April 16, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain why a lackluster reaction to The Masters may prove that golf is really dead. The guys discuss how the Lakers should approach their Play-In game with the Pelicans. Plus, the guys give their picks for Tuesday's Play-In Tournament games!
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way tire buying should be. Well, A big night tonight, Hey,
the WNBA draft owning the night. Caitlin Clark going number
one overall and I know we're gonna all the SNL.
I got a FEVA and the only prescriptions right, okay?
Uh going number one overall? Can you walk it back
to do it? And you know, look, and I love
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that she was on SNL this weekend. The whole deal
with Michael say all the all the old women's sports
stories that he did. It was kind of fun, you know,
seeing her there. Look like I said, for everybody says, oh,
Caitlyn Clark is not gonna Caitlyn Clark's already a thing.
Nobody is this big a star, and then just disappears,
like for everybody who thinks, oh yeah, yeah, no, no,
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well it's different. Now's the WNBA, it's not college. Do
you really think she's just gonna disappear? You really think
that's what's gonna happen that suddenly we're not gonna pay
attention to Kitlyn Clark anymore. People are people, You're insane.
She's gonna take the w NBA to a whole new level.
And I'll give you this if she can continue on
and her and Angel Reese can have a rivalry in
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the w NBA what kind of like they have in college. Boy, woof,
you talk about magic and Larry, I mean, this is
this is something, This would be something. Now it's gonna
take a lot because the thing with Angel Reese is
that on the floor, she's kind of a tweeener and
you know, great defensively, great rebounder, a lot of energy,
big leader. Everybody says those great things. But with the
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bigger players in the WNBA, she doesn't really have an
outside game. And look a couple of times I try
to give her the ball at the end of a game,
go make a shot and win. Yeah, that's not her strength.
So that's gonna be a big thing. What kind of
offensive game is she gonna have? So she may wind
up more of a Draymond Green in the WNBA. She
can work on her shooting a little bit, but you know,
I don't know that she's gonna be some of the
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you know, a twenty five and fifteen double double machine.
But she may be more of a more of a
dream which would be great. Right if Caitlyn Clark is
Steph and and and Angel Reese is Draymond Green, I
think that's pretty cool. But if they can have a
rivalry and that rivalry can go watch out, man, because
the NBA Emmy doesn't have anything like that right now,
and that would the WNBA would have a built in
rivalry like that, which would be so huge.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, the other thing is, now, Jason, you've got a
lot more people with vested interests in the league and
its growth, and it's continued expansion and success WNBA. You know,
I'm not going to be the downer and just say well,
it's always just been supported by the NBA, but financially
there it is. Now it's trying to figure out next level.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We talk a lot about the.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Salary and when people would get very offended when folks
would say, well, maybe it could be worth for Caitlin
Clark to stay at Iowa's try to do some of
the math. And as you know, like you talking with
Todd Ferm and our Budy on Twitter earlier about the
Mets and Jets and everything else, it gets to be
fuzzy math. You know, the Jets and their new uniforms
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being worth four points might be a little bit of
an overstatement. You know, we'll evaluate that a little later
in the week when we talked to Todd. But you
know where you have so many people now invested in
the television networks in in a different way than they've
ever been, and the league has had a lot of
great players.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
One of the things Clark did and the writers and
whatever lists she gave them went and kind of paid
tribute to all those who came before, something that you know,
there's been a lot of anger in this part of
the things of hey, why is she getting all the
attention we didn't Well, it's a new day, all right,
add TikTok videos, my daughters, who let's face it, sports
(04:27):
is the enemy. Maybe Zoe doesn't have the same relationship
in your world. My daughter loves to play soccer, has
only it started liking to watch it the last couple
of years. Everything else has been well, it took to
dad away and time away. So there's a little bit
of a fight. Well, now there were interested and they
were asking questions about these players because of the supercuts
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of videos they're seeing or little things about hey, where
they really fighting. It's like, well, let me explain how
that flowed. You know, those kind of things with Angel
Reese and and Clark and everything from the past, and
now you go to this next level. And yeah, there's
a lot of interest. You mentioned the fanatics sellout your
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team Reese with Cardoso from South Carolina, so maybe Chicago
can rebuild on the fly. Doesn't hurt that Angel Reese
goes to a big city there too, so all big things. Yeah,
Caitlin Clark get used to her.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
She ain't going anywhere, exit outb out a Fresca exit
Swollen Dome. The Jason Smiths are with Mike Carmon live
from the tyreck dot Com studios. 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, just watch a sport going in the other direction? Now?
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Is golf? Why? Because they don't have stars? Right? 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
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Tiger Woods, which makes sense, but it's also really bad
because golf just doesn't they When 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
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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
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we continue to ride this and get to the post
Tiger Woods era? And as you saw this weekend, golf
golf never has right. The Masters was so relevant Thursday
and Friday when Tiger was playing. ESPN say, we have
great ratings here on Thursday and Friday. Yeah, now we're
waiting for Saturday Sunday when Tiger had his works two rounds. Ever,
as a pro, golf has never been able to find
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a way to capitalize on Tiger Woods. So now they
are back 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
(07:35):
gone back. They've gone backwards twenty five years. And why
golf is in a worse 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 going to care about Bryson d Chambeau and
if he's going to play, and a chef, just no
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one is. And golf is going to be back to
being that niche sport that it was before Tiger came.
I mean, think about this. You're going back to what
it was like in nineteen ninety five. That's what golf was.
