May 29, 2025 • 38 mins
OKC is headed to the NBA Finals... Oh what could've been. Anyways the Mariners got embarrased against the Washington Nationals, 9-0. MJ is growing more concerned about George Kirby but is sold on Logan Evans. We also discuss the news regarding Stefon Diggs, and we play audio from Chris Russo on ESPN First Take, as we hit to all fields.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Passle deep fly ball to Maris nearing the wall, and
it's gone the center field. And that's how this one ends,
said I to bunker for the Mariners. They get shut
out and may have LOCY nine. Nothing that's going a
we'll dribble it out.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, the magical season continues. Y Oklahoma City Thunder are
going back to the NBA Finals, all right, before we
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get into MJ in the midday, Dennis Chanaul Covington, you
have five minutes to call two O six two eight
six ninety five ninety five to claim your one hundred dollars.
If Dennis doesn't do it in the next five minutes,
all roll over to the top of next hour. Two
six two eight six ninety five ninety five to Dennis
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Channault Covington. Normally I would like to start with the Mariners,
but you know, last night's absolute, complete, total abomination. It's
one of one sixty two. We'll get into that in
a minute. The Oklahoma City Thunder are going to their
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second NBA Finals. I don't count their history to me.
They didn't exist prior to the two thousand and eight
two thousand and nine season, So they are going to
their second NBA Finals in franchise history. But I know
it's painstaking for everybody here, and I get it it
should be. It sucks, and unfortunately, the Minnesota Timberwolves, specifically
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Anthony Edwards, basically did nothing to even try to give
them any type of fight except winning one game, just
one game, and I'm here for you today. We can
sports talk radio can be sports talk therapy. How are
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you feeling? Because I could tell you this, I don't
see them losing in the NBA Finals no matter who
they play, which more than likely be the Indiana Pacers
after tonight or Saturday. I just don't see them losing
at all. It's they are the team. And you could
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see last game when Shay Gildess, Alexander the MVP, Jalen
Williams chet Holmgren combined for ninety five points in last game,
not last night, but in the game prior to that
in Minnesota on Monday night, which broke the record by
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the Thunder previously held when three guys who all won
MVPs by the name of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and
James Harden combined for ninety four points in a game.
I mean, it sucks. There's no other way. But how
much does this really truly bother you? And is this
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something that you will look at, that you will look
at and just say, Is this worse than the San
Francisco forty nine ers winning a Super Bowl? Is this
worse than the Oregon Ducks winning the college football national title,
which they never have hopefully they never will. Is this
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worse than that? I think it is because it has
to do with somewhat with Seattle history. The team was
ripped away from one of the best basketball cities in
the world, right here in the two PHO six, and
unfortunately they're on the verge and they will more than
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likely win the twenty twenty five NBA World Title. And
it sucks, and I feel for everyone here. I'm here now,
I'm a new resident here, and I'm looking at everything
through the prism of the Seattle sports fan, even though
I have to occasionally look at it from an objective
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perspective because I haven't been here long enough and I
want to always look at something through an objective perspective
and not just become so insulate in every market. And
I don't know what to say other than it sucks.
It really sucks. But is this year worst nightmare coming true?
Would you rather see Oregon win a national title in
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college football or the San Francisco forty nine ers win
their fifth actually six Super Bowl? Would you rather see
that than see the Oklahoma City Thunder win the NBA
World title. Congratulations to Dennis Chenault Comington. You won one
hundred dollars. Will do it again at the top of
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next hour. So he won the money. He won the money.
But we'll do another one at the top of next hour.
But yes, and when you do it, for the top
of next hour, your first name, last name to the
unrestricted free agent text line four nine, four or five one.
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And then if I call out your name at the
top of next hour, you have five minutes to call
that number that I gave you two six, two eight
six ninety five ninety five. So congratulations to Dennis. Now,
I can't imagine what it feels like is I haven't
been here that long, but I know it hurts, and
I know that for all of you that this is
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is this was Seattle's team. It was Seattle's team, and
it should still be Seattle's team. But unfortunately, due to
that Judas Howard Schultz Clay Bennett and that dumbass may
or at the time, whatever that guy's name was, I
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don't even want to remember, and the late Commissioner David Stern.
This thing was just it was a perfect storm of absolute,
total travesty and betrayal. And maybe a lot of you
are over it, but I can tell that a lot
of you are not, And I don't blame you for
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not being over it. And I think even when the
Sonics come back here and we please hope it's gonna
be sooner than later. I was talking to someone last
night and yeah, well, I don't want to share that
conversation because he's gonna come on tomorrow with us. But
he was just saying, when they announce it, it's usually three
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year build up after that, and I'm like, no, no, no,
we only need two years to get going here. We've
got an arena which is state of the art, ready
to go CPA Climate Pledge Arena. But I mean, I
think what this is is it kind of if I'm
going to make an analogy, it's like the Seattle Sonics
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were SuperSonics were Seattle's team. They were it the first
world title in city's history. Nineteen seventy nine, right way
before the twenty thirteen Seahawks Mariners. Well we know they
in order to win a title, you actually have to
get to the World Series, so that never happened. It's
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like your lifelong soulmate who you went to high school with,
who you went to college with, and you had three
kids with you, and she left you for your best
friend or your worst enemy, either or your let's just
say your worst enemy, because it was Howard Schultz and
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Clay Bennett. She left you for your worst enemy, and
your worst enemy is extremely successful. Now it hurts. It
hurts even seventeen years later, after the Sonics drafted a
kid out of UCLA by the name of Russell Westbrook.
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It hurts even now, and I feel for everyone here,
even though there was a guy who once said a
sports talk host down in Atlanta, and he brought up
a great point, and he said that even if you
know that city's history sports history like the back of
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your hand, you'll never know the pain that the fans feel.
So I don't know that pain. I can try to
put myself in those shoes, but I can't even do
it because I didn't go through the pain like you did,
and they're on the verge of doing it. Man, I
don't see anybody stopping them. They're a wagon. And here's
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the worst part. I think they're on the precipice of
being a dynasty. That d word dynasty. I think they
could go on and win three of the next five.
They've got SGA who's still on a rookie contract, Jalen
Williams on a rookie contract, Chet Holmgren on a rookie contract.
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Sga I believe is eligible. Is it either after this
season or after next season to become the highest paid
player in NBA history. And you know what, They're not
a hate able team. They're a likable team. The guys
are likable. They're not a holes, all right, They're not.
They're a likable team. But I get it. You just
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can't get over the betrayal and mistrust that was set
forth year by Clay Bennett Howard Schultz. I get it.
And last night I was like, oh, this is a
tough night. This is a tough night because it's only
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it's only a matter of time and the inevitable. No
one's stopping this team. They're gonna win the NBA title
and one of the things that pissed me off last night.
