December 14, 2022 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss Lionel Messi going full Hulk Mode this entire world cup to launch Argentia into the World Cup Final, remembering the life of Mike Leach and his impact on College Football, LeBron blows a huge lead against the Celtics tonight and so much more!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome inside.
Happy Tuesday, The Jason Smith Show with my bis friend
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we get into Leonel Messi and the World Cup, let
me do. Let me just tell you, let me go.
I want to tell all of you what kind of
fantasy football owner Mike Harmon is. I want to tell
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you all the story about Today, I will tell you
all the story about Mike Carmon. So lets the Fantasy podcast. No, no, yeah,
you kiddy. People are gonna say harm and harm and
harm and Harmon. So Mike and I split a team
in Michael Fabiano's Experts Industry league in Sports Illustrated. Right,
we do the Dynasty League, and we just hey, we
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made that. We made the semifinals twice, and now we're
we're rebuilding for next year. Uh so this year, and
Mike and I each take a lead, like I take
the lead in the Dynasty team and he takes leading
the Sports Illustrated team. So he tells me last night, Hey,
we're out of the playoffs in the Sports Illustrated I said, oh,
realized that. Yeah, I saw we were losing. Yeah, we're
gonna finish seventh. We're out of the playoffs. I said, ah, yeah,
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I mean we won the matchup finished seven and let
me let me finish the story. Let me finish. I
am not I'm not leaving out facts. You will get
your chance. You're gonna try to gut me, you will
get your chance to rebuttle. I can have the court
reporter read it back to you when you're done. So
Harmon says, yeah, we're gonna win, but we're not gonna
make the playoffs. We're out. I'm like, okay, that's too bad.
So I wake up today and I can see a
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bunch of ats and fantasy mentions in my timeline. I'm like, oh,
I'm getting made fun of for missing the playoffs. And
it's all directly off of Fabiano, who says, hey, the
end of the playoff matchups are set for our industry league,
and here are the matchups, and here it is six seed. Uh,
you know Jason Smith, Mike Harmon against And I'm going,
we're in the playoffs? How are we in the playoffs?
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Harmon told me last night we're not in the playoffs.
So I text you, are we in the playoffs? It
looks like we're in the playoffs and you said back
emoji shoulder shrug. I go, okay, let me finish, Let
me finish, go ahead, And then I wait a few minutes,
and I said back to you in all caps, how
have you not found out? Is this or is this
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not your number one priority to figure out if we're
in the playoffs? And it turns out were in the
play And I said, nope, how did you not that
was not your number one priority at that point? We're
in the play We're in the playoffs. No, but but
I didn't because I know you didn't call it what
it is. I just told everybody you didn't know. I didn't, no, no,
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But but let me tell people why I didn't think
we were in. We finished seven and seven. Six teams
finished at least one game ahead of us in terms
of wins losses, But they decided that the sixth place
team was based on total points, which we had a
run of bad luck and actually scored a bunch of
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points in this league. So we end up in the playoffs.
But I would have never thought that in a million years.
But it goes back to the old rule of read reading,
because you never know what kind of dumb, dumb permutation
has been adding. So I think Fabiano for the stupidity
of adding this rule and changing out the logic of
a team having a better record than us, having handed
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us our last loss, is left out and we get
in because of total points because that no, we're not in.
We're out. Okay, wait, we're in. Wait, I don't know.
I don't know if we're in or not. I have
no idea. That's like, that's something I could see happening
to the Jets. We're sorry we didn't make the playoffs. No,
you're in the playoffs? But wait we are? Yeah? Wait?
Oh the extra wild card? Oh you know I lost
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those I lost those six hours of film prep and
everything for this week. Based on the way you were acting,
like are we in? What are we doing? I'm like,
I got another tone? You know you have got that.
You're you're either making glog for or making some kind
of concoction or smoke you don't get older, and which case,
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then you gotta stop what you're doing because I'm about
to ruin. You gotta stop what you're doing and figure
out if we're in the Fantasy playoffs or not. No,
we had it. We had a good pork shoulder going
that in some potatoes number one priority. That worked out
really well. We've been making these cool cheese bombs, so
you roll up with some spice cheese up inside your
crescent rolls and and then you know, dipping sauces and whatever.
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So no, it's it's good. Like we're trying to be
creative and that took precedent and hanging out with my
girls over No, none of that, None of that. Whether
we were ready for Thursday night. Are we in the
Fantasy Playoffs takes precedent over everything else. Yeah, I mean
I knew the other stuff. I survived guillotine, didn't have
to sweat it out like you, and then uh for
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my other league first round by but so you should
have had all your energy on. Ty Shirt would have
had his energy on this watching was not watching the
World Cup. He was figuring out more mashups Christmas basslines
and metal songs and and where he can get disturbed
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in wherever he came. Ty Shirt still doesn't even know
if he can win the World Cup pool that we
have here at work with Morocco. He's ready for tomorrow.
She went, do you know did Morocco plates in air tomorrow?
I hope they didn't play today because I didn't watch. Okay, no, no,
they played? Okay, yeah, so tomorrow I'm ready and I
have figured out tomorrow is my World Cup. It's your world.
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They win tomorrow, it's over. I get the cash, you
win the pool, work, you win the pool? Yes, okay?
And who does Morocco play France? Are you sure that
was good? Okay? All right? If you know, I'm trying
to think, it's been a day and you've got to
figure that out. Morocco, right, if you united, thing is
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it to pull the curtain back? Ty shirt walks around
all the time going Morocco, guys Morocco, Morocco, Morocco, Morocco. Morocci.
Never says Morocco. He just he always Morocco and local
cash or credit for unletted. That's Sonocco. Moroccocco, Morocco. He
watched out all the time, and I'm like, that's like,
that's like the that's like the breadth and depth of
what he knows about the world. That's it's right there.
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That's what it is. Right there. He knows more than
a lot of people just by by knowing that it's true.
But speaking of the World Cup, all right, the Jason
Smith's with Mike Carmen Live and the tirect Cod Studios,
there was one name, there was one story today and
it was one more chance, one final World Cup for
Leonel Messi to potentially win with Argentina. On the referee's
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official you got out of change, let's go. The thing
is as soon as you played that, I knew it
was the final call of Morocco. That's how often you've
bleep and played this thing the last few days, going
as soon as I hear all eyes on the referee,
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here's a Morocco Cup. You know, sometimes our system gets
like a race and stuff gets removed. I saved this
in so many places until I'm gone from this network.
You're hearing that, Hey you got that? Allen iverson practice ran? Yeah,
play all eyes on the referee? What the hell is
going on here? Uh? Yeah, No, it is all about
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Messi and Argentina. We'll take it. And there was on
Fox earlier today Messy with a goal. He had an
amazing assist. And you see the picture going around uh
today of him with one of his teammates from ten
years ago when he posed for a selfie with him
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when he was ten years old. Calvarezi scored today. I
mean it was just an amazing run. And I know
that people are saying, Okay, this looks like it's Messy's
World Cup. It's Messi's World Cup. He's faded its destiny. Um,
I'm going I'm going with Argentina regardless of who wins tomorrow.
But I'm going a little bit different. I'm not just saying, oh,
it looks like it's Messi's World Cup. Messy is different.
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I mean we've seen him throughout this World Cup. Forget
about the fact he's thirty five and he's still the
best player in the world. Right thirty five, he's a
better player than players, you know, ten years younger than
he's been this World Cup. He's different. He is someone
who has avoided all kinds of controversy, not spoken about
it throughout his career. And what have we seen at
the World Cup? Him complaining about referees, him plaining about coach,
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didn't like the Dutch coach and you know tell you know,
didn't like one reporter that was gonna ask him a question.
