Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Mike Harmon and Jason Fitz get you all caught up in the wild day of sports. Kawhi Leonard withdraws from Team USA for the Paris Olympics. We got some pop culture blind spots.  Davante Adams a Raider for life? And The MLB All-Star Game will have actual robot bartenders!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, let's get some chaos going beautiful Wednesday night.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
You made it to the middle of the week.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
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a big way. People must have had a very short
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back to torment me motorcyclist, splitting lanes, all that fun
stuff doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's hotter than hell.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Wherever you are, get a fan, hydrate, find some ice,
and let's get it. Go on Jason Smith Show with
Me by Carmon. No, Jason Smith off on his summer
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in the world he is. I can't wait to see

(01:12):
some of the suggestions that might be out there. With
Smith out, Jason Fitz tags ed Jason, welcome to the
chaos that is Evening Radio.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
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 fits 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 on air, but our names.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Do you know what? People are just gonna think that
I'm him?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
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
the hot take nonsense that flows through. But whenever Steve
gets on one, you know, the get off my lawn

(02:06):
part of the process. Harmon starts mashing with Hartman, and
away we go.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
For long, for a long time.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
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 Fitz said. Like it was just over and over
and over again. So you know, I feel you all that.

(02:34):
Like everybody calls me fits. That's just part of my life.
But in sixth grade there were six Chason 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.

(02:57):
I should get priority on that.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I think so short and sweet and to 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

(03:19):
half of those being mic. So I have been Harmon
since I was about seven years old, So I'll just
leap that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, give me my surname and
then we move on. 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.

(03:40):
Lots going on with them. Mark Medino join us after
the game as they roll out against Canada. I do
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,

(04:01):
you know, Nick fan Nick show. 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 6 (04:16):
You said you can't reach him though, right.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, I'm trying to let him alone.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Like, okay, I.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Was Frostburg.

Speaker 7 (04:22):
What do you got, Well, you can reach him, you
just call him McDonald's. I'm sure he's there.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, I mean, if we stepped into any McDonald's worldwide,
you do have a percentage chance that he's sitting there.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Suck him down for office and he'll he'll come to
the farm lift.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
Wow. Wow, I'm not gonna lie though a big magnet
right now, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, we're we're a shiny, happy family here, there's
no question about it.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
We celebrated all look.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
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 4 (04:59):
They celebrated his birthday.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
And so 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

(05:24):
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 Grimas
was once upon a time introduced as an evil character,
god of torment and stealing shakes across McDonald land.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Look Grimace 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 3 (05:56):
That is a good point, and Barney and Barney did
bring us Soelanna Gomez, so how do we cry about that?
She was one of the kids running around on Barney
and Friends way back in the day.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
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(06:33):
did my little European holiday Euro twenty twenty four. That's
all it was, except when I wore Bears gear, which
meant everybody wanted 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 4 (06:50):
I got to do that.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
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

(07:11):
game after a dopey elbow in the middle of the field. Yeah,
nobody's gonna see that. But anyway, they take down Urugo eight.
So now we set for the finals. But as you
and I were starting to prepare for this and I,
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

(07:32):
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,
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

(07:54):
then you get the evening nightcaps on Fox with with
the Copa America. So in the I got wall to
wall sporting action fits. So I mean, that's not going
to take too much from my life. I'm pretty excited
about that kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
I am.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
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 fall 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 4 (08:25):
Where are you going off? Is this good for the company?

Speaker 5 (08:30):
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 master that 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.

(08:52):
But like, 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 an games during March
mad just like nobody cares, So why fraction the audience out?

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, 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 lament Tomate the London games or whatever Germany games.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
For the NFL, I got to get up at six thirty.
It's like, no, you don't.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I mean, you can't watch the other two hundred and
seventy one and a light will go on without you.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
But you miss your fantasy and petting windows. Same thing here.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
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 in well,

(10:02):
I don't know, he got paid. 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 4 (10:13):
It's clearly got to be the coach.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Like I'm not gonna 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 gotta find a way to put
the ball in the back of the net and the

(10:36):
coach can't carry out there like you're a four year
old in t mall and make it happen for you.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Execution matters.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
I don't care what sport we're talking about, and we
lose that concept so often when the team stinks. Though,
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 in every sport. If
you are looking at it and saying, fire the coach,

(11:05):
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.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
When he was just off his rocker with who he
was hiring.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
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 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 gonna work out. I
just I think we have to remember at the end
of all of this that you know, no matter who

(11:39):
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 gonna 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.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
More often than not.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
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,

(12:16):
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

(12:40):
excel in those sports deciding to go play basketball or football. Right,
we're talking about multi sport athletes, right, yes.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
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 lots moreter than I am.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
I never could.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Like, that's not a sense I ever would have structured together, sir.
I mean, swollen dome is because that big brain is working.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well, 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 6 (13:14):
Them of the studio.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
I'm gonna find that jar then I can go get
some free McDonald's.