But four times a year, certain times a year, Hey,
when golf had a major or an important turney, Yeah,
we paid attention to it. It was a big deal. It
was with the US Open, made the four Majors always
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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
had twenty five years of the fast Lane, or you know,
fifteen years of the fast Lane, and then Tiger disappeared,
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was coming back, disappeared, came back, couldn't find any stars there,
couldn't find Jordan Speed, 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
college football. Something changes every single day. And now they're
going to try to navigate going forward with split tours
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and players that are mad at the 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 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
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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. I get it,
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
(09:40):
gonna do post Lebron's?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh, we have we have we have we have this,
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
(10:02):
backwards golf has become. Now.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Well that's the hard part, right, 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,
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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
(10:51):
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. Their rival Phil Mickelson 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
(11:11):
tournaments through the years, but was never truly the guy, right,
a true rival to emerge.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So it was all right, we're gonna watch Tiger. 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 a
great golfer.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What is he up to? Sixth all time in terms
of earnings? Already?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Normal guy praises God, thanks God, and his post match
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.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No, the most interesting thing of the weekend was if
his wife was suddenly in labor and they.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Got word to him, was he gonna walk off the course?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah? 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 labor,
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does he walk up, Well, it didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
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 to whatever. I'm gone,
I'm taking their money. And then you know he could
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do the double heel turn. Well, the check clear and
I'm back. You know, I guess that would get people interested.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But again, you gotta go win, you gotta be dominant,
and that's something nobody he's done since Tiger. Right, we
had little pockets of guys, Dustin Johnson, McElroy himself, John Rahm, whatever.
They've had some good runs, but they've never strung together
something that suddenly captivated the marginal. You know, non golf fans, right,
(13:16):
the Sunday Duffers and Saturday Duffers are always gonna 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
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.
(13:39):
So get ready to fully re embrace the niche sports
kind of thing. Look, it's not that you need Okay,
we have to find someone to do everything Tiger Woods
was doing. That's not gonna happen. But you need some
way to say, Okay, how do we capitalize on this
and stay at this level and not backslide to where
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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 with these players. Maybe
flow j Johnson, Paige Becker's.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We know, comferring getting away from Kim Moulky to become
a star once again.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So maybe that'll be a big story.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Journey women college basketball superstar Heylee van Lyth 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, you
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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 golfers that are mad
at each other, don't talk to each other, and it's
just golf is in a really bad place. Man, It's
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in a really tough spot. And 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 Contatino 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,
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I don't think 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 have think they would have figured it
out but now, but they haven't. And now they're going
to see exactly what this reality is because Tiger is
in his post post Mike Tyson fighting phase where Okay,
(15:50):
for a long time 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 that Tiger,
what'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 it for
twenty five years without Tiger and now look where they are,
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because you see exactly where the where golf is unbelievable.
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
I don't know why we keep playing. The Mets are
going to the two are connected, like it's not enough
when Resard says they bring fire without the races. Yeah,
but Ben Rock gives you some hope. True, that's true. Hey,
we're five hundred now. Man, we beat he rold As
Chapman so bad tonight he got thrown out after giving
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up the go ahead double.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
He was so mad.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh he's out of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh five hundred yeo. Look at the Mets.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Long road begins with the first step.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Here we are and I aspired somedays see five hundred from.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
First you can aspire to that all you want, It's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I wasn't saying this year.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But keep hoping. Just keep hoping, buddy, are you doing?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Keep hope alive?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Just keep hoping.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That sounds like a campaign slogan.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Let's go keep your hope alive, Keep your hope alive,
and say keep him uh, keep it alive him on
a little bit more on on Caitlin Clark number one
overall pick Tonight, Indiana Fever, WNBA Draft and outside of
impact and how good she might be, which we'll continue
to break down throughout the show. You know, the one
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thing I really love is that not once was there
any wavering, was there any thought about I'm not going
to play in the WNBA, right because you even had
the big I can't find anything to say about Caitlin Clark.
So I'll say, don't go to the WNBA. You're not
gonna make any money. It's gonna be I really think
Kaitlyn Clark's gonna be poor. We really think she's like,
(19:40):
you're not gonna make money. Yes, her salary is not great, but.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Then all of those sponsors are gonna say, I don't
want any part of this.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, Okay, Yes, her salary is low, and it starts
at seventy grand a year and gets up to ninety
five grand a year. And I understand that the Indiana
Fever already are making her salary and tickets that are sold. Well,
this is how the game grows, right, this is how
the game grows. This is how change happens. And now
players get paid more money. So everybody want to say, oh, Caitlyn, Caitlyn, Caitlin.
(20:07):
Remember Caitlyn's gonna get everybody paid more money in the WNBA,
all right, So understand that. Understand that for a second
before you start Caitlyn Clark bashing too much. She's getting
everybody paid. She's the golden goose, all right. She's the
one that people want to see. I'm sorry if they
don't want to see you, or they want to see
her more. She's gonna get everybody paid. She'll get paid.
This is the impact she's gonna have. But I love
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the fact that she decided I'm gonna go to the WNBA.
There's no thought about playing overseas. I'm not gonna do
this big three five million dollars to go play here. No,
I'm going to WNBA. We're gonna grow the game, and
we're going to be able to have good livings and
we're gonna be relevant, and this is the sport that
we need to succeed as basketball players. I love the
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fact that all of the stars coming into the league now,
whether it's Kitlyn Clark or Angel Reese, they all understand
the respect responsibility they have to grow the game, to
make it better than it's ever been, to make it
better for the players coming after them. And they're the
ones because this is the time, this is the perfect time,
This is the time for the WNBA to grow. They
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have the right player in Clark, you have you have
the moment in time. You have the league in the
middle of the summer when people are able to pay attention,
and they understand that and they take that on their
shoulders and say we get it, we get part of it.
And I think it's awesome that not once has it
been well, I'm a star and I can go play
in Italy for three years and get fifteen million dollars
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and I can be on the cover of Italian Vogue
or I can be here. No, but they've aught we're
going to the WNBA. There was nothing it was I'm
excited to declare for the WNBA draft. Angel Reese declaring
for the WNBA draft in a magazine column is awesome.
