June 16, 2023 • 23 mins
Jason Smith explains why the USMNT bringing back Gregg Berhalter to coach is a step backwards not forward. NFL Films is reportedly talking to the Lions about being on 'Hard Knocks' again. And Rob Manfred reacts to Tuesday night's A's fan-driven reverse boycott at the Coliseum.
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Steve O. I was not expected to come in here
and to see the US men's national team take over
the show, but you add a thriller of a game
in which the United States was as dominant as I
have seen them in any game in the last couple
of years. You saw a Polistics score a couple of goals,
Peppy score a goal coming off the bench boy. He
(01:10):
would have been nice in the World Cup and at
least have to Burholter to worry about anymore. Oh no, wait, we.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Do the new kid be Lagoon? Is that house pronounced?
You get a second offensive threat there and look at
the space for Polistic.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
He could have scored more than two.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
John, I mean it was. It was an unbelievable game tonight.
You can see how fired up they were. And they
play in the final now Sunday against Canada and it
was I don't think there's any way they got into
this game not knowing the big breaking news that happened
right around the start time of the game, in which
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Greg Burholter, former USMN team manager, is coming back to
run the team after they let his contract lap six
months ago because they weren't sure he was the guy.
There was a lot of drama with the situation with
the reign of family and what went on with him
in a domestic issue that he had in the early
nineteen nineties, and it was okay, we've moved on, we've
(02:06):
moved on from Greg Burrow. But now he's coming back,
and there's no way the team didn't know that. There's
no way they didn't know that, And I don't know
if if that was part of the game, if that
was part of why they played so inspired, because sometimes
the United States plays like they're one of the top
four or five teams in the world. Sometimes they play
like are they even trying? They even practice in the
last year. But they came out tonight full of fire
(02:28):
and full of everything you need. And I think it's
impossible they didn't know that that was going on when
they took the fields to night against Mexico. I think
I think that was whether it was we're playing hard
because we're pissed, or we're playing hard because we love
Greg Burrelton. Probably not second one that had to play
into it at some in some way.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, I will say on I'm at a news desk.
I deal with facts. Facts are Greg Berolter has a
great win loss record. The fact is also they didn't
play a lot of anybody in the past four years.
If you're happy about James against Serbia and Trinidad, go
for it, man. The dude was thirty seven and eleven
and twelve ties. On top of that, Once he got
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real competition, gee, might have been a different story. The offense,
even against the little Guppies in our region of the
world was often painstakingly hard to watch. How is it
that you have this much young talent and a coach
can't put it together in a four year span. Everybody
has bad games, bad weeks, bad tournaments. He had four years.
(03:30):
They let his contract expire. Are you saying this is
the guy, this is the guy that's going to improve
our offense? He was the guy with the bad offense.
You just had what is this higher look?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And I'm not the only one. You're not the only one.
How about former USMNT star Clint Dempsey who was on
the Paramount Plus broadcast the United States went over Mexico. Look,
the game was great, but the Burholded thing overshadowing everything
here he is set up by Kate Abdo.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Hey, well what's going on here? Clint?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What do you think about out this?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
All this process that we have been through, two interim managers,
the drama, the weight, and now we are back in
the same place that we were six months ago.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How are US fans supposed to feel about this?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I'm confused because you either did something bad enough that
lost you the job or caused these interim coaches to
be in play or you didn't, and if you go
back with Burhalter, then we've wasted a lot of time.
Why why we wasted this much time to just go
back with who we had in the beginning?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah? Yeah, why? Fair question? Why? I mean, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You don't get married to your ex wife again. I mean,
even Liz Taylor.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Will people do six months after the divorce?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, all right, well but that was one time. Okay,
that was that. Okay, yes, there is that too. It
doesn't make any sense, right, It makes no sense why
you'd go back to a guy that you let his
contract lapse and you hired a firm to go out
and say, hey, let's try to find the next guy. Now,
there are a couple of things. A player, because I
want to be fair and then I and then then
then I want to get hot. Because the thing is,
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Burholter is not a bad coach. He has his strengths right.
Developing talent, yes, because we have a great deep pool
of the best players we've had in the United States ever.
So that's good. And we're young and we're talented. That's
really good. I've said it many times. He's an a
to b coach. Right. He came in after the mess
that ended with Jurgen Klinsman, and it was hey, dude,
(05:23):
get us back, qualify for the World Cup, get us
out of group.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And he did that right, and we qualified for the
World Cup.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And look context saying you can't skip over that because
some people don't realize Fox, for example, had the World
Cup rights and then the US team didn't even qualify
for the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was tough.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I had to start all over again. This was an
enormous failure four years before.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
That was tough. But they just do this right, and
this is what.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, great, and yes we played well, but like you said,
qualifying in conkakev is ridiculously easy. It's like taking two
good teams with seven of the worst teams in a
sport and saying all you got to do is finish
in the top four. Right, you guys are gonna be great. Right,
We're not. We weren't playing world beaters in conkakef. You
just don't.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you get half the games at home. So even
though there are tough, small little places that you have
to play in Central America, for example, all your games.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Are not there.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You should be you're the United States of America, you
should advance, and.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We should have advanced easier in games, I should say,
because we were the better team. But still we struggled
to win game. Now, we won a lot of the games,
and we qualified without having it to go down to
the wire. But it would be games where how do
we tie this game? How do we look so good
in one game? How do we tie this game? How
are we so unmotivated? But Burhalter did what he needed
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to do. He got the team up, all right, we
have good players. We qualified for the World Cup and
we got out of group. But then I keep going
back to the game against Netherlands, which was eleven nothing,
and you saw that it just.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Felt I think it was only three, all.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Right, but it was. It was a stark evidence how
far behind we are of the best nations in the world.
