July 7, 2023 • 37 mins
Corbin Carroll, the leading contender for NL Rookie of the Year and one of MLB's most productive players, grabs his right shoulder after a swing and immediately leaves the game against the Mets. And Jason explains how Elon Musk forgot the number 1 purpose of Twitter.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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more on on Corbyn Karol before we get into James
Harden the Francisco Lindor five hit game for the Mets tonight,
first five hit game of his career. That's a winning
nine nothing. But we watched Corbyn Carroll leave the game
an obvious distress. I would say in the past fifteen minutes.
He took a wild swing at a ball in the
bottom of the seventh, immediately grabbed his upper right arm
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around his bicep, held it to his body, and immediately
walked off the field. Now he looked like he's in
a little bit of shock. The pain, you don't know
what kind of pain Tolert is. And he was chomping
his gun pretty good, but trying to read lips a
little bit. It looks like he says something like I
can't feel it or I can't move it. I mean again,
I'm just trying to read lips on Corbyn case right
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away walking off saying I can't And it looked like
he said I can't feel it. And we also have
found out from a Diamondbacks beat writer that it was
the same shoulder, a same arm that he said felt
a little weird a couple of weeks ago after a swing.
He had surgery on that shoulder two years ago. So
all good thoughts out there for Corbyn Carroll. But obviously
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that's a really big deal in a huge blow for
a team that's right now at the top of the NLS,
one of the biggest stories in all of baseball. Well,
that's exactly it is.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You obviously don't want to wish it will or injury
upon anybody, but a young, dynamic player that has largely
been you know, one of the faces of this Diamondbacks team.
That's as good of a story as any in baseball.
I mean, obviously, a guy that is leading the team
and batting average coming into tonight, tied for the lead
team lead and home runs and has just been kind
of a you know, lightning Rod is the wrong word,
(02:27):
because lightning Rod I think has a negative connotation, but
you know, he's he's been just such a positive to
this team, in this organization. Then, as you said, you know,
the Dodgers are making up ground and you know you
kind of need to be in full you need to
be at full strength going into the second half of
the year. So again, you know, we were reacting in
real time. Over the next two hours, as more information
(02:47):
comes out, we'll obviously get it to everybody listening, but
just a crushing, crushing, crushing blow for the Diamondbacks, who,
of course, you know, couldn't afford this at this time.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, and when you think about the fact that he
was going to start the All Star Game and in
Seattle is ten minutes where he's from, where he grew up.
I mean, you think about that too, because now you
know that's probably out as well, just by seeing this injury.
Gonna be out at least the rest of this weekend.
And I you know, when you grab you around like
that and go, I can't move it or I can't
feel it. Uh, you know that's gonna be a while
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before he comes back into the lineup.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, even if he could play, it's precaution. You can't
let him play in the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So again, as At said, we'll have more on this
story as it develops throughout the rest of the night.
Here the Jason Smith Show, Aeron Tore is in from
Mike carbon At in on his birthday. I am that
is dedication to your craft, my friend, That's what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
On the East Coast, it is no longer my birthday,
but we are in the Fox Sports you know la
studios here, so obviously it is.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Still my birth it's your birtha wherever you are. You're here,
Almost here, he says, almost here. Pizza gets my eye. Sorry,
almost here, pizza. Pizza guy is gonna come with a
boombox and we're gonna play warrant cherry pie. Okay, how
it's gonna go okay as long as you sorry wait
wait wait wait, I'm sorry, I sorry, ty Shirt? Do
you know what warrant is? First off, I have a
dispute with you? You do? Okay? Yes? Can I file
(04:03):
an now or with the judge later? You can file
it now and with the judge later, depending on okay. First,
what type of pizza did you get? Uh? Your favorite?
Which one? The non meat pizza? How did you know? Yeah?
I like, I know, I know you don't like pizza
and you're so nice. Yeah, you know knowhirt ty Shirt
doesn't eat me. He hasn't had protein in thirteen years.
That's not true. That is absolutely a lot of protein today.
(04:24):
Oh sorry protein hemp tye Shirt eats like synthetic protein
and like it's not really food from plants. Yeah, he
just actually takes a plant and starts eating it. Yeah,
like he's a lizard, like the dirt still on the
I cut out the middle man. You guys eat the meat.
I just eat the plants. The meat eats, so I
just cut out the middle man. Hey, look, meat is
eating plants. Look at that gopher eating eating the plate.
(04:46):
Well wait, Tyshert cats here. That gopher is not gonna
have anymore. Last time your hamburger ate something forget it?
So you don't eat grass fed beef justin Oh yeah,
there you go, Ialt. Of course I do. But it's
well after the beef eats the grass, right, I just
skipped the beef part. Yeah, okay, so that's what What
was your second thing? I have no idea what you
were asking me the first time. Oh what warrant is?
(05:09):
Isn't that what they have for you for the mailbox?
I don't know about that. That's the statue would be
a warrant. Yeah, Now that's when you have too much
fun when it gets delivered. Oh gosh, let's let Aaron
Torres decide this. So okay, if someone on the show,
I'm not gonna tell you who it is. Okay, if
someone else the show. In nineteen ninety two, no statue
of limited on a Sunday morning, his nickname was the
(05:30):
kid stole a mailbox. WHOA, that's a federal offense. Hang on,
hang on, and you stole a mailbox or borrowed a mailbox?
Had about two thirteen morning on a Sunday returned. It
had about eight am on a Sunday. Is that a crime?
Remember no mail on Sunday? So if there's no mail
(05:50):
on Sunday, can't really be a crime?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, and I think it also comes down to, I mean,
if if it was returned, like I don't know, I mean,
if you steal a car from a borrow dr borrow? Okay,
so if you take let's just say take, let's use
the word take. You take a car from a car
dealership at eleven o'clock at night, that's taking for a
few spins, but it's it's back by the time the
(06:14):
first guy opens up in the morning or girl?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is that? Is that? I mean that would be a
considered a crime?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Ill? No, I call that a test drive? Illegal test
that is that? No?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That is a personal test. So were you test driving
the mailbox? Where you in the market for a new
mailbox and you were checking it out?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah? I mean I I like the mailbox. I thought
it would it would potentially be something I could like,
saw it for a little while in my living room
and then decided, now I gotta bring it back. I
hope your soap's on a rope. J Hey, Hey, whoa hey, hey.
Also Statute of Limitations nineteen, there are none when it
comes to federal offenses. Not federal offense, it's not it's
a mail. Mail is federal, dude, but there's no mail
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on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You can't go federal. It's the mail verse. It's the
male m Ai yel, it's the male version of the
purg can shake it anyway. One jail time. No, the
purge is the one day a year where all crimes
are legal. I mean in the movies. I mean it's
a he could part in you here, it's one day. Well, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Right, I mean I'm not gonna I'm not getting involved
in I'm not aiding and a betting a federal offense
here thirty one years apart.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
This is not you hung out with LeVar Ball for
how many federals? Come on, man, you could you could,
You could see your way around this, can't you? Well?
His guy that was breaking all the laws ended up
in jail. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I mean, all I know is Levar's kids are worth
like five hundred million dollars right now, So that guy
did something right, maybe not five.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Four hundred million of it is LaMelo. LaMelo was worth
four point nine of it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
The other fifty is the sunglasses of Leangelos.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh too soon? You know it's too soon, Jason. What's
that the fact that his Big Baller shoes ended his
son's career. That's too soon? Yeah, no, that is that's
very difficult too. It's very difficult too. And although I
remember the summer league games where he was wearing all
different shoes right like, Jordan, Hey, I'm wearing all of
them now. I'm trying to find a way to not
wear these Big Baller brand shoes. I'm gonna wear all
(08:06):
the different ones. Listen, I'm trying them all out.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Can I say something really quick on this this whole topic.
I know, we want to get to real NBA topics.
Like everyone can make fun of what ended up happening
with the Big Baller brand.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm not saying it because I know the family. You
understand that at.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That moment in time, every parent of every prominent high
school and college athlete was like, cut out the middleman
and own everything ourselves.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That's brilliant. Like at the time, it was like a
pretty smart, revolutionary thing. And then you realize how hard
it is.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
To literally create a a merchandise thing where you have
to find a warehouse, you have to find a printer,
you have to find a shipper, you have to you know,
obviously there are testing limitations for the shoes, but like
we can make fun of it now, it was like
very revolutionary at the time, and everybody was like, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
This is kind of incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Why get paid a hundred million dollars from Nike when
you can get a billion owning the whole thing didn't
work out?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, did get a billion? Did didn't get a billion?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But but what I'm saying is, I mean, you know,
like it was pretty revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm not defending him.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I just like I think it's easy with the hindsight
to be like, well, that was the stupidest idea ever.
