The Worst Contract In All Of Sports

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Jason Smith. The man on my left wearing the Charlie
Brown t shirt is Mike Harmon. Hi. What's wrong with

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wearing a Charlie Brown shirt? I've just said I wanted
to get I want to pay. I have a little
more hair than he does. Otherwise, I feel like I
keep trying to kick the football and it keeps getting
pulled away. I lived the life of Charlie Brown. Yeah, life,
life keeps kicking me in the I have a flat
tire on the super Information Highway of Life. My name
is Mike. That's not bad. That's pretty good life. That's

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not quite Wilford Brimley now, but that's a flat tire.
And I'd like to talk to you for a few
minutes about dieting. It's not quite to that level, but
it but it works. You like that though, right? I
mean that's that's that's like saying I have a flat
tire and the super Information highway of life. That is
not bad at all. Pretty good. I don't know where
you're staring from. That's pretty good. No, I've actually came
up with that a long time ago, and I've always

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used that. It seems like you probably would have trade bark.
It's kind of like my own dropkick me Jesus through
the goal post of life. It's a pretty good one too,
except that I like that of a flat tire in
the superinformation highway of life. Batt and Pending shared we
got to watch the Mets on four TVs and you know,
I get from the inside the get GHO studios. Let
me tell you that was really not a fun thing

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because we hadn't talked about the Mets in three months.
My my met some nutshell before we get to who
did parades better today? Uh, listen of the Mets. They
take the lead to one over the braves. I get
on the phone for twelve minutes. My wife calls. She's
telling me about softball practice with Zoe. We're talking about
a couple of things. Twelve minutes so on my phone,
on my UM, on my display on my car, it

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still says top six Mets, two braves, one great okay,
so it stays at then I hang up the phone.
Twelve minutes go by, and then it flips Brave seven,
Mets two, and I just turned the radio off. I
just add that said. I can't even do it. I
can't even do it done. Okay, we have Sam Donald,
so that's really all that matters. I heard a random
remix of Back in Black that included lyrics from Queen

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led Zeppelin. It was the craziest thing. That was better
than listening to the Mets and the Braves. What do
you got that phone? Well, then, America, it's only appropriate
that we start the show with this bitch. Hi, I'm
deep to ride. It is gone. See that's home run
you can hit. It's one that accounts for four runs.

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You hear that for Jason. I'm glad the Braves announcers
are explained talking to me like they rounded all four
basses tonight and look at it here it's ninety feet
per Basse and t J. Paul Seawald comes in and
the Braves say, will see you over the wall later

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for a home run in front of Hank Aaron. Embarrass
you're supposed in front out in front of Hank Aaron well,
here's the thing. We got Sam Donald, but he sed
he's fine. He's fine. We have him, we have Bridgewater.
Everything is fine. He's gonna get hackenburn back to We
can get him back for free of all. By the way,

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farewell Christian Hackenburg. For the second time in three weeks.
He had a good run. Well no, see that's you know.
You say that and it's a crutch because you say
it and you lie to America. You have become faith news.
Anytime something happened he had. No, he didn't have a
good run. Maybe the only things go a little sideways
in life. He's like only the third player since the

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common Draft we picked in the second round and not
see the field for two years, and one of him
is Jim Kelly, who played in the USFL. Stuff happens.
Don't made a business decision. Don't say they can't say
you had a good run. He got paid for a year.
A good runs are mismanaged, or that he got drafted
in the second round when we saw against quality competition

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in the Big ten. He couldn't complete a pass to
save his soul. But leave that for another time. Meanwhile,
today it was a day for celebrations, across the country,
the Raiders for cutting Christian Hackenburg, and uh, the good
people of Washington, d C. Getting to celebrate the Capital
Stanley Cup championship, and of course, for the third time
in four years, the Greater Bay Area celebrating the championship

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of the Golden State Warriors. So let's do one of
those Bravo h G TV who wore it better? Situation?
Oh sweet? Who wore this dress better? Was it Kelly
Preston or Jennifer Aniston? Well, we'll get the video component
rolling in here and then we can actually put up
the what were they wearing screen behind us and then
talk to it. So we're gonna do it. Who did

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the parades better? Okay? Was it the capitals today doing
their victory parade? Better? Was there a parade somewhere else? Uh?
Was there a third entrance? I don't think so, although,
by the way, I liked the picture from the Capital's
parade and and people can biggest inauguration crowd ever. Wow,
that's pretty funny. So let's do the capitals first. And
of course Alex Ovechkin, who the only thing missing from

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his Hall of Fame career was a Stanley Cup championship.
He's got it and uh Ovi did not disappoint today
at the rally. If I can translate that is I
fight for me for me. So I don't know why
he felt that to need to say that. Well, I mean,

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he hugged everybody on the ice for like an hour
after the Stanley Cup win. He's done with that. Now
it's back to celebrating himself and saying, you know what,
I fought through these long, grueling playoffs for me, for
me and my legacy. Because we like the word legacy
and sports talk radio and sports talk television, we need

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to have that all the time. So it's all about legacy.
For Ovechkin, he said it's mine, this one's mine, and
trick you gotta get him saying he is like a
piece of iron. We need that. Okay, market, Now let's
hear from Alex Ovechkin. It's basically nuts. You know, like
you guys killing it. You're just you're just bringing for

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us for our families. Just happening is because they they
support as much as you are. They are all was
all in okay again, Trance, So maybe translating Alex Ovechkin
like we did translating Dennis Rodman. Last night he tanked
the guy named Owen. But everything is nuts, he said,
everything is nuts. He almos, sound like he's gonna start

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a car some kind of stand up routine. Everything is
nuts here in d C. Nationals can't win and Bryce
Hopper is a losing player, and the Capitals who have
always lost start winning. Basically nuts. Now here's the other thing. Though,
he's absolutely stone cold sober as he's talking here. I mean,
we were fully anticipating, as drunk a level that we've

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never seen at a victory parade. Well, I was anticipating
he's done, keg stands with the means done, all sorts
of things. I was thinking more, how long till he cursed? Like,
how long into the speech till he cursed? That's good?
Well it wasn't long. On the last thing before the year,
We're not gonna do so this year. Still. Yeah, before

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the season, I said we're not gonna bleep and suck
this year. I think we were pretty and pretty good
uh spirits coming into the season that they'd win games.
You want a question or whether they'd go Toronto raptors
and leave early. You know you're got a meeting with
the team. You know, your longest tenure player here, and
you know, why don't you give him an inspirational talk
here before we started. Yes, we're not going to blanking

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suck this year. And if he did that dream, I mean,
that's straight rock star stuff. That stand up and shout no.
That could replace the Roger Daltry scream in one of
the c s I show. You want to talk about
Russian meddling in the Stanley Cup final, how about Russian
meddling in Vegas. That's pretty good. You want to talk

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about bad luck, how about rolling snake eyes in Vegas?
I think it works. That's pretty good, not bad at all,
very difficult to top ov cursing that way. No, it's
pretty good. We crossed a lot of miles to get here.
We crossed a lot of oceans, eight of them to

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get to the Stanley Cup and win over Vegas. There's
a lot alright, so so far it's gonna be pretty
tough to beat. The Capital can coming in strong, really
celebrating the culmination of his six plus goal career, finally
gets that problem of winning in the playoffs off his back,

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and well he's champion forever. And now we'll watch his
off season and see how crazy it gets eight seven,
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Mike Harmon. Now let's go three thousand miles west and
a little bit north where the Golden State Warriors had
their victory prey. A lot of trolling, you know, Draymond

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Green wearing a shirt trolling Lebron Arthur. That Arthur fists
down like angry Arthur, but with three rings on it.
Not quite Infinity Gauntlet. No, no, but but but it's
Arthur show. It made the rounds pretty fast, Draymond Green.
A good job. Whoever made that shirt will sell housands.
And also the vehicles with Lebron's face. That, yeah, that

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was good. So there was a lot of should have
just put a soft cast on the front. I see
there you go. No, no, it's not too so that
was a great one. No, he was a dope. Everybody
everybody has. Nobody goes up to talk has a soft cast. No,
that's it everybody. It should have been. Everybody gets instead
of a ring, they're all getting soft casts. So here
diamond and gold plate and soft cast for the winners.

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Remember because Joe Lake up all those years ago, he
got booed. Now he's got three rings. No, he could
wear the soft cast and you heard me with all
those booze, I punched a wall. But now look at us.
Here's the here's the victory stone. It's it's glimmering. Here's
a lebron stone. No, but he's glimmering kind of like
he's wearing the bangles that wonder woman all shiny. Uh so.

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But here's from the Warriors parade. We have to check
in on NBA champion Swaggy Pad. That again is now
that's his official time NBA Champion Swaggy p as Nick
Young very thankful for his role in the championship. I'm
at the ultimate level. I'm at the top. It's not
the higherness wax Chap and you know that's me. You

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know Jabel could come up with his own all Thom
eight teen is shirtless. Yeah, to the top. That's where
we had. It. Doesn't like people are listening to him
like yeah, and he's just talking like yeah. Keeping I
just liked the immediately pulled JaVale McGhee into it, like
like they're paired up now and then countless columns and

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tweets about these guys are champions. He played ten minutes
a game in the post doesn't matter. He's like, I'm
on the top of the basketball world. He kind of
just held on while while the other guys took you
for a ride. Yeah. But remember in October when we
started the season, like, you got Matt Barnes's ring, Now
it was time for Nick Young. Okay, and now Nick

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Young has his ring. Yeah, we really got Matt Barnes.
Was a good player for a long time. You're going
suddenly from Matt Barnes at Nick Young. I mean, the
guy's a carnival show. We need carnival shows, and this
time now more than ever, we need carnival shows. What
are you talking about? What he got? Frostberg Jr. Smiths
Age Champion Jason anything is possible. Ah, this is true,
and he should. He should get an Infinity Gauntlet gold

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sleeve too, the soft cast from the Warriors for his
contributions to their success. I need a Jr. Swaggy p
reality show immediately. Oh yeah, well it's just called shirtless No, yeah,
but you gotta have If he goes out in public,
it's thirty minutes. If you suck, I suck, you get
that series away. I want a shirt that's a turtleneck

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because you know, swagg at the neck tattoo. I don't
want one half to be j R. Smith's body and
the other have to be swaggy. But it's got to
be a short sleeve turtleneck. Oh yeah, yeah, you know.
It can't be long sleep it will be if that's
tough to manufacture, but I think we could do it.
I don't know if that you should be wearing turtlenecks.
But that's a whole other counts. It's only to get
the it's only to get the neck tattoo. We can
have that tattoo. Are we gonna go get a neck

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neck tattoo? No, I'm not gonna do that, but I'll
wear a T shirt. I bet you we could crowd
fund that. No time flat. Jason just covers his up. Yeah.
Thousand and one. I had a two thousand out of
my piazza, had a two thousand six n El East
chanced to crack bat and then then then then I
got rid of the least of two thousand seven n

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El East champs on the back. It says Clemmons was
here in giant back tattoo of Captain America. Gave it right. No,
it's just Hackenburg's jersey at Hackenburg with the fourteen on
under it. Let's hear from Draymond Green, who talked about
not just about trolling Lebron James, but about why wouldn't
shake Tristan Thompson's hand. There's a lot of guys in

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this league they saw we just come from a different cloth.
That's real. That's all I really got. That's real. We
just ain't cut to say I told what I'm doings
after the game, try to shake my hand. That's that Tristan.
We ain't cut to say. I like that. It was
I told one of those dudes, and then he named
checked the most seconds later, glad he's not a spy.

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I cannot tell you who told me to come here.
John Kelly would not be happy with Oh, I SHO.
Probably shouldn't have said that. I mean, yeah, he would
be an awful spy. But that's like I'm gonna tell you,
just finally said forget that. I was gonna keep it.
That was fun, but I gotta go with Ovi cursings

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eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carman. We'll have more Ovie screams coming
up throughout the show's I probably will replace the Wilhelm
scream uh in pop culture. But coming up next, two
guys who have trouble throwing a football. One won't get
to do it for a while and one is just
starting again those na damn, it's not you, not this
time at least. Well, we have those big NFL stories

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coming your way next on Fox Fox Sports Radio. It
is The Jason Smith Show with my bass friend Mike
harm But we have a big baseball story coming your
way in about ten minutes. News that's gonna make the
contract of Alex Rodriguez and Barry Zito look like a bargain. Hey,
that guy can strum a guitar like nobody's business. Yes,

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very big, very shocking baseball news coming your way in
ten minutes on a future Hall of Famer. And you
wonder how much baseball he's gonna play after what we're
gonna tell you. But as promised, two quarterbacks in the
news in a large way today. Both guys have trouble
throwing footballs. One I thought, is it Johnny mantel. No no, no, no, no, no.

