June 27, 2024 • 50 mins
Jason tells you why it is a "Title or Bust" year next season for the NY Knicks. Right now the NL MVP is either Shohei Ohtani or Grimace. Some NBA Draft talk. Plus, Jason explains why the USWNT made the tough but right call leaving Alex Morgan of the Olympic roster.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
For NBA Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers select Dalton Connect
from the University of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They're back.
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The latest selection in the draft right there, Dalt Connect
goes to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Good shooter, a guy that look was on the board
for a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And for everybody who's on social media saying, boy, if
we can get connect boy man, if he was that great,
he wouldn't be on the board at number twelve. But
still a shooter. Lakers need a shooter, need somebody that
could put points on the board.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And at this point, why not I know we were
waiting maybe hope goodness, could we really up in the
draft and give us something unbelievable? Bribdy? Could it be
broddy Dick? Couldn't be broddiy da? I really wanted Adam
Silver to do that and do the goal.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
At number seventeen, the Lakers select, but first, I have
a trade to announce, because he announced the trader killing
him from the Spurs. Can you match that he did that?
If he just said I have first, the Lakers like seventeen,
but there's a trade to announce first, people.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Would have known.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I think what he should have said was, you know
what I ve eat like, had it concerned the Lakers pick,
just saying no, no, no, hell with this. We got
a second night of a draft. We can't have this here.
We can't have this here.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This guy cannot be drafted at seven to eight. We
have a whole other night. That's a feature point for him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
With the Lakers pick at number seventeen. Remember, round two
of the draft is tomorrow. I just want to let
you know we're gonna be running it right back here
on television broadcast live good Night two of the draft.
So look, no, they did not take Bronnie James. And look, honestly,
this is what we thought we said last night. He's
a second round guy. I'll triple down when he's there
(02:35):
at fifty five because nobody else is gonna upset the
Apple cart and risk getting Clutch Sports upset at them.
Rich Paul, Clutch Sports very powerful. They're not going to
draft a guy when you can draft other players. If
Bronnie James is a great, great prospect, he was a
first round graded prospect. If he was a top fifteen
graded prospect, it would be a different story about Rich
(02:56):
Paul pulling the strings again to go somewhere. But this
is a kid that could go anywhere right, second round,
maybe even undrafted. Of his name wasn't Bronnie James. Okay,
So teams will lay off him because they don't want
the circus, don't want the sideshow, don't want to upset
Rich Paul. Suddenly, oh he didn't work out for you.
We didn't want this, This wasn't the great fit for us. Fine,
you want to push it, you want to find his
(03:17):
way to make his way to the Lakers. Absolutely, we'll
make it happen. So fifty five will come. He will
be there because teams will lay off him because they
could take other guys rather than take Bronnie James. And
it's not that big a deal. Don't even know how
much of it of a conversation Bronnie James probably has
been with other teams.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, no worry.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We're gonna go after something worked out for two teams.
And we've talked about it a little bit, and and
Rich Paul had even brought it up at times. Gay,
you know what, he's got relationships. There's a couple of
teams where it wouldn't be completely out of the blue,
but certainly not teams where we worked out for. And also,
you know, he went deep into the contracts, two way
(03:57):
contracts and all of that stuff to do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now here's the thing. If I'm a.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Team that's not you know, the Lakers, and I'm looking
at Bronnie James and legitimately think, hey, he may get
another growth spurt. He's a good defender, right, we all
acknowledge that there's some parts of his games that are
that that they're good. He just needs more development as
a shooter, distributor all of that stuff. But remember, if
you look at the Rich Paul client list, at least
(04:22):
the one that I've got in front of me, the
two guys that really stir the drink and ads over
there too are Draymond Green and lebron James.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They're both near out of the league.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So Rich Paul ain't got the juice that you think
he does long term, By friend, who's he.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Gonna wind up getting after? Who are the new guys
coming out?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I am worried about upsetting I don't want either of
those guys, but you never know. You never know, right,
you never know who he's gonna wind up getting.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You never o. We don't care about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And then in two years it's, oh wow, Rich Paul
represents this kid and he's still mad at us for
what happened with Bronnie James.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ever known.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I'm telling this is why business. They're going to talk
about New Jack City later. You're bringing it now.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know you want to sit here and say, oh,
there's no way this will ever come back to bite
me in the ass.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
There's no no trust me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It will And look and I get the whole thing,
which you really worry about agents, but when you have
very powerful people, this is the way the NBA.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I mean, people worry about Scott Borer. No, they tell
him to beat it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, well initially, well, eventually there's going to be a
collusion investigation on Scott. But gee, why did his guys
sit around with no offers all the way until the
end of February.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
You want to deal with him as much as you want.
That's part of the risk reward of how you hire
is your agent?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Right, But still if they if you're not calling someone's
agent because of who it is, that's kalude, that's it.
All that thirty teams aren't calling one agent, thirty teams
are not callings is.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Thirty teams independently? Can all say I hate that guy. Yeah,
I'm not going to deal with it. Nah, but you
got to prove it in a.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Court of law. And well, I think thirty thirty teams
not calling for for no.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
No, no, no, no, you have to all your God, you
have to prove that they talk to your guy like him.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We're not going on all your hate. You don't call
him either, because let's see how this happened.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Because that's that's bad for that's bad for sports if that,
if that goes on. Oh, I have this guy, and yeah,
he's driving stuff up. I get it, I get I
understand it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I've already said goodbye to Peter Lonzo. It doesn't matter
what I believe. It's a matter of what I can prove.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But you're sitting here and say, okay, another year of
those guys sitting back. Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna
be bad things that come up. And as you always
like to say, you don't know what can come up
during discovery of you don't know come up. That's a
bad thing, man, bad things. What do you got, Frostburg? Oh,
I just wanted to know if you saw Ton's home
run yet. I did see Tony's home run. See Tony's run.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, I was in the car. I heard it live.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And I may have had a Harvey ca Tell like
bad lieutenant moment you.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But I I do want to say, this is this
is where you know, this is the NBA Draft night.
There's a lot to get to, and there's a team
that's absolutely killing it in the draft. We'll get to
in a few minutes. But I got to say this
after today, do we really need the NBA Draft? The
Knicks are bringing back og Ananobi for over two hundred
million dollars that he declined he could have gotten the
(07:11):
match from another team, but said no, I'll take a
little bit less because I like what we're building here.
The Knicks now have the best one through eight in
the NBA. It's not even close. Boston's got a great roster.
Knicks have the best one through rate in the NBA.
Do we even need the draft anymore? We don't need it,
we you know we need.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I want to see tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I want to see Adam Silver come up and say, hey,
welcome to the NBA Draft. Everybody claps, obviously with late
breaking things happening going on, here we are, and he
pulls out the Larry O'Brien Trophy. Jalen Brunson, all the
Villanova guys come on. Here's mccal bridges, who doesn't even
have any Knicks gear yet because he just got traded yesterday.
And they handled the trophy and say thank you so much.
The Knicks will go on a good will tour throughout
(07:48):
the country. You'll get to see this unbelievable team one through.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Eight play thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow, what a great what a great time this is
in the NBA, And we'll see you for the NBA
Draft next year at this time.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Goodbye, everybody. We don't need it. The Knicks are winning
the title. It's over. It's over. Have you Seeni's home run?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You know one thing I know that's good. We can't
play it yet because the MLB rules, so you can't
just foist it on me.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I got you dot to talk about the Knicks for
five seconds.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Back to Knicks, back to hey, listen, you've got me
not to talk about a guy dressed as Grimace down
in beers at the rain delay between the Mets and
the Yankees tonight. That's how big a I had that
for the forty five block. What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Like that's a segment in and of itself between that
guy and the down spout at the end of the
rail who's standing there and drinking himself a tall boy
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean, come on, that's as good as a game.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But just just sit back for a second, take a breath,
and go Okay, Jason with the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But let's think about this.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You think about their rotation one through eight, where now
Hart and Devincenzo are coming off the bench, right Mitchell Robinson,
if he stays on the team, comes off the bench
or he mays knacks something else. One through eight, Right now,
the Knicks have the best roster in the NBA. They
should win the title next year. I mean really, it's
it's a title or bust year for the Knicks next year,
(09:08):
because again, they have the best roster in the NBA.
Porzingis helps the Celtics to some sort of high level. Right,
we saw that, But now what do we find out
today may miss the beginning of the season with surgery.
Know what, he's going to be back already going on?
One through eight, Knicks have the best roster in the NBA.
And it's not close.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You give me, give me any other team one through eight,
Give me any other team one through pa, I'll give
you the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Come on, man, the pace is out of a miracle. Three,
the don't even have the best point guard. Come on,
just stop now, just stop now when four guys get hurt.
For the Knicks, we still have four really good players
left to go. We're not just throwing out Bogdanovich or
Alec Burks. Hey, go get hot, hit some shots. Man
one through eight, most talented roster in the NBA. Knicks
(09:52):
are going. It's a title or bust year now for
the everything is on this year, next year they have
a two to three year title year window until have
to give bruntson one hundred million dollars. Just gonna happen
at some point. So yeah, I mean, this is this
is what it is for all of for all of
the Oh Jason, with the Knicks, you can't ignore this.
This is a team that was second in the East
last year, that remade themselves of the deadline, the Ananobe trade,
(10:14):
turned into the best defensive team in the NBA. Yeah,
and now you have Ananobe and Heart and Bridges now
all defending wings. Good luck trying to score, good luck
trying to hang thirty five. Good luck to Haliburton trying
to hang thirty five, good luck to Nembar trying to
make a thirty footer with his eyes closed.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Again, not gonna happen. It's a title or bust.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So no, no, So at this point you gotta be better
than that. You gotta leave Nemhart in the in the
rear view mirror, because if you're gonna still do that,
then then you know, you gotta grow up here in
this moment, right if you're gonna claim them as your
title winning squad and you're gonna crown him today saying
the season doesn't even matter. So long arduous journey. You
(10:53):
have Tom Thibodeau. Those guys kind of survive year one
with the fifty wins and that what did we have
at the end?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
One by one? It sound like the guy from Hell
Razer one.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Bed, Oh, I thought that was saw me saw yeah,
one bar one, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I thought that was hell Razor. But anyway, anyway, the.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Hell Razor was pinheads in his head and the ball
right no and yeah no, that was fantasmic phantasm.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Had this spear coming at you?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah, you know, Hell Razor, had you know, all the
people from Hell coming in uh, tormenting you. But the
point being you got a long way to go. That's
a lot of weary minutes for Tom Thibodeau lead squads.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I can't dance.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We got eight guys playing now, guys don't have to
play forty five minutes. Again, heart doesn't have to play
forty eight minutes even gender later.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
But even if they play thirty five, they're a harder
thirty five than most people play because he expects you
to play defense and not take him.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Now, everybody expects you to play defense in the ENBA.
That's where it's going right now. That's the way the
NBA is going right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yeah, but there's everybody two ahead in terms of shifting.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So I know the odds ahead of the half. Look
how good the Knick are there ahead of the no
And I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
And I know you know from all our guys that
have already contacted me on Twitter, I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
This is going to be painful.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
I give him his due for these two nights, and
then I just remind him how hard life is gonna
be when this fails.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Mike, we also got to ask him if he's heard
the home run. I know we can hear it in
a little bit. We can hear it a little bit.