He wouldn't shake hand to the Dutch coach. He wanted
the reporter to get out, and he called him names.
He has been very chappy, and he's just been full
of of of of of ire, and he's been pissed
the entire World Cup. Now, part of you could say,
well he should be like this every World Cup, maybe
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they were have one more, but there's just something different
about him. Now. This is a side to Messy we
haven't seen. And this is a guy who was absolutely
motivated knowing this is my last chance, and he's just
been mad the entire time. Normally, when I see emotion
in a sport, I go, okay, it's great, all right,
it's great. The here emotional and oh yeah, they're they're
gonna win because they're mad. Now you get out in
the field and you have to actually, you know, actually
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put down and actually do it. You can't just say,
oh boy, this guy's mad. He's going to win. But
this is a different Messy. It's different from anything we've
seen with him. And yeah, whether it's France or Morocco tomorrow,
I'm going with Argentina to win and Messy to just
put that cap on his career and then people will
be able to call him the greatest of all time
and there will be hardly any debate between he and
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Christiano Ronaldo. Yeah, not to uh put any rain on
the parade of the Morocco fans and supporters like Tisher.
As he astutely pointed out, Uh Messy did avoid uh
jail time memory had his twenty one month prison sentence
for the tax fraud from five years ago, so that
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one's still always circling out there between him Ronaldo. Hell,
there's a long laundry list at Shakira at a bunch
of other folks like you get fined instead. What uh
so you got that going? So he needs to be evasive.
What was interesting is like he looked and he was
like he was playing possum early in the game. Oh,
he's injured. They have a lot of conversation, he's injured,
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and then all of a sudden he's like turbo Uh
in rerecord Ralph going after um. So while watching him
work in that first penalty, Uh, first goal, I'm off
the big penalty. The goalie, who has been so brilliant
all of the Cup decides, well, he's he's got to
stop by any means necessary. So he exposed himself to
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a big, big collision, and Messy took care of business
and a lot of chirping, a lot of aggerants. It's
akin to kind of what we've seen with some of
the older quarterbacks and the gesturing and the pointing and
slamming of stuff. Just the same kind of thing here
with the ability to finish. And we've seen so much
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change because I mean complaining about the referees. They got
sent home, right, those guys got kicked out. I don't
like this. We'll get rid of him for you. Then
you'll get one. You get one. You looked at me. Funny,
you get one and then well I got and beat
it here out of here. So now it's Messy. And
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you know, in in their best world, we always do
this with every sport. Uh, you know they want this matchup.
All right, we need Dodgers Yankees, or we need you know,
Mets Yankees, or we need Lakers to be relevant, or
the Cowboys to make a run, or whatever the case is.
In this case, if you can get Messy versus Zimbabe,
you've got exactly what you want in terms of that
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that massive draw because that even cuts through here in America.
Oh yeah, the rest of the world watching. But you
want you you want those extra America ratings and and
well there, that's that's where you get them. I mean, yeah,
you want to see well look Messi being in regardless
like that, Like that's that's what you want, because that's
what's gonna get the entire world turning. Here's the best
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player for the past fifteen years. Look, there's a big
debate between he and Christiano Ronaldo and I get it.
And if Messi wins, then suddenly that goes away, because hey,
I'm winning the World Cup when I'm thirty five years old. Okay,
I'm putting that that big stamp on my on my career.
He's won four other championships as well, so yeah, you
have the superstar you need. Now. France would have much
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more star power. Morocco would be the little the little team,
you know, the little guy done good and and and
coming up. And here's here's a big shocker. I don't
think that's gonna happen tomorrow. I think France is gonna
wind up winning because Morocco played crappy, and I mean
they were they were so they were a one horrible
goalkeeping play away I mean from from winning. It was.
They were dominated the entire game. What they of minnesing man,
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it doesn't matter one play away from losing. But you know,
you get what you need and you get messy in
the final. And this is gonna be it because he
just is dialed in unlike he's ever been before. He's
always been half I lose it. Remember when he thought
he was gonna retire like eight years ago. This might
be it. I don't know if I want to play anymore.
You know, he's he's never seeked out that kind of
controversial spotlight before and That's the thing is that, Yeah,
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you know, you bring up the tax issue we had
and and and those are big stories, but he's never
seeked out. Hey, I'm gonna talk about how bad I
think the refs are. I'm gonna talk about how pissed
I am about the Dutch coach. You know, I'm gonna
talk about how mad I am at this reporter, and
I want him to take off. He's eyeing me as
I'm giving an interview here like he's never done that.
Like it's like I feel like he's dialed in, like
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he hasn't been in any other tournament because it's just
his personnel pickup for Ronaldo, because Ronaldo, you know, being
salty and whatever didn't matter because he was benched. So
now he had to become the villain. I'm just kidding. Obviously,
you know that the next phases then to cash in
on the MLS. So we'll see him here. Maybe that'll
be there. He holds up the World Cup and then
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then he rips off his jersey and he's wearing an
l A Galaxy jersey. I'm coming up. It's coming home.
It's coming home, It's coming home. That would be awesome,
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have more on the World Cup coming up in a
couple of minutes, and we'll get to telling you we've
had a big legend. We have to remember here, but
this tweet fifteen minutes old, Mike Carmen Ken Rosenthal, the
real Ken Rosenthal, with the real blue check mark and
everything next to his name, Like a lot of us
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have the blue check marks that say we may or
may not be notable. That that's how my house would
look at me. Yeah, Jason, may or may not be notable.
Ken Rosenthal tweets out that the new team showing interest
in Carlos Correa, they would sign him and move him
to third base to play a long side his fellow
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native of Puerto Rico Francisco Lindor. I feel like welcome
in the New York man, come on in if you will,
Blockbuster move tonight here as we get ready for a
big tag team. Ab out uh. So Mets are interested
in Carlos Korea, that would be the move. They'd move
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him to third base. Get that payroll up over five
hundred million dollars. Now we'll go get Otani. Get that
thing going up towards a billion. Because we are the Mets,
we take what we want. If we want your player,
we will take your player. If we don't want your player,
consider yourself lucky touched by a god that we left
you alone. But if we want York But we will
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take him. We take what we want. Because when you
pass that three million dollar payroll and you have an
owner that says, I don't care. I want to win.
That's why I love having a fan as an owner,
because he's like, I'm worth eighteen billion dollars. You can't
take it with you. I want to win the World Series.
Let's just keep spending, spending, spending, spend it all. Let's
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give it up. He's just throwing money out the window
right now to free agents grabbed it. We get Carlos Carrea.
Oh my god, I don't care. He's part of that
cheating scandal because he's gonna help us win. I don't care.
Just like Jim Bay him says, I want to win.
I don't care who plays. I want to win. I
don't care who plays. He basically says uh. When you
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reach for a comment, Cohen said, recession, my Atson, let's
go and maybe next year it's double because he'll go
and find the best free agents next year. Show Tommy,
just go down the list. He's like just picking guys off. Look,
it's the the interesting process as we watch the the
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separation of squads and everybody laments it. The cost of
doing business and being at having a seat at the
table is immens So if you're not ready to compete,
to try to go into the marketplace and know that
you're going to have to back up another brainstruck to
bring in players, be aggressive and do all those things,
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then you know what, divest yourself or bring out other
money people and you you can be the minority owner
after you sell off enough of it. Because that's where
we're at. You've got three or four teams that pile
up cash, and that doesn't mean you can't be competitive
and and have lower budgets. We've seen it. We've watched
the Rays year after year put up some pretty good runs, right,
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and actually finish the job once. But it's just the
the idea that you're you're looking at trying to that's
got to be perfect on a yearly basis, otherwise you
sink away. Right, I'll always say I'll trade those two
Marlin's World Series. I'll keep those and have years of
terrible baseball for the glory of those two runs. Co
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And is just saying, all right, I got the money
to go do it, So sending notice to all other
owners like you, you want to compete. Uh he we're
we're coming in and we're spending big. And now you've
got a zag. I want to I don't care who plays.
