June 25, 2024 • 36 mins
Jason and Mike react to the Florida Panthers winning Game 7 of The Stanley Cup Final. The guy's debate if JJ Redick will live up to all the hype coaching the Lakers. And Jason tells you why he’s done hearing "It's just sweat & rosin with Edwin Diaz!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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to the Florida Panthers mair head coach, former Whalers and
Carolina Hurricanes head coach Paul Maurice winning the Stanley Cup games.
They beat the Oilers two to one, and look, I
told you last week. I don't know what Paul Maurice
could have said to his team after blowing a three
games non lead. All momentum is gone. You're going home, yes,
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but the oilers are playing extremely well. They're rolling up goals.
I don't know what you could possibly say. I have
no idea, but whatever it was, it worked.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I can't tell you this highly entertaining in the post game,
you know, in the moments that we get, you know,
as the network pays its bills, getting a cup of coffee,
and he was going to do his postgame interview on
the ice and they go and they hand him the
Stanley Cup and he starts cursing, right, oh, yeah blank
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and yeah blanke and yeah whatever. But he leans over
and he's got the cup waist high, and he starts
talking to the cup right and that. He eventually lifts
over his head and does his scream, hands the cup
and moves on, and he goes back to his postgame interview,
Like what did you say?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Said some unkind things?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Told her how difficult she was, and I've been chasing
her for thirty years and how difficult it was to
catch her.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But I said some unkind things to her. It was
like it's a romantic comedy and aw, you know, like
like what was that movie with John Cusack with She
wrote her phone number in the book was that, Sarah, Yeah, yeah,
he kept the love and the time it was Kate
Kate beckon sale, right, Kate Bush, We're running up that hill. Yeah,
it's like but it was thirty years waiting of you
for so long. But try to vibe you like it's
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like it's a rom con.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But like legitimate.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He goes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
He turns to the interview and says, Oh, said some
unkind things about how difficult it was to catch her.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I would I would. I would say this, Paul Maurice,
if you wanted to win the Stanley Cup, you shouldn't
have wasted your time coaching the Whalers in the beginning.
Should be coaching a different.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well maybe, but you know what, maybe maybe it's more
satisfying because now chase has finally ended after lo these
many years. I mean we heard the the play by
player Bill Lindsay kind of going his mind.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So, you know, for Paul Morias, the the long journey
is done.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Almost gave it away. Yeah, she almost ran away. Yeah,
I almost found another guy to run off with. No, no,
but you got her.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
He almost won the Cup in the final with the
Hurricanes in two thousand and two, and had they been
able to defend the last thirty seconds and they could
have gone up to one against the Wings, but no,
they couldn't. And Brett Hull scores a goal and deflex
it over Archer's erbey, who's only four feet tall.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's still kind of funny when you get to say, hey,
and Brett Hall and the Red Wings, because that just
doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, but that was that was it. He deflects one
home and we go to overtime and losing. Larryanov scores
an overtime. No was Scott Hall. But look, this game
it comes down to one goal and Ryan Hart's goal
in the second period is the game winner. It's one
one and he skates in after the the Oilers had
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a pretty decent chance down the other end. And yes,
the Oilers defenseman kind of back off the puck a
little bit, which you shouldn't do. You can't back off
the guy skating in with the puck, right, you should.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The guy that's is as much of a goalscorer and
threat as he is to you can't give him room.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You have to. You have to step out and and
the person without the puck, the most dangerous person is
always person with But in the fact that both defencemen
they stayed with the other two players coming. It's like, no,
you gotta, you gotta, you gotta take him. So they
did let him get a little too close. But that's
a shot that Stuart Skinner saw Skinner that Skinner's gotta stop.
(04:36):
Like that was such a soft goal. This wasn't something
where he got in and ripped it and it went
top shelf or you know, it was five hole. He
didn't see it. This was this was kind of an
average wrist shot that he looks like he tries to
close his arms to so it doesn't go under his
left arm, and it winds up just going over his
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going to the left of his shoulder, like like we're
right in the middle of his arm, whereas tricep is
see if my triceps, I would have stopped it. And
it was just a really awkward attempt at the save.
And I know that's what that's where you look back
and go, I'm going to think about that shot for
the rest of my life because not that you would
have won the cup, because it would have been one
one still won one, but that's a shot that you
should have started.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You keep looking at it trying to get that point
of view right, This is where you want the helmet
cam for the goalie.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's like, what was the shot? You know? Was it
obscured by the by the defender skating bags?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Like he had a great look at trying to figure
out like just misjudge height?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What like? How did you miss that? He had a
great look look to tell me, because I played hockey
my whole life. That's a shot, that's a save you
have to make. You have to make that safe. If
it's a great goal scorers goal, I understand, right, if
he beats you too high, beats you, I ended. But
this was the one where you got a little he
got a little weird with what he wanted to do.
And it looked like it was he got caught in between,
like do I want to is the puck coming here?
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Do I need to make myself? Do I need to
make sure the rebound? I can? I can gather the
rebound when it And instead it was just just stop it,
just stop it, Let it come down in front of you.
And he and he actually made himself smaller by moving
his arms in uh into his chest and and missed it, Like, well, I.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Just remember the general rule if you if you meet
a Bobcat in a while, what do you do.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You gotta look big? Yeah, gotta look big.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Can't can't shrink in the net. You gotta you gotta
come up big.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I put a Bobcat in your car so you
can face your feet.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
But I mean, like he almost had a moment where
he tried to, you know, overcorrect for it. Moments later
where he's skating behind the net going after a bucket.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
He left the net wide open, pops out, man, like
we got we got a three to one game, and
now they're they're going the other one. Skin Skinner's got
a great mustache. But Skinner's one of those goalies where
it's like, boy, he can make some great plays. Other
times he makes you go Skinner, you're in the Simpson.
He does that, he does that. That's a good job.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I mean on the Panthers defensive side, you know the
extra block shots, they they laying their their bodies out
and doing everything they had.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
To do in support.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So you know, a lot a lot of the the unheralded,
the things that aren't going to show up in box scores.
Over the time, and certainly we were tracking it as
the broadcast was, you know, how many ice minutes for McDavid?
Like that became the big metric in this this final
game right coming off of his scoreless and shotless performance,
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where Edmonton's able to force a game seven like that
was a big talking point all the way through, and
then today it became a all right, how many shots
and how much was he on the ice? And every
opportunity it was to get a screenshot of him coming
back onto the ice for another shift, it was all right, McDavid,
does he have that glorious touch? Can he do it?
(07:45):
Can he even this thing and try to force some
extra hockey?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Et cetera.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Like it became great theater because you've got a guy
acknowledged as the best player in the game, wins the
con smythe forty two points, what fourth most all time
and incredible, indible, But can he you know, find some
heroics here in a game seven after Edmonton was left
(08:11):
for dead, repeatedly forcing this thing all the way back
to Florida for a Game seven and in the final
moments looking for that last bit of magic and it
never arrived.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jason, just a simple man boom uh. But this goes
to show you to make this a wider points kind
of kind of kind of kind of fun now that
we have Stanley Cup final going on euro Copa America
happening at the same time, and is that you can
see that and it's weird because every sport has it,
(08:45):
but nobody really understands it as much as as you do.
When I make this point, is there more pressure on
a quarterback than on any other player on a football team? Yeah, exactly.
Quarterback makes all the money, but quarterback still has a lot.
With every snap, they're in control of the play and
they're more in control of what they can do because
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of the way they get the ball in their hands
every single play. Right for Major League baseball, there's more
pressure on the pitcher because the pitcher has the ball throws.
But the fact that baseball is predicated on failure because
the best players fail four or five for four to
six times, I mean fail six to eight to ten
times every ten times. Up. If you gotta get hot,
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he said, he's five hits in his last time. At
best you are hitting you are hitting three hundred. Now
to have a big season in Major League baseball, you're
not hitting three forty three sixty anymore, so you're failing
seven times out of ten. So the pressure on the
pitcher a little bit less. But in hockey and in soccer,
the pressure on the scorers is twenty times what it
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is on every other player, because every other player can
still have a good game and win or lose because
hey they played well, they will to break up plays
nobody scored on you. Hey, everything was fine, But if
the big scorer doesn't score, guess who's fault? It is, right,
because that's an easy You quantify scorers in soccer and
hockey one way. What did you do on the scoreboard?
