President Trump Cancels Eagles Visit To The White House

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you know what, always a pledge to fill in. I
like that when you guys go to the bullpen looking
for the right to come in and you know I'm
always here for you, So let's do it. You know me,
Crafty South pak Ball and Brandy Jones kind of guys. Well,

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that's it. I had a pitch when I long long ago. Look,
Jason's usually in this chair and he tells you of
his tales of greatness. Uh, in his own mind, I
did have one pitch that was very effective. Somehow I
I figured out the way to get the ball to
just drop off at the last set the table. Yeah,
it just went off the table. And I couldn't pitch
like I never learned to really pitch because with this

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carcass and with this posterior and these quads, I should
have been a fireball, but I wasn't. I was a
junk baller, and I've got all the shoulder injuries to
show for for for screwing around with the curve balls
or whatever too early. But but it was it was fun,
and you know, every once in a while you have
to relive those glory days, particularly when I'm watching the
the scroll. Your guy, Aaron Judge, one of your top

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what three? He goes oh for nine with eight strikeouts
on the double header. Aaron Judge, the fastest player, and
the history of Major League Baseball is the home runs
is Judge and Jury and this Judgment day. There you go,
I'm not gonna go to the smult and analysis of
I don't like where baseball is headed with the three outcomes,

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but so be it. That's just the way it goes.
We're not gonna go deep into keep dive into baseball
and where we're at, that's all. And so he struck
out a few times. There you go in the spirit
of politics, which is well, where we're back in tonight,
Rob I filibustered as long as I could. It lasted

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all of three minutes, and now we launch into the
story of the night tomorrow. The Philadelphia Eagles, your world
champion Philadelphia Eagles, were scheduled to make their appearance at
the White House until their invitations were canceled. Well, that's
essentially what was said, quote the Eagles. Well, we've got
the Eagles statement on it a big deal, uh, and

(02:56):
more luminaries coming out, the all the politicians in the
city coming out as well. But the statement released by
the White House, the issue and debate that has always
termed national anthem issue in debate again, uh, politically co
opted term that went far away from the initial and

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that's that's on the folks that were at the beginnings
of this that they couldn't corral it. But Unfortunately, once
it gets into the political machine, that's that's the end
of it. You don't own that anymore, which is why
this continues to become an issue. The Philadelphia Eagles aren't
able to come to the White House with their full
team to be celebrated tomorrow. They disagree with their president
because he insists that they proudly stand for the national anthem,

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hand on heart in honor of the great men and
women of our military and people of our country. The
Eagles wanted to send a smaller delegation, but the thousand
fans planning to attend the event deserve better. These fans
are still invited to the White House to be part
of a different type of ceremony, one that will honor
our great country, a tribute to the hero's fight to
protect it, and loudly and proudly play the national anthem.

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I will be there at three PM with the United
States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus to
celebrate America. That's the statement released by the White House.
Rob Jason and I have talked about this a number
of times. You and I have talked about this issue
since it became so prevalent and and really carried much
of the the day for topics in the National Football

(04:23):
League outside of the two regular season games this past year,
and Tory Smith, amongst other players, came out and said, well,
you know, here's some inaccuracy, and certainly we always get
into this. Players forever have missed for very various reasons,

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whether they don't agree with the politics of the man
in charge, or they just are recovering from surgeries, enjoying
their last throws of their vacations before they maybe family
time for all the people they don't see go all
the way down. Didn't Tom Rady, who had one of
those Make America Great hats and his locker, not show up.
He did. He he went and bought a watch. Jason

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is very fond of bringing that up. It was a
family event and then he was shopping. But it's the
type of thing and look, you go or you don't go,
whatever you're you're invited. And I for for where I
sit from a political standpoint, I say, as best you can,
you put the politics to the side for a moment
and just take the level view. Right, those are the

(05:31):
tickets I can afford. Growing up at the old United
Chicago Stadium before it became the United Center where most
of the time you were looking down at your feet
making sure the rats didn't bite you. But the from
the the top level down, you've got both sides doing
this right by there by the way they're handling there themselves.

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For Donald Trump, this is the low hanging fruit. And
we've had this discussion. You can't win a lot of
the other battles being fought in Washington. A lot of
these topics are too deep and involved in in the
culture of where we are now to have nuanced discussion. Hell,
this is too difficult for most people to have nuanced discussion,
which is why it's become very easy to just say

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an anthem protest and leave that at the door and
let people, you know, get on either sides of the
political aisle and fight from there. Which is why we've
never had the i think, true push towards what the
players were originally because looking people don't want to hear
about it. That's that's the issue. It's always let's muddy

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the water so that we can avoid having that real
conversation and understand what we're talking about well and certainly
from a political standpoint, And that's what we have here.
I mean and I I salute the Philadelphia Eagles. I
I just they have been consistent for all the talk
about all you know, this uh protest is a distraction

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and you can't play football and Neil and and and
and do this at work. It's funny, you know why,
because they had a lot of high profile guys who
were involved in the protest. Guess what team won the
Super Bowl. It was the Philadelphia Eagles. They weren't distracted.
Talent always wins out. That was some b S excuse

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that people wanted to use no and why go show
up for some fake photo op with the guy who
had nothing good to say about the NFL or its players.
So I applaud them. I applaud the organization to say, well,
people don't want to go, We're not gonna make people go,

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and and let him have his little patriotic party if
that's what he wants to have this country. You're allowed
to do whatever you want to do as long as
you're not hurting other people. I just don't understand it.
And for all the people continue to cloud the whole
story about what this this is not anti military, Just

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stop with the with the bs of of this being
anti military. But that's the problem, is that it got
politicized and now it's it's the easy chip to pull out,
and and from a political standpoint, and just you know,
having covered sports as we have, where you're trying you've
always trying to figure out what gms really saying, what

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a players really saying. Right, we'll get it. We'll get
into Lebron James throughout the night. What do his words,
his actions, his facial expressions towards teammates, coaches and all that.
What does it mean on the grander scale? We do
that all the time with body language, and certainly from
a political world, it's it's just the nature of the beast.
It's it's the same. And whatever business you're in, And
we appreciate you giving us some time on a Monday

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night wherever you may be. Rob and I truly thank
you for listening to us and and and letting us,
you know, give giving our our opinions on this is
that your your bosses have their motivations. From a political perspective,
what are you doing. You're trying to rally your people.
So for for President Trump, this is exactly what he
needs to keep doing. This is the easy thing. It's

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it's a tired act, and he just keeps going back
to the well because he'll he'll galvanize the handful his
His people is constituents, the people who who don't want
to hear about anything else or any of the other issues.
They will rally about this and talk about standing up
and for the flag and don't disrespect well. And that's

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the thing is that the Eagles always stood right. There
were other acts and gestures that people can read into
and get incensed about, but they always stood. That was
consistent throughout. But to go with it, you've got the politicization.
Try to say that five times fast, being politicized on

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one side, but then you have the Eagles. And we've
always had the the condemnation of athletes who didn't speak right,
the Michael Jordan's hey, you know everybody buy shoes. No, No,
this quote was republican by sneakers too, And a lot
of people didn't like Michael Jordan when he took when
he said that, uh, because he was one of these

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guys who tried to play both sides. But I never
said anything but when he was the top guy right,
And and that that's been the case for a number
of your number one or not. Our biggest name. Derek
Jeter never said a word, but he was in the
biggest market. But you've seen a lot of the NBA
players with the I can breathe t shirts. Uh, they
spoke up right, And and that's what this this time.

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There comes a time when you keep watching people over
and over be killed, maimed, whatever you want to say,
unarmed by police. That you have to say something just
because you play football or basketball, or you play a
sport that you can't say anything is ridiculous. And this
whole notion. All I'm saying is people have a right

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to speak out when things When people look at society
and don't like where they're headed. The difference is what
people don't understand. They say, well, what are you complaining about?
You play ball, you make millions of dollars, Your life
is great. But the only problem is we have family
and friends and other people who driving these cars and
a stop by the police, and and it could happen

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to you. They don't know you play in the NFL.
When they pull your car up, they don't know. They
don't know, So so you can't turn your head and
act like it doesn't affect you, because it could affect you.
We saw what happened in Milwaukee, what happened NBA playing.
They don't know who he is. He's a he's a
no name NBA player, right and he has a if

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anything that's a parking ticket. You go from the police
giving you a parking ticket to getting tased? Is that
is that really where we're going? No, and that and
that's the to the larger as we go. And that's
where I think when we we talk about what has
been termed the anthem protest, why it becomes a difficult
proposition because you're not speaking your you have your voice

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in your community. But people can easily just take that
image and do with it what they will. Will continue
this discussion coming up next to The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen. Rob Parker in for Jason Today. Find
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Smith Show with Mike Carmon continues. Rob Parker is in

(12:26):
for Jason Smith this evening. Jason uh worked an early shift,
so tonight he's gluttonizing and probably I don't know, going
to see Solo again, or or watching Mets highlights from
World Series years past, because he's sure as hell an
watching him from at Rob Parker once that, well, I
gotta be on. Look, I'm a White Sox fan. What

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do you want me to do? But you guys got
a world did I did? And I don't know that's
that seems like a lifetime ago. Now they got it.
I'm not an old man with a gray beard over
the Houston Nastals of the National League. Remember when they covered?
But remember when the Astros that then this we'll get
back into the topic of the day here momentarily quick

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side that what was circulating was on June one, they
were left for dead in all the Houston newspapers. Were
the Houston Astros before going on there second half of
the Phil Garner was the manager, and he just they
just took caught fire. They caught fire, and and then
I got to go to Game two. I had to
cancel a lot of radio appearances because I had no

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voice for three days after that game. But I digress.
The topic of the day, Donald Trump disinviting the Philadelphia
Eagles to the White House. Can you disinvite somebody who
wasn't coming. I mean, well, you can still go through
the formality. It's all about controlling how many players are
on a football team. This sixty one. There's three injured guys.

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So so just say sixty three players and only ten
we're going to show up to the White House. That
would be embarrassment. That's why I canceled ten players. We're
gonna show up. Ten or ten guys, We're gonna show up,
so you you get it. I want to see the list.
I want to see the list of the ten guys
we're gonna go. Okay, well that's what I want. Whatever

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whatever any of the players, coaches, training staff, et cetera,
whatever their motivations, political or personal, they weren't gonna go.
And so this becomes a rallying point, as we've seen,
and that's and that's fine and politically, that's the way
it's played and this and we're gonna see this time

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and again. Jason and I have talked about this. I
know you and Chris have talked about it in your
show and certainly on your appearances on Fox Sports One
in the Mornings that you've had many discussion about these
You brought up the NBA players and their messaging going
back to I can't breathe and others, and certainly on Twitter,

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we appreciate you getting in at Rob Parker FS one
find me over swollen dome. Certainly appreciate it. And no, no,
at no point did anybody say there were no incidents
of police brutality and other administrations, that there aren't all
all of these terrible things that that plague society and
have for long periods of time. The reality is that players,

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using their voice, decided to put a voice on it
in this time, and we talked about the past where
a lot of the players didn't. And certainly the NFL
is different. Right, the NBA has had their policy and
we've we've heard which which is a bad policy, that
the union sold the players up. But but the union
approved it, and it's a bad policy, and that's one

(15:44):
of those strikes against the NBA Players Association. I don't
care what they say to agree to that because of
the mock mood, mak mud. Because of that, that's where
that got kind of pigeonholed and they got caught up
and they wouldn't along with it, but it just should
never happen that nobody else has to go to work

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and do we stand for the national anthem before we
started this radio show tonight. Nobody else goes to work
and does that. No, nobody. You can't even do it
in schools. Mike, Well, that's certainly been a debate, the
pledge of allegiance and everything else. Point I was trying
to make is the fact is when you you brought

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up the NBA players and Lebron James, Chris, Paul, Carmelo,
Anthony and everybody speaking out at awards shows and and
various platforms. The NBA being a star driven league, the
players understood the power that they had right guaranteed contracts,
big platforms, social media on TV too effect change when

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everything was going on here with Donald Sterling, the ability
to say, you know what, perhaps we don't show up
for a playoff game told a mission is straight up,
if you don't do something about this, we won't play
in the playoff game. Guess what happened. No, but that's
but that's say you you have a real chance and
it doesn't take a lot of players to take that stance.