Speaker 6 (13:18):
No.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well, but that's it. Right, McDonald's for everybody.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
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 the show, because you know what, I've

(13:42):
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. Fitch, you're at Jason Fitz one,
Is that right? I'm just at Jason Jon Fitch. I
wanted to give you the number one at Jason Fitz

(14:02):
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 4 (14:18):
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

(16:16):
was going on in the In the aftermath of that
COPA America game that just went final, the Uruguayan players
have gone into the crowd after the Colombian fans. We
got punches being thrown in chaos is ensuing. How about that?

Speaker 6 (16:32):
I'm what are you thinking? Like? I understand the emotion
of the moment, and.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
I understand how hard all of it's been, but you
just there's a process here and you just gotta be better.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
You can't.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
You can't put yourself in that situation. And this is
a it's a terrible look for the tournament. It's 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, be better.
You just can't put yourself in that situation.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's like we were talking about a little bit yesterday
with the Mike Gundy comments. But you know, I've been
in that situation a thousand times related to having had
a few beers.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
And again do the math.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
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

(17:33):
guys who have may 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 to go. Let's just put it.
This guy put it this way.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Fits.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
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. The other guy not so much,
but he would convince.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
You the other guy that like many times in my twenties,
I was definitely the scrunting guy, run in my mouth
and just hoping that one of my guys that didn't
have sleeves was going.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
To back me up. So I get it.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
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 drunk idiots, right, Like, Yeah,
the fan portion of this alcohol just makes such a
difference in 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.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Through this process.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
So it's just it's such a lose for the lose,
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 3 (18:39):
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 two nil.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
But you know, the one nil final.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Certainly emotions running high, so you're at adrenaline on one
side and the demon alcohol and 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

(19:17):
is well and ask where he is in the world.
I can give you a couple of guesses 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 surprising news from the US men's national team and
that Kawhi Leonard is withdrawn from the squad, and we'll

(19:39):
go back into his process of getting ready for the
next iteration of the Clippers as they welcome 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 school across southern California and

(20:02):
up and down the coast. So that's pretty cool as well.
But here it's Kawhi Leonard quote, 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

(20:23):
back and forth between the Clippers, USA Basketball and Kawhi
Leonard's people, you know, expressing concern 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 going to be to the detriment of his abilities
to be on the court. And we've seen it year

(20:44):
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, how many
games do you get? And he's great when he's available.
Problem is availability is not there, managing Director Grand Hill
with this statement, I want to thank Kawhi for his
commitment to the US men's national team. You're in the

(21:05):
opportunity to represent the US by USA Basketball, and Clippers
leadership felt it's important to allow Kawhi to prepare for
the NBA season. So is this like getting 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 (21:26):
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

(21:46):
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.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
Championship after championship.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
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 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 play.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
He's he is being you know, sort of loud about that.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
To some level, I think this is Kawhi coming out
and saying I want to do this, but the Clippers
coming out and saying.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
I don't really care what you want.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
We want you to play for us, which is the
only hope to Clip have. So I respect where the
team's coming from in this process. It's just it's strange
to see an NBA player in this environment sort of
thwarted down.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, it's the difficult process, you know, trying 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 have 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,

(22:57):
nearly one hundred and fifty million dollar extra attention 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,

(23:20):
Grant hill House. 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 partners at USA Basketball.
This is about putting together a team. Whatever theories might
be out there, they're just that. Because Jalen Brown earlier

(23:40):
in the day, 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 6 (24:03):
Do we blame him? Right?

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Now you've got to look around and if you're him
and say, what 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.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
I think I'd be frustrated.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
And this is truly an honor that these guys want,
and it's not just about even just about the gold medal.
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 3 (24:40):
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, Tatum and Holiday already

(25:01):
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 know, scope
of ego. 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

(25:23):
run because it is so divisive, especially a guy coming
off of Eastern Conference Finals, MVP Finals, MVP and Jalen Brown. 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

(25:44):
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 even
means anymore. As we look at it, Jason, there's no
question there White three point marksman and the defensive side,

(26:06):
so he gets the nod. We start going up and
down roster construction guard for 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 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

(26:29):
times were Tatum or Brown put into those to try
to break them up after they didn't run it back
last season?

Speaker 4 (26:37):
I mean, that's all we hurts.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
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.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
They split them up, they can't win. All they do
is choke.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
Like this narrative that came out that I just think
was frankly pretty stupid. There's a I 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?