It's not even over and all play it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
That's all right, looks just like Enron, the Knicks are
too big to fail.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
See that that's where you get you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They have all this money to give. I have no
idea what all these les and everything else. It's not
like they're not paying Devincerenzo in heart. They're paying these
guys to just remember.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
The salary cap is a fictional, mythical product of the NBA,
as evidenced by the fact that, Hey, we're gonna we
might lose on Anobi Nah two hundred and twelve million dollars,
come on back. Jalen Browns is not top market, but
he's not exactly walking around scratching nickels d'illion a year.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And when he comes up in what I did, what
do you want? Like what?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But that's just what he got. This window, the Bridges deal.
We've talked about that. Hartenstein some rumors that he wants
to stand, Like what's he He's going to do it
for a sandwich? Like, how the hell did they have
any money?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I would stay for a sandwich? I mean, did you?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I mean, there's they're pretty good delis where. I mean,
that's one hell of a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You would do? What New York sandwich? Do I get
a sand literally? Do anything?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Do I get a sandwich every day, Yes, during the season. Okay, fine,
I'm in see.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I remember when you showed me the the video when
you tried to audition for the Klondike bar ad and
you kept getting it wrong by saying what kind of sandwich?
It's like, No, it's about ice cream, jerk.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Best roster in the NBA one through eight, butle or bust?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
How about this? How about a deal?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
We'll play he will play Atani's home run coming up,
We'll play with Tony's on run coming up next. Then
we'll get back into the fact the NBA season for
twenty twenty four is basically over and the Knicks of
the champions.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So why do you have to talk about him if
it's over? Well, because it's a big night. Man.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Anytime you crown a champion, it's a big night, right.
We talked about the Celtics one they won. Now you're
talking about the Knicks they won the championships. How it
goes right straight ahead? You want a hot take for
the NBA Draft, We'll tell you who's gonna come out
of this draft as the biggest star. And it's not
who you think that's coming up next. Radio Jason and
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gonna hit a home run every night now, which is
gonna throw the MVP race in a difficult direction.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
But if you hit a home run every.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Day, I think he's I think he's gonna sort of
make that two million dollars a year contract worth it well.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Back to back now white Sox where the opponent hang
a star and a White Sox actually wouldn sellout tonight
Mexican heritage, and I think it more cool. Last jerseys, Yes,
first one of the year, so you get that, you
get the Otani effect right off the jump, the leadoff
home run. Yes, MVP conversations start to get very interesting,
no question about it. I really I feel like he
(16:21):
hits a home run every game. Now he's got ten
straight games. Yeah, I mean I feel like he has
a home run every single game. I'm gonna have one
one home run in the first four innings of every game. Really,
because you know, you want to talk about MVP in
the National League, because I can tell you right now,
Shohotani house hundred percent. I could make a great case
(16:42):
for Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez because what their record is
and games he plays. Now, he's aitting over three hundred,
he's got two big it's a night and the home
run I mean, I think the Mets are like twenty
seven and three when he plays, and they're like three
and three and thirty when he doesn't. No, but it
doesn't matter like any of the games of the last
couple of weeks. It's it's the Grimace effect. It's got
nothing to do with Alvarez. Well, I mean, we have
(17:04):
to write Grimace.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But but that's why.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I mean, you don't need to write them in credit
for to write. Alvarez gets no credit for it. It's
a great stat It's like, uh, you know, hey, what
what is it? Twenty three? And you know when Rojas
as a hit?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I mean, well, what am I doing? I'm going to
put a poll up right now? Who is your nl
m VP at the show? Hao Tani or Grimace? Frostburg?
Tell me the truth? Who would you vote? Shoo Tani
or Grimace? Who's been Who's been more important?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I mean, Grimace has to have a couple more weeks
than Insanity to take it two weeks.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, it's been more than two a two weeks run.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
But we're in we're in three weeks of Grimace now,
this is three weeks of Grimace.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah. Yeah, But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
We expected greatness from Otani, Right, I'm gonna play MVP
voter and Hall of Fame voter. Whatever I expect greatness,
I expected a little bit more. So we already knew
he was going to be great. So you really got
a well me and and Grimace came out of no
and he he was laying in the weeds, and all
of a sudden he pops out and a season that.
(18:06):
I mean, you were ready to already turn the page
to Aaron Rodgers. Now you got this whole Knicks thing
that's causing us all sorts of vexation and problems here.
But you you were ready to write the Mets off,
and all of a sudden you're back on the band.
That's why he gets my vote.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Well, logic at Grimace, Jason was over first off one
A when you lost, no, no, no, it's basically McDonald's
took him down. You did not avatar Grimace is that
was disappointing. I gotta say that that was too quick.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Grimace has decided screw you. I'm sticking around. Mets are
beating the Yankees tonight seven nothing. There's a fan at
the game, and look the game is just resuming after
a long rain delay, which is why it's still going on.
Seven nothing mets in the sixth inning. Uh, there is
a dude who came to the game tonight dressed as Grimace,
and there's a big viral video out. He's standing above
the crowd, everybody is taking video and he's pounding a beer.
(19:00):
Grimace is now pounding beers at City Field in between
innings of a rain delight.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
This is Grimace. This is the Grimace effect. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I think one of the things that that shouldn't be
lost on this uh is how quickly the proliferation, uh
and growth of the appearance of Grimace costumes happened. I
mean we're talking from concept to maybe maybe they're all
just laying in storage because they've been unsold, and all
of a sudden there's some market demands like, hey, I
(19:30):
got him here. It's like the Seinfeld episode. I got
these raincoats sitting in my in my.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
So all these Grimace outfits suddenly are fighting the light
and day. They're they're they're not as purple as we
they used to pretty. They're like Lilac.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It doesn't even look it looks like a poor imitation
of Grimace. We need to get real purple purple.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Because remember, I mean he was evil Grimace, which meant
he was the most purple that you could possibly be
when he started TJ.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Clearly, if you're looking for a deep purple Grimace, there
is definitely smoke on the water tonight, DJ, Hey, there
will be, and keep going.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Knock some more deep Purple as the Knicks as the
as the Knicks the next nick as the Mets are
knocking on the door of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No one's knocking at your back door for deep Purple.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
DJ later, dude, Yeah, that would come.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's the name of the song. I didn't I didn't
say anything about.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That was the name of the song was popular in
the eighties when Deep Purple tried their comeback.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That's all it said. Could have gone.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And I just said, we have to now stop talking
about Grimace because Aaron Judges at a home run it's now
seven to because for some reason, the Mets have a
thing where we're gonna walk the guy batting in front
of Aaron Judge for some stupid as reason, when we're
up by seven runs, we're gonna walk the guy in
front of Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So Aaron Judge, come in, home run.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It's seven to the no, but you gave the kids
a three that came to this game.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The first sellouf happy Knicks Nicks, Nicks, Nicks, Mets, Metsar
Judge hit a home run.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Now you's home happy Hey the Mets one Grimace was
shot gun and beers that saw him out there?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Sixth thenning, sixth inning.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
The real question, Yeah, have you knocked on your dad's
door yet? As Grimace my dad?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Uh? Uh okay, since the last time I talked to
my dad was before, No, was before this series. He
has not come anywhere near me or the.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
House or Zoe in the last door.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No, no, no, no, I'll have to do it because what
I did do him last time a couple of years
ago in the Mets sweat the Yankees in a uh
in in the inter League series. I put a bunch
of brooms at his door so he would open the
door and the brooms would.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Fall on him.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And then I felt bad, like, my dad's in his seventies,
and what's gonna happen if he opens a door and
brooms fall? So I just put the brooms and oh,
I went to the store and bought. I went to
a dollar store. I bought a whole lonch of brooms. Yeah,
so I put him like, right when my dad would
open the door, he would see them, so he didn't
want them falling on him and go what is this?
So I did that and he didn't really appreciate that
all that much. So, uh, that's a big thing. So
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I haven't done that, but he has not been around.
I have not done since the beginning of this.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Why aren't you trolling? Not at all? This is your
time to troll, and you're not. Because the thing is
Yankee fans are no fun toatrol. They are no fun.
You know, you have people in your life makes it fun.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
No, but it's not. It makes is it fun for you?
Because because if it's fun for you, then like them.
Sometimes it's like doing the thing right, I mean, come
on exactly. Doing the thing with the brooms for my
dad was fun. But when I try to troll my
dad or Fabian, all I get is records better than
yours and up there call me when you've won twenty
six championships. I'm like, Okay, that's just stuff that that
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people have said for fifty years now.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's not fun. It's not fun.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's like, okay, how about you give me something little
bit different? Call me when you've done this. This happens,
what happened the last time we played in the World Series?
I mean all of these things. I mean, clearly the
Yankees have a lot over the Mets, which is what
Yankee fans to fall to. But I mean it's not fun.
Like give me something fun. Like putting brooms in front
of your door is fun. Down we open the door
and see all these brooms. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
But I just gotta yeah, yeah, what happened here? What
about this?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You? How many World Championships were you have? Your last
one was not? Like, I don't know, the last one
was nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Really it was nineteen eighty six. What happened I don't
even know what happened in that series? Was it really good?
Was it? Finn? I don't understand? Like something, Yankee fans
are no fun.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
The way you respond is you just say, can I
just give you a hug? Because clearly this hurts you
so badly that you have to go. We'll get all
the titles we have.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Your team has sucked, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Right it's like being here in La Sorry, sorry, Justin,
but it's the same idea. Right, there's a lot of
near misses. There's a lot of greatness. Dodgers have been great.
It's been a long time since the World Series win.
Other the one that some folks don't count, likewise, the
Laker title.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I count them.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Look, you get to march around with it, with the trophy,
a hunk of metal you win.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm all for it. But the world at large fights
about it. So that's fine.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But it's the when you tell me I got seventeen
when I like, eh, that doesn't matter to me. One
because most of the people that are touting that weren't alive.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
For most of them wine.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
But second, like, all right, we're talking about today, and
if your team sucks today and I beat your team today,
it's about today's game.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
It's not about forty years ago. It's not about what
Babe Ruth in the earth I get. Look at the
standings I get, look at it. Tell you it's no fun.
It used to I used to have this thing because
I used to love playing jokes on Pea. I still do,
but and usually the people who didn't respond were always
the most fun, like they either didn't get it or
they didn't do it. But now I've just lost my
my Uh, how do I say? I've lost some of
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the love and feeling though.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
No, I've lost some of the satisfaction of pulling a
joke on somebody who's who's going to react, not in
a fun way, like.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It's kind of fun to be in at all.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
This person has no idea about this, and I can
do it and they're not going to react, but it's
still fun. It's fun for me. It's a fun story
to tell. Now I've done enough of those where I'm like,
you know what, you're no fun?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, those episode the time investment.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
At some point it's like, all right, if I got
to put up a bunch of effort to make it,
like right now, you'd have to go and fight traffic
to get to a store to stand in line to
buy all those brooms. We're talking about a significant investment
in time. If it's not gonna yield the yucks that
you need, no or a violent response, you know, angry,
you know, while you've got your helmet camera and you're
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recording the response. If you're not gonna get a good response,
that's a lot of time. You could be doing something else.
