April 16, 2024 • 34 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain how Caitlin Clark is about to become the Steph Curry of the WNBA. The guys explain why the Lakers and Knicks deserve credit for playing hard all the way to the end of the season. Plus, the guys pay tribute to John Sterling!
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as we all thought it was going to be a
few months ago, the WNBA draft, Caitlin Clark going number
one overall. Other big stars that you've paid attention to
got drafted as well. You know, we saw Cardoso, who
was the mop of the final four, go number three overall.
Angel Reese is headed to Chicago with Cardoso. Cardoso said
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after she got picked and Angel revees got picked. Nobody's
getting any rebounds against us, So she's already talking back,
getting ready for the regular season, which I think starts
tomorrow at noon. I think that's when we have the
first Game's lace him up, let's go. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Seems like very eager to get to work. And yeah,
you start talking about being able to and they're working
for Teresa Witherspoon there in Chicago, a legend in her
own right, right, so you know it's it's good times.
And yes, they will dominate the boards. This is what
they can I can already see it. You know where
they they used to and with all you know, respect
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to you know, the the world of New York and
the events that we've had. But remember when we used
to grab any time we had two tall players. Yeah,
but it's the Twin Towers. Yes, yeah, right, so here
we have it. Hey, Angel, Reese and Cardos so getting
after it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Uh but now look the question is going to turn
to and I look, this is this is a great discussion.
How well will Caitlin Clark do in the w n
B A right, how is she going to be saw
the big It was great stuff. It was jumped off
by a Scott Van Pelt question, Diana Tarrossi, that reality
is coming for Caitlin Clark right like there, She's gonna
get to the w n B A and players are
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gonna be foaming at the mouth to guard her because
they're bigger, they're more athletic, and let's see what she
can do. Yeah, it's that's that may be true, but
like she spoke about it like it was she was
a w w E villain Smith. Well, look she's coming,
brother and Nanya Common, if you will, Diana TARROSSI, what
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are you see going on for Caitlin Clark? On on May
the fifth, when I'm hanging and banging in the gym,
and I got that poster up at Kaitlan Clark and
I just grab it like Rocky does it Rocky for
And I just take the picture of Drago and I
crumble it in my fist. That's what I'm gonna do
to Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now she delivered it a little more subtly, more more
in the rowdy roddy piper show key kind of guttural.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, you know, she thinks she's just.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Gonna walk into the w NBA and she's gonna take
it over, man.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Look what is she from Canada? All of a sudden,
when Roddy Piper was go back and listen to is
his promos, he wasn't good. He didn't quite he was
a Canadian. Yeah, he didn't quite. I never heard that
in rowdy Roddy Piper's speech, but I heard it in
yours right there. Yeah, go back, I think you went.
I think you went over the top there for a
little bit too much talking about the WWE brother But look,
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let and I get this part of it, because here
you had these are great players who played in the
w NBA for a long time. Lisa Leslie talked about
at Canadas Parker Sue Byrd a great story by Ramona
Shelburne on ESPN. I'm putting this together and I understand
all of that. I understand that if Kaitlyn Clark is
playing traditional point guard and she's bringing the ball up,
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trying to get her own shots and get into the
paint all the time, it's gonna be a bit of
an adjustment. Yes, one hundred percent, I completely agree with that.
But just think about this for a second. You really
think a player as great as Caitlyn Clark, who who
brought her team to two national title games and only
to get dispatched by two teams that were by leaps
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and years and bounds better than they were. You really
think she's gonna suddenly struggle and score like eight points
a game. She's going to have a Steph Curry like career,
because what have we seen her do in college? Right?
Be able to get free off of screens, to get
her own shot, to get a three, to hit it.
She hit shots from the logo. That's what's going to happen.
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This is not gonna be Okay, Caitlyn, you're our story.
Now you're gonna bring the ball up every single time? No,
it's not gonna happen. Then I'm not gonna sit there
and try to pick her pocket in the back court
all the time. They're going to figure out the Indiana
Fever's gonna figure out very quickly. Okay, Yes, sometimes Caitlyn
can bring it up, just like sometimes Steph brings the
ball up. But sometimes, hey, we're gonna find a way
to get her open for a three. And I don't
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know about you, but I've seen plenty of times where
Caitlyn Clark goes through two or three screens with Iowa
and the best defensive player on the other team, I mean,
unless it's Kim Mulky, because she didn't do that, and
the best defensive player on the team can't keep up
or trying to get around there. And guess what, Caitlyn
Clark finds that little bit of daylight for a three,
catches the ball, step back, and hits it right. Like
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I've seen enough of that to know her game is
going to translate really well into the WNBA. And that's
the kind of impact she's going that's the kind of
game she's got. She's got a very Steph Curry like game.
You're gonna see her take shots from the logo. You're
gonna see her take a lot of threes, tons of threes.
You may not see him take it like she did
in college, the heat check threes where hey, you know,
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fifteen feet behind the three point line. You know, once
in a while you want to take a logo three,
that's great, But you know, in the in the heat
in heat checks, we don't really do that. Okay, just
so you know, you're gonna see a little bit of
an adjustment there, but overall, she's gonna be able to
get her shot. She's gonna score a lot of points.
Maybe she's not a thirty point a game scorer in
her first year, but she will be a star. The
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pressure is on her to be a star right away
because if she's not, that's where you might wind up
losing interest and my people might go, oh, yeah, she
was great in college. But I've watched first couple of
games and all she's really struggling here in the WNBA
that I agree that that's a big concern for the
WNBA if Caitlin Clark is not a star right away.
But I have no doubt in my mind she's gonna
be a big scorer and she's gonna hit big threes
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and people are gonna be excited and they're gonna continue
to watch, and they're gonna watch the WNBA unlike they've
ever watched the WNBA before. And I mean it, she's
gonna have a Magic Johnson Larry Bird like effect on
the WNBA, Like there's gonna be the WNBA before this moment,
and now the WNBA after they got Caitlin Clark, Like
the NBA was the NBA before Magic and Larry showed up,
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and then the NBA was what it was after they
showed up, and that's that's the kind of impact she's
gonna have. But I have no doubt in my mind
she's gonna fight like would all of a sudden, like
she's gonna not be able to. Oh, I can't get
up with the players are too good again, all time
leading scorer in college basketball, more than points than any
of these girls, and any of these women ever scored
in the WNBA. I'm pretty sure she's gonna be okay
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getting your points. I don't feel like we're gonna have
to many gays of boys. She shot one for fourteen
and scored six points. I don't think there's gonna be
too many Knights like that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, the thing that when we start looking at history
and you start going through, you know, the classic great
rookie seasons in the WNBA, most of them are not
by they're more post players than outside shooters. So doing
the comparison, Wow, this person scored eighteen a game or
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and a lot of them were somewhere between, you know,
eighteen point one and eighteen point seven per game. As
you go back and you look at Tamika Catchings or
even Kansas Parker Dele Dawn back with the Chicago Sky,
et cetera. All in that eighteen to nineteen point range,
not really outside shooters, right, so collapse on the inside.
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So now it's you know, they also drafted Celeste Taylor, right,
goes from Ohio State to Indiana point another point guard.
So in terms of people bringing the ball up, Aliah
Boston is already there was already on the roster, right,
last year's rookie of the Year. So you've got some
players on that squad that you have to contend with.
