September 5, 2024 • 42 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike delve into the Raiders' QB situation and reassess WR Davante Adams' future with the organization. Next, the guys react to Fever guard Caitlin Clark’s historic triple-double as the Fever defeat the Sparks. Finally, Jason and Mike discuss the Los Angeles Dodgers' starting pitcher woes. Don’t miss it!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Here we are getting set closer and closer to day
one of the twenty twenty four NFL season.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
NFL Eve is here.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I always I always get so excited the night before
the regular season starts on day Now, we got games
on Thursday and Friday this week is awesome, which does
on Saturday. But I always get so excited because just
the just the fact that we get something on a
Thursday night there's the build up and it gets to
be like too much, and I'm just I'm just absolutely
(01:22):
foaming at the mouth for every NFL season, But I
like that we get a game to kind of dial
it back and then I can, Okay, then I can
kind of rev it back up again for Sunday and Monday.
And for me it's tough because I got Okay, I'm
revved up, but now, okay, we got the game Thursday, okay,
and then Sunday is a free day for me because
I'm like, yeah, all my stresses Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Night, what am I worried about? It? I got, I
got another worry till Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I got.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I got the I got the Jets and the forty
nine ers on Monday night. That's where my stress is
gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
See I already have.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'll do the show with Andy and Bucky on Sunday morning,
five to seven here at Fox Sports Radio Fox Football
Sunday now year nineteen of being the start start it
Up for the NFL coverage on FSR. Very honored to
be part to bark and all that. And then I'll
imediately be on my phone with my brothers who will
be on their way to Soldier Field for the coronation
(02:12):
of King Caleb.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh nice, very good.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Tell them that I'm sure the police will be watching
them and to be very careful with everything they do.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And by then we'll also, like Friday, I got you know,
double barrel action. We got the NFL game from Brazil.
I also have a Northwestern home game against Duke.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Wow. That's gonna be wow. Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
That's gonna be tough for you. That's idologically. I mean,
you're gonna watch gonna really be distracted.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, all right, I'll tell you what. You know what
that will be. That will be a smart football game.
That guy's gonna be ad. That will be a really
smart football game. Everybody's gonna make the right play. The
coaches will make all the right decisions. It's that's a
smart football game.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But if you haven't seen it, you'll get to watch
it on one of the monitors there in the studio.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
With the brilliant new stadium that's been built.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh this is a thousand strong Yes, the with the
temporary lakeview.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Right, that's what they say, Hey, what a great temporary
lakeview we have.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'll tell you what they started running the economics of
it I've read a couple of reports talking about how
lucrative this actually has been. So they're like, do we
really need that eight hundred million dollars stadium over there?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Hey, things are looking pretty good for its quiet numb skull.
We need eight hundred million form the Oh well, okay,
twelve thousand.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
This looks all right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
We might be to put it in perspective, you know,
just like here in La right, there's always the well,
you know what, the Rose Bowl is nowhere near the
campus and blah blah blah. Well, the Northwestern stadium's off
campus too, not quite so far, but it's off campus.
So the idea is that it becomes a multi purpose
facility going forward to try to contract out you know,
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concerts and whatever else the other events. So the curiosity,
but short term looks like they've got a winner along
the lake front, which was a soccer field, lacrosse field,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, here's what I want your brothers to do, right,
I know, I know I'm not I'm not telling them
to break the law.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But here's I want them to do.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
You're kind of implying immediately by the prefacing it like that, Well,
I don't know if it's really against the law in Illinois. Yeah,
I know the laws here in California.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Here's what I want them to do.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I want them the night before the game to put
up a sign outside the stadium that looks official, that
says future home of the Chicago Bears, and then just
see what happens the way people react to it the
next day.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's all I want. Put it out.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Make it look official, Bear's logo, everything else in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Make it look official. That's what I know. That's pretty good.
I like that.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You know, they did have an incident over outside of
Disneyland where someone was putting up banners promoting whatever their
crypto business was.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Don't forget, we're still talking about crypto. They took that
guy out the back door. Pretty got it, Okay, beat it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So we had a big story, big basketball story coming
your way in a few minutes. But this is the
big drama filled NFL story tonight, and it revolves around
a guy who is absolutely going to be traded Raiders
wide out, Davante Adams. You know, the likelihood of him
staying with the Raiders over the course of this season
is not great. Pushed back on the idea that he
(05:25):
is unhappy with the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
A week ago, Deshaun Jackson went on Colin Coward Show
and said, Hey, I talked to DeVante. You know he's
not happy. Look at what he's got, look at the
quarterback situation they're starting Gardner Minshew, it didn't work with
his guy Derek Carr, so you know he's unhappy. Davante
Adams addressed it today because he was asked about it.
He said, I was going to put out a video
(05:49):
and say something that that completely is the opposite of this.
I didn't want to give this story any oxygen. When
he was asked about it, he said, I kind of
felt I had to respond. He said, at the end
of the day, the facts are the facts, and that
is not a fact that he is unhappy. I've spoken
to de Shan Jackson maybe three or four times in
my life, and I never had a conversation with him
(06:09):
about this ever. And I put that on my kids.
I've never spoken to him about anything. I assume what
he means is I swear on my kids. Now, it's
not my kid's fault. I don't think my kids.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Hey, hey, kids have been talking mess to DeShawn Jacks.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Hey, d Jacks, this is DeVante Sutt Look, dude, he
really hates it here.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's so hot in Vegas. I can't even walk outside.
It's so hot. We have to get in the car,
turn the air conditioner on. We're in the in the garage,
and then we get to leave and I can't even
touch the handle of the car when I leave.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's awful. Man. We gotta get out of here. Can
you get us to New York.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So, basically, what he's saying, I never It's not a
fact that I'm unhappy here, and any anybody saying so
is completely off base. Okay, Well, first of all, what
else is he gonna say? Right, he's got he knows
he's not getting dealt yet. The season is starting in
a few days. He's smart, all right, Devanta Adams knows.
He has said before I'm not here for a rebuild
of any kind, and he has gone on record with
(07:07):
how he feels about a team and a rebuild, and
this is a rebuild. But he's smart, he knows. Look,
I want to keep my career going. I think I
have a few more years left. I want to get
paid again. I want to show everybody I'm an elite receiver,
and you know he's not gonna put up those numbers
here in Vegas. Right last year you watched Jacobe Myers
put up numbers that were pretty good, and there were
times of your thought he was a number one receiver there.
(07:27):
Devont Adams is gonna get traded. It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He's being the good soldier, but he knows that when
you get to week eight, Hey, if we're not contending
and they're not gonna be because again seeing Minshew Comma Gardner,
then he's going to be traded and someone's gonna give
a lot for him. Maybe it's the Jets, maybe it's
not the team. Guys like Davont Adams don't become available
all that often. But the Raiders aren't gonna risk losing him.
(07:51):
They will deal him. It will be near the deadline,
maybe not right up against it. But if the Raiders
start slow, they start poorly, you're.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Getting to set.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You talking to week six, week seven, yeah, I could
see it happening with teams wanting more DeVante Adams. Nothing
has changed my mind. I thought at the beginning of
the year he's gonna get traded by the deadline. He's
still gonna get traded at the deadline. He's just saying
the right things right now.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
No, I mean you got to play the pr game
right now. And look, he did a million interviews. So
depending on which sentence or two you want to parse out,
say nothing of whatever may have been in a conversation
with Deshaun Jackson. Maybe in a room of people where
Deshaun Jackson is one of them, right, it doesn't have
to be a one on one. Hey, we were sitting
down and chatting, like, all right, you're in a group
of folks. You kind of make an offhand remark of, hey,
(08:35):
we'll see how this goes. Well that gets interpreted as well.
