June 19, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to the Doidgers walk it off on the Padres. The guys explain why someone needs to tell Shedeur Sanders he's taking a test every day until the regular season. And NBA Insider Mark Medina joins the show with the latest on the Lakers sell.
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
But uh.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The Dodgers win and walk off fashion against the Padres.
Padres put up two in the top of the ninth
to tie the game at three apiece, and then Will
Smith comes up nearly hits a home run on the
second pitch, but gets around on it a little bit
too much, gets in front of it a little bit
too much. Uh, down the line and left. But that
(01:08):
was just a warm up for the following pitch. Excuse me, really,
you're not playing the Will Smith walk off when I
call for the Will Smith walk off home run, I
can't call for it while I'm in the middle of
watching it again. It's gotta hit rewind Man and I
know that is that is true? Come back to me
(01:30):
in like never Okay, you, but you don't want people
to hear the Will Smith walk out? Okay, Okay, a minute,
all right, I want to watch it three more times.
I need three more of you. Pen hitting Smith, which
is a fly ball right center field. Touchy's on the run,
hit the warning track, hit the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Dum, that's gone.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hen this tub pleas over wear it, San Diego. Joe Davis,
Dodgers TV on the call. They win four to three,
and uh, this is I don't know if you know this,
but this is a bittersweet win tonight for me, for
the Dodgers. Really, and I'll tell you what. Okay, Okay,
(02:10):
So I mean rushing got two RBI. I mean first
RBI since May thirty first, So I mean that's good.
I told you one of the most fun things that
I'm gonna that my dad and I you are going
to start doing. Now you have a catch? Is it? Dad?
You want to have a catch? Is that we're doing
the MLB dot Com beat the Streaky Yeah you jumped in.
(02:31):
This came to everybody's attention a couple of days ago
at the MLB dot Com has been doing this for
the past, like almost twenty years. That all you have
to do is every day pick a guy to get
a base hit. Right. If you do it fifty seven
days in a row, all right, it's five point six million, right,
fifty six five point six million dollars right. And we
just had somebody get to fifty games, which is I
(02:52):
think the highest it's ever been. And he loses on
a really weird play where there's a base hit but
the runner gets between first and second, so it's a
force out where it should have been a base but
it wasn't. So this comes up. My dad and I
are talking about. He goes, we should do this. I said, okay, great,
So I said, let's do it where you pick one
day and I picked the next. Right. I don't want
(03:12):
to go, okay, who do you think today? To think
you pick one day, I'll pick the next. Great. I'm like, awesome,
this is gonna be so much fun for my dad
and I to do. We do this all the time.
He's like do you have to do it once a
go No, once your streak ends, you get to start
all over again. So I said, okay, we'll do it.
He sets up. We're starting. He goes, oh, I got
Andy Paz first. I was like, wow, okay, like you
think I'm thinking Judge, I'm thinking Chisholm. I'm thinking no, no,
(03:32):
Andy Piez. He goes, it's right hot. He had four
hits last TIME'M like, okay, great, all right, awesome, So
Paz our first guy for tonight. First time up, Pa
Haz double right kid hot streak go right. He got hit.
He had a sacrifice fly double start. At the end.
I'm like, awesome, Okay, one down, fifty six to go.
I'm up tomorrow. I'm feeling pressure, so I text my dad.
I go great pick and he says he what do
(03:54):
you mean? I go great pick for pies. He goes, well,
he hasn't he hasn't played yet. And I said, no,
you gotta hit tonight. I said, oh, I don't know
if you're watching the game, but he got to hit
the first time. Up. He goes, no, we have it
for tomorrow. I'm like, oh, Dad, Dad, come on, you
had one job. Literally you had one job, you retire,
(04:14):
like what was what could possibly be a sign up
is a minute and a half. I know, I said,
how do you how do you not? What do you
mean we didn't have him tomorrow? Yeah? I picked him
for tomorrow. I go, why didn't you pick tonight? He
as well, I don't know, we'll be out of know
he was playing it. You had it, you could have
picked him. It was six o'clock when you were celebrated
waltz acum in and is picking skills all night long,
(04:36):
and he did nothing and he picked his nose. Maybe
I And the thing is when we when we figured
out what we're doing it today, it was too late
for the early games because I but there's lots of
late games. Dad, if you want to or whatever, He saydah,
that's fine. Any Pae's all right, great, you got Andy
Pae has no no, no, it starts tomorrow, like oh Dad,
that we could have been one closer to Joe Dee.
(04:57):
He got plugged tonight. He might not play tomorrow. I
know he got hit. He had a sacrifice fly. Yeah, Dad,
really we could have got that hand. And she'll tried
to take him out allegedly and that could have cost
you pick for tomorrow at least, well, at least that
takes the pressure to make sure he's in a lump. Yeah,
I know, I know, I know. That's my dad. Swell
up after that, you got sul liked. You want to win,
(05:21):
don't pick any Mets or you gotta be better than
that wall. Come on, man, I I've already realized that
I'm gonna probably pick Yankees every time, just so if
they let us down and then someone doesn't get a hit,
I can blame my dad. I'm just gonna have to
have a second pick set because he might do this again.
I forgot. I'm just gonna pick Aaron Judge every single
game and go, Okay if he let us down, Dad,
(05:43):
your guy let us down. Aaron Judge let us down.
I really thought that was gonna be the pick for
Night one. Though he went over floor. I thought so too,
he's gonna have all right, Aaron Judge is the guy
night one. I was excited. Hey, he picked Andy pa
has We're good. No, no, no, tomorrow, he starts tomorrow.
Why didn't you pick tonight? I picked him for tomorrow. Okay,
that's sad. Yeah, well I know and get away day tomorrow.
(06:04):
What if he's not in the lineup because it's a
it is an evening game. But yeah, it's a seven ten.
I thought it was a day. It's still seven ten.
I still play tomorrow. Then, okay, he'll play tomorrow. I
don't know. We got hit. I think it's safe to
say the podres the little brother. Know who Andy is? Now?
(06:24):
I would think, who has he elevated to big dog status?
I had two home runs and another. Yeah, I think he.
I think he's batting like nine hundred against Yeah, it
does seem that way. Ante. By the way, the Dodgers
just a week ago, right, oh, look out, Crown in
the West is four and a half games over the Giants. Yeah,
not so much. Now six games over the Pods, things
(06:45):
change pretty fat. Just look at the NL East where
the Mets had a five game lead. Now, hey, we
can't win. We're down to one, down to one, Well,
the Braves are still eleven back. Yeah, I know, it's
still thirteen eleven ball. But he didn't pick today. Hey
that incenses me. Yeah, I know. That's a worse story
than you infuriating the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I'm like dad, Wait, okay, you said infuriating. All right,
sounds like you said something else. Uh did you think
I said it doesn't matter? It doesn't matter? I mean
safe harbor. I might have been okay, No, I thought
you left out an F and uh and the I
in before it? All right, working out in your head?
Work it out in your head. I'm tired the F
and the I N before it. So instead of infuriating, okay,
(07:31):
and there's an N in there too, it doesn't matter,
you know, just let it go. I think people got it.
So now you're you're taking a nice big your painting
take out the before, err the two. But hey, we
talked about this, Shador Sanders. Been three days since the
NFL team said, Okay, thank you for coming to mandatory mini camp.
(07:53):
Everything is wonderful. Enjoy your time off and be smart. Uh.
That did not have said be smart? You think that's Stefansky.
I think it's implied. I think did he say it,
because if he didn't say it, explicitly make good choices.
I think every coach I think if you don't say it,
you're doing a disservice to your team. It's the worst
time of the year when we send you away after
mandatory mini camp. Sorry, don't see it for another four
(08:15):
or five weeks. Don't do anything stupid. It's like my
daughter coming up and she said, sorry, Dad, you didn't
say be careful. But it's implay. You didn't say it.
All right, No, that's it. He gets busted last night
at twelve thirty four am in Ohio for driving one
hundred and one miles an hour in a sixty mile
an hour zone. This is not great, not great, Bob.
(08:38):
Now a lot of people drive past the speed limit. Okay,
but I subscribe to the top Gun Maverick scene where
Stinger tells Maverick, your family name ain't the best in
the business. I got some good numbers from the Ohio
State Highway Patrol, though, you need to be doing it
better and cleaner than everybody else. You were bullied into
that cockhit by the memory of Earth. That's our different.
(09:00):
Stinger is not in a few good men. Stinger's in back.
Let me give you a Nichols worth of free advice. McFly,
you're a slacker and your family come from a whole
family of slackers. Look you know how. And then he
went and hunted Michael Myers, look Donald pleasant and nothing
was pleasant about that.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Uh you know that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Look Dion and and Shador Sanders. It was a difficult
run up to the draft. You thought he was going
to go on the top five. He goes in the
fifth round. Dion did his son no favors by saying
there's teams I don't want to see him go to.
