August 3, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about the Olympics this year and wonder if the popularity of the Olympics is finally back!
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big Olympics story coming up in a minute, but gotta
mention this off the top here, you know, last couple
of days, I filled it on AM five seventy here
in Los Angeles on the Home of the Dodgers, and
(01:00):
I really feel like this is the biggest series of
the season for LA because they've had an awful last
couple of weeks. Their players are injured, they may move
to the deadline. The Padres are on fire. They need
to get well series, and they got a series against
the A's right like, this is exactly what they need.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They need, they need to.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Get well series. And here are the Dodgers and the
great This is exactly what we need. We got our
new star pitcher going on on Saturday night in Jack Flaherty,
and this is exactly what we need.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Right where injured players are on way of coming back.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The last thing you need is to is to go
in and be so bad that you're looking and suddenly, hey,
the Padres are three games out on Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right now, top of the.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Ninth inning, two outs, A's lead the Dodgers six to two. Now,
the A's have played better over the last month. Don't
get me wrong, they've been They've been better over the
last month. They're now only twenty games under five hundred,
but they have been better. But still, this is just
I mean, I mean it. This is the biggest season
of the year because the Dodgers are thinking, you're thinking
World Series on it, and for the first time you're
thinking about the Dodgers a wildcard team like this could
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be a wildcard team going into the playoffs like this,
this is your get what you need this series, and
all of a sudden you're looking at right now, we're
gonna lose the first game. Now, luckily the Rockies are
beating the Padres in the ninth inning, they're still the
padreyst look at the bat in the ninth and they've
had a lot of big comebacks the ninth inning. But still,
I mean, you need to start better than this. I mean,
this is doesn't matter that you're missing guys, this is
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Dodgers A's. This is where you have to say, okay,
we have to turn back into It's one thing to
lose two games of the Padres, Okay, I get it.
But here to start this weekend series off against the
A's and you're already losing game one. Wow, man, that
is not good.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, but I think it goes back to you know,
you tied it up by bringing up the Padres. Right
objecttion rear view mirror are closer than they appear.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
As good as that first six weeks of the season
was for the Dodgers, it has been anything but an
easy run this last month and a half two months.
The number of injuries that you're trying to battle through
and everything else and expecting every last one of these
guys to come back be fully healthy. Look what's happened
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to Clayton Kershaw? Right, it's the ugly thing there, right.
That book came out on him, and that's great, it'll
be a great read, a testament to his legacy and
history and all that fun stuff. But he's not been
right right, two rough starts since coming back, end of
that strikeout streak that went all the way back to
his rookie year, all of those kind of things. So
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it's just a tough run, right, And our prayers go
out to Freddie Freeman and his family, right, what's going
on with their son that carries a weight in the
locker room. You're banking on bets to come back and
jump right back in to where he was. Yeah, this
was the ultimate in your get right on the schedules
right when we go to our tankathon that you and
(03:55):
I love so much for basketball season and for this
one for Major League Baseball, given the number of games
and saying, all right, what's left, what's on the plus side,
what's on the negative side? In terms of series, this
is a series that you needed, not only a couple
of strong outings to get into this fifth sixth inning,
(04:16):
maybe steal into the seventh, but you're not getting that
against a putrid A's squad. It really does make you
sound the alarm there in Dodger Land.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So we'll have more baseball, Steve just saying, or we'll
have the big update coming up in about twenty five minutes.
But the biggest lesson we learned this week in the
world of sports, right, and yes it does tie into
what have we been watching all week during the day,
the Olympics. Over the course of the last few years,
the Olympics had kind of become not irrelevant because you know, look,
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everybody still watches, but they become big background sports. Hey,
the Olympics is going on. We'll have it on, But
how much we really paying attention? Is it something that's
front and burner news or the stories at the Olympics
more flavor stories. Hey, look what happened to you at
the Olympics. Oh, that's great, here's a gold medal, here,
here's this. The Olympics has sort of gone into that.
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And yes, we did have a couple of COVID Olympics,
and that was a big thing in twenty twenty one.
But the one thing you know for certain this week,
the Olympics are back, and they are back, and they
are better than.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
They have been in quite a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You look at some of the TV ratings this week,
and all I got to do is tell you how
the gymnastics final on Tuesday was a higher rated than
any NBA Finals game and the NFL draft. Okay, and
these are this is an Olympic. This is an Olympic
event that was on in the middle of the day,
like you're watching at home, like I'm watching at ten
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o'clock in the morning. People on the West East Coast
are watching at one o'clock in the afternoon. And the
gymnastics final has twelve thirteen million people watching, like the
Olympics is back, Like we're into it more. It's front
page story. It is pushed. This is when the NFL
usually is.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now, we're going last week of July, first week of August.
We're all in camp. We're taking all the headlines now.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
NFL has been fighting with the Olympics for the headlines
all week for a couple of reasons, and the biggest
one is that, hey, we got star power in the
Olympics that is unmatched. Right, Simone Biles super super duperstar.
When she does something, everybody stops and watches. Katie Ledecki
is a big superstar. Both basketball teams can't wait to see.
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The US women's game was the highest rated event the
first couple of days of the Olympics. Right, we have
the US women's soccer, which is a huge, huge, huge deal.
We have big time stars all over the place in
this Olympics and star power cells and when you have
the you know and look at the NFL. Hey guys
are coming to camp. But is it really big news? No, guys,
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they're they're playing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You see, there is room for other big superstars. It
doesn't just have to be here's the NFL. Everybody get
out of the way. No, As you've seen, more people
are paying attention to this and the star power can
come from anywhere. And it happens to be a big
star started Olympics and that's a great thing. But make
no mistake, you see what's going on this week and
the star power, that's the number one reason why everybody
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is all into this. Because all of a sudden, Hey,
I know, Katie Leadecky. I've been hearing from Katy Lidecky
for a few years now. I know some owned biles.
She's not someone brand new to me, right, I know
Caitlyn Clark had been. I've had the crash course and
the women's basketball over the course of the last few months,
in the last year with Kate Leclark. We know the
US women's soccer team, we know the men's basketball team.
These are all the star power is on display.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
It It is awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Well, but that's the thing, you know, you know me.
We were talking about soap operas earlier, right, and what
we watched. I used to get home and if there
wasn't a baseball game, my mom had General Hospital on.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So what did you do?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You sat with mom, You started your homeworking a half
assed thing. You watch General Hospital, so you got into it.
It's the same thing. We need storylines, you need characters,
you need build up. I watch professional wrestling.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You mock me.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I still love it, Summer slams tomorrow. But you need
a build for and an arc for the story. And
all of these have a huge arc of years of
trials and tribulation, of history and record setting and everything else.
Notice all of that you said, And then you've got
the men's national team over here, the basketball side, we've
got storylines for them. Everything else is women dominated this
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time around, women's soccer team, some own Biles talking about
mental health, talking about her return to form and the
greatness Katie Ladecki. Where we've got the only shots of
the men's swimming squad this time around is Michael Phelps
in the stands, cheering on you know, all of those
kind of things that flow through. But it's all a
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build up too. We want to see it pay off.
Oh and we're pretty sure every damn one of them
is going to win and win being right, how much
of a story was it with he finished with the
bronze Medal's like, wait, what, well, it's not really her
event and then oh wait fifteen hundred, Yeah, she's lapping people,
she's doing that fountain thing, doing a backstroke where she's
(09:12):
spitting water in the Not really, but it's that kind
of thing in Simone Biles and all the build up
to what this reclamation, playing, the Taylor swifts on, all
of that stuff, it's all that build the women's national
team for basketball, the Angel rees Caitlin Clark's subplot to it.
All that we've watched play out, and now it's where's
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Caitlin Clark in the world, which we'll get to. But
it's just the idea that you've got all this build
up and you know there's gonna be a huge payoff. Right,
this is where you know, all of that patriotism that
maybe shuffles under and for most folks here, it's like,
we're gonna win, and we're gonna win big. That's my
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team because guess what, you're a Mets fan. I'm a
White Sox fan. We win at anything.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
No, well, let's say wait, wait, wait a minute, wait
a minute, Hey, hang on, hang on, I'm in wildcard position. Man,
I make it the greatest, the greatest bad season in
baseball history, the ultimate winner.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, it doesn't. No, it doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But look, the other reason behind it is this, and
we got into it very briefly on the show the
other day.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Is that is it? Is it the right timing? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But I I really am a proponent of NBC has
figured out the right way to program the Olympics when
it's not in the United States, Right, You're talking about
these this number of people watching games where we're not
even close to our time zone, right, We're you're eight
hours you know, ahead behind it. I mean, he know
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what time is there? I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I can't even tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And still NBC has done such a great job of
not just making all the programming available, but you know
exactly where it is and there's no deviation from the
program If if they tell you, hey, Channel four is
gonna have women's soccer, and then it's gonna be uh,
men swimming, You're getting soccer and swimming. They're not gonna
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change and show you something that you want. If you
want men's handball and then and then you want women swimming,
that's gonna be on USA and they don't change.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it's you.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You, You are so in tune to I know exactly
where it is. I know the stations that it's on.
