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June 26, 2024 36 mins

Jason celebrates the heck out of his NY Knicks landing Mikal Bridges in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets. Jon Paul Morosi swings by for all the big storylines from around the diamond. And the knuckleheads tell you exactly where they think Bronny James is going in the NBA Draft!

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 4 (01:10):
Proved we have to.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well, when you fail and really do bad things on
national TV, you know there's gonna be some come up.
And but not one, but two big NBA stories to
get to in the next few minutes here, and the
first one no one's surprise. The New York Knicks have
just clinched a berth in the twenty twenty five NBA Finals,

(01:34):
trading up to five first round picks to the Brooklyn
Nets for Michale Bridges. A guy who's going to slot
right in. He is a great offensive player. He is
a terrific defender. Did not have a great year last
year on deal, I'll tell you that. But when you
play in a bad team, how great can you look defensively?

Speaker 4 (01:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Andnonoby's a great defensive player, but was he on a
great team? Look what he did when he came to
the Knicks. This is exactly what the Knicks needed. They
go big, They get another score, which I told you
they had to get because they couldn't go into next
year thinking, Okay, we're gonna be fine because Devincenzo's not
gonna score twenty five a game.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Heart's not gonna score twenty five game. That's not who
they are.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
They went out and got a big time threat. And
not only that, they can still move Mitchell Robinson. They
can still do something with Julius Randall. They can do
they can make a lot of moves, they can do
a lot of different things. Whatever. They still have the
flexibility get first round picks back, not get them back.
I told you the Knicks were going to the finals
a few days ago. Why not because I'm a Knicks fan, Well,

(02:32):
partly because of it, but because the Knicks have the capability.
They were this close to the finals this year, and
they have the capability to get better in the offseason
because they have picks and they have money. You go
into an offseason with picks and money, you know you're
gonna get better. And they're already contenders using their picks
to go bring in Michel Bridges already. It's a home
run off season. I mean, this is gonna be the

(02:53):
next few months is gonna be fantastic, mainly because there's
no games so it can't fail you, but it just
be absolutely it's gonna be like. This is like when
the Jets got Rogers last year. It was like, oh man,
I don't got to worry about stuff for months. I
could just hark it up and just run my mouth
and nothing's gonna happen, and then look what happened with Rogers.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
But I feel like it's the same thing. I don't
have to worry about a game for a long time.
This is gonna be fantastic.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, I mean we didn't have to talk about Rogers
and actual football really.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Much at all. Oh god, right, I mean it was
a lot of other stuff. And then what's the over
under on snaps this year? Though?

Speaker 5 (03:28):
It is that body snaps or actual snaps he takes
under center.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
But I look at it, Okay, if something happens Week one,
that's the first week of September. I just have to
get to the end of October for the Knicks. So okay,
then okay, the Nicks will come to training camp very
soon after till that's.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Okay, It's all right.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's as long as Rogers stays healthy in the summer
and doesn't get hurt in the summer, we're doing well.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
You'd have to come to practice and actually do something
physical to get hurt during the summer. And since he's
away from the squad, I mean, you know, what the
hell you've got that going for you. The Mets are
the Mets, and you get a big win tonight, So congratulations.
Make sure to keep harassing Fabiano and Walt as well
as all of you other Yankee fan friends. But for

(04:16):
the Knicks tonight of massive, massive move bringing in Bridges,
a guy that we've seen pile up the points the
last couple of years, really elevating his game as a
score twenty six to one with the Nets and down
to nineteen six this year, fourteen to three average for
the career.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
As you know, his role has changed.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
But now they've got the harder part is deciding who
stays out of the rest of that contingent, as you've
got to try to make sure you're still embracing the
salary cap hell that is sitting there and knowing that
you've got a two year plan with what's left on
bridges contract as you go forward before everybody else has

