August 7, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike get you all caught up from the day at The Olympics. Jason doubles down on Steve Kerr 100% being the right guy for Team USA. And the Patriots have decided not to explore any further trade possibilities with the 49ers regarding Brandon Aiyuk.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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should be. Well, we got big news in Major League Baseball.
We got big stuff going on in the NFL. We
have Olympic doings and movings on. But first, you know,
it's always nice to see when someone from the world
of sports does something bigger and in the news. I
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want to spend a second here because obviously we saw
the big news today that former Minnesota wild center Wes
Walls is the Democratic nominee. It's for vice president. He
had a great career, spent his last seven years with Minnesota.
Wasn't a big score, didn't You can't go say West
Walls a lot of gold now, But he was a
glue guy. And you know who thought after leaving the
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NHL in the early two thousands he would be on
a presidential.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Such a sting because I walked around in Hollywood the
other day and I saw the star of christov vault,
so I thought he had actually gotten the nomination.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh okay, no, No, I mean he was born in Calgary,
so there is going to be a thing. So I mean,
but I mean they're not going to make him the
nominee unless they know he's easy to do it. Wow,
They're clearly going to vet all of that because I
hope it's a board. I mean, look, and you look,
he's going to get votes in Boston and Philadelphia, in Detroit,
Minnesota Like this is you wanted to get the Midwest.
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It's what you got, right, You're getting Massachusetts. All the
way across.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We find the guys that have a rich tapestry of
Jersey Strode.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Upon there one of their Walls.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You know, one of those jersey quilts, not just the
T shirt quilt from the old concert chirts.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, this works. Shack could run for president too. He's
got nine or ten states covered, bounced around, finished with Minnes.
I mean Minnesota was where he became a household name.
Obviously Wes hal We didn't know about that, didn't know
anything about his politics. Nothing else here had Wes Walls
is on the ticket? Who knowing in wake this whole
time's gonna wear his jersey and everything else? How about
that quiz? Did Wes Walls ever score twenty goals in
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the season?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No? Like really no? Or no? Oh he might have
gone balls to the walls frostburd flying in from the
side West Walls nineteen goals in two thousand and five,
two thousand. What are the odds there's two people named
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who have a lot to do with Minnesota. What are
the odds that? Well? I mean, I don't know the
entire history of the surname, but I mean I think
if we look it up and we look at the
migration patterns and and where you have local establishments of
different cultures. Right, the Norsemen that have moved into uh,
into the min Minnesota and such that maybe maybe you've
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got the same kind of thing. It's surprising me. I'm like, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's like I got a bunch of guys named Kowalski
running around Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I mean, I wonder, well, that's huge Polish population. Kow
Why don't you come in here? I mean, do you
think theyre related? Did you? I tried to give you
a Harry Potter a little bit of No. I'm thinking
I hate Kowolski. I mean, do you think they're related?
I don't know. I mean, I mean, I can't believe
you're You're it's because there's no tea. It's because there's
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no tea. It's not Waltz, it's not Walts. There's no
ta in the name, no T, no T. It's w
A l z low t, no T. And Walls ing
into walls from the NHL to politics. TJ is Wes Walls.
It's his wife named Matilda, because that we have Waltz Matilda.
Oh boy, there we go. I mean, look, hey, good
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to see it. Good to see it. Guy, It's good.
I had a knock around career in the NHL. Look
at it. Look at it. He could as send to
the highest highest office that we have opportunity. All you
need is chance.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like tonight, the the A's did the great trolling because
and earlier today, as we have our Devil's jukebox that
we call it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's the amalgam of everything my daughter's listened to and
what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
We actually listened to the song twenty two by Taylor Swift.
Oh no, and that's what they were playing. Yeah, to
troll the white sauce for those eighteen fans in attendance.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
When you're for this game, when you're getting trolled by
the A's, this is where if that's not rock bottom
or look in the mirror, I don't know what is. Well,
you had a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Fans when guys were signing autographs trying to give him grief.
It's like, I'm not gonna sign your damn card.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Go away. This is this is a major league team
that's gonna be playing in Sacramento, yeah next season and
in a five hundred uh person capacity stadium.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well which I think the center field it's also five
hundred feet.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, this is really, this is this is this
is who's trolling you?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is this is like, okay, we need some kind
of intervention, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But look, twenty one losses, you're the windshield. Sometimes you're
the bug. As Mainoffler wrote, so many there, they've been
a lot of bugs, it's been, but this has been
it's been the it's been the highway cars going down
the highways Angelus in Vegas, and this is.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Where it runs into a whole swarm of bugs. And
it's just it's like when they pull up after the
long drive and you just see your grill, is like,
oh man, you killed really need to clean all of these?
Were they before you return the rental?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You feel guilty, so you actually take it to get
washed and you normally wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
These were These are all white Sox bugs right here.
So the White Sox going for can we say going
for their twenty second loss? I mean, because they're not
trying for it, but they try to boyd something. Okay,
it's a tigger accomplishment, right, it's an accomplishment, but they're
not trying to do it. Can so I don't know,
can we say they're trying for their twenty second loss?
They're in because or are they in danger of it?
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But they're actually playing the games they're in danger, they
wouldn't do it, Like danger implies, hey it's too dangerous,
we can't do it. But they're actually playing the game,
which again is dangerous for the White Sox, but in
a baseball sense, well like, how do we say.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It ironically though we're talking about bugs or coincidentally, more
likely the proper word. There's a pest control ad currently
behind home plate as well as they're playing in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They want to make sure as well as by the
blue bubblehead. Hey that's coming out. So right now, the
White Sox and the A's nothing nothing as the a's
bat in the bottom of the second with a runner
on first. So this is where we sit as the
Chicago White Sox losers of twenty one in a row.
Try to avoid, try to try to win special try
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to win, try to win, try to avoid losing their
twenty second game in.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
A row, try to find some positivity in its dark.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Time because there not trying. So this is where we
sit right now, and then if this happens, they will
just be within one loss of the most losses in
a row, biggest losing streak in modern baseball history. The
sixty one Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So it's Emmett Smith day potentially to twenty two in
a row. Yeah, and tomorrow is Jordan O'dowdell.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
No, no, we got it. You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think we were going because we went Zeke Elliott. Yeah,
Emtt Smith. It's either tshard choice, Yeah, no, go Dowbell.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But here's the thing, though, you go Emmett. Everybody knows
Emmtt's twenty two. Yeah, you go, Jordan twenty three, okay,
but if you go Rico Downell, people go, I don't.
I don't know. At twenty four is over? He is? Oh,
twenty four show, Yeah, twenty fourth, Scoby twenty five, Tony, Oh,
Jim Tomey is my homie. We could get twenty five yeah, sure, okay,
I'll good. Twenty five could be Jim, tell me sure,
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I'll go, I'll go in that. Yeah. And then uh,
well let's let's let's let's get to let's get to
twenty two and twenty three first, and then the all
time mark going into you know, prehistoric times. Yeah, twenty
twenty six, twenty six would be that. Yeah. So this
is where so it's specials we are we are watching
the White Sox unlike we have ever watched a White
Sox game. But if they can and already have thirty
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four pitches in the bottom of the second, even though
we watched this game just like this last night because
they tied the Well, I've.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Been watching them all along and suffering in silence. It's
only you, Johnny, come lately's here in the meeting? No, no,
we do all of a sudden, it's special.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Dude, do I need to watch the What do I
have to see that? All they lost? You watched? They
looked out for me, asked me, how do not you
want me to do? What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And then everybody else like, hey, it's twenty one, let's
pay attentions like no, you should have been watching this
crap the whole way, like al Pacino said, and any
given Sunday, I can't do it for you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I'm too old. I can't. You gotta you just have
to take whatever it's happening. Oh no, I'm wearing it.
There's no question, so nothing, nothing White Sox and the
A's as the White Sox aim to avoid, try to
play whatever it is. Yeah, they could lose twenty two.
