September 29, 2022 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike react to Joey Lasagna watching his friend miss the #61 homerun ball hit by Aaron Judge, Jason tells a fun story about meeting Coolio many moons ago, and so much more!
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we'll get to Aaron Judge coming up in a couple
of seconds, but just really quick and me look, Aaron Judge,
Homer number sixty one at ward Oscobar five RBIs tonight
the Mets take over first place by themselves. Maybe he
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had a better night than Aaron Judge. I mean, just maybe,
just maybe, Mike, maybe he did well. I suppose if
you wanted to go through the what has more meaning
for the night itself? You just say, all right, this
was number sixty one and what has been a magical
season for Aaron Judge. Again, it's bad reasoning, but I'm
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trying to go Indie. I mean, you just picked the
Jets to win a game. Uh the strike of Zack Wilson.
Yeah no, no, no, no, but see back I said
he'll be fine. And the word people will use most
with Zach Wilson back is encouraged. Oh, I was encouraged
by his performance. I seem to be encouraged. The Jets
look like they were encouraged. They're gonna score seventeen points.
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Maybe he throws a touchdown, maybe doesn't, but the they're
gonna win a game. And it's not gonna be because
of Zack Wilson, but the Jets are gonna be fired up.
They had a flat game on Sunday. I know games
like this when the Jets win, and they don't win
many of them, but I know when they do in
this is one of those games. No, I mean, if
Kenny Pickett comes off the bench, I would be like,
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oh that they went to in my bull predictions coming true.
But Kenny Pickett's gonna beat that. I'm gonna be so man,
I was just giving you the the caveat of you know,
unless there's a setback, because I mean the information we have,
I mean there's nothing to the contrary that's been spread
by insiders or information people or fans, uh that you
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know to the contrary right as of right now, Zack
Wilson will be available for your squad. So right, well,
you know, just saying that he's speaking truth, uh in
the moment at least, that Zach Wilson is expected to play.
How that ends for everybody? Well, I think Steeler's role,
I'll lay the two and a half or three where
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it's sitting right now? Was that three and a half
I think? Uh? And then down to three and and
pushing a little more, which is no vote of confidence
for Matt Canada's offense, without question. But anyway, back to
the topic at hand, in terms of a five r
B I night in the heat of a Pennant chase,
right trying to win your division and coming up big
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with a five five RBI dominant night to where you
as you said, he'd done nothing all year. So now
he gives you this evening as opposed to judge his
next one because he still has to hit one more
to actually own the record. Yeah, he's just time. You're
not a big deal. Well so in in your twisted logic,
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just like the Jets winning a game, Um, you could
argue that Escobar had the better night. It would be wrong,
but you could argue it. How much do you think
that escobars walk off base at baseball is worth? Five
million dollars? Ten million dollars? That might be in one
of the mystery bags that shows up that you pay,
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We pay you. Major League Baseball does auctions and stuff
all the time. Probably be able to buy it if
you really wanted it. They just give it to you.
It's a Mets baseball uh. The Jason Smith Show and
Mikey Carmen Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now,
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one thing we're trying to figure out here with Aaron
Judge hitting home on number sixty one. The big story
has been the fan who nearly caught this ball. And
we we've debated a lot so far about how close
was the ball really to this guy who was it
was nearly caught? It was? Was it really something? Did
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a tick off his glove did it not? But what
I'm really hoping for is true, is this story that's
been written in in a couple of uh publications in
Canada about the fan who nearly caught the ball. And
according to this report, and I see a guy with
the blue check mark Scott Brown who was a sports
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editor for the Canadian Press, and he tweeted this out
from Gregory Strong, who's a sports reporter with the Canadian Press,
that the fan who just missed catching the ball his
name is Frankie Lasagna. I mean really, his name is
Frankie Lasagna, and he owns an Italian restaurant and he
was in the Sopranos. I mean really, it sounds like
a nickname of a guy. Hey, we gotta go get
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Frankie Lasagna. Oh man, he's gonna come along on this one.
But he's the other guy, right, He's the guy in
the light blue jersey. Are you sure? I don't I
don't think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's not the guy
that could be a cross between Seawan Aston and James Gordon.
I don't think. I think he's the other guy, the
lanky guy with the sweatshirt on under his jersey, he's not.
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So he's not the guy wearing the bobachette jersey. He's
the other guy, the light blue the bobachette jersey. Well,
the way the way he gonna see the excellence of
elcution on that one. Now, the thing is this story
about about Frank. I want a great nick Frank Lasagnia,
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but that he owns an Italian restaurant, and that's that's
the cut your name. Do you really think he had
any other choice in the matter. Hey, guess what, I'm
gonna own an Italian restaurant. Okay, it's worse than so
many people. I need to see three forms of identification
not find. Don't you don't you want to go eat
at the Italian food of the guy? Hey? Do you
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want to who owns that restaurant? Jim Johnson? Okay, who
owns that as? Hey, that's Frankie Lasagna. I'm going there.
I'm going there. I just know his whole life has
been about Italian food in Lasagna and basta, that's where
I'm gonna go. I'm not gonna go to Jim Johnson.
I'm gonna go to Frankie Lasagna. Yeah, So he's got
a place in Toronto named Terrazza Um, but it is
the really you don't call it Frankie Lasagnas. How do
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you not call it Frankie Lasagnas. I don't know. But
he's the second guy, so he's not the the prime anger.
Uh well, well we'll call him an anger ball stealing
straight from Phoebe buffet Um. The guy that threw his
club behind him, the guy that is really made the
round that they kept doing the split screen on. Frankie
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lasan used. The other guy. He was the guy he's
he's the guy that had to throw down his playing
a pasta to reach out and try to grab the ball.
And I kinda got it. But I want to read
you from the Frankie Lasagna story here because this gets
into where I don't think the ball was close enough
for either him or the bo Bichette guy to go get.
What's he gonna say? I missed it? No, no, no, no,
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this is no. This is from the guy writing the story.
This is not from Frankie lazon video. This is in
this thing. You can't even tell you can't. It looks
like it's it's a few feet away. It's really tough
to get all the way over and try to have
that and try to have you to man. I'm telling you, man, no, Yeah,
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I don't know these crazy angles you say you have
that you're gonna send me in d M me, that
you have a d m me. One time you kept
saying that I'll send you the angle. Say you haven't
sent me one angle that shows me all because they've
all been sent. Whether you can doubt on him issue
be No, don't pick up the phone. Don't pick up
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the phone. I lost Uh. Here is the description by
the writer of the story. This is Gregory Strong again
Canadian Press. This is him saying it. This is not
Frankie Lazon. Does he have a blue check mark? He
has a blue check mark, So they're the thirty seven
year old Toronto restaurant owner came agonizingly close to catching
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the historic ball when Judge went deep in the seventh thinning.
Are we okay? So far with that? Okay? That descriptions
checkmark so well. I mean, look, he's I bowed out
to all the blue. I can't even fraudulent process keep going.
Lasagna stretched over the railing, but the ball hit the
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wall a few feet below and bounced into the Terre
Toronto bullpen. That just exactly what did Yes, I'm sorry,
that's not part of the story. It doesn't say it
hit off the fans glove next to him and that's
how it dropped. No that you can't tell if that's
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how it. It looked like it went boss the glove
a little bit. I will get you can't tell that
it didn't, so blue check mark. Guy, you gotta choose
your word matter, specificity matters. Well, this is a guy,
this is a guy writing, and this is the biggest
story in Canada in years. I mean, come on, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. They're they're gonna go to the playoffs and
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they just laxed their vaccination rules. Here's the biggest stories
in Canada the last fifty years. The Leafs win the
Cup in sixty seven, Judge hits home run number sixty
one right here there. It's the biggest stories in the
last last fifty years. There you go. Well, the Blue
Jays winning the World Series a couple of times, not
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Carter's home one. I did forget about Joe Parter's all.
I mean, I had I had a friend who went
missing for hours after Mitch Williams served that up. He's done.