I mean, I mean, the day after it was all
everything was so, you know, after her team lost and
she was very emotional. But the next day is suddenly, hey,
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I'm good and I'm declaring for the draft in a
magazine shoot. I mean, I think that that's that shows
you what they think of what they want to do
for the WNBA and want to do for themselves as
part of it as well, because obviously it's both of them.
But that's that's the that's been the best part of
this is that there's been no questions about, hey, the
w NBA has got to do something, make sure they
get these players. No, no, they're all going Cardozo going,
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I'm I'm in the WNBA and I'm going where this
is where we're gonna go. We're gonna go make this
work and it's gonna be our thing. And that's great.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I think one of the great parts watching the draft tonight,
I got a chance to sit and from pillar to post,
actually it was how emotional players were. I mean an
Angel Reese, I mean, she woren't on her sleeve, you know,
getting selected and the the sky trading up to get
the opportunity to draft her. But every one of them
(22:44):
spoke about, you know, the responsibility to grow and capitalize
on what they've been building.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I referenced it before with the Caitlin Clark saying, ah,
in Indiana, get the meat, stay in the Midwest, We're
gonna sell a lot of tickets, and the crowd went nuts, right,
just like, hey, here we go. You know that it's
our time to take this game and push it forward,
and you know, to to a person, you know, thanking
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their teammates. You know, we we had the occasion that
you know, Kate Martin gets drafted by the Aces. She
had said I'm just here to support my teammates, as
a bunch of the Iowa women were there to support Clark,
so when she got drafted, just had that look like, well, damn.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Let's go. But so there there's that meeting the moment
and realizing that, you know, there's some extra burden to
a degree, right, responsibility to take all the good will
that you've had. Yeah, and the naysayers along with you,
But there's a lot of backers, and for Caitlyn Clark
in particular, been a lot of money funneled right State Farm,
(23:50):
you know, put up a giant billboard times Square the
second after she got drafted.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So there's a.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Lot of you know, the Miracle Mile, a lot of
those Madison Avenue folks who've staked some claim to Clark
and the other members of this this rookie class. And
I think, you know, to a person, they really spoke
well to the idea of all right, we can't squander
(24:17):
it like it's our time in the sun. So you know,
from her to Cameron Brink to Angel Rees to Cardoso
and go on down the line.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know, it was pretty cool to watch just that
level of excitement before they switch to the NHL coverage
and just knowing that in a couple of weeks time,
you know, they'll tip it off. We don't have a
four month wait, right, NBA draft happens at the end
of June. We see guys a bit in preseason. Does
anybody really pay attention outside of their city?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You pay attention to what's going on in your city,
But for the whole NBA we a kind of pay
attention Around Halloween and you're peering into people.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You know, you take your kids around trick or trading.
It's like you got a game on it there. I
was going out of that game. Or you wait until
Christmas like we talk about traditionally.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
So yeah, this is great. You get to ride the
heat straight out of you know, March Madness into the
draft tonight and then less than a month we're playing
real w NBA games.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah. Look, it's before I think some colleges graduate. I
think we have a game, but you have graduate. Yeah,
but I have I have a huge trig final on front.
Do you really care? Let's go exit up by to
Fresco Exit Swollen Dome. The Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon
live from the ti raq dot com studios. Now as
(25:40):
we get set for the playing round to begin in
the in the NBA Tomorrow night. Wednesday. Tomorrow night's a
star Stunday night with games. Wednesday night, we have the
bulls uh dare you listen to Kevin Durant? Everybody else?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Kobe White's going to be a top five player, Dann
It might be in Chicago, but he's going to be
a top five player. They trade them someplace Elsebody ends
up being a Laker or a Nick it'll be great.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But you want to know something else? I love and
I feel that there's been way too much talk of
UH and an actual seeing of teams tanking to avoid
certain teams in the playoff.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
And it's it's just it's it's.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Gone to a point where I'm just embarrassed by it.
We're embarrassed by the should they should the Lakers lose
tomorrow night to avoid the Nuggets? And should they both
sit out? They should? Should they lose tomorrow and have
it come down to one game whether or not they
move on or not, Like, that's just stupid, that's just stupid.
We've taken this, Oh way, how can I find a
hot take? And well, we're worried about who we're meeting
(26:40):
up against the playoffs, and look, I get it. Not
every matchup is great. Do you want to play the
Nuggets in the playoffs? No, you want to avoid them?
But you know, I I hear Doug Gottlie's point that
he said earlier today. Look, if you're the Lakers and
you get them, you want to get them earlier, right,
You don't want to get them later in the playoffs
when Lebron and ad are worn down. You want to
get them early. So there's that. But I'll tell you
what I like is that, And this is not anything
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other than just the two teams that did it. The
Nicks and Lakers yesterday both said screw it, while other
teams are sitting guys and we're not gonna play and
we're gonna sit. So we like Cleveland sitting everybody so
they could avoid players, so they could avoid playing the
Heat or the Sixers. The Knicks and the Lakers both
said screw it. We're gonna go win and we're gonna
(27:23):
move on and we're gonna beat whoever's in front of us.
And I dig that. I understand, Hey, we don't want
to play. The matchups in the NBA are so important
and it's such a big deal, and I get it.
But there's something to be said for teams saying screw it,
we're not afraid of anybody. I love the fact that
Knicks went for it yesterday when they could have easily
packed it away. The Bulls came to play in a
game they had nothing to play for. Hey, the Knicks
(27:44):
could have backed off and sat Jalen Brunson and Devincenzo
and not play Devincenzo fifty two bleep in minutes. But
you know they went for it because, hey, we want
to finish second. Why because we're good, We're gonna beat
whoever's in front of us, and we're gonna want that
home court advantage of the next round of the playoffs.
And the Lakers did the same thing. Hey, we're gonna
go yere, we're gonna win this game. We're gonna take
care of business here, and now we're gonna see where
we're at. So I kind of I love that that
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there is that because while I get that part of it,
it's become too rampant now. And when I see teams
just sitting up we want to avoid you in the playoffs,
do you do you do you really think you can
win a title if you're sitting to avoid players like that?
