August 7, 2024 • 36 mins
Jason and Mike explain how the White Sox losing streak broke all their play by play announcers. The USWNT punches their ticket to the gold medal match in Paris. And Jason tells you why everything is fine with Team USA basketball right now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, live from the
tire Rack dot Com studios, where we saw absolute history
tonight in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's what I call a blank and show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The Chicago White Sox, who were just two losses away
from the modern record for the biggest losing streak in
baseball history, met up with the Oakland A's after getting
pounced on by the A's last night, and the White
(01:08):
Sox defying odds. Maybe they'll make a movie one day
at the Soxtanity. One thing I know, if they make
a movie about this White Sox game tonight, don't have
to worry about hiring a lot of extras to play
fans in the ballpark because there was nobody there.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
If nothing else, we go back to the COVID years
and we have the cardboard cutout.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It would be kind of like Moneyball where they just
you know, they had the big games. It was just
like the ISO shots and them by themselves in the field,
like Justice hit bat.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It was just him and the kitcher. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Uh, that's all they would do because there was only
friends and family the game tonight and clearly and dogs.
There were dogs in the crowd on Oakland Radio tonight.
There's gonna be the event session of Hey, how do
we not support this team against the White Sox? How
do we not come out at least or this series?
They just all.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Showed up and gave their money away when the Dodgers
came to do Did you not see that they like
quadrupled their year's attendance in a weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The Chicago White Sox twenty one consecutive losses jump out
on top of the A's.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Early Yeah, Jonathan Cannon getting it done.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Two to one, lead, lead gets extended to three to one,
Brady save five to one. Can you wait until we
get to the end to tell me about the said Look,
just wait, I'm building because people will think this is
an onion story, that this didn't really happen tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Just like the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I texted my wife. You goes, she on the earthquakes.
She goes, Nope, it's okay, all right, great, yeah, no
bigger earthquake. You get five seven earthquakes about there?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And the funny thing is my next door neighbor for
for for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
She's in her nineties.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
She said, Oh, there is no better feeling than the
ground just shaking under your feet.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I said, are you insane? What is wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Stop what your next door name about? I said, there's
destruction there. He goes, Oh, but when I was a kid,
the earthquakes. I go, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
What are you talking When she was a kid, earthquakes
were dinosaurs. Oh, Lilyan.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Lilyan is an in her nineties, so she was a
kid like she's talking about, like like right around the
Great Depression. She was back when this was all undeveloped land.
Since she's been doing hr here, it was one land masks.
Now my next door neighbor, not not that, Lilyan. Stop
the White Sox five to one lead in the ninth inning.
(03:27):
They have had many ninth inning games where they have
blown the lead looked like a win, snatching a win, yeah,
from the jaws of defeat. Instead, No, it's snatching a
defeat from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Twenty eight loan saves. Maybe if they.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Had Bobby Jenks or Bobby Howry or Bobby Valentine, things
would be different. There were a lot of guys named Bob,
Bob not great, Bob, not great, not great. But tonight, fate,
destiny and the selling of souls was on the White
Sox side. Here's the final call of the final out
(04:06):
of the ninth inning of the White Sox, snapping the
twenty one game losing streak.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I don't even know what that was. Yeah, we got
a lot of bobs. Yeah that was the play by
play's boss. Okay, all right, very good guy that had
the uh not so very good call. Yeah, oh yeah,
yeah yeah. Listen yelling you can't keep getting away with Listen.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
These final calls you're gonna hear are absolutely terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And listen.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't want to, you know, criticize another guy in
the media, but wow, man, these.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Calls are terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You forgot Bobby thigpen, Oh, well, fifty seven saves and.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What career eighty nine?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Bobby think Penn, fifty seven saves eighty seven something like that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, something, Yeah, Bobby think Penn. Yeah no, but yeah
you had Bobby.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Think, I'm just trying to fill a buster so I
don't have to hear the call. Let's hear it and
feel sad.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Let's hear one of the horrendous final calls of the
White Sox victory the streak.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
This could do it out to left field coming in,
then attending, and the streak is over.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
After twenty one l's in a row.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
The White Sox come to the West Coast and get
their first win in a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Say it with me, south Side standill.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because again, you've had a month to figure out a
call when you snap this win streak. At least you
had the time between breakfast this morning and the game tonight.
If they win, what am I going to say? South
side stand in a long time? Come on, man, I
mean that call and then here's the other part. Right,
So you think, okay, well that wasn't great. That was
(05:53):
at the sound side stand up? Is it's a thing,
no idea, It's a thing. But come on, man, you
got to give me something better than that. This is
a dude, this is a losing streak we haven't seen
since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You gotta give me more than just south Side stand up?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Come on from three White Sox come to the West
Coast and get their first win in a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Say it with me? South Side stand up? All right?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Three months ago on Reddit quote, can we all agree
that south Side stand up is the lamest blanky banking history?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
South Side stand Up. We're gonna fight, stand up. We're
ready to fight, all right, So maybe you think that
maybe the play by play on the radio is better.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Guys have energy on the radio. They're excited.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hey, this is gonna be it. We're gonna celebrate it
like we should. We're gonna pop some champagne. Here's the
radio play by play call of the final out of
the White Sox win.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But he's hitting eighth tonight, and he swings hits a
towering pop fly shallow left, and it'll be Ben intending
to make the catch, and it's finally over. The White
Sox twenty one game losing streak is history. They beat
the A's tonight five to one.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh postgame show coming up next. We back at you
tomorrow night game time at seven to ten pm local time.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Like, this is not just another game. You gotta call
that thing like it's the final ending of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But that's the thing, Like it bums me out right,
there's the party of the fan. It's like, all right,
it's another game on the schedule. You just got a
lot of baseball to be played. But given the gravity
of this and the last couple of days where people
who didn't know the White Sox existed as a team
have suddenly made it the A block the B block
(07:34):
of their TV and radio shows across our sporting industry.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, it's it's a pretty big bleeping deal. Yes, it's
the a's.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yes, there are friends and family night on a Tuesday
in Oakland, but you.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Gotta celebrate the hell out of it. Gordon Beckham's quiet.
I'm gonna let my man have the call because this
is what's gonna be on the radio. This is what's
going like, no scream like an idiot. Let it out.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Darren j.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You've been there forever. You and Hawk used to get
after it. Now Lend Casper gives you a nice, dignified,
straight call of a white Sox. He was to get
excited to win, let alone that it broke ato wenty
one game streak.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Come on man, uh Now, as if that wasn't bad enough,
because I have reality for you came. They went to
the postgame show, which was what's his name in Frank Tom? Yeah,
Chuck gar Find.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, Chuck gar Find and Frank Tom. I just tweeted
at Chuck. The first thing.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
They did was Chuck gar Find called Ozzie Gean on
his phone. The first thing I saw when I said, okay,
the show was started and he's on his cell phone.
Tell you he's calling someone on his cell phone. You said,
they're calling Ozzy Gan the ad. I'm like, okay, all right,
but hang on a second. I have one thing to
say here. First, I've worked in television, and I think
(08:51):
the people are savvy enough to watch television that if
you wanted to put Ozzie gee In on the show,
he could just call in or zoom and they could
put him on the air and you could hear it
and it wouldn't be Chuck Garfine on his phone.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Funny, if they put one of those little microphones you
could have called the guys.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You've seen it on the phone, Ozzy Gean on the phone.
You could call it, Ozzie, We're gonna patch you through, Okay, great.
