August 23, 2024 • 41 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike discuss the hit Apple TV show Ted Lasso, exploring the reasons behind its widespread success. Next, they react to Warriors PG Steph Curry removing the Warriors from his Instagram bio and debate whether Curry might need to leave the team to continue winning. They then examine the injury that occurred during the Bears vs. Chiefs preseason matchup and discuss the risks associated with playing in preseason games. Finally, the guys look into former legendary Yankees broadcaster John Sterling wanting to come out of retirement to announce Yankee playoff games!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome inside our two, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Is it glorious yet? It's we're we're getting there. Have
you tested it, Fendley yet.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's not a glorious night yet. The Mets are winning
three nothing, but the Padres have first and third, nobody
out in the fifth inning. You know, I say it's
a glorious night or a wonderful night with the Mets
win when the Mets lose. Welcome inside. It's a you know,
a happy Thursday. That's kind of where we're at. Everybody's
where we're always happy. Some knights are glorious, some knights
(01:01):
are outstanding. Something. You got eight hits off Dylan ceas Man, Yeah, no, no, no,
I know, and and and and the Padres are one
swing away from tying it up. No, it's it's a
I always got to keep it within a slam or,
as John Sterley would say, within a bloom and a
blast and then sudden, oh hy by the way. You
know all right, I can't. We'll get to John Sterley
coming up in a few minutes. That's an insane story
(01:24):
involving the guy who retired as a play by Playboys
and the Yankees a couple of months ago. Now, before
we get to the Steph Curry hot take, I promised
this a few minutes ago. I can now tell you
I'll go this. But I'm not a TV executive, but
I have seen way too much TV in my life
and I'm an absolute bleeping expert at it. I always say,
you may not like my sports takes, but I will
(01:45):
never steal you wrong with food, television and movies. Won't
do it. First. You've got today movies a couple of times. No,
you just have to you just know. I tell you,
I'm not saying sometimes movies are the greatest movie. I
tell you exactly how you can enjoy them. Yeah, you
enjoy movies?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
An extra double scotch on the ruck if you wanted to.
It takes two to lie, one to lie, and one
to listen. First look today at Chad Powers, the new
show on Hulu starring Glenn Powell that comes off the
Eli Manning sketch where he tried to walk on as
a quarterback at Penn State. Nobody knew who he was,
(02:23):
he had on all these prosthetics. It was a fun
bit from a couple of years ago, and then Hulu decided, hey,
wait a minute, this is a great idea for a
TV show. Chad Powers a kid, and the way the
story goes of the TV show is going to be
kid who had had everything but got kicked out of
college because he he broke a couple of rules or
was banned from school for whatever reason, shows up at
(02:45):
a smaller school somewhere in the South, and he and
he and he wears different clothes and he wears his
hair different. He puts on prosthetics and he walks on
as a quarterback and he tries to be a quarterback
in college under an assumed name under being Chad Powers. Uh.
It's ingenius. Glenn Powell is the star. This is the
(03:06):
show that's gonna fill the ted Lasso void that has
gone on since the show went off the air. The
ted Lasso is one of those shows where it's hard
to explain the popularity. It's hard to explain just how
it took off. It's kind of like explaining Taylor Swift, Like, Wow,
Taylor Swift is really good and her songs are great,
but wow, when did she turn into like, like the
(03:26):
greatest musician in the history of the world. Like, but
that's where she is. She's got that aura. Like ted
Lasso was really funny, man, And I loved a lot
of it and I love the characters, but to see
it be lauded the way it is, it's like, wow,
it was it really that great a show? I mean,
I loved it, but the way people talk about it
is just it blows you away. Yeah, and there's been
a void. No. I mean, look, I'm gonna say it
(03:47):
was perfect, but you know, well until Zava showed up boo.
But that certainly was a big runaway hit and it
was a big deal, and there's everybody wants there to
be more, and and Apple keeps saying, hey, if Jason
Seneikis wants to do it, come to it. Well, today
they put out the first look at Glenn Powell and
they're the I think they're they're finishing shooting it, and
you see what Jos like as Chad Powers. Yeah, Glenn
(04:10):
Powell is the name of the show. And I'll tell
you it's gonna be a big runaway hit, right because
you have the you have the the the premise which
is already great, which is easy enough for people to
pick up and jump in and say, oh, this sounds
like fun. Right, this sounds like a fun show. And
when you have a star who you had just gotten
so lucky to hit it big during a career year,
(04:33):
like this is you know, this is like show Heyo
Tani saying, yes, while I'm playing for the Dodgers, I
will go play for the Mets too. Wait really, yes,
it's my career year. I'll go do this. Like you
get Glenn Powell in the midst of of hit Man,
which is a big hit on when when when it
came out on the streaming service Twisters being a big
hit this summer, like he's become the new it guy
(04:54):
in Hollywood and now here he is star of this show,
Like he's gonna bring a lot of eyeballs to it,
Like this show has everything you need. It'll be a
big breakout hit, be the big breakout hitting TV when
it comes out.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it'll be a big thing to see if he
can get away from the Paccino, de nirokud Tell McConaughey
where they're not playing themselves in every damn movie. So
that's why the prosthetics and stuff actually are exciting here
because he won't be Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He's Glenn Powell, but he's not Glenn Powell. Does that
make sense? So a little bit there.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And to answer the Swift and ted Lasso thing, the
pandemic happened. We were looking for anything in sustenance to
a lot of folks that were locked in their rooms.
You know, you couldn't go to school here in California.
You know, you couldn't go to the beach. Ponder that one.
You couldn't go to the beach. You were in your
room and what were you doing? You were brooding?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Suck that up like so much sugar water along the way.
And ted Lasso had some feel good and tugged at
the heart strings and was funny with a bunch of
characters that allowed us to escape a little bit from
the daily rage that consumed us out inside of that
advanced soccer fun.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Sure, look it was part. It's part of what made
soccer blow up here in the United States, like ted
Lasso and Wrexham, like it was perfect times, it was
fine the time for soccer. I always love how people
would say ted Lasso was so heartwarming. Go every other
word is the F word? What do you mean it's
heart warming? Talking about every other word is? But it's heartwarming, heart.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Warm if you suddenly get one, Yeah, with Brett Goldstein
getting after it, Yeah, I mean it's certainly it's heartwarm.
It's a much different show if you just take out,
if you just put in all the roy K boy,
if you make it all about him, it's like, wow,
it's a lot of anger and hatred to Treol.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But all it is is the man really cares. Like
think about that alternate universe so so art warming.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And Nate got off too easy, right, I mean spoiler alert.
If you haven't watched it, you obviously care well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know the thing is Nate's story was really boring.
That's the plus. Nate storyline was really.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
All right, let's just wrap it up and get him back,
Let's get back, Let's get back.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know, if they should have had more Rupert and
less Nate like they had Rupert. They filled him like
he was the Emperor. Like his office looked like the
Emperor and Return of the Jedi, with the way the
windows look behind him, and he was in like the
the the duster he looked like the Emperor. The duster
was the key like.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That was one of the great wardrobe decisions of recent
filling boy.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Uh so there you go. There's your big bolt that'll
fill the ted Lasso void in all of our lives.
Let's go. Now, how about a Steph Curry hot take?
There was no yeah, and and and then this Steph
Curry hot take is brought to you via a minor
stir because this story isn't something that I think is
steeped in reality. I'm sure it was just a mistake. Uh.
(07:56):
Steph Curry changing his social media bio put on Olympic Champion, right,
first Olympic Champion, and you know it changes what he
was about on on on Instagram. You know Steph Curry,
you know, husband of Aisha Curry, dad, Olympic champion, gold medal,
all this stuff and Warriors wasn't on there. Wait a minute,
what happened? What happened? Well, very quickly he corrected it
(08:19):
and Warriors was put on there. And suddenly now there
was this big push on social media and people say,
wait a minute, is he unhappy with the Warriors, because
you know that's what happens obviously. When when when when
people get upset me, t I'm so mad at you,
I'm taking you out of my Twitter bio. That'll teach
you to treat me bad. Oh, Ted, Steph Curry is
unhappy with the with the Warriors and he wants out
(08:40):
and all of that, like, no, everything is fine. Look,
I'm sure it was a mistake. I'm sure he put
on I want to put Olympic Champion on because I'd
want to put it on there too, after that bleep
and shooting display in the last two minutes and saying
I will win this gold medal for all of you. Hey,
I get that. I'm sure it was a mistake. He
loves the Warriors. He wants to know he loves the Warriors.
That is that is. I don't think there's anything more
(09:02):
than just oh hey, oh, I forgot to put Warriors there.
Let me go back and correct it. I'm sure somebody
brought it up to him. Dude, you know what people
are gonna say when you're like, okay, let me find
that's why I'll put Warriors back. And if he was,
if he was really mad Adham, he wouldn't have corrected it.
He would have left it out there said screw you,
I'm leaving it there. So this is a minor story,
but now here's the hot take, and you're gonna have
to agree with me. Steph Curry should leave the Warriors.
