April 24, 2024 • 42 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about the controversial ending to last night's Knicks/76ers game and give their own thoughts. MLB insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to hit on all of the biggest storylines from around the world of baseball. The guys also react to Caitlin Clark's brand new $28 million deal with Nike and discuss how the sports media world will see it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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New York Co. Go New yourk Co New York. Watch
the Mets again. Yeah, well we got the hell that
I do to deserve that. We got two basketball games
on in the Mets. That's really well, yeah, what we need.
There's not a better base tonight game to watch. No
what you want to watch? A white Sox.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Like I said, a better baseball game to watch. I
wasn't implying that it was any of the crap coming
out of Chicago. Okay, I mean the Cubs aren't bad,
but we're not watching the Colors. No, no, no, Well
why would White Sox actually have scored five runs today?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I how many they give up? Sixteen four seventeen, they're
up five to four? On who this could be? This
could be the man, this could be their BI monthly win?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Wait, is that Eli Metis? Actually he's playing Andy hit
a home run? Is BI monthly twice a month or
every two months? I think it's twice a month. Okay,
so it's the BI monthly win for the White Sox. Yeah,
that's where you're at. Congratulations by he's saying for twenty
four right now? Yeah, dude, you are? You are paced
to win your tenth game now. I believe now June
(01:47):
seventeen pretty good to win your tenth game in the season.
I might actually end up in Europe before they get
their tenth win. Ooh, what happens first Harmon lands in
Europe or the White Sox win their tenth game, Harmon's.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Betting horses double by the white size when you're ten
care that's something.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Right there, So big night in the NBA. Listen, we'll
get to the big story in a second part. Here's
where we sit right now. Fourth quarter looks like Minnesota
gonna go up two zip on Phoenix. They lead it
ninety seven eighty three. Teals went on a big run
middle of the third quarter. They have kept this lead since. Meanwhile,
eight minutes ago. On the third lot of time left here,
(02:26):
the Pacers lead the Bucks seventy to sixty three. Again,
a lot of time left in this one. These are
your two games tonight. Now that I've given you the particulars,
let's get to the Knicks and the Sixers. Let's get
to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I mean the fraud that was perpetrated on cow Many.
I got a couple of we actually have a Facebook page. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we're folks.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Were none too happy with your cheerleading Go New York, Go,
New York Go, including a number of expletives next level stuff. Well,
look that blanking guy with his blankety blanket looked WHOA
how about that? How many of them were your family members? None?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Really?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Where are your brothers? They don't hang out on the interwebs.
Really No, they're more dark web people. They're in the
dark web. Now you'll find me in dark anywhere you
need to go. But he'll be at the track more
likely then let's do it. Was I was so depressed
I went to the track. Uh, let's deal with the
news and the latest coming off of Game two the
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Sixers and the Knicks, the no foul called on Tyrese
Maxie and the final sequence with twenty seven seconds left
to go. We spent a lot of time on this
last night. The Knicks were down five, and they not
only find out a way to take the lead, but
they wound up winning the game by three. Jalen Brunson
hits a three. The Sixers have problems inbounding the basketball,
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Tyrese Maxi. Is he fouled? Is he not? That was
this is the story last night. The Knicks get a turnover.
Dante DiVincenzo hits a three, giving the Knicks the lead.
All we heard after the game from the six was
how bad the officiating was, how awful it was? Can't
wait for the two minute report all of this. Well,
the two minute report is out and it found a
lot of things.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, it reads as an apology to Philadelphia with a
bunch of Knicks fans going play you.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, but but here's the thing, and when did it
come out? Tyres Maxie was fouled twice on that play
where they couldn't inbound the ball and coach Nurse Yes,
was neither recognized nor granted by the official yes sept call.
That's kind of again, Okay, the first time he called
time out again, he called it for a second, but
then pulled it away, pulled his hands, weight didn't want it.
The second time he tried to call it time out,
(04:38):
they didn't have the basket. But you know what's great
is so he can't.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's very easy to admit the error, you know why,
because the game's over right.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But here, but here's the thing is that this is
this is what went on. Was Tyres Maxie fouled yet
Jalen Brunson grab his shirt? Yeah? Did Maxie also push
off of Josh Hart?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But that was now, But let's deal with the fact there.
I just want to deal with what was in the
two I'm gon to deal with it and why everybody
is so mad. Everybody's doing a favor for the next
Let me let's just let's just deal with that for
a second. Okay, was Maxie fouled once or twice? And
I'm not saying what was Maxie fouled a couple of times?
This is what the two minute reports said they did.
I don't want to deal with the timeout thing because
that's just stupid because Nick again Nick Nurse called it,
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pulled it away, then tried to call it when the
Sixers didn't have the ball.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
But the first time that's he put it up, whether
whether it's for a second or five, but if.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
He put up the timeout. But but the thing is,
by the time referee does it wipe it off, like
the time, by the time the referee Seeson is going
to bring his whistle and blow it. Nick Nurse puts
his hands aside and says, no, no, I don't want it.
I don't want the time out. Doesn't matter, it doesn't
want the time out. I don't want to know if
he was trying to call a time out, he would
have run out of timetimetime out. He just saw it
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right there really quick and tried to call it time
out and then after a second one second. There's no
referee with that kind of of reaction. There's nobody in
the world time one. I'm sure the referee saw it,
but there's lots of time out. I'm gonna blow the whistle. No,
And then by that time he had waved it off.
He waved it off after a second that he didn't
want the time out. Okay, so let's that's a I
(06:04):
don't think waving off that he didn't want the time out. Yeah,
that was the no, I can't call the time no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. He would have just dropped his hands. He
pulled his hands apart, like why want the time out?
Because why isn't that the two minute report? Well, he
we didn't call it, and it's fine because he didn't
want to keep the referee is implying what he wants.
(06:27):
He didn't want the time out there, but because it
didn't work out for him. Now after the game, he's saying,
I called the timeout. I call the time now stop.
That's ridiculous that the timeout thing is so is so much.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right there?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
All right, But here's here's here's where I'm here's what
I'm going to get everybody back to back to normal
on this and understand that that this call the Sixers
wanting to harp on this is ridiculous. Okay, So let's
just say they blow the whistle. Okay, Let's say they
blow the whistle and they call a foul and Maxie
gets to go to the free throw line, or or
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they give the time out to the seventy six ers.
Let's say one of those two things happens. Right, what's
the deal at that point? The Sixers are up to
and they either have the ball or they're going to
the free throw line with twenty seven seconds left in
the game. Is the game over?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is there still a lot of watch of life to play, right?
You still got to play? But the Sixers, But the
Sixers are acting like if we got that call, the
game was over. You know what, No, it wasn't. There
was Did they have a better chance to win? Of
course they did. But I watched you LMB miss a
lot of free throws, making free throws and finishing out
the end of the game. It's like the Sixers that
yet to fade company, who would have had that? They
are they are they are implying that if that foul
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was gone, that one foul was called, the game was
over and they would have won and that's a load
of crap.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But if it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Changes the game, it did change a game. It changed again,
it changes the game material, but it doesn't mean they
would have won. Would of course not. You're saying we
should have won, we should have won, we should have won. No,
you know what you needed to figure out?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, the rest seven seconds of the game, just like
with Lebron and everybody else. You had twenty point lead.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
But you're saying that one or didn't that one play,
that one play, we would have won the game. No,
you might have won the game and you had the advantage. Absolutely,
I'm telling. But there's still a lot of basketball left
to finish that out. Maybe you missed the free throws.
Maybe you make one free throw out of two and
and and Devincenzo to go to overtime. Human emotion, I
get it, And it changes the complexity. You know, if
(08:24):
you changes you can't finish out, you're a professional athlete,
you're Joel Embiad and you're complaining, Hey, I made fifty
million dollars a year, but boy I couldn't focus those
last twenty seven seconds. No, that's on the point, is
that's on materially change the game and that's what the
two minute it did. It did. Tell you it changed
the game.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Like everybody can complain and say, hey we lost because
of it. Well, it helped, it certainly didn't hurt. But
in the end, finish the job and cheers, the buzzer
goes off. I agree with you there, So here's miss
it all.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
No, no, I'm saying it would have. No, it would have.
Let's just say that would have happened. You still had
to finish out and win in the last twenty seven
seconds of that game. But the Sixers are acting like
that one call and that was the game. You know what,
that's on you, TWI that's on you. No, either one
of the calls happened. Feel a call. Now, let's go
a step further. If you're the Sixers regardless, so you
didn't get the call, boy, look how bad it was?
