July 12, 2024 • 42 mins
On tonight's edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Martin Weiss is filling in for Jason Smith! The guys opened the hour reacting to Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes getting pulled after 7 innings despite throwing a no hitter with 11 Ks and ! Next, Mike and Martin react to the Phillies sweeping the Dodgers and debate who the real king of the MLB National League is! Finally, the guys look at Team USA Basketball and compare this year's super team to teams from the past! Listen to all that and so much more in Hour 4!
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Speaker 4 (00:53):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I gotta dig a little bit deeper.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I told you in the break there's a big difference
between a three hour show and a four hour show.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
And it's that last hour, all right, But it's all right,
I'm here, I'm here now.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We still got some room to traverse. Talking about Major
League Baseball Final days before we get to the All
Star break for some teams can't come fast enough. Try
to figure out over the next few days you have
the pomp and circumstance of the All Star Game on Fox,
the home run derby, the Futures Game. Oh that's great, right,
showcase pageantry, Get everybody out, every Hall of Famer that
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you could possibly get in front of the camera, have
some interviews. Our guy, John Paul Morosi will be front
and center for a lot of it for MLB Network.
I'm sure we'll get some little sound bites from him
along the way as well. You know, he's got a
podcast where he's interviewing Hall of Famers each week in
a relationship with the Hall of Fame at John Morosi
on Twitter. Leave out the H and John though, because
(01:49):
Mom said so j O n mr os I. But
you know, keeping a surprise. And now we're getting into
that funny time of year with all the trade rumor speculation.
Guys that may be up and across the board. There's
some big names. Sure they're gonna be dealt, right. We
talked about it a little bit with my beloved White Sox.
(02:11):
As terrible as they are, they have a couple of
pieces that might be available in the trade market.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean, the White Sox are gonna be buyers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, just more of the who wants what they're what
they're selling is really what Martin, especially Crochet, who's pitched
really well. But he's a guy that if we're doing
the the way we analyze pictures, innings, limits all of those,
it's probably in that final band of all right, how
much can we really get out of him, and where
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we're trying to be as safe as we can with
his arm coming off. Tommy John a couple of years ago,
you look at Lewis Robert Juniors. Is he a guy
that's gonna get dealt? I don't know, but you know,
we watched the White Sox. They tried to go a
little bit to the Braves model, and all of those
guys have been hurt or underperformed or a little bit
of bold. But still maybe a team a contender that
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says he fits in here, You'll get better pitches to hit,
more opportunity here, blah blah blah, and it's worth the investment.
Pete Alonzo's name comes up on the other side of town,
going back to Chicago, Cody Bellinger was the name brought
up a ton. Well, now he's on the il with
a fractured finger, right, what does that do for all
of it? But one guy that will be front and
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center pitched another gem today. Paul Skeins. He is one
of the stars of Major League Baseball this year. Seven
no hit innings, eleven strikeouts, one walk, ninety nine pitches,
sixty five of them strikes. He had a six pitch inning,
all of those kind of crazy metrics, lowering his season
(03:46):
ERA to one nineero. Remember this was a guy that
was drafted one year ago and then his manager had
to feel the heat because he took him out. And yes,
I know it's hot everywhere in the country, but we'll
run with it here.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He was tired.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
It really didn't have anything to do with the pitch count.
Everybody makes it about pitch counts. It was about where
he was at. It was about trusting your eyes, trusting him.
When I went and talked to him after that, I
mean he was tired. They did a good job of
wearing him down, and I mean he gave us everything
he had.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So Derek Shelton saying that you know you had the
video that started coming out where you have that moment
where Skeen's is told in the dugout and he's just
got that thousand yard stare at him like all right, skip. Yeah.
He didn't look particularly accepting or happy with the decision
because it's the second time that it's happened to him
this year, and we've certainly seen it, and being in
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Los Angeles, we've been on air for a number of
Dave Roberts jobs through the year. There's no question about it.
So Skeens goes seven, Holderman comes in for an inning,
and then Chapman comes in to finish the job. One
nothing a win over the Brewers here and Skeen's obviously
just a fantastic season. As we're late, and you know,
(04:59):
it's kind of with the Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.
Every every day we can find someone at stats Inc.
Or one of these stats hub places to create stats
for guys that you have no idea that it made
any sense you would have ever done that query into
your database before. How many people have done this on
alternating tuesdays before the first full.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Moon since nineteen seventy three in the rain.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Exactly, so six and oh one to nine to zero
era part of the All Star festivities. But we've talked
about it a lot through the years, just the changing
of the game, specialization, and you know, part of the
thing major League Baseball is going through, and I know
people are going through the turnstyles. You know, is helping
a friend get some seats the Red Sox coming into
town after the All Star break to face the slumping
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Dodgers who are desperately in need of some able bodied throwers.
You're right, you know, you're down to two guys in
your rotation from where you started the season. I L's
and wishing, wanting hobe. Bobby Miller has been awful. He
had to be optioned. He's a minor leagues right, So
and then you're still on that timeline where you're like, well,
(06:10):
we're praying based on what we're seeing ramping up that
Clayton Kershaw is going to be back. But again, now
you're putting the eggs proverbial eggs in the basket of
a guy coming off major injuries, with an injury history
of these last couple of years, all of those kind
of things that you go through. Glass Now who's been
fantastic goes to the IL didn't mean to catch up.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And Kershaw's old, that's just it, right, So.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You just flat out just you know, despite the major injury,
he's also just old. But this is the worst thing
about to me, at least one of the worst things
about analytics when you talk about schemes.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
And I hear the Shelton saying.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
He was tired, But then when you look at the
video of Skins in the dugout, it doesn't Not that
I'm not saying he doesn't look like he's tired, but
he didn't look like he wanted to come out of
the game right away.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So how tired is he?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Daddy know what I'm saying, Like, if you ask, I
would love to hear what Skis had to say after
the game about his fatigue level.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
But you have three more games for the All Star Break.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
This is his last appearance, right is it more important
for him than maybe potentially start for the NL or
maybe get a no hitter like I just but the
thing is, you know, unless you said he had one
six pitch inning at this age in life, and as
a baseball fan you're looking at pitchers, they're gonna have
to have three six pitch innings to even have a
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chance to complete a full game no hitter.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Because they're not gonna let him get to it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Every single time we.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
See this, it's almost always, oh, it was a team
combined no hitter, which to me is not even a
real thing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, that's the tough part of it, right, I get it,
young guy superstar, and everybody's already photoshopping him into their
favorite team's uniform Dodgers Yankees, where there's money to be spent.
Shot in Pittsburgh, but for skiings right, elite company. Here's
from the sports Center account. Fourth pitcher since eighteen ninety three,
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going all the way back to eighteen ninety three for
you here, Martin, because this is how I wanted to
punctuate it by giving you an actual data point. Eighteen
ninety three zero hits, ten strikeouts, and multiple outings in
a single season. Now you got the four guys Verlander, Schurezer, Nolan, Ryan,
and now Skians you know, ninety nine pitches.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You just triggered me a little bit.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I had no idea how good I had it when
I walked in after college in Detroit to the twenty
twelve twenty thirteen Detroit Tigers who had Justin Varlander, Max Schurzer,
who are toy the names on that list? Yeah, Rick
Porcello who won to say young and ney Bo Sanchez
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who was good at the time.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, Rich Rich, time's there for you.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
And Porcello couldn't even get he could even crack the
starting rotation.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, I gotta go all the back to two thousand
and five for me.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
But it's just, I mean, I just it's amazing the
amount of former Tigers who have gone off to do
great things elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, it's like there was one All Star Game where
you literally could take the two starting lineups and make
a team of former expos right right, So, I mean
we could do that with some of the bullet points.
And I'm sure fans of every team USA, Cubs, Mariners,
go on down the line, we'll hear your tales well
at Martin Weiss, at Swollen Dome, your lamentations will be
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heard and put into future programming here. But it's the
idea of specialization is also part of the reason we've
got the problem we do with batting averages. I know
a lot of theories. Spanier was in with me the
other day, and it seems like he listens to everybody
and everything. So he must have cited every show on
sports television and radio to make it a couple of points.
