July 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Mike Harmon and Jason Fitz get you all caught up in the wild day of sports. Kawhi Leonard withdrew from Team USA for the Paris Olympics. Plus, some pop culture blind spots!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
Wherever you are, get a fan, hydrate, find some ice,
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Me by Carmon. No, Jason Smith off on his summer
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at Schwolland Dome if you're trying to figure out where
in the world he is. I can't wait to see
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some of the suggestions that might be out there with
Smith out, Jason fitz tags, and Jason Welcome to the
chaos that is Evening Radio.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Okay, a couple of things here. Number one, it should
be your show. I mean, he's out, so like, it
shouldn't be the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. It
should be the Mike Harmon Extravaganza. Like I'm just saying
we should rename it. And then two, I mean Smith
the Fitz sounds so similar that, you know, Jason fitz Like,
it just feels like people won't even know they're gonna
think that we don't sound similar the on air, but
our names. Do you know what, people are just gonna
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think that I'm him?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I have that every weekend when Steve Hartman says
something insane, I start getting a lot of tweets. How
the hell could you say that? I'm like, come on, man,
I've been doing this a long time. We are on
very divergent paths in terms of a lot of the
hot take nonsense that flows through. But whenever Steve gets
on one, you know, the get off my lawn part
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of the process. Harmon starts mashing with Hartman and away
we go.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
For a long for a long time. My first national
radio show in my life, I was lucky enough was
Spain in Fits with Sarah Spain and it was right
before Freddie and Fitzsimmons Ian fitz there go, Yeah, Fitz.
We spent so many hours getting each other. I'm like,
look y'all, I'm in bed. I don't know what Fitz said,
and he's sitting there saying, I'm prepping. I don't know
what Fit said. Like it was just over and over
and over again. So you know, I feel you all that,
(02:33):
Like everybody calls me Fits. That's just part of my life.
But in sixth grade there were six chasing F's in
my class, and ever since then everyone's gone by last name,
so you know, but my problem is I'm only Fits.
Like my last name is just f I t Z.
That's it. So all these Fitzgerald's and Fitzsimmons and Fitzpatrick's
that are out here stealing fits as a moniker, Like,
that's not fair. My actual last name is just Fits.
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I should get priority on.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That, I think.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So the short and sweet into the point a lot
of Jason's out there. Obviously for me as a MIC
going to a Catholic school as a kid on the
South side of Chicago, we had a class of about
thirty seven kids, right, so split it down the middle,
half of those being boys. Out of those seventeen eighteen nineteen,
whatever the math is, you would have half of those
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being Mike. So I have been Harmon since I was
about seven years old.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So I'll just leap through that.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just give me my surname and then
we move on and or you could call me sir
Harmon if you want along the way. We are excited
to be here with you so much going on Team
USA going to take the court in about a half hour.
Lots going on with them. Mark Medino join us after
the game as they roll out against Canada. I do
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wish I could get in touch with Smith about that
game for only one thing. Nemhard is part of the
Canadian national team. There the guy that broke his heart
in the playoffs and who he's been crying about ever since.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, Nick fan Nick show.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Uh So, it would have been fun to watch him
maybe bury a couple of threes that would vex him
even more and have him going into flashback mode. But
we'll wait until he gets back to traverse that highway
we're broadcasting.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You said you can't reach him though, right.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, I'm trying to let him alone. Like, okay, was Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
What do you got, Well, you can reach him, you
just call him McDonald's. I'm sure he's there.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, I mean, if we stepped into any McDonald's worldwide,
you do have a percentage chance that he's sitting there
sucking down for office.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
And he'll he'll come to the farm live.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Wow. Wow, I'm not gonna lie though. A big magnet
right now, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean, we're we're a shiny, happy family here, there's
no question about it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We celebrated all look.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I mean, you know, to pull the curtain back for
those that have missed Mets talk. I mean, Grimace was
one of the greatest things that has happened in Jason's
life in recent memory, right, the winning streak that the
Mets went on after Grimace came out.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They celebrated his birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And the show We Got Deep did a deep dive
into the history of the McDonald land characters, Officer Big Mac,
beyond mayor mccheese. They had that crazy pirate guy. They
brought that bird in at some point I don't know,
but Grimace was always the guy that I thought got
a short shrift in all of this. And never mind,
Ronald McDonald has been disappeared, right they just decided we
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got we're not even showing that guy anymore. He's gone
away because remember Burger King did that with the King,
and then they brought him back like he disappeared for
a couple of years. Then they rebranded, made him perhaps
a little less creepy, and there he is. But Grimace
was once upon a time introduced as an evil character,
got of torment and stealing shakes across McDonald land.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Look Grimace, though I had to sort of fade into
the background simply because a more famous purple blob came
out like over time, like Barney basically replaced grimis in
the in the lexicon of purple blobs that kids like
looking at.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
That is a good point.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And Barney and Barney did bring us selannic, So how
do we cry about that? She was one of the
kids running around on Barney and Friends way back in
the day. So there you go. I added some value
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I've been sucked into all things soccer. I did my
little European holiday Euro twenty twenty four. That's all it was,
except when I wore Bears gear, which meant everybody wanted
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to talk about the Lions and the Vikings, the Bears,
and occasionally a little bit about the Chiefs and Kelsey
and all of that fun stuff. Caleb Williams and what
he's all about.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I got to do that.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But otherwise it was a lot of soccer talk, football talk,
as it were so earlier today watching Euro twenty twenty four,
England advances, brilliant shot late in that one to cap it.
We just saw the final in Copa America, Columbia advances,
playing with ten men for a good chunk of the
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game after a dopey elbow in the middle of the field. Yeah,
nobody's gonna see that, but anyway, they take down Urugo ey.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So now we set for the finals.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But as you and I were starting to prepare for this,
and it seems to become a more common thing that
I thought is right separating between the tournaments. But the
larger thing is, why the hell are you scheduling both
tournaments at the same time, right? We like things separated
and TV windows and all. And we had it right
because Euro gives us daytime. Look, I always take daytime soccer, basketball, baseball,
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whatever is on. I didn't realize the WNBA actually scheduled
a bunch of games for the day to day. Must
have been summer camper day at those particular venues. But
then you get the evening nightcaps on Fox with the
Copa America. So in the end I got wall to
wall sporting action fits. So, I mean, that's not gonna
take too much from my life. I'm pretty excited about
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that kind of thing, I am.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
But I also just think that this is where sports
sometimes need to get out of their bubble. Every and
I'm talking about everybody but the NFL, right, because the
NFL can do whatever they want. We will fawn over it.
But for the most part, I think you just have
to be self aware and say, okay, is this what's
best for the entire world?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Where are you going off? Is this good for the company?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I mean there is some element of this, right Like, look,
I know soccer fans are gonna say who cares? Like
they want more soccer. More soccer's good soccer. But I
find it wildly confusing. And look, I've been covering the
whole Copa America tournament in stages for Yahoo and I
love watching the matter just ended was dynamic for the
last ten minutes. I was sitting there on the edge
of my seat. It was great, It was wonderful. But like,
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why are we confusing the world by having two tournaments
that are unrelated go on at the same time. That
just doesn't make any sense. It's as dumb as when
they play try and play n IT games march mad,
just like nobody cares. Why fraction the audience out? Well?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I think in the end, I mean your global sport
and figuring the NFL model works right, people are going
to dial in, and especially in the US, when you
start adding in the number of states where you can
now gamble on it all legally mean everybody wins, right
because you get wall to Wall Sports. As much as
people lamentamate the London games or whatever Germany games.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
For the NFL, I got to get up at six thirty.