And if you want to stream, the streaming component is
so easy. It's so easy to find what you want.
You can type in your event, it tells you if
it's live, it tells you if it's archived. You can
watch it there too. Like this is this is really
where everything is kind of come together, right, Like what do.
(11:41):
I always say, why is Rogue one the best Star
Wars movie? Because it's where everything comes together. The acting
is really good, the the plot line is fantastic, the
special effects are where they all should be. Rogue one
is the best Star Wars movie. And I'll fight you
on that because everything comes together like this.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Is that in the podcast form?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But Pete, people are watching and they're able to watch
because everything has come together. I know where the events are,
I know what time they're on. I don't have to
worry about streaming. Look, for instance, my wife, who is
you know when it comes to the Olympics. She loves
all these different events, and I expect her, you know,
she normally says, wait, what channel is this on?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What channel is this on? What channel is this on? No,
she's got it all. Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I said, hey, I really wanted to watch the uh
the Turkey guy you know in shooting. Oh yeah, yeah,
here's right here, he's right here, he's got got it
right here. Oh okay, great. It's been so easy. And
that meant and that's not that's a big thing because
when you make it difficult to find something on television,
people are only gonna try for so long before because
it's the Olympic. Yeah, you know what, I can't find
and I'm moving, But they make it so easy to
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find and and they don't deviate. And when you know
where something is, you know how to find it, it
becomes easy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You gotta make it. It can't be too much work,
all right.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Because look, we're we're we're a country where you can
ask us a lot. You can ask a lot of us,
but there's certain things where it's you can only ask
so much. When something is on television, I gotta be
able to find it pretty easy. You can't make I
can't keep hunting around for stuff on that. We're just
not wired that way. Right now, If I have to
look more at coup for I can't even find it.
You find it. I'm frustrated. Then the phone rings or
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something else happens. To go get lunch. No, no, no,
When NBC has figured out a way to make everything
available in a way that is easy to consume, and
there's no stress, there's no anxiety of I want to
find this, What time is this going to be on?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Even when you look at the channel guide, like they
figured out the channel guide where hey ten to eleven
is going to be gymnastics and swimming, and then eleven
to twelve is going to be basketball and archery, and
then okay, great, and it doesn't deviate.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
From that, and they stay with the signs. They stay
with the schedule.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Like it's taken a bit to get through the streaming
era of sports here with the Olympics, but now it's
all come together. And that's another reason why the ratings
are so up, because everything is so easy to find. Well,
and that's it, right, if you have the Peacock subscription,
there it is.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It meetscha at the gate.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
And here you scroll left and right, there's all of
your your live and in living color events. And guess what,
they've compartmentalized everything else. You want to just see what's
going on in basketball, here's the upcoming schedule, here's the
upcoming soccer schedule. They do all of that and do
all the heavy lifting for you. I've got my YouTube
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TV subscription. All the stations that are carrying Olympic coverage
are bunched. Obviously NBC's up where it is normally where
when they've got events going on, but otherwise all the
cable components where you're on USA and everything else they're bunched.
This is not Hey, where the hell's true TV? On
my cable account and trying to find it? No, no, no,
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it's front and center. There's a lot of business being
transacted here. It's not getting hid in any way, shape
and form. And it is one of the rare sporting
events as well that folks are okay with not seeing
it live and they'll come back in prime time, right
because they're at work during the day. And for a
lot of folks, if you don't do what we do
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for a living, you could probably avoid a lot of
what's going on. You couldn't avoid that dude from Turkey.
You know, who was Deadpool or dead Shot? What was
the other guys? And what was Will Smith's character in
the other universe? Was that dead Shot?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh god, come on, you think I'm watching the U universe?
Come on, man, the DC universe. Want to mess that is?
I'm not going it's a mess. No, but I watched.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But either way, he was the guy that was the
expert marksman and then he was gone. And then Andrew
Zilba stepped in the second one, the Batman, Right.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Are you kidding? Come on back? And I'm very excited
about I'm really excited about the penguins here.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
But anyway, the point being that guy walked in off
the street, cold, no extra equipment whatever, and got after it.
So maybe because of the viral sensation that he was
you went and sought that out in the middle of
your work day. Otherwise you were ready to go sit
and watch a festival of winning from Ladecki, Biles and
everybody else, including the violin backed stories of storytellers for
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the greater NBC properties in primetime it all.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
What is next for Team USA? Who's not playing? Oh?
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Speaker 3 (17:40):
Men get set. Who's going to be the big d
n PCD? And you know, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Here's the thing about this, right, here's the thing about
about who's not going to play?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
This is this is one thing where I'm like, okay,
because you heard me talk many times, Hey, Steve Kerr
is the right guy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Of course he is.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
He's running things great, everything is awesome, right, it's a
it's a it's an over blown thing, right, over blown.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
The man used to working with egos and ego management.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
If he really wanted to, he could get everybody in right,
even if it's just a couple of minutes in the
first half, just a couple of minutes in the second half,
whether it's the final minute of the first half because
you want somebody to avoid foul trouble or something else.
If you really wanted to do it, you could get
everybody in right. And I get the whole Hey, there's
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only so many minutes you no, no, I get it.
But someone coming off the bench playing eighteen minutes, they
could play sixteen minutes. Hali Burton could have gotten a
minute or two in a game when it Matt.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Look, if the guys play when it matters, they don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's gonna be at the end where hey, we're beating
this team by twenty five, and here come these guys
that have so much pride they don't want to come
in and just and just come in like they're the
last guys on the bench.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But but if Steve Kerr really wanted to, I mean, like,
this guy's a professional head coach, is getting paid.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
A lot of money, He's won a lot of championships.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think if he really wanted to, he could get
everybody in and at least they could play. Everybody could
play at least a couple of minutes of ball when
it actually mattered. Right, You're getting an extra breath for
somebody for a couple of minutes. Here, a possession at
the end of the half, end of a you know,
end of a quarter. You want to get somebody out
for a minute. You could do that. You could do that,
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and you could say, all right, I'm replacing a similar
one player with a player with similar results. It's not like, well,
I'm taking a beat out and putting Haliburton in. Now,
you could do that. You could do that for these
guys are really good players. They'll give you their all.
You really could get everybody in if you wanted to.
All of a sudden this became there's only so many
minutes in all this. I'm like, nah, that's one thing
I'm gonna call scenanagainst on Steve Kurk for Yeah, in
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the end, you've got stressful minutes game flow opponent.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Right, you've already seen what South Sudan was gonna bring.
Did embeedd make sense in the style of play they
were gonna have? No, No, he did not, So he
sat And also, isn't it more respectful to say you're
not the mop up guy, because didn't you always feel
bad for the guys even if you were ceering for him,
you know, when they got off the end of the bench.
You know, when Syracuse was drumming a team by thirty
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in the final two minutes, and it was towards the
end of the regular season, it's like, all right, those
guys who've been practicing all year and have been around,
they're now gonna go in from mop up duty. You
felt bad for him, didn't you not to sacrifice it?
But and this is the only time they're actually gonna
get into a college game. Sure, they get into the
box score and they're gonna chuck a shot up as
soon as the ball hits their hands like it's on fire.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
But but there's the now that sucks.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
You're gonna play with the guys here when you may
need them, you may not. But it's also that going
back to the ego management. Steve Kerr as a player
watched Phil Jackson and Popovich do it, and certainly as
a coach, has had to, you know, pull the strings
a lot of times with some temperamental guys in his
locker room. Stef's the guy with the easy Hey. You know,
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his heartbeat never changes, his heart rate stays the same
no matter how good or poor a hand he's playing it.
But the other guys, no, I don't know. It's a
lot of stressful minutes for this. Yeah, he could pull
the strings if he wants to. Clearly he doesn't feel
the need to, because, as I've told you, in three
weeks they go their separate ways into vacations with gold
medals around their neck. And if anybody wants to carry beef,
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come get me. You know where I'm at. I'm located
in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Now. We moved from Oakland.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Exit out by to Fresca Exit Swallen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
So just yeah, it doesn't need to be this difficult.
It could be just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Easier, right, But look, we need hot takery though I know,
but everything else really is over Look, we were the
first one to tell you all this stuff is overblown.
It's all overblown. Nobody is going crazy, nobody's doing in.
It is not going to be an ESPN story. Sources.
Joelle Embiid fought Steve Kerr in the locker room. You know,
after the last game, you know against South su Dad.