(09:58):
But he brought up, you know, Colin, I guess brought
in lowering the mound. And you know, we we can
go in all all of these different ways to quote
fix things. I think George Brett and I cited him
earlier the week in response, like, just go back to
the way you used to hit. Forget about the launching
nonsense and all this other no screw that. Just spray
(10:20):
the ball to the opposite field. Go and be a
professional hitter again. Right, It's why watching and you cite
Tony Gwynn. You look at what George Brett was able
to do. Go back to Rod Crew. If you want
to dig back a little bit deeper, we can go
to Ted. I mean, we can do this for for
one hundred years almost at this point. But it's like
guys that went up and they took the pitch where
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where you hit them where they ate the old the
old idea, you know, and a strikeout and I get it,
strikeout is just an out, but it's not right. It's
it's it's it's completely different thing. So you got all
these guys batting one, ninety and two ten or whatever. Yeah,
part of it is the hitting of approach. Part of
it is also specialization. You're not seeing a pitcher three times.
(11:04):
Going back to what we're talking about, most of these
guys are coming up through the minor leagues, and if
you can get him into the sixth inning, they're gonna
get the greatest congratulations coming back and exact off the
amount if they finish one out in the sixth anymore.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I mean, the Tigers have this guy, Andy Banyez, who's
not like a star by any means, but he is
the only guy on the team or a first stretching
now Riley Greens hitting two, but there was a stretch
he was the only guy on the team that was hitting.
But everybody's like, he can't hit for power. It's like,
I don't know if you've noticed, but this team's only
heads of scoreboard than three runs of the week.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Who cares you get hit for power? Can't he get
on base?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Give the guy some of the Barry Bonds armor and
lean into one. I mean, get him on, get him over,
get him in.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
And it's crazy too because we have all these you know,
the I guess they're not so recent anymore. But with
the rule changes in baseball, they are incentivised to get
on base.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Right, the bases are bigger, it's easier to steal.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
The pitcher can only throw over two or three times,
two times, and then after that it's anchors away. My friend,
go ahead and steals as much as you'd like. You
just on the catcher to gun you down. Like all
of that is to incentivize like baseball being played the
way it was played, Like you said, what eighteen ninety
three or whatever, Like guys would used to hit and run, run.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
And hit, like all of that type of stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
And it's just, you know, I'm sorry, there's there's more
to like, there's sure maybe there's a mathematically correct way
to play the game with the three true outcomes. Are
you know same thing in basketball? Yes, I am aware
that three is worth more than two. But if I'm
shooting thirty percent from three and sixty percent on lays
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seventy l maybe I'll just go ahead and keep hitting
the one I'm hitting seventy five percent of the time.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Maybe I'll just do that.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
You know, we get these people who are so stuck
on the mathematics of everything, and it just drives me
nuts because who does who plays sports with a calculated.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But also the id a baseball. One of the great
things about it was there was no clock to it,
right right, And I get it. The pitch clock moves
it along. I'm not one of those guys that was clamoring,
going damn, these games are too long. It takes three hours.
It takes three hours.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's like going to a movie.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Sometimes the movie is ninety minutes. Sometimes the movies three
and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Let's get it to its natural end and be done
with it. But you know, yeah, it moves it along,
and it makes it for a better TV window, and
people like that. Advertisers like that, right, all of that
kind of thing. You mean, it's it's the taking the
soccer model to a bit right. It's gonna fit nice
and neatly into maybe just this side of two hours,
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a couple of minutes here or there, depending on extra
time and everything else. So you want to condense it,
I get it from a programming standpoint, from the sport itself.
I don't know, man, We've gone too far. I don't
get me started about the damn ghost runner A.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Ghost runner is a sick, bastardization of the sport. Honestly,
I don't mind the pitch and it's a very well put.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That's one of my favorite words the English language.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, I gotta mind the pitchclock because generally, like I think,
if you're taking the entire pitchclock, you were probably taking
too long, you know what I'm saying, Like we did.
How many different times can you adjust yourself before you
throw a ball?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, but I mean in today's day and age. Hall
of Famer Carlton Fiss could not catch in today's game, true,
because he was the human reign to lay because he
had to get up and adjust himself every which way
till Sunday, after every pitch.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's a shame what they've done to our game.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Mike Tyler killing me, You're killing me, Blue. All right,
let's talk about another game. We'll go back into the
United States men's basketball team off to Abu Dhabi for
a couple more exhibitions coming out of what we just
saw these last night. I mean, that's already just last night.
Seems like a year ago, with a number of storylines
(14:50):
that have flown out of that Martin. As we go through.
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little bit of a quieter times.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
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Speaker 3 (17:01):
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Speaker 4 (17:30):
How about that, that's what's up?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's fun.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
We got this guy from Australia named Benny who tweets
us all the time on our Saturday show and he's like,
I guess he's up.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Late, up early.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know how how many hours is that?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I know that Abu Dhabi is a solid like thirteen.
I went to Dubai, which is nearby, and one summer,
and I don't ever need to go back. It's not
a reflection on by, it's more reflectional on me.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I got food poisoning on Oh, that's no good for anybody.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
And then you're literally thirteen hours on a plane from home.
So it's just a miserable in the world's tallest hotel.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That does not sound like a picture array that you
want to revisit. Remember this, No, yeah, no, I was
in the bathroom the whole time, and then I slept
because my system was defeated Australia seventeen hours ahead. How
about that? As you go men's national team, yesterday they
get their victory. Now they head to Abu Dhabi. They've
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got two games this coming week and yesterday against Canada.
Some good, some bad, some ugly, some lethargy. I think
would be the way to describe the first couple of minutes,
which to a degree you'd expect, right, A couple of
days of practice and hanging out and getting to know
each other a little bit. Guys getting to you know,
having dinner and chat and get all excited about the
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first time they're getting to play together. Speaking specifically Lebron
and daff Curry, who after the game looked like they were,
you know, pining to make this reality. And so you
saw people photoshopping Lebron into Warriors gear and Stephan the
Lakers gear and all of that fun stuff. But watching
them on the court together, like I said, for me,
as as things kind of synced up as the game
(19:18):
went on, Martin, we were you know, on air Fits
and I yesterday, and it's like, all right, this works.
This is fun because you know, we realize and just
have to recognize that, you know, you're getting towards the end.
And that goes back and has those shades of ninety two,
and I know everybody's trying to say, well, this team's
far better than that team was. That guy would destroy
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him there, and then we do our time travel thing
and this guy's better than that guy and whatever. But
that's that was the ninety two team, right with Bird
and Magic, they were about done. You had a few
of those guys that were really coming into their prime.
Barkley was, I mean, he had a few more years
of prime Barkley, but then that kind of started going
(19:59):
off the cliff little bit.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
So because it feels like this team you have, like
the Olds and the and and the new and the
new hotness. You have the young I mean, you know
what I'm saying, Like, but like the Lebron's the steps
to Kevin Durantz, the I would put probably and be
closer to that section, even though he's not quite their age.
And then on the flip side you have the Anthony Edwards,
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the Tyres Haliburtons.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I'd put Jason Tatum's on.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
The far edge of the young guys, but I still
put him in a young guy category, uh, even though
he's had so much success in his NBA.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Career up until this point. But that it is a
changing of the guard type of Olympics, Olympics, I should
say Olympics. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
That's interesting. If it doesn't exist, we should make it something.
See if you get registered the domain of all miss type.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, but I think when you're looking at like this
is gonna be a big tournament for guys like Anthony Edwards,
Tyre's Halliburton, and Jason Tatum, those guys who are gonna
be probably the faces of this Olympic team or just
USA team going forward. Because if Lebron is in the
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next Olympics, I'll be shocked because I think Lebron will
be done playing basketball by then.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Steph might be done playing basketball.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
But then, kay, the all those guys that are in
the you know, me and Kevin Durant at the same age,
I couldn't imagine playing basketball at a high level right
now at all.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, he says they're gonna have to tear the shoes
and uniform off him, is what he's saying today. That
was one of his quotes, like, I'm I'm nowhere near
and done so, and I hope that's case. I hope
you can stay healthy enough to where you're giving us
big moments where we can get to April, May and June.
And I guess that's the larger question when we talk about,
you know, transitioning, right. Kevin Garnett had had a great
(21:43):
tweet going, well, this version of Lebron if he goes
full towards what Draymond Green is at this point, which
I would love if he's throwing some hysterics as well.
He kind of does, but he doesn't get the same derision,
and it's not the referee usually looks the other as
opposed to what Draymond gets. But guard that basically said,
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if he can adopt to more of that role facilitator,
maybe pretend a little more on defense, all of those
kind of things. But he goes he could play in
this form for ten more years.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Well, the problem is, though.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
The brain trust that be the Genie Bus Rob Polinka
in the Rambi are not gonna be able to.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Build that's good.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I doubt that they will be able to build a roster.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
That will even compete with Like Canada might have beaten
the Lakers, like you know what I'm saying, Like Canada
may have beatn the Lakers as they offer Max Christy
four years to sit on the bench again with.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
The player option for why for why where's it going?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
But I think the roster construction around it will make
it so Lebron would be passing the ball to no
offense but to nobody's.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Well, but you got no choice because of where his
salary is, like unless he takes a full on dump.
