Instead of
just saying, art, I'm bracing for a safety to come
up and hit me that. Now it's you know, the
wiggle and the hips and the extra steps and trying
to be fancy footed that maybe you run yourself into
some trouble.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Telling you don't need it. Take anybody you want, taking
hero that'd be by jacket up.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Just you don't have to worry, Jason, these are the
best players in the worldly.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, but if we want to maybe we'll get our Manning.
He'll be great and he'll want to play here. I
get it. I don't really have to worry the much.
But you never know. You never know, right, maybe they
want Sauce Gardner. You never know. Maybe they want Garrett Wilson.
You never know. We said stars. Now, speaking of stars,
we lost an absolute legend today and George Went, who
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passed away at the age of seventy six, very peacefully
in his sleep. George Went, of course, known mainly for
two big things, right for the bear skits on SNL
and obviously for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers. If there
was a Television Hall of Fame where you put characters
in and actors in, George went and Norm Peterson as
(36:41):
a first ballot, unanimous. Even the guy that didn't vote
for eachiro would vote for Norm Peterson. And George went
for the Television Hall of Fame because it would be
like thirty two nothing like the owners vote to let
people play in the in flag football. It would be unanimous.
Because Norm Peterson was one of the top five best
sitcom characters of all time, all the one liners he
(37:04):
had in Cheers, and anybody that's watched that show, whether
on reruns or watched it live, you're watching it now
on YouTube and you're watching the intros put together on
social media. I mean, George went Norm Peterson. Really, he
was an absolute legend. That character was legendary. Well, you know,
he had a great long career, a bunch of movies,
(37:25):
did a bunch of different things. But this is dark
side of the Moon, where where you just look at
and go that's absolutely his character, just absolute perfection.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well, six Emmy nominations, eleven years, nearly three hundred episodes
Chicago Kids. So certainly a lot of run there back
home in terms of his career and ties to local theater,
the second city where he got his origins. Obviously Jason
sideikis his nephew and his run ted last and everything else,
(37:56):
and so they've done some bits through the years as well.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
But for for George Went.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I mean that was that was the character, because he
was the one line smart ass, right, all of those openings.
Someone clipped him together eighteen minutes. I sat there and
wrapped attention, wondering which all right, sequencing? All right, here's
season one episode four. What was the comeback then?
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
And all the way through uh? And he got to
close it out right. That's how integral to everything he was.
He's the guy closing it out with Ted Danson.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah. I look, he's his career, his life. And look
I spent today, you know, talking to my dad, our
favorite uh norm lines all the big entrances, and you know,
I forget you know that that, you know, all all
the great lines he had in the show. But his
entrances were just so incredibly impressive, like when when he
kind of think my favorites when he comes in and
what he says, draw you beer, mister Peterson already know
(38:49):
what they look like? What he just pour it for me?
Right like? Yeah? But with that in mind, how about
a little bit of super fans with George what's shake
and normal uns and a couple of chins. Ah, let's
hear it justin.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Welcome to another edition of Bill Schwirsky's super Fans. I'm
Bob Sworsky, sitting in for my brother Bill, who'll still
recovering from that dreadful heart attack with me has always
aren't a super fans Pat Arnold, Hey Bob, Carl Wallarski,
Hey bad, and title counter.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I'll worry you, Bob, real quick, real quick.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
Once again, We're coming to you from Dika's Restaurant and
heart of Chicago to the city of the Big Shoulders,
home to a certain team which, come January will run
rough shot over the competition in Super Bowl twenty six,
a team that is known as Stubbars Bear.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
There we go that one of the famous guys if
the hurricane is named Ditka, Hurricane Ditka forty six did
go to coach ten.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So good, so many, so many great one like I
was playing all of that because that is uh my
brothers and I on a late Friday night.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Oh, I'll tell you absolute legend. George went rest in
p seventy six years old. Well, I haven't had the
heart attack yet either. For Mike Im Jason, my buddy
Ben Mallar coming up next. You are listening to Fox
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. And before we
get into the NBA, just really quick, boy, how things
have turned. It looks like the Dodgers are gonna lose
their fifth in a row thanks to home running the
ninth inning to tie at Corbyn. Carrol has gone deep
here in the tenth fertilizer Diamondbacks lead the Dodgers three
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to one. Sing so bad for the Dodgers. Only the
Dodgers absolutely blow yoshinobah Yamamoto's near no hit her right
yet and no hit her into the sixth inning. And
not only that, but they cooked their bullpen along the way.
Yeah no, he got into the seventh. There could be
(01:12):
a three to one laws like it's so bad, like
they finally get a big game pitched, and now, well,
guess what sop embarrassing, we're cooking the bullpen as we're
gonna lose this game potentially three to one. But Otani
does bat in the tenth inning for the Dodgers, so
again three to one going to the bottom of the tenth.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Came into the game with an era just above a two.