(09:16):
Did you or did you not have a chance to
win the game with twelve seconds left? And you guys
had the ball where you down one with two red
hot scorers and had a chance to win the game,
and not a small chance, you had a good chance
because you had the basketball down a point. Did you
have a chance to win the game? Yes, And what
happened MAXI got blocked? Was there a foul on that play? No,
he went to the rimmy got blobby. And then secondly,
(09:38):
did you have a chance to tie the game and
send it to overtime with six seconds left? And your
hottest shooter decided I'm afraid and I don't want a
part of this, so I'm going to pass the ball
to Joel Embii, who was like, really, you give it
to me for three? So you had chances at that
you had a chance to win the game. Then you
had a chance to tie the game. The chance to
tie the game six seconds, making of three, that's lower percentage.
But you had the ball with fifteen down a two
(10:00):
twelve seconds and you had a chance to win that game.
So it's not if for the Sixers to say everything
was taken away from us. No, that's incorrect. Yes, you
didn't get a foul called I hear you on that,
but number one, there was a lot more game left
to be played, and number two, you had a chance
to win the game. So so stop stop with the
whole if you want to say this shows me a
team that's not focused on what's important, Because if you're
(10:20):
walking away from that game, and you're the Sixers, you
let Nick Nurse do his thing. You let Nick Nurse
do his thing postgame and go, I don't know what's
going on, officials because you want the next call. But
now you're overboard with we're bringing a lawsuit against the
NBA and and beating all the other players are saying
this is terrible. Yeah, I don't know what's going on here. No,
now you're now you're folks. Now, now you're harpeding on this. Great.
(10:41):
I want you to be focused on this. And then
when Jalen Brunson drops forty five on the in game
drifted out, whose fault? Now let's just back into Knicks fan.
You're not fat line, you're not focused on the right thing.
If you're the Sixers, you let you let Nick Nurse
take care of it postgame and then you move on.
But no, no, no, no, the rest the refs did not.
(11:01):
You could have won that game if you got a
foul call going your way. Okay, you could say that
about a lot of calls the game, but that was
a big one and yeah, couldn't have gotten called. Yeah,
do they normally call Jersey tugs? No, they really don't.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
In the final in the final second is when a
team is down five, don't get called because you're thinking
they're trying to call Are they not trying to but
are they not normally trying to call the foul? And
this is what we talked about last night. Normally the
anticipation is you're you're blowing the whistle because they're trying
to extend the game, and then that whistle didn't come,
and then the two minute report it's the Yeah, we
(11:35):
really should have called that. It was kind of egregious.
I mean, if you were on the other side of this,
you'd be streaming bloody murder.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I would say he would be bloody six ers and
one in the same fashion.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You would be pissed as hell, So don't try to
claim you wouldn't be. That probably would be if Jalen
Brunson had had his jersey tugged. But you know what,
I would have been the first time he did anything
positive for the.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Nicks at that point. A bad game for it was
a terrible game.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But but but if that's the way the game had ended,
you'd be pissed and you'd be calling you know what
else I'd.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Be mad about. Boy, we had a chance to win
the game with twelve seconds left and Jalen Brunson got blocked.
We had a great chance to win. We were down
on the basketball four.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Months realizing you weren't waiting that would have been the
moment you'd be So you ate your sandwich.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now I get it, I get it, But let's but
let's be honest. It doesn't mean and what if We've
always talked about this, when bad calls are made, the
bad call is made on the final play of the game, well, hey,
that's ultimately getting screwed because there's no time for you
to come back from that. The Sixers certainly had time
to come back from it because certainly they had a
chance to win the game and they didn't. So yeah,
I get it. But to sit here and and focus hoh,
(12:44):
and focus the whole, your whole, your whole, all of
your attention on if that call was made we would
have won, that's just stupid. But the thing for the
Sixers is, and again, you're not focused on the right there.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
They're going back to the the in totality the two
games that were played in the series and feeling like
they've been done wrong. Now again, it's a loser's mentality
to hold. But that's that's their prerogative to go down
that road. We don't have a forty eight minute report.
We've got people commenting on Twitter. The only thing we
get is the final two minutes and when you can
(13:17):
line up the number of errors or omissions get Look,
it gives a lot of straight It's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Something that we do. But to sit here and say, oh,
that cost us the game. No, you had a chance
to win and you're you're saying everything you did came
down to one foul being called. Come on, I mean,
what is that really really? You know, we're down to
what But then you're gonna then you're gonna widen out
by saying, oh, look at the fouls that didn't get
called an MB. The Knicks're gonna say, okay, look at
the fouls agat get called for Jalen brunts. Then we're
gonna play this game all the way through. You're talking
(13:45):
about one play, one foul, and it cost us the game.
And it didn't simply because you had a chance to
win the game with a lot of time left and
you didn't. And you didn't. And even if Hartenstein did
a hell he was great well, he was hounded by
Quentin Grimes who was just all over him on that play.
I think he was really sitting up on his shoe.
Couldn't even see it. It went to you couldn't even see
(14:06):
him but that But that's my point is that the
game wasn't over at that point. And and you know
what the Sixers wanted the game to be. When Maxi
hit that three with a minute left to go, they're
jumping off the court like he just hit a three
with eight seconds left in the games all right, you
got to play the final minute out and they didn't,
and they and at twenty seven seconds there was still
a lot there's there was a lot on that game
(14:27):
for the Knicks. There's a lot of time game called
There's a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Were they enamored by Ben Stiller or the Wolfman Jason
Bateman on the.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Song if you're dribbling? Hey, there's Jason? Is that what
the officials were? There's Ben still right about there, Ben
Stiller talking to Chris Rock Well, look at that. That's
oh I got it stolen again front there's Rick Brock that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Hey, I do want to make sure we keep up
to date with the action going on tonight because bull
bulls in the game.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, yeah, you didn't think we get you know what
kind of bull bull? It's a bull ball night tonight,
Minnesota putting the finishing touches on their win over Phoenix
one oh five ninety one with twenty five seconds left
to go. Meanwhile, the Bucks have cut the lead to
seventy nine seventy eight with three minutes to go in
the third quarter. So yes, foul should have been called,
(15:14):
but for the six er, forget it, man, Just just
just let it go and get onto something else. Everything
you're saying is wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But everything's gone the other way, and those calls had
gone against the Knicks, you might have had Snake Pliskin
needing to take care of things in New.
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Speaker 4 (18:04):
I am outstanding? My friends, loving this time of year.
Great NHL playoff games happening as we speak right now,
and some pretty incredible baseball storylines happening as well, including
a gentleman by the name of Otani leading the world
in ops, just as everybody expected he would when he
(18:24):
signed with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, unexpected. They're working with him on his plate discipline
a little bit. I'm like, wow, really.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Thanks right, Yes, I saw that story, and I have
seen the comments. I find them interesting. I understand why,
I suppose because and again, this sounds like an absurd
thing to bring up here on the twenty second, twenty
third of April. But his RBI numbers, the ratio is
(18:57):
perhaps a little lower than what they thought it might be.
But come on, he's leading the entire sport in offensive production.
Is he a little bit impatient in situations with men
in scoring position? Perhaps, and that's something that they're working
(19:17):
on with him. But bear in mind, this is not
in any suggestion and overhaul of his approach. And when
you think about the big picture here and his ability
to compartmentalize all that's happened in his life and career
in the last two months, I don't think a little
bit of hitting advice is going to really change too
(19:38):
much or risk a real rewiring of the way that
Otani approaches his craft. I think he's going to be
just fine. And the Dodgers, despite the fact that they've
somewhat been average since the first week of the season,
I think they're going to be just fine too.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
How long before they have to start managing innings for
a glass.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Now, Well, the answer to that is that it's already happening.
And there's a reason why they have gone to a
six man rotation and probably a reason why they haven't
necessarily been a dominant team to begin the season is
that glass Now is one guy who needs to have
as workload monitored cared for. Bobby Miller that thought was
(20:23):
going to be one of the workhorses, and of course
now he's on the il the six man rotation if
you want to call it that, and I think it's
probably fair to do that. It really was created because
the Dodgers felt that they had multiple starters, not just Syamamoto,
but glass Now as well, who needed a little bit
(20:44):
of additional rest. And when you consider what glass Now
has done in terms of what his career high for
innings is, he's not going to throw one hundred and ninety.
So they're either going to back them off now and
give him an additional day of rest or will probably
be on the il by the end of May, just
based on what his career tells you. So he is,
(21:07):
to be fair here, one of the most electrifying pitchers
to watch work in the planet. I mean, he is unbelievable.
And when you watch him and you're up close to
just see how tall he is on the mound, what
an uncomfortable at bat he is for anybody. So he's special.
And the Dodgers, I think wisely, are are banking on
(21:30):
the facts that they're probably going to be able to
make the playoffs, even if they're giving guys additional rest.
