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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk shop on the Spectrum/Disney streaming disaster that just went down tonight. Plus the guys discuss the Braves vs Dodgers and Nebraska choking to Minnesota.

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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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(00:52):
the night. I don't want to say tonight's really the
first night of college football because we had Saturday last week.
We had Caleb Williams and Sam Hartman. But you know,
on a Saturday middle of the summer. Now, tonight feels like, hey,
we got a lot of college football. We got a
couple of big games, going on, except half the country
not getting to see the big game, which is Florida

(01:14):
and Utah right now four minutes ago in the fourth quarter.
You've been saying this all last hour because you don't
need to see it, because Utah has been in control
of this game from the beginning. Although Florida did just
get a touchdown Graham Merz through a touchdown two point
conversion make it twenty four to eleven, but it's still
a thirteen point lead by Utah with about four minutes
to go in the fourth quarter. Just a little bit

(01:35):
about this game before we get to the whole controversy happening,
is that you know, I know, Billy Napier is just
gonna get killed, you know, for this game, and Florida's
gonna get killed. To look where they are now, they
still they stink their all of this time out For
a second, Florida hasn't been a year in year rount
college football power in fifteen years, right, You're going back

(01:56):
to the end of the Urban Meyer era to say, hey,
this is a nownational championship type team that every year
can go eleven and one or ten and two and
play in the CFP or play for the National champions Right,
that's the last time Florida was really that kind of team.
Doesn't mean they haven't had great years since they have.
They even had a big year under Dan Mullen, who
is diagramming how Florida is not doing well at halftime

(02:19):
of the game line, which is like me watching Adam
Ga say, this is what Aaron Rodgers is not doing
for the Jets. So I get that, you know Florida all,
what's going on? What's going on? But this is not
like a dip in recruiting. All right, This is not Hey,
we've had a couple of down years. This is not
Florida football anymore. This is not the Florida football that
you the same thing we'll talk about Nebraska coming up.

(02:39):
This is not the Florida football that you and I
grew up with. That was Heisman trophies and all kinds
of offense and legendary games in the swamp and every
year and Steve Spurryer and Danny Wirfel and Terry Dean
and Heisman trophies. This is not that same team. This
is not Tim Tebow and Chris Leake. This is not
those teams, not Chris Doring, This is not those teams.
Florida has been an every couple of years. There still

(03:00):
pretty good, which is nice, right, but they're not in
every year power. Meanwhile, Utah, Utah is pretty good. They've
won back to Backpack twelve championships. They're going for an
unprecedented third Pack twelve championship in a row, really packed
two championship, but they're going for their third straight Pac
twelve championship. Utah is pretty good Winningham's a pretty good coach.

(03:21):
This is a pretty good team, and they've been pretty
good for a while. They should be winning this game.
They're winning this game. There's two minutes left and they're winning.
I think we're asking the wrong questions here, But you
know teams, you expect teams even after fifteen years of
not being great year and a year. So I no, no,
we still got to get back to those salad days.
Those days are gone, man, This is not two or
three years. No, those days are gone. If you get

(03:43):
them back, great, but you can't expect them to come
back just because we're Florida. We'll get the recruit No, No,
you had that time fifteen years ain't a blip on
that college football radar screen.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, it's like you and I had been discussing a
long time when everybody was calling for Jim Harbaugh's head
at Michigan. You got to recognize what you are and
what you've been. Doesn't mean you didn't have some big,
flashy seasons, right, titles in the rear view mirror, but
you were not a team that was winning nine ten

(04:14):
games a year. That was just not who you were.
Huge brand, huge alumni base, all of that thing, yes, absolutely,
but not a consistent winner for Florida. It's it's now
flip now, this is obviously a spot you go and
you schedule one of the big boys right off the jump.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know what's why.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
We've always had directional schools in the mix. In those
first couple of weeks, figure out what you are, figure
out what you do well, and then start playing against
some of these heavyweights. And that doesn't mean that Utah
didn't make it interesting. It's almost like they were in
cahoots saying, hey, you really wish you had that carriage
rights now, don't you.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
But we'll get that in a minute.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
But like for all of these these teams, and you know,
Nebraska part that as well of you remember the history.
We joked about it yesterday with Tom Osbourne and those teams.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Of all those years ago.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
You talk about Urban Meyer and that fluff piece they
did that whatever.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
You can't really call that a documentary, can you?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
If you're gonna leave out a lot of the stuff
that was going on around there.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Now you didn't.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
We're gonna leave out all the bad stuff. How long
is a documentary? It is eight minutes. It's you winning
the national championship, winning it again, You hug te Bow,
They build the statue and we roll credits bad stuff.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Is there a spot where in the tight end when
normally we can't talk about him?

Speaker 1 (05:37):
When we put all the bad stuff in, then we
need six nights at three hours a night. We put
the bad stuff in.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's a fluff piece saying, hey, get him back on
the sideline. But that's for a story for another time.
But again, those were the big days. The Heisman runs
the race towards national titles, cyclicality and the changing landscape
of college football. But you know what, here on this
Thursday night, on this particular Thursday night, we celebrate it all.