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And to your point, yeah, you run an offense that's
going to free her up to shoot. Is it all
gonna be you know, thirty point performances? No, but you
know you're you're changing the game a little bit, much
like we talked about Steph Curry changing the game. For
your analogy is it's it's again. Yeah, they're they're gonna
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get the best shot, right, even though they drafted number one,
they're gonna get you know, it's like a defending champion
and everybody comes in and yeah, they've got a chip
on their shoulder.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right, we were great players in college.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We didn't get the same run again, and you know,
they may be the nuance of time, place and all
of those things. You know, he's either lost on folks
or they just want to be ignore it for the place.
But she's coming into the league and it elevates all boats, right,
and so go give her your best shot defensively and
make sure you keep working through screens because I guarant
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d amtiya you're gonna get a nice forearm shiver from
Aleiah Baston a couple of times as you try to
try to break through to guard Clark.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I can tell you that right now. But here's the thing,
and I hear what you're saying, and you bring up
and you bring up a point that that helps illustrate
that you don't think when Zion came into the league,
there weren't a bunch of players going Okay, Zion, this
ain't due to welcome to the welcome every year. And
what happens when he's healthy, he's dominant. You don't think
there were players when Shack came into the NBA going okay, Shaq, Yeah, yeah,
(09:50):
you come to the NBA US and now you pounded
the payton, see how it goes. And Shaq was a
star like star players generally are star players in the NBA,
and star players, and I mean big superstar players in
college are generally superstar players when they hit the pros
because that's how good they are. But Jason, look at.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The year this year in league in the NBA, right,
everybody's like, Ah, the Frenchman's coming over in to take over.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Ah, we'll be able to tell you, yeah, he's he's
too slight. Now we're gonna break that guy in half.
He's already a top five player.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
In the league. Like, we're gonna break that guy in half.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And Steady runs off seventeen points, including four to three pointers.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Damn it, we have to guard him out there too.
You know what this reminds me of? You, This rids
me of honestly, Jason spiths my card. It reminds me
when I was a kid, and like the Jets had
a game coming up against the Bills, right, and like,
let's say the Jets beat the Bills early in the season,
like twenty seven to three, right, Like now the game
later on in the season, and you would hear players go,
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you talk about the rematch, we can't wait to get
back at the Jets, and and the people you talk
to them go, oh, man, watch out. The Bills are pissed.
Watch out. I would go, oh, wow, man, you're right,
they're gonna be really mad about losing that. Oh mad.
The Jets are gonna struggle. How are they gonna win this?
Like I used to think that was a thing, like
when I was younger, like, oh, yeah, they're really mad.
Oh man, like it was gonna take them by surprise.
(11:12):
Oh we forgot we lost that game by twenty forty
you like, we're not professional football players. We want to
give a big effort. Oh but now we're mad. Oh
we're mad. But when I was little, I used to think, Oh,
they're gonna be so mad. Oh so ah, the Jets
are gonna get killed and the Jets wold winning. I
would go, wow, And the Bills were really mad going
into this game, and he still found a way to win,
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Like I get it. Oh we wait. We can't wait
to show her what it's gonna be like to get
to the w NBA. I think Caitlyn Clark's got a
couple of tricks upper sleep. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty
sure she's done somebody walking in going Oh I just
came through the looking class and you're the mad hatter
and here's a deep party and I don't know what's
going on, and I'm sitting at the table. No, I
think she's gonna be okay with that. We can't wait
to show her what it's like to get to the Yeah, okay, okay,
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that's great, that's great, But I feel okay about it.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Just remember the old rule in our our talking business
and the way we look at athletes. Everybody else is
gonna adapt to you, but you're gonna stay the same.
That's how we do this analysis all the time. Well,
you know what, they're gonna change things up. They've got
some tape on the guy he's not.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Watching tape of what they've done defensively and there their
coordinators are stagnant and their development is stagnant.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, that's that's what you lead me to believe. What
are you doing this week? Well, I'm on SNL Saturday.
Then I'm gonna hang out and go to the beach
every day for the next like five or six days.
After that, then I'll shoot around a little bit next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Then I'm like that, got a trip planned to Morocco
for the next two weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'm not showing up for training camp to Morocco. Yeah, no, no,
I'm not gonna worry. They let everybody else work hard.
They got to catch up to me. I don't need
to put the work in. Look at me. I'm a superstar,
like that's what people are talking about. And it's just
insane that they don't think, Oh, she's got no way,
she didn't know and suddenly she's not gonna work. Like
that's the thing that's laughable. You're like, ah, wow, she
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did all that there. I mean, look at it now.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
No, all those drills, all of the practices and everything else,
it all stops.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
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I'm Sean Tesh. Celebrity celebrating a birthday yesterday, April fourteenth
include Pete Rose, who turned eighty three, Baker Mayfield is
twenty nine, Adrian Brody you haven't heard from him in
twenty years. He's fifty one. Rob mclaney is forty seven.
Congratulations Wrexham Anthony Michael All turned fifty six, and Brad
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day ago to our own special delivery Steve Desager, who
celebrated his twenty ninth birthday a day ago. Steve, Happy birthday,
my friend. How are you?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Thank you? Doing well? And is this too much of
a secret that I've been twenty nine before?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's okay, okay, it's okay, yeah, no, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
My mom always claimed the Jack Benny thing. Yes, you
stopped at thirty nine.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
The old comedian actually stopped counting. I thought that was
a good thing. I've taken it up myself.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
What do you And clearly that went. People say, hey,
age is only a number. That's a big lie because
age is clearly a word. I just understand that, okay.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
And you feel it like after a weekend game. You
feel it like you did not when you were twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Not sure what'd you do? Wind up doing for your birthday?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I worked here and we had cake in the office.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh congratulate, Oh there was birthday.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Oh man, if you were here, we had pieces left over.
It was sensational.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Oh that's where they get it from. And what kind
of cake was it?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh? Sensational cake for Steve Seger. Yes, the cake is sensational.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
With chocolate Oreo cake.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh hell, and there's none left.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
There is none left. I gave a couple of extra
pieces to Dan when he was in today, and I
am eating the last piece tonight after the show.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh, give a couple of piece of Dan Bayer, Okay,
not to me? When when you know when Harmon's out,
you get to do shows with me? Not me?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Though apparently I discovered that Dan had something to do
with the uh surprise happy birthday and the cake and
all of that in the first.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
One, doesn't it You go do a show with Dan
Bayer at some point, then you go hang out with it.
You be his best friend. With Mike Harmon's out, go ahead,
you hang out with Dan Bayer.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
This very much turned all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
See how it works, you know it? It was a
nice KFA moment, and then it all just what the
hell now?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
And I'm gonna bry me the brand new VHS and
now I'm throwing it away.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
When Harmon's in Vegas trying to steal some people's collectible
baseball card collections. You go to Dan Bayer's house. About
now you're equating me with that guy. What the hell?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Just don't be packing.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Exactly, but Happy Birthdays outstanding The Jason Smith Show with
Michael Yeah, Pete Rose, Pete Rose and Baker Mayfield, the
Big Birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You know, Pete Rose making his dramatic returns to licensed
trading card autographs. I thought you're gonna say he's Pete Rose,
you know, gambled on baseball.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That sounded like where you were going with it. Pete Road,
you know, hey, hey, but not E Pay.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's where he drew the line in the sand of
his more claus and the points of his direction in
his life.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You know, everything's gone. I can screw over the.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Guy that's been looking after me for six years every
which way possible, but the sanctity of baseball is something
I will not do.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Not like that Pete Rose guy, you know, Pete Rose,
p Rose Cambelton Baseball. Yeah, the thing, you know. So,
as we get set for the playing round to begin
tomorrow night, a couple of things about the NBA playoffs. Look,
we talked last hour about how I love the fact
that Knicks and the Lakers went for it and didn't
back off and say, oh, you know, we don't want
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to play this team in the first rounds. We're gonna
pretend everybody's sick on the final day of the regular season.