Even if there's a lower percentage of starts made by
Glass now to what they would like, They're willing to
accept that if it gives them a healthy Glass now
in the second half in the postseason, when obviously they
hope that Kershaw and Bueler are more meaningful members of
(21:53):
the rotation by that time of the year.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Now, Papa got to ask this, I watch you tell
me the truth. I mean, it was the first time
you're ever going to tell the story. Yeah, I tell
the truth. Have you ever done an interview with a
player where maybe the player looks away from you and
thinks that you said something really bad about him, but
it turned out to be a fan behind you, and
the player walks away from the interview with you. Because
(22:16):
I saw what happened to Aaron Boone yesterday, and I'm
thinking maybe maybe it could have happened to you at
some point in a situation like that.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
No, No, anything, anything that I have said that was
foolish is something I have said.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Say enough foolish things on my own. I don't need
help from the guy in the second or third row.
But in all seriousness, I like everybody. I've I've viewed
the forensic evidence here of the of the Yes Network footage.
Clearly Aaron Boone did not say the magic words to
(22:57):
Hunter Winds wendelstat that resulted in the AGI. Someone else
said them. Now, there could have been two someone's this, Jason.
It is after all New York, and and if one
person is going to say something, often two people are
going to say something.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Roger McDowell was second, right.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Right, right, exactly. So I do think if you were
to ask me, do I think that there were two people?
Probably talking in that moment, the guy with his nacho's
behind the dugout, and someone towards the further end of
the of the dugout registering his discontent with the strike zone,
whether it be a coach or a player, someone in
(23:39):
a Yankee uniform. Yeah, a fair there's a fair chance
of that that that happened. But I also think that
there's a way to handle it, which is, you don't
eject someone for something that another individual said. I mean
that that is, and I understand that the hunter's point
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that that the conduct of the dugout in some way,
shape or form is the responsibility of the manager, and
then I subscribe to that. And I'm generally someone that
really I'm an umpire supporter. I mean, I really think
that they do a fantastic job and have a lot
of friends who are umpires and really enjoy my conversations.
(24:20):
There could this have been handled differently, probably because the
way in which it was handled, and obviously there's no
way that hunter would know that it would be quite
picked up by the microphones and broadcast and quite that fashion.
I get it, and I think that there was probably
a way that could have been handled in a way
(24:41):
that did not create front page news. Unfortunately, here we are,
and I do think that that's I don't know a
ton about the rating system that umpires are given, but
I do know that one of the things that umpires
are evaluated on is what they call situation management. And
I think in this case, the situation could have been
(25:02):
managed a little differently. And I think Hunter is an
excellent umpire, obviously, the son of an umpire, has been
around the game his entire life. He knows baseball, and
clearly he felt like he had to make a statement there.
I think we could probably reasonable folks could say maybe
there was a different way to handle it. But hey,
thanks to Hunter and Aaron for giving us a pretty
(25:25):
interesting thing to discuss for a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Like we always say, JP, you got those reputation calls,
Aaron Boone didn't help himself with all the ejections well
year ago.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That's true, and there were probably some that Bobby Cox
over the history of his career where just because of
the way Bobby conducted himself in the way he was very,
very strided in support of his players, probably got the
hooks more often than he maybe deserved. But you're right
it's a by the way, reputation name of a Taylor
(25:57):
Swift album. There's another one released just in the last week.
I know this because I have daughters and they told
me this.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Thirty one songs JP thirty one, thirty one. It's a
double album. It's an anthology. It's two hours of music.
Get ready, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Like the White Album by the Beatles, or or the
Smashing Pumpkins album that we all had back in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Wow, you went right from Taylor Swift to Smashing Pumpkins somewhere.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Okay, first of all, I'm just pictured.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm picturing John Paul Morosi in his dorm room at
Michigan right with long hair, and he's listening to the
Counting Crows and Smashing Pumpkins and he's he here, going, boy,
if they have a strike in Major League Baseball, that's
not going to be good. I'll tell you that lockout's
going to be really bad. Listen to that music and
sitting here reciting former lineup to the Tigers who played
left field for the Tigers in nineteen sixty five, normOn
(26:48):
Cash got Stern Jonsond me, was that was that?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Was that you in college. Shape was that you and
David Stearns in college.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
More or less Okay, more or less up with the
long hair. And and let's be let's be clear. Anyone
who has seen me knows right now I do not
have long hair. That that we can we can sources
can confirm that to be very very true. But I've
always had a very eclectic musical taste. In my roommates
(27:20):
in college introduced bands to me that I really didn't know,
in groups I didn't really know. So that's that is
the purpose of college. You build great relationships with great friendships,
and you learn a little bit of new music.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well there you go, look at that, a little bit
of living and a lot about love. There getting a
little country line in Hey, let me ask Mike Trout
nine home runs as of tonight, where can we get
the change dot org petition to free him to a
team that's going to compete.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
He's back, He's back, Mike Trout's back. It's a great question.
I and I think at the end of the day
that that conversation and that decision and is a is
a two person conversation. Ardi moreno, Mike Trout, and that's it.
(28:08):
And where that all goes. All Mike has said publicly
is I want to win in Anaheim. He's playing great.
I think he's you know, he's obviously, he's a father,
he's got a young family. I think there's a lot
of a lot of things that would suggest that he
wants to stay where he's comfortable. Of Course, we know
(28:29):
well that he's got his roots in the Philly area,
and obviously this is probably not going to be the
last time that we wonder and say, huh, Philly, Bryce
Harper want to get one more star. That'd be kind
of fun. We can all connect the dots. I mean,
I think it's a and listen, it actually makes some sense.
(28:49):
They've had some issues getting production consistently out of Castianos
the last couple of years, at least the last year,
so I get it. I mean that it makes a
ton of sense. But I'm just not convinced at all
yet that he wants to wave with no trade. And
I think if we got to that point, how many
teams could take on it, And again, the Phillies with
(29:11):
John Middleton probably one of a handful of teams that
could do it. Would take on all the money and
the luxury tax payments more than likely if we're talking
about one of the big time market teams. So again,
if they didn't trade Otani, and I realized Otani and
Crowd our different players. But if they didn't trade Otani
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when all the world made it seem like that would
have been the objective, logical thing to do at a
very manageable salary. I'm not sure how likely it is
that they would take one of the largest contracts in
the history of pro sports and find a way to
move it with this many years left at this type
of juncture for the franchise after losing Otani. It's fun
(29:56):
to talk about, and we'll keep talking about it. I
just don't see as being terribly like.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Right now, he's an LB network insider and my conduit
to David Sterns. One email I send to John Palmerrosi,
he gets a text to David Sterns, I am now
officially an unpaid consultant. Have you sent the first one?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Not yet.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
You want to critique at Pete Alonzo dive on that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's fine, that's.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Fine, Okay, Hey, listen, Jad Martinez is getting close.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He's gonna transform the offense. He's going to transform the
offense when he comes back.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I'm a little bit worried about the Alvarez injury. That
was a tough one. Yeah, but this team is playing
better than I expected. I should have I should have
known that old Stersy would have found a way to
get this team competitive quicker.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Than I thought.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate the time. I enjoy
the rest of the week.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
We'll talk to my friend, enjoy the conversation with my friends.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Thanks for everything, really for anybody there, goes John Palmer ROSSI. Yeah,
I'm waiting. I'm waiting because, as he said last week
on the show, if you have something you want to say,
I'll send a text to David Sterns for you. But
I'm waiting for I mean, I can't just do it all.
I would want to send him a text like every
five minutes.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You know what you can do, like the two minute
report that exonerated the seventy six ers on a lot
of things and ills in the final minute and it's
just a barrage of bullet points.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Here's what I think the last two winnings of that
game last night. No, yeah, I'm picking my spots. I'm
picking my spots right now.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Oka, it is only April. It is gotta let it
Marrit enough, did Mets lose again? Get shut out?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
It is.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Anybody running and hiding this. No, it's okay. But that's
why I say I'm okay. I'm okay for a little bit.
I'm okay for a little bit. All about j D Martinez. Well, no, seriously,
because because the Mets looks like they're bogging down offensively.
But like that's he could come back this weekend. That
could transform the team could transform off Right now, I'm
thinking wild card anyway. It's fine, it's fine, but it
might real lofty expectations might not be fine for mine.
(31:45):
You got to shoot for the moon. Man, I'm trying
trying to be patient. You jerky making it possible because
you're a jerk because your team stinks and you're living
vicariously through my team. What the hell? How dare you?
I'm with Mike Trout and the helmet nachos. I only
I have. There's only one thing about the White Sox.
(32:05):
There's only one thing there's on that I can't put
quite put my finger up. But I know what it is.
You know out, Yes, you know what it is. Really, yeah,
you know what it is. You figured it out.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yes, you want to tell America in the world, yes, please,
They stink that's all holding them back to That's it
Jillie's deep thought. Well, thanks Jack Handy.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Right now, let's find out what's trending with our own
Jack Handy here at Fox Sports Radio. Because he writes
literature like that and leaves it in the bathroom for
people to look at. It's Brian Finley with what's trending
in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
I'm actually full of deep thoughts, all right? Would have
been a better segue.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You give me one deep thought. Life is.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
A beautiful harmony of love?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Is that a deep thought? Did you just read a Hallmark?
