June 6, 2025 • 35 mins
The Indiana Pacers somehow did it yet again and won in epic fashion to steal game one from the OKC Thunder in the NBA Finals. Also, MJ was checking out the old studio and came across an autographed football from Russell Wilson, should we give it away? We also play audio from Michelle Beadle and Mad Dog Russo as some national news has surfaced in the sports radio industry.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The second loudest sound that you heard next to the
folks in the state of Indiana was from Seattle and
the PNW. This is MJ in the midday on a
fantastic and fabulous Friday, Christopher Kidd on the other side
of the glass producing this three hour epic endeavor. Wow,
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how did that make you feel? Sonics fans? Huh did
that make you feel a little good?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I mean, hey, listen, I've seen this story before. I've
seen this movie before. It happened about two weeks ago
last night when Tyrese Haliburton at Madison Square Garden did
the same thing to the New York Knicks, and he
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did it last night, down by fifteen in the fourth quarter. Now, obviously,
if you hate Oklahoma City, and I understand why everybody
does here, or most people do, including our own Dave,
Softy Maler and I help Softie's voice and throw gets better.
Softy have a lot of hot hottie and tea. Get
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that throat and that voice better. But I'm sure Softie
was going nuts last night. He said he didn't watch
the game, but wow, all I can say is, holy crap.
Was that unbelievable last night? And you know it's weird
because the night before, Game one of the Stanley Cup
between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers was epic. I
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mean it was Edmonton got out to an early lead,
and then Florida goes up three to one.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Edmonton ties it up, and then they go to.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Overtime, and then there was the thing where the puck
goes over the glass and it was a penalty on
the Panthers, and then Edmonton and Leon Dreisidle capitalized. Well.
Last night, Tyreese Halliburton and the Indiana Pacers and the
Oklahoma City Thunder said, hold our beers, Stanley Cup, hold
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our beers. That was unbelievable. Both game ones were phenomenal.
I hope every game is gonna be like this. I
don't know if it will be, but we'll see. I
just I'm at a loss for words. I don't know
what to say. Ty Reese freaking Halliburton. When I talk
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about the word clutch, that's what I mean. There is
a stat last night and I just saw it, so
I'm telling you what the stat said. It said NBA
Finals game tying or winning shots all time. Ty Resee
Halliburton one of one, Steph Curry two of four, Lebron
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James oh of seven. So you know, you know it's
gonna happen. And kudos to the Indiana Pacers. I still
think the thud underwin this thing. It might not go five,
it might go six, but I still think the thunder win.
Here's the thing that you gotta know about the Indiana Pacers.
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They are absolutely the textbook definition of resilient.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's what they are.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And I mean, you just They've done it all postseason
against Milwaukee, they did it against the Knicks. They've done
it against Cleveland. They won three games on the road
at Cleveland. They were the number one seed in the East.
Haliburton clutch, he's got it. He has it. And as
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someone who grew up rooting for a certain team that
plays at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square guard
in New York City, the mecca Nick fans, we have
a tendency to lament over would have, could have, should have.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'll lament.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
In twenty seventeen, the Knicks passed on Donovan Mitchell and
Bam aute bio for Frank Tilokuina from France, Okay. In
twenty eighteen, the Knicks passed well, let let me just
say this. They took Kevin Knox out of Kentucky over
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his Kentucky Wildcat teammate Shank Gildas Alexander. And in twenty twenty,
the Knicks passed on Tyrese Halliburton for Obi Toppin, who
ironically now is Halliburton's teammate with the Pacers. So the
Knicks could have had Tyrese Halliburton shake Gildess, Alexander and
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Donovan Mitchell, and instead they took Obi Toppin, Frank Tilikina,
and Kevin Knox. And I got buddies telling me, well,
Jalen Brunson's better than Haliburton. No he isn't, No, he
is not. I love Jalen Brunson, but there's no way now, Halliburton,
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I'm pissed at you because you cost me a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I gave out to all the fine folks here in
Seattle and throughout the PNW Tyreese Halliburton over seventeen and
a half points last night. You totally screwed me. Haliburton.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And I'm watching this and I'm like, he could easily
go for thirty, but he just picks and chooses his
spots like Shake Gills, Alexander. Why did I not bet
for him to go for thirty because he did again
last night.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So sorry to all of you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I was wrong. It happens. It's called gambling for a reason.
And I'm you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Know, I'm just I'm pissed at that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So Haliburton, you absolutely affter me over And I'm sorry
to the find folks out there who might have taken that. Hey,
as long as you took Oklahoma City to win the
series and you took the Edmonton Oilers to win the
Stanley Cup, we're in good shape. Don't worry about it.
That was a nice one for the Pacers. They're gonna
make this a little bit competitive. But watch OKC drop
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the hammer right now, at least on SAT on Sunday night.
I you know that shit, Like listen, when you have
a team down by that, you gotta go for the jugular,
you have to, you have to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And they didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They and there's something about this Pacers team and the
reason why kid I felt so confident about Halliburton. First
of all, what is eighteen points? Eighteen points is nothing?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But you know what, you know Carlyle did last night.
He let Nemhard Andrew Nemhard handle the ball handling duties
up the court and Halliburton kind of played the off guard.
And I noticed this. I'm like wise, does he not?
And that's what he did because I'll give Nemark credit.
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He can't shoot, but but he's really good, especially when
OKC is being him up ninety four feet. He's good
about getting the ball up the court. And that's less
stress and pressure on Halliburton. That's why Carlyle did it.
You're gonna take the ball up and we're gonna let
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Ty Reese do his thing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
How about kid? How about the.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Shot by Miles Turner from like the side, not the.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Corner, but like in between the corner.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And and right there at the top of the perimeter
and he hits it off the backboard.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
What the hell? What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh? Oh, it's just that that was nuts. But if
you delight in the demise of the Oklahoma City Thunder,
you had a good night. Here's the problem. It's not
March madness. It's not single elimination. You gotta win four
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out of seven and it's gonna be really tough for
the Pacers to do that. Now, they might make this
more of a series than anyone, including me, giving them
a thought to do. But OKC is gonna come back
next game, and they're gonna come back with a vengines
because they let one get away. And you can't give
away games and series. Ask the New York Knicks. If
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the Knicks don't blow a fourteen point lead with two
forty four to go and a nine point lead with
fifty three seconds to go against Indiana in Game one,
the Knicks might have won that series. It changed everything.
So we'll see if this changes everything. But what was
your thoughts last night on the game?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Incredible, right, But I was watching it with the idea that, oh, okay,
see has the lead.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
In the back of my mind.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I was thinking, can Indiana really do it again in
the NBA Finals? And what do you know, like clockwork,
they get some stops, they make big plays, they make
a big shot, and next thing you know, it's a
three point game. Next thing you know, oh my gosh,
they are right there. Oh my gosh, Tyree's gonna get
the ball. Oh my gosh, he's gotta They won the
game point three that it's impossible to get a shot
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off in point three seconds. Derek Fisher were the closest one.
