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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike hard live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios, where hold on to your hats
because we have the WNBA sex toy update coming your
way in the next twenty minutes because uh, and we're
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we're trying to cross some t's and dot some eyes here.
You know, we told you last hour on the show.
A sex toy was thrown on the court again tonight
in tonight's game between the Fever and the Sparks. But
according to other reports, sex toys were nearly thrown on
the floor at two other WNBA games. They didn't make
it onto the court. So now this has become an
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even bigger thing. And again we'll have more on that
coming up in about twenty minutes. But all of a sudden,
this story. I'm like, oh my goodness, but it just
keeps giving. Yeah, the biggest story of the night. And
I you know, and there's a huge takeaway from this,
And we talked about this earlier, starting to go viral
for us a little bit here on social media. ESPN
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is going to buy the NFL Network and get rights
to the Red Zone Channel as well. Now, this is
a story that we had known was likely coming for
a while, but it gets officially announced tonight. ESPN has
bought NFL Network and other NFL media assets, including the
rights to Red Zone Channel, in a deal that's going
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to see the NFL get some kind of equity stake
in ESPN. So it's a big business deal. But what
we have to know is that basically, okay, ESPN has
bought NFL Network and the Red Zone Channel. And the
first note of business that was out there was Scott
Hanson is staying. Scott Hanson is stang, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Because there was some stuff he was talking about negotiations whatever,
and everybody got all nervous.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah yeah, but but Scott Hanson is stay. And let
me just say this before we get to the really
big thing that's right, those beaches. This is the fourth
of July weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We can't have it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Everything's gonna be fine. Everything is going to be fine,
nf NFL Network's going to be fine. First of all,
it's after this season, right, so nothing's happening this year.
Everything is okay.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You can you can react slowly to the change.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Everything everything changing, it's over time. The NFL networks still
going to have NFL Network programming, The red zone is
still going to be red zone programming. It's still good
to happen, Okay, even if it does change, which is not.
Even if it does, it's gonna be this way this year. Okay,
So it's all right, it's it's all right, right, everything's
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gonna be fine. You're gonna get the games. You're gonna
get NFL network games, you're gonna get, you're gonna get
red zone. Everything is fine, right, You're gonna be okay.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
The kids that I have taken to the you know,
you're just kind of going through your paces of your day, right,
you get a lot going on, like how's everything going,
old blood dy, old bladda, and then you get back
to whatever the hell it is, you're supposed to be new.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It goes on manute.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But this is the big takeaway right now. Obviously, could
there be some changes, Yeah, oh, there's gonna be average
people are already talking about there could be advertising on
red zone shouting red zone. Okay, I think at some
point that was going to happen, and not that we
know what's gonna happen. But if there's some kind of advertising, well, yeah,
because you gotta find a way to monetize it a
little bit more. Now, is it gonna be the point
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where hey, we're back in two and a half minutes. No,
but could there be something on the bottom crawl? Could
there be some sort of voiceover while you're watching action
on TV?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Could there be some sort of video in a corner
while you're watching a game. Yeah, you could see stuff
like that, and you know what, Look, that's just the
way that business evolves. Now, But is there ever gonna
be something where it's gonna be Oh my god, Now,
this is a three and a half minute break and
I'm not gonna get anything. No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But even if they did, you'd come back and they'd
catch up, and you'd be okay, and life would go on.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
ESPN's been doing sports for a while, Okay, Just to
understand that ESPN is not some sort of streaming giant
that bought the rights to this and I don't know
if we know what we're doing. You know, it's not
like HBO Max bought the rights to the Red Zone
Channel and NFL network and suddenly, look what's going to happen. Right,
Everything's gonna be fine. But this is the big point, right,
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because this is a look in the mirror moment for ESPN.
Because when this deal got announced today, what did you
see everywhere? The general consensus everywhere social media reaction was,
oh great, ESPN bought NFL network in the Red Zone channel.
They're gonna ruin it. Right, it's all of a sudden,
it's gonna be woke or we're gonna get interviews on
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Sunday during the Red Zone with whoever's gonna be starting
an ABC drama in the fall. Right, they're gonna ruin it.
They're gonna ruin They're gonna ruin the Red Zone channel.
They're gonna ruin the NFL network.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
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Speaker 3 (05:35):
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Speaker 1 (05:38):
Stephen A. Smith is gonna be doing red Zone Channel.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, how the.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Jets allow the Patriots on the first drive to get
inside the red zone. We're in the gold zone? Now,
how do they get in the red zone? This is
embarrassing for Aaron Glenn. Aaron Glenn should be fired because
of what's going on here on the first.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Drive of the game.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Like, you know, would people be more outraged at that
or a commercial for two and a half minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
This drive by the Cowboys was abysmal. It was awful,
it was ridiculous. It was the worst drive I've ever seen.
It's ten to seven in the second quarter, doesn't matter.
This is the This is the biggest affront to the
NFL I've seen from the Cowboys. Like, this is what
people are talking about, and some of it's fun, but
this is the point, right.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Is that get a hug?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Is that this is ESPN? Right, whatever you think about ESPN,
they've been doing sports. They've been the evil Empire, they've
been the giant for a long time. Right, you can say, oh,
they could be doing the NFL a little bit better.
They've been doing sports will they know what they're doing.
But the general consensus is that the first reaction to
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ESPN getting the NFL Network and Red Zone channel is
they're gonna screw it up. And this is where ESPN's
got to stop and go, Okay, our brand, our brand recognition,
our brand favorability is absolutely in the toilet.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Is this because people are mad about Fantastic four? Fantastic four?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
H I have not seen I mean, just to think
about that for a second, because again, this is not
some chant. It's not like the Hallmark Channel bought this
and we're suddenly gonna get Lacey Schevert and Danica mckeller
and y'all, you know, in some sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Where they're tell me you're not sidling up with a
cup of coco and getting in your.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Would I would get to see the game, and I
would get to see someone play a fall festival?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You know what you should put as a table runner
in the whole nine yardsuse everybody's coming to your holiday meal.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But look from someone who has been there both behind
the scenes and is a talent like ESPN is a
huge conglomerate, and there is so many There are so
many voices and so many things that go into putting
on sports and the different sports channels twenty four to seven.
This is what they do, and still you're getting your
I could tell you the detail that they go through
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to to to broadcast games and what they do to
make sure that they're putting out a great product. And
this is not even a studio show. This is not
even a studio show. You they're talking about, Hey, they're
buying the NFL. Now, well, guess what, NFL NET. We're
still gonna have their talent on doing things and they're
gonna stop. Red Zone is still gonna do their thing.
And the general opinion is that ESPN's gonna screw it up.
(08:23):
Like this is where you have to stop and say, okay,
we need to do some sort of deep dive into
why our reputation and our optics are so bad.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I get once in a while where you get all
the woke optic or this, but it but it the
the the mountain of of that ESPN used to sit
atop for sports like that's gone now and and I
get that where oh I like the way that Fox
does one thing. I like the way that ESPN does
one thing. I understand that part of the rivalry, but
the whole thing is that ESPN that's what they do.
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And still the general opinion in the optic is that
they're gonna get this. They're gonna get the property of
the NFL even more than they have now, and they're
gonna screw it up. Like this is where if I'm
running ESPN, if I'm any of the any the big
wigs there, I gotta say, Okay, this is this is
the low point for us now. And I get that
social media is always gonna be the lowest common denominator
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of things. But there's nobody that's coming out and see
how everything's gonna be fine. The general consensus from fans
your bread and butter, the ones that pay the money
that you want to pay the money for your streaming
service that you're gonna have coming out. The fans are
the ones that are saying, I don't watch ESPN anymore.
