Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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Speaker 3 (00:31):
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
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(00:59):
if you turn this game off middle of the third
quarter because the Pelicans were getting boat raced. Well, here
we are now thirty eight seconds left to go. First
play in game winner gets the Nuggets. Loser waits till
Friday night to get the winner of the game. Later
on tonight between the Warriors and the Kings. Lakers lead
the Pelicans one oh four to one oh two. There's

(01:20):
thirty eight seconds left to go and the Lakers have
the ball. The story of this comeback has been Zion
Williamson in his first career playoff game. He has gone nuts.
But this game right now, I can't believe it. Like
if someone said to me, hey, can you encapsulate Zion
Williamson's career in one game, and I would say, yes,
it's this game forty points. He is unstoppable. When it

(01:43):
looked like the Pelicans had no energy, he would bulldoze
his way to the hoop, up and down the floor
like a freight train.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
He kept them in it. He rallied them.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
They knew where they're going with the ball, and still
he's scoring, and they cut the lead and they tie
the game. And then after a little turnaround bunny jumper
in the lane, he comes down wrong on one on
a foot, comes out of the game, goes to the
locker room, and he has been out of the game
for the biggest part of the game, the last three
and a half minutes. Unstoppable, unstoppable what we all thought.

(02:14):
And then the biggest part of the game when the
Pelicans needed he just comes down wrong after taking a jump.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
This wasn't anything. It wasn't bad physical Colt.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
It was just he turns around, jumper, comes down and
ooh ooh, comes off the floor very mad, walking off
the floor into the locker room to be evaluated. He
is still in the locker room being evaluated, and the
Lakers still have a two point lead here with thirty
seconds left to go.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Randy Van Warmer is now the artist of the night.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh you think Mary mc knows who Randy Van Warmer is?
Come on, she will by the time the night's done.
Come on, Tyshirt's not here. It's Randy Van Warmer. I mean,
that's that's gonna be a big deal. You get Randy
Van Warmer.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
In the show. If you know Google exists, right, it's Google.
Do you know who Randy Van Warmer is?

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Now?

Speaker 6 (02:53):
There you go?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Will He was the fourth member of n SYNC. Oh nicely, Yeah,
the only guy that didn't have a solo career.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
That was him.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Forty eleven and five. A decided turnaround from the game
this weekend. Right where in the post Frustrated all night
by Lebron and ad instead tonight he gets whatever he wants.
You see him dribble the ball like a man possessed.
Shades a bit of the Lebron James echoing Clyde Drexler

(03:21):
of generations past of I'm gonna put my head down
and I'm gonna get into the basket. You want to
get in my way, you're gonna get knocked on your ass.
But when he goes off to the with the injury,
he goes to the bench first, and then he gets
up and storms off like mad dad.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, he stole my meal whatever.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
When he stand on drake my last beer. Yeah, it's
weird because it looked like it's a leg. And again
we don't know what it is, but he was limping
coming off the floor and he kind of points to
the bench. He sits down and then he gets up
and he just storms off the liars and towel down
and yeah, And it's almost looks like how a player
looks when they say no, you gotta get your head
checked out, like.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
No, I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh come on, that's almost what because that's actually yeah,
like no, I'm fine, I'm court. Yeah, But he walks
off the court nobody's around him, like it's not like
there's any a medical personnel around him. He kind of
gets up and slams a towel down and walks off
and stamps on his feet. I'm going, if it's a
foot injury, why.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Is he stamping on his feet ginger lead, Yeah, like
kind of stiff.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't get it. I don't get it. But everything
was fine for him.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Looking and look at the last possession that he had
where he made that little bunny. You know, he's coming
into the lane, stopping, pull back, looks like he's gonna drive,
steps back, spins, makes the shot, and then just probably
lands aw again. We're just guessing right now because there's
been no update on it. Zion is still in the
locker room, but just how he left the court and
how he walked off is really really strange. And in

(04:44):
that time the Lakers have been able to maintain this lead.
It's one oh six, one oh two now Ad is
just to two free throws, fifteen seconds left. Pelicans have
the ball, a game in which the Pelicans were dead.
But I'll tell you what for all the stories about
this Zion is the story for the questions about him.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
How good.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Is he gonna his first playoff game? He is amazing,
But just like his career, when you need him, he
gets hurt. And it's not anything that it's his fault.
It's just his body. And you don't can his body
withstand the rigors of the NBA. And you know, he
made it all through this year, and I'm like, look
he made all through this year. Look at this, and
look where the Pelicans are. They're pretty good. Right to
your ten games over five hundred is still pretty good.

(05:22):
And then here it is in the play in the
first playing game and he comes down wrong and he
has to come off the floor plate.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Seventy games average what twenty two nine and five point
eight five, Right, it's pretty good stat line for his
seventy games. And they played that stretched out stretch run
without brandon Ingram, so they struggled a bit, which meant
they get drifted down into the play and round altogether
because they were in that sixth slot for quite a while.

(05:49):
But now having to finish with him off the court,
and you just see how they've been able to work
the post game the Lakers a bit more. I'm curious,
you know, watching it as much NBA as we do.
The way things have been officiated in the low post
are laughable to me. It's always goes back to you know,
even the shock days of if I back my ass

(06:09):
into you and knock you off your spot doesn't matter,
that's perfectly legal.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
But if I.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Face you into it, now we can at least have
a fifty to fifty discussion about it.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, it's just interesting.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
And when a file gets called, and when it does
it right the offensive, hey, I can flow at flail
elbows and create as much space as I want. But
if you tap me on my arm, damn it, it's
a fall. And look, it goes both ways. But there's
been a couple of sequences where Ad creates an awful
lot of contact and ends up getting bailed out after
he goes awkwardly towards a shot.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, the Lakers have been to the free throw line.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
It is a distinct advantage for the Lakers at the
line over the Pelicans. But this is this is the
part of it is that, Yeah, I get that it's
going to be a big thing. I'll look at the
look at the look at the difference, look at the
difference in free throws, and and I understand. But the
whole part of it is that the Lakers are playing
and they play much more physical than the Pelicans do. Sure,

