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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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You know, I know, Mike Harmon, today's date is July
twenty fifth, but it really could be seven eleven as well.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know why seven eleven, seven eleven.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I know it's at seven twenty five, but it could
be seven eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You had a slurpee because that's the Mets winning percentage
in the Grimace era after an extra in.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
A Brave tonight, Oh seven eleven. You can't stop Grimace.
You can't stop him, dude. We're only a half game
back of the Braves of the Wildcard.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Now, it's funny how this this season has been insane. Right,
we watched Seattle give up that ten game lead to Houston.
Julio Rodriguez now on the il after crashing into the
wall the other day. So all of a sudden, you know,
that's a lot of handwringing for the always favorite squad
of this show, the Seattle Mariners, and then all of

(01:49):
a sudden, the Mets, because of a fictional character who
was once brought in as a purveyor of evil to
McDonald land is now the most popular person in New York.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Dude, you need to stop bringing up the fact that
Grimace was once brought in as an evil.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Hey, listen, and he's a villain now because he's making
the Mets win.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Listen, when people talk about Darth Vader, they don't go
back and say Darth Vader, who, of course, at the
very beginning was a very innocent young boy who was
shaped to the Dark and Darth Vader is a bad guy. Man,
that's what they say. Yeah, they don't say Tom Vader
is a bad guy. They don't say Tom Riddle, who
was once is a student like everybody else Ad Hogwarts, No,
he was evil. I TT what Grimace has changed. He
has done the full opposite heel turn. He's gone from

(02:32):
macho man.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Heel to hero. He's gonna yeah, he's now a full hair.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
When's he gonna cut a promo with Dan Campbell?

Speaker 6 (02:43):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Pretty soon? Yeah, I mean, I mean we'll get to
the Hulk Hogan thing later.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
We get to go hang out with Robert Salah. Is
that the guy he's got to cut a promo with?
He's got to go run stairs with him or something.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
No, dude, what did I tell you?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
If I was running for president on the the latest
addition to my plan, that form would be Grimace is
my vice president. And I send him to any baseball
city that's in trouble. I send him to big cities,
right like in swing states and everything else where I
need votes, and I go, hey, I'll help you out here.
I'll send him to Milwaukee, right. I want to I
want to win Wiscon. Everybody wants to win Wisconsin, said hey, Grimace.

(03:17):
Throughout the first ball, give the Brews a little bit
of good luck.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
They need it. Right there, boom and all of a sudden,
I'm winning Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm winning. I send Grimmas to Detroit. Hey, throughout the
first ball. Detroit's kind of you know, little under five hundred.
Throughout the first pitch of call America. I guess what,
I win Michigan.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
But going on, because if you kept extrapolating it to Chicago,
there's gonna be no change.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna vote.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
How they're gonna vote. No, it's not changing.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, but it's only it's got to be teams that
I can help a little bit. Like I can't. I
mean like I can't.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I can't send Grimace to Chicago and suddenly, Oh I
can't turn that around, buddy, I just I can't.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Know nobody's turning that around. I can't.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's just like in politics, w some you know what,
we're not going to spend any add money in that state.
Why because we're not what are we doing? No, we're
not flipping it's not at Let's just send them. I
gotta send Grimace where I know we could do the
most help, right, I would send Grimace to Washington right now. Hey, listen, hey,
Washington needs it, right, I said him to the Marines.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
It give away this big lead.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, that's fine, Hey, I said, I went Washington. Suddenly,
look at me. I got the entire all the Northern States.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Man, I got them all all going, and they signed
to an exclusive. That's the questions co opted here.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Dude, if I president, no, no, no. But if I can,
if I'm running for president, I can ask that, they'll
give it to me. Like if I'm running for they'll
give that to me. Say hey, okay, well you want
to make the world a better place.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes I do. You can have Grimace.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Okay, purple shake at a time and he just comes.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
With me all the campaign stops all across it says,
And you know all my campaign stops would be McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, sure, I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I wouldn't go to a I wouldn't go to a
stadium or some kind of arena. No, And I would
visit like five or six McDonald's in big cities over
the course of the day. I get McDonald's all day.
Grimace hangs out it do all the big nut I
talk about stuff. I get shakes when I leave and
I walk away.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
You got to figure out where there are still locations
that have ball pits. Because you gotta have the events
for the kids. You gotta include the children. Jason, enough for.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
Grima's all right, it was Kershaw Day.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Was Yes.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
It was all excited as well.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I was telling Steve, we're talking before the show. I
was all excited Kershaw Day, Yeah, yeah, yeah, And then
I realized it was actually Kershaw Day.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Because I'm sitting in the studio, I'm like, I was
gonna get to watch Kershaw pitch tonight?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Ready day game No.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now, Look, we'll have more on Clayton Kershaw Day coming
up in about fifteen minutes. Because there's a phrase that
I'm gonna use how I feel Kershaw coming back big
deal for the Dodgers. There's a there's a phrase that
I think sums everything up where we are. Kershaw wins
today over the Giants. We'll get to that coming up
with a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Will you call it the phrase phrase that pays?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
It'll be the phrase that pays? Did it when you
hear the touchstones be the fourteenth person of dialing.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Right now, this is an actual contest. Do not do anything,
the man behind the curtain says, but I.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Need your help with something right now. I need trouble
something white lost again. It's very important. No, no, this is
very very important because my Internet is down and I
needed to look something up. And you know, normally I'm
a whiz and I can find everything. But there's something
I can't find and I need your help with can.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Help me with it?

Speaker 4 (06:20):
If it's what I think it is, I'll see you
in hell.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no. I don't think
you know what that No this is. I need I
need help with something. I can't find the answer.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Dylan Cees pitched a no hitter today, Yeah, you did, second,
Padre Pitcher ever second in the last couple of years.
I can't find where did he pitch in his career
up until this year?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Got a big deal?

