Adam Gase Is A Proven Loser!

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We are live from the Geico studios as fireworks go
off across America and everybody turns into Mike Harmon, old man,

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get off my law and I'll tell you what, Mike.
I didn't think about it to the last couple of days,
but this big pushes this year more than any other
with fireworks going off. You know, this is what happens
the month before we get to fourth of July. Really,
from Mother's Day till the fourth of July, we we
get fireworks going off during the day. People lighting off fireworks.
Everybody hates it. Hates today it goes off during the day.

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What is going on? Why are people sending off fireworks?
I saw stories on CNN, Huffington Post, all over the
place about people are really fed up with fireworks now,
and I'm like, yeah, this is that just that kind
of year because this happens every year, but you know,
so I got to see it live and in person
today when people on our block are calling me and
Pam saying, hey, what can we do about making sure

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people don't light off fireworks? I mean, this is where
we're at right now. We're a tough time, Mike Harmon.
It's a lot of people just burning their money. It's
really when it comes down to there. I used to
do a nice retrieval system when neighbors would do bottle
rockets and stuff up real early the morning of the
fifth think that blue on my lawn, I'd bring him

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my back all the remnants. Okay, all right, that's nice,
the trash can and here's all your crack. Sure. So yeah, Like,
I don't don't quite understand the obsession with it. I
think at one point my dad bought like a four
dollar thing and just said, all right here, it is
also a city cop, so he wasn't going to encourage

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any you know, stupidity. Sure, follow the letter of the rules.
There uh at the law. Uh so, yeah, at one
point it was one of those little things that kind
of spun in a circle and burned out against there
it is. That's it. Uh, watch the rest of the
people burn up their money. I feel like it's just,
you know, look this year because obviously everybody is on

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edge and and everybody is piste off about stuff and
and everything going on. But every year fireworks go off,
but this year it's no. I don't like the fireworks,
and I don't like them when they go off during
the day. I don't like when I hear a couple
of bottle rockets go off at one PM. I don't
like it. I don't want to hear an M A
D At four forty five, just when I'm gonna make dinner.
I don't want to know. Nobody wants to hear the
M A D. Because you're also at a heightened awareness

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that there's other crap going on, So don't don't add
that to the mix. Right, everybody's on a bit of edge.
It is. It's tough. It's tonight. I mean, look, isn't
that kind of the summary statement off of what we
discussed in NASCAR the last two nights everybody's on edge,
so it went to a code red and then you
can decide, I mean instill. You know, Bubble Wallace today

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puts out his statement of the support of NASCAR and everything,
but last night was still fiery rhetorics. So you know, likewise,
the fireworks may may if folks are a little bit
on edge, that that's probably not helping. No, no, it's not.
It's definitely one of those things where you can say,
all right, all right, I get it, but really it's
just fireworks going off. Let's everybody just calm down a

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little bit here, Let's let's just figure everything out. Then
it's just I mean, think about the cost adding up that.
Where did you go find fireworks during the pandemic? Was
this all just sitting stored away? Hey, box work next summer?
What you got there? Fireworks? Where is it stored down
by the furnace? Why? I mean, you know, it's so

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you have that part of the element, because I don't
think you have the roadside stands all set up like
you would most may in June months of years past.
So you know, people were fully prepared. Uh so while
we are all, you know, figuring out what to do
with fireworks and and the love hate relationships we have
with them. Today is one of the maybe because of

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the way we're starting the show, you can feel today
is that kind of day. We are now in a
really weird position as it comes to sports returning when
the NBA comes back, when Major League Baseball comes back,
because we have the agreements. Major League Baseball is signed,
seal delivered. They're gonna try to report to training camp
a week from today. The NBA is making their plans.

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Team were all teams are already fearing out how to
get to Orlando for the bubble season. They're going to
have their and yet every day we get more reports
of positive coronavirus tests involving athletes. Today Malcolm Brogden, Jabari Parker,
Buddy healed. Last night was Charlie Blackman in Major League Baseball,
to go along with members of the Philadelphia Phillies who've

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had members test positive for COVID nineteen. Many gms have
said today in the NBA they are nervous about the
bubble plan because we're still seeing athletes get uh COVID
nineteen and luckily they're recuperating. They are you know, they're
they're taking care of themselves and being you know, we're
sick for a little while and moving on. So you
know they're fortunate that way. But now it's gone from Okay,

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how a sports gonna return? Now we're here and now
it's what are we gonna do with the coronavirus? And
what are we going to do with it? And I
understand the weird time we're in because it's like we
want to fast forward and get there and see how
it goes, and hopefully something incredibly positive happens, something big happens.
But to take you through the nervous time, I I think,

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what will What I would tell people nervous about the
NBA or whether it's a player, whether it's a team,
whether it's a GM, even Major League Baseball too, I
I would tell them all the same thing. I would say, Listen,
I said, don't think of it as this huge, daunting
task that you have to get through. Right, Like last
night we talked about, hey, you get what you get.

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You don't get upset if sports comes back and they
play for a little bit and it goes away. We
just celebrate the sports being here because eventually, look, that
could happen, right, We could see a sport, resume and
not play, and or resume and not be able to play,
and then we move on. We move on to the
next sport, and eventually all sports are gonna come back
as we figure out a way, as we continue to
deal with COVID nineteen. You know, So if you think
about that perspective, that would help now for the for

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the nervous time, because now it's rubber hitting the road
for both sports. All right, the agreements are here. You
gotta decide if you want to play, if you're gonna play.
I know people are only playing, and they're only doing
it because a for the money, you know, and be
because boy, what's gonna happen if I don't play? What's
it gonna be? What are my teammates gonna think about me?
No one is going to this restart all full of sunshine,

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lollipops and rainbows, hundred percent going. This is gonna be
the greatest thing in the world. Now, everybody is nervous.
And when you think about something being you know, three
months long and NBA, g M s and and and
teams and players going, my good am, I gonna be
able to stay safe for three months? What is it
don't think of it as something that's that long. Don't
think that we're gonna play the season. Don't think we're

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gonna play the Just think we're going to try to play.
We're gonna try to play and see if we can,
and we're gonna know before any games are played if
we can play this season in the NBA and Major
League Baseball, just that we're gonna go. We're gonna try
because you have to try, right, We got to try
and see and and and see how things go because

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we have players. What we've seen from the athletes getting coronavirus,
the the health, the great health they're in. It's there
sick for when it's the vast majority of people as well.
But they're sick for a while, they recoup, right, Okay,
So we have to try. But think of it as
trying because if something happens and we can't do it,
we're gonna know before we play a game that in
a and Major League Baseball is gonna say, you know what,

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we tried. We can't do it. All right, Everybody go
home and and we'll figure things out later on, but
obviously this season can happen. Just think about it that
way and if you think about, hey, where gonna go
and try and if we try it, okay, great, it's
it's it's it's almost the same philosophy of of trying
to get you know, one of your friends, or trying
to convince your uh, you know, your wife to go

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on a roller coaster ride, or convince one of your
kids to try a new sport. Hey, just try it.
Hey just try this for dinner. Okay, try this pasta.
If you don't like it, then we'll try something. But
just try it. Just try. If you just think about
that we're gonna try to play the season, it becomes
less daunting. It becomes let's go day to day and
see how it goes. Because when you think about it
being a three month task, it gets to be way

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too much and it gets mentally overwhelming and you're thinking,
how can we do this? But we're gonna go try
and when when Major League Baseball reports next Wednesday, they'll
know within a week and a half if they'll be
able to play games. NBA same thing, they'll report, they'll
know within a week and a half can we play games?
Are we getting positive coronavirus tests? How are we doing? So?
If you think about it that way. That's that's going
to be much better mentally for players and and teams

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to approach these coming seasons. Well, it's like anything whenever
you talk about a sport, Right, what what we we
talked to NFL coaches and what is it? We go
by the quarters, Right, We're gonna look at the first
four games and then we evaluate and then we go
to the second quarter and move forward likewise, you know,
baseball is in a dead sprint. Basketball is an eight

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game ramp up. Probably not a lot of juggling in
terms of playoff seating, but we finish it off, we
get a little bit of the slim down zion or
whatever it is we're being sold that he is UH,
and people get excited. So you know, take it one
homestead at homestand at a time, take it one block

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of games, one calendar week, whatever it is, UH, knowing
that they're putting in whatever protocols they can that the
union agrees to obviously consulting medical professionals as as best
they can in each municipality to make sure everybody's on board.
All Right, you're coming from State X. What do they
say here? And let's let's figure this all out and

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then you roll knowing you're gonna have positive tests, knowing
there is going to be the alarmism, right because we
see even the couple of the positive tests announced today,
and all of a sudden, everybody's got their megaphones out going,
how are we gonna play? It's like you're gonna play
just like everybody else is trying to go back to work,
just like those folks go to Walmart, Target, the grocery

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store every day. You figure it out and you apply
best practices, and you move forward, and you get momentum.
And you've got baseball teams already talking about fans in
the stand, including my White Sox. We'll see if lets
that happen. But if you're gonna let people back into
zoos and aquariums, you're better damn well let them back
in the stadiums, is all I'm gonna say that to that.

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If you can go watch mere cats pop their heads up,
I can watch a guy pop out to short. So
we go through this, uh going to Orlando. Yeah, it's
a unique experiment, a unique time. You know what, Get
the cameras out and let's document it at all. Look
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the Geico Studios.
We're gonna get to camps right, We're gonna figure things out.

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And I can see the NBA and all the players
getting there, and I can see a scenario where the
NBA and Major League Baseball says, Okay, now we have
control of the players right now, we can make sure
they're living in the quarantine. We trust them too, because
look what's going on is players aren't hearing to quarantine. Look, buddy,
healed positive coronavirus test. I read today that last week
he played in a Skins League game in Oklahoma, scored

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forty five points. So the guys playing basketball was filling
it up looking amongst yeah, amongst when when he shouldn't
have been playing in a gym with a bunch of people,
and here he is getting positive corona coronavirus test. So
you're going to play right. This is this is what
teams have to fight against, is that the players aren't
doing what they should be doing. A lot of people
aren't doing it. We decided we just we're done with coronavirus,

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and that's just stupid. But now they feel like, okay,
now we're gonna have the players. Now we have control
over them, so now we can make sure we they
they don't do anything that's going to expose them to
the coronavirus. So I can see that being a great
scenario that hey, wait a minute, you know what, this
whole thing is working. Now everybody is around the team
and and they're around each other. It works. The old
Bill parcels theory that the worst part for him for

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a football team was the time when they weren't playing,
because you leave guys to their own devices, and sometimes
bad decisions get made. But when you're around the team
every day and you have that sense of together and
some responsibility, you're going to do what you can for
uh your team, and you'll be a good teammate. He said,
I never had to worry about my team while we
were together. So I can see that part of it
for the NBA and Major League Baseball that you know what,

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we're together now, it's gonna work. It's gonna work, and
we have control and make sure that. You know, maybe
a night where you wanted to go out and do X,
Y or Z, now you can't do it, so you're
staying safe and you're staying home. But I can also
see us going to the bubble and practice thing for
a few days, and they're being a bunch of coronavirus
tests that that are that are dotted across the landscape,

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and the NBA says, you know what, we gotta pull
up stakes and leave. And suddenly the bubble idea never
even gets off the ground and everybody is going back
and we're trying to figure out a way forward from
here because it just didn't work. So I can see
those things happening. But that's why since no one knows,
just think we're gonna try to play. And if we
try to do it, okay, great, and if it doesn't,

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we're gonna know way ahead of time that we can't
do it mentally. That will do a lot for everybody involved.
Take those next steps ahead best practices, and treat these
folks to like adults, but talk to them like their
five year olds. And here's the diagram of how how
this really screws us up and takes money out of
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suddenly just shows up in your room with it's just
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Coming up in a couple of minutes. Why suddenly is

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Jamal Adams want to be traded? Why suddenly after he
has talked about wanting out for a while, but I'll
still stay with the Jets. Why suddenly in the past
week is he pushing to go to Dallas? Has he
officially requested a trade? Maniche Maida reports that the fissure
between the Jets and Jamal Adams cracked open because of

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the bad relationship he has with head coach Adam Gaze.
Here's some of the facts that or here's some of
the the story that maniche Maida has on Adam Gaze.
Major factor why he's uncomfortable with the team. The team
does not respect Adam Gaze. He has lost the respect
of the locker room. He has rubbed them the wrong

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way with his inability to lead and lack of support.
This is coming right from a Niche made his article.
Too many players, including play Too many people, including players, coaches,
and front office members don't trust or believe in Gaze.
They feel he's disingenuous, They feel he is insecure and
will always point a finger at other people. All of
this stuff we have seen over the course of the

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past fourteen months. Last week he fired a long time
team trainer, John Melody, which was, really, you're firing this
guy because he was so well liked in the organization.
And the only reason that he is around is because
Sam Donald and David Fails, the first and second string
quarterback right now, because Joe Flacco, still coming back from injury,
are the only ones who really tolerate him. And this

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is where the relationship is. Nobody likes Adam Gaze. He's
alienated the players, and the only reason he's around is
because Sam Donald quote tolerates him. I don't doubt any
of this because look what if I told you, Mike
from the beginning with Adam Gaze, he didn't learn his
lessons from Miami. He alienated players in Miami. He's alienated
players here in New York. He's alienated Levi on Bell,

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He's now alienated Jamal Adams. The only reason he is
still the coach is because if you fired him suddenly,
this would be the third head coach and the third
offensive system that Sam Donald would have in three years.
And you are never going to be a good quarterback.
If that's the case, I guarantee you that's the only
reason he has a job is because Donald hasn't said, hey,

