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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome inside,
Happy Monday, the Jason Smith Show with my big friend
Mike Harmon. As we count down to Hamilton's, which really
released in four days four days from now, Hamilton, Well,

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if you've subscribed, because if everybody subscribed, everybody's gonna subscribe
to get Hamilton's for come on, for six dollars a month,
you're gonna get your money. Worthen like a day and
a half. And Buddy, I've seen it live three times
that I've listened to that thing like a hundred fifty times.
Doesn't matter. Here. You have kids, I have, I have
a daughter. We're gonna be watching. It's gonna be like
going to Costco. Well, is the membership worth it? Are

(01:06):
you kidding? It's gonna be worth it? In the first
time you go there. Yeah, everything, I mean, that's the
month worth. Yeah, that's that's cool for I don't think
I'm going other than the King George parts. I don't
think I'm gonna hammer it too often. Wow, Rich, see,
I see that's why I think you are underestimating the
power of your children. Dad. Can we watch Hambleton's sure. Uh,

(01:27):
that's how I got three and a half. Your daughter's
four teens. She won't come talk to you either. Hey, listen,
just because hey, just because you brought her up to
not like your White Sox and the Bears and all
these other things. Listen, you can't just sit down when
she's ten and when she says, Dad, I'd like to
do something, you know, I want to I wanna. I
want to write, I want to do something creative. Want

(01:48):
to give back to this earth, to give back to
the world. You go, No, we need to watch the
NFC Championship game from eighty five against the Rams, because
we really shut down Dickerson, indeed or Brock. This is
what happens to kids when they get four team like, boy,
my dad's really gonna want to go back and watch
Caleb Haney in the fourth quarter against the Packers and
how close they were. He's gonna start saying how it
didn't matter the color got hurt. This is what happens.

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This is when kids grow apart from you. Man, it's
it's you know, it's really all your fault. Well, I've
I've blamed myself for pretty much everything anyway. That's why
I have such a cheery disposition most of my life.
But yeah, I've got one that's in new soccer and
only soccer occasionally. Ay, what does this mean? When she
wants to go argue with the boys and then the

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older one who really couldn't care unless we get to
go to a live event. Then she knows she's gonna
get to eat. Well, oh okay, well okay, well why
you don't You don't feed your kids? What do I
have to call child services? The point that to keep
keep the peace and make sure I can get past
the fifth inning of a game. That means the food's
gotta keep flowing, and I'm texting child services. Harmon does

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not if you've got them on text messages that you've
got some other problems. Go, it's for you. It's been
on for you. I've I've been informed on you. I'm
like Matt Damon from Departed. Sorry spoiler, I've been informing
on you for a long time. Well you know what,
he doesn't get away with it, so be careful. Spoiler
Twitter at how about a Fresco Mike at Swollen Dome

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the Jason Smith's Show with My Car. But obviously a
huge weekend in the NFL. We got Cam Newton is
now a member of the Patriots. Will have more on
that coming up in fifteen minutes. Jason Cole is gonna
stop by many, many things to say to talk about
Canada the Patriots. But today really was something that we
alluded to last week that you're starting to see come

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to fruition, because I remember last week we said, you know, yes,
you know, NBA is coming back in the end, MLB
is getting ready. Everbody's getting ready to return. But and
and we've been this, this has been a common thread
for us for a while. When it comes time to
actually go play, it's not all the way done until
the players are actually there. And today what have we

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seen in Major League ace ball? Mike Leak Ryan Zimmerman
both have opted out of playing this season and joining
their teams due to coronavirus concerns. Meanwhile, Fred van Vleet said,
we probably shouldn't be playing at all at one of
the best, probably should have been m VP of the
finals last year. I was like, I was the only
one that said he should be m VP of the
finals last year. Said they probably shouldn't be playing this year,

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but they're gonna He's gonna go play. He's gonna go
play with everybody else. DeAndre Jordan's a tweet just a
few moments ago he has tested positive for COVID nineteen.
DeAndre Jordan's will not be joining the Orlando Bubble. Spencer
Dinwiddie also on shore on when he is going to
restart after a positive test of COVID nineteen himself. So

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here's today where you have two Major League Baseball players
say yeah, I don't know, and you know there's going
to be more, and you've had more NBA players either
test positive or express reservations about going to play in
the bubble. Before you say, well, it's one player, you
just need one player. You're talking about one player on
team of twelve. You know that this is what if

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you have one player on a team, Okay, you can
isolate one guy, but then there's one more. You're isolating
somebody else. This is a time right now in our
country where when you have to want to put everything
into the pot together and say, Okay, what's gonna come
out of this. It's not for certain that we're going
to see resumptions of these seasons because the way things

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have been going in the country the past few days.
You want to go over the past ten days with
coronavirus cases spiking everywhere and the w h O warning
that the worst could be still becoming if we're not
paying attention, because look, we didn't open smart enough, and
that's on us, that's on everybody that opened earlier, everybody
who didn't open smart enough, and and and try to
keep distances in social distance and do what we had

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been doing to flatten the curve for a long time.
You are now going to see players get even more nervous,
especially about going to Florida, where Florida wanted to tout
that hey, we're open for business, we're great, and now
you've heard nothing because they've had the biggest spike in
the country in COVID nineteen cases. And so just to
think that this is still a very frail time right
now for both sports. Major League Baseball's got to navigate

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the next few days before they get people actually into camps.
The NBA has got to navigate the next few weeks
and more players are getting jittery and skittish and nervous,
and who knows what's gonna happen when it really comes
to it. You know, right now, I guarantee you if
the players have to go, the baseball players are gonna go,
and they're gonna say, you know what, first sign of anything,
we're leaving. I mean, right there there, they got one

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foot out there there. If they go, they got one
foot out the door going Okay, one thing goes wrong
and I'm done. I'm done, and I'm going back. This
is not the way we should be going into this season.
We should be going in here and things were fine.
But I think the world changed ten days ago when suddenly,
when coronavirus, everything was doing better and it looked like,
you know, New York City was kind of the um

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the the flashpoint for the country. Things were okay, then
they got really bad. Then they started to flatten the curve.
Except ten days ago we saw many other states over
thirty states report new highs and cases. And it's not
this way in every state, but it's enough to make
enough teams nervous, enough players nervous, and you have positive
COVID nineteen tests, you have players who are gonna be
skinnish going in because it's gonna be them. They're the

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one saying we're risking what we're risking. And the more
time you have to think about decisions like that, the
more up in the air these decisions get. These next
few days are going to be huge, but especially major
League Baseball, because these are the guys that got to
report first. These are the guys we're supposed to see
in the next few days. And if you're not. If
suddenly we saw a first couple of guys today say
I'm not comfortable with going, maybe that means a few

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more feel comfortable saying I don't feel really good about this,
or maybe this is These are phone calls of Tony
Clark right now saying, ay, I don't know about this.
Things aren't going that well. These next few days are
so crucial when it comes to the restarted sports, just
because of what's happened the past ten days. Yeah, I mean,
you look at the Major League Baseball UH discussions. Ryan
Zimmerman had penned UH post that went out over the

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weekend and covered it a little bit with LaVar Arrington
on on our Sunday show, just as a well, here
here's a guy writing three week old his mom with
ms SO talking about well, I'd have to be away
from from them for however many weeks, most certainly after
the season were to end, so extenuating circumstances, you know,

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part of it. You start looking into the economics of it,
right for the players that got a chunk of money
or have already banked a ton of money, like in
the case of a Ryan Zimmerman, not on a huge
deal right now, but has certainly banked a lot of
money in his career. So the the ability to do
this perhaps a little bit easier. Right. You look at

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Fred van Leet's comments saying, well, this is what they
decided to do, and if more people had opted out,
maybe I would too. So just from a he's in
no man's land right, trying to figure out what which
way the the league as a whole wants to go,
and just try to be supported as he can. And
it's that catch. Twenty two right, because how many people

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are gonna openly criticize a guy for apting out, regardless
of what the family circumstance, Right if his Zimmerman didn't
have a three week old kid or his mom's illness,
but still said he opted out. I mean, outwardly, you're
gonna have everybody go, hey, you know you gotta do
you in this time, But inwardly in the locker room whatever,
you know. Take it to any of the others that

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have opted out. I can't imagine it's it's sitting a
percent well, no matter what the extenuating circumstances are, right,
there's still the the profession job to do, et cetera,
and getting back to whatever normal is. Baseball is also different,
and that you're gonna be traveling, right, You're not. Even
though you're at your home parks. You're you're still gonna

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have travel series and they'll do their best to mitigate
how much you're in the air, how much of that
the moving parts are there, but you've added a lot
more variables. By the way the season is currently structured
versus against the NBA, the NBA is all right, we
just got to get you through these last three weeks
and then on once we get you inside. Now, the

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variable that hasn't been handled well to my my thanking Jason,
and we've talked about it a bit on the show,
is what do you do with all those Walt Disney
World employees that get to go home every night, right,
so whatever they go and do in their off hours,
and then come back to the quote unquote bubble that
has got a gaping hole in it as you get

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ready to start play at the end of the month.
That's the part that still remains to be seen. But
I'm with you. I think we'll see uh, probably another
another few stars and big names at least raised the
question in their local newspapers or local radio before they
get report for duty. Yeah, I think it. It's sometime.

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There's going to be that big call with Tony Clark,
the NBA p A is gonna say, listen, we gotta
we need all these assurances that we're safe if we're
gonna go, we need one more big Hey, we were
on top of everything just because you get on you know,
you get on the internet and you see, Okay, here's
more spikes, here's more, here's more cases. We got to
get under control. We don't have it under control. We

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have to get you're gonna see that. And despite the
fact that there's portions of the country that want to
push forward no matter what, and that that's my thing
is that I don't know that we're ever gonna go back,
we were gonna go back and not reopen the country
or is it going to be really individuals who decide
what they want to do. Listen, We're gonna be at home,
be until we feel safe. And others are gonna say,

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I'm gonna go out into the and and shop and
I'm not gonna wear a mask. And it's we're gonna
be living in two different Americas for a while because
I don't know that we can go back to where
we're at because the you know, opening back up, I mean,
unless there's some kind of specific governmental order about wearing
masks and closing things, well that's how we're gonna live.
But no matter what, if you think this is just

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gonna be pushed forward, that the NB and Major League
Baseballs gonna say, yeah, positive tests here, pot keep going,
keep going, positive tests here, pots keep going. We're keep going.
We're still going, We're still going. Players are gonna say whoa,
we're done. You know, never forget the power of the
players when it comes to this, is that they're not
going to be told we need to have you know,

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commerce go, We need to make sure the economy goes,
we need to make sure we're making money at this
you go play, players right away are gonna say, yeah,
not doing it. It It will happen very very fast. It'll
be one of those things where one day it's gonna
be Okay, I get it, I get it. Three phone
calls are made and we're not playing anymore. I mean
that's how it's gonna go. So it's not like, well,
the play. The country's opening up, so we're just gonna

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you know, everybody's gonna just get pushed, you know, pushed
into doing this and keep whether you want to do
it or not, you're in to try it. You're in
to try, which I think it's great to try. But
the moment that players don't feel safe, or even if
before they get there, they're gonna say they don't want
to go, and what are you gonna do? I mean,
you can't make them go. You know, the the government
and and you know what isn't gonna say you have

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to go. You gotta report you what are you doing?
You know, Gavin Newsom is not gonna tell Justin Turner
you gotta get to camp. We need you, gotta get there.
That's not gonna happen. So that's how it's gonna I
need to think that it could be. Well, we're gonna
try and go and if there's positive tests, no players
are gonna say yeah, that's it, and then it's gonna
be what do we do now? So that that's really
how it's going to go. If you think, well, we're

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on this path, that's why I mean, this next week
is really really big. And if I'm the NBA in
Major League Baseball, I am doing all I can to
try to tell the players we got you, we got you. Look,
there's three hundred players. We've had fifteen positive coronavirus tests.
We are going to isolate these people. We will test you,
we will get all the way through. Yes these are fifteen,
but these are we have all of you safe. We're
going to continue to test and the players that are

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gonna have to decide if they want to go because
for all of us, if you and I worked in
a two person company, right and we found out Hey,
fifteen people have tested positive for coronavirus. I think there's
not people who have been around for a while. Maybe
they've been in and out of the office and maybe
have come across and maybe you haven't. Would you still
be as as excited to go into work every day. Well,

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we're gonna isolate you. Everything is gonna be good. Come
through the doors and come work. People are gonna say,
oh no, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it well.
But remember that's what's gonna be for the NBA Major
League Baseball too well. But from that point, it's there's
a difference between are you excited versus will you do it?
Versus with cash considerations, do you need to do it?
Because the Major League Baseball in the NBA can also

(14:27):
look at it. Go you know what, work here and laundry.
You love the superstars, We recognize the pandemic. There's other
people that we could put in those jerseys. NFL did
it on strike ear. You've had the circumstances in the
past where you've had to find the replacements. Hell, maybe
Keanu Reeves got a couple of throws in his arm,
but the reality is, you know, that's why we're starting

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to look at the potential of you know, how big
are those rosters right? Major League Baseball putting in their sixties,
Sorry no Tebow for the Mets, but trying to make
or you've you've accounted for those And for the NBA,
we're seeing a lot and familiar names signing on two deals,
you know, with options into next year. And part of

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that is just insurance over what's to come. So I
think there's ways around it, but it's gonna be an
interesting road for sure. Sitting with Foam finger Man, yeah
there's there. It's not like it's impossible, but it's just
you can't the NBA and MLB can't just say everything
is gonna be fine and think everybody's gonna report. I
mean that every day things change and they're they're okay.

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Now we gotta do even more work. There's gotta be
more handholding and more convincing. The more close to you
get come on, It's like it's just like a realtor
who's trying to get somebody to buy a house. You know,
you can't just say, oh, great, you're in, You've got it. Great, Yeah,
I'll see it the signing. No, no, your realtor is
calling you making sure things are good. They're bringing you
coffee and they're saying, are we good? Hey, did you
get your inspection done? We have? You know I have.

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Here's here's getting your inspection done so we can sign
the papers so I can make my commission. There's always
hand holding near the end, and there's gotta be a
lot of hand holding here between MLB and the NBA,
there's gotta be tons of it. I think I'll be
holding both hands of everybody all the way across. It's
gotta be like hands across America. Uh, like from the
eighties and from the really overrated movie. Uh, you know

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it's someone would want to try to board to remind
them how much money is at stake if they don't play. Yeah,
everybody's got a lot of hand holding, a lot of
hand holding, uh. Twitter across Twitter across credit, Twitter across America.
Twitter at how about a Fresca? That's Twitter at how
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Show with Mike Harmen Live from the Geico Studios. We'll

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have more on this throughout the night, but coming up next,
Cam Newton is back one year at the New England
Patriots on Saturday. No one's even talking about him. Sunday night,
it was you know, Cam Newton can bring the Patriots
to the Super Bowl. What's the truth? We'll tell you
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Can I tell you, Mike Carmen? Can I tell you?
Hit me? I did trivia Saturday night with a couple
of friends of ours, big trivia thing online. They invited
us to do it. They've been doing it the past
couple of weeks, and it was so much fun. It

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was so much fun. You know, all these different categories,
all different things, and I was happy contributing. Uh. In fact,
I came up with with with a couple of big answers.
Not not not that I'm the smartest guy in the world. Boy,
I'm pretty smart. But I'll tell you the last part
of the thing, the trivia thing to win. We were
in second place, and the last part of twin was
here was ten questions and all the answers had one

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thing in common, and I'm going, okay, we got we
got all the answers right, and I'm saying the answers
were like, Brian Boitano, I Love you three thousand, uh,
Divine Secrets of the ya Ya's Sisterhood, the Atlanta Braves,
And I'm going going, what the hell could these have
in common? I have no idea. I have no idea
what these have in common. I we didn't know. We

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didn't Sweete at all. We don't know. We we put
our answers in the group that was in first place,
put him in. They got it right, and the answer
was Outcast three thousand was Andre three thousand. Brian Boitano
was big boy, Yeah yeah, sister was hey, yeah, obviously
this song you just heard there from Atlanta. And I
was like, we play this song on the show Tight

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Shirt plays it once a night, and how did I
not hit Outcast? I mean really, so, I'm like, what
is Brian boy too? Didn't anything? Well, Kim, but what
did Brian Boitano and I Love You three thousand? I'm
thinking Mr three thousand, I'm thinking baseball, and they're going,
but I go, nobody on the Braves had three thousand
hits and all the time going out and then it
turns out to be outcast. We came in second, and
the whole team when I said, we play and we

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play that song on the show every night, and one
the one of the guys goes every night ever so
mad and we play it all the time. And I
didn't put two and two together for outcast either that
you could have at least sung what would Brian Boitano do?
What let Brian Blaito do? Well, that was the question.
It was what figure stating if he was here right now,

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what figure skating star appeared in the spirit of Christmas?
Which is I was, oh, yeah, Brian, I got that
right away. Yeah, Brian bit title, Well, let Brian Blitano
do and don't answer to that's what do? We got
him all right, And we just missed that one. We
missed that one at the end, like oh yeah, I
was like, hey, uh uh, joining us now on the hotline.