Instead he's holding the phone out, I mean may mineral
cell phone. I mean, are the White Sox Are they
that cheap? Do they not have the money? Not have
the technology to patch somebody through on the phone. No,
we had the computers taken out after losing Street game
(09:32):
number seventeen.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We don't have that anymore. All right, I'll just have
Ozzy call on the phone. That's been one of the
big things of the series. Where's Ozzie?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He talked a lot this weekend of how this whole
streak has broken him because Pedro Griffall is under is
more than one hundred games under five hundred as the
White Sox manager. So Ozzie trying to become the managers,
you know, an update for folks that missed yesterday's show.
Trying to get back into baseball. Thought I could go
back and I could manage the White Sox again. I
(10:01):
can help them push to the next level. And he
got passed over for Pedro and he's broken up about it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Started talking about what it's done to his relationship with
his family, with his friends, his relationship to alcohol, all
of those.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Like, and then he's not on these games with the
with the.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
A's Again, if something happens, I get it, he could
call the studio and they would put him through and
everybody could hear him. You don't have to be standing
there on the phone holding the phone. He's holding the
phone in front of him. I really he was gonna
hold it up and he would have been facetiming. So
there's Ozzy's face.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The service at the bar is not very good.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh okay, that could happen. Listen, I can't step out
right now.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Frostburg's telling me we have obtained exclusive audio Ozzie Geehan
following the White Soxman.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Is that right, Frostburg? The exclusive audi?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So this is the phone call that Ozzie had with
Chuck Garfine after they get Wow, this is exclusive right here.
This is pretty special. All right now, we'll be cleaned
it up so we can hear it. I mean, it's
not just gonna be Ouzzy and the phone going. That
was I'm very excited start a new streak, now, winning
streak allfully like it's not gonna be that as you
cleaned it up and sounds good.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Let's find out, all right, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Here is your exclusive audience of Ozzy talking to Chuck
and again, Chuck Garfin has had so many mentions now
in the last five minutes on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I'm a fan. I love the worky, not after this segment,
not after this, because not after this? All right, what
do you got?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, let's hear the audio. Okay, that was definitely
on the phone. That was that was definitively on the phone. Boy,
definitively on the phone. Socks, yo, that's a White Sox
(11:50):
winter Now wait now, wait now, because I got to
ask because I'm just not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Was that really Ozzy or was that something else?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You'll never know, like I don't know, I don't know
getting to the center of I don't know if that
was right.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I never know, like what we usually do where it's a.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Joke or I don't know if that was I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know what it was. I
really don't that was that was. That's your White Sox
victory right there. Exit out Mauta Fresca, Exit swollen.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Jason with my best friend Mike game. Now Frostby Rob
was that and then the York shook. We're never gonna
tell you, You're never gonna know. Boy oh boy. Now
all right, coming up next.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, okay, We've had our fun. Now it's back to
reality for the White Sox. Wait to hear what I
gotta tell you about them. Also, we'll break down the
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Before you get into the game of the day breaking down,
let me just say this.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
White so win and the Bears Hard Knocks Episode one.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's what I get to go home.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, celebrate a White Sox winner, grab some tequila, Yeah sure,
and enjoy the Bears Hard Knocks.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
None of it all look slightly better than the Giants.
And now I'm gonna bring it back to earth. So
because you had your time.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
This is just that's the only time I get.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
This is just like a television show where when the
good guys win, you can only enjoy it for so
long because you need tension and you need some kind
of battling.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He got me in the cave. White Sox won tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Dude, If you didn't have the host of your postgame
show talking to Ozzigean on the phone, but not on
the phone through the studio on his actual cell phone,
what the hell?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Man, Hey, I know technology and out Hey yeah, hey,
that's outside. Stand up with the win now.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, your Chicago White Sock White Sox are Curtis Martin
and Michael Irvin. You are twenty eight and eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You are playing at a two forty one winning percentage.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's good, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
If it was out of three hundred, yes, but it
is two forty one out of one thousand. If you
want to avoid having the worst record in the history
of Major League Baseball, being the worst team ever, to.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Be just above the worst team ever.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh, just if you want to just beat the Mets
by a game, the saf Threats by a game, you
need to go twelve and thirty four the rest of
the way, which is a winning percentage of two sixty.
How many more times do you play the a's just one?
Go just one, let's go to take a toon two
forty one winning percentage you have. Now you have to
(16:42):
win it a two sixty winning percentage the rest of
the way to not be the worst team of all time.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Let's see they have the they're tied for the thirteenth
hardest schedule remaining with the Houston ass.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Everybody's how do you do not have the toughest schedule
in the world because you stinking everybody else is better?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
So they should have the toughest scal.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So they still have four games left against the A's.
It's all about the opponent, not how bad you are.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You play four more against the A's, Come on, man,
six against the Angels, Come seven against the Tigers. Wow, exactly,
three against the Rangers, three against the Giants, and they
have a series a two game series with the Cubs
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
How do you play? All these teams all stink? Yeah?
How is that the fifth hardest?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How is three against the Mets? Would you say the
thirteenth hardest? You have the Mets?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, it sounds like the easiest schedule. Now the easiest
is Detroit.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They've the combined winning percentage of teams they face left
is forty seven.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's crazy. Stink point three? They all stink? How is that?
They all stink? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But they still have three against the Yankees, three against
the Guardians, three against the Red Sox, three against the Orioles.
It's three against Fenley's Padres and three against your Mets.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's almost like you go walk away and say, hey, hey,
look at all the tough teams you had to play
through the first four months of the season.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's why our record so bad. Now we're gonna get out.
It lightens up now at the end.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's like what people always tell me, Oh yeah, I
know that Jets are two and six, but the schedule
gets lighter.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
We're two and six, the season's over. We're two and six.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, we're gonna hear a lot of that this year
because the schedules for several teams are backloaded with all
their division games, which makes no sense. Right, everybody get
hurt and whoever is healthiest in week nine will win
the division.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Need to go twelve and thirty four the rest of
the way.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, not happening. Twelve and thirty. You gotta win twelve
more games. We gotta find twelve ws in that schedule.
Twelve out of those twenty five games. Can they do it?
