May 21, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike have all the details on Justin Jefferson not being present for Vikings team activities today. Jason explains why he’s really fine with the end of the Knicks season. And Jason tells you how the Chiefs are setting the NFL back 25 years!
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Now that you dodged that shot, Jason, you have to
wait ten minutes for me to try again.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And unlike Jalen Brunson, tyser can fire it off. Hey,
Jalen Brunton's got a bust in hand, all right, just
so you know he was before that.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, but that means he can't use the musket properly. No, well,
I mean, listen, I don't think he wouldn't be able
to reload that. I don't think the musket was a
great If you went back and looked the Revolutionary War, Hey,
maybe the reliance on the muskete is what did a
lot of people. I wonder if the reliance, well, the
operational efficiency is I think the But you wouldn't be
(01:28):
able to reload because you'd have to use the bayonet
to spend off.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Because I see it, because I see in movies now
where the star if someone's holding a gun on him,
the star can actually dodge the bullet, run at the
guy who's like fifteen feet away and tackle him without
getting shot. Like, if that's the case and you have
a gun that can fire right away, I can imagine
what it must have been like in a war for
guys take five minutes to fire a shot. You have
all you have time. You just go to the bathroom,
(01:53):
come back ready, Okay, you're out, still fire, Okay, I
got a couple of secres. I'm gonna have a drink,
something to drink. Okay, great.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You have to fear that there's another guy high fighting,
so you know, you get lulled into a false sense
of security.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So Soldier number two is lying in wait, there's another
guy that hasn't fled, that's right. So it's like John
Wick four. So it's it's not like.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Most movies where the villages they wait to attack you
one at a time.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, okay, maybe as opposed to let's let's get you
the Revolutionary War they did it that way. I wasn't there,
and how the movie portrays it, I can't say.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Historical accuracy is always item number one on the list.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Instead of me, he promotes Charles Lee, makes him second
in command.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm a general, Like if you got shot, I don't
I don't know that you necessarily spun over three times
a year.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, no, no, well, yeah it's tough. I don't know.
I mean with the musket. Tysher is going to do
some musket research on it. Yeah, well, are we gonna
pay him in his off time? No, he will. He'll
send him to a battlefield, to a recreation of a war.
I could you know, I could see Tyshirt doing one
of those Civil War recreation guys, Colonel ty Shirt out
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you know, I could see him in one of the outfield.
He's tall and thin.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He would have the hat and he would have the
coat on with all the buttons on it, throw out
some mutton chops, like in Sweet Home.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Alabama, where's my dad over there? I could see Tyshirt
doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Imagine if you will, a battlefield of seventeen forty five.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Why are you speaking like your Sean Connery. I'm going
to everyone that's like, now it's a battle in Scotland.
We meet again for Breck. You have a play on
your mouth. How I used to win the war, Charlotte.
When someone brings a gun, you bring a gun. You're
something I could shaken, not star send one of history
the war.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's how it works. I remember at sixteen thirty four.
You know it was bonded one time. That was more
than one time. I was bonded for a long time.
I never stopped.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Then they took it away from me. Never became bond again.
Now I did Entrapment with God from Jader Joners. Now
you're going into the It's the trap guy. That was
my final movie at Bart's a trap. Don't go see
and trapman, It's a trap.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That movie was really bad. They should have called that's
what the movie Entrapman.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
It was bad, yeah, but it had Kathy's a job.
It did, it did, it did, but it was in prime.
Yeah yeah, no, you're right, you're absolutely right. But it
was really really Entrapman is what they should have called.
That's how they got people in to see the movie.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Whit. It was not good. It's not on my top
ten worst list. Yes, when we're gonna go uh so
before we get back into the NBA. Two wide receivers,
two different stories. First one not to make a lot
of this right now, but Justin Jefferson, best wide receiver
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in the NFL, did not come to Vikings OTAs today,
doesn't have a plan to show up, wants a new contract,
or does he? According to the Vikings, they were really
close on a deal last year, couldn't do it wafer thin.
Now they're looking at it again and they hope to
get something done. But Justin Jefferson is not at OTAs.
(05:06):
Where is he? I wonder? That's like playing Where's Waldo?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I wonder? First of all, if you're Justin Jefferson, do
you really want a long term contract with the Vikings?
I mean, you have no idea how good he's not?
How good JJ McCarthy is going to beeps. He's not.
You have no idea you're gonna sign a long term
deal and be stuck with a guy that maybe can't
get you the football. Right this is the Vikings are
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starting over, and there's nobody in the NFL that wouldn't
give a ton of money everything they have to get,
justin Jefferson. Mean, look, this guy is just blowing away
the record books what he's done so far in his
NFL career. Still, he missed most of the season, had
had one thousand yards last year. There's nothing the guy
can't do. Now, if you are Minnesota, remember you've drafted
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a couple of guys to come in and now you're
starting over with JJ McCarthy. Okay, and he wants new deal.
First thing I'm gonna say, if you're Jefferson, do you
really is this really what you want? You really want that?
Or do you want to play out this season, hit
free agency in your mid twenties and sign the largest
wide receiver free agent deal in the history of the
NFL and you can go wherever the hell you want to.
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And he may not be stuck in Minnesota. If JJ
McCarthy can't get you the ball, like I really I
don't know if that's what I want. And I also
don't know if that's the end game here, Like if
they were really close on a deal last year, what's
stopped that from happening? And if they don't have a
deal now, Like is this something that Jefferson really wants
or is he saying, you know what I'm doing this
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year in Minnesota and I'm leaving. I don't want to
go to OTA's. I want you to think because I'm
leaving after this year like that. That's part of me
what I think. If he was that close for last year,
they want to keep him, they want to get a
new deal, and he hasn't signed one yet. Does he
really want it or does he want to just want
to make it look like I getting a guy want
a new deal. I'm gonna play out this season. I'm
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gonna hit free agency and then look then look look
at the money I'm gonna get from just about any
team in the league. Because he is free agency proof.
Because sometimes you go to free agency and go, maybe
this guy's gonna get paid, Maybe he's not all well,
he misread the market. No, no, no, justin Jefferson will
get whatever he wants from whatever team he wants in
free agency.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, I said this to Frostburg. I gave it up
to him to decide whether you want to descend it along.
Evidently there was some reports your guy might have been
hanging out in Florham Park, New Jersey. I don't tell
him that I hit it from this weekend, so causing
some speculation. You know, we're gonna spare you. But since
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we're on air now and I can see your reaction
to it, you know, as part of the ongoing roast
of Jason Smith, what you would respond to with that? Yeah,
if I'm him, I'm trying to fight towards free agency,
especially with the money that wide receivers are getting now.
Not that you wouldn't be okay under a franchise tag
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or whatever else, but you don't want an average at
the top five. No, no, no, you want to be
the guy. And with Minnesota you have your.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Skepticism on JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
You've made that clear while still wearing your Michigan Family
sweatshirt every chance you got. So yeah, if I'm him,
I certainly want to know what the offense is gonna
look like. Because I mean you're talking about historic kind
of things. Oh, sure that he's because it's not just
a hey can I win, it's a I can go
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after a lot of these records. No, of course if
this breaks right for me, Look is the floor and
park thing?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
How real is it?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't want to get all hip deep on it
and everything, But is this also something where he's going
to force a trade like I went through. Because there's
the other part of it. Now you have free agency,
I'll play this year. I'll do this because obviously the Vikings.
You know, he still plays for the Vikings for one
more year, and you know how things get if I
sit out and everything else. But the other part of
this is does he not like what happened in the
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draft the direction of the team, and say, you know what,
I want to get someplace else, and you're gonna get
me someplace else, and I'm not gonna play for this
team and you're gonna trade me. And in the coming
days weeks that's gonna become a parent that the Vikings
are not gonna come to agreement with him on a
contract and he's gonna go. Because remember, if he wanted
to stay, he said so close last year and they
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could get it this year. If he's holding out, he's
not there, how much does he really want to be there?
