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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Greetings, Welcome in side, Happy Tuesday, The Jason Smith Show
with my bas friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Okay, let me start you right there. The Mets suck.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Mets one tonight two to nothing. Welcome back Alex
tie shirt. After you had like three weeks off, going
to find yourself somewhere, I don't know where.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It was four and a half and I was following
to Aaron Rodgers routine. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Didn't you see him behind Rogers at the Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, he was the one yelling the Jets just won
the Super Bowl. The Jets won the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
What the Jets?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Who is it? Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
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So yeah, Tyshoo is back tonight. As usually, you'll be
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lot more of that too. But the Mets one tonight,
we're over five hundred. Now. Everything is fine. Everything is fine.
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Sanga pitches a shutout. He's the greatest pitcher in the world.
Everything is possible. Mmmm, Sanga. But there is there is
one baseball event from tonight that we have to begin
with that. It doesn't matter if you're a baseball fan
or not. Uh. You know that the Oakland A's are
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going to be moving to Las Vegas at some point
in the very near future, maybe after this year. Maybe
they do one more Lame Duck year in Oakland before
the they moved to Las Vegas. We talked to John
Paul Morosi last week on the show. He's going to
stop by tonight. He said, Listen, what I see is
they could do one more year, but it's gonna be
at least a couple of years before the ballpark is ready.
They might do a year in a Triple A in
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the Triple A Ballpark in Vegas and then have their
own stadium. So the reason this is going on is,
of course, is because nobody cares about what happens in Oakland.
Nobody cares, nobody comes to the games. They're not winning.
I would say they were tanking for Trevor Lawrence if
it was just it just wasn't so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, they could tank for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh too soon, too soon on that now before the
game tonight video that has gone viral. A fan, a
boy probably about what, probably about fifteen sixteen years old.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I can't judge ag job. For all I know, my
boys kid is thirty eight years old.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I think he was. I think he's younger than thirty eight.
He moved better than a thirty eight year old. Well,
you know what, guys that have been pampered, they might
be Okay. The A's grounds crew is getting the field
ready for the games. This is in pregame. But the
A's grounds crew is on the field, working on the infield,
the outfield. There's about I don't know about fifteen people
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on the field. I would say something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
A couple down the base line and working around home
plate and all.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, and there's a couple of players who were just
coming in from the outfield that are just kind of
walking into the dugout. So that's what's going on this kid.
And because you know there's nobody at the games, especially
in the pregame, he goes and he hops the fence
over the tarp on just on the third base, just
past the third base dugout, and he's got all his
clothes on. I want to make sure, Frostburg, that's a
(03:33):
good point. That's a good point. He has all of
his clothes on.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We went a leg with the naked streaking. You know,
the naked run would have been especially because I mean,
you got to pay seb Green or something.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But I don't know. I think people when you think
you're streaker nowadays, people automatically think they're naked.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And no, no, no, that's that's it. So yeah, Frostburg
injecting the streaking thing, like here, it's just an idiot running.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Mike, everybody's doing it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Well, I look, it's body shoot man.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So this kid ends, kid runs on the field and
starts rounding the bases and he starts running by everybody
in the grounds crew and and yeah, he's right. This
this is why the A's are no good. Their fans
are running the bases backwards. Uh that's true to this.
Suddenly it's it's fear strikes out. Right's Jimmy Pearsall running
the bases backwards?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Uh so boy, that's the reference from like nineteen thirty.
Nicely done. So, uh you want to give it anybody?
The cliff notes on who Jimmy Piersall was. I got
to explain to like generation s who Jimmy Pearsall was?
That way too far, man, exactly, way too far. So
he starts running around the bases. He runs a second,
touches second, runs around, first runs home, steps on the plate.
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People see him and they're watching him run, and they
just stick doing their thing. A couple guys are are raking,
the are raking the dirt. Some guys are watering, the
are watering. All this is happening, and the kid's able
to run all around. He gets past home plate. One
Loans security guard comes out and tries to grab him,
but gets a half hearted effort, and the kid just
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kind of runs up the third baseline and he's able
to run back into the stands without anybody stopping him.