He's been fantastic. And all we've been talking about with
the troubles, uh managing the arms rotation or bullpen with
a number of guys going in and out like a
damn revolving door. That you've had Yamamoto every fifth day
to be able to just say, all right, he's gonna
give you an effort, and then he goes into the
(01:53):
seventh and you still ended up in the bullpen and
working guys and Dave Roberts what was on a cruise
control kind of night became all nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Meanwhile, the Angels have won five in a row, so that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
My face chang but literally seven innings pitch the one
hit aloud, nine strikeouts, goes one hundred and ten pitches.
Man gave them everything he had and then some and
for it all to go asunder this embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That's fertilizer. Fertilizer. So again, but the Dodgers coming up
in the bottom of the tenth. We'll see how this
shakes out.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But to give credit on the other side, right, Nelson
goes five. Now you have four relievers for the Diamondbacks
to get you to this point.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So tonight we watched the Oklahoma City Thunder just take
off in the second half and beat the Ta Wolves one,
fourteen to eighty eight to take a one game to
then lead in the Western Conference Final. We'll get to
that coming up in a minute. But tonight was the
Mike Malone. We can call him Mike now because he's
a broadcaster, not a coach. Mike Malone, former Nuggets head coach,
made his debut with the ESPN. Yeah all right, so
(03:03):
how was the coach gonna do? You know, how was
he gonna do? Well? He had this comment from tonight,
look Sga has a big night in the second half.
Didn't start out for a big game for shake Gildess Alexander,
but carries the team in the second half when they
turned a four point deficit into a big lead. They
wound up winning SGA winds up with thirty one points,
(03:24):
nine s, five rebounds. Here's Mike Malone on the court
after the game talking about the night that gild Justs
Alexander had. That's what they do.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
They do it at an elite level and then shake
Gilges Alexander.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He showed wise he's the MVP. It's took over in the.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Second half, DIDs so in a very efficient manner and
put the team on his back when they needed needed
him to do. So.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, so shake Gildas Alexander showing why he's the MVP. Right,
So Michael Malone by sorry, Mike Malone, why shake Gilders
Alexander is the MVP in the league. Did he let
the cat out of the bag? Well, I'm just saying,
I'm just saying no, no, he said. And the reason
this is so interesting is because this is Mike Malone
from about six weeks ago talking about Nicola Jokic and
(04:10):
being the MVP.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
My thing is this, You know, if you didn't know
that Nicola won three MVPs, and I put player A
and player B on paper and you had no idea
that the guy who's averaging a triple double, the guy
who's top three in the three major statistical categories, things
that no one's ever done. He wins the MVP ten
times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I believe. He went on to say, And if you
don't think so, you guys are all full of blank, right,
I believe, But this is what you know. I was,
Jokic is the EF. So now wait a minute, Wait
a minute. So six weeks ago, Jokic was the MVP.
Now tonight, Shay Gilders Alexander, So let me think about it.
Let me think of this for a second, because something
had to have changed for Mike Malone to change to
(04:53):
go from Jokic. And if ten times out of ten
not nine out of ten, where hey, I said nine
out of ten, this is the tenth time you it's
ten times out of ten. Ten he said that Jokic
is the MVP. Okay, so there's new information. Something might
have happened. Let me think about stuff. So hang on,
So Yokic was the MVP, Nuggets were playing well, Jamal
Murray came back, No, probably not there. Well, can I
guess go through?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Go ahead, Frostford, what do you got because I'm coming
up with a blank right now? They fired his ass.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So is this his way of saying that jokicch had
a conversation with the kros which resulted in him and
Calvin Booth Good and both getting shown the door.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You may all have said anybody but Jokicic, Yet no
times out of ten. Now, look, there's the school of
thought to be fair, to be fair to Mike Malone.
There's a school of thought that, well, he's saying he's
the MVP, right because shaegild As Alexander is going to
win the MVP, right, Okay, Now I get that. I
get you that. Okay, Shagil Lexander's going to win the MVP,
(05:51):
because I think he is. But there's but you said
ten out of ten that Nicola Jokicic is the MVP.
This is what it means to work in the media,
Mike Malone. This is what it means. You say things
and you go counter opposite to what you said not
very long ago. Uh, this is gonna get brought up.
So yeah, I get that. There could be well, and
(06:13):
that'll be his way to get out of it. I'm sure, Well,
how do I get out of this? Well, So, well,
he's going to win the I think he's gonna win
the MVP. But no, no, ten times out of ten
you said Jokis was the MVP ten times out.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Of ten Because this was an extraneous comment in the
middle of an analysis of a game, right, he didn't
have to say anything about the MVP trophy related to
this particular comment. This is when you say an SGA
took over you at twenty points in the second half
efficient blah blah blah. You decided to do the sideswipe,
(06:44):
drive past a guy, maybe drive through a puddle and
get him all wet, or maybe do one of those
deals where you can open the door real fast and
hit him and then shut your door and keep driving on.
That's what you did to Jokich by saying, and he's
gonna you know, he's the MVP, Like you didn't need
to talk about the MVP. Oh, that wasn't the question.
