August 7, 2024 • 38 mins
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way tire buying should be. Top of the sixth inning,
(00:52):
The White Sox are threatening.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
They lead the A's two to one as they try
to break that Ezekiel Elliott losing streak and avoid having
an Emmett Smith losing streak.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Can I just say you'll get it at some point?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, but this is problematic for me because they're like, no,
I'm conflicted as a fan of this team, going back
to you know, being a wee little Boy and filling
out the perfect attendance sheet and deciding which games we
were going to put in for back in the Chicago schools.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do we want history or do we just want a
twenty one game?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You want?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You want? You want history? Right, if you're gonna suck
the extra game.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you're gonna lose, you want to. I am always say
I want my teams to win big and lose anonymously.
That's what I want. Yeah, but it's too late and big.
But at that point, this it's too late for anonymous.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, no, no, it's not it's not.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now you're high. We're gonna get a run. Yeah, you're
gonna get a score. Oh, it's three to one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, the White Sox are winning.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Realize it's a nine inning game, right, No, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But the White Sox winning in the sixth Then Andrew
Vaughan had the opy of almost seven hundred. Right, that's
almost like a win. If they're winning in the sixth inning,
that's almost a win. You want to tell him how
many times you guys have taken the lead into the
sixth Dude lost?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Why?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, it's a lot? Oh no, no, Literally, if we
get to the seventh. It's feeling good. Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
If you faded the White Sox twenty one of the
last twenty one games, you'd almost be a millionaire. Yeah,
who wants to be a million If you had Bobby
Jenks still closing games, you'd be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh, Bobby Jakes, let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I used to love how Ozzie would come out and
call for him. He would just put his hands up
like tall and why man, I want I want the
big Give me the big guy, not the right handed
left hand.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
He's a good tall they okay, Bobby Jenks guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
At what point do I text Paul Konerko and say
where it?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You haven't done it already?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, he told me never to text him, remember, Oh no,
I know, I'll say it, But I mean, does he.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Have you blocks or even it for something?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Good?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Play that on my birthday again? Can we play Caner
go Back?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sure, yeah, no problem. Hey you think that's still in
the system. Come on, that'd be a birthday to that guy.
All right, I'll find somebody on cameo instead. Never never
call me again?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Who from the two people that have told us to
never call him again were Paul Canerico and Bill Walton.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Not true, those are two guys. God did don't call
us anymore? Okay, great, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, how'd that work out for Bill?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Come on, there's one guy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
There's one guy that you know, we can't remedy that
to So Caneriko is still there.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And not because and look, and not because of anything
other than sometimes the show is on a little too
late for people, and I understand that, and but but
Canerico was like, no, no, like Walt was like, it's
he was like, it's too hot.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
He was in a weird that's fine, coming back off
hell yeah, getting crime again.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yet we're like all cool.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And we had him on in the beginning of the
show with us and he was like, felt like he
was kind of done.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
No, Canerico is like, hey, that's pretty cool becauseho's calling
Paul Canerico. Now, No, I don't call me anymore. Oh
all right, then okay, we tell you, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I celebrate his statue every time I go home. I
tell you that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So that's where we sit right now. The White Sox
are winning in the sixth. Then meanwhile, earlier today, look,
the game of the day. You probably woke up early
to watch it, or you went or you went to
you went out on your lunch break and came back
later going.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
In that the I mean, there's there's a decent audience.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But it was on opposite the men's basketball team for
a chunk of it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yes, so yeah, well because it went extra time again.
The United States women's national team is now playing for
the gold medal after their win today, one nothing is
your final score against Germany.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was almost just like the.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Game they played against Japan a couple of days ago.
They played tough, it was hot, everybody was tired, and
you get a great effort late for the only goal.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Smith on the best and Smith my get Smith does
get that. And Germany have been.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Great call in NBC speared by the Trident. So that's
gonna be their nickname, is the Trident.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, they had a French version that Julie Foudy was
trying to do the Tridad bows.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now I tried. It was side show, Bob, side show, but.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
They went the whole bit and he jumped it and
she's like, oh great, there you go, mister helper. And
it wasn't tried. And again it was something in French.
But you could tell, like she if they had the
picture on there, that would have been completely the The Kermit,
the Frog and the.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Mid say, we could have made the triplets work. I
think the triplets is kind of fun. The triplets are
gonna get you the Trident speared by the try. But again,
Troykman's fighting with Lamar Jackson. You don't think he's gonna
fight over triplets too. And DJ Well clearly triedent chewing
up the opposition and spitting them out after the flavor
(05:55):
is gone.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
DJ I think tried and I think tried the gun
right one.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Or that's what the or the mayors are coming after
Hi because they actually run around with the tribe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's true, that's true, or it's a it's a big
opportunity for them to do commercials for Trident. Hi, I'm
Sophia Smith. When I excuse me, so Fia Hi on Trinity,
Robin excuse me, Hi, I'm Mallory Swanson. But the best
line was like calling them a triad. And then we
had to explain to her that if you had to
explain and that you know, criminal Underground.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Spanned by the Isoceles.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh, by the by the scaleen.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now, if you said scaleen, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's about all I remember about triangles from when I
was in school. Scale wait wait wait, scaleen was all
the sides were incongruent, which meant that none of the
sides had the same. Look at you had the same length,
right Isosceles's two sides had the same And then you
had the perfect triangle, which was all sides were the same?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right am I? Right? With my triangle knowledge, I didn't
not look at any.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Of this up scaleen, scally sidesplanes and three articles. Hey,
that's a that's a that you know that is that's
a that's an algebra, honors words. Whenever we pull something
out of well, you know said you ate a story.
That's how we have to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Two big things coming off this game and what we'll
deal with that with the great part. First, well, we
told you from the beginning of this of this event
of the Olympics, the US women's team is now gonna
win and succeed in the next two World Cups. In
this Olympics on the backs of their forwards. They're just
the They're the most dangerous forwards in the world. There
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is no national team that has a better front line
than the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And that squad.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Okay, but hey, but who's who has the most goals,
Who's had the most goals in the tournament, Who's who's
scored all their goals?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Brazil is really good. But you're talking about three players
that are scoring every single one of their goals.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
How many people you play?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
What?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How many people do you play on a soccer pitch?
These are your three out the other people do stuff.
As I said, we're gonna get to the rest of it.
But this team is built on these three players because
they're all terrific.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And and look, Trinity Robin the last Vitorio can't join them.
Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
She gets referenced a lot. You know, they still haven't
scored ye directly on a free kid in four and
a half years. Since when's the last time? Last time, Julie,
I have the date right here. Yes, it was in
nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So they're they're built on these three players who all
I don't want to say because I keep running Mallory
Swanson because she but she's the difference. This is a
team that, yes, they were kind of feeling their way
a year ago in the World Cup, but Sophia Smith
and Trinity Rodman did not nearly affect the game as
they do right now with Mallory Swans. When you have
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someone who was kind of an amalgam of both of
those players, right, Because Sophia Smith, you saw her speed
on display to I don't know how she wasn't tired.
She was single handedly beating with the ball running away
from them. Her speed is unmatched. Right, Mallory Swanson's really
fast too. Trinity Robin is so strong with the ball,
so able to create her own opening from nothing. She
(09:11):
is a tremendously difficult player to guard because what she
can do physically. Mallory Swanson a little bit of that physically,
but not quite Trinity Robin. They each have their gifts,
and Swanson's in the middle right, and the way she
can take up the middle of the field, this makes
it so much more difficult to guard. You could if
you're looking at the US women's team from the last
(09:33):
World Cup, it's Alex Morgan's not doing anything. Trinity Robin
couldn't make plays right, neither could Sophia Smith. But now
you have this triumvirate, you have the tridad. You have
the triad, you had, the triangle.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You had the tri triangle was the girl next door
you had, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You had the try deltas, Delta, Delta, delta, you have it.