(07:05):
and when when Zion is freight training to the hoop,
the Lakers do the smart thing when Lebron has thea
Lebron had a space when it was a huge charge
that he that he that he took with in the
middle of the third quarter when the Pelicans were on
a kind of a mini run, took a huge charge
because he had positioning. When you don't have the positioning
on Zion, Okay, take the last three steps, my friend,

(07:25):
we're gonna do that.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
So that was one of the funniest radio calls I've
ever heard, though, Michael Thompson for the Lakers broadcast, because
Lebron laid there for a minute, he goes, oh, get up,
you didn't hit your head.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
What are we doing here?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Like just calls him out in Ireland, you know. On
the other side, he's like, well, I don't know, maybe
he hit Like, no, come on, enough, what the draw?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
You know, it's not that big a deal with the
free throw line. It's twenty eight. It was it was
at one point twenty to four, which is a big deal.
Now it's twenty eight to fifteen. Ad is at the
line as he gets fouled on the inbounds. He hit
the first free throw to make it one oh nine,
one oh six with two and a half seconds left
to go. One more and that's gonna be it. And uh,

(08:07):
he's hits it. He hits it. So one ten, one
oh six. New Orleans has the ball with three seconds left.
You're looking for a three and a foul and are
you really gonna get it?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Probably not.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
The Lakers look like they're gonna be moving on into
the playoffs where they await the Denver Nuggets. And now
Michael Malone can get really really upset.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Why ask me about that? You're playing the Lakers? Oh right, right,
got it? Got it? Got it? Got it? Okay, So
is it gonna be a competitive sweep? Again? Got it?
Got it?

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Got It'd be very competitive sweep, very competitive as long
as it's competitive sweep. No, I look great balance for
the Lakers' offense, not the You knew the Pelicans were
gonna give him a run today after getting blown out
earlier this week, but losing like like everything you know,
you like, I just want to see it come to

(08:52):
its natural conclusion instead of hey, this guy's running a
muck and taking over and scoring his forty points, but
he's got missed the final three and a half, and
it's like, damn it, it was just getting fun.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, look, and if you wanted to, you picked the
Pelicans last night. I picked the Lakers last night because
I thought, look, they're going to they're the Pelicans. The
Lakers are in their heads and realize that the Lakers
are undefeated all time in playing games, Like you're the
Lakers in the playing game now three and oh, you
forget about anything else you saw undefeated in the playing round,
ist champions undefeating the playing round. I mean, you're playing

(09:26):
against history, Mike Carmen, what history.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
We were talking about it though, the with the n
season tournament. How you didn't get credit for the championship game.
Still he played an extra game, he got a check,
and but more wear and tear on the body. But congratulations,
the Lakers succeed and proceed finished the job. Hit the
free throws down the stretch in ad you know you're
gonna put him to the line and he's gonna finish

(09:48):
the job, right. The Pelicans no answer, And look, once
Zion went out, you're giving up a foot to Lebron
James in terms of how you're trying.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
To guard him.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, it's it's like can't clark of the much of
the year, right, it was like, ah, she's just passing
over people, like what she did the band lift in
that game against LSU, Right, kind of the same idea.
All right, now he gets to back in and look
around and pick his open man.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
So you know, this game, and this is the deal
with the Pelicans is the Pelicans still have too emotional
of a team because they were winning. They're playing the
first quarter great, and they're winning big, and Zion's out big.
In the beginning of the second quarter, they turned the
ball over a couple of times, the Lakers going to run,
they start hitting from three and then its shoulders slump,

(10:35):
and for two quarters the Pelicans just kind of sat around.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
CJ.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
McCollum, couldn't hit a shot, took a lot of bad shots. Yeah,
early shot clock and nobody back under the boards. Yeah,
bad turnovers were forcing stuff. It's it's it's very immature
and very much didn't know how to respond. Hey, it's
a whole big, long game and and it for the Lakers,
just let them fall asleep for basically two and a
half quarters, and then Zion decided, just give me the ball,

(11:01):
let me get to the hoop, and he's unstoppable. When
he gets the ball in the open court, he is unstoppable.
And the Lakers tried a couple of different ways to stop.
They had Austen Reeves out on him on the perimeter
near the end. He's spun away from went.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
In for a dunk, right, and so he got him
down low and Lebron is kind of checking him and
Lebron loses him for half a second and it's a
pass and a dunk. Zion is unstoppable, and that brought
them back. But there's so you expend so much energy
having to come back because you're just dead for two quarters.
It's an uphill climb the entire game. And by the
time they got there, they were never able to take

(11:35):
the lead. The best they could do was tie, which
is great, But the Lakers always had an answer. They
were a little bit better. They have more stars than
the Pelicans do. And look, this is a night where
they need a little bit more from Ingram and McCollum.
Ingram was an efficient McCollum was awful, And when that happens,
I mean to lose by two to four of the
Lakers right here, that's a bit of an achievement when

(11:56):
your two other two best players were crappy and you
had one guy almost carry you. But now the big
thing is going to be what Zion's injury? How's it
going to be for Friday night when they have to
get back out of against either the Warriors or the Kings.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, just an incredible run for Williamson. But you know,
give all credit to the Lakers. They got their moment
and they shut up all the narrative, the bad narratives
that had been fostered over the last several days of
should they lose this game on purpose and then make
it a winner go home on Friday, just all to

(12:27):
avoid the Nuggets.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm glad that has been rendered moot.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I'm glad the people that say stuff like that, did
they just come out and look stupid? That was you
Friday night, Johnson. I didn't say lose, Oh you didn't.
I didn't say lose. I said, you want to win
so you can avoid the Nuggets. You want us to
go to the tape yeah, go to the tape. I
never said lose. I'll pull it for next second.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I never said lose. I never said I never said that.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
How do you spell lose?

