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Jason tells you why the Western Conference Playoffs will be murder. The Houston Astros are in DANGER. All Jason can think of with Mark Pope getting the job at Kentucky is King George from 'Hamilton' in the 2nd act. Plus, longtime NFL Insider Jason Cole joins the show for all the latest news on the first round of NFL Draft.

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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(00:54):
Happy Friday. Well, yes, yes, the Mets did win today,
so already I'm in a great mood. The Knicks one.
I'll tell you why I'm even I had moved a
couple seconds, but this is a huge night. You want
to talk about end of the regular season, playoff drama,
which is fun. Yes, all the playoff berths have been decided.
We know who's going to be in. We know who's
going to be in the top ten, the top ten spots.

(01:15):
You know. We no one's getting in or out in
the next couple of days. But boy do we have
some fun stuff tonight. We'll get to the West in
a second. But in the East, Steve, I know you
said you wanted to start with the Nick, So okay,
we will say that they overcome a forty five to
two deficit early on against the Nets to well, it

(01:35):
seemed like that when when I was watching, I'm going,
come on, man, it's the Nets. But they win one
to eleven, one oh seven, securing the number three seed
in the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. Now do they
have a shot at the two seed. Yeah, but the
Bucks have to lose their last two games. Well, make
it likely their last game, because they are getting thumped
right now by the Thunder one oh six eighty seven

(01:58):
with about six and a half to go in the
fourth quarter. So after this game for that number two
seed in the East behind the Celtics, Knicks and the
Bucks are going to be tied. The Bucks have the tiebreaker.
But Bucks are playing without Giannis, so let's see how
things go. A night filled with all kinds of drama.
They have to finish the Bucks against Orlando, so that's

(02:19):
gonna be a tough one. They're on the road, Steve O.
The Knicks could finish second. That might win MVP for
Jalen Brunson. He might come off of everybody's also getting
votes list and he might go right to the top.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, I believe epay voted on that.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
The New York next year too soon for epaid. Actually no,
it's not really in.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
New York next to mathematically have a shot at the
two seed. You're correct, And just for the record, they
were only down twenty one to five late first quarter
at home.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
It felt like forty five to four.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
But you know what, it's my turn for hyperbole because
the Boston Celtics sat their entire roster. Literally, I think
about twenty people were sitting for the Celtics because there
what twenty games ahead of the two seats whoever that
may be in the Eastern Conference.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So what are you kidding out? I watch a Nicks
win last night. There was Bird and McHale in Parish
and they were all over those Yeah, those guys are
all seventy, but they ran circles around them.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Of course, the Celtics were hosting the Hornets. There's nobody
left on that team either, and the Celtics win by
thirty three in this game. Meanwhile, the Lakers are playing
a team that I guess we can call them the
Memphis Grizzlies, although they're nothing like any roster of Memphis
Grizzlies you will ever recall, no, because the starters are
guys that literally, for the most part, you have never

(03:35):
even on basketball fans have never heard of guys that
were either G League or two way players getting their shot.
And the Lakers are huge favorites, and yet they were
only up five a few minutes ago. Now it's one
oh nine, one oh one Lakers, eight minutes to go.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
If you guys are looking at the box score real quickly,
you would think Scottie Pippen was still playing.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I been junior did start for the Grizzlies, has twenty
four points to lead the way.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I actually think most of this team and no one,
No one understands because they're still anonymous, even though they've
won back to back titles. But I think they're all
the guys from Yukon that won the national title on Monday.
Right now, they're all moving up. But look, this is
where the real drama is at the bottom of the
Western Conference. Yes, the playoffs are going to be murder

(04:18):
in the West. Nobody's gonna really have an advantage. No
higher seeds are going to have an advantage over the
lower seeds except for one because you look at some
of the teams at the top. Oklahoma City terrific team.
But you're talking about first round of the playoffs against
a team, maybe a team like Sacramento or the Lakers
or the Warriors that can win the first round before

(04:39):
the guys get tired. Because look, that's how it's going
to end for the Lakers and the Warriors. You get
to the second third round of the playoffs eventually, even
if they get that far, they will just get tired
because they rely on their older superstars too much. But
the thing is is that the one team you want
to avoid of you want to avoid the Nuggets, Like,
that's the team you want you want to avoid. That's
the only team You're like, Okay, anybody else in the

(05:01):
first round in the West, got it? Yes, I don't
care how many games Minnesota won. We can beat. I
don't care about how many games Oklahoma City one. I
don't care if the Clippers have finally gotten it together. No, No,
we're good, We're good. The team you gotta avoid is
Denver and they're in first place, and they're up by
six with about three and a half to go against
San Antonio late in the fourth. So this is where
this is now a night for Golden State and the

(05:23):
Lakers and to an extent, the Sacramento Kings, because you
want to get out of that bottom. You don't want
to be in that nine to ten game because guess
what you wind up? Okay, we won? Hey A D
said today, we feel great going into the playing round.
Are you gonna feel great going in playing the Nuggets?
Are you really gonna do that?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
You got you have. This is the last couple of
games where it's, man, we gotta hope the things fall
in our way and we gotta take care of business.
Because the one team you do not want is the Nuggets.
Anybody else yes, great, great, great great, but you don't
want the Nuggets, and somebody's gonna get them right Tonight's
Sacramento Kings game is so unbelievably huge and we could
have all kinds of fun drama going into the final
day depending on how that game ends up.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
The two late games that start in a half an
hour Sacramento hosting Phoenix, Clippers hosting Utah. The NBA regular
season ends on Sunday, and keep in mind with the
odds scheduling no NBA games on Saturday, then every team
plays on Sunday and that ends in the regular season.
The play in tournament starts Tuesday. That'll determine the number
seven and eight seeds in each conference for the playoffs.

(06:23):
And we mentioned this last night late on the Show.
There is a three way tie for the eight spot
in the West right now identical records of forty five
and thirty five for Sacramento, Golden State, and the Lakers.
But the awful news for the Lakers they went zero
to four against Sacramento and they went one in three
against Golden State, so they really need help to move up.

