July 14, 2023 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier go in depth on the MLB as we delve into the 2nd half of the season and what to expect by the end of the season.
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Buying should be our man, Arnie Span You're in gave
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As we get ready for the second half of the
Major League Baseball season. Already span here. In just a
few more days, you'll have your squad, your Dolphins report
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to training.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Oh, I can't wait. Football is here.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I've got my giant college football preview magazines.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
To start marking Uice.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Many of which are outdated.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You know, there's a lot of information about Northwestern that
really doesn't translate to twenty twenty three for me, except
the over underwin total was three and a half.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
How you feeling now? Feeling now? There you go?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But for Major League Baseball and we talk and start
looking ahead at the second half of the season. We
had a lot of breakout stories in the first half.
Some of the teams you're expecting to run away and hide, well,
they haven't. Some perennial powerhouses are part of the down
and outs for this year, talking specifically Saint Louis Cardinals Baseball,
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fourteen games under. I was in Saint Louis a little
bit last week and listening to people talk about the team.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
They're a bit.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Bit saddened by not being in the race and wondering
what parts get sold off as we get towards the
trade deadline.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Used to dominating.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I know there was a graphic a couple of weeks
ago talking about how many days they've been in last place,
and they are right now a couple of games behind
the Pirates. But it's a rare, rare placement for them
right Normally competing for the Central title and for the
National League overall. Last year you have Goldsmith wins the
MVP and now you're in also ran, so you have
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those kind of things. The Yankees are they getting get healthy.
There's no commitment to how quickly if you're getting Aaron
Judge back and all yeah, right for that contract?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Now are they or what?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And that's that becomes one of the talking points that
you get into the second half right of of when
you you buy in to guys who maybe have a
little bit of a history, but then go on and
the Judge's case, do some historic things. They're like, all right,
you know what, we're gonna look to the better side
and what he means. And we talk about Otani here
in Los Angeles and all the secondary and tertiary revenue
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streams that's come flying in as a result of his
brilliance for the Angels and for Major League Baseball as
a whole. But same thing for Judge in New York.
You know, some are.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Saying, well, they've got to go all in.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Jeter on as part of the All Star broadcast saying, hey,
they've got to go all in and be as aggressive
as they can to go try to land Otani at
the trade deadline. Now, I not worry about the signing
in the off season, but go and make the aggressive
move here.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Many teams I agree with that With the Yankees, I mean,
if you really look at it, what are they seven out?
But they're still like six seven games over five hundred doins,
one behind a wildcard spot. And I'm talking about with
the three teams ahead of them, they're within like a
half game of all or one game of all three teams.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
So they're right there.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Or Tani is the kind of guy that not only
puts them over the top, then they can become real
scary to go ahead and and you know, run through
teams in the playoffs and and go to the World Series.
So fun the Yankees. I've I've got to be a buyer.
I'm I'm one hundred percent sure that's the way I'm
going there.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
And watch out.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
If you're gonna look for a team to make a
run in the second half, watch out for the Minnesota Twins,
our bosses team. I know they've lost three in a
row coming into the break, but they're still the best
team in.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That the mom Come on, we're not talking about the
Central No Central but finished just five hundred wins.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The Division.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I always bring them up as I know they have
the easiest schedule in baseball, I believe, So watch out
for Minnesota to maybe make a big run in the
second half there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And I just I mean, you're that likes long shots
and and trying to throw a shot. No, But that's
my point is it's totally contrary to the persona you've
developed over these many years on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Eh, you know they will look out for them. Now
they're a half game back, well.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Though they're after, but they're some below five hundred. I
I think they could make, like, you know, go on
a tear. That's surveys are bringing them up. And I
think the Angels are not gonna do squat on the
last seven.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well they're only one game under.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, I think they're gonna go worse than that.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Then they were one in nine in their last ten.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Head they're going in the wrong direction. Trouts out for
a long time. I don't think they're gonna be able
to recover.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, and the Division is difficult. Seattle waiting to see
if Julio Rodriguez, uh, if he can be the player
he was at times last year. See if a better
second half that home run derby right forty one, if
suddenly you get a jump start there. And they were
seven and three in their last ten going into the break,
and Houston has righted the ship and they're getting healthy. Yes, right, right,
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that's the difficult thing. They're nine games over, five hundred,
two games back of the Rangers. Rangers one of the
more interesting teams. Yeah, making make right run differentials on
and forty eight insane, but they did drop seven of
their last ten, So I'm wondering what's gonna happen to them?
And so they're gonna get lapped by Houston. We're gonna
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go We're Katie and Alvarez back here.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
And I hate to bring this up because I know
Jason Smith brings them up all up, but my Mets
are not going to turn it around.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
They're terrible.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, they're just it's just disgusting what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, and they're they're kind of stuck. Well when wh
who's taking on a lot of those kinds.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Anybody who wants to maybe make a run in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean unless I mean, look, Cohen can eat the
money and not really think about it because that would
be the thing that would have to happen, right, based
on their performances. The performance, Uh, that's gonna be the
the difficulty going forward. That's second Timulus Sorda reference. We
got in to night so uh you know they so
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you got Mets Dodgers get things started again tomorrow. So
that'll be exciting, uh for us here at Fox Sports
Radio and of course our flagship Ams five seventy l
A Sports. You know, big series. Mets are well, they're
not good, but it's still bring some juice to the ballyard.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
But it's gonna be a fun.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Second half and certainly the next two weeks as we
talk trade deadline with the Dodgers at fifty one and
thirty eight, you.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Think we'll see a lot of trades. We'll see big.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Names going ad, some big names, I really do.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I think, you know, I know we had a chance
Olden Polonies in with me the other night. We talked
to John Balm Barrossi and I brought up Nolan Aeronato.
You didn't think that was possible.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It's a name that would be a big time maybe
a shock because certainly there's a contract there and everything else.
But you're trying to see what what can you go
to roll things forward, to get yourself back moving towards
the top of the standings. Maybe it's there, maybe it's Gorman,
maybe it's one of the other young players that you've got,
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but certainly interesting because right now you're chasing Cincinnati, right
and the phenom.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Is that just fantastic?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Or but it's great stories, right?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, I still dabble in the sports card world,
and he was a guy that had the hype and
people were buying in and then as soon as he
got called up and showed a little bit of anything,
the marketplace goes insane. But you you're talking about a
guy who's been electrifying on the base paths.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And that's the thing I love.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The Angels would take him.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
If you want to make a trade for Otani, they'll
take all your laugh in. But why is that, you know,
why to give up de la Cruz for Otani?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Not for what you're paying and what you're paying him
for the foreble future.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's making nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But you talk about an electrifying player that captivated, you know,
the imagination of a lot of a lot of people.
But it owes some of it to the rules changes
here in Major League Baseball for twenty twenty three. When
you talk about the pitch clock, you talk about the
inability to keep going back and holding a runner on
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right once you've gone over once.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Well, all right, here we go. You missed the stolen base.
I no, I dig it. I I like that. There's
another element to the game, and I think that's one.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Of the the things.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But it's one of those things they hoped for, right,
that we'd get away from the three outcome games or
at bats, I should say, home run, strikeouts, and walks. Right,
we're back to get them on, get them over, get
them in situational hitting. I don't really care whether you
had the shift or not. But to me, it was
a all right hit them where they ain't was always
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what I was doing exactly. But that's fine. You don't
want to have that, and you know, teams are gonna
get as close to they can as they can to
those borders to give themselves opportunities, you know, hovering around
second base, whether it's the second basement or the shortstop
or where the outfielders are aligned, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But I like the activity.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I like the the churning and where stolen bases are
back in the mix. And this is where you know,
catching goes back to try to premium because remember we
had a lot of catchers growing up, and this is
where I age myself. So you had a few guys
that were good offensive players, but then most of the
guys were, all right, you've got to be a good
defender and you've got to have an arm. You got
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to be able to do a lot of that stuff
instead of all right, we're another home run. And I
always laughed, right growing up in Chicago, you'd rush home
in the early afternoon to watch Cubs baseball, and and
people always made such a big deal out of the
you know, double switches whatever it's like, Well, no, because
generally you had a second basement, a catcher in the pitcher,
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three of three spots where nobody could hit except for
a couple of guys.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Right, But defense was at a premium.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And now maybe we see a little bit of a
shift back because you are giving up extra bases more
frequently that the metrics say, all right, we gotta get guys.