It's right, and it's also Kershaw Day. It is It's
Kershaw Day as well. The Mets and Rockies are in
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a rain delay. That was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They had all those shirtless dudes that were standing there
on Not one of them is seen the inside of
a gym or manscaping is not hitting New York either, No, no, not.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yet, no, not not yet. So we have all that,
but obviously today a huge day in the Olympics. Yeah,
we watched the Well, we'll get to the US women's
national team in soccer in a little bit. Another incredible
effort to get to the gold medal game. But the
men's basketball team wins another game by more than fifteen points.
It is exactly how we thought this should go. Joel
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Embiid goes from a DNP two days ago to being
their best player today. They roll over Brazil one twenty
two to eighty seven, and Embiid is laughing after the game.
They're booing him. Okay, that's great. What did he say
after the game? Hey, gotta take something positive for this.
I don't care they can boo. I don't care. You
got to embrace your heel status. This is why we
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said Steve Kerr is the perfect guy for this team
because of all the controversy that you were told was
going Jason Tatum is a DNP all this time. We
told you everything is fine. There's no controversy. There are
just people that don't know how to talk about a
team that's just going to continue winning. And the Jason
Tatum DNPCD was it his favorite thing? No? Of course,
is it forgotten now? Yes? It is? Why because United
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States team, everybody's playing, they're winning, they're into the semis now,
they've won every game by fifteen points. If I'm Steve Kerr,
this is what I do at this point right to
give you a big blank you to everybody that wanted
to say, Jason Taya's not playing now, Joe, we told
you this is an overblown controversy, right, you think we'rewing
hot take No, this is overblown. Everybody's spending time on this.
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There's nothing because no one is upset on Team USA.
No one's going public with any kind of complaints. Everybody
is fine. Does everybody want to be playing more? Of
course they do, But this is the Olympics, this is
how it goes. And they won every game by fifteen points.
Everything is fine. Kerr is the best coach. We told
you he was a best coach. Now you're seeing Okay,
he's managing the egos and they're winning games. But if
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I'm Steve Kerr, I do this right, I do this. Okay,
let's go. I am sick all the I go full
Karate kid if I'm Steve Kerr. Remember in Karate Kead,
I mean the original that is not the Jamie Smith one. No,
when when Miagi and Daniel go and they meet with
Kressy after every day, like Daniel's just getting his ass
kicked by the Cobra, Kyrie, Johnny and Dutch and everybody's
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kicking his ass like every day. It's like, come on,
I can't even go to school, man, you guys gotta stop.
Elizabeth sh is so pretty. And so he goes this,
says okay, okay, okay, Hey, Daniel is gonna go on
the tournament. Don't touch him till then. And then he's
in the tournament there and Kresty says okay, and he says,
but if he doesn't show, it's open season on him
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and you, right, like Chressy does the big it's open
season on both of you, right, And they walk away
and Daniels, what are you doing? I'm gonnat killed in
that turn? What did you do that for? And Pat
Marita says, what are you talking about? I just saved
you three months beating. No one's gonna beat you up
for three months. I just saved you. Now you learn
how to cry. If I'm Steve Kerr, that's what I go,
full karate kid, I go Okay, none of y'all can
say anything. I want you all to shut up when
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we lose. If we lose, it's open season. I'll be
here to answer all your questions, talk about everything else.
But all you guys think you're so smart making stuff
up about this team, making up contrast all the noise.
You know what, All you guys go spit, go spit.
I don't want to hear any controverts. I don't want
to hear any questions, no criticism, because all we're doing
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is winning. We're winning by fifteen to twenty. What else
do you want? As you We are dominating this field,
unlike you thought a team in twenty twenty four can
dominate another field. If we lose, I will sit up
here at this press conference. It'll be open season on me.
You ask me any bleeping question you want now, clearly,
Steve Kerran, No, if we lose, it's gonna be open
season anyway. But make it seem like you're getting them something. No,
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make it. I'm giving you. I will sit here and
I will do until you drop press conference. I'll sit
here for three hours. You're gonna ask me everything you
want to. I will tell you everything about this team,
but you do it only if we lose. If as
we're winning, everybody shuts up. How's that for a deal?
That's why I do.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
If they went over the top today and they actually
covered too, because it was twenty seven and a half,
and they took care of their backers, which they hadn't
done and hadn't done well, and Jason Tatum didn't play
well again.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But that's a whole other thing for another time. The
whole point was it was laughable listening to the hot
take nonsense as it showed up in my Twitter feed
and my Instagram feed of people now going and indicting
players for their entire NBA careers because of maybe a
little bit of a fit problem with Team US. I'm like, really,
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that's how far we're gonna take this nonsense? We're gonna
start disparaging everything they've accomplished in the NBA over a
couple of exhibition games. Yes, Steve Kerr with Egos.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We talked about it as this all began and all
the quote problems.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
He's the guy that knows how to pull the strings,
get it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Jason Tatum talked about it and his needing to be humbled.
Joel embiid if he really had a problem, you'll hear
about it eventually.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know you're gonna hear about it eventually.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But in the end, he's embracing the villain status over
there and letting folks boo him. Comes up with the
big effort today. Anthony Edwards great once again and the
machine rolls on.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
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I'm not losing yet so far. Kershaw day for the
Dodger Zip zip in the second the White Sox trying
to avoid their twenty second loss in a row. Nothing.
Nothing with the A's in the third inning.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You know what was the best part of yesterday's game though?
The best image, well that other than the Vargas shot
in the back of the dugout realizing that he'd gone from,
as they say, the penthouse to the outhouse.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Were the two.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Guys wearing a black T shirt, the other guy in
a green T shirt, and they.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Both said sell. Yeah, yeah, everybody wants everybody sell.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
That's the commonality there. Please sell our team.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Everybody sell, sell to each other. It doesn't matter. Well
we'll play in Sacramento, doesn't matter, We'll move just so
you sell to us, will sell to you? How about that?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And then it was Grimace Day with the trash pandas
there's a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, Mets need Grimmace tonight. They're down five to three
at the sixth inning of the Rockies rocket, but big
news in the NFL. From Adam Schefter, this news just
a few minutes old. Last night we told you that
Brandon Ayuk of the forty nine ers was potentially maybe
a day away from being dealt as the Niners had
completed the framework of trades with the Browns and the
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Patriots in exchange for Brandon Ayuk. We don't know what
the compensation would have been. However, it was thrown out there.
Mary kay Cabott had this story last night that potentially
the Browns would be sending or could have been sending
Amari Cooper back, and the Patriots could be sending Kendrick
Bourne back to make it work that way. Now, we
didn't know if those are the guys they were, just
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who was thrown out there, and it was up to Ayuk.
Is this a deal that he would accept and we
would go forward? And I said there was a mystery team,
but we'll get to the mystery. The White Sox are
not the mystery team. No, there's no mister at homework,
the guy getting secret messages say isn't done yet? Not
the mystery. I'm back in. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter,
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this news again just a few minutes old. After inquiring
about Brandon Ayuk's availability, the Patriots have decided not to
explore any further trade possibilities with the forty nine ers.
Regarding their standout wide receiver, Patriots are excited about their
young receivers and want to focus on them. Okay, the
last one. You know. The thing is now with Schefter.
(18:15):
I get now, it's so easy to spot when he's
doing the pr for the team. Oh sure, like, Oh,
they're excited about their young receivers they want to focus
on Okay, not And I'm just gonna say that they're excited,
we're excited about they just make sure you put in
your in you. I'm gonna give you the scoop, Schefter. Yeah,
but you make sure you say we're excited about our
young receivers.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
All right, excited about our young receivers. Here's the core
to Mario Douglas, fifth round pick and twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like to Mario Douglas. I like Pop Douglass. He's
he if he got hurt a little bit, they didn't
have great quarterback play, but he could have like a
Tank Dell type impact on it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That Hunter, Henry and Austin Hoopa still drives the boat. Sure,
the aforementioned Kendrick Bourne. They brought in Jalen Rieger. Yeah,
as part of the depth, Jalen Poke, Javon Baker, and
then you've got kJ Osborne on the wings of love
from Minnesota in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The clouds above to gear the flying.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
See if John Macon hit a couple of long passes,
think about that.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I mean, you use that as a commercial and TJ.