And he could be pushing for after this year. He
could be pushing for a trade now because if I
could get to a preferred destination now for a trade, Okay,
that's better, because I want to go someplace where I
know I'm gonna catch passes from somebody and I know
it's gonna be a great year, and then hit free
agency if I don't want to resign, right, if my team,
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let's just say it's the Jets, I don't want say
Let's just say he wants to get to the Jets
and Aaron Rodgers. Right, So I get there and I'll
have a great year and I can sign there if
I want to. If that's where I really want to get,
the Jets will sign me for a big for a
big for big money, or I will go someplace else
next year coming off a big year. Now, if he
has a down year or our team's gonna hold that
(10:00):
against him, probably not, because what the guys put up
the first few years in.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
The week, they're not gonna hold Sam Donald and JJ
McCarthy against him.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
But if he wants to get someplace else, this is
how you do it, man. I mean, And if you're
the Vikings and you get to a point where you
know we're not gonna sign him, we are not going
to sign him, do you pull that trigger? They will
one hundred percent because you've already said we're starting over
by drafting JJ McCarthy, right, we're starting over. They will
get to that point where they will say it's time
(10:29):
for both of us to move on. Now, it's a
little late in the game to happen now, Like, if
this is something that he wanted, it needed to be
a little bit earlier.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But again, maybe wanted to wait for the draft and
see what's happened after so we could push that. But
this seems like it's more of an inevitability at some
point than just hey, here's a negotiating play, like within
the net by this time next year, or maybe by
this time later on the South. But in a year
he's on a different team and a different team has
Super Bowl aspirations because they have justin Jefferson. Yeah, I
think there's still plenty to roll out. I mean, one
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of the big disappointments I think for you and I
where we sit each night around the draft was that
we didn't have all that movement of the veteran wide
receivers that we anticipated. Right there were rumors about eight
to nine different guys finding themselves as part of draft
day compensation, and we were robbed of a lot of
(11:20):
that lot of bluster, a lot of woulda could have,
should haves and speculation that never came to fruition. So,
justin Jefferson potentially wanting out of a scenario where the
division has gotten that much better, Kirk Cousins isn't there anymore.
You've got Addison who his role will expand not a
lot of debt beyond that except for Hockinson, But two
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guys that you're looking at, what two hundred targets one
hundred each that go against your high And when you're
talking about players like Darnold and McCarthy, the acumen to
be able to I don't want to say force the
ball there or willingness to put it there isn't gonna
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be part of the offensive set that O'Connell's gonna run to.
Right with Kirk Cousins, you earn the right if you
wanted to try to force it downfield to Justin Jefferson
in heavy traffic, which you know is gonna be the case.
You're gonna be afforded that right and trust that Jefferson's
gonna make his share of place. You're not gonna let
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Sam Darnold and JJ McCarthy put the ball into harm's way.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, it's not. And then you brought in new running.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Backs between Jones with with ty Chandler, so the two
of them like, you're gonna try to shorten games as
much as you can, so you're not pushing the ball
downfield the way Cousins did, which puts away his numbers.
But also, how often do we see one, you know,
a one star wide receiver happy in a situation like that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's not gonna work exit out bout of Fresco exit
swallowing down the Jason Smith's show with my best friend
Mike Carbon So just know that clock has started on
Justin Jefferson with the Vikings within a year. Yeah, but
I'll tell you what, by training camp watch out. If
they don't think they can watch out, shuffle up and
deal yets. No jets.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I didn't want to give you that glimmer ahole, but
it looks so desponded talking about the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
J Jefferson was spotted in Flora Park, home of the Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
get ridy.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We rested you, you got your wings and some sugar,
and now you're now you're just.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That happy Jefferson, Garrett Wilson, Mike Williams. Probably in November
or December, Malachi Corley, can you imagine that offense? Can
you imagine Breisee Hall running the bar Bowl Super Bowl
Jets Jets Jets Jets Jets exit out about a Fresco
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time the news. We'll get to that plus the Knicks.
I'm fine with it. I'm fine with the next losing.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Now there is something that I'm really really pissed about.
We'll get to that next as well. Jason and Mike
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And uh look we'll get to the big NFL wide
receiver coming up in a second. Now that I got
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you all excited about, Justin Jefferson, Oh yeah, no, no, no,
but but let me just say, because I I do
I do have to to say this now. I've told
you throughout the night tonight, I'm okay. After the Knicks lost,
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They squeezed every drop that they could out of their run.
They were too injured, they were only going to get
so far. The Pacers took advantage, They waited them out,
They extended the series, and they won. And they should
have won because they were the better team at that point.
With the Knicks being healthy, it's a different story. But
that was not the case, and the Pacers won. I
(15:58):
am okay with it. I am I am not upset
at all with the Knicks. There was no underachieving. There
was there was none of it. No not, I'm not
I'm not irrationalizing.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm not. However, i am mad and pissed at something else,
because what I'm really mad at is I'm mad at
the Pacers one, because this is a team that just
cried and whined and Rick Carlisle cried after the first
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two games, No, here's seventy eight calls we're not getting
and oh, small market teams don't have a chance to
battle with the big market teams. And they were like
a little kid who was gonna cry unless you gave
him a lollipop. And then what happened. They started winning,
they got back into the series, and then nothing so
and then he was like Kojaki got his lollipop. So
apparently all the all the calls were being made, even
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though the Knicks won another game, all the calls are
being made, the pacer are getting all of it. And
then by the end of the series, it was, oh, hey,
we're gonna have very very patronizing things to say about
the Knicks and their head coach and some of them.
We're gonna start trolling you by wearing the Reggie Miller
choke sweatshirt like Tyrese Haliburton did in the postgame press conference.
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Now they went from crying and whining and say it's
not fair. Oh, here's your lollipop. Okay, I feel good now,
I'll stop crying.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm embarrassed at that, I'm embarrassed with Carla, I'm embarrassed
pass and I'm pissed that this was their strategy and
this they go through this whole thing and then they
wind up winning.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It's okay, I'm just not crying now because you did.
I got my lollipop. I feel really good. That's why
I'm mad at the Pacers are the ones who won,
because now you went from crying going this is not
happening to hey, now we're trolling you because oh the
fans are so loud and we're gonna try you by
with the Dreggie Miller and the choke side and everything.
Oh okay, great, So this.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Is the bad side of the fandom that we bring
to the airwaves coming out because now you're better. Now,
what's the old Adam squeaky wheel gets the grease right.
So maybe you can go back if you wanted to
and find seventy eight or more calls that were now
perpetrated against the Knicks. Maybe that's the case. But in
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the end, Carlisle set his peace. Did we ever really
get an acknowledgment of anything from the NBA? If we did,
I don't remember seeing it. So to that end, my
guess is he got a call from Adam Silver one
of his minions or hired goons, see hired goons, to say,
shut the hell up. Here's your thirty five thousand dollars fine,
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that's the only thing we got. Thirty five thousand dollars fine,
Now shut the hell up. Is really I think what
you kind of got. So they got quiet until it
became a wow, look at the heart of a champion
that the Knicks have whatever, And I get it. That
was pretty nauseating as well. But to your point, look,
after two games, if you really thought it was a greedius,
what are you gonna do complain about three things? No,
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you go for hyperbole and you say I've got seventy
eight instance.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So so now after game two, apparently everything was calling.
Like I said, i'msing.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
They got the memo saying shut up, they got a call,
and I bet you we can go through their cell phones,
their office phones, whatever, and find a nice call place
from Park Avenue over to Indiana to say, hey, hey, Rick,
I take it. Here's a thirty five thousand dollars. Fine,
if you complain about it again, we'll get you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
No, you know what if you know if you're suddenly now,
that's what I would say. So, Rick, did you like
the way the game was offited? So they changed the
officiating to help your team? All of a sudden the
second nobody had in the first two games, but nobody
had the intentional four to two to ask that question.
Did that wine and oh now I got what I wanted,
and now I'm gonna act superior. We're gonna troll you. No,
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I'm not that upsets. Just accept the Pacers. Whooped your ass? Man,
they won in seven games. Was game six close, but
game seven close? We were up three games today, whooped
your ass? We lost in seven games. With seven games
we finished playing with two and a half guys on
the floor. Oh, here come the excuses. Who's crying now?
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Not Rick Carlisle. I'm just saying no, because he did
all his crying in the beginning of the series. And
now things are better. Oh this is so great. Oh
human nature. Dude, you lost the five guys. No, we
didn't know we had five guys, and we lost everybody
else and a guy named TJ.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I forget TV.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, the Bruns stopper. Don't forget TJ, who broke his
hand in the third quarter. It was over before that.
It was we know we had we had cut it
to six and they got it back to twelve. Come on, man,
that game has never held kind of there. Well, look
they shot, Look they shot sixty seven percent. They played
the Knicks sixty stop. They shot sick there, No one's
ever shot that well in a game in the history
(20:51):
of the NBA playoffs. Well, because apparently on the playoffs,
Oh would you stop, man, you stop, You're the one.
You can't give the Knicks credit at all. It's like
they to buy in because for months ones is they're
going to the finals. Yeah, and then it became a
horror movie where every five minutes, somebody went out.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Somebody was done, man up, somebody was dead on.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
The Knicks every five minutes, just like it's a Friday
the thirteenth, when we oh, you're out, and you're out,
and you're out and you're out. Even adaw Noby did
the whole. Hey, we thought he was dead, but he
came back at the end to try to save the
finals at the end. No, back at the end, and
he was there. Yeah, that guy's back in. Oh. I
didn't get five minutes. I thought he was that his back. Oh,
but now he's really out.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
It was exciting to see him give it the old
college try.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Josh Hart was banged up and got hurt. I mean,
so sad you're not getting the game called. But what's
the old strategy? I mean, look, just read the news.