And all you did was watch Shador Sanders free fall
through the draft. If I was his agent or I
was his pr direct I would say, okay, dude, let
(09:44):
me let me tell you something you need to understand.
You are constantly taking a test every single day that
the Browns are giving you. When they put you with
the backups in camp. They want to see how do
you handle this even though you're performing really well? Got
rave reviews from Minikamp. Okay, it's seven on seven and
there's no pads, but okay, still through the ball really well.
(10:04):
Four quarterbacks are out there, but they want to see
can you handle this? Can you handle getting backup reps?
Are you mature enough to handle whatever situation we throw
at you? Because this is a test every single day.
The good news is there's enough desire and he has
enough talent that if he plays well, and he can
pass this test every day that by the end of
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September he'll be the starting quarterback for the Browns. Joe
Flacco might start to begin the season just to get
your door Sanders used to what NFL life is like,
but the desire to see him. If as long as
he shows he can stand out and flashes the talent
he had at Colorado, he'll start by the beginning of October. Conversely,
if he shows he can't handle it and he's not
mature enough, he's gonna get cut. He is a fifth
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round pick. You have no cachet. You need to be
treating this like this is my only chance to get
to the NFL. And here he is already showing, Hey,
my decision making not great. One hundred miles an hour
sixty mile an hour zone, it's different. Look, you shouldn't
be dry that fast, but I get the people are
and they get caught driving that fast. But you're the
quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, right, You're not an anonymous person.
(11:08):
And all, by the way, in the wake of Henry
Ruggs now Out doing an appearance apologizing the family of
the woman he killed in his car when he was
driving over one hundred miles an hour when he shouldn't
have a few years ago. You got to make good decisions,
and this is just one of those things where the
Browns go, Okay, three days away from the team, bad
decision making. Now does this mean suddenly he's going to
(11:28):
be let go or he's not going to be allowed
to compete for the starting job. No, but it doesn't
help as he's continuing to be evaluated because again, understand,
this is a test every day. Can you handle being
the face of a franchise as a quarterback? It is different.
Quarterbacks can't get caught driving one hundred miles an hour
and a sixty mile an hour zone, especially because they
are the face of the franchise. Sanders would be that guy.
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So this is where I tell him, dude, understand that
for the rest of this summer, all the way up
till the beginning of the season, you are on a test.
Every day. People are waiting to see you fail. The
Browns want to see that you can hit. They're gonna
give you every test possible to see that you pass it.
And this is a test that you failed. So soon
after Mini camp ended, Yeah, you look get from Stefanski's
(12:12):
role and Barry's roll and all the way up to Haslim. Look,
there's a desire for this guy to work out, because
then then they get to be the smartest guys in
the room. They've got them on the cheap, and it
does offset a little bit of the negativity still surrounding
the signing and the albatross. See, we get to bring
the outlasses of what Deshaun Watson's contract situation as a whole,
(12:38):
and the blight it's been on the organization which couldn't
get out of its own way for myriad reasons over many,
many years. But you look like a roster that you'd
finally put together. Flacco brought them from the ashes as
he came off the couch to get them to the
playoffs a couple of years ago. But now with Sanders
every opportunity to go and take the job from him
(13:01):
and Kenny Pickett, and Flacco's saying all the right things.
I think as a veteran quarterback, I'm not here to
hold anybody's hands. I'm not here to dance on TikTok.
I'm not here to do any of that. I'm old,
and I'm here to play quarterback, and that's all that
it's all about. But for shirdor Sanders, Yeah, the opportunity
is there to be the guy. I think it goes
back to the old Spider Man line, right, spider Man,
(13:23):
great power, spider Man great responsibility. You got an opportunity
to go do great things. Don't screw it up. And
this is one where we've seen how many reports, especially
here in Los Angeles. We've got our chases. That's one
part of the equation. The other is, you know, the
aftermaths of folks engaging in high speed efforts on the highways.
(13:47):
But the Ohio State Highway Patrol, because we want to
put some numbers to this as we like to, eighty
three thousand people given tickets for speeding twenty miles over
the speed limit last year. So eighty five plus thirty
seven hundred thirty seven in a row received tickets for
going over one hundred miles per hour. You like that.
I got there and they talked about the I team
(14:10):
and a firefighter over one hundred and seventeen. But I
get people do none of them are s your do
or sent where you know you're not just anybody else.
And now you got the whole thing and tied to
insurance and everything, like if you if you adhere to that,
it's like you were speeding all the time, so you're
you're driving unsafe and then my insurance dropped me. They're
gonna drop here, You're gonna raise their premiums and all
(14:32):
of that, and you can be dropped as a potential
starting quarterback. I mean all of these things. Tell got
to use your head. Man. He has a test every
day and today he failed it in a big way.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Good the Lakers have been sold for
ten billion dollars. Tyrese Halliburton may or may not. He's
gonna play tomorrow and James six of the NBA Finals.
You don't get into plus territory on his over under
for points until you hit thirteen and a half fourteen
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and a half. So nobody better to break down both
of these stories than NBA and Lakers insider Mark Medina
joining us now in the hot line. He's on Twitter
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what's happening man? Slow day for you? Huh so, slow day.
(17:10):
Not a lot of news in the NBA today, Jason.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Slow news day. But you know what, I think that
you might be about to be breaking even bigger news.
Is it true that you're going to buy the New
York Knicks for twenty billion?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yes, well I'm going to be hired as head coach
and then I buy the Knicks, so I wow. Yeah,
that's a lot of job security.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Wow, a lot of job security. You're just raking in
the money. You're not afraid to spend as well. You'll
do whatever it takes to get you onus off of
the groom.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Poe yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll move on from Karl Anthony Towns.
That's one thing. Don't worry about returning of my text.
So we're going to do it. So hey listen, So look,
this Lakers story really kind of came out of nowhere.
You know. It's not like we had heard stories and sources.
This was going on, like what's some of the genesis
of this and all of a sudden, Hey, the Bus
family selling the team.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, it is wild because I remember talking to Genie
ten years ago in her office talk can say the franchise,
and she was so adamant that they would never sell
the team. She said, and I quote about her father,
the late doctor Jerry Buss, he worked very hard to
be in a position so that our family could keep
this team forever. Turns out it was only ten more years.
(18:16):
So what changed. I think that after talking to some
people today, clearly that the big turning point was in
twenty twenty one. That's when Philip Anshoots, the ag owner,
sold his personal stake to Todd Bowley and Mark Walter.
And at the time it was only a minority stake
twenty seven percent. But there was some rumblings that maybe
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not necessarily that Mark Walter would all of a sudden
buy the majority of the franchise from the Bus family,
but he'd at least put himself in a position to try.
And that makes sense because he's an owner of a
lot of franchise, most notably the La Dodgers. But I
think a few other things came to play the last
few years. Mavericks and the Boston Celtics sold their franchise
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at ginormous numbers here. I mean, this is only a
majority stake from Mark Cuban, but that was three billion
for the Mavericks. With the Celtics it was six billions.
So I think there's a realization that the Lakers were
going to be very, very valuable because of what they've
done as a global franchise. I think the other thing
is that them getting Luca doc which really skyrocket of
(19:24):
the value even more because there's a clear point in
place that for whenever Lebron James retires, whether it's after
next season two years from now, they have that key
superstar in place. And then the last thing is with
the Bust family, they share a lot of the you know,
all the revenue with this trust. It's six siblings but
(19:44):
it's not one of those things that they can pass
on to their error. So I think it came to
the point that at least some people among the siblings acid,
you know what, I should cash out now while I
still have it instead of uh, who knows? Is what
happens once once your past? So those were the main
turning points, and now the Lakers are ready to spend, spend, spend.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, the last one was the one that's most curious
to me, Mark, is you know whether you know Genie
got sold out by these siblings.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
No. I think Genie was in support of it. Now
it's a majority vote, but I think if it was
one of those things that there wasn't a clear comfort
level with Genie, they wanted to move forward. I think
the other thing is that what assuaged her was that
she would still have a minority stake in it as
well as and you can roll your eyes at this,
but you know, I've been told that she's going to
(20:37):
still be governor and her role isn't necessarily going to change.
What's going to change is the revenue string, so that's
going to change decisions. But as far as how she
executes things, what she does on the business side, that's
going to be the same thing basketball side. She's always
been very deferential to basketball operations. She'll talk to them,
(20:58):
but she's not going to get involved with the same
visions other than just supporting them and asking what else
we can do to help. But the clear driving force
is the revenue stream, because, as you guys know, they
aren't exactly crying in poverty, but because this is their
only source of revenue, they made a lot of decisions
that were cost cutting. They would spend money on the stars,
(21:22):
but when it came to role players, behind the scenes, staffs,
front offices, coaches, they're very deliberate. They're a high spending team,
but they're also very calculating on whether this was the
right move to make money on. And because of that,
they're having a lot of hits or misses over the years.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know, the take we've had tonight, what I thought
about this market, it's kind of a simple take because, okay,
here they're sold for ten billion dollars. What's a big
what's a big takeaway from? As I say, I think
the Lakers have a chance to be really good again
because you know, with a new business, a new new
model coming Obviously Genie's going to still be there for
a while. But this is a new way of doing things.