And the two things that he doesn't do well at
all is he doesn't coach well during the game. He's
not a game day coach. He has not live seen
enough of the guy now the last few years. He
is not a good game day coach. And he is
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beholden when it comes down to it to have certain
few players and he's not open to things that need
to be done. Hey, maybe take more than three forwards
to the World Cup. Maybe a take Ricardo Peppi. Yeah
he's eighteen, but boy can he put the ball in
the back of the net. No, we're not going to
do that. He gets stuck to very specific way of
doing things when it comes to preparing for the games
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and playing for the games, and he's not open into
the changes needed to be made for the United States
to take that next step. And that's what this is about.
This is not about the United States being hey, we're
good at soccer. Now, that's great. This is about hey,
wait a minute, we're pretty good. Let's take that next step.
He's not a next level head coach.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And to be able to look around the world to
try to find someone, there has to be someone that
they would have been able to get to take that job.
Really not Now in into this into this mess of
a night, Now, I'm gonna throw a curveball at you.
Now comes former USMNT player Charlie Davies, who was doing
the CBS show UH tonight and at halftime when this
(08:20):
story broke in, they're breaking it down. He said that
One of the reasons the United States is going back
to Burhalter is that they didn't have the money to
lure another big name head coach from somebody. Couldn't just
put a blank checkout because the United States the men's
if they pay, that's their pay, and the men's head coach,
that's what they would have to pay the women's head coach.
(08:40):
With the pay equity situation that the United States women's
team won a few months ago. Now, I don't know
how real that is. I'll be the first one to
tell you. Is that a real thing? Is that Charlie
Davies just saying what he's saying, it's a it's a
weird I mean, it's really, dude, you really want to
blame Do you really want to blame that? Oh, it's
the women's fault. Really, we can't get a headcut real,
it's oh, we have to pay that as I got
(09:01):
an idea.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Do you know that the more rounds you advance at
the World Cup, the more money you take home?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Just a thought.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So you know, I don't know where he was trying
to go with that and what he tried to mean, Like,
so it's it's pay Equity's fault and we don't have
It's not like Burhalter was making twenty five million dollars.
Look like I was thinking about a million and a
half dollars a year. That's not a lot of money, right, So,
I mean when you talk about a head coach of
the head coach of the national team, now the head
coach of the women's national team was making about four
(09:30):
hundred grand a year, So there is a big pay
a discrepancy, and now hopefully that's what's been taken care of.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't know how accurate Charlie Davies is, but this
is what he this is what he talked about, and
I you know, look, I understand if you think that's
an issue, but I'm pretty sure that that that that
US Soccer has the money to pay a men's head
coach and a women's head coach a decent amount of
money so they can they can come and we can
get the best head coaches in the world. I mean, really,
(09:57):
I don't understand we don't have that money. There's where
is the money going? And I looked at a list
of what people are making across the board, what some
of the highest paid soccer employees are making well. Berhalter
made about a million a half dollars a year. Ernie Stewart,
who was a sporting director, made about eight hundred grand.
You have a bunch of chief CEOs and general managers
making in the in the low f in the in
(10:19):
the mid six figures, So it doesn't seem like it's
a lot of money. You would think some of these
guys and and and some of these people were making
more money than they are. But I can't believe US
Soccer doesn't have the cash to do that. I can't
believe that there's nobody after hearing this, after hearing us
talk about it, is it gonna say, Oh, I want
US Soccer to succeed. I'm going to give you money
(10:39):
so you can go hire a better head coach, So
you can go hire the best head coach possible for
the men and the women, so we can go on
and we can keep winning World Cups if we're the women,
and we can win a World Cup if we're the men.
I mean, really, there's no money. There's no in the
United States. United States soccer doesn't have money.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I mean that sounds for the next host of disputage, Jason.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, I like to see Burhalter and Skip on the
show together.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That would be fun.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
By the way, there's only more. Sorry, Steve, but there's
only one way out of this for US Soccer. Well,
you need to put out a statement tomorrow that says
just kidding.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh, nothing signed. Even the article said, it's not been formalized. Yeah,
you know, casually huge backlash.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Usually that's something that usually only happens in college football
when hey, we're going to hire this guy as our
head coach and we love it, and then you see
the reaction is nobody likes us. Hey, maybe we should uh,
maybe we should think a couple minutes on this before
you go out.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Maybe we can find out some on his resume, like
some of those college coaches as well. Oh we can't
get the job after all.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh yeah, we don't want him to have this job. No, no,
we can't have it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
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Speaker 1 (11:53):
That I mean, I've seen that happen in college in
college football before it happened a few years ago. Right
with the what's is that greg Ciano right with Tennessee.
We were going to hire him and it got out there, Hey,
oh well wait no, we can't have no, we can't
hire Gregiano.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I can recall one time in the NFL where a
guy actually had his press conference as the new head
coach and.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Mister j okay, that wasn't okay, hang on, that wasn't
because fans were upset about anything. It's because he just.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I don't know why. Yeah, you didn't like, yeah, didn't
like Whatody Johnson. I don't know, because it was the Jets.