I took a screenshot of it on ESPN and ESPN
don't do this, please, don't do this. But they did it.
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They put that The Thunder are making their fifth NBA
Finals appearance in franchise history, and it says first three
came when franchise was in Seattle nineteen six eight, nineteen
seventy nine, nineteen ninety six. No, that's not true. That's
not true. This is their second appearance in finals history.
Their first was thirteen years ago in twenty twelve to
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when they lost to the Heat. So I'm here for
you today. You want to vent, you want to just
kind of do it. You know you can listen four
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Go to the new and improved iHeart Radio app and
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A couple of texts on the text line hmm, I
don't get the IR for OKC from Tom the two
six Ben and Seattle most of my life and went
to the parade when they won it all. I root
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for players of OKAC. People need to move on and
enough of this victor attitude. It's only a game. Well, Tom,
I'm gonna just kind of I don't know where you're
from originally, but no, I don't agree with that. It's
not victimhood when basically this team was ripped away from
this city and it was just awful from I think
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JL from the four to two five probably sums it
up best. I'd rather see San Francisco win a Super Bowl.
I'd love to punch Clay Bennett in his ugly fat
face f OKAC from the four two five. It's a
little bit more diplomatic. I honestly don't care if the
OKAC Thunder win it all. I love the Sonics, but
life goes on. That's fair, that's fair. But I don't
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blame any of you that are bitter and disenchanted. You
have every right to be you do. Doesn't matter how
old you are, whether you're in your sixties, seventies, fifties, forties, thirties, Hell,
you could be in your twenties and you heard about
this from your parents and your grandparents, what the Sonics
meant to this city. So I'm here for you today.
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And the thing that sucks, like I said, it's it's
only gonna get worse because this team's not losing in
the finals. There's no way. All right, last night the Mariners,
it's a shutout. One of one's sixty two. I'm not
going to kill them on one of one's sixty two.
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Not gonna do that. It was pathetic to lose to
one of you know, a losing team and get shut
out nine nothing that within itself is pathetic. But I'm
not gonna harp on that today. Here's the bigger issue.
Here's the biggest issue. George Kirby. I'm very worried about him.
And what did I say yesterday at this very time
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in my opening monologue, do not send logan evans down
to Tacoma? And what do they do yesterday afternoon? They
send logan evans down to Tacoma. Why, I don't know,
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but something is clearly wrong with George Kirby. Got rocked,
got absolutely rocked last night. And I know this is
his first action, or excuse me, his second action of
the season against live bullets. He didn't have spring training,
so he's thrown right into the frying pan. But clearly
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something is wrong. Hey, anytime you want to call recall
Logan Evans back up, we're waiting for it. I don't
know why they sent him back down. The dude has
been nails recently. Something's not right with George Kirby in
his two starts. His first start against the Astros, fine,
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first star of the season, three and two thirds innings,
five and runs. They struggled to get through five innings
six earned runs. Right now has an eleven forty two
eer given up eleven earn runs in eight and two
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thirds innings. Something's not right. Bryce Miller is already on
the IL. Logan Gilbert I hope he's coming back soon,
is still on the IL. So why would you send
Logan Evans back to Triple A? What sense does that
make you need Logan Evans right now? He's reliable. He's
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probably the second most reliable pitcher that you've had all season,
next to Brian wu. I don't get it. Nine to nothing, pathetic, fine,
one of one sixty two. You move on. I think
last week the Rockies beat the Yankees. I don't care
like the game now now try not to lose the
series today. Obviously with Emerson Hancock on the Mountain tonight.
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But something's wrong with George Kirby, and I hope they
can find out. I don't know. And you know, the
weird thing is they were shown last night. He got
to about ninety seven on his four seam fastball, so
his velocity is there. But something's clearly amiss with this guy.
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I'm not throwing in the towel, but they got to
get that fixed. Now do you put him on the il?
So thankfully Tacomb is not far from t Mobile Park.
But yeah, when they sent back Logan Evans after his
performance the other night, I'm like, what are you doing? Why?
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Why would you be doing that? And then now there's
talk about Bryce Miller with the bone spurs and inflammation
with him. Uh. Oh, you know it's weird. You go
into a season, and Christopher Kidd talked about this yesterday.
You go into a season, You're like, all right, they're
gonna have to rely on the on the rotation. The
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rotation's gonna have to carry them like they did last year.
And in essence, the rotation has become the achilles heel.
Due to injuries and due to some other things, ineptitude.
Bryce Miller, George Kirby, so injuries, ineptitude, and now you
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have to start to wonder what's going on with this
team and how is Jerry Depoto and Dan Wilson gonna
fix it now. Dan Wilson was asked about why they
sent Logan Evans back down to Tacoma.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Tough decision there, with Logan coming off to a great
outing last night.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I just kind of what went into that decision.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, it's always tough, especially after he has pitched so
well and you know, gave us so many you know,
strong innings and strong performances, and always a tough thing
to do that. As we talk to him, I hope
he has garnered a lot of confidence from what he
has done here and all the success that he had,
and you know, taking that as a as a foundation
to continue to build on and exciting for him that
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he was able to come up and you know, make
such an impact early, and just looking forward to his
continued developments as he builds the confidence.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
When's he coming back up? That's all I want to know,
because you need him, you need him desperately, you need
him badly. Got to get him back up asap. So
I don't know what the you know how long that
can take. But that guy should not be in the
minor leagues anymore. He's a major league pitcher and he
looks like a guy that's going to be possible, possible, potential.
Stud need that guy back in that rotation because something's
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not right with Kirby. Bryce Miller's out, hopefully Logan Gilbert
to be coming back, and you are just basically putting
the onus on Brian Wu and Emerson Hancock right now
to carry this rotation. Bad bad luck last night, not good,
not good at all. So I'm here for you if
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(19:25):
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I've got to hear it. Well, Stefan Diggs got a
lot of attention, and not for the right reasons. His
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new employer, the Patriots, they have to investigate. I guess
we would call it cocaine Gate. Fight out next on
MJ in the midday Sports Radio ninety three to three
KJR FM in the offseason because they don't have any
weapons for Drake May and well, certain things should never
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He got a three year, sixty nine million dollar contract,
including basically twelve million dollar signing bonus, which is fully guaranteed.
His two point nine million dollar base salary fully guaranteed.