(09:24):
Oh shit, I like it. I understand he wants to
be a one team superstar identifiable with the City Warrior
beginning to end. I understand that, but he also wants
to win championships, and the Warriors aren't winning any more championships.
They're not. The expiration date of this team has come
(09:46):
and gone. Klay Thompson has gone. They gave Draymond Green
money for a ridiculous reason. I don't know why. So
now they're stuck with him for another couple of years
and no one's coming. No free Aim should come in
and say I'm gonna go play with def from Draymond,
mainly because well, Steph's in his mid thirties, Draymond doesn't
have anymore. Can I go there and win? Am I
gonna go there and be part of the Steph Curry
(10:08):
Draymond Green show? Yeah, not happening. As great a coach
as Steve Curry is, as good as Steph Curry is,
as big a cog that Draymond Green has been. Their
time is done. They're done. But Steph is still playing
at a near all NBA type level. So if he
wants to win, he's gotta go someplace else. Because I'll
(10:29):
tell you what's gonna happen is he's gonna finish in obscurity.
It's gonna be Wow. Look at these nights where Steph
Curry is still showing you what a great player he
is thirty eight points, but the Warriors lost one twenty
six to ninety four. Like that's what's coming up? Like
the Warriors, the dynasty is over, it's ended, it's done.
The Splash Brothers are gone, Clay has gone. It's over,
and now he's got to decide what do I want?
(10:51):
Do I want to stay here and just put up
numbers for the next three years or probably what he
has left of being a prime player, or do I
want to try to win a championship and no one's
coming there, so he's gotta go. If he was twenty
seven to twenty eight years old, Hell yeah, people, I'll
go play with Steph. With Kevin Durant did, It's what
others players did. But now when you combine, Hey, Steph
(11:14):
is older, Draymond's not as good. He's older. They've already
broken up. Clay Is that Is that a real destination
for me? It's not. So he's got that decision to make,
and if he wants to win, he should go someplace else.
He should leave at some point, find the contender he
wants to go to. He can have the great tearful
story of what could go on. And you know, in
(11:34):
an off season next year of he doesn't know what
to do, he's torn. Does he want to stay with
his with his team? Does he want to go play
someplace else? I don't know. Oh, it's so said. What
a tough decision for Steph Curry and everybody can have
all kinds of sympathy for him. They want to, Oh,
look at him making the most difficult free agency decision.
The guys won four titles. The guy's a superstarke guy
(11:54):
you don't have. Did he feel sorry for him? But
you know that's gonna be the push. Look at Steph.
Look at Steph. He can have that drawn out drama
in the offseason and then decide, Okay, I want to
go in a title so I'm gonna go play with
the Knicks. I'm gonna go play or maybe say, you
know what, I just want something new. I'm gonna go
to the Hornets where he is an adopted son because
(12:15):
of the life he has there, ringing the gong at
the Hornets games, at the Panthers games. So yeah, he
needs to go someplace else if he wants to win.
Obviously you're not gonna win a title there, but there
are other places that would love to have him. Make
room for him. For a superstar that is very unassuming,
that can assimilate himself in any kind of offense. At
(12:35):
this point, he can hit threes the way the game
has evolved. Now he's gotta go. If he wants to win,
he should go someplace else, and he should do it
sooner rather than later, because you never know when will
start to come off. I think he's got about three
years left at this level. Maybe the third year is
a little bit down. But man, you gotta decide do
you want to win or do you want to just
stay and be a one town star for your entire
(12:59):
life and after wards, that's what you gotta decide.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I really thought you were gonna start doing the Rosio
o'donald's speech from Sleepless in Seattle, if I'm remembering that correctly,
or maybe or is that beautiful girls? Either way, it's
a Rosi o' donald's speech about age and how you
have to act because you know the time is right
in all of those things, because maybe you're too old
if you tried to make that decision later on.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Either way, I'll look into my filmography.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But for Steph Curry, I mean, it now becomes how
much did it mean to whoever him or whoever ministers
his account to type in the Olympic accolades and success?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Is that the crowning achievement? Because to hear him talk,
you know that was the icing on the cake. But
he seemed to have a lot of fun hanging out
with Lebron James and Kevin Durant once again, and all
of those guys getting together and making some magic. So
it's the am I done? Have I achieved it? And
(13:57):
how much does the one team really matter?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I would argue.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's nice outside looking in he's a guy that still
wants to win, at least, you know from all outward appearances.
You know, based on those shots and how hyped he
was with each one he hit, because he wasn't just
a hey I'm on fire, look at me, look at me,
ten things I hate about you. It was fully a
(14:23):
we're gonna win this thing, and it's on me hitting
three point shots. So you know, it was a crowning
glory moment because remember two of those titles he got
with Golden State, those are Kevin Durant's MVP titles. Right, Hey,
you won, but you needed to go get him. See
works both ways. That's the beauty of sports radio and television.
As we make these arguments, Steph, you only got two
(14:44):
without Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant, you got nothing without him.
So what do we do now you're both a little
bit older, and maybe we team you up again at
Lebron James and now you're the super friends. But to me,
I'd love to see him go somewhere where each game
is still relevant and we're not just as much as
we loved some of those final moments for Kobe Bryant,
(15:06):
would it have been better maybe before the body broke
fully if he was in another uniform. I don't know,
maybe maybe not, Or was it all symbolic and something
the city needed, you know what I mean? And once
the body started to go, it was appropriate to end
with that sixty burger that you and I got to
watch on our watch.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But for Steph Curry, you're.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Still having big moments, You're still putting down big points
and making big shots. It'd be awful difficult to watch
him slug through the Hey, we're battling for tenth in
the final week of the season again and again and again,
just like this, buddy Lebron, see team them up. Maybe
they voltron it up to the six or seven.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
See look, look, here's the thing. I know that sounds great,
but yeah, teaming up with Lebron in la is is
not going to do it. Okay. It looked great in
the Olympics when they played one game every three days
and they got to play thirty minutes in a game
right in the middle of the summer, when they all
have had time off. Of course Lebron look great. Of
(16:09):
course KD look great. Of course Steph look great. Why
because they've had time off and they're not playing a
lot of minutes. When you get to eighty two games
or sixty five games, what they'll all play and the
slog on NBA playoffs, Yeah, that's when they start to
look old and heavy legs. No teaming up with Lebron. Hey,
it sounds great. And if the NBA schedule goes to
(16:30):
thirty games, hey, I can see where they would be okay.
And if the playoff rounds are best two out of three, yeah,
I think they be okay. But they're not so yeah. No,
that's that's not the place to go, man. That is
that is not a destination.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It was really all just about entertainment value for me
and the fact that most of those games will be
in the window as you and.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I are are on it.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Okay, I'm all about my entertainment because if I'm entertained,
guess what, you and I get to entertain America that
much more. We take it to eleven like we're spital tap.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I like that. I like you did they take that?
Did you know they go to eleven? They go to eleven.
Uh so there it is. There's your hot take. Steph Curry,
if he wants to win again, needs to lead that.
And I don't know that that sounds that hot. I
think even Warriors fans who love me, they love me
and and oh you're a soapop Francis. No, No, let
me there. I'm ready for an interview on K and
br anytime. Uh, Like, I mean, Sarah, you have to
(17:26):
realize that. Yeah, if he wants to win, he's got
to go. He's got he's got it. It's not and
I'm sure Steve Kerr would cry and say, hey, I
wish him the best. We won four titles, we won
a gold medal together. He's always going to be a
Golden State Warrior. And he can even do a lebron
where I could leave him then come back from one
year at the end. What he's always going to be
a warrior legend. No's never gonna be. If he leaves,
(17:48):
people are going to be burning his jerseys on the internet,
and he's, oh, I can't believe people are doing this.
Can't burn my jersey? What's that? God? You know what
not gonna happen?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Somebody will a couple of eyes. No, it's all performance. Sorry,
Like that's all that was. It was performative, like so
many speeches and other things that we see. Show me,
show me your real burning of a lot of jerseys
where there's twenty thousand Warrior fans that got together. I'll
believe you that one jackass in his backyard putting it in
(18:17):
a fire pit.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
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actually have a Rick Springfield story. You do you want
a Rick Springfield story?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Was this when you were watching General Hospital back in
the day when he was doctor Noah Drake no singing
to Jimmy Hart song go.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
This is about this is about? Oh my goodness, I
was doing all night on ESPN Radio. This is like
maybe two thousand and five, is so, maybe almost twenty
years ago. And somehow my one of my bosses at ESPN,
who's one of the best bosses I ever had, Louise Cornetta,
(20:42):
she said, hey, I got you an invite to the
big ABC like Fall soap opera up front something like that.
It's a big dinner stuff. I said, okay, why am
I going? And she was, well, because we have a
lot of people that want to do stuff with us
at ESPN, and you know, they want to do stuff
(21:02):
with the show, with your show because you're La and everything.
I could go there and you know, hopefully you wind
up meeting some people and everything. I said, sure, I mean,
it's it's a free dinner. I was like, shit's all
you have to do is say free dinner. And I
was there. I care what it was? Oh, free dinner. Yeah,
what do you want me to do? Well, I want
you to eat snails and drive over a bunch of nails.