With these players, there's no stopping them. And the best
part is the United States is in one tournament. So
from the end of the World World Cup to hear
it's gone back to hey, you just have to play
the United States for penalties again. That was the only
way you played them for twenty years, and then they
(10:09):
had a bad run at the World Cup last year.
It was a big transference World Cup. You have the
older stars and new stars aren't quite there. It's that's
the World Cup to get the United States. They got
got Spain wins with their B team, which is a thing,
but this was the time to get to the United
States because now they have built this team again and
it's built on these as much as they keep wanting
(10:29):
pushing Lindsey, Horan and Rose level, which we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Get to them again. How we'll get the heart of it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, the three of them, this is who the team
is built on now and this is how they're going
to get through the rest of the Olympics and the
next two World Cups because they're all young. They're all
in their early to mid twenties, maybe even further than that,
depending on how how they age and go on. Maybe
it's three World Cups for them. But you already have
Swanson coming off a devastating injury. You don't know how
they're going to age. But at least the next two
(10:55):
World Cups. I feel awesome. We're going to be back
to being the top rated team in the world. We're
gonna win the Olympics. We're gonna win on Saturday, and
it's gonna be Wow. This team is back because you
can't stop those two.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
You want to do a Howard Dean yell. Last year
you started getting your cave. We're gonna go here and then.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We're gonna go to the middle.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, but we're gonna We're gonna play five hours outside
of France and no one's gonna come watch. And you
can hear Emma Hayes yelling at the team and yelling
her instructions out.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That's gonna be awesome. Now that'd be well, let me
let me let me just jump in real. I was
gonna tell you up but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
But yeah, so just to correct myself, it was the
tripod is what they called themselves and the girl next door.
That's all right, right, right, right right, well yeah, so
you know, I just want to make sure it's still
three and you know what, form my own.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Edit edification for that. You know, maybe you go watch it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
But Sunie Radman, twenty two years old, size speed like that,
that is your your prototype of of everything you want
to play. And she's a badass too, because you saw,
I think it was the ten fifteenth, sixteenth minute or so,
one of the teammates got roughed up. She walked right
over and gave the elbow right back, knocked the woman
(12:06):
on her ass, and was like, now we don't do
that here, and you can see the referee kind of
crack a smile like I'm not calling anybody.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The file's already been given for the US.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
But it's those little things right to where you can
not only affect the game so much offensively, but that
the physicality and really she torments opposing players and you
saw that come into play quite a bit down the
stretch where she had to do a quite a bit
of defending to get them over.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now the downside of it, Yeah, the downside of it
is this, and it's two players we've been talking about
for quite a while. The reason this game wasn't more
in the favoring the United States. Yes, both teams are exhausted, right,
you can only play every three days for so long
before in the heat before you say you know what,
it's a war of attrition. And I agree with Julie
Foudy when she said, hey, how about some changes, Right,
(12:59):
I'm getting on a soap box here, I'm gonna go
on a rant, and she said, how about bigger rosters? Yes,
no reason why you can't have bigger rosters, right, have
more substitutions. Because you're playing, you're changing how soccer is played.
So if that's the case, you can change the rules
a little bit to allow more substitutions and allow players
to not get injured as much as they have. So
I agree with that. But the biggest thing we've been
talking about is that the reason Jermy gave the United
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States so much difficulty is because they dominated the midfield,
and our midfielders are just not good. Lindsay Horan and
Rose Level have not been the players they were. Lindsay
Horan can't dribble the ball for five feet without it
getting taken away from her. They attacked her every single
time she got the ball, and she gave it up
like the raptors coming out to you in Jurassic Park.
And roose Level can't find any daylight with the ball.
(13:45):
She gets it taken away. The biggest thing is that
for Heran, who's thirty, I just think not that she
got old overnight. But she's not fast. She doesn't she
doesn't show to get open. She can't play box to
box anymore. She's just not that player. And we struggle
when she's in the middle of the field. And Rose
Level was most likely a product of all the great
(14:09):
players that played around her, so she was able to
play in space.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Because that was Rose Level. The last World Cup. Wow,
look at Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She's powerful, she's fast, but at the time it was boy,
look at Roosevelt. She had a lot of room. She
doesn't have the room now because we don't dominate the midfield.
So Rose Level's skill set does not work. And the
more minutes for Roosevel Lindsay Horan, you notice, the more
we struggled. It's a tough decision. Because they've meant a
lot to the program for a long time now. But really,
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are we better off with other players. I don't know
how much longer they can keep trotting Horan and rooselevel
out there and expect a great result. We're getting dominated
in the midfield.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, Hernn had a couple of flash moments, but you
can't substitute her in for you know, getting towards the
net and in the box, off a corner kick right
and she's got to play the full run leavell again
one or two moments, but the rest of it struggling
at the midfield, so yeah, they live and die. Look,
and they have to save by nayor to keep it
(15:05):
from getting equalized in the final minute one of those
I don't know it might as well jump kind of
David lee Roth moments and he.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Catches her foot to preserve victory.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It was incredibly lucky at the end. He We'll have
more on this game coming up, because I look, we're
just getting into it now. Obviously we had great stuff.
We've got questions. This is how it got lots of
questions going for the gold medal. But coming up next, boy,
what teams are really in trouble the last couple of
weeks after the trade deadline. At you, John, Yeah, we
might be John, Paul Morose, He's got all the latest
(15:37):
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
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Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, so far,
Kershaw Day for the Dodgers. Phillies lead the Dodgers one nothing.
Philly's bat in the top of the beginning. They have
two on and two out. Meanwhile, the Chicago White Sox
in the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Lead the A's four to one.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, they are nine outs away from breaking that twenty
one game losing streak, only twenty eight blown saves on
the Ears.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
If you had Bobby Howard, you'd be fine.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
One of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Uh never
met a card, he wouldn't sign.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I bet the A's right now joining us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
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Speaker 5 (17:22):
Believe me, my friends, I believe the White Sox will
win their first game tonight. Since Mbop by Hanson was
released in April of nineteen ninety seven, I have not
heard Mbop to begin a sports radio segment sometimes. But
that's why we tune into the Jason Smith Show, because
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we like to be surprised.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And as you can continue on to say, mop bop
bop bop doop?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Did it out now? Doo up w W.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I'm picturing left my name off And he made fun
of the White Sox, He's dying.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I'm picturing say that's so mbop is one of those
songs I digress too much that it is right before
one of those segments on Saturday Night Live where they say,
let's do a CD of songs that you almost know
the words to, and a bust of people try to
sing this song and actually transcribe what the words are,
(18:15):
and none of it would make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm picturing John Paul Morosi in April of nineteen ninety
seven a as a fifteen year old jumping around. The
song comes on the radio. He's in at the house
by himself. He turns it up as loud as he can,
dances from room to room like Tom Cruise and Risky
Business and his underwear, yelling out, Bob, Bob, dude.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Have I closed on that, John.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Paul More, Okay, and listen to me. What I wouldn't
give to have to have the hair flow now the
way that Hanson had it back in the day. That
was pretty strong.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, I'll tell you strong, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And now they all have like like forty five kids
between them, It's like crazy, how about that?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah? I just saw a thing like where is ants
and now they each have like seven kids. It's insane.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
So they can do the thing like Yo minudo skit.
I think see, I think they could. I think they
could the next run of Hansen.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Hey, we got a lot to get to, but let
me start here with you, John Paul, because you were
at Dodger Stadium last night. The ovation for Freddie Freeman
when he when he comes to the plate for the
first time. He had missed a lot of time, his
son extremely sick in the hospital, was let was let out.
Everything is now fine. It was really emotional to see
that standing ovation. Both teams stood for him. It was
(19:30):
it was more than just hey, here's a nice hand
for Freddie Freeman. This is one of those moments that
makes you step back and go, wow, look at this.
He's crying. I'm crying. Everybody's crying. What was it like
to see that?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, it was. It was remarkable. And I was there.
