July 20, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith thinks the Chargers will trade Justin Herbert next season. The guys throw out more of their wild MLB 2nd half predictions. Plus, Jason explains why he'd be surprised if Tiger Woods is playing competitive golf after 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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we were talking a few minutes ago. Look, we we've
talked about the two wide receivers a lot this week
that both potentially we could see get traded. Brandon Ayukho
(01:10):
has demanded a trade from the forty nine ers, and
Davante Adams, who everybody else is saying he's gonna get traded.
He says no, but it's gonna happen. Just gonna be
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
He did an awful lot of yapping.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Just because he didn't say it directly doesn't mean it
wasn't there in between the lines. Hell, he's begging Brady
to come out of the broadcast booth from playing out loud.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I mean, it's look, it's weird that you had Boomer's
size in dan Orlowski saying, oh, yeah, I expect him
to get traded, and Boomer's size and dani Orlovski aren't
saying anything unless they've heard stuff, right, So it's okay
they said it. Oh they're trying to make it happen.
Davante adams agent says no way, and then Adams has
an interview, Hey, what about Well, if I could be
reunited with anybody, it would be with Aaron whoa not
(01:52):
not really tamping down the story now, you know, Oh,
but I want to be here. I'm about saying I
want to be here, but if I would reunite with anybody,
it would be with Aaron Rodgers of course.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Like well, and then Rogers getting accosted by that uh
excited hyped individual at the golf course last week. Oh
yeah yeah, oh do it again soon play with him again?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah? Look, as Ivanta Adams like, this is this is
not the Hey, I was asked a question and just
answering it. Honestly, this is you know, how to answer
a question if you want to, if you want to
tamp down any trade requests or any kind of story.
It's hey, no, no, no. Aaron's great. I'm a Raider.
I want to make it work. But he's talked about
wanting out in the past. They've talked about making the
quarterback changes they've had. He says, what what what what
(02:35):
did he? What did he say last year? Hey, I
only have so much time, man, I can't just be
sitting here, you know, going through rebuild after rebuild. Look,
he will be a jet. He will get traded. It's
where it's gonna go. It's just gonna be closer to
the deadline.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I would trade him somewhere. He didn't want to go
out of Spike the Raider.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, well, but you want to trade him to a
team that's going to give you the most for him.
Who's going to give you more than the Jets? Right,
They're they're they're gonna wind up giving you the most
they need.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
We know what that means.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Mike Williams. We already found out today he's starting the
season on the pup list.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
That's the big shock and nobody right, Like if that's
something I could have put a prop bet. Yeah, yeah,
I mean that would be you know, like unlike people
that are burning their money with the James for Rookie
of the Year garbage, this one I thought was, uh,
you know, I would have had to really lay heavy
odds on.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah. I mean, look, look, I was excited when they
got Mike Williams. And what did I say? I remember
the night we got him. I just hope that when
he's out of the lineup, is gonna be times we
don't need him as badly, Like is he gonna if
he misses early and he plays the last ten games? Great? Right,
But if he plays the first three or four games,
then misses two and a half months and then comes
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back for the last, like they don't need that. Like
I'm hoping he misses time strategically. This is which is
the big thing in sports now for guys like Zion
or Lebron. Hey, if you're gonna or poor zingis if
you're gonna miss time, miss it strategically. Where hey, this
is not killing us, Like, don't miss I'm at the
end of the season going into the playoffs. Miss it
at the beginning of the season, and you come back
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in the middle. And that way, Hey, don't have to
worry about the wear and tear on you over the
course of a whole year, and you could play all
the way through like miss time strategically. So that's not
But Mike Williams already he's gonna start in the pup list.
If things get difficult, the Jets will be desperate because
it's still gonna be Garrett Wilson and nobody else to
really throw the football to. So what are you gonna do? Hey,
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gotta go make the move for Devonte Adams. And it
makes sense because the Raiders are starting over, right, They're
going into this year kind of tanking. It's Aidan O'Connell,
it's Gardner Minshew, it's Ken Stabler. You know, yeah, you're
kind of tanking, So you're gonna start over after this year.
DeVonta Adams is gonna be thirty two going on thirty three. Yeah,
you're gonna move on from him. You just can't do
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it right now because that sends a message of we're
sending up the white flag before the season starts. It's
really difficult to tell your team and your fan base that, hey,
we're gonna make a move right now because you know
we're not going to resign and we're getting draft picks.
These are moves you make around the draft when you
get somebody coming in. You're starting over again. But you
send a horrible mess. Even the Raiders wouldn't do that,
(05:10):
Like that's a horrible message to start out the Antonio
Pierce era as being their full time coach. Yeah, oh yeah,
by the way, right for the season, we don't think
we're going to win because you know, the quarterback stink,
So we're going to trade away our best player. So
it's they're going to have to wait a little bit longer,
but it's going to happen, and Adams is going to
be I'm excited. I mean, I watch him now and
I read about all kinds of stuff going on with
(05:30):
the Raiders because I know it's like I'm gonna get them.
You know, it's like reading about the Mets minor leaguers
and I know we're gonna come up one day. Get
excited when Louis Angelicune goes two for four with two
doubles and a stolen base, you know at double A. Hey,
I know we're going to see him at some point soon. Hey,
I'm excited. DeVonta Adams looks good in practice so far,
and he looks really healthy because we're going to have
him before the middle of November comes. I'm feeling good
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about that.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I like that, you know that optimism. All my thirty
five plus linemen are upright and ready to go and
everything else. So yeah, so you know this is as
good as it gets. Get excited about it. But the
curiosity with the Raiders, and obviously we look in division.
We talked about the Chargers briefly. Put a pin on it.
(06:13):
We'll get back to that in a minute. But you're
talking about Denver in a rebuild mode, Sean Payton trying
to prove he's still a super genius. I say, unless
he's got Drew Brees. They're waving at you, maybe the
genius becomes a small g or it gets dropped all together.
But the division runs through Kansas City, as we know,
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and we look at how deep the AFC is as
a whole. So even though you've gotten Zamir White, we'll
quit it himself nicely. You bring in Alexander Madison run
the lines as you will, and Jacoby Myers, DeVante Adams
and the best, as some would say, the best tight
end duo we've seen since Gronkowski and that other guy,
Brock Bauers and Michael Mayer get well, what.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Else can you say, wybio? Welse can you say without
sounding like you're a negative nelly boy. I don't know
why they drafted another tight end right after they trafted
one in the first round, but hey, what a great
tight end they have.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Let's spin it the other way because we know he's
gonna have to get the ball out quickly. And the
tight end and the running back are the best friends
of a young, inexperienced, struggling quarterback. And that's really what
you're looking at. Here is the opportunity, perhaps to see
what you have and Aidan O'Connell. You get rid of
Devonte Adams too soon. Are you really gonna make a
(07:27):
true assessment of what he is? I mean no, and can.
Gardner Minshew is everybody's favorite backup because he looks the part.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh yeah, look, there's no backup quarterback anybody would rather
have than Gardner Minshew. He's a ver. What do you want?
I want someone who's quirky, who's fun, who's not going
to really be a threat to the number one quarterback,
but can come in with a number one quarterback type
swagger and really loosen up the team when things seem
(07:56):
really bad because we just lost our number one quarterback
and how are we going to do? And here comes
a guy who's a breadth of fresh air that's gonna,
you know, inject some energy into the team. Gardner Minshew
is the perfect backup quarterback. Perfect Like you couldn't draw
him up in a lab any better than that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No, I gotta dig that.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I like the way you're you're you're thinking there he
basically clipboard Jesus uh amplified.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But let me give you this now, you mentioned the charger.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I did talk.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
We talked about Brandon Ayukin and.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Street lights over spotlights.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Let's go uh Steelers too much smoke for them not
to trade for him. If not dark Horse team is Buffalo.
Now you mentioned the Chargers, and I got a great
hot take for you on the Chargers in Jim Harbaugh
in theory. You know, I'm gona I'm gonna give you
a Mike car.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You're starting like I would probably give.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I like your I like your idea in theory. I
like your Chargers idea in theory because clearly they need
help it wide receive.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I mean they did bring in Dje you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Want to you know, you have a franchise quarterback in
Justin Herbert, and this is what you decide to do
a wide receiver. We're gonna go with, in no particular order,
Quentin Johnston, Lad McConkie, and Charlie Joyner. So, I mean
this is gonna be rare.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Charlie Joyner can still give me a few couple of routes.