The question was about second half of this game and
how it got away, and let's talk about the greatness
(07:06):
that is the thunder in this particular game.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's gonna learn a lesson. This is petty.
He's gonna learn a lesson. Look, he's gonna and it's
going to be. It's going to be brought up and
I get, like I said, it's gonna be easy for
him to deflective, cause that's what I would say, is Well,
what I'm saying is I believe that he's the no
no no, But but you said a month a month ago,
yoge's ten times out of ten? How can you call
this guy the MVP. Now he'll be able to downplay it,
(07:32):
but it's gonna be a big expensive lesson that remembered
Hey in the media, Yeah, I him and Andy Pettt. Yeah,
they're misremembering. Uh, but he's gonna he's gonna get that.
Oh boy, I did say that a few weeks ago.
Or he's just gonna say, yeah, he's the MVY pedal
stump for Yokich anymore. Can't stand any of those guys.
They didn't listening, they didn't want to watch film, they
don't want to listen to what I had stuff for him. Yeah,
(07:53):
blake those guys, s GA, s GA. I'd like to
see that.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Now if he did that, I mean I'd buy a shirt. Yeah,
I'd buy a Michael.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Malone don't call me Mike Mike T shirt.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I whatever slogan he wants to put on there in
whichever name he wants to be Mike, he wants to
be Michael, I don't care. I'd wear that shirt and
proudly say that's my guy. If that's what he came
back with. Like the Kronkeys, I know, Nicola had me
thrown out. You know what, I carried his ass for years.
I got him to three MVP's and that's how I'm thanked.
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If he did all of that, then I'm in. Then
I become the biggest Mike Michael Malone guy you could
possibly have Otherwise. Oh, what we did before they were
ousted in Game seven was the fact that I wanted
to see the Nuggets continue on for the fact that
they had the bold strategy that the Kronkys said, forget it,
(08:48):
this is fool's gold. Let's cut this and move on
with the organization. That's why I wanted them to win,
whether Adamman was doing anything on the coaching sideline or not.
That it was cool that they had the guts to
take Malone and Booth and throw them off the ship.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But now this Michael Malone, if he took that tact.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Strumming a guitar like he was the rock back in
the day, singing about guys or whatever the case was.
But to say that, you know what, screw it. I
don't have to stump for him. I'm not the coach
anymore and begging for calls or anything else. Like SGA
gets now that that if Malone did that, I'd love it.
I mean that'd be I'd give him a Capitol jay
in his jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean, he's learning a big lesson tonight. All I
did was saying, s j Z. Yeah. But here's the thing, Mike,
this is what you said. Here's a oh wow. Okay.
So this is what it's like to be in the media.
Everybody that thinks they can do it, Hey, I can
do the media. I can say things, I can give
you hot takes. I get that, but understand that it's
a little bit more to it's a skill. It's a
little bit more difficult than you think is Wait, people
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remember it, yeah, people, it took all of eight seconds.
I walked away. I walked out here after he said SJAZMFP.
I said, Shay, like six weeks ago, he said, Yokich
is the MVP, and something to the effect of blank
you if you don't think it's true. Can you find
that for like a half hour from now, I said,
I know he said it. He said it. He said
it like a month and a half ago. This is
when he was on the diatribes about it, and Shady
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was like, oh yeah, I found it. Boom and here
it is. It's that easy, it gets found that far.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But it's funny we saw that one where he did
the ten out of ten and anything, and then like
two weeks later, before he'd been fired, he doubled down
on it and went into not with the ten of
ten and whatever, but still talking about Jokic as the
MVP because that became the topic dajure as you got
down the stretch of the regular season. But like very
emphatic in both cases about it here, like I said,
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I mean, it's almost like a tongue in cheek. Let
me just throw in, oh, well, you know this is
why he's the MVP. Kind of notice that that gets
it done right. And for Michael Malone, at no point
did he need to address that award in giving his
answer about what the thunder were doing. So the fact
that he decided to jam that in also I think
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very intentional.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah, he's not fooling anybody. That's not the only gem
we found, TJ.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He's maybe listening to a little too much Tom Petty
before he goes on to give it.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Also found the clip where Mike Malone pass the Lakers
and calls him the greatest team ever assembled.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You do you found that clip? Yeah? Wow? Can we
hear it? I love the Lakers, I'm Mike Malone. Here's
the greatest team ever. That's a Michael kay. Uh uh
sound like that, Mike, that's a Mike ka right there.
They're gonna deny it, but they're gonna see uh so yeah,
look so again, really, I mean, is it a little petty?
I am sure there's pettiness? He knows. Look, he's he's
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a guy that even if it wasn't, he would understand that.
But he's gonna learn a lesson tonight about his pet
about saying things like that, because look, you gotta think
there's a little bit of pettiness in there. But I'm
sure the reaction to it overall is gonna surprise him.
WHOA you said this? You said this? Oh okay, okay, okay.