(06:45):
Otherwise it might be the Lakers needing two road wins
facing elimination next week, or else they don't even get
into the formal playoffs.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Two road games and the Nuggets. Let's go Steve.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's right, everything's fine.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Here's where it's things get even worse for the Lakers
if they finished there. Not only okay, we could have
the Nuggets, but the teams we might have to play
to get out there. We were terrible against them in
the regular We've won one game ye against them in
the regular season. So it's not like, oh, we got
to beat a team. We won. We were three and
one against their team. We can handle. No, the teams
they're gonna have to play, most likely they were bad

(07:19):
against during the regular season. But I mean this is
that you gotta avoid the Nuggets. You want to get
into that eighth spot and play Phoenix, who has been
just okay, Look they got drubbed earlier this week. Look
that game tonight, that Phoenix Sacramento, that's unbelievably huge. So
you want to you want to see if hey, we
want to get up into that seven to eight spot,
if we can and it's still up there, and if

(07:40):
Sacramento wins tonight, you're talking about three teams at thirty
five losses and one team at thirty four losses with
all kinds of crazy tie breakers going to the final
day of the season.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
But the good news for the Lakers they're facing a
Grizzlies team that has thirteen players on the injury report tonight.
Yeah a team.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Is it good that they're only winning by four? Steve,
there's still ten minutes ago when it's one oh nine one.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
This is my point. Look at the context of this there.
It's they went on and on right before tip off
on Lakers Radio about how you should be able to
close your eyes and win this game by fifteen twenty points.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, maybe that's what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Maybe that's yah, they closing eyes exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Cloth.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, it's one o nine, one oh five, Lakers leading
at Memphis, seven minutes to go. I can already write
one segment for you a week from now after the
Lakers have been eliminated, and that is Lebron James tenure
as a Laker, because there's a lot of nothing aside
from that one run in the bubble that got him
to the NBA Finals and a title. And granted that

(08:39):
was their best regular season also, and most of that
regular season had been played by the time the pandemic started.
But the other years Lebron has been in LA largely forgettable.
And if they're out, quickly add this to the list.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, I'll tell you what's going to be a story
before that, because I agree with you. But the story
before that's going to be Lakers replaced Darvin Ham, Like,
that's gonna be the absolute first. I mean, this is
a team that has played really and I guess.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
This second year, right.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
But when Anthony Davis said today, we feel good about
where we are going in and in theory, that's great, right,
I would feel great about myself. I was the Lakers too.
We what did they want beginning of the season. Hey,
we want to be healthy and want to be playing
our best basketball at the end of the season. We
want to be in the playoffs. We understand where we're at.
We understand we're probably not a top three team in
the West. But these are the three most important things.

(09:27):
We want healthy going into the playoffs, and we're playing
really good basketball and we're in the playoffs. Right, we
don't have to worry about all those things are true,
And still look how difficult things are now because not
only look at the road ahead that they might have,
whether it's in the play and round or you know,
as a eight, nine or ten seed, bring it on.
You're also now dealing with stories every day where the

(09:50):
Lakers wanted Darvinham fired all throughout this season. I can't
get on on online at any point and on the
computer and go online and not see a LA story
where it's Lakers wanted Ham fired earlier this season. Lakers
and Ham ten, you're not working and here but here
they are winning at the end, and okay, that's great.
But if they wind up getting out early, that's the

(10:11):
first domino that's gonna fall. Darwin Ham won't make it
past the day after the Lakers get eliminated. He'll He'll
be gone.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
So Ham won't make it to the holidays, is what
you're saying.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, there will be no Ham for the holidays.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Ham.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's New Orleans hosting the Lakers on Sunday for the
Lakers finale. Now, New Orleans can clinch a playoff spot already.
If they win at Golden State tonight and the Suns lose,
it's possible New Orleans needs this game on Sunday, and
unlike the Celtics, for example, not sitting players on Sunday
once again bad news for the Lakers. Possible this weekend.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Did you see who's playing for the Pelicans first time finger.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Mi is back right on this weekend.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, oh see, this is tough, Like what are you
rooting for if you're the Warriors of the Lakers, because okay,
you got to catch Phoenix and Set. You got to
catch Phoenix and Sacramento, so you're rooting against them. But
if the Pelicans lose, that might bring them back a
little bit and force them into a big game on Sunday.
So it's really difficult because it's just so jumbled. And

(11:07):
this is why I say this, No one has any advantage,
and the playoffs are going to be murder because you
look at all these teams and I don't mean deep
playoff runs. You just think about the first round of
the playoffs and the West is going to be murder
because the Lakers can win a first round unless they
play the Nuggets. Lakers can win first round, Warriors can
win the first round, Kings can win a first round,
Phoenix can win a first round, Pelicans can win a

(11:28):
first round, Mavericks can win a first round. No team
in the top four seeds outside of the Nuggets has
an advantage all the This is the most difficult playoffs
going in that I can remember seeing in the NBA.
And then you look at the Eastern Conference and you
got teams like, you know, eight games under five hundreds
just rolling along. Hey, the Hawks have lost four in
a row. We don't care. Where the Texas, you know,

(11:50):
we're eight games under five hundred, We don't care. We'll
play a game or two. We really doesn't matter at
us I. Meanwhile, you got these teams in the West
that are sweating their asses off trying to get into
the playoffs, and here you go, you got the Bulls
and the Hawks going, yeah, we stink. What are we
worried about? That's right.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
If Mike Carmen is not seeded here, I'm happy to
fill in. But his Chicago Bulls, even he as a fan,
I'm sure would readily admit, oh no, this is in
no way a memorable year or a memorable team. They're
under five hundred. Who knows, they could wind up the
eight seed. They could win a playing game next week,
that's how bad it is. With at the top, Boston's

(12:25):
gonna come close to sixty five wins this year. It's
possible we have two playing teams in the East that
don't even get forty wins that finish under five hundred,
and we're still seeing them playing next week.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
You don't give harmon hope.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
If the Lakers were in the East. If the Lakers
were in the East, they'd be playing tonight to be
in the playoffs without getting sixteen. Yeah, they'd be playing
for the sixth seed. Potentially, they could finish as high
as the five seed if they if they won tonight,
if they were in the Eastern Conference, that's how high.
But in the West here they are ten games over

