July 12, 2024 • 41 mins
On tonight's edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Martin Weiss is filling in for Jason Smith! The guys open the hour reacting to the new cup and logo for the NBA In Season Tournament and debate if it's better than before. Next, the guys react to Suns F Kevin Durant revealing his height and sounds off on the rest of the NBA for deceiving fans with false heights! Finally, Mike and Martin react to the Mirage in Las Vegas closing its doors! Listen to all that and so much more in Hour 3!
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This week, Martin Weiss in his stead, joins us tonight
(00:52):
five to eight. You hear him on Saturday nights alongside VJ.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Husky.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You hear him on the update desk preceding that shift.
He's now like our Swiss army knife at Martin Wise
where you find him on Twitter, and then he does
daytime radio.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Twe Detroit, Dam Detroit, Michigan. Find it, go to Sports
Trap Radio Detroit dot Com a press listen live at
noon Eastern and that's where I'll be.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
There he is. See there you go any more plugs.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
No, I've still got all my hair, So we're good there.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Hicely done. That is well played. Mine thinning that which
does grow still does pretty well. Not quite mullet esque,
but you know, maybe we can go for that. Look
another time. We're talking a lot about the next iterations
of sporting events. Right we're looking at the NBA with
all of the money's float again in yes, I said
(01:48):
moneys from all of these perspective date changes, you know,
you still got Warner Brothers in the right of refusal
sitting over in the back background. But eleven years, seventy
six billion dollars, a tripling of the last rights deal,
and multiple players. When we talk about ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock,
(02:11):
all of that coming in, and then you add Amazon
to the mix. So trying to figure out what that
national schedule would be once football goes away. But today
today we've got a the dates, the draw, the new logo,
all of this for the NBA Cup twenty twenty four.
You're in season tournament. Yes, there's a banner hanging yes
(02:33):
to the trophy, and I really think I thought they
should have done a really nice exhibition by handing out
oversized novelty checks like you were on a game show.
Here's your five hundred thousand dollars for winning the n
Season Tournament.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah I was.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I was in on the n Season Tournament from day one.
And now I don't like the fact they're not calling
it the NBA Cup because I'm like, wait a minute,
is this still the ist?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I was all little on the ist.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You just want to well, I mean it's just to
play on, you know, Bianca bell Ara being the E
S T the w W E.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, ibout that would right over my head.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'll bring you come into my world. We'll celebrate the
retirement announcement of John Cena next.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I do know that everything that drove me nuts about
this thing, So this is what drives me crazy about
this type of stuff, because you're about to outline all
these changes they decided to make to it. And I
bet you the one thing that they change is the
one thing that I hate them. They didn't change is
the one thing I hated the most, and that is
those god awful courts.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, that's Those aren't good for anybody. I mean, the
straining on the eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's it's the only thing that's good for is to
see whether or not you are going color blind.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, that's fair, that's it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You see what team eventually just creates a jersey that
camouflages the court.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, that guy just is white. Open threes where the
is a six guy playing.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It's like when the weather man wears a green suit
for the green screen. Oh oh, I see his hands
and eyes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So randomly drawn into six groups of five. Based on
the record from the previous season, fine teams play each
other next season Tuesdays and Fridays. They'll be called Cup
Nights between November twelfth and December third. The eye roll
that I just got from Martin whitz on that one
tells you how at all. But since it's an audio
(04:32):
medium here, I had to.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You know, you know what Cup night sound like to me?
When somebody wins the Stanley Cup, Yeah, that would be
the Cup Night. But anyway, well, I digress. I'm not
trying to I'm not trying to derail the whole sunning.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You've got thoughts and I you know, we'll get to
an end point here in a minute on it as
we get through the dates. So they got a new logo.
It's the renamed NBA Cup. I'm gonna get you a
shirt alongside the trophy, and Emirates is the events sponsors.
So you got that going for you too. Uh So
the incentivize early season, in season games, all of that stuff.
(05:11):
Uh here's one of the the write ups to it.
It says, well, there were some bumps in the first
iteration and the first thing they mentioned gaudy courts. I
gotta dig that.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
They were disgusting. I was sitting there watching the Clippers
play on this red and black basketball, like, what is
the slam ball?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We could bring that back into Why not? I think
we can probably still find that on the O Show.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
They should probably integrate it into OFFTAR weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Maybe more people to watch.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
However, we can we get one of these superstars to
anticipated slamble.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
That, you know what? It depends on how you look
at Dyale Brown. He was in the Dunk Contest this year.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
See there you go. Or maybe this is how we
bring the WWE guys into it. Because now you know
they're flying into each other.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
John C Universus Jason Tay who wins.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Tatum doesn't want any of that smoke. There's no question
about all. Right, top six teams in each group advance
along with two wild card teams, all of that stuff.
Knockout stage, single elimination starting December tenth. Semi finals December fourteenth,
Championship game December seventeenth. So we'll wrap this up ahead
of Christmas. Everybody will have a nice bonus and a
(06:22):
full week of shopping days before the big event to
go blow it. However, they will. Now I propose this
to you as an extra wrinkle. We'll talk about incentivization.
We'll talk about next level kind of things. How about
we make one of the other things you win. Here's
your novelty check and cash and all of this stuff.
(06:44):
You get to hang a banner, you get to claim
a championship like you cling to those things as you will, right,
Lakers man, you got you got the title in the bubble,
and then you got the in season championship. Laker fans
are really mad at me for like a mocking it, Like, hey,
look man, you my whole thing is find your wins
where you can Martin like today I woke up, I'm already,
(07:07):
I'm already on the plus side.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
What do I get to do with it? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I went want to know just in that part of
the function. And then we try to do something good
for ourselves, do something good for others, all of those things.
Try to come in here and have a bang up
radio show to where we all have some laughs America laughs,
forgets the problems for four hours. All of those things.
That's what we're trying to do. Find your wins. So
if the n season tournament becomes a thing, and you
(07:32):
know that cup that we have now a banner and
a giant pile of cash, is enough cool. I want
to take it one step further. How about we guarantee
the winner in their conference the number at least the
number six seed.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
The keywords there are at least the sixth seed, right,
because then you avoid the one game play in our
two game play depending on how you finish seven.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
And I think the Los Angeles Lakers would have really
appreciated being the sixth seed, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like just recent se we could just go through that
and now you can go simulate that on video games
or you know, whatever computer model you got.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
To be honest, it ended up being at the actual
N Season Tournament champion was the sixth seed, and.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
There you have it. But it's just that that idea
of all right, incentive ize your sixth seed. My guess
is you're not going to have that big a spread
between the team that quote would have been the sixth
seed that gets bumped, and there's really something substantive for
those games on the whole.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You know what I was thinking as you said this
at first, because if my first I was like, I
don't know how much I like it. I think I
can meet you in the middle. Okay, I think I
meet you in the middle.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What you I think would you if you get if
you win the N Season Tournament and you fall into
the play in, you get a bye. Like if you're
the seventh seed, you're just locked in. And so the eight, nine,
and ten are fighting for that last spot.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
How about we pretend that I shoot with the money ball,
so my threes are worth an extra point for that game.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So now I'm just going Now I'm going rock and jocks, So.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
We're bringing all the old classics in, but just trying
to figure out you know where there's there's more substantive
because here it's like, oh, yeah, you won great, Okay,
Now it's December eighteenth, right now, what what did I
really get? Okay, I got some Bonnie, that's great. These
guys are making a lot, a lot of money, and
who doesn't want a little bit more, I get it, right, Well,
(09:38):
we'd all trip over ourselves and over our words to
try to claim that five hundred grand, no question about us.