Speaker 6 (27:05):
What's actually gonna make you better?

Speaker 9 (27:07):
Like?

Speaker 6 (27:07):
Why would you do that?

Speaker 5 (27:08):
And if you're 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 played this many
games together and 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

(27:29):
crispy on the bacon right now.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
And they should.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
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 is heck better
give me every ounce of credit for all of it
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 until they won

(27:52):
the chip, and now they're ready to run.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
You know me wherever you can find your motivations in
our business, whatever business you're in. And so 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 uh, he's got a lot of that going. Frostburg,
you had something to add on this one.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
What do you got, guys?

Speaker 7 (28:10):
There's only one guy who should be feeling salty about
getting snubbed?

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Here? Who you got?

Speaker 7 (28:15):
We all know the right replacement for Kawhi was, Come on,
Cooper Flag, No, we're doing this.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Make him the guy to get him.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
I really thought he was gonna grab somebody off of
Laker Lore. Austin Reeves was suddenly going to be Captain America.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
And he's than the guys on the Celtics. Look at that,
Look at what I.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
Was talking to.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
I was talking to Vinnie Goodwill this morning, who works
with me at Yahoo Sports.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
He covers the NBA.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
And the question that he was asked is is Cooper
Flag the future of college basketball?

Speaker 6 (28:48):
Like it is? Does college basketball need him?

Speaker 5 (28:50):
And without hesitation, Vinnie said basketball needs him because when's
the last time you had a homegrown American white kid
that can come 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

(29:11):
train is out of you thought the acton the Edwards
hype train was out of control. Cooper Flagg it guy.
Hype train is gonna be even worse for the next year.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
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. It 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

(29:39):
able to do. And yeah, obviously the work over at Yahoo.
You you're on the fellows, you and Gargano getting after
it on Saturday mornings. Here Fox Sports Trading, we're happy
to have you in at Jason fitz where you find
him on Twitter. And now we're going to bring in
a man who's gonna run down all of the good
and the bad the other and he starts a few
fights of his own now and again it's our guy,

(30:00):
Ryan fann.

Speaker 9 (30:01):
Well, Jason and Mike. I thought I saw ronar Test
in the stands there of that it appearance.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Did you already put him in?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
You know, it was a famous Tops card years ago
where they put some random things in the crowd for
you Okay, so there's George Bush and there's you know,
Mickey Mantle hanging out in the background.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Was a Jeter card.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
So maybe you could do the same thing and you know,
use your canva to put our test in in that Melee.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
Well, Mike, at this point, how many cards do you have,
like fifteen thousand that you're looking to sell?

Speaker 4 (30:30):
I got a lot more in that.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, wow, none of those from that two million dollar heist.
By the way, that was not me. I had nothing
to do with it.

Speaker 9 (30:40):
And you might not have anything to do, although we're
talking about it. This game right now that is on
FS one. It is Teamulus A men's basketball. It is
the first of five exhibition games and it is two
nothing Canada USA. They're trailing just a minute or so
into this first quarter. They're playing four ten minute quarters.
Lebron James is starting also for Canada. Dylan Brooks, one

(31:03):
of the most liked guys in the NBA, no question
about Yeah, everybody loves Dylan Brooks. He is starting for Canada.
So as this show goes on, we'll continue to update
you on what's going on in that game. Also earlier,
Lebron James's son Bronni with quite a spectacular performance three
points in twenty nine minutes in that NBA Summer League game.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, do you need a bucket for the sarcasm that
just went falling onto your desk there?

Speaker 9 (31:27):
I did get a push notification from ESPN showing Bronni
getting twisted up playing defense and basically just getting shook
off the dribble as well.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Wait, they put that out, Yes, can you believe that?
I couldn't believe it. They put it. They put a
negative playout.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Yeah, little stunned here like a shot. I love his
So there we go.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
Yeah, yeah, you guys see it. So and it's making
the rounds on social media as well. I was like,
wait a minute, you got Bronnie in the spin cycle.
He's given up the layup.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
So yeah.

Speaker 9 (31:58):
Anyway, not that anybody really cares about the final score
because it's summer League, but Lakers did lose to the
Heat in that one.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh what was the final score? What was the spread?
Those are important things.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Do people really bet on him?

Speaker 6 (32:09):
Bet on everything?

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Oh my gosh, Jason.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Do you know how much money is right now being
transferred in holding because of that hot dog controversy?

