June 3, 2023 • 28 mins
Jason and Mike break down the upcoming Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and Nuggets, the odds of teams becoming a major contender after trading for players, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Before I get to this big NFL story, I really
have to ask because now I can't not know the answer.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
As we mentioned a.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Few minutes ago, I actually wandered into this to the
studio where Frostburg and Tshirt usually sit because any went
out like Ty should probably went out to get to
get seaweed, and Frostburg went to the bathroom, and I'm
standing behind the big.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Board with you know, a big new student, everything else.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And there is a big button that's on ty Shirt's
board that just says, don't touch on it, don't don't
touch now, don't touch the red But I am grooped.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
What now? What could that button be? Tysher?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I want to press it. I gotta, I gotta, I
gotta touch I gotta press it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is the end of the world, the thing that
bothers me the most. There's no hyphen between the N
and T, just says don't touch with no hyphen right,
and and it also okay, there's that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It also isstrophe also is it also is very close
to where you could just bump into it and it's
not covered by anything. There should be like it's like
really close to where you could just you should have
to have.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
A key, Like it's the nuclear Do you have your key?
Come on, where's your key? Do you have the nuclear football? Sir?
Turn your key, sir. I'm so sorry. Turn your key.
Mo movie, turn your key, sir, I'm so sorry. Actually,
show what fast forward to the show? Oh is that
what it does? Yeah? So like you can press that
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by the week and go home? Ready? Wow? Okay, well
you want to know the crazy thing? Yeah? I press
it at seven that it's now ten, so it obviously works.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh well, all right, well take us back so I
can go back and bet on some other thing. I
want to bet that Josh Donaldson's a home run in
the ninth inning off of Bickford.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I want to bet that. Can I bet that? What?
Can I bet that the Dodgers are going to score
six in the first What I want to bet? Think
about what I could have bet.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would go back and say, okay, I want to
bet that the Dodgers score more runs in the first
inning than Clayton Kershaw throws pitches.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Because that's what happened. Kershaw threw five pitches in the
first inning and the Dodgers had six runs. Yeah, that's
a good question. I mean, what kind of That's where
Todd Ferman, who usually joins on front, if I'll give
you whatever odds you want on that, that is not
something that's going to happen. That is not gonna I guarantee,
guarantee I could become a mega millionaire with like five
(03:00):
dollars on that. I'm just gonna bet that five dollars
on that. What would I get? Whatever you want? I'm
going to try to figure out what those odds would
whatever you want right now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I would go to the Wind and I would say,
if this comes through, I want control of the casino,
because boy, standing the Wind was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We went there, we got to go weeks ago. Let's
let's go back to that podcast studio. But we should
have a residency. Really, I mean, you've got I don't want,
you know, every Friday Friday night residency in the hallway.
I don't know. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You get a residency. That basically means your career is over.
It's like I can't travel, but I.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Can catch a lot of money. Your career is over.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Then, oh, you don't want to travel and to stay
home with my family and all this tif I'm getting
a little too old now, that's what.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Though. Yeah, right, but you're getting paid to stay and
not travel. But but the whole stigma, the whole stigma
is that I can't well. But it was like being
an actor and having to do a TV series versus
being a thumb star. That's long gone. Yeah, yeah, that's
long like the residency thing that that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, as Wong told us in She Help, we're in
the era of peak television. So no, I agree with
you there, but your residency is you're old. You can't
get around your residency.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You you believe that. I don't think that. Look who's
in residencies now, I don't think that's I think that's categorically.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Full in residency. Britney Spears, Brittany's Britney Spears career is
and over. Brittany Spears's getting.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Started like forever. Billy Joel's been doing Madison Square Garden
just announced he's done. They sold over one point seven
million tickets. That's not bad. Well, that's not your career.
And he came here to die what to Sofi and
they said sixty thou residency.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's some trasidency residency when you go for like it's
a three year residence.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
But legitimately, Billy Joel didn't travel and didn't do concerts,
but one offs he was touring right like he was
in New York. That's a residency. Garth Brooks has washed up. No,
I actually got an access keep I went saw him
in San Diego, sixty thousand people last year. Now he's
going back to the well. If you saw him, he's
washed up. If you saw that. The last time we talked,
(05:16):
you went stay at the time. Last you're telling me
about people washed up? Hey? Are you kid? Hey, I'm
not making any excuse. I know where Morris Day's career is.
I just wanted to see the guy one more time.
Darth Brooks still sells out. Last time we're talking about
Karth Brooks, he was Chris Gaines. Come on, man, it's
a long time. Go back and listen to the album.
That album was pretty good. It's been, it's been. It's
(05:37):
been thirty years in low places, right, but he has
released other stuff. Yeah, but he was produced washed up.
But like I went to buy ticket, Yeah yeah, yeah,
So he does this stuff at the wind So don't
go disrespecting place. Maybe we might need, you know, help
with sure, just got really mad at me what I
(06:00):
did that. He almost took a swing at me. You
just cost him weekends in Vegas, Right, But I had
the access code that went and I logged in, you
know the little lottery that they do electronically, cheap of
seats were foreigner bucks before for four fees.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, Katy Perry's washed up? Right residency? How long is
her residency?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
She's got a residence Adele. Adele's washed up?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, come on, she did what nineteen twenty one, twenty five,
twenty nine. Her albums are all like numbers you would
pick for the lottery nineteen twenty one, washed Up twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Keith Hernandez has washed up, Key on Man. He's been
done every long before those commercials. Although Keith is the
point where he doesn't want to travel for road games anymore,
which is kind of like a boom. Yes, that is
when you don't travel for road game.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But like legitimately, if you've got a hotel that's really
to roll out a giant bucket of money to you,
Like literally, it's the Bringstrung, It's a Mony Williams pack,
which is really what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It has to be in Detroit. Here's here's the brains
truck of money, and you get to live in our hotel.
We will do everything we can, and here's the dates
we need you because most of them only doing like
hey they do weekends for a couple of months. Uh,
they'll do a week of shows whatever the case may be.
But they can What about what about you, mister Mike Carmon,
(07:24):
go out and see the world, do something you'll do something.