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And that's that's why the glamour boys that are the one.
Hey they get all the glory, but the pressure on
them to come through it's absolutely immense. So now with
with Connor McDavid, Yes he's a consummate MVP at a
incredible playoffs, but what are teams gonna look at? Boy,
he didn't have anything in that last game. He needs
to score. He's the best player in the NHL. Think
about score for US men's national team.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No, no, no, But every guy that got you know, alta
door and all the others that got elevated of like,
all right, this guy is gonna be the savior.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yes, Stempsey, Alta Door, No, you know yeah, Balligan. No,
it's it's so much pressure just because you can you
can say, hey, you scored and that's a good game.
But we expect you to score because that's what you do.
If you don't score, it's your fault because you needed
to score. Why don't you say if you if you
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would scored, we would have won. You score all the time.
How do you not score?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
So are you're gonna excoriate McDavid when you do your
next Edmonton radio hit.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
He's gotta score in game seven? He stakes he's overrated,
he's terrible. That's a hot take. No, but this is
just how it goes. This is just how sports goes.
When you don't score as a soccer player or or
it's your fault, it's you're the one we didn't win
because you didn't completely magnify. If mc david scores two
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goals in the final game and they lose three to two,
guess what not his fault. No, I scored two goals
because you can quantify that. It's easy to quantify in soccer.
If the United States loses, politics scores a goal in
the United States loses two to one, it's not politics
fault scored a goal. I mean, there's not that many goals,
not that much offense in either sport. So when you
dent the scoreboard, that's what you It's always gonna be
bur Halters and to not do yes, well, no matter
(11:49):
what it's burholtles for. But that But that's the thing
is that the pressure for that is immense. And I
mean for winning the state, winning the cons my trophy,
that's great. But it's gonna look at Game seven and
the floor high the the Oilers, high flying duo near
them were able to dent the scard. They weren't able
to win. It was a really big deal. It was
a really big thing for how did not Babrovsky is
a pretty good keeper? Is he great? Is he unbelievable? No,
(12:12):
he's kind of up and down a little bit. He
had some time in the playoffs where he looked like
he was unbeatable, but then he comes back to earth
a little bit. Uh that this is on them and
and not only that, but it's on you as a
player when you when you walk away from that, and
you think for a long time, God, why did Why
couldn't I get a goal? Why didn't I know I
can score? I can always score? How do I not
get a goal? There? And that eats you up as
(12:33):
someone who scores goals when I played, because I told
you how good I wasn't hockey, uh, someone who scored goal? Yeah?
Not anymore that I'm done. I'm retired, although you know,
I think now I was thinking about this the other
day instead of playing Glory days. When I talk about,
we should play that song from Uh, I forget what
the name of the song is.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Game?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, no one, the one no no, no, no, no
no on the one from End Game they played Captain
America is dancing with us? Have seen that movie? Come on,
any of us have seen Endgame?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's the song we should play. When
I talk about what I play, you know what I
played and played and play that because it's from the
forties or whatever it is. We should do that. Well,
the Bieber song you hate No No, And I'm glad
you guys have not found that. I'm gonna text him No,
she doesn't know, she doesn't know. I'm gonna tell her,
don't hang on, don't text Frostburg. Here we go h
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(13:31):
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Florida Panthers. It's been a long long time and the Rats.
That's what it is. It's been a long long time. Yes,
that's the song. But coming up next, the Lakers have
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Jason and Mike Fox ty shirt. You really couldn't find
that song, real couldn't find it in the last I've
never seen the movie. You've never seen Endgame. No, really,
none of them. Thantos wins really yeah good, it's him
at the end. Yeah, Thantos wins.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
What didn't you say, like, we're basically like parasites.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right, uh? Yeah, No, that was the end of Parasite. Oh,
Fano shows up at the end of Parasite. Yes, he's
living in the house next door to the people who
live next door to the rich people.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
This superhero versus huge.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, this is what we play when I want to
tell a story about earlier in my life. I'm down
when I was a great athlete. This is what you
played pretty good. I like it. I'll tell me tell
you what the hockey player I was. This music is
way less depressor.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what We're gonna do. This music all across
the board. Alex, You're not charged with finding the hints
from those years.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Jason also lied to me. How did I never lied?
He said, Thanos one, Yeah he did? You lied, No,
we did. I watched it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
He did. How you didn't watch end game in the
last five minutes? No, you didn't? You two.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I just YouTube five minutes endgame and I found I
saw what happened.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Well, first off, iron Man sucks and.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Wow, Ironman saved the world.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Okay, okay, he lied about that, so he didn't tell
me that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'd say he didn't save the world. He saved the world.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Also, Thanos got all five of the gems, so he
didn't win.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
He did, but he won by getting five.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Iron Man sucks.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
How's an iron Man? Iron Man sacrificed himself to save
the world.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
I would have rather he didn't. Oh, okay, what are
we worth saving?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Wow? So the world is not worth saving? Done? What
is his three body problem? Come? Come, come take us over.
We can't save ourselves. It's a great ending, by the way. Yeah,
who do you have ranked higher? Okay, iron Man or Grimace?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh, Grimace, you can't come on Man. Iron Man's great.
I love, but Grimace has got us back in the
wild card race, and he's gonna close for us for
the next ten days.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So there's that is true. Yeah, he does take out
a much much more expanded role.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You know what I like the story that I saw
this weekend is that when Grimaces throws out the first pitch,
you know that. I like that he has risen the
Grimmace with the two with the twelve Apostles, he has risen.
The reason he's got a glove, a left handed glove
on his left hand when he throws out the first
pitch it looks weird is because they didn't have a
right handed glove that would fit him because mister Met,
(16:53):
the guy played mister Matt, is a lefty, so it's
like they didn't have so you had to take a
had to take the glove and put it on.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I honestly thought, because you've bit off his right hand.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Gribbitts, gribbits. It was delicious.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We actually just watched a whole Klibbeth, the guy that
does the voice of Grimace, and it's.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Not a good voice. It sounds like the voice of
he sounds like like another cartoon character.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well no, it's very much Patrick Starr, but just not
quite as uh my voice. I mean Bill, Bill does
a good job.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Ribbeth, Gribbeth, I love the Mets, gribbeths Gribbeth, Gribbeth, Gribbits Purple.
I love the met.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That almost sounds like the Cadmo that Mulaney had in
that episode of the Bear.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Missing a chromosome, Gribbits, Gribbets, Gribbets, I sound like you're
missing a chromosome.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Ribbet, I could missing a lot, not just there's a
lot going on. It's not just chromosomes. Other things you're missing.
Good taste in Marvel movies too. What do you mean
the missing good it's a terrible movie. Oh, End Game
is not a great movie. I just saw minutes. No, no, no.
Infinity War is probably the best movie. Are Infinity War
should have won Best Film that year? Should have won
Best Movie? I don't Yes, Oh you're kidding one, Yes,
(18:02):
what was that you probably? I don't know, the Lobster
or or some depressing movie. You know what I watched
about eight I'm gone, here's a depressing movie where something
happens or somebody has relations with a squid or whatever
that movie was that won one of those things. I'm
sure that one. Oh, this is what the Academy loads
movies like this. No that year. So twenty eight Infinity War,
(18:25):
Infinity was Guy in it? Infinity War? Yeah yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Okay, am I like it?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Then?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah? He In fact, he's at the uh the very
end the really you never saw the You never said
you haven't seen Infinity War? Are you kidding? Man?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I told you Toby Maguire's the best spider.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're gonna cry at the end of Infinity War. Yeah,
there's two. There's two moments you're gonna cry.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Does Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lancer die at the
end of it?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yes, twice.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Then I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, you'll be sad. So yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The Shape of Water yeah yeah, yeah, come on, man,
really yeah, come on. You know how much of the
Shape of Water I watched? You did you like the
Shape or the Water? I got about eight minutes in
the Shape Guy in the Water. I went and got
a glass of water and moved on with my life.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It sounds like the plot is of a kid's book. Okay,
someone who's a who's a janitor at a at a
some sort of of of uh what what you would
call it? What it wasn't a it wasn't a water park.