I'll be there. So I go to the dinner and
I wind up sitting at a table with Thorston K,
(21:24):
who was a really big soap opera actor about twenty
years huge Red Wings fan. Right, I wound up to
spend most of the night talking to him. But Rick
Springfield is there, and he is like the big star,
right because he's bleeping Rick Springfield and one of my
best friend's wives. It was a huge Rick Springfield fan,
like bought everything he bought, you know, his albums, everything else,
and going oh my god, like what like I can't
(21:46):
take a picture with him and send it to her
because that would feel weird, Like, hey, look who I
met and you didn't, right, Like it's kind of weird.
So I don't know. I'm like, ah, what can I do?
What can I do? And I saw what they did
when we all sat down, was we all had name
plates for our seats. I'm like, okay, all right, that's cool,
that's cool. And then I go, oh, I'll wait till
the end. And I'll take his nameplate because it was
you know, done and incursive. It was printed out on
(22:08):
an official invitation to look great. I'm like, oh, I'll
send her this and she'll love it. I'm like, all right, great.
So I just got to go to the table at
the end of the night and I gotta take it.
I'm like, okay, fine. So it's breaking up, the dinner
is over, and he and he gets up and I
wait for him to leave, and I'm like, okay, Rick
Springfield left, all right, that's cool. So I go over
and I go and I pick up the thing and
it's a little piece of paper right like it's maybe
(22:29):
like four inches high and like six inches wide, not
even like that's what it is. And I go to
put it in my pocket and the guy who was
clearing off the table said, sir, what are you doing, sir?
I said, oh, nothing, I'm just grabbing a piece of paper. Sir.
You can't take the name play test or you can't.
I go there are pieces of paper you can't, sir,
you can't. You can't just take one, sir. And also
people are looking at me like this guy's taking a nameplate,
(22:51):
like whoa, whoa? Whoa, whoa, whoa, And and I'm like, oh,
people think I'm an idiot here. I'm like, oh, whoa,
It's just it's just a name tag he left. I'm
just taking. I'm just taking his name to And now
I'm like, now I go, I just have to say
what I'm doing. I'm taking his name tag for a
friend of mine who's a big fan of Rick. And
he looks at he goes, sir, I don't know what
to tell you. He can't take it, but he doesn't
take it from me, and he doesn't sit there and
(23:11):
make a big deal like he's cleaning the table. He's
telling me I can't take it, and I'm like and
then he gets up and he walks away. I go,
did you just do that to embarrass me? Like, why
the hell do you even do that? I get it.
If you're gonna stop and try to take it from me,
you could have my Rick Springfield piece of paper when
you pry it for my cold dead hand, like you
could like, but he did, he got some. And also
he did was embarrass me and people looking at me
going like, who's who's uh, who's who's the bald guy there?
(23:33):
Like is he on any shows, like what is he
doing here? So I just had to leave and I'm like, oh,
this is kind of embarrassing, all because I wanted to
get the Rick Springfield name tag for my friend's wife. Well,
I mean you tried, Like that's a story of my life.
Like would anybody else get get get get a guy
cleaning up the table to yell at them, like in
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a situation like that, like.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, I think we've all we've all been down there.
I mean, how many times have you people tried to
take flowers from banquet halls like after parties. I mean
I remember that from the premiere radio parties from the
holidays years ago. You go and and people would be like, yeah,
I'm gonna try to walk out of here with this. Dude,
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at least leave the base behind. What do you do
with these? The base isn't free. I'm sure the dead
flowers stoneo, I'm sure they'll be happy you could take those,
But the the actual base no, probably not. Ah, not
a trophy from your attendance at the holiday for leave
those flowers on the wall.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It don't bother me. Uh So, now let me get
that that's Rick Springfield? Did you? Did you progress? To
stealing centerpieces from weddings or did you stop at that point?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Oh well, at that point, you know, as soon as
they they stopped me because I mean, you have to
bring your mouchin satchel.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Where you have seven Vaz's vases.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
We say Vaz because then in the secondary market it's
gonna be more expensive. Oh okay, very good to say
stop me. Then you know, I went on a watch list.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And that one on his wedding centerpiece watch list. Show
the end of it for me. Watch the guy in
the purple suit. He's gonna try to steal that centerpiece
with the flowers on it and steal some stuff. We
promised to give those to the wedding party. But that
guy's going to try to get out with one. He's
probably gonna be all liquored up and he's gonna cause
controversy and gonna yell at you. Just let him go.
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We'll get him in the parking lot and we'll get
the centerpiece back from him.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's okay, I'll tell go bro and I got tackled.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
It was a whole thing. So look, we just had
the final snap of the Bears Chiefs game. The Bears
beat the Chiefs thirty four to twenty one. Again, we'll
have an update as soon as we can on Coleman,
who was hurt earlier tonight taking off the field stretcher,
a really scary moment. Again, we're waiting to get something
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from the hospital for him. But let's just say, as
we look ahead to tomorrow's games, right, three games tomorrow night,
we got the Jaguars and the Falcons, Dolphins and the Bucks,
Niners and the Raiders. Right, this is the time of
the year, and hey, we don't want to travel very far,
so we're gonna play teams that are really close to us.
All Right, I get it. Now, there's some things everybody's
looking and hoping to see tomorrow night. As you look
(26:24):
at these games, I'll tell you the one thing I
don't want to see. Kyle Shanahan, don't be an idiot.
Don't play brock Perdy. Don't do it. You look stupid
enough playing behind all playing him last week, behind three
backup offensive linemen, no first string skill position players, and
he got hit a bunch. It's like, dude, if he
got hurt, people would say it serves you right because
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you put the guy out there behind a bad offensive line? Really,
what is wrong with you? Like this is where someone
needs to go to Kyle SHANNONO, dude, what were you
doing there? What were you doing there? And there's talk
that he and other starters are going to actually play
tomorrow night, like nobody like like, we don't know exactly
what kind of combination there is. We know Trent Williams
isn't there, So already you're playing without your blind side protector.
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Really want to risk that? Really want to risk that?
I mean, you have to play the regular season without
it if he doesn't sign. I understand that, but wow,
I really, I really I don't want to see Brock
Perdy play tomorrow night because it was just stupid that
he played last So it is common sense not to
play him with three backup offensive linemen and no good
skill position players. That's just common said no, no, no, no,
(27:30):
not gonna do it now. Hey yeah, yeah, they're gonna
play and maybe play a little bit more in our
final game against the Raiders on Friday night. I really
hope for Brock Purdy's sake, we don't see him and
he's able to withstand the ridiculous decisions of his coach.
This is why I say things like when the Niners succeed,
it pisses me off sometimes because they don't deserve it,
because their front office and some of the decisions that
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they make are just ridiculously laborious, or they're stupid like
this one, and yet they step in it. They try
seventeen different ways to get a quor back. Oh, the
guy who's mister irrelevant turns out to be a sixty
million dollars a year player. Hey that works out for us.
What are you gonna do. We're gonna play him behind
backup offensive lineman, and boy he's gonna get hit hard,
but hey we escape that as well. Like this, it's
(28:13):
very Oh, this is a very difficult last few minutes
for Northern California. But I mean it, I look this
and I go, I really don't want to see him
tomorrow night. Don't do it. Don't don't do it, don't
play him tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, it's it seems silly at this point, right, you
either are ready to play or go practice again, don't
don't take the live potential hit. All it takes is
getting nudged. I mean, we're talking about this play out
of the Bearish Chiefs again.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Go back and watch it.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
There's nothing obvious that says signals. You know, it's it's
a big you know, blow, a big event, and he
had to be carted off, the game had to be stopped.
I'm not saying you get something to that level, but
you know, we see injuries. We've seen many through our
years of watching preseason football and getting in to the
regular season. Also a guy that you know much of
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your success is predicated on his performance. And with Brandon Au,
Trent Williams, all these guys still in flux. You need
your quarterback, you need your signal caller up and ready
to go. Uh and so adding any level of risk
at this point is just foolhardy.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I really I when I see the Niner succeed, I go,
did they make decisions that are horrible and they still
find a way to succeed? Right? It did? They're they're
they're the kid who doesn't study all semester and then
spends the night before cramming. What'd you get? Oh? I
got a B plus? Man, I went to every single
class and I studied my ass off, and I still
(29:45):
gotta be I don't want me to tell you just
worked out for me? I don't know what to say,
just where I didn't do anything the right way, but boy,
look I wound up getting to B plus in a
better grade than you. Like. That's how I feel. The
forty nine ers are sorry, buddy.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we just don't get the nice things,
which means they're living right in some capacity, or they've
made a deal with the devil. I mean, whatever, wherever
you want to go with that, I mean, either way,
take the high road, the low road, right. Jim harbaughs
and he's singing, say you know here in the Angels,
singing all of those things.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like take it as you will.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
But for the forty nine ers, a lot of missteps,
a lot of great moves, a lot of great uh
you know, scouting.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And piecing things together.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
But certainly playing with fire is something they what they
like to do.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Tell it's it's hard. It's really hard to see people
do it this way and still succeed. Really, it is,
it is, I really, I don't know. Maybe I go
back to about ten years ago when when I was
at a fantasy football dinner and John Lynch was just
a you know, an analyst on TV, and he asked
me my advice and fancy Jason, what do you think
of this guy for fantasy? Ah, here's what I think
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right here and now the guy's running the forty nine ers. Yeah,
and here they are. Look at all the decisions. Here.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You are sitting here with me, Ahsucker.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Exit out, bout of Fresca, exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon Something I
don't want to see tomorrow night. What I want to
see right now is for Steve to saga or tell
me the Mets game is over and they've won. Can
you do that for me, Steve?