That's what That's what I think back, is that if
you have dreams of winning a championship, you really think
you can do it. If your thought is we're gonna
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sit a lot of guys to avoid this team because
they're too good for us, I mean, really, I'm gonna
scratch those teams off that can those teams are never
gonna win a championship. If you're afraid to face somebody
in a playoff and you're sitting players to not get there,
you know, you can't win a championship. And that's a
lot of teams the last couple of days, but not
the Knicks and not the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
The wishing and hoping and all of those things that
somehow they get their come up and elsewhere, so you
avoid them the next round.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Uh Look, and if say, say, by some strange circumstance,
suddenly Anthony Davis and Lebron James do sit out tomorrow,
anybody that's ever made the Lebron goat argument, just just
walk it back.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Don't tell me strategy. Don't tell me it's some stroke
of brilliance, some long term play that they're making, because
you know that's just flat out cowardice. Yeah, because you
know what, you may lose Friday too, how about that,
and may not make the playoffs at all if you
decide to dance with the devil that way. So yeah,
(29:29):
I give them credit.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Go out and slap teams around like the bulls were
locked into the nine seed. That was one of the
more entertaining basketball games. You know that they met, what
for the third time in like twelve days or something,
but you know, one of the more entertaining games.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
That we had.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And what you know, I criticized when we were together
on Thursday, and I say it again, the scheduling the
last two weeks was asinine. And not just because you
had teams playing, you know, back to backs like Phoenix
and the Clippers did. It was more just, all right,
we've had all these spaces. We agreed to give you
this giant week and a half off or whatever the
hell the All Star breaks become. But in the final
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two weeks, damn it, you're gonna play four games and
six nights.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Let's go, now, go get go play the playoffs. You
feel good, No, but now you have some time off,
you have some time. It's good, it's good. I understand.
Maybe you got hurt because you pushed yourself too much,
but hey, now it's okay. Now now you just got
four days to rest. Oh you're still not healthy. Oh
sorry about the end of the too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah that's hard, that's hard, you know, But yeah, for
for tomorrow, I'm in it. It's it's star power, man,
you know, it's it's everything you want and hope that
this playing thing would be Folks that have been trumpeting
the thousand word missives or ten minute monologues about out
of the Lake. Ah, they're in the play And again
it's like, remember the playoffs used to be one through eight,
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so they would have gotten in a couple of these years, folks,
So calm down. You know, right now tickets are as
low as nineteen bucks for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Wow, here you go, Hey, hey, Lakers at New Orleans
nineteen dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Zo.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm okay with the play in being ultimately affordable. I'm
okay with that Golden State at Sacramento under one hundred bucks.
It's not the dollar to go see the Angels the
other night, but it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Still about that against the Rays, it was a dollar tonight.
The White Sox had their four dollars fifteen cent promotion.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I guarant dann Tee.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
If you went on secondary sites and just or just
hit up a message board, someone probably had a stack.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
For you if you really wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But you know, and then Wednesday we get Miami Philly
in Atlanta, Chicago. Let's go playoff times.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
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Speaker 1 (31:46):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
live from the Tirack dot Com studios. As we are
getting sent for Opening Night in the NBA playing round tomorrow,
we have well you have the A list tomorrow night.
We have the varsity game tomorrow night, then the JV
games on Weddy. Sorry, but Lakers Pelicans, followed by Warriors
(32:08):
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. Yesterday. 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
(32:30):
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. 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
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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 3 (33:03):
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
(33:24):
the final, Yeah, you got a novelty check and you
played an extra game, but it doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, that would have helped.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
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 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
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people here in Los Angeles wringing their hands about, Oh.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Warriors in the Kings the nightcap and here I'd love
to pick the Kings, I really would. I'd love to
pick the Kings. They're younger, they're playing really well, but no,
Malik Monk is gonna 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
(34:19):
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 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
(34:40):
it's very quick. It's not one of those oh it's
gonna over the court. No, it's hey, we're at the point,
we hit the wall and we're done. Now that's gonna
happen for the Lakers, and the Wars 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
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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 the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I dig it.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yeah, so the matchup once again, we'll get Warriors Lakers.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So I mean we'll take I wouldn't be that upset
if I lost that and it turned out to be
Warriors Lakers. I mean would be that upset.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
If 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 with Steph Curry
and even Klay Thompson right, who has written off thirty
(35:43):
five times this year, he's been playing really well in
the role that he's adapted to down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, I mean, look, 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.
Ta get out and the Lakers move on 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,
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and they're both playing. If they weren't playing well now,
I would say, Okay, the younger teams are gonna run
them out of the gym. But because they're both playing
well now, they know when to peak, and this is
when they know they have to hit their peak. Yeah,
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
(36:33):
wake it was Lakers Kings, I'd be like, uh, now
we got to have conversations about Mike Bibbie and Chris
Webber and Kobe and A. So it's good if they
are gonna lose, at least give US Lakers Warriors. 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,
(36:55):
there's a lot going on. Or just just go on
your ways and listen to Vatti.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
I think you still get hit voice on Ways.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Right, wow?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Or if it's been eliminated, there's no doubt we can
find that on the interwhibs.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Oh, you could totally get anybody now with AI. I'm
sure you can get.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Oh that's a fair port. You know what.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I didn't even think about that. That's that's absolutely true.
A lot of people are a lot of stars are
gonna lose money. Oh yeah, we don't. We don't need you.
We just need you to say one word. Actually, you
know what, non, We'll just get it all off of AI.
It's fine. We got off the internet, we got.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Read the dictionary.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You're screwed. I just thought it was a freelance assignment.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I didn't think it would cost me a job.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And now you don't need me anymore. No, sorry, Fladdie
you go back and smoke cigarettes outside, It's all good.
H Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
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the WNBA draft owning the night. Caitlin Clark going number
one overall and I know we're gonna all the SNL.
