July 26, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon celebrate the return of Clayton Kershaw. Jason tells you why the USWNT Olympic team goes as far as Mallory Swanson takes them. And Hulk Hogan cut a Detroit Lions promo with Dan Campbell.
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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 (01:03):
You know why seven eleven, seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I know it's at seven twenty five, but it could
be seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You had a slurpee.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Because that's the Mets winning percentage in the Grimace era.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
After an extra in 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. Now.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
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
a sudden, the Mets, because of a fictional character who
(01:51):
was once brought in as a purveyor of evil to
McDonald land is now the most popular person in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Dude, you need to.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Stop bringing up the fact that Grimace was once brought
in as an evil.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Hey, listen, and he's a villain now because he's making
the Mets win.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
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.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Darth Vader is a bad guy man. That's what they say, yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
They don't say Tom Vader is a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They don't say Tom Riddle, who was once is a
student like everybody else did Hogwarts.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No, he was evil.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I what Grimace has changed. He has done the full
opposite heel turn. He's gone from macho man heel to hero.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
He's gonna he's all yeah, he's now a full hair. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
When's he gonna cut a promo with Dan Campbell pretty soon?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, I mean we'll get to the Hulk Hogan
thing later.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
We get to go hang out with Robert Salah. Is
that the guy he's got to cut a promo with.
He's gotta go run stairs with him or something.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, dude, what did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If I was running for president on the the latest
addition to my platform would be remis 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
(03:14):
to win Wisconsin, said Grimace throughout the first ball. Give
the brewis a little bit of good luck. They need
it right there. Boom and all of a sudden, I'm
winning Wisconsin. I'm winning.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I send Grimmas to Detroit. Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
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 (03:30):
But going on, if you kept extrapolating it to Chicago,
there's gonna be no change.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh yeah, you know I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Vote, They're gonna vote. No. No, it's not changing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
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 (03:45):
I can't send Grimas to Chicago and suddenly, Oh I
can't turn that around, buddy, I just I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Nobody's turning that around. I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's just like in politics with some go you know what,
we're not going to spend any add money in that state?
Why because we're not We're 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 to the Marines, it give away this big lead. Okay,
that's fine, Hey, I said, I went Washington. Suddenly look
(04:19):
at me. I got the entire all the Northern States. Man,
I got them all all going, and they signed to
an exclusive. That's the question co opted here, dude. If 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 and say, hey, okay,
well you want to make the.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
World a better place. Yes I do. You can have Grimace.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, purple shake at a time and he just.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Comes with me all the campaign stops all across it says,
and you know all my campaign stops would be McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, sure I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I wouldn't go to a I wouldn't go to a
stadium or some kind of arena. No, away, I would
visit like five or six McDonald's in big cities over
the course of the day. I get to eat McDonald's
all day. Grimace hangs out it do all the big
that I talk about stuff. I get shakes when I
leave and I walk away.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
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.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Jason, enough for Grima's all right, it was Kershaw Day.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It was day. Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It was all excited as well.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
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 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because I'm sitting in the studio, I'm like, I was
gonna get to watch Kershaw pitch tonight, tap ready day
game No.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
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 (05:51):
Will you call it the phrase phrase that pays?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It'll be the phrase that pays? Did it when you
hear the touchstones? Be the fourteenth person of dial in
right now?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
This is not an actual contest. You know do anything,
The man behind the curtain says, but I need.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Your help with something right now. I need trouble something
white so 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
you help me with it?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
If it's what I think it is, I'll see you
in hell.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
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 3 (06:29):
Dylan Cees pitched a no hitter today.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
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, got a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I can't find that. Yeah, well I can't find that way.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
It's funny you were still able to tweet you. So
either mental telepathy has come to x or you've got
some kind of mega mind kind of thing going on
there which is scaring me. Maybe Doctor Xavier's School for
the Gifted, Like we'll be sitting all watching that this
weekend with the Deadpool movie coming out. But yeah, former
White Sox pitcher, uh, now even greater, although he's still
(07:07):
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 (07:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'd mean, look, if the White Sox still had Dylan
Sees dude, you may have like thirty wins this.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Ye know, we would just have well yeah, I mean
it would add three or three to five wins. You
might have like thirty wins 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.