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I never said lose, d O d gere, actually k
n I c ks.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
All I want to say is all the folks that
had those takes are two common kids on an annual basis.
So I'll take someone calling me dumb on Twitter for that,
just so you know, just so.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
You know, FO, the Mets have eight losses and the
Dodgers have eight losses, but the Dodgers have paid one.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Point In your world, the Mets are better than the.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Dodger paid one point four million dollars per loss. The
Mets whatever makes sixty thousand, that's what it is. But yeah,
over five hundred.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Look at the Mets.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
No stopping us exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome.
I mean, we're waiting for word on Zion Williamson, but
this game stands for his entire career till this point.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's amazing, but it does.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
We'll have more on this game coming up, and again
we have the big night cap between the Warriors and
the Kings in a true winner go home game, and
we have numbers for you from last night that your
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Speaker 3 (13:49):
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The Lakers get a bingo from DiAngelo Russell in the
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(15:50):
The Lakers beat the Pelicans one ten to one oh six.
They are now the seventh seed in the playoffs, they
draw the Nuggets. Meanwhile, the Pelicans will get the win
of tonight's game between Golden State and Sacramento. This game
just underway eight to six. Warriors have the lead with
about nine minutes to go in the first quarter, and
of course, all eyes are on Zion Williamson because the

(16:11):
guy owned the game tonight. Unstoppable. Everybody you watch and
this might have been a lot of people, and I'm
not I'm not, I'm not lying. This might be a
lot of NBA fans first time they watch Zion Williamson
play a full game like this. I don't know in
a year and a half because it was his first
playoff game. You generally you know how much the Pelicans
rate on national TV and Zion, but he's playing the Lakers,

(16:34):
so a lot of people are gonna watch this big,
high profile game.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
This might be the first time a lot of fans
have seen him play in a while and seen highlights. Right,
and you watch that for the first forty five minutes,
he was unstoppable. He was the Zion Williamson we thought
he was going to be coming into the league, and look,
whenever he has played, he has been great. He especially
when he's motive. He's one of those guys also that

(16:58):
he needs a better motor like, he's of those guys
that needs to be motivated all the time. Tonight he
was motivated. It was his first playoff game, and he
has another level when he's motivated, which is which.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Is a thing.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
You can't just be motivated when there's a big game.
You got to be motivated other times. But you saw
what he could do tonight. But as we talked about
off the start of the show, there is no more
right thing to say that this game stands for his
entire career. He is amazing on the floor. He is
a physical freak. But when they needed him, he came
down wrong after a little jumper in the lane with

(17:28):
about three and a half left to go left the game,
missed the final three and a half minutes and the
Lakers win. The Pelicans have to play again, and here's
Zion dealing with yet another injury when he had gotten
through the entire season, played seventy games. And look what
have I always said about Zion? Hey he's great, but
how long can you count on him for? Is he
a guy you can count because you got to hope

(17:49):
that the injury that he gets will be early in
the season and come back from it this year. Now
suddenly it's seventy games and now he's hurt. Now hopefully
he is okay and can play Friday. But this has
been the thing with him for the last five years.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well it's the worst of it is that he did
everything to basically flip off all the detractors and the
folks that still make their living doing nothing but fat
jokes and talking about the food and what he does
in New Orleans in the in the off hours, lost
a bunch of weight, glides through the lane with ease,
and even back when he was carrying more weight physically,

(18:24):
was doing things that you marveled at.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
But again to.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Your point, how much wear and tear can you do
on the body? And that you know in that form
that he had minutes per game. He was playing thirty
one point five a game in those seventy games this year,
a lot of heavy workloads, and look, his work is
done down low. So certainly had taken a number of
body blows, delivering as many as he took along the way.

(18:51):
We saw the in reference before the big hit and
collision with Lebron James. But yeah, just frustrating as hell.
You and I have watched a bunch of their games, right,
we're in the studio, so you've got a four pack
of monitors plus our computers, iPads and everything else. So
we got to watch them a lot, and and you
marvel at what he was able to do. One question

(19:13):
that's gonna flow out of this though Brian and Ingram
checked out of the game with seven thirty eight remaining,
never re entered, played twenty five minutes to day.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
They were better without them, The Pelicans were. Honestly, they
were better without McCollum and Ingram like they were Like
when when when they can? When Colum couldn't hit anything
from three? Ingram was not was not efficient, He wasn't
He wasn't very good tonight. And when did they start
coming back? Well, when you had guys like Jose Alvarado
come in and start hitting a couple of three. So
what are you gonna do? You go back to those
guys or you stick with who brought you back. They're

(19:42):
gonna stick with who brought you back?

Speaker 3 (19:43):
To answer who brought you right?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Stick with especially if everything can end up touching the
hands of Williamson, as did seventeen to twenty seven on
the night for his forty points before departing.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Just the frustration.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
I'm sure Pelicans fans going back, you know, to that
twenty nineth team draft. Ironically or coincidentally, curiously, whatever words
you want to use, how many of the twenty nineteen
draft class that Zion was playing tonight because the Lakers
have assembled them all like the damn Avengers out there.