Another security guard in the stands at the end, looks
like they try to grab him, but the kid just
kind of goes like, yeah, I'm done. I did my
figure around the way.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He's that fast effort you want to.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's so he ran around the bases and nobody tried
to stop him. This is the this is the a's. Listen,
we don't care. We're moving. We know. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Those guys barely looked up Jason.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's like, hey, I really need to tend to this
dirt right here. This is the most important thing I
am gonna do all damn night.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's just like somebody that that cuts you off in
traffic and then you wind up next with light and
they pretend I don't see you. I don't see you. No,
I don't see you.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh there was a guy there. Oh I didn't see him.
I'm sorry, I didn't know. Now, I can't blame the
grounds crew for Hey, you know, who knows? It seems
like it's just a kid running. It's not my job,
and I don't know what he's gonna do if I
try to tax him. Who knows anything about it? But
the fact that there was just zero response, the A's
are like, yeah, it doesn't matter. It's like when you
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know you own your house and every little ding inside
you want to try to buffet it out and try
to make sure. Oh we got to scrape on the
wall here. I want to try to rub it out.
And then you decide to sell your house, and you
sell it and you go, yeah, I don't care what happens. Okay,
it's a big scratch it. Yeah, I don't care. That's
what the next people will take care if I don't
really care. Scratch on the wall there, Yeah, it could
stay there. I don't care. This is where the a's
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are right now. Listen, we're going it doesn't matter. I mean,
I'm just I'm just counting the days here. I'm getting
a paycheck until this franchise leaves. This kid runs all
the way around the bases and back into the stands like, hey,
I did it, everybody, Look at how cool was I? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I think part of it for me is like you
see a lot of these videos and it's not getting
into any political or law enforcement kind of side. But
you're always taught and go back and watch TV and
film for many a year. Look, nobody's gonna play the hero,
right how many heist movies have you watched, going, Hey,
the guy at the bank isn't exactly going to try
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to unless he's in the dark knight, and then he
wants to have a shotgun or whatever. But you know,
generally guys are gonna be like, hey, we're just just
take what you need and move on. We've seen that
what insert your big change store here where the employees
just kind of stand by here with the number of
lawsuits that get floats, say they go and tackle his
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ass and he rips up his shoulder or something. They
don't want to be responsible for that, like at any level,
especially when you don't have enough gait coming in to
cover the legal expenses. I took a shot at the
two thousand people that are going there. They're still supporting
their squad, but it is it is truly a sad
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state of affairs where someone can run out and nobody
gives a damn Jason.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, really, that's such a that's such an A's story,
that's not even a Mets story, or that's such an
a store. I mean the guy at home Plate like
he kind of moves out of the way a little
b Yeah, I'm raking I'll tell you guys crossing the plate. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
It's amazing. It's amazing, and it's really and it's a
long way from the left field line to the stands.
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It's not one of those ballparks, remember Oakland. It's so
it's a long way. It's a long run, that's right.
As you have the relievers who warm up on the side, right,
they don't warm up, you know that, that's kind of
where they warm up. So it's a long way to go.
So he's running out there and then getting off the
field still, it's like a twenty thirty yard run that
he's got before he even gets on the field. Yep,
I'm there. Noo, he's doing anything. They got guys and
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machines and standing there and raking and moving stuff around. Yeah, no, whatever.
The guy's round on the bases, okay, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Over under. This guy plays shortstop and hits clean up
for the a's tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well, I mean he did put down some pretty decent
ninety splits, so I mean they may give him a
long hard look to see, Hey, can you hit a
curb ball?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
You give me one A that's hustled like that all
season long.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's a that's well, no, no, no, they do have
based off.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Wait a minute, the the A's front office has really
hustled because they're getting that franchise to Vegas. They have red.
You can't say they have a no no story.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Ruiz, we got we got to at least get to
that guy some love because he's he's out exactly, but
he's out there stealing bases and he's a guy that
people are excited about that maybe he can go challenge
a little bit of Ricky Henderson's record, say we're still trying,
or at least he is.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's that that video is. I watched them going. It's
like I've seen it now twenty times. I'm going, absolutely
nobody is reacting. It's okay, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, But I mean, in any other walk, a walk
of life, what you're doing, right, you guys, as you're
out and about tysher back from his sojourn, all of
these things, you're always, you know, head on a swivel.
You react in some way, shape or form to what's
around you. And I know it's not a loud crowd.
There's not a lot of people there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But you can't tell me you didn't hear this guy's
jackass family encouraging his ass to get out there to
where you at least look up from your gardening.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Nope, I'm over here. I'm in the dirt. This is it,
foot by four foot here, This is all a paga.
