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a second. But you heard it from Steve Disager a
few moments ago. The Florida Panthers now one win away
from the Stanley Cup as they beat the Edmonton Oilers
tonight War three. And I'll tell you what, and I
just shake my head because the play that the Oilers
are gonna keep seeing over and over in. Their goalie
Stewart Skinner makes a ridiculously bad decision to allow a
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goal in the second period to give the Panthers the lead.
The puck is dumped in by the Panthers and he
tries to go back behind the net.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
To play the puck.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And you know, and even even you know, when I
was young growing up and playing hockey, I wasn't a goalie,
but I always remember the you know, the coach is
always saying, hey, if the puck goes behind the net,
if the puck goes behind the net and there's players
from the other team there, you stay in the net.
You don't go ahead, don't try to play the puck
when there's guys from the other team behind the net.
And the Panthers were really were really buzzing. Like the
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Panthers get in there, and Skinner misplays the puck and
because there's another player there for the for the Panthers,
they throw it right out in front for an easy goal.
Two to one is the score. It got up to
four to one. Edmonton fought back, but of course you
couldn't get that goal back. That is just a huge
brain cramped by Skinner. And I keep seeing it over
and over and going oh no, get back, get back
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to the net, Get back to the net. And that
was such a backbreaking goal to give the Panthers a lead.
They never relinquished.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh I did.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It's at any level of sport, whether it's the you know,
hockey field field, hockey, soccer. As soon as the netminder
moves more than five feet from the posts, don't you
get a little bit nervous. Don't you get a little
bit hey, there's getting They're gonna chip one over you,
or something's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's a bit chaotic here, and that certainly came into play.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I was screaming with about twelve minutes left, just pull
the goalie, come on, let's go.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Let's shuffle this thing up right now, get back into.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This game, find some kind of chaos and create it.
But yeah, another another Edmonton defeat.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Jinner is just a simple man, very nice brought see anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
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Speaker 3 (03:06):
Again. I keep watching it going, oh my goodness, Oh no,
nothing good happens there, bad, No, no again, I just
keep like you're not triggering a break the other way
it's not happening. Just get back in the net.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I just keep hearing coach Matt going if there's other players,
but you stay in the net. You stay in the net.
Because he was doing defensive Josey was that you stay
in the net. Okay, okay, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
This happens.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I wasn't a taste, you know. I was a glamour boy,
like you know, I was a center. I was a star,
so I mean, you know, but I was listening though.
I was always listening, dude.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So we're gonna probably have sweeps in both of these series.
I know, right, I know the.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Panthers played like free birds tonight.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I leave here tomorrow. No, see, that's we have
to say.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And the oilers are saying, if we leave here tomorrow
with a four game sweep, will people even remember we.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Were cleaning the poop out of their pants?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But it's time to address Aaron Rodgers. Okay's and stop Rogers,
who is of course not with the Jets because he
had something more important than Jets, Minichamp.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was an excused absence.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We talked about this on Monday night when I felt
so bad for Robert Sala, who had to say it's inexcused,
and you know, but Aaron and I have been in consommunication.
He had an event that was very important to him,
and I felt bad because look, we hit the nail
on the head. This just shows you that Robert sala
is just a guy, right, that Aaron Rodgers is the
guy calling all the shots.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Here's the head coach having to say, well, it's an excuse.
And I watched the last.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Two days people just ramble and rant about Aaron Rodgers,
missing the point about all of this, right, So let
let let's get through this. You know, I'm not sudden
you're saying Aaron Rodgers is the greatest, But let's let's
deal with this for what this is, right, because all
you've heard is rod loses Rogers and he wanted together
this and he's not there. What's more important than him
being there. Let's examine this for a second. Okay, why
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did Robert Salah have to address it?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right? Oh, he could have just not said anything.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, you have a son Reddick, who is the big
offseason acquisition for the Jets, who also is not showing
up for mini camp. The Jets blew this right. They
traded for him figured we can work out a contract
deal with him, and he hasn't been to any OTAs
and he hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
In the building. Right, so this is a thing.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Now the Jets have screwed this up and they have
to figure out a way to get to get Hassan
Reddick into camp now because he's the guy they signed
to say, we need twelve sacks from you this year.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Right, this is going to keep our defense great.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They let defensive linemen go, but he has been a
very high profile absence. He can't come out and not
say anything or say well, it's okay for Aaron because
a son Reddick's going to go, Well, then why is
it okay for me too? He's got to say something.