Don't shot home all the time. Get out, do something
two things. Get out. This is where you don't have
to go anywhere. The win is a city in and
of itself. But they go anywhere. But they don't have
that though, but they have done many years of that.
When you're doing that, not for a minute, are you
pausing or is this the this is the end? Right?
(07:45):
Sting's done a residency, Elton John did a residency, okay,
and now they're back out on tours selling out arenassenies
that come. You're out of here. You're out of your mind.
You have no idea what you're talking. What's you say?
How's a residency? Who is that? Yeah? That world's most
(08:07):
famous DJ? Okays no, DJ Khaled is the most.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Famous DJ because his name is DJ dj Khaled, DJ
Reid defensive back for the Jets.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
He's the famous DJ, and his name is DJ. Who's
the most famous? Mc mc hammer good call, Yeah, here
you go, that's not badwdriver, Master of ceremonies. Hammer, this
is his name. Yes, thank you very much. You know,
in between, since we're down a rabbit hole, you know,
you always have your U.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Hit that don't touch.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But this is what the this se this is my
whole plan is for the last few minutes to get
Tucher to the point where I'm just gonna hit the
don't touch button. I want to see what does you know?
In between button press, Yahoo sculpted abs articles today was
one about Shaggy making sure people really understand that it's
(09:02):
an anti cheating song. No, it wasn't me, it wasn't
anti cheating.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Message for the ages got it right right, So I
got skulked abs of insert celebrity here, followed by Shaggy,
who also toured with Stings So there boom.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
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Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's like when Vanilla I said, no, if you listen
to my song, it's ding ding ding dida ding ding.
If you listen to their song, it's ding ding ding
di da ding ding. It's different. It's not the same.
It wasn't me. It's not the same. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sometimes in the NFL, hit the button, shirts button. The
best trades are ones you don't make, yep. Mike Florio
Pro Football Talk. A couple other sources had this story
today that a year ago the Eagles wanted to get
Russell Wilson. I'll think about where the Eagles are right now,
(10:01):
on top of the football world. They nearly won the
Super Bowl. They have the best roster in the game.
They just got better in the offseason. Jalen Hurts was
an MVP candidate all season long, like I told you
was gonna be. I said he was gonna win, but
I'll take the l But I told you was gonna
win at least he was in the conversation. But when
he finished the year, yea. But Wilson, they had a
deal all set to go for him to go to
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the Eagles, and Wilson.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Wouldn't rate waive his no trade clause to go to
Philadelphia now first and oft smart move. He couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He couldn't survive in Seattle where they're protecting him for years.
He's having enough trouble. In Denver, they would have eaten
him alive.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
He would have been asking him for like Kevin Durant
did with the Mister Unreliable Wine. By the way, anybody
that has a copy of that newspaper, I would like
one from my wall. So if you can find me, please, dude.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Russell Wilson going to Philadelphia would be like the guy
in the zombie movie who goes, just.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Go, just go. I'm not making it out, sacrifice myself
and they all run away, go no, no, and he's
just eaten by a thousand zombies. That's what happened Russell
Wilson with the Philadelphia media, especially having the year he
had last year where it looks like maybe he's watched
oh yea, he made the right move, not going no.
It would have been terrible, right, right, especially if he
(11:17):
came in in the same shape yeah yeah, which was
not football shape. No, no decision making some of the
stuff he demanded behind the scenes. That look, when things
go south, it all starts to come out, right. You
keep cringing anytime there may be another Rogers headline out
of Green Bay. But that certainly was the case for
Russell Wilson. Anything that could start to find its way
(11:41):
out about how he was separate from the locker room did,
and in Philadelphia you think that's gonna work. I mean,
you're already paranoid over what Samini and those guys are
gonna do. To your guy Rogers Smith things go south. Uh.
He was actually a recommended connection off of one of
the socials the other day. For me, we must talk
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about them a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But look, but this shows you and the older I
get and the more I watch, the more I watch
trades and how trades really shake out in sports is
that it used to be. Sometimes the best trades are
the ones you never make. I'm now to the point
where most of the time the best trades are the
trades you never make, whether it's in real sports or
fantasy right, because you either get too antsy and you
(12:25):
have to make a trade fantasy guy set.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, sometimes you get desperate.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But in sports, how often do trades really work out
where you can say I want it. It's not often
where you make the one for one trade where hey,
we traded this guy for this guy and one guy
outperformed the other. No, there's so many different layers to
a trade and does it really work?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Do they always? Once in a while you get a
big trade that works. But to break it all down, normally,
trades that involve big players involve multiple draft picks, multiple people,
and it's draft picks the players that get taken that
then either they play for that team or they get
dealt or the draft pick gets dealt to get a
bigger draft pick. Bringing in players via trade very rarely works.
(13:10):
It does I'm gonna saying it doesn't work, but does
it work to the extent where hey, this works and
we are able to get over the top on it. Right,
the Braves made a gaggle of trades the trade deadline
a couple of years ago and.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Went on to win the World Series. Why because they
just got better at four different positions. Right, Well, I
think they brought in great players, but they brought in
guys to get better at four different pers Okay, that
worked out.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You can go through the analytics and figure out what
you need and where to fill the gas exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But look at a trade like Juan Soto. Can you
say Juan Soto the Padres.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Won that you want to headline? No, because Wan sodas well.
His ops is a thousand. But these guys they gave
up are all pretty good and they're moving up. They
grab their prospects, but they're all moving up the Nationals
Nationals ranks pretty fast. Yeah, I don't care about it.
I need him to drive in runs. I need him
to hit you. You made this trade.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
If you had made this trade, nobody would have questioned
you talent wise, going well, Jalen Hurts, who knows if
he's really good or not? Maybe not Now I always
liked him, not saying this is not Revision's history. I
always loved Jalen Hurts. Thought he was a great player.
I told you he was gonna be great, and he was.