You know what he's he's trying to write his vows.
I think, yes, I could be.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I could be working.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You put that into chat GP. Is that what he
can spit back out?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It says sappyvow crap.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Brian Fenley is clearly if I had say, hey, who's
the one person here at Fox Sports Rader that would
have artificial intelligence write his wedding speech. Brian Fenley, Why
why how dare you? Because yeah, no, I see you
wanted to be on the on the on the inside,
scoop on that all day. I write it for me.
I think that's you.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
How wrong you are practice, how wrong you are after.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
What you just right off a Hallmark carden that was
off the dome. Okay, what he strolling dome over here
trying to cop the Moniker there? Sorry?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Sorry? So yeah, from from that and the swool arms
that you have, Yes, my triceps look great today, yeah
for sure. And to a to a pro league where
there are a lot of guys with nice triceps, so
that would be the NBA.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Could have just said let's go to the NBA. No,
you didn't need to say. You could have just said,
let's go to the NBA. Shizzled. I don't think Luca
has triceps. I don't think he does. I don't think
he does there somewhere and they're hidden somewhere yours showing off? No, no, no,
because when he got him to flaunt the baby right, Yeah,
that's man.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Absolutely Yeah. Speaking of Doncic, she's got eighteen points and
the mavericksher leading the Clippers forty eight to forty three,
just about a minute into the third quarter. Western Conference
first Round Game two. Clippers leads to this series one
game to none. Also to mention, Kawhi Leonard is playing
in this game. That was a surprise add in for
Los Angeles. He had missed the last nine games because
(34:31):
of right knee inflammation. Right now, he's struggling. He's only
got four points from the first half, and the Clippers
were brick city from three point range in the first half.
They were two of thirteen from long range. Earlier, the
Timberwolves flushed down the Suns one oh five to ninety three.
That was a game too. Timberwolves lead that series two
games to none, and the Timberwolves made eleven more free
(34:54):
throws in that game than the Phoenix Suns. Pacers equal
their series one game apiece with the Bucks after Indiana
took out the Bucks in Milwaukee one to five to
one to eight. Pascal Siakam thirty seven points, eleven rebounds
and six assist in. The Bucks were left playing without
Yannis dent Tokoupo, their premier scorer and talent, because of
(35:18):
an injury to his left calf. In the NHL, we
have an overtime win for the Panthers over the Lightning
three to two. These are all first round series, by
the way. It's a game two for Florida and so
there had two games to none. The Rangers are up
two games to none after beating the Capitals four to three.
Also end of one period, it's the Jets swan the
Avalanche nothing. That's a game two, and another game two
(35:41):
has the Canucks trailing The Predators won nothing. Vancouver leads
that matchup one game to none. And then lastly, guys
in Major League Baseball, Mariners blanked the Rangers four to nothing.
Diamondbacks with fourteen runs they put up against the Cardinals
in a win. Royals victorious, So were the Cubs, White
Sucks almost got a win, could even consider that a win?
(36:05):
Maybe close enough? Six to five over the Twins against
the White Sox. With that, let's get it back to
Jason Smith and Mike Karmen. Do we start Mike and
Jason counting morale victories as wins of the win column
for the White Soxs?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
You mean moral victories, morale boosting victories, morale boosters, moral victories.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Morale victories. It's it's not it is. It's not how
I use the words you're using. You're using verbs and
nouns in a way no one's ever used them in
the English language. He's changing the language. Remember, irregardless used
to be wrong exactly.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Thank you, Mike. Somebody stands up for me.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Thank you, Brian family appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carman
coming up next. We get back into the NBA and
it may be this simple when it comes to figuring
out one NBA superstar who's had an up and down
season into the playoffs. Keep it right here, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Mets are gonna get swept by the Giants,
aren't they? Yep, three nothing Giants with the lead over
the Mets and the fifth inning you got the Knicks. Yeah, no,
you're right.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You really can't complain, but you're right. The Hurricano you
actually have action.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You're right, you're right. But the show is tonight and
I'm watching the Mets. You know you don't have to.
There are plenty of movies or other games. You don't
have to watch the mess. There's a rule you have
to watch. If you're from New York and you pick
a baseball team, you have to watch that team. You
have no choice.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Well, I was trying to give you an option out,
like say, ty shirt were ad a stage of bloodless
coup and put on something he wanted on that screen
and said.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, you have to watch Mets. I have to watch
Mets to you want to talk about getting paid. Caitlin
Clark and her deal with Nike is now official. As
we heard last week, the rumors twenty eight million dollar
contract for her. She's going to get her own signature shoe.
(38:06):
This contract was by far better than what was offered
from Adidas and under Armour. They were down at a
seven million dollar deal sixteen million dollar deal total. This
is twenty eight million dollars for Caitlin Clark and her
own signature shoe coming her way courtesy of Nike. But
as hey, as everybody tells me WHOA, people are going
to keep following Kate and Clark and watch it. Oh
that's over.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Pl okay never mind that a number of cities for
the w NBA, they've already moved their games into bigger
arenas and figured out the scheduling to accommodate.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
No, but no one's gonna watch nah, no one's gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Them in Indiana where they have problems with people being
able to see the pacers, oftentimes there have been a
bunch of deals brokers to allow people to watch the
Fever play. And what was interesting in reading and I'd
love some more of the particulars kind of like the
little oh and by the way kind of things in
(39:00):
the articles were that several of the companies that were
trying to buy for her services and her signature here
for shoes are like, yeah, but you need to stay
at Iowa another year from this deal to work.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I know, not doing it. Oh okay, And look
she played it well, she played it right. And now
twenty eight million dollar deal for the next seven years
from like like.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Steph Curry got into the mix right when it came
to you know, negotiations as well, trying to lure things there.
I think he's already got well his what his god
god daughter'll probably be in in those kicks before long.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
But yeah, just I mean twenty eight million.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You know, when we talked about ten figure deal, I
thought it might have been a little north of that.
And maybe there's some incentives based on sales mixed therein
that we're not privy to. But that's one hell of
a base regardless.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And not worried about her salary from the WNBA anymore?
Are we're not really worried about that. Not worried about that?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, no, people are still going to complain about that.
People such a nice easy thing to complain about. Again,
revenues hen billion NBA. Yeah, two hundred million wn meliot
doesn't mean.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
That that can't grow.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
No, And if you didn't understand, yeah, and this always
goes like in our business and in most businesses, right,
you can only invest so much on a theory before
you say, hey, I've got to see bigger returns before
I'm going to kick over more cash. Right, I'd like
to franchise my restaurant. Well, you're barely breaking even here, Yeah,
but we're breaking even.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Let's go. I'll give you two things that are definitely
going to still happen with time on now. Caitlin Clark
twenty eight million dollar deal Now, I'll guarantee you two things. One,
media other stars are going to continue to throw up
on themselves when they try to discuss Caitlin Clark, and
they're gonna get the entire heel of their foot in
(40:47):
their mouths because so many people just don't know how
to talk women's sports. We've seen it already. It's gonna
continue because Kaitlyn Clark's a big story and it's amazing
so many people that don't know how to do it.
But it's going to We're gonna get stories like with
the Indianapolis Star guy so many times. We're gonna get
that story all the time. And the second thing I'll
guarantee you is this, the backlash against her is going
(41:11):
to increase. The backlash from players is going to increase.
And on the court, cool, hey, welcome to WNBA, Come here,
prove yourself. But off the court, the backlash you realize
she's she's shown up and she's going to lift the
WNBA to heights they've never been at before. I'm sorry
it didn't happen for you. Sorry you came around at
the wrong time. This is how sports goes. If you
(41:32):
understand how sports goes, as time goes on. More people
get paid. Superstars arrive when they arrive, and Caitlin Clark
has arrived now doesn't mean anything bad for you, doesn't
mean anything. It just means she's the superstar that's gonna
lift the league. And I'm sorry it wasn't you. Sorry
it didn't happen for you. But talk to all the
NFL players in the seventies. How wait a minute, I'm
having all kinds of trouble in my life and I
don't have any money. Well, that's just the way the
(41:52):
world goes. Now, those two things are gonna happen continuously
with KATELYNKL and in theory, the benefits for them in
post career get better because of the monies that are
now flowing in. This helps not only short term but
long term. And it goes back to as we were
discussing this in the throes of the Final Four and
the title game and everything else, like, sorry, folks, relate
(42:14):
to the party. They're here, now, get them a drink
and let's enjoy the ride. Exit. How about a Fresca
exit swelling dome. Those are two things that will continue
in perpetuity with Caitlin Clark coming up next. We got
a big story out of the NBA and Lebron James.