You know, if we give up a little bit in
terms of the hop and what the guy does behind
the plate. He's got to be a better catcher than
worrying about you know what he's doing in the batting word.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
It's such a big offensive weapon to be able to
steal a base or two and stay out of a
double play.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Put more pressure on the pitcher.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Absolutely, he's got to come to the plate and worry
about the hitter and not worry about keeping him on.
I mean, you can only throw over once. You should
be stealing bases, like could you imagine if Vince Coleman
played today with those type of rules, how many stolen
bases he would have?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So yesterday we talked a little bit, and certainly I
did with Olden on the night of the All Star Game,
about the pageantry of past All Star games, right, the
jerseys and all that stuff. Right, and you remember nineteen
ninety nine Fenway Park, the All Century team, right, all
the pomp and circumstance bringing Ted Williams out and all
of that. Well, they released a coffee table book that
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my brother was able to procure, uh, and they did
a three city event. Three events, three cities, and my
brother was able to go to one, the Chicago And
if you bought this book, it was like fifty dollars
for the coffee table book. But Hank Aaron and Willie
May showed up and signed him. Oh great, okay, so
they got those and I decided, all right, this is
going to be a project because I live lived for
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a while near Cooperstown. So I just go up during
induction week and you've got guys with folding tables and
all that, and slowly but surely, and I wish I
had tape recorders with me because it was before I
was doing media stuff, working in a different, different job,
and you know, you'd get some great stories from guys
as they'd sign and look through the book. But a
couple months ago, I had never added Ricky Henderson to
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the book. And it was even before the games had begun.
And I go where they're doing these rules and he
started laughing. I go, what two hundred? He goes, oh,
come on, it would be unfair. Oh yeah, he just
he just kind of chuckled like like but he was
just like, yeah, let's go. Yeah, the guy can only
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throw over once. But he just started laughing. And the
guys that were in line, he's gonna make a comeback, now,
how about that? He looks like you, like physically, I
think he looks like he probably could, but like he
just thought it was fun and he goes.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
But it's good for baseball.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
It's good to get that element in because you do
have guys where maybe maybe their bats aren't the greatest,
but you can utilize the pinch runner.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Again, a roster spot where it matters.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Is pitching overtaking the bats so much, they're so much
better pictures. Now, well, your pictures are getting hurt, so
you're using secondary pitchers.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, but I would have to look at the the
metrics and the dad. I don't have it off the
top of my head, but I just look that way.
But I would theorize this because of the specialization of
the bullpens, the fact that you don't see a pitcher
a second, or that you don't get a read on
what the stuff is. You don't have the Oh, I
nearly got him in that first in bat, right, I
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just followed that one off. He gives me a pitch
up there again, I'm gonna get it. We don't have
those circumstances.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
But that again, you don't have hitters like Tony Gwynn anymore,
those type of hitters.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's why ariahs there is such a big deal, right
and hitting three eighty three going into the break like
that's fantastic stuff. We're not necessarily seeing huge batting averages
across the board, but balls batted in play to where
there's at least some activity, some action and the opportunity
for mismanagement and errors in the field, because let's face it,
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there are some butchers in the outfield across Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, it seems like defense is not as like I mean,
the days of Ozzie Smith didn't seem to be there anymore,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah. I certainly went and saw his statue outside the stadium,
and then I continued my walk and we saw and
then I saw those stairs. Then I saw those stairs,
and it just took me out of my happiness.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
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with Me Mike Harmon. No Jason Tonight, We've got Arnie
Spanier in his space as we come you Alive from
the ti raq dot Com studios. A couple of business
notes in our sporting universe to talk about. Number one
related to the beginning of the second half. It's been
announced that Sunday Night Baseball is returning to Baltimore for
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the first time in five years. Arnie Spanier, five years, you.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Would have thought that just by you know, maybe an
early season game or something against the Yankees or something
they would have been on the on something night baseball.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
That's a long time to go, you.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Know, fifty four and thirty five at the break. One
of the best organizations from a minor league perspective that's run.
The ownership has been under fire from local media and
the larger of like, hey, why aren't you too doing
more with that squad one five in a row and
you had several members of the squad as part of
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the All Star continued to win. Austin Hayes hitting three
fourteen on the year, Rutchman behind the behind the plate,
he's got twelve home runs, thirty nine.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Two behind the Rays who started out like a yeah,
you know, on fire to start.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, and we've watched them dip a bit and then
sliding a bit, trying to get healthy, trying to get right.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I mean, Baltimore is buyers to add on to Mount
Castle and all these guys through the first half. Fantastic stuff.
That's one piece of news, something that just hit my
timeline before we get to the main event. Right, they
come in threes. They always say, well, here's the second one.
French billionaire Francois On is in talks to buy Creative
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Argent Artist Agency for at least seven billion dollars. This
according to Bloomberg, CIA is the number one sports agency
with more than twenty nine hundred clients. Wow, now that
might not they might not mean a lot to you,
but he's married to someone very famous who we celebrate
(19:40):
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quite a bit. But seven billion dollar?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Where does he live in Paris or something?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, I am not on their their client roster as
of yet. Seven I'm waiting for the call. But they're
saying sale of at least seven billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Which is he worth that he has all that type
of money?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
You know, that's a good question. We're going to look
that up as we speak.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah, I'm curious about that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He's been the president of Groupe Artemis since two thousand
and three. Wow, so now we have to figure out
what that Well, but that's the thing, right, what would
you do with it? Right? Because that's one of the
other stories that's percolating and off the yellow legal pad
power ball is going to be eight hundred and seventy
five million dollars. You know, Mike, what would you do
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if you had that kind of money?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
You know, I know you're going to think up crazy
about the crazy when I say this, But.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
By the way, he's worth forty six billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Wow, that kind of money could ruin your life.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
If you want eight hundred and seventy five million dollars
in the power of that, I think so much, that's
too much for one person. I don't know why we
just don't give a like one underd two million dollars
to a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
One person getting that much money. That was just way
too much. Mike.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That was anti American yesterday it was all USA USA.
Now you're like, give a little bit to everybody. What
are you doing?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
What person doesn't need a billion?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You could do a lot of good with that, and
you would have the power, responsibility, and heart to be
able to do that.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
By the way, out of a billion, you only get
it like what five hundred Oh.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
No, then don't bother don't even give it to me.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Then come on, Spaniard, But think about all the good
you could do that You could buy into your beloved dolphins,
how many ownership, how many people would come hitting you
up for money too.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
You'd have to move, you'd have.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
To well that's the only you know, Yeah, they I'd
have to come up with a shill corporation and someone
that I would hire as the face. Yeah, no, I
absolutely I would have to hire an actor of the
highest magnitude. You maybe someone who that people even know
to be by front man and.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Somebody who showed up with a mask on Halloween. That's
because because you're.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Gonna have to show up and you know, accept it,
because they've got to do the publicity. And that's the
hard part, which is why you'd have to claim it
under a corporation or something, you know, something you put together.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
But that's a lot of doe eight hundred and seventy
five million.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Let's say you get five hundred million dollars of it,
all right, you invest a bunch of it. Right, This
is boring, just kind of gets to the office space.
You're missing the point of the exercise. You know what
I'd do if I had a million dollars?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And then well, well Lawrence comes in and tells you
what he would do, uh, played by the great Dietrich Bader.
