July 9, 2024 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier give you their picks for a modern day Legends HR Derby. Paul George details his contract negotiations with the Clippers. And the guy’s breakdown the list of best shows of all time!
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Speaker 4 (01:39):
There you go. By the way, Can I just say
one little side note.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
I'm a little surprised when you did send me over
all the topics and all the stuff that you want
to hit on. Yeah, and I of course I sent
you my legal pat and there was one topic you
didn't put in there. And I thought for sure you
would have loved it. I mean, because you're the baseball guy.
For the most part, you you love and I am
just shocked that you didn't even want to talk about
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it or put it in the thing was that there
was talk about instead of the home run contest, they
were gonna have a Legends home run contest with ten
Griffy and Poolholtz and Bonds and Prince Fielder and those.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
People shouldn't be allowed to participate. He just finished his.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Career, but that would have been tremendous.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Though he may be older than a lot of these guys.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Right, but true. Do you know how much interest it
would have been for me? I just get goosebumps thinking about.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
You're getting thinking about Ken Griffy Jr. At this point
swinging the back?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Are you gonna tell?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I bet you it would get better ratings than the
regular home Well?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You know what that was? Actually?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Uh where where my mind immediately went to. It's like,
how do I make this the best made for TV event?
Because you know, I'm the sucker during rain delays if
they started showing the old home run throughout the old
Rigley Field where they were having they were interviewing these
guys when it wasn't their turn to bat. I'm the
guy that sits and watches that, Hey there's Hank Aaron
while Willie mazes up there batting.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
I'd rather see Dave Kingman, who's seventy five years old,
swing the bat.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is you gonna send you any rats?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I remember that, But I.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Think that x cub But but I would think that
the interest level would be through the roof, not just
a little bit better, but through the roof. That would
read renewed interest to something that people don't even care
about it anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I will say that the funniest thing I saw related
to the home run Derby was that Pete Alonso is going.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
To participate again.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yes, yeah, and he's been equated to Matthew McConaughey.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Is character back in days to confused.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I get older, but everybody, it's like you had all
the kids in first time participants and here's this guy
coming back again.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
They did change the rules to try to make it
a little little bit better, more peeling.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, but you can change the rules all you want.
They do that all the time, all these All Star Games,
all these other things. I would agree with you, though
the veteran legend home run Derby would be entertaining. I mean,
we talked about the Steve brought it up before the
w NBA All Star Game and how it's going to
be the women's national team against the w NBA All
Stars and we'll get Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese on
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the same team.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I can't wait to see that.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
But I mean, that's gonna outrate the the NBA All
Star Game.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Run derby.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I mean, you want to talk about making it legendary.
I did see someone post this. I forget who it was.
It was one of those scrolls while I was on
a train on the underground in London. Only appropriate then
that you'd see someone saying, well, why isn't the All
Star Game from Major League Baseball? Since we're at the
halfway point, why don't they make that July fourth America's pastime,
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Xerica's Day.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Ron just be done with it.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
So I thought that was kind of a fun little thing.
So whoever had that out there?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
And one other thing I just wanted Since we're on
baseball and you just mentioned about changing the rules, I
agree with Colin Coward that you're gonna have to lower
the mound.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Why I can't, right, No, because a bunch of these
dopes jangle crap and I stopped learning how to hit.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
George Brett is run circles, he goes.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I'll go to my death telling you I knew how
to hit properly as opposed to what these guys are doing.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I can't have every guy batting to twenty to thirty.
You know, my dad and I used to watch baseball
and the guy goes he wants to hit it the
right field. My dad used to say, he's batting to twenty,
he wants.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
To hit it anywhere. He doesn't care.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I can't, I can't have baseball this bad offensive.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm not lowering the mound.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I'm not I'm not doing what he did it once,
don't do it again?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Why why why are we going to change it?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Because philosophically, over a three year sample size, people have decided, well,
we're going to change how we approach it the play
and we're gonna give up batting average and strikeouts don't
matter and all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Why why do we keep changing the game already We're
not a hit again.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
We just had a pitch clock and we thought that
was gonna help the hitters.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We were mistaken about that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I don't think I don't think it's got anything to
do with the pitch clock. The batting average is suddenly dipped.
I think it's.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That the players just suck. I guess is what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
No, but the point is that you've changed your approach
to hitting and where once upon a time.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, it was spraying the ball all over the field.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Now you guy, guys dead pole hitters or the it's
it's a strikeout is now seen as just as good
as anything else, which philosophically, yeah, we can kind of
argue and debate that, you know, every way till Sunday.
But you got a number of batters that are it's
it's awful. It's like watching the National League back in
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the day what everybody said was so great when three outs,
uh three in your lineup couldn't hit your second basement,
but you and the pitcher couldn't hit.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Look at the difference between somebody like sho hey Otani
and some of these like two twenty.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
But you're going see you're doing the same thing and
we do with football and everything else. Let's compare the
greatest guy against everybody else. You want to do an
NFL comparison with Tom Brady as your benchmark homes to Yeah, no, exactly,
you can't do that, don't.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
But there's too many two twenty hitters in baseball overall.
I don't know the exact numbers, but this is gonna
be one of the worst batting average years.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Uh That we've seen in what like a well.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You got half half the league has a team e
r A under A four. So you got that going
on right now. So run generation, get him on, get
him over, get him in. Because one of the other
notes on your exhaustive list, yes, went into store bases.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
You talk about a lost art. First of all, I
don't even know if it's important anymore. You guys are
acting like it's no big deal. I know Doyla cruz Is,
you know, has a bunch of stolen baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think stolen bases batter well.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Not like the days with Vince Coleman and Ricky Headers.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You know, I'm not saying it like a base baseball,
but again it's changed batting approaches of change and certainly
the the willingness to run, ability to run reading bass paths. Look,
this goes all the way back to like we talk
about AAU basketball and how players are training some lement,
how we do things for soccer and club soccer. You
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can find root problems at all in baseball. Same thing
stolen bases. It's it's it's not a point of emphasis.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Well you see now you're well, I believe Chris Bussard
said this and I totally agree with him.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Baseball is you just watch watch radio and TV shows
all dot you.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Do something else with your life. I have no other life.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But you're gonna how many more guys are you gonna sing?
Just sat around and listen to or watched all of them.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
But we love Chris Basard obviously percent three of those radio.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I agree with him. But he said baseball is going
to become a niche sport. It's it's no longer we're
going to be the Big Four. It's just going to
be basketball and football and baseball and hockey are going
to be part of this big four.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
But how do you say that when ratings are up,
attendance is still through baseball except for well it's all relative, right,
We're not because again, if you start comparing everything in
the NFL, we're wasting our time.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We're wasting our time in that argument. Whatsoever?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Twelve billion dollars, I said, nearly fourteen million team. That's
going to be the settlement off the direct TV case.
So they're splitting up thirteen plus billions, so four hundred
million per team. I really wanted to talk Paul George.
I guess we'll do that out Hey, look, you just
decided to hijack Hi jack everything.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I know what happened at some point.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
No, I like, I like base right, I like and
I know baseball. The Sega's a big baseball guy. But
there's baseball's got some major problem. If we don't address it,
it's it's.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Does it right?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
The NBA has got all this, these billions of dollars
that are about to come through a network contract. You've
got multiple owners saying I'm getting off the merrygo round.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Tell me why that's happening. After the Boston something guy
wick is and why they're making so much money? Can
you tell me why they want to get out? Because
you know what, where's the future of the NBA When
the Lebron's and the Kevin Durants and all those guys retire,
how many big names are gonna still be out there?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You know who?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Who's the future of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's why you're gonna have stars.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you're trying to figure out from a a moving,
moving target in terms of revenue, after this next one,
what does it become?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
How does it split?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
What are the rules of engagement as you go the
next CBA? All of those things maybe you're older and
the family doesn't want any part.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, the money is the payrun business is good.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Right, it's ridiculous. I mean we're talking fifty million a year.