Maybe that's what.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
By the way, you referenced Women's World Cup that starts
on Fox in just over a month. We're about five
weeks out from that this summer. But the offense is
what destroys me so much watching this team for years now,
and like I said, early when they had gone decades
without qualifying for a World Cup. Yeah, in the nineteen nineties,
they had no offense. They were starting from the ground up.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
That's not the case now. So when you're having last
year World Cup qualifiers where we only won one nothing
at El Salvador.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What's going up? We couldn't beat Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Then we have a Bosnia, we host Bosnia for an
exhibition and that's only one nothing, and then we get
shut out by Canada and lose that. I mean, it's
just not just last year. It's Greg Burholter's run where
despite the wins, it was an easy schedule and the
offense just wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Steve, Jamaica's got a hell of a bob sled to you. Man.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know, I coach you soccer at a pretty decent level.
I'd take a million and a half dollars to go
coach that team.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I can't get it. You had to do it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I could do it. I would say, listen here and
here here's my stipulat. Here's the only thing I have.
We have to have practice during the day so I
can make the show at night. And if you have
games during the week at night, you have to give
me enough notice so I can get the night off
so I will go coach the game. Yeah, all, do
it so I can coach again. But get let me
not let me know the schedule so I can call
scotch Apparents. Hey, Scott, Hey, I'm going to be you know, Yes,
(13:50):
we have l Salvador on Wednesday, I'm coaching that game.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Can I have the night off?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah? Sure, I'll have Harmon do the show and I'll
you know, Arnie Span, you're Dan Byer or somebody will
come in great, and I could coach it now. Weekends,
I'm clear, like I could coach any games that we
have tournaments everything weekends. I'm clear. But you give me
enough notice, I could do it.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'll take hole for dollars. I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And you know the first thing I would do is
I would say, hey, we're going to put more forwards
on the roster and we're going to push the ball
up field more and actually use our athleticism and try
to score there.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't know me, I'm just crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There were games where in his tenure I thought that
we were back to the nineteen nineties offense, where sometimes
they would literally have only one offensive guy their position
near goal. Everyone else. Their focus was defense. Even in midfield,
the focus was defense. And I'm thinking, exactly, with this formation,
(14:38):
how are you expecting to score much less the talent
on the field.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Sounds like the next look.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You could do that if the guy upfront is messy,
But if it's exactly could be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Okay, let's just try one long ball after another and
let the young guy against four defenders see if we
can do something with it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Brian oh Man Twitter, how about a fresca? The Jason
Smith Show. Is Steve de Saga in for Mike Harmon.
This hiring of Greg Burholter passes understanding.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It's crazy does and unfortunately it's not official. Unfortunately I
think they are going in that direction.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
This was a Steve Cohen hiring. Steve. No, no, no,
they're not paying a ton of money for maybe no
money's doing the job for free.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Baby says listen, we don't have any money. You gotta
do it for free. Okay, final do it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The update from Dodgers Stadium is that, yes, the Dodgers
have had to go to a different reliever in the
eleventh inning, and yes the White Sox have a runner
at third, so stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It's four fourth.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
They kept the closer in for the ninth and tenth innings.
That's how bad it was. No confidence in anyone else
still down there. League office is not happy about this
extra ending game.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
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Speaker 1 (15:53):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Steve De
Sager in for Mike Harmon. We are live from the
Tirerack dot COM's studios, where potentially the Dodgers could be
set to pull this game out of the fire. They
were down four nothing to the White Sox after giving
up four solo home runs in the first four innings,
Sandy Kofax giving up all of them. No, No, A
(16:16):
grand slam by Chris Taylor tied it up. That's been
all the offense as now. The Dodgers batting with the
winning run on third, nobody out in the bottom of
the eleventh inning. Again, it's always weird, what I so, Really,
we start with the runner on second base and we're
at the bottom of the eleventh We don't we don't
win this game right away. Nobody wins this game before. Now, Okay,
(16:36):
that's but I guess that's where.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We're You remember the Dodgers really struggled behind the plate
defensively when they had Yasmani grandal against Mookie Bets and
company in the World Series when they lost to Boston
a few years ago. And here it is Mookie Bets
in a Dodger uniform at the plate. Who's catching for
the White Sox in La tonight Yasmani Grondal, and his
pass ball sends the runner from second to third to
(16:59):
the Your winning run is only ninety feet away. And
here in the top of the inning, top of the eleventh,
it was Grondal who came with came up to bat
with a runner at third and grounded out, so they
stranded their runner. White Sox Dodgers have now first and third.
Nobody out at bottom of the eleventh.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
You've never seen that ground all nightmare before that.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
All that's missing is Mary Hart in the first rowringing.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
First time for everything.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jason, Where Mary Steve? I don't know where Mary is.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know where Mary Heart.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You had a feary, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I thought, well, well the other night, I said, Mary
Hearts still alive?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Not? Me?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Is it she still watch it out at the game?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
She don't go all eighty games.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
With that seat. Why wouldn't you. I'm gonna give up
that seat for every single game if I had that seat.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Jason, you want to stout on Chris Taylor's grand slam?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I think you give me stat on Mary Hart. Okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I've gotten many stats on Mary Hard, but we'll save
those for another time. Okay, first player ever in MLB
history to hit a grand slam him on his first
home run and his one hundredth home run.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Oh interesting, Wow, that's a pretty good stat. I like that.
