August 10, 2024 • 40 mins
The White Sox have named Grady Sizemore as the Interim Manager for the remainder of the 2024 season. We told you Steve Kerr would have the right lineup out there to win. Plus, the good, bad and ugly from the night’s preseason action!
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How about that side going to the Blacktop in Venice?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Maybe watching maybe one you participated back when you were
reigning threes at the local YMCA.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But we waived a fond farewell to Nick Foles who
announces retirement from the NFL, and uh, well he's fine
he's fine, horses, No they're gonna celebrate.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
No, no, no, no, it's too early, that's next hour. Everything's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh. We also now are waving maybe a less fond
farewell to Pedro Griffall, manager ex manager of the Chicago
White Sox.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And I always am a firm believer that you kind
of deserve your record in Major League Baseball because you
have so many chances to get it right. That it's
one hundred and sixty two games. If you if you stink,
you deserve to stink. There's sometimes in the NFL, I go, wow, really,
rough break here, rough break here? Point, did they really
earn that record? Now you earn your record? And today
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the White Sox fired their manager just two days after
they broke their twenty one game.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Losing for sure. I mean they let him get one
final win.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And then they lost the next game and said, okay,
we gotta let him go. Just this, buddy, help me
out here. Now they fire him like now, like when
the season not that they expected to contend. Now, you
don't want to get into a situation where you are
just counting the minutes until the end of the season
is over, Like, how do you not make a move
(02:24):
at some point before this, like maybe in the middle
of the losing streak or some other time when it's
not just hey, the middle of August, like they've been
bad forever.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
How do you not make.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Another move saying, maybe another voice, we will at least
play a little bit better, Maybe we won't set the
all time record for losses in a baseball season. Maybe
that will happen. This is what this is when you
fire him, Like, did you feel like?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We're gonna wait.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
We don't want to put any of these losses on
a new manager, So we're gonna wait till they win
a game. He wins a game, and then, hey, we
can't fire him the day after he wins a game,
So I'll wait till the day after the day after
he wins a game, and then we'll fire him.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Like what the hell are you doing? This is why
you stay, This is why your team is so bad.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, we're going to Ryan's door, Keyan, we're gonna keep
a manager that obviously is not working.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Not the players are working either, but still you gotta
do something, something to make things not just a season
where it's just a we're marching to the inevitable. And
and I'm looking at videos of guys in the in
the in the clubhouse, in the dugout, just thousand yard stairs,
listening to to happy music, trying to get the power
of positive thinking.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, forty and a half games back under that for
a moment, just all sorts of awful. And it's an
organization that's been run terribly for years. The minor league
system is absolutely devoid of talent. And anytime Montgomery in
the minors does anything, it's the highlight on all of
their pre and post guy he's got it, like that's
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the guy that was supposed to be in the big
leagues two years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Okay, he was supposed to be that guy, and he's not.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And then guys that you had pitching wise, they're there anymore.
Dylan Cees, we've talked about him quite a bit, right,
go on down the line. Carlos Rodin, after some some
journeys and some injuries, is doing his thing with the
Yankees and you and you can keep doing this all day.
The guys that you paid money to, all of them
(04:16):
failed to become the players you thought they were gonna be.
You tried to take the quasi brave strategy didn't work right,
can't stay healthy, can't stay in the lineup, and when
they are they there's the one problem. What's the problem
that you always talking with thet there's that just one pro.
So all of that together and Pedro griffall and he
was Delta losing hand. But at some point, you know what,
(04:39):
you got to say, you're cut off, right, You've got
to just send the guy out.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
The door, and you perfect, you are cut off.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
What's it right? You started playing by your own rules.
You didn't go by the rules of the game. You're done.
And now Grady Sizemore is the guy interim. What was
funny was initially as they let him go, they're like,
we should have an answer by Friday, Like what do
you mean we should have an answer by Friday as
to who the interim guys. And Bob Nightingale put up
(05:10):
you know what was leading the search for the next guy,
Frank Thomas, Tony lussa again, Ryan's Dorothy and things loyal
to a fault And look, do you go back and
look at Tony Laruss's run this last time doesn't look
so bad anymore? No, right, no, kind of a laughable
moment now and again run Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Take that over what we just got. Sure he broke
out and over the weekend, intentionally walking guys when he shouldn't. Yeah, no, no,
all thea go, all the way down the line. They
at least look like they gave a damn. But you
got gets the general manager, young guy. Hope he has
a nice long career somewhere else. It's not working.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
He and the new play by play they can go
into whatever they're doing. But for Pedro Graffault, Yeah, he
had no chance. And you knew that very early in
the season. I mean, spiral where it is, dude, do something,
even if it's wrong, even if it's not gonna end
up keeping you from the all time lost record. You
at least showed your clubhouse, your players and those fans.
(06:16):
You can't you give a damn about the season, and
you told us all along you don't. At this point,
he should be made to. It should have been made
to just ride out the string. You know what, it's
this bad? You got another six weeks. I mean this,
I mean, what's the difference. You don't name a bandage?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Just honestly, this tells me, and this is how crazy
this is this time is I guarantee you. There was
a conference during the losing streak where they said, okay,
this is obviously at the point of no return. We
could potentially wind up being the worst team in the
history of baseball. We just have to win twelve get
whatever it is. As soon as we win a game,
we're gonna wait one day and then we're gonna fire him.
Like like, there's no way because to let him go,
(06:56):
you should have let him go in the middle of
the streak so he doesn't have it all on him,
the nuke managers and all hanging on him. Do something,
do something to break it up, because if you if
you fire the manager who obviously it's not working, at
least the players get a bit of a sense of okay,
a they care be I gotta watch out for my
job because now Skip just got canned because we haven't
won any games. Just how the White Sox do things.
(07:20):
They deserve that record, You deserve it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's been like this fore years. We've had a decade.
There have been one or two runs, a playoff birthry.
You're like, all right, they've got enough talent to overcome
the organizational deficiencies. But nine out of ten years, that's
not gonna be enough. And you know Shriffin and the
fight that he's got with the score that he brought
on air when there was the report, you know, he's
losing the clubhouse. You know, just because guys aren't turning
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over water coolers and screaming like idiots, doesn't mean they
haven't tuned out the manager, doesn't mean they're not done
with whatever he's trying to sell. You know, there's gonna
be an eye roll, there's gonna be the I mean,
Miguel Vargas. It was only there for a couple of days,
and that was the meme that took over, right, him
sitting in the back of the dugout going what the
(08:06):
hell did I do to deserve this? So, yeah, no,
you don't have to have a bunch of guys that
are firing in the press, because at what point, like,
what's the point of any of them answering a question
with fire and brimstone? They know nothing's changing, right, And
Pedro might have been the nicest guy in the world. Obviously,
(08:26):
long ago everybody knew this was a lost cause, and
it was what time do I have to punch in?
What time are we done with postgame you know, therapy
or film review or whatever I need to do. What
obligations do I have before I get to go home
to my family, because that's where we've been for a
very long time with this White Sox squad.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Now there's two things going forward. As the White Sox
continue to become a team we watch they stink, Well,
yeah they do so, yeah, well that's obvious.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
First thing. How many we'll have some fun here for
a second.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, before I really just just stab you through the heart.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He can't do it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I've already uh yeah, I've already hurt myself by being
a fan.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
What percentage of baseball fans not White Sox fan? What
percentage of baseball fans when they heard Grady Sizemore was
going to be the manager? What percentage of fans thought?
Is he still playing for Cleveland? Isn't he still their
center fielder? How many people thought Grady Sizemore is still playing?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, see, you're now you're trying to do a transference
thing from Kenny Lofton.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I would have been more likely to believe Kenny Lofton is.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Because he had he had a long, productive career. Grady
Sizemore had a couple of years and then he hung
around for a long that that tale on his career.
But he's pretty long those finals six years or something.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But the average fans that think with Grady Sizemore is
what like thirty two, thirty three, he's.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Still playing one of those guys. We age ourselves, but
we don't age one of the Sizemore has been hurt,
right forty two. Well, it's the problem the last six
or seven years he's hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He's still He's still twenty seven years old. It's the
greatest red.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
That with a lot of people, it's like, what's he
gotta be thirty five?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Now, it's like, no, he's actually sixty two. The bag.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I mean, we did the big Chuck huff before I
went down the rabbit hole of complete games and career
complete games and all those things.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Long him he was forty. Then here's how.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I win over the clubhouse, or I get the message
through to the team. If I'm greatest, I set it
on fire. No, no, no, I walk back to the office space. No,
I go back to major League. I go back to
Major league, and I get all right, who's the most
who's the most hated figure in the White Sox organization.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's just gonna be Jerry.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, so you have you have the cardboard cutout of Jerry, right,
and you have thirteen pieces on there, and he comes
in and talk.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Over to war number thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I want to talk like Lou Brown for a second.