It's going to be sixty seventy million year. I brought
up how much of Steph Curry good to demand when
he's going to get a new contract.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's way out of hand.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's just it's out of hand.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
If they're making billions of dollars, then the players get half.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Guess what top players caughta they get paid.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
They say they're making billions, but yet when when you
look at the television ratings, they're not all that impressed.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
But is the money coming in in the end all
they're worried about. Does to check clear?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I guess it's coming in through the TV revenue. That's
the way that that's the point. It's that's the last
bashing of everything. When you talk about the extension of gambling.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
He's not coming in through tickets out Well, they're selling
out arenas.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I mean, the fever went ahead and gets more attendance
than the pacers.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
We're talking eighteen to twenty thousand people. That's it.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
We're not trying to sell out so far, we're not
trying to sell out Wembley Stadium. We're selling eighteen to
eighteen to twenty thousand seats.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I can't believe those serious, Mike.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I can't believe you think that baseball is healthy and
you know things are looking up for it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
They I just don't. I don't agree with the niche
sport thing. If we're gonna.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Look, you didn't agree with that, You didn't agree with
lowering the mound.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I no, I hate that, Like the pitch clock.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Fine, keep get him on, get him over and get
him in, move the game, making him more digestively second base.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Hey, do you want to talk that?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
There's nobody more vociferously arguing against that.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's one of those.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Rob Manford, I'd called him an idiot to his face
for that decision alone. The ghost runner is an abomination.
So just like what pitchers used to hit, and everybody
would tell me how hard it was, Look how brilliant
this National League manager is with a double switch.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
The double switch.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Come on, it was a blackjack card like they buy
for ninety nine cents in Vegas, telling you when to hit.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Do you only think I'll put in your favor?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Is maybe that because we use four or five pictures
in a game now that it's so tough, you know,
to get.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
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Paul George next after the derailment caused by Arnie Spaniard.
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YEA welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
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Speaker 3 (15:15):
NBA free Agent, Fast and Furious.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Buddy spent a lot of hand ringing for fans, saying
hello to new players and certainly for those that had
to go walk the other way here in Los Angeles.
You had it with the Lakers. Nobody came, no moves.
All you had was Connect and Bronnie James in the draft.
Both of them struggled in their openers on Saturday. Obviously,
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Bronni James gets all the headlines, all the derision. Folks
need hugs, so I offer virtual hugs to all of them,
especially the pundits doing all the uh, you know, fish
shaking and everything. As we came out of those out
of the draft and through the process. I did a
long rant earlier about nepotism, its true meaning and everything
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that flows with it, and folks in our business that
need to look in the mirror and really change the
way they do their business. If they're going to be
honest with themselves and not be hypocritical. You can find
that in the podcast as it goes up a little
over a half hour from now. But one of the
guys on the other side, from the Clipper side of things,
they had to make some big decisions when we talk
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about the second apron freezing of draft picks and all
of these things, was with the Paul George decision and
he ultimately goes to Philadelphia. We had and this is
why I always chuckle with you know, sources, because remember
sources had that everything had cooled between Paul George and
the Sixers. We were being told that had gone the
way of the Dodo. Well not so fast. Paul George,
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hitting the podcast trail, talked about being feeling disrespected by
the Clippers, and then he got into some particular numbers.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I never wanted to leave la Is home. This is
where I wanted to finish at. I wanted to work
as hard as possible to win one in la Like
that was the goal to be here. As it played out, though,
like the first initial deal was, I thought the first
initial deal was like two years sixty so I'm like, no,
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I'm not signing that. This was maybe like October ish,
And as we kept going, it was like, you know,
they would go up inches inches inches. Then I hear
wind of like, you know what they're gonna give Kawhi.
So I'm like, just give me what Kawai got, like
y'all view us the same, Like, you know, we came
here together. I'll take what Kawai got, Like, no, no problem.
I was cool with that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
So goes through. Okay, I'll take what Kawai I got.
But he wasn't just the three for one fifty. He
wanted the no trade clause to come.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
In right, right, and then he doesn't deserve what Kawai got.
But that's beside the point.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
But if we're gonna say, you know, we came in together,
I want what he he got, we're equal, we're taking
less than max all of this stuff. Okay, fine, but
then you add the no trade clause to it, Well
that's no longer equal, right, that's a that's a big
thing in Paul George's favorite And I don't begrudge the
guy for asking. And then he asked for the fourth year,
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and the Clippers decided, you know what, no again. Talking
about being hamstrung with the rules on the second apron
and kind of roster flexibility going forward, how much they
have because most of the trade chips that you.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Would have are gone. Right.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
That was all the lamentation after he signed with the Sixers.
Was you started hearing that Sarah McLaughlin song that you
hear late night. If you have the infomercials going on
with the Dogs, I will remember, here's all the players
and draft picks that went away to bring in Kawhi,
Leonard and Paul George. You don't have any of those.
So what you look like for the next couple of years.
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I don't know how much flexibility you really earned in this,
but either way, Paul George ultimately got that fourth year
and an extra sixty two million dollars.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Well, good for him, him for that, right, good friend,
but he's not worth it.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Look at it.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
You know all the promises he made for all the
other teams that he's been to, and what do they
what do they show for it?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Nothing? They should have left him. Let him go on.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I'm not gonna give him money, Kawhi money, hard money.
Enough is enough. Somebody's got the going. It's not like
we were close to a championship anyway.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, but that was the thing, right when they were
playing and everybody was healthy and moving along. It looked
pretty good. This is a team that can compete and
be part of the equation. Kawhi gets hurt, PG goes
through and you know, he went on to talk about
how healthy he was and his efficiency rating and all
of those things, and that's all fine and good. You know,
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part of the analysis that he laid out was also,
you know, the feeling disrespected from the offers, and he said,
you know, part of it was I didn't want that
carrying over when we talked at the All Star break.
Clippers were a fifteen and fourteen team.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
After the All Star break, right right.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Right, the efficient seas went out, look at schedule, strength,
all of those things, all of it to say that
you had a second half collapse and now you move
on and you took your shot right. And that's the
bigger message to all of it in Los Angeles, and
this goes to bring in a d and lebron on
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one side of the locker room there at Crypto dot
Com before the Clippers now moved into it. But on
the other side, you know, it was street lights before spotlights,
and you did your best with Paul George and Kawhi Leondard.
You took your run with them and it didn't work.
When you talk about a title run and that and
that ultimately is what we look at, Arnie. When you
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go into the marketplace and you go find your top
end free agents or trade chips, the whole idea is
that you're winning it. Having a nice run into the
second round of the playoffs isn't what constitutes success in
most people's eyes.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
But then again, good look at Philadelphia. Could that you're
number one guy? Joel Embiid is not you could already
he's you could tell that he's just slowed down so
much with what's going on in practice and after what
happened last year. This guy is never in like the
last four years, never played a full season. This guy
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never he misses so many games. So good luck you
got Maxi back. Congratulations there, but you know you're gonna
be without Joel Embiid for at least thirty games, maybe
forty games.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And it's always gonna happen like that.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Predicting injuries?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How do you not predicting it? Just did it happens?
It always happens.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Let's look how many games he's played over the last
four seasons, you can see him missing the games.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
No, but that's the thing right between load management pushing
back too early because you want to be eligible for
an award.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I've had plenty of contentious conversations. Our guy, Ryan Hollins,
ten years in the league, works over in the Planet
Houston with the Rockets on their coverage. We work together
on Sunday mornings, Fox Sports Sunday. And you know, talk
about that sixty five game threshold. It still allows you
to miss twenty percent of the league, right exactly. But
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when we talk about are you perhaps you know, compromised,
but you want to be eligible for an All Defensive
team or the MVP votes, which maybe you can argue
that that's why Joel Embiid played at times when he
shouldn't have.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Or so they want the money, they want the bonuses,
that's what you get.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Well, but that but that's again what it all comes
down to is that you've got max deals that are
tied to being part and voted onto those squads, which
is just asinine to me. Right, here's the difference of
fifty or sixty million dollars whether you're a third team
All NBA or left off. That just seems silly.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I'm surprised they still allow that in contracts.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
You know who used to do that, was it Charlie Finley?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well, no, you're now I think you're thinking about eight
man out. No, Y twenty nine is not thirty any.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yes, no, no.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
But the old owner of the Oakland A's used to
pay you if you went four for four in a game,
he'd give you a bonus.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
And Major Ague Baseball said you can't do that. What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I kind of dig that.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
If you going back to paying to play?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
How'd you do this week?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Did you hit the over under on your yards yards
from scrimmage?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
They said, no, you can't be doing that. That's illegal.