(20:17):
But yeah, just a frustrating finish because you know, we
were coming into the studio, It's like, all right, there's
three minutes left, let's go. It's like, wait, he just
mad walked into the locker room.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Damn it.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, And I'll tell you, look, Zion will get a
lot of the attention and whatever his injury is. But
I'll tell you who dodge a lot of crisism tonight
was Lebron because he was terrible tonight. He did hit
a big three or big bucket in the final two
minutes to give them the lead, but how many times
did he get the ball in the final three and
a half minutes? And I'm waving everybody off and I'm

(20:53):
doing the mellow I'm gonna hold the ball up and
wait and let the shot clock tick all the way down,
and Lebron would find a way to miss, and he
kept missing, and he kept calling for the ball and
he kept missing, and that kept the Pelicans in it.
Like the Lakers were spreading the ball around. Great tonight.
Hat Cha Morris started to get involved. Austin Reeves not
a great night, but they were able to move the

(21:15):
ball around and it was really something to see, Like
when the Lakers got up to that their fourteen to
sixteen point lead. They were getting it from everywhere and
D'Angelo Russell had a big night. But at the end,
it's like this is gonna now be Lebron won on
one And how many times did he get to the
rim and was short or get to the rim and
he missed. And I'm saying this is Lebron like third

(21:35):
round of the playoffs, Lebron, like, this is where if
you're tired, this we expect third round of the playoffs, Lebron,
not the playing game for Lebron to be just absolutely gassed.
Now they do have a long time to wait. Now,
don't have to worry about it a series for a
few days. But he really he was six out of
twenty tonight. He was not good and single handedly the
the he was keeping the Pelicans in it, because when
Zion left that game with three and a half minutes left,

(21:57):
this should have been the Laker should have won by tens.
No way, the Pelicans should have been able to stay
in this game and make it a shot possession free
throw game.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
But they did because Rod just kept missing.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Shot a bunch of layups.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
He missed one layup in the final minute where there
was nobody else on the floor. He got by both
defenders and there was nobody from the free throw line
in and he's still.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Wound up missing.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
I'm going, dude, this is like lay up practice and
he's still wound up missing.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I think that play, you know, as we watched it,
it's like, did he think he was gonna get a
fol So it was just he was flipping it up
and all right, he miss so I'm gonna get the
call because everybody's bouncing off awkwardly. He didn't get the call.
No ball goes the other way. Six and twenty from
the field. Got Foster doing Scott Foster things in the
game tonight. Yeah, buddy, it was a couple of those

(22:45):
long reviews mixed into this game again. The criticism from
the TV and radio broadcasts when they do that is
always entertaining to me, like we're bringing this in all right,
in theory, they're gonna get this right.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
But at what cost? We were having a nice float.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
In the game and now we're standing here at the
end of a first quarter for ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
What do we do if the NBA would do things right?
You know, when they showed the arrivals at the game,
and they show because you know everybody's I want to
say what they're wearing. They got to show Scott Foster
coming into the game too. Lego, here's Zion showing up,
and here's Lebron and a D and then Scott fluster
what And don't forget Scott.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
What do you think his entrance music is?

Speaker 9 (23:27):
I think that guy then tried to insert him himself
into that game early on, always does.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
He's the most important player in the league. He should
be the m v P. Forget about yok, guys should be.

Speaker 9 (23:37):
The mv It wasn't enough TNT putting up. Darvin Ham
already thrown out and before the game even started. I
don't know what game you guys were watching, but this
was never in doubt. Dude, come on, man, the Lakers
are back. Did you have for that was the one
thing I knew. I had no doubts the game itself. Eh,

(23:58):
maybe not that that I knew was going. Oh man,
I'll tell you he had a night off.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
The Dodgers are flailing. He's got to hitch his ride
back on Lebron and the Lakers. That and so he
can send that, you easy guy with the greasy chain,
that he can get back on it.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Explain to me when I got off, I got quiet
for a while. Really, when they lose.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
When they lose, you don't say anything when they When
they win, your bet, they're back. They're back when they
win the one time they're back. Hey, I want to
say on behalf of the Knicks, welcome to the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
I want to I want to welcome you and the Lakers.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
Nugets. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
We are getting word in right now about Zion Williamson.
This is coming in.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
It is a left leg soreness. They couldn't tell what
part of the leg it was, but something happened to
to Zion. This is per Pelican's head coach, Willie Green.
There is some kind of left leg soreness imaging tomorrow,
so he is going to go through imaging. That is
the Zion Williamson injury. What we know of it right now.

(25:04):
And again it's weird, all right, let's let's not let's not.
Let's not uh uh, let's not sugarcoat this thing. He
goes in for a bucket with about three and a
half minutes left to go. Nice little move and he
comes down after a little little jumper in the lane,
and this is when he comes down, grimaces a little bit,
points to the bench like, hey, I'm a little I'm
feeling a little weird, comes off and sits down. There's

(25:27):
a time out on the floor, right, it's a tie
game at this point. Time out on the floor. And
when they come back from break they show you this
is what just happened. Moments ago. Zion is sitting on
the bench. There's nobody around him, there's no medical personnel.
And he gets up and he slams a towel and
he stomps off into the locker room, like there's nobody.
If you have a lower leg something, do they let

(25:49):
you walk?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Do they do? They just let you do? That day.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Don't stomp on your leg, don't don't go crazy. Let's
get you the locker room.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (25:56):
If it's that bad, do they let you walk? But
he walked to the locker room, and what underwent? Whatever
he underwent with three and a half minutes left to go,
it's very weird. It's it's just a really weird thing
to see him just walk off. And again, it looked
like how a player reacts when he's told you gotta
go into the in for concussion test. Likencut like, that's