(07:39):
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 Crochet is really good.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
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 pitchers ratings.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We have to take him out of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Ceasekets through seven innings at with ninety four pitches, right,
and and Mike Shildt, manager of the Padres, obviously that's
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
(08:22):
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
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
(08:43):
because it's a big number.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's three digits.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Stay there and forget about the fact that, well, look
at high stress innings instead, be a little bit more
in depth than just We'll 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.
(09:06):
He can get back, he can keep going. But if
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.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well no, obviously then that you want to worry about.
But here he was rolling through.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
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 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 gofort, he's
not gonna listen to upstairs and gms who are trying
to call through on the phone and get through and say.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
This is not what we discussed in the pregame meeting.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Jason love the fact they did that.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
What do you do when mentioning the Padres on kersha
a day, Well, it's a no hitter.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
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 (10:10):
The Padres are still standing looking way up at the
Dodgers matter, but.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
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
(10:35):
given up two hits in your 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.
(10:59):
But for a man, 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 because you know he wants to take his run
(11:22):
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. By the time he got to
a podium after the game, Uh, he was calm, collected
(11:45):
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.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Mike, I thought we just talked about this, well, we
talked about Gershaw.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You brought them up.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Look to get and there's another point to be made
off of this. It gets way bigger than the Padres, Right.
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
(12:30):
being the best trade deadline that I've ever been fortunate
enough to cover because there's so many teams that are
playing well and flawed. And that's the thing is that
teams that started out slow are all playing well now.
And that's a 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
(12:52):
really stumbling because they've had a lot of injuries, and
now they're one game away from looking up at the
Mets for the number one wild card. So you know,
the Braves have to make moves. Look at where the
Mets are. Of course, the Mets are going to 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
(13:12):
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.
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
(13:34):
the National League that are going to 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 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 Magrons were up by ten games and now suddenly
they're floundering. Here come the Rays after We're gonna trade everybody. Wait,
(13:57):
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.
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 (14:13):
I don't know how many big names.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's not gonna be where hey, hey, the Yankees are
gonna dump one 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
(14:37):
can't wait, and your White Sox may trade everybody, so
you could be right there.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
But I don't think that have many guys people are
wanting have you watch them play.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Everybody needs the crotch.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We'll trade everybody, but it's a bad team.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Payday. Crotch wants a new contract if you're gonna trade
for him. Talk about leverage.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Let's go exit out about a Fresca exit, swalling down.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
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Already in baseball, we had a no hitter coming up next, Yes,
we got Kershaw Day. What's the phrase the Dodgers need
to think about now?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
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Speaker 4 (16:51):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
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Speaker 3 (17:17):
So I was talking with Frostburg a couple of seconds ago.
You know, curshaw Day is excited, roll it up up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I kind of giggled. He goes, come on, man,
don't give me a fake laugh on Kershaw Day. 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. But it's his version
of the.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Right.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Don't compare, no, but it's.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
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 and Kershaw back.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, we have to 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 (18:10):
Well, and Matt Harvey didn't have a whole lot of
starts left.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
And yeah, but at the time it you know, yeah, at.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
The time, you full of hope. He saw what that guy.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
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 (18:23):
And you know what, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Celebrate greatness as we can.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But look, we'll get to a big Olympic story coming
up on a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, Kershaw did start today.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
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 kershaid and
Kershaw seemed to feel pretty good after the game. He
knew that he wasn't at this point ready to go
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.
(18:54):
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 a okay, great, and
they won. I'll say this about Kershaw, is that seeing
come out of the game, seeing him come out of
(19:14):
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, there is no reason to
not be cautiously optimistic about Kershaw the rest of the season.
I think that's the I think that's the the real
(19:35):
thing to say. I think that's the reality thing to say.
And it's only part one of the statement. Because while
I considure and say there's no reason to be cautious,
not to be cautiously optimistic, you can be because look it,
see there were no troubles. Kershaw seems all right. He's
already 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
(19:56):
his injury. I think that's how you have to start
looking at things. Now an athlete, 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
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 him at exactly the right time.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
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 two
(20:38):
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 four it Yeah, that's kind of where we're at.