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I can't find that. Yeah, well I can't find that way.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
It's funny you were still able to tweet. You know,
either mental telepathy has come to X or you've got
some kind of mega mind kind of thing going on there.
It's just scaring me. Maybe doctor Xavier's School for the Gifted, Like,
we'll be sitting at all watching that this weekend with
the Deadpool movie coming out. But yeah, former White Sox Pitcher, uh,

(07:06):
now even greater, although he's still only ten and eight
on the season, but yeah, it is a tenth wind,
so good for him. Former White Sox now great.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, I'd be Look, if the White Sox still had
Dylan Sees dude, you may have like thirty wins this,
ye know, we would just.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Have well yeah, I mean it would add three or
three to five wins.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You might have like thirty wins.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
And potentially another guy that we'd be selling off. So well,
who am I kidding? And absolute come and take this
guy and we'd do the same thing that everybody's doing
with the forty nine ers. We'd like to talk to
you about, ayu, can I interest you in the Deebo
Samuel model. We want to talk to you about seas Hey,

(07:46):
Crochet is really good.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
But you know, listen, But you know what I loved
about this today is that you know, because it gets
to a point and and you know when when when
we just cringe because if a Dodger Pitcher approaches a
no hitter. He's at thirty eight pitches through eight innings.
We have to take them out of the game. Cease
gets through seven innings at with ninety four pitches, right,
And and Mike Shildt, manager of the Padres, obviously that's

(08:12):
getting to a point where, well, get to the magical
hundred pitch mark and you're gonna wind up taking him
out and everything else. And he actually looked over at
Joe Musgrove, who had the first no hitter in Padres
history a couple of years ago, and Joe said, his
stuff is still pretty good, and shild said, well, he's
throwing one. He knows what it looks like, so let's
let him ride with it. He says, this looks like

(08:33):
a no hitter. Let's let him go. And that's just
an awesome thing, right, I mean, yes, you could sit
here and say, oh, one hundred pitches. It's just become
this arbitrary number where we take pitchers out at now
because it's a big number.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
It's three digits, and.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Forget about the fact that, well, look at high stress
innings instead, be a little bit more in depth than
just well, look at his number of pitches. Right, has
he had three innings where he's thrown more than twenty pitches, Like,
you know, if he's moving along and he's a ten, twelve, thirteen, twelve, nine, twelve, yeah, no,
let him go. Man, he's rolling, nothing is going on.
He can get back, he can keep going. But if

(09:10):
he has high stress innings and he's had a twenty
one pitch inning but then a seven pitch inning, and
then a twenty two pitch inning, but then a couple
of ten pitch innings and okay, well no, obviously then
that you want to worry about. But here he was
rolling through. And nothing gets a team behind a manager
more than hey, he's leaving the guy in to throw
a no hitter. I mean, there's many things. And I

(09:30):
was really stunning the first time I learned this a
bunch of years ago, that nothing galvanizes a team that
when they see, hey, Skip's gonna let it go, guy
Ride and Gofert, he's not gonna listen to to upstairs
and gms who are trying to call through on the
phone and get through and say.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
This is not what we discussed in the pregame meeting.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Nobody, nothing wins you over more than that. And I
love the fact that ninety four pitches, I said, well,
if he has a really quick inning, maybe Nope. They
let him go out there for the rest of the game,
and that was fantastic. Jase love the fact they did that.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
What are you doing the Padres on Kershaw Day, Well,
it's a no hitter.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
To come on, man, it's a no hitter. It's a
no hit. It's a big you're the celebration, I bet dude.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
The Padres are still standing looking way up at the
Dodgers man, but.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
They're they're now in a position for the wild card.
They've played into that. So that's the other part that
makes it impressive because you know you're now getting into
heavy leverage innings going forward with Dylan Ceze because you're
in the race that you're going to make a push
to stay in contention. And you look at what he's
done the last couple of times out. I mean, you've

(10:36):
given up two hits. You in your last twenty two innings,
pitched right strikeouts, looking at thirty strikeouts against four walks
in that period as well, So you know he's on
what we would say for a hitter, the proverbial heater
U and the e ra keeps dwindling. So I mean
absolutely amazing what he's he's putting together right now. But

(11:00):
for a manager, yeah, it's it's you got you want
to know that the manager has your back, right that
if you're you're pursuing this and again looking at and
watching and monitoring and trusting that he's going to tell
you the truth too. Like that that says a lot
about your clubhouse and the guys you're working with, right,

(11:20):
because you know he wants to take his run at history. Uh,
So there's a lot of incentive to lie right that
he's not feeling you know, one hundred, he's getting tired whatever.
We've seen a couple of fights in the dugout from
other teams this year, Jason. You know where you see
the picture after he gets pulled. We had that with
Schemes a couple of weeks ago, right, his face said everything.

(11:42):
By the time he got to a podium after the game, Uh,
he was calm, collected and you know, had all sorts
of philosophical things to bring out. But in the moment
like yeah, the camera caught you uh here with Dylan
Cees and looking at how they managed this through it
giving him the opportunity to go get it. Yeah, I
mean that that's a big push for your second half, Mike.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
I thought we just talked about this, Well, we talked
about Gershaw.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
You brought them up, look to get and there's another
point to be made off of this.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
It gets way bigger than the Padres, Right.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I am really coming around to John Paul Morose who
was on the show last night, and he said, look,
I've been covering baseball for over twenty years now, right,
one of the biggest insiders reporters out there for Fox
and MLB Network, And he said, this could wind up
being the best trade deadline that I've ever been fortunate
enough to cover, because there's so many teams that are

(12:39):
playing well and flawed. And that's the thing is that
teams that started out slow are all playing well now.
And that's the thing you don't get in Major League
Baseball because if you look at all the teams, right
the Braves, Look, just take the National League for instance, right,
the Braves have been really good all year. Now they're
really stumbling because they've had a lot of injuries, and
now they're they're one game away from looking up at
the Mets for the number one wildcard, So you know,

(13:01):
the Braves have to make moves. Look at where the
Mets are. Of course, the Mets are gonna make moves.
The Padres, now they've won five in a row. They
feel great. They're in second place in the NL West.
They're going to make moves. The Cardinals are feeling good
after last year was awful. Hey, we're having a pretty
good year this year. We're gonna make moves. The Diamondbacks
are starting to play well. The pitching that they picked
up in the offseason. Things are starting to go their way.