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You have less players. No, no, no, but but not
even just doing that numbers game. It's it's it's strictly
a I'm talking about the the star player factor. Is
what's gonna drive that? Because what are you tuning in for? What?
Don't We're not watching the finals? But that's not just
because the finals. If there was the Rockets and the Celtics,
are we are we as feverish about it and dissecting
every place. No, we're still watching, but we're not. But

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it's that star power. But disagree with you from this standpoint.
The NFL players have power. League is seventy two percent black.
They have power, right if they would have just to
refuse if they come out on the opening night and
they all kneel, the league said, we're gonna find people
who kneel, and they do it, Okay, you're gonna find

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everybody in the league. The league will have an embarrassment. Okay,
And you could and they could do it every game
and that's that's fine, and we're not paying the fine,
and and then the league will have to come up
with something. But I but I respond, But I respond
with this Getting people to agree on anything is it
is a difficult proposition. No, No, But I'm saying they

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do have no in theory. I agree in theory, but
this gets back to the guaranteed contracts, the the star
power that the NBA has and the NFL where guys
are looking at a three year career three to four years. No, no, no,
but but here's the thing. But that's not you can't

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get rid of everybody. And that's my but, but there's
not all these guys that haven't made it waiting for
their jobs. No. I just if you do it, if
you do it as a as a group, if you
do know but the union houses every time. Why because
you can't get players to agree on anything. You can't
you can't get the union to organize it the proper

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way to make sure that these guys are going to
be covered. Who's going to change that, Rob Well, but
they just re elected and they did what Geane Upshaw does.
He takes what they took an extra day off. But
that was their big win the last time. I agree,
But I'm saying that they do have more power. They
just don't know how to utilize it. We saw what happened.

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You ready. What the Baseball Union do when they say
they were gonna lock them out? What did they do?
They canceled the World Series of Play, so you'll lock
us out after the season. Okay, we got something for you.
How about no World but again, how about stopping the
super Bowl? How about not playing the super Bowl? But again,
I I appreciate the the they in theory have cloud
Baseball union was always the most powerful union. They were, actually,

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but what do you got. You got guaranteed contracts, and
they win in negotiations, and they've won at the negotiating
table for their piece of the pie. Whatever football they
give up because you've got guys with different interests and
different different points of their career. Don't But but we
can't talk in theories. I'm not I'm not back in school.
I disagree. I disagree just from this damnpoint. If you

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organize it properly and get the players on board to
understand that is not about you as an individual. It's
about the group of players together, and that's what you
have to They can't fire everybody. They can't. You can't.
You don't go back. You shut the game down. If
everybody doesn't have their job when we go back, then

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then we're not coming back. I mean, you gotta be
willing to make that but who's doing that for the
three years. Can't play football. They can't play with just uh,
Aaron Rodgers and and the white quarterbacks and kickers. They
just can't. They understand the numbers. Trust me, and I'm look,

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I'm as down the middle in a political world as
there is. I don't I don't go and I go
issue to issue, topic to topic. The fact in this case,
it's just business for the players because they're each their
own corporate entergy trying to figure out what's best for them.
They shouldn't have a union and they have a collective
bargain in agreement that they failed to negotiate properly. Again,

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I totally agree with that. I think their union is
very weak. But the idea that they don't have power,
I think that that's not true. They don't know how
to utilize their power. Do they have power? If they
would have The year that they had the Super Bowl
in Atlanta with the flag, uh, the Georgia's state flag
had a Confederate flag on it. Right, all the black

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sportswriters and broadcasters walked out of the press box and
refused to salute or or stand for the national anthem
with that flag flying, they all walked out. If the
players prior to that would have said to the commissioner
and the head of ABC or whoever is running that game,
we are not playing the Super Bowl. Of that flag

(21:56):
flies before the Super Bowl, I guarantee you, with all
the money and everything on the lot, they would have
taken that flag down before the game. But they didn't know.
But I'm I'm telling you, and get the theory with
that threat, do you think that they would have? Not
that they would have. It always comes down to money.

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That's my point, which is what the argument is in
this whole thing, and why we keep spinning round and round,
and why the owners are where they are and the
players and this topic will continue obviously, but you know what,
let's talk some NBA finals. We're gonna bring in an
NBA champion, a guy who's well intimately no it has
intimate knowledge of the workings of the Cleveland Cavaliers. That's

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coming up next, But first we step out to award
winning update anchor power lifter Tom Looney and we find
out what's trend. Oh hi, my god, Buddy Looney, thank
you for filling in for Jason, who shouldn't seem to
wander into work to do. He worked this morning Looney
two finals and on an Island two finals and baseball

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from a double header and d Detroit, where Rob Parker
was once stuck in the first I know you do, Jason, Yeah,
Jason Smith. Rob actually vacations in Detroit. There's a Fannie Dooley.
You know what? Dogs okay. In the first game of

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the double header, Yankees team the Tigers seven to four,
and the second when Tigers tank the Yanks for to two.
What's interesting to note here, guys, Aaron Judge set a
record for a number of strikeouts in a double header.
Today he either hits it a mile or he strikes out.
Game four, the NBA Stanley Cuff Final No. S play
tonight in Washington, d C. Vegas Golden Knights, Washington Capitals,

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Our Coast. They score Michael Captay post to post and
Floury could not get there e time. We'll see you
in Vegas sits five to two, Washington six to two.
Is your final? John Walton with the call in the
cow Weinberger Radio Network. Washington now leads that series three
games to one. Legendary San Francisco forty Niner wide receiver d.

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White Clark has died. He'll always be known for the
catch has sent the forty Niners to the Super Bowl
in nineteen two. Drawing in the zine far It's a
mad House candle Stick, white Clark is six four. He

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stands about ten ft tall in this crowd estimation from
the legendary vinceco Oh my god, so weird to hear
that Clark was sixty one. Died following a battle with
a ls That's what's trending. I'm loaning in now more
of Mike Harmon and Rob Parker on Fox Sports Radio.
Appreciate you, Loony. We're coming to alive from the Guico

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one on Twitter. Find me over at Swollen Don't let's
go out to the hot line. Bring in an NBA
champion with the Cleveland Cavaliers, long NBA career in the

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first round in two thousand and three, after dominating the
hardwood at Duke Welcome in Dante Joe and Dante. Welcome
to the show. What's up? How you guys doing to that?
Trying trying to figure out if you've got a couple
of good minutes off the bench to help try to
resurrect the calves here. I promise you, I'll do whatever
you guys need me to do. I'm there, all right,

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Well you could maybe give a hard follow. Maybe you
can be the guy to agitate Draymond Green. What's it
gonna take the claw back into this series? Um? I
just think they need some some couple of games at home. Uh,
we'll go to State what they're supposed to win their
two home games to go to home care of advantage,
and now Cleveland had two home games as well, so
I expect them to take care of business at home

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and it's just gonna be a very good series. Take
care of business. Come on, Dante, are you serious that
the Cleveland team is horrible? Dude? That rob Rob Rob.
We said this in the Celtics series, and Celtics beat
the Breaks off from at home in Boston and they're done.
They're getting no brand Stevens coach outside of Massachusetts. Everybody

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wrote them off in Boston. This young Celtics team is
coming to to take care of business in and sweep
the Calves, and they went home and had two great
performances and kept the series alive. So I just expect
them to do the same thing. Now, Dante, you are
comparing these Stallars Celtics with a team like the Warriors
that have won two of the last three championships. You
look at those two teams the same and think that

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that's the performance you're gonna get. I look at those
two the same on the road, um, and I think
Cleveland will have more confidence at home with the with
with the past that they have doing it in the
past series where they've won two games in two games
on at home and had better performance at home, and
they confidence rolling with their younger players that are coming

(27:02):
off their bench. Looked like for spells in Game two,
and certainly as that thing started to spiral away that
there was still some hangover effect of that final minute
of regulation from Game one. Now the Browder film made
its way out of uh an anguished Lebron James. I
just have to ask this, how does he not know

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they have a time out? Um? I think it's just
miscommunication and and it's at the end of the day,
it's a game. It's one of it's the most um
competitive game of the year right now, but it's a game.
And those were the mistakes made by the Cavaliers and
not recognizing they had a time out, and neither did
the players know, and oh nor were they informed that
they had a time and so it's a it's an

(27:43):
error in the suthing you learned from and yeah, and
you're prepared in those situations going forward. Just seemed like
they had that, you know, coming into this series, prohibitive underdogs,
you know in Las Vegas and media pundits that that
was your puncher's chance right there, that everything lined up
perfectly even though the Warriors had shot, and just from

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a psychological standpoint, you know, trying to regroup that locker room,
give us a little inside if you can, on Tylu
and his role on and trying to do that well,
I think that that definitely was your chance to steal
home court advantage and give you some added confidence. But um,
this locker room is um, it's very it's looking forward

(28:24):
to going home and playing in front of their fans,
and they get an added bonus of play in front
of their fans and tylu is looking at it from
the perspective best. You know what, We're gonna take care
what we're supposed to take care of. And as long
as we have that same defensive pressure and the same
defensive mind and effort that we had in Game one,
which we've done, um, things can. Things can go our way,
and guys tend to play better offensively in Cleveland. So

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you picked uh your former team to win the championship.
I'm assuming I picked them in seven. Number one, number one,
I don't bet. I don't ever bet against Lebron James,
number one and number two. I know how they play
at home, So I'm counting on them to get these
two wins at home and to be a competitive series.

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And if you put Lebron James in the in the
game seven situation, the greatest Game seven player we have
right now, then it's going to be dangerous for Golden State.
I bet you. I bet your chicken wings. Everybody chicken
wings again, Dante, come, we have we we have our
chicken wings back going on. We declared it yesterday. So
we have a chicken wing back on the calves winning

(29:27):
into seven. I take that one. So he's trying to
double down that you're just a glutton. Still, I'll still
get it. I'll get the Wings earlier because it won't
go seven, will be a four game sweep. And Dante,
I love your optimism about going home. The Calves are
a bad team. The trades were bad. Those play rodney
Hood doesn't even play. These guys are and the people

(29:51):
that they picked up. Rodney Hood doesn't play because rodney
Hood is not playing well right now. Sometimes you have
to move on from players and add different players to
your rotation. He's not claiming on the playoffs. It's a
learning experience for him and he's something that he could
come back from. But rodney Hood has not written off
and he still might be inserted into into the picture
right now and have a good game. It's not over

(30:12):
for rodney Hood. So it's still a possibility out there
that rodney Hood could affect this series like this, it's
not as bad as you're saying it is. It still
has a chance to compete, and if it competes in
front of his home crowd the way I think they
are going to do, then we have a good series coming.
Trying to get ourselves back to to level here in
the NBA Finals. Fox Sports Radio Jason Spith Show with

(30:33):
Mike Harman. Rob Parker in for Jason Smith on the
Hotline with US NBA Champion with the Calves. Longtime NBA
start Dante Jones is with us d So you you know, Lebron,
is he a cyborg? Because we're trying to figure out
how this is physically possible After many miles we've we've
seen him be human over these playoffs, man, and he

(30:55):
just so in tune with his body. He's so dedicated
to his craft. He sacrifices so much that he can
perform like this, and and it's just it's it's amazing
to watch him continue to get better and better at
taking care of his body and pning on his craft
and just being great. That's what I hope to have
that kind of money to pay people for that level

(31:16):
of health, that I could be a superhuman too and
I can take down Rob Parker and all these chicken
wing challenges. It is discipline. Yeah, you can't have chicken
wings at this point on the court. You gotta chick
out all the chicken wings. You gotta have an amazing diet,
and you gotta you gotta be the ice thing and
and doing all different types of stuff to make sure
your body can perform. And I don't think Bob is

(31:37):
ready to kick the chicken wings out his diet, so
he's not gonna be able to perform. Like, let's see.
What you don't understand is that the chicken wings work
on the hot tanks, so when you're trying to I'm
in the hot take business, so the wings work for that.
It might not work for my basketball game, but they
work for my hot take. Okay, as long as it
works for you, brother. The opinion is tag is what's
on his business cards these these days, uh Dante? So

(32:01):
you're picking him back to to rise, rise, back up.
Who's got to be the key? I mean, obviously Lebron brings,
brings his game each night. We've seen some ridiculous things
out of him thus far. But we're player. Are you
you calling on for game three to be the difference maker? Jr.
Smith is an expected. When he plays well, they play well.
When he doesn't play well, they struggle. So as long

(32:22):
as he's confident, and he tends to play well in
Cleveland's confident playing well and and and and playing aggressive
defensively they have. They have a great chance. Fantastic stuff.
Dat Jones on the hot Line with us NBA Champion
with the Calves, the chicken wing battle with Rob Parker.
Will get an update on that and see it paid
off video form with one of you guys gluttonizing as

(32:45):
we go through. Thank you stopingbye, Dante, Appreciate you again.
Dante Jones with us on the show, still calling for
the Calves in seven. I like the optimism. What's that? Yeah,
I played for them. I understand by he knows Lebron.
Don't tell me that that just because they're going home,
it's going to be automatic that they win a couple

(33:05):
of games. But no, but to a degree you say
that at least you saw the puncher's chance in game one.
Now it's no. But if you can't win that game,
I'm telling you that's that's been my discussion. Win that game.
I don't know how in the world, after what Golden
State did in game two write one by twenty or
nineteen whatever you wanna call it, uh to think that. Okay,

(33:28):
now I'm gonna it's it's for against one. That's what
it's for against one, and and the Cleveland team is
a bad team. I'm just not buying. That's why I
picked the sweep. Last year was a five game sweep.
Kywee average twenty eight points against Golden State. Lebron average
a triple double. They can't play any better than that.