It wasn't a got a metal block. What's the what's
the way they keep when they keep all the sea animals.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In aquarium or rehab facility?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Is an aquarium and one of them? That's how to
say it, Like I was done, like almost immediately. It sucks.
Here's curious George and the happy squid. Like you know,
at some point George lets the squid out. The squid's
able to have fan's look at the squid.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden,
high security government laboratory in nineteen sixty two Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
She discovers the labs. Yeah well yeah, classified secret. A
mysterious scaled creature from South America. If I want to
watch the creature in the blood lagoon, I'm gonna watch
Bengholi on my TV on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Man Currie is georging the aquarium. That's so that's where
you go, Joe, Oh, you are the guy that likes
shamou being mistreated home. No, whoa, my wife won't go
to uh sea World because of that.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I don't know you won't go. You look like you
have annual passes.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
No, not SeaWorld.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You know what I'm saying, Mike, Well, it comes in
here with those drinks.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Well, you know what they do have a sesame streets section.
Now he's the man attraction. Hey, we we're supposed to
open this aquium today. Where's all the sea creasures? George?
Oh that's your best impersonation. Actually, Currie Shorge is pretty
(20:48):
good once.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Actually he's gonna dial up a duet with Kayu and
it's all going to hell.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Everything you've done in six years is ask compared to that. Now,
that was amazing. Welcome to City Field, though, Well look
at this. It's a it's a it's a monkey and
a and a squid. How many tickets? Yeah, there you go.
Enjoy have a good time watching the game.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You gave Tysher the best time he's ever had here.
Aren't you glad you came in on the Monday night?
That's a championship Monday too.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You're here, are you curious?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
George broke the contract Mike for this, for.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
This, for that impression. You broke your contract. Hey, listen,
we have a tough time. Mister met called in sick.
Could you come and be our uh our mascot. Tonight
You're gonna wear a purple outfit and be Grimace.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Why are you so good at that?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Watch a lot of curious Georgians, a lot of curious Yeah,
no way, way too much time spent you and I
I've done that myself. Yeah. The only one, the only
one we didn't watch, the only we didn't watch. We
watched it once and Zoe then she watched it later
and was like, Okay, you understand, it's not that a
big deal. Was Curious George and the scary noise? That
was a good one. Was in the basement in a trunk.
There's a malfunctioning game that goes like and it's in
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this trunk and George is scared of it. And she
watched it once and never wanted to watch it. No,
don't want Curious George and the scariness like, no, it's okay.
But then she got okay with it after. But for
a long time was Benlo no, no, no, no. Benny
likes when he sees dogs on screen and television shows
and he tries to talk to them. So he loves
the Mets. Yeah, he loves the Mets. I watch it.
It was gonna start looking around like what's going on?
(22:26):
What's going Uh? So, JJ Reddick officially was introduced as
the head coach of the Lakers today.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Top that red anywhere near as classy as Curious George here.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Instead of JJ Reddick. Curious George is the head coach
of the Lakers. Uh, George Jason Smith in the back?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
George, will you be running an offense that is similar
to what was run last year? Will you defensively? Will
you be running something that is different from what Darvin
Ham did? All right? Thanks, George. I appreciate that you
have made Tye shirt to night. George. You didn't buy
him any sushi, but you made his night. George. You'll
(23:05):
be doing a podcast like you had been the whole time.
George is a man of the yellow hat here to
get you. No, it's not Jay Moore. It's a man
in the yellow hat is here to take you home.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It has become a yellow hat and giveaway the golden hat.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You know. Maybe once a week we do a segment
where I do the entire segment as Curious George, what
do you think about Met's ninth thinning?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And then we'll open it up for callers to interpret
or respond to what you had to say. Guys, I'm curious, George.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hey, curious George, first time, long time listen. Let me
ask you. I'll just kick my feet up and listen.
Better man in the yellow hat, Will Ferrell or the
animated version. Yeah, well Ferrell was pretty good, George. So
JJ Redick is introduced as head coach of the Lakers today,
and you know me, I'm not a fan that I
(24:08):
think JJ Reddick can do a lot to fix the
state of the Lakers. I wanted to see more stuff
personnel wise, because right now the Lakers team is just
not good enough and they're hamstrung a bit with the
contracts they have out. But now they're starting to get
some first round picks back. They don't have lost all
of them for the next fifteen years. But the biggest
thing they need, it's about the roster. JJ Reddick is
(24:30):
only going to be able to do so much. But
where iSIG You think I'm gonna zag here on? This
is that you know the two things that I would
that I am going to say this is where JJ
Reddick can make his mark, and you can say JJ
Redick is is making his candidacy and his head coach
of the Lakers worth it. And the first one is
this even look, we know he's got no head coaching experience, right,
(24:53):
but this also tells you how much of an input
does the head coach really have when you can hire
a guy that's got no experience. But JJ Redick's got
a lot of relationships throughout the NBA, right, He played
up until a couple of years ago. He's been on TV,
he's got podcasts, he's got the cashe since Reddick has
been I don't want to say announced, but since his
name has been thrown around that he could be the
(25:13):
head coach of the Lakers than he was the head
coach of the Lakers. And he's introduced today. You have
seen a lot of players' names been linked with the Lakers,
either in trade or free agency. And maybe JJ Reddick
is a bit of a drawing card for that, because
if JJ Redick can get them Zach Levine, who's supposedly
the Lakers have been trying to get to for a
long time, Colin Sexton's name suddenly jumped out today as
(25:34):
a name. Hey, the Lakers could make a move for him.
Maybe he's got a relationship with JJ Redick we don't
know about. But the thing about Reddick is that he's
got this cachet with the players that every team at
the end of every year, Hey, we're looking to move
on from player X or player wire. Even though this
guy's a star, it's not working. We need more money
freed up whatever reason you see. Guys are available. So
(25:55):
if JJ Reddick is able to get one or two
of those guys to be okay with coming to the Lakers,
wave a no trade clut, whatever it's going to be,
then he's worth it. Because we saw from the Celtics, Hey,
we're just gonna get as much talent as we can
put it out on the floor, and that's how we're
gonna win. So if JJ Reddick does that, great. The
other thing is, and this is not a JJ Reddick thing,
is more as it's just a head coaching thing, is
(26:17):
that maybe Darvin Ham was just so bad at the
end with the Lakers tuning him out. We know Anthony
Davis tuned him out, We know Lebron didn't want him back.
We know Austin Reeves wasn't a big fan of his right,
We know all of this. The fact that it's anybody,
but not Darvin Ham. For that first year, for this
offseason into next year. It's fresh ideas. It's a fresh start.
(26:41):
The Lakers should be fresher, they should be receptive to
more things. They should be able to be the best
versions of themselves.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Austin Reeves has already said, can't wait to work with
JJ Reddick because of what my position his position to
the same everything else, But just the fact that it's
not Darvin Ham is a big thing. We see it
in baseball all the time. When a manager gets fired.
It really isn't matter the other manager that comes in
because they're still gonna do their thing strategy wise with
the bullpen. They'll put the lineup out, but it's really
on the players, and so the players know they're unnoticed.
(27:08):
When when a coach gets fired, they also know, hey
didn't like the atmosphere the previous manager had. Hey enjoy
I enjoy this Now well we don't really know what
it is, but it's not what it was. And I
was unhappy then, and now we have a clean slight.
So let's get a new boss at work. All the time,
I don't know if this boss is going to be
any good. But the fact that it wasn't the last
boss who we didn't like, that's a big positive. So
(27:29):
if jj Reddick can do those two things, one bring
players in, be kind of like the pied Piper and
get people to come to LA and not be Darvin Ham. Hey,
that can work for the Lakers. So even though I'm
skeptical of it, I've told you I am those two things.