He's not happy with what's there. He's a little afraid
of what the raiders are gonna be extrapolate, you know,
from an innocuous shrug of the shoulders or just a
bit of an eye roll of I.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Don't know, ooh, he's unhappy.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Right, tell me, you know, around the hallways of any
job any of you all do across America and across
the globe, listening on the heart radio app wherever you are,
Thanks for being part of the family. You go in,
the family members, your friends, you're whoever they say something
to you, and if they don't give you the full story,
now you're left for the imagination to start running of
(09:14):
what the hell did they mean by that? And it
might not be In the moment you just kind of
nod and go okay, and then you're driving back home
or you're walking back home and you're like, wait, they
didn't really answer that, now, did they? And in this case,
that might very well be what happened. Just kind of
a simple response of Hey, we'll wait and see. It's
a new new squad and coaches trying to figure it out,
and it becomes a negative implication. But make no mistake
(09:39):
about it. He's a good he knows the politics of
this all to start. Don't want to be the bad guy,
don't want to set yourself up as antagonistic. And there's
plenty of suitors out there. You mentioned the Jets, We've
seen the Commanders. You've got a bunch of these hold
in a holdouts guys, and we're already If you look
at an injury list for Week one Jason soft tissue
(10:00):
injuries everywhere, there's about thirty seven guys I've already listed
as hamstring question mark, right, maybe able to go in
Week one? What does that mean long term? So suddenly
you've got a bunch of would be contenders, whether it
be Cincinnati or some of these other places where suddenly
they moved to the table to say, hey, what's it
(10:21):
gonna take come mid season? Particularly if Kansas City looks
better than they did a year ago, which is I
think what we're all anticipating, right, better balance, not relying
on the defense, and that Patrick Mahomes is back to
his old self. That said, the Raiders look around and say, hey,
we can spin this off, maybe get ourselves a bunch
of draft assets, which can then be bundled up to
(10:43):
go up and get a quarterback, go up and get
the top wide receiver for the next iteration or maybe both.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Now, why would he be traded to the deadline? Why
wouldn't they keep him trade him in the offseason? This
is the deal with DeVante Adams. He has a potential
out after this. Okay, So with the potential out and
the fact that if the Raiders keep him the next
two years, he's a thirty three year old receiver making
thirty five million dollars a year, Right, so the last
(11:13):
two years of his deal. After this year, it jumps
up thirty three million, thirty five million. So are they
gonna get a ton for him? Probably not. They will
wind up, they will wind up spinning him off. There
will be some kind of of I would say, a
bidding war. But it's not gonna be It's not gonna
be crazy because in the end, it's okay. If we
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want to keep him for and we're paying him all
that money, we're not gonna give you a lot. If
we're gonna if we're good, if he's gonna have the
out at the end of the year, we're not gonna
give you a lot. So it's not like you're gonna
get anything for him, but you will. They will move
on from him just so they don't wind up in
a situation in the offseason where well, we don't get
anything at all, or and we wind up not coming
(11:54):
to agreement. The out happens, they'll take the dead capit,
which is about I think sixteen million dollars is not
a not a big deal. So nothing points to the
fact that it's advantageous for them to keep him past
the deadline, because of the out and the fact his
contract jumps to thirty three million for next year and
thirty five million the year after that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
So that's just.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How it's going to go, right, It's it will be
the great movie. And then look, does he have a
lot of football left?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Am I thrilled paying DeVante Adams for the next couple
of years at thirty three million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
No, but it is two years. You could work it out.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Everything I'm saying here is telling you there there's going
to be people interested to some way, shape or form,
even if you're not crazy about it, there is a
way to go get him, and you get one of
the top receivers in the NFL. And maybe this guy's
a difference maker for you to get to the super Bowl.
But by the time we get to the deadline, and
you'll start here in the whispers, if the Raiders start
off slow, if they get if they're one and three
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or zero and four, or they wind up making a
quarterback change to Aid and O'Connell, when really DeVonta Adams
is like, Okay, now I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Uh yeah, it's it's gonna happen. By the deadline.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
If you said one guy that I would be sure
that's gonna be on a new team, it's Davante Adams
now will be the Jets. If Mike Williams is really
good and and and he's healthy and right, and Malachai
Corley is good, you know they drafted him in the
second reason you're a good receiver. Potentially, No, but they
would be at the top of my list if they're
(13:16):
if they're suffering at all, because the Jets know this
isn't all in season for them. Right as much as
the forty nine ers are in an all in season,
it's also all in for the Jets because of Rogers.
If it flames out, Rogers is gone. And we're saying, okay,
Jordan Travis, let's see how great yard a year. But
you know it's not quite to the to the point
where the Jets are the super Bowl window was closing
(13:37):
because their defense is really young and it's really good,
and they got young playmakers on offense. They're not paying
all these guys that the forty nine ers are. But
make no mistake, the Jets are all in on this
year for Aaron Rodgers. And if they're struggling, if they're
singing five hundred. They'll be the ones to make that
trade with the with the Raiders for for whatever it's
gonna wind up being. For DeVante Adams, he'll be reunited.
It'll all be singing Kumbaya together. Garrett Wilson's gonna say,
(13:58):
I'm so excited have a guy on the other side
of you taking the pressure off, and and.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And we'll go from there.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So I would say the Jets would still be the favorites,
but somebody else clearly could do it. But bottom line
is he's gonna be gone.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah, unless the absolute opposite happens. And and guess what,
the defense rises up and the offense is moderately efficient.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Minshew fourteen touchdowns in the first three games.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Who knew.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
But he's a guy that can wing it around for
a couple of weeks. And maybe it's all false hope,
but he can show it to chaos.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We've seen it before, everybody in Vegas wearing fake mustaches
and jorts like that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
To be got I drive to Vegas just to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
That seems like with all these theme data we do
it ballpark. But yeah, all the theme days that we
do at ballparks hey, dress up as Star Wars people,
dress up with in your greatest cowboy outfit? How do
you not do that? While he's the starter and at
least in one section, encourage everybody to show up their best, Minshew.
(15:01):
I think I think you need him to play well
first and then you can do it, because if you
if he's not playing well and you do it, it
looks really bad.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
It's a dangerous thing. Get it scheduled.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Now, get the gardner, Minshew, George's bobblehead ready to go.
Everybody coming to the game gets.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I'm gonna see if I can find one that's already
been produced. But the bigger thing is, you know, hey,
you can at least create a little market for fake
mustaches around Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ah, you could, you could, or real mustaches. People would
grow them if he's that good after a little wap people,
that's true, I love a mustache. A lot of folks
grow some really bad much mustaches.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Though there's a lot of wispy, patchy, kind of useless
things going on there.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Sometimes they don't grow in the way you expect them to.
Now I'm with you on that. It happens, but get ready.
Davante Adams tick tick tic tic tic tic.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Tic tic tic the like that tick tick tick tic tic.
You're just so hoping he's a Jet. That's all you're
trying to do. You're just trying to come on.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I said, no, no, this is not me being a
little bit, but I mean, come on, he loves Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers made him hundreds of millions of dollars. Sure,
where else do you want to go? At thirty three?
You want to start over with a new quarterback and
expect to Hey, maybe we have the chemistry here. Hey,
I didn't know, but maybe me and Dak Prescott can
get on the same page. No, of course, not may
you want to go? I want to go where I
(16:20):
know the guy, where I can jump into an offense
where I can succeed right away. And if it's an
Aaron Rodgers offense, then I know I can jump in
and do it. So yeah, of course the Jets are
gonna have a big advantage for that.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, and he can tell Hackett what to do too,
so it works exactly another guy, and then we bump
hack it down a bit.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
See here here, Matt, you're gonna answer to a couple
of guys. Now, okay, So now Rogers.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
To a senior offensive advisor.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Now, yeah, it goes Rogers Wilson Hall. Now we're putting
Adams in there. Then, you know, okay, so.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
You still got Breece Hall telling him what to do too,
of course, got Breese Hall telling him what to do.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Come on, man, don't worry. Your badge still works. You're
still part of senior staff. You're still on all the meetings.
But just now you're rank by more guys.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
All right, just so you are to se we'd have, however,
moved your parking spot. It's over there in the second lot.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
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He happy to be back, tight shirts off for like
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Speaker 3 (19:58):
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I don't think he gets I don't think Colin gets
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Speaker 3 (20:04):
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Speaker 7 (20:04):
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How do you It's like we're in radio, Like you
leave for a week. It's like, okay, that's a long time.
A little bit over a week. As man, that's a bit.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Nah, I'm going for like three weeks. I'm good, I'm out.
I'll see you later.
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I am still stunned that you were gone for John
Stamos's birthday.
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I went to his party as often.
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As you bring him up on the show John Stage,
and you know who this was, John Stamos. You leave
for his birthday sixty one years old? E turn, you
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Know I was there. I blew out the candles with him.
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Does that mean you were on stage and hanging out
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Not a fan of them.
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No, you weren't on.
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Stage taking a little bit of cocomo or anything.
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I was backstage.
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He doesn't even know who the beach Boys are. He
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Speaker 7 (20:57):
Every time I go to the beach, I see the boys.
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See there you go, Okay, beach boys. That's the beach boys.
That's what it is.
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Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Tyser thinks you say beach boys, and Tyser thinks, who
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Where do they play?
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Is that what they called it?
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The guys at the you now boys on the beach,
That's what the beach boys.
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Speaker 1 (21:23):
Absolute history tonight and something a little bit different on
someone who has stirred the drink for a long time
since she first set foot on a professional court.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Tonight, Caitlyn Clark and the Fever.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
After clinching a playoff berth a night ago, they play
the Sparks at home tonight. To no one's surprise, they win.
The Sparks have been hurting no Cameron Brings since the
beginning of the season. This has been one of those. Hey,
maybe after we get Paigebackers will be great next year.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
So they're thinking, maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Hey, you know what she colored her hair? Right, you
got purple hair, now Paigebackers, what colored she make her hair?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
She was over at the US Open, has been out
the couple of times, and it's making the rounds and
getting the pub ready for college bucket season.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Let's go remember my joke beginning of the year when
I said, boy, you think the Fever stake. Now you
wait on Page Beckers is playing with Kitlyn Clark next year. No,
it's not happening anymore. No, Page Beckers is gonna be
on the Sparks. So the Fever are beating the Sparks.