So that really that part wasn't about Roger. It was
more about, hey, it's inexcused because they want a son
Reddick to know, dude, it's inexcused, and we traded for you,
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we expect you here. So for all that parted, why
did you have to say something? That's why he had
to say something. Now when it comes to is this
the horrible thing? This is just because as makes himself
an easy target, and he does it himself right with
his crazy conspiracy theories and podcast. He feels like, I
gotta go on. You have like three followers, Yes, but hey, listen,
we'll talk NFL for five minutes and then you tell
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me all you want to about the world being flat
and now we're living in the matrix.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That can be the next hour and a half. Oh great,
let's do the podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
He brings it on himself, but he makes himself a
target right now looking at this, Is this.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
A great optic noe? And I like Aaron Rodgers to
be here? Yeah? Do I think that whatever event it is,
maybe he could have moved it. Okay, maybe he couldn't.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
But the bottom line I go by this was he
there for every day of the OTAs the last three
weeks he was. Do the Jets sound like they're really worried?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
They do not. Do the Jets players sound like they're worried?
They don't.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Every quote I've seen the last couple of days Jet
players have been Hey, eight's been with us for the
last few weeks. He had something important. He's our quarterback,
he's our guy. There's no controversy. I feel like there's
it's controversy just for people who look for a reason
to bring Aaron Rodgers up and talk about it rather
than it is with the Jets, because this seems to
be like it's a non story. Rodgers is not there, inexcused.
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They'll figure out a fine. I'm sure he'll pay it,
and it doesn't seem like he's not there. Because I'll
ask you this, would you rather have Aaron Rodgers in
an inexcused absence, but he's in communication with the Jets
and they're on the same page. Or would you rather
have a guy like Alvin Kamara walk out on the
last day because he wants to get paid. Would you
rather have a guy not there because he wants to
get paid or a guy not there but he's in
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communication with the team and everything everything is fine. And yes,
it's a bad optic that he's not there. I think
everybody would rather take that. Are the Jets gonna win
or lose any more games because Rogers is not here
for the mini camp? There not You're talking about three
days in June when he was there for the last
three weeks. There's a lot of stuff to really be
concerned about. Aaron Rodgers on it. We've talked about it,
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and he makes it really hard to root for him, right,
but he's such a lightning rod no matter what he does,
it's let's blow this up and let's make it a
lot bigger than it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh, he's not there. The Jets have to cut out
the bs and be.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
There for each other. He's kind of been there. I
don't see anybody being really upset other than the people
who want to engage and make Aaron Rodgers a part
of the storyline. So for me, when this story came out,
I said, oh boy, bad optic for the Jets. They're
gonna get made fun of. But just the hatred and
vitriol for this, like like this is Aaron Rodgers skipping
out the day before the opener, going, hey, sorry, guys,
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but I have this darkness retreat. We couldn't move it.
Somebody of mine. He's gonna get married next week. He
can't move it so long. I'm gonna miss the opening
Monday night game. I'm sorry about that. I mean, that's
not what this is. This is three days in June
when Tom Brady, for the last fifteen years, has missed OTAs.
He has missed time because he didn't want to go
for Bill Belichick, because he was mad that Belichick was
able to run the team how he wanted and Brady
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decided to not go, and Gronk decided to not go.
That was fine, That was fine for Brady to not go, Right,
Why is it not fine for Aaron Rodgers to say, Hey,
these three days, I'm gonna go someplace else again, not
the greatest optic, not something that you really want, But
is it the doom and gloom?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And suddenly Aaron Rodgers is not committed. That's a load
of crap. It was.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Aaron Rodgers is an easy target. So that's what made
a lot of people go crazy about the story the
last couple of days. But it doesn't seem like it's
a big deal for the Jets, doesn't seem like it's
a big deal for the coaching staff. So yeah, I
think we hit it on the head when we talked
about how this just shows you Aaron Rodgers has the
power in the organization and looking at the guys, looking
at Robert Salah and Nathaniel Hackett, who didn't call plays
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today for the Jets, they had a new play caller
with Aaron Rodgers out, new guy call in plays. This
just shows you that all the ills they have, and
they don't have a lot because they have a great roster.