I'm not looking up. I don't care what may or
may not be transpiring in the stands or on this
very field.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
If I'm the kid, I just walk off and go
what Every team allows kids to run the basis. Yeah,
but it's after the game. It's usually on a Sunday. Well,
I didn't know. I thought I could do it, DoD,
never do it again. You're still gonna come back and
pay money to come, right, because we still need to
make some kind of money. Right, You're still gonna come
see that. Okay, great, I won't arrestue or anything happen.
I mean, what do you arrest a kid? I mean,
what do you do? What do you do when he
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when he makes it all the way around? I mean
I get that when someone just because someone gets away
with a crime doesn't mean you shouldn't arrest them for it.
That's very bob blob law. Logic from arrested development. Why
should you Why should you go to jail for a
crime just because someone saw you it? I don't know.
I mean, the kid made it all the way around.
I think I party would feel like, Okay, you did it.
We didn't catch him. Obviously, it wasn't that big a
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deal because nobody tried to stop you. No one even
turned around and just did a like put there, wave
their hands like you're supposed to when you meet her,
like when you meet a grizzly, make yourself look really
big stuff and go. No one even tried to do
that to him. He's just rounding the bases. I can't
believe the kid didn't stop at some point and go, really,
no one's trying to stop me.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Where was Carl Han Ready?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
But like as he's rounding the bases as well, Like
I'm waiting for the guy at home plate with his
with his rake to just stick the rake up and.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Find him at the end.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Wait for it, wait for it, wait boom and nowt
he goes like a ton of bricks. But you know
the hard part of this is, you know, because you
got a long season ahead of you, Smith, and we're
only at the end of May, there's a lot of
jackasses that will now get on board this, uh this wagon.
So I don't think this is I think it's a
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good look if they do nothing except allow the video
to continue to spread to show what a clown show
they are. But in the end they'll get billions of
dollars in revenue and set it up for a beautiful
sale down the line. And they've shown no desire to
change how they run their business. Now, I mean, how
many different models of contracts have we seen in sites?
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They might own half of Vegas. We've got pieces of
the Oakland A's everywhere based on the agreements we've laid out.
Now it's a lottery as to who actually gets to
build the stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I just can't believe that the A's led the show
like we have all these great topics and lebron is
quoting cryptic language and mascots are making more money than
we can possibly imagine. We got a great big Golden
State Warriors hot Take Come in Your Way, and the
Oakland A's led the show. Because of that, the Oakland
A's did something that allowed us to lead the show
with them. What a time to be alive.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, they it had to happen once, right, I mean
we talk about different things in our lifetimes and the
broken clock being correct twice a day. Sure, Well, here
you are the Oakland a's from Positivity Today and the
inane situation that we're looking at right now.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
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Speaker 1 (13:27):
This is Alex Tyshirt. I've been off for like three weeks.
I gotta hear my favorite song even though nobody else
likes it. You're crazy, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show.
My best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Jason, more people like this song than the Mets.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Let's know that is completely incorrect. I don't know, no, no,
I could tell you even try to, because I could
name people who I know who like the Mets. I
can't name anybody besides you that really likes.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
This song, so I will still sell out.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Jason was back in the Midwest that are eager to
go see them? Hey listen, listen, you know hey, I
love Morris Day, but when I went to see him,
it was a thousands to seat theater. I understand Tears
for Feared selling out thousand seat theaters doesn't mean everybody
wants to go see them, all right, it's just let's
just stop. Let's just let's understand that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
No, it's hey, that's per Town though.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, Tears for Fears concert. Here we go, coming Fears concert.
They're coming, oh, actually coming to the Hollywood Bowl exactly.
But that's what I was trying to get you to
go to. Well, I'm not going to the Hollywood I'm
not going to see him. I'm not going to the
Hollywood Bowl. I'm not going to a.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But I was trying to explain to you with cold
More kids are the openers. But I mean they're playing
some pretty sizable venues.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I'm not going.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Jason just when I do not love Green Eggs and Ham.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I won't see him at a bus.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I'm not going in a car.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
We're in a tree.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I won't go see him at a bar. I want,
you know, all of those things.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I'm not going to see him at the Hollywood Bowl.
