April 16, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to Caitlin Clark being the first overall selection in the WNBA Draft. The guys pay tribute to a Yankee Legend John Sterling. Jason and Mike explain why a lackluster reaction to The Masters may prove that golf is really dead. Plus, the guys give their picks for Tuesday's Play-In Tournament games!
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
And you know what, I got shut out once again,
fast paced to nothing, defeat at the hands of the
Royals where hey, white socks, get this for tax Day?
Did a promotion? Dial it up four dollars fifteen cent seats? Oh,
by the way, stop by and get a campfire milkshake,
cause that's the only thing worth watching?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was there some kind of guy?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I feel there needs to be some kind of capone
reference when Chicago's doing a tax Day special. There's gotta
be some kind of thing there, like come dressed as
your favorite character the Untouchables or something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I like that, you know, throw giveaway styrofoam bats. Yeah,
throw a dummy that looks like Frank Nitty off the
roof of dummy. And I mean I don't mean someone
who's not smart. I mean you know something that's made
of you know, like the like it's just some kind
of stuffed scarecrow.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like you gotta be something.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
What the problem is in this day and age with
social media, a bunch of dopes would would get that
clip and say, look what's happening in Chicago again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They can't take.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Care of business, can't have any fun like throwing dummies
off a roof. No, no, no fun, league, man.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I remember when Pete Carroll used to do that at
USC and it was like he did that once where
he pulled a prank during spring practice on his team
where with Lendale White was Lendeal with thunder and lightning,
Lendel White Reggie Bush, and this whole thing happened, and
Lendal White really started getting into with the coaches at practice,
and Pete Carroll threw him out of practice, and it
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was like, oh, my good, Like, what the hell's going
on right, like Lendell White, like, oh my god, he
just threw Lendell White out of practice, and oh my god,
my god. And then there's this big tower across from
us He's practice field. And then the next thing they did
was they saw Lendell White was at the top of
the tower yelling, yelling stuff like and everybody on the field.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Like, Lendell, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
What do you do? What he does?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And he starts yelling something and one of the coaches,
I think he said, like he'll jump or something like that,
Someone go get him down. And then of course he
backed away, and then a dummy dressed up like Lendale
White wave over and the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Players all went, oh, funny jump quote.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
He was most convincing, Pete Carroll told the newspaper quote,
he did a great job.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Can you imagine that happened nowadays? Look what's going on?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh, they called for the guys to dismissal immediately, there'd
be lawsuits for trauma imposed and everything else. Yes, the
White Sox are really the only joke. They don't need
to actually do anything.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Further, Well, you knew you weren't gonna hit so and
at least what way.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I always say, if you're going to lose, lose fast,
don't take up so much of my time. If you're
just gonna lose a game, you losing two hours, okay, great,
you lost games over, I can move on with my day.
Don't give me some like three plus hour come on.
Just if you're gonna lose, lose fast. And they lose fast,
so it's good time of the game. Two hour, seventeen minutes.
They claim attendance of ten thousand, five hundred, ten thousand,
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five hundred, My ass a lot. If it was a
dog day, people got to bring their dogs to the game,
and people counted dogs making a park day.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, you know what, the White Sox have a bunch
of those. Anymore. Between that and bobbleheads, there's there's a
giveaway every day. The over under on this game was
seven and a half runs. Oo, wow, I would be
fading the White side, think I would, I could.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Take the under. I'd take the under in every game.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
They put almost every game right, unless they're facing someone's
fifth starter or know the random bullpen game, you know
when they played till three in the morning and have
a newoner.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The next days. No, I'm not betting on the white side.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Mean, just just really quick, before we get to before
we get to Caitlin Clark is that this could be
like one of the most historically worst offenses in the
history of Major League Baseball. They have thirty four runs
scored through sixteen games. Thirty four runs. I mean, well,
you saw the team that's next closest to them as
far as run scored has fifty three. Okay that I mean,
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that's how bad it is for them. They've scored thirty
four runs in sixteen games.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh man, get ready, buddy, get ready? Oh no, I.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Look it was sixty one and a half was wind
total coming in? And remember we talked about I said
they're going under. Well, if you're taking hard, if you're
tanking for Caitlin Clark. You had a trade with the
fever now for I mean, she's a fever, the fever.
You got a fever?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The Jason Smith Show and Mike Carmon Live from the
tirect dot Com Studios. Yes, the w NBA Draft tonight,
Caitlin Clark goes number one to the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, And I always think this is weird. I
love the WNBA draft.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's nothing like, you know, a random Monday night in April,
when you know, you go to class during the day
and you come back and you go, you go have
dinner at the dining hall or wherever you.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Are where you're going. I'm gonna go home and watch.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
A draft tonight at my apartment on campus. Why I
may get drafted. It's a wnata like the fact that
it goes on, well, everybody's still actually in college at
least the NFL Draft is like, hey, we're at the
very end. Man, guys left school anyway. Anybody anybody's prepping
for the draft left school in January, so it's like
we don't even need to worry about that anymore. But
I always thought that was fun that dead here, we're
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gonna have the draft and I'm gonna go to class.
You're gonna watch a draft? Yeah, maybe if I get
a phone call. I get a phone call, we'll see,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
If not, I'll have a second helping of green beans.
Anyway we go. No, it's it was fun to watch.
I mean it was a you know, packed house there
in New York. They did all the pomp and circumstance,
the pageantry of the sight seeing earlier and photo ops,
and then and then they got after it. No surprises
up the top of the draft, but you know, there
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was more excitement and you can hear it just in
their voice, like, Hey, we're getting ready to embark out
of a historic season.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
This is gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's like, stop laughing and keep talking about the actual draft.
Stop counting the money that everybody's gonna make.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You know, And here's the thing already.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
According to Darren Ravel, Fanatics shows that it has sold
out of Caitlin Clark's Fever jersey in small, medium, large,
extra large, and extra extra. To be fair, they have
sold out of her jersey.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
All that's that's great, But Fanatics hasn't exactly been good
about getting major league based. No, no, no, the jerseys
they require, you know, to actually play in the flip
and games.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
See.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But that's the thing is that people, you know, with
the w NBA getting so many new people new to it,
they don't understand what's been going on with the fanatics.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Jerseys No no, no, no b What does that say
on the back?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Not a ball that says Clark. It comes with a
free magnifying glass.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Hey, Caitlyn Clark's last name is spelled k l A
R K No, that's what it is on the Ooh okay.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well you know what, let me let me U, let
me uh.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Me like the Stewart Copeland alter ego Clark Kent all
those years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There you go, I got Stewart in early boom.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But you know you want some This is where as
I've as I've said, Caitlin Clark is going to have
a magic and Larry like effect on the w NBA
relative to its sport. There has been never anything like
her ready for the w NBA. Everything is clicking. It
is right place, right time, It's everything. No matter whether
you think it's gonna happen or not, it's gonna happen.
(07:53):
Because as many people as I talk to that say, oh,
her impact. Are people gonna watch WNBA. We're continue wing
to talk about her. Her games continue to be the
most watched basketball games on television. The WNBA Draft is
leading our show tonight, It's gonna lead shows tomorrow going
into the playing night for the NBA.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Caitlin Clark is a big bleeping deal.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And yes, people are gonna start watching the WNBA because
they're gonna watch for her. People watch big games in
the NCAA tournament for her. Are people watching women's sports
now more in general? Yes, it's become it's finally hit
that sweet spot where women's sports has become so acceptable
you don't even.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Think about it anymore. There's no well for no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
The college basketball for women has become a major sport
right right up there. It's it's it's shoulder level with
the men's sport right now.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You have to continue, obviously and build on momentum, just
as the PGA Tour when they're trying to build on
Tiger for twenty five years and they can't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Hey, they were able to do it for three rounds.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But look, but she is gonna have that kind of effect.
And the biggest thing that she's gonna have this effect.
There's two things. One is that she needs to be
good and she will be right.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I get this whole.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Hey gonna be welcome to WNBA. Her game is so
Steph Curry like she's gonna score. It's not where she's
gonna have the ball and they're gonna pick her pocket
in the back floor. She's going to come off as screens.
They're gonna find ways to get her the ball. Her
team and the league because you know she's gonna get
some good officiating is going to make sure that she's
a star. That's the kind of game she has. She
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gets shots from the logo. She's going to hit threes
the floor. There'll be better spacing on the floor because
there's more threats in the WNBA, there's better players around her.
Then there will be more room for her to do things.
Will it be a little bit of an adjustment, Oh
sure it will because now you've gone from playing there,
you're jumping in a playing against against professionals. But she
has a game that's going to translate. It will translate.