Actually I saw Freddy on his way into the ballpark.
I was just right outside the Dodger Clubhouse around two
o'clock and he was there with Charlie, his oldest son.
I gave Freddie huck I just welcomed him back. I
mean I've known him for a long time over the years,
just here major League Baseball and one of the most
(20:03):
universally beloved people in the sport, and so I think
that everybody in the game was supporting him, had had
their thoughts with him. I thought it was pointed that
after the game last night he talked about how many
times Bryce Harper had texted him there was just a
lot of love for Freddie and I think a couple
(20:24):
of thoughts that it resonates that baseball players are both
extraordinary and also regular people like everybody else in that
when he was at the Children's Hospital of Orange County,
he talked about this before the game yesterday that he
felt like you look to the next room, in the
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room after that, and up and down the hall, and
there are so many kids there, and they all have
different reasons for being there, and you put yourself in
the shoes of the parents who were getting varying degrees
of news, and it's not all good news. And I
think that's that's the sobering reality of of of kids
all around the world who are sick, and the compassion
(21:07):
that needs to go out to them and their parents,
whether they play Major League baseball or if they work
down the street. And I think that that, to me
is a is a really powerful lesson of last night.
And I think that Freddie, and to be clear, his
son Maximus who's three with giambres syndrome, because you have
to relearn how to walk, raalysis went all the way
(21:27):
up to his shoulders and it was affecting his breathing
in a diaphragm. So it's it's a very traumatic experience
that does not dissipate right away. It's going to probably
be months upon months of physical therapy to be able
to get back to As Freddie said his open that
he's on the field of a family day of spring training,
but it's a long road. He's got to re learn
how to do everything, and it's that's tough. But I
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think that Freddie showed such grace and acknowledgment and support
of the staff and the pediatric Intensive care unit at
the Toto's Hospital of Orange County, mentioning the staff or
the doctors, the nurses overnight it's it's a massive emotional toll.
And then oh, by the way, here comes Aaron Nola
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with with the curveball and and the fastball everything that
he throws. And as Freddie said to me last night
after the game, it's hard to hit a major league
pitch when your when your eyes are are watering and
you're crying. And I think it was it was a
real moment. It was it was. It was an ovation
that I will never forget hearing. I looked up at
the field and and Garrett Stubbs that Philly's catcher was
hugging Freddy. First base unplayer Hunter wendellstet was actually clapping
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as well, which you don't often see. It was just
it was a really powerful human moment and a reminder
of how big and how small baseball can be.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Job Baul Morosi with us here MLB networked at Fox
Sports Radio Insider for US here Jason Smith Show with
me Mike Harmon from the Diirac dot com studios. So
we advanced today, It's Curshaw Day. What did we get
out of this? Four innings, pitched five hits, one five
strikeouts and eighty one pitches met checked a bunch of
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boxes here, only leaving down one nothing against.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
A really good team too. And I think, Mike, that's
really crucial that this was a postseason dress rehearsal, and
I think that for most Dodger fans, they would probably
say that that's how they feel about this, that yes,
they want to have Kershaw be on point now and
Jack clarerty coming in and glass Now last night, but
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their season begins in Game one of the playoffs. I
think we can also pretty comfortable they're going to be
there unless something catastrophic happens in their divisional races. But
I think they're pretty good standing. So the question here
is can you get yourself ready for October? And I
would suggest that Clayton probably came back to the rotation
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maybe a little bit earlier than he expected, or maybe
then would have been optimal because of just the state
of the Dodger pitching staff at the time he came back.
That was right when glass Now was just coming back
and they had had a bunch of injuries and they
were using openers, and they had just let go of
James Paxton. So Kershaw came in maybe a little bit
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earlier than he was really fully ready to go. And
I think now tonight is more indicative of the picture
that he can be Listen, He's probably not going to
be going eight innings in a playoff game, but they
need him to get through two and a half times
to the lineup maybe, and that's a solid start from him.
I think it's important to realize that the guys who
are going to be carrying the workload for this team
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in October, it's got to be glass now in Flairty
and Kershaw's probably your third starter if you're talking about
just stuff and what he can do. Yamamoto, you hope
that he's there. So there's a lot of questions. The Dodgers'
rotation in the playoffs has had a lot of questions
in recent years. It's why they're won in six in
the last two postseasons, and I think to that end,
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tonight was an important step. They're gonna need to have
multiple starters going deep into games for the mathematics of
their pitching staff to work out of the month of October.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
John Paul, help.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Me out with something here, because we're gonna travel three
thousand miles east to talk about the Yankees every few days.
It's the Yankees. It's awful. They don't have a great
trade deadline. They didn't get everything they need. Look at
they get swept by the Mets in the Subway series
and everything is bad and the pitching doesn't work out
for them, and yet now they're back to being twenty
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one games over five hundred. They're in first place. They're
a game out of having the best record in the
American League. Are the Yankees in trouble or are the
Yankees fine? Like every few days it seems to be
like everything is bad, but yet they keep winning.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Well, They're flawed, but they're still almost as good as
anybody else in the American League. I still think that
they're a little bit vulnerable as a playoff team because
I'm just not sure about their lineup depths in terms
of how many guys are really going that are going
to allow you to win a playoff series who are
not named so to in Judge now, Jazz Chisholm has
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been amazing since coming over, which I think has been
a real godsend for them, and I think that they
need better versions of some of their complimentary players. Stanton
right now, for all of his salary, is a complimentary player.
He's got to be really good. Redugo needs to be good. VOLTI,
I think is at a really underrated excellent season. He's
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got eleven homers and twenty solen bases as a shortstop.
That's pretty good. And so I think that they're a
very good team. I'm not quite comfortable saying they're a
great team yet, just because I wonder about how they
will navigate, For example, if they have to face the
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Guardians in a playoff series, they have to face the
Mariners in a playoff series. There are some really good
pitching teams there that might cause them some fits. But
I think that in general, their trade deadline was better
than people realized because Chisholm was exactly what they needed.
And then the other piece of this is Baltimore just
had the tough news Crazy Rodriguez was scratch from a
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start tonight. Who knows what that means with some shoulder
and back issues that area that can be really concerning,
especially at this late hour of the season. Of course,
you cannot make any trade deadline moves now that you're
in the month of August. So that's what I'm wondering
about now, the Baltimore Oriols, and they're pitching situations. But
I think the Yankees for me, are imperfect. But I
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look around and say there'll be a tough team in
the playoffs, as long as they don't have the tougher
pitching matchups against teams like Cleveland and Seattle, which I
think could probably exploit their weaknesses.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Is there any team man Ivy League JP that you're
kind of watching that's a little off the pace that
these final six weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Could make a run.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Well, I think Arizona, the way that they of course
finally get at Ron Rodriguez back tonight. They've got an
excellent manager, Garbincare's gotten going a bit. I think that's
a team to watch. They of course were the National
League champions last year, and then Houston if from Bravaldez
comes within one one hitter of throwing a no hitter tonight.
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They just have such great muscle memory as an organization,
they know how to win this time of year. And
I know they're a team that in a lot of
other cities around the country, they're not super popular, but
they win a lot of games. They've got a lot
of players who have a tremendous track record in October
that goes far beyond whatever happened in twenty seventeen. So
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I like what they've got. We'll see what Tucker can
give them late in the season and he's been out
for a while, but they're pitching is finally coming into focus,
and Valdez's masterpiece tonight was just the latest evidence of that.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network Insider Extraordinary. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate the time. We'll talk to you soon. Have fun.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Sounds great, my friends always enjoy the conversation and look
forward to the next one.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Be good, brother, There goes John Paul. Look, yeah, look
the thing for Clayton Kershaw really fast. Yes, he came
back early because he's like, look, I don't want to
rehab in the minors to get my pitch count up.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I know how to get guys out.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I can give you four or five innings and that
will help you, right, I can give you four or five.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Innings, give all the injury, can give you all the
let me do it here.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
So that's why I'm okay with this incomplete grade for
Kershaw until you know he continues to build up and
get it to September because you don't need him, and
you're also keeping the innings down. The problem is right now,
you're counting on Kershaw to pitch a couple of games
in your playoff series, which, all right, maybe he may
be not like this is how far the Dodger pitching
has fallen from the beginning of the season. Kershaw was, hey,
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he's a but whenever he comes back, what a bonus
he is. Now it's hey, we're count on you for
at least two games in the divisional series.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Here, it's been the curiosity, right of how quickly guys
were going to come back, would they come back to form.