He got off in point four, right, that's the only right,
So I knew it was over then.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I was at that game against the Magic.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Was against the Magic.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, oh he did one against San Antonio. But in
the finals he did against the Magic in Orlando's about
the point four to one. Okay, the only time. Okay, yeah,
ball in your hand. By the way, Derek Fisher had
so many game winners, you don't you can't even get them,
you know, like it's like which one was that was?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
It?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Just want to get the Spurgel was against the Magic.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
It's like but just another, as you mentioned, another or
not another? A great game one from the jump. I
know it was a back and forth and you saw,
okayc show a little bit of dominance because they are
the better team, but that doesn't stop the Indiana Pacers.
They believe they have just as much as a shot
and they've proven it yet again. Now I'm wondering what
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Bob Parker's thinking, because I know he spoke with you
what was it earlier this week on seven, So this
is a good start to that point you still want
at home. So let's say it does end up going
back to a game seven, or does end up being
a game seven. You don't think these Pacers are confident
they can come back and went on the on.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
The road in a game seven after they did what
they did in Game one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, I will tell you from from the Knick standpoint
against the Celtics, when the Knicks were down by over
twenty late in the second half and they came back
in games one and two on the road in Boston.
Don't be satisfied with game one. If you're Indiana, go
go for game two. Don't be satisfied. Oh we got
to split. Oh we got home court advantage. Now no, no, no, no, no, no.
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You want to win this series. Go up to Oh,
go up two. Oh, do not be satisfied. Do not
be satisfied.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
We're not done. We're not I'm not happy with this.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Not done.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, no, especially in the NBA Finals, man.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And how about this, you talk about odds on certain
people's sides. The team and wins game one wins the
NBA Finals seventy one percent of the time. So the
Indiana Pacers right now are feeling pretty good. But just
remember that team in the regular season and playoffs won
eighty games going into the finals eighty. So they're pretty
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damn good too, and they're gonna win. And I don't
know they I'll say this, if they lose Game two
at home, it's gonna be very tough for them.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But then you're gonna have to win four out of
the next six games, and that's gonna be tough. So
I was over yesterday because we're doing some house cleaning here.
I went over to the old KJR studios, which I
actually vividly remember because I was here for a week
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in twenty sixteen filling in for Softy and it was
the week that the Golden State Warriors blew a three
to one series lead. It was to Kyrie Irving and
Lebron James and the whole Draymond Green he got suspended
for Game six, and I remember being over in.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That studio and it's bigger.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We're in nicer studios now, much nicer, much cleaner, much,
you know everything. We're on the good side of the building.
We get to overlook Elliott Bay, but you're not gonna
believe what I found. Go to my Twitter handle right
now or KJR M A RC James. I found a
Russell Wilson autographed football, an actual official NFL football, the Duke,
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the one they use on game days on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So I just tweeted out from my Twitter handle.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now I can only put the pitcher and not do
a poll because it wouldn't allow me to So it
wouldn't allow me to do both, so I just put
it out there. Look at what I found in the
old ninety three to three KGr studios are Russell Wilson
autographed official NFL football Seahawks fans.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do any of you want this? Yes? Hell no? Or maybe? Now.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I couldn't do a poll because it wouldn't let me
do a poll and a pick wow, three of you already.
I'm gonna go ahead and read your Twitter handles debay
him l underscore page three zero three and it s
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y I T nine Yes, sure do great at Seahawks,
as great at Seattle QB of all time and absolutely so.
Now it's in purple sheets office and I was look
at this people while I'm like, okay, I mean, I
gotta tell you. And when you have an autograph like
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that autographed is gonna be good forever. It's not faded.
He did it in silver sharpie. But look at that
thing right then and there. That's that's what we got.
We gotta give this away. We gotta give this away.
You know what, Maybe I can do like a cross
promotion kid that maybe you know what, let me see
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what I can do. Because I'm gonna be at Arnold's
Appliances in Bellevue tomorrow between noon to two. Maybe I
can bring that Russell Wilson football with me and we
can give it away there because you're gonna have to
come pick it up somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Why not meet me yet.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Arnold's Appliance is in Bellevue, and we'll find a way
for one of you to get it. Maybe we'll put
a bunch of names in a hat, and you know,
at the end of the day, we'd just say, there
you go. But a lot of people are like, yeah,
I want it, all right, So there you go a
Russell Wilson autographed official NFL football and it's held up,
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it's held up. People are like, okay, all right, there
you go. By the way, there's not one no, yes,
sure do greatest Seattle QB of all time. I'll take
it absolutely, yes and yes, all right, So let me
talk to Purple Sheet during the commercial break and see
if we can do something, because I'm gonna be at
Arnold's Appliances in Bellevue tomorrow between un to two. And
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by the way, if you're looking for your husband, your father,
your son, your brother for a great Father's Day gift,
they're gonna have a ton of great things on sale tomorrow.
Arnold's Appliance is in Bellevue, be out there between noon
and two. And maybe I'll have to bring that Russell
Wilson autographed football.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I gotta admit it's it's money, and it's still in
the box like it's still like all you gotta do
if you want to make your dust doesn't get on it,
you just gotta buy one of those those things, those
you know, protective glass cases just to put around. But
I gotta admit, the only Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl winning
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quarterback of all time, Russell freaking Wilson. So there is
that whoa, Yeah, Everybody's like, yeah, I want it. All right, Well,
we might we have to look at what we can
do here. But that is a sweet football. But I'm like,
we gotta make some Seahawks fan a we gotta basically, yeah,
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how about this this guy, Mott Lake's big Fish had
a rough departure from the team, but was my favorite
player for ten years and part of our first Super Bowl. Wow,
I'm from mister, Well, I'm not going to read that
Twitter handle because that's uh, I'm just not gonna read that.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He just put yes, that's my dog.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I can't read that Twitter handle because yeah, that makes
me uncomfortable on that one. And from Owen Bunstein, Yes,
they're all right. Not one person said no Ryan Golden
Golden takes live a thousand percent. Yes, all right, we
gotta do something about this.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We're giving this, We're giving this puppy away. I gotta admit, man,
if I grew up here and I was, like, you know,
a lifelong Hawks fan, I would want that, my kid,
you grew up here, Like, if you, you know, weren't
disqualified for being a part of KGr would you want that. Well,
you're not a big autograph guy, Yeah you're not.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You're not.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
No, I just I'm cool off of that.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I'm I would want I would totally want it. I
would totally want it.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You trying to take me to dinner? Brow, I'm hungry, man.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh man.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
No, we gotta give this to we gotta give this
this to a to one of these diehard Seahawks fans.
We gotta we gotta do that. So that would be
really cool. Yeah, no, that would be a good way.
