June 22, 2024 • 40 mins
Jeanie Buss was 'Genuinely Disappointed' Dan Hurley didn't accept the Lakers' offer. Jason gives his BIG idea to fix the WNBA All-Star Game. And today in the White Sox being bad at baseball!
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these big plays in the last few playoffs where John
Harber must have went, ah, boy, they have the right
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dead they have the right line up for this play. Yeah,
we're not gonna figured us out. You know.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's how on that one, that's the playing rock paper scissors.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We got a litt lamar audible at some point, yeah,
but not today. And the boy, oh they got us
again on here. Look, they're gonna come right at the middle.
We're not ready for this.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
He can Oh man, isn't it more exciting to see
how he handles this?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I can't just I mean really, now he gets a chat.
Now he could call his own audibly. He didn't have
the green light before. That's just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
MVP several years in the league. Second MVP running for
his life.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hey just make hey, Lamar, they're coming at you from
the week side.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Just run around and make something happen.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
All right, Great, we didn't do anything to change up
our protection, you know, with that guy basically saying I'm
blitzing and I'm sacking you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's telling me, don't get hit, don't get hit hard Lamorrow, Okay,
don't get her. Uh now, a lot more NFL on
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(02:32):
we kind of have to sometimes when there's breaking news
off time. Jim, now this story today, I mean really,
I'm coming around to your idea that there's a rat
somewhere in the Lakers. A day after JJ Reddick is
announced as the next head coach, or it's announced that
he will be the next head coach of the Lakers
and going to be a four year contract, Reddick will
be the coach. He was the guy early on. Then
(02:55):
there was the Danny Hurry Danny Hurley Dalli and said
that didn't work out, and now they get JJ Reddick.
So after twenty four hours of sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
and Reddick's our guy and here's what he's gonna do.
The Athletic puts out a story today that Lakers owner
Genie Buss was quote genuinely disappointed Danny Hurley did not
(03:15):
become the next Lakers head coach. So the Lakers had
twenty four A. Al Right, we'll get forward. Now we're
gonna put this Danny Hurley behind us. Wait here comes
the story that Genie really was disappointed Danny Hurley didn't
work out. Like, I don't know, is this something that
is a story that is painting Genie in a bad light?
Is this Genie? And because it wasn't her idea that
(03:38):
it's painting somebody else about like you screwed me because
I'm really disappointed you convinced me it was gonna work out.
This is this is just a this is just such
a bad day after misstep for the Lakers, after allegedly
getting the guy they wanted to get. I'm coming around
to your idea that there's that there's a rat out there,
that there's some kind of per because you know, the Lakers,
their factions kind of treat each other at arm's length,
(04:01):
and and you know one maybe we don't always do
it together, but we don't always do it so apart.
I'm really I'm coming around to you thinking that there
was some kind of leak that put this story out
there the day after they signed JJ Redick. Well, I
just think it comes back to if I'm to believe
anytime someone starts going to the anonymous sources, I've got sources.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I've talked to three people. No, I've talked to eight people,
all of these folks all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If I'm supposed to.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Believe them, then I can't believe that there wasn't a
you know, they're just spitting into the wind with this
one going, Well, she probably was disappointed, right, I gotta
believe that this is another story where there is a
source that had to come And I'm using air quotes
as I'm sitting here doing the show with you with
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no camera on.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
At least that I'm aware of the walls, do hea ears?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You know? But they that I'm supposed to believe that suddenly,
just out of the blue, the writer decided to say,
you know what, she was really disappointed. No, No, that means
someone talked someone within that inner circle, which, from what
we're led to believe Jason wasn't a very big circle
of people talking to these guys, you know what I mean,
(05:11):
It's just a couple of folks and maybe some hangers on,
but not that it was you know, some grandiose you know,
think tank that was getting in deep with Reddick and
with with Hurley in this process. So to that end, yeah,
she's I'm sure she's disappointed, particularly if they thought they
were making headway enough for him to travel cross country
(05:32):
come in and because this was the other part that
failed for me and for those that missed it. You know,
we'll we'll reiterate what we talked about last week, like
he didn't get on the plane where they hadn't given
him a number, you know what I mean, Like that
you're not getting I was like, well, what are we
(05:53):
talking about compensation? You'll find out what you get here.
It'll be a giant envelope for you to open at
the table. No, you're not getting on a plane. Your
agent's not let you get on a plane unless you've
already talked some numbers. So for him to get on
the plane, they had to have believed they were in
a pretty good position. So yes, I think all of
us consider and say, yeah, they were probably disappointed if
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that was in fact, you know, the guy they truly wanted.
But I can't believe that it went into an article
like this, you know, after the celebration or derision of Reddick,
whichever side of the you know, whether you're using your
happy pen or your poison pen today or the microphone
acid speech or not that you know, it's reported that
(06:38):
she was extremely disappointed. So who in the building went
and found the person from the athletic and said, yeah, no,
she's really broken up over this one.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, look, this is It just shows you that the Lakers,
when they funk, they function in dysfunction. Right, That's what
the Lakers have done for years and for a long time.
When you had the team, when you have the right leadership,
it was okay enough, you could get by enough. But
now look, doctor Jerry Buss dies and Phil Jackson is
long gone and it's okay, how do things go here? Now?
(07:10):
Now there's wrestling for control of the team, and it's
just it's absolutely out of control. Because I'll tell you
what you want to know why you're disappointed, because the
blame goes to you, to Jeanie Buss, Robelinkett. You guys
blew this with Danny Hurley for two reasons. For two reasons. One,
you blew the fact that you could have made him
a better offer money wise, not that it was a
(07:31):
bad offer. The money was there, right, the money was there.
You're gonna make him around the third highest paid coach
in the NBA when it came down to it and
certain escalators were reached or we got to certain years
in the deal, which is a great offer, right, guy
coming in, Danny Hurley, third highest paid coach in the league. Awesome,
But you're desperate. I know you are the Lakers, but
(07:52):
you need a head coach. And this was the guy
that you were gonna have come in that was gonna
set a culture for a decade. He's the next he looked.
You looked at him and saying, maybe he's the next
Eric's pulse. He was the chosen one, and that's kind
of how you Maybe he's the next Eric Spolstra, and
that's what you want him to do. And he even
said if they had given me a godfather offer, I
don't know if I could have said, no, how do
(08:13):
you not come in and say we're gonna make you
the highest paid coach in the NBA. I don't care.
If it's making more money than Greg Popovich, making more
money than Steve Kerr, I don't care. If that upsets
people in the NBA. We need a coach. We need
somebody who who is going to set a culture for
us and be someone that stems the tide of hey,
we have a guy for a couple of years and
we have to move on. Yeah, you were more than
(08:33):
okay with making him the highest paid coach. How do
you not come in with that, because that's a hard
thing that cuts through the clutter. Danny. I know you're
nervous about taking this jig. You don't this gig you
don't know, but you know what, We're gonna make you
the highest paid coach in the game. Hi, more paid,
more money than Steve Kerr right here? What would have
taken another twenty million dollars? That's not salary cap oriented.
You're the Lakers, right Like, that's a big fail. You
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gotta be you know, you need this guy to say yes.
This guy is not showing up saying hey man, this
is a job I can't This is a job I'm
waiting for my entire life. This is a guy you
have to convince to come get this job. So that
that's the first epic fail, is that when it comes
to the money, you need to come in bigger and
get and making that offer. But boy, how do I
(09:14):
really say no to not becoming the highest paid coach
in the history of the NBA. That that with that
one that's on the Lakers, that's on Genie Bus, it's
on Ropelinka.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, you look and you use the word desperation, you know,
and and that's you know, beauty is in the eye
of the beholder. Shows the level of desperation and where
you're at, uh in this In this case, I think
given the fact that since Phil Jackson left town, uh,
it's been a revolving door of coaches, regardless of level
(09:44):
of success, winning records, whatever, it become personality fit, uh,
slap fights verbally between folks that were in charge in
the past, and where you're at, it's more just a
all right, you're get a level of commitment because we
don't like paying out giant deals like Detroit and all
(10:05):
these other teams are you know, we are a mom
and pop organization. That's what they talk. You know, that's
the brand. There's power in that brand. But sometimes you know,
you've got to look beyond it and think at the
bigger picture. And in this case, it was the perception
that whoever you were hiring was only going to be
their short term. So if you wanted her lead to
(10:27):
uproot and cross country and everything else, you had to
not only buy for short term with lebron Ad and
whatever Rob Polink and everybody agrees to do this year,
but that he will use those skills that he's developed
in college, the way he builds culture and all of
that long term and by doing that, that's the extra
(10:49):
eight years. To remember, it was an eight year deal
in the first reports, and then suddenly it wasn't suddenly
it looked a lot more like a lot of the
standard deals that we've seen through the years with an
extra maybe an extra year because go back to Steve
Kerr and a number of those others, what were their
five year deals? How many of those guys actually coached
beyond year two when that became in vogue. So yeah,
(11:12):
I mean it's it's all about levels of commitment, consistency
and comfort. Is is a dangerous word, but you know,
feeling like, you know, the organization's got to handle on things.