It's like, no, you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I mean, you can't watch the other two hundred and
seventy one and a light will go on without you.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But you miss your fantasy and petting windows. Same thing here.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I mean you're trying to find eyeballs and grab them
as you can, you know, running them concurrently. You know,
we had to have the little primer of all, right,
which teams are associated with which and all of those
kind of things. Either way, we're making fun of the
US men's national team. Oh goodbye, mister Burrowhalter. He had
a good run. Unless he didn't, we'll get into it a.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Little bit later. I don't know he got paid.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
He got to be the I mean, he got to
be the fall guy for some subpar player activity. Because
nobody ever wants to blame the players when it comes
to the US men's national team.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's clearly got to be the coach.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Like I'm not going to say he made all the
right moves, not gonna say I necessarily one hundred percent
understand which moves he should make in terms of guys
moving in and out, you know, putting this guy and
changing out your lineups when the substitution should happen, et cetera.
But in the end, the eleven guys on the pitch,
including old captain America, you got to find a way
to put the ball in the back of the net
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and the coach can't carry out there like you're a
four year old in t mall and make it happen
for you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Execution matters. I don't care what sport we're talking about,
and we lose that concept so often when the team stinks.
So it's easy to find one person to blame because
that's way easier to fix in the minds of most
than trying to fix an entire roster or an entire process.
The one thing I would just born everybody about, and
this is a truism to me and every sport. If
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you are looking at it saying fire the coach, fire
the manager, whatever, the one thing you got to ask
yourself is why will the next hiring process be different?
Because like for me as a lifelong Tihart Raiders fan,
especially for years, but Al Davis just was near the
end of his time when he was just off his
rocker with who he was hiring. Okay, you're gonna fire somebody,
but Al's still going to hire the next guy. Why
is he going to get that one right? More often
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than not, the guy that's responsible for it, or in
this case, the committee that's responsible for it, is the
same committee that brought in the guy that just got fired.
So I understand the oh, we're going to change it,
it's going to work out. I just I think we
have to remember at the end of all of this
that you know, no matter who is on the sideline
of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones is going to be
making all of the decisions right, and so it's all
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going to fall at his feet. And I don't care
what sport we're talking about. Change makes everybody excited, but
if the people making the next decision are the same,
I don't know the change really has any actual impact.
More often than not.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Well, and that's the other thing is, you know, when
here when we're talking about a national team, we're talking
about the system that begets the players going through the
processes right in terms of flow, and we lamented, oftentimes
maybe without full understanding the AAU process. On the basketball side,
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I'm seeing it a lot with club soccer, you know,
barriers to entry in all of those kind of things,
and discussions about systemically what needs to happen in the
lower stages so that you beget that next round of
players where maybe they're more ready to compete on a
global stage as opposed to those players that shine and
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excel in those sports deciding to go play basketball or football. Right,
we're talking about multi sport athletes, right.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yes, quick though, I just have to tell you. You
said you begets the players and the processes. It's just
a quick reminder that you're a lot smarter than I am.
I never could like, that's not a sense I ever
would have structured together. You serve, I mean, swollen dome
is because that big braid is working. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I appreciate it. I spend a lot on the education.
We got a jar in here. Whenever I can get
a good phrase or big word mixed in, it goes
into the tip jar to try to remind.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Them of them in the studio. I'm gonna find that
jar then I can go get some free McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, but that's it, right, McDonald's for everybody. Again, if
you figured out which McDonald's Smith is hanging out at them,
all of them. So now he's like a hologram that
shows up. He's like one of those Dumbledore cards from
back in the day. Oh, Fitz doesn't know that one
because he hasn't watched the movies. We're gonna talk about
pop culture blind spots a little bit later on in
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the show, because you know what, I've seen a lot
of Game of Thrones with no sound. I have no
idea what the hell's going on, or the family trees,
so we'll get into those. We'll bring you all in obviously.
Tweet at us at Fox Sports Radio at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Fitch, you're at Jason Fitz one. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I'm just at Jason Jason Fitch. I wanted to give
you the number one at Jason Fitn. It's on Twitter
slash x as it were coming out. Next, we'll talk
about the US men's national team on the basketball side.
Lots of people talking and getting people up in arms
about hierarchies and such.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll do that next.
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men's national team basketball side in just a moment here fits,
but we would be remiss if we didn't update what
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was going on in the aftermath of that Copa America
game that just went final. The Uruguaian players have gone
into the crowd after the Colombian fans. We got punches
being thrown in, chaos is ensuing. How about that?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I'm what are you thinking?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Like?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I understand the emotion of the moment, and I understand
how hard all of it's been, but you just there's
a process here and I know you just got to
be better. You can't put yourself in that situation. And
this is a it's a terrible look for the tournament.
It's a terrible look for the team, it's a terrible
look for the fans, it's terrible look for literally everybody involved.
So it's just one of those like simplify it, do better,
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be better. You just can't put yourself in that situation.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Well, it's like we were talking about a little bit
yesterday with the Mike Gundy comments. You know I've been
in that situation a thousand times related to having had
a few beers.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And again do the math.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That's three to four beers in an hour that he
was talking about his running back having done no penalties whatever.
But it's the same thing, right, Recognize the space, the time,
the stage, the platform, all of those things. And here
I've now seen this entry into the stands in from
about fifteen different angles. And you got a couple of
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guys who have I mean they're walking around like the
like Smith and Tyscher do. Here there's no sleeves on
those shirts. The fans and they're ready and they're ready
to go. Let's just put it. This guy put it
this way fits. One guy in that crew puts his
time in into the gym to say, hey, I don't
need to go sleeves, I'm yoked, let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The other guy not so much, but.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
He would get the other guy that like many times,
like in my twenties, I was definitely the scrunning guy,
run in my mouth and just hoping that one of
my guys that didn't have sleeves was gonna back me up.
So I get it. The hard part on this for
the guys that are on the pitch. Is that you
got to remember that what you're charging into are a
bunch of emotional trunk idiots, right, Like, Yeah, the fan
portion of this alcohol just makes such a difference in
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the way all of this goes down, and so you're
not taking on somebody more often than not that is
even in their right mind through this process. So it's
just it's such a lose for the lose for the players.
You know, it's reminiscent of the Malice of the Palace,
Like it's one of those things that when it gets
to this point, nobody forgets it.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, you're talking about being hopped up on your adrenaline because,
as you mentioned, the final ten minutes for Frenetic Pace,
some chances Columbia with one that was deflected off a
crossbar that would have made it too nil. But you know,
the one nil final certainly emotions running high. So you're
at adrenaline on one side and the demon alcohol and
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adrenaline on the other right jacked up fans. So yeah,
it all plays together. We'll see how that gets sorted out.
But the video is starting to make their way around
social media at Jason Fitz where you find them on Twitter.