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You know, Lebron James has decided he's going home. That's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Well, if Embiide has anything to say, though, Jay, he'll
say it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It may take a week or two after the Olympics,
he'll go on a podcast. What does medal doesn't matter?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
But that's just it. Eventually he may have his say.
But they're all professional enough. They signed up for this,
whatever promises were made. But don't tell me they didn't know,
each one of them having a long discussion with their agents, managers, accountants,
and everybody else as to why participating in the US
men's national team and going towards a gold medal wasn't
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the best thing for their careers and for their financial futures,
their Q raiding and everything else.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Every one of them did that, So you know what,
you suck it up for two to three weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
May not be easy, but going back to the adage
of you know, last hour, you can do anything that's
hard for a little while. A class you don't want
to take, a task at a job you don't want
to someone you got to work with that you dislike immensely,
which is why I appreciate you every night with the
by best friend and the thank yous in the Twitter
verse of course positivity see appropriate sucking up, but the
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idea being that you could do the hard for a
little while knowing that it's going to pay off in
the long run, and that's what each of these guys
has to do. Tatum was really brutally honest, and if
nothing else, maybe he's a better professional for it going forward, recognizing, dude,
that sucks. That felt terrible to not be the A
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list guy, because face it, since he was what eight
he's been the A list guy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Humility is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon live from the Tyraq dot
com Studios. We got more coming up in ninety seconds.
But first, a man who was spending his last night
with us here at Fox Sports Radio because tomorrow he's
hitting clean up for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
It's Steve the Seger. I thought he was gonna pitch.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
I thought I was gonna pitch. Yeah. The Dodgers lost
at Oakland six to five. The lost to Gavin st
Attendance was twenty one thousand, largest of the year in Oakland,
shoey Otani with a late three run homer, his thirty third.
He'd had nineteen straight played appearances without a hit. Freddie
Freeman of La still out due to a family illness.
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The Dodgers in July went eleven and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Lost.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Tonight on the road. San Diego lost at home to
Colorado five two, a Rockies team that was forty and
seventy this year and had two and seven. Austin Gomber
on the mound he got the win. The Mets with
Paul Blackburn got the win five to one at the Angels.
Seattle rip Philadelphia ten to two. That's five straight losses
for the Pills. They were down eight nothing in the
(24:38):
second inning. Justin Turner with an early grand slam for Seattle.
Brian Woo five and one, went seven innings for the win.
We did have a no hitter earlier tonight from the Giants.
Blake Snell three nothing to win for San Francisco at Cincinnati.
Snell eleven strikeouts, three walks. Minnesota sent the White Sox
to an eighteenth straight loss, ten to two. The Twins
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had three homers. The White Sox had three hits, three
for twenty nine at the plate with eleven strike.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Wait was that good? Doesn't be no? No, not good?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
All right?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
In fact, the White Sox during this long losing streak
had been outscored one twelve to thirty nine. Houston beat
Tampa Bay three to two. You say, Kikuchi coact, it
deserves to be said twelve twelve.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
That's like, oh my goodness, that left more than deadpool.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What was a score of the Globe Trotters General's game?
It was one twelve to thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, okay, all right? Which night? All night?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I saw a stat that the White Sox are the
fastest team to get to eighty five losses in a
season since the nineteen thirty two Red Sox. So I
looked up the nineteen thirty two Red Sox. They lost
one hundred eleven that year. But remember it was a
shorter schedule back in those days. Those Red Sox in
nineteen thirty two finished sixty four games back the champion Yankees.
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So staying tuned on that division standings. By the end
of this one, wow, Cleveland one, it's fifth and away.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I really think you're going to say fastest team to
leave town after.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Well, I mean Hermon's a wrestling fan, isn't it loser
leaves town?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They should have loved a long time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Look, man, we did the whole thing with the US
women's team when they played the WA NBA All Stars
that losers should have stayed. That's right, But in this
case you can't get out of town fast enough.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Cleveland won it's fifth row, Kansas City one it's fifth
and row. US women's soccer plays its quarterfinals Saturday morning
against Japan and yes, Canada is still alive. It'll play
Germany tomorrow. US men's soccer lost its quarter final at
the Olympics four nothing to Morocco, and France eliminated Argentina
one to nothing. On Saturday, US men's basketball plays Puerto Rico,
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which is zero and two. US men's hoops in the
Olympics has won thirty two of its last thirty three games.
As far as women's basketball, the US at two O
faces Germany to and oh on Sunday. The Americans easily
beat them. In a recent tune up game, Back to You.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tirec dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well you know, I always know.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And this is a weird thing, Mike, because here we are,
you know, very beginning of August August second, and everybody's
in training camp. And look, we spend the entire year
talking about football from from different angles, and there's always news,
there's always something happening, and the season comes and it's
it's awesome. But there's always a time for me when
(27:35):
I know personally, like, Okay, I'm ready for football, Like, Okay,
it's been it's been great, right, like, and I can't
wait to see how the rest of this year goes
for the Mets and other team. But there's probably okay,
you know what I need football. I need to add
football into my life. And it doesn't always come on
the first day of training camp. It does always come
when teams report because now there's no real games to
(27:56):
look forward to because you don't see the star players.
You hardly get to see them. The only time they're
really on the field is when they play in these
these big joint practices that you have to just find
highlights on Twitter for. So the preseason has become more
of a we're still waiting. Yes, they're around, and there's news,
were talking but it's still the enjoyment of just watching
and getting that immediate feedback is kind of gone. But
(28:19):
I always know when I'm ready, because invariably the last
few years, I have some kind of crazy ass dream
that involves football that I go, okay, you know what,
I know, I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'm ready for the Aava song singing in the back.
And I had agree like last year.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Remember I remember having the dream where the Jets called
me and asked me to take care of Zach Wilson
because he was appearing at a restaurant and he was
going to sign autographs and answer questions and they wanted
me to help him and not answer stuff about Aaron
Rodgers and say what to say.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And that was my because I still remember that dream.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I remember talking about that and really being worried for
your samite or you're just Jets obsession and whether Zach
Wilson was safe.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well yeah, no, well there's that too. I mean, there's
all those things.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But then then I get what happened last night where
I had a dream my wife and I are out
at a restaurant and Bill Belichick comes over to our table,
right right, it's a regular restaurant where I don't.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Belichick comes over and which restaurant? And you only go
like five places? You know, it's not. No, it wasn't McDonald's.
It wasn't like you know, wasn't anything.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
He goes to Wendy's, doesn't he isn't that where he
went after one of those horrible Oh.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah he did, that's right, Yeah he did. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
He goes out of the sea, goes out of the
ball pit, and he says to me, no. He comes over,
he says, can I sit down? And I say sure,
and he sits down and all of a sudden, like,
you know, my dreams are never like I always feel
like this is something that everybody should talk about, like
how do your dreams really go? Are they just haphazard
and crazy ass stuff happens because I watch how dream
sequences come on televisions, Like, no, it's not at all
(29:55):
my dream goes so like he sits down and all
of a sudden, he's eating pasta. He's rolling spaghet up
on his fork, and he is telling me all kinds
of stories and he's laughing the entire time about different players,
about different things that happened, and I'm laughing and he's
laughing and he can't stop laughing. And all of a sudden,
other servers are coming over and they're standing around our
(30:16):
table and they're laughing at stories he's telling. And I
wish I could remember some of the story, but I can't.
I don't remember anything of what he was saying. But
he was telling these funny stories that people were standing around,
and I'm like, oh my god, this is great.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I want to write this down. I keep telling my wife.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I was telling my wife, where's my phone so I
can write down some of these stories so I could
tell him on the show this is going to be awesome.
And then I wake up and I realize I have
to go to the bathroom really bad. I really have
to go to the bathroom. So I gonna go to
the bathroom. I laid back down, I go what were
some of those stories?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
He was telling me? What so I could say?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And I couldn't remember what they were, but it was
that's a moment I go, okay, you know what, I'm
ready for football? I read I had the dream Belichick
shows up at a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I am ready for football. Now, I am absolutely with
this is the dream that tells me it's time. It's
time for that asumption of football. I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
It's funny as you described that, I'm thinking of the
old Seinfeld episode where he's written something down on a
piece of paper and he can't remember and they're guessing it,
and then at the end of the episode it's Larry
David screaming about blowing.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Orbs or something.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
That's like, that's not funny. But yeah, your stories out
of dreamland are interesting. Most folks are not safe for
anything but safe harbor or really uncover some deep disturbing
thing here. What you're just your obsession with Jets and
Jets enemies.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, because Zach Wilson became your enemy. And that's before
he changed teams. He was everybody's enemy.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Come on, man, come on bombs Oh no, but come
on for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I mean, this is half your life. This guy is
probably you would call him your nemesis.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, that is true. It has been a long time and.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Right especially because not only did he go and he
beat your team repeatedly, he also was your coach for
what a day?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, no, no, he was. No, you're right, you're right.