That that that we're not going to tolerate right.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Now after some movement and free agency. Looking at early odds,
Celtics are your favorite at three to one, Sixers sitting
at eight to one, thunder at about nine to one,
alongside the Nuggets and the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What are they?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
What are the Nuggets of the Knicks?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Ninth to one, nine to one, ten to one, depending
on where you're looking.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Love some of that.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Give me some of that, big boy, I'm gonna be
putting my money on the New York and your knicks.
I already requested time off to go to the championship parade.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Really okay, Yeah, maybe you and Smith can can sync
up there.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
That'd be perfect. I'll meet him out there.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Which means you guys have just doomed your squad nikes
for speaking that in new existence. Coming up next, we'll
talk about a list that has some interesting points from
the entertainment side, but one omission renders it obsolete altogether.
But first, it's our guy, Steve de Sager. He's got
the news and updates of what's going on in our
sporting universe from the news desk.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Hi, Steve, Hello again, gentlemen. We will get to the
baseball at a midment.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Now.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
You know, I have seen the schedule for this week.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Here.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
We've got the Sunday Night co host Arnie Spanier on
with Mike this evening. I have read that the Sunday
Night co host Chris Plank is on with you this.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Friday on Friday, so you'll get to hang out with
Plank on Friday.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
This same time slot.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Looking forward to if I scheduled the saga that I
haven't decided yet oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Now he's brought in this fantasy into the weeknights by Harmon.
Arnie is under the oppression that he actually carries some
sort of weight or power.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
In Tom Harmon, Tom Harmon.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Has it harmed anybody?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Has it caused any riffs in the Fox Sports radio hallways.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Yet just in his own family, you know, he fancy
he's himself a man of power. It doesn't occur at home,
and therefore he breaks.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
At his wife kind of deciding what goes into the
gift baskets and how many meat sticks you.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Get, and they're off to Micronesia.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
The Euro Soccer Semifinals start tomorrow on Fox TV, by
the way, with Spain against France, then Wednesday on Fox
England against Netherlands. England, somehow is still in this tournament.
It won its quarterfinal on penalty kicks against the Swiss.
Here in England's history, they had lost seven of nine
penalty shootouts until this last matchup when they go for
five for five on kicks. And before that, remember the
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overtime win against Slovakia goal in the final minute of regulation,
goal in the opening minute of extra time. The Copa
America Semifinals start tomorrow night, Argentina against Canada on FS
one from New Jersey. Wednesday night, Columbia versus Uruguay in Charlotte.
Brazil was eliminated by Uruguay on penalty kicks last Saturday. Columbia, meanwhile,
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is unbeaten in his last twenty seven games over the
last two and a half years. It defeated Panama five
nothing on Saturday. The WNBA was off tonight. It'll have
just one game tomorrow. The NBA Summer League tonight saw
Utah in overtime defeat Memphis. Thirty points for Keyante George
despite five of twenty one shooting from the floor. First
round Center for the Grizzly, Zach Edie fourteen points, fifteen
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rebounds and the tying tip in at the end of regulation.
You reference the Lakers. They don't play a summer league
game again until Wednesday. Brownie James did not play Yesterday. Saturday.
He had four points on two of nine shooting. Lakers
first round are Dalton connect and you quoted this first
hour shooter's gonna shoot. He said that verbatim. Actually after
(26:39):
his week Wow. Saturday, he was three of twelve from
the floor for twelve points.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Sunday.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
He is three of thirteen from.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
THEO for twelve span Man a.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Little taller and maybe a little defense for connect in comparison,
connect Connecticut, I should say, gave basketball coach Dan Hurley
a new six year contract where fifty million dollars plus incentives.
In his six seasons at Yukon, Hurley's record is one
forty one and fifty eight, including the last two national championships.
In fact, in March Madness, his Huskies have won twelve
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straight NCAA Tournament games by double digits, the longest streak
of all time. Needless to say, no team has won
three straight national titles since the tourney expanded to sixty
four teams back in the mid eighties. The Houston Texans
re signed defensive end Jerry Hughes. Keegan Bradley will be
the US Ryder Cup captain next year after Tiger Woods
turned down the job. At age thirty eight, Bradley will
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be the youngest American captain since Arnold Palmer was a
playing captain. In nineteen sixty three. At Wimbledon, American Taylor
Fritz upset number four Alexander Zverev in five sets to
baseball's late game Atlanta in eleven innings. One at Arizona
five to four, the Braves in the top of the
ninth hit a two run homer with two outs.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
To stay alive.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Marcelo Zuna the go ahead Sackfly Diamondbacks offense went four
for thirty four.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
By the way the Braves. Osuna will be.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
In next week's home run Derby along with Kansas City's
Bobby Witt Junior, who's from Texas. The Rangers will be
hosting the All Star Game a week from Tuesday on
Fox TV. Texas won its fourth straight nine to four
at the Angels tonight. Halos have lost seven of eight.
Ex Dodger Corey Seeger to run homer in the first
in Southern California. It went over four hundred and fifty
feet to center field. Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon, who
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was out two and a half months with a amstring injury,
did play tonight at an RBI single in eleven innings.
The Twins beat the White Sox in Chicago eight six,
White Sox with runners in scoring position three of fifteen.
Attendance was eleven thousand. Yesterday, the White Sox allowed four
runs bottom of the ninth to lose at Miami, where
the attendance was twelve thousand. Cincinnati shut out Colorado six nothing.
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La de la Cruz two more stolen bases he has
forty five. Detroit won its fourth straight game. This was
on FS one Tonight. Tiger's got a run on the
bottom of the eighth to win one nothing over. Cleveland
held the Guardians just three hits. Saint Louis pulled away
for a six nothing win at Washington, and Pittsburgh beat
them at eight to two. The game was two to
two and the six, but the Mets record falls to
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forty four and forty five.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Back to you, and what is it in the Grimace
ERAIC just kidding, hiks, Steve. That's Steve Desager at the
news desk, Mike Harman alongside Arnie Spaniard, Justin frosperg Galex
tight shirt of the team and of course our team
in the back making a sound oh so pretty uh
today bringing us all the news and the highlights as
we go through a list that you sent me, Arnie.
(29:34):
I don't know the point of origin of this, yeah,
but it patently offended Frostburg and I as we read it.
It's a list of the best TV shows of all
time now I want to talk about it now. It
offended Arnie because he finally looked through it and realized
pretty much anything from the seventies was not represented.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I could there's no way you could have a list
of the top fifty TV shows of all time and
not have some of the iconic like Mash. When you
don't have Mash in your top fifty, the list needs
to be thrown away.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Well, I mean, justin came up with one that has
been a favorite and a staple on the show for
as long as we've been doing it.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, for a list not to have curby your enthusiasm
on it.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah, you can't have that, right right side feltrespectful. So
right off the top, you got breaking bad. Okay, for
most it's in the top Game of Thrones. I've not
watched it.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm not watching Chernobyl now. I look at the cast list.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
When I see Jared Harris and and Stelling Scarsguard is
the the two main protagonists for season one. Like, okay,
but generally, you tell me you got to show about Chernobyl.
That's an actual show, a series. I don't know that
I want to go down that highway space. But like
it could be brilliant, but just is it drawing me
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in off of the subject matter?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Not? Not necessarily so much. Sopranos are at number four.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
You can work Prano's up a little bit to number
two if you want.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Band of Brothers at number five.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The Wire guys that this person works at HBO.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
That is a lot of HBO off to jump, There's
no question about it. Peaky Blinders comes in at number ten.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, that's a good show. I like that.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
That was That was fun.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Killian there's the only old school.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Show was number eleven, The Twilight Zone nineteen fifty nine,
The Origin Their House at number fourteen.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That was good.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Mad Man at number twenty one, The Office, which we
quote frequently. That's just ahead of Succession seventeen eighteen down
the I mean.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I like number twenty eight is number one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Number twenty it's always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I loved that show. I really did well.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
They're like in season forty eight and to pay for Wrexham.