Drake May would say, yes, you belong to me. Let
me tell you this right, because it's a page ban.
Patriots did the right thing in pulling out of this trade.
They didn't pull out, they did the right thing or
whatever their interest is. They did the right thing in
no longer pursuing this train. And now you told them
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to beat it. Well, if that happened, he would have
been but he'd be a brown man. He'd be a
brown I told you the Steelers. Steelers are still in this.
Let's do he wants to go to Pitts. Let's be
let's deal with what we know right now. The Patriots
went out and they made a big offer. The framework
was in place for a deal, and now the pit
whatever it is, I said No, this is a great
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outcome New England because I understand, Hey, let's go get somebody.
Let's go get a wide receiver to team up with
our young franchise quarterback, whether it's Drake May or maybe
Joe Milton, or if Jacoby Brissett has the job all season,
so we want I get it. But everything with about
the Patriots doesn't jibe with getting Brandon Ayuk brand new
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because twenty fives me twenty six in the season starts, right,
You're gonna sign him to a probably a three year deal.
Let's just say a three year deal. He's gonna get
thirty million dollars a year by the time you're really
ready to compete, right, you still look, who knows if
Drake May's even gonna see the field this year? Right,
there's a lot of questions all of a sudden, Wait,
if this guy's not been given the job. Number one
overall picking the draft got the job. Number two got
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the job. Number three doesn't get the job. Wait, what's
going on? I told you I feel that the Patriots
felt we had to take there were pressure to taking
because we're picking third and we got to get the
third best quarterback.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
If we're going to be that bad again. Here's the quarterback,
even if we don't love him. So quarterback, you have
the questions about a quarterback. You have a brand new
head coach who you think is gonna be okay, right,
do you think that is gonna be fine?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Check out? But you don't know. This is a team
that is starting absolutely over again. And when you are
starting absolutely over, getting a wide receiver in the middle
of the prime of his career, that's not gonna do
it for you. You want to say, hey, let's hit
it with a guy who's twenty one twenty two, so
you know we can if he's really we lock him
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up for most of his career, or we have him
during the front side of his prime. You know what,
by the time the Patriots are any good brand, who's
gonna be twenty nine cent. I want another deal. I
want to get moved. I want it's it's it's bad timing.
I know it just seems a wide receive now and
I know it just seems like it's just a couple
of years, but it's big years because these contracts aren't. No,
they're not gonna get Brandon who can Suddenly it's gonna
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be Hey, here's a five year deal for three or no,
it's not gonna work though, it'll be a three inch
year deal. Yeah, it sucks. You just get anybody wants
to get paid. But he wants to get paid. You're
gonna get paid. There are multiple teams that will pay.
If you're pushing your way out of San Francis, you
want to get paid more than you want to win.
He's he's absolutely been choosing getting paid over because we've
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known this from after the draft. It's been Instagram messages
with his girlfriend making it no, making it combative that
I want to get paid and if you're not gonna
pay me, I want out. He just wants to get paid.
Still wondering what the chasm is.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Like that's the one thing out of San Francisco we
haven't gotten a good leak out of right because we've gotten.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
A bit of everything. Either Christian McCaffrey doing that Yeah
my former teammate, you know, yeah, yeah, sure, script during
is or maybe not so much during an interview earlier today,
but just the idea of like how big is that gap?
Because they actually have money, it's big. It's big enough
to where Brandon Aiyuk has known for a while they're
not gonna pay me. He's known for a long time
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they're not gonna pay That's it, right. But to me,
it's one of those situations like we really can't come
to an agreement on let's cut you off a little
more this year, and then we part ways. I mean,
obviously they don't want to do a band aid deal.
Here's a little bit extra money for this. No, he no, no.
But the thing is he knows that I'm worth thirty
million dollars a year, and I'm going to strike now
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because I have the leverage and I'm worth it now.
If I come on to this team this year and
I play one more year and suddenly maybe I don't
catch the passes because now you have Pearcel coming in
and it just doesn't work for me in the system
right who knows he doesn't available. If I can get
thirty million dollars a year, right now, I'm going to
go get thirty million dollars a year. I know I
can go get sure and it doesn't matter where I
get it from.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
As long as I get I'm checked than fine. I
don't buy the we're pulling out of this we love
our young receiver.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It does no, no, no, they don't love their sing.
But however, it ended whether it was the Patriots pulling
out or Brandon Ayuk saying, I'm not sure this is
a great outcome for the will. You're not gonna this
is not how you've been over under is four and
a half. You're not building around a wide receiver. You
just don't like that.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Where's that the difference maker in anything?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Right? Then?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The running joke is Tyreek Gill is the number one
player on this NFL one hundre list. Patrick Mahomes is
one back to back super bowls without him. Okay, so
and you get hot at the right time, all of
that stuff go. Don't need to re relitigate last season
or that before it, but just the idea that you
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know he's going to be that big a difference making.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Again, four and a half wins is your total? What
are you going to go to five and a half? Yeah,
and bringing him in him thirty million dollars. It feels desperate,
It feels all this is how we we have to
get somebody in to show you that this is a
good this is a destination. Like he's not moving the Needle. No,
(24:39):
it's their way to show the free agents and everybody
else that there could be getting after this year. Hey,
this is a good place to complain. Now, this is
not Belichick. It's good here. Hey, everybody respects Brandon. Let
me call brand and say, hey, how are things in
New England? All things are great. I love coach. It's great,
it's great, it's awesome. Okay, I'll make sure to go
give New England a fair shake. You're looking to buy,
(25:00):
to buy players that are telling you that can tell
the league, hey, it's okay to be here. That's what
get the Jets getting Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, me, just
think about that. Hey, he's telling you it's okay to
go to the Jets. WHOA wait what Yes, he's telling
you it's okay to go to.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Here's the problem for everybody else if they do a
little bit more deductive reasoning and watch how the tea
leaves or how the situation is unfolded and read the
tea leaves.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, is that I'm not getting the control that Aaron
Rodgers did if I go there. No, But I got
to choose my own sa. I got to get my
old buddies from Green Bay, some big time paychecks. But
it's the same philosophy of I'm telling you that Jets
are okay, all right, Okay, maybe we all go, maybe
(25:45):
they the captain, I know, okay, but this is this
is this is the strategy that they're trying to employ.
We need to get some big players in here so
it seems like we know what we're doing and we're
not just throwing stuff at the wall with a bunch
of young players. Because boy did Belichick lee the cabinet empty,
which he did, so the talent evaluator terrible coach. I mean,
(26:05):
it's it's it's which is you're really completely starting over.
Like the Patriots are a team that I wouldn't be surprised.
This is how bad they are. And I love talking
about how bad the Patriots are gonna be. This is
so awesome. The Patriots are gonna be so bad. I
wouldn't be surprised they picked third this year if they
have the number one pick in the draft next year.
Because I'm not sold on Drake May. I'm not sold
(26:25):
in anything they have going on on offense. I mean,
how many times you're gonna get the ball? Rom Andre Stevenson.
You give it to him on first and second down,
throw it to him on third down. Eventually the guy's
gonna just.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Be defense might be okay, but how many times do
you score in twenty one points?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, if they pick first in the draft, I am
not surprised. If you pick first in the draft again,
how is Brandon and are you gonna help you? Because
if you pick first the draft again, you're getting a
quarterback and guess what you're doing. You're trading Drake May.
I mean that's how it's gonna go. I mean, this
is where you are, so starting over. This is this
is one of those moves that not only is great
for Brandon Ayuk because he's not going to a team
(26:59):
that's going to be terrible. He's gonna get paid by
somebody because he's a really good receiver. But it's better
for the Patriots because it's this stops them from making
what would have been a huge mistake.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, and either of these AFC teams if he goes
to the North, be it the Browns of the Steelers,
or if there's some other team that decides to re
engage and get involved. Here, you're talking about teams that
are no better than eighth to tenth in the conference.
