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June 15, 2023 36 mins

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon have all the latest on the Nevada State Assembly passing the bill to have the Oakland A's relocate to Las Vegas. Would the guys rather host ‘Wheel of Fortune’ or be on ‘Undisputed’ every day? Plus, the Progressive play of the night!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:50):
So to give you an update on the conversation we've
been having for the better part of the night, I
threw it out there, gave you a would you rather
with two big openings the last twenty four hours, would
you rather host Wheel of Fortune? Pat say, Jack retiring
or for forty one years it's got one more year
to goo?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah? Co host undisputed Let's skip Bayless? Yeah? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now the voting sits at eighty six point two percent.
It's not low in favor of Wheel of Fortune, Damn
should be higher. Wheel of Fortune. Thirteen point eight percent
of voters would co host undisputed. So much for Twitter
being a hot take factory. Yeah, I know exactly, yeah sheep.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
So why do you think that is? Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
The post on Twitter? At how about a fresca or
at the Fox Sports Radio Twitter account you can get
that and uh and vote please early at off.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
We keep this open throughout because it's what's wrong with America.
Everybody wants to quick, an easy way, an easy path.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Nothing's quick. There's nothing wrong with the easy path. Why
would you want? It's about putting it to work. Certain
times people in their life put it a lot of work.
And now I'm ready. I'm ready to work two months
out of the year and do Wheel of Fortune.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Never do that? Dun, dun, dun.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Does that sound I've been wondering all night that's the
beginning of the wheel. Really think that's what the wheel
sounds like?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yes, that's the that's the theme song it starts.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm pretty sure if we pulled that up right now,
it sounds nothing like that.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yes, it does. Pull it right up because.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Cause people to turn the channel.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
What you're doing sounds like private parts when happened, sirup up, bump, bump, bump, bump.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Bring up the bass now.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I bring up the bass down on the ground. That's
how it starts like it's the big It sounds nothing.
We got to stop that. Currently from the Three Stooges,
what do you do?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Why you why you ought to quiet? Dumb sculls? I'm
broadcasting Tysher. You know who the Three Stooges are?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Okay, okay, wait, wait wait wait, can you name all right?
There was a few of them over the course of
their careers. Can you name two of two three Stooges?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Name all three?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Really? Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Jason, Mike Justice.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well done? Modern fans? Why y uyotta do you think
I believe? Though?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Go ahead? I'm pretty sure one was Larry.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, Larry was cable guy. Yeah yeah, okay, as good
as Larry Dallas Larry Mo.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, okay, good, that's true.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah Mo, Larry the opposite of Jason. What's the opposite
of jomposite of Jason's head? What's that curly? Oh? That's
a good one.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
There was Curly, There was Hurly Joe. They had a
couple there. There there was Shemp. Don't forget about Shep,
Remember she was she Sure?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Who was the tall guy that was like the really
quirky one. He was really shy and like kind.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Of That was Cramer.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, oh that's Seinfeld. I see what you did there?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
You know what that that their music plays at the
end of another clip that we use with some regularity.
But I saw this. I'm not going to do that,
Miche so this bit on my family, and he has
the Three Stooges. So I thought it was funny. It goes.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
How did you get yourself to cry?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I reminded myself that all three Stooges are dead. Why
do you got to bring up dead people all the time? Well,
you just brought up the Three Stooges, but we didn't.
I didn't remind everybody, Hey, they're all dead because the
comedy was so important. It's good memories.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let me make sure you all know the Three Stooges
are all dead. I want to make sure you all
know that. I'm Mike Harmon, and if you want to
know who's dead, I'll tell you that you should make
your money on.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's your one of the segment we're going to do
when I take over on on his people don't know
who's dead. They call you or email you and you
tell him that guy he's dead, that guy's dead. That
woman she's dead dead. My dad usually do around the
right date dead and why you do it and how
they died.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh okay, well that's he's better than that's the next
leve Well, that's that's the that's the he's retired. You
can do the package like you know, make it. You
would get like a dollar for everyone, but then you
get the package.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Of who went around. Then it's like two ninety nine.
I mean, it's even better than now take it into
the game show.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now, speaking of this, beffore, we get to a big
topic kind of Major League Baseball, because we have to
weigh farewell to one team and it's not the Mets.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
They want to that you uh, you know, we threw
this out there.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
You know you have a choice opening to you take
hosting Wheel of Fortune or co hosting Undisputed. Ty Shirt
said he would promise he would give us now what
his audition for Undisputed would be. And someone who doesn't
know sports, like ty Shirt. I would really want to
be interested in that, because maybe that's what the show needs.
Someone that doesn't know sports. A debate with Skip, can
you imagine? Yeah, So, how do you want me to