I gotta set a white walls coming in. I don't
know if I bet it. Uh, And you say, okay,
we need thirteen wins to not be the worst team
of all time. I don't want it on my record.
I sure as hell don't want it on your record.
So every time we win a game, we're gonna pull
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off one of these pieces and it's Jerry in a
bathing suit, and we're gonna get it. When we get
to thirteen, we see all of it. Now, we have
a big celebration because that's all you're worried about. Right now,
we don't want to be the worst team of all time.
Thirteen is your magic number, right being twenty eight and
eighty nine, thirteen games will get you to forty one
and you're not tied with the Mets and everything is fine.
(11:32):
Thirteen is your magic number. Put that up there. Put
the puzzle pieces up there, jigsaw puzzle pieces up there,
and even do it talk like Lou Brown. If you
want to nice catch Hays, don't ever blank and do
that again. Not nice catch, don't ever do that again.
And that's what that's the message you need to send
out to the team. Nothing else matters.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
But skip.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What about some of the young guys getting playing time
with let no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Thirteen is what we have to get to.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I know what.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm not gonna walk around with this hanging around my
neck for the next forty years of my life. Oh,
you're the guy that managed a whate sucks that year.
They are the worst team in baseball. No, I don't care,
but Skip, Really, I think I might be able to
if I get the right coaching. No, you're barely gonna
play and we're gonna send you to the miners if
you don't play well enough. Thirteen that's all you guys
(12:21):
should be thinking about. Thirteen wins, That's all.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And that's why the perfect manager in this situation was
to extend the olive branch to the man who wore
number thirteen World Series Champion Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I ask you this, though, Okay, Ozzie gian didn't get
the job, and now it turns out he's the lucky one.
Do you really think he'd come back to this right now?
No way, Come on, man, no way. If they were
just a regular old bad team guard variety, hey they stink, Sure,
Ozzi Gean would come.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
He wants to manage it, no matter what you're coming
back to.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
No way, man, I think I think he would to think,
cause if you have any move, if you get to
those th team wins and you stripped down Jerry to
that bikini on that cardboard cutout, you're a hero, you're
a legend, and you get to keep the job. Most
likely it's just it's not I you're like all the
former players lobbying fits. It's not worth from aj Brazinski
(13:15):
on down one of my other favorites, Yeah, let's give.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Him the job. That's completely not worth it. Really, it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
But it's all about the psychology of the guy, right,
and Ozzie the identity of manager. As much as he
loves being on the couch with Chuck Garfine, Frank Thomas
or sometimes on his cell phone when he's not in studio,
as we talked about the other night, and how right
was I about all of that, that being a manager
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means so much. I mean, he was broken on that
couch last week talking about it, right, how much he
missed you know, that opportunity, and what it did to
his soul to even come back now to try to
scrape something together some level of positivity for this organization.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I think he jump at the chance in a heartbeat.
I'm not saying you should, and you might not want to.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I might not want to, But I think for Ozzie
Gehan that burns him to a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Do you really do you really want to be the
manager of the team that loses the most games? And
it's on Pedro history, No, it's not. I gotta too
short of sample size. It did not prove whether I can.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
When you lose that game, that video was gonna be
you and your team leaving the dugout in the final
game of the season. Pedro Graffall is like, hey, I
don't know what you want me. I won twenty eight games. Well,
not my fault.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
All you had to do is I didn't even get
to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I won twenty eight. What do you want from me.
No even remember Pedro Griffall.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No one's even gonna remember that. No, trust me. No,
he's gonna go down one thing.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
What do we got, Terry Bevington, Robin Ventura, Let's.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Keep going on.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I mean Larusa the sequel, I'm sure, which again doesn't
look so bad.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Night's sight all looks terrible. It all looks terrible. You're
still there. We're in wildcard. If the season ended today,
We're in the wildcard. We're in the playoffs. That's fine.
You know who's not the Braves, cause I'm free. You
just wait for the Braves to take Grimace to the
chop house, free fulling cause the Braves. Okay.
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And there's somebody that many, many, many people owe an
apology too.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Me.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Uh, okay, I'm sorry. You're a white Sox fan. How's
that is that? Good?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Is that better?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's a good start? Okay, good, Sorry, you're white Sox man. Sorry,
Caleb Williams will be fine. How's that is that?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Is that good? Fine? Okay, it'll be fine. Great, it'll
be fine. He'll be fine. He'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Uh. Look, one of the best basketball games you'll see
in the Olympics or anywhere else. The United States beat
Serbia today. Down seventeen. It looked awful, and they finish
like champions, getting by Serbia ninety five ninety one in
the fourth quarter. It's all Lebron and Steph and KD
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And defensively the United States was terrific and they close
out Serbia, who was hitting threes the entire game except
when it really counted because they went over in the
fourth quarter. And for all the hate that Steve Kerr
has gotten, this entire run. Everybody should apologize him. Look
at I'm not all of a sudden, Steve Kerr is
so great. I'm the greatest Steve Kerr her backer in
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the world. But from the beginning it was all the
controversy that has come up has just been made up.
Whether whoever plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. As
long as we win, it doesn't matter. It doesn't if
we win, that's what we should be doing. And if
Lebron plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. If Steph
plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. If Jason Tatum
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plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. And the first
half three quarters, it was all kinds of stuff waiting,
everybody waiting with forks and knives on social media. For
Steve Kerr, he's the worst. He's telling me he doesn't
know what he's doing. From the beginning of this tournament,
said Steve Kerr is the right guy. There's a lot
of stuff he has to figure out. There's not a
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lot of practice time with the guys. He's got to
figure out his rotation, who plays where with not a
lot of practice time. And oh, by the way, get
used to foeba rules and oh, by the way, motivate
guys that may not be the easiest guys to motivate.
And Steve Kerr has done that to the point where
we're in the gold medal game against France on Saturday.
That's all that matters. All was tough against Serbia. Yeah,
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we were awful for three quarters. But you know who
had the right guys out there for the fourth quarter?
Steve Kerr, oh Lebron, Yeah, Steph s twenty. But look
at the old guys. We gotta go with Edwards. We
need the young guys out of there. And in the fourth quarter,
Steve Kerr went with the guys he knew could bring
the game home, and they did. And it was Booker
as well, and it was Embid and Embiid with someone
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get him beat off by television.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's terribleta.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And then in the fourth quarter it was all wait,
Joel Embiid is hitting some big shots. Now, he's also
being very lazy defensively. He kept both sides in the game.
But yes, he played the Steve Kerr played the right guys.
Everything is fine. The Jason Tatums I don't care. Nobody cares,
does Jason Tatum care yet does he like getting DNPS No?
Does Tyre's Haliburt like getting DNPS No? Was maybe the
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team not picked in the right way when you're saying, boy,
the one true point guard star point guard you picked
isn't even playing anymore. Yeah, that's a thing, right, Maybe
you should have taken Jalen Brunson. Maybe something else should
have happened. But at the same time, everything else. Hey,
nobody cares. Doesn't matter who plays, doesn't matter who doesn't.
Jason Tatum not playing is not the story coming off
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this game. It's the United States One. We won behind
our stars. It was incredibly exciting and we will likely
go and win the gold medal on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
That's what matters. I don't know if you scrolled, but
Tatum was the star of the post game. No response.
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I was drinking my diapet. Yeah, it's you wit to
ask me a question. You could have asked me when
I'm not drinking my diaposo.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Because you would have laughed because you saw it. But
you know, imagery of Jay what could be Jason Tatum? Anyway,
The idea is your best point guard is Lebron James
and Phoebe rules. Yeah, because you can run over people
and they're not gonna call him whistle on you.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Maybe they do, maybe they do, But that's that's the
larger thing.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
So many times you win, you're not quite sure when
a fall's gonna get called. You know, we're watching a
replay of it now, you know that six point possession?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Should that been a fall?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
And what faad had actually taken Kevin Durant's leg out, Like,
there's a lot of stuff that flowed with it. But
to your point about Halliburton, yeah, he's the only point guard.