So good luck with that, Brandon, are you?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't like winning, but again, you know you're giving
up winning. I'd rather get paid than win. I've been
to a super Bowl. It's okay. I'd rather get paid
in the end.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
About the respect and feeling you're getting what you're earning,
winning what you deserve.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Winning is great. If I'll tell you if I was
on the Mets and they said, hey, you could potentially
win here, that's great. Or hey, you know the White
Sox want to give you thirty get me to the
White Sox. Now get me thirty million dollars year. I'll
lose one hundred and thirty games a year, but you're
gonna give me thirty million dollars a year. Get me
to the White Sox or whatever I want to do.
I'll do whatever they want. I'll go out, I'll go
out in the community. I'll start big charities. I'll do
(28:04):
whatever you want. I'll call into the radio shows, the team,
radio shows, everywhere. I mean the radio shows said tell
me how mad our team is. I'll be on the
whatever you want, man, I'll be your I'll be your
political correspondent. I'll be your entertainment correspondent. Whatever you want.
You get white Sox, Yes, got thirty million dollars. Yes,
I will be there.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I get to go right down in Chicago. Absolutely, get
me there.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Hey, is it really true they turn the river green
once a year? That's really cool. It's always kind of green. Well,
it's just a little at some point, the colors just
kind of stays there. Well, yeah, but it's it's it's
just a little bit brighter. Okay, if you really walk down,
it's it's kind of there. Okay, where would you Okay,
if you accidentally have any kind of sinks to the bottom,
but if you accidentally had to inhale a lungfull of
(28:48):
water from the Chicago River or the sin Chicago River,
marginally bear so it's closed marginally okay, okay, all right,
all right, I want to see where.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You're at, because we're still dumping all sorts of crap. Yes, literally, yeah,
in there. And now, how do we know that that
green stuff that they've been dying for all these years?
How do we know the stuff when they started doing
that wasn't toxic?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
How do we know it doesn't turn you into a superhero. Well,
I'm diving in. We know. How do we know?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Vince Vaughan could wind up being a superhero. How about that?
I always thought he could have made for a good
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Don't look now, but uh the White
Sox have a two to one lead over the A's.
Has the A's bat in the bottom of the fifth
minutes go, the White Socks get out of this and
suddenly there's an unscheduled rainstorm and open huge storm. White
(31:24):
Sox win this game and avoid there that game we've
been ever getting executive loss. No, they would be three
in the morning. We're gonna waiting to resume it. We're
gonna keep playing, don't you worry. Uh, we'll have more
on this game coming up again as a White Sox
looking to avoid their continued chase into baseball history. So
Charles Barkley, Yeah, who was very upset that Turner was
(31:48):
going to be losing NBA rights childlike at times. Yeah,
was upset at Turner, was upset at everybody names. Yeah, yeah,
this happen. Nah. And then he said, you know what,
I'm going to retire. I'm not going to come back.
This next year is gonna be my last year? Really.
I remember when he said it. We said, really, is
that gonna? Is that gonna really? Really? Really? Cause remember
(32:11):
he still has almost all of his ten year Turner
extension that he decided to tell you what he was making,
which is worth twenty million dollars a year today, Charles
Barkley said, you know, I thought about it. And my
accountant said, I thought the lawyer said, and uh, I'm
(32:32):
not going to retire. I'm gonna stay with TNT in
whatever role they have for me.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Is he gonna show it on an AEW telecast, maybe
host a game show, maybe become an impractical joker.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Ernie Charles Barkley on im practical jokers? Uh, Ernie Johnson's
going to stay in some capacity with TNT, Shaquille O'Neill,
Kenny Smith. We don't know inside the NBA. They could
still do it inside the NBA after this year. They're
just not gonna have any NBA games, right, They're not
leading into breaking into or recapping games. So why did
(33:09):
we get this reversal of fortune from Charles Barkley. It's
very simple. When he first retired, he thought he was helping.
I'm gonna pull a power play. I'm me threatening to retire.
Is gonna get TNT to keep the NBA And the
NBA said, that's great, thanks, We're going with Amazon. Oh no,
wait a minute. Barkley is staying because he doesn't want
(33:29):
to work hard anymore. He hasn't worked hard in years,
by his own admission, I'm not telling you anything. He
doesn't say he doesn't like to work hard. He likes
to show up on set, talk about basketball for three
hours and go home. That's what he does and anywhere
else he goes. If he's a broadcaster, like if ESPN
keeps him, Amazon keeps him, they're gonna want him to
do a lot of stuff. They're paying him that that rain,
(33:50):
this is gonna pay. We want you to do this.
We want you to NBA games, want you some WNBA games.
Wants you to be in studio, want you to do
a studio show. We're gonna pay you twenty million dollars
a year. We're gonna do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Gonna show up on every damn show that you're the
car wash as they've called it for years.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Get ready, bring your soap. Charles Barkley does not want
to do that. Charles Barkley wants to roll out of bed,
show up at Turner an hour before he's got to
go on the air. Yeah, we're gonna talk about the jazz.
We're gonna talk about the King's y eye. Got it.
We're good. It's fun. Here's a chemistry we have. It's
a great show. That's why he's staying with TNT because
he doesn't want to work hard and TNT, what are
(34:28):
they gonna really ask of him all of a sudden.
They're not gonna say, well, Charles, no, NBA, we want
you all these different things. No, I'm not gonna do
any of that. I'll whatever you have basketball wise for me,
I'll do. We'll figure it out. I'll stay. No one
else is gonna pay me twenty million dollars a year
to do the absolute minimum because that's what Charles Barkley
wants to do. So after time, Okay, I tried the
power play. TNT didn't keep the NBA because I firmly
(34:50):
believe he wanted TNT to keep it and he thought
maybe he could try to help with that. But now
he does. Okay, so I'm gonna go back because they're
gonna pay me twenty million dollars and whatever they have
for that. They may have. I may have months where
I'm not doing anything because they're not gonna suddenly after
pay me to do nothing but this show. They're not
gonna sudden say, Okay, we want you on an outdoor show,
we want you on a Formula one show. No, that's
(35:11):
not gonna happen you're gonna be hosting dinner in a
movie on Friday night. No, they're not gonna do that.
He's going to do whatever bare minimum basketball wise he
has done, and that's how it's gonna continue to go
through his contract. Or are they that's why he's staying.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Or they replace whatever the basketball content is and guess what,
he's an entertainer, right, because that's what he is at
this point. And so the other part is I think
there's probably lawyers involved with a lot of it, just
like with the lawsuit about them losing it, which it's Hey,
at least cut us off a check and we'll go
away quietly.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
We talked about it. Match the offer. You really couldn't
match the offer. Apples to apples. It might be a different,
lesser apple or maybe a plumb, but the fact is
that moves on and you're sitting sitting there going, I
really want to collect the rest of what is it
about one hundred seventy five million dollars by the math
that he's put.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Out there, You want to collect that, right, he's not
gonna walk. Are you're gonna get that now from somewhere?
Are they gonna pay you twenty million dollars. Somebody will,
but there may we want you to do all of
these things. But that's what I mean again, all things
being equal. Much like the TNT bid wasn't equal to Amazon,
even if the dollars made sense, the work and everything
that's got to go in underneath it is not same
(36:24):
thing with Charles leaving for another another entity, be a
much different animal and harder work because you're not working
with Ernie and Kenny and Shack. Again, I'm getting paid
twenty million dollars to work the least minimum that I
have to. Okay, I'm gonna stay here and do this.
The worst retirement ever easy? WHOA, I don't know. I
don't know. Brady's retirement wasn't great. It lasted longer than this.
(36:47):
But we we knew Barkley's wasn't a real one. No,
that's the thing. We knew that wasn't really. I mean,
I didn't think it's o Katie's was either. But yeah,
I still think he's got time to come back. Exit
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should be. Well, we got big news in Major League Baseball.