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One because he's been injured for a long time, and
one because he's just not very good. Let's start with
a guy who was not very Yeah, okay, for the
second time in three weeks, I'm getting to say farewell,
Christian Hackenburg, godspeed. The Raiders decided to part ways with
Christian Hackenburg three weeks after getting him from the Jets.
That means it's a no and void trade and the

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Raiders don't owe the Jets of draft picks, and Hackenburg
didn't even make it to training camp, so it seems
like a faulty business model. Though laid a trade. Gruden
John Gruden did say they needed they needed two more
slots for training camp. They wanted to sign Frosty Rucker
and somebody else. Like, wait a minute, you needed two
more you have ninety players coming to camp. I'm sorry,

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we need these two slots, really, you need these two?
Already have like six quarterbacks. I mean, I got a
lot of guys. I know a lot of a lot
of quarterbacks anyway, But just kind of trade perspective that
they get to, you know, declare that Nolan void seems
ludicrous to me. You've got three weeks to work out
of them. It seems like you you got you were

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able to then do your evaluation. You bought, you bought
a bad, bad part your car. It's like going to
the clearance racky buy a shirt and you watch it
and go, oh, no refunds. It's frayed and it's staying
just because the lighting was bad or you were in
a hurry. They got their draft pick back. They shouldn't
get it bad. But that's what I'm saying. The rule

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is ludicrous. Just like being able to review a foul
call inside the final two minutes because your three referees
are blind. You gotta let that go. It's like the
eighth day in a row. You brought that up. It
was hasn't been eight. We got Frostburg, and now that
Hackenburg is out of Oakland, I'm being told raiders, sideline
reporters are getting their insurance money back. I don't need

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to put out the yeah, oh it's I don't worry
about getting hit with wayward footballs. Now, this is gonna
be awesome. So farewell Christian Hackenburg. I remember when he
was projected as being the number one overall pick in
the draft. That's that's how far back I go when
when I thought he was gonna go number one overall
and then Well dropped a little bit, dropped a little bit.

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The worst thing happens he got drafted by the Jets. Look,
sometimes you're just throwing darts at a board. Okay, that's
all it is. Projecting quarterbacks, especially as they're hitting their
sophomore junior years. It's a very difficult proposition. And sometimes
you throw up a name just because you want to
be right and because it's a bit of an outlier
from where you've been in the past. Not exactly, you know,

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all those years ago you go back to Carry Collins. Otherwise,
not a lot of quarterbacks coming out of Penn State
that you were excited about for the NFL prospects. I
don't remember people clamoring for Wally Richardson. There wasn't a
lot of clamoring. No, well and and running backs out
of Penn State and guys out of Penn State in general.
When's that don't come into gods guys great? Wow? And
once Johnah Carter got broken in half, there wasn't It

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wasn't a lot going on there. Meanwhile, from Christian Hackenburg
to Andrew Luck, who threw a football today, And I
kind of feel like you could write a children's book
called Andrew Luck throws a football, because that's what he
did today. Is that now the partner showed who, Hey,
that's my jacket, Mike Shuman, and coming up after, hey,
that's my jacket Mike Shuman is Andrew Luck through a
football translating Dennis Rod. We're up to an hour and

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a half. But Andrew Luck back on the field through
a football today, about twenty passes for the first time.
And I love in the in the all the recaps,
it was under the watchful eye of head coach Frank Raich,
like nothing is ever under the distracted eye of the
head coach. Like he's always a watchful eye the head coach.
It's never Yeah, the guy was kind of paying attention,
but not really. What didn't look he tripped and fell,

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always the watchful life. But here's the thing. Was it
a real NFL football? No, it wasn't. It was a
high school football that he was throwing baby steps for
Andrew Luck. Yeah, so it's a little it's a lighter football.
It's sort of a prince I've I've thrown a real football.
But Duke, whatever you wanna call it, I've picked it
up and I've thrown it and it felt great, And honestly,

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there was a little mental block to do on it,
and I had to do it. He's he's talking about
this is before two thousand sixteen. I've throwed a football.
I've thrown a football video. There's no uh, we don't
believe it. I throwed it. No, No, I was just
throwing this. So why are you throwing this one? Then?
I mean, obviously you look at where he is and
he says, I'm going to be ready for Week one.
I have no doubt. This is June and he's just

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throwing a football for the first time, and he's throwing
a lighter high school football. I'm telling you, the Colts
are gonna pay for sticking with Andrew Luck and not
figuring out their backup plan this year. Oh, we're gonna
trade down. We're not going to get a quarterback, and
we're fine with Andrew Luck. They are rolling the dice
hoping he'll be healthy. But here's the main takeaway from this.

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Can you ever trust Andrew Luck to be healthy again?
Can you ever think he's our franchise guy. We're good
at quarterback now for the next ten years. You can't.
You can't do that. You can't think, oh, we're solid
with this guy for the next ten years. No, every
year is gonna be can he play? Can he still throw?
How is his shoulder? And you could have gotten that
quarter You could have gone out and gotten Josh Allen

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or somebody else. You could have gotten Sam Donald if
you but you made the trade. The Jets moved up,
they got Sam Donald, and now you're sitting here going,
oh boy, we could have gotten that guy, and then
you'd be in a situation where it's okay, here's Andrew
Luck and if he's really good, well we have a
guy that someone would take in a trade. We turn
him into another first round or a year from now.
If not, we let Andrew Luck go and we can

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figure something out with our new quarterback. But this day
had a chance to get their quarterback and they decided
we're staying all in on Andrew Luck. And you simply
can't trust that he's going to be healthy long term.
Maybe he makes it back for week one, maybe he doesn't.
Can't believe he's gonna start make it back when he's
just throwing a high school football now, and you don't know,
can you sell the same zip on the ball? Is
still gonna be able to get the ball down field?

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You simply don't know. But the Cults are decided, Nope,
we got blinders on and we're gonna go forward like
Andrew luck is our goun. Well, they go and they
draft Quentin Nelson. The hope that Kelly stays healthy in
the middle of your offensive line and that you can
keep whoever's under center upright, I'd buy my futures on
Jacoby Brissette over under starts for the season, because really,

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given the weight of lux contract, you've been hamstrung in
terms of what you're gonna be able to do free
agency to bolster that team altogether anyway, So you're you're
now wishing and hoping here at the middle of June
that you're gonna get him right in a what six
weeks time, when you're starting training camp and getting into

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the preseason. It's just a faulty proposition. As much as
Frank Reich may say all the right things outwardly, and
Chuck Pagano, the ousted coach, said, hey, he bought me
time because of how well he played and everything else
you're going in with with a lot of questions, and
if he's not right, if he's not right, you can't

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put him behind what they have on that offensive line
because they were disastrous a year ago and disastrous forever.
And and part of that's on luck for holding the
ball too long. And the only reason it didn't look
as bad as because Prosette was able to get outside pocket. Exactly.
It was the same thing with boy Drew Bledsoe looks
horrible behind the Cowboys offensive live boy Romo looks okay. Yeah,

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to get outside the pocket, run away from people. But
that's just it. And you also have to buy that
extra second for the Colts wide receivers who are not
game changers in and of themselves, because t Y Hilton
shows up on your box score and certainly for you
on Fantasy Live, and what we do was like, Oh,
he had a big game. Yeah, I can't bank on
that next week that he's gonna be able to break
containment because the orderback bought an extra second or two.

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That's just not the way you want to build your offense.
And certainly for Indianapolis Colts fans as much as you
lament the loss of Frank Gore and is three point
six and a cloud of dust, you know you're you're
moving on in the guys throwing a high school football,
you might as well bring Al Bundy out of pocon Well.
But he was a fullback though, I mean he was well,

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but he always took the post like he was gonna
throw in the single wing offense. Yeah, exactly, Well, Colts
will rue the day they didn't go get somebody else
to play quarterback. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
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Harmon on Fox Sports Radio. Gee, thanks buddy. What is
this song even playing? It's not should I get up
and start dancing? It's this Kinder's Corner. This is the
theme to kind of Cornerbackn't remember the r back in
the day, long before my time. Oh that No, that
was the best. That was when after every Mets home game,
Ralph Kinder would have the star of the game coming

(25:54):
you sit down and talk about the game again, his
dirty jersey way up high and booth. And then when
it ended, they'd go Morton Downey Jr. And they would
always and they would always get a watch like and
he would say, guess of Kinder's Corner, get this wonderful
bull of a watch. And you know, guys come to
talk about the game, but give me the sticking x
lex watch. I'd let Mickey move into your house, you know,
And they stayed at the Milford Plaza. We should it's

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the Milford Plaza. Yeah, you don't recognize the song anymore
because the apple doesn't go up. No, it doesn't. But
we should make that in the show open the theme
for Kinder. No, that would be awesome. We'd have zero listeners. No,
they just think it's something the brass band. That's kind
of a fun I do like the brass band el
and that if we could get one live behind us,

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as you'd be responsible for pile ups on the four
old bottles. Focus Groofing does say that they would tune it,
they would tune out. They want to hear Arctic monkeys. Oh, yes,
that's what the focus. Could you name one Arctic monkey song?
Are you kidding me? If I couldn't name an Arctic monkey? Click?
Click click? Yeah, no good? What's the song? What's an

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arctic my favorite? And why would you even sit here?
And so do I want to know? Uh? Four out
of five knee socks? I want to be yours? Snap
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hear me typing that. Well, that's why I said clicking

(27:43):
really loudly so he can clack away. We're live in
the Geico studios where fifteen minutes can save you fifteen
per cent and more in car insurance. More info visit
Geico dot com. And yes, here's Miguel Cabrera, who is
headed to the Hall of Fame. Triple crown winner when
we never thought we'd see a triple crown winner ever
again in Major League Baseball. Done for the season with
a ruptured bicep, this is a guy who's got four

(28:07):
home runs, four time batting champion. He's going five years
to the Hall of Fame. He's that kind of dominant
from the year of two thousand and four, really up
until two thousand seventeen, I mean that he was. He's
been great, not good, He's been great every single year

(28:27):
from two thousand four to two thousand seventeen. The one
year he had that was a little down year. He
got hurt a couple of years ago. He got the
last four years. But this time, dude andrew right thirty
games A year ago he played in a hundred nineteen games.
So the the wear and tear on the body certainly
there this lifetime. He's got a lifetime batting average of

(28:49):
three sixteen. I mean, this guy is gonna be unanimous
first ballot Hall of Famer. But now here's the reality.
He's had trouble the last couple of years staying healthy.
He had his worst year ever last year, sixteen home run,
sixty r b I z at to forty nine. His
war was minus point eight. This is a guy who's
war is anywhere between five and eight throughout his career.

(29:13):
This is Miguel Cabrera's contract with the Tigers now, Missy
torn Bicep. A guy who's a bigger guy, never really
stayed in shape, who now is thirty five years old.
He's do thirty million dollars this year. Good for him,
thirty million dollars next year, thirty million dollars. In twenty twenty,

(29:36):
thirty one million dollars in one, thirty two million dollars
in twenty two and thirty two million dollars in twenty
twenty three. Then they can stretch it out like a
Bobby Beneath payment. Didn't have to stretch it out until
the world ended. I didn't mean at one point one
million dollars you can stretch out, you know, seven million
to twenty. But you're stretching out two million dollars. Why

(30:00):
when you were in a complete rebuild mode. I think
for the trade deadline, they were hoping he was right
right he missed some time due to a hamstring injury
earlier in the year. I think they were hoping he'd
get right and start showing some signs of the old
Miguel Cabra because maybe they could say, hey, Yankees, you'd
like to spend money. Hey Dodgers, you need another bag.
But hey whomever, please take this giant, giant contract. We'll

(30:24):
even put it in a novelty check. Are you gonna
take it with you? I get you wanted to keep
him when you signed him that extension two years ago
because of what he has done. But now you've given
a guy who's gonna turn forty years old and you're
giving him thirty million dollars a year. He's like Albert,
who knows if he's ever gonna play again. He's had
trouble staying healthy. He's not a guy who was in shape. Right,

(30:47):
you see him play, you go. He's a baseball here's
the thing that keeps you in the teeth too. Though
we we talk all those milestones and those hallowed numbers
of baseball. He's three hits away from three housing and
will probably m may likely may not get there. I

(31:07):
mean yeah, I mean that when we talked about the
people getting to three thousand, he was the guy on
the list. It was dicey. Now, Nick Mark Cacas may
make like leading all the all vote vote league. Now
we're talking about Marks, But seriously, this is the contract

(31:27):
you're looking at. This makes a Rod's contract and Albert
Pools's contract and Barry Zeno's contract look like a bargain.
This but at least you got to avoid a year
because of the p E. D. S well, and so
you got to kick that. And with a Rod. You know,
it was really only the last couple of years that
were bad. But you know, it turned bad the last
couple of years but you paid him for what he

(31:47):
did and the gate that he brought and all of
the like. There was so much money made off of
his arrival in New York that that it was worth
it on the back end. And you're talking about five
more and and the Tigers they're having trouble anyway, and
now here they are and they're on the hook for
over a hundred eighty million dollars for this year. In
the next please take him was going to be the

(32:08):
mantra this as we got towards the All Star break.
I'm mentally tired now because I feel like this is
a contract we're gonna have for the next five years.
Look how bad this mcguel Cabrera contract is. Look how
bad it's an awful contract. He got rid of Verrland.
Remember when his contract was the big question of who
would take it on. Well, he goes and wins the
World Series and he still has Kadupton, who's you know,

