January 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith explains that if Steph Curry is going to ever win again, it's going to be someplace else. The Mayor of Philadelphia Cherelle Parker misspells Eagles. And the Pittsburgh Pirates are offering one of the worst trades in the history of sports memorabilia to an 11 year old who pulled the 1/1 Paul Skenes card!
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Well, look a little bit more in the conversation we
had a couple minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Before you get back into this big story out of
Major League Baseball. It's not in a great last twenty
four hours or season for either the Warriors or the
seventy six ers.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
They get drubbed at home. The Warriors get rubbed at
home unlike they have in quite a long time. Last
night they lose by forty The Sixers going to Denver tonight,
they lose by thirty five. Joel Embiid sits out, he's
still not healthy enough to play, And there's the where's
Embiid at chant? We played for you that was rolling
through Denver, and I said, look, we've talked about the
(01:28):
potential of these guys moving on at different times, but
now here it is twenty four hours. You see what's
going on with these teams. The season's over for both
of them. Maybe the Warriors can hold on for a
little bit long because they're in the midst of a
big homestand now, but is it really going to get better?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And if I'm a GM.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And I need something to put me over the top,
it's time call the Sixers about Joel Embiid, call the
Warriors about Steph Curry. And because both these guys realize
that it's time for them, if they're going to win,
to go someplace else. Embiid needs a fresh start, the
Sixers need a fresh start. Right this is where it's
(02:07):
just not working anymore. You're just waiting for it to end.
The Warriors, it's well, we're really just going to continue
to try to hold on here, We're really gonna know.
You see, it's not happening. They're not getting better. It's
not getting any better. They're not getting any closer to
dominating the Western Conference. All the teams are younger, they're better,
the Warriors are Now about what's next. We've had an
incredible run, we had a mini dynasty.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It was great. Now what's next? Now?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You said, obviously, hey, Steph Curry is an easier guy
to try to call and trade for than Joelle Embiid.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well he still has value. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, look, and here's the thing is that you are
talking about both of these guys for two postseasons basically, right,
Because Steph Curry, you wonder is he's still going to
be the same player in a couple of years. You
want to think that'll still be close. But the next
two postseasons, you're pretty much still going to get as
close to prime Curry as you're going to get em
Bid The same thing. But Embiide is about in shape, motivation.
(03:00):
I gotta think Embiid for the next two seasons in
a place where you could maybe win a championship. Yeah,
he can rediscover that form because when he wanted to
win MVP, he was healthy enough he played, he made
sure to win, so maybe he'll be motivated to win
one to win and if he gets to the right team, Yeah,
I'm okay with the next two postseasons, the rest of
this season and one more and then you move on
(03:21):
if you have to. Okay, we try with em beat.
It didn't work. I'm a little more optimistic that with
a change of scenery and Bean can be good for
the next couple of years. Like you see for a
lot of players, Hey, it's problematic here, it's not working here.
Oh you know, Jimmy Butler would be really good at
the right place, change of scenery for the next year
or two. I want to prove to pat Ryle in
the heat, I can do it. I can get it done.
(03:42):
It just happens with guys that have that era of
that air of defeatedness about them. That where I am
right now, I'm done, I'm done doing it, I'm done
trying to play.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm done.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'm just waiting for divine intervention to show up and
put me on a different path.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And that's a general manager calling.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And yeah, it's a little bit more of a dicey
situation with EMBIID. But you wouldn't be giving up as
much for him. You'd be getting a third team involved
to make the salaries match. And look, the Sixers just
probably just be happy to be outside of Embiid's contract.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
By now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We'll try to attract somebody else to come play with Tyrese, Maxie, Hey,
you know Maxie and George. Maybe this works out a
little bit better. So yeah, it's not going to be
as easy for embiides for Zeph Curry, but I still
love the possibility of another two post seasons of Joel
Embiid before you have to start worrying.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, now it's time to move on from the guy. Yeah, No,
I like what you're saying in theory.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
In theory, you always, no matter what, whether you agree
with me or not, you always like what I say
in theory.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
No, it's a good theoretical.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But here's the thing, Steph Curry still wants to play
basketball and busts his ass every night. For Joel Embiid,
I don't know how much he wants to and part
of that, yes, is where he's at in Philadelphia, motivations, etc.
Still griping about the fact that he had to kill
himself to win that MVP and force himself to play games.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And other guys have echoed that thing.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's like, you know what, you shouldn't have agreed to
it as a union then, And there's my response to that.
But you gutted out thirteen games at this point this season?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Could you have played? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I don't know the man's pain threshold at this point.
The fact that he's had a career at all, we've
stipulated to it for a long time of coming out
of what he did to get on the court initially
right miss two years, trust the process, all of that.
To have the career he has is a big deal.
And he's been fantastic three straight years where he averaged
over thirty points thirty four points a game plus last
(05:45):
year in the thirty nine that he played. But it's
the do I want to roll the dice that it's
just a matter of motivation versus his body is spent.
And this is where I now have to employ how
many specialists to check out his body in every way,
shape and form?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
How many more machines? What's the machine over there? Well,
that's the most expensive machine in that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And that's the one that goes bing I'm gonna need
to rev up all of those things if I'm gonna
make a trade at all, because I also risk disrupting.
If I think I've got a potential contender, I risk
blowing up whatever's in the locker room to bring him in.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't know about that because I look, it's gonna
be a bit of a risk, obviously, but all trades
are risks. But you're traded for a guy that's not
too far moved from the MVP that Hey, are you motivated?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Can you play? Awesome? Let's go do it. And first
somebody said can you play? And he says yeah, And
I said, well, why the hell haven't you been doing it?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't want to play here anymore. I want to
go play someplace. How many motivations? But how many guys?
That's salty? But yeah, but here's the thing, like, how
many guys have we seen look like they're done because
they just don't want to play for their team anymore?
Yet they go someplace else and suddenly, oh, we've found
the fountain of youth.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I'm playing really well. We've seen lots.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Of guys the Raiders alone, We've seen lots of guys.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We've seen James Harden do it right. We've seen Kevin
Durant do. We've seen Chris Paul do. All these guys.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Hey, I'm done, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Oh no,
but here's doing in the five years in me? Wow,
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, now I'm just excited to be someplace else. If
we hadn't seen it so much, I would say it
was a bigger risk than it is. But because we've
seen from all these other guys and look, NBA stars,
you know, seem to follow a pattern Some of the
stars need to follow the same pattern here. Yeah, I
feel like em beating a different place. Suddenly, we'd be
a lot healthier, be playing a lot more. And you're
not relying him to be the guy. You want him
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to be a big part of the team, but you're not.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Relying on him.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So yeah, he can kind of be a little bit
out of the spotlight when it comes to uh, you know,
the you know ball plays down the stretch and getting
the ball and hey, I want to win here. Yes,
he'd be a big story, but the the reliability of
what you need from him on the court wouldn't be
as much as what Philadelphia continues to ask him, this
is why shooting free throws. He gets tired, so it'll
(08:05):
be a little bit different. I think in another place.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Are you saying that this is kind of like Frank
Catton that needs to go to a different environment because
he's developed a case of bronkuidas in Ocean's eleven and
you got Bernie Max smiling as he goes into the
news State and gets himself transferred.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's kind of what you're implying here. Hey, look he's
feeling good. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The Jason Smithzer with Mike Carmen live at the Tirek
dot Com Studios. Now elsewhere we saw the big story
of the night. Major League Baseball Hall of Fame class
with twenty twenty five is announced.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Each ro Suzuki heads the class. He sees Sabbathia, Billy Wagner.
I think it was it was Roki Sasaki is already in.
He has already in the Hall, already had yeah, twenty
two years old. He's already in. He met Lebron James
and now he's in.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Each hero gets in with ninety nine point seven percent
of the vote. This means somebody didn't vote for Echiro Suzuki.
And the first thing I did, I'm telling them, telling
you the truth. First end when I saw this was
I texted Rob Parker just to make sure he wasn't
the one to not vote for eatroll Jase, let me
tell you each troll. Ah, the guy came in. He
(09:19):
was twenty seven year old rookie.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
No no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Rob Parker told me it wasn't him, and I told him, well,
then you should just at least tell people it was you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Because you know, hey, why not own that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I would say that the Rookie of the Year didn't count,
and that's why you just follow about him. He first
played professionally all those years, it didn't count.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
His first two thousand hits in Major League Baseball don't count.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Jay said, first ten years, they don't count.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Uh So, look, because it's embarrassing that someone's not voting
for Echiro Suzuki.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
And there's certain players. Yeah, they should be absolute unanimous.