Or okay, eleven? Maybe they can steal one from the
Mets or THEO. You probably could. You probably all the
Mets that you look you way down at your level
of competition. And I will say that because this is
the other big story tonight now, right now, if you
(18:55):
ask me who are the two best teams in baseball,
I'll tell you the Diamondbacks and the Padres. They just
don't lose They're terrific, and this nationally wildcard race has
just been turned upside down because, like I said, these
teams are getting hot after the deadline now and for
the Mets, who are just continuing to be a little
bit over five hundred. Look, you can't lose two out
of three to the bleeping Angels. You can't come in
(19:17):
and be at the potential where you're gonna lose two
out of three at least to the Rockies. The Mets
best hope for the playoffs is, honestly, can they beat
out the Braves, because the Braves, with all their injuries, yes,
they made some moves of the deadline, but this is
still not the Braves. The Braves are fun. The Braves
are in the third wildcard now for the first time
all season one, they're the third wildcard. I don't know
that it's going to be a weird year where, oh,
(19:38):
instead of winning eighty four eighty five games.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, you got to get to ninety. You got to
be in the nineties for wins.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Because it sure seems like that's what the Padres and
Diamondbacks are doing because they're both taking off right now
at the right time, and the Mets and the Braves
are struggling, so the team's below them. Now in the
National League, you get a little bit of separational you know,
the Reds are falling, the Cardinals that have not played well,
but still, I mean, you're looking at two teams that
are rising and the Braves are falling.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
If the Mets are gonna make it like that's how
it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Be, that Padres with the fifth easiest schedule remaining. Of course,
this is tankethon a dot com and just the Cubs,
the Yankees, the Angels in Detroit with an easier path
along the way.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
The other team we've been watching. We talked about it
with John Paul Morosi a little bit. Going to the
American League side of things is Houston. Valdez two outs
in the ninth, gives up a two run home and
a course to see her to break up what would
have been a no hitter. But they're getting healthy. Right
in Seattle, we've seen floundering, still trying to find someone
(20:38):
to really shore up that lineup right. Julio Rodriguez haz
missed time. Raleigh is a great power guy, but hits
for no average, So trying to find some balance. So
they're a team to watch. But yeah, White Sox twelve
and thirty four. Huh, that's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's it I find twelve wins now twelve wins stand
This is where in the old days when people would
buy newspapers would be wins needed to not be the
worst team ever in every day to be the countdown
it stays of twelve would be on the front page
of the paper every day.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Twelve eleven, ten. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The Braves had a giveaway with out cast today ride
a nice bibblehead. Can the White Sox adopt Ludacris go
and stand up.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Out, stand up, stand up? Call on if you move? Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
So from the biggest win of the night, just like that, Yeah,
to the biggest win of the day.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Uh we white Look we get said.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We have the United States Olympic women's basketball team in
action tomorrow. We talked about the men's team earlier. Yeah,
they wanted they covered uh the finally if you bet
the men's they finally covered for it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They finally showed out and backed their backers.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And know, by the way, I like how on the
White Sox postgame they showed the odds, the betting odds
of the game.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Hey, here's what you want.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
They picked up Yeah, they picked some random things for
the over under on runs whatever. But I did like
the graphic that said White Sox improved to twenty eight
eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But the women's national team today beats Germany to move
on to the gold medal game in the Olympics. And
there's a lot of good and then there's a lot
of questions. Now, we talked earlier about the good. Look,
you've heard so much now about the three forwards. How
great they are. We told you how great they would be.
And this is the new Golden era of soccer. And
this team is built for the rest of the Olympics
(22:22):
and the next two World Cups on the strength of
the three forwards on Sophia Smith, Mallory Swanson, Trinity Rodbins terrific. Right,
they're all so good. The other good part is, and
we forget about this because she doesn't get enough credit,
is a listen there as sometimes makes the save you
go wow when you absolutely need one. She makes one,
and she had the save in the final couple of
(22:43):
minutes where one of those saves where you make your
own luck where it was it wasn't a save of Hey,
this was I make myself as big as possible and
try to try to just take something off the trail
and she leaps in the air and does and puts
her arms and legs out and luckily all the set
piece the ball deflects off her leg and it's cleared out.
(23:04):
It is it was this close to being a goal.
An absolute disaster for the United States. And while all
the good for the United States again, the forwards are
kind of like the superstar quarterback because they cover up
the ills of the rest of the team. They cover
up all the warts, and the United States team has
a lot of warts. We got into it earlier last
(23:26):
hour on the show. Look the midfielders, I don't know
how much longer you can keep playing, Lindsay Horan and
Rose level.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You only got to do it one more game.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
As much as they have meant to the women's national team.
Lindsay Horan, she can't play box to box anymore. She
can't get open. She's not fast, she's not the player
she was and it's easy to see. And they attacked
her today because she can't hold onto the ball. Every
time she got the ball with Joe go take it
it's like a youth league game where it's whenever you
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see someone get it, I know I can go take
it from her. Right, that's Lindsay Horan, who's thirty, who's
you know, you know, getting to be older now. She
had a great career, so I don't know how long
you can put her out there. Same thing with Rose Level.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't know. Rose Levell is really good in space.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But you know what, this team is not as talented
as a team she's played on in the past, which
has given her a lot of space. She's not playing
with Julie Ertz and a prime Lindsay Horan or a
prime Sam Ewis anymore. She is playing where hey, you
are someone that we're counting on, and she can't get
any separation and she can't make any plays. Right, I
don't know how much long you can continue to put
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both of them out there. Haran might just be done.
Lavelle may have been well, maybe we thought she was
better than she was because when she was playing on
a star studded team, she looked better because she had space.
But she can't create space now, so it's a real
difficult thing. But you saw what was near disaster for
the United States because you're talking about you give up
that goal late and loo again. The United States defense
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is not great. I know we don't give up a
lot of goals, but wow, there's a lot of moments
some jack could go either way and you get bailed
out and a listen, there bailed the United States out.
If that goal goes in. You're talking about going to penalties,
and you've already taken Mallory Swanson out of the game.
So that's one of your top three because your first
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three penalty takers are going to be your three forwards.
Then it's gonna be Nair, and then I don't know
who they'd wind up having after that, So you're you're
suddenly deflated with that. This is not an unbeatable United
States team. This is a United States team that is
better than we thought that will wind up winning the
gold medal because I firmly believe the forwards are gonna
do it right when you're no one's playing better than
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the United States, no one in the entire tournament. No
one is playing better Japan. We had them on their
heels the whole game. Germany on their heels the whole game.
How do we stop the forwards. We got to load
up to stop the forwards. How do we do this.
We're going to Japan said we're gonna keep everybody back
and we're gonna stop it from getting it in Germany
is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We know we can control the middle of the field,
and we know we can do that because chances too.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Right, the venders were slow, totate near a couple of times,
didn't get much on the ball. No right got made
the same but didn't get a lot. So you know
you have those risky chances.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But when you do that, you leave other stuff out there,
and other teams need to leave other stuff out there.
When you're saying we need to stop the United States forwards, right,
either it's we're not going to get the ball and
get great scoring chances, or we're not going to be
able to win battles in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Whatever is.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You're sacrificing things to stop the three of them. And
no one is playing at a higher level right now
in the entire Olympics than the three forwards are.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
No one is so much pressure on you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You got to communicate, rotate, decide which which player you're
gonna double.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You can't. You can't because you can't keep up with
their speed.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You can't give up with Trinity Robbins talent on the ball.
Mallory Swanson's kind of a malcam of both of them.
You know, you look at the spirit everybody who's tired, tired.
Sophia Smith is still blowing by people in the game
and it's insane how fast he is.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Like you can't hold them back.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
They're going to win the world They're gonna win the
Olympic gold medal because of the three of them, and
they're scoring all all the goals like it's it's it's
almost like a youth league where to just get the
ball to the forwards, don't worry about anything else. Just
watch the ball again. Just get the ball to the forwards.
And you see get the ball to the Italians and
that was it. You hear Julie Foudy going, this is
going to be a long ball to Mallory Swanson or
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they're looking for a long ball to Sophia's with because
they need to get the ball past the middle of
the field.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
See what they do, I mean, got a scoring chance.
They may use every inch of the field, right, You
want to chase them. You ain't winning that.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Sprint, no oh no, no no.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Then you saw even on the goal that Smith scored, right,
defender makes a choice and a bad one at that,
and I think only makes a bad choice.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
She made it worse kind of shielding. Not shouldn't have
come out, She shouldn't have come out. I don't either
had to commit and come full out or not at all.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Right, she kind of went half in and the defender
kind of shielding thinking the goalies already committed to coming up,
but doesn't, and Smith just outruns her to get a
good boot on the ball. So yeah, it's it's dangerous
every for a post defenses each and every time that
the pressure is immense.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So while they're not unbeatable, let me let me give
you the biggest, the bigger sunny side, because there's a lot.