Good luck sending someone after her the entire time and
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trying to hold her down. Teams outside of Kim Moulki
tried to send their best defender in her the entire
time in college, and she still towards them for forty
forty five points. So she's going to be good. She'll
had her game as very Steph Curry. And don't forget this,
because this is the biggest part of it, is that
the WNBA is in such a sweet spot in the
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sports calendar. It's a summer league where you're talking about
Major League Baseball is what you're competing with, and NFL.
It's really hard because the NFL, nobody pays as much
attention to the games anymore because the games are irrelevant
because it's all about depth players, no stars play. The
interest level in the preseason has completely has been cut
(10:28):
in half. I just know when camp starts, I just okay,
I'd play tomorrow if I could just have none of
my guys get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's great that I hear about.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Seven on sevens and how so and so looks, and
it's awesome, and I love the news every day and
NFL being back, but the overall level interest in it,
there's no games to point to. There's no games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
where the WNBA is in such a sweet spot where
it's a summer league and there's not a lot else
on the calendar where it can cut through and Caitland
Clark will be appointment. Tell oh, here's Caitlin Clark and
Angel Reese's first matchball. Here's Caitland Clark is in New
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York for the first time. Here's Kaitlin Clark playing. Kaitlin
Clark is playing the two time defending champions. That's what
it's gonna be. That's the effect it's gonna have. And
suddenly you are are the Is WNBA gonna get fifteen
to twenty million people watching the game? No, it's not
gonna be like that, but it's gonna be double triple
what it used to be. The games that she has,
I think they're all gonna be somehow nationally televised, because
(11:18):
I think that was the that was the final schedule
that came out last week. The WNBA is going to
succeed huge, and she's taking them to that next level
and taking women's professional basketball to that next level. And
you can keep telling me all you want, Oh no,
I won't transport to but every time something comes up,
Kaitlyn Clark it's a big deal. We're all talking about it.
She cuts through the clutter. It's going to happen. This
is what she's doing to women's sports right now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But you watch.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I mean, they're talking about expansion right in two years
in the league. And it's funny because friends of ours,
one of Maddie's teammates parents, the dad went to Princeton
and one of his classmates and his wife, Chris and
Angie Long, they were the ones that built the Kansas
City Currents Stadium, right, So the women's soccer league, and
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so they're already making a big bet there, and you're
gonna see other people doing the same thing because they're
playing to packed houses. And the star power off of
this draft, I don't think we've ever known this many players, right,
Chicago gets a couple of huge additions in Cardoso, and
then you've got Angel Reese, so big cities match it.
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In Cameron Brink comes to Los Angeles, and then obviously
Caitlin Clark. Everybody wants on board. You saw the Saturday
Night Lives get some of the best writing they've done
on Saturday Night Live in quite some time. And I'm
not as down on it as other people like people
bash that institution quite often, but these were pretty smart
and good on Michael Shay to take their take all
(12:45):
their best haymakers in the one liners they gave Caitlan Clark.
But you see a packed arena for this draft, the
sellouts across the league, right, the Aces selling out a ton.
They drafted Kate Martin from Iowa, so you get a
little cross over there. Even in her interview that she
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did after being drafted, Gaylen Clark was like, look, I
get to play in the Midwest. I think we're gonna
see a lot of big crowds. You mentioned the nationally
televised game when it was won this last year for
the Fever, and now it goes to thirty six. Probably
every game they play will get picked up at some package.
It's gonna look like the NFL before it's done. Jason, Hey,
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where's that game randomly on Peacock Why because they paid
a ton of money for it, So come on in
and that's what you're gonna see. And hopefully for the
women's collegiate game it continues, but certainly for the WNBA,
and the way you framed it is perfectly. You know,
the magic bird and people get all excited just by
the those names being mentioned.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
No, no, it's just the idea.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That a league that was on tape delay and that
nobody gave a damn about because they were all coked
out and you were wondering if they were gonna play.
I'm talking about the NBA, of course, back in the
day that you remember the finals. Hey, tune in at
twelve thirty. We're gonna show your finals Game two.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I gotta stay up, make some coffee. I'm ready to watch,
you know what I mean. But that's what we grew
up with.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And then it obviously I heard Jack Sigma had twenty
seven points tonight, but it was on so late that
you didn't even get it in your local newspaper.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It was always a day later. Here's the box score.
What's that from? Oh that was Monday night, but it's Wednesday. Yeah,
they couldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hit the blazers at bullets, and you would just get
the parentheses that would say n meaning a night game,
too late for the paper.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You know, we're not get to it. We didn't hit
the print deadline. So you know, with the WNBA, it's
the same idea. All right, it's there and You've had
some hits here and there, and certainly people whenever it's
winning time in any sport, people pick up. But now
Caitlin Clark will also bring the casual betters to this
place right where where maybe they haven't traversed thus far.
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Look out, he pay, They got more options for you.
So yeah, it's it's an exciting time and it was
a good two hour experience and they go. Now we
join the NHL, and the king started immediately. There was
no three games, like, wait, they're dropping the puck right now.
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Speaker 1 (16:12):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire rack dot com studios. Thanks to
Jason locking for him, who stopped five few minutes ago.
Talked NFL Draft with us, and look, the biggest thing
he told us was that, Hey, I think if anybody
in any clarity about what was going on at number two,
the rest of the draft would be pretty easy to figure,
all right in, don't have that clarity at number two. Look,
(16:35):
when it's all said and done, I really can't see
the Commanders not taking Jayden Daniels. I mean really, I mean,
as talented as the kid is, what, there's nothing you
need to do on a football field that he did
not do last year. You're projecting JJ McCarthy and Bo
Nicks and you have the production there. I really can't
see how it's going to be anybody but him at
number two.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
No, based on what we saw this past year against
top notch competition, there's fifty total touchdowns, right, I mean,
just ridiculous productivity. And you're going to a squad that
has some playmakers already there. You know, the actual opposite
of what we were just talking about a little bit.
You know, the anecdotal to the Patriots, like they're ready
(17:17):
to go try to make a move.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Especially in that division.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Are you kid me?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The Giants are terrible? The Cowboys, well, they're the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And the Eagles are trying to recover from one of
the worst second half collapses.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
They ran parallel with the Jaguars as two of the
worst finishes we've seen in recent memory.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
So here you go, go get the division, Go get
your guy.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
More NFL on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
But we need to acknowledge a huge retirement in sports today,
effective immediately. John Sterling, longtime play by play man of
the New York Yankees. Everybody the calls you hear we
talk about him on the show. He's been the play
by play voice for three generals of Yankee fans, is
(18:02):
retiring at the age of eighty five, effective immediately. There's
been talk about potential health situation. When you retire at
eighty five, retire immediately, you know, who knows what.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It could be.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He's going to be honored this weekend at the stadium.
I don't know if he's going to be there or not.
But I mean, you talk about about guys who are
are synonymously related with their team, you know we have
We've had you chick hern for his whole career. We
had Ralph Lawler, you had big voice, We had Vin Scully.
I mean, you forget the you know, just the pomp
and circumstance of John Sterling and is great over the
(18:35):
top home run calls. But I mean, this guy's been
the voice of the Yankees for as long as I
can remember. And listening to him and Susan Waldman do
a game together, if you've never done so, if you've
never heard him and Susan Waldman do a game, I'll
try to tell you what it was like. Listen to
them do a game. Is like this if you go
to a wedding, and you go to wedding of two
(18:56):
people and like say, the groom's parents are divorced and
you don't know how they get along, but hey, for
the for the kids, for the wedding, and for the guests.
They're gonna get along as best as they can. Like
and the other do they get along? I feel like
they get along, but I don't know the kids. Yeah,
(19:17):
I caught a little bit of a look. I caught
a little bit of a glance here, a little bit
of a biting thing there.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That's kind of what it's like to listen to John
Sterling and Susan Waldman do a game like they're they
were married for a long time and then they've been divorced.
But we we kind of have to, you know, for
the sake of the kids. We need to make sure
that everything is as above board and we don't want
it to, you know, degrade and devalue.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Into certain things.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
We know we're gonna keep the broadcast as professional as
we can, but there's gonna be hints here and there that, oh, okay,
a little bit of a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Of aks going on between these two.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well, but it's like any relationship of that ilk right,
star power getting out. I like the marriage analogy. That's
kind of funny. It's like, all right, what's gonna happen
at the reception? Nobody knows. Just get the cameras rolling
and make sure they're not those you know, a little
wind up, little old disposable ones, because that's not going
to capture it properly.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But yeah, you know the all right, who's.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Got the the big bombasketic call? Right both and for Sterling.
Obviously we've celebrated the home run calls forever on this show,
you and I and you know, it's a throwback to
me in Chicago, like we just had one legend after
another that were just synonymous with the teams in the city.
You know, brick House into Harry Carey's run. Steve Stone's
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still there although he's you know, doing a full cell
job to try to tell you this team's still worth
watching for the White Sox now and just keep on going,
Wayne Larapee all those years ago, now a Packers got sure.
