June 12, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason explains why NOTHING IS GOING TO ROB US FROM THE DODGERS-YANKEES WORLD SERIES WE ALL DESERVE. NBA Insider Mark Medina swings by for all the latest from the NBA Finals. And Steelers QB Russell Wilson feels revived in every way!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with my bets friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Dodgers hit another one.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Guys, there is a home run party going on right
now at Dodger Stadium. Okay, not not quite that, man,
It will be uh but yeah, just as the open
to this hour hits, Jason Hayward hits a two run
homer for the Dodgers. The uh Corey seekers return to
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Dodger Stadium. Not not exactly what he had in mind,
We'll not. Yeah, so at least I can't say it's
his fault. But right now the Dodgers lead this again.
It's a home run party. It is fourteen to one
now in the bottom of the sixth inning, and the
Dodgers just keep launching home runs.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Did they find out that the Yankees beat up on
the Royals ten one, so he just had to outdo them.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We gotta have more. I wanta leads the highlight shows.
Will Smith has a home run that got to He's
got a two run homer. Freddie Freeman has a home run.
Taskar Hernandez has home run. Jason Hayward has a TI
Oscar could be the MVP.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Nobody wanted, No, nobody wanted, nobody wanted improve it deal.
You know what.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The home run that Will Smith hit the one of
the graphics they put up. He's now third all time
among Dodger catchers for home runs. He had is one
hundred first career home run, he's like what like seventy
five away from Piazza.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yes, and then you got to Campanella. But with hitting
the home run the night he passed Steve Jeger, I
just wanted to get the er.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Bomb, like twenty eight years time.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You took them a long dimmit, those run a long time,
long time ago too.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's a long long history. Yeah, big baseball.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean again, at this point, you gotta think
someone's gonna be getting hit at some point because to
just keep hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Hey, man, you just.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Gotta do something. Man, no, you gotta actually get somebody out.
You gotta wear it. At this point, what are they
gonna do? Hey, you know what, We're beating the hell
out of you. We're just gonna leave the bat on
our shoulders like that. I'll tell you time to pad
some stats.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Let's go possible World Series matchup here.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes, we like that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Past weekend, Mike, look at you your Rangers. Listen, listen,
look at the box score. We're not gonna get listen
the Phillies and the Orioles and whatever use out there. Okay, great,
we got a guy named Gunnard. They are not going
my MVP pick. They are not going to rob us
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of this Dodger Yankee World Series.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We've been waiting for like thirty five years for well,
going all the way back to nineteen.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're not robbosit of this seventy seven, seventy eight, then
eighty one. They're not gonna rob us shortened season. But
this is how it's supposed to have when they had
like seven guys won the MVP.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Dodgers, we can't we can't pick between three guys.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Okay, we'll give them the series stuff back to you
know what we could do with the NBA Finals you
get the whole team wins. I mean really, I don't
what no one is getting in the way of the
Yankees Dodgers World Series like that would be seriously, it
would be the big The Red Sox winning in two
thousand and four was was a seminal moment for the
rest of the world. But you're talking about the Cubs
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in twenty sixteen was a big deal. They beat the
Indians too, right now, that was a big but that
said something's got again. Yeah, there was, But the attention
that would be on every day because with Cubs and
the and the and the Indians and the Red Sox,
it was more about could they win than it was
about the series? Right, that was there was more was
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about the history win and the guys that never did.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Here's another montage of Ernie Banks and Ron Santo go
through Ryan Sandberg, the heartbreak of nineteen eighty four with
the Padres, all of that stuff go back to Bartman.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, look what you think, guys when you think about
the Red Sox winning and four, is there a bunch
of stuff that comes to your mind? I mean, Poppy
was really good. He had a couple of runs, but
it's not one of those unbelievable world series. Well, poor
Zingis is Red sois.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Poor Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And when you talk about the the Cubs Indians World Series,
well you had the big home run in the ninth
inning off of its Cardischadman that that that tied it
Raji Davis and then the Cubs go on to win,
which is.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Very how many times Joe Madden made insane illogical moves
when his bullpen and got away with it time after all, right,
but they kept pressing his Luckamammy Miami.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You had your moment there, but you didn't really have
something where all this whole series. But every single moment
of this world series will be diagrammed and every pitch
and brand down because of the star power of both
of these teams. It will be a world series that
that if in twenty years, people are gonna be able
to say, hey, Yankees Dodgers world series, and you're gonna
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remember specific things from those world series. Yes, this all
this play, when this happened, When this happened, this in
game two, this in game five, this in game four,
starting performance in game one by Garrett Cole.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Whatever it's going to be, it's a.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
World that area that would actually have us talking more
about the World Series game than if it's opposite Monday
or Thursday night football. Yeah, I mean, look yank talking
about this series, Jason, Yeah, what do you go?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
They gave out a stat on the broadcast during the
weekend that it was the most uh future Hall of
famers on the field at one time, possibly ever.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I'm sure. Six, I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, I'm sure and playing on the same field.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's the same time. And some guys maybe more.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, Like if Anthony Volti continues to be great, he
went to being a Hall of Fame, right, it doesn't
it doesn't matter if Will Smith continues to rake and
and all of a sudden is the biggest hitting catcher
we've seen in the last fifteen years. Right like this,
this is how big Yankees Dodgers would be. It would dwarf,
it would dwarf everything and the attention and the ratings
because everybody's gonna watch these games. Everybody's gonna watch. With
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the other teams, it was a could you win? And
that was the story. This is you gotta see these
games and talk about them and the drama. It would
just just think about just if you think Yankees Dodgers,
think about the games in the Bronx, the games at
Dodger Stadium, and how Dodgers Stadium pretty much looks the
same now as it did in nineteen eighty one. And
how much money you would make if you bought some
of those Judge Otani hats that were on sale this day.
(06:49):
That was the stupidest thing, like that Judge, that the
Judge was a bigger fund.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, that giant ninety nine there. You know, don't wanna
put Judge in a bigger funt than ol time.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
People were buying them a fifty bucks to pop and
the Bibble had sold out like it was a limited
edition bobble.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The worst hat ever, Like, why the hell would you
buy a hat it's half Aaron Judge?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What in half? So?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, no, no, no, but you know what half Garrett Calton.
It's half Judge and it's half a Tani. So wait,
so a guy that plays for the Yankees and a
guy that plays the dock on the same.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Hat still better than that Phillies Mets jacket.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh, that Phillies Mets shack. It was awful.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's like, yeah, that's that's that's London major League Baseball
and going, oh, we don't really understand. Oh they absolutely
hate each other, these two teams. Oh yeah, So who's
gonna wear a jacket with both the logos on it?
Only someone who lives in London, Like I'm waiting to
see that Mets Phillies jacket. That'll be on a Welcome
Direxham show. You'll see somebody wearing one of those.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
They show up and do his things, did a double
play with and Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, all these years later, I got Philadelphia legedly, get
to do all these cool Philadelphia sports there.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Would you not mike the hell out of that if
you had the opportunity. Of course, you show up at everything.
You want me to cut a ribbon at the I
have the local all these open it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Up, come on, let me go.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I love Rob McLeay, some fake me. Let's go great.
I love Caitlyn Olson. I'm done with him and his
Philadelphia look. Look at me like every time I see
him now, I feel like he's got tattoos of every
single Philadelphia team all over him. I got a scarf
from the from from the FC. I got a hat
from Wrexham. I got a Phillies jersey. I got seventy
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six or shorts. I got Eagles shoes. This is fifty
years jealousy, fifty years of scarf for Philadelia.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh look at me.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I stand for every Philadelphia sports fan. Now look at me.
I want to Philly scarf. No, I don't want to
get scarf. No, I don't want a Philly scarf. I
mean we'll get you one for your birthday. It's season
seventy six. If it's always sunny in Philadelphia. Hey, yeah, No,
I don't want either of those.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
No.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
No, you know what my favorite part of Yankees Dodgers
World Series is gonna be?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
What is it gonna be?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
The amount of money it's gonna cost you to get
your data ticket.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It would be a lot of money. It would be
a lot. It's going to be a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You're working December for I heard he wants Dugout Club
and it's gonna be a lot of money. It's gonna
be a lot at least. Uh, don't tell me that.
