September 28, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason tells you why Tigers are the best story in baseball and it’s not particularly close. And the guys react to the Knicks have acquiring Karl-Anthony Towns from Minnesota for Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo and a first-round pick via Detroit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings, it is Friday.
It is Friday. How understated is what is happening? It
isn't that much closer to another Jets game. It is Friday.
It's almost another mission. We got football on the screen. Yes,
(00:47):
the White Sox are record setters. That's Friday. Today's Friday.
It is Friday. Losers, Ever, if you're going to be
the greatest at something, you gotta really go for it.
It is one hundred and twenty one losses. Come on now,
it is Friday. But Jason's Mets can't even say that. Mike, Well,
I mean they're good at losing, They're not great at losing. No,
(01:10):
we've been really good at losing for a long time,
like we are. Yeah, but you haven't been this great.
We're in the Hall of very good. Yeah, but that's shit.
You're in the Hall of the Fairy. Who's referend that
you think Otani watching? Otani's great? This is whose record
did they break? They broke the Mets right, Yeah, but
you were an expansion team. It's nineteen sixty two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, No, there's a lot to unpack here. There's a
lot going on. It is Friday, and that's you're gonna
get me right now because the Mets brewers anyway, we're lost.
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(01:48):
show hey, Otani a three run homer. The Dodgers are
thumping the Rockies right now, nine to two in the
sixth inning. They'll really be busting out some champagne after
this game. And Otani now a fifty four fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, guy stolen base earlier for RBI on the day
up to one hundred and thirty. And you know we
joked about him being the first.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now he is gonna be the first fifty five to
fifty five guy, potentially the last couple of days here.
But you know, I can't believe this, and you brought
this up a few minutes ago. No one has ever
hit fifty five home runs in the season in baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, it's weird if at fifty four, but it's like
he's hit fifty four. Nobody's hit fifty fifty six. But
now we have a scoring game, he's still no double Nichols, Now,
no doublem. Brady Anderson is right there, right, Not even
Brady think he was right there, not in that four
in that magical year.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, there were there's fifty four, there's fifty six, right,
Sosa had fifty six one year, but no fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Never had fifty five. Ton he could be the first one.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Of course, he's gonna be the first to do something
double Nichols, But while he's playing in Colorado, you think
he wants to stop.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
With one more old run, he could be shot. Now
he could be sixty sixty. At sixty to sixty and
with this pitch, I got a few more, We're gonna
be absolutely fine. So yeah, while major League Baseball, the
race for the postseason in the American League.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, we'll get to that in a second. In the
National League, things are looking good for the Braves because
the Braves won tonight. Uh, they won three nothing. Max
Freed and maybe his last start in Atlanta is great
through eight and two thirds beats the Royals and the
Diamondbacks and the Padres. Right now was the Padres up
four to one in the bottom of the first inning
(03:25):
over Arizona. This is key because the Mets are losing
to the Brewers six to two in the top of
the six.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Innings, are wearing some really awful uniforms and they should
be penalized for Yeah, the umpire should be penalized. Everybody's
I at baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But let's focus on the positive before because you can't
do the positive. Uh, the big result of the night
in sports is this, And you can't get to a
bigger difference of Lady and the tiger where it comes
to how the final the final lady and the tiger? Right,
(03:59):
you know the thing you choose two doors behind one
door is a beautiful lady behind the Oh, you want
to choose a beautiful lady and not the tiger, Right, Ladies,
I thought.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You're going lady in the tramp because you were already
thinking about eating pasta. No, I was thinking about this
is a nine.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I will give you twenty five dollars for every paper
clip you have in your purse right now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Let's make a deal. I know the lady of the tiger.
It is in a second of the day where he
isn't thinking about pasta. That's a fair point hostage. No, no, no,
that's not Come on, gee, hamburger cheese or ice cream
cheese or icesta that uh yeah, yeah, Oh, I don't
have pasta without cheese on What are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Why would I do that? That makes no sense. It's like
having a hamburger with no cheese. Why would I do that?