But but you know, and to go down all the
radio and TV calls. So yeah, it's when I saw
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the news today, I got said, you know, I know
it's traveling obviously as you get older, hell, even as
you're young, it sucks and wears you down fast. By
I know, Fit's one of those, you know, hopefully his
health is okay. Uh, and we'll find out more, I'm sure,
but yeah, this one was a bit jarring. It's like
because everyone like those players I keep talking about, right,
(21:12):
the next guy that retires, it's another you know, link
to you know, the past and the history that we've
shared as a sports collective, and certainly in baseball we
celebrate history unlike any other sport.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Let's hear a little bit of John certainly Mary mac.
Let's have a little bit of him from.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We have a back here, some of his calls one.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Two, swung on and driving a deep blom tour the line,
cheers Aaron judge line, run right down the line, A
judge in blast all rise, Here comes the judge.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
It's an a from a rod you can bank on.
Chase Heedlely, Liz Deadly, a mark to Shriff, Bryan, Oh,
McCann can, I guess McCann can Garrett keeping up with
the Joneses, Steve and Drew. He serves a Druski and
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the second deck and right.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And well that's baseball, Susan, Never forget that, that's Basebaul Susan.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
A judge and blast and gian Carlo, Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Di Giancarlo Polo whatever whatever he was saying, stop Barlow.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah, you can't stop him. No pay de stop Barlow.
I don't even know what he's saying there, but it
sounds like I out, Yeah whatever, John Carlow, you can't
stop him. I mean, that's probably his first thought as
soon as it's not you. Hey, Jeter's gonna give you guys,
j Carlo, Stan oh Man, good luck?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
How am I gonna find something to ride with? Gian Carlo?
Come on, man, I can't do that?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
What I gonna do? And here he is, Chad gpat
and got step Barlow.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
John Carlo is breaking bad like Esposito, except breaking for
a home run.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Like that's impossible to do. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
What a legend?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Oh Man?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Hey? And I remember people hate listening and today and
he's got to stop it. It's like, yeah, you're shame
to yourself that the whole business is built on. Be silly.
That's some fun.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I like to see him come out just once at
the end and just say, hey, what do you have
to say? John?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's baseball? Susan, goodbye, everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
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Speaker 1 (23:31):
So with a WNBA pointing up telling you she's gonna
have a magic and Larry likedpe effect on the league
and relative relative to the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Just watch a sport going in the other direction? Now,
is golf? Why? Because they don't have stars?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We just watched the matches this weekend and Scotti Shuffler wins,
and he's one of the best golfers on the planet
and he's become so dominant. He's now the overwhelming favorite
for the next major and he's terrific. But golf has
gotten to a point and it kind of makes sense
that it's now officially back to where it was pre
(24:06):
Tiger Woods, which makes sense, but it's also really bad
because golf just doesn't they When Tiger had his ascension,
the sport did well. Right, Tiger did something to golf
that we had never seen before. Almost hey, kind of
like what Caitlin clar is gonna do for the WNBA. Yeah,
that's kind of what Tiger did for golf. Golf was
a big, niche sport and it had big stars as
(24:29):
it pertained to golf. Greg Norman and Nick Faldo and
and Nick Price and Lee Jansen, and you watch guys
winning majors like Ernie Els won a couple of majors.
You know, golf was fine, and then Tiger Wood showed
up and suddenly everything was better, and the purses were better,
the purses were bigger, golf was better than it ever was,
and golf needed some time to okay. Now, how do
(24:52):
we continue to ride this and get to the post
Tiger Woods era? And as you saw this weekend, golf
never has right. The Masters was so relevant Thursday and
Friday when Tiger was playing ESPN. Today we have great
ratings here on Thursday and Friday. Yeah, now we're waiting
for Saturday Sunday when Tiger at his works two rounds. Ever,
as a pro, golf has never been able to find
(25:13):
a way to capitalize on Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So now they are back.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
To where they were before, which is in even a
worse place because now the tour is blown up and
Live Golf took so many of the stars, and now
there's rumors Rory McElroy could wind up starting adjoining Live Golf,
and they're trying to figure out a way to keep
this sport going, and but golf has gone back. They've
gone backwards twenty five years. And why golf is in
(25:39):
a worst place is because now there are so many
more things that are competing for your entertainment and sports dollar,
and golf simply isn't going to be up there. Tiger
Woods isn't playing, nobody's gonna care. No one's gonna care
about Bryson d Chambeau and if he's going to play,
and a chef, just no one is. And golf is
going to be back to being that niche sport that
(25:59):
it was before where Tiger came. I mean, think about this,
You're going back to what it was like in nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's what golf was. But four times a year, certain
times a year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Hey, when golf had a major or an important turney, Yeah,
we paid attention to it. It was a big deal.
Wash with the US Open, made the four Major always
a big deal. Tiger made everything matter, made everything with
golf matter. And now we're back to we're back to
before Tiger. But now that there's so many more things
competing for your money, and the fact that the tour
is not even together anymore, it's like, Okay, you just
(26:30):
had twenty five years of the fast lane, or you know,
fifteen years of the fast lane, and then Tiger disappeared,
was coming back, disappeared, came back, couldn't find any stars there,
couldn't find Jordan Speeth, Rory McElroy, couldn't cut through and
be someone you really rooted for. Tiger was a phenomenon,
and they couldn't figure it out. And now here they
are in a place where every day golf is like
(26:50):
college football. Something changes every single day. And now they're
going to try to navigate going forward with split tours
and players that are mad at each other, and and
the PGA Tours is becoming close to irrelevant. Nobody watches
a live tour. We now they're gonna try to merge
and try to come together, and and and and the
and the Saudis who own live golf may try to
(27:11):
buy the PJA. It's just absolutely insane right now. But
the bottom line is we're back to where we were.
They've not been able to grow the game and grow
the stars. And when there's no Tiger Woods interest level
in the Masters, in the US Open, it all kind
of goes away a little bit. And and it really
is a shit. It makes sense because Tiger is such
a phenomenon that you take him away.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But man, you had a long time to try to
figure out, Okay, what are we gonna do post Tiger Woods?
Right like the NBA, what are we gonna do post
Michael Jordan? We got Lebron James. Oh what are we
gonna do post Lebron's?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh we have we have we have we have this,
we have this, we have this. We've had a long time. Now,
we got Wemby, we got Giannis, we got stars. Everybody's
big in the NBA is a star. Now it's a star,
it's a star. But golf is like, yeah, we had
all the time, and look where we are right now
and now after you know, from nineteen ninety six until now,
it's been great, and now it's what do we do?
Like there's I don't know what golf does, but that's that.
That's how far backwards golf has become.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Now, Well that's the hard part, right.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
You're wishing, wanting, hoping that that next breakout guy is there.
And and Tiger, you know, was different in a million ways, right,
hit the ball longer, dominated on the in his short game.
You know had obviously right, he broke it through to
a different demographic and you know all all of that, right,
(28:26):
he made golf cool, right, it's it's just a different thing,
the marketing, the management of it all. And and suddenly
you had a guy, a black golfer that cut through.
There were guys on the tour, but now he's a
dominant that everybody's chasing. And like anything, we we love
to jump on board the bandwagon of the hero and
(28:50):
the guy that's dominating. And then, just as conversely, you
and I have talked about it for a decade. Hate
watching is a real thing, right, kept trying to make
anybody who came close, you know, finished second a few
strokes back.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Their rival.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Phil Micholson tried it for years. Yeah, he was a
good smart ass. He gambled a lot, all that stuff
up and he's won his share of tournaments through the years,
but was never truly the guy, right, a true rival
to emerge.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So it was all right, we're gonna watch Tiger.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And then once everything happened physically and time off and
all that with the golf clubs and Thanksgiving weekend and
everything else, you know, to where the hero got taken down.
You don't have another guy that's cut through, right, Scheffler's
great golfer. What is he up to? Sixth all time
in terms of earnings? Already normal guy praises God, Thanks
(29:42):
God in his post mattch speeches, and it's just a
regular guy. Yeah, rootable because you want to see how
well he can go. But is it someone that you
get fervently behind that you have to watch. No, the
most interesting thing of the weekend was if his life
was suddenly in labor and they got.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Word to it, was he gonna walk off the course? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right legitimately, like that was the talking point.
You know, I did the show with Jeff Schwartz yesterday
morning before they all teed off and we got to
watch the first couple of holes for Tiger Woods. Jeff
was fading him on every hole in winning. Uh so
you know you have that going on. But that was
the most interesting thing. If she goes into the labor,
(30:26):
does he walk up, Well, it didn't happen. He ends
up winning another jacket and away we go. You know
you mentioned Rory McElroy before. The most interesting thing he
could do is a full wwe heel turn at this point, right,
and yeah, I'm going to live. Wait, I thought you
said you never would, and you're you know, Captain America
or for the BGA. I'm gone, I'm taking their money.