(13:00):
five hundred, and hey, yeah, we're getting in as the
nine or ten seed most likely. The good news a
lot of drama left, But I mean, this is how
this is how loaded, how murderous this Western Conference was.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
The good news is there is quite for fans a
race for the sixth seed in the East to avoid
the play in because Philly makes it very interesting winning
a seventh in a row tonight and battling Orlando in
Indiana to see who can finish in the top six
and therefore have next week off.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, I'm looking at this going this is exactly how
it's gonna go. The Sixers are gonna stay hot, They're
gonna finish sixth. The Bucks are gonna win Sunday, and
the Knicks are gonna get the Sixers in the first
round of the play and we're gonna get Oh, we're feeling.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Cool, healthy Sixers team.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, and all that's the odd that's what's gonna happen.
See now, stuff, Steve, I was feeling great until.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Just then, until reality sets and that usually happens for
you you're a New York fan.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, but you know, but here's the one I wonder,
And if we have Todd furmanon later on tonight, what
with the odds, what I what could I get for
odds wise? If in the first round of the playoffs
in the Western Conference, I want to take all the
lower seats, if I want to take seats fly through
eight to all advance, like what kind of like what
kind of odds would I get on?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
That'd be for a big rich hun could change because
Denver could be the one seed. They're certainly going to
be one of the top four.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, that's why something.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's why it's got to be. It's I got to
make some uh, you know, there's got to be some
kind of money at stake, because something big has to happen.
But the only other ones I feel okay with.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
The only matchup that's locked in in the West. I
think we mentioned this this week. We know the ten
teams that are still going to be playing in the
Western Conference next week. We just don't know the exact
order one through ten for certain though. The first round
of the playoffs when that gets started on the weekend
of the twentieth four seed Clippers against the five seed
Dallas Mavericks. And we've seen that in the postseason with

(14:48):
Luka Donsich actually destroying I think that's the proper verb,
destroying the Clippers. I look forward to this.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
So here's where we sit right now with the drama.
Seven seconds to go. Oklahoma City is gonna beat Milwaukee Nicks,
and the Bucks are gonna be tied for the two
seed in the East. The Lakers one fourteen, one eleven
over Memphis. With four and a half minutes left to go,
Denver could lose to San Antonio. The Spurs have taken

(15:16):
a one point lead with a couple of seconds left
to go. That could throw the way This game in
and of itself, could throw the West into a bigger tizzy.
Oh wait a minute, we could finish. Wait, the Nuggets
can finish second. Oh, we're good. Finishing eighth, were good? Yeah,
we're good. Finishing eight. We're fine, We're fine, We'll finish eight.
That's fine. I mean, this is a really big deal.
And then of course tonight we have the two big
games headlined by Phoenix and well we have the two

(15:39):
big games. Yes, we have the Kings playing, and we
have the Warriors, Pelicans and the Suns. Tons and tons
of fun stuff to get to tonight. But again, that game,
that Nuggets game, all of a sudden could change a
lot of things. So why it's such a great night.
Jason Smith Steve de Seger in for Mike Harmon tonight.
Coming up next, we'll have more on the NBA. Plus

(16:00):
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Steve Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with special
delivery Steve de Sager in for Mike Harmon, and we'll
have more on the NBA coming up in a second.
This is just some kind of night so far as Steve,
I'll tell you, so much drama. So many games come in.
No we have we have two games. We have two

(17:45):
big games in the Western Conference because really it's all
about playoff seating and getting out of the playing round.
And you know, we spent the first ten minutes of
the show talking about, Hey, you don't want to finish
eighth because you want to avoid the Nuggets. Well, the
Nuggets just went lost to the Spurs.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
How did that happened?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
So now they could finish second, and suddenly finishing eighth
is okay because you don't want to finish seventh. Now
suddenly you don't want to win now wait, wait, wait,
the Nuggets could finish second. So there's so much craziness
coming into the final couple of days. And tonight we
have New Orleans and Phoenix and the Kings and the
Warriors all playing and the seedings can change at a

(18:22):
moment's notice. The Lakers are trying to hold on right now,
they leave Memphis by a point with a minute left
to go in the fourth quarter. I mean, this is
I mean, I know we're talking about seating, but this
really is fun. So I feel like this should be, uh,
I should be people have on ITVS like red Zone
like ice. People will go from gameen bing bing bing,
bing bing, and then put like four games on my

(18:42):
TV at once. That red zones red Zone started a
couple years ago. Boo, if I get four games on
it once, give me the four box.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
And with the Memphis Grizzlies and they've just tied it
at the foul line, one more free throw to go,
they're even with the Lakers. How is this happening? You
think it's mystifying that Denver loses at San Antonio with
the Spurs with a tow and sixty record coming in
Memphis again, has thirteen players on the injury report, most
of their starters you've never heard of, even if you're

(19:09):
a basketball fan. And they've just taken a one point
lead on LA under a minute to go.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Wow, Oh boy, all right, so we'll have more updates
off of what's trending, but I do want to bring
this story here because this is story. This is the story.
No matter what I say the rest of the night,
Frostbur is going to say, Jason, I love you the
greatest host.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Ever Jason, real quick, Yeah, have you ever you guys
ever heard of a sixteen million dollar angry swing.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Dodger Stadium?

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh? Oh, tonni just went deep?

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Oh did he ever?

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Well over four hundred feet and one hundred and seven
miles an hour off the bet?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Is that good? Hang on, I'm watching the replay right now.
Security has grabbed the fan who caught the ball, holding
them over the railing by their ankles until they drop it. Wow.
That's wow.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
That's only one problem, Jason. The ball hasn't landed.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yet, but so big home run by out time Again.
Steve will have more of this and we'll break down
everything happening in the Western Conference in the playoff race
coming up in a couple of minutes. But this is
the story that even frost we're gonna say, Yeah, I
keep going on this. I know it's April twelfth, I
know this, I know it's early, and I know as

(20:18):
a met fan, I understand the sky is always falling,
right like, maybe not tonight.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, sometimes it is, it is, it is.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
But we after the last year, I said, okay, we
could be a five hundred team and have some fun
this season and stay in the play and raising we
gotta win eighty four games to get in the playoffs. Okay,
that'll be a wonderful season. I know it's April twelfth,
I know this, but the Rangers are thumping the Astros
right now. It is twelve to three in the seventh inning.