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let's get rid of the guy, and and they thought
the best thing for his growth is let's keep him
in this system. But really, I mean, you know me, my,
My whole big thing is I say, I don't get
certain actors or actresses appeal Why people think there's such
a good Why this guy is not really a good actor,
She's not really a good actress. I can't believe the
jobs that they get in Hollywood. I feel the same
way about Adam Gaze. Adam Gaze failed with Miami. The

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players hated him. He didn't learn any lessons because he
jumped right from head coach of the Dolphins to the
head coach of the Jets. His offenses stink. They finish
in the bottom the bottom order of the NFL every
single year. I don't get the affinity for him. Did
Peyton Manning really did? Did he screw the Jets for
a second time in twenty years? He wouldn't get us
to the draft in nineties seven, and he recommends Adam

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Gaze a year and a half ago that hey, you
gotta hire Adam Gaze. So okay, we're gonna hire Adam Gaze.
I I don't get the draw of why the Jets
had to have Adam Gaze. Your damn right, he did
and he Let's let's bring on many to explain exactly
how miserable this situation is. Maniche Maida joins us now
on the hot Line New York Delhi News Insider. You know, Mania,

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We're gonna have a conversation right now, and we're both
gonna say to each other, Oh, yeah, yeah, that's it. No, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
How's it going. I'm doing well? How are you guys? Oh? Man,
I'll tell you what. I reading your article today and
seeing this story just blow up this afternoon and everything
in there, I said, yeah, I don't understand that the

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affinity for for Adam Gates. I don't understand how the
Jets loved him. I don't understand how they still think
he's good because his offenses are terrible. He's alienated players.
And I keep coming back to the same thing. And
you alluded to this in in your in your column.
If it wasn't for the fact that Donald would have
his third head coach and third offensive system in three years,
Adam Gaze would be gone. And I feel like I'm
just waiting for that to happen, which is at some

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point it's gonna happen. I'm just gonna wait until the
day it happens. Well, I can assure you that if
Sam Donald ever did go to ownership and say that
I can't evolve and grow with Adam Gates and Adam
Gaze would be in all leglhood fired tomorrow. However, that's
not practical because that's not in Sam Donald's makeup. It's

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not part of his DNA. And I genuinely do think
that Donald hopes that this marriage with Adam Gates works,
and that just kind of how Donald is, you know,
is made up, and he's you know, he kind of
looks for the best and everybody. He's also an extremely
young player. Uh not not everybody is twenty three years
old in that locker room. There's people, uh on both

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sides of the ball who have more experience, you know,
they have been around the league kind of understand the
business aspect of it more than than Donald does. But look,
I think part of the reason that Gays is still
here is because of what you just said. You know,
having three different coordinators in the first three years of
your young quarterbacks career is a recipe for the disaster.

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There's also a real financial element to this, and that
should not be discounted. The Jets ownership does not want
to be on the hook after firing a coach after
one year because the coaching contracts are guaranteed. So, uh,
you know, that's another element. And then perhaps the most
important element is that the person making the decision on
Adam Gaze's ultimate fate will be Woody Johnson, who is

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the actual owner of the team, and he's over in
the UK as the ambassador for the Trump administration. The
indications are that what he will be back, uh really
regardless I think of the outcome of the election, that
what he will be back at the end of this year.
He's the owner of Christopher Johnson was the acting owner
that you the placeholder if you will, while Woody was overseas,

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and he is the one who hired Adam Gaze. I
do not believe that Christopher Johnson will have an opportunity
to determine the fate of another head coach. So you know,
all of those elements are in play when you're trying
to decipher, you know, why Adam Gates is here still
and how much longer uh he will be here and
what he needs to do to keep his employee alright.

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Mean's what are the best odds what that we're going
to see as a result for the Jets when they
start playing. Adam Gates and Jamal Adams are both Jets,
Adam Gaze is a Jet and Jamal Adams isn't. Or
Jamal Adams is a Jet and Adam Gaze isn't. What's
the most likely of those scenarios? Uh? You know, given
those three options, I would say that the most likely

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scenario would be that both Adam Gaze and Jamal Adams
would be with the team when the season begins, assuming
the season does begin in a couple of months, when
they go to Buffalo for their first game against the Bills. Uh.
You know, uh I think uh you read part of
the story uh that I wrote today. Uh. What was

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particularly jarring for me, not necessarily surprising, but jarring really
over the past year or so is getting this information
kind of trickle in from all corners of the organization, players, uh, coaches,
even front office. Uh. They all say variations of the
exact same thing, which is that Adam Gates is not
respected in the building. And anybody who tells you that

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Adam Gates is respecting the building is being disingenuous because
that's not true, that's not accurate, that's not a reflection
of what is happening in that organization. Some people tolerate
him in in the locker room, the quarterbacks uh quote
unquote like him for lack of a better word, because
he does invest most of his time with the quarterbacks,
but by and large, uh, you know, the rest of

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his team does not respect him, and for good reason.
It's because of his actions, how he comports himself day
in and day out. He is not a leader. I
have written that at nauseum because that is the information
that I've gotten over the past twelve to fifteen months,
and over the past week or so. Uh, with this
Jamal Adams situation as the backdrop, I've been in and days,

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but from people in the organization, all levels of the organization,
basically reinforcing what I've already been told, which is that
you know, Adam Gates is an issue with not only
Jamal Adams, with other players they don't want to play
for him. I can't be any more blunt about it. Uh.
He has a history of this, as everybody knows in Miami.

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You know, you outline the fact that he has not
been successful without Peyton Manning. The most remarkable stat surrounding
Adam Gates is that he has been in the NFL
for seventeen seasons in some capacity. He has been part
of a winning team only four times in those seventeen seasons,
and in three of those four seasons, Peyton Manning was
his head coach what was it, quarterback? So I think

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about that. I think Gay Manning was associated with the
team that he was on on paid Manny is not
associated with the team that Adam Gates is a part of.
Gates has been a part of one winning team in
his NFL life. So you know, just as a coach,
you know, as a football person, not nothing personal, but

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as a coach, Adam Gates is a proven loser. Wow,
you just summed it up nicely right there. And he's
so We've got Jamal Adams and that's the one on
the front burner. In the back is Lean Bell just
sitting there sipping on a soda pop and waving, because
that's got to be perk lat In there too. I
think it's fairly obvious. Uh, what that relationship is really about.

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Levy On Bell was in the worst imaginable way last year.
It wasn't that long ago, guys. The end of the
two thousand and seventeen season, the Steelers lost in the
playoffs to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Levy On Bell's last game
as a Pittsburgh Steeler he had over a hundred fifty
total yards and three touchdowns. I know he took a
season off nowhere and tear on his body, but I

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we took a season off. He didn't suddenly go from
that type of running back, arguably the best all around
running back in the NFL, to a running back who
averages three point two yards to carry and is largely
an afterthought, which is what happened last year. That's because
largely the people around him, but perhaps most importantly, how
he was used. And this is a head coach who

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never wanted him in free agency. Uh, levy On Bell
essentially was forced on Adam Gates by the former general
manager and the acting owner. Those are the two guys
who wanted Bell and uh Adam Gates frankly, isn't flexible
enough or open minded enough to understand that he had
a dynamic weapon at his disposal. Instead, he tried to
conform Bell into his own offensive scheme, and it clearly

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didn't work. New York Daily News Jets insider Miniche made
it with us here The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen,
Live from the Geico Studios. All right, so many we've
heard the stories you just talked about how the Jets
don't want to play for m Jamal Adams doesn't want
to play for him. Yes, he has been someone who,
as we've seen in postgame press conferences, it's not it's
not going to point the finger at himself, is going

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to point at others. What's it? Give me a story,
Give me something that happened, maybe off the field, that
you could tell without without getting it out, you know,
burning a source. I don't want you to do that.
But give me a story you can tell that's like, wow,
this is this is one of those shining examples why
Jets players don't want to play for games. H Wow,
it's hard for me to do that without violating some confidences.

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Let's get it, But I will put it this way. Look,
he is publicly thrown the offensive line under the bus.
He did that, I believe after the first game, so
it didn't take him long to throw the old line
under the bus. I will say this, and you guys
get interpreted anyway you want to look into it anyway
you want. No player on this roster, literally, no player
on this roster has been immune too. Uh, his criticism. Privately,

(26:55):
he had thrown virtually every meaningful player under the us
for underperforming, every single one. And you can kind of
rewind his conversation, uh, you know, and and and listen
back to who we talked about earlier. He had criticized
and thrown virtually every player under the bus. Uh, nobody
is immune. Literally, no player on this roster has been

(27:17):
immune to him. Uh, you know, kind of you know,
taking a shot at but it's uh, that's a nice
laundry list. Smith. Now we gotta start going through articles.
We gotta go work those secondary sources to find out
some of those great, great stories in the offing there. Uh,
just back to the Jamal Adams situation here. Obviously, the

(27:43):
more he talks, you know, we we've seen rumors of
the forty niners. Obviously he's talking to people randomly, Hey,
are you coming to Dallas? Yeah, I'm in, I'm I'm coming.
I'm trying to Uh, does he show up in camp
as a Jet or is this just done where he
just way it's for the call to send him somewhere else. Well, Look,

(28:04):
if I were a twenty four year old All Pro player,
it would be very difficult for me to to not
play football. You know, I can't obviously get into Jamal
adams head. But the one thing that every Jet fan knows, Uh,
maybe not every NFL fan, but clearly people that follow
the Jets on a daily basis, they know that this
guy has an incredible work ethic, he doesn't cut any corners,

(28:25):
and he legitimately loves football. He's not a guy who's
gonna mail it in if you gave him a big
time contract, like for example, Mo Wilkerson. I mean that
guy tanked as soon as he got a big deal.
I'm fairly certain that everyone who follows the Jets realizes
how much Jamal Adams has dedicated to playing football. So

(28:46):
I would I would say that he would be playing football.
I don't think he would sit out again. I don't
know that definitively. I just I'm going off the last
three years, going off of what I know about him
in terms of what football means to him. This this
is not only a superstar player, Guys, He's a guy
who does not get in trouble. Uh you know, He's

(29:06):
He's been a good face of the franchise for three years.
And I know that there's you know, there's angst between
uh Jamal Adams and some of the fan base. They
don't necessarily like how you know, he has said certain
things publicly on social media. What I can tell you
is based on the information that I have collected over
the last I don't know, almost year. Uh. I would

(29:28):
say that any fan, if they were privy to everything
that has transpired behind the scenes, or most of everything
that's transpired behind the scenes in the last year or so,
I would suggest and tend to think that most fans
would understand where Jamal Adams is coming from. I do
understand where the Jets are coming from you on some level.

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But I've had people in the organization try to justify
things that I have been told, uh, you know about
what has happened over the last six seven months, and
you know, frankly, there was just a actions are ludicrous.
You know, if the Jets were in the right, I
would say, I think the Jets are in the right,
the players in the wrong. But in this particular instance, uh,
knowing what I know has transpired this offseason, I can

(30:12):
tell you that the Jets are absolutely not in the
right all right. Lastly, Minishia. The one thing I would say,
because I you know, there is this part of it,
and you know this goes back really, you know, like
forty years, is that any time the Jets give big
money to somebody, it never works out. I mean, and
you you're you're staring, you know, you go back to
extending Mark Sanchez when they didn't have to, the money
they gave Tom Wilkerson who just quit, and now you're

(30:35):
after he got paid, and now you're coming off the
big investment in Truemaine Johnson and they had to move
on from him. If they hadn't gotten burned so much,
you know, just taken away from Gates for a moment,
and they hadn't been getting burned so much in the
pet like I said, the past forty years, and then
they getting burned so much. What would it be easier
to give Jamal Adams the money and say, Okay, this
is gonna work. Yes, you're the guy we give the
money to, because you do give it to a guy

(30:57):
like Jamal Adams. But seeing the track record, boy, everybody
given money to, nobody has worked out, and we're trying
to figure out the end of contracts. I don't think
that that should really impact your decision making because every
case is different. Obviously the decision makers are different. Ownership
by and large, it's the same over the last twenty
years or so. But for the most part, you know,

(31:18):
these guys who were making the decisions, the head coach,
the general manager. You know there's turnover there. Uh. You know,
you can't be gun shy about that kind of kind
of stuff. If you believe a guy's worth the investment,
you pay him regardless of past failures, because past failures
don't necessarily indicate that you're gonna fail uh and make
a bad deal with the current guy. So I don't

(31:40):
know if that should factor into the equation. What I
do know is that there needs to be an open
and clear line of communication when you have money, communication
that ultimately leads to fractured communication and then uh, you
get you know, chaos, which you know on some levels
what we have right now. As an organization, you have
to have an open, clear dialogue with your player, especially

(32:03):
if this is the best player on your roster. Jamal
Adams is far and away the best player on this roster,
and to not have a clear dialogue and an open dialogue,
to me is confounding. It's really strange to me, you know.
And I don't want to lampoon the Jets gratuitously. However,
I cannot wrap my brain around the notion that you
would not have a fleep, a free flowing dialogue with

(32:26):
your best player who's looking for a new deal. You
can follow on Twitter at m mada n y d
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Players including Jamal Adams, do not want to play for
Adam case. Minisha is always thank you for staying up
late for us, My friend, appreciate it. We'll talk to

(32:48):
you soon. Thanks, guys, I appreciate you. Thanks man be good. Wow,
that was a that's how do you how do you
really feel? Man? That's a that's that's like he is
fireball from uh running Man. And but look you look
miniche made. Look these are people I've talked to for

(33:08):
the last year plus, and we've known that people don't
like in players don't like Adam Gaze privately published stuff.
We see that that the average fan can see and go, boy,
Adam Gate, what's he doing throwing the members of the
team under the bus? Uh not uh not taking it
responsibility for bad uh plays and bad decisions he's made,
not being successful offensive coach because his offense is finished

(33:29):
in the bottom of the of the league all the time,
and the players don't like him. I again, none of
this really has been uh disputed from anywhere and and
it's just one of those cases where I I I
don't know how long it's gonna be until the Jets
just decide, but I feel like I'm just waiting it out.
It's an inevitability that Adam Gaze is gonna get fired
and would have to go through this year, and then

(33:51):
it's gonna be another head coach, Jim Harbaugh, and then
who knows who's next, Who's gonna come in and you know,
take over the team. Pete Carroll, you have no idea
who's gonna want to do it, and he came into
another run as a Jets coach, you know. But listen,
because they're gonna need Urban Meyers. Somebody's gonna come in
from somewhere and take over. And really Nick Saban be

(34:11):
able to to try to coach Sam Darnald and get
him to the next level. Kyle Shanahan, one of these
guys is gonna do it. So I just feel like
I'm waiting until that style, Shannon. It had me with
the wishing and hoping of the rest of the guys.
All Right, they're old and they want a new challenge.
Kyle Shanahan. Wow, big stuff on the biggest NFL story

(34:35):
the past few days, without a doubt. Miniche madea We're
gonna put that up on our Fox Sports Radio site.
Amazing stuff there. Uh. We got more coming up in
ninety seconds, But first, be sure to catch live editions
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the Geico

(34:56):
Studios and we got something fun and hot tak ish
on Major League Baseball coming up in about ten minutes.
That's that really is. We're gonna stay away from COVID nineteen.
We're gonna talk about some surprise teams that could win
the World Series in this shortened season. And you're gonna go,
oh my god, you're crazy. Um, you know, the Bears.