Now some folks don't know that though some folks don't
remember that true. Hey, you know, we try for everybody in.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
We appreciate you wherever you're coming in. However you came
into the show, thanks for being part of the extended family.
And Jason's misery coach for a day.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yep, that was it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
No, but I realize at least where the setting was from, Like,
why was at a restaurant and he's out he's eating
spaghetti Like the last three days my wife and I
have been season three of The Bear. Okay, And I'll
tell you this after my dream and you know, after
the last I'm less pissed at Belichick from everything the
last twenty years that I am at season three of
The Bear because Season three was just so terrible. There's
(32:45):
nothing happens in this. I mean, I'm like, I can't
believe this got greenlit. I told you when I was watching.
We were texting about it yesterday. I'm like, I feel
like they did this during the writer strike when no
one could write anything. It's like, doesn't matter, We'll just
add lib a bunch of stuff. But there's no story. No,
there's absolutely no story. I can recap ten episodes ten
hours of television in four seconds because I tried by vice.
(33:07):
So here's the season. I missay anything, she goes no, like,
nothing happens. It's just all these shots and they go
back in time, and I'm like, I don't understand how
this gets on TV. How they go, yes, let's put
this out as our season. They're like, nobody looks good.
It's it's not getting good reviews. And I knew it was.
I was nervous when it was suddenly they said, hey,
all episodes A of the Bear streaming July twenty seventh.
Wha wait, really all they're dropping all the episodes at once.
(33:30):
This tells me this is not a great season. And
not only was it not great, it's the point where
I don't know if I want to come back for
season four because I feel like it's just gonna be
more of the same stuff. I mean, there was there
were ten brilliant minutes in one episode. I mean, that's it,
and it dearly have anything to do with a plot,
but they were ten brilliant minutes in one episode, and
I sure as hell say right now go. I'm more
med at the ten hours I spent watching season three
(33:52):
of the Bear than whatever Belichick beat the Jets the
last twenty years, because least that's in the past, that's
way in the past.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Hasn't happened. We beat him in his last game, retired
Belichick from the Patriots. It was awesome. It all love matters.
What have you done for me lately?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
The Jets won the last game, he walked off with
his big mask on his face and he pruddled off
the field.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
So I'm okay with that. I'm really more mad at
the Bear. Yeah. No, that was a lot of wasted time, I.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Think, yeah, yeah, I want those ten hours back in.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
In terms of setting stuff up right, I don't know
what the big build is. We got some great scenes.
Oliver Platt was great, the acting was great, But from
a straight plot development and what a season is supposed
to build towards, I felt like I was running in place.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
It was. I mean, it was so awful. I can't
understand how how that was.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Like, Yes, let's film this and make this a season
where nothing happens. The final episode, I'm like, We're eighteen
minutes into the episode and absolutely nothing has happened. It's
been someone looking at something and flashbacks that we don't
need Nothing has happened in eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
What the hell is going on again?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And this tells you how much I hated it, because
I'm less mad at Bill Belichick for leaving the Jets
and all the winds he's had, all the Super Bowls
the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm less mad at him for that. Now, what does
that tell you? No, it's only for a minute.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
That'll come back because football season will bring back the
latent hate. You'll forget about the bear and you'll move
on and Belichick will be on all his media operatives.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Right, he's got four or five jobs.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Now, he does have a lot to be there, Right,
He's going to be there staring in the face.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, No, he does have a lot of job. He
is be doing a lot. Maybe he'll be laughing like that,
who knows, Maybe he will be exit, exit out about
a Fresco exit swelling down. The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we get
back into the biggest story of the day and it
came to us courtesy of Sports Television.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's next right here, Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific Sports.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Live from the tyrac dot Com studios. We'll get back
into the big breaking story of the night, the no
hitter by Blake Snell coming up at about ten minutes
and what shocks us most about this game, but the
biggest story today and it kind of took a lot
(36:21):
of people by surprise. You know, you knew was coming.
Skip Bayless had his final day at Fox Sports one
on Undisputed. Nobody knew it was coming today. He did
the show like normal and then put out a message
on social media today was my last day.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I have other things coming in the future. See you
all soon. You know what you normally get.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
We knew that Skip was leaving, and there's been a
lot of drama back and forth between hosts who are
on the show and not on the show and Skip
and ratings and all kinds of crazy stuff. And I
know there's a lot of different ways to look at this,
and may look people who are fans of Skip on
the air and not fans of Skip on the air.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
And I'll just tell you something.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I'll tell you the same thing about Fox Sports One
that I told you about ESPN.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I worked at both places, right, both big rivals. Now Here,
I'll tell you the same thing. Skip Bayless was huge
for FS one. Okay, when Fox Sports One wanted to
realize this is where sports is going. We want to
embrace debate, we want to build the network around that.
So here comes Skip Bayless. They hire Colin Coward, Right,
(37:25):
Chris Bussard is on first things first, this is how
they wanted to build the network, and Skip was the
big star that they brought in. Hey, and all of
a sudden, that gave Fox Sports One gravitas.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
It gave it relevancy.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I know there's always the argument that, boy, everybody's fighting
over hardly.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Any viewers during the day. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
But still at the same time, like I said, it's gravitas.
It's people talking about what was said on the air
during the day, whether it's Steven A. Smith or Skip Bayless,
whoever it was, so you could say what you want.
You know about Skin, like I said, I barely know
the guy. I did a couple of days with him
on when first take was a cold pizza years ago.
(38:04):
Look at you, Yeah, so I haven't saw but I
haven't talked to Skip in fifteen years. But just understand
that Skip was huge for FS one, and now whenever
FS one continues to become out of this, Hey, all
of a sudden, Fox Sports one went from we're trying
to find our footing to we got Women's World Cup games,
We got all kinds of games that are on now,
and Fox Sports one is now going toe to toe
(38:26):
with ESPN. And it's because you get the gravitas and
the cachet by hiring Skip and Colin and guys like that,
and Skip, and Skip was the biggest name to commit,
and so it's like, whoa, He's bringing all this relevancy
to Fox Sports one. And I'm not saying it's just
because I'm a Fox guy. Look, I haven't worked one
day over at Fox Sports one. It's the same thing
at ESPN with Chris Berman, Right, some people don't like
(38:49):
Chris Berman. They make fun of Look, we do a
fun thing with bourbon and doing stories, which is great,
but there's such the anti Berman out there now, and
Berman's getting reducted by ESPN. He's doing less and less.
I'm like, the dude built the bleep in network, man.
I mean, seriously, the dude built the network. I remember
when he got in office when I was a PA there.
He got an office and there was a lot of
(39:10):
people who are up to I've been here as long
as Chris Permon.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Why did I get in office? Dude?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
ESPN is the worldwide leader because of him, because of
what he did. And yes, time goes on and are
new people coming in and doing different things and new ideas. Yeah,
but understand ESPN is what it is because of him, right,
It's because of him. It's the same thing. You look
at Fox Sports one. Oh, Skip bad, I didn't like
what he said here. I didn't like this. Yeah, but
you know what, Fox Sports one is what it is
(39:35):
because of him. So that's kind of the real impact
that you have looking back at Okay, here's the eerr
of Skip at Fox Sports one. Who knows what's next
for undisputed everything else. But that's the real legacy right there.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
I mean, you have events, but you need people to
hype them. People do build them up and have the
tongues wagging, and Skip did that for all these years.
And you talk about you don't have to like it's
you don't like it, don't watch but you paid attention.