It'll never end that number. Machilhenny is in for forever now.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Right right and Lost at number thirty five to me
was one of the top shows.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know how many times I watched that?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
None?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Oh you missed out, you missed out. Listen to you.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I think I'm okay there, Boardwalk Empire forty one. Really
Nucky Thompson that low.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
That one though.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You haven't watched that one.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Nope, I have not watched that one.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
All right, more mobster stuff, Steve Boucemi. The next good
TV already watches will be the first.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
No, I used to.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Be that much.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
But there's no MASH.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
There's no Sanford and Son, there's no All in this family, none.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Stop it all your family. It's iconic.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
First of all, the fact that you don't have those
in the MASH is like, what are the top ten
TV of all time?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Stop it?
Speaker 6 (32:39):
I bet your people would be sending us tweets like
crazy that MASH should be in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's created for people to do something during awarded.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, there's this. This list is dubious at best. So
you know what, we'll make up our own. We'll start ranking.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
We got it. Yeah, I wouldn't look at that guy
right in the eyes, like Larry David and I would
I would just start doing the shrug.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Yeah, it's pretty incredible stuff, there's no question about it. Well,
Sons of Anarchy isn't in there either. Sons of Anarchy
isn't on this list.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, not the best list. That was a pretty good impression.
I like that. I like that, Preg I'm not what
do you think, Marty?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Mike.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
I'd say this top ten is valid, so you can
run with that. Yeah, all of these are nothing, but
people have talked about the last ten years.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Well that's that becomes the best versus viral versus pop.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, right right.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
I watched Stranger Things. I shrugged, and the more Jason
liked it, the more I hated it.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
If Jason saying it's good, it probably sucks Sherlock.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Is that the Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah, I'd get on board.
That could have been higher than fifteen. That was iconic.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, I thought Friends at fifteen was what was iconic
about it?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Arnie, No, they just that Well, because so many people
loved it in the cast makes it iconic.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well, the cast members those the sixteen.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
There's a bunch of idiots out there.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, Arnie, he define the term iconic.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You've used it a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Now, Well, the six actors that were in it, they're
all gonna go down, is you know like Hall of
Fame actors just from that one.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
You could see that show?
Speaker 10 (34:28):
No, no, really, there's only one that did anything out
of that. Her name's Jennifer Aniston. Well yeah, but you
know all the other ones from the show, A single one.
Oh stop, a's a guy that just died.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh, Courtney Cox, she's the Scream franchise.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
She didn't age.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Well, Courtney Cox, what happened?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
You guys are don playing that show? Shame on you.
I can't believe you're not playing it.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
What number of Seinfeld? Thirty? Pretty low?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
That is pretty good? Oh too, that should be up
a little bit higher. Also.
Speaker 10 (35:02):
The one I'm tripping about, Mike is the Boys at
twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Oh seen that, I've seen parts. It's one that I
need to give some more time to. I think.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
I saw a little on the plane during my It's
good Mike Carmon's European vacation.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
So we'll see if we can revisit bat and that.
We'll make it some treadmill viewing. There you go, and
you have to watch stuff that was released after the
year two thousand. Arnie at your homework assignment for the
next time that we meet up here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Hey, coming up next.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
As we continue here at the Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Carmon, Arnie in for Jason, we celebrated an
American hero who did something. He didn't get to participate
on the fourth, but he got it done. Today we'll
tell you what he did.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Carmon from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Jason
off this week leading our all star our parade of guests,
our guy Arnie Spaniard tonight at some apology.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Accepted by the way, apologies for what well, I've just
been reading Twitter. Everybody agrees with me, so between you
and the producer, apology accepted.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I didn't say anything against Matt. I got a name, Arnie,
what do we got?
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Daryl says, Hey, that's depressing the year that match getting
down played in the studio tonight. But that's what happens
when you discuss classic television with twenty and thirty somethings.
They think that truth was invented when you were born.
How about getting out of your comfort zone a little bit,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Not everybody was born in nineteen twenty, but that also
it's a matter of expanding your mind. I'm not going
to say that it's it's right or wrong right', it's
you like your opinion, manh yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
My opinion happens to be right here.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Doug, was the Lebowski reference out there? Mary Tyler Moore show, No.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
That could have been in there.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, absolutely, Dad, he had to throw that one in while.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Oh Diddy, I didn't see that.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
He says, I'm going with all these TV picks mostly
matched and all the family are top ten friends is stupid.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It's a fantasy.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
You get have platonic friends of the opposite gender, and
sidefeld should be.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Made.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
George Kramer Layne got along all those years. I guess
a platonic, weren't they?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Well, I bet you George wanted to sleep with a
Wayne but just didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
So well.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
I mean he had a couple of episodes where that
was kind of inferred no, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Got it? Oh no, don't go back and check it out.
They had seidefelt the Costanza Bobblehead Night for the Yankees, right.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I saw that it was crazy for that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Line out the door? How about this one?
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Joey Chestnut accepted a challenge from Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I saw this, Yeah, if you could.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Eat two hundred boneless wings tomorrow at all you can eat,
I'll extend it to August fourteenth. Challenge accepted, and he
did it earlier today and under eight minutes.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
I saw that. First of all, that's a lot. I
couldn't believe he I ate that in thirty eight minutes.
I have a friend of mine that owns a bunch
of Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Held was like fourteen of them.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I'm totally gonna go ahead and just just do the
all you could eat there, just just sit to But
I can't eat that many.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
That's that's crazy, Mike.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
You notice too, Aarnie, we don't want the gift basket.
We need a black card.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Oh yeah, that they you can help.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Us out here across the street, you know, I mean,
we're hungry working in the midnight.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Tre tried they got one right, near you guys, help
us out, buddy.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
But they're privately owned, right so yeah, yeah, that's that's
the pot.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
But that's the beauty of it, right well, I mean
it's still publicly traded, though. I made good money on
their stock at one point because there was a big
report of how they'd really solidified their chicken prices when
their competitors had struggled with that for a while.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
How close could you get to putting down the two hundred?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
You got no chance. Maybe in my gluttonous past. I mean,
you take me back twenty five years.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Did you miss some of the I don't know if
you got to see the hot dog getting content go
to be honest about that.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
I didn't miss him when I was working on July fourth,
let alone being out of the country. I really that
really that contest. I find it interesting to hear their backstories.
And we had Eric the red on one of the competitors,
you know, talking about horse meat sandwiches and finding those
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the ringing bell and finding those mobile carts in Italy
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
That was cool.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Like with great stories, we still have those drops in
the system. Those are the parts that are interesting to me.
The mechanics of it all the actual watching of the competition,
I have no desire.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I know it is a little you know, nerve wracking
there or just just kind of disgusting. But I liked
that there was actually a race and you were wondering
who was going to win, and there was actually four
or five people going against each other to win this thing,
so it wasn't like predetermined like it is every year.
When Joey Chestnut said that, yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I mean, it always just became the does he want
to press what the odds are? I mean, you want
to talk about, you know, betting odds that are fixed
or can be right because we talk about a lot
of those awards or whatever where you can't make Betts
state side because of information. Uh, he could decide, yeah,
(40:26):
you know what, I got seventy five, the over was
seventy six and a half.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I'm out.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Because I mean he's destroying the competition, then it becomes
a matter of does he want to beat what's the spread.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Between him and the second participant is? And whatever? But
good on him.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
It means I think everybody gets some extended uh you know,
wing deals along the way.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
So that's a way that.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
You know a guy with fourteen that's the guy you
should be hanging out at his beat A.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Couple one right here in Vermont, Broyton, Vermont.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
How about that? All right, we're all gonna go visit
Arnie Dinners.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
On him at Sticking Genius one. Thanks for sitting in fast. Hey,
I got one last bullet point for you. You know
Dan Hurley his contract right the the years and dollars,
Monty Williams still got fifteen million dollars more to go away.
It doesn't have to serve another moment as the Pistons coach.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
He's already I'm like coming up.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
On the other side, we got our guy, Ben Maller
here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Thanks Justin, Thanks Alex got
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
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was entertaining in our bar conversations.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
There you go. By the way, Can I just say
one little side note.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
I'm a little surprised when you did send me over
all the topics and all the stuff that you want
to hit on. Yeah, and I of course I sent
you my legal pat and there was one topic you
didn't put in there. And I thought for sure you
would have loved it. I mean, because you're the baseball guy.
