May 8, 2024 • 36 mins
Jason and Mike have all the details on Gisele being upset with Tom Brady Roast jokes. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi drops by from Madison Square Garden.
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Of this is how much time was left Right now,
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double overtime Hurricanes and the Rangers tied at three apiece.
Hopefully ESPN will not cut out of this game at
some point to go to something different while we're watching it,
because that could have been a real Heidi moment. Part two. Meanwhile, well,
I think people know the Heidi game. I think well, okay.
In nineteen sixty eight, the Jets were playing the Raiders.
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The Jets were leading the Raiders by four points with
about a minute left to go on a Sunday night,
and NBC decided, you know, this game is over, we
want to show Heidi in its entirety on TV. So
they went to Heidi. Problem is, Raiders scored a touchdown,
picked off Joe Namath went back in for a touchdown.
They scored fourteen points in the final minute to win
(01:48):
the game, and everybody woke up the next morning going
Raiders beat Jet. Wait what they they went to Heidi and.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The game was over.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Theye So this little Swiss girl, she's running through the.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Field paint a lot of money to get the rights
to it looks like a big blind melon video.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Now come on, this sounds heighty yes, it's all exact.
Sciting is that the flowers are all big, and you
missed the end of the game, and since that moment,
generally you don't cut away. Nobody cuts away from live
sporting events until they are actually over. And we had
that tonight the Rangers and the Hurricanes in the at
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the end of regulation. The Rangers were on a power play,
and this is a big game. These are the two
best teams, probably the two best teams in hockey, and
the Rangers on a power play, and with about fifty
seconds left to go, ESPN dumps out of the game
and goes to the Avalanche game, which was the next
game coming up. Somehow something got crossed and they just
went right to warm ups of the Avalanche and I'm watching, going,
(02:45):
what the hell, man, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Luckily they went back. There was about thirty second. There's
about thirty seconds left to go, so they had to
fix in about twenty seconds. But still, man, can you
imagine if there was a goal scored at that time
and we missed, whether it was Carolina or New York.
For New York, it would have been even worse if
the Rangers scored and they're all pounding the glass. MSG
is going nuts, and they missed it because ESPN cuts
to another game. I mean, the Rangers weren't a power play.
(03:08):
It could have happened. It could have happened. That would
have been insane, and me, being a Hurricanes fan, I'd
have been really pissed. But as a regular Joe sports fan, Oh,
I'd love to see the fallout of that. What about
all those people guys that did turn it off thinking
it was over? No, it's all it's all a three
to thrower. What happened? Oh they must have gone to
must be in overtime?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Okay, yeah, well because that could happen, right, it was like, hey,
bonus time. Instead of having a bunch of folks sitting
around having a round table at the intermission, we're gonna
actually just go to the other game.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I bet people thought they did something. That's my always
thing is did I lean on the remote? Did I
do did I somehow switch over? Because how did this happen?
And by the time you figure out, no, I'm on ESPN,
I'm on the game, they got back to the Hurricanes game. Yeah,
but the better story is not in this case, you know,
with the losers, it's whoever lost in that control room.
Yeah yeah, because yeah, there there's someone who will be
(04:01):
or someone who will no longer be working on live
hockey or live programming for ESPN because of that, because
that that would have been DIZ for a Saturday somebody
cursing somebody out.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What I what I think probably happened is this is
that they had it. So is it like NASA where
you have to have badges to talk to people? Oh well,
if you're you're if you're doing a game, if you're
doing a game in the control room, like you're not
allowed to go in if you're not in the broadcast.
Like if you just walk in, it's like, what is it?
Like you just you you just you just showed the
moon landing, because there's no everybody needs to focus every
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second of every moment while you're on the air for this,
like us back here. If you walk in and it's
like you you need to be bringing something, like you
need to be like Radar and mash on everybody. Hey,
Colonel Blake's playing went down over the siege Japan.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh whoa whoa spoiler.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Alert spoiler sorry spoiler, Like you need to be doing that.
So what I think probably happened is that there was
a there was probably an automatic switch to was gonna
be that that was there to switch the game over
and either somebody just pressed the wrong button or it
was on a timer and it and and so. But
I got to think that somebody just happened to hit
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the wrong button go on it because because they but
they went to the open and it looked like they
were ready because you see the uh you know, the
teams are skating and they and they go to the
announcers who are doing their pregame uh spiel, going forward,
getting ready for the game. So I got to think that, Okay, yeah,
it was a mistake, but boy, they certainly went there
(05:32):
just at the right time for the for the show
open and everything really weird, really.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What it switched over, didn't ye know we are Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That would have been awesome, like the quick.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know, heart out that we have at the end
of the.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Stop I'm broadcasting. Uh so again luckily no, uh no,
Heidi moment tonight in in the NHL. Meanwhile, we'll have
more NBA in the way just about there, just starting
the second half, Oklahoma City up over Dallas by nine.
The fallout from the Tom Brady roast continues to get
(06:06):
better and better. The last couple of days you saw
a lot of roast masters doing interviews Jeffrey Ross talking about, Hey,
this was the joke that this is what Tom Brady
said to me when I made the joke about Bob
Kraft and the massages and Nikki Glazers making the rounds
on Howard Stern talking about the roast, and it's still
and for everybody, right because everybody everybody killed it. And
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again it shows you what a big cultural moment this was.
That still here we are two days later and everybody's
talking about it. And one of the stories today is
that Giselle Bunschin, according to her sources, very upset at
all the material that was out there making fun of
their divorce and her moving on and dating her Brazilian
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ju jitsu and instruction. Well yeah, there's that, and seeing
some of the quotes, Aw, Gizelle is upset about and
wants to be a good mom first and foremost with
their kids. And I look at this and I just go,
you know, if Giselle Bunchin is upset about the Tom
Brady roast, she's just stupid, all right. This is just
I'm trying to find some kind of sympathy because you know,
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in any divorce battle, each side when their public figures
wants to win the war. Right, And when the divorce
came up, what was the first thing? We saw? Pictures
of Jiselle bunching with her jiu jitsu instructor and her
kids while they were on vacation. Right, these pictures are
out there, right, boy, this is pretty soon. And here's
here's her rumored boyfriend. Turns out that's who they were dating. Oh,
(07:32):
by the way, dating somebody who she knew while she
was married to Tom Brady taking these jiu jitsu lessons?
What do you need eight karate leaders day? So this
was going on, and so for here to sit here
and play, Oh, you know she's worried about her kids,
that's soft. That's just the knee jerk reaction. Hey, I'll
get good publicity if I say it's about my kids.
Your kids are on vacation with the guy, okay, with you,
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So I don't see that. Secondly, you're a public figure.
People can say anything they want to about you. People
can say that's how it goes. You're a public figure, right,
people can make jokes. It's comedy. This is how it works.
You want to be upset with Tom Brady for doing
the special, Okay, but you know what, it's not anything
that anybody couldn't have said about you before. Is she
upset at late night hosts for all the jokes they
(08:17):
did with Tom Brady and Giselle Bunching? Is she's suing
all the tabloids for all the photos that came out
of her with all the pick is? Is she met
at all these other people for talking about her? No,
she's looking for publicity and sympathy coming off of this. Right,
it's a roast. You know, when there's a roast happens,
people are gonna get made fun of. That's how it goes.
You want to be upset with Brady, Hey, this is
gonna this is gonna hurt me. Okay, yeah, I get it.