And you never know what you're gonna find. I found
another name tag of a former host that hasn't been
here in a while, Like, wow, I guess they really
did not clean up.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's that side of the studio anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Had the old Clear Channel logo on it and everything
like no, no, he's no longer here. Uh so there's
that one, all right? Uh coming up next. Man, when
you get it in a fight with your boss and
then you basically dare him to fire you, you're not
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gonna want to miss this. And I can't believe the audio,
but we got it for you next on MJ in
the Midday Sports Radio ninety three to three kJ RTM
Brooke Pryor, she was it's just on ESPN Sports Center,
will join us. She is the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter and
we will talk to her coming up in the noon
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hour about Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf and what is
going on in Pittsburgh. Plus for all of you that
want to win some bets this weekend, good friend and
longtime guest in the afternoon on the Softy and Dick Show,
Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports will join us at eleven
forty five. He's got some winning picks for the UFC
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pay per view tomorrow night. And I can tell you
I won money on Lee's picks when I was in
Vegas a couple of months ago. So we'll have all
that coming up, and we'll find a way how we
can give away this Russell Wilson autographed football right here.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
On mj the MIDA Sports Radio ninety three to three KJR.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
At them an actual NFL the Duke football that they
use on Sundays with the only super winning quarterback in
Seattle Seahawks history. Autograph Russell Wilson. If I grew up here,
I definitely want it. I would definitely want it. And
and it seems like everybody so far I've seen nothing,
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ninety nine maybe one hundred percent of the people are
already like hell yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, so we
got to make somebody happy, and uh, hey, that's that's
pretty fun. Someone said, hey, f you thunder clap clap clap,
F you thunder clap clap clap, tell MJ these two
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words from the three six. Oh Holy Halliburton. Yeah yeah,
I mean a you know, he's he's becoming him. He's
he's doing it. He's got that clutch thing, man, he's
got it. So there's a podcast on Barstool called Unnamed,
Unnamed with the Barstool founder, President, CEO, Final Boss Dave Portnoy,
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former NHL player Ryan Whitney, and a former colleague of
mine in Boston at WEEI. He no longer works there,
and thankfully neither do. I named Kirk Minihan. Kirk Minihan
is h He's a guy who does not pull punches.
I'll just leave it at that. If you're not familiar
with him, well you can check out his history. He
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comes at you, He comes at you high and tight,
and let's just say that. You know, if Kirk Minihan
was in this market and made fun of an announcer
and everyone went after him, he would double down, triple down,
quadruple down, quintupple down and he just don't give a bleep. Well,
he and Dave Portnoy got into it on the air
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about Kirks in the context here, Kirk said to Dave,
you can't just take away people doing jokes, even if
they are in bad taste of something you don't like,
and let's just take it away. Maybe you stop with
the jew jokes and act like it is not a
big deal when someone does the Jews in a bar.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm with you one thousand percent of them. You should
kick those people out. Of course, I'm not talking about
kicking them out. I'm talking about to jail. What do
you want you guys offending this guy Mick for what
he said right after that happened.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
He's not I'm not saying, I'm not what you should
have him on here or somebody else like that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
And why fight with.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Them, because then you have a conversation to this idiot
wants dam these guys that wrote the thing at the
bar the Jews, right, Yes, you're gonna fly them to
outswitch some guy tweeting you something you want to if
you just want me to kick him out, not mention it,
not care that this guy shut up if you just
want me.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
To ignore, tell me, don't tell me to shut up.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Don't shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You bald. Okay, go ahead. How's that? Oh it's killed.
I'll never recover from that day. Go ahead, continue. Well,
you're the one who like, oh, big boss man, don't
tell I'll tell you work from me. Okay, go ahead,
you work with me? Sure you bet for now? For
now quit?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Well is a show or not the show? Like it
is a show or not a show? Like we can't
have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I don't know what's added to that.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I think the thing that was sort of a lot
of people are texting me about this is that, Wow,
Kirk Minihan makes five hundred grand a year. Yeah, yeah,
he's us. It's big money, big big money if you're
in this business. That was the that was the one
out of all those things, is not really much to
comment on. So they're going at it back and forth,
and Dave Portnoy divulged that I'd say five hundred grand
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a year. Like people are like, wow, you pay him
half a million a years, so hey, kudos to Kirk
devid a smith makes twenty million a year and he
just signed a new deal with serious XM that he's
taking over, which we're gonna have it hitting to all fields,
which is a whole nother thing. They fired a show
while that show was still doing their show, and they
were not too happy about that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That'll be coming up, So kudos to Kirk on that. Well.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
The way Dave Portnoy talked to Kirk Minihan didn't sit
well with a lot of the audience. They thought that,
you know, I'll fire you. You know, you know, don't
talk to me that way. You're this and he It
didn't make Portnoy look so great, and some people came
to Kirk's defense, and let's just say Kirk, he had
a retort on his podcast on Barstool.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
I knew yesterday morning running I thought of the skinny
jeans thing, and I knew once I dropped down on
him in the argument, which was, Hey, look, I don't
know you made a dumb skinny jeans joke.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I didn't really care.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
But like two days later, when somebody got in Indiana,
I don't think it was because you told that joke.
I knew he was gonna be upset that I brought
it up. He got off off kilter. I play him
like a fiddle bottom line. I own him now, you know,
we got the shamp we broke him, and now he's scrambled.
He's one of these celebrities who were defined by this.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
He's Howard Stern. He's like, oh, you have jokes, people
have to die.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I'm like, I don't know, forty six two none, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You tell me I had the jokes.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Things are different in Boston. It's a very tough media market.
I spent three years there and it felt like I
spent thirty five years there. Kid, don't go to Boston.
Maybe to a Celtics game, but uh, you don't want
to go work at Boston. It is very cantankerous and
toxic up there.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Now. My friend texted me this morning.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He's like, listen, if Portnoy tries to fire Kirk Minihan,
then it would be a major lawsuit. You can't fire
someone for like, for wrongful termination. Just because the guy
said that, you know, to dve Portnoy that you can
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do jokes even though they're distasteful, they are jokes. And
so I'm like, wow, I don't know. That's above my
pay grade, way above my pay grade. But man, I know,
if I got an argument with my boss, I sure
as hell wouldn't come on the air and say I
own him. Though now I would never do that, I would.
That's that's not me, that's that's Kirkman InHand. So, wow, punches,
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verbal punches are being thrown and they are landing harder
than a UFC main event like Sugar Sean O'Malley tomorrow
night at UFC three sixteen. Those punches are coming and
they are coming fast and furious.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So what did you that whole thing? Kid? Do you
just sit there with your jah on the ground and
just like you just look at it like, wow, that's
on the air.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, And the rebuttal that you just heard from Kirk
from this morning has gotten over two million views in
the last two and a half hours. The rebuttal, the
original clip from Portnoy has gotten something like ridiculous. Let
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me see here that one has gotten over. Oh boy, though,
that one's even bigger. I mean, it's just like, man,
these guys are throwing haymakers at each other and they
work together, but it's it's pretty bad. It's gotten really
really bad. But I stay clear of that. I'm not
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I just sit back with my popcorn and I watch
away and I just say, oh my lord, oh my lord.