So many folks celebrating him his you know, departure today
and just made me laugh because most of them have
(40:11):
no content, if not for Skip, for us, for steven A,
for Colin, for you know, the voices that they decide
they want to rail against because they got nothing to
say themselves. So they're gonna Misskip quite a bit. So yeah,
whatever the next iteration comes. You know, some of the
stuff we've kind of predicted behind the scenes looks like
(40:31):
it's coming to fruition. So not only could we be
shadow coaches at times, maybe some programming decisions like are
all channels what we do it around the NCAA tournament
and all. But yeah, I mean they had a hell
of a run.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And for Fox.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Sports One, you see, excited to launch into their next
era and what it becomes. But you know, he's a guy,
love him or hate him. He moved the needle and
got tongues wagon.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome. The Jason
Smith Show with mo I best friend Mike Carmon Coming
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Speaker 3 (41:05):
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big Olympics story coming up in a minute, but gotta
mention this off the top here, you know, last couple
of days, I filled it on AM five seventy here
in Los Angeles on the Home of the Dodgers, and
(01:00):
I really feel like this is the biggest series of
the season for LA because they've had an awful last
couple of weeks. Their players are injured, they may move
to the deadline. The Padres are on fire. They need
to get well series, and they got a series against
the A's right like, this is exactly what they need.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They need, they need to.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Get well series. And here are the Dodgers and the
great This is exactly what we need. We got our
new star pitcher going on on Saturday night in Jack Flaherty,
and this is exactly what we need.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Right where injured players are on way of coming back.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The last thing you need is to is to go
in and be so bad that you're looking and suddenly, hey,
the Padres are three games out on Monday morning.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right now, top of the.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Ninth inning, two outs, A's lead the Dodgers six to two. Now,
the A's have played better over the last month. Don't
get me wrong, they've been They've been better over the
last month. They're now only twenty games under five hundred,
but they have been better. But still, this is just
I mean, I mean it. This is the biggest season
of the year because the Dodgers are thinking, you're thinking
World Series on it, and for the first time you're
thinking about the Dodgers a wildcard team like this could
(02:04):
be a wildcard team going into the playoffs like this,
this is your get what you need this series, and
all of a sudden you're looking at right now, we're
gonna lose the first game. Now, luckily the Rockies are
beating the Padres in the ninth inning, they're still the
padreyst look at the bat in the ninth and they've
had a lot of big comebacks the ninth inning. But still,
I mean, you need to start better than this. I mean,
this is doesn't matter that you're missing guys, this is
(02:27):
Dodgers A's. This is where you have to say, okay,
we have to turn back into It's one thing to
lose two games of the Padres, Okay, I get it.
But here to start this weekend series off against the
A's and you're already losing game one. Wow, man, that
is not good.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, but I think it goes back to you know,
you tied it up by bringing up the Padres. Right
objecttion rear view mirror are closer than they appear.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
As good as that first six weeks of the season
was for the Dodgers, it has been anything but an
easy run this last month and a half two months.
The number of injuries that you're trying to battle through
and everything else and expecting every last one of these
guys to come back be fully healthy. Look what's happened
(03:11):
to Clayton Kershaw? Right, it's the ugly thing there, right.
That book came out on him, and that's great, it'll
be a great read, a testament to his legacy and
history and all that fun stuff. But he's not been
right right, two rough starts since coming back, end of
that strikeout streak that went all the way back to
his rookie year, all of those kind of things. So
(03:33):
it's just a tough run, right, And our prayers go
out to Freddie Freeman and his family, right, what's going
on with their son that carries a weight in the
locker room. You're banking on bets to come back and
jump right back in to where he was. Yeah, this
was the ultimate in your get right on the schedules
right when we go to our tankathon that you and
(03:55):
I love so much for basketball season and for this
one for Major League Baseball, given the number of games
and saying, all right, what's left, what's on the plus side,
what's on the negative side? In terms of series, this
is a series that you needed, not only a couple
of strong outings to get into this fifth sixth inning,
(04:16):
maybe steal into the seventh, but you're not getting that
against a putrid A's squad. It really does make you
sound the alarm there in Dodger Land.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So we'll have more baseball, Steve just saying, or we'll
have the big update coming up in about twenty five minutes.
But the biggest lesson we learned this week in the
world of sports, right, and yes it does tie into
what have we been watching all week during the day,
the Olympics. Over the course of the last few years,
the Olympics had kind of become not irrelevant because you know, look,
(04:49):
everybody still watches, but they become big background sports. Hey,
the Olympics is going on. We'll have it on, But
how much we really paying attention? Is it something that's
front and burner news or the stories at the Olympics
more flavor stories. Hey, look what happened to you at
the Olympics. Oh, that's great, here's a gold medal, here,
here's this. The Olympics has sort of gone into that.
(05:10):
And yes, we did have a couple of COVID Olympics,
and that was a big thing in twenty twenty one.
But the one thing you know for certain this week,
the Olympics are back, and they are back, and they
are better than.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
They have been in quite a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You look at some of the TV ratings this week,
and all I got to do is tell you how
the gymnastics final on Tuesday was a higher rated than
any NBA Finals game and the NFL draft. Okay, and
these are this is an Olympic. This is an Olympic
event that was on in the middle of the day,
like you're watching at home, like I'm watching at ten
(05:45):
o'clock in the morning. People on the West East Coast
are watching at one o'clock in the afternoon. And the
gymnastics final has twelve thirteen million people watching, like the
Olympics is back, Like we're into it more. It's front
page story. It is pushed. This is when the NFL
usually is.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now, we're going last week of July, first week of August.
We're all in camp. We're taking all the headlines now.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
NFL has been fighting with the Olympics for the headlines
all week for a couple of reasons, and the biggest
one is that, hey, we got star power in the
Olympics that is unmatched. Right, Simone Biles super super duperstar.
When she does something, everybody stops and watches. Katie Ledecki
is a big superstar. Both basketball teams can't wait to see.
(06:30):
The US women's game was the highest rated event the
first couple of days of the Olympics. Right, we have
the US women's soccer, which is a huge, huge, huge deal.
We have big time stars all over the place in
this Olympics and star power cells and when you have
the you know and look at the NFL. Hey guys
are coming to camp. But is it really big news? No, guys,
(06:52):
they're they're playing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You see, there is room for other big superstars. It
doesn't just have to be here's the NFL. Everybody get
out of the way. No, As you've seen, more people
are paying attention to this and the star power can
come from anywhere. And it happens to be a big
star started Olympics and that's a great thing. But make
no mistake, you see what's going on this week and
the star power, that's the number one reason why everybody
(07:16):
is all into this. Because all of a sudden, Hey,
I know, Katie Leadecky. I've been hearing from Katy Lidecky
for a few years now. I know some owned biles.
She's not someone brand new to me, right, I know
Caitlyn Clark had been. I've had the crash course and
the women's basketball over the course of the last few months,
in the last year with Kate Leclark. We know the
US women's soccer team, we know the men's basketball team.
These are all the star power is on display.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
It It is awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Well, but that's the thing, you know, you know me.
We were talking about soap operas earlier, right, and what
we watched. I used to get home and if there
wasn't a baseball game, my mom had General Hospital on.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So what did you do?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You sat with mom, You started your homeworking a half
assed thing. You watch General Hospital, so you got into it.
It's the same thing. We need storylines, you need characters,
you need build up. I watch professional wrestling.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You mock me.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I still love it, Summer slams tomorrow. But you need
a build for and an arc for the story. And
all of these have a huge arc of years of
trials and tribulation, of history and record setting and everything else.
Notice all of that you said, And then you've got
the men's national team over here, the basketball side, we've
got storylines for them. Everything else is women dominated this
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time around, women's soccer team, some own Biles talking about
mental health, talking about her return to form and the
greatness Katie Ladecki. Where we've got the only shots of
the men's swimming squad this time around is Michael Phelps
in the stands, cheering on you know, all of those
kind of things that flow through. But it's all a
(08:48):
build up too. We want to see it pay off.
Oh and we're pretty sure every damn one of them
is going to win and win being right, how much
of a story was it with he finished with the
bronze Medal's like, wait, what, well, it's not really her
event and then oh wait fifteen hundred, Yeah, she's lapping people,
she's doing that fountain thing, doing a backstroke where she's
(09:12):
spitting water in the Not really, but it's that kind
of thing in Simone Biles and all the build up
to what this reclamation, playing, the Taylor swifts on, all
of that stuff, it's all that build the women's national
team for basketball, the Angel rees Caitlin Clark's subplot to it.
All that we've watched play out, and now it's where's
(09:34):
Caitlin Clark in the world, which we'll get to. But
it's just the idea that you've got all this build
up and you know there's gonna be a huge payoff. Right,
this is where you know, all of that patriotism that
maybe shuffles under and for most folks here, it's like,
we're gonna win, and we're gonna win big. That's my
(09:54):
team because guess what, you're a Mets fan. I'm a
White Sox fan. We win at anything.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
No, well, let's say wait, wait, wait a minute, wait
a minute, Hey, hang on, hang on, I'm in wildcard position. Man,
I make it the greatest, the greatest bad season in
baseball history, the ultimate winner.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, it doesn't. No, it doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But look, the other reason behind it is this, and
we got into it very briefly on the show the
other day.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Is that is it? Is it the right timing? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
But I I really am a proponent of NBC has
figured out the right way to program the Olympics when
it's not in the United States, Right, You're talking about
these this number of people watching games where we're not
even close to our time zone, right, We're you're eight
hours you know, ahead behind it. I mean, he know
(10:46):
what time is there? I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I can't even tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And still NBC has done such a great job of
not just making all the programming available, but you know
exactly where it is and there's no deviation from the
program If if they tell you, hey, Channel four is
gonna have women's soccer, and then it's gonna be uh,
men swimming, You're getting soccer and swimming. They're not gonna
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change and show you something that you want. If you
want men's handball and then and then you want women swimming,
that's gonna be on USA and they don't change.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it's you.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You, You are so in tune to I know exactly
where it is. I know the stations that it's on.