You're a sandwich. Yeah, watching another movie.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm sorry I could have pulled this joke, but I
want to have a sandwich instead. It's about time. See
that's all.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Look like doing it with Frostburg is fun because Frostburg
is something different every night. It's different an audio you know,
it's it's different home runs by show.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Heo Tani, thank you for that audio clip.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Eventually, eventually we're gonna you know, we've gotten past the
butt fumbled. Now now we're on the fail Mary. Now
we're on to Nemhard's three. Okay, we're moving on.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We're not doing this. Say that right. It's fun. It's
an evolution.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But like when when when people don't make it, fund
says don't want to have your team stakes? What are
you talking about? Oh great, that's that's great. I'll just
shake my go you know what, My time is too valuable.
I can't sit here and and and control you when
I know that your response is gonna be huffy and
it's just gonna be Look at the standings, Look at
the standings.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Look at me, Jimmie chips. You have when's the last
time you did this. When's the last time you did this?
Was it? It's like.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You but it's still but I mean, it's still no
fun to do those jokes. Right Like at the end,
if the Mets win this game, I will send broom
emojis to my dad, I'll do some fun stuff I
don't hear from them.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
For like, what's that? But then when the Yankees like
take the lead.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
No, but that's but that's the only thing I can
get away with that at least if I'm trolling on
social media. No, No, here's the thing, because if my
dad and yeah, if my dad and Fabiano want to
just blow it off, at least a lot of other
people get it. So that's a fun thing.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Dude, Fabian has been asleep for like at least the
last four innings of.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
A probably true.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Uh so again, we have to stop talking to this
because the Mets just made an error and now the
Yankees have two on and there's one out.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
No, no, no, we're actually talking into making this game more exciting.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, no, we're not. We're not worse talking about this
or the or the Yeah, what do you mean, it's
talking about what? Talking about what?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm not gonna say it well, listen, Grimace is a
big deal, right, and clearly maybe Grimmace needs to come
out and start yell at the guys saying, hey, let's
get going here. Let let's make sure we get out
of the thing and not keep giving the Yankees more runs.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Well, we know, definitely, if you go to the bullpen,
they'd rather see Grimmace come out than their manager.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Everybody would rather see Grimmas come out every single Oh,
Grimace is gonna Oh Grimaces already.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Called for the hook.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah, but I mean do a little lip reading during
pitching changes. It's very entertaining.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Give me the ball, Give me the ball, give me
the ball. I'm coming in. You're coming in.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, but I found you actual video voice.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, no, that's pretty good. I like my voice of
Grimace the other night. Grimbeth, Gribbeth Grimbath, Hello, Gribbeth, you're
not that far off. I am here to help the
Mets and to help you grim We have a situation
at the draft, guys, Grimmas. What's going on in the
draft right now?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Is a guy that keeps showing in the green room
or right there on the court. M He looks like
he does not want to be there tonight. It's one
of these Aaron Rodgers moments. Philip Kowski.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh you know, for a second, I thought that's who
you were going to take?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Are going to take? Like when I start j J.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Reddick getting very up, very happy and animated and he's
shaking hands with everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, this is great, this is like.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh they took Philipowski. They did that, duke guy Philipowski.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
He's happy.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
No, no, no, there on the the do they trade Jannis
and take him?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Uh? They trade Giannis to the Knicks for Mitchell Robinson.
That's what that that's the Knicks. The next after that
they take the Knicks don't need these picks.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
We don't need them.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
We don't need You know what the Knick should do,
you know what, say we're just taking the next Nova guy. Yeah,
we're not even putting a name on him anymore. The
Knick should say, listen, here's we're gonna do for the NBA.
We're gonna auction off these picks to the highest bidder,
and all the money is gonna go charity, and we're
gonna do something good because we clearly don't need anybody,
because we have the best rotation one through rate in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Or did you not see we're bringing you hed toobe back? Okay,
I do. We'll make some money for the NBA. What
whatever found out? Hey, maybe Lebron can come in and
bid and do some stuff and do a do a
whole nother uh decision thing. Hey, I've been help Boys
and Girls Club.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Then the Knicks. The Knicks should end up just hey, listen,
let's just auction off these picks. Yeah, I would say this.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
The The most entertaining meme that started floating around relating
to the draft was that the Knicks had announced their
city connect uniforms for next year and it was just
an alternate in Villanova.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, it's gotta go all.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'm in you know, uh little Victory. We're gonna do
our beginning of the season. Uh interview process with you, Gregor.
And what's your name?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You're paying me a lot of money. I'm Julius Randall. Julius.
Where'd you go to school? I went to the University Kentucky. Julius.
Thanks so much. We'll be in touch. We'll see you.
Wait what, Yeah, we'll see it.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
What's you to have a divided locker room? What's what's
your name? Ryan, Ryan, what's your last name? Arcadiacano?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Oh where'd you go to school? You come on?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Hey, the money we were given that guy, we're gonna
give it to I'm our guest to the show.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We're gonna give it to you. How about that, Ryan?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
But you also have a the the opportunity, you know,
of having a lot of division in that locker room.
I think that's really where this potentially falls apart physically,
that they fall apart in a Thibodeau environment, but that
because you didn't go to Villanova, you're out. They're gonna
do secret handshakes, right, and they're gonna have movie nights.
You don't anybody else would say nobody knows. Oh sure,
(30:55):
Hey we're going to the movies.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh can we go?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
No, this is a Villanova. All the world going to
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all right. So we had to have that moment in
Grimace because when you're shot gunning beers in between innings
of a game, you need that moment. But straight ahead time, Yeah,
who's coming out of this NBA draft is the biggest star?
We'll tell you that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Oh boy, poor Kyle Philipowski. He is still
not been selected. We are at pick number twenty five,
the Knicks taking their second of back to backs.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
After trading their first.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, I really, I really want to say for the
next two picks they've taken Brownny James Boo, I.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Would love that. That's a combos selection. Boy, how piss
would Lebron be?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You know, the one thing I really always want to
do in my career was playing Madison square guard. And
now my bleeping son's gonna get to My kid's gonna
beat me there, man, causing a rift in the time
continue him a in a family rivalry that will span generations.
I'll tell you and Leon Rose always say, hey, let's
FaceTime your dad and show him what the lighting looks
like here.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But you know he's not yet.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Wait wait, wait, fantastic wave, we simulated your whole introduction.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Ready, ready to dad, Jason if the next do take him.
Guess who can't afford Lebron James after last night's trade, Well,
your nixt.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
We're not getting Lebron's done. Now he's got to show
up for a dollar.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Not happening, not having a dollar. But well, whatever the
minimum is, he's not doing that. He's not doing.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
That's what they offered him, a blaze pizzadvicement.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But look, this NBA draft, there's a lot of players
that the average basketball fan hasn't heard of. Look when
a lot of players are coming from overseas and and
every every other guy is from France. Okay, I got
you get the guys from Yukon, from Villanova, Yukon paying
attention to Villanova, and the guys from Dukes still rate right,
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Philipowski is a guy because you mentioned him there, legitimately
going back to the top ten picks. If you were
you know, just kind of shuffling up a deal names.
We know, yeah, he's got to go early. Why because
we know who he is and the giant from Purdue, yeah, Zack. Well,
the fact that Zach they don't know his name, but
the fact that he went ninth overall.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Is George Mirrasan. Because remember all of.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
The evaluations like he might not get drafted at all,
he'll be a late second day guy.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
But look, I'll tell you this right now, the biggest
star of this draft is and I've been talking about
it for a while, is going to be Steph Castle.
This kid is fantastic. And I'm not always a big
fan of saying, well, the I didn't show enough in college.
He should have shown a little bit more, cause you
know what I say about JJ McCarthy. J McCarthy's so good.
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Why didn't he play good? But Steph Castle showed you
the skill set that he has and he wasn't asked
to do a lot on a Yukon team that was
absolutely loaded. You winning every game by twenty points, you're
ownto the national championship. But he's exactly what everybody is
looking for. He is a guy that can handle the ball,
He can play off the ball. He can shoot. You're
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gonna see a little bit more of that at the
next level. But the main thing is you watched him
hot knife through butter through the tournament, defending all the
best players, and he was sending guys home who were
scoring twenty five, twenty eight a game. Your guy Boo
Booi went home, right, Terren Shannon went on one was
Shannon was scoring thirty eight a game and he would
one for fourteen when when Miami played Yukon.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
He is that good?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, well, at least we were in the tournament. No,
it's true. Thanks Smith, my dad, I went full Walt
on you.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I'm gonna go with the guy that was selected right
ahead of him and Reed Shepherd going to a Houston team,
great shooter, humbered potentially to be you know, in this
Kevin Durant thing.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
We'll see what happens there.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
But a team on the come right, San Antonio still
has a bunch of building blocks, and he's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
There's no question.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
You add him, You add to him to Wemby uh
and that's a that's a formidable duo UH to to rebuild.
They've got a couple of other pieces that I think
were underrated didn't translate to win. Now with Houston, you
got a team that's uh young and rising and a
guy that can shoot the lights out. So I'll take
him because you know what, in the grand scheme, people
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still don't care about defense.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But but that's the thing now, is that that's become
a thing. Now we want no, no, no, want that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
For our basket. Talking about sex appeal, he shoot it.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
He's gonna come out the biggest because he's gonna be
one of those combo guards that the castle that can
do more than he should just because he didn't have to.
But when you see the defensive acumen, yeah, you want
to look at a guy like o Ganaobe getting the
money that he had that he got today.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
That's it. That's become a big uh. That's become a
big thing.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
A big trend in the NBA is Okay, we need
guys that can make shots, and we need guys that
candtion and net wing defenders. Right, that's what every team
is looking for now. We need a guy that can
make shots, play well offensively, and is a good wing defender.
It's why mckel bridges went for five first round picks yesterday.
It's why the Knicks are given Ogan Unobi two hundred
and twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Castle's the guy, and I'm telling you go through all this. Look,
I'll be the first guy to tell you. I don't
know a ton about a lot of these players where
they're all coming from France. I don't know a ton
about guys from France. But watching Castle especially is run
during the tournament. Seeing him shut down the best players,
the best offensive players in college basketball, who all had
different skill sets, that is something special, man. And I
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can't believe he didn't go number one. It was a
gift to the Spurs. At number four. You talk about
Castle and Wemby for the next ten years. Good luck, man,
good luck.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
All I can say is I mean, obviously we've watched
a lot of clips and seen a lot of highlight
reels out out of.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
The French League. But I know this.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
I need to go see some of the history in France.