(35:17):
The Bears can't win the World Series. Bears. Just I understand,
I understand. I say things to you and you just
say Bears. I mean all the time. It's it's like that, hey,
how are you today? Good Bears? What does that mean?
It's a sign of solidarity, it's a sign of hope,

(35:38):
it's a sign of togetherness. But this story coming out
of the NBA that's starting to get a lot of attention.
Now once again, LaVar Ball has made news. He has
gone viral with comments he has made about his son, LaMelo,
who phenomenal prospect and depending on who you believe, anywhere

(35:58):
from the third to seven their twelfth best prospect in
the NBA draft. He has said tonight that he doesn't
want LaMelo Ball to play for the Golden State Warriors.
Why quote, that's the part I don't like about Golden State.
They got Clay and the other guys not not not
Steph Curry not it's not not a Clay and the

(36:19):
other guys. And now you want to put Mellow in
that mix to say you gotta follow these guys. Mellow
ain't no follower. This is this is what does not
want LaMelo Ball to go to the Warriors because he'd
have to play in the shadow of Clay and the
other guys. Not not saff Clay and the other guys.
He would want that. Uh, this is what's gonna be

(36:41):
fascinating about the draft when LaMelo Ball's name is out there,
because talent wise, look, the kid is terrific, and you know,
I think a lot of teams will look past the
fact that LaVar Ball took him on a Where's Waldo
adventure for the past three and a half years, you know,
trying to get to the point where he can be
drafted in the NBA. And look, he is talented, but really,

(37:02):
how many teams are going to see him sitting there
at three four five and say, you know what, not
worth it. I saw what happened with Alonzo Ball and
the Lakers not gonna do it. It was made for
Alonzo to succeed with the Lakers, and look what happened.
They couldn't wait to get rid of him. And you're
gonna watch LaMelo Ball fall through the draft and not
get drafted. It's fascinating to see if someone's actually up

(37:24):
high going to say we'll take LaMelo Ball, knowing full
well we're in bed with LaVar Ball for the next
four years. I say this knowing full well the Knicks
are gonna be that team. But I really wonder if any,
if any teams, or how many teams are gonna pass
on him because of LaVar Ball. Now that's the hard
part of this, right, because you watch Alonso. Now, Alonso's
turning into a hell of a player, right, both ends

(37:45):
of the floors, becoming that much more to what Magic
was promising, hanging the jersey and the rafters because he
doesn't have to be the guy. But can you withstand
the storm? Most teams are two weak, especially those drafting
that high and sweet we got the insane stories in Norway.
Coming up next, surprise teams that can win it all

(38:06):
in baseball Fox be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
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Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Oh Live
from the Get Go Studios are we have had a

(38:26):
crazy first hour on the show tonight. Uh, tonight's first
hour is is kind of like the last hour or
last Night show. We're keeping track of the Trevor Bauer
Kurt Schilling Aubrey Huff feud that was going on, so
just got insane. Well you can do some dramatic readings
with that stuff and have some fun. Yeah, it really

(38:48):
is it, It really is something I can't get over.
The the general craziness that just like crops up at
a moment's notice and people fund Oh with no games,
what are you guys gonna talk about? We don't need
the games. Body, We leave so many stories on the floor.
Maybe last night we had so much going on that

(39:08):
Antonio Brown became a nothing Yeah. Yeah, and Baltimore and
it was just like you lose people being crazy. But
we look, every day is a big day as far
as what we're going to see going ahead with sports.

(39:28):
Look that that's that's been the the number one story
for the past few months as always, all right, what
kind of formal sports take when it returns? What sports
will return? It's been a daily thing. And uh, you know,
now that we know that sports is coming back, they're
gonna try to come back. And we're hoping that the
positive coronavirus sets that we're hearing about now are going
to abate somewhat and we'll be able to play. Let's

(39:50):
have a different conversation. Let's have a fun baseball conversation,
because I am going to give you over the course
of the show tonight, I got four teams my harmon
that would be surprise World Series winners, that things can
fall right for them and they can win the World Series.
And I don't mean like surprises. I'm gonna say, oh

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the Mets, no, No, No four. You know, I'm gonna
give you four teams that are outside the top twelve
as far as the lowest odds to win the World Series,
because honestly, the Mets are like the seventh best odds
to win the World Series. I mean, there ain't teen
to one. Pretty I mean still pretty good return if
you if you go down that route. Oh yeah, look
I look, I just replied Fox Sports. MLB just did
a thing on social media saying, okay, fans, the World

(40:34):
Series champion will be the blank, and I wrote the
Mets they go fifty five and five beat the Yankees
in the series to Grant pitches a perfect game in
the clinching game. So I mean, I had, I had
to get in there, you know that. That's part We're
trying to work our way into the rotation over and
FS one and storm the lot. That ain't gonna help,
Oh sure it will. Are you kidding him on the air?

(40:56):
He's crazy? Let's put them on the crazy man on it.
What are you doing? Let's put him on the air.
Let's let's put him on the air. Let's do it.
Why not, this isn't Let's open the phone lines and
let this jacket. Dude, dude, I was just read LA
Craig Carton, who went to prison for defrauding people out
of money in the millions of dollars, just got released

(41:16):
like two years early, and already I'm reading he's gonna
get back on the air like right away. Come on, well,
he gets to tell you some some tales from the pen.
You I mean, dude, the guy from barstool Sports may
wind up being one of the Mets owners. I mean,
come on, man, and stuff can happen. This is America.
It's the land of whatever it is. You know that

(41:38):
you can be crazy and do stuff fans. I don't know.
I don't know. I couldn't come up with a good
line there. I know you were trying to figure out
some other example, but you're like, you know, and I
could say that and I'll get in trouble. So that
might be just to U two on the nose. But
let's talk because we talked about last night a little
bit when the decision came in. Many teams will have

(42:01):
a chance to win it all this year where they
normally wouldn't because they can uniquely take advantage of what
a sixty games schedule has to has to offer. And
there's different teams that can do it in different ways.
That's what we're gonna what I'm gonna lay out for you,
because look, there's some teams that in a hundred and
sixty two games would have no shot of overtaking anybody
and winning the division and getting to the playoffs, right,

(42:23):
But when you talk about sixty games, there are definite
things that are right in the wheelhouse of a lot
of teams that you wouldn't expect to be contending. But
could you see him catch lightning in a bottle for
sixty games? And then you stay hot in the playoffs
and do it absolutely, And there's different reasons for it.
But this short season, obviously, teams like the Dodgers and

(42:45):
the Yankees are going to be the favorites to win
the World Series, and they should be because on paper
they're the most talented teams. But there are a couple
of teams out there there. I got at least four
teams that I could say, boy, if they won the
World Series, I can see it happening, and I wouldn't
be surprised at it. I like it. You've you've colored
me intrigued, all right, So let's let's go with a

(43:05):
couple of teams here and again we're gonna go over
four for the night, all right. The first team I
can tell you about is I know this is gonna
surprise you, but this is a team that's on the
way up already, and they haven't been on the way
up for a long time, but now they're on the
way up, and they have prospects who are who are
showing up and they're starting to show they're pretty good.

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It would not surprise me getting hot the San Diego Padres.
Think about this for a second, because the Padres have
something uniquely that could they could take advantage of this
sixty game schedule. Right they look, we we know the
prospects they have on on the way up. Right, They're
gonna rely on Machado. They're gonna lie in uh Tatis
who came up and was fantastic. They have other big

(43:48):
building blocks. They added Zach Davies and Drew Palmerans in
the off season. But here's the thing about the Padres, Right,
Chris Paddock looks like he's going to be a star. Right.
He had a really good year last year and he
loves to get into it on social media two with
a lot of people. You have some other young pictures
that are coming up, like Mackenzie Gore, who was projected
to be a high end UH starting pitcher. Un just
Moon throws a hundred miles an hour. You're talking about

(44:11):
relying on young pitching now over the course one hundred
and sixty two games. Does that work out? No, because
all young pitching hits the wall. At some point, pitchers
are only gonna throw a certain number of innings and
and before you have to either power them down or
before they lose their effectiveness, because they got to build
up to be able to to be a starting pitcher
in Major League Baseball from April through the end of September.

(44:31):
But sixty games, you're talking about these guys making ten
or eleven starts before you hit the playoffs. We have
seen guys stay hot that have shown up. Hey through
ten or eleven games, Look at they're eighting two. They
have a phenomenal season. Then if we get to the
middle of the season, the end of the season, they
kind of fall back to the pack a bit because
baseball either catches up with them or they hit the
wall a bit because you know, they they're just not

(44:53):
throwing as hard or they're not throwing as well because
mentally and physically they're tired. But can I see these
you know, the padre's young arms come up and over
the course of the first few weeks, could they win
thirty five games and make the playoffs? And suddenly, hey,
all this young pitching, all this full of adrenaline. Guys
that that that don't know any better. Can I see

(45:13):
the Padres making a run there? Yeah? Are you talking
about surprise teams now that are outside that I can
see the Padres of us be a surprise team making
a run and winning the World Series. I like the
way you think. I like the cut of your jib,
and Dodger fans right now are just waving you off,
going that guys insane. Let's he talking about. How about

(45:34):
I go to the American League and give you one. Okay,
you can't say in the White Sox though your White
Sox are actually uh not bad like your are just
like a couple below the mats. You're like one now
side the Phillies and the Indians. Phillies are interesting. They're
they're at thirty to one. But uh, certainly gonna be

(45:55):
well off the radar because everybody's just assuming, uh, you're
your normal heavy way to run away with that division
and hide when you got the Nationals and and and
certainly um the Braves. You know it's not not not
easy pickings at all, but certainly and your mets, uh

(46:16):
I have to be gradually throw them in. I'm gonna
go look at the Texas Rangers because they have three
veterans at the start of their rotation. When you look
at uh coming in with Lynn, Minor and Cluber, you
got guys that that can all eat innings. Right, So
the potential is of having to to work through the

(46:39):
the early part of a sixty game stretch and those
arms will still be fresh and their battle tested when
you get down to it for the playoffs as well. Right,
You're not gonna have guys that are suddenly wide eyed
and it takes on some other meeting and maybe this
is just the weird year that even for the kids,
it doesn't happen. Yeah, Frostberg just posted to Twitter we're
laughing with a picture of Ron Burgundy responding to years. Look, look, look,

(47:05):
I understand that no, Look I understand that nobody really
thinks of the Padres or knows they're good young players
that are not sure. This is what they've done for
the past five years. They've done the seventy sixers. They
have built up a lot of good young players and
here they are. They're on the way up. And in
a normal season, maybe the Padres are a five team,
you know, but we're talking about sixty games and you're

(47:28):
talking about getting out of the gate, fast and matching
at the young pictures, not having to throw a lot,
and being able to go all out for the entire
season into the playoffs. Yeah, the surprise teams now surprise teams.
Look sleep on the padres at your own at your
own risk. And that's why I went absolutely crazy town
with my hundred to one shoot of the Texas Rangers,

(47:49):
looking at the three veteran starters at the front of
your rotation once we get to the playoffs. You know
in theory, that's that's what you need, right is is
just guys that can eat some inning for you, Uh,
make it interesting and give your lineup that is so
replete with power all the way through. Santana is gonna
be your everyday center fielder. He's got pop, the Todd

(48:11):
Father is still getting some at bats who door can
can launch, gallo, et cetera. Go through their entire lineup.
I mean, they're gonna put up runs and now it's
just may and make them count. And Texas said, think
could surprise because I in Houston's far and away favorite
for the division. And then we've talked a lot about

(48:31):
why not us when it comes to the the the
Angels and into the Mariners, which will get into as
the show goes on. And Oakland, just like Tampa Bay,
they win games. You're always left wondering how did they
do it? You've never heard of these guys. But again,
a young rotation will keep them in it. But I say,
for Texas, seventy eight wins kind of surprising, uh, last year,

(48:55):
given all the considerations coming in. So we'll throw them
on the board. Here, look at you throwing the Texas
Rangers out. They're awesome. Not the Jason Spence Show with
Mike Carmen Live from the Geico Studios. I'm gonna give
you another team, uh, that can win it all for
another different reason, being able to take advantage of the
shortened season, and this one is more about hitting than pitching.