The other thing is this, as you know me, I
talk a lot about the Knicks are going to the finals,
and they are because the Knicks are going to the finals.
The Knicks are going to the finals. They are, They're
that good. But let me just say this, if the
Celtics aren't in the NBA Finals. Something is wrong. They're
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fifteen games better than anybody in the in the East
this year. They have an amazing home record. They lost
four games this year, one game near the end of
the season to the Knicks where they tried for maybe
three quarters and then they realized they weren't gonna win
and that was out was going to end. If the
Celtics aren't in the NBA Finals, something is wrong. Now.
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There's always injuries out there and you never know. What
do I always say about guys like porzingis, Hey, he's
great till you need them the most and then look
what happens. But if they're not in the NBA Finals,
something is wrong. If you've had to say to me,
I gotta bet on one team to make the NBA Finals,
I would bet the Celtics over the Nuggets, just because
the Nuggets road is much more difficult with much more
(18:40):
talented teams you're gonna play starting with the first round
of the playoffs. But I look at this, I'd say, hey, Celtics,
if they're not in the NBA Finals, something's really really wrong.
It really is.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
No, it's it right. I mean, we've seen the collapse
of the Milwaukee Bucks. We can do a full on
semester's worth of psychology of running a basketball team over
the last three years, right at the early exits, firing
a bootenholezer uh. And then you get out to thirty
and thirteen, you fire Griffin, and then you bring in
(19:11):
Doc and you're sub five hundred and you play no
defense and now Giannis is hurt. Your knicks? Did they
have another three months of Thibodeau.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Ball in them? Nick? Yeah? Nick?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But Jalen Brunson's been a hell of a show, no
question about.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It, dude. I am so excited about this playoffs for
the mix. I don't care who we play, you know, yeah,
Heat or the or the Yeah, whatever, I don't care. Heat, Sixers,
bring him on. I don't give a crap. Yeah, the
Heat went to the Fund and here comes to the
Heat and Jimmy Butler. Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Bring
on the Heat, oh, Joelle and Beiden, the the Sixers
of what. Yeah, I looked the last time we played
and be with the sixersho won by thirty. Yeah, I
don't care. I'm not afraid of anybody, and I know
(19:48):
that I'm never gonna win the championship. If I'm afraid
of a team, if if my team is afraid to
play somebody in the first round, so we're sitting guys
out so we can avoid that because you don't think
you're good enough. If you say, hey, we want to
sit guys off to avoid this round, you can tell
yourself to your blue in the face, all, hey, we're
only doing this in the first round. Want to play
them when it comes up good for us? No, this
(20:09):
tells me you know you're not good enough. You're not
good enough to win a title, so you want so
I love the fact that that teams like the Knicks
and the Lakers said screw it, we're gonna go out,
we're gonna win, we're gonna try to do what we can,
and we're gonna get the highest seed weekend. Because you
never know what happens in the playoffs. Then maybe something
crazy happens and the Celtics go out in the first
round and then we have home court all the way through. No,
(20:29):
you play hard and you let the chips fall where
they may, because look, you're gonna have to beat teams
anybody anyway, right, I mean, if you're not playing the
sixers you're gonna play the heat. You're not playing the heat.
You gonna play the Pacers. All these teams are good, right.
All these teams have lost the same number of games
in the regular season. The difference between places two and
seven is mainly two or three games. Then this is
sitting stars on the back half of of of of
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back to back games, or at the end of the
year when you don't really care about improving your seedings
anymore and you'd rather get players rest. I mean, there's
no difference between these teams. Oh but Joel Embid is so, yes,
Joel Embid is great. You know what, other players are
great too, right, Halliburton's a great player too, right, Jimmy
Butler's There's lots of great players. Right. So yeah, I
like the fact I'm not gonna be scared, and I'm
(21:13):
glad my team isn't scared about what goes in front
of it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I dig that well, didn't Embide missed the game for
cautionary dance, right, he set out the precautionary measures for
the finale. So what the hell are we were looking
at for him? He's suddenly gonna be ready for three
months or a week and a half when I get
through five games with him. I don't know what did Rick.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Buker tell us last week. I've never seen a guy
so tired shooting free throws. Yes he was Joel e.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
The airball he's shot, and yeah, he looked absolutely gassed
walking to the line.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I mean it's like bobon missing intentionally. There should be
an investigation. Oh come on, he got free chicken for everybody. Man,
Come on up and think about the uh think about
all the game? Does it matter people were gambling on chicken?
I don't think people get can you gamble onunch?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Are they gonnas? Point totals? All those are their chicken?
You know you call it? Get text Todd Furman, you
have his number and find that if there were chicken
props that were met or not met yesterday because of Boban,
well maybe I'll let them. I'll ask the question. See
if that.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Don't think chicken's ever been uh explicitly put into the
wager unless it's between mayors.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And if we win, I'll send you one of our
best chickens from Oh wait wait, the chicken would be
a lot. Okay, let's sell let me how about.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
We get wait now, you're drifted down a little Jerry
Seinfeld territory.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Be careful, my best fighters.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
The Jason Smith Joe with Mike Carmon live from the
direc dot Com Studios. A double look, he goes. But
the Celtics, the Celtics are just by far and away
there the class of the Eastern Conference and they can
they can win any kind of game. And the changes
they made to the roster from last year to this year, Look,
you saw, but do you trust that it was able
(23:11):
to do? But that's just they don't It's it's another
year of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, but yeah, I love you, You're great. Now, finish
the job.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah. But that's the thing is that this year it's
look how much better they were than everybody else. This
wasn't where Hey, they won the East by a couple
of games. I think they're fifteen games up on its
great as the Knicks have been. And yes, they became
a new team after the deadline without Aunobi and maybe
it would have been closer if he played the whole
season and Brunson the player he became over the course
(23:39):
of the first third of the year, maybe the Knicks
would have been a little bit closer to them, but
still you're talking about a team that's that's that far
ahead of everybody, and they should be able to go
out there in their sleep and get to the Eastern
Conference Finals where they'll probably play the Knicks. And so
it's it's that should be, that should be it like
if they don't get there this year, like something is
really wrong and it should be the path of least
(23:59):
resistance where they should be playing a team, Say it's
the Nuggets. The Nuggets should be exhausted from three rounds
of Look at these teams we had to go through.
It was murder. It was the Lakers, and then it
was the Mavericks, and then it was the I mean,
it's I mean, forget it, Like they should be getting
to the finals going we're just exhausting. The Celtics should
be taking it in a sweep, Like that's how that's
how much how far ahead they are of everybody in
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the East, and what the path of the final should
be for them.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No, and you're right, it's all the woulda should have
should be right, just like the Lakers with Anthony Davis
and Lebron James should have been doing more than just
having people debate whether they should sit out a playing
game to avoid the deadver Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
For crying out loud.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Right, there's a lot of wood it should have, right,
Anthony Davis played seventy five games, right, We talked about
it last week. He should be a guy getting serious
consideration for MVP.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He won't.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
He'll finish as a top five vote getter. And I
can't wait to talk to Rick Buker when you start
making your Jalen Bronson case again, even though you've made
it before. You know, eventually people are gonna say, you're right,
let me do what is it strenuously object?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh? Oh if you strenuously object, then then we have
to do something about it. You object wants to get
it on the record. Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
The judge even had to even have to judge, saying
he was a medical expert say it off plays together.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But they're like, but they're like to say, like, what
is it? What you because you do this more more
than me? Like what is it? Like a confidence stock?