(26:17):
what it looked like because he was mad, because players
get mad when they have to go in for concussion protocol.
Say hey, uh the spotter call down, you gotta go. No,
I'm fine, No spotter call down, you gotta go. And oh,
I've got to miss some plays. He goes into the
tent then comes back out, but he misses, you know,
three four plays, whatever it is. And that's kind of
what it looked like. And now for lower leg and
I'm like, but nobody was around him, and they led
him to stomp off the court and into the locker room.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
And it's wait, what it was.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Weird like when he stopped like he was you know,
like a Frankenstein kind of stomp, right, stiffed leg kind
of thing, like what the hell's going on? And then
he was never to be seen again. Lakers four point
victory as D'Angelo Russell is your star of the night, right.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
So their defense Mike Zion season's over, so let them walk.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
God, he's got another game Friday.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
Are gonna get blown out on the waters come.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
On, so again, wanted to bring you that news right there.
That've been a breaking news for Zion Williamson. Left leg,
lower leg injury of some kind.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Base it's a hockey injury. It's lower leg. Oh yeah,
upper body, it's upper body, lower body, upper body injury.
Hollo on you out for it's upper body. What is
it not going to tell you? Upper body injury.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Just upper body, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
So that just means above or below the waist for
those new to the lexicon.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Now, we'll have more on the NBA, more on Zion
coming up in a bit.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
But you want to talk about numbers, I'll give you
numbers because apparently no one is going to follow Caitlin
Clark into the WNBA. Ever, the numbers for the WNBA
draft came in. Just under three million people watched the
WNBA Draft last night. This was four times the biggest
audience they have had for it in its exist. But

(28:01):
no one's gonna watch Caitlin Clark. No, no one's gonna watch.
No one's going to w I'm pretty sure she's gonna
bring her own audience into the WNBA. I feel pretty
confident in that, Mike Harmon, no matter how many people
want to hate it and say it's not gonna happen,
I'm pretty sure people watch the WNBA Draft when you
know she's going number one. It's not like, uh, you
know she's going number one. No one knows the team

(28:23):
she's going to. No one can name anybody.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
On the team. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
You had nearly three million, and I'm sure when it's
all said and done and you talk about, hey, here's
what we had people watch streaming and different odd it'll
be over three million.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
That's a big bleeping deal.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Man.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
All the impressions right, it ranked third amongst drafts, not
too far behind the NBA's product.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
I mean, just think about that for a second. Just
think about that.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
But you have all of that star power, and certainly
everybody looking at the fits that everybody had going. Paige
Becker showed up to support her teammates and everybody with
a suit and fit kind of reminiscent of Lebron James
rookie white suit.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
All those years ago.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Obviously Clark with her what was it Prada right with
oh yeah, with some seventeen thousand dollars outfits. So everybody
started doing the you know what that is in percentages
of what she will make from the WNBA. So you
have that, and obviously Angel Reese, you know, had the
hood and diamond encrusted this that the other I mean,

(29:26):
Good Morning America was but like sell, like the the
interviews were great. Like we talked about it last night
as it was going on the fact that you have
the draft and it's hey, you know, Caitlin Clark's gonna
join us here in a minute.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
And what does she do.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
She gets once.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
After she gets drafted, and she got the microphone. I
was like, yeah, you know, getting to stay in the Midwest,
We're gonna move some tickets. You know, we're coming to
your town. You don't get get in now. And I
guess in La here they're gonna play down at the Pyramids.
So they're not getting the full crypt experience, so you're
only looking at what five six thousand people. So t
can here in La against Cameron Brink, that'll be a

(30:03):
big ticket item.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
All of that stuff.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
It's you know, star power, and yeah, the brands are
coming on board, just like you saw during the Final Four,
during all of these events, they're they're coming and ready
to spend mine.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Look what Taylor Swift brought to the Super.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Bowl and everything, right, all these cosmetic companies, all of
these people were not traditional advertisers. Guess what, that's all
been activated.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
And it's not suddenly that you're gonna see audiences of
that's gonna compete with Monday Night Football or something, But
it's going to be a seat at the table for
the WNBA. Because this is Caitlin Clark being a super again.
She's gonna have that kind of impact. It's like the
WNBA is getting Steph Curry and Draymond Green because she's

(30:46):
Steph Curry in her game and Angel Reese's Draymond Green.
And not just on the court, but off the court too.
She already talked about wanting to do and I want
to be on TV. I want to do what you
guys do. And the ESPN crew said, we got her,
worry about it, We got a seat for you.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
But talking about how Chicago, talking about you know, the
shopping and and and just having been there, the food, whatever,
embracing that her and Cardoso right that we joked about
it yesterday, you know, and they did during the draft, like,
good luck getting a rebound at US. And if Chicago
suddenly becomes a force again. They had a little run

(31:20):
with Dela don last decade, but now you get them involved,
Brink maybe helps the resuscitate, you know what the the
La squad is. And then obviously Caitlin Clark in Indiana
and running the Midwest.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, good times ahead, Exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec
dot Com studios.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
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Speaker 2 (32:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific. The Mets can take you there.

Speaker 10 (33:00):
They're game over five hundred I didn't think they'd get
to five hundred when they started.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Oh and five Fox Sports Radio. What did they have?

Speaker 4 (33:15):
Six comeback wins and what thats?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
What are you doing? It's fun, it's fun.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
It was a graphic that they held up the entire
post game show, so pretend like you never saw it.
That's mes Mets met I'm wasn't gonna be able to
stop that, kid me.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm freestyling to like a prayer. Come on, man, we
were watching the game before the show.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
We had this split screen, right, we got the Lakers
and Pelicans up top and watching the end of the
Mets and he starts fist pumping and jumping around, like, yeah, let.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Me just tell you, let me tell you. You want
to go good? Like a prayer story. We have a
like a prayer.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is really good. So
and then we'll get into Giannis. So when I was
in college and I was d did the morning show,
I was Jason mad yea. So there was no crazy
morning that was more anticipated than Madonna's album than when
when Like a Prayer came out And this was the
first song off of it. So you know what they

(34:17):
do when radio stations is say hey, they called there's
like twenty songs that they call her hot songs, and
these are ones you repeat every three hours. Like that
was the thing. Every three hours. You play these songs
over the course of a three hour span.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Unless it's Christmas, my man, then it's a seven yeah
song set.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
We're gonna hear Mariah carry all I want for Christmas
for the next twenty four hours straight. When like a
prayer came out, you know, we have all these these
great big minds. They were like, you play it every hour?

Speaker 5 (34:41):
What?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yes? Every hour?