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But you're a public figure and you seek out the
spotlight and and this is how it works, and you
know the deal. And that's why I see this and
I go, this is just her trying to jump on
and get some kind of good publicity because all she's
been hearing the last couple of days is all the
jokes and how funny they were. And they were funny, right,
because they're jokes, they're comedy. So this is what I
see from her. If she's really mad. It's just stupid.
(09:01):
It's just stupid that she is.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Well, you can be mad, be mad about it, and
recognize because you know, you may have realized either the
error of your ways or the last thing you need.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Is your kids parroting them back at you.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But I mean, they're old enough they've watched this flow
and have seen probably and heard far worse that's going on.
I didn't watch the clip, but I believe she was
on with either Foulin or Kimmel like two weeks ago.
So she was out promoting something or another and now
doing some you know, humanitarian work and whatever. But you know,
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not to dismiss that the good part of it. But yeah,
you knew this was coming. This has been advertised for
months a right, and anything becomes fair game except for
Robert Kraft evidently. And they didn't go directly at the
kids about anything, right because Nicki Glazer went to Howard
Stern with a couple of other jokes. I'm not going
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to repeat them here, you can go find them if
you like. That was my best Bill Walton without really
going into syuropey Bill Walton voice. But in the end
the jokes, it'll move on. As long as you did,
you to guy, and the kids are good. Don't worry
about what the rest of the world's saying.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I only got one huge question coming off or Okay,
the hell is she only a white belt? Well, well,
maybe maybe some of the lessons didn't last very long.
And well or is it gaze gazillo.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Because at some point, I mean, you do have that
switch because I remember, you know, younger, when the kids
were you know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Try a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
As soon as you got into some of those uh sports,
where it became all right, we're gonna do half the
session on stretching versus the actual exercises and learning how
to do stuff. My kids were done with it, Like
damn it. I want to climb. I want to be
up on the you know, the the rings. I want
to do all this other crab. I don't want to
sit here and stretch. So maybe Giselle gets bored.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's it's it's a very
big thing to want to win the divorce. And clearly
what we have seen so far is she is the
the more of the aggressor in winning the divorce, because
after the stories came out about their divorce. What do
we see? Here's Giselle on horseback, Here's Gazelle on vacation.
Here's Azelle living her best life. Now here she is
(11:20):
on vacation. That doesn't happen all of this? Right? Uh?
Did we see one photo? Have there been one photo
of Tom Brady and Arena Shak or Kim Kardashian?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Has there been one photo anywhere? There hasn't, There hasn't.
There has not been one photo of anybody that Tom
Brady is rumored to be. And you think the tabloids
wouldn't want that? Think tabloys wouldn't want to picture of
Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian if they could, of course
they would, are you?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A lot of folks were like, what, why is she there?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It's like, yeah, somehow you all missed that rumor that
they were together at least for a bit, so Uh,
good job by you. But the other being the fact
that you, guys, I mean, we've lived here long enough.
You know how the sausage is made. What do you
normally see being seedless celebrity and where they're eating lunch?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right? And why does that happen?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Because they're pr people say, hey, TMZ our guys out
having a snack, you want to come by, or the
Kardashians or everybody else.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's how it works.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You build up a crowd, you get somebody there, it's like, oh, look,
look who they were out with. Is that a meeting
about a new movie? I mean, it's it's all a game.
And those photos that showed up of Giselle and out
and about are not accidental. And oh my goodness, there
she is on a horse. Let me take us a picture.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
No, those people were there on purpose.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Of course they of course they.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Are, and with advanced knowledge.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Of course they and they know they look, they know
where they're gonna be. And again, and I go back
to the fact that there were photos you were with
your kids on vacation with the guy. I mean, come on, man,
I mean, but you're worried about people saying something. I mean,
your kids can go on the internet and find out
anything they want to. And it's not like any of
the hosts brought up the kids. None of them brought
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the kids right anything else, None of that that was
all out there, none of them brought it up everything.
But she's just mad that everybody laughed at the jokes,
and everybody is laughing at her because of the jokes,
and she's like, Oh, I want to find some way
to get a little bit save a little face here.
So I'm gonna let it out there that I'm mad
about this and that's something something wrong was done to
our kids. Come on, man, I mean, really, come on,
(13:30):
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is over. Rangers just score in double overtime following a
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Speaker 1 (15:00):
TJ, thank you, Mike. Right now in the NBA Oklahoma
City in Dallas, Thunder maintaining that eleven point lead over
the MAVs right now, four and a half to go
on the third quarter. Again we are steaming towards a
thunder Minnesota Timberwolves Western Conference Finals. But joining us now
(15:22):
in the hotline for all the big news in Major
League Baseball and a guy that really has to understand
he really screwed me tonight. It's MW Network insider extraordinary,
John Paul Morosi. He is on Twitter at John Morosi JP.
You are doing your normal spring double duty covering the
NHL Playoffs for NHL Network. You are in the building
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right now at Madison Square Garden. You did not bring
my Hurricanes to win tonight. So we're gonna have words
now after this.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Jason, my apologies, my friend, my apologies. What I can
tell you is that the Madison Square Garden technical crew
as we speak, is getting set for Game two of
the Nick Pacers series. And it really is one of
the unique things in American sports to be sitting here
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in the most famous arena in the world and actually
watch as it begins the transition already to a basketball
game happening less than twenty four hours from now. It's
pretty extraordinary to be here in New York at this time.
And you're right. You think about the scene and the
way the Rangers won this game. Hurricanes had two power
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plays in overtime, did not score, and Jason, I thought
that it had the Canes scored, I would have been
able to describe you as the only fan that I
know who stood up and cheered when John Franco was
shown on the scoreboard in at and at the end
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of a Hurricane's victory, you have the Venn diagram of
those populations is a one of one. You know, Mike,
We've always known Jason is unique. But this night and
this result would have capped that off.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, well, a Nix up one zip the Mets one
tonight you would have the Hurricanes winning. But I would say,
it's not going to get any better than this. It's
not gonna get.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Any better my goodness. I tell you what though. Vincent Trocheck,
the former Saginaw Spirit star from the Ontario Hockey League
in my home state of Michigan, he's the hero tonight.
He led all skaters with more than thirty three minutes
played time on I switch. For those not as familiar
with hockey statistics, that's a lot, especially for a center.
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So he is one of the best conditioned athletes we've
got going right now in any sport in our country,
and Vincent Trocheck's the hero here tonight.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Got to say, a really impressive job by you to
get the game to end just in time to make
your usual.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Hit with us today.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean, really really good job by you to
get it to a finish.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
It was minutes I was I was texting Justinsberg furiously
thinking to myself, how am I going to make this work?
I'm inteen overtime periods. I was already having to plan
out my my MLB Central segments that are going to
happen in about eight hours when I'm on morning TV,
and I said to myself, how am I going to
do this? How am I do I have to? Will?
(18:17):
I be calling in from New Jersey transit, which, by
the way, I have to figure out if I can
even get back to Jersey tonight. So that's the second
part of my If anybody has any any good transit tips,
the good news is, you know, while I am from
a small town in Michigan, Jason, I do believe. I
do believe the trip from Madison Square Gardens to this
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train station is a close one. As in downstairs, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, yeah, you're good. Frank the tank will take you.
Just get Frank the tank. He's happy, the Mets one,
He'll he'll take you back. And where we're staying in Jersey.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Hey, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I wanted to ask you this, Pope, because a big
viral moment from this game and it doesn't matter if
you're a hockey fan or not. With a minute left
to go in regulation, Rangers are on a power play.