But something happened, Something happened over the week that he
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was on some boat with some fine looking ladies and
he's has some substance that people are saying it's pink cocaine,
which I never even knew existed prior to this, and
he's telling them don't do too much of this and
call me daddy and all this stuff. And it's a really,
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really bad look by Stefon Diggs. And that's not what
the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, or NHL want
one of the guys who was one of the better
receivers in the NFL IS games, not what it used
to be in Buffalo. But a guy that is the
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number one receiver on the Patriots right now on a
boat looking like he's doing narcotics with a bunch of
young women. Bad look. And it wasn't just like smoking weed,
which I wouldn't even care about because weed is pretty
much legalized in most states anyway. So if he's smoking
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some blunts with them, who cares. They're adults. I mean,
he shouldn't be doing it because he has a contract
and that could possibly, you know, you get drug tested,
and that could cost him some games and some paychecks.
You're talking about pink cocaine, white cocaine, purple cocaine. That
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isn't good. So naturally, the media in Boston they are
and let me tell you something, they don't pull any punches.
They talk to the head coach, Mike ray Bowl, and
they're like, what's up with Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Fun Diggs. He's gotten a lot of traction in the
last twenty four hours or so. He's on a boat
having a good time. But the question comes in as
to a certain substance that people are guessing what is
and isn't. Is this something that the team has to
look into.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Well, it's something that we're aware of, and obviously we
want to make great decisions on and off the field,
and we're hoping that with our time here on the
field today and that when we don't have a script
and we're on the call up periods, that we're making
great decisions. And so the message will be the same
for all our players that we were trying to make
great decisions, and any conversations that I've had with Stefan
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or remain between him and I and the club. Can
you talk to him? Since I talked to our players
every single day, the ones that are here and the
ones that aren't. Are you expecting him in practice today, Mike?
Not if he's not here. So he's not here, you
guys will find out in a minute.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But no, again, he was here last week here. The
ending of that again that there was a question there
he goes, not if he's not here? What was that
question that that made Mike Rabels say not if he's
not here?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Are you expected in practice today?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Mike?
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Not?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
If he's not here? I guess that would be a
no kid. WTF what is this guy thinking? He wasn't right?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
There you go, but you have millions of dollars, You're
not paying attention to your surroundings, You're partying with beautiful women,
You're thinking you can do whatever, and someone has happened.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
To be recording.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I know, yeah, because imagine if this was the eighties,
no one would know about this. That's right, he would
have just he'd be he would play this season and
nothing would have gone on.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Hell, if this was the two thousands, know would have
known about it, right, right, because the two thousand and
seven was the first iPhone and you weren't putting stuff.
There was no real social Facebook.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
I guess until you're two thousands of the best example
of if he was doing this on a boat, no
one knows about it unless a girl like Od's or something.
Oh when they identify yeh, Stefan was the person that
gave me the pink stuff. Yeah, but yeah, it's I
hope it's not what it seems to be. But we'll
find out more as we get closer to And now
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you just season.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Now you just put this, you're gonna he's gonna be
getting it, won't be random. They're gonna be testing him
almost every day from that one. Once you put that
out there, they're gonna no, literally no, you're not, and
they have every right to.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You put yourself in this position by doing that. No
one cares about you partying and all that. It's when
you tell the ladies, hey, man, don't take it all
at once, and everyone's wondering, what is that pink stuff?
It ain't it's not sugar.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're not.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
No, just giving out sugar and saying take all the
sugar at once.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, no, no. By the way, the contract is structured
with significant incentives, so the Patriots have the option to
release Digs after twenty twenty five if they're not satisfiable.
Strike once there you go, Yeah, bad, look really really bad.
Look on, Stefan Diggs and listen. If you're gonna party
with the ladies and the honeys on the boat, make
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sure everybody you know, put everybody's cell phone in a
zip block bag and put it in a safe so
nobody's taping. Always be aware of your surroundings. Stefan Diggs,
you're not a rookie, bro. You've been in the league
now for close to a decade. You gotta be smarter
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than that. You have to be I mean, I even
forgot about his days he used to be with the Vikings.
Forgot about that, man, I mean, you just can't be
that stupid. I mean, and so such an egregious lack
of self awareness. What is your problem? And listen, man,
you're not justin Jefferson right now. You're not Devonte Adams. Yeah,
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he has been. He's been in the league for a decade.
He came to the league in twenty fifteen. It was
a fifth round pick too, and he's made an unbelievable career.
He's been a lot of money. The Patriots had to
overpay for him because there's nobody left on the market.
Got to be better than that. Gotta be smarter than that, man,
I mean, and now it's just like and it just
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here's the thing too, I feel bad for I don't
know if he has kids or whatever, but I just
feel bad for his family. If he does have kids,
I feel bad for them. Is white, Well, he doesn't.
He's obviously not married because he's parting with half naked
women on a boat, so that certainly didn't happen. But
it's just man, that's just such a bad look. How
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you were unaware of that is beyond the realm of
my comprehension. Coming up at the top of the hour,
we will have Dan Wetzel, ESPN Senior writer. A lot
of things going on in the world of college football
right now, including the SEC about to make a power play.
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And for those of you here in Pac twelve country,
I know it's Big ten now, but in Pac twelve
country that and let me just say this for everybody
out there. I know everybody here is gonna hate on
the SEC. Okay, I have two SEC degrees. Okay, I've
gone to school. I've been to every SEC venue when
it comes to football except for Mississippi State, in Vanderbilt
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and Texas. Texas I don't really count as SEC because
they're new SEC. But I've been Oklahoma and people like, well,
how does the SEC get to go out there and
make these demands and say this and say that. You
know why, because they've won thirteen of the previous twenty
one national titles. You know the Big ten did the
last two years they won two in a row. Clap,
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golf clap. Do you know what happened prior to that?
The SEC won four in a row. You know what
happened from two thousand and six through two thousand and thirteen.
The se twelve, the SEC won seven national titles in
a row. So the SEC basically pretty much invented college
football and they've pretty much perfected it over the course
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of the last twenty years. So when you win thirteen
of the previous you know, other than the Big Ten.
If you don't count the last two years, they won
thirteen of the previous nineteen national titles. If you count
the last two years, they've won thirteen of the previous
twenty one national titles. You have it like that. We
will talk to Dan Wetzel and what the SEC is
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about to do. Now, I'm not saying that Greg Sanki
and them aren't. I'm not saying they're right in what
they do. But they're Apple, they're Amazon, and they can
do whatever the hell they want. When you're that big
and you and the entire sport revolves around you, you
want to compare the SEC network to the Big ten network.
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There is no comparison. Okay, there're none. Look at the
NFL Draft every year, first round through the seventh round.
It's all pretty much almost what seemed like sixty five
percent SEC players. They rule college football. I don't like it.
My team's not in the SEC, but I will recognize
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the power that they have. They're Coca Cola. They're bigger
than Coca Cola. They're bigger than Walmart. They're Apple, they're Amazon,
they're number one. We'll talk to Dan Wetzel coming up
at the top of the hour about that coming up next.