I mean, everything is great, right, They're gonna win the
gold medal because they're the best team. They'll probably get
back in and be the favorites to win the next
two World Cups, which they should be because their front
line is unmatched across the planet. It's it's in four
in five games they become the best forwards in the world.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
This group. It's that good.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But going forward now and getting ready for the gold
medal game and beyond, you have you have questions to ask,
I understand this. But the best part, the best part
of this now is that the rest of the world
looks at the United States team and says, man, maybe
this last World Cup that Spain won was the one
where you had to get the United States there because
they were in a transition. And now it's going to
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be hard to get them the next two Cups because
they're built around these forwards. Teams are going to go
back to the strategy as you see Japan try to
do in Germany try to do of well, the best
thing we can do is try to take the United
States to penalties, right, and you could do that because
while while well, Meghan Rapino and Alex Morgan were goal scorers,
they weren't as deadly as as the three as as
the three of them are together. So you can have
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that strategy of saying, hey, we're gonna play for penalties,
which was Japan's strategy and which likely was germany strategy,
especially when they lost two of their best players, one
was sick and couldn't play and one they lost early
in the game. You can have that strategy, but you
know what, that ain't gonna work because in win or
go home games, when you're playing two extra periods, that
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front line is going to break through.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It somebody that's the break wrong Trump we've talked about
with the rules that you have in place, advantage youth speed.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, the forwards are going to break through. Like I
could see, yeah, I could see saying let's take him there.
If we can control Alex Morgan, we control they're not
gonna break through and get big shots. But the three
of them, eventually they're gonna break through. So that strategy
of hey, let's take them to penalties, you know what,
Eventually they're gonna wear you down and in the eightieth
minute ninetieth minute extra time they're gonna break through and
score and it's gonna be break your heart. Now you'll
(30:06):
say we played a close game, but boy, they're gonna
break our hearts at the end. That's the best part
of the United States is that the strategy that other
countries have used for a long time, it's not gonna work.
They're gonna have to figure out something else. So there's
so much good for.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The United States.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Fun to see how they round out the rest of
the roster going forward. Right when you've got a base
that that strong, and think about it, you lost one
of the women that was supposed to be one of
these faces of your squad in Macario, right, she was
going to be next, and now she can't stay on
the pitch, and but you've had these other three emerge
and Rodman the physicality is it's just fun to watch
(30:43):
her right, just oh yeah, Steve Power, you want to
try to go and press her like you're gonna take
the ball away.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
She she just man handles.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
They have all come that, they have all come through
incredibly well, I'll tell you how great they're.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's so much fun to watch, so excited.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The Jason's Show with my best friend Mike Carmon coming
up next. What I want one big time head coach
to tell the media tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Jason and Mike Fox. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at
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Speaker 1 (31:21):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Live from the Tirak dot Com Studios. You had to
say men's basketball team into the semifinals.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Women get going in a few hours.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
We'll talk about that tomorrow night on the show. But
after their absolute blowout of Brazil today to make it
into the Semis against Serbia, I know Nikola Jokich is
waiting everything and oh my god, he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Go forty thirty and twenty and we're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Right now, the United States has no problems. They have
absolutely zero problems. They are playing extremely well, they're motivated,
they're playing well defensively. Steve kurrzf out his rotation. Guys
are going from dnps to being the star of games
like Joel Embiid went from Game two to today. The
United States has no problems. So if I'm Steve Kerr,
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I tell the media, I gather them and I say, okay,
here's the thing. Now, we got a few days for
the semifinal game and then then we have the gold
medal game. Maybe I said a right, here's what I
want you guys to do. All right, all of you
idiots that created this ridiculous storyline of Jason Tatum didn't play.
This is ripping USA basketball. Part of the seams. I
want all of you to shut up. None of you
(32:34):
can criticize me, none of you can criticize these players,
because we want every game by fifteen. Even covered today,
we are getting better all the things that I just said.
And then he says, and here's the deal, here's my
part of the deal. If we lose open season on me,
I will be here. I will do until you drop
press conference and talk about everything we did, what we
(32:56):
didn't do right, what we didn't do wrong. Maybe he
can say this mainly because you know they'll be open
season anyway if you lose. But you say, if we lose, hey,
whatever you want, whatever you need to say, whatever it
is here, then then it's a story. But you're creating
stuff that doesn't exist. Nothing exists. Yes, with Jason Tatum
unhappy about not playing, Cherry was, but I'm pretty sure
(33:17):
everything is fine now. I'm pretty sure everybody kind of understands.
This is what it means like to play at the Olympics.
Some games you play a lot, some games you play
a little bit. The only guys that get consistent minutes
guys like KD Lebron and even KD comes off the bench.
You talk about Kevin Durant the leading scorer in Olympic history.
Now after coming off the bench today is coming off
(33:37):
the bench. Everything is fine, easy money sniper. That's what
I do if I am Steve Kerr and then I
go back and I tell the guys of the team, Hey,
I just bought you guys like five days of no
questions from the media. You're welcome, by the way. Oh hey, thanks, coach.
That's what I do, because that's the right way to
handle this. Yes, nobody, nothing nothing, don't create stuff. Don't
(33:58):
create something because you're late. You're a lazy sports talk
TV or radio host and can't come up with stuff.
So oh yeah, let's talk about this. There are no problems,
right And Steve Curry even said a few days ago,
whatever is noise from the outside is not here, and
you can tell that is not affecting the team. There's
no sources. Joelle Embiid wanted to go home and had
to be convinced to stay. There's no stories like that,
(34:19):
No story sources. Jason Tatum fought Steve Kerr in the
locker room and Steph Curry had to hit him over
the chair over the head with a chair to break
it up. There's none of that happening. Everything is fun.
To be honest, the way we use the term sources anymore,
I'm surprised those weren't out there anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Sources.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Let's just throw those out there. He's miserable looking at
him on the bench. Look, he's just stewing, like some
of it's been.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
My favorite is when they always say and a source
who is familiar with the team's thinking said this, because
I always think like that could be me. I'm familiar
with how the hell of the Mets are thinking right now.
I can say this and I seem like him every day.
I know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
But think about both Tatum and Embiid how people have
gone after their careers and tried to tear down everything
they've accomplished in the NBA based on a d n
P or some struggles with FOEBA rules and rotations because
it takes time to get rhythm right. Steph Curry hasn't
quite gotten the same derision that you would think of
(35:17):
God because.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
He's not shooting terribly well. But guess what volume.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You're not getting the volume and rotation and flow that
you would in a normal NBA game, not as many touches,
the balls going out of Lebron James hand, etc. So
all of that to say, you know, if Steve Kerr
said the quiet part out loud, I would dig it.
But that doesn't mean people aren't still going to keep
poking because they've got to write their column inches, they've
(35:41):
got to figure out what the B block is going
to be. Margin of victory is not big enough today
they actually covered, so maybe it quells some of that.
For the women's team, right, A lot of noise guards
haven't played well, it doesn't matter. There's no bludgeting teams,
no right, So I mean you and I have talked
about it, and yeah, it would have been more fun
and maybe an easier flow if Clark's on the squad,
(36:03):
But guess what she's not, and there's still hasting people.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Same thing on the men's side.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It doesn't always have to look pretty, and maybe afterwards
these guys will go on a podcast and bear their
souls until then metal rounds.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Let's go. Now, let's close the final minute by saying this,
I always like to bring your prestige worldwide.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I prar attention to somebody who succeeds outside the world
of sports. And it's surprised to a lot of people
today for Minnesota Wild Center, Wes Walls is now the
nominee to be Vice president of the United States and
the Democratics.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
What was it he had jets tight end? No, No,
that's Wesley. That's Wesley Walls.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
This is this is Wes Walls with a Z, with
a Z from Minnesota and now he's the Democratic nominee
for vice president.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
How about that? Never scored more than twenty goals in
a season.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yet he can be that close. That is success, man,
I'll tell you. Coming up next, my buddy Ben Mallar.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, live from the
tire Rack dot Com studios, where we saw absolute history
tonight in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That's what I call a blank and show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The Chicago White Sox, who were just two losses away
from the modern record for the biggest losing streak in
baseball history, met up with the Oakland A's after getting
pounced on by the A's last night, and the White
(01:08):
Sox defying odds. Maybe they'll make a movie one day
at the Soxtanity. One thing I know, if they make
a movie about this White Sox game tonight, don't have
to worry about hiring a lot of extras to play
fans in the ballpark because there was nobody there.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
If nothing else, we go back to the COVID years
and we have the cardboard cutout.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It would be kind of like Moneyball where they just
you know, they had the big games. It was just
like the ISO shots and them by themselves in the field,
like Justice hit bat.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It was just him and the kitcher. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Uh, that's all they would do because there was only
friends and family the game tonight and clearly and dogs.
