June 27, 2024 • 36 mins
Jason and Mike debate who the frontrunner for NL MVP is between Shohei Ohtani and Grimace. The guys have a great idea for Hollywood movie. And Alex Morgan has been left off Emma Hayes' USWNT Olympics roster!
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, we're gonna get into a debate here the next
minutes that I can't believe we're gonna have first debate.
I'm sure like this it's ever been had on the
radio or television or anywhere, which means you'll hear at
someplace else tomorrow. But some weird news tonight Shoeo Tani
another big night for the Dodgers, a home run he
hits a home run every game?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now lead off ten straight get because people don't hit
home runs every single game.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But it's twenty does he's a cyborg? I already played
the White Sox. Well, that is true. That well, so
that's kind of like a double. You know. It was
actually a dog that they tried to get me to
click on, saying, hey, you might like this that said
at twenty one and what is it fifty nine? Uh,
it's not as bad as it appears, like, yes, because
(01:38):
you lead after six innings. These are not liter league games.
That's the time limit. The game's over. I'm sorry, hey,
to the point they still play the seventh, eighth, and
ninth innings. You still have to finish the job. Lewis
Roberts still has to hit more than one ninety eight
for the year. You know, the difference between the White
(01:59):
Sox game and at the league, there is no difference.
Oh in little league's got more attendance. Sell out tonight, baby,
you did have since statue was unveiled, it's kind of
a big deal, is it? Like anniversary of uh, the
(02:19):
debut of the thirty for thirty with Michael Jordan? Is
that why that was forty years of the draft, Mexican
Heritage Night, okay, okay, largely Hispanic sure population and a
great giveaway, like okay, the shirt that they gave away
looks fantastic, all right. Uh and the Dodgers are in town. No,
so you do have that, and so it's a good
(02:41):
international kind of kind of melting pot city. So I
mean it's it's all right, uh so, but yeah, so sellout.
So yeah, like you it's the first of the year.
Jason's laughing. The Mets don't sell out, stop, dude. We
get so many people at the games now because of well,
let's get to that, because of because if you think
we're gonna get to see Otani in the home run derby,
(03:01):
maybe not. Dave Roberts was asked about that following the
game tonight, and he said he didn't think it was
a good idea, Roberts saying, quote, he would probably not
want Otani to compete because of the physical exertion of
the event, which would require Otani to endure rounds and
rounds of swings. So he thinks it's a risk coming
back from Tommy John surgery. And I kind of get it,
(03:22):
because you know what, quite honestly, with with the with
the home run derby, there needs to be some kind
of new format because we watch guys hit all kinds
of home runs and rounds that go on forever and
they have nothing left. And I'm like, okay, and the
end is just because this guy got tired because he
had thirty five home runs. He can only hit five more. Here, like,
I think we need a little bit of a tweaking
(03:43):
to the event. So the end is the best part
and not oh heay, look at this. You know Freddie
Freeman hit twelve home runs in twelve consecutive Like, you
gotta build towards the end. At the end, it's just, hey,
whoever's not tired, you know he can win the whole
NOBA title. Whoever's not hurt, whoever's not tired? Have you
swung yourself out like a boxer? Have you punched yourself out?
(04:04):
I would almost like to see something instead of seeing
players go up against each other, see them have to
hit a certain number of home runs in a certain
number of pitches. Right, you see fifteen pitches and the
top of all players, and you keep having the group
go on, whoever hits more, and then you get to
the end, and you can do whoever hits the most
(04:24):
home runs in whatever amount of time you do it.
But that way, at least you're building towards the end.
The guys aren't tired, and you have to be a
little bit more selective. But that's okay. And so if
you have eight people, everybody gets fifteen pitches. Okay, the
top four move on to the final four. Then it's
then it's down to the final two, and then it's
these guys hit for five minutes. However many home runs
they get something like that, because you don't build towards
(04:46):
the championship anymore. Well, but also people have gotten accustomed
to long debates and finger wagging about pitch counts and
starters only going So now, hey, we're protecting the hitters.
Only so many swings in the nine for you this
evening before you get to go, get a nice ice.
I have an idea. What do you got? What's your idea?
(05:08):
How to make it where he doesn't get hurt in
the home run derby? Okay, what do you got? You
have White Sox pitchers pitched on him. Lance Lynn is
no longer on that rock. Then you get home runs
like this be.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
A White Sock.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
At that point, there's a smash right center field. Forget
about it, the loveless one. So, Hey, Tony has done
it again, Jason, how would a Boomer call that? How
would boomer or a boomer? Oh, Boomer? How wold boomer
called me? I think a boomer did was doing the
(05:41):
home run derby? Al would Boomer have called that? He
would say, back back, back, back back. But it's a
White Sox pitcher. So the home run really is like
a single. If you hit a double, it's like a
ground out to short. If you single down the line,
it's like a strikeout. That's the exchange rate going against
a White Sox pitcher. Home run DJ to us space
(06:03):
need all. We're in Chicago, in the windy City, to
the Eiffel Tower. It sears tower right right, you know
Willis Tower now, got it? Yeah, got it, Bruce Willis.
But they renamed it yours. What you're talking about, it's
a very angry kind of thing. Show White Socks have
given up one hundred and three home runs, But show
(06:24):
Hao tonight, Hey, that range third in Major League Baseball.
Please God tell me the Mets are there. Tampa Bay
is giving up one hundred and thirteen, the Blue Jays
at one oh eight, White Sox at one oh three,
the Twins at ninety eight, and then we go all
the way down. Mets are twenty fifth. They have given
(06:47):
up seventy four home runs this year.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sho Hao Tani this year leads the majors in batting average. Okay,
leads the majors in batting average at three twenty two. Yeah,
he leaves the National League in home runs. He is
five behind Aaron Judge, who leads the majors.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In home run He had a prodigious blast. No, he did,
he did? Yeah? Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
He is also third in the National League in RBI,
So a triple crown clearly is still on the.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Horizon potentially for Otani. Right, this is a guy who
overall leaves the majors in hitting third, most home runs,
fifth most RBI, second in ops, and he's got sixteen
stolen mases.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I ask you this question, who's the National League most
valuable player? Shoeo Tani or Grimace. I'm gonna go Grimace myself.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, right now it has to be a Tani, because no,
Mes just got the That is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
That is incorrect. You just got the fires wide because
you know what I you know, I'm a big fan
of I'm a big fan of. Yeah, I love Big Max.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, someone like no, no, no, But here's the disrespected us.
There's like a half a thing of cold ass fries
out in the in the little lot. Yeah thirty left
fries outside for a quarter pound sitting right Mic boo,
you think it was in yes? Wow, you think i'd
leave McDonald's food somewhere. Come off, I gotta be gone.
I don't know who left the fries out there and
didn't eat him, And there's a quarter pound or wrapper
(08:14):
underneath him, the second role on fries on the carpet
here at the studio. Oh, thirty seconds, thirty seconds. I
found it. Thirty seconds, thirty second rule. It's not five
seconds even here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well, I'm not saying I subscribed to thirty seconds, but
supposedly thirty seconds is the number. If I once I
get outside of fifteen, I'm not comfortable anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You just took meentley and into a deep dark place.
All of a sudden, I watched him rise like the undertakers.
As you said, you know, thirty seconds repeated.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Third, the thirty second rule is what is what I've
read that this is when it's unsaved about eating off
a floor.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, how did it go from five seconds to thirty? They?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well, we have a lot of money in plation, different
uh decks, experiments and stuff. And I saw some really
smart people like scientists and crap that said this.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
But Ronald McDonald's scientists. Now I read it on the internet.
