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July 25, 2024 37 mins

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you why the Yankees need HUGE upgrades at the trade deadline. UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster’s first media day WAS A DISASTER! And we play "Did Jim Harbaugh Say This Today?" Game!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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unfortunate the show had to begin now because I was
just I was just about to close a deal. I
was buying a dozen brooms wholesale to send to all

(01:07):
of my Yankee friends. A dozen blue and orange brooms
to send all of my friends. Hey, let's commemorate yet
another Subway series season.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Sweet for the Mets it's not over.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
But the Mets lead the Yankees right now, twelve to
two in the eighth inning, and oh boy, maybe this
could wind up being the Subway Series where the Mets
get people fired, kind of like how Michigan retired Saban
transferred guys all kinds like this may be the series going, Okay,
we're gonna force guys to lose jobs. Aaron Boone's gonna

(01:40):
get fired, Brian Catherine's gonna get fired. This may be
it losing to the Mets like this, because hey, yes,
it's just a couple of games here in July. But
when it's against the Mets and it's cross town and
you get swept and your best pitcher in nine innings
against the Mets this year have given up seven home runs.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Is it really just a cup of games in July?
It is not, my friend, it is.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
We also had one of the the first time I
think I've ever seen an ESPN replay watching this game,
after Garrett Cole had been yanked, that they went and
they said, here was Garrett Cole after that inning and
he's punching, you know, the the top of the dugout
and it's just f bomb after f Bob. I'm like, really,

(02:24):
this is where we're at in the ESPN program.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
He's not there. He is dejected on the bench.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
There he is, you know, just kind of holding his
head in his hands, or he's taking his hat off,
like he's, you know, respectfully walking into a place of
worship or something. No, there he is F this, F that,
F the other. Like, all right, there's the programming for tonight.
But we also had the final forty pitches of Manaya's

(02:50):
outing that were counted down like it was the final
seconds before the kickoff of a soccer match. Oh sure,
how everybody does it? Ah thirty here we go say,
all right enough, yes he's laboring in the fifth inning here, just.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Let it go.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
But yeah, a veritable Congo line on the base path.
Home runs all over the place. And on Twitter, we
had the great line that came out, You're going to
be insufferable tonight, right, And.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
What did I quote tweet with the Carmelo Anthony nodding
his head, Jeff my favorite jiff of all time?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yes, yes, yes, I mean, look you.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Got a couple of homers from Lindor. He's up to
twenty one. Well, Alonzo, Now, all of a sudden four
games over five hundred.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Dude, you're legitimately in a all right.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
What are we buying to David starts being in the
you know, fetal position going please call it take by.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Players Executive of the Year, David executive.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'm not pushing too early. I mean, the Braves are
scuffling a little bit right now. Although you did kill
the the the Red Sox, they gave up to one,
I did to the Rockies. So as much as you
can celebrate what you did for your Mets, I tell
you right now, people in Boston hate you more than.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
They they do.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
But the Mets are beating the Yankees, so you can't
hit me that much. I mean, come on, look, there's
two big things coming off this game. There's one Mets
and there's one Yankees.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:18):
A lot of baseball, obviously, over the course of one
hundred and sixty two games, is catching teams at the
right time, catching teams at the wrong time. You catch
a team when they're scuffling, things start to mushroom. You
catch a team when they're hot. And that's another thing.
Like Lindor is on an unbelievable heater now right since
the middle of May, he's been one of the top
five players in baseball. But yet it's another year of

(04:39):
a really slow start for Francisco Lindor. So while the
status are just starting to look at like but for
the last two months, he's one of the top five
players in all of base I think he has the
third best war of anybody in baseball over the course
of the last two months. Like he is on an
unbelievable heater. So, yeah, you catch people, you catch teams
at the wrong time. The Mets are hot. But I
really thought, and this gets into the Yankees. The Mets

(05:00):
had just swept the Yankees in New York or at
City Field a couple of weeks ago, and you had
Louis Severino, former Yankee, say over the weekend, Hey, Yankees
only have a couple of good hitters.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
WHOA, what the hell are you doing?