(20:45):
So I feel good and I feel okay saying the
Astros are going to lose this game. They're gonna fall
to four and eleven.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Justin Verlander's coming back soon.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, Verlander's coming back soon. But they have allowed the
second most runs in the AL so far, they've only
won one series. Nothing lasts forever, even called November raight.
Nothing lasts forever, and teams don't stay good forever. And
while we gave our previous to the year, I said, hey,
don't expect the Astros to be the Astros a year's past.
They've lost some players, they're getting a little older.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Than Alex Fragman. Final year, the deal is not hitting
this year.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, it's not the Astros team that you remember that
you think of when you think of the Astros, but
this four and eleven, this kind of start. Did not
expect this. I mean, you had the the opening season
against series against the Yankees was awful for them.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
But in four first four games.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, the Astros of the Astros have done this before,
we've seen them. But now you're talking four and eleven,
and again I know it's early, but wow, this is
this is a bit danger Well Robinson, Danger, well, Robinson.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
It's not just that, it's they've got Texas all weekend.
This is the start of the weekend series. This is
the FS one game tomorrow afternoon. By the way, Texas
hosting Houston, and then Houston's hosting Atlanta for three right
after that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. So for the next nearly
full week, it's possible that they lose at least another
four out of six. This is not going to be

(22:04):
good for the month of April for Houston overall.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, they'll be four and twelve and in last place.
Look out danger, Will Robinson, danger, danger.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
So behind the Angels and the A's is what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yes, if you're behind the A's, that's you have to
look in the mirror and go, Okay, this team isn't
even trying. They've just taken their entire team from Triple
A and said, we're just gonna elevate you guys in
the big leagues. Oh did I earn the promotion? Cause
we have some spots to fill, So we got it.
We're gonna bring you up at that.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
That's an A's team that is one in six at
home so far and averaging about six thousand fans at
home so far.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I mean behind. When you're behind the A's like, that's
the Okay, we have to have some clubhouse meetings here now,
I think the time for an early start. Everything is fine,
let's not worry about it. No, no, no, this is
this is where we have to say, Okay, we have
to we have to. We have to have a meeting
here because we're looking up at a team that they're
gonna win up be in the worst team in baseball
the next couple of years, and we're not even as
good as they are. We got problems.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
If it's not a player's only meeting, I would really
question that, you know, Dusty Baker's not there anymore. You
don't have that leadership at the top of everything. Honestly
they need. I mean, Washington Nationals proved in twenty nineteen
you can be bad into May and turn around and
there's an extra playoff spot now here. In the last
five years as well, I agree with you. You could

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win say, eighty four games and still make a run.
We saw the Phillies Padres National League Championship Series not
too long ago after all. But my goodness, talk about
expectations not being met, not in the least with the
Astros update, the Lakers are up five with five seconds
to go. They might be pulling out a road win
against the no name Memphis Grizzlies tonight, but maybe.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Now they might not want to because the Nuggets won tonight,
so maybe they don't want to pull this game out.
Maybe they should have called down to Darwin Amazon. Hey, hey,
I know, we tried to win this game for about
forty four minutes, but the Nuggets just lost. They may
not finish first. Maybe we want to fit. Maybe we're
okay being that just winning one of those last couple
games of finishing as that eight seed.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Because the way the Lakers stand right now, they'd have
to win a road game play in just to stay
alive Tuesday, and a road game a couple nights after
that to earn the eight seed, which would put them
stuck in a best of seven against the one seed
with the Nuggets lost. Maybe the Nuggets won't be the
one seed. Maybe this isn't all or nothing for the

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next week for the Lakers. Maybe they'll advance past that bit.
Right now, as we mentioned at the very top of
the show, it's not at all looking good for the
Lakers because they don't have tie breaker against Golden State,
they don't have tie breaker against Sacramento. They're looking at
two must win road games in the play in and
then maybe a best of seven against Denver after that.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
So things are getting pretty exciting here on Friday night,
with all kinds of playoff spots and seedings up for debate.
Let's find out where everything sits right now, as Steve
will tell you, what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Now clearly the number one story of the Hey, the
Knicks win again, they can finish second in the East.
They're tied with the Bucks.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Now, Jason, this is a sports update.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
So this is a really big deal.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
This is Sports Network.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Look at the Knicks. Look how good the Knicks are. Okay,
so I took care of the Knicks for you, Steve.
You can do the West.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Well.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I was gonna lead with the team that's actually won
seven in a row. Philadelphia beat Orlando and a busy
night in the NBA one twenty five to one thirteen.
Now the Magic would have clinched a playoff spot with
a win. The regular season ends on Sunday again, no
NBA games on Saturday. Then every team plays on Sunday,
Boston and Chicago each one. Cleveland got a win as well,

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and in fact, the Calves would be clinching a playoff
spot with a win or a six Ers loss. So
they're in forty eight and thirty three record for the
Calves for sure, they are in as mentioned, though we
don't know exactly the order. It's obviously looking like Calves
first round home court advantage. But amidst the top four seeds,

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where will they and the Knicks, for example, place and
the box. Milwaukee has lost one twenty five one oh
seven at Oklahoma City. Great for OKC because Denver also
lost one twenty one to one twenty at San Antonio,
Miami and New York with home wins. Among the games
that are in progress. At Minnesota, the Timberwolves have taken
the lead under twenty seconds to go. Minnesota is leading

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Atlanta one oh seven to one oh four. The Lakers
have gone final. That is a win at Memphis one
twenty three to one twenty and updating, Minnesota has just
gone final one oh nine one oh six. Timberwolves beat Atlanta.
Detroit leads at Dallas one o three eighty nine with
under two minutes to go. And there are a few

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late games that will be getting scores to you as
the evening goes along. They're really just getting going, including
Phoenix at Sacramento. The play in tournament starts on Tuesday.
Just five NHL games Tonight, Hurricanes won five to two
at Saint Louis. NASCAR's on FS one again this Sunday
from Texas three thirty pm Eastern time. Scottie Scheffler's in

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a three way tie for the lead at the Masters,
up by two strokes. Colin Morricawa is three shots back.
Tiger Woods is one overpar, tied for twenty second place,
just missing the cut. Justin Thomas, Sergio Garcia and Wyndham
Clark the Major League Baseball top of the ninth, and
in fact they've just picked up the last out. The
Detroit Tigers wind up winners at home. There was a

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rain delay at the start of this one so long night,
but Detroit eight to two over Minnesota. The final trek
schooble two and Oho got the win with five scoreless innings.
Padres lead three to one at the Dodgers. In the
top of the second inning. The A's are ahead, won
nothing over the Nationals bottom of the fourth. It's Saint
Louis had six nothing at Arizona top of the fourth.