And this is where people get all upset. He's like,
well the union would never go for It's like he's
an outlier. Yeah, right, It's like the old Brady thing
in the NFL. People would always say, well, Brady takes
less you know, and that's wrong because it screwed quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Like, no, it didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Everybody else got paid. Sure, I'm sure plenty of ownership
groups and gms go, hey, look what it's done for
Brady in the Patriots. Will your guy take fourteen million
a year? Hell no, all right, asked it answered, Moving on,
same thing, if Lebron suddenly decided, you know what, I
want to build this squad, and again this goes into
win versus dollars and cents and everything else. And I
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know he took a little shade under the Max Martin
so they wouldn't hit that dreaded second Apron forty five
grand I think was the report. That's like literally a
rack of basketballs. But the that that he sticks around
at fifty million dollars a year, well, you're not gonna
be able to do anything.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well you said that, But then also you look at
the NBA champions defending right now. They got well they
didn't have it at the time, but Jayson Tatum was not.
It wasn't like he was, you know, on the street
corner with a cup, begging for change, trying to get
through things. And Jalen Brown had the richest contract with
the NBA history, and they somehow found a way to
improve along the margins.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
But that's just it. Your organization has to figure out
the margins, and it's a larger indictment on current brass
versus the system, and the second apron is a mess.
Like that's stupid. We talked about it earlier in the show. Folks.
You can find that full rant from both of us
in the podcast, because I mean, a hard salary cap
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comes in all of these punitive things related to draft
picks and actually improving your roster. Part of the Paul
George discussion of the past week as well, right when
we're talking about you know what a re signing and
him sticking in Los Angeles would have actually meant for
the Clippers. So you've got all of that flowing out.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
One of the things that I think that people are
miss in the whole Lakers struggle right now to be
a team that is not just averaging the Western Conference
and it's going to take the next step. This front
office continues to offer player options, which generally it's like
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in a vacuum, it's okay, but when you have four
different players opt into their player options, it means the
rest of the NBA did not want them at that number,
right at the numbers. So that's why you end up
opting in, because everybody else would opt out to get
the free agency right, even if you're gonna stay with
(25:42):
your own team, like matter of fact, Lebron run.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So you got a few dollars more, a few more,
however you want it front end or back end, depending
on what you're working with the team.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yet, But do you offer these player options years ago
to D'Angelo Russell, Christian Wood, Jackson Hayes, and Cam Reddish,
and all four of them were like, I'll sign up
for another year at the same number. Why because nobody
else was gonna do it like that if they just
didn't offer those options, they have so much more capsumate.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
It's just it's just I don't understand why.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
If I was a GM, I would be like, I'm sorry,
you average less than ten points a game.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I am not offering you a player option in year
three of this deal.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, think about I go back to my hometown of Chicago.
Lonzo Ball opted in for this year two years, twenty
one point five million dollars. Mark Weise, Yeah, I bet
he did opt in. I did think as soon as
the calendar. All right, it's midnight and two seconds, get
that docu sign going.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Right exactly, schedule send on the email.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And again good for the players, bad for the game.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
It's just I don't know why, like they've done well
with the no trade closes because on two players in
no trade, right, Paul George would have stayed and apparently
accorded to Podcast B, would have stayed and uh and
Los Angeles had he been offered three year, one hundred
and fifty million with no trade.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, he really should have had a bulge and board
in front of him with his speaking points so he
didn't come out sounding as bad as he did the
way he walked through.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Well, I did the thing I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It felt like he didn't understand something that seemed to
be very obvious to me as he was running through
all of this.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
They didn't want you anymore, right, well.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Kawhi, more important than you won, right, the no trade clause.
As you point out, it ain't out there like nobody
getting there, nobody getting this. Look, you got your bag,
you got an extra what sixty plus million dollars from Philadelphia?
Remember when sources my favorite sources were saying that the
Sixers had soured on him and that they were no
(27:46):
longer in the Paul George business. Right, Why so you
put your name on it? Great saying of j Moore,
you know Genie Bus's husband when he was here at
Fox Sports Radio. Put your name on it.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Love it?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So of Misssources really got a butchered that one in
the end. But you know, he gets his bag and
he can tell the tale of how the Clippers didn't
love him.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
But it's like, you know, it's you know, it hasn't
happened to me because I'm a I'm a man of
self respect. But I've heard this from some of you know,
other friends and so as they're trying to move through
the dating world. So well, I called her on Monday,
now text her on tuesdays. She answered me back. Now,
I text her again later on the day. She answered
me back, and then you know, I waited a week
(28:29):
later and then I called her against she answered back.
I was like, you know, there's a trend here. That's
a final there's a trend here. You know, how are
you gonna make her say stop calling me? Are you
gonna actually make her do it? Because that's where you're
because the.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Police may get involved at some point. This man's harassing me.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Tell leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Insane? All right, Men's national team final takeaway. Edwards said
he wanted to be the guy, gave up a pretty
good effort along the way, and the defense over as
the game wore on, sure, and they started to really
kind of get to except for Joel Embiid, who kind
of looked a little bit lost out there, lost in
the international rules.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, I think he's gonna Joel Embiid is going to
have to either figure this out quickly or they're gonna
have to play.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Anthony Davis at that starting lineup.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's my take. Joeling beat to the bench.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, especially if he's no longer seven feet as Kevin Durant.
You know, let the cat out of the bag. Six
He I got nothing for you here. He's Martin Weison
for Jason Smith. I'm by Carbon. Coming up next, we've
got a new job for one of the greatest coaches
in football history. And we've got some numbers related to
(29:41):
a video game payment. You thought it was just six
hundred dollars in a copy of the game. Yeah, not
Everybody's the same, but first we go over to Steve Desager.
We get one final update of what's going on and
what is transpired in our sporting universe. High state. Hello again.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
As far as US men's Olympic basketball, the next tune
up game are Monday and Wednesday from Abu Dhabi on
FS one. It'll be the US against Australia and then
against Serbia noon Eastern time. Last night, the comeback win
in Vegas against Canada eighty six seventy two. The Americans
had trailed eleven to one early, had seven turnovers in
the first nine minutes. You mentioned Anthony Davis off the bench.
(30:20):
In nineteen minutes he had ten points, eleven rebounds, and
four blocks, while Joel Embiid had five points, four turnovers
and five pouls. Remember it's a shorter game in international
play that five fouls you are disqualified. Anthony Edwards thirteen
points off the bench. Steph Curry started had twelve again
Monday Wednesday for the next tune up games, and then
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after that a couple exhibitions in London and the Olympic
Tournament for hoops starts July twenty eighth, US against Serbia.
The NBA Summer League in Las Vegas starts tomorrow and
goes through the twenty second All thirty NBA teams involved.
Each club will play at least five games there. One
WNBA game tonight, New York Now nineteen and four beat
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Chicago ninety one seventy six twenty one points for Sabrina
Yenescu Angel Reese of Chicago ten points, ten rebounds, five
of seventeen shooting in the loss. Fifteenth straight double double
for her. Three WNBA games tomorrow, including Indiana hosting Phoenix.
Longtime defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin died at the age of
eighty four. The Tennessee Titans signed safety Jamal Adams. The
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Chargers open their new team facility today near the LA
Airport near the stadium in Englewood. It's called the Bolt.
Fan reservations in fact to tour the new team headquarters
have maxed out in just thirty minutes. The Colts say
they are where they're all blue alternate uniforms with the
black helmet for a game in November, and NFL rookies
report to training camp for Baltimore this Saturday. Row report
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dates for some other teams are the next week Justin
Thomas leads the Scottish Open by one stroke after a
first round sixty two. A reminder of the Euros Soccer
Final is on Fox TV Sunday three pm Eastern Times
Spain against England and Sunday nights on Fox. COPA America
Final number one ranked Argentina against a Columbia team that
(32:12):
is unbeaten in its last twenty eight games. In Major
League Baseball action, we had one shutout after another today.
The Mets posted their first team shut out of the year,
seven nothing against Washington Nationals have lost five.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
In a row.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
They left thirteen men on base today for the Mets.
Brandon Nimmo a three run double. He has sixty two RBIs.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Paul Sken's got the win for Pittsburgh. He six to
oh one nothing was the final at Milwaukee, seven no
hit innings for the rookie All Star, eleven strikeouts, one walk,
ninety nine pitches thrown. The Cubs won tonight eight nothing
at Baltimore. Justin Steele the winning pitcher with seven innings
on the hill say a Suzuki, three hits, three RBIs.