But people at the time were like, this guy's a
freaking genius.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And then we find out the first run with all this,
with this publicity that is that is unknown to mankind
what they sell for. I'm still waiting for my shoes,
four hundred pairs of shoes. I mean, like free publicity
on every channel, with all the interviews. Oh my god,
what a genius been And he sold like four hundred
pairs of shoes and people didn't and people didn' get
him because I remember when he said everybody knows shipping
slow during the holidays. I'm still waiting for my shoes.
(09:46):
Come on, man, what are you doing? What are you doing? Uh? Now,
you wanted to ask a couple of questions about James Harden.
So I okay, as long as you don't put James
Harden and the Knicks in the same sentence, Okay, that's fine.
And it's not going to the Knicks. This is my
exact question. He's not going to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I think the Knicks are too smart with with Thibodeaux
and the guys that they have, I don't think they're interested.
Are Like, everyone's just defaulting that he's gonna go to
the Clippers. But you just re signed Russell Westbrook in
what is the value of having Russell Westbrook if you're
going to trade for James Harden? And So I guess
(10:26):
my question is like, and I've been on this all week,
so anybody that's heard me on these airwaves forgive me, Like,
are we positive there's a market for James Harden? I mean,
think you think about and I get he dropped forty
points in a couple of playoff games. But this is
a guy that's gonna get paid however, thirty whatever million dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He's a front runner. He demands literally one trade a
year for the last three years. The second things go bad,
he wants out. And the thing I keep going back
to Jason is every single place he's been, every he
has been in, every single perfect situation. In h they
acquired three separate superstars at his request to run with him,
(11:06):
Dwight Howard who was a superstar at the time, Russell Westbrook,
and Chris Paul. He didn't like any of them. Then
he goes to play with his best friend. I'm you
and Mic are best friends. James Harden and Kevin Durant
are not best friends. Doesn't work there. Then he wants
to Oh no, I want to be the number two.
This is Joel embiid City, This is Joel embiids Town.
Not happy there, So I guess what I'm saying is
(11:26):
And oh, by the way, the thing with the Clippers too,
is like, if you're Steve Balmer and you've been dealing
with Kawhi's nonsense for the last three years. Are you
eager to get a guy that's a complainer and a
whiner and a front runner and throws people under the bus,
Like I just I think it's like assumed that because
James Harden won an MVP five years ago that everybody
(11:47):
wants him. I'm just curious if there's actually a real
market for him or if it's just NBA Twitter, NBA
media thinking that he's this guy from five years ago
that he isn't anymore. All Right, Well for ok, two questions,
In the words of John Paul Morosi, all right, lots
unpacked there. First thing, I would love to see a
team that trots out Kawhi, Paul George, James Harden, and
(12:09):
Russell Westbrook. Oh, come on, come on, how much fun
would that be?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Remember remember how much fun when James Harden got traded
from Brooklyn and the stat was like Harden, Kyrie and
Katie ended up on the court together for like eleven
total games in like eighteen months.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, it would be less than that. Yeah, neither here.
Come on, how much fun would that be too? I
gotta see this. I gotta see Westbrook and Harden and
Kawhi and Paul dr how many games would Kawhi miss
just because I don't want to play with those Guess
he'd miss every game? D n P, I don't like
Westbrook DNP. I don't like dn P, And I what
does it mean DNP not interested? That would be Secondly, No,
(12:49):
I'm with you because from the very beginning I have said,
who thinks there were James Harden away from anything? Right? Stop?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Nicks? No, because Tom Timbadau would walk away James, I agree,
we actually play d here's my resignation.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I quit.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It'd be like the Bill Belichick. I resign as HC
of the NYK. I resign as HC of the NYK.
I don't think anybody is a James Harden away from anything,
And the only the best thing for him would be
to try to facilitate something back to Houston, where he
was still a star and they would still love to
have him back, even though they're trying to move on
(13:24):
a little bit. He said, ran Fleet. No, I get it,
but that's the one city where, hey, we can attract
a star. I was a star there. Maybe let me
see if I can go back and and sort of
make amends, because I don't know anybody that's excited to
trade for James Harden. I mean, I know the Sixers
are gonna try to say we want a lot, and
(13:44):
teams are gonna say, well, forget it. This is why
they've they've in recent days have jumped back into the well,
we could keep James on the roster. Also, my hope
is to convince him to want to stay. In other words,
we're not getting the offers we thought we would get.
Which what do you really think you're gonna get the
last the last stops. He not only has his team
not won, he's worn out as welcome earlier and earlier everywhere.
(14:06):
So I don't get that. I mean James James Harden.
It's like, if you're interested, you're looking at the back
of his basketball card to say, wow, look at this guy. Man,
look how good he is. Let's go get it. No,
you don't do it that way. You know, Yes, you
trade for Damian Lillard because of what he can still
do on the court. You trade for James Harden if
you just want to lose, or you want to just
throw a guy out there and hopefully maybe sell some tickets.
(14:28):
He's in every fourth game, guy, Now, every four games
will give you a big game. So I don't know that.
I don't I just by seeing how the Sixers reacted yesterday,
there's no market for James Harden.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, last thought, seventy six Ers made it just as
far in the playoffs with Ben Simmons as their number
two guys. They did James Harden like, that's my thing.
He hasn't been out of the second round since twenty eighteen.
That's a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
So in Mantres harrel to the seventy six Ers. So
James Harden's for sure a lock.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
To get Yes, not happening. Not happening Twitter at how
about a fresca an Aaron underscore Torres or hit me
up on threads at the real Jason Suh. Coming up next,
we get into the sports story that has become the
biggest story in all of the world and I mean
sports world in the last twenty four hours. Keep it
(15:16):
right here. That's next. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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and for Harmon Tonight. Everybody loves Tears for Fears, but
(15:49):
you no stop being a contrarian, Jane, just admit it.
You like him Tears for Fears. I don't mind a
sad song once in a while, but everything this is
a song called head over Heels and it's sad. It's
not sad, yes, it is very sad. Oh my god,
something happens and I'm head over heels. It's like it's
(16:13):
like Ben Stein saying, how head over heels and love you.
I'm telling you exactly how. It is not like that.
Even songs by the Cure are more upbeatn than they
stop crazy now come on, man, uh Jason Smith, Aaron
Tares in for Harmon tonight, and Yeah, big dram In
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Major League Baseball, Corbyn Carroll leaves the Diamondbacks loss to
the Mets with what appears to be a serious arm injury,
injured during a swing. We'll have more on that coming
up in a bit right now, the Diamondbacks and the
Dodgers now tied in the lost column for first place
in the NL West. But eight the biggest story the
last twenty four hours has been what happens now in
(16:55):
sports in the media now that Threads is launched, right
because you go to twin and you see two million
people an hour tweeting about leaving Twitter for Threads, and
really sports has kind of led the way on this
because it's been a lot of sports people who have said,
I'm going over to Threads and it's nothing, but it's
not political. It's after a couple of times of Elon
(17:19):
Musk deciding A, I want to try to get money
out of you by taking away your blue check mark
that you worked very hard to get, or B, I'm
going to limit the number of tweets you see because
I'm trying to figure out some kind of bug in
our machine. People have had enough, all right, as sports fans,
you can't limit our tweets because we're following things as
they happen. And that's the biggest thing that Elon Musk
(17:41):
has done is that he has forgotten that Twitter is
a news aggregate app, it is a news system. It's
a news gathering system and you can't limit that. It's
not keeping up with people. It's not social media. It's
not oh I upset. I'm sure he's mostly upset that
people are building brands on it and making money and
he's not making enough of it. But in the end,
(18:03):
Twitter is a news gathering site, and when you limit
the news that people can get, They're gonna go someplace
else to get it. I'm stunned and shocked that it's
this fast that people are jumping over to threads. And
just to give you an example of this, this is
this is what really is at me tonight, because last
night felt like a revolution, Like every every third person
(18:24):
in my in my Twitter timeline said Hey, I'm over
on threads. I'm here on threads. I created account of threads.
We go on the air and we talk for about
usually about twelve minutes or so before there's a break, right,
we go to what's trending or something else, right, and
in that time I'm not on Twitter because we're doing
the show. And usually in that twelve to fit now
(18:47):
you're talking about being on seven o'clock Pacific time till
eleven o'clock at night, generally in that timeframe the first
few hours of the show. I would go back after
being away for twelve or fifteen minut and it would
tell me, because I follow about five hundred people, it
would tell me, including you, Oh, I've always followed you,
(19:07):
and it would tell me. It would tell me, you know,
how many tweets you've missed, like see X number of tweets,
And usually that number is about seventy five, right, just
because that's how many people I follow, That's what I
get right now. Usually people follow many more people, so
I can imagine what the numbers look like for them.