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I mean, you could call him an outcast. I guess
that would be a pretty good way to describe. He
is the outcast of Pro Football Hall of Fame voters. Currently,
he is still a Pro Football Hall of Fame voter
as well as the editor in chief of fansided dot
com longtime NFL insider Jason Cole. J Cole, what's happening, Buddy?
I would say that they probably believe that I miscast. Okay,

(19:57):
why would you be miscast? I think that's a pretty
good casting as a as a Hall of Fame voter.
I mean, based on the fact that I want to
get Roger stop Back and Drew Piers, I mean bar
Drew Pierson from ever being in the Hall of Fame,
which is which should be done, and then trying to
get Roger stop Back out of the Hall of Fame?

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Are you but I mean, you're entitled to your opinion, right,
That's what we talked about. You can you can have that?
You are you getting people on Twitter saying do you
really want to get Pearson and not prepare to get
stop Back out of the Like did they really send
you guys emails about that? They really? Honestly our Cowboys

(20:37):
fans like that's stupid. No, no, no. Here's the most
common responses I get from your appearances on the show.
How fun you are, how happy they are to have
you on every week. I know you gained listeners on Twitter,
so you're welcome. And the other one is, boy, did
you ever know that Jason Cole sounds like Andrew Luck?
Those are the two. Those are the two things been

(20:58):
going on for you know, a decade, basically ever since
he ever since he became part of the national sports consciousness.
And I never made a dime off of that, the
fact that I can impersonate him that well, and I
never capitalized on that account. Tonight, what you start a
cameo account tonight, I'll do whatever messo jackasses. They're going

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to forget who Andrew Luck was pretty soon. Here's what
we do. Here's what we do. I got it, I
got it, I got it. Listen, this will get you
all the notoriety in the world. We somehow we figure
out for you to do the interview. Yeah, well, I mean,
I mean but this but this is a bit like
this will be where people pick it up and you'll
be a legend. I mean you're a legend now, but
you'll be a legend of Zelda if you do this.

(21:47):
You do an interview with the radio station that can't
really be in Indianapolis because they probably know his voice
a little bit too well. But maybe somewhere like in
San Franciscopolis was the place where they thought they thought
most evolved that I was actually Andrew Luck. I used
to do parents there and they people will go, why
is the Andrew Luck on your show every week? And

(22:08):
I'm like, oh my god, they're so stupid. And in
Inciapolis it's unbelievable. It's like it's it's it's worked like
cowboy fans. So you do an interview and you announce
you are coming back to play. Right, Well, here's what
you do. You spend a morning doing interviews as Andrew Luck.
But every radio station you give a different team you're
coming back to. So in Indianapolis you said I will

(22:31):
come back. I will come back, but I'm only coming
back if I can't play for And let's just keep
naming teams. Should I start with the Jets, because you
guys just the most help? Oh sure, sure, Well do
interviews in New York and say you're gonna play for
the Jets, do interviews in Jacksonville, say you're gonna play
for the Jaguars. And then soon all these teams say, no,

(22:51):
he's playing with us, No, he's playing with us, No
he's playing promised trade me immediately Kansas City. Well there
you go. Yeah, oh boom, that would be the best. Now,

(23:11):
that would be a day. Listen, you would lose your
Pro Football Hall of Fame voting right and normally my
my wheels are real slow to turn because let's just say,
I'm not the brightest bulb. I mean, listen, you would
lose everything you worked for professional in your entire life.
But boy, for a day, you would be legend. You
would live for a book, that shelf of books that

(23:34):
I got together from you know, freeviews from all the
all the biographies I get. Yeah, that's that's that's that's
a big loss from family members looking to get their
person into the Hall of Fame. It's I love all
the teams that said me like packaging, like they're like,
look for you, Donnie Shell. Let's break down his entire

(23:55):
career this four page pamphlet for you real. Got it
this way? Like in Braveheart when mel Gibson says, would
you be willing to trade every day from now until
the end of your life for one chance? Just one chance?
Would you be willing to trade your entire professional life
for just one day of making everybody believe this? Coming

(24:16):
back there it's got to be if we're going to
do this April Fools next year, we really are, We're
gonna April Fool. I'm gonna schedule it. I'm gonna schedule
thirty two radio appearances on April out of retirement to

(24:37):
play for it is the only one I won't do
is it'd be an apple Is because now I'm not
playing for the cults ever again. All right? So from Quarterbacks,
commagin ro Roger Goodell. At the end of the day,
it's gonna get just shoot him. It would be like

(24:58):
in the movie Florida. He does I know it if
you like book, get rid of him. When you see
all the all the swat guys show up outside the
house and somehow the guy escapes, you know they somehow
he's able to find a way out of his house.
Yet and I know Troy Safe, I know that guy.

(25:22):
Shoot it down. He's crafty. Don't let him get away.
All right? So hey, so j Cole from Quarterbacks who
are not coming back, and we're gonna play jokes with
Andrew Luck to a guy you did finally come back. Well,
what are you making of Cam Newton and the Patriots?
Why don't I have a gut feeling he's never going

(25:43):
to play for them, Like I think, well, number one,
they did this obviously, they timed it up so perfectly.
It's like, oh we sign camp boot. Oh by the way,
we just got fined a million one point one billion dollars.
Never mind, don't even Hey, you know we lost another
draftic never mind? Okay, just we got Cam Newton. Okay,

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So you know, like it couldn't have been orchestrated any better, right,
Like this is a total whack the dog, right, So
do I think it's a good thing? You know, on
it's on face value. Sure, whatever you getta you get
a guy who's that kind of experience and everything for
minimum salary. I mean, I think his body is shot.

(26:28):
I mean, like I don't think the guys healthy and
it's sad. But and I hope that I'm wrong, Like
I really hope that like this is that I'm totally
off base on this one, and that he can play again. Right,
I hope he gets it back together. But I just
he's taken so much punishment. I mean, just seven seasons

(26:51):
with a hundred carries, well all the sacks that he took,
He's just the guy's beat up and and so I
just think that, like they took him as this is
an interesting play to see if they get something out
of him, maybe they could use them in certain situations.
He's such a great runner, was such great talent. But

(27:11):
I think that they really want to see what step
ups about. And maybe this is just I don't know.
I just get the feeling like this is a lot
of talk about something that's never gonna happen. So like
when they got Chad Johnson or Albert Haynesworth, and you know,
I tweeted about that earlier, like it was all the

(27:32):
fans fair. They got to oh they got this guy,
like look what they're gonna do, and all the different
ways that Belichick could use him and this and that
is like nothing. I loved it. The fact that, as
you mentioned, it came right on the heels of the
penalties being handed down on a case. It was like
it was like like Mike Rofalo, you know, reported it

(27:54):
was like it was seven minutes, like they just said, okay,
right here, okay, drop the fine of the draft pick.
News Like craft was like, did we get this out? Okay,
go ahead, you can now announce the fine it's fine,
We'll added Sunday night news dumps. And that was the
case that I would guess of the football love an

(28:15):
audience didn't remember even existed. What would they have that
sitt today? What was that? Oh yeah, third rat pick?
Okay came, thank you? Can we talk about that s more?
I was just it's just like fresh meat. And here's
the other thing. It's like, you signed this guy like
of the eighth of June. You don't and you don't

(28:37):
have a single like practice between now and the start
of maybe whatever becomes a training camp, right, And this
is a total it's a total dog and pony show. One. Now,
wait a minute, let me throw this out there to
you not tell tell me the percentage chance you think
this is. This is the thing the Patriots knew this

(28:58):
story was getting out about the pen tease for you know,
cheating and getting video in Cincinnati, and they only signed
Cam Newton. They signed Cam Newton to cover that up.
Like this, this is this is like you guys, look,
this sounds like like all the President's man coming out again,
Like this is this is what I mean? You guys
at Hoffman and Redford right there, this is telling me

(29:21):
this is Bob of no, no, no, But Bob Kraft says,
this is this is another embarrassment. Bill, I can't believe
we're gonna get doct these draft picks again. And it's
more money, and he goes, well, let's do something. Let's
sign Cam Newton moment will pay attention to that. Oh,
what's gonna cost us seven eight million? Sure, okay, let's
do that, all right? Great? Great shall replus Like this

(29:49):
could cost the nothing, literally nothing like this. They got
here for less than they're paying their backup guards. That's
what this is. It really is something of genius. Absolutely
it is. It is just the perfect shell game. It

(30:12):
is absolutely the NFL shell game, you know, absolutely, like
go look over here, you know, but look away from
the fact that we'd be penalized for the third time
because we were so left that we had cameras on
in the middle of a press box, Like that's that's

(30:33):
the old timer. Like we got fined because we we
put we set up cameras in the press box and
we pointed up at the opposite sideline. We're the patriots
like they should they were penalized, not because they were
so much guilty of things and really we're doing something.
It was they were penalized for being stupid. Like Roger

(30:54):
good Does just looked at this and go, you're kidding me, right,
the Patriots filming in the rest box, seriously, like this
is what we did? Oh god, what if I go
hiding in plain sight? But Roger Goodell, like sitting at
his desk in New York. It's just you know, it

(31:14):
just does a face palm, right, just because look, God,
what called the craft? It goes? What am I supposed
to do? Now? Well, just give me a few weeks
and we'll sign camp Newton and I'll have it already. Okay.
You can follow him on Twitter at Jason Cale sixty

(31:36):
two at Jason Coles by the way, good of you
to show up this time, you know, after the last
few Fridays, by the way, you know, and because and
just because of this, I had declared on Friday that
if you don't show up my third third straight parents,
I've been taking over the show from Oh okay, well listen,
you know my tagline was going to be my opening
line after I took over a few years. So you know,

(31:58):
welcome to a better Jayson. While he's still currently is
a pro Football Hall of Fame voter. Maybe not after
tonight e I see at fansided dot com. J Cole
has always but appreciated my friend. Great stuff there from

(32:18):
Jason Cole as always. We got more coming up in
ninety but first be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten
pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio. That Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harman live from the Geico Studios.
And we got more on Cam Newton coming up in
ten minutes. But even when the NBA does restart, we

(32:43):
could for the first time in nearly two years, see
j R. Smith on a basketball court, as the Lakers
are planning to sign j R. Smith Smith huge boner
and submit his name as part of the franchisees roster
for the restart in Orlando. They've been discussing a trade
since Avery Bradley opted out of the season restart last week.

(33:07):
So j R. Smith, who hasn't plate since October, on
his way back to the NBA and Mike, look, this
is gonna be great for everybody. We got James back.
I think it's gonna be awesome. I really can't believe
Lebron James. Okay, this I really don't think he I
don't think he had to. I mean I really, but
come on, it goes through Lebron. He's got it, okay,
and he's got to give his blessings. I couldn't do it.

(33:29):
I could if this is a guy that didn't know
the score game one of the NBA Finals and ruined
a chance in a ring, I can't say, yeah, come
on back, Yeah why not? I mean I couldn't do it.
I don't, I don't. I don't get it. I couldn't
do it. Could not one of my options. I mean,
that's not really when it comes down to, right, we
don't have out here in the free agent market. We've
already lost Avery Bradley. We know the Clippers are bringing

(33:51):
in Joe Kim Noah, the guy who works harder than
anybody in the National Basketball Association. So how do we
counter that kind of enter g I'm trying to say
this as straight as I can. But it's a guy
you know, right, It's a guy you've played with and
you know him from his worst, but you also saw
him at his best, and he was a pivotal cog

(34:13):
for them in a number of key circumstances in his
years there in Cleveland. So I don't know. It seems
to me that it's it's a it's a solid fit.
And there's no way that Lebron, uh this went through
without him. Okay, look, there's no way. Genie Bus just
said I'm gonna play a joke on Lebron and we
got a lot of stress going on with going into

(34:35):
the bubble do it. I can't believe he'd be the
guy that would say, Okay, yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Let let's let let's have him come in, because look
like and the the impact of him j R. Smith
is a break glass in case of emergency signing. All right,
Dion Waiters is gonna play, Alice Caruso was gonna play
and suck up some of those minutes. K C p

(34:57):
is gonna play Rondo. They're all gonna play. Ahead says,
if something happens and a guy gets sick, or a
guy can't play, or there's an injury, all right, then
we can give j R. Smith some minutes. I really
don't see this as being anything where he affects the
the game or the restart, except it's j R. Smith.
So you know, somehow he's gonna find his way on
the court in the final minute of a tied playoff game.