Let's go. John Jefferson's still out there.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I don't know, Let's go one of the greatest stratomatic
teams ever to run around and just keep throwing the
deep ball.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, John Jefferson, but look at what the Chargers are
trying to do. It I'll tell you why they're not
gonna make a move for a wide receiver. Jim Harbaugh
wants to run his offense. What kind of offense is that.
We just saw it the last few years at Michigan.
We saw an offense that is a couple of running
backs sledge hammering the ball and the quarterback making plays
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when he has to. We have not seen an offense where, hey,
we have a superstar quarterback and he's gonna throw the
football forty times if we have to. That is not
what I want. He has inherited Justin Herbert, and the
entire time it feels like he has kept Herbert at
arm's length. There's been no gushing, overwhelming. Hey, this guy
(10:06):
is unbelievable. He's our guy for the rest of my life.
He's unreal. No, he's a guy that Jim Harbaugh inherited.
And the one thing, you know, this is Jim Harbaugh's team.
They're a room for other personalities, but this is Jim
Harbaugh's team. If he really believed in Justin Herbert, he
would have done more to get him help. But instead
(10:27):
he's brought in a running game, brought in two running
backs that couldn't stay healthy in Baltimore, so good luck.
But you could see how he's trying to build this
team with running backs that we're going to run the
football and kind of sledgehammer it down the field, almost
like we watched the forty nine Ers nearly winning a
Super Bowl that way a couple of years ago with
Jimmy Garoppolo. That's the Harball way. That's what's done it.
(10:50):
He inherited Justin Herbert. There's nothing he can do about
it this year. But I'll give you this big bull prediction.
You see the way he's building this team. Next off season,
the Chargers trade Justin Herbert. Herbert will be dealt in
the off season because Harball's gonna want his quarterback, and
you know he's gonna try to say, hey, Minisona, how
(11:10):
about you gonna be jj McCarthy for Desert. You know,
he wants his guy in there. And it's just been
a little too quiet, a little too much wondering of boy,
how are things really going? And because Harball's always effusive
about his players, players, he loves. What is there not
to say about Justin Herbert? But the Chargers have tried
(11:32):
to win it on Herbert's arm. For a little bit.
They haven't done it. Okay, some of that's on Herbert,
but you could see the talent the guy has. I mean,
the guy is incredibly talented, but they're gonna move him
in the offseason. He can't do it now because if
Harball came in now and traded justin Herbert, he'd be
starting with one hand tied behind his back. Like you
want to come in and have a bit of a
(11:54):
honeymoon period where things can be great and we're gonna
move and look to do things, but all coaches want
to exit and the time they have want to give
themselves the best chance to succeed. If you come in
right away and trade the franchise quarterback, what's gonna happen.
It's gonna the fans are gonna revolt, the team is
gonna revolt, And you've just taken the time you have
to succeed and you've cut it in half. Like, if
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you're not competitive your first year, you're coaching for your
job your second year. That's what you do if you
trade a franchise quarterback, but year one, coming in, if
things don't work or if things are close and they're
able to win by minimizing what Justin Herbert's done. Guess what, man,
he is out there for anybody to come get next
year and they'll draft their new quarterback or go get
(12:38):
somebody in free agency that hardball things can execute my offense.
This is the guy. This is how we're gonna go win.
This is how I'm gonna build my team. And he'll
get the cachet because not only do we see him
build a national championship team in college football, we saw
him build a team pretty quickly that went to the
Super Bowl and three NFC title games with the forty
nine ers. So he's gonna get that chance. He knows
(12:59):
to do it. The first year would have been too much.
But watch after this year, Herbert's going on the block.
They will trade him. He'll be at quarterback for a
different team a year from now, and the charges are
gonna have somebody else playing quarterback for that boy.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's the next level of flavor. Did you feel any
sharp pains in the last ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, I didn't, although I'm sure Justin Frostburg is now
in his car on his way to my house so
we can confront me about this. He'll put the big
boombox up outside. Hey, look, it's Lloyd from saying anything. No,
Frostburg wants to fight. Come down, come down, We're gonna
fight over this.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Well it's not Saturday night and being all right for fighting,
but we can get there easily enough.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, that's uh. I like that.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's a spicy take. Here's what I think is actually
gonna happen. Here's the reality. I like your I like
the cut of your gym Andy. This is great, spicy,
and yes, I am afraid a bit of you know,
bringing in those Baltimore running backs. We talk Greg Rumman,
we talk all these kind of things. The big Herbert
(14:00):
is primed, and I think they still need to find
a receiver like that that I do that to bolster
the room. But you give me a run game, smash
mouth right, you draft another lineman and bring an Alton alongside,
you know, Slater in company. I think you get the
power run game going, and justin Herbert is able to
(14:22):
take his shots downfield. I think the operational efficiency of
this squad goes through the roof and that you get
bolstered by that defense and away you go to where
he puts up some ridiculous numbers. In efficiency. Doesn't have
to throw the ball forty times a game, but that
you get some of the best out of Herbert. The
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only chirps chirping you've heard coming out of the bolt
right their new training facility is the line to going.
You know what he talks. He just doesn't talk a lot, right,
that he's a guy that's a man. A few words
go and just get to work. It's so I thought
that was curious that you saw multiple guys step forward
to make that pronouncement and just be like, no, no, no, no, no,
(15:07):
it's not that he's he's this quiet guy just so
he says what he needs to efficiently. And I think
that's what he's gonna do on the field, is play efficiently.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, you know here, But here's the thing is, we've
watched him play pretty well right so far, and what
has he had. He's had really good receivers. He's had
really good guys to throw to.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
When Mike Williams was available. Who who does Keenan Allen
stats for days?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Right?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Who does he have to throw to now he's got
Ladd McConkie. I mean, come on, man, come on, Josh
former and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Don't give me Diane Ladd mcconkiy, come on, dude, w Lad,
you're bringing it. I was trying to think of I
was I could have said Cheryl Lad, I should have Cheryl.
Oh my god, I love Cheryl Lad. But but I mean,
look at it. You are talking about a wide receiver
corp writs. Are they any good? I don't know. Are
they as good as the guys you had? No, not
at all? So like like this is a we are
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accenuating other parts of the offense and de emphasizing these parts,
Like how do you say, yeah, okay, we gotta go.
We'll go get a receiver early in the second round.
Lad McCaughey, great, you just let all these other guys going.
The guy you had last year was supposed to be
great stinks. Quentin Johnston was awful. Couldn't hold onto the ball,
couldn't get targets, couldn't get anything when he was basically
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given the number two job after Mike Williams got hurt.
I mean, yeah, you're really gonna make it work. All
of a sudden, the passing game is gonna be better
if Herbert makes it work like this. It's oh man,
this guy's even better than we thought, But I've seen
him play for a few years and he's had really
good targets and he's played well. Is he really in
a position to succeed this year? With what the Charger
are doing on offense, it's gonna make it easier to
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trade him. Well, he had a bad year this year, Well,
you didn't really give him anybody to throw the football to.
Doesn't matter. If he's a next level quarterback, he should
be able to complete passes. Now we're moving on. Makes
it easier to move on from Justin Herbert telling you
I'm seeing this coming up next offseason.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You get ready if that comes to fruition, I don't
even know what to tell you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, Frostburg will hate you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
U oh yeah yeah sure if he does it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Already, I mean, like jury's out, we'll.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Be in small claims court against each other if that happens.
You're honor Jason Smith made Justin Herbert get traded? What?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, no, he's new existence.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Exhibit A. Is that a tape recorder? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
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Baseball Red Sox and the Dodgers still a one nothing,
Red Sox lead. Dodgers bat in the bottom of the
eighth inning, leadoff batter is on with nobody out. We'll
have more on both of these teams coming up later
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on as we continue. You are MLB back second half
of the year. Bold Predictions night tonight here on the show,
and before you go any further. Yes, congratulations, as it
is Carlton Fisk Night. It is for the Chicago White
Socks as they are now twenty seven and seventy two.
Tell the team he has warned. Congratulations.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, there you go from his Boston days and heroics
leaping with his home run, jumping up and down, waving
at the foul pole, to all of these stories coming
out of the personal appearance contract that he had with
the White Sox. It's ladies day at the ballpark. Hey, ladies,
you know what it's like to catch here. Let me
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show you this bruise I got and things of that nature.