(32:29):
on Maxim's you know, number one on their top one
hundred again. And then you've got Miguel Cabrera here, he's
got the Albert poolholes. Your contract run contactly to you're
forty years old, and yeah, that is right, and you're
looking at a thirty million dollar price tag for a
guy who may not be able to blame. I mean,
I like I like Joel and Beads contract better than

(32:50):
Miguel Cabrera. Guel Cabrera makes Joel and Beats contract look
like Steph Curry's four year forty contract. If only he
could monetize the slides down the wall falls that he's
been doing this last couple of weeks. Look, it was
a bad decision for the Tigers at the time. I
get you wanted to reward a guy. You want to
give him thirty million him, give him thirty million for
three or four years, five for five. I can do

(33:12):
what I want to see. You can really see him
at thirty six thirty seven. Guys not in shape when
he's thirty years old. He's gonna be in shape when
he's thirty eight. Forget it, just gonna collect money. This
is now officially, Hey, here's your worst contract in sports.
Well done? Eight seven sever had done on Fox Twitter
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Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming

(33:34):
up next. It's about time LaVar ball did another interview
and oh wait till you hear what he had to say.
Pay Next on Fox Fox Sports Radios this Arctic Monkeys. Ye,
this is definitely the Arctic Monkeys. It's the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmen live from the Geiko Studios. We

(33:57):
have more on the breaking story involving the Cabrera coming
your way in about fifteen minutes. Cabrera done for the season,
torn bicep of guys, going right to the Hall of Fame. Now,
it's gonna be a long next few years in Detroit
with that contract. Well long since your vacation there, you'll
be able to give us the lowdown. Yeah, you talk

(34:19):
about a depressed economy. That's gonna happen in Detroit. Now.
It's everything. Well, they already want to fire Matt Patricia
because he makes people run. So, I mean, it's a nice,
easy time in Detroit Sporting Lands. People are gonna need
to eat cheaply and they're gonna want to go back
to Muskrat dinners. And everything's great at both Michigan and
Michigan State. No troubles there. It's funny. We were watching

(34:42):
an episode of Cobra Kai earlier and they did reference
and Muscutte they did, they did, right, Yeah, very good,
tight shirt. You are in on the ground FLOORID. But
just when I was saying, boy, it's about time LaVar
Ball did an interview again, LaVar Ball started doing interviews.
With day two of the Lebron James pursuit in full swing,

(35:05):
we find out LaVar Ball is a big fan of
Lebron James coming to the Lakers. Yeah, it's back when
you know he's kind of ripping Lebron James two months ago.
But now maybe he realizes, oh, you know, maybe I
should say some nice things about more attention, more sneaker
sales come on, and you can get rid of those
sliders that are sitting in a warehouse somewhere. And I

(35:26):
think there are sliders. They're on sale on the website.
There's no way. Oh they're on sale. Yeah, we figured
that out last night. Sliders. How much of the sliders
now there's still dollars okay, but they're down from four thousand. Okay. Uh,
that's still a significant percentage. Because I would sell that
as their offs and try to play a little misdirection

(35:46):
as to what you're actually spending. Right, Hey, you save
more if you buy multiple Yeah, yeah, yeah, I save
even more money if I don't buy anything. Yeah, you're
bringing down the economy, man, But you who saved the
most with Geico minutes, can save you fift more in
car insurance. That's a freebee. That is right. But LaVar

(36:07):
Ball and to no one's surprised, knows exactly who can
help Lebron James win a championship with the Lakers. You
don't get my son the best players in the world.
Don't think he's gonna win. You put Alonzo, Jello and Lebron.
You win a championship. There about that winning. It's not
gonna stunt his growth and can play with nobody like Alonzo. Nokay, okay, okay,

(36:32):
there's so many things. First thing is, I like Alonzo
supposed to be the greatest player in the world. You
don't put great players with a Lonzo. He's not going
to champions Wait. I thought Anzo was great. I thought
he was going to the ship. I think the best
of he was having this jersey retired. Now we gotta
put great players with a Lonzo to win a championship.
But the two players that will help Lebron James win
a championship. Aren't Alonzo and Brandon Ingram. It's not Alonzo

(36:56):
and Kyle Kuzma or Kylie Kuzma. It's not Alonzo and
Julius Randolph. No, it's Alonzo and Lie Angelo, who was
a fringe second round pick may not even get drafted.
But you put those two with Lebron and they'll win
a championship. Oh, he went into a whole analysis of
how it becomes Lobs City with Alonzo running the lane

(37:20):
after giving the ball up. No, it really got deep
and in depth and left me scratching my head and
longing for the days that Well, we didn't hear from
him for a while, as we still remain one of
only two shows across America and certainly here in Los
Angeles that hasn't talked to him. We never called for him.
That's okay, I mean, I I understand the philosophy of well,

(37:41):
you could put a bunch of stiffs with Lebron and
get to the funnals. Let me look what's going on
in he No, he picked those stiffs, but don't dismiss
that he of that, but self inflicted. He might not
have been talking about the hand fully when he was
making that I'm gonna hit you with a soft cast.
It doesn't matter if he picked him. It just shows

(38:03):
you that, hey, you put some stiffs with him, he
can still carry you to heights. And now a Lonzo
Ball certainly is talented. And now and now Jello, you
know you're gonna throw him. And now a guy who's
there's no even no interest in anybody to have him
in the NBA, but you can throw him in there,
and he can he can win you a championship. But

(38:23):
LaVar Ball sounds to me and and this is what
you know, everybody's his best ball. He sounds to me
like every parent. And now I've coached soccer at the
at the youth level now for three years and softball
now at the youth level for thing champions Now I'm
a coach. Now now I'm imparting my wisdom on the

(38:44):
younger generation, kind of like Johnny Lawrence is doing to
the next group of kids. You no, he's actually doing it.
He's trying to teach people to do things right way.
And LaVar Ball sounds like every dad that has ever
I've ever had a conversation with, telling me how great
his daughter is and she should be doing this, and
she should be doing this, and got really, your daughter

(39:05):
is not that, okay, but she's this and she's there. Okay.
We everybody overvalues their own kids. But it's like LaVar,
it just takes like a whole bunch of overvaluing steroids
before he talks like it's a big Now, you can't
overvalue and you gotta keep him hungry. Yeah, you put
Jello with Lebron and he's win a champ. That's like saying,
you could put me with Lebron and Lebron will win

(39:26):
a champion. I've seen you're shooting for him. It's not good. No,
But I can hit from the outside. I'm not. I
can go through getting that shut up in front of
anybody who's actually trying to play defense. I can go
behind the college three point NBA smaller small, give me
the women's ball that they use and you know with
with the multicolored and I can. I'll hit some threes

(39:48):
for you, man. I can do that. I'll pull up
from just outside. I'm a rotational guy. I will I
will do I'll stay, I'll be like the lou williams
Lamar's back, stirring it up, saying hey, if they don't
want all three of my boys here, then we'll get
them somewhere where they do. Put Alonzo with definitely saying,
you put Alonzo with George Clooney and lebron and they

(40:11):
can win a championship. George Colney was a hell of
a player on that yard. Alonzo with Nancy McKeon and
lebron He's gonna win a championship. Had a Nancy McKeon
reference in Alonzo with Denzel and Lebrono, they win a championship.
That's a lot of money, that's a lot of talent,
big breaking story out of baseball. Next on Fox, you

(40:34):
want you want to know the excellence level the Guel
Cabrera has had throughout his career. Are you ready for this?
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bass
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(40:57):
you pay off. It's somewhere down the road here. Ten
seconds later, you're saying, let me give you the information.
I'm grabbing you. I'm grabbing you from the beginning, we'll
get to maybe the most excellent speech at a parade
celebrating a championship we've heard in a long time. In
a minute, is it the one where he goes into
the crowd like Jordan's bell asking for bottle of Hennessey?

(41:21):
Is it the one where they do it on the
boat and then they do it in the But Miguel Cabrera,
who was done for the season, now torn bicep, and
it's it's stunning. How bad a contract this looks? Now
for the Tigers who signed him to a bad deal
two years ago and they gave him eight more years
and two fifty million dollars. He's do thirty million dollars

(41:43):
a year through three. Yeah, it was a lifetime and
say that is a real you want to give he Look,
he's the best hitter of our generation. He's that good.
He's unlike anybody we've seen. He plays for Detroit and
you know he's had his years. He won the Triple Crown,
they've been to the the World Series. I I don't

(42:03):
know that there's anybody more excellently consistent then Miguel Cabrera.
You forgot about Jeta bet No, I'm just getting much
better than get Jeter. Jeter looks like I just wanted
you to laugh. Jeter looks to see if you turn
into the Hulk, because I referenced some Yankee looks like
Michael Confordo compared to Yeah, but look at his career,

(42:26):
he was very consistent and a lot of things. But
here's how consistent on and off he he was the winner. Well,
that's true. I don't know about in the bedroom with
actresses and entertainers and singers, but no, there was a lot. No,
it was a lot. Yeah, it was a lot. We
presume there. Can you imagine if there wasn't with Jeter,
maybe they just sat and wanted to sign and maybe

(42:48):
they just watched movies together. What do we have to do?
We keep watching the World Series? This we saw maybe
they were binge watching friends. We watched three from two
thousand and four. We watched Game four from nineteen nineties six.
I've seen that home run in Game one of two thousands.
I can't speak intelligently to the man's night time proclimities.

(43:08):
But while this is a look, it's the worst contract
in sports. It was when he signed it, and now
it is getting to the age of forty, making thirty
million dollars a year. That's it's gonna be a long
few years in Detroit. But here's how great Miguel Cabrera
has been. I told you from two thousand four through
two thousand sixteen, there's never been anybody hitting the ball

(43:29):
that we've seen like this. You want to know what
his worst year was. Here's his worst year when you
talking about home runs, batting average and r BIS. Right,
worst year, worst year for Miguel Cabrera, worst year, worst war,
worst everything. From two thousand four through two thousand sixteen.
His worst season two thousand and four, when he went

(43:54):
thirty three homers, hundred and twelve rb I and hit
two and that was first full season in the big league.
That was his worst season in the Major's worst season.
There's other years where he hit a couple of fewer
home runs, but he hit twenty points higher or knocked
it around the same number of huge number of doubles

(44:17):
or whatever. But that is you want to say, what's
his worst year? Thirty three homers, one twelve and too Now,
he had a hundred and three RBI in two thousand nine,
but he had so okay, he knocked in nine less
runs but hit almost thirty points higher. That's the worst
season Miguel Cabreras. That's how great the guy is. And

(44:38):
if you want to say, hey, who's the first ballot
Hall of Famer unanimous anybody you don't vote for Miguel Cabrerari,
you have your vote taken away. I mean, that's how
good the guy is. There's two realities to him. There's
the reality of his contract and there's the reality of
the player is because when you get a torn bicep,
you wonder are you ever gonna be the same? How
much longer can you play? Because he's not a guy
that's kept himself in great shape. That's the one thing.

(44:59):
He's never have been that guy. And now here he
is thirty five, thirty six. He missed a lot of
time last year, and now he's gonna miss the rest
of the year. This year he was he was already
declining last year, played hundred thirty games, only hit sixteen
home run six d r bis at two fifty you
were the last three years heading into he'd missed significant

(45:21):
time thirty two games a year ago. And then you
go back to where he played in a nineteen, but
two time m VP back to back, seven times finished
inside the top five and voting. And here's the thing
for the Tigers that you're doing a little bit of
praying to the baseball gods, as it were, right now,

(45:43):
because you are three four hits away from three thousand,
and you are thirty five home runs away from five hundred.
You're hoping for two very special dates on your calendar
by which to be able to commemorate and sell a
lot of memorabilia and T shirt and and beer cuzzies
and whatever else with Miguel Cabrera and hitting those milestones.