(35:18):
I mean, maybe he's not gonna play at all, but
something he's gonna be on the court for the final
minute of a big playoff game that matters, and he's
gonna wind up taking a shot. I mean, just that
jersey on UH, and he's gonna run out there. No it,
It's been one we've been hoping for for the last
couple of weeks as we got ready for the restart. Uh.
I don't know that he plays any sort of meaningful minutes,

(35:42):
but he's a good, warm body, a veteran guy, and
a guy Lebron knows his tendencies, even if they are
sometimes bad. Twitter and out about a Fresco Mike at
Swollen Dumb. We'll love more on this and more on
Cam what's his true impact with the Patriots? That's next
on Fox. Be sure to hatch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm

(36:04):
Eastern seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
I Heart Radio app. Greetings and welcome inside our two
of the program, The Jason Smith Show with My bast
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Geiko Studios. As the
last forty eight hours, it's been well, no one's talking

(36:27):
about Cam Newton. Cam Newton was never to be found.
We talked more about Jadavean Clowney. Why can't he find
a home? Cam Newton was nowhere? Cam Newton nowhere, nowhere, nowhere, nowhere.
Then Sunday the Patriots signed Cam Newton and suddenly it's
you know, how far can Cam Newton take the Patriots?
Can Cam Newton take the Patriots to the playoffs? And

(36:48):
it's like everybody just forgot that he was someone that
nobody wanted and the only team to make him an
offer was the Patriots. The Browns did a little bit
of of sniffing around, there was no offer made, which
maybe tell you what the Browns think about Baker Mayfield.
If something happens at Baker Mayfield stinks how quick is
the hook gonna be on him this coming season? But

(37:09):
the Patriots say, all right, let's go get Cam Newton,
And then today I might feed my Carmen. It's like
everybody on social media since Cam Newton signed was showing
like his greatest plays of his career, Cam Newton's had
many great plays, right, many great plays, and it would
and invariably the posting would be like this, if Cam

(37:30):
Newton can do something like this from his m v
P season, the Patriots are going to the super Bowl,
and it's some great Cam Newton play where either he
shrugs off the tackler and throws for a first down
or you know, runs for a big first down and dives.
And you know, look at this at Cam Newton. You
know I'll play like this in the Patriots offense. This
is from if Cam can do this, watch out and

(37:52):
every posting I'm saying to myself, everybody's just ignored. They
want to ignore that. They think that by posting his
best of this mean this is the player Cam Newton is.
You know, I can post you know, some of Dwight
Gooden's best games for the Mets, you know, back in
nineteen eighties. Six doesn't mean he can throw the bakes
ball like that now, I mean I could post Hey,
remember when Matt Harvey did this back in twenty Remember

(38:13):
how great Matt Harvey was. Boy, if the Mets would
sign him back again, he could be this great again. Well,
it's not it's not in his And there's a reason
why Cam Newton was out. There's a reason why nobody
signed him. There's a reason why any other team could
have had him, and nobody gave him an offer. And
here are the Patriots who make Cam Newton offer. And

(38:35):
it's a good move for the Patriots because I like it.
And we'll get into why, but let's just understand that
you're not getting Cam Newton of two thousand and fifteen.
You're not getting that guy. You're getting Cam Newton, who,
for the past three or four years has been an
average quarterback, whose quarterback rating has been below average for
the past four years, who's throwing sixty five touchdowns and

(38:58):
forty three picks right His oh we're all one lost
record is five hundred. This is not the Cam Newton
of It is a different Cam Newton that has not
been as good. That is, oh, by the way, coming
off an injury, losing his job to Kyle Allen, hasn't
played in a while, has to learn a new offense.
I don't think suddenly this is gonna be boy. If

(39:18):
I just put video of Cam Newton from the past on,
this means he's gonna be great. You can't just wave
a magic wand to do it. But I think people
think that's actually gonna happen in New England. That doesn't matter.
But we could put magic up because Belichick can do it.
He can wave a magic want to turn Cam Newton
back into a great quarterback? No, it's it's it's a
low risk. And I, like I said, I like the move.
But to think that Cam Newton suddenly already just gonna

(39:40):
be great just because and that's what I'm getting fair,
It just because why why is he been great? Because
he used to be great? Okay, but he's not great now,
but he used to be great. You know, I used
to be able to stay up until four o'clock in
the morning, get up in the morning at seven o'clock
and go to work all day, not need a nap,
and be great and go out drinking all night. I
can't do that anymore because I'm in my forties. I'm
in my late forties. I used to be able to
do that, but now I can't. And it's just because

(40:02):
I can remember those days doesn't mean I can do
it again. And that's the same thing for Cam Newton.
People think that's just magically gonna happen. You could throw
that speedball by let me tell you, Uh, life comes
at you fast. And and with Cam Newton, people are
doing the same thing. And as they've done with the
analysis of Colin Kaepernick, right of well remember him at

(40:24):
his best, like, okay, we will stipulate to that. And
when it was good, it was very good. A lot
of time has passed. Now Kaepernick doesn't have the physical
beating applied to him that Cam Newton hasn't. As we
talked with Jason Cole, I mean, think about the hundred
carry seasons seven times. I mean the average a hundred

(40:47):
four per season thus far in his NFL career, not
to mention the number of sacks and other hits that
he's taken along the way. So there's a beating that
shoulder that though there were six and two, the shoulder
injury sidelines him and then the Liz Frank injury. So
is he gonna be able to run like he used to?
We know he's in the gym and he's yoked up,

(41:07):
and we've heard the we've seen the different videos and
we've heard the accompanying soundtrack. So all good things there,
but the reality is you have no idea what you're
gonna get, So an incentive laden deal sure rolled the
dice as a wered, but this would go to show
me that on any of the data that got put

(41:27):
out by people that examined him, there was nothing on
there that was remotely close to him being Cam Newton
vintage right. And so I love the optimism. I'm intrigued
by it. I wish I had been sitting on a
stack of Cam Newton rookie cards because they quadrupled in
value in twenty four hours since this news came out.

(41:50):
I had the Bill Belichick effect. What can I say?
You're immediately penciled into a deep playoff run. But it's
certainly the reaction. Look the were underwent up point five right,
half a game for Cam Newton upon his arrival. That
gives him nine and a half win Smith. It's not
the world beating, although it's better than the Jets. Now

(42:11):
look here, here, look, here's here. Here's the truth. I'll
tell you. The truth about Cam Newton is that it's
a good move for New England because it's a freebee.
If he doesn't even make it to the season, you
can let him go. You didn't invest anything remotely worth it.
You can't just say, all right, well boy, we're looking embarrassed.
We gottagg on our faces of Cam Newton camp play
it's a free Maybe Cam Newton shows up and just

(42:32):
maybe he gets in the way back machine and catches
lightning in a bottle and whatever cliche you want to
throw in there, and Cam Newton is good and suddenly, boy,
the Patriots can pat themselves on the back. And if not,
the Patriots they shrug their shoulders and go, well, we
thought it, But Cam's done. And what's the what's the
overwhelming opinion going to be in the NFL? Well, Cam
must be done. If Belichick couldn't turn him back into

(42:53):
who he was, he must be done. And no one's
gonna say, hai. If the Jets signed Cam Newton or
the Lions signed Cam Newton or the Raiders signed Cam
Newton and he was bad and couldn't make it to
Week one, everybody would just laugh and laugh and laugh
and look you side, Cam new Da Da da da.
But the Patriots, because of the reputation they have, they
signed Caminets. Oh if they couldn't turn him into a winner,

(43:16):
and nobody else can, sway must really be done. Alright,
So just realized that that's kind of where it's at.
Not every move the Patriots make is look how smart
Bill Belichick is. He's ten times smarter than everybody else.
Sometimes it's just alright, why not, alright, you know, why not,
let's go to Cam Newton? Alright. The big thing it
tells me is that they've been lying to us all
along about Jared Stidham. We have been lied to because

(43:40):
why would you bring in a guy who's a big
personality that players are gonna want to see start because
they they've seen Cam Newton, he is a known commodity.
They still love stars in their eyes with Cam. Jared
Sidham is a young guy that's supposed to come in
and try to win the job. Do you want to
do that to a young quarterback and make him look
over his shoulder at the charismatic you know, former star

(44:01):
backup who people really have a strong desire to see
on the field. Why would you do that to the guy?
I don't think the Patriots would do that to him
because they've never done it before. They brought Tom Brady
along very slowly. They put him in when they thought
he had a chance to win the job. All right.
They did the same thing with with Brady and and
with Jimmy Garoppolo. We're gonna bring him along slowly. He's
playing when Brady is hurt. We're gonna slowly give him

(44:22):
a chance. He's gonna be the guy. They're not someone
who's gonna take somebody just throw him right in there
just because. So if Jared Sidham really was ready, really
was the guy, you would not see them make any
moves and Sindham would go in as the quarterback. So
this tells me it's just well, okay, they you know,
maybe something happened or something changed, there was some kind
of philosophical change, and suddenly it went from Jared Sidham

(44:43):
is the guy, and look at all these articles the
offseason about how great he's gonna be, and you watch
and now the Patriots go and bring in the guy
who is gonna make Stidham look over his shoulder or
could potentially beat him out. So all this great stuff
about how great Stidham is now you look at and
go by. That was a snow job. Yeah, they were
snowing us with that. I think there's still a lot
of like of him in the organization because it's not

(45:06):
just the Patriots beat reporters that have been saying that
in terms of the the stidhum love and what they've
seen from practices and going back to last year's training camp,
there's some excitement about him. But you've got an opportunity
to bring in Newton. The North Turner was going and
banging the drum about how Cam, if right, is the

(45:29):
right fit for what maybe Josh McDaniels wants to do. Right,
you don't no longer have a necessarily the statue s
Tom Brady there, and even if Cam's not a hundred
percent of what Cam is at his finest, he'll still
tuck the ball and run. You can still actually call
goal line plays. Again, I look, I look over at you, Indianapolis.

(45:51):
You've got a quarterback now that you've got to have
a lot of different play calls that on the fourth
down and fourth and one or third and short because
quarterbacks not taking it, Philip. But with Cam you can
change up the offense those guys. Maybe you get a
little more Yak opportunities with these wide receivers that aren't
world beaters in New England, maybe more game break kind

(46:15):
of opportunities for the kill, Harry, It's all wishing and
hoping until we get on the field because we have
no idea. What can is nothing else. He applies pressure
and forces stid him to grow, right, and if he folds,
he's not your guy, right if he goes. Yeah, but
you still wanted to be where. You want to put

(46:36):
a guy in a positive frame of mind, to get
all the reps to not have to worry about guys
in the locker room saying, boy, they really like to
see Cam Newton in there. It's not about competition as
it is as much about You're brought in somebody who
really could could stunt his growth, you know, because of
how big a personality Cam Newton is. And and that's
the thing is, you know, Cam still gonna be Cam.

(46:56):
He's gonna come in. You think suddenly he's gonna just
not say anything and just be that guy and and
and do live the Patriots way of life. No, he's
still gonna be Cam Newton. So it's it's different and
bringing in competition. It's different bringing in Nick Foles than
it is bringing in Cam Newton because Nick Foles is
someone look for the bearster biscuits. Okay, dude, if you
don't straighten up. We got a guy that's won the

(47:17):
Super Bowl here. Yeah, he's not had the greatest track
record when he's been in an accomplished starter for a
long time, but we know what he can do. The
pressure is on you. We need to see you perform
or we'll go to him. With Cam Newton, it's we
just brought in a guy that went to the super Bowl,
all right, and you know you can you know, you
think whatever you want, but you know the type of
personality and and and the type of image he has

(47:37):
and what people think of him. I think it's different.
You know, when when you talk about bringing in a
guy who could potentially play if he has to, if
you stink, versus here's a guy that could just come
in and take your job. Well, I think with Cam,
at least from the outset, it's the he's got to
prove that he's healthy, he can get through the paces.
That's gonna be part one. And when are we gonna

(47:57):
be able to see that live? I know there was
that great little video making its round. Even Madeline on
TikTok sawed at least three times of Cam Newton going
to throw a ball and goes one of my Tom
Brady because it was a little bit flat. Ah see
see what he did there that was funny or unless
it wasn't, but either way, it's making its round in
the kids world there, so they at least have some

(48:19):
more knowledge of Cam Newton and his prowess like the
Bears right now. I don't know how many poison pens
were out as soon as this news hit yesterday, given
what they'd uh conceded in a trade to acquire Nick Foles.
So there's a lot of anger, but you still have
a guy that comes in healthy to fight Trabsky for

(48:39):
the job versus maybe a guy in Cam that physically
just doesn't get there. Man, it remains to be seen.
Like I said, they didn't make any huge moves on
anything in Vegas, so I think some of the expectations
are are very little at least out of the gate here.
But I'm I'm all for the competition and the push
in the locker room, and if it shows anything that

(49:01):
any talk that the Patriots were gonna give away twenty
was rubbish. I got the word rubbish in so they
said rubbish, You said rubbish, right, But because that had
become the you know, popular, popular thing of they're just
working to get the number one or two pick for
next year. It's like, no, I mean, they're still working,

(49:22):
still trying to find pieces, still trying to advance. And
let's face it, it's still the Dolphins, Jets, and Bills.
No matter what strides they've made, until they've gone gotten over,
it's still questionable. You know, Look, we'll go we'll go
over where he's going to affect their wins and losses
later on this hour, because look, this is to think

(49:44):
the Patriots not gonna suddenly falling be a four and
twelve team. It's not gonna happen. There are there really
gonna be two and fourteen and suddenly hey Trevor Lawrence,
all right, yeah, ah, we poll all of you. Now
we got Trevor Lawrence. No, the Patriots are going to
be a team that you know before Cam Newton, We're
gonna be a round five hundred and we're going to
be in the thick of the a f C East

(50:04):
race for the majority of the season because look at
the Bills. Go in is the favorite, and they should
because on paper they're the best team. But are the
Bills a twelve or thirteen win team. No, you know,
are the Bills a ten win team? Maybe? Yeah, so
you're five hundred, you're gonna be there. I fully expect
the Patriots to be in the thick of the race,
but you can't ignore the talent that's left the building.
It's been a lot of talent. And if you had

(50:25):
a choice between Tom Brady and Cam Newton be in
your quarterback in thee everybody who'd want Tom Brady because
Tom Brady has performed great more recently than Cam Newton has.
Because the injury is a big part of it, and
getting back to who he is and all the hits
he has taken and how he's been beat up. Look,
I've told you from the beginning, Cam Newton's prime is
gonna end very quickly because of the physicality that's afforded

(50:47):
him at this position, because of all the runs he's
had to make, all the physical plays he's had to make,
the pounding he has taken his He's a bigger guy
as well, So you know his prime was gonna end
a little bit sooner. Thirty thirty one was gonna be it.
Now here's Cam Newton thirty and he's really on his
last chance, because if he can't make the Patriots, as
somebody else gonna sign him, not gonna happen. He'll get
cut and that's gonna be it for Cam Newton. I

(51:08):
don't like Cam has anything left because if Belichia couldn't
get anything from him, nobody else can. But right now
you would say, okay, Tom Brady over Cam Newton. But
the Patriots kicked Tom Brady to the door because they
wanted to move on. So here's Cam. It's it's it's
hard for me to think that suddenly Cam is going
to just be great again, just be cause and will

(51:30):
he be? I don't even know if I could say
there's a better chance of him leading the team to
the playoffs or a better chance that he's not on
the roster week one, because if I had to take
one of the other, that's a tough choice. Right would
you rather him take that he leads the You gotta
bet he either leads the Patriots to the playoffs or
he's not on the roster week one. I would bet
not on the roster week one before I bet taken

(51:50):
to the playoffs? Is he gonna play? Question? You know
I should put that up. There's a poll question. Maybe
that's a that's a good idea. Mike Harmen, Well, you
know what I have quite often just listen, Uh believe
me when I pat myself on on the back here,
I think when it comes down to Cam Newton here, look,

(52:10):
I'm hoping we get the best of Cam because when
he's he's right and healthy, there's nobody more fun to
watch at the position. All right, probably Mahomes and Jackson
are up there with him now, but but Cam has
been a NonStop highlight reel coming into his you know,
throughout his career, he's been amazing. So if we can

(52:32):
get him right, and especially because he's not the Patriots,
which means every Monday you'll be in here griping about
what Cam Newton became, So that would be more fun
and delicious theater for the rest of us and for
all of America. Not to mention the between two Ferns
segments that he'll be doing with smoking a cigar and
drinking a glass of wine while telling you about the
play calling. I mean, all of that is great. I

(52:55):
hope to see him at his best, and I hope
that foot's healed and ready to go. The fact that
it's June twenty before he gets onto a roster. Leaves
me to believe that there's still some healing to be done.
But for now I'll go with the he's helping lead
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com today to start your job fast getting his zone
auto Zone. So Mike and I on opposite sides right
now of Cam Newton, Twitter at Alberta Fresca, Mike at
Swollen Dome phone umbers eight seven seven on Fox. We
got more on Cam coming. But this fairly big story
out of Major League Baseball that we thought, okay, this

(53:59):
is fairly big is getting bigger and bigger after what
an MLB All star just tweeted out about the restart
this season. We have that story coming up next. This
is Fox. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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(54:20):
I Heart Radio app Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harman Live from the Geico Studios. So
I told you, my Carmen that um you know here
has always been obsessed with the Mission Impossible movies the
past few weeks. Been watching all of them. You've seen
every single one multiple times now, including Mission Impossible too,