But all the they're hoping Rogers covers up all of them.
He's the most powerful guy in the organization. You've gotten
in bed with Aaron Rodgers. If he misses a couple
of days for a mini camp. He misses a couple
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of days. Not the greatest thing, but not suddenly something
I'm gonna start losing sleep over going. How do we
get out from under Rodgers contract? How do you know
this has not been treated with the proportion that it
should have been all across the board.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Well, but the the problem is it doesn't live in a
vacuum Jason, right.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I mean, that's just if it's an independent thing of
you know, Aaron Rodgers, and he hadn't done that fiery
get rid of the bs, you know, in the building
speech or whatever, then it doesn't matter. It's like, ah,
I hope he's okay, Hope the family's okay. Whatever it
is must have been important. Problem is you've got a
preponderance of evidence of a guy who likes to let
little things creep into the world, and most of them are,
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you know, little breadcrumbs. He believes for us himself, and
this time he leaves Robert Salah, the greatest of orators
and communication experts, to go in front of a microphone
to try to disclose what the hell's going on.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That did not go well. That did not go well.
So yeah, it's in.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And of itself, I don't think it's a big deal, right, players,
move on play. You know, if he could have done
what the Lions did, just have guys hit each other
a little harder and then you just all get the
weekend off.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
But they didn't. We were in that drill again. They
told us not to listen.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I'll I can just see Dan Campbell going, hey, if
we go hard for the next half hour, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I will make sure the league knows it and they'll
find us, they will pay the fine, and you guys
will get the weekend off.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
All right, coach, we got you. Let's go. Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Tell you what, guys, half hour right now, if we
go hard, you get to stay home.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Let's go, come on now. So but that kind of thing,
like it go that way.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So, I mean, it's it's still that the team is assembled,
and like we talked about a little bit when Lamar
Jackson didn't show up a couple of weeks ago. It's like,
all right, what's the point of everybody else being there?
For starting quarterbacks? Not there at least to some degree.
It's like you're not running your base offense. In this case,
you didn't even have your OC running plays. That's a
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whole other that's a whole other world hurt because see
how it's spirals. But see how its spirals quickly Smith,
see how it happens.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It doesn't matter who our o C is as long
as Rogers is playing.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
What he's not playing though nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Then to Rod Taylor is the quarterback and somebody else
is calling.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
But is somebody else staging a bloodless coup and taking
over the bracket that you're.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Not good, then somebody else is called to say you're good?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Dude, dude, just beyond be be real for a second.
Would you trade the Chargers roster for the Jets roster?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Don't put my team off it, dude.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
They got certificates, of course you would. You got you
got Jim Harbaugh coach, his name, listen, stop Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Harbaugh, and I saw this media today.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
He's giving out certificates for attendance at mini camp like
it's kindergarten and hey, everybody gets something on culmination day
and we're gonna have cake over here, and there's gonna
be juice boxes over there, and I mean, really, just.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Understand around the NFL is Aaron Rodgers did.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Don't you know what he was able to do.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
He was able to hand one of those certificates to
his starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
He was there the whole time with.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
This, and you can say it's not a big deal,
but don't ever say again that that Aaron Rodgers is
a leader and and football is his top priority, because
those are false. He was just there for doesn't care
about football, and he's not.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He was just there for three weeks at O t
A's all right again? Is it? Is it a great optic? No?