I can't believe you're gonna screw this up. You have
to fix that brand. You need trust in brand, you
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need trust in product, like just like any any product
that is put out there that is seeing hard, Like,
why are no one buying Cheetos anymore. What do we
need to do kids don't like Cheetos. What if we
do flaming Cheetos?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Kay?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Now, Cheetos is great, right because what they do they
put their heads together and let's come up with a
way to have our brand be more relevant now just
for any product Schooner, Tuna, mister Mom in the eighties.
But ESPN's got to find a way to get their
brand back to hey have a favorability at least a
at least an overwhelming majority where people have a favorable
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opinion of ESPN and not just oh they're gonna screw
it up, like you have to find a way to Sarah.
We got to find the trust back in this product
because then when we launch a streaming service, Oh, people
don't want to pay twenty nine bucks a month to this.
Oh man, okay, wait, people are cutting the cords and
they're cutting off ESPN. We have all this great programming
out though. Guess what other places have live programming too,
And I can I can get the NFL from here,
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I can get it here, I can get this here.
Oh wait, so this is where if this has got
to be one of those red flag moments where it's, man,
we bought the NFL network and we're buying Red Zone,
and all people think of as how we're gonna screw
it up. Man, you got to look in the mirror
and say we got to change things. Yeah, I mean, look,
it goes back to your traditional networks that you've already
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been running and what the perceptions are now. Obviously one
of the main points of interest in the larger social
sphere is how much do you get of the McAfee show,
How much do you get of Steven A.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Smith?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And will those you know a lot of them the
Red Zone.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But but that but that's where people like, all right,
are these guys suddenly gonna be sitting in a in
a Barci lounger like it's the Manning cast chiming in
when Scott Hansen gives an update, right, and then they
debate it for two minutes before he gets to the
next one, you know, fundamentally changing the show.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And the answer is you paid them a lot of money.
They're probably gonna show up somewhere and you're gonna have
some way. Yeah, but that Smith is on NFL network
during the day. Okay, that's not the crossover. It's like
your favorite television dramas, say on ABC, here's a special
firehouse nine to one one or whatever the hell it
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was called. From Shondaland into Gray's Anatomy and back and
forth and whatever else. It's gonna be the same thing, man,
you know you talk about from the TV radio side,
whatever else, they're gonna bleed over and that, and that's
just the nature of the beast of how you try
to figure out how to incorporate and expand that acquisition
and make it profitable. But along the way, yeah, they'll
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be missteps.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And they'll be you know, everybody's got their fiefdom that
they build within any walls, any organization, no matter where
you work, and certainly in media that guys have favorites
and want to make sure that they get their run
as often as they can. And certainly we'll see that.
And like I said, you've already paid them a lot
of money. Those two principles, you're going to see them
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and you're gonna have to get over it or you
know what the old Kevin Durant comes in becomes.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The thing is that with with ESPN used to have
such a strugglehold on whatever sport you wanted to watch,
we have it, and it's like not so much anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But now it's fractured sports center. Because of the the
way the internet works, I can watch mone of you
a bunch of different ways, right, I can. I can
see whatever I want college football game.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I could watch this other college football game instead, right,
I mean, there there's I have choice.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
I have.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You are you are no longer underserved in sports. We
are If anything, we are all overserved because we can
get any and anything we want from different ways, and
and and there's enough, there's enough of a push out
there where people can say, I don't need ESPN. Why
because I have Fox and I have NBC, and I
have CBS, and I have this, and I have this.
I don't That's fine. I don't need. I don't need
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to watch Monday night game, or if I do, i'll
want I'll figure out a way to to stream it
or watch it online, whatever it is. I don't need
to do that. I don't need to. There's there's more
ways for that to happen. And you you can't have
your such a brand and the brand name be in
the toilet the way it is, and that that sort
of opinion of fans, because as much as you want
to say, ah, social media is not a real representation.
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A lot of people are mad, they're upset. No, you
got to understand that if this is your reaction that hey,
the worldwide leader is getting more n F and people
got No. I don't like it because I think you're
to screw it up. WHOA man? WHOA?
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Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon before before we get to the crazy
WNBA story.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
What the who the what?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And really just this wn BA story is nuttier and
nuttier as time goes on. So you know, right right now,
Little League World Series is going on in both baseball
and softball and games are on all day during the day.
And you know I mentioned this last week. The little
league that I coached at for the long for the
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long time, for seven eight years, Westchester was the West
champion and they're in the Little League Softball World Series.
They lost today. They lost the last couple of days,
so they got knocked out today. But it was an
incredible seeing the team and look and these weren't girls
that I really knew. I can't even say they were
the an Any of them were like the younger sisters
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of the girls I coached because I coached in the
same thing, Like, if we had gotten out of state,
we would have got to regionals and then the Little
League World Series.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Right, So what did you do wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We lost? Well, we lost to two teams that were
really good.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But the first year in the twelve year olds in
this in this one, they made us play West LA.
We're the two best Little leagues in Los Angeles, the
Greater Los Angeles area, and they made us for the
longest time, they made us play each other, which is like,
come on, you're just taking two really good teams out.
So we had to go through each other just to
get to the state tournament. So the first year we
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lost to them in the state, in the in the uh,
to get out of what's called district. Then the next
two years when when I managed, we lost in the
semi finals of states and the finals in so district.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So you lost the Hunger Games that ye, yes, district
and Hunger Yes, I didn't get and you advanced and
you got to go to Capital City.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yes, went in and brought the strawberries to President Snow
and uh, you know, watching the team play, you know,
seeing it and all the conversations about it, and I
told you know, Ella Parker, who's the big star for Oklahoma.
Uh played at Westchester and and and her aunt or
her mom is Dave Roberts sisters is a big connection
to the Dodgers as well. It's been really something seen
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this and seeing this league that I coached in, these
the same things, same all star tournaments, getting all the
way through. And it's weird because I always thought. I
always had this this thought about at some point in
my career coaching, was it was gonna end in the
Little League World Series, like we were gonna we were
gonna win because the team was really good, the league
is really good. We were gonna get there, and we
were gonna get on TV and the games are gonna
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be on ESPN, and there was gonna be Oh, here's
a former ESPN radio host now at Fox. They're gonna
make me up for the games. And I always had
this thought that that's how it was gonna end. You
still have an opportunity. No, it's there's still a young guy.
You can yourself here. Yeah, but but the thing is
like to go back and coach now, to go be like,
you know, I coach my daughter and I coached her
all the way through and that's generally how it's done.
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You know, the coach here coaching his daughter. She pitched
today for for Westchester in the game. Uh, it would
be it's weird to kind of go back and do it.