There were dogs in the crowd on Oakland Radio tonight.
There's gonna be the event session of Hey, how do
we not support this team against the White Sox? How
do we not come out at least or this series?
They just all.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Showed up and gave their money away when the Dodgers
came to do Did you not see that they like
quadrupled their year's attendance in a weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The Chicago White Sox twenty one consecutive losses jump out
on top of the A's.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Early Yeah, Jonathan Cannon getting it done.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Two to one, lead, lead gets extended to three to one,
Brady save five to one. Can you wait until we
get to the end to tell me about the said Look,
just wait, I'm building because people will think this is
an onion story, that this didn't really happen tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Just like the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I texted my wife. You goes, she on the earthquakes.
She goes, Nope, it's okay, all right, great, yeah, no
bigger earthquake. You get five seven earthquakes about there?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And the funny thing is my next door neighbor for
for for sixteen years.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
She's in her nineties.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
She said, Oh, there is no better feeling than the
ground just shaking under your feet.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I said, are you insane? What is wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Stop what your next door name about? I said, there's
destruction there. He goes, Oh, but when I was a kid,
the earthquakes. I go, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
What are you talking When she was a kid, earthquakes
were dinosaurs. Oh, Lilyan.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Lilyan is an in her nineties, so she was a
kid like she's talking about, like like right around the
Great Depression. She was back when this was all undeveloped land.
Since she's been doing hr here, it was one land masks.
Now my next door neighbor, not not that, Lilyan. Stop
the White Sox five to one lead in the ninth inning.
(03:27):
They have had many ninth inning games where they have
blown the lead looked like a win, snatching a win, yeah,
from the jaws of defeat. Instead, No, it's snatching a
defeat from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Twenty eight loan saves. Maybe if they.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Had Bobby Jenks or Bobby Howry or Bobby Valentine, things
would be different. There were a lot of guys named Bob,
Bob not great, Bob, not great, not great. But tonight, fate,
destiny and the selling of souls was on the White
Sox side. Here's the final call of the final out
(04:06):
of the ninth inning of the White Sox, snapping the
twenty one game losing streak.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I don't even know what that was. Yeah, we got
a lot of bobs. Yeah that was the play by
play's boss. Okay, all right, very good guy that had
the uh not so very good call. Yeah, oh yeah,
yeah yeah. Listen yelling you can't keep getting away with Listen.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
These final calls you're gonna hear are absolutely terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And listen.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I don't want to, you know, criticize another guy in
the media, but wow, man, these.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Calls are terrible.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You forgot Bobby thigpen, Oh, well, fifty seven saves and.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
What career eighty nine?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Bobby think Penn, fifty seven saves eighty seven something like that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, something, Yeah, Bobby think Penn. Yeah no, but yeah
you had Bobby.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Think, I'm just trying to fill a buster so I
don't have to hear the call. Let's hear it and
feel sad.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Let's hear one of the horrendous final calls of the
White Sox victory the streak.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
This could do it out to left field coming in,
then attending, and the streak is over.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
After twenty one l's in a row.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
The White Sox come to the West Coast and get
their first win in a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Say it with me, south Side standill.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because again, you've had a month to figure out a
call when you snap this win streak. At least you
had the time between breakfast this morning and the game tonight.
If they win, what am I going to say? South
side stand in a long time? Come on, man, I
mean that call and then here's the other part. Right,
So you think, okay, well that wasn't great. That was
(05:53):
at the sound side stand up? Is it's a thing,
no idea, It's a thing. But come on, man, you
got to give me something better than that. This is
a dude, this is a losing streak we haven't seen
since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You gotta give me more than just south Side stand up?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Come on from three White Sox come to the West
Coast and get their first win in a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Say it with me? South Side stand up? All right?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Three months ago on Reddit quote, can we all agree
that south Side stand up is the lamest blanky banking history?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
South Side stand Up. We're gonna fight, stand up. We're
ready to fight, all right, So maybe you think that
maybe the play by play on the radio is better.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Guys have energy on the radio. They're excited.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hey, this is gonna be it. We're gonna celebrate it
like we should. We're gonna pop some champagne. Here's the
radio play by play call of the final out of
the White Sox win.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But he's hitting eighth tonight, and he swings hits a
towering pop fly shallow left, and it'll be Ben intending
to make the catch, and it's finally over. The White
Sox twenty one game losing streak is history. They beat
the A's tonight five to one.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh postgame show coming up next. We back at you
tomorrow night game time at seven to ten pm local time.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Like, this is not just another game. You gotta call
that thing like it's the final ending of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But that's the thing, Like it bums me out right,
there's the party of the fan. It's like, all right,
it's another game on the schedule. You just got a
lot of baseball to be played. But given the gravity
of this and the last couple of days where people
who didn't know the White Sox existed as a team
have suddenly made it the A block the B block
(07:34):
of their TV and radio shows across our sporting industry.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, it's it's a pretty big bleeping deal. Yes, it's
the a's.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yes, there are friends and family night on a Tuesday
in Oakland, but you.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Gotta celebrate the hell out of it. Gordon Beckham's quiet.
I'm gonna let my man have the call because this
is what's gonna be on the radio. This is what's
going like, no scream like an idiot. Let it out.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Darren j.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You've been there forever. You and Hawk used to get
after it. Now Lend Casper gives you a nice, dignified,
straight call of a white Sox. He was to get
excited to win, let alone that it broke ato wenty
one game streak.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Come on man, uh Now, as if that wasn't bad enough,
because I have reality for you came. They went to
the postgame show, which was what's his name in Frank Tom? Yeah,
Chuck gar Find.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, Chuck gar Find and Frank Tom. I just tweeted
at Chuck. The first thing.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
They did was Chuck gar Find called Ozzie Gean on
his phone. The first thing I saw when I said, okay,
the show was started and he's on his cell phone.
Tell you he's calling someone on his cell phone. You said,
they're calling Ozzy Gan the ad. I'm like, okay, all right,
but hang on a second. I have one thing to
say here. First, I've worked in television, and I think
(08:51):
the people are savvy enough to watch television that if
you wanted to put Ozzie gee In on the show,
he could just call in or zoom and they could
put him on the air and you could hear it
and it wouldn't be Chuck Garfine on his phone.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Funny, if they put one of those little microphones you
could have called the guys.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You've seen it on the phone, Ozzy Gean on the phone.
You could call it, Ozzie, We're gonna patch you through, Okay, great.