I mean, like, you gotta pay your bills, especially if
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you're the worldwide leader in sports. We'll explain that on
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the way, I got one note on the dig substance.
Speculation on it. The pink substance in the video has
led to speculation it could be quote as I mentioned,
pink cocaine, which is also known as tucy, tucy, tussy,
I don't know, I don't do drugs, tucy or tussy.
Pink cocaine is a dangerous drug cocktail and rarely contains
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actual cocaine. Instead, it's typically a mix of substances like
ketamine MDMA and sometimes caffeine or methae amphetamines according to
the induced in times. So take that for what you
will to me. Cocaine's cocaine. So I don't know. I
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am the only person. Folks, if you ever meet me,
you will meet I should be in the Guinness Book
of World Records. Christopher Kid, do you know why? Do
you know why? Why?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because I'm the only person who lived in Miami and
I never ever touched cocaine, not only when I lived there,
but never once in my entire life. And I'm very
proud of that. People might think differently by the way
they hear me on the air, but I can truly
tell you I have never touched that substance. Kid, Could
you imagine me on cocaine?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I I don't know, Man, you'd be off the wall.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I would be. I would be You just have to
get a strange jacket at four padded walls.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Do you remember that scene in the Mask when he's
in the club, Yeah, he is bouncing off the walk.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
That would be me.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
I would imagine that would be a great example of
Mark on.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
The yes on yes not not Yeah, that would be
on that would not you would not want me on cocaine.
Absolutely not want me there, No, no, no. I might
imitate Tony Montana, but only in the good ways, not
(33:10):
the ways that he did in that final scene. Okay,
well yeah, yeah, yeah, oh man, upset movie was so classic, Man,
so classic. All Right, So Steven A. Smith makes twenty
million dollars a year, well deserved. He's underpaid. I say it,
I said it, and I'll say it again. He's underpaid.
(33:31):
ESPN needs Steven A Smith. Stephen A. Smith doesn't need ESPN.
He can make double triple that money if he went
outside that. And now we're also happy that Steven A.
Smith is a part of the iHeart family, as the
Steven A Smith Podcast is on the iHeart podcast Network.
So kudos to iHeart in our family forgetting Steven A. Smith.
So he's making some extra that's a nice side hustle.
(33:54):
But he's probably making double that what he's making from ESPN,
so it's probably not a it's a great it's a
pretty great life if you're Steven A. Smith. Well, first
take yesterday, Chris Russo, who was on here a couple
of weeks ago, The Mad Dog Hello, Steve, How are you, hey, Steveie?
How Chris Russo? The lights went out in the studio
(34:17):
yesterday at first take, and let's just say Chris Russo
had to do his segment in the hallway and he
was not too happy.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
We lost power, So mad dog, tell us why you're mad?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I'm sure you'll have me about this this.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
If they didn't pay Steven a four hundred million, maybe
they could pay that freaking polls ESPN shim in the tholus.
I mean, goodness, glacious, how dare you?
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Squeeze me and stick.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Me in a hallway with fite some two thousand. Look
at the stupid streets.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
On that right here?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I don't like that you took me away from my sight.
Only good they gotta.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Pay him one hundred and fifty million dates.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
All number one. I love the transit all right, back
to number one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Of me believes he is ninety nine percent serious and
the one percent it's like I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, but right he Doggie has that thing where it's like, oh,
it's just Doggy being doggy. Uh you think that when
you you know you're in a Manhattan studio right there
in the on the pier that you know you could
the lighting bill, would you know not be something that
goes off and the lights don't even go off in
our studio and we're not even on TV here. You
(35:33):
think that that? Would you know that? Uh?
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
And he was saying Jimmy was talking to about ESPN
president Jimmy Pataro, so pretty funny, and uh well, I
want to hear mad Dog go off again. I love
hearing him go on a rant, and it makes me
feel good.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
We lost power, So mad Dog, tell us why you're mad.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I'm sure you're not happy about this.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
This sh if they didn't pay Steven a four hundred million,
maybe they could paint a freaking bow.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yes, pen shut me in the falas.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
I mean, goodness, guitious, how dare you? Hey, squeeze me
and stick me in a hallway with spikes some two
thousand look at the stupid streets.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
On in right hair plut that.
Speaker 7 (36:12):
I don't like that it took me away from my
site only because they gotta pay him one hundred and
fifty million gates.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Hi number one, Hi number one. Yeah, I think yeah,
I think you're right. No, there was definitely more than
eighty percent serious tone in that. Hey, man, you know
it's like anything else. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
He got it and everybody else. Just it is what
it is. Steven A. He created a market. Uh. Coming
up next Dan Wetzel and we will give out the
(36:44):
new winner. We're gonna call it a name. So text
in right now four nine four five one four nine
four five one. I want to answer one question on
the text line from Dustin in the two five three Mark,
A couple buddies and I are trying to start planning
SEC road trips over the next few college football seasons
as a neutral fan. What's the best place to go
watch a game in tailgate? Thanks well, Mark. My first
(37:08):
masters came from the University of Georgia. Sanford Stadium is
an umbil place, but I would fire with you. You
could start at Sanford Stadium and then go south down
to Death Valley. No, not Clemson, LSU Death Valley, Baton
Rouge over one hundred thousand people on a Saturday night.
Make sure it's a Saturday night game. Go down there.
(37:28):
There's a good lot. Knoxville Neeland Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Bryant Denny Stadium.
You pick one, not all of them are. You know,
Vanderbilt isn't a great place, or Mississippi State. Ole Miss
is cool too. I've been to Ole Miss. I was
there for the Katie Perry game, so when ell Miss
upset Alabama in twenty fourteen. So they're all great places
to go. But I fire you if you got to
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hit your top three, I do Georgia, LSU, the Swamp's
pretty good in Florida as well. And then you want
to come back to Alabama as well. I don't know.
I've never been to Austin. I'll have to go there
one day, all right. Dan Wetzel coming up next right
here on MJ in the Midday Sports Radio ninety three
three kJ R FM
Passle deep fly ball to Maris nearing the wall, and
it's gone the center field. And that's how this one ends,
said I to bunker for the Mariners. They get shut
out and may have LOCY nine. Nothing that's going a
we'll dribble it out.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, the magical season continues. Y Oklahoma City Thunder are
going back to the NBA Finals, all right, before we
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get into MJ in the midday, Dennis Chanaul Covington, you
have five minutes to call two O six two eight
six ninety five ninety five to claim your one hundred dollars.