Find me over at Swollen Dome, tag at how about
a Fresco is well and ask where he is in
the world. I can give you a couple of guesses
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along the way. It goes back to our pop culture
blind spots that we were talking about. We'll do that
coming up in about twenty minutes from now. But big
news and not really prising news from the US men's
national team and that Kawhi Leonard has withdrawn from the squad,
and we'll go back into his process of getting ready
for the next iteration of the Clippers as they welcome
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the arrival of the Intuit. Dome here in Englewood looks
like a state of the art facility, a bunch of
concerts lined up, all of that fun stuff before they
kick it off. One of the great things they've done
is they've gotten jerseys from all the high schools across
southern California and up and down the coast. So that's
pretty cool as well. But here it's Kawhi Leonard quote,
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felt ready to compete and good practices. Remember missing time
once again, missing the playoffs, all of those things. Derek
White takes his place on the Rosster and I guess
you had a lot of back and forth between the Clippers,
USA Basketball and Kawhi Leonard's people, you know, expressing concern
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that maybe the wear and tear and even if he
just sat on the bench and went through the workouts
fits that it was ultimately gonna be to the detriment
of his abilities to be on the court. And we've
seen it year after year. It's how many games are
we going to get out of Kawhi Leonard? Like a
pitcher's arm, Like what's that threshold? Same thing with Kawhi Leonard?
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How many games do you get? And he's great when
he's available, problem is availability is not there. Managing Director
Grant Hill with this statement, I want to thank Kawhi
for his commitment to the US men's national team. You're
in the opportunity to represent the US, but USA Basketball
and Clippers leadership felt it's important to allow Kawhi to
prepare for the NBA season. So is this like getting
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named to the Pro Bowl. You want it on the
resume and then you can withdraw and you know, no harm,
no foul, you still get credit for it on the resume.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
It's a little more contentious to that. I mean I
think the fact that he says he respects the opinion
and the decision the Clippers coming in and determining it's
in his best interest, to me is not surprising from
an organization standpoint. But we're we're so used to a
world where NBA athletes particularly have so much empowerment. It's
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rare to see a team come in and squash any
of that. But if you're the Clippers, you got to
look at this and say, look, it wasn't that long
ago when Kawhi and Paul George came together there that
people were saying, Oh, they're gonna overtake the Lakers, They're
gonna win championship after championship. This is the ascending moment
for the Clippers, and that never came together. Health is
a big part of why I think Clippers fans right
now have to be breathing a sigh of relief. Right
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they have to be stepping back and saying, thank God,
somebody intervened. And if you're Kawhi, he wants to make
it clear he felt like he could plays. He is being,
you know, sort of loud about that. To some level,
I think this is Kawhi coming out and saying I
want to do this, but the Clippers coming out and saying,
I don't really care what you want. We want you
to play for us, which is the only hope to
Clip have. So I respect where the team's coming from
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in this process. It's just it's strange to see an
NBA player in this environment sort of thwart it down.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, it's the difficult process, you know, trying to get
through us interest and trying to play there, win the
gold medal, recognize trying to put something again on the
resume and had the opportunity to run with Steph and
Lebron and all these grades that we go top to bottom,
but also recognizing in January signed a three year, nearly
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one hundred and fifty million dollar extension to hang around
with the Clippers. Remember street lights over spotlights fits Those
are the billboards that I saw up and down my drive.
So it was injury Attorney one, street lights over spotlight
Injury Attorney two. Another picture of Paul George and Kawhi
Leonard along the way, so it's you know, Grant hill House.
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I had to talk about the fact that Jalen Brown,
who took the social media earlier, was not the Guy
replacing Kawhi Leonard quote for a good porch of my career.
I wore FILA. That was supposed to be joke. We're
proud of our partner, USA Basketball. This is about putting
together a team. Whatever theories might be out there, they're
just that. Because Jalen Brown earlier in the day, in
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in addition to putting out the three monocled emojis, also
had an at Nike this is what We're doing, which
has gotten one point eight million views as of this
moment in time, whereas his original three Monocle Guy nine
point two million impressions.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Do we blame him? Right now? You've got to look
around and if you're him and say, got what if not?
If not me, why, Like, what's the reasonable expectation explanation
for why he'd be left off, especially after the way
he played through the playoffs. I think I'd be frustrated.
And this is truly an honor that these guys want,
And it's not just about even just about the gold medal.
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It's about the fact that you want the world to
know that you're one of the absolute best of the
best of the best, right so I understand the frustration
he feels. I don't think there's some great conspiracy theory
about shoe deals that's making it happen. But I understand
why he's frustrated.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Well, I mean, we've seen that you can camouflage with
all sorts of things and the way customs are done anymore.
If the logo becomes a problem, we can camouflage that
pretty easily and probably create a second shoe line and
you know, limited edition sneaker coming out of there. No question,
three Celtics on the roster. You got Tatum and Holiday
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already part of the mix as we get ready for
this showcase to start from t Mobile here any minute
against Canada. But it's you know, for White coming off
the bench, is it a fit in terms of, you.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Know, scope of ego.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
We need a role player and a defender and all
those things, and it takes nothing away from what Jalen
Brown is. I'm just trying to, you know, be on
the positive side for Derek White getting the run because
it is so divisive, especially a guy coming off of
Eastern Conference Finals, MVP Finals, MVP.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Jalen Brown.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, you want to be recognized for what you are
because i mean, look at Jason Tatum immediately when asked
about anything related to the season that was it was like, well,
now I'm elite because I've got a title, I've got
a trophy, so you all can pound sand off that,
which you know is great for us in the radio
and TV business because we get to do a lot
of debates about who is elite, what that word.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Even means anymore.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
As we look at it, Jason, there's no question there
white three point marksman and the defensive side. So he
gets the nod. We start going up and down roster, construction,
guard for guard, guard for forward, all of those kind
of things. I feel for Jalen Brown I do. I
mean he's a guy respect the game and after everybody
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last the off season was doing everything they could. I mean,
how many times I would love this from ESPN and
all those that have trade simulators. How many times were
Tatum or Brown put into those to try to break
them up after they didn't run it back last season.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I mean, that's all we hurts.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
I think that's an important context piece to why Tatum
and Brown are both a little salty right now in general,
because you have spent so much time hearing people day
in and day outs, they split them up, they can't win.
All they do is choke. Like this narrative that came
out that I just think was frankly pretty stupid. I
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kept screaming at the time, loudly into the abyss, like
all right, if you're gonna split them up, what are
you splitting them up for? What's actually gonna make you better?
Like why would you do that? And if you were
Brown and Tatum both when you get to this point,
I think you have the right to have a little
swagger when you walk in the room with the championship
bring simply because how many times did you hear about
no duo has ever be this many games together and
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not won a championship? All right, well you shut that up.
Now you got that chip right. So to me, I'm
not surprised at all that these guys have a little attitude,
a little bit of extra crispy on the bacon right now.
And they should because when you've heard people for years
just discount everything you're doing because you haven't done one thing.
Now you've done that one thing, so you sure's heck
better give me every ounce of credit for all of it.
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Now that I've taken away the one. Yeah, but that
was coming up about either of them. So I expect
this saltiness to continue for the foreseeable future for both
of them because they couldn't say anything till they won
the chip, and now they're ready to run.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You know me, wherever you can find your motivations in
our business, whatever business you're in, and certainly professional athletes,
if that's going to keep you going, because we're going
to talk about your guy, DeVante Adams in about twenty minutes,
because he's he's got a lot of that going. Frostburg,
you had something to add on this one?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
What do you got, guys?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
There's only one guy who should be feeling salty about
getting snubbed here.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Who you got?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
We all know the right replacement for Kawhi was come on, Cooper.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Flag, No, we're doing this.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
It make him the guy to get him in.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I really thought he was gonna grab somebody off of
Laker Lore. Austin Reeves was suddenly going to be Captain America.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
And he's than the guys on the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Look at that.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
What I was talking to. I was talking to Vinnie
Goodwill this morning, who works with me at Yahoo Sports.