Instead he's holding the phone out, I mean may mineral
cell phone. I mean, are the White Sox Are they
that cheap? Do they not have the money? Not have
the technology to patch somebody through on the phone. No,
we had the computers taken out after losing Street game
(09:32):
number seventeen.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We don't have that anymore. All right, I'll just have
Ozzy call on the phone. That's been one of the
big things of the series. Where's Ozzie?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
He talked a lot this weekend of how this whole
streak has broken him because Pedro Griffall is under is
more than one hundred games under five hundred as the
White Sox manager. So Ozzie trying to become the managers,
you know, an update for folks that missed yesterday's show.
Trying to get back into baseball. Thought I could go
back and I could manage the White Sox again. I
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can help them push to the next level. And he
got passed over for Pedro and he's broken up about it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Started talking about what it's done to his relationship with
his family, with his friends, his relationship to alcohol, all
of those.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Like, and then he's not on these games with the
with the.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
A's Again, if something happens, I get it, he could
call the studio and they would put him through and
everybody could hear him. You don't have to be standing
there on the phone holding the phone. He's holding the
phone in front of him. I really he was gonna
hold it up and he would have been facetiming. So
there's Ozzy's face.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The service at the bar is not very good.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh okay, that could happen. Listen, I can't step out
right now.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Frostburg's telling me we have obtained exclusive audio Ozzie Geehan
following the White Soxman.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Is that right, Frostburg? The exclusive audi?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So this is the phone call that Ozzie had with
Chuck Garfine after they get Wow, this is exclusive right here.
This is pretty special. All right now, we'll be cleaned
it up so we can hear it. I mean, it's
not just gonna be Ouzzy and the phone going. That
was I'm very excited start a new streak, now, winning
streak allfully like it's not gonna be that as you
cleaned it up and sounds good.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Let's find out, all right, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Here is your exclusive audience of Ozzy talking to Chuck
and again, Chuck Garfin has had so many mentions now
in the last five minutes on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I'm a fan. I love the worky, not after this segment,
not after this, because not after this? All right, what
do you got?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
All right, let's hear the audio. Okay, that was definitely
on the phone. That was that was definitively on the phone. Boy,
definitively on the phone. Socks, yo, that's a White Sox
(11:50):
winter Now wait now, wait now, because I got to
ask because I'm just not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Was that really Ozzy or was that something else?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You'll never know, like I don't know, I don't know
getting to the center of I don't know if that
was right.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I never know, like what we usually do where it's a.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Joke or I don't know if that was I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know what it was. I
really don't that was that was. That's your White Sox
victory right there. Exit out Mauta Fresca, Exit swollen.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Jason with my best friend Mike game. Now Frostby Rob
was that and then the York shook. We're never gonna
tell you, You're never gonna know. Boy oh boy. Now
all right, coming up next.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, okay, We've had our fun. Now it's back to
reality for the White Sox. Wait to hear what I
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My goodness, I got such great memories of that song.
Man Ah Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from
the Tirech dot Com Studios, and yes, the White Sox winner.
Before you get into the game of the day breaking down,
let me just say this.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
White so win and the Bears Hard Knocks Episode one.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's what I get to go home.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, celebrate a White Sox winner, grab some tequila, Yeah sure,
and enjoy the Bears Hard Knocks.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
None of it all look slightly better than the Giants.
And now I'm gonna bring it back to earth. So
because you had your time.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
This is just that's the only time I get.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
This is just like a television show where when the
good guys win, you can only enjoy it for so
long because you need tension and you need some kind
of battling.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He got me in the cave. White Sox won tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Dude, If you didn't have the host of your postgame
show talking to Ozzigean on the phone, but not on
the phone through the studio on his actual cell phone,
what the hell?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Man, Hey, I know technology and out Hey yeah, hey,
that's outside. Stand up with the win now.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, your Chicago White Sock White Sox are Curtis Martin
and Michael Irvin. You are twenty eight and eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You are playing at a two forty one winning percentage.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's good, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
If it was out of three hundred, yes, but it
is two forty one out of one thousand. If you
want to avoid having the worst record in the history
of Major League Baseball, being the worst team ever, to.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Be just above the worst team ever.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh, just if you want to just beat the Mets
by a game, the saf Threats by a game, you
need to go twelve and thirty four the rest of
the way, which is a winning percentage of two sixty.
How many more times do you play the a's just one?
Go just one, let's go to take a toon two
forty one winning percentage you have. Now you have to
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win it a two sixty winning percentage the rest of
the way to not be the worst team of all time.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Let's see they have the they're tied for the thirteenth
hardest schedule remaining with the Houston ass.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Everybody's how do you do not have the toughest schedule
in the world because you stinking everybody else is better?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
So they should have the toughest scal.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
So they still have four games left against the A's.
It's all about the opponent, not how bad you are.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You play four more against the A's, Come on, man,
six against the Angels, Come seven against the Tigers. Wow, exactly,
three against the Rangers, three against the Giants, and they
have a series a two game series with the Cubs
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
How do you play? All these teams all stink? Yeah?
How is that the fifth hardest?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How is three against the Mets? Would you say the
thirteenth hardest? You have the Mets?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, it sounds like the easiest schedule. Now the easiest
is Detroit.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They've the combined winning percentage of teams they face left
is forty seven.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's crazy. Stink point three? They all stink? How is that?
They all stink? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But they still have three against the Yankees, three against
the Guardians, three against the Red Sox, three against the Orioles.
It's three against Fenley's Padres and three against your Mets.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's almost like you go walk away and say, hey, hey,
look at all the tough teams you had to play
through the first four months of the season.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's why our record so bad. Now we're gonna get out.
It lightens up now at the end.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's like what people always tell me, Oh yeah, I
know that Jets are two and six, but the schedule
gets lighter.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
We're two and six, the season's over. We're two and six.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Well, we're gonna hear a lot of that this year
because the schedules for several teams are backloaded with all
their division games, which makes no sense. Right, everybody get
hurt and whoever is healthiest in week nine will win
the division.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Need to go twelve and thirty four the rest of
the way.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, not happening. Twelve and thirty. You gotta win twelve
more games. We gotta find twelve ws in that schedule.
Twelve out of those twenty five games. Can they do it?