(33:50):
By the way, Karon Butler used the term the old
gentleman sweep. He owed me wings. To Karen Butler, he
everybody owes me wings. What the hell you're like? You're
like the guy running the neighborhood. He picked the horror games.
You're the guy running. You're the guy that ran when
when weed was legal everywhere. You're the guy that everybody

(34:12):
owes money too. I got wings on the street from
any guy walking around. He owes me twenty he owes
me a large What the hell's going on with you?
We get back into the NBA finals. The Lebron James
m v P talk. I'm having none of it, and
I'm sure my partner here isn't either. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen, Rob Parker and for Jason continues

(34:33):
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(34:54):
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(35:17):
We appreciate the team as we go through the night
here at Fox Sports Radio from the Geico Studios and Rob.
One of the conversations, given the superhuman efforts through the
first two games of this NBA Finals, is the old
m VP debate starts creeping it into the conversation, right
because we have Jerry West all those years ago and

(35:39):
his heroics and people waiting to see when's the next
player from a losing team. Right, presuming at this point
that whether it's a sweep and you collect chicken wings
or it goes five, not six, not seven, whatever that
Lebron James eventually loses and continues to reign as the
vote as you have named him for so many years.

(36:01):
Now that to me, it's an assinine conversation. I don't
care if you score sixty points a game, if you
lose four times in the finals, you're you're not winning
the m v P. You could have a consolation prize
in your locker room. Maybe that gets you a spot
bonus based on something you've negotiated with the owners and
other people or your sponsors. But beyond that, right now,

(36:24):
Steph Curry far and away, not only not only thriving
right thirty three and twenty nine, looking at total of
thirteen rebounds, seventeen assists and the three point barrage he
put on in game two, which he had set a
record already in the first two games of the finals.

(36:46):
But the thing that he did was he also reasserted
himself as the guy Kevin Durant shrunk away a little
bit on the last series and into this one. We're
in those big moments, who's the guy stepping up for
the shot? It's Curry once again, and after maybe just
reading one too many columns or hearing once one too
many opinionists he had here at Fox Sports Radio or

(37:08):
you and your brethren over at Fox Sports One, perhaps
calling out defensive lapses or the fact that his shot
had been had been erratic for a while here coming
off the ankle injury and all of that, but certainly
rounding himself back into ship in the shape. But he's
been phenomenal. So to tell me on any level that
just because Lebron James is filling a stat sheet, even

(37:31):
though like the end columns says l in it, that
that that shouldn't matter, your kidding yourself, absolutely the whole
notion idea, he's not. First of all, Game one was tremendous,
except for when it mattered the most when he disappeared
in overtime. Yes, oh for four from the field, and
he just had two free throws, And people just like

(37:51):
to act as if that wasn't a part of the game.
I always said and and equated to Tom Brady's Super Bowl.
Tom Brady had five yards in the game. He also
fumbled with two and a half minutes or whatever three
minutes to go, which which which was the most critical
time And the same thing for Lebron. Those are the

(38:12):
ones you cannot say, well, Tom Brady did everything he
could be could he do for five months of yards? No,
he fumbled, he gave up the football. Lebron did not
finish the job. It's his fault. If he wanted to pout,
I got news for he's well. And that's not even
in the post game press conference with the short suit

(38:34):
forty six thousand dollars, If you want to replicate that
short suit in the handbag, justin? You want you want
thousand dollar alligator handbag? Would you want to Louis Vuitton
handbag like that? Justin? I could see you with that,
only if it comes with a matching pair of short shorts,
because he'd be on the street collecting your chicken wings
and the unbelievable. I mean, he'd be your collector. But
it looked like a handbag. I guess it's fashionable. It

(38:56):
was a merse, rob it was a merse that that
was a big mrs. I just thought it was entertaining
that I might have been the only guy raising my
hand going what's with the walk through the crowd of
the media. Your exit was stage right after you got
up from that table. But then you took your bag
and went home. This motion that Lebron should be considered
for m v P, it's just it's just ridiculous. I mean,

(39:17):
he's not his team is down O two and did
you have a great uh game one? Mostly mostly then
he didn't know how many time outs there were, and
that that tape went around today. I can't wait until
I don't know. Maybe you and I do it where
we go and we try to put thought bubbles into
a mystery science theater three thousand things, where we have

(39:38):
the conversation that Lebron should have been having with j R.
Smith on that bench, when instead he was putting his
head in his hands and wondering what was me? And
then he and then he was he was certainly not
not fully engaged, shall we say, in the overtime period
in what became a ten point loss. You look at

(39:58):
the stars. Actually in that overtime period it was a
Draymond Green show. Durant and Curry didn't do anything. I
didn't even shoot, and then Lebron James was over four.
It was a big moment. That was the game. If
Lebron could have composed himself. The other thing too, that
is The biggest fallacy is even with the Jr. Smith
uh miss you. You know, they weren't losing. They would

(40:22):
never ahead. They weren't when it wasn't automatic. That even
if he turned around and tried to put it back
he made the shodow, it wasn't blocked. So so to
look at and say he lost the game, I just
don't look at it that way. Was it a dumb play, Yes,
but they would, but they didn't have the lead that
was guar into the classics. But at least you would
have given yourself a chance, but they didn't do it.

(40:44):
Coming up next on The Jays Smith Show with Mike
Armen with Rob Parker, we get back into the biggest
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(41:08):
He got to float out as Clayton Kershaw theories. As
soon as the back yotomy comes into play, we got
problems he'll be back tomorrow. The back yotomy, huh, where
you're you're constantly talking about whether a guy's back is
gonna blow up after three innings or fifty pitches or
whatever the magic number becomes as you're a tenuere player

(41:28):
in the Major League Baseball ranks. And for the Dodgers,
an interesting decision to be made with Clayton Kershaw in
terms of his longevity with the team. But that's a
tale for another time. Jason off this evening. He'll be
back tomorrow in his stead. You see him on FS
one Undisputed. You hear him on Fox Sports Radio as
part of the odd Couple alongside Chris Brussard on Sundays,

(41:52):
Do you guys getting after it? And a lot of
a lot of yelling? Was definitely odd to know, well
here in radio, by definition your odds and that you've
already put that into We went an hour without a
Golden Girls reference, By the way, that may be the
longest and now now I've made but that was no no,
But I just had to be said that that was

(42:14):
the longest you and I have ever worked together without
at least one Golden Girls reference. And that song makes
mod night right there, there you go. I was laughing
the other day. I was out with the kids and
we were tooling around, uh, one of these shops in
them all and they have all these It's a company
called Funko, and they make these different toys, right, and

(42:35):
what they have are these little vinyl figures maybe seven
eight inches tall and the Golden Girls. But they have
all of these other properties. Right, there's the Infinity War,
there's you know, Voldemort and all the Harry Potter people.
There's Batman over there, and in the middle of it
was a blanche. I started laughing and my my nine
year old looks at me, because why are you laughing? Dad?

(42:55):
I go, well, this is the show from the eighties.
And one of the guys that I work with, actually
he'll be with me on on Monday Night. It's like
you've bet Rob. Yeah, he's he's loud. I like him.
And it's like, well, your reputation, you know that, that's
who you are. We know with Rob we're gonna get
We're gonna get loud, and we're gonna get loud, like
this is a show he references all the time. And

(43:18):
because but it's a little old lady. But I said,
but that was it. They were in a retirement community.
It was a it was a pack of little old
ladies and it was their adventures. What and don Cheatle
randomly showed up in the final season and that was
Golden Yeah, hey that was I did not watch that,
but I will say this, people, people still are amazed

(43:40):
that that's like one of my favorite all time shows.
It's just if you listen watch the show and listen
to the writing. The writing is tremendous. It is so
funny and not to this day, one of the all
time greatest. And then we're gonna get to our sport.
On the all time greatest throwaway lines, it's o Fia

(44:00):
has the remote control and she's clicking the TV channel,
the channel, and out of nowhere, there's no set up,
there's nothing. She's just clicking the clicker and she says, hey,
look there's a black guy anchoring the news and isn't
even the weekend. That was the line. I'm like, who
wrote that? Out of nowhere? And then do you think

(44:22):
you could run that line? Now? I don't think you
can run that line? No, But but they looked at
her like she was crazy. I thought, what writing that
that's tremendous. That and let's call it what it is.
In Hollywood, there's always the discussion of being able to
write for anybody that's not fifty old. And funny is funny? Funny,

(44:44):
it's funny. A lot of people think, well, I don't
relate to any of the characters, how could I find
this funny, or how could I relate funny? It's funny.
And if you just watch the show face value, the
jokes are funny. It doesn't matter that there four old
white women living in my emmy and they have nothing
in common with me. But I love comedy, and I

(45:06):
love funny lines and stuff, and the storylines tremendous show.
This Golden Girl's Update brought to you by Rob Parker.
Find him on Twitter at rob Parker fs one. Find
me over at Spurs the Golden Gods, because you know,
we had seen the movie once for a long time,
for a very long time, and now they have that
decision on their hands, one of the the great, one

(45:27):
of the great decisions. When you're looking at Kawhi Leonard
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So the topic of the day, President Trump disinvites whatever
contingent of the Philadelphia Eagles estimates from ten players a

(45:51):
little bit north of that players and the team invited
the annual ceremony as we see it after each major
champ and chip. But this one taking on the as
it's been dubbed the anthem protest, and yes, there there
are different device and the fact that there was never

(46:12):
true unity and clarity of message. At times it got
cluttered on both sides. Colin Kaepernick with comments that betrayed
the initial thrust of what was being done in terms
of what the anthem is and what it represents. That
it became about the anthem because he spoke specifically to

(46:33):
it well, but also I just think that there was
a was it a marine or whatever who told him
that it would be better to kneel. He wasn't even
but that was it was it was played in the league.
And I'm sorry, but had said that that and and
we've made this point in the military who said that

(46:54):
niela would be more appropriate and then people thought of
making it as if there was something else going on.
And I have certainly discussed this on the show. And
and we think about when we we've knelt in our lives.
If you are raised in a Catholic school or a
Catholic or church going in a lot of ways family,
you're on your knees, you know, looking up to to

(47:14):
your your God. You were maybe if you go to
a funeral, you're at kneeling at a casket, and what
are you doing. You're paying respect to whatever entity likewise,
kneeling genuflecting in this in this way, still showing respect,
but adding your message that you're trying to get through. Uh.