We still don't know if Yamamoto is going to be available,
or what you're getting when Buehler warned, Bobby Miller, or
whoever comes back, and whether they can contribute to the rotation.
The fact of the matter, you've got four out of Kershaw.
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That's really all you've been getting out of your starters.
So he's no worse than anything you've been running out there,
even if he's at eighty percent of what he is.
He pitched eighty one through eighty one pitches today, got
you through four, only gave up one run.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's usually what you get out in the playoffs two
four two center.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That normally normally a six or anything either way, Frostberg's
gonna come in and hit you, hey.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Quick update from Dodger stadium boy Bruce dar Gradohal, who
was one of the dodgers better relievers the last few years,
activated off the sixty day injured list, making his debut
this year for the Dodgers. Comes into pitching a high
leverage inning in the sixth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies
and was helped off the mound by trainers something happening
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to his hamstring through a ninety two mile an hour
pitch for a strike, reached over, grabbed it. It took
a while for him to come off the field. He
could not exit on his own power, and he is
being helped to the locker room. Now a new reliever
coming in for the Dodgers. Now be a bit of
a weight, because you know, you got as many warm
up pitches as you want, so a huge blow to
the Dodgers are hoping to get him back and really
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just help spur that bullpen on Jason Smith Mike Carmon
Live from the Ti rack dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The one superstar athlete whose Olympic games were awful. Now
we have to give him all the credit in the world.
Who's that slay coming up next? Right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (31:40):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
We could be popping champagne in the still few minutes
the top of the ninth inning? Who's getting wild tonight?
The White Sox have a five to one lead over
the A's. They are three outs away from breaking that
(32:01):
twenty one game losing streak, and Harmon's gonna get blasted
on the air for the last two hours of the show.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Let's go uh so again? Let me tell you what they.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We will have more on that drama, but still still
have to navigate the ninth Still have to navigate the
ninth inning, Barney.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, just so you know, look try for me.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Look, the beginning of the Olympics was not great for
Joel Embiid and he had a DNPCD in the second
game when when play all the way back so long ago.
I'm old enough to remember a week ago when it
was oh my goodness, lookers not playing for the United
States was a fake story. Joel Embiid goes from a
DNPCD where he looks extremely disinterested in what's going on
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to being the best player on the floor as USA
beats Brazil today one two eighty seven, not a game
that was even close, and Embiid found some time to
have fun after the game.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Hey, the fans booed me.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
It's okay, I'm taking something fun out of this experience.
Twelve minutes in the first half and embiad scores fourteen.
It puts up seven boards as the United States got
out to a lead that they were never threatened in.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
I'll tell you what I watched about six minutes of
the first to know the app. I don't think this
guy worth my time. Hey, hey, hey God, I'll check
back in on it later.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I mean, look, the I cover.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The United States is doing everything you expected them to do.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Here.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All the controversy that we've done, it's all made up.
But there is no player who modifies and exemplifies what
Team USA is more than Joelle Embiid. Because what if
I told her from the beginning. Steve Kurrz the guy,
he is the pied piper. He's the one that's going
to manage all the egos and figure things out so
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we win the gold medal. And so history, even going
back to his days as a player of what he watched,
he's the right guy because he's, like I said, he's
managing the egos. He's figuring out the guys to play
in the right spots. Right, he's figured out his rotation
took him a little bit, because it does. You don't
get a lot of time to play together. But all
they're doing is blowing out teams.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Now you lose. It's a different thing.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
But here's Joel Embiid who could have been the guy
that was a problem because I'm not playing, I'm not
playing well. I want to be gone, sources and Beiid
almost left France, had to be talked into staying by
an assistant coach whatever it is. But instead Embiid went
from a d NPCD and now he was the best
player on the court, when clearly he was probably the
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player that fit in with Steve Kerr's system and what
you need to do in Foba the worst right. His
style of give me the ball and with one leg,
I'll draw three defenders to me and get to the
free throw line. That doesn't do it in international basketball.
But for him to go from where he was at
to where he is now, this just shows you that
there's nothing wrong with this team. Steve Kerr has everything
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under control. Joel Embiid went from what he could have
been upset and been and been and wanted to leave,
and now look at him, he's laughing, having fun. After
it's all over. The United States is winning. They've all
the players all know, we're all here to do a
job to walk off with the gold medal. And am
I playing as much as I want to play?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Probably not, But no player is playing as much as
they want to pay. No one wants to start and
come out of the game after formatut I don't come
out of the game. Well, this is what the Olympics is.
Everything is. It is a smooth machine right now, and
Kerr should get all the plaudits for that, just because
when you look at Joel Embiid and his journey to
where he is right now. Now they lose, that's gonna
be different. But I'm okay with back and off. Hey,
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everything is fine right every there. They lose, we're gonna
come with questions, but right now there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
They are rolling through this turn unless there's something under
the surface, right, like the duck that looks all tranquil,
and then you look underneath in the and he's swimming
for his life. Yeah, like watching the when you watch
water polo boy, it looks so calm and cool up front,
and they're just kicking the crack under and clutching and
kicking each other. Yeah, all of that stuff, the chaos
underneath the surface. So yeah, I mean maybe there's some
(35:53):
of that, maybe that'll come out in the wash. To
your point, we haven't had any sources of any disruptions.
I mean Jason Tatum when he's just kind of laid
it out, you know, disappointing, confusing, whatever. I haven't had
this experience and kind of got a little more thoughtful
and reflective about it to where maybe it makes him
a better teammate when he goes back to the Celtics,
(36:13):
because now he knows what it's like to get a
DNP coach's decision. For Joel Embiid, if he's unhappy at
some point, we're gonna hear it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I mean, that's just who he is.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Eventually, he's gonna get a microphone, a podcast, a week
or two after they leave France, and maybe he does
have something that he wants to get off his chest,
but in the moment he's playing basketball, didn't play particularly
all right. He's had the twelve minutes where he filed
out when they started in the exhibition part of things
and tried to find rotations. You're talking about the collection
(36:46):
of what everybody wants to argue is the best in
the world. And then it became a personal attack against
Joel Embiid, like suddenly he was Anything he'd accomplished in
the NBA was delegitimized because of d n P in
the Olympics, and in.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Four days it's, oh, well, maybe everything is fine for
Joel Embiid. I mean, really, it's just a bit. His
fit for Foeba was raw. It didn't look like he fit.
Steve Kerr found a way to make him fit, and
everything is I mean, Steve, just give Steve Curse some time.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Everything when there was no guy him straight. He's got
a think dam there to make it work. He should
have unless they lose. He should have this job as
long as he wants it. If they lose, it burns down.
There's no quale. You get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Never around the team again, inspired by Golden State. Sorry, Steve,
we just can't keep you. But we can't do it.
But I want a title. I want four of them, Steve.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I'm sorry. Then that's a player I dominated.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Every Every time you're on the floor is a memory
of what happened in Paris.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
We can't have that.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
We can't left out his best highlight today.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
What did I miss the d X chop he did?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Sure, Yeah, the d shop was good. Yeah that was good.