I can see those things happening and that being good
for LA. I mean, there's a lot that has to
happen here. And as a guy wearing a backwards baseball cap,
(27:52):
I don't know how smart I am because that seems
to be a really big point of contention with a
lot of people in our media site. Uh oh, I
mean we've got multiple voices that to say, if you
don't let me see your hair, I'm not gonna take
you seriously. So that's why he's got to hang up
the podcast once and for all, I guess. But anyway,
the point being, you got to assemble your staff, right
(28:14):
because they fired everybody. They cleaned it all out.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
So you know, there's been a lot of rumors of
these top names, how.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Many of these guys like you want those guys sitting
over your shoulder. No, you don't want those guys sitting
over here.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
As much as it's like, yes, you should get a
bunch of high price you know, guys with long, long
inexperience or whatever, like, Yeah, that's great to a point,
but how much are they going to think they're taking
over for what?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I have to say? No, that doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No, you got to figure out in the training room
can they keep these guys healthy. You got seventy plus
games out of both your superstars last year, and now
you've got to figure out how to keep Reddish and
Vincent and Vanderbilt. Those guys were supposed to be your
defensive stalwarts. They weren't available to you, So how do
you you replenish that? To your point, going into free agency,
(29:01):
do you have a rapport with agents? Do you have
guys that just want to make Stephen a Smith e
Crow for being so critical of this, and you team
up with JJ Reddick because he's bashed you in prior
you know, because Smith's bashed you in prior iterations of
their show.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I don't know. There's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Things that go on with it. I want to see
it work. One because I want to see you get.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
An opportunity to at least go talk about the Mets
job in a year. Yes, I wanted to happen. And
needs Gottli to suxcited Gottley to make the tournament, and
I need JJ Reddy to get the Lakers into the
top six.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I just need concept for this that he at least
can get a talk because then we can do shows
about the interview process and the kind of the inane things.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That he brought up that he wanted to bring to
the mess. I mean, all those things happening, and then
I could be the guy.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
But in the end, you know, can you get seventy
games out of both Lebron a D again?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Is ad buying in right? Are you making them the
focal point?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Austin Reeves calling you a genius, Well, now you've got
to prove it by making Austin Reeves that guy that
ever but he fell in love with that he became
a cult hero, and that he got the contract that
he did. He's got to be that guy again and
then maybe this works. But you give you forgot one
important thing.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
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(30:33):
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Speaker 2 (30:40):
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Speaker 1 (30:49):
Should always aspire kids to not have racism be part
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Live Tireck dot Com Studios where Yes, okay, the Mets
can't have nice things. No, Edwin Diaz suspended for ten
games today, which happens when they catch you with too
(31:11):
much sticky stuff on your hand, which is what happened
last night when he got thrown out of the game
against the Cubs on Sunday Night Baseball. No, the stickiest
of the icky couldn't happen in irregular game that's broadcast
New York on Channel Night. No, No, it's got happens Sunday
Night baseball. He walks out and you see the picture
of his hand. He's gotta it's lakey stands. It's like
he dipped his hand in glitter. And I'm like, and
(31:33):
it was kind of purple. I'm like, dudeude, dude, what
did Grimace do? Did you did you have your hands
on Grimace and grip sealed you or something?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Hey, come on, man, Grimace, I need you to bless
this hand with which I'm about to throw this ball.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Uh. Look, you think I'm gonna sit here and say, oh,
he didn't do that. I can't defend it. He got suspended.
It's stupid. It's stupid because you see this happening. And
now the eight players who have been suspended for sticky stuff,
three of them are Mets. Okay, so I don't know
what to tell you. Drew Smith and then Shures are
last year and now Edwin diazu bad he had three
great scoreless appearances. Look, and I'll go this far with
(32:14):
it too. Is that, first of all, I'm always done
with the It's just sweat and Rosin Like, okay, really,
that's what Rosin does, right, right right? Rosin and sweat
gives you This is not some kind of crazy ass
lab in a Spider Man movie where and you get
bit by a radioactive spider. It's sweat and rosen sweat
when when you talk about sweat, it's just sweat. And
it's just like Spider Man.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
How great would he have been because he can also
invoke the memory of the macho man Randy Savage, who
famously appeared in Spider Man.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Now, look do I do? I think that pictures have
found a way to have some kind to help them
grip the ball better, to have them have some kind
of substance a little bit of it that when you
mix it with rosin and sweat, lets you hold on
the ball. But they figured that out. But to sit
there and look at his hand where it's like, dude,
I mean, what what what do you expect you look
like if you work in the heavy bag over a
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bit and hand like like he dipped his hand in
and it's stuck it out. Look like his hand in Grimace.
Dipped my hand in a Grimace shake and I pulled
it out. This is what's on my head, like and
and here and here's a part of it is that
he's a guy that is all about confidence, when when
Edwin Diaz gets hit, he loses confidence and that continues
(33:28):
to snowball from me. He is a confidence pitcher. When
he is throwing ninety eight, ninety nine and his stuff
is moving, he's electric and he's got that belief, it's great.
But when he gets hit, if he has like a
bad outing or a shaky outing, and then two shaky
outings in a row, he's cooked for a week, like
he needs time to sit back and figure things out. Like, look,
he had a bad he had, he blew four games
in a row, and then to take him out of
(33:48):
the closes role for a few days and he brought
it back in and he was terrible again. So but
for him, it's about confidence. Now, when your game is
about confidence and you come back the last three games
where he has he's pitched really, really well, you're getting
back to being the Edwin DZ. Can I see you deciding, Hey,
I'm not gonna mess around. I'm gonna put a little
bit more stuff on my hands. I gotta make sure
(34:08):
you're a little bit more here and make Yeah, I
can absolutely see that. And are you thinking, hey, if
they checked my hand by the end of the inning,
it's gonna be all gone, okay, But instead, no, we
checked him before he came in and oops, look at
all that sticky stuff. You can't pitch anymore. You're out
of the game. Can I see that? One hundred percent?
When it's about that, When it's about confidence for a picture,
whatever it is that's keeping you confident, pictures are gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Keep doing keep doing it. Yeah, you're a bunch of
cheating thieves. That's really what it comes down to. Yeah,
I'm taking a page out of her times in the
last year and a half, three times. But you know what,
I can't fault a good strategy because how many times?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
How good were strategy? But no, you got three times?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
How many times did you do it other pictures and
you had scoreless innings leading to Mets victories and raising
that apple?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
How many times did that happen? Sure? Okay, there's probably
a lot of those, including Edwin Z. Yes, So what
do you do? Maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You're pushing the boundaries, trying to figure out the proper
concoction to go on your hand, but also the idea
of hey, the umpires, how much attention are they paying
to like at a nationally televised game on Sunday Night Baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You don't want to throw the guy. Are you expecting
a full investigation? No?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
But instead he looked like again he dipped his hand
and use whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And the umpires said, listen, we know it's not sweat
and rosin. We know this is this as much we
checked thousands of hands. We know it's more than that.
And for the end, and also I'll tell you that
I'm done with it. It's just sweat and rosin. This
is the old.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I didn't know what illegal steroids were in the any
histamine that I was taking. Hey or hey, I'm sorry.
I didn't know. We were just trying to get pregnant.
And I didn't know that there were really bad steroids
in there that were legal. I didn't know what I
was putting on that body. The guy just used that one.
I'm done. I'm done with that one, and I'm done
with It's just because that's what every pitcher says, because
I want to have the cachet is Oh, it's evil,
umpires want to throw me out. It's just sweat and
(35:54):
rows And that's what sweat and rosin does. Really, that's
what it does. It's like you're doing a whole the
chemical reaction on your hand. There just sweating. It's just
sweat and rods, and okay, it's fine. Maybe he applied
something else first. I'm curious what if the lightning could
come out of your hands like you're the emperor, I
limited the umpire throws DZ out electricity. He's lifting him up.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Sweat and rosin is what they used to fill his
uh repair to his patillar glan.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, maybe that's also a name of a pretty good bands.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, sweat and rods. Yeah, sweat and rosin. Sweat and
ros that's what they put it together with, yep, put
it and maybe maybe that's you know, you might be
right for you're a bunch of cheap that. I dig
that and you should be banned. But in the end
getting I can't say anything.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You're trying to push the boundaries so like you do
it in every sport, trying to figure out what's the referee.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Going to allow. I can't defend it. Grimace will close
for us for the next ten days. Will be fine.