(06:04):
We celebrate their space on our televisions. You know why,
because you and I can actually watch these games and
comment and boom and scream at the officials from miss Calls,
Liven and Living Color not clicking the refresh button because
well we don't have carriage.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well see that's the big thing, you said. You and
I can see these games. Yes, every other person is
not getting to see the big game of the night, right,
is not getting to see Utah and Florida not getting
to see it? Why? And this is this is like
gamesmanship to the nth degree at kickoff tonight of Florida
and Utah, which is the big You know this Tonight's

(06:44):
the big Like I said, Saturday fields like it felt
like an extra day zero week of college football, the
game in Dublin, but then it really feel like a
game was more. Hey, here's the pageantry in college football
is back. You know, USC was playing a new they
were going to roll over. So it was hard to
look at that and say, hey, all right, this is
this is just you know, hey, the college football is
back tonight getting tight.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
It got you into some of your pregame rhythms and yeah,
maybe got you out of a couple of to do lists.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Things on the weekend because you had football to pantention to.
I gotta watch about that game in Dublin. Really, who's playing?
I don't know, but it's in Dublin, so I have
to watch it. There's nothing I can do. I also
need to go buy some smittis.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, let's get it off.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
But right before kickoff, Utah and Florida tonight again, less
than two minutes left to go. Utah has the football.
They are going to be kneeling on it. They're gonna
beat Florida twenty four to eleven, just a kickoff. Spectrum
the second largest cable carrier in the United States behind Comcast.
They've been at war with Disney about their programming and

(07:46):
pricing and tiers and look, every day you can get
on the internet and find a big topic about oh,
cable prices and streaming and cutting the court. It's it's everywhere, right,
you've heard this is like five years about being five
ten years about cutting the court. We're cutting the Yes, yes,
I stand. But this carriage dispute between Disney and Spectrum

(08:06):
got to the point where Spectrum says we're drawing a
line in the sand and right and right at kickoff
for Utah, Florida. If you had Spectrum like I do,
big notice comes up on your TV due to the
inability for us to come to an agreement with ESPN,
with Disney, we're not gonna be getting this this channel.
And they go into a whole big description of how

(08:28):
we feel in this in the world right now, that
our asks shouldn't be too much, and like they have
this whole big plan, the whole big scroll on this script.
We want to know. I want people who know exactly
what we're thinking. Why we decided to draw the line
in the sand here.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, because we don't care about you, Because if you
cared about me the viewer, you wouldn't do this right.
And this is the other part we talked about this
last hour that so Spectrum is not carrying the game,
and there's so many people that are upset. YouTube TV
is trending because this is where people are gonna go
because this is not Spectrum. You're not gonna win. No
one is gonna throw their arms around a cable company.
They're gonna throw their arms around who's giving me content

(09:02):
that I want? Disney is whether it's the TV shows,
whether it's live sports, because not having ESPN if I'm
a sports fan is a really big deal. So Spectrum
is sitting here saying, we're making the decision to do
this right before a game begins. If you cared about me,
the viewer, you wouldn't do it. You would not do it.
What you would do instead is you would do something like,
we're gonna have a scroll on the bottom of the

(09:23):
screen for the entire game. There's a big dispute going on.
This is the last game you're going to see or something.
We're gonna have this up here while we're trying to
get this to something where you make it look like, hey,
we're trying to figure this out. Because what I look
at now is they've just decided to make me mad
and make me mad at Disney, like that's what they've
wanted to do, not to try to solve this, but
they said, Okay, we can't do this, so now haha,

(09:45):
we're gonna drop your programming just when people want to
see it, and Disney's gonna say, so. What you're gonna
do then is force people to find other ways to
get our programming. Great, thank you very much, appreciate it,
because that's what people are gonna do. They're gonna find
their ways to get this. They're gonna go and get
ESPN and bundle it with with Hulu and whatever. The
third one is, it's ESPN plus and and and Hulu

(10:07):
and something else or Amazon I think it is. Or
they're gonna go to YouTube TV. They're gonna find something.
They're gonna find some way to get that because that's
what people want. People want the programming. They don't care
about the cable come. They're gonna have a loyalty to
the cable company going on. I gotta expect no what
they're gonna do then to say we're not gonna have
cable anymore, and all you to do is lose subscribers.
You have to lose subscribers. People are gonna go more
a la carte and it's just more of the leeching

(10:28):
away from cable. This is a decision that Spectrum made
that I don't understand because Number one, all it does
is piss off people. Because I'm not mad at Disney.
I'm mad at Spectrum because who made the decision to
not carry the game Spectrum did. Disney did not make
this decision. I don't care whose fault it is. I
just want the games on my TV. And I don't
think I'm different than anybody else in the country because
we're dealing with a rapidly changing landscape on TV now

(10:50):
where every day it's where is this show? Where is this? Now?
Is this on TV? Do I have this system? Do
I have it? We're dealing with this every bleeping day.
And when you force people and make a choice, they're
gonna go to where I Where can I get the content?
They're not gonna do it here. And and I mean
people are gonna get mad at Spectrum. No one's gonna
say I'm keeping Spectrum. Screw ESPN, screw Disney, I don't

(11:10):
care about watching Harry Potter on free form. They're gonna say,
that's what I have to find a way to watch.
That's what it's going to be. A spectrum. I mean,
they overplayed their hand. And and I don't think they
I don't think they see this resulting the way they
think it's going to. They think it's gonna wind up
being Disney saying hey, okay, okay, okay, let's cut a check.
We'll do this, We'll do this to the when in reality,
it's gonna be the exact opposite.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, and that's the thing, right, because the other options
aren't cheap, right. I mean, I'm paying nearly double for
YouTube TV what I did when it first was announced,
and I probably watch a third of the channels.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
That I did back then.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Again, the if, for those that know me, uh, if
there's Law and Order, I will find it. If there
is a Spider Man movie.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
I will find it. If there's Star Wars, find it,
or the Matrix for that matter.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I mean there are a few things, and you know,
a couple of movies here and there that mix they're in.
But otherwise it's live sports. I want live sports. I
am not brand loyal to a cable company, right because
they sent me a sticker or for the first six
months they gave me four dollars off, or whatever the
hell the deal was. No, I mean, I'm not sticking

(12:20):
around and in the assess blame. Yes, in a real
business sense, we can talk about the true value add
for each of these channels to the average person's household. Well,
the problem is you and I and people that live
and breathe sports. Right, we got Patrick and Steve and Chris.