Cubs outfielder Cody Bellinger goes on the injured list with
(32:55):
a broken finger. Boston shutout Oakland seven to nothing. The
A's offense had only four hits. Red Sox hit three homers,
Masatake Yoshida three hits, four RBIs. Winning pitcher ten Or
Hauke went six innings Seattle and eleven nothing winner at
the Angels. Mariners led seven ZIP in the fourth, Cal
Rowley with two homers four RBIs the win to Luis Castillo,
(33:18):
pitched six innings and Arizona took the late game one
nothing over Arizona. The hard luck loss for Max Freed,
who had seven strikeouts in six innings. Victory tonight for
Tampa Bay and Houston, and for Philadelphia, which hit three
solo homers to beat the Dodgers again five to one.
Pitcher Aaron Nolan now eleven and four.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
After the win.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
He struck out nine in six innings. Philadelphia pitcher Zach
Wheeler will take this week off due to lower back tightness.
The All Star gameer reminder is Tuesday on Fox TV
from Texas.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Back to you, Steve, before you go, you mentioned the
Diamondbacks Braves game right. The hard luck for Max Freed,
the only mistake of home run to Eugenio Suarez his
ninth home run of the year. There's a picture going
around the interwebs of the guy who caught the baseball,
who also had a fifty dollars bet On Sworez did
(34:10):
a home run tonight and he cashed out for four
hundred and fifty dollars. He caught the home run that
he bet would happen.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
What are the odds of that?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
How about that? I thought you'd enjoy that one. He's
Steve Desagre. Thanks Steve.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
That's got to go into the man cave.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
That's the man cave. But that's also I mean, that's
all the fame stuff right.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
There, absolutely sortified.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
See there you go. Put him up on your bulletin board.
We'll start building one. Every time you come in here.
We'll pull out the sheet of paper and figure out
how many former Tigers that we can promote. That screw
have now screwed you over by greatness in other uniforms.
All right, two more before we get out of here.
We've got a payoff in college football. Wait, that sounded bad.
(34:55):
And then we've got the greatest of all time has
himself a new job. He's Martin. I'll Mike and this
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Welcome back in Fox Sports a Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me, Mike Harmon, Martin wise In for Jason Smith tonight.
I did promise it, though, because we got your CV
and everything you got popping and people can find out
through your portal at Martin Weiss. I did promise that
we'd get a little bit of tight shirt what he's
got going on. So I mean, you gotta do yourself
(35:34):
shameless self promotion of all of your ventures.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
I do too much to like take up airtime. But
just know, if you ever want to find my adventures,
just look up Shallow Oceans. It's do a lot of
good stuff for me.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
There you go, Shallow Oceans.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Yes, you want to catch raise hit it in a
world that seems so vast, It's really not as deep
as you thinks.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Fire.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That's much better than don't sweat the small stuff. Yeah
I did that. There you go, And there's DJ Alex Tyscher.
Our guy Shay is in the produce your chair for us.
What you want to promote yourself? I'm not as shamelessly
I got nothing. Okay, wow, but you know Fox.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Sports ready FSR shay there you go, call me FSR
shack way to shine under pressure?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well, you know, I think he was going to say
something as a smart ass, and then he realized he
still has to work for a couple of weeks, so
he didn't want to go down a deep dark path
just yet. All right, So two stories that I teased
arch Manning. Remember when he wasn't going to be in
the EA Sports video game? Oh yeah, Now there's a
report that he ended up getting himself a cool fifty
(36:34):
to sixty grand in addition to his six hundred dollars
plus the copy of the game that was the standard contract.
In other words, use your leverage people in your jobs,
in your lives, wherever you have a little bit of
that dreaded clout word, use it.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
I mean the Mannings are just to have the Midas touch.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, it really doesn't work that way, don't it. I mean, yeah,
because it looks like that receiver show is I mean
I might actually watch it now.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Look, I wasn't looking forward to it. I mean, I
like the cast of guys that they got yeah right
when they announced that, but in general, like a lot
of those like and even hard knocks. I might have
to go watch the Giants because they got Dunster's burning
all over the damn place off season hard knocks for
people that will do what we do. Oh it's electric,
but generally like we only get like little snippets or whatever,
(37:23):
Like the Giants are giving us gold at every turn,
like we did the whole Saquon Barkley call, which might
have been the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
I I texted a couple of the you know, the
scouts that text me back in the NFL they have
have you watched it?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Have you thought about it?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
They're like, Yo, my job was on the floor when
I saw that sequon conversation.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Damn final cut?
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Who the hell?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
When the organization thought that was a good idea? Hey, hey,
you're gonna like you're gonna give us a chance, like
right right.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Yeah, just just call us back. You could hear it
through the phone. He's like, sure, pal, sure.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Like it was like you were saying before, like your
friends in the dating pool text you're gonna text me back, right,
He's got a call, so you gotta call. Or Billy
Crystal dancing around and when Harry met Sally pick up
the phone and just call Me's like, no, ain't picking
up the phone. They're done with you. Not happening all right.
So there's arch Manning. He got his bag. I can't
(38:21):
wait to see how many guys of you know, higher
status in future video game iterations. Don't settle for six
hundred bucks a copy of the game and saying it's cool,
so we got that.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
I think it helps name.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
No, that certainly does not help. And then Bill Belichick
has himself a new job here Martin. One of my
favorite things to watch when during his time with the
Patriots was even do like the little little whiteboard chalk
talk in a half hour. I get paid a lot
of money to come and go through some of the
key plays of the game. But he always dumbed it
down enough to where an idiot like me can understand
(38:56):
what he was trying to do in terms of route
concepts or defensive coverages and stuff. And he'd take out
the pen and he'd give you three minutes look like
he was talking about punters, which is what he's always
been really good at. You want to ask him about
specifics off a quarterback or whatever, now I'm going to
give you like two lines and a grunt. You want
to talk special teamers, let's go. That's the way he
operated on that TV show. So now he's going to
(39:17):
be part of Inside the NFL. Pretty exciting there. It's him,
Ryan Clark, Chad Johnson, and Chris Long.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
When I tell you, I will be locked in in
a way that I've never been locked in the inside
the NFL before.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Do you remember that HBO documentary The Art of Coaching
was they've been in Belichick.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
I would watch that thing three hours in a row.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
A master class, absolutely, And when he did all the
stuff for the anniversary teams and whatever else you want
to talk about this curator historian that holds it face
full of knowledge.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
I mean, And there's been a discourse today online. I
don't know if you saw it, but it was people
kind of pushing back on the film Twitter community, and
they used jargon that they don't have any about and
all of that. I've never I never played football. I
didn't play football at a high level, not a low level,
not a bid level. I didn't play football at all.
With the one eighth grade football practice, I gotta be
(40:10):
minus on a geography quiz. After that, mom said, you're out.
That's true story. But I have always been I've always
wanted to understand more. Why why is this happening in
the way that it is? And that's why one of
the things I really lean on color commentators for. But
then Tony Romo came out sorry saying they're gonna run
the ball to the right. Was like, I could see
(40:32):
they're gonna run the ball to the right. The tight
ends over there, you know enough to find out you're
not you're not breaking you know, I see the I
see the grass too.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
But why why is it there? You know what I'm saying.
That's always what I wanted to know.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
And so these guys who have the ability to take
these high level football concepts and distill them down to
where the layman can understand it.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Oh, sign me up, sign me up seven days a
week or twice on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Huge Yet for the CW network, Chris Long's entertaining and
you know Ocho Cinco and coach because I remember the
famous video of him walking up to uh, Chad Ocho Cinco,
Chad Johnson and going, you know you're not catching a ball.
It's like, why you gotta do me like that? Troach
And then eventually he would become a Patriot for a
(41:18):
short spell. But that'll be fun and Ryan Clark knows
how to stir it up. We've certainly seen that the
last couple of years. So for Bill Belichick might be
done coaching. I know a lot of folks have taken
their one lines one liners to him. He was at
the Taylor Swift concert overseas.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
Oh was he?
Speaker 7 (41:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
He and his new girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I missed that. I missed that. I didn't miss the
new girl. I saw the girl.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Folks with so much derisiveness and hatred towards him for
the young girlfriend. Yeah, jealousy. Gotta gotta live. Man's gotta live.