We got big stuff going on in the NFL. We
have Olympic doings and movings on. But first, you know,
it's always nice to see when someone from the world
of sports does something bigger and in the news. I
(01:06):
want to spend a second here because obviously we saw
the big news today that former Minnesota wild center Wes
Walls is the Democratic nominee. It's for vice president. He
had a great career, spent his last seven years with Minnesota.
Wasn't a big score, didn't You can't go say West
Walls a lot of gold now, But he was a
glue guy. And you know who thought after leaving the
(01:28):
NHL in the early two thousands he would be on
a presidential.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Such a sting because I walked around in Hollywood the
other day and I saw the star of christov vault,
so I thought he had actually gotten the nomination.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh okay, no, No, I mean he was born in Calgary,
so there is going to be a thing. So I mean,
but I mean they're not going to make him the
nominee unless they know he's easy to do it. Wow,
They're clearly going to vet all of that because I
hope it's a board. I mean, look, and you look,
he's going to get votes in Boston and Philadelphia, in Detroit,
Minnesota Like this is you wanted to get the Midwest.
(01:59):
It's what you got, right, You're getting Massachusetts. All the
way across.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
We find the guys that have a rich tapestry of
Jersey Strode.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Upon there one of their Walls.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You know, one of those jersey quilts, not just the
T shirt quilt from the old concert chirts.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, this works. Shack could run for president too. He's
got nine or ten states covered, bounced around, finished with Minnes.
I mean Minnesota was where he became a household name.
Obviously Wes hal We didn't know about that, didn't know
anything about his politics. Nothing else here had Wes Walls
is on the ticket? Who knowing in wake this whole
time's gonna wear his jersey and everything else? How about
that quiz? Did Wes Walls ever score twenty goals in
(02:35):
the season?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No? Like really no? Or no? Oh he might have
gone balls to the walls frostburd flying in from the
side West Walls nineteen goals in two thousand and five,
two thousand. What are the odds there's two people named
(03:00):
who have a lot to do with Minnesota. What are
the odds that? Well? I mean, I don't know the
entire history of the surname, but I mean I think
if we look it up and we look at the
migration patterns and and where you have local establishments of
different cultures. Right, the Norsemen that have moved into uh,
into the min Minnesota and such that maybe maybe you've
(03:22):
got the same kind of thing. It's surprising me. I'm like, okay, well.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's like I got a bunch of guys named Kowalski
running around Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I mean, I wonder, well, that's huge Polish population. Kow
Why don't you come in here? I mean, do you
think theyre related? Did you? I tried to give you
a Harry Potter a little bit of No. I'm thinking
I hate Kowolski. I mean, do you think they're related?
I don't know. I mean, I mean, I can't believe
you're You're it's because there's no tea. It's because there's
(03:50):
no tea. It's not Waltz, it's not Walts. There's no
ta in the name, no T, no T. It's w
A l z low t, no T. And Walls ing
into walls from the NHL to politics. TJ is Wes Walls.
It's his wife named Matilda, because that we have Waltz Matilda.
Oh boy, there we go. I mean, look, hey, good
(04:12):
to see it. Good to see it. Guy, It's good.
I had a knock around career in the NHL. Look
at it. Look at it. He could as send to
the highest highest office that we have opportunity. All you
need is chance.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like tonight, the the A's did the great trolling because
and earlier today, as we have our Devil's jukebox that
we call it.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's the amalgam of everything my daughter's listened to and
what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
We actually listened to the song twenty two by Taylor Swift.
Oh no, and that's what they were playing. Yeah, to
troll the white sauce for those eighteen fans in attendance.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
When you're for this game, when you're getting trolled by
the A's, this is where if that's not rock bottom
or look in the mirror, I don't know what is. Well,
you had a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Fans when guys were signing autographs trying to give him grief.
It's like, I'm not gonna sign your damn card.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Go away. This is this is a major league team
that's gonna be playing in Sacramento, yeah next season and
in a five hundred uh person capacity stadium.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well which I think the center field it's also five
hundred feet.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean, this is really, this is this is this
is who's trolling you?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
This is this is like, okay, we need some kind
of intervention, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But look, twenty one losses, you're the windshield. Sometimes you're
the bug. As Mainoffler wrote, so many there, they've been
a lot of bugs, it's been, but this has been
it's been the it's been the highway cars going down
the highways Angelus in Vegas, and this is.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Where it runs into a whole swarm of bugs. And
it's just it's like when they pull up after the
long drive and you just see your grill, is like,
oh man, you killed really need to clean all of these?
Were they before you return the rental?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You feel guilty, so you actually take it to get
washed and you normally wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
These were These are all white Sox bugs right here.
So the White Sox going for can we say going
for their twenty second loss? I mean, because they're not
trying for it, but they try to boyd something. Okay,
it's a tigger accomplishment, right, it's an accomplishment, but they're
not trying to do it. Can so I don't know,
can we say they're trying for their twenty second loss?
They're in because or are they in danger of it?
(06:05):
But they're actually playing the games they're in danger, they
wouldn't do it, Like danger implies, hey it's too dangerous,
we can't do it. But they're actually playing the game,
which again is dangerous for the White Sox, but in
a baseball sense, well like, how do we say.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It ironically though we're talking about bugs or coincidentally, more
likely the proper word. There's a pest control ad currently
behind home plate as well as they're playing in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They want to make sure as well as by the
blue bubblehead. Hey that's coming out. So right now, the
White Sox and the A's nothing nothing as the a's
bat in the bottom of the second with a runner
on first. So this is where we sit as the
Chicago White Sox losers of twenty one in a row.
Try to avoid, try to try to win special try
(06:49):
to win, try to win, try to avoid losing their
twenty second game in.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
A row, try to find some positivity in its dark.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Time because there not trying. So this is where we
sit right now, and then if this happens, they will
just be within one loss of the most losses in
a row, biggest losing streak in modern baseball history. The
sixty one Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So it's Emmett Smith day potentially to twenty two in
a row. Yeah, and tomorrow is Jordan O'dowdell.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
No, no, we got it. You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think we were going because we went Zeke Elliott. Yeah,
Emtt Smith. It's either tshard choice, Yeah, no, go Dowbell.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But here's the thing, though, you go Emmett. Everybody knows
Emmtt's twenty two. Yeah, you go, Jordan twenty three, okay,
but if you go Rico Downell, people go, I don't.
I don't know. At twenty four is over? He is? Oh,
twenty four show, Yeah, twenty fourth, Scoby twenty five, Tony, Oh,
Jim Tomey is my homie. We could get twenty five yeah, sure, okay,
I'll good. Twenty five could be Jim, tell me sure,
(07:46):
I'll go, I'll go in that. Yeah. And then uh,
well let's let's let's let's get to let's get to
twenty two and twenty three first, and then the all
time mark going into you know, prehistoric times. Yeah, twenty
twenty six, twenty six would be that. Yeah. So this
is where so it's specials we are we are watching
the White Sox unlike we have ever watched a White
Sox game. But if they can and already have thirty
(08:06):
four pitches in the bottom of the second, even though
we watched this game just like this last night because
they tied the Well, I've.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Been watching them all along and suffering in silence. It's
only you, Johnny, come lately's here in the meeting? No, no,
we do all of a sudden, it's special.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Dude, do I need to watch the What do I
have to see that? All they lost? You watched? They
looked out for me, asked me, how do not you
want me to do? What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And then everybody else like, hey, it's twenty one, let's
pay attentions like no, you should have been watching this
crap the whole way, like al Pacino said, and any
given Sunday, I can't do it for you.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I'm too old. I can't. You gotta you just have
to take whatever it's happening. Oh no, I'm wearing it.
There's no question, so nothing, nothing White Sox and the
A's as the White Sox aim to avoid, try to
play whatever it is. Yeah, they could lose twenty two.