Like if like what stock do I have the most
confidence in performance wise? Like of all of this, it
would be the Celtics. And if it's not, then something's
really really I shouldn't play the stock market at all.
But like, is that what it's like? A confidence stock
is what they call, Like, I don't know what the
phrase is.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Well we did, we do confidence points, but yeah, I
mean I guess we we we could keep it there.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Right? What's what a blue chip? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The blue chip stock one that you just leave in
your portfolio because it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, what do you want to you know, it's knock
an old company. There's no fluctuation. We're not That's what
we're not.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
You know, we're not in a tech bubble where we're
just investing in a good Like we're Costco for lack
of a better term. We're paying dividend each quarter. We're
not going anywhere, right, We're not going anywhere. We're a bikimoth.
And if you look at Costco stock, I mean the
last year, if you had a little bit invested, you
got a lot more. Right now, not giving stock advice
(26:28):
right now, but it's the idea that you have the this.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Long term play.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Just let it sit and marinate and start thinking about
saving for something.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Big exit out a bout a Fresco exit, Swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
tirec dot Com studios. Time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. From the Birthday
Boy special delivery Steve de Seger, who turned thirty nine
yesterday once again.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
So apparently this segment has aged me to Yeah, I
think it was that bad. I was listening to the show. Yeah,
we had two ball games still in progress.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You were twenty nine a few minutes correct. Yes, happy
forty ninth to Steve de Seger.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
He had no wait to laughter the updates, so that at.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
The end the Arnie span your effect.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
No, nobody's older than Arnie. Yes, Steve's pretty couching.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So long I aged ten years.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
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Speaker 1 (27:31):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon Live from the tyrack dot Com Studios. The Dodgers
have just lost to the Washington Nationals. Oh no, the
Dodgers record now stands at eleven and eight. The Mets
are eight and eight, So the Mets and the Dodgers
(27:54):
have both lost the same number of games. And the
Dodgers spent a lot more money. But it's early to
look at you.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's early look at you trying to just say, look,
you're as bad as us.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
They paid two point five million dollars for winning. You
paid two hundred and seventy thousand for a win. Speaking
of baseball, a big retirement hits today. And you probably
saw the story John Sterling, Yankee, longtime play by play announcer,
retiring immediately after a career with the Yankees. And I
(28:25):
think goes back to Babe Ruth eighty five years old.
There's been some stories that you know, for his health
is why he's stepping down. Nothing official. When you're eighty five,
you've been doing games like this and you step down
right away. Hope everything is okay. He has earned his retirement.
They're gonna honor him at a game this weekend, which
is great. Hopefully he can be there for it. And
(28:46):
you know why a guy like John Sterling stands out
is and you think about this with play by play announcers,
and this is look play by play announces all do
a great joa. We spent far too much time talking
about play by play guys and analysts and what they say,
say and don't say during a game. We played way
too much about it because just do for a second,
think back to any famous game that you watched, even
(29:08):
in the last year. Tell me who the play by
play guy was for it. You don't remember, You don't
remember who it was unless something amazing came out of
it and it became a meme and we talked about
it. It became a thing. You don't remember who it is.
Remember who did this game? You know, Oh, did Vince
Scully do this game? Somebody soon do this game. It's
hard to you know, unless it's a legend. You know,
it's hard to remember. But John Sterling is so recognizable
(29:31):
and so intertwined with the Yankees. You knew his voice,
you knew the way he over the top called the game.
The guy was his own cottage industry. And and and
for him to retire, you know, yeah, there's so many
Yankee fans. My dad can think back to big games.
Hey when they want, oh yeah, we wanted and Sterling
said this, like they all remember what he said. And
it's very few play by play guys that in the
(29:53):
memories of your life. When you think back to a
big game or something else, you remember their call. And
that's the case with John Sterling.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Well legends right, every city's got him, right to go
back to Harwell all my guys in Chicago. But Sterling's
a guy that you know, in this day and age
where we're grabbing clips, it's not confined to the local call, right,
It wasn't he you know the Yankee fans. Yeah, while
he's you could say he's our guy. Became a national
(30:21):
thing now sometimes just some level of ridicule with some
of the home run calls, but you know, an institution,
and he wasn't a lifer there either. Like that's the
other thing, Like there's a career before he gets there.
Most guys, you know, they tell the tale of the
tape local maybe they get to do some national or
or kind of bridge. But what is it thirty five
(30:42):
years just an amazing run with all those big calls
and big moments.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Let's hear a little bit of John Sterling, some of
his calls over the years, and maybe here a little
bit of Susan Waallman in there as well. Mary Mack.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Let's hear it one too, swung on and driving a
deep blam the line she is gone, Aaron judge line,
run right down the line, a judge in blast, all rise, here.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Comes the judge. It's an abom from a Ron. Oh,
you can bank on, Chase Headley, Liz Jedley, you're on
a mark to shrif Bryan McCann.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
Oh, McCann can I guess McCann can Garrett keeping up
with the Joneses, Stephen Drew, he serves a Drowski and
the second deck and right.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
There was Yankees Radio Network. And I love how over
the top he was and and the way he would
do games and how he would call the same thing
Aaron judge, all rise, a judge and blast And even
when you go through the gen Carlo Stantons, it would
run through Italian with gim Carlo say nud s. I
didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Like
(32:00):
the guy was his own industry, he was his own
he's his own thing. And uh, you got to realize
that three generations of Yankee fans and baseball fans have
grown up and become adults listening to John Sterling. Well
that's the crazy thing, right, the generational generational effect, and
it's baseball, right, and then we've had it and like
(32:21):
there was a great celebration this weekend, right vern Lundquist
retiring that great shot that was confusing his hell at
first of that hand coming out from behind the tree
that he showed up and everybody's timelines for us vernon
sixteen with Tiger Uh, not the you know a druid
or something uh there with the tree in the fact.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But you know, we we celebrate it, and we passed
down baseball. You know, your dad tried to give you
the Yankees, you took the Mets. Uh. For me, my
mom tried to get me on board the Cubs, and
now my brother brothers and I are White Sox fan.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
My dad was just a fan of the sport.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
He didn't pick sides, which was kind of interesting. I
never never understood that. But maybe I'll have to ask
him that question next time I talked to him tomorrow.
But it's just that idea with Sterling, generation to generation
in baseball, we celebrate history, We celebrate those moments, uh,
and those calls will live forever.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And you know, just just for a second to think
that of all the of all the Yankee announcers, and
all the and all the things he has ever said,
you know, with Phil Rizzuto, all the big Hall of Famers.
The one thing I'm gonna always remember is that's baseball, Susan.
Like of all the quotes, that's all what he tells.
Susan Wallman, that's baseball, Susan. Okay, Like Susan Waldman would
(33:39):
go on the whole thing and I don't understand why
this and Joe Torre and all this, Well, that's baseball, Susan.
I mean, just a great way to do. I'm gonna
put a put a nice bow on the end of
this conversation and we're moving on. We are completely moving on. Well,
but that's just it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
All those years together, you get to have those moments
and then you take a half inning.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Break and get back after it. Hopefully that's what he says.
On Saturday, he comes out and they just say, and
here's John Sterling waiting for to say something. He just says,
that's baseball, Susan. And he walks away and he waves
everybody see in thanks for having you see everybody put
a plack up for me. I'm out, exit out bouta Fresca,
exit Swollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
(34:20):
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Coming up next year, we'll have more on John Sterling
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as we all thought it was going to be a
few months ago, the WNBA draft, Caitlin Clark going number
one overall. Other big stars that you've paid attention to
got drafted as well. You know, we saw Cardoso, who
was the mop of the final four, go number three overall.
