August 5, 2023 • 28 mins
Miscommunication takes place as Spain gets an own goal vs. Switzerland. Anthony Davis agrees to 3-year, $186M max extension with the Lakers. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Before we go any further, we have a huge update
for you, and I mean a huge update courtesy of
producer Justin Frossberg, who has the latest on the mega
millions drawing what was it one point three billion into tonight?
(01:11):
What do you have for us?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well, if you bought a ticket you did not win,
As the jackpot now climbs to an estimated one point
six billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Still no winners. How does nobody pick the right numbers?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
With all those I'm gonna win and buy the Mets
and tank them.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I don't wait? What were the what were the winning
numbers tonight? What were the winning numbers? Do you have it?
Do you have a list?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Can you see seven RBIs for Ahmed Rosario and his
for six games with the Dodgers?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Use so six and seven? Yeah? Yeah, okay, so six
and seven.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Okay, I'm saying for our for our ticket.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh no, no, I want to know what the winning
numbers were?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, winning numbers were eleven, forty five, fifty two, fifty six,
and the big one was twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Wow, those seem like numbers. I could have picked eleven thirty.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Those are numbers you're familiar with.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You're forty five numbers. I know all of those numbers.
I mean I could have picked all of those. I
really those All those numbers are very familiar, especially especially
the first few. You know, once you get up to fifty,
I kind of lose a little bit, But up to
fIF I could have picked some of those numbers on
hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I've seen those numbers down the backs of sports uniforms.
I think we all could have picked those.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm trying to think, like if I could have gone
with a with a theme like a Mets or Jets
uniform numbers and one stuff, but I don't think I could.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's all the prices of the Taylor Swift t shirts
for sale, fifty two fifty six.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
That's why Hartmin's not here. He's still in line.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah. Speaking of which, Mike Harmon missing the show tonight
because he was playing Megan Moulton because he took his
daughters to the Taylor Swift concert tonight. At so far,
he is not at the concert himself. He is in
the parking lot hanging out with other parents who brought
their kidkids, and their kids are inside the concerts by themselves.
So Harmon's out and he told me this. He says,
(03:05):
we're all busy making friendship bracelets because apparently that's a thing,
and Harmon's gonna trade them with all the other parents
that he hangs out with. So it's almost like it's
a dead show, except you know, instead of making all
the different pottery and stuff, it's just we're exchanging friendship bracelets.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Uh yeah, the whole Taylor Swift parents And it's like
a dead show. You had me right until the end,
and then that would have never quite crossed my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Truck in time to shake it up.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So what I'm saying is Harmon's gonna see Bill Walton
at the show tonight and Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Steve de Segur, let me tell you about what it
means to re record all the songs from rig Let
me tell you exactly how much money this is going
to mean for Taylor Swift going forward. If you're only
playing the songs that she is re recorded. And she
does something very smart. She says, maybe this one line
has changed, maybe the base line is different. So you
(04:00):
wind up deleting that song from your Spotify and you
add this song, and suddenly you are not playing the
other songs, and the record companies go bankrupt, and Taylor
Swift makes all this money, and then she goes and
buys the.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Joy and love. That's why we're all here.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Actually, he would probably say, she's never heard of Mickey
sell and so or Jerry Selling so and so.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
He would never darken the door of the next.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Week, Steve de Sager, let me tell you about the
plan for Taylor Swift. After making two billion dollars on
this tour, She's going to buy and resuscitate the PAC twelve.
We're going to put all the schools back in. She's
going to give them money. They don't need nil, they
don't need any No one watches the games anyway. Who
watches Oregon State Washington late at night? Nobody? No one
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even watches the games I do on ESPN plus no one.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I was just gonna say, you're doing an impersonation of
the guy who keeps calling it the Conference of Champions,
where one the champion after another has hit the exit door.
In the last few days out of the PAC twelve,
For those not keeping score at home, eight of the
twelve have committed to leave, even Oregon and Washington leaving
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for the Big Ten when they won't be getting a
full revenue share until the current Big ten TV deal
finishes in twenty thirty, and they're still saying leaving the
PAC twelve is a better deal than staying.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Steve just Sager, let me tell you how easy it
is to do prep is a broadcaster when you're only
worried about four teams because that's all I have to
worry about right now is Oregon State, Washington State, cal
and Stanford. That is it. I'm going to sleep most
of the day and just show up in broadcast because
I know everything I need.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Like most broadcasts. In other words, there saying, by the way.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
We have a goal for Spain already already five minutes.
They're already up one nothing on Switzerland on FS one
on the round of six is underway.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Look at this all right, So we'll have more from
the US Women's World Cup and more on the big
week that was in college football.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Today's a really big anniversary sea. It's one of the
most famous plays in baseball history, and this is the
thirtieth anniversary of the Nolan Ryan Robin Ventura Brawl. Nolan
Ryan were the most respected pitchers of all time. Would
always throw inside, would hit people, was never challenged before
until this day. In nineteen ninety three against the White Sox,
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he was pitching for the Rangers. He hit Robin Ventura
in the back. Ventura looked like you thought about it
for a second and he was going to go down
to first and instead charge the mound, brawled with with
Nolan Ryan, and Ryan got Ventura in a little bit
of a headlock.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Give him aokie.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, he was kind of giving a funny guy out
here on the mound. And it was absolute anarchy and
one of the most famous plays in baseball history. And
it showed up everywhere today. You saw it everywhere this
day in sports, everything else. And this is a it's
not only is it a big day, but it's a
huge day for me because I don't know if I
am where I am right now without that highlight in
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that game. Because this happened when I was a temporary
production assistant at ESPN right I graduated college away. The
ESPN hired you when you were coming out of school.
Was they hired you for six months as a temporary employee,
and you have six months to prove you're.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Not a full employee even out of college.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, no, you're not. You show up and for six
months it's called your probationary period, and you get paid.
I mean, you get paid the whole thing. But there's
no benefits and everything else. And after six months they
decide whether or not they keep you and become a
permanent employee, or they say, sorry, you're not good enough.
You know, we appreciate everything you did, but you know,
we're not going to keep you. And I would say,
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I would say probably sixty five to seventy percent of
the of the production assistant that that started got kept.
