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Speaker 3 (01:00):
Should be Now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Look, we have laughed at the Mets for the last
couple hours with good reason. A couple of weeks, a
couple months, okay, but really a lot in the last
couple okay, okay yet true, yes, but the last couple
hours because of what happened tonight following the Mets lost
the Dodgers. It's the biggest story in sports because it's
not every day that a player says he plays on
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the worst blanking team in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It is and that's what happened today.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Mets reliever Jorge Lopez second game against the Dodgers in
which he gave up a big lead and was not
happy with what happened today. Gave up a bunch of
runs in the eighth inning, gives up an opposite field
home run to show hey. Otani, then gets thrown out
of the game because he argues with the third base
umpire over a check swing.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Call.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Otani homers to make it eight three Dodgers, and the
first pitch to Freddie Freeman is a check swing. He
checks with a third base umpire. Third base umpire says
no swing. Lopez goes crazy, yelled at the umpire, who
throws him out right away, and Lopez, on his way
off the field, you know, untucks his uniform because you know, listen,
you don't want to have to show the Panthers th
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through if you don't have to do it at any time.
And he throws his glove into the stands. Pretty embarrassing, right,
But that's yeah, that's usually just a Wednesday for the Mets,
even though you throw on the fact that right before
the game, Hey, Edwin Diaz is on the iel with
his shoulder injury. And oh, by the way, in the
first inning, Pete a. Lonzo got hit in the hand
with a fastball and had to leave the game.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And who knows how long he's out for Yeah, Mets.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So following the game, the Mets had a closed door
meeting for twenty minutes, and afterwards they talked to the
different players about what went on, and Jorge Lopez met
with the media and this is SNY and Steve Gelbs,
who is a Mets sideline reporter, and to be to
give to do a real serious thing here for a
couple minutes, because we talk about being positive, given credit
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where credit's due. You got to listen to this, because
first you had Lopez being asked about if he regrets
throwing the glove, because look, the Mets talked about it
after Carlos Mendoz, the Mets managed and you can't throw
your glove into the stands.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And then here's the statement the money statement, why we're
talking about this guy so long tonight. This is Lopez's
response when he's asked about throwing his glove into the stands.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
is unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
No, I don't regret it.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I think I've been looking the word steam in probably
in the whole mb you know, whatever happened happened. So
whatever they want to do it, I'll be tomorrow here
they want me, you know, whatever they want to do,
So I'm gonna keep doing this thing, you know, so
I'm healthy on whatever, you know, whatever to do. You know,
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I'm I'm ready to come back to my here, so
I'll be.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Here all right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And they don't because the Mets DF hate him after
these comments because he said, I look, I feel I'm
living on the worst team in fing Major League Baseball,
like this guy.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, it's insane like this is again.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I look at stories like this and I go, please
don't be embarrassing, Please don't be No, it's the worst
thing because the Mets are a tire fire. They are
absolutely the worst team when I mean, there's no team
more embarrassing in all of baseball. Just when I think
my team can stand up for five minutes and say, hey,
we can be big players here, we gotta owner. It
wants to spend money. We got guys coming here. We
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signed Verlander in shurres or no it didn't work out.
We're gonna cycle through stars. No, no, no, you got
a middle ld ever saying we play on the worst
blanket team.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I played it worst blanket team in Major League Baseball. No, no, no,
there's no means there.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, I mean, look, honesty such a lonely word. I mean,
it's really a difficult proposition here, and sometimes you hear
it and you go I didn't really want him to
be that honest, right, I wanted to say, you know,
the heat of the like this was the opportunity, right,
the motions of the situation, the gravity of it, the
last couple of weeks, a lot of frustration in the clubhouse,
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blah blah blah, and it boiled over.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah no, no, no, Instead, I play on the workst blanket
team in Major League Baseball. Like this, go on, man,
and you like how he said in the middle there, Hey,
so if they want me, I'm healthy, Like he's telling teams, Hey,
they're gonna get rid of me, man, But I'm healthy,
I feel good, I can throw these This team is
just terrible behind me. Like it was the Mets fault
he got lit up. It's the Mets fault to give
up that two run home to Freddie Freeman yesterday. It's
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a Mets fault that he gave up six runs in
the eighth inning. Today, it's the Mets fault. It's not
any pitches he's thrown that they're depositing into the stands.
It's the mess ball, worst team in Major League Baseball, right, Oh?
Like this is just I mean, and it's my team.
Why can't it be somebody else's team for once? Just
why couldn't it be the Diamondback? So why couldn't it
be the Angels or the Tigers or the Rays?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Why couldn't be one of those teams? I always have
to be my team.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
But we're not talking about Corbyn Carroll sucking enough he's
been so you got that going for you. But you know,
in the end, what are we always talking about?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Right?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Do you know the pot highs and the lows. That's
what we're here for. So you can live, uh and
and let off some of the steam of your the
outside world and have a laugh with us, maybe laugh
at us a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And this is where it is.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
And if you're gonna fail, right, if you're gonna be bad,
what do I always say?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Fail spectacularly? Sure? I like you just slightly below five hundred,
does it matter? No? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You're gonna really you forced the decision, because there's there's.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No say, well, a bounce here, a bounce there? No, no, no,
we suck yeah no no, no.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I like and I like how you got caught there
mill and you meant to say on a high and
you said pie high.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I started thinking, oh no, that's a pretty good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Like you eat you're on a pie high because I've
eaten so much pie, I'm on a high.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Like now, I'm just thinking about that all of a sudden,
that's just Wednesday. Could pizza pie high? It could be
like chocolate pie high.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Like you stumbled on something there, bud pie high that
put that on a T shirt. Man, I'm telling you, no, no,
why would I want to have an apple pie, there's
no chocolate in it.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Come on, man, I mean there's lots of things you
can do.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You put cheese on your pie.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
No, oh, well, if there's a melted cheese in the pie,
like a cheese and bacon pie or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, no, that's pretty good. No, but I'm always chocolate
pie or.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Pumpkin pie with the with the most whipped cream possible,
Like the only reason the pumpkin pie exists is a
is a vessel to get the whiped cream into my mouth.
Like that's the only But that's right, yeah, oh exactly right. Boom,
just right, just gonna squeeze it right on there, just
squeeze it right on, just ready to go. But no,
but seriously, to take this in a in a different,
non embarrassing just for a second, I mean just for
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a second. Let me let me take this in a
non embarrassing way. I have to give tons of credit
to Steve Gelbps, who is the Mets sideline reporter post
game interviewer. He's the guy that got the sounded did
the interview with with Jorge Lopez, and now you hear
that sound bite now and now uh, let's play this again.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Chris.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Play the first one again where you hear Lopez say, yeah,
I feel like I'm living.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
On the worst blanken team in Major League Baseball. Play
that one more time.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
is unacceptable looking back on it. Do you regret doing that?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I don't regret it. I think I've been looking the
worst deam in probably in the whole MLB.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So okay, stop right there.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I feel like I've been looking on I'm on the
worst team in blank and Major League Baseball. Now that's
a that you heard it right there, right, But obviously
there there's a little bit of a well what did
he say? Did he really meet and did he need
to say worst team in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And there was a little bit of a of a
of a of an upbroar at all. Maybe he didn't
mean to say that, and you're misquoting him.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And this is where I give Steve Gelbs all the
credit in the world, because how many reporters would just
get this and say, oh my god, I got gold
this guy. This guy just said he plays on the
worst team in Major League Baseball. Let's get it out.
Let's synk it up, Let's get the clicks going. Sn
Y is gonna do great virally, We're gonna make make
a lot of money tonight. This let's get it out there.
But he did the right thing, and not every reporter
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would do this, meanwhile, would be something you should do.