Yeah on, dude, I gotta yeah, dad, here's the thing.
What I got you into the parking lot?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You got me in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, no, in the parking lot, so you can be
outside the stadium.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
If it's a Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Bracelets to give to people and you to trade like
you're outside hip. Hey, I got a soda bracelet. Who
wants to trade me? I made one for my favorite
middle reliever. Oh that's great. Oh oh you have a
Clay Holmes one. I'll trade you this.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
One for Clay Holmes. Yeah. There we go.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Actually in the process of beginning the friendship bracelet thing
for our trip time.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Because you're getting ready. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be a lot of money for
my dad. Though it's a lot of cash.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And the thing and the thing is is, you know,
shake it off. This is the hard Ah, very good.
The thing is is that I've had so many people
in my career kind of hint around if I could
get them tickets for things. Well, everybody assumes we get free.
I canna tell you, like we think, like in our
boss's office, Scotch peerd there's a big ticket bowl that
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just has tickets to all the big sporting events on it.
And you walk into his office and he's on the
phone and music's playing really loud, and he's got his
feet up.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
He goes, yeah, take what you need. Just you know,
only take.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like five or six World Series tickets, right, Yeah, take
a couple. Yeah, take a couple of Final four tickets.
Whenever you want out of that big ticket ball, just
take it. Yeah, it's all good. I'm on the phone
right now and people think that's the case. And I
have no problem saying, hey, I can't get into this game.
You you think I can get in? And then they go, oh,
you're not as powerful as a think you wore. I'm like, well,
I don't really give a crap. I'm not getting you
a ticket. But how do I tell my dad? Dad,
(10:45):
I can't get you a ticket. Don't you work at Fox?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes? Isn't five seventy at Fox station? Yes? Can't you
get me a ticket?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Dad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And then you say, cough up a buck, you cheap.
I bought your breakfast. I gotta be able to get
him a ticket somehow. Well, I mean, you're just gonna
off the pony up. You're just gonna have to say,
all right, Dad, all these years of being tormented by
your squad and you will become the biggest Dodger fan.
I'll front to the hat right profit, I'll pay for
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his hat.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, it's gonna cost me extra because of the
size of your head, but I'll do it.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah, you're gonna have to give up McDonald's for like
ten years.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh, I mean, what kind no you kid, that's where
I'll be eating for ten years. Afford me what kind
of jersey we're putting on you? He's not getting no, no, no,
not him on you. You've got to be in full Dodger garbage.
You're gonna go with him.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'm not gonna go.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He's gonna go on a night when we're doing the show.
I can't get off on a night during the World Series.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh? Hey, sorry, off during the World Series. It's the
yank's not Yeah, but I need off. Oh sorry, No,
you could call in.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I've got a way out.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You got him? What's my way out?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You tell the bosses you're Alex Steischer. I'm hey, I
need off the next three week nights. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, listen,
I need off game Game three in four of the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, what else?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And I need the night of the National championship game
in college football and college basketball?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Off right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And I also need the day after the Super Bowl,
and I need uh oh yeah, every.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Night there's an NBA Finals game. I need. We're not
sure what those dates are, but I'm gonna need. I
need those knights. I don't want to work those nights, no,
because I have no problem. He's not. Let me ask me,
let me schedule the days. I kind of did the
match and Alex, let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Hi, when's the last time you work the night of
the national championship game in college basketball?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Have you at least four years?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Maybe the first year you won? Why do you never
work that night? Why is it? Every night's a big night?
Ty shirts af the biggest college Buckets fan that you've
ever met. He's been hiding it the whole time. He's
face painting for Villanova and maybe maybeo's.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
A party where he you know, you've got to pay
an admission and he sets up a big spread and
a bar and whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You don't know, to be.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
The biggest closet sportsman you've ever met. You know it,
really do an anime podcast?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It doesn't matter. Never heard you really skipped Bayless how
did you know that's really me? He unzips his head
like in those commercials. Oh, look at that tight shirt
getting out of that.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm actually Colin.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh okay, doing the impression.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Ah. Like he's always surprised you came back for an hour.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I love it. Oh what do you mean you came back?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
No, Like Colin, he's always surprised to see you the
next hour. He's like, oh, you're here. It just cracks
me up. Oh okay, it's a three hour show, but
it's I'm surprised he came back. It kind of sounds like,
all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
In other words, he walks away and he tells, like
Greg to It, Hey, I thought we said fire that guy.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Basically I've always said I was done with that guy
because he keeps playing that tears for Fear stuff that
I don't like. I don't know what happens at night
on that crazy ass show that those lunatics do.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But we don't play that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
He was like, here, come on, man, you know he
doesn't talk to Greg tooy.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Uh all right again, let let this distract you from
the fact that nothing should rob us of this Yankee
Dodger World series. Nothing Orioles, Phillies, no any the other
send me out warnings.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
None of the Dwaski teams don't rob us of this.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
An anonymous player was quoted as saying, the Dodgers spent
all that money, but look, no flame out in the
first round.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Again, put your name on it. Next, it up about
a Fresco exit swollen dome. Coming up next, We're gonna
do two big things. We're gonna preview Game three of
the NBA Finals and tell you if the Maverickson get
back in the series. And we'll also try to explain
exactly what Chris tops Porzingis's injury is because nobody seems
to know what it is. It's coming up next, right here,
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Boy Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from
the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Well, we've made it
seventeen days since Game two of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We get Game three tomorrow night day.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Here the Boston Celtics may or may not be without
Christops porzingis with a leg injury that is described as
a very rare injury. He is questionable for Game three.
There's no indication he's going to be ruled out. He's
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wearing a brace, he's wearing a sleeve. No one really
understands what a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the
posterior to be alice tendon is. But luckily our next
guests can explain it to us, because I told him today.
One of the precursors of you coming on tonight is
explaining exactly what this injury is. To Christops porzingis a
torn medial retinaculum, retinaculum, retinacular retinaculum allowing dislocation the posterior
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to be alice timolous to be Alice to be alic
So when friend of the show, longtime NBA insider Mark Medina,
Texas Today is and hey, you're coming on tonight, Yes, Ago,
you have to explain Porzingis's injury in detail, he said,
I'm up to the challenge. I will do it for you.
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Mark's on Twitter at Mark g underscore Medina, He joins us. Now, okay,
so porzingis injury, Mark is what?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Uh? He has an injured tendon in his left leg?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Is that pass? Is that good? Does he win? I
need more specificity, Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Make up words if you have to, because I think
this is a fake injury just to affect points, spreads
and beddings.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
So leg right, it's lower body injury. We should gocky.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No, it's That's what I'm thinking here, Mark.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah. It is a pet peeve of mine when I
when I see people regurgitate team statements that have medical
jargon that no one understands, like this is this is
a journalism one o one right, like you share you
talk the way every sports fan talks at a bar, right,
not in the hospital room.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, and I don't understand is the craziest. There's lots
of things I don't understand. But for this is that
all day nothing was ever explained more, Hey, what this is?
This injury is what this is stopping him from doing.
There's been nothing more than this, just you know, words
that I think may have been fake and lifted from
Harry Potter, Like I don't know, like nobody knows what
the spell.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, I means, I am.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
It doesn't help that, you know, the Celtics and then
every NBA team, especially during this time, they're they're very
cautious and withholding with their information. But yeah, he has
a torn tend and his left leg. You know, here
is some medical expertise because I've talked to medical experts
about pourcing specifically before this injury, because he was having
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his right calf injury. The team says this is not
related to the calf, and that very wee might be
the case. But generally, when you're coming off a major
injury where you have been absent for a long period
of time, there is a possibility that if you're not
fully healed, your body overcompensates and therefore it can lead
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to different injuries. But the gray area that doctors always say,
it's hard to really know what's causing effect.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All right, So trying to break this down. Hearing what
the team's say and where Porzingis is that he's questionable
for tomorrow. I gotta think he's gonna play, because if
this injury get it sounds pretty serious. It's a pretty
easy injury to go, boy, hey he's not going to play.