I got a FEVA and the only prescriptions right, okay?
Uh going number one overall? Can you walk it back
to do it? And you know, look, and I love
(01:11):
that she was on SNL this weekend. The whole deal
with Michael say all the all the old women's sports
stories that he did. It was kind of fun, you know,
seeing her there. Look like I said, for everybody says, oh,
Caitlyn Clark is not gonna Caitlyn Clark's already a thing.
Nobody is this big a star, and then just disappears,
like for everybody who thinks, oh yeah, yeah, no, no,
(01:32):
well it's different. Now's the WNBA, it's not college. Do
you really think she's just gonna disappear? You really think
that's what's gonna happen that suddenly we're not gonna pay
attention to Kitlyn Clark anymore. People are people, You're insane.
She's gonna take the w NBA to a whole new level.
And I'll give you this if she can continue on
and her and Angel Reese can have a rivalry in
(01:57):
the w NBA what kind of like they have in college. Boy, woof,
you talk about magic and Larry, I mean, this is
this is something, This would be something. Now it's gonna
take a lot because the thing with Angel Reese is
that on the floor, she's kind of a tweeener and
you know, great defensively, great rebounder, a lot of energy,
big leader. Everybody says those great things. But with the
(02:19):
bigger players in the WNBA, she doesn't really have an
outside game. And look a couple of times I try
to give her the ball at the end of a game,
go make a shot and win. Yeah, that's not her strength.
So that's gonna be a big thing. What kind of
offensive game is she gonna have? So she may wind
up more of a Draymond Green in the WNBA. She
can work on her shooting a little bit, but you know,
I don't know that she's gonna be some of the
(02:39):
you know, a twenty five and fifteen double double machine.
But she may be more of a more of a
dream which would be great. Right if Caitlyn Clark is
Steph and and and Angel Reese is Draymond Green, I
think that's pretty cool. But if they can have a
rivalry and that rivalry can go watch out, man, because
the NBA Emmy doesn't have anything like that right now,
and that would the WNBA would have a built in
rivalry like that, which would be so huge.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, the other thing is, now, Jason, you've got a
lot more people with vested interests in the league and
its growth, and it's continued expansion and success WNBA. You know,
I'm not going to be the downer and just say well,
it's always just been supported by the NBA, but financially
there it is. Now it's trying to figure out next level.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We talk a lot about the.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Salary and when people would get very offended when folks
would say, well, maybe it could be worth for Caitlin
Clark to stay at Iowa's try to do some of
the math. And as you know, like you talking with
Todd Ferm and our Budy on Twitter earlier about the
Mets and Jets and everything else, it gets to be
fuzzy math. You know, the Jets and their new uniforms
(03:46):
being worth four points might be a little bit of
an overstatement. You know, we'll evaluate that a little later
in the week when we talked to Todd. But you
know where you have so many people now invested in
the television networks in in a different way than they've
ever been, and the league has had a lot of
great players.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
One of the things Clark did and the writers and
whatever lists she gave them went and kind of paid
tribute to all those who came before, something that you know,
there's been a lot of anger in this part of
the things of hey, why is she getting all the
attention we didn't Well, it's a new day, all right,
add TikTok videos, my daughters, who let's face it, sports
(04:27):
is the enemy. Maybe Zoe doesn't have the same relationship
in your world. My daughter loves to play soccer, has
only it started liking to watch it the last couple
of years. Everything else has been well, it took to
dad away and time away. So there's a little bit
of a fight. Well, now there were interested and they
were asking questions about these players because of the supercuts
(04:50):
of videos they're seeing or little things about hey, where
they really fighting. It's like, well, let me explain how
that flowed. You know, those kind of things with Angel
Reese and and Clark and everything from the past, and
now you go to this next level. And yeah, there's
a lot of interest. You mentioned the fanatics sellout your
(05:11):
team Reese with Cardoso from South Carolina, so maybe Chicago
can rebuild on the fly. Doesn't hurt that Angel Reese
goes to a big city there too, so all big things. Yeah,
Caitlin Clark get used to her.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
She ain't going anywhere, exit outb out a Fresca exit
Swollen Dome. The Jason Smiths are with Mike Carmon live
from the tyreck dot Com studios. 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, just watch a sport going in the other direction? Now?
(05:44):
Is golf? Why? Because they don't have stars? Right? 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
(06:07):
Tiger Woods, which makes sense, but it's also really bad
because golf just doesn't they When 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
(06:30):
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
(06:53):
we continue to ride this and get to the post
Tiger Woods era? And as you saw this weekend, golf
golf never has right. The Masters was so relevant Thursday
and Friday when Tiger was playing. ESPN say, we have
great ratings here on Thursday and Friday. Yeah, now we're
waiting for Saturday Sunday when Tiger had his works two rounds. Ever,
as a pro, golf has never been able to find
(07:14):
a way to capitalize on Tiger Woods. So now they
are back 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
(07:35):
gone back. They've gone backwards twenty five years. And why
golf is in a worse 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 going to care about Bryson d Chambeau and
if he's going to play, and a chef, just no
(07:56):
one is. And golf is going to be back to
being that niche sport that it was before Tiger came.
I mean, think about this. You're going back to what
it was like in nineteen ninety five. That's what golf was.