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Mariners won nothing leaders against the Cubs top of the fourth,
and yes, Houston is losing again. Texas twelve five over
the Astros bottom of the seventh. A Houston loss would
put them at four and eleven. Yankees at Cleveland rained out,
split doubleheader for them tomorrow at noon and six pm
Eastern time. Road wins for Atlanta and Cincinnati. The Mets

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beat Kansas City six to one. The loss to Michael
Walk of Kansas City seven game winning streak is over.
The Angels were seven to nothing winners at Boston, winning
pitcher Reed Detmer's now three to zero with an ERA
of one point four for the Halos. Toronto won twelve
to four at Toronto. The Colorado won at Toronto and
the loss to Kevin Gossman of the Blue Jays. Six runs,

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ten hits allowed in just three and two thirds wins
for Tampa Bay Milwaukee which is nine and three, and
a win for Pittsburgh which is ten and four, a
five to two victory at Philadelphia. And finally, Shoheo Tani's
former interpreter, Ibe Mitzuhara, turned himself in today. He appeared
in court in La and is now free on bond.
The judge ordered me Zuhira to undergo gambling addiction treatment

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related to a sports betting case. He is charged with
bank Fraudback to you.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Thanks a Buch Steve O just really quick. Lebron James
scoring the six points for the Lakers tonight, including a
steal and a dunk to assault the game away with
five seconds left. The Grizzlies had the ball down three.
They missed a shot. Big long rebound comes out near
to half court. It's tried to save. The Grizzlies try

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to save it in bounds, except Lebron steps between the players,
grabs it, goes in for a dunk, sticks out, his
tongue is happy. He's honking it up. This is this
is one of those plays where.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
You know, be happy, but you can't name any of
the guys you just played against.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
It looks like one of those plays in the NFL
where there's a fumble in the backfield and the and
like the quarterback gets it and just sees a guy
and tries to pitch it to him, and the defensive
lineman just comes and grabs it and goes the other way.
Like that's what his steal at the end of the
game looked like, Like he just stepped between him took
the ball, winning for a dunk, five point lead. Lakers
wind up winning, And now the drama continues this night

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in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
This night, and the NBA is hardly over. We've got
just a handful of games getting going. We have the
two late games that are about to tip Clippers hosting Utah.
By the way, Utah had lost thirteen in a row
until last night's win, and Sacramento hosts Phoenix. The Suns
would be locked into a playoff game. With a loss
and a New Orleans win. New Orleans is only through

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one quarter trailing at Golden State twenty six seventeen, Warriors
Blazers ahead of Houston twenty four to twenty three end
of one. How about what the Rockets have done or
not done here at the end of the season, because
they remember.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
When they were like a game out, Yeah, hey the Warriors,
this is gonna be a winner, go home game for
them last night. No, they're gonna wind up. They're gonna
wind up finishing seven games out of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
It was gonna be maybe the Rockets into the play
in finishing in the top ten, and then they've almost
won nothing the last few weeks. They've sunk under the
five hundred mark. They're thirty nine and forty one, which
means they have to win tonight and Sunday just to
finish at five hundred. But for sure, the Rockets are
not going to the play in. As mentioned, we know

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the ten team in the Western Conference that will still
be playing next week. Houston's not one of them. Utah,
of course, is a no Memphis, Portland and the Spurs
below them.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
No, I mean, the Rockets won eleven in a row,
and suddenly it was, hey, okay, it's gonna be the Warriors, Lakers,
or Rockets left out of the playoffscause what the Rockets did.
But then the Rockets went and lost five in a row.
They lost a big one to Golden State, which kind
of cemented the end of their season because then the
Warriors had a three game lead with three left to go.
That was it. But just you know, a week and

(31:31):
a half ago they were a half game out of
the of the playoffs. It was, look what the Rockets
have done. What a great job they've to look at
Hey the Rockets. Who would have thought, oh no, no, no, Now,
now they're gonna they're gonna be seven games out of
the playoffs when it's all said and done so and
they were that close, Yeah, then yeah, then they had
they kind of stubbed their.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Toe a bit at the end of the sear Is
there any correlation between the Rockets having no experience and
faltering down the stretch and saying, hey, that's what we
might be seeing early in the playoffs because we've got
a couple of real good teams near the top of
the Western Conference that don't have a whole lot of experience.
I want to see Shay Gilgess Alexander of the postseason.

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He's had a phenomenal season scoring for OKC. I really
wonder what that team's going to be doing in crunch
time when it comes to a must win game and
trailing a series, and that might happen early in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
See, I thought you were gonna say, I wonder I
there's any correlation with the Rockets and their losing streak
and the Astros. What's tough time right now at Houston
for sports?

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Well, the Rockets, Rockets. I'm gonna get my Rockets to work.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
It's always with the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
The Astros actually an experience on the Rusty. They still
got jose L Tuvey and Tucker and you're Don Alvarez
and yeah, I mean Bregman didn't play tonight, but they've
still have got more experience than the Houston Rockets have.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Quick update from baseball. Yoshinoba Yamamoto has struck out the side.
He has also given up three runs. San Diego leads
the Dodgers now three to two. Has gone in this
game line drive home run to cut the Padre lead
to three two. So now O Tani and Muncie home
runs by at the bottom of the second.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Up two home runs from the San Diego side, Manny
Machado a two run blast in the first and Hasan
Kim a solo homer nearly four hundred feet in the second.
Come on, Steve, who side? Are you on the side
of truth? I'm at a news desk. It's three two pods.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
I listened to Steve most in the night, No news desk.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Steve de Sager's got thet the touch of one every
game this year they're twenty and oh I didn't know this.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Really.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I fear they lost a Gamers in five.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Actually I could say that.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
And he says the Padres have a big player and
his interpreter stole money from him. I thought that it's
not a Dodger players.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Okay, no, no, we're on the side of truth here.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Uh yeah. So so so far, if you're keeping track
for Yoshinoba Yamamoto, it was game one bust, not worth.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
A terrible Intel three okay, pretty.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Good, Game three okay, pretty good. Now, Game four okay,
bust terrible again. So you're kind of riding the with Yamamoto.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
So far, it's two homers in two innings, But you
got to take the long view, Jason Smith. Because it's
a twelve year deal.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
They're gonna say, gonna take a long view because two
home runs and two innings, it's a nine inning game,
you're gonna get seven more home mund.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
I used to think a five year contract was bad
for a starting pitcher. You never know what they're gonna
be in five years, well, twelve years later.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
So it is an absolutely fun Friday night here. Again,
the drama in the NBA really just beginning, so we'll
have more NBA in the way. But coming up next. Yes,
a big decision was made in college basketball today and
really all I could say is good luck, because this
might have been the worst coaching search I've seen in
college basketball in quite some time. That's next right here,