(13:24):
They're gonna go for it. The Pirates are in wild
card contention. How often does that happen? The Pirates are
gonna go for it. They're only a game out. Then
you're throwing teams like the Reds and the Giants who
are right behind it. That's just that's seven teams in
the National League that are gonna be desperately looking for upgrades.
Forget about all the division leaders that we're talking about
that are going to try to make moves, and teams

(13:44):
like the Yankees and the Twins and the Royals who
have suddenly jumped into a wild card position. The Red
Sox want to stay in the wildcard position. The Marons
were up by ten games and now suddenly they're floundering.
Here come the Rays after we're gonna trade everybody. Wait,
now we're only four games out. I mean, this is
gonna wind up being bananas. Who's gonna get and who's not.
And there's not a lot of big players out there.

(14:06):
It's not a lot of big starters. You're gonna see
a lot of creativity. This is gonna be a mass
mayhem at the deadline of players moved.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
I don't know how many big names. It's not gonna
be where hey, hey, the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Are gonna dump Wan Soto because uh, you know, they're
out of contention. I don't know how many huge, huge
names there are, but it's gonna be one of those
where keeping track of this is gonna be insane because
everybody's gonna make moves for the outfield, for bullpen, starting pitcher,
There's gonna be so much things to take care of.
It's gonna be an awesome, awesome deadline. I'm telling you

(14:39):
can't wait, and your White Sox may trade everybody, so
you could be right there.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
But I don't think that many guys. People are wanting
can you watch them play? Everybody needs the crotch.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
We'll trade everybody, but it's a bad team.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Hey, crotch wants a new contract. If you're gonna trade
for him, talk about leverage.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
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Speaker 3 (15:09):
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
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Speaker 2 (16:43):
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Speaker 3 (16:49):
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Speaker 4 (16:53):
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Speaker 3 (16:56):
It was not as crazy. It was not.

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Speaker 3 (17:19):
So I was talking with Frostburg a couple of seconds ago.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, kurshaw Day is excited, roll it up up
and I kind of giggled.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
He goes, come on, man, don't give me a fake
laugh on Kershaw Day.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
I said, come on, dude, I mean he pitched okay,
and Frostbrook said, Jason, you don't know how many Kershaw
Days I might have left. And I thought, oh wow,
that's that. That's the way to bring it home right there.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
But it's version of.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Right.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Don't compare.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
But it's it's the same in principle of every fifth
day you were like excited to see what you're gonna get. Right,
it's opening that new present and tonight today, earlier today
we got Clayton Kershaw back.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, no, we ever do that. Matt Harvey day was happy.
Matt Harvey day when he was twenty four. This is
Kershaw after numerous back injuries and different injuries, and he's
thirty six.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, and Matt Harvey didn't have a whole lot of
starts left.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
And yeah, but at the time it you know, yeah,
at the time you full of hope.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
He saw what that got.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yes, So and this is what I feel, you know,
fraud like you don't know how many Kershaw Kershaw days
I have left.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
And you know what, You're absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Celebrate greatness as we can.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
But look, we'll get to a big Olympic story coming
up in a couple of Yes, Kershaw did start today.
He went four innings, seventy two pitches, gave up a
couple of runs, struck out six six hits. So all
in all, okay, I will say this about Kershaw, and
Kershaw seemed to feel pretty good after the game. He
knew that he wasn't at this point ready to go

(18:50):
one hundred pitches. He even said last week after his
last rehab start, I don't know what I can do,
but I'm ready to come back and help the team.
Like he said, I know I can give you four
or five innings. I almost made it five innings. I
know I can give you a solid start here and
just I'll build myself back up here. You know what
any part of minor league REEB starts. So yeah, coming
in four innings and giving up au okay, great, and

(19:10):
they wont I'll say this about Kershaw, is that seeing
come out of the game, seeing him come out of
it the way he does. He had a lot of
swings and misses. You know, it didn't look like it
was he was too far off from being the old Kershaw.
I will say, and this is the most accurate and
most realistic thing to say.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
There is no reason to.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Not be cautiously optimistic about Kershaw the rest of the season.
I think that's the I think that's the the real
thing to say. I think that's the reality thing to say.
And it's only part one of the statements. Because while
I considure and say there's no reason to be cautious.
Not to be cautiously optimistic. You can be because look,
there were no troubles. Kershaw seems all right. He's already

(19:51):
had his injury this year, so you're only baking a
look like de Gram. Kershaw is only going to start
twelve games a year, right, so he's already had his injury.
I think that that's how you have to start looking
at things now in athletes age, have they had their
yearly injury? Because guys get hurt. He's had his yearly injury.
It's the end of July, all right. We don't have
to count on him to make it from April through

(20:11):
to October and make thirty starts and through the playoffs. No,
now it's a dozen starts and then the playoffs and
maybe we catch them at exactly the right time.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
We talked about this with the NBA playoffs, with guys
like Lebron getting through an injury or Zion getting through
an injury, being being able to be healthy and be
at your top and getting through that injury. So I
feel okay with Kershaw with that. At the same time,
the Dodgers have to get two starting pitchers, right like
that That is absolutely a They have to go get

(20:40):
two starting pitchers because you have no idea what you're
gonna get. What you're gonna get back, is Walker Bueller
ever gonna make it back to who he was? Because
you're right now you're saying, well, the playoffs start, do
we have glassnow? And Kershaw? Wait, Curser's just come back
and pitch one game for it. Yeah, that's kind of
where we're at. You gotta go get two starting pitchers
because you have no Yamamoto Miller. No, you have no

(21:02):
idea what's gonna happen with these guys. You can't just
bank on them coming back. You can't waste a year
of Otani having another MVP season, your first one for
the Dodgers. You gotta go out and get two starting
pitchers costally optimistic for Kershaw, which is great, but two
starting pitchers.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Thirty first home run hit today by Otani, seventy four
RBI on the season, Kershaw, You know the one thing
I liked in that photo with Paisley and Shatner, It's
how yoked he looked like he was doing full sleds.
I mean, you talk about your triceps. My god, the
man's arms are like tree Tron's brother. No, no, so yeah,

(21:38):
it's it's all about managing expectations right now and the variability.
Look when we put in the giant algorithms and folks
much smarter than you and I doing the math for
these things in the analytics department for the Dodgers is
trying to figure out what the coefficient is for each
of the variables with the name of a picture attack it, right, Yamamono.