It makes no sense. It's called the hamburger. Why would
I have a sandwich with no cheese on it? That
makes no sense. That's just stupid. To look at your
face is just like what else do you want to say?
It's just stupid. It's stupid, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The finest most coherent logical argument you've ever made. It's
just stupid.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Game of the night in Major League Baseball, and you
saw the absolute ends of ecstasy and pain in this
flyball right center.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Feels actually.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Outside stand up that was actually that was actually the
White Sox call. I think they were very excited.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
For the Tigers to make the playoffs. Thought it was
kind of funny that there's no mention of the fact
that the outfielders run into each other. Yeah, well is
that is that new? That's nothing new. There's a fly
ball like going back, like, wow, it just crashed into
each getting grinned at each other. Is that Beneeddie on
the call there? Yeah, that's three times a week with
the with the White Sox coming out, and that one hurt.
(05:53):
That was like a double smacked on Mike to me,
to you, why I don't call that game for the
White Ah. Yeah, but it's your former guy. That's fine
calling that and calling that. So he might have daggers.
He might be, And there's a lot of other people
who have gone out of their way to throw flowers
at his feet the last year. I am not one
(06:14):
of those guys. So is he better than what replaced him?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yes, you see video of it and Benetti's standing up
middle fingers in the air extended while he's.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Making could be doing that. Yeah, like Bud Adams when
he did that at the Yeah, but it's only going
to Mic nobody else. Yeah, no, just to you, directly
to the dagger to my heart. But look, let's deal
with the Let's deal with the positives first. Let's deal
with the front side of this. First.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The Tigers are in the playoffs. There is no better
story in baseball all season long than the Detroit Tigers,
not even close. Not there's great things. We have seen
what Shoeo Tani has done with Aaron Judge has done. That,
there's great. There is no better story. Then here's the Tigers,
who have been just at the bottom of the barrel
for a decade. They basically give up at the trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They don't. They only half gave up though, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
The.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Award winner, right, the best move, the guy you didn't
get rid of when logic dictated that, yes, you should
have sold him for all the spare parts you could
possibly get.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean they they are the best team in baseball
since the trade deadline, which shows you how overrated the
trade deadline can be. Because all the Tigers did was basically,
we traded away a couple of players and we kept
the ones we thought we could trade but we could, right,
they keep school ball, and he's going to be the
Sidon Award winner.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You've seen the pitching jump up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, Kevin Kelly's been unbeatable out of that bullpen
over the past three four weeks. But this is this
is a team that no one expected anything of them,
and here they are at the deadline where nothing changed,
where absolutely nothing changed, and here they are the best
team in baseball since that point for a heritage team
that has stunk for a long long time. And every
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year you're penciling the Tigers in for a hundred losses,
a hundred loss there's no better story than seeing this
happen to the Tigers making the playoffs and not just.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Squeaking in like much of a couple of weeks ago.
It was hey, watch out for the Tigers. They could
get back in this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No now boom, they've clinched and they're just hanging out
the last couple of days of the regular Here's.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The data point that really just kind of stands and obvious.
It becomes the arbitrary. Let's just pick a date out
of the sky. August eleventh is the date from the
ESPN article kind of talking about this momentous occasion today
thirty one and eleven in their last forty two games
lowest dra and baseball largest run differential, and there were
(08:35):
eight games under five hundred at that point. Now, August
eleventh arbitrary, Like normally we go all right, last day,
you know, Memorial Day or July fourth, they're the trading deadline.