I don't know that there's any way, no matter how
good a presentation it was, that there truly is a
plan in place.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, look, and this is the second part of what
the Lakers, this is what they're for. You want to
look for why you're disappointed. Where blame is is this
is I have no problem saying, Hey, this is what
you get paid for, right. This is you're you're the
owner of a team. You need to be able to
read a room and see the future and understand big situations.
There's there's certain times where hey, you get taken by
(11:55):
surprise by things. I didn't see this coming. I didn't
anticipate this, and certain certain instances like that, I get it.
I can give you a pass on it. Sar. You
couldn't anticipate that was coming, But you had to know
that Danny Hurley wasn't coming. You had to know you
went out to get him, and there had to be
some kind of signals that you saw, some sort of
(12:17):
message where he said where you had to stop and say,
is this guy really gonna come or is he gonna
come out here for a weekend and tell us what
we want to hear and he's gonna get whatever he
wants out of Yukon. We know that he had no
idea he'd ever wind up being the coach here. We
know that his wife wants to stay in Connecticut. We
know that it's gonna be very difficult. Because the guy
showed up, he flew out for a weekend. He said
(12:38):
everything was impressive, and he made a decision to say no.
A day later, right, he flies back, goes to the
Billy Joel concert, stays for the Encore, waves to everybody
the next day. Oh, I made a decision. I have
to make a decision in a day. I've said a deadline.
Nobody was setting a deadline. You didn't have to set
a deadline. The Lakers didn't want a deadline. But no,
I'm saying no, he was never gonna take the job. Right,
we told you that he was never gonna take the job.
(12:59):
The Laker had to see that. You had to know
before you went down the road with him that he
was not gonna take this job. And I don't know
whose idea it was to say, hey, let's go do it,
because it's a great idea, right, great idea? Who do
we want in a perfect world? We're the bleeping Lakers. Man,
Let's just start thinking outside the box a bit.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Who do you want?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
If we can get anybody? Danny Hurley? Okay, let's go
after him and go after him, right, No one's gonna
JJ Reddick can't be upset. If you're going after Danny Hurley,
no one else is gonna be upset. This is a
guy that just went back to back titles at Yukon
and he's could be going for a third. This is
a guy that that is sending guys to the NBA
setting culture. Yeah, but you had to know at some
point this is not gonna happen. He's not gonna come here,
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go through a whirlwind weekend and say yes, I'm ready
to leave everything behind and I'm gonna come coach the Lakers.
There was no courtship, there was no anything. It was
just done so hamhandedly where hey, come on out for
the weekend. Okay, great, it come out for the weekend.
We spent the weekend in Los Angeles. I talked to
the Lakers, and now I'm getting certain things with my
contract that I wanted that they weren't giving me yet.
And the governor of Connecticut says, we're gonna make you
(14:02):
the highest paid coaching in all of college basketball. So
all the stuff that he wanted he got. All the
different things he gets in here and say, oh, my
contract was done. Was that no, But you said you
were getting or you wanted other things that you weren't getting.
Whatever those things were, you got because you took a
plane ride to la and you took a plane ride back.
You got what you needed out of the University of
Connecticut because that's what you wanted all along. And the Lakers,
(14:25):
you have to see this. This is why you run
a team. This is why you're the general manager. This
is why you're the owner. You have to see when
this is a situation where you go, you know what,
we got to pull the plug. We gotta go someplace else.
We gotta not be embarrassed by him telling us no,
because he's gonna tell us no. It's just too much
teeth pulling to get him out here. And that's what
they needed to see. So you look at a reasons
(14:45):
you're disappointed all of this. I don't care if you
weren't working together. Somebody, if you didn't like the idea,
could have said no, because hey, you know what, too
much didn't like this not working. We can't go He's
not gonna come out, he's not gonna take the job.
So this is on you. You want to know why
you're disappointed because you made a bet, you made an
offer you could have made a better offer on and
you knew the guy wasn't gonna take the job, and
you still went all the way to the wall with him,
(15:07):
and you embarrass yourself immensely.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
What do we always say, you got to have a plan,
A plan B, plan c uh and expect all hell
to break loose at some point in the process. As
far as hurting feelings. Uh, you know, if JJ Reddick
uh you want, you have Cleveland and you have Detroit.
Those are the two other jobs that are now available.
(15:30):
So you can be patient and wait right just in
terms of you already waited this long and this is
what we talked about the other night when Monty Williams
uh was relieved of his duties by the Pistons. Like,
you've already waited this long draft process is already on.
I mean at this point whoever comes in as a
coach and exactly getting a long run up to to
(15:52):
draft night anyway, So why not make sure you know
all your ducks are in a row and check all
those boxes as you need to. But you know, if
JJ Reddick was upset that Hurley was going to get
an interview, well then to bleep and bad. I mean,
you're gonna talk to any candidates you deem worthy and
(16:13):
for all we know you know, and again this is
me more wishing than any kind of reporting that they
really talk to a lot more guys beyond the Hey,
would you be willing to be the assistant behind Danny Hurley?
Because we've heard a few folks had been asked that
and basically told in those certain terms, no, I'm not
doing that. I've seen a lot of talks still the
(16:35):
last twenty four hours of why why can't Sam Cassell
get hired there? And what's the deal there? You know,
we always get a Mark Jackson reference or two along
the way, but you know, a curious process. And now
really disappointed that Danny Hurley didn't come figure out who
the rat is in the house.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It'll make you look a little bit better, and it's
on you, and it's on you for making that. There's
nobody to blame but you why this went bad as
it did. But again, the Lakers function and dysfunction, So
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And Tonight look Friday Night. I feel like Friday Night
now belongs in sports to the CFL and the WNBA.
Like that's what the summer is, right, CFL go a
CW and a big night for the WNBA tonight, Right,
(18:22):
you had a big night from Asia Wilson, maybe Vegas
finally figuring it out a bit. They give just this
on their second loss of the season. Caitlin Clark another
really good game game team high plus thirteen sixteen points.
It's got third hot and third most assistant in the
WNBA so far. The Fever now seven to ten, figuring
(18:43):
things out after a really slow start. So this has
been a fun night. And now we find out that
we're gonna get the most the highest ticket for a
WNBA game since they've been keeping track, which is going
back to about twenty fifteen as tickets for Sundays. Not
really a rematch, the third time this year that the
(19:05):
Fever and the Sky are playing, where it's Angel Reese
and Caitlin Clark, the average tickets going for three hundred
and fifty bucks mokes dispensing ticket in the W since
they've been keeping track. Right, it's just an insane run, right,
and you saw tonight's game with the Fever. The Fever
played the dream a TJ definitely a Fever dream. Thinking
(19:27):
about this game in the W they had to move
it to a much bigger arena so they could see
seventeen thousand people. This is like stuff that happened like
in the early nineteen twenties with sports, where hey, the
Yankees were playing a barnstorming game in Omaha and they
had to move it to a field that would get
like one hundred thousand people at it because I all
wanted to see Babe Ruth. Like, that's what this is
(19:49):
in the WNBA. It's really cool. But let me throw
some conspira let me throw a fun conspiracy theory. Oh okay, yeah, Now,
another great day in the WNBA because All Star voting.
The first batch of votes came out and there's eight
days left to vote, and Asia Wilson, two time MVP
again probably the best player in the league.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Monster Game Tonight is in.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
First place two hundred and seventeen thousand votes. A thousand
votes behind is Caitlyn Clark. She is in second place.
You get to third place, Leah Boston, last year's Rookie
of the Year, very popular player, around one hundred and
seventy thousand votes, and the rest of the top ten
comes in there. Angel Rees also in the top ten
(20:32):
for votes. Think she's eighth overall. Yeah, she's yeah, this
is with her. Yeah, this is an amazing turnaround from
last year where at this point, the first voting dump
that came out, we knew the leaders were at thirty
five thousand votes. Yeah, that's just amazing. You think about
you're talking about the leading vote getter. It's six times
(20:52):
what they got a year ago, I mean, just in
one year. And it is the Caitlyn Clark effect. We
told her she was going to be Magic and Larry
coming to the to the NBA. Except she is Magic
and Larry. All right, she's both of them coming in.