(12:43):
You know, that's what we need to you know, that's
the lifeblood of what we do, not just from a
work perspective, but who we are. And then on the
other spectrum you got the other folks who really couldn't
care less about any of this. Yeah, you're trying to
get eight bucks ahead per month from every subscriber, and
so it becomes this difficult proposition. And then we talk

(13:05):
about switching costs and for the you know, for the
cost of a cup of coffee each month, YouTube can
do well that that's kind of where we're at. And
for some folks it doesn't matter. Just give me my
make the deal, give me my sports. Otherwise I gotta
leave and I got to go figure out where it is.
That's really all it is for spectrum, for any of

(13:26):
these companies. When you look at it, what's your value proposition?
How do you explain it to your subscribers that stay?
How do you explain it to the board and to
the shareholders that need to see big results on a
quarter to quarter basis, As there's a mass exodus because

(13:46):
you know, live sporting events where the dollars and cents
continues to grow time and time again. The only place
where that is you don't have what I need anymore.
So I got to go get my fixed somewhere else.
And that's where we're going. And while we see the
conferences trying to make all their power plays and build
these rights, PAC twelve had the right idea, they just

(14:07):
executed it terribly right. When it's all said and done,
all of these different entities going back to Major League
Baseball and streaming out of town. Right, I'm a White
Sox fan in northern California. I want to be able
to listen to Farmio back in the day or watch
Hawk scream. You gotta be kidding me. You found a

(14:29):
way to get in my wallet there, and bit by
bit we've seen that keep going. Now it's more bundling,
more specialization, and how do we just Nickel and Dimon
to get you what you need? And let's face it,
since most of it's done electronically and I'm not writing
out a check like I might have done twenty.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Years ago, it don't matter.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
That effort's gone, right, The switching cost effort is gone
with three clicks of a mouse, Twitter, and.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
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We're gonna look back in five years, right, I really
know this is how it's gonna go. In five years,
We're gonna look back and go. Man, remember when college
football it was so much easier to get it on TV.
All the games were on I could see all the

(15:19):
big games. And instead, now if I want to see
all the college football, I have to have the Big
twelve package, or I have to have the the not
the Pack twelve and IA have the Pack one package.
I'm gonna have the ACC package just to get those games.
I gotta have the SEC package or I have to
have the Big twelve package. We're gonna have at least
three NBA rights, same thing with Major League Baseball because
all these rights are coming up in the next couple

(15:40):
of years. But we're gonna say, remember those days, Remember
when when it was so for the longest time, it
was so easy to get games, and we knew we
were guaranteed to watch all these games. And because this
is now, you see it changing. You see this ridiculous
power play that Spectrum's pot trying to pull. That's all
it does is piss people off and it's gonna push
people to YouTube and you do other things, and that's

(16:01):
what's gonna happen. And it's Look, it's not just death
of cable. This is this is just you know, the
landscape of sports television. We're not gonna recognize it. Man,
We're getting you think it's you. Oh here, Oh it's nice.
And Amazon has the one game a week that's nice
and oh it's kind of fun and quirky. We can
make fun and al Michaels doesn't like to get Yeah,
you just wait until the next time NFL Right's coming.
Amazon has all the games on Sunday anyway. You mean

(16:24):
you mean? Amazon is one hundred and fifty dollars a month. Yep,
got it for all you, But I only want it
doesn't matter Amazon's one hundred and fifty dollars. You wait,
because that's where we're headed. And a night like tonight
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and I know I'm prisoner of the moment here because
I just saw it. I mean ire with you though,

(17:06):
that I have seen a better toe tap in my
life than what just happened in Nebraska and Minnesota where
Minnesota ties the game at ten apiece. I don't know
that I've ever seen a more impressive toe tap in
my life than that play. We'll talk about it. You'll
hear it coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

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right now. Full drama. Us Johnson doing Gus Johnson fins

(18:02):
right now, Nebraska and he makes Nebraska. He's making Nebraska.
Minnesota sounded like Ohio State Michigan. Five seconds to go,
Minnesota has called time out. They'll be kicking a forty
nine yard field goal to win this game over Nebraska.
It is a ten to ten game, Minnesota scoring a

(18:23):
touchdown to tie to ten. A fourth down pass we're
gonna get to in a second in a big way,
trust me. And then Jeff Simms throws his third interception
of the night. Minnesota drives down the field. They've had
just enough to get into field goal range here on
a fourth and two, three seconds left for field goal
that could win this game. Now, before we get to that,

(18:44):
with timadd on the field, the touchdown that tied the
game was a corner pattern in the end zone to
Daniel Jackson. This is a throw that is I want
to say it's it's not an easy throw, but it's
not that difficult to throw because Jackson's pretty wide open. Right.
It's a thirteen yard touchdown and the ball is overthrown