But but it's just the idea of when you're signing
three hundred million dollar contracts on the top end of
a lot of these guys on these rosters. All right,
five hundred grand's great for the guys on the back end,
no question, and you're you're not sneezing at it. But
(10:00):
it's still the you won this award and it's done
December seventeenth.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I mean, it's the equivalent almost of like when you
have a regular job, as we have regular jobs, and
you get like the Amazon gift card at Christmas, Like
it's a substantive amount of money that five hundred thousand dollars,
but it's not so much that like you're done shopping,
you know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Saying, No, it's not necessarily changing everything for you. Oh
cool that hit.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I just thought it was so funny going up leading
into that, and Lebron James, as he's won the deuce,
spoke to the media and said, well, you know, I'm
paraphrasing here, but I'll never forget this quote for the
rest of my days as a sports talk radio host.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
He goes, you know, when you give alpha male something
to play for.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You know, this is what the type of competition that
you could see, referencing the five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
That's why I was like, oh, so the forty eight
million that you make the rest of the time is
not something to play for?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's not how it goes?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And then I just thought if I was the head
of the the owners not the owners, I don't know
what they call the owners association.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You know they have the players and the governors now right,
the governors.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But if I was like, what is it giving advice
to the governors of the NBA the next collective bargain agreement?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I would plaster that quote just on the wall in
the back and been like, when.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You give us something to play for, this is the
type of competition that you get and say, this is
why we have to stop guaranteeing contracts.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Damn your first and second apron actually done. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Something I've argued for a long, long ago in terms
of the guarantees, especially when we're signing six or seven
year deals. Right where we start getting to the largest
of some of these these deals, especially guys in the
mid thirties, I'm like, look, as you're a player, God
bless you as long as you can collect it. But
the business model of it doesn't make sense even with
(11:55):
this eleven year, seventy six billion dollar deal, which again
it when we try to take it all in full Martin,
and I know you know, we've got streaming right, so
we got all of this and advertising dollars the last
bastion of television that you have to watch, right, because
you're generally the general person is not going to go
(12:16):
back and watch a game four hours. No, I got
that tab leave me alone now for our purposes of
our job, there are times that you're gonna do that, right.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
This is the reason why I slid into this because
I realized that if I was just an insurance salesman,
me wanted to watch the game at midnight that I
missed earlier, it would be frowned upon.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, you probably get some side eye a little bit,
especially maybe, but I mean you dominate the water cooler
the next morning.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So there is some probitive value there and maybe some
camaraderie not only in the office but with potential clients.
But I think we talk about those values. But look,
Cuban got out, Jordan got out, Celtics guy is going
to transfer some shares and you're going to see a
shift of that. So I would just say, when you're
(13:08):
signing this eleven year, seventy six billion dollar deal, what's
behind door number two that these guys are jumping off
the ship rights as the money is tripling?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well, Grossbeck might just beginning out. I have to. I mean,
it's wild to think he's hot.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
He has offered our signed the check on two of
the no the two largest NBA contracts in successive fashion,
and it's like, you know what, I think now is
the time to sell. You don't think that bill's coming
due because all that money is guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, now you're split of the revenue. We just watched
it in the NFL, right, splitting up that what was
it thirteen billion dollars? National revenue is four hundred million
per team. Now we anxiously await the packers filings because
then we get to, you know, see under the hood
a little bit more right as to turn you know,
some of the revenues that are flowing through.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
It'll be interesting, for sure, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
All right, coming up next, we'll stay with the National
Basketball Association because we've all been lied to for a
very long time. And there's one player in particular that
let the cat out of the bag and what's to
be shook. Yeah, it's got to be shook. Hopefully he doesn't,
you know, he's got some protections under whistleblower laws. He's
Martin weiss in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Harmon here
(14:24):
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he wasn't talking about you. You took those clips totally
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YEA, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith Show
with Me, Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith Tonight. Martin Weiss
in his stead at Martin Weiss is where you find
him in the Twitter verse. That's me appreciate Martin coming
in tonight, rising star in our industry, got his show.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Up going on at Detroit.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Your two the eyes are watching. I see the way
the world works. Thanks, And we all need a little
bit of a positivity, a and maybe a forearm to
the back to keep us moving. So that's what we
give you here. At Swollendome is where you find me.
We've got Shay, We've got Alex ty Shirt, and of
course Steve Disager at the news desk. We'll get an
update from Tyshirt with everything he's got going on as well,
(16:56):
because you know, he's a media mogul in his own right.
And Shay hates me because he let my name off
the show tonight. It's like walking in if we had
a dressing room and I was like, where are you.
You're over in the janitor's closet down there.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Right, the one that says TBD. That's that's that's you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
We'll see who shows up. Thanks, And here I am
live and in living color. All right. So earlier today,
you know, one of the things, I'm not a tall man.
I am a fire plug of a man. So I
knew my limits as a as an athlete pretty early.
I had a couple of knee injuries and there was
nothing they were gonna do, even with promises off we
(17:33):
can bulk you up to get you a couple of years,
you know, on the defensive line or whatever. So I
knew I was done. Football was the the sport and
that was gone. I get it, And in general, I
walked through life, and obviously I've been blessed working in
sports media now in some capacity going on twenty five years,
you know, behind the scenes at Yahoo and now front
(17:55):
facing on the microphone here and Yahoo before, some video stuff,
all of that things that we've been able to do.
Met a lot of people here, and I'm shorter than
ninety nine percent of them. So every once in a while,
I'll find a guy that's my height. So Barry Sanders
and I we got to have a nice conversation because
Barry's only maybe an inch taller than I am, right,
And occasionally I'll have that guy pop through. Otherwise, you know,
(18:17):
everybody's kind of tall to me.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Martin. See, I'm a decent height.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
But like I'll do a show with Carry Roads and think, man,
maybe I should have tried to play football. And then
I'll do a show with East from Salam and It's like, oh,
hell no.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, eventually that guy's coming down leading the block and
he's gonna find you.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Right exactly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know, we've we've had old polonies in here, right,
top ten draft pick in the NBA.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
One of the biggest people I've I know, personally, you
know what I mean, Like we've got we've we've we've
met and worked with a number of guys where you
just sit there at my buddy Ryan Allins Sunday morning,
six to nine am.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Right, ten years in the league, he was part of
Clipped right. That was just he still hadn't watched it
for me. So I'm this week kind of tough. Lot
of a lot going on down in the Houston area.
So errors up for all the folks. There's still a
lot of areas without power, and if you can help
in any way, by all means, please please do your
best to contribute whatever you can to that process. But
(19:13):
you know, he's a guy that trying to just sit
at the desks here at Fox Sports Trader. You can
see how uncomfortable he is as a seven footer. But
it's the kind of thing that I've just become accustomed
to this. And one of the things is always the
back of the basketball cards, right, baseball cards always had
all the cool stats, some random things, and if you
go back far enough, you'd have guys that you know,
(19:36):
you'd have their hobby, you know, right in a little
cartoon of him in the off season, he likes rattlesnake hunting,
Oh okay, cool or you know some of them that
I can't I don't even think I can say on air.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I think I'd get bleeped, probably.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
But back in the day they were on the back
of the trading card. Away you go. But one of
the things you'd always you know, height, weight, all of
those things. You're larger than life. And it always disappointed
me to find out, Oh, maybe guys aren't necessarily as
tall as they are, because we saw that with Bronnie James,
right sixty four, no, no, No six, one has some change.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I think most famously the one, well, the one I
remember the most was Victim Wibbin Yama was seven feet
seven inches tall until he came to America, and then
it was seven four.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Then it was seven three, and I'm like, well, I
stopped lying to me.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So normally we're talking about guys going the other way, right, Ay,
he's still growing. We're gonna, you know, there might be
in a little more maturation. One of the things people
are still hoping for. Brownie James. But Kevin Durant let
the cat out of the bag. They had their team picture, uh,
and he was talking to Kay Adams and he gave
he gave, give up the forum.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
There's some huge controversy about you being a lot taller
than six ' ten with this Team USA photo shoot
that happened.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Have you seen this? No, no, lot of I guess
those guys might be shortered in with there what their
numbers say. I'm six nine though, so it looks like
Bam out of bio is probably six 's eight, yeah,
instead of six ' ten, and ad is probably six ' nine.
You know, so they probably adding a little more in
their height. Well, I'm keeping minds at the same you know,
(21:12):
I'm not lying about my height.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
You look just as colleged and Beid and he's listed
at seven ft. So you're saying those guys are all lying.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Uh really yeah, yeah, he isn't a seven feet but.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's just it. Kevin Durant was always as the slim Reaper.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He was a guy looking at his crazy skill set
for a guy that's just shade under seven feet. He
always got rounded up. And now you're telling me you're
six ' nine this whole time, like I feel like
I've been hoodwink. Can I file a class action lawsuit?