I can't blame him. He's mart Wise. Hopefully this was
not a too painful four hour experience.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
It's a little bit longer than three hours, by about
an hour.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
All right, We'll make sure to load jump out of
caffeine next time at Martin Wise find me over ads
swollen up. That was really well put. That showed the
four hours acting in I think it's Bernie frett I
went for Ben Maller next here on Fox
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Speaker 3 (01:06):
We still got some room to traverse. Talking about Major
League Baseball Final days before we get to the All
Star break for some teams can't come fast enough. Try
to figure out over the next few days you have
the pomp and circumstance of the All Star Game on Fox,
the home run derby, the Futures Game. Oh that's great, right,
showcase pageantry, Get everybody out, every Hall of Famer that
(01:28):
you could possibly get in front of the camera, have
some interviews. Our guy, John Paul Morosi will be front
and center for a lot of it for MLB Network.
I'm sure we'll get some little sound bites from him
along the way as well. You know, he's got a
podcast where he's interviewing Hall of Famers each week in
a relationship with the Hall of Fame at John Morosi
on Twitter. Leave out the H and John though, because
(01:49):
Mom said so j O n mr os I. But
you know, keeping a surprise. And now we're getting into
that funny time of year with all the trade rumor speculation.
Guys that may be up and across the board. There's
some big names. Sure they're gonna be dealt, right. We
talked about it a little bit with my beloved White Sox.
(02:11):
As terrible as they are, they have a couple of
pieces that might be available in the trade market.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I mean, the White Sox are gonna be buyers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, just more of the who wants what they're what
they're selling is really what Martin, especially Crochet, who's pitched
really well. But he's a guy that if we're doing
the the way we analyze pictures, innings, limits all of those,
it's probably in that final band of all right, how
much can we really get out of him, and where
(02:41):
we're trying to be as safe as we can with
his arm coming off. Tommy John a couple of years ago,
you look at Lewis Robert Juniors. Is he a guy
that's gonna get dealt? I don't know, but you know,
we watched the White Sox. They tried to go a
little bit to the Braves model, and all of those
guys have been hurt or underperformed or a little bit
of bold. But still maybe a team a contender that
(03:03):
says he fits in here, You'll get better pitches to hit,
more opportunity here, blah blah blah, and it's worth the investment.
Pete Alonzo's name comes up on the other side of town,
going back to Chicago, Cody Bellinger was the name brought
up a ton. Well, now he's on the il with
a fractured finger, right, what does that do for all
of it? But one guy that will be front and
(03:24):
center pitched another gem today. Paul Skeins. He is one
of the stars of Major League Baseball this year. Seven
no hit innings, eleven strikeouts, one walk, ninety nine pitches,
sixty five of them strikes. He had a six pitch inning,
all of those kind of crazy metrics, lowering his season
(03:46):
ERA to one nineero. Remember this was a guy that
was drafted one year ago and then his manager had
to feel the heat because he took him out. And yes,
I know it's hot everywhere in the country, but we'll
run with it here.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He was tired.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
It really didn't have anything to do with the pitch count.
Everybody makes it about pitch counts. It was about where
he was at. It was about trusting your eyes, trusting him.
When I went and talked to him after that, I
mean he was tired. They did a good job of
wearing him down, and I mean he gave us everything
he had.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So Derek Shelton saying that you know you had the
video that started coming out where you have that moment
where Skeen's is told in the dugout and he's just
got that thousand yard stare at him like all right, skip. Yeah.
He didn't look particularly accepting or happy with the decision
because it's the second time that it's happened to him
this year, and we've certainly seen it, and being in
(04:38):
Los Angeles, we've been on air for a number of
Dave Roberts jobs through the year. There's no question about it.
So Skeens goes seven, Holderman comes in for an inning,
and then Chapman comes in to finish the job. One
nothing a win over the Brewers here and Skeen's obviously
just a fantastic season. As we're late, and you know,
(04:59):
it's kind of with the Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.
Every every day we can find someone at stats Inc.
Or one of these stats hub places to create stats
for guys that you have no idea that it made
any sense you would have ever done that query into
your database before. How many people have done this on
alternating tuesdays before the first full.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Moon since nineteen seventy three in the rain.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Exactly, so six and oh one to nine to zero
era part of the All Star festivities. But we've talked
about it a lot through the years, just the changing
of the game, specialization, and you know, part of the
thing major League Baseball is going through, and I know
people are going through the turnstyles. You know, is helping
a friend get some seats the Red Sox coming into
town after the All Star break to face the slumping
(05:48):
Dodgers who are desperately in need of some able bodied throwers.
You're right, you know, you're down to two guys in
your rotation from where you started the season. I L's
and wishing, wanting hobe. Bobby Miller has been awful. He
had to be optioned. He's a minor leagues right, So
and then you're still on that timeline where you're like, well,
(06:10):
we're praying based on what we're seeing ramping up that
Clayton Kershaw is going to be back. But again, now
you're putting the eggs proverbial eggs in the basket of
a guy coming off major injuries, with an injury history
of these last couple of years, all of those kind
of things that you go through. Glass Now who's been
fantastic goes to the IL didn't mean to catch up.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And Kershaw's old, that's just it, right, So.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You just flat out just you know, despite the major injury,
he's also just old. But this is the worst thing
about to me, at least one of the worst things
about analytics when you talk about schemes.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
And I hear the Shelton saying.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
He was tired, But then when you look at the
video of Skins in the dugout, it doesn't Not that
I'm not saying he doesn't look like he's tired, but
he didn't look like he wanted to come out of
the game right away.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So how tired is he?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Daddy know what I'm saying, Like, if you ask, I
would love to hear what Skis had to say after
the game about his fatigue level.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
But you have three more games for the All Star Break.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
This is his last appearance, right is it more important
for him than maybe potentially start for the NL or
maybe get a no hitter like I just but the
thing is, you know, unless you said he had one
six pitch inning at this age in life, and as
a baseball fan you're looking at pitchers, they're gonna have
to have three six pitch innings to even have a
(07:34):
chance to complete a full game no hitter.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Because they're not gonna let him get to it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Every single time we.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
See this, it's almost always, oh, it was a team
combined no hitter, which to me is not even a
real thing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, that's the tough part of it, right, I get it,
young guy superstar, and everybody's already photoshopping him into their
favorite team's uniform Dodgers Yankees, where there's money to be spent.
Shot in Pittsburgh, but for skiings right, elite company. Here's
from the sports Center account. Fourth pitcher since eighteen ninety three,
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going all the way back to eighteen ninety three for
you here, Martin, because this is how I wanted to
punctuate it by giving you an actual data point. Eighteen
ninety three zero hits, ten strikeouts, and multiple outings in
a single season. Now you got the four guys Verlander, Schurezer, Nolan, Ryan,
and now Skians you know, ninety nine pitches.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You just triggered me a little bit.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I had no idea how good I had it when
I walked in after college in Detroit to the twenty
twelve twenty thirteen Detroit Tigers who had Justin Varlander, Max Schurzer,
who are toy the names on that list? Yeah, Rick
Porcello who won to say young and ney Bo Sanchez
(08:55):
who was good at the time.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, Rich Rich, time's there for you.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
And Porcello couldn't even get he could even crack the
starting rotation.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, I gotta go all the back to two thousand
and five for me.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
But it's just, I mean, I just it's amazing the
amount of former Tigers who have gone off to do
great things elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, it's like there was one All Star Game where
you literally could take the two starting lineups and make
a team of former expos right right, So, I mean
we could do that with some of the bullet points.
And I'm sure fans of every team USA, Cubs, Mariners,
go on down the line, we'll hear your tales well
at Martin Weiss, at Swollen Dome, your lamentations will be
(09:35):
heard and put into future programming here. But it's the
idea of specialization is also part of the reason we've
got the problem we do with batting averages. I know
a lot of theories. Spanier was in with me the
other day, and it seems like he listens to everybody
and everything. So he must have cited every show on
sports television and radio to make it a couple of points.
(09:58):
But he brought up, you know, Colin, I guess brought
in lowering the mound. And you know, we we can
go in all all of these different ways to quote
fix things. I think George Brett and I cited him
earlier the week in response, like, just go back to
the way you used to hit. Forget about the launching
nonsense and all this other no screw that. Just spray
(10:20):
the ball to the opposite field. Go and be a
professional hitter again. Right, It's why watching and you cite
Tony Gwynn. You look at what George Brett was able
to do. Go back to Rod Crew. If you want
to dig back a little bit deeper, we can go
to Ted. I mean, we can do this for for
one hundred years almost at this point. But it's like
guys that went up and they took the pitch where
(10:41):
where you hit them where they ate the old the
old idea, you know, and a strikeout and I get it,
strikeout is just an out, but it's not right. It's
it's it's it's completely different thing. So you got all
these guys batting one, ninety and two ten or whatever. Yeah,
part of it is the hitting of approach. Part of
it is also specialization. You're not seeing a pitcher three times.