And I get the gamesmanship and you don't want the
Mavericks to know, Hey, what are they going to see?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Where they're not going to see?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But if this was more serious, Worzingis would have been downgraded.
But the fact that he's going, that he wants to
try to play, and that he's officially questionable, I mean,
we see guys questionable all the time, they all play.
I got to think he at least gives it an
effort to go to Marrow. Now, what he can do
and can't do, that's up for discussion, but I think
we're going to see him play.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Yeah, I want to be surprised limited minutes. The thing
that gives me pause is that when you hear something
that's torn, that means it's a lot more severe and
it's something that could require some sort of surgery procedural
least down in the line. But I think to your
point when the NBA Finals, they're going to try to
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patchwork everything they can. But I think it's going to
be about shifting the expectations that it's about limited minutes.
Anything he gives is very much a supplementary bonus. And
now it's all about Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown and
you know, frankly the rest of their team. They're pretty deep.
And it's ironic because a lot of those doctors I
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mentioned I talked to you last week before he was
coming back from his CAF injury. They felt they anticipated
he was going to have any minutes. His conditioning is
going to be rusty, he's not going to shoot it
well and a lot, but he'll be in that upgrade
because of passing, spacing in tangibles that coaches like. But
it's very much a complimentary role. But he played out
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of his mind the first two games. But you know,
obviously injuries and wear a tear have a way to
humble a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
So limited minutes are perhaps not available at all. How
does it open the door if it does at all
for the Mavericks.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
You know, it's interesting because again different context because of
about his previous injury. When he's coming back. I talked
to a few assistant coaches from other teams and they're
they're so high on the Celtics. They felt like they're
winning the series with or without them, and they're still
a better team with them. It just makes their depth
even deeper. But they just felt like Jason Tatum and
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Jaylen Brown have razor games to other levels where you
know they coax this a lot better. They're more willing
and effect activist passers, and Drew Holliday is a great
two way player and Derek White is a great role
player that checks a lot of boxes that I don't
want to say. It doesn't matter that Porzingis could be limited,
but they have so many other fallback options that they
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can still get by. And when you compare that to
the Dallas Mavericks prior to this series, they played really well.
But as we saw these first two games, even if
Luka Dacic is playing at his best, it almost doesn't
matter if you're getting no shows from Kyrie Irving and
the rest of your supporting cast. So it's not going
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to just be about whether Porzingis are healthy or not healthy.
Dallas has the seriously raise its game just for a
chance to avoid a sleep.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Look, and the thing with porzingis if he's not as
effective as my pre series prediction that Drew Holliday is
going to be the NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Ooh, pretty good about it.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Well, we're basically pretty good. We made the rule mark
no shock, so we had to go deep down the board.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm feeling pretty good about So here we go.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Yeah, how about this? Uh, you know, not to enslay
your coaching resume, but some assistant coacher that I talked
to were singing similar praises that you're just saying about
Drew Holliday, that he's this player even though he's an
All Star, doesn't get enough credit for how great a
shooter he is, one of the best defenders he does
all these great intangibles, is knowing how to move off
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the ball and passing. All I'm saying is here, you know,
with the Lakers having to start over with this coaching
staff and go to Plan D, maybe to Plan CND
is to include you in the mix.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, you know what, listen, I'm open. I mean, I'm ready,
I can interview. I'm here in LA already, so I
could they not.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Have to fly me in that they can say, can
literally just drive a couple of towns over and go
to one of those restaurants that they took early.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And they could save like seven hundred bucks on a
plane about das, I'll just drive over it. Does he
reimburse me from mileage either, I'll just I'll head over,
run the one oh five and I'll be there.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
In a syren suggesting you don't need a grandfather offer
at all? Oh my godfather offer?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
No, no, no, no. They could pay me in sandwiches.
That'll be good. They give me a sandwich every day. Now,
how realistic is that? Though? Mark like the old day.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, no, no, that would be great. He's give you
the platinum card. I can have sandwich every time I want.
You're like cream or walking in I get a Caffe
Lte whenever I when I get.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Too CoFe lats.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But legitimately the Godfather offer, I mean, I keep wondering
if at all money was even second on the list
of things for Danny Hurley.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
No, I mean, because we's her reports that they were
prepared to offer one hundred. It was a little surprised
that with seventy. But in fairness, I know that the
Lakers do get criticism over the years that they spend
a lot on stars and are steep everywhere else, and
there is an element of truth to that, just knowing
that the ownership dynamics are much different than typical owners
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because it's still family run divide among multiple civil as
opposed to an owner that has so many different business
avenues and revenue streams. But I think in this case,
I don't think the contract has anything to do with it.
And I'm not presenting this as any defense of the Lakers,
because I you know, I could care less. But what
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I gathered was that Dan Hurley's no had more to
do with him having a good thing at Yukon and
having roots there and the back to back championships than
anything negative about the Lakers. I mean when he talks
with the Lakers. Yeah, there was some salesmanship that the
Lakers had, but I also think that all parties talked
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very openly about the roster, good and bad, so it's
not like they're trying to hide behind, you know, their
current challenges, and I don't think Dan Hurley was naive
to that. But the tenor that the Lakers got from
their conversation with him and the questions. They didn't get
the impression that he's asking questions or giving feedback as
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if there's gigantic red flags and warning signs about the
direction the team's going. And that's not to say that
there aren't concerns about it. But their impression, without directly asking, Hey,
is it more you than me, was that he declined
because he's got a good thing going at Yukon, And
I guess with that Hey illustrates. Yeah. Even with how
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glamourus the Lakers are, it's a franchise. They can't just
pull anyone. But I think at the same time, of
all the slings and misses or things that have blown
up in the Lakers' face, I wouldn't rank this high
on that list. There's a lot of other mishaps, like
Tylou's not getting there a few years ago because of
contract negotiations, or the Russell Westbrook trade, or not keeping
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Alex Crew. So I'll rank those things much higher than
anything that's happened with Dan Hurley.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
All right, Mark, lastly, let me get you back to
the NBA Finals. As we get ready for Game three,
you mentioned Kyrie Irving. Look, one of the reasons I
picked Duralida for MVP is that he was going to
slow Kyrie down have a good enough series offensively, and
clearly Kyrie has not been the same. Has it been
the defense?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Has it been?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Maybe he's hitting the wall more basketball than he's played
in the last five years. Is it something's in his
head because he likes chripping with the Celtics fans. What
are you seeing from Kyrie Irving that is preventing him
and why he's having such a bad series.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Well, I'm not going to ignore the trend line that
he hasn't played well in Boston, but because he's a
veteran player, and you know, at least Celtics fans and
throw water bottles out him like did a few years ago,
I don't think it has much to do with the
crowd atmosphere. I think it has to do with what
you were saying that Boston's defense is really good. Number
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one and number two, Kyrie miss shots that he should
have been normally making, and that's not a good combination.
I think that at least in the short term, Game three,
because it's on their home four, because he's stealing that urgency,
he'll have a bounce back performance. But I think the
larger point is this their supporting cast hasn't been reliable
yet in this series. And I think the bigger thing
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is Boston is just such an a weak defensive team.
They have so many wing options, they play small ball
really well, and that are also a great offensive team
that just seems like their multiple reinforcements are just gonna
wear Dallas out repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Here you can follow on Twitter at mark g Underscore Medina.