(46:07):
So there it is, Reguel Cabrera done for the season.
And when you think about him coming back, he was
already declining. He's already there. Like I said, this is
the realistic conversation you need to have about Miguel Cabrera
because this is part of it. This is part of
it how great he is. And also the contract, and

(46:29):
this is why when you see contracts of this length
and baseball, no one wants to give these to anybody anymore.
I mean, people are gonna people are gonna nash at
their fingernails, going, boy, we really want to give Bryce
Harper ten years and four million. I'll give Bryce Harper
five years and two hundred millions. But you just don't

(46:50):
know what the what the future? Can I get that?
You don't get that, but you feel better than we
certainly do. Then some of the picture contracts that we've
seen in the past. You and I have talked a
lot on local Los Angeles radio about what the Dodgers
have for Clayton Kershaw. Now, obviously the end of the year,
there's the idea that he opts out and resets everything,

(47:12):
but be curious to see, given his injury status, whether
that happens. Now in the interim, when we look at
a guy like Miguel Cabrera and what's on tap, is
there a speculation that heading towards the All Star break,
maybe you can come to terms with the team to
take on that monster deal because they need another bat

(47:32):
too much. No, No, you're talking about but depending on
your team right that you're looking at, say here in
Los Angeles, or you look out at the Yankees who
are looking at Bryce Harper and maybe adding him to
the Stanton Judge combination that you're you're looking at teams

(47:53):
that could take on salary there's not very many of them,
nor is it necessarily realistic. But for the Tigers, that
was their only hope in the terms of the complete
rebuild because you're still carrying this monster deal. And I
don't know that he draws the crowd like he did
a here's a bunch of guys and Miguel Cabrera. Everybody
that that is the conundrum, and that is the complexity

(48:16):
of Miguel Cabrera. We'll have more on this coming up
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(48:38):
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promised to always love you. Meanwhile, today was a day
for parades. I love a parade unless I don't. Who doesn't.
When have you ever gone to a bad parade? At
parade kind of stunk? Has a bad parade? Theme parks.
I'll leave it at that. Oh, I like the disney Land,

(49:00):
like the Pixar perpect. I wasn't gonna give him a
free plug. Now, why but that you talk, Well, you
can't just say theme park multiple. There's multiple, you know,
Draymond If you don't, if there's multiple theme parks that
have left me hanging, Draymond Green, if you don't want
to shake hand with somebody, you can't. You can't just
say no, I'm gonna name check him seconds later. I mean,
that's exactly what you did right there. But today was

(49:20):
a big day for parades. We saw the Golden State
Warriors have their victory parade today for the third time
in four years, and the Washington Capitals had their parade
today after their Stanley Cup title after beating the Vegas
Golden Knights and last year. Last hour on the show,
we kind of went through who did the parades better?
Was it the Capitals or was it the Warriors? Now,

(49:41):
the Warriors trolled Lebron James epically, Draymond Green making fun
of him with a T shirt. There were vehicles at
the parade with Lebron James's face. Song was pretty good.
Swaggy p got to talk and no one paid any
attention to him, and Draymond Green said, Tristan Thompson tried
to shake his hand and I didn't want to shake
his hand because he was too soft. All that was great,

(50:02):
but really the Capital's win why because of Alex Ovechkin.
He warmed up with a first statement about how crazy
the year has been for the Capital, again saying he
fights for me. For me, Well, this was about a

(50:24):
legacy ps. So it really wasn't about the Capitals here.
I mean, that's nice that everybody gets to celebrate its title,
but it really was about him putting a bow on
what has been in a long and illustrious career. Now
his celebrating post championship goes down about as good as
as anybody's given us for the four to five days after.

(50:44):
So after he reminded the rest of the audience in
Russia that he fights for himself. Before he went out
for the tenth round against Rocky, Yeah, he said this,
it's basically nuts. You know, like you guys killing it.
You're just you're just bringing frost for Emily just Hoppen
is because they they support as much as you are.

(51:05):
They are all was all in Kazakhstan. So there's him
warming up a little bit, saying, Okay, everything is nuts,
And then you wondered how long it would be until
all Vetkin decided to drop an F bomb. Well, it
wasn't very long after that when he did so. In
describing how we talked about the season, the capitals we're
gonna have back in camp on the last thing before

(51:29):
the year, say we're not gonna suck this year is
still show yea. So well, Vetchkan in making his big
proclamation preseason, was We're not gonna blanking suck this year.

(51:50):
And I think he kind of had that cover though,
and then he gave the Roger daltry cs I that
is pretty good, which is pretty was up an octave
or two. It would have been even better. But I'll
take that. That screen. That anal visceral feeling that he's
got going on there. Yeah, but he's probably horse from
being out the last few days with the Stanley Cup
and all that stuff, So I understand inebriation. I get

(52:11):
his voice down a little bit deeper and deeper, way
way down. You know, Normally you get inspirational speeches that
are like we play them ten times, they might beat
us nine but not tonight. Tonight is your time. Or
you get we clawed what our fingernails? And then sometimes
you get hey, we're not gonna bleep and suck this year,

(52:33):
and then a yell. That's pretty good though. I like
the simplicity of it. I guess there's you can't you
can't cut that message any other way that I guess
we're not well. The pressure is on everybody else to perform. Yeah,
just so so we're not gonna suck this. This is
like Kobe Bryant the way he's been talking the last
couple of days, like you gotta bring people along with you,
even though he wanted to fire everybody on his team,

(52:56):
and he actually wanted to leave town at one point.
But you know that, never mind to what or at
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(53:19):
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It's never too early to start, though, Hey, rely not.
You can get a head start and get a jump

(53:41):
on it. Is the raccoon still on top of that
building in Minneapolis. I think so, I mean, I mean,
I think they should have Kirk Cousins get that raccoon down.
I think that's part No, that's part of it. Whoa,
I didn't mean shoot the whoa. I mean that would
get him down. No. Wow, you guys are all going
to hell. He had a good run. He got a
lot of attention on soial media. He did. Raccoon had

(54:04):
a good run, he did, He got a lot, He
got a lot of attention on social media, like he
threw a footballer. I'm looking for Grood. I think he's
on the top of his building. I'm trying to find them. Really.
Bradley Cooper now adding the voice over for this rack.
The rap that would be funny. James Gunn certainly did
come out. He said, I'll give you a thousand dollars
to your non political charity of choice if you can

(54:25):
get him out safely. Listen to the rabbit. The rabbit
makes sense. Joining us now on the hotline for more
of all the big news in the Nashville Football League. Hey,
Andrew luck through a football today, Sirius X and NFL
radio host and insider Alex Marvez. Hey, what's happening. I'm
doing great. But he didn't throw the duke? You know
what I mean that that's the cool slang that the

(54:46):
kids say for the uh, you know, the actual regulation
size NFL football. But hey, listen, great signs for for
Andrew luckin. You know. I spoke to a Rusty Jones tonight,
the Colts strength and conditioning coach, and he stressed that,
you know, everyone in the build thing is in lockstep.
And obviously this was the problem before when it came
to handling Andrew Luk's rehabilitation, making sure he doesn't skip steps,

(55:07):
the initial diagnosis, etcetera. Whatever it was. Right now, everything
in that building is humming as far as people getting
along and listen. I give a lot of credit to
Chris Ballard. I think Bill Polian behind the scenes is
doing some things that are bringing this team together, and
Jim Mercy is staying out of the way. But I mean,
you could tell how excited he was. He sent out
of a tweet himself showing Andrew Luck throwing a football.

(55:29):
So great news today for the Coals. I mean, listen,
what's going on. There is nothing new inside the building
because they see it every day. It's just that this
was the first time I was done in front of
the public, and that's what I think has Colts fans
so excited. Yeah, but if he throws a nerve football tomorrow,
I'm not going to be filled with any kind of
impetus that he's going to be able to get back soon.
But he will. I mean, he's gonna be ready for
the regular season opener. I mean that's where he's at.

(55:50):
They're just taking it there. You know, listen, they're not
they're not taking any chances on this one. You know,
you're talking about a career here. And like he said today,
you know, the nine part is that when he throws
right now, he's sore, but he's not in pain. And
there's a difference between the two. What he said, you
know before when he would throw last year at this time,
there was pain. Right now, he's sore, but it's not
something that's so acute that's preventing him from going the

(56:13):
next day. So I mean, listen, I just all I
have to do. I'm gonna borrow line from Sam Finkel here.
You're gonna trust in the process and just believe that
that Andrew Luck is gonna be on the field for
week one. And remember this too, everyone inside that building
basically is banking on this. Like if they're all wrong,
they're all wrong. But the Cults were sitting there at
number three with a chance to basically draft this number
two quarterback in this draft day, whoever the Browns took,

(56:36):
they were gonna have a choice between two, three and four,
and they thought, no, we're we're buying into Andrew Luck
stock and we're going to continue with that. And that's
what they're doing. Also figured eventually they had to address
all the offensive line woes and the fact that they
had nothing invested in anybody but Andrew Lunch. So honestly,
this is gonna this is gonna be the most improved
offensive line in football in my opinion, That and the Giants,

(56:59):
the Jets us town rival. Those are the two. I mean,
because the Colts now have depth. They drafted two players,
Quentin Nelson and Brandon Smith. You know, in the first
two rounds. These guys are gonna start right away a guard.
They're gonna be much better. Alex Marvez with us here
that Jason Smith Show with my biss friend Mike Harman
live from the Get Go Studios on Fox Sports Radio,
and well, from one guy who is having trouble throwing

(57:20):
a football to another guy, the Raiders cut Christian Hackenburg today,
Yes they did. And you listen Bill Polly and sat
on our airwaves, Alliance of American Football, they'd be calling,
you know, and you know as a developmental league for quarterbacks,
and that's what you need for Christian Hackenburg. He's never
going to get the amount of snaps that he would
need if he's ever going to make it a quarterback,
and he may never you know, look, we all got

(57:42):
you know it. You know, it was so enthralled by
his rookie you know, freshman season at Penn State and
then then everything fell apart after that and it was like, oh, well,
it's James Franklin's followed, No, it really really wasn't It
was a lot of other things with Christian Hackenburg and
his game. But is there something there to be called?
What John Gruden didn't see the as two of you know,
three other quarterbacks in his camp, obviously, but the two backups,

(58:04):
you know, Connor Cook and E. J. Mayne. He didn't
think Hackenburg was gonna gonna be any better, so he
moves on. But you know what's amazing is that since
two thousand and seven, I were just on Twitter today,
it's got to be true. It's oh seven or oh eight,
Kenny Irons of the Cincinnati Bengals. He suffered a horrific
knee injury as a rookie, and that was that he
never played in an NFL game. That's the last time

(58:24):
he had a player drafted in the first two rounds
who has never played in an NFL game. And Christian
Hackenburg is that guy that has ended that streak well.
And also, if no reporters are covering the allies of
American football, you'll have to worry about hitting any of
them with passes to the sideline, So that might work
out for Hackenburg. Not too bad, are you, duck? That's
the whole key anyone, They're just duck. There you go,

(58:45):
Jason Smiths Show with Mike Carmen. Here from the guy
Go Fox Sports Radio Studios on the Hotline with us
serious x M NFL radio host our buddy Alex Marvez.
You can follow him on Twitter at Alex Marvez. So
holdouts in these early work out it's anything to see here.
And we got the statement out of Earl Thomas that
certainly has sent a lot of gums flapping, but doesn't

(59:07):
mean anything at this point. This is what Clinton Dick
said today about a potential hold out on his end, quote,
you're just wasting your time, really, and he's right. I mean, listen,
you don't think these teams know that the guys who
are unhappy with their contracts, like this is all of
a sudden out of the blue. A guy doesn't show
up like something weird, like Donald Stevenson, the backup right

(59:27):
tackle in Cleveland. Okay, that that's just goofy Okay. But
we're talking about the big time contracts and the main
guys everyone already knows they're unhappy with their contracts. They
already knew in advanced they're not going to be out
there for many camp because they're not going to risk injury,
and you know, if they want to publicly send a
statement and try to put pressure on a team that way.
And you know, of course the agents are talking to
you know, the national media guys. That's how they break

(59:49):
their stories and so you know, from there it becomes, oh, well,
you know, this guy is underpaid because so many other
guys have signed their contracts in advance. And I get it.
And it's just a dance that everyone's playing. You know.
The big thing is eighty four thousand dollars. You may
get it back, you may not if you miss a
mini camp. But you know, for some players, it's like,
I want to make a statement, I want to get
a new deal. And if they're convinced that this is

(01:00:10):
gonna you know, leverage things their way, that's great. But
it but it really doesn't. It really does. There's nobody
scared about a mini camp. As for Earl Thomas, eight
point four million dollars or eight point five million dollars
salary this upcoming season, Uh, you know, that's fine. I mean,
some teams can absorb that. The problem with him, though,
is he becomes a free agent at the end of
the year. I'm not sure if you want to use

(01:00:30):
a franchise tag on him, because he's already angling for
a new contract. So you know, if you were to
trade for him, the balls in his court. Otherwise he
used the franchise tag that he may never sign. Earls
a quirky guy. So just just a messy situation all
in all. And to be honest with you, when you
look back in retrospect, Seattle, shouldn't you know if they
if this guy is serious about holding out, and he

(01:00:51):
very well maybe remember he talks about retirement at one
point after he suffered a pretty serious injury a couple
of years ago. Then my feeling is that you know,
you should have cut paid awhile ago as you can't, well,
try to just salvage the best you can. Move on. Hey,
one more quarterback to throw by here, John harbaught today,
I was saying glowing things about Lamar Jackson the air
apparent to Joe Flacco in Baltimore, but not because of

(01:01:12):
what he's doing behind center, but because they're lining them
up all over the field, getting him on the field
in different spots, and you know, in the backfield on
the side he's out wide. Are we really going to
see that out of Lamar Jacksons? You were going to
see him on the field all kinds of different positions potentially.
I mean, listen, and the Ravens one other teams have
to think about this right until they unveil some sort

(01:01:32):
of package. But you know, Lamar knows that can he
can actually do something as a receiver. He told me,
you know, back at the NFL Draft that, look, he
didn't work out for teams at wide receiver because he
didn't I'm sorry, he didn't run the four d r
dash at the at the combine or his pro day.
The reason was he didn't want teams to get any
ideas that you know, he could thrive at wide receiver.
You know, he just wanted to make sure, Look, you're

(01:01:54):
drafting me as a quarterback. Right. So, now that he's
with the Ravens and there is a plan for him
and they just looks they're talking about geting him the
foot ball. They can line him up a running back,
they can line him up wherever as long as it
puts a football in his hand, and they can come
up with something original. But just think about it like this, though,
if Joe Flanco. Basically, he's not I don't want to
say he's not fleet to foot, because he has some
pretty good wheels. But at this point in his career,

(01:02:15):
is anyone worried about him? I mean, we've seen wildcat
offenses before where you just don't worry about the quarterback
when he's out there on the field with two guys together.
So maybe the Ravens can come up with a way
to make this thing work, and maybe Lamar Jackson, you know, again,
becomes a target of some some simple type offensive you
know maneuvers. But I'm just not so sure that having
two qbs in the same field, on the same field

(01:02:36):
the same time is going to yield dividends. All right,
last one, I'm gonna go back to the holdouts. Why
because I'm a man of the people. We're starting to
set up our early fantasy draft boards. Of all these holdouts,
where's the one that has the domino effect that should
be worried about Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack And once
one of them gets a contract, the other one will
soon follow that. That's really what it comes down to it.