My heroes aren't what they claim to be and what
the league purported them to be.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Martin Weiss, I feel like the hoodwinking is on Kevin
Durant's side of things. Honestly, what's more likely that everybody's
lying are that Kevin known Twitter troll is lying.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, I think he's getting caught in a lie. Yeah,
I mean I think everybody else is lying to Now
it's just a matter of ingredients though, absolutely right, because
there was always you know, for the longest time, I
think Shaq was being listed as like seven to three. Yeah, yeah,
not buying, but he was dwarfed by Yaoming, right right.
I mean, so like you go through the annals of
history and now I want to stand these guys together
(22:21):
because we knew in wrestling, right you were, you were
bolstering that. And then look, it's part of the illusion.
All these guys that are seventy to they're not look
at how tall the ropes are.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
We know how tall you are.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
But in the NBA, it was always there's the land
of the Giants and then there's the muggsy Bogueses of
the world.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I do buy that bam Adebayo is six eight.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I do like the fact that you got that as
the Olympians are on their way to dubaih.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
He'll be here all night or at least for another
hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Come on, that wasn't terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I wouldn't bet Where would you write that against Rob
Parker jokes?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Rob Parker jokes are in the own special category of
themselves where they're The thing that makes Rob Parker funny
is not the joke, it's the way he laughs at
his own joke after the fact.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It looks around like you got me? Did you get it?
Did you get it right?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Kawhi?
Speaker 6 (23:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
But I buy the Bam is six eight When I
look at Bama, Jason Tatum to me are the same height.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yeah, they just played different positions.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, so Jared letting the cat out of the bag here.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
A little bit could have gone on with the charade
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
But I think KD is, if not scraping six or eleven,
if not seven feet on his own and he's trolling
the rest of us.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Do you like the I mean where I come from?
Now we got hot takery?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
What does this mean for Kevin Durant in his career?
If he really is only six ' nine because we
always gave him extra credit because look at that seven
footter move. Look what he can do on the perimeter,
Look at the way he slides around. It ain't as
impressive at six ' nine.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
A real six ' ten player would have never left
Oklahoma City for the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Mister ure liable. Yeah, isn't that kind of one of
those things you want to do? Like it's Jim Everett
and Jim Rome back in the day. Unreliable, mister unreliable,
And see how long before he either snatches yourself from
you or he just walks.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Off stay unreliable again? Well, Kevin, you be lying to
be about your hyph?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
What else are you lying about?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Lying about? Boy?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
What a what a disappointment? Though, really added that in Hey,
you know on the other side of Steve de Seger's update,
we got it. Earlier this week we had the anniversary
of the greatest heel turn in sports and sports entertainment.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the reversion to Babyface.
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Who is it? What am I talking about? Martin looks confused.
We'll tell you next here on Fox.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
You're gonna spend a whole segment on Kenneth Edmonds. Yes,
thank you, good night, bye bye everybody.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
BJ would have lost his mind if he had heard
you say that. Stee those baby face over God.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
As you were talking hoops.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
By the way, of course, the US men had their
Olympic Exhibition opener in Vegas last night, coming back to
beat Canada. The initial TV ratings out for that now
by comparison to NBA WNBA ratings. WNBA this summer has
had twelve games with at least a million viewers, almost
all of them Caitlin Clark games. Needless to say, NBA
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regular season this past year, the average was about one
and a half million viewers for the national TV games.
Last night was one point one six million viewers, which
for FS one is the largest basketball audience they've ever had.
Copa America going into this week one point won seven
million viewers and has been great ratings for the Euro
(25:53):
Soccer tournament on Fox averaging one and a half million viewers.
And as you referenced earlier, the Euro Soccer Final is
Sunday three pm Eastern Time and the Copa America Final
is Sunday night, both on Fox TV. By the way,
that game from Berlin the day game Sunday Spain against England.
Copa America Final Sunday night from Miami, Argentina against Columbia.
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Columbia unbeaten in its last twenty eight games, so over
the last two and a half years, Argentina is ranked
number one in the world. US men's basketball has exhibitions
on FS one Monday and Wednesday. Next week from Abu Dhabi.
It'll be the US against Australia and then against Serbia.
With the time difference. Those will be at noon Eastern Time.
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The seventy six Ers re sign guard Kyle Lowry. Today
just one WNBA game at New York. The home team
beat Chicago ninety one seventy six twenty one points for
Sabrina Yenescu Angel Reese of Chicago in defeat ten points,
ten rebounds, five of seventeen shooting from the floor. Longtime
defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin died at the age of eighty four.
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The Tennessee Titans sign safe the Jamal Adams. He appeared
in just ten games over the past two seasons with Seattle.
Justin Thomas leads the Scottish Open by one stroke after
a first round sixty two. The next live golf event
starts tomorrow in Spain. The British Open begins in a week.
The Wimbledon finals are this weekend. Women Semis where It's today.
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Barbara Krachkova upset number four seed Elena Rebakna in the
Semis in three sets, six to four. In the third,
number seven seed Jasmine Paullini advanced to Saturday's final. The
late game in MLB action at Arizona went to The
Diamondbacks won nothing over Atlanta, beating Max Freed, who in
six innings did strike out seven. Seattle all over the
(27:39):
Angels eleven to nothing in Anaheim, the win to Luis Castillo.
Houston had just five hits in its game, but still
beat Miami sixty three. Two injured Houston players will miss
the All Star Game, Kyle Tucker and Jose al Tuve.
They're replaced on the al roster for next week with Orioles,
autfielder Anthony Santander and twins infielder Willie Castro. Tampa Bay
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defeated the Yankees and pitcher Nester Cortes five to four.
Juan Soto with his twenty second homer in defeat. The
Cubs won eight nothing at Baltimore win to Justin Steele,
who pitched seven innings, and Philadelphia got three solo homers,
including Kyle Schwarber's nineteenth beat the Dodgers again five to one,
the win to Aaron Nola. He's eleven and four pitcher
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Zach Wheeler. Philly will take this week off with lower
back tight and aspeck to you.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Thanks Steve. But first I gotta ask questions. So are
we going to go into a definitive ranking of Babyface
as a performer as a producer, Like, how are we?
How are we going to parse this out? What do
you think, Martin?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I think we got to go producer. He tests a
lot of good music.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
There's a lot of artists. Man, that list is long.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I'm sorry, it's all on the resume to me.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
There you go.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
I mean you look at Jerry West resume. Yeah he
was a Hall of Fame player, and yeah he's a
Hall of Fame executive. He just said, I celebrate his
whole catalog, is what Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
John Wooden was a Hall of Fame player and a
Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Yeah, there you go, thanks Steve. All Right, So I
don't want to. I don't want to cut you off.
But I'm looking at this replay of the SP's here. Yeah,
as we were discussing height, Nick Saban is five six Yeah,
sharing the stage right now with mark Ingram and Bryce Young.
And you can't tell me there's not an inch of
difference between all their heights. Mark Ingram was listed at
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five eight, Bryce Young's listed at.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Five to ten. Nick Saban is the one I believe
is actually telling the truth about it?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Is I but look at them, I have the same height.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No, but here's the thing we have to ask. Is
it the hair for Bryce Young gets himn extra two inches?
It's tall?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
It might be, but I saw bright, I saw Bryce
Young and markings the next yother they're the same height.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
They are you looking jacket on mark Ingram right there?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
It's a nice plush velvet.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, but that's one of those things that you can
basically fold up nicely and put behind your head when
you go to the club in Vegas after the years,
right or Los Angeles. I guess a Doobe theater down
the street here wherever you spill out after an awards ceremony.
All right, So twenty ten greatest heel turn of all time.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Not gonna lie, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Lebron James takes his talents to so wow.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I remember where I was when this is? That was today?
Huh no?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No, So this was earlier in the week. Okay, so
that was on that It was the fourteenth anniversary. I
think this was Sunday or Monday. It was early this week.