Angel Reese is headed to Chicago with Cardoso. Cardoso said
(01:12):
after she got picked and Angel revees got picked. Nobody's
getting any rebounds against us, So she's already talking back,
getting ready for the regular season, which I think starts
tomorrow at noon. I think that's when we have the
first Game's lace him up, let's go. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Seems like very eager to get to work. And yeah,
you start talking about being able to and they're working
for Teresa Witherspoon there in Chicago, a legend in her
own right, right, so you know it's it's good times.
And yes, they will dominate the boards. This is what
they can I can already see it. You know where
they they used to and with all you know, respect
(01:49):
to you know, the the world of New York and
the events that we've had. But remember when we used
to grab any time we had two tall players. Yeah,
but it's the Twin Towers. Yes, yeah, right, so here
we have it. Hey, Angel, Reese and Cardos so getting
after it.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Uh but now look the question is going to turn
to and I look, this is this is a great discussion.
How well will Caitlin Clark do in the w n
B A right, how is she going to be saw
the big It was great stuff. It was jumped off
by a Scott Van Pelt question, Diana Tarrossi, that reality
is coming for Caitlin Clark right like there, She's gonna
get to the w n B A and players are
(02:26):
gonna be foaming at the mouth to guard her because
they're bigger, they're more athletic, and let's see what she
can do. Yeah, it's that's that may be true, but
like she spoke about it like it was she was
a w w E villain Smith. Well, look she's coming,
brother and Nanya Common, if you will, Diana TARROSSI, what
(02:48):
are you see going on for Caitlin Clark? On on May
the fifth, when I'm hanging and banging in the gym,
and I got that poster up at Kaitlan Clark and
I just grab it like Rocky does it Rocky for
And I just take the picture of Drago and I
crumble it in my fist. That's what I'm gonna do
to Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now she delivered it a little more subtly, more more
in the rowdy roddy piper show key kind of guttural.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, you know, she thinks she's just.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Gonna walk into the w NBA and she's gonna take
it over, man.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Look what is she from Canada? All of a sudden,
when Roddy Piper was go back and listen to is
his promos, he wasn't good. He didn't quite he was
a Canadian. Yeah, he didn't quite. I never heard that
in rowdy Roddy Piper's speech, but I heard it in
yours right there. Yeah, go back, I think you went.
I think you went over the top there for a
little bit too much talking about the WWE brother But look,
(03:44):
let and I get this part of it, because here
you had these are great players who played in the
w NBA for a long time. Lisa Leslie talked about
at Canadas Parker Sue Byrd a great story by Ramona
Shelburne on ESPN. I'm putting this together and I understand
all of that. I understand that if Kaitlyn Clark is
playing traditional point guard and she's bringing the ball up,
(04:04):
trying to get her own shots and get into the
paint all the time, it's gonna be a bit of
an adjustment. Yes, one hundred percent, I completely agree with that.
But just think about this for a second. You really
think a player as great as Caitlyn Clark, who who
brought her team to two national title games and only
to get dispatched by two teams that were by leaps
(04:25):
and years and bounds better than they were. You really
think she's gonna suddenly struggle and score like eight points
a game. She's going to have a Steph Curry like career,
because what have we seen her do in college? Right?
Be able to get free off of screens, to get
her own shot, to get a three, to hit it.
She hit shots from the logo. That's what's going to happen.
(04:48):
This is not gonna be Okay, Caitlyn, you're our story.
Now you're gonna bring the ball up every single time? No,
it's not gonna happen. Then I'm not gonna sit there
and try to pick her pocket in the back court
all the time. They're going to figure out the Indiana
Fever's gonna figure out very quickly. Okay, Yes, sometimes Caitlyn
can bring it up, just like sometimes Steph brings the
ball up. But sometimes, hey, we're gonna find a way
to get her open for a three. And I don't
(05:10):
know about you, but I've seen plenty of times where
Caitlyn Clark goes through two or three screens with Iowa
and the best defensive player on the other team, I mean,
unless it's Kim Mulky, because she didn't do that, and
the best defensive player on the team can't keep up
or trying to get around there. And guess what, Caitlyn
Clark finds that little bit of daylight for a three,
catches the ball, step back, and hits it right. Like
(05:30):
I've seen enough of that to know her game is
going to translate really well into the WNBA. And that's
the kind of impact she's going that's the kind of
game she's got. She's got a very Steph Curry like game.
You're gonna see her take shots from the logo. You're
gonna see her take a lot of threes, tons of threes.
You may not see him take it like she did
in college, the heat check threes where hey, you know,
(05:51):
fifteen feet behind the three point line. You know, once
in a while you want to take a logo three,
that's great, But you know, in the in the heat
in heat checks, we don't really do that. Okay, just
so you know, you're gonna see a little bit of
an adjustment there, but overall, she's gonna be able to
get her shot. She's gonna score a lot of points.
Maybe she's not a thirty point a game scorer in
her first year, but she will be a star. The
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pressure is on her to be a star right away
because if she's not, that's where you might wind up
losing interest and my people might go, oh, yeah, she
was great in college. But I've watched first couple of
games and all she's really struggling here in the WNBA
that I agree that that's a big concern for the
WNBA if Caitlin Clark is not a star right away.
But I have no doubt in my mind she's gonna
be a big scorer and she's gonna hit big threes
(06:32):
and people are gonna be excited and they're gonna continue
to watch, and they're gonna watch the WNBA unlike they've
ever watched the WNBA before. And I mean it, she's
gonna have a Magic Johnson Larry Bird like effect on
the WNBA, Like there's gonna be the WNBA before this moment,
and now the WNBA after they got Caitlin Clark, Like
the NBA was the NBA before Magic and Larry showed up,
(06:53):
and then the NBA was what it was after they
showed up, and that's that's the kind of impact she's
gonna have. But I have no doubt in my mind
she's gonna fight like would all of a sudden, like
she's gonna not be able to. Oh, I can't get
up with the players are too good again, all time
leading scorer in college basketball, more than points than any
of these girls, and any of these women ever scored
in the WNBA. I'm pretty sure she's gonna be okay
(07:14):
getting your points. I don't feel like we're gonna have
to many gays of boys. She shot one for fourteen
and scored six points. I don't think there's gonna be
too many Knights like that.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, the thing that when we start looking at history
and you start going through, you know, the classic great
rookie seasons in the WNBA, most of them are not
by they're more post players than outside shooters. So doing
the comparison, Wow, this person scored eighteen a game or
(07:43):
and a lot of them were somewhere between, you know,
eighteen point one and eighteen point seven per game. As
you go back and you look at Tamika Catchings or
even Kansas Parker Dele Dawn back with the Chicago Sky,
et cetera. All in that eighteen to nineteen point range,
not really outside shooters, right, so collapse on the inside.
(08:04):
So now it's you know, they also drafted Celeste Taylor, right,
goes from Ohio State to Indiana point another point guard.
So in terms of people bringing the ball up, Aliah
Boston is already there was already on the roster, right,
last year's rookie of the Year. So you've got some
players on that squad that you have to contend with.
(08:25):
And to your point, yeah, you run an offense that's
going to free her up to shoot. Is it all
gonna be you know, thirty point performances? No, but you
know you're you're changing the game a little bit, much
like we talked about Steph Curry changing the game. For
your analogy is it's it's again. Yeah, they're they're gonna
(08:46):
get the best shot, right, even though they drafted number one,
they're gonna get you know, it's like a defending champion
and everybody comes in and yeah, they've got a chip
on their shoulder.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Right, we were great players in college.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We didn't get the same run again, and you know,
they may be the nuance of time, place and all
of those things. You know, he's either lost on folks
or they just want to be ignore it for the place.