But the last two nights, there have been many times
(19:28):
during during the time, and I'll tell you it's been
all night tonight. It's been the entire night tonight where
instead of seeing, you know, see seventy five tweets, sometimes
it's see hundred tweets, one hundred and twenty five tweets.
Sometimes it's see fifty five tweets. There are times when
it would say see eight tweets or six tweets. It's
been between five and ten tweets of people that I
(19:50):
follow the last two nights in twelve to fifteen increments
twelve to fifteen minute increments. Right now, this is just
my sample size, and it's different for everybody. Some people
have they followed twenty people. You don't know what you see.
But I'm just saying I follow about five hundred people.
I pick and choose. You know who I follow. I
follow out of people that you know, newsmakers, everything else,
people I know and I miss. I said usually about
(20:13):
around seventy five tweets every twelve or fifteen minutes. Then
I hit refresh, you catch back up. I mean it.
The last two nights, it's been see four tweets, see
six tweets, see five tweets. So that's been the entire night.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Let me ask you a question, though, when are you?
Are you also logged into threads and is threads and
more active stream for you.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Now that I have not seen yet, cause there are
some there are some bugs with threads. There are some
bugs with threads that needs to be figured out. But
I'm just looking at Okay, let me see what it
looks like for Twitter. How many people have jumped over
to threads and are actively posting on it? How many
people are actively doing things or are people setting up
accounts waiting to see what happens. Have people just said,
(20:56):
you know what, I've had it with social media for
a couple of days and I'm not doing I don't
know what's happening right now. I'm not gonna waste my
time on Twitter if threads is where it's at. So
I'm taking a little bit of a break. But the
bottom line is there is I mean, you talk, this
is like a sale that says, you know, eighty five
percent off, Like this is like an eighty percent downtick
in tweets that I have seen that I'm normally used
to seeing in my feed every single night, which tells me,
(21:18):
if that's what it is for me, it's got to
be the same thing around around for everybody, and it's
got to be seventy five eighty percent less than what
you've been seeing when you normally see it. I mean,
maybe it's just me, maybe because it's sports, it's more
because more sports people, we need our information a lot faster.
Whereas some people, many people can check Twitter one or
two times a day and get caught up with what
(21:40):
they have and not hit their Twitter limits. But seeing this,
it was there was such a shocking thing. I'm like
it happened last night, and I'm like, all right, let
me just see if it was last night. Last night
was a weird night, but second night in a row. No,
it's about the same. It does seem quieter on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And I'll be honest, like, as dumb as it sounds,
I hadn't really like put it together. I just kind
of assumed, Hey, it's you know, one, it's twelve thirty
Eastern time now, and you know we've been on air
since ten eastern but it's twelve thirty Eastern time now.
And on top of that, you know, it's kind of
a quo. It's obviously it's a very quiet time in sports.
(22:15):
There's really not much going on besides NBA Summer League,
besides this, besides that. So I guess I'm in wait
in C mode. You know, I'm in way in C mode.
As far as you know, is.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Everybody going over there? Is it as active? You know?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I've I've checked on a couple people's threads profiles, if
you will, and I kind of checked just to see
like are they posting both there? So like let me
ask you a question, like, so we get done with
this show, Producer Justin sends us a link to the podcast.
Are you gonna post the podcast on Threads? Are you
gonna post it on on on Twitter? Are you gonna
(22:51):
post it on both? I mean, obviously, because they're competing entities,
you can't. You have to do two separate posts every time.
So like, are you now are you active on threads?
Are you in wait and see mode?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
How is this all work? Well, let me say I
put one tweet up there before that. Sorry, I put
one thread up there a little bit ago, and I
haven't checked to see I haven't I haven't threaded. I
guess thread has at the word do you threat it?
Do you thread it? Do you thread it? Because I'm
also not sure. I'm not sure how to see what
(23:26):
people are saying, if people are replying or not, or
if they're saying anything. It's kind of go still figuring
that part of the app out. I'm still figuring apart.
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
This is why I haven't signed up, because I'm like,
are people using it? Do I have to do twice
as much work?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I don't know. I'm in wait and seem.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Forget about the lawsuit that's out there now, Yeah, you
know you copied me.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Here's here's my one. I don't want to say fear,
but I'm kind of going through this a little bit
right now, and I don't know if this is gonna
if it's going to continue. But I talk with you
guys off the air about this last night a little bits,
like I've been on Twitter now for a while, and
Twitter is is you know, it's good for the show,
(24:08):
and I like to interact with with with listeners and
everything else. It's fun my friends, people I know in
the industry. But now if this is gonna go away
or if it's going to be a competing social media
site now some people are jumping over to threads for
whatever reason, I don't know how do I say this
(24:28):
right now. I've kind of lost the normal desire I
have every night to tweet out everything we're talking about,
because normally that's what I like to do, is like
to Hey, whatever we're doing on the show, I want
That's how I like to use social media. Let's involve
people in the discussions. Let's evolve listeners and discussions. But
I've kind of lost my desire of, oh, every time
we do something, hey, spend a couple of minutes putting
(24:50):
our take out there and do it. I've kind of
lost that, and I wonder if if it goes on
like this, am I or other people going to just say,
you know what, the tweeting things social media? Yeah, I'm
not gonna do it. Now. I'm in a different spot
because I'm you know, I'm fifty two, and I know
whatever I do the rest of my career is going
to be based on the fact that I'm a content
(25:11):
guy and what I do on the air and how
I do that. And I'm not twenty five where hey,
every job I apply for is gonna say, look at
my social media numbers, because that's just not who I am.
And so I wonder, am I gonna at some point
just go, you know what, I'm just gonna use social
media to see what's going on. Am I gonna really
tweet and be active on it? Yeah? I don't know.
I mean, I'm kind of in that spot right now.
(25:32):
Right I usually feel the impetus of, hey, here's a
big Mets or Jet story. I want to get out
there and say something, But then you know, I realize,
do I have to do it? We talk about it
every night in the show. We have twenty hours a
week of programming and maybe it's, like I said, it
could be different for me because I'm a little bit older,
But like, I don't feel that impetus of I gotta
go out and I gotta tweet it. I just haven't
felt that the last few nights. So two quick things.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So one, I think what becomes interesting about threads right
is like, is we can crap on on Twitter and
what it does and what it doesn't do, and is
it too political and is it this and is it that.
As you know, and as you've mentioned a few times,
being a sports fan, it is a very fun place
to be when something big in sports is happening. And
I guess that becomes my conversation with threads is does
(26:16):
it become a conversational place where it's actually fun every
once in a while. But then I would also say,
from the perspective that you just brought up, that's where
I'm at, is I you know, I'm not fifty two,
I'm thirty eight and happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You are here on your thirty eighth birthday. I am
happy here is almost here, and h pizza'll be here
very almost, very soon.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
If I hear if I see the strobe lights in
the background and all that and the.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Boom box on the shoulder, and my disco call is
if you hear that, then you'll know the pizzas. Okay,
if you hear that, you run.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So to finish the Threads conversation, to thread it all
back together, I see what you did there.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It is like, I just like it's funny because I'm
much younger and I probably to your point, need to
be stay active on social media. But it's like, I
think I've done a pretty good job of building a
Twitter following, but I've had no desire to really build
the ig following, much to Alex Tyshert's to disappointment, I
haven't built a a a TikTok following. It's like now
(27:17):
it's like, oh now I have to build up this
other platform.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So it's just like I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Is like, at a certain point, I don't care how young,
how cool, how hip, how this how that you are.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
There's it's just too much work, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And so it's like, let's say a big percentage of
your audience stays on Twitter, but some go to threads
full time. So now to your point, you know, not
even every thought but every podcast do you guys do
every time you're promoting anything from the show. Now you
got to log into two different things, two different posts,
two different It just seems like a lot. So I
just sounded like an old man. I I'm turning into
an old man.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We'll tell you that. First of all, Tyshert only wants
you on TikTok so you can retweet his animate podcast,
which is awesome. I mean you're crushing it on Teck.
I don't need the tweets now, Jam doing pretty good?
Yeah no, but I think you do. Jason, I have
hundreds of thousands of followers. Okay, how much money do
you make? Actually pretty good amount? Like how much? How
much do you want to know? Like sponsorship deals are
just reviews kind much a big deal? Like how like
(28:08):
do you make? Like how much do you make? So perview?
I get a dollar per minute and I get like
thousands of views. Okay, so all right, So so ballpark
it for me? You want a month or like a video?
What do you want? Like like a month? He's buying Twitter,
So in a month if I do long form videos
and how well they tracked, I can wear anywhere from
(28:29):
like five hundred to a couple grand a month. All right,
that's pretty good. That's not including sponsorships. That's pretty good.