But nobody would have criticized, Oh, you Russell Wilson. You're
getting Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
But we already called him. But your getting Russell Wilson. Okay, Okay,
you got all this stuff going on, and it would
have been the worst thing. It would have been the
absolute worst trade, absolute worst trade. Many times, the best
trades are the ones you don't mean. Yeah, he would
not have worked in uh heat culture. I mean Eagles culture,
deep culture, Eagles country. Let's fly.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That would have been fun, getting a let's fly. That
would have been fun. That would have been fun. It
would have competed with.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The fly Eagles fly, which is the which is the
I mean, we could have dressed him up like the
vulture Michael Keaton vulture or the vulture from the comics
Michael Keaton, Vulture that was really dressed up was more
like I had a bomber jacket with feathers on. I
thought it was cool, though Vulture actually had a big
vulture wings and everything. Yeah, but they didn't want to
have another mutation storyline. Have you had a suit? It
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was a suit. He fit the suit. He had a
Vulture suit. But he was just a dude, I know.
But they wouldn't have done that in this Dame. You
didn't drink vulture blood, but it would have made him
like the lizard.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
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Speaker 3 (15:23):
Let's go. Look he's dancing in there. He the button.
That's what it does, bit bit. Among the things I
could do without is this song. I pushed the button.
This played. You push the don't touch button, and that's
no wonder. That's a very there's a special Tears for
(15:44):
Fears button now no no, no randomizes of their epic playlist.
Button that says touch.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That's a very good don't touch button because it plays
Tears for Fears.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You do not want to touch that button. No, I
got it. Watch, I'll push it again. You ready another
Tears for Fears, Let's go? Even know what this song is?
I don't care. How do you know? It's Tears for Fears.
It's the button, It's whatever is up next in your
Spotify account. This could be, could be adam ant. The
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button goes to my Spotify. You don't drink, don't smoke, then, TJ.
Clearly there will always be room at the top here
on Fox Sports Radio eighteenth century the TJ.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
We're just following ancient history. If I play it Tears
or Fears song for you, will you play it Tears.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
For the concert? Jason is actually just gonna be Tye Shirt.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
With his Spotify on Let's Go and just pictures of
the band over the years, like when you turn on
that you know, music Chattel on your TV and they
just show you still shots with trivia.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Tears are Fearms. Formed in South London in nineteen seventy five.
It's our version of pop up video starring Alex Tyshirt,
Sae Big Greg and Iowa do it ty Shirt hit
the button, don't hit the own touch buttons. But that's
a good idea. Pressing the don't touch button. No, maybe
on stage with a cell phone putting a show on
power pot. Very happy that paid to see you do that.
(17:11):
They do that for shock or whatever, petty do all
these guys. All you need is a couple of smoke machines,
a couple of confetti cannon, some lights. It's easy. You're here.
You walk on with a computer and some speakers. That's
all you need. You'll be spinning.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You'll be spinning like you're Samantha Ronson just.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
More ways than one. What are you doing? Yeah? Actually
getting actual records? Now, come on, do that. But that
was when DJs. We're talented. Now it's just not my pressing, putting,
but it's about putting a feeling a vibe of what's
out in front of you, creating a mood, shifting the mood,
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slowing it down when you need to slow it down,
little slide over baby kind of thing, and then you
speed it back up. Get that heart rate back up,
get that heart get that feet moving. Come on, let's
go the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh we got some We got some fun baseball stuff
coming up in a couple minutes, but just to a
little bit further as we get set for Game two
of the NBA Finals. Look, I've told you from the beginning,
Nuggets and four, the Nugget size is too big, They're
too talented. They've been the best team in the NBA
all year long. That he'd have had a great job
so far making their way through the East, but they're
(18:31):
clearly not equipped to deal with the Nuggets. And here's
another reason, not just Jimmy Jimmy, Butler's saying, we got
to attack in Game two. Yeah, the Lakers thought they
had everything forced and out and they got swept. One
of the biggest things in this series was what Bam
out of Bio had to come through, right, he was
at anywhere you heard, Hey, if they're gonna win the NBA,
(18:51):
they can't be. Butler's guys, Bam out of Bio really
has to show up and show out right. What kind
of game did out of Bio have in Game one?
Twenty six points, thirteen boards, and five assists. Yeah, and
the game was never closed. Now, I mean's one man,
that's what you're gonna get from Bam out of Bayo.
Because as much as we want to fall under the
whole uh, Jimmy pluck Butler. Playoff Jimmy, Jimmy Butler has
(19:14):
like two three playoff games where he is just average
and they'll have a big game.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's oh, look at Jimmy, Look at Jimmy. Jimmy Butler
is someone you can keep down. He's not someone that's
always going to go through and beat you every single game.
You needed that game from Bam out of Bio and
look what you got twenty six, thirteen and five and
he shot great, right, he was over fifty percent from
the floor and you got boat raced. Tell me how
the heat are gonna turn this Outside of the officials
(19:39):
suddenly saying, oh, we're sending you to the free throw
line every single time, and the Nuggets not going to
the free throw as we talked about a bit last night,
he goes to the rest of that squad. I mean,
without a BIO, am I expecting twenty six points? No
great bonus Jimmy Butler. Yeah, you're gonna have some fluidity
in terms of his point output, but production overall, uh
(20:03):
and effort always gonna be there. He's gonna give you
heavy minutes. But the key is the rest of those guys,
Max Stews couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. Dunkin
Robinson tried to kill a man with the brick that
he laid. He threw a brick. He literally like threw
a brick. I mean, you just killed the guy with
a tridad brick. But like he Julie side steps gets
his open shot and then it hit the backboard so
(20:26):
hard if someone was crashing the board, it might have
taken them down, might have taken him out. It might
have been anything you've seen in a basketball comedy film.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And he yelled out, my sweet brick, my sweet brick.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
No, no, no, stay here, brick, stay here, my sweet brick.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then you hold the funeral for him, and then
he starts talking, my sweet brick, Oh no, brick, you're alive.
Nuggets and nuggetson four. But yeah, you know, Martin was awful.