But that the portinoy one with him telling him to
shut up and all that stuff, that's gotten like over
twenty or thirty million views so far, So that is nuts,
all right?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Coming up next, Steven A. Smith has pissed off.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Somebody and they're not going down without a fight, and
they're letting the world know, in current including their current employer,
until now their current employer became now their former employer.
Hitting to all Fields MJ and the Midday Sports Radio
ninety three to three kJ Aret them. I hope whoever
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gets this Russell Wilson autograph football that they act the
way John Gruden does when he gets a box in
from a professional sports team or a college athletic program
and he acts like a little kid on Christmas or hankah.
I hope they act like that, because that would that
would be awesome. But Gruden got a box yesterday from
the Indiana Pacers Rick Carlisle and I've you've never seen
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a grown up act like such a kid, but in
a great way, in a fun way that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
He is just crazy. Oh my lord. So this is
a tough business that we're in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's even though we don't look at it as entertainment
in Hollywood, but it sort of can be as cutthroat
as entertainment in Hollywood. So there's a show. Was a
show on Serious Mad Dog Radio. Chris Russo came on
the show a couple of weeks ago. Channel He's been
(29:00):
there since two thousand and nine, and the show was
Michelle Beatle and the brother of former NFL wide receiver
Eric Decker, Cody Decker. I've known Michelle Beatle for a
long time. She's come on my show a bunch of times.
I'm a big fan of Michelle Beatle. I like her.
I'm a proponent of her. People can say what they want.
I like Michelle Beadle and I'm a fan of her
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work and I always have been, I always will be.
I think she's absolutely talented. She's made mistakes like I
have along the way, but she's learned from them.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
But so.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
They weren't told, well they were, but they were kind
of told by management that hey, we're gonna replace you
with Stephen A. Smith, but we want you to do
the show until September. And let's just say that went sideways.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
All I ask is to be treated with respect. How
many times do I say I give what I get?
I get what I give? And so here we are.
We're going to do our shows because we're contractually all
to be here. We're going to talk about TIBs because yeah,
they fired him yesterday in the middle of this year show,
which we both reacted to very organically and genuinely, because
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as much as people had sort of been talking about it,
it still felt very, very absurd after a fifty one
win season and just being eliminated from the Eastern Conference finals.
And I've heard so many theories, I've heard so many butts,
and it's time and I will never agree with anybody
saying that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I think that is.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Absolutely absurd, stupid, shortsighted, and asinine. But then again, what
isn't so? So the cat's out of the bag, I
guess we're talking about it. We weren't supposed to just
as a heads up. We were only given a few
hours notice, but we weren't told any details. We were
promised that no details would be released. We didn't even
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know who was taking our place in the lineup, just
that it was going to be announced that new show
was being added unbeknownst to us. The Hollywood reporter, of course,
had all the details, so it was a little embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I've been in this business for twenty plus years. I've
been treated poorly a couple times. This didn't feel good.
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I don't blame her, and I feel for her. She's
so talented. She land on her feet. Now Chris Russo,
whose name is on that channel and who is b
ff with the person replacing them, Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Smith. Here's what Mad Dog had to say.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Now as far as how this was handled, because I
know that has everybody bothered again, there is no easy
way to do this. I have come to the conclusion,
after seeing all these departures over the last forty three
years in radio, that the best way to do it
is if you or when you decide to make.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
A change, just make the change.
Speaker 9 (31:54):
Don't give the folks who you are changing from the
opportunity to say goodbye, because it never works. Come to
the conclusion, and I didn't really have anything to do
with the timing of this. They didn't ask me, Chris,
how about this day, how about that day? Obviously they
planned on a Wednesday because the first take, so I
was aware of that. I didn't know how they were
gonna handle Michelle and Cody. But if they asked me
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in the future, I'm gonna say, guys, listen, it's gonna
be unpleasant no matter how you do it. It's bad
for us, it's bad for the fans, and it's terrible
for the two people that you're replacing. The best bet
in the future is just be upfront with them. Guys,
we're making a change. It's gonna happen in the foreseeable future.
We would prefer that you not go on in nacus.
I will tell you who the person is if you
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want to know that badly before we make the change. Okay,
they didn't tell Michelle and Cody who that person was.
I guess that was a why that would be a
big factor. I know I did did to make a
big deal. But if it was Bob Costas to make
a difference, who cares who the person is they're gonna
replace you with, They'll make a difference. Bob Costas, it
could have been Larry King from the grave?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Was it?
Speaker 9 (32:53):
Christopher Russo's decision? No, was, Christopher Russo informed, No, you
can believe it or anything you want.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I wasn't. But and he said something at the end
there or he was like, did I kind of know
that something was going to happen over the last couple
of weeks?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yes, he said that at the end.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
We didn't hear that part. But tough business, tough business.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Michelle beatles and uber talent, and she will land somewhere.
And I think she does a show on fan Duel
Network with Chandler Parsons and you know it's a gambling
show and they talk about sports, so she's got you know,
she's an unbundantly talented broadcaster. And Michelle, she's always welcome
to come on the show. I have her number. I
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want her to come on the show anytime she wants.
And it sucks. But as Hyman Roth once said in
the Godfather part too, this is the business we have chosen.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
For lack of a better term, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
If you want to work, you know, stocking shelves at
you know, then you'll have better job security there than
you will in this business. And you probably will and
you'll have a lot less stress too. But I hope
she lands on her feet and congratulations. Listen, here's the
thing about it. If they were replacing you with somebody
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who was like turns you into an owl, you're asking who,
who Who?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
He's the biggest star in sports media, personality in the world.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
He's on everywhere. He's ubiquitous.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You turn him on you know, CNN, There he is,
You turn him on Fox News Channel.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
There he is. You turn him on the View if
you watch that show, I certainly don't. There he is.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
He's on Good Morning America wherever.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He's Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So you know, like it'd be like, you know, you're
doing a series and they're like, hey, we're gonna we're
killing off your characters. Oh really, who are you gonna
replace us with? Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Junior. Well,
you know, Leonardo DiCaprio. I mean, he's a star, and
it is what it is. It sucks, but he's Stephen A. Smith,
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and he's he's got it like that right now.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's his world. We're all just paying rent. Coming up next,
what is wrong with the Mariners?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh my lord, it's beginning to look a lot like
last year. Every time they play oh boy, here we.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Go another June swoon. I am not eating crow Bro.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
The Mariners have fallen and they can't get up. Next
on MJ in the Midday Sports Radio ninety three to
three KJRF
The second loudest sound that you heard next to the
folks in the state of Indiana was from Seattle and
the PNW. This is MJ in the midday on a
fantastic and fabulous Friday, Christopher Kidd on the other side
of the glass producing this three hour epic endeavor. Wow,
(00:24):
how did that make you feel? Sonics fans? Huh did
that make you feel a little good?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Last night?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I mean, hey, listen, I've seen this story before. I've
seen this movie before. It happened about two weeks ago
last night when Tyrese Haliburton at Madison Square Garden did
the same thing to the New York Knicks, and he
(00:50):
did it last night, down by fifteen in the fourth quarter. Now, obviously,
if you hate Oklahoma City, and I understand why everybody
does here, or most people do, including our own Dave,
Softy Maler and I help Softie's voice and throw gets better.