(22:02):
I don't know if he's coming back. All hope is
that it's the middle of next month, towards the back
end of next month. But again wishing, wanting, hoping. You
mentioned Buehler, you mentioned Miller, No idea Glass, now's the
guy that you're saying, all right, at least it's all
positive news for him back in and we'll see how
that goes. For Kershaw, you're looking at seventy five eighty

(22:26):
pitches is probably where that threshold stays, at least for
a little while, right, because that was the talk before
this one was gonna be a seventy five pitch start,
and you got it. Forty seven strikes and good movement,
all that stuff. So some positivity for a first outing
and as he builds back up. But for Dave Roberts

(22:46):
and for the entire staff of the Dodgers, you're playing
a different chess game than you have in your history. Right,
You've always had concerns about guys getting into the fifth
lasting beyond the fifth? What's the magic number for a
playoff outing for Clayton Kershaw where it suddenly derails generally
in the sixth. But now now you're you're pushing that

(23:07):
right of all right, how vigilant do you have to
be in terms of location, movement and being ready. So
I don't think it's just a matter of adding a
couple of guys as would be starters. It's also the
all right, let's let's really look at this bullpen again,
because there's gonna be a lot of people swimming around
trying to find trade partners, you know, for for prospects,

(23:28):
for young arms and everything else. Uh, because what do
you have four American League teams and three National League
teams that you can legitimately just say they're done? Like
the Cubs in theory should be settlers. They're only five
and a half out. They're no good, sure, but they're
only five and a half out. Of a wild guardian.
I mean, that's one good week, right, that's one series
against insert struggling squad here to look all pretty uh

(23:52):
you know, and it's at the trade deadline, so it's
it's gonna be take a lot of ingenuity here by
the dog, and they certainly have always shown the willingness
to spend here. It's it's about being judicious and seeing
what you can bring in. Oh yeah, by the way,
you probably still need another bat while we're on the
topic of uh fixes. But let's stay on the pitching

(24:13):
side for now.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tyraq dot Com Studios. A lot more baseball coming up,
because you know, the Mets winning in a walk up,
we have to have more baseball. But today was the
opener for the US women's national team in the Olympics,
and they beat Zambia three nothing, and there's been a
lot of great feeling after the game. Trinity Rodmans scored

(24:35):
a phenomenal goal. She had, makes a big trick move
and spins and scores the first goal for the United States.
Mallory Swanson follows with two goals a minute apart, and
they wind up winning three nothing. If we're gonna be
real about Clayton Kershaw, right, look at me feeling like
I'm feeling measured today. I don't know why do I
feel me The Mets one is should be saying, yes,
we're gonna win.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
The let me tell you that is with hot take nonsense.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm measured, but let's be real.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
The quotes after the game for the United States I
wasn't a big thing. I almost feel like they feel like, hey,
they've solved all their problems, right when realistically I want
to tap the brakes a little bit because this tournament
starts in two days. When they played Germany, right, Germany's
the fourth rated team in the world. This was a
game the US was supposed to win big. They should

(25:25):
have won the game five or six nothing. They had
a really good first half, right, They really put the
pressure on Zambia. They had so many shots on goal.
They hit the post I think three or four times.
Zambia's defenders made a couple of phenomenal plays to keep
the ball out of the net.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
But then in the second half they kind of just
were meh.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
They kind of were okay with controlling the ball and
especially with Zambia playing with ten. They played with ten.
They should have won. Again, it should have been six
or seven nothing. Not one of those thirteen nothing games,
but it should have been six or seven nothing. So
I look at the game and I go, Okay, yeah,
they didn't as expected in this game against a well
overmatched opponent, because I can look and say, wow, their

(26:03):
set pieces are terrible, right, Judy Julie Foudy talked about
in the broadcast. But their set pieces are awful. They're
not close to scoring goals, right, I mean we talk
about the the US men's set pieces being really terrible
and polistic.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Me.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't know if he's lost his mojo on him,
but the women's set pieces were awful.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Right.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
You could tell this is where you miss Rapino. This
is where you miss a little bit of prime Alex
Morgan because Rapino was always great at corners and set
pieces and free kicks. So they struggle, and this is
how you're gonna win games later on in the Olympics
when you play, when you play better opponents. So their
set pieces are terrible, they don't really have a threat.
And for all of it to come down to it, right, Like,
so I have a couple of those questions. I'll say

(26:45):
this coming off of this game. They will win or lose.
They will live or die with Mallory Swanson. She is
the missing element. She was what was missing from the
World Cup because she's the best goal scorer they have.
She's been a goal scorer on the rise for the
past eight years, but injuries obviously. Missing the last World
Cup was huge because Alex Morgan wasn't good anymore, She

(27:08):
couldn't score. They didn't really have a scoring threat. Trinity
Rodman and Sophia Smith. Are they great players or are
they just the best young players that we have. That's
kind of what's up for debate. Like you said, oh,
Trinity Robins star, I don't know how good Trinity Robbin.
Let me see Trinity Robbin actually do it against against
really good competition. This is her first goal Olympic competition
all year long. She finally scored today. But Mallory Swanson

(27:30):
is someone who is a finisher and finds the back
of the net, and maybe, just maybe that's what they
were missing in the World Cup and maybe things might
have been different than a round a sixteen knockout. But
missing her is huge because she is the person that
I know is going to put the ball in the
back of the net. And two big goals today. She
got subbed out earlier in the second Okay.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Great, you know what.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
That was fine. They will live or die with Mallory Swanson.
She's the difference maker on this team. But again, this
tournament starts against Germany in a couple of days.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Jason, sure, it's not Mary Swanson.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's not Mary Swanson.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Are you sure?