I really don't. It makes no difference to me. Oh
but Jason Zach Wilson, I love Mike White. I want
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to win. I don't care who plays. I don't care
if Joe Flacco plays and we win. I really don't.
I really don't. I will love I will love you,
and then if you stink or you can't play, I
will love the next guy who plays and is good.
I am absolutely all about that life. That is my
life as a fan of my card. Okay, I love you,
Oh but you yeah, you stink? So hey, I love you. Now.
That's exactly how it should go. You don't have to
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wind up being beholden to anybody. Naa, no, no, I
love who you want. That's all. I love who you
want like that. It's like the world in the sixties. Man,
it's love that hey man, instead free love of the
sixties man, just love who you what if you can't
be with the one you love, man, then love the
third basement slash short stuff that you're with it. It's
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ca corea love the one that takes the money. I mean,
look at the rains A, l d S Lost World Series,
Lost A, l DS Lost A Wild Cards. So I
mean you've got opportunities to where you're at least in
play with a lower payroll. It can be done, but
it's got to be perfection and everything has to work right,
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and you've got to have depth and you're scouting whatever.
How many teams can claim that right, It's like we
watched the NFL year after year, how many teams have
any continuity? Six eight Beyond that, it's a you got
a new coach, you got new GM. Wait, that new
GM was hired two years ago, and you're already trying
to fire them. Hell, we're looking at Arizona. They just
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resigned their coach GM and we can't get them fired
fast enough. So it's it's the same principle. So for
the Mets to to go all in and just keep saying,
all right, who else is out there? And you want
to compete with us? If nothing else, You're you're trying
to drive up the bidding of it all because maybe
maybe the taxation is enough. I mean because on a
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four hundred million dollar contract, I mean that's that's forty
million dollars that goes just to state taxes. Maybe that's
enough to keep Corea away, you know, and it's not likely.
And look, and I like this strategy because you know why,
because this is a strategy that I always would subscribe
to when I was a kid. Okay, well not kid,
when I was the kid, right, And this is like
what you were when I was the kid, like Korea
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is because listen, I always said, Okay, you know what,
at some point I'll shoot my shot. I may not win,
but I got to pick the right time for it. Right.
The Mets going after Carlos Correa right now, okay, and
this is hey, Carlos Correa is the hottest girl in school.
Let's just say, right, take you back, take you back
to the kid's day, right, whether it's high school, college,
a days back the pass glory day. And so what
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did you do with the speedball? I can throw that
speedball by it. I can throw it about seventy when
I was throwing. It's pretty good. Okay. I just laid
that up to let you do whatever you're gonna do
with that term. Now. I look, I was an infielder,
man I was. I was a short stop. I was
a third baseman. No, I was. I was good, man,
I could. I would hit that speedball. I had trouble
with the curveball. Not let me. I'll be a hunter
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percent honest. I was a really good hitter until suddenly, Oh,
these kids can throw curves really well, and I could
never make them throw it for a strike. I just couldn't.
I don't know, I just didn't have the plate discipline,
and I would just wave at the curveball like if
I could just make them throw it for a strike,
it would be different. And I couldn't do it, man,
I couldn't lay off it. I couldn't. It was just
like it was right there was a big piece of cheese.
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It was like I couldn't, man, I couldn't sitting there
waiting for you. But I was gonna get it. Man,
I was gonna get that you threw that fastball, I
was gonna get it. But then when you started throwing
a curve, I wasn't gonna get it. That was that
was And tie it to the little Shop of Horrors
reference I made yesterday about reaching in and being consumed
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by the plant because you wanted that big max. Same
thing here, Venus, but you liked it. I liked the once.
But here's the But here's the thing. This is Carlos
Corea being the hottest girl in school and everybody thinking, well,
she's going to the dance with you know whoever, the
quarterback or good the good looking loser who wears a
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denim jacket and doesn't go to class and smoked cigarettes
in the hallway in between class. And it's like, yeah, man,
that's me. I'm gonna go. You wanna go hang out
behind the school at the end, smoked cigarettes? Like that's
who she's gonna wind up going with, right, because that's
what that's that was. That was my look. And then
after a little while you find out, oh yeah, yeah,
I'm not really panto. What's going on? So is this
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who's she going to dance with? Um? I don't think
she's going with anybody? What do you mean? I heard that?
Nobody's asked. Wait, but what about what about the guy
smoking the cigarettes in the hallway? Oh you mean Mike Harmon? Yeah, no, no, no,
he's not going to dance. He can't go. He got
grounded white. He was gambling, and the teacher the cigarettes.
The teachers found out he was gambling for cigarettes in between,
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like people gambling in prison when they're betting for they're
betting cigarettes. Right, we're going straight out of Shawshank Redemption.
Now line them up, boys, I bet a whole pack
of cigarettes on this, And I'm all in, heyward, and
you wait, right, and you wait, and you said, there
go wait, no one's asking, no one's asking, no one's
ask and you go and you go why don't I
ask her the worst com where she can say is no, right?
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The worst? Now, I wouldn't just walk up and how
are you doing? My I'm I'm I'm Jason. You pretty
would you go to the now? You gotta come up?
That might worry? That never worked? Well, I mean you've
really exposed your soft underpelli of power, and some folks
might just decide to take advantage of. Look, look I
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got elite, I need a car. I gotta need a
shot corsage. I'm gonna and you're gonna have to get
me some jewelry that's gonna accompany this dress that you
will also have to come with me to purchase. You know,
I drive a Vet. Really, I'm going Hey, you said
this was a vet. Yeah, it's a Chevette. Well, what's
wrong with that? Wait? I said it was a vent.
You choose to believe Corvette. No, I gotta lead with
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my Novaya Driva. Wait it doesn't go no marketing. No, No,
you gotta lead with your strength. So I gotta lead
with my with my charm and personality. I mean that
that's me. I mean that that's my that's my you
know that that's my dream? Shake you know like that's
my mood, Like that's my person. I get to know
you a little bit, dream shake, that's what it's my
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jan it's my Jordan fade away, right, it's what it is.
So I gotta lead with that. I get to know
and then I and then I asked her. She says yes.
Everybody goes wow. And I walked by them all and
I do the shrunk as I go down to what
you want me to do. I'm hot where And that's
exactly what the Mets are doing. Okay, we're gonna do this.
We're gonna do this, do this. Hey, Carlos Kreig is
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still out there. Why the blank not because we're the
blank in Mets and we're spending money. We have to
fill our third. But let's go get him. Let's go
get him, and let's go bring him in and he's
gonna be our third basement and will sign him. He's
twenty eight years old, he's not thirty eight, which is
most of them Met sign things. So he's actually gonna
bring the age of the team down if they do
get him. But that's exactly what they're doing. Hey, he's
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still out there, he's taking his time. He couldn't find
a deal. Maybe there's a little bit of of a
period of how how much do you want to get
in on an Astros guy? Oh no, no, he's out there,
go get I don't care. I want to win. And
the Mets got the fever. Right now, they got the fever,
and it's like, let's just keep betting. But bet bat
bet Carlos Correa. If the Mets get Carlos Correa, Steve
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Cohen can walk around. He should be carried around New
York in a throne with with a big hat on
an a scepter, and it would be the iron throne
from Game of Thrones, except it's in blue and orange
colors to signify the Mets. And you carry him right
down Fifth Avenue and he's just throwing money at the crowd, going,
now they gotta go play, Now, they gotta go play.