But the idea being that you know, you could go
and buy yourself into get a jet, you could go
to all of the events you've always wanted to go,
travel the world. You could buy that place in the
middle of nowhere with the porch, swing on a body
of water and be left alone. I don't think I'm
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gonna need five hundred million dollars to island.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
There's something good. You go buy one. Next George Clooney.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, now you're talking.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Maybe you get invited. Maybe if you've got that big
a bankroll, you get to go to the white party
that Michael Rubin had last week, and Kim Kardashian's coming
and sidling up next to you.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Are I want my own party?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
What do you want it?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
But if you've got five hundred million dollars, you could
make that happen.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Yeah, come to Arnie Spaniards party and I'll invite everybody.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
And you know, just don't put the silver in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I was gonna say, ty shirt and uh Fenley will
help you design the swag bags and whenever activities go
on in each room.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
He just laughed.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's like, hey, hey, hey, but the third story and
this is the one I know you've got you're so
excited about.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yes, yes, is that? Well?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Shannon Sharp, NFL Hall of Famer, budding entrepreneur. What's he got?
He's got a I don't want to misname the the
liquor line he's got rolling out right, He's got his
own brand. I'm working towards that, because that's the other
thing you can do with five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You can put your name.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
On a on anything, on a bottle. He's got the
Kognac going right now. But he left undisputed, and so
now they've gone on hiatus. A lot of questions of
who's going to sit opposite Skip Bayless, a lot of rumor,
conjecture and speculation related to what it's like to work
(24:26):
across from Skip. And we'll leave that, you know, for
other folks to bandy about. But some of the names
are internal candidates, people that are already there. Emmanuel Acho,
maybe a Joy Taylor, maybe Leshaun McCoy, and then other
people that might be on the roster are considered. And
then another name that comes out, and this is the
New York Post reporting, well what about former Seattle seahawk
(24:52):
viral sensation? And really, I he starts to talk, I
lean in and listen. I may not agree, right, I'm
gonna be entertained. And that's Richard Sherman.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Right right.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
I gotta tell you, Mike, I like Richard Sherman. I
didn't like when he was on Undisputed. Was it the
first time or only time? When he was on with Skip,
you know a long time ago. I felt that he
was disrespectful when he was saying I'm better in life
than you are. He hijacked the show. He wouldn't answer
(25:25):
the question. He just repeatedly said I'm better in life
than you are. Just trying to be little Skip. You
can't have that as a premise of a show five
days a week. When you're on two and a half
three hours a day. You can't just go on your
own agenda and disrespect everybody. I know it was just
a one time appearance there, and I actually took it
personal too, to be honest with you. Yeah, you're very
(25:48):
blessed you went to Stanford, you know, Skip, when the
Vanderbilt you made it to the NFL. Good for you,
But you know, I feel like you was rubbing everybody's
facing it when you say I'm better in life, then
you skip, I'm better in life. I feel like we
said I'm better in life than everybody else. That's not
what this show is about. If you want a debate,
Skip and bring the facts to the table and say
(26:11):
so and so is gonna win so many games, or
I like this guy, I don't like this whatever it is, Mike,
But to start getting personal, I'm better in life than
you are, and there's no room for that on that
type of debate, shore you, it can't go there, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well, since none of that debate is ever talking about
players in that light, Come.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
On, No, but you've seen that.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yeah, but you can't get personal, you know where.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Else.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
But but Mike, if I.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Said, if we're talking about Lebron James and let's say
you hate him and I love him and we disagree,
you can't just attack me and say, well, I'm better
looking than you, or you're fat or you know, you can't.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm better than that.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
But that doesn't mean that people wouldn't tune in and
watch and that other people wouldn't go of that lower
common denominator.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
What does that have to do with what we're debating
about Lebron?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A lot of the stuff are inane, fabricated debates anyway,
so not and it's an industry building on a lot
of it.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You're okay with them making it personal.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Like if I said to you, you know you're dumber
than a bag of rocks, Harmon, and it's you know,
Lebron's better.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So you're okay with that?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
That's fine, right, I think I'll be just fine with it.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Okay, Well, now.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
If I have to do that five days a week
and that's all it is, right, we're not actually having
a debate, fine, but.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Just let's sign each other.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Let's not. Let's call what it is though.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
When when you go on there as a one time appearance,
and maybe there's maybe there's some stuff that's been in
the past, right, right, I mean because Skip's gone after
a lot of guys and many of them have waited
for their opportunity to return fire.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Right, But you gotta if you're going to debate it,
to debate it. If you want to just come on
one time and you want to attack Skip for something
you said year ago or last year, well that's fine too.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
But it's gonna get old if you do it five
days a week.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
No. But that's what I'm saying, is all right, maybe
you got it done and it got some juice and
it got some run when it when it aired. It's
kind of like you know the jokes McAfee who's done
his work with the WWE is pretty good on the mic,
so you know, you don't need scripts and whatever. And
so in yesterday's self congratulatory SP's world, you know, he
(28:26):
made the rounds and he took his shots at people
as well.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Right, so he did that. So I mean it's there.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
And when when you're in that, in this space, let's
face it, someone wants to go and make fun of
the size of my head or the fact that maybe
I should hit the gym a little harder, whether it's
on our network or somewhere else, have at it.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, but I don't care. That's not gonna I'm not
gonna lose any sleep over.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
No, but it's ridiculous, like if you and I are
and I hated the bait, like I said about Lebron,
and I just say, you know what, Harmon, you're just fat?
What the again, what does what have to do with
the other people are gonna say?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think we just start saying Harmon won the argument
and I start doing a victory lap around these Fox
Sports Again.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I didn't want to see the show become something like that.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
No, certainly, and look, there there's reports part of this
New York Post article is that they were spotted in
at the Peninsula Hotel at Beverly Hills, you know, and
oh no, I I have morning Cotton with some great regularity.
I'm sure occasionally a nice yeah, I'm if the if
the omelet looks good, hey, come on out, I'll take you.
(29:34):
We'll go to Beverly Hills.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I would love to do this show just once, opposite Skip,
I really would.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I would love to debate him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Look, I'd love to go in and take over and
and be back on the lot and figure it out
and simulcast is ready when Smith and I are reunited,
you know, let's go. But it's the idea that Look,
it's whatever you think of Skip Bayless. And I know
him going all the way back. I don't know him.
I'm talking about his work, going all the back, way
back when he was a columnist in Chicago and all
(30:08):
of that. I mean, there's a long career and whether
you like or dislike people, and this is that any job,
and I'm talking from the straight, you know, performance and
rolling through.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's not an easy business.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And most jobs have their their pitfalls along the way.
Whenever someone is in a place for a long while,
whether it's you know, one company or in an industry,
I'll give it its respect. I may not agree with
what they say, I may not like them personally if
I know them, but I'll have respect that they've been
(30:41):
able to scratch and claw and survive. And that goes
for any business. Yeah, and so all of you out
there that are still grinding in a way, here's the
nineteenth cup of coffee I've had raised in your honor.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
By the way, real quickly, since we're talking about Skips
TV show, I just want to and I'm filling in tonight.
I just want to tell you one time I got
a call from uh, you know Maury Polvic. Obviously he's
got his whole line of a home pregancy. Yes you No,
I didn't know that there really. Yeah, I just started
a couple of weeks ago. Moury had an emergency. He
(31:14):
had to miss three days of show. I got a
call from the producer. They said my name came up.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
They wanted to know if I was interested in the
film for Maury.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Immediately out of my mouth, I said, yes, yes, absolutely,
they you're one of five people were considering. I get
a call back that afternoon. Are you still interested. I go, yes,
They go, you're one of two people. Now it's between
you and somebody else. I get a call back. They go,
We're gonna go with Maury's producer, who's a young lady who.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Did a pretty good job. But man, did I want
to do that?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Did?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I was just?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I mean I was just. I couldn't wait. I had
the phone rang, and I was nervous. I go, please
say yes, please say. Could you imagine how much fun
I would have with that?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Mike?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It'd be crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
You know, there's no reason you can't start your own
internet talk show.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yes, the Father.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I mean, look, you put on an open casting call.