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Speaker 2 (34:45):
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Harmon with the night off special delivery
Steam to sag are In And there is a home
run party going on right now at Dodger Stadium, Yoshinoba,
Yamamoto gave up two home runs early to the Padres. Well,
the Dodgers have answered Muncie with a home run we

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just told you about a few minutes ago, Mookie Betts
a three run drive, and now it is five to three.
Dodgers lead this game. Mashada with a home run, kim
Out a home run, and of course Otani a four
hundred and five foot home run to center field for
the Dodgers. No word on the location of this baseball

(35:34):
right now. Potentially there is a fan in the lower
battles of Dodger Stadium in a room surrounded by people,
lights off, being told what needs to be done with the.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Ball, separating them from their spouse. First off. But there
have been five home runs here in the first two
winnings at Dodger Stadium tonight, five total. That is so
it's very much keeping security busy.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
They have things such as the call them home run seats.
They kind of cleared out a private section all along
the outfield fence at Dodger Stadium in recent years. They
called them the home run seats because they created two
private rows, which I believe are all you can eat.
By the way, in addition to getting a ticket and
a good chance at a homer. I think they got

(36:20):
a good chance at getting a home run. Ball, you
get a homer, you get a homer. It doesn't matter
where you're sitting tonight.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
So we'll have more on this game coming up again.
Five to three Dodger, another home run for Otani as
the Padres bat in the top of the third. But
today it became official. Kentucky hired Mark Pope, former head
coach at BYU, as their new head coach. And again
we mentioned this last night. Let this sink in Wildcat
Nation was okay with saying goodbye to John Calipari. They

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didn't put up a fight when he wanted to go
to Arkansas. Hey, all right, it's time to move on.
They went and hired a guy that has never won
an NCAA tournament game. Just think about that for second,
Cali Parry, who's won titles, been to final four's had
great records. Yes, he's had a couple of bad years
where they've lost, but you could tell we should be
doing it better. You hired a guy that has never

(37:11):
won an NCAA tournament game as a coach. All I
can't say here is good luck like the king and
when he finds out John Adams is going to be
the president. Oh John Adams, good luck? Good luck with
Mark Pope. Not that the guy's not a good coach,
but you are jumping into the number one job in
America and you are hoping that this is gonna work out.

(37:33):
How happier wildcat fans, How happier people who are gonna
donate money and push money up for nil? This is
a guy, This is like our number five choice. We
asked Danny Hurley third. Why didn't we ask him first?
What was going on? This was a horrendous to horrendously
run coaching search by ad Mitch Barnhardt. This is just
how to not do it. You don't say goodbye to

(37:54):
Calipari unless you have your next guy. And if you
don't have your next guy, you say you gotta wait
because we're gonna get our next guy in here. Because
it's just embarrassing the number of people who said no,
and it showed me that Kentucky they didn't know how
to go, how to go replace Cali Parry, And now
they're gonna find out what the opposite side of winning
is because this is how teams go into disrepair and

(38:16):
circle the drain, and suddenly, hey, we're winning games, but
we're losing early in the tournament turns into eighteen and
fourteen seasons, and sixteen and thirteen seasons. You went and
hired the number five choice at already kent I'm seeing
Kentucky fans online going, why do we hire this guy?
Like this is there's no honeymoon period for Mark Pope.
It's like, we're in and we hate you already. So

(38:36):
usually when a guy gets hired there's a little bit
of that, but this has been done so poorly. When
a coach comes in and it's you gotta win right now,
and there's no at least love right away, you know,
things were biffed. And Kentucky completely biffed this.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
And Kentucky, remember was out first round with upsets not
only Oakland this year, but a couple of years ago
Saint Peter's, and in recent years they missed the tournament
entirely and finished under with Kentucky. The athletic department probably
thinks they cut a break in a couple of areas.
One they didn't have to pay off Calipari that would
have been many millions, potentially over thirty million to say goodbye.

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He left in the middle of this long extension, so
they didn't have to pay him at all. And Mark Pope,
they get to sell him as some sort of native
son because he was a center at Kentucky for a
couple of years in the mid nineties. Mark Pope went
to high school in Washington. He played at the University
of Washington. I remember he was Pack ten Freshmen of
the Year as a center at Washington, and then after

(39:34):
he transferred, he got a couple of years playing at
Kentucky and averaged eight points per game. So if you
want to sell that as he's one of ours, okay, yeah,
I guess he was for a couple of years one
of yours.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
It's not like they're bringing back Anthony Davis to be there.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, exactly. Some of us know better. He was actually
at Kentucky about as long as Anthony Davis was, let's
let's be honest. So they did need to make some
sort of because at this point they were overpaying for Calipari.
This was the number two PEG college basketball coach in
the country, behind the Kansas coach eight and a half million,
and so Cali Perry leaves and doesn't get that much

(40:12):
in guaranteed money, actually takes lower plus incentives at his
due job at Arkansas Kentucky. I think part of the
reason is not just the higher part of the reason
they need to win now is a they're Kentucky and
b Kentucky hasn't been the Kentucky that we're used to
in recent years, including that postseason run of bad postseasons

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that I referred to a minute ago.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
No, but look, but it's been a recent last couple
of years of Hey, things have been a little lean.
Like I'm not saying.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Things very lean in the turn.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
You're talking about twenty three, twenty two to twenty six
wins the last three seasons. Right, Yes, you've gone out
in the first round, but you've gotten in as a
decent seed. You finished second or third in your conference.
Things were pretty good. You really got hosed in the
in the COVID year because then you were going to
be a number one seed in the NCA turret. Who
knows what would have happened there. But you're still talking