That's right there, right up there. Yeah, but that happened
in in Well. That was big. That was big. Yeah, Yeah,
that was big. Alright, alright, alright, so Leaf's win the cup,
mix Sorley's curved stick, the Blue Jays win the World Series. Judge,
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it's number sixty one. Cool, that's there. We say, Okay,
so we're good. I'm sure I got I could find
a couple other things, are there? Things like Brian Adams
or somebody did because he did a concert other Canadian
artists in South Park in Canada. What are you just
name people who are from Canada? Now got to be
because people from Canada fun things. We're making it sound
like it other than three or four things. It's a
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cultural waste land. And I'm trying to stick up for
our good French from the North. I'm just I'm just
saying that, damn right. What I'm trying to do is
to let you know that there's a lot of importance
that should be given to hang on. Gregory Strong in
his column that he wrote where the ball hit the
hit the wall below, and and and and Jimmy Scallops,
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who was next to him with a ball hit below there.
I don't know that it was there for the guy
to catch. I don't know his air form. It looked
like it, but it but the way it hit, the
where it hit the wall, how close could it really
have come to his glove? I don't know. It changed
the trajectory of it down. It does not change that
angle that you see. You can't the white of the
ball disappears in the in the sports net, whatever, sports
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book or getting a lot of free publicity tonight. But Jason,
you're reading a story from the guy's angle who was
on the side. This is the guy that wrote the car.
He's writing the defense of his angles better than he's
writing the definitive story about this one from that guy's angle, right,
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But that's the definitive story if he's got it. He
was there, he was at the game. He interviewed the guy,
He saw the guy that was there on the side.
If if you would think, okay, if the ball went
off somebody else's glove, don't you think he would have
he would have mentioned that in the article cross streams
And there's no, no, no, no, but no, I'm not
saying he's got to interview the guy because if that
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if the other guy who put his glove out and
ticked off his glove, he was so mad. I understand
he doesn't want to talk to anybody, but wouldn't that
be in your article? It hit off a guy. He
didn't see it. It happened in real time, he didn't
see it. The better story is Lasagna for him. Yeah,
Lasagna is a better story. And the guy's name is Lasagna,
but that would be in there. Hey, he didn't catch it,
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but the guy next to him, Boy, he really almost
got it. That's something. Uh. Look, I'll give you guys
this because this, this is what I firmly believe, no
matter what is that this guy's life, not Frankie Lasagna,
because he was he was a little bit too far away.
He was eating. Yeah, you want to talk about free publicity,
and this guy is gonna prop it. The other guys
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left to you know, to his lonely writer's garrett and
what might have been. Yeah, no, then the new the
new big Uh, there's gonna be a big billboard for
his restaurant. Just a picture of him with his hands
up when he didn't catch the ball. Come to Frankie
Lasagna's Uh, this other guy, the guy in the Boba
set jersey who was then texting people after on the phone.
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His life is never gonna be the same, thin close
to the ball and didn't get it, because you're talking
about two million dollar pay day right probably somewhere upwards
of two million dollars. You would sell that ball very
quickly because you know it's it's always gonna be worth it.
It's always worth it because you're you're you're tied Roger Marris,
so it's always going to have that kind of value.
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Sixty two would be a little bit bigger. Whatever he
finishes with will be big, but sixty one is a
big ball. It's worth two million dollars and he's gonna
think about that every day, and people that he knows,
when they're not asking about it, you know, we're thinking
about it. That's the guy, that's the guy that almost
caught the ball on my friend, almost caught the ball.
He did, and it's gonna it's gonna be he's got
to find a new normal for his life because he
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was that close. Whether the whether the ball took off
his glove or not, he's a foot and a half,
however far he is away from basically winning the lottery.
And that's how close he was and and and that's
a tough thing to get over. And there's gonna be
people that are gonna say, ah, you should have caught it.
Why didn't. Then he's gonna think, could I have stretched
a little bit further? What if I had leaped and
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caught it and I fell on the map? Would I
have broken anything? Would I be able to fall twenty
feet and survived? What would have happened. He's always gonna
have those questions. That's gonna really, it's gonna be something
he's got to get right with over the course of
the rest of his life. Oh no, it's a very
difficult proposition. Look, Lasagnia is gonna get a bunch of
run as he and it's fine that he should. We're
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gonna go back, and we're gonna go frame by frame,
blow it up, take it to the labs. How all
these TV and movie TV shows and movies tell me
that I can go and find anything and enhance it
nine billion times to be able to get the exact
moment right. So I should be able to get the
cleanest view of it, and we should be able to
settle this. Uh, by morning. The fact that we haven't
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had at least one FBI guy come out and say
we solve this. I mean, you got to solve something
that you saw this that you know you figured out
and figured it out. And you know the guy that
is getting all the run whose well the name is
currently not known. Um, he's he's done. Man. That that
is that is tough. I could never go to another game.
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I might have to burn my glove. Y don't need
a bigger glove. Yeah, well, or know how to use it. Right,
If you're gonna buy a tool, you you read the manual,
or you figure out how to use it by watching
a bunch of do it yourself shows. In this case,
maybe once upon a time he played baseball and knew
how to use it. Seems like you forgot. Maybe it's
just not like a bicycle. Be sure to catch live
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Hobo and uh, you know, I actually do have a
coolio story. You know, we're Scolio today. Age of fifty nine,
very sad well, you know what, one of the most
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one of the most popular rappers and hip hop artists
of all time and hits Gangsters Paradise and and and
Fantastic Voyage, just a huge legend. Um, it's still really difficult, like, wow,
what happened? You know, apparently had a heart attack when
he was visiting a friend. It's just it's just awful. Um.
But I actually do have a really funny Coolio story,
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uh that that actually took place over the course of
a couple of years. Do you want to give it
a couple of days now? It's fine, it's a good story. Well,
it's a good story. Helps you remember remember Coolio and
who he isn't and remembers a lot. So this go.
I'm going back about twenty years and um, this is
when I was living in Marina del Rey in l A,
which is an area near the beach. And there's a
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lot of beachfront homes that were owned by really famous
people like Suzanne Summers and Dudley Moore and Wesley Snipes
and Gregory Hinds all. They all lived like on these
big you know, payout Deudley more In. I mean, yeah, yeah,
I mean, if you need a musical reference, folks, Uh,
the Great George Straight with the song Marina del Rey. Okay,
Uh so it's it's a you know, it's it's kind
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of a no, but I trust you that with your
George Straight knowledge, because my George Straight knowledge is all
my exes live in Texas and that that's kind of it. Okay,
it's a it's a rich repertoire. Maybe maybe tweet about
it anyway. Del Rey, so live Marina del Rey. And
and it's an area that when you walk to the shops,
like you know, I used to I used to see
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stars there once in a while. That you go to
the beach and everything. Um, you know, Pam and I
lived in a two and one, you know apartment. We
weren't on on the on the beach or anything with
all the you know, the really rich people. So there's
a van that would dry run. I would say, I
would see that had this. It was a big van.
It was a bit and it was like a wasn't
an escalated but it was a big, high, high high
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end van that had these stickers all over it that
said coolio new album coming on September twenty three. Uh
you know, download here here's the website Coolio stickers. I'm like,
oh my god, So that's pretty cool. Idea Coolio's record
company or whoever is you know, you know putting this.
Hey puts out this van and has somebody driving it
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around to you know, let people know the album's coming out.
Kind of a fun thing instead of putting up a billboard.
Here's a here's a van being driven around. So I
see it and then I see it again like a
week or two later, and I happen to see the
door open and who comes out of the driver's side Baculio.
And I'm like, oh my god, because it's I see
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his hair right away. I'm like, I know it's cooked
his hairstyle. It's so cool. And I'm like, oh, it's
oh my god. He just came out. He went to
like pick up lunch, and then it was getting back
in the car van and left him Like he's driving
a van around that's advertising his his his own album
coming out. So I just thought that was kind of funny.
And you know, one of the things that happened I
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told Pam about. I told my friends about a Coolio
is driving around his van with pumping his new album
a couple of years years later. Now go back ahead
a couple of years. I'm working at Fox Sports One,
which was back then Fox Sports Net, and we were
doing a show called UH Sports List, which was back
in the in the auds and the early teens when
all the sports lists, all the list shows were great,
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Here's the best comedies of all time, here's the best,
and it was like, I love the eighties, you know
that you would see on the E and all the
different channels, but we was for sports. Here's our list
of top ten super Bowls of all time, top ten
quarterbacks of all time. And we would interview UH celebrities
and they'd come in and talk and tell funny stories
or be funny about it, and it was a really
fun show. So we would have a lot of people
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come in and they would come in and instead of
getting paid for it, they would promote whatever they had
coming up because this thing was gonna run in perpetuities.