It can't be wrong. It's the thirty second Abraham Lincoln
told me on the Inn. But let me say this.
What's always my big argument of MVP, and this is
I can make a really good case for Francisco Alvarez
being the NLA. What's the Mets record when he plays,
It's like thirty and three when he's when he's not playing,
(09:25):
it's like three and thirty. But I always say, how
good is a team if you take that person away? Okay,
And sometimes you can do that, sometimes you can't, which
is why with Alvarez you can do it and clearly
see it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
If you take.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Jo Tani away from the Dodgers, there's still like thirty
games over. Dodgers would still be really good. They'd still
be in first place. It would probably be closer, but
they'd still be in first place. There's still at least
Ohtani's great, right, Yes, absolutely, But if you took Otani away,
the Dodgers would still be in first place. Well yeah,
they play in the division with the Padres. So yeah.
(10:01):
If the Mets didn't have Grimace, where would they be? Lost?
Over right done? They'd be Thevets, but they'd be lucky
to be ahead of the Marlins in the National League.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'd have to worry about my bet with Frostburg over
who's going to have a better record at the end
of the year, the Mets or the A's.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I'd have to worry about that. Well, it doesn't count.
I didn't know Grimace was coming. You never know when
there's a surprise guest, right, It's like I can go
to a pay per view event and all of a
sudden boom, there's rumors in the trade sheets that someone
may make an appearance, and bam and here comes Sable.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I did not expect Grimace, did not expect grimm But
we know because you could see what were the Mets
before Grimace.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
They were terrible. We were quinton.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Since Grimace, we're the best team in baseball. We have
the best record in the Major League and you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Just got the five hundred high.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's in a recent stat the Mets had the best record.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yes, great, it's a great last couple of days. Me, man,
it's awesome. But we see you see the difference the
Mets pre Grimace, a g after Grimace. Grimace is the
m v P. You're talking about it right now. I
like aj right now, it's Grimace grim.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Right now, you can't right, there's there's a lot of
a huge wave of positivity there.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And you know we're not mentioning other than you know,
the food stuffs that if you left that it didn't
bring for the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, hey McDonald's. I Oh, by the way, after the
Mets won again, now they swept the Yankees. It's awesome.
They put out a picture to help celebrate Grimace's birthday,
a video of Grimace like in Times Square, staring up
at the Empire State Building, which is purple for the
Mets and for Grimace. Because the Mets won the subway.
(11:43):
How much you take that cost?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh they put they put different colors up there all
the time. Yeah, but commercial tie in, it's got to
be a couple of bucks. Oh yeah, man, I'm sure,
but it's also Hey, it's free publicity for you know,
people to come visit the Empire State Building. Really, they
made a purple for firing him off the fifth floor.
(12:05):
I want to see fifth story window. I'm going to see.
I'm going to see Walter Hobbs. He works at the
Empire State Building. Intercom but right now is eating uh
Intercom Big Max dipped in syrup that Hey you know
what RN candy Canes and Big Max. It is one
of the four h Smith food groups. There's no question
(12:27):
I read the.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Video that McDonald's decided, Hey, we got to continue to
embrace Grimace and the Mets and the Empire.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Doesn't matter. But they've got to bring that back. Yes
they do. But two, it is proof that all of
these characters, except for the creepy clown, had been under
utilized for years. America's love affair with the ancillary characters
because we always love the secondary characters on cartoons, we
do shorting on TV shows. It's not always the lead
(12:58):
that gets the best for the best lines, whatever else.
And in this case, we've got Grimace, we got the
fry guys, we got the Hamburglar, we got Officer Big Mac,
we got a treasure trove of untapped material. If i'm McDonald's,
I'm saying, hey, who wants to pay us? And and
(13:20):
Officer Big Mac could be your mascot. The rest of
the the Hamburglar could be your mat Look at what
Grimace has done for the Mets. Come on, man, crazy tonight?
Did you see him behind home plays? Guy? Are you
watching a pitch and seeing dudes get arrested?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
No, no, well you also saw a guy dressed in
a Grimace costume killing a beer in the rain delay
Like that's how Grimace off his jell.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But how body shots off his own body? But how
quickly did the Grimace costumes appear? I mean this is
the fastest. I don't know if they were available on
team or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, you are the ones where you order off of
Amazon and go, oh that's great. But it's coming from
like Indonesia, so it takes you like a long time
to show up. And when it does show up, it's
more lavender.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
At the top. Yeah, lilac like a cookie monster costume.
They just spray painted with some a little bit of purple. Sure,
yeah there is, there's not you know, it's gotta be
deep purple, like that's the true Grimace looked clearly a
lot of smoke on the water. If that's the case,
(14:32):
before we're gonna see those air inflatable guys outside of
McDonald's Grimace lacky wavy with the mets hat on with
with a Grimace mets hat on. Uh, I don't want
people to pop them. Frostburg sent me the best jiff
the other day of Grimace walking down You know that
that jiff of the the hot girl walking down the
(14:53):
street and there's the guy with his girlfriend. He turns
around looking at her and the girlfriend stares at him
like what are you looking at? And it was like,
this is this?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
This is this?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He sent me the Jiffith it's Grimace walking down the
street and both mister and missus Mett turn around looking
at grimas as a good Missus Mett.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Was, hey, I'm the captain now. Oh hey, mister Mett's
probably looking sideways too, thinking Grimace is gonna get some runs.
So he made be on the outs in more ways
than one. Yeah, he's wishing that sniper took him out
back in the day.
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Speaker 4 (16:46):
But.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Had an idea earlier in the show. Okay, and now
I'm gonna expand on it. Okay, Well, I mean, is
it about the odds and betting Bronnie James. Someone put
five hundred bucks down at two fifty to one that
he would be the first overall pick. Yeah. I don't
think whoever accepted that bet actually put it in. They
probably put the money in their pocket. I think I
(17:10):
would too. Yeah. Always says I'll cover your I'll cover
that bet. But you put the you put the money
in your pocket and say, okay you I'll give it
back Jim later. I'm not even putting this in the
system because I don't want the guy to be that embarrassed.
But yeah, there's odds for the teams that'll draft him too. Okay,
all right, you want you want to you want to
story about money going to somebody's pocket, I get a
(17:32):
story for you. Ty Shirt's gonna dig up the Captain
American music. It's fine. So just thinking about this when
I was a freshman. It's a McDonald's story. Wow. Yeah, yeah,
when I was a freshman Syracuse. Uh. One of the
first times on like a Thursday night or Friday night
with guys in the fourt hey, let's go to McDonald's.
Let's walk down to McDonald's for dinner. I'm like, oh,
(17:53):
that's the coolest thing we're gonna walk to me. So
we walked down to McDonald's and so we're all in line,
and apparently what the whoever was working on the register
was training and didn't really know how to work the register. So,
like it's a busy McDonald's at six o'clock on a Friday.
There's like three lines going. We're all in line and
(18:14):
and first first one of us goes up and says, yeah,
I'm gonna have a cheeseburger meal, the cheeseburger, fries, and
a coke. And the guy goes, okay, three. So Drey
counts out three dollars gives it to him. Okay, that's
kind of weird. Okay, next, because we're all together going okay,
he goes in. He goes, I'm gonna have a big
mac and uh fries and a large drink. He goes three.
(18:41):
So so he just three dollars. We all got singings
like what is going on here? And I'm sitting here
going the kid isn't putting the money in the register.