ESPN dumped out of the feet of the game and
went to the Stars game, and for thirty seconds it
was pregame of the Stars, and the announcers are talking,
it's what happened, what happened, And they luckily avoided a
(19:15):
real Heidi moment by getting back to the Rangers and
the Hurricanes game with about twenty five seconds left. Does
anybody know about that? There are they talking about that
at the game? That the whole big the feed dumped
out and went to a different game for like the
last thirty seconds of the last minute of regulation.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
But I became aware of this through the magic of
social media. I'm not sure how many folks here were
aware of it. I'm sure obviously our our colleagues at
ESPN are by now well aware of it. But it's
an interesting moment because there's there is somebody. There is
somebody in a room, and this is true of all
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networks everywhere, sitting in master control at a keyboard that
decides what's going out over the network, and that's a
very important job and about ninety nine point nine percent
of the time, no one even realizes that it's a
job because it just happened seamlessly. But every now and then,
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and sometimes when there's a power play in the five
minute of regulation in the Stemic a playoff game, the
wrong button is pressed and then there tends to be
an executive who says, wait a minute, what's going on
over the air? This this does happen sometimes in TV.
It's not great. And I suppose ESPN was saved by
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their not being a goal there, and that it wasn't
it didn't become the defining story of the way that
America watched this classic Faundy Cup playoffs game. But it
is amazing. It is amazing that even in these in
these times where we talk and debates so much right
about streaming and where how we get our television out,
(20:54):
how it's consumed, but there is still someone in a room,
in this case in Bristook, a kid with the bump,
the sides on television. And if anybody ever wondered if
linear television still mattered and if anybody's still watching, well
after tonight we can say confidently people are still watching.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
John Morosi with us here at Jason Smith's show with
Mike Carman live fromthtyrack dot Com Studios, MLB Network, NHL Network.
He's there at the Garden watching the transformation after a
Rangers victory, and now it'll switch to the Knicks in
twenty four hours. Catch him on Twitter at John Morosi
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Speaker 3 (21:37):
A lot of talk.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Obviously, Otani rules today, but Yamamoto and Imanaga a couple
of Japanese pitchers making the scene. Let's go to Chicago
with the Cubs five wins and a one point zero
eight e r A JP. I mean, you talk about
instant impact for a squad.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Really impressive, and the Cubs are in a good spot.
And it's not just because the Monaga. But by the way,
let's start with him, because I think coming in, you know,
he does not have the same pure stuff that Yamamoto does.
He's there's a reason why his nickname is the pitching Philosopher.
He's more. He pitches more with I think his his mentality,
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his ability to locate and and obviously we're seeing right
now that that it plays that he has success in
the major leagues. Well, you cannot have a one point
a d r A now into your second month as
a rookie just by accident. I mean he is he
is a special special arm. They just got Bellinger back.
Michael Bush was the hero tonight. They acquired him in
(22:37):
a deal from the Los Angeles Dodgers. So the Cubs
after last year was he certainly ended with disappointment change
the manager. They now I think are in a really
good position in a pretty competitive NL Central. But I
just think I Managa and Yamamoto. Listen, they're they're showing
all MLB teams that there is an incredib dotible amount
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of talent in Japanese pro baseball, and I know in
my conversations with scouts they're going there multiple times a
year to look at the talent there. Agents we know
are trying to line up who's going to represent Roki Susaki,
who's going to represent the next generation of great Japanese
pitching stars. Clearly, the developmental mentality and path that we're
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seeing among the top end of Japanese pitchers is very appealing,
and certainly I think that we as American baseball folks,
when you think about the amount of injuries and attrition
that we have in pitching here in Major League Baseball.
We've got a lot to learn. I think from the
way that the Japanese baseball culture is developing pitchers and
(23:43):
we're seeing the results we now we, broadly speaking, people
who watch Major League Baseball are the beneficiaries of what
a great job Nipon Professional Baseball is doing of developing pitchers.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now, Pope, your big game this week, you're on Thursday.
You make the change. While this is a square garden
changing over from the ice to the hardcore, you'll be
changing over from the NHL playoffs back to the baseball player.
Do you have suits that you wear like do you
have to change over like that? Like you have Hey,
this is a hockey suit and tie that I wear
and then have baseball suit and tiz Do you do
(24:16):
that change.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Over when you go Yeah, that's a great question. There
are things I would say this you'll probably I'm thinking
about tomorrow morning. I haven't really thought about this too deeply.
My plan is for tomorrow morning to be in my
baby blue suit on MLB Central. That doesn't really play
as well for an indoor night time sport. Okay, you
(24:38):
gotta have I think, in my opinion, hockey is more
of a dark suit vibe is always what I've felt,
so that's probably what I'll let up doing tomorrow. But
for studio, you can do the lighter suit. Look, now,
this is all secondhand. I'm just getting this advice from
my wife, like I do with most things in my life.
(24:58):
But that's general how I will do things. But yeah,
it's not as though I have like a home uniform
road uniform. But I'm still very much trying to get
my fashion game going. As you know, I am a
father of three who drives a minivan, so there is
a fairly firm limit on how cool I could be
(25:19):
on any given day.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
All right, well, let's deal with the game then, because
you'll be cool by giving us your take on this.
Yankees have won four in a row, tied for first
place in the AL East, the Astros twelve and twenty three,
last place in the AL West, three straight losses. Is
this the real Yankees? And is this the real Astros?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yes? I believe, yes and yes now. Dana Brown was
on MLB Network today saying to Brian Kenny on MLB
Now that he does not expect to be a seller
at the deadline, that this team is too talented for
them to become sellers. And I think that there is
plenty of total and observational information to suggest that Dana's
(26:04):
correct in that just because of how good that team
has been for a long time. But look at their
record right now. Tomorrow night, They've got Spencer Arraghetti on
the mound. He's got an eight point two seven ERA
as a young starting pitcher against the mighty Yankee lineup
Thursday in the game that we have on MLB Network.
It's a really good pitching matchup. Blanco Ronel Blanco, who
(26:25):
threw a no hit earlier this year, against Marcus Stroman,
who's been really good since coming in to the Yankees.
And remember, the Yankees are playing really well, even though
Aaron Judge didn't really have a judge in April, and
Garrett Cole hasn't even thrown a major league pitch yet
this season. So the Yankees are a really good ball club.
Rizzo's been excellent, and the Astros Jose Bradho's down in
(26:46):
the minor league trying to regain it and find his
form again. There is, in my opinion, there is an
expiration date on even the greatest and most enduring of dynasties. Now,
there is certainly an asterisk on the Astros, but they've
made the Alcs seven years in a row, and that's
not an accident. I mean, certainly there's a lot of
success during that time. Yeah, Verlander, five innings, seven earn tonight.
(27:12):
And yet again, parenthetically, there were there were certainly some
aberrational years, at the very least during the beginning part
of that reign. But it's been a while since our
awareness was arrived at concerning the stealing scandal. They've been
good for a long time. They're not really good right now.
They are not. And to your point, as you remark
(27:35):
along those lines, there will probably not be profound amounts
of tears shed should this be the demise of the
Astros dynasty as we know them. I will add, though,
that back in two thousand and five, the front page
of the Houston Chronicle declared the Astros season to be dead.
They actually had a tombstone on the front page of
(27:56):
the paper saying the Astros season had died, and they
went on to make the World Series that year. So
we should be a little careful, But I agree with
you there. They have earned the records. They've gotten right now.