(54:42):
which was clearly the worst one out of all the films. Yeah,
you keep saying you're gonna call uh all these federal
and state agencies on me. Mission Impossible is an abomination?
What do you do? What is what an abombination? What
is what is wrong with you? What happened to you?
Take your what happen? I'm saying for where you should

(55:02):
be taking the ten eleven year old young Zoe on
a on a magic movie ride. That's not it, man,
That's how impossible. It's It's incredibly fun. And Tom Cruise
does his own stunts to the point where I can't
believe anybody ensures his movies, nor should they. Wow, he's

(55:23):
gonna shoot a movie in space coming up soon, Imnational Space.
I'm sure that's gonna be mitching impossible. Nine, He's gonna
be in space. At some point, you're done hand over
the fake faces to other people and let's run with it.
It's gonna be sixty years old fighting Jason Vorhees in space.
That's gonna be the movie. It's gonna be awesome. Are

(55:44):
you kidding? But now she's into the Oceans movies and
she's seen eleven, twelve and thirteen, and thirteen is her favorite.
But right now, I walked into the other room, I said,
what do you guys doing this? Oh my god, we're
just watching Oceans eight. I said, oh, you're gonna love
Oceans eight. And she's already asked me about all the
different people in it, Kate Blanchett, and then you know,
she was in four and all this stuff, and it's
just now she's got all the all the Oceans eight

(56:06):
questions that are going So now this is gonna be
the next obsession. Now as Oceans eight, you're really advancing
the narrative on the movies pretty fast there. Well, she
actually asked me who Billy Martin was, because that was
you know, one of the funniest parts Oceans thirteen when
the the Billy Martin's the the con they pull and
and and Alpacini goes, what's that of Billy Martin? And
she goes, always says, dad, what's that Billy Martin? I said, Well,

(56:27):
let me tell you about Bill. Billy Martin was a
very famous manager for the New York Yankees in the
ais and the old Miller light adds, let me get
this slide up for you. Here here is as manager
of the Texas Rangers, catching back then in the nineteen seventies.
Look here, look here, look here. You asked me. You
asked me all right here in nineteen seventies six. Uh So,

(56:47):
you know now I'd explained to her who Billy Martin was.
Why did that guy keep hiring and firing you, Well,
that's the why didn't they just say they were done
with each other? As Billy Martin, I got one chance
to I get a second chance, I'm not gonna take it.
Uh So that's you know, so I didn't know that
that's where it would go. But I got to actually
talk about Billy Martin. That's pretty impressive. Didn't think I'd

(57:09):
have that kind of conversation. Yeah, my daughters are roping
me into some show called Lock and Key. Lock and Key, Okay,
lock and Key, so a little supernatural stuff. The the
key house, so they've got all these magical keys. There's
a creepy woman in the well. She's hot, but a
creepy woman in the well. Then you know, plays mind

(57:31):
games with people. So it's it's interesting. Okay, oh that's
the that's the one way. Wait, that's the Stephen King's Kid, right,
the comic book that he wrote. I think that's what
it is. That's it's based on that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
pretty good. We're in the middle of the third episode.
They go about forty eight minutes long each there, uh,
their next level. Man, there's a good creep creep effect

(57:53):
going on there. How how scary is it? Is it
really scary? No? I mean there's just a couple of
scenes that if you if you're really two locked into it,
you're probably pulling back. I saw both the girls kind
of recoil a little bit, plant playing tricks on you.
A lot of it's mind games. You can sing the

(58:13):
John Lennon song. If you need you, I'm actually writing
that down, lock and key right there, writing that down. Uh,
everybody's talking about revolution. Uh. So we brought you the
story at the top of the show tonight about various
Major League Baseball and NBA players who won't be taking
part in the restarts of the two sports and Major

(58:34):
League Baseball. Earlier today, it was Mike Leak picture Ryan
Zimmerman saying we are not going to take part in
the restart because they have coronavirus concerns. Meanwhile, in the NBA,
Spencer Dinwiddie DeAndre Jordan's teammates with the Nets, both test
positive for COVID nineteen. DeAndre Jordan's says I'm not going

(58:55):
to be playing in Orlando at all. No matter what
he says, I'm done. I'm out, So all good thoughts
to him. Hopefully DeAndre Jordan's gonna, you know, come through
this okay. But you know, it's really weird to say, hey,
I tested positive. I'm not going So hopefully he is okay.
The fact that he is tweeting tells me, all right,
you know he's okay, But just hey, I have this.
It's not worth it because look, DeAndre Jordan's made a

(59:16):
lot of money in his NBA career for him to go,
I understand athletes who are like, you know what, I
don't get it because I completely understand Spencer Dinwood. He
says he's not sure if he's going to come back.
Fred van Vleet says he doesn't know why they're playing basketball.
There's many things they should be doing. There's concerns for coronavirus,
there's concerns for social justice reform. But he's going to

(59:37):
play because listen, I'm a basketball player and everybody plays.
So you're seeing this and you're seeing players who are
going to be nervous. And one of the points we
made at the top of the show was that this
is a very big hand holding time now for the
sports because it's a very critical and crucial week because
of the way the coronavirus is exploding in states. To
make sure players feel safe, because bottom line, if the

(01:00:00):
players don't feel safe, they're not gonna go. If they
get there and they don't feel safe, they're not gonna play.
You're not gonna put ussure and push it forward just
because baseball wants to play. Players are gonna say I'm
not doing it. You know, we can see that in
certain parts of the country where certain states were pushing
to reopen, pushing even though you're not doing it safely,
We're pushing to do it. That happens. But athletes, they're

(01:00:22):
gonna say stop, we're not playing. Now. You want to
add to this. Ian Desmond former All Star and right
now he plays for the Rockies. And Ian Desmond has
been a big name in Major League Baseball for a
long time, and he put out a tweet not too
long ago that says he is not going to take
part in the restart for Major League Baseball. I'm gonna

(01:00:45):
read you from his tweet and tell you and and
read you the exact reasons why Ian Desmond says he
is not going to play when baseball starts. Think about
it right now, and now it's a long tweet. I'm
gonna I'm gonna give you the greatest this is. I'm gonna, yeah,
I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you the things
you need to know on this. Uh. And I'm not

(01:01:07):
taking anything out anything out of context. This is not
gonna be anything. Oh, you didn't say this part. I've
looked through it and I'm giving you this the stuff
that to to consume from this. Think about it right now.
In baseball, we've got a labor war, We've got rampant
individualism on the field in clubhouses, We've got racist, sexist,
homophobic jokes or flat out problems. We've got cheating. We've

(01:01:30):
got a minority issue from the top down. One African
American GM to African American managers, less than eight percent
black players, no black majority team owners. Perhaps most disheartening
of all is a puzzling lack of focus on understanding
how to change those numbers. A lack of focus on
making baseball accessible and possible for all kids, not just

(01:01:51):
those who are privileged enough to afford it. If baseball
is America's pastime, maybe it's never been a more fitting one.
Then now those are pretty strong words. He also goes
on to talk about COVID nineteen. The COVID nineteen pandemic
has made this baseball season one that is a risk
I am not comfortable taking. But that doesn't mean I'm

(01:02:12):
leaving baseball behind for the year. I'll be right here
at my old little league and working with everyone involved
to make sure we get Sarah Sota youth baseball back
on track. It's what I can do in the scheme
of so much. So I am with a pregnant wife
and four young children who have lots of questions about
what's going on in the world. Home is where I
need to be right now. So this is everything Ian
Desmond has said in a long Instagram posting COVID nineteen.

(01:02:35):
He's got concerns, pregnant wife, a lot, you know, he's
got four other young children. He's not happy with what's
going on in baseball right now. He pretty much gave
the greatest hits list himself of all the problems baseball has.
And hey, if baseball's America's past time, it's never been
a more fitting one than it is now. So these
are the reasons Ian Desmond is not playing in Major

(01:02:56):
League baseball for the restart. Now take a step back first.
I can as you digest all of this, because these
are all good points that Ian Desmond makes. Now. Ian
Desmond someone that's made a decent amount of money in
his major league baseball career. He has made a lot
and there is that to be said for players who
have made a lot of money versus players who haven't,
and you know, I really need to play this year

(01:03:17):
because you know, I don't have the bank that you
guys have. So that is part of it, and I
understand that part of it. That's you know that they
say to the victors, go the spoils to the guys
that have made a lot of money. I understand that. Well,
you know what, family is more important. I already have
the money. That's just a normal thing in life. If
you have the money, you don't need to do more things.
Other players need to do this. Ian Desmond has made

(01:03:38):
a bunch of money throughout his MLB career, so clearly
he can do this and not go for two months.
All of these things are right about Major League Baseball.
He is correct about this with all the all the
issues going on, Look Baseball, it took him so long
to get together on things where they finally, you know,
force things to happen with the sixty game season. But

(01:03:58):
seeing him say, seeing him talk about COVID nineteen as well,
I have my wife is pregnant, I got four kids coming.
This is not a time for me to be away
from home. If COVID nineteen wasn't going on, Ian Desmond
would still be there. You know of all the things
going on. I don't believe he is sitting out because
of the issues he has in baseball, because when you're
a baseball player, how do you solve these issues by

(01:04:22):
playing and being a voice that people pay attention to.
It's the the old adage of of hey, when when
you're actually doing something, people pay more attention to you.
It's why the NBA players were much more beneficial of
getting their social justice message out when they're playing than
when you're not, because you have people watching you. Ian Desmond,
non baseball player, is not going to have as many
people watching him as Ian Desmond baseball player would be

(01:04:45):
when he can talk to the media and have interviews
after games and talk to anybody and say this is
a problem, this is it, let's do this, let's do this.
Sitting at home, you don't quite have that. So I
I really looking at this entire posting if if if
we were coronavirus free and there was something else, that
he would be going to play. I but the fact
that you have a you have a young family, you

(01:05:06):
have a wife with a baby. I can see Ian
Desmond not going and I that that, to me is
the real reason why so I think you can put
him in the in the category of, hey, he's not
going for coronavirus, but I also want to draw my
attention to these issues that we need to do better
on baseball on So I think that's that's kind of
where it lies more for Ian Desmond on this, Yeah,

(01:05:27):
he's he's got both both things work and uh starts
it by saying, hey, you know, as a by bi
racial man, here's my experience, and goes deep into his
time growing up on the fields in Sara Sota before
making the push to the major leagues. I'll retweet it
as well at Swollndome. I mean it's it's pretty powerful essay, uh,
and and very thoughtful of in his approach to make

(01:05:49):
sure you know, he he gave you as best a
picture of what was going on in his mind as
he made the decision. And yeah, COVID nineteen. When you've
got a pregnant wife, it goes back to, you know,
talking about Ryan'simmerman a little bit earlier, three week old
at home and a mom with m S. I mean,
you add those to it, you certainly understand the rationale.

(01:06:11):
And he's getting a big response from fellow players Bryce
Harper among them, you know, saying hey, I love you
and all of that. You know, so outpouring of support.
But it's gonna be curious over these next couple of days, right,
and in theory, the deadline has passed for folks to
have made their decision, but as they get ready to

(01:06:31):
roll back up into their facilities, maybe one last family
gathering or around the table to talk things out and
enough to say, hey, I need to sit this one out.
And there's no guarantees for some of these guys that
they're coming back if they opt out, right, some of
them they're there towards the end of their runs or

(01:06:53):
we're free agents to be so you know, you'll see
what kind of market shapes up for them come one.
By talking about the Sarah Sota Little League and the
disrepair of the fields and all of that, it's it's
something we've watched a number of players put time and
money into UH during their careers, and here's a an

(01:07:14):
optimum time for him to step out and try to
do the same. Yeah. Look, if you can see that
family being as important as it is to him, I
want to stay around my family. I still want to
do things and stay busy. But it's not worth it
to me for two months? Is that when we're probably
not gonna win anyway, and I'm going for two months?
It's not worth it. It's it's And and look, if

(01:07:36):
he was if he was young and single, if he
was younger and hadn't made big money yet and needed
to make the you know, three million dollars or two
moor whatever was, then he'd probably go. But you can't.
I mean, look, just because he's in the position to
make that decision, isn't something you can you can you know,
ding him for and say, Oh, if you don't have money,
you wouldn't go. Well, that's the whole thing about having money.

(01:07:56):
It it helps, you know, it helps the situation. Everybody
wants options and help. Look, they they they they always
say this is a big uh saying I believe in
about money? Is it? Money doesn't buy you happiness, but
it can buy off unhappiness. And you know is is
is Ian Desmond has money? You know that he's made
throughout his career. Uh, is this gonna make him happy? No,

(01:08:19):
He's not gonna be incredibly happy not playing baseball, But
will he really be what? What is he going to
be more. He'd be more unhappy if he left his
family and left to go play, right, I'm more unhappy
if I left and I leave them at home, and
then I'm not happy. But because so, because I I'm
able to do this, you know, hey, it helps me
not be as unhappy and I can try to do

(01:08:39):
something positive here because I'm I'm not gonna anybody that
says that is that is concerned about COVID nineteen. I
completely get it, man, I mean, I completely understand why
people are saying they're not going and not going to play.
And there's gonna be more people like Ian Desmond, Uh,
maybe more people by the end of the show. You know,
Ian Desmond was in the time we started when we
started the show until we got to a few minutes ago.

(01:09:00):
So you never can tell. Right comes at you fast,
A really big story we're continuing on here again, Ian
Desmond the latest player UH to not return for the
baseball season. We got more coming up and ninety. But first,
be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with

(01:09:23):
My Best Friend Mike Harmen live from the Geico Studios,
and now we're gonna have more on players who are
backing out of NBA and MLB restarts coming up in
a few minutes. My boy, do I have a conspiracy
theory for you here in Mike Harmon. You're ready for this? Oh?
I can't wait to hear it all right now, it's

(01:09:44):
kind of shocking that we saw over the weekend Cam
Newton get signed by the Patriots and what was it?
Nine minutes later the story breaks that the Patriots get
fined a draft pick in over a million dollars because
if you remember the story from last all when they
were shooting the Bengal sideline uh in direct violation of

(01:10:05):
NFL rules during a game. And for the one team
that can't get caught shooting someone sideline, it's the Patriots
considering spygate. Uh. Nine minutes separated the signing of Cam
Newton from that story getting out. So I'm gonna give
you a great conspiracy theory before I give you a
big point on this UH percentage? Chance you think the

(01:10:25):
Patriots just signed Cam Newton to make that story be
story b C D. Hey, the Patriots signed Cam Newton
paying no attention to the fact we got fined for
shooting another team sideline again, which you know, hey, guy
us a little bit of trouble a few years ago.
Percentage chance that's the truth. Eight maybe higher, But genius nonetheless,

(01:10:50):
isn't it. What can we do? We're gonna look awful. Hey,
we'll sign Cam Newton. What do we gotta give him
a minimum deal? Okay? Does anyone care about this at
this point? Right? It's a million dollars, it's a third
round pick, and you say, yeah, put it on the
list of things that have been done. I bet you
if you had pulled a hundred football fans and people

(01:11:12):
that said, yeah, I bleed for team X, Y or Z,
they had no no memory of this ever happening. Uh No,
I think people would not know until you remind them.
I think that's that's what I mean. Like you just
people would not know anything about being investigated for anything.
They'd probably look at you like, you know, but remember

(01:11:32):
when they're supposed to they were shooting the Bengal side
that oh yes, I remember that, and it would be
it would be a situation like that, that's how people
would remember, you know, this story Oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah,
they were shooting the sideline again when they weren't supposed to. Look,
if this doesn't tell you that New England hasn't been
doing anything else either right up against the rules or

(01:11:52):
against it the past dozen years after Spygate, I mean,
what what more evidence do you need? All right? Do
you really think that Patriots stopped that spy gate? They
stopped the flake gate. They stopped here. They are there,
their video component, their video arm of the organization, is
shooting the team sideline. Why are they shooting the sideline.
They don't have permission to. They shouldn't be doing it.