Here you go, everybody, Here you go. And he's wearing
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that maybe the crown is like a big Mets hattan
it's blue and orange at the n Y logo on it,
and he's just throwing catch out, going yes you love me,
look at what I'm doing. Look at the Yankees ending
hood about aera judge, Oh, you know what to give
him three million I give out three million dollar deals
for breakfast, Carlos Carea. That's an easy thing for me. Alright.
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A couple of things, not number one. I like the
Game of Thrones thing in the Mets colors or whatever
your team colors are. I mean, think about the photo
ops that you can sell to fans five bucks. Come
get your picture on the throne. And then you you
pile that up and either it's a charitable contribution or
buys you another shortstop. And then you look at the
the idea that you also have with the crown. Why
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is there not a Mr met themed ball cap? And
I'm not saying a picture of Mr Mett on a
ball cap you have that, we've seen that. I mean
one that is like Mickey Mouse ears where it's now
Mr Met is the larger part of that. Okay, I'm
with you, I'm with you. I'm with you. Yeah, I'm
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all about trying to turn out people's pockets, buddy, whatever
we can do. I like that maybe the throne should
be carried by Mr and Mrs Met are just four
Mr Mets by four one Mr Mett carrying each corner.
I like that, and not see. I'm gonna make that happen.
Triplets in the off season for Mr Mets, that would
usually mean that they're coming to an end because they
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added more kids. You know, at this point, you would
think Mr and Mrs Mett have more kids, right you
only you see Mr and Mrs Metted games, but you
never see like, look, and how adorable would that be?
A little baseball head, a little big baseball head, A
little kid running around that would be adorable. Mr Mrs Baby,
little net baby, get a little Mr met baby here
it is. Maybe it's just because someone you have to
have somebody that's that's not as tall, and maybe the
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head is so heavy it would just like they just
fall over on it. But maybe you need to be
a certain height, like yeah, we gotta be like six
ft tall to be Mr. Met And how many kids
are six ft tall when they're you know, not quite
in their their teams yet. So it's kind of hard
to do because the person just comes out and just
keeps falling over because the head is too heavy. Blue
blue blue blue, blue blue blue. That could be a
big thing. You know what, I'm gonna tweet a Steve
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Cohen and ask him that question. Be sure that catch
live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
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What time is the Morocco game tomorrow? Your Morocco they're
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playing whenever they're scheduled to be on TV? Yes, yes,
what time is that? I believe it's an early game game. Okay,
what time like either Eastern time or West Coast time.
I'm assuming that it would be Eastern time, so three
hours before then for us. Well, it's it's always, there's
always Eastern time. Okay, it's just what time is it?
Probably God's time, which is Mountain time. That's okay, very
what time is it? It's got Mountain time? Yeah, that's
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a probably nine. I'm sure there's a time in Eastern time. Sure,
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An absolute huge loss in the world of college football
today as Mike Leach died at the age of sixty one.
He was in declining health since suffering a huge medical
emergency a few days ago. There were sports that he
died early yesterday, and then they were refuted and negated.
And then when you woke up this morning, you probably
saw the news that Mike Leach died at the age
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of sixty one, which is so incredibly young. Uh. He
he was such a great head coach and you've probably
heard all day all the stories. You remember what kind
of a character he was, right the guy he would
have a pirate on his shoulder. His entire office was
decorated in in pirates gear, and and you know he
would have incredibly, incredibly interesting press conference where he would
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answer any questions. Uh, the big famous Pack twelve press
conference where he talked about which of the mascots would
win in a war. Well, you know, a cougar is
gonna win because you know, a cougar is really smart.
You know, forget about a trojan. Is the guy on
a horse is he not? You know, all the great
and fun quirky things about Mike Leach because you've seen
him over the course of the past twenty five years
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with that. But the one thing, honestly, Mike, and and
this is what I was thinking about today, is that
I want people to know what a bleep and great
head coach that this guy was, because that's gonna overshadow
his quirkiness and his fun, which of course is great.
But you know what, this is a guy who won
at Texas Tech, at Washington State and Mississippi State, three
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places where it is impossible to win over the course
of a few years. These are stepping stone schools for
guys who come and want to win for a year
or two and then make that big leap. Hey, this
guy was six and six at Washington State. Then he
was nine and three. Hey, we gotta hire him, right,
But he won over the course of time at all
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three schools. And again this is not I wanted Alabama,
and I wanted Florida, and I want you that's not
Urban Meyer. While I wanted Florida, I wanted Ohio State.
Now this is Texas Tech, which is what in the
Big twelve, the eighth biggest, biggest school, and he had
a run where he won at least nine, eight or
nine games for each of the last seven years he
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was there. Right then he went to Washington State and yeah,
a couple of tough years, but then he had four
straight years of eight, nine, nine and eleven wins. And
then he goes to Mississippi State and he was there
for three years and he went four and seven. Then
he was seven and six. Now he's eight and four
and was going to the relian Quest Bowl. The guy
has been to seventeen bowls and twenty one years. He
has won at places where you can't sustain winning, it
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is impossible to and he's a guy that did that right,
eleven and two year with Texas Tech, eleven and two
year with Washington State. I mean, that's amazing and that
I don't want that to get lost and everything about
him today because this guy was a great head coach.
Wasn't just one place he he hit Biggs. Oh, he
wanted Texas Tech and then he kind of coached on
that success. No, he won a Texas Tech, he won
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at Wazoo, and he won with Mississippi State. An amazing,
amazing career. Yeah, I mean we could go on and
on with the different stories and press conferences. There's a
couple of clips. I know you and I have both
kind of circled in and some of the stories circling.
But when you get down to it as a coach, right,
I know there was also a thread that I started
reading going down that rabbit hole is he finished just
(33:25):
shy at a six winning percentage for his career, which
disqualifies him from Hall of Fame consideration, which is just assinine. Uh.
And you look at the coaching tree and the number
of guys that worked under him that have gone on
to become such prominent dominant coaches. Whether you like Cliff
Kingsbury he or not, he's part of the tree. Lincoln Riley,
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who's been um a masterful coach. Right, We've watched it
time and time again. You saw what he did coming
to USC, uh, Dave Randa and just keep going on
down the line. All these guys that had success. You
know that that came out out of his system. The
air raid and all the the big breakdowns that he
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would do because I mean, he loved to talk football
and and so many journalists have come forward with the
stories of you know, helping to teach you know, along
the way as they got we're covering the beat and
we're new reporters, and he was welcoming it when always
generous with his time. But the the idea of you
know what he did recruiting wise, right, if he got
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out on the trail, there was nobody he didn't think
he could close, always be closing was essentially written about
this guy on the recruiting trail because once he got you, uh,
he showed the interest and got you talking. And it
was just one of those uh guys that was electrified
a room. So it's it's a huge loss for the sport.
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And I just you know, it's one of those examples again, Jason,
when we see such luminaries in our sporting world, uh,
and they passed away. You see all these stories and
all the lives that they touched, and you hope to
that you get point one percent of those when your
time comes. Yeah, I mean, it's just look, he was
at practice on Saturday, right, I mean that that's how
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fast it was. He was at practice on Saturday, and
and here we are three days later and we're talking
about the life of Mike Leach and it it happened
just that fast. It really was. I'm still in shock
of because this guy was a larger than life personality
and and here we are talking about his life in
his career. But man, I'll tell you we can have
the fun. Let's talk about the fun. But this guy
was an unbelievable head coach, unbelievable twitter at how about
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me do. Let me just tell you, let me go.