(22:01):
And you see the Lakers the last thirteen years. Yeah,
they won the title in twenty twenty, but overall, Kobe
and Lebron and Ad and Luca, they haven't sniffed more
than the one title in twenty twenty. That a five
year drought of not making the playoffs. And the one
thing you do is you get stuck when your team
is not good. You have the same owner. If it's
one business plan and that business plan isn't working, guess
(22:21):
what you're going to keep seeing it. So I look
at it as Okay, it's a new start for the
Lakers and now maybe they can be good, maybe they
can be great again.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, I agree, And look, to be clear to the listeners,
it's not like they can now write a blank check.
Even though the Dodgers' organization has been very high spending.
The rules in baseball are different. In the NBA, you
can't defer contracts like they did with Shoheo Tani and
the NBA they had this sake of a second April
and that's essentially a hard cat and so it's not
(22:49):
like the Lakers are going to go over that because
all of a sudden they can't trade draft picks. They
don't have a mid level exception. But where this does
go into play is I think that they can devote
more financial resources with behind the scenes staff members, things,
with the facilities, the analytics department, you know, maybe having
more of an appetite to absorb the luxury tax when
(23:09):
it comes to retaining a role player. Most notable example
is when they decided not to Avoux Caruso, and we
see how he is in the finals of the Oklahoma
City Thunder. So those things matter, and I think in
fairness of the Bus family and Genie Bus, it's not
like they didn't care about winning. They clearly did. They're
willing to spend on star players. They were a high
spending team, but again they had a certain line that
(23:30):
they would not cross, and that made it a little
bit challenging because again, this is their source of revenue.
They're not you know, they're not owners that have other
revenue streams, so they were more cautious with that. So yeah,
the Lakers just got even more and more dangerous with
this move.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Different corporate structure, and then obviously the tinfoil hat people
are out there about the LUCA and the invisible hand
of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Don't worry, Jason, there will be a frozen envelope delivered
to the next with your check on it.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
All of that to say, we still have some business
left for the NBA. What are you hearing about Halliburton's injury?
The MRI comes back clear ish, but Rick Carlisle saying,
game time decision. We expect him in the studio here
to go. What say you?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, it's a dicey one because right calf injuries are
really fragile. But I think that he does play because
it's Game six, it's an elimination game, it's the NBA Finals.
But I think he's going to be on a very
very tight leash. If he shows signs of discomfort, I
think Rick Carlisle will pull him. And you know, the
listeners might think, well, why, like, this is the NBA Finals,
(24:39):
this is the Salvager season, why not go all out? Well,
calf injuries can lead to achilles injuries and all of
a sudden you're out for all the next season. And
Kevin Durant, that's exactly what happened to him in the
twenty nineteen finals, and he even had more time to recover.
He strained his calf in the second round of the playoffs,
missed the game, and then missed the entire West conf
(25:00):
which was four games. Didn't come back until game five
against Toronto, played really well for a quarter and then
strain his achilles. And so with Tyrese, it's a much
compressed timetable when he started feeling discomfort and the turnaround time.
So I think that they will give it a go,
but they won't mess around if he shows any you know,
noticeable signs of trouble, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
But here's the thing though with Tyrese is that you know,
not that I don't think he's not dinged up, because
he is, but he still played thirty four minutes the
other night. He practiced today. Yes, it was just you know,
moving it, you know, seventy five percent, but most of
the pacers moved it that way. He played thirty four
minutes and he was not good, probably had one of
the worst games of Star has ever had in the
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NBA Finals. I look at this, I think it's part
of yes, the injury, part of it is, hey, he's
someone that needs that confidence that knows what people say
about him and uses that as motivation. And part of
this could be, hey, we're gonna give you two days
of just hey, hey, you know he's hurt, so let's
take it easy on Tyrese Halliburton because he's going to
give it all to come play in game six. Because
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the other flip side of it is mark as if
he doesn't play in game six, And suddenly it's how
the hell do the Pacers doctors allow him back out
on the floor in a game they didn't need and
he still played a game high thirty four minutes. All
of a sudden, it's like, wait, what kind of malpractice
was that for your star player from your doctors and
your head coach? So I really kind of accepted the.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Play to Martinis, Yeah, I do expect him to play,
and I think that you hit on the point that
he thrives off the motivation. Sorry to bring up some
painful reminders, but before game seven against the Garden last
year against the Knicks, he is pumping his trainer Drew
Handling up for some sources of motivation. Drew's immediate response was,
Game seven the Garden, Do I really need to tell
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you anything? But he did and he got himself going,
and so that could be one of it. But I think,
you know, this is a real injury. It's not like
you know what Kendrick Perkins was saying on Espno, he's
scared and all that. No, I think that it was
a real injury. He did not play well at all,
But I think the fact that he played thirty four
minutes was reflection in and of itself, because it was
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quantity of minutes, not quality. So he showed that he
was able to play substantial amount of mimuentes, obviously with
some rest time in between, but he wasn't aggressive enough
to make that worth their while. And so you know,
Rick Carlisle said, they try to hold him back halftime.
He pleaded his case. But to your earlier point, I
think in training staff see it's more than a pain
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tolerance issue. It's a structural issue. They'll shut him down.
But I think at that point in time they didn't
take the MRI, so they didn't exactly know. Okay, is
this a structural thing or a pain tolerance thing. Now
they know, and as a result, I do think it
will play, but it will be a very tight leash all.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Right, Mark, So finally, is tomorrow night the last game
of the NBA Finals? Are we playing on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I think it is. I mean Tyree s Salburton's injury
and his limitation doesn't help. But I think that you
also have to look at the Thunder have been the
better team. Shake gotis Alexander has been on a tear
of the last few games. Same thing with John Williams
becoming that great two way All Star player that he
showed throughout the regular season. And their defense may as
well be their offense because they are really good at
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koreating turnovers. That creates easy basket. So you add those
three things up plus a likely limited Tyres however, and
I think that this game is going to be over
before it even starts.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He's on Twitter at Mark g underscore Medina. Wow, big
stuff there, great stuff on the Lakers. Mark has always
appreciated my friend enjoyed the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I joy the game. And we'll talk about the knicksale
next week when that becomes final with Jason.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, absolutely, Nick sale Nick said, coach will do it all.
A great stuff there for Mark Medina, Well, you only
need fifty six more games on your beat the streak,
and that at least gives you a little bit of
seed money that you can then parlay. And it doesn't
take a bunch of bets. I'll put a down payment
of five and a half million dollars on the next
Well no, I mean it just becomes the all Right,
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you've got to have some real estate that pops and
then parlay parlo like maybe some other bets, some in
game prop debts that you start getting on board time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. With someone who's been called the Tyres Halliburton
of Fox Sports Radio. She's had family members banned from
basketball games as well. It is Monty belongs.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
I was yelling overrated, overrated, af you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You get your Haliburton shirt, come in.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
But I also had to deliver to my parents because
I'm We're hardly home and sometimes I feel like they
don't porch.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Pirates are for you, yes, And so like the building
I live in, you have to. It's I don't know
who's going to deliver it. Only the mailman has like
a key to get in, right, So if it's someone else,
like somebody has to let them in, and if no
one's home, they either just.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Leave it outside or.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Don't actually drop it off. And so I have it
delivered to my parents. Anything important, it goes to.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You guys talking. So I just want to check here.
Now I want to overrated, right, I want to, But
he's actually I want to confirm something here. You're in
your thirties and you still get important mail delivered to
your parents' house.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Like, yes, you're.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Telling me you never had Walt signed for something for
you or sit at your house illegally. My dad illegally
signed for no. No, no, But like, hey, Dad, go
go sit there. I got something important I don't want. Okay,
one chance, one day when I'm more upset with my
dad is than I am tonight about not getting into
being the st I'll tell you the story about how
my dad accidentally accidentally he committed mail fraud accidentally, just
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like you kind of accidentally stole that mail box all
those years ago.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I just had Jordan's delivered to my mom's. Poppy Chulo
has stuff delivered to my parents because there's always someone home.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
And so it's just a matter of is it important
or is there Do I not care?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Is it actually addressed to Poppy Chulo. That's the most
important thing. No, And you still and you pick up
your stuff when you go over there to do your laundry. Right.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Sometimes okay, maybe I may leave laundry and then go
play volleyball.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You're getting a judge. I'm just saying at the opportunity,
because maybe mom does the laundry when you leave it behind.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
She sometimes does, you know.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
And I go to my mom's, I go play volleyball,
and then I come back and may beat my laundry
might be done.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I feel like you live like all the characters, and
it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
You know, it's not a bad life. Thanks my Thanks
my guys. We'll start in baseball. Why not because Will
Smith came in clutch for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Smith which is a fly ball right center field, Tatis
on the wrong hurt the warning track.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hit the lawn that's gone this time is over seven.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
D LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network for three was the
final score against the Padres and keep the excitement going
because LA has announced that show Hey Tani will make
his second start on Sunday against the Nationals. The Yankee
snapped their thirty scoreless inning streak, but lost to the
Angels three to two, who completed a three game sweep.