(01:12:13):
They could have shut it down whenever they wanted to. No, no, no,
they were shooting video of the sideline. Again. The Patriots
dynasty that is getting into two full decades. No other
team in the history of the NFL has been able
to do this. No other team has been good every
single year, even the rest of the best of the
best teams have a down year now and again. They

(01:12:34):
don't have a good year in free agency, they don't
have a good year in the draft. Doesn't matter. Every year,
the Patriots winning the a f C East above five
hundred going onto the playoffs, winning the Super Bowl every
three years. You're telling me they're not doing something that
they haven't been doing other things, that it was just
spy gate, O, it was just to flake it. No,
you can't. You can't tell me that there weren't other

(01:12:55):
things that have been going that we probably don't even
know about, that they have been doing to get us
to get more information. And we know they're still shooting
video because it just got caught for it again. Yeah,
but I think it just goes back to the old
adage of every team is is is in action, you know,
the older If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying from
stick them in all of those fun pieces back They're trying.

(01:13:18):
They're really trying. We are really trying. But it becomes
the all right, you've now become the the poster children
for this and every subsequent act, no matter how silly,
like deflate gate, which is still one of the most
clownish things that they've ever done. If you want to
talk about a revenge, makeup call for punishments, I mean

(01:13:39):
that was it. Because how many p s I readings
have you seen out of NFL games over the last
couple of years. Smith don't They started every every game
with that. Here's the p s I Readings of the football, right,
they still do that. I see that in every game.
I want over the place. It is so well well
pushed forth that because it was so huge a factor.
Brent looking live at the p s I Readings of

(01:14:03):
the football. Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers, Hey, can I have it
as like a beach ball? Twitter At about a Fresco?
Mike gets swollen dumb. I'm telling you they're still doing stuff.
They've always been. It's how they've been doing it for
this LA fan. This good twitter At, how about a Fresca?
Mike get swollen? Dome? Why this week is absolutely huge

(01:14:23):
in sports restarts coming up next Fox, be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hate
that song. Greetings and welcome inside The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the Geico Studios.

(01:14:47):
We get set for our three of the show. We'll
talk a little. Benny mardonis coming up this at the
legend passed away earlier today, He had been in ill
health Into the night. One of the great songs of
all time. No no better song to sing when you
are out late at night by yourself driving a car

(01:15:08):
and you just really want to feel like belting it
out and look, man, it do the n Benny Mark,
you hit the high notes. She's just sixteen years old. Yeah,
that's problem, they say, why I do? Fine, that's how

(01:15:31):
the song begins. Yeah, that's how the song begins. That's
how the song starts. To back. It's listen Benny Mark,
listen to Benny Mardonis that was? That was a big song?
Do you get married at eighteen to? No? Sounds like it? Oh? No,
no it that Listen that's how the song goes. I
don't know if I want to listen anymore. It's it's

(01:15:52):
it's a really big. First of all, it's a really
big song. Secondly, it everywhere into that You found it
really fast, didn't you. It's me two hours and you
wanted me to play at the start. The only thing
to what it had been tough is you having to
spell his name? Is that Benny with two ends? Or
has that been like Benny with the Jets, Benny and
the Jets that was with the Benny and the Jets.

(01:16:14):
Why wouldn't be And I thought they're together. It's Benny
and the Jets. No, it's not Benny with if anything
could be the Jets with Benny. No, it's it's Benny
and the Jets. I don't believe it. Many and the Jets,
Many and the Jets, not Benny with the Jets, not Benny. Besides,
the Jets, not Benny with a little bit of the Jets.
It's it's just Benny and the Jets. That's how the

(01:16:36):
song goes. What about Benny with the sign of Jets.
No no, no side there's no side of nothing, no,
no no. And I had a cafe and have something
on the men you call Benny with a side Jet,
I would t j What would you call a very
famous English comedian and a really bad football team Benny
and the Jets t j um so like and we

(01:17:00):
have a little bit more into the night in it'll
get little more into the night. He was listen. He
was from Syracuse, Penny mordonas he went to all the
same late night places I'd like to go to, like
in his in his oh bit today. Uh, that was
all over the place. You know, like Into the Night
was a huge hit in the late eighties and you
still hear it on the radio today. Uh. He used
to go to this place called the Little Jim Diner,

(01:17:21):
and he used to like he used to eat this,
like pepperoni and sausage and cheese. I'm what they had there,
And I go, I've been a Little Jim Diner plenty
of times, and he's you know, it's all about how
he used to go in there all the time, and
oh my god, I used to go to the same place.
You know what It's like, remember the diner and Superman
two when he gets beaten up doesn't have when he
gets beaten up, doesn't have his powers anymore. That's kind

(01:17:43):
of a Little Jim Diner was like, I've been there
many times. I felt I feel a kinship. Well that's
pretty cool. I'm glad you're feeling that kind of commiseration
going on. There were Uh no, I was I was
like nineteen No, I had to be able to get
into bars sorr. I mean I was twenty one, twenty
one when I went twenty one when I went on

(01:18:05):
you know what Little Jim Dining. Really quick, I'll tell
you this story because I've never been able to tell
this story. Little Jim Diner the place where I heard
the worst pickup line that a girl used on me
that the other girl used. I'm not the other way around,
not the other way around, but that a girl used

(01:18:25):
on me probably three Look. Little Jim Dinner is one
of the places where at two thirty, when the when
the bars are closed, you go there for breakfast because
they're open. And that's why I went a Little Jim
Diner so many times. So one time I went my
best friend and I Jeff. We went. We're having a
great time and we run into somebody that he knows
as we were walking out of the diner and it
was this guy, Oh, how you doing? How you do it?

(01:18:47):
So I'm sitting there and it's him and he's he's
he's all, this is my girlfriend, and this is her friend,
you know, Stacy, and this is her friend, you know, Jeannette,
whatever name is. O. How you doing? How you doing?
And everybody no, no, no, but she had it going on.
No there and the two other girls that they were
not they were nicest and and everybody was just So
they're sitting there and I go high and I look
at the one girl. She kind of gives me a

(01:19:08):
double take and looks at me, and I'm like, oh, wow, okay,
it was just three thirty in the morning, and maybe
I'm meeting somebody and uh so where said? Everybody's talking
and the girl it looks at and she looks so
her friend. He goes introduced me to this guy. He
doesn't smell so bad. I go, really, just say that
I don't smell so bad. I'm like, all right, maybe

(01:19:30):
people didn't hear it or whatever. Everybody's talking, everybody's talking
over one another. I'm going, okay, maybe you know. And
then you know, like another minute goes by and she goes, hey,
introduced me to him. He doesn't smell so bad. And
I go and I'm looking like, is that like an
inside joke? Is everybody else laughing? And they're all kind
of looking at me, and I'm going she's saying, I
don't smell. Don't look at me like I smell. You

(01:19:53):
know what, Let's just guy, like, you know, let's just go,
let's just go. I was that really just put put
me right. I had to I had to leave, but
you didn't smell bad. That was a good I didn't
it was good. I mean because usually before I go out,
I'd like to take a shower, I put on deodorant,
some you know, put on some nice you know, put
on some Polo cologne or you know, whatever it is.

(01:20:13):
Then fresh dressed like a million bucks, and now I
go out. I always smell good. I didn't get all
sweaty in the cloud. I'm not sweaty. Guy there, dance man,
look at me, I'm all sweaty. Yeah. No, No, And
so we go back and this is after we had eaten.
That was probably feeling full. Uh so I probably wanted
to go home and go to sleep. But anyway, but
I don't know. I heard she doesn't smell so bad.
She said it twice, and I was like, uh, she

(01:20:35):
really meant it. I wanted. I wanted to sit and
continue to talk to you, but you've made it impossible.
But that's not just by saying that you smelled nice. No,
she didn't say you smell nice. That's different. That's different
because I you would tell somebody, hey, you smell really nice.
That perfume is nice, that cologne is nice. You know

(01:20:55):
that cherry deodorant you wear. You always put your arm
up me and go smell. Look how just cherry odor
and smells like, yes, Mike, it smells pretty good. You
know you did it to me all the time, and
that you know that's okay. But when you say, oh,
you don't smell so bad, means like, hey, everybody smells bad,
including this guy. But he doesn't smell as bad as
everybody else. But I think I'd like to think that
I'm a little bit more of a catch than that.

(01:21:17):
Nothing just well, he smells the best, which isn't really great,
but he smells better than all of you. And I,
you know, I wasn't feeling it. Why is the entry
way got to be so grand? I look, I couldn't
have been something as simple as I smell a little
a little better than the rest of these clowns guys
got no, But she didn't say I smelled good. It
was just I didn't smell as other people, didn't smell

(01:21:38):
as bad as other people. That's a start. No, I didn't.
That was a door opener. No, no, are you kidding?
That was one of those the door is open and
then it's closing again. I just I look, every look, everybody,
your sense. Eventual, I wanted to feel special. I was.
You didn't smell as I don't want to be just

(01:22:00):
any other dude. Everybody wants to be special. I wanted
to be special. I wouldn't. I didn't feel special, only
because what am I gonna do and say? She'd like you,
but you smell worse than me. He no, I wasn't.
No now now and also someone who says that I
don't know where my sense of adventure would have taken
me that night, I don't know. I mean we we

(01:22:20):
could have hung out for a while, gone back to
her place and partied, or she gonna taken me to
a bar where Samahayak dances everybody turns into vampires. I
don't know. He could have gone either way that night.
Either way you would have feeling good. But either way
you either had a short term win with the Somahia
situation or you might have had a long term win
with and this is as bad as he is. I wasn't.

(01:22:44):
I wasn't feeling that. I'm like, you know what, I
kind of want to see tomorrow. And I like adventure. Hey,
I like adventure as much as the next guy, especially
when I was young and single. Hey, that but that
night I felt like, oh no, this is I think.
I think I need to make a better decision here.
Now I feel like I need to start from dust
to talk. Uh. Now I want to see that scene.

(01:23:11):
I just want to see that scene with Samahayak again
because it'll just make sure the door's locked to the office.
You're no, I no, no, I look, I can easily
here's the thing is being in the office or closed.
Felt My family's where the towels my family, My family
is watching a movie. I can just easily get as
long as I keep the music on the computer down,

(01:23:31):
you know, I can still watch it whenever we're talking.
That's not the song. Why are we missing one sock
that's not the bunker is Edith Bunker is the one
that's inside. I don't know. How is your day? Don't
even know who Edith Bunker is? Why won't you shake
my hand? What? I don't know? That doesn't make any

(01:23:56):
sense to make it's better talking about a sixteen year
old Jason. Well, I'm just saying, Look Into the Night
was a huge hit. That's it look songs sometimes have
very serious overtones and undertones to it. I don't know
that was his signature. Song. It was a mega ballad

(01:24:16):
Into the night. It got me to pay attention. I'll
tell you that, you know. I mean, look, it was
it was a very big It was a soaring love song,
all right. Now, look it made it made you a
little bit uncomfortable. Um, but it was This is what
songs do, right, It's supposed to make you a a little
bit uncomfortable, all right. He said. The song was honestly
about a platonic relationship he had with a teenager whose

(01:24:42):
father had left her and he was looking after her,
and there was all these rumors and he was just
trying to help her. That's kind of where you know,
that's kind of where the story of the story came from.
That was the song I can't believe you? Wow? Can
you believe music hater? Music Alex Tysher If you classified
that as music, ja you are you are a music hater?

(01:25:04):
I can't believe you. Wow. That's that. Wow, that's really great?
Out did you turn this on me? Listen? You you
place you play songs that I go I don't even
know what this is just just on your Spotify lists
the top songs of our generation. Right, I'm gonna play
some of the B sides of Carly ray Jepson and
Hope You Really Like Them? Songs for a Generation, The

(01:25:28):
new number one album from Alex Tysher curated by d
J Alex sign the copies. Alright, alright, alright, I will
say you win this, Alex, if you could tell me
one thing. What's the name of Carly ray Jepson's big song,
Uh Bubba, Don't got gump? I want to hear that. No,

(01:25:52):
is that a song that's her number one? I don't know.
It sounds like a song that goes like, uh, where
did you come from? Where did you go? Ain't got
no gump? Hey, wait a minute, patting that that could
be the rerelease of the song right there, patting that.
That's a great idea. All right, So I win because
ty Shirt couldn't come up. That's unfair, now, you got it.

(01:26:14):
You had to come up with call Me. Maybe you
should have known call me maybe your seven dude, come
on when you were like hang on to eleven, like
when you were like nineteen, Call me maybe was like
the number one song in the world year Yes, yeah,
less a little bit less than that, not eight nine
years ago. Call me? Maybe it was probably was the

(01:26:35):
biggest song of the year it came out. I think
Zoe was like maybe three or four. I remember I'll
call me maybe easily. Yeah, dude, call me maybe was huge.
How did you not know this? Eleven? Well we better
hear in a couple of seconds, produced by Josh Ramsey,

(01:26:55):
I found the wish in the well. Don't ask me.
I couldn't tell Oh no, not this song. He doesn't
have a song, he said, not this song that we
don't have. I really thought he was gonna play Blondie.
I didn't want to play it with you. Call me
call me Yeah, this is it. Oh yeah, yeah, this

(01:27:16):
is I forgot about it. But now you're in my way.
Oh this is huge. Carl Ry Jepson's here and she's
like so much respected now, Like the album she's had
come out are like, oh my god. She's like the
Fiona Apple of Canada. If you wanna apples not Canadian
is she she's from here? Okay, uh that's what they
think of her. Boom, Hey, I just met you and

(01:27:38):
this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me. Mabe.
Into the Night was talking about Uh no, no, no, no,
it's not Into the night said you can also electrics.
You can also electric slide to this song. That's what
makes a song so good too. You can't electric slide,
but you can, sure you can. I doubt it. Two
different you know. I just wanted to spend a couple

(01:28:01):
of minutes talking about Benny mardonas who passed away. This
is what it turns a twitter at. How about a
fresco Mike gets swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmen Live from Geico Studios. Sometimes stuff like this happens,
and there it is and there it is. But coming
up next, we got more on Cam Newton the Patriots.
What kind of impact is he going to have on

(01:28:23):
their team this year? Record wise? We got more on
MLB and NBA players saying they don't want to come
back for the restart. We'll have that coming up next
right here. As you listen to Benny mardonas legend, rest
in peace, my friend, be sure to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at
ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Wow, you found an

(01:28:45):
unplugged version of Into the Night from Benny Mardona is
very nice. Tight shirt. I went to Spotify and I
clicked on his name, and all there is is this
song in different ways, of course, because it's a great song.
Did he do anything else? It's yes, but this don't
believe you. This is what he's known four Look Dexis
Midnight Runners put out like twelve albums, but you only
know the one song. Betty Mardonas had such a great

(01:29:08):
scratchy voice. You could sing it really loud whenever you
wanted to say this when you were drunk a lot. Yes,
because you could do it. Listen to because you could
do that scratchy voice. Oh, I could do. I had
a great drunk scratchy voice. Still do. I just can't.
I just can only do it once in a while,
Like like anything else in life. The older you get,
you know you can. You know. I'm not the hundred

(01:29:30):
two mile an hour flamethrower I used to be. But
I can throw a hundred two miles an hour once
in a great while. But you just stole you. You
just quote the toe Toby Keith song if you're gonna
steal it. I ain't as good as I once was,
but I was as good once as I ever was.
That's an actual title. Yeah, And that makes it through.
I ain't as good as I once was. Benny Mardonas

(01:29:51):
had twelve studio albums, five live albums. Four of those
were live from Turning Stone and then was extended version.
So I'd like to see that. Now. I'm just thinking,
I want to hear I love this bar, my cand
of place. I can tell you. I mean nights, I've

(01:30:14):
gone to karaoke and someone's done that song like four times. Really,
we gotta hear I love this bar again, somebody else.
I love this bark. We've been We've been here for
an hour and a half. We've heard it three times.
Come on, man, don't do this, do something else you are,
Come on, deaf Leopard photograph, do side, come on, don't
give me this. I love this bar again. And then
as strides confidently and does a forty two minute version

(01:30:37):
of piano Man, No different deathph No deaf Leppard back.
You said photograph, you're gonna come back with Raino. No no,
that wasn't gonna do that. This is Nickelback his tight
shirts thing. No no, no, he is a huge ty shirt.
I bet you go to his house and suddenly he's

(01:30:58):
got like photos of nickel Back up and and pictures
of photos of Yeah you probably got all Avril Levine
albums too, and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got them all. Mate.
You are Nickelback. You are Nickelback all the way that's
you are. I'm a Nickelbacker. Sure you got all the
Unplugged albums and Nickelback and there. Oh, sure you do.