They called they called we called it getting kept. And
I would say, like three out of ten didn't you
really had to not? Uh, you really had to. You
really had this try a little bit to not be
kept it as as an employee. But this is a
job everybody wanted.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Right, this is a while ago. Things have changed it.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Things have changed, absolutely, things have changed. So this is
the heyday of ESPN, the beginning of Dan and Keith
and everything else. And I'm a you know, a production
assistant and I get hired, and I get hired, and
I had been there at this point for you know,
maybe a month or a month and a half. And
you're still doing a lot of learning and shadowing. You're
not doing a lot of things for yourself yet, because
you need to learn how ESPN operate. So for your
first month or so, you are shadowing other people while
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they're doing a job and you're watching what they do,
and then you're learning. And after after about ninety days
or so, okay, they let you go and you start
doing things for the show. You know, real real you know,
and work. Yes, well, you're always working, but they don't
really give you that. Hey, okay, uh, here's your you're
you know, you're working tonight from uh, you know, twelve
(09:00):
until ten o'clock and you're doing this, this, this, and
this as was before it was you were just shadowing everybody.
So one of the first things they let you do
when you finish that that period is you're in highlights.
And what it is is it is a huge room
with a television set every probably every foot and a
half and you sit in front of this big TV
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and you with a pen and paper and you and
you log the game and you know, you get assigned
a game and you're logging the game and you're going
in to edit the highlight to put it on SportsCenter
or whoever else needs it after the show. So it's
the first thing you did is a big there's like
thirty television sets and you're in there and you're watching.
And my assignment this night was one of my first
assignments as a temporary PA outside after I stopped shadowing,
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was the Rangers White Sox game. And I still remember
to this day. I'm watching the game and I'm logging everything, okay,
and they the my boss comes around and says, okay, well,
they have you for you know, forty seconds of a
highlight for for Sports Center, and they have you at
you know, a minute for baseball tonight. So just you know,
just so you know, you're working. You know what plays
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you want to put in, and you write out the
shot sheet and you give it to Dan or Keith
and they read it on the air and everything else,
and that's kind of the game.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
So your job was only watching the White Sox Texas
game that night.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well, no, then then I would get Then then you'd
get a West Coast game. Okay, you'd get an early game,
and then you'd get a late game. So my first
game was this and so I'm watching the game and
then you know this game is going on. I'm like,
all right, and you're writing down the big plays and
all of a sudden, Nolan Ryan hits Robin Ventura and
Ventura stops and he turns and he charges them out,
and I still remember yelling, Nolan Ryan's in a brawl.
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And suddenly the whole room just stopped. Like I would
never really talk. I'm just sitting to go what is
going Nolan Ryan's in a brawl. And everybody stops and
looks and comes over to my TV and they're watching
it unfold and here's Nolan Ryan and he is and
they're fighting, and they're going, oh my god, look at
this little bo Jackson was in this game. And bo
Jackson's fighting. They got three guys on bo Jackson. And
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suddenly it's anarchy because this is the story of the night.
And it's not only that, but you can tell it's
gonna be the story the next the next day as well,
because of this situation in which Nolan Ryan, we've never
seen it before, gets involved in a brawl. So now
suddenly I am the man because I'm the one watching
this game and it's my job to edit this highlight
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and to get it on TV and to do it right.
And everybody knows what's going on in this game, and
I got to make sure I get all the plays in.
I can't screw it up. There's a lot of pressure,
and they suddenly call me and say, okay, you're the
first story in Sports Center. How long do you need
for this highlight though, you get up to two minutes
to put it on the air Baseball Tonight. Whatever you need,
they'll take it. If it's three minutes, it's three minutes
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because there's no other story. So the whole night now
I'm editing this thing together and everybody is checking on me,
and I'm getting this shot sheets up to Dan and
Keith and to Gary Miller Baseball Tonight, and everything goes
really well, and my bosses at the end say, hey,
nice job. That was great. Now you got to talk
to some people because they're gonna want to do some
stuff the next day for this for the six o'clocks
(12:00):
Sports Center. Can you edit something together for them? Can
you put this highlight package together? Can you talk to
a couple of people? Yeah? Sure, yeah, sure. And I
walked away that night going I want to do this
for the rest of my life. This is that there's
I've never experienced anything like that up until that point
in my life ever professionally, in whatever it was, and
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it was just all the action and the excitement, and
it was I was hooked. I was hooked on sports,
broadcasting and television and everything from right from that moment,
and it was it was like a drug. It was.
And for like twenty four hours, I don't feel like
my feet touched the floor because all of that was
going on. It was. I still can't describe it. I
can still think about so many different memories I have.
(12:42):
I remember arguing with the two thirty am producer and
he says, why should I give you two minutes for
this Nolan Ryan highlight, just wanting to see what I
would say, And I said, because it's Nolan Ryan and
a brawl and nobody cares about anything else. And he goes, Okay,
you got two minutes. I'm like, all right, all right, great.
I mean that's what it was. It was. It was
that kind of that kind of energy. And then suddenly
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every day going in I felt like that. I felt like,
what am I going to do tonight? That's going to
be like that? Like I was chasing that, like I
was chasing that high and you got it every night.
I mean, you know when you went in and now
I went in. Now I was the person that did
the Nolan Ryan highlight. So now I start getting more
important games, I start getting more important assignments. And it
was every night it was that way for me, and
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it was I knew right there. I said, well, I
don't know what I'm gonna wind up doing in my life,
but I'm I want to do something like this, because
there's nothing like this ever that I can ever feel
that feeling. Still, I don't know that I've ever gotten
that since since that first overwhelming sensation that night with
that highlight.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I'm glad you brought it up in that context because
you know, we have people coming through our building, as
do other media companies through there, so people wondering wanting
to get into the industry. And I can tell you,
and I had a boss that said this to me once,
speaking of radio, It's like the worst day in radio
is still better than the most the good day that
you're gonna have at most other jobs. And when it's on,
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when it's great, when it's busy, when it's breaking news,
or when there's a championship on the line, it can
be the best.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
It can be not just the best part of your
work week, but the best part of your week. Period
of your life.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So there is that emotional aspect that you don't get
in some other jobs where you remember, like in the
Wonder Years where the nineteen sixties, Dad would come home
from his nine to five job that he only had
to support the family. It wasn't his dream and he's
tie is loosen and he's ready to if not kick
the dog, then the briefcase. And you know, those kind
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of days don't happen generally five days a week in
this type of industry. So I'm glad you pointed out
in that context because that's part of the beauty of
this industry.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, the roughest parts on And I feel weird because
the exact opposite was said by somebody else this week.