I'm sure you'll get plenty of folks to respond who
are border at home. Oh no, my zoom call.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Let's go. She played you as the fool. You would
not the father. I'm telling you, I'd be great at that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
There we go a whole other line of work and
questions for Chris Plank to ask on Sunday, I have
begune Mike Harmon, Arnie Spaniard in for Jason Smith here
from the tyrac dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios Jason
Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon rolls on. But first
we've got Brian Finley with what's trending in our sporting uter.
(32:44):
He's just shaking his head.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
I got a great segue in the fact that Philip rivers,
there's no doubt that he is the father, yes, of
a tenth child. This coming down with his wife. Yeah,
they're expecting their tenth child, all of those children from
his spouse, Tiffany. Meanwhile, Northwestern is having this shakeup when
(33:07):
it comes to the leadership of the football program, and
it's going to be defensive coordinator David Brawn who's going
to be the interim had football coach for twenty twenty
three after he had to fill in for Pat Fitzgerald,
the former head coach fired for hazing allegations. Northwestern continuing
to dig and find other athletic programs that aren't exactly
(33:31):
what they would have liked in the fact that they've
dumped their baseball coach Jim Foster on accusations of bowling
and creating a toxic environment within the team's operations. All
Pro defensive tackle and New York Jets star Quinnin Williams
rewarded with a four year, ninety six million dollar contract
extension sixty six million dollars of that is guaranteed cash money,
(33:54):
so a lot of wads of cash going into his pockets.
I meanwhile, at Wimbledon, Markettevon winning her semi final match
since so she in the finals will go up against
the six seed Onsjabur from Tunisia. Dodgers have ink free
agent outfielder Jake marisnik As. The second half of MLB's
season gets underway on Friday, coming off the All Star break,
(34:18):
and in golf, Round one at the Scottish Open is
complete and Beyong Hung leads, firing a nine under that
is good for a two shot advantage over solo second.
How about Rory McElroy, he's tied for third at six hunderd. Now,
as I get ready to send it back here to you,
(34:38):
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spaniardarney, obviously you went to the
University of Arizona and a lot of speculation about the
team and the program and the university because of the
PAC twelve and where that's going with UCLA and USC
going to the Big ten. I'm now hearing because the
PAC twelve is you know, Mike Disband, we don't know
yet that Arizona is actually going to be joining the
(34:59):
Sun a leak stop, that's gonna be thereing.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
There for a second, you know, goodbye, I'll see you later.
I can't believe that that's a fair assessment. I hate you.
I should be in the IVY League. We're in Ivy
League School Safety school.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Wow, Wow, that's some next level stuff academics there.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
We're better than Northwestern for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh now, come on now, just because the athletic programs
are getting kicked in the.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Teeth right anymore?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Not this year?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, I said the athletic programs are getting kicked into teeth,
doesn't mean the academics have gone to hell?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
What are you doing to me? Trying to devalue my education?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
You know it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
I'll come out to Vermont and I'll take you down. Thanks. Fendley.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's Brian Fley at Brian Fenley where you find him
on Twitter. Find me over at Swollen Dome, find Arnie
at Stinking Genius one. Why are you gotta kick me
while I'm down? What you just accused? And you didn't
want to see Richard Sherman and do an old skip?
You just did it to me. Yeah, Nader's college hypocrite. Yeah,
listeners calling in writing in to talk about JJ Reddick
(36:09):
did that the steven A last week over on the
four Letters. I mean, it is something that you go
through and have that process. I just don't make it
the continued stick as it were. That gets old really fast.
All Right, we have one more running back free agent
question to ask. Is he going to Arnie's team? Is
(36:30):
he going to be a jet? What's he want to do?
He says he's made the right decision. And we have
the play of the night and one last thing that
I want to get to before we're out of here.
There's a super yacht with some of the most famous
people and influential people in this world on it. Who
would you have on yours? We'll talk about it next
here on Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Rman finishing up tonight, Ben Maller coming up
in about ten minutes from now across vast Fox Sports
Radio network. Yeah, I mean four hours flies by today.
I was no you were, you were a little bit
above average, nice solid B minus as it were. It's
(37:26):
time for the Progressive power play of the day. Let's
take it to the.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Courts FN Truceiva poised to win, to reach the final
for the first time, she serves.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
The return goes along.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Jon Nils in her moment of bit tweet a place
in a Wimbledon final, second ground Sung Finals.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
To the chick that the Wimbledon finals are set. That'll
be Saturday, so get ready for that.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Is Jimmy Connors in it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
You know what, I'm sure on your retro channel you
can make that happened for yourself there, Arnie.
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Speaker 6 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Looking forward to the Men's final.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
As well, so you know it's it's that right right
of summer, right as you get around your July fourth
holiday holiday holiday that you celebrate with a little bit
of Wimbledon and all the stars that assemble there.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Finish.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Now you turn the page right, and we get into
the second half of the Major League Baseball season, we
start thinking about training camp.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
You get into the training camps, the practices I've been to,
you know, Schurst practice when it started.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah. I used to do a training camp tour when
I lived out on the East Coast because it was
beautiful because you can go to a lot of the places.
I was in Niskayuna, Schenectady, so near Albany, New York,
which meant you could do that quick two to three
hour drive to many of those facilities really.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And still sleep in your own bed. I love it, right,
so you know you'd go.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
And the only one that was a little more difficult
was it was a long drive out to Latrobe to
see the Steelers. But they had a deal where they
had one of the dorms there at Saint Vincent where
you can go stay if you were a story, just
say hey, I need a room for the night. You
can get all that stuff. Yeah, no, absolutely, And most
of the coaches are pretty cool. At least early in
(39:28):
the camps. You know, you can get access to players.
They're really good about you know, Hey, give me a
list of who you'd like to talk to, and as
long as it wasn't, hey, here's the five top players
on the team, mate, maybe you could get one of those,
so you'd have to expand the list. But a lot
of times they'd go out of their way to make
sure you got a little bit of love in a
couple of minutes with the player you were really looking for.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
No, it's and you know what, not only that you
go ahead and you see more of the offense and
stuff they're working on, and it's just more relaxed atmosphere,
you know, just it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
It's like going to the spring training game in baseball.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah, I was a nerd.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I was always drifting to the backfields where the linemen
and the dodsive linemen were working. In some of the
conversations you had there, Oh, I tell you. Hey. Dalvin
Cook still without a team. He says he's really comfortable
with his situation. Though Alexander Madison will take over as
the back for the Minnesota Vikings. Cook's reported to receive
multiple contract offers, just biding his time. Why get to
(40:27):
work earlier than you have to.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Well, you always hear the Jets and the Dolphins are
always the two teams that come up the first about
where he's going to want to go.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Is it gonna come down to new offers and the
most money. It may well be.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
I know that he prefer to probably play in Miami,
so Miami's gonna have to get close. I just don't
know how much each team can afford to give him,
to be honest.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
If he goes to New England, though, he can maybe
help stave off elimination and retirement for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Yeah or maybe.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
But I think the Patriots are gonna end up getting
Hopkins and that's what that money's gonna end up going to.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Though he'll have to take a pay to go there.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Also, Yeah, it's curiosity, but it's cool to still have
a couple of big names out there in the final
weeks OH training camp.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
What about Ezekiel Elliott?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Huh, Well, he'll end up as a cowboy on a
minimum when it's all said and done. Hey, last one
I saw this the super yacht of the every summer.
Magic Johnson is out there right. He's got Michael Jordan,
Samuel L. Jackson, and Judge Greg mathis with it. Who
would be on your roster, and Jimmy Kimmel's there too.
Who would be on your list if you had your
super yacht once you get your eight hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
If I said four super bottles, is that fine or what?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
They're just no? I think that helps us get in
under the wire here.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Maybe you can hang out with the French billionaire Bying
CAAA and his wife Selma hyak hey, he's already. I'm
Mike ben Mallard coming up next here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Buying should be our man, Arnie Span You're in gave
it up late past his bedtime in for Jason Smith tonight.