For the most part, you you love and I am
just shocked that you didn't even want to talk about
(02:06):
it or put it in the thing was that there
was talk about instead of the home run contest, they
were gonna have a Legends home run contest with ten
Griffy and Poolholtz and Bonds and Prince Fielder and those.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
People shouldn't be allowed to participate. He just finished his.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Career, but that would have been tremendous.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Though he may be older than a lot of these guys.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Right, but true. Do you know how much interest it
would have been for me? I just get goosebumps thinking about.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
You're getting thinking about Ken Griffy Jr. At this point
swinging the back?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Are you gonna tell?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I bet you it would get better ratings than the
regular home Well?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You know what that was? Actually?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Uh where where my mind immediately went to. It's like,
how do I make this the best made for TV event?
Because you know, I'm the sucker during rain delays if
they started showing the old home run throughout the old
Rigley Field where they were having they were interviewing these
guys when it wasn't their turn to bat. I'm the
guy that sits and watches that, Hey there's Hank Aaron
while Willie mazes up there batting.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
I'd rather see Dave Kingman, who's seventy five years old,
swing the bat.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is you gonna send you any rats?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I remember that, But I.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Think that x cub But but I would think that
the interest level would be through the roof, not just
a little bit better, but through the roof. That would
read renewed interest to something that people don't even care
about it anymore.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I will say that the funniest thing I saw related
to the home run Derby was that Pete Alonso is going.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
To participate again.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yes, yeah, and he's been equated to Matthew McConaughey.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Is character back in days to confused.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
I get older, but everybody, it's like you had all
the kids in first time participants and here's this guy
coming back again.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
They did change the rules to try to make it
a little little bit better, more peeling.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, but you can change the rules all you want.
They do that all the time, all these All Star Games,
all these other things. I would agree with you, though
the veteran legend home run Derby would be entertaining. I mean,
we talked about the Steve brought it up before the
w NBA All Star Game and how it's going to
be the women's national team against the w NBA All
Stars and we'll get Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese on
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the same team.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I can't wait to see that.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
But I mean, that's gonna outrate the the NBA All
Star Game.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Run derby.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I mean, you want to talk about making it legendary.
I did see someone post this. I forget who it was.
It was one of those scrolls while I was on
a train on the underground in London. Only appropriate then
that you'd see someone saying, well, why isn't the All
Star Game from Major League Baseball? Since we're at the
halfway point, why don't they make that July fourth America's pastime,
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Xerica's Day.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Ron just be done with it.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
So I thought that was kind of a fun little thing.
So whoever had that out there?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
And one other thing I just wanted Since we're on
baseball and you just mentioned about changing the rules, I
agree with Colin Coward that you're gonna have to lower
the mound.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Why I can't, right, No, because a bunch of these
dopes jangle crap and I stopped learning how to hit.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
George Brett is run circles, he goes.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I'll go to my death telling you I knew how
to hit properly as opposed to what these guys are doing.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I can't have every guy batting to twenty to thirty.
You know, my dad and I used to watch baseball
and the guy goes he wants to hit it the
right field. My dad used to say, he's batting to twenty,
he wants.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
To hit it anywhere. He doesn't care.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I can't, I can't have baseball this bad offensive.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm not lowering the mound.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I'm not I'm not doing what he did it once,
don't do it again?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Why why why are we going to change it?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Because philosophically, over a three year sample size, people have decided, well,
we're going to change how we approach it the play
and we're gonna give up batting average and strikeouts don't
matter and all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Why why do we keep changing the game already We're
not a hit again.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
We just had a pitch clock and we thought that
was gonna help the hitters.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We were mistaken about that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I don't think I don't think it's got anything to
do with the pitch clock. The batting average is suddenly dipped.
I think it's.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That the players just suck. I guess is what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
No, but the point is that you've changed your approach
to hitting and where once upon a time.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, it was spraying the ball all over the field.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Now you guy, guys dead pole hitters or the it's
it's a strikeout is now seen as just as good
as anything else, which philosophically, yeah, we can kind of
argue and debate that, you know, every way till Sunday.
But you got a number of batters that are it's
it's awful. It's like watching the National League back in
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the day what everybody said was so great when three outs,
uh three in your lineup couldn't hit your second basement,
but you and the pitcher couldn't hit.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Look at the difference between somebody like sho hey Otani
and some of these like two twenty.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
But you're going see you're doing the same thing and
we do with football and everything else. Let's compare the
greatest guy against everybody else. You want to do an
NFL comparison with Tom Brady as your benchmark homes to Yeah, no, exactly,
you can't do that, don't.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
But there's too many two twenty hitters in baseball overall.
I don't know the exact numbers, but this is gonna
be one of the worst batting average years.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Uh That we've seen in what like a well.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You got half half the league has a team e
r A under A four. So you got that going
on right now. So run generation, get him on, get
him over, get him in. Because one of the other
notes on your exhaustive list, yes, went into store bases.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
You talk about a lost art. First of all, I
don't even know if it's important anymore. You guys are
acting like it's no big deal. I know Doyla cruz Is,
you know, has a bunch of stolen baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I think stolen bases batter well.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Not like the days with Vince Coleman and Ricky Headers.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You know, I'm not saying it like a base baseball,
but again it's changed batting approaches of change and certainly
the the willingness to run, ability to run reading bass paths. Look,
this goes all the way back to like we talk
about AAU basketball and how players are training some lement,
how we do things for soccer and club soccer. You
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can find root problems at all in baseball. Same thing
stolen bases. It's it's it's not a point of emphasis.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Well you see now you're well, I believe Chris Bussard
said this and I totally agree with him.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Baseball is you just watch watch radio and TV shows
all dot you.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Do something else with your life. I have no other life.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
But you're gonna how many more guys are you gonna sing?
Just sat around and listen to or watched all of them.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
But we love Chris Basard obviously percent three of those radio.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I agree with him. But he said baseball is going
to become a niche sport. It's it's no longer we're
going to be the Big Four. It's just going to
be basketball and football and baseball and hockey are going
to be part of this big four.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
But how do you say that when ratings are up,
attendance is still through baseball except for well it's all relative, right,
We're not because again, if you start comparing everything in
the NFL, we're wasting our time.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
We're wasting our time in that argument. Whatsoever?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Twelve billion dollars, I said, nearly fourteen million team. That's
going to be the settlement off the direct TV case.
So they're splitting up thirteen plus billions, so four hundred
million per team. I really wanted to talk Paul George.
I guess we'll do that out Hey, look, you just
decided to hijack Hi jack everything.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I know what happened at some point.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
No, I like, I like base right, I like and
I know baseball. The Sega's a big baseball guy. But
there's baseball's got some major problem. If we don't address it,
it's it's.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Does it right?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
The NBA has got all this, these billions of dollars
that are about to come through a network contract. You've
got multiple owners saying I'm getting off the merrygo round.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Tell me why that's happening. After the Boston something guy
wick is and why they're making so much money? Can
you tell me why they want to get out? Because
you know what, where's the future of the NBA When
the Lebron's and the Kevin Durants and all those guys retire,
how many big names are gonna still be out there?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You know who?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Who's the future of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's why you're gonna have stars.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
But you're trying to figure out from a a moving,
moving target in terms of revenue, after this next one,
what does it become?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
How does it split?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
What are the rules of engagement as you go the
next CBA? All of those things maybe you're older and
the family doesn't want any part.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, the money is the payrun business is good.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Right, it's ridiculous. I mean we're talking fifty million a year.
It's going to be sixty seventy million year. I brought
up how much of Steph Curry good to demand when
he's going to get a new contract.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's way out of hand.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's just it's out of hand.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
If they're making billions of dollars, then the players get half.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Guess what top players caughta they get paid.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
They say they're making billions, but yet when when you
look at the television ratings, they're not all that impressed.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
But is the money coming in in the end all
they're worried about. Does to check clear?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I guess it's coming in through the TV revenue. That's
the way that that's the point. It's that's the last
bashing of everything. When you talk about the extension of gambling.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
He's not coming in through tickets out Well, they're selling
out arenas.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
I mean, the fever went ahead and gets more attendance
than the pacers.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
We're talking eighteen to twenty thousand people. That's it.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
We're not trying to sell out so far, we're not
trying to sell out Wembley Stadium. We're selling eighteen to
eighteen to twenty thousand seats.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I can't believe those serious, Mike.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I can't believe you think that baseball is healthy and
you know things are looking up for it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
They I just don't. I don't agree with the niche
sport thing. If we're gonna.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Look, you didn't agree with that, You didn't agree with
lowering the mound.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I no, I hate that, Like the pitch clock.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Fine, keep get him on, get him over and get
him in, move the game, making him more digestively second base.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Hey, do you want to talk that?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
There's nobody more vociferously arguing against that.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's one of those.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Rob Manford, I'd called him an idiot to his face
for that decision alone. The ghost runner is an abomination.