It ran for years this year, so whenever UH Celebrity
was coming in, we signed up. Me and the other
three producers would sign up to interview whoever came in.
If we knew a lot about their career or we
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knew this person a little bit. We would sign up
and I knew everybody, like I knew who everybody was.
It was great for me. I'm like, oh, yeah, Enrico, Colin, Tony,
he was in Galaxy Quest. I'll talk to him. They're
like who I'm like that, trust me, I know the
guy he was shoot me yeah, exactly, exactly like people.
Oh the Cores Light Twins. Yes, I'll talk to the
Cores Light Twins. Oh. Oh Katy Obert. Oh she's from
Salt Plain. Yeah, yeah, I'll talk to her. Yeah, great, great, great,
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Like like I know everybody so uh so Coolio because
I said, yeah, I'll talk to Coolio that that would
be awesome. So Coolio comes in, nicest guy, he comes in,
he's I said, hey, Julio, Jason, how you do Hey,
how are you doing? Man? I said, great, We're gonna talk,
you know, gonna ask you about uh, you know some
of these shows were doing. Sorry we I'm a big
basketball fan. I will talk about the Lakers. I could
talk about this. I can talk about this and like, great,
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you know, and he'll tell funny stories and he was
and he and he was great, and I said, you're
not gonna tell you a story and says, I, actually, um,
I actually saw you a couple of years ago, and
Marina del rages, you should have come up and said hi.
And I was like, oh, what a nice dude, right,
just I should have come up and said Hill, did you?
Did you tell him that you didn't at that point? Well,
I did, and I said I was sure you should
go up. Said I said, well, you know you were.
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You know you're doing it. You're doing your own thing
and you're out having your day, and he goes, no, no,
it's cool. It's cool, So it's gonna He said, you
should have come up and said hi to me. So
I said, well, but the funny thing is I saw
you were driving this van that had the big promos
all the stickers all over it for a new album
coming out. And then all of a sudden he got serious.
He looked at me and said you saw that, and
I said, yeah, yeah I did, and then he goes,
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I'm never doing that again, and I was like, oh, okay,
oh wow, alright. What was the follow up? Apparently the
follow up was Let's sit down to talk sports. That
was my follow up with Coolia. Let's let's talk sports Man.
There there's another twenty minutes of discussion of all right,
what what did you sign on? You? And you actually
had to do the driving of this van. Yeah, I
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mean it was a great looking van. I mean it
looked like it had so much stuff on it. But
I'm like, wow, it was it was with the album
and he drove, says all right, I'll drive around, and
then he realized, yeah, I don't want to do that anymore.
I'm Coolio, I'm not gonna do that. Well, I think
you can pick and choose as to where you are
in your career arc as to whether you're going to
do that or have someone else do it for you,
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the street team where you do a pop in, or
the chief chief guy getting it done. For example, the
Blues Brothers in their hey day might have been able
to get away with it, but getting Juliet Jake out
of the clink, they had to drive around with the
speaker and tell people where to show up for their show.
Oh that's sometimes it's not your choice. That's true. That's true. Uh,
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that's good story, though, I would you after that. He
brought bad memories and he gave you really short answers,
like I don't even want to talk about this anymore. No,
he was actually great because he knew he knew all
these we talk he knew all these famous basketball games
that we were talking about. And I was asking him
and he was always know he's a great guy. Anybody
had so many people wanted to say hi to him,
and he said hi to everybody, talked to everybody for
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a few minutes. Like you know, most stars when they
would come in, they would sit down and then just
like kind of blitz right out of there and go.
And he can in. He talked everybody for a few minutes.
They talked about his music. Now, it was a really
it was a really nice guy. It was a great moment,
you know. And I remember and some of the people
that I worked with always, you know, would would come
up to me after because I would always try to
keep guys around if if someone wanted to meet them,
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if I felt that they were okay with meeting people,
and and uh and and and a couple of my friends,
Oh dude, thanks for keeping around me. I always wanted
to meet him. He was a great guy. That was
so much fun. Like it was a bucket listening for
me to meet Ulio and I was like, yeah, of course,
you know, it was really and he was so nice
with everybody. He was so nice with all the fans.
I was so happy for that man. Uh Coulio so talented.
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so here's my Charlie Steiner. Here's my Charlie Steiner, and
this is the Charlie Steiner from when Charlie was back
at S Jason. Yeah, you have to explain to millennials,
who the hell Charlie Steiner? Oh sorry, Charlie Steiner played
by play voice, longtime play by play voice of the
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Los Angeles Dodgers, Charlie Steinner because I promised it last
hour and uh, we didn't get to it. Not a
long time ESPN anchor, Yes, his audience been a long time. Yeah.
Accord Sports Center, the six Yeah, and they were on
forever together. We actually he did more stuff with Bob
Lee than yeah, like the ny Keith Writt Night and
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and Charlie and Bob were the six o'clock a right,
that was six and six thirty. Uh. But this is
because Charlie was famous at ESPN for being able to
dance when they had to buy a few seconds, like
let's just say, um, it's you know the commercial, we're
coming back from commercial, and we have to run the
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Dodgers padres highlight. It's ready to run in the show,
and and the you know, it's it's to get the
tape in because this is back when when games were
edited on tape. You had to get the tape edited
and put into the into the into the room the
playback room where they played the tape from. So he
was famous for There's many times where they would come
back from break and be ready to go to this
story and the producer would say, stretch, you got a stretch,
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We need I need thirty seconds to uh to get
the tape in. They said, it's thirty seconds away. So
Charlie was famous for being able to do that on
a dime. And and this is where my Charlie starting
an impression comes from, because he would do things like
like uh like this, like say, okay, Dodgers, Potters coming in,
ready to come out. Camera comes up, produced to get
some in Charlie's here. It says, Charlie, you gotta dance
with thirty seconds away from the highlight, he would say,
(26:07):
welcome back to Sports Center. Since nineteen hundred, we've had
sixteen presidents, seventeen vice presidents, and thirty eight secretaries of state.
Secretaries of State hub hired. Very popular for them to
leave sometime during their run and not stay all the
way until the end of the president's term, something that
people don't really know. Tuesday, the Dodgers were in San Diego.
(26:30):
Here's the highlights and by that time the tape is in,
all right, go to it, go to it, and then
he would just say it like he was so famous
for being able to do that. He would just dance
on stuff like that all the time. That's a pretty
good dance right there. And great history knowledge. Yeah, that's
good because he knows stuff like that, Like, but you
can also say it and a lot of folks are
(26:50):
just not in a logo. Wow, yeah, not so much.
But he would he would do that, man, I'll tell you,
uh that Jason smithcer Mike Harmen live from the Fox
Sports radios to come on, Charlie's good. Come on, Charlie's good.
My voice of the Dodgers for years. Man, go on,
It's awesome. Uh. Now, let me tell you this. Bill
Belichick wants you to know that Mac Jones is day
(27:14):
to day, day by day, day by day. He's weekly
press conference. Today, Belichick was asked about the status of
Mac Jones. Mac Jones, who has an ankle injury. How
serious is it? I don't know. Is it? Maybe out
of you but you weren't getting anything out of Bill
(27:36):
Belichick because when he was asked about how Mac Jones
was feeling, well, this is what Bill had to say. Chiat. Okay,
that's not it yet. That's that's Bill eating. That is
Bill eating chicken wings. Chicken wings ain't cheap anymore. Someone's
awarded me the current menu at at a famous chicken purveyor.
(28:00):
And I mean we're talking to buck fifty and wing guys. Yeah,
wings are no longer like remember we remember ten cent
wing nights were the best. Hey, it's ten cent wing night. Oh.
The hope was that you were going to drink your
weight and overpriced domestic beer. Yeah. And the wings were
so tiny. It's like, are these baby wings? What are
these tiny baby chicken wings? I mean, I can't even
get a bite out of them baby chicken wings. Come on, dude,
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Well you guys are out of control tonight. Man, you
guys are out of control. All right, boy, that's somebody cranky,
like that guy that was at the Yankee game. Yeah,
like the guy who missed the air and judge ball.