Ninety three eighty six. There's only a few seconds left
in the game, and it has been another incredible game
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for Caitlyn Clark. She is one rebound shy of a
triple double. Again, the game is over. There's only gonna
be one more play.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
We're gonna get a shot from the Sparks, and this
is how the game ended. It's up, it won't go.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Clk pulls it down and this building knows what that means.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Kelsey miss is gone.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Oh, it's a triple double for Caitlin. What a reaction by.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Kelsey there, it is a fever TV on the call.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Caitlyn Clark just the second triple double by a rookie
in WNBA history.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh, by the way, she has the other one.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Her reaction was great. Did you know you needed that
rebound for the triple double? Of course, of course you
saw her smiling as soon as she grabbed that. She
knew she had nine rebounds, She need one more. Crowd
went insane. Now there were three three players there. I
would have been nice if someone else was trying to
reach a milestone, so we really could have fought it out.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Look, sometimes sometimes the sky let Angel Reese get rebounds.
Sometimes the fever let Caatelyn Clark get a rebound. It
happens that way. But the plot, it's just keep coming
every day. Is something new. Today she's the fastest player
in w history to reach one hundred and three pointers
in a season. Is it's just an insane thing we
keep saying, and other players are doing it as well.
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You see already the record for rebounds for Angel Reese.
And to take this conversation in a different direction, right,
because we talked about last night. The race for Rookie
of the Year is over. It's an MVP situation with
her and Asia Wilson. Oh, by the way, we talked
about that two weeks ago, So congratulations to everybody else
who wants to rant and rave about that in the
last couple of days.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Again, ju bet him at eighteen to one to win
it all?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Though, again, yeah, why not? Right? Why not? Why not
eighteen to one? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Kaitlyn Clark there, Hey, you've got three players who are
playing terrific right now with her and Mitchell and you know,
and you got Lexi Hull off the bench. Who's the
WNBA's version of Dennis Rodman. She's in every other game player, right,
Boston's playing Well, you.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Were going lamar odam right, Yeah, the every other's.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Lamar odem in the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But that's a situation, that's a thing we talked about NBA,
WNBA MVP. It's not oh, it's not Player of the Year.
This is why Caitlyn Clark and Asia Wilson is a
tighter race than you think. But for something a little
bit different, Charles Barkley did an interview today where he
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talked about how the WNBA has screwed things up with
all the petty jealousy for Caitlyn Clark. Again, Welcome to
the conversation, Charles again. Being able to handle success is
a thing. You think it's not because you want success
is here. Everything is great, just ask anybody. He's won
the lottery and all of a sudden amount of money.
But I didn't know what to do right. But that's
what I'm from the beginning, before she even walked into
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the league, when I said, that's the big thing. Can
they handle success? Because they're about to be more successful
than they ever dreamed. Caitlin Clark is not just a
star player coming in. She is a transformative player. She
is Magic and Larry together. That's what it is coming
into the w and the other people who wanted to say,
oh yeah, imagine Larry Her and the Angelies. Yeah, okay, again,
you got it wrong. At least if you're gonna steal
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from us, get it right. But that's okay because information
is free. But this is the best part of the
jealousy and everything else that's gone on with Caitlin Clark
over the course of the year. There is no better
way to shut up the haters and the people who
want to be petty and they want to be jealous
of you. There is no better way than to metaphorically
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smile and point up high and say scoreboard right. There
is no better way to shut out everybody up because
Caitlyn Clark is not saying anything off the court on this.
And for me, it'd be impossible if I came in
and I was playing really well and I knew that
I got I got a charter flights for everybody and
the three billion dollar TV deal, and if someone wanted
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to rip me, I would say, no, come to my
house for in here, I'm gonna tell you I really
feel about this.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I'm ready, I got a microphone. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But she does all her talking on the court, and
she's not a shrinking violet. She's someone that you want
to give it to her on the court, she'll give
it right back to you. She will be the aggressor
on the court, but it's on the court. Off the court,
there's no talk about what she's doing. There's no braggadocio,
there's no anything, there's no I'm upset with not being
on the Olympic team. There's none of that. When the
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w resumed after the Olympic break, what do we say,
Here comes the Caitlyn Clark middle finger to her. You
think reality was there for her the first half. Okay,
you watch what happens now and look at what she's
been doing, been laying waste to the rest of the league.
She's the best point guard in the league. Everything that
comes up, Cheryl swoops. So I want to talk about Caitlyn.
I want to talk about other players and give them credit.
(27:05):
For some reason, I don't want to talk about Kaitlyn
smile nod scoreboard, Cheryl scoreboard.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Oh no, you know that all started by her getting
it wrong that she did an extra year in college.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I mean really, stats, Yeah, I mean really.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Nancy Lieberman and her don't even talk because they argue
about Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But all of the controversy, Oh not pick for the
Olympic team. Well, we don't know what we do with
her fans if she doesn't play, which is a ridiculous answer.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You know, the players didn't want her.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, smile scoreboard, all right, Hey, reality's coming for Caitlyn Clark.
Diana Torossi. I'm old enough to remember her saying that, Yeah, smile, nod. Scoreboard, Diana, scoreboard.
You know, Angel Reese might actually be the rookie of
the year. ESPN had some crazy metric the other day
that said she's actually been better than Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Uh huh, uh huh.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Scoreboard, guys, scoreboard, Scoreboard to what I'm doing. Scoreboard to
my team as we rise up the standings. Now we're
looking for home court advantage in the first round of
the playoffs. We have seven games and six of them
are at home, and watch us continue to roll.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Scoreboard, guys, scoreboard, Look at me, look at what we're doing. Scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And that's the best way to get People who are petty,
are jealous and really don't argue with logic or have
legs to stand on. They just don't like Caitlyn Clark
because that all goes away. Because the more you keep
doing that, the more you keep achieving. They say, all right,
I just don't want to look stupid anymore, so I'm
just gonna stop saying things. So what's gonna happen now,
I guarantee it is. You're gonna see the criticism of
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Caitlyn Clark diminish because now everybody knows as much as
I don't like her for whatever reason, because she I'm
jealous because you know, other girls should be get other
players should be getting success, other women should be getting
the success. Now, whatever it is, that's gonna go away,
and everybody, all the haters are gonna bide their time
and they're gonna hope, and they're gonna hope, okay, that
we get to the playoffs and the Fever get in
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and they get thumped in the first round, or they
know they barely get out of the first round and
they get thumped by Connecticut or New York, and we
can and say.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Ah see, she's overrated. We knew it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look what happens when she goes up against good competition.
They should turn the ball over seven times a game.
Her team went on. That's what they're hoping for right now.
So really, I would be stunned if you heard more
people visibly critical of Caitlin Clark over the next few
games until the playoffs start, because really, what else can
you say at this point She's gonna be a finalist for.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
MVP ill right right?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
We told you this A couple of weeks ago. She's
gonna be a finalist for MVP. What else can you
say about her? Anything you do say, people are gonna
look at you and laugh and go you really want
to say that. You really want to look like that.
You really want to say something like that. Really you
really want that to be what people think about you
when you break down basketball. You really want that to be.
So I guarantee you from here on out, it's gonna
be really quiet. But they're all gonna sit and lie
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and wait and hope that they can jump back up
when the playoffs come and say, ah, I see, we knew,
we knew you overrated because you lost in the second
round to the Liberty, who you know, were one of
the top two teams in the league and they should
be winning.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But haha, we knew you weren't this good. That's what
they're hoping for.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Oh, we do that all the time, right, Lamar Jackson.
He opens up a new season tomorrow. He's a two
time MVP and one of the most dynamic players we've
seen in you could pick your time frame. I'll just
say in the course of my lifetime watching football. But
he hasn't won in the playoffs. So that's the lead boy,
one of the greatest players of our generation. But and
(30:23):
go on down the line. You know Lebron James his
first several years in this in the league.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Wow, what a force.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
He's really living up to all the hype when he
was on the cover of Sports Illustrate everything else. But
and keep going up for Caitlin Clark. It's the same thing,
all right. Everybody just has to be quiet now because
of all the records falling and the fact that the
Fever are winning. If the Fever were still struggling and
putting up a bunch of clunkers time and again, the
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turnover rate is up and you can point to that, Hey, look,
points off turnovers. Well, that was one of the laughable
things today. First quarter Fever had a ton of turnovers.