Keep it right here, Fox
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the Mets again. Yeah, well we got the hell that
I do to deserve that. We got two basketball games
on in the Mets. That's really well, yeah, what we need.
There's not a better base tonight game to watch. No
what you want to watch? A white Sox.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Like I said, a better baseball game to watch. I
wasn't implying that it was any of the crap coming
out of Chicago. Okay, I mean the Cubs aren't bad,
but we're not watching the Colors. No, no, no, Well
why would White Sox actually have scored five runs today?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I how many they give up? Sixteen four seventeen, they're
up five to four? On who this could be? This
could be the man, this could be their BI monthly win?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Wait, is that Eli Metis? Actually he's playing Andy hit
a home run? Is BI monthly twice a month or
every two months? I think it's twice a month. Okay,
so it's the BI monthly win for the White Sox. Yeah,
that's where you're at. Congratulations by he's saying for twenty
four right now? Yeah, dude, you are? You are paced
to win your tenth game now. I believe now June
(01:47):
seventeen pretty good to win your tenth game in the season.
I might actually end up in Europe before they get
their tenth win. Ooh, what happens first Harmon lands in
Europe or the White Sox win their tenth game, Harmon's.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Betting horses double by the white size when you're ten
care that's something.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Right there, So big night in the NBA. Listen, we'll
get to the big story in a second part. Here's
where we sit right now. Fourth quarter looks like Minnesota
gonna go up two zip on Phoenix. They lead it
ninety seven eighty three. Teals went on a big run
middle of the third quarter. They have kept this lead since. Meanwhile,
eight minutes ago. On the third lot of time left here,
(02:26):
the Pacers lead the Bucks seventy to sixty three. Again,
a lot of time left in this one. These are
your two games tonight. Now that I've given you the particulars,
let's get to the Knicks and the Sixers. Let's get
to the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I mean the fraud that was perpetrated on cow Many.
I got a couple of we actually have a Facebook page. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we're folks.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Were none too happy with your cheerleading Go New York, Go,
New York Go, including a number of expletives next level stuff. Well,
look that blanking guy with his blankety blanket looked WHOA
how about that? How many of them were your family members? None?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Really?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Where are your brothers? They don't hang out on the interwebs.
Really No, they're more dark web people. They're in the
dark web. Now you'll find me in dark anywhere you
need to go. But he'll be at the track more
likely then let's do it. Was I was so depressed
I went to the track. Uh, let's deal with the
news and the latest coming off of Game two the
(03:30):
Sixers and the Knicks, the no foul called on Tyrese
Maxie and the final sequence with twenty seven seconds left
to go. We spent a lot of time on this
last night. The Knicks were down five, and they not
only find out a way to take the lead, but
they wound up winning the game by three. Jalen Brunson
hits a three. The Sixers have problems inbounding the basketball,
(03:52):
Tyrese Maxi. Is he fouled? Is he not? That was
this is the story last night. The Knicks get a turnover.
Dante DiVincenzo hits a three, giving the Knicks the lead.
All we heard after the game from the six was
how bad the officiating was, how awful it was? Can't
wait for the two minute report all of this. Well,
the two minute report is out and it found a
lot of things.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, it reads as an apology to Philadelphia with a
bunch of Knicks fans going play you.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, but but here's the thing, and when did it
come out? Tyres Maxie was fouled twice on that play
where they couldn't inbound the ball and coach Nurse Yes,
was neither recognized nor granted by the official yes sept call.
That's kind of again, Okay, the first time he called
time out again, he called it for a second, but
then pulled it away, pulled his hands, weight didn't want it.
The second time he tried to call it time out,
(04:38):
they didn't have the basket. But you know what's great
is so he can't.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's very easy to admit the error, you know why,
because the game's over right.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But here, but here's the thing is that this is
this is what went on. Was Tyres Maxie fouled yet
Jalen Brunson grab his shirt? Yeah? Did Maxie also push
off of Josh Hart?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But that was now, But let's deal with the fact there.
I just want to deal with what was in the
two I'm gon to deal with it and why everybody
is so mad. Everybody's doing a favor for the next
Let me let's just let's just deal with that for
a second. Okay, was Maxie fouled once or twice? And
I'm not saying what was Maxie fouled a couple of times?
This is what the two minute reports said they did.
I don't want to deal with the timeout thing because
that's just stupid because Nick again Nick Nurse called it,
(05:16):
pulled it away, then tried to call it when the
Sixers didn't have the ball.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
But the first time that's he put it up, whether
whether it's for a second or five, but if.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
He put up the timeout. But but the thing is,
by the time referee does it wipe it off, like
the time, by the time the referee Seeson is going
to bring his whistle and blow it. Nick Nurse puts
his hands aside and says, no, no, I don't want it.
I don't want the time out. Doesn't matter, it doesn't
want the time out. I don't want to know if
he was trying to call a time out, he would
have run out of timetimetime out. He just saw it
(05:44):
right there really quick and tried to call it time
out and then after a second one second. There's no
referee with that kind of of reaction. There's nobody in
the world time one. I'm sure the referee saw it,
but there's lots of time out. I'm gonna blow the whistle. No,
And then by that time he had waved it off.
He waved it off after a second that he didn't
want the time out. Okay, so let's that's a I
(06:04):
don't think waving off that he didn't want the time out. Yeah,
that was the no, I can't call the time no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. He would have just dropped his hands. He
pulled his hands apart, like why want the time out?
Because why isn't that the two minute report? Well, he
we didn't call it, and it's fine because he didn't
want to keep the referee is implying what he wants.
(06:27):
He didn't want the time out there, but because it
didn't work out for him. Now after the game, he's saying,
I called the timeout. I call the time now stop.
That's ridiculous that the timeout thing is so is so much.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right there?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
All right, But here's here's here's where I'm here's what
I'm going to get everybody back to back to normal
on this and understand that that this call the Sixers
wanting to harp on this is ridiculous. Okay, So let's
just say they blow the whistle. Okay, Let's say they
blow the whistle and they call a foul and Maxie
gets to go to the free throw line, or or
(07:00):
they give the time out to the seventy six ers.
Let's say one of those two things happens. Right, what's
the deal at that point? The Sixers are up to
and they either have the ball or they're going to
the free throw line with twenty seven seconds left in
the game. Is the game over?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is there still a lot of watch of life to play, right?
You still got to play? But the Sixers, But the
Sixers are acting like if we got that call, the
game was over. You know what, No, it wasn't. There
was Did they have a better chance to win? Of
course they did. But I watched you LMB miss a
lot of free throws, making free throws and finishing out
the end of the game. It's like the Sixers that
yet to fade company, who would have had that? They
are they are they are implying that if that foul
(07:37):
was gone, that one foul was called, the game was
over and they would have won and that's a load
of crap.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But if it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Changes the game, it did change a game. It changed again,
it changes the game material, but it doesn't mean they
would have won. Would of course not. You're saying we
should have won, we should have won, we should have won. No,
you know what you needed to figure out?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, the rest seven seconds of the game, just like
with Lebron and everybody else. You had twenty point lead.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
But you're saying that one or didn't that one play,
that one play, we would have won the game. No,
you might have won the game and you had the advantage. Absolutely,
I'm telling. But there's still a lot of basketball left
to finish that out. Maybe you missed the free throws.
Maybe you make one free throw out of two and
and and Devincenzo to go to overtime. Human emotion, I
get it, And it changes the complexity. You know, if
(08:24):
you changes you can't finish out, you're a professional athlete,
you're Joel Embiad and you're complaining, Hey, I made fifty
million dollars a year, but boy I couldn't focus those
last twenty seven seconds. No, that's on the point, is
that's on materially change the game and that's what the
two minute it did. It did. Tell you it changed
the game.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Like everybody can complain and say, hey we lost because
of it. Well, it helped, it certainly didn't hurt. But
in the end, finish the job and cheers, the buzzer
goes off. I agree with you there, So here's miss
it all.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
No, no, I'm saying it would have. No, it would have.
Let's just say that would have happened. You still had
to finish out and win in the last twenty seven
seconds of that game. But the Sixers are acting like
that one call and that was the game. You know what,
that's on you, TWI that's on you. No, either one
of the calls happened. Feel a call. Now, let's go
a step further. If you're the Sixers regardless, so you
didn't get the call, boy, look how bad it was?
(09:16):
Did you or did you not have a chance to
win the game with twelve seconds left? And you guys
had the ball where you down one with two red
hot scorers and had a chance to win the game,
and not a small chance, you had a good chance
because you had the basketball down a point. Did you
have a chance to win the game? Yes, And what
happened MAXI got blocked? Was there a foul on that play? No,
he went to the rimmy got blobby. And then secondly,
(09:38):
did you have a chance to tie the game and
send it to overtime with six seconds left? And your
hottest shooter decided I'm afraid and I don't want a
part of this, so I'm going to pass the ball
to Joel Embii, who was like, really, you give it
to me for three? So you had chances at that
you had a chance to win the game. Then you
had a chance to tie the game. The chance to
tie the game six seconds, making of three, that's lower percentage.