It's not my stat, but I would say it was
your status stat. It's me. I'd say that's me, that's
my stat. I had it. Uh So there we go again.
Four to four Dodgers batting in the bottom of the
eleventh inning. Steve de Sager will have more on this
than what's trending coming up in a couple and.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The Tampa Bay Rays one again today, one at Oakland.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, so they can they keeping that now?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There being one thousand, one thirty three once again, that
is seven thousand and thirty three in Oakland today.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That is a sellout. However many people come in the game,
that's a sellout.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
No for I have a tarpover my seat. I thought
I bought this seat. You just all the seats now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So we're all thinking that tomorrow we're going to get
the result of the Ja Morant suspension. Right, we know
that the NBA was going to do it after the
finals are over. The parade was today, the draft is
next week. The old five o'clock news dump on a Friday.
I'm sticking with my Saturday morning theory. That'll all be
done Friday night, that let everybody know what it's going
(19:07):
to be, and then the NBA will just put out
an announcement on Saturday and Adam Silver won't be anywhere
around by the time we get to Monday, it'll be
a story that's two days old. That's I still believe that.
I still believe it's gonna wind up being Saturday. But
I wonder and Steve, I don't know if this is
me just hoping that, you know, you can hold Adam
Silver more accountable, but you know, he doesn't want to
(19:30):
make this decision, and it's gonna be a big deal,
and I think it's gonna wind up being the season
because the NBA. NBA has got to show hey, either
we're part of the gun culture or we're not. And
you don't want to be part of the gun culture
with what's going on in the United States, And you
gave him a chance to get away from from a
really bad optic and not protecting the shield of the NBA,
(19:50):
and he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
A big deal. Part of me wants to think that
Adam Silver, who again doesn't want to do anything, doesn't
want to put out anything strong. Yes, he's gonna put
this out. He's gonna dump it Saturday morning, whether you
think Friday night at five o'clock, is there any possibility
that you think that because of everybody's saying that over
the course of the last two weeks he's gonna dump
(20:14):
it at a time after the final that it's gonna
cause him to man up and actually talk about it
and release it like tomorrow morning at nine am, Like
we're actually gonna get it. You know, Hey, this is
a big decision. It's a big thing the NBA is doing,
and we're gonna announce it now, which is really how
they should do it, because it's a big deal. This
is a big decision to say, oh, we're dumping it
on the weekend. Oh, it's a very important story. It's
(20:36):
a The decision is important. The ramifications for the NBA
are huge, So yeah, you kind of owe it to hey,
make it seem important. Not that you need to do
it because you want people to talk about it and
it's gonna be on the Internet, and it's gonna be
on television on the radio. But when something is important, uh,
you kind of have to let it go down and
let people see it in what's called and what's so
(20:57):
called an important time slot. Right, It's why you know
Thursday was must see TV for the longest time for NBC.
They put all their hit shows on Thursday. They didn't
put anything it wasn't a hit on Thursday because the
knew Thursday's at big night. When do we put the
shows that we're not confident on. We'll put them on
Friday night, We'll put them on Saturday night. The nights
people don't watch TV as much. So we're showing you
that we put a show on Friday or Saturday. We're
(21:19):
not confident in this show, but we put it on
on Thursday, or we put it on on Sunday night
or Monday to hey, we show you how important this is.
So Adam Silver would be stepping up and saying, hey,
I'm leaning into how important this decision is if I
at least let it be, let it out during working
hours when it can be something that can be seen
by everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, and he should for more than one reason, But
included is the fact that he has the upper hand
in this because there's already been a first suspension and
a meeting with this same player after were involved with
the first suspension. You've got something to say, and on
top of that, there's been a second investigation. Now you
have content. You're not gonna lose on this. This isn't
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as bad an optic it was for the league. You're
coming down on it, which is a good optic for
the league. You've got that. Don't hide this. You've got
something to say. This is gonna work. This is actually
gonna work in your favor.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Update.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Mookie Bets with a twelve pitch at bat to draw
a walk and load the bases. Freddie Freeman with a
bloop single the center they were playing in It's over
Dodgers five, four and eleven.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, it was very weird. Centerfielder didn't even move. He
made me think, what's happening?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Is he faked the cameraman?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, I think I think it was actually was was
a hit to the wall.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I think he hit it to the wall, sure did.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The cameraman made it look like, okay, there's gonna be
a throw to the plate. The centerfielder just stood there
and you're thinking, okay, he's going to catch this ball
and throw it, and it looked like it landed way
far beyond him. Uh and the Dodgers wind up winning
in a walk.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Off far Maybe the cameraman saw that Yankees right fielder
a night or two ago and said, Wow, there's no
defense in this league. Why why even followed this part?
I thought this was the highest pop bull ever?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Or he was looking for Mary Hart.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Hey, mayde me Mary Heart somewhere?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Wh where's Mary Heart? Where's Mary Hart?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So again, so there he did not land on the track.
It landed deep in center, but not on the track.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So that's what we're thinking for John Moran, And it
would be something for Commissioner Adam Silver to say, Hey,
I understand the gravity of this situation of what it
is he should, so we're going to do this early.