But let me throw this conspiracy theory at here for
a second, right, because you know, the league is very
they're very paranoid to trying to figure out how they
go forward, you know, making sure Caitlin Clark is a
(21:14):
face of the league. But you know there's a little
Caitlin Clark backlash going on a little suspicious that in
a little too coincidental that hey, Caitlyn Clark has so
many more votes than ever. She's got two hundred and
sixteen thousand votes. But Asia Wilson, who is you know,
widely you would ask any WNBA player they'd say she's
(21:35):
the best player in the league. She's got a thousand
more votes, like like just she's got just a little
So you could say that, hey, Caitlyn Clark, you see
her popularity, but we know she's really not the best.
Asia Wilson still has a thousand more votes than Caitlyn Clark.
It's a little too convenient, right that here's Caitlyn Clark.
(21:55):
That Okay, we want to make sure that Caitlyn, we
see her popularity, but there's not a backlash, and that
the best player has more votes, because we don't know
how players are going to react if Caitlin Clark has
more votes than everybody else. And the fact that she's
got that that she has, you know, nearly thirty thousand
more votes whoever's in third place but one of the
persons a thousand votes ahead of her. That's a that's
(22:16):
a real difficult math problem for me to overcome, Like
to think, ah, is there something going on here to
keep the voting this close where Kate Lee Clark is
right there and Agent Wilson is right It's just it
seems really convenient that this is how it comes out.
I appreciate your chaos theories I do.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It's one of my favorite parts of the show that
we've been doing over here on Fox Sports Radio going
on a decade.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
This one.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I think you're you're pushing a little bit, but I
can't say it's one hundred percent right, kind of like
that five percent of error that Tom Brady was talking
about walking up to the line of scrimmage about that
you want to eliminate, you, you know, margin of error,
like when you used to do scientific experiments, be like, hey,
what was your error rate?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like, well, five is acceptable? I got nine point seven?
Go back and do it again, you know that kind
of thing.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
So it's the expectation here is that the next vote
maybe we see something more.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Is that kind of where you're at, because you.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Know, Kelsey Plumb and Angel Reese, like I said, or
they're about a thousand apart, so we start looking at
it and breaking it down all kinds of ways. I
just want to go back and just celebrate the fact
that we're at, you know, a multiple of four or
five x for the leaders over what you've been in
the past. But yeah, the fact that they're the two
(23:33):
leading vote getters. I don't want to read too much
into it. But you know what, I like wearing a
tinfoil hat. So if you make one that's kind of stylish,
that can make me look like Barbosa or something. I'm in,
let's go, I'm in on a crazy Friday night.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, but just think about that, man, I mean,
this is just thirteen hundred differences. Yeah, it's the thirteen
hundred difference where the top two are that further, that
much more ahead of the third, fourth, fifth place, sixth, seventh.
Really they're they're that much for both of them, or
within the thousand of each other, and they're that much
far ahead of number three. Right Like, I got like,
(24:10):
come on, look, here's what I equated to. Because this
made me think of this. I'm swear to god, this
made me think of this. Now, when I was younger,
like when I was in my twenties and early thirties,
right like, Sega Genesis was the big game, right that
morphed into that morphed into Super Nintendo, and then you know,
you know, then then you had everybody had game Boys.
Right then you went on from there into into Xbox
and where you are now. But Sega was always the
(24:32):
big game. And I love playing PGA Tourings and European
PGA Tour. European PGA Tour is probably my favorite. And
I get to the point where I'm just rolling in
a tournament, right because I'm winning and I'm beating the
crap out of everybody. Right, I'm playing great because that's
how the video game goes, right. But the leaderboard, like
I'm like nineteen under par, right, there's some crazy because
(24:52):
I'm Tiger bleeping woods man. I'm like nineteen under par
with like four holes to go on Sunday, and I'm
gonna win. And every everybody else, of course, no one's
that because that's superhuman, right, everybody else is five under par,
six under par, seven under park. But no, no, no,
there's one other golfer who has one stroke behind me, right,
like they need that in the game, like all stalk
(25:12):
in you Why am I? How am I?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
How?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How is everybody else all the way down at five
and six under par? Yet here's Sam Torrence or Ernie
els Is, you know one stroke behind me? Like come on, man,
he's eighteen. I'm nineteen, he's eighteen under call what's the
video game doing to me? That's kind of what I
think of what I think of this. Oh, here's did
so far Kaylen Clark is so far in remember, Oh,
(25:35):
but here's Asian Wilson. Just let you know, a thousand
bus just a thousand votes, right, there's a thousand votes in.
I see that, and I go, boy, it's it's it's
too it's just too convenient, man.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
How you're saying it's in the programming, like going down
the road of progressive slots and all this other stuff.
It's in the program It's gonna pay off.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's two yeah. No, Look, I don't know. I don't
have any kind of you know, coding experience or anything else.
Now I'm just saying it just this sounds like this.
It seems really weird, right, Like it hits you just
a okay, right, a thousand ahead of Let's see if
this goes the next eight days, if they continue to
roll and she's a thousand ahead most of the time, right, Like,
(26:21):
is that what's gonna happen? Is that?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
All I can say is this, though, buddy, is now
you've opened the door, and there's no doubt someone listening
right now. That's her only part of that. And thought
you were talking about, you know, electoral conspiracies. I mean,
you kept saying counting the votes and there's only thirteen
hundred votes.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Someone tuned in at the wrong time, my man, third rail,
third rail.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So boy, you know, because here's the thing, Like, here's
the thing, right, you're filling out of You're filling out
a ballot for the All Star game, right.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Just for the All Star game, right for the WUS.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You're filling out of ballot WNBA All Star Game. And
you no, I don't know how it goes, but I
assume you know you vote for the people you want
to vote for. Now, if Asia Wilson is getting all
the votes, you gotta think the vast majority of her
votes she's gonna get is gonna be from Vegas right
where she plays, right, that's gonna happen. So Agie Wilson
very popular player, Kelsey Plum, very popular player, great player,
(27:18):
plays for the Aces, and Asia Wilson has one hundred
thousand more votes than Kelsey Plum. That's not closer. That's
not where like Ajia Wilson has two hundred and seventeen,
but Kelsey Plum's like around two hundred thousand, Like really,
like that's like that that seems to me, like that
would be closer, Like that would be a little like
Katelyn Clark and Aliah Boston. Like Kateln Clark, I was
(27:39):
with Katelyn Clark. Aliah Boston's at one hundred and seventy
one thousand votes, right, and she's probably not one of
the top ten players in the game this year. She's good,
but is she one of the top ten players? And
she's still at least within shouting distance of Caitlyn Clark,
whereas Asia Wilson is sitting there to seventeen and then
Kelsey Plum has half her votes. Really, like again, I go, rah,
people aren't voting for both of them? You know he's
(28:01):
his fans aren't voting for both them? Okay, all right,
then let me see, Okay, get ready to vote. I
just pulled up my online I look at vote dot
w NBA dot com. Look, Brianna Stewart and Sabria Ironescu, right,
both teammates on the Liberty. Brianna Stewart more popular player.
Not that's the iron Escue is not. But Brianna Stewart
more popular player, most decorated player coming out of college.
(28:21):
I think ever, right, I think in four years, she
won seven national championships. Friend and Show hundred and fifty
one thousand votes and I squ has one hundred and eighteen. Like,
that's okay, I get that. That's a little bit. You
know that that's close, but it's close enough to be
all right. I kind of see where that is a
little bit, But the other ones are just not even close. Well,
you want an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
If you go in and now we're picking apart how
they do the ballot together.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You go in and you choose.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It has the uh, has the court, and you've got spots,
and it's like all right, front court guards and then
your your your reserves, and if you select one to
go pick, it has a player search, and then it's
got tabs, points, assists, rebounds.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I don't know what FNP means.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
And then you know if you want to just go
alphabetically so A to z UH. So you've got these
different sorting mechanisms by which you can do this. Oh,
fantasy points, that's what it is, fantasy points.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So you do that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
So immediately it defaults to Asia Wilson as the first
person because on points she would be first. And if
you go to assists, it's a Lyssa Thomas. If you
go to rebounds once again Asia Wilson. If you go
to the Fantasy Points, it's Asia Wilson. You go to alphabetical,
it becomes Rebecca Allen, a forwarding guard from Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, it's just i'd look again. I'm not saying I
know anything. I mean, it's just this just seems a
little convince doesn't it seem a little convenient? Really, the Hey,
I'm gonna do it to vote for Asia Wilson, but
I'm not gonna do it to vote for Kelsey Plumb.
I'm not gonna do that. Really, really I.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Hate but like they always say, Jason, just because you
know you may be a bit paranoid doesn't mean that
there's not somebody coming after get.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But doesn't this solve the It doesn't this solve the
issues that would come out like, like, wouldn't this only
because wouldn't it make sense? Right, wouldn't it make sense
the WNB to say, Okay, we've just had a really
great first month and a half, and we've had a
really awful first month and a half because with the
increase in popularity for our league, it's been fantastic. We
(30:34):
have charter flights, we have bigger arenas, we have everything
you could want, but we also have a really weird
and ridiculous discourse about race and jealousy and all this stuff.