But he did something that every reporter should do. Hey,
this is Lopez who clearly you can see maybe there's
a little bit of a language issue, And okay, let's
make sure that he said exactly what he said and
that's what he wanted to say. So Gelbs actually pauses
and goes back and asks him and make sure that
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that's what he said.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Take a listen, just to clarify what what you said?
Just I didn't fully understand. Did you say I'm on
the worst team?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Is that? Is that what you had said?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Probably it looked like.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And that they were embarrassed by you.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Is that what you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, so you hear him say yeah, probably, yeah, the
worst team.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I don't know. Could you still make the argument.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And this is what I would do if I was Lopez,
I would make the argument that No, I didn't really
mean to say that. What I meant to say was
I was the worst teammate or something else. But it's
it's hard to have a leg to stand on when
you're in the locker room, you're answering questions.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You know what reporters say.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And the guy gives you a chance to say, is
that really what you wanted to say?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And you know what's going on. You know what you're saying.
Did you regret throwing the glove into the stands? No,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
He knows what that question is all about. Hey, Nope,
don't regret throwing the glove in the stands at all.
So he knows what's going on, he knows where the
line of questioning is going, and he knows what Gelbs means.
And Gelbs gives him the chance. Did you mean you're
on the worst team in Major League Baseball? And if
Lopez was thinking, he would have said, no, that's not
what I meant to say. I meant to say, I
was I was one, I'm one of the worst guys
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on this team, or whatever it is. But no, but
he wanted to own it. Maybe he wanted to get
out of New York whatever, reason. Who knows he's having
a bad time. It's not been great this year. He
came in on a one year deal, was supposed to
be a guy that that helped fortify the Mets bullpen
a little bit. But he knows, I mean gelps very specifically.
Since just want to be clear what you said. You
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said that you're you play on the worst team in
Major League Baseball. Yeah, yeah, probably, So at this point,
what do you say, right, like, now, okay, we got
the story, let's go forward with it. And I give
him a lot of credit for that, because not every
guy would have the presence of mind to do it.
And whether it was him or his producer is cameraman,
whoever it was, Hey, let's make sure we got this,
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because it's easy to just bolt and say, oh I
got it, man, get this.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Out, get this out.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I mean, he asked that, He asked the tough five
just to make sure, and he gave him a chance
to say, hey, listen here, dud, let me play with
the words, right, play with the words to make sure
this is how I'm interpreting it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I mean, how I'm gonna print it. Let's go. That
was that was.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Really a class thing to do to say okay, because
you know you have to be responsible for what you said,
but you never want the me you to take over
what you're saying. And for him to say, all right,
just want to make sure what you're saying. I mean
that that that's a that's a professional move by professional
reporter right there.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, I was fantastic.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I mean it really was give him every opportunity to
walk it back, say well what I really meant to say? Uh,
and choose different words, and you know, he stood there
and are we gonna find out, like two weeks from now,
that there was some other unrest other than them losing
him not pitching very well, like that there was something
in the clubhouse that has gone sideways amongst the players
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and some battles there, you know, some of that the
great New York stories of days gone by and rumor
conjecture and uh well, lots of speculation for many big
teams in NBA and Major League Baseball history, like what
was going on there?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, this guy and.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
The girlfriend or betting or whatever it might be. There's
a million ways this guy owes me money, right, I mean,
who was the gen Smith?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Get by? Gino Smith? Get punched in the face. Sure, sure, right.
I mean there's lots of.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Things that suddenly come out, like, wow, that's a terrible thing.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Why did he attack him?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Wait for it, Wait for it, It'll surface eventually. Yeah,
it's surface. There it is, So who knows there might
have been something else completely triggering this beyond you know,
a couple of bad pitches, and I mean giving up
a home run to show Hao Tani not exactly what
should be a life altering situation.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Not just a home run. Mike, that was yeah, I
know it.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
But I mean he's done that, and he's victimized many
a pitcher, so I mean you're not special in that regard.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
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I guarantee you a lot of best stuff tonight will
be you laughing at the Mets. So it works for everybody, Casar,
but in you know, because now it's tough for me
because I you know, when we go hot and heavy
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with the Mets embarrassing being the most embarrassing story in sports,
we need ten minutes off and it's time to get
into what has turned out to be a great day
for the NBA.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Bronnie James is staying in the draft.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Joining us down the hotline to break it all down
Lakers Insider, NBA Insider check out all his work at
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Speaker 7 (15:59):
Guys, Look, I thought you were going to have me on.
You know, we're talking embarrassing baseball with the Mets. I
thought it was time for some White Sox chatter maybe
to really, uh, to really move the needle. But hey,
you know, I'm not sure if I'm the worst guest
or on the worst show. Mary what an all time
(16:21):
great for quotes?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, yeah, I mean because That's the thing, is that
what's been confirmed is that now that Jorge Lopez tripled
down on the fact that the Mets of the worst
team in baseball because he said it, and then Steve
Gellup said, is that what you meant?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
He said yes, And then a third time he was asked.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Which is just coming in, Anthony Dicomo, who's a beat
writer for the Mets, said, yes, Lopez meant to say,
I'm the worst teammate on the worst team in Major
League Baseball. So he's tripled out back the Mets of
the worst team in Major League Baseball, not one, not two,
but three.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Yeah. DSA stands for darn freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
All right, So, because I need a break from the Mets,
let's talk about what's going on with the Lakers here
for a second, because, look, Bronnie James entering the draft,
as staying in the draft is a great, great move
for the NBA because it's a buzzless draft and you
can be able to talk about Bronnie and where he
winds up getting taken if he gets drafted, is he
going to be a Laker?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This is a month long topic. It's going to be
the entire show.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What are you hearing from the Lakers, their attitude, what
they think about Bronnie?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Are they going to draft him? Will they lay off
them u DFA, What are you hearing?
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I think they would draft him in the second round.
They have the fifty fifth pick right now in the
draft I've reported basically, I think that's sort of viewed
as his floor. Look, right, you don't know who else
is going to be there, Like the draft is crazy, especially,
like I kind of want to get this off my chest.
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Any tick after twenty five is a scratcher anyways, Like
really right, like Denver didn't know what they were getting
into Koa Jokics, Like they were hopeful, certainly, but you
know if they knew, they would have done it sooner, right, Like,
I mean this is they wouldn't have done it during
to talk about commercial this stuff is like there's a
(18:17):
lot of guesswork in players taken late in the draft,
and late in the draft is I think late. The
draft comes sooner than some people realize. So you know,
to the people who like point at Brownie and look
at the stats and say, this guy's got no business
in the league. He's got no business being drafted. Sure,
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but I would point at, you know, like what we
know about him, right, which is that he has you know,
good basketball teams. He is, uh, you know, a nineteen
year old kid with a with a six foot seven
like a plus six inch wingspan and a forty inch
vertical who seemingly wants to say the right way. That's workable.
(19:03):
You know, it really is sort of workable. And if
you miss, you miss, like that happens all the time
at this point. That that being said, it is impossible
to script sort of the prospect from the last name,
And that's the that's the tricky part in this, and
(19:24):
I think teams are really for the most part giving
it good faith arguments, you know, but I mean I
reported this in a big pro pileately what about Brownie
after the combine that, you know, there were teams having
first round conversations about it in an effort to kind
of say, like, you know, if we drop this guy,
can we use can we get abroad on the mid
level exception, like do we have access to that? You know,
(19:47):
is that a possibility for us? Teams are certainly exploring that,
you know, I don't know if teams are still having
those conversations I would assume they are. It's I don't
I think it would work. You know, I don't think
if Phoenix straps Brani that Lebron James is going to
take a fifty three million dollars pay cut to go
(20:09):
put it the Father of the Year, by the way,
someone as someone guys who changed to fairly hateous Stiper tonight, Like,
I don't think fifty three I mean, like that's that's
a little deep, you know. I think that's like it
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just doesn't it doesn't line up for me. That doesn't
mean it won't happen. It doesn't mean it can't happen.