But does he does he want to go out there
and suck? Of course not.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
He cares about winning as much as Lebron does. I'm
gonna hang up and take its.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Exit out by a fresh to exit swollen dope.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Hey, Frostburg, if you can get one of those real
swell Jim Harball outstanding.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Achievement, you'd have to show up to get on.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, Oh that's Okay, okay, do I get one? Do
I do I get it? I'll go cross through a
couple of I get no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
If I go for one day for for mini camp,
I get I get an attendant's not letting you don't
get a tennis thing for every day I go get
I can put it up at home, I can go
into my off.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Rost's put a picture of you up outside facilities. You're
not getting into this is.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You know, there's a there's a there's a deeper conversation
we'll have about Jim Harbaugh and this coming up in
a bit. Now is not the time because I know Frostburg,
you need you need to simmer down a little bit
on this.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
But we'll have a conversation later on.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I have a conversation with a coach who's won everywhere
he's been.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Okay, has he won with the Chargers?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Has the season started? Has he doesn't?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Chargers? Yet? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
He's given out certificates for it doesn't matter what did
it is here they giving? Are they getting super Bowl
certificates too? Hey, we're gonna be in the super Bowl
because you came here for every day of off season.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
It's hard did you go watch that one highlight of
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Last season, him running out with a flat Nope, there
down he goes.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
JD. Martinez is all you got, buddy, Hey.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Come on, That's all I need tonight is Jady Martinez.
But I can watch that home run on a loop.
Uh exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dumb. The
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Speaker 3 (14:51):
We hit it on that. That's exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Look, you want to talk to a Jet fan about
Aaron Rodgers, I'll tell you that's the right way to
address what's been going on the last.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Couple of days.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Now, coming up next, we're gonna go a little bit
bigger game hunting because there's an intervention that needs to
be staged right now before things really get more off
the rails than they've.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Been with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, no, no, I.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Gotta find him first. Man, I don't know where he is.
I can't have an intervention.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
See that that kind of is a problem.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Frostburg wins the argument, cause a couple of years ago,
if he had a packer uniform on, you'd be uh figures.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Reading from the book of Rogers.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Rules, So that intervention is coming up next, right here,
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Speaker 3 (16:53):
Where it's time for an intervention. It's you know, we've had.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Enough, and after today, I feel like, okay, enough is enough?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Tonight, Caitlyn Clark Indiana Fever. They win their fourth game
of the year. She has an okay game seven points,
six assists, but the Fever win.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Not a great game from her, but the story.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Surrounding what happened before the game tonight really make me
feel it's time for a huge WNBA intervention because there
are two stories that are now swirling and in a
time where every day brings something new. With Caitlin Clark,
she was asked before the game tonight what she feels
about how some of the discussion that's been going on
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surrounding her and the league, specifically when it gets to
racism and misogyny.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
And he was asked this question by.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The Athletics, James, but she was asked the question by
the Athletics James Boyd, and she said, listen, everybody in
our world deserves the sane amount of respect. People should
not be using my name to push those agendas for
whatever else they want. So now Caitlyn Clark is getting
a little bit fed up with what's going on, which
again I can't blame her. She's been nothing but class
up until this point. Now, when you piggyback that with
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the story from earlier in the day involving team USA
Olympic coach Cheryl Reed, who's the coach of the Minnesota Lynx. Now,
she doesn't have a role in picking the USA Olympic team. However,
she's the coach and she coaches.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Like I said, she coaches the links.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
She doesn't have a role, doesn't have a role, but
she's the coach, right, So I can't believe suddenly it's.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Hey, here's the players, you have go do it.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Lebron's not helping in the coaching search at any Come on.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
But Christine Brennan of USA Today had this great column
earlier in the day about a couple of tweets that
Reeve had from a month ago addressing potentially Caitlyn Clark
now opening night of the WNBA again, this is WNBA
handle success. They had one game available to be seen.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It was the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
They did not have the links game available, And why
don't you have all your games available? But you had
to choose one game. Of course you're choosing Caitlin Clark's
WNBA debut. So Reeve wanted to make sure she went
on social media to tell people where they could watch
the game. So she puts out a message saying here's
where you can watch the game and adds two hashtags.
One hashtag twelve teams the number of WNBA teams and
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the other hashtag is the w is more than one player? Okay,
so already you can tell here's a coach of the
Olympic team is anti Caitlin Clark and the attention that
she's getting. Now, when this was discussed about how this
game wasn't on nationally, this wasn't WNBA game. Someone wrote,
is there a reason why that your game is not
being shown? And another person wrote under that because they
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only care about Caitlin, And to that, Reeve replied that part.
So now definitively you know that she's anti Caitlin Clark. Oh,
the league only cares about Caitlyn. Now, the league made
a decision today, They're not going to address these tweets,
all right. Christine Brennan has reached out for a response.