So yeah, it's it's now just a question of how
many guys will be dealt at the deadline and what's
the greatest package that they could get for Crochet. That's
really that's really what the rest of the season becomes
for me. All Right, what do we got? Is lewis
Robert going to be a Dodger? And where's Crochet going?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Let's go?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So, so what would this would this be unofficial Carlton
Fisk Night, I mean unofficial Carlton Fisk record night.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Well, I feel like by the power vested in me
by me we'll make it official twenty all right, there
it goes.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's a final, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They congratulations at twenty seven Red Sox seventy two with
the Whites. Ah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is that a numerical palindrome? Is that? Is that what
we're got going on there?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Twenty seven seventy two? Well, usually seventy two to twenty
seven sounds like halftime of a Pistons game.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That's nicely done.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Your Pistons, Remember they were on the come, you were ready.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Hey, Kate Cunningham is still getting them?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How great is he? How about that? From the from
the finals of We Gotta Pay somebody.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Someone's got it even though we just.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Gave a giant game show, Like, I mean, that's a
lottery winning check to Monty Williams as he went out
to Kate Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean, look, it's not like Kate Cunningham's not been
good the laxst couple of years. I mean, this is
this is someone who's gotten better every year. Everything is
going up. Is his points per game, his assist a
going up. Look, he's a he's a good player. But wow,
it's like, wow, Kay, Cunningham's getting the max.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's not good for all right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
But speaking of basketball, here we are w NBA at
the halfway point, and oh, by the way, just how
cool is it that we can do the WNBA at
the halfway point? I mean that that's just really cool
that you can become a huge thing, right because they're
breaking for a month now, like there, they got the
All Star Game, then the Olympic team leaves for Paris,
so you know, they have a break now for a month.
(22:29):
But before we you know, as we get into lots
of big stuff, that had the big three point shootout tonight,
all the big skill Hey, she wins two skills competitions tonight,
and they said what does it mean? And Alisa Gray says,
it means I got fifty five thousand more dollars in
my part?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Did you did you notice that? Right?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So, I think total she gets fifty five for each
so or thereabouts, and her salary for the year was
one eight five. So you want to talk about a
nice night bonus right there?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I think they tell her, oh, hey, sorry, but if
you win both, you still only get paid for one.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bogo. It's ago. I came
in here and dominated the skills competition.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's great that you want them both. But here's a thing,
and we talked about were you at the meeting on Wednesday?
We talked about the at the meeting. Okay, so we
had a meeting and we talked about it that if
the same person won, it would just be the fifty
five grand. So you know, hey, congratulate, I got to
check for you right here, but yeah, it's not going
to be the one ten. It's good.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, I mean that you'll get about the fifty five
after taxes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But how much egg is on the faces of the
WNBA because now the the Olympic team has come front
and center. Caitlin Clark gets snubbed for the Olympic team
and we talked about the dust settling and that the
the criticism of Caitlin Clark was going to sort of
of of calm down a bit, and it did and
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we found out, right, it's not about Ray, it's not
about sexual orientation, whatever it is. This is clearly about
the coaches and the players who have been in the
league for a while and they're very upset that here's
a twenty two year old kid out of Iowa who
was getting all kinds of attention and getting all kinds
of money and getting shoe deals when we've been here
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for twenty years, you know, looking and hoping that we're
going to get other things, and we didn't get it,
and they're mad, right, So you could tell they were
mad the beginning of the year, even though one piece
of video of Caitlin Clark walking through an airport meant
that everybody was getting was going from commercial flights to
charter flights, right because of Caitlin Clark. Now there's been
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a two hundred and fifty percent increase in the yearly
television rights from sixty million dollars a year to well
over two hundred million dollars a year, all because of her, Right,
I mean, just understand that this is where it's at.
But there's that jealousy factor. This is what it is,
and in no place is it more apparent than the
Olympic team because she doesn't get picked for the the
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Olympic team, which at the time was okay, well, she
hasn't really done anything because she's new to the league. However,
the last five Olympics, five I got my hands up
five to five. Count like King Kong, buddy, the last
five Olympics, the US Olympic team has taken the number
one overall pick in the draft or the biggest star
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in the draft that year, just to give them exposure
to the international game. You're going to be a player
that carries the torch over the next years of the league.
We're gonna give you a little bit of a taste
of what Olympic basketball is like. Because we like gold medals,
we like winning. They took Diana Tarassi, they took a
bunch of players. Right, Wait, this year they don't take
Caitlin Clark. But doesn't make any sense. How do you
(25:40):
not take Caitlin Clark? How do you not want to
grow the game and not take Caitlin Clark? Right? She
doesn't need to play. Don't give me some stupid ass
answer like, well, well, worried what her fans would say
if she doesn't If she gets there and doesn't play
a lot, No one cares how much that player don't play.
That was because they were looking for an looking for
a way to say, no, how do we not take her? Why?
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Because you know the coach doesn't want her. Cheryl Reeve,
opening night of the season, had anti Caitlin Clark comments
on social media. Didn't want to talk about Caitlin Clark
following game. When Caitland Clark worked her team worked the
Links last week in a win. So you know she
doesn't want to pick her, and you know the players
didn't want her. You know, hey, we have our girls,
we have our team, we have our women, we have
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everybody know we don't need no you do you need
the biggest superstar in the game. So you know there
is a push to keep her off the team. And
now it looks even more ridiculous and they have complete
egg on their faces because in the last two months
she has turned into the best guard in the WNBA.
She leads the league in assists. She set the record
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the other night for most assists in the game. Doesn't
matter about turnovers. She's still scoring over twenty points a game.
She's got more twenty point games than every other rookie
combined in the WNBA this year. Now they just look
awful and petty and jealous not taking her. And all
they had to do was say, yeah, he's gonna yeah,
we're gonna bring her. She's not gonna start, she's not
gonna see a lot of minutes, but we're gonna bring her.
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And now it looks even worse because, oh, we were
worried that if we take Caitlin, she starts taking all
these heat check threes. It's gonna look awful for us,
and and and and and we can't have that offense.
Go Meanwhile, what has she done. She's turned into a
really good pass first point guard. She can shoot even more.
I mean she needs to be even even more uh
selfish because she's got to take more shots. But she's
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turned into a point guard that sees the floor and
gets the ball to her teammates. And and and it's
a big blank you. Oh, you didn't think I was
this kind of player. You thought I was selfish, You
thought I couldn't do X, Y and Z. Look at
the player I show you I am because you look
at her numbers, and you look at the scene she's
having compared to all the other point guards. She's got
better numbers than anybody except for points per game against
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one one other player. So now they just look awful.
They look even worse, and with so much egg on
their face. They didn't pick her for the Olympic team.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, I'd love to get you know, the candid responses
from players. I caught a bit of the the New
iHeart podcast. It showed up in my timeline Sarah Spain
talking to Sue Byrd on her new new deal and
Sue Bird saying, well, you know, the players, you know, welcome,
et cetera, you know, leaving some of it, and then
she kind of backed a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
If you go through her words to.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Where it's like the majority of players like, okay, now, now,
now let's keep parsing that down. Let's keep filtering that
down of who has the power, who has control and
clearly reeve you know has even when she was asked
about and the other day when you know, the fever
and links met, you know, got salty. I could give
two blanks and whatever else, Like now you look like
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you really cared in those final seconds when she was
dribbling the ball where she was trying to create holes
in the floor, she was dribbling it so hard while
staring you down as those final seconds stakes, I.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Mean, who and what coach says that about another player?
What coaches is full of so much disdain about another
player who has never said a word about her. It's
not like Kate Clark is in the is talking to
everybody saying, oh, maybe Cheryl Reeves saw me play last night.
Maybe maybe I mean, I mean, she said nothing. But
yet Cheryl Reeve clearly has an anti Caitlyn clarkness about
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her that she is not hiding. And that's what surprised
me the most about this is that, Wow, it's really
just out there and and no one's calling it out
when she clearly is the one keeping her off the
team her and because you know, if the players wandered,
they would have taken her, right, it would have happened,
but they all found a way to say no. And
it just looks so the league just looks so petty,
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and the coaches and the players, they just look so
petty about this.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Well, but that, but that's not the larger thing. Right
when you talk about Reeve, you talk about the selection,
and in a room full of you know, the smartest
people we have working on this project, you came back with,
we're afraid of the backlash of what would happen if
Caitlyn didn't get big minutes, Like you couldn't spitball something
better on the wall, on the grease board, someone couldn't
(29:58):
come up with a better line, Hey, she did work
out with us whatever. And I know there's precedent because
you have to respond to that, because we've certainly been
all over that on the show here for a very
long time in terms of precedence being set with first
year players coming in and new stars emerging. But yeah,
it's it's an uncomfortable, odd, silly, and at times pathetic
(30:20):
back and forth. You know, the gatekeeping also of hey,
you're new to the party, so you can't comment, no, no, no,
welcome us in. You can try to correct us if
we say something incorrectly, but you know we're always going
to try to cast a discerning eye and talk through it.