You gotta go get two starting pitchers because you have
no Yamamoto, Miller, n You have no idea what's gonna
(21:01):
happen with these guys.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You can't just bank on them coming back.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
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 pittures. Coustually optimistic for Kershaw, which
is great, but two starting pitchers.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
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. Yeah no, no,
(21:35):
so yeah, it's it's all about managing expectations right now,
and the variability. Look, well, 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
(21:57):
pitcher attached to it, right, Yamamona, 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 Bueler, 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
(22:18):
and we'll see how that goes. For Kershaw, you're looking
at seventy five eighty 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
(22:40):
a first outing and as he builds back up. But
for Dave Roberts 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's
lead derails generally in the sixth. But now now you're
(23:04):
you're pushing that 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,
(23:25):
for for prospects 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 so good, sure,
but they're only five and a half out of a
while Guardian, I mean, that's one good week, right, that's
one series against insert struggling squad here to look all
(23:49):
pretty uh you know, and it's at the trade deadline,
so it's it's gonna be take a lot of ingenuity
here by the Dodgers, 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
(24:11):
the pitching side for now.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tyraq dot Com Studios. Uh, we'll 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
(24:33):
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 meds The Mets one A should be saying, yes,
we're gonna win the Gold Battle.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Let me tell you that is with hot take nonsense.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm measured today, but let's be real.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
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
(25:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Out of the net. But then in the second half
they kind of just were meh.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
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
(26:01):
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 set pieces being really terrible
and polistic. I don't know if he's lost his mojo
on him, but the women's set pieces were awful.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
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
(26:43):
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 look obviously. Missing the last
World Cup was huge because Alex Morgan wasn't good anymore.
(27:05):
She 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, I don't know how good Trinity Robin. Let
me see Trinity Robbin actually do it against against really
good competition. This is her first goal in Olympic competition
all year long. She finally scored today. But Mallory Swanson
(27:28):
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, great, you
(27:48):
know what.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That was fine.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
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 5 (27:57):
Jason, are you sure it's not Mary Swanson?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's not Mary Swanson?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Are you sure?
Speaker 7 (28:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
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 Swanson's, it's not.
It's not Ingus Winston from Benson.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh, nicely done.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's a good one. Though she died.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Oh no really, Oh why are you gotta bring up
the dog?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
You brought her up? And I say, now it's a
time to celebrate what was a great career.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
She was ninety, she had a great Runty was great exactly.
But anyway, in nineteen thirty, that's a great run for
Ingus Winston.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
So your point is that, right, the 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.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Sportsmanship, no, no, right is an opportunity to crush your
enemy and laying before you look they're they're center back Zulu.
She struggled, right, why Swanson was so wide open, great
ball movement, but the center of the defense was a
pathetic on all of those chances. Take advantage of them
(29:16):
and move on 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 1 (29:30):
Yeah, so you got that answer to repeat that they
was scored a direct kick in four years, Judy, can
you repeat that for us?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Like really, well, they.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
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
(30:00):
good ease. Uh, time and time again. Right, 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 know us in and keep going.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
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 3 (30:28):
You know, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Like you need to you what's the one thing we
saw they had trouble with scoring goals. Let let's get
let's get some confidence on some players that if they're
coming off the bench and playing big minutes, then we
can score more goals.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Right like that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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 know if
they've answered them. They certainly did what they had to
do today, but I'm again that will We'll find out
a lot more when they play Germany.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That's going to be it right there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
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
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Speaker 3 (32:08):
Off, I'm sorry, a likely pre ripped shirt.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's still it's still had the effect. You're right, we're
in Hollywood, baby, it's all about illusions.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Yeah, but dude, he and he need ripped like right
down the middle. I mean, come on, man, I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
He he's got that much power and control. It's a
testament to his greatness.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
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
on the head.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
It's like people are just finding out there's a costume
thing in the Taylor Swift concerts. Like, wait, it's a
velt crow. It's a felt crow shirt.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
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 (33:03):
Here's the audio of it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's it's Hulk Hogan and Dan Campbell looking at the camera,
Campbell grinning like a lunatic. And uh, here's Hulk Hogan,
uh doing his bit to up the Detroit Lions and
their fans.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Get ready for the season.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Ready two to one, Joe Miniac, Hulk Cogan here, the
greatest of all time and my new tag team partner
Campbell Mania. Brother, it's gonna run wild this year super Bowl.