What do you do? You cry?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
A little bit, complain a little bit, and people capitulate.
That's the way in the world works. I'm not saying
it's right. I'm just saying that that's the way it works.
And for the NBA, if you're a coach, what do
you do? You put some notes out? Now, did Carlisle
lay it up a little thing? Sure, all it was
was overacting, but he was doing what every coach has
done in every series since the beginning of time.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
If he gets down to him, he's got to say
it again, doesn't he Well, big market team's boss and
so much bigger than Indianapolis. Yeah, if it's that bad
and he thinks it's not egregious, all of a sudden,
I just liked it all of a sudden, apparently Game three,
and that all the calls that were being done all
seventy didn't have to send anymore. After the NBA got
really mad at his I have to send any more calls.
(22:30):
And this is why people hate the Knicks. Man. No,
I'm just this is why. No, No, you can't just
accept the ass kicking.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We lost.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I told you we lost in seven games. You you
keep misconstruing the playoffs like you could watch any of
the games. It wasn't you keep musings got they could
lose by one on a miracle shot thirty Yeah, okay, okay,
we didn't lose by thirty. We lost my twenty three
anyway close to that. It was thirty the other night
again they shot sixty seven. It was the last sudden.
(22:57):
It happens. I give the Pacers crees. It happens, except
they outlasted the Knicks. But I'll tell you about that.
We lost to them because of how they acted for
the whole series, and at the end, now they're all superior,
and it's not about the Knicks. We're gonna we're gonna
troll the fans. We don't like the way the fans
were acting in the series. Okay, you I didn't. I
didn't pick this fight. I wasn't the one. No no.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
But but now you're trying to you're standing up as
a representative of the.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Pacers and Reggie Miller. Oh everything, their entire basketball existence
they owe to the Knicks and their playoff rivalries. Nobody
remember Reggie Miller and his eighteen point a game career.
He didn't have his eight points and nine sears. So
if you go to the Nate Smith Memorial Hall of Fame.
He's there, you know, it's that's that's again, no one remember.
If it wasn't for that and the choke signed with
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Spike Lee and his battles with the Knicks, the Pacers
be the most anonymous franchise in sports if they didn't
have a great playoff rivalry with the Knicks. They won
four times. The Knicks have won three times. They won
this year. That's what it is. It's why Reggie Miller
is trolling the Knicks after and fans, after all, you
all kind to heal up in Cancun now, guys, because
Reggie's whole career has been banked off of this rivalry
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with the Knicks. Without him, he wouldn't be anywhere to
the victor go the spoil, right. And I'm saying this
is what this is. Their entire existence in his career
is because of the Knicks. What the Knicks, guys, I'm
telling you anything. I'm not telling you anything.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Nineteen seventy three, they got Willis Reid. You got the
other side of the.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's that's a pretty big deal. Is ninety four. I
mean you got relegated to the small box.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Your picture.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You got the game five fart, we got the game fight. Yeah,
hood they're putting that banner up at MSG. I'll tell
you that much right away. I would.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I mean, there's been a lot of talk the new
Tiana ride right the re reimagining of Splash Mountain that
they're going to pump in the smell of begnets. So now, MSG,
ben you pump in the whatever. The magic of the fart.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Was the Jason smithser with Mike Carmen Life from the
Tirerack dot Com Studios. Now, before we get to Steve
de Segerna, throw this out here. Okay, listen, this is
upset to me. Here's something than fun. Take a deep breath.
It's okay. Now, I tell you every week, you know,
my wife goes to trivia and whenever it gets the
final question, send the final question in. And so we
got this Monday, Monday Night, Monday Nights and Night Special
(25:11):
Monday Night because there was no NBA games. So they said, hey,
we're gonna we'll get people in sure. Okay, So they
came in fourth. They missed the final question. If they
got it right, they would have won. Okay, here's your
final Steve to say, or are you ready? Yes, here
we go. Here's your question. Lion King is the highest
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grossing Broadway show ever based on a Disney movie. Okay,
what was the next highest grossing Broadway show based on
a Disney movie? A Lion King is number one? Made
the most money. I saw Lion King. It was unbelievable.
I saw it in Vegas many many years ago. What
was the next highest rated Broadway show based on a
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Disney movie? Lion King? Number one. I'll tell you that.
I made my guess, and I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Trying to think of what's been out in in production
a while.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Here's the it. It's not cars. I'd like to see
them put that on Broadway though. That'd be kind of fun.
All right, So what you guys guesses? Frostburg what he got?
I mean, what else was on it? Was it? Aladdin?
Aladdin's your guess?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
No, you guess, I'll go Beauty in the Beast.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Okay, Harmon, I'll go with the current run of Frozen
is a really good guess.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Okay. I said Beauty and the Beast because I remember
it was on Broadway forever. I'm like, oh, it's it's
that's gotta win. No, not Beauty in the Beast, George
and the Giant Beach. Not, that's James and the Giants.
I like that. It's George. George. Oh, George and the
Curious George and the Giant Beach. God, put that preach.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Back here, George. Oh, that's a new drop. One of
you is correct, it's me.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, it is not. Either Harmon or Frostburg is correct.
Harmon said Frozen, Frostburg said Aladdin. The correct answer is
because it was newer, tickets were more money. The Book
of Mormon highest grossy Disney Disney Disney's Book of Mormon, Yes,
do you want to Change Religion? Also a hell of
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a show. If you haven't seen it, I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
In a book that was written by Jesus.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Why else are they going to Orlando? Or Lando Disney?
Did you know that Jesus lived here in the good
old U s A. The correct answer is Aladdin made
the most second most money on Broadway, justin Frostburg. Broadway
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thespy about that gets that correct. I've never seen it, No,
but you got it right. Even though you were very
reluctantly made that your guess, it was pretty good. Well,
it's a hell of a film.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
No what I saw years ago. I don't know if
they still do they do the one at the broad
Play film. No know, the Aladdin show that they had
at the park that changed out for Frozen. I think
I think that changed out for Rogers. But it was like,
that's right, but it was like forty minutes long. It
was a really good adaptation and the genie was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Huh, there you go. Yeah, there's your answer, Steve de Sager.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
The problem it's playing at the park is eighty pitty
living space.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Nice a play time. Now to find out what else
is trending in the wide world of sports with special delivery,
Steve Disager, Iste, what do you got for us?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Well, we had a Game seven in the NHL Playoffs
to end the second round tonight. Edmonton was up three
nothing in Vancouver mid third period, three two the final.
This series winner, the Oilers go on to number one
seed Dallas to start the West Final. On Thursday, the
lay ballgame in the Majors at Dodgers Stadium went to
LA six ' four over Arizona. Winning pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto
(29:12):
is now five and one. He went six and a
third innings, two runs allowed, eight strikeouts. Dodgers have won
twenty one of twenty seven, and they have the best
ERA in the majors in that span. Freddie Freeman with
a grand slam tonight for Arizona. Katel Marte did extend
his hitting streak to nineteen games.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
By the way.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
The best team in the majors, the Philadelphia Phillies at
thirty four and fourteen, were off tonight. They host Texas tomorrow.
This was win number thirty three for the Dodgers. Tonight
victories for Saint Louis and Kansas City. Wins for the
Angels and Seattle, who beat the Yankees five to four
with four runs in the top of the ninth off
closer Clay Holmes that ended the Yanks seven game winning streak.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Now.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
In fact, the Yankees record when leading going to the
ninth inning was one oh two and two since the
start of last year, and so their closer had an
ERA of zero in twenty innings until tonight takes the loss.
Boston won five nothing at Tampa Bay. Tanner Houck the
winning pitcher with seven innings of work. His era's under two.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Now.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Rafael Devers homered again. He's homered in six straight games,
a franchise record. Washington sent Minnesota to a seventh straight loss,
twelve to three that ended the Nationals five game losing streak.
Miami was down at home two nothing in the seventh,
but still won in ten innings over Milwaukee was three
to two. Miami saw at tenants of eight thousand to
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get a w Cleveland beat the Mets three to one,
saved to Emmanuel Clausse his fourteenth Guardians offense, which is
four hits in this victory. Three of those hits in
the first inning. Toronto beat the White Sox nine to three.
