July 8, 2023 • 29 mins
Victor Wembanyama stumbles in his first steps at Summer League, sees it as a learning experience.Wembanyama’s security guard won't be charged over the Britney Spears slap after video of the incident shows Britney Spears inadvertently hit herself in the face. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Greetings, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight to The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon. Aaron Torre is in for Harmon tonight.
Like I said, the Mets keep winning. Torres stays the
Mets with four in the top of the tenth to
take a seven to three lead over the Padres. The
(00:48):
Mets have not lost since Mike Harmon took the night
off went on vacation. I think there's a correlation right here.
I think this is what it is. I think this
is what it could be.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Wally pitt Man he became, you know, he became uh,
you know, an unfortunate, uh well known name, and in
baseball circles, maybe Mike Carmon becomes the Wally.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Pip of of of of sports talk radio.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Everything was great, then what happened. The Mets wouldn't lose.
They not Everything ain't great, not the Mets. They weren't great.
But that was until Tori showed up on the scene.
They just kept winning. I don't understand. Harmon took off
and they they wouldn't lose. Now that's I'm digging.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
They still at the bottom of the tenth to get
through here, So you're not out of the woods.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I know, my Mets. They'll make things interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You my Mets. You're gonna start wearing all Mets gear
like me every day. Hey, look at that. My Mets
had got a new Mets shirt.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now I'm feeling really good about Bernie Spaniard. Yeah, no,
I love the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Ray Or Doniez, Ray, Ordonias.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wow, Fernandez Bayani, I remember.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Him, all these guys from the World Series.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
John Franco, Yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, you start wearing Mets throwback stuff that that that's
mon Doominitez, I remember him. Don't mention him. One of
the World Series in two thousand. That's bad one. That's
a bad one.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean it was really Roger Clemens fault for being honest.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I can't believe Clement Lemon didn' get thrown out of
a game, says, I thought it was the ball. No,
you can stay in the game at pitch, you know what.
Let's focus on what's here.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Also, I think Piazza should charge the mound. I've always
believed that. I mean because you let him.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, no, no, no, he could have he absolutely could
have have done that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I know you remember, but do you remember like the
following year, a couple of years later, when Clemens had
to go to Shay Stadium and Sean Estes and it
was like a bit it was like a huge thing,
like you people don't realize, like if you're under twenty five,
like how there are how many national storylines there were
in baseball? And I remember in the lead up to
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that game, it was like such a huge deal of like,
you know, are they gonna hit Roger Clemens. It's he's
the first time he's got a bat against the Mets
since that whole thing happened. And then Sean has has
sailed it about eight feet over Roger Clements. Oh my goodness,
oh no, oh no, oh no, Jason's no my career,
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my fingers, fingers like sand through the sands, through this fingertips.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's all right, it's seven five and there's too comfortable
over there. It's okay, it's seven to five. I think
it's too much Mets talk from you. I think that's
what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Wow, I did the armis Spannard. I called him my
Mets in the next thing, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
If the Mets blow this game, you're not even gonna
make it to the end of the show. You're You're
like Doug, You're like you get you get the hook.
You get the hook in the middle of the like
you've given up like five runs, and the bases load,
and the um and the and the and the manager
comes out and just says, give me the ball, give
me the ball. Don't even say anything to me. Just
give me the ball. Walk away, Give me the ball,
walk away.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I still get paid to the top of.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The end of Uh No, as far as you know, no,
you don't, I can take you. That's a watch out. Okay,
we'll say trust me, trust me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Roberts is going to come pull you.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
He wouldn't put me in the he would have pulled
me in the second segment of the first hour, just
gone straight to the bullpen with a perfect game.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We're pulling Torres right here now speaking of a perfect game.
It wasn't a perfect game, but it was a It
was an encouraging debut with limitations and things that made
you feel weird for Victor Webbinyama, right, I know everybody
wants it to be. Hey, oh, wem bin Yama was awesome.
They're gonna win the They're gonna win the title this year.
Or wen ben Yama's overrated. He's gonna wind up being
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Greg Odin. The truth is in the middle. There were
really good things from wembin Yama. There were things that
maybe made me go, I don't know that I like
that as much. So we'll get to that. But first,
what did the first basket of Victor webban Yama's career
sound like? It sounded like this.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Good pace to this game, nice rim run by Gwena
and there it is, his first bucket, coming on a
five foot little turnaround with the left hand door spur.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That was fifty percent of his many buckets tonight ESPN
on the call, he was two for thirteen from the floor.
He did make a three in the second half, finished
with nine points, eight rebounds, and five blocks. That was
the night that was for Wembin Yama and the good
things about tonight, there was some good things to see
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of him. And the first thing I always look at
for a rookie at in the preseason, whether it's the
NFL or the nbago does it look like the game
is too big for him? Right? Does it look like
the adjustment level is going to be difficult? Does a
player look like he's going to belong And there was
no doubt about that. You watch Webbin Yama, even though
it's summer league and it's against you know, three quarters
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of these players aren't going to make their teams. Yeah,
I get, but he did not look like the game
was too big for him. It looked like there's gonna
be a learning curve, sure, as is for any young player,
but it did not look like too big. And I
could say, yeah, wen beIN Yama's going to hit the
ground somewhat running and not have to worry about a
big curve and playing catch up like a lot of
projects have to do when they come into the league. Hey,
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this is gonna be difficult, This is gonna be X,
Y and Z for him. No, he looked pretty comfortable.
He'll be able to get in and start his curve
improvement pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, I you know, again, we've talked abou him many
times over the last couple of nights. Social media is
not a be all end all. But I actually give
social media credit for once, because it doesn't seem like
because he went too for thirteen from the field that
he's being deemed a failure or a bust or he's
no good or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I And again, maybe that's on us in the media,
because there have been some people I can't speak for you,
but I know that I haven't that have probably put
unrealistic expectations on him. So if I'm looking at positives,
I'm with you. I think it's the playmaking. You know,
you go through you know what he did when he
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caught the ball. I thought he actually played under control.