Speaker 1 (34:43):
So he played like a prayer once an hour for
like the first week and a half.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Did those orders change once the video was released? I'm like,
oh my goodness, because certainly some radio stations has the
order to go against that once the video again.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
And Leon was in that video. Yeah, Leon was in
that video.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Alleged Leon who did a show with Rob Parker a
couple of years ago. I remember meeting Leon is like,
oh my god, dude, you're doing a show with a
legend man from curb No no, no, no, no, no
no Leon, Leon Leon from uh.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah, but what was his like and no one coming
for you? Otis that was a no one coming for
your otis.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
See you know Leon from Curb or Leon Russell leon
in top Leons from Sure or the way we used
to read Washington. Mom hated us like growing up because
you know, for Christmas decorations had the little L thing
that spelled no L. Within an hour someone made it
leon and then she go and change it.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Leno.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Even for my grandmother. Hey look, Jay, Leno's coming. Yeah,
that's great, that's great. You think Brian No just has
the same thing and just takes the L off and
that's his house, just says no, I would do if
I was in say.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
If that had lights and you know, could blink.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
So it looks like the Bucks are gonna be without
Jannisoni Kakunpo potentially for their first round series. When he
got hurt last week, it was okay, Jannis is going
to sit out.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
We'll see what the next week brings.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
And we told you how dangerous this was and how
right they are to lose in the first round. Anyway,
now they're gonna be without Yannis. They are hopeful that
with his injury, with his leg injury, he can come
back late in the first round. And talk today turned
to what happens right. Brian Winhorse was on ESPN and said, oh, hey,
if they go out early, you got to figure out

(36:34):
if Jannis is still all in or he might demand
to go out to leave Milwaukee. Now that sounds great
in theory, but he's there for.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Another three years. They gave him an extension eventually. Could
I see Janis asking out?

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, but obviously this year hasn't worked, and I can
see in the offseason the main thing is gonna be
new head coach and we move on from Damian Lillard. Like,
don't start thinking suddenly Yannis is gonna say I went out.
I want a new organization. He's always said I want
to stay as long as we're winning well. In this offseason,
it's easy to say, well, things didn't work. We changed
our coaches a couple of times. We went for it

(37:08):
with Damian. Look you like that move. It didn't work
out for us, But we're got something else big coming
up to know, have to shuffle things around, bring in
another star. They'll make some kind of move. Maybe Lillard
will actually get to the heat where he wanted to
go first. But Giannis is not going anywhere this offseason.
It's gonna be new head coach and no Damian Lillard.
That's where to focus on. Giannis will be here for
at least another year. Oh that's the curiosity. What does

(37:29):
Yiannis want them to do next? Because they seemingly have
done is bidding thus far. I don't like that guy anymore?
Okay by Bootenholzer. Hey we're thirty and thirteen, but we
don't really like this guy. I don't like Griffin either.
We got xt oh dots ready.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
He's been around, he's been advising, he's been an ear
for the organization. Yeah, let's tag him in. And then
we still suck and we're actually worse and defensively we
don't have any rotations and Damian Lillard is a one
side guy and we've talked about final minutes a game
nowhere to be found. Yeah, but Giannest go ahead, say

(38:05):
you want out. I'll tell you another year. Yeah maybe
this offseason not happening. Head coach Damian Lillard goes. They
try to figure it out. That's all you what he wants.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Next?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
We have more NBA on the way. Tonight could wind
up being the absolute end of a huge era.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
That's next on.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
You have to trade drain On. He's their leading score.
At halftime. You just don't realize that the dynasty is over.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Don't say it's over, baby, don't say it's over.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
liive from the tire Raq dot Com Studios. Halftime and
it's the Kings by four. We could have twenty four
four minutes left in the Warriors dynasty. But joining us
now on a hotline, a man who is so incredibly
happy because David Stearns, his former classmate, is rocking it

(39:11):
with the Mets boy. But unfortunately Red Wings fan that
he is. MLB Network insider John Paul Morosi joins us
now JP. It was still an unbelievable season for the
Red Wings.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
It was, indeed, and it's the real ending to it.
To get you caught up. Let's go with that, as
we called in the industry, a TikTok of the pivotal moments. Tonight,
the Red Wings find a way three seconds left, David
Brown scores, they force overtime. They've got to win this
game and have the Capitals lose to make the playoffs.

(39:48):
So they find a way. They get the game to
ot they win in a shootout. But while all this
is happening, the Philadelphia Flyers, not realizing that by the
Red Wings moving onto overtime and getting that point that
they would have then knocked the Flyers out of the
playoff conversation, they pull their goalie in a tie game. So,

(40:13):
just for all the new hockey fans out there, you
would not typically do that. Okay, you would not typically
pull your goalie in a tie game. But they pull
their goalie in a tie game, the Capitals get an
empty netter, and the Wings are eliminated.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
It is a.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Surreal ending the Wings great building block season, but oh
so close within dare I say, one coaching decision perhaps
away from making the postseason? What an extraordinary night in the.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
NHLO down Well here, but here's the thing is, and
the thing is JP and this is really a horrible
thing to tourd Someone's got to tell them what's going on,
because going in the whole strategy for the Flyers was
they had to win in regulation, like they couldn't go
to overtime. Like the only way they would stay alive,
they had to win in regulation. So it was so

(41:03):
the whole thing was, hey, if it's tied at the end,
they got to pull the goalie in and get a goal.
That's what they did. Of course, Washington scores the empty netter.
But someone's got You gotta have the coach to the
have somebody going, hey, hey, red Wings scored, it's going overtime.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
We're good. We're good. You gotta have somebody that can
do that.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
You know, somebody can say, hey, hey, I know we're
in the game, but we don't need to to Oh man,
that fucks Whose.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Job was that? And again it's not let's be fair here.
It's not the flyer's job to worry about the Detroit
Red Wings. It's not their responsibility. But it does appear
that if they were communicating in real time, Hey, the
red Wings made it to overtime, they got a point.
We're out. Let's just play this straight up and see