And maybe some of some of what goes on is true,
some of it isn't. But here's the All Star voting
where if there's any players who are upset, the best
player overall has the most votes and the most popular
(30:57):
player who maybe people need to come round at, but
all the fans love just a little bit behind her.
Like that really doesn't doesn't that seem like, hey, if
you were if you were trying to figure out and say,
without knowing, hey, how do we make the voting come
out and make it look great? Right with all the
voting more from last year, all of the Hey, here's
the best player with just a little bit more than
(31:18):
Caitlin Clark and yet the best player conspiracy theory, I'm
telling you, But think about it, the best player whose
team has sold out all their games, and second the rookie,
the the up and coming player who sells out all
the arenas. Boom exit out about a Fresca exit swelling down.
(31:40):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the
Tirack dot Com studios. Right now, a guy who is
frantically filling out his w NBA All Star ballot. It's
Steve Desager with what's trend to nice?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Eve good one.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
As for the.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
We got stats on your team in a moment, but
since you were talking WNBA. There were two games tonight.
Indiana now seven and ten, won its game. It's sold
out Atlanta ninety one seventy nine, rookie Caitlin Clark sixteen points,
seven assists, seven turnovers. Vegas at home beat Connecticut eighty
five seventy four. Connecticut had been thirteen and one. Asia
Wilson twenty six points, sixteen rebounds, And there will be
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a game seven of the Stanley Cup Final at Florida Monday.
Edmonton won again tonight, beating the Panthers five to one.
Outshot him in the first period eleven to two. Went
on to victory, including a couple of empty netters in
the final second, so this series was three games to none.
Florida Panthers have never led in a game since Florida
has never won the Cup. Oklahoma Sooners coach Brent Venables
(32:43):
agreed to a new six year contract The LA Olympic
organizers say the twenty twenty eight Games will have the
swimming competition in the Rams Football Stadium. This week, the
Olympic swim trials are being held in the Indianapolis Colts
Stadium in a temporary pool built over the concrete floor. Also,
the new LA Clippers Arena nearby in Inglewood in LA
due to host basketball in twenty twenty eight, with the
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Olympic Gymnastics at the Lakers Arena downtown. Today's new proposal
also will put Olympic softball events in Oklahoma City in
twenty twenty eight, along with canoe slalom programming. Note tomorrow
on Fox TV. Euro Soccer tournament continues noon Eastern Time.
Portugal against Turkey, then Belgium versus Romania. Today Ukraine beats
Slovakia two to one with two second half goals. Austria
(33:29):
over Poland three to one. Poland is eliminated and Robert
Lewandowski did not play again. France tied Netherlands zero zero.
Chillian and Bape, with his broken nose, did not play.
France outshot him fifteen to eight but ended up in
a scoreless tie and on FS one Tonight in Copa
America zero zero tie Chile versus Peru thirty seven fouls
in that game in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Attendance was
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forty three thousand. The Americans opener in that tournament is
Sunday on Fox TV against Bolivia. Mexico plays on FS
one Saturday Night versus Jamaica not a Major League Baseball
The Dodgers had beaten the Angels ten straight times until tonight.
Angels in ten innings won at Dodgers Stadium three to two.
Angels starting pitcher Patrick Sandoval, who's two to eight this year,
(34:14):
left early with four armed tightness. Third baseman Max Munsey
of the Dodgers was transferred to the sixty day injured list.
Pitcher Clayton Kershaw of LA will make his second rehab
start Tuesday at Triple A Show. Hey Otani in tonight's game,
it is fifth homer in six games. He has twenty
two home runs leads to the National League Statsink says
Otani is in the last twenty five years the only
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player to have all of this in the same game,
multiple hits, multiple walks, multiple RBIs, while the rest of
his team didn't draw a single walk or drive in
a single run. That was the Dodger game. Tonight, they
lose at home in ten San Diego nine to five
winners against Milwaukee. Jake cronin Worth went five for five
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with four runs scored at Oaklan and a two run
homer bottom of the eighth gave the A's a six
to five win against Minnesota. Attendance was nine thousand. Royce
Lewis of the Twins hit his tenth homer in his
sixteen games. Played Houston fourteen to eleven over Baltimore Miami
in ten innings. At Seattle three to two. Cleveland won
again seven runs in the second. They beat Toronto seven
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to one. The Cleveland Guardians offense saw seventy pitches in
that second inning, the most by a team in one
inning in a decade. The Mets won today at the
Cubs eleven to one.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
JD.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Martinez a three run homer in the first. All the
scoring in this one came in the first three and
a half innings. The loss to Show to imonaguh had
been seven to one. The Mets were tied for the
worst record in the majors for the month of May.
They currently have MLB's best record in the month of June.
To do that back to back full months has not
happened since the nineteen ninety four Giants, who had a
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great month of July and then went on strike with
the rest of the Union. As for the Whites, yeah,
they lost two to one at Detroit.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, but we have Grimace. Now, come on a right,
you have Grimace.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Everything's turned around since then. The White Sox game ended
on a double play at Detroit line to center runner
at first forgot how many outs there were doubled up.
That's that And this from Stats Inc. Based in Chicago.
The White Sox so far this year have sixty five
percent of their team victories coming games started either by
Eric Fetty like tonight or Garrett Crochet. The last team
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to finish a full season with that great a percentage
of their wins coming in starts by just two pitchers,
the nineteen twenty one White Sox Back to You, thanks
a bunch.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, I had all My life's a circle. I had
Eddie Seacott that year in Fantasy and he was banned
from the game. That really screwed me. Man screwed me.
The Jaysonsta Mine Department liveromthtirag dot com Studios. Coming up next, Yes,
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
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the highlight you have to hear, and because he's my
best friend, he's gonna be okay with hearing it one
more time. Sure, let's go. How bad are the Chicago
(37:31):
White Sox. Well, this is how they lost tonight. Worst
team in baseball by a mile. I seem to be
finding new ways to show you. Yeah, we really shouldn't
even be on a ball field. They're trailing in the
ninth inning to the Tigers two to one. Batting in
the bottom of the ninth, leadoff batter strikes out, second
batter hit by pitch. Okay, so you got one out.
(37:53):
One on bottom of the ninth Andrew benin Tende, who
looks to be setting a record for negative war. He's
up to pinch hit. I think he's like negative two
and a half war, something crazy like that.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Bro. It remind me to give you a nice swinging
neck breaker in honor of Game seven of the NHL
Final and the UH and Monday Night Raw when I
see you on Monday.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
So there's one out runner at first, and this is
how the game ended for the White Sox.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Set up there again, Ben and Tendi gives it a
ride for center field.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Matt Fierling makes the catch. Show they thought it was well,
they thought there were two out.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
That's gonna be a double play.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Oh my goodness ran away there in the game.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
The Tigers win, and the White Sox have yet another
play that typifies their season.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Two to one. Tigers, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I mean I can't.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
I was like, wait a minute, I thought there's a
there's one out.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
How in the world does this happen?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh, White Socks Radio Network, Well listen, you know, look,
Paul DeJong is a rookie. He hasn't played a lot
of games. You know, you may not own I'm sorry,
he's thirty. He's been in the league for it.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
I hate you exactly eight years in the damn League
eight years.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
At least if Colas.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Had done it. Oh wait, he made the first out.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But at least if he had done it. You say,
he's a rookie.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
He's trying to make an impact and get regular playing time.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Wait, how many outs? Oh there was only one out?
Oh okay, okay. At what point you think DeJong was like? Oh? Like,
I always think about that scene in Major League when
Tom Berenger bunts and no one said the Yankee third
baseman goes blank and he goes running to the wall
to get it, like, oh blank. Like, at what moment
do you think he had the oh blank moment? Oh?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
No, Watch watch the way he scurries back like a rat.
See I tie it all together? Rats people, Rats Fox
Sports Radio. You go and get the podcast as soon
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Speaker 1 (39:54):
We'll find out what White Sox manager Moni Williams had
to say following it. Oh, sorry about that. Meanwhile, I've
been fired. Good for him. Look, I like to think
that I know what to say in every circumstance, but
being on the cosp of being the first team to
blow a three to zero lead, and lose in a
final of any sport since nineteen forty two. If I'm
(40:16):
Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, I have no idea what
to say to my team after they lost to Edmonton
again tonight. I like to think I know what I
would do as a coach, what I would but I
have no how do you get them back on track
after what's gone on in the last few games. I
have no idea.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
I'd go around the locker room saying, what have you
guys done wrong in your lives in the last week?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
What the hell.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Get right with whoever?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
This is your Farmug's got to come back on our side.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Why did the hockey gods abandon us? Hey, it's not
my fault. This is not my fault.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
This is all your fault. I'm talking Rivers, it's not
my fault. Bernie Frattle coming up next, Fox
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these big plays in the last few playoffs where John
Harber must have went, ah, boy, they have the right
(00:56):
dead they have the right line up for this play. Yeah,
we're not gonna figured us out. You know.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That's how on that one, that's the playing rock paper scissors.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We got a litt lamar audible at some point, yeah,
but not today. And the boy, oh they got us
again on here. Look, they're gonna come right at the middle.