He's just like holding it in his hand. Three. So
another person goes and orders something completely down. I want
to know he's actually process the orders. Yeah, he's like
(19:01):
typing whatever in and he's just holding the money like
he caesn't open the register or anything. So somebody else
goes order something great. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have
chicken McNuggets, size nine, fries and a drink. Three. So
the guy gives them, gives him a five, and then
he gives him back two dollars. He's got the money
his in and I go, I'm not stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I go, I'm gonna have a big mac and a
quarter pounded with cheese, a large fry, and a drink
and three chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Guy goes three. I hand them three. He gets swing
and when we're all looking at it, you're like, what
one of my friends said, how are you so smart?
I said, well, I went last, I left, watched what
was going on. I pressed my luck. I mean, if
he said it was more than that. I would have said, oh,
I cancel a couple of those things, but I'm getting
(19:52):
that for I'll never get a guy. Three, that's all
you say? Three three? Not do you actually get that?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Because we're handed.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He was booked. We walked away to eat, like, okay,
we got our food. They brought it on the tray
and I don't know what he did, but he just
kept the money in his hand. He is it three
three three? And my food was like at least ten dollars.
This is back in the mid nineties. My food was
at least ten dollars. You say three three three three? Boy,
(20:21):
that location had the most shrinking any of any location.
And I won if you decided, I'm gonna work here
and I'm just gonna hold the money and at the
end of my shift, I'm gonna leave and I don't
care about getting paid. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
take my money. All it is. He just cut it
three three when I was in a big back quarter
pounded with cheese, fries, cookies and drink, and he said
(20:44):
three and you yelled, yatzi three Okay, great. I mean
I'm like, wow, you really can't top that. That's about
as good as a catch. I mean, do you tell
people you won the lot you hit the lottery? I
mean that was night yeow. Every day since then it
has been a little bit worse. Like every this goes
down a little bit worse. You're not going to top that. Yeah,
you're going straight off a space, right. That might have
(21:05):
been a piece the nixt winning the title is not
going to top that for you. What about today? Is
today the worst day of your life? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
yeah it is. But what if you woke up every
day and it was Groundhog's Day because of that? Oh,
every day I got to McDonald at whatever I want
for three dollars, and the anticipation at the towards the
end of the day, because think about what your order
would become after like three or four to be a CBS.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Receipt, ye, or when I walk up and go, all right,
I'm just gonna have a mocha three, you know what?
Hang on, I want to add a cheeseburger three, you
know what, mocha cheeseburger and assize thirty McNuggets three.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You got them started with that sheet cake in the back.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And I would like one now, But then I got
to go through a manager to get the sheet cake,
and that manager is not going to charge me. Three
managers going to say, doesn't know you by name, Jason,
what are you doing here? Well, I had my food.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I want to sheet cake. You know, we still haven't
found one of the threes three. I mean we've been
talking about it a while. I mean, you got to
see if the one near you will in fact supply
you with a sheetcake. I will at some point, I will,
cause it'll be another bird. We'll have another cycle of
birthday soon enough. I guess should make that happen, especially
(22:18):
if Grimmis could be hon it my name, miss Grimmas,
Grimmas Grimace. I love the Mets Grimace. So I talked
about this earlier in the show NBA Draft. Yes, not
a lot of pageantry tonight, but still the draft has
its own bit of of amazing emotions throughout circumstances. Yeah,
(22:42):
you get caught or girlfriends or no matter.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
When a guy gets picked, it's exciting to hear the
commissioner say, with the seventeenth pick so and so so,
even somebody you don't even know. And it got me
thinking draft day has become a big pop call you
the whole class, right like.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It came out and yeah it was okay, and yeah
there's a lot of mistakes and a lot of crazy
things would never happen. You roll your eyes out. But
because I adopted it early, man, that was you were
an early adoption. Yes, it became a movie that has
its own place in pop culture. Everybody watched It's on
a draft day all the time in April. You have
some great actors in it, uh, from Kevin Kostner down
(23:25):
to Chadwick Boseman, and and and and you have Frank
Langela in it just a little bit. And you have
Jonah from VEEP and Dennis Leary. I mean, it's a
guy that has your favorite line. Ask me why I
know what he came to his part? I don't. I
don't want to do this with you. Anyway, we got him.
He's brilliant because we've actually noticed him in other films
(23:45):
and now we we text each other about that. Hey,
look who's in this movie. Uh no, no, no, Sean McBride,
Oh yeah, would solve our salary cap problems. So that's
become such a thing. But now that movie is a
few years old. Now you're talking about we're getting it
was a two thousand nine, two thousand something like that
Draft Day. It's at least a dozen years old. It's
got to be at least twelve twenty fourteen. It was
(24:05):
the Manzel year. Okay, okay, so so it was fourteen,
so so ten years ago. What if you rebooted that
for the NBA, an NBA Draft day version of a
movie right now? Think about this, I don't intrigue. You'd
need some certain things, you need some certain tension and
actress and I Rob no, no, no, no, Rob Low
(24:26):
would be Rob Polinka. I mean that's that went out
a doubt that without the NFL hut. Yes, with the
NFL hut, and then you would have he'd be telling you, hey,
you just put it in the freezer for an hour
instead of you know the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'm Cable TV, Robb Blow. I'm ready to make a
pick here. Oh I'm sorry, here's Rich Paul. So let's
just take from a couple of different things in the NBA,
in basketball in general, and you could have a movie,
right like, obviously you can't have. Here's a GM. He's
picking first. Overall, he trades the pick. He gets the
pick back. He trades his picks again. There would have
to be some There would be drama during the draft
(25:03):
as you got to where you were pickedure and but
you can't have the same thing.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
But what if it was this, right? What if it
was this? What if you had a team where you
had a GM, say Idris Elba was your GM. Okay,
and a head coach k new head coach who came
up from college now is coaching in the NBA for
the first time, Say John Krasinski, who could pull off
the Kevin cost role of doing fun stuff but be
create the office.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Because they didn't like each other in the other and
they have forced to work together SoC gym, they're not
you two of both morons got it so but how
many cases have you cracked?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Dwight? Okay? Solution mos and socks? So they would be
there be the conflict between the two of them because
it's kind of an arranged marriage. They work together, Okay. Sure?
And he wants to draft players that played for him
in college, like Jaden Smith or Tom Holland or the
kid I love for Moonlight, Ashton Sanders, Like these are
(25:54):
all kids who all played together. Some kids they draft,
some kids they don't. The drama is that they have
multi first round picks or picks in the second round
to see if they draft them or they don't get them.
Like that's a plotline kind of like the Knicks, right,
everybody went to Villanova. Okay, great, as soon as you
made it all about the Knicks, you kind of lost
me a little, but sure. From what I'm saying is
something like that. And you have you have other characters.
(26:16):
You have you have uh, you know, you have the
Jennifer Garner type role. Obviously you have. You have we
have a bunch of international scouting and coaches that you
have to deal handlers and families. Viola Davis is one
of the agents, Like I would love Viola Davis one
of those hard ass agents like oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
this is this is, this is what it's gonna take
to sign my client Amanda Wallace. Now as a hard
(26:38):
ass agent, I'm in so or you had something like
this where you had a draft and a bar from
the w n b A. You had players like Anya
Taylor Joy and Keiky Palmer who had a big rival
with very Angel Reese Caitlin Clark type deal two phenomenal
actresses and like to see them go at it. That
could that could be. It could be a w NBA
thing because it's being so big right now, you can
(27:01):
set it. You could set it in both worlds, right,
I mean you could set it in both works. Like
that would be that would like this would sell like
NBA Draft Day. People would really want to do that.
First of all, anybody who loves basketball would want to
be in it. At some point, Ben Stiller would say,
I want to be an agent. George Clooney would want
to be in it. Somewhere. Everybody KG will be in it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
He could be a play he could be a coach
of another team something like anybody that loves basketball, any
any athlete, I want to be in that. Right, I
want to be in that movie. And you would be
able to take your pick of a lot of people.