I actually thought, if anything, it felt to me as
though he was trying a little too hard to prove Hey,
I'm a great teammate, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
This and that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So I'm gonna go ahead and rather than force the issue,
I'm gonna actually, you know, play it cool and set
up another guy and take two dribbles and pass it
over in the corner. So those were the positives from
my perspective. The negatives, I don't think we're shocking. I mean,
it was just it was very simply. He's listed at
two hundred and fifteen pounds. He is a guy that
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needs to get stronger. I mean the first possession of
the game, Brandon Miller, the number two pick, he was
guarding him and Brandon Miller kind of bodied him. And
Brandon Miller, by the way, isn't like some physical Adonnas
in terms of you know, he's not a chiseled you know,
two forty or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So you know, I do think.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's a little bit of a concern, and I think
to go back to a lot of the stuff that
Draymond Green said earlier in the week, is that Draymond
Green said, look, we think from day one he's gonna
be able to be an elite defensive player. But on offense,
you know, we have strong guys in this league. They're
gonna be able to move him off those spots. So
interesting to follow. I'll be fascinating to see if he
plays the rest of the summer league. By the way,
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Jason dun start spreading the news the Mets wed baby,
Mets ween Mets.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Swell, hey, you know what, You're back on Monday. All right,
how does that sound You're back on Monday.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I'll tell you if that's an invite. I'm back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, you're back on Monday. It's official. You're back on Monday.
Mets beat the Padres. The Mets are still undefeated in July.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
By the way, though, the last two outs of that game,
I was watching as if my job was actually on
the line.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, I know it is.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It kind of was. It kind of was, but like
I was really into it. You were happy to see
Xander Bogerts get caught looking Yeah, you were happy for that?
Hey you and why hey, look, everybody on vacation, Harmon
de Sager. Those guys can all stay the Mets have
The Mets have not lost since those guys went on vacation.
Is that works?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I just solved baseball's problems. Everyone's like, how do you
bring fans back to baseball? Your job is on the
line if that team loses, ramp up the stakes, let's go.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But uh, but for Webben Yama, right, like we talked
about is his court vision and clearly being able to
be someone that can run the court like him. I
love the passing acumen that I saw from him. A
couple of passes he forced a little bit, but by
and large, he has great vision of the court, and
he's gonna be an elite big man passer sooner rather
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than later. I mean, get your is he better passer
already than Nikola Jokic. Get those hot takes ready, Get
those hot takes already. I'm trying up for undisputed. So
you could tell he's going to be that because a
couple of passes he didn't get to make. He was
looking for cutters. He was looking for something that's going
to be there when he's there with the rest of
the players who are normally going to play on the spurs.
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So I like that part of it. Yeah, he was
a little bit too deferential when he got the ball,
and I felt like when he tried to move towards
the hoop, he kind of moved at three quarter speed,
almost as if I'm looking to make a move to
the hoop and pass like you're a point guard, Like
I'm gonna drive to the hoop and if it's there
for me. I'll take it. But really, what I want
to do is create space, get it to a big
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man for a bucket, Like I want to show you
that I can play this way. I'm gonna be unselfish.
I'll be a good teammate. I know the world is watching.
I don't need to take fifty shots in this game
and show you that I'm gonna be a great player. No,
I'm gonna show I'm be a good teammate and I'm
gonna pass the ball. So there was some moments where
I watched and I said, boy, you're gonna have to
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score twenty twenty five a night, like that's gonna be.
They're not getting you to score ten and dish out
twelve assists. They don't want you to be a Jason
Kidd triple double guy, you know, ten, ten and ten. No,
they need you to be that, to be that guy
that's gonna score a ton and is gonna be a
thirty and fifteen guy. So that's the one thing I saw,
which is not that big a deal because that's something
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that will come to him in time, but just a
little bit more of a little bit more sense of
urgency with the ball going to the hoop because a
couple of times it almost felt like he was afraid
where he banged a couple of times, and when he
couldn't get he couldn't get anywhere, he backed off and
looked for the pass like you see, guys you used
to watch Shack just back guys down the entire time, Bang, bang, bang,
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and I'm gonna turn and dunk it. Now. A couple
of times when Ben Yama, because he only goes, you know,
two hundred and fifteen pounds, I'm gonna bang, I'm gonna bang.
I'm the same spot I was before. This isn't working.
Let me try to find and pass out for a jumper.
That's the one thing I saw was a little weird
from him. Again, nothing that's going to be something you
can't fix. But the whole thing about is weight. That's
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something that's not going away. That's not going to be
as a situation where he's gonna be able to play
around it. Because he's only two hundred and fifteen pounds.
He will find a way to still dominate even though
he's not as big as other big men. No, he's
gonna need his time for that. And the best thing
that's gonna help him with that is less minutes as
he gets used to the daily and nightly pounding of
the NBA. When it's not just about hey, I'm gonna
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I could get hurt going up against Joel Embiid. It's
about being able to come back and your muscle's bouncing
back from travel every other night and a game three
nights a week, and sometimes you got back to backs,
and sometimes you gotta play more minutes. Somebody's in foul trouble.
Sometimes you gotta play when you're exhausted. You're gonna hit
the wall. That's the one thing that I could tell
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is not going to be solved for a while, and
that is his body is gonna be a little bit
frail in terms of NBA. It's gonna be a while
before he becomes that guy. So less minutes is probably
the way to go for him. Now, are the Spurs
gonna do that? It's tough. It's gonna be tough to say, Yeah,
here's our number one overall pick and he's gonna play
limited minutes a game. But I don't know that the
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fans are gonna care. I know the fans are gonna
care if he plays twenty minutes a game. They're gonna
to see him every night, and he's the future. And
yet we get that we're not gonna win the title
this year. We're just excited that we have a guy again.
You know, we had David Robinson and then we had Duncan.
Now we haven't had anybody we stuck for a long time.
Now we got wem Benyama. Hey, we're okay. We feel good.
So it seems like it would be tough on the surface,
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but really that's the best way forward for him because
I didn't see anything Tonight's gonna stop him from having
a big season and playing really well. Is he gonna
dominate like some people expect him to do, or like Lebron. No,
But it'll be a good season for him. His learning
curve will be pretty good. But physically he's gonna need
that time and I hope the Spurs give it to him.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, and like to just put a bow on it.
I go back to what I said about social media.
I actually give people credit. It doesn't seem as though
they're overreacting. It feels like fans have a better understanding
of what's a realistic expectation for him than media does.
Still some stuff to work about, but I didn't see
anything that like make me made me freak out. Despite
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the two for thirteen stewn Line.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 4 (13:40):
No new new new new new new new new new
new new new new new.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Hey. Stop, okay stop stop stop stop it, stop it
stop it right now, you're ruining me opening up my
sprite zero celebration of a Mets win and the Natural
is on stars right now, just celebrating.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Okay, can you guys hear me?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay, no, stop stop stop.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Sure it's not an oduels.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Stop, not a duel. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon. Aaron Torre is in for Harmon tonight. Yes,
the Mets win again, they may never lose again. And
as long as the Mets keep winning, Aaron Torres Kevin
Wyatt will be in doing the show every single night.