(41:47):
what happens. I get it and listen. The Red Wings
from having watched this team carefully, they dropped plenty of
points in December. They've dropped plenty of points in March
that they shouldn't have dropped at any one of those
points would have gotten them in it. Honestly, guys. It
had the feeling of I'm not gonna spoil it for
those who have not done this, but had some similarity

(42:12):
to the final episode of ted Lasso a little bit
in some in some small ways had some I hope
I'm not spoiling it for anybody. If you're listening to
this program and you've never watched Ted Lasso, my condolences,
first of all, and second of all, what happened to
the Wings tonight? A little bit of a reminder to

(42:35):
uh to f C Richmond.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
So wait, Jpson, what was the final play for the
Red Wings to score with three seconds left?

Speaker 3 (42:41):
The Sandman? What did they do? What was the play?
They us?

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Hey, hey, hey, all I can say is football is life.
Football is life, and hockey is life too, And you
know what baseball is life as well.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah, congratulations to Denver taking down Boston College to win
the Frozen Four as well. So we've covered hockey. Now
let's get into Major League Baseball. Should Dodger fans be panicking?

Speaker 5 (43:05):
Ooh, that's a big question, and of course, as we
speak right now, they're in a pretty tight game against
the Nationals, Panic is a strong word Astros fans. I
might be a little more on board with them panicking,
But Dodger fans, to borrow the famous phrase, they are
who we thought they were. They are because they have

(43:28):
one stitching injury in Bobby Miller, on top of still
not having Muehler, and of course Kershaw's not ready yet.
So when you have this level of attrition with your
starting rotation, and you have to go to a six
man rotation to make sure that Yamamoto is adjusted to

(43:49):
the major league schedule, and you've got to intersplice bullpen
games and openers and calling guys up for the minor
leagues because you're also worried about the word of Father Glass.
Now this is what's gonna happen. You're gonna have stretches
where your pitching gets a little bit upside down for
a week or ten days, and you're all of a

(44:10):
sudden not as good as as you're expected to be
for that short amount of time. Now, this team is
going to the playoffs. I'm gonna give a spoiler alert here.
The Dodgers are going to be a playoff team. Okay,
but but if I will say this, this last couple
of weeks to me as reaffirmed, this is not a

(44:31):
team that's threatening the Mariners record from two thousand and one.
This this team is is a great team, a great
collection of talent, but on a functional day to day basis,
it has laws, and the most significant flaw is the

(44:53):
lack of a steady drum beat, consistent five starter rotation.
They don't have it, and I don't know if they
ever will this year. If they're going to keep Yamamoto
on a six six day rotation, I mean, that is
where they are at. So this is a team that
is about preparing for October and if with the extra

(45:15):
rest in October it allows them to have roll out
of rotation that has they hope by then a healthy
Bobby Miller had a healthy Walker Wheeler had a healthy
Clayton Kershaw. With Yamamoto and Glass now and the cast
of thousands, it's all great, but there's gonna be some
turbulence between now and then. And for that reason, look
at the National League guys. Look at the number of

(45:37):
teams that have records that are the same or better
than the Dodgers. Look at the Braves. Maybe a little
bit vulnerable with Spencer Strider out for the season. This
is not the Big two in the Little thirteen right now.
In the National League, it's a much closer league than
a lot of people thought it was gonna be.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
He just wait for the Dodgers to win all those games,
getting the playoffs and the eighty five win Mets behind
Adrian Houser and.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Jose Boot They're all going to come in and beat
the duds up.

Speaker 5 (46:06):
There they're in the conversation. I think Carls Vendoza was
the right choice as a manager. And again I'll say this, Jason,
They're playing well enough that it's not going to be
a slam dunk easy decision to trade the Alonso. That
to me is going to be a really interesting case.
And that's where, with all due respect my old teammate

(46:30):
David Stearns, when you think about how you utilize the
Milwaukee Brewers, Ross remembered he traded Josh Hader and that
trade did not work. I think it's one of the
moves that he probably regrets from his time with the Brewers.
But you can make that move in Milwaukee and it's
not going to necessarily be something that you hear about

(46:52):
every day from everybody. As you know, Jason Smith, It's
not quite like that in New York. Hey.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
And when you talk to to Sterns again in the
next few days, tell him I give him a solid
B plus so far for everything he's done. It would
be an AFR defense was a little bit better. But
he gets a solid B plus for me.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
So far, specifically specifically next time I text him and
I'm happy.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
To do this.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
Do you have a recommended Jason Smith approved lineup decision
that you would like me to convey. Oh?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Yes, yes, start Otani at DH every day, right.

Speaker 5 (47:28):
So that would be if that were to happen in
the course of this phone call, I would have to go
because that would be the biggest trade in baseball history.
But I'll say this, if you have a suggestion to offer,
I mean this sincerely, ok, based on current personnel, just
let me know. At times I will tax Aj Hinch

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with suggestions that my family offers because they're all very
serious Tiger fans. Wow, okay, and not like, hey, Aj,
you should do this, more like my dad really likes fully.
You did a good job of closing with fully my
dad likes the decision we need, we need more fully
in the nine inning. Things like that.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
I will so I could do this with the Mets.
This is like when George castanz in with Seinfeld. I
could be in on trades, Jerry trades. This is having
a real life voice with the Mets.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
But but you gotta know my style here, I got
and you noticed about me. I'm not one of those uh,
hypercritical uh Monday morning cornerback guys. I'm more I'm more
about positive affirmation. Look, Jason Smith thinks Alonso should say
in New York. If you know, uh, Jason likes the