And now today is the ten year anniversary of turning
face by announcing the return to Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Ten years ago, my god, Lee, ten years ago?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You know, if you listen to Fox Sports Radio, you
hear the same commercials over and over again. And there
was one with Chris and Rob talking about where they
think of Lebron because he's technically been the longest tenured
in a row with the Lakers, and they said, you know,
it's been like eight years.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I was like, no way.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And I look back at this.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I remember when the press release came out when Lebron
was going to the Lakers, because it had as a
as a person whose mother just beat grammar into me.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
In a way that was like we talked about it
earlier off the air.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
There's a thin line between preparing your son to be
professional athlete and child abuse.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, you know, I also write on the side. It's
kind of a similar story writing.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And look, I've gotten many many an emotional scar from
the wooden spoons that found my hands backed.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Because there was not a single hyphen as Lebron was
announcing his four year X, Y Z whatever contract.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Was not a single hyphen in the whole thing, and
it drove me insane. But that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
So when he left, when he did the decision, where
were you there?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I was sitting on North Campus at the University of Michigan, Northwood,
apartments number five off Cramp Circle. I remember it like
it was yesterday. I remember sitting there watching Jim Gray
Lebron talk like the famous meme. Now that's I remember
it like it was I remember thinking why is this
thirty minute?
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Like why is this so long? How does this take
this long to have the announcement of where you're going
to play?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Like I get the whole this is the decision thing
TV show, But I mean, can't this be like a
ten minute special?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Like do we have to go through this whole entire thing?
Speaker 6 (32:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think you lead it as much as you can.
We talked about it before, right, Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Your second day for the draft. Nobody cared about anybody
in that second day except Ronnie. On a grand scale,
I'm not talking about the families, the alums of different universities,
and certainly we can go back through and I'm sure
there's a couple of people that pop off, you know,
in the charts of hey, surprised you're here, Go find
your opportunity, no question.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
The one who surprised me was Kyle Philipowski. And then
some of the stories that wow, after.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
That, what's the stories on the first draft? Because we
were on air as this is finishing and in the post,
and that's when things started going like we were playing
pop up video with little things it up of like,
all right, how do we find actually a timeline and
enough details to where this makes any sense? Because if
we went with any part of it, it was like
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we were at the beginning of some tawdry tail, like
I don't know, stay tuned next week, we might have more,
I don't know. And eventually, by by the end of
that night and into day two, I think we at
least got enough of a timeline to answer some questions. Certainly,
not all of them.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
But some quines answer the question. Is this weird answer?
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Okay, yeah, I mean if we just cut to the
chase and call it there. But yeah, so Lebron James
a busy week because of the obviously free agent time
period that we have. But yeah, the heel turn, which
I called the greatest of all time because it changed
the game forever. Talk about Steph. We talk about Steph
and the Warriors and whatever from inside the lines. Lebron
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James changed the business of the NBA and for athletes
all over forever more.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
And I mean just got to you know, you had
a cultural impact on a moment when the phrasing you
use has lasted, right, the concept of I'm taking my
talents to blank still exists still. Yeah, and people now
there's kids who use that now who have no idea
where it comes from. Yeahlexicon, that's just part of the
(34:23):
lexicon they inserted into the This is a brand new word.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You and I need to figure out what that word
or phrase is. My pettiness knows.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Tax bracket was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
I thought it's strong.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So we'll see if we can market, see if we
can get a T shirt designed.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
We should be able.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
We'll get some cuts out of it. Let's go at
Martin Weis where you find them on to find me
over at Swallowing Dump. Hey, there's a casino closing in
Las Vegas and they put up the greatest sign to
really embody what is going on in their facilities. We'll
tell you what that's all about. Coming up next year
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
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Speaker 3 (35:06):
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Speaker 6 (35:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Sports betting has well taken over. We've got shows on
the network and as the NFL comes back and college
football comes back back to our Saturday and Sunday morning program,
keep an eye out for that as we go through
and obviously every show, we've been doing it for years.
For me, for the fantasy stuff, it was always part
of it. Sometimes I'd get a note from the bosses saying,
what are you doing? That's how long I've been around
(35:36):
this stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Week you didn't lay out enough odds.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You need to give more, more more.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But they've got a big deal going on because the
Mirage in Las Vegas is ready to close. The big
spectacle that was the Beatles Love by circus Ola. They
had their final show the other night. That was a
fantastic if you know the Circasila right, You got performers
bouncing and flying all over the damn place, sure colors,
(36:06):
lights and the music of the Beatles remixed and repurposed
them in just an amazing feast for the eyes and ears.
But as they get ready to close it down, they
have a one point six million dollar progressive pot that's
got to be paid out by Nevada law. That's got
(36:27):
to go bye bye. You know that they can't pocket
it and distribute it back to sharehold. No, oh, it's
got to be distributed to the public. So what they're
having now is tons of people loitering at machines, wishing, wanting,
hoping that nobody hits on any of these machines to
drain said pot and said pool of money, so that
(36:49):
the clock will strike midnight at the appropriate time, you know,
at the deadline date, and all of a sudden there'll
be just a massive purge of cash from random machines.
So you've got people loitering, sitting there, hold up, sleeping
in some of the chairs at the slot machines, et cetera.
So the Mirage has posted this type of banner around
(37:11):
the property thank you for joining us for our one
point six million dollar progressive giveaway. Due to the dumb
assy of a few morons, we felt it necessary to
remind guests that slot machines are reserved for guests actively playing.
If you're not actively playing, you will be forcibly removed
and you should be prohibited from voting, pro creating, or
(37:35):
operating motor vehicles. That's what's going around.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
So that's a sign of a business that's going out
of business right there. That's not something you're flitting up
for your repeat customers.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, and look, I'm looking at the website that put
this up, and it was Vital Vegas. They are a
pretty big tourist website. So I'm gonna air on the
side of caution to just say, well, this could be
just to full on joke, but I think they wouldn't
play with that one given the gravity of what's going
(38:07):
on there in the uh, the fact that they are
operation shutdown. So as you say. I like the fact
that you lean into we're closing, so let's just call
it what it is.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
So this says here, from July ninth to July thirteenth,
and July sixteenth, a slot machine winner will be randomly
selected every half hour from three to seven pm.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I wouldn't either, but if you're not actively playing. But
that's the that's the big thing, right, is that in theory,
you're actually pumping money still into a machine.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
I mean, I get it put out.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Look if you tell me that I could sit at
a fifty cent machine and how much money I would
I would play.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
But that's just it.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
But you would play right by the rules of engagement.
You've got to play, So you go find the cheapest
thing and you play a single line or whatever the
case is, as opposed to you've got to load up
and we start talking about the odds and the crazy,
you know, intersecting lines of did I win or didn't?
I tells me I only got fifty cents. I have
no idea how I got fifty cents because some of
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those things are so convoluted, right, I need like a
roadmap to tell me what kind of machine, how it's
actually playing out, but it's really just kind of a
laughable thing with some of the images. And then you've
got security getting lined up all around machines. Are you
gonna play no? Keep walking?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
That's what I really would do if I'm working security
for this job right now, I would be like, you
gonna play no?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Okay, You're gonna play no okay. And then when it
gets around two o'clock, let's go ahead, take that name
tag off and have a seat myself.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Hot seat drawings three to seven. So they're saying five
New Year's Eve times five to ten in terms of
foot traffic floating through.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
And you could even win this as forty four hundred
thousand dollars would be giving away to players at table
games too. Bacarac Texas hold him in blackjack. Do you
imagine you're sitting there hoping for an ace on the
river and all of a sudden somebody says, he hey,
here you go here, Oh here's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Well thank you, and I'd run out the building.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
That's it. Do not pass code, do not collect you
on an absolutely, But yeah, it's some of the videos
out of this are just absolutely insane though, of people
either trying to fight to get to a chair or
security walking over going are you actually playing.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Well because you know Vegas is where dignity goes to die.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Oh yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
It's where dignity goes to die.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I say, if you I don't know that it's as
bad as it once was though, No, no, now it's
have you ever seen casino? As he's at the last
scene Sorry for spoiler alerts, but when.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
He said a thirty year old movie, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
When he's saying, how now it's all corporate and they
you know, they tore it down the sands into this
and to that.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
You know, now it's all corporate. So that's that's kind
of what you see in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Well, so the mirage will make way for the return
of the hard rock casino.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Let's grow Hey.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
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but you know, maybe we can go for that. Look
another time. We're talking a lot about the next iterations
of sporting events. Right we're looking at the NBA with
all of the money's float again in yes, I said
(01:48):
moneys from all of these perspective date changes, you know,
you still got Warner Brothers in the right of refusal
sitting over in the back background. But eleven years, seventy
six billion dollars, a tripling of the last rights deal,
and multiple players. When we talk about ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock,
(02:11):
all of that coming in, and then you add Amazon
to the mix. So trying to figure out what that
national schedule would be once football goes away. But today
today we've got a the dates, the draw, the new logo,
all of this for the NBA Cup twenty twenty four.