Nothing but greatness, nothing but victory. So what you're gonna
do when the Detroit Lions in Campbell Mania runs wild
on you? Brother?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
What you're gonna do? I like how he doesn't count
all right? Here he got count down three two one.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Would say the one you never see, the one three
two pods go? Is this another one of his u study?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Yeah, you're telling Hulk Holgan how to cut a promo.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Damn right, I am, brother, I just like you went Trump?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Okay, Yeah, here we go three two way. What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I'm all up for it.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Well, it's what the red light came on? Is this
part of his real American beer tour?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
No?
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Well, he was going to the Walmarts and stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is this the thing now where Hogan's like, Okay, I'm seventy,
I can't really wrestle anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
It's not a whole thing. So I'm just gonna be
like Rick Flair.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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
blank Amania. Lions Mania, sure, Campbell Mania.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Sure. I'm leaving Detroit right now.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
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, right, a whole big.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Tour, like I feel like that's what he is. Now.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You're gonna see him in all kinds of places and locations.
Oh it's time for something Mania. Oh Higan's there.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Okay, great, Yeah, I'll have his gummies and everything else,
just like Rick Flair too. I mean, Prosperg 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 Rico, Peyton Manning, Kelly Clarkson and stoop Dog. Just
(35:13):
the way the guy says his name is really all
you need to know about what you're gonna get. But yeah,
you hit a 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 (35:34):
I'm gonna go do Rogers Mania Jets Camp, I'm gonna
do Solomnia, and I'm gonna brush my teeth.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
You watch. He'll 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 congrgate the man the opportunity. I mean,
(36:04):
it's still kind of weird that he was a you know,
a keynote speaker wearing a suit at a Republican convention, but.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Hey, he took the suit off, It took his other
shirt off. He was down to one show.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
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 (36:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I'm like, wow, what a big time move.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Like he doesn't stay and say hey, thanks a lot, Hulk,
how you doing, how things going? Appreciate just like yeah,
thanks man, Hey, al right, I gotta go, I gotta
take off. It's like, wow, this is Dan Campbell feeling it. Man,
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 it's just Hulk Hogan's standing there with
(36:50):
a camera. Guy was just really awful.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Look if the coaching thing hadn't worked out, Campbell, I mean,
if his body held up, he could have been a wrestler.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Uh you know hey, and it could still happen.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I can't tell.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Exit swollen dome. Do we have a great NFL story? Coming,
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twenty fifth, but it really could be seven eleven as well.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You know why seven eleven, seven eleven.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I know it's at seven twenty five, but it could
be seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You had a slurpee.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Because that's the Mets winning percentage in the Grimace era.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
After an extra in 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. Now.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
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
a sudden, the Mets, because of a fictional character who
(01:51):
was once brought in as a purveyor of evil to
McDonald land is now the most popular person in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Dude, you need to.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Stop bringing up the fact that Grimace was once brought
in as an evil.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Hey, listen, and he's a villain now because he's making
the Mets win.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
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.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Darth Vader is a bad guy man. That's what they say, yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
They don't say Tom Vader is a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They don't say Tom Riddle, who was once is a
student like everybody else did Hogwarts.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No, he was evil.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I what Grimace has changed. He has done the full
opposite heel turn. He's gone from macho man heel to hero.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
He's gonna he's all yeah, he's now a full hair. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
When's he gonna cut a promo with Dan Campbell pretty soon?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I mean, I mean we'll get to the Hulk Hogan
thing later.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
We get to go hang out with Robert Salah. Is
that the guy he's got to cut a promo with.
He's gotta go run stairs with him or something.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, dude, what did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If I was running for president on the the latest
addition to my platform would be remis 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
(03:14):
to win Wisconsin, said Grimace throughout the first ball. Give
the brewis a little bit of good luck. They need
it right there. Boom and all of a sudden, I'm
winning Wisconsin. I'm winning.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I send Grimmas to Detroit. Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
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 (03:30):
But going on, if you kept extrapolating it to Chicago,
there's gonna be no change.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh yeah, you know I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Vote, They're gonna vote. No. No, it's not changing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
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 (03:45):
I can't send Grimas to Chicago and suddenly, Oh I
can't turn that around, buddy, I just I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Nobody's turning that around. I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's just like in politics with some go you know what,
we're not going to spend any add money in that state?