(11:04):
Going back to what we're talking about, most of these
guys are coming up through the minor leagues, and if
you can get him into the sixth inning, they're gonna
get the greatest congratulations coming back and exact off the
amount if they finish one out in the sixth anymore.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I mean, the Tigers have this guy, Andy Banyez, who's
not like a star by any means, but he is
the only guy on the team or a first stretching
now Riley Greens hitting two, but there was a stretch
he was the only guy on the team that was hitting.
But everybody's like, he can't hit for power. It's like,
I don't know if you've noticed, but this team's only
heads of scoreboard than three runs of the week.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Who cares you get hit for power? Can't he get
on base?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Give the guy some of the Barry Bonds armor and
lean into one. I mean, get him on, get him over,
get him in.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
And it's crazy too because we have all these you know,
the I guess they're not so recent anymore. But with
the rule changes in baseball, they are incentivised to get
on base.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Right, the bases are bigger, it's easier to steal.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
The pitcher can only throw over two or three times,
two times, and then after that it's anchors away. My friend,
go ahead and steals as much as you'd like. You
just on the catcher to gun you down. Like all
of that is to incentivize like baseball being played the
way it was played, Like you said, what eighteen ninety
three or whatever, Like guys would used to hit and run, run.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
And hit, like all of that type of stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
And it's just, you know, I'm sorry, there's there's more
to like, there's sure maybe there's a mathematically correct way
to play the game with the three true outcomes. Are
you know same thing in basketball? Yes, I am aware
that three is worth more than two. But if I'm
shooting thirty percent from three and sixty percent on lays
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seventy l maybe I'll just go ahead and keep hitting
the one I'm hitting seventy five percent of the time.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Maybe I'll just do that.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
You know, we get these people who are so stuck
on the mathematics of everything, and it just drives me
nuts because who does who plays sports with a calculated.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But also the id a baseball. One of the great
things about it was there was no clock to it,
right right, And I get it. The pitch clock moves
it along. I'm not one of those guys that was clamoring,
going damn, these games are too long. It takes three hours.
It takes three hours.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's like going to a movie.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Sometimes the movie is ninety minutes. Sometimes the movies three
and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Let's get it to its natural end and be done
with it. But you know, yeah, it moves it along,
and it makes it for a better TV window, and
people like that. Advertisers like that, right, all of that
kind of thing. You mean, it's it's the taking the
soccer model to a bit right. It's gonna fit nice
and neatly into maybe just this side of two hours,
(13:39):
a couple of minutes here or there, depending on extra
time and everything else. So you want to condense it,
I get it from a programming standpoint, from the sport itself.
I don't know, man, We've gone too far. I don't
get me started about the damn ghost runner A.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Ghost runner is a sick, bastardization of the sport. Honestly,
I don't mind the pitch and it's a very well put.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That's one of my favorite words the English language.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, I gotta mind the pitchclock because generally, like I think,
if you're taking the entire pitchclock, you were probably taking
too long, you know what I'm saying, Like we did.
How many different times can you adjust yourself before you
throw a ball?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, but I mean in today's day and age. Hall
of Famer Carlton Fiss could not catch in today's game, true,
because he was the human reign to lay because he
had to get up and adjust himself every which way
till Sunday, after every pitch.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's a shame what they've done to our game.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Mike Tyler killing me, You're killing me, Blue. All right,
let's talk about another game. We'll go back into the
United States men's basketball team off to Abu Dhabi for
a couple more exhibitions coming out of what we just
saw these last night. I mean, that's already just last night.
Seems like a year ago, with a number of storylines
(14:50):
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Speaker 3 (16:02):
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Speaker 3 (16:18):
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Speaker 2 (16:20):
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Speaker 3 (16:25):
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little bit of a quieter times.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
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Speaker 3 (17:01):
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we were, what we were all about. So that was
kind of good.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
How about that, that's what's up?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's fun.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
We got this guy from Australia named Benny who tweets
us all the time on our Saturday show and he's like,
I guess he's up.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Late, up early.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I don't know how how many hours is that?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I know that Abu Dhabi is a solid like thirteen.
I went to Dubai, which is nearby, and one summer,
and I don't ever need to go back. It's not
a reflection on by, it's more reflectional on me.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I got food poisoning on Oh, that's no good for anybody.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
And then you're literally thirteen hours on a plane from home.
So it's just a miserable in the world's tallest hotel.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That does not sound like a picture array that you
want to revisit. Remember this, No, yeah, no, I was
in the bathroom the whole time, and then I slept
because my system was defeated Australia seventeen hours ahead. How
about that? As you go men's national team, yesterday they
get their victory. Now they head to Abu Dhabi. They've
(18:33):
got two games this coming week and yesterday against Canada.
Some good, some bad, some ugly, some lethargy. I think
would be the way to describe the first couple of minutes,
which to a degree you'd expect, right, A couple of
days of practice and hanging out and getting to know
each other a little bit. Guys getting to you know,
having dinner and chat and get all excited about the
(18:55):
first time they're getting to play together. Speaking specifically Lebron
and daff Curry, who after the game looked like they were,
you know, pining to make this reality. And so you
saw people photoshopping Lebron into Warriors gear and Stephan the
Lakers gear and all of that fun stuff. But watching
them on the court together, like I said, for me,
as as things kind of synced up as the game
(19:18):
went on, Martin, we were you know, on air Fits
and I yesterday, and it's like, all right, this works.
This is fun because you know, we realize and just
have to recognize that, you know, you're getting towards the end.
And that goes back and has those shades of ninety two,
and I know everybody's trying to say, well, this team's
far better than that team was. That guy would destroy
(19:38):
him there, and then we do our time travel thing
and this guy's better than that guy and whatever. But
that's that was the ninety two team, right with Bird
and Magic, they were about done. You had a few
of those guys that were really coming into their prime.
Barkley was, I mean, he had a few more years
of prime Barkley, but then that kind of started going
(19:59):
off the cliff little bit.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
So because it feels like this team you have, like
the Olds and the and and the new and the
new hotness. You have the young I mean, you know
what I'm saying, Like, but like the Lebron's the steps
to Kevin Durantz, the I would put probably and be
closer to that section, even though he's not quite their age.
And then on the flip side you have the Anthony Edwards,
(20:21):
the Tyres Haliburtons.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I'd put Jason Tatum's on.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
The far edge of the young guys, but I still
put him in a young guy category, uh, even though
he's had so much success in his NBA.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Career up until this point. But that it is a
changing of the guard type of Olympics, Olympics, I should
say Olympics. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
That's interesting. If it doesn't exist, we should make it something.
See if you get registered the domain of all miss type.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Yeah, but I think when you're looking at like this
is gonna be a big tournament for guys like Anthony Edwards,
Tyre's Halliburton, and Jason Tatum, those guys who are gonna
be probably the faces of this Olympic team or just
USA team going forward. Because if Lebron is in the
(21:07):
next Olympics, I'll be shocked because I think Lebron will
be done playing basketball by then.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Steph might be done playing basketball.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
But then, kay, the all those guys that are in
the you know, me and Kevin Durant at the same age,
I couldn't imagine playing basketball at a high level right
now at all.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Well, he says they're gonna have to tear the shoes
and uniform off him, is what he's saying today. That
was one of his quotes, like, I'm I'm nowhere near
and done so, and I hope that's case. I hope
you can stay healthy enough to where you're giving us
big moments where we can get to April, May and June.
And I guess that's the larger question when we talk about,
you know, transitioning, right. Kevin Garnett had had a great
(21:43):
tweet going, well, this version of Lebron if he goes
full towards what Draymond Green is at this point, which
I would love if he's throwing some hysterics as well.
He kind of does, but he doesn't get the same derision,
and it's not the referee usually looks the other as
opposed to what Draymond gets. But guard that basically said,
(22:04):
if he can adopt to more of that role facilitator,
maybe pretend a little more on defense, all of those
kind of things. But he goes he could play in
this form for ten more years.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Well, the problem is, though.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
The brain trust that be the Genie Bus Rob Polinka
in the Rambi are not gonna be able to.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Build that's good.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I doubt that they will be able to build a roster.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
That will even compete with Like Canada might have beaten
the Lakers, like you know what I'm saying, Like Canada
may have beatn the Lakers as they offer Max Christy
four years to sit on the bench again with.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
The player option for why for why where's it going?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
But I think the roster construction around it will make
it so Lebron would be passing the ball to no
offense but to nobody's.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Well, but you got no choice because of where his
salary is, like unless he takes a full on dump.