But but if if Aaron Torre has had a big
TikTok following, he could get your dragon dragon ball or
dragon ball Z. What is well Z because the dragon
balls going to his dragon ball. Okay, like he could
get your big dragon balls dragon ball Z. That's true
dragon ball And suddenly maybe are you making more money?
(28:49):
So now you're telling me Aaron's keeping money out of
my pocket.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, he owes you cash when you walk on,
I'm actually putting money in your pocket. I have not
signed up for TikTok because I don't want to imp
on your space.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So that's ty Shirt's turn. Alex will be taking your
slices of pizza to night. Ty Shirt's keeping everybody off. No,
you stay off. It's mine. It's mine's he's got when
Binyama's security, you know, checking id's at the door of tiktoks.
So but you know, but that's the other part of
it too, is that it's the desire. And this is
kind of like when Twitter first started. I remember when
(29:21):
Twitter first started, it was so new, it was so
much fun to build, you know, people and people listening,
and I like to do it organically. You know, I
could do what a lot of people do in the
business and say I have a social media company. Yeah,
you're just buying followers. You're spending five thousand dollars a
month to buy followers. I mean, I could do that,
but I don't want to do that. I mean, I
don't want to do that and say this it's not
my thing. So just seeing now suddenly saying okay, now
(29:43):
threads oh, I got to start all over again, yep,
and like, do I really want to do that? I mean,
so I don't know, Like I don't know if this
isn't something that's going to eventually just push me off
of posting on social media, or if it's going to
push me to posting. I mean, I don't know, but
right now I gotta say my my over we're all
desire like I normally have is just not quite what
(30:03):
it was because I feel like we're doing everything on
the show like we should do, and my in haste
to run to get to social media put stuff out there.
I'm like, I don't know, because if less people are
seeing it on Twitter now, then than ever were before,
because people are leaving and not knowing where they're going.
It's like, I don't know, I don't know that. I
feel that in that impetus.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That's very interesting. I hadn't even thought it from that perspective.
I just I just think of twice the workload. And
again it's all relative. We're talking about sports, sharing little clips,
doing this, doing that. It's just like, to be honest,
I don't even like being on Twitter that much. Like
I deleted off my phone during the day because there's
nothing really newsworthy going on, and it just gets into
an argument back and forth, and so now I gotta
(30:42):
again be logged into another one and do this and
do that. And oh, by the way, people are like, well,
I mean all your Instagram follower it's like all my
Instagram followers follow me on Twitter. It's like, I'm not
picking up you know, I don't have if I had
one hundred and fifty thousand Instagram followers and twenty five
thousand Twitter followers, and that's a different conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But it is not like that at all.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Okay,
let me start you right there. The Mets suck.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
The Mets are the best team in baseball in July,
hang the banner. They have not lost since Mike Harmon
left for vacation. Tell Alan that the Mets suck. It's
been it's been. It's been six days since Harmon's done
this show. The Mets have not lost. Aron Torres, you
are in every night until the Mets lose. I mean,
this is it.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's your gig now, congratulations. Am I even like I
know I work Saturdays. Am I coming in on Sunday too?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Or just when Jason's no, no, no, no, just went out,
no no, just went on here. Okay you know so
that this is that's where the whole thing goes because
I'm not coming in on Sunday. Yeah, insane. Now you
come in when I come in and this is out
works like I'm not working. Kevin, Kevin Wyre does updates everybody.
Everybody's good. Kevin Wyatt's going to Hawaii in a couple
of weeks. Oh my god, you'll mess with the wedding street. No, no, no,
k dub. If the Mets are winning, you're not going
to Hawaii. You're staying here. Sorry, man, do you can
(32:00):
tell your family whoever you're going with? Sorry, this is
much more important. That's how it's gonna work.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Just assume it's family, not a beautiful young lady or
family wife.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Girlfriend? Who are you going with? Kdub?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Who with family?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
But I'd much rather watch the Mets lose than skip
out on that trip. So no, no, no, no, yeah no,
you watch the Mets win and you'll miss that trip
and like it that. That's kind of how it's gonna go.
That's up my full time job. I watched that lose.
I mean, think about it. Not being so selfish, think
about somebody other than yourself. Yeah, how horrible of mes.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Toras got pizza coming and basically in my grave thirty
eight years old, So I'm fifty two. What does that
mean for me? You want this gig, don't you? You're
young and vibrant, all right, thank you boy? You said
that's yes and vibrant. You are, yes, very very vibrant.
I wear black T shirts every.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Day, so it's good as here Johnny, Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
We'll have an update on Corbyn, Carrol coming up. He's
got an MRI scheduled for tomorrow, but it might not
all be bad news. Are going to hear from Tory
Lavello coming up in a few minutes. But look, we're
all wondering when this Damian Lillard trade is going to happen.
Why have we not seen it yet? How is this
going to end? And I'll tell you after the last
couple of days, I know how it's not going to
(33:14):
be as exciting and thrilling as waking up tomorrow and seeing, hey,
Damian Liller's traded. But here's how it's going to go.
He wants to go to the Heat. He has made
this clear. His agent has said he wants the Heat.
I'll talk to teams. I'll call back some teams, some
teams I won't call back. But he wants to be
with the Heat. If they could do a straight deal
with the with the Trailblazers and the Heat, they would
(33:37):
have done so already. But the Blazers want a youngish
star player to be the centerpiece of the deal in
addition to all the other things they're going to get,
you know, role players, first round draft picks, whatever it's
going to be the offers they've gotten so far from
teams have been hey, here's a bunch of spare parts
and first round picks. No, we want a player. He
wants to go to the Heat. This will happen, and
(33:59):
it will happen when the Heat and the Blazers can
get a third team in that can facilitate a trade
that will send that youngish type star to the Blazers
the person. That's because that person is not on the
Heat right now. They don't want Tyler Hero and of
his bucket hats. They don't want that. So it's gonna
take a little bit because now you're gonna start seeing
some teams get involved in big trades. We've seen the
(34:21):
big wave of free agency. We're still waiting on a
couple of players, but mainly we've seen all of this happen.
So once a couple of trades start going down, you're
gonna see a couple of big names move. Then you'll
see that third team get involved, and you'll see a
three way trade go down between the Blazers and the
Heat and another team. You'll see the Blazers get the
package they want. They'll get the young player to pair
(34:41):
with Scoot Henderson and this trade will go down. It
may take a while. It may take the majority of
the summer for this to happen by the time they
figure out, because trades don't happen as fast as they
used to. But that's how it's going to end. Lower's
gonna be a member of the Heat. It'll be a
three team deal. It may take most of the summer well.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And I think the point that you brought up, not
only now but earlier in the show, and I agree with,
is there's just no I don't think there's much motivation
for the Trailblazers to take anything other than what they
believe to be the best possible package. And I think
it has been an interesting conversation the last couple of
days about do they owe Damian Loard and anything do
they not? I mean, obviously, I'm of the belief that
(35:18):
you know, you want to try to do right by
one of your all time legendary players in your organization,
but you also have to do what's best for the organization.
And so I just sit there and say, I think
they're gonna wait it out. I think they've been weirdly contentious,
contentious with Dame over the last week or so, and
I think ultimately they they do end up making this move.
(35:39):
But I'm with you, Jason Is. I don't think it's
happening necessarily anytime soon to appease Dame or to appease
the Heat, especially now that we know that ultimately that's
the only place that he wants to go.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I know, mean, they've they've paid him well, they've treated
him well, he's liked being there. They don't know him
anything more than that. They why. I like you, But
I'm worried about when you leave Isla to run this team.
So I'm not going to see her and just do
a trade just because you want to go there. Now.
Players get what they want. Star players usually always get
what they want. So he wants the Heat, He'll get
(36:09):
the Heat. It's just gonna take a little bit of
time and it's not gonna be solved tomorrow, which I'm
sure is what he would like, when everybody would like.
But it's gonna be a bit to get that third
team involved. So yeah, he'll get what he wants, but
he's gonna have to sit for a little bit. Does
this go all the way to where it gets into September?
Or maybe the beginning of training camp. Maybe I'd like
to think by the end of the summer it will happen.
But that's kind of how it's gonna go. And the Blazers, No,
(36:29):
they gotta go out and say we're gonna get what
we want. And just because you want to go someplace
and or another team is calling, We're not just gonna
say yes just to say yes.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
It'll be interesting to see, also, really quickly, how long
it stays in the headlines. It feels like even the
last day or so, we've been struggling to find new
dame angles. Not necessarily you, but the people that I
see on TV and Internet all day. It's gonna be
a long couple months. If if we can't get him
traded very soon, well now the Mets went can't lose,
So now you know that's gonna be a big please
lead every show in America.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
And James Harden's going to no stop not happening. No,
we talked, we put that demend, we put that debated.