(05:38):
tee you up on this?

Speaker 4 (05:39):
So your your debt here as authentic as it can be,
authentic as it can be. Okay, all right, so I'll
be so I'll be Skip, all right, let me say,
all right, let me see okay, all right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Lebron James is the luckiest player in the history of
the NBA.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Her to hang on.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
You on the voice there, come on, he's the lookiest.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Actually, no, it's Brady is the loat and Lebron is right, yes,
all right, so here here we go. Here we all right,
I got I got it right, I'm ready. Okay, here
we go.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Dak Prescott is the best quarterback in the history of
the National Football League. He's better than anybody the Cowboys
at He's better than Brady, He's better than Aaron Rodgers.
If you had a body and you had to sew
it together of parts of all the great quarterbacks of
all time, and you had Joe NAMA's arm and Peyton
Manning's head, and you had Michael Vick's legs and Cam

(06:39):
Newton's strength, it would still be Dak Prescott, the greatest
quarterback ever.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Skip. I lost you after you said Dak Prescott, what
is he won? I'm just curious. Give me something he
has done for the actual city of Dallas and Texas.
Has he won anything? Has he done anything?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
He's one division titles with the Dallas Cowboys, He's gotten
the team to the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, he's done a lot of things, just like you
said with the great Rob Parker. Do you want to
get invited to the Playboy Mansioner? And do you want
to go in the plan Playboy Mansion?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
What the hell is the Playboy Mansion have to do
with that? Pre play? Is this guy opposite me? Who
is this guy that won a contest to get here?

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, I'm winning it right now. Actually that's why we're debating.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
You already won your guy standing across from me.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
But still try to throw him off? Why are you
going all seductive and low?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I tried, don't don't interrupt him his audition? No one,
did you get to jump in and interrupt him? Now
we lost the whole flow because you said, hey, I
wanted to say the word seduction on the radio, because.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I think it's you lost the full flow where it
was Tysher was gonna make his best cognizant point. I
had one great for you. What I can give you?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Somebody that can outshine Prescott in one season?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
In one season? Who is that?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
If he plays?

Speaker 3 (07:54):
What do you mean if he plays?

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, this is the setup. Are you ready for it?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay? What is it?

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Okay? So when I say this name, you have to
visualize this player everything he's done and everything he's going
to do if he plays. Ready, Okay? To Shaun Watson?
Can you imagine him on the Dallas team? You mean
the Cowboys? No, Dallas the team the Cowboys? I mean,
I guess I'm I was always an Indian guy. You know,
we play Cowboys and Indians. But that's okay, that's just me.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
That's that's change the names. I had to change the names.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Now change that's fine. But just imagine it's Guardians now
is it Guardians? It's the Galaxy Galaxy. It's the Guardians
and the Galaxy. So do they have Thanos? There's no, no?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
All right, So there it is there's tight shirts audition
for for a disputed there you go. I gotta say there.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Would be an entertaining like twenty seconds of skip going
what the what the what is this?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Watching his head explode would be fun. I need the
guest booker to the set right now. Guest booker to
the set now, right now. No, let's go let the
Dallas team, who the Cowboys? Whatever? Whatever you say, and

(09:06):
then you start playing the themes on bad No, No,
have we found that yet? This nonsense, insane, no ty
shot song that you couldn't he couldn't find He couldn't
find it. He was in his zone, he couldn't find it.
What was your pregame ritual right there? Like before he

(09:28):
got into the debate chamber? What were you doing?