And there's no shortage of storylines you can borrow from
in real life, right like like Draft Day. I remember
when it came out, they wanted to make it the
Jets with the number one pick. They want to make
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the Jets, except the Jets actually had the number one
pick when they were shooting the movie, and they said no,
if the plot is about them trading it and all kinds.
It's just gonna embarrass us, the Jets saying a movie's
gonna embarrass him. It's gonna We're gonna be embarrassed if forever.
We don't want it to be that. We don't want
it to be the Jets that have the number one pick.
So they made it Seattle, like the movie was always
about the Browns, but they made the Jets have the
(28:02):
pick in Seattle, and boy, the Jets would look bad
if they had the number one pick, traded it, then
traded back for it. Like the Jets don't need that.
The Jets didn't need that. So like you could borrow
from stuff that goes on in real in basketball and
make a great movie out of it. I mean, this
is just me thinking about it for the last few
minutes of just two plot lines from the last like
three months in sports, and that would work.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, it's a lot of fun because you start adding
in you know, radiodopes like us and the debates we're
having about you know, who should be picked where, and
the the rivalries, the pageantry of it all. Uh, you
get some good callers in there. Oh yeah, yeah, to
feed into this social media plays a role on draft night.
(28:45):
Hey did you see what just got tweeted from this
guy's account?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Probably with the social media part of it now, they
would find something in somebody's account like that would.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Be a big plot line. Is right before the draft
something comes out from one of the kids' social media
accounts from years ago. That's really embarrassing, and it's do
we still draft it? Hey, I didn't know, I was young.
I made this mistake. I posted this picture I shouldn't have.
Do we still take him or not? And that's a
big question. Do we draft them?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Do we not?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Do we go on to somebody else? I mean, it's
all there. It's all especially the social media age now
with that what I mean that that's a much it
rights itself. I should write that movie. It's not bad.
I should write it. I mean, we got a guy
in the NFL that's gonna go to a hall of fame,
who will always be remembered as the guy with the
giant gas mask.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh, we would be able to have fun stuff like that,
just little bits and pieces of it. Remember when the
guy got taken with the gas mask man, that.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Guy's going to the Hall of Fame man. So whatever
bring him on, but just the yeah, like all of that,
like the international part of it with the what four
guys from France in the first round today, So we've
got to have the scouting and should the fish Pasha
Baron Cohen would be the player from France coming over.
(29:58):
But just the older coach that's now got to do
the international kind of like college coaches being mad about
nil or whatever. Now, so yeah, yeah, and I gotta
go scout. Where do we take the French kid? And
you like they do a zoom thing with him, and
you know, it's like Timothy Shallome or something like that
starts tell you man, Draft Day, Draft, d NBA reboot,
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Straight ahead. The toughest get upping it out, The toughest
coaching decision of the year in sports, that's next. Fox.
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Speaker 3 (30:44):
How about.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
The toughest coaching decision of the year happened earlier today.
Alex Morgan left off the US women's national team for
the upcoming Olympics. She put out a statement saying, while
disappointing the decision, I support my teammates, says they go
for the gold in France later on this summer. It's
a weird day, and it's a tough day because this
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likely marks the end of her run in international play.
You don't go from being left off the Olympic team
to making the World Cup team at thirty seven a
couple of years from now. Sure, but I can't disagree
with it. I think this is the right decision. In fact,
I know it is for two reasons. One, watching her
play in the World Cup, she's lost a step. She's
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not the same player. How many times is she offside?
Because she just isn't the same player. She's not fast
enough anymore, she doesn't bury the ball in the back
of the net. She's not the same player. It happens
to everybody. It catches up with you. Time does whatever
you want, whatever cliche.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You want to use.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But everybody gets to that point where hey, I'm done,
and watching her play in the World Cup, you could
tell she was done. And the biggest in the United
States needs is someone that can put the ball in
the net.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
They don't have that. They didn't have that in the
World Cup, because what did we say was the biggest
thing going into the World Cup for the US women's
national team. If Alex Morgan is still an E League
goal scorer, things will go well. If she's not, things
won't and things weren't and you can tell you could
tell watching all right, this is the end for Alex Morgan.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Am I surprised a little bit that she's not on
it at all?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Because I expected her to kind of have the Meghan
Rapino role of She'll come off the bench for twenty
five minutes if we need a goal, kind of what
Meghan Rapedo did at the end. Because Alex Morgan still
is that kind of player. But Emma Hayes is coming in.
She's the new coach and she wants to put her
stamp on the team. And if Alex Morgan is still there,
can you really go forward when you are still embracing
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your past? And it's I want a clean slate and
I want to get ready because we're going to win
the World Cup in a couple of years and the
first thing I'm going to get a chance to do
is put my stamp on the team this summer in France.
So if it was a different coach, I could see
Alex Morgan maybe having that kind of role on the team.
But this certainly didn't help matters that Emma Hayes is
taking over it. Look, but it's just natural. It's not
anything more than just she's done and you can and
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if you watch a play, you could tell it's time
for younger players. It's time for Mallory Swanson to be
the big scorer on the team, like she was supposed
to be a year and a half ago but she
had the really bad injury. She's the one that's gonna
be the difference maker for Team USA. It's not gonna
be Sophia Smith or Trinity Rodbin, those players they're just okay.
Mallory Swanson is the star. She's the one that's got
to score. Well, you got Maccario back from injury. You
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still have some of the holdovers from the past, as
you still have Lindsay Ran and Rose Leavell are there right.
You mentioned Swanson coming back off injury, just like Macario,
like players that you're expecting to be a bigger part
of offensive attacks. And going forward with Rodmin Smith, et cetera.
And you still have the veteran presence, so you do
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get some of that transition and pulled to the past,
but it can't be all ceremonial, right. It's a lot
of the conversation we're having about what should the Warriors
do with Klay Thompson. Okay, you want them back if
the price is right, but at some point it becomes
a nostalgia tour versus hey, we're going to win. And
if we've seen anything, it's the maturation of the sport
(34:10):
for women's soccer is that you're not running over people
like you used to. Right the rest of the world's
caught up, and so it's now difference makers, more h
people that have different things in their bag of tricks
that that you can do in terms of, you know,
roster management versus where Morgan is and what her role
(34:33):
would be if she was around. And so, yeah, you're
pushing forward, you're bringing in your your own era and
you're you're gonna say I'm living and dying by here,
because it also eliminates one of the excuses of we
we clung to the past. You know, sorry, no, no, no,
you're you're pushing ahead. But that's the one. The one
part of it that's weird to me is that she
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didn't retire from international competition, because I don't know if
she's hoping that, well, if we don't play, well, they're
gonna call me come back. That's not gonna happen. Were
the last one like left off the roster, like and
to say that you're you know, when you're thirty five.
I'm disappointed with the decision. This is Emma Hayes's team.
They're gonna allow her to do whatever she wont They
did a lot to go get her from Chelseare to
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come over and coach. Well, what one of the questions
becomes like what's that conversation? Because when she issues that
statement earlier today, it's like, all right, it makes it
sound one contentious, So it's like, all right, what else
we got? But also that the door wasn't necessarily closed overall,
which I think is curious. Again, owing to the conversation
that you and I have had, I don't know if
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it's not closed.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
We just got Alex Morgan sound disappointed with the decision. Okay,
what do you think is gonna happen? From here, like
we're gonna fall on our faces. They're gonna say, Okay,
come on, work your way back in like they've seen that.
They know she's she's making a decision on you right away,
with barely having any time to analyze it all.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You're also in a glass case of emotion, so you know,
you hit send when maybe you ought not have hit send.
