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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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tire buying should be well. On a day that will
forever be known as the blue check mark Massacre, we'll
get to that coming up in a bit. A big
night the NBA and yay the Sixers beat the Nets.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now I'm gonna hear for the next three days is
how great the Sixers are and overcoming adversity, and look
how talented we are, and let's pat ourselves on the back.
Nobody likes to talk about how great they are more
than the seventy six ers doing. Now we're up three nothing.
It's what we're supposed to be doing. This is it.
That's all that's gonna happen, and we're gonna hear this.
All I told you, Mike, My big fear the other
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day was this was gonna be here. The Sixers made
noise in the playoffs because it's a crazy year and
you have injuries all over the place, and this is
when they start going and start talking about how great
they are and thumping their chest and it's gonna be
in every single day thing.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, if you're winning, you get to with the spoils.
Also comes the ability to grab a microphone and take
over like you're in the middle of the main event
at WrestleMania. That's what you get to do. That is
your prerogative. Now, this game adjudicated really unfairly and currently confusingly.
(02:02):
I think it would be the kind way to say it,
once again, the officials front and center here in the
NBA playoffs. But to your point, the Sixers and the
Grizzlies are the series everybody wants. Why because they'll just
talk at each other. They don't even have to play basketball.
We'll play dozens and whoever has the better take and
gets the crowd on fire, we'll have some celebrity judges
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holding up scorecards they win.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You know, here's the thing, I don't know that everybody
wants to hear that. Now, everyone wants to see that.
I want to I think people are kind of sick
of the Grizzlies in there talking, and they're sick of
the Sixers in there talking. I don't know about that much.
I think people want to see the Knicks and the Lakers.
I think that's what everybody want, Nicks Lake.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, I don't think anybody's clamoring for the Knicks, Knicks,
Lakers and the Lakers. I mean they gotta go see
the Wizard and get some heart. So they got a
problem going on too, So uh it just throws everything up. Well,
we throw it in a giant bowler hat and pick
out some names at the end, and I think is
l nandy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Now you refer to the first quarter of the game.
Doc Rivers actually talked with us during the broadcast. Joel
Embiid trying to get up off the floor, gets tangled
up with one of the Nets players and kicks out
at him and you see a big time WWE fall
and Joel Embiid gets a flagrant one for it, but
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gets to stay in the game. If you've seen this play,
it is one of those. It is not quite to
the level of Draymond Green. This is not a foot
stomp on the chest of another player. This is not
a situation where hey, I injured a guy and he's
heard all the way. But here's Joel Embiid who I'm
going to get back with a big leg kick and yeah,
flagrant one, so okay, and Doc Rivers talks about it
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after the first quarter. That's what teams do now, and
then when you respond, you get suspended. So now here's
the push from the NBA and from players, and you
can't suspend anybody. Okay, Be careful what you wish for
if you don't want people to get suspended and you're
upset when guys get suspended. Speaking of suspensions, we have
the Warriors coming up in a few minutes without Draymond Green.
But be careful. If you want a world without suspense,
(04:08):
be careful what you wish for, because you're gonna get it.
And you're not gonna like what happens. Trust me, you
want things to be adjudicated. You don't want games to
get out of control, but you want to complain and
moan and whine about ah suspensions. And I can't believe
the Warriors even took that today, going oh we're mad
now now they're mad about what happened to Raymond Green. Really,
Draymond Green dared the NBA to suspend them and they
(04:29):
had to suspend them. So, yeah, be careful what you
with for if if you want, if you want this
to be refereed a certain way. Okay, remember the day
and time you said that, because I guarantee you your
tune is gonna change at some point in the near future.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, I can't wait to watch the next games here
as we get ready to flow. No, uh Kawhi Leonard
playing for the Clippers. So if you had that on
the Bengo card, you probably already filled it in before
the news even broke today that that was gonna happen
somewhat along these playoffs.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You think, do you think you can do a thing
whereas there there's some kind of bet where you can
make where I want to bet certain players are gonna
are gonna be out, are gonna miss games like you.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I think you could probably put you to different casinos.