I'm not going if I have a burrito bowl them
not totally. Hollywood Bowl was.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Seventeen to five. Okay, you know you take your you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Know, yeah, no, come on, but you know you know
they're going to be covering up the many of those
seats with the big tarpaulin. Hey, okay, let's cover let's
cover that.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
But when they cover it, let's make sure we cover
all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what, I'm going to bring up the map
right now because you irk me with you slander.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
See if you can buy a seat all the way
in the back in the final row for like three dollars,
See if you can buy it, or this section is
unavailable for this concert?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
What do you think you are talking about? Seeds the
Hollywood keep.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
This seat is forty bucks. No, I mean, there's no
way paying forty all the way in the back there
in the Hollywood class rows. You know, how do you
know how far away that is? There's that's like okay,
sitting in the last row with the Hollywood Bowl is
like if you sat behind home plate at the very
top of the stadium in the last row and you
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had to watch something that was happening in center field.
Forget you're not saying as a guy singing, I don't
even know, I don't know this singing, that's too far
you're so distrested. Don't you want to be in the
energy and the crowd?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And I mean, there's a there's a synchronicity that happens
there in a place where it's almost spiritual.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Smith, and you're just dismissing that. Categorically.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
That's part of the experience, not a matter of whether
you can catch the sweat from the singer as he
turns to the right or left on the stage.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Come on, you're better than that. Hey, Hey, you want that.
You go in the pit to concerts, you can catch sweat.
You wanted Axel Rose to sweat on you. We went
to see guns and roads. Please just sweat on me,
por sweat on me. Believe that that's what you wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, my brother and I decided to give ourselves the
experience of a merchandise line that was exclusive to where
we were sitting. Bathrooms that were a lot easier to
get to than standing in line elsewhere. And let's face it,
you've got a very ravenous group of folks that are
up there, So it was kind of entertaining to watch
and to people watch from where I was. Let me,
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you know what, you can beat it and let me
just end right.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Let me just end this right, okay, because I'm at
Tears for Fears concert tickets. They have all the different
places they're playing right, Mohegan Sun Arena, they're playing Madison
Square Garden, the Budweiser Stage, whatever that is. They're playing
all these different places right. Only one venue is there
the red warning. Tickets are going fast, and that's the
Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. That's it. Nothing tickets
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are going fast anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Listen, if you pulled up the map of the Hollywood Bowl,
most of your center sections going all the way back
into the MS and ends, which is you know level
five are sold out or very limited capacity. Yes, the
upper upper seats, there's still plenty of available. We're also
talking about being two months away from the time Starlight
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Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Starlight Theater is going fast. It's a seven thousand seed arena.
That's why it's going fast. More people go see the
A's than go see Tears for You.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Now you're just you're just talking out of random spots
on your body.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But Tears for Fears, let somebody come and run on
backwards around the stage and.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Now they would tackle that guy's ass and he would
be in the whoscow or at least in fake jail
for the night.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Did you just say who's got?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Really? I did?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You got mad at me when I said smoke dope
last night? You said whose scout tonight?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I don't get mad at it.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I just wanted to make sure we didn't gloss over
it because you were transfixed by what Fendley was laying down.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What are you smoking?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Dope? I mean you said who's got? I don't think
I think whoscout was late. It's like nineteen seventy one
the last time somebody said that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I've been watching a lot of Amcquins Turner classics.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I've been watching a lot of Bonanza the last few nights.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, TMC, baby, let's go. I want to try to
rub it out.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, but see to or A Saints. This is
what happened. I need a time out. I need a
time out.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You said you want to rub out some tickets and
go to tears for fear.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Stop Stop, welcome back.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I distinctly liked the part tis where I was proving
my point. You were silent the entire CONFERSSA point.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
You made no point one place.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
That's going fast because there's seven thousand people could go there.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Okay, so how much is the difference of seating available
though for both of these shows?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What you're getting the entire place right, all of.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Like double the size massive square gardens.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Is probably forge That was the point you brought up
a place that's seven thousand. We're talking about places that
are seventeen to twenty.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Come on, dude, yeah, only one place or tickets going fast?
The rest is, hey, what time can you get here?
We'll start the concert.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Roll should go to be amongst fans of myself who
love greatness.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay, okay, oh so so wait to wait ti harmon.
Your point is that if you're not doing anything else,
if you're absolutely not doing anything else, oh go See
to my.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Point is we say we live. We're getting Los Angeles
for everybody else out there, whatever the venue is near you.