I need to go and get myself some baguettes and
some nice cheeses, and evidently I need to get some
kind of subscription to watch French basketball because they're coming
over in waves. We just had your Knicks just took
a guy from France.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Coke. Uh yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Start thinking, are we paying too much attention to the
NBA and not enough to French League. I think it
seems like we might shoot not watch the NBA playoffs
and watch more French League playoffs.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I think we could do bold.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
But no, the NBA draft, but you know what, the
French League is where it's at eight seven, seven ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
NBA is overrated.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Coming up next, we will answer the biggest question every
NBA fan has about their team in the draft.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
That's next right here, Jason, Mike, you're listening to Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (38:05):
App Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon Live. No, it's actually Wednesday, you sure, yeah, Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Wednesday. Wednesday, We're live the.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Tirag dot Com Studios where in three outs the Mets
will have a sweep of the New York Yankees. And
despite the fact the Yankees are twenty games over five hundred,
the sky is falling for them, and all US Mets
fans are like.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Hey, you go to the World Series.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Man, it's great, but well, you gotta find your wins
where you can, buddy, as you celebrate the error.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Sure that puts another runner.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
On here in the eighth, but we'll get back to
the NBA Draft coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
One of the most.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Difficult coaching decisions was made earlier today. It's a big
it's a big shock, or it's a big headline. Alex
Morgan will not be on the US women's national team
when they play in the Olympics later on this summer,
and the Hayes, brand new women's coach finally finished up
at Chelsea, came over. She's coached a handful of games
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and has decided she is not going to one of
the players they are taken to the Olympics. Alex Morgan
put out a statement saying she was disappointed in the decision,
but she will still root on all of her teammates
as they go to.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Try to bring home the gold medal.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
This is a really difficult decision, but I'm going to
tell you right now, I get it, and I agree
with it. It's hard to see a US women's team
without her, considering she's gonna wind up walking away as
the most decorated women's player ever, right with the World
Cups and the Olympics. I mean, she she went from
the first invention of the team with Mia Hamm and
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Julie Foudi and and to go on into the Mbi
womback Hope solo, and then when it was her and
Meghan Rappino. I mean, she's been the one when she
was in her early twenties, thirty five years old. But look,
let's be honest, Alex Morgan is not the same player.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
No, it's her Rapino and ch and all like. Look,
I get it gets and there's part. The first thing
I'm gonna say is this is part of this. Probably
Emma hay is saying I had to put my stamp
on the team here because this is my team. You
can say, look, because Crystal Dunn is still going, she's
gonna play forward now and not be a defendant.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
There's still some players going, but this is a star player.
This is someone who is a big voice and a
big member, and so is part of it. Probably Emma
Hayes wants to put her stamp on the team. Yeah,
I don't think that part. Did Alex Morgan any favors.
I don't think this well, you know, I really this
needs to be my team, and is it's still my
team if Alex Morgan is there. People are talking about
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the former era of the United States women's national team
and we need to show that we are starting over again.
But this is where we're at right now. This is
the new group. Lindsey Horan is our captain. We have
younger players. The average age of the team now is
twenty six. It's not older like it was, so that's
part of it. But quite honestly, she's not the same player.
I thought potentially they would take her and she would
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be in the Raupino role of where if they needed
a goal, she come off the bench and play the
last twenty twenty five minutes. Like I thought, that's kind
of what her role would be. Because the number one
thing the United States women's team needs what they need goals, right,
That's what you saw them in the World Cup going.
They don't have scorers, right. The young players that have
come up have not been what the young players are
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in the past. And I understand people thinking, well, when
you hear Trinity Rodman and so Fia Smith, well they're
just gonna be great, just like all the other younger players,
because all those players have been great for fifteen years.
But they're just not. Trinity Robin's a big name, so
Fhia Smith is a name you've heard. But they're not
great players. They're not difference makers. They're not players who
come out and say, look at where they are. They're
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players who are Okay, they're good. But the United States
has went from the dominant team in the in the
world to now one of the five best teams in
the world. They've taken a step down. They need someone
who can fill the net. And you watched Alex Morgan
play and it was very difficult. She's off sides all
the time. She's lost a step, which is probably why
she was pushed. That's why she's off sides. Everything absolutely right,
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and you're gonna I mean, how many how many off
sides she get called for?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Can you stay on side?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Alex Morgan? She can't dent the back of the net
like she used to. She looks like someone when watching
her play that her time has just come right. And
sometimes you can play till your late thirties, you can
extend that a little bit, but sometimes it comes when
you're thirty five, and again the whole Hey, moving on
to Emma Hayes. That didn't do her any favorites. Maybe
she would have been able to stay on the team
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again and play in that rapena role. You don't play
every game, but if we're tied late in the last
twenty five minutes, we could go to overtime in penalties.
We need you on the field. I thought that, but
that again, that didn't do her any favorites. But I
can't disagree with this because she's not the same player.
We talked about this going into the World Cup. The
biggest question was is Alex Morgan still an elite goal scorer?
Because if she's still an elite goal scorer, the women's
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national team is going to be really good.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I'm fine about it, but we saw she's not and
there's nobody there because Mallory Swanson was injured. There's nobody
on that team to.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Take that up.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
And we had a lot of trouble trying to so
we couldn't score in shootouts. We were we were just
mentally shot during the shootouts and we got knocked out
of the tournament. So I watched this and I go,
this is it for Alex Morgan. And you don't go
from you don't go from not getting picked for the
Olympic team at thirty five to getting picked for the
World Cup team at thirty seven and a half. It
doesn't appen. So this is the end of her run.
(43:13):
This is the end of her international career. And it's
said because it's such a great run for But it's
time and just watch the games, go back and watch Tate,
watch video and see her. She's not as fast, she's
not the same goal scorers she was. She didn't when
she got the ball in the box, she didn't have
the same smoothness she'd have the same level of execution.
And it was really tough watching it, Like I knew
(43:35):
she's near the end, Like she's really near the end.
She can't play these minutes. She can't do this. She
keeps she keeps getting off sides because she's too slow,
Which is part of the United States's problem was that
we were way too slow in general. So hopefully they're
faster now as we get into the Olympics this summer.
But you know, it's a tough day, but I absolutely agree,
and I think it's just the end for Alex Morgan.
I wish she would have made a retirement statement instead
(43:57):
of saying, hey, I'm disappointed to not get picked because
you're not getting and pick for something else all. I mean, really,
I would have just I know it's a tough decision
to make, but that's where you say, hey, I'm retiring
from international play. I'll still play in the NWSLT whatever
you're gonna do. But this is where it's like your
best player that you owe so much to it has
to walk is walking away. Saying I'm disappointed to not
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get picked should have ended a little bit differently. They
could have could have done a little bit differently. But
I agree that she's done and you need to go
to the younger players.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
But that's the question of you know, how was it
communicated to her right it was? Was there something that
didn't sit right in the way the conversations went, uh
and discussing a potential role for this this run of things.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
I mean, only they're gonna they're gonna know.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
But when I saw the statement come out this morning,
I mean, there was no surprise to it, right, changing
in the guard. Uh. Look as much as you can
say we took a step back, the rest of the
world caught up, right. That's the other part for the
international women's soccer game, and we're watching it with women's sports,
uh in a in a lot a lot of venues
of you know, you're you're seeing competition to where maybe
(45:04):
you once had a bit of distancing and now there's
other nations that are at the table here. It's going
to be curious with Smith and Rodman that you mentioned
Macario coming back because she'd been injured, so she missed
some a lot of games and a lot of time,
but you're trying to find speed, you know heran how
many times did we we wonder you know, in terms
(45:25):
of too much soccer, did she need some time off whatever?
Where she didn't have the same pace of play, But
you still have a few of the holdovers in her
hand in rose leavel and familiar names, and that might
have been where you had Alex Morgan stay not to
where it's ceremonial, but a little bit because it's ceremonial,
(45:47):
right of you could still be here. But you need
a striker, but you need a striker that has the
extra push, yeah, versus the roster decisions as they've been
laid out, we're more we need at least some verse
utility because if you're not gonna be great at what
you were ones great at, I need you to be
able to do some other things. And that's not where
Alex Morgan is in her career and in her play
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right now.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
And it's it's always tough.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
It's always tough to say goodbye to players in any sport,
coaches in any sport that have had a long, long run.
Even at the end, you know, Beheim, it was time,
but it's still hurt.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
We watch guys walk away and like, wow, twenty years
made Nick Saban this fall. It's gonna be weird watching
him on television.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
But he but he walked away, Like this is weird.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
It's like, hey, I'm telling you your career is over,
and you I think you have to understand that when
your career is over, given the option, I mean, I
don't know, I'm behind closed doors, but how did they
get to that point where you're not getting taken and
I'm upset that you didn't take me?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
I mean that's that's but it's still gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
You're you're not gonna agree with the decision, right, I mean,
plenty of folks get walked off a job in one
way or for it.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
But you know, if you're not making this team, you're
not making the World Cup team, You're you're not getting
picked up for another team.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
But in the end, you know, it's the old you got.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
You gotta think for how many seconds before you say something, and.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Certainly a little bit longer.
Speaker 5 (47:11):
Don't hit send, right, the old don't don't send button
that needed to be there in terms of, you know.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Conveying your frustration.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
And in this case, I'm gonna go out and let
and say she was quite okay with However people want
to interpret her disappointment here that she felt she still
was good enough.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Is good enough to earn a roster spot. You know.
Here's the thing though, but if this.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Was reality, right, but she had the face sometimes but
they've gone all in on Emma Hayes as their coach.
And if this was Antonofski was near the end, maybe
you would have picked her some dog, you might have
picked her. But if this was someone who was ending,
you know, I'll be like, okay, hey, you're not picking me,
the team might not win. The next coach coming in
is gonna pick me. Emma Hayes is in for the
next World Show. She doesn't pick you. Now, Oh no,
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you're done, you know. I mean it's not so. But
I didn't se anybody else you could score. So Hey,
guess what, Alex Morgan, I'll come back to you. That's
not happening. I mean, it's just not happening.
Speaker 5 (48:05):
I while I agree in the moment, you're you're talking
about the initial shock and disappointment and frustration of this.
You're you're not tweeting and sending out statements about two
years from now, recognizing the end. You're You're you're hot,
You're fired up right now, right hot, take nonsense in
terms of our business, right You're re read react in
(48:29):
the moment you read a tweet, call you an idiot
that you don't like, you respond to it in the moment.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
In this case, she got notified, she was pissed. She
hit send, can't do it, you know, and and and
then you and the thing. Now, I'm not turning my back.
It's done. She's done. We actually talked about it. She
was done.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
She's done that, she's done that. Look, nobody talks soccer
like we do, so listen to us.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
The one thing I will say is that in this hey,
the United States really need somebody who can score.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Now that Mallory Swanson's back, this may be the big
thing that flips the team because she was the best
scorer they had. Remember she missed the World Cup with
that horrible injury. She's just getting back now. She was
the up and coming next best scorer of the United
States had and she had everything. She had the the
the tracking, she had, the training for it, she had
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the little bit of competition that she had with the
US women's team when she was younger. Hey, back when
she was Mallory pew Right, she was gonna be terrific.
And now was her time. Missing that World Cup was
huge because she's the one that would have been out there,
that would have been Hey, this is the one that's
gonna dent the back of the net force. This is
the one that's gonna put to put the ball in
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the net force. Instead of having to worry about can
we get a goal from Lindsay Hern, can we get
can we get an oh, by the way, goal from
Sophia Smith, Can we find a way to score off
a corner?
Speaker 3 (49:55):
You know?
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Can Rapino come off the bench in the last twenty
minutes and score Like the addition of Mallory swa Onson
could be what flips the United States from hey, we're
one of the top five. Maybe that's an over the
top move because she is that good a score, that's
what they can rely on. First off, Sophia Smith. Swiping, swiper,
No swiping, don't try to hide the ball.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
It's a bad move. It just doesn't work. And you're
on tape. There's cameras and everything.
Speaker 5 (50:18):
The second part, and I will contend this other than
the Ghost Runner, penalty kicks are the worst.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Thing in sports, man. I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Let's decide a game that you killed yourself for on
the pitch of the a.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
You know, well, you can't play forever? Yeah you can't.
Yeah that keeps going? Is the game still going? Look?