(30:48):
And then you know he could do the double heel turn. Well,
the check clear and I'm back. You know, I guess
that would get people interested. But again, you gotta go win,
you gotta be dominant, and that's something nobody's done since
we had little pockets of guys Dustin Johnson, McElroy himself,
John Rahm, whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
They've had some good.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Runs, but they've never strung together something that suddenly captivated
the marginal you know, non golf fans, right, the Sunday
Duffers and Saturday Duffers are always going to be there.
Tiger got everybody at least intrigued, and in today's TikTok
and Instagram world, just like we're talking about with Caitlin Clark,
if you could suddenly have the super cut of someone
(31:27):
who's superhuman and dominating every time he picks up a
club on the tour, then it wins. But we don't
have that, and I don't see that in the foreseeable future.
So get ready to fully re embrace the niche sports
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Look, it's not that you need Okay, we have to
find someone to do everything Tiger Woods was doing.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But you need some way to say, Okay, how do
we capitalize on this and stay at this level and
not backslide to where we were. Look, this is what
women's college basketball. Hey, with Caitlin Clark leaving, we're gonna
have to figure out a way around it. Now, what
they're gonna probably do is push the game. They're gonna
push the other superstars. They already have it built in.
They're hot, and they're they're able to build the building
(32:12):
with these players. Maybe flow j Johnson, Paige Becker's we.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Know, comferring getting away from Kim Maulki come a star
once again. Maybe that'll be a big story.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Journey woman college basketball superstar, hey Lee van lif and
and you know, but that's already built in. And I
feel like college basketball has has the sport in a
good place to do that. Golf never got in a
good place. It was Tiger Woods or nobody, and it
was and it was the embracing of him and with
when you have twenty five years to try to figure out.
(32:44):
You gotta think it's gonna be figured out. But what
happened in the end, they allowed the tour to split.
They allowed somebody to come in and say we're gonna
give you all this money to come play golf, and
and and all. It blindsided and that's ruined the PGA Tour.
And and now that we have got that are mad
at each other, don't talk to each other, and it's
just golf is in a really bad place.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Man. It's in a really tough spot.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And I hope for golf it gets back to what
it was before Tiger Woods, because before then you did
have drama, You had built in things that were that
were interesting. You had John Daily winning, you had the
Daily and Contetino Rocca at the Open Championship, in the
in the five thousand foot pot. I mean, you still
had these great moments, and you had good players that
people cared about. Now, I don't know. I don't think
(33:28):
people care about Bryson d. Chambeau or John rob like
they cared about John Daily or Greg Norman. So you,
I mean, it's in a really difficult place, and I
would think they would have figured it out. But now
but they haven't, and now they're gonna see exactly what
this reality is because Tiger is in his post post
Mike Tyson fighting phase where Okay, for a long time
(33:49):
we thought, well, Tyson's gonna fight again, he'll start winning.
Then it got to the point where, hey, Mike Tyson
fighting at all, like is a is a plus? Like
that's kind of where we are at. Tiger Wood's playing
at all is just any kind of plus. And that's
where golf is, and it really I hope they find
a way, but man, they have them for twenty five
years without Tiger. Now look where they are, because you
(34:10):
see exactly where the where golf is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tirerack dot Com Studios. As we are
getting sent for opening night in the NBA Playing Round tomorrow,
we have well, we have the A list tomorrow night.
We have the Varsity game tomorrow night, then the jv
games on when Sorry Bud Lakers Pelicans, followed by Warriors
(34:46):
and the Kings. Let's go Lakers Pelicans first. I would
love to pick the Pelicans. I would love to pick
them playing at home. They got embarrassed, they got out
efforted by the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Zion Williamson said, they just played harder than we did. Yes,
they got brandon Ingram back, and that should be a
big deal. And this is Zion's first playoff game, and
you know, he knows they got He's got to show out.
But the Lakers have just found a way all season
long to beat the Pelicans. The only time the Pelicans
have won is when the Lakers were playing on the
second night of back to backs. The Lakers are playing terrific.
(35:20):
They are peaking at the right time. They're feeling good
about themselves. As long as Anthony Davis plays, he's up
in the air right now, says he's gonna play Tuesday night.
As long as ad plays, the Lakers are gonna win.
Gonna be two back to back wins on the road
in New Orleans for the Lakers. They move on to
the regular rounds of the playoffs, where the Denver Nuggets
will wait.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I take the Pelicans minus one and a half after
being embarrassed once again, because remember the Lakers got him
by forty four way back in that game that should
have counted, and didn't. Remember when we were talking about
all that in season tournament nonsense. Why do all these
other games count and the schedule and the stats but
(36:02):
the final, Yeah, you got a novelty check and you
played an extra game, but it doesn't count. Yeah, that
would have helped them. That would have been helpful for
the Lakers along the way, But look for the Pelicans
to respond Ingram got his first game back after missing twelve.
The Pelicans have been playing some pretty good basketball before
getting blitzed by the Lakers on Sunday. I think they
(36:23):
rebound and take care of business at home. And yeah,
that's with both the stars of the Lakers playing, which
leaves a lot of people here in Los Angeles wringing
their hands about.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Oh, no, Warriors and the Kings are the nightcap and
here I'd love to pick the Kings, I really would.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I'd love to pick the Kings.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
They're younger, they're playing really well, but no, Malik Monk
is going to be a big deal. The Warriors have
been hot lately, and look for both teams like the
Lakers and the Warriors, this is their sweet spot for
the playoffs, right early on in the playoffs, when they
haven't had time to get exhausted by playing a game
every other night and playing heavy minutes for all the
(37:06):
big players. Look, we've seen it with everybody, every team
that relies on older players. They play great for the
first couple of rounds and then what happens. Oh, then
all of a sudden time catches up with them and
they wind up falling out of the playoffs. And it's
very quick. It's not one of those Oh it's good
over the court. No, it's hey, we're at the point,
we hit the wall and we're done.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's gonna happen for the Lakers and the Warriors because
they do rely on players that are too old. The
Lakers need one other star, and they're a younger star
they can rely which is what they're gonna do in
the offseason. But for right now, the Warriors are playing
extremely well. Yes, I know it's on the road, but hey,
they won the series last year. The Warriors are playing
at a high level. I'll take the Warriors to win
this game and force that winner go home game against
(37:46):
the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I dig it. Yeah, so the matchup once again, we'll
get Warriors Lakers.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
So I mean we'll take it.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I wouldn't be that upset if I lost that and
it turned out to be Warriors Lakers. I mean, would
be that A said a nice extra bonus game for
us during our window later in the week. But yeah,
I'll take the Warriors to win. Playing really well down
the stretch Draymond Green. Ever since the incident a while back,
they've just been playing better basketball, better team ball, and
(38:16):
with Steph Curry and even Klay Thompson right, who has
written off thirty five times this year, he's been playing
really well in the role that he's adapted to down
the stretch. Yeah, I mean, I feel like either the
Lakers and the Warriors are on a collision course for
the playing round, or they're both destined to get out
of it. To get out and the Lakers move on
(38:37):
and the Warriors move on, and we have a one
through right in the playoffs. That's just crazy, all right.
You know, the Lakers at seven, the Warriors at eight,
and the thunder are all all sorts of nervous. But
this is you know, this is what it is for
these teams, and they're both playing. If they weren't playing well,
now I would say, Okay, the younger teams are going
to run him out of the gym. But because they're
both playing well now they know when to and this
(39:00):
is when they know they have to hit their Peakya.
That's why I'm going Lakers and Warriors for tomorrow night.
And but like I said, if I'm wrong about the
Laker I wouldn't be that mad. As long as the
Warriors w it was Lakers Kings, I'd be like, uh,
now we gotta have conversations about Mike Bibbie and Chris
Weber and Kobe and A.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So it's good if they are gonna lose, at least
give us Lakers Warriors.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah. Either way, it's gonna give us tremendous storylines. We
get to play some of those old blotty Devach clips
if we need to. I mean, there's so much in
the chamber talk about New Orleans food if we have to,
I mean, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Or just just go on your ways and listen to
v Lotti. Right, I think you still get voice on
ways right.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Well, or if it's been eliminated, there's no doubt we
can find that on the interwebs. Oh, you could totally
get anybody now with AI. I'm sure you can get.
That's a fair you know what. I didn't even think
about that. That's that's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
A lot of people are a lot of stars are
gonna lose money. Oh yeah, we don't. We don't need you.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We just need you to say one word. Actually, you
know what, we'll just get it all off of AI.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
We got off the internet. We read the dictionary. You're screwed.