I want to tell all of you what kind of
fantasy football owner Mike Harmon is. I want to tell
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you all the story about Today, I will tell you
all the story about Mike Carmon. So lets the Fantasy podcast. No, no, yeah,
you kiddy. People are gonna say harm and harm and
harm and Harmon. So Mike and I split a team
in Michael Fabiano's Experts Industry league in Sports Illustrated. Right,
we do the Dynasty League, and we just hey, we
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made that. We made the semifinals twice, and now we're
we're rebuilding for next year. Uh so this year, and
Mike and I each take a lead, like I take
the lead in the Dynasty team and he takes leading
the Sports Illustrated team. So he tells me last night, Hey,
we're out of the playoffs in the Sports Illustrated I said, oh,
realized that. Yeah, I saw we were losing. Yeah, we're
gonna finish seventh. We're out of the playoffs. I said, ah, yeah,
(01:49):
I mean we won the matchup finished seven and let
me let me finish the story. Let me finish. I
am not I'm not leaving out facts. You will get
your chance. You're gonna try to gut me, you will
get your chance to rebuttle. I can have the court
reporter read it back to you when you're done. So
Harmon says, yeah, we're gonna win, but we're not gonna
make the playoffs. We're out. I'm like, okay, that's too bad.
So I wake up today and I can see a
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bunch of ats and fantasy mentions in my timeline. I'm like, oh,
I'm getting made fun of for missing the playoffs. And
it's all directly off of Fabiano, who says, hey, the
end of the playoff matchups are set for our industry league,
and here are the matchups, and here it is six seed. Uh,
you know Jason Smith, Mike Harmon against And I'm going,
we're in the playoffs? How are we in the playoffs?
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Harmon told me last night we're not in the playoffs.
So I text you, are we in the playoffs? It
looks like we're in the playoffs and you said back
emoji shoulder shrug. I go, okay, let me finish, Let
me finish, go ahead, And then I wait a few minutes,
and I said back to you in all caps, how
have you not found out? Is this or is this
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not your number one priority to figure out if we're
in the playoffs? And it turns out were in the
play And I said, nope, how did you not that
was not your number one priority at that point? We're
in the play We're in the playoffs. No, but but
I didn't because I know you didn't call it what
it is. I just told everybody you didn't know. I didn't, no, no,
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But but let me tell people why I didn't think
we were in. We finished seven and seven. Six teams
finished at least one game ahead of us in terms
of wins losses, But they decided that the sixth place
team was based on total points, which we had a
run of bad luck and actually scored a bunch of
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points in this league. So we end up in the playoffs.
But I would have never thought that in a million years.
But it goes back to the old rule of read reading,
because you never know what kind of dumb, dumb permutation
has been adding. So I think Fabiano for the stupidity
of adding this rule and changing out the logic of
a team having a better record than us, having handed
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us our last loss, is left out and we get
in because of total points because that no, we're not in.
We're out. Okay, wait, we're in. Wait, I don't know.
I don't know if we're in or not. I have
no idea. That's like, that's something I could see happening
to the Jets. We're sorry we didn't make the playoffs. No,
you're in the playoffs? But wait we are? Yeah? Wait?
Oh the extra wild card? Oh you know I lost
(04:21):
those I lost those six hours of film prep and
everything for this week. Based on the way you were acting,
like are we in? What are we doing? I'm like,
I got another tone? You know you have got that.
You're you're either making glog for or making some kind
of concoction or smoke you don't get older, and which case,
(04:41):
then you gotta stop what you're doing because I'm about
to ruin. You gotta stop what you're doing and figure
out if we're in the Fantasy playoffs or not. No,
we had it. We had a good pork shoulder going
that in some potatoes number one priority. That worked out
really well. We've been making these cool cheese bombs, so
you roll up with some spice cheese up inside your
crescent rolls and and then you know, dipping sauces and whatever.
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So no, it's it's good. Like we're trying to be
creative and that took precedent and hanging out with my
girls over No, none of that, None of that. Whether
we were ready for Thursday night. Are we in the
Fantasy Playoffs takes precedent over everything else. Yeah, I mean
I knew the other stuff. I survived guillotine, didn't have
to sweat it out like you, and then uh for
(05:27):
my other league first round by but so you should
have had all your energy on. Ty Shirt would have
had his energy on this watching was not watching the
World Cup. He was figuring out more mashups Christmas basslines
and metal songs and and where he can get disturbed
(05:47):
in wherever he came. Ty Shirt still doesn't even know
if he can win the World Cup pool that we
have here at work with Morocco. He's ready for tomorrow.
She went, do you know did Morocco plates in air tomorrow?
I hope they didn't play today because I didn't watch. Okay, no, no,
they played? Okay, yeah, so tomorrow I'm ready and I
have figured out tomorrow is my World Cup. It's your world.
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They win tomorrow, it's over. I get the cash, you
win the pool, work, you win the pool? Yes, okay?
And who does Morocco play France? Are you sure that
was good? Okay? All right? If you know, I'm trying
to think, it's been a day and you've got to
figure that out. Morocco, right, if you united, thing is
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it to pull the curtain back? Ty shirt walks around
all the time going Morocco, guys Morocco, Morocco, Morocco, Morocco. Morocci.
Never says Morocco. He just he always Morocco and local
cash or credit for unletted. That's Sonocco. Moroccocco, Morocco. He
watched out all the time, and I'm like, that's like,
that's like the that's like the breadth and depth of
what he knows about the world. That's it's right there.
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That's what it is. Right there. He knows more than
a lot of people just by by knowing that it's true.
But speaking of the World Cup, all right, the Jason
Smith's with Mike Carmen Live and the tirect Cod Studios,
there was one name, there was one story today and
it was one more chance, one final World Cup for
Leonel Messi to potentially win with Argentina. On the referee's
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official you got out of change, let's go. The thing
is as soon as you played that, I knew it
was the final call of Morocco. That's how often you've
bleep and played this thing the last few days, going
as soon as I hear all eyes on the referee,
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here's a Morocco Cup. You know, sometimes our system gets
like a race and stuff gets removed. I saved this
in so many places until I'm gone from this network.
You're hearing that, Hey you got that? Allen iverson practice ran? Yeah,
play all eyes on the referee? What the hell is
going on here? Uh? Yeah, No, it is all about
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Messi and Argentina. We'll take it. And there was on
Fox earlier today Messy with a goal. He had an
amazing assist. And you see the picture going around uh
today of him with one of his teammates from ten
years ago when he posed for a selfie with him
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when he was ten years old. Calvarezi scored today. I
mean it was just an amazing run. And I know
that people are saying, Okay, this looks like it's Messy's
World Cup. It's Messi's World Cup. He's faded its destiny. Um,
I'm going I'm going with Argentina regardless of who wins tomorrow.
But I'm going a little bit different. I'm not just saying, oh,
it looks like it's Messi's World Cup. Messy is different.
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I mean we've seen him throughout this World Cup. Forget
about the fact he's thirty five and he's still the
best player in the world. Right thirty five, he's a
better player than players, you know, ten years younger than
he's been this World Cup. He's different. He is someone
who has avoided all kinds of controversy, not spoken about
it throughout his career. And what have we seen at
the World Cup? Him complaining about referees, him plaining about coach,
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didn't like the Dutch coach and you know tell you know,
didn't like one reporter that was gonna ask him a question.
He wouldn't shake hand to the Dutch coach. He wanted
the reporter to get out, and he called him names.