That's at mark g Underscore Medina. Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time with us. We'll talk as a series
continues on already.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
And you guys will be the first to know whether
I accept or reject this latest Lakers offer as a coach, and.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'll be on. I'll be on your squad. Remember, I'm
already in La, so it already works.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So I can't guarantee that because the Lakers one input
on the staff.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh well, I just do it you again.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
I will do my best.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
We'll talk to you. Yeah, that's hey.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You have to worry about anything else is I'm already here,
I'm a local higher I'm good.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I gonna listen right down the road.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Said you don't have to pay me as much as
you pay any of these other guys like James Barrego
to have the Lakers ignore what they say. You can
pay me in sandwiches, and Lebron and Ad can ignore
what I say. Or you can pay Barrego two million
dollars a year so they can ignore what he has
to say.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
What makes more sense? Come back?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Going rate now is eleven point five. So what you
were off for that guy? Hey, goud, it's a lot
of sandwiches. What are we gonna do today, coach? Hey,
here's we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We're gonna have five guys on the court at a time,
and uh, you guys are gonna do your thing, and
let me know when you want to come into game,
and let me know. If you're tired, you need a rest,
just put your hand up and I'll substitute you in
and out.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
All right, Jerry, what did you put on the whiteboard? Well,
it's more than Darvin Ham. It's a picture of me
eating a sandwich. It's pretty good like that, jank.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Coach, that's pretty elementary. Well, listen, I want to be
able to be able to do things. You guys will
listen to. What else are you gonna listen to if
I tell you, let me know when you want to
come out, you come out of the game, stump yourself
in and out.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's all good. I'll just be it's fine.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Let me know.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I'm gonna get some guy. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's really just to that point, all right, because Brego's
probably gonna end.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Up picking the Cavs coach. Ma yeah, sure, sham Kissel.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Already said, well blank you I'm not gonna be an
assistant to that guy. Do you end up with JJ
Reddick in a band of merryman behind him?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Lebron checks himself out of the game while JJ Reddick
continues to do his podcast on the show today, it
is Mike Furtello along with JJ Reddick as they talk
about the game that is happening right now.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I would be pretty good, though, Reddick live in the
third quarter. You know, we just had this great play
that we ran. Let me tell you, let me let
me break it down. We're in the middle of the
fourth quarter now, Yeah, but this play was really really good.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Man. They're gonna they're gonna mic me update, you know,
and send someone over to interview me between the third
and fourth quarter. Anyway, I might as well do it
for my podcast, The Jason Smith Show is my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, there's quarterbacks in the NFL who think, yeah,
this is my job, but I'm gonna be the number
one guy all the way through the season. And then
there's quarterbacks you think I'm the number one guy, is
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gonna be the number one guy all the way through
the season, not realizing you'll be replaced by week three.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We have that story next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
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Speaker 1 (31:17):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Now,
there are quarterbacks who want to tell you they're the
number one quarterback and give every impression of the number
one quarterback, even the face of the fact they could
be beaten out.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Jack Wilson, maybe what stops Zach had one day with
the Ones and it didn't go well.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But every time I hear Russell Wilson speak, I just
feel like we're gonna get the same thing every time.
I feel great, everything is great. It's so much better
than last year, when last year he said everything is great.
I feel great. It's so much better than last year
when the year before he died, he said everything is great.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I feel awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Did Sean Payton blame the cataracts that he had taken
off for the sub bar performance by the offense last year?
I mean every time I hear Russell Wilson speak, I go, dude,
you understand what the where you're at now in your career,
what the season's going to be, regardless to whatever the
Steelers say about you. H At mini camp today, Russell
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Wilson said all the things that I just mentioned that
he said. I feel the fountain of youth. I feel
revived in every way mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I feel confident.
I feel really good. I felt confident in the midst
of everything. I have all the confidence from last year
times ten.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I feels so great. Did you get drunk here with
the word confidence right there? Drinking? Game done? After one quote?
Anymore say confidence again?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Like I feel like he needs to convince us, Like
if I tell you on the Star Quart I'm the
number one quarterback and how great I'm feeling that I
have to be the number one quarterback.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
And you got to speak into new existence, right because
if you don't believe it's true, how are you going
to convince Mike?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And we just got an extension now.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
The Steelers have said a couple of times, even reiterated
today that Russell Wilson is in the pole position. But
it is going to be a quarterback derby in this
in this summer, not a Derby a Derby. It's going
to be a Derby. If you watch Wrexham you learn
the difference to Derby and Derby Darby.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
We had a guy on from from London for your
series Sunday Morning Do you Have? And he called it
a Texas Derby. ELDJ.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Was it Terrence Trent Darby who was ondoing?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Was he kissing like a bandit stealing time underneath the
sycamore tree?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
TJ. You got sycamore tree? I do love?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Which is I love the Trent man. That's good, h So,
but just set back for a second and just understand this.
The Steelers get Russell Wilson, Okay, better than Kenny Pickett,
of course, if they were really confident that Russell Wilson
was the cure all for their ills, they go get
a backup who could come in and play if he
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needs to, someone like a Toad Taylor, someone like a
Gardner Minshew who they know, Okay, this is a guy
that he's not the number one quarterback, but knows that
if our quarterback falters, they can step in. But there's
a clear delineation between you're the starter and you're the backup, right,
that's what it is. But instead they went out and
traded for Justin Fields, who has started the league for
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a while and has shown many times, Hey, he's shown
glimpses that he seemed really good. Right, you don't go
out and trade for him and bring in someone like
him to be the second string quarterback unless you know
he is going to play. Yes, they declined his last
year option because you kind of had to, because if
you pick it up, Russell Wilson's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh, I don't understand why you picked that up.
Speaker 9 (34:44):
J him.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I thought I was your guy.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
You also gonna pay him, you know, twenty five million
dollars next year and commit it, right, So, but I.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Need to But you didn't bring Justin Fields in to
sit and not play. You didn't trade for him for
him to come in for a year and at the
end of the year go okay, he did the feel
with us, good luck going someplace else that. No, teams
just don't do that, especially a quarterback. Yes, you didn't
give up a lot, right, you thought it was gonna
be a tough but you still traded for a quarterback
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who is young on his rookie deal that has shown
glimpses of that he's really good. You're not gonna play
Russell Wilson over him for the season. At some point,
and probably sooner than later, Justin Field is gonna be
the guy. Russell Wilson is not what he was. He's
thirty five, he's somewhat washed. Was he a little bit
better last year? Yeah, But there's a reason why the
Broncos said, here's eighty five We're gonna eat eighty five
(35:34):
million dollars for you to go away. I mean he
can sit here and whistle through the graveyar a he
wants about, Oh yeah, I feel great, I'm this confidence.
I'm yeah, Justin Field is gonna beat you out. And
Justin Field is going to play. Yeah, I mean, if
you're Russell Wilson, I mean, there's no other way you
can approach it, right, because he's Joe positivity anyway, Right,
That's it's always been that to the point where nobody
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believes a word he says because it sounds like a
sales pitch, regardless whether it be nano bubbles where he's
really selling it or this trying to sell himself as
still a top notch quarterback. You gotta believe it going
into camp in the battle now, Justin's you know, on
my heels and I'm probably gonna get beat now. No,
I mean, that's not the way you do it, and
it's not good for his personal brand. It would be
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an affront to everything he's been since he came to
the league over a decade ago. But to your point,
and that this cannot be emphasized enough, Denver eight eighty
five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
To make him go away.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
If he was good, they would have kept Sean Payton,
would have figured it out instead of what he's got now,
which maybe he's got his gut Sean Payton, who has
made it work with every single quarterback he has coached. Yes,
he had Drew Brees for two decades, but when Breese
was hurt. It worked with Taysom Hill, and worked with
teddy Bridge, it worked for Jameis Winston. So what I'm
saying is, for short terms, he made it work with
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those guys. Russell Wilson was terrible, right, I mean so,
and the fact that all these other guys he can
make work. I can't make Russell Wilson work. Let's eat
all this money and all the draft picks we gave
up and let's move on. Like that's where that's where
it's at for Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I feel like he's like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Was trading the number one quarterback in Pittsburgh. Now everything, dude,
you're gonna get beaten out. Justin Field is gonna be
the quarterback and that's gonna be it for you, and
you're never gonna start again.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I do like him going in and sell and sell
and selling.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Though, Like I'm showing up at a bunch of events
and look at me out and about in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm convincing the Steelers, Yes I'm the number one quarterback fans.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
At least he was at his team's mini camp.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Hey, listen, first, of all, I couldn't get Terrors Trent
Arby really tight shirt you could have looked up wishing well.