We're not ready for this.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
He can Oh man, isn't it more exciting to see
how he handles this?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I can't just I mean really, now he gets a chat.
Now he could call his own audibly. He didn't have
the green light before. That's just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
MVP several years in the league. Second MVP running for
his life.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hey just make hey, Lamar, they're coming at you from
the week side.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Just run around and make something happen.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
All right, Great, we didn't do anything to change up
our protection, you know, with that guy basically saying I'm
blitzing and I'm sacking you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's telling me, don't get hit, don't get hit hard Lamorrow, Okay,
don't get her. Uh now, a lot more NFL on
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(02:32):
we kind of have to sometimes when there's breaking news
off time. Jim, now this story today, I mean really,
I'm coming around to your idea that there's a rat
somewhere in the Lakers. A day after JJ Reddick is
announced as the next head coach, or it's announced that
he will be the next head coach of the Lakers
and going to be a four year contract, Reddick will
be the coach. He was the guy early on. Then
(02:55):
there was the Danny Hurry Danny Hurley Dalli and said
that didn't work out, and now they get JJ Reddick.
So after twenty four hours of sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
and Reddick's our guy and here's what he's gonna do.
The Athletic puts out a story today that Lakers owner
Genie Buss was quote genuinely disappointed Danny Hurley did not
(03:15):
become the next Lakers head coach. So the Lakers had
twenty four A. Al Right, we'll get forward. Now we're
gonna put this Danny Hurley behind us. Wait here comes
the story that Genie really was disappointed Danny Hurley didn't
work out. Like, I don't know, is this something that
is a story that is painting Genie in a bad light?
Is this Genie? And because it wasn't her idea that
(03:38):
it's painting somebody else about like you screwed me because
I'm really disappointed you convinced me it was gonna work out.
This is this is just a this is just such
a bad day after misstep for the Lakers, after allegedly
getting the guy they wanted to get. I'm coming around
to your idea that there's that there's a rat out there,
that there's some kind of per because you know, the Lakers,
their factions kind of treat each other at arm's length,
(04:01):
and and you know one maybe we don't always do
it together, but we don't always do it so apart.
I'm really I'm coming around to you thinking that there
was some kind of leak that put this story out
there the day after they signed JJ Redick. Well, I
just think it comes back to if I'm to believe
anytime someone starts going to the anonymous sources, I've got sources.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I've talked to three people. No, I've talked to eight people,
all of these folks all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
If I'm supposed to.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Believe them, then I can't believe that there wasn't a
you know, they're just spitting into the wind with this
one going, Well, she probably was disappointed, right, I gotta
believe that this is another story where there is a
source that had to come And I'm using air quotes
as I'm sitting here doing the show with you with
(04:47):
no camera on.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
At least that I'm aware of the walls, do hea ears?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
You know? But they that I'm supposed to believe that suddenly,
just out of the blue, the writer decided to say,
you know what, she was really disappointed. No, No, that means
someone talked someone within that inner circle, which, from what
we're led to believe Jason wasn't a very big circle
of people talking to these guys, you know what I mean,
(05:11):
It's just a couple of folks and maybe some hangers on,
but not that it was you know, some grandiose you know,
think tank that was getting in deep with Reddick and
with with Hurley in this process. So to that end, yeah,
she's I'm sure she's disappointed, particularly if they thought they
were making headway enough for him to travel cross country
(05:32):
come in and because this was the other part that
failed for me and for those that missed it. You know,
we'll we'll reiterate what we talked about last week, like
he didn't get on the plane where they hadn't given
him a number, you know what I mean, Like that
you're not getting I was like, well, what are we
(05:53):
talking about compensation? You'll find out what you get here.
It'll be a giant envelope for you to open at
the table. No, you're not getting on a plane. Your
agent's not let you get on a plane unless you've
already talked some numbers. So for him to get on
the plane, they had to have believed they were in
a pretty good position. So yes, I think all of
us consider and say, yeah, they were probably disappointed if
(06:15):
that was in fact, you know, the guy they truly wanted.
But I can't believe that it went into an article
like this, you know, after the celebration or derision of Reddick,
whichever side of the you know, whether you're using your
happy pen or your poison pen today or the microphone
acid speech or not that you know, it's reported that
(06:38):
she was extremely disappointed. So who in the building went
and found the person from the athletic and said, yeah, no,
she's really broken up over this one.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, look, this is It just shows you that the Lakers,
when they funk, they function in dysfunction. Right, That's what
the Lakers have done for years and for a long time.
When you had the team, when you have the right leadership,
it was okay enough, you could get by enough. But
now look, doctor Jerry Buss dies and Phil Jackson is
long gone and it's okay, how do things go here? Now?
(07:10):
Now there's wrestling for control of the team, and it's
just it's absolutely out of control. Because I'll tell you
what you want to know why you're disappointed, because the
blame goes to you, to Jeanie Buss, Robelinkett. You guys
blew this with Danny Hurley for two reasons. For two reasons. One,
you blew the fact that you could have made him
a better offer money wise, not that it was a
(07:31):
bad offer. The money was there, right, the money was there.
You're gonna make him around the third highest paid coach
in the NBA when it came down to it and
certain escalators were reached or we got to certain years
in the deal, which is a great offer, right, guy
coming in, Danny Hurley, third highest paid coach in the league. Awesome,
But you're desperate. I know you are the Lakers, but
(07:52):
you need a head coach. And this was the guy
that you were gonna have come in that was gonna
set a culture for a decade. He's the next he looked.
You looked at him and saying, maybe he's the next
Eric's pulse. He was the chosen one, and that's kind
of how you Maybe he's the next Eric Spolstra, and
that's what you want him to do. And he even
said if they had given me a godfather offer, I
don't know if I could have said, no, how do
(08:13):
you not come in and say we're gonna make you
the highest paid coach in the NBA. I don't care.
If it's making more money than Greg Popovich, making more
money than Steve Kerr, I don't care. If that upsets
people in the NBA. We need a coach. We need
somebody who who is going to set a culture for
us and be someone that stems the tide of hey,
we have a guy for a couple of years and
we have to move on. Yeah, you were more than
(08:33):
okay with making him the highest paid coach. How do
you not come in with that, because that's a hard
thing that cuts through the clutter. Danny. I know you're
nervous about taking this jig. You don't this gig you
don't know, but you know what, We're gonna make you
the highest paid coach in the game. Hi, more paid,
more money than Steve Kerr right here? What would have
taken another twenty million dollars? That's not salary cap oriented.
You're the Lakers, right Like, that's a big fail. You
(08:54):
gotta be you know, you need this guy to say yes.
This guy is not showing up saying hey man, this
is a job I can't This is a job I'm
waiting for my entire life. This is a guy you
have to convince to come get this job. So that
that's the first epic fail, is that when it comes
to the money, you need to come in bigger and
get and making that offer. But boy, how do I
(09:14):
really say no to not becoming the highest paid coach
in the history of the NBA. That that with that
one that's on the Lakers, that's on Genie Bus, it's
on Ropelinka.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah, you look and you use the word desperation, you know,
and and that's you know, beauty is in the eye
of the beholder. Shows the level of desperation and where
you're at, uh in this In this case, I think
given the fact that since Phil Jackson left town, uh,
it's been a revolving door of coaches, regardless of level
(09:44):
of success, winning records, whatever, it become personality fit, uh,
slap fights verbally between folks that were in charge in
the past, and where you're at, it's more just a
all right, you're get a level of commitment because we
don't like paying out giant deals like Detroit and all
(10:05):
these other teams are you know, we are a mom
and pop organization. That's what they talk. You know, that's
the brand. There's power in that brand. But sometimes you know,
you've got to look beyond it and think at the
bigger picture. And in this case, it was the perception
that whoever you were hiring was only going to be
their short term. So if you wanted her lead to
(10:27):
uproot and cross country and everything else, you had to
not only buy for short term with lebron Ad and
whatever Rob Polink and everybody agrees to do this year,
but that he will use those skills that he's developed
in college, the way he builds culture and all of
that long term and by doing that, that's the extra
(10:49):
eight years. To remember, it was an eight year deal
in the first reports, and then suddenly it wasn't suddenly
it looked a lot more like a lot of the
standard deals that we've seen through the years with an
extra maybe an extra year because go back to Steve
Kerr and a number of those others, what were their
five year deals? How many of those guys actually coached
beyond year two when that became in vogue. So yeah,
(11:12):
I mean it's it's all about levels of commitment, consistency
and comfort. Is is a dangerous word, but you know,
feeling like, you know, the organization's got to handle on things.