You're in season tournament. Yes, there's a banner hanging yes
(02:33):
to the trophy, and I really think I thought they
should have done a really nice exhibition by handing out
oversized novelty checks like you were on a game show.
Here's your five hundred thousand dollars for winning the n
Season Tournament.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah I was.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I was in on the n Season Tournament from day one.
And now I don't like the fact they're not calling
it the NBA Cup because I'm like, wait a minute,
is this still the ist?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I was all little on the ist.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You just want to well, I mean it's just to
play on, you know, Bianca bell Ara being the E
S T the w W E.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, ibout that would right over my head.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'll bring you come into my world. We'll celebrate the
retirement announcement of John Cena next.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I do know that everything that drove me nuts about
this thing, So this is what drives me crazy about
this type of stuff, because you're about to outline all
these changes they decided to make to it. And I
bet you the one thing that they change is the
one thing that I hate them. They didn't change is
the one thing I hated the most, and that is
those god awful courts.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, that's Those aren't good for anybody. I mean, the
straining on the eyes.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
It's it's the only thing that's good for is to
see whether or not you are going color blind.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, that's fair, that's it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You see what team eventually just creates a jersey that
camouflages the court.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, that guy just is white. Open threes where the
is a six guy playing.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It's like when the weather man wears a green suit
for the green screen. Oh oh, I see his hands
and eyes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So randomly drawn into six groups of five. Based on
the record from the previous season, fine teams play each
other next season Tuesdays and Fridays. They'll be called Cup
Nights between November twelfth and December third. The eye roll
that I just got from Martin whitz on that one
tells you how at all. But since it's an audio
(04:32):
medium here, I had to.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You know, you know what Cup night sound like to me?
When somebody wins the Stanley Cup, Yeah, that would be
the Cup Night. But anyway, well, I digress. I'm not
trying to I'm not trying to derail the whole sunning.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
No, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You've got thoughts and I you know, we'll get to
an end point here in a minute on it as
we get through the dates. So they got a new logo.
It's the renamed NBA Cup. I'm gonna get you a
shirt alongside the trophy, and Emirates is the events sponsors.
So you got that going for you too. Uh So
the incentivize early season, in season games, all of that stuff.
(05:11):
Uh here's one of the the write ups to it.
It says, well, there were some bumps in the first
iteration and the first thing they mentioned gaudy courts. I
gotta dig that.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
They were disgusting. I was sitting there watching the Clippers
play on this red and black basketball, like, what is
the slam ball?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We could bring that back into Why not? I think
we can probably still find that on the O Show.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
They should probably integrate it into OFFTAR weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Maybe more people to watch.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
However, we can we get one of these superstars to
anticipated slamble.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
That, you know what? It depends on how you look
at Dyale Brown. He was in the Dunk Contest this year.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
See there you go. Or maybe this is how we
bring the WWE guys into it. Because now you know
they're flying into each other.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
John C Universus Jason Tay who wins.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Tatum doesn't want any of that smoke. There's no question
about all. Right, top six teams in each group advance
along with two wild card teams, all of that stuff.
Knockout stage, single elimination starting December tenth. Semi finals December fourteenth,
Championship game December seventeenth. So we'll wrap this up ahead
of Christmas. Everybody will have a nice bonus and a
(06:22):
full week of shopping days before the big event to
go blow it. However, they will. Now I propose this
to you as an extra wrinkle. We'll talk about incentivization.
We'll talk about next level kind of things. How about
we make one of the other things you win. Here's
your novelty check and cash and all of this stuff.
(06:44):
You get to hang a banner, you get to claim
a championship like you cling to those things as you will, right,
Lakers man, you got you got the title in the bubble,
and then you got the in season championship. Laker fans
are really mad at me for like a mocking it, Like, hey,
look man, you my whole thing is find your wins
where you can Martin like today I woke up, I'm already,
(07:07):
I'm already on the plus side.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
What do I get to do with it? Right?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I went want to know just in that part of
the function. And then we try to do something good
for ourselves, do something good for others, all of those things.
Try to come in here and have a bang up
radio show to where we all have some laughs America laughs,
forgets the problems for four hours. All of those things.
That's what we're trying to do. Find your wins. So
if the n season tournament becomes a thing, and you
(07:32):
know that cup that we have now a banner and
a giant pile of cash, is enough cool. I want
to take it one step further. How about we guarantee
the winner in their conference the number at least the
number six seed.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
The keywords there are at least the sixth seed, right,
because then you avoid the one game play in our
two game play depending on how you finish seven.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
And I think the Los Angeles Lakers would have really
appreciated being the sixth seed, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like just recent se we could just go through that
and now you can go simulate that on video games
or you know, whatever computer model you got.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
To be honest, it ended up being at the actual
N Season Tournament champion was the sixth seed, and.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
There you have it. But it's just that that idea
of all right, incentive ize your sixth seed. My guess
is you're not going to have that big a spread
between the team that quote would have been the sixth
seed that gets bumped, and there's really something substantive for
those games on the whole.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You know what I was thinking as you said this
at first, because if my first I was like, I
don't know how much I like it. I think I
can meet you in the middle. Okay, I think I
meet you in the middle.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What you I think would you if you get if
you win the N Season Tournament and you fall into
the play in, you get a bye. Like if you're
the seventh seed, you're just locked in. And so the eight, nine,
and ten are fighting for that last spot.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
How about we pretend that I shoot with the money ball,
so my threes are worth an extra point for that game.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So now I'm just going Now I'm going rock and jocks, So.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
We're bringing all the old classics in, but just trying
to figure out you know where there's there's more substantive
because here it's like, oh, yeah, you won great, Okay,
Now it's December eighteenth, right now, what what did I
really get? Okay, I got some Bonnie, that's great. These
guys are making a lot, a lot of money, and
who doesn't want a little bit more, I get it, right, Well,
(09:38):
we'd all trip over ourselves and over our words to
try to claim that five hundred grand, no question about us.
But but it's just the idea of when you're signing
three hundred million dollar contracts on the top end of
a lot of these guys on these rosters. All right,
five hundred grand's great for the guys on the back end,
no question, and you're you're not sneezing at it. But
(10:00):
it's still the you won this award and it's done
December seventeenth.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I mean, it's the equivalent almost of like when you
have a regular job, as we have regular jobs, and
you get like the Amazon gift card at Christmas, Like
it's a substantive amount of money that five hundred thousand dollars,
but it's not so much that like you're done shopping,
you know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Saying, No, it's not necessarily changing everything for you. Oh
cool that hit.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I just thought it was so funny going up leading
into that, and Lebron James, as he's won the deuce,
spoke to the media and said, well, you know, I'm
paraphrasing here, but I'll never forget this quote for the
rest of my days as a sports talk radio host.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
He goes, you know, when you give alpha male something
to play for.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You know, this is what the type of competition that
you could see, referencing the five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
That's why I was like, oh, so the forty eight
million that you make the rest of the time is
not something to play for?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's not how it goes?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And then I just thought if I was the head
of the the owners not the owners, I don't know
what they call the owners association.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You know they have the players and the governors now right,
the governors.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But if I was like, what is it giving advice
to the governors of the NBA the next collective bargain agreement?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I would plaster that quote just on the wall in
the back and been like, when.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You give us something to play for, this is the
type of competition that you get and say, this is
why we have to stop guaranteeing contracts.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Damn your first and second apron actually done. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Something I've argued for a long, long ago in terms
of the guarantees, especially when we're signing six or seven
year deals. Right where we start getting to the largest
of some of these these deals, especially guys in the
mid thirties, I'm like, look, as you're a player, God
bless you as long as you can collect it. But
the business model of it doesn't make sense even with
(11:55):
this eleven year, seventy six billion dollar deal, which again
it when we try to take it all in full Martin,
and I know you know, we've got streaming right, so
we got all of this and advertising dollars the last
bastion of television that you have to watch, right, because
you're generally the general person is not going to go
(12:16):
back and watch a game four hours. No, I got
that tab leave me alone now for our purposes of
our job, there are times that you're gonna do that, right.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
This is the reason why I slid into this because
I realized that if I was just an insurance salesman,
me wanted to watch the game at midnight that I
missed earlier, it would be frowned upon.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, you probably get some side eye a little bit,
especially maybe, but I mean you dominate the water cooler
the next morning.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So there is some probitive value there and maybe some
camaraderie not only in the office but with potential clients.