(04:55):
to get paid, including whether you re up him. So
hopefully Tom Tibbet has it run their legs off to
that point, all.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Right and now, and just a little bit just from
the other side of this, isn't isn't this a typical
this is a deal? You would say, hey, who's going
to trade one of their best players to get like
a thousand first round picks? Like the Nets, Like, that's
what you think? This is the Nets deal right here?
The Nets have nine I think hang on ten first
round picks the next four years. Now, I think that

(05:23):
is something like like thirteen first round picks between now
and twenty.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Is this like one of those things like you're at
a at a carnival or or some derivative of the
you know, the thing that comes into your mall parking
lot since they don't need all that parking because you
know malls, and it's like little little circuses, And then
you get a bunch of tickets, maybe ski ball or something,
and then you go to cash them in.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Is that what we're doing with draft breeds?

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, I got and I got ten of them. What
does that get me? Hey? Mom, I have one hundred
and eighty five tickets.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I just need I just need eighty six more and
I can get that plus you I want.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, keep going, keep.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
Playing, I get another eighty six. You can get that
pencil eraser. But now it becomes small. But now you
got the big question of who else gets gets sold off?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Right?

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Cam Johnson, you know, is a name that that's starting
to circulate a little bit. You like Claxton, but is
you know he a guy that might be a fit
somewhere else? I mean it, who knows? This could just
be the beginning of hoarding picks and then it's the
Nets front office against Presty and company for supremacy.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Well look, you know, look we got into this a
little bit last night.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
And that is when you aren't going to make a trade, right,
And this is always the key to making trades and
whether and really I can say this, you'd say I'm
a lunatic, But whether it's fantasy football or trades in sports, right,
the best trades always are made when you when you
trade with somebody who is motivated, right, motivated sellers teams

(06:55):
that are ready. Right, you can in fantasy football, if
I want to make a deal, I look at somebody's
roster and I go, oh, I'd love to have that
that guy. But you know what, he's not gonna trade him.
It's gonna be difficult, it's gonna be you know, it's
not even worth it. But this guy who I know
is probably looking to move, make a trade. I could
get this player who I like almost as much, and

(07:16):
I'm gonna make that's the guy I'm gonna I'm gonna
email about a trade or I'm gonna make an offer
because I know he's gonna get back, because that's something
that can be done.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
It's the same thing in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
What have we seen so far teams that are antsy
to move on from a from a reality that is
not going well. Right, We've seen that the Bulls first
team ready to go. Hey, first team to make that trade. Hey,
Alice Cruso was a huge bit for them a couple
of years ago, and they thought, we have the big
three with the Rozen and Levine all, we're gonna be fantastic,
and it didn't work. So now they're a motivated seller.

(07:47):
So the Bulls are the team if you like a
couple of players, and maybe Zach Lavine is like the
third player you like, Guess what, call the Bulls.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
They're motivated.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
You're better off calling the Bulls from Zach Levine than
you are from a different team about a similar player.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Right. Their motivation.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
We know the Hawks are motivated to Johntay Murray is
a guy, Hey, we gotta move in, Trey Young is
a guy. We talked the last couple nights with some
NBA insider saying, hey, Trey Young is the guy that's
going to be available. Maybe he's on the Lakers list
to go get him. They're motivated, right, We already have
seen that when you hear rumors for other teams. The
Suns want to make moves, the Rockets want to make moves.

(08:22):
You've seen teams already that have said basically announced that
we're open for business. That's where you gotta go. And
it may not be the absolute player you want to get,
but if it's close to what you can get, Hey,
the styles are similar and what we like to do
offensively or defensively, this guy can slide in. Yeah, because
you gotta go because that's where you're gonna more likely
make a trade. So there's no surprise me the year.