It's what they have. It's what can separate them from
the JAG Hall of Famers that we put in every
year like Sabbathia and Billy Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
We got the top all of it. Jeter should have
been unanimous. Eachiro should have been unanimous. Rivera was unanimous, Like,
it's what these plates, that's how you should.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Reward these players.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So you always get the one guy I'm gonna make
headlines or I don't think this, or I didn't like
this guy because he didn't sign an autograph for me.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But there's one story going around right now.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That a guy who presents himself as a beat writer
for the Mets Man and he writes for the National
Inquirer I n q U I R e R that
we're not quite sure is a real paper, that it's
some kind of parody site. And the guy who writes
for it, his name is Mark Gooden, and he's.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
All over soul. He's got like fifteen thousand followers. So
he's a dude.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
He covers the Mets and his surname is Gooden. Yeah,
he's all what you will. I didn't you think they
called him doc? Did anybody even call them doc?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Doc's on the beat?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
On his on his uh Twitter bio, it actually says
he didn't vote for Eachi Ro and he is all
over the place making sure people know all his tweets.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hey, I'm not an idiot. I'm but I'm the guy
that didn't vote for Eachiro. So you wonder how real
this is?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Is this really? Is this guy real? Is he really
a big senior beat?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right? What is this National inquirer with an eye?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And I ask you, what's the more embarrassing story for baseball?
Because this is embarrassing that someone decides Itchro Suzuki. Oh,
by the way, two hundred or more hits in each
of his first ten years in Major League baseball. I mean,
come on, like, this guy's if there's any first ballot
unanimous guy, it's Ei Ro.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And racking up gold gloves to bree.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yes, I mean yeah, I mean really, this is this
is is one of the greatest players I've ever seen
play the game. He may be in the top ten
of greatest players I've ever seen play the game. And look,
I've been watching baseball for about.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Fifty close to fifty years, So yeah, I feel pretty
comfortable with that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And I'm not going to go back out to see
Ruth or Gering or any of those guys playing. Rob
Parker may have, but I didn't, So I mean, I'm
not gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But but you know what's more, embarrassing for baseball that potentially,
if this is a true story, somebody with a vote
of a paper that's not might that might not be real,
that could be satirical. Who wants to wear this as
a badge of honor this guy's able to get a vote.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Or is it more.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Embarrassing that a somebody the Baseball Writers Association trusts because
they've been covering the game for a long time didn't
vote for Etro for the Hall of Fame? Like, what's
more embarrassing to have baseball? Because one of these things
is true. Either somebody who's a long standing member they
trust to be a Hall of Fame voter is or
somebody snuck in the back door somehow gotta vote for
a crazy reason and decided not to vote for Eachro.
(12:41):
Like is it letting that person into vote or is
it trusting the person that's been there for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I don't know what's more embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I really we're just talking about Philadelphia and trusting the process.
Evidently you got a problem. You gotta glitch in the matrix,
is what I would say here, right one way or
the other. You know, obviously we've had plenty of example
I mean, there's only one guy that's gone in unanimously, right, Well,
for all the universal love of Jeter, he didn't. It's
(13:09):
Marioto Rivera. That's it. One and only all the years,
going back to the first election of the Hall of Fame,
Babe Ruth wasn't unanimous and on down the line. And
then obviously there were other guys who didn't go to unanimously,
and we can guess for any myriad reasons. But in
(13:30):
this case, I'd really like to sit down with that person,
not to berate them, not to interrogate them, just to
say why, Spock, why and be done with it. Give
me asked and answered. Just you know, you don't believe
anybody should be unanimous on principle. It's a terrible reason,
but I guess it counts as for the other Yeah,
(13:52):
if you've got a guy that maybe once upon a
time was accredited and now he's on a parody account,
how great is that he got in the back door
trojan horse and now he make some mockery of your
the sanctity of your votes.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's it's so it's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Three thousand hits, fifteen hundred runs right, five hundred stolen bases,
ten gold gloves, he won an MVP, two batting titles,
ten All Stars.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, not doing it. No, it's so embarrassing. It's it
really is.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I can't wait to find because we know we're gonna
know by tomorrow. Because you know, writers right now are
trying to figure this out. There's a lot of writers
who were saying, hey, it wasn't me. Here's yeah. I mean,
they have the ability to make their ballot public. So
you got those folks. But I think it becomes the
fact finding mission because someone's got to be able to
get the master list of whose votes, uh, you know,
(14:51):
who are the voters, and then you just do the
process of elimination. I think you know, we've seen sample
ballots where you've got a number up top right that
you match it with to corroborate the signature is the
person that's supposed to be voting.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
There process of elimination. We should be able to get
through this pretty fast. It's not like we're doing one
hundreds of millions of votes like a federal election or anything.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
This should be a pretty fast process.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Baseball Hall of Fame, do the ticket taking, show off
some gloves and bats and welcome your new members and
you know, get cracking.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Exit out about a fresca at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
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com studios. If we find out who it is before
the end of the show, we will of course tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Send Daniel Craig after. But come, I suspect foul play.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But coming up next a spelling lesson in advance of
the NFL playoff games this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
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I knew the exhale was coming.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And TJ, much like Whitney Houston, we are waiting to
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Speaker 3 (17:26):
And uh, you know, I have a few friends who
are Eagles fans, and I sent them all this video
today and I said, you are never going to live
this down.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Only one of my friends responded back, like that's typical.
They give you a only once.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Uh no, no, no, no, the Felix back.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, the Felix under response,
my dad gives me what I sent it. Noe.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
This just means you just have one good friend.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
No, no, this just means an Eagles fans like, yeah whatever. So, uh, the.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
This happen and over the weekend, and you know, we
had the Pesky National Championship game last night, but this
really started to gain a lot of attention over the
course of the day today and I thought I read
somewhere where Hey, it took a while for the video
of this to actually get put up online. Before the
Eagles game against the Rams this weekend, Philadelphia Mayor Charrelle
(18:19):
Parker was helping to pump up the crowd in Philadelphia,
saying things, I listen, make sure we get there safely,
blah blah blah blah blah. And she wanted to finish
her little press conference with which attended by a lot
of Eagles fans and Philadelphia citizens, by doing the Eagles chant,
which is spelling out the word.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Eagles e A G L E S Eagles. Right.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We've heard that a lot. This is j Ets to
the next level. We're gonna go with five letters. So
except For one thing, Mayor Parker didn't quite spell eagles
in the traditional spelling way.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Take a listen, hey, oh yes, let's go birds.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Try again.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
All right, let's you know what, may maybe she missed.
Let's be fair, let's be let's get her another chance.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Take care, let her try again.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
She is the may You gotta give the mayor a
second chance, right, give the mayor a second chance, Give
a second chance. Let the mayor try to spell eagles again.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Go ahead, hey, ow.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yes, yes, oh boy, yeah, well, at least.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Try decisions she is. Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, maybe she's got a proof reader for for emails
and for stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know. Oh, that's what that word means. Oh oh,
that's what that word means. That's what that word means.
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I always say we talked about this, and we talked
about this earlier in the show. I'm like, you know,
when you hear something long enough, like.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Your favorite parts of a change, your favorite parts of
a piece of music, your favorite characters, and your favorite movie.