Struce was over ten, over ten, yeah, nint range. And
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then as as I mentioned, Duncan Robinson one of six,
he hit his first three point shot. Yeah, granny was
that was terrible, really really really bad. So I mean,
those three guys combining for as they did two of
twenty three. I mean, there's your game, right. They're not
a huge offensive team, so it was gonna be tough
(21:24):
to keep up with the Nuggets if everybody's healthy and
the balls moving as efficiently as it is, right, because
that's the thing with with Jokics, these guys swarming and
Aaron Gordon did a very eloquent two and a half
minute response to a halftime question. Oh yeah, you know
when Nicole is doing his thing and he's hand jest
ranged like not three. Yeah, we gotta play hard. We
(21:45):
played really well. We got to keep that. No, No,
he gave you a deep inside basketball analysis of how
the offense was flowing through Nicole Yolkics. But that's key, right,
That's what they keep doing for the heat. The only way,
and that's what they've done every other round is the
secondary players have to get hot and stay hot. Good
luck Nuggets. In four nuggets, Tyler hero is gonna have
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to put that bucket hat over and he's gonna say
let's go, and he's gonna say, hey, you stan Van Gundy.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'll be honest with you, I'll be they should let
him wear the bucket hat. When he I think it
would be great. I mean, I really don't understand why
you can't access Riisee.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Would you have a tough time seeing the hoop? I think?
But when he bucket does the bucket that come down
over his eyes didn't affect Buckethead on the stage all
those years? Well you're looking down.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Well the thing is Buckethead is looking down at his guitar,
whereas Tyler Heroes got to look out at the hoop.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I think the bucket at might be over his head.
I don't know, maybe maybe you have to modify things
a little bit, but I think, I mean, it would
be It would be a good branding opportunity. I mean, baseball,
we keep selling red Yankee hats and got that. Why
not sell the NBA bucket at Twitter? It ou about
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Speaker 1 (22:57):
Uh something quick on the mL be here as we
get set for a big week. We watched the Dodgers
beat the crap out of the Yankees. Yeah, my dad
excited to go to the games this weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You don't know, why are we gonna get any live
look ins on Walt can't get any worse than tonight.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, I can't or But usually right around Memorial Day
we spend time looking back at what we've seen so
far and what to make sense of it. One of
the biggest things that we've seen so far is look
at the surprise teams in Major League Baseball. The Diamondbacks
our first place team. The Texas Rangers are running away
with the West right now, even though Jacob de gram
is barely pitched. The Tampa Bay Rays have played really well. Toronto, Pittsburgh.
(23:37):
These teams are all up near the top. Toronto's in
a loaded division. Pittsburgh is a five hundred team for
the first time since nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
And why is this happening?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This goes back to the Billy Bean Brad pitt line
from from Moneyball, where he just says adaptor die and
he claps his hands adapt or die, adaptor died. Two
of the big rule changes this offseason were no more
shifts and you can only throw over to first base
two times during and at bat. So this basically gives
(24:08):
a runner carte blanche to get as big a lead
as he wants to right so we can run because
you only throw over twice. Look at these teams that
I just mentioned who are at the top of their division.
These are the teams that have embraced those changes because
the two biggest things that we've brought back as weapons
are stolen bases and hitting for average. Because it used
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to it, We'll just put talent out on the field,
guys will hit home runs and we're in a three right.
And look at the teams that are struggling now, the
Mets in the pot, who had the biggest offseason, the
Mets and the Padres, because what did they do. We're
just going to try to put talented guys out there.
There's no flow to their lineups. There's no this works well,
none of it. But the teams that have adjusted with
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the big changes stolen base, on base percentage, hitting for average,
these are the teams that are doing well that have
been able to come up and contend. Now this doesn't
mean the power you're gonna sudden win one hundred and
twenty games, But the Pirates have found a way and
the Rangers and Tampa Bay and Arizona especially have found
a way to go from hey, we're bottom feeders, where
we're seventy five win team. Now maybe we can win
(25:13):
eighty five games. And now I can win ninety games
because we're taking advantage of the rule changes like nobody
else can. Because these are two really big things now
that we're absent from the game for so long, Right,
stolen bases absent from the game for average, how many
guys over three hundred a year? Now a couple two
or three in each league. Now we're gonna get like
probably ten or twelve guys will do it. Telling you
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you take advantage of the rule changes, and these teams
have done it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Diamondbacks currently sixth in Major League Baseball with the team
at batting average at two sixty two they are fourth
and stolen bases at fifty three. Mike, get them on,
get them over again. They'll by pumpkins in about two weeks.
And they may be. And that's the beauty of it.
As we're doing the show today, we're looking at two
months of data, and over time, I would still argue
that you're still gonna have your hands full with San
(26:00):
Diego before it's all said and done, San Diego. Have
you seen them no, they well, you know there's a
whisper a rumor and would they have their own messenger,
Boy and friendly that brings us the evening Post, tell
us all about San Diego, San Diegans, San Diego, Diego,
(26:22):
San Diegians. You know what San Diego means. So it'll
be curious to see how it how it holds right,
because Pittsburgh has been fun, Baltimore has been fun, a
lot of good young talent, uh, the Al East being
as I mean, really, they're just gonna beat the hell
out of each other all year long. So that's all
fun and good. But to see how these teams handle
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a full season? Can you keep that up right? Can
can these players who we would all argue have overachieved
through two months? What happens over the long haul? You
still want to have the superstars as much as you
like a small ball in this time. Will those pitchers
and the bullpen management? Can you eke out enough innings
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out of those guys later on? Or even with the
offensive efficiencies that we're celebrating here, will it be too little? Well,
that's the thing is, it's not so much about are
you now becoming a dominant team? Now, Hey, you can
stay afloat with that, and but that's my point is,
if we do this check in two months from now,
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how many of those teams have started to Well, let's
say if the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
If the Pittsburgh Pirates are five hundred at the end
of August, that's an achievement.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Okay, happen. If the Diamondbacks are sniffed, they're paying you
more than any player on that. They're still paying Dave
Parker money. I'm sure the Cobra Cobra. By the way,
the Cobra should be in the Hall of Fame. Is
that your hot take for tonight? Dave Parker should be like, oh,
I'm gonna make Jason Cole make that his next thing. Okay,
I mean he failed us on all the Cowboys out
of the Hall of Fame because more and more guys
(27:56):
get in, even you know, Hall of Famer, Zach Thomas,
got it. That's well. Hall of very good, Zach Thomas,
Hall of very Good.