(08:44):
The teams that want to move on looking for new
realities Brooklyn have already made a trade, right, The Bulls
have already made a trade. The Hawks look like they're
about to make a trade any day now. These are
the motivated teams. These are who you have to call.
These are the teams gonna wind up trading guys away.
And you know that netscott what they could because this
is a lot. Look, giving up five first round picks
is a lot, right, but sure, what were they what

(09:04):
were they getting? Probably they're probably getting off as a
three first round picks, maybe a swap somewhere. So to
trade with the Knicks, who was a team that you
look in the same city, don't normally see that happen.
The Knicks had to come over the top. I'm sure
this is a much better offer than the other best
offers they had up here because Bridges was a guy
that was really sought after.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
So the Knicks had to go over the top. But
you knew they could get him.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
It wasn't like, hey, we're gonna make you an offer
and we're going to uh and we're going to make
you trade as Bridges. No, they knew they had a
chance to get him. This is unlike the pursuit of
Donovan Mitchell with the Jazz a couple of years ago,
when Danny Ainge is gonna continue to say no until
the Knicks said, here, you can have every single one
of our players and all our draft picks just trade
as Donovan Mitchell. Like they knew we had to back

(09:45):
out of this because he's simply not going to trade
him to us. He's gonna ransom Donovan Mitchell, and we're
gonna have to keep amping it up, amping up, and
he still doesn't want to do it, because that's where
Mitchell wants to go. When Danny Ainge was just was
had had a had a thing for it that he
wasn't gonna make that, and the Knicks backed away, which
is the right thing to do, because that's not a
motivated seller.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't want to trade him to you. I want
to trade him someplace else. This is how you do it.
This is how trades are made. The Knicks made a
great trade, and this is a great move. They'll be
in the finals next year, they'll win it. I'm already
already ordered some Knicks Championship gear online. It's coming in
a couple of months. I'm all set to go. I
got the tattoos all ready to go. Twenty twenty five
NBA guy, I'm lining stuff up. Mike Carmon, I am.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Ready not even getting past the pacers. Ye stop, dude,
come stop, man, pacers. Come on, come on, man, let's
just be real realistic.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Come on, the only thing you got stop caler harton
double team, shut Clucket, corp them. Mart's gotta put it up,
step back his three putters.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Time out next. Oh, that's great. Listen to this year
in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's hard second best moment in in in Pacers history.
The other one was Reggie Miller's eight points in four seconds.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Whatever the hell wan and they both are against Yeah,
but you know what, that's in the past. Man, that
was last season. Congratulations to the.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Congratulations to the Celtics. They were a great team this
year they won. I'm standing I'm clapping for the Celtics
right now. Great win, great parade. Everybody's happy.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Your era is over. Look at you over, it's over.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Hey, guys, who did he just invoke I'm standing up
in the studio.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Who did he just invoke them?

Speaker 5 (11:26):
It's yeah, yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Know, ain't getting you past the Pacers. Man, stop stop
Rick Carlo complain about the about the officiating.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
All he wants. They were They were lucked. The Pacers
were extremely lucky. They just waiting for the Knicks to
continue to get hurt. And that's what happens.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
What can you do? What can I do well?

Speaker 5 (11:45):
And then they'll try to use that strategy as well
as improving their team once again this year. But now
we start looking at what happens with that chip off
of the board, right, Paul George opt in or does
he not? Right? And you know, certainly Clipper fans, you
know Bay Waiting with baited breath on that, you got
the brandon ingram option, you got Trey Young. I mean,

(12:08):
you got a lot of big names that are out here.
But suffice to say you you don't want to be
in the middle, right, a team that's just kind of struggling,
that's a few games behind, and say what we finished
three games out of the play in or if you
get into the plan, you know you're cooked. Yeah, you
might win one and then you go get smoke somewhere
else where are you? You're in no man's land, so

(12:29):
you might as well just tear it all down and right,
the institutional memory isn't there because you don't keep guys
in general, manager, coaching or any other position except the owners.
Everybody else change I'm sorry, governors. Everybody else changes out,
so there's no institutional memory. The players all change hands,
so there's no hatred, there's no rivalries except personal beef

(12:51):
over whatever. Maybe that's that can span back years, but
otherwise it just churns over. So you know, in city,
in conference, whatever, whatever the best deal is, you move on.
You take the picks, and you swallow your pride and
say this is the only way we're getting better, because
otherwise you just continue to sit in the middle, and
that sucks because you're never getting the number one pick