Or okay, eleven? Maybe they can steal one from the
Mets or THEO. You probably could. You probably all the
Mets that you look you way down at your level
of competition. And I will say that because this is
the other big story tonight now, right now, if you
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ask me who are the two best teams in baseball,
I'll tell you the Diamondbacks and the Padres. They just
don't lose They're terrific, and this nationally wildcard race has
just been turned upside down because, like I said, these
teams are getting hot after the deadline now and for
the Mets, who are just continuing to be a little
bit over five hundred. Look, you can't lose two out
of three to the bleeping Angels. You can't come in
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and be at the potential where you're gonna lose two
out of three at least to the Rockies. The Mets
best hope for the playoffs is, honestly, can they beat
out the Braves, because the Braves, with all their injuries, yes,
they made some moves of the deadline, but this is
still not the Braves. The Braves are fun. The Braves
are in the third wildcard now for the first time
all season one, they're the third wildcard. I don't know
that it's going to be a weird year where, oh,
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instead of winning eighty four eighty five games.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, you got to get to ninety. You got to
be in the nineties for wins.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Because it sure seems like that's what the Padres and
Diamondbacks are doing because they're both taking off right now
at the right time, and the Mets and the Braves
are struggling, so the team's below them. Now in the
National League, you get a little bit of separational you know,
the Reds are falling, the Cardinals that have not played well,
but still, I mean, you're looking at two teams that
are rising and the Braves are falling.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
If the Mets are gonna make it like that's how
it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Be, that Padres with the fifth easiest schedule remaining. Of course,
this is tankethon a dot com and just the Cubs,
the Yankees, the Angels in Detroit with an easier path
along the way.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
The other team we've been watching. We talked about it
with John Paul Morosi a little bit. Going to the
American League side of things is Houston. Valdez two outs
in the ninth, gives up a two run home and
a course to see her to break up what would
have been a no hitter. But they're getting healthy. Right
in Seattle, we've seen floundering, still trying to find someone
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to really shore up that lineup right. Julio Rodriguez haz
missed time. Raleigh is a great power guy, but hits
for no average, So trying to find some balance. So
they're a team to watch. But yeah, White Sox twelve
and thirty four. Huh, that's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's it I find twelve wins now twelve wins stand
This is where in the old days when people would
buy newspapers would be wins needed to not be the
worst team ever in every day to be the countdown
it stays of twelve would be on the front page
of the paper every day.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Twelve eleven, ten. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The Braves had a giveaway with out cast today ride
a nice bibblehead. Can the White Sox adopt Ludacris go
and stand up.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Out, stand up, stand up? Call on if you move? Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
So from the biggest win of the night, just like that, Yeah,
to the biggest win of the day.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Uh we white Look we get said.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We have the United States Olympic women's basketball team in
action tomorrow. We talked about the men's team earlier. Yeah,
they wanted they covered uh the finally if you bet
the men's they finally covered for it.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They finally showed out and backed their backers.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And know, by the way, I like how on the
White Sox postgame they showed the odds, the betting odds
of the game.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Hey, here's what you want.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
They picked up Yeah, they picked some random things for
the over under on runs whatever. But I did like
the graphic that said White Sox improved to twenty eight
eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But the women's national team today beats Germany to move
on to the gold medal game in the Olympics. And
there's a lot of good and then there's a lot
of questions. Now, we talked earlier about the good. Look,
you've heard so much now about the three forwards. How
great they are. We told you how great they would be.
And this is the new Golden era of soccer. And
this team is built for the rest of the Olympics
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and the next two World Cups on the strength of
the three forwards on Sophia Smith, Mallory Swanson, Trinity Rodbins terrific. Right,
they're all so good. The other good part is, and
we forget about this because she doesn't get enough credit,
is a listen there as sometimes makes the save you
go wow when you absolutely need one. She makes one,
and she had the save in the final couple of
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minutes where one of those saves where you make your
own luck where it was it wasn't a save of Hey,
this was I make myself as big as possible and
try to try to just take something off the trail
and she leaps in the air and does and puts
her arms and legs out and luckily all the set
piece the ball deflects off her leg and it's cleared out.
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It is it was this close to being a goal.
An absolute disaster for the United States. And while all
the good for the United States again, the forwards are
kind of like the superstar quarterback because they cover up
the ills of the rest of the team. They cover
up all the warts, and the United States team has
a lot of warts. We got into it earlier last
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hour on the show. Look the midfielders, I don't know
how much longer you can keep playing, Lindsay Horan and
Rose level.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You only got to do it one more game.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
As much as they have meant to the women's national team.
Lindsay Horan, she can't play box to box anymore. She
can't get open. She's not fast, she's not the player
she was and it's easy to see. And they attacked
her today because she can't hold onto the ball. Every
time she got the ball with Joe go take it
it's like a youth league game where it's whenever you
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see someone get it, I know I can go take
it from her. Right, that's Lindsay Horan, who's thirty, who's
you know, you know, getting to be older now. She
had a great career, so I don't know how long
you can put her out there. Same thing with Rose Level.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I don't know. Rose Levell is really good in space.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But you know what, this team is not as talented
as a team she's played on in the past, which
has given her a lot of space. She's not playing
with Julie Ertz and a prime Lindsay Horan or a
prime Sam Ewis anymore. She is playing where hey, you
are someone that we're counting on, and she can't get
any separation and she can't make any plays. Right, I
don't know how much long you can continue to put
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both of them out there. Haran might just be done.
Lavelle may have been well, maybe we thought she was
better than she was because when she was playing on
a star studded team, she looked better because she had space.
But she can't create space now, so it's a real
difficult thing. But you saw what was near disaster for
the United States because you're talking about you give up
that goal late and loo again. The United States defense
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is not great. I know we don't give up a
lot of goals, but wow, there's a lot of moments
some jack could go either way and you get bailed
out and a listen, there bailed the United States out.
If that goal goes in. You're talking about going to penalties,
and you've already taken Mallory Swanson out of the game.
So that's one of your top three because your first
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three penalty takers are going to be your three forwards.
Then it's gonna be Nair, and then I don't know
who they'd wind up having after that, So you're you're
suddenly deflated with that. This is not an unbeatable United
States team. This is a United States team that is
better than we thought that will wind up winning the
gold medal because I firmly believe the forwards are gonna
do it right when you're no one's playing better than
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the United States, no one in the entire tournament. No
one is playing better Japan. We had them on their
heels the whole game. Germany on their heels the whole game.
How do we stop the forwards. We got to load
up to stop the forwards. How do we do this.
We're going to Japan said we're gonna keep everybody back
and we're gonna stop it from getting it in Germany
is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We know we can control the middle of the field,
and we know we can do that because chances too.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Right, the venders were slow, totate near a couple of times,
didn't get much on the ball. No right got made
the same but didn't get a lot. So you know
you have those risky chances.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
But when you do that, you leave other stuff out there,
and other teams need to leave other stuff out there.
When you're saying we need to stop the United States forwards, right,
either it's we're not going to get the ball and
get great scoring chances, or we're not going to be
able to win battles in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Whatever is.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
You're sacrificing things to stop the three of them. And
no one is playing at a higher level right now
in the entire Olympics than the three forwards are.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
No one is so much pressure on you.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You got to communicate, rotate, decide which which player you're
gonna double.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
You can't. You can't because you can't keep up with
their speed.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You can't give up with Trinity Robbins talent on the ball.
Mallory Swanson's kind of a malcam of both of them.
You know, you look at the spirit everybody who's tired, tired.
Sophia Smith is still blowing by people in the game
and it's insane how fast he is.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Like you can't hold them back.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
They're going to win the world They're gonna win the
Olympic gold medal because of the three of them, and
they're scoring all all the goals like it's it's it's
almost like a youth league where to just get the
ball to the forwards, don't worry about anything else. Just
watch the ball again. Just get the ball to the forwards.
And you see get the ball to the Italians and
that was it. You hear Julie Foudy going, this is
going to be a long ball to Mallory Swanson or
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they're looking for a long ball to Sophia's with because
they need to get the ball past the middle of
the field.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
See what they do, I mean, got a scoring chance.
They may use every inch of the field, right, You
want to chase them. You ain't winning that.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Sprint, no oh no, no no.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Then you saw even on the goal that Smith scored, right,
defender makes a choice and a bad one at that,
and I think only makes a bad choice.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
She made it worse kind of shielding. Not shouldn't have
come out, She shouldn't have come out. I don't either
had to commit and come full out or not at all.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Right, she kind of went half in and the defender
kind of shielding thinking the goalies already committed to coming up,
but doesn't, and Smith just outruns her to get a
good boot on the ball. So yeah, it's it's dangerous
every for a post defenses each and every time that
the pressure is immense.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So while they're not unbeatable, let me let me give
you the biggest, the bigger sunny side, because there's a lot.