And if you want to stream, the streaming component is
so easy. It's so easy to find what you want.
You can type in your event, it tells you if
it's live, it tells you if it's archived. You can
watch it there too. Like this is this is really
where everything is kind of come together, right, Like what do.
(11:41):
I always say, why is Rogue one the best Star
Wars movie? Because it's where everything comes together. The acting
is really good, the the plot line is fantastic, the
special effects are where they all should be. Rogue one
is the best Star Wars movie. And I'll fight you
on that because everything comes together like this.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Is that in the podcast form?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But Pete, people are watching and they're able to watch
because everything has come together. I know where the events are,
I know what time they're on. I don't have to
worry about streaming. Look, for instance, my wife, who is
you know when it comes to the Olympics. She loves
all these different events, and I expect her, you know,
she normally says, wait, what channel is this on?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
What channel is this on? What channel is this on? No,
she's got it all. Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I said, hey, I really wanted to watch the uh
the Turkey guy you know in shooting. Oh yeah, yeah,
here's right here, he's right here, he's got got it
right here. Oh okay, great. It's been so easy. And
that meant and that's not that's a big thing because
when you make it difficult to find something on television,
people are only gonna try for so long before because
it's the Olympic. Yeah, you know what, I can't find
and I'm moving, But they make it so easy to
(12:41):
find and and they don't deviate. And when you know
where something is, you know how to find it, it
becomes easy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You gotta make it. It can't be too much work,
all right.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Because look, we're we're we're a country where you can
ask us a lot. You can ask a lot of us,
but there's certain things where it's you can only ask
so much. When something is on television, I gotta be
able to find it pretty easy. You can't make I
can't keep hunting around for stuff on that. We're just
not wired that way. Right now, If I have to
look more at coup for I can't even find it.
You find it. I'm frustrated. Then the phone rings or
(13:12):
something else happens. To go get lunch. No, no, no,
When NBC has figured out a way to make everything
available in a way that is easy to consume, and
there's no stress, there's no anxiety of I want to
find this, What time is this going to be on?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Even when you look at the channel guide, like they
figured out the channel guide where hey ten to eleven
is going to be gymnastics and swimming, and then eleven
to twelve is going to be basketball and archery, and
then okay, great, and it doesn't deviate.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
From that, and they stay with the signs. They stay
with the schedule.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Like it's taken a bit to get through the streaming
era of sports here with the Olympics, but now it's
all come together. And that's another reason why the ratings
are so up, because everything is so easy to find. Well,
and that's it, right, if you have the Peacock subscription,
there it is.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It meetscha at the gate.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
And here you scroll left and right, there's all of
your your live and in living color events. And guess what,
they've compartmentalized everything else. You want to just see what's
going on in basketball, here's the upcoming schedule, here's the
upcoming soccer schedule. They do all of that and do
all the heavy lifting for you. I've got my YouTube
(14:22):
TV subscription. All the stations that are carrying Olympic coverage
are bunched. Obviously NBC's up where it is normally where
when they've got events going on, but otherwise all the
cable components where you're on USA and everything else they're bunched.
This is not Hey, where the hell's true TV? On
my cable account and trying to find it? No, no, no,
(14:45):
it's front and center. There's a lot of business being
transacted here. It's not getting hid in any way, shape
and form. And it is one of the rare sporting
events as well that folks are okay with not seeing
it live and they'll come back in prime time, right
because they're at work during the day. And for a
lot of folks, if you don't do what we do
(15:07):
for a living, you could probably avoid a lot of
what's going on. You couldn't avoid that dude from Turkey.
You know, who was Deadpool or dead Shot? What was
the other guys? And what was Will Smith's character in
the other universe? Was that dead Shot?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh god, come on, you think I'm watching the U universe?
Come on, man, the DC universe. Want to mess that is?
I'm not going it's a mess. No, but I watched.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But either way, he was the guy that was the
expert marksman and then he was gone. And then Andrew
Zilba stepped in the second one, the Batman, Right.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Are you kidding? Come on back? And I'm very excited
about I'm really excited about the penguins here.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
But anyway, the point being that guy walked in off
the street, cold, no extra equipment whatever, and got after it.
So maybe because of the viral sensation that he was
you went and sought that out in the middle of
your work day. Otherwise you were ready to go sit
and watch a festival of winning from Ladecki, Biles and
everybody else, including the violin backed stories of storytellers for
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the greater NBC properties in primetime it all.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Worked, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live
from the Tirak dot Com studios. So you know, the
Olympics are back. You know who else is back with us?
Rick Buker coming up next, Yeah, Fox Sports One n
BA Insider.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
What is next for Team USA? Who's not playing? Oh?
Keep it right here? Always great with Rick. This is
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 6 (17:00):
They talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
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You download it, you listen to it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I think you like it.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 1 (17:24):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the ti iraq dot com studios.
Hopefully catch up with Rick Buker sometime in the next
few minutes, talk a little bit of Olympic basketball.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Men get set. Who's going to be the big d
n PCD? And you know, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Here's the thing about this, right, here's the thing about
about who's not going to play?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
This is this is one thing where I'm like, okay,
because you heard me talk many times, Hey, Steve Kerr
is the right guy.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Of course he is.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
He's running things great, everything is awesome, right, it's a
it's a it's an over blown thing, right, over blown.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
The man used to working with egos and ego management.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
If he really wanted to, he could get everybody in right,
even if it's just a couple of minutes in the
first half, just a couple of minutes in the second half,
whether it's the final minute of the first half because
you want somebody to avoid foul trouble or something else.
If you really wanted to do it, you could get
everybody in right. And I get the whole Hey, there's
(18:28):
only so many minutes you no, no, I get it.
But someone coming off the bench playing eighteen minutes, they
could play sixteen minutes. Hali Burton could have gotten a
minute or two in a game when it Matt.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Look, if the guys play when it matters, they don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's gonna be at the end where hey, we're beating
this team by twenty five, and here come these guys
that have so much pride they don't want to come
in and just and just come in like they're the
last guys on the bench.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But but if Steve Kerr really wanted to, I mean, like,
this guy's a professional head coach, is getting paid.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
A lot of money, He's won a lot of championships.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think if he really wanted to, he could get
everybody in and at least they could play. Everybody could
play at least a couple of minutes of ball when
it actually mattered. Right, You're getting an extra breath for
somebody for a couple of minutes. Here, a possession at
the end of the half, end of a you know,
end of a quarter. You want to get somebody out
for a minute. You could do that. You could do that,
(19:19):
and you could say, all right, I'm replacing a similar
one player with a player with similar results. It's not like, well,
I'm taking a beat out and putting Haliburton in. Now,
you could do that. You could do that for these
guys are really good players. They'll give you their all.
You really could get everybody in if you wanted to.
All of a sudden this became there's only so many
minutes in all this. I'm like, nah, that's one thing
I'm gonna call scenanagainst on Steve Kurk for Yeah, in
(19:40):
the end, you've got stressful minutes game flow opponent.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Right, you've already seen what South Sudan was gonna bring.
Did embeedd make sense in the style of play they
were gonna have? No, No, he did not, So he
sat And also, isn't it more respectful to say you're
not the mop up guy, because didn't you always feel
bad for the guys even if you were ceering for him,
you know, when they got off the end of the bench.
You know, when Syracuse was drumming a team by thirty
(20:07):
in the final two minutes, and it was towards the
end of the regular season, it's like, all right, those
guys who've been practicing all year and have been around,
they're now gonna go in from mop up duty. You
felt bad for him, didn't you not to sacrifice it?
But and this is the only time they're actually gonna
get into a college game. Sure, they get into the
box score and they're gonna chuck a shot up as
soon as the ball hits their hands like it's on fire.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
But but there's the now that sucks.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
You're gonna play with the guys here when you may
need them, you may not. But it's also that going
back to the ego management. Steve Kerr as a player
watched Phil Jackson and Popovich do it, and certainly as
a coach, has had to, you know, pull the strings
a lot of times with some temperamental guys in his
locker room. Stef's the guy with the easy Hey. You know,
(20:54):
his heartbeat never changes, his heart rate stays the same
no matter how good or poor a hand he's playing it.
But the other guys, no, I don't know. It's a
lot of stressful minutes for this. Yeah, he could pull
the strings if he wants to. Clearly he doesn't feel
the need to, because, as I've told you, in three
weeks they go their separate ways into vacations with gold
medals around their neck. And if anybody wants to carry beef,
(21:16):
come get me. You know where I'm at. I'm located
in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Now. We moved from Oakland.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Exit out by to Fresca Exit Swallen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
So just yeah, it doesn't need to be this difficult.
It could be just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Easier, right, But look, we need hot takery though I know,
but everything else really is over Look, we were the
first one to tell you all this stuff is overblown.