(49:20):
But you know, we mentioned them really briefly last night
because we talked about, you know, if if you're any
bottom feeder team, you have to be able to go
into the season and say, hey, why not us this year? Right,
it's only sixty games, Right, it's not. It's sixty games?
Why not us? Watch out for the Angels? All right?
Joe Madden taking over? Right? They paid all that money
for Anthony ren Don. Their lineup is deep. I mean

(49:42):
they they are gonna hit the baseball, and Otani at
some point's gonna come back and pitch. They have a
lot of pitching questions, and I understand that, but in
a sixty games season, not a hundred sixty two games,
they can hit their way by teams over that amount
of time. Now, they don't need their pitching to be great.
They just needed to be okay. And look, they don't
have good pitch. I'm gonna tell you they don't. But

(50:03):
Mickey Callaway as bad a manager as he was with
the New York Mets, and he was terrible, just completely
out of his death. As a pitching coach, he's been fantastic.
He was great with the Indians, he was great with
the Mets starters. Zach Wheeler just making all kinds of
millions of dollars with the Philadelphia Phillies. Now because of
Mickey Mickey Callaway, Stephen Max is now staying healthy and

(50:24):
and part of the Mets future. Because of Mickey Callaway.
Jacob Degram won the Cy Young again last year. Well,
I mean that was just am But you've seen what
what he can do and the effect he can have
on a pitching staff and all you do is get
these guys to pitch. Okay, I'm not saying Mickey Callaway's
gonna show up and suddenly, hey, guys, yeah, we we
go one through three with anybody else in Major League Baseball.
But you can make those slight improvements in a division

(50:48):
that isn't as strong top to bottom as you think
it is, and they mash and you can mash over
sixty games. Watch out. I mean, the Angels could be
that team with a new leader ship they got, they
got a new lease on life in Major League Baseball
and suddenly, bang here go to the Angels and win
the World Series. I like the way you're thinking. And
Albert Pojost won't fall apart sixty games Mike Trout meaningful

(51:11):
at bats because there's only sixty games. Uh, that would
be the most meaningful at bats he's had in a while,
outside of opening games, Sam Right or winning a truck
in the All Star Game. I mean, I mean it
because this is a team that forever has had the

(51:32):
mashers to be able to win games nine eight all
the time. But the problem is, you know you can't
do that all the time. You know you have to
be able to have some nights where right, we don't
we we don't need to have the offense go out
and score seven runs to win. And look, like I said,
it's about the shortened season and about what you can
do over sixty games in the playoffs and stay out. Now,
once you get to the playoffs, you need some kind

(51:53):
of pitching because there's always less hitting in the playoffs
and there is in the regular season. But this line
up the way it is, he had a big bounce
back season from Mandelson Simmons. You've got a lot of
mashes in this lineup, and now you're adding Anthony ren
Don't oh my goodness, and Joe Madden certainly. You know,
if you're gonna listen to anybody, suddenly here comes Joe Magnet's. Okay, guys,
this is how we're gonna do things, all right, got it,

(52:13):
got it, got it, got it, got it. I mean
that the Angels are a team that people can really
sleep on. But like I said, it's that short schedule,
not you gotta take advantage of. He'll be crazy, but
it's fresh and new to them. As he lives out
of his RV waiting for the season to start, it's
like you like my uncle used to say that to
me all the time. Whenever he would give me something,
I would go, I would go, hey, what is is like?

(52:34):
He said, Hey, I got a T shirt for you? Oh? Great,
and I would get it and I'd go, like, I
feel like he's worn it and Washington give it to
me and go, oh is this new? He goes, it's
new to you? What do you care? I'm like, no,
you're right. Thanks, I appreciate the T shirt. Jim, Thanks,
and I gotta go for reruns in the spring on NBC.
Do you twitter at? How about a Fresca Mike and
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party territory because it's been a long time for Daft Punk,

(53:37):
Like it's been like eight years since they've done anything. Yeah,
this is like two thousand and twelve. I think for
Daft Punk, it's still the legend of the Phoenix. Dat listen,
I don't I don't like dat which one is Daft
and which one is punk? Because there's two of them
tie shirt? Do you know? Yeah? I do? Okay, the
guy on left is always Daft, the guy rights always Punk. Okay,

(53:59):
got it all right? Great? Oh hey, hey, I meant
to ask you. This is they take the music. It's
very very important. Uh, you had a really big thing
happened to you today, and I want to know how
you feel. I saw that g n C is filing
for bankruptcy, so I don't know where where are you
going to get your protein and vitamins and and things.
Jim Smith about Jason has been a very emotional day

(54:22):
for me. I know, I know, I don't know if
I could talk about hold on all right? That's what
I just want to make sure because I know that
your hangout. I know you know you like to hang
out to you know, in front of it and just
see people as they come in every day. It was
probably one of my favorite things is to let people
know what they didn't need and where to buy it.

(54:43):
It was probably one of the best times of my
meathead life. Jason, all right, now you either sound you
either sound emotional or you're constipated. I'm sorry. I was
trying to finish chewing the burrito right there. Okay, very
I was trying to chew the burrito. I got a
g NC that comes in the form of a pill.
It's actually a protein. It's like Willy Wonka when you
eat the whole meal in the pill and then you know,

(55:03):
you see what happens to Violet Beauregard. The same thing
happens that I go and I get an entire meal
just in a pill and at zero calories. A boy
feel full? Don't you dare make Willy Wonka g NC related?
You stop that Wonka same principle, A little bit of this,
a little bit of that, a little experimentation. Now you're
big and green. You are right, though, I always wondered

(55:25):
why the Loompa was like, oompa, loompdump do what kind
of prote rehearsals? Huh down, go ahead? Wait, I talked
over that. Do that again? Hit hit record tomato soup
running down my throat. Yeah, spit it out, spit it out.

(55:48):
She's chewing the gum and he's he's getting the four
courts meal in the chew income. Now come saying he
sounded pain because an hour one you got the word
fishery and it had nothing to do with an anatomy.
A good gap by you. Uh so, I know, ty
shirt's a tough day for you, but it's just been Yeah, no,
I I get it. I I completely Where am I

(56:08):
going to go to listen to a sixty five year oldlady?
Tell me what I need for protein? Meat? There's a
place that has beef. You look like my grandson. If
you would eat a little bit more, you'll get you
your skin and bones. And you have a man bun?
What is that all about? The best was asking him

(56:28):
about way isolate and then like the different type of
proteins there are between hemp. Oh, it was great. She
had no idea. Did they go into a deep dive
on isolation during quarantine. I just knew she meant business
when she put glasses on and pulled out like the binder.
That's when I knew was getting serious. Al Right, well,
thank you for checking. No, it's okay. I'm glad that

(56:50):
you know. I really would like to hear you have
a conversation with a sixty five year woman about HEMP.
I wonder how that would go. I'm pretty sure to
be a good podcast. You know, Hey, what what's what's
your name? Martha? Martha? You know what? I could smoke
gear jacket and have a great time. It would take
me like a week and a half. Really, Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah? Where after? Oh my goodness, Tish, glad you're doing? Okay? Glad?

(57:17):
Alrighty Twitter, Twitter at how about a fresca? Mike had
swollen don The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live
from the Geico Studios. We'll have more on our surprise
World Series teams coming up throughout the show tonight. We
gave you three surprise teams a few minutes ago that
they can take advantage of the shortened schedule and for
different reasons, potentially win the World Series again. These are

(57:40):
surprise teams teams outside the top twelve Padres Chaos. Yeah, look,
Padres Rangers, and look I I honestly think that you
can look at the Angel and say, boy, we're sleeping
on them. You know, even more so than a surprise team.
They could wind up being really good. Over sixty games,
you can out hit other teams and win, not over

(58:01):
a hundred and sixty two games. Over sixty games, you
can have young starting pitching come up and pitch ten
or eleven, have ten or eleven turns, and then in
the playoffs and suddenly, hey, they're terrific and you win
the World Series, which is what the Padres could be
relying on. You know, there's there's many teams that can
can take advantage, whereas in a longer schedule they wouldn't

(58:22):
even be close. And look, both these teams are on
the way up. You see the Angels on the way up.
You know, with new leadership, they're okay, they're on the
way up. So are the Padres. You know, I mean,
all the talent they've had in the PCL for the
longest time, now it's time to come up and let's
see what happens. And all these teams are on the right,
But to make it all the way win the World Series.
You could say, all right, well that's a little bit crazy.
But this, yeah, I'm telling you anything can happen, Mike

(58:44):
and any team. You show up with a mental edge,
and you're gonna be able to do it. More so
because some teams are gonna show up and go, all right,
we're fine, we we do our normal thing. And wait
a minute, we're we're fifteen and fifteen at the midway point, uh,
where we're not going to the playoffs? What is happening
to us? You get there with that met alleged to
start because it's gonna be a two month sprint and
you can wind up winning games. Even a team like
the Mariners. Well I'm abot going to pick the Marigers

(59:05):
and go to the World Series. But look they started
out last year, what thirteen and one one something like that,
two and a half weeks, that's right. Yeah, sometimes you
go fourteen and one, guess what, you're going to the playoffs?
You know, you're finding out a way to go five
hundred the rest of the way. That's all you need
to do, even a little bit under five hundred, and
you're going to the playoffs. At four. You start out
fourteen and one, you need to win twenty one games,
you know, out of out of your last like fifty five,

(59:28):
and you're gonna go to the playoffs because you gotta
look at about thirty to thirty five games being that's
where you need to be to say we're a playoff team.
Ten games over five hundred, I would say, is where
you want to You want to look and say that's
being a playoff team, and that's just a little you know, Look,
you're winning thirty five games. You win thirty five games,
I think you're in the playoffs. Well, and I happen

(59:48):
to have the MLB win totals, the over under sitting here, okay,
uh Dodgers, Yankee sitting at thirty eight and a half,
the planet Hooston at thirty five and a half, the
Twins at already four and a half, and then you
got four teams sitting at thirty three and a half.
The Nationals raise a's and braves, so the a's the

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expectation off those young arms all the way way down
to uh, well, twenty one and a half for the
Orioles and Tigers. That might be a little optimistic for
some teams. I think they one and a half to
suspects just because they don't want the overrunner to be like,
you know twelve. Yeah, I want to use the Tigers
win twelve thirteam, yeah, you know, four team, because you know,

(01:00:32):
some teams are gonna be that bad. Some teams are
gonna go like like like twelve, because you're gonna get
teams that are gonna want to quit, that are gonna say,
you know what, we're not good. I'm just showing up
so we can get paid, and we're gonna be terrible.
So this is what you're gonna get from me, and
teams are gonna get steam rolled overs. You could see
some teams winning twelve or fifteen games, going fifteen and
thirty five and being being twenty games under five front.

(01:00:54):
That's absolutely can happen. Wow, I think of fifteen and
forty five that would be that'd be something special. That'd
be Uh what was that Orioles team all those years
ago that started out? What were they over twenty one
to start a season. Yeah, I think it was lightning
strikes twice. I think it was. I think you're right,
Twitter at Twitter at how about a Fresco Mike and

(01:01:16):
swollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live
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(01:01:38):
your report, NBA insider friend of the Show, Rick Buker, Rick,
Happy Wednesday, My friend, how you doing? I am doing
okay now that I found my phone my wallet, and
it's not as impactful as if I can't find my phone.
Was slightly terrified. But I've got it and I'm here.

(01:02:02):
I'll tell you what. When I was younger, you could
tell me I could be in any state in the world.
I mean state like I could be sober, I could
be hammered, and you said to me, where are your
wallet and keys? And I could tell you, and right
now I could walk out of it, and right and
now now in my forties, I could walk out of
the house and go, I don't know where my phone is,
Where's my wallet, I don't have my keys. I don't.
When I was younger, I could do it. Now it's like, yeah,

(01:02:23):
I just leave stuff everywhere. Yeah. The beauty of it
is that I have a family, so I can just
blame it on them. Oh that's right, Yeah, nice, very good. Right, Yeah,
I gotta have a fall guy, Rick. That is very important.
Every team is right now figuring that guy that try
and I think every team is now figuring out which
guy is gonna, you know, gonna have to beat the

(01:02:45):
fall guy inside the bubble. Yeah, it's with the team. Well,
you know, I mean, here's the thing. So a lot
of guys are testing positive. Um but and I don't
know that we know the full breadth of of everybody
who has to this point. But this was kind of
what was supposed to happen, right, um, to have guys
come in and to test them and determine who's positive,

(01:03:07):
who's negative, and do it far enough in advance that
you could then quarantine them and get everybody uh, you
know healthy and a not just asymptomatic, but um negative
as far as the testing is concerned. So I don't
know that this is going to impact, um, the start

(01:03:30):
of of play or or anything like that. I do
the thing that I'm curious about is can they impress
upon the players how important it is for them to
be cautious, because not because of players, I mean, Nikola
Yokich has is tested positive asymptomatic. I would think most

(01:03:52):
players at most are going to show the effects of
a flu. It's not going to impact them in a
serious way. But there are plenty personnel with teams that
are going to be uh interacting with the players, and
if they get it, that's a different story. And Mike
Mike D'Antoni is sixty nine years old, Alvin Gentry is

(01:04:13):
sixty five years old. You know a lot of the
coaches are late fifties, early sixties, pat Riley, it's um
and I'm going through the you know, the age of
the trainers and sistant coaches and whatnot. But there's plenty
of people that are going to be with these teams
that if they do uh contract it, it's a it's

(01:04:34):
a completely different story. And if Mike D'Antoni can't coach
the Houston Rockets, regardless of where you thought they were
in the spectrum of teams that can win the championship,
it will change the perspective on who ultimately wins if
you know one of the head coaches is not available
because of COVID nineteen. And here's here's my concern, because
we get closer just being a reality, is that whatever sport,