But I think we talk about those values. But look,
Cuban got out, Jordan got out, Celtics guy is going
to transfer some shares and you're going to see a
shift of that. So I would just say, when you're
(13:08):
signing this eleven year, seventy six billion dollar deal, what's
behind door number two that these guys are jumping off
the ship rights as the money is tripling?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well, Grossbeck might just beginning out. I have to. I mean,
it's wild to think he's hot.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
He has offered our signed the check on two of
the no the two largest NBA contracts in successive fashion,
and it's like, you know what, I think now is
the time to sell. You don't think that bill's coming
due because all that money is guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, now you're split of the revenue. We just watched
it in the NFL, right, splitting up that what was
it thirteen billion dollars? National revenue is four hundred million
per team. Now we anxiously await the packers filings because
then we get to, you know, see under the hood
a little bit more right as to turn you know,
some of the revenues that are flowing through.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
It'll be interesting, for sure, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
All right, coming up next, we'll stay with the National
Basketball Association because we've all been lied to for a
very long time. And there's one player in particular that
let the cat out of the bag and what's to
be shook. Yeah, it's got to be shook. Hopefully he doesn't,
you know, he's got some protections under whistleblower laws. He's
Martin weiss in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Harmon here
(14:24):
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 8 (15:38):
As everybody knows, we're the hosts of the award winning
Polly and Tony Foods Go show. Yeah, but instead of
us telling you how great we are, here's how Dan
Packrick described us when he came on our show.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated. Do you don't interrupting our promo? Yeah,
he wasn't talking about you. You took those clips totally
out of context. Oh yeah, well after this promo, so
I'm gonna take you out and beat you. Let me
put this into context. Shut up.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Yeah, anyway, just listen to the Paully and Tony Fusco
Show on iHeartRadio, Apple podcasts.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Ohereva you get your podcasts?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
YEA, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith Show
with Me, Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith Tonight. Martin Weiss
in his stead at Martin Weiss is where you find
him in the Twitter verse. That's me appreciate Martin coming
in tonight, rising star in our industry, got his show.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Up going on at Detroit.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Your two the eyes are watching. I see the way
the world works. Thanks, And we all need a little
bit of a positivity, a and maybe a forearm to
the back to keep us moving. So that's what we
give you here. At Swollendome is where you find me.
We've got Shay, We've got Alex ty Shirt, and of
course Steve Disager at the news desk. We'll get an
update from Tyshirt with everything he's got going on as well,
(16:56):
because you know, he's a media mogul in his own right.
And Shay hates me because he let my name off
the show tonight. It's like walking in if we had
a dressing room and I was like, where are you.
You're over in the janitor's closet down there.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Right, the one that says TBD. That's that's that's you.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
We'll see who shows up. Thanks, And here I am
live and in living color. All right. So earlier today,
you know, one of the things, I'm not a tall man.
I am a fire plug of a man. So I
knew my limits as a as an athlete pretty early.
I had a couple of knee injuries and there was
nothing they were gonna do, even with promises off we
(17:33):
can bulk you up to get you a couple of years,
you know, on the defensive line or whatever. So I
knew I was done. Football was the the sport and
that was gone. I get it, And in general, I
walked through life, and obviously I've been blessed working in
sports media now in some capacity going on twenty five years,
you know, behind the scenes at Yahoo and now front
(17:55):
facing on the microphone here and Yahoo before, some video stuff,
all of that things that we've been able to do.
Met a lot of people here, and I'm shorter than
ninety nine percent of them. So every once in a while,
I'll find a guy that's my height. So Barry Sanders
and I we got to have a nice conversation because
Barry's only maybe an inch taller than I am, right,
And occasionally I'll have that guy pop through. Otherwise, you know,
(18:17):
everybody's kind of tall to me.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Martin. See, I'm a decent height.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
But like I'll do a show with Carry Roads and think, man,
maybe I should have tried to play football. And then
I'll do a show with East from Salam and It's like, oh,
hell no.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, eventually that guy's coming down leading the block and
he's gonna find you.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Right exactly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know, we've we've had old polonies in here, right,
top ten draft pick in the NBA.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
One of the biggest people I've I know, personally, you
know what I mean, Like we've got we've we've we've
met and worked with a number of guys where you
just sit there at my buddy Ryan Allins Sunday morning,
six to nine am.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Right, ten years in the league, he was part of
Clipped right. That was just he still hadn't watched it
for me. So I'm this week kind of tough. Lot
of a lot going on down in the Houston area.
So errors up for all the folks. There's still a
lot of areas without power, and if you can help
in any way, by all means, please please do your
best to contribute whatever you can to that process. But
(19:13):
you know, he's a guy that trying to just sit
at the desks here at Fox Sports Trader. You can
see how uncomfortable he is as a seven footer. But
it's the kind of thing that I've just become accustomed
to this. And one of the things is always the
back of the basketball cards, right, baseball cards always had
all the cool stats, some random things, and if you
go back far enough, you'd have guys that you know,
(19:36):
you'd have their hobby, you know, right in a little
cartoon of him in the off season, he likes rattlesnake hunting,
Oh okay, cool or you know some of them that
I can't I don't even think I can say on air.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I think I'd get bleeped, probably.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
But back in the day they were on the back
of the trading card. Away you go. But one of
the things you'd always you know, height, weight, all of
those things. You're larger than life. And it always disappointed
me to find out, Oh, maybe guys aren't necessarily as
tall as they are, because we saw that with Bronnie James,
right sixty four, no, no, No six, one has some change.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I think most famously the one, well, the one I
remember the most was Victim Wibbin Yama was seven feet
seven inches tall until he came to America, and then
it was seven four.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Then it was seven three, and I'm like, well, I
stopped lying to me.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So normally we're talking about guys going the other way, right, Ay,
he's still growing. We're gonna, you know, there might be
in a little more maturation. One of the things people
are still hoping for. Brownie James. But Kevin Durant let
the cat out of the bag. They had their team picture, uh,
and he was talking to Kay Adams and he gave
he gave, give up the forum.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
There's some huge controversy about you being a lot taller
than six ' ten with this Team USA photo shoot
that happened.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Have you seen this? No, no, lot of I guess
those guys might be shortered in with there what their
numbers say. I'm six nine though, so it looks like
Bam out of bio is probably six 's eight, yeah,
instead of six ' ten, and ad is probably six ' nine.
You know, so they probably adding a little more in
their height. Well, I'm keeping minds at the same you know,
(21:12):
I'm not lying about my height.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
You look just as colleged and Beid and he's listed
at seven ft. So you're saying those guys are all lying.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Uh really yeah, yeah, he isn't a seven feet but.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's just it. Kevin Durant was always as the slim Reaper.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He was a guy looking at his crazy skill set
for a guy that's just shade under seven feet. He
always got rounded up. And now you're telling me you're
six ' nine this whole time, like I feel like
I've been hoodwink. Can I file a class action lawsuit?