(01:02:57):
And there's a great article by Corey Joel on PBS
about this about how uh that they're both competing to
become the first twenty million dollar a year defensive player
in the league, and you know that's what they're working toward.
You know for the Raiders. You know, again for John Gruden,
it's a little bit of a feeling out for rocess
here because you know he's just taking the reins and
or Reggie mackinsey had one set of plans, while does

(01:03:18):
Jon Gruden have the other? And can they get that done?
As for Aaron in his situation with the Rams, I mean, look,
it's it's not pleasant. I mean to be honest. I mean,
the Rams keep saying all the right things publicly, but
you've given Donna Consume a lot of money. What are
you gonna give to Aaron Donald? And you know that.
And then even all the players know what they actually
support the hold out and those you know those they
understand that this guy needs to get some cash. So

(01:03:40):
you know, that's why I think the one that you
gotta watch that that's going to settle the log jam
between those two guys. I expect if one signs, the
other would quickly follow. You can follow on Twitter at
Alex Marvez. That's Alex Marvez serious XM, NFL radio host
an insider A m as always, buddy, appreciate it, and
I'm I'm expecting your next show to be all about
Sam Arnold, so I'm just just waiting for that. I

(01:04:02):
have a jet step for you real quick. By the way,
what what team has the fewest number of Pro Bowl
players on their roster in the NFL? You kind of
gave away the punch line, man, I don't know. I
didn't give it away. I was a question. Thanks, buddy,
appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. And it's
too see. Am you know the answers I didn't need

(01:04:24):
to keep on coming. I didn't need the Alex Marvez
at Alex Marvez on Twitter. I got a jet step
for you. No, I don't really want it. No, but
I haven't now but I really know. I'm I'm good. No,
but I'm gonna give it to you. Anyway. He walked
up and he had a club in his hand and
he said, Hey, you want to meet this. He said, no,
I don't, and he bludging you anyway. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Getic Studio. As

(01:04:46):
we got more NFL on the way, including the best
wide receiver in the league has apparently lost his mind.
We got that story coming up in fifteen minutes. But
in one minute, maybe you can cross one city off
of Lebron James is destination. What city is that that? Well, well,
you can cross Cleveland off, but another city besides Cleveland.

(01:05:06):
Find out what that is. But first, a guy who
would live in any city as long as you pay him.
It's Tom LOONI with what's trend is that the plural
of James Lebron James is cross Lebron James list off
of Lebron's James list. He said, okay, okay, because you
said James. Well, sometimes people put the s apostrophe s

(01:05:27):
like dopes instead of just putting the apostrophe there, so
it becomes Lebron James. When when those James have have
names that ends in s. Yeah, right, but people continue
to the apostrophe hitting home runs, I would have to say,
it's Barry Bonds seven D and runs. Can I can
I tell you a quick story so you know Berman

(01:05:49):
back in this back when I was a p a
a time, he would always like to say Johnny's Mitchell
or he would say, like the guy's first name, Aaron's Rogers.
He would say that. And one time he said, you know,
he was doing a jet sighlight and he said Johnny's
Johnson with a big run, and the executive producer started

(01:06:10):
screaming in the studio, going what the hell is that
he can't give a sexual name on the air. And
the producer goes, no, that's his nickname. He goes, it's
not his bleeping nickname. He can't say Johnny's Johnson on
the air, and it was it was I was like, oh,
this is not gonna be and well yeah yeah. And
if people are thinking that they here's have dirty, dirty mind,

(01:06:32):
they do they do. So try to keep your what's
trend and clean. Mr Luke, absolutely, I always worked clean
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if you believe people who have been covering Lebron James
and say I've had conversations with Lebron James, you can

(01:08:22):
cross Houston off the list of potential destinations for Lebron.
He doesn't want to go to the planet Houston. No, Well,
look I've been to Houston a couple of times. Yeah,
it's very humid. Sure, it's the first place you don't
have any hair that gets out of it. It's very human.
It's the first place I ever had quiz nos. Remember
those sock pumping ads they had where you wanted to

(01:08:45):
go el Elvis on your TV and shoot it. The
Soca pellas almost beat us. You comma coming down. Uh.
And the third thing is it's very humid. So that's
back to humidity. But would he go join up with
James Harden and Chris Paul Well, according to Marlo ridden
our of the Akron Beacon Journal. She did a podcast
on ESPN l A and said, no, no, no, I've

(01:09:07):
talked to Lebron. Houston ain't on that list. But I
will tell you this, I heard this from his own
lips when we were in Houston this season. She does
not like Houston as a city, So that would require
him moving to a place he's not crazy about. It's
only got to be there forty one days and then
the playoffs over a course of a long period time.

(01:09:29):
This is Look, this doesn't I don't doubt this because
we told you this two nights ago that it's about everything.
It's not just about where's the best place for Lebron
to win a championship, all these you know, cookie cutter
columns you see on the well. Of course, Houston offers
him the best place to it. But you gotta be realistic.
Is he really gonna leave Cleveland for Houston? Left Cleveland

(01:09:49):
from Miami for South Beach for teaming up with Dwyane
Wade and Chris Bosh, and he left Cleveland for a bigger, warmer,
more high profile city. He's not going to leave Cleveland
for Houston. It's not gonna is he really going to
do the last act of his basketball career in Houston,
and if he wants a team up with Chris Paul,

(01:10:11):
doesn't have to be there. No, And Chris Paul is
not going to take less money. He wants forty five
million dollars year. You're not getting Lebron James in by
Chris Paul's getting forty million dollars. We're talking about Miguel
Cabrera's contract earlier. You're gonna give a long term contract
to Chris Paulton plus a year. Come on, now? That
is that? That? That would then usurp Miguel Cabrera as

(01:10:32):
the worst contract in sports. But of course he's not
going to make that final basketball act in Houston. It's
gonna be where can I win, Where do I have
a chance to win, Where's a good position for me
to win. Where can I improve my lifestyle and my
family's lifestyle, And where can I go where I can
set up the next part of my career, which is

(01:10:53):
life after basketball. I got three years left probably and
I'm gonna have to start seeding some time and responsibility
to other players. So what works, certainly Los Angeles works. Lifestyle,
Either he should go to the Clippers. I'd love him,
really should go to you win with the Lakers. You're
just the latest And okay, well Kobe was great knee

(01:11:13):
one and but at this point though, with the amount
of shade Kobe has been throwing, he's like he's like
a dog running around a tree right now. He's peeing
all over the place. To make your Lebron, James, everything's no. Absolutely,
He's like, hey, if he comes here and he doesn't win,
and blah blah blah and and going on and on.
It's like he almost wanted to go to the Lakers

(01:11:35):
just for that. So he's flipping him the bird. But
certainly to be the guy to finally get past lob
City and the failed XT day. Although he can bring
Chris baul back with him back, but Los Angeles is
number one because he doesn't need to go to a
team ready made with James Martin. He can bring Paul
George and suddenly Lebron Paul George and a Lonzo Ball

(01:11:59):
and aild Kuzma and Brandela don't forget Jello ball. You
know all of those things will work. Certainly, Philadelphia, it's
one of the biggest cities. It's now become known as
a city of champions. Certainly the two best players up
and coming in the Eastern Conference there in Joel Ebad
and Ben Simmons. His game would play off of both

(01:12:20):
of them, and that would work. He would easily be
able to get to the finals. Teaming up there and
New York. You're gonna be the number one star in
the world in the number one city, doesn't matter. The
Knicks basketball situation stinks. You can bring people with you.
He's always had the fascination about Madison Square Garden and

(01:12:41):
the Knicks, and I know there's going to be a
regret in him when he's done if he never went
to go play for them. Doesn't mean he's going to
because you can only play for so many teams, but
he will regret. Why. I wish I had a chance
it worked out that I could have gone and played
for the Knicks at some point. That's their three realistic
destinations for him. He's not gonna go to a city
that's about as big as where he is, that's not

(01:13:03):
as high on the map. He's gonna make a change
that is better for every aspect of his life. When
you are up for a new job, let's just say
and because this is where everybody just really misappropriates. When
you talk about Lebron James where he's gonna go. You
can't just say, well, how, how, where's the best place
to win a championship? No, there's a lot that goes

(01:13:23):
along with that. When you and I are up for
a new job, it's when I actually say, well, here's
his job is paying us X amount of money? We
gotta go there, no matter where it is. Well, now
I hang on a second, because there's families, and there's kids,
and there's wives, and you know, how far away is it,
what kind of city is it? Is it good for
my family? Doesn't work all around. It can't just be
where's Lebron gonna go to win a championship? That's just
dumb if you think that. Many other things have to

(01:13:45):
go into it. And yeah, lifestyle is part of it,
relevancy is part of it. What he wants to do
later on. When you leave a city for another job,
you are leaving your life behind and you have to
realize and make that decision that where you're going is
best for everyone involved. That's why Lebron James is gonna
make that decision and that's why those are the three
cities that he's gonna look at the most, so many

(01:14:08):
other considerations to be made. Now. The Philadelphia one is
a little more difficult as we watched the evolution of
Ben Simmons, because at this point he still needs to
be uh ball heavy, right, He's gonna he's gotta have
the ball in his hands to be effective because he's
not a guy that has the jump shot just yet,
So that that one gets a little tricky. That and

(01:14:29):
fum Lebron James the most durable guy other than you know,
white Board Gate. And even then, you still put up
numbers that you've got two guys that have now gone
one year in the NBA with injury histories, and I
think I'd be a little nervous that that would be
my last act as well. Banking that well, although you
could give them some of your trainers tips and that

(01:14:52):
whatever has kept you so healthy? Twitter At, how about
a fresca Mike had swollen down The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen coming up next, The best received when
the NFL has lost his mind and we'll tell you
exactly why. Next. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon, and I'll tell you what I I
you just showed it to me, my uncovered audio gold.

(01:15:12):
Oh my good. The I don't know how this just
got on Earth now, but the audio of Noah synder
Guard throwing behind Chase Utley and getting thrown out of
a game from two years ago. This following Chase ut
Least take out slide of rum into Hotta in the
playoffs to Hotta broke his leg was out for the year.
The Mets tried to get back at Chase Utley. They

(01:15:34):
threw behind him in Syndergard got thrown out of the game.
Audio of the exchange between synder Guard, the umpire and
Terry Collins screaming on the field was just published a
couple of hours ago. I've never seen that before. I've
never heard. It's unbelievable. I'm making were in the jackpot
now T shirts. I'll have that design when we get

(01:15:55):
on air tomorrow. Terry Collins is screaming at the VILB
never did nothing. Those are some of that those classic
words too though he never did nothing. That was also
two years ago, and the Mets stink. So what's the point. Yeah,
I know, I mean, it comes out in but the
audio was so clear and you're not gonna get back
the broken leg. But there's a lot of cursing there is.
There is a lot of cursing. It is not it's

(01:16:17):
what the kids like to call not safe for work.
But you know, Syndergaard gets thrown out, very famous game,
and he's why don't I get a warning? And the
players are saying, why doesn't he get a warning? Should
be a warning. The umpire is trying to explain, and
Terry Collins comes out screaming, Terry, Terry, Terry, we're in
the jackpot, Terry, you can't do this that we gotta
throw them out, Terry, And Terry Collins is screaming, going

(01:16:39):
you blankety blank, no, no, be did nothing to that
blankenty black guy. Oh it was incredible. It was a
nice dramatic right, I mean that I would have that
flashing underneath a video component dramatic reenactment. WHOA, that just
blows me away. I've never seen that. That's great. We'll
probably watch it again. Meanwhile, speaking of meltdowns, how about
Antonio bra The best received are in the NFL wants

(01:17:01):
you to feel really really sorry for him. Antonio Brown,
look you know, certain people, I feel like, you know,
until you walk a mile in their shoes, it's hard
to criticize them. Uh, when you don't understand what their
lives are like and anything going on, and you get