Speaker 1 (50:39):
I had to wake up at three o'clock in the
morning to watch that. But you can't go on forever, man,
It's got to end it at some point.
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The latest selection in the draft right there, Dalt Connect
goes to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Good shooter, a guy that look was on the board
for a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And for everybody who's on social media saying, boy, if
we can get connect boy man, if he was that great,
he wouldn't be on the board at number twelve. But
still a shooter. Lakers need a shooter, need somebody that
could put points on the board.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And at this point, why not I know we were
waiting maybe hope goodness, could we really up in the
draft and give us something unbelievable? Bribdy? Could it be
broddy Dick? Couldn't be broddiy da? I really wanted Adam
Silver to do that and do the goal.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
At number seventeen, the Lakers select, but first, I have
a trade to announce, because he announced the trader killing
him from the Spurs. Can you match that he did that?
If he just said I have first, the Lakers like seventeen,
but there's a trade to announce first, people.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Would have known.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I think what he should have said was, you know
what I ve eat like, had it concerned the Lakers pick,
just saying no, no, no, hell with this. We got
a second night of a draft. We can't have this here.
We can't have this here.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
This guy cannot be drafted at seven to eight. We
have a whole other night. That's a feature point for him.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
With the Lakers pick at number seventeen. Remember, round two
of the draft is tomorrow. I just want to let
you know we're gonna be running it right back here
on television broadcast live good Night two of the draft.
So look, no, they did not take Bronnie James. And look, honestly,
this is what we thought we said last night. He's
a second round guy. I'll triple down when he's there
(02:35):
at fifty five because nobody else is gonna upset the
Apple cart and risk getting Clutch Sports upset at them.
Rich Paul, Clutch Sports very powerful. They're not going to
draft a guy when you can draft other players. If
Bronnie James is a great, great prospect, he was a
first round graded prospect. If he was a top fifteen
graded prospect, it would be a different story about Rich
(02:56):
Paul pulling the strings again to go somewhere. But this
is a kid that could go anywhere right, second round,
maybe even undrafted. Of his name wasn't Bronnie James. Okay,
So teams will lay off him because they don't want
the circus, don't want the sideshow, don't want to upset
Rich Paul. Suddenly, oh he didn't work out for you.
We didn't want this, This wasn't the great fit for us. Fine,
you want to push it, you want to find his
(03:17):
way to make his way to the Lakers. Absolutely, we'll
make it happen. So fifty five will come. He will
be there because teams will lay off him because they
could take other guys rather than take Bronnie James. And
it's not that big a deal. Don't even know how
much of it of a conversation Bronnie James probably has
been with other teams.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, no worry.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We're gonna go after something worked out for two teams.
And we've talked about it a little bit, and and
Rich Paul had even brought it up at times. Gay,
you know what, he's got relationships. There's a couple of
teams where it wouldn't be completely out of the blue,
but certainly not teams where we worked out for. And also,
you know, he went deep into the contracts, two way
(03:57):
contracts and all of that stuff to do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now here's the thing. If I'm a.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Team that's not you know, the Lakers, and I'm looking
at Bronnie James and legitimately think, hey, he may get
another growth spurt. He's a good defender, right, we all
acknowledge that there's some parts of his games that are
that that they're good. He just needs more development as
a shooter, distributor all of that stuff. But remember, if
you look at the Rich Paul client list, at least
(04:22):
the one that I've got in front of me, the
two guys that really stir the drink and ads over
there too are Draymond Green and lebron James.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
They're both near out of the league.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So Rich Paul ain't got the juice that you think
he does long term, By friend, who's he.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Gonna wind up getting after? Who are the new guys
coming out?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I am worried about upsetting I don't want either of
those guys, but you never know. You never know, right,
you never know who he's gonna wind up getting.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You never o. We don't care about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
And then in two years it's, oh wow, Rich Paul
represents this kid and he's still mad at us for
what happened with Bronnie James.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ever known.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I'm telling this is why business. They're going to talk
about New Jack City later. You're bringing it now.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know you want to sit here and say, oh,
there's no way this will ever come back to bite
me in the ass.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
There's no no trust me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It will And look and I get the whole thing,
which you really worry about agents, but when you have
very powerful people, this is the way the NBA.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I mean, people worry about Scott Borer. No, they tell
him to beat it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, well initially, well, eventually there's going to be a
collusion investigation on Scott. But gee, why did his guys
sit around with no offers all the way until the
end of February.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
You want to deal with him as much as you want.
That's part of the risk reward of how you hire
is your agent?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Right, But still if they if you're not calling someone's
agent because of who it is, that's kalude, that's it.
All that thirty teams aren't calling one agent, thirty teams
are not callings is.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Thirty teams independently? Can all say I hate that guy. Yeah,
I'm not going to deal with it. Nah, but you
got to prove it in a.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Court of law. And well, I think thirty thirty teams
not calling for for no.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
No, no, no, no, you have to all your God, you
have to prove that they talk to your guy like him.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
We're not going on all your hate. You don't call
him either, because let's see how this happened.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Because that's that's bad for that's bad for sports if that,
if that goes on. Oh, I have this guy, and yeah,
he's driving stuff up. I get it, I get I
understand it.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I've already said goodbye to Peter Lonzo. It doesn't matter
what I believe. It's a matter of what I can prove.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But that.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But you're sitting here and say, okay, another year of
those guys sitting back. Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna
be bad things that come up. And as you always
like to say, you don't know what can come up
during discovery of you don't know come up. That's a
bad thing, man, bad things. What do you got, Frostburg? Oh,
I just wanted to know if you saw Ton's home
run yet. I did see Tony's home run. See Tony's run.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, I was in the car. I heard it live.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And I may have had a Harvey ca Tell like
bad lieutenant moment you.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But I I do want to say, this is this
is where you know, this is the NBA Draft night.
There's a lot to get to, and there's a team
that's absolutely killing it in the draft. We'll get to
in a few minutes. But I got to say this
after today, do we really need the NBA Draft? The
Knicks are bringing back og Ananobi for over two hundred
million dollars that he declined he could have gotten the
(07:11):
match from another team, but said no, I'll take a
little bit less because I like what we're building here.
The Knicks now have the best one through eight in
the NBA. It's not even close. Boston's got a great roster.
Knicks have the best one through rate in the NBA.
Do we even need the draft anymore? We don't need it,
we you know we need.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I want to see tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I want to see Adam Silver come up and say, hey,
welcome to the NBA Draft. Everybody claps, obviously with late
breaking things happening going on, here we are, and he
pulls out the Larry O'Brien Trophy. Jalen Brunson, all the
Villanova guys come on. Here's mccal bridges, who doesn't even
have any Knicks gear yet because he just got traded yesterday.
And they handled the trophy and say thank you so much.
The Knicks will go on a good will tour throughout
(07:48):
the country. You'll get to see this unbelievable team one through.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Eight play thanks.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow, what a great what a great time this is
in the NBA, And we'll see you for the NBA
Draft next year at this time.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Goodbye, everybody. We don't need it. The Knicks are winning
the title. It's over. It's over. Have you Seeni's home run?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You know one thing I know that's good. We can't
play it yet because the MLB rules, so you can't
just foist it on me.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I got you dot to talk about the Knicks for
five seconds.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Back to Knicks, back to hey, listen, you've got me
not to talk about a guy dressed as Grimace down
in beers at the rain delay between the Mets and
the Yankees tonight. That's how big a I had that
for the forty five block. What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Like that's a segment in and of itself between that
guy and the down spout at the end of the
rail who's standing there and drinking himself a tall boy
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean, come on, that's as good as a game.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But just just sit back for a second, take a breath,
and go Okay, Jason with the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But let's think about this.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You think about their rotation one through eight, where now
Hart and Devincenzo are coming off the bench, right Mitchell Robinson,
if he stays on the team, comes off the bench
or he mays knacks something else. One through eight, Right now,
the Knicks have the best roster in the NBA. They
should win the title next year. I mean really, it's
it's a title or bust year for the Knicks next year,
(09:08):
because again, they have the best roster in the NBA.
Porzingis helps the Celtics to some sort of high level. Right,
we saw that, But now what do we find out
today may miss the beginning of the season with surgery.
Know what, he's going to be back already going on?
One through eight, Knicks have the best roster in the NBA.
And it's not close.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You give me, give me any other team one through eight,
Give me any other team one through pa, I'll give
you the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Come on, man, the pace is out of a miracle. Three,
the don't even have the best point guard. Come on,
just stop now, just stop now when four guys get hurt.
For the Knicks, we still have four really good players
left to go. We're not just throwing out Bogdanovich or
Alec Burks. Hey, go get hot, hit some shots. Man
one through eight, most talented roster in the NBA. Knicks
(09:52):
are going. It's a title or bust year now for
the everything is on this year, next year they have
a two to three year title year window until have
to give bruntson one hundred million dollars. Just gonna happen
at some point. So yeah, I mean, this is this
is what it is for all of for all of
the Oh Jason, with the Knicks, you can't ignore this.
This is a team that was second in the East
last year, that remade themselves of the deadline, the Ananobe trade,
(10:14):
turned into the best defensive team in the NBA. Yeah,
and now you have Ananobe and Heart and Bridges now
all defending wings. Good luck trying to score, good luck
trying to hang thirty five. Good luck to Haliburton trying
to hang thirty five, good luck to Nembar trying to
make a thirty footer with his eyes closed.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Again, not gonna happen. It's a title or bust.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So no, no, So at this point you gotta be better
than that. You gotta leave Nemhart in the in the
rear view mirror, because if you're gonna still do that,
then then you know, you gotta grow up here in
this moment, right if you're gonna claim them as your
title winning squad and you're gonna crown him today saying
the season doesn't even matter. So long arduous journey. You
(10:53):
have Tom Thibodeau. Those guys kind of survive year one
with the fifty wins and that what did we have
at the end?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
One by one? It sound like the guy from Hell
Razer one.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Bed, Oh, I thought that was saw me saw yeah,
one bar one, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I thought that was hell Razor. But anyway, anyway, the.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Hell Razor was pinheads in his head and the ball
right no and yeah no, that was fantasmic phantasm.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Had this spear coming at you?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yeah, you know, Hell Razor, had you know, all the
people from Hell coming in uh, tormenting you. But the
point being you got a long way to go. That's
a lot of weary minutes for Tom Thibodeau lead squads.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I can't dance.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
We got eight guys playing now, guys don't have to
play forty five minutes. Again, heart doesn't have to play
forty eight minutes even gender later.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
But even if they play thirty five, they're a harder
thirty five than most people play because he expects you
to play defense and not take him.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Now, everybody expects you to play defense in the ENBA.
That's where it's going right now. That's the way the
NBA is going right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yeah, but there's everybody two ahead in terms of shifting.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So I know the odds ahead of the half. Look
how good the Knick are there ahead of the no
And I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
And I know you know from all our guys that
have already contacted me on Twitter, I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
This is going to be painful.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
I give him his due for these two nights, and
then I just remind him how hard life is gonna
be when this fails.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Mike, we also got to ask him if he's heard
the home run. I know we can hear it in
a little bit. We can hear it a little bit.