(47:36):
And the message that went out from President Trump in
terms of the disinvitation, the Eagles are unable to come
to the White House. This was a statement released by
the White House quote, Eels are unable to come to
the White House with their full team to be celebrated tomorrow.
They disagree with their president be because he insistent they
probably stand for the national anthem, hand on heart in
honor of the great men and women of our military

(47:58):
and the people of our treat and we remember the
Eagles players all stood maybe a fist raised, maybe arm
in arm different different ways about it to make their
their statement, but certainly still standing. So at its face,
not quite a hundred percent on point, but the idea

(48:20):
of this as it it became a bigger topic this
afternoon into the evening. President Trump will still hold a
ceremony honoring the country with the United States Marine Band
the United States Army Corps to celebrate America, and as
he's done before and as continues to be done, the
opportunity to rally supporters, rally a base and take whatever win,

(48:46):
whether you want to put a capital W on it,
a lower case W, whatever it goes on in in
the political sphere. How many times you gonna keep playing
the same song? We okay, just over and over and over.
That's all it is. But there, well, but if it's
a song that you're yeah, but but you don't forward anything.
At some point, yes, at some point, uh have some

(49:09):
meaningful statements about what's going on in the country and
and and understand what's happening. That's all acknowledge that there's
something else. That's the one thing that bothered me with
Tom Brady. Tom Brady came out and said he didn't
know what was going on or didn't there were guys
on his own team who were kneeling, and he claimed
that he didn't know what was going on. And I

(49:30):
have respect for Aaron Rodgers. Aaron's it's not Aaron Rodgers
wasn't involved in the protest, but he spoke to what
was going on and having an understanding as to what's
happening and why some of his teammates are taking part
in it. That's all. No one's saying you have to
sign off, wanted to agree or neil, but don't act
like you don't know what's going on. That that's the
part that bothers me. No, And and that's where as

(49:51):
we discussed a little bit earlier in the show, you
get get into, uh, it's politicizing this, and it's it
to become a discussion that's gone away from the a
lot of the thrust of the original. Let's talk about
what's going on in the country because it's an uncomfortable conversation.

(50:12):
There's no question about it. As we sit here in
the getic Fox Sports Radio studio, I'd like to think
we're two reasonable people. Right. You're an African American male,
a short Stocky Balding man have plenty of hands. I
wanted to just run my full George Costanza line. But but, but,

(50:33):
but it's the kind of thing that I'd like to
think we can have reasonable conversation. Look, we're not gonna
solve it in a radio studio, but we have to
acknowledge that there are differences, and there are there is
a divide and a chasm that needs to be you know,
a bridge built again that and that's just the basic, basic, elemental, rudimentary,

(50:56):
just understanding of what this was in tended to be.
And now it's a question of all right, how do
you get it back on track? How do the players galvanize,
whether it's with players of other leagues. You know, the
NBA has done their their leaders there because no coincidence there,
They're best players have also taken charge of their their union.

(51:21):
Just have those. But this, this is the other part
that that I just will not get with. And and
I reject UH fans who claim that they don't want
to they don't they don't want this as part of
their football. They're going to see football and not interested
in this a politics. And my only issue is is
that true? Because the NFL. They certainly sell a lot

(51:42):
of breast cancer awareness stuff. That does what does that
have to do with football? I get it's a good cause,
but it has nothing to do with football. What about
when they when they took away to Super Bowl from
Arizona because they didn't have them want Luther King Holiday.
What does that have to do that hadn't didn't do
with football? Mike, Yes, so you can't say I only

(52:07):
want football. But it's okay to wear pink cleats and
pink uh wrist bands and headbands and sell merchandise to
raise money for the league. You know, the league. It's
a money making They can't make money off black people
being killed by an armed black people getting killed by cops.
That's why they're not interested in it. Everything else, they
have their hand in the cookie jar. That's what bothers

(52:31):
me about the NFL. It's about what they can do
and they're not interested. They have to understand that we
live this life. I live this life every day. I've
been there. I've been stopped on the side of the road.
I don't know what's coming. I don't they don't know
I went to Columbia. They don't know him On radio
they don't know him on TV. They don't know. I'm

(52:54):
just like everybody else. And that's why I think it
hits black people no matter what you're economical, where you
are financially, because we're all there, we'll all on the
side of the role being pulled over and we don't
know what's coming. Passionate discussion from Rob Parker the NFL
as they try to enact a policy we've seen it

(53:15):
uh as Jerry Jones said, flat out kind of put
to the test by President Trump saying this was a
winning proposition for him, so he wasn't gonna let it go.
And we'll see what the next iteration is. We'll continue
with this as the show goes on, but next we
take a turn to Major League Baseball. Welcome in our
trusted insider, John Paul Morossi as we get into June.

(53:38):
Maybe he's got some tips from the Major League Baseball
Draft for all you dynasty Fantasy Baseball people, unless he doesn't.
That's coming up next to Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen.
Rob Parker in for Jason on Fox Sports Radio. Fox
Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Coming
here from the guy Co Studios. Rob Parker in for
Jason Smith this evening, Catch him on on Disputed, Catch

(53:59):
him on The Odd Couple with Chris Bruce. Sorry here
on Fox Sports Radio Sundays, Man about Town at Rob
Parker FS one on Twitter, we take a turn to
Major League Baseball. We're getting getting into the summer months
and things are heating up, teams finally showing a little
sign of life after early struggles, and certainly as we

(54:21):
reside in Los Angeles, that's where we want to start off.
We bring into the program Fox Sports MLB Network, Inside
or Our Body, John Paul Morossi at John MORROSSI leave
off the H for savings, j O. N. Morosi, Hi, Mom,
what's going on? JP? Big pimpin? How are you guys

(54:42):
doing this city? Great to be talking with Mr Friends.
I know always you know me and John Paul go
way back. Who are Detroit days always a pleasure? Well?
If having in a lot like Detroit, I don't want
to go. That's what Kid Rock wants saying. Uh. The
Los Angeles Dodgers play in good baseball, but the back eeotomy,
the back troubles of Clayton Kershaw Reese resurge resurgence here

(55:07):
as and re emerge as he gets back off the
disabled list, Velocity down now on the shelf at least
short term. Now it becomes a longer play for the
Dodgers when you start looking at those next big contracts.
To JP, what's a great point, and for all the
reasons you mentioned, Mike, this is probably the most interesting
team to watch in baseball right now, and just in

(55:29):
terms of their decision making, all the things they're weighing.
Let's bear in mind they are where they are right now,
actually with the best record the National League since May
the seventeen, with their star shore staff missing the season
and with Clayton Kershaw barely pitching in that time. Uh
So that that tells me that the depth is actually

(55:50):
still there for this organization, even as Cody Bellinger struggles
as he has um It's it's gonna be interesting to
see how they handled things going forward, because if if
they want to really make a meaningful move this trade deadline,
they're gonna jeopardize what they've worked so hard to do,
which is to stay under the luxury tax threshold. Maybe
they can make a move if it's effectively cash neutral

(56:12):
and their farm system is in good enough shape to
make that type of a trade. But but guys, you
wonder can this team win the World Series without Seeger
at all? With with a compromise Kershaw at the very best,
and maybe he's gonna have to be out for a while,
and then with Bellinger really lost. I mean that there
are a lot of factors going against them, and yet

(56:35):
the Diamondbacks tonight are losing at last check. And if
they lose, then the Dodges are gonna be just two
games out in the lost column. So they can win
this division, I believe with the current cast they've got,
But I'm not sure if they can win the World
Series without making a big time moved out the rotation.
And I don't know, guys, that they can do that
and jeopardize their long term financial picture because of how

(56:57):
hard they've worked to get to this point. A thing
that shocks me up all the stuff you talked about
with the Dodgers. How is Matt Kemp the National League
Player of the Week. How did this happen? He was
traded from the Padres. Everybody thought his contract was just
gonna be a dump, right, that they were going to
release him. And this guy has done nothing but perform.

(57:20):
What what am I want? Is this two thousand eight
or eleven or ten? What year is there? That's a
great it's a great question. Rob. I loved the story,
by the way, and it's not even just one good week.
Matt Kemp leads the National League in batting average right now,
he's batting three four. He has been arguably one of

(57:41):
the most valuable players in the National League thus far
in the season. Now we can talk about how much
defensive value he brings. And certainly he's not the threat
in the base that used to be. And this was
once upon a time a forty stolen base player. This
is a this is basically at player back in and
he has yet to steal a base right now. So
he's not that dynamic player. But he is hitting and
he's anchoring his lineup for the Dodgers, which, as we

(58:04):
just talked about, Rob, they don't have Seeger and Bellinger
is in and out of line up because of his troubles,
so they need somebody to anchor in the lineup. And
here he comes, as you say, back from two thousand
eleven numb and so there's a lot to like about
the way that he's played. I think the way he's
handled himself has been exemplary. I think a lot of
people wondered how he would handle a part time roll

(58:25):
in l A. Well he's gone and made it a
full time Rollings is important to him as anybody else.
So I love the story is great for Mattie. He's
always been a really accessible player. In my conversation with
him over the years, He's always been great to me,
and I think he's I think he's a really great
teammate too. And now I think he's really showing that
he's accepting a different role on the team and thriving
in And I think for all those reasons, Rob, he
belongs in our nation's capital at the All Star Game

(58:48):
next month. Fox Sports Radio Jason spent show with Mike Carmen,
Rob Parker and for Jason Smith this evening on the
Hotline with us Fox Sports, MLB Network Baseball inside O
our buddy John Paul Morosey at John Morossi on Twitter.
Now you had a chance to talk to Gabe Kapler,
a guy who's had a very interesting season. Remember the
week one couple of bullpen questions of while should this

(59:11):
guy even have a major league job, and then they
get hot. And now you've got Jake Arietta speaking up
about potential problems in the clubhouse and and desire and
all of these things. What did Skip have to say
about all that? This is quite a story. And it begins,
of course, yesterday with Jake Arietta's comments following the game

(59:31):
in San Francisco indicating a couple of things. Number One,
he actually named a teammate, uh Young Scott Kingary and
saying you should have thrown the ball at a second
base instead of first on a really what would have
been a tough play at either base. And then he
basically said our shifting is not good and in fairness,
um Fox Sports Television's Anthony Masterson pointing out that actually

(59:51):
the Phillies do have the second most balls in play
that would have normally been out that have become hits
because of shifting. So really, a couple of questions followed
these comments by Area at a Number one, is there
a problem in the clubhouse? And number two, does Gabe
Kapler need to change the way that he's shifting? So
today I asked Gabe cap for those two questions, and

(01:00:13):
he said, basically, quote I think I may have a
different take on this than most. The last thing I
want for our clubhouse is to be content. If we're content,
it means we're not getting better. He would not to
basically say he's okay with Arietta expressing his viewpoints as
long that it's going towards the direction of doing everything
they can to put a competitive team on the field

(01:00:33):
every day. I think it was a great answer by Gabe.
Maybe it doesn't quite speak to if you would have
rather Jake not spoken directly about the play by Scott Kingery,
but I think it was a very good job of
diffusing what could be a bit of a tempest for
this team as they arrived tomorrow at oh By the way,
Jake Ariada his former work address Wrigley Field on Edison

(01:00:54):
Addison Avenue there in the north north side of Chicago,
so lots going on there. But I think in general
gave it a a job of handling this this question,
and the question now becomes, how does that Jake Arian
handlings with his teammates. Scott king Ray, I don't have
a problem with Ariata. I really don't. From this standpoint.
This is what happens when you when you hire guys
who haven't managed right. And and I think that you

(01:01:16):
can question and second guests and whatnot. And I mean,
I know most of the time you hope he would
keep it in house and just go directly to him.
I get that part, But I think sometimes you gotta
call out when things aren't right, and and and and
and and I also respect the player who's gonna name

(01:01:37):
somebody rather than talk around people. Do you know what
I mean? Because at least because at least he's owning
up to it and he's not blaming everybody, all the
other twenty four guys in the room. Do you know
what I mean? He's telling you, yes, do you understand?
And And to me that there's two different ways to
look at this. There is maybe how veteran players in
the clubhouse would view it and how we've would in

(01:02:00):
the media. I I really think it's disingenuous whenever reporters
or commentators will say, well, he shouldn't have said that
about a teammate, or or this or that, being too
critical of your teammates, when when we're asking the question,
we expect the answer and we like honest answers. Why
why would we ever complain about that. He's being honest,
So from my standpoint, I don't have an issue with it,