He covers the NBA. And the question that he was
asked is is Cooper Flag the future of college basketball?
Like it is? Does college basketball need him? And without hesitation,
Vinnie said, basketball needs him because when's the last time
you had a homegrown American white kid that can come
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in and dominate that way, that's drafted number one overall
into the NBA, Larry Bird like that. That's that's where
we are now with Cooper after a couple of practices,
Like we're sitting here, just the hype train is out
of You thought the Anthony Edwards hype train was out
of control. Cooper Flag hype train is going to be
even worse for the next year.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, but you've already seen it from all of the
biggest names, you know, putting putting his name in their
mouth right and extolling the virtues of what he's done
in those practices. So it's like it's not calculated, but
it certainly doesn't help. Why doesn't hurt when Lebron James
is like, oh, yeah, he's running it and this guy,
you know, just to a man talking about what he's
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able to do, and yeah, obviously the work over at Yahoo.
You you're on the fellas you and Gargano getting after
it on Saturday mornings here Fox Sports, Rady, We're happy
to have you in at Jason Fitz where you find
him on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
God, yeah, you've only got one point six to one here.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Six not even that it's just one point. I mean,
I'm watching this go down. I have yet to see
this US team take a quality shot. Oh no, this
is just this is awful. This is awful basketball right now.
Like it's just out of sink. Guys even up threes
that aren't even open threes. I get that that's modern basketball,
but like you got guys can't even get a good
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look and they're just heaving up threes. This is this
is ugly.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, the pace of it is well akin to some
of the rec leagues that you would find here.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
In Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
You might get a better game on the blacktop in
Venice than you would hear.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I want to very.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Quickly though, if it's the USA basketball tweet for it
didn't call it a starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
They called it a first five. What do you think
of that?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Oh my god, that's that's how soft we are at
this point.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That's where we are now. Fox on Anybody's film yeah,
that's one.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
The telecasts still at least called it a starting lineup,
but in the USA Basketball it.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Was Birst Mike. They keep this up, It's going to
be the bench five.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I really was hoping to see Dylan Brooks are one
of these guys do the Kobe Bryant into Paul Gasalt's
chest from way back in the day.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Oh God, hey, let's go game on.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I'm still sitting here thinking, you know, the dangerous precedent
that first five sets in a name image likeness world.
And look, I'm a big fan of name image likeness.
I love what it the opportunity provides for these kids.
We can go on and on about that, but when
you see a broadcast come in and give us first five,
how many schools now high school's, AAU programs, college programs
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are gonna start doing that because the last thing they
want to do is hurt anybody's feelings. It's coming off
the bench because they want to make sure everybody feels
a valued and appreciated. Like god, I just this feels
like a gross precedent terrible things.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Jason fitz in for Jason Smith, not Mike Carmen.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon here from the tyrac
dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we
introduce pop culture blind spots. Both Jason and I have
some pretty big ones. What are yours.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
We'll be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Greetings, Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with me Mike Harmon popping along here in the studio.
Smith out this week, Jason Fitz in his stead this evening,
and now we're gonna go into pop culture blind spots
because you know, we're always looking for the next thing
to stream. You know, while we're on the treadmill, maybe
you're walking the dog for a while and you just
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you know, put your head down as long as you're not,
you know, playing in traffic.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
That maybe you can do.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
That, because sometimes you need to look away from say
a Canada USA game inside of three minutes left in
the first quarter, fairly lethargic, except that it maybe Dylan
Brooks and Lebron James actually just meet at mid cord
and get after it. Maybe it can be sanctioned by
Dana White in the UFC and we can get that
contract signed immediately.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
What do you think, Fitz, No, Look, the aggression between
those two is the only good thing in this game.
So far, USA has been out of sync. I still
am waiting for a great shot. There's been a couple
of little moments now that have been okay, but there's
no rhythm to the offense that they're running, and there
is just this unnecessary shoulder check thing happening every single
(32:40):
time Dylan Brooks and Lebron are even close to each other.
Kind of love it. I wouldn't mind seeing like, you know,
like a straight up hockey fight. Like I love hockey,
so give me hockey guy moment. However, they drop the
gloves and they just start, you know, hammering each other.
I'd be in for that, like, and then let the
two teams play four on four for five minutes afterwards.
I think we bring fighting into the Olympics and we'll be.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Happy slide them over into the sin bin. And then
he's anxiously awaiting. You see him, you know, tapping his toe,
waiting for the three two and see how much you
can score in the When we do have the odd
man situation, I kind of dig this power play comes
to basketball, let's go.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I also love just the thought of there's no you know, look,
hockey fights are great, but we all know how they go.
You drop the gloves, you're hitting as much as you can,
but then eventually you're just pulling the jersey over. Somebody
said the sweater goes over. You're just trying to knock
him down. Whatever. This is just two guys fisticuffs. Like
I kind of love that you mentioned Venice Beach earlier.
Could you imagine just pick up basketball if they brought,
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you know, in any league, but like you think of
those Venice Beach competitive games and all of a sudden
they brought fighting into it. Oh, I kind of love this.
Like Dana White, call me, We'll help you market this.
We'll figure it out. We'll make it a combo of
the NBA and UFC all together. Oh, people would flock
to watch that. You know, I'm right, No, there's no question.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Well grab the UFC or you know me, I'm a
big WWE wrestling guy. So I mean we can run
through that. We'll have to talk podcast maybe to come.
Jason fitz In for Jason Smith. We're talking as we
were doing our prep, you know, pop culture blind spots
and Smith part of his travels is going around to
some of the fun and exciting world of Harry Potter
(34:20):
filming and the you know, the studios.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
And all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
And you said you haven't seen that, so I readily
admitted I haven't seen any of Game of Thrones with sound.
I mean sometimes late at night a monitor once games
are done, you know, there might be a little bit
on in studio, or it's left there as I re
entered the studio in the wee hours of a Sunday morning.
But those are pretty big misses for us in pop culture.
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Should I be embarrassed?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
No, I think Look, I never got into Game of
Thrones either. Never. I watched a couple of episodes. But
you know I watched a couple of episodes at the
time of my life. I was still touring the music
and you can't watch the on a tour bus that
really require attention because inevitably you got twelve guys on
a bus, somebody's talking, and the amount of time we
like two episodes in and everybody's like, well, who's that
guy and who's that and got so confusing. We just
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decided that we were gonna end up fighting each other,
so we turned it off and I've never turned it
back on. I've also never seen breaking Bad, never seen
better Call Saul, like all of the like, it's amazing
how many dramatic TV shows. All my buddies are like, oh,
do you not watch HBO No? Like I grew up poor,
we didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Have I didn't have HBO No, and.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
I'm still too cheap to pay for it. So like,
n unless you're sending me the password and then you're
giving me a week off, I'm not. I'm not. I'm
not taking any time to do that. God No.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Password sharing also going to hell here in twenty twenty
four because they realized how many people were you know,
on the LAMB.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Wait, how many times have I given that password?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
It's like when MLB first started doing video and audio,
they didn't have the fix to cap how many people
could go on one stream. So I can literally have an
office of one hundred people on my ID. Guess what
we got that content track by telling them how you
know that they needed to fix the glitch.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
He's Jason Fitz, I'm Mike Garbin.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Coming up next, we go in to fits his favorite team,
the Raiders, because one.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Of his players just keeps yap, yap, yap and away.