He has been very chappy, and he's just been full
of of of of of ire, and he's been pissed
the entire World Cup. Now, part of you could say,
well he should be like this every World Cup, maybe
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they were have one more, but there's just something different
about him. Now. This is a side to Messy we
haven't seen. And this is a guy who was absolutely
motivated knowing this is my last chance, and he's just
been mad the entire time. Normally, when I see emotion
in a sport, I go, okay, it's great, all right,
it's great. The here emotional and oh yeah, they're they're
gonna win because they're mad. Now you get out in
the field and you have to actually, you know, actually
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put down and actually do it. You can't just say,
oh boy, this guy's mad. He's going to win. But
this is a different Messy. It's different from anything we've
seen with him. And yeah, whether it's France or Morocco tomorrow,
I'm going with Argentina to win and Messy to just
put that cap on his career and then people will
be able to call him the greatest of all time
and there will be hardly any debate between he and
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Christiano Ronaldo. Yeah, not to uh put any rain on
the parade of the Morocco fans and supporters like Tisher.
As he astutely pointed out, Uh Messy did avoid uh
jail time memory had his twenty one month prison sentence
for the tax fraud from five years ago, so that
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one's still always circling out there between him Ronaldo. Hell,
there's a long laundry list at Shakira at a bunch
of other folks like you get fined instead. What uh
so you got that going? So he needs to be evasive.
What was interesting is like he looked and he was
like he was playing possum early in the game. Oh,
he's injured. They have a lot of conversation, he's injured,
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and then all of a sudden he's like turbo Uh
in rerecord Ralph going after um. So while watching him
work in that first penalty, Uh, first goal, I'm off
the big penalty. The goalie, who has been so brilliant
all of the Cup decides, well, he's he's got to
stop by any means necessary. So he exposed himself to
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a big, big collision, and Messy took care of business
and a lot of chirping, a lot of aggerants. It's
akin to kind of what we've seen with some of
the older quarterbacks and the gesturing and the pointing and
slamming of stuff. Just the same kind of thing here
with the ability to finish. And we've seen so much
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change because I mean complaining about the referees. They got
sent home, right, those guys got kicked out. I don't
like this. We'll get rid of him for you. Then
you'll get one. You get one. You looked at me. Funny,
you get one and then well I got and beat
it here out of here. So now it's Messy. And
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you know, in in their best world, we always do
this with every sport. Uh, you know they want this matchup.
All right, we need Dodgers Yankees, or we need you know,
Mets Yankees, or we need Lakers to be relevant, or
the Cowboys to make a run, or whatever the case is.
In this case, if you can get Messy versus Zimbabe,
you've got exactly what you want in terms of that
(12:16):
that massive draw because that even cuts through here in America.
Oh yeah, the rest of the world watching. But you
want you you want those extra America ratings and and
well there, that's that's where you get them. I mean, yeah,
you want to see well look Messi being in regardless
like that, Like that's that's what you want, because that's
what's gonna get the entire world turning. Here's the best
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player for the past fifteen years. Look, there's a big
debate between he and Christiano Ronaldo and I get it.
And if Messi wins, then suddenly that goes away, because hey,
I'm winning the World Cup when I'm thirty five years old. Okay,
I'm putting that that big stamp on my on my career.
He's won four other championships as well, so yeah, you
have the superstar you need. Now. France would have much
(12:59):
more star power. Morocco would be the little the little team,
you know, the little guy done good and and and
coming up. And here's here's a big shocker. I don't
think that's gonna happen tomorrow. I think France is gonna
wind up winning because Morocco played crappy, and I mean
they were they were so they were a one horrible
goalkeeping play away I mean from from winning. It was.
They were dominated the entire game. What they of minnesing man,
(13:23):
it doesn't matter one play away from losing. But you know,
you get what you need and you get messy in
the final. And this is gonna be it because he
just is dialed in unlike he's ever been before. He's
always been half I lose it. Remember when he thought
he was gonna retire like eight years ago. This might
be it. I don't know if I want to play anymore.
You know, he's he's never seeked out that kind of
controversial spotlight before and That's the thing is that, Yeah,
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you know, you bring up the tax issue we had
and and and those are big stories, but he's never
seeked out. Hey, I'm gonna talk about how bad I
think the refs are. I'm gonna talk about how pissed
I am about the Dutch coach. You know, I'm gonna
talk about how mad I am at this reporter, and
I want him to take off. He's eyeing me as
I'm giving an interview here like he's never done that.
Like it's like I feel like he's dialed in, like
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he hasn't been in any other tournament because it's just
his personnel pickup for Ronaldo, because Ronaldo, you know, being
salty and whatever didn't matter because he was benched. So
now he had to become the villain. I'm just kidding. Obviously,
you know that the next phases then to cash in
on the MLS. So we'll see him here. Maybe that'll
be there. He holds up the World Cup and then
(14:27):
then he rips off his jersey and he's wearing an
l A Galaxy jersey. I'm coming up. It's coming home.
It's coming home, It's coming home. That would be awesome,
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(14:51):
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(15:13):
have more on the World Cup coming up in a
couple of minutes, and we'll get to telling you we've
had a big legend. We have to remember here, but
this tweet fifteen minutes old, Mike Carmen Ken Rosenthal, the
real Ken Rosenthal, with the real blue check mark and
everything next to his name, Like a lot of us
(15:35):
have the blue check marks that say we may or
may not be notable. That that's how my house would
look at me. Yeah, Jason, may or may not be notable.
Ken Rosenthal tweets out that the new team showing interest
in Carlos Correa, they would sign him and move him
to third base to play a long side his fellow
(16:00):
native of Puerto Rico Francisco Lindor. I feel like welcome
in the New York man, come on in if you will,
Blockbuster move tonight here as we get ready for a
big tag team. Ab out uh. So Mets are interested
in Carlos Korea, that would be the move. They'd move
(16:21):
him to third base. Get that payroll up over five
hundred million dollars. Now we'll go get Otani. Get that
thing going up towards a billion. Because we are the Mets,
we take what we want. If we want your player,
we will take your player. If we don't want your player,
consider yourself lucky touched by a god that we left
you alone. But if we want York But we will
(16:42):
take him. We take what we want. Because when you
pass that three million dollar payroll and you have an
owner that says, I don't care. I want to win.
That's why I love having a fan as an owner,
because he's like, I'm worth eighteen billion dollars. You can't
take it with you. I want to win the World Series.
Let's just keep spending, spending, spending, spend it all. Let's
(17:03):
give it up. He's just throwing money out the window
right now to free agents grabbed it. We get Carlos Carrea.
Oh my god, I don't care. He's part of that
cheating scandal because he's gonna help us win. I don't care.
Just like Jim Bay him says, I want to win.
I don't care who plays. I want to win. I
don't care who plays. He basically says uh. When you
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reach for a comment, Cohen said, recession, my Atson, let's
go and maybe next year it's double because he'll go
and find the best free agents next year. Show Tommy,
just go down the list. He's like just picking guys off. Look,
it's the the interesting process as we watch the the
(17:50):
separation of squads and everybody laments it. The cost of
doing business and being at having a seat at the
table is immens So if you're not ready to compete,
to try to go into the marketplace and know that
you're going to have to back up another brainstruck to
bring in players, be aggressive and do all those things,
(18:12):
then you know what, divest yourself or bring out other
money people and you you can be the minority owner
after you sell off enough of it. Because that's where
we're at. You've got three or four teams that pile
up cash, and that doesn't mean you can't be competitive
and and have lower budgets. We've seen it. We've watched
the Rays year after year put up some pretty good runs, right,
(18:35):
and actually finish the job once. But it's just the
the idea that you're you're looking at trying to that's
got to be perfect on a yearly basis, otherwise you
sink away. Right, I'll always say I'll trade those two
Marlin's World Series. I'll keep those and have years of
terrible baseball for the glory of those two runs. Co
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And is just saying, all right, I got the money
to go do it, So sending notice to all other
owners like you, you want to compete. Uh he we're
we're coming in and we're spending big. And now you've
got a zag. I want to I don't care who plays.