(01:31:20):
You have everything. I have studio performances by myself. You
have podcasts full that you've listened to like the host.
Uh So, while this is going on to rest in peace,
Benny Mardona's big song Into the Night I passed away
at the age of seventy three today. Uh we saw
tonight in both MLB and in the NBA players who

(01:31:45):
are now pulling out of resuming the season. In the NBA, tonight,
Spencer Dinwittie of the Nets tested positive for COVID nineteen.
He doesn't know when he will rejoin the Nets. The
good news he's thinking about when he can read joined
the Nets. DeAndre Jordan's tested positive for COVID nineteen. He
tweeted out tonight that he will not be joining the

(01:32:07):
NBA bubble in Orlando when they begin. All best thoughts
out to DeAndre Jordan. Hopefully he is okay. The fact
he's tweeting about it tells me he's all right. But
obviously best thoughts out to him. Fred van Vleet earlier
today good in the NBA Finals m v P last
spring probably should have been I'm not excited about restarting
the season. Uh, coronavirus concerns, also social justice reform, there's

(01:32:30):
other things going on in the country. But he's going
to be uh, go go along with restarting the season
and helping everybody out by playing basketball. And so he's
going to play in Orlando. Meanwhile, Major League Baseball Mike
Leak picture Ryan Zimmern and national's not going to the
restart in later on this week, early next week when

(01:32:53):
players report for Major League Baseball, and then Ian Desmond
of the Rockies has said he is not going to
join the restart for the season for COVID nineteen and
social justice reasons and Major League Baseball has issues. So
now you are seeing players in both sports pull out
and say not going to rejoin. This is such a

(01:33:15):
huge week because this is this is where it's right
before the restart, where the NBA and MLB needs to
find a way to get those players to their teams
and to the bubble right there. They want to restart,
and it's good that we're trying to restart. But look
at what's going on in the country right Positive COVID

(01:33:36):
nineteen tests are rising in over half the states. And
I don't think we opened up too early. I just
think we opened up not smartly enough. And there's people
who didn't want to open up smartly enough by social
distancing and wearing masks. And look where we are right now.
We're on a The rest of the world is all
they they've almost beaten COVID nineteen, and we're in this
place where everything is is up in the air because

(01:33:59):
wearing masks has been politicized. We are not in a
good place right now. And every day when you see
the test going up, players are looking at each other
and looking at their families and going, do I really
want to go play baseball? Do I really want to
go play basketball? For the longest time, we have said
all the all the agreements, everything else. You can say,
that's great, But when it comes time to it, and

(01:34:20):
what do I say, Like when it comes time to
pack a bag and go, many players are gonna go
I don't know if I really want to go do this,
and right now, players are nervous. If MLB and n
b A don't do the best they can to convince
them they are going to be safe. You're gonna see
a big story with Tony Clark, with the NBA p A,
Chris Paul, and you're gonna see them saying, Hey, our

(01:34:42):
guys don't want to go. We don't feel safe. We're
seeing the spike of coronavirus cases in Florida. We don't
want to go. Florida is the worst state. They were
open up for business right away. Yeah, we're ready, We're ready,
And because they couldn't open up smartly enough. Look at
where we're at, and it comes down to it. Individual
people need to make good decision. Agents. Players want to
make the right decision. I want sports, everybody wants sports.

(01:35:05):
But I get that they're going to be nervous about
it because they see what's going on in the country
and they're gonna go, Yeah, I don't really know. MLB
and NBA can't just say we're good, we got you,
show up, show up, show up. Not gonna happen, Not
gonna happen. Anytime someone goes to buy a car, or
rent an apartment, or buy or buy a house. What
happens once you say yes? Does the realtors stop calling you?

(01:35:26):
Does the person selling the car stop calling? You? Know?
They do everything they can to get you into that
car driving off the lot? Are you sign that that
piece of paper that says you own this house? They
make their commission, then they can ignore you and blow
you off and say yeah, whatever. But but up until then,
what happens when you say you're gonna buy great? Hey,
guess what, I got an inspector for you, and I
got it scheduled and I can come in and do this.

(01:35:47):
If you guys have to work, I'll come and make
sure the inspectors here and you'll get the report after awesome. Hey, hey,
guess what, I'm here to meet and talk to about stuff. Here,
I brought you guys coffees. This is what the NBA
and MLB need to do. They need to hold the
players hands and a we got you. We you will
be safe with us. And maybe the players believe it,
or maybe they don't. But if they don't do this,
you're going to see more fracturing as time goes on

(01:36:09):
to the point where I don't know if you're gonna
get the players all wanted to go to the bubble
or reporting for Major League Baseball, you you you may
not get that this is a really really huge week
for that because as you can see right now, because
of what's going on in the country, you can see
a lot of players saying I don't know, I don't know,
And this is starting to be before it's like just
a bits and pieces breaking off and saying I'm not going,

(01:36:31):
I'm not going. Bits and pieces become big chunks and
suddenly we're in a big spot with both both sports here. Yeah.
I think again it comes back to at least those
that have opted out thus far, their bank accounts are solid, right,
they have clout, they have opportunity. What everybody wants in
this life. You want a little bit of leverage and choice,

(01:36:52):
right to not feel that you're beholden to X, Y
or Z, particularly when it comes to your career. And
all these players that have thus opted out, and then
even those that are still uh teetering right, we've we've
had reports that Lou Williams has been fifty fifty as
to what he wants to do. You know, in in
positions to make those decisions. And obviously when you add

(01:37:16):
family effects in whether it's an expectant partner or recent
birth like you had with Ryan Zimmerman, it changes the
perspective just a little bit. I think when you get
to the league wide trickle down, when you you're still
talking about the Players Association in mass it becomes the

(01:37:40):
you recognize, if we don't do this, this is how
much money it costs this year and next year, and
the CBA gets ripped up, and this is what happens
after that. So there's there's a bit of a power
play that gets to go along with that. So I
don't know that anybody will be calling for the outright
cancelation of things. They may need a little more saging

(01:38:00):
in terms of what the bubble experience for the NBA
looks like or what safety precautions are there for Major
League Baseball. Right the NBA has got the best system
lined up right now, and it still has its perils
with the idea of those Walt Disney World workers going
home each night, not that they're going to go do

(01:38:21):
something catastrophic, but you've just opened the door to the
potential of them going out them living their lives, perhaps
bringing the COVID nineteen virus back into the bubble sphere.
Whereas Major League Baseball, you still got a bunch of
travel to work out and logistics and hotels and everything else.

(01:38:42):
So you know, you still have a lot more components
and variables in that equation that need to be ironed out.
So a lot of hand holding and persuasion I think
will certainly be there. But it's all about information to
seminate in these leagues right now, Twitter at how about

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And now here's the thing, Mike, is that with this

(01:39:24):
story going on Jason Smith, Mike Carmen, Uh, the way
the country is going is going to be different from sports.
Right now, there's a faction of the country let's let's
keep going, let's keep pushing, let's reopen. I don't know
that we can go back to being at home and
being in quarantine, self quarantine and self isolation where I
don't know what we can because we opened up and

(01:39:47):
like I said, I don't think we opened up too fast.
We just didn't opened up smartly enough. Because look at
the rest of the world they opened up and they're
seeing their cases going down, and we just didn't do
it smartly enough. And and now we're talking about do
we need to make as mandatory and do we need
to go back And look, they close bars in a
bunch of different states because the COVID nineteen tests keep
going up and the w h O says we could

(01:40:08):
be at the beginning of of of the next phase,
which could be worse, and and it's just disheartening. I
don't know that anybody can go back to that way.
And it it may just be until a vaccine is found.
We live with coronavirus and we live with it, and
everybody makes their own decision. If you're comfortable going to
the supermarket without a mask, well guess what, okay, But
if not, then wear a mask, stay home. Every country.

(01:40:31):
Every employer is going to try to figure things out
to make their employees comfortable the most. Can you work
from home? Do you need to be in at work physically?
How is it going to be. I think it's gonna
wind up being up to individuals to make those decisions
because I don't know that we can go back that way.
But how this is different from sports is that you
know that can still push the economy and push everybody forward,

(01:40:53):
right or wrong. The minute players don't feel safe, they're
gonna say we're not playing and we're done. I mean
that that's something that is just going to happen. The
players are very powerful in Major League Baseball and in
the NBA. And if there gets to be a point
because anybody the players, no matter what, they're gonna report,
and they're gonna report with one ft in, one foot out,

(01:41:14):
they're not coming. Hey, we're excited, let's go play baseball,
let's go play basketball. We're ready, We're ready. No, the
way things are the last ten days, things have changed.
Ten days ago, things are great, we're rolling, we're gonna play,
we're gonna have this. Everything is gonna be great. But
the last ten days things have changed. So players are
gonna report and the very first time it looks like
things aren't safe, they're gonna say, let's go, let's go,

(01:41:34):
We're out, and it's gonna happen very very quickly. Is
it going to be one positive coronavirus test. No, will
it be if each team has a positive coronavirus test. Yeah,
could be, but it will be very quick and you
will be you will know it will It won't be
one of those times where okay, this story, this positive
coronavirus test made the NBA stop or made MLB stop.

(01:41:55):
You will be able to tell what, Okay, things have
gotten too much out of control and now they're not
gonna be able to play. And that's when the players
are gonna say, yeah, we're not doing it. And that's
when the NBA stops, at MLB stops. Is why I
say all along, enjoy sports as long as we have them,
and when we don't, will move on to the next sport.
And eventually we're gonna come out of this. But if
it doesn't happen, don't be mad. Just whatever we get,

(01:42:17):
we're gonna get because there's other issues that could come
up as as players show up and and while Adam
Silver said yesterday, and this is just one of them.
While Adam Silver said yesterday, Hey, if players test positive
for COVID nineteen, it doesn't matter if they are star players.
Were still moving on, right, doesn't matter If a big
star player from a team gets COVID nineteen, we're treating
that as an injury. They sit out. We we do

(01:42:38):
the right thing as far as treating the players and
making sure they're okay, and testing the other players and
making sure they don't test positive for COVID nineteen. But
the sport is still gonna move on. But let me
just let me just give you this for instance, and
you tell me if you can't see this happening. Let's
say the the the Bucks are getting ready to play
the Sixers in the game, and the Bucks have three

(01:43:00):
positive COVID nineteen tests, and the players are all isolated
and they're asymptomatic, and right now none of the Bucks
players show any symptoms of COVID nineteen. Well, that happens
on a Monday, and the Sixers and Bucks have to
play Tuesday night. If the Sixers are sitting there with
no positive COVID nineteen tests, they're gonna play that games

(01:43:20):
are gonna say, yep, we're good, we're good playing the bucks.
They just had three positive COVID nineteen tests, but we
think we're okay. That's not gonna happen. I mean, you're
gonna see, You're gonna see the seventi sixers are gonna say, yeah, no,
we're not playing this game. I'm sorry, but we don't
know anything about this. We don't know what players are
gonna test positive for COVID nineteen. You have three players
on that team, Yeah, we're not doing it. One player
is gonna be dicey enough, because think about this. Would

(01:43:43):
you go into work if if you knew one person
tested positive for COVID nineteen, but they were taken out
and they were asymptomatic and and everything seemed okay, would
you go in and and and being close quarters and
not social distance. Of course you wouldn't. And you're gonna
ask NBA players to do that. I mean, that's even
when you get there and this happens, that could be
a likely scenario for some teams. Well, and that's been

(01:44:05):
the question all along in terms of how frank are
the discussions between the league and the players Association. The
NFL p A is asking agents, you know, giving them
the talking points to go to players to say, hey,
go to all your guys and explain how serious this is.
This in the wake of the Stafford and Brady stories

(01:44:27):
and gatherings at the end of last week and into
the weekend. So people still wringing their hands over there
when we talk about the the NBA. Yeah, I have
to believe they've tried to make an accounting for every
one of these scenarios. But at this point, Silver's committed
to just that. It's the nothing's perfect attitude. That's it, right,

(01:44:52):
We we keep moving on. In all areas of business
operations shut down. I don't believe will happen in any
of these leagues. Something very uh, something catastrophic or dire
truly has to happen as opposed to a couple of
positive tests for them to shut it down all together.
But will you have the potential of a team saying, hey,
on this particular night, we don't we're not feeling it,

(01:45:13):
and maybe this the scheduling gets reworked and run them
up because they've all the leagues have kind of held
that up as a we reserve the right to change
this as necessary and and perhaps you know there's a schedule.
Makers have had to come up with alternate plans already
just in case. Yeah. Well, but when when you say okay,

(01:45:35):
it's it's got to be something that's more drastic than that.
This just needs to be you know, three or four
of these stories. I mean, look, one story is not
gonna do it. One story every couple. If you if
you get down there and in one week, two or
three players test positive for COVID nineteen and that's it,
and they're isolated, and everything is okay, all right, I
can see it's still going. But then say if you

(01:45:56):
get a week and a half later, and then there's
two or three players on three or four teams, that
gets a little bit concerning. And then it's and then
it's two or three players on five or six teams,
and then seven or eight teams, and then you get
to that point where it's okay, now it's a little
bit out of control. I mean, it needs it needs
to go there. And whatever it gets to, whatever it
gets to the acceptable threshold, whatever you decide. That's the

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question that thold. If you can keep if it's one
player on a handful of teams. I think you can
keep it, you can still play, but if you get
to two or three players on three or four teams,
then you get to the point where players say, yeah,
don't know about this. And then if it gets any
more than that, then that's gonna be it to come back.
All the Knicks could come back suddenly. Look at the Nicks.

(01:46:40):
The Nicks are back really really could open that door.
You know, why do you have to bring up the Knicks?
Because now I think about that Lebron story from today,
and then you know, we should probably talking over you know,
all right, let's yeah, we probably should. We will get
to that story. How about we'll do that coming up
in about twenty minutes. What do you say we'll do
Lebron into the Knicks that almost happened and didn't almost,

(01:47:03):
But just think about that as as different situations that
could arise when the NBA even gets to the bubble,
because that's what makes this week such a really really
big deal, and you get beyond it. You're trying to
keep you know, you're trying to keep a lid on things,
and it's gonna be really really difficult to do it.
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We can keep them isolated now and get to Orlando healthy.
We're all hoping for it. But at the same time
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It's plenty of time, buddy, plenty of time, and I

(01:48:05):
love this bar. Uh. Cam Newton is officially a member
of the Patriots. We have a lot of that throughout
the rest of the show. Honestly, I feel man. Okay, look,
Cam Newton, this is not the Cam Newton of alright.
This is Cam Newton, who has been injured for the
past year and a half, lost his job to Kyle Allen.