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Usually just slapping myself in the mirror?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, that's how you prepare. Yeah, okay, who's after ten o'clock?
You're doing research on the internet. Nope, No, you're figuring
out it? Nope, nope, I'm just gonna who was it?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Slap myself? I look in the mirror.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
It's not a bad way to go, Jason. These auditions
for Wheel of Fortune can mean nothing. I don't know
if you guys saw but Ryan seacrests and talks with Oh,
come on.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
No way, is he really? Come on? I mean, the
guy's got every other job. What the hell? Man, No,
he gave up the other one once her face has
to look at her husband every day.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Ten minutes ago, Ryan Seacrest and early talks to replace
Pat say Jack on Wheel of Fortune. Oh wow, well
he doesn't have enough jobs.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, well, oh he gave one up. M that's touch tous.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't know, man, let's all the other people work.
He's a big deal, he is. I mean, he's not
gonna he's not gonna bring the the swerve that I
bring to the show that people still say swerve or
like is that like two thousand and six I said.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
But I mean, you know, he's part of the iHeart
family is. But like, spread the wealth little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Let somebody else do something, you know, let somebody else
do something for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Because I would have said the leaders were him and
Mario Lopez.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh but you know, all my ideas to improve Real
of Fortune, I could put all, but you want.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
To be a contestant, I would you didn't just want
to be the host, strong arm, the I would intimidate
the people that are at the day.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
I would play along with hosting, and if I win,
I keep the money or the show keeps the money.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
If the people when they keep the fight around, you
want to go double or nothing. I bet you'll get
this right, Yeah, bet you. I'm gonna beat you out.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
So what do we do with all these audition tapes
we have?

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now?

Speaker 1 (11:12):
We gotta send them in. We gotta sendt man. You
never know why not it's you're done.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I mean, surely a Hollywood underdog story. If one of
us gets it, we can make it money. It's like Dodgeball,
except it's it's with with the real fortune.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Better chances of the Jets winning a game this year.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know how many words? I know?

Speaker 1 (11:32):
How many phrases I know that I can figure out.
I mean, it just rolls off my tongue.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
I would have the phrase that pays.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I would tell the producer, you don't need to tell
me what the answer is. I'll just guess it. Yeah,
but I get I got it because I'm smart and
I could do this. Okay, the answer is Yankee suck.
Oh sorry, it's not what it is.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I was tackled. Okay, by a guy who claimed to
be the Marshall on the fifteenth Hole. You run my
favorite show.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
You just made the list so again over eighty percent
picking Wheel of Fortune right now, eighty percent Wheel of Fortune. Hey,
it's less it's it's less uh competition for you?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
No, you still want it's less competition. I mean I'm
telling you make it three days. I'm going it.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
No, I'm gree days three days and your Oh I
didn't mention this three day what? Seacrest is also the
favorite to replace.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
No, I'd want to see that. Hey, Skip, are you
ready to play another rosing rendition of Ryan's roses?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I really would want to see that. I'd want to
see that. I think I would want to see that that.
That's something i'd want to There's certain people I'd love
to see you just because I just want to see
them sit opposite. How many phone books? Yeah, I want
to see that. Twitter and out about a fresco. Mike,
it's swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Rmenzega still still the favorite.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
It's Wheel of Fortune. Told you Mike, you want you know?