And here for Caitlin Clark, yes, you'll get the month
off and now maybe there's an opportunity for the Fever
(30:44):
to make a little run on the back end here
they still got a couple more games against the Links,
hi coach reeve when you get back from it, right,
because they only played them once in the first half,
only played them once. They get to see him a
few more times. And Aliah Boston has been fantastic all
right for those that haven't really watched, but for some
highlight clips, she's been an absolute menace down low and
(31:09):
the connection and timing with Clark getting that much better.
So down the stretch, it's gonna be fun to watch.
And you know it's the USA's loss. I mean, they
had a chance to really make some noise here. Yes,
she would have been fighting with Biles and Ladecki and
what's going on with the men's team. But you want eyeballs,
you want to continue that growth, You want to make
(31:30):
good on all of those sponsors. You had an opportunity and.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You blew it. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen
down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Just clean that egg up all off your face for
being ridiculously jealous. It was just five minutes ago that
I said, boy, Boston has some kind of game going
tonight against the Dodgers. One nothing in the eighth inning.
(31:53):
They have frustrated the Dodgers all night. Well, sometimes, just
like the weather in Florida, in five minutes, things can
change pretty big. Steve de Seger has the details with
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Later that same night, the Dodgers have taken.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
End of eight in LA.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It's the Dodgers four to one over the Red Sox.
They intentionally they I mean the Boston Red Sox intentionally
walked to hit her to load the basis for Freddy Freeman.
Freeman hits a grand slam bottom of the eighth for
the advantage. Going to the ninth with the LA lead. Now,
the only run for Boston so far was from a
Southern California native, the All Star Game MVP this week,
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Jared Durant. It did a solo shot in the fifth.
The Dodgers have had a record since May twenty first,
a losing record of twenty three and twenty four, but
they are winning. Going to the ninth tonight, the Dodgers,
first in the NLS, could stay seven games up on Arizona,
which won the day game at the Cubs today five
to the loss to Justin Steele. He trailed five nothing
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in the fifth. Everything else is final. This is the
Dodger game as the late game. In fact, wins for
Houston and Oakland now in the last half hour. In fact,
Houston trailed the first place Mariners in the standings a
month ago by ten games. They have just tied them
for first in the Al West. Because Houston one at
Seattle three to nothing. Luis Castillo takes the loss. He's
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eight and ten despite in the ra of three and
a half, Mariners offense went four for thirty. Houston gets
the win over Houston against the Seattle team that's lost
four to row. Oakland beat the Angels thirteen to three.
Attendants eleven thousand in Oakland. The A's in their last
two games of it eleven home runs. The Oakland A's,
in fact, are, according to the Elias Sports Folks, the
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first team in the history of the Majors to score
at least thirteen runs in their last game before the
All Star Break and then at least thirteen runs in
their first game after the All Star Break.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
They doubled their run total on the year.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
There's your Oakland A's up to thirty eight wins, thirty
eight and sixty one. Colorado with four runs bottom of
the eighth on two homers, beat San Francisco seven to three.
Kansas City sent the White Sox to a fifth straight
loss seven to one. Winning pitcher for the Royals, Michael Walka,
was seven scoreless innings seven strikeouts the loss to Chris Flexen,
who's two and nine. Saint Louis at Atlanta reigned out.
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They'll try to play a doubleheader tomorrow. Long rain delay
at the start tonight over two hours. Game never started,
they called it, and there's a chance of reign for
the next week or so in Atlanta, including tomorrow. So
we'll see Baltimore a nine to one winner at Texas.
Corbyn Burns over Nathan Avaldi Burns ten and four after
his six innings of work on the hill tonight. Ifaldi
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takes the l he allowed three homers in five innings.
It was Miami over the Mets six to four despite
two long balls from the Mets. Jeff McNeil, Cleveland seven
nothing winners against San Diego the Yankees and Garrett colebat
Tampa Bay six to one, and Pittsburgh won its fifth
straight game with two in the ninth beating Philadelphia eight seven.
And you guys mentioned the WNBA the Caitlin Clark game
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on cable when Day averaged one point seven million viewers.
That's now sixteen different games this summer with at least
one million viewers for WNBA. Fourteen of the sixteen have
been Indiana Fever games.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Back to you, really, that's surprising, shock It off. Really,
I cannot believe that. Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live the Tirack dot Com Studio.
Speaking of superstars, how much longer are we going to
see Tiger Woods actually tee it up? The answer might
surprise you. It's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox.
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Tiger Woods missed the cut at the Open Champion today.
It was thirteen over par, and after his round, you know,
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he always says the same thing, which he's always been
very matter of fact. There's never blaming the golf course
or blaming his equipment. Was it Bryson d Chambau to
you know, the the the loft on my h He
always says, I didn't hit the ball very well. I
hit my irons well, I didn't putt well, I didn't
do this well. Get ready for the end of Tiger Woods,
(36:30):
because it's coming all right, this is another this is
another year where he doesn't make the cut. You know,
you're talking about three majors now in a row. He's
not going to simply keep going out there and playing forever.
You know, he likes to say, I Hey, as long
as I think I can win, I'm gonna play. Does
he really think that? I mean, at this point, do
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you really think you're going out there to win? He
said after this event, he's not going to tee it
up again until December. He's got two events in December,
so he's not gonna play for the next four or
five months. There's no sport where you get better and
can win championships. The less you play doesn't happen. And
we've seen tigers game deteriorate physically. He's not going to
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win a major. I don't even know that he can
make it through four days play his stamina. If you
asked me how much longer is Tiger Wood's gonna play,
I'd say he's gonna do it in twenty twenty five,
and that's gonna be it, and he will quote retire
from golf. Guys don't really retire. It's not like the
(37:37):
NFL or the NBA where guys retire and they say
I'm hanging. But he's gonna stop playing competitively. It's not
that you're never gonna see him around the course anymore.
Because will he do programs with Charlie? Will he do
crazy events now and again? Here, We're gonna pay you
eight million dollars to show up here. Yeah, fine, he'll
do that. But his days of competing are gonna be over.
He's not gonna play the majors anymore. He's not gonna
(37:59):
play Genesis, He's not gonna play his own tournaments. He's
gonna be done one more year of it, and that's
gonna be it. He's gonna understand all I'm doing is
showing up and missing the cut, and I'm not going
to continue to damage my memory. He wants to. He
wants to exhaust every avenue. He doesn't want to walk
away too early by Sam. So I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna exhaust when I know when I'm done, when
(38:20):
I'm walking away, that I am absolutely done, that I
cannot win at all. So this is kind of what
he's doing, and we know physically it's it's a difficulty
for him. So I would say next year would be
his last year. Maybe he has some kind of you know,
farewell tour when he shows up, But I Am'm gonna
try to win and people get to say goodbye to him.
(38:41):
But he's forty eight, forty nine years old. He's not
gonna keep doing this when he can't win. He's not
gonna ruin the memory. He's not gonna be a guy
that continues to miss cuts like this one more year
and then I think that's gonna be it for him.
And if he's playing competitive golf after twenty twenty five,
I'd be the most surprised guy in the world.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Well, I want to see it until you know he
has to just lay down the club and walk off
for the final time. Just keep swinging, show up. It's
good for everybody's purses. It's good for the game. Even
if it becomes more and more retrospectives and nostalgia tours,
his presence still dwarfs everything else going on, no matter
(39:21):
how well anybody else is swinging it. I don't know
if that's good or bad, but it is reality where
we sit right now here.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Jason Smith.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I quote one of the great philosophers, Marcellus Wallace, Now
the night of the fight, you might feel a slight sting.
That's pride blanging with you, blank pride. It only hurts,
it never helps, So you gotta That's the thing he's
got to work through, is you know, if he's feeling
whether he can win or not, but physically mentally, is
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that where you still want to be right and in
so long as you can still lace up the shoes
and get out there, even if it's ceremonially and knowing
that you're not making a cut, I think we all
still celebrate it because there's still that little glimmer of hope,
and it's fading, There's no question about it. It might
(40:12):
have always been extinguished, but when he's out there, there's
still the memories of what was, even if that big
win is now several.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Years in the rear view mirror. So I hope he
keeps going forever.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I hope he does too. But eventually, you know that
stuff fades. Hey, the excitement of being in a tournament,
people feel great about it, and then you tee off
and the good times are over right, the good times
up until you tee off and then everything ends. He's
just not gonna go through that as much. He just
he can't and that's why one more year. Okay, let's
give it one more year, and let's see where he's at.