Oh man, I love this, and now this guy's my
favorite character, this woman's my favorite. Like now after seeing
this now like probably fifty sixty times, I'm like, my
favorite parts has a change, right, my first My first
favorite part was the people behind are trying to follow
(20:11):
her spelling eagles couldn't do it right. Then I morphed
into I love how happy she is you know, spelling,
you know spelling, spelling it really really, she just doesn't
miss a letter man. She she misses like three of them,
but she's so happy doing it. But now I think
my favorite part is, okay, e l G s E
s Right, you got screwed up.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And you didn't know how to spell eagles. Okay, but no.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Matter what you know, even if the eagles you know,
only has one S. You know, I don't no matter
how you're spelling it, it only has one S and.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
She put two s's.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Maybe maybe she spells it in cyrillic or something. I
mean she did not just EO other characters. Yeah, like
you know, it's one thing is she did e l
ges Oh you missed the A oh I busits sorry,
but she went.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
E l gs E.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well you know my general rule in life, if you're
gonna fail, fail spectacular.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, but you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I mean in a in a city which has been
under siege, because you know, fans don't like the fact
that a player is reading on the side of it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
This is the after effect that when you don't read
a lot, you spell words like this. You gotta keep reading. Man,
reading is fundamental.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, it really does not help the image coming off
of the Well, I can't believe this guy's reading. Yeah,
and Yata argue, yes, I do. This is not that
this is not the first time.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, damn it.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Although does this work the other way? And go, hey,
we told you how overrated reading is. How overrated reading is. Look,
the mayor can't spell eagles and she's the mayor. She
was able to become the mayor on that. Come on,
we had to how much do you need to read
and spell stuff?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No, not that important. Has she signed a deal with
Northwest Airlines yet? Well?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, but you know what, but she never seemed to
feel like, oh I understand I screwed that up.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know she did well. I mean she did it
in post right in that moment.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
No, right, back to laugh go birds right, yes, but
that guy laughing is the king to me.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, he knows what's going on. Yeah, yeah, I mean
she did fit. She did talk about it today.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Where she kind of brought it up talking at an
unrelated event she had today in Kensington, where she said, look,
we don't promise perfection, so I'm happy that I never have,
especially after I couldn't spell eagles right.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So okay, good, you got a nice laugh. Yet that
that's pretty cool, very self deprecated, because I mean, what
can you do? What can you say?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh my my prompter didn't have eagles spelled right there.
They weren't holding the right spelling up for me for eagles. Well,
she would have just said, I'm Ron Burgundy.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I mean she can't resign?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is it? Wow? Do you resigns now?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
There's Scandi Pennsylvania right now than the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're right, I will say this.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
If you wanted to run for mayor on the opposite ticket,
you come out and this is what you say.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
This is something awful. I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We can't have a mayor that can't spell eagles right.
This cannot and does not have it all. Vote for
me for mayor. I will get five more seasons. If
it's always sunny in Philadelphia, we will film here. I
will get tax breaks.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I will do that, and I will spell eagles right
every single time I bring up Rob mclaney behind me
wearing his Rex Eagles gear and suddenly it's gonna be
all great.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Talk about how much you love education.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You were one that helped get Abbot Elementary picked up
for its fifth season, which was Australia Today.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Could I could be the mayor of Philadelphia? Just on
just on that platform right there?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I could? There you go, and then you start yelling
whiz with whizz out ready follow me? Whiz Wait, w's without?
Whit's wit? When's without? And someone else? How do you
spell that?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
How do you think this mayor spells Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
See if you misspelled Philadelphia, at least that could be
a little tricky.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
An H and an I than an eld and an
a D than the e P, then another H and
another I to like Philadelphia could at least has a
little bit places that could trip you up.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But Eagles is just e A G L E s
like it's.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I really thought you were gonna say spelling things out
to the cadence that Fergie does infer Delicious.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You're getting real close right.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
There, I I really it's I mean, it baffles me
that you that you can blow spelling Eagles wrong.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You can just I mean it really, I mean it
was the heat of the moment. I don't know. It
wasn't very hot. It was all very cold out. It's
all very cold. I wanted to get inside.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, of course there was there was no pressure, there
was no heat. All you gotta what do I have
to do to walk up here and have a successful
appearance in front of the people of Philadelphia. All you
gotta do is spell eagles, chant and say go birds,
and everybody's gonna clap.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's it. That's all you need to do. That's all
you need. Well, pre publicity for you. But if you
were miss up.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But what if you were prompted by a bunch of
fans who decided, oh, that guy's bare chested and he's drunk,
and they all had wrong letters that were in the
wrong order, so you read them off in cadence and
then realized, what the hell did I just do?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Why am I reading guys chests? I should know how
to spell eagles because they're screaming with you. Oh wait,
that guy's got an s A man. Oh you know,
I didn't know it was an A after the E.
For the longest time, I thought eagles was just ee
g L E S. Hey, I just read it off
like they lined up. It's on them.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That former running back Mark Van Eagan starts with two e's.
He played for a long time in the seventies for
the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I thought it was Eagles E E. G. Eliott.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I thought it was Eagles, like E G A L. S.
Thought it was a lot of girls playing for a
while because it was the Egles. Don't know, just just
the Eagles. I didn't know whiz with wiz without whiz with.
I do appreciate the radio station for uh, the commanders
whatever the call sign is, uh making these shirts.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, the shirts. So they gotten into it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Fly egg fly LJ SIS fly like it's gonna fly
Eagles fly fly E L G S E S.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
No, that's gonna be a pretty popular shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
This good question for you guys. Here, go ahead, Frostburg,
you're Jaden Daniels, not the line? Do you throw out the.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
E l Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, you have to have some kind of some kind
of audible.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Instead of Omaha, you've got that.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah, E L G S E S E L G
s C. Yeah, Oh that's that play. Okay, I got it,
got it all right?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Great?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Then he got absolutely buried by Jalen Carter on the
play We're not.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Calling that again. It seemed to make him mad. E
L G. S ees go.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Birds, and that's the snap on go birds. Snap it
to me when I say go birds, that would be outstanding.
I really did the truck look, and I really see
I didn't really have a a dog in the fight
here for Eagles commanders here this weekend. But now now
I want the Eagles to win, just so we could
play this all the way through the Super Bowl, Like
(27:06):
so we can play this drop of her going E
L G S E s between now in the.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Beginning, she could run radio row.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
All of a sudden, she's she's catapulting beyond Mayor. She's
got bigger sites because she comes to national celebrity doing
interviews all over the nation. She gets to have all
sorts of policy things and spell Eagles.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And she could be the prime minister of Canada. They're
looking for somebody, right, how about that we just go
a little north, you know. That's how we spelled the
Eagles America. If that's officially is it officially changed, I
don't know, is it officially.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Changed officially, unofficially official E L g s c s
E l g s c S.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Although I guess in Canada if you told me, hey,
e l g ss might mean something like maybe in
other countries els like, wasn't that the council in uh
Lorda the rings that they all met at in the
in the third one the Council of Elgasis where they all.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Might have been, you know, a troll fighting off Old
Spiegel there we have to.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Talk about defeating the orcs at the Council of Elgasis.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I know what that means in Canadian?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What does it mean a Canadian?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Bring me a damn Molson?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Now tell me out a fun hey Man like anything.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
If we keep using it incorrectly, it'll eventually find its
way into a dictionary.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It'll be good. Hey, Miriam Webster will have this as
the word of the year at twenty. If the Eagles win.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The Super Bowl, maybe Elgasis gets in there. Maybe the
about the Council of Elgasis gets in there. Right now,
a guy who read the Cimarillion twice. It's Steve Desager,
who's got what's trending in the wide world of sports?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Oh, mister litt are you were you were? You a
college Litt Major. Well, let's start with the NBA game
at the Lakers. Lebron James with a triple double. LA
over Washington one eleven to eighty eight. Wizards six and
thirty six lost eleven games in a row. Philadelphia has
lost seventh straight after dropping a decision at Denver one
(29:06):
forty four to one oh nine. Nikola Jokich in three
quarters had a triple double in this one. By the way,
Paul George did play at nine assists after the groin
injury caused him to miss the previous two games. Portland
won at Miami won sixteen one oh seventy andre eight
and twenty two points fifteen rebounds. At Toronto, Orlando led
the Raptors in the first quarter thirty two to eleven.
(29:28):
Raptors came back for a win one oh nine ninety three,
and New York was a winner at Brooklyn ninety nine
ninety five. Knicks record now twenty nine and sixteen. Karl
Anthony Towns with twenty five points sixteen rebounds. Cleveland's Evan
Mobley will miss a third straight game tomorrow with a
strain calf. Kawhi Leonard of the Clippers will miss a
second straight game with his bad knee in college basketball's
(29:49):
top ten wins for Iowa State and Alabama, for Tennessee
and for number ten Marquette, which won at Seaton Hall
seventy six fifty nine the Hall with twenty four turnovers.
Ohio State trail held at eleventh rank Purdue by sixteen
points just before halftime, but the Buckeys won the games
seventy three, seventy Oregon and Ucla with victories. Yukon in
overtime over Butler, Texas beat number twenty two Missouri. Arizona
(30:13):
State won at number twenty three West Virginia to the NHL.
Among the eight games Florida and Washington with road wins.
Nashville trailed five to one in the second period but
still won its game seven to five over San Jose.