It's glorious. The Mets keep winning, winning, winning winning winning.
It's so great.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
By the way, is Saga really on vacation?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
As far as you know he is okay, and and
I'm sure there'll be great spots for everybody when they
come back. But if the Mets keep winning, the Mets
keep winning, I mean, there's certain things have to happen.
I'd expect Harmon to want to do the same thing.
If the White Sox kept winning while I was on vacation,
you'd want to do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I feel like I've known to Seger well. I mean,
I have known Di Saga for six years. I don't
ever remember him taking vacation, but maybe he does and
I just haven't noticed it. But look like he's in
tomorrow with me and Jason marn so well.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Because it well because it looks because the show's show up.
Our show's not on tomorrow, so he'll be on with
you guys tomorrow, and then the whole Mets thing starts
again on Monday. Okay, Yeah, that's how it works. Yeah,
that's that. That's that's about That's the only fairest way
to do it. I mean, it's that's that's that's how
it's done.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And think about it from your perspective as a Mets fan.
I mean, they basically play maybe not seven games a week,
but you know, they go four and two, that's a
sixty percent win percentage of sixty six percent win percentage
for the rest of the year, they're making the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
You don't have to blow up the team.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, I'm feeling that pretty good. I'm feeling that in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, Vegas.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Uh So, outside of Victor wembin Yama's debut on the court, Snite,
which we broke down a few minutes ago, told you
what we'd liked, what we didn't like about we saw
from because there were certainly some really good things to like,
some things that maybe made you think, okay. The day
began with the video being released of what happened with
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wembin Yama and Britney Spears outside of the Catch restaurant
in Vegas, the story that took over everything a day
or so ago, thirty six hours ago, Victor wembin Yama
with his entourage was walking to dinner. Britney Spears wanted
to go say hi, ran up to him, ran in
between his entourage, tapped him on the shoulder. One of
the security members put his hand out and slapped back
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and hit Britney's hand, knocked her glasses off, and it
became a whole big thing. Brittany went back to her table.
The security guard went over and said, hey, sorry, that happened.
Britney smiled, everything seemed fine, and then filed charges. We
found out today and this is shortly after the video
came out, that no charges will be filed and this
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is considered dropped. Now there's a lesson for wembin Yama
and just another unfortunate thing for Britney spears when it
comes from this. Now the Britney part of this right,
because what we see is that in the in the video,
Brittany runs up behind taps wem Binyama on the shoulder
and we see the security guard's hand come back hit
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Britney's hand. It knocks into her glasses, knocks her glasses off.
You hear her yelling. She's yelling. She's running up to
wem beIN Yama using an English accent. After it happened,
she starts yelling in an English accent, this is America.
And she goes back to sitting down. And you know,
when this whole thing is going on at I'll tell
you look and look, she has to know better. We
talked about this last night. She's got to know that
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I can't just walk up to another person through their
entourage and tap him on the shoulder because I don't
want that to happen to me, because this is what's
happened to me throughout the course of my life. But
I see Brittany do this and I go, why would
she do that? And why is she talking in a
British accent? And again it's just I feel so awful
for her. I feel so awful her because I feel
like she's been alone for the past like fifteen years.
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She became a big time superstar, was the biggest name
in pop music. There was nobody bigger in the world
for a while than Britney Spears, and you saw what
happened after that. She had real difficulty just getting through life,
the conservatorship that her dad used to siphon off a
lot of her money. I don't know what kind of
people she has around her, being people that are positive
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influences in her life. You have erratic behavior that continues
to happen. She posts weird videos to the Internet. She
had to live through the fact that she hasn't talked
to her kids in a year. Because Kevin Federline wants
to take them to Hawaii for business opportunities, and then
you see the potential rumor that well, because payment for
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children has to go to the age of twenty three
in Hawaii as long as they're in school, So it
is she being taken for money? Is any of this stuff?
And I just feel bad for her. And I know
that you know, you're an adult, You make your own decisions,
make your own mistakes. But I felt like, when you
have that degree of fame, you need the right people
around you helping you say, hey, make the right calls
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and go this is how I can live, this is
what I should do, and you need people can trust.
And I never felt that about her, And every time
I see a story about her, I feel like, these
are people who are out to get her money. These
are people who are out to try to use leverage
against her some way, and I see some of the
behavior and I just I just shake my head and
I go, I just want a good Britney Spear story
that tells me that she's you know, that she's okay
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and can make music again and and and can can
live her life again and be someone that that you
know is back to or getting you know back to
being the stars she was a few years ago, But
I don't. I just feel awful for her, and I
just feel so bad for her every time I see
her in the news. It's a story like this that
I just shake my head and go, she can't catch
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a break and and and I don't know what it is.
And I don't know certainly, I don't know what's going
on in the inside part of her life, but I
know from what I see publicly, and boy, there's a
lot of stuff out there that makes you go, Okay,
something's just not.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Right well, And I think that the worst part is
is that, listen, there have been a lot of people,
unfortunately and you wish this wasn't the case, that have
been taken advantage by agents or whatever. But Brittany was
taking advantage by her own family, right like you know
her dad. Again, if you watch the documentary that was
done on her conservative conservatorship, you know, it's one thing
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if if if she if her dad or her family
doesn't feel like she is fit to make decisions on
her own. But if you watch that, the father really
manipulates the court system to get control of her, and
then essentially, you know, pushed her to work and do
things that she didn't want to do from a career perspective,
and again, you know, away from her family. So I
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think I'm I definitely I think in this particular story.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Two things can be true. I feel bad
for her. I feel bad that, like you said, every
story about her seems to be negative. There are clearly
mental health issues. Maybe not in this specific case.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I'm not going to speculate, but listen, we go back
to again we mentioned this earlier in the show, is
that you know, you go back to the time that
she shaved her head and you know, this was two
thousand and seven, I think two thousand and eight, something
like that, And at the time it was a big joke.
I mean again, go back and watch that documentary, find
video of it on YouTube. People are you know, the
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late night comedians are joking about it, the news anchors
are joking about it, when it's clear that, you know,
if this was twenty twenty three, we would be talking
about her mental health as she stable, does she need help?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Whatever?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And so I think there is that element of it
which is absolutely true. As you feel bad, there's probably
some mental health issues, or at least there previously were.