Because he sees the way his game is now and
(40:46):
continuing to miscuts like this, this is I mean, it's
embarrassing to watch him. If this is what it's gonna be,
where he's seven over on the first day and eight
over on the next day and continue to play with exemptions,
this is gonna be really, really difficul cult to see
and I can't see him doing it.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Oh No, it's tough watch, tis credit. At least on
day one some of the biggest heavy hitters were struggling
as well.
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we were talking a few minutes ago. Look, we we've
talked about the two wide receivers a lot this week
that both potentially we could see get traded. Brandon Ayukho
(01:10):
has demanded a trade from the forty nine ers, and
Davante Adams, who everybody else is saying he's gonna get traded.
He says no, but it's gonna happen. Just gonna be
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
He did an awful lot of yapping.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Just because he didn't say it directly doesn't mean it
wasn't there in between the lines. Hell, he's begging Brady
to come out of the broadcast booth from playing out loud.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I mean, it's look, it's weird that you had Boomer's
size in dan Orlowski saying, oh, yeah, I expect him
to get traded, and Boomer's size and dani Orlovski aren't
saying anything unless they've heard stuff, right, So it's okay
they said it. Oh they're trying to make it happen.
Davante adams agent says no way, and then Adams has
an interview, Hey, what about Well, if I could be
reunited with anybody, it would be with Aaron whoa not
(01:52):
not really tamping down the story now, you know, Oh,
but I want to be here. I'm about saying I
want to be here, but if I would reunite with anybody,
it would be with Aaron Rodgers of course.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Like well, and then Rogers getting accosted by that uh
excited hyped individual at the golf course last week. Oh
yeah yeah, oh do it again soon play with him again?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah? Look, as Ivanta Adams like, this is this is
not the Hey, I was asked a question and just
answering it. Honestly, this is you know, how to answer
a question if you want to, if you want to
tamp down any trade requests or any kind of story.
It's hey, no, no, no. Aaron's great. I'm a Raider.
I want to make it work. But he's talked about
wanting out in the past. They've talked about making the
quarterback changes they've had. He says, what what what what
(02:35):
did he? What did he say last year? Hey, I
only have so much time, man, I can't just be
sitting here, you know, going through rebuild after rebuild. Look,
he will be a jet. He will get traded. It's
where it's gonna go. It's just gonna be closer to
the deadline.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I would trade him somewhere. He didn't want to go
out of Spike the Raider.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, well, but you want to trade him to a
team that's going to give you the most for him.
Who's going to give you more than the Jets? Right,
They're they're they're gonna wind up giving you the most
they need.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
We know what that means.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Mike Williams. We already found out today he's starting the
season on the pup list.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
That's the big shock and nobody right, Like if that's
something I could have put a prop bet. Yeah, yeah,
I mean that would be you know, like unlike people
that are burning their money with the James for Rookie
of the Year garbage, this one I thought was, uh,
you know, I would have had to really lay heavy
odds on.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah. I mean, look, look, I was excited when they
got Mike Williams. And what did I say? I remember
the night we got him. I just hope that when
he's out of the lineup, is gonna be times we
don't need him as badly, Like is he gonna if
he misses early and he plays the last ten games? Great? Right,
But if he plays the first three or four games,
then misses two and a half months and then comes
(03:43):
back for the last, like they don't need that. Like
I'm hoping he misses time strategically. This is which is
the big thing in sports now for guys like Zion
or Lebron. Hey, if you're gonna or poor zingis if
you're gonna miss time, miss it strategically. Where hey, this
is not killing us, Like, don't miss I'm at the
end of the season going into the playoffs. Miss it
at the beginning of the season, and you come back
(04:05):
in the middle. And that way, Hey, don't have to
worry about the wear and tear on you over the
course of a whole year, and you could play all
the way through like miss time strategically. So that's not
But Mike Williams already he's gonna start in the pup list.
If things get difficult, the Jets will be desperate because
it's still gonna be Garrett Wilson and nobody else to
really throw the football to. So what are you gonna do? Hey,
(04:27):
gotta go make the move for Devonte Adams. And it
makes sense because the Raiders are starting over, right, They're
going into this year kind of tanking. It's Aidan O'Connell,
it's Gardner Minshew, it's Ken Stabler. You know, yeah, you're
kind of tanking, So you're gonna start over after this year.
DeVonta Adams is gonna be thirty two going on thirty three. Yeah,
you're gonna move on from him. You just can't do
(04:48):
it right now because that sends a message of we're
sending up the white flag before the season starts. It's
really difficult to tell your team and your fan base that, hey,
we're gonna make a move right now because you know
we're not going to resign and we're getting draft picks.
These are moves you make around the draft when you
get somebody coming in. You're starting over again. But you
send a horrible mess. Even the Raiders wouldn't do that,
(05:10):
Like that's a horrible message to start out the Antonio
Pierce era as being their full time coach. Yeah, oh yeah,
by the way, right for the season, we don't think
we're going to win because you know, the quarterback stink,
So we're going to trade away our best player. So
it's they're going to have to wait a little bit longer,
but it's going to happen, and Adams is going to
be I'm excited. I mean, I watch him now and
I read about all kinds of stuff going on with
(05:30):
the Raiders because I know it's like I'm gonna get them.
You know, it's like reading about the Mets minor leaguers
and I know we're gonna come up one day. Get
excited when Louis Angelicune goes two for four with two
doubles and a stolen base, you know at double A. Hey,
I know we're going to see him at some point soon. Hey,
I'm excited. DeVonta Adams looks good in practice so far,
and he looks really healthy because we're going to have
him before the middle of November comes. I'm feeling good
(05:52):
about that.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I like that, you know that optimism. All my thirty
five plus linemen are upright and ready to go and
everything else. So yeah, so you know this is as
good as it gets. Get excited about it. But the
curiosity with the Raiders, and obviously we look in division.
We talked about the Chargers briefly. Put a pin on it.
(06:13):
We'll get back to that in a minute. But you're
talking about Denver in a rebuild mode, Sean Payton trying
to prove he's still a super genius. I say, unless
he's got Drew Brees. They're waving at you, maybe the
genius becomes a small g or it gets dropped all together.
But the division runs through Kansas City, as we know,
(06:35):
and we look at how deep the AFC is as
a whole. So even though you've gotten Zamir White, we'll
quit it himself nicely. You bring in Alexander Madison run
the lines as you will, and Jacoby Myers, DeVante Adams
and the best, as some would say, the best tight
end duo we've seen since Gronkowski and that other guy,
Brock Bauers and Michael Mayer get well, what.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Else can you say, wybio? Welse can you say without
sounding like you're a negative nelly boy. I don't know
why they drafted another tight end right after they trafted
one in the first round, but hey, what a great
tight end they have.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Let's spin it the other way because we know he's
gonna have to get the ball out quickly. And the
tight end and the running back are the best friends
of a young, inexperienced, struggling quarterback. And that's really what
you're looking at. Here is the opportunity, perhaps to see
what you have and Aidan O'Connell. You get rid of
Devonte Adams too soon. Are you really gonna make a
(07:27):
true assessment of what he is? I mean no, and can.
Gardner Minshew is everybody's favorite backup because he looks the part.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh yeah, look, there's no backup quarterback anybody would rather
have than Gardner Minshew. He's a ver. What do you want?
I want someone who's quirky, who's fun, who's not going
to really be a threat to the number one quarterback,
but can come in with a number one quarterback type
swagger and really loosen up the team when things seem
(07:56):
really bad because we just lost our number one quarterback
and how are we going to do? And here comes
a guy who's a breadth of fresh air that's gonna,
you know, inject some energy into the team. Gardner Minshew
is the perfect backup quarterback. Perfect Like you couldn't draw
him up in a lab any better than that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No, I gotta dig that.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I like the way you're you're you're thinking there he
basically clipboard Jesus uh amplified.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But let me give you this now, you mentioned the charger.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I did talk.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
We talked about Brandon Ayukin and.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Street lights over spotlights.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Let's go uh Steelers too much smoke for them not
to trade for him. If not dark Horse team is Buffalo.
Now you mentioned the Chargers, and I got a great
hot take for you on the Chargers in Jim Harbaugh
in theory. You know, I'm gona I'm gonna give you
a Mike car.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You're starting like I would probably give.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I like your I like your idea in theory. I
like your Chargers idea in theory because clearly they need
help it wide receive.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I mean they did bring in Dje you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Want to you know, you have a franchise quarterback in
Justin Herbert, and this is what you decide to do
a wide receiver. We're gonna go with, in no particular order,
Quentin Johnston, Lad McConkie, and Charlie Joyner. So, I mean
this is gonna be rare.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Charlie Joyner can still give me a few couple of routes.