(19:08):
more than it should be because he's got three steps
on the dB and he makes a catch. He makes
a toe tap, and I get I am prisoner of
the moment, but he makes a catch in a toe
tap that may be the best toe tap I have
ever seen in my life. It is so unbelievably impressive
because what Jackson does is he catches the ball in

(19:31):
mid air with his right foot three feet over the
outer bounds line. It's three feet past it. Like it's
three feet past it where he catches the ball. There's
no way he's coming down in bounds. And still he
catches the ball mid air again three feet over out
of bounds, and he drags, he gets his left foot

(19:52):
down just enough for the catch. The referee is right
on it. No, I don't if the referee is right
or he just got lucky. But the referee is right
on it signals a touchdown. And I said, oh, there's no,
that's good. They're gonna look at that. That's not a touchdown.
But I looked at and I could not believe it
because I'm looking at his right leg going it's so
far over the over the like he's never coming down.

(20:12):
And still he is able with all his momentum going
that way to be able to get your left leg
all the way back and he's doing a split. He's
doing like a forward backward split, and he's able to
get his foot down. That is so unbelievably impressive. Again,
I don't know I've ever seen a better one. I
really don't know I've ever seen a better one than that.
That was I've seen. I've seen the play like five

(20:32):
times now. I have no idea how you can have
that kind of body control. We say that all the
time about wide receiver's body control and X, Y and
Z and everything else. And I look at that and
I go, I don't know, man, I don't know how
you have that kind of body control and can make
that play. It was absolutely insane.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I mean it.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Seen a lot of toe taps, right, Santonio Holmes toe
tap for a touchdown to win the Super Bowl. That
was great, right, since Santoniomes does that. But when you
when you're extended that far out over over the out
of bounds line and you still able to get your
left foot down, Oh man, that is unbelow the Heisman
troph Forget about Sam Hartman, who I told just gonna
win it. No, no, no, I'm voting for for Heisman
Trophy right now. Give me Jackson for the Heisman Trophy,

(21:09):
fan Sam Hartman last week's news, give me Jackson for
the Heisman troph.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, that's it, man, When you make a play like that,
body control and that's why they're superhumans. Uh, not quite
Spider Man, but uh doing doing Burish Nikoff stuff out
there out on the field. Uh with with that catch,
I gotta give the referee credit. Steely eyed watching Uh

(21:33):
the feet. You know, we saw this couple of weeks ago,
Patrick mahomes right did a thing where he was half
his body was out of bounds but hadn't touched one
of those. Ay, he's probably gonna get drilled into the
ground at some point. Uh, and then we'll have rule
changes again related to quarterbacks. But same kind of thing drifting.
It's like, all right, that foots well out of bounds

(21:54):
and somehow corrals the ball and you start seeing the
turf flying up behind us, like wow, the trail of
black I don't know what do you call it, rabbit food,
gurbil food, whatever. It starts from rolling up the pellets already, man,
and everybody's looking around going did he really just did that?

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I mean, he really just It was insane in fact,
you know what it felt. I felt like I'm watching
that watching the Odell Beckham catch, like, Wow, he really that,
he really got that. He really got that foot down.
He really got that foot down. I really I'm still
stunned he was able to do. I don't know how
he did. I don't know how he did it. I
really don't know how he did it.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
You know what he did, though, that was That's what
you really call putting your giant ore in and rowing
the damn boat. That's what that's all about right there.
And you know what, in the box score, not in
the highlights, any think it's gonna look like one of
the greatest touchdown drives of the quarterbacks young life man's
pinny point precision in the corner of the end zone.

(22:56):
That's all what's gonna look at look like in the
box score and in print.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
But we see that video, My goodness.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
You want to talk about a wide receiver instilling a
lot of confidence going for the rest of the season,
How much freer do you feel as a quarterback? You
got a guy to make him play like that, never
mind that he'd already been roughed up and beaten up
by defensive backs with no calls.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Gone. Ah, that was kind of a hail Mary.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
It's like, no, no, no, he grabbed his head and twisted
in before the boot. Now it doesn't matter incomplete, No, no, no,
it's the old We talked about it the other day,
the cheaters proof.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
There you go, he got his play.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Really, I just I'm continuing to watch this play, this replay.
It is it really is. It's difficult to fathom. I
don't know. There's there's physical See. The thing is is
that they're smart plays that players make that really frustrate you. Right,
that's when the player makes a smart play so incredibly frisk. Oh,
why how does he how does he find the fifth
receiver on that? How does he have that much time?

(23:53):
How does Brady find his fifth target? A guy that's
not even a wide receiver. He came out of the stands,
he's eating French fries, he's not even wearing a uniform.
He just caught a touchdown pass. I mean, there's that
kind of impressive. And there's when you can do stuff
physically that makes you go, oh, it's superhuman. You look
like something that's absolutely superhuman. And that's what Jackson looked
liked on that catch. It was unreal. Now did that

(24:17):
end happily for Minnesota ten? Ten? They were driving down
for a field goal that could potentially win the game.
Let's find out in what's trending right now with special
delivery Steve de Sager, who had a lot of money
on this game. He had the under end, he had
Nebraska and he was getting three points. Steve, how did

(24:37):
you do?