I think early in her career she was really, I
think publicly mistreated because again it was a different era
in the way that we covered women and mental health
and things of that nature. And again, if you don't
know what I'm talking about, I encourage you to go
watch the documentary that was made on her a year
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or so ago. At the same time, though, Jason, I
will say in this specific case, this specific case, I
don't want to say that I have no sympathy, but
when you see the video, she does run up on
Victor Wehnbanyama, and it's very clear to me that you know,
his security was just trying to protect him. I mean, listen,
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I'm not trying to be facetious or funny or sarcastic
or ironic, but I mean, imagine if that was a
crazed fan. Imagine if that was someone with a weapon.
And the thing about when Banyama is it goes without
saying he's seven foot five, he stands out anytime he
is going to go out in public, and so he
is going to be a target for fans and things
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of that nature.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So I feel bad for her.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I am with you.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It just seems like it's one disappointing, sad story after another.
But in this one, even if it's through her own
experience as a celebrity, you got to keep your hands
off people, man, and especially a celebrity that I think
we all probably assume is traveling with security.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You gotta be smarter.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Now, I'm glad you brought that up, because that gets
the Wheya part of this, right, that's the Britney part.
And again Britney needed to look for someone who is
who has had this happen. Yeah, she's got to know.
I can't just run up to somebody in that, right.
But the Wembin Yama part of it, and this is
where what I hope happens and now that it's over,
is that he understands a little bit more about what
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it means to be a star. Okay, Because the thing
I didn't like it all I hated the most was
what did you get right away? When the story came out,
Britney spears came out. She came up behind and grabbed
him from behind. All right, you heard that grabbed him
from behind. What is everybody picturing someone running up grabbing
him physically with their hand, grabbing his shirt, trying to
(23:39):
turn around. I'm trying to grab a guy, which is
a violent act. And that's what you heard, and that
was what was put out there by Wembin Yama's people.
She grabbed him from behind. You watched the video. Nothing
even close. She went up, she was saying, sir, sir,
and tapped him on the shoulder. All right, So right
away I felt like Wembin Yama and his people wanted
to go into a this is not my fault. I'm
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we're gonna blame her, right, and you said something that
wasn't true, because it clearly was not true. It wasn't great.
Even when ben Yama when he said somebody grabbed my shoulder, dude,
nobody grabbed you. You have to know that, right, You
shouldn't don't throw that out there because it's Vegas. There's
cameras everywhere. We're gonna find this out, right, there's cameras
in every casino. We're gonna see this at some point.
(24:21):
And so you saw today and now when min Yama
and his and his entourage they look like liars. They
look like we wanted to put a narrative out there
that this wasn't our fault. Whatever this is because people
are gonna sympathize with Britney Spears because look like me.
They feel bad for her. No, no, no, this is it.
And now we know that was a lie. That was
a lie, and there were such better ways to handle
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it that each side could have done this better when
bin Yama and especially today could have apologized when you
find out there's no charges being fought. Hey, I'm so sorry, Brittany.
You know I didn't get a chance to say this yesterday.
I'm so sorry that happened. Hey, here's tickets to my
next game, or I want to come see you in
conc some way to make it. Hey, I'm a good guy.
(25:03):
Everything is fine. I'm sorry this happened. This way we
can both save face. That's what you could have done
today and you didn't, and instead you let the narrative
out there of that. Oh yeah, yeah, we tried to
make up a story a little bit and that was
that was clearly not the case. Now, the whole hitting Brittany,
that part was accurate. In fact, you just see the
the security guards kind of put his hand up like
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to slap away someone's hand, and it did hit Britney's
hand or hand hit or glasses came off, So that
part of it was true, but that part of it
didn't seem to be like it was disputed yesterday. But
I just hope that this is a lesson for him that, Okay,
we got to say the truth to tell we have
to tell the truth and things like this when things
like this happen and it's not just he said, she said,
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which it literally was in this situation, and that I
hope he learns from it and learns that, Okay, my
status as a star is going to mean certain things,
and I need to handle stuff better than I handled
this thing over the last twenty four hours. Those are
the two things that I take away, the for Brittany
and that for women Yama.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
The way that was my biggest takeaway yesterday when we
saw the initial back and forth from the Women Yama perspective.
I'll say this, this has been my stance since since
yesterday's Listen. I'm not saying women Yama did anything wrong.
I do think there was like a lack of human
decency from him when he was asked about it, and
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what I would say is a couple of things. One,
I know he's nineteen years old. I'm not saying he
has to be perfect anything like that. I also think
that I was thinking about this and I might have
mentioned it on Area yesterday, is I do feel like
this is the the price that you pay when these
young athletes, like they're almost so well media trained that like,
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like I said, there was a lack of human decency
when you actually listen to his to the audio of
the whole incident, he you know, he just said, yeah,
there was an incident.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I woke up to some stuff, blabb blahah. Doesn't mention
like it's insane.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
And maybe he's young and he's nineteen, he doesn't really
realize how big of a star Britney Spears is.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Like the fact that it was.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Britney freaking Spears was insane. And it'd be one thing
if a random female fan rand up and tapped him
on the shoulder and she got slapped in the face
by security. Now there's a back and forth, but it's
Britney Spears, and like there was a way he could
have handled it. Where two things One, what a crazy
first night in Vegas. Oh my god, I can't believe
it was Britney Spears. But then to your point, Jason,
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you know, I do feel bad. I know it wasn't intentional.
I wish it hadn't happened. I feel terrible with the
way it played out. I would love to have her
at the game. I would love to, you know, buyer
her next dinner at catch whatever. So my biggest thought
with wyn Minyama, He's not a terrible person. This isn't
an indictment on him. I do think this is kind
of the byproduct, though, of the way that we so
(27:53):
overtrain our young athletes on a lot of things, and
I think one of them is media, where it just
felt like he was doing a pro conference about Jane
Doe from uh, you know, from wherever, tapping him on
the shoulder, as opposed to Britney Spears, which obviously made
it an even bigger story than it had been.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, because because here's the other part of it, right,
is that right after that happens, someone yells, that's Britney
Spears man, right, so you know it's Britney Spears. Really
he went to dinner, right, He went to dinner, sat
with everybody. Nobody said to him, and in the immediate aftermath, dude,
that was Britney Spears to try to come up to you. Instead,
you say the next day, Oh, I woke up today
(28:30):
and I heard that it was Britney Spears. So I
know you're lying. I mean, I know he lied a
lot about everything, and I didn't appreciate that yet. We
talked about it yesterday. I didn't think. I didn't believe
a lot of what he said. I just want to
make it seem like I don't. I don't. I don't
know anything about what's going on. You can't blame me. Really,
Nobody told him was Britney Spears. No one said that, Hey,
what happened. Yeah, no, dude, No one walked up and said, dude,
that was Britney to try to come up to you.