And there's coaches to do that and to try to
you know, stay and go all the way through even
when they're not coaching their kids. But that's generally how
it's done. And I always thought that, Okay, we're gonna
end because the team is really good and and our
our our you know, we we we have we have
the talent to get there. We're gonna get there, and
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it's gonna be so much fun, and we're gonna we're
gonna make it out of out of state. So we're
gonna we're gonna win. We're gonna win Regionals, we're gonna
get to Little League World Series. And we lost the
losing in the in the finals and States those two
years was really tough because we had a really good
team and and potentially we could have beaten both of
those teams just didn't go our way. It was tough, man,
But I really thought, hey, you know where it's gonna
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I can see it. Hey miked up in the Little
League World Series. Oh, here's a guy in the radios
there was coaching the team. I always thought that's how
it was gonna end.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
No, really, And then he's like, well, like I was
talking about last night, Jerry Jones, the games passed him by.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Hey, hey, cover second, cover second.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
If you were managing, they wouldn made the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh man, close, close, Well I really did.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And was there anything managerial that you look back at
a particular substitution or or change or move you made
that you know you you now look at it and
say you Aaron booned it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
No, there's nothing that I look back and say, oh,
if if only I had done that, or if we
had done that, it would have been. But the one
thing that I really think about, and I don't think
that parents and and and kids really get this, is
that but as coaches, like we live with the outcomes
of these games for our entire life and for parents. Boy,
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we had a great team and we won all we
almost won that game, and kids let the losses go,
you know, generally, because they move on from Little League
into high school and everywhere else. If they get they're
serious about it, they have bigger games they play and
if they're not serious about it. They look back and say, boy,
there's a great run, man, and all the way to
the end of States. And we made it to the
end of States those years. That's the furthest West chest
Or is going. We'd gone in a long time. So
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I feel pretty good about that. But what they I
wish they all understood that as mad as we live
with these games for our entire and there's times where
I'm just sitting very idly thinking, oh, man, if only
this had happened, or if only and I think about
in the in the in the in the Semis when
we lost once where this the girl kept getting this
the rise ball call for a strike where everything was
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outside the strike zone and we struck out twelve times
and my team doesn't strike out twelve times and the
home play numper. I'm like, these are not strikes, man.
I get that she's said, these are not strikes. You
are you are killing us with this, And we wound
up losing that game two to one, you know, And
I think it was it was she was like she
could have gone to college off of that game as
a as a thirteen year old, like she could have
gone to college off that game because I'm like, I
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want I look at the up and I'm going, these
are way too high their way and the girls are
coming in the dugout saying to me, coach, what do
we do? I go, just you have don't don't think
about how the umpire's umpiring the game. If you think
it's just you gotta just continue on with your with
your strategy going towards it, and that's how it's gotta go.
And you know, we wound up tying them, and then
they scored, they scored a scratch run in the seventh
inning with a walk and a stolen base and stuff,
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and they beat us two to one. And but I
but that's like I think about that game. I think
about other games do I think about big games that
we won, But but these games were Oh man, if
we had won that game, we would have won States.
It would have gone here, we would have been this
Like the results of these games, like we lived with them,
and why you know, you think about them for a while.
This is like, yeah, this kind of is what we
think about, you know, as coach, for the rest of
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our lives. Like how much we live with these outcomes.
It's something, man, it really is you think.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I got enough demons? I didn't need to add that. Yeah,
it's one of the greatest things my daughters ever did.
One didn't play a lot of sports. Tried lacrosse for
a bit, No chance I was getting involved there.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Soccer.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I'm good at shagging balls and chasing them down and
screaming at people.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You know, I saw some video of that. I don't
know how good you are chasing balls down. I saw
your daughter trippy ones.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
She did take me out, very underhanded, very crafty.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Let's hope they're better at that than finding green things.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Oh hey, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa? Different story?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Fraud, what things?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Different story? What's different story?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Green is for the money?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Different story which we're gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Was talking about the Goblin No.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
No, no, no, no, no no, we're gonna We're gonna I
tried to buy a goblin row.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We're gonna break this up right now.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
We're the green Monster in Boston.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
We're gonna have this story car mask in ninety seconds.
But first, no, no, no, no, no no, Because I've gotten
this from a fan that says, hey, can I get
you a gottro for Steve de Sager, and I said, sure,
is it bright? Now to that story is in ninety seconds?
Double up? But first, Jason, you have on this stop?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Did they throw it to you? The story?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Nothing was thrown anywhere?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Did you make a clean cap?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Was sent to me on social media on a swing.
Let's find out what's trending into the sports. No stop
for a man who's been called the stone cold. Steve
Austin of Fox Sports Radio is engraved because he stuns
us in every update. It's Steve Desager with what's trending.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Everything's final in Major League Baseball just now. The Padres
one at Arizona in eleven innings, ten to five. Padres
still three games back of the first place Dodgers in
the NL West. LA won twelve six over Saint Louis.
Two homers each for Max Munsey and Teoscar Hernandez and
Mookie Betts, who was batting two thirty had three hits
three runs scored. In this game at Seattle, Ayo Henio
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Suarez with his thirty seventh homer of the year. Brian
wu the winning pitcher, eight three over the White Sox.
Tampa Bay got seven runs in the fourth beat the
Angels in Anaheim seven to three. First place Toronto a
ten to four winner at Colorado. The Rockies record now
thirty and eighty three. The Blue Jays are first in
the AL, still three games over Boston. Jays, by the way,
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hit five home runs tonight Dalton Varshow two homers, six
RBIs the Boston win at home with six two over
Kansas City. The Red Sox have won seven straight, winning
pitcher Garrett Crochet thirteen and four ERA two point twenty
four Milwaukee and Cincinnati with wins. It was seven to
two Brewers at Atlanta, five straight wins for the Brewers.
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Cincinnati beat the Cubs in Chicago five to one, scoring
four times. In the seventh texas to nothing over the Yankees,
who've lost five straight. Nathan Evaldi ten and three win
eight innings for the win of Aaldy's ERA one point
three to eight this year. Two runs in the bottom
of the eighth off Yankee closer Devin Williams. Yankees offense
went two for twenty eight and Aaron Judge was back
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off the injured list as the DH he was zero
for three. Cleveland beat the Mets in New York three
to two. Mets offense just four hits. They've dropped seven
of their last eight. Mets are now two and a
half games back in the Phillies. In the NLA's Philadelphia
shut out Baltimore five nothing, the A's were sixteen to
seven winners at Washington. The lost to Mackenzie Gore, who
gave up five in the first and it didn't get
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better after that. He's four and twelve, six straight losses
for Washington, and they gave up three solo homers to
Shaye Langeleiers of the Athletics. He went five for six.
Minnesota won six to three at Detroit, San Francisco eight
one winners at Pittsburgh to win the Logan Web with
ten strikeouts in six innings, and Houston was up seven
to one in the fifth seven to three the final
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at Miami. In the WNBA five games, New York without
the injured Breonna Stewart beat Dallas. Chicago without the injured
Angel Reese, beat Washington, LA defeated Indiana the Fever, still
without the injured Caitlin Clark. Minnesota without the injured Defeast
so Collier won at Seattle Phoenix over Connecticut. The Connecticut's
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son five and twenty three to the NFL rookie.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Wait, what injured player? Was Phoenix missing? Everybody else is
missing missing players? Was Phoenix missing?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
No, it's Connecticut. They're just missing.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, all right, very good. Else is missing and they're moving.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yes, the guy who threw something on the court, Oh,
my goodness.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Under the NFL rookie quarterback Shador Sanders will be starting
for the Browns in their preseason opener on Friday, and
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson will start Thursday's exhibition. Then quarterback
Daniel Jones will start next week for the Colts. Bengals
QB Joe Burrow and other starters will be playing several
series on Thursday against the Eagles, but the Seahawks will
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sit most of their starters Thursday, and Saints running back
Alvin Kamara will not play Sunday at the Chargers. The
Chargers signed free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen to a
one year deal. The Rams gave running back Kyron Williams
a three year extension. We're twenty three million dollars guaranteed.