Yeah I could drop that. That's always good.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Remember you got fine pretty big in the NBA for
doing that a while back.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Exit Out bouta Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen,
live from the Tiraq dot Com Studios. We'll love more
Olympics coming up, but straight ahead, a new development and
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Speaker 2 (38:20):
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Speaker 1 (38:22):
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(00:52):
The White Sox are threatening.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
They lead the A's two to one as they try
to break that Ezekiel Elliott losing streak and avoid having
an Emmett Smith losing streak.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Can I just say you'll get it at some point?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, but this is problematic for me because they're like, no,
I'm conflicted as a fan of this team, going back
to you know, being a wee little Boy and filling
out the perfect attendance sheet and deciding which games we
were going to put in for back in the Chicago schools.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do we want history or do we just want a
twenty one game?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
You want?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You want? You want history? Right, if you're gonna suck
the extra game.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you're gonna lose, you want to. I am always say
I want my teams to win big and lose anonymously.
That's what I want. Yeah, but it's too late and big.
But at that point, this it's too late for anonymous.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, no, no, it's not it's not.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Now you're high. We're gonna get a run. Yeah, you're
gonna get a score. Oh, it's three to one.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, the White Sox are winning.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Realize it's a nine inning game, right, No, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But the White Sox winning in the sixth Then Andrew
Vaughan had the opy of almost seven hundred. Right, that's
almost like a win. If they're winning in the sixth inning,
that's almost a win. You want to tell him how
many times you guys have taken the lead into the
sixth Dude lost?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Why?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh, it's a lot? Oh no, no, Literally, if we
get to the seventh. It's feeling good. Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
If you faded the White Sox twenty one of the
last twenty one games, you'd almost be a millionaire. Yeah,
who wants to be a million If you had Bobby
Jenks still closing games, you'd be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh, Bobby Jakes, let's go.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I used to love how Ozzie would come out and
call for him. He would just put his hands up
like tall and why man, I want I want the
big Give me the big guy, not the right handed
left hand.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
He's a good tall they okay, Bobby Jenks guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
At what point do I text Paul Konerko and say
where it?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You haven't done it already?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, he told me never to text him, remember, Oh no,
I know, I'll say it, But I mean, does he.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Have you blocks or even it for something?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Good?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Play that on my birthday again? Can we play Caner
go Back?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sure, yeah, no problem. Hey you think that's still in
the system. Come on, that'd be a birthday to that guy.
All right, I'll find somebody on cameo instead. Never never
call me again?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Who from the two people that have told us to
never call him again were Paul Canerico and Bill Walton.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Not true, those are two guys. God did don't call
us anymore? Okay, great, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, how'd that work out for Bill?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Come on, there's one guy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
There's one guy that you know, we can't remedy that
to So Caneriko is still there.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And not because and look, and not because of anything
other than sometimes the show is on a little too
late for people, and I understand that, and but but
Canerico was like, no, no, like Walt was like, it's
he was like, it's too hot.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
He was in a weird that's fine, coming back off
hell yeah, getting crime again.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yet we're like all cool.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And we had him on in the beginning of the
show with us and he was like, felt like he
was kind of done.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
No, Canerico is like, hey, that's pretty cool becauseho's calling
Paul Canerico. Now, No, I don't call me anymore. Oh
all right, then okay, we tell you, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I celebrate his statue every time I go home. I
tell you that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So that's where we sit right now. The White Sox
are winning in the sixth. Then meanwhile, earlier today, look,
the game of the day. You probably woke up early
to watch it, or you went or you went to
you went out on your lunch break and came back
later going.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
In that the I mean, there's there's a decent audience.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But it was on opposite the men's basketball team for
a chunk of it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yes, so yeah, well because it went extra time again.
The United States women's national team is now playing for
the gold medal after their win today, one nothing is
your final score against Germany.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was almost just like the.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Game they played against Japan a couple of days ago.
They played tough, it was hot, everybody was tired, and
you get a great effort late for the only goal.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Smith on the best and Smith my get Smith does
get that. And Germany have been.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Great call in NBC speared by the Trident. So that's
gonna be their nickname, is the Trident.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, they had a French version that Julie Foudy was
trying to do the Tridad bows.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now I tried. It was side show, Bob, side show, but.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
They went the whole bit and he jumped it and
she's like, oh great, there you go, mister helper. And
it wasn't tried. And again it was something in French.
But you could tell, like she if they had the
picture on there, that would have been completely the The Kermit,
the Frog and the.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Mid say, we could have made the triplets work. I
think the triplets is kind of fun. The triplets are
gonna get you the Trident speared by the try. But again,
Troykman's fighting with Lamar Jackson. You don't think he's gonna
fight over triplets too. And DJ Well clearly triedent chewing
up the opposition and spitting them out after the flavor
(05:55):
is gone.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
DJ I think tried and I think tried the gun
right one.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Or that's what the or the mayors are coming after
Hi because they actually run around with the tribe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's true, that's true, or it's a it's a big
opportunity for them to do commercials for Trident. Hi, I'm
Sophia Smith. When I excuse me, so Fia Hi on Trinity,
Robin excuse me, Hi, I'm Mallory Swanson. But the best
line was like calling them a triad. And then we
had to explain to her that if you had to
explain and that you know, criminal Underground.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Spanned by the Isoceles.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh, by the by the scaleen.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Now, if you said scaleen, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's about all I remember about triangles from when I
was in school. Scale wait wait wait, scaleen was all
the sides were incongruent, which meant that none of the
sides had the same. Look at you had the same length,
right Isosceles's two sides had the same And then you
had the perfect triangle, which was all sides were the same?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Right am I? Right? With my triangle knowledge, I didn't
not look at any.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Of this up scaleen, scally sidesplanes and three articles. Hey,
that's a that's a that you know that is that's
a that's an algebra, honors words. Whenever we pull something
out of well, you know said you ate a story.
That's how we have to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Two big things coming off this game and what we'll
deal with that with the great part. First, well, we
told you from the beginning of this of this event
of the Olympics, the US women's team is now gonna
win and succeed in the next two World Cups. In
this Olympics on the backs of their forwards. They're just
the They're the most dangerous forwards in the world. There
(07:39):
is no national team that has a better front line
than the United States.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And that squad.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Okay, but hey, but who's who has the most goals,
Who's had the most goals in the tournament, Who's who's
scored all their goals?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Brazil is really good. But you're talking about three players
that are scoring every single one of their goals.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
How many people you play?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
What?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How many people do you play on a soccer pitch?
These are your three out the other people do stuff.
As I said, we're gonna get to the rest of it.
But this team is built on these three players because
they're all terrific.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And and look, Trinity Robin the last Vitorio can't join them.
Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
She gets referenced a lot. You know, they still haven't
scored ye directly on a free kid in four and
a half years. Since when's the last time? Last time, Julie,
I have the date right here. Yes, it was in
nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So they're they're built on these three players who all
I don't want to say because I keep running Mallory
Swanson because she but she's the difference. This is a
team that, yes, they were kind of feeling their way
a year ago in the World Cup, but Sophia Smith
and Trinity Rodman did not nearly affect the game as
they do right now with Mallory Swans. When you have
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someone who was kind of an amalgam of both of
those players, right, Because Sophia Smith, you saw her speed
on display to I don't know how she wasn't tired.
She was single handedly beating with the ball running away
from them. Her speed is unmatched. Right, Mallory Swanson's really
fast too. Trinity Robin is so strong with the ball,
so able to create her own opening from nothing. She
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is a tremendously difficult player to guard because what she
can do physically. Mallory Swanson a little bit of that physically,
but not quite Trinity Robin. They each have their gifts,
and Swanson's in the middle right, and the way she
can take up the middle of the field, this makes
it so much more difficult to guard. You could if
you're looking at the US women's team from the last
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World Cup, it's Alex Morgan's not doing anything. Trinity Robin
couldn't make plays right, neither could Sophia Smith. But now
you have this triumvirate, you have the tridad. You have
the triad, you had, the triangle.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You had the tri triangle was the girl next door
you had, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You had the try deltas, Delta, Delta, delta, you have it.