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MANA nobody said that. I don't buy it, So I don't.
So I don't like that disingenuousness from him. That's why
I always say, hey, always gotta tell the truth. Man.
When something like that happens and it's going to be documented,
you got to tell the truth. And that's why I
hope he learns that lesson, because he does not look
good coming off this
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Greetings, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight to The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon. Aaron Torre is in for Harmon tonight.
Like I said, the Mets keep winning. Torres stays the
Mets with four in the top of the tenth to
take a seven to three lead over the Padres. The
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Mets have not lost since Mike Harmon took the night
off went on vacation. I think there's a correlation right here.
I think this is what it is. I think this
is what it could be.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Wally pitt Man he became, you know, he became uh,
you know, an unfortunate, uh well known name, and in
baseball circles, maybe Mike Carmon becomes the Wally.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Pip of of of of sports talk radio.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Everything was great, then what happened. The Mets wouldn't lose.
They not Everything ain't great, not the Mets. They weren't great.
But that was until Tori showed up on the scene.
They just kept winning. I don't understand. Harmon took off
and they they wouldn't lose. Now that's I'm digging.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
They still at the bottom of the tenth to get
through here, So you're not out of the woods.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I know, my Mets. They'll make things interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You my Mets. You're gonna start wearing all Mets gear
like me every day. Hey, look at that. My Mets
had got a new Mets shirt.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Now I'm feeling really good about Bernie Spaniard. Yeah, no,
I love the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Ray Or Doniez, Ray, Ordonias.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wow, Fernandez Bayani, I remember.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Him, all these guys from the World Series.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
John Franco, Yeah, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, you start wearing Mets throwback stuff that that that's
mon Doominitez, I remember him. Don't mention him. One of
the World Series in two thousand. That's bad one. That's
a bad one.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I mean it was really Roger Clemens fault for being honest.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I can't believe Clement Lemon didn' get thrown out of
a game, says, I thought it was the ball. No,
you can stay in the game at pitch, you know what.
Let's focus on what's here.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Also, I think Piazza should charge the mound. I've always
believed that. I mean because you let him.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, no, no, no, he could have he absolutely could
have have done that.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I know you remember, but do you remember like the
following year, a couple of years later, when Clemens had
to go to Shay Stadium and Sean Estes and it
was like a bit it was like a huge thing,
like you people don't realize, like if you're under twenty five,
like how there are how many national storylines there were
in baseball? And I remember in the lead up to
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that game, it was like such a huge deal of like,
you know, are they gonna hit Roger Clemens. It's he's
the first time he's got a bat against the Mets
since that whole thing happened. And then Sean has has
sailed it about eight feet over Roger Clements. Oh my goodness,
oh no, oh no, oh no, Jason's no my career,
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my fingers, fingers like sand through the sands, through this fingertips.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's all right, it's seven five and there's too comfortable
over there. It's okay, it's seven to five. I think
it's too much Mets talk from you. I think that's
what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Wow, I did the armis Spannard. I called him my
Mets in the next thing, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
If the Mets blow this game, you're not even gonna
make it to the end of the show. You're You're
like Doug, You're like you get you get the hook.
You get the hook in the middle of the like
you've given up like five runs, and the bases load,
and the um and the and the and the manager
comes out and just says, give me the ball, give
me the ball. Don't even say anything to me. Just
give me the ball. Walk away, Give me the ball,
walk away.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I still get paid to the top of.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The end of Uh No, as far as you know, no,
you don't, I can take you. That's a watch out. Okay,
we'll say trust me, trust me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Roberts is going to come pull you.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
He wouldn't put me in the he would have pulled
me in the second segment of the first hour, just
gone straight to the bullpen with a perfect game.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We're pulling Torres right here now speaking of a perfect game.
It wasn't a perfect game, but it was a It
was an encouraging debut with limitations and things that made
you feel weird for Victor Webbinyama, right, I know everybody
wants it to be. Hey, oh, wem bin Yama was awesome.
They're gonna win the They're gonna win the title this year.
Or wen ben Yama's overrated. He's gonna wind up being
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Greg Odin. The truth is in the middle. There were
really good things from wembin Yama. There were things that
maybe made me go, I don't know that I like
that as much. So we'll get to that. But first,
what did the first basket of Victor webban Yama's career
sound like? It sounded like this.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Good pace to this game, nice rim run by Gwena
and there it is, his first bucket, coming on a
five foot little turnaround with the left hand door spur.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That was fifty percent of his many buckets tonight ESPN
on the call, he was two for thirteen from the floor.
He did make a three in the second half, finished
with nine points, eight rebounds, and five blocks. That was
the night that was for Wembin Yama and the good
things about tonight, there was some good things to see
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of him. And the first thing I always look at
for a rookie at in the preseason, whether it's the
NFL or the nbago does it look like the game
is too big for him? Right? Does it look like
the adjustment level is going to be difficult? Does a
player look like he's going to belong And there was
no doubt about that. You watch Webbin Yama, even though
it's summer league and it's against you know, three quarters
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of these players aren't going to make their teams. Yeah,
I get, but he did not look like the game
was too big for him. It looked like there's gonna
be a learning curve, sure, as is for any young player,
but it did not look like too big. And I
could say, yeah, wen beIN Yama's going to hit the
ground somewhat running and not have to worry about a
big curve and playing catch up like a lot of
projects have to do when they come into the league. Hey,
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this is gonna be difficult, This is gonna be X,
Y and Z for him. No, he looked pretty comfortable.
He'll be able to get in and start his curve
improvement pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, I you know, again, we've talked abou him many
times over the last couple of nights. Social media is
not a be all end all. But I actually give
social media credit for once, because it doesn't seem like
because he went too for thirteen from the field that
he's being deemed a failure or a bust or he's
no good or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I And again, maybe that's on us in the media,
because there have been some people I can't speak for you,
but I know that I haven't that have probably put
unrealistic expectations on him. So if I'm looking at positives,
I'm with you. I think it's the playmaking. You know,
you go through you know what he did when he
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caught the ball. I thought he actually played under control.