It doesn't mean that Lebron James is one hundred percent
going to be a Laker. That's not that's not the case.
He's not one hundred percent going to be like it.
If he was, he would have either opted in or
agreed to a new framework kind of deal. They would
be moving forwards with a clearer sort of picture of this.
(20:53):
I think, though, when you talk to people within the Lakers'
front office, and you talk to people around the organization
and really around the league at large, and I mean
it is sort of a working assumption at a minimum.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Now what if we get to the second round. What
if a team not not worried about Lebron does it
out of spite just to create some chaos.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Great love it. I'm all for. I'm all for spy pics,
like I mean, like the Celtic if like the Celtics
did it, you know, or I mean the Calves, Like
there's some you know, there's like some fun like kind
of elements of that potentially. Look, I think I think
it's certainly possible. Teams motivations at this point, you know,
(21:36):
like I said, like look in here, and I didn't
even write this, but this was definitely another thing that
I heard in Chicago. What about what about a possibility
in which you do take him fortieth and part of
the reason you're taking him fortieth is that if it
doesn't work out in your situation is bad, you might
recoup future assets from the Lakers down the road. It's
(21:57):
sort of like a rescue mission, you know, like there
is like that is like a calculus. Teams have also
kind of kicked around, like this draft is pretty lousy.
Next your straft is better, Maybe we pick up a
second down the line. You know, it doesn't work up
for it.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
But give me the odds that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, obviously there's a lot of different things that could
jump in when you get to the draft, but is
the most likely give me the gimme a scenario percentage chance.
When you get to late in the second round, a
team outside of the Lakers drafts Brownie James.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
My gut would tell me he doesn't get to like
the late second round. That's what my gut kind of
tells me about, sort of the nature of the draft,
sort of the way that he's performed in the process,
the things he said, and then you add in sort
of like the other kind of wild X factors in it.
But it's look, I think if he's there, I think
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if he's there at fifty five, I think there's a
really good chance Lators to taking them.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Now, let me ask you this question to extend off
that would it be who for the Lakers to just say,
you know what, we're done with the Lebron James business.
I know it's big business and big dollars. Uh, And
there's gonna be a gap between him and whatever superstar
you would try to bring in to replace them. But
in the Western Conference, are we just treading water at
this point, and is that good enough?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
It's a really good question. I think that there. I
still think Lebron gives you competitive credibility. That's a phrase
all invent.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I like that. That's a good one where.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Where you just can enter a series and you feel
like you've got a chance, you know, and look, you saw,
Like this just sounds ridiculous. It sounds like I'm kind
of caring water for Lakers, but like you know, they were.
They were very close against Denver, Like, despite losing in
five games, that series could very easily have gone differently
(23:49):
if a couple of other things have gone in the
Lakers direction. Now, look, games are won and loss pushing
the playoffall on the margins, and the Lakers' margins are
certainly slimmer when you're paying fifty million dollars to the
guy who was about there in his forties. Like that's
just that's a reality. But I think you know, he
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does give you, like I said, that competitive credibility. You
play big games, you're in big moments, and there's value
in that. And there's value in that for an organization
that that does value winning in a real way. And
also by the way, like doesn't have the cleanest pathway
out of this. And then also I think extends to
Lebron too, by the way, Like I think like he
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needs the Lakers as well, right, Like it is an
opportunity for him to still play really meaningful basketball in
a super prominent role. I mean, like this is one
of these other things that's like talking about. So so
Lebron is going to take the minimum to go to
Phoenix to be the third option, Like what world is that?
Like he's said, like he's I mean, he's all NBA player, right, Like,
(24:54):
I mean, like he he's that's that's not he is
not entered like Deferle mode in like a big time way.
Yet we've seen signs of it at time because of
injuries and stuff like this. But like, you know, he
still wants to try to take over games, Like he
still wants to He's still one of the fifteen best
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players in the league, which is insane to say about
someone in near twenty one. So that's like that's the
other part of this is like you know, I think
I think he still wants to win and be like
that kind of a guy. And you know, if it
was so easy for guys to you know, take the
minimum and go and go play like complimentary role basketball
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we'd see were more ring chasing, Like it's it's really
hard for stars to do that, really really hard, and
like especially for what like Lebron who doesn't have to
do it yet, I just don't see it like that.
That to me is like it just doesn't strike me
as the kind of move he wouldn't make right now. Now,
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lot can happen between now in July first, a lot
can happen, and Bronni is a part of that, you know,
and sort of what's Lebron's motivations on that front. But
but look, everything that they've said publicly, everything that they've
said privately on the Bronni James front is like they
want what's best for Brownie.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Lakers.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
NBA insider Dan Wiki our guest with the La Times,
Jason Smith Mike Harvion live from the tyreck dot Com studios.
All right, outside of Brownie, all we've been hearing the
last few days has been, Hey, JJ Reddick, head coach
of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's ready their buddies. He's on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Uh, you have a bit not only on JJ Reddick,
but who might be coming in if Reddick does get
the gig.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Yeah, you know, so the team interview James Virego today
in person. I don't want to call it a second
interview because it sounds like it was maybe even more
like a third. So, I mean, they're they're deep in
there in the in the stages. I'm trying to figure
out who this guy is going to be that that
runs this team. And and I look, I still think externally,
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like everyone I speak to is almost universally feels like
jj Reddick is going to be where this destination ends. Internally,
as they've gone out of their way to to not
say that, to push back against that, to talk about
things like an open process, to refer to that like
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kind of narrative that's out there is noise that being said.
Like I mean, they're going to interview jaj. I think
they like him quite a bit. Uh you know, I
think pairing him with James Barrego, if they if they
can kind of get a deal done, would be a
(27:44):
It would be the kind of thing they want to make. Look,
it is the Retic, the Retic coaching prospects guys, and
I'm curious kind of what I'd be curious to know
your thoughts on this, but like it is really bizarre.
It is not the kind of thing we have a
lot of track record with in the NBA, but like
particularly in this this type of job and this like
(28:05):
sort of moment. But also somebody who like there's this
real like weird thing when you talk about jj H
people like rave about how smart he is, right, and
they rave about how analytical and like, you know, I
covered JJ with the Clippers, like I know how hard
working he is and all that stuff. So you have
all those conversations and then comes like just like a
(28:27):
certain mix a outside but and it's just like but
he's like but he's not a coach, Like he's never coached, right,
And you talk to people around the league, You talk
to coaches around the league, and like there is an
element of like there's some scoffing at like sort of
like the audacity to try something like this, right, even
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if people kind of also agree that like JJ has
a lot of the tricks you would you would a
sign to someone that if they were going to be
good at it, you know, but it's just so projectionable
and it is it's just a really really bizarre timing
for this kind of decision because like, like you know
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for all these I mean we talked about Brianni before
you talk about I mean like like their their clock
is ticking with Lebron James right, like he's forty in December.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well, i'll tell you, I'll tell you this is where
I come down on it. If JJ Reddick can be
the head coach of the Lakers and Doug Gottlieban coach
Wisconsin Green Bay, I can manage the Mets probably I'm
two years away.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I mean, if that's a job, Watt, I think is
that what they call it flushing because over there your career.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's on Twitter at dead Wiki Sports.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
That is at he's going to spend my account after
that jokes, but.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Uh check out as later as at the La Times
as well. Dan as always, buddy, appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
With us, my friend. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Okay, thanks money.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, I'm saying you didn't bring up the Nicks.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I thought he would do that, but he was nice
and didn't bring up the Knicks that it was okay though.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well it was really nice of him. So next to
next time you'll get a full wapping load of that.