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Well, we're gonna get into a debate here the next
minutes that I can't believe we're gonna have first debate.
I'm sure like this it's ever been had on the
radio or television or anywhere, which means you'll hear at
someplace else tomorrow. But some weird news tonight Shoeo Tani
another big night for the Dodgers, a home run he
hits a home run every game?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now lead off ten straight get because people don't hit
home runs every single game.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But it's twenty does he's a cyborg? I already played
the White Sox. Well, that is true. That well, so
that's kind of like a double. You know. It was
actually a dog that they tried to get me to
click on, saying, hey, you might like this that said
at twenty one and what is it fifty nine? Uh,
it's not as bad as it appears, like, yes, because
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you lead after six innings. These are not liter league games.
That's the time limit. The game's over. I'm sorry, hey,
to the point they still play the seventh, eighth, and
ninth innings. You still have to finish the job. Lewis
Roberts still has to hit more than one ninety eight
for the year. You know, the difference between the White
(01:59):
Sox game and at the league, there is no difference.
Oh in little league's got more attendance. Sell out tonight, baby,
you did have since statue was unveiled, it's kind of
a big deal, is it? Like anniversary of uh, the
(02:19):
debut of the thirty for thirty with Michael Jordan? Is
that why that was forty years of the draft, Mexican
Heritage Night, okay, okay, largely Hispanic sure population and a
great giveaway, like okay, the shirt that they gave away
looks fantastic, all right. Uh and the Dodgers are in town. No,
so you do have that, and so it's a good
(02:41):
international kind of kind of melting pot city. So I
mean it's it's all right, uh so, but yeah, so sellout.
So yeah, like you it's the first of the year.
Jason's laughing. The Mets don't sell out, stop, dude. We
get so many people at the games now because of well,
let's get to that, because of because if you think
we're gonna get to see Otani in the home run derby,
(03:01):
maybe not. Dave Roberts was asked about that following the
game tonight, and he said he didn't think it was
a good idea, Roberts saying, quote, he would probably not
want Otani to compete because of the physical exertion of
the event, which would require Otani to endure rounds and
rounds of swings. So he thinks it's a risk coming
back from Tommy John surgery. And I kind of get it,
(03:22):
because you know what, quite honestly, with with the with
the home run derby, there needs to be some kind
of new format because we watch guys hit all kinds
of home runs and rounds that go on forever and
they have nothing left. And I'm like, okay, and the
end is just because this guy got tired because he
had thirty five home runs. He can only hit five more. Here, like,
I think we need a little bit of a tweaking
(03:43):
to the event. So the end is the best part
and not oh heay, look at this. You know Freddie
Freeman hit twelve home runs in twelve consecutive Like, you
gotta build towards the end. At the end, it's just, hey,
whoever's not tired, you know he can win the whole
NOBA title. Whoever's not hurt, whoever's not tired? Have you
swung yourself out like a boxer? Have you punched yourself out?
(04:04):
I would almost like to see something instead of seeing
players go up against each other, see them have to
hit a certain number of home runs in a certain
number of pitches. Right, you see fifteen pitches and the
top of all players, and you keep having the group
go on, whoever hits more, and then you get to
the end, and you can do whoever hits the most
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home runs in whatever amount of time you do it.
But that way, at least you're building towards the end.
The guys aren't tired, and you have to be a
little bit more selective. But that's okay. And so if
you have eight people, everybody gets fifteen pitches. Okay, the
top four move on to the final four. Then it's
then it's down to the final two, and then it's
these guys hit for five minutes. However many home runs
they get something like that, because you don't build towards
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the championship anymore. Well, but also people have gotten accustomed
to long debates and finger wagging about pitch counts and
starters only going So now, hey, we're protecting the hitters.
Only so many swings in the nine for you this
evening before you get to go, get a nice ice.
I have an idea. What do you got? What's your idea?
(05:08):
How to make it where he doesn't get hurt in
the home run derby? Okay, what do you got? You
have White Sox pitchers pitched on him. Lance Lynn is
no longer on that rock. Then you get home runs
like this be.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
A White Sock.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
At that point, there's a smash right center field. Forget
about it, the loveless one. So, Hey, Tony has done
it again, Jason, how would a Boomer call that? How
would boomer or a boomer? Oh, Boomer? How wold boomer
called me? I think a boomer did was doing the
(05:41):
home run derby? Al would Boomer have called that? He
would say, back back, back, back back. But it's a
White Sox pitcher. So the home run really is like
a single. If you hit a double, it's like a
ground out to short. If you single down the line,
it's like a strikeout. That's the exchange rate going against
a White Sox pitcher. Home run DJ to us space
(06:03):
need all. We're in Chicago, in the windy City, to
the Eiffel Tower. It sears tower right right, you know
Willis Tower now, got it? Yeah, got it, Bruce Willis.
But they renamed it yours. What you're talking about, it's
a very angry kind of thing. Show White Socks have
given up one hundred and three home runs, But show
(06:24):
Hao tonight, Hey, that range third in Major League Baseball.
Please God tell me the Mets are there. Tampa Bay
is giving up one hundred and thirteen, the Blue Jays
at one oh eight, White Sox at one oh three,
the Twins at ninety eight, and then we go all
the way down. Mets are twenty fifth. They have given
(06:47):
up seventy four home runs this year.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Sho Hao Tani this year leads the majors in batting average. Okay,
leads the majors in batting average at three twenty two. Yeah,
he leaves the National League in home runs. He is
five behind Aaron Judge, who leads the majors.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In home run He had a prodigious blast. No, he did,
he did? Yeah? Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
He is also third in the National League in RBI,
So a triple crown clearly is still on the.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Horizon potentially for Otani. Right, this is a guy who
overall leaves the majors in hitting third, most home runs,
fifth most RBI, second in ops, and he's got sixteen
stolen mases.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I ask you this question, who's the National League most
valuable player? Shoeo Tani or Grimace. I'm gonna go Grimace myself.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, right now it has to be a Tani, because no,
Mes just got the That is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
That is incorrect. You just got the fires wide because
you know what I you know, I'm a big fan
of I'm a big fan of. Yeah, I love Big Max.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, someone like no, no, no, But here's the disrespected us.
There's like a half a thing of cold ass fries
out in the in the little lot. Yeah thirty left
fries outside for a quarter pound sitting right Mic boo,
you think it was in yes? Wow, you think i'd
leave McDonald's food somewhere. Come off, I gotta be gone.
I don't know who left the fries out there and
didn't eat him, And there's a quarter pound or wrapper
(08:14):
underneath him, the second role on fries on the carpet
here at the studio. Oh, thirty seconds, thirty seconds. I
found it. Thirty seconds, thirty second rule. It's not five
seconds even here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well, I'm not saying I subscribed to thirty seconds, but
supposedly thirty seconds is the number. If I once I
get outside of fifteen, I'm not comfortable anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You just took meentley and into a deep dark place.
All of a sudden, I watched him rise like the undertakers.
As you said, you know, thirty seconds repeated.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Third, the thirty second rule is what is what I've
read that this is when it's unsaved about eating off
a floor.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, how did it go from five seconds to thirty? They?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well, we have a lot of money in plation, different
uh decks, experiments and stuff. And I saw some really
smart people like scientists and crap that said this.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
But Ronald McDonald's scientists. Now I read it on the internet.
It can't be wrong. It's the thirty second Abraham Lincoln
told me on the Inn. But let me say this.