I want to say that's it or eight because the
sparks and this gets back into that conversation of how
do you not hit an open lamp. They hadn't converted
anything off of any of those turnovers, so it might
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have been the first time you could ever put up
a graphic that said seven turnovers points off turnovers. This
is now surely not killing him. They got a big
zero there. See it's got nothing there. You sure that's right. Yeah, No,
that's right. They converted nothing and it went back the
other way. So for Caitlin Clark, you know, game after game,
different milestones, different accolades, and you know, to kind of
put the the bow on it and punctuated for you,
(31:34):
you know, her postgame presser and even when she got
back the post game interview on the court and then
the press are after everything, it was to push praise
back onto her teammates, particularly Kelsey Mitchell, and that she
seems to have found whatever common ground she needed with
her coach, which is something we'd harped on quite a
(31:54):
bit over the course of the season in trying to
figure that out. But now your player of the month,
back to back player of the week, and her response
was to talk about Kelsey Mitchell and folks can say, oh,
it's false.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
You know, that's she just knows the spot.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Isa. She's been consistent that way.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Again.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
She forearm shivers people just as many times as she
gets gets them right, all of those things. But in
terms of how she handles the praise, uh, she's still
distributing and trying to build team. The team photos that had,
you know, the goals for the year. Everybody else's playoff
with some wacky pos hers is getting ready for a
(32:34):
bounce pass and it says, smile, come.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
On, exit about of Fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Swalling down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carbon This is how you handle haters. This is
at just point and say scoreboard, scoreboard, that's why. And
she's doing it absolutely, But I couldn't do it because
I like to talk too much and I want to
make sure I want to I want.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
To slay you with the microphone.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
But now, hey, I'm okay, I'll do all my talking
on the court and the end smile and go scoreboard.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Take all your derision at how about a Fresco at
swollen Dome?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
All right now? Hey, speaking of taking your derision, it's
Brian Finley who's got what's yes in the wide world
as well.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Hey, yeah, and Micah Jason speaking of pointing the scoreboard,
I think that's what Yanick Sine could do. The the
one overall seed, the best men's tennis player right now
with his win tonight in the quarterfinals of the US Open,
doing it in four sets against the five seed Danil
Medvedev for the first time in Center's career. He is
headed to the semi final of the US Open, which
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is also the same feet accomplished by the sixth seeded
American on the women's side, Jessica Pegoula, who earlier tonight
won six two sixty four over world number one on
the women's and egas Fia Techo Pagoula, making it a
first time in her career into the final four of
the US Open. Meanwhile, in Major League Baseball, we've got
(33:53):
one loan game still going on. Can we go to
extras That is a possibility, but right now it's in
the top of Then that's the Tigers taking on the
NL wild card leading Padres. Yeah, they're all square at
five at this point. Phillies over the Blue Jays four
to two. White Sox thunder past the Orioles eight to one.
(34:14):
So with that loss for the Orioles, they then dropped
into a typher first in the Al East, but then
took the lead back after the Yankees got beat tonight,
they made a comeback, but they couldn't quite pull it
off in the end. It was ten to six against them.
Rangers win in Texas Angels over the Dodgers ten to one.
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The Diamondbacks find a way six to four over the Giants.
Also wins for the Cardinals in tenantnings that came against
the Brewers the Cubs with the combined no hitter. It's
the fourth no hitter this year in Major League Baseball.
This was a combined no hitter with three pitchers on
the way to a twelve to nothing win over the Pirates.
(34:56):
The Orioles winning over the Guardians four to one. That
was a game you could watch on FS one. Mets
seven games in a row that they have won. Jesse
Winker hit a Grand Slam in the first inning and
the Mets overcome the Red Sox eight to three. Also
wins for the Rays in Marlins. And lastly, guys, just
showing you how all of this sort of matriculates and
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adds up when it comes to the wild card standings.
Diamondbacks and Padres are currently tied for first in the
three allotted spots in the wild Card on both ends,
and then you've got the Braves with that third and
final spot on the NL side. Mets with their win
their half game out Chicago Cubs are four and half
(35:38):
games out Yankees, despite their loss, are first in the
AL wild Card.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
You got the Twins and Royals right.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
There, and the White Sox are forty four games back
of that third and final wildcards spot in the AL.
So Mike, we have less than forty four games, right,
I'm assuming, Yeah, Okay, just just checking.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
It's a final.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
It's a final. It's a final for me, it's.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
A final for Brian Finley. Everybody, seven, eight, nine, ten,
You're out.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Thanks, he had a good run.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
He's gonna go back and watch a ninth inning of
the Tigers and the Padres. Now who you can coming
up next? You hear Mike Harmon say all the time,
hope is not a strategy. Well, there is a team
that is the overwhelming favorite to win a championship where
now it looks like coming up for the next month,
hope is their strategy and that ain't a good thing.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
That's next Radio Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (36:39):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
YEP live fromthtirack dot com studios. You know, as we're
fond of saying on the show, hope is not a strategy.
Hope is also a dangerous thing if you watch too
much Shawshank. But hope is not a strategy.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
You're saying I watch Shawshank too much.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
But when you come into work every night and try
to scratch Brooks was here on the top of the ceiling,
I tell you to get down.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
You can't do that, man.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
We I'll bet you they're gonna throw me out. So
I figured I'd get to work on it, one letter
at a time.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Harmon was here.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
But to show you how fast a team goes from
no problems to all kinds of problems, I submit to
you the Los Angeles Dodgers, Right, this is not about
the playoffs. It's not about getting in. They're almost thirty
games over five hundred because their lineup just mashes. But
you are talking about needing an extended run in October
(37:41):
for Dave Roberts to save his job, and to think
that all and for all the moves they made signing
Otani him, deferring money, getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto for making that
all to be worth it. And right now the Dodgers'
only strategy for October is to hope, to hope that
something has been starting pitching wise where they can survive,
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because they've had the worst last seven to ten days
starting pitching wise in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
What we've seen over the last seven to ten days.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
They're still waiting for Tyler glassno their ace, to come back.
He hopes to get a couple of starts before the
end of the season. When you're talking about hoping a
guy is coming back at the end of the year
and he wants to make a start or two, that's hope.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
That's not a strategy.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
You're hoping that Yamamoto can come back for a few
starts in September. We've heard maybe the Dodgers are holding
him back, that potentially he's ready. They want to wait.
But again, you're hoping that guy comes back in September,
and you're hoping that he pitches well. Right Bobby Miller tonight, Hey,
maybe he's a guy. He gives up six runs in
the first two winnings and gets pasted by the Angels.
(38:48):
His era is almost eight. You're hoping that he gets it.
You are hoping that Clayton Kershaw comes back at some point,
but with a bad toe.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
You go on the il this close to the.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
End of the season, Clayton Kershaw may have thrown his
last pitch, not just this season, but as a Dodger.
You're hoping he comes back. You are hoping Walker Bueller
gets it going at some point and can maybe get
close to being the pitcher he was. To ask him
to come all the way back, forget it, he's been
gone for too long. You're just hoping he's serviceable at
this point. You're hoping this is hope for the majority
(39:21):
of their starting pitchers, because if you were starting the
playoffs tomorrow, right, and they don't start tomorrow luckily, but
you're saying, Okay, Jack Flaherty is starting Game one. He's
been great, Dodgers love him. He's been tough, he's been
exactly what they needed, right. Gavin Stone is then starting
Game two, okay, And then you have no idea it
may as well be Kofax or Jerry Royce or Fernando Valens. Well,
(39:46):
you're going game one, Jack Flaherty. We feel pretty good too,
here's Gavin Stone in game two, and then game three
we have no idea.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Game four, we have less of an idea.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Game five, can we get a rain out of some
kind so we can bring Jack Flaherty back? Like this
is how it is the Dodgers getting into October. Their
strategy to get for is now his hope. And that's
not a strategy.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I'm moderately curious as to the synapses firing to get
the second guy in the roster there, Jerry Royce. But
you know you skipped right past Don Sutton and several
other loops I did.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Don saw Don Sutton? Man who man.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I know their nemesis is Oral Hersheizer, but I gotta
figure he factors into the equation.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh, because he could go right from the broadcast move
and say, guys, look I gotta go in, and then
he goes and does the game.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
That's what maybe does in the pitch.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Sure, yeah, I mean, and either way, the biggest thing
for the Dodgers is not that they're world beating, It's
that can you get them past the fifth inning?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Because then you're playing the roulette game of how many
relievers do I have to go through in the next.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Oh playoff, Dave, he's, well, he's getting ready for those.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
But he's had to do it all season.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I mean Walker Bueller hasn't pitched more than five innings
in a start since the thirty first May. Right, he
got five innings in that game against the Angels yesterday.
That's the longest start in over two months, two and
a half months. So you're talking about that Stone's been
(41:14):
great at times, and Bobby Miller, you're hoping that you
see some glimpses of.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
The guy that he was.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Kershaw can't walk may just go on down the line.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
It all comes down to are you pulling the right
trigger out of the bullpen each and every night that
is really the curiosity for the dog, or are you
just out out slamming everybody right.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Suddenly if that offense clicks.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
But when it comes to short series in playoffs, you're
not banking on that because you're facing aces right, getting
rotations lined up and everything else. So, yeah, it is
the most curious time of year. But what do we
always say with the Dodgers, Tell me when it's October
and then we'll know.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallendum, hope is not
a strategy coming up next? Who's going to the Super Bowl, Mike,
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Well.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Here we are getting set closer and closer to day
one of the twenty twenty four NFL season.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
NFL Eve is here.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I always I always get so excited the night before
the regular season starts on day Now, we got games
on Thursday and Friday this week is awesome, which does
on Saturday. But I always get so excited because just
the just the fact that we get something on a
Thursday night there's the build up and it gets to
be like too much, and I'm just I'm just absolutely
(01:22):
foaming at the mouth for every NFL season, But I
like that we get a game to kind of dial
it back and then I can, Okay, then I can
kind of rev it back up again for Sunday and Monday.