White Sox record now fourteen and thirty four. Danny Jansen
with three hits today, including a homer. Five RBIs Bobaschett
(30:53):
went four for four. The Winde, Jose Barrios and Atlanta
split a doubleheader with the Padres. In game one, San
Diego was down five to nothing in the third, but
came back for a six to five victory. Padre and
Fieldersander Bogarts left with a shoulder injury. Initial imaging came
back negative. The Braves send right handed pitcher Bryce Elder
to triple a. Chris Sale was great in the nightcap,
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winning three to nothing over the Padre. Sale Is seven
to one, seven scoreless sittings tonight, nine strikeouts. That's four
straight starts with at least nine strikeouts. A reminder in
the NBA Eastern Conference Finals start Tuesday night at Boston
Celtics hosting the sixth seed Indiana Pacers. Boston's Christops Porzingis
will miss at least game one.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
With a string.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
CAF Pacers had the number one offense in the regular
season one hundred and twenty three points per game, top
ten in league history. In fact, they set a record
by scoring one hundred and forty points eleven different games.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
This season.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
They're finally back in the conference finals, first time in
a decade.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next,
Mike and I will give you our official Conference Finals picks.
Hey to tell you about Russhie Rice and what's insane
about what's going on with him and the Chiefs Right now,
that's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Please we'll give you our conference final picks coming up
in a couple of seconds. But first, you know I
mentioned Rashi Rice and big story today wide receiver part
of the Chiefs as they begin OTAs. And this goes
back to what we talked about last week that you
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think the Chiefs are this great franchise and they'll do
everything right because they have Mahomes and Kelsey and Taylor
Swift and Andy Reid and they do all those great commercials.
And really, the Chiefs are a team that is setting
the NFL back twenty five years because they are the
latest what happens off the field. If you're good, you
will play for us. And I'm not even talking about
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Harrison Butker and what he said, that's not something you
could take the guy away from a team. What he said,
he's got to own. He's got to own what people
say about him back because people have the right to
their own opinion as well. But this isn't something where
I'm talking about Harrison Butker. I'm talking about when the
entire situation was going on with Tyreek Hill and the
domestic violence incident with his kid, not kept away from
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the team at all, not suspended, not even when the
investigators found hey, we know something happened. We know, we
just can't prove exactly what it was. Tyreek Hill was
able to play for the Chiefs Rashid Rice, who was
now involved in a huge, really bad traffic incident which
he was speeding and caused other cars to flip over
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and send people to the hospital. This is documented. And
now he's also accused of being involved in a bar
fight a couple of weeks ago, still with the team,
not facing any discipline for the Chiefs are gonna wait
from the league because this is what they do. We're
gonna wait and see what happens. And he's still a
part of the team and the OTAs not even you
don't need to suspend him, just a bit of Hey,
maybe the right thing and the right optic here is
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to keep you away from the team from a little bit,
because boy, this is not something that you should be
able to do and be able to play in the
NFL on without having some sort of responsibility for I mean,
this is this traffic. This car thing was a huge deal,
and now you had something else hanging over him with
a fight in a bar, and it's yeah, no, you're
gonna be on the team. But this is what the
Chiefs do. They set the NFL back to pre Roger Goodell,
(34:31):
Paul taglubu era, where it was you can get a
dui on Saturday night and play Sunday afternoon like this
is what the Chiefs. You look at what they've done
with Hill and writes this all in the last five years.
This can all happen well, but.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
It also goes back to trying to decide what the
leagues and team to team, what their responsibility is and
how much they should be acting as whatever the law
givers for lack of a better term, right while you're
waiting for the processes to sort out, haven't we argued
(35:05):
oftentimes it's better for the player to be in the
facility and around the team and in the structure versus
outside it when there maybe there's more a higher rate
of incidents of guys getting in trouble, Like we've argued
that oftentimes, right John Morant being around the team versus
being away from the team after his handgun situations and
(35:29):
go on down there's numerous examples. So for the league,
you know, trying to figure out because Goodell came down
with the iron fist after what Tagliabu was and the
argument was, well, is that what the commissioner's role should be.
There's protect the shield, and then there's well, await the
legal processes. And I think for the Chiefs, for better
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or for worse, they're taking the ladder of all right,
we'll wait and see what happens. And again, being in
the building is better than him left to his own
devices in the offseason because we see bad decisions being made.
So I'm perhaps not as uh hard and fast on
the indictment of what the Chiefs are doing as you are.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Well, I just see what they've done, and I know
they did it with Tyreek Hill, this other doing with
Rishi Rice. I mean, it's it's you have you have
one big time docked with bad headline, everything topics in
the headline. But if they're not.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
In the crossairs of getting ready to go, and eventually
maybe Rice is right, maybe there is a That's.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Why it's easy. That's why it's easy. Now it's the
off season's OTAs we keep you away, we make it
look like at least we care about doing the right thing,
which is an image problem the NFL has fought for all.
This is a free time to say, hey, dude, just
hang out at home. Man, just wait, we're not gonna
find You're not gonna suspend you. Just be away from
the team for a little bit while this plays out. No, no, nope,
show up at OTAs and practice with us.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
But again, if it comes down to it, in the
course of a regular season, you don't think that Godell
is gonna eventually suspend him. I got at some point
they are right, but in the interim, go business as
usual until it's not business as usual.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Just this is the Remember this is the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Just why this is the Chiefs and the most organizations
across any any profession, so long as the business can
be conducted I.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Think years ago, yeah, But now no, there's such there,
there's we're so much more attuned to it now that
there's got to be some sort of responsibility for actions.
It doesn't need to be a season long, it doesn't
need to be. But he's we can acknowledge that this
is a thing. But eventually that's coming down from the
Commissioner's office. Right, but it's a it's a free thing
for the Chiefs, and the Chiefs don't have to suspend him.
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In addition to it was, hey, now we're going to
keep you away from the team a little bit. Okay,
what's all it is? O tas was the matter?
Speaker 4 (37:46):
But benefit analysis of optic versus is this good for
the player?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Is it good for the team?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I think it's good for the team, and it's good
for the league. I think it's good for everybody. Oh
tell me what it's good for that? He said, Oh here,
here's what's going on with him, and he's still around
the team. Really, well, what's the name?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
What's the negative of him being there? Other than a
bad headline? And someone?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Right, they don't They don't care that he almost killed
people when he was driving incredibly recklessly and he sent
people to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
No, we don't care. He still come play for us.
That's the message. But again, if they decide and goodell
later on your you know, player code of conduct whatever,
and you decide to suspend him, then at that point
the Chiefs but I'm saying, but it's but it's what
are you right? What do they get for free? Now?
They nobody's then nobody rites about. They protect they protect
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the shield of the league and the team from the
criticism they're getting from guys like you and me. Right now,
you think they want this, you think they want this. No,
of course, that they don't care. No, but that's just it.
They don't care, right, And it's a bad look for
the NFL because you say.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
You're allowing a guy to continue to be a work.
Why this is investigating and it eventually if something eventually.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Still going to a court, no matter what you're doing,
if this happened to any of us, and we were
rested in charge of crimes, you think we're on the
air here at Fox Sports Radio or you think it's
you know what, maybe you stay stay away until this
gets taken care of of course, we are all a
matter of what.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Of course we are.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Individual business decides to do and it's a bad decision
is bad, and the chiefs it's bad. It's bad. In
your opinion, it's bad. Okay, I'm not I'm just I'm
just calling what it is. You're having an opinion on
the topic. Okay, all right, all right, I'm gonna clip
and save this so I can turn this around on
you the next time, but we'll clip and say, uh,
let's take a look. I don't even know what that means.
(39:38):
What are you trying to imply?
Speaker 6 (39:39):
That mean?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Clip and save when you contradict yourself, because that's what's
gonna happen at some point.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
You will, I'll say, in this case, on this date.
That's what I'm saying, Okay, all right, is eventually the
NFL will rule on.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, okay, okay, but it's the Chiefs and they could
do something now too, but they don't. Okay, all right,
does that clip and say?
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Oh I don't. I don't even understand where you're going,
but fuck, let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Okay, Like I said, eventually, you'll contradict yourself. I'm gonna say,
but wait, what about the Chiefs? And you've never contradicted
yourself anything on the show.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I said, always go New York, Go, New York, Go
and then now they're gone, So that's how it goes.
Who do you got in the Eastern Conference Finals? Pacers Celtics.
Celtics will give a game or two away, but they'll
win it. Yeah. I would love to pick the Pacers.