It's all overblown. Nobody is going crazy, nobody's doing in.
It is not going to be an ESPN story. Sources.
Joelle Embiid fought Steve Kerr in the locker room. You know,
after the last game, you know against South su Dad.
(21:53):
You know, Lebron James has decided he's going home. That's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Well, if Embiide has anything to say, though, Jay, he'll
say it.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It may take a week or two after the Olympics,
he'll go on a podcast. What does medal doesn't matter?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
But that's just it. Eventually he may have his say.
But they're all professional enough. They signed up for this,
whatever promises were made. But don't tell me they didn't know,
each one of them having a long discussion with their agents, managers, accountants,
and everybody else as to why participating in the US
men's national team and going towards a gold medal wasn't
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the best thing for their careers and for their financial futures,
their Q raiding and everything else.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Every one of them did that, So you know what,
you suck it up for two to three weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
May not be easy, but going back to the adage
of you know, last hour, you can do anything that's
hard for a little while. A class you don't want
to take, a task at a job you don't want
to someone you got to work with that you dislike immensely,
which is why I appreciate you every night with the
by best friend and the thank yous in the Twitter
verse of course positivity see appropriate sucking up, but the
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idea being that you could do the hard for a
little while knowing that it's going to pay off in
the long run, and that's what each of these guys
has to do. Tatum was really brutally honest, and if
nothing else, maybe he's a better professional for it going forward, recognizing, dude,
that sucks. That felt terrible to not be the A
(23:29):
list guy, because face it, since he was what eight
he's been the A list guy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Humility is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon live from the Tyraq dot
com Studios. We got more coming up in ninety seconds.
But first, a man who was spending his last night
with us here at Fox Sports Radio because tomorrow he's
hitting clean up for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
It's Steve the Seger. I thought he was gonna pitch.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
I thought I was gonna pitch. Yeah. The Dodgers lost
at Oakland six to five. The lost to Gavin st
Attendance was twenty one thousand, largest of the year in Oakland,
shoey Otani with a late three run homer, his thirty third.
He'd had nineteen straight played appearances without a hit. Freddie
Freeman of La still out due to a family illness.
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The Dodgers in July went eleven and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Lost.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Tonight on the road. San Diego lost at home to
Colorado five two, a Rockies team that was forty and
seventy this year and had two and seven. Austin Gomber
on the mound he got the win. The Mets with
Paul Blackburn got the win five to one at the Angels.
Seattle rip Philadelphia ten to two. That's five straight losses
for the Pills. They were down eight nothing in the
(24:38):
second inning. Justin Turner with an early grand slam for Seattle.
Brian Woo five and one, went seven innings for the win.
We did have a no hitter earlier tonight from the Giants.
Blake Snell three nothing to win for San Francisco at Cincinnati.
Snell eleven strikeouts, three walks. Minnesota sent the White Sox
to an eighteenth straight loss, ten to two. The Twins
(24:58):
had three homers. The White Sox had three hits, three
for twenty nine at the plate with eleven strike.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Wait was that good? Doesn't be no? No, not good?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
All right?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
In fact, the White Sox during this long losing streak
had been outscored one twelve to thirty nine. Houston beat
Tampa Bay three to two. You say, Kikuchi coact, it
deserves to be said twelve twelve.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
That's like, oh my goodness, that left more than deadpool.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What was a score of the Globe Trotters General's game?
It was one twelve to thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, okay, all right? Which night? All night?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I saw a stat that the White Sox are the
fastest team to get to eighty five losses in a
season since the nineteen thirty two Red Sox. So I
looked up the nineteen thirty two Red Sox. They lost
one hundred eleven that year. But remember it was a
shorter schedule back in those days. Those Red Sox in
nineteen thirty two finished sixty four games back the champion Yankees.
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So staying tuned on that division standings. By the end
of this one, wow, Cleveland one, it's fifth and away.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I really think you're going to say fastest team to
leave town after.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Well, I mean Hermon's a wrestling fan, isn't it loser
leaves town?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They should have loved a long time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Look, man, we did the whole thing with the US
women's team when they played the WA NBA All Stars
that losers should have stayed. That's right, But in this
case you can't get out of town fast enough.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Cleveland won it's fifth row, Kansas City one it's fifth
and row. US women's soccer plays its quarterfinals Saturday morning
against Japan and yes, Canada is still alive. It'll play
Germany tomorrow. US men's soccer lost its quarter final at
the Olympics four nothing to Morocco, and France eliminated Argentina
one to nothing. On Saturday, US men's basketball plays Puerto Rico,
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which is zero and two. US men's hoops in the
Olympics has won thirty two of its last thirty three games.
As far as women's basketball, the US at two O
faces Germany to and oh on Sunday. The Americans easily
beat them. In a recent tune up game, Back to You.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tirec dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well you know, I always know.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And this is a weird thing, Mike, because here we are,
you know, very beginning of August August second, and everybody's
in training camp. And look, we spend the entire year
talking about football from from different angles, and there's always news,
there's always something happening, and the season comes and it's
it's awesome. But there's always a time for me when
(27:35):
I know personally, like, Okay, I'm ready for football, Like, Okay,
it's been it's been great, right, like, and I can't
wait to see how the rest of this year goes
for the Mets and other team. But there's probably okay,
you know what I need football. I need to add
football into my life. And it doesn't always come on
the first day of training camp. It does always come
when teams report because now there's no real games to
(27:56):
look forward to because you don't see the star players.
You hardly get to see them. The only time they're
really on the field is when they play in these
these big joint practices that you have to just find
highlights on Twitter for. So the preseason has become more
of a we're still waiting. Yes, they're around, and there's news,
were talking but it's still the enjoyment of just watching
and getting that immediate feedback is kind of gone. But
(28:19):
I always know when I'm ready, because invariably the last
few years, I have some kind of crazy ass dream
that involves football that I go, okay, you know what,
I know, I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'm ready for the Aava song singing in the back.
And I had agree like last year.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Remember I remember having the dream where the Jets called
me and asked me to take care of Zach Wilson
because he was appearing at a restaurant and he was
going to sign autographs and answer questions and they wanted
me to help him and not answer stuff about Aaron
Rodgers and say what to say.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And that was my because I still remember that dream.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I remember talking about that and really being worried for
your samite or you're just Jets obsession and whether Zach
Wilson was safe.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well yeah, no, well there's that too. I mean, there's
all those things.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But then then I get what happened last night where
I had a dream my wife and I are out
at a restaurant and Bill Belichick comes over to our table,
right right, it's a regular restaurant where I don't.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Belichick comes over and which restaurant? And you only go
like five places? You know, it's not. No, it wasn't McDonald's.
It wasn't like you know, wasn't anything.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
He goes to Wendy's, doesn't he isn't that where he
went after one of those horrible Oh.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah he did, that's right, Yeah he did. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
He goes out of the sea, goes out of the
ball pit, and he says to me, no. He comes over,
he says, can I sit down? And I say sure,
and he sits down and all of a sudden, like,
you know, my dreams are never like I always feel
like this is something that everybody should talk about, like
how do your dreams really go? Are they just haphazard
and crazy ass stuff happens because I watch how dream
sequences come on televisions, Like, no, it's not at all
(29:55):
my dream goes so like he sits down and all
of a sudden, he's eating pasta. He's rolling spaghet up
on his fork, and he is telling me all kinds
of stories and he's laughing the entire time about different players,
about different things that happened, and I'm laughing and he's
laughing and he can't stop laughing. And all of a sudden,
other servers are coming over and they're standing around our
(30:16):
table and they're laughing at stories he's telling. And I
wish I could remember some of the story, but I can't.
I don't remember anything of what he was saying. But
he was telling these funny stories that people were standing around,
and I'm like, oh my god, this is great.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I want to write this down. I keep telling my wife.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I was telling my wife, where's my phone so I
can write down some of these stories so I could
tell him on the show this is going to be awesome.
And then I wake up and I realize I have
to go to the bathroom really bad. I really have
to go to the bathroom. So I gonna go to
the bathroom. I laid back down, I go what were
some of those stories?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
He was telling me? What so I could say?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And I couldn't remember what they were, but it was
that's a moment I go, okay, you know what, I'm
ready for football? I read I had the dream Belichick
shows up at a restaurant.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I am ready for football. Now, I am absolutely with
this is the dream that tells me it's time. It's
time for that asumption of football. I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
It's funny as you described that, I'm thinking of the
old Seinfeld episode where he's written something down on a
piece of paper and he can't remember and they're guessing it,
and then at the end of the episode it's Larry
David screaming about blowing.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Orbs or something.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
That's like, that's not funny. But yeah, your stories out
of dreamland are interesting. Most folks are not safe for
anything but safe harbor or really uncover some deep disturbing
thing here. What you're just your obsession with Jets and
Jets enemies.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, because Zach Wilson became your enemy. And that's before
he changed teams. He was everybody's enemy.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Come on, man, come on bombs Oh no, but come
on for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I mean, this is half your life. This guy is
probably you would call him your nemesis.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
No, that is true. It has been a long time and.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Right especially because not only did he go and he
beat your team repeatedly, he also was your coach for
what a day?