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Man?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
You have the Subway Series coming up in a couple
of days, you're not pitching, and you've decided to start
a war with the Yankees. And I thought, well, we're
gonna lose both of these games. The Yankees are gonna
come out like fire. This is gonna be something that
ignites them because this is it. That's an igniting statement.
That's one of those Hey, thank you for that bulletin
board material, because we've been scuffling and now suddenly we'll

(05:36):
focus getting a better frame of mind. And I thought
this is just gonna be it right. And then you
talk about Monday, where the Yankees played a day game
and they had the night off game. The first game
with the Mets was Tuesday night. The Mets didn't get
in from off their plane until six o'clock in the
morning on Monday because they had they had trouble on
the plane getting so they need six o'clock Monday. And

(05:57):
the Mets are going in here and they're gonna sweep
the Yankees, and they're gonna knock the crap out of
Garrett Cole, and they're gonna win this and they're gonna
get people fired. And this is what it hits me
with the Yankees. I can't believe this team was the
best team in baseball for all. I can't believe there's
sixteen games over five hundred. This is a team that
even if they had their couple of healthy guys, like okay,
let's say Anthony Rizzo was healthy. Was Anthony Rizzo really

(06:18):
that big of a difference maker. Gen Carlos Stanton is
never healthy. Like I can't believe the team was actually
this good at one point, Like it stuns me.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I see them, I go, they really do.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Maybe Severarino was right and he turns out to be
a prophet because they only do have two good hitters
in Soto and Judge. And when you can walk Aaron
Judge every time, like the Meds have done the last
couple of nights, you're gonna wind up being okay. I
mean this is this is such a stunning fall for
the Yankees, and I mean it. They need big time
changes at the deadline, Like this is a team that
knows they're gonna be in the playoffs, right they're still

(06:50):
for all their faults, there's still sixteen games over five hundred,
so they're getting into the playoffs. But nobody needs to
make a move more than the Yankees. And it's several moves.
It's position players, it's they need to say, Okay, we're good,
but boy are we flawed. Let's go out and buy
be the Yankees of the past and go bye bye bye,
because right now this is a team that's dead from
the neck up Man you had everything going your way

(07:12):
coming into this series. You you came off an easy
game on Monday, the Mets get into six o'clock in
the morning, Severarino gives you bulletin board material and you
just get pasted two.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Games in a row.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
And I'm sending brooms out to my dad where I
can get his address in Syracuse where he's on vacation
right now.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Oh that's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Hey, you have a box down here at the front
desk and it's just a bunch of brooms, but you've
left instructions for the hotel to really set it up
very elaborate way.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh no, I.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Wouldn't want to do that. He's staying with a friend.
I would get it delivered like by parcel pos what.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
I mean though, But then you know, you give instructions
to the place, you know, to go do a setup outside,
you know, like that that extra stuff they you know,
you pay a little extra for the delivery, kind of
like when you send flowers and then you want someone
to sing a song or something, right, the singing singing
Telegram from when we were kids.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
But it's just amazing to watch.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
We talked about it a bit yesterday, as you were,
you know, jumping around the studio excited about that and
the Mets win last night. Is you look at that lineup,
le Mayhew forgot out of hit and it's really been
the Soto and Judge show. And you know, for the
last six to eight weeks, pitching wise, Rodin and Heel
have been fine, right, And you know you've got two

(08:26):
guys at ten wins, Garrett Cole. You're really hoping for
a big stopper kind of moment tonight, and it looked
like he was gonna be okay, and then it unraveled
pretty fast, right, and all of a sudden, you know,
you've got three people left in the crowd. Is this
thing's coming to you an end? Three Mets fans just
screaming at the top of their lungs. But it's it's

(08:47):
a flawed roster. You brought back Aaron Boone cash Man.
I you know, we don't do a lot of calling
for jobs, but it's been wondering a long time.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
It's like, what are your expectations? Right?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
You know for the Yankees it's different. It's not just
a hey, we can win ninety games and get to
the playoff. No, you gotta win a bleeping world series
every now and again. It's what we talk about with
the Dodgers a lot here in LA. Winning the division
is great and being there is great. I'd kill to
have ten years of success where I can say I'm
going to the playoffs unless something really bad happens.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
And for a while I was delusional.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
I was young, I was stupid, and I would say,
hope brings a turn.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
And then I realized, you know what, You're a moron.
Stop that. And now I'm a.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Realist, like, hey, if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly, you know,
look tonight this is you know.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's funny because this kind of I think about this,
that's been thinking about this the last couple of days,
and because this plays into believe me, how I'm gonna
get to the Yankees at the deadline?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Here is that obviously.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Look, the biggest story in the world has been President
Joe Biden announcing he's not going to a run for reelection.
He gave his big speech tonight why he's stepping down.
He was pushed out, likely by Democrats and wanted a
different Canada. Mala Harris is most likely going to be
the nominee and a lot of it is, well, why
make this change? Is she performing better against Trump? Is
this gonna be something that works? And I just keep