At the Australian Open, Madison Keys of the US winner quarterfinal,
as did number two seed Egos Fiantec into the Baseball
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Echiro Suzuki, C. C. Sabathia, and Billy Wagner. Each Yuro,
mostly with the Mariners, had over three thousand hits in
the majors, not including his time in the Japanese League's
five hundred steals here, and he won a Gold Glove
in each of his first ten years with Seattle. Yes,
the vote was nearly unanimous for Suzuki. The Minnesota Vikings
(30:55):
gave coach Kevin O'Connell a contract extension. The Patriots are
hiring Josh McDaniels offensive coordinator. Dallas interviewed its offensive coordinator
Brian Schottenheimer for its head coach opening.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
The Jets talk.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
To Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn again today. They're trying
to finalize the deal. Glenn reportedly has an offer. A
reminder of The NFC Championship game is Sunday at three
pm Eastern Time on Fox TV Washington at Philadelphia. Washington's
offense this postseason has sixteen drives, just one punt, eleven
scores out of those sixteen drives. The AFC Championship game Sunday,
(31:31):
Buffalo at Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
This is their fourth.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Playoff meeting in the last five years, and Kansas City's
won the previous three.
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Speaker 1 (32:10):
There is a guy who got paid today, way more
money than you ever thought he would get paid. And
you know what, good for him and good for the
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 1 (32:41):
We'll get to that big football story coming up in
a couple of seconds, but first I'm gonna put Mike
Harmon on the spot because we had a topic today
that is right down Broadway for him, completely in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, Okay, Baseball's golden ticket was found. Right, Yeah, an
eleven year.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Old kid from Los Angeles, the lucky kid that pulled
a one to one card of Pirates rookie Paul Schemes
right tops making this announcement today. The card has a
patch worn on the sleeve of Schemes is jersey from
his major league debut, and an autograph. Now, this card
was first got headlines in November when it was announced. Hey,
it's going to be a one of one and the
(33:22):
Pirates are offering a massive trade to this kid for
the card.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Here's what they're offering.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I remember the kid lives in La so But here's
the Pirates are offering two season tickets behind home plate
at P and C Park for the next thirty years. Okay,
two sick tickets behind home plate at PNC Park for
the next thirty years.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's not it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Exclusive meet and greet with Schemes, two autograph jerseys, a
softball game for up to thirty people at PNC Park
with coaching from team alumni, batting practice, you warm up
with the team, you have experiences at the teams spring
training facility in Florida. Also, Livvy Dunn, his girlfriend very
popular lsu Jenna said, ay, and experience watching a game
(34:10):
from a suite at.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
PNC Park with her. This is a lot for a
one of one card. But I need to know is
that where is that a value commensurate with this one
of one card?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Really, no, agree in Skien's place in the hobby. Look
because that's thirty years of tickets, thirty years of the
home plate.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah yeah, it is the Pirates, but it is.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Still thirty if you don't live in Pittsburgh. No, what
I'm saying is no, No, I mean obviously, what I
mean is is what they're offering like it doesn't be
like Yo, It's got to be something different because a
kid lives in LA. I just mean what they're offering
to somebody, is that a fair thing? Or should you
hold out for more? It's worth way more than that. Well,
I mean I'd take the cash or the physical challenge. Look,
(34:57):
the the livy done thing in the suite is fine.
The softball game for thirty How many people would really
want to do that or could do that?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I don't know. You want to get your family and
buddies jackass buddies together. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Unless Barry Bonds or Bobby Benia is one of the
alumni showing up.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Know how much that is?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
The autograph jerseys you can get those in the open
market at about seven hundred bucks apiece, So that isn't
a huge value, are they game?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Warn? Ah?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
See what I did there? The meet and Great's cool,
he's a pretty cool guy. And the tickets themselves, and
what is that? Eighty one a year? Maybe a playoff
every now and again. Yeah, I mean when you talk
about it, if you can get it to a Pirate
fan and you multiply that at over thirty years, then yeah,
(35:46):
I mean that that would have some pretty good ballet.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Tickets would be worth just shot. Just the home play tickets.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Let's just cause home play tickets behind home play a
panc park range from two hundred to eight hundred dollars
per tickets. So I just put in, Hey, if it's
four hundred dollars a ticket, right the lower end of
what tickets are, that's nine hundred thousand dollars worth of
tickets for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Well that's what they pay you.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
That's but to play. Because it's the Pirates, I probably
the game.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Am I precluded from scalping them because if they got
good or when the Yankees or Red Sox or Cubs
play there, I could sell them at a premium. Uh,
but I think the value it's been estimated somewhere in
the four to five hundred thousand dollars range.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
If you just wanted cash for it right now.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Uh, there were bounties on it when it was really
at its peak. I'd actually like to see the card
and the kid because at this point there have been
a number of hoaxes about it actually being pulled, So
that's a whole.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Other thing that's going on out there.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
But yeah, I mean it's it's been estimated that you know,
you're looking at a half a million for a payout
right now, So yeah, I mean based on the value,
and then figure the Pirates will raise ticket prices. Look,
this is just a cheap ploy to get the card
back to Paul Skeens as a make good and saying hey,
we'd like you to stay here forever, which he did
(37:08):
at their fan fest or whatever, and he.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Was pretty evasive about it.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
They also didn't spell Andrew McCutcheon's name right on the
name plate when he was.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well the mayor of Philadelphia was in charge of that.
That's why that might have been the case.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
But yeah, it's Look, it's fair. If if you want
to go hang out in Pittsburgh for thirty years, you're pirates.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Michael Keaton's gonna come kick your ass right now. That's
what I'm not No, no, no, I got kick. I didn't
disparage them about your people said if you want to
hang out in Pittsburgh for thirty years, Oh okay, No, if.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
You live in Pittsburgh, then it's perfect for you. The
Vulture's gonna come kick your sweet could see some cool gear.
He's gonna wear that jacket and come kick here.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
That would be fantastic. Is he gonna bring the scorpion
with him? Spoil phonus scenes?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
All right? So hey, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
We'll finish make the next three minutes about Mike Harton's
favorite team. Oh, the Bears paid Ben Johnson, right, we
knew he was the head coach of the Bears. Story
broke yesterday, but today we find out he's getting at
least thirteen million dollars a year to coach the Bears.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
This is the very high end.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
There's only a handful of coaches making more money per
year and all of them have won Super Bowls. So
he's getting a bunch of cash. Oh, Ben Jonson deserve
this money.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
It's a bargain at twice the price because I look
at like this for the Bears, it's a coup on
so many levels for both teams. Chicago's in a unique situation.
They need to harness their talent first and then worry
about building a culture. Every other team it's opposite. We
need to call the Jets need a culture, the Raiders
need a culture, the Jaguars need a culture.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Everybody needs a culture.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
No, the Bears have star players, they just need their
talent harnessed.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And Ben Johnson has one job.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Doesn't to worry about being a great head coach, doesn't
have to worry about setting a culture.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Get Caleb Williams going in the right direction, and that's
all you need to do. Everything else is negotiable. People
will ignore everything else as long as Caleb Williams gets right.
And if you are the Bears, yes you're paying a
lot of money, but you got the number one guy
in the cycle. Who's a guy that is tailor made
to come in and specifically help your team with its needs.
(39:20):
Because it's gotta be talent harnessing. If you had to
worry about a culture, everything out. No, you got to
make sure that Caleb Williams gets going and you have
the right guy in charge. He got Jared Goff going
in charge of that great offense in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
This is a This is a marriage that works for
both sides.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yes, Ben Johnson needs to go somewhere where he doesn't
have to worry about building a culture because can he
do it?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
We don't know. And what's he like running a program?
We don't know. Is it going to be is it
going to be a tire fire? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
But going in with his very specific job, get Caleb
Williams going, and everything else comes off it. It's great
for him and the Bears got the number one guy
in the cycle who is unique to be able to
solve the problems they have. This is a win for
both teams. Money he doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, I mean you had to overpay to convince him
to come, perhaps, but you know now he gets to
go and earn it. And you kept him away from
Tom Brady because remember, oh, no conflict of interest. He
talks on Fox and he's got an office with the Raiders,
so that gives him some unfair advantage.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
The hell he could send him an autograph photo? Is
that gonna tip to scale? Oh, it didn't work. But
the Bears get.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Their guy, and now you're paying him to come in
and work with Caleb Williams. Maybe Hank Frayley comes along.