Speaker 5 (24:39):
I'm just fine, thank you. Completely separate from this game
on Fox TV. Minnesota kicks a forty seven yard field
goal on the final play to beat Nebraska thirteen to ten.
It was three nothing Gophers at the half. Husker's doing
Husker things late in the game. Nebraska on its final
two possessions fumble which led to a touchdown and an

(25:00):
interception which led to the field goal.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
But Matt Ruhle has it all figured out.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Steam He's a genius.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, well, they'll show up for the volleyball team. At
least we know that fourteenth right to Utah beat up
Florida twenty four to eleven, Uts defense with five sacks.
It was twenty four to three Utah early in the
fourth quarter and the Utes were missing their star quarterback
Tonight Cam rising still out after return acl last season
in the Rose Bowl, and so tonight starter on the

(25:30):
first offensive play of the season through a seventy yard
touchdown pass. Earlier on FS one, UCF beat Kent State
fifty six to six. North Carolina State a winner at
yukon twenty four to fourteen. Arizona State has scored just
before halftime to take a twenty one to seven lead
on Southern Utah. It was seven all in the second quarter.

(25:50):
Victories tonight for UAB and Tulsa for Missouri, and wake
Forest wins for Western Michigan and Georgia State. Friday night
on FS one Michigan State Central Michigan. The Minnesota Vikings
gave tight end TJ. Hawkinson a four year extension. Rams
wide receiver Cooper cup is day to day after a
setback with his strained hamstring to Major League Baseball. Still

(26:13):
a home run problem for lance Lynn. He was the
Dodger starting pitcher tonight, Braves up seven to one in
LA in the bottom of the fifth. You know a
lot of people thinking this is a playoff preview, and
if they're gonna give lance Lynn starts in the postseason,
I think this is a playoff preview.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
He gave up three homers in four to third seven months.
Seven hits.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Yeah, exactly. If you were to guess what pitcher in
Major League Baseball is giving up the home runs first off,
if you guessed any White Sox pitcher, you'd probably be wrong.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
What steep?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
How dare you?

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Michael Kopek was not good in that category, or Lucas Giolito,
but lance Lynn better than them all. I think it's
up to thirty seven home run seven. It's just been
about twenty seven start. So if you have a ticket
for a lance Ling game, it's just part of the
price of admission. Atlanta is leading seven to one in LA.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I think, I think if I'm looking, I see the
back of the ticket. If lance Lynn starts this game,
the potential for many balls to be hit into the
crowd is great, especially in the bleachers. Please understand that
if you get hit with a home run ball, the
Dodges are not responsible. Okay, bo okay, So they have
a big disclaimer on the tickets.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Now, the prices of those home run seats they put
in the first two rows of the by the outfield balls.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Guarantee you one home run ball. A game.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
You could actually lance Lynn ad an e ara of
what six with the White Sox, but was four and
oh this month after the trade, the old lance Land
showed up and Atlanta's just flat great. A win tonight
would put them at eighty eight and forty five. This
is the start of a four game series in La
Ronald de Kunye at a Grand Slam, thirtieth homer of

(27:53):
the year. Austin Riley is thirty second home run the
only other game going. The Giants got a lot of
unearned runs early and they lead at San Diego seven
to nothing in the bottom of the six three early
errors for the Padres. Miami beat Washington six to one. Today,
Detroit down the Yankees in ten innings, four to three.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Juliar.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
It's officially retired from soccer and at Basketball's World Cup,
the US plays Montenegro early Friday, then faces Lithuania on Sunday.
After that the quarterfinals. Today, Finland with Lowry Marketing getting
thirty four points, beat Cape Verde and South Sudan one
at the Philippines, US playing its games in Manila.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Back to you, Thanks a bunch, STEVEO. The Jason Smith
Show with My best friend Mike Carmen live from the
Tireraq dot com studios. And to get to this right here, Mike,
because now we got to spend a little bit of
time talking about Nebraska. Nebraska was winning this game the
entire way. They were in control. Minnesota was not able
to threaten. But how many times you seen it. A
team can't do anything for the first fifty eight minutes,

(28:53):
but those last two minutes they looking they turn into
world beaters. You know, three turnovers will do it for
you as well.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Remember remember Nebraska's touchdown, the most improbable, unlikely touchdown you
will ever see in your life. When you have a
half back pass that actually rolls on the ground and
rolls back up to the quarterback who finds a wide
receiver because of the brokenness of the play standing with

(29:21):
nobody within twenty yards of him. You'll never see that.
You can't draw that up on the street, let alone
in a major college program game. So the seven points
I put a giant asterisk on the still count. But yeah,
for any of the hey, they lee, they led whatever else? Man,
that was as about a horseshoe stuck as high as

(29:43):
you can right there.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
I'll tell you this for Nebraska because we have to
explain Nebraska football to millennials and Generation Z because they
were on national television tonight and people are watching ABRA.
I don't understand the break. I see people older than
me and they get this wistful look in their eyes
when they hear Nebraska. I don't understand Nebraska football come by.
This is Scott Frost. They were terrible. Didn't he ever

(30:05):
play there? People don't understand. Like, this is why I
say there's sports Stonehenges, right, because Stone Henges, this crazy
group of rocks that have been there for thousands of years.
Nobody knows why they're there, yet they seem to have
some kind of fascination even though no one understands why.
That's things like Nebraska football. Why is there still this

(30:25):
fascination with Nebraska football. Well, because Nebraska football, Indiana basketball.
You know, they're Stonehenges. They are the relics of a
bygone era.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
And they have a lot of alumni, yeah, and very
large alumni base, so they don't forget.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Fans don't understand, you know, don't because how much of
a big deal and how great Nebraska used to be.
That in the eighties and nineties and early two thousands,
Nebraska was it. Oklahoma. Nebraska was always the biggest game
of the year in college football because the winner of
that game was always going to play in the national championship.
It's not like, well, some years Michigan, Ohigh State is good.