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and if internally there's a problem, then that's the Phillies business.
But I will never get upset with the player for
telling us what he thinks. And I do think Rob,
to your point, would we see that Giants players saying
this and questioning Bruce Bocci going to the Hall of Fame?
What would would the Cardinals players have done this with
Tony the Russ three or four years ago? However many

(01:02:42):
years ago he still managing. Probably not. I think there
may be a bit of uh wondering why a player
is calling out a first year manager's acumen effectively, which
is what to some level Ja Kereet is doing here.
But I think Gabe is handling it well, just as
he handled well to the questions about the booze earlier
in the season. And the plain fact is, Rob, here's
a team in the Phillies that nobody thought was gonna

(01:03:04):
be contending, and there are a game and half out
of the playoff spot. So at the end of the day,
I think gave Cop has done a pretty respectable job
of this team in year one, and I think it's
maybe handling things in a different way than usual, but
by and large he's done a pretty good job of
the Philodolph Phillies this season. Last one for you, JP.
As much as I want to celebrate Nick Madrigal becoming
a selection by the White Sox four oh six hitter

(01:03:25):
at Oregon State, uh, this year, Uh, the Major League
Baseball Draft going on doesn't get the hype that the
others do. But obviously in the trust the process world
that we live in, what was the position that was
the most plentiful as teams start to restock and look
towards the future. Well, the top of the draft there
was very heavy on college bats. The four the top

(01:03:46):
five picks for college bats. Of course, number one was
Casey Maza right at a picture to the Tigers. Uh.
But to me, the most interesting pick in the top
ten was Kyler Murray of number nine to the Oakland Athletics. Now, UH,
my knowledge of college football is somewhat limited, but I
do know that Baker Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy and
the Kyler Murray is supposed to succeed him in Norman

(01:04:07):
as the starting quarterback of the Sooners. So there's a
lot of questions now about will he sign and if
he signs, what does that mean for his football career.
There's there's a lot of questions there, and really I
think people in both sports, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Of course, there's only a handful of weeks before he
has to make a decision on if he's gonna sign
or not, So I think a lot of intrigue right there.
Could he sign with the Aids and still go back
and play college football for the Sooners? Yes, that is legal.

(01:04:31):
We've seen it happened before. Jeff some Mars is one
case where you can turn pro one sport and still
play college in another. So we will see what happens.
Over I think that's probably gonna be the biggest written
large sports takeaway from that draft is will Kyler Murray
signed with Oakland or is he gonna play with the
Sooners or both? And then also number six overall going
to the Mets. To Jason Smith's Mets, you've got Jared

(01:04:51):
kelnick on a Wakashaw, Wisconsin, the highest draft pick ever
in the great State of Wisconsin history. So congratulations of
Jonathan's family there in the great to the Walkershaw Wisconsin.
Well you got Walker Shaw in twice and that's a
walk off moment, John pal Morossie Walker Shaw moment, Yes right,
follow him on Twitter as John Morossi LEA v H

(01:05:11):
J O N. Morossy JP has always appreciate your brother.
We'll talk to you next week. Always the best. You
have to cut up again, Okay, say good brother? Sounds good.
Thanks for the knowledge, John Paul Morossi, Fox Sports, Major
League Baseball Network Insider. Coming up next, while we stay
in Major League Baseball. The Yankees, your Yankees, Rob Parker,
I keep giving them to you and yours. I grew

(01:05:33):
up in Queens. All right, well whatever do your Yankees,
because you always come on here and tell me how
great Indian judges. We're gonna talk about a travel problem
that has them upset with Major League Baseball. That comes
up next, but first we step out to Tom Looney. Hi,
he's gonna flex, and then he's gonna tell you what's trending.
And if Jim Lampley was calling the Vegas Golden Knight's
chances to even the Stanley Cup Final with the Washington

(01:05:57):
and have to pick the fight, they're stopping the fight.
The That's what Jim would be saying. The left going
to pass on our coast. They score FI call CAPTI
post the post and Floury could not get there in time.
We'll see you in Vegas. Sits five to two, Washington

(01:06:17):
six to two. What's your final? John Walton with the
call on the Andy Cap Radio Network. Washington now leads
that series three games to walk. Two finals from baseball
from a double header played earlier today in Detroit. In
the first game, Yankees tame the Tigers seven to four,
and the second one, Tigers take the Yanks four to two.
Three games in progress. Eric Cosmer popped the woody for

(01:06:39):
San Diego pas in front of the Braves eleven and
three in the bottom of the seventh, Bottom of the eighth,
I think Giants in front of the Diamondbacks eight to two,
Bottom six Royals five, Angels four and now more swashbuckling
sports talk with Mike Harmon and Rob Parker on Fox
Sports Radio. Thank you, Loony, am Looney and I am

(01:07:02):
I remember when he was Looney on sports. Looney about sports,
You're I'm You're crazy about cake, You're crazy about the
ice cream? You're not crazy on cake? Crazy on ice cream.
Looney about sports, Not Looney on sports. You're just trying
to push my buttons harmon. Alright, alright, wow, there we go.
What did he put in the last energy shake or

(01:07:24):
energy drink of the night at Rob Parker f s
one ats will went home? Let us know what you
think Looney's ingested to get to that level of rage
coming to you live for the Geico Fox Sports radio studios.
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Our buddy Rob Parker, you find him on on Disputed.

(01:07:48):
You find him here on the weekends, alongside Chris Broussard,
part of the Odd Couple. And tomorrow morning I'm on
the Herd with Colin count at that so you could
check that out. I'll be on my time. Are you
gonna be in what? What block? You? A block? Well
thirty so I'm in the A block early. They got
me twelve thirty, nine thirty Pacific, so tune in. I

(01:08:08):
love going on with Colin, mix it up with them.
So that'll be tomorrow the Herd. Are you gonna tattoo,
photo on your head or something that I gotta shirt ready.
Someone in the series is all over. You know, I
predicted the sweep, so I'm right where I want to be.
How are you gonna bring? Are you gonna bring Colin wings?
Just to make the point, I would like to bet
Colin wings to see if maybe I can get some

(01:08:28):
Colin wings as well. Do you think those would taste better? Um,
they would cost more, you know, because they got more money,
so they they charge him more. That's kind of like
what they would buy from certain establishments in our neighborhood here, uh,
near the Geico studios. Depending on which how we're dressed
on a given day, I think we get we get
charged differently. But that's a discussion for another time. Hey, Rob,

(01:08:51):
your Yankees, and I know they're not your Yankees, but
it's fun to say that. Uh, the Yankees have a
travel issue because well they had rain out. The Yankees
Orioles game that was scheduled for Sunday in Baltimore was postponed.
In the second game of that series, it was washed
washed out. So today it's double head of come back.
Came back from what what was that April or Yeah,

(01:09:13):
that's why they were wearing. Yeah, did you see that
everybody had on the Jackie bobbers? Because I've had the
twos and and the Big fly and and Stanton gets
hit by a ball and then hits a monster home.
Can we hear that monster home? We can? We could
certainly hear that swung on. There goes the left that
is high, not as far that us gone. Mike fires

(01:09:33):
delivered in and Stanton hit it out in left field.
John Carlos post to follow. I'll give him. I'll give
him credit, though, you know he's now consistent Yankees Radio
Network on the call, Mr John Sterling, I used to
listen to as a kid. He had a talk show

(01:09:54):
on w m c A in New York when I
was in middle school about that and I listen to
his sports. Was he still doing bad Italian? No, he
wasn't do it that far at that point, but at
least stay with this though, like because he decided this
was the call he was gonna go with. I like
the singing ones myself. I thought those those were better. Yeah,

(01:10:17):
where he stounded like he was singing out the winner
takes it all. No, it was our last summer by
abba into the tune, but it was also you know,
repurposed and repackaged. But because of this rain out, the
Yankees are scheduled to play the night before. This would
be a doubleheader in Baltimore Monday, July nine, that would

(01:10:37):
start at four oh five. And obviously they do the
split so they can get two gates. We know how
that works. But their scheduled to play the night before
in Toronto with an eight pm Eastern Time Sunday night baseball.
The way that works to show you how the sausage
gets made. You know, I love the inner workings of
the business of sports that before the started spring training
they do all these Sunday night baseballs through May uh

(01:10:58):
and everybody's aware, and then after that it's one of
four games gets chosen as the season goes on. Well,
the Yankees are claiming they were unaware they've been chosen
as the Sunday night game before agreeing to that double header.
So Dave robertson the player rep, said, we'd like to
see it get changed without any big RUCKI is getting started,

(01:11:19):
and Aaron Boone saying it's not a good product for
on the field the safety of our guys to go
in through a night game and then fly into a
double header. And anybody that would argue with that is
not being truthful. No, I don't think. I don't think
it's that monstrous a deal. It's no. But but they
but they asked them, you're gonna player scrubs anyway, But

(01:11:40):
you asked them to play a lot of those national games,
and it's just a lot. We saw this a couple
of Do you remember what happened in the NBA when
the Warriors and Cavaliers were playing all those Saturday night
games and then the players they fought back and they said,
we're not doing this. You gotta By the way, I'm
really disappointed that they didn't continue you that stand this

(01:12:01):
year and continue to fight, especially about those games and
and about playing and having the nights off or whatever.
Lebron played, he did because he well, he wanted to
put something different on the resume, wanted to show he's done.
He also played more minutes than anybody else, which is
just ridiculous, which is why I think he's a cyborg.

(01:12:22):
But we'll leave that theory for another time. The Yankees
have had seven games postponed or suspended by rain this season.
About that that's the ridiculous weather, but certainly an issue
as you're trying to schedule teams, and we've seen it
with the NBA. We've seen it throughout the years where
you're trying to put your marquee teams, particularly when you
get them back into the form that made them legendary.

(01:12:47):
Right the Yankees have two sluggers, and right now in
a three outcome league, when you've got a couple of
the power purveyors on your squad, that's what you want
to put in front of the national audience when they're
playing well and doing what the Yankees have done to
this point, so you're gonna try to get them in
at every turn. I just can't believe that nobody in
the front office agreed to the double header before that,

(01:13:10):
and before they knew the song. I call shenanigans on
that side of it, that because they had to the
business operation to it. Just say you made a mistake,
and the players would complain, and you know what I mean,
the players start chirping, But but then just say, you
know what, we we made a business decision and consulted

(01:13:30):
the players, and you know, for David Robertson to come
out and talk. You know, certainly the players have their
it's their prerogative to make their feelings know, and that's
been part of the theme of the show, and certainly
in sports overall, you certainly have the right to your
your opinion in this. In this case, you know, if
that's what's been agreed to in the c b A,

(01:13:50):
well you're gonna have to work on change in the
c b A and that part of the contract with
your your distributors and with your content partners. If you
don't want to be part of that, I think it's
the NFL and and all the different caveats that have
now been put into place as to who gets stuck
being part of Hard Knocks. Right when you have to

(01:14:11):
have a coach, you can be on it. You can't
do it if you're at a coaching change or that
you've done it here, like there's all these permutations, same
thing here there should be you know you want to
do that since set a maximum set a maximum number
of games that a team can be on. The additional conversation,
they don't want to not be on the primetime game
because the players want that spotlight, but maybe just not

(01:14:32):
as much, but not as many times and that's the problem.
Whatever stretch layout, sleep an extra hour on the planet again,
you're playing the Orioles for a few of those games.
That's just that's just the side of playing my White
Sox when it comes down to the level of competition.
Coming up, we step outside uh the sporting world in

(01:14:53):
terms of the box scores and what's going on in
games today, and we commemorate the passing of a legend
and one of the most famous plays of all our
NFL history in our lives. That comes up next to
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen, Rob Parker and for
Jason on Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back in Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen, Rob Parker in tonight for Jason Smith.