Because your roster is gonna change a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, oh sure, sure. Whose roster's gonna change more? The
knicks of the Mets, which, Wow, the.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Mets are gonna have. They're gonna be on wrecking guys. Hey,
that guy who's playing in low able he's now our
third starter.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
He's and he's also playing first base. You think Otani
was good? Wait do you see this guy? The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon, Live from
the tirerack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yes, break from the Mets coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
An NFL story where a really really bad idea has
finally been put to bed.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
What is it? We'll tell you next right here, Jason
and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (31:13):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Yeah, more
on the Mets coming up in about fifteen minutes, because
the story just won't and it just keeps getting more embarrassing,
even with the new information we just got in the
last ten minutes about this story, Oh, let me just stop.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Come on, but it just keeps giving it. You know,
I know it's it's just never gonna end. Jason, you
keep saying stop. You don't mean it.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I know, I keep thinking it's gonna stop. It's like
the worst horror movie ever where you think you kill
the killer like seven times. No, No, still alive, Nope,
still alive. Stope, still come it, still come it, Okay,
still going, still going.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You'll be begging for more tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
But big story out of the NFL today, we finally
get the definitive answer.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
On will Justin Fields be a kick returner for the
Pittsburgh Steelers. This is a story that.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Was floated in a podcast a couple of weeks ago
by running back Jalen Warren saying, Hey, our special teams
coordinator was talking about Justin Fields being back there. The
rules different now this year in the NFL. The kickoffs
are going to start with players lining up closer to
the kick returner, but they can't move until after the
kick returner gets the ball. So hey, maybe a way
to get Justin Fields and his four four speed on
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the field. Hey wait a minute, now, the Fields return kicks.
That story thankfully has been put to bed as Fields
did an interview today with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and
he said, quote, I'm not here to do that. It
was kind of a joke, to be honest with you. Now,
He's very light hearted about it and said, hey, listen,
it's just I think Coach Danny was basically trying to
(32:50):
send a message that hey, no matter who you are,
you could be on special teams.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
He used it as an example. It's kind of funny
to me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
People are making a big deal out of this, So
he's not going to be turning kicks now. I just
want to say this, Mike, is that there's only one
thing wrong with having Justin Field's return kicks. It's only
one thing wrong with it. It's only one thing, only
one thing. You think there's a laundry list of things. Hey,
you have a quarter. No, there's only one thing wrong
with Justin Field's returning kicks.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You know what that is? What is that? It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It's a stupid idea to have him return kicks. That's
the only thing wrong with it. This is a guy
who I'm telling you and that Steelers have to know this.
They whether they want to say it out loud now
or they just want They just want Russell Wilson to
be in the best frame mentally he can be because
they got him first and they're giving him the first
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shot to be the starting quarterback, and he's got to
be in a positive frame of mind. But the Steelers
know at some point Justin Field is going to start
for them. Look, the best case scenario for Pittsburgh is
that Pittsburgh wins early and Wilson's gonna underwhelm and he'll
probably stay in the starter as long as they keep
winning by but at some point Pittsburgh's gonna have to
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play Justin Fields because they're gonna realize he's the best
quarterback on the team. I say by week five, could
it be a little bit longer, Yeah, but not much longer.
At some point they know this guy's gotta hit the field.
They didn't trade for him to sit behind Russell Wilson,
to let him go at the end of the year.
They didn't make a move to do that, right, they
could if they just wanted a backup for Russell Wilson,
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they could have signed anybody. They could have traded for
Zach Wilson. They could have stuck with Kenny Pickett. They
could have done anything they wanted to do, but they
went out to get Justin Fields, and they're in a
great position now because they've hit their quarterback room with quantity.
When you have a guy that's been a great starter
for a long time, though he is on the downside
and he might be washed, which is why you go
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out and get Justin Fields who has shown a lot
of promise and potential and a lot of achievement on
the field, especially running the football. Now he'll be on
his best team he's ever been on. So, Yeah, they've
taken care of the quarterback position. But to think that
Wilson's gonna keep this job not happening. Field is gonna
be their quarterback. It's gonna be sometime early in the season.
They're gonna know, we have to get some kind of
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dynamic play out of the quarterback position, and he's the
guy that's gonna bring.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Oh, you're in a horrible division right that you have
to try to climb through and had a great run
last year in route to another non losing season and
all of that fun and excitement, but the reality is,
I mean, Burrow's back. Do we know for how long no,
but at least to start the season. He's back Cleveland.
I don't know what Deshaun Watson's going to be, but
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you saw how good the roster was in spite well,
probably because of his absence at times, and Joe Flacco
was of course elite. But now and then, obviously the
Ravens are still hanging out there. The slim and now
more dynamic Lamar Jackson or whatever that becomes, especially with
Roman gone, maybe there's more on his arm and we
(35:52):
get to see a whole different element to that offense.
Not sure, but you're gonna need playmakers and you're gonna
need the quarterback position to be that much better. Right,
your guy, Conny Kenny Pickett, what was his problem?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
He stinks? The only problem has he stinks? It's not
small hands the only problem.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, well that the small hands gets into the reason
why he stinks.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
So there's that. There is some of that.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
So yeah, it's it's but it's now a new world.
And I'd be curious. Look if Sean Payton couldn't fix
what ailed Russell Wilson, and he was good in spots
and statistically folks will always, you know, hey, point that
stuff out that's all finding good, But the reality is
that they missed in big opportunities and missed a lot
of wide open receivers. I don't think that's subtenly gonna
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get fixed in Pittsburgh, no matter how many times they
take guys out to Capital Grill and whatever else they're
doing there.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Now, look, it's it's a case of this whole thing.
This is a story that just got out of control.
Jalen Warren said something fun that I'm sure was said
in fun in a room, and maybe that's exactly what
the Special Teams coach meant.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
By hey we could put another guy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Oh well wait, wait everybody, there's a lot of competition,
but that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I mean it really.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'm just surprised that the Steelers haven't thrown it out
there that this is a more open competition, because it
should be. Like you know, so far Fields has come
in he said the right things. Hey listen, I'm here
to learn from Russ. Where hell I'm pushing. We're pushing
each other in practice. I wonder if he's not been
told hey listen, I know you're coming a little bit late.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
We got Russ. Just be cool. I'm sure you're gonna play.
We're gonna get you ready to play. We didn't get
you to sit you on the bench.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And for some reason, they need to put Russell Wilson
in a situation where he believes he's not threatened and
he can and he can perform unbothered by the fact.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
That he could lose a job.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Meanwhile, he can lose a job, Like does he need
to be the power of positive thinking? Like if he's
not putting that frame, if he thinks he's competing for
a job, he's gonna go on the tank Like, I
don't know. I gotta think that's got to be part
of it, because I don't know why else you wouldn't say, Hey,
these guys are battling to be the quarterback.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
No, look, you soft shoett, because it's not a competition
until it needs to be. Right now, it's guys getting
used to a new team, new teammates, and embracing an
environment to make an adversarial right now, doesn't behoove you right,
you want to build the quarterback room, get the conversations
and information flow going, and then eventually we'll get back
(38:14):
into competition. As we get deeper into OTAs in training.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Camp, exit at about a Fresca, exit swollen Dome, The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. He's
gonna play. He's gonna play sooner rather than later. So
this means if you're in a Dynasty league, give up
like a third round pick and get Justin Fields. Coming
up next, we get back into easily the most fun
and embarrassing story of the night in sports.