Why because we're not We're 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 to the Marines, it give away this big lead. Okay,
that's fine, Hey, I said, I went Washington. Suddenly look
(04:19):
at me. I got the entire all the Northern States. Man,
I got them all all going, and they signed to
an exclusive. That's the question co opted here, dude. If 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 and say, hey, okay,
well you want to make the.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
World a better place. Yes I do. You can have Grimace.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, purple shake at a time and he just.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Comes with me all the campaign stops all across it says,
and you know all my campaign stops would be McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, sure I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I wouldn't go to a I wouldn't go to a
stadium or some kind of arena. No, away, I would
visit like five or six McDonald's in big cities over
the course of the day. I get to eat McDonald's
all day. Grimace hangs out it do all the big
that I talk about stuff. I get shakes when I
leave and I walk away.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
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.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Jason, enough for Grima's all right, it was Kershaw Day.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It was day. Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It was all excited as well.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
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 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Because I'm sitting in the studio, I'm like, I was
gonna get to watch Kershaw pitch tonight, tap ready day
game No.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
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.
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Will you call it the phrase phrase that pays?
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It'll be the phrase that pays? Did it when you
hear the touchstones? Be the fourteenth person of dial in
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This is not an actual contest. You know do anything,
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you help me with it?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
If it's what I think it is, I'll see you
in hell.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
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 3 (06:29):
Dylan Cees pitched a no hitter today.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
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, got a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I can't find that. Yeah, well I can't find that way.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
It's funny you were still able to tweet you. So
either mental telepathy has come to x or you've got
some kind of mega mind kind of thing going on
there which is scaring me. Maybe Doctor Xavier's School for
the Gifted, Like we'll be sitting all watching that this
weekend with the Deadpool movie coming out. But yeah, former
White Sox pitcher, uh, now even greater, although he's still
(07:07):
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 (07:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'd mean, look, if the White Sox still had Dylan
Sees dude, you may have like thirty wins this.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Ye know, we would just have well yeah, I mean
it would add three or three to five wins. You
might have like thirty wins 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.
(07:39):
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 Crochet is really good.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
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 pitchers ratings.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We have to take him out of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Ceasekets through seven innings at with ninety four pitches, right,
and and Mike Shildt, manager of the Padres, obviously that's
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
(08:22):
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
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
(08:43):
because it's a big number.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's three digits.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Stay there and forget about the fact that, well, look
at high stress innings instead, be a little bit more
in depth than just We'll 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.
(09:06):
He can get back, he can keep going. But if
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.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well no, obviously then that you want to worry about.
But here he was rolling through.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
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 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 gofort, he's
not gonna listen to upstairs and gms who are trying
to call through on the phone and get through and say.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
This is not what we discussed in the pregame meeting.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Jason love the fact they did that.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
What do you do when mentioning the Padres on kersha
a day, Well, it's a no hitter.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
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 (10:10):
The Padres are still standing looking way up at the
Dodgers matter, but.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
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
(10:35):
given up two hits in your 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.
(10:59):
But for a man, 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 because you know he wants to take his run
(11:22):
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. By the time he got to
a podium after the game, Uh, he was calm, collected
(11:45):
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.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Mike, I thought we just talked about this, well, we
talked about Gershaw.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You brought them up.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Look to get and there's another point to be made
off of this. It gets way bigger than the Padres, Right.
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
(12:30):
being the best trade deadline that I've ever been fortunate
enough to cover because there's so many teams that are
playing well and flawed. And that's the thing is that
teams that started out slow are all playing well now.
And that's a 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
(12:52):
really stumbling because they've had a lot of injuries, and
now they're one game away from looking up at the
Mets for the number one wild card. So you know,
the Braves have to make moves. Look at where the
Mets are. Of course, the Mets are going to 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
(13:12):
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.
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
(13:34):
the National League that are going to 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 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 Magrons were up by ten games and now suddenly
they're floundering. Here come the Rays after We're gonna trade everybody. Wait,
(13:57):
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.
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 (14:13):
I don't know how many big names.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's not gonna be where hey, hey, the Yankees are
gonna dump one 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
(14:37):
can't wait, and your White Sox may trade everybody, so
you could be right there.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
But I don't think that have many guys people are
wanting have you watch them play.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Everybody needs the crotch.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We'll trade everybody, but it's a bad team.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Payday. Crotch wants a new contract if you're gonna trade
for him. Talk about leverage.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Let's go exit out about a Fresca exit, swalling down.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
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Already in baseball, we had a no hitter coming up next, Yes,
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to think about now?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
With Kershaw? Plus?