Jalen Brunson did a nice job in the suit doing
all the press today, so he did you proud. And
he got video tributes from all his teammates. You guys
haven't won anything, but he's getting video tributes from his teammate,
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which is wonderful. But you know, and watching this game
flow for Steve Kerr, it's like we've said on the
women's side, it's it's been clunky, right. There have been
stretches which been terrible. That first quarter, it was Steph
Curry and a bunch of terrible basketball. The collective US
squad what were they one of eight the rest of
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the squad, but just get the ball to Steph to
where we're doing heat checks from thirty five and whatever else.
Five minutes into a game and he was magnificent, finishes
with thirty six, has himself a monster game.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And we'd been.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Waiting for Steph Curry because again, if this failed, then
it starts going to wow. Steph Curry was the worst
guy on the squad except for the guys that didn't
play right and all that. And Anthony Edwards had the
big dunk but otherwise had some struggling moments as well.
For three quarters, defensively, a lot of gambling trying to
get the big play and open up, you know, a
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fast break opportunity.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Guess what that did.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It created a one dribble or just a quick extra
pass for a wide open three. For three quarters, Serbia
was deadly. Fourth quarter, couldn't hit the broad side of
a bar. Better close outs, better defense, better stepping chore,
and get into their bodies because Faber rules right, which
is again quarter to quarter, minute to minute possession and possession.
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You have no idea how this thing's gonna be called.
So when you have the opportunity and you know Lebron
James is in a flow where he's feeling.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It, right.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
He got all mad with the Carmelo Anthony Bogdanovitch thing. Again,
we need the genesis and the villain story there as
to why he was so concerned with what they called
celebrity row. But Lebron got pissed at one point and
suddenly he wanted to run through everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
It was the old Clyde dretchler. I'm gonna dribble the
ball as hard as I can through the floor, and
you're dead if you stand in his way.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And what'd you do?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
You have to collapse, which means wide open threes. And
they started to hit and the other guys started to
contribute a bit more offensively. So yeah, Steve Kerr to
long story short, in the end, you had the veterans
that the moment, they've all been in massive moments, so
this was not going to be too big for him,
and they were going to play through whatever Serbia brought him.
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And so for Durant and for Steph and for Lebron,
that little triumvirate thing at the end that was it, like,
there's your Olympic moment.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And clearly the moment was too big for Serbia because
for all, if you hate Steve Kerr, let me just
tell you this. You think Steve Kerr is going to
make the biggest boneheaded decision that Serbia made at the
end of the game by not fouling. That's not happening, okay,
because I watched Serbia hand this game to the United
States in the last twenty four seconds.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
See, I still think that guy tried to foul about
five seconds before he actually got called for it, just
because he didn't mug Steph Curry right, Okay, but then
you still let thirteen seconds click off.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, the other guy got elbowed in the face.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You have Steph Kady makes a jumper, yeah, to give
them a four point lead, and then Jokic gets the ball,
goes in the United States lays off and they don't
want to put him in the free throw line. So
it's ninety three to ninety one, twenty four seconds a
little bit more than twenty four seconds left. It's negligible,
the difference between the shot clock and the time left
in the game. What's the strategy. You're down to extend
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the game and foul. You have to foul. You have
no choice because the United States can hold onto the
ball almost all the way down to the end.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, they can't hold all the way down to the end.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, But what's gonna happen if Steph Curry's got the
ball with three seconds left and he takes a thirty
five footer. At worst, the ball hits the rim, bounces
up in the air. By the time you corral the rebound,
the clock hit zero. You are giving the game to
the United States and instead, I don't know why they
didn't foul. It didn't make any sense, especially with you know,
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the United States had trouble hitting their free throws. But
it doesn't matter. You have no choice but to foul.
You have no choice but to foul. There's no way
you're gonna win this game if you don't foul. And
they don't foul Steph Curry until there's eight seconds left,
doing the United States a huge favor because now Steph
Curry makes these two free throws and the.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Game is over. And it's over.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You tried to play it defensively, right, So they come out.
KD gets the ball Steph out well beyond the arc
and then he goes into a move. Guy does a
flop and so he gets to the other end of
the court.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You wanted to try to push the ball out of
Steph's hands. Being the best free throw shoot to the head.
Guess what, he wasn't giving it up. No, And it
doesn't matter at that point. If you foul him right away.
You're sending Steph to the free throw line with twenty
seconds left, so you still have time. If he makes
them both, you can go down hit a three and
then try to foul somebody else.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I mean, I don't know, but I think.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Was the pressure at the top when that guy went
and then Steph you know again little nudge and the
guy flopped like he punched in the face. That there again,
you thought bringing pressure, that he was going to give
the ball up there.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's not enough.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But the whole thing is about extending the game, because
it's not that you're gonna put USA and the free
throw line. They're gonna miss and you're gonna get a
chance at the end to win. It's gonna be okay.
You put the USA and the free throw line with
twenty seconds left, then you put them back on the
line with fourteen seconds, whatever it takes. Then you put
him back on the line with eight seconds left, and
then you so, okay, in one of those times, you'd think, okay,
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at some point they're going to miss a free throw
or two because they haven't made them.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Are they going to get the ball to Steph every
single time?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Maybe maybe not, but you had three more times more
chances to put them on the free You have to
extend the game and give yourself a chance, especially when
the shot clock is going to expire.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I almost get it.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
If you decided, all right, we're down by two, they
have the ball, there's a eight second differential. Okay, if
there's eight seconds, you want to take it down d
let's go Usa missus. You get a chance, all right,
because then you're down too at the end for one
final shot. That I can almost understand. I would still
want to extend the game, but that I almost understand.
This was Jennis states Is saying, we don't need to
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even shoot the ball until there's two seconds left, and
then you're not even getting a shot off. This is
how Serbia coach this game. So you're really tell them
he s Steve Kurt doesn't know what he's doing. This
is what you remember. This is the level of people
you're playing against. You still want to be mad at
Steve Kurr.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But yeah, you're gonna be mad at Steve Kerr just
because the Serbian coach might have been a dope.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Doesn't doesn't let him off.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Doesn't let him because look, sometimes, and to widen it
out for Steve Kerr is to remember that it's not
just about these end of game decisions, but it's about
finding the right mix. It's about fine, he was still
up until the end, how do I find the right
players to close this game out? And he decided it's
gonna be Lebron and Steph and it's gonna be Devin Booker,
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and it's gonna be KD and that and and it's
gonna be mb and that's how we're gonna go do it.
That's a difficult thing as well. It's it's it's it's
the game. It's the game management that we talked about,
and it's things like that, because you get paralyzed by
a lot of choices that this is not Hey, I'm
gonna go with these guys and coming off the bench
are gonna be my clear bench players? It's yeah, oh boy,
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if I play Devin Booker, I'm sitting Kevin Durant. That's
tough thing, man, that's tough thing. But that's not playing
Anthony Davis. I'm sitting Joelle. That's a heart that But
we've talked about that from the beginning, right.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
It's a lot about ego and the moment and Devin
Booker right up the efficiency ratings, you know, before this game,
I think he was fourth going out coming out of
the weekend for Team USA, which again it's fuzzy math
sometimes with how rankings are put up, and I'd love
to see the algorithms being run. But you know, a
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lot of it is Kerr working alongside Spolstra and Few
and ty Lou and everybody, you know, getting that information
and trying to get a read on the players and
where they're at energy filed. Trouble comes in how the
game's being officiated in that particular chunk of the game.
I really would have loved to see the let's file
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and try to extend it because with the phoebia phoeba officials,
I don't know what's going to get constituted.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
A fall.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Like I said, I think towards the end you had
this situation where they filed Curry, and until he actually
drove into the lane, they didn't blow the whistle when
he'd clearly hacked him on the arm out ribble well
outside the arc before any of the drive. It's like, okay,
what's he got to do to get the call? It's
pretty clear he's trying to take a fall there, so
you know, and in the end.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Uh succeed and proceed Steve Kerr.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Even if they win the gold medal by thirty, they're
still gonna be second guessing because you got to fill
column inches and the B block.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's just stupid. It's just stupid. We win, That's all
you gotta do is win. You lose, Okay, everything is
on the table how you manage the game. But we won,
and then that's really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who played.
None of the rest matters we want. In the Olympics,
there are two columns. There is a win column. There
is a lost column, And more so than any other sport,
it's about just winning. It doesn't matter how you win.