New York has lost six in a row. The Mets
(32:06):
have lost five in a row. After being shut out
by the Braves five zero. The New York Baseball not
New York Baseballs Guardians topped the Giants forward to to
the Phillies outscored the Marlins forward to two, and the
Rays came back down.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Eight zero to defeat the Orioles twelve to eight.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Astros no problem with the A's eleven four was the
final score.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Hey, the Rockies have won four in a row. Guys
four interrow, go.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
He said, manager said, be careful. Don't let us get hot.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Don't let them get hot.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Will The Nationals have lost eleven in a row because Colorado.
Colorado won it three to one.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
At the College. We have a picture of one of
the one of the White Sox players from last year
up like in Major League where they go. I figure,
it's going to take this many wins to not be
the worst team of all time. And every time they win,
they take a they take a spot off. It might
just be Pedro Griffal Okay, and it's Ozzy Gean in
the bathing suit.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
I hope so, I hope so.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
At the College World Series LS, you walked it off
against Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Six to five. Tigers scored scored three runs in the ninth.
They need to win it.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
They're going to face Hostal Carolina on Saturday in a
best of three championship series. Lakers being sold to ten
for ten billion dollars to Mark Walter, who is also
the CEO of the Guggenheim group that owns the Doyer's.
Genie Buss is still expected to be the franchise's team governor,
apparently for the next couple of years. In the NFL,
Ravens sign cornerback jry Year Alexander to a one year,
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four million dollar deal.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
And important news, Cowboys cheerleaders are.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
Going to receive a four hundred percent pay raise their
twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It tells you what they were getting paid the four.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
So they were making fifteen dollars an hour and now
they're going to make seventy five.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I still remember watching the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader movie in
nineteen seventy eight Yeahs on TV, and I felt really
weird because this is what I had to say to
my mom, Mom, I really like girls. Can I watch
the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader movie? And like Bucky Dent was
one of the football players they done, and he was
dating one of the cheerleaders, and like it was, it
was all about making the team. And I was so
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excited to see I'm gonna see the cheerleaders in their
Dallas Cowboy uniforms. That wasn't creepy at all. No time.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
You know, I think I think to watch sexy cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I think it was seventy. Yeah, I think it brings
everybody together, as well as the show that's on now.
My daughter watches a week Misser raid over it.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah stop.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
James Seymour was the start of that. Jane Seymour best, yes,
but before she did somewhere in time. Coming up next,
we will wow. Okay, okay, every timeout on the floor,
coaches called, oh boy, coach needs a timeout? Escalating quickly
Jayson Smith. Jason Smith wants to talk it over, not
exactly what he had in mind. Coming up next, a
(34:57):
Mount Rushmore conversation unlike one you have ever heard before.
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
What I got be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
pm Eastern seven pm Pacific towards.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
The wadskin Well. Smith ends today pen shoot home run
double big news for the Dodgers. Joe Davis on the call,
they win in a walk off, and Shoel Tani will
pitch Sunday against the Nationals, which is okay, what if
(35:42):
they wants eleven in a row the next Yeah, let's go.
Look taken out by the Rockies with regularity. Man, yeah,
you losing the Rocky I mean they're borderline on New
York squad right now. Bad things. Man, Hey, hey, hey,
it's been a bad last five days from New York Baseball.
I get it. That's a lot of days. It's a
lot of fish rats. I think the headline riders need
(36:05):
a break. Man, it's been one. People aren't even buying
New York newspapers or reading it online, Like, no, I can't.
The teams are terrible. I can't do it. Not gonna
do it. That's how it's going. But I mean, that's
a week of puns. But biggest story in sports today
the Lakers are sold for ten billion dollars. Genie Bus's
(36:25):
gonna stay on as governor for the next couple of years.
But Mark Walter, businessman who owns part of the Dodgers
as well, has bought the team. We talked about how
I'm excited because maybe the Lakers can be great again.
Different way of doing business, different way of going out
getting players. It's it's a new era and maybe the
Lakers can be great again. Well, a giant pile of
money they're at their disposal. Obviously you've got rules that
(36:48):
need to be adhered to, but it does give you
some flexibility and and certainly for the future. You know,
it's the curiosity and the question. I asked Mark Medine
be curious what that vote was within the Bus family
because it was majority rules. Out of the six kids, Uh, yeah,
they're six, who breaks the tie? Well, let's just vote
(37:09):
and see it, right, we need a tie breaker? Yeah,
it comes in. Well, Genie's still in charge for a while.
But I'll give you a hot take coming up in
a second. But first, you know, look, there's not many
teams that would get sold for ten billion dollars in sports.
In fact, there's four teams that would have that price
tag on them if they were sold right now. Right,
So if you had the Mount Rushmore of the ten
(37:30):
billion dollar club, right, the teams are obviously Lakers for
ten billions. Sure, the Knicks would go for over ten
billion because remember Madison Square Garden goes along with it, right,
So okay, so that's over ten billion. The Yankees would
go for ten billion, and the Cowboys, they would be
the number one team, the most expensive team. They would
go probably for somewhere twelve billion or so. Jason Cole,
(37:51):
NFL insider said he thinks maybe close in to fifteen billion,
perhaps if they got sold up, because you got to
pay the premium right to get carry to walk away.
Oh y, yeah, it's getting say that. And you know,
same thing for the Yankees. Yankees would be north of
ten billion. That their valuation would be more juice because hey,
the Yankees are for sale. The Dodgers have been sold
three or four times, you know, you know, in the
last twenty five years. So the specialness of that is
(38:13):
a big thing. But it's interesting when we heard Mark
Medina join a few minutes ago and say, yeah, but
one of the three reasons, you look, they watched the
Mavericks and Celtics be sold for an insane amount of money.
The franchise valuing up because of Luka Doncic, and they
know they can't give this the six brothers and sisters. No,
we can't pass this on to our kids. So we're
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going to sell the team. When Jerry Jones is done
owning the Cowboys, he will sell the team because Jerry
Jones wants to get some wins. And he may not
win another Super Bowl ever and it's been a long time,
but he wants to win the super Bowl of Money. Right,
that's the big thing, Right, I want to win the
Super Bowl of Money. And he wants to put that
(38:56):
code at the end of his career. And look, this
may not be until he's nine years old, whatever it is.
We've seen owners in their nineties, but Adams on the
team you know late, you know, into his nineties. But
he wants that. Hey, I bought this team for under
two hundred million dollars in nineteen eighty nine. I am
now selling it for seventeen for a North American record,
for a United for an American record of professional sports.
(39:18):
He wants that, he wants that final feather in his cap.
You're not gonna leave it to Stevens not. No, he's
gonna sell it because he wants everybody to know this
is the true measure of winning. This is how much
my franchise is worth. And you could be valued at it,
and that's great joke. Oh yeah, that's great, that's great.
But to actually sell it, that's what you put that
that money down on there, that that pen to paper,
(39:39):
and that's the last big valuation that Jerry Jones wants. Yeah,
it's always the curiosity right the market place, you know,
on trading cards, whatever, what's someone gonna give you for it?
You might value it at one hundred million dollars, the
other guy says, I'll give you fifty cents and we
quibble about it from there. For for Jerry Jones, yeah,
you've got private equity and all all these other considerations
(40:01):
that are starting to become a process. Hey, how much
you think Alabama would have been valued at a couple
of years ago. I'm gonna buy the University of Alabama,
all of that, all of that just before Saban left
or after Sabin left. The other team that might be
in there is the Rams, because you get so fine
and the Los Angeles mark, the Rams are right round
but I don't know that people would go crazy to
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buy the Rams like they go crazy to buy the Yankees,
and the Palmer might tell you never know about real Madrid.
Wrap watch. I said, North America, Barcelona. He was cenophobic.
He kept the US American United States Sports. That's why
I said. That's what I said. What I said there,
Jerry Jones wants that record. They don't play those here.
(40:42):
Uh No, I don't think. I don't think if the
sport doesn't have done, it only counts when we go overseas.
That's it, none of the other. Because I guarantee you
every time Forbes has their list, he points out, look
what I did, and he adds it all up, and
he's got the Kryan at the bottom. See I was,
I did this. I wrote it in a few chakraons.