I don't know that there's any way, no matter how
good a presentation it was, that there truly is a
plan in place.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, look, and this is the second part of what
the Lakers, this is what they're for. You want to
look for why you're disappointed. Where blame is is this
is I have no problem saying, Hey, this is what
you get paid for, right. This is you're you're the
owner of a team. You need to be able to
read a room and see the future and understand big situations.
There's there's certain times where hey, you get taken by
(11:55):
surprise by things. I didn't see this coming. I didn't
anticipate this, and certain certain instances like that, I get it.
I can give you a pass on it. Sar. You
couldn't anticipate that was coming, But you had to know
that Danny Hurley wasn't coming. You had to know you
went out to get him, and there had to be
some kind of signals that you saw, some sort of
(12:17):
message where he said where you had to stop and say,
is this guy really gonna come or is he gonna
come out here for a weekend and tell us what
we want to hear and he's gonna get whatever he
wants out of Yukon. We know that he had no
idea he'd ever wind up being the coach here. We
know that his wife wants to stay in Connecticut. We
know that it's gonna be very difficult. Because the guy
showed up, he flew out for a weekend. He said
(12:38):
everything was impressive, and he made a decision to say no.
A day later, right, he flies back, goes to the
Billy Joel concert, stays for the Encore, waves to everybody
the next day. Oh, I made a decision. I have
to make a decision in a day. I've said a deadline.
Nobody was setting a deadline. You didn't have to set
a deadline. The Lakers didn't want a deadline. But no,
I'm saying no, he was never gonna take the job. Right,
we told you that he was never gonna take the job.
(12:59):
The Laker had to see that. You had to know
before you went down the road with him that he
was not gonna take this job. And I don't know
whose idea it was to say, hey, let's go do it,
because it's a great idea, right, great idea? Who do
we want in a perfect world? We're the bleeping Lakers. Man,
Let's just start thinking outside the box a bit.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Who do you want?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
If we can get anybody? Danny Hurley? Okay, let's go
after him and go after him, right, No one's gonna
JJ Reddick can't be upset. If you're going after Danny Hurley,
no one else is gonna be upset. This is a
guy that just went back to back titles at Yukon
and he's could be going for a third. This is
a guy that that is sending guys to the NBA
setting culture. Yeah, but you had to know at some
point this is not gonna happen. He's not gonna come here,
(13:39):
go through a whirlwind weekend and say yes, I'm ready
to leave everything behind and I'm gonna come coach the Lakers.
There was no courtship, there was no anything. It was
just done so hamhandedly where hey, come on out for
the weekend. Okay, great, it come out for the weekend.
We spent the weekend in Los Angeles. I talked to
the Lakers, and now I'm getting certain things with my
contract that I wanted that they weren't giving me yet.
And the governor of Connecticut says, we're gonna make you
(14:02):
the highest paid coaching in all of college basketball. So
all the stuff that he wanted he got. All the
different things he gets in here and say, oh, my
contract was done. Was that no, But you said you
were getting or you wanted other things that you weren't getting.
Whatever those things were, you got because you took a
plane ride to la and you took a plane ride back.
You got what you needed out of the University of
Connecticut because that's what you wanted all along. And the Lakers,
(14:25):
you have to see this. This is why you run
a team. This is why you're the general manager. This
is why you're the owner. You have to see when
this is a situation where you go, you know what,
we got to pull the plug. We gotta go someplace else.
We gotta not be embarrassed by him telling us no,
because he's gonna tell us no. It's just too much
teeth pulling to get him out here. And that's what
they needed to see. So you look at a reasons
(14:45):
you're disappointed all of this. I don't care if you
weren't working together. Somebody, if you didn't like the idea,
could have said no, because hey, you know what, too
much didn't like this not working. We can't go He's
not gonna come out, he's not gonna take the job.
So this is on you. You want to know why
you're disappointed because you made a bet, you made an
offer you could have made a better offer on and
you knew the guy wasn't gonna take the job, and
you still went all the way to the wall with him,
(15:07):
and you embarrass yourself immensely.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
What do we always say, you got to have a plan,
A plan B, plan c uh and expect all hell
to break loose at some point in the process. As
far as hurting feelings. Uh, you know, if JJ Reddick
uh you want, you have Cleveland and you have Detroit.
Those are the two other jobs that are now available.
(15:30):
So you can be patient and wait right just in
terms of you already waited this long and this is
what we talked about the other night when Monty Williams
uh was relieved of his duties by the Pistons. Like,
you've already waited this long draft process is already on.
I mean at this point whoever comes in as a
coach and exactly getting a long run up to to
(15:52):
draft night anyway, So why not make sure you know
all your ducks are in a row and check all
those boxes as you need to. But you know, if
JJ Reddick was upset that Hurley was going to get
an interview, well then to bleep and bad. I mean,
you're gonna talk to any candidates you deem worthy and
(16:13):
for all we know you know, and again this is
me more wishing than any kind of reporting that they
really talk to a lot more guys beyond the Hey,
would you be willing to be the assistant behind Danny Hurley?
Because we've heard a few folks had been asked that
and basically told in those certain terms, no, I'm not
doing that. I've seen a lot of talks still the
(16:35):
last twenty four hours of why why can't Sam Cassell
get hired there? And what's the deal there? You know,
we always get a Mark Jackson reference or two along
the way, but you know, a curious process. And now
really disappointed that Danny Hurley didn't come figure out who
the rat is in the house.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It'll make you look a little bit better, and it's
on you, and it's on you for making that. There's
nobody to blame but you why this went bad as
it did. But again, the Lakers function and dysfunction, So
can you really be surprised? Exit Albata Fresca, Exit swollen Down,
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(17:14):
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Speaker 1 (18:01):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
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And Tonight look Friday Night. I feel like Friday Night
now belongs in sports to the CFL and the WNBA.
Like that's what the summer is, right, CFL go a
CW and a big night for the WNBA tonight, Right,
(18:22):
you had a big night from Asia Wilson, maybe Vegas
finally figuring it out a bit. They give just this
on their second loss of the season. Caitlin Clark another
really good game game team high plus thirteen sixteen points.
It's got third hot and third most assistant in the
WNBA so far. The Fever now seven to ten, figuring
(18:43):
things out after a really slow start. So this has
been a fun night. And now we find out that
we're gonna get the most the highest ticket for a
WNBA game since they've been keeping track, which is going
back to about twenty fifteen as tickets for Sundays. Not
really a rematch, the third time this year that the
(19:05):
Fever and the Sky are playing, where it's Angel Reese
and Caitlin Clark, the average tickets going for three hundred
and fifty bucks mokes dispensing ticket in the W since
they've been keeping track. Right, it's just an insane run, right,
and you saw tonight's game with the Fever. The Fever
played the dream a TJ definitely a Fever dream. Thinking
(19:27):
about this game in the W they had to move
it to a much bigger arena so they could see
seventeen thousand people. This is like stuff that happened like
in the early nineteen twenties with sports, where hey, the
Yankees were playing a barnstorming game in Omaha and they
had to move it to a field that would get
like one hundred thousand people at it because I all
wanted to see Babe Ruth. Like, that's what this is
(19:49):
in the WNBA. It's really cool. But let me throw
some conspira let me throw a fun conspiracy theory. Oh okay, yeah, Now,
another great day in the WNBA because All Star voting.
The first batch of votes came out and there's eight
days left to vote, and Asia Wilson, two time MVP
again probably the best player in the league.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Monster Game Tonight is in.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
First place two hundred and seventeen thousand votes. A thousand
votes behind is Caitlyn Clark. She is in second place.
You get to third place, Leah Boston, last year's Rookie
of the Year, very popular player, around one hundred and
seventy thousand votes, and the rest of the top ten
comes in there. Angel Rees also in the top ten
(20:32):
for votes. Think she's eighth overall. Yeah, she's yeah, this
is with her. Yeah, this is an amazing turnaround from
last year where at this point, the first voting dump
that came out, we knew the leaders were at thirty
five thousand votes. Yeah, that's just amazing. You think about
you're talking about the leading vote getter. It's six times
(20:52):
what they got a year ago, I mean, just in
one year. And it is the Caitlyn Clark effect. We
told her she was going to be Magic and Larry
coming to the to the NBA. Except she is Magic
and Larry. All right, she's both of them coming in.