The only really bad days would you have is when
you have to talk about somebody dying, Like that's really,
that's really bad, especially when it's something that that is.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
A shock, that is that is a as has happened here.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
This happens, and it happens. Unfortunately, it happens too often.
Those are the really tough days. Those are the tough ones,
but the vast majority of them. Yeah, no, you're right,
it's you know, a bad Dan radio is a great
day for so many other things, and especially in this industry,
what we get to do. You know, I never I
never walk away and say, boy, I'm not anything but
thankful that this is what we get to do, and
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we get to talk about sports and do all this
craziness that we could do for a living.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Here I get an update before the break here on
FS one I mentioned Women's World Cup Round of sixteen
has started here late tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yes, speaking of craziness.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yes, Paying Court scored five minutes in their opponents Switzerland
about ten minutes into the game scored on an own
goal where Spain almost from midfield, shot it past their
own goaltender, kicking it backwards to Ryan try and restart
the play. Instead, it goes in the Swiss tally one.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
It's one one early.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
They messed it, Steve.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The ball goes in from just inside of midfield and
it's hard to see it. It looks like the keeper.
I don't know, the keeper was waiting for something a
little bit more likely that she could handle, because this
looked like almost like a shot.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It was the little fault the goalkeeper. You'd think that
that distance very far is correct, that she could make
up ground but no, it went past her.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, and of course the keeper can't touch the ball
with her hands when it's passed to her from a teammate.
Wasn't a shot, so that so it was a and
it gets all the way around. The celebration is kind
of muted, but still it's a goal in Switzerland. Tie.
Spain won one in the seventeenth minute. Unbelievable. Twitter at Oh,
it's just as I say it. Another goal hits the
board Spain on an edder. Make it two to one.
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This game could be seven to sixty by the time
it's all said.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We're not even twenty minutes in.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We have more on this and a big time NBA
superstar gets paid. That's next right here. This is Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't know. Maybe Spain and Switzerland final score. This
game could be nine to eight Women's World Cup Round
of sixteen.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
If they keep passing it back to the goalie like this.
I say yes.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Twenty fifth minute. Spain just put in a header a
few minutes ago. Now two to one. This answering the
own goal. So Spain's actually scored.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Three times, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So they've scored both goals to give themselves a lead,
and the own goal where they put it in their
own net from just inside midfield.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
This is how it sounds that after this one has
the game, they've got the doubleheader to start the round
of sixteen tonight. The great John Strog was on the call.
Don't ever say, because as you mentioned, it was from
near midfield, the defender passed it back to her own
goalie to the left of her and then the net.
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And of course it's in Spanish language in this country
the World Cup as well, so on universo.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Don't tell me, he said.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Is that? Was that what he said? Right there? Don't
tell me? Don't tell me. Yeah, so, boy, I'll tell
you Spain. They got a lot of offense Spain, and
this entire game has been on Switzerland's at half of
the field.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Considering Switzerland has pretty much scored nothing and allowed nothing
for the bulk of the tournament so far. This is
this is actually three goals total, is more than they
have experienced in any of their three goals total coming in.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So if they do player of the match at the
end are the for each team? Is the player for
Spain going to be like the woman who scored in
the player the game, and the player for Switzerland's going
to be the woman who scored the own goal. For uh, well, you.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Know, just a couple of days ago, Italy's out because
they had an own goal of a defender passing it
back to the goalie and beat her with the shot
and scored for the other team. This same thing just
happened a few days ago to a team that's out. Now,
Spain's back to the lead, as you say, but imagine
if Spain had to go to penalty kicks later tonight
just because of what happened about ten minutes into the
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game scoring for the opponent.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Now, maybe this is just me and I have baseball
on the brain, but trying to check one of the
players on Spain. I'm pretty sure her last name is Otani,
but it's with but it's with an E at the
end instead of an I. But she just had to
throw in and I'm saying that's ot h a and
that's Otani but with an E at the end.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So she can't pitch currently, but she has is no
I don't think there's an.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That'd be great if she was the own goal scorer.
You know, she scores for she could do but she
can do everything. She could score for her team, she
could score for the other team. I'm pretty sure her
name is Otani.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
There's a Bonmati something close to that.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's close, no, but I'm telling she I think her name.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Is because you know, for those who didn't, you know,
I realize people don't pay attention to Angels baseball show. Hey,
Otani did come up in a close game, bottom of
the ninth and two men on, down by two and
struck out, and Seattle wound up retiring the two guys
after him too, nine to seven, Seattle the finals.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So well, that's progress for him. At least he's able
to hit and didn't have to worry about cramps. About that.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
So the Angels have lost four in a row and
the Padres completely gagged a home game against the Dodgers.
So San Diego's record is fifty four and fifty six.
Padres are four back for the wild card in the NL.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
We I saw on that in What's trending coming up
in a few minutes. But to get outside of the
World Cup and college football. Today, Hey a headline that
cut through everything. Anthony Davis got paid. The Lakers and
AD agreed to NBA's richest annual contract extension three years,
one hundred and eighty six million dollar max. He has
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now tied to the Lakers through twenty twenty eight for
a total of two hundred and seventy million dollars. He's
averaging sixty two million dollars a season, which is gonna
wind up being like seven million dollars a game, right
when it's all.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Said and done, rights, it's gonna get he actually plays playing.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A handful against Now, he had two years and eighty
four million left on his contract. He was eligible to
sign that extension today. The Lakers get it done.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
We say it so casually. Now he had two years
in eighty four million, but that's nothing which has on
the contract.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Look at what he's got now. So the right way
to break this down, and it's it's difficult because the
Lakers had to do it because AD is ad. But
this contract is going to wind up being a Jacob
de Gram contract because, as you've seen, Anthony Davis is
not the healthiest player in the world. He misses a
lot of time, a lot of time, and as he's
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getting older, he is missing more and more time, to
the point where you just have to hope. If you
are the Lakers, and this goes for a lot of
veteran players who are getting up there, you think the
same thing for Lebron, you think it for Ad. You
know that getting hurt is going to happen. You just
have to hope that this is not going to happen
at a time when we really need them. You're hoping
that the injury comes in the middle of the season,
(22:01):
at a time when there's an easy part of the schedule,
whatever it is. But you can't count on that the
contract is going to be great for the Lakers because
Ad really kicked it up a level with his play
last year. He had a point where he understood, I
need to be a different guy, need to be more
consistent every night, and while he's on the floor, this
is a great contract, But you know he's not going
(22:22):
to be on the floor. And it's the same thing
with Jacob de Grom. When he's out there, there's no
pitcher who is better. But how often is he going
to be out there right? How many starts is he
really going to have for Texas the rest of the
time he's playing there. I thought he'd start twelve games
this year, didn't even make it there before he got hurt.