Speaker 3 (28:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I am positive it's it's not Swanson dinners and and
it's also it's it's not Dansby Swanson. It's not I'm
trying to come up with other famous Wanson's it's not.
It's not Ingus Whinson from Benson. Oh, nicely done. That's
good one though.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
No she died, Oh no really? Oh why are you
gotta bring up that dog?

Speaker 4 (28:26):
You brought her up? And I say, now, it's a
time to celebrate what was a great career.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
She was ninety. She had a great run. Ninety was
great exactly. But anyway, in nineteen thirty, that's a great
run for Ingus Winston.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah. So your point is that right second half parked
the bus and I think Foudy was really good at
pointing out this isn't good because you have all sorts
of tie breakers. This is an opportunity to flex. Right,
they're down, they're down to ten people, I get it. Sportsmanship, No, no,

(28:57):
right is an opportunity to crush your enemy laying before
you look. They're they're center back, Zulu. She struggled, right,
and why Swanson was so wide open, great ball movement,
but the center of the defense was pathetic on all
of those chances. Take advantage of them and move on

(29:19):
a bunch of near misses, as you said, but you
know you're gonna rude those missed opportunities perhaps as you
go further on in this tournament. I think she also
brought up the fact that they haven't scored on a
direct free kick in over four years.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Answer to repeat that they was scored a direct kick
in four years, Judy, can you repeat that for us?

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Like really?

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Well, but they also had a long break right because
someone was down, so they all right, let's reset it
now that she's actually gonna take the free kick, and
let's talk about it again. But you know, Swanson at
full strength speed element Sophia Smith getting to the edge
with pretty pretty good ease. Uh time and time again. Right,

(30:05):
But again it's it's an opponent and now you'll have
a step up in class and we'll get a better evaluation.
But for a first showing that first twenty minutes was
fast paced and they got after it. I don't like
parking the bus. I just don't nous and keep going.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
I mean I liked I like putting the subs in
because you play every couple of days, there's no hey,
we're rest for a week and then it's so I
like that, But still I kind of thought, yeah, what
what do we do?

Speaker 6 (30:30):
What?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
You know, what are we doing? Like you need to
you what's the one thing we saw they had trouble
with scoring goals. Let's get let's get some confidence on
some players that if they're coming off the bench and
playing big minutes, that we can score more goals. Right
like that. That's why that's why it's very uneven today.
I great, great in the first half, but I'll give
them about a B for the game, just because the
questions that that are still out there and I don't

(30:53):
know if they've answered them. They certainly did what they
had to do today, but I'm again that we'll we'll
find out a lot more when they play Germany. That's
going to be it right there, the Jason Smithson with
Mike Harmon live from the tyrec dot Com studios. Now
to find out what's trending. From a guy who already
has bet Germany to beat the United States in their
next game, it's Steve to say with what's trending, I will.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
Say Germany one. It's opener three nothing as well against US.
Joy you think Germany can't score three goals against Zambia
for karana allowed next week. US women's soccer did take
its Olympic opener. But guys, this is kind of like
what we talked about from the beginning of last year's
Women's World Cup. That opener was their easiest game on
the schedule. It was against Vietnam. It was only a

(31:35):
three to nothing win. It should have been five or
six to nothing. And the reason we bring this up
is not to pile it on. It's because the tiebreaker
to win the group is the goal difference JE and
if you don't win the group, you're going to be
playing a tougher opponent or opponents once the knockout stage
starts and That's exactly what happened at the Women's World Cup,

(31:57):
and after that initial win against Vietnam, the offense it
was darn near silent, including losing on penalty kicks and
being out at the earliest point of any World Cup
in the history of US women's soccer. So here today,
the US, after a Zambia red card, played eleven on
ten for the last sixty minutes, but could not score.
Sophia Smith of the US left in the first half

(32:19):
today with an apparent ankle injury. The team did not
score without her. Canada won on a goal in the
seventy ninth minute, two to one over New Zealand, which
had only four shots. There may be another story regarding
the Canadian team. We're gonna get to just a moment
the opening ceremony. By the way, at the Olympics tomorrow
in Paris, Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase set out practice again.

(32:39):
He wants a new contract. The late ballgame in the
Majors is in Anaheim. It's the A six ' five
over the Angels. In the top of the fourth Everything
Else Final, the Mets sent Atlanta to a fifth straight
loss at ten inning, three to two.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Win.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
If anybody would like to attempt to play right field
for the Braves, they may have an opening.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Hey, hey, he ran to the ball. He just ran
a little far. He ran into the third row a
little too far. All right, wasn't awful.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
He raced to the foul line, reached back, and it
didn't even come close to touching his gloves.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Game over.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Sometimes pressure makes diamond steve. Sometimes it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Yeah, this was bad on the baseball diamond. Ten inning
win for Baltimore at Miami seven to six. The Marlins
traded reliever Ajpuck two Arizona San Diego's Dylan Sees throw
a no hitter three Dozing Padres one at Washington See where.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
To Dylan CEA's pitch the last few years? I forget.
I believe it was the White Sox.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
No, come on, They wouldn't let a good picture like
that go. Come on, now, come on, man.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
And an unrelated story. The White Sox lost their eleventh
game in a row today, losing to Max Schurzer and
Texas two to one. Dodgers beat San Francisco six '
four late homer for sho Hao Tani, his thirty first
Now Canadian women's soccer coach Bev Priestman was removed from
the Olympic tournament for using drones to spy on opponents.