You got got you got got coming up next. Must
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to the Florida Panthers mair head coach, former Whalers and
Carolina Hurricanes head coach Paul Maurice winning the Stanley Cup games.
They beat the Oilers two to one, and look, I
told you last week. I don't know what Paul Maurice
could have said to his team after blowing a three
games non lead. All momentum is gone. You're going home, yes,
(01:14):
but the oilers are playing extremely well. They're rolling up goals.
I don't know what you could possibly say. I have
no idea, but whatever it was, it worked.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I can't tell you this highly entertaining in the post game,
you know, in the moments that we get, you know,
as the network pays its bills, getting a cup of coffee,
and he was going to do his postgame interview on
the ice and they go and they hand him the
Stanley Cup and he starts cursing, right, oh, yeah blank
(01:43):
and yeah blanke and yeah whatever. But he leans over
and he's got the cup waist high, and he starts
talking to the cup right and that. He eventually lifts
over his head and does his scream, hands the cup
and moves on, and he goes back to his postgame interview,
Like what did you say?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Said some unkind things?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Told her how difficult she was, and I've been chasing
her for thirty years and how difficult it was to
catch her.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But I said some unkind things to her. It was
like it's a romantic comedy and aw, you know, like
like what was that movie with John Cusack with She
wrote her phone number in the book was that, Sarah, Yeah, yeah,
he kept the love and the time it was Kate
Kate beckon sale, right, Kate Bush, We're running up that hill. Yeah,
it's like but it was thirty years waiting of you
for so long. But try to vibe you like it's
(02:32):
like it's a rom con.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But like legitimate.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He goes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
He turns to the interview and says, Oh, said some
unkind things about how difficult it was to catch her.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I would I would. I would say this, Paul Maurice,
if you wanted to win the Stanley Cup, you shouldn't
have wasted your time coaching the Whalers in the beginning.
Should be coaching a different.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well maybe, but you know what, maybe maybe it's more
satisfying because now chase has finally ended after lo these
many years. I mean we heard the the play by
player Bill Lindsay kind of going his mind.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So, you know, for Paul Morias, the the long journey
is done.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Almost gave it away. Yeah, she almost ran away. Yeah,
I almost found another guy to run off with. No, no,
but you got her.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
He almost won the Cup in the final with the
Hurricanes in two thousand and two, and had they been
able to defend the last thirty seconds and they could
have gone up to one against the Wings, but no,
they couldn't. And Brett Hull scores a goal and deflex
it over Archer's erbey, who's only four feet tall.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's still kind of funny when you get to say, hey,
and Brett Hall and the Red Wings, because that just
doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, but that was that was it. He deflects one
home and we go to overtime and losing. Larryanov scores
an overtime. No was Scott Hall. But look, this game
it comes down to one goal and Ryan Hart's goal
in the second period is the game winner. It's one
one and he skates in after the the Oilers had
(04:00):
a pretty decent chance down the other end. And yes,
the Oilers defenseman kind of back off the puck a
little bit, which you shouldn't do. You can't back off
the guy skating in with the puck, right, you should.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The guy that's is as much of a goalscorer and
threat as he is to you can't give him room.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You have to. You have to step out and and
the person without the puck, the most dangerous person is
always person with But in the fact that both defencemen
they stayed with the other two players coming. It's like, no,
you gotta, you gotta, you gotta take him. So they
did let him get a little too close. But that's
a shot that Stuart Skinner saw Skinner that Skinner's gotta stop.
(04:36):
Like that was such a soft goal. This wasn't something
where he got in and ripped it and it went
top shelf or you know, it was five hole. He
didn't see it. This was this was kind of an
average wrist shot that he looks like he tries to
close his arms to so it doesn't go under his
left arm, and it winds up just going over his
(04:56):
going to the left of his shoulder, like like we're
right in the middle of his arm, whereas tricep is
see if my triceps, I would have stopped it. And
it was just a really awkward attempt at the save.
And I know that's what that's where you look back
and go, I'm going to think about that shot for
the rest of my life because not that you would
have won the cup, because it would have been one
one still won one, but that's a shot that you
should have started.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You keep looking at it trying to get that point
of view right, This is where you want the helmet
cam for the goalie.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's like, what was the shot? You know? Was it
obscured by the by the defender skating bags?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Like he had a great look at trying to figure
out like just misjudge height?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What like? How did you miss that? He had a
great look look to tell me, because I played hockey
my whole life. That's a shot, that's a save you
have to make. You have to make that safe. If
it's a great goal scorers goal, I understand, right, if
he beats you too high, beats you, I ended. But
this was the one where you got a little he
got a little weird with what he wanted to do.
And it looked like it was he got caught in between,
like do I want to is the puck coming here?
(05:53):
Do I need to make myself? Do I need to
make sure the rebound? I can? I can gather the
rebound when it And instead it was just just stop it,
just stop it, Let it come down in front of you.
And he and he actually made himself smaller by moving
his arms in uh into his chest and and missed it, Like, well, I.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Just remember the general rule if you if you meet
a Bobcat in a while, what do you do.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You gotta look big? Yeah, gotta look big.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Can't can't shrink in the net. You gotta you gotta
come up big.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I put a Bobcat in your car so you
can face your feet.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
But I mean, like he almost had a moment where
he tried to, you know, overcorrect for it. Moments later
where he's skating behind the net going after a bucket.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
He left the net wide open, pops out, man, like
we got we got a three to one game, and
now they're they're going the other one. Skin Skinner's got
a great mustache. But Skinner's one of those goalies where
it's like, boy, he can make some great plays. Other
times he makes you go Skinner, you're in the Simpson.
He does that, he does that. That's a good job.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I mean on the Panthers defensive side, you know the
extra block shots, they they laying their their bodies out
and doing everything they had.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
To do in support.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So you know, a lot a lot of the the unheralded,
the things that aren't going to show up in box scores.
Over the time, and certainly we were tracking it as
the broadcast was, you know, how many ice minutes for McDavid?
Like that became the big metric in this this final
game right coming off of his scoreless and shotless performance,
(07:22):
where Edmonton's able to force a game seven like that
was a big talking point all the way through, and
then today it became a all right, how many shots
and how much was he on the ice? And every
opportunity it was to get a screenshot of him coming
back onto the ice for another shift, it was all right, McDavid,
does he have that glorious touch? Can he do it?
(07:45):
Can he even this thing and try to force some
extra hockey?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Et cetera.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Like it became great theater because you've got a guy
acknowledged as the best player in the game, wins the
con smythe forty two points, what fourth most all time
and incredible, indible, But can he you know, find some
heroics here in a game seven after Edmonton was left
(08:11):
for dead, repeatedly forcing this thing all the way back
to Florida for a Game seven and in the final
moments looking for that last bit of magic and it
never arrived.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jason, just a simple man boom uh. But this goes
to show you to make this a wider points kind
of kind of kind of kind of fun now that
we have Stanley Cup final going on euro Copa America
happening at the same time, and is that you can
see that and it's weird because every sport has it,
(08:45):
but nobody really understands it as much as as you do.
When I make this point, is there more pressure on
a quarterback than on any other player on a football team? Yeah, exactly.
Quarterback makes all the money, but quarterback still has a lot.
With every snap, they're in control of the play and
they're more in control of what they can do because
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of the way they get the ball in their hands
every single play. Right for Major League baseball, there's more
pressure on the pitcher because the pitcher has the ball throws.
But the fact that baseball is predicated on failure because
the best players fail four or five for four to
six times, I mean fail six to eight to ten
times every ten times. Up. If you gotta get hot,
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he said, he's five hits in his last time. At
best you are hitting you are hitting three hundred. Now
to have a big season in Major League baseball, you're
not hitting three forty three sixty anymore, so you're failing
seven times out of ten. So the pressure on the
pitcher a little bit less. But in hockey and in soccer,
the pressure on the scorers is twenty times what it
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is on every other player, because every other player can
still have a good game and win or lose because
hey they played well, they will to break up plays
nobody scored on you. Hey, everything was fine, But if
the big scorer doesn't score, guess who's fault? It is, right,
because that's an easy You quantify scorers in soccer and
hockey one way. What did you do on the scoreboard?