If Dennis doesn't do it in the next five minutes,
all roll over to the top of next hour. Two
six two eight six ninety five ninety five to Dennis
(01:06):
Channault Covington. Normally I would like to start with the Mariners,
but you know, last night's absolute, complete, total abomination. It's
one of one sixty two. We'll get into that in
a minute. The Oklahoma City Thunder are going to their
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second NBA Finals. I don't count their history to me.
They didn't exist prior to the two thousand and eight
two thousand and nine season, So they are going to
their second NBA Finals in franchise history. But I know
it's painstaking for everybody here, and I get it it
should be. It sucks, and unfortunately, the Minnesota Timberwolves, specifically
(01:56):
Anthony Edwards, basically did nothing to even try to give
them any type of fight except winning one game, just
one game, and I'm here for you today. We can
sports talk radio can be sports talk therapy. How are
(02:17):
you feeling? Because I could tell you this, I don't
see them losing in the NBA Finals no matter who
they play, which more than likely be the Indiana Pacers
after tonight or Saturday. I just don't see them losing
at all. It's they are the team. And you could
(02:37):
see last game when Shay Gildess, Alexander the MVP, Jalen
Williams chet Holmgren combined for ninety five points in last game,
not last night, but in the game prior to that
in Minnesota on Monday night, which broke the record by
(03:03):
the Thunder previously held when three guys who all won
MVPs by the name of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and
James Harden combined for ninety four points in a game.
I mean, it sucks. There's no other way. But how
much does this really truly bother you? And is this
(03:25):
something that you will look at, that you will look
at and just say, Is this worse than the San
Francisco forty nine ers winning a Super Bowl? Is this
worse than the Oregon Ducks winning the college football national title,
which they never have hopefully they never will. Is this
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worse than that? I think it is because it has
to do with somewhat with Seattle history. The team was
ripped away from one of the best basketball cities in
the world, right here in the two PHO six, and
unfortunately they're on the verge and they will more than
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likely win the twenty twenty five NBA World Title. And
it sucks, and I feel for everyone here. I'm here now,
I'm a new resident here, and I'm looking at everything
through the prism of the Seattle sports fan, even though
I have to occasionally look at it from an objective
(04:32):
perspective because I haven't been here long enough and I
want to always look at something through an objective perspective
and not just become so insulate in every market. And
I don't know what to say other than it sucks.
It really sucks. But is this year worst nightmare coming true?
Would you rather see Oregon win a national title in
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college football or the San Francisco forty nine ers win
their fifth actually six Super Bowl? Would you rather see
that than see the Oklahoma City Thunder win the NBA
World title. Congratulations to Dennis Chenault Comington. You won one
hundred dollars. Will do it again at the top of
(05:14):
next hour. So he won the money. He won the money.
But we'll do another one at the top of next hour.
But yes, and when you do it, for the top
of next hour, your first name, last name to the
unrestricted free agent text line four nine, four or five one.
(05:35):
And then if I call out your name at the
top of next hour, you have five minutes to call
that number that I gave you two six, two eight
six ninety five ninety five. So congratulations to Dennis. Now,
I can't imagine what it feels like is I haven't
been here that long, but I know it hurts, and
I know that for all of you that this is
(06:00):
is this was Seattle's team. It was Seattle's team, and
it should still be Seattle's team. But unfortunately, due to
that Judas Howard Schultz Clay Bennett and that dumbass may
or at the time, whatever that guy's name was, I
(06:20):
don't even want to remember, and the late Commissioner David Stern.
This thing was just it was a perfect storm of absolute,
total travesty and betrayal. And maybe a lot of you
are over it, but I can tell that a lot
of you are not, And I don't blame you for
(06:42):
not being over it. And I think even when the
Sonics come back here and we please hope it's gonna
be sooner than later. I was talking to someone last
night and yeah, well, I don't want to share that
conversation because he's gonna come on tomorrow with us. But
he was just saying, when they announce it, it's usually three
(07:04):
year build up after that, and I'm like, no, no, no,
we only need two years to get going here. We've
got an arena which is state of the art, ready
to go CPA Climate Pledge Arena. But I mean, I
think what this is is it kind of if I'm
going to make an analogy, it's like the Seattle Sonics
(07:27):
were SuperSonics were Seattle's team. They were it the first
world title in city's history. Nineteen seventy nine, right way
before the twenty thirteen Seahawks Mariners. Well we know they
in order to win a title, you actually have to
get to the World Series, so that never happened. It's
(07:49):
like your lifelong soulmate who you went to high school with,
who you went to college with, and you had three
kids with you, and she left you for your best
friend or your worst enemy, either or your let's just
say your worst enemy, because it was Howard Schultz and
(08:16):
Clay Bennett. She left you for your worst enemy, and
your worst enemy is extremely successful. Now it hurts. It
hurts even seventeen years later, after the Sonics drafted a
kid out of UCLA by the name of Russell Westbrook.
(08:36):
It hurts even now, and I feel for everyone here,
even though there was a guy who once said a
sports talk host down in Atlanta, and he brought up
a great point, and he said that even if you
know that city's history sports history like the back of
(09:01):
your hand, you'll never know the pain that the fans feel.
So I don't know that pain. I can try to
put myself in those shoes, but I can't even do
it because I didn't go through the pain like you did,
and they're on the verge of doing it. Man, I
don't see anybody stopping them. They're a wagon. And here's
(09:23):
the worst part. I think they're on the precipice of
being a dynasty. That d word dynasty. I think they
could go on and win three of the next five.
They've got SGA who's still on a rookie contract, Jalen
Williams on a rookie contract, Chet Holmgren on a rookie contract.
(09:44):
Sga I believe is eligible. Is it either after this
season or after next season to become the highest paid
player in NBA history. And you know what, They're not
a hate able team. They're a likable team. The guys
are likable. They're not a holes, all right, They're not.
They're a likable team. But I get it. You just
(10:07):
can't get over the betrayal and mistrust that was set
forth year by Clay Bennett Howard Schultz. I get it.
And last night I was like, oh, this is a
tough night. This is a tough night because it's only
(10:28):
it's only a matter of time and the inevitable. No
one's stopping this team. They're gonna win the NBA title
and one of the things that pissed me off last night.
I took a screenshot of it on ESPN and ESPN
don't do this, please, don't do this. But they did it.
(10:48):
They put that The Thunder are making their fifth NBA
Finals appearance in franchise history, and it says first three
came when franchise was in Seattle nineteen six eight, nineteen
seventy nine, nineteen ninety six. No, that's not true. That's
not true. This is their second appearance in finals history.
Their first was thirteen years ago in twenty twelve to
(11:10):
when they lost to the Heat. So I'm here for
you today. You want to vent, you want to just
kind of do it. You know you can listen four
nine four or five to one. You can also vent.