Tampa Bay signed veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask
is still the backup there. Bucks starting QB Baker Mayfield
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return to practice today after a bruised hand. On Thursday,
they have a joint practice with the Titans. Vikings wide
receiver Jordan Addison was suspended for the first three regular
season games. He was arrested for duy a year ago.
Eagles star wide receiver A. J. Brown did not practice
again and hamstring injury. Jets rookie tight end Mason Taylor
is out with the high ankle spray and quarterback to
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Rod Taylor has a knee injury.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve for the third time
in the week. A sex toy and if you watch
Lord of the Rings, one of the main character's name
is Bilbo Baggins. So that's kind of what it was.
Uh has sneak on.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
The precious They frown on that of Cannon.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
It was a week ago that a green lime green lime,
green light, neon green sex toyah, a neon green Bilbo
Baggins was thrown on the court in a w NBA game.
Then it was Thursday night it happened again. Another Bilbo,
another Bilbo Baggins was thrown.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
He was Jayson. You can refer to it at First,
we're on first name basis here.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
But it's kind of but thank the last name, I
can say Bill Bilbo.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
What Bilbo is?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Okay, very good. So we got news this weekend that
there was an arrest made in the first one, in
the first Bilbo that was thrown on the court last week. Okay,
nothing happened for the second one, and then tonight it
happened a third time, but potentially it's happened four or five.
(29:25):
It happened in the middle of the game tonight between
the Sparks and the fever after a free throw by
Kelsey Plumb, another neon green Bilbo Baggins was thrown on
the court.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Oh look out, something just came into the floor, but
an object of just fooling as the free throws being.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Made.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It looked like that hit a player too.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
CBS on the call. Uh, it was thrown on the
court and very near Sophie Cunningham. Now and she plays
into this in a in a pretty big way because
of what's gone on the last week. Now, as soon
as he's at the floor, Kelsey Plumb with the free throw,
goes and kicks it right off big legs, sweep sweep
the leg and kicks it off the floor and I
yelled go. This was not the only time this happened tonight,
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according to social media posts ESPN reporting this.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Wait, there were more bags.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
There were more Bilbo baggins thrown on the court in
Phoenix and New York.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
But but how can he be in other places? It's
the same time, because he's cloned himself. He's like the
Jackson the Green. He is plural.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
If you have the ring, you can be anywhere and
do anything you want to. They were also thrown on
the courts in Phoenix and New York, but didn't actually
reach the actual court itself. They were thrown on the
floor but didn't reach the court. The one at Barkley's
apparently landed near a child. So now you've had now
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this is now five times right, And here tonight it's
thrown on the court in La near Sophie Cunningham, who
was the most outspoken player when this happened the last
couple of times, saying, hey, don't throw this on it.
This could hurt this hit somebody could hurt somebody. What
are we doing? And this is the point again, And
I see this story tonight and Wnba is trying to
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play this the right way do. We don't want to
give it too much weight, but we don't want to
absolutely blow it off. You would think that, okay, with
the story of somebody getting arrested, that that would be it.
But when I see this tonight, now three times it happens,
I feel I feel awful for the end for the WNBI.
I feel bad for them because here are fans who
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have decided that we don't respect you or the game enough,
and we're clearly not afraid of getting arrested that in
the wake of what's going on the last week, here's
somebody that gets arrested, we don't care. Here's Sophie Cunningham
who just said, hey, don't throw these things on the court,
and yet what happened tonight, we don't care. We're gonna,
we're gonna, We're gonna go, whether it was coordinated or not.
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They're getting thrown on the court three times or thrown
on the floor three times, and one is getting thrown
at a player who said, hey, don't do please, don't
do this anymore. Like the lack of respect that fans
have for that that some of these fans have for
the WNBA is just stunning, because that's really what this
is the fact. I mean, it's not like we've never
seen this before, and is this some kind of TikTok trend,
(32:25):
Like I wouldn't be surprised to find out that somewhere
online this was Hey, this is gonna be a concerted effort.
We're gonna throw this on the floor at w NBA games, right,
because this is kind of what This is a fad
that goes on for a couple of weeks that could
be dangerous, that is ridiculous, and then people lose interest
in it. Yeah, but now after after the after three
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more bilbos are thrown on the floor tonight, like this
is this is the reaction of yeah, we don't really care,
We're still gonna do it. Like the lack of respect
that this has because again we see it at football games.
You see people still run on the on the on
the field of games. But it's not it's not a
concerted effort where we're gonna run on the field at
an Arizona State football game. Because we're doing this Arizona State.
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We're gonna we're gonna do this at at a at
a specific team or specific league. This is a concerted
effort towards the w n B A where it's sex
toys of the same color, so people can see it.
People can see the neon green to the Jason throw
is behind it, throwing this out there themselves.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
But obviously you're gonna have a lot of social media
presence off of this.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, we're talking about it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
We're talking about it.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Man, do you lean in and partnership if you're an
individual NBA and w NBA player, A team the league,
I mean really the official for a league.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I mean, I don't know for a league that has
hit it big finally and they're fighting and look can
they fight their own the Birmingham Bilbos, Right, I fight
they fight that. That that's a that's a USFL team
from the Yeah yeah, USFL team. But you're right, it's
it's that battle, you know, Yeah, they fight the battle. Hey,
now we're at the big table and yeah, there's a
little bit of pushback, but this is like the last
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thing the league. What about the Boston Baggins. That was
nineteen nineties. Nineteen nineties they played, they played in the
we left World League of American Football.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
But you still have a lot of national media local
media that won't cover the league, you know, just kind
of ignore what the unless there's a story like that
is like there's open season, if there's a scuffle, hey,
it's it's worthy of being talked about. Otherwise it's pay
no mind in terms of the actual games. And that's
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what you're trying to fight, that battle into that next
level of relevance. You're seeing record deals for franchises as
you keep expanding the league and the money and and
the TV deal that was signed, but that doesn't automatically
automatically buy you the respect where you're still having this
kind of lunacy and basis and a very concerned an
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effort tonight to take that over.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, I mean again, I just feel bad that people
the lack of respect that that fans. Yeah, I don't
care getting arrest at all. I'm still gonna do it.
I don't wanna throw it near a player. Maybe maybe
he was thrown at Sophie, I mean landed close enough
to her. She was the one that she's her and
Kelsey Plumber two of the most popular players that are
playing now. And uh, you know with Caitlyn Clark out
and Sophie Cunningham's very outspoken. I mean the fact that, yeah,
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I still don't care. I'm still gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I think about if she has a bad step and
sprain's a ankle, how that's gotta show up on an
injury repair.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
What what what took her out? Boy?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I think there's something fishy about it. Not actually hitting her.
I don't know hitting her.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I don't know. You're throwing that thing from far away,
like I think you can only throw it so far.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
We're gonna find Are we gonna do that an see
how far you can throw?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Exit? How about it that that's on theho That'll be
a show, that'll be a game show, on the show.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
But for now they're at large. Yes, Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Coming up next, we get into a big quarterback decision
in the NFL from today, the one we're all been
waiting for. Is next, Jason and Mike Fox. Is this
the Hobbits song?
Speaker 6 (36:13):
At the end, there goes a bilbo.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike hard live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios, where hold on to your hats
because we have the WNBA sex toy update coming your
way in the next twenty minutes because uh, and we're
(00:52):
we're trying to cross some t's and dot some eyes here.
You know, we told you last hour on the show.