Not gona address these tweets. Okay, this is where it's
(20:03):
time for an intervention. This is where it's time to
sit down with the with Kathy Engelbert, with everybody in
the front offices, with all the players and the coaches
and just and just say, Okay, what the hell are
you all doing?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
What the what the hell is going on here?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I why do you feel the need to weigh in
on the fact that here's Caitlyn Clark and I want
to tell you why she doesn't deserve the attention that
she's getting coming into the league, Like what what what?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What? What the hell is wrong with you? What? What?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
What?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What do you think you're doing that is helping the
league or helping our success whether no matter what reason
you're upset about. And and the one reason we think
we're seeing more than any other now is that, oh,
the other players that have played here and the people
who have coached the last few years, Oh, we've been here,
and you guys should have been covering uh, the sport
before Caitlyn Clark came in. Okay, again, not my fault,
(20:59):
not anybody's fault. The NBA was on tape delay until
Magic and Larry showed up. Okay, no one in the
NBA was. I don't think Kareem and Magic were going, oh,
you didn't care about the league when Walton and Lanier
were dragging me up to court forty eight minutes a night.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No, no one was saying that. But now suddenly this.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Is not acceptable and you should have been here, and
we want to find a way to make this combative.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
What are you doing, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
If you're mad about something, if you're mad about whatever reason,
you're anti Kayla car Okay, I understand you don't have
to like anybody. You can be physical with her on
the court, but the overall image and the optic that
people don't like her just because this doesn't help anybody.
That's something you fight that privately. If you don't like
her for some reason, that's fine. If you're the coach
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of USA basketball, you don't put out about a player
that you already don't like her when you've never even
met her, and for some reay you're upset that the
league decided to put Caitlin Clark on TV instead of
your team. Really, let's be on I mean really, that's
what I mean when I say show you can handle success. Okay,
you have to know, all right, if you're Cheryl Reeve,
what more people want to see your team or Caitlyn Clark.
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I'm sorry, Caitlyn Clark is not on the links. I'm
sorry she's not there. She's on the Fever. They had
the number one pick.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's where she is.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's what people want. People want to see her. They
want to see her. They want to see other players too.
I'm not saying they don't, because these other players are
really good too. People want to see Angel Reese. People
want to see Cameron Brink. People want to see they
want to see Asia. They want to see Brianna Stewart.
They want to see Sabrina I and ESQ. They want
to see them all, but they want to see Caitlin
the most, and you have to be okay with that
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because that's what sports is. I feel like we're getting
all these people now who've been playing in this professional
league for twenty years that aren't ready for the moment,
that aren't ready to embrace success, and all they want.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
To do is fight about it. Can't you just sit
back and go, hey, this is the best time that
WNBA has ever had.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Can't we can't this be something where hey, we should
be celebrating this success. And if we're upset at Caitlyn
clark inclusion or not inclusion or the attention she's getting,
you fight that away from them, away from public, man,
because that's nothing. But you're that's something that you fight
in your own head, right because this is this is
the the the I've had a moment with this When
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you see the coach of the Olympic team and another
coach is already upset about Kaitlin Clark's coverage before she
even played a game. Okay, this is what you really
need an intervention to go time out. Let's all be
on the same page when it comes to this here.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Okay, we're having success.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right now, let's show that we can handle it, right,
Let's we can push all the stars. We'll continue to
push all the stars. And I'm not saying it's been perfect,
but it's been really really good so far because people
care about the players. They care about Clark, they care
about Angel Reads, they care about all these players. They're
making headlines every single night. Right, this is the best
it's ever been. And just be okay with it. Just
be happy that that this is happening. Finally, what would
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show it shouldn't happen because it didn't happen for twenty
five years and you had to wait for Katelyn Clark.
No one should be celebrating now Kayln Clark, shouldn't even
be in the league, shouldn't be talking about I mean,
this is just ridiculous, and that this is why everybody
needs an intervention to go Okay, let's just let's just
calm down. Let's enjoy the success that we're having right now.