And for me it's tough because I got Okay, I'm
revved up, but now, okay, we got the game Thursday, okay,
and then Sunday is a free day for me because
I'm like, yeah, all my stresses Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Night, what am I worried about? It? I got, I
got another worry till Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I got.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I got the I got the Jets and the forty
nine ers on Monday night. That's where my stress is
gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
See I already have.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'll do the show with Andy and Bucky on Sunday morning,
five to seven here at Fox Sports Radio Fox Football
Sunday now year nineteen of being the start start it
Up for the NFL coverage on FSR. Very honored to
be part to bark and all that. And then I'll
imediately be on my phone with my brothers who will
be on their way to Soldier Field for the coronation
(02:12):
of King Caleb.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Oh nice, very good.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Tell them that I'm sure the police will be watching
them and to be very careful with everything they do.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
And by then we'll also, like Friday, I got you know,
double barrel action. We got the NFL game from Brazil.
I also have a Northwestern home game against Duke.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Wow. That's gonna be wow. Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
That's gonna be tough for you. That's idologically. I mean,
you're gonna watch gonna really be distracted.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, all right, I'll tell you what. You know what
that will be. That will be a smart football game.
That guy's gonna be ad. That will be a really
smart football game. Everybody's gonna make the right play. The
coaches will make all the right decisions. It's that's a
smart football game.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But if you haven't seen it, you'll get to watch
it on one of the monitors there in the studio.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
With the brilliant new stadium that's been built.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh this is a thousand strong Yes, the with the
temporary lakeview.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Right, that's what they say, Hey, what a great temporary
lakeview we have.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'll tell you what they started running the economics of
it I've read a couple of reports talking about how
lucrative this actually has been. So they're like, do we
really need that eight hundred million dollars stadium over there?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Hey, things are looking pretty good for its quiet numb skull.
We need eight hundred million form the Oh well, okay,
twelve thousand.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
This looks all right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
We might be to put it in perspective, you know,
just like here in La right, there's always the well,
you know what, the Rose Bowl is nowhere near the
campus and blah blah blah. Well, the Northwestern stadium's off
campus too, not quite so far, but it's off campus.
So the idea is that it becomes a multi purpose
facility going forward to try to contract out you know,
(03:54):
concerts and whatever else the other events. So the curiosity,
but short term looks like they've got a winner along
the lake front, which was a soccer field, lacrosse field,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well, here's what I want your brothers to do, right,
I know, I know I'm not I'm not telling them
to break the law.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But here's I want them to do.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
You're kind of implying immediately by the prefacing it like that, Well,
I don't know if it's really against the law in Illinois. Yeah,
I know the laws here in California.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Here's what I want them to do.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I want them the night before the game to put
up a sign outside the stadium that looks official, that
says future home of the Chicago Bears, and then just
see what happens the way people react to it the
next day.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's all I want. Put it out.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Make it look official, Bear's logo, everything else in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Make it look official. That's what I know. That's pretty good.
I like that.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You know, they did have an incident over outside of
Disneyland where someone was putting up banners promoting whatever their
crypto business was.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Don't forget, we're still talking about crypto. They took that
guy out the back door. Pretty got it, Okay, beat it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So we had a big story, big basketball story coming
your way in a few minutes. But this is the
big drama filled NFL story tonight, and it revolves around
a guy who is absolutely going to be traded Raiders
wide out, Davante Adams. You know, the likelihood of him
staying with the Raiders over the course of this season
is not great. Pushed back on the idea that he
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is unhappy with the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
A week ago, Deshaun Jackson went on Colin Coward Show
and said, Hey, I talked to DeVante. You know he's
not happy. Look at what he's got, look at the
quarterback situation they're starting Gardner Minshew, it didn't work with
his guy Derek Carr, so you know he's unhappy. Davante
Adams addressed it today because he was asked about it.
He said, I was going to put out a video
(05:49):
and say something that that completely is the opposite of this.
I didn't want to give this story any oxygen. When
he was asked about it, he said, I kind of
felt I had to respond. He said, at the end
of the day, the facts are the facts, and that
is not a fact that he is unhappy. I've spoken
to de Shan Jackson maybe three or four times in
my life, and I never had a conversation with him
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about this ever. And I put that on my kids.
I've never spoken to him about anything. I assume what
he means is I swear on my kids. Now, it's
not my kid's fault. I don't think my kids.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Hey, hey, kids have been talking mess to DeShawn Jacks.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Hey, d Jacks, this is DeVante Sutt Look, dude, he
really hates it here.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
It's so hot in Vegas. I can't even walk outside.
It's so hot. We have to get in the car,
turn the air conditioner on. We're in the in the garage,
and then we get to leave and I can't even
touch the handle of the car when I leave.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's awful. Man. We gotta get out of here. Can
you get us to New York.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So, basically, what he's saying, I never It's not a
fact that I'm unhappy here, and any anybody saying so
is completely off base. Okay, Well, first of all, what
else is he gonna say? Right, he's got he knows
he's not getting dealt yet. The season is starting in
a few days. He's smart, all right, Devanta Adams knows.
He has said before I'm not here for a rebuild
of any kind, and he has gone on record with
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how he feels about a team and a rebuild, and
this is a rebuild. But he's smart, he knows. Look,
I want to keep my career going. I think I
have a few more years left. I want to get
paid again. I want to show everybody I'm an elite receiver,
and you know he's not gonna put up those numbers
here in Vegas. Right last year you watched Jacobe Myers
put up numbers that were pretty good, and there were
times of your thought he was a number one receiver there.
(07:27):
Devont Adams is gonna get traded. It's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He's being the good soldier, but he knows that when
you get to week eight, Hey, if we're not contending
and they're not gonna be because again seeing Minshew Comma Gardner,
then he's going to be traded and someone's gonna give
a lot for him. Maybe it's the Jets, maybe it's
not the team. Guys like Davont Adams don't become available
all that often. But the Raiders aren't gonna risk losing him.
(07:51):
They will deal him. It will be near the deadline,
maybe not right up against it. But if the Raiders
start slow, they start poorly, you're.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Getting to set.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You talking to week six, week seven, yeah, I could
see it happening with teams wanting more DeVante Adams. Nothing
has changed my mind. I thought at the beginning of
the year he's gonna get traded by the deadline. He's
still gonna get traded at the deadline. He's just saying
the right things right now.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
No, I mean you got to play the pr game
right now. And look, he did a million interviews. So
depending on which sentence or two you want to parse out,
say nothing of whatever may have been in a conversation
with Deshaun Jackson. Maybe in a room of people where
Deshaun Jackson is one of them, right, it doesn't have
to be a one on one. Hey, we were sitting
down and chatting, like, all right, you're in a group
of folks. You kind of make an offhand remark of, hey,
(08:35):
we'll see how this goes. Well that gets interpreted as well.
