June 20, 2023 • 34 mins
Tonight on The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, in the fourth hour of the show Jason & Mike go back and forth regarding the top sports news from the weekend.
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
The way tire behind should be. So apparently, what what
the I'm sorry the padres collapsed? Ah, it's hard that happened. Yeah, no,
it's it's a terrible thing. And it was a splash
home run. Oh. So the Kayakers, I don't know that
they're still out there. They're out there a lot with
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Barry Bonds. I don't know how often they actually get
action out there. In two thousand and six was last time?
Bit a minute?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, it's been a bit, but now I might still
be floating out there something now. The Giants can't lose, right,
We've sweeped the Dodgers of fifteen nothing yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And all about the fifteen game the other nighty me
and all of a sudden, Bobby Miller not indestructible. Suddenly
you're looking around, going where is the starting pitching help
coming from?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Let me just say this and I will tell you this,
because this is not going to be something that lingers.
We're getting to the point of trade season in moduling
baseball because there's a little bit more than a month
to the deadline. Because we have the one deadline now
right one, that's it. It's the end of July. The
first team that's going to start making moves are the
Dodgers because this was an eye opening last few days
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where they know their pitching is not nearly good enough.
Now their offense is not as great because they're much
more top heavy like than they were in years past.
I mean, you get outside the top four, it's like, hey, okay,
you know it's not like, boy, then we got Turner
batting six and Bellinger seventh, and even when he's in
two fifteen. No, this is a top heavy lineup. But
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that happens. But the Dodger pitching is ridiculously bad, specifically
the bullpen. I would not be surprised if they are
the first team to make a couple of big trades
and it's pitching trades. It's bullpen trades. It's maybe for
a starter, but they need something because it was an
artificial start for them. We talked about it when they
were playing really well, look at this. No matter what
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the Dodgers do, they wind up winning. It's great.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, you and you weren't really talking about it. You
were more crying about it. But it was stomping your
feet like a child. No, no, that was not because
the Mets were not looking so, you kid, why do
they have some Every guy that comes up hits three ninety,
yet Miller rowing through people. This is ridiculous, guys do
that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But now they're looking at hey, we are going to
be scraping and clawing for the We could be scraping
and clawing for the wildcard because Arizona looks good.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
San Francisco was good. They won eight in a row,
now nine in a row. They're gonna be the first
team to make moves because they're not going to want
to fall because there's nobody coming to the rescue. It's
not like, well, we're waiting for so and so to
come back. Dodgers will be the first team to start
making to make a big move and start making moves
before you get to the deadlin. So they're not gonna wait,
because that's the whole thing is, oh we wait till
the deadline. No, we can't wait till the deadline. You
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got to do something now. You do something now. So
they're gonna be the first team to make boost Watch.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, you talked about the scouting of different players as
teams have come in, right, White Sox were in last
last week, and there's a report today saying, well, a
number of guys would be okay with getting traded. Yeah,
it's like, yeah, there's guys that want to win, and
there's guys that recognize they need more run support or
support in the organization if they're gonna win consistently. And
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that's not to go and denigrate everybody that's on the
White Sox roster, but they've got several component pieces. You
saw Lance Lynn with sixteen strikeouts, takes the Alley's on
the bereavement list as today. Hopefully everything's gonna be okay
there and in his larger circumstances. But a guy that
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has a live arm, Lucas Giolito doing interviews like yeah,
I like it here. They stayed with me when I
had some down swings. But maybe, like, there's two starters
right there that potentially are on the Marketplus you start
sifting around and you'll find others. The bullet for the Dodgers.
Right now, you've got a couple of starters, but you
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start you look at Millard that I talked about, right,
he's going to be on an innings restriction, particularly the
way the Dodgers run their organization. Right we're doing it
the other night with a no hit pid. How many
innings can you coax out of these young arms? And
when the bullpen has been as taxed as it is,
because you're not getting guys to run deep into games,
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you're your only reliable starter consistently. He's been Clayton Kershaw
and even he at at some point we keep waiting
for father time. Uh, and then he pushes them off again.
But you need that bullpen support. So yeah, they'll they
They've got to be active because the rest of the
division is there with them this year. You're not running
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and hiding, and yes you have the wild cards or whatever,
but you want to give yourself the breathing room and
knowing the way the playoffs work, you need those front
line stars. You can't bank on everybody coming back healthy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
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Speaker 3 (05:08):
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Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now let's get to the latest big news in the NBA.
Now it's all the big NBA offseats and news coming,
got the draft coming up? Players opting out? Is this
now the Zion rumor?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And we finally get to it on more of the
videotapes and whatever else are going on. No, we got Draymond.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Green who has said he's out. He's officially opting out
of the final year of his contract with the Golden
State Warriors, and likely he is going to try to
follow the path of James Harden, where I'm going to
opt out of this year's deal that's gonna pay me
thirty six million and try to work it out where
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I get a three year deal for maybe seventy seventy
five million. It's less money off the front, but I'm
still getting seventy five million for the next year. Is
it a thirty six million this year? And who knows
if I get anything the year after that. So he's
opting out out and new GM Mike Dunleavy Junior says,
it's he really wants to re sign Draymond Green. And
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I'll tell you this, why, why why would you do it?
Why you're you're the way. Not that Draymond Green doesn't
have value, because he does, but you're the Warriors who
you have just seen that they are not even close
to winning a championship. And you're not going to rebuild
around Steph and Clay and Draymond and expect to win.
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You're just paying those guys too much money and they're
not good enough anymore. Draymond Green is not the player
he was. Neither is Klay Thompson. Steph is still somebody
at thirty four to thirty five score and thirty points
a game, and that's great. You need to reload on
the fly. You can't just say, oh, but these guys
have been so good.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, I get it. But you've won championships. Everything is fine.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You've won what you're gonna win these gig the guys
have been paid well, they're legends. It's time to move
on and reload with younger, more dynamic players. And if
you can free up that money, if you can trade
Jordan poole and you can figure out a way to
do it. That's what you need to do. Surround Steph
Curry with a couple of younger stars that are a
little bit more dynamic and can can affect the box
score a little bit more, and suddenly then maybe hey,
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instead of we're gonna try to ride it out with
this group and maybe get lucky. No, now, it's all
wait a minute, the next two three years, if Steph
can still be this kind of guy thirty four, thirty five,
thirty six, and we have a couple of younger guys
coming in because why not? Because it's not like Steph
hasn't played with bigger stars before and been okay with
seating the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
He has been.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He's a player that other big stars would not be,
would not find it very difficult to go in and
play with because they've seen guys going and succeed and
Kd's gone there and succeeded, So you can go do that.