A sex toy was thrown on the court again tonight
in tonight's game between the Fever and the Sparks. But
according to other reports, sex toys were nearly thrown on
the floor at two other WNBA games. They didn't make
it onto the court. So now this has become an
(01:15):
even bigger thing. And again we'll have more on that
coming up in about twenty minutes. But all of a sudden,
this story. I'm like, oh my goodness, but it just
keeps giving. Yeah, the biggest story of the night. And
I you know, and there's a huge takeaway from this,
And we talked about this earlier, starting to go viral
for us a little bit here on social media. ESPN
(01:36):
is going to buy the NFL Network and get rights
to the Red Zone Channel as well. Now, this is
a story that we had known was likely coming for
a while, but it gets officially announced tonight. ESPN has
bought NFL Network and other NFL media assets, including the
rights to Red Zone Channel, in a deal that's going
(01:56):
to see the NFL get some kind of equity stake
in ESPN. So it's a big business deal. But what
we have to know is that basically, okay, ESPN has
bought NFL Network and the Red Zone Channel. And the
first note of business that was out there was Scott
Hanson is staying. Scott Hanson is stang, okay.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Because there was some stuff he was talking about negotiations whatever,
and everybody got all nervous.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah yeah, but but Scott Hanson is stay. And let
me just say this before we get to the really
big thing that's right, those beaches. This is the fourth
of July weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
We can't have it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Everything's gonna be fine. Everything is going to be fine,
nf NFL Network's going to be fine. First of all,
it's after this season, right, so nothing's happening this year.
Everything is okay.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You can you can react slowly to the change.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Everything everything changing, it's over time. The NFL networks still
going to have NFL Network programming, The red zone is
still going to be red zone programming. It's still good
to happen, Okay, even if it does change, which is not.
Even if it does, it's gonna be this way this year. Okay,
So it's all right, it's it's all right, right, everything's
(03:11):
gonna be fine. You're gonna get the games. You're gonna
get NFL network games, you're gonna get, you're gonna get
red zone. Everything is fine, right, You're gonna be okay.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
The kids that I have taken to the you know,
you're just kind of going through your paces of your day, right,
you get a lot going on, like how's everything going,
old blood dy, old bladda, and then you get back
to whatever the hell it is, you're supposed to be new.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It goes on manute.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
But this is the big takeaway right now. Obviously, could
there be some changes, Yeah, oh, there's gonna be average
people are already talking about there could be advertising on
red zone shouting red zone. Okay, I think at some
point that was going to happen, and not that we
know what's gonna happen. But if there's some kind of advertising, well, yeah,
because you gotta find a way to monetize it a
little bit more. Now, is it gonna be the point
(03:55):
where hey, we're back in two and a half minutes. No,
but could there be something on the bottom crawl? Could
there be some sort of voiceover while you're watching action
on TV?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Could there be some sort of video in a corner
while you're watching a game. Yeah, you could see stuff
like that, and you know what, Look, that's just the
way that business evolves. Now, But is there ever gonna
be something where it's gonna be Oh my god, Now,
this is a three and a half minute break and
I'm not gonna get anything. No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But even if they did, you'd come back and they'd
catch up, and you'd be okay, and life would go on.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
ESPN's been doing sports for a while, Okay, Just to
understand that ESPN is not some sort of streaming giant
that bought the rights to this and I don't know
if we know what we're doing. You know, it's not
like HBO Max bought the rights to the Red Zone
Channel and NFL network and suddenly, look what's going to happen. Right,
Everything's gonna be fine. But this is the big point, right,
(04:51):
because this is a look in the mirror moment for ESPN.
Because when this deal got announced today, what did you
see everywhere? The general consensus everywhere social media reaction was,
oh great, ESPN bought NFL network in the Red Zone channel.
They're gonna ruin it. Right, it's all of a sudden,
it's gonna be woke or we're gonna get interviews on
(05:16):
Sunday during the Red Zone with whoever's gonna be starting
an ABC drama in the fall. Right, they're gonna ruin it.
They're gonna ruin They're gonna ruin the Red Zone channel.
They're gonna ruin the NFL network.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Right. This latest second brought to you by Chanderland.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
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Speaker 3 (05:35):
Right, Okay, all's what you missed on last week's Gray's Anatomy.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Stephen A. Smith is gonna be doing red Zone Channel.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Well, how the.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Jets allow the Patriots on the first drive to get
inside the red zone. We're in the gold zone? Now,
how do they get in the red zone? This is
embarrassing for Aaron Glenn. Aaron Glenn should be fired because
of what's going on here on the first.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Drive of the game.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Like, you know, would people be more outraged at that
or a commercial for two and a half minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
This drive by the Cowboys was abysmal. It was awful,
it was ridiculous. It was the worst drive I've ever seen.
It's ten to seven in the second quarter, doesn't matter.
This is the This is the biggest affront to the
NFL I've seen from the Cowboys. Like, this is what
people are talking about, and some of it's fun, but
this is the point, right.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Is that get a hug?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Is that this is ESPN? Right, whatever you think about ESPN,
they've been doing sports. They've been the evil Empire, they've
been the giant for a long time. Right, you can say, oh,
they could be doing the NFL a little bit better.
They've been doing sports will they know what they're doing.
But the general consensus is that the first reaction to
(06:48):
ESPN getting the NFL Network and Red Zone channel is
they're gonna screw it up. And this is where ESPN's
got to stop and go, Okay, our brand, our brand recognition,
our brand favorability is absolutely in the toilet.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Is this because people are mad about Fantastic four? Fantastic four?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
H I have not seen I mean, just to think
about that for a second, because again, this is not
some chant. It's not like the Hallmark Channel bought this
and we're suddenly gonna get Lacey Schevert and Danica mckeller
and y'all, you know, in some sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Where they're tell me you're not sidling up with a
cup of coco and getting in your.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Would I would get to see the game, and I
would get to see someone play a fall festival?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You know what you should put as a table runner
in the whole nine yardsuse everybody's coming to your holiday meal.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But look from someone who has been there both behind
the scenes and is a talent like ESPN is a
huge conglomerate, and there is so many There are so
many voices and so many things that go into putting
on sports and the different sports channels twenty four to seven.
This is what they do, and still you're getting your
I could tell you the detail that they go through
(08:03):
to to to broadcast games and what they do to
make sure that they're putting out a great product. And
this is not even a studio show. This is not
even a studio show. You they're talking about, Hey, they're
buying the NFL. Now, well, guess what, NFL NET. We're
still gonna have their talent on doing things and they're
gonna stop. Red Zone is still gonna do their thing.
And the general opinion is that ESPN's gonna screw it up.
(08:23):
Like this is where you have to stop and say, okay,
we need to do some sort of deep dive into
why our reputation and our optics are so bad.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I get once in a while where you get all
the woke optic or this, but it but it the
the the mountain of of that ESPN used to sit
atop for sports like that's gone now and and I
get that where oh I like the way that Fox
does one thing. I like the way that ESPN does
one thing. I understand that part of the rivalry, but
the whole thing is that ESPN that's what they do.
(08:58):
And still the general opinion in the optic is that
they're gonna get this. They're gonna get the property of
the NFL even more than they have now, and they're
gonna screw it up. Like this is where if I'm
running ESPN, if I'm any of the any the big
wigs there, I gotta say, Okay, this is this is
the low point for us now. And I get that
social media is always gonna be the lowest common denominator
(09:20):
of things. But there's nobody that's coming out and see
how everything's gonna be fine. The general consensus from fans
your bread and butter, the ones that pay the money
that you want to pay the money for your streaming
service that you're gonna have coming out. The fans are
the ones that are saying, I don't watch ESPN anymore.