Then media isn't always easy. You think it's gonna be
welcome to the party. Pal speaking of things not as
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easy as you think it's gonna be. I submit to you.
The tenth inning for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Wow, it was
just eight minutes ago. Hey, Dodgers, tough luck. They're gonna
lose their fourth and their fifth in a row. The
Angels have won five in a row. They they give
up Yamamoto's big night, and all of a sudden, the
relievers get worked. The tenth inning, the Dodgers just walked
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off a four to three win over the Diamondbacks. Part
of this inning was a hit by pitch to Will
Smith that forced it in the tying run. Max Munsey's
sacrifice fly wins it for the Dodgers. They break the
losing streak and they walk off in ten innings against
the Diamondbacks four to three. Big play in this inning
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show Heyo Tani with a hit and a steal of
second that forced a walk to Freddie Freeman that then
resulted the next pitch a hit by pitch of Will
Smith that tied the game. So the Dodgers do Dodger things. Hey,
you think we're down and out? No, no, no, we
got it there. This is great what's that that they
won this game?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh yeah, I mean, how do you face Yamamoto in
the clubhouse if you don't a double back to back
intentional walks and a hit by pitch.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Me, That's insanity, Zach Fly.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But to your point again, as we started with Yamamoto,
the start that he gave them on a night where
they needed it, talking about the struggles of that rotation,
the number of the injuries, and then you give give
him one run, give him one run support.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Come on, I'll tell you amazing exit out bout a
Fresca exit swollen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Carmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We have more on the
NBA coming up next. I told you last night why
picked the Thunder to beat the Tea Wolves to go
to the NBA Finals. And the reason I told you
last night is exactly why the Thunder won tonight. That's
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Speaker 2 (14:50):
From miller on see Coxit of.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
The air at the center field doesn't matter if it's gone,
it's gotta.
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Center show up.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Hey Tay, he comes home and we go home. Stephen Elson,
Dodgers TV on the call. A three to one deficit,
Dodgers turned that in into a four to three win
with some walks and hit my pitches in the tenth
inning walk off sackfly by Max Munsey and suddenly everything this.
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But this is what the Dodgers do, right, Hey, just
when you think it's done, all you gotta do is
close out the bottom of the ninth inning, Especially when
the Dodgers are at home, ninth inning, tenth inning, they
find a way to do it. The confidence they have
in these situations, I've not seen a team, really, I
in twenty years, you know, have this kind of confidence
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where when the ninth inning comes and you're trailing, or
the tenth inning and you're trailing, where it's really not
as big a deal. Right, It's not like usually you
get too okay, we're shutting it down the closers on
the mound and it's gonna be difficult. We're not. But
the Dodgers just have that kind of confidence. They're the
only team I seen like this really. I mean I
can't remember a team like when I go to the
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bottom of the ninth inning, bottom of the tenth and
you're trailing, Hey, guess what it's fill a toss up. Well,
what's been funny is you got a team.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
When we talk about payrolls, right, and that's always the narrative,
Look at what the Dodgers spend forget about the deferred
money whatever. We talk about the size of the contracts,
but then you watch how they win at small ball
and the excellence of execution late in games, hitting wise.
Situation like this is a sequence I was talking with
Shane in the back right. It's something we've been talking about.
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Who is a Jason Stark the every night you see
something in baseball that you haven't seen before. How many
times you see intentional walk, intentional walk hit by pitch
to give the team an opening that comes take a
game from you? I mean, that is just insane.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
What I mean, And don't forget this like you talk
about small but yes, you had the intentional walk to Todd.
Tommy Edmund comes up and you know, I can't stand
Tommy Van because I didn't go to the World sell me. Ah,
So he doubles down the line to bring in the
tying run. Right then show Tani is intentionally walked. Okay,
So it's a three to two game, Dodgers have runners
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at first and second, and Mookie Betts flies out to
center field. Right. It's not particularly deep, it's a it's
a little bit to the right field side, but he
flies out to center. Edmond tags up and goes to third,
which is a big deal because that allows show Hey
Otani to steal second without a throw. That means Freddy
Freeman has walked intentionally. So now it's bases loaded in
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one out, and then Will Smith gets hit by a
pitch and you have a sacrifice fly by Max Munci, Right,
like that was the end. One hit, three runs, one hit,
three runs, one hit, three runs, one hit and and
certain plays that standing there, and it's just I don't
know if they win without the the tagging up and
going to third. No, but which is not a sacrifice fly,
but it's a big play, right, But the pressure always
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on like the opposition, Right.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You can't leave any room for air open decision making
asks to be a precision because they will come and
get you. Because you go back to last season, right,
the number of times that you had to go to
the pen. How many relievers got worked all of those
four inning starts by their rotation, Like, all right, here's
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Dave Roberts. You're ready for October because you've been managing
the bullpen. Just a matter whether the arms hold up.