You can swear whatever you want on the voice text line.
Go to the new and improved iHeart Radio app and
(11:34):
look up Buck ninety three to three KJR and hit
that microphone icon Boughton in just rant away, go ahead.
A couple of texts on the text line hmm, I
don't get the IR for OKC from Tom the two
six Ben and Seattle most of my life and went
to the parade when they won it all. I root
(11:56):
for players of OKAC. People need to move on and
enough of this victor attitude. It's only a game. Well, Tom,
I'm gonna just kind of I don't know where you're
from originally, but no, I don't agree with that. It's
not victimhood when basically this team was ripped away from
this city and it was just awful from I think
(12:19):
JL from the four to two five probably sums it
up best. I'd rather see San Francisco win a Super Bowl.
I'd love to punch Clay Bennett in his ugly fat
face f OKAC from the four two five. It's a
little bit more diplomatic. I honestly don't care if the
OKAC Thunder win it all. I love the Sonics, but
life goes on. That's fair, that's fair. But I don't
(12:42):
blame any of you that are bitter and disenchanted. You
have every right to be you do. Doesn't matter how
old you are, whether you're in your sixties, seventies, fifties, forties, thirties, Hell,
you could be in your twenties and you heard about
this from your parents and your grandparents, what the Sonics
meant to this city. So I'm here for you today.
(13:05):
And the thing that sucks, like I said, it's it's
only gonna get worse because this team's not losing in
the finals. There's no way. All right, last night the Mariners,
it's a shutout. One of one's sixty two. I'm not
going to kill them on one of one's sixty two.
(13:25):
Not gonna do that. It was pathetic to lose to
one of you know, a losing team and get shut
out nine nothing that within itself is pathetic. But I'm
not gonna harp on that today. Here's the bigger issue.
Here's the biggest issue. George Kirby. I'm very worried about him.
And what did I say yesterday at this very time
(13:49):
in my opening monologue, do not send logan evans down
to Tacoma? And what do they do yesterday afternoon? They
send logan evans down to Tacoma. Why, I don't know,
(14:10):
but something is clearly wrong with George Kirby. Got rocked,
got absolutely rocked last night. And I know this is
his first action, or excuse me, his second action of
the season against live bullets. He didn't have spring training,
so he's thrown right into the frying pan. But clearly
(14:34):
something is wrong. Hey, anytime you want to call recall
Logan Evans back up, we're waiting for it. I don't
know why they sent him back down. The dude has
been nails recently. Something's not right with George Kirby in
his two starts. His first start against the Astros, fine,
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first star of the season, three and two thirds innings,
five and runs. They struggled to get through five innings
six earned runs. Right now has an eleven forty two
eer given up eleven earn runs in eight and two
(15:17):
thirds innings. Something's not right. Bryce Miller is already on
the IL. Logan Gilbert I hope he's coming back soon,
is still on the IL. So why would you send
Logan Evans back to Triple A? What sense does that
make you need Logan Evans right now? He's reliable. He's
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probably the second most reliable pitcher that you've had all season,
next to Brian wu. I don't get it. Nine to nothing, pathetic, fine,
one of one sixty two. You move on. I think
last week the Rockies beat the Yankees. I don't care
like the game now now try not to lose the
series today. Obviously with Emerson Hancock on the Mountain tonight.
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But something's wrong with George Kirby, and I hope they
can find out. I don't know. And you know, the
weird thing is they were shown last night. He got
to about ninety seven on his four seam fastball, so
his velocity is there. But something's clearly amiss with this guy.
(16:26):
I'm not throwing in the towel, but they got to
get that fixed. Now do you put him on the il?
So thankfully Tacomb is not far from t Mobile Park.
But yeah, when they sent back Logan Evans after his
performance the other night, I'm like, what are you doing? Why?
(16:46):
Why would you be doing that? And then now there's
talk about Bryce Miller with the bone spurs and inflammation
with him. Uh. Oh, you know it's weird. You go
into a season, and Christopher Kidd talked about this yesterday.
You go into a season, You're like, all right, they're
gonna have to rely on the on the rotation. The
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rotation's gonna have to carry them like they did last year.
And in essence, the rotation has become the achilles heel.
Due to injuries and due to some other things, ineptitude.
Bryce Miller, George Kirby, so injuries, ineptitude, and now you
(17:29):
have to start to wonder what's going on with this
team and how is Jerry Depoto and Dan Wilson gonna
fix it now. Dan Wilson was asked about why they
sent Logan Evans back down to Tacoma.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Tough decision there, with Logan coming off to a great
outing last night.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I just kind of what went into that decision.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, it's always tough, especially after he has pitched so
well and you know, gave us so many you know,
strong innings and strong performances, and always a tough thing
to do that. As we talk to him, I hope
he has garnered a lot of confidence from what he
has done here and all the success that he had,
and you know, taking that as a as a foundation
to continue to build on and exciting for him that
(18:13):
he was able to come up and you know, make
such an impact early, and just looking forward to his
continued developments as he builds the confidence.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
When's he coming back up? That's all I want to know,
because you need him, you need him desperately, you need
him badly. Got to get him back up asap. So
I don't know what the you know how long that
can take. But that guy should not be in the
minor leagues anymore. He's a major league pitcher and he
looks like a guy that's going to be possible, possible, potential.
Stud need that guy back in that rotation because something's
(18:44):
not right with Kirby. Bryce Miller's out, hopefully Logan Gilbert
to be coming back, and you are just basically putting
the onus on Brian Wu and Emerson Hancock right now
to carry this rotation. Bad bad luck last night, not good,
not good at all. So I'm here for you if
(19:05):
you want to vent, you want to bitch and scream
about okay, see go in the Emmy Finals. I understand,
I get it. That's what Sports Talk Radio's here for.
Vent out your frustrations. And you can do it either
on the text line or the voice text line. I
want to hear you. I want you to call in
the voice text line and be like, you know what,
(19:25):
I am bleeping pissed off. Tell us why you are
because you have every right to be. Go to the
voice text line and new and improved iHeartRadio app. Look
for ninety three to three KJR microphone icon button hit
it and just rant away. I want to hear it.
I've got to hear it. Well, Stefan Diggs got a
lot of attention, and not for the right reasons. His
(19:51):
new employer, the Patriots, they have to investigate. I guess
we would call it cocaine Gate. Fight out next on
MJ in the midday Sports Radio ninety three to three
KJR FM in the offseason because they don't have any
weapons for Drake May and well, certain things should never
(20:14):
He got a three year, sixty nine million dollar contract,
including basically twelve million dollar signing bonus, which is fully guaranteed.
His two point nine million dollar base salary fully guaranteed.