(33:59):
She's been suspended by Canada pending review. The actual text
is there was a report from TSN on all this
first and then they suspended her, and like the federation says,
oh this was this didn't just happen what not just
oh okay, it was part of a job description for

(34:20):
crying out.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Apparently this has been going on for years, that can
has been doing this for a month.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
And women's One of the TSN sources said in a
series of interviews today and yesterday that some staff and
contractors up there were told that filming was part of
their jobs and they could lose their positions with the
Canadian Federation if they didn't go along with the demands.
The source said, in a couple of scenarios, people have

(34:47):
been pushed. They've been told, hey, you gotta give one
hundred and ten percent as part of the job. So
if you don't feel comfortable doing this, you don't have
a place on the team.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
They said.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
It's not something that's talked about here. It's not something
you can have a lot of text messages about because
if I how sensitive it is. But some people who
have had to do the filming for Canada or review
the filming illegally filming opponents practices have said to a
few staff members how uncomfortable it was for them. And
of course they were speaking now on the condition of
anonymity because they're afraid that the Canadian Federation would retaliate.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Wow, I'm gonna said Deadpool after you. Bryan Raynolds is coming.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmon. Yeah, we'll have more on that crazy
ass story coming up in a few minutes. But coming
up next the NFL head Coach wrestling Legend Tandem. You
didn't know you needed and we got it today. That's next,
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Speaker 3 (36:25):
So why are you hearing I'm a real American?

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well because just a week after appearing at the Republican
National Convention and ripping his shirt off, I'm sorry, likely
pre ripped shirt.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
It's still the effect. You're right, We're in Hollywood, baby,
it's all about illusion.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
But dude, he he need ripped, like right down the middle.
I mean, come on, man, I mean he he's.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Got that much power and control. It's a testament to
his greatness.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's almost like they cut it right before and then
they put a little bit of glue on it, just
some temporary glue just to make it to put it
out of the hea.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
You take that back, brother.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
It's like people are just finding out there's a costume
thing in the Taylor Swift concert. It's like, wait, it's
a velt Crow. It's a Velt Crow shirt.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
So the reason this is happening is because Hulk Hogan
now has started to make the rounds with NFL training
camps opening, he has made the Detroit Lions a stop,
and he filmed an ad with Lions head coach Dan
Campbell today.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Here's the audio of it.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
It's it's Hulk Hogan and Dan Campbell looking at the camera,
Campbell grinning like a lunatic. And here's Hulk Hogan doing
his bit to up the Detroit Lions and their fans
get ready for the season.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
Ready two one, Joe Minia, Hulk Cogan here the greatest
of all time in my new tag team partner, Campbell Mania. Brother,
it's gonna.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Run wild this year.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
Super Bowl, nothing but greatness, nothing up victory. So what
you're gonna do when the Detroit Lions in Campbell Mania?

Speaker 3 (38:01):
What you're gonna do? I like how he doesn't count
all right? Here he got count down three two? One?

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Would the one? You never say? The one?

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Three? Two? Pads go?

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Is this another one of his u study?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (38:16):
You're telling Hulk Hogan how to cut a promo? Damn right?
I am wow, brother.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
I just like it went from okay, yeah, here we go,
three two? What are you gonna do?

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Now?

Speaker 3 (38:25):
I'm all up? For it.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Well, it's that the red light came on. Is this
part of his real American beer tour? Noll he be
going to the walmarts and stuff?

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Is this the thing now where Hulk Hogan's like, Okay,
I'm seventy. I can't really wrestle anymore. It's not a
whole thing. So I'm just gonna be like Rick Flair.
I'll be anybody's mascot, right, Like, i will go out
and I'll do any kind of promo. You'll say team
blank Amania, and I'll just fill it in, right, and
it's twenty thousand dollars for you to show up and
do it and do one thirty second promo. Just put

(38:55):
blank Amania, Lions Mania, sure, Campbell Mania.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Sure. I'm even Detroit right now.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
I'm going to Minnesota because I'm doing McCarthy Mania for
the Minnesota Vikings. Then I'm heading to San Francisco and
I'm gonna do perty Mania all right, the whole big.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Tour, like I feel like that's what he is. Now.
You're gonna see him in all kinds of places and locations.
Oh it's time for something mania. Oh Hill gets here?

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Okay, great, Yeah, I'll have his gummies and everything else.
Just like Rick Flair too. I mean Frostburg brings up
a good point though, I mean, Snoop Dogg is this
guy and has been this guy and now he gets
to be part of the Olympic coverage and everything else.
I love the promos, you know, follow the action with
Mike Trico, Peyton Manning, Kelly Clarkson and Stoop Dogg. Just

(39:39):
the way the guy says his name is really all
you need to know about what you're gonna get.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
But yeah, you hit a.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Point where like, all right, how do I cash in?
Some would say selling out? I say, positively, cash in
on your name, image and likeness and enjoy the hell
out of whatever the next phase of your existence is.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I'm gonna go do Rogers Mania Jets Camp, I'm gonna
do Solomnia, and I'm gonna brush my teeth.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
You watch. He'll be at another another camp either tomorrow.
I know he's got the He's part of the big
Fanatics thing that's going on in New York in a
couple of weeks, so he'll be there. I'm sure he'll
do a panel, do some speeches and then shaking hands, kissing,
baby signing, autographs and photo ops and whatever else. But yeah,
I can't congrudge the man the opportunity. I mean, it's

(40:29):
still kind of weird that he was a you know,
a keynote speaker wearing a suit at a Republican convention.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
But he took the suit off, it took his other
shirt off. He was down to one show.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
I thought the sleeves were gonna come off first and
then the rest of the suit coke, But you know,
it's all the same.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
I think my favorite part of this was how Campbell
big times him at the end, like he hugs us,
says hey, great, and he just walks away. I'm like, wow,
what a big time move. Like he doesn't stay and
say hey, thanks a lot, Hulk, how you doing, how
things going, appreciate it? Just like yeah, thanks man, Hey,
al right, I gotta go, I gotta take off.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
It's like, wow, this is Dan Campbell feeling it. Man.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
He big times Hulk Hogan. But he just walks away
from this, going, hey, that's great, Hey, thanks for coming out.
Appreciate it, love it, love you, Hey, see you later,
Thanks Hulk. And this is Hulk Hogan's standing there with
the camera guy. It was just really awful.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Look if the coaching thing hadn't worked out, Campbell, I mean,
if his body held up, he could have been a wrestler.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Uh you know hey, and it could still happen. Could
never can't tell my brother exit swollen dome. Do we
have a great NFL story coming your eard?