If you're a super level player, you could be like, hey,
can I get action on this?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And they might give you some odds.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Okay, one of those casinos where uh, Clark Griswold was
hanging out playing. Uh you know, guess how many fingers
I'm holding up behind my back kind of thing you
know in games of war and things of that nature. Uh,
but we weren't even three minutes into this game, Jason,
and we had the Claxton and emb battle. Claxton would
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then later and get kicked out for the most softest
taunting call of all time. Yeah, if you want to
you want to talk about just well, let's inject ourselves
when we feel like it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And then on the broadcast like, oh yeah he's taunting.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You have to like really, the other guy did a
full on leg extension kick to the to the nether
regions and everybody went to play on you got your
flagrant one and he doesn't get a jack and Claxton
gets a technical file in that scenario, why because he's
standing over him like an ass. So once again. You know,
you get into stupidity and both guys act out. Yet somehow,
(06:12):
just because Joel Embiid's gonna finish top three in MVP,
that's okay.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
For him to do.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Come on, that's absurd. And then they throw hard Now
for the little nutshot later.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Just wait for the We overcame adversity. We were able
to You know, tonight was not our best night, but
look at the heroic way we're able to win this.
I gotta tell you it's all this essay should.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
All stand down. It's all maxion, It's.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
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the way. You know, I don't like to say I
told you so, I really don't, but once in a
while I missed.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Last week, how many did I miss guys.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh, there's a couple last week justin hell Allan, Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
How many one?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
How many times did I miss a? I hate to
say I told you so? Oh at least yeah, I
would thirty seven shut. I mean I wouldn't say I
was missing it.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But after the whole Max Scherzer's glove and hands were sticky,
not once, not twice, but thrice. I told you he
was gonna get ten games. No, you were like, eighty
boy that he's gonna get ten because they don't know
what was on his hand.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It would sense the sarcasm of the eighty games because.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
He says it was sweat and rosin. What was it? Well,
we don't know. But how mad are you really? Like
if you are Phil Cuzy, right, just think about this
for a second and you really want to throw him out?
You think he's really doctor in the ball or doctor
in the glove. Don't you try to find out what
it is instead of just throwing him out? I mean
this is where I get a little bit of Yeah,
you know the three times guys have been ejected so
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far because he's been the umpire all three times, don't
you want to try to find out what it is?
Is it if it's more than that, because if you
get caught there, that's a really big deal. Man, that's
a really big deal. So yeah, you want a little
bit more so the fact that they couldn't find anything.
I told HER's gonna be ten games, and today Max
Scherzer got ten games.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We know it was gonna be ten games. We were
just trying to goad you into anxious h.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Stop, you guys, are you gout? You know, you guys
just were completely out of control last night. You guys
are like Max sus are after finding out he got ejected.
You guys were complete He.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Swore on his kids' lives and then as soon as
it came time to hey, are you getting appeal?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, we're out of control.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, he's the guy that cheated and we're out of control.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yes, yes, And now.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You know we're swearing on your kids' lives. Get you
you can still get a ten games especial, and then
you don't appeal it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
If you're really on your kids lives, you'd say, all right,
show me the facts. Not just because because he said so,
doesn't appeal it because he's guilty, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
He knew it TJ.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Why didn't he appeal because he said, so teach at night.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well, because all the dopes that had the Tom Brady
sat out and had his suspension. Look how it darnished everything? Well,
Max suss tainted forever then.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
All right, So Max Schurzer was going to appeal his penalty,
and the ten thousand dollars was never going thousand dollars.
This is going to can I do the story frost
per after we took two out of three from you,
despite the factures that got thrown out. That was last week.
That was like that week. You have to love us
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now because we're playing the Giants. That's the best part
of tonight. You have to go from not liking the
Mets until he's loving us now. Schurezer says he would
was initially going to appeal the penalty uh imposed by
Mike Hill, not that Mike Hill, a different Mike Hill,
although it would be kind of fun if Mike Hill
was the guy in charger who's MLB Senior Vice President
for on field Operations. But since Schurzer said the appeal
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was going to be heard by Major League Baseball, he
decided to begin serving his suspension immediately. Quote. I thought
I was gonna get in front of a neutral arbitrator,
but I wasn't. It was gonna be through MLB. So
given that process, I really wasn't going to come out
on top. So instead of going through and hey, I'm innocent,
I'm innocent, but your gemma, I'm not gonna win. Yeah,
(10:20):
not the best optic, man, I'm never gonna get it
fair to get another ten because now you've impugned the
integrity of the league. If you know, here's the thing,
even if he's gonna lose it, don't you do don't
you go if you're if you're innocent, don't you go
through the appeals process?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And I mean I do.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Don't they reduce it by a couple of games, just
one principle?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Well, it's tough, but you're a pitcher because ten games
is two starts. Like, if you reduce it by less
than that, then they're gonna figure out where a pitture
missus one start. So that's why that's why you get
the ten games. So I would they have done it
for him? Probably not. But if you're innocent, do you
give up that easy? I mean, that's that's the whole
thing is like Max, Come on, man, I want to
believe you. I want to it. But do you give
(10:59):
up kill? Oh what you stop? Just just stop, quit
being so dramatic with that.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Okay, just I know ptrayed enough fraud, I under the
felony with the amount of money. And oh when you
guys are not let me go back to about eight
seconds ago when you posted we're both not out of control?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I'm here to entertain and inform America.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I got people sitting on the streeter as I sit
here in the Fox Sports Radio studios, you know, with
an empty chair of my left. I mean, there's wall
to wall traffic out here. All these people are listening
and being entertained by what I'm bringing down on you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
What's that supposed to mean? I'm coming in tomorrow? You
coming in tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
No, I'm been here three days, but you're not coming
in there to come in at all.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
But when you're coming, you're not coming in tomorrow. That though,
that's okay, What does it matter? What does it matter?