It is not science show. It is non science Twitter
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more on on Corbyn Karol before we get into James
Harden the Francisco Lindor five hit game for the Mets tonight,
first five hit game of his career. That's a winning
nine nothing. But we watched Corbyn Carroll leave the game
an obvious distress. I would say in the past fifteen minutes.
He took a wild swing at a ball in the
bottom of the seventh, immediately grabbed his upper right arm
(01:13):
around his bicep, held it to his body, and immediately
walked off the field. Now he looked like he's in
a little bit of shock. The pain, you don't know
what kind of pain Tolert is. And he was chomping
his gun pretty good, but trying to read lips a
little bit. It looks like he says something like I
can't feel it or I can't move it. I mean again,
I'm just trying to read lips on Corbyn case right
(01:36):
away walking off saying I can't And it looked like
he said I can't feel it. And we also have
found out from a Diamondbacks beat writer that it was
the same shoulder, a same arm that he said felt
a little weird a couple of weeks ago after a swing.
He had surgery on that shoulder two years ago. So
all good thoughts out there for Corbyn Carroll. But obviously
(01:57):
that's a really big deal in a huge blow for
a team that's right now at the top of the NLS,
one of the biggest stories in all of baseball. Well,
that's exactly it is.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You obviously don't want to wish it will or injury
upon anybody, but a young, dynamic player that has largely
been you know, one of the faces of this Diamondbacks team.
That's as good of a story as any in baseball.
I mean, obviously, a guy that is leading the team
and batting average coming into tonight, tied for the lead
team lead and home runs and has just been kind
of a you know, lightning Rod is the wrong word,
(02:27):
because lightning Rod I think has a negative connotation, but
you know, he's he's been just such a positive to
this team, in this organization. Then, as you said, you know,
the Dodgers are making up ground and you know you
kind of need to be in full you need to
be at full strength going into the second half of
the year. So again, you know, we were reacting in
real time. Over the next two hours, as more information
(02:47):
comes out, we'll obviously get it to everybody listening, but
just a crushing, crushing, crushing blow for the Diamondbacks, who,
of course, you know, couldn't afford this at this time.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, and when you think about the fact that he
was going to start the All Star Game and in
Seattle is ten minutes where he's from, where he grew up.
I mean, you think about that too, because now you
know that's probably out as well, just by seeing this injury.
Gonna be out at least the rest of this weekend.
And I you know, when you grab you around like
that and go, I can't move it or I can't
feel it. Uh, you know that's gonna be a while
(03:17):
before he comes back into the lineup.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, even if he could play, it's precaution. You can't
let him play in the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So again, as At said, we'll have more on this
story as it develops throughout the rest of the night.
Here the Jason Smith Show, Aeron Tore is in from
Mike carbon At in on his birthday. I am that
is dedication to your craft, my friend, That's what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
On the East Coast, it is no longer my birthday,
but we are in the Fox Sports you know la
studios here, so obviously it is.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Still my birth it's your birtha wherever you are. You're here,
Almost here, he says, almost here. Pizza gets my eye. Sorry,
almost here, pizza. Pizza guy is gonna come with a
boombox and we're gonna play warrant cherry pie. Okay, how
it's gonna go okay as long as you sorry wait
wait wait wait, I'm sorry, I sorry, ty Shirt? Do
you know what warrant is? First off, I have a
dispute with you? You do? Okay? Yes? Can I file
(04:03):
an now or with the judge later? You can file
it now and with the judge later, depending on okay. First,
what type of pizza did you get? Uh? Your favorite?
Which one? The non meat pizza? How did you know? Yeah?
I like, I know, I know you don't like pizza
and you're so nice. Yeah, you know knowhirt ty Shirt
doesn't eat me. He hasn't had protein in thirteen years.
That's not true. That is absolutely a lot of protein today.
(04:24):
Oh sorry protein hemp tye Shirt eats like synthetic protein
and like it's not really food from plants. Yeah, he
just actually takes a plant and starts eating it. Yeah,
like he's a lizard, like the dirt still on the
I cut out the middle man. You guys eat the meat.
I just eat the plants. The meat eats, so I
just cut out the middle man. Hey, look, meat is
eating plants. Look at that gopher eating eating the plate.
(04:46):
Well wait, Tyshert cats here. That gopher is not gonna
have anymore. Last time your hamburger ate something forget it?
So you don't eat grass fed beef justin Oh yeah,
there you go, Ialt. Of course I do. But it's
well after the beef eats the grass, right, I just
skipped the beef part. Yeah, okay, so that's what What
was your second thing? I have no idea what you
were asking me the first time. Oh what warrant is?
(05:09):
Isn't that what they have for you for the mailbox?
I don't know about that. That's the statue would be
a warrant. Yeah, Now that's when you have too much
fun when it gets delivered. Oh gosh, let's let Aaron
Torres decide this. So okay, if someone on the show,
I'm not gonna tell you who it is. Okay, if
someone else the show. In nineteen ninety two, no statue
of limited on a Sunday morning, his nickname was the
(05:30):
kid stole a mailbox. WHOA, that's a federal offense. Hang on,
hang on, and you stole a mailbox or borrowed a mailbox?
Had about two thirteen morning on a Sunday returned. It
had about eight am on a Sunday. Is that a crime?
Remember no mail on Sunday? So if there's no mail
(05:50):
on Sunday, can't really be a crime?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, and I think it also comes down to, I mean,
if if it was returned, like I don't know, I mean,
if you steal a car from a borrow dr borrow? Okay,
so if you take let's just say take, let's use
the word take. You take a car from a car
dealership at eleven o'clock at night, that's taking for a
few spins, but it's it's back by the time the
(06:14):
first guy opens up in the morning or girl?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is that? Is that? I mean that would be a
considered a crime?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Ill? No, I call that a test drive? Illegal test
that is that? No?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That is a personal test. So were you test driving
the mailbox? Where you in the market for a new
mailbox and you were checking it out?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah? I mean I I like the mailbox. I thought
it would it would potentially be something I could like,
saw it for a little while in my living room
and then decided, now I gotta bring it back. I
hope your soap's on a rope. J Hey, Hey, whoa hey, hey.
Also Statute of Limitations nineteen, there are none when it
comes to federal offenses. Not federal offense, it's not it's
a mail. Mail is federal, dude, but there's no mail
(06:53):
on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You can't go federal. It's the mail verse. It's the
male m Ai yel, it's the male version of the
purg can shake it anyway. One jail time. No, the
purge is the one day a year where all crimes
are legal. I mean in the movies. I mean it's
a he could part in you here, it's one day. Well, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Right, I mean I'm not gonna I'm not getting involved
in I'm not aiding and a betting a federal offense
here thirty one years apart.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
This is not you hung out with LeVar Ball for
how many federals? Come on, man, you could you could,
You could see your way around this, can't you? Well?
His guy that was breaking all the laws ended up
in jail. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I mean, all I know is Levar's kids are worth
like five hundred million dollars right now, So that guy
did something right, maybe not five.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Four hundred million of it is LaMelo. LaMelo was worth
four point nine of it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
The other fifty is the sunglasses of Leangelos.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh too soon? You know it's too soon, Jason. What's
that the fact that his Big Baller shoes ended his
son's career. That's too soon? Yeah, no, that is that's
very difficult too. It's very difficult too. And although I
remember the summer league games where he was wearing all
different shoes right like, Jordan, Hey, I'm wearing all of
them now. I'm trying to find a way to not
wear these Big Baller brand shoes. I'm gonna wear all
(08:06):
the different ones. Listen, I'm trying them all out.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Can I say something really quick on this this whole topic.
I know, we want to get to real NBA topics.
Like everyone can make fun of what ended up happening
with the Big Baller brand.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm not saying it because I know the family. You
understand that at.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That moment in time, every parent of every prominent high
school and college athlete was like, cut out the middleman
and own everything ourselves.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That's brilliant. Like at the time, it was like a
pretty smart, revolutionary thing. And then you realize how hard
it is.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
To literally create a a merchandise thing where you have
to find a warehouse, you have to find a printer,
you have to find a shipper, you have to you know,
obviously there are testing limitations for the shoes, but like
we can make fun of it now, it was like
very revolutionary at the time, and everybody was like, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
This is kind of incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Why get paid a hundred million dollars from Nike when
you can get a billion owning the whole thing didn't
work out?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, did get a billion? Did didn't get a billion?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But but what I'm saying is, I mean, you know,
like it was pretty revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm not defending him.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I just like I think it's easy with the hindsight
to be like, well, that was the stupidest idea ever.
But people at the time were like, this guy's a
freaking genius.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And then we find out the first run with all this,
with this publicity that is that is unknown to mankind
what they sell for. I'm still waiting for my shoes,
four hundred pairs of shoes. I mean, like free publicity
on every channel, with all the interviews. Oh my god,
what a genius been And he sold like four hundred
pairs of shoes and people didn't and people didn' get
him because I remember when he said everybody knows shipping
slow during the holidays. I'm still waiting for my shoes.