That's the right move. Not the Green Green's got value
with other teams, but the Warriors you need more of
a reboot and you gotta reload on the fly.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Oh, we saw the lack of depth and the step back,
not completely a falling off the proverbial cliff for Draymond
Green and Klay Thompson, but about the players they were.
And with Clay, if he's not going to be able
to shoot consistently, what else is his game? Again, not
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denigrating the man's career and where he's at, still a
good player, but not the automatic shot and the guy
that you're looking at to suddenly fill it up on
a nightly basis. Right, he struggled with his shot, some
of it in the length of Denver in defending. Likewise,
you know when you talk about the Western Conference as
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a whole, but certainly going back to the Lakers right
when they flashed out Bigs Adam, he struggled, couldn't find
a shot and in big moments, wasn't there to be
able to finish the job the right they'd already traded
off a bunch of the younger players realizing that they
weren't going to grow. What do you do with Andrew Wiggins?
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You got to make some decisions there as well. And
with Klay Thompson he's got forty three million and left
on the books for one year. With Draymond Green, even
if he takes a little bit less per year. Are
you signing up for that just to keep continuity? Bob
Meyer's gone. I think that's part of the process here
is he steps out now that you confer with Kerr
and Steph Curry decided what they want to do. Curry's
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been very much in the corner of Jordan Poole, as
dun Levy Junior was today in his conversations. But what
does that mean if the right offer comes along? You
got a guy that can score, but what else? See like,
he's not a complete player. And we saw multiple times
and heard multiple reports it wasn't just Draymond Green punching
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him like that. You had the physical act, but you
had the idea that he might have been on the
out with other veterans in the locker room based on
effort on both ends of the court. So whether that
can be remedied or does he need a change of
scene ory? What is comingo? What are some of these
other guys on this roster that for STEP's final years
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can and you do a complete overhaul?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
What do you get for Clay in the marketplace with
his one year remaining on the deal, But for Draymon
still has a lot of skill and great value in
a lot of ways, but not on a three year,
ninety million dollars. No, you can't do it. You can't.
And they're especially with the new rules and everything with
the CBA as you start looking at contracts.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And there is value with those guys like Draymond is
someone who now is someone gonna pay him ninety million
dollars or seventy million dollars? I wouldn't, But does he
have value for a team that thinks, hey, we're a contender,
we're this close to the championship. But we could use
his grit, we could use his defense, we could use
his leadership for a year until he pisses people off.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Could someone say, hey, you know what, we need a
shooter like Clay to come in and just be that guy.
Could the Lakers be convinced, Yeah, the Clays, Yeah, there's team.
Those guys have value. But when you're talking about making
them two of the top three players on the on
the Warriors can't do it anymore. It's it's almost like
they need a complete and total Well let's try to
do this on the fly around. Steph No, Jordan Poole,
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no coming let's it's got to be a different kind
of mix to come in and and and play and
subscribe to the warrior way and warrior culture, which has
been a really big thing for the last decade.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's what has to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And you can get assets for Draymond Green, you can
get assets for Klay Thompson, and you want to turn
them into things. I'm not saying you're gonna get a
big superstar form, but will you get picks? Will you
get potentially a bench player, a young player can contribute. Yeah,
you can get those things. And you and with Steph Curry, Yeah,
you can find the right players and you can reboot
it on the fly. It's not impossible. We see it
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done all the time now in the NBA. It's not
It's not like it used to be where well, now
we have to build here and this year we're gonna
get this piece and next year we get this piece.
And no, that's not how it's done. It's easy to
go play with Steph. You free up the money and
you find a way to make it happen.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Now with Draymond opting out, you know, now you can
do what we we'd love throwing out terms sign and
trade with stuff, or is he just gonna go and
find the best offer, or it may not even be
a monetary thing. Right, we have no idea where his
head is. I'm sure he'll tell us on the podcast
in some way, shape or form here in short order.
(12:13):
Maybe the parody account has it right, and Draymond gream
in that he's ready and able after the report of
the opt out to come hang out with Lebron James.
And maybe that's the case. Right. We see all the
reports coming through Clutch and everything else. So maybe in
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that long embrace after the end of that series, maybe
it was foreshadowing of things to come, and maybe he
comes on a lesser deal. Like That's one of the
other things. You know, whenever the Lakers get brought up
in any of this, You've got Austin Reeves, You've got
Ruy Hachimura you have to figure out. And whenever you
start bringing up names like Chris Paul in a buyout
situation or Draymond now that he's opted out, you're only
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gonna have so much money to spend because you're already
committed to Lebron and Ad. So you know, the curiosity
as the Spider web continues and we add more teams
to the mix, like at Golden State, some big decisions
for Mike Dunleavy Junior. It'd be curious behind the scenes
how much freedom he has to try to reformulate this
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squad or is the first directive from lakeup to hey,
keep the corp together and then we'll sprinkle in parts.
Because if that's the case, that's a dangerous proposition. You
saw you fell short because you can always bring it
in parts to it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But if that's the thing, if Bob Myers would have
stayed around, and this is why I like to think
that Mike Dunleavy Junior is going to make the right
moves and do this because he's new, he's got to
make his mark. He doesn't have the loyalty even though
he's been with the team sure in the front office,
he doesn't have the loyalty like Myers does. And for
Myers to leave this tells me the end of an
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openness year, And like, why wouldn't he stick around for
the end of this run with these players? Unless the
end of the run is now right? Why would he
leave so suddenly when he's young enough and I could
do another year I could wait till the end and
I could see these guys off believing. Now, yeah, no,
that tells me. That tells me where we could see it.
And it's the right move. It's the right move for
the Warriors one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So is he still working with them through the draft
or is he going? Uh No, I think he is.
I think he is defeated and excise the role. Yeah,
I mean because he made some bad picks down the road. Yeah,
look at it. They built the dynasty, but you're also
picking at the end of the first round and it
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becomes a roll of the dice as it goes. But yeah,
his departure certainly opens the door to say, hey, we
pulled the plug. Let's start again.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Look just like it is whenever whenever a boss leaves
a job, if you if that was the guy that
hired you, you got to look and start looking for
another job because the new guy that comes in is
not go or the new woman who comes in is
not going to be as loyal to you as the
other person because they have no stock and they're actually
going to make their mark by bringing in their own people.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
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lie to us through song. Meet the new boss same
as the old bosses. Not always the case.