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Told you?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Well, you know what. Every once in a while, I'm
wrong about something I told you, And in the grand
scheme of I look if I a betting man, the
overwhelming favorite was real. Coming up next, We're gonna wave
goodbye to the A's because it looks like after the
big news tonight, they are going to be gone, Gone,
Gone to Las Vegas. Plus an NFL gambling story. You

(13:15):
have to hear to believe.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
That's coming up next, right here, Jason to Mike, this
is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
This is the song I can do without wait to
go Wear.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
It Now, Dodgers Bullpen, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. You know, at
some point in this game, I really expected Dave Roberts
to go to the mound and wave down either Fernando
of Allenzuela or Oral Hersheizer to come in and finish
this game, because the Dodgers were up four to two
in the eighth and now the White Sox are up

(13:57):
eight to four.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Go to the bottom of the ninth inning. Yeah, I
think Dave Roberts is holding up signs to the other dugout, saying,
Kennedy relievers you can leave behind. Clayton Kershaw's waiting in
the clubhouse with a machete, and ad Jason Vhe's mask
going all right, where are those relievers who came in?
Where are they? Where are all of them? Gave up
two solo home runs and left. Dodgers would then take

(14:18):
a four to two lead, since then another home run
from Jake Berger and then tacking on another four beyond that.
Now we're in the bottom of the ninth and it's
just a minute which bullpen was gonna be worse?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
And if I'm not mistaken, I believe Joe Kelly would
get the win tonight.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I believe so. I believe Joe ken and his Mariachi
jacket would get the win this evening. It's fair point.
How about that? Look at that crazy you know? How
could you not be romantic? Do you not be romantic enough? Hey?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
So, speaking of the A's, it looks like the A's
are gone now they lose tonight.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
They can't win every night.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Their big reverse boycott last night, also known as going
to a game, got them their seven win in a row.
They lose tonight to the Rays, they still took two
out of the last three with them.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
What was the attendance tonight? The performance? I don't think
it was quite the twenty seven thousand they had last
sou I know they had Billy Joe Armstrong was showing up.
Billy Joel was there tonight, No, he said, and TJ.
Clearly the A's will be moving out to Vegas sometime soon. Nice.

(15:24):
The only scenes from an Italian restaurant they will see
will be in Las Vegas when they go to a
Wolfgang Puck Michelin restaurant.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
TJ. Ten and seven thousand and fifty five seven thousand tonight.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
So a little bit than the twenty seven thousand they
had last night? Well it's that's two thousand less than
they were averaging before last night. Hey, let's show the ownership.
We'll come to a game tonight. Great, what about the
next night? Ah? Seven grand? Yeah, we did one. We
can help. They gave eight hundred thousand back into the community.
That's all we have. They didn't promise to do it again.
I'm going AGAINDJ as fans telling the club we like

(15:59):
you just the way you are send it sailing the
down Eastern Alexa, saying, DJ, we didn't start the fire,
but we'll send you to Vegas. Tj uh so after
all the good feeling, Look, I told you last night.
It was noble, it was fun, it was good.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
It was throwback to see fans showing up for one
last game, one last gasp, and they all had T
shirts that had the green shirts that sell on it
because I want John Fisher to sell the team.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
All the crazy ass old jerseys. Yeah, I mean you
see it in football games and step what what'd you
just say? The crazy ass old jerseys? Okay, No, I
don't know that that's how it came across. I don't
know about that. I I Dane Henderson jerseys. Yeah, no,
I get what you are saying. I just don't think

(16:52):
those two words went together how you thought they did? They?
You know, we need you know, we need show, We
need to we need a review. We need to be
able to throw a challenge flag for a review, because
you would want that reviewed so you could apologize. Dude,
you're gonna listen to it after the show. You're gonna go,
oh whoa. Yeah, No, I don't think that came I

(17:14):
don't think that came out the way you thought it did. Yeah,
it's just like when you go to a Bears bar
and you see a bunch of people with running backs
that played four games were first round picks everybody's excited about,
and then their friends force them out, and then that's
what we had, a very veritable parade of old A's jersey. Yeah, okay,
old age, old old A's is not what you said.