Maybe I just don't want to see you because you're
out of control. Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Maybe you just need a hug.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But what are you taking roll? What is this that?
What is this school? You're side has been absent. I'm
sending that yellow Delaney card home so you could see
that you've been absent.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I think a little inn fair treatment. I think all
I'm looking for.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I think my attendance record for the show has been
I think I've shown up and prepared and done pretty
good shows as we I don't think you've walked into
the studio it's oh, Jason's not He's just not coming
in tonight. I'm decided not to come in. I just
I think I've been on the every night with you.
I think I've been talking about you're out of control.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
There's just a little more effort, that's all.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You really, really, really, you want to talk about effort,
mister white Sox, you want to talk about effort? Really
you want to talk about effort? Effort?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Hey get hurt Twitter and out about a Fresco my fault,
like you're paying guys and stink here's your GM right there.
Well they paid all the young guys on potential. What
does that get you. I'm about to actually prove it
before you decide to extend him with massive deals.
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(13:15):
Draymond Green. They have not scored in the first forty
five seconds of this game. They could really be in trouble.
They are scoreless, could be a shut They may get
shut out. He may not score with Raymond Green.
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(14:00):
so far, Golden State the better of the play. They
lead Sacramento thirteen to eight, six and a half to
go in the first quarter. No Draymond Green serving his
suspension tonight for footstopping to Monta Sabonis the other night
for Sacramento. And you know, I kind of feel like,
you know, you should be able to bring cowbells.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I don't know. I don't think you should. Why not?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Why can't you brid some thing? It's a potential weapon.
It's a cow bell. I mean, it gets really hard
to hide a cowbell.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, but it's also potentially something you can wrap someone
upside the head. Well, if I'm told I can't have
the cap on my bottle when I go to Sofi,
so you know, nobody can kick over my drink and
spill it because I might throw my cap.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Dude, have you seen what I come on? Man, Dude,
you've seen what happens outside of sofa.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'm talking about inside when I buy a coke and
they say we need to keep the cap. Meanwhile, I
can buy one of those nitro cans of coffee and
they don't pour it in a cup to like let me.
I get to keep the can. But you need to
keep this the top of this bottle. Tell me how
this makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I just think the cow bell it's a thing. I
think the cowbells is the thing. Why can't think?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, but if I'm if I'm in in San Francisco,
I get to make the rules. Hence no cowbells. Not
to mention, if you were in the back of my
head with one of those cow bells, like we saw
at the game the other night, really take it. Takes
a lot of a man or a woman to stand
there and have that for an entire two hours and
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not pop someone upside the head, especially when they're doing
it in your ear because they know who you are,
which is what we saw for Warriors, executives and guys
getting a little vigorous with their cow bell enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Well, you want to talk about doing damage. If I
if I'm Sacramento and they say you can't bring cowbells
in his fans, I say, when you come back to Sacramento,
who can't bring Draymond Green? But you could do damage
with the cow bell Look at what Draymond Green did
in Sacramento. You can't bring him.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
He didn't know anything. So Bonus finished that game and
he started this one.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He's gotta stay out. Draymond's got his dad. He's he's more.
He'll cut, he'll bill commit more damage than cow bells.
Will you know what?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You could probably get that Raymond out in California politics.