(01:04:57):
whether it's basketball or Major League baseball, the ability to
begin and finish the season is going to come down
to athletes in their twenties and thirties making smart decisions
about not exposing themselves to coronavirus. Because we talked, we
saw the positive test today like Malcolm Brogden, Jabari Parker,
Buddy He'll Buddy Hell was playing in a men's league
in Oklahoma for the past few weeks, which was not

(01:05:19):
the smartest thing to do. And so that's why I'm dubious,
because can you really trust the players to make that
that those good decisions because you think are in a
bubble when the team has controlled over him. All right, great,
but are you really going to control them for twenty
four hours a day? You you you need these players
to be able to make smart decisions, and I don't
know that they can make enough of them. Well, it's

(01:05:41):
a fair question. And uh, and that's why they're doing
it in the Magic Kingdom where you're gonna have as
much about as much control as you can possibly have.
And the hope would be once you gather everybody together,
you have the ability to impress upon them how important
it is that this isn't a matter of you getting

(01:06:03):
it and then getting sick as much as it. You're
getting a testing positive and now you're out of the loop,
and that puts us behind the eight ball. So I
and the other tricky part is that, let's be honest,
not everybody is looking at this as an opportunity to
win a championship. You're gonna have, you know, twenty two

(01:06:26):
teams hunkering down together, and there's probably four or five
that are looking at this and saying, okay, this is
a three month journey to a championship. Some of the
other ones are looking at it as a glorified summerly saying,
let's just get in, get out, do our duty. Uh
do right by the broadcast partners, get some run in,

(01:06:50):
not get anybody hurt, and call it a day. Because
it's just such a bizarre circumstance. I just I don't
know that everybody's looking at is quite through the same prism.
As far as let's get to the playoffs and let's
how let's see how deep we can go, and let's
see if we can win a ring. I really think
there's only four or five, you know, Clippers, the Lakers,

(01:07:13):
the Bucks, the Celtics, the Raptors, maybe the Sixers, um
and after that, I just you know, maybe the Nuggets.
But I think there's there's a fair number of teams,
maybe the majority, who are looking at this as just

(01:07:33):
an exercise to complete the season as opposed to go
for something. And that those are the players that I
worry about, because they're still gonna be interacting on the
floor with the other teams that mean business for at
least eight games. I gotta have that big visual. They're
like in the end of Oceans eleven where there's all
the paper burning up, So you gotta make it look

(01:07:54):
like it's a pile of money and for every decision
it goes into the fire. This is how much we
lost based on you. Yeah, well, and you know it's
too bad. We just we don't have a blue light
that we can just kind of you know, uh, you know,
wave wave over everybody and get a determination on you know,
who's doing what and where and on the second thought,

(01:08:17):
maybe we don't want to know that blue light. How
about that you feel a little too much? That's right?
How e fact, did you think the snitch line will be? Oh?
I think the snix line could actually be more problematic.
I think people could be calling it to try to
screw people up, as opposed to UH as opposed to
it it being legit and and trying to get somebody. Look,

(01:08:40):
it's the closer we get to it, the more challenging
or the challenge that lies within, the more real that's
going to become. And that's going to be the real
test here. And the one thing that has to be

(01:09:00):
foremost in in the players minds is if you don't
do this right and they have to do a full stop,
then the owners are going to look for compensation as
far as the next season is concerned and moving forward,
and they're probably going to have to put some some
special you know, um, whether it's an amnesty or something,

(01:09:24):
because the money is going to go down severely and
the cap is going to be is going to be
in a different place, and and that mechanism is still
going to be challenged as far as what next season
is going to look like. But that said, if you
don't finish the season, if you don't satisfy the broadcast partners,
if you don't make you know, advertising dollars, and it's

(01:09:45):
it's a full stop right now. It is the players
are going to lose a tremendous amount uh now and
for the future. And that's what they're going to have
to have top of mind as they go through this
and say, hey, we're we're playing these three months no
matter what the hardship is. We're doing it for us now,

(01:10:07):
and we're doing it for the future of what players
are going to get paid over the next five years.
Hey Rick, lastly, real quick, LaVar Ball surprise, surprise, he's
back making headlines tonight. He said he doesn't want LaMelo
Ball to go to the Warriors because they have Clay
and the other guys, not stuff cut. They have Clay
and the other guys. Uh. He says, you know, he
would have to follow them, and LaMelo was no follower.

(01:10:31):
When it comes to the draft. Our team's gonna pass
on LaMelo Ball because of LaVar Ball and say there's
another guy we can take here that we don't have
to worry about what happens because we've seen his act well.
I dare say that the teams in the big markets,
because that's where LaVar likes to traffic. I mean, you
haven't really heard a whole lot with him with Lonzo,

(01:10:52):
have you, because he went to New Orleans? I mean
rarely appeal um. Look, I I think that. And this
is the challenge is people really want to know, like LaMelo,
how much are you listening to your dad? How much
are you allowing your dad to be part of your circle?

(01:11:13):
And because I look, lavars is he's a clown. He's
a clown to disrespect Steph Curry and and and the
Warriors that way, like as if LaMelo has the choice,
you like, you're yeah, they're they're multiple championship, multiple championship team,

(01:11:35):
and LaMelo, LaMelo would be lucky for the Warriors to say, hey,
we'd like you to join our squad. This idea that hey,
you know, that's not the place for him because he's
not a follower. It just I I even I just
hate I hate talking about it because it gives it
credence and it's too bad. It puts LaMelo in a

(01:11:56):
really bad light because if if LaMelo is thinking the
same way r is, he's going to have a very
short lived time in the NBA. You can fall on
Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker, Fox
Sports One, Bleacher Report, NBA insider who is proud possessor
of his phone. Rick is always my friend. Appreciate it.

(01:12:16):
We'll talk to you next week, My pleasure. Guys. A
great stuff there from Rick Buker on LaVar Ball of
more on this story coming up in a bit because
it's absolutely insane, but coming up next. I asked for
something big in Major League Baseball last night. I said
we have to have this today if you want to
have your victory lap last night of of getting your agreement, great,

(01:12:41):
but I need this today. Major League Baseball has given
that to us, so I ask we get it. It's
coming up next Fox. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from The Guy
Go Studios. We got some big NBA stories coming up

(01:13:03):
and been including why suddenly LaVar Ball is making news again.
But last night, when we talked about the return of
Major League Baseball, and and we said, listen, take the
victory lap. Tonight. We figured out an agreement. We're gonna
get baseball at least they're gonna try to come back
and play. But now we sort of need the plan
how you're gonna keep everybody healthy. That's kind of one

(01:13:25):
thing that's been missing for the last months. We've been
talking about labor issues and pro rated salaries. We haven't
gotten anything about what plan you're gonna have. Are you
gonna keep players safe? And today we did wind up
getting some of that. I said, we need it today,
and we got some of it today. And a lot
of it is insane. Uh, some of the things that
we've heard about, what are the safety precaution is going

(01:13:45):
to be for Major League baseball players? Well, here they come.
No showers. No one's gonna shower before or after the games,
all right. No one's gonna be able to spit while
you're on the field. No spinning, no spinning, no licking hands.
You can't lick your hands. Well, well you're on the
field kind of frowned upon. You know, when you do
a live looking in the dug out and you know,

(01:14:07):
wishing a guy. Look, people lick their hands all the
times like people touching their face. Can y'all peak lick
his bat? That's what I want to know. Can that
if you can't lick your hands. Can it's his personal bat?
Nobody else is touching it? What if somebody? What? What
if a picture has to hit because you know, for
some reason, I know we're having the d H and
you know, picks up a Yasiel peak bat. Oh I

(01:14:28):
should can't use this bat because he licked it, but
you could probably spray it down with something. The bat
boy will be wearing gloves at a mask? Okay, uh,
secondary mask? I don't know. Lots of Yeah, no, I
think yea peak will be all right. You got to
get the team first. Why does this locker room stink?

(01:14:50):
No one's allowed to shower, My goodness to everybody. Listen
to get everybody. Now. Look, a lot of these sound
crazy and frightfully so because you're This is some of
the minutia that Major League Baseball has a deal. But
the same thing with the NBA. It's the end. It's
the Major League Baseball version of you can play somebody
one on one with ping pong, but you can't play

(01:15:12):
two on two. And if you play cards, you immediately
have to throw the deck out after you're done playing
with it. So we use it once and throw just
like in a casino. We use it a little bit
and then we throw it away. Uh, and make sure
there's no markings right or corners that are bent. So
you have a tell as to what's next. Absolutely, but
this I do that at home? Smith? Do your kids
can't pull any fast ones on me? Why what do

(01:15:33):
you do? You like? Sit at home and have like
a pretend Vegas thing. You have the visor and and
your daughters are playing and you're pretending they have money,
and then you catch them cheating and they get thrown
out that money got money? I have to take it
rolling up, putting their piggy banks on. Boom, here's my money.
I'm going all in dad, all right, he let me
count it. And then you pull the stopper out and

(01:15:54):
all the change faults out. Whatever for your five nine,
let's go all right? Your four quarters, that's one dollar,
another four, two dollars, three dollars. Here's my grandma used
to try to fleece me all the time, cards and
dice and everything else. Delinquent. But how do you how
do you police this. What happens if a player spits?

(01:16:17):
What what are you gonna do? You're out, you can't play,
you can't play five games, suspension, you're missing? Does the
umpire go, hey, listen, you know we're going we're going
away from the spinning. So if you could not do that,
you didn't see it? I mean really, I mean we
got you. Look in your hands, you're out? What you're out? Out?
I mean, I don't know how Teto don't stop telling you.

(01:16:39):
I had a snack before the game. My hands are orange.
Look at their orange. It was Jarrito's man. I mean,
I don't know how you police this. I mean, this
is stuff you're and look, everybody's gonna be on TV
watching with an eagle eye going up. That's not social
distancing or all. That guy licked his hand, that guy
spitting his hands and put it on his bat. But
what what's what's gonna be the outcome? Are you're gonna

(01:16:59):
get tossed from the game? I understand if somebody is
the bat boy're gonna run up with some sanitizer and
put it all over the bat or making put it
on their hands. Is that what's gonna happen? Back Boy,
keep keep one in the back pocket. You have back
Boy and Sanitizer Boy. You have both official hand sanitire
TiSER in the Major League Baseball Twitter at out about Afresca,

(01:17:21):
Mike gets swollen dome, more on a big developing story
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(01:17:45):
it's been crazy nights so far, kind of picking up
where we left off last night. The last hour was
just completely out of sorts, and we've had the first
hour like that tonight, although we're apart. These days were
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So the NBA has had a day today where we
watched the early part of the day be owned by
the COVID nineteen new cycle players like Malcolm Brogden, Jabari Parker,

(01:18:27):
Buddy Healed, Will Have More and Buddy Healed in a
few minutes because that story really tells you where the
NBA is. Uh. And then we have Tonight Well being
owned by LaVar Ball, who decided to make headlines in
talking about where LaMelo Ball should go play. Uh. You see,

(01:18:51):
look who knew the two biggest trending topics in sports
night would be Jake Cutler and LaVar Ball. And Jake
Cutler because I think he's he's pretending to be a
detect have been figuring out who's harming animals in his
in his backyard? Is that is that Cutler? Is that
what's happening? And that's like the plot of of of
of romance novels, Like, you know, someone is you know,

(01:19:13):
living on this farm that their dad who died recently
left them and she's incredibly gorgeous but for some reason
can't meet anybody. And here's a good looking guy who
buys the ranch next door and is threatening doing clothes
on her ranch. And there's the the subplot of all
you know animals are disappearing from the backyard. That's why
I'm looking at this story going is that what this
is is really is that what this is It's one

(01:19:36):
of the best games you can ever play in the world.
Mike Is you go on Twitter and you see why
people are trending and try to figure out that's going
to become a board game that you and I market.
You know, like Jay Cutler. Why I figured, Okay, Jay
Cutler is trending because something happened with his divorce or
did you know did you get hired as as an analyst?
And then no, no, no, he's talking about you know,
animals that are killing other animals in his backyard. Did

(01:19:57):
not did not see that part of it coming? Hopefully
everything and all all the animals stay safe, and uh,
this is a story that you know, we can just
see it on social media and go okay, let's let's
let's let's move on to what's next. Well, I mean,
he just wants to know. I mean, is it is
it a person or is it an animal? You got
a fox in the handhouse? I mean, what's going on?

(01:20:20):
I mean, I I don't know. Look, it's it's weird.
I don't really know how to how to how to
break this down. I don't understand. Well, I mean the
last time Jay Cutler trended on Twitter, h was a
hype video of his high school basketball days. Okay, running
around and don't feel like a fool, all right, And

(01:20:42):
and then there was one before that which was him
miked up, so he and old and Crues, you know,
telling stories and whatever else. So it was fun, a
lot of Jay Cutler, a lot of celebration to Jay.
And now is true True Detective Part four? Okay, trying
to figure out. I'm just seeing can those little uh
those little men with the with the plastic pull tabs

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off the beer cans like McConaughey, wasn't season one. So
that's Jay Cutler trending and LaVar Ball trending. Well, this
is typical LaVar Ball as uh, LaVar doing an interview
talking about where he'd like his son LaMelo to go
play and he does not want him to be drafted
by the Golden State Warriors. Quote. They got Clay and

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the other guys, not Steph Curry, not Steve Kerr running
an incredible system. They're not one of the most player
friendly UH teams you could possibly have. They got Clay
and the other guys. I'm gonna name my band Clay
and the other guys. They got Clay and the other guys,
and now you want to put Mellow in that mix
to say you gotta follow these guys. Mellow ain't no follower.