As we get ready for the second half of the
Major League Baseball season. Already span here. In just a
few more days, you'll have your squad, your Dolphins report
(01:09):
to training.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Oh, I can't wait. Football is here.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I've got my giant college football preview magazines.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
To start marking Uice.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Many of which are outdated.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You know, there's a lot of information about Northwestern that
really doesn't translate to twenty twenty three for me, except
the over underwin total was three and a half.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
How you feeling now? Feeling now? There you go?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But for Major League Baseball and we talk and start
looking ahead at the second half of the season. We
had a lot of breakout stories in the first half.
Some of the teams you're expecting to run away and hide, well,
they haven't. Some perennial powerhouses are part of the down
and outs for this year, talking specifically Saint Louis Cardinals Baseball,
(01:53):
fourteen games under. I was in Saint Louis a little
bit last week and listening to people talk about the team.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
They're a bit.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Bit saddened by not being in the race and wondering
what parts get sold off as we get towards the
trade deadline.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Used to dominating.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I know there was a graphic a couple of weeks
ago talking about how many days they've been in last place,
and they are right now a couple of games behind
the Pirates. But it's a rare, rare placement for them
right Normally competing for the Central title and for the
National League overall. Last year you have Goldsmith wins the
MVP and now you're in also ran, so you have
(02:32):
those kind of things. The Yankees are they getting get healthy.
There's no commitment to how quickly if you're getting Aaron
Judge back and all yeah, right for that contract?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Now are they or what?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And that's that becomes one of the talking points that
you get into the second half right of of when
you you buy in to guys who maybe have a
little bit of a history, but then go on and
the Judge's case, do some historic things. They're like, all right,
you know what, we're gonna look to the better side
and what he means. And we talk about Otani here
in Los Angeles and all the secondary and tertiary revenue
(03:09):
streams that's come flying in as a result of his
brilliance for the Angels and for Major League Baseball as
a whole. But same thing for Judge in New York.
You know, some are.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Saying, well, they've got to go all in.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Jeter on as part of the All Star broadcast saying, hey,
they've got to go all in and be as aggressive
as they can to go try to land Otani at
the trade deadline. Now, I not worry about the signing
in the off season, but go and make the aggressive
move here.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Many teams I agree with that With the Yankees, I mean,
if you really look at it, what are they seven out?
But they're still like six seven games over five hundred doins,
one behind a wildcard spot. And I'm talking about with
the three teams ahead of them, they're within like a
half game of all or one game of all three teams.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
So they're right there.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Or Tani is the kind of guy that not only
puts them over the top, then they can become real
scary to go ahead and and you know, run through
teams in the playoffs and and go to the World Series.
So fun the Yankees. I've I've got to be a buyer.
I'm I'm one hundred percent sure that's the way I'm
going there.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
And watch out.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
If you're gonna look for a team to make a
run in the second half, watch out for the Minnesota Twins,
our bosses team. I know they've lost three in a
row coming into the break, but they're still the best
team in.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That the mom Come on, we're not talking about the
Central No Central but finished just five hundred wins.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The Division.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
I always bring them up as I know they have
the easiest schedule in baseball, I believe, So watch out
for Minnesota to maybe make a big run in the
second half there.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And I just I mean, you're that likes long shots
and and trying to throw a shot. No, But that's
my point is it's totally contrary to the persona you've
developed over these many years on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Eh, you know they will look out for them. Now
they're a half game back, well.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Though they're after, but they're some below five hundred. I
I think they could make, like, you know, go on
a tear. That's surveys are bringing them up. And I
think the Angels are not gonna do squat on the
last seven.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well they're only one game under.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, I think they're gonna go worse than that.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Then they were one in nine in their last ten.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Head they're going in the wrong direction. Trouts out for
a long time. I don't think they're gonna be able
to recover.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, and the Division is difficult. Seattle waiting to see
if Julio Rodriguez, uh, if he can be the player
he was at times last year. See if a better
second half that home run derby right forty one, if
suddenly you get a jump start there. And they were
seven and three in their last ten going into the break,
and Houston has righted the ship and they're getting healthy. Yes, right, right,
(05:43):
that's the difficult thing. They're nine games over, five hundred,
two games back of the Rangers. Rangers one of the
more interesting teams. Yeah, making make right run differentials on
and forty eight insane, but they did drop seven of
their last ten, So I'm wondering what's gonna happen to them?
And so they're gonna get lapped by Houston. We're gonna
(06:04):
go We're Katie and Alvarez back here.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
And I hate to bring this up because I know
Jason Smith brings them up all up, but my Mets
are not going to turn it around.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
They're terrible.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, they're just it's just disgusting what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, and they're they're kind of stuck. Well when wh
who's taking on a lot of those kinds.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Anybody who wants to maybe make a run in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean unless I mean, look, Cohen can eat the
money and not really think about it because that would
be the thing that would have to happen, right, based
on their performances. The performance, Uh, that's gonna be the
the difficulty going forward. That's second Timulus Sorda reference. We
got in to night so uh you know they so
(06:45):
you got Mets Dodgers get things started again tomorrow. So
that'll be exciting, uh for us here at Fox Sports
Radio and of course our flagship Ams five seventy l
A Sports. You know, big series. Mets are well, they're
not good, but it's still bring some juice to the ballyard.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
But it's gonna be a fun.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Second half and certainly the next two weeks as we
talk trade deadline with the Dodgers at fifty one and
thirty eight, you.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Think we'll see a lot of trades. We'll see big.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Names going ad, some big names, I really do.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I think, you know, I know we had a chance
Olden Polonies in with me the other night. We talked
to John Balm Barrossi and I brought up Nolan Aeronato.
You didn't think that was possible.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It's a name that would be a big time maybe
a shock because certainly there's a contract there and everything else.
But you're trying to see what what can you go
to roll things forward, to get yourself back moving towards
the top of the standings. Maybe it's there, maybe it's Gorman,
maybe it's one of the other young players that you've got,
(07:51):
but certainly interesting because right now you're chasing Cincinnati, right
and the phenom.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Is that just fantastic?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Or but it's great stories, right?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, I still dabble in the sports card world,
and he was a guy that had the hype and
people were buying in and then as soon as he
got called up and showed a little bit of anything,
the marketplace goes insane. But you you're talking about a
guy who's been electrifying on the base paths.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And that's the thing I love.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The Angels would take him.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
If you want to make a trade for Otani, they'll
take all your laugh in. But why is that, you know,
why to give up de la Cruz for Otani?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Not for what you're paying and what you're paying him
for the foreble future.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's making nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But you talk about an electrifying player that captivated, you know,
the imagination of a lot of a lot of people.
But it owes some of it to the rules changes
here in Major League Baseball for twenty twenty three. When
you talk about the pitch clock, you talk about the
inability to keep going back and holding a runner on
(09:00):
right once you've gone over once.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Well, all right, here we go. You missed the stolen base.
I no, I dig it. I I like that. There's
another element to the game, and I think that's one.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Of the the things.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But it's one of those things they hoped for, right,
that we'd get away from the three outcome games or
at bats, I should say, home run, strikeouts, and walks. Right,
we're back to get them on, get them over, get
them in situational hitting. I don't really care whether you
had the shift or not. But to me, it was
a all right hit them where they ain't was always
(09:35):
what I was doing exactly. But that's fine. You don't
want to have that, and you know, teams are gonna
get as close to they can as they can to
those borders to give themselves opportunities, you know, hovering around
second base, whether it's the second basement or the shortstop
or where the outfielders are aligned, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But I like the activity.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I like the the churning and where stolen bases are
back in the mix. And this is where you know,
catching goes back to try to premium because remember we
had a lot of catchers growing up, and this is
where I age myself. So you had a few guys
that were good offensive players, but then most of the
guys were, all right, you've got to be a good
defender and you've got to have an arm. You got
(10:18):
to be able to do a lot of that stuff
instead of all right, we're another home run. And I
always laughed, right growing up in Chicago, you'd rush home
in the early afternoon to watch Cubs baseball, and and
people always made such a big deal out of the
you know, double switches whatever it's like, Well, no, because
generally you had a second basement, a catcher in the pitcher,
(10:39):
three of three spots where nobody could hit except for
a couple of guys.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Right, But defense was at a premium.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
And now maybe we see a little bit of a
shift back because you are giving up extra bases more
frequently that the metrics say, all right, we gotta get guys.