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I mean I could say the words, it would be
completely untrue. Yes, I am capable of speaking the English language.
All right, all right, Mets are winning three to one,
bottom of the seventh at San Diego Baseball in a moment,
because we've got two finals from the NFL exhibitions. Tonight,
Ladies and gentlemen, the Chicago Bears went four to oh
in the preseason. They beat the winless Kansas City Chiefs
tonight thirty four to twenty one. That Mahomes guy didn't play,
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but it doesn't matter. It's a win for the Chicago Bears.
Ian book by the way too late touchdown passes for
KC and rookie running back Carson Steele from UCLA for
the Chiefs, four carries fifty yards, including a short touchdown.
Kansas City is giving center Creed Humphrey a new four
year contract a four year extension. Indianapolis was a winner
(32:04):
at windless Cincinnati twenty seven to fourteen, Anthony Richardson one
touchdown pass in the first quarter, but also one interception
return for a td The Eagles acquired wide receiver John
Dotson from Washington. The Commanders traded four kicker Caade York
from Cleveland and released Riley Patterson. San Francisco signed tight
end Logan Thomas. Atlanta gave defensive back aj Terrell a
(32:28):
four year extension. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford practice fully today
against the Texans after hamstring tightness. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets starters will not play Saturday against the Giants.
This is the final week of the preseason. Two Tonight,
three more games Friday. Most teams play on Saturday, three
games on Sunday. By the way, NFL clubs have to
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reduce their rosters to fifty three players by Tuesday, then
the waiver claims by the next day to Major League Baseball.
Today in New York, the Yankee shutout Cleveland six nothing,
allow the Guardians just one hit. Aaron Judge belted his
forty eighth film run of the season. Tonight, Pittsburgh was
a seven nothing winner over Cincinnati. The win to Paul Skeans,
who's eight in two Toronto and Houston with victories. Houston
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is six nothing win at Baltimore beating Corbyn Burns, so
the Orioles are a game and a half behind the
Yankees for first in the Al East. Atlanta edge Philadelphia
three to two. Phillies offense went three for twenty nine
with fourteen strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And the Mets are they're tanking. They're tanking to screw
the Mets every time they beat everybody else except the
teams the Mets are fighting with for the wild card.
They can't beat the Braves, they can't beat the Diamondbacks,
everybody else they beat. But they're tanking because this would
help the Mets if they beat these other teams in thereas.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Because of course who else would be foremost in one's mind, yeah,
going for the playoffs. But but of course New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
See. Now you understand, Steve, Now you get it.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Well, I do understand some things. I'm not sure I
understand what you just said. Three one leaders at San
Diego in the bottom of the seventh Dylan Cease was
the Padre starter. Did have seven strikeouts, pulled in the
seventh inning, allowed just two earned runs. The Mariners fired
manager Scott's Service. Former catcher Dan Wilson will be the
interim skipper. About two months ago, Seattle led the Aos
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by ten games. Since then, its record is twenty and
thirty two, the worst record in the Majors except for
the White Sox so in Major League history. Service is
the first skipper to have a ten game lead and
then be fired before the end of that season.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. So what you're
telling me is there is no Service in Mariner's land anymore.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Thank you, well play, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith
Show is my best friend Mike Carmen Live from Thetirack
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the most bizarre sports story of the day, but it
may open up a new avenue to how people work
in the business. Wait a minute, what y'ah? That's next?
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. And every once
in a while a story comes up that I just
go wow. Sometimes what people decide and say in public
just blows me away. And I don't mean the Staten
Island manager mad at Aaron Judge, Ay, you didn't talk
tom My kids. No. John Sterling, who very famously retired
(35:42):
a couple of months ago as the voice of New
York Yankees, the guy who was announcing Yankee games for
the last ninety years. I think he announced when they
were the Highlanders, before they even even.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They made the trade for Babe Ruth and Susan I
ever could be only one, and I mean the league
folded Susan.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
We have break news here. No Nonnette has been canceled
in Boston and the Yankees are getting Babe Ruth. The
Yankees Witch John Sterling, who retired as a longtime voice
of Yankee games, said that you know, I'd kind of
like to come back and announce the playoff games. Well,
(36:23):
he said the main reason for retiring was travel. Look,
John Sterling's eighty six years old, and uh, I get it. Like,
you know, travel isn't always great. People get sick and
tied of traveling at certain times in their lives. A
guy's been traveling six seven months a year for the
last forty years. Yeah, I get that he's sick and
tied of traveling, so okay, but now he wants to
pull like a Hey, I saw Roger Clemens do this
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like fifteen twenty years ago at the Yankees, where I
only want to pitch down the stretch and in the playoffs.
So that's what I'm gonna do the rest of the
time with my family, and I'll come back in August.
Like now, he says, Yeah, I would like to maybe
call some of the Yankee playoff games for him. Oh, hey,
(37:06):
you're somebody else. Who's gonna be Who's gonna be the
fro Okay? Now I ask you this, if you like
this so much, who's gonna be the first sports talk
radio or television personality to say, you know, I only
want to work during the football season. I'll do my
show five days a week during football, but when football
season's over, I'm done. And from the day after the
(37:27):
Super Bowl until we get into the right before the
season starts the end of end of August, someone else
does the show. But I'll come in and I'll do
football when it when it matters, When when football is
here and the most popular sport in the world is
being played, That's what I'll come back. But the other
rest of it not. I know, you take that, but
you'll take me because I'm a big star. So someone
else can do my show for seven months, I'll come
(37:48):
back for five. And that's how it works. Who's gonna
be the first guy to do that? I was gonna
do it half a year.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Let me ponder this, candidate. One take you you actually
have vacation.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You actually have people in mind already.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Or people off the Oh yeah, it makes perfect sense. Yeah,
I'm surprised we haven't.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Gone that way. Listen, maybe and maybe for very special times,
I'll do a special show. The week of the NFL Draft,
I'll do a special show program absolutely and maybe not
the first week of NFL free agency, but the first
three days of free agency when all the big players sign, like,
that's what I'll do. Like, I'll come back for the
That'll be that. But but someone else is doing my show.
(38:37):
Other people are doing my show the rest of the time.
That's gonna be it that. That's what I'm gonna come
out and do. Yeah, I get totally serious. I'll start
typing out the names to you in a minute.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Oh man, Yeah, I've got a couple of candidates.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
This is the best. I love the story, jon Sterling.
He actually, at least he did say, you know, I
feel bad for the guys calling the games during the season.
What do you mean, but what the guys who's actually
job it is to do the game? You feel bad?
I'm coming in. I'm coming into uh to take over. No,
I want to call these games in the playoffs tapping
back in. That's fine, you call your own number or
(39:11):
when it's winning time. I'm rested, I'm ready, I'm fine,
We'll come back. A couple of the ways to twist
up a judge. And last, Yeah, I feel good, I'm
I'm I'm fine, I'm I've rested. Now for a little bit,
I'll come back and call. My voice is feeling good.
The I could do it just like that. A couple
months ago it was the and I was done. But
now I can do the Yeah, I'm ready, let me
(39:34):
come back. I'm ready for October. This is just.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Broadcasting load management. I mean, because we've seen load right guys.
As guys get a little bit older, they don't do
the road trip, right Ken Harrelson for years that with
the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Uh huh. Steve Stone to a degree. Now you've got
tagging out.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Probably some mental health concerns as well with the how
terrible the season was. Uh, but he's a little bit older,
so Gordon Beckham, former infield. There's been getting some run
during this horrid, horrid twenty twenty four seasons.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
You mean he's not still playing for the White Sox
Gordon Beckham, Wow, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
He does look look the part, though still very youthful
in his ocpearrence. A couple of years like this will
age him rapidly. It's like being president. But we like
Grady size more. Look how young Grady Sizemore looks. Oh yeah, job, No,
it's for two or three years at age of fast,
(40:30):
but I don't know you for three years, maybe maybe
another couple of months. By the end of September one,
Hey congratulations, I mean the worst team in the history
of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I need a drink. Oh my goodness. All the accelerator.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
But yeah, you've got that. I mean you look at
basketball with the number of games. Look, you can still
win an award and miss twenty percent of the time
and people are still mad about it.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
So yeah, an.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Opportunity here to just tag in and say, you know,
I'm ready for the playoffs. It's winning time, and I'm back.
Get a big wwe like entrance and away you go.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
All right, I'll come back for Week zero of college football.