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
Should be Now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Look, we have laughed at the Mets for the last
couple hours with good reason. A couple of weeks, a
couple months, okay, but really a lot in the last
couple okay, okay yet true, yes, but the last couple
hours because of what happened tonight following the Mets lost
the Dodgers. It's the biggest story in sports because it's
not every day that a player says he plays on
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the worst blanking team in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It is and that's what happened today.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Mets reliever Jorge Lopez second game against the Dodgers in
which he gave up a big lead and was not
happy with what happened today. Gave up a bunch of
runs in the eighth inning, gives up an opposite field
home run to show hey. Otani, then gets thrown out
of the game because he argues with the third base
umpire over a check swing.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Call.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Otani homers to make it eight three Dodgers, and the
first pitch to Freddie Freeman is a check swing. He
checks with a third base umpire. Third base umpire says
no swing. Lopez goes crazy, yelled at the umpire, who
throws him out right away, and Lopez, on his way
off the field, you know, untucks his uniform because you know, listen,
you don't want to have to show the Panthers th
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through if you don't have to do it at any time.
And he throws his glove into the stands. Pretty embarrassing, right,
But that's yeah, that's usually just a Wednesday for the Mets,
even though you throw on the fact that right before
the game, Hey, Edwin Diaz is on the iel with
his shoulder injury. And oh, by the way, in the
first inning, Pete a. Lonzo got hit in the hand
with a fastball and had to leave the game.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
And who knows how long he's out for Yeah, Mets.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So following the game, the Mets had a closed door
meeting for twenty minutes, and afterwards they talked to the
different players about what went on, and Jorge Lopez met
with the media and this is SNY and Steve Gelbs,
who is a Mets sideline reporter, and to be to
give to do a real serious thing here for a
couple minutes, because we talk about being positive, given credit
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where credit's due. You got to listen to this, because
first you had Lopez being asked about if he regrets
throwing the glove, because look, the Mets talked about it
after Carlos Mendoz, the Mets managed and you can't throw
your glove into the stands.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And then here's the statement the money statement, why we're
talking about this guy so long tonight. This is Lopez's
response when he's asked about throwing his glove into the stands.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
is unacceptable looking back on it, Do you regret doing that?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
No, I don't regret it.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I think I've been looking the word steam in probably
in the whole mb you know, whatever happened happened. So
whatever they want to do it, I'll be tomorrow here
they want me, you know, whatever they want to do,
So I'm gonna keep doing this thing, you know, so
I'm healthy on whatever, you know, whatever to do. You know,
(03:57):
I'm I'm ready to come back to my here, so
I'll be.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Here all right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And they don't because the Mets DF hate him after
these comments because he said, I look, I feel I'm
living on the worst team in fing Major League Baseball,
like this guy.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, it's insane like this is again.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I look at stories like this and I go, please
don't be embarrassing, Please don't be No, it's the worst
thing because the Mets are a tire fire. They are
absolutely the worst team when I mean, there's no team
more embarrassing in all of baseball. Just when I think
my team can stand up for five minutes and say, hey,
we can be big players here, we gotta owner. It
wants to spend money. We got guys coming here. We
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signed Verlander in shurres or no it didn't work out.
We're gonna cycle through stars. No, no, no, you got
a middle ld ever saying we play on the worst
blanket team.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I played it worst blanket team in Major League Baseball. No, no, no,
there's no means there.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, I mean, look, honesty such a lonely word. I mean,
it's really a difficult proposition here, and sometimes you hear
it and you go I didn't really want him to
be that honest, right, I wanted to say, you know,
the heat of the like this was the opportunity, right,
the motions of the situation, the gravity of it, the
last couple of weeks, a lot of frustration in the clubhouse,
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blah blah blah, and it boiled over.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah no, no, no, Instead, I play on the workst blanket
team in Major League Baseball. Like this, go on, man,
and you like how he said in the middle there, Hey,
so if they want me, I'm healthy, Like he's telling teams, Hey,
they're gonna get rid of me, man, But I'm healthy,
I feel good, I can throw these This team is
just terrible behind me. Like it was the Mets fault
he got lit up. It's the Mets fault to give
up that two run home to Freddie Freeman yesterday. It's
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a Mets fault that he gave up six runs in
the eighth inning. Today, it's the Mets fault. It's not
any pitches he's thrown that they're depositing into the stands.
It's the mess ball, worst team in Major League Baseball, right, Oh?
Like this is just I mean, and it's my team.
Why can't it be somebody else's team for once? Just
why couldn't it be the Diamondback? So why couldn't it
be the Angels or the Tigers or the Rays?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Why couldn't be one of those teams? I always have
to be my team.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
But we're not talking about Corbyn Carroll sucking enough he's
been so you got that going for you. But you know,
in the end, what are we always talking about?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Right?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Do you know the pot highs and the lows. That's
what we're here for. So you can live, uh and
and let off some of the steam of your the
outside world and have a laugh with us, maybe laugh
at us a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And this is where it is.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
And if you're gonna fail, right, if you're gonna be bad,
what do I always say?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Fail spectacularly? Sure? I like you just slightly below five hundred,
does it matter? No? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You're gonna really you forced the decision, because there's there's.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No say, well, a bounce here, a bounce there? No, no, no,
we suck yeah no no, no.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I like and I like how you got caught there
mill and you meant to say on a high and
you said pie high.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I started thinking, oh no, that's a pretty good thing.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Like you eat you're on a pie high because I've
eaten so much pie, I'm on a high.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Like now, I'm just thinking about that all of a sudden,
that's just Wednesday. Could pizza pie high? It could be
like chocolate pie high.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Like you stumbled on something there, bud pie high that
put that on a T shirt. Man, I'm telling you, no, no,
why would I want to have an apple pie, there's
no chocolate in it.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Come on, man, I mean there's lots of things you
can do.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You put cheese on your pie.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
No, oh, well, if there's a melted cheese in the pie,
like a cheese and bacon pie or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, no, that's pretty good. No, but I'm always chocolate
pie or.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Pumpkin pie with the with the most whipped cream possible,
Like the only reason the pumpkin pie exists is a
is a vessel to get the whiped cream into my mouth.
Like that's the only But that's right, yeah, oh exactly right. Boom,
just right, just gonna squeeze it right on there, just
squeeze it right on, just ready to go. But no,
but seriously, to take this in a in a different,
non embarrassing just for a second, I mean just for
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a second. Let me let me take this in a
non embarrassing way. I have to give tons of credit
to Steve Gelbps, who is the Mets sideline reporter post
game interviewer. He's the guy that got the sounded did
the interview with with Jorge Lopez, and now you hear
that sound bite now and now uh, let's play this again.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Chris.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Play the first one again where you hear Lopez say, yeah,
I feel like I'm living.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
On the worst blanken team in Major League Baseball. Play
that one more time.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Carlos Mendoza said that he understands the emotion, but that
that particular action of throwing your glove into the stands
is unacceptable looking back on it. Do you regret doing that?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I don't regret it. I think I've been looking the
worst deam in probably in the whole MLB.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So okay, stop right there.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I feel like I've been looking on I'm on the
worst team in blank and Major League Baseball. Now that's
a that you heard it right there, right, But obviously
there there's a little bit of a well what did
he say? Did he really meet and did he need
to say worst team in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And there was a little bit of a of a
of a of an upbroar at all. Maybe he didn't
mean to say that, and you're misquoting him.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And this is where I give Steve Gelbs all the
credit in the world, because how many reporters would just
get this and say, oh my god, I got gold
this guy. This guy just said he plays on the
worst team in Major League Baseball. Let's get it out.
Let's synk it up, Let's get the clicks going. Sn
Y is gonna do great virally, We're gonna make make
a lot of money tonight. This let's get it out there.
But he did the right thing, and not every reporter
(09:23):
would do this, meanwhile, would be something you should do.
But he did something that every reporter should do. Hey,
this is Lopez who clearly you can see maybe there's
a little bit of a language issue, And okay, let's
make sure that he said exactly what he said and
that's what he wanted to say. So Gelbs actually pauses
and goes back and asks him and make sure that
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that's what he said.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Take a listen, just to clarify what what you said?