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some of the suggestions that might be out there with
Smith out, Jason fitz tags, and Jason Welcome to the
chaos that is Evening Radio.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Okay, a couple of things here. Number one, it should
be your show. I mean, he's out, so like, it
shouldn't be the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. It
should be the Mike Harmon Extravaganza. Like I'm just saying
we should rename it. And then two, I mean Smith
the Fitz sounds so similar that, you know, Jason fitz Like,
it just feels like people won't even know they're gonna
think that we don't sound similar the on air, but
our names. Do you know what, people are just gonna
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think that I'm him?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I have that every weekend when Steve Hartman says
something insane, I start getting a lot of tweets. How
the hell could you say that? I'm like, come on, man,
I've been doing this a long time. We are on
very divergent paths in terms of a lot of the
hot take nonsense that flows through. But whenever Steve gets
on one, you know, the get off my lawn part
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of the process. Harmon starts mashing with Hartman and away
we go.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
For a long for a long time. My first national
radio show in my life, I was lucky enough was
Spain in Fits with Sarah Spain and it was right
before Freddie and Fitzsimmons Ian fitz there go, Yeah, Fitz.
We spent so many hours getting each other. I'm like,
look y'all, I'm in bed. I don't know what Fitz said,
and he's sitting there saying, I'm prepping. I don't know
what Fit said. Like it was just over and over
and over again. So you know, I feel you all that,
(02:33):
Like everybody calls me Fits. That's just part of my life.
But in sixth grade there were six chasing F's in
my class, and ever since then everyone's gone by last name,
so you know, but my problem is I'm only Fits.
Like my last name is just f I t Z.
That's it. So all these Fitzgerald's and Fitzsimmons and Fitzpatrick's
that are out here stealing fits as a moniker, Like,
that's not fair. My actual last name is just Fits.
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I should get priority on.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That, I think.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So the short and sweet into the point a lot
of Jason's out there. Obviously for me as a MIC
going to a Catholic school as a kid on the
South side of Chicago, we had a class of about
thirty seven kids, right, so split it down the middle,
half of those being boys. Out of those seventeen eighteen nineteen,
whatever the math is, you would have half of those
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being Mike. So I have been Harmon since I was
about seven years old.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So I'll just leap through that.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just give me my surname and then
we move on and or you could call me sir
Harmon if you want along the way. We are excited
to be here with you so much going on Team
USA going to take the court in about a half hour.
Lots going on with them. Mark Medino join us after
the game as they roll out against Canada. I do
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wish I could get in touch with Smith about that
game for only one thing. Nemhard is part of the
Canadian national team. There the guy that broke his heart
in the playoffs and who he's been crying about ever since.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, Nick fan Nick show.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Uh So, it would have been fun to watch him
maybe bury a couple of threes that would vex him
even more and have him going into flashback mode. But
we'll wait until he gets back to traverse that highway
we're broadcasting.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You said you can't reach him though, right.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Well, I'm trying to let him alone. Like, okay, was Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
What do you got, Well, you can reach him, you
just call him McDonald's. I'm sure he's there.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, I mean, if we stepped into any McDonald's worldwide,
you do have a percentage chance that he's sitting there
sucking down for office.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
And he'll he'll come to the farm live.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Wow. Wow, I'm not gonna lie though. A big magnet
right now, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean, we're we're a shiny, happy family here, there's
no question about it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
We celebrated all look.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I mean, you know, to pull the curtain back for
those that have missed Mets talk. I mean, Grimace was
one of the greatest things that has happened in Jason's
life in recent memory, right, the winning streak that the
Mets went on after Grimace came out.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They celebrated his birthday.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And the show We Got Deep did a deep dive
into the history of the McDonald land characters, Officer Big Mac,
beyond mayor mccheese. They had that crazy pirate guy. They
brought that bird in at some point I don't know,
but Grimace was always the guy that I thought got
a short shrift in all of this. And never mind,
Ronald McDonald has been disappeared, right they just decided we
(05:23):
got we're not even showing that guy anymore. He's gone
away because remember Burger King did that with the King,
and then they brought him back like he disappeared for
a couple of years. Then they rebranded, made him perhaps
a little less creepy, and there he is. But Grimace
was once upon a time introduced as an evil character,
got of torment and stealing shakes across McDonald land.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Look Grimace, though I had to sort of fade into
the background simply because a more famous purple blob came
out like over time, like Barney basically replaced grimis in
the in the lexicon of purple blobs that kids like
looking at.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
That is a good point.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
And Barney and Barney did bring us selannic, So how
do we cry about that? She was one of the
kids running around on Barney and Friends way back in
the day. So there you go. I added some value
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I've been sucked into all things soccer. I did my
little European holiday Euro twenty twenty four. That's all it was,
except when I wore Bears gear, which meant everybody wanted
(06:39):
to talk about the Lions and the Vikings, the Bears,
and occasionally a little bit about the Chiefs and Kelsey
and all of that fun stuff. Caleb Williams and what
he's all about.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I got to do that.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
But otherwise it was a lot of soccer talk, football talk,
as it were so earlier today watching Euro twenty twenty four,
England advances, brilliant shot late in that one to cap it.
We just saw the final in Copa America, Columbia advances,
playing with ten men for a good chunk of the
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game after a dopey elbow in the middle of the field. Yeah,
nobody's gonna see that, but anyway, they take down Urugo ey.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So now we set for the finals.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But as you and I were starting to prepare for this,
and it seems to become a more common thing that
I thought is right separating between the tournaments. But the
larger thing is, why the hell are you scheduling both
tournaments at the same time, right? We like things separated
and TV windows and all. And we had it right
because Euro gives us daytime. Look, I always take daytime soccer, basketball, baseball,
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whatever is on. I didn't realize the WNBA actually scheduled
a bunch of games for the day to day. Must
have been summer camper day at those particular venues. But
then you get the evening nightcaps on Fox with the
Copa America. So in the end I got wall to
wall sporting action fits. So, I mean, that's not gonna
take too much from my life. I'm pretty excited about
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that kind of thing, I am.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
But I also just think that this is where sports
sometimes need to get out of their bubble. Every and
I'm talking about everybody but the NFL, right, because the
NFL can do whatever they want. We will fawn over it.
But for the most part, I think you just have
to be self aware and say, okay, is this what's
best for the entire world?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Where are you going off? Is this good for the company?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
I mean there is some element of this, right Like, look,
I know soccer fans are gonna say who cares? Like
they want more soccer. More soccer's good soccer. But I
find it wildly confusing. And look, I've been covering the
whole Copa America tournament in stages for Yahoo and I
love watching the matter just ended was dynamic for the
last ten minutes. I was sitting there on the edge
of my seat. It was great, It was wonderful. But like,
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why are we confusing the world by having two tournaments
that are unrelated go on at the same time. That
just doesn't make any sense. It's as dumb as when
they play try and play n IT games march mad,
just like nobody cares. Why fraction the audience out? Well?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I think in the end, I mean your global sport
and figuring the NFL model works right, people are going
to dial in, and especially in the US, when you
start adding in the number of states where you can
now gamble on it all legally mean everybody wins, right
because you get wall to Wall Sports. As much as
people lamentamate the London games or whatever Germany games.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
For the NFL, I got to get up at six thirty.