I can't believe you're gonna screw this up. You have
to fix that brand. You need trust in brand, you
(09:40):
need trust in product, like just like any any product
that is put out there that is seeing hard, Like,
why are no one buying Cheetos anymore. What do we
need to do kids don't like Cheetos. What if we
do flaming Cheetos?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Kay?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Now, Cheetos is great, right because what they do they
put their heads together and let's come up with a
way to have our brand be more relevant now just
for any product Schooner, Tuna, mister Mom in the eighties.
But ESPN's got to find a way to get their
brand back to hey have a favorability at least a
at least an overwhelming majority where people have a favorable
(10:13):
opinion of ESPN and not just oh they're gonna screw
it up, like you have to find a way to Sarah.
We got to find the trust back in this product
because then when we launch a streaming service, Oh, people
don't want to pay twenty nine bucks a month to this.
Oh man, okay, wait, people are cutting the cords and
they're cutting off ESPN. We have all this great programming
out though. Guess what other places have live programming too,
And I can I can get the NFL from here,
(10:35):
I can get it here, I can get this here.
Oh wait, so this is where if this has got
to be one of those red flag moments where it's, man,
we bought the NFL network and we're buying Red Zone,
and all people think of as how we're gonna screw
it up. Man, you got to look in the mirror
and say we got to change things. Yeah, I mean, look,
it goes back to your traditional networks that you've already
(10:55):
been running and what the perceptions are now. Obviously one
of the main points of interest in the larger social
sphere is how much do you get of the McAfee show,
How much do you get of Steven A.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Smith?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And will those you know a lot of them the
Red Zone.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But but that but that's where people like, all right,
are these guys suddenly gonna be sitting in a in
a Barci lounger like it's the Manning cast chiming in
when Scott Hansen gives an update, right, and then they
debate it for two minutes before he gets to the
next one, you know, fundamentally changing the show.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And the answer is you paid them a lot of money.
They're probably gonna show up somewhere and you're gonna have
some way. Yeah, but that Smith is on NFL network
during the day. Okay, that's not the crossover. It's like
your favorite television dramas, say on ABC, here's a special
firehouse nine to one one or whatever the hell it
(11:56):
was called. From Shondaland into Gray's Anatomy and back and
forth and whatever else. It's gonna be the same thing, man,
you know you talk about from the TV radio side,
whatever else, they're gonna bleed over and that, and that's
just the nature of the beast of how you try
to figure out how to incorporate and expand that acquisition
and make it profitable. But along the way, yeah, they'll
(12:17):
be missteps.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And they'll be you know, everybody's got their fiefdom that
they build within any walls, any organization, no matter where
you work, and certainly in media that guys have favorites
and want to make sure that they get their run
as often as they can. And certainly we'll see that.
And like I said, you've already paid them a lot
of money. Those two principles, you're going to see them
(12:41):
and you're gonna have to get over it or you
know what the old Kevin Durant comes in becomes.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The thing is that with with ESPN used to have
such a strugglehold on whatever sport you wanted to watch,
we have it, and it's like not so much anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But now it's fractured sports center. Because of the the
way the internet works, I can watch mone of you
a bunch of different ways, right, I can. I can
see whatever I want college football game.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I could watch this other college football game instead, right,
I mean, there there's I have choice.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
I have.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You are you are no longer underserved in sports. We
are If anything, we are all overserved because we can
get any and anything we want from different ways, and
and and there's enough, there's enough of a push out
there where people can say, I don't need ESPN. Why
because I have Fox and I have NBC, and I
have CBS, and I have this, and I have this.
I don't That's fine. I don't need. I don't need
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to watch Monday night game, or if I do, i'll
want I'll figure out a way to to stream it
or watch it online, whatever it is. I don't need
to do that. I don't need to. There's there's more
ways for that to happen. And you you can't have
your such a brand and the brand name be in
the toilet the way it is, and that that sort
of opinion of fans, because as much as you want
to say, ah, social media is not a real representation.
(13:51):
A lot of people are mad, they're upset. No, you
got to understand that if this is your reaction that hey,
the worldwide leader is getting more n F and people
got No. I don't like it because I think you're
to screw it up. WHOA man? WHOA?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
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Speaker 1 (14:13):
How about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike
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Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon before before we get to the crazy
WNBA story.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
What the who the what?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And really just this wn BA story is nuttier and
nuttier as time goes on. So you know, right right now,
Little League World Series is going on in both baseball
and softball and games are on all day during the day.
And you know I mentioned this last week. The little
league that I coached at for the long for the
(16:40):
long time, for seven eight years, Westchester was the West
champion and they're in the Little League Softball World Series.
They lost today. They lost the last couple of days,
so they got knocked out today. But it was an
incredible seeing the team and look and these weren't girls
that I really knew. I can't even say they were
the an Any of them were like the younger sisters
(17:01):
of the girls I coached because I coached in the
same thing, Like, if we had gotten out of state,
we would have got to regionals and then the Little
League World Series.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Right, So what did you do wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
We lost? Well, we lost to two teams that were
really good.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But the first year in the twelve year olds in
this in this one, they made us play West LA.
We're the two best Little leagues in Los Angeles, the
Greater Los Angeles area, and they made us for the
longest time, they made us play each other, which is like,
come on, you're just taking two really good teams out.
So we had to go through each other just to
get to the state tournament. So the first year we
(17:36):
lost to them in the state, in the in the uh,
to get out of what's called district. Then the next
two years when when I managed, we lost in the
semi finals of states and the finals in so district.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So you lost the Hunger Games that ye, yes, district
and Hunger Yes, I didn't get and you advanced and
you got to go to Capital City.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yes, went in and brought the strawberries to President Snow
and uh, you know, watching the team play, you know,
seeing it and all the conversations about it, and I
told you know, Ella Parker, who's the big star for Oklahoma.
Uh played at Westchester and and and her aunt or
her mom is Dave Roberts sisters is a big connection
to the Dodgers as well. It's been really something seen
(18:16):
this and seeing this league that I coached in, these
the same things, same all star tournaments, getting all the
way through. And it's weird because I always thought. I
always had this this thought about at some point in
my career coaching, was it was gonna end in the
Little League World Series, like we were gonna we were
gonna win because the team was really good, the league
is really good. We were gonna get there, and we
were gonna get on TV and the games are gonna
(18:38):
be on ESPN, and there was gonna be Oh, here's
a former ESPN radio host now at Fox. They're gonna
make me up for the games. And I always had
this thought that that's how it was gonna end. You
still have an opportunity. No, it's there's still a young guy.
You can yourself here. Yeah, but but the thing is
like to go back and coach now, to go be like,
you know, I coach my daughter and I coached her
all the way through and that's generally how it's done.
(19:00):
You know, the coach here coaching his daughter. She pitched
today for for Westchester in the game. Uh, it would
be it's weird to kind of go back and do it.