They have not been unlucky. They've been a pretty bad
baseball team.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, thanks for bringing that positivity to the White Sox,
as that starting staff ran through them like a hot Knight.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Through Butter covered that World Series.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I was there, Mike now speaking of the White Sox,
not about them, but about a team that just dominated
them from pillar to post. Are the Twins any good
or was it just a function of playing the White
Sox a lot in a three weeks period?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
The Twins are good. Check out the Twins record since
Max Kepler has regained and rejoined that lineup. He is,
in my opinion, a game changing player. Length is their
lineup out a lot. They've had some injuries Royce Lewis,
Carlos Correa, but I think that their pitching has really
stabilized a lot the last couple of weeks. Chris Paddock
has been really good. They're a good ball club now.
(28:54):
They lost tonight to the Mariners, so maybe they're glad.
Tidings are drawing to a close a little bit, and
they're in a very winnable division in the AL Central
Right now, they're running second place behind the Cleveland Guardians
two and a half games back. They're a good team,
not a great team, but a good team. And I
think in this division it probably will be won by
a good team, not a great team. The Guardians are
(29:16):
off to an excellent start, the Royals have been competitive.
The Tigers are still there because of how good uh
their their starting rotation has been. But I tend to
think the White Sox mic it is. It is not
going to be a short journey for them to get
back into this Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No, No, they're terrible, which is why I didn't ask
about them.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, they're they're in it for they're in it for
the long haul. But I I do, I do like
the Twins. They're better than I thought. Their bullpen is
very good, nice mix of righty's and lefties, duran o
kirts really good back there. They've they've got a good
group of relievers. So in a winnable division, I like
the Twins. Probably right now, would still still lean towards
(29:59):
the Guardian as the most impressive teams at this point
in time, but the Twins have impressed me.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, JP, I'm looking forward to football season and whoever
the Blackhawks selects second overall.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Yes, that's a great that's a great question. You know,
I we we know number one is Matt One Celebrinis
of the Sharks. We could we can go with that
right now, but I'm not sure who number two is
gonna be. That's a very very interesting questions.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, ask John Butchi Gross apparently he knows he's got
the script.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
I I saw that too. I I caught wind of
that on the interwebs today as well. It's been a
very interesting day in hockey Twitter.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I would say he's on Twitter at John Morosi. That
is at John Morosi, MLB Network Insider, NHL Network Insider.
It is double duty time in the spring for John
Paul Pope. Thanks so much, buddy. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Have fun, my pleasure. Gavin Lux. By the way, congrats,
first homer of the year for the great native of
the state of Wisconsin. How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I got our geography lesson, No, I think Pope made
somebody happy.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Mention Gavin Lux's home run for I'll mention it for you.
But speaking of the end, but more than the Nicks
and the Pacers coming up in a few minutes, but
straight ahead way till you hear what was said about
Lebron James today as the Lakers search for their new
head coach, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (31:25):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, fourth quarter, about six and
a half left to go. Things not going the way
of the Mavericks. The thunder up one oh.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Four eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Love more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Is there a third game the night that one that
might be good?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Nah? I don't. Well, they might show a replay of
the Knicks Pacers Game one. There might be that.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, but it had a terrible ending. No, it had
a great ending, very controversial ad game had.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
A great stop. Frostburg, I'm sorry the Lakers aren't in
the playoffs. You're not sorry. I'm sorry. No, I feel
bad because I know you would like to see them
in the playoffs. It's okay, I feel bad. You want
your team to do well. The Nuggets losing, I think
a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Are loving to think there's a lot of celebration, especially
when you literally towel Now.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
We're gonna hear something that was said today about Lebron
James that you're going to back up and go, WHOA
All right. Brian Windhorst was on Dan Patrick earlier today.
He's covered Lebron James for a long time, ESPN, other entities,
and there's no more first and foremost expert on Lebron
(32:36):
than Brian windhors.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Right, the guy really paused.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
The guy made his name by traveling around and giving
us news when the heatles started up, right, So in
Lebron's bottom, this isn't it's not the roasts, the roast man,
this is not that roast. We're gonna cut that joke
(33:00):
out of the final uh of the final fire. We
really So when Horst was on Dan Patrick today, you
know the Lakers are looking for their new head coach
and they have a lot of candidates out there and
Winhorst wanted everybody to know that when it comes to
hiring a head coach, Lebron's not really in on those meetings.
Lebron doesn't get involved in coaching hires year, so technical
(33:27):
difficulties there, but you heard the you heard the the
money part of it. Lebron doesn't get involved in coaching
hires and he hasn't for years. You hear this and
go now, wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute,
a minute. Now Now I want to say this. If
you asked me, is Lebron James involved more in coaches
hiring or firing? I would say, well, one hundred percent,
he's more involved than their Yeah, and not again you
(33:51):
can see that, Okay, I can see a little bit
of that in that it's not like wherever Lebron goes,
he brings his guide like they hire guys that Lebron
is the one he brings them to the team saying
this is our head coach, right, Like he doesn't do
that all the time. You know, that's not something that
Lebron does with regularity. But what he does do is,
you know, he's a guy that gets them fired when
(34:12):
it comes down to it. Right, If I'm not buying
in and I'm saying we should be doing this and
I'm questioning the head coach in the playoffs, you know
that's Lebron James getting fired. So yes, I would say,
much more involved in the firing than the hiring.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah, certainly the exit interviews passed through his way. I
would say this in terms of the hiring. I suppose
you could give yourself a little bit of the plausible
deniability because we normally have a pretty good idea, right
the leakage of which guys Lebron kind of favors, and
then when it doesn't come through, will they made that
(34:46):
choice and they went somewhere else. In other words, they
didn't want to pay what this guy wanted, right, because
we've had that the last couple of cycles too, right
where they haven't met the would be demands of the favorite.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's in the open market.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
So we certainly have seen that in the years since
Phil Jackson, you know, kind of that outlier where you
get whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
But to say he's got.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
No you know, he distances himself from this, like come on,
let's yeah, come on, don't don't don't lie to me,
Like nobody's buying that, Like even if we're one hundred
percent true given the last I don't know, twenty.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Years of his career.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Now, now let's just say, let's say buying it, like
could I see like, hey, Lebron wants coach X and
it's a debate and he can see that the guy's
not going to get hired and the Lakers want to
hire whoever they're going to hire, or the Cavaliers wanted
to hire whoever they were going to hire. I can
see him backing off saying, well, if you're not going
to listen for my guy, go hire who you think
(35:49):
and then I'll kill them coach wise. If they don't
do well and we don't.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They don't follow it with what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Sure, So that's kind of how I see it. So,
I mean, in the search of the hiring of the
coaches for Cleveland in LA, I can see it happening
like that. Like Lebron, these are the guys Lebron wants,
and for whatever reason, we're not gonna listen. We don't
want him to feel like he's hiring our coach. We'll
go here. Okay, I'm backing away from this about this
guy because I'm gonna do my own thing anyway, and
(36:15):
if he's not up to it, well then I'm not
really gonna follow him. Look, you have problems with Eric
Spolster in the beginning until he hundred percent right, yeah, yeah,
so I might look no, finish, No, I agree on
hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Like, I just think it's the kind of situation where
he makes his feelings known and then he can say, well, it.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Wasn't my call in the end. Yeah, one hundred.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Percent exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. So
you have much more involved in the firing than the hiring.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Good escaping blame coming up next?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
What player said one phrase thirteen times today in his
NBA press conference getting ready for Game two? That's next,
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Of this is how much time was left Right now,
(01:05):
double overtime Hurricanes and the Rangers tied at three apiece.