It's like, no, you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I mean, you can't watch the other two hundred and
seventy one and a light will go on without you.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But you miss your fantasy and petting windows. Same thing here.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I mean you're trying to find eyeballs and grab them
as you can, you know, running them concurrently. You know,
we had to have the little primer of all, right,
which teams are associated with which and all of those
kind of things. Either way, we're making fun of the
US men's national team. Oh goodbye, mister Burrowhalter. He had
a good run. Unless he didn't, we'll get into it a.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Little bit later. I don't know he got paid.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
He got to be the I mean, he got to
be the fall guy for some subpar player activity. Because
nobody ever wants to blame the players when it comes
to the US men's national team.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's clearly got to be the coach.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Like I'm not going to say he made all the
right moves, not gonna say I necessarily one hundred percent
understand which moves he should make in terms of guys
moving in and out, you know, putting this guy and
changing out your lineups when the substitution should happen, et cetera.
But in the end, the eleven guys on the pitch,
including old captain America, you got to find a way
to put the ball in the back of the net
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and the coach can't carry out there like you're a
four year old in t mall and make it happen
for you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Execution matters. I don't care what sport we're talking about,
and we lose that concept so often when the team stinks.
So it's easy to find one person to blame because
that's way easier to fix in the minds of most
than trying to fix an entire roster or an entire process.
The one thing I would just born everybody about, and
this is a truism to me and every sport. If
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you are looking at it saying fire the coach, fire
the manager, whatever, the one thing you got to ask
yourself is why will the next hiring process be different?
Because like for me as a lifelong Tihart Raiders fan,
especially for years, but Al Davis just was near the
end of his time when he was just off his
rocker with who he was hiring. Okay, you're gonna fire somebody,
but Al's still going to hire the next guy. Why
is he going to get that one right? More often
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than not, the guy that's responsible for it, or in
this case, the committee that's responsible for it, is the
same committee that brought in the guy that just got fired.
So I understand the oh, we're going to change it,
it's going to work out. I just I think we
have to remember at the end of all of this
that you know, no matter who is on the sideline
of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones is going to be
making all of the decisions right, and so it's all
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going to fall at his feet. And I don't care
what sport we're talking about. Change makes everybody excited, but
if the people making the next decision are the same,
I don't know the change really has any actual impact.
More often than not.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Well, and that's the other thing is, you know, when
here when we're talking about a national team, we're talking
about the system that begets the players going through the
processes right in terms of flow, and we lamented, oftentimes
maybe without full understanding the AAU process. On the basketball side,
(12:15):
I'm seeing it a lot with club soccer, you know,
barriers to entry in all of those kind of things,
and discussions about systemically what needs to happen in the
lower stages so that you beget that next round of
players where maybe they're more ready to compete on a
global stage as opposed to those players that shine and
(12:39):
excel in those sports deciding to go play basketball or football. Right,
we're talking about multi sport athletes, right.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yes, quick though, I just have to tell you. You
said you begets the players and the processes. It's just
a quick reminder that you're a lot smarter than I am.
I never could like, that's not a sense I ever
would have structured together. You serve, I mean, swollen dome
is because that big braid is working. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I appreciate it. I spend a lot on the education.
We got a jar in here. Whenever I can get
a good phrase or big word mixed in, it goes
into the tip jar to try to remind.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Them of them in the studio. I'm gonna find that
jar then I can go get some free McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, but that's it, right, McDonald's for everybody. Again, if
you figured out which McDonald's Smith is hanging out at them,
all of them. So now he's like a hologram that
shows up. He's like one of those Dumbledore cards from
back in the day. Oh, Fitz doesn't know that one
because he hasn't watched the movies. We're gonna talk about
pop culture blind spots a little bit later on in
(13:39):
the show, because you know what, I've seen a lot
of Game of Thrones with no sound. I have no
idea what the hell's going on, or the family trees,
so we'll get into those. We'll bring you all in obviously.
Tweet at us at Fox Sports Radio at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Fitch, you're at Jason Fitz one. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I'm just at Jason Jason Fitch. I wanted to give
you the number one at Jason Fitn. It's on Twitter
slash x as it were coming out. Next, we'll talk
about the US men's national team on the basketball side.
Lots of people talking and getting people up in arms
about hierarchies and such.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll do that next.
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men's national team basketball side in just a moment here fits,
but we would be remiss if we didn't update what
(15:44):
was going on in the aftermath of that Copa America
game that just went final. The Uruguaian players have gone
into the crowd after the Colombian fans. We got punches
being thrown in, chaos is ensuing. How about that?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I'm what are you thinking?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Like?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
I understand the emotion of the moment, and I understand
how hard all of it's been, but you just there's
a process here and I know you just got to
be better. You can't put yourself in that situation. And
this is a it's a terrible look for the tournament.
It's a terrible look for the team, it's a terrible
look for the fans, it's terrible look for literally everybody involved.
So it's just one of those like simplify it, do better,
(16:25):
be better. You just can't put yourself in that situation.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Well, it's like we were talking about a little bit
yesterday with the Mike Gundy comments. You know I've been
in that situation a thousand times related to having had
a few beers.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And again do the math.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That's three to four beers in an hour that he
was talking about his running back having done no penalties whatever.
But it's the same thing, right, Recognize the space, the time,
the stage, the platform, all of those things. And here
I've now seen this entry into the stands in from
about fifteen different angles. And you got a couple of
(17:01):
guys who have I mean they're walking around like the
like Smith and Tyscher do. Here there's no sleeves on
those shirts. The fans and they're ready and they're ready
to go. Let's just put it. This guy put it
this way fits. One guy in that crew puts his
time in into the gym to say, hey, I don't
need to go sleeves, I'm yoked, let's go.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The other guy not so much, but.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
He would get the other guy that like many times,
like in my twenties, I was definitely the scrunning guy,
run in my mouth and just hoping that one of
my guys that didn't have sleeves was gonna back me up.
So I get it. The hard part on this for
the guys that are on the pitch. Is that you
got to remember that what you're charging into are a
bunch of emotional trunk idiots, right, Like, Yeah, the fan
portion of this alcohol just makes such a difference in
(17:49):
the way all of this goes down, and so you're
not taking on somebody more often than not that is
even in their right mind through this process. So it's
just it's such a lose for the lose for the players.
You know, it's reminiscent of the Malice of the Palace,
Like it's one of those things that when it gets
to this point, nobody forgets it.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, you're talking about being hopped up on your adrenaline because,
as you mentioned, the final ten minutes for Frenetic Pace,
some chances Columbia with one that was deflected off a
crossbar that would have made it too nil. But you know,
the one nil final certainly emotions running high. So you're
at adrenaline on one side and the demon alcohol and
(18:29):
adrenaline on the other right jacked up fans. So yeah,
it all plays together. We'll see how that gets sorted out.
But the video is starting to make their way around
social media at Jason Fitz where you find them on Twitter.
Find me over at Swollen Dome, tag at how about
a Fresco is well and ask where he is in
the world. I can give you a couple of guesses
(18:50):
along the way. It goes back to our pop culture
blind spots that we were talking about. We'll do that
coming up in about twenty minutes from now. But big
news and not really prising news from the US men's
national team and that Kawhi Leonard has withdrawn from the squad,
and we'll go back into his process of getting ready
for the next iteration of the Clippers as they welcome
(19:13):
the arrival of the Intuit. Dome here in Englewood looks
like a state of the art facility, a bunch of
concerts lined up, all of that fun stuff before they
kick it off. One of the great things they've done
is they've gotten jerseys from all the high schools across
southern California and up and down the coast. So that's
pretty cool as well. But here it's Kawhi Leonard quote,
(19:36):
felt ready to compete and good practices. Remember missing time
once again, missing the playoffs, all of those things. Derek
White takes his place on the Rosster and I guess
you had a lot of back and forth between the Clippers,
USA Basketball and Kawhi Leonard's people, you know, expressing concern
(19:59):
that maybe the wear and tear and even if he
just sat on the bench and went through the workouts
fits that it was ultimately gonna be to the detriment
of his abilities to be on the court. And we've
seen it year after year. It's how many games are
we going to get out of Kawhi Leonard? Like a
pitcher's arm, Like what's that threshold? Same thing with Kawhi Leonard?