(17:37):
You know what. Here's the thing. Uh, we're just good
what I said. No, I know what I said, ty Shirt.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Can you queue it up for I'm gonna throw a
challenge flag so wee can so Harmon can hear. But
we don't play it on the air because it's not
gonna sound good. We'll play it for Armond after the show,
after the show, after, after the show, after the show,
after the show.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Sorry, I was preparing for you did your audition, Well,
he was trying to do the other You didn't tell
me I had the job or not, So I'm preparing
for more. Okay, here's your other one ready. Okay, what
do you think should the A's move to Vegas or not? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Why?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Because A's place right now is a crap hole. Okay,
he wants to watch the game there. Okay, why is
money showmanship? You can have an audience space and bring
in a fan and that's gonna triple your money. If
I'm an owner, piece out a fans. Wow, okay, that's
pretty good. I'm bad, right, Or A's fans, well, I
mean just all of them. Well they have a fans,
A fan. Why I just saw one that one guy.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
You can go that guy, you could come.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Off one in the front all the time.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well that's that's that's see, that's a little bit better. Okay,
I like that. That's not bad. I like that.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
But it looks like that's what's absolutely happening. Because uh,
like I said, last night was great, but you knew
it was the death cry. You knew this was inevitable.
As today, the approval was given for the A's stadium,
the money they're going to need to build a new
stadium for the A's in Las Vegas. All that they're
waiting for is for the Governor of Nevada to okay it.

(19:02):
Major League Baseball has to okay it. Neither of these
things is expected to be any sort of obstacle. The
A's are going to be moving to Las Vegas. And
it's sad in that it's always sad when a team
lose leaves it its longtime home. I get it, but
sometimes you have to understand that maybe the run you

(19:22):
have is a really great run because the A's and
Oakland is a really small market, and they've been a
small market team for a long time. Oakland's not a
big market, but the Raiders made it seem like a
big market, and so did the Warriors. But the A's
they've been small market for the last thirty years, and
they've been lucky that Moneyball and the success that Billy

(19:43):
Bean has had with that team. Even though they weren't
spending money and it was hard to stay competitive, they
were able to stay in Oakland for really an extra
fifteen or twenty years because of that. Because small market
teams don't stay around because it's too tough to maintain it.
And I'm telling you Tampa's gonna find that problem with
the Rays coming up in a few years. Are already

(20:04):
trying to figure out a way, Hey, we're gonna stay
right attendance and everything else. Sometimes you're meant to be
in a certain place for a certain amount of time
and for the A's. Yeah, they have the dynasty of
the seventies, they have the Bash Brothers, the World Series
in nineteen ninety, they have money ball and the era
of the early two thousands. But now fans aren't coming.

(20:24):
The product is not good on the field. They can't
get the okay for a new ballpark, which should be
a given for anybody that wants to stay in any city.
When you're trying to figure out do we stay to
week go new ballparks do it right everywhere you go,
new ballpark, new ball because you need to increase the
experience at a major league ballpark for people to want
to come and see whether your team is winning or losing.

(20:45):
And when there doesn't seem to be interest, it's going
to happen. When there's not interest in building a new
ballpark or not interested in spending money we don't have,
We're gonna spend money even though we're losing money. When
that happens, it's just a matter of not if, but
when a team is going to move, and now it's happened,
it's gonna be twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, somehow
that you're gonna see the A's move to Vegas and

(21:08):
they're gonna have They're gonna play in a triple A
stadium for a year or two, and they're gonna build
their big stadium and that's how it's gonna go. And
they will be in Las Vegas, a bigger as Tisher
had said, more glitzier city, bigger, more stuff going on.
They will be They will madamore, they will be more relevant,
they will have more fans, and it's going to work.
It worked in Oakland for as long as it was
supposed to work, and now that's gonna be it.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
It'll be fun to see the Cavalcadive stars and what
they do, the parade of things. People were very upset
with the a's statement that they put out today regarding
the legislature and everything that came through in terms of
stadium approval in Nevada, because there really wasn't a whole

(21:48):
heartfelt we love you, Oakland, We're sorry Oakland, any of
that stuff, which I wouldn't have expected at this point.
It's been a long drawn out process to go, and
we had the than reference earlier. It was inevitable, just
a question of when you've had a municipality that decided
that this wasn't a priority. And we've had the public
statements for a long time, you know, saying, hey, you