But the data point just say, you're already halfway through
the month of August and they're able to make this
charge and this run and everything started to click. I'd
(08:56):
be curious to see if you go back on that
date whenever we have our fun with the tankathon strength
of schedule for the remainder of the season. What the
rest of their schedule look like doesn't matter, because you
still have to play the games. And here we are today,
the momentous occasion White Sox after sweeping the Angels to
send them to season. Ever, we'll get to them. Let's
(09:17):
stickin itself. And then you go on the road and
in Game one against the Tigers in this final series,
you go and you take another l right Crochet talking
about sticking around and whatever else. He's only able to
give you four innings before he departs, and once again
the bullpen and Tigers win. Well, this just shows you
(09:40):
that that when you think about how bad your team
is every year and the season's over and this is
where we're at. Every year there's at least one team
that at the end of September we do a fill
in the blank with and that is what a story
team X is. Here they were fifty games under five
hundred on blank and look at the record now since
(10:02):
then they have gone insert best record in baseball and
look at them all the way back in and here
they are making it to the playoffs or they get
to the very end of the season and it comes
down to the final weekend. There's a team. Every year
there's a team like that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So everybody, no matter what kind of season you should have,
you could say, why not us? Because it's not like
the Tigers went out and did great stuff at the deadline.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They didn't that they didn't. I mean, it was it,
really it was.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They traded a couple of guys away and they kept
guys like school because well, we're not gonna we're not
excited what we could get for him. No, and look
at what they've been doing. I mean, they're a team
that nobody wants to play in the playoffs because they're
just absolutely a team with nothing to lose. Their pitching
is really good. You don't want to face Schooble once
or twice in a series because you're looking at two
losses there, because you're talking about that's how much he
(10:47):
would he would most likely pitch in a series now,
shorter series, shorter series obviously, but you don't want to
face game.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
One, you know, with him that way. So they're a
team nobody wants to play. And it's just it goes
to show you that there's always a team every year
and to think that your team is done, we're out
of it, we're here, unless you're the White Sox.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
There's always a way back and and and we always
look back and say the same things for these teams.
Here's their record on x DAX, here's their record since
day X. Here's their record. Now, what an incredible turnaround?
What is the key to this? And it's look at
that and the Tigers are that team. There is no
better story than seeing this team, the Tigers, who, like
(11:26):
I said, you leave them for dead at the beginning
of every year, and here they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They have one guy hitting better than sixty five. Kerry
Carpenter eighty eight in two hundred and fifty seven at bats,
playing in eighty five games. Riley Green, he's an All Star.
Two sixty five, twenty four, seventy four. Uh, that's his numbers.
I mean, that's that's where we're at. But you've got
a bunch of guys that you know, clutch hits, right,
(11:50):
that's and then three outcome baseball. We've seen batting averages
dip all across the league. We're talking about batting champions
maybe hitting as low as you know, three ten. So
it's it's a different one guys hitting over three hundred
the entire year. And for all the lamentation over everybody stealing,
it's so easy two guys over fifty. So all of
(12:10):
that to say for the Tigers, I mean, it's a
fantastic story and for school. Look, I love south Pause,
you know, always uh e sightable and when teams just decide,
all right, we're not getting something commensurate with his talent,
so we'll just ride it out. It's kind of curious.
Goes back to the White Sox before the season when
they traded Dylan Cees. Why why unless he just threatened
(12:33):
not to report, and he's gonna go fishing somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I really, it's an unbelievable the best story in baseball
Detroit Tigers, and it's not even close.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Exit.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
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Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. It is a
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we got big games to preview, and yes we will
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Speaker 2 (13:01):
White, my Chicago white size. I do appreciate the fact that,
I mean national show. We just did a segment about
the Detroit Tigers. Detroit. You said Detroit? I did is Detroit.
Could we hear Bennetta again? God, let's hear it. Let's
hear it.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Fly ball right center beds.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You know what's great about that? He talks about it
like he's been there for all. Oh yeah, it's a
long suffering sand base. It's the worst.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And dude, you just got here.
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(14:09):
got a big night in college football as well, potentially
being upsets to talk about, and Mike Harmon's gonna wear
the fact that his White Sox are the worst team
in the history of the greatest worst team ever, the
best worst team. There's a lot of bad teams, and
I'll tell you yours is the worst. We are the worst.