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So LaVar Ball just wants Mellow to go to a
team where he can chuck up those fifty foot shots
and nobody complain and say anything about it. I look,
this is this is one of those stories where, really,
I know, there are going to be teams who are
gonna say, LaMelo Ball is a really good player. And
he is, and he is a fantastic player, and he's been,

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you know, on everybody's radar screens when he scored a
hundred points in the game back when he was a
sophomore in high school. And then LaVar Ball took him
on a worldwide Where's Waldo Adventure to go play ball.
I mean, I think Tom Cruise visits less places in
a Mission Impossible movie than LaMelo Ball went and played
basketball in the past couple of years. But this is,
you know, this is exactly where he's at now. So okay,

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here's LaMelo Ball is a great ball handler. He got big,
he got stronger, But you are going to see teams,
and it's gonna be fascinating to see who We're gonna
sit there and go, do we really want to draft
LaMelo Ball? Is it really worth it to have LaVar
Ball show up? Because still when he speaks, he makes headlines.
He just hasn't talked a lot with a Lonzo Ball
in New Orleans. When when when they were in Los

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Angeles the Lakers, LaVar Ball talked all the time like
he was at the facto head coach of the Lakers.
But now Alonzo gets traded Alonzo either because it's a
small market. And that's what Rick Buker brought up with
us earlier in the show, saying that, hey, with a
Lonzo in a smaller market, you're not heard from him.
But a big market, maybe it's different for LaMelo or
it could just be Lavarre has moved on to Okay,

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this is the next one of my sons who is
going to be a star. Didn't happen for Jello. A
Lonzo Ball has turned out to be not a superstar,
but a serviceable player, because that's what he's kind of
been in New Orleans. He's been serviceable. And now I
now I got all my eggs and LaMelo's basket. So
now wherever he goes is this where LaVar is gonna
move and spend most of his time talking and and

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and being disruptive. And you saw the way it went
with the Lakers or the Lakers the greatest run team
in the world. No, but it doesn't matter because whenever
he talks, he makes headlines. And you would think that
people would ignore him, but that's not how it works.
And so you're gonna see teams that are gonna sit
there at three in the draft, four, five, six, seven,
and they're gonna go, do we take LaMelo Ball knowing

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that LaVar Ball comes with him, or do we take
somebody else? And it may be worse prospect, but it's
not going to be the headache we have that we're
gonna have because we know with LaMelo comes LaVar. And
as much as you want to think the players can
separate themselves and LaMelo can say he can be his
own person, LaVar can be his own person. Remember, Alonzo

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Ball had many chances to just tell the Lakers and
the media, listen, I'm my own person. I don't listen
to my dad. He never did. That's all he had
to do was say, my dad's my dad, he talks.
I love my dad, but my dad just likes to talk.
I'm here, I'm all invested, but you know he's not
because you know he listens to his dad. You know
that all the information that is flowing from the Lakers
to LaVar Ball, he goes out and he makes it

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into a thing because Alonzo is gonna tell him things
about the Lakers, and here comes LaVar Ball. Whatever team
LaMelo goes to, he's gonna tell his dad about things,
and suddenly it's it's gonna be that way unless LaMelo
Ball has that conversation and has that I trust me,
my Daddy's not gonna move here. He's not. I am
in whatever you need. I am all in with the coach.
Teams are gonna pass on him because because they not

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gonna they're they're gonna think we're gonna draft him and
we're gonna have to navigate this and we don't want
to do that. So I guarantee you many teams are
gonna think that way when it comes to him. Yeah,
I think a lot of it comes down to let's
look at the different markets. Uh as as we're talking
about going to l a Magic Johnson, Sure as hell
didn't help anything. You're gonna be up in the rafters. Yeah,

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all right, he's another number two pick that didn't quite
work out for you. Now those guys have left town
and they become legitimate stars. So that's a whole other
problem with that last era of Laker. And let's call
it what it is. I mean, a Lonzo has turned
into a really good player. Brandon Ingram away from l
a uh even without you know, someone barking on his

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behalf went and did pretty well for himself. But I
think if you look at one of the other cities,
you know, if they pop up to the number one
spot and it's a smaller market than than, maybe it works.
Maybe it doesn't matter as much. Uh, maybe there's less
than has learned tonight. Not not so I couldn't even

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say that with a straight face. But yeah, I think
as you go into the draft, he may meet all
those requirements as a player, but it's just enough to
scare you off. But let's face it, you've got a
lot of front offices and a lot of coaches with
the humors to say, you know what, we can handle
that guy, that we can push this away and it'll

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just be about the basketball. And that's and that's the problem.
If you're not a good team and the poison pens
of your local media um newspapers, blogs, and and sports
talk radio and television in a city turn on you,
then it's gonna go south quickly. And there's LaVar chirping
once again. That's really what what happened here in l A.

(01:26:50):
It wasn't just Hey, Lonzo wasn't progressing as fast as
everybody would have liked him to. Because anybody that tried
to project him into some twenty five games square or
or some nonsense like that was just kidding themselves. But
as they continued to struggle, and he's supposed to be
your your quarterback to lead you forward, uh, and you're not.

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And you're just sputtering in place no matter what the
ineptitude of the front office is. Eventually you're just turning
it back to the guys on the court. Uh. And
he wasn't the savior that they were looking for. And
I'm wondering if little brother UH faces some of that
or it did a Lonzo wear it enough that the
rest of the family becomes immune. You know, I remember

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having this conversation with Chris Broussard, our teammate here at
Fox Sports Radio a few years ago, talking about LaVar
And this is when everybody is interviewing LaVar and I'm like,
he's a bad guy. We're not going to call him
to be on our show. We're not. We're not gonna
do it. I don't like we were the only ones
that didn't. And and I remember, you know, Chris Poissard,
you know, talking about it off the air. Haven't you
know he's a big NBA insiety. He said, why you're

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you We talked about our opinions on him, and I said, listen,
he is going to just completely torpee know the careers
of his kids. And Chris Broussary, you know I'm paraphrasing,
he says, well, he said, well, let's listen. You know,
Alonzo's going to the NBA no matter what. He's a star.
I said, yeah, I said, but you know, depends where
he goes. What this is gonna wind up happening. You know,

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LaVar ball is going to be an issue. And he said,
listen to the middle. Sun is not a great prospect.
I mean maybe he gets you know, maybe he plays
and winds up there. But the younger one, he said,
told me he's the one I'm worried about because he's
the young one with a lot of talent, could be
more talented than Alonso. And what kind of control is
he gonna have over his career? And already looked what happened?

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You know, he pulled him out of his high school
where he was playing, and and and and took him
overseas and then brought him back and went to Ohio
to play basketball. And it's I mean, who does that?
Who does that? Welcome to the Lithuania man, you know,
and and and now suddenly and now suddenly here we
are getting ready for the NBA and he's getting ready
to be drafted. And now here's LaVar Ball saying this
is where I want my son to go, not go.

(01:28:57):
It's I mean, he really could be. The career that
he does wind up ruining the most because a Lonzo
still went number two overall. Okay, you know he still
what can you say? As bad as it was, the
Lakers thought they could handle of our ball. I vividly
remember at the time saying they can't handle them. They're
not going to People laughed and look who won that,

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So congratulations Jason and Mike won. Everybody else zero. But
this career, before it even gets off the ground, you know,
teams are gonna pass on him, and you know, regardless
as to what they say. And he says, teams are
gonna say, yeah, not for us, because I've seen what
I've seen the distraction. I've seen what your dad did.
The Lakers actually not, you know, two years after drafting

(01:29:40):
him and Magic Johnson saying I want your jersey and
the Rafters here, they trade him away to the New
Orleans Pelicans. I mean, so you you can say, oh,
it's just distraction, doesn't matter what's on the corner. Look
at what happened. The NBA is about distraction and personalities
and players pushing agendas and and and pushing their narratives,
and people in their orbit pushing things much sports pushing

(01:30:01):
players to and front teams. The NBA is about that.
So there there are many teams are gonna go yep,
I saw it, I'm not in for it, and we're
moving on. I bet you there's some teams. What do
you have on the draft board. Let's say we're just
all the potential is there. It's not going to draft them. Sure,
And you know it doesn't mean that, you know, there's
not some respect for the appearance of LaVar in their lives,

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right because people have always conflated that like it's a
negative stance of him as a dad. No, everybody wants
their parents to fight for them to a point, to
a point, and then it's you know, you're you're putting
an undue amount of pressure on a teenage kid to
try to push dad away. You know, Dad who's you know,
been pushing and and protecting and bringing them along and

(01:30:47):
suddenly say, okay, this is our breaking point right here.
That's that's just an unfair proposition along the way. But
you know, you you still respect the the push, the drive,
you know, the good side of it, because there certainly
is a downside to the way LaVar has handled a
lot of this, a lot of curious moves. As you said,

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welcome to Lithuania, the land of the Beautiful Basketball is
always one that's just gonna sit out there and and
you just kind of nod, right, one of those moments
like in a movie where you go, all right, um,
that didn't work, all right, what's next? You know? Uh So,
I mean that that's it with LaVar. I mean, he
got you got the the good intentions, but the the

(01:31:30):
excellence of execution has not been there. And and it
would be sad if he caused his son uh an
opportunity to go star, and especially with not that they
necessarily draft him, but but say it did take Golden
State away. With what they're coming back with, they could
be right back towards the top of the Western Conference,

(01:31:51):
could be part of it. Except the old man talked
it into existence that he ended up a Nick. And
look this entire conversation, I say, full well, going the
Knicks are gonna wind up drafting. Yeah, this is gonna
be one of those drafts where okay, this is what
we're gonna do. And then Dolan picks up the phone
right before they pick and go draft the ball kid.
But but wait, wait, uh, Mr Doland, you've never been

(01:32:12):
involved in basketball. I know, draft the ball kid. It'll
be fun. Hey Smith, reflects your twittery, go ahead, and look,
one of our friends is just chimed in for you there.
Draft draft the ball kid. Okay, wait a minute, what
what am I gonna say? Oh my god, go ahead
and tell the tell the good people. So John Schmilku

(01:32:36):
is a Knicks insider friend of the show. We've had
them on many times. I put out there a few
minutes ago, Hey, the slide. You know how far will
LaMelo ball slide through the draft? There's some team's gonna
take them off their board regardless, And John Sfield just
tweeted at me, I could tell you where the slide
would stop, and then gave me a jiff of Knicks
fans with bags over there three guys arms folded bags

(01:32:59):
on their heads and clearly the Blue Nix jerseys. But
there's really it would be the first time, we're Dolan
would just decide to be involved. Yeah, draft them, draft
the kid, or lose your job? How about that? And
like any say it while playing a tasty lick twitter
at how about a fresco Mike and swollen dome The

(01:33:19):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon lot from the Geico Studios. Uh,
coming up, we got more NBA because we have more
positive COVID nineteen tests. There are nervous players. Now there's
nervous NBA general managers who have said, we don't know
what this restarts gonna be like in Orlando. However, if
you approach it the way I'll tell you it should
be approach. Coming up next, things will be a little

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(01:34:05):
we're in kind of a weird place right now in
sports because we're in that week between all right, everything
has been agreed upon. The NBA is coming back, and
Major League Baseball is coming back. They're gonna try to
come back, and that's the key phrase. And in a
week we're going to have real live Baseball and NBA
stories to get to because Major League Baseball is gonna

(01:34:28):
report they're gonna start their summer training on July one. Uh.
The NBA is not too far behind that. In fact,
teams right now we're starting to make their plans to
get to the to get to Orlando to play in
the bubble. So we're kind of okay, let's get to
that point. But now We're seeing every day more positive
COVID nineteen cases. Today it was Malcolm Brogden, Jabari Parker,

(01:34:50):
Buddy Healed all coming down with COVID nineteen. Charlie Blackman
of the Rockies UH tested positive for COVID nineteen. We
had eight members of the Phillies UH test positive for
COVID nineteen. NBA g ms have said, we're nervous about
the bubble plan is everybody gonna be healthy enough for
we sending people to go to a place where they

(01:35:11):
can stay healthy. It's a nervous time right now. Players
are getting nervous because they've all agreed to go. And
I guarantee you if you ask every player are you
gung ho about going, their true answer would be no.
But I kind of have to go either because I
want to see if we can win a championship. We
want to get paid. If I don't go, my teammates
will never talk to me again. Uh. We're kind of

(01:35:34):
being uh pushed along and ushered along into the resumption
of of Major League Baseball and the NBA, and so
now it's kind of a nervous time for everybody, for players,
for gms, what's going on can we control coronavirus, and
I'd like to think at some point there were you know,
someone throws the emergency brake and says, Okay, we opened
up the country a little too fast, and we're don't

(01:35:55):
or we don't we're not opening up the country smartly
enough because we're getting an uptick in coronavirus cases because
people for some reason don't want to wear masks or
don't want to be careful. That's the only reason why
we should be getting an uptick in coronavirus cases is
if you're not being careful. States reopen too early, and individually,
it's hard to trust people to do the right thing.
That's why I hope at some point I'm okay, you

(01:36:17):
know what, let's just stop and let's realize that this
is just gonna get worse than it was when the
rest of the world is going down because they're staying
safe and they're listening to science. But no, we can't
listen to science apparently, So everybody's nervous for this right now.
When you think of the MLB or the NBA season
as a three month or four months season, this is

(01:36:40):
what makes everybody nervous. This is what makes GMS nervous.
It makes players nervous because how are we going to
navigate all of this? How are we going to do
it and stay healthy continue to play? And that gets
to the point where you start convincing yourselves. I don't
know if it's gonna happen. Uh maybe we we we
we don't try. I don't know, and that those kind
of thoughts go through everyone. But if you look at

(01:37:01):
it like this, I think this mentally will make players
and teams and leagues feel better. Don't think of this
season as we're going to play and finish this season
and think of all the daunting things that can happen.
Just think we're going to try to play. We're gonna
try to play. We're not. We're not guaranteeing we're gonna
finish an We're just gonna go try to play. We're