(20:20):
How many games do you get? And he's great when
he's available, problem is availability is not there. Managing Director
Grant Hill with this statement, I want to thank Kawhi
for his commitment to the US men's national team. You're
in the opportunity to represent the US, but USA Basketball
and Clippers leadership felt it's important to allow Kawhi to
prepare for the NBA season. So is this like getting
(20:43):
named to the Pro Bowl. You want it on the
resume and then you can withdraw and you know, no harm,
no foul, you still get credit for it on the resume.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
It's a little more contentious to that. I mean I
think the fact that he says he respects the opinion
and the decision the Clippers coming in and determining it's
in his best interest, to me is not surprising from
an organization standpoint. But we're we're so used to a
world where NBA athletes particularly have so much empowerment. It's
(21:14):
rare to see a team come in and squash any
of that. But if you're the Clippers, you got to
look at this and say, look, it wasn't that long
ago when Kawhi and Paul George came together there that
people were saying, Oh, they're gonna overtake the Lakers, They're
gonna win championship after championship. This is the ascending moment
for the Clippers, and that never came together. Health is
a big part of why I think Clippers fans right
now have to be breathing a sigh of relief. Right
(21:35):
they have to be stepping back and saying, thank God,
somebody intervened. And if you're Kawhi, he wants to make
it clear he felt like he could plays. He is being,
you know, sort of loud about that. To some level,
I think this is Kawhi coming out and saying I
want to do this, but the Clippers coming out and saying,
I don't really care what you want. We want you
to play for us, which is the only hope to
Clip have. So I respect where the team's coming from
(21:57):
in this process. It's just it's strange to see an
NBA player in this environment sort of thwart it down.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, it's the difficult process, you know, trying to get
through us interest and trying to play there, win the
gold medal, recognize trying to put something again on the
resume and had the opportunity to run with Steph and
Lebron and all these grades that we go top to bottom,
but also recognizing in January signed a three year, nearly
(22:25):
one hundred and fifty million dollar extension to hang around
with the Clippers. Remember street lights over spotlights fits Those
are the billboards that I saw up and down my drive.
So it was injury Attorney one, street lights over spotlight
Injury Attorney two. Another picture of Paul George and Kawhi
Leonard along the way, so it's you know, Grant hill House.
(22:48):
I had to talk about the fact that Jalen Brown,
who took the social media earlier, was not the Guy
replacing Kawhi Leonard quote for a good porch of my career.
I wore FILA. That was supposed to be joke. We're
proud of our partner, USA Basketball. This is about putting
together a team. Whatever theories might be out there, they're
just that. Because Jalen Brown earlier in the day, in
(23:09):
in addition to putting out the three monocled emojis, also
had an at Nike this is what We're doing, which
has gotten one point eight million views as of this
moment in time, whereas his original three Monocle Guy nine
point two million impressions.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Do we blame him? Right now? You've got to look
around and if you're him and say, got what if not?
If not me, why, Like, what's the reasonable expectation explanation
for why he'd be left off, especially after the way
he played through the playoffs. I think I'd be frustrated.
And this is truly an honor that these guys want,
And it's not just about even just about the gold medal.
(23:53):
It's about the fact that you want the world to
know that you're one of the absolute best of the
best of the best, right so I understand the frustration
he feels. I don't think there's some great conspiracy theory
about shoe deals that's making it happen. But I understand
why he's frustrated.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Well, I mean, we've seen that you can camouflage with
all sorts of things and the way customs are done anymore.
If the logo becomes a problem, we can camouflage that
pretty easily and probably create a second shoe line and
you know, limited edition sneaker coming out of there. No question,
three Celtics on the roster. You got Tatum and Holiday
(24:28):
already part of the mix as we get ready for
this showcase to start from t Mobile here any minute
against Canada. But it's you know, for White coming off
the bench, is it a fit in terms of, you.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Know, scope of ego.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
We need a role player and a defender and all
those things, and it takes nothing away from what Jalen
Brown is. I'm just trying to, you know, be on
the positive side for Derek White getting the run because
it is so divisive, especially a guy coming off of
Eastern Conference Finals, MVP Finals, MVP.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Jalen Brown.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah, you want to be recognized for what you are
because i mean, look at Jason Tatum immediately when asked
about anything related to the season that was it was like, well,
now I'm elite because I've got a title, I've got
a trophy, so you all can pound sand off that,
which you know is great for us in the radio
and TV business because we get to do a lot
of debates about who is elite, what that word.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Even means anymore.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
As we look at it, Jason, there's no question there
white three point marksman and the defensive side. So he
gets the nod. We start going up and down roster, construction,
guard for guard, guard for forward, all of those kind
of things. I feel for Jalen Brown I do. I
mean he's a guy respect the game and after everybody
(25:47):
last the off season was doing everything they could. I mean,
how many times I would love this from ESPN and
all those that have trade simulators. How many times were
Tatum or Brown put into those to try to break
them up after they didn't run it back last season.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I mean, that's all we hurts.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
I think that's an important context piece to why Tatum
and Brown are both a little salty right now in general,
because you have spent so much time hearing people day
in and day outs, they split them up, they can't win.
All they do is choke. Like this narrative that came
out that I just think was frankly pretty stupid. I
(26:27):
kept screaming at the time, loudly into the abyss, like
all right, if you're gonna split them up, what are
you splitting them up for? What's actually gonna make you better?
Like why would you do that? And if you were
Brown and Tatum both when you get to this point,
I think you have the right to have a little
swagger when you walk in the room with the championship
bring simply because how many times did you hear about
no duo has ever be this many games together and
(26:49):
not won a championship? All right, well you shut that up.
Now you got that chip right. So to me, I'm
not surprised at all that these guys have a little attitude,
a little bit of extra crispy on the bacon right now.
And they should because when you've heard people for years
just discount everything you're doing because you haven't done one thing.
Now you've done that one thing, so you sure's heck
better give me every ounce of credit for all of it.
(27:10):
Now that I've taken away the one. Yeah, but that
was coming up about either of them. So I expect
this saltiness to continue for the foreseeable future for both
of them because they couldn't say anything till they won
the chip, and now they're ready to run.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You know me, wherever you can find your motivations in
our business, whatever business you're in, and certainly professional athletes,
if that's going to keep you going, because we're going
to talk about your guy, DeVante Adams in about twenty minutes,
because he's he's got a lot of that going. Frostburg,
you had something to add on this one?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
What do you got, guys?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
There's only one guy who should be feeling salty about
getting snubbed here.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Who you got?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
We all know the right replacement for Kawhi was come on, Cooper.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Flag, No, we're doing this.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
It make him the guy to get him in.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I really thought he was gonna grab somebody off of
Laker Lore. Austin Reeves was suddenly going to be Captain America.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
And he's than the guys on the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Look at that.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
What I was talking to. I was talking to Vinnie
Goodwill this morning, who works with me at Yahoo Sports.