I just thought it was a freelance assignment. I didn't
think it would cost me a job. And now you
don't need me anymore. No, sorry, Fladdie. You go back
and smoke cigarettes outside. It's all good. Eight seven seven
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I need to hear it. And I heard it tonight
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
And you know what, I got shut out once again,
fast paced to nothing, defeat at the hands of the
Royals where hey, white socks, get this for tax Day?
Did a promotion? Dial it up four dollars fifteen cent seats? Oh,
by the way, stop by and get a campfire milkshake,
cause that's the only thing worth watching?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was there some kind of guy?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I feel there needs to be some kind of capone
reference when Chicago's doing a tax Day special. There's gotta
be some kind of thing there, like come dressed as
your favorite character the Untouchables or something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
I like that, you know, throw giveaway styrofoam bats. Yeah,
throw a dummy that looks like Frank Nitty off the
roof of dummy. And I mean I don't mean someone
who's not smart. I mean you know something that's made
of you know, like the like it's just some kind
of stuffed scarecrow.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like you gotta be something.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
What the problem is in this day and age with
social media, a bunch of dopes would would get that
clip and say, look what's happening in Chicago again.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They can't take.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Care of business, can't have any fun like throwing dummies
off a roof. No, no, no fun, league, man.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I remember when Pete Carroll used to do that at
USC and it was like he did that once where
he pulled a prank during spring practice on his team
where with Lendale White was Lendeal with thunder and lightning,
Lendel White Reggie Bush, and this whole thing happened, and
Lendal White really started getting into with the coaches at practice,
and Pete Carroll threw him out of practice, and it
(02:29):
was like, oh, my good, Like, what the hell's going
on right, like Lendell White, like, oh my god, he
just threw Lendell White out of practice, and oh my god,
my god. And then there's this big tower across from
us He's practice field. And then the next thing they did
was they saw Lendell White was at the top of
the tower yelling, yelling stuff like and everybody on the field.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Like, Lendell, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
What do you do? What he does?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
And he starts yelling something and one of the coaches,
I think he said, like he'll jump or something like that,
Someone go get him down. And then of course he
backed away, and then a dummy dressed up like Lendale
White wave over and the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Players all went, oh, funny jump quote.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
He was most convincing, Pete Carroll told the newspaper quote,
he did a great job.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Can you imagine that happened nowadays? Look what's going on?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh, they called for the guys to dismissal immediately, there'd
be lawsuits for trauma imposed and everything else. Yes, the
White Sox are really the only joke. They don't need
to actually do anything.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Further, Well, you knew you weren't gonna hit so and
at least what way.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I always say, if you're going to lose, lose fast,
don't take up so much of my time. If you're
just gonna lose a game, you losing two hours, okay, great,
you lost games over, I can move on with my day.
Don't give me some like three plus hour come on.
Just if you're gonna lose, lose fast. And they lose fast,
so it's good time of the game. Two hour, seventeen minutes.
They claim attendance of ten thousand, five hundred, ten thousand,
(03:50):
five hundred, My ass a lot. If it was a
dog day, people got to bring their dogs to the game,
and people counted dogs making a park day.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, you know what, the White Sox have a bunch
of those. Anymore. Between that and bobbleheads, there's there's a
giveaway every day. The over under on this game was
seven and a half runs. Oo, wow, I would be
fading the White side, think I would, I could.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Take the under. I'd take the under in every game.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
They put almost every game right, unless they're facing someone's
fifth starter or know the random bullpen game, you know
when they played till three in the morning and have
a newoner.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The next days. No, I'm not betting on the white side.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Mean, just just really quick, before we get to before
we get to Caitlin Clark is that this could be
like one of the most historically worst offenses in the
history of Major League Baseball. They have thirty four runs
scored through sixteen games. Thirty four runs. I mean, well,
you saw the team that's next closest to them as
far as run scored has fifty three. Okay that I mean,
(04:47):
that's how bad it is for them. They've scored thirty
four runs in sixteen games.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh man, get ready, buddy, get ready? Oh no, I.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Look it was sixty one and a half was wind
total coming in? And remember we talked about I said
they're going under. Well, if you're taking hard, if you're
tanking for Caitlin Clark. You had a trade with the
fever now for I mean, she's a fever, the fever.
You got a fever?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The Jason Smith Show and Mike Carmon Live from the
tirect dot Com Studios. Yes, the w NBA Draft tonight,
Caitlin Clark goes number one to the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You know, And I always think this is weird. I
love the WNBA draft.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
There's nothing like, you know, a random Monday night in April,
when you know, you go to class during the day
and you come back and you go, you go have
dinner at the dining hall or wherever you.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Are where you're going. I'm gonna go home and watch.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
A draft tonight at my apartment on campus. Why I
may get drafted. It's a wnata like the fact that
it goes on, well, everybody's still actually in college at
least the NFL Draft is like, hey, we're at the
very end. Man, guys left school anyway. Anybody anybody's prepping
for the draft left school in January, so it's like
we don't even need to worry about that anymore. But
I always thought that was fun that dead here, we're
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gonna have the draft and I'm gonna go to class.
You're gonna watch a draft? Yeah, maybe if I get
a phone call. I get a phone call, we'll see,
who knows.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
If not, I'll have a second helping of green beans.
Anyway we go. No, it's it was fun to watch.
I mean it was a you know, packed house there
in New York. They did all the pomp and circumstance,
the pageantry of the sight seeing earlier and photo ops,
and then and then they got after it. No surprises
up the top of the draft, but you know, there
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was more excitement and you can hear it just in
their voice, like, Hey, we're getting ready to embark out
of a historic season.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
This is gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
It's like, stop laughing and keep talking about the actual draft.
Stop counting the money that everybody's gonna make.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You know, And here's the thing already.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
According to Darren Ravel, Fanatics shows that it has sold
out of Caitlin Clark's Fever jersey in small, medium, large,
extra large, and extra extra. To be fair, they have
sold out of her jersey.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
All that's that's great, But Fanatics hasn't exactly been good
about getting major league based. No, no, no, the jerseys
they require, you know, to actually play in the flip
and games.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
See.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But that's the thing is that people, you know, with
the w NBA getting so many new people new to it,
they don't understand what's been going on with the fanatics.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Jerseys No no, no, no b What does that say
on the back?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Not a ball that says Clark. It comes with a
free magnifying glass.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Hey, Caitlyn Clark's last name is spelled k l A
R K No, that's what it is on the Ooh okay.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well you know what, let me let me U, let
me uh.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Me like the Stewart Copeland alter ego Clark Kent all
those years ago.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There you go, I got Stewart in early boom.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But you know you want some This is where as
I've as I've said, Caitlin Clark is going to have
a magic and Larry like effect on the w NBA
relative to its sport. There has been never anything like
her ready for the w NBA. Everything is clicking. It
is right place, right time, It's everything. No matter whether
you think it's gonna happen or not, it's gonna happen.
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Because as many people as I talk to that say, oh,
her impact. Are people gonna watch WNBA. We're continue wing
to talk about her. Her games continue to be the
most watched basketball games on television. The WNBA Draft is
leading our show tonight, It's gonna lead shows tomorrow going
into the playing night for the NBA.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Caitlin Clark is a big bleeping deal.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And yes, people are gonna start watching the WNBA because
they're gonna watch for her. People watch big games in
the NCAA tournament for her. Are people watching women's sports
now more in general? Yes, it's become it's finally hit
that sweet spot where women's sports has become so acceptable
you don't even.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Think about it anymore. There's no well for no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
The college basketball for women has become a major sport
right right up there. It's it's it's shoulder level with
the men's sport right now.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
You have to continue, obviously and build on momentum, just
as the PGA Tour when they're trying to build on
Tiger for twenty five years and they can't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Hey, they were able to do it for three rounds.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But look, but she is gonna have that kind of effect.
And the biggest thing that she's gonna have this effect.
There's two things. One is that she needs to be
good and she will be right.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I get this whole.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Hey gonna be welcome to WNBA. Her game is so
Steph Curry like she's gonna score. It's not where she's
gonna have the ball and they're gonna pick her pocket
in the back floor. She's going to come off as screens.
They're gonna find ways to get her the ball. Her
team and the league because you know she's gonna get
some good officiating is going to make sure that she's
a star. That's the kind of game she has. She
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gets shots from the logo. She's going to hit threes
the floor. There'll be better spacing on the floor because
there's more threats in the WNBA, there's better players around her.
Then there will be more room for her to do things.
Will it be a little bit of an adjustment, Oh
sure it will because now you've gone from playing there,
you're jumping in a playing against against professionals. But she
has a game that's going to translate. It will translate.
Good luck sending someone after her the entire time and
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trying to hold her down. Teams outside of Kim Moulki
tried to send their best defender in her the entire
time in college, and she still towards them for forty
forty five points. So she's going to be good. She'll
had her game as very Steph Curry. And don't forget this,
because this is the biggest part of it, is that
the WNBA is in such a sweet spot in the
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sports calendar. It's a summer league where you're talking about
Major League Baseball is what you're competing with, and NFL.