It's kinda thinking. I was just kind of connecting words
for you there, and if you know, you laughed. So
now here's Bill Belichick talking about the status of mac
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Joe days getting better day fine day. Does he have
a high angles ring day. Fine, what do I look like?
A doctor? Beating surgeon? Like? I don't know? Talk to
the medical experts, talk to them about are are you?
You're gonna have the team doctor come up, Bill, We're
gonna get to talk to him. Then you admit you
(29:07):
don't know what you're talking about a doctor. We're gonna
run that bite forever. What do I look like? No? Exactly? Hey,
you know what, there's plenty of guys out there in
the twitter verse that will tell you what the injury is.
Go go read them. They may have a blue check mark.
Oh wait, look, I'm at web md dot com. Bill
(29:27):
Belichick's picture is up there. He's got the white coat
in the stethoscope. Yeah, Bill Belichick's to day and it
said no, it says it says click here and ask me.
So now you can ask him any questions. He's got
a little butler suit on. Asked Jeeves has been You know,
(29:48):
I just would like a reporter at one point to
stand like after he says what I look like a doctor?
Like they're asking an out of line question, I would guy,
you know what, Bill? Blank? You blank you because you're
mad that you're not winning and for whatever reason I
ask you legitimate question and you make it seem like
I'm asking the most ridiculous thing in the world. What
am I a doctor? Oh? Sorry that I ask you
about your quarterback and how he's doing and how he's feeling.
(30:11):
You know what? Blank you man? I dropped the mic
and I walk out. Maybe Dan Shawn and he'll do
it somebody big, But I'd like somebody just because Belichick
wants what. I can't believe you're asking me that question,
like it's so ridiculous. Just once for twenty years, Bob.
But listen, you talk like this to me, and I'm
done with it. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done with
the trying to make up for it on a Friday
by telling me about a punter who played twenty five
(30:33):
years ago, and you give me a soliloquy that's nine
five minutes long. No, I'm done. When I ask you
a question about your quarterback, you give me an answer
because that's kind of how it's done. But no, no, no,
Now suddenly I I'm I'm a jerk for asking you,
and it's like, why would you ask me, ask a
medical expert, ask a doctor. You're gonna bring a doctor
up here so we can talk to him. No dropping
the mic and walking away. Yeah, I think the the
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better answer from Belichick would have been, either the cops
got him and they don't. Every dead. You'll see him
on Sunday. You'll see Bryana next, Jo Mac Joe to
the trunk of a car where they opened up Twitter
and out about a Fresca. Mike gets swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carman coming up next to
Retire dot Com Studios. Something we told you a month
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Radio app. Aaron Judge, it's home run number sixty one,
still running up that hill though he's still got one more,
one more. He's like the little climber guy from the
Price is Right. He almost they're almost there there. Uh,
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but here's the thing I told you a month ago.
He's gonna wind up being the people's home run champion,
and an extension that's gonna be he's the real home
run champion. And I'll tell you how it's going to go,
because it's gonna be. It's gonna be sounded tomorrow or
maybe people are gonna wait until he hit sixty two.
But you're gonna see a lot of the big daytime shows,
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the TV shows that Aaron Judge is the real or
run champion. He's untainted, you have the pe D scandals
from all the other players. He's the real champion. And
because he's a Yankee, because he did it now, because
we got to see it and we're prisoners at the moment,
that's going to be the big take that happens. But
don't believe me. Listen to Roger Maris Jr. Who was
(32:41):
at the game tonight, gave Aaron Judge's mom a big
hug after he had home run number sixty one. Here's
Roger Marris Jr. Following the game On how yeah, Aaron
Judge real home run champion. It's him. I think it
means a lot in this not just for me. I
think it means a lot for a lot of people.
You know that he's clean. He's a Yankee, he plays
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a game the right way, and uh, you know, I
think it gives people a chance to look at somebody who, uh,
you know, shouldn't be revered for hitting sixty two runs,
and not just as a guy who did it in
the American League. He should be revered for, you know,
being the actual single season home run champ. I mean,
that's really who he is if he hits sixty two
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and uh and I think that's what needs to happen.
I think baseball needs to look at the records, and
I think Baseball should do something. So they're Baseball should
do something. Baseball should jump in and do something with
Aaron Judge because of all the tainted P E. D
Players that came before him, This is now gonna be
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a thing. And I'll tell you I'll go one step further, Mike.
This isn't just gonna be a media thing. This is
gonna be a player thing. Players are gonna talk about it.
Aaron Judge has a lot of respect in Major League Baseball.
Players are gonna get in on this. They're gonna be
upset with the error that used to be in Major
League Baseball, and they're gonna say yeah, and Judges my
home run champion, and the backlash on McGuire and Bonds
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is gonna come again and again and again, and there's
gonna this is gonna be a much bigger push to
recognize Arrant Judge as the real home run champion. Then
you think there's gonna be petitions, there's gonna be rob
Manfred's gonna have to answer questions about this because it's
just gonna grow in stature. It's gonna be one of
those stories that mushrooms, and it's gonna start out here
where it is right now. Then it's gonna get a
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little bit bigger players are gonna pick it up and
they're gonna go and it's gonna become that kind of story. Well,
and I hope that the players all go out and
chastise all the guys that were local and national writers
and commentators for Major League Baseball during that era, because
now we get to pick some arbitrary dates, don't we
as to when this all took place. And I hope
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that Major League Baseball goes and and decides, you know,
and and the people that were in the Hall of Fame,
because it's not Major League Baseball, but they go and
they just start taking all the plaques out of anybody
who played in this era because everybody's a suspect, right
and that and that what we have to do now,
if we're gonna be fair about it. Uh So, let's
(35:08):
let's go through that and let's just forget anything that
happened during those years, because that's really what you're now asking.
And Roger Marris Junior and everybody wouldn't start asking to
You're you're basically ignoring, uh, two decades of the game.
Plus if we're gonna go down that road, And that's fine.
You want to think that that he becomes the the
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real champion, that's fine. That's that's your opinion. You're entitled
to your opinion. Man, I can't stop you there. But
the reality is Major League Baseball has for nearly well
for two decades now. Uh, they didn't strip any of
this down. Didn't take away any of Sosa's three sixty
home run seasons, yeah he had three of them. Didn't
take down McGuire's seasons. Didn't take down Bonds when he
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hit seventy three or his seven sixty two. It's all
still standing there in your record books. Twenty years later
to go back and say, you know what, we had
all of the scandal, we had everything. In the course
we had all that, we did nothing then. But you
know what now that you're mad Roger Marris Jr. And
you're wagging your finger and costUS and light them all
(36:12):
up that you guys are all doing your finger wagging. Yes,
now we'll do something. Give me what's a Yankee? Well,
it's also Yankee. You remember, whenever something happens with the Yankees,
it's always worth the hell the Yankees. They're just this
side of the Cowboys right now, Oh blank, the Yankees.
I can't standard the Jason Smith show of My Car.
And all right, we are here now on the verge
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of Thursday night football, Dolphins and the Bengal ptel. You
just watch how this goes. We're always ahead of the curve.
We're always be wearing the white Tiger. The Bengals are
gonna be wearing their white unis tomorrow. And I'll tell
you this not just because of the white unis, because
the Dolphins have had a real high wire act the
last couple of weeks. The Bengals had to get right
(36:56):
game against the Jets. It's a short week. Give me
the Bengals. They wind this by ten, I'll go further.
I think it's a fourteen seventeen whatever. I think. They
blow them out, white tigers all over the place. Gentleen
Wattle may not play here. That's a big deal. And
I tell you the Bengals uniforms that will be the
biggest topic of conversation. Really ready, Bengals uniforms. Bengals uniforms.
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of seconds, but just really quick and me look, Aaron Judge,
Homer number sixty one at ward Oscobar five RBIs tonight
the Mets take over first place by themselves. Maybe he
(01:04):
had a better night than Aaron Judge. I mean, just maybe,
just maybe, Mike, maybe he did well. I suppose if
you wanted to go through the what has more meaning
for the night itself? You just say, all right, this
was number sixty one and what has been a magical
season for Aaron Judge. Again, it's bad reasoning, but I'm
(01:24):
trying to go Indie. I mean, you just picked the
Jets to win a game. Uh the strike of Zack Wilson.