Speaker 3 (41:32):
I wait up?

Speaker 4 (41:33):
And you know, hope it springs e turtles? You know,
the good Lord, And it gave me another opportunity towards
greatness to come hang out with all of you here.
Our team's fully assembled here at Fox Sports Radio, and
it sounds so pretty and we've got some great stories
that we're talking about. But yeah, I got to watch
the US women's team win a game. I got to

(41:55):
watch a bunch of other Olympic events, and then watching baseball. Curse,
great feel good story. One of my favorite guys keep
pitching to your fifty. That's great, that's win. I kind
of shrug, like Ian was really excited in the back, thinking, Hey,
you were gonna come in coming off of that big
walk off win, you know you like Jeff.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
I got hammered, dude, you kidding, man? I can barely
stand up after that.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Why do you think he doubled, doubled up.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
No, I just I just I just read the ingredients.
I'm hammered, man, I have, I have absolutely hammered.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Got a little bit loose in the afternoon. I am
nicely done.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Drunk on chocolate and diet PEPSI that's me right now. Man,
it is time to celebrate. But we got Rick Buker
coming up in about twenty minutes. All the latest on
the US men's team as they head to the Olympics
and are they gonna win a gold medalal? Joel Embiid
cost us all, Rick Buker, all the big news in
the NBA coming up in a bit. But with NFL

(42:57):
teams coming to training camp this week, it's it's been
kind of it's been I don't want to say it's
been over the top, but it's been a better week
than I expected for news out of the NFL. Right
teams are showing up. It's one of the okay teams here,
which is excited they're back. And you know, really there's
not a lot of news in the in the preseason
anymore because look, the star players don't play, and you know,

(43:20):
outside of injuries, you know, it's not quite what it
used to be. But man, this week, it's like they
decided to show up and say, all right, hey, NFL coaches, owners,
We're gonna give people content because it's been a minute
since we gave people content. And there is nothing better
than Jerry Jones still trying to make his we're all

(43:41):
in on this season happen and trying to wave a
magic wand and convince people that being all in means
something other than I've punted on twenty twenty four. I'm
not signing anybody, and I'm gonna make big changes in
the off season. Here's Jerry Jones from earlier today, Cowboys
open training camp very excited, Oxenhart very very excited, and

(44:02):
Jerry Jones once again tries to explain what he meant
by earlier this offseason when he said he's all in
on twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
I'm all in.

Speaker 9 (44:12):
I'm all in. Sometimes being all in means you narrow
you remove the months out here that are in the future,
and you narrow it down to where all we're talking
about is right now in the next playoff season, and
that's it for everybody.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
We're all in, We're all in.

Speaker 9 (44:34):
It's all right there. We all got some things out
here in the future, another two of their years on contracts,
all that stuff. Let's all get in here zero right
now in this Dak Scott his year contract. Let's focus
right here. We all got a lot on the line
for that playoff game, a lot of it.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
If someone said to me, you know, I hear the
phrase word salad being used a lot now, especially with
Pollock and everybody making speeches. What's a definition of word salad?

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Right there?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
That was That was your your Jerry Jones word salad
of being all in, Because when you're all in sometimes
it means you ignore the months ahead and you're just
in on what's happening now. And we're and and there's
things we're looking at now. We're fu and we're focused
and Dak and there's a playoff game coming.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Boy, that is.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
A word salad by Jerry Jones. Man, that is a
that is a Cob salad, and a Waldorf salad and
a Caesar salad. You got all you got like seven
different kinds of salad going on with that Jerry Jones comment.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Still trying to.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Make all in happen, Like going all in didn't mean
I'm not signing anybody. I'm not giving anybody a new
contract because I'm gonna make big changes after this season.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
That's what all in means.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
And that's what Jerry Jones is meant by all In
from the beginning.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
And I love how we still trying to make it happen. Like, yeah, now,
let me really explain to you guys what all in means, Like,
I'm gonna try to push you away from the narrative
that give me any criticism and makes it look like
I'm doing something positive. I love he's trying to make
this happen. Well.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
I mean, look, the old rule of thumb on this
show is I can't fall to good strategy. Is this
a good strategy? No, Benjamin Franklin. It's often quoted in
movies and TV, but attributed to him. If you fail
the plan, you're planning to fail, right, mantras on the
wall kind of like be a champion today kind of thing.
As you go through your processes and procedures, right, whether

(46:28):
you're planning saving money or getting into a you know,
the perfect college, or finding your next gig, whatever the
case may be, all of that requires some planning and foresight.
Here he's saying like it it's all about twenty twenty four,
So that's what he should have just said. It's the
put up or shut up here right the contracts, we'll
deal with them, but right now, this is the team

(46:50):
we have, this is the coach we have, and we
have to go and try to win and try to
see if you can inspire someone to cheer for you
or start clapping randomly because you stare at him down
and you need little bit of support with a gleam
in their eye. But for Jerry Jones, yeah, it's been
pretty obvious all along. I think in the end he
folds and he breaks free of Steven's mind meld and

(47:11):
mind control and he signs everybody, and it's an absolute
disaster when he that he that he reverts back to
old Jerry Jones, when he when.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
He decided to let Dak Prescott test free agency, that
was it. That was the big moment where Okay, things
are going to be a little different and they're gonna
be different in Dallas after this year. After they stink
because they're not gonna be any good because it didn't
improve in the offseason. Jerry, Look, Jerry Jones is he
told us that you just got to follow Jerry Jones.
He leaves you clues. He's not like some kind of mysterie.