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Before I get to this big NFL story, I really
have to ask because now I can't not know the answer.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
As we mentioned a.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Few minutes ago, I actually wandered into this to the
studio where Frostburg and Tshirt usually sit because any went
out like Ty should probably went out to get to
get seaweed, and Frostburg went to the bathroom, and I'm
standing behind the big.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Board with you know, a big new student, everything else.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And there is a big button that's on ty Shirt's
board that just says, don't touch on it, don't don't
touch now, don't touch the red But I am grooped.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
What now? What could that button be? Tysher?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I want to press it. I gotta, I gotta, I
gotta touch I gotta press it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is the end of the world, the thing that
bothers me the most. There's no hyphen between the N
and T, just says don't touch with no hyphen right,
and and it also okay, there's that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It also isstrophe also is it also is very close
to where you could just bump into it and it's
not covered by anything. There should be like it's like
really close to where you could just you should have
to have.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
A key, Like it's the nuclear Do you have your key?
Come on, where's your key? Do you have the nuclear football? Sir?
Turn your key, sir. I'm so sorry. Turn your key.
Mo movie, turn your key, sir, I'm so sorry. Actually,
show what fast forward to the show? Oh is that
what it does? Yeah? So like you can press that
(02:10):
by the week and go home? Ready? Wow? Okay, well
you want to know the crazy thing? Yeah? I press
it at seven that it's now ten, so it obviously works.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh well, all right, well take us back so I
can go back and bet on some other thing. I
want to bet that Josh Donaldson's a home run in
the ninth inning off of Bickford.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I want to bet that. Can I bet that? What?
Can I bet that the Dodgers are going to score
six in the first What I want to bet? Think
about what I could have bet.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would go back and say, okay, I want to
bet that the Dodgers score more runs in the first
inning than Clayton Kershaw throws pitches.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Because that's what happened. Kershaw threw five pitches in the
first inning and the Dodgers had six runs. Yeah, that's
a good question. I mean, what kind of That's where
Todd Ferman, who usually joins on front, if I'll give
you whatever odds you want on that, that is not
something that's going to happen. That is not gonna I guarantee,
guarantee I could become a mega millionaire with like five
(03:00):
dollars on that. I'm just gonna bet that five dollars
on that. What would I get? Whatever you want? I'm
going to try to figure out what those odds would
whatever you want right now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I would go to the Wind and I would say,
if this comes through, I want control of the casino,
because boy, standing the Wind was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We went there, we got to go weeks ago. Let's
let's go back to that podcast studio. But we should
have a residency. Really, I mean, you've got I don't want,
you know, every Friday Friday night residency in the hallway.
I don't know. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You get a residency. That basically means your career is over.
It's like I can't travel, but I.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Can catch a lot of money. Your career is over.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Then, oh, you don't want to travel and to stay
home with my family and all this tif I'm getting
a little too old now, that's what.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Though. Yeah, right, but you're getting paid to stay and
not travel. But but the whole stigma, the whole stigma
is that I can't well. But it was like being
an actor and having to do a TV series versus
being a thumb star. That's long gone. Yeah, yeah, that's
long like the residency thing that that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, as Wong told us in She Help, we're in
the era of peak television. So no, I agree with
you there, but your residency is you're old. You can't
get around your residency.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You you believe that. I don't think that. Look who's
in residencies now, I don't think that's I think that's categorically.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Full in residency. Britney Spears, Brittany's Britney Spears career is
and over. Brittany Spears's getting.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Started like forever. Billy Joel's been doing Madison Square Garden
just announced he's done. They sold over one point seven
million tickets. That's not bad. Well, that's not your career.
And he came here to die what to Sofi and
they said sixty thou residency.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's some trasidency residency when you go for like it's
a three year residence.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
But legitimately, Billy Joel didn't travel and didn't do concerts,
but one offs he was touring right like he was
in New York. That's a residency. Garth Brooks has washed up. No,
I actually got an access keep I went saw him
in San Diego, sixty thousand people last year. Now he's
going back to the well. If you saw him, he's
washed up. If you saw that. The last time we talked,
(05:16):
you went stay at the time. Last you're telling me
about people washed up? Hey? Are you kid? Hey, I'm
not making any excuse. I know where Morris Day's career is.
I just wanted to see the guy one more time.
Darth Brooks still sells out. Last time we're talking about
Karth Brooks, he was Chris Gaines. Come on, man, it's
a long time. Go back and listen to the album.
That album was pretty good. It's been, it's been. It's
(05:37):
been thirty years in low places, right, but he has
released other stuff. Yeah, but he was produced washed up.
But like I went to buy ticket, Yeah yeah, yeah,
So he does this stuff at the wind So don't
go disrespecting place. Maybe we might need, you know, help
with sure, just got really mad at me what I
(06:00):
did that. He almost took a swing at me. You
just cost him weekends in Vegas, Right, But I had
the access code that went and I logged in, you
know the little lottery that they do electronically, cheap of
seats were foreigner bucks before for four fees.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, Katy Perry's washed up? Right residency? How long is
her residency?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
She's got a residence Adele. Adele's washed up?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, come on, she did what nineteen twenty one, twenty five,
twenty nine. Her albums are all like numbers you would
pick for the lottery nineteen twenty one, washed Up twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Keith Hernandez has washed up, Key on Man. He's been
done every long before those commercials. Although Keith is the
point where he doesn't want to travel for road games anymore,
which is kind of like a boom. Yes, that is
when you don't travel for road game.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But like legitimately, if you've got a hotel that's really
to roll out a giant bucket of money to you,
Like literally, it's the Bringstrung, It's a Mony Williams pack,
which is really what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It has to be in Detroit. Here's here's the brains
truck of money, and you get to live in our hotel.
We will do everything we can, and here's the dates
we need you because most of them only doing like
hey they do weekends for a couple of months. Uh,
they'll do a week of shows whatever the case may be.
But they can What about what about you, mister Mike Carmon,
(07:24):
go out and see the world, do something you'll do something.
Don't shot home all the time. Get out, do something
two things. Get out. This is where you don't have
to go anywhere. The win is a city in and
of itself. But they go anywhere. But they don't have
that though, but they have done many years of that.