But that's the earliest you're gonna get me. Then that's
the earliest you're gonna get me. Rest of the time,
I'm off coming up next. What is the big takeaway
to come away from preseason football action? Tonight? We got
it for you next. Fox
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
Is it glorious yet? It's we're we're getting there. Have
you tested it, Fendley yet.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's not a glorious night yet. The Mets are winning
three nothing, but the Padres have first and third, nobody
out in the fifth inning. You know, I say it's
a glorious night or a wonderful night with the Mets
win when the Mets lose. Welcome inside. It's a you know,
a happy Thursday. That's kind of where we're at. Everybody's
where we're always happy. Some knights are glorious, some knights
(01:01):
are outstanding. Something. You got eight hits off Dylan ceas Man, Yeah, no, no, no,
I know, and and and and the Padres are one
swing away from tying it up. No, it's it's a
I always got to keep it within a slam or,
as John Sterley would say, within a bloom and a
blast and then sudden, oh hy by the way. You
know all right, I can't. We'll get to John Sterley
coming up in a few minutes. That's an insane story
(01:24):
involving the guy who retired as a play by Playboys
and the Yankees a couple of months ago. Now, before
we get to the Steph Curry hot take, I promised
this a few minutes ago. I can now tell you
I'll go this. But I'm not a TV executive, but
I have seen way too much TV in my life
and I'm an absolute bleeping expert at it. I always say,
you may not like my sports takes, but I will
(01:45):
never steal you wrong with food, television and movies. Won't
do it. First. You've got today movies a couple of times. No,
you just have to you just know. I tell you,
I'm not saying sometimes movies are the greatest movie. I
tell you exactly how you can enjoy them. Yeah, you
enjoy movies?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
An extra double scotch on the ruck if you wanted to.
It takes two to lie, one to lie, and one
to listen. First look today at Chad Powers, the new
show on Hulu starring Glenn Powell that comes off the
Eli Manning sketch where he tried to walk on as
a quarterback at Penn State. Nobody knew who he was,
(02:23):
he had on all these prosthetics. It was a fun
bit from a couple of years ago, and then Hulu decided, hey,
wait a minute, this is a great idea for a
TV show. Chad Powers a kid, and the way the
story goes of the TV show is going to be
kid who had had everything but got kicked out of
college because he he broke a couple of rules or
was banned from school for whatever reason, shows up at
(02:45):
a smaller school somewhere in the South, and he and
he and he wears different clothes and he wears his
hair different. He puts on prosthetics and he walks on
as a quarterback and he tries to be a quarterback
in college under an assumed name under being Chad Powers. Uh.
It's ingenius. Glenn Powell is the star. This is the
(03:06):
show that's gonna fill the ted Lasso void that has
gone on since the show went off the air. The
ted Lasso is one of those shows where it's hard
to explain the popularity. It's hard to explain just how
it took off. It's kind of like explaining Taylor Swift, Like, Wow,
Taylor Swift is really good and her songs are great,
but wow, when did she turn into like, like the
(03:26):
greatest musician in the history of the world. Like, but
that's where she is. She's got that aura. Like ted
Lasso was really funny, man, And I loved a lot
of it and I love the characters, but to see
it be lauded the way it is, it's like, wow,
it was it really that great a show? I mean,
I loved it, but the way people talk about it
is just it blows you away. Yeah, and there's been
a void. No. I mean, look, I'm gonna say it
(03:47):
was perfect, but you know, well until Zava showed up boo.
But that certainly was a big runaway hit and it
was a big deal, and there's everybody wants there to
be more, and and Apple keeps saying, hey, if Jason
Seneikis wants to do it, come to it. Well, today
they put out the first look at Glenn Powell and
they're the I think they're they're finishing shooting it, and
you see what Jos like as Chad Powers. Yeah, Glenn
(04:10):
Powell is the name of the show. And I'll tell
you it's gonna be a big runaway hit, right because
you have the you have the the the premise which
is already great, which is easy enough for people to
pick up and jump in and say, oh, this sounds
like fun. Right, this sounds like a fun show. And
when you have a star who you had just gotten
so lucky to hit it big during a career year,
(04:33):
like this is you know, this is like show Heyo
Tani saying, yes, while I'm playing for the Dodgers, I
will go play for the Mets too. Wait really, yes,
it's my career year. I'll go do this. Like you
get Glenn Powell in the midst of of hit Man,
which is a big hit on when when when it
came out on the streaming service Twisters being a big
hit this summer, like he's become the new it guy
(04:54):
in Hollywood and now here he is star of this show,
Like he's gonna bring a lot of eyeballs to it,
Like this show has everything you need. It'll be a
big breakout hit, be the big breakout hitting TV when
it comes out.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, it'll be a big thing to see if he
can get away from the Paccino, de nirokud Tell McConaughey
where they're not playing themselves in every damn movie. So
that's why the prosthetics and stuff actually are exciting here
because he won't be Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He's Glenn Powell, but he's not Glenn Powell. Does that
make sense? So a little bit there.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And to answer the Swift and ted Lasso thing, the
pandemic happened. We were looking for anything in sustenance to
a lot of folks that were locked in their rooms.
You know, you couldn't go to school here in California.
You know, you couldn't go to the beach. Ponder that one.
You couldn't go to the beach. You were in your
room and what were you doing? You were brooding?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Suck that up like so much sugar water along the way.
And ted Lasso had some feel good and tugged at
the heart strings and was funny with a bunch of
characters that allowed us to escape a little bit from
the daily rage that consumed us out inside of that
advanced soccer fun.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Sure, look it was part. It's part of what made
soccer blow up here in the United States, like ted
Lasso and Wrexham, like it was perfect times, it was
fine the time for soccer. I always love how people
would say ted Lasso was so heartwarming. Go every other
word is the F word? What do you mean it's
heart warming? Talking about every other word is? But it's heartwarming, heart.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Warm if you suddenly get one, Yeah, with Brett Goldstein
getting after it, Yeah, I mean it's certainly it's heartwarm.
It's a much different show if you just take out,
if you just put in all the roy K boy,
if you make it all about him, it's like, wow,
it's a lot of anger and hatred to Treol.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But all it is is the man really cares. Like
think about that alternate universe so so art warming.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And Nate got off too easy, right, I mean spoiler alert.
If you haven't watched it, you obviously care well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know the thing is Nate's story was really boring.
That's the plus. Nate storyline was really.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
All right, let's just wrap it up and get him back,
Let's get back, Let's get back.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know, if they should have had more Rupert and
less Nate like they had Rupert. They filled him like
he was the Emperor. Like his office looked like the
Emperor and Return of the Jedi, with the way the
windows look behind him, and he was in like the
the the duster he looked like the Emperor. The duster
was the key like.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
That was one of the great wardrobe decisions of recent
filling boy.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Uh so there you go. There's your big bolt that'll
fill the ted Lasso void in all of our lives.
Let's go. Now, how about a Steph Curry hot take?
There was no yeah, and and and then this Steph
Curry hot take is brought to you via a minor
stir because this story isn't something that I think is
steeped in reality. I'm sure it was just a mistake. Uh.
(07:56):
Steph Curry changing his social media bio put on Olympic Champion, right,
first Olympic Champion, and you know it changes what he
was about on on on Instagram. You know Steph Curry,
you know, husband of Aisha Curry, dad, Olympic champion, gold medal,
all this stuff and Warriors wasn't on there. Wait a minute,
what happened? What happened? Well, very quickly he corrected it
(08:19):
and Warriors was put on there. And suddenly now there
was this big push on social media and people say,
wait a minute, is he unhappy with the Warriors, because
you know that's what happens obviously. When when when when
people get upset me, t I'm so mad at you,
I'm taking you out of my Twitter bio. That'll teach
you to treat me bad. Oh, Ted, Steph Curry is
unhappy with the with the Warriors and he wants out
(08:40):
and all of that, like, no, everything is fine. Look,
I'm sure it was a mistake. I'm sure he put
on I want to put Olympic Champion on because I'd
want to put it on there too, after that bleep
and shooting display in the last two minutes and saying
I will win this gold medal for all of you. Hey,
I get that. I'm sure it was a mistake. He
loves the Warriors. He wants to know he loves the Warriors.
That is that is. I don't think there's anything more
(09:02):
than just oh hey, oh, I forgot to put Warriors there.
Let me go back and correct it. I'm sure somebody
brought it up to him. Dude, you know what people
are gonna say when you're like, okay, let me find
that's why I'll put Warriors back. And if he was,
if he was really mad Adham, he wouldn't have corrected it.
He would have left it out there said screw you,
I'm leaving it there. So this is a minor story,
but now here's the hot take, and you're gonna have
to agree with me. Steph Curry should leave the Warriors.
(09:24):
Oh shit, I like it. I understand he wants to
be a one team superstar identifiable with the City Warrior
beginning to end. I understand that, but he also wants
to win championships, and the Warriors aren't winning any more championships.