He's not happy with what's there. He's a little afraid
of what the raiders are gonna be extrapolate, you know,
from an innocuous shrug of the shoulders or just a
bit of an eye roll of I.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Don't know, ooh, he's unhappy.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Right, tell me, you know, around the hallways of any
job any of you all do across America and across
the globe, listening on the heart radio app wherever you are,
Thanks for being part of the family. You go in,
the family members, your friends, you're whoever they say something
to you, and if they don't give you the full story,
now you're left for the imagination to start running of
(09:14):
what the hell did they mean by that? And it
might not be In the moment you just kind of
nod and go okay, and then you're driving back home
or you're walking back home and you're like, wait, they
didn't really answer that, now, did they? And in this case,
that might very well be what happened. Just kind of
a simple response of Hey, we'll wait and see. It's
a new new squad and coaches trying to figure it out,
and it becomes a negative implication. But make no mistake
(09:39):
about it. He's a good he knows the politics of
this all to start. Don't want to be the bad guy,
don't want to set yourself up as antagonistic. And there's
plenty of suitors out there. You mentioned the Jets, We've
seen the Commanders. You've got a bunch of these hold
in a holdouts guys, and we're already If you look
at an injury list for Week one Jason soft tissue
(10:00):
injuries everywhere, there's about thirty seven guys I've already listed
as hamstring question mark, right, maybe able to go in
Week one? What does that mean long term? So suddenly
you've got a bunch of would be contenders, whether it
be Cincinnati or some of these other places where suddenly
they moved to the table to say, hey, what's it
(10:21):
gonna take come mid season? Particularly if Kansas City looks
better than they did a year ago, which is I
think what we're all anticipating, right, better balance, not relying
on the defense, and that Patrick Mahomes is back to
his old self. That said, the Raiders look around and say, hey,
we can spin this off, maybe get ourselves a bunch
of draft assets, which can then be bundled up to
(10:43):
go up and get a quarterback, go up and get
the top wide receiver for the next iteration or maybe both.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Now, why would he be traded to the deadline? Why
wouldn't they keep him trade him in the offseason? This
is the deal with DeVante Adams. He has a potential
out after this. Okay, So with the potential out and
the fact that if the Raiders keep him the next
two years, he's a thirty three year old receiver making
thirty five million dollars a year, Right, so the last
(11:13):
two years of his deal. After this year, it jumps
up thirty three million, thirty five million. So are they
gonna get a ton for him? Probably not. They will
wind up, they will wind up spinning him off. There
will be some kind of of I would say, a
bidding war. But it's not gonna be It's not gonna
be crazy because in the end, it's okay. If we
(11:33):
want to keep him for and we're paying him all
that money, we're not gonna give you a lot. If
we're gonna if we're good, if he's gonna have the
out at the end of the year, we're not gonna
give you a lot. So it's not like you're gonna
get anything for him, but you will. They will move
on from him just so they don't wind up in
a situation in the offseason where well, we don't get
anything at all, or and we wind up not coming
(11:54):
to agreement. The out happens, they'll take the dead capit,
which is about I think sixteen million dollars is not
a not a big deal. So nothing points to the
fact that it's advantageous for them to keep him past
the deadline, because of the out and the fact his
contract jumps to thirty three million for next year and
thirty five million the year after that.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
So that's just.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How it's going to go, right, It's it will be
the great movie. And then look, does he have a
lot of football left?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Am I thrilled paying DeVante Adams for the next couple
of years at thirty three million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
No, but it is two years. You could work it out.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Everything I'm saying here is telling you there there's going
to be people interested to some way, shape or form,
even if you're not crazy about it, there is a
way to go get him, and you get one of
the top receivers in the NFL. And maybe this guy's
a difference maker for you to get to the super Bowl.
But by the time we get to the deadline, and
you'll start here in the whispers, if the Raiders start
off slow, if they get if they're one and three
(12:46):
or zero and four, or they wind up making a
quarterback change to Aid and O'Connell, when really DeVonta Adams
is like, Okay, now I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Uh yeah, it's it's gonna happen. By the deadline.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
If you said one guy that I would be sure
that's gonna be on a new team, it's Davante Adams
now will be the Jets. If Mike Williams is really
good and and and he's healthy and right, and Malachai
Corley is good, you know they drafted him in the
second reason you're a good receiver. Potentially, No, but they
would be at the top of my list if they're
(13:16):
if they're suffering at all, because the Jets know this
isn't all in season for them. Right as much as
the forty nine ers are in an all in season,
it's also all in for the Jets because of Rogers.
If it flames out, Rogers is gone. And we're saying, okay,
Jordan Travis, let's see how great yard a year. But
you know it's not quite to the to the point
where the Jets are the super Bowl window was closing
(13:37):
because their defense is really young and it's really good,
and they got young playmakers on offense. They're not paying
all these guys that the forty nine ers are. But
make no mistake, the Jets are all in on this
year for Aaron Rodgers. And if they're struggling, if they're
singing five hundred. They'll be the ones to make that
trade with the with the Raiders for for whatever it's
gonna wind up being. For DeVante Adams, he'll be reunited.
It'll all be singing Kumbaya together. Garrett Wilson's gonna say,
(13:58):
I'm so excited have a guy on the other side
of you taking the pressure off, and and.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And we'll go from there.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So I would say the Jets would still be the favorites,
but somebody else clearly could do it. But bottom line
is he's gonna be gone.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yeah, unless the absolute opposite happens. And and guess what,
the defense rises up and the offense is moderately efficient.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Minshew fourteen touchdowns in the first three games.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Who knew.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
But he's a guy that can wing it around for
a couple of weeks. And maybe it's all false hope,
but he can show it to chaos.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We've seen it before, everybody in Vegas wearing fake mustaches
and jorts like that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
To be got I drive to Vegas just to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
That seems like with all these theme data we do
it ballpark. But yeah, all the theme days that we
do at ballparks hey, dress up as Star Wars people,
dress up with in your greatest cowboy outfit? How do
you not do that? While he's the starter and at
least in one section, encourage everybody to show up their best, Minshew.
(15:01):
I think I think you need him to play well
first and then you can do it, because if you
if he's not playing well and you do it, it
looks really bad.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
It's a dangerous thing. Get it scheduled.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Now, get the gardner, Minshew, George's bobblehead ready to go.
Everybody coming to the game gets.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I'm gonna see if I can find one that's already
been produced. But the bigger thing is, you know, hey,
you can at least create a little market for fake
mustaches around Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ah, you could, you could, or real mustaches. People would
grow them if he's that good after a little wap people,
that's true, I love a mustache. A lot of folks
grow some really bad much mustaches.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Though there's a lot of wispy, patchy, kind of useless
things going on there.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Sometimes they don't grow in the way you expect them to.
Now I'm with you on that. It happens, but get ready.
Davante Adams tick tick tic tic tic tic.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Tic tic tic the like that tick tick tick tic tic.
You're just so hoping he's a Jet. That's all you're
trying to do. You're just trying to come on.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I said, no, no, this is not me being a
little bit, but I mean, come on, he loves Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron Rodgers made him hundreds of millions of dollars. Sure,
where else do you want to go? At thirty three?
You want to start over with a new quarterback and
expect to Hey, maybe we have the chemistry here. Hey,
I didn't know, but maybe me and Dak Prescott can
get on the same page. No, of course, not may
you want to go? I want to go where I
(16:20):
know the guy, where I can jump into an offense
where I can succeed right away. And if it's an
Aaron Rodgers offense, then I know I can jump in
and do it. So yeah, of course the Jets are
gonna have a big advantage for that.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, and he can tell Hackett what to do too,
so it works exactly another guy, and then we bump
hack it down a bit.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
See here here, Matt, you're gonna answer to a couple
of guys. Now, okay, So now Rogers.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
To a senior offensive advisor.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Now, yeah, it goes Rogers Wilson Hall. Now we're putting
Adams in there. Then, you know, okay, so.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
You still got Breece Hall telling him what to do too,
of course, got Breese Hall telling him what to do.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Come on, man, don't worry. Your badge still works. You're
still part of senior staff. You're still on all the meetings.
But just now you're rank by more guys.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
All right, just so you are to se we'd have, however,
moved your parking spot. It's over there in the second lot.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
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Speaker 3 (19:43):
From the NFC.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Don't play the Cleveland Drop tight shirt. That's the AFC
Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I say, don't play Cleveland, but he plays Cleveland. That's
what happens. Oh, he was happy to play Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
He happy to be back, tight shirts off for like
the last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He gets more vacation than any I think.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I don't think he gets I don't think Colin gets
as much vacation as as Tyger can.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
No, I have the same manager as him.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
How do you It's like we're in radio, Like you
leave for a week. It's like, okay, that's a long time.
A little bit over a week. As man, that's a bit.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Nah, I'm going for like three weeks. I'm good, I'm out.
I'll see you later.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Yeah, I left this place on autopilot. I'm glad it's
still standing.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
That's a confident man that well, he cannot be replaced altogether.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I am still stunned that you were gone for John
Stamos's birthday.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I went to his party as often.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
As you bring him up on the show John Stage,
and you know who this was, John Stamos. You leave
for his birthday sixty one years old? E turn, you
left for his birth I.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Know I was there. I blew out the candles with him.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Does that mean you were on stage and hanging out
with the beach Boys because that was part of his
summer bash.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Not a fan of them.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
No, you weren't on.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Stage taking a little bit of cocomo or anything.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
I was backstage.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He doesn't even know who the beach Boys are. He
has no idea.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Every time I go to the beach, I see the boys.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
See there you go, Okay, beach boys. That's the beach boys.
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Tyser thinks you say beach boys, and Tyser thinks, who
do they play?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Where do they play?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Is that what they called it?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
The guys at the you now boys on the beach,
That's what the beach boys.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Hey, the you Camore and everybody you you Uh. But
we saw.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Absolute history tonight and something a little bit different on
someone who has stirred the drink for a long time
since she first set foot on a professional court.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Tonight, Caitlyn Clark and the Fever.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
After clinching a playoff berth a night ago, they play
the Sparks at home tonight. To no one's surprise, they win.
The Sparks have been hurting no Cameron Brings since the
beginning of the season. This has been one of those. Hey,
maybe after we get Paigebackers will be great next year.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
So they're thinking, maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Hey, you know what she colored her hair? Right, you
got purple hair, now Paigebackers, what colored she make her hair?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
She was over at the US Open, has been out
the couple of times, and it's making the rounds and
getting the pub ready for college bucket season.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Let's go remember my joke beginning of the year when
I said, boy, you think the Fever stake. Now you
wait on Page Beckers is playing with Kitlyn Clark next year. No,
it's not happening anymore. No, Page Beckers is gonna be
on the Sparks. So the Fever are beating the Sparks.