(31:00):
Some year, some years Alabama Arbuna. Every year, Nebraska, Oklahoma,
one of them was playing for the national championship. They
had Heisman Trophy cannons. They had quarterbacks like Turner Gill
and Steve Taylor and Eric Crouch, and running backs would
be candidates for the Heisman Trophy every year. Where it's
Mike Rozier or somebody else, this was Nebraska football. And
they would put fifty sixty seventy points up every week.

(31:22):
They didn't care. They would run a wishbone offense with
three running backs. Tom Osborne Senator, the Senator House, the
representatives or whatever it was. Oh, you mean the guy coaching. Yes,
he coached Nebraska, and they were terrific, and they would
score every week, and they would have two two hundred
yard runners every week, and they were so good for
so long. And now Nebraska football just looks like Rutgers football.

(31:43):
And it's been that way for a while and I
know that that the whole Scott Frost arrows. Oh maybe
Scott Frost wasn't up to it and all that. Yeah,
and I get. But you watch Nebraska open up things tonight,
you know, scoring ten points against Nebraska. When this used
to be an offense out would sledgehammer people and instead
now people think, oh that that volleyball school. They have
a football team too. Really, ninety two thousand people in

(32:04):
that game, they have a football team Nebraska plays for
I didn't know. I thought they just played volleyball. I
don't know they played football there too. I mean, it's
a sports to Nebraska is such a relic of a
bygone era in college football when Nebraska was it, when
they controlled everything. Like I was rooted for Nebraska when
they played Oklahoma. I don't know why, I just did.
I mean there's I mean, when I'm growing up and
it's Oklahoma Nebraska, it's always on a rainy field the

(32:26):
day after Thanksgiving or two days after Thanksgiving, and the
field is just so wet and there's great there's rain everywhere,
and pitch outs get fumbled. And that was always the
biggest play of the game. If somebody fumbled, you turned
it over. I mean that was always the nadeer of
college football Oklahoma Nebraska, and Oklahoma has found a way
to sustain it at least a little bit better. You know,
they're not year in and year out great, but they're year

(32:48):
in and year out there still really really good, and they
have a national championship in the past twenty years. But
Nebraska football is just why do they matter? I mean,
people are watching them for the first and only time
this year because it's the game on national team because
half the country didn't get Utah and Florida because the spectrum.
So they're watching this game and they go, Wow, Nebraska, Okay,
they were a big deal. Yes that you. Once upon

(33:10):
a time they were a big deal, just like the
Jedi would tell stories to the younglings of oh ten
thousand years ago. The Jedi was very important. Let me
tell you why. I'm gonna see her and tell stories
to my daughter and her friends. They'll be out in
the pool in the backyard and I'm gonna say, I
want to tell you all about Helen Putant Nebraska football
used to be, and they're gonna go, what, yes, yes,
let me sit and tell you about the nineteen eighty
seven Oklahoma Nebraska game and what happened when when a

(33:32):
young quarterback named Turner Gil decided to I mean, that's
how I'm gonna talk about in Nebraska because it feels
like it's that long ago for them.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Nicely done.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, we're in mid season four because people are starting
to do suppruder film shots of would be touchdowns and
would be false starts and all of these things. So
the officials. We did get Gus Johnson to call a
game winner one a night one for Fox. So I mean,
that's about as good as it gets. The agony and
the ecstasy yesterday ninety two thousand and three people to

(34:01):
watch volleyball and wins in straight sets, and now this
the futility. Ready, here's your stat in Nebraska the last
five years, twenty six one score losses. Seventeen of those
were second half collapses. Seventeen losses in the last five
years where they light at half time. Meanwhile, PJ Fleck

(34:22):
forty one and four when leading at half.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Unbelievable, Absolutely unbelievable. This is such a stunt. And I
feel bad because I love good I always because I
used to love watching Nebraska just roll over people. Here's
an eighty r touchdown run coming your way. Nope, there
it goes. Now. You also used to like Cable. That's yes.
I used to watch Hannah Montana. Now I don't anymore.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yes, I used to have came recently revisited that there's
a lot of genius in that show.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Cable. Nebraska football, you know, all the same. That's how
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more college football on the way in a second, but hey,
incredibly large baseball series going on right now, A huge
four game set, huge four game set huge Braves in
the Dodgers. And you've heard John Palmerrosi on the air.
This was in studio with us last night. So listen.
If it's not the Braves and the Dodgers in the NLCS,
then there's something wrong. And yes, absolutely, you're talking about

(37:14):
the two most dominant teams in baseball, not just in
the Nation League in baseball. Right now, the Braves lead
the Dodgers eight to four as the Dodgers bat in
the bottom of the sixth inning, And really quick, I'm
gonna need Steve to saying it really quick for one second,
because Lance Lynn started the game tonight for the Dodgers
and he's given up three home runs before coming out

(37:35):
of the game in the fifth inning. Now, Steve, I
got a question for you, because I didn't get to
see his watching it in the college football Mookie Betts
hit a three run homer to bring the Dodgers with
an eight to four. Did Bets also homer off of
Lance Lin?