(01:15:15):
Jason gonna be back tomorrow. We thank you for giving
us a few minutes of your time tonight. I want
to jump in on anything we've said. Find us on
Twitter at Rob Parker FS one, find me over at
Swollen Dome again, chime in on anything coming up. In
about ten minutes, we'll talk about Lebron James some statements
he had after Game two that have a lot of
people raising their eyebrows, certainly Rob and I included. We'll

(01:15:39):
get into that coming up next. But we lost an
NFL legend, an indelible image, the the catch that we
all grew up on, or those of of my age.
I'm forty four, rob covering sports as long as you
have and and being in thirty two years, UH that

(01:16:02):
you've been eating free hot dogs and press boxes hizing
every one of those. UH. Dwight Clark, former Forts wide receiver,
the catch from Joe Montana and the eight two NFC
Championship game diet at age sixty one today, after battling
a ls his wife Kelly went onto Twitter UH and

(01:16:25):
put up the notice, I'm I'm heartbroken to tell you
that today I lost my best friend and husband. He
passed peacefully, surrounded by many of the people he loved most.
I'm thankful for all of Dwight's teammates, friends and forty
Niners fans who sent their love during his battle with
a l s now. Dwight Clark and this catch. To

(01:16:46):
put it in in perspective, and we'll hear it in
just a moment, the call from Vince Scully. The the
catch is the one that everything else gets compared to
in every Super Bowl and every great catch along the
side side line, it always goes back. That's like the
first right when a guy makes a great catch in
the outfield in Major League Baseball, we're always brought up.

(01:17:09):
Here's the picture of Willie may Is going back and
catching the ball over his shoulder and watching it into
his glove. That's that's where time. That's where time starts
for that type of play and for Dwight Clark and
the catch, at least from where I sit, that's exactly
what we're looking at. Let's hear it from Vince Gully.
And three we'll see a pick up something on the

(01:17:31):
right side closet late Montanna looking looking fowing an Enzy
White far it's a matter how set candlestick with definitely
one seconds left. White Clark is six four. He stands

(01:17:55):
about ten ft tall in this d estimation. There it
is Vince Scully. It's always good to hear Vin's voice
back in the eighty two title game. Clark had revealed
his a LS diagnosis in March, writing in a blog
post that the first symptoms had emerged in when he
started feeling weakness in his left hand, a terrible disease

(01:18:18):
that that claims him at sixty one, so young. I
just when I heard the news today, I just cringed.
I just could. I mean, I didn't know what to say.
You know, sixty one is a young man, and what
an athlete he was, and what a receiver he was
and a part of a great dynasty to forty Niners

(01:18:41):
and Joe Montana's throw and I mean just all of that.
That brings me back being in high school watching that game,
and it just that's one of those who talked about it.
It's one of those signature plays that is forever etched
into my mom It's funny, I have a a w
I said, I was in high school. Yeah, I was nine.

(01:19:03):
So you're sitting around hanging with your family and whatever
friends made their way there, and everybody's sitting around football.
You know, I had already started playing tackle football by
that point. I was a big kid. I mean both that.
But I also grew early and then did not grow
again unfortunately, as Ray Lewis reminded me at a Super
Bowl event several years ago, Uh the good Lord, I'll

(01:19:25):
clean it up for air. Uh. The Good Lord was
not kind to me in terms of my verticality. Uh,
so at that age, I was already playing and running around,
so football became a thing that you know, was the
great bonding. But remembering that play and you know all
the excitement that goes in and then you're going out
and trying to replicate it. I remember being at a

(01:19:46):
Bear's forty niners game. Famously, Kid McNown quarterback in the Bears,
didn't get him past the fifty. The entire game. Terrible game, awful,
That was the game. Also that Tarrell Over remember I
Jerry Rice's final home game as a forty niner. T
O has the twenty catches and the futility of the
Bears offense, but that day they gave away a flipbook

(01:20:09):
of the catch, and many people, not caring what it was,
left them under their seats. You know how many of
those I walked away with? And that helped pay down
some of my student loans. Did you take forty? I
had probably thirty it was all said and done, and
just piles of them. I still have a couple left.
But no, when eBay was ruling the world, I mean

(01:20:30):
I was paying down some of the student loans and
student costs was a brilliant thing, but it's a smart man.
But it's a play of that. But at the time,
why not, it's just stuff, just people leaving it behind,
because how many people go and find all the bobbleheads
They can't everywhere else. This was a flip book and
fit in your pocket. You can still go to the
bar with a stack of them in there and you
didn't have to worry about it. But the fact is

(01:20:51):
that you know that that play is just so emblematic
of what wide receivers aspired to. Right that rise up
and Joe Montana catching well both hands right going up,
not not your body, but actually going up. You supposed
to use your hands now if you get a chance.

(01:21:11):
One of the things Dwight Clark did when he would
do autograph signings were an additional fee every there's always
an inscription whatever. He would all even draw out the
play was one of the inscriptions you could purchase. Then
he'd sit there and he'd go through the entire diagram.
I forget if it was like fifty bucks on top
of his signature fee or whatever it was, but he
drew out the entire play for you as part of

(01:21:34):
the signing and talked you through it. Fantastic stuff. Coming
out next. Lebron James said, it's me versus the world,
and the world wins. Greetings, Welcome, final hour of the
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of hours. We have been remiss and not getting deep
into the Stanley Cup final or maybe not the Capital
six to the big question falling out This goes to,
uh goes to Washington? Eventually? Does Putin come along or

(01:22:20):
how many security checks does he have to go through
before he's allowed on the White House grounds? Is this? Uh,
it's a nice moment. I mean it's not over. It's
three to one. They gotta get one more win Washington,
but uh, they were in position to finally win this
Stanley Cup. That has been elusive to throwing out statistics
because that's what we like to do, and fantasy football
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(01:22:43):
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(01:23:07):
Download and give it five stars. Will love you forever.
Look a cook a hot dog very well with that flame, right,
that's flame, that's flame royal. You don't want to eat
a hot dog? Maybe you can eat a corn dog?
Did today? You've never had a corn dog? Why would
I eat a corn dog out a mine? What is that?

(01:23:28):
With the corn meal? Corn meal and batter you dip
it in? How gross is that? Isn't that? On every
New York street corner? No, they have some red hot
dogs with the red onions. Yes, the dirty water dogs.
Dirty water hot dogs what they call them? You know
what they call them dirty water dogs because you gotta
find out the guy who's selling them on a corner

(01:23:49):
where did he wash his hands after? I was gonna
just say, in general, the idea of hot dogs is,
you know, I once had a Mick Jagger experience with
hot dogs. In other words, someone bought some really cheap
hot dogs with a lot of filler, and my lips
blew up. So I was walking around feeling like I
should have been singing, miss you Wow. They would have

(01:24:12):
big it was. It was terrible there. So for the
rest of my life it's very difficult when someone says,
what do we got, you know, at whatever events, it's like, yeah,
they're serving hot dogs, like so, I don't know what
they were. They just had. It was just high. I
just had a horrible reaction to it. All of a sudden,
I'm like, the Hell's happening? And my upper lips started

(01:24:34):
to swell out of controlling crazy. It was. It was
not good for anybody. Happily, there's no photographic and it
is nowadays. Someone would have videotaped that and said, look
at them twitch you mean nobody went to uh, photo
Matt and took a picture and went and and uh
the just say photo mat and tight shirt, tight shirt

(01:24:57):
are are bored up? Are are technical news? Here? He
put his hit his hands under his chin, like tell
me a story, Grandpa Parker. Light the fire again for
right photo met. We used to go to take the
film to the drug store and wait like four days
to get the pictures back. And you called it that.
And you call it drug store because you can't call

(01:25:19):
it a drug store now because people look at you cross. Now.
Now it's a bodega. You gotta get the bodegas in.
My friend used to be that's why you got pictures
and you and you know what, the thing that was
crazy was you would take like a roll of film
and you'd be lucky if eight or nine of them
were good. You know, like a lot of the pictures
were bad, out of focus or shaky or whatever, and

(01:25:42):
and you'll be like, oh, at least I got four
or five good ones out of a whole role that
was not cheap. But you're at least we're eating for free.
So you were able to compensate absolutely, especially when those
roles went bad. Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers find
themselves down two games to Nila, and the world speculates

(01:26:03):
about where Lebron James will play basketball next year. That's
becoming the well the topic, uh, and the betting odds
have certainly been out there, and we're talking about the Rockets,
were talking about, the Lakers, were talking about the Clippers
were talking about Philadelphia Cleveland a long shot right now
to retain him. And certainly after the mean mug and

(01:26:25):
scowl that he gave Tyler and the rest of his
teammates following Game one or regulation of Game one, I
should say, Uh, the video making its round, and I
tweeted it out earlier at Swollen Dome, the shot of
what happened after they went two overtime after the j R.
Smith gaffe. The Warriors four and a half point favorites

(01:26:48):
for Game three, will resume on Wednesday night, So a
couple of days to get your composure and get yourself
back together. But for Lebron James, a magnificent series for
the most part, for the overtime overtime period of the
game that that that game. Had you said to Lebron, hey,

(01:27:10):
you'll be tied at the end of regulation and in Oracle,
right at Oracle in Oakland for Game one of the
NBA Finals, you wouldn't take that and say what, I
just gotta play five minutes and dominate for five minutes
and maybe walk away with a win. Instead, you know,
he's pouting, carrying on, and he could have easily looked

(01:27:33):
at that and said, man, we got an opportunity to
win it. And instead he goes oh for four from
the field and just two free throws and his team
loses by what nine or ten? Lost by ten because
the spread was nine and a half for the second half,
rob for the second half which includes overtime, right because
it spills over, so minus nine and a half? Or

(01:27:54):
were they the Warriors covered but not for the game
because it wasn't a twelve to start with the entire
game minus twelve minus thirteen depending on where you were,
So an interesting turn of events. But for Lebron James,
the comments in the post game of Game two are
what are making the rounds as we we roll through?

(01:28:16):
And and certainly we know that the narrative of this
was Lebron and his band of Merriman, his hand picked
Merriman of guys he got resigned seen as lesser than
and how many memes have you seen uh describing the
secondary players of this cavalier's roster to the comic foils,

(01:28:38):
the hangers on of different sitcoms and cartoons and everything else.
That it's Lebron against the world is really how this
series was. Was tubbed, dubbed, and certainly after Game two
he made you know that from the earliest of ages
he felt the same way. I don't know that was
five six years old. Now we're talking about basketball here,

(01:29:01):
and I'll put our our team in position to try
to win a championship, to compete for a championship. You know,
it's my job to make sure to wear as as
focused as laser focused as possible. Cleve all right, then
the game of basketball. I remember him being really young.
I remember him selling out gyms and being those games

(01:29:22):
on ESPN. They were televising high school games. It's on
all the covers of magazines. I remember folks going and
lining up and all the autograph hounds standing outside high school.
Jim's doing everything they could to get an lb J
to show up on a on a on a basketball

(01:29:44):
Uh so, the stacked against, I mean, there's certainly the
elements of his personal life. I'm not privy too, so
you can get to you can get into that part
of things, and I can get but from an athletic
and where people have been there to help guide and
build from then. I don't know what that ages, but

(01:30:05):
certainly at age nine there were things in the newspaper
of him dominating people on the gridiron. It's an old
phony narrative. Oh my god, it's us against the world.
Nobody believes in us. Oh man, I've been behind the
eight ball and I've had to scrap and and and
struggle for everything. The al Pacino's speech out of any

(01:30:27):
given Sunday to play underneath that scratching and calling for
every inch basically, And didn't you go to Miami with
two of the best players in the league when you
form just super team. Stop with the SOB story. Nobody
wants to hear that because it's a fake narrative by
Lebron James. Okay, I'm talking about basketball, not his life.