You have a lot of choices in your entertainment, and
maybe you're not you don't want them to have your
money for two months?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I had that choice today, right, I'm still going to
the concert, right, but you're still going to the concert.
R But do I want to give them my money
today or would I rather have that in my account.
If you want a big deal, you would have to
give me your money because there would be a demand
to go see it. The point is, if you wanted
the top seats, they're gone. Now you got to go
to the secondary market. The point is looking at get
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in then you have time. And I don't know if
a week from now that gets activated. Maybe there's some
messaging in the local area. All right, maybe I had
the Maybe I had the wrong Maybe I had the
wrong analogy. Going to a Tears or Fears concert is
like going to an Angel's game. May maybe the age
a little too overla. It's like going to an angel's game.
That's what it is. Why are you so mad? I'm
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I'm just saying, what's up?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Prostrated?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
The real question is how did Jason know the website?
How did he know exactly where to go to look
up tickets to the concert?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Because he got type Tears for Fears concert and I did.
That's the first thing that came.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
He bought tickets. It was already in your browser, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I did not buy tickets, Jay.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I think he's going without you not going.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Now I'm just insulted.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And now I had to bring up a special guest
on stage to sing a song with us. It's Jason Smithford,
Fox Sport's Radio.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Jason surely promoted a lot of it.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You would have fun if we win, Jason. I already
know all right what I point to you.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
You say everybody wants to rule the word true they do.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Jason. You know what that guy's punishment would be if
he ran on the set of Tears for Fears.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
What would his punishment?
Speaker 5 (21:38):
They would tie him down to a share and play
it on repeat.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
They would most likely just look at him and start
going shout shout.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
When I point to you say let it all out,
let it all out. I point to you. What did
he say something?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And I'm head over he just gotta throw this out there. Guys,
this might be the dumbest topic we've ever touched.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Oh, this is a great topic, you kidding. People understand
with what good music is and what good music isn't
and and you know, and it's about the a's and
the angels and lots of good things.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
And the angels aren't good things.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
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a big Warriors Hot Take? You ready? Warriors Hot Take?
Draymond Green and Klay Thompson will be gone this offseason.
You want them, you can have them because the Warriors
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will move on. What happened today. Bob Myers, longtime president's
last general manager of the Golden State Warriors, who presided
over the beginnings of the dynasty and the maintenance of
the dynasty, has stepped away. This is something that we
thought was going to happen at some point. It's been
there for twelve years. They certainly wanted to keep him around.
They wanted to give him a new contract, but he's like, look,
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I need to step down. I need to do something else.
And maybe he takes some time off. He's only forty
seven years old. I take some time off, I come
back and I do something else, he'll be one of
the most sought after basketball executives.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You're looking for, you know, sometimes there is Hey, I'm bored,
I was creative. We got this and I'm getting out
now because the run is over well, and also it's
just when I'm time for me to go. But from
a guy building cultures and keeping things together, from just
a straight managerial side, he's not going to be limited
to basketball. And if he just wants to go hit
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the lecture circuit, he'll go make a pretty penny there
and then he'll be able to rec for any job
he wants down the line. This should tell you that
this is about what is next for the Warriors, and
that is Draymond's gone and Klay Thompson has gone. From
a basketball standpoint, then we'll widen it out to what
today had to do with it. The Warriors aren't good enough,
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right you saw them. They got knocked out of the
playoffs by the Lakers. This was not a great Laker team,
but a Laker team that came together and they got
knocked out and they lost pretty good. This is not
a team that, oh, if we have another offseason, our
players will get healthier, our younger players will ascend. No,
that's not happening. You can't say that for the Warriors anymore.
The players were all healthy. The younger players didn't ascend.
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The era of the Warriors as we know them as
championship team is over. They were seven and thirty five
away from home this year. It was really difficult. Yes,
I had the big first round upset, but this was
an upset that a lot of people saw coming. That
wasn't a big difference between them and Sacramento. So you
know that Golden State needs to be in for change,
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but will they do it with they really say goodbye
to these guys. But here goes Bob Myers. Wait, why
is he leaving? What is he leaving if these guys
are sticking around? Ooh, I don't know about that. And
then you widen it out past this where Myers is
gone and Joe Lake of the owner, says he doesn't
have a replacement for him yet a couple of things
that have been bandied about. They're looking for a bigger
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role for his son, and also for Mike Dunleavy junior,
who is to remember when he was overdrafted number three overall.