(09:46):
Come on, man, what are you doing? What are you doing? Uh? Now,
you wanted to ask a couple of questions about James Harden.
So I okay, as long as you don't put James
Harden and the Knicks in the same sentence, Okay, that's fine.
And it's not going to the Knicks. This is my
exact question. He's not going to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I think the Knicks are too smart with with Thibodeaux
and the guys that they have, I don't think they're interested.
Are Like, everyone's just defaulting that he's gonna go to
the Clippers. But you just re signed Russell Westbrook in
what is the value of having Russell Westbrook if you're
going to trade for James Harden? And So I guess
(10:26):
my question is like, and I've been on this all week,
so anybody that's heard me on these airwaves forgive me, Like,
are we positive there's a market for James Harden? I mean,
think you think about and I get he dropped forty
points in a couple of playoff games. But this is
a guy that's gonna get paid however, thirty whatever million dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He's a front runner. He demands literally one trade a
year for the last three years. The second things go bad,
he wants out. And the thing I keep going back
to Jason is every single place he's been, every he
has been in, every single perfect situation. In h they
acquired three separate superstars at his request to run with him,
(11:06):
Dwight Howard who was a superstar at the time, Russell Westbrook,
and Chris Paul. He didn't like any of them. Then
he goes to play with his best friend. I'm you
and Mic are best friends. James Harden and Kevin Durant
are not best friends. Doesn't work there. Then he wants
to Oh no, I want to be the number two.
This is Joel embiid City, This is Joel embiids Town.
Not happy there, So I guess what I'm saying is
(11:26):
And oh, by the way, the thing with the Clippers too,
is like, if you're Steve Balmer and you've been dealing
with Kawhi's nonsense for the last three years. Are you
eager to get a guy that's a complainer and a
whiner and a front runner and throws people under the bus,
Like I just I think it's like assumed that because
James Harden won an MVP five years ago that everybody
(11:47):
wants him. I'm just curious if there's actually a real
market for him or if it's just NBA Twitter, NBA
media thinking that he's this guy from five years ago
that he isn't anymore. All Right, Well for ok, two questions,
In the words of John Paul Morosi, all right, lots
unpacked there. First thing, I would love to see a
team that trots out Kawhi, Paul George, James Harden, and
(12:09):
Russell Westbrook. Oh, come on, come on, how much fun
would that be?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Remember remember how much fun when James Harden got traded
from Brooklyn and the stat was like Harden, Kyrie and
Katie ended up on the court together for like eleven
total games in like eighteen months.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, it would be less than that. Yeah, neither here.
Come on, how much fun would that be too? I
gotta see this. I gotta see Westbrook and Harden and
Kawhi and Paul dr how many games would Kawhi miss
just because I don't want to play with those Guess
he'd miss every game? D n P, I don't like
Westbrook DNP. I don't like dn P, And I what
does it mean DNP not interested? That would be Secondly, No,
(12:49):
I'm with you because from the very beginning I have said,
who thinks there were James Harden away from anything? Right? Stop?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Nicks? No, because Tom Timbadau would walk away James, I agree,
we actually play d here's my resignation.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I quit.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It'd be like the Bill Belichick. I resign as HC
of the NYK. I resign as HC of the NYK.
I don't think anybody is a James Harden away from anything,
And the only the best thing for him would be
to try to facilitate something back to Houston, where he
was still a star and they would still love to
have him back, even though they're trying to move on
(13:24):
a little bit. He said, ran Fleet. No, I get it,
but that's the one city where, hey, we can attract
a star. I was a star there. Maybe let me
see if I can go back and and sort of
make amends, because I don't know anybody that's excited to
trade for James Harden. I mean, I know the Sixers
are gonna try to say we want a lot, and
(13:44):
teams are gonna say, well, forget it. This is why
they've they've in recent days have jumped back into the well,
we could keep James on the roster. Also, my hope
is to convince him to want to stay. In other words,
we're not getting the offers we thought we would get.
Which what do you really think you're gonna get the
last the last stops. He not only has his team
not won, he's worn out as welcome earlier and earlier everywhere.
(14:06):
So I don't get that. I mean James James Harden.
It's like, if you're interested, you're looking at the back
of his basketball card to say, wow, look at this guy. Man,
look how good he is. Let's go get it. No,
you don't do it that way. You know, Yes, you
trade for Damian Lillard because of what he can still
do on the court. You trade for James Harden if
you just want to lose, or you want to just
throw a guy out there and hopefully maybe sell some tickets.
(14:28):
He's in every fourth game, guy, Now, every four games
will give you a big game. So I don't know that.
I don't I just by seeing how the Sixers reacted yesterday,
there's no market for James Harden.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, last thought, seventy six Ers made it just as
far in the playoffs with Ben Simmons as their number
two guys. They did James Harden like, that's my thing.
He hasn't been out of the second round since twenty eighteen.
That's a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
So in Mantres harrel to the seventy six Ers. So
James Harden's for sure a lock.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
To get Yes, not happening. Not happening Twitter at how
about a fresca an Aaron underscore Torres or hit me
up on threads at the real Jason Suh. Coming up next,
we get into the sports story that has become the
biggest story in all of the world and I mean
sports world in the last twenty four hours. Keep it
(15:16):
right here. That's next. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Fox Sports Radio. I don't care the Mets one, I
don't care. I don't care the mote or Mets one
Frank Guess, the best team in baseball in July continues
to roll through the month. The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon, Aaron Torres, look at Torres, vibin right now, Jay,
and for Harmon Tonight. Everybody loves Tears for Fears, but
(15:49):
you no stop being a contrarian, Jane, just admit it.
You like him Tears for Fears. I don't mind a
sad song once in a while, but everything this is
a song called head over Heels and it's sad. It's
not sad, yes, it is very sad. Oh my god,
something happens and I'm head over heels. It's like it's
(16:13):
like Ben Stein saying, how head over heels and love you.
I'm telling you exactly how. It is not like that.
Even songs by the Cure are more upbeatn than they
stop crazy now come on, man, uh Jason Smith, Aaron
Tares in for Harmon tonight, and Yeah, big dram In
(16:33):
Major League Baseball, Corbyn Carroll leaves the Diamondbacks loss to
the Mets with what appears to be a serious arm injury,
injured during a swing. We'll have more on that coming
up in a bit right now, the Diamondbacks and the
Dodgers now tied in the lost column for first place
in the NL West. But eight the biggest story the
last twenty four hours has been what happens now in
(16:55):
sports in the media now that Threads is launched, right
because you go to twin and you see two million
people an hour tweeting about leaving Twitter for Threads, and
really sports has kind of led the way on this
because it's been a lot of sports people who have said,
I'm going over to Threads and it's nothing, but it's
not political. It's after a couple of times of Elon
(17:19):
Musk deciding A, I want to try to get money
out of you by taking away your blue check mark
that you worked very hard to get, or B, I'm
going to limit the number of tweets you see because
I'm trying to figure out some kind of bug in
our machine. People have had enough, all right, as sports fans,
you can't limit our tweets because we're following things as
they happen. And that's the biggest thing that Elon Musk
(17:41):
has done is that he has forgotten that Twitter is
a news aggregate app, it is a news system. It's
a news gathering system and you can't limit that. It's
not keeping up with people. It's not social media. It's
not oh I upset. I'm sure he's mostly upset that
people are building brands on it and making money and
he's not making enough of it. But in the end,
(18:03):
Twitter is a news gathering site, and when you limit
the news that people can get, They're gonna go someplace
else to get it. I'm stunned and shocked that it's
this fast that people are jumping over to threads. And
just to give you an example of this, this is
this is what really is at me tonight, because last
night felt like a revolution, Like every every third person
(18:24):
in my in my Twitter timeline said Hey, I'm over
on threads. I'm here on threads. I created account of threads.
We go on the air and we talk for about
usually about twelve minutes or so before there's a break, right,
we go to what's trending or something else, right, and
in that time I'm not on Twitter because we're doing
the show. And usually in that twelve to fit now
(18:47):
you're talking about being on seven o'clock Pacific time till
eleven o'clock at night, generally in that timeframe the first
few hours of the show. I would go back after
being away for twelve or fifteen minut and it would
tell me, because I follow about five hundred people, it
would tell me, including you, Oh, I've always followed you,
(19:07):
and it would tell me. It would tell me, you know,
how many tweets you've missed, like see X number of tweets,
And usually that number is about seventy five, right, just
because that's how many people I follow, That's what I
get right now. Usually people follow many more people, so
I can imagine what the numbers look like for them.