So just like what pitchers used to hit, and everybody
would tell me how hard it was, Look how brilliant
this National League manager is with a double switch.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
The double switch.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Come on, it was a blackjack card like they buy
for ninety nine cents in Vegas, telling you when to hit.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Do you only think I'll put in your favor?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Is maybe that because we use four or five pictures
in a game now that it's so tough, you know,
to get.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
A specialization, baby specialization, All one hundred percent in all
games been shipped. You don't like it, As Kevin Durant
once said, don't watch all right, we'll actually talk about
Paul George next after the derailment caused by Arnie Spaniard.
You can share your derision as I will. I did
it verbally. You can do it on Twitter at Stinking
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sure to relay it to him. And if you have
any other thoughts of guys that it's still kind of
chapsha that they left for another team. I see a
bunch of folks that are Red Sox fans saying this Yankee,
this Yankee, that yankee, the guy that got sold to
the Yankees. Keep on going, Dan here and yeah him,
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Speaker 5 (14:42):
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Speaker 3 (14:46):
What you do interrupting our promo? Yeah, he wasn't talking
about you.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
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Speaker 7 (14:53):
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Speaker 4 (14:57):
Let me put this into context. Shut up. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
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Speaker 5 (15:06):
YEA welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon, Arnie Span You're in for Jason.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
NBA free Agent, Fast and Furious.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Buddy spent a lot of hand ringing for fans, saying
hello to new players and certainly for those that had
to go walk the other way here in Los Angeles.
You had it with the Lakers. Nobody came, no moves.
All you had was Connect and Bronnie James in the draft.
Both of them struggled in their openers on Saturday. Obviously,
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Bronni James gets all the headlines, all the derision. Folks
need hugs, so I offer virtual hugs to all of them,
especially the pundits doing all the uh, you know, fish
shaking and everything. As we came out of those out
of the draft and through the process. I did a
long rant earlier about nepotism, its true meaning and everything
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that flows with it, and folks in our business that
need to look in the mirror and really change the
way they do their business. If they're going to be
honest with themselves and not be hypocritical. You can find
that in the podcast as it goes up a little
over a half hour from now. But one of the
guys on the other side, from the Clipper side of things,
they had to make some big decisions when we talk
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about the second apron freezing of draft picks and all
of these things, was with the Paul George decision and
he ultimately goes to Philadelphia. We had and this is
why I always chuckle with you know, sources, because remember
sources had that everything had cooled between Paul George and
the Sixers. We were being told that had gone the
way of the Dodo. Well not so fast. Paul George,
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hitting the podcast trail, talked about being feeling disrespected by
the Clippers, and then he got into some particular numbers.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
I never wanted to leave la Is home. This is
where I wanted to finish at. I wanted to work
as hard as possible to win one in la Like
that was the goal to be here. As it played out, though,
like the first initial deal was, I thought the first
initial deal was like two years sixty so I'm like, no,
(17:18):
I'm not signing that. This was maybe like October ish,
And as we kept going, it was like, you know,
they would go up inches inches inches. Then I hear
wind of like, you know what they're gonna give Kawhi.
So I'm like, just give me what Kawai got, like
y'all view us the same, Like, you know, we came
here together. I'll take what Kawai got, Like, no, no problem.
I was cool with that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
So goes through. Okay, I'll take what Kawai I got.
But he wasn't just the three for one fifty. He
wanted the no trade clause to come.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
In right, right, and then he doesn't deserve what Kawai got.
But that's beside the point.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
But if we're gonna say, you know, we came in together,
I want what he he got, we're equal, we're taking
less than max all of this stuff. Okay, fine, but
then you add the no trade clause to it, Well
that's no longer equal, right, that's a that's a big
thing in Paul George's favorite And I don't begrudge the
guy for asking. And then he asked for the fourth year,
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and the Clippers decided, you know what, no again. Talking
about being hamstrung with the rules on the second apron
and kind of roster flexibility going forward, how much they
have because most of the trade chips that you.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Would have are gone. Right.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
That was all the lamentation after he signed with the Sixers.
Was you started hearing that Sarah McLaughlin song that you
hear late night. If you have the infomercials going on
with the Dogs, I will remember, here's all the players
and draft picks that went away to bring in Kawhi,
Leonard and Paul George. You don't have any of those.
So what you look like for the next couple of years.
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I don't know how much flexibility you really earned in this,
but either way, Paul George ultimately got that fourth year
and an extra sixty two million dollars.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Well, good for him, him for that, right, good friend,
but he's not worth it.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Look at it.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
You know all the promises he made for all the
other teams that he's been to, and what do they
what do they show for it?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Nothing? They should have left him. Let him go on.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I'm not gonna give him money, Kawhi money, hard money.
Enough is enough. Somebody's got the going. It's not like
we were close to a championship anyway.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well, but that was the thing, right when they were
playing and everybody was healthy and moving along. It looked
pretty good. This is a team that can compete and
be part of the equation. Kawhi gets hurt, PG goes
through and you know, he went on to talk about
how healthy he was and his efficiency rating and all
of those things, and that's all fine and good. You know,
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part of the analysis that he laid out was also,
you know, the feeling disrespected from the offers, and he said,
you know, part of it was I didn't want that
carrying over when we talked at the All Star break.
Clippers were a fifteen and fourteen team.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
After the All Star break, right right.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Right, the efficient seas went out, look at schedule, strength,
all of those things, all of it to say that
you had a second half collapse and now you move
on and you took your shot right. And that's the
bigger message to all of it in Los Angeles, and
this goes to bring in a d and lebron on
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one side of the locker room there at Crypto dot
Com before the Clippers now moved into it. But on
the other side, you know, it was street lights before spotlights,
and you did your best with Paul George and Kawhi Leondard.
You took your run with them and it didn't work.
When you talk about a title run and that and
that ultimately is what we look at, Arnie. When you
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go into the marketplace and you go find your top
end free agents or trade chips, the whole idea is
that you're winning it. Having a nice run into the
second round of the playoffs isn't what constitutes success in
most people's eyes.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
But then again, good look at Philadelphia. Could that you're
number one guy? Joel Embiid is not you could already
he's you could tell that he's just slowed down so
much with what's going on in practice and after what
happened last year. This guy is never in like the
last four years, never played a full season. This guy
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never he misses so many games. So good luck you
got Maxi back. Congratulations there, but you know you're gonna
be without Joel Embiid for at least thirty games, maybe
forty games.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And it's always gonna happen like that.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Predicting injuries?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How do you not predicting it? Just did it happens?
It always happens.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Let's look how many games he's played over the last
four seasons, you can see him missing the games.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
No, but that's the thing right between load management pushing
back too early because you want to be eligible for
an award.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I've had plenty of contentious conversations. Our guy, Ryan Hollins,
ten years in the league, works over in the Planet
Houston with the Rockets on their coverage. We work together
on Sunday mornings, Fox Sports Sunday. And you know, talk
about that sixty five game threshold. It still allows you
to miss twenty percent of the league, right exactly. But
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when we talk about are you perhaps you know, compromised,
but you want to be eligible for an All Defensive
team or the MVP votes, which maybe you can argue
that that's why Joel Embiid played at times when he
shouldn't have.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Or so they want the money, they want the bonuses,
that's what you get.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Well, but that but that's again what it all comes
down to is that you've got max deals that are
tied to being part and voted onto those squads, which
is just asinine to me. Right, here's the difference of
fifty or sixty million dollars whether you're a third team
All NBA or left off. That just seems silly.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I'm surprised they still allow that in contracts.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
You know who used to do that, was it Charlie Finley?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well, no, you're now I think you're thinking about eight
man out. No, Y twenty nine is not thirty any.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yes, no, no.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
But the old owner of the Oakland A's used to
pay you if you went four for four in a game,
he'd give you a bonus.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
And Major Ague Baseball said you can't do that. What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I kind of dig that.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
If you going back to paying to play?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
How'd you do this week?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Did you hit the over under on your yards yards
from scrimmage?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
They said, no, you can't be doing that. That's illegal.