Hopefully ESPN will not cut out of this game at
some point to go to something different while we're watching it,
because that could have been a real Heidi moment. Part two. Meanwhile, well,
I think people know the Heidi game. I think well, okay.
In nineteen sixty eight, the Jets were playing the Raiders.
(01:27):
The Jets were leading the Raiders by four points with
about a minute left to go on a Sunday night,
and NBC decided, you know, this game is over, we
want to show Heidi in its entirety on TV. So
they went to Heidi. Problem is, Raiders scored a touchdown,
picked off Joe Namath went back in for a touchdown.
They scored fourteen points in the final minute to win
(01:48):
the game, and everybody woke up the next morning going
Raiders beat Jet. Wait what they they went to Heidi and.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The game was over.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Theye So this little Swiss girl, she's running through the.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Field paint a lot of money to get the rights
to it looks like a big blind melon video.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Now come on, this sounds heighty yes, it's all exact.
Sciting is that the flowers are all big, and you
missed the end of the game, and since that moment,
generally you don't cut away. Nobody cuts away from live
sporting events until they are actually over. And we had
that tonight the Rangers and the Hurricanes in the at
(02:23):
the end of regulation. The Rangers were on a power play,
and this is a big game. These are the two
best teams, probably the two best teams in hockey, and
the Rangers on a power play, and with about fifty
seconds left to go, ESPN dumps out of the game
and goes to the Avalanche game, which was the next
game coming up. Somehow something got crossed and they just
went right to warm ups of the Avalanche and I'm watching, going,
(02:45):
what the hell, man, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Luckily they went back. There was about thirty second. There's
about thirty seconds left to go, so they had to
fix in about twenty seconds. But still, man, can you
imagine if there was a goal scored at that time
and we missed, whether it was Carolina or New York.
For New York, it would have been even worse if
the Rangers scored and they're all pounding the glass. MSG
is going nuts, and they missed it because ESPN cuts
to another game. I mean, the Rangers weren't a power play.
(03:08):
It could have happened. It could have happened. That would
have been insane, and me, being a Hurricanes fan, I'd
have been really pissed. But as a regular Joe sports fan, Oh,
I'd love to see the fallout of that. What about
all those people guys that did turn it off thinking
it was over? No, it's all it's all a three
to thrower. What happened? Oh they must have gone to
must be in overtime?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Okay, yeah, well because that could happen, right, it was like, hey,
bonus time. Instead of having a bunch of folks sitting
around having a round table at the intermission, we're gonna
actually just go to the other game.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I bet people thought they did something. That's my always
thing is did I lean on the remote? Did I
do did I somehow switch over? Because how did this happen?
And by the time you figure out, no, I'm on ESPN,
I'm on the game, they got back to the Hurricanes game. Yeah,
but the better story is not in this case, you know,
with the losers, it's whoever lost in that control room.
Yeah yeah, because yeah, there there's someone who will be
(04:01):
or someone who will no longer be working on live
hockey or live programming for ESPN because of that, because
that that would have been DIZ for a Saturday somebody
cursing somebody out.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What I what I think probably happened is this is
that they had it. So is it like NASA where
you have to have badges to talk to people? Oh well,
if you're you're if you're doing a game, if you're
doing a game in the control room, like you're not
allowed to go in if you're not in the broadcast.
Like if you just walk in, it's like, what is it?
Like you just you you just you just showed the
moon landing, because there's no everybody needs to focus every
(04:36):
second of every moment while you're on the air for this,
like us back here. If you walk in and it's
like you you need to be bringing something, like you
need to be like Radar and mash on everybody. Hey,
Colonel Blake's playing went down over the siege Japan.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh whoa whoa spoiler.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Alert spoiler sorry spoiler, Like you need to be doing that.
So what I think probably happened is that there was
a there was probably an automatic switch to was gonna
be that that was there to switch the game over
and either somebody just pressed the wrong button or it
was on a timer and it and and so. But
I got to think that somebody just happened to hit
(05:11):
the wrong button go on it because because they but
they went to the open and it looked like they
were ready because you see the uh you know, the
teams are skating and they and they go to the
announcers who are doing their pregame uh spiel, going forward,
getting ready for the game. So I got to think that, Okay, yeah,
it was a mistake, but boy, they certainly went there
(05:32):
just at the right time for the for the show
open and everything really weird, really.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What it switched over, didn't ye know we are Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That would have been awesome, like the quick.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You know, heart out that we have at the end
of the.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Stop I'm broadcasting. Uh so again luckily no, uh no,
Heidi moment tonight in in the NHL. Meanwhile, we'll have
more NBA in the way just about there, just starting
the second half, Oklahoma City up over Dallas by nine.
The fallout from the Tom Brady roast continues to get
(06:06):
better and better. The last couple of days you saw
a lot of roast masters doing interviews Jeffrey Ross talking about, Hey,
this was the joke that this is what Tom Brady
said to me when I made the joke about Bob
Kraft and the massages and Nikki Glazers making the rounds
on Howard Stern talking about the roast, and it's still
and for everybody, right because everybody everybody killed it. And
(06:27):
again it shows you what a big cultural moment this was.
That still here we are two days later and everybody's
talking about it. And one of the stories today is
that Giselle Bunschin, according to her sources, very upset at
all the material that was out there making fun of
their divorce and her moving on and dating her Brazilian
(06:47):
ju jitsu and instruction. Well yeah, there's that, and seeing
some of the quotes, Aw, Gizelle is upset about and
wants to be a good mom first and foremost with
their kids. And I look at this and I just go,
you know, if Giselle Bunchin is upset about the Tom
Brady roast, she's just stupid, all right. This is just
I'm trying to find some kind of sympathy because you know,
(07:10):
in any divorce battle, each side when their public figures
wants to win the war. Right, And when the divorce
came up, what was the first thing? We saw? Pictures
of Jiselle bunching with her jiu jitsu instructor and her
kids while they were on vacation. Right, these pictures are
out there, right, boy, this is pretty soon. And here's
here's her rumored boyfriend. Turns out that's who they were dating. Oh,
(07:32):
by the way, dating somebody who she knew while she
was married to Tom Brady taking these jiu jitsu lessons?
What do you need eight karate leaders day? So this
was going on, and so for here to sit here
and play, Oh, you know she's worried about her kids,
that's soft. That's just the knee jerk reaction. Hey, I'll
get good publicity if I say it's about my kids.
Your kids are on vacation with the guy, okay, with you,
(07:55):
So I don't see that. Secondly, you're a public figure.
People can say anything they want to about you. People
can say that's how it goes. You're a public figure, right,
people can make jokes. It's comedy. This is how it works.
You want to be upset with Tom Brady for doing
the special, Okay, but you know what, it's not anything
that anybody couldn't have said about you before. Is she
upset at late night hosts for all the jokes they
(08:17):
did with Tom Brady and Giselle Bunching? Is she's suing
all the tabloids for all the photos that came out
of her with all the pick is? Is she met
at all these other people for talking about her? No,
she's looking for publicity and sympathy coming off of this. Right,
it's a roast. You know, when there's a roast happens,
people are gonna get made fun of. That's how it goes.
You want to be upset with Brady, Hey, this is
gonna this is gonna hurt me. Okay, yeah, I get it.
(08:39):
But you're a public figure and you seek out the
spotlight and and this is how it works, and you
know the deal. And that's why I see this and
I go, this is just her trying to jump on
and get some kind of good publicity because all she's
been hearing the last couple of days is all the
jokes and how funny they were. And they were funny, right,
because they're jokes, they're comedy. So this is what I
see from her. If she's really mad. It's just stupid.