You know, if we give up a little bit in
terms of the hop and what the guy does behind
the plate. He's got to be a better catcher than
worrying about you know what he's doing in the batting word.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
It's such a big offensive weapon to be able to
steal a base or two and stay out of a
double play.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Put more pressure on the pitcher.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Absolutely, he's got to come to the plate and worry
about the hitter and not worry about keeping him on.
I mean, you can only throw over once. You should
be stealing bases, like could you imagine if Vince Coleman
played today with those type of rules, how many stolen
bases he would have?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So yesterday we talked a little bit, and certainly I
did with Olden on the night of the All Star Game,
about the pageantry of past All Star games, right, the
jerseys and all that stuff. Right, and you remember nineteen
ninety nine Fenway Park, the All Century team, right, all
the pomp and circumstance bringing Ted Williams out and all
of that. Well, they released a coffee table book that
(11:53):
my brother was able to procure, uh, and they did
a three city event. Three events, three cities, and my
brother was able to go to one, the Chicago And
if you bought this book, it was like fifty dollars
for the coffee table book. But Hank Aaron and Willie
May showed up and signed him. Oh great, okay, so
they got those and I decided, all right, this is
going to be a project because I live lived for
(12:14):
a while near Cooperstown. So I just go up during
induction week and you've got guys with folding tables and
all that, and slowly but surely, and I wish I
had tape recorders with me because it was before I
was doing media stuff, working in a different, different job,
and you know, you'd get some great stories from guys
as they'd sign and look through the book. But a
couple months ago, I had never added Ricky Henderson to
(12:37):
the book. And it was even before the games had begun.
And I go where they're doing these rules and he
started laughing. I go, what two hundred? He goes, oh,
come on, it would be unfair. Oh yeah, he just
he just kind of chuckled like like but he was
just like, yeah, let's go. Yeah, the guy can only
(12:59):
throw over once. But he just started laughing. And the
guys that were in line, he's gonna make a comeback, now,
how about that? He looks like you, like physically, I
think he looks like he probably could, but like he
just thought it was fun and he goes.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
But it's good for baseball.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
It's good to get that element in because you do
have guys where maybe maybe their bats aren't the greatest,
but you can utilize the pinch runner.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Again, a roster spot where it matters.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Is pitching overtaking the bats so much, they're so much
better pictures. Now, well, your pictures are getting hurt, so
you're using secondary pitchers.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, but I would have to look at the the
metrics and the dad. I don't have it off the
top of my head, but I just look that way.
But I would theorize this because of the specialization of
the bullpens, the fact that you don't see a pitcher
a second, or that you don't get a read on
what the stuff is. You don't have the Oh, I
nearly got him in that first in bat, right, I
(13:56):
just followed that one off. He gives me a pitch
up there again, I'm gonna get it. We don't have
those circumstances.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
But that again, you don't have hitters like Tony Gwynn anymore,
those type of hitters.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's why ariahs there is such a big deal, right
and hitting three eighty three going into the break like
that's fantastic stuff. We're not necessarily seeing huge batting averages
across the board, but balls batted in play to where
there's at least some activity, some action and the opportunity
for mismanagement and errors in the field, because let's face it,
(14:30):
there are some butchers in the outfield across Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, it seems like defense is not as like I mean,
the days of Ozzie Smith didn't seem to be there anymore,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah. I certainly went and saw his statue outside the stadium,
and then I continued my walk and we saw and
then I saw those stairs. Then I saw those stairs,
and it just took me out of my happiness.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
You can't say cracker Jacks. You just can't.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
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Welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Harmon. No Jason Tonight, We've got Arnie
Spanier in his space as we come you Alive from
the ti raq dot Com studios. A couple of business
notes in our sporting universe to talk about. Number one
related to the beginning of the second half. It's been
announced that Sunday Night Baseball is returning to Baltimore for
(17:53):
the first time in five years. Arnie Spanier, five years, you.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Would have thought that just by you know, maybe an
early season game or something against the Yankees or something
they would have been on the on something night baseball.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
That's a long time to go, you.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Know, fifty four and thirty five at the break. One
of the best organizations from a minor league perspective that's run.
The ownership has been under fire from local media and
the larger of like, hey, why aren't you too doing
more with that squad one five in a row and
you had several members of the squad as part of
(18:31):
the All Star continued to win. Austin Hayes hitting three
fourteen on the year, Rutchman behind the behind the plate,
he's got twelve home runs, thirty nine.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Two behind the Rays who started out like a yeah,
you know, on fire to start.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well, and we've watched them dip a bit and then
sliding a bit, trying to get healthy, trying to get right.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I mean, Baltimore is buyers to add on to Mount
Castle and all these guys through the first half. Fantastic stuff.
That's one piece of news, something that just hit my
timeline before we get to the main event. Right, they
come in threes. They always say, well, here's the second one.
French billionaire Francois On is in talks to buy Creative
(19:19):
Argent Artist Agency for at least seven billion dollars. This
according to Bloomberg, CIA is the number one sports agency
with more than twenty nine hundred clients. Wow, now that
might not they might not mean a lot to you,
but he's married to someone very famous who we celebrate
(19:40):
her entire catalog on this show. He's married to Selma
Hayak Oh really well, gave everybody the gift after reaching
a milestone in terms of followers with a well a
swimming lesson on video the other day that got viewed
quite a bit. But seven billion dollar?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Where does he live in Paris or something?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, I am not on their their client roster as
of yet. Seven I'm waiting for the call. But they're
saying sale of at least seven billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Which is he worth that he has all that type
of money?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
You know, that's a good question. We're going to look
that up as we speak.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah, I'm curious about that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He's been the president of Groupe Artemis since two thousand
and three. Wow, so now we have to figure out
what that Well, but that's the thing, right, what would
you do with it? Right? Because that's one of the
other stories that's percolating and off the yellow legal pad
power ball is going to be eight hundred and seventy
five million dollars. You know, Mike, what would you do
(20:38):
if you had that kind of money?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
You know, I know you're going to think up crazy
about the crazy when I say this, But.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
By the way, he's worth forty six billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Wow, that kind of money could ruin your life.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
If you want eight hundred and seventy five million dollars
in the power of that, I think so much, that's
too much for one person. I don't know why we
just don't give a like one underd two million dollars
to a whole bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
One person getting that much money. That was just way
too much. Mike.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
That was anti American yesterday it was all USA USA.
Now you're like, give a little bit to everybody. What
are you doing?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
What person doesn't need a billion?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You could do a lot of good with that, and
you would have the power, responsibility, and heart to be
able to do that.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
By the way, out of a billion, you only get
it like what five hundred Oh.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
No, then don't bother don't even give it to me.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Then come on, Spaniard, But think about all the good
you could do that You could buy into your beloved dolphins,
how many ownership, how many people would come hitting you
up for money too.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
You'd have to move, you'd have.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
To well that's the only you know, Yeah, they I'd
have to come up with a shill corporation and someone
that I would hire as the face. Yeah, no, I
absolutely I would have to hire an actor of the
highest magnitude. You maybe someone who that people even know
to be by front man and.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Somebody who showed up with a mask on Halloween. That's
because because you're.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Gonna have to show up and you know, accept it,
because they've got to do the publicity. And that's the
hard part, which is why you'd have to claim it
under a corporation or something, you know, something you put together.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
But that's a lot of doe eight hundred and seventy
five million.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Let's say you get five hundred million dollars of it,
all right, you invest a bunch of it. Right, This
is boring, just kind of gets to the office space.
You're missing the point of the exercise. You know what
I'd do if I had a million dollars?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And then well, well Lawrence comes in and tells you
what he would do, uh, played by the great Dietrich Bader.