Doesn't mean he's going to, but he should
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Steve O. I was not expected to come in here
and to see the US men's national team take over
the show, but you add a thriller of a game
in which the United States was as dominant as I
have seen them in any game in the last couple
of years. You saw a Polistics score a couple of goals,
Peppy score a goal coming off the bench boy. He
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would have been nice in the World Cup and at
least have to Burholter to worry about anymore. Oh no, wait, we.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Do the new kid be Lagoon? Is that house pronounced?
You get a second offensive threat there and look at
the space for Polistic.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
He could have scored more than two.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
John, I mean it was. It was an unbelievable game tonight.
You can see how fired up they were. And they
play in the final now Sunday against Canada and it
was I don't think there's any way they got into
this game not knowing the big breaking news that happened
right around the start time of the game, in which
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Greg Burholter, former USMN team manager, is coming back to
run the team after they let his contract lap six
months ago because they weren't sure he was the guy.
There was a lot of drama with the situation with
the reign of family and what went on with him
in a domestic issue that he had in the early
nineteen nineties, and it was okay, we've moved on, we've
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moved on from Greg Burrow. But now he's coming back,
and there's no way the team didn't know that. There's
no way they didn't know that, And I don't know
if if that was part of the game, if that
was part of why they played so inspired, because sometimes
the United States plays like they're one of the top
four or five teams in the world. Sometimes they play
like are they even trying? They even practice in the
last year. But they came out tonight full of fire
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and full of everything you need. And I think it's
impossible they didn't know that that was going on when
they took the fields to night against Mexico. I think
I think that was whether it was we're playing hard
because we're pissed, or we're playing hard because we love
Greg Burrelton. Probably not second one that had to play
into it at some in some way.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, I will say on I'm at a news desk.
I deal with facts. Facts are Greg Berolter has a
great win loss record. The fact is also they didn't
play a lot of anybody in the past four years.
If you're happy about James against Serbia and Trinidad, go
for it, man. The dude was thirty seven and eleven
and twelve ties. On top of that, Once he got
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real competition, gee, might have been a different story. The offense,
even against the little Guppies in our region of the
world was often painstakingly hard to watch. How is it
that you have this much young talent and a coach
can't put it together in a four year span. Everybody
has bad games, bad weeks, bad tournaments. He had four years.
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They let his contract expire. Are you saying this is
the guy, this is the guy that's going to improve
our offense? He was the guy with the bad offense.
You just had what is this higher look?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And I'm not the only one. You're not the only one.
How about former USMNT star Clint Dempsey who was on
the Paramount Plus broadcast the United States went over Mexico. Look,
the game was great, but the Burholded thing overshadowing everything
here he is set up by Kate Abdo.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Hey, well what's going on here? Clint?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What do you think about out this?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
All this process that we have been through, two interim managers,
the drama, the weight, and now we are back in
the same place that we were six months ago.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How are US fans supposed to feel about this?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I'm confused because you either did something bad enough that
lost you the job or caused these interim coaches to
be in play or you didn't, and if you go
back with Burhalter, then we've wasted a lot of time.
Why why we wasted this much time to just go
back with who we had in the beginning?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah? Yeah, why? Fair question? Why? I mean, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You don't get married to your ex wife again. I mean,
even Liz Taylor.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Will people do six months after the divorce?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay, all right, well but that was one time. Okay,
that was that. Okay, yes, there is that too. It
doesn't make any sense, right, It makes no sense why
you'd go back to a guy that you let his
contract lapse and you hired a firm to go out
and say, hey, let's try to find the next guy. Now,
there are a couple of things. A player, because I
want to be fair and then I and then then
then I want to get hot. Because the thing is,
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Burholter is not a bad coach. He has his strengths right.
Developing talent, yes, because we have a great deep pool
of the best players we've had in the United States ever.
So that's good. And we're young and we're talented. That's
really good. I've said it many times. He's an a
to b coach. Right. He came in after the mess
that ended with Jurgen Klinsman, and it was hey, dude,
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get us back, qualify for the World Cup, get us
out of group.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And he did that right, and we qualified for the
World Cup.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And look context saying you can't skip over that because
some people don't realize Fox, for example, had the World
Cup rights and then the US team didn't even qualify
for the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was tough.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I had to start all over again. This was an
enormous failure four years before.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
That was tough. But they just do this right, and
this is what.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, great, and yes we played well, but like you said,
qualifying in conkakev is ridiculously easy. It's like taking two
good teams with seven of the worst teams in a
sport and saying all you got to do is finish
in the top four. Right, you guys are gonna be great. Right,
We're not. We weren't playing world beaters in conkakef. You
just don't.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you get half the games at home. So even
though there are tough, small little places that you have
to play in Central America, for example, all your games.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Are not there.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You should be you're the United States of America, you
should advance, and.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We should have advanced easier in games, I should say,
because we were the better team. But still we struggled
to win game. Now, we won a lot of the games,
and we qualified without having it to go down to
the wire. But it would be games where how do
we tie this game? How do we look so good
in one game? How do we tie this game? How
are we so unmotivated? But Burhalter did what he needed
(06:40):
to do. He got the team up, all right, we
have good players. We qualified for the World Cup and
we got out of group. But then I keep going
back to the game against Netherlands, which was eleven nothing,
and you saw that it just.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Felt I think it was only three, all.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Right, but it was. It was a stark evidence how
far behind we are of the best nations in the world.