That that that we're not going to tolerate right.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Now after some movement and free agency. Looking at early odds,
Celtics are your favorite at three to one, Sixers sitting
at eight to one, thunder at about nine to one,
alongside the Nuggets and the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What are they?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
What are the Nuggets of the Knicks?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Ninth to one, nine to one, ten to one, depending
on where you're looking.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Love some of that.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Give me some of that, big boy, I'm gonna be
putting my money on the New York and your knicks.
I already requested time off to go to the championship parade.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Really okay, Yeah, maybe you and Smith can can sync
up there.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
That'd be perfect. I'll meet him out there.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Which means you guys have just doomed your squad nikes
for speaking that in new existence. Coming up next, we'll
talk about a list that has some interesting points from
the entertainment side, but one omission renders it obsolete altogether.
But first, it's our guy, Steve de Sager. He's got
the news and updates of what's going on in our
sporting universe from the news desk.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Hi, Steve, Hello again, gentlemen. We will get to the
baseball at a midment.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Now.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
You know, I have seen the schedule for this week.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Here.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
We've got the Sunday Night co host Arnie Spanier on
with Mike this evening. I have read that the Sunday
Night co host Chris Plank is on with you this.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Friday on Friday, so you'll get to hang out with
Plank on Friday.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
This same time slot.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Looking forward to if I scheduled the saga that I
haven't decided yet oh yeah.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Now he's brought in this fantasy into the weeknights by Harmon.
Arnie is under the oppression that he actually carries some
sort of weight or power.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
In Tom Harmon, Tom Harmon.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Has it harmed anybody?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Has it caused any riffs in the Fox Sports radio hallways.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Yet just in his own family, you know, he fancy
he's himself a man of power. It doesn't occur at home,
and therefore he breaks.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
At his wife kind of deciding what goes into the
gift baskets and how many meat sticks you.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Get, and they're off to Micronesia.
Speaker 9 (25:12):
The Euro Soccer Semifinals start tomorrow on Fox TV, by
the way, with Spain against France, then Wednesday on Fox
England against Netherlands. England, somehow is still in this tournament.
It won its quarterfinal on penalty kicks against the Swiss.
Here in England's history, they had lost seven of nine
penalty shootouts until this last matchup when they go for
five for five on kicks. And before that, remember the
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overtime win against Slovakia goal in the final minute of regulation,
goal in the opening minute of extra time. The Copa
America Semifinals start tomorrow night, Argentina against Canada on FS
one from New Jersey. Wednesday night, Columbia versus Uruguay in Charlotte.
Brazil was eliminated by Uruguay on penalty kicks last Saturday. Columbia, meanwhile,
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is unbeaten in his last twenty seven games over the
last two and a half years. It defeated Panama five
nothing on Saturday. The WNBA was off tonight. It'll have
just one game tomorrow. The NBA Summer League tonight saw
Utah in overtime defeat Memphis. Thirty points for Keyante George
despite five of twenty one shooting from the floor. First
round Center for the Grizzly, Zach Edie fourteen points, fifteen
(26:19):
rebounds and the tying tip in at the end of regulation.
You reference the Lakers. They don't play a summer league
game again until Wednesday. Brownie James did not play Yesterday. Saturday.
He had four points on two of nine shooting. Lakers
first round are Dalton connect and you quoted this first
hour shooter's gonna shoot. He said that verbatim. Actually after
(26:39):
his week Wow. Saturday, he was three of twelve from
the floor for twelve points.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Sunday.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
He is three of thirteen from.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
THEO for twelve span Man a.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Little taller and maybe a little defense for connect in comparison,
connect Connecticut, I should say, gave basketball coach Dan Hurley
a new six year contract where fifty million dollars plus incentives.
In his six seasons at Yukon, Hurley's record is one
forty one and fifty eight, including the last two national championships.
In fact, in March Madness, his Huskies have won twelve
(27:12):
straight NCAA Tournament games by double digits, the longest streak
of all time. Needless to say, no team has won
three straight national titles since the tourney expanded to sixty
four teams back in the mid eighties. The Houston Texans
re signed defensive end Jerry Hughes. Keegan Bradley will be
the US Ryder Cup captain next year after Tiger Woods
turned down the job. At age thirty eight, Bradley will
(27:35):
be the youngest American captain since Arnold Palmer was a
playing captain. In nineteen sixty three. At Wimbledon, American Taylor
Fritz upset number four Alexander Zverev in five sets to
baseball's late game Atlanta in eleven innings. One at Arizona
five to four, the Braves in the top of the
ninth hit a two run homer with two outs.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
To stay alive.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Marcelo Zuna the go ahead Sackfly Diamondbacks offense went four
for thirty four.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
By the way the Braves. Osuna will be.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
In next week's home run Derby along with Kansas City's
Bobby Witt Junior, who's from Texas. The Rangers will be
hosting the All Star Game a week from Tuesday on
Fox TV. Texas won its fourth straight nine to four
at the Angels tonight. Halos have lost seven of eight.
Ex Dodger Corey Seeger to run homer in the first
in Southern California. It went over four hundred and fifty
feet to center field. Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon, who
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was out two and a half months with a amstring injury,
did play tonight at an RBI single in eleven innings.
The Twins beat the White Sox in Chicago eight six,
White Sox with runners in scoring position three of fifteen.
Attendance was eleven thousand. Yesterday, the White Sox allowed four
runs bottom of the ninth to lose at Miami, where
the attendance was twelve thousand. Cincinnati shut out Colorado six nothing.
(28:49):
La de la Cruz two more stolen bases he has
forty five. Detroit won its fourth straight game. This was
on FS one Tonight. Tiger's got a run on the
bottom of the eighth to win one nothing over. Cleveland
held the Guardians just three hits. Saint Louis pulled away
for a six nothing win at Washington, and Pittsburgh beat
them at eight to two. The game was two to
two and the six, but the Mets record falls to
(29:10):
forty four and forty five.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Back to you, and what is it in the Grimace
ERAIC just kidding, hiks, Steve. That's Steve Desager at the
news desk, Mike Harman alongside Arnie Spaniard, Justin frosperg Galex
tight shirt of the team and of course our team
in the back making a sound oh so pretty uh
today bringing us all the news and the highlights as
we go through a list that you sent me, Arnie.
(29:34):
I don't know the point of origin of this, yeah,
but it patently offended Frostburg and I as we read it.
It's a list of the best TV shows of all
time now I want to talk about it now. It
offended Arnie because he finally looked through it and realized
pretty much anything from the seventies was not represented.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I could there's no way you could have a list
of the top fifty TV shows of all time and
not have some of the iconic like Mash. When you
don't have Mash in your top fifty, the list needs
to be thrown away.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Well, I mean, justin came up with one that has
been a favorite and a staple on the show for
as long as we've been doing it.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, for a list not to have curby your enthusiasm
on it.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah, you can't have that, right right side feltrespectful. So
right off the top, you got breaking bad. Okay, for
most it's in the top Game of Thrones. I've not
watched it.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm not watching Chernobyl now. I look at the cast list.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
When I see Jared Harris and and Stelling Scarsguard is
the the two main protagonists for season one. Like, okay,
but generally, you tell me you got to show about Chernobyl.
That's an actual show, a series. I don't know that
I want to go down that highway space. But like
it could be brilliant, but just is it drawing me
(30:54):
in off of the subject matter?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Right?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Not? Not necessarily so much. Sopranos are at number four.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
You can work Prano's up a little bit to number
two if you want.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Band of Brothers at number five.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
The Wire guys that this person works at HBO.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
That is a lot of HBO off to jump, There's
no question about it. Peaky Blinders comes in at number ten.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Yeah, that's a good show. I like that.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
That was That was fun.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Killian there's the only old school.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Show was number eleven, The Twilight Zone nineteen fifty nine,
The Origin Their House at number fourteen.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That was good.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Mad Man at number twenty one, The Office, which we
quote frequently. That's just ahead of Succession seventeen eighteen down
the I mean.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I like number twenty eight is number one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Number twenty it's always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I loved that show. I really did well.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
They're like in season forty eight and to pay for Wrexham.