I mean you could probably take that to the capitol
there and get someone to put a resolution up.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
No, Draymond is yeah, yeah, well it is not far
Sacramento and in San Francisco, the Bay area. Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
it would be one of those he would be one
of those bits of uh, just for show. Here, here's
some proclamation for show.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Isn't that half of it?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Here?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We're gonna spend a lot of time and effort on
these bills. Who's paying for it? I don't know, but
it sounds pretty good done it. I mean, that's what
we do every day.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What do you want to do with this cowbell? Sir?
I want to ring it? Are you gonna hit somebody
in the chest with it and then gonna stand up
and yell to the crowd and then afterwards you're gonna
talk about how you were getting grabbed the last couple
of games we brought you cow belt? No, that's not me, Okay,
you can come in, but the potential is there, it's not.
And if we're gonna you know, if I gotta walk
in with a clear potential, fin can walk in with
a cow bell potential for the cow bell reality for
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Draymond Green.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Did you never watch Dan Lariat Hanson the end of
that long rope with the cow bell and the.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Damage he did?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
No? I know to many I didn't this competitor in
the Squared Circle all those years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I did not see that one.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I got Scandelarian Hanson and I'm going home. That's in everybody.
That's the high point.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
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more NBA on the way. As we told you. That's
the situation right now at Golden State. They have the
lead early right now and coming up in a couple
of minutes, it's going to be Phoenix and the Clippers. Boy,
how much how bad is it? This one's on NBA
TV Phoenix and the Hey, what a great series it is. Yeah,
(17:51):
we're gonna put you guys on NBA TV. Come on, man,
NBA TV, I mean, really, come on, man, I.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Mean that's you know, yeah, we just started throwing flowers
at Kawhi's feet.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Should have I mean to joke with Medina that.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I guess I didn't phrase it well enough about hey,
look they're back getting healthy.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
How great is this? I spoke too soon.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I get them as two West Coast games, but Philadelphia
and Brooklyn should have been an NBA TV. That's the
one's got to be there. I mean, he goes, oh, Phildelpie,
let's put that on NBA TV.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But people love to hate the Sixers and watching the
Nets lead them and then give give games away again.
Terrys Maxy, you'r hero of the day.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Speaking of giving things away, Let's get into the biggest
story of the day, and that is today was the
blue check mark what do you want to call it,
the blue check mark, whitewash, right, whatever you want to
call it, as everybody who didn't pay for their blue
check marks, including me, lost their blue check mark. Right,
has talked about this for the past few months. Oh,
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we're gonna try to everybody is equal on Twitter. That's
the whole big thing, which is such a load of crap,
But that's been the thing he has pushed everybody's equal
on Twitter? Why do we give people bigger voice than
those I don't understand? And he has gotten a you know,
with a with a with a brain dead thought like
he's got with that, he has decided to just let's
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make sure that that this is how we do it. Oh,
except oh, I'll pay for Lebron and Stephen King and
William Shatner's uh blue check mark. They don't have to
pay for it. Wait, I thought everybody was equal. I
thought everybody was equal, But now you're paying. So everybody
was equal, except now you're paying for these guys, and
you're paying for Lebron and you're paying for Steven K.
(19:34):
So what is it? Look? The reason this is done,
and I'll tell you the big impact that's going to
have on sports. The reason this was done is because
Elon Musk just wants people to pay for Twitter. He
bought Twitter for way more money than it was worth
it did. The valuation now is in the tens and
twenties of billion dollars less than what he bought it for.
(19:54):
He wants people to pay for it. All right, this
was free. I think everybody should pay for it. You
had to pay for your blue check mark. Oh okay,
wait a minute, Well why well, because everybody's got to
be equal. Well, hang on a second, wait a minute,
this is this is not about equality. Twitter is not
about equality. He simply needs to find a way to
drum up money. So rather than do something simple like hey,
(20:16):
Twitter has been free for a long time, but we
need to make changes. We need to have avae folks. Twitter,
Now if you want to use it, you have to
pay a dollar a month. Forget about the check mark thing.
We need to Twitter's got to be a pay site now, Okay,
I can I can get with that. I can get
with that if you want to do something like that.
But I'm sure he found in whatever types of moving
forward and trying to keep money that that didn't work.
(20:38):
And he also wants to make a statement because he
loves seeing himself in the news. So now I'm gonna
take people's blue check marks away. Why because this will
engage him with important people, and every day there's gonna
be people who are upset about him. Nobody cares if
Joe Smith. And I don't mean like former NBA player
Joe Smith or Ali or MLB pitcher Joe Smith. No
one cares if Joe Smith is mad at Elon Musk.