Even this year they got off to that great start,
A lot of those were comeback wins. Right, They didn't
have great starting pitching off the jump. There you had
the seven game winning streak. Now here you end a
losing streak in dramatic fashion at home on a big
(18:32):
celebratory night. I think they gave out some kind of jerseys.
They had a wrestling ring out there and Lucha Doors
made the whole nine yards celebration time at Chavez.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You know what the best part is? What's funny? What's that?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
How's the easy part of the schedule. We get the
Mets for six and the Yankees for three?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Yeah, good luck? Yeah, you're getting the Mets at the
right time. Wait, wait, wait, Doc, I think peter A
Lonzo just threw an air head? There is that?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I mean, they couldn't get a better time. Will they
help send Juan Soto?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's either it's either it's either the perfect time for
the Mets to play the Dodgers because they'll break out
of this slump therein or it's the absolute worst time
Dodger show.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Throughout eighteen relievers, they were calling up guys from trip
LA for each of the games.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Eric Danye threw an inning and didn't give up a run.
So look at that tonight, we watched the Thunder beat
the t Wolves one fourteen eighty eight. We made our
picks last night. You had the ts wrong, right, you
had the t Wolves going, you picked the t Wolves
before the playoffs started. I had the Thunder and look,
it's been a great run for the t Wolves. Te
Golves is a great pick. I went with the Thunder
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for two reasons, and I said, you my my. My
minor reason was, look, I like the Thunder defense a
little bit more, right, I like what they can do
a little bit more. They can be a little bit
more Amba esque where they can do a lot of
different things. Look, having Caruso front Jokichen game seven, that's
that's a stroke of genius, right, And you saw the
defense played really well tonight, holding the holding the t
Wolves to eighty eight points. But the main reason I picked,
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what did I say and it came true so so
big time tonight, is that I trust Gildas Alexander to
have more of a consistent Superstar series than I trust
Ann Edwards. Right, Gildes Alexander still look at what he
did tonight started out awful tonight two for nine in
the first quarter, two for thirteen, overall, but then gets
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it going, finishes with thirty one, finds a way to
take over and affect the game when it's not his night.
Did a lot of it at the free throw line, right,
kil just Alexander proving why he's the MVP. Thanks Mike Malone,
you stole that take from my day last I dare
you stealing takes from Mike Malone? So this is what
MVPs do, and I have confidence that that's what you're
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gonna get from every night because he is consistently great
that way, and Edwards not the same. Edwards is a
phenomenally talented player. He's terrific and when he's rolling, he's rolling.
But he'll have too many games in a series in
which you need more from him, and tonight was one
of those nights where you needed more from Ann Edwards. Right,
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Julius Randall kept them afloat in the first half or
hitting five threes. He's hitting Caitlin Clark logo threes, going
back down court smiling and shrugging his shoulders. Hey, I'm
not right. He had five threes in the first half
and they had a four point lead. Ann Edwards five
of thirteen from the floor, overall tight just took thirteen shots,
five points in the third quarter, zero points in the
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fourth quarter. Yeah, all right, this is one of those
games where you need more from Ann Edwards either he does.
He's too passive. He doesn't take over a game. He
doesn't set the tone. Remember that was something that Chris
Finch talked about after Game one in the last round,
Hey needed more from you an Edwards, and ed Edwards said, no,
I thought I played a pretty good game defensively, A
couldn't hit anything on offense. Right, that was it. And
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we played you that quote early. If we can grab that,
Chris Finch is miles fit, Miles Finch, Miles Finch, peaches
are vulnerable. Let me know, let me know, we have that.
Chris Finch. This is after game one. They look, whoaa wha,
what just happened? Says he needed more out of from
Anthony Edwards was asked about it after the game and
he basically says, hey, you know what, we needed more
and Edwards disagreed with him. He has games like this
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and Edwards has at least a couple of games a
series where you need more from me. You need him
to set that tone, and he didn't do it tonight,
and he was passive and it was a ten point
deficit going to the fourth quarter and he didn't score, right,
I know, he went to the locker room, he was
dinged up a little bit, and he came back he
played the second half. Well, you're on the court and
you played right. Here is here is Chris Finch from
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ten days ago, And he may as well have said
it tonight after the game again ten days ago, talking
about and Edwards and his effort in a loss. What
is there to talk about.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I mean, they're the leader of the team, and you
got to come out and set the tone. You know
in all ways that that happens, and if your SHOT's
not going like, you still have to carry the energy,
you know. So I don't think there's if I got
to talk to guys about having the right energy coming
into opening around game, opening the second round game, then
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you know we're not you know, we're not on the
same page.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So again, he could have said that after the game tonight.
Remember he said that, and Edwards blew him off after
the game, right, we say have Yeah, I thought I
played well defensive. Yeah, I don't go you're gonna you
get too many games from him that are like that.