And then the last ninety No, I'm still ordering jerseys,
ordering Joey Chestnut jerseys.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Coming up next, Yes, the big controversy in the NFL
over who's not at his team's mini camp Fox
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Dodgers hit another one.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Guys, there is a home run party going on right
now at Dodger Stadium. Okay, not not quite that, man,
It will be uh but yeah, just as the open
to this hour hits, Jason Hayward hits a two run
homer for the Dodgers. The uh Corey seekers return to
(01:00):
Dodger Stadium. Not not exactly what he had in mind,
We'll not. Yeah, so at least I can't say it's
his fault. But right now the Dodgers lead this again.
It's a home run party. It is fourteen to one
now in the bottom of the sixth inning, and the
Dodgers just keep launching home runs.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Did they find out that the Yankees beat up on
the Royals ten one, so he just had to outdo them.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We gotta have more. I wanta leads the highlight shows.
Will Smith has a home run that got to He's
got a two run homer. Freddie Freeman has a home run.
Taskar Hernandez has home run. Jason Hayward has a TI
Oscar could be the MVP.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Nobody wanted, No, nobody wanted, nobody wanted improve it deal.
You know what.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The home run that Will Smith hit the one of
the graphics they put up. He's now third all time
among Dodger catchers for home runs. He had is one
hundred first career home run, he's like what like seventy
five away from Piazza.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yes, and then you got to Campanella. But with hitting
the home run the night he passed Steve Jeger, I
just wanted to get the er.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Bomb, like twenty eight years time.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You took them a long dimmit, those run a long time,
long time ago too.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's a long long history. Yeah, big baseball.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean again, at this point, you gotta think
someone's gonna be getting hit at some point because to
just keep hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Hey, man, you just.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Gotta do something. Man, no, you gotta actually get somebody out.
You gotta wear it. At this point, what are they
gonna do? Hey, you know what, We're beating the hell
out of you. We're just gonna leave the bat on
our shoulders like that. I'll tell you time to pad
some stats.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Let's go possible World Series matchup here.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes, we like that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Past weekend, Mike, look at you your Rangers. Listen, listen,
look at the box score. We're not gonna get listen
the Phillies and the Orioles and whatever use out there. Okay, great,
we got a guy named Gunnard. They are not going
my MVP pick. They are not going to rob us
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of this Dodger Yankee World Series.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We've been waiting for like thirty five years for well,
going all the way back to nineteen.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're not robbosit of this seventy seven, seventy eight, then
eighty one. They're not gonna rob us shortened season. But
this is how it's supposed to have when they had
like seven guys won the MVP.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Dodgers, we can't we can't pick between three guys.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Okay, we'll give them the series stuff back to you
know what we could do with the NBA Finals you
get the whole team wins. I mean really, I don't
what no one is getting in the way of the
Yankees Dodgers World Series like that would be seriously, it
would be the big The Red Sox winning in two
thousand and four was was a seminal moment for the
rest of the world. But you're talking about the Cubs
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in twenty sixteen was a big deal. They beat the
Indians too, right now, that was a big but that
said something's got again. Yeah, there was, But the attention
that would be on every day because with Cubs and
the and the and the Indians and the Red Sox,
it was more about could they win than it was
about the series? Right, that was there was more was
(04:10):
about the history win and the guys that never did.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Here's another montage of Ernie Banks and Ron Santo go
through Ryan Sandberg, the heartbreak of nineteen eighty four with
the Padres, all of that stuff go back to Bartman.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, look what you think, guys when you think about
the Red Sox winning and four, is there a bunch
of stuff that comes to your mind? I mean, Poppy
was really good. He had a couple of runs, but
it's not one of those unbelievable world series. Well, poor
Zingis is Red sois.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Poor Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And when you talk about the the Cubs Indians World Series,
well you had the big home run in the ninth
inning off of its Cardischadman that that that tied it
Raji Davis and then the Cubs go on to win,
which is.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Very how many times Joe Madden made insane illogical moves
when his bullpen and got away with it time after all, right,
but they kept pressing his Luckamammy Miami.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You had your moment there, but you didn't really have
something where all this whole series. But every single moment
of this world series will be diagrammed and every pitch
and brand down because of the star power of both
of these teams. It will be a world series that
that if in twenty years, people are gonna be able
to say, hey, Yankees Dodgers world series, and you're gonna
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remember specific things from those world series. Yes, this all
this play, when this happened, When this happened, this in
game two, this in game five, this in game four,
starting performance in game one by Garrett Cole.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Whatever it's going to be, it's a.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
World that area that would actually have us talking more
about the World Series game than if it's opposite Monday
or Thursday night football. Yeah, I mean, look yank talking
about this series, Jason, Yeah, what do you go?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
They gave out a stat on the broadcast during the
weekend that it was the most uh future Hall of
famers on the field at one time, possibly ever.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I'm sure. Six, I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, I'm sure and playing on the same field.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's the same time. And some guys maybe more.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, Like if Anthony Volti continues to be great, he
went to being a Hall of Fame, right, it doesn't
it doesn't matter if Will Smith continues to rake and
and all of a sudden is the biggest hitting catcher
we've seen in the last fifteen years. Right like this,
this is how big Yankees Dodgers would be. It would dwarf,
it would dwarf everything and the attention and the ratings
because everybody's gonna watch these games. Everybody's gonna watch. With
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the other teams, it was a could you win? And
that was the story. This is you gotta see these
games and talk about them and the drama. It would
just just think about just if you think Yankees Dodgers,
think about the games in the Bronx, the games at
Dodger Stadium, and how Dodgers Stadium pretty much looks the
same now as it did in nineteen eighty one. And
how much money you would make if you bought some
of those Judge Otani hats that were on sale this day.
(06:49):
That was the stupidest thing, like that Judge, that the
Judge was a bigger fund.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, that giant ninety nine there. You know, don't wanna
put Judge in a bigger funt than ol time.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
People were buying them a fifty bucks to pop and
the Bibble had sold out like it was a limited
edition bobble.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The worst hat ever, Like, why the hell would you
buy a hat it's half Aaron Judge?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What in half? So?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, no, no, no, but you know what half Garrett Calton.
It's half Judge and it's half a Tani. So wait,
so a guy that plays for the Yankees and a
guy that plays the dock on the same.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Hat still better than that Phillies Mets jacket.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Oh, that Phillies Mets shack. It was awful.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's like, yeah, that's that's that's London major League Baseball
and going, oh, we don't really understand. Oh they absolutely
hate each other, these two teams. Oh yeah, So who's
gonna wear a jacket with both the logos on it?
Only someone who lives in London, Like I'm waiting to
see that Mets Phillies jacket. That'll be on a Welcome
Direxham show. You'll see somebody wearing one of those.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
They show up and do his things, did a double
play with and Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, all these years later, I got Philadelphia legedly, get
to do all these cool Philadelphia sports there.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Would you not mike the hell out of that if
you had the opportunity. Of course, you show up at everything.
You want me to cut a ribbon at the I
have the local all these open it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Up, come on, let me go.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I love Rob McLeay, some fake me. Let's go great.
I love Caitlyn Olson. I'm done with him and his
Philadelphia look. Look at me like every time I see
him now, I feel like he's got tattoos of every
single Philadelphia team all over him. I got a scarf
from the from from the FC. I got a hat
from Wrexham. I got a Phillies jersey. I got seventy
(08:23):
six or shorts. I got Eagles shoes. This is fifty
years jealousy, fifty years of scarf for Philadelia.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh look at me.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I stand for every Philadelphia sports fan. Now look at me.
I want to Philly scarf. No, I don't want to
get scarf. No, I don't want a Philly scarf. I
mean we'll get you one for your birthday. It's season
seventy six. If it's always sunny in Philadelphia. Hey, yeah, No,
I don't want either of those.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
No.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
No, you know what my favorite part of Yankees Dodgers
World Series is gonna be?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
What is it gonna be?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
The amount of money it's gonna cost you to get
your data ticket.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It would be a lot of money. It would be
a lot. It's going to be a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You're working December for I heard he wants Dugout Club
and it's gonna be a lot of money. It's gonna
be a lot at least. Uh, don't tell me that.
Yeah on, dude, I gotta yeah, dad, here's the thing.