I'll wear a crown for it. Down you are the
biggest loser. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's coming up next right here. Happy Friday, Jason and
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Speaker 4 (14:35):
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Speaker 2 (14:45):
Fox Sports Radio. On an unbelievably wonderful Friday night, Oh
look at you? How do things change so quickly? You
had down? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hold on to your hats, everybody, all onto your hats.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Did you have Rutgers? You can hear the shout. You
can hear the roar if you open your ears, open
your windows, and just listen. You can hear it rattling
in the dell. Go New York, Go New York. Go,
go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Go.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
The shouts get louder as it gets closer. The torches
light up the sky, and then you can hear it.
Go New York, Go New York. Don't walking through. Don't
You don't really get arrested for those things. Well, if
you're going you should be. If you're going to Frankenstein,
you're fine, but don't interrupt my Go New York, Go
New York. Oh, go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Go.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
According to Shams Trania, all of a sudden, Sham's bomb,
thanks WOJ, good luck at Saint Bonaventure.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Sham's bomb, Sham's bomb. No, he got credit for something
earlier today that he Shouldham's bomb. What because he deciphered
initials and a press release. According to Sham Adams, again,
what happened? Oh whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't know that
was true, didn't She says she was dating Daniel Jones. No,
I said again, Wow, go New York Go, New York Go.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
According to Shams Jams, this is about five minutes old.
The New York Knicks are nearing a trade with the
Minnesota Timberwolves. The Knicks would trade away Jalen Bronson's no.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Stop, don't say wow. People are gonna think that's real.
It's not really. I'm here. No, that's not I'm gonna
start singing across the universe.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, no, no, no, pay no attention to the producer
behind the glass.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You can see the wizard.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The Knicks and t Wolves are nearing a deal that
would send Jalen Bronson. No, stop, that's not true. Stop
don't stop telling lies. Stop li stop lying.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean, this is all theoretical anyway, so he can no,
but this is not true. Shams has the report.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But you guys just telling you're not hearing anything, Okay,
you're just hearing in your head the kicker, Dick of
the kicker, Dick of the kicker. He's a beast player,
Dick of the kicker. He's a brest player. That's what
you're hanging in your head.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
In my head, the New.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves are nearing a trade that
would send Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo. Pour went out
for Dante to the Timberwolves in exchange for Carl Anthony Towns.
(17:30):
This five minutes ago from chams Nick's nearing a trade
to send a package around Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo
to Minnesota for Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Now the fact already lost Hartenstein. Now you lose, did Evincenzo?
I mean you're losing all the heart of this squad. No, No,
it's tough losing a villanova guy. I mean that might
break the change. Well now we now we find out,
like you know, the Agatha all along you need five
witches or whatever it is. I mean he lost one
of the villanova Let's go to NBA and sider Adam
(18:01):
ty shirt here. Yeah, swods retired Jason. I have the insight.
It's actually a straight up for Jalen Bronson Brunson Charles Bronton,
I dare you to KNOCKDJ clearly mixed with a death wish,
wanting to trace Ronson at a coming he can jump
in his roundhouse kick is off the charts and oh
(18:22):
just kill me.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The next trading Bronson pin show away. Now clearly he
and the Knicks will be perfect strangers for.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
The rest of the time he plays in the lab.
Remember when cousin Larry was was on Law and Order
and he went down in a bad scheme with Joe
Piscopo because I got involved with the bob. Oh uh wow.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Let me just say first first, now you know of
the Villanova guys, who the one guy who's on the
outside of the club, obviously Steven Ccenzo. Hey, listen, one
of the Villanova guys got to go, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Devincenzo voted out.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But this is they are losing Julius Randall and his
salary and the fact that Randall is look didn't really
fit with what this team was. And now you bring
in a big one of the best bigs in the league.