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want to build a stadium, build a stadium, find someone
who wants to build it. But in terms of local
money in Oakland, it wasn't going to happen. So you're
on one side, and then you have Fisher the ownership.
They don't want to spend money on players, which means
the product. Though they've gone to the playoffs eleven times
this century. Every other year on average they've gone to

(22:31):
the playoffs, which think about your Mets, my White Sox.
Everybody except the Dodgers is kind of wishing and hoping
that they could see a couple of years of that
level of success. But acrimony and false starts and all
of those things come to this end game. So you
had a big party last night. We'll see what they

(22:53):
do to honor those teams and legends of the past
that are with us, and you move on. Right, it's
it's done, its time, it's and it's run its course.
You still have what is a monstrosity of a stadium.
There's nobody coming in with hundreds of millions of dollars
to retro fit it. At this point, Mount Davis remains

(23:13):
and it's the shattered remains of a team that once
captivated a city, had some of the biggest stars in
the game. And now you get seven thousand a night
except for the reverse boycott nights. I mean that that's
where we're at in things. So it's reaching. Its painful,
slow march, natural in old and it's too bad, right

(23:39):
I mean obviously you know, as fans of sports, you've
had it happened to you bears, whether they move from
to another suburb. Okay, you're chasing well, but you actually
want to own, like I understand it. You want to
own the facility. You want to own the market and
sales that come with it. Right now, it's the Park
Districts Stadium. You don't get any of that extra revenue.

(24:01):
When Taylor Swift shows up and sells seventy thousand seats
three straight nights. That doesn't help you at all.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Pro Football Talk has a story today that an unnamed
NFL player lost eight million dollars in gambling. Yeah, last season.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
People are starting to speculate as to who it might
be million dollars. I assume they bet on the Jets
every week and that's probably what.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
There were two.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now there's a lot of different angles to this story,
and to think about if someone lost eight million dollars,
we're gonna find out who it is at some point.
This has got to be someone who bet with whatever
odds maker or whatever you know book they wanted to
bet with and got pretty popular because here's a guy
who's losing eight million dollars. And I can't understand this

(24:56):
because you know, you hear the phrase all the time,
the house always wins, right, house always wins, House always wins.
But if I find a bad gambler like this guy,
whoever it was, and I just know this guy's a
bad gambler, and I just bet the other way of
every single one of his bets, don't I win? Don't
I beat the house? Because I find a guy who

(25:16):
can't win and he loses his money, but I go
opposite him every time I win, Right, don't I win?

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
But if he lost eight million, I'd love to see
the trail of winning and losing bets like what's the
percentage like back and forth? Does he get all juiced
after a wind where he triples? He puts it all
on the you know what I mean? Becomes instead of
just all right, leave it and let it ride kind
of thing, I can't keep betting on Hawaii at eleven

(25:45):
at night, take the loss and instead of just saying, hey,
I want to try to get back to eat chase
like people like we talk about all the time Sunday
night Football, Monday night football, talk about a week's betting.
A handle on those games is immense because people have
lost their ass the rest of the weekend college and
pro football, and now they're chasing, putting down bigger bets,
which means that side of the ledger might get a

(26:07):
little weightier if you're if you're betting that kind.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Of money, you have to have that kind of money,
because I don't believe that when you talk about what
kind of player it is, I assume it's a big
name ish player, because it's not like it was, you know,
years ago. When you think about someone gambling, going I
need the money. The money is due in two weeks.
You don't beat me the money in two weeks. I'm
gonna send somebody.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
It's like people trying to tell me that there's still
not little little guys run around, little hustlers selling weed. Yeah,
because it's legal. Yeah, but you don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
But you don't need to bet with a guy outside
the back of a corner shop anymore.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
You can just get online and bet. I'm gonna bet
this one. You're gonna right, but yeah, and you're gonna
probably have to pay right away, whereas these guys might say,
you don't want to let a ride, but we're gonna
charge interest.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
But are you gonna find out that that's how much
money was bet? If it's one of these guys, The
fact that we know a guy lost eight million dollars,
it's got to be pretty easily.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Hey, hang a star on all of it until I mean,
because it's a report, so we take it it's allegedly
someone lost. I heard from a guy from a thing
in the place. That's some guy in the NFL playing
his lost eight million dollars fun story given all the
I mean, not for him, not for him, No, not
a fun story for him. His family. People counting fun story.