Yeah no, no, no, no, but see back I said
he'll be fine. And the word people will use most
with Zach Wilson back is encouraged. Oh, I was encouraged
by his performance. I seem to be encouraged. The Jets
look like they were encouraged. They're gonna score seventeen points.
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Maybe he throws a touchdown, maybe doesn't, but the they're
gonna win a game. And it's not gonna be because
of Zack Wilson, but the Jets are gonna be fired up.
They had a flat game on Sunday. I know games
like this when the Jets win, and they don't win
many of them, but I know when they do in
this is one of those games. No, I mean, if
Kenny Pickett comes off the bench, I would be like,
(02:05):
oh that they went to in my bull predictions coming true.
But Kenny Pickett's gonna beat that. I'm gonna be so man,
I was just giving you the the caveat of you know,
unless there's a setback, because I mean the information we have,
I mean there's nothing to the contrary that's been spread
by insiders or information people or fans, uh that you
(02:28):
know to the contrary right as of right now, Zack
Wilson will be available for your squad. So right, well,
you know, just saying that he's speaking truth, uh in
the moment at least, that Zach Wilson is expected to play.
How that ends for everybody? Well, I think Steeler's role,
I'll lay the two and a half or three where
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it's sitting right now? Was that three and a half
I think? Uh? And then down to three and and
pushing a little more, which is no vote of confidence
for Matt Canada's offense, without question. But anyway, back to
the topic at hand, in terms of a five r
B I night in the heat of a Pennant chase,
right trying to win your division and coming up big
(03:10):
with a five five RBI dominant night to where you
as you said, he'd done nothing all year. So now
he gives you this evening as opposed to judge his
next one because he still has to hit one more
to actually own the record. Yeah, he's just time. You're
not a big deal. Well so in in your twisted logic,
(03:30):
just like the Jets winning a game, Um, you could
argue that Escobar had the better night. It would be wrong,
but you could argue it. How much do you think
that escobars walk off base at baseball is worth? Five
million dollars? Ten million dollars? That might be in one
of the mystery bags that shows up that you pay,
(03:54):
We pay you. Major League Baseball does auctions and stuff
all the time. Probably be able to buy it if
you really wanted it. They just give it to you.
It's a Mets baseball uh. The Jason Smith Show and
Mikey Carmen Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now,
(04:15):
one thing we're trying to figure out here with Aaron
Judge hitting home on number sixty one. The big story
has been the fan who nearly caught this ball. And
we we've debated a lot so far about how close
was the ball really to this guy who was it
was nearly caught? It was? Was it really something? Did
(04:38):
a tick off his glove did it not? But what
I'm really hoping for is true, is this story that's
been written in in a couple of uh publications in
Canada about the fan who nearly caught the ball. And
according to this report, and I see a guy with
the blue check mark Scott Brown who was a sports
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editor for the Canadian Press, and he tweeted this out
from Gregory Strong, who's a sports reporter with the Canadian Press,
that the fan who just missed catching the ball his
name is Frankie Lasagna. I mean really, his name is
Frankie Lasagna, and he owns an Italian restaurant and he
was in the Sopranos. I mean really, it sounds like
a nickname of a guy. Hey, we gotta go get
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Frankie Lasagna. Oh man, he's gonna come along on this one.
But he's the other guy, right, He's the guy in
the light blue jersey. Are you sure? I don't I
don't think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's not the guy
that could be a cross between Seawan Aston and James Gordon.
I don't think. I think he's the other guy, the
lanky guy with the sweatshirt on under his jersey, he's not.
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So he's not the guy wearing the bobachette jersey. He's
the other guy, the light blue the bobachette jersey. Well,
the way the way he gonna see the excellence of
elcution on that one. Now, the thing is this story
about about Frank. I want a great nick Frank Lasagnia,
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but that he owns an Italian restaurant, and that's that's
the cut your name. Do you really think he had
any other choice in the matter. Hey, guess what, I'm
gonna own an Italian restaurant. Okay, it's worse than so
many people. I need to see three forms of identification
not find. Don't you don't you want to go eat
at the Italian food of the guy? Hey? Do you
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want to who owns that restaurant? Jim Johnson? Okay, who
owns that as? Hey, that's Frankie Lasagna. I'm going there.
I'm going there. I just know his whole life has
been about Italian food in Lasagna and basta, that's where
I'm gonna go. I'm not gonna go to Jim Johnson.
I'm gonna go to Frankie Lasagna. Yeah, So he's got
a place in Toronto named Terrazza Um, but it is
the really you don't call it Frankie Lasagnas. How do
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you not call it Frankie Lasagnas. I don't know. But
he's the second guy, so he's not the the prime anger.
Uh well, well we'll call him an anger ball stealing
straight from Phoebe buffet Um. The guy that threw his
club behind him, the guy that is really made the
round that they kept doing the split screen on. Frankie
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lasan used. The other guy. He was the guy he's
he's the guy that had to throw down his playing
a pasta to reach out and try to grab the ball.
And I kinda got it. But I want to read
you from the Frankie Lasagna story here because this gets
into where I don't think the ball was close enough
for either him or the bo Bichette guy to go get.
What's he gonna say? I missed it? No, no, no, no,
(07:30):
this is no. This is from the guy writing the story.
This is not from Frankie lazon video. This is in
this thing. You can't even tell you can't. It looks
like it's it's a few feet away. It's really tough
to get all the way over and try to have
that and try to have you to man. I'm telling you, man, no, Yeah,
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I don't know these crazy angles you say you have
that you're gonna send me in d M me, that
you have a d m me. One time you kept
saying that I'll send you the angle. Say you haven't
sent me one angle that shows me all because they've
all been sent. Whether you can doubt on him issue
be No, don't pick up the phone. Don't pick up
(08:12):
the phone. I lost Uh. Here is the description by
the writer of the story. This is Gregory Strong again
Canadian Press. This is him saying it. This is not
Frankie Lazon. Does he have a blue check mark? He
has a blue check mark, So they're the thirty seven
year old Toronto restaurant owner came agonizingly close to catching
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the historic ball when Judge went deep in the seventh thinning.
Are we okay? So far with that? Okay? That descriptions
checkmark so well. I mean, look, he's I bowed out
to all the blue. I can't even fraudulent process keep going.
Lasagna stretched over the railing, but the ball hit the
(08:56):
wall a few feet below and bounced into the Terre
Toronto bullpen. That just exactly what did Yes, I'm sorry,
that's not part of the story. It doesn't say it
hit off the fans glove next to him and that's
how it dropped. No that you can't tell if that's
(09:17):
how it. It looked like it went boss the glove
a little bit. I will get you can't tell that
it didn't, so blue check mark. Guy, you gotta choose
your word matter, specificity matters. Well, this is a guy,
this is a guy writing, and this is the biggest
story in Canada in years. I mean, come on, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. They're they're gonna go to the playoffs and
(09:37):
they just laxed their vaccination rules. Here's the biggest stories
in Canada the last fifty years. The Leafs win the
Cup in sixty seven, Judge hits home run number sixty
one right here there. It's the biggest stories in the
last last fifty years. There you go. Well, the Blue
Jays winning the World Series a couple of times, not
(09:59):
Carter's home one. I did forget about Joe Parter's all.
I mean, I had I had a friend who went
missing for hours after Mitch Williams served that up. He's done.
That's right there, right up there. Yeah, but that happened
in in Well. That was big. That was big. Yeah, Yeah,
that was big. Alright, alright, alright, so Leaf's win the cup,
mix Sorley's curved stick, the Blue Jays win the World Series. Judge,
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it's number sixty one. Cool, that's there. We say, Okay,
so we're good. I'm sure I got I could find
a couple other things, are there? Things like Brian Adams
or somebody did because he did a concert other Canadian
artists in South Park in Canada. What are you just
name people who are from Canada? Now got to be
because people from Canada fun things. We're making it sound
like it other than three or four things. It's a
(10:44):
cultural waste land. And I'm trying to stick up for
our good French from the North. I'm just I'm just
saying that, damn right. What I'm trying to do is
to let you know that there's a lot of importance
that should be given to hang on. Gregory Strong in
his column that he wrote where the ball hit the
hit the wall below, and and and and Jimmy Scallops,
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who was next to him with a ball hit below there.