With these players, there's no stopping them. And the best
part is the United States is in one tournament. So
from the end of the World World Cup to hear
it's gone back to hey, you just have to play
the United States for penalties again. That was the only
way you played them for twenty years, and then they
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had a bad run at the World Cup last year.
It was a big transference World Cup. You have the
older stars and new stars aren't quite there. It's that's
the World Cup to get the United States. They got
got Spain wins with their B team, which is a thing,
but this was the time to get to the United
States because now they have built this team again and
it's built on these as much as they keep wanting
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pushing Lindsey, Horan and Rose level, which we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Get to them again. How we'll get the heart of it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, the three of them, this is who the team
is built on now and this is how they're going
to get through the rest of the Olympics and the
next two World Cups because they're all young. They're all
in their early to mid twenties, maybe even further than that,
depending on how how they age and go on. Maybe
it's three World Cups for them. But you already have
Swanson coming off a devastating injury. You don't know how
they're going to age. But at least the next two
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World Cups. I feel awesome. We're going to be back
to being the top rated team in the world. We're
gonna win the Olympics. We're gonna win on Saturday, and
it's gonna be Wow. This team is back because you
can't stop those two.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
You want to do a Howard Dean yell. Last year
you started getting your cave. We're gonna go here and then.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We're gonna go to the middle.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, but we're gonna We're gonna play five hours outside
of France and no one's gonna come watch. And you
can hear Emma Hayes yelling at the team and yelling
her instructions out.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That's gonna be awesome. Now that'd be well, let me
let me let me just jump in real. I was
gonna tell you up but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
But yeah, so just to correct myself, it was the
tripod is what they called themselves and the girl next door.
That's all right, right, right, right right, well yeah, so
you know, I just want to make sure it's still
three and you know what, form my own.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Edit edification for that. You know, maybe you go watch it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
But Sunie Radman, twenty two years old, size speed like that,
that is your your prototype of of everything you want
to play. And she's a badass too, because you saw,
I think it was the ten fifteenth, sixteenth minute or so,
one of the teammates got roughed up. She walked right
over and gave the elbow right back, knocked the woman
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on her ass, and was like, now we don't do
that here, and you can see the referee kind of
crack a smile like I'm not calling anybody.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The file's already been given for the US.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
But it's those little things right to where you can
not only affect the game so much offensively, but that
the physicality and really she torments opposing players and you
saw that come into play quite a bit down the
stretch where she had to do a quite a bit
of defending to get them over.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now the downside of it, Yeah, the downside of it
is this, and it's two players we've been talking about
for quite a while. The reason this game wasn't more
in the favoring the United States. Yes, both teams are exhausted, right,
you can only play every three days for so long
before in the heat before you say you know what,
it's a war of attrition. And I agree with Julie
Foudy when she said, hey, how about some changes, Right,
(12:59):
I'm getting on a soap box here, I'm gonna go
on a rant, and she said, how about bigger rosters? Yes,
no reason why you can't have bigger rosters, right, have
more substitutions. Because you're playing, you're changing how soccer is played.
So if that's the case, you can change the rules
a little bit to allow more substitutions and allow players
to not get injured as much as they have. So
I agree with that. But the biggest thing we've been
talking about is that the reason Jermy gave the United
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States so much difficulty is because they dominated the midfield,
and our midfielders are just not good. Lindsay Horan and
Rose Level have not been the players they were. Lindsay
Horan can't dribble the ball for five feet without it
getting taken away from her. They attacked her every single
time she got the ball, and she gave it up
like the raptors coming out to you in Jurassic Park.
And roose Level can't find any daylight with the ball.
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She gets it taken away. The biggest thing is that
for Heran, who's thirty, I just think not that she
got old overnight. But she's not fast. She doesn't she
doesn't show to get open. She can't play box to
box anymore. She's just not that player. And we struggle
when she's in the middle of the field. And Rose
Level was most likely a product of all the great
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players that played around her, so she was able to
play in space.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Because that was Rose Level. The last World Cup. Wow,
look at Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She's powerful, she's fast, but at the time it was boy,
look at Roosevelt. She had a lot of room. She
doesn't have the room now because we don't dominate the midfield.
So Rose Level's skill set does not work. And the
more minutes for Roosevel Lindsay Horan, you notice, the more
we struggled. It's a tough decision. Because they've meant a
lot to the program for a long time now. But really,
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are we better off with other players. I don't know
how much longer they can keep trotting Horan and rooselevel
out there and expect a great result. We're getting dominated
in the midfield.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, Hernn had a couple of flash moments, but you
can't substitute her in for you know, getting towards the
net and in the box, off a corner kick right
and she's got to play the full run leavell again
one or two moments, but the rest of it struggling
at the midfield, so yeah, they live and die. Look,
and they have to save by nayor to keep it
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from getting equalized in the final minute one of those
I don't know it might as well jump kind of
David lee Roth moments and he.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Catches her foot to preserve victory.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It was incredibly lucky at the end. He We'll have
more on this game coming up, because I look, we're
just getting into it now. Obviously we had great stuff.
We've got questions. This is how it got lots of
questions going for the gold medal. But coming up next, boy,
what teams are really in trouble the last couple of
weeks after the trade deadline. At you, John, Yeah, we
might be John, Paul Morose, He's got all the latest
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Oh five second Dance Party, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, so far,
Kershaw Day for the Dodgers. Phillies lead the Dodgers one nothing.
Philly's bat in the top of the beginning. They have
two on and two out. Meanwhile, the Chicago White Sox
in the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Lead the A's four to one.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, they are nine outs away from breaking that twenty
one game losing streak, only twenty eight blown saves on
the Ears.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
If you had Bobby Howard, you'd be fine.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
One of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Uh never
met a card, he wouldn't sign.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I bet the A's right now joining us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Now, look at what the odds are for all latest
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Speaker 5 (17:22):
Believe me, my friends, I believe the White Sox will
win their first game tonight. Since Mbop by Hanson was
released in April of nineteen ninety seven, I have not
heard Mbop to begin a sports radio segment sometimes. But
that's why we tune into the Jason Smith Show, because
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we like to be surprised.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And as you can continue on to say, mop bop
bop bop doop?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Did it out now? Doo up w W.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I'm picturing left my name off And he made fun
of the White Sox, He's dying.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I'm picturing say that's so mbop is one of those
songs I digress too much that it is right before
one of those segments on Saturday Night Live where they say,
let's do a CD of songs that you almost know
the words to, and a bust of people try to
sing this song and actually transcribe what the words are,
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and none of it would make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm picturing John Paul Morosi in April of nineteen ninety
seven a as a fifteen year old jumping around. The
song comes on the radio. He's in at the house
by himself. He turns it up as loud as he can,
dances from room to room like Tom Cruise and Risky
Business and his underwear, yelling out, Bob, Bob, dude.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Have I closed on that, John.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Paul More, Okay, and listen to me. What I wouldn't
give to have to have the hair flow now the
way that Hanson had it back in the day. That
was pretty strong.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, I'll tell you strong, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And now they all have like like forty five kids
between them, It's like crazy, how about that?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah? I just saw a thing like where is ants
and now they each have like seven kids. It's insane.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
So they can do the thing like Yo minudo skit.
I think see, I think they could. I think they
could the next run of Hansen.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Hey, we got a lot to get to, but let
me start here with you, John Paul, because you were
at Dodger Stadium last night. The ovation for Freddie Freeman
when he when he comes to the plate for the
first time. He had missed a lot of time, his
son extremely sick in the hospital, was let was let out.
Everything is now fine. It was really emotional to see
that standing ovation. Both teams stood for him. It was
(19:30):
it was more than just hey, here's a nice hand
for Freddie Freeman. This is one of those moments that
makes you step back and go, wow, look at this.
He's crying. I'm crying. Everybody's crying. What was it like
to see that?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, it was. It was remarkable. And I was there.