(01:30:48):
I don't know about his his upbringing and what life
was like, so I'm not gonna speak on that. But
when it comes to basketball, no, Lebron, you were under
talks to the Indiana Pacers with Oladipo as the only
guy in a way, you swept the Toronto Barneys or Raptors,

(01:31:08):
whatever you want. To call them they're horrible. You swept
them two years in a row. They're awful. And then
you struggled against the Boston Celtics, to stallards, Boston Celtics,
how are you gonna lose to them? That role players?
There were no stars on that team. Stop it. You

(01:31:31):
had an easy road to a championship, Jesse. It was
a struggle because you had to go seven games and
two of those series because the team is not that good.
This is a team you wanted. You sent all those
players away, didn't they Mike at the train. There's always
gonna be the question is what is the truth of

(01:31:52):
the departure of Kyrie Irving? What you know? We always
asked the question what did you know? When did you
know it? And what did you do about it? Right?
We we do that with every story that comes up
in this that we cover on Fox Sports Radio or
you over an FS one. It's when we get into
the administration at colleges or pro teams and and covering

(01:32:14):
up whatever acts and and what have you. Same thing
with the Kyrie Irving. That's what we want to know
about his departure of Lebron James and and what he
knew or didn't know. All I'll tell you is what
I heard, and I'm just giving you from my molest
You gotta have moles, And I'm just saying that he
found out that Lebron James wanted him traded and was

(01:32:38):
gonna bring one of his best friend Chris, one of
his best friends, Chris Paul traded after they won the championship.
So so Kyrie felt like it's the ultimate betrayal. Didn't
didn't he knock down the three to win the championship?
And you wanna you wanna send me packing and bring
your boy in now to to be the number two
guy on a championship caliberty I would feel when you

(01:33:01):
feel hurt by that and say, oh, you don't want me,
bring whoever you want. I don't want to be here.
Seems like you'd want to saddle up and try to
do what you did. But the with Lebron James, the
trade at the deadline. Right now, the Lakers front office
looking pretty good with the Jordan Clarkson minutes that we've
seen in all this process. So I know our executive

(01:33:22):
producer justin Frostburg feeling like uh, Blinka and magic and
everybody looking a little smarter than they did. How about
Lebron James when when George Hill missed the second free throw,
do you think he was sitting there going, let me see,
would your brother had Dwayne Wade taking that free throw
rather than George Hills never had to take a big

(01:33:45):
He's eighty percent free throw shoot. This is what all
the basketball people tell you, Well, what do you want.
He's an eighty percent free throw shooter. He's supposed to
make that eighty percent in regular season games that don't matter.
It's a big difference between making that free throw and
making in a huge finals game they did. They're difference.
There's a bit of a difference when you get to

(01:34:06):
pedigree and what guys have done. But certainly this is
the cast of characters that were assembled part from Lebron
james own GM work, uh And certainly you believe a
guy with his clout and with all the chips of hey,
I can take my ball and leave again. You know
that he helped orchestrate much of this. So saying he

(01:34:28):
didn't have that ability, the odds are stacked. Well, you
stacked him against yourself here with the team and the
guys that you tried to reward with big contracts that
hamstrung you and made you go find cheaper options at
the trade deadline, many of whom untested, unproven, and they
got their minutes and then proved they couldn't play in

(01:34:49):
those moments. What happened You had to go back to
the old reliables or quote unquote reliables that were still
in fear but better than the young fresh legs that
you acquired. But it made for a fun narrative and
a fun sound bite, Lebron giving his gold after every
game of these NBA Finals. Next chance Wednesday night. But
you know what, Rob, be better tomorrow. Coming up next,

(01:35:11):
we go back into the story of the night Donald
Trump disinvites the Eagles from the White House. The Eagles
and some of their former players, now moved on to
other franchises respond. We get into that next The Jason
Smith Show with Mike arm In here on Fox Sports Radio.
Ye welcome back in the slide over Baby Hour. Here

(01:35:37):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Armen, Rob Parker and Quagmire
in for Jason Smith this evening. Rob, you having fun yet?
Have we have we gotten you lathered up? Enough? Are you? Kid?
And I've been having fun all night. Yeah, how many
wing bets did you take? You've been You've been on
your phone on a couple of the times when the
bills are getting paid. Me and me and Alex, we

(01:35:58):
gotta bet. So if he if I win, yeah, I
get wings. If he wins, he gets seafoodh seaweed salads?
Seaweeds salad? Is that a seaweed wings? Don't they make wings? Like?
Sounds like a very unfair trade to me, Rob. No,
that's what Alex laws. He's to eat healthy. Look at him.

(01:36:20):
He's great. By the way, the cost of quipments are
about the same. I mean, there's really not a big
cost differential going on there. Organic wings that handy up
the price. The only thing I don't get is the
whole boneless wing. You know, I don't get that. How
did it? How did it walk? With no bones? About that? Rob?

(01:36:43):
Rob Parker asking the big questions on a Monday night.
Maybe maybe he'll solve the mysteries of the universe. Here
I went and saw the King tut exhibit that's going
on here in a science center in California on Sunday.
A lot of a lot of fun, but you get
into the missicism of how that was all prepared and
put together and the knowledge and everything that goes through

(01:37:05):
and you're transported to another world. And I watched h
a an Imax film with Omar sharif you know what
my and it's a running theme here on the show.
I was like, when was this release is? Isn't he dead?
And he's always been dead for a couple of years
And it turns out the movie was actually twenty years old.
How about that? I had no idea, but it's well

(01:37:26):
worth it. If you want to come out to southern California,
maybe throwback a beer or some seaweed salad with tie
shirt and me. You can make that happen and we
can go out through the ruins of of Twton Common.
How about that? That sounds That sounds like Rob's looking
at me like, I'm not going to a scide Center.
I'm going to get free hot dogs and it already
know it. I'm going to Dodger Stadium and I'm eating

(01:37:48):
hot dogs. And uh, that's what I call a good night.
There you go. Earlier tonight, we got into the the
biggest topic that broke in the world of sports and
certainly will take over the news cycle on your cable
news as well as President Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles,
the world champion Philadelphia Eagles, from their visit to the

(01:38:09):
White House tomorrow instead with the bands celebrating the military
and those saluting the flag and making it more about
the anthem and the as it's been termed anthem protest,
and the Eagles responded to the disinvitation quote, it's been

(01:38:31):
incredibly thrilling to celebrate our first Super Bowl championship. Watching
the entire Eagles community come together has been an inspiration.
We're truly grateful for all the support we have received,
and we're looking forward to continuing our preparations for the season.
That was their statement, very nice. I like the way
that they did that. Nice clean, don't go back at Trump,

(01:38:52):
don't do any of that. I love what they did.
That's not just a nice summary statement of unity for
their team. And then they went Vegas blackjack dealer style.
That's it, right, because as we've termed it, and I
use the analogy with some frequency here on the program
for long time listeners for those new, the Vegas misdirection right,
the sleight of hand magic shows or card tricks or

(01:39:16):
whatever else you're doing, is the way you distract attention
from what you really want, what really should be paid
attention to, and and a lot of politics, and I
just keep it general, not on this topic itself. It's
certainly applicable and given all the different concerns. And this
happens with every presidency. There's always something they can rely

(01:39:38):
on when things are aren't going well, that they go
back to the well on to say, hey, look over here,
we really need to fix this particular issue. I got
the perfect line from a movie hit it ud Yeah,
from The Wizard of Oz. Pay no attention to that
man behind the curtain, remember that the Wizard and you
are the man behind the curtain. And that's what it is.

(01:40:00):
But that but that's just it that that's what we
get into here with whatever issues. And look, the stock
prices have gone up, the economy it would appear for
most doing better. That doesn't mean everybody's thriving, but there
there are positive things going on. And we we always
can do this in terms of what's the lag, what
was the cause of success, who gets credit, who gets blame,

(01:40:23):
whatever else. We we play that with politics all the
time because when things are bad then they go, what
do you want him to do? He's just a president.
He can't can't all there's always they We always then
say the division of power, so we and then things
are good, and then one up saying hey, look look
at me, Look what I'm doing. Come on, man, it's
just it's too convenient. But where there are pieces of

(01:40:44):
negativity in the news, you go and focus on the
lowest hanging fruit and get where you know there's obvious
division in the debates. Rage and in this case for
President Trump, it went back at the NFL again. They
enact their new policy. There's talk of finds some owners
immediately saying well, i'll pay. We talk about the Jets

(01:41:06):
doing that, the forty Niners going to that route, and
several other owners identified as not being along, going along
with what the policy that wasn't acted because the policy
is so Unamerican. It's just the policy is Unamerican, whether
they want to believe it or not, whether they believe
it's good or not for business. The NFL, I'm telling

(01:41:26):
you this whole thing, because they went against what it
is that sports is supposed to be about. Sports is
supposed to be about an equal playing field, right, unlike
anything else in this country where the best player right,
if you could play, you get an opportunity. So once
you do that and you take Colin Kaepernick off of

(01:41:49):
that equal play and feel based off of that, you've
gone against everything that you're supposed to be about. Now,
the collision case is certainly something that's percolating in the background.
Hasn't in this the coverage because you're still waiting on
what's the next smoking and when's this? When's the smoking
gun revealed? Who is if there is someone to name

(01:42:10):
names or to have had an electronic transmission gone awry,
where where will let that have come from? And and
everybody awaits a ruling on this one way or the
other as we go through certainly a long, exhausted, exhausted
process as everybody's deposed. But for the NFL, it's a

(01:42:32):
topic that remains very, very strong, even though the number
of players, when reach for comment after the new policy
was enacted, said well, we were going to move on
to other means to get our message across, but now
this may have reinvigorated and had stoked the fires, especially
since they didn't even talk to the players association. I mean, well,
but that shows the disspect and the level of but

(01:42:56):
don't you you you you wind up rubbing up an
organization and that you have under control for the most part.
Right they the league thought that they had paid them
off with money. Hey, here's money million or eighty nine million,
or you know what I mean for hey, take this
chump change and go away or whatever. And then you
go and do this without even having a conversation with them,

(01:43:20):
You defeat the whole purpose of it. You make them
have to relook at everything and go Really they have
that little respect for us, Well, I'd be making a
call to my team rep and then getting my direct
line Toto Morris Smith, because if he can't, he doesn't
have enough respect earned to the owners at this point,

(01:43:42):
which we know that he doesn't zero and he got
relished unanimously unanimous. That you probably should have reconsidered who's
leading you if he doesn't even get invited to the
room to have the conversation, because your union, given the
size of this business, should have more cloth than that.
Tori Smith, now playing with Carolina Uh, talked about UH

(01:44:04):
and responded to President Trump's UH statement from the White
House quote, so many lies shaking my head. Here's some facts. One,
not many people were going to go to No One
refused to go simply because Trump insists folks stand for
the anthem. Three, the President continues to spread the false
narrative that players are anti military, and that's at the

(01:44:27):
the crux of the issue is that it's been politicized
and now it gets run through and for the players,
they didn't do a good job of I I believe,
of staying on point and making sure that it didn't
get taken from it. And but the problem is that
other people just didn't want to hear it. Well, No,

(01:44:49):
certainly we're glad to keep that because they kept throwing
up the disrespect to the military as as as what
it was. When that was well, but as soon as
that got out that you couldn't bring it back the center.
And that's where you try to get the players. If
they're going to make the message heard, whether it's in
there cities that they're playing in or even as a

(01:45:11):
unified statement, whatever percentage of players get on board, then
got to galvanize and and find whatever that form is,
whatever that medium maybe by which to get that message across.
But be curious to see what the next iteration of
it is because certainly this topic not going away, and
the collusion case, as we mentioned, continues to swirl in

(01:45:34):
the background. For Colin Kaepernick coming up next, we get
back into Lebron James versus Steph Curry. That's becoming one
of the battles as we go through. And no, not
just because Lebron didn't take Steph Curry to the whole
and pass to George Hill. I know Rob Parker has
some thoughts here as the vote. Talk begins here on

(01:45:55):
Fox Sports Radio. But first we step up, and we
step out. Just Tom Looney are Steam colleague and trusted
award winning updating, Hi to tell us what's thank you?
Thank you so much? No jiggle necessary, please, guys, I'm
a humble man. Uh. The Washington Capitals are this close.

(01:46:16):
I know you can't see my fingers since it's radio,
but the Capitals are this close to capturing their first
Stanley Caudible left Shark gonna pass on our coast they score,
Michael Cathy, Post a post and Floury could not get there. Time.
We'll see you in Vegas. SIT's five to two, Wash

(01:46:39):
Sex to two is your final. John Walt would have
called the Andy Cap Radio Network Washington now leads the
series three one to Major League Baseball Tigers hosted a
double header with the Bronx Bombers Monday. In the first game,
Yankees team the Tigers seven to four. Yankee pitcher Luis
Severno won the seventh straight. In the second game, Detroit
Rock City, New York for to two. And what's interesting

(01:47:00):
to note here, Yankee star Aaron Judge had nine at
vats today and eight strikeouts and the double header. It's
a new Major League Baseball record for strikeouts and a
double header. There were three late night Liberal Left Coast
Baseball games tool moreover, Padres, Who's Your Daddy? The Braves
eleven to four, Giants raddled the Diamondbacks ten to three
bottom of the eighth inning, and the O c Anaheim, California,

(01:47:23):
where Gwen Stefani was born. But you knew that, Angels
in front of the Royals nine to six. And now
more rollicking sports talk radio as we go into the
night with Mike Harmon and Rob Parker on Fox Sports Radio.
Thank you, Looney, go do your next fifty set of
push ups. Okay, all right, see you guys. I'll get it.