It's really hard because the NFL, nobody pays as much
attention to the games anymore because the games are irrelevant
because it's all about depth players, no stars play. The
interest level in the preseason has completely has been cut
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in half. I just know when camp starts, I just okay,
I'd play tomorrow if I could just have none of
my guys get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's great that I hear about.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Seven on sevens and how so and so looks, and
it's awesome, and I love the news every day and
NFL being back, but the overall level interest in it,
there's no games to point to. There's no games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
where the WNBA is in such a sweet spot where
it's a summer league and there's not a lot else
on the calendar where it can cut through and Caitland
Clark will be appointment. Tell oh, here's Caitlin Clark and
Angel Reese's first matchball. Here's Caitland Clark is in New
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York for the first time. Here's Kaitlin Clark playing. Kaitlin
Clark is playing the two time defending champions. That's what
it's gonna be. That's the effect it's gonna have. And
suddenly you are are the Is WNBA gonna get fifteen
to twenty million people watching the game? No, it's not
gonna be like that, but it's gonna be double triple
what it used to be. The games that she has,
I think they're all gonna be somehow nationally televised, because
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I think that was the that was the final schedule
that came out last week. The WNBA is going to
succeed huge, and she's taking them to that next level
and taking women's professional basketball to that next level. And
you can keep telling me all you want, Oh no,
I won't transport to but every time something comes up,
Kaitlyn Clark it's a big deal. We're all talking about it.
She cuts through the clutter. It's going to happen. This
is what she's doing to women's sports right now.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But you watch.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I mean, they're talking about expansion right in two years
in the league. And it's funny because friends of ours,
one of Maddie's teammates parents, the dad went to Princeton
and one of his classmates and his wife, Chris and
Angie Long, they were the ones that built the Kansas
City Currents Stadium, right, So the women's soccer league, and
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so they're already making a big bet there, and you're
gonna see other people doing the same thing because they're
playing to packed houses. And the star power off of
this draft, I don't think we've ever known this many players, right,
Chicago gets a couple of huge additions in Cardoso, and
then you've got Angel Reese, so big cities match it.
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In Cameron Brink comes to Los Angeles, and then obviously
Caitlin Clark. Everybody wants on board. You saw the Saturday
Night Lives get some of the best writing they've done
on Saturday Night Live in quite some time. And I'm
not as down on it as other people like people
bash that institution quite often, but these were pretty smart
and good on Michael Shay to take their take all
(12:45):
their best haymakers in the one liners they gave Caitlan Clark.
But you see a packed arena for this draft, the
sellouts across the league, right, the Aces selling out a ton.
They drafted Kate Martin from Iowa, so you get a
little cross over there. Even in her interview that she
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did after being drafted, Gaylen Clark was like, look, I
get to play in the Midwest. I think we're gonna
see a lot of big crowds. You mentioned the nationally
televised game when it was won this last year for
the Fever, and now it goes to thirty six. Probably
every game they play will get picked up at some package.
It's gonna look like the NFL before it's done. Jason, Hey,
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where's that game randomly on Peacock Why because they paid
a ton of money for it, So come on in
and that's what you're gonna see. And hopefully for the
women's collegiate game it continues, but certainly for the WNBA,
and the way you framed it is perfectly. You know,
the magic bird and people get all excited just by
the those names being mentioned.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
No, no, it's just the idea.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
That a league that was on tape delay and that
nobody gave a damn about because they were all coked
out and you were wondering if they were gonna play.
I'm talking about the NBA, of course, back in the
day that you remember the finals. Hey, tune in at
twelve thirty. We're gonna show your finals Game two.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I gotta stay up, make some coffee. I'm ready to watch,
you know what I mean. But that's what we grew
up with.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And then it obviously I heard Jack Sigma had twenty
seven points tonight, but it was on so late that
you didn't even get it in your local newspaper.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It was always a day later. Here's the box score.
What's that from? Oh that was Monday night, but it's Wednesday. Yeah,
they couldn't.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hit the blazers at bullets, and you would just get
the parentheses that would say n meaning a night game,
too late for the paper.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You know, we're not get to it. We didn't hit
the print deadline. So you know, with the WNBA, it's
the same idea. All right, it's there and You've had
some hits here and there, and certainly people whenever it's
winning time in any sport, people pick up. But now
Caitlin Clark will also bring the casual betters to this
place right where where maybe they haven't traversed thus far.
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Look out, he pay, They got more options for you.
So yeah, it's it's an exciting time and it was
a good two hour experience and they go. Now we
join the NHL, and the king started immediately. There was
no three games, like, wait, they're dropping the puck right now.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
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Exit swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 1 (16:12):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire rack dot com studios. Thanks to
Jason locking for him, who stopped five few minutes ago.
Talked NFL Draft with us, and look, the biggest thing
he told us was that, Hey, I think if anybody
in any clarity about what was going on at number two,
the rest of the draft would be pretty easy to figure,
all right in, don't have that clarity at number two. Look,
(16:35):
when it's all said and done, I really can't see
the Commanders not taking Jayden Daniels. I mean really, I mean,
as talented as the kid is, what, there's nothing you
need to do on a football field that he did
not do last year. You're projecting JJ McCarthy and Bo
Nicks and you have the production there. I really can't
see how it's going to be anybody but him at
number two.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
No, based on what we saw this past year against
top notch competition, there's fifty total touchdowns, right, I mean,
just ridiculous productivity. And you're going to a squad that
has some playmakers already there. You know, the actual opposite
of what we were just talking about a little bit.
You know, the anecdotal to the Patriots, like they're ready
(17:17):
to go try to make a move.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Especially in that division.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Are you kid me?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The Giants are terrible? The Cowboys, well, they're the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And the Eagles are trying to recover from one of
the worst second half collapses.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
They ran parallel with the Jaguars as two of the
worst finishes we've seen in recent memory.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
So here you go, go get the division, Go get
your guy.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
More NFL on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
But we need to acknowledge a huge retirement in sports today,
effective immediately. John Sterling, longtime play by play man of
the New York Yankees. Everybody the calls you hear we
talk about him on the show. He's been the play
by play voice for three generals of Yankee fans, is
(18:02):
retiring at the age of eighty five, effective immediately. There's
been talk about potential health situation. When you retire at
eighty five, retire immediately, you know, who knows what.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It could be.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He's going to be honored this weekend at the stadium.
I don't know if he's going to be there or not.
But I mean, you talk about about guys who are
are synonymously related with their team, you know we have
We've had you chick hern for his whole career. We
had Ralph Lawler, you had big voice, We had Vin Scully.
I mean, you forget the you know, just the pomp
and circumstance of John Sterling and is great over the
(18:35):
top home run calls. But I mean, this guy's been
the voice of the Yankees for as long as I
can remember. And listening to him and Susan Waldman do
a game together, if you've never done so, if you've
never heard him and Susan Waldman do a game, I'll
try to tell you what it was like. Listen to
them do a game. Is like this if you go
to a wedding, and you go to wedding of two
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people and like say, the groom's parents are divorced and
you don't know how they get along, but hey, for
the for the kids, for the wedding, and for the guests.
They're gonna get along as best as they can. Like
and the other do they get along? I feel like
they get along, but I don't know the kids. Yeah,
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I caught a little bit of a look. I caught
a little bit of a glance here, a little bit
of a biting thing there.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That's kind of what it's like to listen to John
Sterling and Susan Waldman do a game like they're they
were married for a long time and then they've been divorced.
But we we kind of have to, you know, for
the sake of the kids. We need to make sure
that everything is as above board and we don't want
it to, you know, degrade and devalue.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Into certain things.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
We know we're gonna keep the broadcast as professional as
we can, but there's gonna be hints here and there that, oh, okay,
a little bit of a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Of aks going on between these two.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well, but it's like any relationship of that ilk right,
star power getting out. I like the marriage analogy. That's
kind of funny. It's like, all right, what's gonna happen
at the reception? Nobody knows. Just get the cameras rolling
and make sure they're not those you know, a little
wind up, little old disposable ones, because that's not going
to capture it properly.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But yeah, you know the all right, who's.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Got the the big bombasketic call? Right both and for Sterling.
Obviously we've celebrated the home run calls forever on this show,
you and I and you know, it's a throwback to
me in Chicago, like we just had one legend after
another that were just synonymous with the teams in the city.
You know, brick House into Harry Carey's run. Steve Stone's
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still there although he's you know, doing a full cell
job to try to tell you this team's still worth
watching for the White Sox now and just keep on going,
Wayne Larapee all those years ago, now a Packers got sure.