And and in a series in which you're playing a
team where you're matched evenly against, or you have a
little bit of advantage, you're younger, you can maybe get
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away with that. You're not getting away with that against
the Thunder. They're the best team in the NBA. This
was a game you could have stolen because you were
up by four and a half time and Edwards had get
to play well, but Julius Reynolds said, hey, I'll carry
I got big shoulders, I'll carry us. Right. Randall had
a great first half. This game was out there for you,
like this was out there for for the for the Wolves,
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because you gotta steal something, right, you can't. You can't
rely on on a we'll get do this, go back
and tie the series at two. This game was out there,
but and Edward was just too passive, couldn't take over,
couldn't set the tone. All these things you want your
superstar to do. And if you're gonna win series at
this point, your superstars gotta play like a super So
there's nobody that's won championships and one NBA Finals and
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one Super Bowls where yeah, we won despite the fact
our Superstar was terrible. No, you don't win that way.
You needed that. That's why I picked the thunder because
I know I'm gonna get that from SGA every night.
I'm not gonna get it from n Edwards.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, only the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning Hi. Anyway,
as we go through it, I mean a lot of
things at play here, right, good first half for Julius
Randall shooting the lights out, and it's enough because everybody
else is shooting terribly. Nine of thirty five in the
first half for everybody else. Anthony Edwards to your point,
fourth quarter, he took a single shot.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
One shot.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
He had one fewer shot attempt on the night than
Dante DiVincenzo did off the bench.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
He just kept shooting three of thirteen from three over
the course of the evening. But when we look at Edwards,
and it's something that Finch had to address in the
post game, is there were just a number of instances
where they started doing the full on let's stalk referees,
let's stand around and complain and delay of game warnings
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and sequences where you're yelling at officials because you're mad
about the inequity of foul calls forty four total for
the night. Gobert was on the bench with two quick
ones and for Finch he talked about quote, we talked
about that before the series started, and we have to
be able to put that to the.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Side and get on with the next play. Mentally, at
one point, Anthony Edwards so frustrated on a foul call
as SGA flew towards the basket and he's laying underneath
splayed out, he just flipped the ball towards SGA's crotch
like technical full already a two shot foul plus the
technical and keep on going. But you saw that multiple
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times right on offense where you couldn't get into sets
because you've got Cruso, who is this generation's Dennis Rodman
or insert your favorite defender here, that he gets to
do what he wants for better for it, I mean,
because we've watched it all playoffs right with shorts, the
physicality of the playoffs. What you're looking at is you
want star calls. You've got to force the issue. If
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you're Anthony Edwards, you can't be passive, and the passivity
of only having thirteen shot attempts and yes he did
go down with the same ankle that afflicted him a
little bit last round. He played thirty seven minutes. You're
on the court, you have to be impacting, and he
did early on because he was part of the sequencing
that would lend getting the ball into Julius Randall's hands,
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recognizing the hot hand. But on offensive sets where he's
not touching it and your only shot is attempt in
the fourth quarter is a three point shot, that's not
you take it to the rack, because that's the one
thing that the Thunder did consistently. They didn't settle for
three point shots. With bad, bad ball handling early seven
turnovers in the first quarter, what do they want to do?
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They wanted to get out on the break and force
the issue.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So what did you do?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You got a lot of fall attempts right you're living
at the free throw line, and with go bear sideline,
you had to go deep into that roster. Guys that
hadn't gotten their name called in a long time. We're
suddenly up off the bench for Finch trying to buy
some minutes. That's when your superstar needs to take the
realm that the helme and just say it's mine and
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I've got a battle this guy one on one. If
you're the face of the league, you show up in
the fourth quarter, right what you If you're the face
of the league, you show up in the second half,
you show you show up there, you show up for
that game. Face of the league shows up.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I got three or four jokes, but I I'm gonna
be kind face the leaf. If you're the face of
Fox Sports Radio, you show up four hours a night.
I show up every damn right time now to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. A
guy who was the face of Fox Sports Radio, it's
Steve Desager. He has what's trending that doesn't bude well
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for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
To the NBA Game one of the Western Conference Finals
that okay see did go to the thunder and that
come back against Minnesota one fourteen to eighty eight. Shay
gil Jess Alexander had shot two of thirteen from the
floor first half, but finished thirty one points and nine
assists on the stat sheet. Julius Randall twenty eight points
in defeat. The rest of his team finished twenty of
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seventy from the field. The East Finals starred Wednesday, with
Indiana at New York to Spurs. Stefan Castle headlines the
NBA All Rookie Team WNBA wins for Las Vegas and Atlanta,
which won at Indiana ninety one to ninety twenty one
points for Brittany Grinder. In the loss, Caitlin Clark had
twenty seven points eleven assists. Game one of the NHL's
East Final to Florida five to two at Carolina. Dallas
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will host Edmonton and the opener of the West Final Wednesday.