(27:20):
I lost eight million dollars. Harmon thinks it's fun.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Well, it could be.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
I mean, if that's his form of entertain but if
that's his entertainment, I think anybody enjoys losing eight million.
Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan hates to lose everything, but he
clearly keeps going back to the to the well, and
Barkley's talked about how much he's lost through the years.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't but I don't think it's fun. I don't
think these guys have fun losing. I don't think they
go oh man, losing that game was so much fun. Man,
I can't wait to do that again. I'm not losing
the game. I'm losing the bet. I don't like the bet.
I mean, I got this in the bag.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
No, the last helps get you back there, the fix
of another game kicking off. I don't think. I don't
think losing get it all bad. How do you say
losing eight million can be fun for anybody?

Speaker 4 (28:13):
How could you say that if you have a hundred billions, Well.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, play money, okay if you have, But what NFL
player has one hundred billion dollars? Not even Brady's got homes,
not even not even Brady's got not even Aaron Rodgers
has that from the Jets.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
The Raiders are gonna pay Brady to play this year.
Not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
But do you agree if I go opposite a bad gambler,
I always I'll always win.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, I think we need to go through some of
the math of it, but on average I would guess.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
But if he bets one hundred dollars on this and
I bet one hundred dollars the other way, chances are
and I mirror his bets all the way through. But
I go the other way, I win. If you mirror
his bets all the way through, I win. There's there's
my surefire away to beat that is, find somebody'll tell
you that you're gonna lose less than eight million. You
would Sue Orbon should have a show together. Hey, we

(29:02):
gotta find a way to get you your money.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Uh. Coming up next player the night, and it better
be what I think it is.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
What we have the final results of our big pole,
the big would you rather sports question I've been asked,
We've been asking all night long. Here on the show
that's coming up next right here, this is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
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Speaker 1 (29:30):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. What a Maroon a few minutes ago.
If you were listening, you know what I'm talking about, Harmon.
We went and played played it for you. We did
the review. I threw the challenge flag. Did it sound
like you said what I thought?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
You said? No, st stop you liar. You're the biggest liar.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
In the world.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
You're the ones. Oh my god, it does sound like that.
Oh my god, Oh my god. I thought it was
gonna get in trouble. I'm not gonna get in trouble.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'll tell you what I said. I'll tell people you
said it. Deal if they think I said, don't play it. No,
be a hero.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
To the masses, just like I am every day anyway,
just because I just because I said something that sounded
like profanity when it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, that's what you call word playing. That's how was
you getting excellent and that was you getting lucky. That
was you getting lucky, getting lucky. I know what I said. Yeah,
but it didn't sound that way. It doesn't matter, doesn't
It doesn't matter. If you know he said, it's what
it sounds like. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I know what I it is really long and I'm
telling you and it feels long.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
That was not he announcer guy knows what he said too,
but that didn't help his cause.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Well he kind of went over a ledge. Time.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
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(31:07):
because I know I'm not getting it.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Well, the season was over for you guys last night. Yeah,
I know you have repeated. But now it's kind of
like four keeps coming back. The Mets keep getting resurrect
find anytime they find a double, each.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Sequel looks worse than the one before it. Okay, uh,
we saw the dude that played horror Shack in one
of these movies. Yeah, yeah, he dies very early in
the one.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
It's the one where Jason gets comes back because he
gets struck by lightning because for some reason, he's dead
in the grave and it's not good enough.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh no, no, we got to go make sure he's
really dead. He's in a grave.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
No no, And then he gets struck by lightning. And
what the best part about that is, I know he's
get struck by lightning, but it brings back all the
dust and bones that he was and now he's a
full fledged person again.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Think Guns and Rose performed dustin Bones.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Lighting.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Let's hear the play of the night because this was
twenty five years ago tonight, the Utah Jazz got struck
by this.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Game seven orcord Championship number six.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Jordan's hope him Chicago with the lade.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Time out Utah five point two seconds left, Michael Jordan
running on fumes.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Bob Costas on the call. Twenty five years ago. Tonight,
Michael Jordan wins his sixth NBA title, pushing Brian Russell
down and hitting a jumper to give the Bulls a
lead they would hold on to win to beat the
Jazz in the NBA Final.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
You gotta be able to keep you. You gotta be strong,
gotta have a strong bass, don't skip leg day. I
think he's got leg day. He got pushed down to
the ground. He was, here's my right, my left hand.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I'm pushing you down in the count, Michael. If he
was on skates, he wouldn't have to push him down.
Anybody pushed him down. He pushed him down, getting done
the whole. I'm gonna blow on you and you move. No,
but that's what he did.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, but he could have done that, but he did instead.
He pushed you to the ground. Fraud to push up?
What's fraudy? Just say you got call? You got away
with the Jordan. He got away. He got away with
a call. He pushed him to the ground and said, oh,
it's gonna count. And Bob causes and what a heroic
shot in a season and career of heroic shots. I'm