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for the US men's national team. They beat the crap
out of Mexico and the Gulf between the United States
and Mexico, and soccer has never been greater the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Everything they wanted to do they did.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes, they had to stop the game because Mexico fans
got out of control, surprise, surprise, And then the United
States went on and won the Nation's Cup yesterday over Canada,
a huge win to nothing. They were dominant, and it
was as big a weekend or last week, as dominant
a week as a USMNT has had in quite a
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long time. All the young players are here, they're all
really good. Look, we're a soccer nation now, right.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You see the.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Advent of the shows like ted Lasts and Welcome Torection
that are so popular. As good as the US men's
team is the women's team winning World Cups. We're in
that age now and we have great players, and that's
the first time we can say all of those things
are true. And they win and it's impressive and it's
so great. But then there's the dark side of But
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Greg Burholter.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Is coming back.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yes, the USMNT coach that wasn't good enough for them
to keep him on six months ago. Hey, we're winning,
we're doing well, and now, uh, we're gonna bring that
guy back.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Wait wait, wait, we let him go, we let his
contract lapse. Yep, we're bringing him back. Yep. Why why
are we doing it?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
We couldn't score goals, We lost big games, I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
He was out coached. He's not a good game day coach. Yeah,
all of this is true. All of these things are true.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
But we're bringing Greg Greg Burhlter back And this is
a very difficult headline because you want to go forward,
and you know, there's the reason why you don't go
back and marry your ex again. There's reasons why. But
I'm gonna give you the flip side of this to
show you why it's actually all good news for the
United States. And it's not just hey, we're playing well,
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and now what are we gonna do? Because now is
Giororana actually gonna play as Burralt're actually gonna play him
for parents tried to get him fired by bringing up
a domestic violent situation from the early nineties, and this
is an awful thing. Back and forth and again you
go back. Why are they going back to burlt Or.
I don't understand it's it's it's the whole thing is toxic.
But they're going back to him. But I can explain
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why and why it's not going to be what you
think it is. And this is Greg Burholter now has
the keys to the USMNT program. We see it in
other sports. We see it in the NFL a lot
where a coach is hired, a new coach is hired,
and maybe his first year isn't great and you think, well,
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he's not up to it. We need to turn the
page because he's not that great. But a coach gets
another year or saying. We see it in the because
there's a glimmer and maybe this guy is going to
wind up being a good coach, but we're not sure.
We don't want to say goodbye unless we know he's
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not a good coach. And it's not like Burrhalter isn't
a good coach. He's an A to B coach, right,
He built the program back up, got to the World Cup, qualified,
got out of qualifying.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Okay, great? Is he awful?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Is he just the absolute worst from a coaching perspective? No,
because he does deserve a lot of credit for bringing
some of this young talent on. Now he has his
faults that and look, and I'm not a fan, I
don't like going back. But why did the United States
do this? Why did US Soccer do this? Is because well,
he's done these things and we're not sure who we
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want to be our coach. Right, they couldn't find whoever
they wanted from the English Premier League, whoever they wanted
to go, they couldn't do it for whatever reason. So
what if we bring him back for a year and
then we'll find out if the team continues to play
well and play great and gel and everything is is good. Okay,
maybe he is a great head coach and because we
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gave him the second chance to prove it, he's a
great head coach. Or more than likely they'll see over
the course of the next year, we have trouble scoring,
we have trouble doing things, and we need to get
a new head coach. In whichever case, then the United
States can move on. You can rehire one of the
interim coaches so far, or maybe at that point you
find somebody who really wants the job. But right now
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the United States can't find somebody. They don't know what
they really want. So Burhalter gets the gig for a year,
because we still have a few more years till the
next World Cup. Does it it's not where Hey, the
World Cup is coming up in six months and then
we're gonna we're gonna we have to worry about it.
But the fact that we still have some time and
we don't have to qualify, that's the big thing. If
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we had to qualify, this is a move that is
I could really, I really quit even more doing it,
because what if we don't play well? What if we
play like we didn't last qualifying where we qualified without
too much of an issue, but we'd have games where we
look great, and then why are we struggling with El Salvador?
Why are we doing this? But the fact we don't
have to qualify says we have some time. We can
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give him a year. If he turns out to be great, great,
we keep him. But if he's bad, we still have
two plus years to get somebody else to come in
and re harness this talent and move forward. So that's
why I can say in coming back. So it's not
like suddenly he's in and we're giving you the keys
of the program. This says you have a little bit
of time because we want to see if you're a
really good head coach.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Maybe you're really good.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Probably not, you know, I don't think so, but maybe
you are, and if not, this is solved in a
year either way.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well, and maybe you've had the ability to grow with
these players for a couple of years and you see
where you can stretch to the next level. Right, because
part of the coaching process is recognizing where your talent
is relative to your opponent.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You do this with with Suba obviously it's all about
scoring runs or whatever. But soccer you get a little
bit of the chess match where sometimes grinding it out
and eking out a tie, nil, nil, one one, whatever
it is, and making it a slowing down the game
is to your benefit. Well, maybe now your athletes have
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caught up to where you say, you know what, we
can take more chances, we can build out a more
robust offense, maybe rain up whatever. Behind the scenes, and
Buralter even talked about it, saying still stuff to work
through there and trying to do the best. Now for
US Soccer, this is not unprecedented. They brought back a
couple of times. Sure, Linzman, sure you're gonna can come
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back after you know, a time away here. It's only
six months, so it's very short. But it was also
a very hot topic of what the rain of Family
did in those allegations, So you would expect an organization
to step away now returning that quickly, well, I wouldn't
(25:05):
expected that that fast one to eighty. But you are
talking about the continuity of a program. We we celebrate
it all the time, you and I on this show
and when I'm all with Buyer on Sundays Fox Sports Sundays.
Is we have so many organizations that it's a reaction
and usually an overreaction to the rest of the league.
(25:27):
Very few stay the pace and stay the course with
who they've brought to the table from a management perspective,
coaching perspective, or even top line player, let's say quarterback position.
Oftentimes it's well, yeah, rough here, we're done with them,
and we see that even more the time timetable and
(25:47):
of switching out quarterbacks is faster than ever. I would
like you to know that Russell Wilson is going to
be in the best shape of his life. He's like
a picture reporting to spring training. He's at thirty thousand
feet and he's doing high knees. Now with all the
drills he's doing and showing off on social media, he
wants you to know he's gonna be in shape. But
the point here with Burrhalter is with that continuity and consistency,
(26:08):
you're hoping that that breeds and fosters a team camaraderie
and focus that you can build upon. To your point,
you've got a long run before the next World Cup,
which means you're gonna have a lot of practice time.