And the two things that he doesn't do well at
all is he doesn't coach well during the game. He's
not a game day coach. He has not live seen
enough of the guy now the last few years. He
is not a good game day coach. And he is
(07:17):
beholden when it comes down to it to have certain
few players and he's not open to things that need
to be done. Hey, maybe take more than three forwards
to the World Cup. Maybe a take Ricardo Peppi. Yeah
he's eighteen, but boy can he put the ball in
the back of the net. No, we're not going to
do that. He gets stuck to very specific way of
doing things when it comes to preparing for the games
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and playing for the games, and he's not open into
the changes needed to be made for the United States
to take that next step. And that's what this is about.
This is not about the United States being hey, we're
good at soccer. Now, that's great. This is about hey,
wait a minute, we're pretty good. Let's take that next step.
He's not a next level head coach.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
And to be able to look around the world to
try to find someone, there has to be someone that
they would have been able to get to take that job.
Really not Now in into this into this mess of
a night, Now, I'm gonna throw a curveball at you.
Now comes former USMNT player Charlie Davies, who was doing
the CBS show UH tonight and at halftime when this
(08:20):
story broke in, they're breaking it down. He said that
One of the reasons the United States is going back
to Burhalter is that they didn't have the money to
lure another big name head coach from somebody. Couldn't just
put a blank checkout because the United States the men's
if they pay, that's their pay, and the men's head coach,
that's what they would have to pay the women's head coach.
(08:40):
With the pay equity situation that the United States women's
team won a few months ago. Now, I don't know
how real that is. I'll be the first one to
tell you. Is that a real thing? Is that Charlie
Davies just saying what he's saying, it's a it's a
weird I mean, it's really, dude, you really want to
blame Do you really want to blame that? Oh, it's
the women's fault. Really, we can't get a headcut real,
it's oh, we have to pay that as I got
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an idea.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Do you know that the more rounds you advance at
the World Cup, the more money you take home?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Just a thought.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
So you know, I don't know where he was trying
to go with that and what he tried to mean, Like,
so it's it's pay Equity's fault and we don't have
It's not like Burhalter was making twenty five million dollars.
Look like I was thinking about a million and a
half dollars a year. That's not a lot of money, right, So,
I mean when you talk about a head coach of
the head coach of the national team, now the head
coach of the women's national team was making about four
(09:30):
hundred grand a year, So there is a big pay
a discrepancy, and now hopefully that's what's been taken care of.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I don't know how accurate Charlie Davies is, but this
is what he this is what he talked about, and
I you know, look, I understand if you think that's
an issue, but I'm pretty sure that that that that
US Soccer has the money to pay a men's head
coach and a women's head coach a decent amount of
money so they can they can come and we can
get the best head coaches in the world. I mean, really,
(09:57):
I don't understand we don't have that money. There's where
is the money going? And I looked at a list
of what people are making across the board, what some
of the highest paid soccer employees are making well. Berhalter
made about a million a half dollars a year. Ernie Stewart,
who was a sporting director, made about eight hundred grand.
You have a bunch of chief CEOs and general managers
making in the in the low f in the in
(10:19):
the mid six figures, So it doesn't seem like it's
a lot of money. You would think some of these
guys and and and some of these people were making
more money than they are. But I can't believe US
Soccer doesn't have the cash to do that. I can't
believe that there's nobody after hearing this, after hearing us
talk about it, is it gonna say, Oh, I want
US Soccer to succeed. I'm going to give you money
(10:39):
so you can go hire a better head coach, So
you can go hire the best head coach possible for
the men and the women, so we can go on
and we can keep winning World Cups if we're the women,
and we can win a World Cup if we're the men.
I mean, really, there's no money. There's no in the
United States. United States soccer doesn't have money.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I mean that sounds for the next host of disputage, Jason.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, I like to see Burhalter and Skip on the
show together.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That would be fun.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
By the way, there's only more. Sorry, Steve, but there's
only one way out of this for US Soccer. Well,
you need to put out a statement tomorrow that says
just kidding.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh, nothing signed. Even the article said, it's not been formalized. Yeah,
you know, casually huge backlash.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Usually that's something that usually only happens in college football
when hey, we're going to hire this guy as our
head coach and we love it, and then you see
the reaction is nobody likes us. Hey, maybe we should uh,
maybe we should think a couple minutes on this before
you go out.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Maybe we can find out some on his resume, like
some of those college coaches as well. Oh we can't
get the job after all.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh yeah, we don't want him to have this job. No, no,
we can't have it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
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Speaker 1 (11:53):
That I mean, I've seen that happen in college in
college football before it happened a few years ago. Right
with the what's is that greg Ciano right with Tennessee.
We were going to hire him and it got out there, Hey,
oh well wait no, we can't have no, we can't
hire Gregiano.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I can recall one time in the NFL where a
guy actually had his press conference as the new head
coach and.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Mister j okay, that wasn't okay, hang on, that wasn't
because fans were upset about anything. It's because he just.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I don't know why. Yeah, you didn't like, yeah, didn't
like Whatody Johnson. I don't know, because it was the Jets.