But let me throw this conspiracy theory at here for
a second, right, because you know, the league is very
they're very paranoid to trying to figure out how they
go forward, you know, making sure Caitlin Clark is a
(21:14):
face of the league. But you know there's a little
Caitlin Clark backlash going on a little suspicious that in
a little too coincidental that hey, Caitlyn Clark has so
many more votes than ever. She's got two hundred and
sixteen thousand votes. But Asia Wilson, who is you know,
widely you would ask any WNBA player they'd say she's
(21:35):
the best player in the league. She's got a thousand
more votes, like like just she's got just a little
So you could say that, hey, Caitlyn Clark, you see
her popularity, but we know she's really not the best.
Asia Wilson still has a thousand more votes than Caitlyn Clark.
It's a little too convenient, right that here's Caitlyn Clark.
(21:55):
That Okay, we want to make sure that Caitlyn, we
see her popularity, but there's not a backlash, and that
the best player has more votes, because we don't know
how players are going to react if Caitlin Clark has
more votes than everybody else. And the fact that she's
got that that she has, you know, nearly thirty thousand
more votes whoever's in third place but one of the
persons a thousand votes ahead of her. That's a that's
(22:16):
a real difficult math problem for me to overcome, Like
to think, ah, is there something going on here to
keep the voting this close where Kate Lee Clark is
right there and Agent Wilson is right It's just it
seems really convenient that this is how it comes out.
I appreciate your chaos theories I do.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It's one of my favorite parts of the show that
we've been doing over here on Fox Sports Radio going
on a decade.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
This one.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I think you're you're pushing a little bit, but I
can't say it's one hundred percent right, kind of like
that five percent of error that Tom Brady was talking
about walking up to the line of scrimmage about that
you want to eliminate, you, you know, margin of error,
like when you used to do scientific experiments, be like, hey,
what was your error rate?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like, well, five is acceptable? I got nine point seven?
Go back and do it again, you know that kind
of thing.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
So it's the expectation here is that the next vote
maybe we see something more.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Is that kind of where you're at, because you.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Know, Kelsey Plumb and Angel Reese, like I said, or
they're about a thousand apart, so we start looking at
it and breaking it down all kinds of ways. I
just want to go back and just celebrate the fact
that we're at, you know, a multiple of four or
five x for the leaders over what you've been in
the past. But yeah, the fact that they're the two
(23:33):
leading vote getters. I don't want to read too much
into it. But you know what, I like wearing a
tinfoil hat. So if you make one that's kind of stylish,
that can make me look like Barbosa or something. I'm in,
let's go, I'm in on a crazy Friday night.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, but just think about that, man, I mean,
this is just thirteen hundred differences. Yeah, it's the thirteen
hundred difference where the top two are that further, that
much more ahead of the third, fourth, fifth place, sixth, seventh.
Really they're they're that much for both of them, or
within the thousand of each other, and they're that much
far ahead of number three. Right Like, I got like,
(24:10):
come on, look, here's what I equated to. Because this
made me think of this. I'm swear to god, this
made me think of this. Now, when I was younger,
like when I was in my twenties and early thirties,
right like, Sega Genesis was the big game, right that
morphed into that morphed into Super Nintendo, and then you know,
you know, then then you had everybody had game Boys.
Right then you went on from there into into Xbox
and where you are now. But Sega was always the
(24:32):
big game. And I love playing PGA Tourings and European
PGA Tour. European PGA Tour is probably my favorite. And
I get to the point where I'm just rolling in
a tournament, right because I'm winning and I'm beating the
crap out of everybody. Right, I'm playing great because that's
how the video game goes, right. But the leaderboard, like
I'm like nineteen under par, right, there's some crazy because
(24:52):
I'm Tiger bleeping woods man. I'm like nineteen under par
with like four holes to go on Sunday, and I'm
gonna win. And every everybody else, of course, no one's
that because that's superhuman, right, everybody else is five under par,
six under par, seven under park. But no, no, no,
there's one other golfer who has one stroke behind me, right,
like they need that in the game, like all stalk
(25:12):
in you Why am I? How am I?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
How?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How is everybody else all the way down at five
and six under par? Yet here's Sam Torrence or Ernie
els Is, you know one stroke behind me? Like come on, man,
he's eighteen. I'm nineteen, he's eighteen under call what's the
video game doing to me? That's kind of what I
think of what I think of this. Oh, here's did
so far Kaylen Clark is so far in remember, Oh,
(25:35):
but here's Asian Wilson. Just let you know, a thousand
bus just a thousand votes, right, there's a thousand votes in.
I see that, and I go, boy, it's it's it's
too it's just too convenient, man.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
How you're saying it's in the programming, like going down
the road of progressive slots and all this other stuff.
It's in the program It's gonna pay off.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's two yeah. No, Look, I don't know. I don't
have any kind of you know, coding experience or anything else.
Now I'm just saying it just this sounds like this.
It seems really weird, right, Like it hits you just
a okay, right, a thousand ahead of Let's see if
this goes the next eight days, if they continue to
roll and she's a thousand ahead most of the time, right, Like,
(26:21):
is that what's gonna happen? Is that?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
All I can say is this, though, buddy, is now
you've opened the door, and there's no doubt someone listening
right now. That's her only part of that. And thought
you were talking about, you know, electoral conspiracies. I mean,
you kept saying counting the votes and there's only thirteen
hundred votes.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Someone tuned in at the wrong time, my man, third rail,
third rail.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So boy, you know, because here's the thing, Like, here's
the thing, right, you're filling out of You're filling out
a ballot for the All Star game, right.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Just for the All Star game, right for the WUS.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You're filling out of ballot WNBA All Star Game. And
you no, I don't know how it goes, but I
assume you know you vote for the people you want
to vote for. Now, if Asia Wilson is getting all
the votes, you gotta think the vast majority of her
votes she's gonna get is gonna be from Vegas right
where she plays, right, that's gonna happen. So Agie Wilson
very popular player, Kelsey Plum, very popular player, great player,
(27:18):
plays for the Aces, and Asia Wilson has one hundred
thousand more votes than Kelsey Plum. That's not closer. That's
not where like Ajia Wilson has two hundred and seventeen,
but Kelsey Plum's like around two hundred thousand, Like really,
like that's like that that seems to me, like that
would be closer, Like that would be a little like
Katelyn Clark and Aliah Boston. Like Kateln Clark, I was
(27:39):
with Katelyn Clark. Aliah Boston's at one hundred and seventy
one thousand votes, right, and she's probably not one of
the top ten players in the game this year. She's good,
but is she one of the top ten players? And
she's still at least within shouting distance of Caitlyn Clark,
whereas Asia Wilson is sitting there to seventeen and then
Kelsey Plum has half her votes. Really, like again, I go, rah,
people aren't voting for both of them? You know he's
(28:01):
his fans aren't voting for both them? Okay, all right,
then let me see, Okay, get ready to vote. I
just pulled up my online I look at vote dot
w NBA dot com. Look, Brianna Stewart and Sabria Ironescu, right,
both teammates on the Liberty. Brianna Stewart more popular player.
Not that's the iron Escue is not. But Brianna Stewart
more popular player, most decorated player coming out of college.
(28:21):
I think ever, right, I think in four years, she
won seven national championships. Friend and Show hundred and fifty
one thousand votes and I squ has one hundred and eighteen. Like,
that's okay, I get that. That's a little bit. You
know that that's close, but it's close enough to be
all right. I kind of see where that is a
little bit, But the other ones are just not even close. Well,
you want an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
If you go in and now we're picking apart how
they do the ballot together.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You go in and you choose.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It has the uh, has the court, and you've got spots,
and it's like all right, front court guards and then
your your your reserves, and if you select one to
go pick, it has a player search, and then it's
got tabs, points, assists, rebounds.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I don't know what FNP means.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
And then you know if you want to just go
alphabetically so A to z UH. So you've got these
different sorting mechanisms by which you can do this. Oh,
fantasy points, that's what it is, fantasy points.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So you do that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
So immediately it defaults to Asia Wilson as the first
person because on points she would be first. And if
you go to assists, it's a Lyssa Thomas. If you
go to rebounds once again Asia Wilson. If you go
to the Fantasy Points, it's Asia Wilson. You go to alphabetical,
it becomes Rebecca Allen, a forwarding guard from Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, it's just i'd look again. I'm not saying I
know anything. I mean, it's just this just seems a
little convince doesn't it seem a little convenient? Really, the Hey,
I'm gonna do it to vote for Asia Wilson, but
I'm not gonna do it to vote for Kelsey Plumb.
I'm not gonna do that. Really, really I.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Hate but like they always say, Jason, just because you
know you may be a bit paranoid doesn't mean that
there's not somebody coming after get.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But doesn't this solve the It doesn't this solve the
issues that would come out like, like, wouldn't this only
because wouldn't it make sense? Right, wouldn't it make sense
the WNB to say, Okay, we've just had a really
great first month and a half, and we've had a
really awful first month and a half because with the
increase in popularity for our league, it's been fantastic. We
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have charter flights, we have bigger arenas, we have everything
you could want, but we also have a really weird
and ridiculous discourse about race and jealousy and all this stuff.