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And that's that's why the glamour boys that are the one.
Hey they get all the glory, but the pressure on
them to come through it's absolutely immense. So now with
with Connor McDavid, Yes he's a consummate MVP at a
incredible playoffs, but what are teams gonna look at? Boy,
he didn't have anything in that last game. He needs
to score. He's the best player in the NHL. Think
about score for US men's national team.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No, no, no, But every guy that got you know, alta
door and all the others that got elevated of like,
all right, this guy is gonna be the savior.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yes, Stempsey, Alta Door, No, you know yeah, Balligan. No,
it's it's so much pressure just because you can you
can say, hey, you scored and that's a good game.
But we expect you to score because that's what you do.
If you don't score, it's your fault because you needed
to score. Why don't you say if you if you
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would scored, we would have won. You score all the time.
How do you not score?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
So are you're gonna excoriate McDavid when you do your
next Edmonton radio hit.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
He's gotta score in game seven? He stakes he's overrated,
he's terrible. That's a hot take. No, but this is
just how it goes. This is just how sports goes.
When you don't score as a soccer player or or
it's your fault, it's you're the one we didn't win
because you didn't completely magnify. If mc david scores two
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goals in the final game and they lose three to two,
guess what not his fault. No, I scored two goals
because you can quantify that. It's easy to quantify in soccer.
If the United States loses, politics scores a goal in
the United States loses two to one, it's not politics
fault scored a goal. I mean, there's not that many goals,
not that much offense in either sport. So when you
dent the scoreboard, that's what you It's always gonna be
bur Halters and to not do yes, well, no matter
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what it's burholtles for. But that But that's the thing
is that the pressure for that is immense. And I
mean for winning the state, winning the cons my trophy,
that's great. But it's gonna look at Game seven and
the floor high the the Oilers, high flying duo near
them were able to dent the scard. They weren't able
to win. It was a really big deal. It was
a really big thing for how did not Babrovsky is
a pretty good keeper? Is he great? Is he unbelievable? No,
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he's kind of up and down a little bit. He
had some time in the playoffs where he looked like
he was unbeatable, but then he comes back to earth
a little bit. Uh that this is on them and
and not only that, but it's on you as a
player when you when you walk away from that, and
you think for a long time, God, why did Why
couldn't I get a goal? Why didn't I know I
can score? I can always score? How do I not
get a goal? There? And that eats you up as
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someone who scores goals when I played, because I told
you how good I wasn't hockey, uh, someone who scored goal? Yeah?
Not anymore that I'm done. I'm retired, although you know,
I think now I was thinking about this the other
day instead of playing Glory days. When I talk about,
we should play that song from Uh, I forget what
the name of the song is.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Game?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, no one, the one no no, no, no, no
no on the one from End Game they played Captain
America is dancing with us? Have seen that movie? Come on,
any of us have seen Endgame?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's the song we should play. When
I talk about what I play, you know what I
played and played and play that because it's from the
forties or whatever it is. We should do that. Well,
the Bieber song you hate No No, And I'm glad
you guys have not found that. I'm gonna text him No,
she doesn't know, she doesn't know. I'm gonna tell her,
don't hang on, don't text Frostburg. Here we go h
the Jason Smith Show and Mike Carmen Live the tirag
(13:31):
dot com studio. So there it is your Stanley Cup champion,
Florida Panthers. It's been a long long time and the Rats.
That's what it is. It's been a long long time. Yes,
that's the song. But coming up next, the Lakers have
a new head coach. And I'll tell you what. While
I'm still skeptical, I can see a silver lining for
Reddick and the Lakers. How I'll tell you next. Right here,
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Jason and Mike Fox ty shirt. You really couldn't find
that song, real couldn't find it in the last I've
never seen the movie. You've never seen Endgame. No, really,
none of them. Thantos wins really yeah good, it's him
at the end. Yeah, Thantos wins.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
What didn't you say, like, we're basically like parasites.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right, uh? Yeah, No, that was the end of Parasite. Oh,
Fano shows up at the end of Parasite. Yes, he's
living in the house next door to the people who
live next door to the rich people.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
This superhero versus huge.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, this is what we play when I want to
tell a story about earlier in my life. I'm down
when I was a great athlete. This is what you
played pretty good. I like it. I'll tell me tell
you what the hockey player I was. This music is
way less depressor.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what We're gonna do. This music all across
the board. Alex, You're not charged with finding the hints
from those years.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Jason also lied to me. How did I never lied?
He said, Thanos one, Yeah he did? You lied, No,
we did. I watched it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
He did. How you didn't watch end game in the
last five minutes? No, you didn't? You two.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
I just YouTube five minutes endgame and I found I
saw what happened.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Well, first off, iron Man sucks and.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Wow, Ironman saved the world.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Okay, okay, he lied about that, so he didn't tell
me that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'd say he didn't save the world. He saved the world.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Also, Thanos got all five of the gems, so he
didn't win.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
He did, but he won by getting five.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Iron Man sucks.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
How's an iron Man? Iron Man sacrificed himself to save
the world.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
I would have rather he didn't. Oh, okay, what are
we worth saving?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Wow? So the world is not worth saving? Done? What
is his three body problem? Come? Come, come take us over.
We can't save ourselves. It's a great ending, by the way. Yeah,
who do you have ranked higher? Okay, iron Man or Grimace?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh, Grimace, you can't come on Man. Iron Man's great.
I love, but Grimace has got us back in the
wild card race, and he's gonna close for us for
the next ten days.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So there's that is true. Yeah, he does take out
a much much more expanded role.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You know what I like the story that I saw
this weekend is that when Grimaces throws out the first pitch,
you know that. I like that he has risen the
Grimmace with the two with the twelve Apostles, he has risen.
The reason he's got a glove, a left handed glove
on his left hand when he throws out the first
pitch it looks weird is because they didn't have a
right handed glove that would fit him because mister Met,
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the guy played mister Matt, is a lefty, so it's
like they didn't have so you had to take a
had to take the glove and put it on.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I honestly thought, because you've bit off his right hand.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Gribbitts, gribbits. It was delicious.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We actually just watched a whole Klibbeth, the guy that
does the voice of Grimace, and it's.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Not a good voice. It sounds like the voice of
he sounds like like another cartoon character.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well no, it's very much Patrick Starr, but just not
quite as uh my voice. I mean Bill, Bill does
a good job.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Ribbeth, Gribbeth, I love the Mets, gribbeths Gribbeth, Gribbeth, Gribbits Purple.
I love the met.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
That almost sounds like the Cadmo that Mulaney had in
that episode of the Bear.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Missing a chromosome, Gribbits, Gribbets, Gribbets, I sound like you're
missing a chromosome.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Ribbet, I could missing a lot, not just there's a
lot going on. It's not just chromosomes. Other things you're missing.
Good taste in Marvel movies too. What do you mean
the missing good it's a terrible movie. Oh, End Game
is not a great movie. I just saw minutes. No, no, no.
Infinity War is probably the best movie. Are Infinity War
should have won Best Film that year? Should have won
Best Movie? I don't Yes, Oh you're kidding one, Yes,
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what was that you probably? I don't know, the Lobster
or or some depressing movie. You know what I watched
about eight I'm gone, here's a depressing movie where something
happens or somebody has relations with a squid or whatever
that movie was that won one of those things. I'm
sure that one. Oh, this is what the Academy loads
movies like this. No that year. So twenty eight Infinity War,
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Infinity was Guy in it? Infinity War? Yeah yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Okay, am I like it?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Then?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah? He In fact, he's at the uh the very
end the really you never saw the You never said
you haven't seen Infinity War? Are you kidding? Man?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I told you Toby Maguire's the best spider.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're gonna cry at the end of Infinity War. Yeah,
there's two. There's two moments you're gonna cry.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Does Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lancer die at the
end of it?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yes, twice.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Then I'm sad.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, you'll be sad. So yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The Shape of Water yeah yeah, yeah, come on, man,
really yeah, come on. You know how much of the
Shape of Water I watched? You did you like the
Shape or the Water? I got about eight minutes in
the Shape Guy in the Water. I went and got
a glass of water and moved on with my life.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It sounds like the plot is of a kid's book. Okay,
someone who's a who's a janitor at a at a
some sort of of of uh what what you would
call it? What it wasn't a it wasn't a water park.