Maybe that's what.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
By the way, you referenced Women's World Cup that starts
on Fox in just over a month. We're about five
weeks out from that this summer. But the offense is
what destroys me so much watching this team for years now,
and like I said, early when they had gone decades
without qualifying for a World Cup. Yeah, in the nineteen nineties,
they had no offense. They were starting from the ground up.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
That's not the case now. So when you're having last
year World Cup qualifiers where we only won one nothing
at El Salvador.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What's going up? We couldn't beat Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Then we have a Bosnia, we host Bosnia for an
exhibition and that's only one nothing, and then we get
shut out by Canada and lose that. I mean, it's
just not just last year. It's Greg Burholter's run where
despite the wins, it was an easy schedule and the
offense just wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Steve, Jamaica's got a hell of a bob sled to you. Man.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know, I coach you soccer at a pretty decent level.
I'd take a million and a half dollars to go
coach that team.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I can't get it. You had to do it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I could do it. I would say, listen here and
here here's my stipulat. Here's the only thing I have.
We have to have practice during the day so I
can make the show at night. And if you have
games during the week at night, you have to give
me enough notice so I can get the night off
so I will go coach the game. Yeah, all, do
it so I can coach again. But get let me
not let me know the schedule so I can call
scotch Apparents. Hey, Scott, Hey, I'm going to be you know, Yes,
(13:50):
we have l Salvador on Wednesday, I'm coaching that game.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Can I have the night off?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah? Sure, I'll have Harmon do the show and I'll
you know, Arnie Span, you're Dan Byer or somebody will
come in great, and I could coach it now. Weekends,
I'm clear, like I could coach any games that we
have tournaments everything weekends. I'm clear. But you give me
enough notice, I could do it.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'll take hole for dollars. I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
And you know the first thing I would do is
I would say, hey, we're going to put more forwards
on the roster and we're going to push the ball
up field more and actually use our athleticism and try
to score there.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I don't know me, I'm just crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There were games where in his tenure I thought that
we were back to the nineteen nineties offense, where sometimes
they would literally have only one offensive guy their position
near goal. Everyone else. Their focus was defense. Even in midfield,
the focus was defense. And I'm thinking, exactly, with this formation,
(14:38):
how are you expecting to score much less the talent
on the field.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Sounds like the next look.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You could do that if the guy upfront is messy,
But if it's exactly could be able to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Okay, let's just try one long ball after another and
let the young guy against four defenders see if we
can do something with it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Brian oh Man Twitter, how about a fresca? The Jason
Smith Show. Is Steve de Saga in for Mike Harmon.
This hiring of Greg Burholter passes understanding.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
It's crazy does and unfortunately it's not official. Unfortunately I
think they are going in that direction.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
This was a Steve Cohen hiring. Steve. No, no, no,
they're not paying a ton of money for maybe no
money's doing the job for free.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Baby says listen, we don't have any money. You gotta
do it for free. Okay, final do it.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
The update from Dodgers Stadium is that, yes, the Dodgers
have had to go to a different reliever in the
eleventh inning, and yes the White Sox have a runner
at third, so stay tuned.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It's four fourth.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
They kept the closer in for the ninth and tenth innings.
That's how bad it was. No confidence in anyone else
still down there. League office is not happy about this
extra ending game.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
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Speaker 1 (15:53):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Steve De
Sager in for Mike Harmon. We are live from the
Tirerack dot COM's studios, where potentially the Dodgers could be
set to pull this game out of the fire. They
were down four nothing to the White Sox after giving
up four solo home runs in the first four innings,
Sandy Kofax giving up all of them. No, No, A
(16:16):
grand slam by Chris Taylor tied it up. That's been
all the offense as now. The Dodgers batting with the
winning run on third, nobody out in the bottom of
the eleventh inning. Again, it's always weird, what I so, Really,
we start with the runner on second base and we're
at the bottom of the eleventh We don't we don't
win this game right away. Nobody wins this game before. Now, Okay,
(16:36):
that's but I guess that's where.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We're You remember the Dodgers really struggled behind the plate
defensively when they had Yasmani grandal against Mookie Bets and
company in the World Series when they lost to Boston
a few years ago. And here it is Mookie Bets
in a Dodger uniform at the plate. Who's catching for
the White Sox in La tonight Yasmani Grondal, and his
pass ball sends the runner from second to third to
(16:59):
the Your winning run is only ninety feet away. And
here in the top of the inning, top of the eleventh,
it was Grondal who came with came up to bat
with a runner at third and grounded out, so they
stranded their runner. White Sox Dodgers have now first and third.
Nobody out at bottom of the eleventh.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
You've never seen that ground all nightmare before that.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
All that's missing is Mary Hart in the first rowringing.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
First time for everything.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jason, Where Mary Steve? I don't know where Mary is.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know where Mary Heart.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You had a feary, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I thought, well, well the other night, I said, Mary
Hearts still alive?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Not? Me?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Is it she still watch it out at the game?
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
She don't go all eighty games.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
With that seat. Why wouldn't you. I'm gonna give up
that seat for every single game if I had that seat.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Jason, you want to stout on Chris Taylor's grand slam?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I think you give me stat on Mary Hart. Okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I've gotten many stats on Mary Hard, but we'll save
those for another time. Okay, first player ever in MLB
history to hit a grand slam him on his first
home run and his one hundredth home run.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Oh interesting, Wow, that's a pretty good stat. I like that.