I don't know that it was there for the guy
to catch. I don't know his air form. It looked
like it, but it but the way it hit, the
where it hit the wall, how close could it really
have come to his glove? I don't know. It changed
the trajectory of it down. It does not change that
angle that you see. You can't the white of the
ball disappears in the in the sports net, whatever, sports
(11:30):
book or getting a lot of free publicity tonight. But Jason,
you're reading a story from the guy's angle who was
on the side. This is the guy that wrote the car.
He's writing the defense of his angles better than he's
writing the definitive story about this one from that guy's angle, right,
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But that's the definitive story if he's got it. He
was there, he was at the game. He interviewed the guy,
He saw the guy that was there on the side.
If if you would think, okay, if the ball went
off somebody else's glove, don't you think he would have
he would have mentioned that in the article cross streams
And there's no, no, no, no, but no, I'm not
saying he's got to interview the guy because if that
(12:14):
if the other guy who put his glove out and
ticked off his glove, he was so mad. I understand
he doesn't want to talk to anybody, but wouldn't that
be in your article? It hit off a guy. He
didn't see it. It happened in real time, he didn't
see it. The better story is Lasagna for him. Yeah,
Lasagna is a better story. And the guy's name is Lasagna,
but that would be in there. Hey, he didn't catch it,
(12:34):
but the guy next to him, Boy, he really almost
got it. That's something. Uh. Look, I'll give you guys
this because this, this is what I firmly believe, no
matter what is that this guy's life, not Frankie Lasagna,
because he was he was a little bit too far away.
He was eating. Yeah, you want to talk about free publicity,
and this guy is gonna prop it. The other guys
(12:55):
left to you know, to his lonely writer's garrett and
what might have been. Yeah, no, then the new the
new big Uh, there's gonna be a big billboard for
his restaurant. Just a picture of him with his hands
up when he didn't catch the ball. Come to Frankie
Lasagna's Uh, this other guy, the guy in the Boba
set jersey who was then texting people after on the phone.
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His life is never gonna be the same, thin close
to the ball and didn't get it, because you're talking
about two million dollar pay day right probably somewhere upwards
of two million dollars. You would sell that ball very
quickly because you know it's it's always gonna be worth it.
It's always worth it because you're you're you're tied Roger Marris,
so it's always going to have that kind of value.
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Sixty two would be a little bit bigger. Whatever he
finishes with will be big, but sixty one is a
big ball. It's worth two million dollars and he's gonna
think about that every day, and people that he knows,
when they're not asking about it, you know, we're thinking
about it. That's the guy, that's the guy that almost
caught the ball on my friend, almost caught the ball.
He did, and it's gonna it's gonna be he's got
to find a new normal for his life because he
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was that close. Whether the whether the ball took off
his glove or not, he's a foot and a half,
however far he is away from basically winning the lottery.
And that's how close he was and and and that's
a tough thing to get over. And there's gonna be
people that are gonna say, ah, you should have caught it.
Why didn't. Then he's gonna think, could I have stretched
a little bit further? What if I had leaped and
(14:18):
caught it and I fell on the map? Would I
have broken anything? Would I be able to fall twenty
feet and survived? What would have happened. He's always gonna
have those questions. That's gonna really, it's gonna be something
he's got to get right with over the course of
the rest of his life. Oh no, it's a very
difficult proposition. Look, Lasagnia is gonna get a bunch of
run as he and it's fine that he should. We're
(14:40):
gonna go back, and we're gonna go frame by frame,
blow it up, take it to the labs. How all
these TV and movie TV shows and movies tell me
that I can go and find anything and enhance it
nine billion times to be able to get the exact
moment right. So I should be able to get the
cleanest view of it, and we should be able to
settle this. Uh, by morning. The fact that we haven't
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had at least one FBI guy come out and say
we solve this. I mean, you got to solve something
that you saw this that you know you figured out
and figured it out. And you know the guy that
is getting all the run whose well the name is
currently not known. Um, he's he's done. Man. That that
is that is tough. I could never go to another game.
(15:23):
I might have to burn my glove. Y don't need
a bigger glove. Yeah, well, or know how to use it. Right,
If you're gonna buy a tool, you you read the manual,
or you figure out how to use it by watching
a bunch of do it yourself shows. In this case,
maybe once upon a time he played baseball and knew
how to use it. Seems like you forgot. Maybe it's
just not like a bicycle. Be sure to catch live
(15:45):
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Hobo and uh, you know, I actually do have a
coolio story. You know, we're Scolio today. Age of fifty nine,
very sad well, you know what, one of the most
(16:07):
one of the most popular rappers and hip hop artists
of all time and hits Gangsters Paradise and and and
Fantastic Voyage, just a huge legend. Um, it's still really difficult, like, wow,
what happened? You know, apparently had a heart attack when
he was visiting a friend. It's just it's just awful. Um.
But I actually do have a really funny Coolio story,
(16:29):
uh that that actually took place over the course of
a couple of years. Do you want to give it
a couple of days now? It's fine, it's a good story. Well,
it's a good story. Helps you remember remember Coolio and
who he isn't and remembers a lot. So this go.
I'm going back about twenty years and um, this is
when I was living in Marina del Rey in l A,
which is an area near the beach. And there's a
(16:50):
lot of beachfront homes that were owned by really famous
people like Suzanne Summers and Dudley Moore and Wesley Snipes
and Gregory Hinds all. They all lived like on these
big you know, payout Deudley more In. I mean, yeah, yeah,
I mean, if you need a musical reference, folks, Uh,
the Great George Straight with the song Marina del Rey. Okay,
Uh so it's it's a you know, it's it's kind
(17:12):
of a no, but I trust you that with your
George Straight knowledge, because my George Straight knowledge is all
my exes live in Texas and that that's kind of it. Okay,
it's a it's a rich repertoire. Maybe maybe tweet about
it anyway. Del Rey, so live Marina del Rey. And
and it's an area that when you walk to the shops,
like you know, I used to I used to see
(17:33):
stars there once in a while. That you go to
the beach and everything. Um, you know, Pam and I
lived in a two and one, you know apartment. We
weren't on on the on the beach or anything with
all the you know, the really rich people. So there's
a van that would dry run. I would say, I
would see that had this. It was a big van.
It was a bit and it was like a wasn't
an escalated but it was a big, high, high high
(17:53):
end van that had these stickers all over it that
said coolio new album coming on September twenty three. Uh
you know, download here here's the website Coolio stickers. I'm like,
oh my god, So that's pretty cool. Idea Coolio's record
company or whoever is you know, you know putting this.
Hey puts out this van and has somebody driving it
(18:14):
around to you know, let people know the album's coming out.
Kind of a fun thing instead of putting up a billboard.
Here's a here's a van being driven around. So I
see it and then I see it again like a
week or two later, and I happen to see the
door open and who comes out of the driver's side Baculio.
And I'm like, oh my god, because it's I see
(18:34):
his hair right away. I'm like, I know it's cooked
his hairstyle. It's so cool. And I'm like, oh, it's
oh my god. He just came out. He went to
like pick up lunch, and then it was getting back
in the car van and left him Like he's driving
a van around that's advertising his his his own album
coming out. So I just thought that was kind of funny.
And you know, one of the things that happened I
(18:54):
told Pam about. I told my friends about a Coolio
is driving around his van with pumping his new album
a couple of years years later. Now go back ahead
a couple of years. I'm working at Fox Sports One,
which was back then Fox Sports Net, and we were
doing a show called UH Sports List, which was back
in the in the auds and the early teens when
all the sports lists, all the list shows were great,
(19:14):
Here's the best comedies of all time, here's the best,
and it was like, I love the eighties, you know
that you would see on the E and all the
different channels, but we was for sports. Here's our list
of top ten super Bowls of all time, top ten
quarterbacks of all time. And we would interview UH celebrities
and they'd come in and talk and tell funny stories
or be funny about it, and it was a really
fun show. So we would have a lot of people
(19:37):
come in and they would come in and instead of
getting paid for it, they would promote whatever they had
coming up because this thing was gonna run in perpetuities.