(10:09):
thinking about baseball and the trade deadline in managers is
that in a baseball season, if you're playing and you
think and you have a pretty good team, right, it's
the same philosophy. What happened in politics is what's going
on and right now is that you have a pretty
good team, right, but you're really underperforming. Okay, And after
a while of underperforming, what happens You got to make

(10:31):
a change.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
And what's the big change?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's always trading players to bring in a new type
of culture because you got to get people's attention. That
because if things aren't gonna get better, we're gonna make
changes or you fire the manager. Now, nobody knows if
these changes are gonna be better, just like they don't know. Hey,
is Kamala Harris gonna be someone that can be Trump?
Is Trump could still have the advantage? Nobody knows. But
I think everybody knew that, Okay, President Biden wasn't going

(10:56):
to win, so we had to make a change. I
don't know if the change is gonna work. You know,
Democrats saying I don't know, but I know that wasn't
gonna work, so we had to try something. And that's
the thing with the Yankees right now, is that I
know what's going on right now is not working, and
they are talented and they are underachieving and they need
major changes.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Is it gonna work? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Maybe they're still gonna wind up being as bad a team,
or they're gonna kind of fall off, but I know
what's going on right now doesn't work. And is it
gonna be something like Aaron Boone? Maybe, but more than
likely this should be the Yankee saying, you know what,
we need three or four new guys. We need a
new energy into this team, kind of like what the
Braves did at the deadline a few years ago, where

(11:36):
when they won the World Series, they won it without
Ronald Lacuna when he got hurt and the Braves were
kind of meandering around five hundred, the Mets were in
first place in the division, and the deadline, the Braves
went out and got four new players, right They got
Jock Peterson, they got a buy and all of a sudden,
oh you brought in for They changed the energy and
that sparked them on a big three month run and
they won the World Series. That's what the Yankees need.
The Yankees have talent, but for whatever reason, this is

(11:59):
just not working and certain losses are bigger than others.
And getting swept by the Mets in four games over
a two and a half week period, that's gonna do it.
Like the Yankees, go out and get three or four
new starters. You can't keep carrying DJ Lemayhew and a
bunch of other guys. We're waiting for guys to come back.
Go out, be bold, bring guys in because the team

(12:20):
is still talented. You had to have something going right
to be the best team in baseball the first month
and a half to still be sixteen games over five hundred.
It's huge changes that the Yankees need. It's not just
one guy to You need a culture change. You need
something else because outside of Soto and Judge and en Volpi,
who has come along, well, there's nobody else. You could say,
oh boy, I'm excited about these guys. This is the

(12:42):
New York beleeping Yankees.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
You go three a million dollar payroll and you can't
and these are the kind of efforts you get. I
mean you're you are when you are energy wise, when
you are dead from the neck up, like they've been
the last couple of nights after they should have been
freshly energized from the day game on Monday and and
pissed off after seven Rena says, they got two good hitters.
And he's been in that locker room for the last
few years. How is this the effort you get? It's

(13:05):
wholesale changes for the yikes coming up.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
What I cannot wait for. And I rarely will say
this is a post game regular season press conference after
the shellacking and ass kissing and kicking, because now you
really have to go and bag Juan Soto because it
becomes an ass kissing segment because Cohen's sitting there. How

(13:31):
much money do I have? Yeah, Hey, Soto look really good?

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Are Mets? Don't you want to come to Harry?

Speaker 2 (13:37):
We're the team that wins. Don't you want to come
with us?

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Just saying that that is spinning in the background of
all of the failures and problems they're having right now,
is that guy needs a contract?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Telling you, man, this is wholesale chang It's like when
when when.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
NHL teams, Hey, it teams a wholesale chang like the
all five players coming off the ice yanky. Five guys leave,
five guys.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
That's what the Yankees name and no team is more
desperate than the Yankees at the deadline. The Jason smithser
with Mike Carmen live from the Tirak dot Com studios,
going to the bottom of the ninth Metsley the Yankees
twelve to two. Coming up next, we have a football
story that is cringeworthy, hilarious and makes me think one
high profile team might not win a game this year.