I actually thought, if anything, it felt to me as
though he was trying a little too hard to prove Hey,
I'm a great teammate, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
This and that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So I'm gonna go ahead and rather than force the issue,
I'm gonna actually, you know, play it cool and set
up another guy and take two dribbles and pass it
over in the corner. So those were the positives from
my perspective. The negatives, I don't think we're shocking. I mean,
it was just it was very simply. He's listed at
two hundred and fifteen pounds. He is a guy that
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needs to get stronger. I mean the first possession of
the game, Brandon Miller, the number two pick, he was
guarding him and Brandon Miller kind of bodied him. And
Brandon Miller, by the way, isn't like some physical Adonnas
in terms of you know, he's not a chiseled you know,
two forty or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So you know, I do think.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's a little bit of a concern, and I think
to go back to a lot of the stuff that
Draymond Green said earlier in the week, is that Draymond
Green said, look, we think from day one he's gonna
be able to be an elite defensive player. But on offense,
you know, we have strong guys in this league. They're
gonna be able to move him off those spots. So
interesting to follow. I'll be fascinating to see if he
plays the rest of the summer league. By the way,
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Jason dun start spreading the news the Mets wed baby,
Mets ween Mets.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Swell, hey, you know what, You're back on Monday. All right,
how does that sound You're back on Monday.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I'll tell you if that's an invite. I'm back on Monday.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, you're back on Monday. It's official. You're back on Monday.
Mets beat the Padres. The Mets are still undefeated in July.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
By the way, though, the last two outs of that game,
I was watching as if my job was actually on
the line.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, I know it is.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It kind of was. It kind of was, but like
I was really into it. You were happy to see
Xander Bogerts get caught looking Yeah, you were happy for that?
Hey you and why hey, look, everybody on vacation, Harmon
de Sager. Those guys can all stay the Mets have
The Mets have not lost since those guys went on vacation.
Is that works?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I just solved baseball's problems. Everyone's like, how do you
bring fans back to baseball? Your job is on the
line if that team loses, ramp up the stakes, let's go.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But uh, but for Webben Yama, right, like we talked
about is his court vision and clearly being able to
be someone that can run the court like him. I
love the passing acumen that I saw from him. A
couple of passes he forced a little bit, but by
and large, he has great vision of the court, and
he's gonna be an elite big man passer sooner rather
(09:16):
than later. I mean, get your is he better passer
already than Nikola Jokic. Get those hot takes ready, Get
those hot takes already. I'm trying up for undisputed. So
you could tell he's going to be that because a
couple of passes he didn't get to make. He was
looking for cutters. He was looking for something that's going
to be there when he's there with the rest of
the players who are normally going to play on the spurs.
(09:38):
So I like that part of it. Yeah, he was
a little bit too deferential when he got the ball,
and I felt like when he tried to move towards
the hoop, he kind of moved at three quarter speed,
almost as if I'm looking to make a move to
the hoop and pass like you're a point guard, Like
I'm gonna drive to the hoop and if it's there
for me. I'll take it. But really, what I want
to do is create space, get it to a big
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man for a bucket, Like I want to show you
that I can play this way. I'm gonna be unselfish.
I'll be a good teammate. I know the world is watching.
I don't need to take fifty shots in this game
and show you that I'm gonna be a great player. No,
I'm gonna show I'm be a good teammate and I'm
gonna pass the ball. So there was some moments where
I watched and I said, boy, you're gonna have to
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score twenty twenty five a night, like that's gonna be.
They're not getting you to score ten and dish out
twelve assists. They don't want you to be a Jason
Kidd triple double guy, you know, ten, ten and ten. No,
they need you to be that, to be that guy
that's gonna score a ton and is gonna be a
thirty and fifteen guy. So that's the one thing I saw,
which is not that big a deal because that's something
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that will come to him in time, but just a
little bit more of a little bit more sense of
urgency with the ball going to the hoop because a
couple of times it almost felt like he was afraid
where he banged a couple of times, and when he
couldn't get he couldn't get anywhere, he backed off and
looked for the pass like you see, guys you used
to watch Shack just back guys down the entire time, Bang, bang, bang,
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and I'm gonna turn and dunk it. Now. A couple
of times when Ben Yama, because he only goes, you know,
two hundred and fifteen pounds, I'm gonna bang, I'm gonna bang.
I'm the same spot I was before. This isn't working.
Let me try to find and pass out for a jumper.
That's the one thing I saw was a little weird
from him. Again, nothing that's going to be something you
can't fix. But the whole thing about is weight. That's
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something that's not going away. That's not going to be
as a situation where he's gonna be able to play
around it. Because he's only two hundred and fifteen pounds.
He will find a way to still dominate even though
he's not as big as other big men. No, he's
gonna need his time for that. And the best thing
that's gonna help him with that is less minutes as
he gets used to the daily and nightly pounding of
the NBA. When it's not just about hey, I'm gonna
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I could get hurt going up against Joel Embiid. It's
about being able to come back and your muscle's bouncing
back from travel every other night and a game three
nights a week, and sometimes you got back to backs,
and sometimes you gotta play more minutes. Somebody's in foul trouble.
Sometimes you gotta play when you're exhausted. You're gonna hit
the wall. That's the one thing that I could tell
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is not going to be solved for a while, and
that is his body is gonna be a little bit
frail in terms of NBA. It's gonna be a while
before he becomes that guy. So less minutes is probably
the way to go for him. Now, are the Spurs
gonna do that? It's tough. It's gonna be tough to say, Yeah,
here's our number one overall pick and he's gonna play
limited minutes a game. But I don't know that the
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fans are gonna care. I know the fans are gonna
care if he plays twenty minutes a game. They're gonna
to see him every night, and he's the future. And
yet we get that we're not gonna win the title
this year. We're just excited that we have a guy again.
You know, we had David Robinson and then we had Duncan.
Now we haven't had anybody we stuck for a long time.
Now we got wem Benyama. Hey, we're okay. We feel good.
So it seems like it would be tough on the surface,
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but really that's the best way forward for him because
I didn't see anything Tonight's gonna stop him from having
a big season and playing really well. Is he gonna
dominate like some people expect him to do, or like Lebron. No,
But it'll be a good season for him. His learning
curve will be pretty good. But physically he's gonna need
that time and I hope the Spurs give it to him.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, and like to just put a bow on it.
I go back to what I said about social media.
I actually give people credit. It doesn't seem as though
they're overreacting. It feels like fans have a better understanding
of what's a realistic expectation for him than media does.
Still some stuff to work about, but I didn't see
anything that like make me made me freak out. Despite
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the two for thirteen stewn Line.
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Speaker 4 (14:33):
By the way, is Saga really on vacation?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
As far as you know he is okay, and and
I'm sure there'll be great spots for everybody when they
come back. But if the Mets keep winning, the Mets
keep winning, I mean, there's certain things have to happen.
I'd expect Harmon to want to do the same thing.
If the White Sox kept winning while I was on vacation,
you'd want to do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I feel like I've known to Seger well. I mean,
I have known Di Saga for six years. I don't
ever remember him taking vacation, but maybe he does and
I just haven't noticed it. But look like he's in
tomorrow with me and Jason marn so well.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Because it well because it looks because the show's show up.