(09:01):
It's just stupid that she is.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Well, you can be mad, be mad about it, and
recognize because you know, you may have realized either the
error of your ways or the last thing you need.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Is your kids parroting them back at you.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
But I mean, they're old enough they've watched this flow
and have seen probably and heard far worse that's going on.
I didn't watch the clip, but I believe she was
on with either Foulin or Kimmel like two weeks ago.
So she was out promoting something or another and now
doing some you know, humanitarian work and whatever. But you know,
(09:36):
not to dismiss that the good part of it. But yeah,
you knew this was coming. This has been advertised for
months a right, and anything becomes fair game except for
Robert Kraft evidently. And they didn't go directly at the
kids about anything, right because Nicki Glazer went to Howard
Stern with a couple of other jokes. I'm not going
(09:57):
to repeat them here, you can go find them if
you like. That was my best Bill Walton without really
going into syuropey Bill Walton voice. But in the end
the jokes, it'll move on. As long as you did,
you to guy, and the kids are good. Don't worry
about what the rest of the world's saying.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I only got one huge question coming off or Okay,
the hell is she only a white belt? Well, well,
maybe maybe some of the lessons didn't last very long.
And well or is it gaze gazillo.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Because at some point, I mean, you do have that
switch because I remember, you know, younger, when the kids
were you know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Try a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
As soon as you got into some of those uh sports,
where it became all right, we're gonna do half the
session on stretching versus the actual exercises and learning how
to do stuff. My kids were done with it, Like
damn it. I want to climb. I want to be
up on the you know, the the rings. I want
to do all this other crab. I don't want to
sit here and stretch. So maybe Giselle gets bored.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's it's it's a very
big thing to want to win the divorce. And clearly
what we have seen so far is she is the
the more of the aggressor in winning the divorce, because
after the stories came out about their divorce. What do
we see? Here's Giselle on horseback, Here's Gazelle on vacation.
Here's Azelle living her best life. Now here she is
(11:20):
on vacation. That doesn't happen all of this? Right? Uh?
Did we see one photo? Have there been one photo
of Tom Brady and Arena Shak or Kim Kardashian?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Has there been one photo anywhere? There hasn't, There hasn't.
There has not been one photo of anybody that Tom
Brady is rumored to be. And you think the tabloids
wouldn't want that? Think tabloys wouldn't want to picture of
Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian if they could, of course
they would, are you?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A lot of folks were like, what, why is she there?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It's like, yeah, somehow you all missed that rumor that
they were together at least for a bit, so Uh,
good job by you. But the other being the fact
that you, guys, I mean, we've lived here long enough.
You know how the sausage is made. What do you
normally see being seedless celebrity and where they're eating lunch?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right? And why does that happen?
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Because they're pr people say, hey, TMZ our guys out
having a snack, you want to come by, or the
Kardashians or everybody else.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's how it works.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
You build up a crowd, you get somebody there, it's like, oh, look,
look who they were out with. Is that a meeting
about a new movie? I mean, it's it's all a game.
And those photos that showed up of Giselle and out
and about are not accidental. And oh my goodness, there
she is on a horse. Let me take us a picture.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
No, those people were there on purpose.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Of course they of course they.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Are, and with advanced knowledge.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Of course they and they know they look, they know
where they're gonna be. And again, and I go back
to the fact that there were photos you were with
your kids on vacation with the guy. I mean, come on, man,
I mean, but you're worried about people saying something. I mean,
your kids can go on the internet and find out
anything they want to. And it's not like any of
the hosts brought up the kids. None of them brought
(13:07):
the kids right anything else, None of that that was
all out there, none of them brought it up everything.
But she's just mad that everybody laughed at the jokes,
and everybody is laughing at her because of the jokes,
and she's like, Oh, I want to find some way
to get a little bit save a little face here.
So I'm gonna let it out there that I'm mad
about this and that's something something wrong was done to
our kids. Come on, man, I mean, really, come on,
(13:30):
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York covering the Range and the Hurricanes. And that game
is over. Rangers just score in double overtime following a
(13:52):
Hurricanes's power play. They take a two games and unleading
this series, beating Carolina four to three. Yippy, skippy, that's
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Speaker 1 (15:00):
TJ, thank you, Mike. Right now in the NBA Oklahoma
City in Dallas, Thunder maintaining that eleven point lead over
the MAVs right now, four and a half to go
on the third quarter. Again we are steaming towards a
thunder Minnesota Timberwolves Western Conference Finals. But joining us now
(15:22):
in the hotline for all the big news in Major
League Baseball and a guy that really has to understand
he really screwed me tonight. It's MW Network insider extraordinary,
John Paul Morosi. He is on Twitter at John Morosi JP.
You are doing your normal spring double duty covering the
NHL Playoffs for NHL Network. You are in the building
(15:44):
right now at Madison Square Garden. You did not bring
my Hurricanes to win tonight. So we're gonna have words
now after this.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Jason, my apologies, my friend, my apologies. What I can
tell you is that the Madison Square Garden technical crew
as we speak, is getting set for Game two of
the Nick Pacers series. And it really is one of
the unique things in American sports to be sitting here
(16:11):
in the most famous arena in the world and actually
watch as it begins the transition already to a basketball
game happening less than twenty four hours from now. It's
pretty extraordinary to be here in New York at this time.
And you're right. You think about the scene and the
way the Rangers won this game. Hurricanes had two power
(16:33):
plays in overtime, did not score, and Jason, I thought
that it had the Canes scored, I would have been
able to describe you as the only fan that I
know who stood up and cheered when John Franco was
shown on the scoreboard in at and at the end
(16:53):
of a Hurricane's victory, you have the Venn diagram of
those populations is a one of one. You know, Mike,
We've always known Jason is unique. But this night and
this result would have capped that off.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, well, a Nix up one zip the Mets one
tonight you would have the Hurricanes winning. But I would say,
it's not going to get any better than this. It's
not gonna get.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Any better my goodness. I tell you what though. Vincent Trocheck,
the former Saginaw Spirit star from the Ontario Hockey League
in my home state of Michigan, he's the hero tonight.
He led all skaters with more than thirty three minutes
played time on I switch. For those not as familiar
with hockey statistics, that's a lot, especially for a center.
(17:37):
So he is one of the best conditioned athletes we've
got going right now in any sport in our country,
and Vincent Trocheck's the hero here tonight.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Got to say, a really impressive job by you to
get the game to end just in time to make
your usual.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Hit with us today.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean, really really good job by you to
get it to a finish.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
It was minutes I was I was texting Justinsberg furiously
thinking to myself, how am I going to make this work?
I'm inteen overtime periods. I was already having to plan
out my my MLB Central segments that are going to
happen in about eight hours when I'm on morning TV,
and I said to myself, how am I going to
do this? How am I do I have to? Will?
(18:17):
I be calling in from New Jersey transit, which, by
the way, I have to figure out if I can
even get back to Jersey tonight. So that's the second
part of my If anybody has any any good transit tips,
the good news is, you know, while I am from
a small town in Michigan, Jason, I do believe. I
do believe the trip from Madison Square Gardens to this
(18:38):
train station is a close one. As in downstairs, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, yeah, you're good. Frank the tank will take you.
Just get Frank the tank. He's happy, the Mets one,
He'll he'll take you back. And where we're staying in Jersey.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Hey, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I wanted to ask you this, Pope, because a big
viral moment from this game and it doesn't matter if
you're a hockey fan or not. With a minute left
to go in regulation, Rangers are on a power play.