Now he's missing not only this year but probably all
of next year. Ad is younger than Degram, so it's
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not quite that point, but you're going to get to
that point in the contract pretty soon where you're worried
how much is Ad even going to be in the lineup?
And we still got three years left. We're paying him
sixty million dollars a year, So it's a real dice
roll for the Lakers. They had to do it, and
hopefully for them, the best case scenario, the first couple
of years of this deal, first two three years are
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good while he's still young in his early thirties, and
the games he misses that he's gonna wind up missing
aren't gonna be games that crush the team. It's not
gonna be games where they're making a playoff push or
it's in the playoffs. But after those first couple of years,
look out, because AD's not gonna stay healthier as he
gets older. He's only gonna miss more and more games,
and that's gonna still be a lot of money tied
(23:26):
up in AD when you're looking to stay competitive after
Lebron James retires, because that's when you're gonna need AD
the most. Okay, d this is your team. Lebron's gone
the next couple of years. Oh wait, you mean you're
hurt and we're paying sixty two million dollars to a
guy who's our one that can't be our one. That's
the thing. So this deal will be great for the
first couple of years. It'll be fine for the first
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couple of years, but after that it's gonna be awful.
Because that's who he is. He's Jacob de Gram of
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
And he is great on the floor when he's on
the floor.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
But he's never played more than seventy five games but
a couple times in his whole career, and he started
in the NBA as a teenager. The last five years,
he's average missing about twenty five games a year. That's
the rough average. Now for his career, he's had a
very good stat average of twenty four points and ten
rebounds a game. Last year with the Lakers, Davis was
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twenty six points and twelve rebounds a game. So now
he has a contract with this three year max extension
through twenty twenty eight, a contract that over the next
five years is worth two hundred and seventy million dollars.
This is in the context of this summer, because remember
the Lakers have already kept Ruy Hatchimura, who they acquired
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during last season, and kept Austin Reeves and gave Vincent
with a free agent deal. These guys have deals that
run through twenty twenty five. We don't know how long
Lebron is playing, but it's not twenty twenty eight. No,
are you giving him the three year max contract because
you are planning ahead saying, whoever is the next.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Damian Lillard in the league?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You know somebody that maybe we wouldn't identify right now,
He's going to be teamed up with Anthony Davis?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
This is they're gonna they're gonna be looking for post Lebron.
Who are we? Okay, we're Anthony Davis, and we're Anthony
Davis and a younger player coming in at some point,
whether it's in a draft or free agency, who's going
to take over the team two or three years after
a d is done. I mean that what the Lakers
are doing, I get. I understand they're saying, Okay, we're
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we're a D and Lebron or Lebron and a D
right now, and we have a pretty good roster of players.
Younger players under that are role players, right, we have some,
we have what we like, but we're still a D
and Lebron driven. And what's going to happen is, Okay,
Lebron's got another two years maybe that he's gonna play,
So then he leaves, and you don't want to be
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looking for a couple of superstars at the same time.
So we know we're AD for the next three years.
Someone can come small forward, point guard, shooting guard. Hey,
this will be your team in three years when Ad
likely is done, because you know when he's thirty five. Me, really,
is Ad really gonna be playing with these thirty five
years old I mean, come on past that. You really
think that's gonna happen thirty right now? Yeah? Right, So
that's gonna be on the thirty five. So he could Hey,
(26:07):
you never know, you know, the Knicks winning a bunch
of championships might want to chase h one.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The Mets sign thirty nine year olds all the time.
Maybe he'll go there after.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, the Mets are not part of this conversation.
They do not.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Are they actually the Lakers thinking that every superstar is
going to be making sixty two million by then, and
so this isn't as bad as you think.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Is that their actual mentality?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Not only is that their mentality, there's a lot of
teams that think that way, that think, look at this
silly money we have. All right, let's look at it
for the next two or.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Three years, and it is tied to the silly TV
money that's coming in. It is completely fair. They divide
it between management and players of what money comes in.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, and I it's it's it's a little bit more
sophisticated than how I'm going to break it down, but
I guarantee you so many time you see the contracts
they signed when they signed baseball players. Here's a thirteen
year deal for thirty million dollars a year. Is that
going to be worth it for Francisco Lindor and Bryce Harper? No,
it's not. But how teams look at it, and it's
pretty sid but obviously a little bit more in depth.
(27:04):
And thiss is that, well, we looked at it for
the next few years when the players in their prime,
and and and and it's a great deal for us.
What about the bat What about the last six years
of the deal? What about the last six years of
Lindor's dealer, what about the last three years of Anthony
Davis's deal? Ah, you know what, who knows what it's
going to be like At that point, we'll figure it out,
Like I guarantee you, so many teams think that way,
(27:24):
with a little bit more sophistication of well, we project
in three years, this is gonna happen with the TV dealer,
This will happen here, or this will happen here, and
here's what the top salaries will be. But that's the
general philosophy is, Hey, for these uh, for these two
or three years, it's pretty good, and then we'll figure
it out after that's three years from now. That that's
a that's a that's a lifetime from now. We'll figure
it out.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Then three years from now, we all assume Lebron's going
to be retired from the NBA, So yeah, that is
kind of a lifetime from now.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, but if it lands, I'm a superstar. Three years
later because the Anthony Davis is signed, then it's worth
every dollar.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well that's you have to see. But eventually you're gonna
want him to play science Jason. It's great to have
it's going to be great to have a new star come,
but you want him to be playing with Anthony Davis
and not have sixty two million dollars sitting on the
bench like, I don't know what we're gonna do here.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Spain is just scored again. When we get to the updates,
guess what we're leading with. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Oh, a man of goals here.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So I'm telling you ad the contract. It's the Jacob
de Gram Contract of the NBA.