Just I didn't fully understand. Did you say I'm on
the worst team?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Is that? Is that what you had said?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Probably it looked like.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And that they were embarrassed by you.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Is that what you Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, so you hear him say yeah, probably, yeah, the
worst team.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I don't know. Could you still make the argument.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And this is what I would do if I was Lopez,
I would make the argument that No, I didn't really
mean to say that. What I meant to say was
I was the worst teammate or something else. But it's
it's hard to have a leg to stand on when
you're in the locker room, you're answering questions.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You know what reporters say.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And the guy gives you a chance to say, is
that really what you wanted to say?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
And you know what's going on. You know what you're saying.
Did you regret throwing the glove into the stands? No,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
He knows what that question is all about. Hey, Nope,
don't regret throwing the glove in the stands at all.
So he knows what's going on, he knows where the
line of questioning is going, and he knows what Gelbs means.
And Gelbs gives him the chance. Did you mean you're
on the worst team in Major League Baseball? And if
Lopez was thinking, he would have said, no, that's not
what I meant to say. I meant to say, I
was I was one, I'm one of the worst guys
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on this team, or whatever it is. But no, but
he wanted to own it. Maybe he wanted to get
out of New York whatever, reason. Who knows he's having
a bad time. It's not been great this year. He
came in on a one year deal, was supposed to
be a guy that that helped fortify the Mets bullpen
a little bit. But he knows, I mean gelps very specifically.
Since just want to be clear what you said. You
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said that you're you play on the worst team in
Major League Baseball. Yeah, yeah, probably, So at this point,
what do you say, right, like, now, okay, we got
the story, let's go forward with it. And I give
him a lot of credit for that, because not every
guy would have the presence of mind to do it.
And whether it was him or his producer is cameraman,
whoever it was, Hey, let's make sure we got this,
(11:37):
because it's easy to just bolt and say, oh I
got it, man, get this.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Out, get this out.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I mean, he asked that, He asked the tough five
just to make sure, and he gave him a chance
to say, hey, listen here, dud, let me play with
the words, right, play with the words to make sure
this is how I'm interpreting it.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I mean, how I'm gonna print it. Let's go. That
was that was.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Really a class thing to do to say okay, because
you know you have to be responsible for what you said,
but you never want the me you to take over
what you're saying. And for him to say, all right,
just want to make sure what you're saying. I mean
that that that's a that's a professional move by professional
reporter right there.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, I was fantastic.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I mean it really was give him every opportunity to
walk it back, say well what I really meant to say? Uh,
and choose different words, and you know, he stood there
and are we gonna find out, like two weeks from now,
that there was some other unrest other than them losing
him not pitching very well, like that there was something
in the clubhouse that has gone sideways amongst the players
(12:33):
and some battles there, you know, some of that the
great New York stories of days gone by and rumor
conjecture and uh well, lots of speculation for many big
teams in NBA and Major League Baseball history, like what
was going on there?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, this guy and.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
The girlfriend or betting or whatever it might be. There's
a million ways this guy owes me money, right, I mean,
who was the gen Smith?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Get by? Gino Smith? Get punched in the face. Sure, sure, right.
I mean there's lots of.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Things that suddenly come out, like, wow, that's a terrible thing.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Why did he attack him?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Wait for it, Wait for it, It'll surface eventually. Yeah,
it's surface. There it is, So who knows there might
have been something else completely triggering this beyond you know,
a couple of bad pitches, and I mean giving up
a home run to show Hao Tani not exactly what
should be a life altering situation.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Not just a home run. Mike, that was yeah, I
know it.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
But I mean he's done that, and he's victimized many
a pitcher, so I mean you're not special in that regard.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No exit out about a Fresca exit Swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
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Speaker 1 (13:45):
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I guarantee you a lot of best stuff tonight will
be you laughing at the Mets. So it works for everybody, Casar,
but in you know, because now it's tough for me
because I you know, when we go hot and heavy
(15:30):
with the Mets embarrassing being the most embarrassing story in sports,
we need ten minutes off and it's time to get
into what has turned out to be a great day
for the NBA.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Bronnie James is staying in the draft.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Joining us down the hotline to break it all down
Lakers Insider, NBA Insider check out all his work at
the LA Times or at the press box box. It
is Dan Wiki. What's happening, bud Hi?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Guys, Look, I thought you were going to have me on.
You know, we're talking embarrassing baseball with the Mets. I
thought it was time for some White Sox chatter maybe
to really, uh, to really move the needle. But hey,
you know, I'm not sure if I'm the worst guest
or on the worst show. Mary what an all time
(16:21):
great for quotes?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, yeah, I mean because That's the thing, is that
what's been confirmed is that now that Jorge Lopez tripled
down on the fact that the Mets of the worst
team in baseball because he said it, and then Steve
Gellup said, is that what you meant?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
He said yes, And then a third time he was asked.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Which is just coming in, Anthony Dicomo, who's a beat
writer for the Mets, said, yes, Lopez meant to say,
I'm the worst teammate on the worst team in Major
League Baseball. So he's tripled out back the Mets of
the worst team in Major League Baseball, not one, not two,
but three.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Yeah. DSA stands for darn freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
All right, So, because I need a break from the Mets,
let's talk about what's going on with the Lakers here
for a second, because, look, Bronnie James entering the draft,
as staying in the draft is a great, great move
for the NBA because it's a buzzless draft and you
can be able to talk about Bronnie and where he
winds up getting taken if he gets drafted, is he
going to be a Laker?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This is a month long topic. It's going to be
the entire show.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What are you hearing from the Lakers, their attitude, what
they think about Bronnie?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Are they going to draft him? Will they lay off
them u DFA, What are you hearing?
Speaker 7 (17:32):
I think they would draft him in the second round.
They have the fifty fifth pick right now in the
draft I've reported basically, I think that's sort of viewed
as his floor. Look, right, you don't know who else
is going to be there, Like the draft is crazy, especially,
like I kind of want to get this off my chest.
(17:54):
Any tick after twenty five is a scratcher anyways, Like
really right, like Denver didn't know what they were getting
into Koa Jokics, Like they were hopeful, certainly, but you
know if they knew, they would have done it sooner, right, Like,
I mean this is they wouldn't have done it during
to talk about commercial this stuff is like there's a
(18:17):
lot of guesswork in players taken late in the draft,
and late in the draft is I think late. The
draft comes sooner than some people realize. So you know,
to the people who like point at Brownie and look
at the stats and say, this guy's got no business
in the league. He's got no business being drafted. Sure,
(18:40):
but I would point at, you know, like what we
know about him, right, which is that he has you know,
good basketball teams. He is, uh, you know, a nineteen
year old kid with a with a six foot seven
like a plus six inch wingspan and a forty inch
vertical who seemingly wants to say the right way. That's workable.
(19:03):
You know, it really is sort of workable. And if
you miss, you miss, like that happens all the time
at this point. That that being said, it is impossible
to script sort of the prospect from the last name,
And that's the that's the tricky part in this, and
(19:24):
I think teams are really for the most part giving
it good faith arguments, you know, but I mean I
reported this in a big pro pileately what about Brownie
after the combine that, you know, there were teams having
first round conversations about it in an effort to kind
of say, like, you know, if we drop this guy,
can we use can we get abroad on the mid
level exception, like do we have access to that? You know,
(19:47):
is that a possibility for us? Teams are certainly exploring that,
you know, I don't know if teams are still having
those conversations I would assume they are. It's I don't
I think it would work. You know, I don't think
if Phoenix straps Brani that Lebron James is going to
take a fifty three million dollars pay cut to go
(20:09):
put it the Father of the Year, by the way,
someone as someone guys who changed to fairly hateous Stiper tonight, Like,
I don't think fifty three I mean, like that's that's
a little deep, you know. I think that's like it
(20:29):
just doesn't it doesn't line up for me. That doesn't
mean it won't happen. It doesn't mean it can't happen.