That's the rumor, as is OC. We know that guy
knows something about offensive lines. Maybe he could teach Ryan Poles,
because Ryan Poles hasn't demonstrated that part of the equation
just yet. But you've got some good defensive pieces. You've
got a lot to build on. But yeah, sometimes you
(40:48):
have to take the big swing. The fact that the
Bears did is nothing short of a miracle.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Go buy a lottery.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Ticket, Harman. How do you spell Bears?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Ditka b A S Bears b R s A R
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had a couple minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Before you get back into this big story out of
Major League Baseball. It's not in a great last twenty
four hours or season for either the Warriors or the
seventy six ers.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
They get drubbed at home. The Warriors get rubbed at
home unlike they have in quite a long time. Last
night they lose by forty The Sixers going to Denver tonight,
they lose by thirty five. Joel Embiid sits out, he's
still not healthy enough to play, And there's the where's
Embiid at chant? We played for you that was rolling
through Denver, and I said, look, we've talked about the
(01:28):
potential of these guys moving on at different times, but
now here it is twenty four hours. You see what's
going on with these teams. The season's over for both
of them. Maybe the Warriors can hold on for a
little bit long because they're in the midst of a
big homestand now, but is it really going to get better?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And if I'm a GM.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And I need something to put me over the top,
it's time call the Sixers about Joel Embiid, call the
Warriors about Steph Curry. And because both these guys realize
that it's time for them, if they're going to win,
to go someplace else. Embiid needs a fresh start, the
Sixers need a fresh start. Right this is where it's
(02:07):
just not working anymore. You're just waiting for it to end.
The Warriors, it's well, we're really just going to continue
to try to hold on here, We're really gonna know.
You see, it's not happening. They're not getting better. It's
not getting any better. They're not getting any closer to
dominating the Western Conference. All the teams are younger, they're better,
the Warriors are Now about what's next. We've had an
incredible run, we had a mini dynasty.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It was great. Now what's next? Now?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You said, obviously, hey, Steph Curry is an easier guy
to try to call and trade for than Joelle Embiid.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well he still has value. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, look, and here's the thing is that you are
talking about both of these guys for two postseasons basically, right,
Because Steph Curry, you wonder is he's still going to
be the same player in a couple of years. You
want to think that'll still be close. But the next
two postseasons, you're pretty much still going to get as
close to prime Curry as you're going to get em
Bid The same thing. But Embiide is about in shape, motivation.
(03:00):
I gotta think Embiid for the next two seasons in
a place where you could maybe win a championship. Yeah,
he can rediscover that form because when he wanted to
win MVP, he was healthy enough he played, he made
sure to win, so maybe he'll be motivated to win
one to win and if he gets to the right team, Yeah,
I'm okay with the next two postseasons, the rest of
this season and one more and then you move on
(03:21):
if you have to. Okay, we try with em beat.
It didn't work. I'm a little more optimistic that with
a change of scenery and Bean can be good for
the next couple of years. Like you see for a
lot of players, Hey, it's problematic here, it's not working here.
Oh you know, Jimmy Butler would be really good at
the right place, change of scenery for the next year
or two. I want to prove to pat Ryle in
the heat, I can do it. I can get it done.
(03:42):
It just happens with guys that have that era of
that air of defeatedness about them. That where I am
right now, I'm done, I'm done doing it, I'm done
trying to play.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm done.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'm just waiting for divine intervention to show up and
put me on a different path.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And that's a general manager calling.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And yeah, it's a little bit more of a dicey
situation with EMBIID. But you wouldn't be giving up as
much for him. You'd be getting a third team involved
to make the salaries match. And look, the Sixers just
probably just be happy to be outside of Embiid's contract.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
By now.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We'll try to attract somebody else to come play with Tyrese, Maxie, Hey,
you know Maxie and George. Maybe this works out a
little bit better. So yeah, it's not going to be
as easy for embiides for Zeph Curry, but I still
love the possibility of another two post seasons of Joel
Embiid before you have to start worrying.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, now it's time to move on from the guy. Yeah, No,
I like what you're saying in theory.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
In theory, you always, no matter what, whether you agree
with me or not, you always like what I say
in theory.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
No, it's a good theoretical.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But here's the thing, Steph Curry still wants to play
basketball and busts his ass every night. For Joel Embiid,
I don't know how much he wants to and part
of that, yes, is where he's at in Philadelphia, motivations, etc.
Still griping about the fact that he had to kill
himself to win that MVP and force himself to play games.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And other guys have echoed that thing.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's like, you know what, you shouldn't have agreed to
it as a union then, And there's my response to that.
But you gutted out thirteen games at this point this season?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Could you have played? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I don't know the man's pain threshold at this point.
The fact that he's had a career at all, we've
stipulated to it for a long time of coming out
of what he did to get on the court initially
right miss two years, trust the process, all of that.
To have the career he has is a big deal.
And he's been fantastic three straight years where he averaged
over thirty points thirty four points a game plus last
(05:45):
year in the thirty nine that he played. But it's
the do I want to roll the dice that it's
just a matter of motivation versus his body is spent.
And this is where I now have to employ how
many specialists to check out his body in every way,
shape and form?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
How many more machines? What's the machine over there? Well,
that's the most expensive machine in that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And that's the one that goes bing I'm gonna need
to rev up all of those things if I'm gonna
make a trade at all, because I also risk disrupting.
If I think I've got a potential contender, I risk
blowing up whatever's in the locker room to bring him in.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't know about that because I look, it's gonna
be a bit of a risk, obviously, but all trades
are risks. But you're traded for a guy that's not
too far moved from the MVP that Hey, are you motivated?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Can you play? Awesome? Let's go do it. And first
somebody said can you play? And he says yeah, And
I said, well, why the hell haven't you been doing it?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't want to play here anymore. I want to
go play someplace. How many motivations? But how many guys?
That's salty? But yeah, but here's the thing, like, how
many guys have we seen look like they're done because
they just don't want to play for their team anymore?
Yet they go someplace else and suddenly, oh, we've found
the fountain of youth.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I'm playing really well. We've seen lots.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Of guys the Raiders alone, We've seen lots of guys.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
We've seen James Harden do it right. We've seen Kevin
Durant do. We've seen Chris Paul do. All these guys.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Hey, I'm done, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Oh no,
but here's doing in the five years in me? Wow,
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, now I'm just excited to be someplace else. If
we hadn't seen it so much, I would say it
was a bigger risk than it is. But because we've
seen from all these other guys and look, NBA stars,
you know, seem to follow a pattern Some of the
stars need to follow the same pattern here. Yeah, I
feel like em beating a different place. Suddenly, we'd be
a lot healthier, be playing a lot more. And you're
not relying him to be the guy. You want him
(07:42):
to be a big part of the team, but you're not.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Relying on him.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So yeah, he can kind of be a little bit
out of the spotlight when it comes to uh, you know,
the you know ball plays down the stretch and getting
the ball and hey, I want to win here. Yes,
he'd be a big story, but the the reliability of
what you need from him on the court wouldn't be
as much as what Philadelphia continues to ask him, this
is why shooting free throws. He gets tired, so it'll
(08:05):
be a little bit different. I think in another place.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Are you saying that this is kind of like Frank
Catton that needs to go to a different environment because
he's developed a case of bronkuidas in Ocean's eleven and
you got Bernie Max smiling as he goes into the
news State and gets himself transferred.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's kind of what you're implying here. Hey, look he's
feeling good. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The Jason Smithzer with Mike Carmen live at the Tirek
dot Com Studios. Now elsewhere we saw the big story
of the night. Major League Baseball Hall of Fame class
with twenty twenty five is announced.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Each ro Suzuki heads the class. He sees Sabbathia, Billy Wagner.
I think it was it was Roki Sasaki is already in.
He has already in the Hall, already had yeah, twenty
two years old. He's already in. He met Lebron James
and now he's in.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Each hero gets in with ninety nine point seven percent
of the vote. This means somebody didn't vote for Echiro Suzuki.
And the first thing I did, I'm telling them, telling
you the truth. First end when I saw this was
I texted Rob Parker just to make sure he wasn't
the one to not vote for eatroll Jase, let me
tell you each troll. Ah, the guy came in. He
(09:19):
was twenty seven year old rookie.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
No no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Rob Parker told me it wasn't him, and I told him, well,
then you should just at least tell people it was you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Because you know, hey, why not own that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I would say that the Rookie of the Year didn't count,
and that's why you just follow about him. He first
played professionally all those years, it didn't count.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
His first two thousand hits in Major League Baseball don't count.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Jay said, first ten years, they don't count.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Uh So, look, because it's embarrassing that someone's not voting
for Echiro Suzuki.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
And there's certain players. Yeah, they should be absolute unanimous.