It'll never end that number. Machilhenny is in for forever now.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Right right and Lost at number thirty five to me
was one of the top shows.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
You know how many times I watched that?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
None?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Oh you missed out, you missed out. Listen to you.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I think I'm okay there, Boardwalk Empire forty one. Really
Nucky Thompson that low.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
That one though.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
You haven't watched that one.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Nope, I have not watched that one.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
All right, more mobster stuff, Steve Boucemi. The next good
TV already watches will be the first.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
No, I used to.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Be that much.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
But there's no MASH.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
There's no Sanford and Son, there's no All in this family, none.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Stop it all your family. It's iconic.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
First of all, the fact that you don't have those
in the MASH is like, what are the top ten
TV of all time?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Stop it?
Speaker 6 (32:39):
I bet your people would be sending us tweets like
crazy that MASH should be in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's created for people to do something during awarded.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, there's this. This list is dubious at best. So
you know what, we'll make up our own. We'll start ranking.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
We got it. Yeah, I wouldn't look at that guy
right in the eyes, like Larry David and I would
I would just start doing the shrug.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Yeah, it's pretty incredible stuff, there's no question about it. Well,
Sons of Anarchy isn't in there either. Sons of Anarchy
isn't on this list.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, not the best list. That was a pretty good impression.
I like that. I like that, Preg I'm not what
do you think, Marty?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Mike.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
I'd say this top ten is valid, so you can
run with that. Yeah, all of these are nothing, but
people have talked about the last ten years.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Well that's that becomes the best versus viral versus pop.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, right right.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
I watched Stranger Things. I shrugged, and the more Jason
liked it, the more I hated it.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
If Jason saying it's good, it probably sucks Sherlock.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Is that the Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah, I'd get on board.
That could have been higher than fifteen. That was iconic.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, I thought Friends at fifteen was what was iconic
about it?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Arnie, No, they just that Well, because so many people
loved it in the cast makes it iconic.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well, the cast members those the sixteen.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
There's a bunch of idiots out there.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, Arnie, he define the term iconic.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You've used it a lot.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Now, Well, the six actors that were in it, they're
all gonna go down, is you know like Hall of
Fame actors just from that one.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
You could see that show?
Speaker 10 (34:28):
No, no, really, there's only one that did anything out
of that. Her name's Jennifer Aniston. Well yeah, but you
know all the other ones from the show, A single one.
Oh stop, a's a guy that just died.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh, Courtney Cox, she's the Scream franchise.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
She didn't age.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Well, Courtney Cox, what happened?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
You guys are don playing that show? Shame on you.
I can't believe you're not playing it.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
What number of Seinfeld? Thirty? Pretty low?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
That is pretty good? Oh too, that should be up
a little bit higher. Also.
Speaker 10 (35:02):
The one I'm tripping about, Mike is the Boys at
twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Oh seen that, I've seen parts. It's one that I
need to give some more time to. I think.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
I saw a little on the plane during my It's
good Mike Carmon's European vacation.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
So we'll see if we can revisit bat and that.
We'll make it some treadmill viewing. There you go, and
you have to watch stuff that was released after the
year two thousand. Arnie at your homework assignment for the
next time that we meet up here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Hey, coming up next.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
As we continue here at the Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Carmon, Arnie in for Jason, we celebrated an
American hero who did something. He didn't get to participate
on the fourth, but he got it done. Today we'll
tell you what he did.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Carmon from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Jason
off this week leading our all star our parade of guests,
our guy Arnie Spaniard tonight at some apology.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Accepted by the way, apologies for what well, I've just
been reading Twitter. Everybody agrees with me, so between you
and the producer, apology accepted.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I didn't say anything against Matt. I got a name, Arnie,
what do we got?
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Daryl says, Hey, that's depressing the year that match getting
down played in the studio tonight. But that's what happens
when you discuss classic television with twenty and thirty somethings.
They think that truth was invented when you were born.
How about getting out of your comfort zone a little bit,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Not everybody was born in nineteen twenty, but that also
it's a matter of expanding your mind. I'm not going
to say that it's it's right or wrong right', it's
you like your opinion, manh yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
My opinion happens to be right here.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Doug, was the Lebowski reference out there? Mary Tyler Moore show, No.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
That could have been in there.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Yeah, absolutely, Dad, he had to throw that one in while.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Oh Diddy, I didn't see that.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
He says, I'm going with all these TV picks mostly
matched and all the family are top ten friends is stupid.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It's a fantasy.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
You get have platonic friends of the opposite gender, and
sidefeld should be.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Made.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
George Kramer Layne got along all those years. I guess
a platonic, weren't they?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Well, I bet you George wanted to sleep with a
Wayne but just didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
So well.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
I mean he had a couple of episodes where that
was kind of inferred no, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Got it? Oh no, don't go back and check it out.
They had seidefelt the Costanza Bobblehead Night for the Yankees, right.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I saw that it was crazy for that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Line out the door? How about this one?
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Joey Chestnut accepted a challenge from Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I saw this, Yeah, if you could.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Eat two hundred boneless wings tomorrow at all you can eat,
I'll extend it to August fourteenth. Challenge accepted, and he
did it earlier today and under eight minutes.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
I saw that. First of all, that's a lot. I
couldn't believe he I ate that in thirty eight minutes.
I have a friend of mine that owns a bunch
of Buffalo Wild Wings.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Held was like fourteen of them.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I'm totally gonna go ahead and just just do the
all you could eat there, just just sit to But
I can't eat that many.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
That's that's crazy, Mike.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
You notice too, Aarnie, we don't want the gift basket.
We need a black card.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Oh yeah, that they you can help.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Us out here across the street, you know, I mean,
we're hungry working in the midnight.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Tre tried they got one right, near you guys, help
us out, buddy.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
But they're privately owned, right so yeah, yeah, that's that's
the pot.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
But that's the beauty of it, right well, I mean
it's still publicly traded, though. I made good money on
their stock at one point because there was a big
report of how they'd really solidified their chicken prices when
their competitors had struggled with that for a while.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
How close could you get to putting down the two hundred?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
You got no chance. Maybe in my gluttonous past. I mean,
you take me back twenty five years.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Did you miss some of the I don't know if
you got to see the hot dog getting content go
to be honest about that.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
I didn't miss him when I was working on July fourth,
let alone being out of the country. I really that
really that contest. I find it interesting to hear their backstories.
And we had Eric the red on one of the competitors,
you know, talking about horse meat sandwiches and finding those
(39:32):
the ringing bell and finding those mobile carts in Italy
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
That was cool.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Like with great stories, we still have those drops in
the system. Those are the parts that are interesting to me.
The mechanics of it all the actual watching of the competition,
I have no desire.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I know it is a little you know, nerve wracking
there or just just kind of disgusting. But I liked
that there was actually a race and you were wondering
who was going to win, and there was actually four
or five people going against each other to win this thing,
so it wasn't like predetermined like it is every year.
When Joey Chestnut said that, yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I mean, it always just became the does he want
to press what the odds are? I mean, you want
to talk about, you know, betting odds that are fixed
or can be right because we talk about a lot
of those awards or whatever where you can't make Betts
state side because of information. Uh, he could decide, yeah,
(40:26):
you know what, I got seventy five, the over was
seventy six and a half.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I'm out.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Because I mean he's destroying the competition, then it becomes
a matter of does he want to beat what's the spread.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Between him and the second participant is? And whatever? But
good on him.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
It means I think everybody gets some extended uh you know,
wing deals along the way.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
So that's a way that.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
You know a guy with fourteen that's the guy you
should be hanging out at his beat A.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Couple one right here in Vermont, Broyton, Vermont.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
How about that? All right, we're all gonna go visit
Arnie Dinners.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
On him at Sticking Genius one. Thanks for sitting in fast. Hey,
I got one last bullet point for you. You know
Dan Hurley his contract right the the years and dollars,
Monty Williams still got fifteen million dollars more to go away.
It doesn't have to serve another moment as the Pistons coach.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
He's already I'm like coming up.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
On the other side, we got our guy, Ben Maller
here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Thanks Justin, Thanks Alex got
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