But the idea being that you know, you could go
and buy yourself into get a jet, you could go
to all of the events you've always wanted to go,
travel the world. You could buy that place in the
middle of nowhere with the porch, swing on a body
of water and be left alone. I don't think I'm
(22:55):
gonna need five hundred million dollars to island.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
There's something good. You go buy one. Next George Clooney.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, now you're talking.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Maybe you get invited. Maybe if you've got that big
a bankroll, you get to go to the white party
that Michael Rubin had last week, and Kim Kardashian's coming
and sidling up next to you.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Are I want my own party?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
What do you want it?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
But if you've got five hundred million dollars, you could
make that happen.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Yeah, come to Arnie Spaniards party and I'll invite everybody.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
And you know, just don't put the silver in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I was gonna say, ty shirt and uh Fenley will
help you design the swag bags and whenever activities go
on in each room.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
He just laughed.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's like, hey, hey, hey, but the third story and
this is the one I know you've got you're so
excited about.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yes, yes, is that? Well?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Shannon Sharp, NFL Hall of Famer, budding entrepreneur. What's he got?
He's got a I don't want to misname the the
liquor line he's got rolling out right, He's got his
own brand. I'm working towards that, because that's the other
thing you can do with five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
You can put your name.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
On a on anything, on a bottle. He's got the
Kognac going right now. But he left undisputed, and so
now they've gone on hiatus. A lot of questions of
who's going to sit opposite Skip Bayless, a lot of rumor,
conjecture and speculation related to what it's like to work
(24:26):
across from Skip. And we'll leave that, you know, for
other folks to bandy about. But some of the names
are internal candidates, people that are already there. Emmanuel Acho,
maybe a Joy Taylor, maybe Leshaun McCoy, and then other
people that might be on the roster are considered. And
then another name that comes out, and this is the
New York Post reporting, well what about former Seattle seahawk
(24:52):
viral sensation? And really, I he starts to talk, I
lean in and listen. I may not agree, right, I'm
gonna be entertained. And that's Richard Sherman.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Right right.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
I gotta tell you, Mike, I like Richard Sherman. I
didn't like when he was on Undisputed. Was it the
first time or only time? When he was on with Skip,
you know a long time ago. I felt that he
was disrespectful when he was saying I'm better in life
than you are. He hijacked the show. He wouldn't answer
(25:25):
the question. He just repeatedly said I'm better in life
than you are. Just trying to be little Skip. You
can't have that as a premise of a show five
days a week. When you're on two and a half
three hours a day. You can't just go on your
own agenda and disrespect everybody. I know it was just
a one time appearance there, and I actually took it
personal too, to be honest with you. Yeah, you're very
(25:48):
blessed you went to Stanford, you know, Skip, when the
Vanderbilt you made it to the NFL. Good for you,
But you know, I feel like you was rubbing everybody's
facing it when you say I'm better in life, then
you skip, I'm better in life. I feel like we
said I'm better in life than everybody else. That's not
what this show is about. If you want a debate,
Skip and bring the facts to the table and say
(26:11):
so and so is gonna win so many games, or
I like this guy, I don't like this whatever it is, Mike,
But to start getting personal, I'm better in life than
you are, and there's no room for that on that
type of debate, shore you, it can't go there, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well, since none of that debate is ever talking about
players in that light, Come.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
On, No, but you've seen that.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yeah, but you can't get personal, you know where.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Else.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
But but Mike, if I.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Said, if we're talking about Lebron James and let's say
you hate him and I love him and we disagree,
you can't just attack me and say, well, I'm better
looking than you, or you're fat or you know, you can't.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I'm better than that.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
But that doesn't mean that people wouldn't tune in and
watch and that other people wouldn't go of that lower
common denominator.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
What does that have to do with what we're debating
about Lebron?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
A lot of the stuff are inane, fabricated debates anyway,
so not and it's an industry building on a lot
of it.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You're okay with them making it personal.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Like if I said to you, you know you're dumber
than a bag of rocks, Harmon, and it's you know,
Lebron's better.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So you're okay with that?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
That's fine, right, I think I'll be just fine with it.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Okay, Well, now.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
If I have to do that five days a week
and that's all it is, right, we're not actually having
a debate, fine, but.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Just let's sign each other.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Let's not. Let's call what it is though.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
When when you go on there as a one time appearance,
and maybe there's maybe there's some stuff that's been in
the past, right, right, I mean because Skip's gone after
a lot of guys and many of them have waited
for their opportunity to return fire.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Right, But you gotta if you're going to debate it,
to debate it. If you want to just come on
one time and you want to attack Skip for something
you said year ago or last year, well that's fine too.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
But it's gonna get old if you do it five
days a week.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
No. But that's what I'm saying, is all right, maybe
you got it done and it got some juice and
it got some run when it when it aired. It's
kind of like you know the jokes McAfee who's done
his work with the WWE is pretty good on the mic,
so you know, you don't need scripts and whatever. And
so in yesterday's self congratulatory SP's world, you know, he
(28:26):
made the rounds and he took his shots at people
as well.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Right, so he did that. So I mean it's there.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
And when when you're in that, in this space, let's
face it, someone wants to go and make fun of
the size of my head or the fact that maybe
I should hit the gym a little harder, whether it's
on our network or somewhere else, have at it.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, but I don't care. That's not gonna I'm not
gonna lose any sleep over.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
No, but it's ridiculous, like if you and I are
and I hated the bait, like I said about Lebron,
and I just say, you know what, Harmon, you're just fat?
What the again, what does what have to do with
the other people are gonna say?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think we just start saying Harmon won the argument
and I start doing a victory lap around these Fox
Sports Again.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I didn't want to see the show become something like that.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
No, certainly, and look, there there's reports part of this
New York Post article is that they were spotted in
at the Peninsula Hotel at Beverly Hills, you know, and
oh no, I I have morning Cotton with some great regularity.
I'm sure occasionally a nice yeah, I'm if the if
the omelet looks good, hey, come on out, I'll take you.
(29:34):
We'll go to Beverly Hills.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
I would love to do this show just once, opposite Skip,
I really would.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I would love to debate him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Look, I'd love to go in and take over and
and be back on the lot and figure it out
and simulcast is ready when Smith and I are reunited,
you know, let's go. But it's the idea that Look,
it's whatever you think of Skip Bayless. And I know
him going all the way back. I don't know him.
I'm talking about his work, going all the back, way
back when he was a columnist in Chicago and all
(30:08):
of that. I mean, there's a long career and whether
you like or dislike people, and this is that any job,
and I'm talking from the straight, you know, performance and
rolling through.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's not an easy business.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And most jobs have their their pitfalls along the way.
Whenever someone is in a place for a long while,
whether it's you know, one company or in an industry,
I'll give it its respect. I may not agree with
what they say, I may not like them personally if
I know them, but I'll have respect that they've been
(30:41):
able to scratch and claw and survive. And that goes
for any business. Yeah, and so all of you out
there that are still grinding in a way, here's the
nineteenth cup of coffee I've had raised in your honor.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
By the way, real quickly, since we're talking about Skips
TV show, I just want to and I'm filling in tonight.
I just want to tell you one time I got
a call from uh, you know Maury Polvic. Obviously he's
got his whole line of a home pregancy. Yes you No,
I didn't know that there really. Yeah, I just started
a couple of weeks ago. Moury had an emergency. He
(31:14):
had to miss three days of show. I got a
call from the producer. They said my name came up.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
They wanted to know if I was interested in the
film for Maury.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Immediately out of my mouth, I said, yes, yes, absolutely,
they you're one of five people were considering. I get
a call back that afternoon. Are you still interested. I go, yes,
They go, you're one of two people. Now it's between
you and somebody else. I get a call back. They go,
We're gonna go with Maury's producer, who's a young lady who.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Did a pretty good job. But man, did I want
to do that?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Did?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I was just?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I mean I was just. I couldn't wait. I had
the phone rang, and I was nervous. I go, please
say yes, please say. Could you imagine how much fun
I would have with that?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Mike?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It'd be crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
You know, there's no reason you can't start your own
internet talk show.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yes, the Father.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I mean, look, you put on an open casting call.