(14:26):
That's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike.

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Speaker 6 (15:15):
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Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, this is gonna be a song. Everybody's singing back
on the seven line after this game.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh oh oh oh, we sweat the Yankees this year
and we're going to the World Series.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Not you, Well.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
There'll be more fights after the game, like those two
women getting after it earlier today.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Dude, No, I thought you were talking about the brawls
that happened at the stadium after the Mets Yankees game
last night. You'll wound up getting on social media today.
Every every Yankee guy fighting, it's wearing a Judge jersey.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
You know, everybody's wearing a Judge jersey.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
And I love that that people wear the jerseys with
Judges name on them, Like.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Why would you even get one of those? What'd you
get with it? It's not a real jersey, it's not
even official replicatory. Why why? Why that's not a Jersey?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Why? Why? Spot?

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Why the folks buying the when you buy a red Yankees.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Hat, does that make any sense?

Speaker 4 (17:15):
No?

Speaker 3 (17:16):
No, but you like the aesthetics, so you did.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
No.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
They don't put names on the back.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
That's why they have to worry about stuff like what's
going on with all the fanatics Jersey's and Nika.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
We don't put names on the back. You have to
worry about it. Look a bit.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
They got a lot of problems right now. He's trying
to sell a billion dollars of stock because some stagnant growth.
They got the big event coming up, like there's there's
a lot going on, baseball card, the National Trading Association,
the uh Sports Collectors Convention going on in Cleveland, and
ty Shirt's out here to celebrate Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
So that's okay.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
So we had that big football story coming your way
in a couple months, but just really quick. Tonight's the
MLS All Star Game right now. Obviously, today's been a
big day in soccer, mainly been following what's going on
in the Olympics, with games getting postponed, fans running on
the field, coaches getting sent home because drones were illegally
taping practices like it's jail.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Man, jail, it's did us things.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, well, look, France is probably gonna win the gold medal.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I mean it's I mean after today, after Archertina losing today,
France is probably gonna win the gold medal.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
That first half, buddy, that first half, come on, yeah
us us.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you're right. But tonight's MLS
All Star Game. And because we've had so much attention
on All Star games. Obviously look at the WNBA, we
told he's gonna be the best All Star game in
the last twenty years because of how competitive was going
to be, because both sides wanted to kill the other.
Right now, MLS, the MLS All Stars are losing to
La Liga. For one, this is the second time they've

(18:45):
played La Liga. They've played Arsenal and All Star games before.
And you know what, I'm at the point now, and
I think MLS is at the point where let's let's
let's grow the game here with us.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
We have enough star players to have East versus West.
We haven'tenough.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
We could do that now. When Ricky Pueig was one
of the best young cash tag quiag your friend. When
Ricky Puek, one of the best young players in MLS
is coming off the bench. Uh you know what, Yeah,
I think there's enough talent out there that we could
have our own All Star Game, but have the have
the Eastern Conference play the Western Conference.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
We can do that.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I mean, I get that. It's kind of fun in
the beginning. Hey, that we needed arsenal in LA League,
got to push. But MLS has become a really big deal.
It's become the fourth major sport in the country, and
we can we can get to something like that now,
or we can have any or at least some kind
of at least some kind of iteration where it's all
MLS players, Like I don't know that this is something

(19:39):
that really cuts through. I mean, look, LA lege is
you're you're talking about the you know, the Primeiro d vision,
you know, and and and and one of the best
UH teams you can put out there. But and that's great,
and I don't need to see us lose five or
six to one. But I think more than hey, we
we can kind of do our own thing here. Okay,
we needed you guys for a while, and that's great.
We'll still have games like this, We'll still play like that.

(20:00):
Look right now, Rexham is playing Chelsea in a friendly
right now, so you can see that the mixture of Hey,
here's teams from different divisions, different levels of soccer playing
against other teams, you know, from outside of their division,
from outside of their countries, whatever it's going to be.
We can do that now. So I think it's time
we can do that for the MLS All Star Game.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
We can. We can have our own All Star Game
and have it be East versus West. That can work.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
I just think in the end, you're trying to grow
your league, right and I get a lot of monies
get merged, and you're trying to figure out larger audience
and help whatever. But for the MLS, even if you
don't have that many guys to push, guess what, it's
a showcase game whereby you can showcase more guys and
make them those guys you know you Like we do