And whatever you're upset about, let's make it not obvious
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to fans that we all hate each other and we're
mad about stuff, and we're mad at Caitlin Clark and
the in the media. People want to be mags and
want to stand up for coaches and players who came
before Caitlynd Clark that didn't get this. This is how
it goes in sports, right. You see guys all the time,
we blow off guys like Rich Gossage and Mike Schmidt
that say, oh, you know how much money i'd be
making now? Yeah, that's because you played in the seventies
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and these guys come along now and Bryce Harper makes
three hundred thirty million dollars because it's twenty twenty four.
This is kind of how sports goes. And running and
being in a league for the WNBA for the last
twenty five years, you have to understand that by now
that this is how sports goes.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Always goes back to to take it too pronged to approach,
you know, teachers and police, fire or whatever. You don't
get a lot of pay now, but it's negotiated that
you get. You get taken care of a bit when
you're done right. Pensions, you know, where they still exist.
That's kind of the idea. You know, we you get
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you know, a living wage or perhaps a little better
at times, depending on your years of service, and then
it kind of goes from there. Right, that's for the
old MLB players, NFL players, et cetera. Make sure your
PA's forward thinking in terms of once you've hit retirement.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Oh wait, they generally done a pretty bad job on that.
But let's go to the other side.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Right, It's like you have a favorite band, Jason Smith,
whoever that might be in the moment. Let's take Metallics
Jeers Revers, Right, But you're a band and you've been
following them, and then all of a sudden something happens
where they blow up, they hit the mainstream, or in
Metallics's case, all of a sudden tons of downloads of
(25:44):
stuff because of stranger things.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Do you say, beat it, get out of here.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
We don't like you don't forget about the haircuts and
and where where they changed and more more radio friendly
just in general.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Right, you know, you're like.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I always wanted this band to have great success, and
I was there at the start. So you either get
excited about it or you can start grouse and going, well,
I liked them when they were you know, the base band,
and nobody really cared about them.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
They were playing the five. That's what the WNBA people
all sound like. Dude, dude.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Iron Maiden was happy that that Eddie Munson held up
the cassette tape of one of their albums during Stranger Things.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
We got me run about it, right.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
So they get a bump in sales, they get a
little attention with the WNBA, I mean, which the other
report from today was, Hey, they're still operating at a
fifty million dollar loss. So let's talk about that in
the room and figure out how do we fix that problem.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Oh yeah, number twenty two might.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Help us there in some of these things. Even if
she's struggling on the court at times and trying to
find her shot, she's got tired legs, all of those
things we've talked about. But the fact of the matter
is the party is now. You've got a woman who
has come into great fanfare and I don't know timing again,
every time she gets in front of a microphone, it's
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like she's teaching people how to do public relations and
how to answer questions and to.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Be, you know, a grown up in the room.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And that's really what you're looking for from the WNBA,
from their commissioner, from USA Basketball and to all the
players who you know, cast a little.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Bit of side eye I get it.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You know, it's it's hard to see someone walk in
with this kind of fanfare and the numbers bear it out,
from TV ratings, from attendance at fever games, all of this.
It's it's hard to see that when you've been busting
your ass for a decade or as a league for
two decades. But you also realize there's such great opportunity
here so to kind of thumb your nose at it
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and try to push people back out the door for
showing up to the events now and talking about it.
Is it going to be always one hundred percent on
point with the great historical references. No, But we don't
do that with any sport properly. Right, If you talk
about Major League Baseball outside of people going team to
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team in a local market, national guys talk about six players.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I mean that's all they do.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Anybody that isn't in the league now, there's like six
to ten guys that get brought up as the comparison
for everything.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Well, here's the opportunity, educate, help, talk.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
About it, all of those things. But this is another
failed opportunity, and it's you know, she's unfortunately got to
be the one fighting Windmills in a battle that she
doesn't want and didn't ask for.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I mean, this is at some point something's gonna gonna
come to a head, and that's gonna be okay. All right,
we have to be done being mad about whatever we're
mad about. They have to be done being mad that
for twenty five years it's taken down. You gotta be
done being mad about that, because there's no one insure
it shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Be mad at her. All these rookies are coming in.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I'll get you just at some point, at some point,
and that's why if I call for an invention, maybe
it happens faster.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Right, That's how it goes.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
No, it's say, you need a couple of folks in
the room to explain the economics of there you are,
where you still are trying to get to. There's still
a giant gap.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
That needs to be overcome, and you just started spending
how much on private planes?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
You still gotta pay for that exit?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Out about a Fresco exit swollen down The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
In New York, Mets three two winners against Miami J
D Martinez a two run home or bottom of the night.