(13:13):
and you're never gonna win. So other than collecting your
your check and two hundred million dollars or thereabouts at
each turn that the league decides to cut your checks
based on broadcast partner deals, you've got nothing right for
a team, and the fans eventually decide to jump ship

(13:34):
and find the hottest superstar.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Go New York, Go New York, Go Go New York. Now,
this not the only deal that is being thrown around.
We'll have more on this story coming up in about
a half hour because we're crossing our ties dotting our
eyes on it.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
But Adrian wold Zarowski.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Is reporting that the Rockets want to trade for Kevin Durant.
The Suns have said they're keeping Durant for now, but
Woe says that could change next season.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
However, Houston has.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
The picks to give the Suns if the Suns want
to trade Kevin Durant again.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
That's from Woes just a few minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
So things are starting to happen here on the eve
of the NBA Draft. But but look, the biggest thing happened.
The Knicks are winning the title next year. So the
biggest thing has happened.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Seventeen to one down to nine to one after the
big move, and now it's TOI earlier tonight.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Waste offs allar Mike.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
But speaking of trades, are we about to see another
big trade go down?

Speaker 4 (14:31):
All?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
One of our special insiders coming up with the latest
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Speaker 2 (14:40):
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Speaker 1 (15:34):
Nixon Mets will fly Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live fromthetiraq dot
Com Studios. Big night in Major League Baseball. We could
be seeing a big trade soon, potentially the Yankees, maybe
looking for one of the big young stars of the

(15:55):
game joining us. Now on the hotline, actually wearing a
Grimace costume. I'm about to he is MLB Network insider, extraordinary,
Fox Sports Radio insider my pipeline to David Stearns, it
is the Pope, John Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening, Buddy?

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I am doing great, my friends, and guess what, Jason,
I will be at City Field tomorrow. I will probably
not wear a Grimace costume for my work obligations on
the field, but I suppose I will consider whether or
not I should wear a purple tie. You are take
in the in the Grimace craze that is sweeping the

(16:35):
nation right now.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
You're gonna need to interview Grimace during the game. DeMar
you know that, right You got to find Grimace and.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Talk to him.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
There are innumerable Grimaces Grimas I who are who are
watching games now at City at City Field, all kinds
of cross marketing. We've got all kinds of McDonald's advertisements
in the ballpark. I'm excited. This is a I'd say
what this is about as excited as I have been

(17:04):
for a Subway series in a long time, because you've
got both teams there. There is a lot of energy
with both teams in different ways. With the Yankees, Judge amazing,
grand Slam tonight, Soto, there's that hint and teams of
maybe well the Mets maker running them in free agency
this winter time. I expect it probably will. And then

(17:25):
yet Garrett Cole gives up four home runs tonight, that
was odd. The Glabor Torres not running the first base
was odd. He explained afterward that they had a groin issue,
which precipitated that there's a lot going on right now
on the Yankees side, then the Mets side of things, Jason,
as you know this, since they changed their lineup and
now with Lindor at the top, Nimo jd and and

(17:49):
Alonso in that order, they have now a nine and
two record in the last eleven games. So the Mets,
they're not going to be sellers anymore. They can't sell
Peter when they're playing this well. And the Yankees, all
of this a sudden, have a little bit of a
crisis to figure out. So you've got a lot of
storylines to tackle tomorrow at the ballpark.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know, John Paul, that would that was all very lucid,
great analogies that you could. You bring it to us
all the time. But all I think of is, well,
what is the plural of grimace? Is it grimaces or grimaci?
I mean, you you've hit me, well, you've hit us
with a conundrum.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Here is it? Because it sounds like it would be
grimocide that would make them.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
A yeah, I'm gonna go with grimacide because it's almost
like the uh yeah. When you have a certain a
certain noun that ends in any number of continents, I
think you tend to or some vowels. Right, you end
up going with I'm trying to give a good example,