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Speaker 4 (16:51):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
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Speaker 3 (17:17):
So I was talking with Frostburg a couple of seconds ago.
You know, curshaw Day is excited, roll it up up.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I kind of giggled. He goes, come on, man,
don't give me a fake laugh on Kershaw Day. 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. But it's his version
of the.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Right.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Don't compare, no, but it's.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
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 and Kershaw back.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, we have to 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 (18:10):
Well, and Matt Harvey didn't have a whole lot of
starts left.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
And yeah, but at the time it you know, yeah, at.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
The time, you full of hope. He saw what that guy.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
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 (18:23):
And you know what, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Celebrate greatness as we can.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But look, we'll get to a big Olympic story coming
up on a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, Kershaw did start today.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
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 kershaid and
Kershaw seemed to feel pretty good after the game. He
knew that he wasn't at this point ready to go
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.
(18:54):
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 a okay, great, and
they won. I'll say this about Kershaw, is that seeing
come out of the game, seeing him come out of
(19:14):
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, there is no reason to
not be cautiously optimistic about Kershaw the rest of the season.
I think that's the I think that's the the real
(19:35):
thing to say. I think that's the reality thing to say.
And it's only part one of the statement. Because while
I considure and say there's no reason to be cautious,
not to be cautiously optimistic, you can be because look it,
see there were no troubles. Kershaw seems all right. He's
already 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
(19:56):
his injury. I think that's how you have to start
looking at things. Now an athlete, 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
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 him at exactly the right time.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
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 two
(20:38):
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 four it Yeah, that's kind of where we're at.
You gotta go get two starting pitchers because you have
no Yamamoto, Miller, n You have no idea what's gonna
(21:01):
happen with these guys.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You can't just bank on them coming back.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
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 pittures. Coustually optimistic for Kershaw, which
is great, but two starting pitchers.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
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. Yeah no, no,
(21:35):
so yeah, it's it's all about managing expectations right now,
and the variability. Look, well, 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
(21:57):
pitcher attached to it, right, Yamamona, 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 Bueler, 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
(22:18):
and we'll see how that goes. For Kershaw, you're looking
at seventy five eighty 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
(22:40):
a first outing and as he builds back up. But
for Dave Roberts 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's
lead derails generally in the sixth. But now now you're
(23:04):
you're pushing that 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,
(23:25):
for for prospects 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 so good, sure,
but they're only five and a half out of a
while Guardian, I mean, that's one good week, right, that's
one series against insert struggling squad here to look all
(23:49):
pretty uh you know, and it's at the trade deadline,
so it's it's gonna be take a lot of ingenuity
here by the Dodgers, 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
(24:11):
the pitching side for now.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tyraq dot Com Studios. Uh, we'll 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
(24:33):
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 meds The Mets one A should be saying, yes,
we're gonna win the Gold Battle.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Let me tell you that is with hot take nonsense.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm measured today, but let's be real.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
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
(25:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Out of the net. But then in the second half
they kind of just were meh.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
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
(26:01):
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 set pieces being really terrible
and polistic. I don't know if he's lost his mojo
on him, but the women's set pieces were awful.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
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
(26:43):
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 look obviously. Missing the last
World Cup was huge because Alex Morgan wasn't good anymore.
(27:05):
She 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, I don't know how good Trinity Robin. Let
me see Trinity Robbin actually do it against against really
good competition. This is her first goal in Olympic competition
all year long. She finally scored today. But Mallory Swanson
(27:28):
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, great, you
(27:48):
know what.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That was fine.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
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 5 (27:57):
Jason, are you sure it's not Mary Swanson?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's not Mary Swanson?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Are you sure?
Speaker 7 (28:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
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 Swanson's, it's not.
It's not Ingus Winston from Benson.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh, nicely done.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's a good one. Though she died.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Oh no really, Oh why are you gotta bring up
the dog?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
You brought her up? And I say, now it's a
time to celebrate what was a great career.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
She was ninety, she had a great Runty was great exactly.