When you're doing that, not for a minute, are you
pausing or is this the this is the end? Right?
(07:45):
Sting's done a residency, Elton John did a residency, okay,
and now they're back out on tours selling out arenassenies
that come. You're out of here. You're out of your mind.
You have no idea what you're talking. What's you say?
How's a residency? Who is that? Yeah? That world's most
(08:07):
famous DJ? Okays no, DJ Khaled is the most.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Famous DJ because his name is DJ dj Khaled, DJ
Reid defensive back for the Jets.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
He's the famous DJ, and his name is DJ. Who's
the most famous? Mc mc hammer good call, Yeah, here
you go, that's not badwdriver, Master of ceremonies. Hammer, this
is his name. Yes, thank you very much. You know,
in between, since we're down a rabbit hole, you know,
you always have your U.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Hit that don't touch.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But this is what the this se this is my
whole plan is for the last few minutes to get
Tucher to the point where I'm just gonna hit the
don't touch button. I want to see what does you know?
In between button press, Yahoo sculpted abs articles today was
one about Shaggy making sure people really understand that it's
(09:02):
an anti cheating song. No, it wasn't me, it wasn't
anti cheating.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Message for the ages got it right right, So I
got skulked abs of insert celebrity here, followed by Shaggy,
who also toured with Stings So there boom.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
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Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's like when Vanilla I said, no, if you listen
to my song, it's ding ding ding dida ding ding.
If you listen to their song, it's ding ding ding
di da ding ding. It's different. It's not the same.
It wasn't me. It's not the same. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sometimes in the NFL, hit the button, shirts button. The
best trades are ones you don't make, yep. Mike Florio
Pro Football Talk. A couple other sources had this story
today that a year ago the Eagles wanted to get
Russell Wilson. I'll think about where the Eagles are right now,
(10:01):
on top of the football world. They nearly won the
Super Bowl. They have the best roster in the game.
They just got better in the offseason. Jalen Hurts was
an MVP candidate all season long, like I told you
was gonna be. I said he was gonna win, but
I'll take the l But I told you was gonna
win at least he was in the conversation. But when
he finished the year, yea. But Wilson, they had a
deal all set to go for him to go to
(10:23):
the Eagles, and Wilson.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Wouldn't rate waive his no trade clause to go to
Philadelphia now first and oft smart move. He couldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He couldn't survive in Seattle where they're protecting him for years.
He's having enough trouble. In Denver, they would have eaten
him alive.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
He would have been asking him for like Kevin Durant
did with the Mister Unreliable Wine. By the way, anybody
that has a copy of that newspaper, I would like
one from my wall. So if you can find me, please, dude.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Russell Wilson going to Philadelphia would be like the guy
in the zombie movie who goes, just.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Go, just go. I'm not making it out, sacrifice myself
and they all run away, go no, no, and he's
just eaten by a thousand zombies. That's what happened Russell
Wilson with the Philadelphia media, especially having the year he
had last year where it looks like maybe he's watched
oh yea, he made the right move, not going no.
It would have been terrible, right, right, especially if he
(11:17):
came in in the same shape yeah yeah, which was
not football shape. No, no decision making some of the
stuff he demanded behind the scenes. That look, when things
go south, it all starts to come out, right. You
keep cringing anytime there may be another Rogers headline out
of Green Bay. But that certainly was the case for
Russell Wilson. Anything that could start to find its way
(11:41):
out about how he was separate from the locker room did,
and in Philadelphia you think that's gonna work. I mean,
you're already paranoid over what Samini and those guys are
gonna do. To your guy Rogers Smith things go south. Uh.
He was actually a recommended connection off of one of
the socials the other day. For me, we must talk
(12:03):
about them a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
But look, but this shows you and the older I
get and the more I watch, the more I watch
trades and how trades really shake out in sports is
that it used to be. Sometimes the best trades are
the ones you never make. I'm now to the point
where most of the time the best trades are the
trades you never make, whether it's in real sports or
fantasy right, because you either get too antsy and you
(12:25):
have to make a trade fantasy guy set.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, sometimes you get desperate.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But in sports, how often do trades really work out
where you can say I want it. It's not often
where you make the one for one trade where hey,
we traded this guy for this guy and one guy
outperformed the other. No, there's so many different layers to
a trade and does it really work?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Do they always? Once in a while you get a
big trade that works. But to break it all down, normally,
trades that involve big players involve multiple draft picks, multiple people,
and it's draft picks the players that get taken that
then either they play for that team or they get
dealt or the draft pick gets dealt to get a
bigger draft pick. Bringing in players via trade very rarely works.
(13:10):
It does I'm gonna saying it doesn't work, but does
it work to the extent where hey, this works and
we are able to get over the top on it. Right,
the Braves made a gaggle of trades the trade deadline
a couple of years ago and.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Went on to win the World Series. Why because they
just got better at four different positions. Right, Well, I
think they brought in great players, but they brought in
guys to get better at four different pers Okay, that
worked out.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You can go through the analytics and figure out what
you need and where to fill the gas exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But look at a trade like Juan Soto. Can you
say Juan Soto the Padres.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Won that you want to headline? No, because Wan sodas well.
His ops is a thousand. But these guys they gave
up are all pretty good and they're moving up. They
grab their prospects, but they're all moving up the Nationals
Nationals ranks pretty fast. Yeah, I don't care about it.
I need him to drive in runs. I need him
to hit you. You made this trade.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
If you had made this trade, nobody would have questioned
you talent wise, going well, Jalen Hurts, who knows if
he's really good or not? Maybe not Now I always
liked him, not saying this is not Revision's history. I
always loved Jalen Hurts. Thought he was a great player.
I told you he was gonna be great, and he was.