But but you know, and to go down all the
radio and TV calls. So yeah, it's when I saw
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the news today, I got said, you know, I know
it's traveling obviously as you get older, hell, even as
you're young, it sucks and wears you down fast. By
I know, Fit's one of those, you know, hopefully his
health is okay. Uh, and we'll find out more, I'm sure,
but yeah, this one was a bit jarring. It's like
because everyone like those players I keep talking about, right,
(21:12):
the next guy that retires, it's another you know, link
to you know, the past and the history that we've
shared as a sports collective, and certainly in baseball we
celebrate history unlike any other sport.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Let's hear a little bit of John certainly Mary mac.
Let's have a little bit of him from.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We have a back here, some of his calls one.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Two, swung on and driving a deep blom tour the line,
cheers Aaron judge line, run right down the line, A
judge in blast all rise, Here comes the judge.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
It's an a from a rod you can bank on.
Chase Heedlely, Liz Deadly, a mark to Shriff, Bryan, Oh,
McCann can, I guess McCann can Garrett keeping up with
the Joneses, Steve and Drew. He serves a Druski and
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the second deck and right.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And well that's baseball, Susan, Never forget that, that's Basebaul Susan.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
A judge and blast and gian Carlo, Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Di Giancarlo Polo whatever whatever he was saying, stop Barlow.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah, you can't stop him. No pay de stop Barlow.
I don't even know what he's saying there, but it
sounds like I out, Yeah whatever, John Carlow, you can't
stop him. I mean, that's probably his first thought as
soon as it's not you. Hey, Jeter's gonna give you guys,
j Carlo, Stan oh Man, good luck?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
How am I gonna find something to ride with? Gian Carlo?
Come on, man, I can't do that?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
What I gonna do? And here he is, Chad gpat
and got step Barlow.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
John Carlo is breaking bad like Esposito, except breaking for
a home run.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Like that's impossible to do. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
What a legend?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Oh Man?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Hey? And I remember people hate listening and today and
he's got to stop it. It's like, yeah, you're shame
to yourself that the whole business is built on. Be silly.
That's some fun.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I like to see him come out just once at
the end and just say, hey, what do you have
to say? John?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's baseball? Susan, goodbye, everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So with a WNBA pointing up telling you she's gonna
have a magic and Larry likedpe effect on the league
and relative relative to the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Just watch a sport going in the other direction? Now,
is golf? Why? Because they don't have stars?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
We just watched the matches this weekend and Scotti Shuffler wins,
and he's one of the best golfers on the planet
and he's become so dominant. He's now the overwhelming favorite
for the next major and he's terrific. But golf has
gotten to a point and it kind of makes sense
that it's now officially back to where it was pre
(24:06):
Tiger Woods, which makes sense, but it's also really bad
because golf just doesn't they When Tiger had his ascension,
the sport did well. Right, Tiger did something to golf
that we had never seen before. Almost hey, kind of
like what Caitlin clar is gonna do for the WNBA. Yeah,
that's kind of what Tiger did for golf. Golf was
a big, niche sport and it had big stars as
(24:29):
it pertained to golf. Greg Norman and Nick Faldo and
and Nick Price and Lee Jansen, and you watch guys
winning majors like Ernie Els won a couple of majors.
You know, golf was fine, and then Tiger Wood showed
up and suddenly everything was better, and the purses were better,
the purses were bigger, golf was better than it ever was,
and golf needed some time to okay. Now, how do
(24:52):
we continue to ride this and get to the post
Tiger Woods era? And as you saw this weekend, golf
never has right. The Masters was so relevant Thursday and
Friday when Tiger was playing ESPN. Today we have great
ratings here on Thursday and Friday. Yeah, now we're waiting
for Saturday Sunday when Tiger at his works two rounds. Ever,
as a pro, golf has never been able to find
(25:13):
a way to capitalize on Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So now they are back.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
To where they were before, which is in even a
worse place because now the tour is blown up and
Live Golf took so many of the stars, and now
there's rumors Rory McElroy could wind up starting adjoining Live Golf,
and they're trying to figure out a way to keep
this sport going, and but golf has gone back. They've
gone backwards twenty five years. And why golf is in
(25:39):
a worst place is because now there are so many
more things that are competing for your entertainment and sports dollar,
and golf simply isn't going to be up there. Tiger
Woods isn't playing, nobody's gonna care. No one's gonna care
about Bryson d Chambeau and if he's going to play,
and a chef, just no one is. And golf is
going to be back to being that niche sport that
(25:59):
it was before where Tiger came. I mean, think about this,
You're going back to what it was like in nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's what golf was. But four times a year, certain
times a year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Hey, when golf had a major or an important turney, Yeah,
we paid attention to it. It was a big deal.
Wash with the US Open, made the four Major always
a big deal. Tiger made everything matter, made everything with
golf matter. And now we're back to we're back to
before Tiger. But now that there's so many more things
competing for your money, and the fact that the tour
is not even together anymore, it's like, Okay, you just
(26:30):
had twenty five years of the fast lane, or you know,
fifteen years of the fast lane, and then Tiger disappeared,
was coming back, disappeared, came back, couldn't find any stars there,
couldn't find Jordan Speeth, Rory McElroy, couldn't cut through and
be someone you really rooted for. Tiger was a phenomenon,
and they couldn't figure it out. And now here they
are in a place where every day golf is like
(26:50):
college football. Something changes every single day. And now they're
going to try to navigate going forward with split tours
and players that are mad at each other, and and
the PGA Tours is becoming close to irrelevant. Nobody watches
a live tour. We now they're gonna try to merge
and try to come together, and and and and the
and the Saudis who own live golf may try to
(27:11):
buy the PJA. It's just absolutely insane right now. But
the bottom line is we're back to where we were.
They've not been able to grow the game and grow
the stars. And when there's no Tiger Woods interest level
in the Masters, in the US Open, it all kind
of goes away a little bit. And and it really
is a shit. It makes sense because Tiger is such
a phenomenon that you take him away.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But man, you had a long time to try to
figure out, Okay, what are we gonna do post Tiger Woods?
Right like the NBA, what are we gonna do post
Michael Jordan? We got Lebron James. Oh what are we
gonna do post Lebron's?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh we have we have we have we have this,
we have this, we have this. We've had a long time. Now,
we got Wemby, we got Giannis, we got stars. Everybody's
big in the NBA is a star. Now it's a star,
it's a star. But golf is like, yeah, we had
all the time, and look where we are right now
and now after you know, from nineteen ninety six until now,
it's been great, and now it's what do we do?
Like there's I don't know what golf does, but that's that.
That's how far backwards golf has become.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Now, Well that's the hard part, right.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
You're wishing, wanting, hoping that that next breakout guy is there.
And and Tiger, you know, was different in a million ways, right,
hit the ball longer, dominated on the in his short game.
You know had obviously right, he broke it through to
a different demographic and you know all all of that, right,
(28:26):
he made golf cool, right, it's it's just a different thing,
the marketing, the management of it all. And and suddenly
you had a guy, a black golfer that cut through.
There were guys on the tour, but now he's a
dominant that everybody's chasing. And like anything, we we love
to jump on board the bandwagon of the hero and
(28:50):
the guy that's dominating. And then, just as conversely, you
and I have talked about it for a decade. Hate
watching is a real thing, right, kept trying to make
anybody who came close, you know, finished second a few
strokes back.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Their rival.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Phil Micholson tried it for years. Yeah, he was a
good smart ass. He gambled a lot, all that stuff
up and he's won his share of tournaments through the years,
but was never truly the guy, right, a true rival
to emerge.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So it was all right, we're gonna watch Tiger.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And then once everything happened physically and time off and
all that with the golf clubs and Thanksgiving weekend and
everything else, you know, to where the hero got taken down.
You don't have another guy that's cut through, right, Scheffler's
great golfer. What is he up to? Sixth all time
in terms of earnings? Already normal guy praises God, Thanks
(29:42):
God in his post mattch speeches, and it's just a
regular guy. Yeah, rootable because you want to see how
well he can go. But is it someone that you
get fervently behind that you have to watch. No, the
most interesting thing of the weekend was if his life
was suddenly in labor and they got.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Word to it, was he gonna walk off the course? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly right legitimately, like that was the talking point.
You know, I did the show with Jeff Schwartz yesterday
morning before they all teed off and we got to
watch the first couple of holes for Tiger Woods. Jeff
was fading him on every hole in winning. Uh so
you know you have that going on. But that was
the most interesting thing. If she goes into the labor,
(30:26):
does he walk up, Well, it didn't happen. He ends
up winning another jacket and away we go. You know
you mentioned Rory McElroy before. The most interesting thing he
could do is a full wwe heel turn at this point, right,
and yeah, I'm going to live. Wait, I thought you
said you never would, and you're you know, Captain America
or for the BGA. I'm gone, I'm taking their money.