(30:44):
You want the gold medal. There's no gold medal where
oh this is only half gold because well you didn't
really play that well. So this is golden and kind
of a player mix. But it's a gold medal, said
full gold. Yeah, they all do the thing they bite
it and make it look like, oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yal, but it's plated gold. Is this fully gold? It's
it's fully gold. There's no sure because.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Then you could be maybe you get the strongest man
in the world to break it in handers a demonstration.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Thinking about non gold gold medals, you don't know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's partially gold. I don't think here's your copper medal. Wait,
I thought it was gold. It's the same color. What
are you worried about?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
You get a medal? Right, it's okay. Everybody knows you
won your stating side of the bachocolate. You're good.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, as we saw all kinds of breathtaking
action earlier today, like we just talked about with the
US Olympic team, like Pete Alonzo, who had two tremendous
home runs today for the Mets. Steejah Seger has that
more with what's trending.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Not quite the same, but hey, so yeah, you know,
surviving advance applies to the earlier semi final today because
France at home won barely over Germany seventy three sixty nine,
even though Rudy Gobert played five minutes and Victor Wimbanyama
was four of seventeen shooting from the floor for his
eleven points. France from three point range six of twenty seven.
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But we've got us France in the Olympic final for
the gold medal Saturday. France made the final three years
ago in Tokyo and lost to the US after beating
him in the opener. In twenty twenty one. The Americans
in their semi beat Serbia in a comeback ninety five
ninety one, even though the US led for less than
three and a half minutes in the game. Steph Curry
was amazing thirty six points from three point range, nine
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for fourteen. Lebron James finished with a triple double, very
rare in the Olympics. Joel Embiid with nineteen points. The
Americans trailed by seventeen in the second quarter, trailed by
fifteen points late in the third, but win. Nikola Jokich
of Serbia seventeen points eleven assists, but from three point
range he went zero of six in defeat bogdan Bogdanovich
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had a great game twenty points, but Curry scored seventeen
just in the first quarter. In fact, he had fourteen
of the first fifteen points for the Americans, and then
in the last eight minutes of today's game, the US
outscored him twenty eight thirteen. Sidney Mcglaughtlyn Lavaroni won the
gold again in the four hundred hurdles. Noah Lyles finished
third in the two hundred meter final. US women's volleyball
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won its semifinal and five sets over Brazil. It was
a rematch of the Olympic final in Tokyo. US women's
water polo was beaten in a shootout by Australia in
a semifinal. Morocco took the men's soccer bronze medal game
six nothing over Egypt. Two NFL exhibitions. If only they
had much scoring Tonight at New England, a combined eighteen
punts Patriots seventeen to three over Carolina.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
New England.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So Morocco outscored Carolina tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
So it seemed New England played four quarterbacks. Joe Milton
had the only touchdown pass. Patriots defense with five sacks.
Giants at home defeated Detroit fourteen to three. It combined
seventeen penalties and fourteen punts in that one. Giants quarterback
Drew Locke started but left with a hip injury not serious.
Eric Gray of the Giants two touchdown runs. In fact,
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he had eight touches ninety eight yards for the winners.
The Falcons placed wide receivers Rondel Moore on injured reserve.
In baseball, the White Sox today fired manager Pedro Grifol
two late games in the MLB Seattle with a three
run double bottom in the ninth feat Detroit four to three,
Philadelphia six to four winner at Arizona.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
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Speaker 3 (34:56):
Let's just rerun the game. Let's keep rid of the
game again.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Look, you go into the overnight just you got two games,
and then tomorrow you get another three.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I mean, your weekend is programmed. Now we have a
big debut.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We're going to get to next hour on the show
that did not go at all how it was expected. However,
let's spend a couple minutes here on Drake May and
the Patriots tonight. Patriots. Look, look, there's not a lot
to draw out of the first game. Obviously, you have
players playing against backups. And I understand this, but I
told you after the draft was over, the Patriots felt
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bullied into a corner that they had to take a quarterback.
When you're picking number three, where else are you going
to get a quarterback? Doesn't matter that it's the third
best quarterback off the board. We're going to take Drake May.
And all you've seen throughout the entire time in New
England is Drake May is going to be brought along slowly,
but really, the guys taking right ahead of him are
thrust right in right, And it's not like the New
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England's got a difficult situation. The Bears are trying to
win on the fly, right, putting their rookie quarterback in
commanders are trying to compete right now, they're putting their
quarterback in the pages. No, no, no, we're gonna start
to Kobe Brissett and Drake May is going to battle,
and so is Joe Milton's sixth round pick out of Tennessee.
And all that's been since the draft. Nothing has convinced
(36:18):
me otherwise than Drake May was overdrafted and they felt
they had to do it because where else are you
gonna get a quarterback? We're picking third overall tonight. Drake
May one series, he was fine. I didn't see anything unbelievable.
It's anything unbelievable, Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I mean yeah done?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
No, I mean that was it. I mean you could
have let him play another series. I kind of would
have liked to see Drake May another series, But okay,
I understand that Joe Milton comes in and there's a
reason why everybody is talking about him fifty four yards
in a touchdown. He ran, He ran for twenty two
yards at a big thirteen yard scramble. He's got a
lot of tools. He certainly looks the part. He has
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looked the part since he started at Michigan. Didn't work
out at Michigan. He goes to Tennessee, becomes a really
good quarterback. Didn't know how much he was going to
play at Tennessee. But he gets in hendon hooker before
he gets hurt, and Joe Milton has an arm. He
is athletic. Again, he certainly looks the part. And watching
him play tonight, everybody's wowing themselves over Lamar Jackson's weight loss.
(37:16):
I guarantee you Joe Milton took off a lot of
weight too, because he is He was a bigger guy
in college and he and looking him tonight, he is
much more smelt.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Do you think he ran around with more pads? Maybe? Yeah, sure,
trying to go himself.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Smoked up, but yeah, no, lean and mean and and look,
you get a couple of big wow plays and you
get the a bigger share of the action because I
think by time we actually started watching this game, he
was in.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, no, so, yeah, he was only in a little
bit and Joe Milton played well. Now this doesn't mean
suddenly Joe Milton's great and Joe Milton's going to be phenomenal.
But you have a couple of quarterbacks now who are rookies.
And yes, you have much more invested in Drake May
than you do in Joe Milton. And all reports that
have come out of camp so far have been, yeah,
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May and Milton are kind of equal.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Whoa wait what? Well? Whoa wait what?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Like Brisset's the starter. Okay, I understand, but May and Milton, Yeah,
they're gonna kind of battle it out here a little bit.
Whoa why is your number three overall pick battling anything
out with anyone? Milton's getting the publicity. Drake May is not.
Nothing has happened over the course of the past few
months summer training camp, the first game tonight to make
me to me off of my of my take that
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he was overdrafted and the Patriots felt they had to
take him. And when you do that, you set your
team back for a couple of years unless you get
really lucky in the draft elsewhere. And oh boy, look
at this quarterback. We go like you are the forty
nine ers and oh hey, brock perty turned into a
great quarterback. He's mister irrelevant. So I'm still where I
am with Drake May than I was at the draft,
the Patriots draft of the third best quarterback, and who
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knows how good he's gonna be, And right now he's
having trouble keeping his head afloat in New England when
the guys drafted two spaces in front of him. Each
of those guys have been given the keys to their team.
They have proved, hey, we're ready to go with you.
Why are you not ready to go with Drake?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Man it both of those squads, man for man, you
are light years ahead of where you are personnel wise
in New England. Right So, even if they're not one
hundred percent, you invested heavily to give them the pieces
and to get them to look the part as best
you can. Because the reports aren't great necessarily out of Chicago.
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Catleb's done a couple of big things, but most reports
are yeah, the defense is winning. Guess what defense is
really good? They were really good down the stretch. So
one of those top ten units as you come into
the year. But for Drake May in New England. Yeah,
you were drafting third. You're gonna take the quarterback. You're
gonna decide which of the next quarterbacks was the best one?
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Will he be proven to be? I don't know how
many first round picks are actually in good. We really
want to go down that rabbit hole, you know, because
you immediately went to mister irrelevant as a reference point.
But that's also in a stable, great organization, which you
New England right now cannot claim that it is.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
If I thought for a second Drake May was ascending,
I'd say great. But it feels like the Patriots are
protecting him and they're trying to protect themselves from the
fact that we were drafted a guy that might not
wind up being good.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Uh huh, why do you hate Why do you hate
the Patriots?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Oh wait, I'm just telling the truth. I'm just telling
the truth. Coming up next, Mike and I get into
the biggest, craziest story of the day from the Olympics.