Softy have a lot of hot hottie and tea. Get
(01:14):
that throat and that voice better. But I'm sure Softie
was going nuts last night. He said he didn't watch
the game, but wow, all I can say is, holy crap.
Was that unbelievable last night? And you know it's weird
because the night before, Game one of the Stanley Cup
between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers was epic. I
(01:37):
mean it was Edmonton got out to an early lead,
and then Florida goes up three to one.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Edmonton ties it up, and then they go to.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Overtime, and then there was the thing where the puck
goes over the glass and it was a penalty on
the Panthers, and then Edmonton and Leon Dreisidle capitalized. Well.
Last night, Tyreese Halliburton and the Indiana Pacers and the
Oklahoma City Thunder said, hold our beers, Stanley Cup, hold
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our beers. That was unbelievable. Both game ones were phenomenal.
I hope every game is gonna be like this. I
don't know if it will be, but we'll see. I
just I'm at a loss for words. I don't know
what to say. Ty Reese freaking Halliburton. When I talk
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about the word clutch, that's what I mean. There is
a stat last night and I just saw it, so
I'm telling you what the stat said. It said NBA
Finals game tying or winning shots all time. Ty Resee
Halliburton one of one, Steph Curry two of four, Lebron
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James oh of seven. So you know, you know it's
gonna happen. And kudos to the Indiana Pacers. I still
think the thud underwin this thing. It might not go five,
it might go six, but I still think the thunder win.
Here's the thing that you gotta know about the Indiana Pacers.
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They are absolutely the textbook definition of resilient.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's what they are.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And I mean, you just They've done it all postseason
against Milwaukee, they did it against the Knicks. They've done
it against Cleveland. They won three games on the road
at Cleveland. They were the number one seed in the East.
Haliburton clutch, he's got it. He has it. And as
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someone who grew up rooting for a certain team that
plays at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square guard
in New York City, the mecca Nick fans, we have
a tendency to lament over would have, could have, should have.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I'll lament.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
In twenty seventeen, the Knicks passed on Donovan Mitchell and
Bam aute bio for Frank Tilokuina from France, Okay. In
twenty eighteen, the Knicks passed well, let let me just
say this. They took Kevin Knox out of Kentucky over
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his Kentucky Wildcat teammate Shank Gildas Alexander. And in twenty twenty,
the Knicks passed on Tyrese Halliburton for Obi Toppin, who
ironically now is Halliburton's teammate with the Pacers. So the
Knicks could have had Tyrese Halliburton shake Gildess, Alexander and
(04:51):
Donovan Mitchell, and instead they took Obi Toppin, Frank Tilikina,
and Kevin Knox. And I got buddies telling me, well,
Jalen Brunson's better than Haliburton. No he isn't, No, he
is not. I love Jalen Brunson, but there's no way now, Halliburton,
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I'm pissed at you because you cost me a lot
of money.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I gave out to all the fine folks here in
Seattle and throughout the PNW Tyreese Halliburton over seventeen and
a half points last night. You totally screwed me. Haliburton.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
And I'm watching this and I'm like, he could easily
go for thirty, but he just picks and chooses his
spots like Shake Gills, Alexander. Why did I not bet
for him to go for thirty because he did again
last night.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So sorry to all of you.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I was wrong. It happens. It's called gambling for a reason.
And I'm you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Know, I'm just I'm pissed at that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So Haliburton, you absolutely affter me over And I'm sorry
to the find folks out there who might have taken that. Hey,
as long as you took Oklahoma City to win the
series and you took the Edmonton Oilers to win the
Stanley Cup, we're in good shape. Don't worry about it.
That was a nice one for the Pacers. They're gonna
make this a little bit competitive. But watch OKC drop
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the hammer right now, at least on SAT on Sunday night.
I you know that shit, Like listen, when you have
a team down by that, you gotta go for the jugular,
you have to, you have to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And they didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They and there's something about this Pacers team and the
reason why kid I felt so confident about Halliburton. First
of all, what is eighteen points? Eighteen points is nothing?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But you know what, you know Carlyle did last night.
He let Nemhard Andrew Nemhard handle the ball handling duties
up the court and Halliburton kind of played the off guard.
And I noticed this. I'm like wise, does he not?
And that's what he did because I'll give Nemark credit.
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He can't shoot, but but he's really good, especially when
OKC is being him up ninety four feet. He's good
about getting the ball up the court. And that's less
stress and pressure on Halliburton. That's why Carlyle did it.
You're gonna take the ball up and we're gonna let
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Ty Reese do his thing.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
How about kid? How about the.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Shot by Miles Turner from like the side, not the.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Corner, but like in between the corner.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And and right there at the top of the perimeter
and he hits it off the backboard.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
What the hell? What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh? Oh, it's just that that was nuts. But if
you delight in the demise of the Oklahoma City Thunder,
you had a good night. Here's the problem. It's not
March madness. It's not single elimination. You gotta win four
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out of seven and it's gonna be really tough for
the Pacers to do that. Now, they might make this
more of a series than anyone, including me, giving them
a thought to do. But OKC is gonna come back
next game, and they're gonna come back with a vengines
because they let one get away. And you can't give
away games and series. Ask the New York Knicks. If
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the Knicks don't blow a fourteen point lead with two
forty four to go and a nine point lead with
fifty three seconds to go against Indiana in Game one,
the Knicks might have won that series. It changed everything.
So we'll see if this changes everything. But what was
your thoughts last night on the game?
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Incredible, right, But I was watching it with the idea that, oh, okay,
see has the lead.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
In the back of my mind.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I was thinking, can Indiana really do it again in
the NBA Finals? And what do you know, like clockwork,
they get some stops, they make big plays, they make
a big shot, and next thing you know, it's a
three point game. Next thing you know, oh my gosh,
they are right there. Oh my gosh, Tyree's gonna get
the ball. Oh my gosh, he's gotta They won the
game point three that it's impossible to get a shot
(09:35):
off in point three seconds. Derek Fisher were the closest one.