You can see it on the paper right here. It's
what it is. Exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen
(41:05):
dome for Mike. I'm Jason coming up next, my buddy
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Radio third overall pick Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Yet out, we'll get to mister one hundred and one
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deye boogey.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But uh.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The Dodgers win and walk off fashion against the Padres.
Padres put up two in the top of the ninth
to tie the game at three apiece, and then Will
Smith comes up nearly hits a home run on the
second pitch, but gets around on it a little bit
too much, gets in front of it a little bit
too much. Uh, down the line and left. But that
(01:08):
was just a warm up for the following pitch. Excuse me, really,
you're not playing the Will Smith walk off when I
call for the Will Smith walk off home run, I
can't call for it while I'm in the middle of
watching it again. It's gotta hit rewind Man and I
know that is that is true? Come back to me
(01:30):
in like never Okay, you, but you don't want people
to hear the Will Smith walk out? Okay, Okay, a minute,
all right, I want to watch it three more times.
I need three more of you. Pen hitting Smith, which
is a fly ball right center field. Touchy's on the run,
hit the warning track, hit the wall.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Dum, that's gone.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hen this tub pleas over wear it, San Diego. Joe Davis,
Dodgers TV on the call. They win four to three,
and uh, this is I don't know if you know this,
but this is a bittersweet win tonight for me, for
the Dodgers. Really, and I'll tell you what. Okay, Okay,
(02:10):
So I mean rushing got two RBI. I mean first
RBI since May thirty first, So I mean that's good.
I told you one of the most fun things that
I'm gonna that my dad and I you are going
to start doing. Now you have a catch? Is it? Dad?
You want to have a catch? Is that we're doing
the MLB dot Com beat the Streaky Yeah you jumped in.
(02:31):
This came to everybody's attention a couple of days ago
at the MLB dot Com has been doing this for
the past, like almost twenty years. That all you have
to do is every day pick a guy to get
a base hit. Right. If you do it fifty seven
days in a row, all right, it's five point six million, right,
fifty six five point six million dollars right. And we
just had somebody get to fifty games, which is I
(02:52):
think the highest it's ever been. And he loses on
a really weird play where there's a base hit but
the runner gets between first and second, so it's a
force out where it should have been a base but
it wasn't. So this comes up. My dad and I
are talking about. He goes, we should do this. I said, okay, great,
So I said, let's do it where you pick one
day and I picked the next. Right. I don't want
(03:12):
to go, okay, who do you think today? To think
you pick one day, I'll pick the next. Great. I'm like, awesome,
this is gonna be so much fun for my dad
and I to do. We do this all the time.
He's like do you have to do it once a
go No, once your streak ends, you get to start
all over again. So I said, okay, we'll do it.
He sets up. We're starting. He goes, oh, I got
Andy Paz first. I was like, wow, okay, like you
think I'm thinking Judge, I'm thinking Chisholm. I'm thinking no, no,
(03:32):
Andy Piez. He goes, it's right hot. He had four
hits last TIME'M like, okay, great, all right, awesome, So
Paz our first guy for tonight. First time up, Pa
Haz double right kid hot streak go right. He got hit.
He had a sacrifice fly double start. At the end.
I'm like, awesome, Okay, one down, fifty six to go.
I'm up tomorrow. I'm feeling pressure, so I text my dad.
I go great pick and he says he what do
(03:54):
you mean? I go great pick for pies. He goes, well,
he hasn't he hasn't played yet. And I said, no,
you gotta hit tonight. I said, oh, I don't know
if you're watching the game, but he got to hit
the first time. Up. He goes, no, we have it
for tomorrow. I'm like, oh, Dad, Dad, come on, you
had one job. Literally you had one job, you retire,
(04:14):
like what was what could possibly be a sign up
is a minute and a half. I know, I said,
how do you how do you not? What do you
mean we didn't have him tomorrow? Yeah? I picked him
for tomorrow. I go, why didn't you pick tonight? He
as well, I don't know, we'll be out of know
he was playing it. You had it, you could have
picked him. It was six o'clock when you were celebrated
waltz acum in and is picking skills all night long,
(04:36):
and he did nothing and he picked his nose. Maybe
I And the thing is when we when we figured
out what we're doing it today, it was too late
for the early games because I but there's lots of
late games. Dad, if you want to or whatever, He saydah,
that's fine. Any Pae's all right, great, you got Andy
Pae has no no, no, it starts tomorrow, like oh Dad,
that we could have been one closer to Joe Dee.
(04:57):
He got plugged tonight. He might not play tomorrow. I
know he got hit. He had a sacrifice fly. Yeah, Dad,
really we could have got that hand. And she'll tried
to take him out allegedly and that could have cost
you pick for tomorrow at least, well, at least that
takes the pressure to make sure he's in a lump. Yeah,
I know, I know, I know. That's my dad. Swell
up after that, you got sul liked. You want to win,
(05:21):
don't pick any Mets or you gotta be better than
that wall. Come on, man, I I've already realized that
I'm gonna probably pick Yankees every time, just so if
they let us down and then someone doesn't get a hit,
I can blame my dad. I'm just gonna have to
have a second pick set because he might do this again.
I forgot. I'm just gonna pick Aaron Judge every single
game and go, Okay if he let us down, Dad,
(05:43):
your guy let us down. Aaron Judge let us down.
I really thought that was gonna be the pick for
Night one. Though he went over floor. I thought so too,
he's gonna have all right, Aaron Judge is the guy
night one. I was excited. Hey, he picked Andy pa
has We're good. No, no, no, tomorrow, he starts tomorrow.
Why didn't you pick tonight? I picked him for tomorrow. Okay,
that's sad. Yeah, well I know and get away day tomorrow.
(06:04):
What if he's not in the lineup because it's a
it is an evening game. But yeah, it's a seven ten.
I thought it was a day. It's still seven ten.
I still play tomorrow. Then, okay, he'll play tomorrow. I
don't know. We got hit. I think it's safe to
say the podres the little brother. Know who Andy is? Now?
(06:24):
I would think, who has he elevated to big dog status?
I had two home runs and another. Yeah, I think he.
I think he's batting like nine hundred against Yeah, it
does seem that way. Ante. By the way, the Dodgers
just a week ago, right, oh, look out, Crown in
the West is four and a half games over the Giants. Yeah,
not so much. Now six games over the Pods, things
(06:45):
change pretty fat. Just look at the NL East where
the Mets had a five game lead. Now, hey, we
can't win. We're down to one, down to one, Well,
the Braves are still eleven back. Yeah, I know, it's
still thirteen eleven ball. But he didn't pick today. Hey
that incenses me. Yeah, I know. That's a worse story
than you infuriating the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I'm like dad, Wait, okay, you said infuriating. All right,
sounds like you said something else. Uh did you think
I said it doesn't matter? It doesn't matter? I mean
safe harbor. I might have been okay, No, I thought
you left out an F and uh and the I
in before it? All right, working out in your head?
Work it out in your head. I'm tired the F
and the I N before it. So instead of infuriating, okay,
(07:31):
and there's an N in there too, it doesn't matter,
you know, just let it go. I think people got it.
So now you're you're taking a nice big your painting
take out the before, err the two. But hey, we
talked about this, Shador Sanders. Been three days since the
NFL team said, Okay, thank you for coming to mandatory mini camp.
(07:53):
Everything is wonderful. Enjoy your time off and be smart. Uh.
That did not have said be smart? You think that's Stefansky.
I think it's implied. I think did he say it,
because if he didn't say it, explicitly make good choices.
I think every coach I think if you don't say it,
you're doing a disservice to your team. It's the worst
time of the year when we send you away after
mandatory mini camp. Sorry, don't see it for another four
(08:15):
or five weeks. Don't do anything stupid. It's like my
daughter coming up and she said, sorry, Dad, you didn't
say be careful. But it's implay. You didn't say it.
All right, No, that's it. He gets busted last night
at twelve thirty four am in Ohio for driving one
hundred and one miles an hour in a sixty mile
an hour zone. This is not great, not great, Bob.
(08:38):
Now a lot of people drive past the speed limit. Okay,
but I subscribe to the top Gun Maverick scene where
Stinger tells Maverick, your family name ain't the best in
the business. I got some good numbers from the Ohio
State Highway Patrol, though, you need to be doing it
better and cleaner than everybody else. You were bullied into
that cockhit by the memory of Earth. That's our different.
(09:00):
Stinger is not in a few good men. Stinger's in back.
Let me give you a Nichols worth of free advice. McFly,
you're a slacker and your family come from a whole
family of slackers. Look you know how. And then he
went and hunted Michael Myers, look Donald pleasant and nothing
was pleasant about that.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Uh you know that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Look Dion and and Shador Sanders. It was a difficult
run up to the draft. You thought he was going
to go on the top five. He goes in the
fifth round. Dion did his son no favors by saying
there's teams I don't want to see him go to.