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
Maybe watching maybe one you participated back when you were
reigning threes at the local YMCA.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But we waived a fond farewell to Nick Foles who
announces retirement from the NFL, and uh, well he's fine
he's fine, horses, No they're gonna celebrate.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
No, no, no, no, it's too early, that's next hour. Everything's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh. We also now are waving maybe a less fond
farewell to Pedro Griffall, manager ex manager of the Chicago
White Sox.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And I always am a firm believer that you kind
of deserve your record in Major League Baseball because you
have so many chances to get it right. That it's
one hundred and sixty two games. If you if you stink,
you deserve to stink. There's sometimes in the NFL, I go, wow, really,
rough break here, rough break here? Point, did they really
earn that record? Now you earn your record? And today
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the White Sox fired their manager just two days after
they broke their twenty one game.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Losing for sure. I mean they let him get one
final win.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And then they lost the next game and said, okay,
we gotta let him go. Just this, buddy, help me
out here. Now they fire him like now, like when
the season not that they expected to contend. Now, you
don't want to get into a situation where you are
just counting the minutes until the end of the season
is over, Like, how do you not make a move
(02:24):
at some point before this, like maybe in the middle
of the losing streak or some other time when it's
not just hey, the middle of August, like they've been
bad forever.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
How do you not make.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Another move saying, maybe another voice, we will at least
play a little bit better, Maybe we won't set the
all time record for losses in a baseball season. Maybe
that will happen. This is what this is when you
fire him, Like, did you feel like?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We're gonna wait.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
We don't want to put any of these losses on
a new manager, So we're gonna wait till they win
a game. He wins a game, and then, hey, we
can't fire him the day after he wins a game,
So I'll wait till the day after the day after
he wins a game, and then we'll fire him.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Like what the hell are you doing? This is why
you stay, This is why your team is so bad.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Well, we're going to Ryan's door, Keyan, we're gonna keep
a manager that obviously is not working.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Not the players are working either, but still you gotta
do something, something to make things not just a season
where it's just a we're marching to the inevitable. And
and I'm looking at videos of guys in the in
the in the clubhouse, in the dugout, just thousand yard stairs,
listening to to happy music, trying to get the power
of positive thinking.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, forty and a half games back under that for
a moment, just all sorts of awful. And it's an
organization that's been run terribly for years. The minor league
system is absolutely devoid of talent. And anytime Montgomery in
the minors does anything, it's the highlight on all of
their pre and post guy he's got it, like that's
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the guy that was supposed to be in the big
leagues two years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Okay, he was supposed to be that guy, and he's not.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And then guys that you had pitching wise, they're there anymore.
Dylan Cees, we've talked about him quite a bit, right,
go on down the line. Carlos Rodin, after some some
journeys and some injuries, is doing his thing with the
Yankees and you and you can keep doing this all day.
The guys that you paid money to, all of them
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failed to become the players you thought they were gonna be.
You tried to take the quasi brave strategy didn't work right,
can't stay healthy, can't stay in the lineup, and when
they are they there's the one problem. What's the problem
that you always talking with thet there's that just one pro.
So all of that together and Pedro griffall and he
was Delta losing hand. But at some point, you know what,
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you got to say, you're cut off, right, You've got
to just send the guy out.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
The door, and you perfect, you are cut off.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
What's it right? You started playing by your own rules.
You didn't go by the rules of the game. You're done.
And now Grady Sizemore is the guy interim. What was
funny was initially as they let him go, they're like,
we should have an answer by Friday, Like what do
you mean we should have an answer by Friday as
to who the interim guys. And Bob Nightingale put up
(05:10):
you know what was leading the search for the next guy,
Frank Thomas, Tony lussa again, Ryan's Dorothy and things loyal
to a fault And look, do you go back and
look at Tony Laruss's run this last time doesn't look
so bad anymore? No, right, no, kind of a laughable
moment now and again run Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Take that over what we just got. Sure he broke
out and over the weekend, intentionally walking guys when he shouldn't. Yeah, no, no,
all thea go, all the way down the line. They
at least look like they gave a damn. But you
got gets the general manager, young guy. Hope he has
a nice long career somewhere else. It's not working.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
He and the new play by play they can go
into whatever they're doing. But for Pedro Graffault, Yeah, he
had no chance. And you knew that very early in
the season. I mean, spiral where it is, dude, do something,
even if it's wrong, even if it's not gonna end
up keeping you from the all time lost record. You
at least showed your clubhouse, your players and those fans.
(06:16):
You can't you give a damn about the season, and
you told us all along you don't. At this point,
he should be made to. It should have been made
to just ride out the string. You know what, it's
this bad? You got another six weeks. I mean this,
I mean, what's the difference. You don't name a bandage?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Just honestly, this tells me, and this is how crazy
this is this time is I guarantee you. There was
a conference during the losing streak where they said, okay,
this is obviously at the point of no return. We
could potentially wind up being the worst team in the
history of baseball. We just have to win twelve get
whatever it is. As soon as we win a game,
we're gonna wait one day and then we're gonna fire him.
Like like, there's no way because to let him go,
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you should have let him go in the middle of
the streak so he doesn't have it all on him,
the nuke managers and all hanging on him. Do something,
do something to break it up, because if you if
you fire the manager who obviously it's not working, at
least the players get a bit of a sense of okay,
a they care be I gotta watch out for my
job because now Skip just got canned because we haven't
won any games. Just how the White Sox do things.
(07:20):
They deserve that record, You deserve it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It's been like this fore years. We've had a decade.
There have been one or two runs, a playoff birthry.
You're like, all right, they've got enough talent to overcome
the organizational deficiencies. But nine out of ten years, that's
not gonna be enough. And you know Shriffin and the
fight that he's got with the score that he brought
on air when there was the report, you know, he's
losing the clubhouse. You know, just because guys aren't turning
(07:44):
over water coolers and screaming like idiots, doesn't mean they
haven't tuned out the manager, doesn't mean they're not done
with whatever he's trying to sell. You know, there's gonna
be an eye roll, there's gonna be the I mean,
Miguel Vargas. It was only there for a couple of days,
and that was the meme that took over, right, him
sitting in the back of the dugout going what the
(08:06):
hell did I do to deserve this? So, yeah, no,
you don't have to have a bunch of guys that
are firing in the press, because at what point, like,
what's the point of any of them answering a question
with fire and brimstone? They know nothing's changing, right, And
Pedro might have been the nicest guy in the world. Obviously,
(08:26):
long ago everybody knew this was a lost cause, and
it was what time do I have to punch in?
What time are we done with postgame you know, therapy
or film review or whatever I need to do. What
obligations do I have before I get to go home
to my family, because that's where we've been for a
very long time with this White Sox squad.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Now there's two things going forward. As the White Sox
continue to become a team we watch they stink, Well,
yeah they do so, yeah, well that's obvious.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
First thing. How many we'll have some fun here for
a second.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, before I really just just stab you through the heart.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He can't do it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I've already uh yeah, I've already hurt myself by being
a fan.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
What percentage of baseball fans not White Sox fan? What
percentage of baseball fans when they heard Grady Sizemore was
going to be the manager? What percentage of fans thought?
Is he still playing for Cleveland? Isn't he still their
center fielder? How many people thought Grady Sizemore is still playing?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, see, you're now you're trying to do a transference
thing from Kenny Lofton.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I would have been more likely to believe Kenny Lofton is.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Because he had he had a long, productive career. Grady
Sizemore had a couple of years and then he hung
around for a long that that tale on his career.
But he's pretty long those finals six years or something.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But the average fans that think with Grady Sizemore is
what like thirty two, thirty three, he's.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Still playing one of those guys. We age ourselves, but
we don't age one of the Sizemore has been hurt,
right forty two. Well, it's the problem the last six
or seven years he's hurt.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He's still He's still twenty seven years old. It's the
greatest red.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
That with a lot of people, it's like, what's he
gotta be thirty five?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Now, it's like, no, he's actually sixty two. The bag.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I mean, we did the big Chuck huff before I
went down the rabbit hole of complete games and career
complete games and all those things.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Long him he was forty. Then here's how.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I win over the clubhouse, or I get the message
through to the team. If I'm greatest, I set it
on fire. No, no, no, I walk back to the office space. No,
I go back to major League. I go back to
Major league, and I get all right, who's the most
who's the most hated figure in the White Sox organization.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's just gonna be Jerry.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Okay, so you have you have the cardboard cutout of Jerry, right,
and you have thirteen pieces on there, and he comes
in and talk.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Over to war number thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I want to talk like Lou Brown for a second.
I gotta set a white walls coming in. I don't
know if I bet it. Uh, And you say, okay,
we need thirteen wins to not be the worst team
of all time. I don't want it on my record.