And this is where people get all upset. He's like,
well the union would never go for It's like he's
an outlier. Yeah, right, It's like the old Brady thing
in the NFL. People would always say, well, Brady takes
less you know, and that's wrong because it screwed quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Like, no, it didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Everybody else got paid. Sure, I'm sure plenty of ownership
groups and gms go, hey, look what it's done for
Brady in the Patriots. Will your guy take fourteen million
a year? Hell no, all right, asked it answered, Moving on,
same thing, if Lebron suddenly decided, you know what, I
want to build this squad, and again this goes into
win versus dollars and cents and everything else. And I
(23:38):
know he took a little shade under the Max Martin
so they wouldn't hit that dreaded second Apron forty five
grand I think was the report. That's like literally a
rack of basketballs. But the that that he sticks around
at fifty million dollars a year, well, you're not gonna
be able to do anything.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well you said that, But then also you look at
the NBA champions defending right now. They got well they
didn't have it at the time, but Jayson Tatum was not.
It wasn't like he was, you know, on the street
corner with a cup, begging for change, trying to get
through things. And Jalen Brown had the richest contract with
the NBA history, and they somehow found a way to
improve along the margins.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
But that's just it. Your organization has to figure out
the margins, and it's a larger indictment on current brass
versus the system, and the second apron is a mess.
Like that's stupid. We talked about it earlier in the show. Folks.
You can find that full rant from both of us
in the podcast, because I mean, a hard salary cap
(24:39):
comes in all of these punitive things related to draft
picks and actually improving your roster. Part of the Paul
George discussion of the past week as well, right when
we're talking about you know what a re signing and
him sticking in Los Angeles would have actually meant for
the Clippers. So you've got all of that flowing out.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
One of the things that I think that people are
miss in the whole Lakers struggle right now to be
a team that is not just averaging the Western Conference
and it's going to take the next step. This front
office continues to offer player options, which generally it's like
(25:22):
in a vacuum, it's okay, but when you have four
different players opt into their player options, it means the
rest of the NBA did not want them at that number,
right at the numbers. So that's why you end up
opting in, because everybody else would opt out to get
the free agency right, even if you're gonna stay with
(25:42):
your own team, like matter of fact, Lebron run.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So you got a few dollars more, a few more,
however you want it front end or back end, depending
on what you're working with the team.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yet, But do you offer these player options years ago
to D'Angelo Russell, Christian Wood, Jackson Hayes, and Cam Reddish,
and all four of them were like, I'll sign up
for another year at the same number. Why because nobody
else was gonna do it like that if they just
didn't offer those options, they have so much more capsumate.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
It's just it's just I don't understand why.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
If I was a GM, I would be like, I'm sorry,
you average less than ten points a game.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I am not offering you a player option in year
three of this deal.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, think about I go back to my hometown of Chicago.
Lonzo Ball opted in for this year two years, twenty
one point five million dollars. Mark Weise, Yeah, I bet
he did opt in. I did think as soon as
the calendar. All right, it's midnight and two seconds, get
that docu sign going.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Right exactly, schedule send on the email.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And again good for the players, bad for the game.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
It's just I don't know why, like they've done well
with the no trade closes because on two players in
no trade, right, Paul George would have stayed and apparently
accorded to Podcast B, would have stayed and uh and
Los Angeles had he been offered three year, one hundred
and fifty million with no trade.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, he really should have had a bulge and board
in front of him with his speaking points so he
didn't come out sounding as bad as he did the
way he walked through.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Well, I did the thing I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It felt like he didn't understand something that seemed to
be very obvious to me as he was running through
all of this.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
They didn't want you anymore, right, well.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Kawhi, more important than you won, right, the no trade clause.
As you point out, it ain't out there like nobody
getting there, nobody getting this. Look, you got your bag,
you got an extra what sixty plus million dollars from Philadelphia?
Remember when sources my favorite sources were saying that the
Sixers had soured on him and that they were no
(27:46):
longer in the Paul George business. Right, Why so you
put your name on it? Great saying of j Moore,
you know Genie Bus's husband when he was here at
Fox Sports Radio. Put your name on it.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Love it?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So of Misssources really got a butchered that one in
the end. But you know, he gets his bag and
he can tell the tale of how the Clippers didn't
love him.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
But it's like, you know, it's you know, it hasn't
happened to me because I'm a I'm a man of
self respect. But I've heard this from some of you know,
other friends and so as they're trying to move through
the dating world. So well, I called her on Monday,
now text her on tuesdays. She answered me back. Now,
I text her again later on the day. She answered
me back, and then you know, I waited a week
(28:29):
later and then I called her against she answered back.
I was like, you know, there's a trend here. That's
a final there's a trend here. You know, how are
you gonna make her say stop calling me? Are you
gonna actually make her do it? Because that's where you're
because the.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Police may get involved at some point. This man's harassing me.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Tell leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Insane? All right, Men's national team final takeaway. Edwards said
he wanted to be the guy, gave up a pretty
good effort along the way, and the defense over as
the game wore on, sure, and they started to really
kind of get to except for Joel Embiid, who kind
of looked a little bit lost out there, lost in
the international rules.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, I think he's gonna Joel Embiid is going to
have to either figure this out quickly or they're gonna
have to play.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Anthony Davis at that starting lineup.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's my take. Joeling beat to the bench.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, especially if he's no longer seven feet as Kevin Durant.
You know, let the cat out of the bag. Six
He I got nothing for you here. He's Martin Weison
for Jason Smith. I'm by Carbon. Coming up next, we've
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in football history. And we've got some numbers related to
(29:41):
a video game payment. You thought it was just six
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Everybody's the same, but first we go over to Steve Desager.
We get one final update of what's going on and
what is transpired in our sporting universe. High state. Hello again.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
As far as US men's Olympic basketball, the next tune
up game are Monday and Wednesday from Abu Dhabi on
FS one. It'll be the US against Australia and then
against Serbia noon Eastern time. Last night, the comeback win
in Vegas against Canada eighty six seventy two. The Americans
had trailed eleven to one early, had seven turnovers in
the first nine minutes. You mentioned Anthony Davis off the bench.
(30:20):
In nineteen minutes he had ten points, eleven rebounds, and
four blocks, while Joel Embiid had five points, four turnovers
and five pouls. Remember it's a shorter game in international
play that five fouls you are disqualified. Anthony Edwards thirteen
points off the bench. Steph Curry started had twelve again
Monday Wednesday for the next tune up games, and then
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after that a couple exhibitions in London and the Olympic
Tournament for hoops starts July twenty eighth, US against Serbia.
The NBA Summer League in Las Vegas starts tomorrow and
goes through the twenty second All thirty NBA teams involved.
Each club will play at least five games there. One
WNBA game tonight, New York Now nineteen and four beat
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Chicago ninety one seventy six twenty one points for Sabrina
Yenescu Angel Reese of Chicago ten points, ten rebounds, five
of seventeen shooting in the loss. Fifteenth straight double double
for her. Three WNBA games tomorrow, including Indiana hosting Phoenix.
Longtime defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin died at the age of
eighty four. The Tennessee Titans signed safety Jamal Adams. The
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Chargers open their new team facility today near the LA
Airport near the stadium in Englewood. It's called the Bolt.
Fan reservations in fact to tour the new team headquarters
have maxed out in just thirty minutes. The Colts say
they are where they're all blue alternate uniforms with the
black helmet for a game in November, and NFL rookies
report to training camp for Baltimore this Saturday. Row report
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dates for some other teams are the next week Justin
Thomas leads the Scottish Open by one stroke after a
first round sixty two. A reminder of the Euros Soccer
Final is on Fox TV Sunday three pm Eastern Times
Spain against England and Sunday nights on Fox. COPA America
Final number one ranked Argentina against a Columbia team that
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is unbeaten in its last twenty eight games. In Major
League Baseball action, we had one shutout after another today.
The Mets posted their first team shut out of the year,
seven nothing against Washington Nationals have lost five.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
In a row.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
They left thirteen men on base today for the Mets.
Brandon Nimmo a three run double. He has sixty two RBIs.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Paul Sken's got the win for Pittsburgh. He six to
oh one nothing was the final at Milwaukee, seven no
hit innings for the rookie All Star, eleven strikeouts, one walk,
ninety nine pitches thrown. The Cubs won tonight eight nothing
at Baltimore. Justin Steele the winning pitcher with seven innings
on the hill say a Suzuki, three hits, three RBIs.