Speaker 4 (32:20):
We talked about last night.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
There's betting on everything unbelievable, and yes to your point,
eighty to seventy six eight one. So hopefully a lot
of people made made a lot of money. I know
that Lebron James's son Brown, he didn't make a whole
lot of baskets, but he only took three shots. He
only took three shots. So you just hope that it
continues to go up from there. In regards to what
you guys were talking about. Earlier, in soccer, we had

(32:44):
the semi final Copa America that was on FS one.
Uruguay was up a man in the second half. They
had eleven guys, Colombia had ten because of a red
card in the first half, and Uruguay still lost one
nill And not only that, but then as we're talking about,
Uruguay then has some of their players go up in
to the stands and get in a brew haha, which

(33:05):
is not always the best of looks there tmusa men's soccer.
They didn't do too well in Copa America so much
so that they're going to fire their head coach, Greg Berhalter,
so he gets the boot as well. And the NBA
we're seeing according to ESPN, free agent Sadik Bay three years,
twenty million dollars going to the Washington Wizards. The Athletics
says the NBA has agreed to an eleven year, seventy

(33:28):
six billion dollar media rights deal with the combined forces
of NBC, Amazon and ESPN. Now nothing has been made
certain yet. The league's border governors will still have to
okay the contract. Once they do that, they're going to
forward that over to TNT Sports, and then TNT is
going to have five days to try and match, and
then we'll see what happens from that standpoint. And lastly, guys,

(33:50):
I want to mention this because we have some Dodger
fans on the show. I'll mention one score here because
I know we're up against it. The Phillies beat the
Dodgers four to three. I don't know if our exit
secut a producer justin Frostburg saw that that final score,
but the Dodgers did lose. Kyle Schwarber his second game back,
he hit a home run. Mike and Jason, So Frostburt,
did you see that the Dodgers lost again. I don't

(34:11):
know if he saw that, but I just wanted to.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
He's gonna go Aguayan player on you in a second
shape going on here.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
They're separated by a thin pane of glass. There fans
fan making noise in June. Oh geez.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
And there we have it. There's the clap back boy.
That's as good as Argentina going after Drake. We'll do
that a little bit later on. Thanks Fenley at Brian
Fenley where you find him. Check out his podcast. All
the work that he does up and down the highways
and byways in multiple sports. He's a varied talent individual. God, yeah,

(34:48):
we only got one point six ' one here six.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Mon that it's just one point. I mean, I'm watching
this go down.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
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 sync. Guys even up threes that aren't even open threes.
I get that that's modern basketball, but like you got
guys that can't even get a good look and they're
just heaving up threes.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
This is this is ugly.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, the pace of it is well akin to some
of the rec leagues that you would find here in
Los Angeles. You might get a better game on the
blacktop in Venice than you would hear.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
I want to very quickly though.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Fit's the USA Basketball tweet for it didn't call it
a starting lineup.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
They called it a first five. What do you think
of that?

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Oh my god, that's that's That's how soft we are
at this point.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
That's where we are now, fox on it, Yeah, that's one.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
The telecast still at least called it a starting lineup,
but in the USA Basketball it.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Was first Mike, They keep up, it's going to be
the bench five. How about that?

Speaker 3 (35:55):
I really was hoping to see Dylan Brooks are one
of these guys do the Kobe Bryant into Paul Gassault's
chest from way back in the day.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Oh god, hey, let's go game on.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'm still sitting here thinking, you know, the dangerous precedent
that first five sets in a name image likeness world.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
And look, I'm a big fan of name image likeness.
I love what it the.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
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 schools, AAU programs, college programs are going to start
doing that, because the last thing they want to do
is hurt anybody's feelings that's coming off the bench.

Speaker 6 (36:32):
Because they want to make sure everybody feels a valued
and appreciated.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
Like God, I just this feels like a gross precedent
terrible things.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Jason Fitzen for Jason Smith, not Mike Carmen.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon here from the tyraq
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 2 (36:55):
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 3 (37:02):
Great egs, Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with me and Mike Harmon bopping 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

(37:23):
and you just you know, put your head down. As
long as you're not you know, playing in traffic. That
maybe you can do 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 court and get after it. Maybe it
can be sanctioned by Dana White in the UFC and

(37:44):
we can get that contract signed immediately.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
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

(38:08):
time Dylan Brooks and Lebron are even close to each other.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Kind of love it.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
I wouldn't mind seeing like, you know, like a straight
up hockey fight. Like I love hockey, so give me
hockey guy, mom mate, 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.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Be 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 h when we do
have the odd man situation. I kind of dig this
power play comes to basketball, let's go.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
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.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
Somebody said the sweater goes over. You're just trying to
knock him down. Whatever.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
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, 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

(39:22):
all together. Oh, people would flock to watch that.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
You know, I'm right, No, there's no question We'll 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

(39:45):
the fun and exciting world of Harry Potter filming and
the you know, the studios.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
And all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
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 mon 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

(40:13):
in pop culture. Should I be embarrassed?