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for you, and I mean a huge update courtesy of
producer Justin Frossberg, who has the latest on the mega
millions drawing what was it one point three billion into tonight?
(01:11):
What do you have for us?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well, if you bought a ticket you did not win,
As the jackpot now climbs to an estimated one point
six billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Still no winners. How does nobody pick the right numbers?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
With all those I'm gonna win and buy the Mets
and tank them.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I don't wait? What were the what were the winning
numbers tonight? What were the winning numbers? Do you have it?
Do you have a list?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Can you see seven RBIs for Ahmed Rosario and his
for six games with the Dodgers?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Use so six and seven? Yeah? Yeah, okay, so six
and seven.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Okay, I'm saying for our for our ticket.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh no, no, I want to know what the winning
numbers were?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, winning numbers were eleven, forty five, fifty two, fifty six,
and the big one was twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Wow, those seem like numbers. I could have picked eleven thirty.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Those are numbers you're familiar with.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You're forty five numbers. I know all of those numbers.
I mean I could have picked all of those. I
really those All those numbers are very familiar, especially especially
the first few. You know, once you get up to fifty,
I kind of lose a little bit, But up to
fIF I could have picked some of those numbers on
hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I've seen those numbers down the backs of sports uniforms.
I think we all could have picked those.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm trying to think, like if I could have gone
with a with a theme like a Mets or Jets
uniform numbers and one stuff, but I don't think I could.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That's all the prices of the Taylor Swift t shirts
for sale, fifty two fifty six.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
That's why Hartmin's not here. He's still in line.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah. Speaking of which, Mike Harmon missing the show tonight
because he was playing Megan Moulton because he took his
daughters to the Taylor Swift concert tonight. At so far,
he is not at the concert himself. He is in
the parking lot hanging out with other parents who brought
their kidkids, and their kids are inside the concerts by themselves.
So Harmon's out and he told me this. He says,
(03:05):
we're all busy making friendship bracelets because apparently that's a thing,
and Harmon's gonna trade them with all the other parents
that he hangs out with. So it's almost like it's
a dead show, except you know, instead of making all
the different pottery and stuff, it's just we're exchanging friendship bracelets.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Uh yeah, the whole Taylor Swift parents And it's like
a dead show. You had me right until the end,
and then that would have never quite crossed my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Truck in time to shake it up.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
So what I'm saying is Harmon's gonna see Bill Walton
at the show tonight and Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Steve de Segur, let me tell you about what it
means to re record all the songs from rig Let
me tell you exactly how much money this is going
to mean for Taylor Swift going forward. If you're only
playing the songs that she is re recorded. And she
does something very smart. She says, maybe this one line
has changed, maybe the base line is different. So you
(04:00):
wind up deleting that song from your Spotify and you
add this song, and suddenly you are not playing the
other songs, and the record companies go bankrupt, and Taylor
Swift makes all this money, and then she goes and
buys the.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Joy and love. That's why we're all here.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Actually, he would probably say, she's never heard of Mickey
sell and so or Jerry Selling so and so.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
He would never darken the door of the next.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Week, Steve de Sager, let me tell you about the
plan for Taylor Swift. After making two billion dollars on
this tour, She's going to buy and resuscitate the PAC twelve.
We're going to put all the schools back in. She's
going to give them money. They don't need nil, they
don't need any No one watches the games anyway. Who
watches Oregon State Washington late at night? Nobody? No one
(04:46):
even watches the games I do on ESPN plus no one.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I was just gonna say, you're doing an impersonation of
the guy who keeps calling it the Conference of Champions,
where one the champion after another has hit the exit door.
In the last few days out of the PAC twelve,
For those not keeping score at home, eight of the
twelve have committed to leave, even Oregon and Washington leaving
(05:13):
for the Big Ten when they won't be getting a
full revenue share until the current Big ten TV deal
finishes in twenty thirty, and they're still saying leaving the
PAC twelve is a better deal than staying.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Steve just Sager, let me tell you how easy it
is to do prep is a broadcaster when you're only
worried about four teams because that's all I have to
worry about right now is Oregon State, Washington State, cal
and Stanford. That is it. I'm going to sleep most
of the day and just show up in broadcast because
I know everything I need.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Like most broadcasts. In other words, there saying, by the way.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
We have a goal for Spain already already five minutes.
They're already up one nothing on Switzerland on FS one
on the round of six is underway.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Look at this all right, So we'll have more from
the US Women's World Cup and more on the big
week that was in college football.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Today's a really big anniversary sea. It's one of the
most famous plays in baseball history, and this is the
thirtieth anniversary of the Nolan Ryan Robin Ventura Brawl. Nolan
Ryan were the most respected pitchers of all time. Would
always throw inside, would hit people, was never challenged before
until this day. In nineteen ninety three against the White Sox,
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he was pitching for the Rangers. He hit Robin Ventura
in the back. Ventura looked like you thought about it
for a second and he was going to go down
to first and instead charge the mound, brawled with with
Nolan Ryan, and Ryan got Ventura in a little bit
of a headlock.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Give him aokie.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, he was kind of giving a funny guy out
here on the mound. And it was absolute anarchy and
one of the most famous plays in baseball history. And
it showed up everywhere today. You saw it everywhere this
day in sports, everything else. And this is a it's
not only is it a big day, but it's a
huge day for me because I don't know if I
am where I am right now without that highlight in
(07:14):
that game. Because this happened when I was a temporary
production assistant at ESPN right I graduated college away. The
ESPN hired you when you were coming out of school.
Was they hired you for six months as a temporary employee,
and you have six months to prove you're.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Not a full employee even out of college.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No, no, you're not. You show up and for six
months it's called your probationary period, and you get paid.
I mean, you get paid the whole thing. But there's
no benefits and everything else. And after six months they
decide whether or not they keep you and become a
permanent employee, or they say, sorry, you're not good enough.
You know, we appreciate everything you did, but you know,
we're not going to keep you. And I would say,
(07:55):
I would say probably sixty five to seventy percent of
the of the production assistant that that started got kept.