The Boston Bruins gave general manager Don Sweeney a two
year extension. NFL teams will allow players to compete in
flag football at the LA Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
The Bears gave former chiefs guard Joe Tooney a two
year extension. Kurt Busch was voted into the NASCAR Hall
of Fame. Fox TV will have the Indy five hundred
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this Sunday. In baseball's late game, the Dodgers ended a
four game losing streak, getting three runs in the bottom
of the tenth to beat Arizona four to three. The
Diamondbacks had hit homers in the ninth and tenth innings,
both off closer for LA to enter Scott, but the
Dodgers do get the victory and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, tonight's LA
starter did have a no hitter through six innings, eventually
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had seven innings of work, nine strikeouts, one hundred ten
pitches thrown. The Angels won their fifth game in a row,
seven to five at the A's, who've lost seven straight.
Giants won again three to two over Kansas City and
another win for the Phillies. That's five straight Phillies with
a record of thirty and eighteen. They won seven to
four at Colorado, Kyle Schwarber his seventeenth home run, Jesus
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Lozardo five and.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh got the win.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
Detroit a five to four winner at Saint Louis with
a run in the top of the ninth. Riley Green
of the Tigers three hits, four RBIs. Chicago White Sox
ended a five game losing streak beating Seattle one nothing.
Milwaukee sent Baltimore to an eighth straight loss, five to two.
Cleveland at Minnesota was rained out after last night's game
was suspended by rain. Toronto shut out San Diego and
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Dylan cee'ze three nothing Blue Jays only had three hits,
but two of them were homers. The Yankees got a
sixteenth homer this year from Aaron Judge. He's batting four
oh three. Yanksby Texas five to two. Winning pitcher Will
Warren had ten strikeouts in his five and two third
scoreless innings. Tampa Bay had Houston three to two with
two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth.
Pittsburgh ended a four game losing streak, shutting out the
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Reds won nothing. Cincinnati had won five straight. Washington over
Atlanta five to three. The lost to Spencer Strider, just
off the injured list. Cubs won fourteen to one at Miami.
Boston shut out the Mets to nothing. Rafael Devers his
tenth home run. Walker Bueller, just off the injured list,
was kicked out in the third inning, but the Mets offense.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Went four for twenty twenty. That was a strike. I
believe that was the was right down the Blanke in middle,
something like that. You fertilizer, you Mets fan, Thank you, Steve. Yeah,
that was terror. And Walker Buller gets thrown out of
the game and they bring in six relievers and the
Mets just can't hit any of them. It is awful.
(31:10):
But to be positive, I want to say this fantasy
baseball advice, What about Juan slow Mo, I don't I
don't care. If it's a guy making his MLB debut,
I don't care if it's a guy on a pitch count.
You stream whoever is facing the Rockies, You pick them up,
and you stream them and wave them the next day
(31:31):
here Baseball, pick up whoever is facing the rock Will
Warren tonight? Yes, pick them up, stream them, let them go.
That's how you do it. That's how you win.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Currently looking at the trying to bring up the odds
for tomorrowsk Yes, who's We'll get to it.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, pitching coming up next. We pay our respects to
an absolute legend and get to the biggest NFL story
of the day that's both great and terrible. That's next.
Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Gin Smith's
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. And we'll remember
a legend coming up in a minute. But big story
from the NFL today. There will be flag football at
the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Oh boy, Justin Jefferson
very excited to win a gold medal. He had been
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at the forefront of trying to push the NFL to
vote to let NFL players play in flag football in
twenty twenty eight here in Los Angeles when the Olympics come,
owners voted today thirty two to nothing to allow the
players to play in flag football. This is both great
and terrible. It's great because I get why they're voting it.
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They're looking to push the NFL globally. No one's got bilt.
The Olympics is a once every two year event where
the entire globe watches. You're going to put the best
NFL players you can on the field during the Olympics.
It will be a front page story alongside basketball, track
and field. It's a big thing. You're gonna see great players.
No more than one per team per country. So like
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for the United States team, there's be one member of
the Vikings with our sulby Justin Jefferson, one member the
Dolphins to fill out your roster.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And if you go back in your twenty three and
meters and find out you've got heritage else where. I'm
I'm team Italy.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm gonna go play there. So it's great for the
NFL because they're gonna get incredible amount of publicity. The
games are gonna look like when the Dream Team first
played against other teams in basketball in nineteen ninety two.
It's gonna be like Dream Team one thirty eight and
Gola thirty seven, right like that. That's what it's gonna
look like. We have the best NFL players playing other
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other countries. I can't imagine how bad that's gonna look.
Really well. I mean, look, you never know. I mean,
you get into athleticism.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
May maybe a guy's better at a pariette when he's
got a guy great reaching down, whereas in the NFL
you just go and blow them up.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Here, you've got to get to the flag. If it's
more than two plays for a touchdown, I'm gonna be disappointed. No, really,
three plays for a touch of really really three plays.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
But immediately I start thinking about the marketing, merchandising sales.
As you say, you know, the global expansion, here's the
individual player brands. Here's some of what you've seen in
the games that have been parsed out to European countries.
But it's also a if. So twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Five, Now, how soon is there an NFL sponsored flag
football league? No next year called the Pro Bowl? Absolutely? Yeah, well,
play well played football is more intense than the Pro Bowl, justin.