It's right, and it's also Kershaw Day. It is It's
Kershaw Day as well. The Mets and Rockies are in
(08:57):
a rain delay. That was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They had all those shirtless dudes that were standing there
on Not one of them is seen the inside of
a gym or manscaping is not hitting New York either, No, no, not.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yet, no, not not yet. So we have all that,
but obviously today a huge day in the Olympics. Yeah,
we watched the Well, we'll get to the US women's
national team in soccer in a little bit. Another incredible
effort to get to the gold medal game. But the
men's basketball team wins another game by more than fifteen points.
It is exactly how we thought this should go. Joel
(09:30):
Embiid goes from a DNP two days ago to being
their best player today. They roll over Brazil one twenty
two to eighty seven, and Embiid is laughing after the game.
They're booing him. Okay, that's great. What did he say
after the game? Hey, gotta take something positive for this.
I don't care they can boo. I don't care. You
got to embrace your heel status. This is why we
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said Steve Kerr is the perfect guy for this team
because of all the controversy that you were told was
going Jason Tatum is a DNP all this time. We
told you everything is fine. There's no controversy. There are
just people that don't know how to talk about a
team that's just going to continue winning. And the Jason
Tatum DNPCD was it his favorite thing? No? Of course,
is it forgotten now? Yes? It is? Why because United
(10:13):
States team, everybody's playing, they're winning, they're into the semis now,
they've won every game by fifteen points. If I'm Steve Kerr,
this is what I do at this point right to
give you a big blank you to everybody that wanted
to say, Jason Taya's not playing now, Joe, we told
you this is an overblown controversy, right, you think we'rewing
hot take No, this is overblown. Everybody's spending time on this.
(10:34):
There's nothing because no one is upset on Team USA.
No one's going public with any kind of complaints. Everybody
is fine. Does everybody want to be playing more? Of
course they do, But this is the Olympics, this is
how it goes. And they won every game by fifteen points.
Everything is fine. Kerr is the best coach. We told
you he was a best coach. Now you're seeing Okay,
he's managing the egos and they're winning games. But if
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I'm Steve Kerr, I do this right, I do this. Okay,
let's go. I am sick all the I go full
Karate kid if I'm Steve Kerr. Remember in Karate Kead,
I mean the original that is not the Jamie Smith one. No,
when when Miagi and Daniel go and they meet with
Kressy after every day, like Daniel's just getting his ass
kicked by the Cobra, Kyrie, Johnny and Dutch and everybody's
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kicking his ass like every day. It's like, come on,
I can't even go to school, man, you guys gotta stop.
Elizabeth sh is so pretty. And so he goes this,
says okay, okay, okay, Hey, Daniel is gonna go on
the tournament. Don't touch him till then. And then he's
in the tournament there and Kresty says okay, and he says,
but if he doesn't show, it's open season on him
(11:39):
and you, right, like Chressy does the big it's open
season on both of you, right, And they walk away
and Daniels, what are you doing? I'm gonnat killed in
that turn? What did you do that for? And Pat
Marita says, what are you talking about? I just saved
you three months beating. No one's gonna beat you up
for three months. I just saved you. Now you learn
how to cry. If I'm Steve Kerr, that's what I go,
full karate kid, I go Okay, none of y'all can
say anything. I want you all to shut up when
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we lose. If we lose, it's open season. I'll be
here to answer all your questions, talk about everything else.
But all you guys think you're so smart making stuff
up about this team, making up contrast all the noise.
You know what, All you guys go spit, go spit.
I don't want to hear any controverts. I don't want
to hear any questions, no criticism, because all we're doing
(12:21):
is winning. We're winning by fifteen to twenty. What else
do you want? As you We are dominating this field,
unlike you thought a team in twenty twenty four can
dominate another field. If we lose, I will sit up
here at this press conference. It'll be open season on me.
You ask me any bleeping question you want now, clearly,
Steve Kerran, No, if we lose, it's gonna be open
season anyway. But make it seem like you're getting them something. No,
(12:42):
make it. I'm giving you. I will sit here and
I will do until you drop press conference. I'll sit
here for three hours. You're gonna ask me everything you
want to. I will tell you everything about this team,
but you do it only if we lose. If as
we're winning, everybody shuts up. How's that for a deal?
That's why I do.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
If they went over the top today and they actually
covered too, because it was twenty seven and a half,
and they took care of their backers, which they hadn't
done and hadn't done well, and Jason Tatum didn't play
well again.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But that's a whole other thing for another time. The
whole point was it was laughable listening to the hot
take nonsense as it showed up in my Twitter feed
and my Instagram feed of people now going and indicting
players for their entire NBA careers because of maybe a
little bit of a fit problem with Team US. I'm like, really,
(13:29):
that's how far we're gonna take this nonsense? We're gonna
start disparaging everything they've accomplished in the NBA over a
couple of exhibition games. Yes, Steve Kerr with Egos.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We talked about it as this all began and all
the quote problems.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
He's the guy that knows how to pull the strings,
get it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Jason Tatum talked about it and his needing to be humbled.
Joel embiid if he really had a problem, you'll hear
about it eventually.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know you're gonna hear about it eventually.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But in the end, he's embracing the villain status over
there and letting folks boo him. Comes up with the
big effort today. Anthony Edwards great once again and the
machine rolls on.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
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two teams right the trade could be set up. One
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I'm not losing yet so far. Kershaw day for the
Dodger Zip zip in the second the White Sox trying
to avoid their twenty second loss in a row. Nothing.
Nothing with the A's in the third inning.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You know what was the best part of yesterday's game though?
The best image, well that other than the Vargas shot
in the back of the dugout realizing that he'd gone from,
as they say, the penthouse to the outhouse.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Were the two.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Guys wearing a black T shirt, the other guy in
a green T shirt, and they.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Both said sell. Yeah, yeah, everybody wants everybody sell.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
That's the commonality there. Please sell our team.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Everybody sell, sell to each other. It doesn't matter. Well
we'll play in Sacramento, doesn't matter, We'll move just so
you sell to us, will sell to you? How about that?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And then it was Grimace Day with the trash pandas
there's a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, Mets need Grimmace tonight. They're down five to three
at the sixth inning of the Rockies rocket, but big
news in the NFL. From Adam Schefter, this news just
a few minutes old. Last night we told you that
Brandon Ayuk of the forty nine ers was potentially maybe
a day away from being dealt as the Niners had
completed the framework of trades with the Browns and the
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Patriots in exchange for Brandon Ayuk. We don't know what
the compensation would have been. However, it was thrown out there.
Mary kay Cabott had this story last night that potentially
the Browns would be sending or could have been sending
Amari Cooper back, and the Patriots could be sending Kendrick
Bourne back to make it work that way. Now, we
didn't know if those are the guys they were, just
(17:34):
who was thrown out there, and it was up to Ayuk.
Is this a deal that he would accept and we
would go forward? And I said there was a mystery team,
but we'll get to the mystery. The White Sox are
not the mystery team. No, there's no mister at homework,
the guy getting secret messages say isn't done yet? Not
the mystery. I'm back in. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter,
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this news again just a few minutes old. After inquiring
about Brandon Ayuk's availability, the Patriots have decided not to
explore any further trade possibilities with the forty nine ers.
Regarding their standout wide receiver, Patriots are excited about their
young receivers and want to focus on them. Okay, the
last one. You know. The thing is now with Schefter.
(18:15):
I get now, it's so easy to spot when he's
doing the pr for the team. Oh sure, like, Oh,
they're excited about their young receivers they want to focus
on Okay, not And I'm just gonna say that they're excited,
we're excited about they just make sure you put in
your in you. I'm gonna give you the scoop, Schefter. Yeah,
but you make sure you say we're excited about our
young receivers.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
All right, excited about our young receivers. Here's the core
to Mario Douglas, fifth round pick and twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like to Mario Douglas. I like Pop Douglass. He's
he if he got hurt a little bit, they didn't
have great quarterback play, but he could have like a
Tank Dell type impact on it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
That Hunter, Henry and Austin Hoopa still drives the boat. Sure,
the aforementioned Kendrick Bourne. They brought in Jalen Rieger. Yeah,
as part of the depth, Jalen Poke, Javon Baker, and
then you've got kJ Osborne on the wings of love
from Minnesota in.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The clouds above to gear the flying.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
See if John Macon hit a couple of long passes,
think about that.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I mean, you use that as a commercial and TJ.