But you had the ball with fifteen down a two
(10:00):
twelve seconds and you had a chance to win that game.
So it's not if for the Sixers to say everything
was taken away from us. No, that's incorrect. Yes, you
didn't get a foul called I hear you on that,
but number one, there was a lot more game left
to be played, and number two, you had a chance
to win the game. So so stop stop with the
whole if you want to say this shows me a
team that's not focused on what's important, Because if you're
(10:20):
walking away from that game, and you're the Sixers, you
let Nick Nurse do his thing. You let Nick Nurse
do his thing postgame and go, I don't know what's
going on, officials because you want the next call. But
now you're overboard with we're bringing a lawsuit against the
NBA and and beating all the other players are saying
this is terrible. Yeah, I don't know what's going on here. No,
now you're now you're folks. Now, now you're harpeding on this. Great.
(10:41):
I want you to be focused on this. And then
when Jalen Brunson drops forty five on the in game
drifted out, whose fault? Now let's just back into Knicks fan.
You're not fat line, you're not focused on the right thing.
If you're the Sixers, you let you let Nick Nurse
take care of it postgame and then you move on.
But no, no, no, no, the rest the refs did not.
(11:01):
You could have won that game if you got a
foul call going your way. Okay, you could say that
about a lot of calls the game, but that was
a big one and yeah, couldn't have gotten called. Yeah,
do they normally call Jersey tugs? No, they really don't.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
In the final in the final second is when a
team is down five, don't get called because you're thinking
they're trying to call Are they not trying to but
are they not normally trying to call the foul? And
this is what we talked about last night. Normally the
anticipation is you're you're blowing the whistle because they're trying
to extend the game, and then that whistle didn't come,
and then the two minute report it's the Yeah, we
(11:35):
really should have called that. It was kind of egregious.
I mean, if you were on the other side of this,
you'd be streaming bloody murder.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I would say he would be bloody six ers and
one in the same fashion.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You would be pissed as hell, So don't try to
claim you wouldn't be. That probably would be if Jalen
Brunson had had his jersey tugged. But you know what,
I would have been the first time he did anything
positive for the.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Nicks at that point. A bad game for it was
a terrible game.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But but but if that's the way the game had ended,
you'd be pissed and you'd be calling you know what
else I'd.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Be mad about. Boy, we had a chance to win
the game with twelve seconds left and Jalen Brunson got blocked.
We had a great chance to win. We were down
on the basketball four.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Months realizing you weren't waiting that would have been the
moment you'd be So you ate your sandwich.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now I get it, I get it, But let's but
let's be honest. It doesn't mean and what if We've
always talked about this, when bad calls are made, the
bad call is made on the final play of the game, well, hey,
that's ultimately getting screwed because there's no time for you
to come back from that. The Sixers certainly had time
to come back from it because certainly they had a
chance to win the game and they didn't. So yeah,
I get it. But to sit here and and focus hoh,
(12:44):
and focus the whole, your whole, your whole, all of
your attention on if that call was made we would
have won, that's just stupid. But the thing for the
Sixers is, and again, you're not focused on the right there.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
They're going back to the the in totality the two
games that were played in the series and feeling like
they've been done wrong. Now again, it's a loser's mentality
to hold. But that's that's their prerogative to go down
that road. We don't have a forty eight minute report.
We've got people commenting on Twitter. The only thing we
get is the final two minutes and when you can
(13:17):
line up the number of errors or omissions get Look,
it gives a lot of straight It's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Something that we do. But to sit here and say, oh,
that cost us the game. No, you had a chance
to win and you're you're saying everything you did came
down to one foul being called. Come on, I mean,
what is that really really? You know, we're down to
what But then you're gonna then you're gonna widen out
by saying, oh, look at the fouls that didn't get
called an MB. The Knicks're gonna say, okay, look at
the fouls agat get called for Jalen brunts. Then we're
gonna play this game all the way through. You're talking
(13:45):
about one play, one foul, and it cost us the game.
And it didn't simply because you had a chance to
win the game with a lot of time left and
you didn't. And you didn't. And even if Hartenstein did
a hell he was great well, he was hounded by
Quentin Grimes who was just all over him on that play.
I think he was really sitting up on his shoe.
Couldn't even see it. It went to you couldn't even see
(14:06):
him but that But that's my point is that the
game wasn't over at that point. And and you know
what the Sixers wanted the game to be. When Maxi
hit that three with a minute left to go, they're
jumping off the court like he just hit a three
with eight seconds left in the games all right, you
got to play the final minute out and they didn't,
and they and at twenty seven seconds there was still
a lot there's there was a lot on that game
(14:27):
for the Knicks. There's a lot of time game called
There's a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Were they enamored by Ben Stiller or the Wolfman Jason
Bateman on the.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Song if you're dribbling? Hey, there's Jason? Is that what
the officials were? There's Ben still right about there, Ben
Stiller talking to Chris Rock Well, look at that. That's
oh I got it stolen again front there's Rick Brock that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Hey, I do want to make sure we keep up
to date with the action going on tonight because bull
bulls in the game.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, yeah, you didn't think we get you know what
kind of bull bull? It's a bull ball night tonight,
Minnesota putting the finishing touches on their win over Phoenix
one oh five ninety one with twenty five seconds left
to go. Meanwhile, the Bucks have cut the lead to
seventy nine seventy eight with three minutes to go in
the third quarter. So yes, foul should have been called,
(15:14):
but for the six er, forget it, man, Just just
just let it go and get onto something else. Everything
you're saying is wrong.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But everything's gone the other way, and those calls had
gone against the Knicks, you might have had Snake Pliskin
needing to take care of things in New.
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Speaker 4 (18:04):
I am outstanding? My friends, loving this time of year.
Great NHL playoff games happening as we speak right now,
and some pretty incredible baseball storylines happening as well, including
a gentleman by the name of Otani leading the world
in ops, just as everybody expected he would when he
(18:24):
signed with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, unexpected. They're working with him on his plate discipline
a little bit. I'm like, wow, really.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Thanks right, Yes, I saw that story, and I have
seen the comments. I find them interesting. I understand why,
I suppose because and again, this sounds like an absurd
thing to bring up here on the twenty second, twenty
third of April. But his RBI numbers, the ratio is
(18:57):
perhaps a little lower than what they thought it might be.
But come on, he's leading the entire sport in offensive production.
Is he a little bit impatient in situations with men
in scoring position? Perhaps, and that's something that they're working
(19:17):
on with him. But bear in mind, this is not
in any suggestion and overhaul of his approach. And when
you think about the big picture here and his ability
to compartmentalize all that's happened in his life and career
in the last two months, I don't think a little
bit of hitting advice is going to really change too
(19:38):
much or risk a real rewiring of the way that
Otani approaches his craft. I think he's going to be
just fine. And the Dodgers, despite the fact that they've
somewhat been average since the first week of the season,
I think they're going to be just fine too.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
How long before they have to start managing innings for
a glass.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Now, Well, the answer to that is that it's already happening.
And there's a reason why they have gone to a
six man rotation and probably a reason why they haven't
necessarily been a dominant team to begin the season is
that glass Now is one guy who needs to have
as workload monitored cared for. Bobby Miller that thought was
(20:23):
going to be one of the workhorses, and of course
now he's on the il the six man rotation if
you want to call it that, and I think it's
probably fair to do that. It really was created because
the Dodgers felt that they had multiple starters, not just Syamamoto,
but glass Now as well, who needed a little bit
(20:44):
of additional rest. And when you consider what glass Now
has done in terms of what his career high for
innings is, he's not going to throw one hundred and ninety.
So they're either going to back them off now and
give him an additional day of rest or will probably
be on the il by the end of May, just
based on what his career tells you. So he is,
(21:07):
to be fair here, one of the most electrifying pitchers
to watch work in the planet. I mean, he is unbelievable.
And when you watch him and you're up close to
just see how tall he is on the mound, what
an uncomfortable at bat he is for anybody. So he's special.
And the Dodgers, I think wisely, are are banking on
(21:30):
the facts that they're probably going to be able to
make the playoffs, even if they're giving guys additional rest.