(33:24):
going to talk extemporaneously about heroism now until the Jazz
inbound the ball and John Stockton takes a bad three. Yes,
all of those things. I mean four years earlier. Bob
Costas about on this date was talking about something completely
different while trying to call an NBA Finals, So I'm
sure he'd rather call was it a push off or not?

(33:45):
Than what he was doing. What was he doing nineteen
ninety four NBA Finals? Was he doing the NBA Finals
in ninety four? It was Costas. I didn't think it
well okay, oh j Chase, Yeah, I thought it was Marv. No,
it wasn't Marv. Was Marv was on the call?

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Could have been Yeah, it could have been Mark. Bob
koss is probably doing uh always during the pre Maybe
I think.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
That was Marv. I think it was Marv. The Knicks
have failed again here in the NBA Final. Yeah, but
we didn't get to watch that game as we were
watching a small monitor twenty five years ago tonight. I mean,
we celebrate the excellence and when we talk about all
time greats, I mean there's none higher.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Ah, the push off twenty five years ago tonight? The
push offf is.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
That what you want to do?

Speaker 4 (34:27):
It?

Speaker 3 (34:27):
You want to go into the Wikipedia page? Tough guy? Hey, hey,
you know because I don't do that and your white
sox one tonight? What are you worried about? You just
be happy with it. No, it's a good day. Uh
results at me, but it's final results tonight.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
We're gonna keep the poll up for another day to
get people who continue to vote on it.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
I gave you a choice. We played a.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
We played a would you rather throughout the show tonight?
With two big openings the last twenty four hours, you
have a choice, which opening do you take? Hosting Wheel
of Fortune or co hosting Undisputed Pat Jay Jack were tiring,
China Sharp leaving right now? Eighty six percent of responders

(35:05):
say they would choose hosting Wheel of Fortune.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
You really gotta stop if you.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Have the song more disturbing than what I allegend.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
And I know it sounds just like the song, because
Frostburg would have played it if it didn't sound like
the song it sounded.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
It sounds just like the song. He's trying to run
out the clock exact because it sounds just like the
Lucas And then, uh, Matt Gucas on the comcastas was
the studio host. Let's go back to pregame for Bob Costas.
Matt Gucas, you're along with me.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Jason named skip about a show? What should I say
you did.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Telling me you ready for the audition? What do you think
about Jordan's push off?

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Oh? Easily the best playing history of what won a
championship for the bulls right against two. I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
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