ESPN dumped out of the feet of the game and
went to the Stars game, and for thirty seconds it
was pregame of the Stars, and the announcers are talking,
it's what happened, what happened, And they luckily avoided a
(19:15):
real Heidi moment by getting back to the Rangers and
the Hurricanes game with about twenty five seconds left. Does
anybody know about that? There are they talking about that
at the game? That the whole big the feed dumped
out and went to a different game for like the
last thirty seconds of the last minute of regulation.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
But I became aware of this through the magic of
social media. I'm not sure how many folks here were
aware of it. I'm sure obviously our our colleagues at
ESPN are by now well aware of it. But it's
an interesting moment because there's there is somebody. There is
somebody in a room, and this is true of all
(19:51):
networks everywhere, sitting in master control at a keyboard that
decides what's going out over the network, and that's a
very important job and about ninety nine point nine percent
of the time, no one even realizes that it's a
job because it just happened seamlessly. But every now and then,
(20:11):
and sometimes when there's a power play in the five
minute of regulation in the Stemic a playoff game, the
wrong button is pressed and then there tends to be
an executive who says, wait a minute, what's going on
over the air? This this does happen sometimes in TV.
It's not great. And I suppose ESPN was saved by
(20:34):
their not being a goal there, and that it wasn't
it didn't become the defining story of the way that
America watched this classic Faundy Cup playoffs game. But it
is amazing. It is amazing that even in these in
these times where we talk and debates so much right
about streaming and where how we get our television out,
(20:54):
how it's consumed, but there is still someone in a room,
in this case in Bristook, a kid with the bump,
the sides on television. And if anybody ever wondered if
linear television still mattered and if anybody's still watching, well
after tonight we can say confidently people are still watching.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
John Morosi with us here at Jason Smith's show with
Mike Carman live fromthtyrack dot Com Studios, MLB Network, NHL Network.
He's there at the Garden watching the transformation after a
Rangers victory, and now it'll switch to the Knicks in
twenty four hours. Catch him on Twitter at John Morosi
j O n M O RSI.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
A lot of talk.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Obviously, Otani rules today, but Yamamoto and Imanaga a couple
of Japanese pitchers making the scene. Let's go to Chicago
with the Cubs five wins and a one point zero
eight e r A JP. I mean, you talk about
instant impact for a squad.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Really impressive, and the Cubs are in a good spot.
And it's not just because the Monaga. But by the way,
let's start with him, because I think coming in, you know,
he does not have the same pure stuff that Yamamoto does.
He's there's a reason why his nickname is the pitching Philosopher.
He's more. He pitches more with I think his his mentality,
(22:16):
his ability to locate and and obviously we're seeing right
now that that it plays that he has success in
the major leagues. Well, you cannot have a one point
a d r A now into your second month as
a rookie just by accident. I mean he is he
is a special special arm. They just got Bellinger back.
Michael Bush was the hero tonight. They acquired him in
(22:37):
a deal from the Los Angeles Dodgers. So the Cubs
after last year was he certainly ended with disappointment change
the manager. They now I think are in a really
good position in a pretty competitive NL Central. But I
just think I Managa and Yamamoto. Listen, they're they're showing
all MLB teams that there is an incredib dotible amount
(23:00):
of talent in Japanese pro baseball, and I know in
my conversations with scouts they're going there multiple times a
year to look at the talent there. Agents we know
are trying to line up who's going to represent Roki Susaki,
who's going to represent the next generation of great Japanese
pitching stars. Clearly, the developmental mentality and path that we're
(23:22):
seeing among the top end of Japanese pitchers is very appealing,
and certainly I think that we as American baseball folks,
when you think about the amount of injuries and attrition
that we have in pitching here in Major League Baseball.
We've got a lot to learn. I think from the
way that the Japanese baseball culture is developing pitchers and
(23:43):
we're seeing the results we now we, broadly speaking, people
who watch Major League Baseball are the beneficiaries of what
a great job Nipon Professional Baseball is doing of developing pitchers.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now, Pope, your big game this week, you're on Thursday.
You make the change. While this is a square garden
changing over from the ice to the hardcore, you'll be
changing over from the NHL playoffs back to the baseball player.
Do you have suits that you wear like do you
have to change over like that? Like you have Hey,
this is a hockey suit and tie that I wear
and then have baseball suit and tiz Do you do
(24:16):
that change.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Over when you go Yeah, that's a great question. There
are things I would say this you'll probably I'm thinking
about tomorrow morning. I haven't really thought about this too deeply.
My plan is for tomorrow morning to be in my
baby blue suit on MLB Central. That doesn't really play
as well for an indoor night time sport. Okay, you
(24:38):
gotta have I think, in my opinion, hockey is more
of a dark suit vibe is always what I've felt,
so that's probably what I'll let up doing tomorrow. But
for studio, you can do the lighter suit. Look, now,
this is all secondhand. I'm just getting this advice from
my wife, like I do with most things in my life.
(24:58):
But that's general how I will do things. But yeah,
it's not as though I have like a home uniform
road uniform. But I'm still very much trying to get
my fashion game going. As you know, I am a
father of three who drives a minivan, so there is
a fairly firm limit on how cool I could be
(25:19):
on any given day.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
All right, well, let's deal with the game then, because
you'll be cool by giving us your take on this.
Yankees have won four in a row, tied for first
place in the AL East, the Astros twelve and twenty three,
last place in the AL West, three straight losses. Is
this the real Yankees? And is this the real Astros?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yes? I believe, yes and yes now. Dana Brown was
on MLB Network today saying to Brian Kenny on MLB
Now that he does not expect to be a seller
at the deadline, that this team is too talented for
them to become sellers. And I think that there is
plenty of total and observational information to suggest that Dana's
(26:04):
correct in that just because of how good that team
has been for a long time. But look at their
record right now. Tomorrow night, They've got Spencer Arraghetti on
the mound. He's got an eight point two seven ERA
as a young starting pitcher against the mighty Yankee lineup
Thursday in the game that we have on MLB Network.
It's a really good pitching matchup. Blanco Ronel Blanco, who
(26:25):
threw a no hit earlier this year, against Marcus Stroman,
who's been really good since coming in to the Yankees.
And remember, the Yankees are playing really well, even though
Aaron Judge didn't really have a judge in April, and
Garrett Cole hasn't even thrown a major league pitch yet
this season. So the Yankees are a really good ball club.
Rizzo's been excellent, and the Astros Jose Bradho's down in
(26:46):
the minor league trying to regain it and find his
form again. There is, in my opinion, there is an
expiration date on even the greatest and most enduring of dynasties. Now,
there is certainly an asterisk on the Astros, but they've
made the Alcs seven years in a row, and that's
not an accident. I mean, certainly there's a lot of
success during that time. Yeah, Verlander, five innings, seven earn tonight.
(27:12):
And yet again, parenthetically, there were there were certainly some
aberrational years, at the very least during the beginning part
of that reign. But it's been a while since our
awareness was arrived at concerning the stealing scandal. They've been
good for a long time. They're not really good right now.
They are not. And to your point, as you remark
(27:35):
along those lines, there will probably not be profound amounts
of tears shed should this be the demise of the
Astros dynasty as we know them. I will add, though,
that back in two thousand and five, the front page
of the Houston Chronicle declared the Astros season to be dead.
They actually had a tombstone on the front page of
(27:56):
the paper saying the Astros season had died, and they
went on to make the World Series that year. So
we should be a little careful, But I agree with
you there. They have earned the records. They've gotten right now.