What's always my big argument of MVP, and this is
I can make a really good case for Francisco Alvarez
being the NLA. What's the Mets record when he plays,
It's like thirty and three when he's when he's not playing,
(09:25):
it's like three and thirty. But I always say, how
good is a team if you take that person away? Okay,
And sometimes you can do that, sometimes you can't, which
is why with Alvarez you can do it and clearly
see it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
If you take.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Jo Tani away from the Dodgers, there's still like thirty
games over. Dodgers would still be really good. They'd still
be in first place. It would probably be closer, but
they'd still be in first place. There's still at least
Ohtani's great, right, Yes, absolutely, But if you took Otani away,
the Dodgers would still be in first place. Well yeah,
they play in the division with the Padres. So yeah.
(10:01):
If the Mets didn't have Grimace, where would they be? Lost?
Over right done? They'd be Thevets, but they'd be lucky
to be ahead of the Marlins in the National League.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'd have to worry about my bet with Frostburg over
who's going to have a better record at the end
of the year, the Mets or the A's.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I'd have to worry about that. Well, it doesn't count.
I didn't know Grimace was coming. You never know when
there's a surprise guest, right, It's like I can go
to a pay per view event and all of a
sudden boom, there's rumors in the trade sheets that someone
may make an appearance, and bam and here comes Sable.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I did not expect Grimace, did not expect grimm But
we know because you could see what were the Mets
before Grimace.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
They were terrible. We were quinton.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Since Grimace, we're the best team in baseball. We have
the best record in the Major League and you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Just got the five hundred high.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's in a recent stat the Mets had the best record.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yes, great, it's a great last couple of days. Me, man,
it's awesome. But we see you see the difference the
Mets pre Grimace, a g after Grimace. Grimace is the
m v P. You're talking about it right now. I
like aj right now, it's Grimace grim.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Right now, you can't right, there's there's a lot of
a huge wave of positivity there.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And you know we're not mentioning other than you know,
the food stuffs that if you left that it didn't
bring for the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, hey McDonald's. I Oh, by the way, after the
Mets won again, now they swept the Yankees. It's awesome.
They put out a picture to help celebrate Grimace's birthday,
a video of Grimace like in Times Square, staring up
at the Empire State Building, which is purple for the
Mets and for Grimace. Because the Mets won the subway.
(11:43):
How much you take that cost?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh they put they put different colors up there all
the time. Yeah, but commercial tie in, it's got to
be a couple of bucks. Oh yeah, man, I'm sure,
but it's also Hey, it's free publicity for you know,
people to come visit the Empire State Building. Really, they
made a purple for firing him off the fifth floor.
(12:05):
I want to see fifth story window. I'm going to see.
I'm going to see Walter Hobbs. He works at the
Empire State Building. Intercom but right now is eating uh
Intercom Big Max dipped in syrup that Hey you know
what RN candy Canes and Big Max. It is one
of the four h Smith food groups. There's no question
(12:27):
I read the.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Video that McDonald's decided, Hey, we got to continue to
embrace Grimace and the Mets and the Empire.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Doesn't matter. But they've got to bring that back. Yes
they do. But two, it is proof that all of
these characters, except for the creepy clown, had been under
utilized for years. America's love affair with the ancillary characters
because we always love the secondary characters on cartoons, we
do shorting on TV shows. It's not always the lead
(12:58):
that gets the best for the best lines, whatever else.
And in this case, we've got Grimace, we got the
fry guys, we got the Hamburglar, we got Officer Big Mac,
we got a treasure trove of untapped material. If i'm McDonald's,
I'm saying, hey, who wants to pay us? And and
(13:20):
Officer Big Mac could be your mascot. The rest of
the the Hamburglar could be your mat Look at what
Grimace has done for the Mets. Come on, man, crazy tonight?
Did you see him behind home plays? Guy? Are you
watching a pitch and seeing dudes get arrested?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
No, no, well you also saw a guy dressed in
a Grimace costume killing a beer in the rain delay
Like that's how Grimace off his jell.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But how body shots off his own body? But how
quickly did the Grimace costumes appear? I mean this is
the fastest. I don't know if they were available on
team or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, you are the ones where you order off of
Amazon and go, oh that's great. But it's coming from
like Indonesia, so it takes you like a long time
to show up. And when it does show up, it's
more lavender.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
At the top. Yeah, lilac like a cookie monster costume.
They just spray painted with some a little bit of purple. Sure,
yeah there is, there's not you know, it's gotta be
deep purple, like that's the true Grimace looked clearly a
lot of smoke on the water. If that's the case,
(14:32):
before we're gonna see those air inflatable guys outside of
McDonald's Grimace lacky wavy with the mets hat on with
with a Grimace mets hat on. Uh, I don't want
people to pop them. Frostburg sent me the best jiff
the other day of Grimace walking down You know that
that jiff of the the hot girl walking down the
(14:53):
street and there's the guy with his girlfriend. He turns
around looking at her and the girlfriend stares at him
like what are you looking at? And it was like,
this is this?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
This is this?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He sent me the Jiffith it's Grimace walking down the
street and both mister and missus Mett turn around looking
at grimas as a good Missus Mett.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Was, hey, I'm the captain now. Oh hey, mister Mett's
probably looking sideways too, thinking Grimace is gonna get some runs.
So he made be on the outs in more ways
than one. Yeah, he's wishing that sniper took him out
back in the day.
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night one of the NBA draft. In the books, not
a big star studded first round. Ronnie James not selected.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
But.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Had an idea earlier in the show. Okay, and now
I'm gonna expand on it. Okay, Well, I mean, is
it about the odds and betting Bronnie James. Someone put
five hundred bucks down at two fifty to one that
he would be the first overall pick. Yeah. I don't
think whoever accepted that bet actually put it in. They
probably put the money in their pocket. I think I
(17:10):
would too. Yeah. Always says I'll cover your I'll cover
that bet. But you put the you put the money
in your pocket and say, okay you I'll give it
back Jim later. I'm not even putting this in the
system because I don't want the guy to be that embarrassed.
But yeah, there's odds for the teams that'll draft him too. Okay,
all right, you want you want to you want to
story about money going to somebody's pocket, I get a
(17:32):
story for you. Ty Shirt's gonna dig up the Captain
American music. It's fine. So just thinking about this when
I was a freshman. It's a McDonald's story. Wow. Yeah, yeah,
when I was a freshman Syracuse. Uh. One of the
first times on like a Thursday night or Friday night
with guys in the fourt hey, let's go to McDonald's.
Let's walk down to McDonald's for dinner. I'm like, oh,
(17:53):
that's the coolest thing we're gonna walk to me. So
we walked down to McDonald's and so we're all in line,
and apparently what the whoever was working on the register
was training and didn't really know how to work the register. So,
like it's a busy McDonald's at six o'clock on a Friday.
There's like three lines going. We're all in line and
(18:14):
and first first one of us goes up and says, yeah,
I'm gonna have a cheeseburger meal, the cheeseburger, fries, and
a coke. And the guy goes, okay, three. So Drey
counts out three dollars gives it to him. Okay, that's
kind of weird. Okay, next, because we're all together going okay,
he goes in. He goes, I'm gonna have a big
mac and uh fries and a large drink. He goes three.
(18:41):
So so he just three dollars. We all got singings
like what is going on here? And I'm sitting here
going the kid isn't putting the money in the register.
He's just like holding it in his hand. Three. So
another person goes and orders something completely down. I want
to know he's actually process the orders. Yeah, he's like
(19:01):
typing whatever in and he's just holding the money like
he caesn't open the register or anything. So somebody else
goes order something great. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have
chicken McNuggets, size nine, fries and a drink. Three. So
the guy gives them, gives him a five, and then
he gives him back two dollars. He's got the money
his in and I go, I'm not stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I go, I'm gonna have a big mac and a
quarter pounded with cheese, a large fry, and a drink
and three chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Guy goes three. I hand them three. He gets swing
and when we're all looking at it, you're like, what
one of my friends said, how are you so smart?