(41:03):
about final four national champion, all of these things. It's
been a couple of years of early first round exits
and now a guy that's never won a game is
going to get to the Final four. Like I say,
good luck John Adams, Good luck Jason Smith. Steve Disager
in from Mike Carmon coming up next. You got a
big story out of the NFL. Keep it right here

(41:24):
Fox Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmon Live from the Tyraq dot Com studios. In for
Mike Carmon tonight special delivery Steve de Sager, We'll have
more on what's going on. The big high drama in
the NBA is we're playing slots with all the slots

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in the Western Conference. But joining us now on the
hotline to break down all the big news as we
are now starting to zero win in countdown to the
NFL Draft. There is nobody better than longtime insider Hall
of very good voter. You can fall him on Twitter
at Jason Cole sixty two. It is longtime friend of

(42:06):
the show, Jason Cole. Jall. What's happening? Man?

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Well, that is beautiful? What's fun?

Speaker 1 (42:12):
It's you can't things are wonderful. I'm happy the Knicks
one tonight, the Mets one tonight. Aaron Rodgers didn't get hurt.
I'm thinking, I'm I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
Yeah. Yeah, well the Mets swimming right yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
So hey, So a few minutes ago, Steve and I
were talking about the you know now that we're a
couple of weeks away from the draft, and I said,
we're a week away from somebody making a big move
to get up into the top five of the draft
to get a quarterback. Did you see something like that happening?
Yes or no? So I'm making a trade to get
into the top five to draft a quarterback.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
I always think this will be the year that teams
see through the fact that they don't have to be
that desperate away for a quarterback. And I'm almost always
wrong about that. It's like San Francisco trading up to
get Trey Lance a few years ago. But you didn't

(43:12):
need to You didn't need to do that, right just
or you know, whatever you wanted to do at quarterback,
You didn't need to make that move to get a
quarterback that year. You could let the quarterbacks fall to you.
So maybe somebody's going to buy into JJ McCarthy is awesome,

(43:33):
or you know, Drake May is worth going up to get.
But I just get the feeling that you're going to
have number one and two and then everybody's going to
let the quarterbacks come to them, and that's what But
maybe that's just me convincing my thinking. That's what I
would do is if they if I were in their shoes,
because that's a whole lot better. Like I know that

(43:56):
New England didn't pick the right guy when they got
back Jones, but they played it right to at least
let mac Jones fall to them and then make the choice,
like they didn't compound the error by trading up a
bunch of stuff to give it up. So you're probably
right the god I think, you know, like, don't do it,

(44:19):
Just don't do it.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
So two things, you're saying, it's no guarantee in the
least that we're going to get quarterbacks one, two, three
in the first round of the draft in a couple
of weeks, and what becomes Cardinals.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
I got, you know, I got I got to think
that you know, people are going to believe that it's
you know, they're trying to convince everybody that it's going
to be one, two, three, four, five sixty seven, right,
Like that's that's what GMS are selling out there, right, like,
you've got to get up here to get you know,
give me three number ones for the number four pick.
You know, that's what Arizona's trying to do, right, give me, yeah,

(44:54):
give me three number ones because we know you have
to get up here to get J. J. McCarthy. You
have to do something to get the chance to get
Drake May. Where I would just sit there and go,
you know what, if somebody wants to do that, great,
but I'm not going to be the sucker for that
because I'll let the guys you know, Florida me. I
mean again, I'm convinced of Chicago and Washington. Yeah, there's

(45:16):
no doubt they're taking quarterbacks, right, but once you get
to number three, as much as New England needs to
take a quarterback, I don't know if they believe that
any of those guys are good enough to take at
quarterback at that spot. And I think that the you know,
the chance to get Marvin Harrison is pretty damn tempting there,

(45:37):
and that's where I would just start to say, I
don't need to start making that move to get that high.
I really don't. Just I will let this come to me,
you know, like if I'm the New York Giants, even
if if they somehow think they got a trade for
and get a quarterback, like, let the guy fall to
them and see to see what happens and if it

(45:59):
doesn't work out, okay, you got to play it out
with Daniel Jones and that kind of sucks. But at
least you didn't overpay to get a guy you know
and buy and buy into the hype. I just I
hope that's what it is. But you're probably right that
somebody is going to do some kind of desperate move
and move up.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
You know who hates you right now? After listening to
you say that.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Who hates me? Lots of people hate me? Like that's
a long line? Oh no, No, why would I Why
would you make me guess on something like that? Why
why would we play it out that way? Like it's
just too big a list of people?

Speaker 1 (46:36):
No, you know who hates you right now is Dave Gettleman,
because you should have told him that three years ago, Jos.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
No, look, Dave is such a good soul. But man,
just why I can't why why Daniel Jones?

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Why see what I'm going to do? What I'm gonna do?
Jay I'm gonna do this smart thing. After hearing what
Tom Brady said yesterday. I'm just gonna wait and then
I'll get Brady sometime in late November early December when
when he because he can't give it up and he
wants to come back, and I'll call He'll come back
and play quarterbacks for my dream. I'll be good.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
Tom's got to get a life, man, he just does it. Stop. Man,
Come on, Tom, go find a hobby, Go do something.
You know, you know it's time. It's enough, it's enough, Tom,
but go just let it go.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Tom can't.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
He's like he's like he is like Jordan. He can't
let that competition go. I mean, this is good. The
third time he said, hey, I'll come back. He's telling everybody,
if you're good at the end of the year and
your quarterback's hurt, call me, I'll come play.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
So apparently Fox is the hobby, right.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
But a year ago, a year ago he was doing
when he was Tom templating what he was going to
do at the end of his time in Tampa. He's,
you know, he's talking to his dad and he's telling
his dad, you know, I just can't go anywhere else
because it takes so long to build, you know, to
build the whole teamwork element of it, in the cohesion

(48:06):
and this and that, and now it's just like he's
Jones and so hard for it. It's like he's letting
go of his own principles, all the things that he
believes are really really necessary. Never mind that not a
big deal anymore. I don't care. Just just sign me
up so that I don't I don't have to go
do Fox. Yeah, sign me up so I don't have

(48:29):
to do so I don't have to do TV. I
just don't want to do TV. And I said, and
they're going, hey, when are we going to get any
repayment on the court on the contract? When does that happen?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
They paid him yet? He hasn't had a game yet.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
No, yes, I mean they're not paying him yet. But
you know, like when when do we get something in
return for negotiating that like lifetime deal. And it's like,
come on, Tom, do something else something, Get a hobby,
just you know, please get a hobby, like just snorkling
off off the keys, do something, you know, can you

(49:05):
just do that just you know, like stop stop bothering
us all with like you want so desperate that you
want to play. Although that said, I would be I
would buy I would buy a ticket to go watch
him play. And I don't buy tickets to very many things.
I got to say that that's one of the keith
to being a sports writer is to get in free.