(47:41):
It's like you're watching knives out or glass on you.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Yeah, but you're also trying to make it out like
he's giving us a Machiavellian breadcrumb trailed.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
He has said, I'm gonna be around a long time.
I don't have to do we don't have to go
crazy this year. I'm allowing my franchise quarterback to hit
free agency, leaving it open that I might not sign him.
Other players that you'd think I want to sign, I
am not signing that they are not getting. He went
on to say, today big contracts take a lot of time.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
They take a lot of time.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Now this is Jerry Jones has told us things are
going to be different.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Had he just use a different phrase.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Because that that's really because because you hit on it.
Had he just said, Hey, focus is on this year.
Don't talk to me about a new contract. Don't talk
because you could hear at the end when he said
Dak wants a contract. We're focused on the playoff game.
He's already fast forward and on this season to January,
when the Cowboys. What he's thinking is they're going to
be twelve and five, but they're not.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Ten and a half. Wins, buddy, yeah, good luck, good
luck with that. You got to Giants, and what they
got out there, I mean they got is Shane's kid's
a better general manager.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Okay, And yet Daniel Jones does stink, But.

Speaker 10 (48:53):
They got He's looked ahead already to the playoffs and
is already at DAK with a put up or shut
up game in the playoffs that will allow him to
potentially get paid.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
Like that's where his mind is at. It forgets that.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
You have to just see he's telling you. You just
have to read the clues he's thinking. In the playoffs,
Dak Prescott's next game. If he stinks, there's no way
I'm bringing him back. If he wins games and we
get to the NFC title game and Dak is really good,
I'll give Dak sixty five million dollars.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
That's what we've told you is gonna happen. All around.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Jerry Jones is telling you this is my strategy. Now,
the whole all in stuff. This is just stupid because
this is Jerry Jones just trying to make himself look like, hey,
I'm I'm I'm doing something fiscally responsible, but not understanding
that all in is something that has a completely different.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Meaning from what you say.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
All in means, hey, we are we are taking all
our assets and putting them in on this season. All
in means going out and spending money on some some
some vets.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
For one year that they're gonna take you over the top.
That's all in.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
This is rebuilding like this, This is this is we're
staying status quo. This is I am passing the bet,
I am calling the bet and moving on. This is
not anything even close to all in. This is unfolding
so I can go to the bathroom. This is I
need to get a sandwich. Can you take my hand
for a few minutes? Except a few minutes is the
whole season. That's what Jerry Jones is doing. And I
love that he's still trying to make it seem like

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it's the exact opposite of what he is. I give
him a lot of credit for throwing out there like
I don't know what's going through his head when he
says again, where I'm all in, everybody's laughing at me. Okay,
word salad coming up? Here in the months of the future,
is not all in in the present time when you
look at what Frodo had to do to get that

(50:43):
ring into the fire in the in the volcano with
the guy from Rudy and Rudy shows up and he
sacks a couple of those orcs and and it turns
out it's kind of like his movie too. And then
we had the guy, the Mortensen fellow, who's nominated a
couple of times, and we had I think a guy

(51:03):
from Harry Potter was in a couple of them, and
they went through a wall and they fought a bunch
of people that were born out of the bottom of
the ground and some some volcano fire. And this is
what it means to be all in like that. He
may as well have said that, and it would have
made just as much said to what he said earlier today.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Welcome to the future where the present is the past.
You know that that kind of thing. Look, it's remember.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Smith Harrowsmith Singer's daughter was in it, and I was
thinking crazy and I'm thinking, dude looks like a lady and.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
All the big hits and sweet emotion.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Now remember this, though, Smith, we are in a day
and age is if you can get someone with some clout,
you know, with the capitol k H to get all
get it. People excited about a word or phrase, you
can completely change the meaning of it right words that
meant the opposite. Hey, you know they got used incorrectly,
So now it's added to the dictionary. So Jerry Jones

(51:59):
in his mud, he's all in on this year, and
I can see the logic because here's follow me. Here
is right now, there's a what do we talk fifty
to fifty on Dak? Or everybody puts out their top
ten quarterback list, by default, he ends up at the
back end of that list or just off it, right,
depending on whether you like Jalen Hurtz or some of
those other guys that might be there. But we have

(52:21):
Dak in that. But in general folks would be like,
I don't love Dak, or they look at regular season wins,
give it a little more credence, look at his touchdown
interception ratio, and maybe they stand for him. But either way,
it's a Harvey Dent flip of the coin in terms
of a love hate relationship with Dak Prescott. I think
Jerry's playing it as well. Either way, I'm gonna be right,

(52:44):
because if he stinks in the playoffs, everybody's gonna come
to my side that I shouldn't have paid him. And
if we win and he's great, then I can offer him,
you know, the King's Ransom to be the greatest cowboy ever.
This is in Jerry's mind. No, not in reality.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
No, No, this is what I see in Jerry's mind.
I see in Jerry's mind. I'm mad at this group
for under I'm mad at this group for underachieving. I'm
mad at Dak, I mad at Micah Parsons, I'm mad
at CD LAMB. So I'm gonna show them.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
I'm gonna send them a message by saying, nobody's getting
new deals. I'm not gonna go sign new players. We're
not gonna spend a lot of money. I'm mad at you,
and I want you to prove to me that you're
still good.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
I'm sending you.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
This message like that's what I see in this I'm
mad at my players and i'm mad we're not winning.
So I'm gonna send you a message like I feel
like that's what's going on in his head.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Well, he also someone should send him the game tape
of what that defense did the playoffs. To remind him too,
Your offense stunk, but your defense was historically bad. Send
them a bunch of Jordan Love rookie cards one a day,
like you're Doufrain from shawsh eg Oh.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Love kid had had a perfect passer rating in the
game against us.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
We had, so yeah, boy, that just depresses me all
over again. Just keep thinking about that all the way.
But we're all in, all in on this ear. I
just keep going with all in.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
I want every day and to try to explain what
being all in means every single day.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Tell me about being all in, Jerry, tell me what
this is all about. This is great.