I said, well, I went last, I left, watched what
was going on. I pressed my luck. I mean, if
he said it was more than that. I would have said, oh,
I cancel a couple of those things, but I'm getting
(19:52):
that for I'll never get a guy. Three, that's all
you say? Three three? Not do you actually get that?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Because we're handed.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He was booked. We walked away to eat, like, okay,
we got our food. They brought it on the tray
and I don't know what he did, but he just
kept the money in his hand. He is it three
three three? And my food was like at least ten dollars.
This is back in the mid nineties. My food was
at least ten dollars. You say three three three three? Boy,
(20:21):
that location had the most shrinking any of any location.
And I won if you decided, I'm gonna work here
and I'm just gonna hold the money and at the
end of my shift, I'm gonna leave and I don't
care about getting paid. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
take my money. All it is. He just cut it
three three when I was in a big back quarter
pounded with cheese, fries, cookies and drink, and he said
(20:44):
three and you yelled, yatzi three Okay, great. I mean
I'm like, wow, you really can't top that. That's about
as good as a catch. I mean, do you tell
people you won the lot you hit the lottery? I
mean that was night yeow. Every day since then it
has been a little bit worse. Like every this goes
down a little bit worse. You're not going to top that. Yeah,
you're going straight off a space, right. That might have
(21:05):
been a piece the nixt winning the title is not
going to top that for you. What about today? Is
today the worst day of your life? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
yeah it is. But what if you woke up every
day and it was Groundhog's Day because of that? Oh,
every day I got to McDonald at whatever I want
for three dollars, and the anticipation at the towards the
end of the day, because think about what your order
would become after like three or four to be a CBS.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Receipt, ye, or when I walk up and go, all right,
I'm just gonna have a mocha three, you know what?
Hang on, I want to add a cheeseburger three, you
know what, mocha cheeseburger and assize thirty McNuggets three.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You got them started with that sheet cake in the back.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And I would like one now, But then I got
to go through a manager to get the sheet cake,
and that manager is not going to charge me. Three
managers going to say, doesn't know you by name, Jason,
what are you doing here? Well, I had my food.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I want to sheet cake. You know, we still haven't
found one of the threes three. I mean we've been
talking about it a while. I mean, you got to
see if the one near you will in fact supply
you with a sheetcake. I will at some point, I will,
cause it'll be another bird. We'll have another cycle of
birthday soon enough. I guess should make that happen, especially
(22:18):
if Grimmis could be hon it my name, miss Grimmas,
Grimmas Grimace. I love the Mets Grimace. So I talked
about this earlier in the show NBA Draft. Yes, not
a lot of pageantry tonight, but still the draft has
its own bit of of amazing emotions throughout circumstances. Yeah,
(22:42):
you get caught or girlfriends or no matter.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
When a guy gets picked, it's exciting to hear the
commissioner say, with the seventeenth pick so and so so,
even somebody you don't even know. And it got me
thinking draft day has become a big pop call you
the whole class, right like.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It came out and yeah it was okay, and yeah
there's a lot of mistakes and a lot of crazy
things would never happen. You roll your eyes out. But
because I adopted it early, man, that was you were
an early adoption. Yes, it became a movie that has
its own place in pop culture. Everybody watched It's on
a draft day all the time in April. You have
some great actors in it, uh, from Kevin Kostner down
(23:25):
to Chadwick Boseman, and and and and you have Frank
Langela in it just a little bit. And you have
Jonah from VEEP and Dennis Leary. I mean, it's a
guy that has your favorite line. Ask me why I
know what he came to his part? I don't. I
don't want to do this with you. Anyway, we got him.
He's brilliant because we've actually noticed him in other films
(23:45):
and now we we text each other about that. Hey,
look who's in this movie. Uh no, no, no, Sean McBride,
Oh yeah, would solve our salary cap problems. So that's
become such a thing. But now that movie is a
few years old. Now you're talking about we're getting it
was a two thousand nine, two thousand something like that
Draft Day. It's at least a dozen years old. It's
got to be at least twelve twenty fourteen. It was
(24:05):
the Manzel year. Okay, okay, so so it was fourteen,
so so ten years ago. What if you rebooted that
for the NBA, an NBA Draft day version of a
movie right now? Think about this, I don't intrigue. You'd
need some certain things, you need some certain tension and
actress and I Rob no, no, no, no, Rob Low
(24:26):
would be Rob Polinka. I mean that's that went out
a doubt that without the NFL hut. Yes, with the
NFL hut, and then you would have he'd be telling you, hey,
you just put it in the freezer for an hour
instead of you know the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'm Cable TV, Robb Blow. I'm ready to make a
pick here. Oh I'm sorry, here's Rich Paul. So let's
just take from a couple of different things in the NBA,
in basketball in general, and you could have a movie,
right like, obviously you can't have. Here's a GM. He's
picking first. Overall, he trades the pick. He gets the
pick back. He trades his picks again. There would have
to be some There would be drama during the draft
(25:03):
as you got to where you were pickedure and but
you can't have the same thing.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
But what if it was this, right? What if it
was this? What if you had a team where you
had a GM, say Idris Elba was your GM. Okay,
and a head coach k new head coach who came
up from college now is coaching in the NBA for
the first time, Say John Krasinski, who could pull off
the Kevin cost role of doing fun stuff but be
create the office.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Because they didn't like each other in the other and
they have forced to work together SoC gym, they're not
you two of both morons got it so but how
many cases have you cracked?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Dwight? Okay? Solution mos and socks? So they would be
there be the conflict between the two of them because
it's kind of an arranged marriage. They work together, Okay. Sure?
And he wants to draft players that played for him
in college, like Jaden Smith or Tom Holland or the
kid I love for Moonlight, Ashton Sanders, Like these are
(25:54):
all kids who all played together. Some kids they draft,
some kids they don't. The drama is that they have
multi first round picks or picks in the second round
to see if they draft them or they don't get them.
Like that's a plotline kind of like the Knicks, right,
everybody went to Villanova. Okay, great, as soon as you
made it all about the Knicks, you kind of lost
me a little, but sure. From what I'm saying is
something like that. And you have you have other characters.
(26:16):
You have you have uh, you know, you have the
Jennifer Garner type role. Obviously you have. You have we
have a bunch of international scouting and coaches that you
have to deal handlers and families. Viola Davis is one
of the agents, Like I would love Viola Davis one
of those hard ass agents like oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
this is this is, this is what it's gonna take
to sign my client Amanda Wallace. Now as a hard
(26:38):
ass agent, I'm in so or you had something like
this where you had a draft and a bar from
the w n b A. You had players like Anya
Taylor Joy and Keiky Palmer who had a big rival
with very Angel Reese Caitlin Clark type deal two phenomenal
actresses and like to see them go at it. That
could that could be. It could be a w NBA
thing because it's being so big right now, you can
(27:01):
set it. You could set it in both worlds, right,
I mean you could set it in both works. Like
that would be that would like this would sell like
NBA Draft Day. People would really want to do that.
First of all, anybody who loves basketball would want to
be in it. At some point, Ben Stiller would say,
I want to be an agent. George Clooney would want
to be in it. Somewhere. Everybody KG will be in it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
He could be a play he could be a coach
of another team something like anybody that loves basketball, any
any athlete, I want to be in that. Right, I
want to be in that movie. And you would be
able to take your pick of a lot of people.