They're not. The expiration date of this team has come
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and gone. Klay Thompson has gone. They gave Draymond Green
money for a ridiculous reason. I don't know why. So
now they're stuck with him for another couple of years
and no one's coming. No free Aim should come in
and say I'm gonna go play with def from Draymond,
mainly because well, Steph's in his mid thirties, Draymond doesn't
have anymore. Can I go there and win? Am I
gonna go there and be part of the Steph Curry
(10:08):
Draymond Green show? Yeah, not happening. As great a coach
as Steve Curry is, as good as Steph Curry is,
as big a cog that Draymond Green has been. Their
time is done. They're done. But Steph is still playing
at a near all NBA type level. So if he
wants to win, he's gotta go someplace else. Because I'll
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tell you what's gonna happen is he's gonna finish in obscurity.
It's gonna be Wow. Look at these nights where Steph
Curry is still showing you what a great player he
is thirty eight points, but the Warriors lost one twenty
six to ninety four. Like that's what's coming up? Like
the Warriors, the dynasty is over, it's ended, it's done.
The Splash Brothers are gone, Clay has gone. It's over,
and now he's got to decide what do I want?
(10:51):
Do I want to stay here and just put up
numbers for the next three years or probably what he
has left of being a prime player, or do I
want to try to win a championship and no one's
coming there, so he's gotta go. If he was twenty
seven to twenty eight years old, Hell yeah, people, I'll
go play with Steph. With Kevin Durant did, It's what
others players did. But now when you combine, Hey, Steph
(11:14):
is older, Draymond's not as good. He's older. They've already
broken up. Clay Is that Is that a real destination
for me? It's not. So he's got that decision to make,
and if he wants to win, he should go someplace else.
He should leave at some point, find the contender he
wants to go to. He can have the great tearful
story of what could go on. And you know, in
(11:34):
an off season next year of he doesn't know what
to do, he's torn. Does he want to stay with
his with his team? Does he want to go play
someplace else? I don't know. Oh, it's so said. What
a tough decision for Steph Curry and everybody can have
all kinds of sympathy for him. They want to, Oh,
look at him making the most difficult free agency decision.
The guys won four titles. The guy's a superstarke guy
(11:54):
you don't have. Did he feel sorry for him? But
you know that's gonna be the push. Look at Steph.
Look at Steph. He can have that drawn out drama
in the offseason and then decide, Okay, I want to
go in a title so I'm gonna go play with
the Knicks. I'm gonna go play or maybe say, you
know what, I just want something new. I'm gonna go
to the Hornets where he is an adopted son because
(12:15):
of the life he has there, ringing the gong at
the Hornets games, at the Panthers games. So yeah, he
needs to go someplace else if he wants to win.
Obviously you're not gonna win a title there, but there
are other places that would love to have him. Make
room for him. For a superstar that is very unassuming,
that can assimilate himself in any kind of offense. At
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this point, he can hit threes the way the game
has evolved. Now he's gotta go. If he wants to win,
he should go someplace else, and he should do it
sooner rather than later, because you never know when will
start to come off. I think he's got about three
years left at this level. Maybe the third year is
a little bit down. But man, you gotta decide do
you want to win or do you want to just
stay and be a one town star for your entire
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life and after wards, that's what you gotta decide.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I really thought you were gonna start doing the Rosio
o'donald's speech from Sleepless in Seattle, if I'm remembering that correctly,
or maybe or is that beautiful girls? Either way, it's
a Rosi o' donald's speech about age and how you
have to act because you know the time is right
in all of those things, because maybe you're too old
if you tried to make that decision later on.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Either way, I'll look into my filmography.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But for Steph Curry, I mean, it now becomes how
much did it mean to whoever him or whoever ministers
his account to type in the Olympic accolades and success?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Is that the crowning achievement? Because to hear him talk,
you know that was the icing on the cake. But
he seemed to have a lot of fun hanging out
with Lebron James and Kevin Durant once again, and all
of those guys getting together and making some magic. So
it's the am I done? Have I achieved it? And
(13:57):
how much does the one team really matter?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I would argue.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
It's nice outside looking in he's a guy that still
wants to win, at least, you know from all outward appearances.
You know, based on those shots and how hyped he
was with each one he hit, because he wasn't just
a hey I'm on fire, look at me, look at me,
ten things I hate about you. It was fully a
(14:23):
we're gonna win this thing, and it's on me hitting
three point shots. So you know, it was a crowning
glory moment because remember two of those titles he got
with Golden State, those are Kevin Durant's MVP titles. Right, Hey,
you won, but you needed to go get him. See
works both ways. That's the beauty of sports radio and television.
As we make these arguments, Steph, you only got two
(14:44):
without Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant, you got nothing without him.
So what do we do now you're both a little
bit older, and maybe we team you up again at
Lebron James and now you're the super friends. But to me,
I'd love to see him go somewhere where each game
is still relevant and we're not just as much as
we loved some of those final moments for Kobe Bryant,
(15:06):
would it have been better maybe before the body broke
fully if he was in another uniform. I don't know,
maybe maybe not, Or was it all symbolic and something
the city needed, you know what I mean? And once
the body started to go, it was appropriate to end
with that sixty burger that you and I got to
watch on our watch.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
But for Steph Curry, you're.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Still having big moments, You're still putting down big points
and making big shots. It'd be awful difficult to watch
him slug through the Hey, we're battling for tenth in
the final week of the season again and again and again,
just like this, buddy Lebron, see team them up. Maybe
they voltron it up to the six or seven.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
See look, look, here's the thing. I know that sounds great,
but yeah, teaming up with Lebron in la is is
not going to do it. Okay. It looked great in
the Olympics when they played one game every three days
and they got to play thirty minutes in a game
right in the middle of the summer, when they all
have had time off. Of course Lebron look great. Of
(16:09):
course KD look great. Of course Steph look great. Why
because they've had time off and they're not playing a
lot of minutes. When you get to eighty two games
or sixty five games, what they'll all play and the
slog on NBA playoffs, Yeah, that's when they start to
look old and heavy legs. No teaming up with Lebron. Hey,
it sounds great. And if the NBA schedule goes to
(16:30):
thirty games, hey, I can see where they would be okay.
And if the playoff rounds are best two out of three, yeah,
I think they be okay. But they're not so yeah. No,
that's that's not the place to go, man. That is
that is not a destination.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It was really all just about entertainment value for me
and the fact that most of those games will be
in the window as you and.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I are are on it.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Okay, I'm all about my entertainment because if I'm entertained,
guess what, you and I get to entertain America that
much more. We take it to eleven like we're spital tap.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I like that. I like you did they take that?
Did you know they go to eleven? They go to eleven.
Uh so there it is. There's your hot take. Steph Curry,
if he wants to win again, needs to lead that.
And I don't know that that sounds that hot. I
think even Warriors fans who love me, they love me
and and oh you're a soapop Francis. No, No, let
me there. I'm ready for an interview on K and
br anytime. Uh, Like, I mean, Sarah, you have to
(17:26):
realize that. Yeah, if he wants to win, he's got
to go. He's got he's got it. It's not and
I'm sure Steve Kerr would cry and say, hey, I
wish him the best. We won four titles, we won
a gold medal together. He's always going to be a
Golden State Warrior. And he can even do a lebron
where I could leave him then come back from one
year at the end. What he's always going to be
a warrior legend. No's never gonna be. If he leaves,
(17:48):
people are going to be burning his jerseys on the internet,
and he's, oh, I can't believe people are doing this.
Can't burn my jersey? What's that? God? You know what
not gonna happen?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Somebody will a couple of eyes. No, it's all performance. Sorry,
Like that's all that was. It was performative, like so
many speeches and other things that we see. Show me,
show me your real burning of a lot of jerseys
where there's twenty thousand Warrior fans that got together. I'll
believe you that one jackass in his backyard putting it in
(18:17):
a fire pit.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Performance exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. The
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We have that bizarre story, I promise. Plus, we're gonna
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. You know, I
actually have a Rick Springfield story. You do you want
a Rick Springfield story?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Was this when you were watching General Hospital back in
the day when he was doctor Noah Drake no singing
to Jimmy Hart song go.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
This is about this is about? Oh my goodness, I
was doing all night on ESPN Radio. This is like
maybe two thousand and five, is so, maybe almost twenty
years ago. And somehow my one of my bosses at ESPN,
who's one of the best bosses I ever had, Louise Cornetta,
(20:42):
she said, hey, I got you an invite to the
big ABC like Fall soap opera up front something like that.
It's a big dinner stuff. I said, okay, why am
I going? And she was, well, because we have a
lot of people that want to do stuff with us
at ESPN, and you know, they want to do stuff
(21:02):
with the show, with your show because you're La and everything.
I could go there and you know, hopefully you wind
up meeting some people and everything. I said, sure, I mean,
it's it's a free dinner. I was like, shit's all
you have to do is say free dinner. And I
was there. I care what it was? Oh, free dinner. Yeah,
what do you want me to do? Well, I want
you to eat snails and drive over a bunch of nails.
I'll be there. So I go to the dinner and
I wind up sitting at a table with Thorston K,
(21:24):
who was a really big soap opera actor about twenty
years huge Red Wings fan. Right, I wound up to
spend most of the night talking to him. But Rick
Springfield is there, and he is like the big star,
right because he's bleeping Rick Springfield and one of my
best friend's wives. It was a huge Rick Springfield fan,
like bought everything he bought, you know, his albums, everything else,
and going oh my god, like what like I can't
(21:46):
take a picture with him and send it to her
because that would feel weird, Like, hey, look who I
met and you didn't, right, Like it's kind of weird.