They called they called we called it getting kept. And
I would say, like three out of ten didn't you
really had to not? Uh, you really had to. You
really had this try a little bit to not be
kept it as as an employee. But this is a
job everybody wanted.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Right, this is a while ago. Things have changed it.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Things have changed, absolutely, things have changed. So this is
the heyday of ESPN, the beginning of Dan and Keith
and everything else. And I'm a you know, a production
assistant and I get hired, and I get hired, and
I had been there at this point for you know,
maybe a month or a month and a half. And
you're still doing a lot of learning and shadowing. You're
not doing a lot of things for yourself yet, because
you need to learn how ESPN operate. So for your
first month or so, you are shadowing other people while
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they're doing a job and you're watching what they do,
and then you're learning. And after after about ninety days
or so, okay, they let you go and you start
doing things for the show. You know, real real you know,
and work. Yes, well, you're always working, but they don't
really give you that. Hey, okay, uh, here's your you're
you know, you're working tonight from uh, you know, twelve
(09:00):
until ten o'clock and you're doing this, this, this, and
this as was before it was you were just shadowing everybody.
So one of the first things they let you do
when you finish that that period is you're in highlights.
And what it is is it is a huge room
with a television set every probably every foot and a
half and you sit in front of this big TV
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and you with a pen and paper and you and
you log the game and you know, you get assigned
a game and you're logging the game and you're going
in to edit the highlight to put it on SportsCenter
or whoever else needs it after the show. So it's
the first thing you did is a big there's like
thirty television sets and you're in there and you're watching.
And my assignment this night was one of my first
assignments as a temporary PA outside after I stopped shadowing,
(09:43):
was the Rangers White Sox game. And I still remember
to this day. I'm watching the game and I'm logging everything, okay,
and they the my boss comes around and says, okay, well,
they have you for you know, forty seconds of a
highlight for for Sports Center, and they have you at
you know, a minute for baseball tonight. So just you know,
just so you know, you're working. You know what plays
(10:04):
you want to put in, and you write out the
shot sheet and you give it to Dan or Keith
and they read it on the air and everything else,
and that's kind of the game.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
So your job was only watching the White Sox Texas
game that night.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well, no, then then I would get Then then you'd
get a West Coast game. Okay, you'd get an early game,
and then you'd get a late game. So my first
game was this and so I'm watching the game and
then you know this game is going on. I'm like,
all right, and you're writing down the big plays and
all of a sudden, Nolan Ryan hits Robin Ventura and
Ventura stops and he turns and he charges them out,
and I still remember yelling, Nolan Ryan's in a brawl.
(10:35):
And suddenly the whole room just stopped. Like I would
never really talk. I'm just sitting to go what is
going Nolan Ryan's in a brawl. And everybody stops and
looks and comes over to my TV and they're watching
it unfold and here's Nolan Ryan and he is and
they're fighting, and they're going, oh my god, look at
this little bo Jackson was in this game. And bo
Jackson's fighting. They got three guys on bo Jackson. And
(10:57):
suddenly it's anarchy because this is the story of the night.
And it's not only that, but you can tell it's
gonna be the story the next the next day as well,
because of this situation in which Nolan Ryan, we've never
seen it before, gets involved in a brawl. So now
suddenly I am the man because I'm the one watching
this game and it's my job to edit this highlight
(11:18):
and to get it on TV and to do it right.
And everybody knows what's going on in this game, and
I got to make sure I get all the plays in.
I can't screw it up. There's a lot of pressure,
and they suddenly call me and say, okay, you're the
first story in Sports Center. How long do you need
for this highlight though, you get up to two minutes
to put it on the air Baseball Tonight. Whatever you need,
they'll take it. If it's three minutes, it's three minutes
(11:39):
because there's no other story. So the whole night now
I'm editing this thing together and everybody is checking on me,
and I'm getting this shot sheets up to Dan and
Keith and to Gary Miller Baseball Tonight, and everything goes
really well, and my bosses at the end say, hey,
nice job. That was great. Now you got to talk
to some people because they're gonna want to do some
stuff the next day for this for the six o'clocks
(12:00):
Sports Center. Can you edit something together for them? Can
you put this highlight package together? Can you talk to
a couple of people? Yeah? Sure, yeah, sure. And I
walked away that night going I want to do this
for the rest of my life. This is that there's
I've never experienced anything like that up until that point
in my life ever professionally, in whatever it was, and
(12:20):
it was just all the action and the excitement, and
it was I was hooked. I was hooked on sports,
broadcasting and television and everything from right from that moment,
and it was it was like a drug. It was.
And for like twenty four hours, I don't feel like
my feet touched the floor because all of that was
going on. It was. I still can't describe it. I
can still think about so many different memories I have.
(12:42):
I remember arguing with the two thirty am producer and
he says, why should I give you two minutes for
this Nolan Ryan highlight, just wanting to see what I
would say, And I said, because it's Nolan Ryan and
a brawl and nobody cares about anything else. And he goes, Okay,
you got two minutes. I'm like, all right, all right, great.
I mean that's what it was. It was. It was
that kind of that kind of energy. And then suddenly
(13:03):
every day going in I felt like that. I felt like,
what am I going to do tonight? That's going to
be like that? Like I was chasing that, like I
was chasing that high and you got it every night.
I mean, you know when you went in and now
I went in. Now I was the person that did
the Nolan Ryan highlight. So now I start getting more
important games, I start getting more important assignments. And it
was every night it was that way for me, and
(13:23):
it was I knew right there. I said, well, I
don't know what I'm gonna wind up doing in my life,
but I'm I want to do something like this, because
there's nothing like this ever that I can ever feel
that feeling. Still, I don't know that I've ever gotten
that since since that first overwhelming sensation that night with
that highlight.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I'm glad you brought it up in that context because
you know, we have people coming through our building, as
do other media companies through there, so people wondering wanting
to get into the industry. And I can tell you,
and I had a boss that said this to me once,
speaking of radio, It's like the worst day in radio
is still better than the most the good day that
you're gonna have at most other jobs. And when it's on,
(14:01):
when it's great, when it's busy, when it's breaking news,
or when there's a championship on the line, it can
be the best.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
It can be not just the best part of your
work week, but the best part of your week. Period
of your life.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So there is that emotional aspect that you don't get
in some other jobs where you remember, like in the
Wonder Years where the nineteen sixties, Dad would come home
from his nine to five job that he only had
to support the family. It wasn't his dream and he's
tie is loosen and he's ready to if not kick
the dog, then the briefcase. And you know, those kind
(14:36):
of days don't happen generally five days a week in
this type of industry. So I'm glad you pointed out
in that context because that's part of the beauty of
this industry.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, the roughest parts on And I feel weird because
the exact opposite was said by somebody else this week.