So they're looking for bigger roles for both of them.
Whoever comes in is coming into this team to make
their mark. Nobody gets a job as a GM and says,
you know what, let's just let everybody play. No, no,
you come in as a GM because things need to change.
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And for whatever reason, Bob Myers walked away. He sees
the writing on the wall. It's the end of the
era and he's getting out before everybody else gets out.
The new GM is gonna need to do something. And
because you don't come in and just say, okay, yeah,
we're gonna run it back. No, this is not a
run it back team. The Warriors are not run it back.
Right now, they are reading out and what can you do.
Draymond Green, who is not nearly the same player, his
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contract is coming up to the point where you can
move on from him. Klay Thompson is not the same player.
Does he have value with other teams? Yeah, for a
smaller role where he can be a shooter. There's lots
of teams that say, hey, I'd love to get Klay
Thompson on here. Not gonna rely on him like the
Warriors relied on him, because he's clearly not a number
two anymore. He can't do it as consistently, but can
he be a good three or four? Yeah, So yeah,
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there'll be some interest in him, just like there'll be
some interest in Draymond Green from a team that thinks
we are maybe Draymond away from winning a championship with
his influence in the locker room and what he can
do in limited minutes on the floor. So they'll be
interest in both of these guys. Doesn't mean you're gonna
turn these guys into superstars, but you're gonna free up
money and then you're gonna say, Okay, let's rebuild this
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team around Steph. You know Steph Curry even though you
know he's getting into his mid thirties, but he's not
slowing down hardly at all. So and he's an easy
guy to sell on. Hey, come play with Steph. Steph
doesn't care. He doesn't care if you get that headlines.
That's the best thing about Steph Curry. He's one of
those alphas that says, yeah, I have no problem sharing
the spotlight. I have no problem somebody else coming in.
Didn't have any problem with Katie, no problem with anybody else.
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You can sell that, but you need to do this.
If you're the Warriors and you don't want to waste
the last few years of Steph Curry's career, you have
to make that bold, difficult decision, and saying goodbye to
two of the three guys you built the dynasty around
can be difficult. But you're either getting better or you're
treading water. So when you put all of this together, Hey,
Bob Myers retiring, these guys are coming up, new GM
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is coming in saying I got to make my mark
and my mark is going to be moving on from
Draymond and Clay. Hey, that's what's gonna happen. So yeah,
Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, new teams, next season, book it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I think as you look at this flows I mean,
we watched that long hug between Lebron and Draymond, and
Draymond in his podcast was talking about Bob Myers and
we talked about it a good month and a half,
two months whatever. It's really started to percolate about him
potentially leaving of He would be the most sought after
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free agent in anything. And I'm not talking about Draymond.
I'm talking about Bob Myers for what he was able
to construct in the acumen that they have there. You
can't always make people get along, which is why you
have the situation Jordan Poole, Draymond, etc. That what they
say is it carried all through the year. Well maybe
that's why you had worse seven you know, had seven
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wins on the road. But we look at the next phase.
Clay's way too much money and this is you know,
armchair GM sitting here. As much as he's meant, you're
not paying him for what he did unless you really
just want to burn it all down and start over.
But Steph's not gonna want to do that. As much
as he made love Clay, he's recognized as the writing
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on the wall there with where he is physically, it's
not suddenly going to rewind the hands of time. And
Draymond he's effective at times but still has his issues
at times where you're you're wondering how much he's caring
about the game.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
We had that Draymond resurgence a year ago this year
after the punch of Jordan Poole, which some would say
a lot of folks didn't wanted to do it verbally
or Steph and Clay and everybody had the same kind
of attitude and then well Draymond just did it that
way to make the point that it flows through.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So yeah, it's it's time to rebuild.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And Steph in his exit interview, was talking about the
next iteration of things and pointed to Pool's locker, saying,
it's all about him, all right, So you got those
two teamed up, who do you pair him with? Draymond's
going to be a Laker. I'm almost certain of it
that he'll He'll come here and continue building his media
empire and hanging out with Frostburg whenever he can.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Oh, look at that Frostburg and Trainbond. He's trying to
get on Draymond's podcast, saying all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Right, Draymond would be calling me to come on my IM.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
That's really nicely done.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Well you think I'm begging Draymond.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Hey, if you want to be on my podcast, what's
it called. It's called the Lakers are Back. And you
have to say it just like that when you come
on the Lakers are back, Lakers are Frossberg go telling
you you want Draymond, you want Clay, you can have them.