Come on, man, it's way more intense, way more Now.
Here's the bad part, right, here's the bad part. And
I say this right now, don't take anybody from my team.
(34:48):
I don't want anybody from the not that you would
take a jet but in two years, you never know,
because maybe we lose an archmeric justin Fields could be
one hell of a flag foot the elusiveness. Come on,
don't take anybody from my team because I don't want
one of my players getting hurt in a situation it
doesn't mean anything. Don't take any of my players for
this crazy ass event because it happens when players play
(35:10):
more often, when they're playing a game they're not used
to playing. All you do is come down wrong on
somebody's foot or a player on another team wants to
make their legend by hitting you. I don't need that.
I don't need to watch Edwin Diaz get hurt celebrating
a win in the World Baseball Classic. Don't take any
of my players, take somebody.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Else a bunch of different jump cuts and stop and
start and whatever again because it's the flag. Instead of
just saying, art, I'm bracing for a safety to come
up and hit me that. Now it's you know, the
wiggle and the hips and the extra steps and trying
to be fancy footed that maybe you run yourself into
some trouble.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Telling you don't need it. Take anybody you want, taking
hero that'd be by jacket up.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Just you don't have to worry, Jason, these are the
best players in the worldly.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah, but if we want to maybe we'll get our Manning.
He'll be great and he'll want to play here. I
get it. I don't really have to worry the much.
But you never know. You never know, right, maybe they
want Sauce Gardner. You never know. Maybe they want Garrett Wilson.
You never know. We said stars. Now, speaking of stars,
we lost an absolute legend today and George Went, who
(36:19):
passed away at the age of seventy six, very peacefully
in his sleep. George Went, of course, known mainly for
two big things, right for the bear skits on SNL
and obviously for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers. If there
was a Television Hall of Fame where you put characters
in and actors in, George went and Norm Peterson as
(36:41):
a first ballot, unanimous. Even the guy that didn't vote
for eachiro would vote for Norm Peterson. And George went
for the Television Hall of Fame because it would be
like thirty two nothing like the owners vote to let
people play in the in flag football. It would be unanimous.
Because Norm Peterson was one of the top five best
sitcom characters of all time, all the one liners he
(37:04):
had in Cheers, and anybody that's watched that show, whether
on reruns or watched it live, you're watching it now
on YouTube and you're watching the intros put together on
social media. I mean, George went Norm Peterson. Really, he
was an absolute legend. That character was legendary. Well, you know,
he had a great long career, a bunch of movies,
(37:25):
did a bunch of different things. But this is dark
side of the Moon, where where you just look at
and go that's absolutely his character, just absolute perfection.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well, six Emmy nominations, eleven years, nearly three hundred episodes
Chicago Kids. So certainly a lot of run there back
home in terms of his career and ties to local theater,
the second city where he got his origins. Obviously Jason
sideikis his nephew and his run ted last and everything else,
(37:56):
and so they've done some bits through the years as well.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
But for for George Went.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I mean that was that was the character, because he
was the one line smart ass, right, all of those openings.
Someone clipped him together eighteen minutes. I sat there and
wrapped attention, wondering which all right, sequencing? All right, here's
season one episode four. What was the comeback then?
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
And all the way through uh? And he got to
close it out right. That's how integral to everything he was.
He's the guy closing it out with Ted Danson.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah. I look, he's his career, his life. And look
I spent today, you know, talking to my dad, our
favorite uh norm lines all the big entrances, and you know,
I forget you know that that, you know, all all
the great lines he had in the show. But his
entrances were just so incredibly impressive, like when when he
kind of think my favorites when he comes in and
what he says, draw you beer, mister Peterson already know
(38:49):
what they look like? What he just pour it for me?
Right like? Yeah? But with that in mind, how about
a little bit of super fans with George what's shake
and normal uns and a couple of chins. Ah, let's
hear it justin.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Welcome to another edition of Bill Schwirsky's super Fans. I'm
Bob Sworsky, sitting in for my brother Bill, who'll still
recovering from that dreadful heart attack with me has always
aren't a super fans Pat Arnold, Hey Bob, Carl Wallarski,
Hey bad, and title counter.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I'll worry you, Bob, real quick, real quick.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
Once again, We're coming to you from Dika's Restaurant and
heart of Chicago to the city of the Big Shoulders,
home to a certain team which, come January will run
rough shot over the competition in Super Bowl twenty six,
a team that is known as Stubbars Bear.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
There we go that one of the famous guys if
the hurricane is named Ditka, Hurricane Ditka forty six did
go to coach ten.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So good, so many, so many great one like I
was playing all of that because that is uh my
brothers and I on a late Friday night.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Oh, I'll tell you absolute legend. George went rest in
p seventy six years old. Well, I haven't had the
heart attack yet either. For Mike Im Jason, my buddy
Ben Mallar coming up next. You are listening to Fox
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