(18:45):
it's not really coming to me. It's like, the plural
of deer is deer. That's all I can think about
right now, is the plural plural of deer is deer.
And so if you were to try to explain the
English language to someone learning it for the first time,
what is the plural of deer? Well, it's also deer.
Well how do you distinguish? You don't really, You just
it's there's a deer over there. Well, how many? Well

(19:07):
there are two deer or three. It's just it's a
very complicated language that we've got, and I will have
to look up to see with our Latin roots here,
what the proper plural form of grimace would be. I'm
gonna go with grimacide.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
All right, What if it was rob deer? If Rob
Deer was over there'd be a big question as well. Okay,
Rob rob deer.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Rob Deer was part of that that Tigers team in
nineteen ninety three that as my as my great mentor,
John Lowe said to me, John, that team led the
league in runs scored and was outscored. Think about that
for a minute. Yeah that was that wasn't back in
the day when when the Tigers pitching staff was Bill

(19:48):
Gullicksen and not much else.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
You got Bill Gullickson and Rob Deer on the show.
That's that's pretty good, right.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah. Well, I mean, anytime we can talk about purple
Ties and Grimace, you know, I'm in for it. So
trade deadline, I mean, today's like the mid midpoint, right
eighty one games for most teams, and the trade whispers
are out there. I mean, Vladimir Guerrero maybe becomes part
of Murderer's row. I mean, how much momentum do we

(20:18):
have towards a big move happening imminently.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well, that's a great question about that. So here's the
story of Vladimir. He was asked by my friend Omar,
who was one of the great Spanish language reporters in Boston,
about a comment that Vladdie had made years ago about
how he said he was never gonna sign with the Yankees,
no way, no how. And it appears that at some

(20:45):
point between Vladimir's comments then and this afternoon, he took
a look at where the Yankees rank and payroll and
maybe said probably shouldn't have said that, just you know,
as a general thought, And he explained it when back
because of his dad, there was something going on between
the Blatt Senior and the Yankees. Be that as it may.

(21:06):
When Omar asked him today, so is that still the case?
Do you still say that you would never ever play
for the Yankees? And, at the risk of going fully
down the road of the translation, Vladdie's response to that was, well, no,
it's no longer the case that he would refuse to,
at any point in time in his life ever be

(21:26):
employed by the Yankees. That is that story. The larger
question is what are the Yankees actually going to do
and would they potentially trade for him? I would highly
doubt the Blue Jays would trade Vladdie in the division. However,
the general premise of do the Yankees need some help offensively,

(21:48):
I think the answer is yes. I mean, certainly Judge
saved them today. And by the way, we've got like
a team of a dozen researchers trying to figure out
if Judge's last two months of the best two months
that we've seen in the last like fifty years from anybody.
It's unbelievable what he's doing right now. But as side
from Judge le Maayhew hasn't gotten going glabor right in

(22:11):
the middle of all this conversation about not running out
of ground ball, they need some offensive help standings on
the IL. There's just there's a lot of things happen there.
So while I don't believe it's going to be Blattie,
I believe it's going to be someone, And the time
for former met JD. Davis to prove that he's the

(22:31):
guy is probably not terribly long. And Jamai Jones with
their DH today, So the New York Yankees have some
work to do, by the way, as is the Dodgers
with their rotation. If Kershaw's got his shoulder thing, Yamamoto's
on the IL, Buelers on the IL. So all these
behemoth teams are not perfect, which means it's a fun,

(22:53):
busy trade season for people like me, people like us
talk about for the next month.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
MLB Networking to John Paul Morosi, our guest The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirec dot
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Speaker 4 (23:05):
All right, help us out with this.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
We talked about this last night and it's gotten to
the point in baseball, where everybody rolls their eyes when
the player gets suspended for steroids and they say, I
didn't know it was in the supplement I was taking.
I'm kind of at the same point with pictures Edwin
Diaz accepting his ten game suspension. They all say the
same thing, it's just sweat and rosin. I don't understand,