He got off in point four, right, that's the only right,
So I knew it was over then.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I was at that game against the Magic.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Was against the Magic.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, oh he did one against San Antonio. But in
the finals he did against the Magic in Orlando's about
the point four to one. Okay, the only time. Okay, yeah,
ball in your hand. By the way, Derek Fisher had
so many game winners, you don't you can't even get them,
you know, like it's like which one was that was?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
It?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Just want to get the Spurgel was against the Magic.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
It's like but just another, as you mentioned, another or
not another? A great game one from the jump. I
know it was a back and forth and you saw,
okayc show a little bit of dominance because they are
the better team, but that doesn't stop the Indiana Pacers.
They believe they have just as much as a shot
and they've proven it yet again. Now I'm wondering what
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Bob Parker's thinking, because I know he spoke with you
what was it earlier this week on seven, So this
is a good start to that point you still want
at home. So let's say it does end up going
back to a game seven, or does end up being
a game seven. You don't think these Pacers are confident
they can come back and went on the on.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
The road in a game seven after they did what
they did in Game one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well, I will tell you from from the Knick standpoint
against the Celtics, when the Knicks were down by over
twenty late in the second half and they came back
in games one and two on the road in Boston.
Don't be satisfied with game one. If you're Indiana, go
go for game two. Don't be satisfied. Oh we got
to split. Oh we got home court advantage. Now no, no, no, no, no, no.
(11:10):
You want to win this series. Go up to Oh,
go up two. Oh, do not be satisfied. Do not
be satisfied.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
We're not done. We're not I'm not happy with this.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Not done.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, no, especially in the NBA Finals, man.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And how about this, you talk about odds on certain
people's sides. The team and wins game one wins the
NBA Finals seventy one percent of the time. So the
Indiana Pacers right now are feeling pretty good. But just
remember that team in the regular season and playoffs won
eighty games going into the finals eighty. So they're pretty
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damn good too, and they're gonna win. And I don't
know they I'll say this, if they lose Game two
at home, it's gonna be very tough for them.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But then you're gonna have to win four out of
the next six games, and that's gonna be tough. So
I was over yesterday because we're doing some house cleaning here.
I went over to the old KJR studios, which I
actually vividly remember because I was here for a week
(12:21):
in twenty sixteen filling in for Softy and it was
the week that the Golden State Warriors blew a three
to one series lead. It was to Kyrie Irving and
Lebron James and the whole Draymond Green he got suspended
for Game six, and I remember being over in.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That studio and it's bigger.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We're in nicer studios now, much nicer, much cleaner, much,
you know everything. We're on the good side of the building.
We get to overlook Elliott Bay, but you're not gonna
believe what I found. Go to my Twitter handle right
now or KJR M A RC James. I found a
Russell Wilson autographed football, an actual official NFL football, the Duke,
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the one they use on game days on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So I just tweeted out from my Twitter handle.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Now I can only put the pitcher and not do
a poll because it wouldn't allow me to So it
wouldn't allow me to do both, so I just put
it out there. Look at what I found in the
old ninety three to three KGr studios are Russell Wilson
autographed official NFL football Seahawks fans.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do any of you want this? Yes? Hell no? Or maybe? Now.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I couldn't do a poll because it wouldn't let me
do a poll and a pick wow, three of you already.
I'm gonna go ahead and read your Twitter handles debay
him l underscore page three zero three and it s
(14:01):
y I T nine Yes, sure do great at Seahawks,
as great at Seattle QB of all time and absolutely so.
Now it's in purple sheets office and I was look
at this people while I'm like, okay, I mean, I
gotta tell you. And when you have an autograph like
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that autographed is gonna be good forever. It's not faded.
He did it in silver sharpie. But look at that
thing right then and there. That's that's what we got.
We gotta give this away. We gotta give this away.
You know what, Maybe I can do like a cross
promotion kid that maybe you know what, let me see
(14:46):
what I can do. Because I'm gonna be at Arnold's
Appliances in Bellevue tomorrow between noon to two. Maybe I
can bring that Russell Wilson football with me and we
can give it away there because you're gonna have to
come pick it up somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Why not meet me yet.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Arnold's Appliance is in Bellevue, and we'll find a way
for one of you to get it. Maybe we'll put
a bunch of names in a hat, and you know,
at the end of the day, we'd just say, there
you go. But a lot of people are like, yeah,
I want it, all right, So there you go a
Russell Wilson autographed official NFL football and it's held up,
(15:22):
it's held up. People are like, okay, all right, there
you go. By the way, there's not one no, yes,
sure do greatest Seattle QB of all time. I'll take
it absolutely, yes and yes, all right, So let me
talk to Purple Sheet during the commercial break and see
if we can do something, because I'm gonna be at
Arnold's Appliances in Bellevue tomorrow between un to two. And
(15:46):
by the way, if you're looking for your husband, your father,
your son, your brother for a great Father's Day gift,
they're gonna have a ton of great things on sale tomorrow.
Arnold's Appliance is in Bellevue, be out there between noon
and two. And maybe I'll have to bring that Russell
Wilson autographed football.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I gotta admit it's it's money, and it's still in
the box like it's still like all you gotta do
if you want to make your dust doesn't get on it,
you just gotta buy one of those those things, those
you know, protective glass cases just to put around. But
I gotta admit, the only Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl winning
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quarterback of all time, Russell freaking Wilson. So there is
that whoa, Yeah, Everybody's like, yeah, I want it. All right, Well,
we might we have to look at what we can
do here. But that is a sweet football. But I'm like,
we gotta make some Seahawks fan a we gotta basically, yeah,
(16:53):
how about this this guy, Mott Lake's big Fish had
a rough departure from the team, but was my favorite
player for ten years and part of our first Super Bowl. Wow,
I'm from mister, Well, I'm not going to read that
Twitter handle because that's uh, I'm just not gonna read that.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He just put yes, that's my dog.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I can't read that Twitter handle because yeah, that makes
me uncomfortable on that one. And from Owen Bunstein, Yes,
they're all right. Not one person said no Ryan Golden
Golden takes live a thousand percent. Yes, all right, we
gotta do something about this.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We're giving this, We're giving this puppy away. I gotta admit, man,
if I grew up here and I was, like, you know,
a lifelong Hawks fan, I would want that, my kid,
you grew up here, Like, if you, you know, weren't
disqualified for being a part of KGr would you want that. Well,
you're not a big autograph guy, Yeah you're not.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You're not.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
No, I just I'm cool off of that.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I'm I would want I would totally want it. I
would totally want it.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You trying to take me to dinner? Brow, I'm hungry, man.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh man.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
No, we gotta give this to we gotta give this
this to a to one of these diehard Seahawks fans.
We gotta we gotta do that. So that would be
really cool. Yeah, no, that would be a good way.