I'd love to pick them because the Celtics give games away,
as we talked about, but I think their defense is
too good. I think it's a short ish series even
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without Porzingis.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I also have to just pick the Celtics so that
people that were mad about the last rounds coverage get
even more mad now.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Exit out by the Fresco exit swallowing down Ben Maller
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Now that you dodged that shot, Jason, you have to
wait ten minutes for me to try again.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And unlike Jalen Brunson, tyser can fire it off. Hey,
Jalen Brunton's got a bust in hand, all right, just
so you know he was before that.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, but that means he can't use the musket properly. No, well,
I mean, listen, I don't think he wouldn't be able
to reload that. I don't think the musket was a
great If you went back and looked the Revolutionary War, Hey,
maybe the reliance on the muskete is what did a
lot of people. I wonder if the reliance, well, the
operational efficiency is I think the But you wouldn't be
(01:28):
able to reload because you'd have to use the bayonet
to spend off.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Because I see it, because I see in movies now
where the star if someone's holding a gun on him,
the star can actually dodge the bullet, run at the
guy who's like fifteen feet away and tackle him without
getting shot. Like, if that's the case and you have
a gun that can fire right away, I can imagine
what it must have been like in a war for
guys take five minutes to fire a shot. You have
all you have time. You just go to the bathroom,
(01:53):
come back ready, Okay, you're out, still fire, Okay, I
got a couple of secres. I'm gonna have a drink,
something to drink. Okay, great.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You have to fear that there's another guy high fighting,
so you know, you get lulled into a false sense
of security.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So Soldier number two is lying in wait, there's another
guy that hasn't fled, that's right. So it's like John
Wick four. So it's it's not like.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Most movies where the villages they wait to attack you
one at a time.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Okay, okay, maybe as opposed to let's let's get you
the Revolutionary War they did it that way. I wasn't there,
and how the movie portrays it, I can't say.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Historical accuracy is always item number one on the list.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Instead of me, he promotes Charles Lee, makes him second
in command.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm a general, Like if you got shot, I don't
I don't know that you necessarily spun over three times
a year.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, no, no, well, yeah it's tough. I don't know.
I mean with the musket. Tysher is going to do
some musket research on it. Yeah, well, are we gonna
pay him in his off time? No, he will. He'll
send him to a battlefield, to a recreation of a war.
I could you know, I could see Tyshirt doing one
of those Civil War recreation guys, Colonel ty Shirt out
(03:05):
you know, I could see him in one of the outfield.
He's tall and thin.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He would have the hat and he would have the
coat on with all the buttons on it, throw out
some mutton chops, like in Sweet Home.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Alabama, where's my dad over there? I could see Tyshirt
doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Imagine if you will, a battlefield of seventeen forty five.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Why are you speaking like your Sean Connery. I'm going
to everyone that's like, now it's a battle in Scotland.
We meet again for Breck. You have a play on
your mouth. How I used to win the war, Charlotte.
When someone brings a gun, you bring a gun. You're
something I could shaken, not star send one of history
the war.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's how it works. I remember at sixteen thirty four.
You know it was bonded one time. That was more
than one time. I was bonded for a long time.
I never stopped.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Then they took it away from me. Never became bond again.
Now I did Entrapment with God from Jader Joners. Now
you're going into the It's the trap guy. That was
my final movie at Bart's a trap. Don't go see
and trapman, It's a trap.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That movie was really bad. They should have called that's
what the movie Entrapman.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
It was bad, yeah, but it had Kathy's a job.
It did, it did, it did, but it was in prime.
Yeah yeah, no, you're right, you're absolutely right. But it
was really really Entrapman is what they should have called.
That's how they got people in to see the movie.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Whit. It was not good. It's not on my top
ten worst list. Yes, when we're gonna go uh so
before we get back into the NBA. Two wide receivers,
two different stories. First one not to make a lot
of this right now, but Justin Jefferson, best wide receiver
(04:41):
in the NFL, did not come to Vikings OTAs today,
doesn't have a plan to show up, wants a new contract,
or does he? According to the Vikings, they were really
close on a deal last year, couldn't do it wafer thin.
Now they're looking at it again and they hope to
get something done. But Justin Jefferson is not at OTAs.
(05:06):
Where is he? I wonder? That's like playing Where's Waldo?
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I wonder? First of all, if you're Justin Jefferson, do
you really want a long term contract with the Vikings?
I mean, you have no idea how good he's not?
How good JJ McCarthy is going to beeps. He's not.
You have no idea you're gonna sign a long term
deal and be stuck with a guy that maybe can't
get you the football. Right this is the Vikings are
(05:34):
starting over, and there's nobody in the NFL that wouldn't
give a ton of money everything they have to get,
justin Jefferson. Mean, look, this guy is just blowing away
the record books what he's done so far in his
NFL career. Still, he missed most of the season, had
had one thousand yards last year. There's nothing the guy
can't do. Now, if you are Minnesota, remember you've drafted
(05:54):
a couple of guys to come in and now you're
starting over with JJ McCarthy. Okay, and he wants new deal.
First thing I'm gonna say, if you're Jefferson, do you
really is this really what you want? You really want that?
Or do you want to play out this season, hit
free agency in your mid twenties and sign the largest
wide receiver free agent deal in the history of the
NFL and you can go wherever the hell you want to.
(06:15):
And he may not be stuck in Minnesota. If JJ
McCarthy can't get you the ball, like I really I
don't know if that's what I want. And I also
don't know if that's the end game here, Like if
they were really close on a deal last year, what's
stopped that from happening? And if they don't have a
deal now, Like is this something that Jefferson really wants
or is he saying, you know what I'm doing this
(06:36):
year in Minnesota and I'm leaving. I don't want to
go to OTA's. I want you to think because I'm
leaving after this year like that. That's part of me
what I think. If he was that close for last year,
they want to keep him, they want to get a
new deal, and he hasn't signed one yet. Does he
really want it or does he want to just want
to make it look like I getting a guy want
a new deal. I'm gonna play out this season. I'm
(06:56):
gonna hit free agency and then look then look look
at the money I'm gonna get from just about any
team in the league. Because he is free agency proof.
Because sometimes you go to free agency and go, maybe
this guy's gonna get paid, Maybe he's not all well,
he misread the market. No, no, no, justin Jefferson will
get whatever he wants from whatever team he wants in
free agency.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, I said this to Frostburg. I gave it up
to him to decide whether you want to descend it along.
Evidently there was some reports your guy might have been
hanging out in Florham Park, New Jersey. I don't tell
him that I hit it from this weekend, so causing
some speculation. You know, we're gonna spare you. But since
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we're on air now and I can see your reaction
to it, you know, as part of the ongoing roast
of Jason Smith, what you would respond to with that? Yeah,
if I'm him, I'm trying to fight towards free agency,
especially with the money that wide receivers are getting now.
Not that you wouldn't be okay under a franchise tag
(08:00):
or whatever else, but you don't want an average at
the top five. No, no, no, you want to be
the guy. And with Minnesota you have your.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Skepticism on JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
You've made that clear while still wearing your Michigan Family
sweatshirt every chance you got. So yeah, if I'm him,
I certainly want to know what the offense is gonna
look like. Because I mean you're talking about historic kind
of things. Oh, sure that he's because it's not just
a hey can I win, it's a I can go
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after a lot of these records. No, of course if
this breaks right for me, Look is the floor and
park thing?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
How real is it?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't want to get all hip deep on it
and everything, But is this also something where he's going
to force a trade like I went through. Because there's
the other part of it. Now you have free agency,
I'll play this year. I'll do this because obviously the Vikings.
You know, he still plays for the Vikings for one
more year, and you know how things get if I
sit out and everything else. But the other part of
this is does he not like what happened in the
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draft the direction of the team, and say, you know what,
I want to get someplace else, and you're gonna get
me someplace else, and I'm not gonna play for this
team and you're gonna trade me. And in the coming
days weeks that's gonna become a parent that the Vikings
are not gonna come to agreement with him on a
contract and he's gonna go. Because remember, if he wanted
to stay, he said so close last year and they
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could get it this year. If he's holding out, he's
not there, how much does he really want to be there?