I'm sure you'll get plenty of folks to respond who
are border at home. Oh no, my zoom call.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Let's go. She played you as the fool. You would
not the father. I'm telling you, I'd be great at that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
There we go a whole other line of work and
questions for Chris Plank to ask on Sunday, I have
begune Mike Harmon, Arnie Spaniard in for Jason Smith here
from the tyrac dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios Jason
Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon rolls on. But first
we've got Brian Finley with what's trending in our sporting uter.
(32:44):
He's just shaking his head.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
I got a great segue in the fact that Philip rivers,
there's no doubt that he is the father, yes, of
a tenth child. This coming down with his wife. Yeah,
they're expecting their tenth child, all of those children from
his spouse, Tiffany. Meanwhile, Northwestern is having this shakeup when
(33:07):
it comes to the leadership of the football program, and
it's going to be defensive coordinator David Brawn who's going
to be the interim had football coach for twenty twenty
three after he had to fill in for Pat Fitzgerald,
the former head coach fired for hazing allegations. Northwestern continuing
to dig and find other athletic programs that aren't exactly
(33:31):
what they would have liked in the fact that they've
dumped their baseball coach Jim Foster on accusations of bowling
and creating a toxic environment within the team's operations. All
Pro defensive tackle and New York Jets star Quinnin Williams
rewarded with a four year, ninety six million dollar contract
extension sixty six million dollars of that is guaranteed cash money,
(33:54):
so a lot of wads of cash going into his pockets.
I meanwhile, at Wimbledon, Markettevon winning her semi final match
since so she in the finals will go up against
the six seed Onsjabur from Tunisia. Dodgers have ink free
agent outfielder Jake marisnik As. The second half of MLB's
season gets underway on Friday, coming off the All Star break,
(34:18):
and in golf, Round one at the Scottish Open is
complete and Beyong Hung leads, firing a nine under that
is good for a two shot advantage over solo second.
How about Rory McElroy, he's tied for third at six hunderd. Now,
as I get ready to send it back here to you,
(34:38):
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spaniardarney, obviously you went to the
University of Arizona and a lot of speculation about the
team and the program and the university because of the
PAC twelve and where that's going with UCLA and USC
going to the Big ten. I'm now hearing because the
PAC twelve is you know, Mike Disband, we don't know
yet that Arizona is actually going to be joining the
(34:59):
Sun a leak stop, that's gonna be thereing.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
There for a second, you know, goodbye, I'll see you later.
I can't believe that that's a fair assessment. I hate you.
I should be in the IVY League. We're in Ivy
League School Safety school.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Wow, Wow, that's some next level stuff academics there.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
We're better than Northwestern for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh now, come on now, just because the athletic programs
are getting kicked in the.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Teeth right anymore?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Not this year?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, I said the athletic programs are getting kicked into teeth,
doesn't mean the academics have gone to hell?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
What are you doing to me? Trying to devalue my education?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
You know it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
I'll come out to Vermont and I'll take you down. Thanks. Fendley.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's Brian Fley at Brian Fenley where you find him
on Twitter. Find me over at Swollen Dome, find Arnie
at Stinking Genius one. Why are you gotta kick me
while I'm down? What you just accused? And you didn't
want to see Richard Sherman and do an old skip?
You just did it to me. Yeah, Nader's college hypocrite. Yeah,
listeners calling in writing in to talk about JJ Reddick
(36:09):
did that the steven A last week over on the
four Letters. I mean, it is something that you go
through and have that process. I just don't make it
the continued stick as it were. That gets old really fast.
All Right, we have one more running back free agent
question to ask. Is he going to Arnie's team? Is
(36:30):
he going to be a jet? What's he want to do?
He says he's made the right decision. And we have
the play of the night and one last thing that
I want to get to before we're out of here.
There's a super yacht with some of the most famous
people and influential people in this world on it. Who
would you have on yours? We'll talk about it next
here on Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Rman finishing up tonight, Ben Maller coming up
in about ten minutes from now across vast Fox Sports
Radio network. Yeah, I mean four hours flies by today.
I was no you were, you were a little bit
above average, nice solid B minus as it were. It's
(37:26):
time for the Progressive power play of the day. Let's
take it to the.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Courts FN Truceiva poised to win, to reach the final
for the first time, she serves.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
The return goes along.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Jon Nils in her moment of bit tweet a place
in a Wimbledon final, second ground Sung Finals.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
To the chick that the Wimbledon finals are set. That'll
be Saturday, so get ready for that.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Is Jimmy Connors in it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
You know what, I'm sure on your retro channel you
can make that happened for yourself there, Arnie.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
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Speaker 3 (38:02):
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Speaker 6 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Looking forward to the Men's final.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
As well, so you know it's it's that right right
of summer, right as you get around your July fourth
holiday holiday holiday that you celebrate with a little bit
of Wimbledon and all the stars that assemble there.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Finish.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Now you turn the page right, and we get into
the second half of the Major League Baseball season, we
start thinking about training camp.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
You get into the training camps, the practices I've been to,
you know, Schurst practice when it started.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah. I used to do a training camp tour when
I lived out on the East Coast because it was
beautiful because you can go to a lot of the places.
I was in Niskayuna, Schenectady, so near Albany, New York,
which meant you could do that quick two to three
hour drive to many of those facilities really.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
And still sleep in your own bed. I love it, right,
so you know you'd go.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
And the only one that was a little more difficult
was it was a long drive out to Latrobe to
see the Steelers. But they had a deal where they
had one of the dorms there at Saint Vincent where
you can go stay if you were a story, just
say hey, I need a room for the night. You
can get all that stuff. Yeah, no, absolutely, And most
of the coaches are pretty cool. At least early in
(39:28):
the camps. You know, you can get access to players.
They're really good about you know, Hey, give me a
list of who you'd like to talk to, and as
long as it wasn't, hey, here's the five top players
on the team, mate, maybe you could get one of those,
so you'd have to expand the list. But a lot
of times they'd go out of their way to make
sure you got a little bit of love in a
couple of minutes with the player you were really looking for.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
No, it's and you know what, not only that you
go ahead and you see more of the offense and
stuff they're working on, and it's just more relaxed atmosphere,
you know, just it's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
It's like going to the spring training game in baseball.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah, I was a nerd.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
I was always drifting to the backfields where the linemen
and the dodsive linemen were working. In some of the
conversations you had there, Oh, I tell you. Hey. Dalvin
Cook still without a team. He says he's really comfortable
with his situation. Though Alexander Madison will take over as
the back for the Minnesota Vikings. Cook's reported to receive
multiple contract offers, just biding his time. Why get to
(40:27):
work earlier than you have to.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Well, you always hear the Jets and the Dolphins are
always the two teams that come up the first about
where he's going to want to go.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Is it gonna come down to new offers and the
most money. It may well be.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
I know that he prefer to probably play in Miami,
so Miami's gonna have to get close. I just don't
know how much each team can afford to give him,
to be honest.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
If he goes to New England, though, he can maybe
help stave off elimination and retirement for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Yeah or maybe.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
But I think the Patriots are gonna end up getting
Hopkins and that's what that money's gonna end up going to.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Though he'll have to take a pay to go there.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Also, Yeah, it's curiosity, but it's cool to still have
a couple of big names out there in the final
weeks OH training camp.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
What about Ezekiel Elliott?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Huh, Well, he'll end up as a cowboy on a
minimum when it's all said and done. Hey, last one
I saw this the super yacht of the every summer.
Magic Johnson is out there right. He's got Michael Jordan,
Samuel L. Jackson, and Judge Greg mathis with it. Who
would be on your roster, and Jimmy Kimmel's there too.
Who would be on your list if you had your
super yacht once you get your eight hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
If I said four super bottles, is that fine or what?
Speaker 4 (41:33):
They're just no? I think that helps us get in
under the wire here.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Maybe you can hang out with the French billionaire Bying
CAAA and his wife Selma hyak hey, he's already. I'm
Mike ben Mallard coming up next here on Fox Sports Radio.
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