(20:45):
in all other sports, you create a couple of metrics
to make someone look better than they are according to
traditional stats.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Everything else.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
It's the And I love the friendlies and look, I've
become an obsessive watcher of all this stuff, watching all
the Olympics soccer earlier today you want to talk about
maddening situations and confusing situations and some of the quickest,
var confusing VR decisions you will ever see in your life.
You had them on Day one of the Olympics. But

(21:16):
for a situation like this, it's the all right, let's
showcase our sport and the players of our league. However,
we have to configure it, because we've seen all sorts
of Kakamami configurations through the years. Right, all right, these
guys against the world, these guys if you were born
south of the Mason Dixon.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Line, I mean, whatever the case may be, you just
go after it.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
And for the MLS, you know it's it's a bit
of a missed opportunity because you know you're you're playing
to losses with some frequency. It so as like our
all stars aren't as good as they're all stars. Isn't
the point to showcase your game and have someone walk
out a winner on top that look like the great

(22:00):
of your league.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
It just makes sense. I get that it maybe wasn't
time before. And honestly, do you really want the optic
out there? Of Hey, no matter what high level comes
in here, they're gonna beat us. Five, one, six, nine.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Oh, that's it.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Let us continue to grow the game. And now you
can do it. There's enough players that people want to see.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Everybody is.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Attendance is great, Television ratings are great for the m
We could do that. Now, we could have our own
All Star game. I think the time has come.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
There. You go start championing.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's me. That's me.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Figure out if you can get it, get a bigger
television deal though, that's your job.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Wait, let me tell you what happened today at Big
ten Media Day in college football. The Jason Smith Jow
with Mike Carmen live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
Today was Big ten Media Days, beginning of Big ten
Media Days.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Let's go Cats. Come on.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, unfortunately your Cats don't make this story, or fortunately
your Cats don't.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Make this very very very good preseason.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
The head coaches had their news conferences today at big
empty Stadium. All kinds of fun stuff and Deshaun Foster,
who is the head coach of UCLA, Yes, that same
Deshaun Foster. I know, you know to borrow from Deshaun
Foster today, I maybe you don't know. Deshaun Foster is
the head coach of the UCLA Bruins, and well, now

(23:23):
everybody knows after what happened today, So he goes to
the podium to begin his press conference. He's gonna make
an opening statement and then take questions from everybody about
the Bruins, their program, their first year in the Big Ten, all.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Uh, we're gonna play, fortunately for you, unfortunately for him,
we're gonna play the Deshaun Foster opening statement. And when
just to give you a clue here, when you don't
hear any talking, it doesn't mean we've stopped the tape.
It means Deshaun Foster is still standing there frozen, not
knowing what to say.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
Where a school that's won what one hundred and twenty
three championships? So this fits us being right in this
conference football wise, which is excited. You know, I'm sure
you guys don't know too much about UCLA but our
football program. But we're in LA, it's us in usc.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
We I'm just basically excited. Really, that's it. Oh boy, oh.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Boy, Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna write down UCLA for one
and eleven this year. Well, look, there's football guy, and
there's boy talker guy, and then there's somewhere in between. No,
come on, man, you're a head coach. You can talk
about your program.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
For a minute.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
You can talk about how you're in I don't know.
I could not know anything about you.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
I could walk up there and talk about UCLA football
for a minute better than he could. Now, you gotta
trust your head coach can talk about the team.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Can you talk for a minute?

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yes, tell me university here, pick three guys names out
of a hat that you want to highlight.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
I mean, what tell us just have a guy quit though?

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, but one of their their head PR guys and
he quit on.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
The well, I must have been the best PR guy
in the world if he quit. And this is what
we get out of this, Seaun Foster.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Oh that's all we got from Foster was Hey.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
We're in Los Angeles and so is USC. I'll be
right there. I didn't know that. I let me write that.
I did not know that.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
You know who else is this guy? Heylke? And get
up here? You know you're a better talker. Get out
in here.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
It almost sounded like and look, this is just me
from performing and talking for a living like like I've
done for the last twenty years. This is almost me
thinking that, Okay, I get the whole. Hey, in college football,
you only really know about your conference, and maybe you
don't know anything about other about other conferences. And maybe
he thought he was gonna get a laugh when he said,

(26:08):
you don't know about us, but we're in LA, and
he thought he was gonna get a lot of laughs,
and just like a comic when you don't get laughs, crickets,
that comedian just kind of freezes up and says, oh, so, uh, hey,
how many people from out of town? Oh you're from
out of town? Every the audience from out of town?