(23:26):
it's just sweat and rosen, And the umpires say, we
know what sweat and rosen is.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
This is not sweat and ros and So what is it?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
I mean, not this specifically, but what is it that
pictures are doing that are getting caught. It can't just
be hey, we had this mixture, I got a bad
bag of rosin or something else like, because Diaz's hand
looked purple like he was shaking hands with Grimace before
he came out on the field.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Right, So I'm not gonna blame Grimmoth for this one.
This is this is what this one is Edwin Diaz's responsibility.
Here's here's at the risk of turning our segment into
a chemistry experiment, but what I will say is this,
when you mix in rosin, dirt, sunscreen, other sort of

(24:09):
naturally legal substances, if you if you take them in
a encopious amounts and create a concoction that is roughly
the consistency of stick them on your hand, that is
not okay. And that's why that's why they're checking the hand.

(24:29):
I mean, when you think about it, they're not doing
like a forensic examination. It's not CSI Baseball. They're basically saying,
is the dude's hand so sticky that he is rendering
an unfair advantage on the ability to spin the ball?
And then the opinion of the umpiring crew, which has
done approximately a billion of these checks since Baseball started

(24:52):
doing it, they felt ds zan and said, this is
way out of time. It's not fair. And so I
don't know what the exact I don't know what the
exact terminology is in terms of how much rosin dirt,
other things one could put that are that are legally
on your hand, at what point time it becomes illegal

(25:14):
in baseball? But there is a point that exists. There
is a point that exists where you have so much
sticky stuff in your hand, even if the individual components
are legal, the concoction itself is illegal. And how do
you know, Well, you know when you see it, you know,
when your pants purple. And so I suppose I would
advise Edwin with with what my mother has always advised me,

(25:34):
which is, Johnny, all things in moderation. So there you go,
all things in moderation, Edwin j P.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Let me ask you, and that also in terms of
whatever you're consuming before you go out to a start.
Hunter Green struggled today on the mound, but struggled keeping
whatever down as we we had a little bit of
a vomit situation on the mound for him. Pirates nine
to five. And when was the last time you saw that?

(26:02):
I mean, was that high school football? I mean was that?
Where are we going? Back in the way back? I
don't think I've seen that on a major league mound before.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
So I think it actually happened. I can't remember what
it was. Was it Dylan Bundy? There may have been
a I'm not sure who it was. There was someone though,
seven or eight years ago, because I'll say.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
That is pretty good. It is Dylan Bundy.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, there you go, Dylan Bundy. Because I remember I
remember one of my kids. I cannot believe I'm talking
about this in the radio. One of my kids was
was a little bit still a little grit about puking,
and I said, I said, give me a girl, sit down.
Dad's gonna show you something. And I called up the
video of Dylan Bundy Duke asad listen look it up
to he puke. He's fine. He's still pitching in a

(26:47):
major league game. So you puke, they're gonna be fine too.
So like, look, Duke is puke, You're gonna be all right.
So h So that's my one little how Dylan Bundy
helped me be a better parent. There.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
But I'll take that boot and rally kids.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
We got work to do together.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Gether around, girls, gether ound. That's gonna show you something
for a baseball game. And my wife is like, John,
what are you doing. I'm I'm like desensitizing the fuke thing,
and the I'm like, okay, Dad, we're good now, we understand.
It's all. It's so if this, if Dylan Bundy did it,
and in a my puke, I'm okay, maybe I'll pitch
the big leave one day.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
That's exactly right. So I will say that back back
in an earlier time of of high school football, when
when really really things were not as tightly controlled as
they are now in terms of just like how you
should treat other humans. There was like we were doing our
conditioning drills and my one of the assistant coaches who

(27:47):
had a reputation for such behavior as soon as as
soon as like the first out of shape kid puked
on the first day of two days, which if you
played on s football, you know that what I'm talking about.
The first the first kid that just wasn't running enough.
And it's ninety nine degrees in Michigan with humidity, and
so this kid just like is hurling after doing these windsprints.