Even if there's a lower percentage of starts made by
Glass now to what they would like, They're willing to
accept that if it gives them a healthy Glass now
in the second half in the postseason, when obviously they
hope that Kershaw and Bueler are more meaningful members of
(21:53):
the rotation by that time of the year.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Now, Papa got to ask this, I watch you tell
me the truth. I mean, it was the first time
you're ever going to tell the story. Yeah, I tell
the truth. Have you ever done an interview with a
player where maybe the player looks away from you and
thinks that you said something really bad about him, but
it turned out to be a fan behind you, and
the player walks away from the interview with you. Because
(22:16):
I saw what happened to Aaron Boone yesterday, and I'm
thinking maybe maybe it could have happened to you at
some point in a situation like that.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
No, No, anything, anything that I have said that was
foolish is something I have said.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Say enough foolish things on my own. I don't need
help from the guy in the second or third row.
But in all seriousness, I like everybody. I've I've viewed
the forensic evidence here of the of the Yes Network footage.
Clearly Aaron Boone did not say the magic words to
(22:57):
Hunter Winds wendelstat that resulted in the AGI. Someone else
said them. Now, there could have been two someone's this, Jason.
It is after all New York, and and if one
person is going to say something, often two people are
going to say something.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Roger McDowell was second, right.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Right, right, exactly. So I do think if you were
to ask me, do I think that there were two people?
Probably talking in that moment, the guy with his nacho's
behind the dugout, and someone towards the further end of
the of the dugout registering his discontent with the strike zone,
whether it be a coach or a player, someone in
(23:39):
a Yankee uniform. Yeah, a fair there's a fair chance
of that that that happened. But I also think that
there's a way to handle it, which is, you don't
eject someone for something that another individual said. I mean
that that is, and I understand that the hunter's point
(23:59):
that that the conduct of the dugout in some way,
shape or form is the responsibility of the manager, and
then I subscribe to that. And I'm generally someone that
really I'm an umpire supporter. I mean, I really think
that they do a fantastic job and have a lot
of friends who are umpires and really enjoy my conversations.
(24:20):
There could this have been handled differently, probably because the
way in which it was handled, and obviously there's no
way that hunter would know that it would be quite
picked up by the microphones and broadcast and quite that fashion.
I get it, and I think that there was probably
a way that could have been handled in a way
(24:41):
that did not create front page news. Unfortunately, here we are,
and I do think that that's I don't know a
ton about the rating system that umpires are given, but
I do know that one of the things that umpires
are evaluated on is what they call situation management. And
I think in this case, the situation could have been
(25:02):
managed a little differently. And I think Hunter is an
excellent umpire, obviously, the son of an umpire, has been
around the game his entire life. He knows baseball, and
clearly he felt like he had to make a statement there.
I think we could probably reasonable folks could say maybe
there was a different way to handle it. But hey,
thanks to Hunter and Aaron for giving us a pretty
(25:25):
interesting thing to discuss for a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Like we always say, JP, you got those reputation calls,
Aaron Boone didn't help himself with all the ejections well
year ago.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That's true, and there were probably some that Bobby Cox
over the history of his career where just because of
the way Bobby conducted himself in the way he was very,
very strided in support of his players, probably got the
hooks more often than he maybe deserved. But you're right
it's a by the way, reputation name of a Taylor
(25:57):
Swift album. There's another one released just in the last week.
I know this because I have daughters and they told
me this.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Thirty one songs JP thirty one, thirty one. It's a
double album. It's an anthology. It's two hours of music.
Get ready, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Like the White Album by the Beatles, or or the
Smashing Pumpkins album that we all had back in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That one.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Wow, you went right from Taylor Swift to Smashing Pumpkins somewhere.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Okay, first of all, I'm just pictured.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm picturing John Paul Morosi in his dorm room at
Michigan right with long hair, and he's listening to the
Counting Crows and Smashing Pumpkins and he's he here, going, boy,
if they have a strike in Major League Baseball, that's
not going to be good. I'll tell you that lockout's
going to be really bad. Listen to that music and
sitting here reciting former lineup to the Tigers who played
left field for the Tigers in nineteen sixty five, normOn
(26:48):
Cash got Stern Jonsond me, was that was that?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
You?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Was that you in college. Shape was that you and
David Stearns in college.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
More or less Okay, more or less up with the
long hair. And and let's be let's be clear. Anyone
who has seen me knows right now I do not
have long hair. That that we can we can sources
can confirm that to be very very true. But I've
always had a very eclectic musical taste. In my roommates
(27:20):
in college introduced bands to me that I really didn't know,
in groups I didn't really know. So that's that is
the purpose of college. You build great relationships with great friendships,
and you learn a little bit of new music.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well there you go, look at that, a little bit
of living and a lot about love. There getting a
little country line in Hey, let me ask Mike Trout
nine home runs as of tonight, where can we get
the change dot org petition to free him to a
team that's going to compete.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
He's back, He's back, Mike Trout's back. It's a great question.
I and I think at the end of the day
that that conversation and that decision and is a is
a two person conversation. Ardi moreno, Mike Trout, and that's it.
(28:08):
And where that all goes. All Mike has said publicly
is I want to win in Anaheim. He's playing great.
I think he's you know, he's obviously, he's a father,
he's got a young family. I think there's a lot
of a lot of things that would suggest that he
wants to stay where he's comfortable. Of Course, we know
(28:29):
well that he's got his roots in the Philly area,
and obviously this is probably not going to be the
last time that we wonder and say, huh, Philly, Bryce
Harper want to get one more star. That'd be kind
of fun. We can all connect the dots. I mean,
I think it's a and listen, it actually makes some sense.
(28:49):
They've had some issues getting production consistently out of Castianos
the last couple of years, at least the last year,
so I get it. I mean that it makes a
ton of sense. But I'm just not convinced at all
yet that he wants to wave with no trade. And
I think if we got to that point, how many
teams could take on it, And again, the Phillies with
(29:11):
John Middleton probably one of a handful of teams that
could do it. Would take on all the money and
the luxury tax payments more than likely if we're talking
about one of the big time market teams. So again,
if they didn't trade Otani, and I realized Otani and
Crowd our different players. But if they didn't trade Otani
(29:32):
when all the world made it seem like that would
have been the objective, logical thing to do at a
very manageable salary. I'm not sure how likely it is
that they would take one of the largest contracts in
the history of pro sports and find a way to
move it with this many years left at this type
of juncture for the franchise after losing Otani. It's fun
(29:56):
to talk about, and we'll keep talking about it. I
just don't see as being terribly like.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Right now, he's an LB network insider and my conduit
to David Sterns. One email I send to John Palmerrosi,
he gets a text to David Sterns, I am now
officially an unpaid consultant. Have you sent the first one?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Not yet.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
You want to critique at Pete Alonzo dive on that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's fine, that's.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Fine, Okay, Hey, listen, Jad Martinez is getting close.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He's gonna transform the offense. He's going to transform the
offense when he comes back.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I'm a little bit worried about the Alvarez injury. That
was a tough one. Yeah, but this team is playing
better than I expected. I should have I should have
known that old Stersy would have found a way to
get this team competitive quicker.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Than I thought.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate the time. I enjoy
the rest of the week.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
We'll talk to my friend, enjoy the conversation with my friends.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Thanks for everything, really for anybody there, goes John Palmer ROSSI. Yeah,
I'm waiting. I'm waiting because, as he said last week
on the show, if you have something you want to say,
I'll send a text to David Sterns for you. But
I'm waiting for I mean, I can't just do it all.
I would want to send him a text like every
five minutes.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You know what you can do, like the two minute
report that exonerated the seventy six ers on a lot
of things and ills in the final minute and it's
just a barrage of bullet points.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Here's what I think the last two winnings of that
game last night. No, yeah, I'm picking my spots. I'm
picking my spots right now.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Oka, it is only April. It is gotta let it
Marrit enough, did Mets lose again? Get shut out?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
It is.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Anybody running and hiding this. No, it's okay. But that's
why I say I'm okay. I'm okay for a little bit.
I'm okay for a little bit. All about j D Martinez. Well, no, seriously,
because because the Mets looks like they're bogging down offensively.
But like that's he could come back this weekend. That
could transform the team could transform off Right now, I'm
thinking wild card anyway. It's fine, it's fine, but it
might real lofty expectations might not be fine for mine.
(31:45):
You got to shoot for the moon. Man, I'm trying
trying to be patient. You jerky making it possible because
you're a jerk because your team stinks and you're living
vicariously through my team. What the hell? How dare you?
I'm with Mike Trout and the helmet nachos. I only
I have. There's only one thing about the White Sox.
(32:05):
There's only one thing there's on that I can't put
quite put my finger up. But I know what it is.
You know out, Yes, you know what it is. Really, yeah,
you know what it is. You figured it out.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yes, you want to tell America in the world, yes, please,
They stink that's all holding them back to That's it
Jillie's deep thought. Well, thanks Jack Handy.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Right now, let's find out what's trending with our own
Jack Handy here at Fox Sports Radio. Because he writes
literature like that and leaves it in the bathroom for
people to look at. It's Brian Finley with what's trending
in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
I'm actually full of deep thoughts, all right? Would have
been a better segue.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You give me one deep thought. Life is.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
A beautiful harmony of love?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Is that a deep thought? Did you just read a Hallmark?