Speaker 5 (37:50):
You know, initially you'd think that would be impossible, but
you don't know who you're dealing with here, Okay, a
man who's not only your teammate but out of the game.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, I'd say it's possible. Okay, just want because I
didn't know. I didn't see it, and I saw, well,
all the home runs are flying. He must have hit
it off of lanceln as well.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
So okay, yeah, that made it seven to four at
the time.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Now eight for Atlanta, bottom of the sixth All right,
thank you very much, Steve. I appreciate it. Uh So
there we go, uh Braves Dodgers eight four Braves at
the lead as the Dodgers bat in the bottom sixth inning.
What what baseball fans? We look at the we look
at the games you watch this season, and now that
we're getting into September, you're seeing the cream rise at

(38:30):
the top of the teams we're talking about are the
best teams in baseball? You know, Look, we talk Braves,
we talk Dodgers, and here come the Astros and the
and the big race in the AL West is phenomenal.
And look at the Orioles in the AL East. But
I don't know that everybody understands just how much better
Atlanta is than everybody else. I mean, you look at
what Atlanta has done every single stat in the league.

(38:54):
Atlanta leites, they lead everything. They have eight All Stars
for a reason. They go one through eight in the order,
and it's pick your poison. Everybody's hitting over two sixty
right in everyin if you if you had two to
fifteen everybody, the Mets have lucky if they have one
guy hitting over two sixty in the lineup every night.
And that's if Jeff mcneils somehow can say above two
sixty when he was a batting champion last year. The

(39:15):
Braves hit eight guys are hitting at least two sixty.
They're starting pitchers. They're able to control every single game
and pitch deep into every game and give you a
near quality start every single night. Yes, the Braves and
the Dodgers are the top two teams in Major League Baseball,
but the gap between the Dodgers and the Braves is huge.

(39:35):
The Braves are gonna go into any series as an
overwhelming favorite. They have a plus two thirty five run
differential over the rest of the league. Remember when Tampa
Bay was at the top of Hey, Tampa Bay's run
differential is fantastic. Long term, you're talking about two thirty five.
They've outscored their opponents by two hundred and thirty five runs.
You'll get know the teams having big years. The Dodgers

(39:57):
are great. They're at one seventy, all right. The Braves
are out score in their opposition by He's over sixty
more runs than the Dodger and the Dodgers are hitting
like gangbusters the last month and a half. It's really
the brain. And I'm not saying this to Jakes, the
Braves or anything else. I'm gonna I realize, I'm gonna
have to watch a National League team, not name the Mets,
an NL East team that's not the Mets win the
World Series almost every year now, uh, and it really

(40:19):
it's it's the Braves World Series to lose. I know
that Houston is really good and the other defending champs
and they're playing really well, but it really is the
Braves World Series to lose. And everybody else is They're good,
but no one's at that level. No one is.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Yeah, let me ask this question, are any of them
dual sport athletes you know, to where maybe they can
cross over back into Florida and help the Gators.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Look, because Atlanta is close to joy Else it is close.
It is close.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Funny time to talk about this series, the Heroics and
Mookie bleeping bets and fiftieth career home. Can't get it.
No such greatness. But you know, waiting in the wings,
you know, like a caged big cat ready to talk,
is our guy.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
It really is. It's it's it's an unbelievable run for
the Braves who have had a great I don't want
to say it's lucky, but what the Braves have done
is they've found every young player coming up that looks
like they're good, which means if you put together a
season of being good as a rookie, hey we're gonna
strike first. How about a ten year, one hundred million
dollar contract. Right That's what they signed Ronald Lacunya to,

(41:26):
and they've done that with a lot of their stars.
They've been very forward thinking in that, hey, we'll pay
these guys way before we have to, and hey, you know, look,
we're gonna make money on them at the end. They're
gonna make money on us in the beginning. Right we
can we can hold them down right now to they
can hold a guy like a Cunya down to like
two million a year for a while so he becomes
a free agent, but instead, hey, well you ten million
a year now, Okay. Now, at some point, when Aconia

(41:48):
gets me twenty seven years old, he's gonna go, Yeah, No,
I'm not coming. I'm not playing for ten million anymore.
I'm not doing it. We're gonna we're gonna renegotiate this deal.
But for right now, they've locked up all their young
players and they have a good two three year window
that's just begun about a year and a half ago,
until they have to worry about other teams that are
gonna usurp them from the top of the list. Because
they're all young, they're all really good, and they've they've

(42:11):
made the right choices. They've had a great run of
the right prospects be able to come up and dominate.
Or is every single player they signed long term deal
for less money great? No, but are most of them yeah?
And when you have when you have great young players,
you're maximizing them for a good four or five year span.
This is what you're getting.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Man.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
As much as I say about them, Matt Bras and Brains,
the Braves do things right and they're this dominant team.
Now they have to deal with the fact that this
should be the year they win the world. If they
don't win the World Series this year, something is wrong.
I'll take JP's statement and i'll amp it up by another.
If they don't win the World Series this year, then
something's wrong.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
We'll just have a bunch of pictures of Bobby Cox
and Greg Maddox and Tom Glavin and John Smoltz.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
To look at Steve Avery.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Don't forget Steve Avery with pitching games for reasons passing
understanding sho.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
He's a little lesser guy, you know, because he doesn't
have the hall of fame as it may that the
rest of them do. But look, it's the Braves and
Dodgers and everybody else is trying to figure out some formula,
including your guy burning fun Bucks like he's Leo DiCaprio
off the side of a ship.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
I like that burning fun Bucks. I am burnin Funnu Burnon,
Burnon fun Bucks, as we will call you Vernon fun
Bucks as a Cunya tonight, speaking of Ronaldcunya makes history.
He is the first thirty sixty player. Again this I
get a little tired of every He's the first twenty
four to fifty four guy. He's the first twenty five
to fifty seven guy. He is the first thirty home