Actually I saw Freddy on his way into the ballpark.
I was just right outside the Dodger Clubhouse around two
o'clock and he was there with Charlie, his oldest son.
I gave Freddie huck I just welcomed him back. I
mean I've known him for a long time over the years,
just here major League Baseball and one of the most
(20:03):
universally beloved people in the sport, and so I think
that everybody in the game was supporting him, had had
their thoughts with him. I thought it was pointed that
after the game last night he talked about how many
times Bryce Harper had texted him there was just a
lot of love for Freddie and I think a couple
(20:24):
of thoughts that it resonates that baseball players are both
extraordinary and also regular people like everybody else in that
when he was at the Children's Hospital of Orange County,
he talked about this before the game yesterday that he
felt like you look to the next room, in the
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room after that, and up and down the hall, and
there are so many kids there, and they all have
different reasons for being there, and you put yourself in
the shoes of the parents who were getting varying degrees
of news, and it's not all good news. And I
think that's that's the sobering reality of of of kids
all around the world who are sick, and the compassion
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that needs to go out to them and their parents,
whether they play Major League baseball or if they work
down the street. And I think that that, to me
is a is a really powerful lesson of last night.
And I think that Freddie, and to be clear, his
son Maximus who's three with giambres syndrome, because you have
to relearn how to walk, raalysis went all the way
(21:27):
up to his shoulders and it was affecting his breathing
in a diaphragm. So it's it's a very traumatic experience
that does not dissipate right away. It's going to probably
be months upon months of physical therapy to be able
to get back to As Freddie said his open that
he's on the field of a family day of spring training,
but it's a long road. He's got to re learn
how to do everything, and it's that's tough. But I
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think that Freddie showed such grace and acknowledgment and support
of the staff and the pediatric Intensive care unit at
the Toto's Hospital of Orange County, mentioning the staff or
the doctors, the nurses overnight it's it's a massive emotional toll.
And then oh, by the way, here comes Aaron Nola
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with with the curveball and and the fastball everything that
he throws. And as Freddie said to me last night
after the game, it's hard to hit a major league
pitch when your when your eyes are are watering and
you're crying. And I think it was it was a
real moment. It was it was. It was an ovation
that I will never forget hearing. I looked up at
the field and and Garrett Stubbs that Philly's catcher was
hugging Freddy. First base unplayer Hunter wendellstet was actually clapping
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as well, which you don't often see. It was just
it was a really powerful human moment and a reminder
of how big and how small baseball can be.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Job Baul Morosi with us here MLB networked at Fox
Sports Radio Insider for US here Jason Smith Show with
me Mike Harmon from the Diirac dot com studios. So
we advanced today, It's Curshaw Day. What did we get
out of this? Four innings, pitched five hits, one five
strikeouts and eighty one pitches met checked a bunch of
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boxes here, only leaving down one nothing against.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
A really good team too. And I think, Mike, that's
really crucial that this was a postseason dress rehearsal, and
I think that for most Dodger fans, they would probably
say that that's how they feel about this, that yes,
they want to have Kershaw be on point now and
Jack clarerty coming in and glass Now last night, but
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their season begins in Game one of the playoffs. I
think we can also pretty comfortable they're going to be
there unless something catastrophic happens in their divisional races. But
I think they're pretty good standing. So the question here
is can you get yourself ready for October? And I
would suggest that Clayton probably came back to the rotation
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maybe a little bit earlier than he expected, or maybe
then would have been optimal because of just the state
of the Dodger pitching staff at the time he came back.
That was right when glass Now was just coming back
and they had had a bunch of injuries and they
were using openers, and they had just let go of
James Paxton. So Kershaw came in maybe a little bit
(24:16):
earlier than he was really fully ready to go. And
I think now tonight is more indicative of the picture
that he can be Listen, He's probably not going to
be going eight innings in a playoff game, but they
need him to get through two and a half times
to the lineup maybe, and that's a solid start from him.
I think it's important to realize that the guys who
are going to be carrying the workload for this team
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in October, it's got to be glass now in Flairty
and Kershaw's probably your third starter if you're talking about
just stuff and what he can do. Yamamoto, you hope
that he's there. So there's a lot of questions. The Dodgers'
rotation in the playoffs has had a lot of questions
in recent years. It's why they're won in six in
the last two postseasons, and I think to that end,
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tonight was an important step. They're gonna need to have
multiple starters going deep into games for the mathematics of
their pitching staff to work out of the month of October.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
John Paul, help.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Me out with something here, because we're gonna travel three
thousand miles east to talk about the Yankees every few days.
It's the Yankees. It's awful. They don't have a great
trade deadline. They didn't get everything they need. Look at
they get swept by the Mets in the Subway series
and everything is bad and the pitching doesn't work out
for them, and yet now they're back to being twenty
(25:28):
one games over five hundred. They're in first place. They're
a game out of having the best record in the
American League. Are the Yankees in trouble or are the
Yankees fine? Like every few days it seems to be
like everything is bad, but yet they keep winning.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Well, They're flawed, but they're still almost as good as
anybody else in the American League. I still think that
they're a little bit vulnerable as a playoff team because
I'm just not sure about their lineup depths in terms
of how many guys are really going that are going
to allow you to win a playoff series who are
not named so to in Judge now, Jazz Chisholm has
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been amazing since coming over, which I think has been
a real godsend for them, and I think that they
need better versions of some of their complimentary players. Stanton
right now, for all of his salary, is a complimentary player.
He's got to be really good. Redugo needs to be good. VOLTI,
I think is at a really underrated excellent season. He's
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got eleven homers and twenty solen bases as a shortstop.
That's pretty good. And so I think that they're a
very good team. I'm not quite comfortable saying they're a
great team yet, just because I wonder about how they
will navigate, For example, if they have to face the
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Guardians in a playoff series, they have to face the
Mariners in a playoff series. There are some really good
pitching teams there that might cause them some fits. But
I think that in general, their trade deadline was better
than people realized because Chisholm was exactly what they needed.
And then the other piece of this is Baltimore just
had the tough news Crazy Rodriguez was scratch from a
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start tonight. Who knows what that means with some shoulder
and back issues that area that can be really concerning,
especially at this late hour of the season. Of course,
you cannot make any trade deadline moves now that you're
in the month of August. So that's what I'm wondering
about now, the Baltimore Oriols, and they're pitching situations. But
I think the Yankees for me, are imperfect. But I
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look around and say there'll be a tough team in
the playoffs, as long as they don't have the tougher
pitching matchups against teams like Cleveland and Seattle, which I
think could probably exploit their weaknesses.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Is there any team man Ivy League JP that you're
kind of watching that's a little off the pace that
these final six weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Could make a run.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Well, I think Arizona, the way that they of course
finally get at Ron Rodriguez back tonight. They've got an
excellent manager, Garbincare's gotten going a bit. I think that's
a team to watch. They of course were the National
League champions last year, and then Houston if from Bravaldez
comes within one one hitter of throwing a no hitter tonight.
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They just have such great muscle memory as an organization,
they know how to win this time of year. And
I know they're a team that in a lot of
other cities around the country, they're not super popular, but
they win a lot of games. They've got a lot
of players who have a tremendous track record in October
that goes far beyond whatever happened in twenty seventeen. So
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I like what they've got. We'll see what Tucker can
give them late in the season and he's been out
for a while, but they're pitching is finally coming into focus,
and Valdez's masterpiece tonight was just the latest evidence of that.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network Insider Extraordinary. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate the time. We'll talk to you soon. Have fun.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Sounds great, my friends always enjoy the conversation and look
forward to the next one.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Be good, brother, There goes John Paul. Look, yeah, look
the thing for Clayton Kershaw really fast. Yes, he came
back early because he's like, look, I don't want to
rehab in the minors to get my pitch count up.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I know how to get guys out.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I can give you four or five innings and that
will help you, right, I can give you four or five.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Innings, give all the injury, can give you all the
let me do it here.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
So that's why I'm okay with this incomplete grade for
Kershaw until you know he continues to build up and
get it to September because you don't need him, and
you're also keeping the innings down. The problem is right now,
you're counting on Kershaw to pitch a couple of games
in your playoff series, which, all right, maybe he may
be not like this is how far the Dodger pitching
has fallen from the beginning of the season. Kershaw was, hey,
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he's a but whenever he comes back, what a bonus
he is. Now it's hey, we're count on you for
at least two games in the divisional series.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Here, it's been the curiosity, right of how quickly guys
were going to come back, would they come back to form.