I told you the end of last year they get
mcal Bridges. They're going to the finals.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Now they're really going. Everybody's gonna jump I've been driving
this bus for a while. I will stop and let
people on, and people are gonna jump on. Like I'm
driving the bus and there's the big zombie that are
really fast running after you come on.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Get on the bus. I could take you to safety.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
All right, let's go, and everybody's jumping on and I'm
driving that bus. That's how people are gonna get on
this Knicks Finals bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
This is it. They are bringing one of the best
big men in the game, and to go with the
offseason acquisition of Bridges and the nucleus they had.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
This is amazing. This shows you the Knicks. Hey, we
think we're really good. We're not stopping until we realize
we need to be able to say we can play
any kind of game. And I don't know that they
would have made this if you didn't find out that
Mitchell Robinson was gonna be out the first couple of
months at LEAs of this year.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right Knicks big man who got hurt the end of
last year.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Really talented right rebounds, blocks, he's a guy, he's one
of the best rim protectors in the league. But you
lost Hartenstein and you were counting on Mitchell Robinson. And
now I don't know why, because he's hurt all the time.
He just can't stay healthy. So I wouldn't be surprised
if that news reignited these talks. Now I'm playing an
NBA insider, but There's been nothing about this the last
(20:25):
until just this bomb from Shams comes in. So this
Mitchell Robinson news is kind of under the radar a
couple of days ago. I mean I saw it and
I'm like, great, now we're gonna have have you income
back to play center at sixty years old. But I
guarantee you with that happening, the Knicks new And I
give the Knicks a lot of credit because it's Hey,
this is a championship window we have opened here, even
though we didn't make it out of the second round.
(20:45):
Championship window. We need to make sure.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
We have it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And not only do you go get Karl Anthony town
do you get another player that can take big shots,
that can play in big moments and do big things.
I'm gonna miss I would miss Devincenzo and the threes he.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Was able to hit, and and how great he was
in the playoffs last year, but in the end adding bridges,
how much more room was there for him offensively. And
when you can upgrade to Karl Anthony Towns, forget it, man,
this is telling you Nicks are going to the finals.
Look at you, You're already on board. Then New York
as we get ready for training camps to open. That's
been kind of the ground swell. A lot of people
(21:20):
have to go recut their videos just change the names
because they were coming on board your Nick's excitement as
it were. For Karl Anthony Towns. How much of this
was I don't want to play with Rudy Gobert anymore.
I'm done with this situation in Minnesota, could be right,
I mean, just a level of dissatisfaction on that side
of things, you know, as well as good as things
(21:40):
have been for Minnesota the last couple of years, now
with all the young player obviously, look with they're now
more Anthony Edwards driven than they are. This is the
Carl Anthony Towns's name has been been floated around in
trades for the better.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Of the last year years.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like as good as he is, it's wow, there's still
so you knew that at some point point that what
they were planning on as a franchise he didn't really
mesh and they were looking for because you don't. You
don't put a guy like that in the trade block
for that long unless you really want to try to
find a way to move him because the team is
morphed and it's been It's different every invention of the team.
There's some players who were on the inside now find
(22:17):
their way on the outside. Now, Julius Randold's coming in
a guy that con hit a three once in a while. Look,
he's he was always been a really good player on
a bad team.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now you know, can he be a really really good
player on a really really good team. That's the big question.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, we look at the t Wolves and obviously the
Western Conference being a gauntlet as it were, we talked
about it. You know, the playoffs this last year, how
deep it went, and coming down the stretch last year
you had the t Wolves win fifty six and twenty six,
losing the conference finals. And now you move on from
(22:50):
one of your big identifying players these last couple of years,
and you know, just going back and thinking about sequences
off the court and you know, flowing in his minutes
that you trade him out of conference for the Knicks,
you take your shot right because you look at the Celtics,
they come back a lot of questions surrounding them porzingis
(23:12):
how quickly he'll be ready, and also coming out of
all of the Olympic stuff and off court fun and excitement,
how much drama carries in and look defending champions oftentimes
we see it in all sports where that next year
is a little difficult after the banquet circuit and everything else.
How hungry are you? How much changes with the dynamics
(23:33):
within a squad, And then you go through the rest
of the Eastern Conference. There's good teams? Are there? Great
teams in the Sixers? They're gonna be the Sixers, same bit.