(30:48):
And then you know he could do the double heel turn. Well,
the check clear and I'm back. You know, I guess
that would get people interested. But again, you gotta go win,
you gotta be dominant, and that's something nobody's done since
we had little pockets of guys Dustin Johnson, McElroy himself,
John Rahm, whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
They've had some good.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Runs, but they've never strung together something that suddenly captivated
the marginal you know, non golf fans, right, the Sunday
Duffers and Saturday Duffers are always going to be there.
Tiger got everybody at least intrigued, and in today's TikTok
and Instagram world, just like we're talking about with Caitlin Clark,
if you could suddenly have the super cut of someone
(31:27):
who's superhuman and dominating every time he picks up a
club on the tour, then it wins. But we don't
have that, and I don't see that in the foreseeable future.
So get ready to fully re embrace the niche sports
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Look, it's not that you need Okay, we have to
find someone to do everything Tiger Woods was doing.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
But you need some way to say, Okay, how do
we capitalize on this and stay at this level and
not backslide to where we were. Look, this is what
women's college basketball. Hey, with Caitlin Clark leaving, we're gonna
have to figure out a way around it. Now, what
they're gonna probably do is push the game. They're gonna
push the other superstars. They already have it built in.
They're hot, and they're they're able to build the building
(32:12):
with these players. Maybe flow j Johnson, Paige Becker's we.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Know, comferring getting away from Kim Maulki come a star
once again. Maybe that'll be a big story.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Journey woman college basketball superstar, hey Lee van lif and
and you know, but that's already built in. And I
feel like college basketball has has the sport in a
good place to do that. Golf never got in a
good place. It was Tiger Woods or nobody, and it
was and it was the embracing of him and with
when you have twenty five years to try to figure out.
(32:44):
You gotta think it's gonna be figured out. But what
happened in the end, they allowed the tour to split.
They allowed somebody to come in and say we're gonna
give you all this money to come play golf, and
and and all. It blindsided and that's ruined the PGA Tour.
And and now that we have got that are mad
at each other, don't talk to each other, and it's
just golf is in a really bad place.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Man. It's in a really tough spot.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And I hope for golf it gets back to what
it was before Tiger Woods, because before then you did
have drama, You had built in things that were that
were interesting. You had John Daily winning, you had the
Daily and Contetino Rocca at the Open Championship, in the
in the five thousand foot pot. I mean, you still
had these great moments, and you had good players that
people cared about. Now, I don't know. I don't think
(33:28):
people care about Bryson d. Chambeau or John rob like
they cared about John Daily or Greg Norman. So you,
I mean, it's in a really difficult place, and I
would think they would have figured it out. But now
but they haven't, and now they're gonna see exactly what
this reality is because Tiger is in his post post
Mike Tyson fighting phase where Okay, for a long time
(33:49):
we thought, well, Tyson's gonna fight again, he'll start winning.
Then it got to the point where, hey, Mike Tyson
fighting at all, like is a is a plus? Like
that's kind of where we are at. Tiger Wood's playing
at all is just any kind of plus. And that's
where golf is, and it really I hope they find
a way, but man, they have them for twenty five
years without Tiger. Now look where they are, because you
(34:10):
see exactly where the where golf is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tirerack dot Com Studios. As we are
getting sent for opening night in the NBA Playing Round tomorrow,
we have well, we have the A list tomorrow night.
We have the Varsity game tomorrow night, then the jv
games on when Sorry Bud Lakers Pelicans, followed by Warriors
(34:46):
and the Kings. Let's go Lakers Pelicans first. I would
love to pick the Pelicans. I would love to pick
them playing at home. They got embarrassed, they got out
efforted by the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Zion Williamson said, they just played harder than we did. Yes,
they got brandon Ingram back, and that should be a
big deal. And this is Zion's first playoff game, and
you know, he knows they got He's got to show out.
But the Lakers have just found a way all season
long to beat the Pelicans. The only time the Pelicans
have won is when the Lakers were playing on the
second night of back to backs. The Lakers are playing terrific.
(35:20):
They are peaking at the right time. They're feeling good
about themselves. As long as Anthony Davis plays, he's up
in the air right now, says he's gonna play Tuesday night.
As long as ad plays, the Lakers are gonna win.
Gonna be two back to back wins on the road
in New Orleans for the Lakers. They move on to
the regular rounds of the playoffs, where the Denver Nuggets
will wait.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I take the Pelicans minus one and a half after
being embarrassed once again, because remember the Lakers got him
by forty four way back in that game that should
have counted, and didn't. Remember when we were talking about
all that in season tournament nonsense. Why do all these
other games count and the schedule and the stats but
(36:02):
the final, Yeah, you got a novelty check and you
played an extra game, but it doesn't count. Yeah, that
would have helped them. That would have been helpful for
the Lakers along the way, But look for the Pelicans
to respond Ingram got his first game back after missing twelve.
The Pelicans have been playing some pretty good basketball before
getting blitzed by the Lakers on Sunday. I think they
(36:23):
rebound and take care of business at home. And yeah,
that's with both the stars of the Lakers playing, which
leaves a lot of people here in Los Angeles wringing
their hands about.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Oh, no, Warriors and the Kings are the nightcap and
here I'd love to pick the Kings, I really would.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I'd love to pick the Kings.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
They're younger, they're playing really well, but no, Malik Monk
is going to be a big deal. The Warriors have
been hot lately, and look for both teams like the
Lakers and the Warriors, this is their sweet spot for
the playoffs, right early on in the playoffs, when they
haven't had time to get exhausted by playing a game
every other night and playing heavy minutes for all the
(37:06):
big players. Look, we've seen it with everybody, every team
that relies on older players. They play great for the
first couple of rounds and then what happens. Oh, then
all of a sudden time catches up with them and
they wind up falling out of the playoffs. And it's
very quick. It's not one of those Oh it's good
over the court. No, it's hey, we're at the point,
we hit the wall and we're done.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's gonna happen for the Lakers and the Warriors because
they do rely on players that are too old. The
Lakers need one other star, and they're a younger star
they can rely which is what they're gonna do in
the offseason. But for right now, the Warriors are playing
extremely well. Yes, I know it's on the road, but hey,
they won the series last year. The Warriors are playing
at a high level. I'll take the Warriors to win
this game and force that winner go home game against
(37:46):
the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I dig it. Yeah, so the matchup once again, we'll
get Warriors Lakers.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
So I mean we'll take it.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I wouldn't be that upset if I lost that and
it turned out to be Warriors Lakers. I mean, would
be that A said a nice extra bonus game for
us during our window later in the week. But yeah,
I'll take the Warriors to win. Playing really well down
the stretch Draymond Green. Ever since the incident a while back,
they've just been playing better basketball, better team ball, and
(38:16):
with Steph Curry and even Klay Thompson right, who has
written off thirty five times this year, he's been playing
really well in the role that he's adapted to down
the stretch. Yeah, I mean, I feel like either the
Lakers and the Warriors are on a collision course for
the playing round, or they're both destined to get out
of it. To get out and the Lakers move on
(38:37):
and the Warriors move on, and we have a one
through right in the playoffs. That's just crazy, all right.
You know, the Lakers at seven, the Warriors at eight,
and the thunder are all all sorts of nervous. But
this is you know, this is what it is for
these teams, and they're both playing. If they weren't playing well,
now I would say, Okay, the younger teams are going
to run him out of the gym. But because they're
both playing well now they know when to and this
(39:00):
is when they know they have to hit their Peakya.
That's why I'm going Lakers and Warriors for tomorrow night.
And but like I said, if I'm wrong about the
Laker I wouldn't be that mad. As long as the
Warriors w it was Lakers Kings, I'd be like, uh,
now we gotta have conversations about Mike Bibbie and Chris
Weber and Kobe and A.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So it's good if they are gonna lose, at least
give us Lakers Warriors.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah. Either way, it's gonna give us tremendous storylines. We
get to play some of those old blotty Devach clips
if we need to. I mean, there's so much in
the chamber talk about New Orleans food if we have to,
I mean, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Or just just go on your ways and listen to
v Lotti. Right, I think you still get voice on
ways right.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Well, or if it's been eliminated, there's no doubt we
can find that on the interwebs. Oh, you could totally
get anybody now with AI. I'm sure you can get.
That's a fair you know what. I didn't even think
about that. That's that's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
A lot of people are a lot of stars are
gonna lose money. Oh yeah, we don't. We don't need you.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We just need you to say one word. Actually, you
know what, we'll just get it all off of AI.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
We got off the internet. We read the dictionary. You're screwed.
I just thought it was a freelance assignment. I didn't
think it would cost me a job. And now you
don't need me anymore. No, sorry, Fladdie. You go back
and smoke cigarettes outside. It's all good. Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox is the Number.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
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