He had two hits. The rest of the Mets were
one for twenty one at the plate doesn't matter, and
they got the.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We got three and they got two. Makes it so different.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Before the game, the Mets activated closer Edwin Diaz out
a couple of weeks with the bet he throwing one.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He was throwing one oh one in the ninth inning.
The option Grimace after that?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Uh no, no, Grimace, pitch the eighth Okay, yeah, yeah,
they gave They told Grimace, hey, you get the eighth dowt.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
He was okay with it.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
And Hamburglar is heing the staff?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
He gets the seventh inning. I'm right here, pal, I'm
right here. Mayor mcsheese starts tomorrow. Is m Grimace missing anybody?
I know?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Ronald is Ronald McDonald?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Of course there was five? Right? Are we missing somebody?
Mayor mccheese, Ronald Grimace, Burglar? It wasn't there an off
police officer? Or is that birds.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And the police officer? Yeah, all right, we gotta I
gotta look. I gotta go find uh a set of McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Why don't you just look on your happy meals?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
They don't put that on the cup in front of you,
that lead based cup.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
There was a bird.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Hey, I'd love to I'd love to get those lead
based cups. You can still get him on eBay, I
think no, I.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Want to set of those behind me for future video.
And there was a bird. I gotta figure out the
bird's name. Okay, all right, because I know.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Early bird, Bertie the early Bird. Oh that's a horrible
I no wonder they know what I couldn't remember him.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Mayor mccheese.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, no, no, no, dude, come on, man Grimace and mayor.
Mayor mccheese is the one.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Apparently he was Bertie.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh Bertie was a she? Yeah. Well do you know
what then, people who really care about McDonald's breakfast. Yeah,
Officer Big Mac was there? No officer Big Ball there.
He looks just like Mayor mccheese. They may or may not?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Maybe they were brothers.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Could have been Mayor that's Jason's code name in the
drive through.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
On the next thirty for thirty, did Mayor mccheese an
Officer Big Mac really get along?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
What if I told you I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Start writing this sitcom right now, let's go. What if
I told you there was a knockdown, drag out fight
between the Hamburglar and Mayor mccheese.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Over Grimace if you told me there.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, let's talk about how how bad a name Grimace
is for something you want kids to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Hey, his name is Grimace. Oh isn't that mean you're
in pain?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
You also want them to eat burgers and chickens, and
yet those are your mascots.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
So yeah, that's another thing.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I don't think McDonald's is hurting. I think they've been
doing okay, despite the fact we have.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
That is a series they've been doing. Ok They're only
hurting when you're going through.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
No, you can the going Oh my god, our founder
is here. Hey, we put his picture up. Jason's here,
get him whatever he wants.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Movie was about you, the founder. That was, by the way,
damn about Ray Kroc, the former podre owner.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from
the tire Rack dot Com Studios coming up next.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, it didn't take long.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
The Lakers have made a decision to move on to
who to jump to the front of the list of
who could be their.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Next head coach.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Jos it is John Stamos.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He did play a coach once. That's coming up next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Well,
much like me when I would ask a girl to
a dance or a date and she said no, I
move right on to next day. Okay, I'm not gonna
spend time here and I'm not gonna worry about what
happened now.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I had this whole thing ready in the way. I
asked that no, no, you said no, I'm moving on.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
This is the Lakers who have now decided to move
on following getting spurned by Danny Hurley. Earlier today, it
broke that the Lakers are going to interview JJ Reddick
to be their next head coach. Yes, the same JJ
Reddick who supposedly had the job all the way up
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until they wanted to get Danny Hurley.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Wait a minute, we didn't interview the guy. Well, we
talked about a month ago and all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Look, we talked to Dan Wiki Lakers insider who said,
you know, there was so much talk about JJ Reddick
for the last weeks, but it was really outside the
room of the people making decisions for the Lakers, more
in the media and everything else. Yeah, JJ Reddick, they're
going to talk to him. They're going to figure it out.