My heroes aren't what they claim to be and what
the league purported them to be.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Martin Weiss, I feel like the hoodwinking is on Kevin
Durant's side of things. Honestly, what's more likely that everybody's
lying are that Kevin known Twitter troll is lying.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, I think he's getting caught in a lie. Yeah,
I mean I think everybody else is lying to Now
it's just a matter of ingredients though, absolutely right, because
there was always you know, for the longest time, I
think Shaq was being listed as like seven to three. Yeah, yeah,
not buying, but he was dwarfed by Yaoming, right right.
I mean, so like you go through the annals of
history and now I want to stand these guys together
(22:21):
because we knew in wrestling, right you were, you were
bolstering that. And then look, it's part of the illusion.
All these guys that are seventy to they're not look
at how tall the ropes are.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
We know how tall you are.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
But in the NBA, it was always there's the land
of the Giants and then there's the muggsy Bogueses of
the world.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
I do buy that bam Adebayo is six eight.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I do like the fact that you got that as
the Olympians are on their way to dubaih.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
He'll be here all night or at least for another
hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Come on, that wasn't terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I wouldn't bet Where would you write that against Rob
Parker jokes?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Rob Parker jokes are in the own special category of
themselves where they're The thing that makes Rob Parker funny
is not the joke, it's the way he laughs at
his own joke after the fact.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It looks around like you got me? Did you get it?
Did you get it right?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Kawhi?
Speaker 6 (23:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
But I buy the Bam is six eight When I
look at Bama, Jason Tatum to me are the same height.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yeah, they just played different positions.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, so Jared letting the cat out of the bag here.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
A little bit could have gone on with the charade
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
But I think KD is, if not scraping six or eleven,
if not seven feet on his own and he's trolling
the rest of us.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Do you like the I mean where I come from?
Now we got hot takery?
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
What does this mean for Kevin Durant in his career?
If he really is only six ' nine because we
always gave him extra credit because look at that seven
footter move. Look what he can do on the perimeter,
Look at the way he slides around. It ain't as
impressive at six ' nine.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
A real six ' ten player would have never left
Oklahoma City for the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Mister ure liable. Yeah, isn't that kind of one of
those things you want to do? Like it's Jim Everett
and Jim Rome back in the day. Unreliable, mister unreliable,
And see how long before he either snatches yourself from
you or he just walks.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Off stay unreliable again? Well, Kevin, you be lying to
be about your hyph?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
What else are you lying about?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Lying about? Boy?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
What a what a disappointment? Though, really added that in Hey,
you know on the other side of Steve de Seger's update,
we got it. Earlier this week we had the anniversary
of the greatest heel turn in sports and sports entertainment.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the reversion to Babyface.
(24:47):
Who is it? What am I talking about? Martin looks confused.
We'll tell you next here on Fox.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
You're gonna spend a whole segment on Kenneth Edmonds. Yes,
thank you, good night, bye bye everybody.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
BJ would have lost his mind if he had heard
you say that. Stee those baby face over God.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
As you were talking hoops.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
By the way, of course, the US men had their
Olympic Exhibition opener in Vegas last night, coming back to
beat Canada. The initial TV ratings out for that now
by comparison to NBA WNBA ratings. WNBA this summer has
had twelve games with at least a million viewers, almost
all of them Caitlin Clark games. Needless to say, NBA
(25:31):
regular season this past year, the average was about one
and a half million viewers for the national TV games.
Last night was one point one six million viewers, which
for FS one is the largest basketball audience they've ever had.
Copa America going into this week one point won seven
million viewers and has been great ratings for the Euro
(25:53):
Soccer tournament on Fox averaging one and a half million viewers.
And as you referenced earlier, the Euro Soccer Final is
Sunday three pm Eastern Time and the Copa America Final
is Sunday night, both on Fox TV. By the way,
that game from Berlin the day game Sunday Spain against England.
Copa America Final Sunday night from Miami, Argentina against Columbia.
(26:16):
Columbia unbeaten in its last twenty eight games, so over
the last two and a half years, Argentina is ranked
number one in the world. US men's basketball has exhibitions
on FS one Monday and Wednesday. Next week from Abu Dhabi.
It'll be the US against Australia and then against Serbia.
With the time difference. Those will be at noon Eastern Time.
(26:36):
The seventy six Ers re sign guard Kyle Lowry. Today
just one WNBA game at New York. The home team
beat Chicago ninety one seventy six twenty one points for
Sabrina Yenescu Angel Reese of Chicago in defeat ten points,
ten rebounds, five of seventeen shooting from the floor. Longtime
defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin died at the age of eighty four.
(26:58):
The Tennessee Titans sign safe the Jamal Adams. He appeared
in just ten games over the past two seasons with Seattle.
Justin Thomas leads the Scottish Open by one stroke after
a first round sixty two. The next live golf event
starts tomorrow in Spain. The British Open begins in a week.
The Wimbledon finals are this weekend. Women Semis where It's today.
(27:19):
Barbara Krachkova upset number four seed Elena Rebakna in the
Semis in three sets, six to four. In the third,
number seven seed Jasmine Paullini advanced to Saturday's final. The
late game in MLB action at Arizona went to The
Diamondbacks won nothing over Atlanta, beating Max Freed, who in
six innings did strike out seven. Seattle all over the
(27:39):
Angels eleven to nothing in Anaheim, the win to Luis Castillo.
Houston had just five hits in its game, but still
beat Miami sixty three. Two injured Houston players will miss
the All Star Game, Kyle Tucker and Jose al Tuve.
They're replaced on the al roster for next week with Orioles,
autfielder Anthony Santander and twins infielder Willie Castro. Tampa Bay
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defeated the Yankees and pitcher Nester Cortes five to four.
Juan Soto with his twenty second homer in defeat. The
Cubs won eight nothing at Baltimore win to Justin Steele,
who pitched seven innings, and Philadelphia got three solo homers,
including Kyle Schwarber's nineteenth beat the Dodgers again five to one,
the win to Aaron Nola. He's eleven and four pitcher
(28:21):
Zach Wheeler. Philly will take this week off with lower
back tight and aspeck to you.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Thanks Steve. But first I gotta ask questions. So are
we going to go into a definitive ranking of Babyface
as a performer as a producer, Like, how are we?
How are we going to parse this out? What do
you think, Martin?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I think we got to go producer. He tests a
lot of good music.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
There's a lot of artists. Man, that list is long.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I'm sorry, it's all on the resume to me.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
There you go.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
I mean you look at Jerry West resume. Yeah he
was a Hall of Fame player, and yeah he's a
Hall of Fame executive. He just said, I celebrate his
whole catalog, is what Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
John Wooden was a Hall of Fame player and a
Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Yeah, there you go, thanks Steve. All Right, So I
don't want to. I don't want to cut you off.
But I'm looking at this replay of the SP's here. Yeah,
as we were discussing height, Nick Saban is five six Yeah,
sharing the stage right now with mark Ingram and Bryce Young.
And you can't tell me there's not an inch of
difference between all their heights. Mark Ingram was listed at
(29:23):
five eight, Bryce Young's listed at.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Five to ten. Nick Saban is the one I believe
is actually telling the truth about it?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Is I but look at them, I have the same height.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No, but here's the thing we have to ask. Is
it the hair for Bryce Young gets himn extra two inches?
It's tall?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
It might be, but I saw bright, I saw Bryce
Young and markings the next yother they're the same height.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
They are you looking jacket on mark Ingram right there?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
It's a nice plush velvet.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, but that's one of those things that you can
basically fold up nicely and put behind your head when
you go to the club in Vegas after the years,
right or Los Angeles. I guess a Doobe theater down
the street here wherever you spill out after an awards ceremony.
All right, So twenty ten greatest heel turn of all time.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Not gonna lie, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Lebron James takes his talents to so wow.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
I remember where I was when this is? That was today?
Huh no?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No, So this was earlier in the week. Okay, so
that was on that It was the fourteenth anniversary. I
think this was Sunday or Monday. It was early this week.
And now today is the ten year anniversary of turning
face by announcing the return to Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Ten years ago, my god, Lee, ten years ago?