Speaker 4 (40:16):
No?

Speaker 5 (40:16):
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.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
At the time of my life.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
I was still touring the music and you can't watch
things 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 were like two episodes
in and everybody's like, well, who's that guy and who's
that and he got so confusing. We just 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,

(40:46):
like all of it. 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 have HBO no, and I'm still too cheap to
pay for it. So like, nah, let's're sending me the
password and then you're giving me a week off.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
I'm not I'm not taking any time to do that.
God No.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Password sharing also going to hell here in twenty twenty
four because they realized how many people were you know,
on the LAMB.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Wait, how many times have I given that password?

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Now?

Speaker 3 (41:14):
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 could literally have
an office of one hundred people on my id. Guess
what we got that contract by telling them how you
know that they needed to fix the glitch. He's Jason
Fitz I'm my Garbin Coming up. Next, we go into

(41:34):
fits his favorite team, the Raiders, because one of his
players just keeps yap, yap, yap, and away.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
Next time for mana autobiography and thinking, oh my god,
this is like the coolest good dude in the world,
Like there was just something different about that eighty five
Bears team that I think resonated at a different level.
So I have a little tiny soft spot for the Bears,
but I only have a love for one. I'm a
very monogamous relationship with my beloved Raiders.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
I think I might be the last person that lived
in Chicago those years that hasn't written a book about
the experience of the eighty five Bears, talked about it
enough here and lived in the memories of those years,
And anytime I get to meet any of those guys, it's,
you know, a holy kind of moment. Steve McMichael going
into the Hall of Fame. Is is everything for me

(42:19):
because he was always my favorite even before he and
then he joined the Four Horsemen, So I mean, I mean,
what else could I want there?

Speaker 4 (42:27):
He goes, Look, you've.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Now mentioned wrestling twice. I will just tell the world
you didn't know this. But like before we connected and
started the show tonight, I was on a website that
sells like they make new versions of those big WWE
guys from when we were kids, like the big rubber ones.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
Yeah, and I was.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Trying to get you know, the British Bulldogs are impossible
to get, and there was a site that said they
had him, so I was trying to figure out if
I was going to bid on the British Bulldogs. So
like that's why I'm like, you know, I'm out, No
no free shoutouts to the company, like I'm.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Not a little Davy boy and the Dynamite kid. Let's
go Harmon, walll find me for you.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
I'll find it.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
And I'm pretty good at ferreting that stuff out the
memorabilia world, and those toys my favorite until all the controversy.
One of my favorite pieces in the larger collection was
still in packaging. The Vince McMahon WWF microphone.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
Oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
So here's the funny thing when you say still in packaging,
I am the worst because, as I mentioned flippant lay earlier,
but like very real for me, we didn't have anything.
My parents did their best, but we just didn't have
anything when I was a kid, So you know, there
there were birthdays and Christmases where there were no presents.
That just wasn't part of life. So I didn't have
some of the toys that a lot of people have.
So as I got older, I decided, especially when I

(43:43):
was in the music world and I was, you know,
writing songs and everything with people, I wanted to make
sure that I had like a cool writing office that
people would say, oh, that was fun.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
So I started getting toys.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
But the thing for me is I always wanted toys
that were out of the package because like when you
didn't get to play with them as a kid, I
wanted to make sure.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
So I'm the worse.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Like I was at this comic con and there was
a like a Transformer that was super collectible. I ripped
that thing out of the box at the comic con
and you would have thought that I shot a bunch
of people's grandmothers like the looks of shocking on people's faces.
And I'm like, y'all, I'm a grown ass man, but
I don't have kids.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
It's no longer a collectible.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
He's like, you can never resell that, and I'm like, well,
I wasn't really planning on that, so I am.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
I am the worst for that. So you know, a
lot of times with.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
These wrestling toys, I just wait until there's one that's like,
you know, a little scuffed up and makes it on eBay,
and then I go out and get it, do it well.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
And then you got you got guys that run a
whole business world. They'll match the paint and repaint pieces
if you need a little help there too.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
So I grew up on the West Coast and went
to the old aw A matches when I was a kid.
So like the Midnight Rockers were life to me.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Say, I'm a Legion to Doom guy. I was actually
wearing a Legion to Doom shirt yesterday. I got some
Legion of Doom toys about the road Wars is what
it's all about right there.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
The the Midnight Rockers ones, though, like those a w
a toys they made.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
I had them as a crem cos.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Yeah, the rem cos they were with the wooden ring.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Did you have the wooden ring?

Speaker 6 (45:06):
Oh? Yeah, did you ever hear that?