And he could be pushing for after this year. He
could be pushing for a trade now because if I
could get to a preferred destination now for a trade, Okay,
that's better, because I want to go someplace where I
know I'm gonna catch passes from somebody and I know
it's gonna be a great year, and then hit free
agency if I don't want to resign, right, if my team,
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let's just say it's the Jets, I don't want say
Let's just say he wants to get to the Jets
and Aaron Rodgers. Right, So I get there and I'll
have a great year and I can sign there if
I want to. If that's where I really want to get,
the Jets will sign me for a big for a
big for big money, or I will go someplace else
next year coming off a big year. Now, if he
has a down year or our team's gonna hold that
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against him, probably not, because what the guys put up
the first few years in.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
The week, they're not gonna hold Sam Donald and JJ
McCarthy against him.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
But if he wants to get someplace else, this is
how you do it, man. I mean, And if you're
the Vikings and you get to a point where you
know we're not gonna sign him, we are not going
to sign him, do you pull that trigger? They will
one hundred percent because you've already said we're starting over
by drafting JJ McCarthy, right, we're starting over. They will
get to that point where they will say it's time
(10:29):
for both of us to move on. Now, it's a
little late in the game to happen now, Like, if
this is something that he wanted, it needed to be
a little bit earlier.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
But again, maybe wanted to wait for the draft and
see what's happened after so we could push that. But
this seems like it's more of an inevitability at some
point than just hey, here's a negotiating play, like within
the net by this time next year, or maybe by
this time later on the South. But in a year
he's on a different team and a different team has
Super Bowl aspirations because they have justin Jefferson. Yeah, I
think there's still plenty to roll out. I mean, one
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of the big disappointments I think for you and I
where we sit each night around the draft was that
we didn't have all that movement of the veteran wide
receivers that we anticipated. Right there were rumors about eight
to nine different guys finding themselves as part of draft
day compensation, and we were robbed of a lot of
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that lot of bluster, a lot of woulda could have,
should haves and speculation that never came to fruition. So,
justin Jefferson potentially wanting out of a scenario where the
division has gotten that much better, Kirk Cousins isn't there anymore.
You've got Addison who his role will expand not a
lot of debt beyond that except for Hockinson, But two
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guys that you're looking at, what two hundred targets one
hundred each that go against your high And when you're
talking about players like Darnold and McCarthy, the acumen to
be able to I don't want to say force the
ball there or willingness to put it there isn't gonna
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be part of the offensive set that O'Connell's gonna run to.
Right with Kirk Cousins, you earn the right if you
wanted to try to force it downfield to Justin Jefferson
in heavy traffic, which you know is gonna be the case.
You're gonna be afforded that right and trust that Jefferson's
gonna make his share of place. You're not gonna let
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Sam Darnold and JJ McCarthy put the ball into harm's way.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No, it's not. And then you brought in new running.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Backs between Jones with with ty Chandler, so the two
of them like, you're gonna try to shorten games as
much as you can, so you're not pushing the ball
downfield the way Cousins did, which puts away his numbers.
But also, how often do we see one, you know,
a one star wide receiver happy in a situation like that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's not gonna work exit out bout of Fresco exit
swallowing down the Jason Smith's show with my best friend
Mike Carbon So just know that clock has started on
Justin Jefferson with the Vikings within a year. Yeah, but
I'll tell you what, by training camp watch out. If
they don't think they can watch out, shuffle up and
deal yets. No jets.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I didn't want to give you that glimmer ahole, but
it looks so desponded talking about the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
J Jefferson was spotted in Flora Park, home of the Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
get ridy.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
We rested you, you got your wings and some sugar,
and now you're now you're just.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That happy Jefferson, Garrett Wilson, Mike Williams. Probably in November
or December, Malachi Corley, can you imagine that offense? Can
you imagine Breisee Hall running the bar Bowl Super Bowl
Jets Jets Jets Jets Jets exit out about a Fresco
exit Swallen Dome. Jason and Mike Live from the tire
rack dot Com Studios. Hey, another store wide receiver, big
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time the news. We'll get to that plus the Knicks.
I'm fine with it. I'm fine with the next losing.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Now there is something that I'm really really pissed about.
We'll get to that next as well. Jason and Mike
Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
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Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon live Fromtheti rag dot com studios.
And uh look we'll get to the big NFL wide
receiver coming up in a second. Now that I got
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you all excited about, Justin Jefferson, Oh yeah, no, no, no,
but but let me just say, because I I do
I do have to to say this now. I've told
you throughout the night tonight, I'm okay. After the Knicks lost,
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They squeezed every drop that they could out of their run.
They were too injured, they were only going to get
so far. The Pacers took advantage, They waited them out,
They extended the series, and they won. And they should
have won because they were the better team at that point.
With the Knicks being healthy, it's a different story. But
that was not the case, and the Pacers won. I
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am okay with it. I am I am not upset
at all with the Knicks. There was no underachieving. There
was there was none of it. No not, I'm not
I'm not irrationalizing.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm not. However, i am mad and pissed at something else,
because what I'm really mad at is I'm mad at
the Pacers one, because this is a team that just
cried and whined and Rick Carlisle cried after the first
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two games, No, here's seventy eight calls we're not getting
and oh, small market teams don't have a chance to
battle with the big market teams. And they were like
a little kid who was gonna cry unless you gave
him a lollipop. And then what happened. They started winning,
they got back into the series, and then nothing so
and then he was like Kojaki got his lollipop. So
apparently all the all the calls were being made, even
(16:55):
though the Knicks won another game, all the calls are
being made, the pacer are getting all of it. And
then by the end of the series, it was, oh, hey,
we're gonna have very very patronizing things to say about
the Knicks and their head coach and some of them.
We're gonna start trolling you by wearing the Reggie Miller
choke sweatshirt like Tyrese Haliburton did in the postgame press conference.
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Now they went from crying and whining and say it's
not fair. Oh, here's your lollipop. Okay, I feel good now,
I'll stop crying.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm embarrassed at that, I'm embarrassed with Carla, I'm embarrassed
pass and I'm pissed that this was their strategy and
this they go through this whole thing and then they
wind up winning.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It's okay, I'm just not crying now because you did.
I got my lollipop. I feel really good. That's why
I'm mad at the Pacers are the ones who won,
because now you went from crying going this is not
happening to hey, now we're trolling you because oh the
fans are so loud and we're gonna try you by
with the Dreggie Miller and the choke side and everything.
Oh okay, great, So this.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Is the bad side of the fandom that we bring
to the airwaves coming out because now you're better. Now,
what's the old Adam squeaky wheel gets the grease right.
So maybe you can go back if you wanted to
and find seventy eight or more calls that were now
perpetrated against the Knicks. Maybe that's the case. But in
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the end, Carlisle set his peace. Did we ever really
get an acknowledgment of anything from the NBA? If we did,
I don't remember seeing it. So to that end, my
guess is he got a call from Adam Silver one
of his minions or hired goons, see hired goons, to say,
shut the hell up. Here's your thirty five thousand dollars fine,
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that's the only thing we got. Thirty five thousand dollars fine,
Now shut the hell up. Is really I think what
you kind of got. So they got quiet until it
became a wow, look at the heart of a champion
that the Knicks have whatever, And I get it. That
was pretty nauseating as well. But to your point, look,
after two games, if you really thought it was a greedius,
what are you gonna do complain about three things? No,
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you go for hyperbole and you say I've got seventy
eight instance.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So so now after game two, apparently everything was calling.
Like I said, i'msing.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
They got the memo saying shut up, they got a call,
and I bet you we can go through their cell phones,
their office phones, whatever, and find a nice call place
from Park Avenue over to Indiana to say, hey, hey, Rick,
I take it. Here's a thirty five thousand dollars. Fine,
if you complain about it again, we'll get you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
No, you know what if you know if you're suddenly now,
that's what I would say. So, Rick, did you like
the way the game was offited? So they changed the
officiating to help your team? All of a sudden the
second nobody had in the first two games, but nobody
had the intentional four to two to ask that question.
Did that wine and oh now I got what I wanted,
and now I'm gonna act superior. We're gonna troll you. No,
(19:54):
I'm not that upsets. Just accept the Pacers. Whooped your ass? Man,
they won in seven games. Was game six close, but
game seven close? We were up three games today, whooped
your ass? We lost in seven games. With seven games
we finished playing with two and a half guys on
the floor. Oh, here come the excuses. Who's crying now?
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Not Rick Carlisle. I'm just saying no, because he did
all his crying in the beginning of the series. And
now things are better. Oh this is so great. Oh
human nature. Dude, you lost the five guys. No, we
didn't know we had five guys, and we lost everybody
else and a guy named TJ.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I forget TV.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, the Bruns stopper. Don't forget TJ, who broke his
hand in the third quarter. It was over before that.
It was we know we had we had cut it
to six and they got it back to twelve. Come on, man,
that game has never held kind of there. Well, look
they shot, Look they shot sixty seven percent. They played
the Knicks sixty stop. They shot sick there, No one's
ever shot that well in a game in the history
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of the NBA playoffs. Well, because apparently on the playoffs,
Oh would you stop, man, you stop, You're the one.