(01:47:44):
Either that or twelve ounce girls. I'm not sure we're
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only hard part figuring out which way is easier. Jason
Smith's on with Mike Carmen, Rob Parker in for Jason
Smith tonight. You can find him on Undisputed. They'll be

(01:48:04):
on with Colin tomorrow morning Eastern Pacific. He's gonna go
home channel to nineteen on Direct TV. He'll be pondering
his big talking points, maybe wandering the beaches here in
southern California like Lionel Richie and the Hello video, trying
to figure it all out. One of the things I'm
gonna be talking about tomorrow. Here's a snake preview. I

(01:48:29):
think when Lebron James gets swept and loses this NBA Finals. Yes,
I said it's they're gonna gain seventy two pounds and
your cholesterol is going through the roof and because of
the chicken wings. That's right, because you know what, I
would be getting a hundred all flats from Channon Sharp
Pool I bet is that what we call him now? Flats? Well, well,

(01:48:49):
the flat piece of flat, not the interesting. How about that?
I always order all flats the the media. The drums
are a little drop. I'm not into the drums, but
drums are easier to throw at someone that now the handle,
but when you're cheering at it, well, the other the flats.

(01:49:10):
You never heard that. I didn't Alex, did you know
what flats were? He doesn't eat meat. Yeah, I ordered
the same. Michael back there on his first night is
going to tell you whatever the hell you want to know,
Tom so he gets he can curry favor with you.
Do you know what flats are? With chicken wings? The
flats and the drumats too healthy to health. It's those

(01:49:31):
are the best part, the wings. That's the ones nobody
ever wants, so that you probably get those at a
little bit of a discount. No, No, it's actually the
flats cost more money than the drums had a dollar extra,
how about that? But I love the flats. But anyway,
I bet I'm a hundred wings. That would be a sweep.
Here's my point. When Lebron loses the NBA Finals, Steph

(01:49:54):
Curry will now have the same amount of championships as
Lebron James. In the Lebron James era, it took Steph
Curry only four appearances and Lebron had nine appearances. How
could you be in a conversation of being the goat
of a sport when somebody, one of your contemporaries, right

(01:50:20):
has as many championships as you have during your era,
he officially is eliminated from the goat conversation. Am I'm
a sugarnar? Am I crazy? Draymond Green is gonna have three? No?
But I'm just talking about well, and I'm just calling
it like it is. But because he's not, because because
but he's not Robert Ory, He's Okay, I'm just asking you.

(01:50:44):
Can you still be in a conversation You can't say
you dominated? How did you dominate your own era? When
Steph has as many championships? Well, they're gonna say they
I used the they because it ain't my argument. It's
not and it's not my hometown chicagoism. It's in the end,
we are counting rings, right, it is. It is about
winning them, not just getting there, especially when we look

(01:51:05):
at what the Eastern Conference has been and I can't
talk about the fractured psyche of the Toronto Raptors and
the fact that they all literally bowed down to him two. Well,
this year it was even more pathetic, right, because you
have this great regular season, you've got a guy in
DeRozan that you decide to bench for a long stretch,
and then your postgame comments on Game three, Dwayne Casey

(01:51:26):
and addressing it, said well, we have one more game, okay, thanks,
it's a final. And they showed up for Game four
as as if they were just punching a ticket, making
sure they collected their game checks, and then they were
ready to go home. So when you look at what
the the East has been, and I know certainly everybody
goes through the metrics and say, well, these teams are

(01:51:46):
better than what Michael faced here here and and it's
fun and that's part of the fun of comparing eras
for some And and why many hours of this goat
conversation have taken place on radio and TV. Why because
it's the unanswerable in terms of these there's no right
or wrong answer. I mean, it's no but but it's
that thing that we can just you know, circle about

(01:52:09):
and we will every year and with Lebron James when
everything he does becomes a he's now the first player
to do X, but talking about he's also the first
player to score fifty points in the finals game and lose. See,
I don't believe. I don't believe you could extend this
conversation after this year. I just think it's a harder
argument even for Lebron fans, fan boys, Lebron lovers, apologists,

(01:52:32):
whatever you want to call them. You'll be real hard
pressed to say a guy who's three and six in
NBA Finals is the greatest player who ever played and
it didn't You want to say your nippicking about Lebron's
game and all, Yes, if you're calling somebody the greatest
of all time, I'm gonna check all these boxes. Michael
Jordan had won ten straight scoring championships. Lebron James has

(01:52:54):
won one. Lebron Michael Jordan has more defensive players, more
m vps. He I don't. He's six for six and
for six is really when it all comes day right.
It's like Joe Montana was four, no three m v ps,
eleven touchdowns, no picks. How could you argue with that?
You got to finish the job, and that's we go.

(01:53:15):
We've talked about it a little bit earlier where folks
are making the m v P argument based on the
heroics and the big, gaudy stat lines. Bottom line is
you still lost and right when we're playing sports. As
much as we like the box scores, and as much
as I've made money doing fantasy football commentary and breaking
down games all these years, love going into the box scores.

(01:53:35):
It's great, but they only tell you so much, especially
when there's still an l on the back end. So
going three and six, the the goat conversation is for
all the discussions of records and how many things in
a record books you want to go and do that
have fun with it, But why are we not including
Kareem or Bill Russell if we're gonna go through certainly

(01:53:58):
different times when we're talking about rough Soul's NBA versus
eight teams back then or something. You know what I mean.
It's a difference if you Because I know Oscar Robertson
was on on the network over the past week and
he was going straight to that point. Can we can
we play here's the here's the big old sound. You ready,
I got the sound no, here we go. We got it. Hey,

(01:54:20):
you kids, get off my lawn, because he sounds like
that's the old man that was. That was like an
old man, like, dude, please, and you were very gracious
when they were talking about Westbrook and the triple doubles.
And then you come back and do the old man
get off my law and act. But he's still always
been don't forget about me. When we're talking about all
time grades, right, Oscar, he raises his hand to make

(01:54:43):
sure he's in. And look when when you're still going
and you're that far removed and they take you out
of the conversation, then I would raise my hand to
and point out my my accolades and my my stats
along the way. But certainly for lebron J games in
this finals, it's fun to watch, and the shorts are fun,

(01:55:05):
and the postgame commentary has been fun. But another loss
and this whole goat thing really goes to the wayside.
You appreciate what you're watching, and that's really the message
on it all. Can't we all get along and just
appreciate for as long as this cyborg is on the
court what we're getting to see. But certainly he's even
breaking down in games, a lot of its acting jobs.

(01:55:27):
I think I think he's getting ready for his next career. Yeah,
that we have some of that going on, but certainly
also playing to the cameras wherever he can, which is
you know, the disgust at Jen R. Smith and Tyler
with no timeouts. Coming up next here from the Geico
Fox Sports Radio Studios, we've got the play of the night.
I think we know what that's gonna be. Rob Parker

(01:55:49):
and for Jay Smith's James Smith Show with Mike Arman.
Welcome back into the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios, Locked
and loaded to Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen. Rob
Parker in for Jay said Smith this evening, We've traveled
the world of sports a lot about the disinvitation of
the Eagles to the White House to celebrate their title. Instead,

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there will be military bands and a thousand people gathered,
according to the press release from the White House their
statement earlier tonight. The Eagles responded with a Hey, we
enjoy the unity of our fans and we're looking forward
to defending our title. So everybody goes to their respective corners,

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players chiming in and certainly this will be the hot
button topic for the next and then it will slide
away for a couple of days and then something else
will say, we'll get back onto it, especially with O. T. A.
S going on, the NFL starting to get back into
into focus here. Right we had the draft, it kind

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of went away for a bit. So now the NFL
back on the front page. I can just Tom Brady
and Rob Gronkowski showed up. Body, they're gonna practice. What
does that mean? I mean we were way because they're
they're malcontented and hateful, don't you know, don't you know
the guy that you call the load, he is the load,

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the luckiest of all time, Tom Brady, There's no doubt
about it. Here's the thing, though many people would take
that as a negative comment. I laugh and say, sometimes
it's better to be lucky than good. That's one of
the harm and family model, because if you're lucky, I
mean luck is you know, preparation and opportunity and all
those things. But better to be lucky than good. Would

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also at times imply that maybe he didn't work as hard,
and I think it was chance. It just things lined
up for him, that's all. Things just always worked out
for Tom Brad, would you say that for Lebron James, No,
that it that it lined up for him to know
he set it up when he went to Miami. So
will he set that up? I would say, look at Lebron,

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think of it this way. Lebron started my Space and
the Warriors started Facebook. They one upped him, right, So
they looked at it and said, well, what did he do?
He put together this super team, right, so they went
out and they won a championship and then added the
best player available in the league, so they one upped him.

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He created the monster that is the Golden State Warriors
because of his action. I still believe to this day,
if Lebron Jay's never left Cleveland, Kevin Durant would have
never left. Okay, see, well I made it okay, right, No,
it's absolutely there's a there's a trickle down effect. And

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when you see the big guy right, well, when it
goes into the psyche of Kevin Durant as well, he
wasn't gonna be the first to do so that like
and even now you see he's sinking back and he
he desserted himself early in these playoffs to where you
could say, wow, it's it's changed. Right, Curry was injured
struggling a little bit with his shot, and Durant it

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was front and center, and now as we're in the finals,
those roles are reversed and it's now Steph Curry's Golden
State Warriors again, which is incredible when you think about
how Grady was last year in the finals and now
you look at it and see there has been a
shift because he hasn't been as good, even though his numbers,
what do you have, twenty six points, he's average, which

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I mean the numbers are fine. It's it's even in
the games were he's gotten this what eighteen and nine,
and it does it's not the same assertiveness. It's not
the same aggressiveness ever since he got that talking to
from Steve Kerr on the sideline about what Michael Jordan
would get from Phil Jackson about beating his teammates whatever,

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ever since that point in that game, and it was
it was fun to watch that live. We happen to
have I think Jonas Knox was in the studio, which
means we're not in our normal studio for behind the curtain.
We've got monitors so we can keep our eyes on
a lot of things, but we don't have sound in
the back. We got one big TV up the sound
and you hear the the audio and we heard that

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that clip as it went went across the broadcast and
and it was insightful, kind of interesting, this moment captured
about coaching and everything else. But it seems like Kevin
Durant actually stepped back since then and we can go
into the isolation plays and everything else, but certainly not
the same dominance that he'd exhibited earlier in the playoffs.

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So curious to see as this flows forward what we
have stop for the play of the night. I brought
you by Geico Earlier tonight, Dwight Clark, sixty one years old.
Uh died as a result of a LS diagnosed in fifteen.
Went public with it in had effects on his hands

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were the first signs of it. He'd written in a
blog post his wife and put the news out on
Twitter and social media earlier to the outpouring of love
from former teammates. Uh Eddie de Barbelow, the owner at
the time, Just amazing, the the rallying of the football

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community and they're good thoughts and remembrance of Dwight Clark.
He of course, gave us one of the signature moments
in NFL history in the NFC Championship. Third and three,
we'll Senna pick up something on the right side, possibly
antenna looking looking throwing an enzyme te fark. It's a

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matter how set candle stick. With fifty one seconds left,
White Clark is six four. He stands about ten ft
tall in this CD destination. Then Scully on the call
the legend. And certainly as we sit here in Los Angeles,
always good to here Vince's voice back on calling those

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great plays. And and that's one that I'll always remember.
And it's the hallmark, the benchmark of which all great
catches are measured against. Great news. There's a quick way
you could say, Bunny, you can switch to Geico get
dot com and in fifteen minutes you could say fift
or more on car insurance. I'm gonna go home, and
I'm gonna look at that little flip book that I
have of the catch, frame by frame. It's really a classic.

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Enjoy it always a pleasure of mine. Good having Rob
Parker in tonight. Jason Smith will be back tomorrow. Coming
up next, our buddy Ben Maller

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