So I don't know. I'm like, ah, what can I do?
What can I do? And I saw what they did
when we all sat down, was we all had name
plates for our seats. I'm like, okay, all right, that's cool,
that's cool. And then I go, oh, I'll wait till
the end. And I'll take his nameplate because it was
you know, done and incursive. It was printed out on
(22:08):
an official invitation to look great. I'm like, oh, I'll
send her this and she'll love it. I'm like, all right, great.
So I just got to go to the table at
the end of the night and I gotta take it.
I'm like, okay, fine. So it's breaking up, the dinner
is over, and he and he gets up and I
wait for him to leave, and I'm like, okay, Rick
Springfield left, all right, that's cool. So I go over
and I go and I pick up the thing and
it's a little piece of paper right like it's maybe
(22:29):
like four inches high and like six inches wide, not
even like that's what it is. And I go to
put it in my pocket and the guy who was
clearing off the table said, sir, what are you doing, sir?
I said, oh, nothing, I'm just grabbing a piece of paper. Sir.
You can't take the name play test or you can't.
I go there are pieces of paper you can't, sir,
you can't. You can't just take one, sir. And also
people are looking at me like this guy's taking a nameplate,
(22:51):
like whoa, whoa? Whoa, whoa, whoa, And and I'm like, oh,
people think I'm an idiot here. I'm like, oh, whoa,
It's just it's just a name tag he left. I'm
just taking. I'm just taking his name to And now
I'm like, now I go, I just have to say
what I'm doing. I'm taking his name tag for a
friend of mine who's a big fan of Rick. And
he looks at he goes, sir, I don't know what
to tell you. He can't take it, but he doesn't
take it from me, and he doesn't sit there and
(23:11):
make a big deal like he's cleaning the table. He's
telling me I can't take it, and I'm like and
then he gets up and he walks away. I go,
did you just do that to embarrass me? Like, why
the hell do you even do that? I get it.
If you're gonna stop and try to take it from me,
you could have my Rick Springfield piece of paper when
you pry it for my cold dead hand, like you
could like, but he did, he got some. And also
he did was embarrass me and people looking at me
going like, who's who's uh, who's who's the bald guy there?
(23:33):
Like is he on any shows, like what is he
doing here? So I just had to leave and I'm like, oh,
this is kind of embarrassing, all because I wanted to
get the Rick Springfield name tag for my friend's wife. Well,
I mean you tried, Like that's a story of my life.
Like would anybody else get get get get a guy
cleaning up the table to yell at them, like in
(23:55):
a situation like that, like.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, I think we've all we've all been down there.
I mean, how many times have you people tried to
take flowers from banquet halls like after parties. I mean
I remember that from the premiere radio parties from the
holidays years ago. You go and and people would be like, yeah,
I'm gonna try to walk out of here with this. Dude,
(24:19):
at least leave the base behind. What do you do
with these? The base isn't free. I'm sure the dead
flowers stoneo, I'm sure they'll be happy you could take those,
But the the actual base no, probably not. Ah, not
a trophy from your attendance at the holiday for leave
those flowers on the wall.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It don't bother me. Uh So, now let me get
that that's Rick Springfield? Did you? Did you progress? To
stealing centerpieces from weddings or did you stop at that point?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Oh well, at that point, you know, as soon as
they they stopped me because I mean, you have to
bring your mouchin satchel.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Where you have seven Vaz's vases.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
We say Vaz because then in the secondary market it's
gonna be more expensive. Oh okay, very good to say
stop me. Then you know, I went on a watch list.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And that one on his wedding centerpiece watch list. Show
the end of it for me. Watch the guy in
the purple suit. He's gonna try to steal that centerpiece
with the flowers on it and steal some stuff. We
promised to give those to the wedding party. But that
guy's going to try to get out with one. He's
probably gonna be all liquored up and he's gonna cause
controversy and gonna yell at you. Just let him go.
(25:33):
We'll get him in the parking lot and we'll get
the centerpiece back from him.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's okay, I'll tell go bro and I got tackled.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
It was a whole thing. So look, we just had
the final snap of the Bears Chiefs game. The Bears
beat the Chiefs thirty four to twenty one. Again, we'll
have an update as soon as we can on Coleman,
who was hurt earlier tonight taking off the field stretcher,
a really scary moment. Again, we're waiting to get something
(26:03):
from the hospital for him. But let's just say, as
we look ahead to tomorrow's games, right, three games tomorrow night,
we got the Jaguars and the Falcons, Dolphins and the Bucks,
Niners and the Raiders. Right, this is the time of
the year, and hey, we don't want to travel very far,
so we're gonna play teams that are really close to us.
All Right, I get it. Now, there's some things everybody's
looking and hoping to see tomorrow night. As you look
(26:24):
at these games, I'll tell you the one thing I
don't want to see. Kyle Shanahan, don't be an idiot.
Don't play brock Perdy. Don't do it. You look stupid
enough playing behind all playing him last week, behind three
backup offensive linemen, no first string skill position players, and
he got hit a bunch. It's like, dude, if he
got hurt, people would say it serves you right because
(26:47):
you put the guy out there behind a bad offensive line? Really,
what is wrong with you? Like this is where someone
needs to go to Kyle SHANNONO, dude, what were you
doing there? What were you doing there? And there's talk
that he and other starters are going to actually play
tomorrow night, like nobody like like, we don't know exactly
what kind of combination there is. We know Trent Williams
isn't there, So already you're playing without your blind side protector.
(27:10):
Really want to risk that? Really want to risk that?
I mean, you have to play the regular season without
it if he doesn't sign. I understand that, but wow,
I really, I really I don't want to see Brock
Perdy play tomorrow night because it was just stupid that
he played last So it is common sense not to
play him with three backup offensive linemen and no good
skill position players. That's just common said no, no, no, no,
(27:30):
not gonna do it now. Hey yeah, yeah, they're gonna
play and maybe play a little bit more in our
final game against the Raiders on Friday night. I really
hope for Brock Purdy's sake, we don't see him and
he's able to withstand the ridiculous decisions of his coach.
This is why I say things like when the Niners succeed,
it pisses me off sometimes because they don't deserve it,
because their front office and some of the decisions that
(27:52):
they make are just ridiculously laborious, or they're stupid like
this one, and yet they step in it. They try
seventeen different ways to get a quor back. Oh, the
guy who's mister irrelevant turns out to be a sixty
million dollars a year player. Hey that works out for us.
What are you gonna do. We're gonna play him behind
backup offensive lineman, and boy he's gonna get hit hard,
but hey we escape that as well. Like this, it's
(28:13):
very Oh, this is a very difficult last few minutes
for Northern California. But I mean it, I look this
and I go, I really don't want to see him
tomorrow night. Don't do it. Don't don't do it, don't
play him tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yeah, it's it seems silly at this point, right, you
either are ready to play or go practice again, don't
don't take the live potential hit. All it takes is
getting nudged. I mean, we're talking about this play out
of the Bearish Chiefs again.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Go back and watch it.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
There's nothing obvious that says signals. You know, it's it's
a big you know, blow, a big event, and he
had to be carted off, the game had to be stopped.
I'm not saying you get something to that level, but
you know, we see injuries. We've seen many through our
years of watching preseason football and getting in to the
regular season. Also a guy that you know much of
(29:04):
your success is predicated on his performance. And with Brandon Au,
Trent Williams, all these guys still in flux. You need
your quarterback, you need your signal caller up and ready
to go. Uh and so adding any level of risk
at this point is just foolhardy.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I really I when I see the Niner succeed, I go,
did they make decisions that are horrible and they still
find a way to succeed? Right? It did? They're they're
they're the kid who doesn't study all semester and then
spends the night before cramming. What'd you get? Oh? I
got a B plus? Man, I went to every single
class and I studied my ass off, and I still
(29:45):
gotta be I don't want me to tell you just
worked out for me? I don't know what to say,
just where I didn't do anything the right way, but boy,
look I wound up getting to B plus in a
better grade than you. Like. That's how I feel. The
forty nine ers are sorry, buddy.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we just don't get the nice things,
which means they're living right in some capacity, or they've
made a deal with the devil. I mean, whatever, wherever
you want to go with that, I mean, either way,
take the high road, the low road, right. Jim harbaughs
and he's singing, say you know here in the Angels,
singing all of those things.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like take it as you will.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
But for the forty nine ers, a lot of missteps,
a lot of great moves, a lot of great uh
you know, scouting.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
And piecing things together.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
But certainly playing with fire is something they what they
like to do.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Tell it's it's hard. It's really hard to see people
do it this way and still succeed. Really, it is,
it is, I really, I don't know. Maybe I go
back to about ten years ago when when I was
at a fantasy football dinner and John Lynch was just
a you know, an analyst on TV, and he asked
me my advice and fancy Jason, what do you think
of this guy for fantasy? Ah, here's what I think
(30:55):
right here and now the guy's running the forty nine ers. Yeah,
and here they are. Look at all the decisions. Here.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You are sitting here with me, Ahsucker.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Exit out, bout of Fresca, exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon Something I
don't want to see tomorrow night. What I want to
see right now is for Steve to saga or tell
me the Mets game is over and they've won. Can
you do that for me, Steve?