I mean, everything is great, right, They're gonna win the
gold medal because they're the best team. They'll probably get
back in and be the favorites to win the next
two World Cups, which they should be because their front
line is unmatched across the planet. It's it's in four
in five games they become the best forwards in the world.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
This group. It's that good.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But going forward now and getting ready for the gold
medal game and beyond, you have you have questions to ask,
I understand this. But the best part, the best part
of this now is that the rest of the world
looks at the United States team and says, man, maybe
this last World Cup that Spain won was the one
where you had to get the United States there because
they were in a transition. And now it's going to
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be hard to get them the next two Cups because
they're built around these forwards. Teams are going to go
back to the strategy as you see Japan try to
do in Germany try to do of well, the best
thing we can do is try to take the United
States to penalties, right, and you could do that because
while while well, Meghan Rapino and Alex Morgan were goal scorers,
they weren't as deadly as as the three as as
the three of them are together. So you can have
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that strategy of saying, hey, we're gonna play for penalties,
which was Japan's strategy and which likely was germany strategy,
especially when they lost two of their best players, one
was sick and couldn't play and one they lost early
in the game. You can have that strategy, but you
know what, that ain't gonna work because in win or
go home games, when you're playing two extra periods, that
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front line is going to break through.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It somebody that's the break wrong Trump we've talked about
with the rules that you have in place, advantage youth speed.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, the forwards are going to break through. Like I
could see, yeah, I could see saying let's take him there.
If we can control Alex Morgan, we control they're not
gonna break through and get big shots. But the three
of them, eventually they're gonna break through. So that strategy
of hey, let's take them to penalties, you know what,
Eventually they're gonna wear you down and in the eightieth
minute ninetieth minute extra time they're gonna break through and
score and it's gonna be break your heart. Now you'll
(30:06):
say we played a close game, but boy, they're gonna
break our hearts at the end. That's the best part
of the United States is that the strategy that other
countries have used for a long time, it's not gonna work.
They're gonna have to figure out something else. So there's
so much good for.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The United States.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Fun to see how they round out the rest of
the roster going forward. Right when you've got a base
that that strong, and think about it, you lost one
of the women that was supposed to be one of
these faces of your squad in Macario, right, she was
going to be next, and now she can't stay on
the pitch, and but you've had these other three emerge
and Rodman the physicality is it's just fun to watch
(30:43):
her right, just oh yeah, Steve Power, you want to
try to go and press her like you're gonna take
the ball away.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
She she just man handles.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
They have all come that, they have all come through
incredibly well, I'll tell you how great they're.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It's so much fun to watch, so excited.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The Jason's Show with my best friend Mike Carmon coming
up next. What I want one big time head coach
to tell the media tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Jason and Mike Fox. Be sure to catch live editions
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Speaker 1 (31:21):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Live from the Tirak dot Com Studios. You had to
say men's basketball team into the semifinals.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Women get going in a few hours.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
We'll talk about that tomorrow night on the show. But
after their absolute blowout of Brazil today to make it
into the Semis against Serbia, I know Nikola Jokich is
waiting everything and oh my god, he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Go forty thirty and twenty and we're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Right now, the United States has no problems. They have
absolutely zero problems. They are playing extremely well, they're motivated,
they're playing well defensively. Steve kurrzf out his rotation. Guys
are going from dnps to being the star of games
like Joel Embiid went from Game two to today. The
United States has no problems. So if I'm Steve Kerr,
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I tell the media, I gather them and I say, okay,
here's the thing. Now, we got a few days for
the semifinal game and then then we have the gold
medal game. Maybe I said a right, here's what I
want you guys to do. All right, all of you
idiots that created this ridiculous storyline of Jason Tatum didn't play.
This is ripping USA basketball. Part of the seams. I
want all of you to shut up. None of you
(32:34):
can criticize me, none of you can criticize these players,
because we want every game by fifteen. Even covered today,
we are getting better all the things that I just said.
And then he says, and here's the deal, here's my
part of the deal. If we lose open season on me,
I will be here. I will do until you drop
press conference and talk about everything we did, what we
(32:56):
didn't do right, what we didn't do wrong. Maybe he
can say this mainly because you know they'll be open
season anyway if you lose. But you say, if we lose, hey,
whatever you want, whatever you need to say, whatever it
is here, then then it's a story. But you're creating
stuff that doesn't exist. Nothing exists. Yes, with Jason Tatum
unhappy about not playing, Cherry was, but I'm pretty sure
(33:17):
everything is fine now. I'm pretty sure everybody kind of understands.
This is what it means like to play at the Olympics.
Some games you play a lot, some games you play
a little bit. The only guys that get consistent minutes
guys like KD Lebron and even KD comes off the bench.
You talk about Kevin Durant the leading scorer in Olympic history.
Now after coming off the bench today is coming off
(33:37):
the bench. Everything is fine, easy money sniper. That's what
I do if I am Steve Kerr and then I
go back and I tell the guys of the team, Hey,
I just bought you guys like five days of no
questions from the media. You're welcome, by the way. Oh hey, thanks, coach.
That's what I do, because that's the right way to
handle this. Yes, nobody, nothing nothing, don't create stuff. Don't
(33:58):
create something because you're late. You're a lazy sports talk
TV or radio host and can't come up with stuff.
So oh yeah, let's talk about this. There are no problems,
right And Steve Curry even said a few days ago,
whatever is noise from the outside is not here, and
you can tell that is not affecting the team. There's
no sources. Joelle Embiid wanted to go home and had
to be convinced to stay. There's no stories like that,
(34:19):
No story sources. Jason Tatum fought Steve Kerr in the
locker room and Steph Curry had to hit him over
the chair over the head with a chair to break
it up. There's none of that happening. Everything is fun.
To be honest, the way we use the term sources anymore,
I'm surprised those weren't out there anyway.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Sources.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Let's just throw those out there. He's miserable looking at
him on the bench. Look, he's just stewing, like some
of it's been.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
My favorite is when they always say and a source
who is familiar with the team's thinking said this, because
I always think like that could be me. I'm familiar
with how the hell of the Mets are thinking right now.
I can say this and I seem like him every day.
I know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
But think about both Tatum and Embiid how people have
gone after their careers and tried to tear down everything
they've accomplished in the NBA based on a d n
P or some struggles with FOEBA rules and rotations because
it takes time to get rhythm right. Steph Curry hasn't
quite gotten the same derision that you would think of
(35:17):
God because.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
He's not shooting terribly well. But guess what volume.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You're not getting the volume and rotation and flow that
you would in a normal NBA game, not as many touches,
the balls going out of Lebron James hand, etc. So
all of that to say, you know, if Steve Kerr
said the quiet part out loud, I would dig it.
But that doesn't mean people aren't still going to keep
poking because they've got to write their column inches, they've
(35:41):
got to figure out what the B block is going
to be. Margin of victory is not big enough today
they actually covered, so maybe it quells some of that.
For the women's team, right, A lot of noise guards
haven't played well, it doesn't matter. There's no bludgeting teams,
no right, So I mean you and I have talked
about it, and yeah, it would have been more fun
and maybe an easier flow if Clark's on the squad,
(36:03):
But guess what she's not, and there's still hasting people.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Same thing on the men's side.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It doesn't always have to look pretty, and maybe afterwards
these guys will go on a podcast and bear their
souls until then metal rounds.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Let's go. Now, let's close the final minute by saying this,
I always like to bring your prestige worldwide.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I prar attention to somebody who succeeds outside the world
of sports. And it's surprised to a lot of people
today for Minnesota Wild Center, Wes Walls is now the
nominee to be Vice president of the United States and
the Democratics.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
What was it he had jets tight end? No, No,
that's Wesley. That's Wesley Walls.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
This is this is Wes Walls with a Z, with
a Z from Minnesota and now he's the Democratic nominee
for vice president.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
How about that? Never scored more than twenty goals in
a season.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yet he can be that close. That is success, man,
I'll tell you. Coming up next, my buddy Ben Mallar.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
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