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Anybody in the back search clicking the light immediately my
already up?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Hey who here is from Brooklyn? Who's anybody from Brooklyn?

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Who's from Brooklyn?

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Anybody from brooklynybody anybody like?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Because he says, we're in LA and it's just nothing.
I mean, not like you're gonna get a knee slapper
from everybody, but wow, man, I mean he all he
could say, I'm gonna go up there, say from Los
Angeles and and USCAS from Los Angeles too, So he
mentioned usc as many times as he mentioned UCLA in
his opening forty five seconds. Seriously, one in eleven. UCLA

(26:53):
is going one and eleven. Man, I'm not feeling good
about them. In fact, I'm looking at Vegas right now.
They've taken the odds off the board. They haven't, but
they but you wouldn't be surprised if they really did.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, I was really one of the crazy things to
go viral this morning between all the soccer chaos with
the Argentina match against Morocco and stoppages or whatever. It
was Deshaun Foster and every type of meme you could
have about someone failing at a microphone, whether from a
sitcom or actual political or sports transgressions of the past.

(27:26):
So I was entertained for a while. I was like, Oh,
I forgot about that guy. Good for him, you know,
so refamiliarizing myself with mayors of other cities and stuff.
But yeah, for Deshaun Foster, I just hope he commands
a locker room better. He certainly did. They just pull
his name out of the proverbial hat for the for

(27:48):
the job of Hey, let's get a former grade in
here when we change.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's UCLA's thing. They always want a former or someone
who just played there. That's what they want, But the LA.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
This time did it? You know? You didn't even have
to go in and wow them with tails of yester year.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
I mean, what what would is halftime speech be to
the team? All right, guys, gather around. All right, we're down.
It's seventeen to six. All right now here in the
second half, we're gonna make some changes. We're gonna, uh
gonna make sure that we're gonna score more points.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Then we allow you don't score.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Until you score.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
We're gonna tackle them as soon as we can not
wait for them to uh get down field and.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Make better plays than we did in the first half.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Well, let me ask this, is this an opportunity for
UCLA to create. I don't know if they have an
official airline, but if you ever wanted one, now's the
time to go to Southwest Because remember the old want
to get away as oh.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey,
that would be a great one. Want to get away
just and then it keep going back to him and
he's still not saying.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Anyther We're in Los Angeles, Hey, come see the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, Go to Universal Studios, go see Disneyland.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Hey, come to our many beaches.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
How happy is Lincoln Riley?

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
We got a shout out in the opening statement of
Sewn Foster Fretscott.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
He is already seeded the city to us and we
haven't played a snap this year.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
That's the best I.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Mean this other as I said, Oh my god, I mean,
you have to be a leader of men. What the
hell happened to you?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Man? What happened to you? Well?

Speaker 4 (29:47):
If you go from what used to call itself the
Conference of Champions into the wonderful world of an expanded
Big ten, I get it. You know, please to meet you,
I mean high my name is might as well have
had one of those stickers on while he was at it.
I'm gonna play your video what UCLA is all about?

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Let's go Exit Oup, out of Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
one and eleven.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Ucla this year it's happening, Uh coming under?

Speaker 3 (30:16):
What is there over? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Coming up next? After the best statement a coach has
made in training camp, We're gonna play a very special
new game.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
You want to hear. Coming up next, Let's go Jason
and Mike Fox.

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Speaker 5 (31:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (31:17):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Yes, sir, we got a big basketball
story come on your way in about ten minutes. But uh,
we're gonna have a brand new game. We are going
to play at least once a week during the football season.
Really and I know it because this coach is going

(31:39):
to give a press conference at least once a week. Today,
LA Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh gave us this pearl
of wisdom as training camp opens for the Chargers from Michigan.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Here he is back in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
How excited is Jim Harbaugh to be back in the
league coaching the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
He is this excited.

Speaker 10 (32:00):
I mean, it feels like New Year's Day. You know,
it feels like being born. Feels like coming out of
the womb. You know, it's like you're in there and
it's comfortable and it's safe, and and now you're out.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You're born. The lights are on, you know, it's bright, chaos.