(28:08):
And I'll never forget the coach from the opposite side
of the fields like, I got a puker.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
I got a puker.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
That he was like proud that he had made the
out of shaped kids puke. I mean, like, for whatever reason,
I still remember this to this day, I got a puker.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
I got a puker.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
So there you go. So I remember my the the
rather aggressive offensive coordinator who who thought that because I
was short as a quarterback, that I must must be fast.
That they like anybody that would give him a short
quarterback like that, like you would have to be fast, right,
I'm like, no, dude, I am both too short to

(28:44):
see over the line and too slow to effectively run
the option with the with the tailback was actually fast,
but unfortunately, I will tell you that our hometown is
a square mile. I'm what you got, and the reason
why I'm what you got is on the is on
the one guy on the team who knows the playbook.
So like, I can't actually throw the football very far,

(29:05):
but if you ask me what everyone's supposed to do,
I can tell you that because I've basically told myself
that if I rememberized all this stuff, I have a
lower chance of like getting crushed on the field. That
if I'm in the right place, I will usually be Okay.
That's what I told myself, and that's why I memorized
the playbook, and that is how I got to be

(29:26):
the quarterback of a two and sixteen team. That is
absolutely a true story. Every word I just said.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
And let me tell you this, you know, speaking of
true stories, because I want to tell you what happened
after you told your kids and tried to do to
teach them about throwing up. When you left the room,
your wife looked at your kids and said, if dad
ever does something like that with.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
You again, come find me right away.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
I get because that's exactly what happened when you walked
out of the room.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
I'm sure you're probably right, but I felt like it
was and it was like, you know, darn it, what
do I know? I know baseball, and like, hey, there
was this guy in the mount. He puked once and
and and so pukes part of life. That's basically what
I said. You put that, Put that on a on
a on a quote board right there. Pukin's part of life.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Because we'll make a T shirt on it. We're gonna
put Harmon will make a T shirt on it.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Check him out on Twitter at John Morossi and see
him tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
You know, we didn't get a chance to talk about
a great game seven of the Set Cup Lamps last night.
Congrats the Porta Panthers, congrats and the Tennessee volunteers. That
was a great, great night for sports.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's two and fifteen on the football field, but number
one in our hearts. He's on the call to them
all the Mets Yankees. As the Mets go for the
city field sweep, it is John Morosi. John is always
appreciated buddy, I give my best discernsy.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
We'll talk soon.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
We'll do. I'm older and slower now than I was
back done, and I still can't see over the lines.
That it hasn't changed a.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Lot of jump passes, a lot of johns. Hey, Morossi
invented the jump pass. He thought that was Tebow. Morossi
invented the jump pass. That was a tough thing too.
I told you because I was a quarterback all the
way up until the freshman year of high school. I
was like, okay, great, because I could throw, I get
the ball. I couldn't throw, And I'm like, I can't
see over the line. How the hell am I going
to complete a pass? I gotta roll out. I can't
get I can't see where any receiver is.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Are you kidding me? Am I going to see down
the field? I can't see you any Well?

Speaker 5 (31:18):
We're going full Jim McMahon, Tim Tebow, John paulmrosih.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live the tirect
dot Com Studios. It is time to make our big
bowld prediction on the biggest story for the NBA Draft
that begins less than twenty four hours from now. Mike
and I give it to you next right here, Jason
Mike Fuck.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
As we are now less than twenty four hours away
from the NBA Draft, and it's time to make a
big bowl because the draft is about one person. It's
about Bronnie James. What happens where he gets taken. The

(32:06):
NBA decided, Hey, because you know the browny thing, we're
gonna have it go over two nights. Now, that's gonna
be cool.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Crazy.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I've said for the longest time, Lakers get him in
the second round er he goes undrafted, right, No one's
gonna mess around with that, and that's where I'm still going.
But I'm going to tamp it. I'm going to lock
it in and say he's going to get drafted. The
Lakers will draft him at fifty five. That's what's gonna happen.
The other teams are gonna stay away, right. No one