They'll be on different teams this offseason. It's a new regime,
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new everything in Golden State.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
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because it's been like three days since the people stopped
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talking about the fact he may or may not retire, decided, Hey,
I need to make sure people are talking about me again.
He's gone viral in the last twenty four hours because
of something he posted on his Instagram page. He puts this,
He puts a picture of himself up from high school
playing for Saint Vincent Saint Mary's, and he puts the
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song lyric I'm supposed to be number one on everybody's list.
We'll see what happens when I no longer exist, quoting
a song from Jay Z's a line from Jay Z's
what More Can I Say?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Showing what a different world it is though, because if
missus Jean Moran, we'd be wondering what's going on with
what's Lebron?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
It's like, here we go. Now you just know it's
about drama and look for Lebron. You can just tell
sometimes how he's desperately holding on to being relevant because
everything the guy used to do, it was always news.
But now we see it's kind of getting near the
end and this Lebron still a championship player and everything
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was more. When we talked about the Lakers this year,
it was really it became so much more about Anthony
Davis and Lebron, not just Lebron, whoever else is Aroundabu
is about a d and the changes they made, and
he can see it starting to slip away. So what
does he do right after they get eliminated? Oh, I
may retire. Oh that'll get people talking about me. Great. Yeah,
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after my team sweats blood through a big series and
we lose and we get knocked out and we get swept,
I'm gonna make it about me and say, hey, I
may retire, And then here he is with now because
a few days have gone by. Oh now I'm gonna
put this out there about being number one. Everybody's list
will see what happens when I no longer exist. I
gotta say this. The dude is thirty eight years old.
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He's the most popular athlete on the planet, and here
he is acting like he's a high school kid who
is looking for attention because he doesn't get it from
his friends for some reason. I mean, what are you doing, man?
I mean really, I mean, you are a grown ass man.
He is. There's a ring thirty eight, right, thirty eight
is okay? Hey, you're a guy to And again, he's
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done everything in his career, biggest star on the planet.
He's got everything. He's got championships, he's got money. But
for say, he just can't not have himself be talked
about or think that that people don't respect him or
respect his game or whatever mind games he's playing with himself.
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But I mean, but come on, man, you're thirty eight
years old and you're sitting here quoting lyrics from songs
on social media.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You really need that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I mean that that's a thing, dude, I would say,
come on, that's something that really fuels you. You really
need to be quoting song lyrics, being cryptic on social media. Really.
I mean that that's something I expect from a kid
who's fourteen Friday night, listen to music. Something happens, he's
not going out with his friends because he's he's in trouble,
or he's mad at one of his friends.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Or something's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm gonna put this out on a social media thing
just for attention, not for any reason other than to
have attention. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what.
I thought you were my friend. That's kind of what
this looks like. I mean, he looks like he's really
mad at somebody that I don't know who he's mad at,
but he's mad at somebody or some or a group
of people who are saying, oh, you don't respect me enough.
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Wait till I retire, Wait till I walk away. And
you'll see then, like he's like he's a teener saying wait,
wait till I not be friends with you, and then
you'll see we won't be friends. Then you'll see what
will happen. I mean, come on, what are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think part of it. Look, we all do it
with different parts of our lives of Hey, go experiences,
show love to a restaurant, or maybe music you're listening to,
you're trying to evangelize whatever. But when it comes to Lebron,
it's always seen as having that next level thing. Maybe
it's just a motivation. Hey don't forget this lyric.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But we know better.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
We know better because we've moved on to the finals
and it's all about the rise of Jimmy Butler, Eric Spolstra,
all the undrafted guys, all of that and Darren We
actually indulge Michael Malone by talking about the Nuggets. Lebron's
a distant memory. Man. He didn't get nearly enough run
for that Sham's you know, clutch drop about his foot.
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Everybody went, yeah, we knew it was hurt.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I mean, we're come on, dude, you're thirty eight. You're
thirty eight and you're a huge star. What are you doing?
Shup Twitter? And how about a Fresco Mike get swollen dome?
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