He covers the NBA. And the question that he was
asked is is Cooper Flag the future of college basketball?
Like it is? Does college basketball need him? And without hesitation,
Vinnie said, basketball needs him because when's the last time
you had a homegrown American white kid that can come
(28:26):
in and dominate that way, that's drafted number one overall
into the NBA, Larry Bird like that. That's that's where
we are now with Cooper after a couple of practices,
Like we're sitting here, just the hype train is out
of You thought the Anthony Edwards hype train was out
of control. Cooper Flag hype train is going to be
even worse for the next year.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, but you've already seen it from all of the
biggest names, you know, putting putting his name in their
mouth right and extolling the virtues of what he's done
in those practices. So it's like it's not calculated, but
it certainly doesn't help. Why doesn't hurt when Lebron James
is like, oh, yeah, he's running it and this guy,
you know, just to a man talking about what he's
(29:07):
able to do, and yeah, obviously the work over at Yahoo.
You you're on the fellas you and Gargano getting after
it on Saturday mornings here Fox Sports, Rady, We're happy
to have you in at Jason Fitz where you find
him on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
God, yeah, you've only got one point six to one here.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Six not even that it's just one point. I mean,
I'm watching this go down. I have yet to see
this US team take a quality shot. Oh no, this
is just this is awful. This is awful basketball right now.
Like it's just out of sink. Guys even up threes
that aren't even open threes. I get that that's modern basketball,
but like you got guys can't even get a good
(29:45):
look and they're just heaving up threes. This is this
is ugly.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, the pace of it is well akin to some
of the rec leagues that you would find here.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
In Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
You might get a better game on the blacktop in
Venice than you would hear.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I want to very.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Quickly though, if it's the USA basketball tweet for it
didn't call it a starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
They called it a first five. What do you think
of that?
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Oh my god, that's that's how soft we are at
this point.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
That's where we are now. Fox on Anybody's film yeah,
that's one.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
The telecasts still at least called it a starting lineup,
but in the USA Basketball it.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Was Birst Mike. They keep this up, It's going to
be the bench five.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I really was hoping to see Dylan Brooks are one
of these guys do the Kobe Bryant into Paul Gasalt's
chest from way back in the day.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Oh God, hey, let's go game on.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I'm still sitting here thinking, you know, the dangerous precedent
that first five sets in a name image likeness world.
And look, I'm a big fan of name image likeness.
I love what it the opportunity provides for these kids.
We can go on and on about that, but when
you see a broadcast come in and give us first five,
how many schools now high school's, AAU programs, college programs
(31:00):
are gonna start doing that because the last thing they
want to do is hurt anybody's feelings. It's coming off
the bench because they want to make sure everybody feels
a valued and appreciated. Like god, I just this feels
like a gross precedent terrible things.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Jason fitz in for Jason Smith, not Mike Carmen.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon here from the tyrac
dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we
introduce pop culture blind spots. Both Jason and I have
some pretty big ones. What are yours.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
We'll be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Greetings, Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with me Mike Harmon popping along here in the studio.
Smith out this week, Jason Fitz in his stead this evening,
and now we're gonna go into pop culture blind spots
because you know, we're always looking for the next thing
to stream. You know, while we're on the treadmill, maybe
you're walking the dog for a while and you just
(31:56):
you know, put your head down as long as you're not,
you know, playing in traffic.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
That maybe you can do.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
That, because sometimes you need to look away from say
a Canada USA game inside of three minutes left in
the first quarter, fairly lethargic, except that it maybe Dylan
Brooks and Lebron James actually just meet at mid cord
and get after it. Maybe it can be sanctioned by
Dana White in the UFC and we can get that
contract signed immediately.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
What do you think, Fitz, No, Look, the aggression between
those two is the only good thing in this game.
So far, USA has been out of sync. I still
am waiting for a great shot. There's been a couple
of little moments now that have been okay, but there's
no rhythm to the offense that they're running, and there
is just this unnecessary shoulder check thing happening every single
(32:40):
time Dylan Brooks and Lebron are even close to each other.
Kind of love it. I wouldn't mind seeing like, you know,
like a straight up hockey fight. Like I love hockey,
so give me hockey guy moment. However, they drop the
gloves and they just start, you know, hammering each other.
I'd be in for that, like, and then let the
two teams play four on four for five minutes afterwards.
I think we bring fighting into the Olympics and we'll be.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Happy slide them over into the sin bin. And then
he's anxiously awaiting. You see him, you know, tapping his toe,
waiting for the three two and see how much you
can score in the When we do have the odd
man situation, I kind of dig this power play comes
to basketball, let's go.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I also love just the thought of there's no you know, look,
hockey fights are great, but we all know how they go.
You drop the gloves, you're hitting as much as you can,
but then eventually you're just pulling the jersey over. Somebody
said the sweater goes over. You're just trying to knock
him down. Whatever. This is just two guys fisticuffs. Like
I kind of love that you mentioned Venice Beach earlier.
Could you imagine just pick up basketball if they brought,
(33:41):
you know, in any league, but like you think of
those Venice Beach competitive games and all of a sudden
they brought fighting into it. Oh, I kind of love this.
Like Dana White, call me, We'll help you market this.
We'll figure it out. We'll make it a combo of
the NBA and UFC all together. Oh, people would flock
to watch that. You know, I'm right, No, there's no question.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Well grab the UFC or you know me, I'm a
big WWE wrestling guy. So I mean we can run
through that. We'll have to talk podcast maybe to come.
Jason fitz In for Jason Smith. We're talking as we
were doing our prep, you know, pop culture blind spots
and Smith part of his travels is going around to
some of the fun and exciting world of Harry Potter
(34:20):
filming and the you know, the studios.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
And all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
And you said you haven't seen that, so I readily
admitted I haven't seen any of Game of Thrones with sound.
I mean sometimes late at night a monitor once games
are done, you know, there might be a little bit
on in studio, or it's left there as I re
entered the studio in the wee hours of a Sunday morning.
But those are pretty big misses for us in pop culture.
(34:46):
Should I be embarrassed?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
No, I think Look, I never got into Game of
Thrones either. Never. I watched a couple of episodes. But
you know I watched a couple of episodes at the
time of my life. I was still touring the music
and you can't watch the on a tour bus that
really require attention because inevitably you got twelve guys on
a bus, somebody's talking, and the amount of time we
like two episodes in and everybody's like, well, who's that
guy and who's that and got so confusing. We just
(35:11):
decided that we were gonna end up fighting each other,
so we turned it off and I've never turned it
back on. I've also never seen breaking Bad, never seen
better Call Saul, like all of the like, it's amazing
how many dramatic TV shows. All my buddies are like, oh,
do you not watch HBO No? Like I grew up poor,
we didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Have I didn't have HBO No, and.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
I'm still too cheap to pay for it. So like,
n unless you're sending me the password and then you're
giving me a week off, I'm not. I'm not. I'm
not taking any time to do that. God No.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Password sharing also going to hell here in twenty twenty
four because they realized how many people were you know,
on the LAMB.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Wait, how many times have I given that password?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
It's like when MLB first started doing video and audio,
they didn't have the fix to cap how many people
could go on one stream. So I can literally have an
office of one hundred people on my ID. Guess what
we got that content track by telling them how you
know that they needed to fix the glitch.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
He's Jason Fitz, I'm Mike Garbin.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Coming up next, we go in to fits his favorite team,
the Raiders, because one.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Of his players just keeps yap, yap, yap and away.
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