(32:38):
wants to get into a potential clutch difficulty where hey,
a team that didn't work out Bronnie takes him, or
maybe they don't think it's.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
The right fit.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I get that you are allowing an agency to run
things a bit, but it's not like Bronnie James is
a great recruits, not like he's someone coming in the
number one overall pick. He's someone you could draft or
you could draft someone else because everything is kind of equal. Well,
the teams are gonna lay off them, no one's gonna
do it. He'll get taken by the Lakers at fifty five,
and who knows, maybe you want to start buying domains,

(33:08):
buying Browny fifty five gear because what if he wears
fifty five with the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
He decided that's right, I get taken, That's what I
want to wear.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
And that's gonna kind of serve the template for everybody
to be able to swallow because this is not a
great draft and the Lakers have already shown that. Listen,
what we have with lebron is important. We hired a
coach that he likes, he likes JJ Reddick. Drafting Bronnie
James is fine. The Lakers know that Bronnie James not

(33:36):
gonna come in and take anybody's job.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
What's it gonna be.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's gonna be photo ops in the summer when he's
at camp, him and Lebron in the same court together.
Maybe they get a couple of minutes together in an
exhibition game to have say hey, look they got to
play together. But he's gonna be in the G League.
He's gonna be developing. It's not gonna be something where
suddenly the Lakers will get up in arms. So it's
not that he's gonna make it all the way through
the draft. He'll get drafted. Lakers take him at fifty.

(34:00):
That's how it goes.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
I feel like I almost want to go get that
domain right now. That sounds pretty good because if he
does wear fifty five, he would then be paying tribute
to the great Ac Earl Iowa.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
And Boston Celtics. That's what he would say.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
You know, I wanted to wear ac Earl's fifty five,
not Oral Hirscheizer's fifty five, but ac Earl's fifty five,
supreme shot blocker.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
See now, Oral Herscheiser is gonna hate me.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
I'm gonna get strays from him from you inserting him
into this conversation, how dare you you know, selfishly, I
want a team to come in and quote unquote screw
it up. But you've made a second day out of this,
which pretty much tells you all you need to know.
Spoiler alert second day guyause otherwise, why the hell have

(34:46):
a second day? But I do believe you know, Rich
Paul spoke about it about a week ago, week and
a half ago, talking about Dallas and Toronto as places
you know, maybe doesn't need to work out guys and
executives and coaches that you know, Ronnie James knows that
there might be some level of comfort there. So yeah,

(35:08):
you might get a little bit of a surprise. I
mean there's also talk all of a sudden, hey, n
Lebron really wants to win and it's all about winning.
It's like, is he opting out and going to an
Eastern Conference team? That's how he wins in terms of that.
But for this, yeah, it won't be at Pick seventeen.
Too aggressive a guy with upside, right, there's a lot

(35:28):
of people that have seen him play, right. They do
this show on Sunday Mornings with Ryan Hollins. He sat
in with me a little bit. You know, he's visited
with us a few times here. He's talked about some
of the skill set and defensive acumen and all of
that with the hope that maybe he does get back,
you know, that six or four moniker that USC had

(35:48):
him at before the official draft measurements. But you know,
when it's all said and done, it seems inevitable that
you go the Lakers route and then we get you know, whatever,
heartwarming moments together on the court and all of those
kind of fun things.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
But I don't know that, as you say, with.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
The power of clutch and the tentacles, that maybe you
don't upset the apple cart.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon. Look, I get it if
he was a great player and it was Hey not.
Now you're really telling us that we have to manipulate
the draft. What it's a player you could take or
I could take somebody else teams.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah, it's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
We just like to do it on principle because it
creates chaos and nobody gets hurt.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Coming up next, we'll have more on the biggest breaking
story of the night in the NBA, a huge trade
goes down, and also we remember an absolute legend. That's
next right here, Jason, Mike, this is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Jason not going anywhere. I'm here for the end of
the show.
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