But the last two nights, there have been many times
(19:28):
during during the time, and I'll tell you it's been
all night tonight. It's been the entire night tonight where
instead of seeing, you know, see seventy five tweets, sometimes
it's see hundred tweets, one hundred and twenty five tweets.
Sometimes it's see fifty five tweets. There are times when
it would say see eight tweets or six tweets. It's
been between five and ten tweets of people that I
(19:50):
follow the last two nights in twelve to fifteen increments
twelve to fifteen minute increments. Right now, this is just
my sample size, and it's different for everybody. Some people
have they followed twenty people. You don't know what you see.
But I'm just saying I follow about five hundred people.
I pick and choose. You know who I follow. I
follow out of people that you know, newsmakers, everything else,
people I know and I miss. I said usually about
(20:13):
around seventy five tweets every twelve or fifteen minutes. Then
I hit refresh, you catch back up. I mean it.
The last two nights, it's been see four tweets, see
six tweets, see five tweets. So that's been the entire night.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Let me ask you a question, though, when are you?
Are you also logged into threads and is threads and
more active stream for you.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Now that I have not seen yet, cause there are
some there are some bugs with threads. There are some
bugs with threads that needs to be figured out. But
I'm just looking at Okay, let me see what it
looks like for Twitter. How many people have jumped over
to threads and are actively posting on it? How many
people are actively doing things or are people setting up
accounts waiting to see what happens. Have people just said,
(20:56):
you know what, I've had it with social media for
a couple of days and I'm not doing I don't
know what's happening right now. I'm not gonna waste my
time on Twitter if threads is where it's at. So
I'm taking a little bit of a break. But the
bottom line is there is I mean, you talk, this
is like a sale that says, you know, eighty five
percent off, Like this is like an eighty percent downtick
in tweets that I have seen that I'm normally used
to seeing in my feed every single night, which tells me,
(21:18):
if that's what it is for me, it's got to
be the same thing around around for everybody, and it's
got to be seventy five eighty percent less than what
you've been seeing when you normally see it. I mean,
maybe it's just me, maybe because it's sports, it's more
because more sports people, we need our information a lot faster.
Whereas some people, many people can check Twitter one or
two times a day and get caught up with what
(21:40):
they have and not hit their Twitter limits. But seeing this,
it was there was such a shocking thing. I'm like
it happened last night, and I'm like, all right, let
me just see if it was last night. Last night
was a weird night, but second night in a row. No,
it's about the same. It does seem quieter on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And I'll be honest, like, as dumb as it sounds,
I hadn't really like put it together. I just kind
of assumed, Hey, it's you know, one, it's twelve thirty
Eastern time now, and you know we've been on air
since ten eastern but it's twelve thirty Eastern time now.
And on top of that, you know, it's kind of
a quo. It's obviously it's a very quiet time in sports.
(22:15):
There's really not much going on besides NBA Summer League,
besides this, besides that. So I guess I'm in wait
in C mode. You know, I'm in way in C mode.
As far as you know, is.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Everybody going over there? Is it as active? You know?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I've I've checked on a couple people's threads profiles, if
you will, and I kind of checked just to see
like are they posting both there? So like let me
ask you a question, like, so we get done with
this show, Producer Justin sends us a link to the podcast.
Are you gonna post the podcast on Threads? Are you
gonna post it on on on Twitter? Are you gonna
(22:51):
post it on both? I mean, obviously, because they're competing entities,
you can't. You have to do two separate posts every time.
So like, are you now are you active on threads?
Are you in wait and see mode?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
How is this all work? Well, let me say I
put one tweet up there before that. Sorry, I put
one thread up there a little bit ago, and I
haven't checked to see I haven't I haven't threaded. I
guess thread has at the word do you threat it?
Do you thread it? Do you thread it? Because I'm
also not sure. I'm not sure how to see what
(23:26):
people are saying, if people are replying or not, or
if they're saying anything. It's kind of go still figuring
that part of the app out. I'm still figuring apart.
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
This is why I haven't signed up, because I'm like,
are people using it? Do I have to do twice
as much work?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I don't know. I'm in wait and seem.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Forget about the lawsuit that's out there now, Yeah, you
know you copied me.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Here's here's my one. I don't want to say fear,
but I'm kind of going through this a little bit
right now, and I don't know if this is gonna
if it's going to continue. But I talk with you
guys off the air about this last night a little bits,
like I've been on Twitter now for a while, and
Twitter is is you know, it's good for the show,
(24:08):
and I like to interact with with with listeners and
everything else. It's fun my friends, people I know in
the industry. But now if this is gonna go away
or if it's going to be a competing social media
site now some people are jumping over to threads for
whatever reason, I don't know how do I say this
(24:28):
right now. I've kind of lost the normal desire I
have every night to tweet out everything we're talking about,
because normally that's what I like to do, is like
to Hey, whatever we're doing on the show, I want
That's how I like to use social media. Let's involve
people in the discussions. Let's evolve listeners and discussions. But
I've kind of lost my desire of, oh, every time
we do something, hey, spend a couple of minutes putting
(24:50):
our take out there and do it. I've kind of
lost that, and I wonder if if it goes on
like this, am I or other people going to just say,
you know what, the tweeting things social media? Yeah, I'm
not gonna do it. Now. I'm in a different spot
because I'm you know, I'm fifty two, and I know
whatever I do the rest of my career is going
to be based on the fact that I'm a content
(25:11):
guy and what I do on the air and how
I do that. And I'm not twenty five where hey,
every job I apply for is gonna say, look at
my social media numbers, because that's just not who I am.
And so I wonder, am I gonna at some point
just go, you know what, I'm just gonna use social
media to see what's going on. Am I gonna really
tweet and be active on it? Yeah? I don't know.
I mean, I'm kind of in that spot right now.
(25:32):
Right I usually feel the impetus of, hey, here's a
big Mets or Jet story. I want to get out
there and say something, But then you know, I realize,
do I have to do it? We talk about it
every night in the show. We have twenty hours a
week of programming and maybe it's, like I said, it
could be different for me because I'm a little bit older,
But like, I don't feel that impetus of I gotta
go out and I gotta tweet it. I just haven't
felt that the last few nights. So two quick things.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So one, I think what becomes interesting about threads right
is like, is we can crap on on Twitter and
what it does and what it doesn't do, and is
it too political and is it this and is it that.
As you know, and as you've mentioned a few times,
being a sports fan, it is a very fun place
to be when something big in sports is happening. And
I guess that becomes my conversation with threads is does
(26:16):
it become a conversational place where it's actually fun every
once in a while. But then I would also say,
from the perspective that you just brought up, that's where
I'm at, is I you know, I'm not fifty two,
I'm thirty eight and happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You are here on your thirty eighth birthday. I am
happy here is almost here, and h pizza'll be here
very almost, very soon.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
If I hear if I see the strobe lights in
the background and all that and the.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Boom box on the shoulder, and my disco call is
if you hear that, then you'll know the pizzas. Okay,
if you hear that, you run.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So to finish the Threads conversation, to thread it all
back together, I see what you did there.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It is like, I just like it's funny because I'm
much younger and I probably to your point, need to
be stay active on social media. But it's like, I
think I've done a pretty good job of building a
Twitter following, but I've had no desire to really build
the ig following, much to Alex Tyshert's to disappointment, I
haven't built a a a TikTok following. It's like now
(27:17):
it's like, oh now I have to build up this
other platform.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So it's just like I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Is like, at a certain point, I don't care how young,
how cool, how hip, how this how that you are.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
There's it's just too much work, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And so it's like, let's say a big percentage of
your audience stays on Twitter, but some go to threads
full time. So now to your point, you know, not
even every thought but every podcast do you guys do
every time you're promoting anything from the show. Now you
got to log into two different things, two different posts,
two different It just seems like a lot. So I
just sounded like an old man. I I'm turning into
an old man.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
We'll tell you that. First of all, Tyshert only wants
you on TikTok so you can retweet his animate podcast,
which is awesome. I mean you're crushing it on Teck.
I don't need the tweets now, Jam doing pretty good?
Yeah no, but I think you do. Jason, I have
hundreds of thousands of followers. Okay, how much money do
you make? Actually pretty good amount? Like how much? How
much do you want to know? Like sponsorship deals are
just reviews kind much a big deal? Like how like
(28:08):
do you make? Like how much do you make? So perview?
I get a dollar per minute and I get like
thousands of views. Okay, so all right, So so ballpark
it for me? You want a month or like a video?
What do you want? Like like a month? He's buying Twitter,
So in a month if I do long form videos
and how well they tracked, I can wear anywhere from
(28:29):
like five hundred to a couple grand a month. All right,
that's pretty good. That's not including sponsorships. That's pretty good.