You're gonna have a lot of drills, You'll have some friendlies,
you'll have some games that have some gravity to them,
(26:30):
but not the weight until you get into qualifying that
you have to stress on. But you can attempt some
different pieces and add some different elements to your offense
and strategy before you get to that next level. So
in theory again, you're bringing these players that have a
(26:50):
relationship with you along and that has to count for something,
And I think that's where we're at. Does it ultimately
yield the great success and that triumphant moment you're hoping for?
We're all skeptics, you're already out, You're already a poor
Halter led team is on your list of never again,
(27:11):
because I'd have it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I I've had enough of watching. Why can't we score
a goal? Why does he not get that be for
the all start team? Why do we take all start
team for the World Cup? Why do we take three four?
Why do we take three forwards right of a roster
of twenty six. We need to score more goals. And
if that's not him, he gets out coached in big games.
And his loyalty to certain players is baffling, where he
(27:36):
wouldn't give other players opportunity.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I don't understand. Go back to polisitic right, we were
commenting it live and in living color, cursing about set
pieces and different setups. As good as he is, those
weren't generating much in terms of, you know, opportunities for you.
So again, with a younger roster and guys who's familiar
(28:00):
with that continuity, you're hoping that another year, another two
years is enough to push it forward again. The skeptic
in all of us remains. For you, he's it's he's
on the never again list.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But look, but at least I feel like he's only
it's only gonna be a Like I said, it's gonna
be a year because if the team is not good,
they're not gonna continue on with him. Right, for whatever reason,
they couldn't. They couldn't hire the guy they wanted to. Now,
they could have kept on with the interim guys. But
all right, let's let's give Burhalter another chance. Maybe he's
gonna be It's it's baffling to me, but I we haven't.
(28:34):
It's like we said, we've seen it before. And if
the players revolt or they start not playing well and
things move one. Maybe it was a big reverse boycott
by scoring all the goals when they were bringing Burgaltz
back against Mexico. We're gonna win because burlt is coming back.
We're gonna reverse instead of going in the tank. We're
gonna win big. We're gonna We're gonna win five nothing
our last two games.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
No, we're gonna score goals and look at it. I
mean the game against Canada, quick goals, going against Mexico
three three nil and dominating. They fired their coach. Yeah,
as a result a guy, I mean he's been he's
been around about as long as Burrholter had been gone.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, and for that is Mexico has watched the difference
between the United States Mexico go like, hey, it's really
close to now there's a wide wide golf in the
United States is four times better than Mexico.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Is I mean that you put a four x on it,
can't wait? Look at you adding that multiplier I like.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
The usmn T getting coaches fired by I mean, it's
awesome Twitter at how about a Fresco Mike get swollen
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Speaker 3 (29:38):
With my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So at least I feel good that it's probably only
going to be for a year and then we'll have
somebody new. Right now, we got Brian Finley, who's got
what's trending in the wide where the sports, including Max
Suers are maybe the greatest night ever for a pitcher
in the history of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Finally, and thank you Tom. Finally he earned his paycheck
after the eight eight strikeouts in a win for the
Mets eleven to one against the Astros. Meanwhile, what a
letdown for the Padres. This was the last game to
wrap up on this Monday. They were up two going
into the bottom of the ninth on the road against
the Giants. Then Mike Gistremski hits a three run bomb
(30:17):
and the Padres croak on the road trying to get
to five hundred on the season, They're now two games
below five hundred. How about the Reds their ninth straight
win after they tattoo the Rockies five to four, and
because the Diamondbacks were winners against the Brewers nine to one,
that means that Cincy now works their way up to
first and the NL Central. And if you think about
(30:37):
where we are as far as the season, they in
the Cincinnati Reds have never been in first at this
stage of the season this far along since twenty twelve.
A victory for the Miami Marlins eleven to nothing, and
they get it done at home against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Jorge Solaire went yard. Mike Carmen's White Sox lost five
to two to the Texas Rangers. Chicago Cubs bamboozle the
(31:02):
Pirates eight, and I think we did have College World
Series action as well, and it come from behind win
for wake Forest as they stick it to LSU three
to two at Omaha. And because LSU lost, they now
have the pleasure or the misfortune, depending on how you
like it and how you look at the world. They
will play the Tennessee Volunteers next after the Balls earlier
(31:24):
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Bet on that game, depending on how you like the world.
I love a lot of money. The thing is Mike
and Jason Puss.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, yes, I did lose a lot of money on
What do I really say? What did tell you? If
you bad advice with Ben?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
If you if he's telling you where to vote, you
always are bet. I should say you should always go
the other way.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Okay, No, but I love that telling you where to vote.
We've got a whole other thing to vote.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
This church down the street, and you go to that
middle school, you go vote at all these places.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah, so it will be Tennessee and they will be
taking on LSU after the balls beat Stanford and elimination
game six.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
How you look at the world if you have bi
LSU and got a rejection letter, that is how.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You mee old thing about it? Jason.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
If you're looking at let's say a cup of ice
cream and it's half eaten, are you looking at it
as there's another half to eat? Or oh my goodness,
it's not a full serving. I only have half left.
Then you're gonna take a more negative event.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Is it my ice cream or somebody else? Is it's yours?
Oh no, If it's my ice cream, I'm thinking, well,
I'm but to eat the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
If it's somebody else's ice trump thinking, oh, I've already
eaten mine.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Now I can have half of someone else.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Well, there you go, so you're an optimistic thinker.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Okay, yeah, it's still half full. And then the beauty
of it is once he eats that ice cream, he
can always scour for more. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
every hour, on the hour, on the hour. Jason and
Mic back to you. Thank you very much, Brian. I
wanted to see how he was gonna finish.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I was just gonna say something like, you know, when
you went to McDonald's earlier today, did you go face
first into the ballpit as well?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
There's no more ballpit. They don't do that on They
got rid of a lot of the ball I think
you you got to go out to the middle of
the country to find those anymore. Yeah, they're probably not
too clean. Ballpits were never the best germ wise. No, no, no,
it's a bad idea. Yeah yeah, a lot of places
have gotten rid of the oas too bad idea. Jeans. Wow,
not there. Now there's a skit. God say hey.
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
The way tire behind should be. So apparently, what what
the I'm sorry the padres collapsed? Ah, it's hard that happened. Yeah, no,
it's it's a terrible thing. And it was a splash
home run. Oh. So the Kayakers, I don't know that
they're still out there. They're out there a lot with
(00:48):
Barry Bonds. I don't know how often they actually get
action out there. In two thousand and six was last time?