(48:48):
idea of Jason likes what he sees from baby at
third base. He's got He's settling into more of a role.
Those types of things are okay, more of an affirmation guy,
that sort of idea.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
All right, I got one for I got a quick
one for you, because then Harmon's gonna get on the
astros because everybody's happy about that.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I got one for you. I got one.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Seriously, I got one for you. At some point, Christian
Scott's gotta come up right.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
On point. He's gotta come up right.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
The Mets farm system is, uh, as I'm transitioning here,
to Mike's question, the Mets farm system is in a
better place than the Astros farm system because the Astros
have had to make some moves to sustain this team
for a long time. I'm thinking that the Astros streak

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of alcs appearances will end this year because they do
not have a Scott Analogue to call up right now
in their proms.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
How about that for a transition, that's pretty good transition.
He's Jumpolmrosi at John Rossi where you find him on Twitter.
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j O N M O r Osi MLB Network are
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show Jason Smith with me and Mike Harmon here from
the Tirack dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Yeah, it's

(50:08):
you know, we're watching the Warriors and they're playing tournament
game here JP. So same kind of idea with the Astros,
a bunch of injuries and kind of wishing and hoping
to get that pitching staff right. Meanwhile, al Tuve putting
up his numbers but not getting a lot of support.
So I don't think too many people are crying. I
was going to make it a five minute soliloquy about

(50:30):
how you have to take my manifesto to the desk
of the White Sox. But I don't imagine you're going
to be assigned any more of those games because there's
nobody watching those.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Oh I'm watching the White Sox carefully. It's of course
led by a fellow Michigan native and Chris Getz. But
you make it very good point.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Can you?

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Can you send them by notes because I agree with
a lot of what aj Brazinski had to say.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
The notes I would say, when will Luis Robert Junior
be healthy? When will you on Moncata be healthy? Uh,
there's a lot of questions about when when that next
generation is coming up? Let me know when Colson Montgomery
is ready. That'll be another.

Speaker 7 (51:08):
One that I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Make sure he actually hits more than once every week.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
But yeah, right, the Pride, the Pride of Jasper, Indiana.
But yes, so at any rate. So the question about
the Astros, h I I'm a little bit worried about
the way their rotation is set up. A lot of
injuries there and and Verlander gave up a number of
runs in his last reab out ing. I just don't
I don't see it coming together, and there's gonna be

(51:34):
a year. And this is interesting where if it doesn't
come together, do you trade Bregman? Do you trade Tucker?

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Now?

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Bregman's a free agent after the season, Bucker's a free
agent after next season. They're not there yet, but you
do start to wonder where, honestly, in by you, there
would be at least as much of a case to
trade Bregman as it would be for the Mets to
trade Alonzo. By the way, now that we're on the
subject of the NBA Playing Tournament, how are the Pistons

(52:05):
doing in their playing tournament?

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Oh, they're doing well. You know, they didn't lose tonight. Okay,
so it's good they did not lose.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
An The thing is, my understanding is the Pistons have
fared so well that they have been promoted directly to
next season.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yes, that's right, that's I think they actually they go
past next season and into twenty twenty six, right.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
So, uh, and this is where I think I think,
Uh the NBA Commissioner's Office for not instituting performance promotion
and relegation, because otherwise we'd be down to the G
League or maybe maybe maybe the Z League at this point,
based on the way that the business is plays, Hey.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
JP, real fast for he let you go. Look.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
The biggest story in baseball yesterday the surprise retirement of
John Sterling, thirty years played by playman for the Yankees.
Three generations of fans grew up listening to John Sterling.
What was your real when you heard that news? And
you know, here's a guy whose voice is synonymous with
major League Baseball and the most historic team is stepping away.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
Sure iconic voice, true, gentleman. I always enjoyed my conversations
with John when I see him in the press box.
And one of the to me, one of the great
marks of a of a broadcaster is that whenever any
player would sign with the Yankees, the question instantly was
what's John Sterling's home run call going to be for him?

(53:28):
And and that's that's some serious currency in a in
a profession that changes a lot, and and people come
and go. The consistency of what he's been able to
do is really really special. And I think too the
way in which he truly was comfortable being himself. Any

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of us that's ever spoken into a microphone in this business,
we've had the same advice someone says, hey, you got
to be yourself, which which is great advice, it's hard
to follow sometimes because it's it is a competitive business
and you got a microphone there. And we're always, you know,
in the public eye to an extent, or the at
least the public year. And I love that John Sterling

(54:15):
has been, always will be John Sterling. And he never
was trying to do an impersonation of anybody else. He
was being himself. And listen, he had an amazing careern
before baseball. He did the NBA, the Hawks called some
great games of Dominique Wilkins. But I think he certainly
he's the voice of the Yankees, the voice of baseball,
and someone whose voices is a huge part of the

(54:38):
way that a lot of people experience the game. And
I'm going to miss see him around the press box,
but I'm going to cherish all the conversations that we've had.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
And if he was on with us right now, he
would say, John Paul Morosi, we say AUDIOSI We'll see
you next time.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Jpne you like that.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
That that everyone was was extemporaneous radio brilliance from my friends.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Hey, I gotta earn my keep if I want you
to give messages to David Stearns, I got I gotta
make sure I'm gonna high level, keep going.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
Keep building, building the faith, my friend, I love it
very much.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Muddy watch top Cat.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
I can, I mean, I can have input on the
Mets personnel. This is like the greatest moment of my life.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
I can show you order a white guard for this studios.
He's got a grease borned markers coming trades, Jerry.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
I could be making tray.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
All of a sudden, He's hooking up all these data
feeds tracking minor leaders across organizations.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
This is all you know. I have something to do
with your days.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
I can't play short stop anymore for the Mets, but
I can be in on personnel decisions.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
It's gonna be This is it, man, This is it.
It's like being an unpaid intern, but being at the
very highest.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Level of un break is finally happening.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
It man, all these years it's blending. Is about the Mets.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
I just wanted him be joinning the Mets.