(01:17:21):
a better perspective. But now, but there's Antonio Brown who
today sounded off about the pressure that he is under
on a day to day basis as a star player
in the NFL. He vented at the media today for
putting pressure on him and his family. Didn't interview for

(01:17:42):
about seven minutes in front of his locker room today
at minicamp for the Steelers, and he blames the media
for twisting his words about lady On Bell where when
they asked him, hey, a few weeks ago, what do
you think about lady On Bell holding out? And as well,
if guys want to show the other, the other guys
of the team how good they are, they should show up.
They should show up and things go from there. And

(01:18:04):
then he said today I didn't mean levy On should
show up. I just mean in general, if you wanna,
you know, get paid and play well, you should show up.
And then he went on to say how the pressure
he's under, he's not really free there's people that follow
him around. Antonio Brown was insane, you know, concile of
the pressure. I can't go nowhere and work out by myself.
Fans come meet me at the field. You know, I

(01:18:25):
can't do nothing normal. You know. You guys write about
me every day. My mom and my kids here, so
we had to deal with these type of things, you know. Uh,
And I started to think to myself, am I really free?
You know? I can't really express myself in this game.
I can't really tell you guys how I feel. You
guys make the pressure to put pressure on me all
the time. I'm I really free, you know? And I
go to asking myself that being regards that's taking away

(01:18:46):
time for my kids and everything that's going on. So
I had to get away to you know, free my mom. Listen,
go by the levy on Oh no, wait, he's not here.
Antonio Brown, who is his worst enemy by Facebook, living
things and saying things he wants to back away from.
He wants you to feel bad for him, in which

(01:19:08):
he is enjoying an athletic career right now, which is
going to land him in the Hall of Fame, make
him well over a hundred million dollars by the time
he's done, just in straight salary by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The guy is a star of the highest order. But
if you're not happy, you know what, quit, go do
something else. If you're not happy, if there's too much

(01:19:28):
pressure on you to play, hey, go do something else.
Then no one will bother you. You can work out
wherever you want to. No one's gonna say anything bad
about you. You're not gonna worry about your kids. Go
do something else. If he was a guy who didn't
seek out the spotlight and seek out attention with what
he likes to do on social media, then I could
feel bad for the guy. But he wants to be

(01:19:48):
that guy. So you know what, if you're upset, go quit, quit,
nobody will bother you. Go no, we won't miss you.
You can go someplace else. If suddenly this is so
hard for you and oh my good, no, you are
doing this to your yourself and now you want me
to be the enemy and you want to blame it.
Now you know what you're You're done, walk, walk away, quit,
go ahead, nobody will miss you. Buddy. Business was booming.

(01:20:11):
He was everywhere, fast cars, betting cars on races and
whatever else, and now he wants to back off. You know,
it's the old Spider Man quote, great power and great
responsibility all that other stuff. I say, Spider Man, not
that's that's good. I'm all right different, that's different Spiders. Well,

(01:20:37):
it's okay. But the idea being that, yes, you're gonna
the fans want a piece of you. Right, you're a
celebrity and everybody knows you in Pittsburgh. They feel like
you're one of the family. And then you look at
from a media perspective, you've given them gold for how
many years has been in the league since? Right, that's
a lot of years of feeding the machine and then

(01:20:58):
suddenly deciding you don't want to play anym You can't
just jump off. You get on one of those spinny
things at the playground. It's gonna keep going. It just
doesn't stop immediately. Go quit, Quit an Tony, all all
your problems all end. Go ahead, quit Mike Tom Why
did you quit? Come rack him down for that big
breaking story in baseball? Next? Fox Sports Radio, Has the
raccoon come down? Yet? I know I don't have a

(01:21:20):
raccoon update, No, I know that the yeah, you know
that that could be the finish. It would probably be
more like laser. Well, there's that. There's that the Guardians
of the Galaxy reference a little bit earlier. That was
pretty good. What's the finishing move on that raccoon? That's
not a bad way to go. We do have an

(01:21:41):
update of how much money was spent on booze for
the Warriors parade. This might get them a little more
close to being even with Ovechkin. Reportedly a half a
million dollars a booze on their buses. And they still
ran out because Jordan's Bell had to go into the
crowd to get more handsome. God Jordan Bell, Oh my god,
he was walking around and executive. Yeah, because we talked

(01:22:06):
about that the other night. All of it drank by
Jordan's Bell. But you go back to how dumb it
was to have the expensive stuff off the jump in
the locker room. If you're gonna spray it all over
the place and waste it, why I do that? That
sets the find the Champagne equivalent of to buck chuck
and go from there. You spray the apple cider, you
drink the champagne apple cider. Here you got here, We'll

(01:22:30):
put all the champagne in front of your locker spray
all this year you didn't cover Bell's and it says Marionelli.
You know, Rod Marinelli is making his own line of
defensive Absolutely. Hey, everybody's got a winery. Why can't he
have a cider press? Marinelli's apples, right, Why can't he
have a cider press? Leeds's got wine, Woodson's got wine.

(01:22:53):
Everybody's got wine. Someone's got to go into the cider business.
Why can't it be Rod Barrionell. We're we're we're only
with a lot of stuff right now. But apparently the
raccoon in Minneapolis is on its way down the building now,
so I think the zone or what or did he
find an end? Like he's like, Alex, stop with the
shooting of the raccoons. Have they have not brought in

(01:23:16):
Captain Andrew Luck to shoot the musket to get the
raccoon down? If there's an update from the Captain Andrew
Luck Twitter account on the whereabout oh no, there's no
forget about him throwing a football? Ok. You know if
there's from him talking about how and olden times they
would you know, get rid of a raccoon now? That

(01:23:36):
would be an impressive thing that we should get to
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the big breaking story of the night, it looks like
we have seen the end of this sure fire first
ballot unanimous Hall of Famer for quite a long time.
To oh, that didn't look good, look good at all,

(01:24:25):
and he's just walk off. It comes Doug Teeter to
take a look. Then Cabrera is just simply gonna walk
back into the clubhouse. Immediately he dropped the bet and
you can tell right away he was done. Tigers Radio
Network on the call, Miguel Cabrera in his swing tonight
a torn bicep he has done for the season. Tiger's

(01:24:47):
manager Ron garden Hire says he feels so bad for
Miguel Cabrera, who had been fighting through another down season
and now he has done for the season for a
trip to the disabled list since to thousand fifteen, before
that had never gone. There's two conversations to have, Miguel Cabrera.
Do you want to talk career first or do you
want to talk about contract? What do you want first?

(01:25:09):
Up to you, buddy. You know I like numbers, all right, numbers.
I'd like money. Miguel Cabrera is a first ballot, unanimous
Hall of Famer. If you do not vote for him
first ballot, you should lose your vote because there is
nobody more deserving of it then Miguel Cabrera. Miguel Cabrera
from the years two thousand four through two thousand and sixteen,

(01:25:33):
there's been nobody better that we have seen. He had
a level of excellence that is an elite level of excellence.
His worst season from two thousand four all the way
through two thousand sixteen. His worst season two thousand four,
his first full year in the Major You want to

(01:25:54):
know what his worst season was, thirty three homers, twelve
rbi to adding average and a war of three point two.
That was his first season in full season in Major
League baseball. He did eighty seven games in two thousand three,
when he was twenty years old. That's his worst full
season in Major League baseball, thirty three one twelve to

(01:26:18):
nine three point two war. Every other year he's had
has been better than that. He's one triple crowns, he's
one m v PS. He's won batting championships. He's thirty
five home runs away from five hundred. He is three
hundred plus hits away from three thousand. He is that good.
He is absolutely a first ballot Hall of Fame. He's

(01:26:38):
I mean, really and everybody else looking at him is
like looking at some of the steroid numbers of the
guys back in the in the late nineties, early two thousand's.
That's what it's like looking at him through now are
you opening look at now? I'm just saying that's because
that was back when you saw numbers likeness his boy,
and then we realized no, sure, I mean, he's only

(01:27:01):
hit over forty home runs twice in his career. He's
just been consistent. Tom and again, back to back years
forty four home runs. Those were his back to back
m VP years, seven times a top five MBP vote
getter spanning his time both with the Marlins and with
the Detroit Tigers. You look at the numbers, three sixteen

(01:27:24):
career hitter, five DT six career doubles to go with
over sixt RBI. Just a flat out hitting machine and
a guy that you just you take for granted. Right,
it's the conversation that's being had Mike Trout back to
back nights with two home run games, first time that's

(01:27:44):
ever happened in Seattle. So Seattle Mariner fans are all salty.
It's like, we haven't even had a guy on our
one of our teams do this, and he comes into
our house and does this. But the conversation Brianon McCarthy,
major League baseball pitcher for a long time going. We
don't know any thing about him except he kind of
likes the weather. Tell us something about Mike Trout so
we can celebrate his greatness. Same thing with Miguel Cabrera.

(01:28:07):
There's it's just a guy you've taken for granted that
it was gonna be thirty five and he was gonna
hit three. But that's just it that But it was
the Ronco set it and forget it right, just put
it in start starting in April, and then come September
if you drafted him on your fantasy team or you
just wanted to watch the picture of consistency that was

(01:28:30):
Miguel Cabrera for all those years. And then starting in
wheels start coming off a little bit in terms of injury.
Three trips to the disabled list already this year from
Miguel Cabrera. And this is the other part of the
conversation Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox Twitter at how about a fresca
at Swollen Dome? Miguel Cabrera the wheels fell off. Last

(01:28:54):
year was his worst year in Major League Baseball. He
is slowing down, hit up to fifty sixteen home or
sixty r b o s and then this year was
off to an even worst start. Three home runs, twenty
two r bis. He's just not the same guy. And
as you said, he's been on the d L many times.
He now officially owns the worst contract in sports. Makes

(01:29:14):
Joel Embiads contract look like a bargain. It makes a
Rod's contract with the Yankees look like Steph Curry's four year,
forty million dollar deal with the Warriors. This is what
mcguel Cabrera is owed. He's thirty five years old. He's
owed thirty million dollars for this year, thirty million for
next year, thirty million in twenty twenty, thirty million in

(01:29:36):
twenty one, thirty two million in twenty two, thirty two
million in twenty twenty three. So you're talking about the
rest of this year and the next five years at
least thirty million dollars a year for a guy who
is gonna give you a diminishing returns and be you
have no idea how healthy he's gonna be. Can he

(01:29:56):
even get to three thousand hits? You don't even know
that this was such a bad contract when it was signed,
because I get that you want to pay him for
what he's done, because he's been great. Pay a guy
like that, but pay him for three years, pay him
four years and a hundred and twenty million dollars. But
you have eight years and two hundred forty million, and
now you're on the hook for a hundred and eighty

(01:30:17):
million dollars for the next five plus years. It's gonna
be a long few years where you are eating a
lot of dead money from a guy who's not gonna
be able to hit. Why because he never kept himself
in shape. He was always a guy who had the
propensity to get hurt. As a bigger guy, as he
gets older, your body breaks down. He never tried to
stay in shape. This was an injury and in a

(01:30:39):
situation that is just waiting to happen. I'm all four
paying guys. You pay a guy that's that important, like
mcguel Cabrera. You want to give him that extension two
years ago, you give it to him. You give it
to him for three or four years. You don't here,
Let's let's make sure we're paying you thirty million dollars
what you're thirty eight years old. I mean really, there
were people in that room saying, yes, let's sign off
on that Carbrera would have taken four years and a

(01:31:01):
hundred twenty million dollars, because what nobody else is gonna say,
we'll come over the top with six No, you could
have paid him, and instead now you're on the hook
for this year and one more year, and then you're like, okay,
we'll get we get out of it. Because we're gonna
gi him a chance to come back and see what
he can do. Now, No, now you're now you're looking
at before you say, okay, we can get that salary
off our books and we can move on. That is

(01:31:22):
a lot of money to pay a guy who you
knew this was gonna happen. So that's the amazing thing
is that until two thousand thirteen, he'd played in at
least a hundred fifty games every year. Uh after joining
the Marlins and beginning as a full time player in
two thousand four, so you won a full decade between
his time in Florida and Detroit where he was still

(01:31:43):
consistently taking the field every day, hundred fifty nine games.
And then the wheels start to spin a little bit,
and now you're seeing the breakdown. Really to this point
now it's you probably miss all of one would guess
based on the severity of this is a right that

(01:32:05):
and to get back altogether. We've been talking about Otani
a lot. We've been talking about a lot of the
the different injuries when you're talking about the different ligaments
and and here you've got a torn bicep. So you
you go next level here thirty seven games, limited to
at age thirty five, three home run twenty two RB,

(01:32:27):
I still hitting three oh one. People say I'm pointing
to that, saying, well, there's some shades something like no,
the power wasn't there, and now he's done, so it
doesn't matter and you're gonna have to figure out what
to do with that contract. There was some speculation that
perhaps he would be one of those pieces where they
come to some agreement of taking him off their hands
as they do a complete rebuild. Who that would be.