You can't give the Knicks credit at all. It's like
they to buy in because for months ones is they're
going to the finals. Yeah, and then it became a
horror movie where every five minutes, somebody went out.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Somebody was done, man up, somebody was dead on.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
The Knicks every five minutes, just like it's a Friday
the thirteenth, when we oh, you're out, and you're out,
and you're out and you're out. Even adaw Noby did
the whole. Hey, we thought he was dead, but he
came back at the end to try to save the
finals at the end. No, back at the end, and
he was there. Yeah, that guy's back in. Oh. I
didn't get five minutes. I thought he was that his back. Oh,
but now he's really out.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
It was exciting to see him give it the old
college try.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Josh Hart was banged up and got hurt. I mean,
so sad you're not getting the game called. But what's
the old strategy? I mean, look, just read the news.
What do you do? You cry?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
A little bit, complain a little bit, and people capitulate.
That's the way in the world works. I'm not saying
it's right. I'm just saying that that's the way it works.
And for the NBA, if you're a coach, what do
you do? You put some notes out? Now, did Carlisle
lay it up a little thing? Sure, all it was
was overacting, but he was doing what every coach has
done in every series since the beginning of time.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
If he gets down to him, he's got to say
it again, doesn't he Well, big market team's boss and
so much bigger than Indianapolis. Yeah, if it's that bad
and he thinks it's not egregious, all of a sudden,
I just liked it all of a sudden, apparently Game three,
and that all the calls that were being done all
seventy didn't have to send anymore. After the NBA got
really mad at his I have to send any more calls.
(22:30):
And this is why people hate the Knicks. Man. No,
I'm just this is why. No, No, you can't just
accept the ass kicking.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We lost.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I told you we lost in seven games. You you
keep misconstruing the playoffs like you could watch any of
the games. It wasn't you keep musings got they could
lose by one on a miracle shot thirty Yeah, okay, okay,
we didn't lose by thirty. We lost my twenty three
anyway close to that. It was thirty the other night
again they shot sixty seven. It was the last sudden.
(22:57):
It happens. I give the Pacers crees. It happens, except
they outlasted the Knicks. But I'll tell you about that.
We lost to them because of how they acted for
the whole series, and at the end, now they're all superior,
and it's not about the Knicks. We're gonna we're gonna
troll the fans. We don't like the way the fans
were acting in the series. Okay, you I didn't. I
didn't pick this fight. I wasn't the one. No no.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
But but now you're trying to you're standing up as
a representative of the.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Pacers and Reggie Miller. Oh everything, their entire basketball existence
they owe to the Knicks and their playoff rivalries. Nobody
remember Reggie Miller and his eighteen point a game career.
He didn't have his eight points and nine sears. So
if you go to the Nate Smith Memorial Hall of Fame.
He's there, you know, it's that's that's again, no one remember.
If it wasn't for that and the choke signed with
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Spike Lee and his battles with the Knicks, the Pacers
be the most anonymous franchise in sports if they didn't
have a great playoff rivalry with the Knicks. They won
four times. The Knicks have won three times. They won
this year. That's what it is. It's why Reggie Miller
is trolling the Knicks after and fans, after all, you
all kind to heal up in Cancun now, guys, because
Reggie's whole career has been banked off of this rivalry
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with the Knicks. Without him, he wouldn't be anywhere to
the victor go the spoil, right. And I'm saying this
is what this is. Their entire existence in his career
is because of the Knicks. What the Knicks, guys, I'm
telling you anything. I'm not telling you anything.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Nineteen seventy three, they got Willis Reid. You got the
other side of the.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's that's a pretty big deal. Is ninety four. I
mean you got relegated to the small box.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Your picture.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You got the game five fart, we got the game fight. Yeah,
hood they're putting that banner up at MSG. I'll tell
you that much right away. I would.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I mean, there's been a lot of talk the new
Tiana ride right the re reimagining of Splash Mountain that
they're going to pump in the smell of begnets. So now, MSG,
ben you pump in the whatever. The magic of the fart.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Was the Jason smithser with Mike Carmen Life from the
Tirerack dot Com Studios. Now, before we get to Steve
de Segerna, throw this out here. Okay, listen, this is
upset to me. Here's something than fun. Take a deep breath.
It's okay. Now, I tell you every week, you know,
my wife goes to trivia and whenever it gets the
final question, send the final question in. And so we
got this Monday, Monday Night, Monday Nights and Night Special
(25:11):
Monday Night because there was no NBA games. So they said, hey,
we're gonna we'll get people in sure. Okay, So they
came in fourth. They missed the final question. If they
got it right, they would have won. Okay, here's your
final Steve to say, or are you ready? Yes, here
we go. Here's your question. Lion King is the highest
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grossing Broadway show ever based on a Disney movie. Okay,
what was the next highest grossing Broadway show based on
a Disney movie? A Lion King is number one? Made
the most money. I saw Lion King. It was unbelievable.
I saw it in Vegas many many years ago. What
was the next highest rated Broadway show based on a
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Disney movie? Lion King? Number one. I'll tell you that.
I made my guess, and I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Trying to think of what's been out in in production
a while.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Here's the it. It's not cars. I'd like to see
them put that on Broadway though. That'd be kind of fun.
All right, So what you guys guesses? Frostburg what he got?
I mean, what else was on it? Was it? Aladdin?
Aladdin's your guess?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
No, you guess, I'll go Beauty in the Beast.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Okay, Harmon, I'll go with the current run of Frozen
is a really good guess.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Okay. I said Beauty and the Beast because I remember
it was on Broadway forever. I'm like, oh, it's it's
that's gotta win. No, not Beauty in the Beast, George
and the Giant Beach. Not, that's James and the Giants.
I like that. It's George. George. Oh, George and the
Curious George and the Giant Beach. God, put that preach.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Back here, George. Oh, that's a new drop. One of
you is correct, it's me.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, it is not. Either Harmon or Frostburg is correct.
Harmon said Frozen, Frostburg said Aladdin. The correct answer is
because it was newer, tickets were more money. The Book
of Mormon highest grossy Disney Disney Disney's Book of Mormon, Yes,
do you want to Change Religion? Also a hell of
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a show. If you haven't seen it, I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
In a book that was written by Jesus.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Why else are they going to Orlando? Or Lando Disney?
Did you know that Jesus lived here in the good
old U s A. The correct answer is Aladdin made
the most second most money on Broadway, justin Frostburg. Broadway
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thespy about that gets that correct. I've never seen it, No,
but you got it right. Even though you were very
reluctantly made that your guess, it was pretty good. Well,
it's a hell of a film.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
No what I saw years ago. I don't know if
they still do they do the one at the broad
Play film. No know, the Aladdin show that they had
at the park that changed out for Frozen. I think
I think that changed out for Rogers. But it was like,
that's right, but it was like forty minutes long. It
was a really good adaptation and the genie was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Huh, there you go. Yeah, there's your answer, Steve de Sager.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
The problem it's playing at the park is eighty pitty
living space.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Nice a play time. Now to find out what else
is trending in the wide world of sports with special delivery,
Steve Disager, Iste, what do you got for us?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Well, we had a Game seven in the NHL Playoffs
to end the second round tonight. Edmonton was up three
nothing in Vancouver mid third period, three two the final.
This series winner, the Oilers go on to number one
seed Dallas to start the West Final. On Thursday, the
lay ballgame in the Majors at Dodgers Stadium went to
LA six ' four over Arizona. Winning pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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is now five and one. He went six and a
third innings, two runs allowed, eight strikeouts. Dodgers have won
twenty one of twenty seven, and they have the best
ERA in the majors in that span. Freddie Freeman with
a grand slam tonight for Arizona. Katel Marte did extend
his hitting streak to nineteen games.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
By the way.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
The best team in the majors, the Philadelphia Phillies at
thirty four and fourteen, were off tonight. They host Texas tomorrow.
This was win number thirty three for the Dodgers. Tonight
victories for Saint Louis and Kansas City. Wins for the
Angels and Seattle, who beat the Yankees five to four
with four runs in the top of the ninth off
closer Clay Holmes that ended the Yanks seven game winning streak.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Now.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
In fact, the Yankees record when leading going to the
ninth inning was one oh two and two since the
start of last year, and so their closer had an
ERA of zero in twenty innings until tonight takes the loss.
Boston won five nothing at Tampa Bay. Tanner Houck the
winning pitcher with seven innings of work. His era's under two.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Now.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Rafael Devers homered again. He's homered in six straight games,
a franchise record. Washington sent Minnesota to a seventh straight loss,
twelve to three that ended the Nationals five game losing streak.
Miami was down at home two nothing in the seventh,
but still won in ten innings over Milwaukee was three
to two. Miami saw at tenants of eight thousand to
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get a w Cleveland beat the Mets three to one,
saved to Emmanuel Clausse his fourteenth Guardians offense, which is
four hits in this victory. Three of those hits in
the first inning. Toronto beat the White Sox nine to three.