(01:48:27):
Has not really been next level since two thousand and fifteen.
And as many times as you want to put boy,
look how great Cam Newton was on Twitter in two
thousand and thirteen. This doesn't mean he's suddenly going to
be great again. Oh, because we're gonna sprinkle faery dust
and everything. Bill Belichick is gonna say a spell and
it's gonna be magic words, and suddenly Cam Newton is

(01:48:48):
gonna be great. Cam Newton hasn't been good in five years,
al right, hasn't been good. He had a decent stretch
for a little bit of time in two thousand and eighteen,
but he was never really next level as good as
he wasn't twenty eight team. You know, his quarterback rating
put him the middle of the back. All right, Cam
Newton is not going to affect the Patriots win lost
total if he winds up playing quarterback. All right, He's

(01:49:11):
he's someone who the unknowing of Jared Stidham and knowing
the offense a little bit better. That's gonna be fine.
Cam Newton has not played in a while. He's not
gonna have hardly any time with the Patriots before they
start playing to think he's suddenly just gonna stand up
and say I'm great. I don't see it. I don't
see him affecting the Patriots win lost total. And this

(01:49:31):
is the Pagriot team that's gonna be around five hundred.
You know, I'm not saying, oh, they're gonna be four
and twelve. No, they'll They'll stay in the thick of
the race the rest of this the most of the season.
They'll go into the final month with a potential chance.
Because it's not that great a year in the a
f C East, but still the Bills were all teams
have gotten better and the Pagests took a step back.
But it is suddenly Cam Newton gonna have the Patriots

(01:49:53):
out six and oh seven oh. If team still thought
Cam Newton was a star, they would have made an
offer to him. He was sitting out there. Nobody else
gave him a contract offer. He was out there for months.
He's not been able to go show everybody he's healthy.
This is the Patriots saying, hey, you know what, if
he doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but we're
gonna try it. And that's what this move is. If

(01:50:14):
he was still a star player, somebody else would have
picked him up. But he's at the end of his career.
His prime was always going to be not as long
because he's a bigger quarterback, and he's been through a
physical pounding, and now you're seeing him having difficulty staying healthy.
I don't know he can stay on the field. I
don't know that he can do that. I don't know
he can show up and and and go through the
pounding of an NFL season for sixteen weeks of games.

(01:50:36):
I don't know that he can do that. I look,
the Patriots will be five hundred with him, they'll be
around five hundred without him. He's not gonna be someone
that affects their wins losses. Seven seasons of at least
a hundred carries another with ninety. So you're looking at
just even if you include last year's uh well miss
uh two games, five rushing attempts, you're still averaging a

(01:50:59):
hundred four Here he's a year plus the sacks plus
the other hits. So from a physical standpoint, I'm not
looking for him to have some renaissance of three to
five years. But if you told me for one or
two years, could he get the body right and be ready. Sure,
I'm curious about the Liz Frank injury. We we were
not sure about the shoulder. Remember the short arm passes

(01:51:20):
before he went down last year. So certainly still some
questions there. But it's a no risk potential for a
high reward opportunity. I'm surprised it didn't happen. You know,
he probably was waiting for the opportunity until Camp, until
the New England Patriots called for you know, whatever reason

(01:51:41):
this comes together. McDaniels wants to get creative. North Turner said, Hey,
this is the guy if he's sound to get you
back over and be that next bridge guy. So we'll see. Man,
I'm excited just to camp. Is fun to watch when
he when he's right. I just hope he is. Look,
that's something we'll get into the next hour. Is that
it is at least makes them more exciting. It makes

(01:52:02):
the Patriots more excited because now they have someone you
can look into and not boy, do I love her?
Hate Jared Stidham? Do I do it? Can I really
just look like him? I mean, I mean really he
he makes things exciting and that's the best part of
the story is that a he makes things exciting. We
got more on Cam coming up, and more from the
NBA crazy Lebron story I'm hoping is not true coming

(01:52:24):
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(01:52:47):
the world by fire tonight, Rockies player, former National Star,
All Star player who will not be joining the start
of the MLB season if they play, and coming up
we'll tell you why and it's pretty explosive. But two
big things out of the NBA to get to tonight
and look, we will have more on the players who

(01:53:08):
are not joining. The Orlando Bubble Spencer Dinwiddie has tested
positive for COVID nineteen, doesn't know when he's going to play.
DeAndre Jordan's uh says he's tested positive for COVID nineteen,
said he is not going to Orlando when his season
has done so all best thoughts to DJ. It seems
like things are okay um, but he's not playing, so

(01:53:28):
of course we have him in our thoughts as well.
Fred van Vleet also unsure about playing, but he's going
to play. But outside of that, earlier today we we
had two big NBA stories revolving around Lebron James and
the Lakers. The first one is coming off Bill simmons podcast.
Who Oh, by the way, uh, I don't I don't know.
Is he using the Magic Johnson Twitter game that he

(01:53:50):
that he tried to take from us? Is he using that?
Is he not? I don't understand. I don't know. I
don't know if he is a good But he put
out on his podcast earlier today that he had it
from a lot of sources that Lebron James was headed
to the Knicks and two thousand and ten and only
a disastrous presentation made them fall out of the running

(01:54:12):
where Lebron James decided to go to the Heat the
decision back in two Uh this, if I remember correctly,
this is a little bit different than the version that
went around when Lebron first went through everything in two
thousand and ten. Right now this is and look, look,
Bill Simmons is very plugged into the NBA, and and uh, look,

(01:54:36):
and I get that. He think, listen, this is what
I've heard. The Knicks pitch to Lebron was disastrous. James
Dolan was James Dolan. Dottie Walter was there in a wheelchair,
he was in ill health. Uh look, do I believe
that the Knicks screwed it up? Shure? Because it's the Knicks.
Do I believe James Dolan was James Dolan? Shure? James
Dolan was James Dolan. Uh so, yeah, of course didn't
get along either. So I got that. I firmly bel

(01:55:00):
even and look at the if you told me, hey,
James Dolan screwed it up, I would say, yeah, probably,
you're probably right. But the story that I think was
the most generally accepted in two thousands and and this
is this is a bit of well, this is a
different story, is that I didn't hear, and I don't
think any of us heard. The Knicks really blew it
that Dolan was terrible and Donnie Walsh was bad. What

(01:55:23):
happened was the the Lebron had set this up for
teams to come talk to him, and the Knicks were
the third team I think to come talk to when
every team showed up and had the same presentation, Here
you are Lebron. Uh, here's what you'd look like in
our uniform, and he we we we would pump your
brand and and and we would make you even a

(01:55:43):
bigger star than you were come here, and that by
the time it got to the Knicks, they were the
third team that had come there. Look, Donnie Walsh had
to be wheeled in and and that everybody had lost
interest in the Knicks presentation because it was the same thing.
If you're a fan of Entourage, Uh, it's kind of
like when Vince was thinking of leaving ARI and all

(01:56:04):
of the the agencies that wanted Vincey was a big
star him and gave him the same presentation. We're going
to increase your brand. We're gonna get you into the
best movies. We're gonna do that at all was the
same thing every now and again. Here's Vince next to
Coca Cola, where here's Vince next to Pepsi, And they
lost interest because, Okay, you're gonna make me a brand,
You're gonna make me a star. I'm already a star.

(01:56:24):
What can you do for me? And you know this
is why, you know, some of those people didn't wind
up signing Vince, and I think that was a lot
of that was the generally accepted situation, which was, okay,
all right, you're not really wowing me. All right, I've
kind of heard the same presentation from the Nets. I
heard the same presentation from a bunch of teams. All right,

(01:56:45):
that's great, thanks for coming, thanks for being here. I
really appreciate it. And you know that he went on
and made his decision and said, hey, d wait, how
about we all get together and do this. So that's
kind of how it went. I didn't hear I don't
remember one time hearing that the Knicks blew it. That
was boy. Then it was just hey, Lebron and his
people got really bored. The Knicks presentation wasn't special, It

(01:57:06):
wasn't anything that that he really hooked into. And what
he hooked into was, Hey, let's me and d Wade
and Bosch get together. This would be kind of fun.
We've never done this before, and this is how we're
gonna do it. That's that's what I heard from many
sources surrounding it, because, believe me, if the Knicks really
blew it, I think we would have heard it back
at that time. I don't think it would have been
kept a secret that the NIXT kind of blew it

(01:57:28):
Knicks were bad. I think we would have heard it,
would have got leaked from Lebronse camp or not. We
would have heard, boy, the Knicks were really really terrible,
and boy James Dolan said some things that were that
were just completely James Dolan askin and that took the
Knicks out of the running. I really think we would
have heard that. And I look, I don't doubt anything
like Bill Simmons is, like I said, he's plugged into
the NBA and and I get it, and that's where

(01:57:49):
he's made his bones. But you know, I remember this story,
covering it every single day. And you know this is
back when I was at ESPN and we were living
this story every single day. I don't remember any thing
of Boy, the Knicks really blew it. I I don't
remember any of that part of it. Boy the nick
they embarrassed themselves and they turned they turned into the Knicks,
and and and lebron wanted no part of it. I

(01:58:10):
don't remember that being part of the narrative. Yeah, I
heard more about the negativity in Chicago. I mentioned joking Noah,
the fact that Derrick Rose at the time had no
desire to be that outward leader and do any recruiting.
Uh add that just the general way the Bulls organization

(01:58:31):
is operating in the post Michael Jordan era. Uh, there's
no surprises, right. There's even a report from wind Horse
that at one point Joakim Noah had reached out and
that Lebron never returned his call. So all of those
things had been out in Chicago, so we do that
was an unmitigated disaster. And then when they tried to
recruit Carmelo Anthony, he was the same thing, here's the scoreboard,

(01:58:54):
here's everything else, and he just kind of shrugged and said,
I'm out. Uh. But when it comes to the Knicks,
I think we all just assume there was something having
to do with James Dolan but had never been specified.
But never anything other than Miami came together with this pitch.
Dwyane Wade was able to get his buddies to come
down there. You go into the taxation for the state

(01:59:14):
and everything else that works out that it was a
fairly easy sell. It was never something that I thought
the Knicks were out of because Lebron had that desire
for Madison Square Garden. And this was back before James
Dolan was as Look it's James Dolan was always bad.

(01:59:34):
It was when you know somebody's bad for fifteen years
compared to we know somebody's bad for four years. And
I was like, Okay, if you're bad for four or
five years, all right, maybe when you're bad for fifteen
twenty years old, man, this guy's bad. So this was
this was James Dolan. You could say it was James
Dolan at the height of his powers. You know what.
People didn't know he was as bad as he is now.

(01:59:54):
So I never thought the Knicks were out of it.
I I this this was more of, hey, what are
great idea? Uh? This is to be able to for
all of us to go play together and do something
we had never done before. I think that's what that's
what appealed to Lebron. And that's where that that's where
the decision, uh, you know, came from, not from anything

(02:00:15):
where this team was awful. This team blew it. This
team Do I think that there were probably parts of
the presentations that Lebron didn't like. Sure, but I don't
think that was unique to the Knicks. I think if
if he liked the Nets presentation, you're gonna go onto
the nets. If you like the Bulls prayer, you could
have gone to the bulls, could have done could have
done any of those things. I just don't see that
there was. There was just none of that negativity, which

(02:00:36):
we would have found out about all of it, and
and the stuff we did find out behind closed doors.
That was the general narrative now from the Simmons Report
and what he's talking about here. I want to see
the video of James Gandolfini and Edie Falco as Tony
and Carmela Soprano as to whatever that video was that
went on during this presentation, because that might be entertaining

(02:01:00):
along the way. But they never got a second call,
never got that second chance. And I think part of it,
I'm gonna go out a limb and say a lot
of it was come on into New York, it's your garden.
What else do you want from me? What else? Do
you have? Anything else? Do I need anything else? Yeah?
I mean, oh oh, I needed to be more prepared

(02:01:21):
than that. Oh well, you know, I don't have anything.
I'm sorry, I didn't bring anything else. Yeah, because his
team was obviously gonna have everything else button down in
terms of the marketing blitz and everything else, so you
didn't need that. But you also had to try to
convince him that there was maybe some winning to be done.
But yeah, you know, again, in this in this day

(02:01:41):
and age, you have all these stories come out. You
have the big documentary on the decision that they posted
the other day, and it wasn't even Lebron's idea. So
now everybody's mad at him for that. This idea you
had wasn't my idea. It doesn't matter. I still hate it.
But somebody wrote in Yeah, so I'm optical of that
story with the next and believe, Hey, I jump up

(02:02:02):
and down to the necks as much as anybody, but
you know I I'm just kind of skeptical of that,
but composed a song for him. It might have worked. Hey,
I got a song for you, Bron. It's called I
Love New York. Ready, here we go, I Love New York. Hey.
It sounds very similar to a song that exists. No no, no,
but I'm kinda trilled this song along and there's a
little bit of harmonica. I got my band here. We'll

(02:02:24):
get everybody ready. Hey, hey, hey, Scooty mcboo, get on
the drums. Yeah, you know there you go. Give me
a beat, Give me a beat. Uh. You had a
magic phrase right there. A couple of times ago, you
talked about second chances. And this is the other story
about Lebron James that happened today. Then I'm finding it
hard to believe he actually signed off on this, But
it's going to happen. The l A Lakers are going

(02:02:48):
to sign j R. Smith for the resumption of the
NBA season when they play in Orlando. As far as
they go, j R. Smith had been on their radar
for a week or so since he free Bradley announced
that he is not going to rejoin the Lakers, wants
to stay home and take care of his family amid
the coronavirus pandemic, and j R. Smith is going to
be on the team. And I find it hard to

(02:03:10):
believe that this guy, because you know, Lebron's got to
sign off on this year. You know, as much as
I know he likes j R. Smith, that dude. The
guy hasn't played in two years and the last time
he played, he caught you a chance the title. He
forgot what the score was. I mean, and you're okay
with him coming back on the team. There's certain times
where I know, as athletes, it's we can't have this
guy back. Can't have him back. He missed too big

(02:03:31):
a field goal, he blew this thing too badly. We
can't have him back. And just that, just that video
of Lebron screaming at j R. Smith at mid court,
I'm like, how can he be? Yeah, I'm okay, Yeah,
bring bring Jr. Back. That's cool. I I really is.
As much as you like somebody, I just can't. Hey,
we're trying to win a championship. I'm trying to win
a championship and I I just can't do it. I

(02:03:52):
just can't do it. I don't know how Lebron signed
off on that. Maybe he started singing second chance to him.
My heart needs a second chance. Look at Lebron. I
got this area right here. When we win the title,
I'll have a tattoo of you put on me. I
don't know many promises, but you know, he's a guy.
He knows the best of and j R. Smith played

(02:04:13):
a lot of big minutes for them, made a lot
of big shots, made a lot of had a lot
of big moments positively, and then obviously a couple of
gaffs that live forever in Memeville. But as we go
into this bubble, right, it's you're trying to bring around
guys that you you know and know how you operate. Right.
He he's played with Lebron, so he knows how the

(02:04:36):
ball runs through Lebron, so he knows how that system
roles and can play with him. So I think we're
watching a bunch of contracts get signed by the veterans
that were not on squads, and so it becomes the alright,
how much familiarity do you have with player X, Y
or Z For the Lakers, it's either him or Swaggy P.