And all you did was watch Shador Sanders free fall
through the draft. If I was his agent or I
was his pr direct I would say, okay, dude, let
(09:44):
me let me tell you something you need to understand.
You are constantly taking a test every single day that
the Browns are giving you. When they put you with
the backups in camp. They want to see how do
you handle this even though you're performing really well? Got
rave reviews from Minikamp. Okay, it's seven on seven and
there's no pads, but okay, still through the ball really well.
(10:04):
Four quarterbacks are out there, but they want to see
can you handle this? Can you handle getting backup reps?
Are you mature enough to handle whatever situation we throw
at you? Because this is a test every single day.
The good news is there's enough desire and he has
enough talent that if he plays well, and he can
pass this test every day that by the end of
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September he'll be the starting quarterback for the Browns. Joe
Flacco might start to begin the season just to get
your door Sanders used to what NFL life is like,
but the desire to see him. If as long as
he shows he can stand out and flashes the talent
he had at Colorado, he'll start by the beginning of October. Conversely,
if he shows he can't handle it and he's not
mature enough, he's gonna get cut. He is a fifth
(10:46):
round pick. You have no cachet. You need to be
treating this like this is my only chance to get
to the NFL. And here he is already showing, Hey,
my decision making not great. One hundred miles an hour
sixty mile an hour zone, it's different. Look, you shouldn't
be dry that fast, but I get the people are
and they get caught driving that fast. But you're the
quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, right, You're not an anonymous person.
(11:08):
And all, by the way, in the wake of Henry
Ruggs now Out doing an appearance apologizing the family of
the woman he killed in his car when he was
driving over one hundred miles an hour when he shouldn't
have a few years ago. You got to make good decisions,
and this is just one of those things where the
Browns go, Okay, three days away from the team, bad
decision making. Now does this mean suddenly he's going to
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be let go or he's not going to be allowed
to compete for the starting job. No, but it doesn't
help as he's continuing to be evaluated because again, understand,
this is a test every day. Can you handle being
the face of a franchise as a quarterback? It is different.
Quarterbacks can't get caught driving one hundred miles an hour
and a sixty mile an hour zone, especially because they
are the face of the franchise. Sanders would be that guy.
(11:51):
So this is where I tell him, dude, understand that
for the rest of this summer, all the way up
till the beginning of the season, you are on a test.
Every day. People are waiting to see you fail. The
Browns want to see that you can hit. They're gonna
give you every test possible to see that you pass it.
And this is a test that you failed. So soon
after Mini camp ended, Yeah, you look get from Stefanski's
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role and Barry's roll and all the way up to Haslim. Look,
there's a desire for this guy to work out, because
then then they get to be the smartest guys in
the room. They've got them on the cheap, and it
does offset a little bit of the negativity still surrounding
the signing and the albatross. See, we get to bring
the outlasses of what Deshaun Watson's contract situation as a whole,
(12:38):
and the blight it's been on the organization which couldn't
get out of its own way for myriad reasons over many,
many years. But you look like a roster that you'd
finally put together. Flacco brought them from the ashes as
he came off the couch to get them to the
playoffs a couple of years ago. But now with Sanders
every opportunity to go and take the job from him
(13:01):
and Kenny Pickett, and Flacco's saying all the right things.
I think as a veteran quarterback, I'm not here to
hold anybody's hands. I'm not here to dance on TikTok.
I'm not here to do any of that. I'm old,
and I'm here to play quarterback, and that's all that
it's all about. But for shirdor Sanders, Yeah, the opportunity
is there to be the guy. I think it goes
back to the old Spider Man line, right, spider Man,
(13:23):
great power, spider Man great responsibility. You got an opportunity
to go do great things. Don't screw it up. And
this is one where we've seen how many reports, especially
here in Los Angeles. We've got our chases. That's one
part of the equation. The other is, you know, the
aftermaths of folks engaging in high speed efforts on the highways.
(13:47):
But the Ohio State Highway Patrol, because we want to
put some numbers to this as we like to, eighty
three thousand people given tickets for speeding twenty miles over
the speed limit last year. So eighty five plus thirty
seven hundred thirty seven in a row received tickets for
going over one hundred miles per hour. You like that.
I got there and they talked about the I team
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and a firefighter over one hundred and seventeen. But I
get people do none of them are s your do
or sent where you know you're not just anybody else.
And now you got the whole thing and tied to
insurance and everything, like if you if you adhere to that,
it's like you were speeding all the time, so you're
you're driving unsafe and then my insurance dropped me. They're
gonna drop here, You're gonna raise their premiums and all
(14:32):
of that, and you can be dropped as a potential
starting quarterback. I mean all of these things. Tell got
to use your head. Man. He has a test every
day and today he failed it in a big way.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Good the Lakers have been sold for
ten billion dollars. Tyrese Halliburton may or may not. He's
gonna play tomorrow and James six of the NBA Finals.
You don't get into plus territory on his over under
for points until you hit thirteen and a half fourteen
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and a half. So nobody better to break down both
of these stories than NBA and Lakers insider Mark Medina
joining us now in the hot line. He's on Twitter
at Mark g Underscore Medina Sports key to also CBS Mark,
what's happening man? Slow day for you? Huh so, slow day.
(17:10):
Not a lot of news in the NBA today, Jason.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Slow news day. But you know what, I think that
you might be about to be breaking even bigger news.
Is it true that you're going to buy the New
York Knicks for twenty billion?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yes, well I'm going to be hired as head coach
and then I buy the Knicks, so I wow. Yeah,
that's a lot of job security.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Wow, a lot of job security. You're just raking in
the money. You're not afraid to spend as well. You'll
do whatever it takes to get you onus off of
the groom.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Poe yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll move on from Karl Anthony Towns.
That's one thing. Don't worry about returning of my text.
So we're going to do it. So hey listen, So look,
this Lakers story really kind of came out of nowhere.
You know. It's not like we had heard stories and sources.
This was going on, like what's some of the genesis
of this and all of a sudden, Hey, the Bus
family selling the team.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, it is wild because I remember talking to Genie
ten years ago in her office talk can say the franchise,
and she was so adamant that they would never sell
the team. She said, and I quote about her father,
the late doctor Jerry Buss, he worked very hard to
be in a position so that our family could keep
this team forever. Turns out it was only ten more years.
(18:16):
So what changed. I think that after talking to some
people today, clearly that the big turning point was in
twenty twenty one. That's when Philip Anshoots, the ag owner,
sold his personal stake to Todd Bowley and Mark Walter.
And at the time it was only a minority stake
twenty seven percent. But there was some rumblings that maybe
(18:40):
not necessarily that Mark Walter would all of a sudden
buy the majority of the franchise from the Bus family,
but he'd at least put himself in a position to try.
And that makes sense because he's an owner of a
lot of franchise, most notably the La Dodgers. But I
think a few other things came to play the last
few years. Mavericks and the Boston Celtics sold their franchise
(19:02):
at ginormous numbers here. I mean, this is only a
majority stake from Mark Cuban, but that was three billion
for the Mavericks. With the Celtics it was six billions.
So I think there's a realization that the Lakers were
going to be very, very valuable because of what they've
done as a global franchise. I think the other thing
is that them getting Luca doc which really skyrocket of
(19:24):
the value even more because there's a clear point in
place that for whenever Lebron James retires, whether it's after
next season two years from now, they have that key
superstar in place. And then the last thing is with
the Bust family, they share a lot of the you know,
all the revenue with this trust. It's six siblings but
(19:44):
it's not one of those things that they can pass
on to their error. So I think it came to
the point that at least some people among the siblings acid,
you know what, I should cash out now while I
still have it instead of uh, who knows? Is what
happens once once your past? So those were the main
turning points, and now the Lakers are ready to spend, spend, spend.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, the last one was the one that's most curious
to me, Mark, is you know whether you know Genie
got sold out by these siblings.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
No. I think Genie was in support of it. Now
it's a majority vote, but I think if it was
one of those things that there wasn't a clear comfort
level with Genie, they wanted to move forward. I think
the other thing is that what assuaged her was that
she would still have a minority stake in it as
well as and you can roll your eyes at this,
but you know, I've been told that she's going to
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still be governor and her role isn't necessarily going to change.
What's going to change is the revenue string, so that's
going to change decisions. But as far as how she
executes things, what she does on the business side, that's
going to be the same thing basketball side. She's always
been very deferential to basketball operations. She'll talk to them,
(20:58):
but she's not going to get involved with the same
visions other than just supporting them and asking what else
we can do to help. But the clear driving force
is the revenue stream, because, as you guys know, they
aren't exactly crying in poverty, but because this is their
only source of revenue, they made a lot of decisions
that were cost cutting. They would spend money on the stars,
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but when it came to role players, behind the scenes, staffs,
front offices, coaches, they're very deliberate. They're a high spending team,
but they're also very calculating on whether this was the
right move to make money on. And because of that,
they're having a lot of hits or misses over the years.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know, the take we've had tonight, what I thought
about this market, it's kind of a simple take because, okay,
here they're sold for ten billion dollars. What's a big
what's a big takeaway from? As I say, I think
the Lakers have a chance to be really good again
because you know, with a new business, a new new
model coming Obviously Genie's going to still be there for
a while. But this is a new way of doing things.