But she's coming into the league and it elevates all boats, right,
and so go give her your best shot defensively and
make sure you keep working through screens because I guarant
(09:19):
d amtiya you're gonna get a nice forearm shiver from
Aleiah Baston a couple of times as you try to
try to break through to guard Clark.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I can tell you that right now. But here's the thing,
and I hear what you're saying, and you bring up
and you bring up a point that that helps illustrate
that you don't think when Zion came into the league,
there weren't a bunch of players going Okay, Zion, this
ain't due to welcome to the welcome every year. And
what happens when he's healthy, he's dominant. You don't think
there were players when Shack came into the NBA going okay, Shaq, Yeah, yeah,
(09:50):
you come to the NBA US and now you pounded
the payton, see how it goes. And Shaq was a
star like star players generally are star players in the NBA,
and star players, and I mean big superstar players in
college are generally superstar players when they hit the pros
because that's how good they are. But Jason, look at.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
The year this year in league in the NBA, right,
everybody's like, Ah, the Frenchman's coming over in to take over.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Ah, we'll be able to tell you, yeah, he's he's
too slight. Now we're gonna break that guy in half.
He's already a top five player.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
In the league. Like, we're gonna break that guy in half.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And Steady runs off seventeen points, including four to three pointers.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Damn it, we have to guard him out there too.
You know what this reminds me of? You, This rids
me of honestly, Jason spiths my card. It reminds me
when I was a kid, and like the Jets had
a game coming up against the Bills, right, and like,
let's say the Jets beat the Bills early in the season,
like twenty seven to three, right, Like now the game
later on in the season, and you would hear players go,
(10:52):
you talk about the rematch, we can't wait to get
back at the Jets, and and the people you talk
to them go, oh, man, watch out. The Bills are pissed.
Watch out. I would go, oh, wow, man, you're right,
they're gonna be really mad about losing that. Oh mad.
The Jets are gonna struggle. How are they gonna win this?
Like I used to think that was a thing, like
when I was younger, like, oh, yeah, they're really mad.
Oh man, like it was gonna take them by surprise.
(11:12):
Oh we forgot we lost that game by twenty forty
you like, we're not professional football players. We want to
give a big effort. Oh but now we're mad. Oh
we're mad. But when I was little, I used to think, Oh,
they're gonna be so mad. Oh so ah, the Jets
are gonna get killed and the Jets wold winning. I
would go, wow, And the Bills were really mad going
into this game, and he still found a way to win,
(11:33):
Like I get it. Oh we wait. We can't wait
to show her what it's gonna be like to get
to the w NBA. I think Caitlyn Clark's got a
couple of tricks upper sleep. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty
sure she's done somebody walking in going Oh I just
came through the looking class and you're the mad hatter
and here's a deep party and I don't know what's
going on, and I'm sitting at the table. No, I
think she's gonna be okay with that. We can't wait
to show her what it's like to get to the Yeah, okay, okay,
(11:55):
that's great, that's great, But I feel okay about it.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Just remember the old rule in our our talking business
and the way we look at athletes. Everybody else is
gonna adapt to you, but you're gonna stay the same.
That's how we do this analysis all the time. Well,
you know what, they're gonna change things up. They've got
some tape on the guy he's not.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Watching tape of what they've done defensively and there their
coordinators are stagnant and their development is stagnant.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, that's that's what you lead me to believe. What
are you doing this week? Well, I'm on SNL Saturday.
Then I'm gonna hang out and go to the beach
every day for the next like five or six days.
After that, then I'll shoot around a little bit next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Then I'm like that, got a trip planned to Morocco
for the next two weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'm not showing up for training camp to Morocco. Yeah, no, no,
I'm not gonna worry. They let everybody else work hard.
They got to catch up to me. I don't need
to put the work in. Look at me. I'm a superstar,
like that's what people are talking about. And it's just
insane that they don't think, Oh, she's got no way,
she didn't know and suddenly she's not gonna work. Like
that's the thing that's laughable. You're like, ah, wow, she
(12:59):
did all that there. I mean, look at it now.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
No, all those drills, all of the practices and everything else,
it all stops.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit? Swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon live from
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a big story out of the NBA as we get
set for Playing Night, Part one. Keep right here, Jason
and Mike, This is Fox.
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Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm Sean Tesh. Celebrity celebrating a birthday yesterday, April fourteenth
include Pete Rose, who turned eighty three, Baker Mayfield is
twenty nine, Adrian Brody you haven't heard from him in
twenty years. He's fifty one. Rob mclaney is forty seven.
Congratulations Wrexham Anthony Michael All turned fifty six, and Brad
Garrett is sixty four. And a very happy birthday one
(14:30):
day ago to our own special delivery Steve Desager, who
celebrated his twenty ninth birthday a day ago. Steve, Happy birthday,
my friend. How are you?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Thank you? Doing well? And is this too much of
a secret that I've been twenty nine before?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's okay, okay, it's okay, yeah, no, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
My mom always claimed the Jack Benny thing. Yes, you
stopped at thirty nine.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
The old comedian actually stopped counting. I thought that was
a good thing. I've taken it up myself.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
What do you And clearly that went. People say, hey,
age is only a number. That's a big lie because
age is clearly a word. I just understand that, okay.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
And you feel it like after a weekend game. You
feel it like you did not when you were twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Not sure what'd you do? Wind up doing for your birthday?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I worked here and we had cake in the office.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh congratulate, Oh there was birthday.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Oh man, if you were here, we had pieces left over.
It was sensational.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Oh that's where they get it from. And what kind
of cake was it?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh? Sensational cake for Steve Seger. Yes, the cake is sensational.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
With chocolate Oreo cake.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh hell, and there's none left.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
There is none left. I gave a couple of extra
pieces to Dan when he was in today, and I
am eating the last piece tonight after the show.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh, give a couple of piece of Dan Bayer, Okay,
not to me? When when you know when Harmon's out,
you get to do shows with me? Not me?
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Though apparently I discovered that Dan had something to do
with the uh surprise happy birthday and the cake and
all of that in the first.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
One, doesn't it You go do a show with Dan
Bayer at some point, then you go hang out with it.
You be his best friend. With Mike Harmon's out, go ahead,
you hang out with Dan Bayer.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
This very much turned all of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
See how it works, you know it? It was a
nice KFA moment, and then it all just what the
hell now?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
And I'm gonna bry me the brand new VHS and
now I'm throwing it away.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
When Harmon's in Vegas trying to steal some people's collectible
baseball card collections. You go to Dan Bayer's house. About
now you're equating me with that guy. What the hell?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Just don't be packing.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Exactly, but Happy Birthdays outstanding The Jason Smith Show with
Michael Yeah, Pete Rose, Pete Rose and Baker Mayfield, the
Big Birthday.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You know, Pete Rose making his dramatic returns to licensed
trading card autographs. I thought you're gonna say he's Pete Rose,
you know, gambled on baseball.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That sounded like where you were going with it. Pete Road,
you know, hey, hey, but not E Pay.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's where he drew the line in the sand of
his more claus and the points of his direction in
his life.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You know, everything's gone. I can screw over the.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Guy that's been looking after me for six years every
which way possible, but the sanctity of baseball is something
I will not do.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Not like that Pete Rose guy, you know, Pete Rose,
p Rose Cambelton Baseball. Yeah, the thing, you know. So,
as we get set for the playing round to begin
tomorrow night, a couple of things about the NBA playoffs. Look,
we talked last hour about how I love the fact
that Knicks and the Lakers went for it and didn't
back off and say, oh, you know, we don't want
(17:37):
to play this team in the first rounds. We're gonna
pretend everybody's sick on the final day of the regular season.