(02:04:57):
You choose, you know. But here's the here's the part
about j R. Smith And well, look, while j R.
Smith making a game winning shot in the finals could
be what we all need, I'd like to see him
make one in the other team's basket. That would be
really cool. It could be the story we need. I
don't know how much he's really gonna play because what remember,

(02:05:18):
the Lakers are gonna be able to trot out to
to take Avery Bradley spot. They signed Dion Waiters, right,
Alex Caruso is gonna play more contagious called well, Pope
is gonna play. Ray Jean Rondo's gonna play. They're all
gonna play ahead of him because they know the offense,
they know the personnel. They're all gonna play. I think
j R. Smith is just one of those break glass
in case of emergency guys. If you have a couple

(02:05:38):
of players test positive for COVID nineteen or somebody gets hurt, Hey,
we can put j R. Smith in the game. Now
you know it's j R. Smith. He's gonna wind up
not playing at all and then wind up being on
the court in the final minute of a tied playoff
game with the Clippers. So that's how it's gonna go.
But honestly, I just don't see how much he's actually
going to play unless they get down to it because

(02:05:59):
they have per and l issues, because all those guys
are gonna play and and suck up those Avery Bradley
minutes before j R. Smith sees the court. No, that's right,
and it's not a guy you're looking to get twenty
minutes tonight. But if he gives you five to eight
off the bench, a little bit of attitude. Uh, protection
for your bigs and your stars. That's what you bring.
J R. Smith in a little veteran savvy buddy, j R.

(02:06:23):
Smith back in the NBA, and he here comes j R.
Smith the final minute against the Clippers. They're down by
one and Lebron has to pass to him and j R.
Smith throws up a three from forty feet like a
Damian Lillard. I could make this from forty feet out
and and walk back down the court and pound my
chest and everybody's gonna love me. Oh it, Just we

(02:06:44):
could just make that happen once. I mean, I don't
I don't think he's gonna see the court, but let's
just make that happen once, just to see to see
him take that shot once. Can someone just simulate that
on NBA two K for me. I just want to
see him one time. I just want just and then
I make or miss, it doesn't matter. I mean, I'm
I'm a positive guy. Let's see him make it. Let's

(02:07:04):
let's see him make it. That would be great. Let's
see him make it, but he steps out of bounds.
Let's see him make it but he steps over the
three point line. I mean, it's gonna be something that's
gonna happen there. But really, I I'd love to see
him because he's interesting and he's fun and getting on
the court would be awesome, But I I really just
don't know how big a role he's gonna have. You

(02:07:26):
got look Avery Bradley played. You know you're talking about
thirty minutes to night. You gotta take up. Well, you
know what Dion Waiters is gonna he's brand new. He's
gonna play probably fifteen or twenty minutes. So now you're
talking about between Crusoe and k CP and Rondo, it's
only like three or four more minutes of person and
suddenly Jared Smith is gonna come in and carve out
a role on the team that I think he's just
there for for an emergency, just in case something happens emergency.

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Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the Geicos Studios,
Oh You did it. A lot of the show tonight,
we've talked about players in the NBA and Major League
Baseball who are either opting out of resuming or restarting
the seasons when it begins, or not being able to

(02:09:15):
play because of positive coronavirus tests. Tonight in the NBA.
Spencer Dinwittie positive for COVID nineteen, doesn't know when he's returning.
DeAndre Jordan's says he tested positive for COVID nineteen. He
is not going to play at all when the NBA resumes.
In the bubble, Fred van Vleet has hesitancy is about playing,
but he's going to play and a Major League baseball. Now,

(02:09:37):
we've now had four players today announced they are not
going to play this season when baseball does start. Ryan
Zimmerman earlier in the day, Mike Leak, and now tonight
Ian Desmond of the Colorado Rockies. Now, he put a
really powerful post on Instagram tonight and talked about why

(02:09:57):
he's not going to play when Major League Baseball resumes.
And look, it's I can't read you the whole thing,
but I'm going to give you the the the big
parts of it, which is what you need to know
from him, which is why he is going to not
play this season in Major League baseball. Uh. The first

(02:10:21):
thing he talked about was a lot about Major League
baseball and where it's at right now and how he's
not a big fan of where the sport is. And
look too, say that baseball has issues. Of course it does,
but he compartmentalizes them and puts it all into one
great quote right here when he says, right now, in baseball,

(02:10:42):
we've got a labor war, We've got rampant individualism on
the field in clubhouses. We've got racist, sexist, homophobic jokes
or flat out problems. We've got cheating. We've got a
minority issue from the top down. One African American GM
to African American managers, less than eight percent black play years,
no black majority team owners. If baseball as America's pastime,

(02:11:04):
maybe it's never been a more fitting one then now.
And that's something that kind of hits you right between
the eyes, like whoa. He just went through all the
issues major League baseball as and says, yeah, if it's
America's pastime, hey, this is kind of a reflection of
America right now, where we know things need to change,
we need to do different things. So this is, you know,
it's a pretty big deal. You know, here's Ian Desmon

(02:11:26):
who is stepping up saying, hey, you know what, NBA,
I get it. You know, you guys are doing your thing,
but this is you know, hey, baseball, we need to
do our part as well. He goes on to talk
about the COVID nineteen pandemic, in which he says the
pandemic has made this baseball season one that has a
risk I am not comfortable taking. But that doesn't mean
I'm leaving baseball behind for the year. I'll be right

(02:11:48):
here in my old little league, working with everyone involved
to make sure we get Sarah Soota Youth baseball back
on track. With a pregnant wife and four young children
who have lots of questions about what's going on in
the world, home is where I need to be right now,
All right now, this is Ian Desmond. Those are his
words and they're pretty powerful. Now to think about everything

(02:12:09):
that that is going on with Ian Desmond, he would
say something like this to become a big deal has
been trending all night on Twitter. Uh. The number one
reason he is able to stay home and doesn't feel
the responsibility to go is he wants to stay home
for his family. Now. I he wants to bring about
social reform, and that's part of it. But you see

(02:12:30):
him talk about COVID nineteen and the responsibility has Look,
he's got four young kids, his wife is pregnant, with
another kid. He's got family issues he wants to stay
home for. And I get it. I completely get that.
If there wasn't COVID nineteen, would he still be pushing
for uh? Would he? Would he still play? Yeah? He
would still push for for new social UH change because

(02:12:54):
as he's calling out baseball, they needed we need to
change too. It's not just other sports, it's the we
need to change as well. But I think if it was,
if the COVID nineteen situation was equal, he would go
play because it seems like, hey, we need to do this,
but I'm just not comfortable going. And this is where
a lot of players are and and a narrative we've
had for a long time. Anybody wants to steal it

(02:13:15):
and has to tole in it. Congratulations. Uh is that?
Look when it comes time to say you need to
go play, players are gonna go. Yeah, I don't know.
I'm not comfortable with that. And Ian Desmond is one
of the four players today saying yeah, I'm not comfortable
and so MLB tomorrow, I would be stunned if they
weren't on not an offensive, but if they went didn't

(02:13:37):
go on a big push to make sure players knew
you're going to be safe because you need to because
the players already don't trust the owners. I mean not
that they don't think they're gonna make them safe, but
if you don't trust people, and they're the ones that
are saying, yeah, don't worry about the safety. We got
it for you, guys, are you still gonna try, there's
that inherent distrust already. So baseball has got to go
over the top to make sure baseball players know, hey,

(02:13:58):
you're okay coming here to come play, because if not,
players are gonna stay home, or they're gonna get there
and say, oh, a couple of positive COVID nineteen tests,
Yeah I'm leaving, I'm not playing anymore, and they're going
and something. Then the baseball season never gets off the ground.
Baseball and basketball, both of them, need to do a
job right now of telling people and athletes you are safe,
your families are safe, Come play. We have everything as

(02:14:20):
button down as we could. Come play baseball, come play basketball. Well,
but that's the thing is, no matter how much they've
buttoned it down, no matter how many pages are in
the rules and regulations of how you you need to operate,
you're also trusting that the players are gonna do their
part and that there's no added variables and levels room

(02:14:40):
for error. Right, You're you're three to five percent UH
in polling. Right, we say it's plus or minus three
percent or plus or minus five percent or whatever it
is when we're trying to, you know, ascertain the views
and opinions of people in the country. Likewise, here, as
much as you can plan for things, there's going to

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be the unforeseen circumstance or a player who reads something
one way and interprets it and then gets on on
site and decides this doesn't work and maybe decides to
pull the plug. I mean, there's still gonna be some
of those parts of the equation. But for Desmond, you know,
comes right out, look biracial man, and here's all the

(02:15:25):
laundry list of issues with Major League Baseball, and he
leaves no stone unturned. You read the kind of poetic
thing in terms of America's pastime, and he recounts a
number of tales of growing up in Sarasota on those fields,
so again citing everything going on in America and how
his family is set up, that now made the time

(02:15:47):
to do a little bit of that hey, let's go
back into the city and build. I mean, there's been
a number of athletes that have gone through uh different
towns and poured their own money and time in to
try to restore baseball fields because let's face it, a
lot of them have been taken over to become soccer complexes.
Not judgment or value to it at all, just stating fact.

(02:16:08):
You know, you're just you're you're losing. Yeah, you're losing
real estate, You're losing I know all of that as
you go through communities, right, and only eight percent of
Major League Baseball players are black. So to that it's
the alright, let's address these issues. And it's something that
that comes up every couple of years, the latest survey
and and evaluation not just of coaches, managers, in front

(02:16:31):
office people, but also just the guys playing the game
as to why it is that baseball loses out. So
you have that, add COVID nineteen and a growing family,
and it becomes an easy, easier conversation for Ian Desmond.
But you'll probably have a number of players right report
dates you're inside of forty eight hours, number of guys

(02:16:55):
are having that last conversation with their families as they're
starting to pack a bag to determine exactly how this
is they're going to play out these couple of weeks
of summer training as they're calling it and rolling through. So, yeah,
I wouldn't be surprised to see another couple of players fall,
And you would hope once they get there, whatever the

(02:17:16):
circumstances are, they they're contained enough to where you don't
have players walk away because then you get to that
vote of no confidence in your league being able to
be proper administrators, and that opens up a whole other
Pandora's box. Twitter at how about a fresco mike at
Swollen Dome. Now the other part of this, of course,

(02:17:36):
and people are gonna say, well, he's got the money. Well, yeah,
it's been in the league for you know, for a
long time now. It's in the middle of a five year,
seventy million dollar deal. Yeah, he's he's already made seventy
five million dollars in his career and by the time
it's by the time his next contract isself, which maybe
his last big contract in the game, he'll have made
over a hundred million dollars in Major League Baseball. So

(02:17:57):
we can afford to stay home. But the money things
shouldn't be a part of it. Because while other players
who need the money, you're gonna go. You know, that's
just their situation. I can't begrudge Ian Desmond because he's
made this money. Now, if he didn't have the money
needed to go and get paid, would he go. Yeah,
But the bottom line is the guy's not comfortable going
and he is fortunate enough to have money and say,

(02:18:18):
I can forfeit a portion of my salary this year.
He's scheduled to make fifteen million dollars this year, and
I can forfeit that because I want to stay safe
with my family. That's okay, because it's it's you know,
you shouldn't be penalized for having money or not. It
allowed him to make this decision. So is he more
fortunate in a better position, yes, But that also goes
along with being a really good player in baseball for

(02:18:40):
a long time. It's all Ian Desmond has been terrible.
Guy has been to the All Star Game a couple
of times, been a really good player. He saved his money.
It's what you do, so I can I can choose
to say no, and I can choose to not go.
And you may see a lot of players who think that. Now,
if if Ian Desmond was on the Dodgers and not
on the Rockies and maybe at a chance us to
win the World Series, would he go? Maybe if he

(02:19:02):
was on the Yankees, but go maybe, But you're on
the Rockies and uh are really gonna win? I don't know.
I just don't feel good about it. It's not worth
it to me for two months potentially not knowing how
things are gonna go, not knowing if we're gonna be protected.
Where I know I'm better protected at home with my
family here and I can still do things to keep busy.
I get it. I get Ian Desmond, any anybody who

(02:19:25):
is genuine in there. Here's why I don't want to play,
because I feel really concerned, and I'm fortunate enough to
be in the spot where i can say no. I
don't believe I'm not lucky enough for that. He's also
bringing up social awareness and things that baseball needs to
be to do, and certainly he'd loved to play. Look,
he doesn't. He doesn't seen here to play baseball. To
not play, he doesn't why he doesn't, doesn't give a
crap and say I don't care about play anymore, like

(02:19:47):
the money I got, It doesn't matter to me. The
guys all want to play. Guys want to play. These
guys aren't playing because they don't feel safe. Right. He
knows that he can bring more social awareness by playing
than by not playing. But this is his decision, and
he knows he's not going to play, So he's hoping
I can be a voice here and I can make
my decision and people will will follow it, and they

(02:20:10):
also know that we still need to follow for social
justice reform. Because if he and Desmond doesn't play, it
just says I'm not playing, and then a week from
now puts out the same statement. People are paying attention
to it. But you put it out at the time
because this is the last time people are gonna talk
about him until next season begins. Because he's sitting out,
he knows this is my time to talk about being
socially aware. So he knows that if he did play,

(02:20:32):
he could continue to bring this about. He could talk
to reporters every single day and say we gotta do better.
We need more black gms, we need more black managing,
more black players, all all these things. He knows he'd
be able to say that and it would be it
would it would fall on and you would have a
bigger audience. So he's actually giving that up by not playing. So,
you know, a guy like Ian Desmond saying this, I

(02:20:52):
get it, I get it, you know, and you have
a family, even if you're single, and he's saying, I
don't want to I don't want to go play. Don't
feel right about it, You don't feel right about it.
Everybody wants to go play, all right. That that's what
you got. Everybody, if it was equal, they want to
be playing baseball, they'd want to be playing basketball COVID nineteen.
Everybody has different thoughts on it, and this is Ian

(02:21:12):
Desmond's and as you see a couple other players earlier
today too about yeah, I mean you got you got
the you know, fertile grounds for baseball players. A lot
of people having kids right in the middle of the season,
so there's gonna be fans that everybody saying when they
have kids in the middle of the year for anyway.
Just you know, it's just making sure every uh, every

(02:21:35):
fan fat shot out there is right. He would have
been taken weeks off anyway. He would have probably left
to go to the birth of his kid. Uh, I
wouldn't have been worth it. Twitter and out about a
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seven pm Pacific on Sports Radio and the I Heart
radiop Just keep talking as you don't say anything, it
just sits there. I didn't think I thought you were
going to what we were going to talk about next.
You didn't see it like a lob back to me.
We were talking about how easy it was to talk,
and you stopped talking. I really thought you were gonna

(02:22:18):
even give out your your Twitter address or shirt for
some music keep playing or something in bad effect, not
that you were lobbing it back up to me to
say something eloquent. Hey, listen, we got way off the
rails last hour with ty shirt and music and he
went from Benny Mardons to uh that we had Elton
John and Carly ray Jepson it was, and then Toby Keith.

(02:22:41):
I mean, we were just all over the place. Yeah,
we had back and that really brought everybody and all
we needed was a metal song and we'd have it
all all together. And there you forget about Nickelback. Yeah,
because you jump in with Nickelback every single night. So yeah,
that's not bad. Jack and John uh I will say

(02:23:02):
this is their best song. This is Nickelback's best song money.
I'm just coming coming with fire on this. There are
fifty million Nickelback albums out there somewhere, even though everybody
wants to talk about how much they suck and how
much they hate them. Fifty millions sold. Yeah, but isn't
it like uh? In in in writing, I hear that

(02:23:23):
you know a book is a best seller when it
gets to like five thousand copies, and and that sometimes
a publishing company buys a whole bunch of them to
get that person to five thousands so they can establish
them as a star. I heard that story. Yeah that's fine,
but outside of your book becoming a best seller that way, uh,
from five thousands to fifty million, come on, man, that's

(02:23:45):
a lot of zero. Son

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