The only really bad days would you have is when
you have to talk about somebody dying, Like that's really,
that's really bad, especially when it's something that that is.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
A shock, that is that is a as has happened here.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
This happens, and it happens. Unfortunately, it happens too often.
Those are the really tough days. Those are the tough ones,
but the vast majority of them. Yeah, no, you're right,
it's you know, a bad Dan radio is a great
day for so many other things, and especially in this industry,
what we get to do. You know, I never I
never walk away and say, boy, I'm not anything but
thankful that this is what we get to do, and
(15:27):
we get to talk about sports and do all this
craziness that we could do for a living.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Here I get an update before the break here on
FS one I mentioned Women's World Cup Round of sixteen
has started here late tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yes, speaking of craziness.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yes, Paying Court scored five minutes in their opponents Switzerland
about ten minutes into the game scored on an own
goal where Spain almost from midfield, shot it past their
own goaltender, kicking it backwards to Ryan try and restart
the play. Instead, it goes in the Swiss tally one.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
It's one one early.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
They messed it, Steve.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
The ball goes in from just inside of midfield and
it's hard to see it. It looks like the keeper.
I don't know, the keeper was waiting for something a
little bit more likely that she could handle, because this
looked like almost like a shot.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It was the little fault the goalkeeper. You'd think that
that distance very far is correct, that she could make
up ground but no, it went past her.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, and of course the keeper can't touch the ball
with her hands when it's passed to her from a teammate.
Wasn't a shot, so that so it was a and
it gets all the way around. The celebration is kind
of muted, but still it's a goal in Switzerland. Tie.
Spain won one in the seventeenth minute. Unbelievable. Twitter at Oh,
it's just as I say it. Another goal hits the
board Spain on an edder. Make it two to one.
(16:45):
This game could be seven to sixty by the time
it's all said.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We're not even twenty minutes in.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We have more on this and a big time NBA
superstar gets paid. That's next right here. This is Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't know. Maybe Spain and Switzerland final score. This
game could be nine to eight Women's World Cup Round
of sixteen.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
If they keep passing it back to the goalie like this.
I say yes.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Twenty fifth minute. Spain just put in a header a
few minutes ago. Now two to one. This answering the
own goal. So Spain's actually scored.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Three times, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So they've scored both goals to give themselves a lead,
and the own goal where they put it in their
own net from just inside midfield.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
This is how it sounds that after this one has
the game, they've got the doubleheader to start the round
of sixteen tonight. The great John Strog was on the call.
Don't ever say, because as you mentioned, it was from
near midfield, the defender passed it back to her own
goalie to the left of her and then the net.
(17:53):
And of course it's in Spanish language in this country
the World Cup as well, so on universo.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Don't tell me, he said.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Is that? Was that what he said? Right there? Don't
tell me? Don't tell me. Yeah, so, boy, I'll tell
you Spain. They got a lot of offense Spain, and
this entire game has been on Switzerland's at half of
the field.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Considering Switzerland has pretty much scored nothing and allowed nothing
for the bulk of the tournament so far. This is
this is actually three goals total, is more than they
have experienced in any of their three goals total coming in.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So if they do player of the match at the
end are the for each team? Is the player for
Spain going to be like the woman who scored in
the player the game, and the player for Switzerland's going
to be the woman who scored the own goal. For uh, well, you.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Know, just a couple of days ago, Italy's out because
they had an own goal of a defender passing it
back to the goalie and beat her with the shot
and scored for the other team. This same thing just
happened a few days ago to a team that's out. Now,
Spain's back to the lead, as you say, but imagine
if Spain had to go to penalty kicks later tonight
just because of what happened about ten minutes into the
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game scoring for the opponent.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Now, maybe this is just me and I have baseball
on the brain, but trying to check one of the
players on Spain. I'm pretty sure her last name is Otani,
but it's with but it's with an E at the
end instead of an I. But she just had to
throw in and I'm saying that's ot h a and
that's Otani but with an E at the end.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So she can't pitch currently, but she has is no
I don't think there's an.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That'd be great if she was the own goal scorer.
You know, she scores for she could do but she
can do everything. She could score for her team, she
could score for the other team. I'm pretty sure her
name is Otani.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
There's a Bonmati something close to that.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's close, no, but I'm telling she I think her name.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Is because you know, for those who didn't, you know,
I realize people don't pay attention to Angels baseball show. Hey,
Otani did come up in a close game, bottom of
the ninth and two men on, down by two and
struck out, and Seattle wound up retiring the two guys
after him too, nine to seven, Seattle the finals.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So well, that's progress for him. At least he's able
to hit and didn't have to worry about cramps. About that.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
So the Angels have lost four in a row and
the Padres completely gagged a home game against the Dodgers.
So San Diego's record is fifty four and fifty six.
Padres are four back for the wild card in the NL.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
We I saw on that in What's trending coming up
in a few minutes. But to get outside of the
World Cup and college football. Today, Hey a headline that
cut through everything. Anthony Davis got paid. The Lakers and
AD agreed to NBA's richest annual contract extension three years,
one hundred and eighty six million dollar max. He has
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now tied to the Lakers through twenty twenty eight for
a total of two hundred and seventy million dollars. He's
averaging sixty two million dollars a season, which is gonna
wind up being like seven million dollars a game, right
when it's all.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Said and done, rights, it's gonna get he actually plays playing.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A handful against Now, he had two years and eighty
four million left on his contract. He was eligible to
sign that extension today. The Lakers get it done.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
We say it so casually. Now he had two years
in eighty four million, but that's nothing which has on
the contract.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Look at what he's got now. So the right way
to break this down, and it's it's difficult because the
Lakers had to do it because AD is ad. But
this contract is going to wind up being a Jacob
de Gram contract because, as you've seen, Anthony Davis is
not the healthiest player in the world. He misses a
lot of time, a lot of time, and as he's
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getting older, he is missing more and more time, to
the point where you just have to hope. If you
are the Lakers, and this goes for a lot of
veteran players who are getting up there, you think the
same thing for Lebron, you think it for Ad. You
know that getting hurt is going to happen. You just
have to hope that this is not going to happen
at a time when we really need them. You're hoping
that the injury comes in the middle of the season,
(22:01):
at a time when there's an easy part of the schedule,
whatever it is. But you can't count on that the
contract is going to be great for the Lakers because
Ad really kicked it up a level with his play
last year. He had a point where he understood, I
need to be a different guy, need to be more
consistent every night, and while he's on the floor, this
is a great contract, But you know he's not going
(22:22):
to be on the floor. And it's the same thing
with Jacob de Grom. When he's out there, there's no
pitcher who is better. But how often is he going
to be out there right? How many starts is he
really going to have for Texas the rest of the
time he's playing there. I thought he'd start twelve games
this year, didn't even make it there before he got hurt.