(22:01):
And you see the Lakers the last thirteen years. Yeah,
they won the title in twenty twenty, but overall, Kobe
and Lebron and Ad and Luca, they haven't sniffed more
than the one title in twenty twenty. That a five
year drought of not making the playoffs. And the one
thing you do is you get stuck when your team
is not good. You have the same owner. If it's
one business plan and that business plan isn't working, guess
(22:21):
what you're going to keep seeing it. So I look
at it as Okay, it's a new start for the
Lakers and now maybe they can be good, maybe they
can be great again.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, I agree, And look, to be clear to the listeners,
it's not like they can now write a blank check.
Even though the Dodgers' organization has been very high spending.
The rules in baseball are different. In the NBA, you
can't defer contracts like they did with Shoheo Tani and
the NBA they had this sake of a second April
and that's essentially a hard cat and so it's not
(22:49):
like the Lakers are going to go over that because
all of a sudden they can't trade draft picks. They
don't have a mid level exception. But where this does
go into play is I think that they can devote
more financial resources with behind the scenes staff members, things,
with the facilities, the analytics department, you know, maybe having
more of an appetite to absorb the luxury tax when
(23:09):
it comes to retaining a role player. Most notable example
is when they decided not to Avoux Caruso, and we
see how he is in the finals of the Oklahoma
City Thunder. So those things matter, and I think in
fairness of the Bus family and Genie Bus, it's not
like they didn't care about winning. They clearly did. They're
willing to spend on star players. They were a high
spending team, but again they had a certain line that
(23:30):
they would not cross, and that made it a little
bit challenging because again, this is their source of revenue.
They're not you know, they're not owners that have other
revenue streams, so they were more cautious with that. So yeah,
the Lakers just got even more and more dangerous with
this move.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Different corporate structure, and then obviously the tinfoil hat people
are out there about the LUCA and the invisible hand
of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Don't worry, Jason, there will be a frozen envelope delivered
to the next with your check on it.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
All of that to say, we still have some business
left for the NBA. What are you hearing about Halliburton's injury?
The MRI comes back clear ish, but Rick Carlisle saying,
game time decision. We expect him in the studio here
to go. What say you?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, it's a dicey one because right calf injuries are
really fragile. But I think that he does play because
it's Game six, it's an elimination game, it's the NBA Finals.
But I think he's going to be on a very
very tight leash. If he shows signs of discomfort, I
think Rick Carlisle will pull him. And you know, the
listeners might think, well, why, like, this is the NBA Finals,
(24:39):
this is the Salvager season, why not go all out? Well,
calf injuries can lead to achilles injuries and all of
a sudden you're out for all the next season. And
Kevin Durant, that's exactly what happened to him in the
twenty nineteen finals, and he even had more time to recover.
He strained his calf in the second round of the playoffs,
missed the game, and then missed the entire West conf
(25:00):
which was four games. Didn't come back until game five
against Toronto, played really well for a quarter and then
strain his achilles. And so with Tyrese, it's a much
compressed timetable when he started feeling discomfort and the turnaround time.
So I think that they will give it a go,
but they won't mess around if he shows any you know,
noticeable signs of trouble, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
But here's the thing though with Tyrese is that you know,
not that I don't think he's not dinged up, because
he is, but he still played thirty four minutes the
other night. He practiced today. Yes, it was just you know,
moving it, you know, seventy five percent, but most of
the pacers moved it that way. He played thirty four
minutes and he was not good, probably had one of
the worst games of Star has ever had in the
(25:43):
NBA Finals. I look at this, I think it's part
of yes, the injury, part of it is, hey, he's
someone that needs that confidence that knows what people say
about him and uses that as motivation. And part of
this could be, hey, we're gonna give you two days
of just hey, hey, you know he's hurt, so let's
take it easy on Tyrese Halliburton because he's going to
give it all to come play in game six. Because
(26:05):
the other flip side of it is mark as if
he doesn't play in game six, And suddenly it's how
the hell do the Pacers doctors allow him back out
on the floor in a game they didn't need and
he still played a game high thirty four minutes. All
of a sudden, it's like, wait, what kind of malpractice
was that for your star player from your doctors and
your head coach? So I really kind of accepted the.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Play to Martinis, Yeah, I do expect him to play,
and I think that you hit on the point that
he thrives off the motivation. Sorry to bring up some
painful reminders, but before game seven against the Garden last
year against the Knicks, he is pumping his trainer Drew
Handling up for some sources of motivation. Drew's immediate response was,
Game seven the Garden, Do I really need to tell
(26:45):
you anything? But he did and he got himself going,
and so that could be one of it. But I think,
you know, this is a real injury. It's not like
you know what Kendrick Perkins was saying on Espno, he's
scared and all that. No, I think that it was
a real injury. He did not play well at all,
But I think the fact that he played thirty four
minutes was reflection in and of itself, because it was
(27:06):
quantity of minutes, not quality. So he showed that he
was able to play substantial amount of mimuentes, obviously with
some rest time in between, but he wasn't aggressive enough
to make that worth their while. And so you know,
Rick Carlisle said, they try to hold him back halftime.
He pleaded his case. But to your earlier point, I
think in training staff see it's more than a pain
(27:28):
tolerance issue. It's a structural issue. They'll shut him down.
But I think at that point in time they didn't
take the MRI, so they didn't exactly know. Okay, is
this a structural thing or a pain tolerance thing. Now
they know, and as a result, I do think it
will play, but it will be a very tight leash all.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Right, Mark, So finally, is tomorrow night the last game
of the NBA Finals? Are we playing on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I think it is. I mean Tyree s Salburton's injury
and his limitation doesn't help. But I think that you
also have to look at the Thunder have been the
better team. Shake gotis Alexander has been on a tear
of the last few games. Same thing with John Williams
becoming that great two way All Star player that he
showed throughout the regular season. And their defense may as
well be their offense because they are really good at
(28:11):
koreating turnovers. That creates easy basket. So you add those
three things up plus a likely limited Tyres however, and
I think that this game is going to be over
before it even starts.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He's on Twitter at Mark g underscore Medina. Wow, big
stuff there, great stuff on the Lakers. Mark has always
appreciated my friend enjoyed the game tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I joy the game. And we'll talk about the knicksale
next week when that becomes final with Jason.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, absolutely, Nick sale Nick said, coach will do it all.
A great stuff there for Mark Medina, Well, you only
need fifty six more games on your beat the streak,
and that at least gives you a little bit of
seed money that you can then parlay. And it doesn't
take a bunch of bets. I'll put a down payment
of five and a half million dollars on the next
Well no, I mean it just becomes the all Right,
(28:55):
you've got to have some real estate that pops and
then parlay parlo like maybe some other bets, some in
game prop debts that you start getting on board time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. With someone who's been called the Tyres Halliburton
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Speaker 6 (29:15):
I was yelling overrated, overrated, af you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You get your Haliburton shirt, come in.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
But I also had to deliver to my parents because
I'm We're hardly home and sometimes I feel like they
don't porch.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Pirates are for you, yes, And so like the building
I live in, you have to. It's I don't know
who's going to deliver it. Only the mailman has like
a key to get in, right, So if it's someone else,
like somebody has to let them in, and if no
one's home, they either just.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Leave it outside or.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Don't actually drop it off. And so I have it
delivered to my parents. Anything important, it goes to.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You guys talking. So I just want to check here.
Now I want to overrated, right, I want to, But
he's actually I want to confirm something here. You're in
your thirties and you still get important mail delivered to
your parents' house.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Like, yes, you're.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Telling me you never had Walt signed for something for
you or sit at your house illegally. My dad illegally
signed for no. No, no, But like, hey, Dad, go
go sit there. I got something important I don't want. Okay,
one chance, one day when I'm more upset with my
dad is than I am tonight about not getting into
being the st I'll tell you the story about how
my dad accidentally accidentally he committed mail fraud accidentally, just
(30:32):
like you kind of accidentally stole that mail box all
those years ago.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I just had Jordan's delivered to my mom's. Poppy Chulo
has stuff delivered to my parents because there's always someone home.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
And so it's just a matter of is it important
or is there Do I not care?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Is it actually addressed to Poppy Chulo. That's the most
important thing. No, And you still and you pick up
your stuff when you go over there to do your laundry. Right.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Sometimes okay, maybe I may leave laundry and then go
play volleyball.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You're getting a judge. I'm just saying at the opportunity,
because maybe mom does the laundry when you leave it behind.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
She sometimes does, you know.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
And I go to my mom's, I go play volleyball,
and then I come back and may beat my laundry
might be done.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I feel like you live like all the characters, and
it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
You know, it's not a bad life. Thanks my Thanks
my guys. We'll start in baseball. Why not because Will
Smith came in clutch for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Smith which is a fly ball right center field, Tatis
on the wrong hurt the warning track.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hit the lawn that's gone this time is over seven.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
D LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network for three was the
final score against the Padres and keep the excitement going
because LA has announced that show Hey Tani will make
his second start on Sunday against the Nationals. The Yankee
snapped their thirty scoreless inning streak, but lost to the
Angels three to two, who completed a three game sweep.