It's what they have. It's what can separate them from
the JAG Hall of Famers that we put in every
year like Sabbathia and Billy Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
We got the top all of it. Jeter should have
been unanimous. Eachiro should have been unanimous. Rivera was unanimous, Like,
it's what these plates, that's how you should.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Reward these players.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So you always get the one guy I'm gonna make
headlines or I don't think this, or I didn't like
this guy because he didn't sign an autograph for me.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But there's one story going around right now.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That a guy who presents himself as a beat writer
for the Mets Man and he writes for the National
Inquirer I n q U I R e R that
we're not quite sure is a real paper, that it's
some kind of parody site. And the guy who writes
for it, his name is Mark Gooden, and he's.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
All over soul. He's got like fifteen thousand followers. So
he's a dude.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
He covers the Mets and his surname is Gooden. Yeah,
he's all what you will. I didn't you think they
called him doc? Did anybody even call them doc?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Doc's on the beat?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
On his on his uh Twitter bio, it actually says
he didn't vote for Eachi Ro and he is all
over the place making sure people know all his tweets.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hey, I'm not an idiot. I'm but I'm the guy
that didn't vote for Eachiro. So you wonder how real
this is?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Is this really? Is this guy real? Is he really
a big senior beat?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right? What is this National inquirer with an eye?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And I ask you, what's the more embarrassing story for baseball?
Because this is embarrassing that someone decides Itchro Suzuki. Oh,
by the way, two hundred or more hits in each
of his first ten years in Major League baseball. I mean,
come on, like, this guy's if there's any first ballot
unanimous guy, it's Ei Ro.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
And racking up gold gloves to bree.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yes, I mean yeah, I mean really, this is this
is is one of the greatest players I've ever seen
play the game. He may be in the top ten
of greatest players I've ever seen play the game. And look,
I've been watching baseball for about.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Fifty close to fifty years, So yeah, I feel pretty
comfortable with that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And I'm not going to go back out to see
Ruth or Gering or any of those guys playing. Rob
Parker may have, but I didn't, So I mean, I'm
not gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But but you know what's more, embarrassing for baseball that potentially,
if this is a true story, somebody with a vote
of a paper that's not might that might not be real,
that could be satirical. Who wants to wear this as
a badge of honor this guy's able to get a vote.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Or is it more.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Embarrassing that a somebody the Baseball Writers Association trusts because
they've been covering the game for a long time didn't
vote for Etro for the Hall of Fame? Like, what's
more embarrassing to have baseball? Because one of these things
is true. Either somebody who's a long standing member they
trust to be a Hall of Fame voter is or
somebody snuck in the back door somehow gotta vote for
a crazy reason and decided not to vote for Eachro.
(12:41):
Like is it letting that person into vote or is
it trusting the person that's been there for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I don't know what's more embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I really we're just talking about Philadelphia and trusting the process.
Evidently you got a problem. You gotta glitch in the matrix,
is what I would say here, right one way or
the other. You know, obviously we've had plenty of example
I mean, there's only one guy that's gone in unanimously, right, Well,
for all the universal love of Jeter, he didn't. It's
(13:09):
Marioto Rivera. That's it. One and only all the years,
going back to the first election of the Hall of Fame,
Babe Ruth wasn't unanimous and on down the line. And
then obviously there were other guys who didn't go to unanimously,
and we can guess for any myriad reasons. But in
(13:30):
this case, I'd really like to sit down with that person,
not to berate them, not to interrogate them, just to
say why, Spock, why and be done with it. Give
me asked and answered. Just you know, you don't believe
anybody should be unanimous on principle. It's a terrible reason,
but I guess it counts as for the other Yeah,
(13:52):
if you've got a guy that maybe once upon a
time was accredited and now he's on a parody account,
how great is that he got in the back door
trojan horse and now he make some mockery of your
the sanctity of your votes.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's it's so it's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Three thousand hits, fifteen hundred runs right, five hundred stolen bases,
ten gold gloves, he won an MVP, two batting titles,
ten All Stars.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, not doing it. No, it's so embarrassing. It's it
really is.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I can't wait to find because we know we're gonna
know by tomorrow. Because you know, writers right now are
trying to figure this out. There's a lot of writers
who were saying, hey, it wasn't me. Here's yeah. I mean,
they have the ability to make their ballot public. So
you got those folks. But I think it becomes the
fact finding mission because someone's got to be able to
get the master list of whose votes, uh, you know,
(14:51):
who are the voters, and then you just do the
process of elimination. I think you know, we've seen sample
ballots where you've got a number up top right that
you match it with to corroborate the signature is the
person that's supposed to be voting.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
There process of elimination. We should be able to get
through this pretty fast. It's not like we're doing one
hundreds of millions of votes like a federal election or anything.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
This should be a pretty fast process.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Baseball Hall of Fame, do the ticket taking, show off
some gloves and bats and welcome your new members and
you know, get cracking.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Exit out about a fresca at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire Rack dot
com studios. If we find out who it is before
the end of the show, we will of course tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Send Daniel Craig after. But come, I suspect foul play.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But coming up next a spelling lesson in advance of
the NFL playoff games this weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
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Speaker 1 (17:14):
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Speaker 3 (17:26):
And uh, you know, I have a few friends who
are Eagles fans, and I sent them all this video
today and I said, you are never going to live
this down.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Only one of my friends responded back, like that's typical.
They give you a only once.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Uh no, no, no, no, the Felix back.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, the Felix under response,
my dad gives me what I sent it. Noe.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
This just means you just have one good friend.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
No, no, this just means an Eagles fans like, yeah whatever. So, uh, the.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
This happen and over the weekend, and you know, we
had the Pesky National Championship game last night, but this
really started to gain a lot of attention over the
course of the day today and I thought I read
somewhere where Hey, it took a while for the video
of this to actually get put up online. Before the
Eagles game against the Rams this weekend, Philadelphia Mayor Charrelle
(18:19):
Parker was helping to pump up the crowd in Philadelphia,
saying things, I listen, make sure we get there safely,
blah blah blah blah blah. And she wanted to finish
her little press conference with which attended by a lot
of Eagles fans and Philadelphia citizens, by doing the Eagles chant,
which is spelling out the word.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Eagles e A G L E S Eagles. Right.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We've heard that a lot. This is j Ets to
the next level. We're gonna go with five letters. So
except For one thing, Mayor Parker didn't quite spell eagles
in the traditional spelling way.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Take a listen, hey, oh yes, let's go birds.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Try again.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
All right, let's you know what, may maybe she missed.
Let's be fair, let's be let's get her another chance.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Take care, let her try again.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
She is the may You gotta give the mayor a
second chance, right, give the mayor a second chance, Give
a second chance. Let the mayor try to spell eagles again.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Go ahead, hey, ow.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yes, yes, oh boy, yeah, well, at least.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Try decisions she is. Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Well, maybe she's got a proof reader for for emails
and for stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know. Oh, that's what that word means. Oh oh,
that's what that word means. That's what that word means.
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I always say we talked about this, and we talked
about this earlier in the show. I'm like, you know,
when you hear something long enough, like.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Your favorite parts of a change, your favorite parts of
a piece of music, your favorite characters, and your favorite movie.
Oh man, I love this, and now this guy's my
favorite character, this woman's my favorite. Like now after seeing
this now like probably fifty sixty times, I'm like, my
favorite parts has a change, right, my first My first
favorite part was the people behind are trying to follow
(20:11):
her spelling eagles couldn't do it right. Then I morphed
into I love how happy she is you know, spelling,
you know spelling, spelling it really really, she just doesn't
miss a letter man. She she misses like three of them,
but she's so happy doing it. But now I think
my favorite part is, okay, e l G s E
s Right, you got screwed up.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And you didn't know how to spell eagles. Okay, but no.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Matter what you know, even if the eagles you know,
only has one S. You know, I don't no matter
how you're spelling it, it only has one S and.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
She put two s's.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Maybe maybe she spells it in cyrillic or something. I
mean she did not just EO other characters. Yeah, like
you know, it's one thing is she did e l
ges Oh you missed the A oh I busits sorry,
but she went.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
E l gs E.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well you know my general rule in life, if you're
gonna fail, fail spectacular.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, but you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I mean in a in a city which has been
under siege, because you know, fans don't like the fact
that a player is reading on the side of it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
This is the after effect that when you don't read
a lot, you spell words like this. You gotta keep reading. Man,
reading is fundamental.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, it really does not help the image coming off
of the Well, I can't believe this guy's reading. Yeah,
and Yata argue, yes, I do. This is not that
this is not the first time.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, damn it.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Although does this work the other way? And go, hey,
we told you how overrated reading is. How overrated reading is. Look,
the mayor can't spell eagles and she's the mayor. She
was able to become the mayor on that. Come on,
we had to how much do you need to read
and spell stuff?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No, not that important. Has she signed a deal with
Northwest Airlines yet? Well?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah, but you know what, but she never seemed to
feel like, oh I understand I screwed that up.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know she did well. I mean she did it
in post right in that moment.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
No, right, back to laugh go birds right, yes, but
that guy laughing is the king to me.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, he knows what's going on. Yeah, yeah, I mean
she did fit. She did talk about it today.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Where she kind of brought it up talking at an
unrelated event she had today in Kensington, where she said, look,
we don't promise perfection, so I'm happy that I never have,
especially after I couldn't spell eagles right.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So okay, good, you got a nice laugh. Yet that
that's pretty cool, very self deprecated, because I mean, what
can you do? What can you say?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh my my prompter didn't have eagles spelled right there.