The other thing is this, as you know me, I
talk a lot about the Knicks are going to the finals,
and they are because the Knicks are going to the finals.
The Knicks are going to the finals. They are, They're
that good. But let me just say this, if the
Celtics aren't in the NBA Finals. Something is wrong. They're
(17:58):
fifteen games better than anybody in the in the East
this year. They have an amazing home record. They lost
four games this year, one game near the end of
the season to the Knicks where they tried for maybe
three quarters and then they realized they weren't gonna win
and that was out was going to end. If the
Celtics aren't in the NBA Finals, something is wrong. Now.
(18:18):
There's always injuries out there and you never know. What
do I always say about guys like porzingis, Hey, he's
great till you need them the most and then look
what happens. But if they're not in the NBA Finals,
something is wrong. If you've had to say to me,
I gotta bet on one team to make the NBA Finals,
I would bet the Celtics over the Nuggets, just because
the Nuggets road is much more difficult with much more
(18:40):
talented teams you're gonna play starting with the first round
of the playoffs. But I look at this, I'd say, hey, Celtics,
if they're not in the NBA Finals, something's really really wrong.
It really is.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
No, it's it right. I mean, we've seen the collapse
of the Milwaukee Bucks. We can do a full on
semester's worth of psychology of running a basketball team over
the last three years, right at the early exits, firing
a bootenholezer uh. And then you get out to thirty
and thirteen, you fire Griffin, and then you bring in
(19:11):
Doc and you're sub five hundred and you play no
defense and now Giannis is hurt. Your knicks? Did they
have another three months of Thibodeau.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Ball in them? Nick? Yeah? Nick?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But Jalen Brunson's been a hell of a show, no
question about.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It, dude. I am so excited about this playoffs for
the mix. I don't care who we play, you know, yeah,
Heat or the or the Yeah, whatever, I don't care. Heat, Sixers,
bring him on. I don't give a crap. Yeah, the
Heat went to the Fund and here comes to the
Heat and Jimmy Butler. Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Bring
on the Heat, oh, Joelle and Beiden, the the Sixers
of what. Yeah, I looked the last time we played
and be with the sixersho won by thirty. Yeah, I
don't care. I'm not afraid of anybody, and I know
(19:48):
that I'm never gonna win the championship. If I'm afraid
of a team, if if my team is afraid to
play somebody in the first round, so we're sitting guys
out so we can avoid that because you don't think
you're good enough. If you say, hey, we want to
sit guys off to avoid this round, you can tell
yourself to your blue in the face, all, hey, we're
only doing this in the first round. Want to play
them when it comes up good for us? No, this
(20:09):
tells me you know you're not good enough. You're not
good enough to win a title, so you want so
I love the fact that that teams like the Knicks
and the Lakers said screw it, we're gonna go out,
we're gonna win, we're gonna try to do what we can,
and we're gonna get the highest seed weekend. Because you
never know what happens in the playoffs. Then maybe something
crazy happens and the Celtics go out in the first
round and then we have home court all the way through. No,
(20:29):
you play hard and you let the chips fall where
they may, because look, you're gonna have to beat teams
anybody anyway, right, I mean, if you're not playing the
sixers you're gonna play the heat. You're not playing the heat.
You gonna play the Pacers. All these teams are good, right.
All these teams have lost the same number of games
in the regular season. The difference between places two and
seven is mainly two or three games. Then this is
sitting stars on the back half of of of of
(20:52):
back to back games, or at the end of the
year when you don't really care about improving your seedings
anymore and you'd rather get players rest. I mean, there's
no difference between these teams. Oh but Joel Embid is so, yes,
Joel Embid is great. You know what, other players are
great too, right, Halliburton's a great player too, right, Jimmy
Butler's There's lots of great players. Right. So yeah, I
like the fact I'm not gonna be scared, and I'm
(21:13):
glad my team isn't scared about what goes in front
of it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I dig that well, didn't Embide missed the game for
cautionary dance, right, he set out the precautionary measures for
the finale. So what the hell are we were looking
at for him? He's suddenly gonna be ready for three
months or a week and a half when I get
through five games with him. I don't know what did Rick.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Buker tell us last week. I've never seen a guy
so tired shooting free throws. Yes he was Joel e.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
The airball he's shot, and yeah, he looked absolutely gassed
walking to the line.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I mean it's like bobon missing intentionally. There should be
an investigation. Oh come on, he got free chicken for everybody. Man,
Come on up and think about the uh think about
all the game? Does it matter people were gambling on chicken?
I don't think people get can you gamble onunch?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Are they gonnas? Point totals? All those are their chicken?
You know you call it? Get text Todd Furman, you
have his number and find that if there were chicken
props that were met or not met yesterday because of Boban,
well maybe I'll let them. I'll ask the question. See
if that.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Don't think chicken's ever been uh explicitly put into the
wager unless it's between mayors.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And if we win, I'll send you one of our
best chickens from Oh wait wait, the chicken would be
a lot. Okay, let's sell let me how about.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
We get wait now, you're drifted down a little Jerry
Seinfeld territory.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Be careful, my best fighters.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
The Jason Smith Joe with Mike Carmon live from the
direc dot Com Studios. A double look, he goes. But
the Celtics, the Celtics are just by far and away
there the class of the Eastern Conference and they can
they can win any kind of game. And the changes
they made to the roster from last year to this year, Look,
you saw, but do you trust that it was able
(23:11):
to do? But that's just they don't It's it's another
year of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, but yeah, I love you, You're great. Now, finish
the job.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah. But that's the thing is that this year it's
look how much better they were than everybody else. This
wasn't where Hey, they won the East by a couple
of games. I think they're fifteen games up on its
great as the Knicks have been. And yes, they became
a new team after the deadline without Aunobi and maybe
it would have been closer if he played the whole
season and Brunson the player he became over the course
(23:39):
of the first third of the year, maybe the Knicks
would have been a little bit closer to them, but
still you're talking about a team that's that's that far
ahead of everybody, and they should be able to go
out there in their sleep and get to the Eastern
Conference Finals where they'll probably play the Knicks. And so
it's it's that should be, that should be it like
if they don't get there this year, like something is
really wrong and it should be the path of least
(23:59):
resistance where they should be playing a team, Say it's
the Nuggets. The Nuggets should be exhausted from three rounds
of Look at these teams we had to go through.
It was murder. It was the Lakers, and then it
was the Mavericks, and then it was the I mean,
it's I mean, forget it, Like they should be getting
to the finals going we're just exhausting. The Celtics should
be taking it in a sweep, Like that's how that's
how much how far ahead they are of everybody in
(24:20):
the East, and what the path of the final should
be for them.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
No, and you're right, it's all the woulda should have
should be right, just like the Lakers with Anthony Davis
and Lebron James should have been doing more than just
having people debate whether they should sit out a playing
game to avoid the deadver Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
For crying out loud.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Right, there's a lot of wood it should have, right,
Anthony Davis played seventy five games, right, We talked about
it last week. He should be a guy getting serious
consideration for MVP.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He won't.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
He'll finish as a top five vote getter. And I
can't wait to talk to Rick Buker when you start
making your Jalen Bronson case again, even though you've made
it before. You know, eventually people are gonna say, you're right,
let me do what is it strenuously object?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh? Oh if you strenuously object, then then we have
to do something about it. You object wants to get
it on the record. Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
The judge even had to even have to judge, saying
he was a medical expert say it off plays together.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But they're like, but they're like to say, like, what
is it? What you because you do this more more
than me? Like what is it? Like a confidence stock?