It wasn't a got a metal block. What's the what's
the way they keep when they keep all the sea animals.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In aquarium or rehab facility?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Is an aquarium and one of them? That's how to
say it, Like I was done, like almost immediately. It sucks.
Here's curious George and the happy squid. Like you know,
at some point George lets the squid out. The squid's
able to have fan's look at the squid.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden,
high security government laboratory in nineteen sixty two Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
She discovers the labs. Yeah well yeah, classified secret. A
mysterious scaled creature from South America. If I want to
watch the creature in the blood lagoon, I'm gonna watch
Bengholi on my TV on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Man Currie is georging the aquarium. That's so that's where
you go, Joe, Oh, you are the guy that likes
shamou being mistreated home. No, whoa, my wife won't go
to uh sea World because of that.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I don't know you won't go. You look like you
have annual passes.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
No, not SeaWorld.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
You know what I'm saying, Mike, Well, it comes in
here with those drinks.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Well, you know what they do have a sesame streets section.
Now he's the man attraction. Hey, we we're supposed to
open this aquium today. Where's all the sea creasures? George?
Oh that's your best impersonation. Actually, Currie Shorge is pretty
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good once.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Actually he's gonna dial up a duet with Kayu and
it's all going to hell.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Everything you've done in six years is ask compared to that. Now,
that was amazing. Welcome to City Field, though, Well look
at this. It's a it's a it's a monkey and
a and a squid. How many tickets? Yeah, there you go.
Enjoy have a good time watching the game.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You gave Tysher the best time he's ever had here.
Aren't you glad you came in on the Monday night?
That's a championship Monday too.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You're here, are you curious?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
George broke the contract Mike for this, for.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
This, for that impression. You broke your contract. Hey, listen,
we have a tough time. Mister met called in sick.
Could you come and be our uh our mascot. Tonight
You're gonna wear a purple outfit and be Grimace.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Why are you so good at that?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Watch a lot of curious Georgians, a lot of curious Yeah,
no way, way too much time spent you and I
I've done that myself. Yeah. The only one, the only
one we didn't watch, the only we didn't watch. We
watched it once and Zoe then she watched it later
and was like, Okay, you understand, it's not that a
big deal. Was Curious George and the scary noise? That
was a good one. Was in the basement in a trunk.
There's a malfunctioning game that goes like and it's in
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this trunk and George is scared of it. And she
watched it once and never wanted to watch it. No,
don't want Curious George and the scariness like, no, it's okay.
But then she got okay with it after. But for
a long time was Benlo no, no, no, no. Benny
likes when he sees dogs on screen and television shows
and he tries to talk to them. So he loves
the Mets. Yeah, he loves the Mets. I watch it.
It was gonna start looking around like what's going on?
(22:26):
What's going Uh? So, JJ Reddick officially was introduced as
the head coach of the Lakers today.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Top that red anywhere near as classy as Curious George here.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Instead of JJ Reddick. Curious George is the head coach
of the Lakers. Uh, George Jason Smith in the back?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
George, will you be running an offense that is similar
to what was run last year? Will you defensively? Will
you be running something that is different from what Darvin
Ham did? All right? Thanks, George. I appreciate that you
have made Tye shirt to night. George. You didn't buy
him any sushi, but you made his night. George. You'll
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be doing a podcast like you had been the whole time.
George is a man of the yellow hat here to
get you. No, it's not Jay Moore. It's a man
in the yellow hat is here to take you home.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It has become a yellow hat and giveaway the golden hat.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You know. Maybe once a week we do a segment
where I do the entire segment as Curious George, what
do you think about Met's ninth thinning?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And then we'll open it up for callers to interpret
or respond to what you had to say. Guys, I'm curious, George.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hey, curious George, first time, long time listen. Let me
ask you. I'll just kick my feet up and listen.
Better man in the yellow hat, Will Ferrell or the
animated version. Yeah, well Ferrell was pretty good, George. So
JJ Redick is introduced as head coach of the Lakers today,
and you know me, I'm not a fan that I
(24:08):
think JJ Reddick can do a lot to fix the
state of the Lakers. I wanted to see more stuff
personnel wise, because right now the Lakers team is just
not good enough and they're hamstrung a bit with the
contracts they have out. But now they're starting to get
some first round picks back. They don't have lost all
of them for the next fifteen years. But the biggest
thing they need, it's about the roster. JJ Reddick is
(24:30):
only going to be able to do so much. But
where iSIG You think I'm gonna zag here on? This
is that you know the two things that I would
that I am going to say this is where JJ
Reddick can make his mark, and you can say JJ
Redick is is making his candidacy and his head coach
of the Lakers worth it. And the first one is
this even look, we know he's got no head coaching experience, right,
(24:53):
but this also tells you how much of an input
does the head coach really have when you can hire
a guy that's got no experience. But JJ Redick's got
a lot of relationships throughout the NBA, right, He played
up until a couple of years ago. He's been on TV,
he's got podcasts, he's got the cashe since Reddick has
been I don't want to say announced, but since his
name has been thrown around that he could be the
(25:13):
head coach of the Lakers than he was the head
coach of the Lakers. And he's introduced today. You have
seen a lot of players' names been linked with the Lakers,
either in trade or free agency. And maybe JJ Reddick
is a bit of a drawing card for that, because
if JJ Redick can get them Zach Levine, who's supposedly
the Lakers have been trying to get to for a
long time, Colin Sexton's name suddenly jumped out today as
(25:34):
a name. Hey, the Lakers could make a move for him.
Maybe he's got a relationship with JJ Redick we don't
know about. But the thing about Reddick is that he's
got this cachet with the players that every team at
the end of every year, Hey, we're looking to move
on from player X or player wire. Even though this
guy's a star, it's not working. We need more money
freed up whatever reason you see. Guys are available. So
(25:55):
if JJ Reddick is able to get one or two
of those guys to be okay with coming to the Lakers,
wave a no trade clut, whatever it's going to be,
then he's worth it. Because we saw from the Celtics, Hey,
we're just gonna get as much talent as we can
put it out on the floor, and that's how we're
gonna win. So if JJ Reddick does that, great. The
other thing is, and this is not a JJ Reddick thing,
is more as it's just a head coaching thing, is
(26:17):
that maybe Darvin Ham was just so bad at the
end with the Lakers tuning him out. We know Anthony
Davis tuned him out, We know Lebron didn't want him back.
We know Austin Reeves wasn't a big fan of his right,
We know all of this. The fact that it's anybody,
but not Darvin Ham. For that first year, for this
offseason into next year. It's fresh ideas. It's a fresh start.
(26:41):
The Lakers should be fresher, they should be receptive to
more things. They should be able to be the best
versions of themselves.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Austin Reeves has already said, can't wait to work with
JJ Reddick because of what my position his position to
the same everything else, But just the fact that it's
not Darvin Ham is a big thing. We see it
in baseball all the time. When a manager gets fired.
It really isn't matter the other manager that comes in
because they're still gonna do their thing strategy wise with
the bullpen. They'll put the lineup out, but it's really
on the players, and so the players know they're unnoticed.
(27:08):
When when a coach gets fired, they also know, hey
didn't like the atmosphere the previous manager had. Hey enjoy
I enjoy this Now well we don't really know what
it is, but it's not what it was. And I
was unhappy then, and now we have a clean slight.
So let's get a new boss at work. All the time,
I don't know if this boss is going to be
any good. But the fact that it wasn't the last
boss who we didn't like, that's a big positive. So
(27:29):
if jj Reddick can do those two things, one bring
players in, be kind of like the pied Piper and
get people to come to LA and not be Darvin Ham. Hey,
that can work for the Lakers. So even though I'm
skeptical of it, I've told you I am those two things.