It's not even over and all play it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
That's all right, looks just like Enron, the Knicks are
too big to fail.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
See that that's where you get you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They have all this money to give. I have no
idea what all these les and everything else. It's not
like they're not paying Devincerenzo in heart. They're paying these
guys to just remember.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
The salary cap is a fictional, mythical product of the NBA,
as evidenced by the fact that, Hey, we're gonna we
might lose on Anobi Nah two hundred and twelve million dollars,
come on back. Jalen Browns is not top market, but
he's not exactly walking around scratching nickels d'illion a year.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And when he comes up in what I did, what
do you want? Like what?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But that's just what he got. This window, the Bridges deal.
We've talked about that. Hartenstein some rumors that he wants
to stand, Like what's he He's going to do it
for a sandwich? Like, how the hell did they have
any money?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I would stay for a sandwich? I mean, did you?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I mean, there's they're pretty good delis where. I mean,
that's one hell of a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You would do? What New York sandwich? Do I get
a sand literally? Do anything?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Do I get a sandwich every day, Yes, during the season. Okay, fine,
I'm in see.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I remember when you showed me the the video when
you tried to audition for the Klondike bar ad and
you kept getting it wrong by saying what kind of sandwich?
It's like, No, it's about ice cream, jerk.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Best roster in the NBA one through eight, butle or bust?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
How about this? How about a deal?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
We'll play he will play Atani's home run coming up,
We'll play with Tony's on run coming up next. Then
we'll get back into the fact the NBA season for
twenty twenty four is basically over and the Knicks of
the champions.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So why do you have to talk about him if
it's over? Well, because it's a big night. Man.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Anytime you crown a champion, it's a big night, right.
We talked about the Celtics one they won. Now you're
talking about the Knicks they won the championships. How it
goes right straight ahead? You want a hot take for
the NBA Draft, We'll tell you who's gonna come out
of this draft as the biggest star. And it's not
who you think that's coming up next. Radio Jason and
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Speaker 2 (14:32):
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Speaker 1 (15:39):
Dodgers Radio Network on the call, apparently, show hal Tony's
gonna hit a home run every night now, which is
gonna throw the MVP race in a difficult direction.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
But if you hit a home run every.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Day, I think he's I think he's gonna sort of
make that two million dollars a year contract worth it well.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Back to back now white Sox where the opponent hang
a star and a White Sox actually wouldn sellout tonight
Mexican heritage, and I think it more cool. Last jerseys, Yes,
first one of the year, so you get that, you
get the Otani effect right off the jump, the leadoff
home run. Yes, MVP conversations start to get very interesting,
no question about it. I really I feel like he
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hits a home run every game. Now he's got ten
straight games. Yeah, I mean I feel like he has
a home run every single game. I'm gonna have one
one home run in the first four innings of every game. Really,
because you know, you want to talk about MVP in
the National League, because I can tell you right now,
Shohotani house hundred percent. I could make a great case
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for Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez because what their record is
and games he plays. Now, he's aitting over three hundred,
he's got two big it's a night and the home
run I mean, I think the Mets are like twenty
seven and three when he plays, and they're like three
and three and thirty when he doesn't. No, but it
doesn't matter like any of the games of the last
couple of weeks. It's it's the Grimace effect. It's got
nothing to do with Alvarez. Well, I mean, we have
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to write Grimace.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But but that's why.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I mean, you don't need to write them in credit
for to write. Alvarez gets no credit for it. It's
a great stat It's like, uh, you know, hey, what
what is it? Twenty three? And you know when Rojas
as a hit?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I mean, well, what am I doing? I'm going to
put a poll up right now? Who is your nl
m VP at the show? Hao Tani or Grimace? Frostburg?
Tell me the truth? Who would you vote? Shoo Tani
or Grimace? Who's been Who's been more important?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I mean, Grimace has to have a couple more weeks
than Insanity to take it two weeks.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, it's been more than two a two weeks run.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
But we're in we're in three weeks of Grimace now,
this is three weeks of Grimace.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah. Yeah, But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
We expected greatness from Otani, Right, I'm gonna play MVP
voter and Hall of Fame voter. Whatever I expect greatness,
I expected a little bit more. So we already knew
he was going to be great. So you really got
a well me and and Grimace came out of no
and he he was laying in the weeds, and all
of a sudden he pops out and a season that.
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I mean, you were ready to already turn the page
to Aaron Rodgers. Now you got this whole Knicks thing
that's causing us all sorts of vexation and problems here.
But you you were ready to write the Mets off,
and all of a sudden you're back on the band.
That's why he gets my vote.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Well, logic at Grimace, Jason was over first off one
A when you lost, no, no, no, it's basically McDonald's
took him down. You did not avatar Grimace is that
was disappointing. I gotta say that that was too quick.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Grimace has decided screw you. I'm sticking around. Mets are
beating the Yankees tonight seven nothing. There's a fan at
the game, and look the game is just resuming after
a long rain delay, which is why it's still going on.
Seven nothing mets in the sixth inning. Uh, there is
a dude who came to the game tonight dressed as Grimace,
and there's a big viral video out. He's standing above
the crowd, everybody is taking video and he's pounding a beer.
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Grimace is now pounding beers at City Field in between
innings of a rain delight.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
This is Grimace. This is the Grimace effect. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I think one of the things that that shouldn't be
lost on this uh is how quickly the proliferation, uh
and growth of the appearance of Grimace costumes happened. I
mean we're talking from concept to maybe maybe they're all
just laying in storage because they've been unsold, and all
of a sudden there's some market demands like, hey, I
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got him here. It's like the Seinfeld episode. I got
these raincoats sitting in my in my.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
So all these Grimace outfits suddenly are fighting the light
and day. They're they're they're not as purple as we
they used to pretty. They're like Lilac.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It doesn't even look it looks like a poor imitation
of Grimace. We need to get real purple purple.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Because remember, I mean he was evil Grimace, which meant
he was the most purple that you could possibly be
when he started TJ.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Clearly, if you're looking for a deep purple Grimace, there
is definitely smoke on the water tonight, DJ, Hey, there
will be, and keep going.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Knock some more deep Purple as the Knicks as the
as the Knicks the next nick as the Mets are
knocking on the door of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No one's knocking at your back door for deep Purple.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
DJ later, dude, Yeah, that would come.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's the name of the song. I didn't I didn't
say anything about.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That was the name of the song was popular in
the eighties when Deep Purple tried their comeback.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That's all it said. Could have gone.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And I just said, we have to now stop talking
about Grimace because Aaron Judges at a home run it's now
seven to because for some reason, the Mets have a
thing where we're gonna walk the guy batting in front
of Aaron Judge for some stupid as reason, when we're
up by seven runs, we're gonna walk the guy in
front of Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So Aaron Judge, come in, home run.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It's seven to the no, but you gave the kids
a three that came to this game.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
The first sellouf happy Knicks Nicks, Nicks, Nicks, Mets, Metsar
Judge hit a home run.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Now you's home happy Hey the Mets one Grimace was
shot gun and beers that saw him out there?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Sixth thenning, sixth inning.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
The real question, Yeah, have you knocked on your dad's
door yet? As Grimace my dad?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Uh? Uh okay, since the last time I talked to
my dad was before, No, was before this series. He
has not come anywhere near me or the.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
House or Zoe in the last door.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No, no, no, no, I'll have to do it because what
I did do him last time a couple of years
ago in the Mets sweat the Yankees in a uh
in in the inter League series. I put a bunch
of brooms at his door so he would open the
door and the brooms would.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Fall on him.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And then I felt bad, like, my dad's in his seventies,
and what's gonna happen if he opens a door and
brooms fall? So I just put the brooms and oh,
I went to the store and bought. I went to
a dollar store. I bought a whole lonch of brooms. Yeah,
so I put him like, right when my dad would
open the door, he would see them, so he didn't
want them falling on him and go what is this?
So I did that and he didn't really appreciate that
all that much. So, uh, that's a big thing. So
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I haven't done that, but he has not been around.
I have not done since the beginning of this.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Why aren't you trolling? Not at all? This is your
time to troll, and you're not. Because the thing is
Yankee fans are no fun toatrol. They are no fun.
You know, you have people in your life makes it fun.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
No, but it's not. It makes is it fun for you?
Because because if it's fun for you, then like them.
Sometimes it's like doing the thing right, I mean, come
on exactly. Doing the thing with the brooms for my
dad was fun. But when I try to troll my
dad or Fabian, all I get is records better than
yours and up there call me when you've won twenty
six championships. I'm like, Okay, that's just stuff that that
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people have said for fifty years now.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's not fun. It's not fun.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's like, okay, how about you give me something little
bit different? Call me when you've done this. This happens,
what happened the last time we played in the World Series?
I mean all of these things. I mean, clearly the
Yankees have a lot over the Mets, which is what
Yankee fans to fall to. But I mean it's not fun.
Like give me something fun. Like putting brooms in front
of your door is fun. Down we open the door
and see all these brooms. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
But I just gotta yeah, yeah, what happened here? What
about this?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You? How many World Championships were you have? Your last
one was not? Like, I don't know, the last one
was nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Really it was nineteen eighty six. What happened I don't
even know what happened in that series? Was it really good?
Was it? Finn? I don't understand? Like something, Yankee fans
are no fun.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
The way you respond is you just say, can I
just give you a hug? Because clearly this hurts you
so badly that you have to go. We'll get all
the titles we have.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Your team has sucked, I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Right it's like being here in La Sorry, sorry, Justin,
but it's the same idea. Right, there's a lot of
near misses. There's a lot of greatness. Dodgers have been great.
It's been a long time since the World Series win.
Other the one that some folks don't count, likewise, the
Laker title.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I count them.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Look, you get to march around with it, with the trophy,
a hunk of metal you win.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I'm all for it. But the world at large fights
about it. So that's fine.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But it's the when you tell me I got seventeen
when I like, eh, that doesn't matter to me. One
because most of the people that are touting that weren't alive.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
For most of them wine.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
But second, like, all right, we're talking about today, and
if your team sucks today and I beat your team today,
it's about today's game.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
It's not about forty years ago. It's not about what
Babe Ruth in the earth I get. Look at the
standings I get, look at it. Tell you it's no fun.
It used to I used to have this thing because
I used to love playing jokes on Pea. I still do,
but and usually the people who didn't respond were always
the most fun, like they either didn't get it or
they didn't do it. But now I've just lost my
my Uh, how do I say? I've lost some of
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the love and feeling though.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
No, I've lost some of the satisfaction of pulling a
joke on somebody who's who's going to react, not in
a fun way, like.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It's kind of fun to be in at all.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
This person has no idea about this, and I can
do it and they're not going to react, but it's
still fun. It's fun for me. It's a fun story
to tell. Now I've done enough of those where I'm like,
you know what, you're no fun?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Well, those episode the time investment.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
At some point it's like, all right, if I got
to put up a bunch of effort to make it,
like right now, you'd have to go and fight traffic
to get to a store to stand in line to
buy all those brooms. We're talking about a significant investment
in time. If it's not gonna yield the yucks that
you need, no or a violent response, you know, angry,
you know, while you've got your helmet camera and you're
(25:41):
recording the response. If you're not gonna get a good response,
that's a lot of time. You could be doing something else.