They weren't holding the right spelling up for me for eagles. Well,
she would have just said, I'm Ron Burgundy.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I mean she can't resign?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is it? Wow? Do you resigns now?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
There's Scandi Pennsylvania right now than the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're right, I will say this.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
If you wanted to run for mayor on the opposite ticket,
you come out and this is what you say.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
This is something awful. I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
We can't have a mayor that can't spell eagles right.
This cannot and does not have it all. Vote for
me for mayor. I will get five more seasons. If
it's always sunny in Philadelphia, we will film here. I
will get tax breaks.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I will do that, and I will spell eagles right
every single time I bring up Rob mclaney behind me
wearing his Rex Eagles gear and suddenly it's gonna be
all great.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Talk about how much you love education.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
You were one that helped get Abbot Elementary picked up
for its fifth season, which was Australia Today.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Could I could be the mayor of Philadelphia? Just on
just on that platform right there?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I could? There you go, and then you start yelling
whiz with whizz out ready follow me? Whiz Wait, w's without?
Whit's wit? When's without? And someone else? How do you
spell that?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
How do you think this mayor spells Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
See if you misspelled Philadelphia, at least that could be
a little tricky.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
An H and an I than an eld and an
a D than the e P, then another H and
another I to like Philadelphia could at least has a
little bit places that could trip you up.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But Eagles is just e A G L E s
like it's.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I really thought you were gonna say spelling things out
to the cadence that Fergie does infer Delicious.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You're getting real close right.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
There, I I really it's I mean, it baffles me
that you that you can blow spelling Eagles wrong.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You can just I mean it really, I mean it
was the heat of the moment. I don't know. It
wasn't very hot. It was all very cold out. It's
all very cold. I wanted to get inside.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, of course there was there was no pressure, there
was no heat. All you gotta what do I have
to do to walk up here and have a successful
appearance in front of the people of Philadelphia. All you
gotta do is spell eagles, chant and say go birds,
and everybody's gonna clap.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's it. That's all you need to do. That's all
you need. Well, pre publicity for you. But if you
were miss up.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But what if you were prompted by a bunch of
fans who decided, oh, that guy's bare chested and he's drunk,
and they all had wrong letters that were in the
wrong order, so you read them off in cadence and
then realized, what the hell did I just do?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Why am I reading guys chests? I should know how
to spell eagles because they're screaming with you. Oh wait,
that guy's got an s A man. Oh you know,
I didn't know it was an A after the E.
For the longest time, I thought eagles was just ee
g L E S. Hey, I just read it off
like they lined up. It's on them.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That former running back Mark Van Eagan starts with two e's.
He played for a long time in the seventies for
the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I thought it was Eagles E E. G. Eliott.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I thought it was Eagles, like E G A L. S.
Thought it was a lot of girls playing for a
while because it was the Egles. Don't know, just just
the Eagles. I didn't know whiz with wiz without whiz with.
I do appreciate the radio station for uh, the commanders
whatever the call sign is, uh making these shirts.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, the shirts. So they gotten into it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Fly egg fly LJ SIS fly like it's gonna fly
Eagles fly fly E L G S E S.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
No, that's gonna be a pretty popular shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
This good question for you guys. Here, go ahead, Frostburg,
you're Jaden Daniels, not the line? Do you throw out the.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
E l Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, you have to have some kind of some kind
of audible.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Instead of Omaha, you've got that.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah, E L G S E S E L G
s C. Yeah, Oh that's that play. Okay, I got it,
got it all right?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Great?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Then he got absolutely buried by Jalen Carter on the
play We're not.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Calling that again. It seemed to make him mad. E
L G. S ees go.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Birds, and that's the snap on go birds. Snap it
to me when I say go birds, that would be outstanding.
I really did the truck look, and I really see
I didn't really have a a dog in the fight
here for Eagles commanders here this weekend. But now now
I want the Eagles to win, just so we could
play this all the way through the Super Bowl, Like
(27:06):
so we can play this drop of her going E
L G S E s between now in the.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Beginning, she could run radio row.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
All of a sudden, she's she's catapulting beyond Mayor. She's
got bigger sites because she comes to national celebrity doing
interviews all over the nation. She gets to have all
sorts of policy things and spell Eagles.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
And she could be the prime minister of Canada. They're
looking for somebody, right, how about that we just go
a little north, you know. That's how we spelled the
Eagles America. If that's officially is it officially changed, I
don't know, is it officially.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Changed officially, unofficially official E L g s c s
E l g s c S.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Although I guess in Canada if you told me, hey,
e l g ss might mean something like maybe in
other countries els like, wasn't that the council in uh
Lorda the rings that they all met at in the
in the third one the Council of Elgasis where they all.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Might have been, you know, a troll fighting off Old
Spiegel there we have to.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Talk about defeating the orcs at the Council of Elgasis.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I know what that means in Canadian?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What does it mean a Canadian?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Bring me a damn Molson?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Now tell me out a fun hey Man like anything.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
If we keep using it incorrectly, it'll eventually find its
way into a dictionary.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It'll be good. Hey, Miriam Webster will have this as
the word of the year at twenty. If the Eagles win.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The Super Bowl, maybe Elgasis gets in there. Maybe the
about the Council of Elgasis gets in there. Right now,
a guy who read the Cimarillion twice. It's Steve Desager,
who's got what's trending in the wide world of sports?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Oh, mister litt are you were you were? You a
college Litt Major. Well, let's start with the NBA game
at the Lakers. Lebron James with a triple double. LA
over Washington one eleven to eighty eight. Wizards six and
thirty six lost eleven games in a row. Philadelphia has
lost seventh straight after dropping a decision at Denver one
(29:06):
forty four to one oh nine. Nikola Jokich in three
quarters had a triple double in this one. By the way,
Paul George did play at nine assists after the groin
injury caused him to miss the previous two games. Portland
won at Miami won sixteen one oh seventy andre eight
and twenty two points fifteen rebounds. At Toronto, Orlando led
the Raptors in the first quarter thirty two to eleven.
(29:28):
Raptors came back for a win one oh nine ninety three,
and New York was a winner at Brooklyn ninety nine
ninety five. Knicks record now twenty nine and sixteen. Karl
Anthony Towns with twenty five points sixteen rebounds. Cleveland's Evan
Mobley will miss a third straight game tomorrow with a
strain calf. Kawhi Leonard of the Clippers will miss a
second straight game with his bad knee in college basketball's
(29:49):
top ten wins for Iowa State and Alabama, for Tennessee
and for number ten Marquette, which won at Seaton Hall
seventy six fifty nine the Hall with twenty four turnovers.
Ohio State trail held at eleventh rank Purdue by sixteen
points just before halftime, but the Buckeys won the games
seventy three, seventy Oregon and Ucla with victories. Yukon in
overtime over Butler, Texas beat number twenty two Missouri. Arizona
(30:13):
State won at number twenty three West Virginia to the NHL.
Among the eight games Florida and Washington with road wins.
Nashville trailed five to one in the second period but
still won its game seven to five over San Jose.