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, no, no, he was. No, you're right, you're right.
Now some folks don't know that though some folks don't
remember that true. Hey, you know, we try for everybody in.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
We appreciate you wherever you're coming in. However you came
into the show, thanks for being part of the extended family.
And Jason's misery coach for a day.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Yep, that was it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
No, but I realize at least where the setting was from, Like,
why was at a restaurant and he's out he's eating
spaghetti Like the last three days my wife and I
have been season three of The Bear. Okay, And I'll
tell you this after my dream and you know, after
the last I'm less pissed at Belichick from everything the
last twenty years that I am at season three of
The Bear because Season three was just so terrible. There's
(32:45):
nothing happens in this. I mean, I'm like, I can't
believe this got greenlit. I told you when I was watching.
We were texting about it yesterday. I'm like, I feel
like they did this during the writer strike when no
one could write anything. It's like, doesn't matter, We'll just
add lib a bunch of stuff. But there's no story. No,
there's absolutely no story. I can recap ten episodes ten
hours of television in four seconds because I tried by vice.
(33:07):
So here's the season. I missay anything, she goes no, like,
nothing happens. It's just all these shots and they go
back in time, and I'm like, I don't understand how
this gets on TV. How they go, yes, let's put
this out as our season. They're like, nobody looks good.
It's it's not getting good reviews. And I knew it was.
I was nervous when it was suddenly they said, hey,
all episodes A of the Bear streaming July twenty seventh.
Wha wait, really all they're dropping all the episodes at once.
(33:30):
This tells me this is not a great season. And
not only was it not great, it's the point where
I don't know if I want to come back for
season four because I feel like it's just gonna be
more of the same stuff. I mean, there was there
were ten brilliant minutes in one episode. I mean, that's it,
and it dearly have anything to do with a plot,
but they were ten brilliant minutes in one episode, and
I sure as hell say right now go. I'm more
med at the ten hours I spent watching season three
(33:52):
of the Bear than whatever Belichick beat the Jets the
last twenty years, because least that's in the past, that's
way in the past.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Hasn't happened. We beat him in his last game, retired
Belichick from the Patriots. It was awesome. It all love matters.
What have you done for me lately?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
The Jets won the last game, he walked off with
his big mask on his face and he pruddled off
the field.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
So I'm okay with that. I'm really more mad at
the Bear. Yeah. No, that was a lot of wasted time, I.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Think, yeah, yeah, I want those ten hours back in.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
In terms of setting stuff up right, I don't know
what the big build is. We got some great scenes.
Oliver Platt was great, the acting was great, But from
a straight plot development and what a season is supposed
to build towards, I felt like I was running in place.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
It was. I mean, it was so awful. I can't
understand how how that was.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Like, Yes, let's film this and make this a season
where nothing happens. The final episode, I'm like, We're eighteen
minutes into the episode and absolutely nothing has happened. It's
been someone looking at something and flashbacks that we don't
need Nothing has happened in eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
What the hell is going on again?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And this tells you how much I hated it, because
I'm less mad at Bill Belichick for leaving the Jets
and all the winds he's had, all the Super Bowls
the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I'm less mad at him for that. Now, what does
that tell you? No, it's only for a minute.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
That'll come back because football season will bring back the
latent hate. You'll forget about the bear and you'll move
on and Belichick will be on all his media operatives.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Right, he's got four or five jobs.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Now, he does have a lot to be there, Right,
He's going to be there staring in the face.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, No, he does have a lot of job. He
is be doing a lot. Maybe he'll be laughing like that,
who knows, Maybe he will be exit, exit out about
a Fresco exit swelling down. The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we get
back into the biggest story of the day and it
came to us courtesy of Sports Television.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
That's next right here, Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific Sports.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Live from the tyrac dot Com studios. We'll get back
into the big breaking story of the night, the no
hitter by Blake Snell coming up at about ten minutes
and what shocks us most about this game, but the
biggest story today and it kind of took a lot
(36:21):
of people by surprise. You know, you knew was coming.
Skip Bayless had his final day at Fox Sports one
on Undisputed. Nobody knew it was coming today. He did
the show like normal and then put out a message
on social media today was my last day.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I have other things coming in the future. See you
all soon. You know what you normally get.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
We knew that Skip was leaving, and there's been a
lot of drama back and forth between hosts who are
on the show and not on the show and Skip
and ratings and all kinds of crazy stuff. And I
know there's a lot of different ways to look at this,
and may look people who are fans of Skip on
the air and not fans of Skip on the air.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
And I'll just tell you something.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I'll tell you the same thing about Fox Sports One
that I told you about ESPN.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I worked at both places, right, both big rivals. Now Here,
I'll tell you the same thing. Skip Bayless was huge
for FS one. Okay, when Fox Sports One wanted to
realize this is where sports is going. We want to
embrace debate, we want to build the network around that.
So here comes Skip Bayless. They hire Colin Coward, Right,
(37:25):
Chris Bussard is on first things first, this is how
they wanted to build the network, and Skip was the
big star that they brought in. Hey, and all of
a sudden, that gave Fox Sports One gravitas.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
It gave it relevancy.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I know there's always the argument that, boy, everybody's fighting
over hardly.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Any viewers during the day. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
But still at the same time, like I said, it's gravitas.
It's people talking about what was said on the air
during the day, whether it's Steven A. Smith or Skip Bayless,
whoever it was, so you could say what you want.
You know about Skin, like I said, I barely know
the guy. I did a couple of days with him
on when first take was a cold pizza years ago.
(38:04):
Look at you, Yeah, so I haven't saw but I
haven't talked to Skip in fifteen years. But just understand
that Skip was huge for FS one, and now whenever
FS one continues to become out of this, Hey, all
of a sudden, Fox Sports one went from we're trying
to find our footing to we got Women's World Cup games,
We got all kinds of games that are on now,
and Fox Sports one is now going toe to toe
(38:26):
with ESPN. And it's because you get the gravitas and
the cachet by hiring Skip and Colin and guys like that,
and Skip, and Skip was the biggest name to commit,
and so it's like, whoa, He's bringing all this relevancy
to Fox Sports one. And I'm not saying it's just
because I'm a Fox guy. Look, I haven't worked one
day over at Fox Sports one. It's the same thing
at ESPN with Chris Berman, Right, some people don't like
(38:49):
Chris Berman. They make fun of Look, we do a
fun thing with bourbon and doing stories, which is great,
but there's such the anti Berman out there now, and
Berman's getting reducted by ESPN. He's doing less and less.
I'm like, the dude built the bleep in network, man.
I mean, seriously, the dude built the network. I remember
when he got in office when I was a PA there.
He got an office and there was a lot of
(39:10):
people who are up to I've been here as long
as Chris Permon.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Why did I get in office? Dude?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
ESPN is the worldwide leader because of him, because of
what he did. And yes, time goes on and are
new people coming in and doing different things and new ideas. Yeah,
but understand ESPN is what it is because of him, right,
It's because of him. It's the same thing. You look
at Fox Sports one. Oh, Skip bad, I didn't like
what he said here. I didn't like this. Yeah, but
you know what, Fox Sports one is what it is
(39:35):
because of him. So that's kind of the real impact
that you have looking back at Okay, here's the eerr
of Skip at Fox Sports one. Who knows what's next
for undisputed everything else. But that's the real legacy right there.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
I mean, you have events, but you need people to
hype them. People do build them up and have the
tongues wagging, and Skip did that for all these years.
And you talk about you don't have to like it's
you don't like it, don't watch but you paid attention.
So many folks celebrating him his you know, departure today
and just made me laugh because most of them have
(40:11):
no content, if not for Skip, for us, for steven A,
for Colin, for you know, the voices that they decide
they want to rail against because they got nothing to
say themselves. So they're gonna Misskip quite a bit. So yeah,
whatever the next iteration comes. You know, some of the
stuff we've kind of predicted behind the scenes looks like
(40:31):
it's coming to fruition. So not only could we be
shadow coaches at times, maybe some programming decisions like are
all channels what we do it around the NCAA tournament
and all. But yeah, I mean they had a hell
of a run.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And for Fox.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Sports One, you see, excited to launch into their next
era and what it becomes. But you know, he's a guy,
love him or hate him. He moved the needle and
got tongues wagon.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome. The Jason
Smith Show with mo I best friend Mike Carmon Coming
up next, The most surprising thing from the biggest story
of the night.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
That's next Fox
Speaker 2 (41:08):
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