You're a sandwich. Yeah, watching another movie.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm sorry I could have pulled this joke, but I
want to have a sandwich instead. It's about time. See
that's all.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Look like doing it with Frostburg is fun because Frostburg
is something different every night. It's different an audio you know,
it's it's different home runs by show.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Heo Tani, thank you for that audio clip.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Eventually, eventually we're gonna you know, we've gotten past the
butt fumbled. Now now we're on the fail Mary. Now
we're on to Nemhard's three. Okay, we're moving on.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We're not doing this. Say that right. It's fun. It's
an evolution.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But like when when when people don't make it, fund
says don't want to have your team stakes? What are
you talking about? Oh great, that's that's great. I'll just
shake my go you know what, My time is too valuable.
I can't sit here and and and control you when
I know that your response is gonna be huffy and
it's just gonna be Look at the standings, Look at
the standings.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Look at me, Jimmie chips. You have when's the last
time you did this. When's the last time you did this?
Was it? It's like.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You but it's still but I mean, it's still no
fun to do those jokes. Right Like at the end,
if the Mets win this game, I will send broom
emojis to my dad, I'll do some fun stuff I
don't hear from them.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
For like, what's that? But then when the Yankees like
take the lead.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
No, but that's but that's the only thing I can
get away with that at least if I'm trolling on
social media. No, No, here's the thing, because if my
dad and yeah, if my dad and Fabiano want to
just blow it off, at least a lot of other
people get it. So that's a fun thing.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Dude, Fabian has been asleep for like at least the
last four innings of.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
A probably true.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Uh so again, we have to stop talking to this
because the Mets just made an error and now the
Yankees have two on and there's one out.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
No, no, no, we're actually talking into making this game more exciting.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, no, we're not. We're not worse talking about this
or the or the Yeah, what do you mean, it's
talking about what? Talking about what?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm not gonna say it well, listen, Grimace is a
big deal, right, and clearly maybe Grimmace needs to come
out and start yell at the guys saying, hey, let's
get going here. Let let's make sure we get out
of the thing and not keep giving the Yankees more runs.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Well, we know, definitely, if you go to the bullpen,
they'd rather see Grimmace come out than their manager.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Everybody would rather see Grimmas come out every single Oh,
Grimace is gonna Oh Grimaces already.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Called for the hook.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah, but I mean do a little lip reading during
pitching changes. It's very entertaining.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Give me the ball, Give me the ball, give me
the ball. I'm coming in. You're coming in.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, but I found you actual video voice.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, no, that's pretty good. I like my voice of
Grimace the other night. Grimbeth, Gribbeth Grimbath, Hello, Gribbeth, you're
not that far off. I am here to help the
Mets and to help you grim We have a situation
at the draft, guys, Grimmas. What's going on in the
draft right now?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Is a guy that keeps showing in the green room
or right there on the court. M He looks like
he does not want to be there tonight. It's one
of these Aaron Rodgers moments. Philip Kowski.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Oh you know, for a second, I thought that's who
you were going to take?
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Are going to take? Like when I start j J.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Reddick getting very up, very happy and animated and he's
shaking hands with everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, this is great, this is like.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh they took Philipowski. They did that, duke guy Philipowski.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
He's happy.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
No, no, no, there on the the do they trade Jannis
and take him?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Uh? They trade Giannis to the Knicks for Mitchell Robinson.
That's what that that's the Knicks. The next after that
they take the Knicks don't need these picks.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
We don't need them.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
We don't need You know what the Knick should do,
you know what, say we're just taking the next Nova guy. Yeah,
we're not even putting a name on him anymore. The
Knick should say, listen, here's we're gonna do for the NBA.
We're gonna auction off these picks to the highest bidder,
and all the money is gonna go charity, and we're
gonna do something good because we clearly don't need anybody,
because we have the best rotation one through rate in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Or did you not see we're bringing you hed toobe back? Okay,
I do. We'll make some money for the NBA. What
whatever found out? Hey, maybe Lebron can come in and
bid and do some stuff and do a do a
whole nother uh decision thing. Hey, I've been help Boys
and Girls Club.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Then the Knicks. The Knicks should end up just hey, listen,
let's just auction off these picks. Yeah, I would say this.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
The The most entertaining meme that started floating around relating
to the draft was that the Knicks had announced their
city connect uniforms for next year and it was just
an alternate in Villanova.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, it's gotta go all.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I'm in you know, uh little Victory. We're gonna do
our beginning of the season. Uh interview process with you, Gregor.
And what's your name?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You're paying me a lot of money. I'm Julius Randall. Julius.
Where'd you go to school? I went to the University Kentucky. Julius.
Thanks so much. We'll be in touch. We'll see you.
Wait what, Yeah, we'll see it.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
What's you to have a divided locker room? What's what's
your name? Ryan, Ryan, what's your last name? Arcadiacano?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Oh where'd you go to school? You come on?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Hey, the money we were given that guy, we're gonna
give it to I'm our guest to the show.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We're gonna give it to you. How about that, Ryan?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
But you also have a the the opportunity, you know,
of having a lot of division in that locker room.
I think that's really where this potentially falls apart physically,
that they fall apart in a Thibodeau environment, but that
because you didn't go to Villanova, you're out. They're gonna
do secret handshakes, right, and they're gonna have movie nights.
You don't anybody else would say nobody knows. Oh sure,
(30:55):
Hey we're going to the movies.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh can we go?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
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all right. So we had to have that moment in
Grimace because when you're shot gunning beers in between innings
of a game, you need that moment. But straight ahead time, Yeah,
who's coming out of this NBA draft is the biggest star?
We'll tell you that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon. Oh boy, poor Kyle Philipowski. He is still
not been selected. We are at pick number twenty five,
the Knicks taking their second of back to backs.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
After trading their first.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, I really, I really want to say for the
next two picks they've taken Brownny James Boo, I.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Would love that. That's a combos selection. Boy, how piss
would Lebron be?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You know, the one thing I really always want to
do in my career was playing Madison square guard. And
now my bleeping son's gonna get to My kid's gonna
beat me there, man, causing a rift in the time
continue him a in a family rivalry that will span generations.
I'll tell you and Leon Rose always say, hey, let's
FaceTime your dad and show him what the lighting looks
like here.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But you know he's not yet.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Wait wait, wait, fantastic wave, we simulated your whole introduction.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Ready, ready to dad, Jason if the next do take him.
Guess who can't afford Lebron James after last night's trade, Well,
your nixt.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
We're not getting Lebron's done. Now he's got to show
up for a dollar.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Not happening, not having a dollar. But well, whatever the
minimum is, he's not doing that. He's not doing.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
That's what they offered him, a blaze pizzadvicement.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But look, this NBA draft, there's a lot of players
that the average basketball fan hasn't heard of. Look when
a lot of players are coming from overseas and and
every every other guy is from France. Okay, I got
you get the guys from Yukon, from Villanova, Yukon paying
attention to Villanova, and the guys from Dukes still rate right,
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Philipowski is a guy because you mentioned him there, legitimately
going back to the top ten picks. If you were
you know, just kind of shuffling up a deal names.
We know, yeah, he's got to go early. Why because
we know who he is and the giant from Purdue, yeah, Zack. Well,
the fact that Zach they don't know his name, but
the fact that he went ninth overall.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Is George Mirrasan. Because remember all of.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
The evaluations like he might not get drafted at all,
he'll be a late second day guy.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
But look, I'll tell you this right now, the biggest
star of this draft is and I've been talking about
it for a while, is going to be Steph Castle.
This kid is fantastic. And I'm not always a big
fan of saying, well, the I didn't show enough in college.
He should have shown a little bit more, cause you
know what I say about JJ McCarthy. J McCarthy's so good.
(34:06):
Why didn't he play good? But Steph Castle showed you
the skill set that he has and he wasn't asked
to do a lot on a Yukon team that was
absolutely loaded. You winning every game by twenty points, you're
ownto the national championship. But he's exactly what everybody is
looking for. He is a guy that can handle the ball,
He can play off the ball. He can shoot. You're
(34:27):
gonna see a little bit more of that at the
next level. But the main thing is you watched him
hot knife through butter through the tournament, defending all the
best players, and he was sending guys home who were
scoring twenty five, twenty eight a game. Your guy Boo
Booi went home, right, Terren Shannon went on one was
Shannon was scoring thirty eight a game and he would
one for fourteen when when Miami played Yukon.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
He is that good?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, well, at least we were in the tournament. No,
it's true. Thanks Smith, my dad, I went full Walt
on you.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I'm gonna go with the guy that was selected right
ahead of him and Reed Shepherd going to a Houston team,
great shooter, humbered potentially to be you know, in this
Kevin Durant thing.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
We'll see what happens there.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
But a team on the come right, San Antonio still
has a bunch of building blocks, and he's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
There's no question.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
You add him, You add to him to Wemby uh
and that's a that's a formidable duo UH to to rebuild.
They've got a couple of other pieces that I think
were underrated didn't translate to win. Now with Houston, you
got a team that's uh young and rising and a
guy that can shoot the lights out. So I'll take
him because you know what, in the grand scheme, people
(35:32):
still don't care about defense.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But but that's the thing now, is that that's become
a thing. Now we want no, no, no, want that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
For our basket. Talking about sex appeal, he shoot it.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
He's gonna come out the biggest because he's gonna be
one of those combo guards that the castle that can
do more than he should just because he didn't have to.
But when you see the defensive acumen, yeah, you want
to look at a guy like o Ganaobe getting the
money that he had that he got today.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
That's it. That's become a big uh. That's become a
big thing.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
A big trend in the NBA is Okay, we need
guys that can make shots, and we need guys that
candtion and net wing defenders. Right, that's what every team
is looking for now. We need a guy that can
make shots, play well offensively, and is a good wing defender.
It's why mckel bridges went for five first round picks yesterday.
It's why the Knicks are given Ogan Unobi two hundred
and twelve million dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Castle's the guy, and I'm telling you go through all this. Look,
I'll be the first guy to tell you. I don't
know a ton about a lot of these players where
they're all coming from France. I don't know a ton
about guys from France. But watching Castle especially is run
during the tournament. Seeing him shut down the best players,
the best offensive players in college basketball, who all had
different skill sets, that is something special, man. And I
(36:40):
can't believe he didn't go number one. It was a
gift to the Spurs. At number four. You talk about
Castle and Wemby for the next ten years. Good luck, man,
good luck.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
All I can say is I mean, obviously we've watched
a lot of clips and seen a lot of highlight
reels out out of.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
The French League. But I know this.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
I need to go see some of the history in France.
I need to go and get myself some baguettes and
some nice cheeses, and evidently I need to get some
kind of subscription to watch French basketball because they're coming
over in waves. We just had your Knicks just took
a guy from France.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Coke. Uh yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Start thinking, are we paying too much attention to the
NBA and not enough to French League. I think it
seems like we might shoot not watch the NBA playoffs
and watch more French League playoffs.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I think we could do bold.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
But no, the NBA draft, but you know what, the
French League is where it's at eight seven, seven ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
NBA is overrated.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Coming up next, we will answer the biggest question every
NBA fan has about their team in the draft.
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will have a sweep of the New York Yankees. And
despite the fact the Yankees are twenty games over five hundred,
the sky is falling for them, and all US Mets
fans are like.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Hey, you go to the World Series.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Man, it's great, but well, you gotta find your wins
where you can, buddy, as you celebrate the error.
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Sure that puts another runner.