Let's go. John Jefferson's still out there.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I don't know, Let's go one of the greatest stratomatic
teams ever to run around and just keep throwing the
deep ball.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, John Jefferson, but look at what the Chargers are
trying to do. It I'll tell you why they're not
gonna make a move for a wide receiver. Jim Harbaugh
wants to run his offense. What kind of offense is that.
We just saw it the last few years at Michigan.
We saw an offense that is a couple of running
backs sledge hammering the ball and the quarterback making plays
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when he has to. We have not seen an offense where, hey,
we have a superstar quarterback and he's gonna throw the
football forty times if we have to. That is not
what I want. He has inherited Justin Herbert, and the
entire time it feels like he has kept Herbert at
arm's length. There's been no gushing, overwhelming. Hey, this guy
(10:06):
is unbelievable. He's our guy for the rest of my life.
He's unreal. No, he's a guy that Jim Harbaugh inherited.
And the one thing, you know, this is Jim Harbaugh's team.
They're a room for other personalities, but this is Jim
Harbaugh's team. If he really believed in Justin Herbert, he
would have done more to get him help. But instead
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he's brought in a running game, brought in two running
backs that couldn't stay healthy in Baltimore, so good luck.
But you could see how he's trying to build this
team with running backs that we're going to run the
football and kind of sledgehammer it down the field, almost
like we watched the forty nine Ers nearly winning a
Super Bowl that way a couple of years ago with
Jimmy Garoppolo. That's the Harball way. That's what's done it.
(10:50):
He inherited Justin Herbert. There's nothing he can do about
it this year. But I'll give you this big bull prediction.
You see the way he's building this team. Next off season,
the Chargers trade Justin Herbert. Herbert will be dealt in
the off season because Harball's gonna want his quarterback, and
you know he's gonna try to say, hey, Minisona, how
(11:10):
about you gonna be jj McCarthy for Desert. You know,
he wants his guy in there. And it's just been
a little too quiet, a little too much wondering of boy,
how are things really going? And because Harball's always effusive
about his players, players, he loves. What is there not
to say about Justin Herbert? But the Chargers have tried
(11:32):
to win it on Herbert's arm. For a little bit.
They haven't done it. Okay, some of that's on Herbert,
but you could see the talent the guy has. I mean,
the guy is incredibly talented, but they're gonna move him
in the offseason. He can't do it now because if
Harball came in now and traded justin Herbert, he'd be
starting with one hand tied behind his back. Like you
want to come in and have a bit of a
(11:54):
honeymoon period where things can be great and we're gonna
move and look to do things, but all coaches want
to exit and the time they have want to give
themselves the best chance to succeed. If you come in
right away and trade the franchise quarterback, what's gonna happen.
It's gonna the fans are gonna revolt, the team is
gonna revolt, And you've just taken the time you have
to succeed and you've cut it in half. Like, if
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you're not competitive your first year, you're coaching for your
job your second year. That's what you do if you
trade a franchise quarterback, but year one, coming in, if
things don't work or if things are close and they're
able to win by minimizing what Justin Herbert's done. Guess what, man,
he is out there for anybody to come get next
year and they'll draft their new quarterback or go get
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somebody in free agency that hardball things can execute my offense.
This is the guy. This is how we're gonna go win.
This is how I'm gonna build my team. And he'll
get the cachet because not only do we see him
build a national championship team in college football, we saw
him build a team pretty quickly that went to the
Super Bowl and three NFC title games with the forty
nine ers. So he's gonna get that chance. He knows
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to do it. The first year would have been too much.
But watch after this year, Herbert's going on the block.
They will trade him. He'll be at quarterback for a
different team a year from now, and the charges are
gonna have somebody else playing quarterback for that boy.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
That's the next level of flavor. Did you feel any
sharp pains in the last ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, I didn't, although I'm sure Justin Frostburg is now
in his car on his way to my house so
we can confront me about this. He'll put the big
boombox up outside. Hey, look, it's Lloyd from saying anything. No,
Frostburg wants to fight. Come down, come down, We're gonna
fight over this.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Well it's not Saturday night and being all right for fighting,
but we can get there easily enough.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, that's uh. I like that.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's a spicy take. Here's what I think is actually
gonna happen. Here's the reality. I like your I like
the cut of your gym Andy. This is great, spicy,
and yes, I am afraid a bit of you know,
bringing in those Baltimore running backs. We talk Greg Rumman,
we talk all these kind of things. The big Herbert
(14:00):
is primed, and I think they still need to find
a receiver like that that I do that to bolster
the room. But you give me a run game, smash
mouth right, you draft another lineman and bring an Alton alongside,
you know, Slater in company. I think you get the
power run game going, and justin Herbert is able to
(14:22):
take his shots downfield. I think the operational efficiency of
this squad goes through the roof and that you get
bolstered by that defense and away you go to where
he puts up some ridiculous numbers. In efficiency. Doesn't have
to throw the ball forty times a game, but that
you get some of the best out of Herbert. The
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only chirps chirping you've heard coming out of the bolt
right their new training facility is the line to going.
You know what he talks. He just doesn't talk a lot, right,
that he's a guy that's a man. A few words
go and just get to work. It's so I thought
that was curious that you saw multiple guys step forward
to make that pronouncement and just be like, no, no, no, no, no,
(15:07):
it's not that he's he's this quiet guy just so
he says what he needs to efficiently. And I think
that's what he's gonna do on the field, is play efficiently.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, you know here, But here's the thing is, we've
watched him play pretty well right so far, and what
has he had. He's had really good receivers. He's had
really good guys to throw to.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
When Mike Williams was available. Who who does Keenan Allen
stats for days?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Right?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Who does he have to throw to now he's got
Ladd McConkie. I mean, come on, man, come on, Josh
former and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Don't give me Diane Ladd mcconkiy, come on, dude, w Lad,
you're bringing it. I was trying to think of I
was I could have said Cheryl Lad, I should have Cheryl.
Oh my god, I love Cheryl Lad. But but I mean,
look at it. You are talking about a wide receiver
corp writs. Are they any good? I don't know. Are
they as good as the guys you had? No, not
at all? So like like this is a we are
(16:03):
accenuating other parts of the offense and de emphasizing these parts,
Like how do you say, yeah, okay, we gotta go.
We'll go get a receiver early in the second round.
Lad McCaughey, great, you just let all these other guys going.
The guy you had last year was supposed to be
great stinks. Quentin Johnston was awful. Couldn't hold onto the ball,
couldn't get targets, couldn't get anything when he was basically
(16:23):
given the number two job after Mike Williams got hurt.
I mean, yeah, you're really gonna make it work. All
of a sudden, the passing game is gonna be better
if Herbert makes it work like this. It's oh man,
this guy's even better than we thought, But I've seen
him play for a few years and he's had really
good targets and he's played well. Is he really in
a position to succeed this year? With what the Charger
are doing on offense, it's gonna make it easier to
(16:45):
trade him. Well, he had a bad year this year, Well,
you didn't really give him anybody to throw the football to.
Doesn't matter. If he's a next level quarterback, he should
be able to complete passes. Now we're moving on. Makes
it easier to move on from Justin Herbert telling you
I'm seeing this coming up next offseason.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
You get ready if that comes to fruition, I don't
even know what to tell you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, Frostburg will hate you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
U oh yeah yeah sure if he does it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Already, I mean, like jury's out, we'll.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Be in small claims court against each other if that happens.
You're honor Jason Smith made Justin Herbert get traded? What?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, no, he's new existence.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Exhibit A. Is that a tape recorder? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
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on as we continue. You are MLB back second half
of the year. Bold Predictions night tonight here on the show,
and before you go any further. Yes, congratulations, as it
is Carlton Fisk Night. It is for the Chicago White
Socks as they are now twenty seven and seventy two.
Tell the team he has warned. Congratulations.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, there you go from his Boston days and heroics
leaping with his home run, jumping up and down, waving
at the foul pole, to all of these stories coming
out of the personal appearance contract that he had with
the White Sox. It's ladies day at the ballpark. Hey, ladies,
you know what it's like to catch here. Let me
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show you this bruise I got and things of that nature.