Bit a minute?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, it's been a bit, but now I might still
be floating out there something now. The Giants can't lose, right,
We've sweeped the Dodgers of fifteen nothing yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And all about the fifteen game the other nighty me
and all of a sudden, Bobby Miller not indestructible. Suddenly
you're looking around, going where is the starting pitching help
coming from?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Let me just say this and I will tell you this,
because this is not going to be something that lingers.
We're getting to the point of trade season in moduling
baseball because there's a little bit more than a month
to the deadline. Because we have the one deadline now
right one, that's it. It's the end of July. The
first team that's going to start making moves are the
Dodgers because this was an eye opening last few days
(01:32):
where they know their pitching is not nearly good enough.
Now their offense is not as great because they're much
more top heavy like than they were in years past.
I mean, you get outside the top four, it's like, hey, okay,
you know it's not like, boy, then we got Turner
batting six and Bellinger seventh, and even when he's in
two fifteen. No, this is a top heavy lineup. But
(01:52):
that happens. But the Dodger pitching is ridiculously bad, specifically
the bullpen. I would not be surprised if they are
the first team to make a couple of big trades
and it's pitching trades. It's bullpen trades. It's maybe for
a starter, but they need something because it was an
artificial start for them. We talked about it when they
were playing really well, look at this. No matter what
(02:12):
the Dodgers do, they wind up winning. It's great.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, you and you weren't really talking about it. You
were more crying about it. But it was stomping your
feet like a child. No, no, that was not because
the Mets were not looking so, you kid, why do
they have some Every guy that comes up hits three ninety,
yet Miller rowing through people. This is ridiculous, guys do
that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But now they're looking at hey, we are going to
be scraping and clawing for the We could be scraping
and clawing for the wildcard because Arizona looks good.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
San Francisco was good. They won eight in a row,
now nine in a row. They're gonna be the first
team to make moves because they're not going to want
to fall because there's nobody coming to the rescue. It's
not like, well, we're waiting for so and so to
come back. Dodgers will be the first team to start
making to make a big move and start making moves
before you get to the deadlin. So they're not gonna wait,
because that's the whole thing is, oh we wait till
the deadline. No, we can't wait till the deadline. You
(03:03):
got to do something now. You do something now. So
they're gonna be the first team to make boost Watch.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, you talked about the scouting of different players as
teams have come in, right, White Sox were in last
last week, and there's a report today saying, well, a
number of guys would be okay with getting traded. Yeah,
it's like, yeah, there's guys that want to win, and
there's guys that recognize they need more run support or
support in the organization if they're gonna win consistently. And
(03:29):
that's not to go and denigrate everybody that's on the
White Sox roster, but they've got several component pieces. You
saw Lance Lynn with sixteen strikeouts, takes the Alley's on
the bereavement list as today. Hopefully everything's gonna be okay
there and in his larger circumstances. But a guy that
(03:50):
has a live arm, Lucas Giolito doing interviews like yeah,
I like it here. They stayed with me when I
had some down swings. But maybe, like, there's two starters
right there that potentially are on the Marketplus you start
sifting around and you'll find others. The bullet for the Dodgers.
Right now, you've got a couple of starters, but you
(04:10):
start you look at Millard that I talked about, right,
he's going to be on an innings restriction, particularly the
way the Dodgers run their organization. Right we're doing it
the other night with a no hit pid. How many
innings can you coax out of these young arms? And
when the bullpen has been as taxed as it is,
because you're not getting guys to run deep into games,
(04:30):
you're your only reliable starter consistently. He's been Clayton Kershaw
and even he at at some point we keep waiting
for father time. Uh, and then he pushes them off again.
But you need that bullpen support. So yeah, they'll they
They've got to be active because the rest of the
division is there with them this year. You're not running
(04:51):
and hiding, and yes you have the wild cards or whatever,
but you want to give yourself the breathing room and
knowing the way the playoffs work, you need those front
line stars. You can't bank on everybody coming back healthy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
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Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now let's get to the latest big news in the NBA.
Now it's all the big NBA offseats and news coming,
got the draft coming up? Players opting out? Is this
now the Zion rumor?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And we finally get to it on more of the
videotapes and whatever else are going on. No, we got Draymond.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Green who has said he's out. He's officially opting out
of the final year of his contract with the Golden
State Warriors, and likely he is going to try to
follow the path of James Harden, where I'm going to
opt out of this year's deal that's gonna pay me
thirty six million and try to work it out where
(05:47):
I get a three year deal for maybe seventy seventy
five million. It's less money off the front, but I'm
still getting seventy five million for the next year. Is
it a thirty six million this year? And who knows
if I get anything the year after that. So he's
opting out out and new GM Mike Dunleavy Junior says,
it's he really wants to re sign Draymond Green. And
(06:07):
I'll tell you this, why, why why would you do it?
Why you're you're the way. Not that Draymond Green doesn't
have value, because he does, but you're the Warriors who
you have just seen that they are not even close
to winning a championship. And you're not going to rebuild
around Steph and Clay and Draymond and expect to win.
(06:30):
You're just paying those guys too much money and they're
not good enough anymore. Draymond Green is not the player
he was. Neither is Klay Thompson. Steph is still somebody
at thirty four to thirty five score and thirty points
a game, and that's great. You need to reload on
the fly. You can't just say, oh, but these guys
have been so good.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, I get it. But you've won championships. Everything is fine.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You've won what you're gonna win these gig the guys
have been paid well, they're legends. It's time to move
on and reload with younger, more dynamic players. And if
you can free up that money, if you can trade
Jordan poole and you can figure out a way to
do it. That's what you need to do. Surround Steph
Curry with a couple of younger stars that are a
little bit more dynamic and can can affect the box
score a little bit more, and suddenly then maybe hey,
(07:13):
instead of we're gonna try to ride it out with
this group and maybe get lucky. No, now, it's all
wait a minute, the next two three years, if Steph
can still be this kind of guy thirty four, thirty five,
thirty six, and we have a couple of younger guys
coming in because why not? Because it's not like Steph
hasn't played with bigger stars before and been okay with
seating the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
He has been.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He's a player that other big stars would not be,
would not find it very difficult to go in and
play with because they've seen guys going and succeed and
Kd's gone there and succeeded, So you can go do that.
That's the right move. Not the Green Green's got value
with other teams, but the Warriors you need more of
a reboot and you gotta reload on the fly.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Oh, we saw the lack of depth and the step back,
not completely a falling off the proverbial cliff for Draymond
Green and Klay Thompson, but about the players they were.