You know what he's he's trying to write his vows.
I think, yes, I could be.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I could be working.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You put that into chat GP. Is that what he
can spit back out?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
It says sappyvow crap.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Brian Fenley is clearly if I had say, hey, who's
the one person here at Fox Sports Rader that would
have artificial intelligence write his wedding speech. Brian Fenley, Why
why how dare you? Because yeah, no, I see you
wanted to be on the on the on the inside,
scoop on that all day. I write it for me.
I think that's you.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
How wrong you are practice, how wrong you are after.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
What you just right off a Hallmark carden that was
off the dome. Okay, what he strolling dome over here
trying to cop the Moniker there? Sorry?
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Sorry? So yeah, from from that and the swool arms
that you have, Yes, my triceps look great today, yeah
for sure. And to a to a pro league where
there are a lot of guys with nice triceps, so
that would be the NBA.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Could have just said let's go to the NBA. No,
you didn't need to say. You could have just said,
let's go to the NBA. Shizzled. I don't think Luca
has triceps. I don't think he does. I don't think
he does there somewhere and they're hidden somewhere yours showing off? No, no, no,
because when he got him to flaunt the baby right, Yeah,
that's man.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Absolutely Yeah. Speaking of Doncic, she's got eighteen points and
the mavericksher leading the Clippers forty eight to forty three,
just about a minute into the third quarter. Western Conference
first Round Game two. Clippers leads to this series one
game to none. Also to mention, Kawhi Leonard is playing
in this game. That was a surprise add in for
Los Angeles. He had missed the last nine games because
(34:31):
of right knee inflammation. Right now, he's struggling. He's only
got four points from the first half, and the Clippers
were brick city from three point range in the first half.
They were two of thirteen from long range. Earlier, the
Timberwolves flushed down the Suns one oh five to ninety three.
That was a game too. Timberwolves lead that series two
games to none, and the Timberwolves made eleven more free
(34:54):
throws in that game than the Phoenix Suns. Pacers equal
their series one game apiece with the Bucks after Indiana
took out the Bucks in Milwaukee one to five to
one to eight. Pascal Siakam thirty seven points, eleven rebounds
and six assist in. The Bucks were left playing without
Yannis dent Tokoupo, their premier scorer and talent, because of
(35:18):
an injury to his left calf. In the NHL, we
have an overtime win for the Panthers over the Lightning
three to two. These are all first round series, by
the way. It's a game two for Florida and so
there had two games to none. The Rangers are up
two games to none after beating the Capitals four to three.
Also end of one period, it's the Jets swan the
Avalanche nothing. That's a game two, and another game two
(35:41):
has the Canucks trailing The Predators won nothing. Vancouver leads
that matchup one game to none. And then lastly, guys
in Major League Baseball, Mariners blanked the Rangers four to nothing.
Diamondbacks with fourteen runs they put up against the Cardinals
in a win. Royals victorious, So were the Cubs, White
Sucks almost got a win, could even consider that a win?
(36:05):
Maybe close enough? Six to five over the Twins against
the White Sox. With that, let's get it back to
Jason Smith and Mike Karmen. Do we start Mike and
Jason counting morale victories as wins of the win column
for the White Soxs?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
You mean moral victories, morale boosting victories, morale boosters, moral victories.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Morale victories. It's it's not it is. It's not how
I use the words you're using. You're using verbs and
nouns in a way no one's ever used them in
the English language. He's changing the language. Remember, irregardless used
to be wrong exactly.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Thank you, Mike. Somebody stands up for me.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Thank you, Brian family appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carman
coming up next. We get back into the NBA and
it may be this simple when it comes to figuring
out one NBA superstar who's had an up and down
season into the playoffs. Keep it right here, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Mets are gonna get swept by the Giants,
aren't they? Yep, three nothing Giants with the lead over
the Mets and the fifth inning you got the Knicks. Yeah, no,
you're right.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You really can't complain, but you're right. The Hurricano you
actually have action.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You're right, you're right. But the show is tonight and
I'm watching the Mets. You know you don't have to.
There are plenty of movies or other games. You don't
have to watch the mess. There's a rule you have
to watch. If you're from New York and you pick
a baseball team, you have to watch that team. You
have no choice.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Well, I was trying to give you an option out,
like say, ty shirt were ad a stage of bloodless
coup and put on something he wanted on that screen
and said.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, you have to watch Mets. I have to watch
Mets to you want to talk about getting paid. Caitlin
Clark and her deal with Nike is now official. As
we heard last week, the rumors twenty eight million dollar
contract for her. She's going to get her own signature shoe.
(38:06):
This contract was by far better than what was offered
from Adidas and under Armour. They were down at a
seven million dollar deal sixteen million dollar deal total. This
is twenty eight million dollars for Caitlin Clark and her
own signature shoe coming her way courtesy of Nike. But
as hey, as everybody tells me WHOA, people are going
to keep following Kate and Clark and watch it. Oh
that's over.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Pl okay never mind that a number of cities for
the w NBA, they've already moved their games into bigger
arenas and figured out the scheduling to accommodate.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
No, but no one's gonna watch nah, no one's gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Them in Indiana where they have problems with people being
able to see the pacers, oftentimes there have been a
bunch of deals brokers to allow people to watch the
Fever play. And what was interesting in reading and I'd
love some more of the particulars kind of like the
little oh and by the way kind of things in
(39:00):
the articles were that several of the companies that were
trying to buy for her services and her signature here
for shoes are like, yeah, but you need to stay
at Iowa another year from this deal to work.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I know, not doing it. Oh okay, And look
she played it well, she played it right. And now
twenty eight million dollar deal for the next seven years
from like like.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Steph Curry got into the mix right when it came
to you know, negotiations as well, trying to lure things there.
I think he's already got well his what his god
god daughter'll probably be in in those kicks before long.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
But yeah, just I mean twenty eight million.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You know, when we talked about ten figure deal, I
thought it might have been a little north of that.
And maybe there's some incentives based on sales mixed therein
that we're not privy to. But that's one hell of
a base regardless.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And not worried about her salary from the WNBA anymore?
Are we're not really worried about that. Not worried about that?
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, no, people are still going to complain about that.
People such a nice easy thing to complain about. Again,
revenues hen billion NBA. Yeah, two hundred million wn meliot
doesn't mean.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
That that can't grow.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
No, And if you didn't understand, yeah, and this always
goes like in our business and in most businesses, right,
you can only invest so much on a theory before
you say, hey, I've got to see bigger returns before
I'm going to kick over more cash. Right, I'd like
to franchise my restaurant. Well, you're barely breaking even here, Yeah,
but we're breaking even.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Let's go. I'll give you two things that are definitely
going to still happen with time on now. Caitlin Clark
twenty eight million dollar deal Now, I'll guarantee you two things. One,
media other stars are going to continue to throw up
on themselves when they try to discuss Caitlin Clark, and
they're gonna get the entire heel of their foot in
(40:47):
their mouths because so many people just don't know how
to talk women's sports. We've seen it already. It's gonna
continue because Kaitlyn Clark's a big story and it's amazing
so many people that don't know how to do it.
But it's going to We're gonna get stories like with
the Indianapolis Star guy so many times. We're gonna get
that story all the time. And the second thing I'll
guarantee you is this, the backlash against her is going
(41:11):
to increase. The backlash from players is going to increase.
And on the court, cool, hey, welcome to WNBA, Come here,
prove yourself. But off the court, the backlash you realize
she's she's shown up and she's going to lift the
WNBA to heights they've never been at before. I'm sorry
it didn't happen for you. Sorry you came around at
the wrong time. This is how sports goes. If you
(41:32):
understand how sports goes, as time goes on. More people
get paid. Superstars arrive when they arrive, and Caitlin Clark
has arrived now doesn't mean anything bad for you, doesn't
mean anything. It just means she's the superstar that's gonna
lift the league. And I'm sorry it wasn't you. Sorry
it didn't happen for you. But talk to all the
NFL players in the seventies. How wait a minute, I'm
having all kinds of trouble in my life and I
don't have any money. Well, that's just the way the
(41:52):
world goes. Now, those two things are gonna happen continuously
with KATELYNKL and in theory, the benefits for them in
post career get better because of the monies that are
now flowing in. This helps not only short term but
long term. And it goes back to as we were
discussing this in the throes of the Final Four and
the title game and everything else, like, sorry, folks, relate
(42:14):
to the party. They're here, now, get them a drink
and let's enjoy the ride. Exit. How about a Fresca
exit swelling dome. Those are two things that will continue
in perpetuity with Caitlin Clark coming up next. We got
a big story out of the NBA and Lebron James.
Keep it right here, Fox
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