So yeah, it's it's now just a question of how
many guys will be dealt at the deadline and what's
the greatest package that they could get for Crochet. That's
really that's really what the rest of the season becomes
for me. All Right, what do we got? Is lewis
Robert going to be a Dodger? And where's Crochet going?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Let's go?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So, so what would this would this be unofficial Carlton
Fisk Night, I mean unofficial Carlton Fisk record night.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Well, I feel like by the power vested in me
by me we'll make it official twenty all right, there
it goes.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's a final, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They congratulations at twenty seven Red Sox seventy two with
the Whites. Ah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is that a numerical palindrome? Is that? Is that what
we're got going on there?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Twenty seven seventy two? Well, usually seventy two to twenty
seven sounds like halftime of a Pistons game.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That's nicely done.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Your Pistons, Remember they were on the come, you were ready.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Hey, Kate Cunningham is still getting them?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How great is he? How about that? From the from
the finals of We Gotta Pay somebody.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Someone's got it even though we just.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Gave a giant game show, Like, I mean, that's a
lottery winning check to Monty Williams as he went out
to Kate Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I mean, look, it's not like Kate Cunningham's not been
good the laxst couple of years. I mean, this is
this is someone who's gotten better every year. Everything is
going up. Is his points per game, his assist a
going up. Look, he's a he's a good player. But wow,
it's like, wow, Kay, Cunningham's getting the max.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's not good for all right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
But speaking of basketball, here we are w NBA at
the halfway point, and oh, by the way, just how
cool is it that we can do the WNBA at
the halfway point? I mean that that's just really cool
that you can become a huge thing, right because they're
breaking for a month now, like there, they got the
All Star Game, then the Olympic team leaves for Paris,
so you know, they have a break now for a month.
(22:29):
But before we you know, as we get into lots
of big stuff, that had the big three point shootout tonight,
all the big skill Hey, she wins two skills competitions tonight,
and they said what does it mean? And Alisa Gray says,
it means I got fifty five thousand more dollars in
my part?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Did you did you notice that? Right?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So, I think total she gets fifty five for each
so or thereabouts, and her salary for the year was
one eight five. So you want to talk about a
nice night bonus right there?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I think they tell her, oh, hey, sorry, but if
you win both, you still only get paid for one.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bogo. It's ago. I came
in here and dominated the skills competition.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's great that you want them both. But here's a thing,
and we talked about were you at the meeting on Wednesday?
We talked about the at the meeting. Okay, so we
had a meeting and we talked about it that if
the same person won, it would just be the fifty
five grand. So you know, hey, congratulate, I got to
check for you right here, but yeah, it's not going
to be the one ten. It's good.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well, I mean that you'll get about the fifty five
after taxes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But how much egg is on the faces of the
WNBA because now the the Olympic team has come front
and center. Caitlin Clark gets snubbed for the Olympic team
and we talked about the dust settling and that the
the criticism of Caitlin Clark was going to sort of
of of calm down a bit, and it did and
(23:57):
we found out, right, it's not about Ray, it's not
about sexual orientation, whatever it is. This is clearly about
the coaches and the players who have been in the
league for a while and they're very upset that here's
a twenty two year old kid out of Iowa who
was getting all kinds of attention and getting all kinds
of money and getting shoe deals when we've been here
(24:18):
for twenty years, you know, looking and hoping that we're
going to get other things, and we didn't get it,
and they're mad, right, So you could tell they were
mad the beginning of the year, even though one piece
of video of Caitlin Clark walking through an airport meant
that everybody was getting was going from commercial flights to
charter flights, right because of Caitlin Clark. Now there's been
(24:39):
a two hundred and fifty percent increase in the yearly
television rights from sixty million dollars a year to well
over two hundred million dollars a year, all because of her, Right,
I mean, just understand that this is where it's at.
But there's that jealousy factor. This is what it is,
and in no place is it more apparent than the
Olympic team because she doesn't get picked for the the
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Olympic team, which at the time was okay, well, she
hasn't really done anything because she's new to the league. However,
the last five Olympics, five I got my hands up
five to five. Count like King Kong, buddy, the last
five Olympics, the US Olympic team has taken the number
one overall pick in the draft or the biggest star
(25:20):
in the draft that year, just to give them exposure
to the international game. You're going to be a player
that carries the torch over the next years of the league.
We're gonna give you a little bit of a taste
of what Olympic basketball is like. Because we like gold medals,
we like winning. They took Diana Tarassi, they took a
bunch of players. Right, Wait, this year they don't take
Caitlin Clark. But doesn't make any sense. How do you
(25:40):
not take Caitlin Clark? How do you not want to
grow the game and not take Caitlin Clark? Right? She
doesn't need to play. Don't give me some stupid ass
answer like, well, well, worried what her fans would say
if she doesn't If she gets there and doesn't play
a lot, No one cares how much that player don't play.
That was because they were looking for an looking for
a way to say, no, how do we not take her? Why?
(26:00):
Because you know the coach doesn't want her. Cheryl Reeve,
opening night of the season, had anti Caitlin Clark comments
on social media. Didn't want to talk about Caitlin Clark
following game. When Caitland Clark worked her team worked the
Links last week in a win. So you know she
doesn't want to pick her, and you know the players
didn't want her. You know, hey, we have our girls,
we have our team, we have our women, we have
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everybody know we don't need no you do you need
the biggest superstar in the game. So you know there
is a push to keep her off the team. And
now it looks even more ridiculous and they have complete
egg on their faces because in the last two months
she has turned into the best guard in the WNBA.
She leads the league in assists. She set the record
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the other night for most assists in the game. Doesn't
matter about turnovers. She's still scoring over twenty points a game.
She's got more twenty point games than every other rookie
combined in the WNBA this year. Now they just look
awful and petty and jealous not taking her. And all
they had to do was say, yeah, he's gonna yeah,
we're gonna bring her. She's not gonna start, she's not
gonna see a lot of minutes, but we're gonna bring her.
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And now it looks even worse because, oh, we were
worried that if we take Caitlin, she starts taking all
these heat check threes. It's gonna look awful for us,
and and and and and we can't have that offense.
Go Meanwhile, what has she done. She's turned into a
really good pass first point guard. She can shoot even more.
I mean she needs to be even even more uh
selfish because she's got to take more shots. But she's
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turned into a point guard that sees the floor and
gets the ball to her teammates. And and and it's
a big blank you. Oh, you didn't think I was
this kind of player. You thought I was selfish, You
thought I couldn't do X, Y and Z. Look at
the player I show you I am because you look
at her numbers, and you look at the scene she's
having compared to all the other point guards. She's got
better numbers than anybody except for points per game against
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one one other player. So now they just look awful.
They look even worse, and with so much egg on
their face. They didn't pick her for the Olympic team.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, I'd love to get you know, the candid responses
from players. I caught a bit of the the New
iHeart podcast. It showed up in my timeline Sarah Spain
talking to Sue Byrd on her new new deal and
Sue Bird saying, well, you know, the players, you know, welcome,
et cetera, you know, leaving some of it, and then
she kind of backed a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
If you go through her words to.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Where it's like the majority of players like, okay, now, now,
now let's keep parsing that down. Let's keep filtering that
down of who has the power, who has control and
clearly reeve you know has even when she was asked
about and the other day when you know, the fever
and links met, you know, got salty. I could give
two blanks and whatever else, Like now you look like
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you really cared in those final seconds when she was
dribbling the ball where she was trying to create holes
in the floor, she was dribbling it so hard while
staring you down as those final seconds stakes, I.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Mean, who and what coach says that about another player?
What coaches is full of so much disdain about another
player who has never said a word about her. It's
not like Kate Clark is in the is talking to
everybody saying, oh, maybe Cheryl Reeves saw me play last night.
Maybe maybe I mean, I mean, she said nothing. But
yet Cheryl Reeve clearly has an anti Caitlyn clarkness about
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her that she is not hiding. And that's what surprised
me the most about this is that, Wow, it's really
just out there and and no one's calling it out
when she clearly is the one keeping her off the
team her and because you know, if the players wandered,
they would have taken her, right, it would have happened,
but they all found a way to say no. And
it just looks so the league just looks so petty,
(29:32):
and the coaches and the players, they just look so
petty about this.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Well, but that, but that's not the larger thing. Right
when you talk about Reeve, you talk about the selection,
and in a room full of you know, the smartest
people we have working on this project, you came back with,
we're afraid of the backlash of what would happen if
Caitlyn didn't get big minutes, Like you couldn't spitball something
better on the wall, on the grease board, someone couldn't
(29:58):
come up with a better line, Hey, she did work
out with us whatever. And I know there's precedent because
you have to respond to that, because we've certainly been
all over that on the show here for a very
long time in terms of precedence being set with first
year players coming in and new stars emerging. But yeah,
it's it's an uncomfortable, odd, silly, and at times pathetic
(30:20):
back and forth. You know, the gatekeeping also of hey,
you're new to the party, so you can't comment, no, no, no,
welcome us in. You can try to correct us if
we say something incorrectly, but you know we're always going
to try to cast a discerning eye and talk through it.