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I mean I could say the words, it would be
completely untrue. Yes, I am capable of speaking the English language.
All right, all right, Mets are winning three to one,
bottom of the seventh at San Diego Baseball in a moment,
because we've got two finals from the NFL exhibitions. Tonight,
Ladies and gentlemen, the Chicago Bears went four to oh
in the preseason. They beat the winless Kansas City Chiefs
tonight thirty four to twenty one. That Mahomes guy didn't play,
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but it doesn't matter. It's a win for the Chicago Bears.
Ian book by the way too late touchdown passes for
KC and rookie running back Carson Steele from UCLA for
the Chiefs, four carries fifty yards, including a short touchdown.
Kansas City is giving center Creed Humphrey a new four
year contract a four year extension. Indianapolis was a winner
(32:04):
at windless Cincinnati twenty seven to fourteen, Anthony Richardson one
touchdown pass in the first quarter, but also one interception
return for a td The Eagles acquired wide receiver John
Dotson from Washington. The Commanders traded four kicker Caade York
from Cleveland and released Riley Patterson. San Francisco signed tight
end Logan Thomas. Atlanta gave defensive back aj Terrell a
(32:28):
four year extension. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford practice fully today
against the Texans after hamstring tightness. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets starters will not play Saturday against the Giants.
This is the final week of the preseason. Two Tonight,
three more games Friday. Most teams play on Saturday, three
games on Sunday. By the way, NFL clubs have to
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reduce their rosters to fifty three players by Tuesday, then
the waiver claims by the next day to Major League Baseball.
Today in New York, the Yankee shutout Cleveland six nothing,
allow the Guardians just one hit. Aaron Judge belted his
forty eighth film run of the season. Tonight, Pittsburgh was
a seven nothing winner over Cincinnati. The win to Paul Skeans,
who's eight in two Toronto and Houston with victories. Houston
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is six nothing win at Baltimore beating Corbyn Burns, so
the Orioles are a game and a half behind the
Yankees for first in the Al East. Atlanta edge Philadelphia
three to two. Phillies offense went three for twenty nine
with fourteen strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And the Mets are they're tanking. They're tanking to screw
the Mets every time they beat everybody else except the
teams the Mets are fighting with for the wild card.
They can't beat the Braves, they can't beat the Diamondbacks,
everybody else they beat. But they're tanking because this would
help the Mets if they beat these other teams in thereas.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Because of course who else would be foremost in one's mind, yeah,
going for the playoffs. But but of course New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
See. Now you understand, Steve, Now you get it.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Well, I do understand some things. I'm not sure I
understand what you just said. Three one leaders at San
Diego in the bottom of the seventh Dylan Cease was
the Padre starter. Did have seven strikeouts, pulled in the
seventh inning, allowed just two earned runs. The Mariners fired
manager Scott's Service. Former catcher Dan Wilson will be the
interim skipper. About two months ago, Seattle led the Aos
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by ten games. Since then, its record is twenty and
thirty two, the worst record in the Majors except for
the White Sox so in Major League history. Service is
the first skipper to have a ten game lead and
then be fired before the end of that season.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. So what you're
telling me is there is no Service in Mariner's land anymore.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Thank you, well play, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith
Show is my best friend Mike Carmen Live from Thetirack
dot Com Studios coming up next. This is, without a doubt,
the most bizarre sports story of the day, but it
may open up a new avenue to how people work
in the business. Wait a minute, what y'ah? That's next?
(35:04):
Right here? Jason to Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
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Speaker 1 (35:17):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. And every once
in a while a story comes up that I just
go wow. Sometimes what people decide and say in public
just blows me away. And I don't mean the Staten
Island manager mad at Aaron Judge, Ay, you didn't talk
tom My kids. No. John Sterling, who very famously retired
(35:42):
a couple of months ago as the voice of New
York Yankees, the guy who was announcing Yankee games for
the last ninety years. I think he announced when they
were the Highlanders, before they even even.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They made the trade for Babe Ruth and Susan I
ever could be only one, and I mean the league
folded Susan.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
We have break news here. No Nonnette has been canceled
in Boston and the Yankees are getting Babe Ruth. The
Yankees Witch John Sterling, who retired as a longtime voice
of Yankee games, said that you know, I'd kind of
like to come back and announce the playoff games. Well,
(36:23):
he said the main reason for retiring was travel. Look,
John Sterling's eighty six years old, and uh, I get it. Like,
you know, travel isn't always great. People get sick and
tied of traveling at certain times in their lives. A
guy's been traveling six seven months a year for the
last forty years. Yeah, I get that he's sick and
tied of traveling, so okay, but now he wants to
pull like a Hey, I saw Roger Clemens do this
(36:46):
like fifteen twenty years ago at the Yankees, where I
only want to pitch down the stretch and in the playoffs.
So that's what I'm gonna do the rest of the
time with my family, and I'll come back in August.
Like now, he says, Yeah, I would like to maybe
call some of the Yankee playoff games for him. Oh, hey,
(37:06):
you're somebody else. Who's gonna be Who's gonna be the
fro Okay? Now I ask you this, if you like
this so much, who's gonna be the first sports talk
radio or television personality to say, you know, I only
want to work during the football season. I'll do my
show five days a week during football, but when football
season's over, I'm done. And from the day after the
(37:27):
Super Bowl until we get into the right before the
season starts the end of end of August, someone else
does the show. But I'll come in and I'll do
football when it when it matters, When when football is
here and the most popular sport in the world is
being played, That's what I'll come back. But the other
rest of it not. I know, you take that, but
you'll take me because I'm a big star. So someone
else can do my show for seven months, I'll come
(37:48):
back for five. And that's how it works. Who's gonna
be the first guy to do that? I was gonna
do it half a year.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Let me ponder this, candidate. One take you you actually
have vacation.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You actually have people in mind already.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Or people off the Oh yeah, it makes perfect sense. Yeah,
I'm surprised we haven't.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Gone that way. Listen, maybe and maybe for very special times,
I'll do a special show. The week of the NFL Draft,
I'll do a special show program absolutely and maybe not
the first week of NFL free agency, but the first
three days of free agency when all the big players sign, like,
that's what I'll do. Like, I'll come back for the
That'll be that. But but someone else is doing my show.
(38:37):
Other people are doing my show the rest of the time.
That's gonna be it that. That's what I'm gonna come
out and do. Yeah, I get totally serious. I'll start
typing out the names to you in a minute.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Oh man, Yeah, I've got a couple of candidates.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
This is the best. I love the story, jon Sterling.
He actually, at least he did say, you know, I
feel bad for the guys calling the games during the season.
What do you mean, but what the guys who's actually
job it is to do the game? You feel bad?
I'm coming in. I'm coming into uh to take over. No,
I want to call these games in the playoffs tapping
back in. That's fine, you call your own number or
(39:11):
when it's winning time. I'm rested, I'm ready, I'm fine,
We'll come back. A couple of the ways to twist
up a judge. And last, Yeah, I feel good, I'm
I'm I'm fine, I'm I've rested. Now for a little bit,
I'll come back and call. My voice is feeling good.
The I could do it just like that. A couple
months ago it was the and I was done. But
now I can do the Yeah, I'm ready, let me
(39:34):
come back. I'm ready for October. This is just.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Broadcasting load management. I mean, because we've seen load right guys.
As guys get a little bit older, they don't do
the road trip, right Ken Harrelson for years that with
the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Uh huh. Steve Stone to a degree. Now you've got
tagging out.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Probably some mental health concerns as well with the how
terrible the season was. Uh, but he's a little bit older,
so Gordon Beckham, former infield. There's been getting some run
during this horrid, horrid twenty twenty four seasons.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
You mean he's not still playing for the White Sox
Gordon Beckham, Wow, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
He does look look the part, though still very youthful
in his ocpearrence. A couple of years like this will
age him rapidly. It's like being president. But we like
Grady size more. Look how young Grady Sizemore looks. Oh yeah, job, No,
it's for two or three years at age of fast,
(40:30):
but I don't know you for three years, maybe maybe
another couple of months. By the end of September one,
Hey congratulations, I mean the worst team in the history
of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I need a drink. Oh my goodness. All the accelerator.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
But yeah, you've got that. I mean you look at
basketball with the number of games. Look, you can still
win an award and miss twenty percent of the time
and people are still mad about it.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
So yeah, an.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Opportunity here to just tag in and say, you know,
I'm ready for the playoffs. It's winning time, and I'm back.
Get a big wwe like entrance and away you go.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
All right, I'll come back for Week zero of college football.
But that's the earliest you're gonna get me. Then that's
the earliest you're gonna get me. Rest of the time,
I'm off coming up next. What is the big takeaway
to come away from preseason football action? Tonight? We got
it for you next. Fox
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