It doesn't mean that Lebron James is one hundred percent
going to be a Laker. That's not that's not the case.
He's not one hundred percent going to be like it.
If he was, he would have either opted in or
agreed to a new framework kind of deal. They would
be moving forwards with a clearer sort of picture of this.
(20:53):
I think, though, when you talk to people within the Lakers'
front office, and you talk to people around the organization
and really around the league at large, and I mean
it is sort of a working assumption at a minimum.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Now what if we get to the second round. What
if a team not not worried about Lebron does it
out of spite just to create some chaos.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Great love it. I'm all for. I'm all for spy pics,
like I mean, like the Celtic if like the Celtics
did it, you know, or I mean the Calves, Like
there's some you know, there's like some fun like kind
of elements of that potentially. Look, I think I think
it's certainly possible. Teams motivations at this point, you know,
(21:36):
like I said, like look in here, and I didn't
even write this, but this was definitely another thing that
I heard in Chicago. What about what about a possibility
in which you do take him fortieth and part of
the reason you're taking him fortieth is that if it
doesn't work out in your situation is bad, you might
recoup future assets from the Lakers down the road. It's
(21:57):
sort of like a rescue mission, you know, like there
is like that is like a calculus. Teams have also
kind of kicked around, like this draft is pretty lousy.
Next your straft is better, Maybe we pick up a
second down the line. You know, it doesn't work up
for it.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
But give me the odds that.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, obviously there's a lot of different things that could
jump in when you get to the draft, but is
the most likely give me the gimme a scenario percentage chance.
When you get to late in the second round, a
team outside of the Lakers drafts Brownie James.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
My gut would tell me he doesn't get to like
the late second round. That's what my gut kind of
tells me about, sort of the nature of the draft,
sort of the way that he's performed in the process,
the things he said, and then you add in sort
of like the other kind of wild X factors in it.
But it's look, I think if he's there, I think
(22:49):
if he's there at fifty five, I think there's a
really good chance Lators to taking them.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Now, let me ask you this question to extend off
that would it be who for the Lakers to just say,
you know what, we're done with the Lebron James business.
I know it's big business and big dollars. Uh, And
there's gonna be a gap between him and whatever superstar
you would try to bring in to replace them. But
in the Western Conference, are we just treading water at
this point, and is that good enough?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
It's a really good question. I think that there. I
still think Lebron gives you competitive credibility. That's a phrase
all invent.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I like that. That's a good one where.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Where you just can enter a series and you feel
like you've got a chance, you know, and look, you saw,
Like this just sounds ridiculous. It sounds like I'm kind
of caring water for Lakers, but like you know, they were.
They were very close against Denver, Like, despite losing in
five games, that series could very easily have gone differently
(23:49):
if a couple of other things have gone in the
Lakers direction. Now, look, games are won and loss pushing
the playoffall on the margins, and the Lakers' margins are
certainly slimmer when you're paying fifty million dollars to the
guy who was about there in his forties. Like that's
just that's a reality. But I think you know, he
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does give you, like I said, that competitive credibility. You
play big games, you're in big moments, and there's value
in that. And there's value in that for an organization
that that does value winning in a real way. And
also by the way, like doesn't have the cleanest pathway
out of this. And then also I think extends to
Lebron too, by the way, Like I think like he
(24:31):
needs the Lakers as well, right, Like it is an
opportunity for him to still play really meaningful basketball in
a super prominent role. I mean, like this is one
of these other things that's like talking about. So so
Lebron is going to take the minimum to go to
Phoenix to be the third option, Like what world is that?
Like he's said, like he's I mean, he's all NBA player, right, Like,
(24:54):
I mean, like he he's that's that's not he is
not entered like Deferle mode in like a big time way.
Yet we've seen signs of it at time because of
injuries and stuff like this. But like, you know, he
still wants to try to take over games, Like he
still wants to He's still one of the fifteen best
(25:17):
players in the league, which is insane to say about
someone in near twenty one. So that's like that's the
other part of this is like you know, I think
I think he still wants to win and be like
that kind of a guy. And you know, if it
was so easy for guys to you know, take the
minimum and go and go play like complimentary role basketball
(25:39):
we'd see were more ring chasing, Like it's it's really
hard for stars to do that, really really hard, and
like especially for what like Lebron who doesn't have to
do it yet, I just don't see it like that.
That to me is like it just doesn't strike me
as the kind of move he wouldn't make right now. Now,
(26:00):
lot can happen between now in July first, a lot
can happen, and Bronni is a part of that, you know,
and sort of what's Lebron's motivations on that front. But
but look, everything that they've said publicly, everything that they've
said privately on the Bronni James front is like they
want what's best for Brownie.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Lakers.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
NBA insider Dan Wiki our guest with the La Times,
Jason Smith Mike Harvion live from the tyreck dot Com studios.
All right, outside of Brownie, all we've been hearing the
last few days has been, Hey, JJ Reddick, head coach
of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's ready their buddies. He's on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Uh, you have a bit not only on JJ Reddick,
but who might be coming in if Reddick does get
the gig.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Yeah, you know, so the team interview James Virego today
in person. I don't want to call it a second
interview because it sounds like it was maybe even more
like a third. So, I mean, they're they're deep in
there in the in the stages. I'm trying to figure
out who this guy is going to be that that
runs this team. And and I look, I still think externally,
(27:02):
like everyone I speak to is almost universally feels like
jj Reddick is going to be where this destination ends. Internally,
as they've gone out of their way to to not
say that, to push back against that, to talk about
things like an open process, to refer to that like
(27:23):
kind of narrative that's out there is noise that being said.
Like I mean, they're going to interview jaj. I think
they like him quite a bit. Uh you know, I
think pairing him with James Barrego, if they if they
can kind of get a deal done, would be a
(27:44):
It would be the kind of thing they want to make. Look,
it is the Retic, the Retic coaching prospects guys, and
I'm curious kind of what I'd be curious to know
your thoughts on this, but like it is really bizarre.
It is not the kind of thing we have a
lot of track record with in the NBA, but like
particularly in this this type of job and this like
(28:05):
sort of moment. But also somebody who like there's this
real like weird thing when you talk about jj H
people like rave about how smart he is, right, and
they rave about how analytical and like, you know, I
covered JJ with the Clippers, like I know how hard
working he is and all that stuff. So you have
all those conversations and then comes like just like a
(28:27):
certain mix a outside but and it's just like but
he's like but he's not a coach, Like he's never coached, right,
And you talk to people around the league, You talk
to coaches around the league, and like there is an
element of like there's some scoffing at like sort of
like the audacity to try something like this, right, even
(28:51):
if people kind of also agree that like JJ has
a lot of the tricks you would you would a
sign to someone that if they were going to be
good at it, you know, but it's just so projectionable
and it is it's just a really really bizarre timing
for this kind of decision because like, like you know
(29:13):
for all these I mean we talked about Brianni before
you talk about I mean like like their their clock
is ticking with Lebron James right, like he's forty in December.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Well, i'll tell you, I'll tell you this is where
I come down on it. If JJ Reddick can be
the head coach of the Lakers and Doug Gottlieban coach
Wisconsin Green Bay, I can manage the Mets probably I'm
two years away.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
I mean, if that's a job, Watt, I think is
that what they call it flushing because over there your career.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's on Twitter at dead Wiki Sports.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
That is at he's going to spend my account after
that jokes, but.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Uh check out as later as at the La Times
as well. Dan as always, buddy, appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
With us, my friend. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Okay, thanks money.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, I'm saying you didn't bring up the Nicks.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I thought he would do that, but he was nice
and didn't bring up the Knicks that it was okay though.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well it was really nice of him. So next to
next time you'll get a full wapping load of that.