And here for Caitlin Clark, yes, you'll get the month
off and now maybe there's an opportunity for the Fever
(30:44):
to make a little run on the back end here
they still got a couple more games against the Links,
hi coach reeve when you get back from it, right,
because they only played them once in the first half,
only played them once. They get to see him a
few more times. And Aliah Boston has been fantastic all
right for those that haven't really watched, but for some
highlight clips, she's been an absolute menace down low and
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the connection and timing with Clark getting that much better.
So down the stretch, it's gonna be fun to watch.
And you know it's the USA's loss. I mean, they
had a chance to really make some noise here. Yes,
she would have been fighting with Biles and Ladecki and
what's going on with the men's team. But you want eyeballs,
you want to continue that growth, You want to make
(31:30):
good on all of those sponsors. You had an opportunity and.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You blew it. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen
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Just clean that egg up all off your face for
being ridiculously jealous. It was just five minutes ago that
I said, boy, Boston has some kind of game going
tonight against the Dodgers. One nothing in the eighth inning.
(31:53):
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Speaker 5 (32:05):
Later that same night, the Dodgers have taken.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
End of eight in LA.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It's the Dodgers four to one over the Red Sox.
They intentionally they I mean the Boston Red Sox intentionally
walked to hit her to load the basis for Freddy Freeman.
Freeman hits a grand slam bottom of the eighth for
the advantage. Going to the ninth with the LA lead. Now,
the only run for Boston so far was from a
Southern California native, the All Star Game MVP this week,
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Jared Durant. It did a solo shot in the fifth.
The Dodgers have had a record since May twenty first,
a losing record of twenty three and twenty four, but
they are winning. Going to the ninth tonight, the Dodgers,
first in the NLS, could stay seven games up on Arizona,
which won the day game at the Cubs today five
to the loss to Justin Steele. He trailed five nothing
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in the fifth. Everything else is final. This is the
Dodger game as the late game. In fact, wins for
Houston and Oakland now in the last half hour. In fact,
Houston trailed the first place Mariners in the standings a
month ago by ten games. They have just tied them
for first in the Al West. Because Houston one at
Seattle three to nothing. Luis Castillo takes the loss. He's
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eight and ten despite in the ra of three and
a half, Mariners offense went four for thirty. Houston gets
the win over Houston against the Seattle team that's lost
four to row. Oakland beat the Angels thirteen to three.
Attendants eleven thousand in Oakland. The A's in their last
two games of it eleven home runs. The Oakland A's,
in fact, are, according to the Elias Sports Folks, the
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first team in the history of the Majors to score
at least thirteen runs in their last game before the
All Star Break and then at least thirteen runs in
their first game after the All Star Break.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
They doubled their run total on the year.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
There's your Oakland A's up to thirty eight wins, thirty
eight and sixty one. Colorado with four runs bottom of
the eighth on two homers, beat San Francisco seven to three.
Kansas City sent the White Sox to a fifth straight
loss seven to one. Winning pitcher for the Royals, Michael Walka,
was seven scoreless innings seven strikeouts the loss to Chris Flexen,
who's two and nine. Saint Louis at Atlanta reigned out.
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They'll try to play a doubleheader tomorrow. Long rain delay
at the start tonight over two hours. Game never started,
they called it, and there's a chance of reign for
the next week or so in Atlanta, including tomorrow. So
we'll see Baltimore a nine to one winner at Texas.
Corbyn Burns over Nathan Avaldi Burns ten and four after
his six innings of work on the hill tonight. Ifaldi
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takes the l he allowed three homers in five innings.
It was Miami over the Mets six to four despite
two long balls from the Mets. Jeff McNeil, Cleveland seven
nothing winners against San Diego the Yankees and Garrett colebat
Tampa Bay six to one, and Pittsburgh won its fifth
straight game with two in the ninth beating Philadelphia eight seven.
And you guys mentioned the WNBA the Caitlin Clark game
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on cable when Day averaged one point seven million viewers.
That's now sixteen different games this summer with at least
one million viewers for WNBA. Fourteen of the sixteen have
been Indiana Fever games.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Back to you, really, that's surprising, shock It off. Really,
I cannot believe that. Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live the Tirack dot Com Studio.
Speaking of superstars, how much longer are we going to
see Tiger Woods actually tee it up? The answer might
surprise you. It's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:44):
App Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios.
Tiger Woods missed the cut at the Open Champion today.
It was thirteen over par, and after his round, you know,
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he always says the same thing, which he's always been
very matter of fact. There's never blaming the golf course
or blaming his equipment. Was it Bryson d Chambau to
you know, the the the loft on my h He
always says, I didn't hit the ball very well. I
hit my irons well, I didn't putt well, I didn't
do this well. Get ready for the end of Tiger Woods,
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because it's coming all right, this is another this is
another year where he doesn't make the cut. You know,
you're talking about three majors now in a row. He's
not going to simply keep going out there and playing forever.
You know, he likes to say, I Hey, as long
as I think I can win, I'm gonna play. Does
he really think that? I mean, at this point, do
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you really think you're going out there to win? He
said after this event, he's not going to tee it
up again until December. He's got two events in December,
so he's not gonna play for the next four or
five months. There's no sport where you get better and
can win championships. The less you play doesn't happen. And
we've seen tigers game deteriorate physically. He's not going to
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win a major. I don't even know that he can
make it through four days play his stamina. If you
asked me how much longer is Tiger Wood's gonna play,
I'd say he's gonna do it in twenty twenty five,
and that's gonna be it, and he will quote retire
from golf. Guys don't really retire. It's not like the
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NFL or the NBA where guys retire and they say
I'm hanging. But he's gonna stop playing competitively. It's not
that you're never gonna see him around the course anymore.
Because will he do programs with Charlie? Will he do
crazy events now and again? Here, We're gonna pay you
eight million dollars to show up here. Yeah, fine, he'll
do that. But his days of competing are gonna be over.
He's not gonna play the majors anymore. He's not gonna
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play Genesis, He's not gonna play his own tournaments. He's
gonna be done one more year of it, and that's
gonna be it. He's gonna understand all I'm doing is
showing up and missing the cut, and I'm not going
to continue to damage my memory. He wants to. He
wants to exhaust every avenue. He doesn't want to walk
away too early by Sam. So I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna exhaust when I know when I'm done, when
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I'm walking away, that I am absolutely done, that I
cannot win at all. So this is kind of what
he's doing, and we know physically it's it's a difficulty
for him. So I would say next year would be
his last year. Maybe he has some kind of you know,
farewell tour when he shows up, But I Am'm gonna
try to win and people get to say goodbye to him.
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But he's forty eight, forty nine years old. He's not
gonna keep doing this when he can't win. He's not
gonna ruin the memory. He's not gonna be a guy
that continues to miss cuts like this one more year
and then I think that's gonna be it for him.
And if he's playing competitive golf after twenty twenty five,
I'd be the most surprised guy in the world.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Well, I want to see it until you know he
has to just lay down the club and walk off
for the final time. Just keep swinging, show up. It's
good for everybody's purses. It's good for the game. Even
if it becomes more and more retrospectives and nostalgia tours,
his presence still dwarfs everything else going on, no matter
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how well anybody else is swinging it. I don't know
if that's good or bad, but it is reality where
we sit right now here.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Jason Smith.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I quote one of the great philosophers, Marcellus Wallace, Now
the night of the fight, you might feel a slight sting.
That's pride blanging with you, blank pride. It only hurts,
it never helps, So you gotta That's the thing he's
got to work through, is you know, if he's feeling
whether he can win or not, but physically mentally, is
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that where you still want to be right and in
so long as you can still lace up the shoes
and get out there, even if it's ceremonially and knowing
that you're not making a cut, I think we all
still celebrate it because there's still that little glimmer of hope,
and it's fading, There's no question about it. It might
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have always been extinguished, but when he's out there, there's
still the memories of what was, even if that big
win is now several.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Years in the rear view mirror. So I hope he
keeps going forever.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I hope he does too. But eventually, you know that
stuff fades. Hey, the excitement of being in a tournament,
people feel great about it, and then you tee off
and the good times are over right, the good times
up until you tee off and then everything ends. He's
just not gonna go through that as much. He just
he can't and that's why one more year. Okay, let's
give it one more year, and let's see where he's at.
Because he sees the way his game is now and
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continuing to miscuts like this, this is I mean, it's
embarrassing to watch him. If this is what it's gonna be,
where he's seven over on the first day and eight
over on the next day and continue to play with exemptions,
this is gonna be really, really difficul cult to see
and I can't see him doing it.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Oh No, it's tough watch, tis credit. At least on
day one some of the biggest heavy hitters were struggling
as well.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
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