What I got you into the parking lot?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You got me in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, no, in the parking lot, so you can be
outside the stadium.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
If it's a Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Bracelets to give to people and you to trade like
you're outside hip. Hey, I got a soda bracelet. Who
wants to trade me? I made one for my favorite
middle reliever. Oh that's great. Oh oh you have a
Clay Holmes one. I'll trade you this.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
One for Clay Holmes. Yeah. There we go.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Actually in the process of beginning the friendship bracelet thing
for our trip time.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Because you're getting ready. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be a lot of money for
my dad. Though it's a lot of cash.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And the thing and the thing is is, you know,
shake it off. This is the hard Ah, very good.
The thing is is that I've had so many people
in my career kind of hint around if I could
get them tickets for things. Well, everybody assumes we get free.
I canna tell you, like we think, like in our
boss's office, Scotch peerd there's a big ticket bowl that
(10:13):
just has tickets to all the big sporting events on it.
And you walk into his office and he's on the
phone and music's playing really loud, and he's got his
feet up.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
He goes, yeah, take what you need. Just you know,
only take.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like five or six World Series tickets, right, Yeah, take
a couple. Yeah, take a couple of Final four tickets.
Whenever you want out of that big ticket ball, just
take it. Yeah, it's all good. I'm on the phone
right now and people think that's the case. And I
have no problem saying, hey, I can't get into this game.
You you think I can get in? And then they go, oh,
you're not as powerful as a think you wore. I'm like, well,
I don't really give a crap. I'm not getting you
a ticket. But how do I tell my dad? Dad,
(10:45):
I can't get you a ticket. Don't you work at Fox?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes? Isn't five seventy at Fox station? Yes? Can't you
get me a ticket?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Dad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And then you say, cough up a buck, you cheap.
I bought your breakfast. I gotta be able to get
him a ticket somehow. Well, I mean, you're just gonna
off the pony up. You're just gonna have to say,
all right, Dad, all these years of being tormented by
your squad and you will become the biggest Dodger fan.
I'll front to the hat right profit, I'll pay for
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his hat.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, it's gonna cost me extra because of the
size of your head, but I'll do it.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah, you're gonna have to give up McDonald's for like
ten years.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh, I mean, what kind no you kid, that's where
I'll be eating for ten years. Afford me what kind
of jersey we're putting on you? He's not getting no, no, no,
not him on you. You've got to be in full Dodger garbage.
You're gonna go with him.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I'm not gonna go.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He's gonna go on a night when we're doing the show.
I can't get off on a night during the World Series.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh? Hey, sorry, off during the World Series. It's the
yank's not Yeah, but I need off. Oh sorry, No,
you could call in.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I've got a way out.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You got him? What's my way out?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You tell the bosses you're Alex Steischer. I'm hey, I
need off the next three week nights. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, listen,
I need off game Game three in four of the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, what else?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And I need the night of the National championship game
in college football and college basketball?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Off right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And I also need the day after the Super Bowl,
and I need uh oh yeah, every.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Night there's an NBA Finals game. I need. We're not
sure what those dates are, but I'm gonna need. I
need those knights. I don't want to work those nights, no,
because I have no problem. He's not. Let me ask me,
let me schedule the days. I kind of did the
match and Alex, let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Hi, when's the last time you work the night of
the national championship game in college basketball?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Have you at least four years?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Maybe the first year you won? Why do you never
work that night? Why is it? Every night's a big night?
Ty shirts af the biggest college Buckets fan that you've
ever met. He's been hiding it the whole time. He's
face painting for Villanova and maybe maybeo's.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
A party where he you know, you've got to pay
an admission and he sets up a big spread and
a bar and whatever.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You don't know, to be.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
The biggest closet sportsman you've ever met. You know it,
really do an anime podcast?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It doesn't matter. Never heard you really skipped Bayless how
did you know that's really me? He unzips his head
like in those commercials. Oh, look at that tight shirt
getting out of that.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm actually Colin.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh okay, doing the impression.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Ah. Like he's always surprised you came back for an hour.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I love it. Oh what do you mean you came back?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
No, Like Colin, he's always surprised to see you the
next hour. He's like, oh, you're here. It just cracks
me up. Oh okay, it's a three hour show, but
it's I'm surprised he came back. It kind of sounds like,
all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
In other words, he walks away and he tells, like
Greg to It, Hey, I thought we said fire that guy.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Basically I've always said I was done with that guy
because he keeps playing that tears for Fear stuff that
I don't like. I don't know what happens at night
on that crazy ass show that those lunatics do.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But we don't play that.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
He was like, here, come on, man, you know he
doesn't talk to Greg tooy.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Uh all right again, let let this distract you from
the fact that nothing should rob us of this Yankee
Dodger World series. Nothing Orioles, Phillies, no any the other
send me out warnings.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
None of the Dwaski teams don't rob us of this.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
An anonymous player was quoted as saying, the Dodgers spent
all that money, but look, no flame out in the
first round.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Again, put your name on it. Next, it up about
a Fresco exit swollen dome. Coming up next, We're gonna
do two big things. We're gonna preview Game three of
the NBA Finals and tell you if the Maverickson get
back in the series. And we'll also try to explain
exactly what Chris tops Porzingis's injury is because nobody seems
to know what it is. It's coming up next, right here,
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Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's my fault for bringing up this song a few
minutes ago. It's it's my fault. I'll take the l.
I'll take the L on it uh.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Boy Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from
the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Well, we've made it
seventeen days since Game two of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We get Game three tomorrow night day.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Here the Boston Celtics may or may not be without
Christops porzingis with a leg injury that is described as
a very rare injury. He is questionable for Game three.
There's no indication he's going to be ruled out. He's
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wearing a brace, he's wearing a sleeve. No one really
understands what a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the
posterior to be alice tendon is. But luckily our next
guests can explain it to us, because I told him today.
One of the precursors of you coming on tonight is
explaining exactly what this injury is. To Christops porzingis a
torn medial retinaculum, retinaculum, retinacular retinaculum allowing dislocation the posterior
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to be alice timolous to be Alice to be alic
So when friend of the show, longtime NBA insider Mark Medina,
Texas Today is and hey, you're coming on tonight, Yes, Ago,
you have to explain Porzingis's injury in detail, he said,
I'm up to the challenge. I will do it for you.
(17:21):
Mark's on Twitter at Mark g underscore Medina, He joins us. Now, okay,
so porzingis injury, Mark is what?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Uh? He has an injured tendon in his left leg?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Is that pass? Is that good? Does he win? I
need more specificity, Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Make up words if you have to, because I think
this is a fake injury just to affect points, spreads
and beddings.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
So leg right, it's lower body injury. We should gocky.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No, it's That's what I'm thinking here, Mark.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah. It is a pet peeve of mine when I
when I see people regurgitate team statements that have medical
jargon that no one understands, like this is this is
a journalism one o one right, like you share you
talk the way every sports fan talks at a bar, right,
not in the hospital room.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, and I don't understand is the craziest. There's lots
of things I don't understand. But for this is that
all day nothing was ever explained more, Hey, what this is?
This injury is what this is stopping him from doing.
There's been nothing more than this, just you know, words
that I think may have been fake and lifted from
Harry Potter, Like I don't know, like nobody knows what
the spell.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, I means, I am.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
It doesn't help that, you know, the Celtics and then
every NBA team, especially during this time, they're they're very
cautious and withholding with their information. But yeah, he has
a torn tend and his left leg. You know, here
is some medical expertise because I've talked to medical experts
about pourcing specifically before this injury, because he was having
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his right calf injury. The team says this is not
related to the calf, and that very wee might be
the case. But generally, when you're coming off a major
injury where you have been absent for a long period
of time, there is a possibility that if you're not
fully healed, your body overcompensates and therefore it can lead
(19:23):
to different injuries. But the gray area that doctors always say,
it's hard to really know what's causing effect.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All right, So trying to break this down. Hearing what
the team's say and where Porzingis is that he's questionable
for tomorrow. I gotta think he's gonna play, because if
this injury get it sounds pretty serious. It's a pretty
easy injury to go, boy, hey he's not going to play.