Speaker 10 (32:17):
People look people looking at you, people people talking at you,
and just feels good to you know, have it happen?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Okay, So what's day on a training cap? Like, it's
like being born right out right out. You're rid of
the after birth. We'll cut the cord everything else.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, you had me at the New Year thing once
you did the like your Homer explaining how the miracle
of conception.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
You know he's doing a little swim move in the
whole day. I mean that that's horrorball. Here, way to go, coach.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
So here's our new game. And again.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
We're gonna play this once a week and this is
gonna be awesome. The name of the game is pretty simple.
It's did Jim Harbaugh say this today? That's the game?

Speaker 3 (32:57):
So ready to play?

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yak and he sat this a game that is made
up justin Frosburg has all the answers.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
So playing?

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Are you and me? Potentially? Brian Fenley Frostburg, You ready
to go?

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Fenley can't play. He hates the Chargers.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh that's right, he is an eligible to play this.
I'm sorry, Fenlely. Sorry, I'm sorry, man. Yeah, run, sorry, man,
you're out ready?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
He really looks upset. I'm from San Diego. I love
the Chargers. That you're only saying that to get in
the game. I mean, I'm not lying. I am for
San Diego.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
I know you.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'm only saying that to get in the game. It's
up to you. It's up up to you. Frostburg. Ready
to go?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
But the clickety clack, clickety clack. Wait, say that again?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Say it again? The clickity clock clickety clock.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
That's too close to your clippity clop clippity clop. Look
at my hoops.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
No, I don't know, man, I kind of like that.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's kind of very boom Howard, King of the Hill,
he told he says, click click click click click click
click going there. Uh no, I'm gonna say Jim Harbaugh
did say the clickingty click today.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
I'm gonna say, yes, Well, then you are absolutely correct.
He did say that. What was he talking about that?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
He said that it doesn't not no, you're right, hey,
you guys are just gonna write where you're at right
click and putting everybody on notice.

Speaker 11 (34:21):
I'm sure this is gonna wind up being my favorite
game just because it's like, you know, he's gonna say
stuff like this and it's still gonna surprise me, Like
I feel bad that I'm gonna have to stay away
from all the Jim Harbaugh quotes following games on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
So we can play this game with integrity, but boy,
it's worth it.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
But this is the best of it is that you know,
with Justin being part of the Chargers team, he's gonna
hear it all.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Un till Harball puts them up against the wall and says,
stop playing this game.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
All right, what's next? Did Jim Harbaugh say this today?
Like a carpenter. Use the hammer a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
You know the saw, sure, like a carpenter. Use the
hammer a little bit better, a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Know the saw.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know the saw. So he goes completely away from
the hammer like a carpenter saw. Right okay, And he
goes to the carpenter saw.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
So he starts with the hammer. So he's going through
the whole toolbox.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
But use the hammer better and then use the saw
like he's handy many.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
All of a.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Sudden, the tall I sleep done. I loved handyman.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
What a great show.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
And they, Oh no, my daughter was well, of course
it was alive for my daughter loved handy man.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
He watch a lot of handyman thing.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Uh you know what I'm I'm gonna say, Yes, I'm
gonna say he said that today.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Oh sure he did say that today.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
How many other tools did he use?

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Out of his box there?

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Uh Frost, are you ever gonna have to make one up?
I don't know that you're ever gonna have to make
a These are all true.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
They're all yes.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Every week, all right, one more, let's go, all right,
two guys going up for a ball.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
That's four legs coming down.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
This is the best game ever.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Okay, two guys going up for a ball that's four
legs coming down.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Oh, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Well, you know what, why I can't I'm gonna say yes.
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say yes.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
I'm gonna try to predict context to those I'm gonna
guess this was about trying to defend Quentin Johnston.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Shut up, Mike. Okay, he did say that today we
got time for one more, but so on more and
I want to go undefeated.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Go ahead, We're in the glide time. We're in the
glide time. Whoa whoa, whoa whoa gloo escalated. But after
all this being born, are we really in the glide time?

Speaker 3 (36:57):
He went straight to ecstasy and reproduce.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I think this is a curveball and this is not.
He did not say that today. I'm gonna say no.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I'm gonna say yes.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Okay, Well, Harmon, you are right.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
How could you be born to be excited, to be
out and scared but you're in glad time?

Speaker 2 (37:15):
That doesn't make sense. You watch your mouth.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
I can't be both.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
I'm a little nervous, but I'm still excited about what's
to come.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
We gotta play this game again. Later on, did Jim
Harbaugh say this today? But coming up next a huge
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