Speaker 3 (45:08):
And you'd make so much noise and mom would come
down and well that was the end of playing with
the wrestlers.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
Well now I want to get them, but you just
get like they're so expensive, like especially if you want
the Midnight Rockers one, You're talking like six seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
To two toys. I'm like, no, I'm not doing that
like I want.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
So I went to somebody in and was like, hey,
can you just do me like a custom knockoff? And
that's so that's what I have. Like they have no
value at all, but they look like the real ones,
and that that makes me happy.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
They challenge accepted.

Speaker 6 (45:35):
It's my version of an empty purse.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
See, I'm just putting that at the margins of my
rundown here as we go through, Hey, it's now tied
twenty one twenty one US and Canada. Boy, this game
is boring. The most exciting thing, and Frostburg brought it
to my attention, is that we've got Barack Obama and
Michelle Obama court side. Can he give them a couple
of minutes? He used to have a pretty good jump shot.

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I remember they used to run a lot of games
when he was in the White House.

Speaker 5 (46:01):
We hear this being absolutely just bombarded for pictures, Oh,
no doubt so. Yeah, and I will say the game,
the pace on the game is finally picking up, like
both teams are trying to push the ball a little
bit more so maybe it's less of a snoozer, but yeah, look,
if Obama went out there and gave three or four
minutes of this wouldn't be any worse than what we've
actually seen from Team USA.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Yeah, we got past the first five.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
We gotten into substitutions as we go midway through the
second quarter, four ten minute periods rolling through this one.
We'll keep it apprized of it and after it's all over,
Mark Medenol join us. We'll break down what we saw,
what else is going on with Team USA, and of
course everything going on in NBA free agency. You find
me over on Twitter at Swollen Dome. Find Jason at

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documentary kind of shows.

Speaker 7 (47:05):
You know.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
I watched The Quarterback One, Little Kirk Cousins, Patrick Mahomes
all that fun stuff. Receiver premiered and we have already
got a'man ross Saint Brown. He said some crazy stuff
about what he played with last year. We'll go through that.
But your receiver, Devontae Adams, Boy, he's making the rounds
and he's making some noise yesterday on the show. Here

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Speaker 4 (47:29):
Give it five stars. We'll love you forever.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
I'll walk to your town and maybe give you a
hug for his gump style, and maybe I'll leave a
smile on your shirt as well. But we went after
the social media team of the Los Angeles Chargers because
they had him with the trash can popcart pop tart
in the latest schedule release.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
So you know, the old.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Keep your name out out in my mouth, you know
kind of thing like Will Smith. He's gonna slap some people,
but he also well started talking about contract negotiations with
the Packers when he was there. But now he's talking
to a former teammate who's found his way to Green
Bay as well.

Speaker 10 (48:07):
He's always in the news after saying something. But he
told the media about a text that he sent asking
if you were thinking about returning to the Packers, saying
yesterday it was a joke. What would you like to say?

Speaker 11 (48:21):
Yeah, that was truly he did send that over and
I mean, Josh is one of my best friends. Man.
He's first of all, he's hilarious. People don't know how
funny he is. It was definitely a joke, but it
was one of those jokes where he was serious because
he definitely would like that. But I told him, you
go ahead and hold it down, and you know, I'm
gonna hold it down over here. I don't think I'll
be coming back over there. You know, never know what's

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going to happen.

Speaker 10 (48:44):
If we whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
That's why I say if they shipped me off, then
but see there you go.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
That's on k Adams Show. Up in Adams Show is
the Twitter handle for that one?

Speaker 4 (48:56):
But you know, he went all over the place. He
was an open book.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
During this interview, Jason Amana just one thing after another,
talking about the contract negotiations with the Packers as well
to where their final offer wasn't even commensurate with the
franchise tag or even close to it, which means he
becomes a Raider now. He also talked about the fact
that Aaron Rodgers keeps getting into his into his mentions

(49:21):
and contacting him about yeah, we got to run it back,
we got to get back together, et cetera. Tampering, But hey,
it's all fun games until something crazy happens. But certainly
no love loss for Green Bay. But is that a
guy you expect to see by the end of the
year or by trade deadline?

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Is he in another uniform?