It ran for years this year, so whenever UH Celebrity
was coming in, we signed up. Me and the other
three producers would sign up to interview whoever came in.
If we knew a lot about their career or we
(19:58):
knew this person a little bit. We would sign up
and I knew everybody, like I knew who everybody was.
It was great for me. I'm like, oh, yeah, Enrico, Colin, Tony,
he was in Galaxy Quest. I'll talk to him. They're
like who I'm like that, trust me, I know the
guy he was shoot me yeah, exactly, exactly like people.
Oh the Cores Light Twins. Yes, I'll talk to the
Cores Light Twins. Oh. Oh Katy Obert. Oh she's from
Salt Plain. Yeah, yeah, I'll talk to her. Yeah, great, great, great,
(20:20):
Like like I know everybody so uh so Coolio because
I said, yeah, I'll talk to Coolio that that would
be awesome. So Coolio comes in, nicest guy, he comes in,
he's I said, hey, Julio, Jason, how you do Hey,
how are you doing? Man? I said, great, We're gonna talk,
you know, gonna ask you about uh, you know some
of these shows were doing. Sorry we I'm a big
basketball fan. I will talk about the Lakers. I could
talk about this. I can talk about this and like, great,
(20:41):
you know, and he'll tell funny stories and he was
and he and he was great, and I said, you're
not gonna tell you a story and says, I, actually, um,
I actually saw you a couple of years ago, and
Marina del rages, you should have come up and said hi.
And I was like, oh, what a nice dude, right,
just I should have come up and said Hill, did you?
Did you tell him that you didn't at that point? Well,
I did, and I said I was sure you should
go up. Said I said, well, you know you were.
(21:02):
You know you're doing it. You're doing your own thing
and you're out having your day, and he goes, no, no,
it's cool. It's cool, So it's gonna He said, you
should have come up and said hi to me. So
I said, well, but the funny thing is I saw
you were driving this van that had the big promos
all the stickers all over it for a new album
coming out. And then all of a sudden he got serious.
He looked at me and said you saw that, and
I said, yeah, yeah I did, and then he goes,
(21:24):
I'm never doing that again, and I was like, oh, okay,
oh wow, alright. What was the follow up? Apparently the
follow up was Let's sit down to talk sports. That
was my follow up with Coolia. Let's let's talk sports Man.
There there's another twenty minutes of discussion of all right,
what what did you sign on? You? And you actually
had to do the driving of this van. Yeah, I
(21:46):
mean it was a great looking van. I mean it
looked like it had so much stuff on it. But
I'm like, wow, it was it was with the album
and he drove, says all right, I'll drive around, and
then he realized, yeah, I don't want to do that anymore.
I'm Coolio, I'm not gonna do that. Well, I think
you can pick and choose as to where you are
in your career arc as to whether you're going to
do that or have someone else do it for you,
(22:08):
the street team where you do a pop in, or
the chief chief guy getting it done. For example, the
Blues Brothers in their hey day might have been able
to get away with it, but getting Juliet Jake out
of the clink, they had to drive around with the
speaker and tell people where to show up for their show.
Oh that's sometimes it's not your choice. That's true. That's true. Uh,
(22:30):
that's good story, though, I would you after that. He
brought bad memories and he gave you really short answers,
like I don't even want to talk about this anymore. No,
he was actually great because he knew he knew all
these we talk he knew all these famous basketball games
that we were talking about. And I was asking him
and he was always know he's a great guy. Anybody
had so many people wanted to say hi to him,
and he said hi to everybody, talked to everybody for
(22:53):
a few minutes. Like you know, most stars when they
would come in, they would sit down and then just
like kind of blitz right out of there and go.
And he can in. He talked everybody for a few minutes.
They talked about his music. Now, it was a really
it was a really nice guy. It was a great moment,
you know. And I remember and some of the people
that I worked with always, you know, would would come
up to me after because I would always try to
keep guys around if if someone wanted to meet them,
(23:13):
if I felt that they were okay with meeting people,
and and uh and and and a couple of my friends,
Oh dude, thanks for keeping around me. I always wanted
to meet him. He was a great guy. That was
so much fun. Like it was a bucket listening for
me to meet Ulio and I was like, yeah, of course,
you know, it was really and he was so nice
with everybody. He was so nice with all the fans.
I was so happy for that man. Uh Coulio so talented.
(23:34):
Rest in peace, nine years old. Be sure to catch
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up everybody. It's me three time Pro Bowl Little Warrington
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(23:57):
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(24:19):
Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast from. Alright, so,
so here's my Charlie Steiner. Here's my Charlie Steiner, and
this is the Charlie Steiner from when Charlie was back
at S Jason. Yeah, you have to explain to millennials,
who the hell Charlie Steiner? Oh sorry, Charlie Steiner played
by play voice, longtime play by play voice of the
(24:40):
Los Angeles Dodgers, Charlie Steinner because I promised it last
hour and uh, we didn't get to it. Not a
long time ESPN anchor, Yes, his audience been a long time. Yeah.
Accord Sports Center, the six Yeah, and they were on
forever together. We actually he did more stuff with Bob
Lee than yeah, like the ny Keith Writt Night and
(25:01):
and Charlie and Bob were the six o'clock a right,
that was six and six thirty. Uh. But this is
because Charlie was famous at ESPN for being able to
dance when they had to buy a few seconds, like
let's just say, um, it's you know the commercial, we're
coming back from commercial, and we have to run the
(25:22):
Dodgers padres highlight. It's ready to run in the show,
and and the you know, it's it's to get the
tape in because this is back when when games were
edited on tape. You had to get the tape edited
and put into the into the into the room the
playback room where they played the tape from. So he
was famous for There's many times where they would come
back from break and be ready to go to this
story and the producer would say, stretch, you got a stretch,
(25:45):
We need I need thirty seconds to uh to get
the tape in. They said, it's thirty seconds away. So
Charlie was famous for being able to do that on
a dime. And and this is where my Charlie starting
an impression comes from, because he would do things like
like uh like this, like say, okay, Dodgers, Potters coming in,
ready to come out. Camera comes up, produced to get
some in Charlie's here. It says, Charlie, you gotta dance
with thirty seconds away from the highlight, he would say,
(26:07):
welcome back to Sports Center. Since nineteen hundred, we've had
sixteen presidents, seventeen vice presidents, and thirty eight secretaries of state.
Secretaries of State hub hired. Very popular for them to
leave sometime during their run and not stay all the
way until the end of the president's term, something that
people don't really know. Tuesday, the Dodgers were in San Diego.
(26:30):
Here's the highlights and by that time the tape is in,
all right, go to it, go to it, and then
he would just say it like he was so famous
for being able to do that. He would just dance
on stuff like that all the time. That's a pretty
good dance right there. And great history knowledge. Yeah, that's
good because he knows stuff like that, Like, but you
can also say it and a lot of folks are
(26:50):
just not in a logo. Wow, yeah, not so much.
But he would he would do that, man, I'll tell you,
uh that Jason smithcer Mike Harmen live from the Fox
Sports radios to come on, Charlie's good. Come on, Charlie's good.
My voice of the Dodgers for years. Man, go on,
It's awesome. Uh. Now, let me tell you this. Bill
Belichick wants you to know that Mac Jones is day
(27:14):
to day, day by day, day by day. He's weekly
press conference. Today, Belichick was asked about the status of
Mac Jones. Mac Jones, who has an ankle injury. How
serious is it? I don't know. Is it? Maybe out
of you but you weren't getting anything out of Bill
(27:36):
Belichick because when he was asked about how Mac Jones
was feeling, well, this is what Bill had to say. Chiat. Okay,
that's not it yet. That's that's Bill eating. That is
Bill eating chicken wings. Chicken wings ain't cheap anymore. Someone's
awarded me the current menu at at a famous chicken purveyor.
(28:00):
And I mean we're talking to buck fifty and wing guys. Yeah,
wings are no longer like remember we remember ten cent
wing nights were the best. Hey, it's ten cent wing night. Oh.
The hope was that you were going to drink your
weight and overpriced domestic beer. Yeah. And the wings were
so tiny. It's like, are these baby wings? What are
these tiny baby chicken wings? I mean, I can't even
get a bite out of them baby chicken wings. Come on, dude,
(28:25):
Well you guys are out of control tonight. Man, you
guys are out of control. All right, boy, that's somebody cranky,
like that guy that was at the Yankee game. Yeah,
like the guy who missed the air and judge ball.