(43:38):
run sixty stolen bases player doing that tonight with a
grand slam that gave the Braves the four run lead
they have yet to relinquish. Here over the Dodgers. Look
this this he's telling everybody, Hey, I saw that Mookie
Bets is leading for MVP. I see your Mookie Bets,
and I raise you one me. Remember I'm the guy
you were talking about for the first four months. That
was suddenly everybody loves the Dodgers and Mookie and Freddy

(44:01):
and the dance at second base. They hit a double,
everybody goes kind. Now, remember I was a guy the
first three months people couldn't stop talking about, not them.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
It was me, Well sometimes you want to reclaim that
that top you know, uh sure, sure, Well you know
what else do you want me to say? It's like no,
you're no, You're like, yeah, that's a great story. It's
a great August. I've got the great season. Let me
remind you on a grand scale, when you pitch the

(44:30):
home runs serving lance Lynn and he'd been great for
a month, right, because tonight there's gonna be a lot
of poison pens out, a lot of anger. The one
thing the guy has done consistently even as a member
of the Dodgers. Is he will give you a gopher
ball or two. It's just a matter of are they
solo shots or like tonight where Acuna hits a Grand Slam.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
And now elsewhere in baseball, as as this game is
going on, look, even if the Dodgers get swept, everything
is fine. They're still going to fourteen game lead in
the NL West. We saw a lot today speaking of
a team that goes just down the five and is
hoping Shoeo Tani does not know what's been going on
the last couple of days and wants to stay. The
Guardians grab just about everybody that the Angels put on

(45:15):
waivers a couple of days ago. The Guardians, treating today
like it was their own trade deadline, added three pitches
to their staff to make a run in the al Central.
And the first thing I'm gonna say is I love
this by the Guardians and TJ clearly the Guardian Angels.
They may need to be called now after these moves today.

(45:37):
The Angels put six players on waivers on Tuesday, right
as they're waving the white flag. And we told you
how horrible and optic this was And if you're shoe Heotani,
are you really gonna stay with a team that traded
two of your top three prospects for two guys you
let go after a month. I get it didn't work out,
but this is just an awful way to run a team.
Makes you like, we really don't know what we're doing.
Why do we give up two of our best three

(45:58):
prospects for guys we're okay with saying goodbye to in
a month? Why don't we give up like our fifteenth
and sixteenth best guys? No, what are we doing? All
those players that went on waivers, Hey, guess what, just
about all of them got claimed today. We watched Lucas Gialino,
Matt Moore, and Ronaldo Lopez all get claimed by the Guardians.
Hunter Renfro went to the Reds, dominic Leone went to

(46:19):
the Mariners. So everybody they put out there, they've lost
all of them, and the Guardians got three of them,
turning this into a Hey, I know there's no trade deadline,
but we're only five games back in the Central We
just won two out of three with the Twins, where
you know, it's not like the Twins are running away
with a division. Yes we're under five hundred, but hey,
we can be gutsy right here. And I kind of

(46:39):
like this move. And I don't know if this is
gonna be something that happens in the future that teams
are gonna look at the end of August and go, well,
if we don't want to pay these guys anymore, we
can put them out here and save money at the
end of the year. And maybe that acts as a
pseudo you know, late August deadline, the waiver deadline that
we used to have. But I kind of dig this.
I mean, it's still bad news for the Angels because

(47:00):
now they had to watch all these guys that they
thought we're gonna be parts of their team. They're all
gone now. And Otani's not gonna know half the guys
in the clubhous when he shows up, but he's gonna say,
I'm just punching the clock to lock it out, just
punching the clock. So nothing got better for the Angels today,
but for the Guardians and other teams who were saying, hey,
the end of August, now maybe there are players out
there for us, I kind of dig this.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Well, opportunity knocks, right you don't have the second trade deadline.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
You don't have any of that.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
But if you're gonna have a team, and I wonder
if you don't see more of this, all right, can
we circumnavigate or do they get hammered anyway?

Speaker 1 (47:32):
All right?

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Can you say, well, we successfully dodge the luxury tags,
so ha nana nanny boo boo to the fun and
exciting world of Major League Baseball? Or do they say no, no, no,
we know exactly what you did here, right, because literally
it's it's a bit of bit of money, right, it's
only two million dollars in terms of what their penalty

(47:55):
would have been. But the idea that hey we only
give up a fourth we still get a second round
if Otani leaves versus getting a fourth rounder, Man, does
major League Baseball slap them on the risk? Going all right,
Ardie Moreno, we saw what you did here. But because
if they don't and you set precedents like this, what's

(48:17):
to say you don't have a couple of other teams going,
you know, we're not resigning that guy anyway. So all
of a sudden, it's the fantasy owner in Week twelve
going out of hell with it. I'm out of it.
Let's cause some chaos. You know, the guy that doesn't
want to pay his dues because he's mad about some
auto pick function that that got triggered.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
During the draft.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
You know, I got knocked offline and then it picked
three guys that I would have never picked in a
million years. You know, I hate those guys, all of
that kind of stuff. So yeah, it'll be interesting to watch.
But yeah, if a team can go and do this,
why not get a couple of players on the cheap
that you think can help stretch you some innings or

(48:59):
maybe give you a lib at bat or two down
the stretch. I mean, you know what your schedule is,
there might be some matchups and series whereby those guys
can become difference makers.

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