And you never know what you're gonna find. I found
another name tag of a former host that hasn't been
here in a while, Like, wow, I guess they really
did not clean up.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's that side of the studio anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Had the old Clear Channel logo on it and everything
like no, no, he's no longer here. Uh so there's
that one, all right? Uh coming up next. Man, when
you get it in a fight with your boss and
then you basically dare him to fire you, you're not
(18:49):
gonna want to miss this. And I can't believe the audio,
but we got it for you next on MJ in
the Midday Sports Radio ninety three to three kJ RTM
Brooke Pryor, she was it's just on ESPN Sports Center,
will join us. She is the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter and
we will talk to her coming up in the noon
(19:11):
hour about Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf and what is
going on in Pittsburgh. Plus for all of you that
want to win some bets this weekend, good friend and
longtime guest in the afternoon on the Softy and Dick Show,
Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports will join us at eleven
forty five. He's got some winning picks for the UFC
(19:34):
pay per view tomorrow night. And I can tell you
I won money on Lee's picks when I was in
Vegas a couple of months ago. So we'll have all
that coming up, and we'll find a way how we
can give away this Russell Wilson autographed football right here.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
On mj the MIDA Sports Radio ninety three to three KJR.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
At them an actual NFL the Duke football that they
use on Sundays with the only super winning quarterback in
Seattle Seahawks history. Autograph Russell Wilson. If I grew up here,
I definitely want it. I would definitely want it. And
and it seems like everybody so far I've seen nothing,
(20:11):
ninety nine maybe one hundred percent of the people are
already like hell yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, so we
got to make somebody happy, and uh, hey, that's that's
pretty fun. Someone said, hey, f you thunder clap clap clap,
F you thunder clap clap clap, tell MJ these two
(20:33):
words from the three six. Oh Holy Halliburton. Yeah yeah,
I mean a you know, he's he's becoming him. He's
he's doing it. He's got that clutch thing, man, he's
got it. So there's a podcast on Barstool called Unnamed,
Unnamed with the Barstool founder, President, CEO, Final Boss Dave Portnoy,
(21:00):
former NHL player Ryan Whitney, and a former colleague of
mine in Boston at WEEI. He no longer works there,
and thankfully neither do. I named Kirk Minihan. Kirk Minihan
is h He's a guy who does not pull punches.
I'll just leave it at that. If you're not familiar
with him, well you can check out his history. He
(21:21):
comes at you, He comes at you high and tight,
and let's just say that. You know, if Kirk Minihan
was in this market and made fun of an announcer
and everyone went after him, he would double down, triple down,
quadruple down, quintupple down and he just don't give a bleep. Well,
he and Dave Portnoy got into it on the air
(21:43):
about Kirks in the context here, Kirk said to Dave,
you can't just take away people doing jokes, even if
they are in bad taste of something you don't like,
and let's just take it away. Maybe you stop with
the jew jokes and act like it is not a
big deal when someone does the Jews in a bar.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I'm with you one thousand percent of them. You should
kick those people out. Of course, I'm not talking about
kicking them out. I'm talking about to jail. What do
you want you guys offending this guy Mick for what
he said right after that happened.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
He's not I'm not saying, I'm not what you should
have him on here or somebody else like that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
And why fight with.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Them, because then you have a conversation to this idiot
wants dam these guys that wrote the thing at the
bar the Jews, right, Yes, you're gonna fly them to
outswitch some guy tweeting you something you want to if
you just want me to kick him out, not mention it,
not care that this guy shut up if you just
want me.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
To ignore, tell me, don't tell me to shut up.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Don't shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You bald. Okay, go ahead. How's that? Oh it's killed.
I'll never recover from that day. Go ahead, continue. Well,
you're the one who like, oh, big boss man, don't
tell I'll tell you work from me. Okay, go ahead,
you work with me? Sure you bet for now? For
now quit?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Well is a show or not the show? Like it
is a show or not a show? Like we can't
have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
I don't know what's added to that.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I think the thing that was sort of a lot
of people are texting me about this is that, Wow,
Kirk Minihan makes five hundred grand a year. Yeah, yeah,
he's us. It's big money, big big money if you're
in this business. That was the that was the one
out of all those things, is not really much to
comment on. So they're going at it back and forth,
and Dave Portnoy divulged that I'd say five hundred grand
(23:33):
a year. Like people are like, wow, you pay him
half a million a years, so hey, kudos to Kirk
devid a smith makes twenty million a year and he
just signed a new deal with serious XM that he's
taking over, which we're gonna have it hitting to all fields,
which is a whole nother thing. They fired a show
while that show was still doing their show, and they
were not too happy about that.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That'll be coming up, So kudos to Kirk on that. Well.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
The way Dave Portnoy talked to Kirk Minihan didn't sit
well with a lot of the audience. They thought that,
you know, I'll fire you. You know, you know, don't
talk to me that way. You're this and he It
didn't make Portnoy look so great, and some people came
to Kirk's defense, and let's just say Kirk, he had
a retort on his podcast on Barstool.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
I knew yesterday morning running I thought of the skinny
jeans thing, and I knew once I dropped down on
him in the argument, which was, Hey, look, I don't
know you made a dumb skinny jeans joke.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I didn't really care.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
But like two days later, when somebody got in Indiana,
I don't think it was because you told that joke.
I knew he was gonna be upset that I brought
it up. He got off off kilter. I play him
like a fiddle bottom line. I own him now, you know,
we got the shamp we broke him, and now he's scrambled.
He's one of these celebrities who were defined by this.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
He's Howard Stern. He's like, oh, you have jokes, people
have to die.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
I'm like, I don't know, forty six two none, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You tell me I had the jokes.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Things are different in Boston. It's a very tough media market.
I spent three years there and it felt like I
spent thirty five years there. Kid, don't go to Boston.
Maybe to a Celtics game, but uh, you don't want
to go work at Boston. It is very cantankerous and
toxic up there.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Now. My friend texted me this morning.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He's like, listen, if Portnoy tries to fire Kirk Minihan,
then it would be a major lawsuit. You can't fire
someone for like, for wrongful termination. Just because the guy
said that, you know, to dve Portnoy that you can
(25:43):
do jokes even though they're distasteful, they are jokes. And
so I'm like, wow, I don't know. That's above my
pay grade, way above my pay grade. But man, I know,
if I got an argument with my boss, I sure
as hell wouldn't come on the air and say I
own him. Though now I would never do that, I would.
That's that's not me, that's that's Kirkman InHand. So, wow, punches,
(26:08):
verbal punches are being thrown and they are landing harder
than a UFC main event like Sugar Sean O'Malley tomorrow
night at UFC three sixteen. Those punches are coming and
they are coming fast and furious.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So what did you that whole thing? Kid? Do you
just sit there with your jah on the ground and
just like you just look at it like, wow, that's
on the air.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, And the rebuttal that you just heard from Kirk
from this morning has gotten over two million views in
the last two and a half hours. The rebuttal, the
original clip from Portnoy has gotten something like ridiculous. Let
(26:59):
me see here that one has gotten over. Oh boy, though,
that one's even bigger. I mean, it's just like, man,
these guys are throwing haymakers at each other and they
work together, but it's it's pretty bad. It's gotten really
really bad. But I stay clear of that. I'm not
(27:21):
I just sit back with my popcorn and I watch
away and I just say, oh my lord, oh my lord.