But nobody would have criticized, Oh, you Russell Wilson. You're
getting Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
But we already called him. But your getting Russell Wilson. Okay, Okay,
you got all this stuff going on, and it would
have been the worst thing. It would have been the
absolute worst trade, absolute worst trade. Many times, the best
trades are the ones you don't mean. Yeah, he would
not have worked in uh heat culture. I mean Eagles culture,
deep culture, Eagles country. Let's fly.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That would have been fun, getting a let's fly. That
would have been fun. That would have been fun. It
would have competed with.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The fly Eagles fly, which is the which is the
I mean, we could have dressed him up like the
vulture Michael Keaton vulture or the vulture from the comics
Michael Keaton, Vulture that was really dressed up was more
like I had a bomber jacket with feathers on. I
thought it was cool, though Vulture actually had a big
vulture wings and everything. Yeah, but they didn't want to
have another mutation storyline. Have you had a suit? It
(15:05):
was a suit. He fit the suit. He had a
Vulture suit. But he was just a dude, I know.
But they wouldn't have done that in this Dame. You
didn't drink vulture blood, but it would have made him
like the lizard.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
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Speaker 3 (15:23):
Let's go. Look he's dancing in there. He the button.
That's what it does, bit bit. Among the things I
could do without is this song. I pushed the button.
This played. You push the don't touch button, and that's
no wonder. That's a very there's a special Tears for
(15:44):
Fears button now no no, no randomizes of their epic playlist.
Button that says touch.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That's a very good don't touch button because it plays
Tears for Fears.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You do not want to touch that button. No, I
got it. Watch, I'll push it again. You ready another
Tears for Fears, Let's go? Even know what this song is?
I don't care. How do you know? It's Tears for Fears.
It's the button, It's whatever is up next in your
Spotify account. This could be, could be adam ant. The
(16:15):
button goes to my Spotify. You don't drink, don't smoke, then, TJ.
Clearly there will always be room at the top here
on Fox Sports Radio eighteenth century the TJ.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
We're just following ancient history. If I play it Tears
or Fears song for you, will you play it Tears.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
For the concert? Jason is actually just gonna be Tye Shirt.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
With his Spotify on Let's Go and just pictures of
the band over the years, like when you turn on
that you know, music Chattel on your TV and they
just show you still shots with trivia.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Tears are Fearms. Formed in South London in nineteen seventy five.
It's our version of pop up video starring Alex Tyshirt,
Sae Big Greg and Iowa do it ty Shirt hit
the button, don't hit the own touch buttons. But that's
a good idea. Pressing the don't touch button. No, maybe
on stage with a cell phone putting a show on
power pot. Very happy that paid to see you do that.
(17:11):
They do that for shock or whatever, petty do all
these guys. All you need is a couple of smoke machines,
a couple of confetti cannon, some lights. It's easy. You're here.
You walk on with a computer and some speakers. That's
all you need. You'll be spinning.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You'll be spinning like you're Samantha Ronson just.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
More ways than one. What are you doing? Yeah? Actually
getting actual records? Now, come on, do that. But that
was when DJs. We're talented. Now it's just not my pressing, putting,
but it's about putting a feeling a vibe of what's
out in front of you, creating a mood, shifting the mood,
(17:50):
slowing it down when you need to slow it down,
little slide over baby kind of thing, and then you
speed it back up. Get that heart rate back up,
get that heart get that feet moving. Come on, let's
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh we got some We got some fun baseball stuff
coming up in a couple minutes, but just to a
little bit further as we get set for Game two
of the NBA Finals. Look, I've told you from the beginning,
Nuggets and four, the Nugget size is too big, They're
too talented. They've been the best team in the NBA
all year long. That he'd have had a great job
so far making their way through the East, but they're
(18:31):
clearly not equipped to deal with the Nuggets. And here's
another reason, not just Jimmy Jimmy, Butler's saying, we got
to attack in Game two. Yeah, the Lakers thought they
had everything forced and out and they got swept. One
of the biggest things in this series was what Bam
out of Bio had to come through, right, he was
at anywhere you heard, Hey, if they're gonna win the NBA,
(18:51):
they can't be. Butler's guys, Bam out of Bio really
has to show up and show out right. What kind
of game did out of Bio have in Game one?
Twenty six points, thirteen boards, and five assists. Yeah, and
the game was never closed. Now, I mean's one man,
that's what you're gonna get from Bam out of Bayo.
Because as much as we want to fall under the
whole uh, Jimmy pluck Butler. Playoff Jimmy, Jimmy Butler has
(19:14):
like two three playoff games where he is just average
and they'll have a big game.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's oh, look at Jimmy, Look at Jimmy. Jimmy Butler
is someone you can keep down. He's not someone that's
always going to go through and beat you every single game.
You needed that game from Bam out of Bio and
look what you got twenty six, thirteen and five and
he shot great, right, he was over fifty percent from
the floor and you got boat raced. Tell me how
the heat are gonna turn this Outside of the officials
(19:39):
suddenly saying, oh, we're sending you to the free throw
line every single time, and the Nuggets not going to
the free throw as we talked about a bit last night,
he goes to the rest of that squad. I mean,
without a BIO, am I expecting twenty six points? No
great bonus Jimmy Butler. Yeah, you're gonna have some fluidity
in terms of his point output, but production overall, uh
(20:03):
and effort always gonna be there. He's gonna give you
heavy minutes. But the key is the rest of those guys,
Max Stews couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. Dunkin
Robinson tried to kill a man with the brick that
he laid. He threw a brick. He literally like threw
a brick. I mean, you just killed the guy with
a tridad brick. But like he Julie side steps gets
his open shot and then it hit the backboard so
(20:26):
hard if someone was crashing the board, it might have
taken them down, might have taken him out. It might
have been anything you've seen in a basketball comedy film.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And he yelled out, my sweet brick, my sweet brick.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
No, no, no, stay here, brick, stay here, my sweet brick.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then you hold the funeral for him, and then
he starts talking, my sweet brick, Oh no, brick, you're alive.
Nuggets and nuggetson four. But yeah, you know, Martin was awful.