Drake May would say, yes, you belong to me. Let
me tell you this right, because it's a page ban.
Patriots did the right thing in pulling out of this trade.
They didn't pull out, they did the right thing or
whatever their interest is. They did the right thing in
no longer pursuing this train. And now you told them
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to beat it. Well, if that happened, he would have
been but he'd be a brown man. He'd be a
brown I told you the Steelers. Steelers are still in this.
Let's do he wants to go to Pitts. Let's be
let's deal with what we know right now. The Patriots
went out and they made a big offer. The framework
was in place for a deal, and now the pit
whatever it is, I said No, this is a great
(19:59):
outcome New England because I understand, Hey, let's go get somebody.
Let's go get a wide receiver to team up with
our young franchise quarterback, whether it's Drake May or maybe
Joe Milton, or if Jacoby Brissett has the job all season,
so we want I get it. But everything with about
the Patriots doesn't jibe with getting Brandon Ayuk brand new
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because twenty fives me twenty six in the season starts, right,
You're gonna sign him to a probably a three year deal.
Let's just say a three year deal. He's gonna get
thirty million dollars a year by the time you're really
ready to compete, right, you still look, who knows if
Drake May's even gonna see the field this year? Right,
there's a lot of questions all of a sudden, Wait,
if this guy's not been given the job. Number one
overall picking the draft got the job. Number two got
(20:42):
the job. Number three doesn't get the job. Wait, what's
going on? I told you I feel that the Patriots
felt we had to take there were pressure to taking
because we're picking third and we got to get the
third best quarterback.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
If we're going to be that bad again. Here's the quarterback,
even if we don't love him. So quarterback, you have
the questions about a quarterback. You have a brand new
head coach who you think is gonna be okay, right,
do you think that is gonna be fine?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Check out? But you don't know. This is a team
that is starting absolutely over again. And when you are
starting absolutely over, getting a wide receiver in the middle
of the prime of his career, that's not gonna do
it for you. You want to say, hey, let's hit
it with a guy who's twenty one twenty two, so
you know we can if he's really we lock him
(21:25):
up for most of his career, or we have him
during the front side of his prime. You know what,
by the time the Patriots are any good brand, who's
gonna be twenty nine cent. I want another deal. I
want to get moved. I want it's it's it's bad timing.
I know it just seems a wide receive now and
I know it just seems like it's just a couple
of years, but it's big years because these contracts aren't. No,
they're not gonna get Brandon who can Suddenly it's gonna
(21:45):
be Hey, here's a five year deal for three or no,
it's not gonna work though, it'll be a three inch
year deal. Yeah, it sucks. You just get anybody wants
to get paid. But he wants to get paid. You're
gonna get paid. There are multiple teams that will pay.
If you're pushing your way out of San Francis, you
want to get paid more than you want to win.
He's he's absolutely been choosing getting paid over because we've
(22:07):
known this from after the draft. It's been Instagram messages
with his girlfriend making it no, making it combative that
I want to get paid and if you're not gonna
pay me, I want out. He just wants to get paid.
Still wondering what the chasm is.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Like that's the one thing out of San Francisco we
haven't gotten a good leak out of right because we've gotten.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
A bit of everything. Either Christian McCaffrey doing that Yeah
my former teammate, you know, yeah, yeah, sure, script during
is or maybe not so much during an interview earlier today,
but just the idea of like how big is that gap?
Because they actually have money, it's big. It's big enough
to where Brandon Aiyuk has known for a while they're
not gonna pay me. He's known for a long time
(22:47):
they're not gonna pay That's it, right. But to me,
it's one of those situations like we really can't come
to an agreement on let's cut you off a little
more this year, and then we part ways. I mean,
obviously they don't want to do a band aid deal.
Here's a little bit extra money for this. No, he no, no.
But the thing is he knows that I'm worth thirty
million dollars a year, and I'm going to strike now
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because I have the leverage and I'm worth it now.
If I come on to this team this year and
I play one more year and suddenly maybe I don't
catch the passes because now you have Pearcel coming in
and it just doesn't work for me in the system
right who knows he doesn't available. If I can get
thirty million dollars a year, right now, I'm going to
go get thirty million dollars a year. I know I
can go get sure and it doesn't matter where I
get it from.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
As long as I get I'm checked than fine. I
don't buy the we're pulling out of this we love
our young receiver.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It does no, no, no, they don't love their sing.
But however, it ended whether it was the Patriots pulling
out or Brandon Ayuk saying, I'm not sure this is
a great outcome for the will. You're not gonna this
is not how you've been over under is four and
a half. You're not building around a wide receiver. You
just don't like that.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Where's that the difference maker in anything?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Right? Then?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The running joke is Tyreek Gill is the number one
player on this NFL one hundre list. Patrick Mahomes is
one back to back super bowls without him. Okay, so
and you get hot at the right time, all of
that stuff go. Don't need to re relitigate last season
or that before it, but just the idea that you
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know he's going to be that big a difference making.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Again, four and a half wins is your total? What
are you going to go to five and a half? Yeah,
and bringing him in him thirty million dollars. It feels desperate,
It feels all this is how we we have to
get somebody in to show you that this is a
good this is a destination. Like he's not moving the Needle. No,
(24:39):
it's their way to show the free agents and everybody
else that there could be getting after this year. Hey,
this is a good place to complain. Now, this is
not Belichick. It's good here. Hey, everybody respects Brandon. Let
me call brand and say, hey, how are things in
New England? All things are great. I love coach. It's great,
it's great, it's awesome. Okay, I'll make sure to go
give New England a fair shake. You're looking to buy,
(25:00):
to buy players that are telling you that can tell
the league, hey, it's okay to be here. That's what
get the Jets getting Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, me, just
think about that. Hey, he's telling you it's okay to
go to the Jets. WHOA wait what Yes, he's telling
you it's okay to go to.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Here's the problem for everybody else if they do a
little bit more deductive reasoning and watch how the tea
leaves or how the situation is unfolded and read the
tea leaves.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, is that I'm not getting the control that Aaron
Rodgers did if I go there. No, But I got
to choose my own sa. I got to get my
old buddies from Green Bay, some big time paychecks. But
it's the same philosophy of I'm telling you that Jets
are okay, all right, Okay, maybe we all go, maybe
(25:45):
they the captain, I know, okay, but this is this
is this is the strategy that they're trying to employ.
We need to get some big players in here so
it seems like we know what we're doing and we're
not just throwing stuff at the wall with a bunch
of young players. Because boy did Belichick lee the cabinet empty,
which he did, so the talent evaluator terrible coach. I mean,
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it's it's it's which is you're really completely starting over.
Like the Patriots are a team that I wouldn't be surprised.
This is how bad they are. And I love talking
about how bad the Patriots are gonna be. This is
so awesome. The Patriots are gonna be so bad. I
wouldn't be surprised they picked third this year if they
have the number one pick in the draft next year.
Because I'm not sold on Drake May. I'm not sold
(26:25):
in anything they have going on on offense. I mean,
how many times you're gonna get the ball? Rom Andre Stevenson.
You give it to him on first and second down,
throw it to him on third down. Eventually the guy's
gonna just.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Be defense might be okay, but how many times do
you score in twenty one points?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, if they pick first in the draft, I am
not surprised. If you pick first in the draft again,
how is Brandon and are you gonna help you? Because
if you pick first the draft again, you're getting a
quarterback and guess what you're doing. You're trading Drake May.
I mean that's how it's gonna go. I mean, this
is where you are, so starting over. This is this
is one of those moves that not only is great
for Brandon Ayuk because he's not going to a team
(26:59):
that's going to be terrible. He's gonna get paid by
somebody because he's a really good receiver. But it's better
for the Patriots because it's this stops them from making
what would have been a huge mistake.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, and either of these AFC teams if he goes
to the North, be it the Browns of the Steelers,
or if there's some other team that decides to re
engage and get involved. Here, you're talking about teams that
are no better than eighth to tenth in the conference.