At the Australian Open, Madison Keys of the US winner quarterfinal,
as did number two seed Egos Fiantec into the Baseball
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Echiro Suzuki, C. C. Sabathia, and Billy Wagner. Each Yuro,
mostly with the Mariners, had over three thousand hits in
the majors, not including his time in the Japanese League's
five hundred steals here, and he won a Gold Glove
in each of his first ten years with Seattle. Yes,
the vote was nearly unanimous for Suzuki. The Minnesota Vikings
(30:55):
gave coach Kevin O'Connell a contract extension. The Patriots are
hiring Josh McDaniels offensive coordinator. Dallas interviewed its offensive coordinator
Brian Schottenheimer for its head coach opening.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
The Jets talk.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
To Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn again today. They're trying
to finalize the deal. Glenn reportedly has an offer. A
reminder of The NFC Championship game is Sunday at three
pm Eastern Time on Fox TV Washington at Philadelphia. Washington's
offense this postseason has sixteen drives, just one punt, eleven
scores out of those sixteen drives. The AFC Championship game Sunday,
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Buffalo at Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
This is their fourth.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Playoff meeting in the last five years, and Kansas City's
won the previous three.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
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Speaker 1 (32:10):
There is a guy who got paid today, way more
money than you ever thought he would get paid. And
you know what, good for him and good for the
team that paid him. That's next right here, Jason and Mike.
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Speaker 2 (32:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (32:35):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
We'll get to that big football story coming up in
a couple of seconds, but first I'm gonna put Mike
Harmon on the spot because we had a topic today
that is right down Broadway for him, completely in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, Okay, Baseball's golden ticket was found. Right, Yeah, an
eleven year.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Old kid from Los Angeles, the lucky kid that pulled
a one to one card of Pirates rookie Paul Schemes
right tops making this announcement today. The card has a
patch worn on the sleeve of Schemes is jersey from
his major league debut, and an autograph. Now, this card
was first got headlines in November when it was announced. Hey,
it's going to be a one of one and the
(33:22):
Pirates are offering a massive trade to this kid for
the card.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Here's what they're offering.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I remember the kid lives in La so But here's
the Pirates are offering two season tickets behind home plate
at P and C Park for the next thirty years. Okay,
two sick tickets behind home plate at PNC Park for
the next thirty years.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's not it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Exclusive meet and greet with Schemes, two autograph jerseys, a
softball game for up to thirty people at PNC Park
with coaching from team alumni, batting practice, you warm up
with the team, you have experiences at the teams spring
training facility in Florida. Also, Livvy Dunn, his girlfriend very
popular lsu Jenna said, ay, and experience watching a game
(34:10):
from a suite at.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
PNC Park with her. This is a lot for a
one of one card. But I need to know is
that where is that a value commensurate with this one
of one card?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Really, no, agree in Skien's place in the hobby. Look
because that's thirty years of tickets, thirty years of the
home plate.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah yeah, it is the Pirates, but it is.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Still thirty if you don't live in Pittsburgh. No, what
I'm saying is no, No, I mean obviously, what I
mean is is what they're offering like it doesn't be
like Yo, It's got to be something different because a
kid lives in LA. I just mean what they're offering
to somebody, is that a fair thing? Or should you
hold out for more? It's worth way more than that. Well,
I mean I'd take the cash or the physical challenge. Look,
(34:57):
the the livy done thing in the suite is fine.
The softball game for thirty How many people would really
want to do that or could do that?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I don't know. You want to get your family and
buddies jackass buddies together. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Unless Barry Bonds or Bobby Benia is one of the
alumni showing up.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Know how much that is?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
The autograph jerseys you can get those in the open
market at about seven hundred bucks apiece, So that isn't
a huge value, are they game?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Warn? Ah?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
See what I did there? The meet and Great's cool,
he's a pretty cool guy. And the tickets themselves, and
what is that? Eighty one a year? Maybe a playoff
every now and again. Yeah, I mean when you talk
about it, if you can get it to a Pirate
fan and you multiply that at over thirty years, then yeah,
(35:46):
I mean that that would have some pretty good ballet.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Tickets would be worth just shot. Just the home play tickets.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Let's just cause home play tickets behind home play a
panc park range from two hundred to eight hundred dollars
per tickets. So I just put in, Hey, if it's
four hundred dollars a ticket, right the lower end of
what tickets are, that's nine hundred thousand dollars worth of
tickets for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Well that's what they pay you.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
That's but to play. Because it's the Pirates, I probably
the game.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Am I precluded from scalping them because if they got
good or when the Yankees or Red Sox or Cubs
play there, I could sell them at a premium. Uh,
but I think the value it's been estimated somewhere in
the four to five hundred thousand dollars range.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
If you just wanted cash for it right now.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Uh, there were bounties on it when it was really
at its peak. I'd actually like to see the card
and the kid because at this point there have been
a number of hoaxes about it actually being pulled, So
that's a whole.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Other thing that's going on out there.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
But yeah, I mean it's it's been estimated that you know,
you're looking at a half a million for a payout
right now, So yeah, I mean based on the value,
and then figure the Pirates will raise ticket prices. Look,
this is just a cheap ploy to get the card
back to Paul Skeens as a make good and saying hey,
we'd like you to stay here forever, which he did
(37:08):
at their fan fest or whatever, and he.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Was pretty evasive about it.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
They also didn't spell Andrew McCutcheon's name right on the
name plate when he was.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well the mayor of Philadelphia was in charge of that.
That's why that might have been the case.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
But yeah, it's Look, it's fair. If if you want
to go hang out in Pittsburgh for thirty years, you're pirates.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Michael Keaton's gonna come kick your ass right now. That's
what I'm not No, no, no, I got kick. I didn't
disparage them about your people said if you want to
hang out in Pittsburgh for thirty years, Oh okay, No, if.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
You live in Pittsburgh, then it's perfect for you. The
Vulture's gonna come kick your sweet could see some cool gear.
He's gonna wear that jacket and come kick here.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
That would be fantastic. Is he gonna bring the scorpion
with him? Spoil phonus scenes?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
All right? So hey, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
We'll finish make the next three minutes about Mike Harton's
favorite team. Oh, the Bears paid Ben Johnson, right, we
knew he was the head coach of the Bears. Story
broke yesterday, but today we find out he's getting at
least thirteen million dollars a year to coach the Bears.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
This is the very high end.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
There's only a handful of coaches making more money per
year and all of them have won Super Bowls. So
he's getting a bunch of cash. Oh, Ben Jonson deserve
this money.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
It's a bargain at twice the price because I look
at like this for the Bears, it's a coup on
so many levels for both teams. Chicago's in a unique situation.
They need to harness their talent first and then worry
about building a culture. Every other team it's opposite. We
need to call the Jets need a culture, the Raiders
need a culture, the Jaguars need a culture.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Everybody needs a culture.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
No, the Bears have star players, they just need their
talent harnessed.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And Ben Johnson has one job.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Doesn't to worry about being a great head coach, doesn't
have to worry about setting a culture.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Get Caleb Williams going in the right direction, and that's
all you need to do. Everything else is negotiable. People
will ignore everything else as long as Caleb Williams gets right.
And if you are the Bears, yes you're paying a
lot of money, but you got the number one guy
in the cycle. Who's a guy that is tailor made
to come in and specifically help your team with its needs.
(39:20):
Because it's gotta be talent harnessing. If you had to
worry about a culture, everything out. No, you got to
make sure that Caleb Williams gets going and you have
the right guy in charge. He got Jared Goff going
in charge of that great offense in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
This is a This is a marriage that works for
both sides.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yes, Ben Johnson needs to go somewhere where he doesn't
have to worry about building a culture because can he
do it?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
We don't know. And what's he like running a program?
We don't know. Is it going to be is it
going to be a tire fire? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
But going in with his very specific job, get Caleb
Williams going, and everything else comes off it. It's great
for him and the Bears got the number one guy
in the cycle who is unique to be able to
solve the problems they have. This is a win for
both teams. Money he doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, I mean you had to overpay to convince him
to come, perhaps, but you know now he gets to
go and earn it. And you kept him away from
Tom Brady because remember, oh, no conflict of interest. He
talks on Fox and he's got an office with the Raiders,
so that gives him some unfair advantage.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
The hell he could send him an autograph photo? Is
that gonna tip to scale? Oh, it didn't work. But
the Bears get.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Their guy, and now you're paying him to come in
and work with Caleb Williams. Maybe Hank Frayley comes along.
That's the rumor, as is OC. We know that guy
knows something about offensive lines. Maybe he could teach Ryan Poles,
because Ryan Poles hasn't demonstrated that part of the equation
just yet. But you've got some good defensive pieces. You've
got a lot to build on. But yeah, sometimes you
(40:48):
have to take the big swing. The fact that the
Bears did is nothing short of a miracle.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Go buy a lottery.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Ticket, Harman. How do you spell Bears?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Ditka b A S Bears b R s A R
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