But four times a year, certain times a year, Hey,
when golf had a major or an important turney, Yeah,
we paid attention to it. It was a big deal. It
was with the US Open, made the four Majors always
(08:16):
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
had twenty five years of the fast Lane, or you know,
fifteen years of the fast Lane, and then Tiger disappeared,
(08:36):
was coming back, disappeared, came back, couldn't find any stars there,
couldn't find Jordan Speed, 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
college football. Something changes every single day. And now they're
going to try to navigate going forward with split tours
(08:58):
and players that are mad at the 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 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
(09:20):
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. I get it,
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
(09:40):
gonna do post Lebron's?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh, we have we have we have we have this,
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
(10:02):
backwards golf has become. Now.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Well that's the hard part, right, 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,
(10:27):
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
(10:51):
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. Their rival Phil Mickelson 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
(11:11):
tournaments through the years, but was never truly the guy, right,
a true rival to emerge.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So it was all right, we're gonna watch Tiger. 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 a
great golfer.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
What is he up to? Sixth all time in terms
of earnings? Already?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Normal guy praises God, thanks God, and his post match
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.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No, the most interesting thing of the weekend was if
his wife was suddenly in labor and they.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Got word to him, was he gonna walk off the course?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah? 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 labor,
(12:27):
does he walk up, Well, it didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
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 to whatever. I'm gone,
I'm taking their money. And then you know he could
(12:50):
do the double heel turn. Well, the check clear and
I'm back. You know, I guess that would get people interested.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
But again, you gotta go win, you gotta be dominant,
and that's something nobody he's done since Tiger. Right, we
had little pockets of guys, Dustin Johnson, McElroy himself, John Rahm, whatever.
They've had some good runs, but they've never strung together
something that suddenly captivated the marginal. You know, non golf fans, right,
(13:16):
the Sunday Duffers and Saturday Duffers are always gonna 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
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.
(13:39):
So get ready to fully re embrace the niche sports
kind of thing. Look, it's not that you need Okay,
we have to find someone to do everything Tiger Woods
was doing. That's not gonna happen. But you need some
way to say, Okay, how do we capitalize on this
and stay at this level and not backslide to where
(13:59):
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 with these players. Maybe
flow j Johnson, Paige Becker's.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We know, comferring getting away from Kim Moulky to become
a star once again.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So maybe that'll be a big story.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Journey women college basketball superstar Heylee van Lyth 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, you
(14:45):
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 golfers that are mad
at each other, don't talk to each other, and it's
just golf is in a really bad place. Man, It's
(15:06):
in a really tough spot. And 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 Contatino 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,
(15:28):
I don't think 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 have think they would have figured it
out but now, but they haven't. And now they're going
to see exactly what this reality is because Tiger is
in his post post Mike Tyson fighting phase where Okay,
(15:50):
for a long time 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 that Tiger,
what'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 it for
twenty five years without Tiger and now look where they are,
(16:10):
because you see exactly where the where golf is unbelievable.
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
I don't know why we keep playing. The Mets are
going to the two are connected, like it's not enough
when Resard says they bring fire without the races. Yeah,
but Ben Rock gives you some hope. True, that's true. Hey,
we're five hundred now. Man, we beat he rold As
Chapman so bad tonight he got thrown out after giving
(18:31):
up the go ahead double.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
He was so mad.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Oh he's out of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh five hundred yeo. Look at the Mets.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Long road begins with the first step.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Here we are and I aspired somedays see five hundred from.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
First you can aspire to that all you want, It's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I wasn't saying this year.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But keep hoping. Just keep hoping, buddy, are you doing?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Keep hope alive?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Just keep hoping.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That sounds like a campaign slogan.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Let's go keep your hope alive, Keep your hope alive,
and say keep him uh, keep it alive him on
a little bit more on on Caitlin Clark number one
overall pick Tonight, Indiana Fever, WNBA Draft and outside of
impact and how good she might be, which we'll continue
to break down throughout the show. You know, the one
(19:20):
thing I really love is that not once was there
any wavering, was there any thought about I'm not going
to play in the WNBA, right because you even had
the big I can't find anything to say about Caitlin Clark.
So I'll say, don't go to the WNBA. You're not
gonna make any money. It's gonna be I really think
Kaitlyn Clark's gonna be poor. We really think she's like,
(19:40):
you're not gonna make money. Yes, her salary is not great, but.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Then all of those sponsors are gonna say, I don't
want any part of this.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, Okay, Yes, her salary is low, and it starts
at seventy grand a year and gets up to ninety
five grand a year. And I understand that the Indiana
Fever already are making her salary and tickets that are sold. Well,
this is how the game grows, right, this is how
the game grows. This is how change happens. And now
players get paid more money. So everybody want to say, oh, Caitlyn, Caitlyn, Caitlin.
(20:07):
Remember Caitlyn's gonna get everybody paid more money in the WNBA,
all right, So understand that. Understand that for a second
before you start Caitlyn Clark bashing too much. She's getting
everybody paid. She's the golden goose, all right. She's the
one that people want to see. I'm sorry if they
don't want to see you, or they want to see
her more. She's gonna get everybody paid. She'll get paid.
This is the impact she's gonna have. But I love
(20:29):
the fact that she decided I'm gonna go to the WNBA.
There's no thought about playing overseas. I'm not gonna do
this big three five million dollars to go play here. No,
I'm going to WNBA. We're gonna grow the game, and
we're going to be able to have good livings and
we're gonna be relevant, and this is the sport that
we need to succeed as basketball players. I love the
(20:51):
fact that all of the stars coming into the league now,
whether it's Kitlyn Clark or Angel Reese, they all understand
the respect responsibility they have to grow the game, to
make it better than it's ever been, to make it
better for the players coming after them. And they're the
ones because this is the time, this is the perfect time,
This is the time for the WNBA to grow. They
(21:12):
have the right player in Clark, you have you have
the moment in time. You have the league in the
middle of the summer when people are able to pay attention,
and they understand that and they take that on their
shoulders and say we get it, we get part of it.
And I think it's awesome that not once has it
been well, I'm a star and I can go play
in Italy for three years and get fifteen million dollars
(21:32):
and I can be on the cover of Italian Vogue
or I can be here. No, but they've aught we're
going to the WNBA. There was nothing it was I'm
excited to declare for the WNBA draft. Angel Reese declaring
for the WNBA draft in a magazine column is awesome.