And there's coaches to do that and to try to
you know, stay and go all the way through even
when they're not coaching their kids. But that's generally how
it's done. And I always thought that, Okay, we're gonna
end because the team is really good and and our
our our you know, we we we have we have
the talent to get there. We're gonna get there, and
(19:22):
it's gonna be so much fun, and we're gonna we're
gonna make it out of out of state. So we're
gonna we're gonna win. We're gonna win Regionals, we're gonna
get to Little League World Series. And we lost the
losing in the in the finals and States those two
years was really tough because we had a really good
team and and potentially we could have beaten both of
those teams just didn't go our way. It was tough, man,
But I really thought, hey, you know where it's gonna
(19:43):
I can see it. Hey miked up in the Little
League World Series. Oh, here's a guy in the radios
there was coaching the team. I always thought that's how
it was gonna end.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
No, really, And then he's like, well, like I was
talking about last night, Jerry Jones, the games passed him by.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Hey, hey, cover second, cover second.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
If you were managing, they wouldn made the World Series.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh man, close, close, Well I really did.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And was there anything managerial that you look back at
a particular substitution or or change or move you made
that you know you you now look at it and
say you Aaron booned it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
No, there's nothing that I look back and say, oh,
if if only I had done that, or if we
had done that, it would have been. But the one
thing that I really think about, and I don't think
that parents and and and kids really get this, is
that but as coaches, like we live with the outcomes
of these games for our entire life and for parents. Boy,
(20:41):
we had a great team and we won all we
almost won that game, and kids let the losses go,
you know, generally, because they move on from Little League
into high school and everywhere else. If they get they're
serious about it, they have bigger games they play and
if they're not serious about it. They look back and say, boy,
there's a great run, man, and all the way to
the end of States. And we made it to the
end of States those years. That's the furthest West chest
Or is going. We'd gone in a long time. So
(21:01):
I feel pretty good about that. But what they I
wish they all understood that as mad as we live
with these games for our entire and there's times where
I'm just sitting very idly thinking, oh, man, if only
this had happened, or if only and I think about
in the in the in the in the Semis when
we lost once where this the girl kept getting this
the rise ball call for a strike where everything was
(21:24):
outside the strike zone and we struck out twelve times
and my team doesn't strike out twelve times and the
home play numper. I'm like, these are not strikes, man.
I get that she's said, these are not strikes. You
are you are killing us with this, And we wound
up losing that game two to one, you know, And
I think it was it was she was like she
could have gone to college off of that game as
a as a thirteen year old, like she could have
gone to college off that game because I'm like, I
(21:44):
want I look at the up and I'm going, these
are way too high their way and the girls are
coming in the dugout saying to me, coach, what do
we do? I go, just you have don't don't think
about how the umpire's umpiring the game. If you think
it's just you gotta just continue on with your with
your strategy going towards it, and that's how it's gotta go.
And you know, we wound up tying them, and then
they scored, they scored a scratch run in the seventh
inning with a walk and a stolen base and stuff,
(22:06):
and they beat us two to one. And but I
but that's like I think about that game. I think
about other games do I think about big games that
we won, But but these games were Oh man, if
we had won that game, we would have won States.
It would have gone here, we would have been this
Like the results of these games, like we lived with them,
and why you know, you think about them for a while.
This is like, yeah, this kind of is what we
think about, you know, as coach, for the rest of
(22:28):
our lives. Like how much we live with these outcomes.
It's something, man, it really is you think.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I got enough demons? I didn't need to add that. Yeah,
it's one of the greatest things my daughters ever did.
One didn't play a lot of sports. Tried lacrosse for
a bit, No chance I was getting involved there.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Soccer.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I'm good at shagging balls and chasing them down and
screaming at people.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You know, I saw some video of that. I don't
know how good you are chasing balls down. I saw
your daughter trippy ones.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
She did take me out, very underhanded, very crafty.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Let's hope they're better at that than finding green things.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Oh hey, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa? Different story?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Fraud, what things?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Different story? What's different story?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Green is for the money?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Different story which we're gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Was talking about the Goblin No.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
No, no, no, no, no no, we're gonna We're gonna I
tried to buy a goblin row.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We're gonna break this up right now.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
We're the green Monster in Boston.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
We're gonna have this story car mask in ninety seconds.
But first, no, no, no, no, no no, Because I've gotten
this from a fan that says, hey, can I get
you a gottro for Steve de Sager, and I said, sure,
is it bright? Now to that story is in ninety seconds?
Double up? But first, Jason, you have on this stop?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Did they throw it to you? The story?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Nothing was thrown anywhere?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Did you make a clean cap?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Was sent to me on social media on a swing.
Let's find out what's trending into the sports. No stop
for a man who's been called the stone cold. Steve
Austin of Fox Sports Radio is engraved because he stuns
us in every update. It's Steve Desager with what's trending.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Everything's final in Major League Baseball just now. The Padres
one at Arizona in eleven innings, ten to five. Padres
still three games back of the first place Dodgers in
the NL West. LA won twelve six over Saint Louis.
Two homers each for Max Munsey and Teoscar Hernandez and
Mookie Betts, who was batting two thirty had three hits
three runs scored. In this game at Seattle, Ayo Henio
(24:33):
Suarez with his thirty seventh homer of the year. Brian
wu the winning pitcher, eight three over the White Sox.
Tampa Bay got seven runs in the fourth beat the
Angels in Anaheim seven to three. First place Toronto a
ten to four winner at Colorado. The Rockies record now
thirty and eighty three. The Blue Jays are first in
the AL, still three games over Boston. Jays, by the way,
(24:54):
hit five home runs tonight Dalton Varshow two homers, six
RBIs the Boston win at home with six two over
Kansas City. The Red Sox have won seven straight, winning
pitcher Garrett Crochet thirteen and four ERA two point twenty
four Milwaukee and Cincinnati with wins. It was seven to
two Brewers at Atlanta, five straight wins for the Brewers.
(25:15):
Cincinnati beat the Cubs in Chicago five to one, scoring
four times. In the seventh texas to nothing over the Yankees,
who've lost five straight. Nathan Evaldi ten and three win
eight innings for the win of Aaldy's ERA one point
three to eight this year. Two runs in the bottom
of the eighth off Yankee closer Devin Williams. Yankees offense
went two for twenty eight and Aaron Judge was back
(25:36):
off the injured list as the DH he was zero
for three. Cleveland beat the Mets in New York three
to two. Mets offense just four hits. They've dropped seven
of their last eight. Mets are now two and a
half games back in the Phillies. In the NLA's Philadelphia
shut out Baltimore five nothing, the A's were sixteen to
seven winners at Washington. The lost to Mackenzie Gore, who
gave up five in the first and it didn't get
(25:58):
better after that. He's four and twelve, six straight losses
for Washington, and they gave up three solo homers to
Shaye Langeleiers of the Athletics. He went five for six.
Minnesota won six to three at Detroit, San Francisco eight
one winners at Pittsburgh to win the Logan Web with
ten strikeouts in six innings, and Houston was up seven
to one in the fifth seven to three the final
(26:18):
at Miami. In the WNBA five games, New York without
the injured Breonna Stewart beat Dallas. Chicago without the injured
Angel Reese, beat Washington, LA defeated Indiana the Fever, still
without the injured Caitlin Clark. Minnesota without the injured Defeast
so Collier won at Seattle Phoenix over Connecticut. The Connecticut's
(26:39):
son five and twenty three to the NFL rookie.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Wait, what injured player? Was Phoenix missing? Everybody else is
missing missing players? Was Phoenix missing?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
No, it's Connecticut. They're just missing.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay, all right, very good. Else is missing and they're moving.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yes, the guy who threw something on the court, Oh,
my goodness.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Under the NFL rookie quarterback Shador Sanders will be starting
for the Browns in their preseason opener on Friday, and
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson will start Thursday's exhibition. Then quarterback
Daniel Jones will start next week for the Colts. Bengals
QB Joe Burrow and other starters will be playing several
series on Thursday against the Eagles, but the Seahawks will
(27:21):
sit most of their starters Thursday, and Saints running back
Alvin Kamara will not play Sunday at the Chargers. The
Chargers signed free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen to a
one year deal. The Rams gave running back Kyron Williams
a three year extension. We're twenty three million dollars guaranteed.