I can see those things happening and that being good
for LA. I mean, there's a lot that has to
happen here. And as a guy wearing a backwards baseball cap,
(27:52):
I don't know how smart I am because that seems
to be a really big point of contention with a
lot of people in our media site. Uh oh, I
mean we've got multiple voices that to say, if you
don't let me see your hair, I'm not gonna take
you seriously. So that's why he's got to hang up
the podcast once and for all, I guess. But anyway,
the point being, you got to assemble your staff, right
(28:14):
because they fired everybody. They cleaned it all out.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
So you know, there's been a lot of rumors of
these top names, how.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Many of these guys like you want those guys sitting
over your shoulder. No, you don't want those guys sitting
over here.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
As much as it's like, yes, you should get a
bunch of high price you know, guys with long, long
inexperience or whatever, like, Yeah, that's great to a point,
but how much are they going to think they're taking
over for what?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I have to say? No, that doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No, you got to figure out in the training room
can they keep these guys healthy. You got seventy plus
games out of both your superstars last year, and now
you've got to figure out how to keep Reddish and
Vincent and Vanderbilt. Those guys were supposed to be your
defensive stalwarts. They weren't available to you, So how do
you you replenish that? To your point, going into free agency,
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do you have a rapport with agents? Do you have
guys that just want to make Stephen a Smith e
Crow for being so critical of this, and you team
up with JJ Reddick because he's bashed you in prior
you know, because Smith's bashed you in prior iterations of
their show.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I don't know. There's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Things that go on with it. I want to see
it work. One because I want to see you get.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
An opportunity to at least go talk about the Mets
job in a year. Yes, I wanted to happen. And
needs Gottli to suxcited Gottley to make the tournament, and
I need JJ Reddy to get the Lakers into the
top six.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I just need concept for this that he at least
can get a talk because then we can do shows
about the interview process and the kind of the inane things.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That he brought up that he wanted to bring to
the mess. I mean, all those things happening, and then
I could be the guy.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
But in the end, you know, can you get seventy
games out of both Lebron a D again?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Is ad buying in right? Are you making them the
focal point?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Austin Reeves calling you a genius, Well, now you've got
to prove it by making Austin Reeves that guy that
ever but he fell in love with that he became
a cult hero, and that he got the contract that
he did. He's got to be that guy again and
then maybe this works. But you give you forgot one
important thing.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
You're still in the Western Conference. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmon live from the ty
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haven't been avoiding this story tonight. Have other things to
get to, but yes, we'll get to the most embarrassing
(30:33):
story of the weekend. Yes, because my teams exist so
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Speaker 2 (30:40):
Oh, be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (30:49):
Should always aspire kids to not have racism be part
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(31:11):
much sticky stuff on your hand, which is what happened
last night when he got thrown out of the game
against the Cubs on Sunday Night Baseball. No, the stickiest
of the icky couldn't happen in irregular game that's broadcast
New York on Channel Night. No, No, it's got happens Sunday
Night baseball. He walks out and you see the picture
of his hand. He's gotta it's lakey stands. It's like
he dipped his hand in glitter. And I'm like, and
(31:33):
it was kind of purple. I'm like, dudeude, dude, what
did Grimace do? Did you did you have your hands
on Grimace and grip sealed you or something?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Hey, come on, man, Grimace, I need you to bless
this hand with which I'm about to throw this ball.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Uh. Look, you think I'm gonna sit here and say, oh,
he didn't do that. I can't defend it. He got suspended.
It's stupid. It's stupid because you see this happening. And
now the eight players who have been suspended for sticky stuff,
three of them are Mets. Okay, so I don't know
what to tell you. Drew Smith and then Shures are
last year and now Edwin diazu bad he had three
great scoreless appearances. Look, and I'll go this far with
(32:14):
it too. Is that, first of all, I'm always done
with the It's just sweat and Rosin Like, okay, really,
that's what Rosin does, right, right right? Rosin and sweat
gives you This is not some kind of crazy ass
lab in a Spider Man movie where and you get
bit by a radioactive spider. It's sweat and rosen sweat
when when you talk about sweat, it's just sweat. And
it's just like Spider Man.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
How great would he have been because he can also
invoke the memory of the macho man Randy Savage, who
famously appeared in Spider Man.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Now, look do I do? I think that pictures have
found a way to have some kind to help them
grip the ball better, to have them have some kind
of substance a little bit of it that when you
mix it with rosin and sweat, lets you hold on
the ball. But they figured that out. But to sit
there and look at his hand where it's like, dude,
I mean, what what what do you expect you look
like if you work in the heavy bag over a
(33:04):
bit and hand like like he dipped his hand in
and it's stuck it out. Look like his hand in Grimace.
Dipped my hand in a Grimace shake and I pulled
it out. This is what's on my head, like and
and here and here's a part of it is that
he's a guy that is all about confidence, when when
Edwin Diaz gets hit, he loses confidence and that continues
(33:28):
to snowball from me. He is a confidence pitcher. When
he is throwing ninety eight, ninety nine and his stuff
is moving, he's electric and he's got that belief, it's great.
But when he gets hit, if he has like a
bad outing or a shaky outing, and then two shaky
outings in a row, he's cooked for a week, like
he needs time to sit back and figure things out. Like, look,
he had a bad he had, he blew four games
in a row, and then to take him out of
(33:48):
the closes role for a few days and he brought
it back in and he was terrible again. So but
for him, it's about confidence. Now, when your game is
about confidence and you come back the last three games
where he has he's pitched really, really well, you're getting
back to being the Edwin DZ. Can I see you deciding, Hey,
I'm not gonna mess around. I'm gonna put a little
bit more stuff on my hands. I gotta make sure
(34:08):
you're a little bit more here and make Yeah, I
can absolutely see that. And are you thinking, hey, if
they checked my hand by the end of the inning,
it's gonna be all gone, okay, But instead, no, we
checked him before he came in and oops, look at
all that sticky stuff. You can't pitch anymore. You're out
of the game. Can I see that? One hundred percent?
When it's about that, When it's about confidence for a picture,
whatever it is that's keeping you confident, pictures are gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Keep doing keep doing it. Yeah, you're a bunch of
cheating thieves. That's really what it comes down to. Yeah,
I'm taking a page out of her times in the
last year and a half, three times. But you know what,
I can't fault a good strategy because how many times?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
How good were strategy? But no, you got three times?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
How many times did you do it other pictures and
you had scoreless innings leading to Mets victories and raising
that apple?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
How many times did that happen? Sure? Okay, there's probably
a lot of those, including Edwin Z. Yes, So what
do you do? Maybe a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
You're pushing the boundaries, trying to figure out the proper
concoction to go on your hand, but also the idea
of hey, the umpires, how much attention are they paying
to like at a nationally televised game on Sunday Night Baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You don't want to throw the guy. Are you expecting
a full investigation? No?
Speaker 3 (35:16):
But instead he looked like again he dipped his hand
and use whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And the umpires said, listen, we know it's not sweat
and rosin. We know this is this as much we
checked thousands of hands. We know it's more than that.
And for the end, and also I'll tell you that
I'm done with it. It's just sweat and rosin. This
is the old.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I didn't know what illegal steroids were in the any
histamine that I was taking. Hey or hey, I'm sorry.
I didn't know. We were just trying to get pregnant.
And I didn't know that there were really bad steroids
in there that were legal. I didn't know what I
was putting on that body. The guy just used that one.
I'm done. I'm done with that one, and I'm done
with It's just because that's what every pitcher says, because
I want to have the cachet is Oh, it's evil,
umpires want to throw me out. It's just sweat and
(35:54):
rows And that's what sweat and rosin does. Really, that's
what it does. It's like you're doing a whole the
chemical reaction on your hand. There just sweating. It's just
sweat and rods, and okay, it's fine. Maybe he applied
something else first. I'm curious what if the lightning could
come out of your hands like you're the emperor, I
limited the umpire throws DZ out electricity. He's lifting him up.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Sweat and rosin is what they used to fill his
uh repair to his patillar glan.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, maybe that's also a name of a pretty good bands.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, sweat and rods. Yeah, sweat and rosin. Sweat and
ros that's what they put it together with, yep, put
it and maybe maybe that's you know, you might be
right for you're a bunch of cheap that. I dig
that and you should be banned. But in the end
getting I can't say anything.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You're trying to push the boundaries so like you do
it in every sport, trying to figure out what's the referee.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Going to allow. I can't defend it. Grimace will close
for us for the next ten days. Will be fine.
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