Cubs outfielder Cody Bellinger goes on the injured list with
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a broken finger. Boston shutout Oakland seven to nothing. The
A's offense had only four hits. Red Sox hit three homers,
Masatake Yoshida three hits, four RBIs. Winning pitcher ten Or
Hauke went six innings Seattle and eleven nothing winner at
the Angels. Mariners led seven ZIP in the fourth, Cal
Rowley with two homers four RBIs the win to Luis Castillo,
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pitched six innings and Arizona took the late game one
nothing over Arizona. The hard luck loss for Max Freed,
who had seven strikeouts in six innings. Victory tonight for
Tampa Bay and Houston, and for Philadelphia, which hit three
solo homers to beat the Dodgers again five to one.
Pitcher Aaron Nolan now eleven and four.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
After the win.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
He struck out nine in six innings. Philadelphia pitcher Zach
Wheeler will take this week off due to lower back tightness.
The All Star gameer reminder is Tuesday on Fox TV
from Texas.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Back to you, Steve, before you go, you mentioned the
Diamondbacks Braves game right. The hard luck for Max Freed,
the only mistake of home run to Eugenio Suarez his
ninth home run of the year. There's a picture going
around the interwebs of the guy who caught the baseball,
who also had a fifty dollars bet On Sworez did
(34:10):
a home run tonight and he cashed out for four
hundred and fifty dollars. He caught the home run that
he bet would happen.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
What are the odds of that?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
How about that? I thought you'd enjoy that one. He's
Steve Desagre. Thanks Steve.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
That's got to go into the man cave.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
That's the man cave. But that's also I mean, that's
all the fame stuff right.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
There, absolutely sortified.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
See there you go. Put him up on your bulletin board.
We'll start building one. Every time you come in here.
We'll pull out the sheet of paper and figure out
how many former Tigers that we can promote. That screw
have now screwed you over by greatness in other uniforms.
All right, two more before we get out of here.
We've got a payoff in college football. Wait, that sounded bad.
(34:55):
And then we've got the greatest of all time has
himself a new job. He's Martin. I'll Mike and this
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Welcome back in Fox Sports a Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me, Mike Harmon, Martin wise In for Jason Smith tonight.
I did promise it, though, because we got your CV
and everything you got popping and people can find out
through your portal at Martin Weiss. I did promise that
we'd get a little bit of tight shirt what he's
got going on. So I mean, you gotta do yourself
(35:34):
shameless self promotion of all of your ventures.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
I do too much to like take up airtime. But
just know, if you ever want to find my adventures,
just look up Shallow Oceans. It's do a lot of
good stuff for me.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
There you go, Shallow Oceans.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Yes, you want to catch raise hit it in a
world that seems so vast, It's really not as deep
as you thinks.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Fire.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
That's much better than don't sweat the small stuff. Yeah
I did that. There you go, And there's DJ Alex Tyscher.
Our guy Shay is in the produce your chair for us.
What you want to promote yourself? I'm not as shamelessly
I got nothing. Okay, wow, but you know Fox.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Sports ready FSR shay there you go, call me FSR
shack way to shine under pressure?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well, you know, I think he was going to say
something as a smart ass, and then he realized he
still has to work for a couple of weeks, so
he didn't want to go down a deep dark path
just yet. All right, So two stories that I teased
arch Manning. Remember when he wasn't going to be in
the EA Sports video game? Oh yeah, Now there's a
report that he ended up getting himself a cool fifty
(36:34):
to sixty grand in addition to his six hundred dollars
plus the copy of the game that was the standard contract.
In other words, use your leverage people in your jobs,
in your lives, wherever you have a little bit of
that dreaded clout word, use it.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
I mean the Mannings are just to have the Midas touch.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, it really doesn't work that way, don't it. I mean, yeah,
because it looks like that receiver show is I mean
I might actually watch it now.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Look, I wasn't looking forward to it. I mean, I
like the cast of guys that they got yeah right
when they announced that, but in general, like a lot
of those like and even hard knocks. I might have
to go watch the Giants because they got Dunster's burning
all over the damn place off season hard knocks for
people that will do what we do. Oh it's electric,
but generally like we only get like little snippets or whatever,
(37:23):
Like the Giants are giving us gold at every turn,
like we did the whole Saquon Barkley call, which might
have been the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
I I texted a couple of the you know, the
scouts that text me back in the NFL they have
have you watched it?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Have you thought about it?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
They're like, Yo, my job was on the floor when
I saw that sequon conversation.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Damn final cut?
Speaker 6 (37:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Who the hell?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
When the organization thought that was a good idea? Hey, hey,
you're gonna like you're gonna give us a chance, like
right right.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Yeah, just just call us back. You could hear it
through the phone. He's like, sure, pal, sure.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Like it was like you were saying before, like your
friends in the dating pool text you're gonna text me back, right,
He's got a call, so you gotta call. Or Billy
Crystal dancing around and when Harry met Sally pick up
the phone and just call Me's like, no, ain't picking
up the phone. They're done with you. Not happening all right.
So there's arch Manning. He got his bag. I can't
(38:21):
wait to see how many guys of you know, higher
status in future video game iterations. Don't settle for six
hundred bucks a copy of the game and saying it's cool,
so we got that.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
I think it helps name.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
No, that certainly does not help. And then Bill Belichick
has himself a new job here Martin. One of my
favorite things to watch when during his time with the
Patriots was even do like the little little whiteboard chalk
talk in a half hour. I get paid a lot
of money to come and go through some of the
key plays of the game. But he always dumbed it
down enough to where an idiot like me can understand
(38:56):
what he was trying to do in terms of route
concepts or defensive coverages and stuff. And he'd take out
the pen and he'd give you three minutes look like
he was talking about punters, which is what he's always
been really good at. You want to ask him about
specifics off a quarterback or whatever, now I'm going to
give you like two lines and a grunt. You want
to talk special teamers, let's go. That's the way he
operated on that TV show. So now he's going to
(39:17):
be part of Inside the NFL. Pretty exciting there. It's him,
Ryan Clark, Chad Johnson, and Chris Long.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
When I tell you, I will be locked in in
a way that I've never been locked in the inside
the NFL before.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Do you remember that HBO documentary The Art of Coaching
was they've been in Belichick.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
I would watch that thing three hours in a row.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
A master class, absolutely, And when he did all the
stuff for the anniversary teams and whatever else you want
to talk about this curator historian that holds it face
full of knowledge.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
I mean, And there's been a discourse today online. I
don't know if you saw it, but it was people
kind of pushing back on the film Twitter community, and
they used jargon that they don't have any about and
all of that. I've never I never played football. I
didn't play football at a high level, not a low level,
not a bid level. I didn't play football at all.
With the one eighth grade football practice, I gotta be
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minus on a geography quiz. After that, mom said, you're out.
That's true story. But I have always been I've always
wanted to understand more. Why why is this happening in
the way that it is? And that's why one of
the things I really lean on color commentators for. But
then Tony Romo came out sorry saying they're gonna run
the ball to the right. Was like, I could see
(40:32):
they're gonna run the ball to the right. The tight
ends over there, you know enough to find out you're
not you're not breaking you know, I see the I
see the grass too.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
But why why is it there? You know what I'm saying.
That's always what I wanted to know.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
And so these guys who have the ability to take
these high level football concepts and distill them down to
where the layman can understand it.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Oh, sign me up, sign me up seven days a
week or twice on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Huge Yet for the CW network, Chris Long's entertaining and
you know Ocho Cinco and coach because I remember the
famous video of him walking up to uh, Chad Ocho Cinco,
Chad Johnson and going, you know you're not catching a ball.
It's like, why you gotta do me like that? Troach
And then eventually he would become a Patriot for a
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short spell. But that'll be fun and Ryan Clark knows
how to stir it up. We've certainly seen that the
last couple of years. So for Bill Belichick might be
done coaching. I know a lot of folks have taken
their one lines one liners to him. He was at
the Taylor Swift concert overseas.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
Oh was he?
Speaker 7 (41:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
He and his new girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I missed that. I missed that. I didn't miss the
new girl. I saw the girl.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Folks with so much derisiveness and hatred towards him for
the young girlfriend. Yeah, jealousy. Gotta gotta live. Man's gotta live.
I can't blame him. He's mart Wise. Hopefully this was
not a too painful four hour experience.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
It's a little bit longer than three hours, by about
an hour.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
All right, We'll make sure to load jump out of
caffeine next time at Martin Wise find me over ads
swollen up. That was really well put. That showed the
four hours acting in I think it's Bernie frett I
went for Ben Maller next here on Fox
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