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On here in the eighth, but we'll get back to
the NBA Draft coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
One of the most.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Difficult coaching decisions was made earlier today. It's a big
it's a big shock, or it's a big headline. Alex
Morgan will not be on the US women's national team
when they play in the Olympics later on this summer,
and the Hayes, brand new women's coach finally finished up
at Chelsea, came over. She's coached a handful of games
(39:04):
and has decided she is not going to one of
the players they are taken to the Olympics. Alex Morgan
put out a statement saying she was disappointed in the decision,
but she will still root on all of her teammates
as they go to.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Try to bring home the gold medal.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
This is a really difficult decision, but I'm going to
tell you right now, I get it, and I agree
with it. It's hard to see a US women's team
without her, considering she's gonna wind up walking away as
the most decorated women's player ever, right with the World
Cups and the Olympics. I mean, she she went from
the first invention of the team with Mia Hamm and
(39:40):
Julie Foudi and and to go on into the Mbi
womback Hope solo, and then when it was her and
Meghan Rappino. I mean, she's been the one when she
was in her early twenties, thirty five years old. But look,
let's be honest, Alex Morgan is not the same player.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
No, it's her Rapino and ch and all like. Look,
I get it gets and there's part. The first thing
I'm gonna say is this is part of this. Probably
Emma hay is saying I had to put my stamp
on the team here because this is my team. You
can say, look, because Crystal Dunn is still going, she's
gonna play forward now and not be a defendant.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
There's still some players going, but this is a star player.
This is someone who is a big voice and a
big member, and so is part of it. Probably Emma
Hayes wants to put her stamp on the team. Yeah,
I don't think that part. Did Alex Morgan any favors.
I don't think this well, you know, I really this
needs to be my team, and is it's still my
team if Alex Morgan is there. People are talking about
(40:34):
the former era of the United States women's national team
and we need to show that we are starting over again.
But this is where we're at right now. This is
the new group. Lindsey Horan is our captain. We have
younger players. The average age of the team now is
twenty six. It's not older like it was, so that's
part of it. But quite honestly, she's not the same player.
I thought potentially they would take her and she would
(40:56):
be in the Raupino role of where if they needed
a goal, she come off the bench and play the
last twenty twenty five minutes. Like I thought, that's kind
of what her role would be. Because the number one
thing the United States women's team needs what they need goals, right,
That's what you saw them in the World Cup going.
They don't have scorers, right. The young players that have
come up have not been what the young players are
(41:16):
in the past. And I understand people thinking, well, when
you hear Trinity Rodman and so Fia Smith, well they're
just gonna be great, just like all the other younger players,
because all those players have been great for fifteen years.
But they're just not. Trinity Robin's a big name, so
Fhia Smith is a name you've heard. But they're not
great players. They're not difference makers. They're not players who
come out and say, look at where they are. They're
(41:36):
players who are Okay, they're good. But the United States
has went from the dominant team in the in the
world to now one of the five best teams in
the world. They've taken a step down. They need someone
who can fill the net. And you watched Alex Morgan
play and it was very difficult. She's off sides all
the time. She's lost a step, which is probably why
she was pushed. That's why she's off sides. Everything absolutely right,
(41:57):
and you're gonna I mean, how many how many off
sides she get called for?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Can you stay on side?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Alex Morgan? She can't dent the back of the net
like she used to. She looks like someone when watching
her play that her time has just come right. And
sometimes you can play till your late thirties, you can
extend that a little bit, but sometimes it comes when
you're thirty five, and again the whole Hey, moving on
to Emma Hayes. That didn't do her any favorites. Maybe
she would have been able to stay on the team
(42:22):
again and play in that rapena role. You don't play
every game, but if we're tied late in the last
twenty five minutes, we could go to overtime in penalties.
We need you on the field. I thought that, but
that again, that didn't do her any favorites. But I
can't disagree with this because she's not the same player.
We talked about this going into the World Cup. The
biggest question was is Alex Morgan still an elite goal scorer?
Because if she's still an elite goal scorer, the women's
(42:43):
national team is going to be really good.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I'm fine about it, but we saw she's not and
there's nobody there because Mallory Swanson was injured. There's nobody
on that team to.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Take that up.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
And we had a lot of trouble trying to so
we couldn't score in shootouts. We were we were just
mentally shot during the shootouts and we got knocked out
of the tournament. So I watched this and I go,
this is it for Alex Morgan. And you don't go
from you don't go from not getting picked for the
Olympic team at thirty five to getting picked for the
World Cup team at thirty seven and a half. It
doesn't appen. So this is the end of her run.
(43:13):
This is the end of her international career. And it's
said because it's such a great run for But it's
time and just watch the games, go back and watch Tate,
watch video and see her. She's not as fast, she's
not the same goal scorers she was. She didn't when
she got the ball in the box, she didn't have
the same smoothness she'd have the same level of execution.
And it was really tough watching it, Like I knew
(43:35):
she's near the end, Like she's really near the end.
She can't play these minutes. She can't do this. She
keeps she keeps getting off sides because she's too slow,
Which is part of the United States's problem was that
we were way too slow in general. So hopefully they're
faster now as we get into the Olympics this summer.
But you know, it's a tough day, but I absolutely agree,
and I think it's just the end for Alex Morgan.
I wish she would have made a retirement statement instead
(43:57):
of saying, hey, I'm disappointed to not get picked because
you're not getting and pick for something else all. I mean, really,
I would have just I know it's a tough decision
to make, but that's where you say, hey, I'm retiring
from international play. I'll still play in the NWSLT whatever
you're gonna do. But this is where it's like your
best player that you owe so much to it has
to walk is walking away. Saying I'm disappointed to not
(44:17):
get picked should have ended a little bit differently. They
could have could have done a little bit differently. But
I agree that she's done and you need to go
to the younger players.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
But that's the question of you know, how was it
communicated to her right it was? Was there something that
didn't sit right in the way the conversations went, uh
and discussing a potential role for this this run of things.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
I mean, only they're gonna they're gonna know.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
But when I saw the statement come out this morning,
I mean, there was no surprise to it, right, changing
in the guard. Uh. Look as much as you can
say we took a step back, the rest of the
world caught up, right. That's the other part for the
international women's soccer game, and we're watching it with women's sports,
uh in a in a lot a lot of venues
of you know, you're you're seeing competition to where maybe
(45:04):
you once had a bit of distancing and now there's
other nations that are at the table here. It's going
to be curious with Smith and Rodman that you mentioned
Macario coming back because she'd been injured, so she missed
some a lot of games and a lot of time,
but you're trying to find speed, you know heran how
many times did we we wonder you know, in terms
(45:25):
of too much soccer, did she need some time off whatever?
Where she didn't have the same pace of play, But
you still have a few of the holdovers in her
hand in rose leavel and familiar names, and that might
have been where you had Alex Morgan stay not to
where it's ceremonial, but a little bit because it's ceremonial,
(45:47):
right of you could still be here. But you need
a striker, but you need a striker that has the
extra push, yeah, versus the roster decisions as they've been
laid out, we're more we need at least some verse
utility because if you're not gonna be great at what
you were ones great at, I need you to be
able to do some other things. And that's not where
Alex Morgan is in her career and in her play
(46:10):
right now.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
And it's it's always tough.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
It's always tough to say goodbye to players in any sport,
coaches in any sport that have had a long, long run.
Even at the end, you know, Beheim, it was time,
but it's still hurt.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
We watch guys walk away and like, wow, twenty years
made Nick Saban this fall. It's gonna be weird watching
him on television.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
But he but he walked away, Like this is weird.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
It's like, hey, I'm telling you your career is over,
and you I think you have to understand that when
your career is over, given the option, I mean, I
don't know, I'm behind closed doors, but how did they
get to that point where you're not getting taken and
I'm upset that you didn't take me?
Speaker 3 (46:49):
I mean that's that's but it's still gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
You're you're not gonna agree with the decision, right, I mean,
plenty of folks get walked off a job in one
way or for it.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
But you know, if you're not making this team, you're
not making the World Cup team, You're you're not getting
picked up for another team.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
But in the end, you know, it's the old you got.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
You gotta think for how many seconds before you say something, and.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Certainly a little bit longer.
Speaker 5 (47:11):
Don't hit send, right, the old don't don't send button
that needed to be there in terms of, you know.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Conveying your frustration.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
And in this case, I'm gonna go out and let
and say she was quite okay with However people want
to interpret her disappointment here that she felt she still
was good enough.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Is good enough to earn a roster spot. You know.
Here's the thing though, but if this.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Was reality, right, but she had the face sometimes but
they've gone all in on Emma Hayes as their coach.
And if this was Antonofski was near the end, maybe
you would have picked her some dog, you might have
picked her. But if this was someone who was ending,
you know, I'll be like, okay, hey, you're not picking me,
the team might not win. The next coach coming in
is gonna pick me. Emma Hayes is in for the
next World Show. She doesn't pick you. Now, Oh no,
(47:57):
you're done, you know. I mean it's not so. But
I didn't se anybody else you could score. So Hey,
guess what, Alex Morgan, I'll come back to you. That's
not happening. I mean, it's just not happening.
Speaker 5 (48:05):
I while I agree in the moment, you're you're talking
about the initial shock and disappointment and frustration of this.
You're you're not tweeting and sending out statements about two
years from now, recognizing the end. You're You're you're hot,
You're fired up right now, right hot, take nonsense in
terms of our business, right You're re read react in
(48:29):
the moment you read a tweet, call you an idiot
that you don't like, you respond to it in the moment.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
In this case, she got notified, she was pissed. She
hit send, can't do it, you know, and and and
then you and the thing. Now, I'm not turning my back.
It's done. She's done. We actually talked about it. She
was done.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
She's done that, she's done that. Look, nobody talks soccer
like we do, so listen to us.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
The one thing I will say is that in this hey,
the United States really need somebody who can score.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Now that Mallory Swanson's back, this may be the big
thing that flips the team because she was the best
scorer they had. Remember she missed the World Cup with
that horrible injury. She's just getting back now. She was
the up and coming next best scorer of the United
States had and she had everything. She had the the
the tracking, she had, the training for it, she had
(49:25):
the little bit of competition that she had with the
US women's team when she was younger. Hey, back when
she was Mallory pew Right, she was gonna be terrific.
And now was her time. Missing that World Cup was
huge because she's the one that would have been out there,
that would have been Hey, this is the one that's
gonna dent the back of the net force. This is
the one that's gonna put to put the ball in
(49:45):
the net force. Instead of having to worry about can
we get a goal from Lindsay Hern, can we get
can we get an oh, by the way, goal from
Sophia Smith, Can we find a way to score off
a corner?
Speaker 3 (49:55):
You know?
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Can Rapino come off the bench in the last twenty
minutes and score Like the addition of Mallory swa Onson
could be what flips the United States from hey, we're
one of the top five. Maybe that's an over the
top move because she is that good a score, that's
what they can rely on. First off, Sophia Smith. Swiping, swiper,
No swiping, don't try to hide the ball.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
It's a bad move. It just doesn't work. And you're
on tape. There's cameras and everything.
Speaker 5 (50:18):
The second part, and I will contend this other than
the Ghost Runner, penalty kicks are the worst.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Thing in sports, man. I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Let's decide a game that you killed yourself for on
the pitch of the a.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
You know, well, you can't play forever? Yeah you can't.
Yeah that keeps going? Is the game still going? Look?
Speaker 1 (50:39):
I had to wake up at three o'clock in the
morning to watch that. But you can't go on forever, man,
It's got to end it at some point.
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