They have not been unlucky. They've been a pretty bad
baseball team.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, thanks for bringing that positivity to the White Sox,
as that starting staff ran through them like a hot Knight.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Through Butter covered that World Series.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I was there, Mike now speaking of the White Sox,
not about them, but about a team that just dominated
them from pillar to post. Are the Twins any good
or was it just a function of playing the White
Sox a lot in a three weeks period?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
The Twins are good. Check out the Twins record since
Max Kepler has regained and rejoined that lineup. He is,
in my opinion, a game changing player. Length is their
lineup out a lot. They've had some injuries Royce Lewis,
Carlos Correa, but I think that their pitching has really
stabilized a lot the last couple of weeks. Chris Paddock
has been really good. They're a good ball club now.
(28:54):
They lost tonight to the Mariners, so maybe they're glad.
Tidings are drawing to a close a little bit, and
they're in a very winnable division in the AL Central
Right now, they're running second place behind the Cleveland Guardians
two and a half games back. They're a good team,
not a great team, but a good team. And I
think in this division it probably will be won by
a good team, not a great team. The Guardians are
(29:16):
off to an excellent start, the Royals have been competitive.
The Tigers are still there because of how good uh
their their starting rotation has been. But I tend to
think the White Sox mic it is. It is not
going to be a short journey for them to get
back into this Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No, No, they're terrible, which is why I didn't ask
about them.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, they're they're in it for they're in it for
the long haul. But I I do, I do like
the Twins. They're better than I thought. Their bullpen is
very good, nice mix of righty's and lefties, duran o
kirts really good back there. They've they've got a good
group of relievers. So in a winnable division, I like
the Twins. Probably right now, would still still lean towards
(29:59):
the Guardian as the most impressive teams at this point
in time, but the Twins have impressed me.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, JP, I'm looking forward to football season and whoever
the Blackhawks selects second overall.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Yes, that's a great that's a great question. You know,
I we we know number one is Matt One Celebrinis
of the Sharks. We could we can go with that
right now, but I'm not sure who number two is
gonna be. That's a very very interesting questions.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, ask John Butchi Gross apparently he knows he's got
the script.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
I I saw that too. I I caught wind of
that on the interwebs today as well. It's been a
very interesting day in hockey Twitter.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I would say he's on Twitter at John Morosi. That
is at John Morosi, MLB Network Insider, NHL Network Insider.
It is double duty time in the spring for John
Paul Pope. Thanks so much, buddy. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Have fun, my pleasure. Gavin Lux. By the way, congrats,
first homer of the year for the great native of
the state of Wisconsin. How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I got our geography lesson, No, I think Pope made
somebody happy.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Mention Gavin Lux's home run for I'll mention it for you.
But speaking of the end, but more than the Nicks
and the Pacers coming up in a few minutes, but
straight ahead way till you hear what was said about
Lebron James today as the Lakers search for their new
head coach, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, fourth quarter, about six and
a half left to go. Things not going the way
of the Mavericks. The thunder up one oh.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Four eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Love more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Is there a third game the night that one that
might be good?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Nah? I don't. Well, they might show a replay of
the Knicks Pacers Game one. There might be that.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Yeah, but it had a terrible ending. No, it had
a great ending, very controversial ad game had.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
A great stop. Frostburg, I'm sorry the Lakers aren't in
the playoffs. You're not sorry. I'm sorry. No, I feel
bad because I know you would like to see them
in the playoffs. It's okay, I feel bad. You want
your team to do well. The Nuggets losing, I think
a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Are loving to think there's a lot of celebration, especially
when you literally towel Now.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
We're gonna hear something that was said today about Lebron
James that you're going to back up and go, WHOA
All right. Brian Windhorst was on Dan Patrick earlier today.
He's covered Lebron James for a long time, ESPN, other entities,
and there's no more first and foremost expert on Lebron
(32:36):
than Brian windhors.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Right, the guy really paused.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
The guy made his name by traveling around and giving
us news when the heatles started up, right, So in
Lebron's bottom, this isn't it's not the roasts, the roast man,
this is not that roast. We're gonna cut that joke
(33:00):
out of the final uh of the final fire. We
really So when Horst was on Dan Patrick today, you
know the Lakers are looking for their new head coach
and they have a lot of candidates out there and
Winhorst wanted everybody to know that when it comes to
hiring a head coach, Lebron's not really in on those meetings.
Lebron doesn't get involved in coaching hires year, so technical
(33:27):
difficulties there, but you heard the you heard the the
money part of it. Lebron doesn't get involved in coaching
hires and he hasn't for years. You hear this and
go now, wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute,
a minute. Now Now I want to say this. If
you asked me, is Lebron James involved more in coaches
hiring or firing? I would say, well, one hundred percent,
he's more involved than their Yeah, and not again you
(33:51):
can see that, Okay, I can see a little bit
of that in that it's not like wherever Lebron goes,
he brings his guide like they hire guys that Lebron
is the one he brings them to the team saying
this is our head coach, right, Like he doesn't do
that all the time. You know, that's not something that
Lebron does with regularity. But what he does do is,
you know, he's a guy that gets them fired when
(34:12):
it comes down to it. Right, If I'm not buying
in and I'm saying we should be doing this and
I'm questioning the head coach in the playoffs, you know
that's Lebron James getting fired. So yes, I would say,
much more involved in the firing than the hiring.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yeah, certainly the exit interviews passed through his way. I
would say this in terms of the hiring. I suppose
you could give yourself a little bit of the plausible
deniability because we normally have a pretty good idea, right
the leakage of which guys Lebron kind of favors, and
then when it doesn't come through, will they made that
(34:46):
choice and they went somewhere else. In other words, they
didn't want to pay what this guy wanted, right, because
we've had that the last couple of cycles too, right
where they haven't met the would be demands of the favorite.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It's in the open market.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
So we certainly have seen that in the years since
Phil Jackson, you know, kind of that outlier where you
get whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
But to say he's got.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
No you know, he distances himself from this, like come on,
let's yeah, come on, don't don't don't lie to me,
Like nobody's buying that, Like even if we're one hundred
percent true given the last I don't know, twenty.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Years of his career.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Now, now let's just say, let's say buying it, like
could I see like, hey, Lebron wants coach X and
it's a debate and he can see that the guy's
not going to get hired and the Lakers want to
hire whoever they're going to hire, or the Cavaliers wanted
to hire whoever they were going to hire. I can
see him backing off saying, well, if you're not going
to listen for my guy, go hire who you think
(35:49):
and then I'll kill them coach wise. If they don't
do well and we don't.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They don't follow it with what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Sure, So that's kind of how I see it. So,
I mean, in the search of the hiring of the
coaches for Cleveland in LA, I can see it happening
like that. Like Lebron, these are the guys Lebron wants,
and for whatever reason, we're not gonna listen. We don't
want him to feel like he's hiring our coach. We'll
go here. Okay, I'm backing away from this about this
guy because I'm gonna do my own thing anyway, and
(36:15):
if he's not up to it, well then I'm not
really gonna follow him. Look, you have problems with Eric
Spolster in the beginning until he hundred percent right, yeah, yeah,
so I might look no, finish, No, I agree on
hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Like, I just think it's the kind of situation where
he makes his feelings known and then he can say, well, it.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Wasn't my call in the end. Yeah, one hundred.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Percent exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. So
you have much more involved in the firing than the hiring.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Good escaping blame coming up next?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
What player said one phrase thirteen times today in his
NBA press conference getting ready for Game two? That's next,
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