I mean, I mean, the day after it was all
everything was so, you know, after her team lost and
she was very emotional. But the next day is suddenly, hey,
(21:55):
I'm good and I'm declaring for the draft in a
magazine shoot. I mean, I think that that's that shows
you what they think of what they want to do
for the WNBA and want to do for themselves as
part of it as well, because obviously it's both of them.
But that's that's the that's been the best part of
this is that there's been no questions about, hey, the
w NBA has got to do something, make sure they
get these players. No, no, they're all going Cardozo going,
(22:16):
I'm I'm in the WNBA and I'm going where this
is where we're gonna go. We're gonna go make this
work and it's gonna be our thing. And that's great.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I think one of the great parts watching the draft tonight,
I got a chance to sit and from pillar to post,
actually it was how emotional players were. I mean an
Angel Reese, I mean, she woren't on her sleeve, you know,
getting selected and the the sky trading up to get
the opportunity to draft her. But every one of them
(22:44):
spoke about, you know, the responsibility to grow and capitalize
on what they've been building.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I referenced it before with the Caitlin Clark saying, ah,
in Indiana, get the meat, stay in the Midwest, We're
gonna sell a lot of tickets, and the crowd went nuts, right,
just like, hey, here we go. You know that it's
our time to take this game and push it forward,
and you know, to to a person, you know, thanking
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their teammates. You know, we we had the occasion that
you know, Kate Martin gets drafted by the Aces. She
had said I'm just here to support my teammates, as
a bunch of the Iowa women were there to support Clark,
so when she got drafted, just had that look like, well, damn.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Let's go. But so there there's that meeting the moment
and realizing that, you know, there's some extra burden to
a degree, right, responsibility to take all the good will
that you've had. Yeah, and the naysayers along with you,
But there's a lot of backers, and for Caitlyn Clark
in particular, been a lot of money funneled right State Farm,
(23:50):
you know, put up a giant billboard times Square the
second after she got drafted.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So there's a.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Lot of you know, the Miracle Mile, a lot of
those Madison Avenue folks who've staked some claim to Clark
and the other members of this this rookie class. And
I think, you know, to a person, they really spoke
well to the idea of all right, we can't squander
(24:17):
it like it's our time in the sun. So you know,
from her to Cameron Brink to Angel Rees to Cardoso
and go on down the line.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know, it was pretty cool to watch just that
level of excitement before they switch to the NHL coverage
and just knowing that in a couple of weeks time,
you know, they'll tip it off. We don't have a
four month wait, right, NBA draft happens at the end
of June. We see guys a bit in preseason. Does
anybody really pay attention outside of their city?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You pay attention to what's going on in your city,
But for the whole NBA we a kind of pay
attention Around Halloween and you're peering into people.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
You know, you take your kids around trick or trading.
It's like you got a game on it there. I
was going out of that game. Or you wait until
Christmas like we talk about traditionally.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
So yeah, this is great. You get to ride the
heat straight out of you know, March Madness into the
draft tonight and then less than a month we're playing
real w NBA games.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah. Look, it's before I think some colleges graduate. I
think we have a game, but you have graduate. Yeah,
but I have I have a huge trig final on front.
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(25:40):
we get set for the playing round to begin in
the in the NBA Tomorrow night. Wednesday. Tomorrow night's a
star Stunday night with games. Wednesday night, we have the
bulls uh dare you listen to Kevin Durant? Everybody else?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Kobe White's going to be a top five player, Dann
It might be in Chicago, but he's going to be
a top five player. They trade them someplace Elsebody ends
up being a Laker or a Nick it'll be great.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But you want to know something else? I love and
I feel that there's been way too much talk of
UH and an actual seeing of teams tanking to avoid
certain teams in the playoff.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
And it's it's just it's it's.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Gone to a point where I'm just embarrassed by it.
We're embarrassed by the should they should the Lakers lose
tomorrow night to avoid the Nuggets? And should they both
sit out? They should? Should they lose tomorrow and have
it come down to one game whether or not they
move on or not, Like, that's just stupid, that's just stupid.
We've taken this, Oh way, how can I find a
hot take? And well, we're worried about who we're meeting
(26:40):
up against the playoffs, and look, I get it. Not
every matchup is great. Do you want to play the
Nuggets in the playoffs? No, you want to avoid them?
But you know, I I hear Doug Gottlie's point that
he said earlier today. Look, if you're the Lakers and
you get them, you want to get them earlier, right,
You don't want to get them later in the playoffs
when Lebron and ad are worn down. You want to
get them early. So there's that. But I'll tell you
what I like is that, And this is not anything
(27:02):
other than just the two teams that did it. The
Nicks and Lakers yesterday both said screw it, while other
teams are sitting guys and we're not gonna play and
we're gonna sit. So we like Cleveland sitting everybody so
they could avoid players, so they could avoid playing the
Heat or the Sixers. The Knicks and the Lakers both
said screw it. We're gonna go win and we're gonna
(27:23):
move on and we're gonna beat whoever's in front of us.
And I dig that. I understand, Hey, we don't want
to play. The matchups in the NBA are so important
and it's such a big deal, and I get it.
But there's something to be said for teams saying screw it,
we're not afraid of anybody. I love the fact that
Knicks went for it yesterday when they could have easily
packed it away. The Bulls came to play in a
game they had nothing to play for. Hey, the Knicks
(27:44):
could have backed off and sat Jalen Brunson and Devincenzo
and not play Devincenzo fifty two bleep in minutes. But
you know they went for it because, hey, we want
to finish second. Why because we're good, We're gonna beat
whoever's in front of us, and we're gonna want that
home court advantage of the next round of the playoffs.
And the Lakers did the same thing. Hey, we're gonna
go yere, we're gonna win this game. We're gonna take
care of business here, and now we're gonna see where
we're at. So I kind of I love that that
(28:06):
there is that because while I get that part of it,
it's become too rampant now. And when I see teams
just sitting up we want to avoid you in the playoffs,
do you do you do you really think you can
win a title if you're sitting to avoid players like that?