(01:37:22):
gonna take it day to day. And if you think
about it that way, if you're a player who was
nervous about going, if you are and a GM nervous
about your players all getting there, it's okay, We're gonna
try because you gotta try it, right, We have to try.
We have to figure out some way because we gotta
we gotta keep trying things, figure out can we do
things safely and and continue on with the economy. In
our way of life, we gotta be able to try,

(01:37:42):
so we gotta try it. If you think about it
that way, Mike, it becomes more palatable where all right,
we go and try it, and if we can't, we can't,
but we're just gonna try. There's no guarantee we're gonna
be there for three months. There's no guarantee we're gonna
be there for four months where whether it's a baseball season,
but if we're gonna try it, okay, give me day
to day and then we'll see as we go. And

(01:38:02):
I think that will fill people with more confidence that
we could go and make a real go at this
and attack it. Yeah. I think for for both sports.
I mean when we look at baseball and basketball, football
still often the horizon horizon a little bit is that
you've got a lot of players that I guarantee our
gung ho to go play right there, been locked down
for a couple of longs. Yeah, they're getting their shots

(01:38:24):
up and their reps up here and there, or getting
swings in the cages, maybe doing some long toss whatever
for the pictures, but eager to get back at them.
Maybe they're just tired of being cooped up with their families.
But their baseball players, right then, that's what they committed
their lives and for their livelihood for whatever that window
is to go do. And certainly there's gonna be family

(01:38:45):
considerations there. In last night, we talked about Avery Bradley,
who's got two things going on there that I'm sure
makes him subject to a lot of speculation as to
what his real rationale is between his child UH and
between the politic iCal UH and social discussion that he'd
had a couple of weeks ago. But when it comes

(01:39:05):
down to it, you're you're trying to figure out all
the motivations, right, and this is where communication with your
veteran players and the front office being as interactive as
they can possibly be UH and really caring about your
players more than just the analytics and box scores as
you go through and the spreadsheets that you can pull out,

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because you've got everybody's coming in with a different motivation. Right.
It's kind of like the C B A s that
we talked about with the National Football League. Guys are
so far apart between the the halves, the quarterbacks, that
tenured guide, you know, on the offensive line, and the
rookies trying to break their way in. This is the

(01:39:47):
same thing. You've got guys all over the map. You know.
The young guys are like, hey, I want to go
to Orlando and get after Orlando, uh and the resorts
and everything else. And then you've got family guys going,
all right, it's a business trip. Let's get in there,
get him on, get him over, get him in. And
then you gotta watch you guys somewhere in between who
still like a little bit of tom foolery mixed in
with their their basketball for however long it is. So

(01:40:10):
you know, being honest with them about what the moneys
are involved and where this can all go, I think
is one of the key. But yeah, it's gonna require
an awful lot of trust. And I don't know if
it's seminars going through the news of the day, right,
all right, here's the last week, here's the tests, here's this,
here's what's going on. Look at what this state is

(01:40:31):
now doing because of this. I don't know. That's more
scare tactic and I'm not into that because you know,
for me, that's ay, all right, I'm still just gonna
be smart. But again, it's it's a lot of trust
and in a team that's kind of what you're doing right.
You're trusting everybody to have each other's back. Uh, and
never more so now than now Twitter At how about

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if you think about it that way, and if players
look at it the strategies we're going to try it.
Like I said, it seems a little bit a little
bit less daunting and you can do this. Take it
in bite sized chunks like when you eat peace the
I don't eats you kidding? Peas are terrible? Something else? No, no, no,

(01:41:19):
black beans. Black beans and broccoli are my two go
toos for uh for vegetables. Broccoli watch this tie shirt?
Am I doing the best I can by eating black beans?
And broccoli is my vegetables all the time. So you're
making this about you and closing call back, you gotta
listen to the whole show. I'm sorry, I guess I

(01:41:40):
I can't get I can't get pills that give me
as much vitamins as as I would get from actually
eating the black beans. And uh oh you can. There's
there's like super food like little pills. Now, let's keep
on it. It's a tough night for tysher with g
n C. You tell me where I'm gonna get liquid
al overa Okay, well look at it this way. There's

(01:42:02):
gonna be a big half off sale re able to
but I don't know on the internet. The internet's uh
so this is he's really crying, like I have no doubt.
I'm sorry. I'm not in the studio to console him.

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Uh So you're in to try to play. And the
NBA is not a coronavirus friendly sport. And and and
the one thing I can tell you as well is
that we will know if we can play Major League
Baseball the NBA way before there's any games, way before,
because they're gonna get there and if it gets too difficult.
And and you have three or four players here have

(01:42:47):
COVID nineteen. And and and luckily players are you know that
players that get it are recuperating very quickly, which is nice,
but still it's COVID nineteen. You never know, You never
know who's system it effects differently if you have something
und I knows because that's apparently what what does it?
As well? For a lot of COVID nineteen of victims,
you know they're they're coming back, which is great. But

(01:43:08):
if you have a big outbreak of this and you
can't stop it, well, then they're gonna stop pretty soon.
I mean, so if if it just think about this
as well, if it gets bad while you are down there,
it's not gonna be very long, and it will be
very easy because teams are gonna say we get it,
we can't do it. Players are gonna say, I don't
feel safe going. Look, you have the New Orleans Pelicans
supposed to play in the last game of the year. Nope,

(01:43:29):
we had a referee that was refereeing a game that
Rudy Gobert was in the other night. We're not playing,
and the players will say we're not doing it. And
the players have that power that if they say they're
not comfortable, guess what, there's not gonna be any games.
So we will know way before the game's actually happen
if they're gonna be able to to play them. Because
if the players are down there and they're practicing and

(01:43:50):
getting ready and we're not getting coronaviruses. Hey, awesome, right,
this this, this, this could work right suddenly the bubble
idea works. Players who are away from the team are
doing better when they're in control of the teams that
can say, all right, now, you're down here, and we
have chaperones and people watching you making sure you're doing
the right thing, and and and we don't have positive

(01:44:11):
coronavirus tests. But the flip side of it is, and
I've said this the past few nights, the comeback of
sports is going to be athletes in their twenties and
thirties making smart decisions and not exposing themselves potential coronavirus.
And Buddy Healed is the perfect example of that. Buddy
Healed who came down with with COVID nineteen. Uh. The

(01:44:33):
guy was playing in a men's league in Oklahoma for
the past few weeks, which is not something you should
be doing. When you're trying to stay isolated and stay
safe and practice social distancing. You shouldn't be playing in
a men's league, right, But but yet this is what
he was doing, and he's got coronavirus. So when it
comes down to it, Okay, the bubble may work out
right with that, but in the end, you're still are

(01:44:54):
you gonna be able to be on top of players
seven and they're gonna make good decisions? Because right now, Mike,
it's a mixed bag at best when you talk about
players being able to make decisions to keep themselves safe,
because you can have twelve players on a team and
have eleven players be smart, and all you need is
one guy to say I'm going out to a bar,
then he comes back, goes to practice, and then bang,

(01:45:15):
there's six players who can't play all right, So it's you.
You have to have everybody making the decisions, knowing that
I need to be responsible to my teammates and in
my family making sure we're safe. And I don't know
the players can do it, for whatever reason, being restless
and wanting to not wear mats, politicizing the wearing of masks,
whatever it is. I don't know that you can trust

(01:45:36):
players to make those decisions. And that's why it comes
down to how much the season comes. I can say
I don't know. I mean maybe with them in control,
with the with the teams in control of the players,
and in the bubble, in Orlando. Maybe maybe with MLB
players now being in training with their teams and not
going out to bars or anything else. Hey, things will
work out. But man, I don't know because we keep

(01:45:58):
seeing stories like this where people all across the country.
You're going out and we're seeing spikes and coronavirus because
I'm not being careful, and we're seeing it with athletes
as well that should be more careful. I could say this,
I would love if you had the every team basically
creates the contract writer like they're a rock band, and

(01:46:18):
here's all the things you can request from except for
having other people come hang out with you. A right,
weal we will meet almost anything else legally that we
can pull off here. Uh, just shut up and go
to work for a couple of months, and I gotta
I gotta remind you what you're proposing here saying you
know what the you know, your skeptical of the league

(01:46:41):
and leagues getting getting going. Uh on the backs of
twenty and thirty year olds. Remember if you listen to
the news at all, that's also who everybody's saying has
to you know, stand up and make sure the direction
of America is proper going forward. So you know, you
put those two things together, you really put the weight

(01:47:01):
of the world on. And part of it just because
I want to watch the basketball, so I I think
they'll be up to the task. Get them around the
teams right now. This would be the you know offseason. Hey,
we've got one or two more weeks to go act
ex stupid and be dumb. And let's face it, when
you're in your mid twenties, you feel like you're invincible
to right you did wasn't a world class athlete, and

(01:47:24):
I thought I was. I really thought I was until
the lack of sleep had my body start breaking down
these last couple of years and a couple of knocks
on the door from uh somewhere people in the great
beyond reminding me you are human. Uh, so take it slow,
So I think, you know that's That's the other part

(01:47:44):
of this is a lot of guys that they're they're
testing positive but getting through it pretty quickly. Look, none
of us know what the long term effects are on
all this, and anybody doing some of that now, a
lot of it's just scare tactics. And I get that
there's there certainly going to be some of that in
the in this process, but we've seen guys recover at

(01:48:06):
least the ones that tested positive positive early, uh, including
now you know Ezekiel Elliott on the NFL side, and
moving forward right, there's still some level of trepidation, but
also they rallied through without you know, dire consequences and
long extended hospital stays. So there there's some positivity to

(01:48:29):
be gleaned from that in terms of the quick recovery
time because you are superior athletes to be able to
get through the process and get back on the court, gridiron, diamond, etcetera.
Twitter at, how about a fresca? Mike gets swollen dulled
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the
Geico Studios. I mean this, this is where we're at

(01:48:50):
right now. Like I said, it's a really really weird
time where things could go either way. We got more
coming up in ninety seconds, but first be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smiths with Mike Harmon
weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Well, it's
Bill Plashki coming on the show. He's a big Abba

(01:49:10):
Alba fan. Is he coming? Out. Hey, he and I.
I've got my uh lay your love on me um
wrist band that I've been wearing for about three years
since I went to that beautiful APA Museum in Stockholm. Yeah,
why doesn't it come on our show anymore? He used
to come on all the time. You want me to
have him? Come on, He'll come up. Somebody used to
love coming on the show, he would say. He would say,

(01:49:31):
I want you to introduced me as your third bet
was your second best friend. Oh, we did it all
the time. Used to come on the time. You know what,
Let's let's work on getting Bill back into the mix here.
I miss him, you know, we we connect on on
well Twitter a little bit, but certainly text back and forth,
check in and you know, you know, Bill and I
did a show together on Sundays for a while. We

(01:49:53):
you know, bet some horses together, all that kind of stuff.
But I was just telling Tie Shirt. Uh, there's the possibility, uh,
according to the Daily Mail, uh that a third Mama
Mia movie is going to be in the works. If
it makes money, of course it'll be new just sing.
I'll tell you I never really had an opinion before,

(01:50:15):
but after seeing MoMA, me and Lily James and mom
and me. I'm a big Lily James fan. I'm a
big Lily James fan. You've watched Cinderella many times. I
actually watched Yesterday Yesterday. You know what. Yesterday was one
of those movies where the idea was so good and
the first half of the movie was so good, and
then it's like, where do we go from here? And

(01:50:35):
and that's my list to see and the back half
of the movie is just like, that's what it is
if it turns into this big romantic comedy. And it's
not not to spoil it, but the first half of
Yesterday is so good. You know, it's a it's a
movie where the Beatles don't exist, and this guy is
making money, you know, doing performing Beatles songs. People think
he's he's incredibly he's a genius. He's a huge rock star.