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But you a couple of days where celebrities get mad
because they lose their blue check mark. It's free publicity
for him. He's doing this because he wants you to
pay for Twitter, and he wants to stay in the
news because he loves reading and hearing about himself. That's
the reason, that's why, that's why he got rid of
blue check marks. Am I gonna play for blue check mark? No,
it doesn't mean as much to me because what I
(21:20):
like to do with Twitter is engage people who are
listening to the show and all of you. That's kind
of what I like. I don't get on there and
make somebody's day miserable, like the vast majority of people
get on Twitter, going, did somebody say something I don't
like so I can just go jump up and down
on their Twitter avatar because I really want to be
mad about stuff. No, it's because it's not worth it
for me. But I'm gonna stay on Twitter and I'm
gonna tweet because I like what we do and I
(21:41):
like being able to reach people listening to the show
and hearing what we like to do. It's a great
we put out a great product, so I like that
part of it. But this is simply a way for
him to get people to pay for Twitter. That's all
it is, to try to make his money back and
try to hide it under the guise of oh, it's
a quality. Let's just stop for one second. No one
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was stopped from being on Twitter. No one's voice was
being whether you had a blue check mark or not.
You did not get on there with any less of
a voice. You did not get on there with any
less of being able to say what you want to say.
And people with blue check marks, people without blue check marks,
have been banned from Twitter and banned from social media.
It happens before you say this thing is going to
be political, all right, it's not. Because this affects everyone.
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Because Twitter has become and this is the most important thing.
Twitter has become the go to news source for everybody.
It's the first place you check in the morning when
you want to get online and see something. Right. Instead
of the old days, by pre Twitter or pre before
Twitter became a news breaking area, it was well, you
went to your news websites, right, you went to CNN,
(22:45):
you went to Fox News, you went to Fox Foxsports
dot com. You went to ESPN dot com and that's
how you aggregated your news. Right, you are, okay, what
are the big stories here? I go to the different
websites to get it. But now Twitter's become hey, what
is everybody talking about? What are the biggest things? And
you go to Twitter and you see the conversation. It's
become a news gathering source. Now what do you need
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for news gathering? The whole purpose for blue check marks
is for people who are in certain positions to have
their voices heard, because it's important to be able to
hear from politicians and world leaders and athletes and entertainers
and local government and people who actually are who they
say they are because they are breaking news. They are
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making news. It is a news site. And all you
have done now is make it into a site that's
going to be virtually impossible for people to break news. Well,
I pay for my check mark, now I got it. Okay,
Let's say Adam Schefter decides to pay for his check mark.
What's going to stop somebody else from creating or one
hundred other people from buying for a check mark and
then making an Adam Schefter fake Twitter page and suddenly
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news is being broken that people aren't going to trust.
Is it's the real atom shifter. It looks like the
real atom shifter. He's got four million followers, but could
that be something that was done differently this guy. Everybody
thinks it's the fake guy, so he bought bots and
now he's in the two hundred thousands of Twitter. So
people are gonna think this is the real Adam Schefter
because he's been able to call all his followers and
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spend all kinds of money to buy followers. We're no
longer gonna go to Twitter for news, and because it's
too easy for other people who are on here again
who we want to hear their message. Politicians, athletes, entertainers
all the way down the road, we want to hear
their message. Businesses, news organizations. You want to hear from
your local news what's going on in your site, This
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story happened, this story here. You want to be able
to hear that. And now he's made that impossible because
now there's no way you can sit back and say, oh,
how do I know what's right and what's wrong? And
like I said, before you even make it political, I
will tell you this Alexandrio Cassio Cortes and Marjorie Taylor
Green are both gonna lose all kinds of impact because
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there's gonna be people impersonating them. You're not gonna know
what they're gonna say, both sides of the aisle. Everybody's
gonna lose here. The Twitter's become a new source and
this is something that this is what it's become. And
Elon Musk I don't think he gets that. I don't either.
He is he's infused with the power that he's making
news every day for something, whereas he would make news
once in a while before. But now with Twitter and
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social media, he's found a way to be interviewed and
be be on the internet, non TV and every single day.