And I get the gamesmanship and you don't want the
Mavericks to know, Hey, what are they going to see?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Where they're not going to see?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But if this was more serious, Worzingis would have been downgraded.
But the fact that he's going, that he wants to
try to play, and that he's officially questionable, I mean,
we see guys questionable all the time, they all play.
I got to think he at least gives it an
effort to go to Marrow. Now, what he can do
and can't do, that's up for discussion, but I think
we're going to see him play.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Yeah, I want to be surprised limited minutes. The thing
that gives me pause is that when you hear something
that's torn, that means it's a lot more severe and
it's something that could require some sort of surgery procedural
least down in the line. But I think to your
point when the NBA Finals, they're going to try to
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patchwork everything they can. But I think it's going to
be about shifting the expectations that it's about limited minutes.
Anything he gives is very much a supplementary bonus. And
now it's all about Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown and
you know, frankly the rest of their team. They're pretty deep.
And it's ironic because a lot of those doctors I
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mentioned I talked to you last week before he was
coming back from his CAF injury. They felt they anticipated
he was going to have any minutes. His conditioning is
going to be rusty, he's not going to shoot it
well and a lot, but he'll be in that upgrade
because of passing, spacing in tangibles that coaches like. But
it's very much a complimentary role. But he played out
(21:15):
of his mind the first two games. But you know,
obviously injuries and wear a tear have a way to
humble a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
So limited minutes are perhaps not available at all. How
does it open the door if it does at all
for the Mavericks.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
You know, it's interesting because again different context because of
about his previous injury. When he's coming back. I talked
to a few assistant coaches from other teams and they're
they're so high on the Celtics. They felt like they're
winning the series with or without them, and they're still
a better team with them. It just makes their depth
even deeper. But they just felt like Jason Tatum and
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Jaylen Brown have razor games to other levels where you
know they coax this a lot better. They're more willing
and effect activist passers, and Drew Holliday is a great
two way player and Derek White is a great role
player that checks a lot of boxes that I don't
want to say. It doesn't matter that Porzingis could be limited,
but they have so many other fallback options that they
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can still get by. And when you compare that to
the Dallas Mavericks prior to this series, they played really well.
But as we saw these first two games, even if
Luka Dacic is playing at his best, it almost doesn't
matter if you're getting no shows from Kyrie Irving and
the rest of your supporting cast. So it's not going
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to just be about whether Porzingis are healthy or not healthy.
Dallas has the seriously raise its game just for a
chance to avoid a sleep.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Look, and the thing with porzingis if he's not as
effective as my pre series prediction that Drew Holliday is
going to be the NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Ooh, pretty good about it.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Well, we're basically pretty good. We made the rule mark
no shock, so we had to go deep down the board.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm feeling pretty good about So here we go.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Yeah, how about this? Uh, you know, not to enslay
your coaching resume, but some assistant coacher that I talked
to were singing similar praises that you're just saying about
Drew Holliday, that he's this player even though he's an
All Star, doesn't get enough credit for how great a
shooter he is, one of the best defenders he does
all these great intangibles, is knowing how to move off
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the ball and passing. All I'm saying is here, you know,
with the Lakers having to start over with this coaching
staff and go to Plan D, maybe to Plan CND
is to include you in the mix.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, you know what, listen, I'm open. I mean, I'm ready,
I can interview. I'm here in LA already, so I
could they not.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Have to fly me in that they can say, can
literally just drive a couple of towns over and go
to one of those restaurants that they took early.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And they could save like seven hundred bucks on a
plane about das, I'll just drive over it. Does he
reimburse me from mileage either, I'll just I'll head over,
run the one oh five and I'll be there.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
In a syren suggesting you don't need a grandfather offer
at all? Oh my godfather offer?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
No, no, no, no. They could pay me in sandwiches.
That'll be good. They give me a sandwich every day. Now,
how realistic is that? Though? Mark like the old day.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, no, no, that would be great. He's give you
the platinum card. I can have sandwich every time I want.
You're like cream or walking in I get a Caffe
Lte whenever I when I get.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Too CoFe lats.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But legitimately the Godfather offer, I mean, I keep wondering
if at all money was even second on the list
of things for Danny Hurley.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
No, I mean, because we's her reports that they were
prepared to offer one hundred. It was a little surprised
that with seventy. But in fairness, I know that the
Lakers do get criticism over the years that they spend
a lot on stars and are steep everywhere else, and
there is an element of truth to that, just knowing
that the ownership dynamics are much different than typical owners
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because it's still family run divide among multiple civil as
opposed to an owner that has so many different business
avenues and revenue streams. But I think in this case,
I don't think the contract has anything to do with it.
And I'm not presenting this as any defense of the Lakers,
because I you know, I could care less. But what
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I gathered was that Dan Hurley's no had more to
do with him having a good thing at Yukon and
having roots there and the back to back championships than
anything negative about the Lakers. I mean when he talks
with the Lakers. Yeah, there was some salesmanship that the
Lakers had, but I also think that all parties talked
(25:38):
very openly about the roster, good and bad, so it's
not like they're trying to hide behind, you know, their
current challenges, and I don't think Dan Hurley was naive
to that. But the tenor that the Lakers got from
their conversation with him and the questions. They didn't get
the impression that he's asking questions or giving feedback as
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if there's gigantic red flags and warning signs about the
direction the team's going. And that's not to say that
there aren't concerns about it. But their impression, without directly asking, Hey,
is it more you than me, was that he declined
because he's got a good thing going at Yukon, And
I guess with that Hey illustrates. Yeah. Even with how
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glamourus the Lakers are, it's a franchise. They can't just
pull anyone. But I think at the same time, of
all the slings and misses or things that have blown
up in the Lakers' face, I wouldn't rank this high
on that list. There's a lot of other mishaps, like
Tylou's not getting there a few years ago because of
contract negotiations, or the Russell Westbrook trade, or not keeping
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Alex Crew. So I'll rank those things much higher than
anything that's happened with Dan Hurley.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
All right, Mark, lastly, let me get you back to
the NBA Finals. As we get ready for Game three,
you mentioned Kyrie Irving. Look, one of the reasons I
picked Duralida for MVP is that he was going to
slow Kyrie down have a good enough series offensively, and
clearly Kyrie has not been the same. Has it been
the defense?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Has it been?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Maybe he's hitting the wall more basketball than he's played
in the last five years. Is it something's in his
head because he likes chripping with the Celtics fans. What
are you seeing from Kyrie Irving that is preventing him
and why he's having such a bad series.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Well, I'm not going to ignore the trend line that
he hasn't played well in Boston, but because he's a
veteran player, and you know, at least Celtics fans and
throw water bottles out him like did a few years ago,
I don't think it has much to do with the
crowd atmosphere. I think it has to do with what
you were saying that Boston's defense is really good. Number
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one and number two, Kyrie miss shots that he should
have been normally making, and that's not a good combination.
I think that at least in the short term, Game three,
because it's on their home four, because he's stealing that urgency,
he'll have a bounce back performance. But I think the
larger point is this their supporting cast hasn't been reliable
yet in this series. And I think the bigger thing
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is Boston is just such an a weak defensive team.
They have so many wing options, they play small ball
really well, and that are also a great offensive team
that just seems like their multiple reinforcements are just gonna
wear Dallas out repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Here you can follow on Twitter at mark g Underscore Medina.