Our show's not on tomorrow, so he'll be on with
you guys tomorrow, and then the whole Mets thing starts
again on Monday. Okay, Yeah, that's how it works. Yeah,
that's that. That's that's about That's the only fairest way
to do it. I mean, it's that's that's that's how
it's done.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And think about it from your perspective as a Mets fan.
I mean, they basically play maybe not seven games a week,
but you know, they go four and two, that's a
sixty percent win percentage of sixty six percent win percentage
for the rest of the year, they're making the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
You don't have to blow up the team.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, I'm feeling that pretty good. I'm feeling that in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, Vegas.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Uh So, outside of Victor wembin Yama's debut on the court, Snite,
which we broke down a few minutes ago, told you
what we'd liked, what we didn't like about we saw
from because there were certainly some really good things to like,
some things that maybe made you think, okay. The day
began with the video being released of what happened with
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wembin Yama and Britney Spears outside of the Catch restaurant
in Vegas, the story that took over everything a day
or so ago, thirty six hours ago, Victor wembin Yama
with his entourage was walking to dinner. Britney Spears wanted
to go say hi, ran up to him, ran in
between his entourage, tapped him on the shoulder. One of
the security members put his hand out and slapped back
(16:24):
and hit Britney's hand, knocked her glasses off, and it
became a whole big thing. Brittany went back to her table.
The security guard went over and said, hey, sorry, that happened.
Britney smiled, everything seemed fine, and then filed charges. We
found out today and this is shortly after the video
came out, that no charges will be filed and this
(16:46):
is considered dropped. Now there's a lesson for wembin Yama
and just another unfortunate thing for Britney spears when it
comes from this. Now the Britney part of this right,
because what we see is that in the in the video,
Brittany runs up behind taps wem Binyama on the shoulder
and we see the security guard's hand come back hit
(17:09):
Britney's hand. It knocks into her glasses, knocks her glasses off.
You hear her yelling. She's yelling. She's running up to
wem beIN Yama using an English accent. After it happened,
she starts yelling in an English accent, this is America.
And she goes back to sitting down. And you know,
when this whole thing is going on at I'll tell
you look and look, she has to know better. We
talked about this last night. She's got to know that
(17:31):
I can't just walk up to another person through their
entourage and tap him on the shoulder because I don't
want that to happen to me, because this is what's
happened to me throughout the course of my life. But
I see Brittany do this and I go, why would
she do that? And why is she talking in a
British accent? And again it's just I feel so awful
for her. I feel so awful her because I feel
like she's been alone for the past like fifteen years.
(17:54):
She became a big time superstar, was the biggest name
in pop music. There was nobody bigger in the world
for a while than Britney Spears, and you saw what
happened after that. She had real difficulty just getting through life,
the conservatorship that her dad used to siphon off a
lot of her money. I don't know what kind of
people she has around her, being people that are positive
(18:16):
influences in her life. You have erratic behavior that continues
to happen. She posts weird videos to the Internet. She
had to live through the fact that she hasn't talked
to her kids in a year. Because Kevin Federline wants
to take them to Hawaii for business opportunities, and then
you see the potential rumor that well, because payment for
(18:36):
children has to go to the age of twenty three
in Hawaii as long as they're in school, So it
is she being taken for money? Is any of this stuff?
And I just feel bad for her. And I know
that you know, you're an adult, You make your own decisions,
make your own mistakes. But I felt like, when you
have that degree of fame, you need the right people
around you helping you say, hey, make the right calls
(18:56):
and go this is how I can live, this is
what I should do, and you need people can trust.
And I never felt that about her, And every time
I see a story about her, I feel like, these
are people who are out to get her money. These
are people who are out to try to use leverage
against her some way, and I see some of the
behavior and I just I just shake my head and
I go, I just want a good Britney Spear story
that tells me that she's you know, that she's okay
(19:17):
and can make music again and and and can can
live her life again and be someone that that you
know is back to or getting you know back to
being the stars she was a few years ago, But
I don't. I just feel awful for her, and I
just feel so bad for her every time I see
her in the news. It's a story like this that
I just shake my head and go, she can't catch
(19:38):
a break and and and I don't know what it is.
And I don't know certainly, I don't know what's going
on in the inside part of her life, but I
know from what I see publicly, and boy, there's a
lot of stuff out there that makes you go, Okay,
something's just not.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Right well, And I think that the worst part is
is that, listen, there have been a lot of people,
unfortunately and you wish this wasn't the case, that have
been taken advantage by agents or whatever. But Brittany was
taking advantage by her own family, right like you know
her dad. Again, if you watch the documentary that was
done on her conservative conservatorship, you know, it's one thing
(20:14):
if if if she if her dad or her family
doesn't feel like she is fit to make decisions on
her own. But if you watch that, the father really
manipulates the court system to get control of her, and
then essentially, you know, pushed her to work and do
things that she didn't want to do from a career perspective,
and again, you know, away from her family. So I
(20:36):
think I'm I definitely I think in this particular story.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Two things can be true. I feel bad
for her. I feel bad that, like you said, every
story about her seems to be negative. There are clearly
mental health issues. Maybe not in this specific case.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I'm not going to speculate, but listen, we go back
to again we mentioned this earlier in the show, is
that you know, you go back to the time that
she shaved her head and you know, this was two
thousand and seven, I think two thousand and eight, something
like that, And at the time it was a big joke.
I mean again, go back and watch that documentary, find
video of it on YouTube. People are you know, the
(21:22):
late night comedians are joking about it, the news anchors
are joking about it, when it's clear that, you know,
if this was twenty twenty three, we would be talking
about her mental health as she stable, does she need help?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Whatever?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And so I think there is that element of it
which is absolutely true. As you feel bad, there's probably
some mental health issues, or at least there previously were.
I think early in her career she was really, I
think publicly mistreated because again it was a different era
in the way that we covered women and mental health
and things of that nature. And again, if you don't
know what I'm talking about, I encourage you to go
watch the documentary that was made on her a year
(21:55):
or so ago. At the same time, though, Jason, I
will say in this specific case, this specific case, I
don't want to say that I have no sympathy, but
when you see the video, she does run up on
Victor Wehnbanyama, and it's very clear to me that you know,
his security was just trying to protect him. I mean, listen,
(22:17):
I'm not trying to be facetious or funny or sarcastic
or ironic, but I mean, imagine if that was a
crazed fan. Imagine if that was someone with a weapon.