Ninety three eighty six. There's only a few seconds left
in the game, and it has been another incredible game
(22:27):
for Caitlyn Clark. She is one rebound shy of a
triple double. Again, the game is over. There's only gonna
be one more play.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
We're gonna get a shot from the Sparks, and this
is how the game ended. It's up, it won't go.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Clk pulls it down and this building knows what that means.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Kelsey miss is gone.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Oh, it's a triple double for Caitlin. What a reaction by.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Kelsey there, it is a fever TV on the call.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Caitlyn Clark just the second triple double by a rookie
in WNBA history.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh, by the way, she has the other one.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Her reaction was great. Did you know you needed that
rebound for the triple double? Of course, of course you
saw her smiling as soon as she grabbed that. She
knew she had nine rebounds, She need one more. Crowd
went insane. Now there were three three players there. I
would have been nice if someone else was trying to
reach a milestone, so we really could have fought it out.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Look, sometimes sometimes the sky let Angel Reese get rebounds.
Sometimes the fever let Caatelyn Clark get a rebound. It
happens that way. But the plot, it's just keep coming
every day. Is something new. Today she's the fastest player
in w history to reach one hundred and three pointers
in a season. Is it's just an insane thing we
keep saying, and other players are doing it as well.
(23:46):
You see already the record for rebounds for Angel Reese.
And to take this conversation in a different direction, right,
because we talked about last night. The race for Rookie
of the Year is over. It's an MVP situation with
her and Asia Wilson. Oh, by the way, we talked
about that two weeks ago, So congratulations to everybody else
who wants to rant and rave about that in the
last couple of days.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Again, ju bet him at eighteen to one to win
it all?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Though, again, yeah, why not? Right? Why not? Why not
eighteen to one? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Kaitlyn Clark there, Hey, you've got three players who are
playing terrific right now with her and Mitchell and you know,
and you got Lexi Hull off the bench. Who's the
WNBA's version of Dennis Rodman. She's in every other game player, right,
Boston's playing Well, you.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Were going lamar odam right, Yeah, the every other's.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Lamar odem in the WNBA.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But that's a situation, that's a thing we talked about NBA,
WNBA MVP. It's not oh, it's not Player of the Year.
This is why Caitlyn Clark and Asia Wilson is a
tighter race than you think. But for something a little
bit different, Charles Barkley did an interview today where he
(24:50):
talked about how the WNBA has screwed things up with
all the petty jealousy for Caitlyn Clark. Again, Welcome to
the conversation, Charles again. Being able to handle success is
a thing. You think it's not because you want success
is here. Everything is great, just ask anybody. He's won
the lottery and all of a sudden amount of money.
But I didn't know what to do right. But that's
what I'm from the beginning, before she even walked into
(25:12):
the league, when I said, that's the big thing. Can
they handle success? Because they're about to be more successful
than they ever dreamed. Caitlin Clark is not just a
star player coming in. She is a transformative player. She
is Magic and Larry together. That's what it is coming
into the w and the other people who wanted to say,
oh yeah, imagine Larry Her and the Angelies. Yeah, okay, again,
you got it wrong. At least if you're gonna steal
(25:33):
from us, get it right. But that's okay because information
is free. But this is the best part of the
jealousy and everything else that's gone on with Caitlin Clark
over the course of the year. There is no better
way to shut up the haters and the people who
want to be petty and they want to be jealous
of you. There is no better way than to metaphorically
(25:55):
smile and point up high and say scoreboard right. There
is no better way to shut out everybody up because
Caitlyn Clark is not saying anything off the court on this.
And for me, it'd be impossible if I came in
and I was playing really well and I knew that
I got I got a charter flights for everybody and
the three billion dollar TV deal, and if someone wanted
(26:17):
to rip me, I would say, no, come to my
house for in here, I'm gonna tell you I really
feel about this.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I'm ready, I got a microphone. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But she does all her talking on the court, and
she's not a shrinking violet. She's someone that you want
to give it to her on the court, she'll give
it right back to you. She will be the aggressor
on the court, but it's on the court. Off the court,
there's no talk about what she's doing. There's no braggadocio,
there's no anything, there's no I'm upset with not being
on the Olympic team. There's none of that. When the
(26:44):
w resumed after the Olympic break, what do we say,
Here comes the Caitlyn Clark middle finger to her. You
think reality was there for her the first half. Okay,
you watch what happens now and look at what she's
been doing, been laying waste to the rest of the league.
She's the best point guard in the league. Everything that
comes up, Cheryl swoops. So I want to talk about Caitlyn.
I want to talk about other players and give them credit.
(27:05):
For some reason, I don't want to talk about Kaitlyn
smile nod scoreboard, Cheryl scoreboard.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Oh no, you know that all started by her getting
it wrong that she did an extra year in college.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I mean really, stats, Yeah, I mean really.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Nancy Lieberman and her don't even talk because they argue
about Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But all of the controversy, Oh not pick for the
Olympic team. Well, we don't know what we do with
her fans if she doesn't play, which is a ridiculous answer.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You know, the players didn't want her.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, smile scoreboard, all right, Hey, reality's coming for Caitlyn Clark.
Diana Torossi. I'm old enough to remember her saying that, Yeah, smile, nod. Scoreboard, Diana, scoreboard.
You know, Angel Reese might actually be the rookie of
the year. ESPN had some crazy metric the other day
that said she's actually been better than Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Uh huh, uh huh.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Scoreboard, guys, scoreboard, Scoreboard to what I'm doing. Scoreboard to
my team as we rise up the standings. Now we're
looking for home court advantage in the first round of
the playoffs. We have seven games and six of them
are at home, and watch us continue to roll.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Scoreboard, guys, scoreboard, Look at me, look at what we're doing. Scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And that's the best way to get People who are petty,
are jealous and really don't argue with logic or have
legs to stand on. They just don't like Caitlyn Clark
because that all goes away. Because the more you keep
doing that, the more you keep achieving. They say, all right,
I just don't want to look stupid anymore, so I'm
just gonna stop saying things. So what's gonna happen now,
I guarantee it is. You're gonna see the criticism of
(28:30):
Caitlyn Clark diminish because now everybody knows as much as
I don't like her for whatever reason, because she I'm
jealous because you know, other girls should be get other
players should be getting success, other women should be getting
the success. Now, whatever it is, that's gonna go away,
and everybody, all the haters are gonna bide their time
and they're gonna hope, and they're gonna hope, okay, that
we get to the playoffs and the Fever get in
(28:52):
and they get thumped in the first round, or they
know they barely get out of the first round and
they get thumped by Connecticut or New York, and we
can and say.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Ah see, she's overrated. We knew it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look what happens when she goes up against good competition.
They should turn the ball over seven times a game.
Her team went on. That's what they're hoping for right now.
So really, I would be stunned if you heard more
people visibly critical of Caitlin Clark over the next few
games until the playoffs start, because really, what else can
you say at this point She's gonna be a finalist for.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
MVP ill right right?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
We told you this A couple of weeks ago. She's
gonna be a finalist for MVP. What else can you
say about her? Anything you do say, people are gonna
look at you and laugh and go you really want
to say that. You really want to look like that.
You really want to say something like that. Really you
really want that to be what people think about you
when you break down basketball. You really want that to be.
So I guarantee you from here on out, it's gonna
be really quiet. But they're all gonna sit and lie
(29:44):
and wait and hope that they can jump back up
when the playoffs come and say, ah, I see, we knew,
we knew you overrated because you lost in the second
round to the Liberty, who you know, were one of
the top two teams in the league and they should
be winning.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But haha, we knew you weren't this good. That's what
they're hoping for.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Oh, we do that all the time, right, Lamar Jackson.
He opens up a new season tomorrow. He's a two
time MVP and one of the most dynamic players we've
seen in you could pick your time frame. I'll just
say in the course of my lifetime watching football. But
he hasn't won in the playoffs. So that's the lead boy,
one of the greatest players of our generation. But and
(30:23):
go on down the line. You know Lebron James his
first several years in this in the league.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Wow, what a force.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
He's really living up to all the hype when he
was on the cover of Sports Illustrate everything else. But
and keep going up for Caitlin Clark. It's the same thing,
all right. Everybody just has to be quiet now because
of all the records falling and the fact that the
Fever are winning. If the Fever were still struggling and
putting up a bunch of clunkers time and again, the
(30:50):
turnover rate is up and you can point to that, Hey, look,
points off turnovers. Well, that was one of the laughable
things today. First quarter Fever had a ton of turnovers.