Speaker 6 (30:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You know, if you listen to Fox Sports Radio, you
hear the same commercials over and over again. And there
was one with Chris and Rob talking about where they
think of Lebron because he's technically been the longest tenured
in a row with the Lakers, and they said, you know,
it's been like eight years.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I was like, no way.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And I look back at this.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I remember when the press release came out when Lebron
was going to the Lakers, because it had as a
as a person whose mother just beat grammar into me.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
In a way that was like we talked about it
earlier off the air.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
There's a thin line between preparing your son to be
professional athlete and child abuse.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, you know, I also write on the side. It's
kind of a similar story writing.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And look, I've gotten many many an emotional scar from
the wooden spoons that found my hands backed.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Because there was not a single hyphen as Lebron was
announcing his four year X, Y Z whatever contract.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Was not a single hyphen in the whole thing, and
it drove me insane. But that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
So when he left, when he did the decision, where
were you there?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I was sitting on North Campus at the University of Michigan, Northwood,
apartments number five off Cramp Circle. I remember it like
it was yesterday. I remember sitting there watching Jim Gray
Lebron talk like the famous meme. Now that's I remember
it like it was I remember thinking why is this
thirty minute?
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Like why is this so long? How does this take
this long to have the announcement of where you're going
to play?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Like I get the whole this is the decision thing
TV show, But I mean, can't this be like a
ten minute special?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Like do we have to go through this whole entire thing?
Speaker 6 (32:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think you lead it as much as you can.
We talked about it before, right, Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Your second day for the draft. Nobody cared about anybody
in that second day except Ronnie. On a grand scale,
I'm not talking about the families, the alums of different universities,
and certainly we can go back through and I'm sure
there's a couple of people that pop off, you know,
in the charts of hey, surprised you're here, Go find
your opportunity, no question.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
The one who surprised me was Kyle Philipowski. And then
some of the stories that wow, after.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
That, what's the stories on the first draft? Because we
were on air as this is finishing and in the post,
and that's when things started going like we were playing
pop up video with little things it up of like,
all right, how do we find actually a timeline and
enough details to where this makes any sense? Because if
we went with any part of it, it was like
(33:11):
we were at the beginning of some tawdry tail, like
I don't know, stay tuned next week, we might have more,
I don't know. And eventually, by by the end of
that night and into day two, I think we at
least got enough of a timeline to answer some questions. Certainly,
not all of them.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
But some quines answer the question. Is this weird answer?
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Okay, yeah, I mean if we just cut to the
chase and call it there. But yeah, so Lebron James
a busy week because of the obviously free agent time
period that we have. But yeah, the heel turn, which
I called the greatest of all time because it changed
the game forever. Talk about Steph. We talk about Steph
and the Warriors and whatever from inside the lines. Lebron
(33:55):
James changed the business of the NBA and for athletes
all over forever more.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
And I mean just got to you know, you had
a cultural impact on a moment when the phrasing you
use has lasted, right, the concept of I'm taking my
talents to blank still exists still. Yeah, and people now
there's kids who use that now who have no idea
where it comes from. Yeahlexicon, that's just part of the
(34:23):
lexicon they inserted into the This is a brand new word.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You and I need to figure out what that word
or phrase is. My pettiness knows.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Tax bracket was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
I thought it's strong.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So we'll see if we can market, see if we
can get a T shirt designed.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
We should be able.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
We'll get some cuts out of it. Let's go at
Martin Weis where you find them on to find me
over at Swallowing Dump. Hey, there's a casino closing in
Las Vegas and they put up the greatest sign to
really embody what is going on in their facilities. We'll
tell you what that's all about. Coming up next year
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of It's a Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific. Welcome back in.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Me and Mike
Carmon mart WEISSI for Jason Smith to night.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Sports betting has well taken over. We've got shows on
the network and as the NFL comes back and college
football comes back back to our Saturday and Sunday morning program,
keep an eye out for that as we go through
and obviously every show, we've been doing it for years.
For me, for the fantasy stuff, it was always part
of it. Sometimes I'd get a note from the bosses saying,
what are you doing? That's how long I've been around
(35:36):
this stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Week you didn't lay out enough odds.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You need to give more, more more.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But they've got a big deal going on because the
Mirage in Las Vegas is ready to close. The big
spectacle that was the Beatles Love by circus Ola. They
had their final show the other night. That was a
fantastic if you know the Circasila right, You got performers
bouncing and flying all over the damn place, sure colors,
(36:06):
lights and the music of the Beatles remixed and repurposed
them in just an amazing feast for the eyes and ears.
But as they get ready to close it down, they
have a one point six million dollar progressive pot that's
got to be paid out by Nevada law. That's got
(36:27):
to go bye bye. You know that they can't pocket
it and distribute it back to sharehold. No, oh, it's
got to be distributed to the public. So what they're
having now is tons of people loitering at machines, wishing, wanting,
hoping that nobody hits on any of these machines to
drain said pot and said pool of money, so that
(36:49):
the clock will strike midnight at the appropriate time, you know,
at the deadline date, and all of a sudden there'll
be just a massive purge of cash from random machines.
So you've got people loitering, sitting there, hold up, sleeping
in some of the chairs at the slot machines, et cetera.
So the Mirage has posted this type of banner around
(37:11):
the property thank you for joining us for our one
point six million dollar progressive giveaway. Due to the dumb
assy of a few morons, we felt it necessary to
remind guests that slot machines are reserved for guests actively playing.
If you're not actively playing, you will be forcibly removed
and you should be prohibited from voting, pro creating, or
(37:35):
operating motor vehicles. That's what's going around.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
So that's a sign of a business that's going out
of business right there. That's not something you're flitting up
for your repeat customers.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, and look, I'm looking at the website that put
this up, and it was Vital Vegas. They are a
pretty big tourist website. So I'm gonna air on the
side of caution to just say, well, this could be
just to full on joke, but I think they wouldn't
play with that one given the gravity of what's going
(38:07):
on there in the uh, the fact that they are
operation shutdown. So as you say. I like the fact
that you lean into we're closing, so let's just call
it what it is.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
So this says here, from July ninth to July thirteenth,
and July sixteenth, a slot machine winner will be randomly
selected every half hour from three to seven pm.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I wouldn't either, but if you're not actively playing. But
that's the that's the big thing, right, is that in theory,
you're actually pumping money still into a machine.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
I mean, I get it put out.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Look if you tell me that I could sit at
a fifty cent machine and how much money I would
I would play.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
But that's just it.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
But you would play right by the rules of engagement.
You've got to play, So you go find the cheapest
thing and you play a single line or whatever the
case is, as opposed to you've got to load up
and we start talking about the odds and the crazy,
you know, intersecting lines of did I win or didn't?
I tells me I only got fifty cents. I have
no idea how I got fifty cents because some of
(39:11):
those things are so convoluted, right, I need like a
roadmap to tell me what kind of machine, how it's
actually playing out, but it's really just kind of a
laughable thing with some of the images. And then you've
got security getting lined up all around machines. Are you
gonna play no? Keep walking?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
That's what I really would do if I'm working security
for this job right now, I would be like, you
gonna play no?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Okay, You're gonna play no okay. And then when it
gets around two o'clock, let's go ahead, take that name
tag off and have a seat myself.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Hot seat drawings three to seven. So they're saying five
New Year's Eve times five to ten in terms of
foot traffic floating through.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
And you could even win this as forty four hundred
thousand dollars would be giving away to players at table
games too. Bacarac Texas hold him in blackjack. Do you
imagine you're sitting there hoping for an ace on the
river and all of a sudden somebody says, he hey,
here you go here, Oh here's twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Well thank you, and I'd run out the building.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
That's it. Do not pass code, do not collect you
on an absolutely, But yeah, it's some of the videos
out of this are just absolutely insane though, of people
either trying to fight to get to a chair or
security walking over going are you actually playing.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Well because you know Vegas is where dignity goes to die.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Oh yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
It's where dignity goes to die.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I say, if you I don't know that it's as
bad as it once was though, No, no, now it's
have you ever seen casino? As he's at the last
scene Sorry for spoiler alerts, but when.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
He said a thirty year old movie, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
When he's saying, how now it's all corporate and they
you know, they tore it down the sands into this
and to that.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
You know, now it's all corporate. So that's that's kind
of what you see in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Well, so the mirage will make way for the return
of the hard rock casino.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Let's grow Hey.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
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