White Sox record now fourteen and thirty four. Danny Jansen
with three hits today, including a homer. Five RBIs Bobaschett
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went four for four. The Winde, Jose Barrios and Atlanta
split a doubleheader with the Padres. In game one, San
Diego was down five to nothing in the third, but
came back for a six to five victory. Padre and
Fieldersander Bogarts left with a shoulder injury. Initial imaging came
back negative. The Braves send right handed pitcher Bryce Elder
to triple a. Chris Sale was great in the nightcap,
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winning three to nothing over the Padre. Sale Is seven
to one, seven scoreless sittings tonight, nine strikeouts. That's four
straight starts with at least nine strikeouts. A reminder in
the NBA Eastern Conference Finals start Tuesday night at Boston
Celtics hosting the sixth seed Indiana Pacers. Boston's Christops Porzingis
will miss at least game one.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
With a string.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
CAF Pacers had the number one offense in the regular
season one hundred and twenty three points per game, top
ten in league history. In fact, they set a record
by scoring one hundred and forty points eleven different games.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
This season.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
They're finally back in the conference finals, first time in
a decade.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next,
Mike and I will give you our official Conference Finals picks.
Hey to tell you about Russhie Rice and what's insane
about what's going on with him and the Chiefs Right now,
that's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
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Speaker 1 (32:21):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Please we'll give you our conference final picks coming up
in a couple of seconds. But first, you know I
mentioned Rashi Rice and big story today wide receiver part
of the Chiefs as they begin OTAs. And this goes
back to what we talked about last week that you
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think the Chiefs are this great franchise and they'll do
everything right because they have Mahomes and Kelsey and Taylor
Swift and Andy Reid and they do all those great commercials.
And really, the Chiefs are a team that is setting
the NFL back twenty five years because they are the
latest what happens off the field. If you're good, you
will play for us. And I'm not even talking about
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Harrison Butker and what he said, that's not something you
could take the guy away from a team. What he said,
he's got to own. He's got to own what people
say about him back because people have the right to
their own opinion as well. But this isn't something where
I'm talking about Harrison Butker. I'm talking about when the
entire situation was going on with Tyreek Hill and the
domestic violence incident with his kid, not kept away from
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the team at all, not suspended, not even when the
investigators found hey, we know something happened. We know, we
just can't prove exactly what it was. Tyreek Hill was
able to play for the Chiefs Rashid Rice, who was
now involved in a huge, really bad traffic incident which
he was speeding and caused other cars to flip over
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and send people to the hospital. This is documented. And
now he's also accused of being involved in a bar
fight a couple of weeks ago, still with the team,
not facing any discipline for the Chiefs are gonna wait
from the league because this is what they do. We're
gonna wait and see what happens. And he's still a
part of the team and the OTAs not even you
don't need to suspend him, just a bit of Hey,
maybe the right thing and the right optic here is
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to keep you away from the team from a little bit,
because boy, this is not something that you should be
able to do and be able to play in the
NFL on without having some sort of responsibility for I mean,
this is this traffic. This car thing was a huge deal,
and now you had something else hanging over him with
a fight in a bar, and it's yeah, no, you're
gonna be on the team. But this is what the
Chiefs do. They set the NFL back to pre Roger Goodell,
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Paul taglubu era, where it was you can get a
dui on Saturday night and play Sunday afternoon like this
is what the Chiefs. You look at what they've done
with Hill and writes this all in the last five years.
This can all happen well, but.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
It also goes back to trying to decide what the
leagues and team to team, what their responsibility is and
how much they should be acting as whatever the law
givers for lack of a better term, right while you're
waiting for the processes to sort out, haven't we argued
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oftentimes it's better for the player to be in the
facility and around the team and in the structure versus
outside it when there maybe there's more a higher rate
of incidents of guys getting in trouble, Like we've argued
that oftentimes, right John Morant being around the team versus
being away from the team after his handgun situations and
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go on down there's numerous examples. So for the league,
you know, trying to figure out because Goodell came down
with the iron fist after what Tagliabu was and the
argument was, well, is that what the commissioner's role should be.
There's protect the shield, and then there's well, await the
legal processes. And I think for the Chiefs, for better
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or for worse, they're taking the ladder of all right,
we'll wait and see what happens. And again, being in
the building is better than him left to his own
devices in the offseason because we see bad decisions being made.
So I'm perhaps not as uh hard and fast on
the indictment of what the Chiefs are doing as you are.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Well, I just see what they've done, and I know
they did it with Tyreek Hill, this other doing with
Rishi Rice. I mean, it's it's you have you have
one big time docked with bad headline, everything topics in
the headline. But if they're not.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
In the crossairs of getting ready to go, and eventually
maybe Rice is right, maybe there is a That's.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Why it's easy. That's why it's easy. Now it's the
off season's OTAs we keep you away, we make it
look like at least we care about doing the right thing,
which is an image problem the NFL has fought for all.
This is a free time to say, hey, dude, just
hang out at home. Man, just wait, we're not gonna
find You're not gonna suspend you. Just be away from
the team for a little bit while this plays out. No, no, nope,
show up at OTAs and practice with us.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
But again, if it comes down to it, in the
course of a regular season, you don't think that Godell
is gonna eventually suspend him. I got at some point
they are right, but in the interim, go business as
usual until it's not business as usual.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Just this is the Remember this is the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Just why this is the Chiefs and the most organizations
across any any profession, so long as the business can
be conducted I.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Think years ago, yeah, But now no, there's such there,
there's we're so much more attuned to it now that
there's got to be some sort of responsibility for actions.
It doesn't need to be a season long, it doesn't
need to be. But he's we can acknowledge that this
is a thing. But eventually that's coming down from the
Commissioner's office. Right, but it's a it's a free thing
for the Chiefs, and the Chiefs don't have to suspend him.
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In addition to it was, hey, now we're going to
keep you away from the team a little bit. Okay,
what's all it is? O tas was the matter?
Speaker 4 (37:46):
But benefit analysis of optic versus is this good for
the player?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Is it good for the team?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I think it's good for the team, and it's good
for the league. I think it's good for everybody. Oh
tell me what it's good for that? He said, Oh here,
here's what's going on with him, and he's still around
the team. Really, well, what's the name?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
What's the negative of him being there? Other than a
bad headline? And someone?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Right, they don't They don't care that he almost killed
people when he was driving incredibly recklessly and he sent
people to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
No, we don't care. He still come play for us.
That's the message. But again, if they decide and goodell
later on your you know, player code of conduct whatever,
and you decide to suspend him, then at that point
the Chiefs but I'm saying, but it's but it's what
are you right? What do they get for free? Now?
They nobody's then nobody rites about. They protect they protect
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the shield of the league and the team from the
criticism they're getting from guys like you and me. Right now,
you think they want this, you think they want this. No,
of course, that they don't care. No, but that's just it.
They don't care, right, And it's a bad look for
the NFL because you say.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
You're allowing a guy to continue to be a work.
Why this is investigating and it eventually if something eventually.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Still going to a court, no matter what you're doing,
if this happened to any of us, and we were
rested in charge of crimes, you think we're on the
air here at Fox Sports Radio or you think it's
you know what, maybe you stay stay away until this
gets taken care of of course, we are all a
matter of what.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Of course we are.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Individual business decides to do and it's a bad decision
is bad, and the chiefs it's bad. It's bad. In
your opinion, it's bad. Okay, I'm not I'm just I'm
just calling what it is. You're having an opinion on
the topic. Okay, all right, all right, I'm gonna clip
and save this so I can turn this around on
you the next time, but we'll clip and say, uh,
let's take a look. I don't even know what that means.
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What are you trying to imply?
Speaker 6 (39:39):
That mean?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Clip and save when you contradict yourself, because that's what's
gonna happen at some point.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
You will, I'll say, in this case, on this date.
That's what I'm saying, Okay, all right, is eventually the
NFL will rule on.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, okay, okay, but it's the Chiefs and they could
do something now too, but they don't. Okay, all right,
does that clip and say?
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Oh I don't. I don't even understand where you're going,
but fuck, let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Okay, Like I said, eventually, you'll contradict yourself. I'm gonna say,
but wait, what about the Chiefs? And you've never contradicted
yourself anything on the show.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I said, always go New York, Go, New York, Go
and then now they're gone, So that's how it goes.
Who do you got in the Eastern Conference Finals? Pacers Celtics.
Celtics will give a game or two away, but they'll
win it. Yeah. I would love to pick the Pacers.
I'd love to pick them because the Celtics give games away,
as we talked about, but I think their defense is
too good. I think it's a short ish series even
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without Porzingis.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I also have to just pick the Celtics so that
people that were mad about the last rounds coverage get
even more mad now.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Exit out by the Fresco exit swallowing down Ben Maller
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