I sure as hell don't want it on your record.
So every time we win a game, we're gonna pull
(11:09):
off one of these pieces and it's Jerry in a
bathing suit, and we're gonna get it. When we get
to thirteen, we see all of it. Now, we have
a big celebration because that's all you're worried about. Right now,
we don't want to be the worst team of all time.
Thirteen is your magic number, right being twenty eight and
eighty nine, thirteen games will get you to forty one
and you're not tied with the Mets and everything is fine.
(11:32):
Thirteen is your magic number. Put that up there. Put
the puzzle pieces up there, jigsaw puzzle pieces up there,
and even do it talk like Lou Brown. If you
want to nice catch Hays, don't ever blank and do
that again. Not nice catch, don't ever do that again.
And that's what that's the message you need to send
out to the team. Nothing else matters.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
But skip.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What about some of the young guys getting playing time
with let no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Thirteen is what we have to get to.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I know what.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm not gonna walk around with this hanging around my
neck for the next forty years of my life. Oh,
you're the guy that managed a whate sucks that year.
They are the worst team in baseball. No, I don't care,
but Skip, Really, I think I might be able to
if I get the right coaching. No, you're barely gonna
play and we're gonna send you to the miners if
you don't play well enough. Thirteen that's all you guys
(12:21):
should be thinking about. Thirteen wins, That's all.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
And that's why the perfect manager in this situation was
to extend the olive branch to the man who wore
number thirteen World Series Champion Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I ask you this, though, Okay, Ozzie gian didn't get
the job, and now it turns out he's the lucky one.
Do you really think he'd come back to this right now?
No way, Come on, man, no way. If they were
just a regular old bad team guard variety, hey they stink, Sure,
Ozzi Gean would come.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
He wants to manage it, no matter what you're coming
back to.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
No way, man, I think I think he would to think,
cause if you have any move, if you get to
those th team wins and you stripped down Jerry to
that bikini on that cardboard cutout, you're a hero, you're
a legend, and you get to keep the job. Most
likely it's just it's not I you're like all the
former players lobbying fits. It's not worth from aj Brazinski
(13:15):
on down one of my other favorites, Yeah, let's give.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Him the job. That's completely not worth it. Really, it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
But it's all about the psychology of the guy, right,
and Ozzie the identity of manager. As much as he
loves being on the couch with Chuck Garfine, Frank Thomas
or sometimes on his cell phone when he's not in studio,
as we talked about the other night, and how right
was I about all of that, that being a manager
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means so much. I mean, he was broken on that
couch last week talking about it, right, how much he
missed you know, that opportunity, and what it did to
his soul to even come back now to try to
scrape something together some level of positivity for this organization.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I think he jump at the chance in a heartbeat.
I'm not saying you should, and you might not want to.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I might not want to, But I think for Ozzie
Gehan that burns him to a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Do you really do you really want to be the
manager of the team that loses the most games? And
it's on Pedro history, No, it's not. I gotta too
short of sample size. It did not prove whether I can.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
When you lose that game, that video was gonna be
you and your team leaving the dugout in the final
game of the season. Pedro Graffall is like, hey, I
don't know what you want me. I won twenty eight games. Well,
not my fault.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
All you had to do is I didn't even get
to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I won twenty eight. What do you want from me.
No even remember Pedro Griffall.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No one's even gonna remember that. No, trust me. No,
he's gonna go down one thing.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
What do we got, Terry Bevington, Robin Ventura, Let's.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Keep going on.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I mean Larusa the sequel, I'm sure, which again doesn't
look so bad.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Night's sight all looks terrible. It all looks terrible. You're
still there. We're in wildcard. If the season ended today,
We're in the wildcard. We're in the playoffs. That's fine.
You know who's not the Braves, cause I'm free. You
just wait for the Braves to take Grimace to the
chop house, free fulling cause the Braves. Okay.
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And there's somebody that many, many, many people owe an
apology too.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Me.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Uh, okay, I'm sorry. You're a white Sox fan. How's
that is that? Good?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Is that better?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's a good start? Okay, good, Sorry, you're white Sox man. Sorry,
Caleb Williams will be fine. How's that is that?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Is that good? Fine? Okay, it'll be fine. Great, it'll
be fine. He'll be fine. He'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Uh. Look, one of the best basketball games you'll see
in the Olympics or anywhere else. The United States beat
Serbia today. Down seventeen. It looked awful, and they finish
like champions, getting by Serbia ninety five ninety one in
the fourth quarter. It's all Lebron and Steph and KD
(18:02):
And defensively the United States was terrific and they close
out Serbia, who was hitting threes the entire game except
when it really counted because they went over in the
fourth quarter. And for all the hate that Steve Kerr
has gotten, this entire run. Everybody should apologize him. Look
at I'm not all of a sudden, Steve Kerr is
so great. I'm the greatest Steve Kerr her backer in
(18:23):
the world. But from the beginning it was all the
controversy that has come up has just been made up.
Whether whoever plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. As
long as we win, it doesn't matter. It doesn't if
we win, that's what we should be doing. And if
Lebron plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. If Steph
plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. If Jason Tatum
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plays or doesn't play, it doesn't matter. And the first
half three quarters, it was all kinds of stuff waiting,
everybody waiting with forks and knives on social media. For
Steve Kerr, he's the worst. He's telling me he doesn't
know what he's doing. From the beginning of this tournament,
said Steve Kerr is the right guy. There's a lot
of stuff he has to figure out. There's not a
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lot of practice time with the guys. He's got to
figure out his rotation, who plays where with not a
lot of practice time. And oh, by the way, get
used to foeba rules and oh, by the way, motivate
guys that may not be the easiest guys to motivate.
And Steve Kerr has done that to the point where
we're in the gold medal game against France on Saturday.
That's all that matters. All was tough against Serbia. Yeah,
(19:26):
we were awful for three quarters. But you know who
had the right guys out there for the fourth quarter?
Steve Kerr, oh Lebron, Yeah, Steph s twenty. But look
at the old guys. We gotta go with Edwards. We
need the young guys out of there. And in the fourth quarter,
Steve Kerr went with the guys he knew could bring
the game home, and they did. And it was Booker
as well, and it was Embid and Embiid with someone
(19:47):
get him beat off by television.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's terribleta.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And then in the fourth quarter it was all wait,
Joel Embiid is hitting some big shots. Now, he's also
being very lazy defensively. He kept both sides in the game.
But yes, he played the Steve Kerr played the right guys.
Everything is fine. The Jason Tatums I don't care. Nobody cares,
does Jason Tatum care yet does he like getting DNPS No?
Does Tyre's Haliburt like getting DNPS No? Was maybe the
(20:12):
team not picked in the right way when you're saying, boy,
the one true point guard star point guard you picked
isn't even playing anymore. Yeah, that's a thing, right, Maybe
you should have taken Jalen Brunson. Maybe something else should
have happened. But at the same time, everything else. Hey,
nobody cares. Doesn't matter who plays, doesn't matter who doesn't.
Jason Tatum not playing is not the story coming off
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this game. It's the United States One. We won behind
our stars. It was incredibly exciting and we will likely
go and win the gold medal on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
That's what matters. I don't know if you scrolled, but
Tatum was the star of the post game. No response.
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I was drinking my diapet. Yeah, it's you wit to
ask me a question. You could have asked me when
I'm not drinking my diaposo.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Because you would have laughed because you saw it. But
you know, imagery of Jay what could be Jason Tatum? Anyway,
The idea is your best point guard is Lebron James
and Phoebe rules. Yeah, because you can run over people
and they're not gonna call him whistle on you.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Maybe they do, maybe they do, But that's that's the
larger thing.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
So many times you win, you're not quite sure when
a fall's gonna get called. You know, we're watching a
replay of it now, you know that six point possession?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Should that been a fall?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
And what faad had actually taken Kevin Durant's leg out, Like,
there's a lot of stuff that flowed with it. But
to your point about Halliburton, yeah, he's the only point guard.
Jalen Brunson did a nice job in the suit doing
all the press today, so he did you proud. And
he got video tributes from all his teammates. You guys
haven't won anything, but he's getting video tributes from his teammate,
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which is wonderful. But you know, and watching this game
flow for Steve Kerr, it's like we've said on the
women's side, it's it's been clunky, right. There have been
stretches which been terrible. That first quarter, it was Steph
Curry and a bunch of terrible basketball. The collective US
squad what were they one of eight the rest of
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the squad, but just get the ball to Steph to
where we're doing heat checks from thirty five and whatever else.