But anyway, in nineteen thirty, that's a great run for
Ingus Winston.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
So your point is that, right, the 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.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Sportsmanship, no, no, right is an opportunity to crush your
enemy and laying before you look they're they're center back Zulu.
She struggled, right, why Swanson was so wide open, great
ball movement, but the center of the defense was a
pathetic on all of those chances. Take advantage of them
(29:16):
and move on 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 1 (29:30):
Yeah, so you got that answer to repeat that they
was scored a direct kick in four years, Judy, can
you repeat that for us?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Like really, well, they.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
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
(30:00):
good ease. Uh, time and time again. Right, 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 know us in and keep going.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
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 3 (30:28):
You know, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Like you need to you what's the one thing we
saw they had trouble with scoring goals. Let let's get
let's get some confidence on some players that if they're
coming off the bench and playing big minutes, then we
can score more goals.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Right like that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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 know if
they've answered them. They certainly did what they had to
do today, but I'm again that will We'll find out
a lot more when they play Germany.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
That's going to be it right there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
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Speaker 3 (32:08):
Off, I'm sorry, a likely pre ripped shirt.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's still it's still had the effect. You're right, we're
in Hollywood, baby, it's all about illusions.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Yeah, but dude, he and he need ripped like right
down the middle. I mean, come on, man, I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
He he's got that much power and control. It's a
testament to his greatness.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
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
on the head.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
It's like people are just finding out there's a costume
thing in the Taylor Swift concerts. Like, wait, it's a
velt crow. It's a felt crow shirt.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
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 (33:03):
Here's the audio of it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's it's Hulk Hogan and Dan Campbell looking at the camera,
Campbell grinning like a lunatic. And uh, here's Hulk Hogan,
uh doing his bit to up the Detroit Lions and
their fans.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Get ready for the season.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Ready two to one, Joe Miniac, Hulk Cogan here, the
greatest of all time and my new tag team partner
Campbell Mania. Brother, it's gonna run wild this year super Bowl.
Nothing but greatness, nothing but victory. So what you're gonna
do when the Detroit Lions in Campbell Mania runs wild
on you? Brother?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
What you're gonna do? I like how he doesn't count
all right? Here he got count down three two one.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Would say the one you never see, the one three
two pods go? Is this another one of his u study?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Yeah, you're telling Hulk Holgan how to cut a promo.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Damn right, I am, brother, I just like you went Trump?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Okay, Yeah, here we go three two way. What are
you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I'm all up for it.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Well, it's what the red light came on? Is this
part of his real American beer tour?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
No?
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Well, he was going to the Walmarts and stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is this the thing now where Hogan's like, Okay, I'm seventy,
I can't really wrestle anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
It's not a whole thing. So I'm just gonna be
like Rick Flair.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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
blank Amania. Lions Mania, sure, Campbell Mania.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Sure. I'm leaving Detroit right now.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
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, right, a whole big.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Tour, like I feel like that's what he is. Now.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You're gonna see him in all kinds of places and locations.
Oh it's time for something Mania. Oh Higan's there.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Okay, great, Yeah, I'll have his gummies and everything else,
just like Rick Flair too. I mean, Prosperg 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 Rico, Peyton Manning, Kelly Clarkson and stoop Dog. Just
(35:13):
the way the guy says his name is really all
you need to know about what you're gonna get. But yeah,
you hit a 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 (35:34):
I'm gonna go do Rogers Mania Jets Camp, I'm gonna
do Solomnia, and I'm gonna brush my teeth.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
You watch. He'll 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 congrgate the man the opportunity. I mean,
(36:04):
it's still kind of weird that he was a you know,
a keynote speaker wearing a suit at a Republican convention, but.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Hey, he took the suit off, It took his other
shirt off. He was down to one show.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
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 (36:21):
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.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I'm like, wow, what a big time move.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Like he doesn't stay and say hey, thanks a lot, Hulk,
how you doing, how things going? Appreciate just like yeah,
thanks man, Hey, al right, I gotta go, I gotta
take off. It's like, wow, this is Dan Campbell feeling it. Man,
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 it's just Hulk Hogan's standing there with
(36:50):
a camera. Guy was just really awful.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Look if the coaching thing hadn't worked out, Campbell, I mean,
if his body held up, he could have been a wrestler.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Uh you know hey, and it could still happen.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I can't tell.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
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