It's kinda thinking. I was just kind of connecting words
for you there, and if you know, you laughed. So
now here's Bill Belichick talking about the status of mac
(28:47):
Joe days getting better day fine day. Does he have
a high angles ring day. Fine, what do I look like?
A doctor? Beating surgeon? Like? I don't know? Talk to
the medical experts, talk to them about are are you?
You're gonna have the team doctor come up, Bill, We're
gonna get to talk to him. Then you admit you
(29:07):
don't know what you're talking about a doctor. We're gonna
run that bite forever. What do I look like? No? Exactly? Hey,
you know what, there's plenty of guys out there in
the twitter verse that will tell you what the injury is.
Go go read them. They may have a blue check mark.
Oh wait, look, I'm at web md dot com. Bill
(29:27):
Belichick's picture is up there. He's got the white coat
in the stethoscope. Yeah, Bill Belichick's to day and it
said no, it says it says click here and ask me.
So now you can ask him any questions. He's got
a little butler suit on. Asked Jeeves has been You know,
(29:48):
I just would like a reporter at one point to
stand like after he says what I look like a doctor?
Like they're asking an out of line question, I would guy,
you know what, Bill? Blank? You blank you because you're
mad that you're not winning and for whatever reason I
ask you legitimate question and you make it seem like
I'm asking the most ridiculous thing in the world. What
am I a doctor? Oh? Sorry that I ask you
about your quarterback and how he's doing and how he's feeling.
(30:11):
You know what? Blank you man? I dropped the mic
and I walk out. Maybe Dan Shawn and he'll do
it somebody big, But I'd like somebody just because Belichick
wants what. I can't believe you're asking me that question,
like it's so ridiculous. Just once for twenty years, Bob.
But listen, you talk like this to me, and I'm
done with it. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done with
the trying to make up for it on a Friday
by telling me about a punter who played twenty five
(30:33):
years ago, and you give me a soliloquy that's nine
five minutes long. No, I'm done. When I ask you
a question about your quarterback, you give me an answer
because that's kind of how it's done. But no, no, no,
Now suddenly I I'm I'm a jerk for asking you,
and it's like, why would you ask me, ask a
medical expert, ask a doctor. You're gonna bring a doctor
up here so we can talk to him. No dropping
the mic and walking away. Yeah, I think the the
(30:55):
better answer from Belichick would have been, either the cops
got him and they don't. Every dead. You'll see him
on Sunday. You'll see Bryana next, Jo Mac Joe to
the trunk of a car where they opened up Twitter
and out about a Fresca. Mike gets swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carman coming up next to
Retire dot Com Studios. Something we told you a month
(31:16):
ago was gonna happen with Aaron Judge is here, and
it's not about the sixty one home run that's next.
This is Fox. What do I look like? Doctor Surgeon?
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
(31:36):
Radio app. Aaron Judge, it's home run number sixty one,
still running up that hill though he's still got one more,
one more. He's like the little climber guy from the
Price is Right. He almost they're almost there there. Uh,
(31:58):
but here's the thing I told you a month ago.
He's gonna wind up being the people's home run champion,
and an extension that's gonna be he's the real home
run champion. And I'll tell you how it's going to go,
because it's gonna be. It's gonna be sounded tomorrow or
maybe people are gonna wait until he hit sixty two.
But you're gonna see a lot of the big daytime shows,
(32:18):
the TV shows that Aaron Judge is the real or
run champion. He's untainted, you have the pe D scandals
from all the other players. He's the real champion. And
because he's a Yankee, because he did it now, because
we got to see it and we're prisoners at the moment,
that's going to be the big take that happens. But
don't believe me. Listen to Roger Maris Jr. Who was
(32:41):
at the game tonight, gave Aaron Judge's mom a big
hug after he had home run number sixty one. Here's
Roger Marris Jr. Following the game On how yeah, Aaron
Judge real home run champion. It's him. I think it
means a lot in this not just for me. I
think it means a lot for a lot of people.
You know that he's clean. He's a Yankee, he plays
(33:01):
a game the right way, and uh, you know, I
think it gives people a chance to look at somebody who, uh,
you know, shouldn't be revered for hitting sixty two runs,
and not just as a guy who did it in
the American League. He should be revered for, you know,
being the actual single season home run champ. I mean,
that's really who he is if he hits sixty two
(33:22):
and uh and I think that's what needs to happen.
I think baseball needs to look at the records, and
I think Baseball should do something. So they're Baseball should
do something. Baseball should jump in and do something with
Aaron Judge because of all the tainted P E. D
Players that came before him, This is now gonna be
(33:43):
a thing. And I'll tell you I'll go one step further, Mike.
This isn't just gonna be a media thing. This is
gonna be a player thing. Players are gonna talk about it.
Aaron Judge has a lot of respect in Major League Baseball.
Players are gonna get in on this. They're gonna be
upset with the error that used to be in Major
League Baseball, and they're gonna say yeah, and Judges my
home run champion, and the backlash on McGuire and Bonds
(34:04):
is gonna come again and again and again, and there's
gonna this is gonna be a much bigger push to
recognize Arrant Judge as the real home run champion. Then
you think there's gonna be petitions, there's gonna be rob
Manfred's gonna have to answer questions about this because it's
just gonna grow in stature. It's gonna be one of
those stories that mushrooms, and it's gonna start out here
where it is right now. Then it's gonna get a
(34:26):
little bit bigger players are gonna pick it up and
they're gonna go and it's gonna become that kind of story. Well,
and I hope that the players all go out and
chastise all the guys that were local and national writers
and commentators for Major League Baseball during that era, because
now we get to pick some arbitrary dates, don't we
as to when this all took place. And I hope
(34:48):
that Major League Baseball goes and and decides, you know,
and and the people that were in the Hall of Fame,
because it's not Major League Baseball, but they go and
they just start taking all the plaques out of anybody
who played in this era because everybody's a suspect, right
and that and that what we have to do now,
if we're gonna be fair about it. Uh So, let's
(35:08):
let's go through that and let's just forget anything that
happened during those years, because that's really what you're now asking.
And Roger Marris Junior and everybody wouldn't start asking to
You're you're basically ignoring, uh, two decades of the game.
Plus if we're gonna go down that road, And that's fine.
You want to think that that he becomes the the
(35:28):
real champion, that's fine. That's that's your opinion. You're entitled
to your opinion. Man, I can't stop you there. But
the reality is Major League Baseball has for nearly well
for two decades now. Uh, they didn't strip any of
this down. Didn't take away any of Sosa's three sixty
home run seasons, yeah he had three of them. Didn't
take down McGuire's seasons. Didn't take down Bonds when he
(35:52):
hit seventy three or his seven sixty two. It's all
still standing there in your record books. Twenty years later
to go back and say, you know what, we had
all of the scandal, we had everything. In the course
we had all that, we did nothing then. But you
know what now that you're mad Roger Marris Jr. And
you're wagging your finger and costUS and light them all
(36:12):
up that you guys are all doing your finger wagging. Yes,
now we'll do something. Give me what's a Yankee? Well,
it's also Yankee. You remember, whenever something happens with the Yankees,
it's always worth the hell the Yankees. They're just this
side of the Cowboys right now, Oh blank, the Yankees.
I can't standard the Jason Smith show of My Car.
And all right, we are here now on the verge
(36:34):
of Thursday night football, Dolphins and the Bengal ptel. You
just watch how this goes. We're always ahead of the curve.
We're always be wearing the white Tiger. The Bengals are
gonna be wearing their white unis tomorrow. And I'll tell
you this not just because of the white unis, because
the Dolphins have had a real high wire act the
last couple of weeks. The Bengals had to get right
(36:56):
game against the Jets. It's a short week. Give me
the Bengals. They wind this by ten, I'll go further.
I think it's a fourteen seventeen whatever. I think. They
blow them out, white tigers all over the place. Gentleen
Wattle may not play here. That's a big deal. And
I tell you the Bengals uniforms that will be the
biggest topic of conversation. Really ready, Bengals uniforms. Bengals uniforms.
(37:21):
They're gonna look clean and fresh. Twitter And now about
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