Struce was over ten, over ten, yeah, nint range. And
(21:03):
then as as I mentioned, Duncan Robinson one of six,
he hit his first three point shot. Yeah, granny was
that was terrible, really really really bad. So I mean,
those three guys combining for as they did two of
twenty three. I mean, there's your game, right. They're not
a huge offensive team, so it was gonna be tough
(21:24):
to keep up with the Nuggets if everybody's healthy and
the balls moving as efficiently as it is, right, because
that's the thing with with Jokics, these guys swarming and
Aaron Gordon did a very eloquent two and a half
minute response to a halftime question. Oh yeah, you know
when Nicole is doing his thing and he's hand jest
ranged like not three. Yeah, we gotta play hard. We
(21:45):
played really well. We got to keep that. No, No,
he gave you a deep inside basketball analysis of how
the offense was flowing through Nicole Yolkics. But that's key, right,
That's what they keep doing for the heat. The only way,
and that's what they've done every other round is the
secondary players have to get hot and stay hot. Good
luck Nuggets. In four nuggets, Tyler hero is gonna have
(22:09):
to put that bucket hat over and he's gonna say
let's go, and he's gonna say, hey, you stan Van Gundy.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'll be honest with you, I'll be they should let
him wear the bucket hat. When he I think it
would be great. I mean, I really don't understand why
you can't access Riisee.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Would you have a tough time seeing the hoop? I think?
But when he bucket does the bucket that come down
over his eyes didn't affect Buckethead on the stage all
those years? Well you're looking down.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Well the thing is Buckethead is looking down at his guitar,
whereas Tyler Heroes got to look out at the hoop.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I think the bucket at might be over his head.
I don't know, maybe maybe you have to modify things
a little bit, but I think, I mean, it would
be It would be a good branding opportunity. I mean, baseball,
we keep selling red Yankee hats and got that. Why
not sell the NBA bucket at Twitter? It ou about
a fresco Mike, it's swelling down the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Uh something quick on the mL be here as we
get set for a big week. We watched the Dodgers
beat the crap out of the Yankees. Yeah, my dad
excited to go to the games this weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You don't know, why are we gonna get any live
look ins on Walt can't get any worse than tonight.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, I can't or But usually right around Memorial Day
we spend time looking back at what we've seen so
far and what to make sense of it. One of
the biggest things that we've seen so far is look
at the surprise teams in Major League Baseball. The Diamondbacks
our first place team. The Texas Rangers are running away
with the West right now, even though Jacob de gram
is barely pitched. The Tampa Bay Rays have played really well. Toronto, Pittsburgh.
(23:37):
These teams are all up near the top. Toronto's in
a loaded division. Pittsburgh is a five hundred team for
the first time since nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
And why is this happening?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This goes back to the Billy Bean Brad pitt line
from from Moneyball, where he just says adaptor die and
he claps his hands adapt or die, adaptor died. Two
of the big rule changes this offseason were no more
shifts and you can only throw over to first base
two times during and at bat. So this basically gives
(24:08):
a runner carte blanche to get as big a lead
as he wants to right so we can run because
you only throw over twice. Look at these teams that
I just mentioned who are at the top of their division.
These are the teams that have embraced those changes because
the two biggest things that we've brought back as weapons
are stolen bases and hitting for average. Because it used
(24:29):
to it, We'll just put talent out on the field,
guys will hit home runs and we're in a three right.
And look at the teams that are struggling now, the
Mets in the pot, who had the biggest offseason, the
Mets and the Padres, because what did they do. We're
just going to try to put talented guys out there.
There's no flow to their lineups. There's no this works well,
none of it. But the teams that have adjusted with
(24:50):
the big changes stolen base, on base percentage, hitting for average,
these are the teams that are doing well that have
been able to come up and contend. Now this doesn't
mean the power you're gonna sudden win one hundred and
twenty games, But the Pirates have found a way and
the Rangers and Tampa Bay and Arizona especially have found
a way to go from hey, we're bottom feeders, where
we're seventy five win team. Now maybe we can win
(25:13):
eighty five games. And now I can win ninety games
because we're taking advantage of the rule changes like nobody
else can. Because these are two really big things now
that we're absent from the game for so long, Right,
stolen bases absent from the game for average, how many
guys over three hundred a year? Now a couple two
or three in each league. Now we're gonna get like
probably ten or twelve guys will do it. Telling you
(25:35):
you take advantage of the rule changes, and these teams
have done it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Diamondbacks currently sixth in Major League Baseball with the team
at batting average at two sixty two they are fourth
and stolen bases at fifty three. Mike, get them on,
get them over again. They'll by pumpkins in about two weeks.
And they may be. And that's the beauty of it.
As we're doing the show today, we're looking at two
months of data, and over time, I would still argue
that you're still gonna have your hands full with San
(26:00):
Diego before it's all said and done, San Diego. Have
you seen them no, they well, you know there's a
whisper a rumor and would they have their own messenger,
Boy and friendly that brings us the evening Post, tell
us all about San Diego, San Diegans, San Diego, Diego,
(26:22):
San Diegians. You know what San Diego means. So it'll
be curious to see how it how it holds right,
because Pittsburgh has been fun, Baltimore has been fun, a
lot of good young talent, uh, the Al East being
as I mean, really, they're just gonna beat the hell
out of each other all year long. So that's all
fun and good. But to see how these teams handle
(26:44):
a full season? Can you keep that up right? Can
can these players who we would all argue have overachieved
through two months? What happens over the long haul? You
still want to have the superstars as much as you
like a small ball in this time. Will those pitchers
and the bullpen management? Can you eke out enough innings
(27:05):
out of those guys later on? Or even with the
offensive efficiencies that we're celebrating here, will it be too little? Well,
that's the thing is, it's not so much about are
you now becoming a dominant team? Now, Hey, you can
stay afloat with that, and but that's my point is,
if we do this check in two months from now,
(27:25):
how many of those teams have started to Well, let's
say if the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
If the Pittsburgh Pirates are five hundred at the end
of August, that's an achievement.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Okay, happen. If the Diamondbacks are sniffed, they're paying you
more than any player on that. They're still paying Dave
Parker money. I'm sure the Cobra Cobra. By the way,
the Cobra should be in the Hall of Fame. Is
that your hot take for tonight? Dave Parker should be like, oh,
I'm gonna make Jason Cole make that his next thing. Okay,
I mean he failed us on all the Cowboys out
of the Hall of Fame because more and more guys
(27:56):
get in, even you know, Hall of Famer, Zach Thomas,
got it. That's well. Hall of very good, Zach Thomas,
Hall of very Good.
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