But that the portinoy one with him telling him to
shut up and all that stuff, that's gotten like over
twenty or thirty million views so far, So that is nuts,
all right?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Coming up next, Steven A. Smith has pissed off.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Somebody and they're not going down without a fight, and
they're letting the world know, in current including their current employer,
until now their current employer became now their former employer.
Hitting to all Fields MJ and the Midday Sports Radio
ninety three to three kJ Aret them. I hope whoever
(28:05):
gets this Russell Wilson autograph football that they act the
way John Gruden does when he gets a box in
from a professional sports team or a college athletic program
and he acts like a little kid on Christmas or hankah.
I hope they act like that, because that would that
would be awesome. But Gruden got a box yesterday from
the Indiana Pacers Rick Carlisle and I've you've never seen
(28:27):
a grown up act like such a kid, but in
a great way, in a fun way that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
He is just crazy. Oh my lord. So this is
a tough business that we're in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
It's even though we don't look at it as entertainment
in Hollywood, but it sort of can be as cutthroat
as entertainment in Hollywood. So there's a show. Was a
show on Serious Mad Dog Radio. Chris Russo came on
the show a couple of weeks ago. Channel He's been
(29:00):
there since two thousand and nine, and the show was
Michelle Beatle and the brother of former NFL wide receiver
Eric Decker, Cody Decker. I've known Michelle Beatle for a
long time. She's come on my show a bunch of times.
I'm a big fan of Michelle Beatle. I like her.
I'm a proponent of her. People can say what they want.
I like Michelle Beadle and I'm a fan of her
(29:22):
work and I always have been, I always will be.
I think she's absolutely talented. She's made mistakes like I
have along the way, but she's learned from them.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
But so.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
They weren't told, well they were, but they were kind
of told by management that hey, we're gonna replace you
with Stephen A. Smith, but we want you to do
the show until September. And let's just say that went sideways.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
All I ask is to be treated with respect. How
many times do I say I give what I get?
I get what I give? And so here we are.
We're going to do our shows because we're contractually all
to be here. We're going to talk about TIBs because yeah,
they fired him yesterday in the middle of this year show,
which we both reacted to very organically and genuinely, because
(30:13):
as much as people had sort of been talking about it,
it still felt very, very absurd after a fifty one
win season and just being eliminated from the Eastern Conference finals.
And I've heard so many theories, I've heard so many butts,
and it's time and I will never agree with anybody
saying that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I think that is.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Absolutely absurd, stupid, shortsighted, and asinine. But then again, what
isn't so? So the cat's out of the bag, I
guess we're talking about it. We weren't supposed to just
as a heads up. We were only given a few
hours notice, but we weren't told any details. We were
promised that no details would be released. We didn't even
(30:56):
know who was taking our place in the lineup, just
that it was going to be announced that new show
was being added unbeknownst to us. The Hollywood reporter, of course,
had all the details, so it was a little embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I've been in this business for twenty plus years. I've
been treated poorly a couple times. This didn't feel good.
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I don't blame her, and I feel for her. She's
so talented. She land on her feet. Now Chris Russo,
whose name is on that channel and who is b
ff with the person replacing them, Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Smith. Here's what Mad Dog had to say.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Now as far as how this was handled, because I
know that has everybody bothered again, there is no easy
way to do this. I have come to the conclusion,
after seeing all these departures over the last forty three
years in radio, that the best way to do it
is if you or when you decide to make.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
A change, just make the change.
Speaker 9 (31:54):
Don't give the folks who you are changing from the
opportunity to say goodbye, because it never works. Come to
the conclusion, and I didn't really have anything to do
with the timing of this. They didn't ask me, Chris,
how about this day, how about that day? Obviously they
planned on a Wednesday because the first take, so I
was aware of that. I didn't know how they were
gonna handle Michelle and Cody. But if they asked me
(32:14):
in the future, I'm gonna say, guys, listen, it's gonna
be unpleasant no matter how you do it. It's bad
for us, it's bad for the fans, and it's terrible
for the two people that you're replacing. The best bet
in the future is just be upfront with them. Guys,
we're making a change. It's gonna happen in the foreseeable future.
We would prefer that you not go on in nacus.
I will tell you who the person is if you
(32:34):
want to know that badly before we make the change. Okay,
they didn't tell Michelle and Cody who that person was.
I guess that was a why that would be a
big factor. I know I did did to make a
big deal. But if it was Bob Costas to make
a difference, who cares who the person is they're gonna
replace you with, They'll make a difference. Bob Costas, it
could have been Larry King from the grave?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Who cares?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Was it?
Speaker 9 (32:53):
Christopher Russo's decision? No, was, Christopher Russo informed, No, you
can believe it or anything you want.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I wasn't. But and he said something at the end
there or he was like, did I kind of know
that something was going to happen over the last couple
of weeks?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yes, he said that at the end.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
We didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
We didn't hear that part. But tough business, tough business.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Michelle beatles and uber talent, and she will land somewhere.
And I think she does a show on fan Duel
Network with Chandler Parsons and you know it's a gambling
show and they talk about sports, so she's got you know,
she's an unbundantly talented broadcaster. And Michelle, she's always welcome
to come on the show. I have her number. I
(33:40):
want her to come on the show anytime she wants.
And it sucks. But as Hyman Roth once said in
the Godfather part too, this is the business we have chosen.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
For lack of a better term, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
If you want to work, you know, stocking shelves at
you know, then you'll have better job security there than
you will in this business. And you probably will and
you'll have a lot less stress too. But I hope
she lands on her feet and congratulations. Listen, here's the
thing about it. If they were replacing you with somebody
(34:15):
who was like turns you into an owl, you're asking who,
who Who?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
He's the biggest star in sports media, personality in the world.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
He's on everywhere. He's ubiquitous.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
You turn him on you know, CNN, There he is,
You turn him on Fox News Channel.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
There he is. You turn him on the View if
you watch that show, I certainly don't. There he is.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
He's on Good Morning America wherever.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He's Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So you know, like it'd be like, you know, you're
doing a series and they're like, hey, we're gonna we're
killing off your characters. Oh really, who are you gonna
replace us with? Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Junior. Well,
you know, Leonardo DiCaprio. I mean, he's a star, and
it is what it is. It sucks, but he's Stephen A. Smith,
(35:08):
and he's he's got it like that right now.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's his world. We're all just paying rent. Coming up next,
what is wrong with the Mariners?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh my lord, it's beginning to look a lot like
last year. Every time they play oh boy, here we.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Go another June swoon. I am not eating crow Bro.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
The Mariners have fallen and they can't get up. Next
on MJ in the Midday Sports Radio ninety three to
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