I really don't. It makes no difference to me. Oh
but Jason Zach Wilson, I love Mike White. I want
(19:17):
to win. I don't care who plays. I don't care
if Joe Flacco plays and we win. I really don't.
I really don't. I will love I will love you,
and then if you stink or you can't play, I
will love the next guy who plays and is good.
I am absolutely all about that life. That is my
life as a fan of my card. Okay, I love you,
Oh but you yeah, you stink? So hey, I love you. Now.
That's exactly how it should go. You don't have to
(19:38):
wind up being beholden to anybody. Naa, no, no, I
love who you want. That's all. I love who you
want like that. It's like the world in the sixties. Man,
it's love that hey man, instead free love of the
sixties man, just love who you what if you can't
be with the one you love, man, then love the
third basement slash short stuff that you're with it. It's
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ca corea love the one that takes the money. I mean,
look at the rains A, l d S Lost World Series,
Lost A, l DS Lost A Wild Cards. So I
mean you've got opportunities to where you're at least in
play with a lower payroll. It can be done, but
it's got to be perfection and everything has to work right,
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and you've got to have depth and you're scouting whatever.
How many teams can claim that right, It's like we
watched the NFL year after year, how many teams have
any continuity? Six eight Beyond that, it's a you got
a new coach, you got new GM. Wait, that new
GM was hired two years ago, and you're already trying
to fire them. Hell, we're looking at Arizona. They just
(20:43):
resigned their coach GM and we can't get them fired
fast enough. So it's it's the same principle. So for
the Mets to to go all in and just keep saying,
all right, who else is out there? And you want
to compete with us? If nothing else, You're you're trying
to drive up the bidding of it all because maybe
maybe the taxation is enough. I mean because on a
(21:04):
four hundred million dollar contract, I mean that's that's forty
million dollars that goes just to state taxes. Maybe that's
enough to keep Corea away, you know, and it's not likely.
And look, and I like this strategy because you know why,
because this is a strategy that I always would subscribe
to when I was a kid. Okay, well not kid,
when I was the kid, right, And this is like
what you were when I was the kid, like Korea
(21:25):
is because listen, I always said, Okay, you know what,
at some point I'll shoot my shot. I may not win,
but I got to pick the right time for it. Right.
The Mets going after Carlos Correa right now, okay, and
this is hey, Carlos Correa is the hottest girl in school.
Let's just say, right, take you back, take you back
to the kid's day, right, whether it's high school, college,
a days back the pass glory day. And so what
(21:50):
did you do with the speedball? I can throw that
speedball by it. I can throw it about seventy when
I was throwing. It's pretty good. Okay. I just laid
that up to let you do whatever you're gonna do
with that term. Now. I look, I was an infielder,
man I was. I was a short stop. I was
a third baseman. No, I was. I was good, man,
I could. I would hit that speedball. I had trouble
with the curveball. Not let me. I'll be a hunter
(22:10):
percent honest. I was a really good hitter until suddenly, Oh,
these kids can throw curves really well, and I could
never make them throw it for a strike. I just couldn't.
I don't know, I just didn't have the plate discipline,
and I would just wave at the curveball like if
I could just make them throw it for a strike,
it would be different. And I couldn't do it, man,
I couldn't lay off it. I couldn't. It was just
like it was right there was a big piece of cheese.
(22:32):
It was like I couldn't, man, I couldn't sitting there
waiting for you. But I was gonna get it. Man,
I was gonna get that you threw that fastball, I
was gonna get it. But then when you started throwing
a curve, I wasn't gonna get it. That was that
was And tie it to the little Shop of Horrors
reference I made yesterday about reaching in and being consumed
(22:53):
by the plant because you wanted that big max. Same
thing here, Venus, but you liked it. I liked the once.
But here's the But here's the thing. This is Carlos
Corea being the hottest girl in school and everybody thinking, well,
she's going to the dance with you know whoever, the
quarterback or good the good looking loser who wears a
(23:16):
denim jacket and doesn't go to class and smoked cigarettes
in the hallway in between class. And it's like, yeah, man,
that's me. I'm gonna go. You wanna go hang out
behind the school at the end, smoked cigarettes? Like that's
who she's gonna wind up going with, right, because that's
what that's that was. That was my look. And then
after a little while you find out, oh yeah, yeah,
I'm not really panto. What's going on? So is this
(23:37):
who's she going to dance with? Um? I don't think
she's going with anybody? What do you mean? I heard that?
Nobody's asked. Wait, but what about what about the guy
smoking the cigarettes in the hallway? Oh you mean Mike Harmon? Yeah, no, no, no,
he's not going to dance. He can't go. He got
grounded white. He was gambling, and the teacher the cigarettes.
The teachers found out he was gambling for cigarettes in between,
(23:57):
like people gambling in prison when they're betting for they're
betting cigarettes. Right, we're going straight out of Shawshank Redemption.
Now line them up, boys, I bet a whole pack
of cigarettes on this, And I'm all in, heyward, and
you wait, right, and you wait, and you said, there
go wait, no one's asking, no one's asking, no one's
ask and you go and you go why don't I
ask her the worst com where she can say is no, right?
(24:20):
The worst? Now, I wouldn't just walk up and how
are you doing? My I'm I'm I'm Jason. You pretty
would you go to the now? You gotta come up?
That might worry? That never worked? Well, I mean you've
really exposed your soft underpelli of power, and some folks
might just decide to take advantage of. Look, look I
(24:40):
got elite, I need a car. I gotta need a
shot corsage. I'm gonna and you're gonna have to get
me some jewelry that's gonna accompany this dress that you
will also have to come with me to purchase. You know,
I drive a Vet. Really, I'm going Hey, you said
this was a vet. Yeah, it's a Chevette. Well, what's
wrong with that? Wait? I said it was a vent.
You choose to believe Corvette. No, I gotta lead with
(25:02):
my Novaya Driva. Wait it doesn't go no marketing. No, No,
you gotta lead with your strength. So I gotta lead
with my with my charm and personality. I mean that
that's me. I mean that that's my that's my you
know that that's my dream? Shake you know like that's
my mood, Like that's my person. I get to know
you a little bit, dream shake, that's what it's my
(25:23):
jan it's my Jordan fade away, right, it's what it is.
So I gotta lead with that. I get to know
and then I and then I asked her. She says yes.
Everybody goes wow. And I walked by them all and
I do the shrunk as I go down to what
you want me to do. I'm hot where And that's
exactly what the Mets are doing. Okay, we're gonna do this.
We're gonna do this, do this. Hey, Carlos Kreig is
(25:44):
still out there. Why the blank not because we're the
blank in Mets and we're spending money. We have to
fill our third. But let's go get him. Let's go
get him, and let's go bring him in and he's
gonna be our third basement and will sign him. He's
twenty eight years old, he's not thirty eight, which is
most of them Met sign things. So he's actually gonna
bring the age of the team down if they do
get him. But that's exactly what they're doing. Hey, he's
(26:04):
still out there, he's taking his time. He couldn't find
a deal. Maybe there's a little bit of of a
period of how how much do you want to get
in on an Astros guy? Oh no, no, he's out there,
go get I don't care. I want to win. And
the Mets got the fever. Right now, they got the fever,
and it's like, let's just keep betting. But bet bat
bet Carlos Correa. If the Mets get Carlos Correa, Steve
(26:28):
Cohen can walk around. He should be carried around New
York in a throne with with a big hat on
an a scepter, and it would be the iron throne
from Game of Thrones, except it's in blue and orange
colors to signify the Mets. And you carry him right
down Fifth Avenue and he's just throwing money at the crowd, going,
now they gotta go play, Now, they gotta go play.