But something happened, Something happened over the week that he
(20:38):
was on some boat with some fine looking ladies and
he's has some substance that people are saying it's pink cocaine,
which I never even knew existed prior to this, and
he's telling them don't do too much of this and
call me daddy and all this stuff. And it's a really,
(21:00):
really bad look by Stefon Diggs. And that's not what
the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, or NHL want
one of the guys who was one of the better
receivers in the NFL IS games, not what it used
to be in Buffalo. But a guy that is the
(21:20):
number one receiver on the Patriots right now on a
boat looking like he's doing narcotics with a bunch of
young women. Bad look. And it wasn't just like smoking weed,
which I wouldn't even care about because weed is pretty
much legalized in most states anyway. So if he's smoking
(21:41):
some blunts with them, who cares. They're adults. I mean,
he shouldn't be doing it because he has a contract
and that could possibly, you know, you get drug tested,
and that could cost him some games and some paychecks.
You're talking about pink cocaine, white cocaine, purple cocaine. That
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isn't good. So naturally, the media in Boston they are
and let me tell you something, they don't pull any punches.
They talk to the head coach, Mike ray Bowl, and
they're like, what's up with Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Fun Diggs. He's gotten a lot of traction in the
last twenty four hours or so. He's on a boat
having a good time. But the question comes in as
to a certain substance that people are guessing what is
and isn't. Is this something that the team has to
look into.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Well, it's something that we're aware of, and obviously we
want to make great decisions on and off the field,
and we're hoping that with our time here on the
field today and that when we don't have a script
and we're on the call up periods, that we're making
great decisions. And so the message will be the same
for all our players that we were trying to make
great decisions, and any conversations that I've had with Stefan
(22:56):
or remain between him and I and the club. Can
you talk to him? Since I talked to our players
every single day, the ones that are here and the
ones that aren't. Are you expecting him in practice today, Mike?
Not if he's not here. So he's not here, you
guys will find out in a minute.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But no, again, he was here last week here. The
ending of that again that there was a question there
he goes, not if he's not here? What was that
question that that made Mike Rabels say not if he's
not here?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Are you expected in practice today?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Mike?
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Not?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
If he's not here? I guess that would be a
no kid. WTF what is this guy thinking? He wasn't right?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
There you go, but you have millions of dollars, You're
not paying attention to your surroundings, You're partying with beautiful women,
You're thinking you can do whatever, and someone has happened.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
To be recording.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
I know, yeah, because imagine if this was the eighties,
no one would know about this. That's right, he would
have just he'd be he would play this season and
nothing would have gone on.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Hell, if this was the two thousands, know would have
known about it, right, right, because the two thousand and
seven was the first iPhone and you weren't putting stuff.
There was no real social Facebook.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
I guess until you're two thousands of the best example
of if he was doing this on a boat, no
one knows about it unless a girl like Od's or something.
Oh when they identify yeh, Stefan was the person that
gave me the pink stuff. Yeah, but yeah, it's I
hope it's not what it seems to be. But we'll
find out more as we get closer to And now
(24:31):
you just season.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Now you just put this, you're gonna he's gonna be
getting it, won't be random. They're gonna be testing him
almost every day from that one. Once you put that
out there, they're gonna no, literally no, you're not, and
they have every right to.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You put yourself in this position by doing that. No
one cares about you partying and all that. It's when
you tell the ladies, hey, man, don't take it all
at once, and everyone's wondering, what is that pink stuff?
It ain't it's not sugar.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're not.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
No, just giving out sugar and saying take all the
sugar at once.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, no, no. By the way, the contract is structured
with significant incentives, so the Patriots have the option to
release Digs after twenty twenty five if they're not satisfiable.
Strike once there you go, Yeah, bad, look really really bad.
Look on, Stefan Diggs and listen. If you're gonna party
with the ladies and the honeys on the boat, make
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sure everybody you know, put everybody's cell phone in a
zip block bag and put it in a safe so
nobody's taping. Always be aware of your surroundings. Stefan Diggs,
you're not a rookie, bro. You've been in the league
now for close to a decade. You gotta be smarter
(25:42):
than that. You have to be I mean, I even
forgot about his days he used to be with the Vikings.
Forgot about that, man, I mean, you just can't be
that stupid. I mean, and so such an egregious lack
of self awareness. What is your problem? And listen, man,
you're not justin Jefferson right now. You're not Devonte Adams. Yeah,
(26:06):
he has been. He's been in the league for a decade.
He came to the league in twenty fifteen. It was
a fifth round pick too, and he's made an unbelievable career.
He's been a lot of money. The Patriots had to
overpay for him because there's nobody left on the market.
Got to be better than that. Gotta be smarter than that, man,
I mean, and now it's just like and it just
(26:26):
here's the thing too, I feel bad for I don't
know if he has kids or whatever, but I just
feel bad for his family. If he does have kids,
I feel bad for them. Is white, Well, he doesn't.
He's obviously not married because he's parting with half naked
women on a boat, so that certainly didn't happen. But
it's just man, that's just such a bad look. How
(26:51):
you were unaware of that is beyond the realm of
my comprehension. Coming up at the top of the hour,
we will have Dan Wetzel, ESPN Senior writer. A lot
of things going on in the world of college football
right now, including the SEC about to make a power play.
(27:11):
And for those of you here in Pac twelve country,
I know it's Big ten now, but in Pac twelve
country that and let me just say this for everybody
out there. I know everybody here is gonna hate on
the SEC. Okay, I have two SEC degrees. Okay, I've
gone to school. I've been to every SEC venue when
it comes to football except for Mississippi State, in Vanderbilt
(27:34):
and Texas. Texas I don't really count as SEC because
they're new SEC. But I've been Oklahoma and people like, well,
how does the SEC get to go out there and
make these demands and say this and say that. You
know why, because they've won thirteen of the previous twenty
one national titles. You know the Big ten did the
last two years they won two in a row. Clap,
(28:00):
golf clap. Do you know what happened prior to that?
The SEC won four in a row. You know what
happened from two thousand and six through two thousand and thirteen.
The se twelve, the SEC won seven national titles in
a row. So the SEC basically pretty much invented college
football and they've pretty much perfected it over the course
(28:23):
of the last twenty years. So when you win thirteen
of the previous you know, other than the Big Ten.
If you don't count the last two years, they won
thirteen of the previous nineteen national titles. If you count
the last two years, they've won thirteen of the previous
twenty one national titles. You have it like that. We
will talk to Dan Wetzel and what the SEC is
(28:43):
about to do. Now, I'm not saying that Greg Sanki
and them aren't. I'm not saying they're right in what
they do. But they're Apple, they're Amazon, and they can
do whatever the hell they want. When you're that big
and you and the entire sport revolves around you, you
want to compare the SEC network to the Big ten network.