And the thing about when Banyama is it goes without
saying he's seven foot five, he stands out anytime he
is going to go out in public, and so he
is going to be a target for fans and things
(22:37):
of that nature.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So I feel bad for her.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I am with you.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
It just seems like it's one disappointing, sad story after another.
But in this one, even if it's through her own
experience as a celebrity, you got to keep your hands
off people, man, and especially a celebrity that I think
we all probably assume is traveling with security.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You gotta be smarter.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Now, I'm glad you brought that up, because that gets
the Wheya part of this, right, that's the Britney part.
And again Britney needed to look for someone who is
who has had this happen. Yeah, she's got to know.
I can't just run up to somebody in that, right.
But the Wembin Yama part of it, and this is
where what I hope happens and now that it's over,
is that he understands a little bit more about what
(23:18):
it means to be a star. Okay, Because the thing
I didn't like it all I hated the most was
what did you get right away? When the story came out,
Britney spears came out. She came up behind and grabbed
him from behind. All right, you heard that grabbed him
from behind. What is everybody picturing someone running up grabbing
him physically with their hand, grabbing his shirt, trying to
(23:39):
turn around. I'm trying to grab a guy, which is
a violent act. And that's what you heard, and that
was what was put out there by Wembin Yama's people.
She grabbed him from behind. You watched the video. Nothing
even close. She went up, she was saying, sir, sir,
and tapped him on the shoulder. All right, So right
away I felt like Wembin Yama and his people wanted
to go into a this is not my fault. I'm
(24:01):
we're gonna blame her, right, and you said something that
wasn't true, because it clearly was not true. It wasn't great.
Even when ben Yama when he said somebody grabbed my shoulder, dude,
nobody grabbed you. You have to know that, right, You
shouldn't don't throw that out there because it's Vegas. There's
cameras everywhere. We're gonna find this out, right, there's cameras
in every casino. We're gonna see this at some point.
(24:21):
And so you saw today and now when min Yama
and his and his entourage they look like liars. They
look like we wanted to put a narrative out there
that this wasn't our fault. Whatever this is because people
are gonna sympathize with Britney Spears because look like me.
They feel bad for her. No, no, no, this is it.
And now we know that was a lie. That was
a lie, and there were such better ways to handle
(24:41):
it that each side could have done this better when
bin Yama and especially today could have apologized when you
find out there's no charges being fought. Hey, I'm so sorry, Brittany.
You know I didn't get a chance to say this yesterday.
I'm so sorry that happened. Hey, here's tickets to my
next game, or I want to come see you in
conc some way to make it. Hey, I'm a good guy.
(25:03):
Everything is fine. I'm sorry this happened. This way we
can both save face. That's what you could have done
today and you didn't, and instead you let the narrative
out there of that. Oh yeah, yeah, we tried to
make up a story a little bit and that was
that was clearly not the case. Now, the whole hitting Brittany,
that part was accurate. In fact, you just see the
the security guards kind of put his hand up like
(25:24):
to slap away someone's hand, and it did hit Britney's
hand or hand hit or glasses came off, So that
part of it was true, but that part of it
didn't seem to be like it was disputed yesterday. But
I just hope that this is a lesson for him that, Okay,
we got to say the truth to tell we have
to tell the truth and things like this when things
like this happen and it's not just he said, she said,
(25:45):
which it literally was in this situation, and that I
hope he learns from it and learns that, Okay, my
status as a star is going to mean certain things,
and I need to handle stuff better than I handled
this thing over the last twenty four hours. Those are
the two things that I take away, the for Brittany
and that for women Yama.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
The way that was my biggest takeaway yesterday when we
saw the initial back and forth from the Women Yama perspective.
I'll say this, this has been my stance since since
yesterday's Listen. I'm not saying women Yama did anything wrong.
I do think there was like a lack of human
decency from him when he was asked about it, and
(26:24):
what I would say is a couple of things. One,
I know he's nineteen years old. I'm not saying he
has to be perfect anything like that. I also think
that I was thinking about this and I might have
mentioned it on Area yesterday, is I do feel like
this is the the price that you pay when these
young athletes, like they're almost so well media trained that like,
(26:47):
like I said, there was a lack of human decency
when you actually listen to his to the audio of
the whole incident, he you know, he just said, yeah,
there was an incident.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I woke up to some stuff, blabb blahah. Doesn't mention
like it's insane.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
And maybe he's young and he's nineteen, he doesn't really
realize how big of a star Britney Spears is.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Like the fact that it was.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Britney freaking Spears was insane. And it'd be one thing
if a random female fan rand up and tapped him
on the shoulder and she got slapped in the face
by security. Now there's a back and forth, but it's
Britney Spears, and like there was a way he could
have handled it. Where two things One, what a crazy
first night in Vegas. Oh my god, I can't believe
it was Britney Spears. But then to your point, Jason,
(27:29):
you know, I do feel bad. I know it wasn't intentional.
I wish it hadn't happened. I feel terrible with the
way it played out. I would love to have her
at the game. I would love to, you know, buyer
her next dinner at catch whatever. So my biggest thought
with wyn Minyama, He's not a terrible person. This isn't
an indictment on him. I do think this is kind
of the byproduct, though, of the way that we so
(27:53):
overtrain our young athletes on a lot of things, and
I think one of them is media, where it just
felt like he was doing a pro conference about Jane
Doe from uh, you know, from wherever, tapping him on
the shoulder, as opposed to Britney Spears, which obviously made
it an even bigger story than it had been.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, because because here's the other part of it, right,
is that right after that happens, someone yells, that's Britney
Spears man, right, so you know it's Britney Spears. Really
he went to dinner, right, He went to dinner, sat
with everybody. Nobody said to him, and in the immediate aftermath, dude,
that was Britney Spears to try to come up to you. Instead,
you say the next day, Oh, I woke up today
(28:30):
and I heard that it was Britney Spears. So I
know you're lying. I mean, I know he lied a
lot about everything, and I didn't appreciate that yet. We
talked about it yesterday. I didn't think. I didn't believe
a lot of what he said. I just want to
make it seem like I don't. I don't. I don't
know anything about what's going on. You can't blame me. Really,
Nobody told him was Britney Spears. No one said that, Hey,
what happened. Yeah, no, dude, No one walked up and said, dude,
that was Britney to try to come up to you.
(28:51):
MANA nobody said that. I don't buy it, So I don't.
So I don't like that disingenuousness from him. That's why
I always say, hey, always gotta tell the truth. Man.
When something like that happens and it's going to be documented,
you got to tell the truth. And that's why I
hope he learns that lesson, because he does not look
good coming off this
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