Like if like what stock do I have the most
confidence in performance wise? Like of all of this, it
would be the Celtics. And if it's not, then something's
really really I shouldn't play the stock market at all.
But like, is that what it's like? A confidence stock
is what they call, Like, I don't know what the
phrase is.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Well we did, we do confidence points, but yeah, I
mean I guess we we we could keep it there.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Right? What's what a blue chip? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
The blue chip stock one that you just leave in
your portfolio because it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, what do you want to you know, it's knock
an old company. There's no fluctuation. We're not That's what
we're not.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
You know, we're not in a tech bubble where we're
just investing in a good Like we're Costco for lack
of a better term. We're paying dividend each quarter. We're
not going anywhere, right, We're not going anywhere. We're a bikimoth.
And if you look at Costco stock, I mean the
last year, if you had a little bit invested, you
got a lot more. Right now, not giving stock advice
(26:28):
right now, but it's the idea that you have the this.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Long term play.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Just let it sit and marinate and start thinking about
saving for something.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Big exit out a bout a Fresco exit, Swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
tirec dot Com studios. Time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. From the Birthday
Boy special delivery Steve de Seger, who turned thirty nine
yesterday once again.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
So apparently this segment has aged me to Yeah, I
think it was that bad. I was listening to the show. Yeah,
we had two ball games still in progress.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You were twenty nine a few minutes correct. Yes, happy
forty ninth to Steve de Seger.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
He had no wait to laughter the updates, so that at.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
The end the Arnie span your effect.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
No, nobody's older than Arnie. Yes, Steve's pretty couching.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So long I aged ten years.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon Live from the tyrack dot Com Studios. The Dodgers
have just lost to the Washington Nationals. Oh no, the
Dodgers record now stands at eleven and eight. The Mets
are eight and eight, So the Mets and the Dodgers
(27:54):
have both lost the same number of games. And the
Dodgers spent a lot more money. But it's early to
look at you.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's early look at you trying to just say, look,
you're as bad as us.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
They paid two point five million dollars for winning. You
paid two hundred and seventy thousand for a win. Speaking
of baseball, a big retirement hits today. And you probably
saw the story John Sterling, Yankee, longtime play by play announcer,
retiring immediately after a career with the Yankees. And I
(28:25):
think goes back to Babe Ruth eighty five years old.
There's been some stories that you know, for his health
is why he's stepping down. Nothing official. When you're eighty five,
you've been doing games like this and you step down
right away. Hope everything is okay. He has earned his retirement.
They're gonna honor him at a game this weekend, which
is great. Hopefully he can be there for it. And
(28:46):
you know why a guy like John Sterling stands out
is and you think about this with play by play announcers,
and this is look play by play announces all do
a great joa. We spent far too much time talking
about play by play guys and analysts and what they say,
say and don't say during a game. We played way
too much about it because just do for a second,
think back to any famous game that you watched, even
(29:08):
in the last year. Tell me who the play by
play guy was for it. You don't remember, You don't
remember who it was unless something amazing came out of
it and it became a meme and we talked about
it. It became a thing. You don't remember who it is.
Remember who did this game? You know, Oh, did Vince
Scully do this game? Somebody soon do this game. It's
hard to you know, unless it's a legend. You know,
it's hard to remember. But John Sterling is so recognizable
(29:31):
and so intertwined with the Yankees. You knew his voice,
you knew the way he over the top called the game.
The guy was his own cottage industry. And and and
for him to retire, you know, yeah, there's so many
Yankee fans. My dad can think back to big games.
Hey when they want, oh yeah, we wanted and Sterling
said this, like they all remember what he said. And
it's very few play by play guys that in the
(29:53):
memories of your life. When you think back to a
big game or something else, you remember their call. And
that's the case with John Sterling.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Well legends right, every city's got him, right to go
back to Harwell all my guys in Chicago. But Sterling's
a guy that you know, in this day and age
where we're grabbing clips, it's not confined to the local call, right,
It wasn't he you know the Yankee fans. Yeah, while
he's you could say he's our guy. Became a national
(30:21):
thing now sometimes just some level of ridicule with some
of the home run calls, but you know, an institution,
and he wasn't a lifer there either. Like that's the
other thing, Like there's a career before he gets there.
Most guys, you know, they tell the tale of the
tape local maybe they get to do some national or
or kind of bridge. But what is it thirty five
(30:42):
years just an amazing run with all those big calls
and big moments.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Let's hear a little bit of John Sterling, some of
his calls over the years, and maybe here a little
bit of Susan Waallman in there as well. Mary Mack.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Let's hear it one too, swung on and driving a
deep blam the line she is gone, Aaron judge line,
run right down the line, a judge in blast, all rise, here.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Comes the judge. It's an abom from a Ron. Oh,
you can bank on, Chase Headley, Liz Jedley, you're on
a mark to shrif Bryan McCann.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
Oh, McCann can I guess McCann can Garrett keeping up
with the Joneses, Stephen Drew, he serves a Drowski and
the second deck and right.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
There was Yankees Radio Network. And I love how over
the top he was and and the way he would
do games and how he would call the same thing
Aaron judge, all rise, a judge and blast And even
when you go through the gen Carlo Stantons, it would
run through Italian with gim Carlo say nud s. I
didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Like
(32:00):
the guy was his own industry, he was his own
he's his own thing. And uh, you got to realize
that three generations of Yankee fans and baseball fans have
grown up and become adults listening to John Sterling. Well
that's the crazy thing, right, the generational generational effect, and
it's baseball, right, and then we've had it and like
(32:21):
there was a great celebration this weekend, right vern Lundquist
retiring that great shot that was confusing his hell at
first of that hand coming out from behind the tree
that he showed up and everybody's timelines for us vernon
sixteen with Tiger Uh, not the you know a druid
or something uh there with the tree in the fact.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
But you know, we we celebrate it, and we passed
down baseball. You know, your dad tried to give you
the Yankees, you took the Mets. Uh. For me, my
mom tried to get me on board the Cubs, and
now my brother brothers and I are White Sox fan.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
My dad was just a fan of the sport.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
He didn't pick sides, which was kind of interesting. I
never never understood that. But maybe I'll have to ask
him that question next time I talked to him tomorrow.
But it's just that idea with Sterling, generation to generation
in baseball, we celebrate history, We celebrate those moments, uh,
and those calls will live forever.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And you know, just just for a second to think
that of all the of all the Yankee announcers, and
all the and all the things he has ever said,
you know, with Phil Rizzuto, all the big Hall of Famers.
The one thing I'm gonna always remember is that's baseball, Susan.
Like of all the quotes, that's all what he tells.
Susan Wallman, that's baseball, Susan. Okay, Like Susan Waldman would
(33:39):
go on the whole thing and I don't understand why
this and Joe Torre and all this, Well, that's baseball, Susan.
I mean, just a great way to do. I'm gonna
put a put a nice bow on the end of
this conversation and we're moving on. We are completely moving on. Well,
but that's just it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
All those years together, you get to have those moments
and then you take a half inning.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Break and get back after it. Hopefully that's what he says.
On Saturday, he comes out and they just say, and
here's John Sterling waiting for to say something. He just says,
that's baseball, Susan. And he walks away and he waves
everybody see in thanks for having you see everybody put
a plack up for me. I'm out, exit out bouta Fresca,
exit Swollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
(34:20):
friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot com studios.
Coming up next year, we'll have more on John Sterling
and more on the biggest story in sports. Tonight, keep
it right here, chasing a mic Fux
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