Tampa Bay signed veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask
is still the backup there. Bucks starting QB Baker Mayfield
(27:44):
return to practice today after a bruised hand. On Thursday,
they have a joint practice with the Titans. Vikings wide
receiver Jordan Addison was suspended for the first three regular
season games. He was arrested for duy a year ago.
Eagles star wide receiver A. J. Brown did not practice
again and hamstring injury. Jets rookie tight end Mason Taylor
is out with the high ankle spray and quarterback to
(28:05):
Rod Taylor has a knee injury.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve for the third time
in the week. A sex toy and if you watch
Lord of the Rings, one of the main character's name
is Bilbo Baggins. So that's kind of what it was.
Uh has sneak on.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
The precious They frown on that of Cannon.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
It was a week ago that a green lime green lime,
green light, neon green sex toyah, a neon green Bilbo
Baggins was thrown on the court in a w NBA game.
Then it was Thursday night it happened again. Another Bilbo,
another Bilbo Baggins was thrown.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
He was Jayson. You can refer to it at First,
we're on first name basis here.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
But it's kind of but thank the last name, I
can say Bill Bilbo.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
What Bilbo is?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Okay, very good. So we got news this weekend that
there was an arrest made in the first one, in
the first Bilbo that was thrown on the court last week. Okay,
nothing happened for the second one, and then tonight it
happened a third time, but potentially it's happened four or five.
(29:25):
It happened in the middle of the game tonight between
the Sparks and the fever after a free throw by
Kelsey Plumb, another neon green Bilbo Baggins was thrown on
the court.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Oh look out, something just came into the floor, but
an object of just fooling as the free throws being.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Made.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
It looked like that hit a player too.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
CBS on the call. Uh, it was thrown on the
court and very near Sophie Cunningham. Now and she plays
into this in a in a pretty big way because
of what's gone on the last week. Now, as soon
as he's at the floor, Kelsey Plumb with the free throw,
goes and kicks it right off big legs, sweep sweep
the leg and kicks it off the floor and I
yelled go. This was not the only time this happened tonight,
(30:20):
according to social media posts ESPN reporting this.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Wait, there were more bags.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
There were more Bilbo baggins thrown on the court in
Phoenix and New York.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
But but how can he be in other places? It's
the same time, because he's cloned himself. He's like the
Jackson the Green. He is plural.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
If you have the ring, you can be anywhere and
do anything you want to. They were also thrown on
the courts in Phoenix and New York, but didn't actually
reach the actual court itself. They were thrown on the
floor but didn't reach the court. The one at Barkley's
apparently landed near a child. So now you've had now
(31:00):
this is now five times right, And here tonight it's
thrown on the court in La near Sophie Cunningham, who
was the most outspoken player when this happened the last
couple of times, saying, hey, don't throw this on it.
This could hurt this hit somebody could hurt somebody. What
are we doing? And this is the point again, And
I see this story tonight and Wnba is trying to
(31:21):
play this the right way do. We don't want to
give it too much weight, but we don't want to
absolutely blow it off. You would think that, okay, with
the story of somebody getting arrested, that that would be it.
But when I see this tonight, now three times it happens,
I feel I feel awful for the end for the WNBI.
I feel bad for them because here are fans who
(31:42):
have decided that we don't respect you or the game enough,
and we're clearly not afraid of getting arrested that in
the wake of what's going on the last week, here's
somebody that gets arrested, we don't care. Here's Sophie Cunningham
who just said, hey, don't throw these things on the court,
and yet what happened tonight, we don't care. We're gonna,
we're gonna, We're gonna go, whether it was coordinated or not.
(32:04):
They're getting thrown on the court three times or thrown
on the floor three times, and one is getting thrown
at a player who said, hey, don't do please, don't
do this anymore. Like the lack of respect that fans
have for that that some of these fans have for
the WNBA is just stunning, because that's really what this
is the fact. I mean, it's not like we've never
seen this before, and is this some kind of TikTok trend,
(32:25):
Like I wouldn't be surprised to find out that somewhere
online this was Hey, this is gonna be a concerted effort.
We're gonna throw this on the floor at w NBA games, right,
because this is kind of what This is a fad
that goes on for a couple of weeks that could
be dangerous, that is ridiculous, and then people lose interest
in it. Yeah, but now after after the after three
(32:45):
more bilbos are thrown on the floor tonight, like this
is this is the reaction of yeah, we don't really care,
We're still gonna do it. Like the lack of respect
that this has because again we see it at football games.
You see people still run on the on the on
the field of games. But it's not it's not a
concerted effort where we're gonna run on the field at
an Arizona State football game. Because we're doing this Arizona State.
(33:08):
We're gonna we're gonna do this at at a at
a specific team or specific league. This is a concerted
effort towards the w n B A where it's sex
toys of the same color, so people can see it.
People can see the neon green to the Jason throw
is behind it, throwing this out there themselves.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
But obviously you're gonna have a lot of social media
presence off of this.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, we're talking about it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
We're talking about it.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Man, do you lean in and partnership if you're an
individual NBA and w NBA player, A team the league,
I mean really the official for a league.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I mean, I don't know for a league that has
hit it big finally and they're fighting and look can
they fight their own the Birmingham Bilbos, Right, I fight
they fight that. That that's a that's a USFL team
from the Yeah yeah, USFL team. But you're right, it's
it's that battle, you know, Yeah, they fight the battle. Hey,
now we're at the big table and yeah, there's a
little bit of pushback, but this is like the last
(34:09):
thing the league. What about the Boston Baggins. That was
nineteen nineties. Nineteen nineties they played, they played in the
we left World League of American Football.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
But you still have a lot of national media local
media that won't cover the league, you know, just kind
of ignore what the unless there's a story like that
is like there's open season, if there's a scuffle, hey,
it's it's worthy of being talked about. Otherwise it's pay
no mind in terms of the actual games. And that's
(34:38):
what you're trying to fight, that battle into that next
level of relevance. You're seeing record deals for franchises as
you keep expanding the league and the money and and
the TV deal that was signed, but that doesn't automatically
automatically buy you the respect where you're still having this
kind of lunacy and basis and a very concerned an
(35:01):
effort tonight to take that over.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, I mean again, I just feel bad that people
the lack of respect that that fans. Yeah, I don't
care getting arrest at all. I'm still gonna do it.
I don't wanna throw it near a player. Maybe maybe
he was thrown at Sophie, I mean landed close enough
to her. She was the one that she's her and
Kelsey Plumber two of the most popular players that are
playing now. And uh, you know with Caitlyn Clark out
and Sophie Cunningham's very outspoken. I mean the fact that, yeah,
(35:26):
I still don't care. I'm still gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I think about if she has a bad step and
sprain's a ankle, how that's gotta show up on an
injury repair.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
What what what took her out? Boy?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
I think there's something fishy about it. Not actually hitting her.
I don't know hitting her.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I don't know. You're throwing that thing from far away,
like I think you can only throw it so far.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
We're gonna find Are we gonna do that an see
how far you can throw?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Exit? How about it that that's on theho That'll be
a show, that'll be a game show, on the show.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
But for now they're at large. Yes, Yes.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Coming up next, we get into a big quarterback decision
in the NFL from today, the one we're all been
waiting for. Is next, Jason and Mike Fox. Is this
the Hobbits song?
Speaker 6 (36:13):
At the end, there goes a bilbo.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
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