Because your roster is gonna change a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, oh sure, sure. Whose roster's gonna change more? The
knicks of the Mets, which, Wow, the.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Mets are gonna have. They're gonna be on wrecking guys. Hey,
that guy who's playing in low able he's now our
third starter.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
He's and he's also playing first base. You think Otani
was good? Wait do you see this guy? The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon, Live from
the tirerack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yes, break from the Mets coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
An NFL story where a really really bad idea has
finally been put to bed.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
What is it? We'll tell you next right here, Jason
and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
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 (31:13):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Yeah, more
on the Mets coming up in about fifteen minutes, because
the story just won't and it just keeps getting more embarrassing,
even with the new information we just got in the
last ten minutes about this story, Oh, let me just stop.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Come on, but it just keeps giving it. You know,
I know it's it's just never gonna end. Jason, you
keep saying stop. You don't mean it.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I know, I keep thinking it's gonna stop. It's like
the worst horror movie ever where you think you kill
the killer like seven times. No, No, still alive, Nope,
still alive. Stope, still come it, still come it, Okay,
still going, still going.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You'll be begging for more tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
But big story out of the NFL today, we finally
get the definitive answer.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
On will Justin Fields be a kick returner for the
Pittsburgh Steelers. This is a story that.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Was floated in a podcast a couple of weeks ago
by running back Jalen Warren saying, Hey, our special teams
coordinator was talking about Justin Fields being back there. The
rules different now this year in the NFL. The kickoffs
are going to start with players lining up closer to
the kick returner, but they can't move until after the
kick returner gets the ball. So hey, maybe a way
to get Justin Fields and his four four speed on
(32:29):
the field. Hey wait a minute, now, the Fields return kicks.
That story thankfully has been put to bed as Fields
did an interview today with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and
he said, quote, I'm not here to do that. It
was kind of a joke, to be honest with you. Now,
He's very light hearted about it and said, hey, listen,
it's just I think Coach Danny was basically trying to
(32:50):
send a message that hey, no matter who you are,
you could be on special teams.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
He used it as an example. It's kind of funny
to me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
People are making a big deal out of this, So
he's not going to be turning kicks now. I just
want to say this, Mike, is that there's only one
thing wrong with having Justin Field's return kicks. It's only
one thing wrong with it. It's only one thing, only
one thing. You think there's a laundry list of things. Hey,
you have a quarter. No, there's only one thing wrong
with Justin Field's returning kicks.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
You know what that is? What is that? It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It's a stupid idea to have him return kicks. That's
the only thing wrong with it. This is a guy
who I'm telling you and that Steelers have to know this.
They whether they want to say it out loud now
or they just want They just want Russell Wilson to
be in the best frame mentally he can be because
they got him first and they're giving him the first
(33:42):
shot to be the starting quarterback, and he's got to
be in a positive frame of mind. But the Steelers
know at some point Justin Field is going to start
for them. Look, the best case scenario for Pittsburgh is
that Pittsburgh wins early and Wilson's gonna underwhelm and he'll
probably stay in the starter as long as they keep
winning by but at some point Pittsburgh's gonna have to
(34:02):
play Justin Fields because they're gonna realize he's the best
quarterback on the team. I say by week five, could
it be a little bit longer, Yeah, but not much longer.
At some point they know this guy's gotta hit the field.
They didn't trade for him to sit behind Russell Wilson,
to let him go at the end of the year.
They didn't make a move to do that, right, they
could if they just wanted a backup for Russell Wilson,
(34:23):
they could have signed anybody. They could have traded for
Zach Wilson. They could have stuck with Kenny Pickett. They
could have done anything they wanted to do, but they
went out to get Justin Fields, and they're in a
great position now because they've hit their quarterback room with quantity.
When you have a guy that's been a great starter
for a long time, though he is on the downside
and he might be washed, which is why you go
(34:43):
out and get Justin Fields who has shown a lot
of promise and potential and a lot of achievement on
the field, especially running the football. Now he'll be on
his best team he's ever been on. So, Yeah, they've
taken care of the quarterback position. But to think that
Wilson's gonna keep this job not happening. Field is gonna
be their quarterback. It's gonna be sometime early in the season.
They're gonna know, we have to get some kind of
(35:04):
dynamic play out of the quarterback position, and he's the
guy that's gonna bring.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Oh, you're in a horrible division right that you have
to try to climb through and had a great run
last year in route to another non losing season and
all of that fun and excitement, but the reality is,
I mean, Burrow's back. Do we know for how long no,
but at least to start the season. He's back Cleveland.
I don't know what Deshaun Watson's going to be, but
(35:29):
you saw how good the roster was in spite well,
probably because of his absence at times, and Joe Flacco
was of course elite. But now and then, obviously the
Ravens are still hanging out there. The slim and now
more dynamic Lamar Jackson or whatever that becomes, especially with
Roman gone, maybe there's more on his arm and we
(35:52):
get to see a whole different element to that offense.
Not sure, but you're gonna need playmakers and you're gonna
need the quarterback position to be that much better. Right,
your guy, Conny Kenny Pickett, what was his problem?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
He stinks? The only problem has he stinks? It's not
small hands the only problem.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, well that the small hands gets into the reason
why he stinks.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
So there's that. There is some of that.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
So yeah, it's it's but it's now a new world.
And I'd be curious. Look if Sean Payton couldn't fix
what ailed Russell Wilson, and he was good in spots
and statistically folks will always, you know, hey, point that
stuff out that's all finding good, But the reality is
that they missed in big opportunities and missed a lot
of wide open receivers. I don't think that's subtenly gonna
(36:38):
get fixed in Pittsburgh, no matter how many times they
take guys out to Capital Grill and whatever else they're
doing there.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Now, look, it's it's a case of this whole thing.
This is a story that just got out of control.
Jalen Warren said something fun that I'm sure was said
in fun in a room, and maybe that's exactly what
the Special Teams coach meant.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
By hey we could put another guy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Oh well wait, wait everybody, there's a lot of competition,
but that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I mean it really.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'm just surprised that the Steelers haven't thrown it out
there that this is a more open competition, because it
should be. Like you know, so far Fields has come
in he said the right things. Hey listen, I'm here
to learn from Russ. Where hell I'm pushing. We're pushing
each other in practice. I wonder if he's not been
told hey listen, I know you're coming a little bit late.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
We got Russ. Just be cool. I'm sure you're gonna play.
We're gonna get you ready to play. We didn't get
you to sit you on the bench.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And for some reason, they need to put Russell Wilson
in a situation where he believes he's not threatened and
he can and he can perform unbothered by the fact.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
That he could lose a job.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Meanwhile, he can lose a job, Like does he need
to be the power of positive thinking? Like if he's
not putting that frame, if he thinks he's competing for
a job, he's gonna go on the tank Like, I
don't know. I gotta think that's got to be part
of it, because I don't know why else you wouldn't say, Hey,
these guys are battling to be the quarterback.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
No, look, you soft shoett, because it's not a competition
until it needs to be. Right now, it's guys getting
used to a new team, new teammates, and embracing an
environment to make an adversarial right now, doesn't behoove you right,
you want to build the quarterback room, get the conversations
and information flow going, and then eventually we'll get back
(38:14):
into competition. As we get deeper into OTAs in training.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Camp, exit at about a Fresca, exit swollen Dome, The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. He's
gonna play. He's gonna play sooner rather than later. So
this means if you're in a Dynasty league, give up
like a third round pick and get Justin Fields. Coming
up next, we get back into easily the most fun
and embarrassing story of the night in sports.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
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