And with Clay, if he's not going to be able
to shoot consistently, what else is his game? Again, not
(08:14):
denigrating the man's career and where he's at, still a
good player, but not the automatic shot and the guy
that you're looking at to suddenly fill it up on
a nightly basis. Right, he struggled with his shot, some
of it in the length of Denver in defending. Likewise,
you know when you talk about the Western Conference as
(08:35):
a whole, but certainly going back to the Lakers right
when they flashed out Bigs Adam, he struggled, couldn't find
a shot and in big moments, wasn't there to be
able to finish the job the right they'd already traded
off a bunch of the younger players realizing that they
weren't going to grow. What do you do with Andrew Wiggins?
(08:55):
You got to make some decisions there as well. And
with Klay Thompson he's got forty three million and left
on the books for one year. With Draymond Green, even
if he takes a little bit less per year. Are
you signing up for that just to keep continuity? Bob
Meyer's gone. I think that's part of the process here
is he steps out now that you confer with Kerr
and Steph Curry decided what they want to do. Curry's
(09:19):
been very much in the corner of Jordan Poole, as
dun Levy Junior was today in his conversations. But what
does that mean if the right offer comes along? You
got a guy that can score, but what else? See like,
he's not a complete player. And we saw multiple times
and heard multiple reports it wasn't just Draymond Green punching
(09:39):
him like that. You had the physical act, but you
had the idea that he might have been on the
out with other veterans in the locker room based on
effort on both ends of the court. So whether that
can be remedied or does he need a change of
scene ory? What is comingo? What are some of these
other guys on this roster that for STEP's final years
(09:59):
can and you do a complete overhaul?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
What do you get for Clay in the marketplace with
his one year remaining on the deal, But for Draymon
still has a lot of skill and great value in
a lot of ways, but not on a three year,
ninety million dollars. No, you can't do it. You can't.
And they're especially with the new rules and everything with
the CBA as you start looking at contracts.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And there is value with those guys like Draymond is
someone who now is someone gonna pay him ninety million
dollars or seventy million dollars? I wouldn't, But does he
have value for a team that thinks, hey, we're a contender,
we're this close to the championship. But we could use
his grit, we could use his defense, we could use
his leadership for a year until he pisses people off.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Could someone say, hey, you know what, we need a
shooter like Clay to come in and just be that guy.
Could the Lakers be convinced, Yeah, the Clays, Yeah, there's team.
Those guys have value. But when you're talking about making
them two of the top three players on the on
the Warriors can't do it anymore. It's it's almost like
they need a complete and total Well let's try to
do this on the fly around. Steph No, Jordan Poole,
(11:03):
no coming let's it's got to be a different kind
of mix to come in and and and play and
subscribe to the warrior way and warrior culture, which has
been a really big thing for the last decade.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's what has to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And you can get assets for Draymond Green, you can
get assets for Klay Thompson, and you want to turn
them into things. I'm not saying you're gonna get a
big superstar form, but will you get picks? Will you
get potentially a bench player, a young player can contribute. Yeah,
you can get those things. And you and with Steph Curry, Yeah,
you can find the right players and you can reboot
it on the fly. It's not impossible. We see it
(11:39):
done all the time now in the NBA. It's not
It's not like it used to be where well, now
we have to build here and this year we're gonna
get this piece and next year we get this piece.
And no, that's not how it's done. It's easy to
go play with Steph. You free up the money and
you find a way to make it happen.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Now with Draymond opting out, you know, now you can
do what we we'd love throwing out terms sign and
trade with stuff, or is he just gonna go and
find the best offer, or it may not even be
a monetary thing. Right, we have no idea where his
head is. I'm sure he'll tell us on the podcast
in some way, shape or form here in short order.
(12:13):
Maybe the parody account has it right, and Draymond gream
in that he's ready and able after the report of
the opt out to come hang out with Lebron James.
And maybe that's the case. Right. We see all the
reports coming through Clutch and everything else. So maybe in
(12:33):
that long embrace after the end of that series, maybe
it was foreshadowing of things to come, and maybe he
comes on a lesser deal. Like That's one of the
other things. You know, whenever the Lakers get brought up
in any of this, You've got Austin Reeves, You've got
Ruy Hachimura you have to figure out. And whenever you
start bringing up names like Chris Paul in a buyout
situation or Draymond now that he's opted out, you're only
(12:57):
gonna have so much money to spend because you're already
committed to Lebron and Ad. So you know, the curiosity
as the Spider web continues and we add more teams
to the mix, like at Golden State, some big decisions
for Mike Dunleavy Junior. It'd be curious behind the scenes
how much freedom he has to try to reformulate this
(13:20):
squad or is the first directive from lakeup to hey,
keep the corp together and then we'll sprinkle in parts.
Because if that's the case, that's a dangerous proposition. You
saw you fell short because you can always bring it
in parts to it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But if that's the thing, if Bob Myers would have
stayed around, and this is why I like to think
that Mike Dunleavy Junior is going to make the right
moves and do this because he's new, he's got to
make his mark. He doesn't have the loyalty even though
he's been with the team sure in the front office,
he doesn't have the loyalty like Myers does. And for
Myers to leave this tells me the end of an
(13:54):
openness year, And like, why wouldn't he stick around for
the end of this run with these players? Unless the
end of the run is now right? Why would he
leave so suddenly when he's young enough and I could
do another year I could wait till the end and
I could see these guys off believing. Now, yeah, no,
that tells me. That tells me where we could see it.
And it's the right move. It's the right move for
the Warriors one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So is he still working with them through the draft
or is he going? Uh No, I think he is.
I think he is defeated and excise the role. Yeah,
I mean because he made some bad picks down the road. Yeah,
look at it. They built the dynasty, but you're also
picking at the end of the first round and it
(14:35):
becomes a roll of the dice as it goes. But yeah,
his departure certainly opens the door to say, hey, we
pulled the plug. Let's start again.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Look just like it is whenever whenever a boss leaves
a job, if you if that was the guy that
hired you, you got to look and start looking for
another job because the new guy that comes in is
not go or the new woman who comes in is
not going to be as loyal to you as the
other person because they have no stock and they're actually
going to make their mark by bringing in their own people.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
That is one of the things that the who did
lie to us through song. Meet the new boss same
as the old bosses. Not always the case.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
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On Forgotten TV shows of the nineties night theme songs.
Melrose Place is coming up soon. I just want to
tell you melrose really melro I don't know, is that
a forgotten song? I don't even know if I can
remember the theme to melrose Place.