That's what That's what I think back, is that if
you have dreams of winning a championship, you really think
you can do it. If your thought is we're gonna
(28:27):
sit a lot of guys to avoid this team because
they're too good for us, I mean, really, I'm gonna
scratch those teams off that can those teams are never
gonna win a championship. If you're afraid to face somebody
in a playoff and you're sitting players to not get there,
you know, you can't win a championship. And that's a
lot of teams the last couple of days, but not
the Knicks and not the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
The wishing and hoping and all of those things that
somehow they get their come up and elsewhere, so you
avoid them the next round.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Uh Look, and if say, say, by some strange circumstance,
suddenly Anthony Davis and Lebron James do sit out tomorrow,
anybody that's ever made the Lebron goat argument, just just
walk it back.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Don't tell me strategy. Don't tell me it's some stroke
of brilliance, some long term play that they're making, because
you know that's just flat out cowardice. Yeah, because you
know what, you may lose Friday too, how about that,
and may not make the playoffs at all if you
decide to dance with the devil that way. So yeah,
(29:29):
I give them credit.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Go out and slap teams around like the bulls were
locked into the nine seed. That was one of the
more entertaining basketball games. You know that they met, what
for the third time in like twelve days or something,
but you know, one of the more entertaining games.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
That we had.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And what you know, I criticized when we were together
on Thursday, and I say it again, the scheduling the
last two weeks was asinine. And not just because you
had teams playing, you know, back to backs like Phoenix
and the Clippers did. It was more just, all right,
we've had all these spaces. We agreed to give you
this giant week and a half off or whatever the
hell the All Star breaks become. But in the final
(30:08):
two weeks, damn it, you're gonna play four games and
six nights.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Let's go, now, go get go play the playoffs. You
feel good, No, but now you have some time off,
you have some time. It's good, it's good. I understand.
Maybe you got hurt because you pushed yourself too much,
but hey, now it's okay. Now now you just got
four days to rest. Oh you're still not healthy. Oh
sorry about the end of the too bad.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah that's hard, that's hard, you know, But yeah, for
for tomorrow, I'm in it. It's it's star power, man,
you know, it's it's everything you want and hope that
this playing thing would be Folks that have been trumpeting
the thousand word missives or ten minute monologues about out
of the Lake. Ah, they're in the play And again
it's like, remember the playoffs used to be one through eight,
(30:51):
so they would have gotten in a couple of these years, folks,
So calm down. You know, right now tickets are as
low as nineteen bucks for tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Wow, here you go, Hey, hey, Lakers at New Orleans
nineteen dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Zo.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm okay with the play in being ultimately affordable. I'm
okay with that Golden State at Sacramento under one hundred bucks.
It's not the dollar to go see the Angels the
other night, but it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Still about that against the Rays, it was a dollar tonight.
The White Sox had their four dollars fifteen cent promotion.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I guarant dann Tee.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
If you went on secondary sites and just or just
hit up a message board, someone probably had a stack.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
For you if you really wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
But you know, and then Wednesday we get Miami Philly
in Atlanta, Chicago. Let's go playoff times.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
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Speaker 1 (31:46):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
live from the Tirack dot Com studios. As we are
getting sent for Opening Night in the NBA playing round tomorrow,
we have well you have the A list tomorrow night.
We have the varsity game tomorrow night, then the JV
games on Weddy. Sorry, but Lakers Pelicans, followed by Warriors
(32:08):
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. Yesterday. 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
(32:30):
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. 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
(32:51):
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 3 (33:03):
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
(33:24):
the final, Yeah, you got a novelty check and you
played an extra game, but it doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, that would have helped.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
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 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
(33:52):
people here in Los Angeles wringing their hands about, Oh.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Warriors in the Kings the nightcap and here I'd love
to pick the Kings, I really would. I'd love to
pick the Kings. They're younger, they're playing really well, but no,
Malik Monk is gonna 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
(34:19):
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 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
(34:40):
it's very quick. It's not one of those oh it's
gonna over the court. No, it's hey, we're at the point,
we hit the wall and we're done. Now that's gonna
happen for the Lakers, and the Wars 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
(35:01):
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 the Pelicans.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I dig it.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yeah, so the matchup once again, we'll get Warriors Lakers.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So I mean we'll take I wouldn't be that upset
if I lost that and it turned out to be
Warriors Lakers. I mean would be that upset.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
If 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 with Steph Curry
and even Klay Thompson right, who has written off thirty
(35:43):
five times this year, he's been playing really well in
the role that he's adapted to down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, I mean, look, 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.
Ta get out and the Lakers move on 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,
(36:11):
and they're both playing. If they weren't playing well now,
I would say, Okay, the younger teams are gonna run
them out of the gym. But because they're both playing
well now, they know when to peak, and this is
when they know they have to hit their peak. Yeah,
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
(36:33):
wake it was Lakers Kings, I'd be like, uh, now
we got to have conversations about Mike Bibbie and Chris
Webber and Kobe and A. So it's good if they
are gonna lose, at least give US Lakers Warriors. 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,
(36:55):
there's a lot going on. Or just just go on
your ways and listen to Vatti.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
I think you still get hit voice on Ways.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Right, wow?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Or if it's been eliminated, there's no doubt we can
find that on the interwhibs.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Oh, you could totally get anybody now with AI. I'm
sure you can get.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Oh that's a fair port. You know what.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I didn't even think about that. That's that's absolutely true.
A lot of people are a lot of stars are
gonna lose money. Oh yeah, we don't. We don't need you.
We just need you to say one word. Actually, you
know what, non, We'll just get it all off of AI.
It's fine. We got off the internet, we got.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Read the dictionary.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You're screwed. I just thought it was a freelance assignment.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
I didn't think it would cost me a job.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And now you don't need me anymore. No, sorry, Fladdie
you go back and smoke cigarettes outside, It's all good.
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