Speaker 6 (49:42):
Yeah? I don't think he's going anywhere.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
And part of what we sort of forget with DeVante
is the age and the contract number. So before last season,
before we even started last year, I asked a couple
of insiders and experts that I really trust that are
plugged into the league. Question I asked is if the
Raiders tried to trade Davante, and this is before last season,

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what would they realistically get from him, and.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
Across the board.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
I think I surveyed probably half a dozen people. The
highest answer I got was a mid second rounder. So
because of the age and because of the contract, people
are not going to be looking to give up. I
think his cap number next year is forty four million dollars,
so a first round pick is out of the question.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
So if you're the Raiders, why would.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
You possibly trade one of the best wide receivers in
the league for a second round pick? Like there's no
value to that. So I think we forget that a
little bit. And much has been made about DeVante being unhappy,
But what did we learn from that k Adams interview
and frankly the entire press junket he's been doing right now.
He's pretty good at telling you exactly what's going on, Like,
he's not a guy that really sugarcoats much, and he's

(50:46):
been pretty adamant. I'm here and I want to win here,
and I think we can win here, Like I think
Davante is going to be with the Raiders through this year.
Where it gets much more interesting is going into next year.
What are the Raiders going to do? Because you just
can't continue the site. I don't think the Raiders made
a mistake having Aid to O'Connell and Gardner Minshew as
their quarterback. I think they played that situation the best

(51:06):
they could. Unfortunately, the draft didn't work in a way
that they could get the guys that they wanted, So
they're just sort of stuck at that position. But if
you're DeVante, they're going to have to ask him to
restructure next year to stick around. Is he going to
restructure to play with Aid and O'Connell. No, I don't
think so.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Yeah, they do have a potential out after this year.
You know, the fun and exciting world of NFL contracts.
But yeah, to your point, it is a pretty sizeable
cap hit as it stands for this year. Next year
the base jumps to thirty five six. So this year
it's not as bad, bases only at about seventeen. Signing, bonus, restructuring,

(51:45):
all of that, you know, add it up and we
get to somewhere in that twenty six twenty seven. But yeah,
the jump comes after this season. There's still two more
years on the deal as it stands, before he even
become an unrestricted free agent. Just say this, one of
the other questions that was asked here and on Speak
and all over the place because he's doing the press.

(52:06):
Junket was talking about the quarterback situation and this is
where we get down to. As much as we celebrate
and love the world that is Gardner, Minshew, You've got
Aid O'Connell there. I got to imagine it gets a
little stickier if they can't get him the ball and
we're rehashing what you've come to know. Look, I know
it with the Bears, so I feel for you when

(52:28):
it comes to all right, it's another one of those seasons,
a little bit of promise, a couple of stars, but
not being able to register much in the win column.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
The interesting part because you said how much we love
Gardner Minshew. I think in society in general, we apply
benefit of the doubts to characters we love.

Speaker 6 (52:48):
So when we really love Anthony Edwards on the off the.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Court, we love what he's doing on the court doesn't
really matter, right, Like, there is some level of Gardner
minshewe's such a celebrity. I would say, though, if you
go back and watch some of how those wins happened
last for the Colts, Shane Styke and did a really
nice job of masking some things. Gardner was fine. Adan
O'Connell over the course of the last year was fine.
I don't think he's a world beater, but most people
don't think of him as being even remotely good. I

(53:12):
think these are two pretty evenly matched quarterbacks, and if
that's the case, Aiden, I think Aiden's gonna win the job.
The question is just what does that really mean for
the future, because next year's draft quarterback class stinks. That's
why I honestly believe that this Raiders room from a
talent standpoint, is good enough that in a year they're
going to back up a bringstruck and they're gonna make
Dak Prescott the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. And

(53:34):
that's the way they're going to try and keep everybody
happy and win. They're gonna bring Dak sixty plus million
dollars a year, and they're going to bring a quarterback
in because they're just tired of trying to roll the
dice and find.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
One, keep trying to dance. It all goes back to
remember Derek Carr. As soon as he yelled it it's broke,
it's broke. Everything changed just that fast. See now bringing
up bad memories. Fits is gonna hate me, and now
he's going to just go and buy a bunch of
wrestling toys on till.

Speaker 6 (54:02):
So wait it all works You got me figured out? No, wait,
it all.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Works all together.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
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aggressive expansion. US with a four point lead under four
minutes left in the first half. Coming up next, we
turn our attention to the Big twelve. Some big talk
from the Commissioner yesterday and now well doubling down on
something we brought up a long time ago again regarding expansion.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
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Speaker 3 (54:57):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio j Show with Me
Mike Harmon, Jason fitz In for Jason Smith fifty forty
three seven minutes tremading. It finally got the second half
underway of this exhibition between the US and Canada. I
hear Jason longest halftime interview ever. Grant Hill must have
had a lot of stuff to say.

Speaker 6 (55:21):
Did he?