(49:26):
You know, like that's really important. But I would actually
buy a ticket to see Tom play. Would I would
break down and do that if he came back.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Paddleball is what he needs and a little avocado ice
cream in between sets or whatever.

Speaker 5 (49:37):
They play well in South Florida. Ball in South Florida
big thing.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Very plays paddle It's pickleball.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Retired people.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
Do have you ever met French Canadians in South Florida?
Have you ever met them?

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Like, dude, they are bulldozing elementary schools to put up
pickleball courts.

Speaker 5 (49:59):
All I undy had that. But I'm just saying that
there's like, there's this old group of fat ballers that
love their paddle ball.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
I've met them people.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
I look. I lived, you know, across the hall from
Missus Moskowitz. She loved her paddle ball. It was it
was true. She was French Canadian. She come down for
the WIMPs. She loved it.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Well, I'm not going to ask in Aaron Rodgers question
because I have to sleep at night. So you reference
Marvin Harrison Junior.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Well, what kind of well, no, no, what kind of
drugs do you need to be onto? What to ask
an Aaron Rodgers, Well.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
That would be a question. He's going to come up
at some point in tonight's show. It's just that's a segment.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Well, it's either you know, it's either some kind of
evolution agen or some kind of conspiracy theory. Yeah, like
one of the two. That's that's all that everyone is
doing these days, conspiracy theories and caahuasca or whatever it
was that he was dying.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
I say, go for ten plays at the start of
this here and then get hurt.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
You get double digits. Can we get the double digit player?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
Shoot the moon? Anyway, Marvin Harrison Junior was oftentimes incredibly impressive,
of course in college. Would you say, at whatever four
or five slot whenever a non quarterback comes up in
this month's draft, automatically, if you were a GM, you
go to him. Think of no other wide receiver or
tackle that high.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
There's some other guys you think of, but you know,
like the kid from Washington is really awesome, right, and
I could see that he would end up having a
better career than Harrison. Like there are guys out there,
you go, Okay, yeah, I could see this guy being
really good. And you know, but when you say who

(51:53):
has the highest percentage of he's going to reach some
level of stardom and be an impact player, for me, like,
I don't have any doubt that Marvin Harrison is going
to be good. He's he's going to have a good,
long career. And you know, burring injury, knock on, we

(52:14):
all that kind of stuff. But that guy knows how
to play, and he he he watched his dad and
as he'd learned from his dad, he's done everything. He's
going to be an impact player for whoever he plays for.
And and that part of this is like part of
this is you're just betting on is the guy going

(52:35):
to be good? U? And I have every belief in
my soul that that guy is going to be a
really good player. Is he going to be the best
of all of them? We'll see how We'll see how
it plays out. You know, who's your quarterback? How good
is the team? You know, what's the construct all those
kinds of things, But that guy's going to be a player,
and you just take them and you go with it. No.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
See, then this is where even with you guys, by
telling you it out in the universe that we're going
to get to the night before the draft, we're going
to wake up and think it's an onion story, but
we're going to find out that Harball has traded Herbert
to the Bears for the number one overall pick in
the draft. J McCarthy and back of the Chargers.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
You want you want? Yeah? JJ McCarthy Herbert for JJ McCarthy.
And is McCarthy gonna get get an r V and
live on the beach as well?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Sure? And it will play right, you're.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
Going to be Is he going to be an extra
on the Rockford Files? On the Rotten Rockford Files too.
That's a great story, by the way, I Farmer, Sam
Farmer is still my hero. I just love Sam Farmer
just going out there and recreating the Rockford File thing.
That's just so awesome. That's a that's that's that's that's
truly fantastic. And then what and and Romans living next

(53:55):
to him? Is that right? He's got place next to
him or something like that.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
That's right here, assistant.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
God, that's just that's so special, that really is. It's
just like I just I have that second in my
head and it's like, that's so hard, boss. It's just
the perfect Harbors story. Is his wife living in the
RV as well? Or did she stay back in the now?
What's what's the deal with this? What's going on with that?
That's what I want to know.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Yeah, I'm waiting. I can only realize about one coach
and their wife if they want a new job somewhere.
And I'm spending all week with Danny Hurley and his
wife staying or leaving with Yu Kon. So I only
have time. I only have so much ram in my head.
And that's the one I'm doing this week. I'll do
you what that that does.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
But Harvard is so much more important because you could
drive over to the house and and visit with him
and and just you know the house, I mean the RV.
You can drive over there and and just hang on
the beach. You get a what kind of what kind
of beer would you bring to meet with Harba?

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Something health to them, something something that like has like
a truck.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
No, it's gonna be bush. It's got to be something.
Perhaps blue ribbon. It's you know, absolute ribbon. It's a PBR.
It's like a twelve pack of PBR and you're doing
Dennis harp popper lines with him. You gotta do that something.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
I will say, peraps blue ribbon. Maybe believe time travel
is possible because I went to a bar about five
or six years ago and they had this, specially with
that PBR cans and I said, yeah, I haven't had
one in a while. And I taste it and I go,
oh my god, it's nineteen eighty seven. This is unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Yes, oh, it's an elixir. It is. It is magical.
PBR is magical. It really is. It's it is sort
of like back toe. It is like back to the future.
It definitely has that has that effect on you.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is
at Jason Cole sixty two, alongside that of l It's
come on.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Go buy the twelve pack and the head to the beach.
J just walking around. God, Jimmy, where are you? Jim Me,
where are you?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Don't forget Jason Cole is a hall of fame. Voter