So good luck with that, Brandon, are you?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't like winning, but again, you know you're giving
up winning. I'd rather get paid than win. I've been
to a super Bowl. It's okay. I'd rather get paid
in the end.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
About the respect and feeling you're getting what you're earning,
winning what you deserve.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Winning is great. If I'll tell you if I was
on the Mets and they said, hey, you could potentially
win here, that's great. Or hey, you know the White
Sox want to give you thirty get me to the
White Sox. Now get me thirty million dollars year. I'll
lose one hundred and thirty games a year, but you're
gonna give me thirty million dollars a year. Get me
to the White Sox or whatever I want to do.
I'll do whatever they want. I'll go out, I'll go
out in the community. I'll start big charities. I'll do
(28:04):
whatever you want. I'll call into the radio shows, the team,
radio shows, everywhere. I mean the radio shows said tell
me how mad our team is. I'll be on the
whatever you want, man, I'll be your I'll be your
political correspondent. I'll be your entertainment correspondent. Whatever you want.
You get white Sox, Yes, got thirty million dollars. Yes,
I will be there.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I get to go right down in Chicago. Absolutely, get
me there.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Hey, is it really true they turn the river green
once a year? That's really cool. It's always kind of green. Well,
it's just a little at some point, the colors just
kind of stays there. Well, yeah, but it's it's it's
just a little bit brighter. Okay, if you really walk down,
it's it's kind of there. Okay, where would you Okay,
if you accidentally have any kind of sinks to the bottom,
but if you accidentally had to inhale a lungfull of
(28:48):
water from the Chicago River or the sin Chicago River,
marginally bear so it's closed marginally okay, okay, all right,
all right, I want to see where.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You're at, because we're still dumping all sorts of crap. Yes, literally, yeah,
in there. And now, how do we know that that
green stuff that they've been dying for all these years?
How do we know the stuff when they started doing
that wasn't toxic?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
How do we know it doesn't turn you into a superhero. Well,
I'm diving in. We know. How do we know?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Vince Vaughan could wind up being a superhero. How about that?
I always thought he could have made for a good
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Don't look now, but uh the White
Sox have a two to one lead over the A's.
Has the A's bat in the bottom of the fifth
minutes go, the White Socks get out of this and
suddenly there's an unscheduled rainstorm and open huge storm. White
(31:24):
Sox win this game and avoid there that game we've
been ever getting executive loss. No, they would be three
in the morning. We're gonna waiting to resume it. We're
gonna keep playing, don't you worry. Uh, we'll have more
on this game coming up again as a White Sox
looking to avoid their continued chase into baseball history. So
Charles Barkley, Yeah, who was very upset that Turner was
(31:48):
going to be losing NBA rights childlike at times. Yeah,
was upset at Turner, was upset at everybody names. Yeah, yeah,
this happen. Nah. And then he said, you know what,
I'm going to retire. I'm not going to come back.
This next year is gonna be my last year? Really.
I remember when he said it. We said, really, is
that gonna? Is that gonna really? Really? Really? Cause remember
(32:11):
he still has almost all of his ten year Turner
extension that he decided to tell you what he was making,
which is worth twenty million dollars a year today, Charles
Barkley said, you know, I thought about it. And my
accountant said, I thought the lawyer said, and uh, I'm
(32:32):
not going to retire. I'm gonna stay with TNT in
whatever role they have for me.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Is he gonna show it on an AEW telecast, maybe
host a game show, maybe become an impractical joker.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Ernie Charles Barkley on im practical jokers? Uh, Ernie Johnson's
going to stay in some capacity with TNT, Shaquille O'Neill,
Kenny Smith. We don't know inside the NBA. They could
still do it inside the NBA after this year. They're
just not gonna have any NBA games, right, They're not
leading into breaking into or recapping games. So why did
(33:09):
we get this reversal of fortune from Charles Barkley. It's
very simple. When he first retired, he thought he was helping.
I'm gonna pull a power play. I'm me threatening to retire.
Is gonna get TNT to keep the NBA And the
NBA said, that's great, thanks, We're going with Amazon. Oh no,
wait a minute. Barkley is staying because he doesn't want
(33:29):
to work hard anymore. He hasn't worked hard in years,
by his own admission, I'm not telling you anything. He
doesn't say he doesn't like to work hard. He likes
to show up on set, talk about basketball for three
hours and go home. That's what he does and anywhere
else he goes. If he's a broadcaster, like if ESPN
keeps him, Amazon keeps him, they're gonna want him to
do a lot of stuff. They're paying him that that rain,
(33:50):
this is gonna pay. We want you to do this.
We want you to NBA games, want you some WNBA games.
Wants you to be in studio, want you to do
a studio show. We're gonna pay you twenty million dollars
a year. We're gonna do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Gonna show up on every damn show that you're the
car wash as they've called it for years.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Get ready, bring your soap. Charles Barkley does not want
to do that. Charles Barkley wants to roll out of bed,
show up at Turner an hour before he's got to
go on the air. Yeah, we're gonna talk about the jazz.
We're gonna talk about the King's y eye. Got it.
We're good. It's fun. Here's a chemistry we have. It's
a great show. That's why he's staying with TNT because
he doesn't want to work hard and TNT, what are
(34:28):
they gonna really ask of him all of a sudden.
They're not gonna say, well, Charles, no, NBA, we want
you all these different things. No, I'm not gonna do
any of that. I'll whatever you have basketball wise for me,
I'll do. We'll figure it out. I'll stay. No one
else is gonna pay me twenty million dollars a year
to do the absolute minimum because that's what Charles Barkley
wants to do. So after time, Okay, I tried the
power play. TNT didn't keep the NBA because I firmly
(34:50):
believe he wanted TNT to keep it and he thought
maybe he could try to help with that. But now
he does. Okay, so I'm gonna go back because they're
gonna pay me twenty million dollars and whatever they have
for that. They may have. I may have months where
I'm not doing anything because they're not gonna suddenly after
pay me to do nothing but this show. They're not
gonna sudden say, Okay, we want you on an outdoor show,
we want you on a Formula one show. No, that's
(35:11):
not gonna happen you're gonna be hosting dinner in a
movie on Friday night. No, they're not gonna do that.
He's going to do whatever bare minimum basketball wise he
has done, and that's how it's gonna continue to go
through his contract. Or are they that's why he's staying.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Or they replace whatever the basketball content is and guess what,
he's an entertainer, right, because that's what he is at
this point. And so the other part is I think
there's probably lawyers involved with a lot of it, just
like with the lawsuit about them losing it, which it's Hey,
at least cut us off a check and we'll go
away quietly.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Right.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
We talked about it. Match the offer. You really couldn't
match the offer. Apples to apples. It might be a different,
lesser apple or maybe a plumb, but the fact is
that moves on and you're sitting sitting there going, I
really want to collect the rest of what is it
about one hundred seventy five million dollars by the math
that he's put.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Out there, You want to collect that, right, he's not
gonna walk. Are you're gonna get that now from somewhere?
Are they gonna pay you twenty million dollars. Somebody will,
but there may we want you to do all of
these things. But that's what I mean again, all things
being equal. Much like the TNT bid wasn't equal to Amazon,
even if the dollars made sense, the work and everything
that's got to go in underneath it is not same
(36:24):
thing with Charles leaving for another another entity, be a
much different animal and harder work because you're not working
with Ernie and Kenny and Shack. Again, I'm getting paid
twenty million dollars to work the least minimum that I
have to. Okay, I'm gonna stay here and do this.
The worst retirement ever easy? WHOA, I don't know. I
don't know. Brady's retirement wasn't great. It lasted longer than this.
(36:47):
But we we knew Barkley's wasn't a real one. No,
that's the thing. We knew that wasn't really. I mean,
I didn't think it's o Katie's was either. But yeah,
I still think he's got time to come back. Exit
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