Five minutes into a game and he was magnificent, finishes
with thirty six, has himself a monster game.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And we'd been.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Waiting for Steph Curry because again, if this failed, then
it starts going to wow. Steph Curry was the worst
guy on the squad except for the guys that didn't
play right and all that. And Anthony Edwards had the
big dunk but otherwise had some struggling moments as well.
For three quarters, defensively, a lot of gambling trying to
get the big play and open up, you know, a
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fast break opportunity.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Guess what that did.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It created a one dribble or just a quick extra
pass for a wide open three. For three quarters, Serbia
was deadly. Fourth quarter, couldn't hit the broad side of
a bar. Better close outs, better defense, better stepping chore,
and get into their bodies because Faber rules right, which
is again quarter to quarter, minute to minute possession and possession.
(23:08):
You have no idea how this thing's gonna be called.
So when you have the opportunity and you know Lebron
James is in a flow where he's feeling.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It, right.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
He got all mad with the Carmelo Anthony Bogdanovitch thing. Again,
we need the genesis and the villain story there as
to why he was so concerned with what they called
celebrity row. But Lebron got pissed at one point and
suddenly he wanted to run through everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
It was the old Clyde dretchler. I'm gonna dribble the
ball as hard as I can through the floor, and
you're dead if you stand in his way.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And what'd you do?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
You have to collapse, which means wide open threes. And
they started to hit and the other guys started to
contribute a bit more offensively. So yeah, Steve Kerr to
long story short, in the end, you had the veterans
that the moment, they've all been in massive moments, so
this was not going to be too big for him,
and they were going to play through whatever Serbia brought him.
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And so for Durant and for Steph and for Lebron,
that little triumvirate thing at the end that was it, like,
there's your Olympic moment.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And clearly the moment was too big for Serbia because
for all, if you hate Steve Kerr, let me just
tell you this. You think Steve Kerr is going to
make the biggest boneheaded decision that Serbia made at the
end of the game by not fouling. That's not happening, okay,
because I watched Serbia hand this game to the United
States in the last twenty four seconds.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
See, I still think that guy tried to foul about
five seconds before he actually got called for it, just
because he didn't mug Steph Curry right, Okay, but then
you still let thirteen seconds click off.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, the other guy got elbowed in the face.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You have Steph Kady makes a jumper, yeah, to give
them a four point lead, and then Jokic gets the ball,
goes in the United States lays off and they don't
want to put him in the free throw line. So
it's ninety three to ninety one, twenty four seconds a
little bit more than twenty four seconds left. It's negligible,
the difference between the shot clock and the time left
in the game. What's the strategy. You're down to extend
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the game and foul. You have to foul. You have
no choice because the United States can hold onto the
ball almost all the way down to the end.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, they can't hold all the way down to the end.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, But what's gonna happen if Steph Curry's got the
ball with three seconds left and he takes a thirty
five footer. At worst, the ball hits the rim, bounces
up in the air. By the time you corral the rebound,
the clock hit zero. You are giving the game to
the United States and instead, I don't know why they
didn't foul. It didn't make any sense, especially with you know,
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the United States had trouble hitting their free throws. But
it doesn't matter. You have no choice but to foul.
You have no choice but to foul. There's no way
you're gonna win this game if you don't foul. And
they don't foul Steph Curry until there's eight seconds left,
doing the United States a huge favor because now Steph
Curry makes these two free throws and the.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Game is over. And it's over.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You tried to play it defensively, right, So they come out.
KD gets the ball Steph out well beyond the arc
and then he goes into a move. Guy does a
flop and so he gets to the other end of
the court.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You wanted to try to push the ball out of
Steph's hands. Being the best free throw shoot to the head.
Guess what, he wasn't giving it up. No, And it
doesn't matter at that point. If you foul him right away.
You're sending Steph to the free throw line with twenty
seconds left, so you still have time. If he makes
them both, you can go down hit a three and
then try to foul somebody else.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I mean, I don't know, but I think.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Was the pressure at the top when that guy went
and then Steph you know again little nudge and the
guy flopped like he punched in the face. That there again,
you thought bringing pressure, that he was going to give
the ball up there.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's not enough.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But the whole thing is about extending the game, because
it's not that you're gonna put USA and the free
throw line. They're gonna miss and you're gonna get a
chance at the end to win. It's gonna be okay.
You put the USA and the free throw line with
twenty seconds left, then you put them back on the
line with fourteen seconds, whatever it takes. Then you put
him back on the line with eight seconds left, and
then you so, okay, in one of those times, you'd think, okay,
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at some point they're going to miss a free throw
or two because they haven't made them.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Are they going to get the ball to Steph every
single time?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Maybe maybe not, but you had three more times more
chances to put them on the free You have to
extend the game and give yourself a chance, especially when
the shot clock is going to expire.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I almost get it.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
If you decided, all right, we're down by two, they
have the ball, there's a eight second differential. Okay, if
there's eight seconds, you want to take it down d
let's go Usa missus. You get a chance, all right,
because then you're down too at the end for one
final shot. That I can almost understand. I would still
want to extend the game, but that I almost understand.
This was Jennis states Is saying, we don't need to
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even shoot the ball until there's two seconds left, and
then you're not even getting a shot off. This is
how Serbia coach this game. So you're really tell them
he s Steve Kurt doesn't know what he's doing. This
is what you remember. This is the level of people
you're playing against. You still want to be mad at
Steve Kurr.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But yeah, you're gonna be mad at Steve Kerr just
because the Serbian coach might have been a dope.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Doesn't doesn't let him off.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Doesn't let him because look, sometimes, and to widen it
out for Steve Kerr is to remember that it's not
just about these end of game decisions, but it's about
finding the right mix. It's about fine, he was still
up until the end, how do I find the right
players to close this game out? And he decided it's
gonna be Lebron and Steph and it's gonna be Devin Booker,
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and it's gonna be KD and that and and it's
gonna be mb and that's how we're gonna go do it.
That's a difficult thing as well. It's it's it's it's
the game. It's the game management that we talked about,
and it's things like that, because you get paralyzed by
a lot of choices that this is not Hey, I'm
gonna go with these guys and coming off the bench
are gonna be my clear bench players? It's yeah, oh boy,
(28:52):
if I play Devin Booker, I'm sitting Kevin Durant. That's
tough thing, man, that's tough thing. But that's not playing
Anthony Davis. I'm sitting Joelle. That's a heart that But
we've talked about that from the beginning, right.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
It's a lot about ego and the moment and Devin
Booker right up the efficiency ratings, you know, before this game,
I think he was fourth going out coming out of
the weekend for Team USA, which again it's fuzzy math
sometimes with how rankings are put up, and I'd love
to see the algorithms being run. But you know, a
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lot of it is Kerr working alongside Spolstra and Few
and ty Lou and everybody, you know, getting that information
and trying to get a read on the players and
where they're at energy filed. Trouble comes in how the
game's being officiated in that particular chunk of the game.
I really would have loved to see the let's file
(29:44):
and try to extend it because with the phoebia phoeba officials,
I don't know what's going to get constituted.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
A fall.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Like I said, I think towards the end you had
this situation where they filed Curry, and until he actually
drove into the lane, they didn't blow the whistle when
he'd clearly hacked him on the arm out ribble well
outside the arc before any of the drive. It's like, okay,
what's he got to do to get the call? It's
pretty clear he's trying to take a fall there, so
you know, and in the end.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Uh succeed and proceed Steve Kerr.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Even if they win the gold medal by thirty, they're
still gonna be second guessing because you got to fill
column inches and the B block.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's just stupid. It's just stupid. We win, That's all
you gotta do is win. You lose, Okay, everything is
on the table how you manage the game. But we won,
and then that's really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who played.
None of the rest matters we want. In the Olympics,
there are two columns. There is a win column. There
is a lost column, And more so than any other sport,
it's about just winning. It doesn't matter how you win.