(01:32:49):
I mean, it's a very limited number of teams Yankees
would do that kind of wouldn't even do that. Yeah,
they would know, well stant they could be had stand
at least young enough, Oh we're paying this guy when
he's like, oh well all right, well yeah we'll do
that too. But but thinking about it where it's a
one or two year investment, if it's gonna take you
over the tops like that Albert Poolholes deal here in

(01:33:11):
the Greater Loss Angles and exactly area where it was
a ten year deal. But you were hoping to get
great returns with Mike Trout over the first five right
that it was gonna be this, they'd give you a
World Series or a couple of deep runs in the playoffs,
so at least you you can make the argument it
paid off. And then the back end was to thank

(01:33:31):
you for the greatness of the first five And while
the overall numbers look nice when you look at Albert
Poolhols back of his tops baseball card, right because they
still give you the full stat breakdown, they look fine. Overall,
they're not impactful in any way, shape or form. And
now we don't even know if we're gonna get that
from Miguel Cabret. They may not get those two giveaway

(01:33:52):
days of three thousand and five hundred. Man, you may
not even get that. I'm getting people now telling me
still were it's still not as bad as Bobby ben
I guess I got to live with that. But no, no, no, no, no.
The Bobby Bania contract was brilliant. He should have commanded
all that money up front and then he would have
been able to invest it and he would have made

(01:34:12):
a ton of money. Instead. Yeah, I get the annuity
of a million dollars. Great, it's guaranteed money. But you
left a lot of cash on the table. Real estate,
the financial markets. I mean, there's all sorts of things
he could have done with that money. So the Mets
were geniuses. You know what I would do with that money.
I would take it and I would invest in it.
No, no no, no, Samir, you're missing the point of the
exercise alien office space. I like that. Well done, Well done.

(01:34:36):
I'll tell you what I'd do, man if I had
that money. Yeah, it is right. I've signed two players
for the same amount of money at the same time.
Box Sports Radio Jason Mike Harmon is a slide over
Baby Hour coming up next. You know, it's about time
I said to myself today, self, what is LaVar Ball
gonna do another interview and really say something crazy? We

(01:34:58):
get what we got today and you'll hear that next
on Fox. Oh oh oh, you did it. I feel
like Ti Shirt wakes and waits until like twenty after
ten that says, oh my sexual frustrations. I'm gonna get
him out by playing all these drops. You know, I
gotta eat Keenwa and Kale no girls like that. So

(01:35:20):
now I'm just gonna play all these sound bites and drops.
I'm gonna eat as up. How do you know he
hasn't found the whole community that celebrates his love of keenwa.
Is there is there keen wa lovers? Is that somewhere
Jason would be impressed of the female capacity with the keenewa?
So I mean, I was just reading an article from Houston.
We were talking about Lebron James a little bit earlier

(01:35:41):
and how he doesn't like Houston. That people that showed
up in food trucks at a vegan festival. We're caught
serving need out of their food truck. What so now
they're had a bit of trouble and the organizers are
not a none too please. So we've got that percolating
the crowd while you go after Ty Shirt and his

(01:36:01):
dietary habits. All right, let's let's leave diet arry for
a second and get to a story. But waiting to
talk about for the like the last two hours and
twenty minutes, it's got nothing to do with keen one.
No no, no, no, no no no no no no no.
Garbonzo beans, Yes, garbonzo beans. The Toronto had The Toronto

(01:36:23):
Raptors have a new head coach and its former assistant coach,
Nick Nurse, who has become their head coach. Well they
knew he was he was the guy in waiting. They
didn't hire a nurse. They hired Nick Nurse to be
their head coach. But think about this. Is there a
better porno name than Nick Nurse? In the slide over
Baby Hour, I would say this is the time to

(01:36:43):
talk about Of all the names you could hear you
haven't in the world of sports, there is no better
porno name than Nick Nurse. Coming up in Candy Striper's
four Stormy Daniels, Busty, Mick Flutter but bust your Sin
and Nick Nurse. Like I could just see the beginning

(01:37:04):
of a part of movie and see Stormy Daniels and
you know Alie Hayes and all that, and then Nick
Nurse is there. I could just see this. His name's
all just roll off the tone for you. Alie Hayes
is a real adult film actress. Uh just see just
seem just Nick Nurse, like, like you can see the
name like over one of those biggest states where the
the expensive car pulls up in front. Nick Nurse. Dry

(01:37:26):
humping guys is something that I feel very strongly about.
He's actually at the Nick Nurse on Twitter? Oh, is
he really at the Nick No? Well, it's also going
to be on Cineamax later on Nick Nurse. It's just
shows they had their their inside man because they got
rid in Twayne Gacy and hired from within. Would you
put your TV guide away? Which would you like to

(01:37:47):
do a movie with Nick Nurse? Oh? I love Nick Nurse. Yes,
I'll do that movie. He's a good leader. He takes
control of a set. Thank you, Stormy Daniels. Get Nick Nurse.
He really penetrates the scene. Oh boy, he's a se lister.
We're gonna get more action than the Mets. Oh hey,
de Grahm is like, at worst the second best. And

(01:38:08):
if we play any of that Noah Syndergard ejection video,
there's a couple of words that would probably be used.
You know what are we gonna work on our first day,
coach Nurse. We're gonna work on kickcats and penetration all
practice long fired in there because I'm Nick Nurse. Oh,

(01:38:31):
he's not coming back for a long time. Uh so
it's a final I wondered when LaVar Ball was going
to do another interview and say something stupid. You knew
he's back from Lithuania. It was just a matter of time.
But you know, the time change in the jet lag.
I'm sure that that was a couple of weeks to
get himself back together. But he's back and he didn't
interview today, and now he apparently is warming to the

(01:38:55):
idea of Lebron James coming to the Lakers. Okay, good
because we needed his seal of approval in all of
this Day two of Lebron James, the official Lebron James pursuit,
we find out from an Acron Beacon Gurnal reporter that
Lebron James apparently said during the season he doesn't like
the city of Houston, so let's cross Houston off. But

(01:39:16):
LaVar Ball decided to kick it up a notch. He
was on the Herd with Colin Coward earlier today and
he said, I know two players that can help Lebron
win a championship in l A. You don't get my
son the best players in the world. Don't think he's
gonna win. You put Alonzo Jello and Lebron. You win

(01:39:38):
a championship. About that winning. It's not gonna stunt his
growth and play with nobody like Alonzo. So let's all right,
there's a lot to break down. Well, that's how they
get to the ship. That's a lot stop. No one goes.
That's not a real thing. I'm out of boat number one.
I thought A Lonzo was the greatest player ever. You
don't give A Lonzo the greatest players in the world.

(01:39:59):
He's not gonna win a championship. So basically, Lonzo could
be anybody. Can you give anybody the best players in
the world, they'll win a championship. It's like saying, you
don't give Nick Young the best players in the world,
They're not gonna win a championship. But we've given Nick Young,
Kevin Durant and Steph Curry and Draymond Green and Clay
Toms and they're winning championship. So you've given that to
Nick Young. That's just ridiculous. Alonzo is the best. Lonzo

(01:40:22):
is the best now, but you don't give him the
best players you can't win. But secondly, just the ridiculous
nous and the way he just rolls off his tongue.
Alonzo and lo Angelo Ball, Jello Ball, who was projected
to potentially not even be a second round draft pick,
you will bring Lebron a champions You're there to sell

(01:40:45):
the Facebook show. You're there. He gave Colin A par
of socks was very awkward exchange at the end of
their conversation, like here's the socks. Try these socks. I'm
not wearing socks right now. What do you want from me?
But very very strange. But you're out there trying to
sell product, and right now Jello is one of your products,

(01:41:06):
right that that's yeah, you know, we're watching Cobra Kai
that's become you know, take you behind the curtains here
in the Geico Fox Sports radio studios. You've got Daniel Larusa,
without too much of a spoiler alert, who's now selling cars.
That's what LaVar Ball is doing here. He's selling used cars.
I could get you in a teen Jello. How many
miles on it? Not many? Is it a good car?

(01:41:27):
It's the best car? Really? Yeah? No, not really? Well
he started talking about the two man game that they
run and once you get it in Jelo's hands, and
how Alonzo fills the lane and once he starts Duncan
and gets free, then the three start and then he's
having fun and his offensive game explodes. Like where where
was any of this? None of the coaches. Luke Walton

(01:41:48):
did a hell of a job this year, for for
all of outside of Los Angeles, for those that didn't
watch and get to see a lot of Laker basketball.
What he did with that the talent on that team.
He could have quit mid season. He could have just
said I'm out. He could have pulled the LaVar ball.
They won thirty five games on smoking mirrors based on

(01:42:09):
what he was doing. You don't think if he thought
a two man game with a Lonzo fill in the
lane was going to be effective, that that wouldn't have
been part of the repertoire. Come on, man, are you
kidding me? What do you got? Golden headphones? But don't
forget guys, Jello does lead the family and steals. You

(01:42:31):
should spike that microphone right nowhere. They could steal a championship,
you know, from right out from under the Warriors. Durant
stole one with them. Oh you stole a couple. I mean,
this is this is I mean, but look, Jello Ball
is the guy that's gonna do it. You know, saying
you put a Lonzo with Lie Angelo and that's like

(01:42:54):
saying you put Alonzo with Jason Smith and and Lebron
they could win championship. You're sure you could I can
hang out behind the three point line and chucks them up.
I could absolutely do that. And as long as you're
not looking for you to make more than I can
do that. And and I mean from the college line,
not the not the NBA. When I can, I can't
it from there, but I mean I I could easily
do that. I get a long range two. So wait, wait,

(01:43:16):
raise my hand. I without looking it up, didn't he
shoot like scent from the free throw line? Can we
fix that part of his game? While where LaVar Ball? Look,
I've coached sports now for the past three years, in
soccer and softball for eight nine seven, eight nine year old. Yeah,

(01:43:38):
you've got a lot of ships. What does this have
to do with the NBA. Here's why is that LaVar
Ball sounds like every parent who has ever said to me,
my kids should be doing more. My kids should be
you know, my kids should be pitching. Your kid can't
throw the ball over the plate, now thinks you should.
Your kid can't throw it over the plate. My kids
should be playing first base. Your kid can't catch the
ball when it's thrown to first pace. I can't put

(01:44:00):
you some a kid to everybody. They all think their
kid is the best, and I know LaVar Ball thinks it,
but he's like on he's like eating crazy steroids. Not
steroids that make it bigger and stronger, but steris it
make you crazy. He's like he eats crazy that pops
him in like it's a like it's a dish full
of tumbs before he does interviews. Really, Jello Ball really

(01:44:21):
a guy that no one would even draft. The only
reason people are thinking about picking up is because, boy,
we like Alonzo, and if LaVar gets Piste off at
the Lakers enough, maybe we can work out a trade.
We already have Jello and now we can get Alonzo
on the team because LaVar is gonna tell a Lonzo
to hold out, and a Lonzo will hold out and
then we can get a Lonzo Ball. That's the only

(01:44:42):
reason anybody is working out doing anything with le Angelo Ball.
The only reason we get a couple of workouts. Maybe
it gets him an invite to to play on a
summer league team. So since they're gonna broadcast all eighty
two of those, you'll have more LaVar Ball action. Maybe
I'll go to Gus again and and go watch that
up close and and see if I can add dumpster

(01:45:04):
fire sound effects while I'm standing there. But certainly a
curious turn with the return of LaVar ball to our
our media headlines here and tomorrow. I know he's got
a couple more interviews. I think he's gonna be on
locally here in l A. So curious to see what
what next comes. Oh, no, it's gonna be they should

(01:45:26):
let Lamello in the NBA draft. Now that's gonna be
what he says, No, that he should be in the
NBA draft. Now you're stopping him from making money. He
already lost all his high school eligibility and he's got
no college he's got. He's stopping him from nobody. He's
got his other league that starts this week. That's the
other thing. What is it, the jb L or something

(01:45:47):
like that. I think it's called No, it's not. That's
got to be all everything is big baller. No, no no, no,
this this has a different acronyms, which point why it
made no sense. Yeah, but everything is big, but it's
something big baller. Is this the junior baller? Junior big baller,
junior medium sized baller? I hobb is that? What? What?
What is it? Oh? By the way, House of Burgers

(01:46:08):
really not breakfast. Really, I mean you should fire everybody
that's done marketing for all. You know what, No, no, no,
you shouldn't. You know you shouldn't you know why? You
know what? I'll tell you after Looney talks all you do. Realize, Jello,
if the Knicks were to take him tomorrow, he's easily
their second best player. Remember Porzingis isn't coming back for
a while. Okay, they're best player, the best play. What

(01:46:28):
if that happened, like Jello Ball goes undrafted free agent
the Knick side of and he just started opening ninety
scores thirty and they give him Miguel Compar's contract that
they'll take forty shots. That's for sure. Twitter and Out
about a fresco, Mike and Swollen down The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon coming up in one minute. Guess
who threw a football today? But first, a man who's

(01:46:50):
gonna tell you everything that is trending tonight. It's Mr
Tom Loudie, Mr Loni Hi, a depressing, disconsolate, disheartening, discouraging
night in Motown to Oh that didn't look good. That
did not look good at all. And he's just walk
off the Feld. It comes Doug Teeter to take a look,
and Cabrera is just simply gonna walk back into the clubhouse.