I don't think he realizes that. But that's gonna be
the big thing. I mean, from from low stuff like
the wrong pick's going to be tipped next week in
the NFL draftman of the first round comes and Aaron
Rodgers gets drafted all over again. Right, Look, No, I
think Adam Scheffan at this, Jay Glazer said, Aaron Rodgers
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is getting drafted all over again. From that all the
way up to the top of fake news stories that
are that are coming out. Forget it, man. Twitter is
going to be absolutely mobbed with people who have been
waiting for this decision. Oh my god, I can go
impersonate people. I can go. I can go pretend I'm
this guy or this guy or this guy or this guy.
Why not because I could buy a check mark and
if I have to say that I'm as satirical, doesn't matter.
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People see the check mark and I get on there.
This is going to ruin what Twitter had become. And
now who knows Twitter was the wild West before this?
Now Mike Ooh, I can't imagine what it's gonna be like.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Now, it's a couple of fun things. You mentioned a
couple of folks in politics. I kind of shrug and go, yeah,
it might be good that we back off some of
these folks on either side. So you know, there's that.
As for the larger side, Look, Jobs had his check
mark the other day. He was wrong, So I can't
trust guys even with their check mark. But just saying
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people get stuff wrong oftentimes in these insider and newsbreakers
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Wrong, and there's just hey, I'm putting out something completely
false pretending to be somebody.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
No, it just means we're gonna have to all work
a little harder. Us behind the microphones and you sitting
wherever you may be, in your car, at work, on
the couch, on the treadmill, wherever you may be getting
a little work out in I don't know. Me means
you're gonna have to work a little harder and it's
not going to be spoon fed at times when some
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of this information comes through. Well just wait till the
AI video really gets good, then try to figure that out.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Smith. But let's not cross that bridge. Just shit.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Oh well that by that point AI will be able
to just do shows for us.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Well, oh no, I you haven't read the full dictionary yet.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
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with Mike Harmon here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
How are you you know? I want to fire up
my friend. It is a beautiful you know.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
The funny thing is you're ready for AI story real fast,
not Alan Iris.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I'll tell us point yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I'll tell you this. Where I'll tell you this real
fast is that a friend of mine had to do
a best man speech at a wedding last weekend, and
he went to like to try to find some good jokes.
So we did the AI thing, right. He tried to
find you know people, what roast was like AI and
you can type in real people and get some things
that they would say. And so he typed, he said,
(28:05):
you know, I can, I can, I can have you
on here. I said, you're kidding, goes yeah, So he
typed in Jason Smith. Sports personality came up and he
started reading me what a sample what the AI for
what I would say was. And it started out talking about, hey,
sports fans, Jason Smith here, what a great day in sports?
And the first thing it mentioned was the the uh
Kyler Murray hail mary to DeAndre Hopkins. I'm like, oh
(28:26):
my god, and he goes, yeah, that was a couple
of years ago. And Joz, how about that hail mary
from Kyler Murray to DeAndre Hopkins. But forget about that
for a minute. Let's talk about the Mets and the Jets.
And I was like, okay, so it kind of has
me down. It could take my job. Throw the Mets
of the Jets out there right.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Away, coming to get you. It's coming to get you.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, more more on the Twitter stuff, because I you know,
I want to wrap everybody whose identity had really been
sold into the blue check mark. They'll need a hug.
You're not more important than anybody else. You're not better
than anybody else. Get over yourselves.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Actually gonna pay for Mike's for one month, So he
has a blue check mark and you don't. I really
don't care if I have one or not. You'll care,
really don't.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I really don't know you will. I never I never cared.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I inquired once when and when the company was going
to do it, and then they pushed back because I
wouldn't change my name in the handle from Swollen Dome,
like I didn't want to be Mike Harmon ninety eight,
twenty six. Sure, sure, Nor was I going to put
the company name or if they fired me the following
week Mike Carmon's Fox Sports, Yeah, I don't work there anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah. That's really weird when you're like, oh, hey, oh wow, I.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Don't know that? Does that?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
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Speaker 1 (29:44):
Hey, man, has anybody seen my blue check mark? Man?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
I can't find it anywhere? Man now it looks like
pretty old Man.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
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I don't. I don't. I don't care about Twitter for
the micro. I care about it for the macro because
I like it being a place I go to every
day for news and all kinds of that. Now, now
that's out.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Now you just have to work a little bit harder.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But why why why should I have to work harder?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Why? Well, Shander still has his check mark.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Ah, well that's true, isn't Isn't life about finding conveniences? Right,
Life's about finding conveniences, man, I mean that's what. Why
why I have to work harder when something I didn't
have to work? All? Right, I figured it out. Now
everything is good.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
The guy bought a company and decided to try to
make money on it.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Not him, not my fault. The guy paid twenty billion
dollars more for a company than not mine either my fault.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
But I've long been a guy that thought that giving
everything away on the internet was dumb man anyway, But now.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
He wants us to pay for it. I paid way
too much for this. Now you have to pay for it.