I want to say that's it or eight because the
sparks and this gets back into that conversation of how
do you not hit an open lamp. They hadn't converted
anything off of any of those turnovers, so it might
(31:11):
have been the first time you could ever put up
a graphic that said seven turnovers points off turnovers. This
is now surely not killing him. They got a big
zero there. See it's got nothing there. You sure that's right. Yeah, No,
that's right. They converted nothing and it went back the
other way. So for Caitlin Clark, you know, game after game,
different milestones, different accolades, and you know, to kind of
put the the bow on it and punctuated for you,
(31:34):
you know, her postgame presser and even when she got
back the post game interview on the court and then
the press are after everything, it was to push praise
back onto her teammates, particularly Kelsey Mitchell, and that she
seems to have found whatever common ground she needed with
her coach, which is something we'd harped on quite a
(31:54):
bit over the course of the season in trying to
figure that out. But now your player of the month,
back to back player of the week, and her response
was to talk about Kelsey Mitchell and folks can say, oh,
it's false.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
You know, that's she just knows the spot.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Isa. She's been consistent that way.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Again.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
She forearm shivers people just as many times as she
gets gets them right, all of those things. But in
terms of how she handles the praise, uh, she's still
distributing and trying to build team. The team photos that had,
you know, the goals for the year. Everybody else's playoff
with some wacky pos hers is getting ready for a
(32:34):
bounce pass and it says, smile, come.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
On, exit about of Fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Swalling down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carbon This is how you handle haters. This is
at just point and say scoreboard, scoreboard, that's why. And
she's doing it absolutely, But I couldn't do it because
I like to talk too much and I want to
make sure I want to I want.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
To slay you with the microphone.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
But now, hey, I'm okay, I'll do all my talking
on the court and the end smile and go scoreboard.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Take all your derision at how about a Fresco at
swollen Dome?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
All right now? Hey, speaking of taking your derision, it's
Brian Finley who's got what's yes in the wide world
as well.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Hey, yeah, and Micah Jason speaking of pointing the scoreboard,
I think that's what Yanick Sine could do. The the
one overall seed, the best men's tennis player right now
with his win tonight in the quarterfinals of the US Open,
doing it in four sets against the five seed Danil
Medvedev for the first time in Center's career. He is
headed to the semi final of the US Open, which
(33:33):
is also the same feet accomplished by the sixth seeded
American on the women's side, Jessica Pegoula, who earlier tonight
won six two sixty four over world number one on
the women's and egas Fia Techo Pagoula, making it a
first time in her career into the final four of
the US Open. Meanwhile, in Major League Baseball, we've got
(33:53):
one loan game still going on. Can we go to
extras That is a possibility, but right now it's in
the top of Then that's the Tigers taking on the
NL wild card leading Padres. Yeah, they're all square at
five at this point. Phillies over the Blue Jays four
to two. White Sox thunder past the Orioles eight to one.
(34:14):
So with that loss for the Orioles, they then dropped
into a typher first in the Al East, but then
took the lead back after the Yankees got beat tonight,
they made a comeback, but they couldn't quite pull it
off in the end. It was ten to six against them.
Rangers win in Texas Angels over the Dodgers ten to one.
(34:35):
The Diamondbacks find a way six to four over the Giants.
Also wins for the Cardinals in tenantnings that came against
the Brewers the Cubs with the combined no hitter. It's
the fourth no hitter this year in Major League Baseball.
This was a combined no hitter with three pitchers on
the way to a twelve to nothing win over the Pirates.
(34:56):
The Orioles winning over the Guardians four to one. That
was a game you could watch on FS one. Mets
seven games in a row that they have won. Jesse
Winker hit a Grand Slam in the first inning and
the Mets overcome the Red Sox eight to three. Also
wins for the Rays in Marlins. And lastly, guys, just
showing you how all of this sort of matriculates and
(35:18):
adds up when it comes to the wild card standings.
Diamondbacks and Padres are currently tied for first in the
three allotted spots in the wild Card on both ends,
and then you've got the Braves with that third and
final spot on the NL side. Mets with their win
their half game out Chicago Cubs are four and half
(35:38):
games out Yankees, despite their loss, are first in the
AL wild Card.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
You got the Twins and Royals right.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
There, and the White Sox are forty four games back
of that third and final wildcards spot in the AL.
So Mike, we have less than forty four games, right,
I'm assuming, Yeah, Okay, just just checking.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
It's a final.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
It's a final. It's a final for me, it's.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
A final for Brian Finley. Everybody, seven, eight, nine, ten,
You're out.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Thanks, he had a good run.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
He's gonna go back and watch a ninth inning of
the Tigers and the Padres. Now who you can coming
up next? You hear Mike Harmon say all the time,
hope is not a strategy. Well, there is a team
that is the overwhelming favorite to win a championship where
now it looks like coming up for the next month,
hope is their strategy and that ain't a good thing.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
That's next Radio Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
YEP live fromthtirack dot com studios. You know, as we're
fond of saying on the show, hope is not a strategy.
Hope is also a dangerous thing if you watch too
much Shawshank. But hope is not a strategy.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
You're saying I watch Shawshank too much.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
But when you come into work every night and try
to scratch Brooks was here on the top of the ceiling,
I tell you to get down.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
You can't do that, man.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
We I'll bet you they're gonna throw me out. So
I figured I'd get to work on it, one letter
at a time.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Harmon was here.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
But to show you how fast a team goes from
no problems to all kinds of problems, I submit to
you the Los Angeles Dodgers, Right, this is not about
the playoffs. It's not about getting in. They're almost thirty
games over five hundred because their lineup just mashes. But
you are talking about needing an extended run in October
(37:41):
for Dave Roberts to save his job, and to think
that all and for all the moves they made signing
Otani him, deferring money, getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto for making that
all to be worth it. And right now the Dodgers'
only strategy for October is to hope, to hope that
something has been starting pitching wise where they can survive,
(38:03):
because they've had the worst last seven to ten days
starting pitching wise in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
What we've seen over the last seven to ten days.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
They're still waiting for Tyler glassno their ace, to come back.
He hopes to get a couple of starts before the
end of the season. When you're talking about hoping a
guy is coming back at the end of the year
and he wants to make a start or two, that's hope.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
That's not a strategy.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
You're hoping that Yamamoto can come back for a few
starts in September. We've heard maybe the Dodgers are holding
him back, that potentially he's ready. They want to wait.
But again, you're hoping that guy comes back in September,
and you're hoping that he pitches well. Right Bobby Miller tonight, Hey,
maybe he's a guy. He gives up six runs in
the first two winnings and gets pasted by the Angels.
(38:48):
His era is almost eight. You're hoping that he gets it.
You are hoping that Clayton Kershaw comes back at some point,
but with a bad toe.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
You go on the il this close to the.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
End of the season, Clayton Kershaw may have thrown his
last pitch, not just this season, but as a Dodger.
You're hoping he comes back. You are hoping Walker Bueller
gets it going at some point and can maybe get
close to being the pitcher he was. To ask him
to come all the way back, forget it, he's been
gone for too long. You're just hoping he's serviceable at
this point. You're hoping this is hope for the majority
(39:21):
of their starting pitchers, because if you were starting the
playoffs tomorrow, right, and they don't start tomorrow luckily, but
you're saying, Okay, Jack Flaherty is starting Game one. He's
been great, Dodgers love him. He's been tough, he's been
exactly what they needed, right. Gavin Stone is then starting
Game two, okay, And then you have no idea it
may as well be Kofax or Jerry Royce or Fernando Valens. Well,
(39:46):
you're going game one, Jack Flaherty. We feel pretty good too,
here's Gavin Stone in game two, and then game three
we have no idea.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Game four, we have less of an idea.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Game five, can we get a rain out of some
kind so we can bring Jack Flaherty back? Like this
is how it is the Dodgers getting into October. Their
strategy to get for is now his hope. And that's
not a strategy.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I'm moderately curious as to the synapses firing to get
the second guy in the roster there, Jerry Royce. But
you know you skipped right past Don Sutton and several
other loops I did.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Don saw Don Sutton? Man who man.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I know their nemesis is Oral Hersheizer, but I gotta
figure he factors into the equation.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh, because he could go right from the broadcast move
and say, guys, look I gotta go in, and then
he goes and does the game.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
That's what maybe does in the pitch.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Sure, yeah, I mean, and either way, the biggest thing
for the Dodgers is not that they're world beating, It's
that can you get them past the fifth inning?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Because then you're playing the roulette game of how many
relievers do I have to go through in the next.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Oh playoff, Dave, he's, well, he's getting ready for those.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
But he's had to do it all season.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I mean Walker Bueller hasn't pitched more than five innings
in a start since the thirty first May. Right, he
got five innings in that game against the Angels yesterday.
That's the longest start in over two months, two and
a half months. So you're talking about that Stone's been
(41:14):
great at times, and Bobby Miller, you're hoping that you
see some glimpses of.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
The guy that he was.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Kershaw can't walk may just go on down the line.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
It all comes down to are you pulling the right
trigger out of the bullpen each and every night that
is really the curiosity for the dog, or are you
just out out slamming everybody right.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Suddenly if that offense clicks.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
But when it comes to short series in playoffs, you're
not banking on that because you're facing aces right, getting
rotations lined up and everything else. So, yeah, it is
the most curious time of year. But what do we
always say with the Dodgers, Tell me when it's October
and then we'll know.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
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a strategy coming up next? Who's going to the Super Bowl, Mike,
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