(01:47:14):
Immediately he dropped the beat and you could tell right
away he was done. Mario and pembun Rod Island with
the call. Fox Sports Detroit De Troy Tiger star Miguel
Cabrera has a rupture bicep tenant he's done for the season.
And to add a little salt into the wounds. In Detroit,
the Tigers lost to the Twins six to four. Four
Liberal late night Left Coast Baseball games tonight three have

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gone final. Mike Trout hit home runs number twenty two
and twenty three that leads Major League Baseball, but Mike
Trout and his Angels are total losers. Angels lost to
the Mariner six to three. Seattle's in first place in
the American League West tied with Houston Astro's one again
tonight they beat the freaking a six three in Oakland.
Blow out alert, we gotta blow on alert. In La

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La Land Dodgers walker the Texas Rangers twelve to five
and of still one game in progress. And the Valley
of the Sun Diamondbacks in Front of the Pirates thirteen
to eight at the top of the ninth thing, and
we now forge fourth into the night with more hot
takes from Jason Smith and Mike Harmon on Fox Sports
Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from

(01:48:24):
the Geico Studios, where fifteen minutes can save you more
in car insurance. Go to Geico dot com to figure
out how much you can save. All right, So I
got a couple of things for you. Number one, we
have another entry into our Best Adult Film Star name
recognition coming off of Nick Nurse. It can't be better
than No, not better than Nick well, because if you

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don't pronounce it right, mate, Yeah, but yeah, but no,
I don't know. I'm not getting sexy when I think colon.
I'm not. No, I'm not. That doesn't make me think
col alright now, that's not no, no, no thinking punctuation.
And I also don't want to see Bartolo Cologne in
the adult film I have not. I don't know they
have to desire to see Nick Nurson. But I like
seeing Nick Nurse's name in the credits. It makes you

(01:49:09):
think I'm going to see a great foreign movie. All right.
Two more things No, the j b A is the
Junior Basketball Association. Alonzo ball is the logo okay, I
can show you right here. Yeah, so, and it's sponsored
by Big balling brand. I'm three going back to the
I Hop Yeah, alright, a couple of things. Number one,

(01:49:31):
we're talking about engagement, social media branding and did anybody
talk about I Hop for the last decade? No? No,
but maybe you really need Yeah, they do. They need
a re engagement because think about it, you're still talking
about a national brand and and trying to re engage

(01:49:55):
people because maybe your younger generations going to just the
local joint if you want them, and that's fine, but
be should be breakfast at burgers. You're not known for burger,
but that's the points like saying, oh, we're gonna be
rebranded as red Steak. No, but all of those companies
then jumped on board this. So you've got all sorts
of media impressions and a lot of interest, and at

(01:50:19):
least for a week, maybe two weeks, maybe a month,
you've got a lot of people coming in to say, well,
let's try a burger, thinking, hey, I'll either like the burger,
it'll be a passable burger. Or I'll make it. If
it's possible, then I can still get breakfast there. But
if someone in my group wants a burger, I'm all good.
So you know you're covering all these bases. You know
you're quarterly numbers are gonna be better. You're forgetting one,

(01:50:40):
You're forgetting one thing. One thing is that many people
are gonna go, oh, they're not serving breakfast anymore. It's burgers.
I'm not gonna go there. And suddenly at nine o'clock
in the morning, where is everybody? It's nine am. No
one's here for break We got all kinds of eggs,
and moon's over miammy, or is that Denny's not a chance.
No one's gonna say it's a cheap marketing, that'll be

(01:51:03):
a little bit. Yeah. And then suddenly it's all boy,
we're losing money because people don't think we serve breakfast
any people are People aren't that dumb? Really? Really? You
really you make everybody out to be a dope of
the highest degree. How much how many times have you
said people are sheep they will do whatever they say.
You've said that so many times. You are fake news,

(01:51:26):
Absolutely fake news. You are. It doesn't mean that they've
eliminated breakfast altogether. Meanwhile, Andrew Luck through a football today
for the first time since I've moved him up to
number eighteen and my fantasy draft Drenking. He worked out
with Uncle Rico. Didn't he did. He threw a football
over the mountain. But but it was no, no, it

(01:51:48):
wasn't quite that. It was a high school football ball
that Andrew. If you dip that nerf ball in water,
there's his arms strong enough to throw that one. Here's
here's how I know this. I was always the warterback,
TI sh my music. I was always the quarter Now
you're the quarterback. Was quarterback. I want a lot of
ships on on the mean streets to Staten Island. Absolutely,

(01:52:11):
there's nothing island when we go to it, when we
play listen, you taver got there. I will shoot you
in the pace, he said. I'm a felone. I can't
have it. From when I was in second grade until
eighth grade, I was a quarterback. As we played with
a nerf ball and I could throw it and it
was great. I haven't laughed that hard. I went from

(01:52:33):
the nerf ball to the Duke junr and I could
throw that I could throw the hell out of that.
And then I got to high school. I'm like, this
ball is a watermelon. I can't throw this, and my
days of being a quarterback we're over. But now Andrew Luck,
who was used to throwing the NFL football through at
a high school football opening set, is at practice today,

(01:52:55):
just home five minute act. I just did a whole thing. Wow.
Is that your Tom Brady impression? Frostburg? That was Tom. Yeah,
it's pretty nice. It's pretty good work on the other
side of the glass. So who through? I just want
to know real quick, Sorry, who throws a better ball?
You are? Hackenburg? Well I do, I'm still oh, I don't.

(01:53:17):
I don't hit reporters. I never ever go Keanu ree.
I never hit a reporter football, never did nuclear use.
The best I could do in high school was being
the scout team quarterback, and then I was okay. I
was okay being the scout. But I've never hit reporters
because they've never covered your games. No, my team wasn't that. Now.
My team is a dynasty. My high school is a dynasty.
In New York City, like seven city championships in the

(01:53:39):
last like ten years. There a dynasty but not when
I was there, there was a lot of ships. What's
going on there that they're winning ship? The head is
what's going on in the in the back rooms. The
head coach went to a run and shoot football and
then turned that into the offensive system, and it's been
championship after championship. I realized running shooting really late eighties,

(01:54:00):
early nineties. But in high school football is a very
big But so Andrew Luck through a football at practice today,
twenty throws under the quote watchful eye of Frank Reich.
It's always a watchful eye for a coach. It's never
under the distracted I have a coach who wasn't paying attention. No,
it's always the watchful eye, watchful eye of Frank Reich.
And through a periscope bits watching fish eye lens, I'm

(01:54:22):
looking for Andrew Luck facetiming to watch Andrew Luck throw
a football. And I watched Andrew Luck throw this football
and it was still very gingerly throwing a football. And
it's a smaller, lighter ball because they don't want him
to work up and throw a heavy your football. Now,
he says he's gonna be ready for week one of
the season. They are going to rue the day they

(01:54:42):
did not go out and get a quarterback just in
case because Andrew Luck. You can never trust he's going
to be healthy again. You can't because he's been injured
for so long and his shoulder is really bad. Who
knows he's gonna have the zip on his passes if
he's gonna be effective when he does come back. You
had a chance to go get a really good quarterback,
but you decided no, no, no, we're staying with Andrew Luck.

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You and the Giants decided no, we're being stubborn by
not taking a quarterback when it's there, to take one
of four or five quarterbacks who could be really good.
They will rue that day because you needed to take
a guy in case Andrew Luck can't play, because you
really don't know. Nobody knows how good he's gonna be.
The Colts don't know. You can't say he's on target.
Guys have played football and over a year. He's just

(01:55:23):
thrown for the first time in eighteen months, and now
you say, oh, he's fine, he's coming. No, you can
never trust Andrew Luck is gonna be healthy. They will
really look back and say, that was our chance. When
Sam Donald's going to pro well after proble, we're gonna say, boy,
we could have had him. We could add Josh, I
could add somebody, but instead we were stubborn and stuck
with Andrew Luck, and we knew we should have gotten
a safety. Now. I can't wait to watch that rebuilt

(01:55:44):
offensive line block for Jacoby Brissette. I think he could
actually be something special and given time to throw look
at you, Jacoby Brissette, everybody but Jason spends showing Mike
Harmon lost from the Geico Studios Twitter at How about
a fresco Mike and swelling dome coming up next? Maybe
the best thing we've ever heard said at a championship parade,

(01:56:06):
it was said today, you'll hear it next. Take off
your uniform, take off your cleats, take off your jockstrap.
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Cookies good and something's going on right

(01:56:27):
now that I still find it hard to believe. And
you and I were enraptured by it in the last
few minutes. Well, I mean it's been going on for hours.
You'll get to maybe the best thing said at a
victory parade in a couple of minutes. But this raccoon, yeah,
has climbed a building in downtown Minneapolis, and this story

(01:56:49):
has taken on a life of its own. The Minneapolis
raccoon is number one trending topic on Twitter. It's climbed
to the top of a five story building. It got
up to the twenty third floor or and is a
live feed right now on Twitter. Kevin Frasier just told
us that, hey, here's the live feed if you want
to watch. And the whole world is watching this raccoon

(01:57:12):
potentially get saved and rescued, but now it's making its
way back down to the ground and people can't get
enough of this. Now. Several thousand people on the live
Twitter feed that I was following, they were imploring, trying
to hope that the UBS company of financial outfit out
of Switzerland, that they would remove a window or do

(01:57:32):
something dramatic. And I'm raising my hand on to raccoon.
I don't mean to be now, it's a raccoon, but
it's aco raccoon, and it's a raccoon. You're gonna say,
raccoon's you have to reboot the raccoon. Okay, We're going
to spend thousands of dollars or man hours and get

(01:57:56):
someone out there with a crane, whatever else for the raccoon.
We're going to reboot the raccoon. I can't see you
in hell. You you know you're paying Kirk Cousins a
lot of money. Send his ass up to go. You
can throw footballs at it, oh wow, to knock it
down and kill it. Well, maybe you catch you what?
Maybe your guy the old cartoons to fund guys there

(01:58:16):
with a little trampoline that they get bounce on three
or four times and they'd be safe. It's the fun.
Diggs catch us like he did. We knocked out the
same but he doesn't even have to run. This one's easy.
You want to catch that raccoon, you send Ragnar in
on his Harley Baby. No, he wants a million dollar raccoon.
He might need to spit it out. Wow, I think

(01:58:37):
you're gonna say, send Hackenburg in its supse will be
so off targeted, just scared. He can throw ladies and
gentlemen to try to save the raccoon. We brought in
Uncle Rico. If he can throw a football over a mountain,
he can hit this raccoon. Either that or you bust
out the muskette. No, I I don't think. I don't

(01:58:58):
think you can break that up, don't. I don't think
you might. I didn't say you had to actually shoots
too late? There gets done now, you know you wanted
to in the general overkill T shirt. It was already dead.
Stop just to make sure he's already hit him right
between the eyes like the children sing, Look you want

(01:59:22):
to see him again? And then shoot the record again.
You guys, you're going to hell. Wow, you're really going
on for killing a raccoon with a fake musket with
a face. That's the guy who stole a mailbox six
years ago. There's no statch, and no there is because
it happened on us as a federal crime. There's no
post on. Listen, no, listen Nurse, Nope, you let it go. Hey, dude,

(01:59:44):
how great a porno name is Nick Nurse? I mean really,
Nick Nurse is the best porno name ever. Greek Freak's
girlfriend would leave him if you heard, if you sight unseen,
sight unseen, if you heard, you know you, Hey, you know,
I gotta I gotta someone you go on a blind
date with? Yeah, who is it? His name is Nick nurse.
She would go, oh boy, I bet that's gonna be
some kind of crazy sex. Either that or he's a wrestler.

(02:00:09):
Circle right now, it's nick nurse. Now, nick nurse is
a bad name for a wrestler. A nurse. It's got
a bad because then it becomes the nurse that's you know, euthanasia.
I'll take you down. It all starts with him stealing
mailboxes on Sundays, you know, and it escalates quickly. It

(02:00:29):
doesn't count if you steal a mailbox on a Sunday
because there's nothing you can do on a Sunday because
there's no mail. Maybe they didn't they got their mail
from Saturday. The greatest, no, it was empty. The greatest
thing ever said at a championship rally happened today and
it wasn't out give me more. Hennessey wasn't out of

(02:00:49):
the Bay Area where the Warriors had theirs. It was
in Washington, d C. When the Capitals held their rally
for winning the Stanley Cup and alex Ovechki and revealed
in his big speech to the crowd, the largest inauguration
crowd ever, revealing the speech to the crowd exactly what
he said to the team earlier in the season to

(02:01:10):
get them on the winning path on the last thing
before the year. We're not gonna do suck this year.
What is stelling God show? Yeah, we're not gonna bleep
and suck this year. Hey, Alex, you have some words

(02:01:31):
for the team that can really use a pick me
up right now. We're not gonna bleep and suck this year.
It's not a bad motivational device. Look, I'm going to
the Hall of Fame. I'm dominating, and you're not gonna
screw me again. And then he gives the David Caruso
uh c C s I yell. You gotta have the yell. Hey,
my buddy Ben Maller is coming up next. It's Fox. Yeah,

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