Wait what, Go find something else to use? Leep talking
about trust me, something else will come up. There's gonna
watch the backlash that happens. Something else will come up.
I can't believe something hasn't really come up to rivals.
I mean now because Instagram isn't really Instagram's more about
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photos and journeys and long posts like I can't believe you.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Just put a picture of the bond Me sandwich. It
was delicious.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a food thing, bond Me.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You really have enjoyed one if I brought We can
always go back to my Space. Guys, it is still
alive and company kept that Ali.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
My first friend.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I can't talk my first jokes on you, Jason. He
never stopped being your first friend, right? Did he ever
quit you?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Maybe you quit him, But Tom's been there waiting for
you the whole time.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I'll wait for you to come back here in my
white T shirt smiling because I'm just gonna put this
picture up like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I've been alone inside my mind. I mean, Tom's still
sitting there singing hello. At least you got grinder Jay.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, well grinder is and banter. I have banter as well.
Banter's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Now we'll talk about finding new friends.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
We'll get into more about Twitter coming up a little bit.
But today was a day that we saw maybe probably
the end of Madison Bumgardner. He was designated for assignment
by the Diamondbacks and now going to eat over thirty
four million dollars left in his contract. And you want
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a Madison Bumgardner hot take. He is and has always
been completely overrated. Wow, Madison bumguard You you talk about
a guy. He is living off of one playoff and
one World Series. He's living off of the playoff in
the World Series in twenty fourteen with the Royals. That's
it his mythical Ye, his seven innings pitched of relief
(33:02):
in Game seven. Oh, Madison Bumgardner is so great. He's
so great. Yeah. He had a good playoff game the
next year against the Mets. He's had some decent playoff games,
but look, he's had some playoffs years where he just
got drilled and knocked around. But he was a really
good pitcher and he was the best pitcher the Giants
had with their winning World Series. But overall, this is
a guy his career was done when he was twenty six.
(33:26):
He lost it when he was twenty six. But I
get that because he had the mythical Playoff in twenty fourteen,
and he's kind of fun. His attitude of yelling at
players to not show him up while they're running around
the bases, that was endearing, and it would have been
more endearing if he had pitched better. For you know,
I don't know the last six years, but this guy,
he was done when he was twenty six. Look at
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what he's done the last couple of years with San Francisco.
In his time with Arizona, he's been worse than just
a guy. I can't believe he's cashing those checks again.
He is someone who was good for a very short
period of time and he had one big playoff and
that's been it. The guy's been Dunst. He's twenty six
years old. Good for him.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Keep cashing checks. In every business, there are plenty of
folks that are cashing checks long past their utility date.
In this case, I'm telling And if you say he
only got one one World Series one run, that's more
than a lot of guys, more than plenty of all
time greats who got to the playoffs and didn't do
a damn thing.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh you're right.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
That for him hating people for cadillacing and around. I mean,
my dog was Cadillac at the final final block or
two getting back from the long walk today.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
So do we turned the corner? He kind of looks
at me.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
He's like, you know, this last block is going to
be as long as the rest of this walk, right,
we're doubling our time. And he just gets this spike. Oh,
you're cadillacing it again. He now knows the word cadillacing.
But bum Garner was the guy that fought against that.
We said old school. Good for him. You talk about
a guy who would love the pitch clock because it's
old school. Give me the ball, let me mow you down.
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But he's also a guy that would be one of
the post your children when of the modern age where
if you have six straight two hundred plus inning seasons.
Something's gotta give.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, But then you also have someone who had the
pitch clock this year and was zero to three and
his era with like eleven.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
No, I'm saying if this was twenty four year old
medicine bump Garn.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yeah he was.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
He's been overrated.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
It's a final.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
He's been done since he's twenty six.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
I heard doing their homework though, guys don't use another Clary.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Is this your homework, Clary? Is this your homever Claire?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Yeah, so farewell med bum. You want to sign him,
knock yourself out. Not don't put that out. Maverse got
a big story out of the NFL. Next on five
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