(30:44):
You want the gold medal. There's no gold medal where
oh this is only half gold because well you didn't
really play that well. So this is golden and kind
of a player mix. But it's a gold medal, said
full gold. Yeah, they all do the thing they bite
it and make it look like, oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yal, but it's plated gold. Is this fully gold? It's
it's fully gold. There's no sure because.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Then you could be maybe you get the strongest man
in the world to break it in handers a demonstration.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Thinking about non gold gold medals, you don't know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's partially gold. I don't think here's your copper medal. Wait,
I thought it was gold. It's the same color. What
are you worried about?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
You get a medal? Right, it's okay. Everybody knows you
won your stating side of the bachocolate. You're good.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, as we saw all kinds of breathtaking
action earlier today, like we just talked about with the
US Olympic team, like Pete Alonzo, who had two tremendous
home runs today for the Mets. Steejah Seger has that
more with what's trending.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Not quite the same, but hey, so yeah, you know,
surviving advance applies to the earlier semi final today because
France at home won barely over Germany seventy three sixty nine,
even though Rudy Gobert played five minutes and Victor Wimbanyama
was four of seventeen shooting from the floor for his
eleven points. France from three point range six of twenty seven.
(32:00):
But we've got us France in the Olympic final for
the gold medal Saturday. France made the final three years
ago in Tokyo and lost to the US after beating
him in the opener. In twenty twenty one. The Americans
in their semi beat Serbia in a comeback ninety five
ninety one, even though the US led for less than
three and a half minutes in the game. Steph Curry
was amazing thirty six points from three point range, nine
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for fourteen. Lebron James finished with a triple double, very
rare in the Olympics. Joel Embiid with nineteen points. The
Americans trailed by seventeen in the second quarter, trailed by
fifteen points late in the third, but win. Nikola Jokich
of Serbia seventeen points eleven assists, but from three point
range he went zero of six in defeat bogdan Bogdanovich
(32:46):
had a great game twenty points, but Curry scored seventeen
just in the first quarter. In fact, he had fourteen
of the first fifteen points for the Americans, and then
in the last eight minutes of today's game, the US
outscored him twenty eight thirteen. Sidney Mcglaughtlyn Lavaroni won the
gold again in the four hundred hurdles. Noah Lyles finished
third in the two hundred meter final. US women's volleyball
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won its semifinal and five sets over Brazil. It was
a rematch of the Olympic final in Tokyo. US women's
water polo was beaten in a shootout by Australia in
a semifinal. Morocco took the men's soccer bronze medal game
six nothing over Egypt. Two NFL exhibitions. If only they
had much scoring Tonight at New England, a combined eighteen
punts Patriots seventeen to three over Carolina.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
New England.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So Morocco outscored Carolina tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
So it seemed New England played four quarterbacks. Joe Milton
had the only touchdown pass. Patriots defense with five sacks.
Giants at home defeated Detroit fourteen to three. It combined
seventeen penalties and fourteen punts in that one. Giants quarterback
Drew Locke started but left with a hip injury not serious.
Eric Gray of the Giants two touchdown runs. In fact,
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he had eight touches ninety eight yards for the winners.
The Falcons placed wide receivers Rondel Moore on injured reserve.
In baseball, the White Sox today fired manager Pedro Grifol
two late games in the MLB Seattle with a three
run double bottom in the ninth feat Detroit four to three,
Philadelphia six to four winner at Arizona.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Coming up next, Gonna double down on a big bolt
prediction we made about an NFL quarterback after what we
saw in one of tonight's preseason games. It's coming up next,
right here, Jason to Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
already enjoying replays of Thursday Night Football. Yeah, NFL Network saying, hey,
we don't want to spend a lot of money on uh,
you know, pesky talent.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Let's just rerun the game. Let's keep rid of the
game again.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Look, you go into the overnight just you got two games,
and then tomorrow you get another three.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I mean, your weekend is programmed. Now we have a
big debut.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We're going to get to next hour on the show
that did not go at all how it was expected. However,
let's spend a couple minutes here on Drake May and
the Patriots tonight. Patriots. Look, look, there's not a lot
to draw out of the first game. Obviously, you have
players playing against backups. And I understand this, but I
told you after the draft was over, the Patriots felt
(35:34):
bullied into a corner that they had to take a quarterback.
When you're picking number three, where else are you going
to get a quarterback? Doesn't matter that it's the third
best quarterback off the board. We're going to take Drake May.
And all you've seen throughout the entire time in New
England is Drake May is going to be brought along slowly,
but really, the guys taking right ahead of him are
thrust right in right, And it's not like the New
(35:55):
England's got a difficult situation. The Bears are trying to
win on the fly, right, putting their rookie quarterback in
commanders are trying to compete right now, they're putting their
quarterback in the pages. No, no, no, we're gonna start
to Kobe Brissett and Drake May is going to battle,
and so is Joe Milton's sixth round pick out of Tennessee.
And all that's been since the draft. Nothing has convinced
(36:18):
me otherwise than Drake May was overdrafted and they felt
they had to do it because where else are you
gonna get a quarterback? We're picking third overall tonight. Drake
May one series, he was fine. I didn't see anything unbelievable.
It's anything unbelievable, Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I mean yeah done?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
No, I mean that was it. I mean you could
have let him play another series. I kind of would
have liked to see Drake May another series, But okay,
I understand that Joe Milton comes in and there's a
reason why everybody is talking about him fifty four yards
in a touchdown. He ran, He ran for twenty two
yards at a big thirteen yard scramble. He's got a
lot of tools. He certainly looks the part. He has
(36:55):
looked the part since he started at Michigan. Didn't work
out at Michigan. He goes to Tennessee, becomes a really
good quarterback. Didn't know how much he was going to
play at Tennessee. But he gets in hendon hooker before
he gets hurt, and Joe Milton has an arm. He
is athletic. Again, he certainly looks the part. And watching
him play tonight, everybody's wowing themselves over Lamar Jackson's weight loss.
(37:16):
I guarantee you Joe Milton took off a lot of
weight too, because he is He was a bigger guy
in college and he and looking him tonight, he is
much more smelt.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Do you think he ran around with more pads? Maybe? Yeah, sure,
trying to go himself.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Smoked up, but yeah, no, lean and mean and and look,
you get a couple of big wow plays and you
get the a bigger share of the action because I
think by time we actually started watching this game, he
was in.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, no, so, yeah, he was only in a little
bit and Joe Milton played well. Now this doesn't mean
suddenly Joe Milton's great and Joe Milton's going to be phenomenal.
But you have a couple of quarterbacks now who are rookies.
And yes, you have much more invested in Drake May
than you do in Joe Milton. And all reports that
have come out of camp so far have been, yeah,
(38:07):
May and Milton are kind of equal.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Whoa wait what? Well? Whoa wait what?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Like Brisset's the starter. Okay, I understand, but May and Milton, Yeah,
they're gonna kind of battle it out here a little bit.
Whoa why is your number three overall pick battling anything
out with anyone? Milton's getting the publicity. Drake May is not.
Nothing has happened over the course of the past few
months summer training camp, the first game tonight to make
me to me off of my of my take that
(38:34):
he was overdrafted and the Patriots felt they had to
take him. And when you do that, you set your
team back for a couple of years unless you get
really lucky in the draft elsewhere. And oh boy, look
at this quarterback. We go like you are the forty
nine ers and oh hey, brock perty turned into a
great quarterback. He's mister irrelevant. So I'm still where I
am with Drake May than I was at the draft,
the Patriots draft of the third best quarterback, and who
(38:56):
knows how good he's gonna be, And right now he's
having trouble keeping his head afloat in New England when
the guys drafted two spaces in front of him. Each
of those guys have been given the keys to their team.
They have proved, hey, we're ready to go with you.
Why are you not ready to go with Drake?
Speaker 4 (39:09):
Man it both of those squads, man for man, you
are light years ahead of where you are personnel wise
in New England. Right So, even if they're not one
hundred percent, you invested heavily to give them the pieces
and to get them to look the part as best
you can. Because the reports aren't great necessarily out of Chicago.
(39:33):
Catleb's done a couple of big things, but most reports
are yeah, the defense is winning. Guess what defense is
really good? They were really good down the stretch. So
one of those top ten units as you come into
the year. But for Drake May in New England. Yeah,
you were drafting third. You're gonna take the quarterback. You're
gonna decide which of the next quarterbacks was the best one?
(39:55):
Will he be proven to be? I don't know how
many first round picks are actually in good. We really
want to go down that rabbit hole, you know, because
you immediately went to mister irrelevant as a reference point.
But that's also in a stable, great organization, which you
New England right now cannot claim that it is.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
If I thought for a second Drake May was ascending,
I'd say great. But it feels like the Patriots are
protecting him and they're trying to protect themselves from the
fact that we were drafted a guy that might not
wind up being good.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Uh huh, why do you hate Why do you hate
the Patriots?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Oh wait, I'm just telling the truth. I'm just telling
the truth. Coming up next, Mike and I get into
the biggest, craziest story of the day from the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
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