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Yeah, it was one of those. Just keep think of
the theme of nine O two and oh. I was
thought about. Someone posted that we should do the eight
bit one that they did in the video game.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh wow, you know that kind of thing. Tyson had
a great version of that that he used to play.
Which one he used to play like some kind of
crazy ass version of the nine O two and oh
theme song that sounded like Super Mario Brothers.
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It sounds like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna find it.
Used to play that.
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The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the tiraq
dot Com studios. And this weekend was a huge weekend
for the US men's national team. They beat the crap
out of Mexico and the Gulf between the United States
and Mexico, and soccer has never been greater the United States.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Everything they wanted to do they did.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes, they had to stop the game because Mexico fans
got out of control, surprise, surprise, And then the United
States went on and won the Nation's Cup yesterday over Canada,
a huge win to nothing. They were dominant, and it
was as big a weekend or last week, as dominant
a week as a USMNT has had in quite a
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long time. All the young players are here, they're all
really good. Look, we're a soccer nation now, right.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You see the.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Advent of the shows like ted Lasts and Welcome Torection
that are so popular. As good as the US men's
team is the women's team winning World Cups. We're in
that age now and we have great players, and that's
the first time we can say all of those things
are true. And they win and it's impressive and it's
so great. But then there's the dark side of But
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Greg Burholter.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Is coming back.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yes, the USMNT coach that wasn't good enough for them
to keep him on six months ago. Hey, we're winning,
we're doing well, and now, uh, we're gonna bring that
guy back.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Wait wait, wait, we let him go, we let his
contract lapse. Yep, we're bringing him back. Yep. Why why
are we doing it?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
We couldn't score goals, We lost big games, I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
He was out coached. He's not a good game day coach. Yeah,
all of this is true. All of these things are true.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
But we're bringing Greg Greg Burhlter back And this is
a very difficult headline because you want to go forward,
and you know, there's the reason why you don't go
back and marry your ex again. There's reasons why. But
I'm gonna give you the flip side of this to
show you why it's actually all good news for the
United States. And it's not just hey, we're playing well,
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and now what are we gonna do? Because now is
Giororana actually gonna play as Burralt're actually gonna play him
for parents tried to get him fired by bringing up
a domestic violent situation from the early nineties, and this
is an awful thing. Back and forth and again you
go back. Why are they going back to burlt Or.
I don't understand it's it's it's the whole thing is toxic.
But they're going back to him. But I can explain
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why and why it's not going to be what you
think it is. And this is Greg Burholter now has
the keys to the USMNT program. We see it in
other sports. We see it in the NFL a lot
where a coach is hired, a new coach is hired,
and maybe his first year isn't great and you think, well,
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he's not up to it. We need to turn the
page because he's not that great. But a coach gets
another year or saying. We see it in the because
there's a glimmer and maybe this guy is going to
wind up being a good coach, but we're not sure.
We don't want to say goodbye unless we know he's
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not a good coach. And it's not like Burrhalter isn't
a good coach. He's an A to B coach, right,
He built the program back up, got to the World Cup, qualified,
got out of qualifying.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Okay, great? Is he awful?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Is he just the absolute worst from a coaching perspective? No,
because he does deserve a lot of credit for bringing
some of this young talent on. Now he has his
faults that and look, and I'm not a fan, I
don't like going back. But why did the United States
do this? Why did US Soccer do this? Is because well,
he's done these things and we're not sure who we
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want to be our coach. Right, they couldn't find whoever
they wanted from the English Premier League, whoever they wanted
to go, they couldn't do it for whatever reason. So
what if we bring him back for a year and
then we'll find out if the team continues to play
well and play great and gel and everything is is good. Okay,
maybe he is a great head coach and because we
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gave him the second chance to prove it, he's a
great head coach. Or more than likely they'll see over
the course of the next year, we have trouble scoring,
we have trouble doing things, and we need to get
a new head coach. In whichever case, then the United
States can move on. You can rehire one of the
interim coaches so far, or maybe at that point you
find somebody who really wants the job. But right now
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the United States can't find somebody. They don't know what
they really want. So Burhalter gets the gig for a year,
because we still have a few more years till the
next World Cup. Does it it's not where Hey, the
World Cup is coming up in six months and then
we're gonna we're gonna we have to worry about it.
But the fact that we still have some time and
we don't have to qualify, that's the big thing. If
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we had to qualify, this is a move that is
I could really, I really quit even more doing it,
because what if we don't play well? What if we
play like we didn't last qualifying where we qualified without
too much of an issue, but we'd have games where we
look great, and then why are we struggling with El Salvador?
Why are we doing this? But the fact we don't
have to qualify says we have some time. We can
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give him a year. If he turns out to be great, great,
we keep him. But if he's bad, we still have
two plus years to get somebody else to come in
and re harness this talent and move forward. So that's
why I can say in coming back. So it's not
like suddenly he's in and we're giving you the keys
of the program. This says you have a little bit
of time because we want to see if you're a
really good head coach.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Maybe you're really good.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Probably not, you know, I don't think so, but maybe
you are, and if not, this is solved in a
year either way.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Well, and maybe you've had the ability to grow with
these players for a couple of years and you see
where you can stretch to the next level. Right, because
part of the coaching process is recognizing where your talent
is relative to your opponent.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You do this with with Suba obviously it's all about
scoring runs or whatever. But soccer you get a little
bit of the chess match where sometimes grinding it out
and eking out a tie, nil, nil, one one, whatever
it is, and making it a slowing down the game
is to your benefit. Well, maybe now your athletes have
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caught up to where you say, you know what, we
can take more chances, we can build out a more
robust offense, maybe rain up whatever. Behind the scenes, and
Buralter even talked about it, saying still stuff to work
through there and trying to do the best. Now for
US Soccer, this is not unprecedented. They brought back a
couple of times. Sure, Linzman, sure you're gonna can come
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back after you know, a time away here. It's only
six months, so it's very short. But it was also
a very hot topic of what the rain of Family
did in those allegations, So you would expect an organization
to step away now returning that quickly, well, I wouldn't
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expected that that fast one to eighty. But you are
talking about the continuity of a program. We we celebrate
it all the time, you and I on this show
and when I'm all with Buyer on Sundays Fox Sports Sundays.
Is we have so many organizations that it's a reaction
and usually an overreaction to the rest of the league.
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Very few stay the pace and stay the course with
who they've brought to the table from a management perspective,
coaching perspective, or even top line player, let's say quarterback position.