That's at mark g Underscore Medina. Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time with us. We'll talk as a series
continues on already.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
And you guys will be the first to know whether
I accept or reject this latest Lakers offer as a coach, and.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'll be on. I'll be on your squad. Remember, I'm
already in La, so it already works.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So I can't guarantee that because the Lakers one input
on the staff.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh well, I just do it you again.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
I will do my best.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
We'll talk to you. Yeah, that's hey.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You have to worry about anything else is I'm already here,
I'm a local higher I'm good.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I gonna listen right down the road.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Said you don't have to pay me as much as
you pay any of these other guys like James Barrego
to have the Lakers ignore what they say. You can
pay me in sandwiches, and Lebron and Ad can ignore
what I say. Or you can pay Barrego two million
dollars a year so they can ignore what he has
to say.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
What makes more sense? Come back?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Going rate now is eleven point five. So what you
were off for that guy? Hey, goud, it's a lot
of sandwiches. What are we gonna do today, coach? Hey,
here's we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We're gonna have five guys on the court at a time,
and uh, you guys are gonna do your thing, and
let me know when you want to come into game,
and let me know. If you're tired, you need a rest,
just put your hand up and I'll substitute you in
and out.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
All right, Jerry, what did you put on the whiteboard? Well,
it's more than Darvin Ham. It's a picture of me
eating a sandwich. It's pretty good like that, jank.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Coach, that's pretty elementary. Well, listen, I want to be
able to be able to do things. You guys will
listen to. What else are you gonna listen to if
I tell you, let me know when you want to
come out, you come out of the game, stump yourself
in and out.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's all good. I'll just be it's fine.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Let me know.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I'm gonna get some guy. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's really just to that point, all right, because Brego's
probably gonna end.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Up picking the Cavs coach. Ma yeah, sure, sham Kissel.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Already said, well blank you I'm not gonna be an
assistant to that guy. Do you end up with JJ
Reddick in a band of merryman behind him?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Lebron checks himself out of the game while JJ Reddick
continues to do his podcast on the show today, it
is Mike Furtello along with JJ Reddick as they talk
about the game that is happening right now.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I would be pretty good, though, Reddick live in the
third quarter. You know, we just had this great play
that we ran. Let me tell you, let me let
me break it down. We're in the middle of the
fourth quarter now, Yeah, but this play was really really good.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Man. They're gonna they're gonna mic me update, you know,
and send someone over to interview me between the third
and fourth quarter. Anyway, I might as well do it
for my podcast, The Jason Smith Show is my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, there's quarterbacks in the NFL who think, yeah,
this is my job, but I'm gonna be the number
one guy all the way through the season. And then
there's quarterbacks you think I'm the number one guy, is
(31:00):
gonna be the number one guy all the way through
the season, not realizing you'll be replaced by week three.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We have that story next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (31:17):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Now,
there are quarterbacks who want to tell you they're the
number one quarterback and give every impression of the number
one quarterback, even the face of the fact they could
be beaten out.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Jack Wilson, maybe what stops Zach had one day with
the Ones and it didn't go well.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But every time I hear Russell Wilson speak, I just
feel like we're gonna get the same thing every time.
I feel great, everything is great. It's so much better
than last year, when last year he said everything is great.
I feel great. It's so much better than last year
when the year before he died, he said everything is great.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I feel awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Did Sean Payton blame the cataracts that he had taken
off for the sub bar performance by the offense last year?
I mean every time I hear Russell Wilson speak, I go, dude,
you understand what the where you're at now in your career,
what the season's going to be, regardless to whatever the
Steelers say about you. H At mini camp today, Russell
(32:21):
Wilson said all the things that I just mentioned that
he said. I feel the fountain of youth. I feel
revived in every way mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I feel confident.
I feel really good. I felt confident in the midst
of everything. I have all the confidence from last year
times ten.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I feels so great. Did you get drunk here with
the word confidence right there? Drinking? Game done? After one quote?
Anymore say confidence again?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Like I feel like he needs to convince us, Like
if I tell you on the Star Quart I'm the
number one quarterback and how great I'm feeling that I
have to be the number one quarterback.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
And you got to speak into new existence, right because
if you don't believe it's true, how are you going
to convince Mike?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
And we just got an extension now.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
The Steelers have said a couple of times, even reiterated
today that Russell Wilson is in the pole position. But
it is going to be a quarterback derby in this
in this summer, not a Derby a Derby. It's going
to be a Derby. If you watch Wrexham you learn
the difference to Derby and Derby Darby.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
We had a guy on from from London for your
series Sunday Morning Do you Have? And he called it
a Texas Derby. ELDJ.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Was it Terrence Trent Darby who was ondoing?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Was he kissing like a bandit stealing time underneath the
sycamore tree?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
TJ. You got sycamore tree? I do love?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Which is I love the Trent man. That's good, h So,
but just set back for a second and just understand this.
The Steelers get Russell Wilson, Okay, better than Kenny Pickett,
of course, if they were really confident that Russell Wilson
was the cure all for their ills, they go get
a backup who could come in and play if he
(33:58):
needs to, someone like a Toad Taylor, someone like a
Gardner Minshew who they know, Okay, this is a guy
that he's not the number one quarterback, but knows that
if our quarterback falters, they can step in. But there's
a clear delineation between you're the starter and you're the backup, right,
that's what it is. But instead they went out and
traded for Justin Fields, who has started the league for
(34:20):
a while and has shown many times, Hey, he's shown
glimpses that he seemed really good. Right, you don't go
out and trade for him and bring in someone like
him to be the second string quarterback unless you know
he is going to play. Yes, they declined his last
year option because you kind of had to, because if
you pick it up, Russell Wilson's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh, I don't understand why you picked that up.
Speaker 9 (34:44):
J him.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I thought I was your guy.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
You also gonna pay him, you know, twenty five million
dollars next year and commit it, right, So, but I.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Need to But you didn't bring Justin Fields in to
sit and not play. You didn't trade for him for
him to come in for a year and at the
end of the year go okay, he did the feel
with us, good luck going someplace else that. No, teams
just don't do that, especially a quarterback. Yes, you didn't
give up a lot, right, you thought it was gonna
be a tough but you still traded for a quarterback
(35:12):
who is young on his rookie deal that has shown
glimpses of that he's really good. You're not gonna play
Russell Wilson over him for the season. At some point,
and probably sooner than later, Justin Field is gonna be
the guy. Russell Wilson is not what he was. He's
thirty five, he's somewhat washed. Was he a little bit
better last year? Yeah, But there's a reason why the
Broncos said, here's eighty five We're gonna eat eighty five
(35:34):
million dollars for you to go away. I mean he
can sit here and whistle through the graveyar a he
wants about, Oh yeah, I feel great, I'm this confidence.
I'm yeah, Justin Field is gonna beat you out. And
Justin Field is going to play. Yeah, I mean, if
you're Russell Wilson, I mean, there's no other way you
can approach it, right, because he's Joe positivity anyway, Right,
That's it's always been that to the point where nobody
(35:55):
believes a word he says because it sounds like a
sales pitch, regardless whether it be nano bubbles where he's
really selling it or this trying to sell himself as
still a top notch quarterback. You gotta believe it going
into camp in the battle now, Justin's you know, on
my heels and I'm probably gonna get beat now. No,
I mean, that's not the way you do it, and
it's not good for his personal brand. It would be
(36:16):
an affront to everything he's been since he came to
the league over a decade ago. But to your point,
and that this cannot be emphasized enough, Denver eight eighty
five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
To make him go away.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
If he was good, they would have kept Sean Payton,
would have figured it out instead of what he's got now,
which maybe he's got his gut Sean Payton, who has
made it work with every single quarterback he has coached. Yes,
he had Drew Brees for two decades, but when Breese
was hurt. It worked with Taysom Hill, and worked with
teddy Bridge, it worked for Jameis Winston. So what I'm
saying is, for short terms, he made it work with
(36:51):
those guys. Russell Wilson was terrible, right, I mean so,
and the fact that all these other guys he can
make work. I can't make Russell Wilson work. Let's eat
all this money and all the draft picks we gave
up and let's move on. Like that's where that's where
it's at for Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I feel like he's like, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Was trading the number one quarterback in Pittsburgh. Now everything, dude,
you're gonna get beaten out. Justin Field is gonna be
the quarterback and that's gonna be it for you, and
you're never gonna start again.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I do like him going in and sell and sell
and selling.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Though, Like I'm showing up at a bunch of events
and look at me out and about in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm convincing the Steelers, Yes I'm the number one quarterback fans.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
At least he was at his team's mini camp.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Hey, listen, first, of all, I couldn't get Terrors Trent
Arby really tight shirt you could have looked up wishing well.
And then the last ninety No, I'm still ordering jerseys,
ordering Joey Chestnut jerseys.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Coming up next, Yes, the big controversy in the NFL
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