And now that the NBA Finals look like they're getting
to their conclusion. Hey, and JJ Reddick's doing the finals.
ESPN wants him to stay and do the finals. So
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now they're getting to the point where now they're going
to talk to JJ Reddick about their head coaching job.
And you know, I I when I saw this story
break today, I just laughed. I just laughed because you know,
the Lakers still they still want to sell family, right that.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
We know it's a family.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
It's a mom and pop shop running the team, and
it's Genie Buss and it's Rob Polinka and some of
her most trusted friends, and Linda Rambis and Kurt Rambis
and whoever else it is they're talking to We're a family,
We're a family. Well, you know, to go all Kobe
on your family doesn't always hang banners, all right, what
did you say? Friendships come and go, but banners hang forever,
Like what a great copy, What a great line by
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Kobe Right, Friendships come and go, banners hang forever. Uh,
it's just gonna be this way for the Lakers as
long as the Bus family owns the team. They butcher
the hiring of Danny Hurley and now, okay, now we're
gonna go talk to JJ Reddick, who's got to be thinking,
oh wow, okay, well I thought I was the front runner.
Now they're gonna hire me because they couldn't go get
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Danny Hurley. Okay, it's amazing that this is how the
Lakers operate. They operate just like a low level NBA
team and a small market. That is lucky for whatever
coach wants to come in interview or any free agent
they can get to walk through the doors. I mean,
I get that, you that that being family is one thing,
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and it's great to wear that with a badge of honor,
but not everybody in the family is always the worthy
of running a team or this how you run to
look at succession, right, I mean it does what doctor
Buss ran the team great?
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Now what have you seen?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Hey, it's been a real difficult thing since he since
he passed the team on to his kids and Jeanie Busses.
Look you look at where the Lakers are, man, they
were gifted Lebron James five years ago. They were gifted
to me. He wanted to come just because he wanted
the Lakers brand. And look where they are right now.
They can't hire a coach, they can't get Lebron to
listen to anybody, you know, they can't get any closer
to an NBA title.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And it's just the way they've run things.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It's just been you want to look back and go,
how does this pass muster? Like, how do you do this?
Like all of a sudden, now you're now you turn
your your attention to J. J. Reddick because now it
feels like you gotta get J. J. Redick because now,
well we can't be told no again. I mean it
was incredibly embarrassing. We got told no once. Now we
can't be told no again. So I assume this is
going to be JJ Reddick unless you know who knows
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it is the Lakers. But like just the fact that
this is how things are being run by a team
that should be doing it. But look, the Knicks will
run like that for years and they're still run like that.
They just keep James doling out of things now.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
More former Knicks.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, but now seeing this for the Lakers, I'm just
sitting back and going, Boy, at some point how they
do things has to be address, doesn't it. I mean
some point someone's got to throw the emergency break and go,
you know, hang on a second. What we've been doing
has not been working. Yeah, I mean the hard part
is there's also been the embracing of what has been
(36:47):
an NBA trend that outside of a few organizations, and
we see it in the NFL all the time too,
is you don't get a lot of time to try
to prove you know what you're doing, or to build
a roster, or to move forward.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So yeah, you're done.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
And some of it comes back to, all right, do
you get along with James and Davis? I don't know
what's at what point do you start saying, hey, that's
as much of a problem as it is a help
to us, right, which is what we've been saying for years.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
But where they're at right now? Right?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
You talk about, hey, he was gifted and he came
here five years ago. You got the title, and the
COVID shortened season and everything else, and now you move
forward to a all right, what are we at Now
he's going to be forty years old. We've got him
and Anthony Davis. They played more than seventy games each
and what did that do for us?
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:38):
And we forced that coach out and he's back in Milwaukee.
We forced him out the door. And now we're back
into the search for jj Reddick. I mean, did he
get talk to it all other than the conversations with
Lebron on his podcast?
Speaker 8 (37:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Because that would just say well, and everybody say, well,
this is how it you know it was? It was
all the audition or the windhorse stuff, right, and everybody
getting on board that.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Part of it.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Exit out bouta Fresca, Exit swollen down. The Jason Smiths
are with Mike carb We'll have more on that's coming
up in a bit. But straight ahead, we get back
into the biggest NFL story of the day.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
This is Fox