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Or are we just trying to milk this thing for?
Like I feel like the halftime was longer than the
actual period.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
So oh yeah, the second quarter seemed to blow by,
and then this just kept going and going. Here's some
more shots of who's taking a selfie with Barack Obama.
Here's some more crowd shots of Colangelo and coach k
because we got to keep showing them the architects of
everything and all of that fun stuff. But yeah, it
really that was a long halftime. I wonder what it

(55:49):
had runs, what it had runs during a halftime show
like that. I mean it's good for US. I mean
it's Fox Moore t one, so I mean I can't complain.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
No, we want we want everybody making money here. Do
you think that Barack is like out in the clerb afterwards? Like,
do you think like they've they've got a clerb destination
for him like service.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
They have figured this out. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
I feel like the.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Lebron makes the call.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
Yeah, like well, I mean the Secret Service goes in
and does all the actual work to get it done,
but I think it's Lebron.

Speaker 6 (56:25):
Then he decided.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
To Barock and he's like yeah, like hey, let's do this,
and then yeah, they do a complete buyout somewhere.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
So kind of like getting a coach and you know,
doing GM work. He makes the call for the club
attendance too.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
I feel like Lebron's got to be that guy, right,
nobody else on this like you if you're going to
be dealing with the rock star of hanging out with
the president, then you've got to have like the biggest
rock star on the on the court doing it. And
there just isn't a bigger bigger rock star in this
era of basketball than Lebron James, right, So I.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Was just wonder it wouldn't fall to where, you know,
you get like the young guy, say the young brash
guy like Anthony Edwards, all right, you want to be
number one, the bill is on you.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
You figure it out.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
I think if it's so, if it were players only,
then it's going to the young guy. Okay, if it's
if there's a super impressive person in the room, then
you know the king wants to king it.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
That's you know, well he's gonna take credit if it
goes well. Anyway, So they're oh, yeah, hey, major League
Baseball All Star Game on Fox next week in Arlington, Texas. Uh,
they've now got a robot bartender. Now we've seen this
flipping burgers, We've seen all sorts of things. It's not
ten o'clock here on the West Coast, so save harbor,

(57:44):
use your imagination for other things for robots. But in
the concession stand I mean you're gonna have classic cocktails,
all selection of mocktails for those that don't want to,
you know, add the the alcohol to things. But all
of a sudden slinging drinks. And I've not experienced this.
I mean I've read about the technology, and certainly from

(58:06):
an economic standpoint, I'm a nerd that likes to look
into the inevitability of the imp implementation of this fast
food restaurants or fast casual as they like to be called,
et cetera. But you say you've already experienced this one.

Speaker 6 (58:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
So there is a place called the Tipsy Robot at
the Miracle Mile shops in Vegas, and so it's right
inside the entrance and it's been open for a couple
of years.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
And it literally is just.

Speaker 5 (58:30):
A couple of robots that sit there and you walk
up to a screen, you type in what you want,
and then the robot makes it and it gets put
out on the counter for you. So it's a super
fast and efficient process. And honestly, every time I walk
by it, it is packed because people are interested in
the concept of Sure, I want to see what this
is all about.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
I do think there's there's something weird. Like for me,
I love.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
When I go out to eat sitting at the bar,
Like I like to sit at the bar, and you
know know that, like I got a good vibe there,
maybe a good energy. It's awesome if you've got a
bartender that's like worth talking to, the strike up a
little conversation. I like all of those things. So for me,
I think it's a cold experience. But you know, also,
how many people a few years ago were wildly worried

(59:13):
about self checkout in grocery stores, and now that's what
ninety nine percent of the world uses every single day.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Except those are starting to go away in a lot
of places. Fit you know what, theft shrinkage is off
the charts. That small percentage of things that they're actually
scanning in versus what they're walking out.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
The door with. That's interesting.

Speaker 6 (59:33):
You've got like, you.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
Know, targeting a number of other places where it's like,
you know what, I don't think we're going to be
doing this and a lot of our locations anymore.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
I would prefer they didn't, honestly, Like I like, I know,
it's quick and easy in everybody's mind, I got an
extra five minutes. Like I like the concept of you know,
walking up and I don't have to worry about it.
I just upload, I put the stuff up on the
on the belt and then they take care of everything else.
That's like I find even the like the Costco thing.
I went to Costco today, right, and I find the

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whole process of like having to go get a box
and put everything in the box. I found that to
be very overwhelming for me. I like to do as
little thinking and working as possible in this, so I'm
all for people having jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
There you go and with the robots. I mean, the
one thing you do if you're running the business. It's
not going to be a heavy poor You're not gonna
have the shrinkage of your bartender maybe doling out some
free shots and stuff to people, So your alcohol cost
and cost of goods is going to go down. Look
just going to the economic step. What a terrible cold

(01:00:33):
person I am.

Speaker 5 (01:00:34):
I love bar rescue, so I love that you're doing
this like it keeps all your beverage costs in line.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
I kind of love that I might have a little
bit of Taffer in me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
I may be known to yell a little bit around
here when things get out of short.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
Who knows