And there's no shortage of storylines you can borrow from
in real life, right like like Draft Day. I remember
when it came out, they wanted to make it the
Jets with the number one pick. They want to make
(27:41):
the Jets, except the Jets actually had the number one
pick when they were shooting the movie, and they said no,
if the plot is about them trading it and all kinds.
It's just gonna embarrass us, the Jets saying a movie's
gonna embarrass him. It's gonna We're gonna be embarrassed if forever.
We don't want it to be that. We don't want
it to be the Jets that have the number one pick.
So they made it Seattle, like the movie was always
about the Browns, but they made the Jets have the
(28:02):
pick in Seattle, and boy, the Jets would look bad
if they had the number one pick, traded it, then
traded back for it. Like the Jets don't need that.
The Jets didn't need that. So like you could borrow
from stuff that goes on in real in basketball and
make a great movie out of it. I mean, this
is just me thinking about it for the last few
minutes of just two plot lines from the last like
three months in sports, and that would work.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No, it's a lot of fun because you start adding
in you know, radiodopes like us and the debates we're
having about you know, who should be picked where, and
the the rivalries, the pageantry of it all. Uh, you
get some good callers in there. Oh yeah, yeah, to
feed into this social media plays a role on draft night.
(28:45):
Hey did you see what just got tweeted from this
guy's account?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Probably with the social media part of it now, they
would find something in somebody's account like that would.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Be a big plot line. Is right before the draft
something comes out from one of the kids' social media
accounts from years ago. That's really embarrassing, and it's do
we still draft it? Hey, I didn't know, I was young.
I made this mistake. I posted this picture I shouldn't have.
Do we still take him or not? And that's a
big question. Do we draft them?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Do we not?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Do we go on to somebody else? I mean, it's
all there. It's all especially the social media age now
with that what I mean that that's a much it
rights itself. I should write that movie. It's not bad.
I should write it. I mean, we got a guy
in the NFL that's gonna go to a hall of fame,
who will always be remembered as the guy with the
giant gas mask.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh, we would be able to have fun stuff like that,
just little bits and pieces of it. Remember when the
guy got taken with the gas mask man, that.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Guy's going to the Hall of Fame man. So whatever
bring him on, but just the yeah, like all of that,
like the international part of it with the what four
guys from France in the first round today, So we've
got to have the scouting and should the fish Pasha
Baron Cohen would be the player from France coming over.
(29:58):
But just the older coach that's now got to do
the international kind of like college coaches being mad about
nil or whatever. Now, so yeah, yeah, and I gotta
go scout. Where do we take the French kid? And
you like they do a zoom thing with him, and
you know, it's like Timothy Shallome or something like that
starts tell you man, Draft Day, Draft, d NBA reboot,
(30:21):
patent pending, patent pending, and a hat full of dreams.
Straight ahead. The toughest get upping it out, The toughest
coaching decision of the year in sports, that's next. Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (30:41):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
How about.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
The toughest coaching decision of the year happened earlier today.
Alex Morgan left off the US women's national team for
the upcoming Olympics. She put out a statement saying, while
disappointing the decision, I support my teammates, says they go
for the gold in France later on this summer. It's
a weird day, and it's a tough day because this
(31:10):
likely marks the end of her run in international play.
You don't go from being left off the Olympic team
to making the World Cup team at thirty seven a
couple of years from now. Sure, but I can't disagree
with it. I think this is the right decision. In fact,
I know it is for two reasons. One, watching her
play in the World Cup, she's lost a step. She's
(31:31):
not the same player. How many times is she offside?
Because she just isn't the same player. She's not fast
enough anymore, she doesn't bury the ball in the back
of the net. She's not the same player. It happens
to everybody. It catches up with you. Time does whatever
you want, whatever cliche.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You want to use.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But everybody gets to that point where hey, I'm done,
and watching her play in the World Cup, you could
tell she was done. And the biggest in the United
States needs is someone that can put the ball in
the net.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
They don't have that. They didn't have that in the
World Cup, because what did we say was the biggest
thing going into the World Cup for the US women's
national team. If Alex Morgan is still an E League
goal scorer, things will go well. If she's not, things
won't and things weren't and you can tell you could
tell watching all right, this is the end for Alex Morgan.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Am I surprised a little bit that she's not on
it at all?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Because I expected her to kind of have the Meghan
Rapino role of She'll come off the bench for twenty
five minutes if we need a goal, kind of what
Meghan Rapedo did at the end. Because Alex Morgan still
is that kind of player. But Emma Hayes is coming in.
She's the new coach and she wants to put her
stamp on the team. And if Alex Morgan is still there,
can you really go forward when you are still embracing
(32:43):
your past? And it's I want a clean slate and
I want to get ready because we're going to win
the World Cup in a couple of years and the
first thing I'm going to get a chance to do
is put my stamp on the team this summer in France.
So if it was a different coach, I could see
Alex Morgan maybe having that kind of role on the team.
But this certainly didn't help matters that Emma Hayes is
taking over it. Look, but it's just natural. It's not
anything more than just she's done and you can and
(33:06):
if you watch a play, you could tell it's time
for younger players. It's time for Mallory Swanson to be
the big scorer on the team, like she was supposed
to be a year and a half ago but she
had the really bad injury. She's the one that's gonna
be the difference maker for Team USA. It's not gonna
be Sophia Smith or Trinity Rodbin, those players they're just okay.
Mallory Swanson is the star. She's the one that's got
to score. Well, you got Maccario back from injury. You
(33:26):
still have some of the holdovers from the past, as
you still have Lindsay Ran and Rose Leavell are there right.
You mentioned Swanson coming back off injury, just like Macario,
like players that you're expecting to be a bigger part
of offensive attacks. And going forward with Rodmin Smith, et cetera.
And you still have the veteran presence, so you do
(33:47):
get some of that transition and pulled to the past,
but it can't be all ceremonial, right. It's a lot
of the conversation we're having about what should the Warriors
do with Klay Thompson. Okay, you want them back if
the price is right, but at some point it becomes
a nostalgia tour versus hey, we're going to win. And
if we've seen anything, it's the maturation of the sport
(34:10):
for women's soccer is that you're not running over people
like you used to. Right the rest of the world's
caught up, and so it's now difference makers, more h
people that have different things in their bag of tricks
that that you can do in terms of, you know,
roster management versus where Morgan is and what her role
(34:33):
would be if she was around. And so, yeah, you're
pushing forward, you're bringing in your your own era and
you're you're gonna say I'm living and dying by here,
because it also eliminates one of the excuses of we
we clung to the past. You know, sorry, no, no, no,
you're you're pushing ahead. But that's the one. The one
part of it that's weird to me is that she
(34:53):
didn't retire from international competition, because I don't know if
she's hoping that, well, if we don't play, well, they're
gonna call me come back. That's not gonna happen. Were
the last one like left off the roster, like and
to say that you're you know, when you're thirty five.
I'm disappointed with the decision. This is Emma Hayes's team.
They're gonna allow her to do whatever she wont They
did a lot to go get her from Chelseare to
(35:14):
come over and coach. Well, what one of the questions
becomes like what's that conversation? Because when she issues that
statement earlier today, it's like, all right, it makes it
sound one contentious, So it's like, all right, what else
we got? But also that the door wasn't necessarily closed overall,
which I think is curious. Again, owing to the conversation
that you and I have had, I don't know if
(35:37):
it's not closed.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
We just got Alex Morgan sound disappointed with the decision. Okay,
what do you think is gonna happen? From here, like
we're gonna fall on our faces. They're gonna say, Okay,
come on, work your way back in like they've seen that.
They know she's she's making a decision on you right away,
with barely having any time to analyze it all.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You're also in a glass case of emotion, so you know,
you hit send when maybe you ought not have hit send.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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