New York has lost six in a row. The Mets
(32:06):
have lost five in a row. After being shut out
by the Braves five zero. The New York Baseball not
New York Baseballs Guardians topped the Giants forward to to
the Phillies outscored the Marlins forward to two, and the
Rays came back down.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Eight zero to defeat the Orioles twelve to eight.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Astros no problem with the A's eleven four was the
final score.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Hey, the Rockies have won four in a row. Guys
four interrow, go.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
He said, manager said, be careful. Don't let us get hot.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Don't let them get hot.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Will The Nationals have lost eleven in a row because Colorado.
Colorado won it three to one.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
At the College. We have a picture of one of
the one of the White Sox players from last year
up like in Major League where they go. I figure,
it's going to take this many wins to not be
the worst team of all time. And every time they win,
they take a they take a spot off. It might
just be Pedro Griffal Okay, and it's Ozzy Gean in
the bathing suit.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
I hope so, I hope so.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
At the College World Series LS, you walked it off
against Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Six to five. Tigers scored scored three runs in the ninth.
They need to win it.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
They're going to face Hostal Carolina on Saturday in a
best of three championship series. Lakers being sold to ten
for ten billion dollars to Mark Walter, who is also
the CEO of the Guggenheim group that owns the Doyer's.
Genie Buss is still expected to be the franchise's team governor,
apparently for the next couple of years. In the NFL,
Ravens sign cornerback jry Year Alexander to a one year,
(33:33):
four million dollar deal.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
And important news, Cowboys cheerleaders are.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
Going to receive a four hundred percent pay raise their
twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It tells you what they were getting paid the four.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
So they were making fifteen dollars an hour and now
they're going to make seventy five.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I still remember watching the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader movie in
nineteen seventy eight Yeahs on TV, and I felt really
weird because this is what I had to say to
my mom, Mom, I really like girls. Can I watch
the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader movie? And like Bucky Dent was
one of the football players they done, and he was
dating one of the cheerleaders, and like it was, it
was all about making the team. And I was so
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excited to see I'm gonna see the cheerleaders in their
Dallas Cowboy uniforms. That wasn't creepy at all. No time.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
You know, I think I think to watch sexy cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I think it was seventy. Yeah, I think it brings
everybody together, as well as the show that's on now.
My daughter watches a week Misser raid over it.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah stop.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
James Seymour was the start of that. Jane Seymour best, yes,
but before she did somewhere in time. Coming up next,
we will wow. Okay, okay, every timeout on the floor,
coaches called, oh boy, coach needs a timeout? Escalating quickly
Jayson Smith. Jason Smith wants to talk it over, not
exactly what he had in mind. Coming up next, a
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Mount Rushmore conversation unlike one you have ever heard before.
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
What I got be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
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Speaker 1 (35:18):
The wadskin Well. Smith ends today pen shoot home run
double big news for the Dodgers. Joe Davis on the call,
they win in a walk off, and Shoel Tani will
pitch Sunday against the Nationals, which is okay, what if
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they wants eleven in a row the next Yeah, let's go.
Look taken out by the Rockies with regularity. Man, yeah,
you losing the Rocky I mean they're borderline on New
York squad right now. Bad things. Man, Hey, hey, hey,
it's been a bad last five days from New York Baseball.
I get it. That's a lot of days. It's a
lot of fish rats. I think the headline riders need
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a break. Man, it's been one. People aren't even buying
New York newspapers or reading it online, Like, no, I can't.
The teams are terrible. I can't do it. Not gonna
do it. That's how it's going. But I mean, that's
a week of puns. But biggest story in sports today
the Lakers are sold for ten billion dollars. Genie Bus's
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gonna stay on as governor for the next couple of years.
But Mark Walter, businessman who owns part of the Dodgers
as well, has bought the team. We talked about how
I'm excited because maybe the Lakers can be great again.
Different way of doing business, different way of going out
getting players. It's it's a new era and maybe the
Lakers can be great again. Well, a giant pile of
money they're at their disposal. Obviously you've got rules that
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need to be adhered to, but it does give you
some flexibility and and certainly for the future. You know,
it's the curiosity and the question. I asked Mark Medine
be curious what that vote was within the Bus family
because it was majority rules. Out of the six kids, Uh, yeah,
they're six, who breaks the tie? Well, let's just vote
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and see it, right, we need a tie breaker? Yeah,
it comes in. Well, Genie's still in charge for a while.
But I'll give you a hot take coming up in
a second. But first, you know, look, there's not many
teams that would get sold for ten billion dollars in sports.
In fact, there's four teams that would have that price
tag on them if they were sold right now. Right,
So if you had the Mount Rushmore of the ten
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billion dollar club, right, the teams are obviously Lakers for
ten billions. Sure, the Knicks would go for over ten
billion because remember Madison Square Garden goes along with it, right,
So okay, so that's over ten billion. The Yankees would
go for ten billion, and the Cowboys, they would be
the number one team, the most expensive team. They would
go probably for somewhere twelve billion or so. Jason Cole,
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NFL insider said he thinks maybe close in to fifteen billion,
perhaps if they got sold up, because you got to
pay the premium right to get carry to walk away.
Oh y, yeah, it's getting say that. And you know,
same thing for the Yankees. Yankees would be north of
ten billion. That their valuation would be more juice because hey,
the Yankees are for sale. The Dodgers have been sold
three or four times, you know, you know, in the
last twenty five years. So the specialness of that is
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a big thing. But it's interesting when we heard Mark
Medina join a few minutes ago and say, yeah, but
one of the three reasons, you look, they watched the
Mavericks and Celtics be sold for an insane amount of money.
The franchise valuing up because of Luka Doncic, and they
know they can't give this the six brothers and sisters. No,
we can't pass this on to our kids. So we're
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going to sell the team. When Jerry Jones is done
owning the Cowboys, he will sell the team because Jerry
Jones wants to get some wins. And he may not
win another Super Bowl ever and it's been a long time,
but he wants to win the super Bowl of Money. Right,
that's the big thing, Right, I want to win the
Super Bowl of Money. And he wants to put that
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code at the end of his career. And look, this
may not be until he's nine years old, whatever it is.
We've seen owners in their nineties, but Adams on the
team you know late, you know, into his nineties. But
he wants that. Hey, I bought this team for under
two hundred million dollars in nineteen eighty nine. I am
now selling it for seventeen for a North American record,
for a United for an American record of professional sports.
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He wants that, he wants that final feather in his cap.
You're not gonna leave it to Stevens not. No, he's
gonna sell it because he wants everybody to know this
is the true measure of winning. This is how much
my franchise is worth. And you could be valued at it,
and that's great joke. Oh yeah, that's great, that's great.
But to actually sell it, that's what you put that
that money down on there, that that pen to paper,
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and that's the last big valuation that Jerry Jones wants. Yeah,
it's always the curiosity right the market place, you know,
on trading cards, whatever, what's someone gonna give you for it?
You might value it at one hundred million dollars, the
other guy says, I'll give you fifty cents and we
quibble about it from there. For for Jerry Jones, yeah,
you've got private equity and all all these other considerations
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that are starting to become a process. Hey, how much
you think Alabama would have been valued at a couple
of years ago. I'm gonna buy the University of Alabama,
all of that, all of that just before Saban left
or after Sabin left. The other team that might be
in there is the Rams, because you get so fine
and the Los Angeles mark, the Rams are right round
but I don't know that people would go crazy to
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buy the Rams like they go crazy to buy the Yankees,
and the Palmer might tell you never know about real Madrid.
Wrap watch. I said, North America, Barcelona. He was cenophobic.
He kept the US American United States Sports. That's why
I said. That's what I said. What I said there,
Jerry Jones wants that record. They don't play those here.
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Uh No, I don't think. I don't think if the
sport doesn't have done, it only counts when we go overseas.
That's it, none of the other. Because I guarantee you
every time Forbes has their list, he points out, look
what I did, and he adds it all up, and
he's got the Kryan at the bottom. See I was,
I did this. I wrote it in a few chakraons.
You can see it on the paper right here. It's
what it is. Exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen
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