Here you go, everybody, Here you go. And he's wearing
(26:49):
that maybe the crown is like a big Mets hattan
it's blue and orange at the n Y logo on it,
and he's just throwing catch out, going yes you love me,
look at what I'm doing. Look at the Yankees ending
hood about aera judge, Oh, you know what to give
him three million I give out three million dollar deals
for breakfast, Carlos Carea. That's an easy thing for me. Alright.
(27:10):
A couple of things, not number one. I like the
Game of Thrones thing in the Mets colors or whatever
your team colors are. I mean, think about the photo
ops that you can sell to fans five bucks. Come
get your picture on the throne. And then you you
pile that up and either it's a charitable contribution or
buys you another shortstop. And then you look at the
the idea that you also have with the crown. Why
(27:31):
is there not a Mr met themed ball cap? And
I'm not saying a picture of Mr Mett on a
ball cap you have that, we've seen that. I mean
one that is like Mickey Mouse ears where it's now
Mr Met is the larger part of that. Okay, I'm
with you, I'm with you. I'm with you. Yeah, I'm
(27:52):
all about trying to turn out people's pockets, buddy, whatever
we can do. I like that maybe the throne should
be carried by Mr and Mrs Met are just four
Mr Mets by four one Mr Mett carrying each corner.
I like that, and not see. I'm gonna make that happen.
Triplets in the off season for Mr Mets, that would
usually mean that they're coming to an end because they
(28:14):
added more kids. You know, at this point, you would
think Mr and Mrs Mett have more kids, right you
only you see Mr and Mrs Metted games, but you
never see like, look, and how adorable would that be?
A little baseball head, a little big baseball head, A
little kid running around that would be adorable. Mr Mrs Baby,
little net baby, get a little Mr met baby here
it is. Maybe it's just because someone you have to
have somebody that's that's not as tall, and maybe the
(28:36):
head is so heavy it would just like they just
fall over on it. But maybe you need to be
a certain height, like yeah, we gotta be like six
ft tall to be Mr. Met And how many kids
are six ft tall when they're you know, not quite
in their their teams yet. So it's kind of hard
to do because the person just comes out and just
keeps falling over because the head is too heavy. Blue
blue blue blue, blue blue blue. That could be a
big thing. You know what, I'm gonna tweet a Steve
(28:58):
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I'm assuming that it would be Eastern time, so three
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An absolute huge loss in the world of college football
today as Mike Leach died at the age of sixty one.
He was in declining health since suffering a huge medical
emergency a few days ago. There were sports that he
died early yesterday, and then they were refuted and negated.
And then when you woke up this morning, you probably
saw the news that Mike Leach died at the age
(30:27):
of sixty one, which is so incredibly young. Uh. He
he was such a great head coach and you've probably
heard all day all the stories. You remember what kind
of a character he was, right the guy he would
have a pirate on his shoulder. His entire office was
decorated in in pirates gear, and and you know he
would have incredibly, incredibly interesting press conference where he would
(30:50):
answer any questions. Uh, the big famous Pack twelve press
conference where he talked about which of the mascots would
win in a war. Well, you know, a cougar is
gonna win because you know, a cougar is really smart.
You know, forget about a trojan. Is the guy on
a horse is he not? You know, all the great
and fun quirky things about Mike Leach because you've seen
him over the course of the past twenty five years
(31:11):
with that. But the one thing, honestly, Mike, and and
this is what I was thinking about today, is that
I want people to know what a bleep and great
head coach that this guy was, because that's gonna overshadow
his quirkiness and his fun, which of course is great.
But you know what, this is a guy who won
at Texas Tech, at Washington State and Mississippi State, three
(31:36):
places where it is impossible to win over the course
of a few years. These are stepping stone schools for
guys who come and want to win for a year
or two and then make that big leap. Hey, this
guy was six and six at Washington State. Then he
was nine and three. Hey, we gotta hire him, right,
But he won over the course of time at all
(31:57):
three schools. And again this is not I wanted Alabama,
and I wanted Florida, and I want you that's not
Urban Meyer. While I wanted Florida, I wanted Ohio State.
Now this is Texas Tech, which is what in the
Big twelve, the eighth biggest, biggest school, and he had
a run where he won at least nine, eight or
nine games for each of the last seven years he
(32:18):
was there. Right then he went to Washington State and yeah,
a couple of tough years, but then he had four
straight years of eight, nine, nine and eleven wins. And
then he goes to Mississippi State and he was there
for three years and he went four and seven. Then
he was seven and six. Now he's eight and four
and was going to the relian Quest Bowl. The guy
has been to seventeen bowls and twenty one years. He
has won at places where you can't sustain winning, it
(32:41):
is impossible to and he's a guy that did that right,
eleven and two year with Texas Tech, eleven and two
year with Washington State. I mean, that's amazing and that
I don't want that to get lost and everything about
him today because this guy was a great head coach.
Wasn't just one place he he hit Biggs. Oh, he
wanted Texas Tech and then he kind of coached on
that success. No, he won a Texas Tech, he won
(33:02):
at Wazoo, and he won with Mississippi State. An amazing,
amazing career. Yeah, I mean we could go on and
on with the different stories and press conferences. There's a
couple of clips. I know you and I have both
kind of circled in and some of the stories circling.
But when you get down to it as a coach, right,
I know there was also a thread that I started
reading going down that rabbit hole is he finished just
(33:25):
shy at a six winning percentage for his career, which
disqualifies him from Hall of Fame consideration, which is just assinine. Uh.
And you look at the coaching tree and the number
of guys that worked under him that have gone on
to become such prominent dominant coaches. Whether you like Cliff
Kingsbury he or not, he's part of the tree. Lincoln Riley,
(33:46):
who's been um a masterful coach. Right, We've watched it
time and time again. You saw what he did coming
to USC, uh, Dave Randa and just keep going on
down the line. All these guys that had success. You
know that that came out out of his system. The
air raid and all the the big breakdowns that he
(34:07):
would do because I mean, he loved to talk football
and and so many journalists have come forward with the
stories of you know, helping to teach you know, along
the way as they got we're covering the beat and
we're new reporters, and he was welcoming it when always
generous with his time. But the the idea of you
know what he did recruiting wise, right, if he got
(34:27):
out on the trail, there was nobody he didn't think
he could close, always be closing was essentially written about
this guy on the recruiting trail because once he got you, uh,
he showed the interest and got you talking. And it
was just one of those uh guys that was electrified
a room. So it's it's a huge loss for the sport.
(34:48):
And I just you know, it's one of those examples again, Jason,
when we see such luminaries in our sporting world, uh,
and they passed away. You see all these stories and
all the lives that they touched, and you hope to
that you get point one percent of those when your
time comes. Yeah, I mean, it's just look, he was
at practice on Saturday, right, I mean that that's how
(35:10):
fast it was. He was at practice on Saturday, and
and here we are three days later and we're talking
about the life of Mike Leach and it it happened
just that fast. It really was. I'm still in shock
of because this guy was a larger than life personality
and and here we are talking about his life in
his career. But man, I'll tell you we can have
the fun. Let's talk about the fun. But this guy
was an unbelievable head coach, unbelievable twitter at how about
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