And maybe some of some of what goes on is true,
some of it isn't. But here's the All Star voting
where if there's any players who are upset, the best
player overall has the most votes and the most popular
(30:57):
player who maybe people need to come round at, but
all the fans love just a little bit behind her.
Like that really doesn't doesn't that seem like, hey, if
you were if you were trying to figure out and say,
without knowing, hey, how do we make the voting come
out and make it look great? Right with all the
voting more from last year, all of the Hey, here's
the best player with just a little bit more than
(31:18):
Caitlin Clark and yet the best player conspiracy theory, I'm
telling you, But think about it, the best player whose
team has sold out all their games, and second the rookie,
the the up and coming player who sells out all
the arenas. Boom exit out about a Fresca exit swelling down.
(31:40):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the
Tirack dot Com studios. Right now, a guy who is
frantically filling out his w NBA All Star ballot. It's
Steve Desager with what's trend to nice?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Eve good one.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
As for the.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
We got stats on your team in a moment, but
since you were talking WNBA. There were two games tonight.
Indiana now seven and ten, won its game. It's sold
out Atlanta ninety one seventy nine, rookie Caitlin Clark sixteen points,
seven assists, seven turnovers. Vegas at home beat Connecticut eighty
five seventy four. Connecticut had been thirteen and one. Asia
Wilson twenty six points, sixteen rebounds, And there will be
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a game seven of the Stanley Cup Final at Florida Monday.
Edmonton won again tonight, beating the Panthers five to one.
Outshot him in the first period eleven to two. Went
on to victory, including a couple of empty netters in
the final second, so this series was three games to none.
Florida Panthers have never led in a game since Florida
has never won the Cup. Oklahoma Sooners coach Brent Venables
(32:43):
agreed to a new six year contract The LA Olympic
organizers say the twenty twenty eight Games will have the
swimming competition in the Rams Football Stadium. This week, the
Olympic swim trials are being held in the Indianapolis Colts
Stadium in a temporary pool built over the concrete floor. Also,
the new LA Clippers Arena nearby in Inglewood in LA
due to host basketball in twenty twenty eight, with the
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Olympic Gymnastics at the Lakers Arena downtown. Today's new proposal
also will put Olympic softball events in Oklahoma City in
twenty twenty eight, along with canoe slalom programming. Note tomorrow
on Fox TV. Euro Soccer tournament continues noon Eastern Time.
Portugal against Turkey, then Belgium versus Romania. Today Ukraine beats
Slovakia two to one with two second half goals. Austria
(33:29):
over Poland three to one. Poland is eliminated and Robert
Lewandowski did not play again. France tied Netherlands zero zero.
Chillian and Bape, with his broken nose, did not play.
France outshot him fifteen to eight but ended up in
a scoreless tie and on FS one Tonight in Copa
America zero zero tie Chile versus Peru thirty seven fouls
in that game in the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Attendance was
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forty three thousand. The Americans opener in that tournament is
Sunday on Fox TV against Bolivia. Mexico plays on FS
one Saturday Night versus Jamaica not a Major League Baseball
The Dodgers had beaten the Angels ten straight times until tonight.
Angels in ten innings won at Dodgers Stadium three to two.
Angels starting pitcher Patrick Sandoval, who's two to eight this year,
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left early with four armed tightness. Third baseman Max Munsey
of the Dodgers was transferred to the sixty day injured list.
Pitcher Clayton Kershaw of LA will make his second rehab
start Tuesday at Triple A Show. Hey Otani in tonight's game,
it is fifth homer in six games. He has twenty
two home runs leads to the National League Statsink says
Otani is in the last twenty five years the only
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player to have all of this in the same game,
multiple hits, multiple walks, multiple RBIs, while the rest of
his team didn't draw a single walk or drive in
a single run. That was the Dodger game. Tonight, they
lose at home in ten San Diego nine to five
winners against Milwaukee. Jake cronin Worth went five for five
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with four runs scored at Oaklan and a two run
homer bottom of the eighth gave the A's a six
to five win against Minnesota. Attendance was nine thousand. Royce
Lewis of the Twins hit his tenth homer in his
sixteen games. Played Houston fourteen to eleven over Baltimore Miami
in ten innings. At Seattle three to two. Cleveland won
again seven runs in the second. They beat Toronto seven
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to one. The Cleveland Guardians offense saw seventy pitches in
that second inning, the most by a team in one
inning in a decade. The Mets won today at the
Cubs eleven to one.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
JD.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Martinez a three run homer in the first. All the
scoring in this one came in the first three and
a half innings. The loss to Show to imonaguh had
been seven to one. The Mets were tied for the
worst record in the majors for the month of May.
They currently have MLB's best record in the month of June.
To do that back to back full months has not
happened since the nineteen ninety four Giants, who had a
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great month of July and then went on strike with
the rest of the Union. As for the Whites, yeah,
they lost two to one at Detroit.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, but we have Grimace. Now, come on a right,
you have Grimace.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Everything's turned around since then. The White Sox game ended
on a double play at Detroit line to center runner
at first forgot how many outs there were doubled up.
That's that And this from Stats Inc. Based in Chicago.
The White Sox so far this year have sixty five
percent of their team victories coming games started either by
Eric Fetty like tonight or Garrett Crochet. The last team
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to finish a full season with that great a percentage
of their wins coming in starts by just two pitchers,
the nineteen twenty one White Sox Back to You, thanks
a bunch.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, I had all My life's a circle. I had
Eddie Seacott that year in Fantasy and he was banned
from the game. That really screwed me. Man screwed me.
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Speaker 2 (37:00):
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Speaker 1 (37:10):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Carmon live from the tiraq dot com studios. Well,
the highlight you have to hear, and because he's my
best friend, he's gonna be okay with hearing it one
more time. Sure, let's go. How bad are the Chicago
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White Sox. Well, this is how they lost tonight. Worst
team in baseball by a mile. I seem to be
finding new ways to show you. Yeah, we really shouldn't
even be on a ball field. They're trailing in the
ninth inning to the Tigers two to one. Batting in
the bottom of the ninth, leadoff batter strikes out, second
batter hit by pitch. Okay, so you got one out.
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One on bottom of the ninth Andrew benin Tende, who
looks to be setting a record for negative war. He's
up to pinch hit. I think he's like negative two
and a half war, something crazy like that.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Bro. It remind me to give you a nice swinging
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Final and the UH and Monday Night Raw when I
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Speaker 1 (38:14):
So there's one out runner at first, and this is
how the game ended for the White Sox.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Set up there again, Ben and Tendi gives it a
ride for center field.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Matt Fierling makes the catch. Show they thought it was well,
they thought there were two out.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
That's gonna be a double play.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Oh my goodness ran away there in the game.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
The Tigers win, and the White Sox have yet another
play that typifies their season.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Two to one. Tigers, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
I mean I can't.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
I was like, wait a minute, I thought there's a
there's one out.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
How in the world does this happen?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Oh, White Socks Radio Network, Well listen, you know, look,
Paul DeJong is a rookie. He hasn't played a lot
of games. You know, you may not own I'm sorry,
he's thirty. He's been in the league for it.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
I hate you exactly eight years in the damn League
eight years.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
At least if Colas.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Had done it. Oh wait, he made the first out.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But at least if he had done it. You say,
he's a rookie.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
He's trying to make an impact and get regular playing time.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Wait, how many outs? Oh there was only one out?
Oh okay, okay. At what point you think DeJong was like? Oh? Like,
I always think about that scene in Major League when
Tom Berenger bunts and no one said the Yankee third
baseman goes blank and he goes running to the wall
to get it, like, oh blank. Like, at what moment
do you think he had the oh blank moment? Oh?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
No, Watch watch the way he scurries back like a rat.
See I tie it all together? Rats people, Rats Fox
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Speaker 1 (39:54):
We'll find out what White Sox manager Moni Williams had
to say following it. Oh, sorry about that. Meanwhile, I've
been fired. Good for him. Look, I like to think
that I know what to say in every circumstance, but
being on the cosp of being the first team to
blow a three to zero lead, and lose in a
final of any sport since nineteen forty two. If I'm
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Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, I have no idea what
to say to my team after they lost to Edmonton
again tonight. I like to think I know what I
would do as a coach, what I would but I
have no how do you get them back on track
after what's gone on in the last few games. I
have no idea.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
I'd go around the locker room saying, what have you
guys done wrong in your lives in the last week?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
What the hell.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Get right with whoever?
Speaker 4 (40:39):
This is your Farmug's got to come back on our side.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Why did the hockey gods abandon us? Hey, it's not
my fault. This is not my fault.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
This is all your fault. I'm talking Rivers, it's not
my fault. Bernie Frattle coming up next, Fox
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