We still don't know if Yamamoto is going to be available,
or what you're getting when Buehler warned, Bobby Miller, or
whoever comes back, and whether they can contribute to the rotation.
The fact of the matter, you've got four out of Kershaw.
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That's really all you've been getting out of your starters.
So he's no worse than anything you've been running out there,
even if he's at eighty percent of what he is.
He pitched eighty one through eighty one pitches today, got
you through four, only gave up one run.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's usually what you get out in the playoffs two
four two center.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
That normally normally a six or anything either way, Frostberg's
gonna come in and hit you, hey.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Quick update from Dodger stadium boy Bruce dar Gradohal, who
was one of the dodgers better relievers the last few years,
activated off the sixty day injured list, making his debut
this year for the Dodgers. Comes into pitching a high
leverage inning in the sixth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies
and was helped off the mound by trainers something happening
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to his hamstring through a ninety two mile an hour
pitch for a strike, reached over, grabbed it. It took
a while for him to come off the field. He
could not exit on his own power, and he is
being helped to the locker room. Now a new reliever
coming in for the Dodgers. Now be a bit of
a weight, because you know, you got as many warm
up pitches as you want, so a huge blow to
the Dodgers are hoping to get him back and really
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just help spur that bullpen on Jason Smith Mike Carmon
Live from the Ti rack dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The one superstar athlete whose Olympic games were awful. Now
we have to give him all the credit in the world.
Who's that slay coming up next? Right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
We could be popping champagne in the still few minutes
the top of the ninth inning? Who's getting wild tonight?
The White Sox have a five to one lead over
the A's. They are three outs away from breaking that
(32:01):
twenty one game losing streak, and Harmon's gonna get blasted
on the air for the last two hours of the show.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Let's go uh so again? Let me tell you what they.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We will have more on that drama, but still still
have to navigate the ninth Still have to navigate the
ninth inning, Barney.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, just so you know, look try for me.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Look, the beginning of the Olympics was not great for
Joel Embiid and he had a DNPCD in the second
game when when play all the way back so long ago.
I'm old enough to remember a week ago when it
was oh my goodness, lookers not playing for the United
States was a fake story. Joel Embiid goes from a
DNPCD where he looks extremely disinterested in what's going on
(32:46):
to being the best player on the floor as USA
beats Brazil today one two eighty seven, not a game
that was even close, and Embiid found some time to
have fun after the game.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Hey, the fans booed me.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
It's okay, I'm taking something fun out of this experience.
Twelve minutes in the first half and embiad scores fourteen.
It puts up seven boards as the United States got
out to a lead that they were never threatened in.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
I'll tell you what I watched about six minutes of
the first to know the app. I don't think this
guy worth my time. Hey, hey, hey God, I'll check
back in on it later.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I mean, look, the I cover.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The United States is doing everything you expected them to do.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Here.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All the controversy that we've done, it's all made up.
But there is no player who modifies and exemplifies what
Team USA is more than Joelle Embiid. Because what if
I told her from the beginning. Steve Kurrz the guy,
he is the pied piper. He's the one that's going
to manage all the egos and figure things out so
(33:45):
we win the gold medal. And so history, even going
back to his days as a player of what he watched,
he's the right guy because he's, like I said, he's
managing the egos. He's figuring out the guys to play
in the right spots. Right, he's figured out his rotation
took him a little bit, because it does. You don't
get a lot of time to play together. But all
they're doing is blowing out teams.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Now you lose. It's a different thing.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
But here's Joel Embiid who could have been the guy
that was a problem because I'm not playing, I'm not
playing well. I want to be gone, sources and Beiid
almost left France, had to be talked into staying by
an assistant coach whatever it is. But instead Embiid went
from a d NPCD and now he was the best
player on the court, when clearly he was probably the
(34:24):
player that fit in with Steve Kerr's system and what
you need to do in Foba the worst right. His
style of give me the ball and with one leg,
I'll draw three defenders to me and get to the
free throw line. That doesn't do it in international basketball.
But for him to go from where he was at
to where he is now, this just shows you that
there's nothing wrong with this team. Steve Kerr has everything
(34:46):
under control. Joel Embiid went from what he could have
been upset and been and been and wanted to leave,
and now look at him, he's laughing, having fun. After
it's all over. The United States is winning. They've all
the players all know, we're all here to do a
job to walk off with the gold medal. And am
I playing as much as I want to play?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Probably not, But no player is playing as much as
they want to pay. No one wants to start and
come out of the game after formatut I don't come
out of the game. Well, this is what the Olympics is.
Everything is. It is a smooth machine right now, and
Kerr should get all the plaudits for that, just because
when you look at Joel Embiid and his journey to
where he is right now. Now they lose, that's gonna
be different. But I'm okay with back and off. Hey,
(35:25):
everything is fine right every there. They lose, we're gonna
come with questions, but right now there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
They are rolling through this turn unless there's something under
the surface, right, like the duck that looks all tranquil,
and then you look underneath in the and he's swimming
for his life. Yeah, like watching the when you watch
water polo boy, it looks so calm and cool up front,
and they're just kicking the crack under and clutching and
kicking each other. Yeah, all of that stuff, the chaos
underneath the surface. So yeah, I mean maybe there's some
(35:53):
of that, maybe that'll come out in the wash. To
your point, we haven't had any sources of any disruptions.
I mean Jason Tatum when he's just kind of laid
it out, you know, disappointing, confusing, whatever. I haven't had
this experience and kind of got a little more thoughtful
and reflective about it to where maybe it makes him
a better teammate when he goes back to the Celtics,
(36:13):
because now he knows what it's like to get a
DNP coach's decision. For Joel Embiid, if he's unhappy at
some point, we're gonna hear it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I mean, that's just who he is.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Eventually, he's gonna get a microphone, a podcast, a week
or two after they leave France, and maybe he does
have something that he wants to get off his chest,
but in the moment he's playing basketball, didn't play particularly
all right. He's had the twelve minutes where he filed
out when they started in the exhibition part of things
and tried to find rotations. You're talking about the collection
(36:46):
of what everybody wants to argue is the best in
the world. And then it became a personal attack against
Joel Embiid, like suddenly he was Anything he'd accomplished in
the NBA was delegitimized because of d n P in
the Olympics, and in.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Four days it's, oh, well, maybe everything is fine for
Joel Embiid. I mean, really, it's just a bit. His
fit for Foeba was raw. It didn't look like he fit.
Steve Kerr found a way to make him fit, and
everything is I mean, Steve, just give Steve Curse some time.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Everything when there was no guy him straight. He's got
a think dam there to make it work. He should
have unless they lose. He should have this job as
long as he wants it. If they lose, it burns down.
There's no quale. You get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Never around the team again, inspired by Golden State. Sorry, Steve,
we just can't keep you. But we can't do it.
But I want a title. I want four of them, Steve.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I'm sorry. Then that's a player I dominated.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Every Every time you're on the floor is a memory
of what happened in Paris.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
We can't have that.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
We can't left out his best highlight today.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
What did I miss the d X chop he did?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Sure, Yeah, the d shop was good. Yeah that was good.
Yeah I could drop that. That's always good.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Remember you got fine pretty big in the NBA for
doing that a while back.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Exit Out bouta Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
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