(29:05):
There is no comparison. Okay, there're none. Look at the
NFL Draft every year, first round through the seventh round.
It's all pretty much almost what seemed like sixty five
percent SEC players. They rule college football. I don't like it.
My team's not in the SEC, but I will recognize
(29:25):
the power that they have. They're Coca Cola. They're bigger
than Coca Cola. They're bigger than Walmart. They're Apple, they're Amazon,
they're number one. We'll talk to Dan Wetzel coming up
at the top of the hour about that coming up next.
I mean, like, you gotta pay your bills, especially if
(29:47):
you're the worldwide leader in sports. We'll explain that on
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One hundred dollars. Hmmm. So ugh it is. Oh, by
(31:18):
the way, I got one note on the dig substance.
Speculation on it. The pink substance in the video has
led to speculation it could be quote as I mentioned,
pink cocaine, which is also known as tucy, tucy, tussy,
I don't know, I don't do drugs, tucy or tussy.
Pink cocaine is a dangerous drug cocktail and rarely contains
(31:41):
actual cocaine. Instead, it's typically a mix of substances like
ketamine MDMA and sometimes caffeine or methae amphetamines according to
the induced in times. So take that for what you
will to me. Cocaine's cocaine. So I don't know. I
(32:02):
am the only person. Folks, if you ever meet me,
you will meet I should be in the Guinness Book
of World Records. Christopher Kid, do you know why? Do
you know why? Why?
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Because I'm the only person who lived in Miami and
I never ever touched cocaine, not only when I lived there,
but never once in my entire life. And I'm very
proud of that. People might think differently by the way
they hear me on the air, but I can truly
tell you I have never touched that substance. Kid, Could
you imagine me on cocaine?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I I don't know, Man, you'd be off the wall.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I would be. I would be You just have to
get a strange jacket at four padded walls.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Do you remember that scene in the Mask when he's
in the club, Yeah, he is bouncing off the walk.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
That would be me.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
I would imagine that would be a great example of
Mark on.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
The yes on yes not not Yeah, that would be
on that would not you would not want me on cocaine.
Absolutely not want me there, No, no, no. I might
imitate Tony Montana, but only in the good ways, not
(33:10):
the ways that he did in that final scene. Okay,
well yeah, yeah, yeah, oh man, upset movie was so classic, Man,
so classic. All Right, So Steven A. Smith makes twenty
million dollars a year, well deserved. He's underpaid. I say it,
I said it, and I'll say it again. He's underpaid.
(33:31):
ESPN needs Steven A Smith. Stephen A. Smith doesn't need ESPN.
He can make double triple that money if he went
outside that. And now we're also happy that Steven A.
Smith is a part of the iHeart family, as the
Steven A Smith Podcast is on the iHeart podcast Network.
So kudos to iHeart in our family forgetting Steven A. Smith.
So he's making some extra that's a nice side hustle.
(33:54):
But he's probably making double that what he's making from ESPN,
so it's probably not a it's a great it's a
pretty great life if you're Steven A. Smith. Well, first
take yesterday, Chris Russo, who was on here a couple
of weeks ago, The Mad Dog Hello, Steve, How are you, hey, Steveie?
How Chris Russo? The lights went out in the studio
(34:17):
yesterday at first take, and let's just say Chris Russo
had to do his segment in the hallway and he
was not too happy.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
We lost power, So mad dog, tell us why you're mad?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I'm sure you'll have me about this this.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
If they didn't pay Steven a four hundred million, maybe
they could pay that freaking polls ESPN shim in the tholus.
I mean, goodness, glacious, how dare you?
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Squeeze me and stick.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Me in a hallway with fite some two thousand. Look
at the stupid streets.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
On that right here?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I don't like that you took me away from my sight.
Only good they gotta.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Pay him one hundred and fifty million dates.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
All number one. I love the transit all right, back
to number one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Of me believes he is ninety nine percent serious and
the one percent it's like I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, but right he Doggie has that thing where it's like, oh,
it's just Doggy being doggy. Uh you think that when
you you know you're in a Manhattan studio right there
in the on the pier that you know you could
the lighting bill, would you know not be something that
goes off and the lights don't even go off in
our studio and we're not even on TV here. You
(35:33):
think that that? Would you know that? Uh?
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
And he was saying Jimmy was talking to about ESPN
president Jimmy Pataro, so pretty funny, and uh well, I
want to hear mad Dog go off again. I love
hearing him go on a rant, and it makes me
feel good.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
We lost power, So mad Dog, tell us why you're mad.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I'm sure you're not happy about this.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
This sh if they didn't pay Steven a four hundred million,
maybe they could paint a freaking bow.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yes, pen shut me in the falas.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
I mean, goodness, guitious, how dare you? Hey, squeeze me
and stick me in a hallway with spikes some two
thousand look at the stupid streets.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
On in right hair plut that.
Speaker 7 (36:12):
I don't like that it took me away from my
site only because they gotta pay him one hundred and
fifty million gates.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Hi number one, Hi number one. Yeah, I think yeah,
I think you're right. No, there was definitely more than
eighty percent serious tone in that. Hey, man, you know
it's like anything else. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
He got it and everybody else. Just it is what
it is. Steven A. He created a market. Uh. Coming
up next Dan Wetzel and we will give out the
(36:44):
new winner. We're gonna call it a name. So text
in right now four nine four five one four nine
four five one. I want to answer one question on
the text line from Dustin in the two five three Mark,
A couple buddies and I are trying to start planning
SEC road trips over the next few college football seasons
as a neutral fan. What's the best place to go
watch a game in tailgate? Thanks well, Mark. My first
(37:08):
masters came from the University of Georgia. Sanford Stadium is
an umbil place, but I would fire with you. You
could start at Sanford Stadium and then go south down
to Death Valley. No, not Clemson, LSU Death Valley, Baton
Rouge over one hundred thousand people on a Saturday night.
Make sure it's a Saturday night game. Go down there.
(37:28):
There's a good lot. Knoxville Neeland Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Bryant Denny Stadium.
You pick one, not all of them are. You know,
Vanderbilt isn't a great place, or Mississippi State. Ole Miss
is cool too. I've been to Ole Miss. I was
there for the Katie Perry game, so when ell Miss
upset Alabama in twenty fourteen. So they're all great places
to go. But I fire you if you got to
(37:50):
hit your top three, I do Georgia, LSU, the Swamp's
pretty good in Florida as well. And then you want
to come back to Alabama as well. I don't know.
I've never been to Austin. I'll have to go there
one day, all right. Dan Wetzel coming up next right
here on MJ in the Midday Sports Radio ninety three
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