(01:50:56):
And like the first half like wow, this is great,
and then they decided let make it like a romantic comedy,
and I'm like, okay too. You know, in the typical
where things get haphazard at the end, everybody everybody in
different areas at the same place at the end. That's
where I always go to a romantic comedy and go, okay,
this this movie come on really like everybody's in so
many different places and they all wind up in the

(01:51:17):
same place for the last ten mad cabs any minutes.
And that's kind of what happens to yesterday. You got
to wrap it up. Nobody knows how to wrap things
up anymore. Smith good Yarn for two accident, the third
act falls apart. Uh, But this is an eye opening
story from the NFL today as Ezekiel Elliott, who was
recovered from COVID nineteen. He's feeling good and normal after

(01:51:41):
his positive COVID nineteen test a few days ago. Remember
this happened some members of the Cowboys and the Texans
both tested all tested positive for COVID nineteen. Uh. He
did a zoom today in which he said he needs
more answers because right now he's not completely sold on
playing football and Twine twenty quote because I mean, I

(01:52:02):
got Corona and it really didn't affect me much, but
a lot of people have kids. They may have kids
with asthma, their parents or grandparents may live with them.
He needs more answers before he's going to commit to
playing football. And this is why I keep saying, at
some point soon, the NFL's got to decide and got
to make the announcement that we're pushing the season to

(01:52:24):
the middle of October. They have to. We are less
than a month away from going to camp, and the
NFL doesn't have anything in place. The ENNA, the NBA,
and Major League Baseball barely have things in place to
figure out how they're gonna test posit, how they're gonna
overcome coronavirus and positive tests. What's the big thing the
NFL has done the last week, Mike, you can't work
out together? Now? Whoa We're going We're going to camp

(01:52:46):
in a few weeks. Are you kidding me? We're three
weeks away from going to camp and the only thing
you can say is, hey, we're gonna We're gonna make
sure you guys don't work out together. Oh, by the way,
people like Drew Brees and Tom Brady, you're thumbing their
nose out and saying no to get this coronavirus. We're
still going to go out in practice because I'm a
coronavirus treaty. Come on now, I mean, the NFL is

(01:53:08):
saying we don't know what's going on, don't work out.
Brady and Breeds are saying, no, players are going we
want answers, and and that's my point is that nobody
has answers. The NFL is saying we can't do anything.
Do you have anything past that? No? And when you
have players working out despite the fact these positive coronavirus
tess it's okay. So are you telling me you think
it's safe. Do you not believe in coronavirus? Coronavirus? I

(01:53:29):
don't understand why I'm seeing this uptick. Eventually, the NFL
is gonna have to just say, you know what, We're
gonna push this the middle of which I think is
their plan all along. I've said it, middle of October.
Let the other sports come back and actually play some
games before you figure out what you can do to
do it, because in a month coming back, we're simply
not gonna know enough because by the time they go
to camp, Baseball will have played zero games and the

(01:53:51):
NBA will have played zero games. So it's not like
you're gonna get a whole bunch of stuff, all bunch
of information in the next three weeks. Other than these
teams are practicing and we're trying to figure out way,
what are the game's gonna be like? What about? What?
What are the stands gonna be like in baseball? And
what's it gonna They're not gonna know anything. And when
you have players saying I need answers, I think you
have to tell them listen, just take it easy. We're

(01:54:11):
gonna play the season later on. We'll have answers for
you guys soon, Coredy to Adam Schefter tomorrow. The conference
call includes the reopening facilities plans, the social justice update,
and the debriefing on COVID nineteen that allegedly DH Seena
right up earlier in the day talking about, you know,

(01:54:31):
you won't believe the measures that they put in place,
and I hope that's the case. Beyond just hey, we
can't sit in the first six rows because we're selling advertising.
I think that'll be a big part of the conference
called will be fantastic. Who'd you get? Well? Remember that
performance enhancer? Well? Bringing on coming up next surprise teams

(01:54:52):
that can win the World Series. This is Fox. Be
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friend Mike Harmen live from the Geico Studios and tonight

(01:55:13):
in the last couple of nights has been a night
filled with what do we do with positive tests for
coronavirus and the National Basketball Association Major League Baseball, what
do we do well? We're also doing something a little
bit different here tonight to talk about stuff on the field.
We have a very big on the field next hour
for you. Uh. The big story in the NFL the
past couple of days has been Jamal Adams, one of

(01:55:36):
the best safeties in the NFL, wants to be traded
away from the New York Jets because he wants to
go to a different team and is sick of the
Jets not ponying up and giving him money. Except Miniche
Made of the New York Daily News has a story
tonight that says that, no, it's not about that. It's
that Jamal Adams can't stand Adam gaze. Neither can anybody

(01:55:57):
else on the Jets, and this is why Jamal him
wants a trade. It's explosive, incendiary stuff. Can you hear
from a niche maida coming up in about fifteen minutes
and when I say it's incendiary. I mean incendia in incendiary, incendiary.
Uh so we have that. That's a very big story.
But because the Major League Baseball season is here tonight

(01:56:20):
and tomorrow, we're gonna take a look at four surprise teams,
different teams that could win the World Series thanks to
the restart right now. And what I mean is by this,
because we last night, this kind of gave me the
idea to say, hey, you know what, let me put
my money where my mouth is, because when the restart
was announced sixty games, the best thing that any team

(01:56:42):
can do is to say, you know what, why not us? Alright,
we we can't compete with with the Dodgers or Yankees
over and sixty two games, but over sixty games certain
things can happen. Yeah, we can compete. So if you're
a team like the Mariners of the Orioles, why aren't
you walking in saying why not us? Why can't we
do it? We could do it. We could do some
thing for sixty games. And then I started looking at

(01:57:03):
the different teams that the restart would favor, that a
sixty games schedule would favor, because certain teams have strengths
that over a hundred and sixty two games, it would
even out and maybe they would wind up being a
team that could start out hot, but they would come
back to Earth and wind up being a team that

(01:57:23):
was five hundred or just under five hundred. But because
it's sixty games, that might not happen. And there's different
reasons for all the teams. So we're gonna give you
three teams here in the next few minutes that we
think can be teams that, hey, listen, surprise, teams that
can win the World Series. And by surprise we mean
teams in are outside of the top twelve fifteen as
far as the odds go. So it's not gonna be

(01:57:46):
that the Mets. It's not gonna be the Mets. It's
not gonna be the Mets. You know, the Mets. The
Mets technically are the seventh highest favorite team to win
as far as their odds. The White Sox aren't too
far behind, look that sitting there. But yeah, but but

(01:58:11):
going deeper, and that's why teams that can can take
advantage of the schedule. All right, So the first team
I'm gonna give you, and this is gonna sound surprising,
but this is a team that has spent the last
few years just gathering young talent, and it's about already
to hit the major leagues. We saw a little bit

(01:58:32):
of it last year. They made a big free agent
signing last year. They brought a couple of new players
in this year as well that are gonna help. But
don't be surprised because of the short schedule. If you
saw a surprise World Series win by the San Diego Padres,
I know, are you kidding me? Number one, the Padres

(01:58:53):
are a team on the way up? All right, there,
there are there. Look they're they're young. Talent is coming
and and this is a team that is that is
finally on the rise after years of being terrible. Look,
they signed Manny Machido last year. Ferannotatis Jr. Comes up
and you can see the superstar he's going to be.
They go out this offseason they add Zach Davies, who
solid Drew palmerans as a former All Star. But this

(01:59:14):
is what gives the Padres the advantage that that they
don't have to worry about coming back to Earth for
is that they have young pictures like Chris Paddock, who
looks like he's gonna be a superstar. Last year, right,
Mackenzie Gore could crack the rotation. This year you got
Andres Munio, who throws a hundred miles an hour. You
have a lot of young pictures that in a normal

(01:59:34):
season could come up, start out great, and then by
the middle of the season they hit the wall and
they're suddenly not as productive. Maybe they even go back
to Triple A, or it takes him a while to
get their footing again before they bounce back at the
end of the year. But you weren't gonna get a
full hundred and sixty two game great season out of

(01:59:55):
out of young starting pitching, because that's just not gonna happen.
You've got a couple of guys out of the bullpen
to like when us be out of the bullpen, but
for ten or eleven starts, because that's really what you're
gonna be making. You're gonna be making ten or eleven
starts and then hitting the playoffs. There's just be no
innings restrictions. There's gonna be no well, we gotta shut
this guy down. And if guys like Paddock and Gork

(02:00:15):
can come out of the gate and pitch really well,
Padres can win thirty five games it could get to
the playoffs and suddenly the Padres are team to be
reckoned with because all these all this young talent has
come together over a short period of time. Whereas a
hundred sixty two games they hit the wall and they
come back to earth a bit, and maybe the Padres

(02:00:36):
have a five hundred ish type season if you were
playing it out normally. But because of this short schedule
sixty games, they can clearly blitz out and and their
young pitchers can you can throw a hundred and ten
thirty innings. It's not that big a deal. You're not
pitching any more than you normally would. You're pitching every
fifth day, and then normal things are gonna be taken
into account. But watch out for the Padres. Their talent

(02:00:58):
is young. They're coming up in the inn L West. Yes,
the Dodgers are the favorite because they can go one
through fifteen deep without losing any talent, and they should
be at the top, but surprise teams outside of the
top twelve or fifteen, watch out for the San Diego
Padres would not be They could be a surprise team
become win the World Series. So I'm going even deeper.
I'm going to the hundred to one. Go deep. Yeah,

(02:01:20):
you're you're at what are the Padres next on the list?
The Rangers at one hundred to one? Uh like that?
That's really deep. Yeah, that's like Damian Lillard deciding I'm
forty ft out, I'm taking the three. I mean it's
Clay and that other guy from where they shoot on
the court, right, I mean the other guy. We'll get

(02:01:42):
into that money. But Cluber comes over. You got Minor
and Lancelin, So you've got three guys that will eat
up innings and in a short sprint season. Maybe the
veteran savvy is what I'm looking at here, not to
mention the fact you've got a bunch of mashers all
over this lineup right, Uh, Santana and center field has

(02:02:04):
thirty home run power along with our guy Joey Callo
with a G. Shallow is dead, I said, Callo c
A L l O. Alright, alright, we'll get to the
bottom of this, alright exactly. And then you bring over
the Todd father, so now he gets to mash uh

(02:02:25):
mash there. So I think enough power and run generation
and maybe enough starting pitching to make it interesting. Uh,
not that I'd put a heavy wage wager on it.
But again we're talking about a sixty game season. Houston
obviously the class of the division, and then it's really
gonna be a muddled mess. I think the rest of

(02:02:46):
the way, I think a lot of a lot of this,
uh that that division maybe the best in baseball top
to bottom for the the fight, um maybe just for
second place. But I think that's gonna be fun. Alright.
So there's a couple of tea is right there The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the Geico Studios.
And I can't tell you how many years, I think
every year the past three years, I've had Lancelin on

(02:03:07):
my fantasy team. I think at some point I've picked
up Lancelin and he's been one of the lynch pins
for me. Starting pitching all the way through eats innings,
pitch as well, gives you positive points. I love Lancelin.
He's he's like one of those guys, are like, he's
like an old friend. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna
call him up and he's gonna come pitch for me,
and things are gonna be okay. You know, not that
the dominant arm, but a guy that that again, doesn't through, right,

(02:03:30):
because you need steady and reliable. That's one of those
lessons to learn kids in your life. Sometimes exciting is
not the way to go steady and reliable. My next team,
and I don't you know, and and yes they're they're
a real long shot. But this is a team I
really think we're sleeping on is the Angels. I really,

(02:03:51):
I honestly do. I think everybody is sleeping on the
Angels sixty games season. They signed Anthony Rendon, right, think
him all kinds of money. This Angel's lineup is incredibly deep,
all right. Now that pitching is terrible, all right, They've
got so many pitching questions. I think Mike Witt is
gonna pitch this season for the Angels. Uh. But over
sixty games you can mash and beat up on other teams.

(02:04:15):
It's hard to ask an offense to say, hey, for
under sixty two games, can you score seven runs a night?
Because that's what we're gonna need. But over sixty games
you can do that, and and clearly they have the
lineup to do it. Look, this could be a big
bounce back here for andl Tin Simmons. You know the
hitters they have for this lineup, and and if Pools
can stay healthy, and Otani's gonna wind up pitching at
some point. You know that too. Uh, they have the

(02:04:38):
lineup that can do it. But like I said, they're
pitching is not very good. But you forget the two
big additions off the field, and that's Joe Madden. And
you're gonna laugh. But Mickey Callaway, all right, now, Joe Madden,
obviously he comes over and he brings the cash at
of listen, I took the Cubs to win the World Series.
So you guys listen to what I say, and they're

(02:04:59):
all gonna say, you got it, no problem. He's gonna
be a great fit in in in in with the Angels,
great fit over hundred sixty two games with the Angels,
be a really good team. Note but sixty games with
this got absolutely And so Madden is gonna bring that
instant cash a and Mickey Callaway as bad a manager
as he was, because he clearly was not ready to
manage the Mets, and and many things he said or

(02:05:21):
did I knew. I'm just waiting for him to be
fired like Adam Gates, I knew. But what he did
as a pitching coach with the Indians, and what he
did for the Mets starting pitchers. If he can just
give a little bit of an uptick in in in Anaheim,
look out, because you don't need that. You don't need
the Angels pitchers to throw the ball great, You just
need them to not be terrible. And and what he did,

(02:05:43):
look at Klueber becomes a multiple cy Young Award winner
with Mickey Callaway, and look at what the Mets the
past couple of years. Stephen matt stays healthy and now
he's one of the lynch pins of the Mets future.
Zach Wheeler pitches so well. He just got a huge,
incredible contract from the Philadelphia Phillies. I mean, de Gram
was de Gram. He was always to me. He's like,
let's just leave me alone. I got it. Okay, you
got it. But what he was able to do with

(02:06:04):
those starting pitchers was incredible. Especially take what he's done
is take the fringe guys who they need a little
bit something else and let me help them get better.
And that's what he did with Matts, did with wheel
It's what he did in Cleveland. So Mickey Callaway is
gonna be a pretty big difference maker. For the pitching
staff there. And look, and it's not like the a

(02:06:24):
LS is an incredibly competitive division top to bottom. We
still have your bottom feeders you know, that are in
there as well, and other teams have questions over how
they're gonna navigate this season. But coming out a surprise team,
I think everybody is sleeping on the Angels. See we're
hanging out there, sitting at eighteen to one. Right now,
I'm gonna go back. You mentioned Wheeler. I'm gonna look
at those Phillies and look at what they've done this offseason.

(02:06:47):
You look at the the depth chart again, he got
a bile of mashers rolling through. And then you've got
Nola Wheeler. And if Arietta is healthy, uh, you know
he had some stiffness in his shoulder back in March.
But if he's ready to go, you've got enough offense. Certainly,
you've got a bomber's uh, one after another, and you've

(02:07:11):
got a division that's really interesting, you right, four teams
that should be competing and the Marlins so and since
it's unbalanced that you get to play the Marlins and
everybody gets to beat up on them. So take care
of business against them. Uh, and roll. But as you see,
like the two two teams that I was looking at

(02:07:31):
between the Rangers and looking here at the Pills, I
need a couple of starters that I can trust in
a shortened season, right, make the most of their seven
or eight starts, and and what mutant season it is. Uh,
give me some mashers as well. And just because I
know it would pain you to see Bryce Harper be successful,

(02:07:52):
I have to put him in. Yeah. Thanks for that, buddy,
I appreciate it well. In a pebe from d D

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