But but if if Aaron Torre has had a big
TikTok following, he could get your dragon dragon ball or
dragon ball Z. What is well Z because the dragon
balls going to his dragon ball. Okay, like he could
get your big dragon balls dragon ball Z. That's true
dragon ball And suddenly maybe are you making more money?
(28:49):
So now you're telling me Aaron's keeping money out of
my pocket.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, he owes you cash when you walk on,
I'm actually putting money in your pocket. I have not
signed up for TikTok because I don't want to imp
on your space.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So that's ty Shirt's turn. Alex will be taking your
slices of pizza to night. Ty Shirt's keeping everybody off. No,
you stay off. It's mine. It's mine's he's got when
Binyama's security, you know, checking id's at the door of tiktoks.
So but you know, but that's the other part of
it too, is that it's the desire. And this is
kind of like when Twitter first started. I remember when
(29:21):
Twitter first started, it was so new, it was so
much fun to build, you know, people and people listening,
and I like to do it organically. You know, I
could do what a lot of people do in the
business and say I have a social media company. Yeah,
you're just buying followers. You're spending five thousand dollars a
month to buy followers. I mean, I could do that,
but I don't want to do that. I mean, I
don't want to do that and say this it's not
my thing. So just seeing now suddenly saying okay, now
(29:43):
threads oh, I got to start all over again, yep,
and like, do I really want to do that? I mean,
so I don't know, Like I don't know if this
isn't something that's going to eventually just push me off
of posting on social media, or if it's going to
push me to posting. I mean, I don't know, but
right now I gotta say my my over we're all
desire like I normally have is just not quite what
(30:03):
it was because I feel like we're doing everything on
the show like we should do, and my in haste
to run to get to social media put stuff out there.
I'm like, I don't know, because if less people are
seeing it on Twitter now, then than ever were before,
because people are leaving and not knowing where they're going.
It's like, I don't know, I don't know that. I
feel that in that impetus.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That's very interesting. I hadn't even thought it from that perspective.
I just I just think of twice the workload. And
again it's all relative. We're talking about sports, sharing little clips,
doing this, doing that. It's just like, to be honest,
I don't even like being on Twitter that much. Like
I deleted off my phone during the day because there's
nothing really newsworthy going on, and it just gets into
an argument back and forth, and so now I gotta
(30:42):
again be logged into another one and do this and
do that. And oh, by the way, people are like, well,
I mean all your Instagram follower it's like all my
Instagram followers follow me on Twitter. It's like, I'm not
picking up you know, I don't have if I had
one hundred and fifty thousand Instagram followers and twenty five
thousand Twitter followers, and that's a different conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
But it is not like that at all.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Okay,
let me start you right there. The Mets suck.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
The Mets are the best team in baseball in July,
hang the banner. They have not lost since Mike Harmon
left for vacation. Tell Alan that the Mets suck. It's
been it's been. It's been six days since Harmon's done
this show. The Mets have not lost. Aron Torres, you
are in every night until the Mets lose. I mean,
this is it.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's your gig now, congratulations. Am I even like I
know I work Saturdays. Am I coming in on Sunday too?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Or just when Jason's no, no, no, no, just went out,
no no, just went on here. Okay you know so
that this is that's where the whole thing goes because
I'm not coming in on Sunday. Yeah, insane. Now you
come in when I come in and this is out
works like I'm not working. Kevin, Kevin Wyre does updates everybody.
Everybody's good. Kevin Wyatt's going to Hawaii in a couple
of weeks. Oh my god, you'll mess with the wedding street. No, no, no,
k dub. If the Mets are winning, you're not going
to Hawaii. You're staying here. Sorry, man, do you can
(32:00):
tell your family whoever you're going with? Sorry, this is
much more important. That's how it's gonna work.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Just assume it's family, not a beautiful young lady or
family wife.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Girlfriend? Who are you going with? Kdub?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Who with family?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
But I'd much rather watch the Mets lose than skip
out on that trip. So no, no, no, no, yeah no,
you watch the Mets win and you'll miss that trip
and like it that. That's kind of how it's gonna go.
That's up my full time job. I watched that lose.
I mean, think about it. Not being so selfish, think
about somebody other than yourself. Yeah, how horrible of mes.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Toras got pizza coming and basically in my grave thirty
eight years old, So I'm fifty two. What does that
mean for me? You want this gig, don't you? You're
young and vibrant, all right, thank you boy? You said
that's yes and vibrant. You are, yes, very very vibrant.
I wear black T shirts every.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Day, so it's good as here Johnny, Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
We'll have an update on Corbyn, Carrol coming up. He's
got an MRI scheduled for tomorrow, but it might not
all be bad news. Are going to hear from Tory
Lavello coming up in a few minutes. But look, we're
all wondering when this Damian Lillard trade is going to happen.
Why have we not seen it yet? How is this
going to end? And I'll tell you after the last
couple of days, I know how it's not going to
(33:14):
be as exciting and thrilling as waking up tomorrow and seeing, hey,
Damian Liller's traded. But here's how it's going to go.
He wants to go to the Heat. He has made
this clear. His agent has said he wants the Heat.
I'll talk to teams. I'll call back some teams, some
teams I won't call back. But he wants to be
with the Heat. If they could do a straight deal
with the with the Trailblazers and the Heat, they would
(33:37):
have done so already. But the Blazers want a youngish
star player to be the centerpiece of the deal in
addition to all the other things they're going to get,
you know, role players, first round draft picks, whatever it's
going to be the offers they've gotten so far from
teams have been hey, here's a bunch of spare parts
and first round picks. No, we want a player. He
wants to go to the Heat. This will happen, and
(33:59):
it will happen when the Heat and the Blazers can
get a third team in that can facilitate a trade
that will send that youngish type star to the Blazers
the person. That's because that person is not on the
Heat right now. They don't want Tyler Hero and of
his bucket hats. They don't want that. So it's gonna
take a little bit because now you're gonna start seeing
some teams get involved in big trades. We've seen the
(34:21):
big wave of free agency. We're still waiting on a
couple of players, but mainly we've seen all of this happen.
So once a couple of trades start going down, you're
gonna see a couple of big names move. Then you'll
see that third team get involved, and you'll see a
three way trade go down between the Blazers and the
Heat and another team. You'll see the Blazers get the
package they want. They'll get the young player to pair
(34:41):
with Scoot Henderson and this trade will go down. It
may take a while. It may take the majority of
the summer for this to happen by the time they
figure out, because trades don't happen as fast as they
used to. But that's how it's going to end. Lower's
gonna be a member of the Heat. It'll be a
three team deal. It may take most of the summer well.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And I think the point that you brought up, not
only now but earlier in the show, and I agree with,
is there's just no I don't think there's much motivation
for the Trailblazers to take anything other than what they
believe to be the best possible package. And I think
it has been an interesting conversation the last couple of
days about do they owe Damian Loard and anything do
they not? I mean, obviously, I'm of the belief that
(35:18):
you know, you want to try to do right by
one of your all time legendary players in your organization,
but you also have to do what's best for the organization.
And so I just sit there and say, I think
they're gonna wait it out. I think they've been weirdly contentious,
contentious with Dame over the last week or so, and
I think ultimately they they do end up making this move.
(35:39):
But I'm with you, Jason Is. I don't think it's
happening necessarily anytime soon to appease Dame or to appease
the Heat, especially now that we know that ultimately that's
the only place that he wants to go.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I know, mean, they've they've paid him well, they've treated
him well, he's liked being there. They don't know him
anything more than that. They why. I like you, But
I'm worried about when you leave Isla to run this team.
So I'm not going to see her and just do
a trade just because you want to go there. Now.
Players get what they want. Star players usually always get
what they want. So he wants the Heat, He'll get
(36:09):
the Heat. It's just gonna take a little bit of
time and it's not gonna be solved tomorrow, which I'm
sure is what he would like, when everybody would like.
But it's gonna be a bit to get that third
team involved. So yeah, he'll get what he wants, but
he's gonna have to sit for a little bit. Does
this go all the way to where it gets into September?
Or maybe the beginning of training camp. Maybe I'd like
to think by the end of the summer it will happen.
But that's kind of how it's gonna go. And the Blazers, No,
(36:29):
they gotta go out and say we're gonna get what
we want. And just because you want to go someplace
and or another team is calling, We're not just gonna
say yes just to say yes.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
It'll be interesting to see, also, really quickly, how long
it stays in the headlines. It feels like even the
last day or so, we've been struggling to find new
dame angles. Not necessarily you, but the people that I
see on TV and Internet all day. It's gonna be
a long couple months. If if we can't get him
traded very soon, well now the Mets went can't lose,
So now you know that's gonna be a big please
lead every show in America.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
And James Harden's going to no stop not happening. No,
we talked, we put that demend, we put that debated.
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