Oftentimes it's well, yeah, rough here, we're done with them,
and we see that even more the time timetable and
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of switching out quarterbacks is faster than ever. I would
like you to know that Russell Wilson is going to
be in the best shape of his life. He's like
a picture reporting to spring training. He's at thirty thousand
feet and he's doing high knees. Now with all the
drills he's doing and showing off on social media, he
wants you to know he's gonna be in shape. But
the point here with Burrhalter is with that continuity and consistency,
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you're hoping that that breeds and fosters a team camaraderie
and focus that you can build upon. To your point,
you've got a long run before the next World Cup,
which means you're gonna have a lot of practice time.
You're gonna have a lot of drills, You'll have some friendlies,
you'll have some games that have some gravity to them,
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but not the weight until you get into qualifying that
you have to stress on. But you can attempt some
different pieces and add some different elements to your offense
and strategy before you get to that next level. So
in theory again, you're bringing these players that have a
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relationship with you along and that has to count for something,
And I think that's where we're at. Does it ultimately
yield the great success and that triumphant moment you're hoping for?
We're all skeptics, you're already out, You're already a poor
Halter led team is on your list of never again,
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because I'd have it.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I I've had enough of watching. Why can't we score
a goal? Why does he not get that be for
the all start team? Why do we take all start
team for the World Cup? Why do we take three four?
Why do we take three forwards right of a roster
of twenty six. We need to score more goals. And
if that's not him, he gets out coached in big games.
And his loyalty to certain players is baffling, where he
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wouldn't give other players opportunity.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
I don't understand. Go back to polisitic right, we were
commenting it live and in living color, cursing about set
pieces and different setups. As good as he is, those
weren't generating much in terms of, you know, opportunities for you.
So again, with a younger roster and guys who's familiar
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with that continuity, you're hoping that another year, another two
years is enough to push it forward again. The skeptic
in all of us remains. For you, he's it's he's
on the never again list.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
But look, but at least I feel like he's only
it's only gonna be a Like I said, it's gonna
be a year because if the team is not good,
they're not gonna continue on with him. Right, for whatever reason,
they couldn't. They couldn't hire the guy they wanted to. Now,
they could have kept on with the interim guys. But
all right, let's let's give Burhalter another chance. Maybe he's
gonna be It's it's baffling to me, but I we haven't.
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It's like we said, we've seen it before. And if
the players revolt or they start not playing well and
things move one. Maybe it was a big reverse boycott
by scoring all the goals when they were bringing Burgaltz
back against Mexico. We're gonna win because burlt is coming back.
We're gonna reverse instead of going in the tank. We're
gonna win big. We're gonna We're gonna win five nothing
our last two games.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
No, we're gonna score goals and look at it. I
mean the game against Canada, quick goals, going against Mexico
three three nil and dominating. They fired their coach. Yeah,
as a result a guy, I mean he's been he's
been around about as long as Burrholter had been gone.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, and for that is Mexico has watched the difference
between the United States Mexico go like, hey, it's really
close to now there's a wide wide golf in the
United States is four times better than Mexico.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Is I mean that you put a four x on it,
can't wait? Look at you adding that multiplier I like.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
The usmn T getting coaches fired by I mean, it's
awesome Twitter at how about a Fresco Mike get swollen
down the Jason Smith Show.
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With my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So at least I feel good that it's probably only
going to be for a year and then we'll have
somebody new. Right now, we got Brian Finley, who's got
what's trending in the wide where the sports, including Max
Suers are maybe the greatest night ever for a pitcher
in the history of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Finally, and thank you Tom. Finally he earned his paycheck
after the eight eight strikeouts in a win for the
Mets eleven to one against the Astros. Meanwhile, what a
letdown for the Padres. This was the last game to
wrap up on this Monday. They were up two going
into the bottom of the ninth on the road against
the Giants. Then Mike Gistremski hits a three run bomb
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and the Padres croak on the road trying to get
to five hundred on the season, They're now two games
below five hundred. How about the Reds their ninth straight
win after they tattoo the Rockies five to four, and
because the Diamondbacks were winners against the Brewers nine to one,
that means that Cincy now works their way up to
first and the NL Central. And if you think about
(30:37):
where we are as far as the season, they in
the Cincinnati Reds have never been in first at this
stage of the season this far along since twenty twelve.
A victory for the Miami Marlins eleven to nothing, and
they get it done at home against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Jorge Solaire went yard. Mike Carmen's White Sox lost five
to two to the Texas Rangers. Chicago Cubs bamboozle the
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Pirates eight, and I think we did have College World
Series action as well, and it come from behind win
for wake Forest as they stick it to LSU three
to two at Omaha. And because LSU lost, they now
have the pleasure or the misfortune, depending on how you
like it and how you look at the world. They
will play the Tennessee Volunteers next after the Balls earlier
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on Monday.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Bet on that game, depending on how you like the world.
I love a lot of money. The thing is Mike
and Jason Puss.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah, yes, I did lose a lot of money on
What do I really say? What did tell you? If
you bad advice with Ben?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
If you if he's telling you where to vote, you
always are bet. I should say you should always go
the other way.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Okay, No, but I love that telling you where to vote.
We've got a whole other thing to vote.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
This church down the street, and you go to that
middle school, you go vote at all these places.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah, so it will be Tennessee and they will be
taking on LSU after the balls beat Stanford and elimination
game six.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
How you look at the world if you have bi
LSU and got a rejection letter, that is how.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You mee old thing about it? Jason.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
If you're looking at let's say a cup of ice
cream and it's half eaten, are you looking at it
as there's another half to eat? Or oh my goodness,
it's not a full serving. I only have half left.
Then you're gonna take a more negative event.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Is it my ice cream or somebody else? Is it's yours?
Oh no, If it's my ice cream, I'm thinking, well,
I'm but to eat the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
If it's somebody else's ice trump thinking, oh, I've already
eaten mine.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Now I can have half of someone else.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Well, there you go, so you're an optimistic thinker.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Okay, yeah, it's still half full. And then the beauty
of it is once he eats that ice cream, he
can always scour for more. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
every hour, on the hour, on the hour. Jason and
Mic back to you. Thank you very much, Brian. I
wanted to see how he was gonna finish.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
I was just gonna say something like, you know, when
you went to McDonald's earlier today, did you go face
first into the ballpit as well?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
There's no more ballpit. They don't do that on They
got rid of a lot of the ball I think
you you got to go out to the middle of
the country to find those anymore. Yeah, they're probably not
too clean. Ballpits were never the best germ wise. No, no, no,
it's a bad idea. Yeah yeah, a lot of places
have gotten rid of the oas too bad idea. Jeans. Wow,
not there. Now there's a skit. God say hey.
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