It's not my stat, but I would say it was
your status stat. It's me. I'd say that's me, that's
my stat. I had it. Uh So there we go again.
Four to four Dodgers batting in the bottom of the
eleventh inning. Steve de Sager will have more on this
than what's trending coming up in a couple and.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The Tampa Bay Rays one again today, one at Oakland.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, so they can they keeping that now?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
There being one thousand, one thirty three once again, that
is seven thousand and thirty three in Oakland today.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That is a sellout. However many people come in the game,
that's a sellout.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
No for I have a tarpover my seat. I thought
I bought this seat. You just all the seats now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So we're all thinking that tomorrow we're going to get
the result of the Ja Morant suspension. Right, we know
that the NBA was going to do it after the
finals are over. The parade was today, the draft is
next week. The old five o'clock news dump on a Friday.
I'm sticking with my Saturday morning theory. That'll all be
done Friday night, that let everybody know what it's going
(19:07):
to be, and then the NBA will just put out
an announcement on Saturday and Adam Silver won't be anywhere
around by the time we get to Monday, it'll be
a story that's two days old. That's I still believe that.
I still believe it's gonna wind up being Saturday. But
I wonder and Steve, I don't know if this is
me just hoping that, you know, you can hold Adam
Silver more accountable, but you know, he doesn't want to
(19:30):
make this decision, and it's gonna be a big deal,
and I think it's gonna wind up being the season
because the NBA. NBA has got to show hey, either
we're part of the gun culture or we're not. And
you don't want to be part of the gun culture
with what's going on in the United States, And you
gave him a chance to get away from from a
really bad optic and not protecting the shield of the NBA,
(19:50):
and he didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
So it's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
A big deal. Part of me wants to think that
Adam Silver, who again doesn't want to do anything, doesn't
want to put out anything strong. Yes, he's gonna put
this out. He's gonna dump it Saturday morning, whether you
think Friday night at five o'clock, is there any possibility
that you think that because of everybody's saying that over
the course of the last two weeks he's gonna dump
(20:14):
it at a time after the final that it's gonna
cause him to man up and actually talk about it
and release it like tomorrow morning at nine am, Like
we're actually gonna get it. You know, Hey, this is
a big decision. It's a big thing the NBA is doing,
and we're gonna announce it now, which is really how
they should do it, because it's a big deal. This
is a big decision to say, oh, we're dumping it
on the weekend. Oh, it's a very important story. It's
(20:36):
a The decision is important. The ramifications for the NBA
are huge, So yeah, you kind of owe it to hey,
make it seem important. Not that you need to do
it because you want people to talk about it and
it's gonna be on the Internet, and it's gonna be
on television on the radio. But when something is important, uh,
you kind of have to let it go down and
let people see it in what's called and what's so
(20:57):
called an important time slot. Right, It's why you know
Thursday was must see TV for the longest time for NBC.
They put all their hit shows on Thursday. They didn't
put anything it wasn't a hit on Thursday because the
knew Thursday's at big night. When do we put the
shows that we're not confident on. We'll put them on
Friday night, We'll put them on Saturday night. The nights
people don't watch TV as much. So we're showing you
that we put a show on Friday or Saturday. We're
(21:19):
not confident in this show, but we put it on
on Thursday, or we put it on on Sunday night
or Monday to hey, we show you how important this is.
So Adam Silver would be stepping up and saying, hey,
I'm leaning into how important this decision is if I
at least let it be, let it out during working
hours when it can be something that can be seen
by everybody.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, and he should for more than one reason, But
included is the fact that he has the upper hand
in this because there's already been a first suspension and
a meeting with this same player after were involved with
the first suspension. You've got something to say, and on
top of that, there's been a second investigation. Now you
have content. You're not gonna lose on this. This isn't
(22:01):
as bad an optic it was for the league. You're
coming down on it, which is a good optic for
the league. You've got that. Don't hide this. You've got
something to say. This is gonna work. This is actually
gonna work in your favor.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Update.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Mookie Bets with a twelve pitch at bat to draw
a walk and load the bases. Freddie Freeman with a
bloop single the center they were playing in It's over
Dodgers five, four and eleven.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Oh, it was very weird. Centerfielder didn't even move. He
made me think, what's happening?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Is he faked the cameraman?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, I think I think it was actually was was
a hit to the wall.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I think he hit it to the wall, sure did.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The cameraman made it look like, okay, there's gonna be
a throw to the plate. The centerfielder just stood there
and you're thinking, okay, he's going to catch this ball
and throw it, and it looked like it landed way
far beyond him. Uh and the Dodgers wind up winning
in a walk.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Off far Maybe the cameraman saw that Yankees right fielder
a night or two ago and said, Wow, there's no
defense in this league. Why why even followed this part?
I thought this was the highest pop bull ever?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Or he was looking for Mary Hart.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Hey, mayde me Mary Heart somewhere?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Wh where's Mary Heart? Where's Mary Hart?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So again, so there he did not land on the track.
It landed deep in center, but not on the track.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So that's what we're thinking for John Moran, And it
would be something for Commissioner Adam Silver to say, Hey,
I understand the gravity of this situation of what it
is he should, so we're going to do this early.
Doesn't mean he's going to, but he should
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