Now he's missing not only this year but probably all
of next year. Ad is younger than Degram, so it's
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not quite that point, but you're going to get to
that point in the contract pretty soon where you're worried
how much is Ad even going to be in the lineup?
And we still got three years left. We're paying him
sixty million dollars a year, So it's a real dice
roll for the Lakers. They had to do it, and
hopefully for them, the best case scenario, the first couple
of years of this deal, first two three years are
(23:05):
good while he's still young in his early thirties, and
the games he misses that he's gonna wind up missing
aren't gonna be games that crush the team. It's not
gonna be games where they're making a playoff push or
it's in the playoffs. But after those first couple of years,
look out, because AD's not gonna stay healthier as he
gets older. He's only gonna miss more and more games,
and that's gonna still be a lot of money tied
(23:26):
up in AD when you're looking to stay competitive after
Lebron James retires, because that's when you're gonna need AD
the most. Okay, d this is your team. Lebron's gone
the next couple of years. Oh wait, you mean you're
hurt and we're paying sixty two million dollars to a
guy who's our one that can't be our one. That's
the thing. So this deal will be great for the
first couple of years. It'll be fine for the first
(23:46):
couple of years, but after that it's gonna be awful.
Because that's who he is. He's Jacob de Gram of
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
And he is great on the floor when he's on
the floor.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
But he's never played more than seventy five games but
a couple times in his whole career, and he started
in the NBA as a teenager. The last five years,
he's average missing about twenty five games a year. That's
the rough average. Now for his career, he's had a
very good stat average of twenty four points and ten
rebounds a game. Last year with the Lakers, Davis was
(24:15):
twenty six points and twelve rebounds a game. So now
he has a contract with this three year max extension
through twenty twenty eight, a contract that over the next
five years is worth two hundred and seventy million dollars.
This is in the context of this summer, because remember
the Lakers have already kept Ruy Hatchimura, who they acquired
(24:35):
during last season, and kept Austin Reeves and gave Vincent
with a free agent deal. These guys have deals that
run through twenty twenty five. We don't know how long
Lebron is playing, but it's not twenty twenty eight. No,
are you giving him the three year max contract because
you are planning ahead saying, whoever is the next.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Damian Lillard in the league?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You know somebody that maybe we wouldn't identify right now,
He's going to be teamed up with Anthony Davis?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
This is they're gonna they're gonna be looking for post Lebron.
Who are we? Okay, we're Anthony Davis, and we're Anthony
Davis and a younger player coming in at some point,
whether it's in a draft or free agency, who's going
to take over the team two or three years after
a d is done. I mean that what the Lakers
are doing, I get. I understand they're saying, Okay, we're
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we're a D and Lebron or Lebron and a D
right now, and we have a pretty good roster of players.
Younger players under that are role players, right, we have some,
we have what we like, but we're still a D
and Lebron driven. And what's going to happen is, Okay,
Lebron's got another two years maybe that he's gonna play,
So then he leaves, and you don't want to be
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looking for a couple of superstars at the same time.
So we know we're AD for the next three years.
Someone can come small forward, point guard, shooting guard. Hey,
this will be your team in three years when Ad
likely is done, because you know when he's thirty five. Me, really,
is Ad really gonna be playing with these thirty five
years old I mean, come on past that. You really
think that's gonna happen thirty right now? Yeah? Right, So
that's gonna be on the thirty five. So he could Hey,
(26:07):
you never know, you know, the Knicks winning a bunch
of championships might want to chase h one.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
The Mets sign thirty nine year olds all the time.
Maybe he'll go there after.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, the Mets are not part of this conversation.
They do not.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Are they actually the Lakers thinking that every superstar is
going to be making sixty two million by then, and
so this isn't as bad as you think.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Is that their actual mentality?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Not only is that their mentality, there's a lot of
teams that think that way, that think, look at this
silly money we have. All right, let's look at it
for the next two or.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Three years, and it is tied to the silly TV
money that's coming in. It is completely fair. They divide
it between management and players of what money comes in.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, and I it's it's it's a little bit more
sophisticated than how I'm going to break it down, but
I guarantee you so many time you see the contracts
they signed when they signed baseball players. Here's a thirteen
year deal for thirty million dollars a year. Is that
going to be worth it for Francisco Lindor and Bryce Harper? No,
it's not. But how teams look at it, and it's
pretty sid but obviously a little bit more in depth.
(27:04):
And thiss is that, well, we looked at it for
the next few years when the players in their prime,
and and and and it's a great deal for us.
What about the bat What about the last six years
of the deal? What about the last six years of
Lindor's dealer, what about the last three years of Anthony
Davis's deal? Ah, you know what, who knows what it's
going to be like At that point, we'll figure it out,
Like I guarantee you, so many teams think that way,
(27:24):
with a little bit more sophistication of well, we project
in three years, this is gonna happen with the TV dealer,
This will happen here, or this will happen here, and
here's what the top salaries will be. But that's the
general philosophy is, Hey, for these uh, for these two
or three years, it's pretty good, and then we'll figure
it out after that's three years from now. That that's
a that's a that's a lifetime from now. We'll figure
it out.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Then three years from now, we all assume Lebron's going
to be retired from the NBA, So yeah, that is
kind of a lifetime from now.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, but if it lands, I'm a superstar. Three years
later because the Anthony Davis is signed, then it's worth
every dollar.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well that's you have to see. But eventually you're gonna
want him to play science Jason. It's great to have
it's going to be great to have a new star come,
but you want him to be playing with Anthony Davis
and not have sixty two million dollars sitting on the
bench like, I don't know what we're gonna do here.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Spain is just scored again. When we get to the updates,
guess what we're leading with. It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Oh, a man of goals here.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So I'm telling you ad the contract. It's the Jacob
de Gram Contract of the NBA.
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