I mean, the only thing you're mad about is that
you didn't get Joel Embiid just to vanquish them once
and for all. But I mean the Bucks will be good,
But are they great?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I mean like Western Conference high depth all the way
through the conference here on the East. Yeah, you take
your show that you could at least run through and
get past that pesky second round, now, can't you.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
According to Jake Fisher, NBA insider, Nicks had been talking
around the league in search of center improvement. Obviously, with
the an injury of Mitchell Robinson, they made it known
Julius Randall was available. They had interest in additions like
Clint Cappella. However, Karl Anthony Towns, Hey, uh, that's an upgrade. No,
one's gonna say no to and that really it's it's
(24:27):
I don't know how you say a team other than
the Knicks right now or the overwhelming favorites for the
NBA Finals in either conference, Well they're losing. Jalen Brunson,
stop that, don't don't mix. No no, no is no
allegedly doing. That's even wrong to say allegedly. I could
sue you for just saying alleged. I mean, look, then, look,
he could put it out there. He did say he
(24:48):
can't put words in Sham's mouth. He could just say
it himself. I got a text thing with the guy
in the place.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He doesn't have to reveal his sources, don't you know sources?
You could just say whatever the hell you want and
have big time jobs, don't you know, texting Frostburg about
the next nobody? Come on, you're GM No, you know
this all right? Look at the odds and Weston's texting
you about this. Yes, let's see we begin this season
October twenty fourth futures odds. I'm curious how quickly these
(25:16):
get reflected the update, but the Celtics were the favorites
at about three to one, thunder coming in at seven
to one, the Knick's right behind him seven and a half,
eight to one, as as high as nine to one
on one service as low as five to one, So
variants always a reminders shop beyond them sixers, the great
(25:39):
bearded Nicola Yo gets ready to get back to work,
and then you have the Mavericks, well, the t Wolves
and then the Bucks. As we said, lots of Western
Conference teams where folks are placing their bets.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, yeah, the path of least resistance still goes through
the Eastern Conference, correct, right, And I mean, really, this
is a Nicks franchise now that outside of the injuries,
if they didn't have the injuries last year, I mean,
and they did, so I can't tell you they had
the injuries last year, they would have gotten the Eastern
Conference Finals. They would have probably lost to the Celtics. Right,
The Celtics probably would have vanquished them. The Celtics had
(26:14):
home court.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I get the word vanquished in yes. I just remember,
you're still running another season under the Tom tibodeaut watch. Yeah,
so let's see what that grind was in another year.
And I don't think it matters.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think I think Tibbs is like this has become
his team and the guys that he has decided these
are the guys I'm going to win with.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
How could you say no? I mean, this is the
Thics have been in two decades. Like, it's Tibbs's team,
Like this is like it's I'm not saying they don't
love him. I'm not saying that he hasn't found a
collection of players that buy in that each each of
the eighty two actually matters, which is a very rare
commodity in this NBA of twenty twenty four, twenty five.
(26:54):
That said, that's a lot of grind. So you better
have enough depth. You better be able to deal a
few games during the course of the stretch where guys
have some light minutes. Otherwise we'll be back in the
same situation with you pulling out follicles out of your
eyebrows or whatever as we get to the playoffs. And
because the same thing's gonna happen. Okay, Well, and here's
(27:15):
the other part of it though, to say that, yes,
it has Tibbs's coaching style the last fifteen years. Have
you seen it great on teams? Yeah, he's been really
good for a couple of years and then he has
to move on. But he's found the situation, just like
how players find. Hey, I'm in the right situation, the
right system with a team. He's found in New York,
and he's gotten the right guys to buy in. Right,
(27:37):
He's got his leaders and Jalen brunts and heart. These
are your emotional leaders in brunts and obviously leading by example.
Now you bring in a couple of new guys that
have not been open and have have had anything to
do with TIBs over the course of the last few years.
There's a new situation.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So now if it's Karl Anthony Towns and now Bridges
coming in, it's okay. This is my first couple of
years under Tom Tibber.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
What you're saying is you'd go terribly wrong because they
don't buy you one percent. See what he did.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
He already predicted the Niott. Dude, we're going to the finals. Man,
you brought two guys in like, hey, yeah, I'm okay
with all.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I like this.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I like this defensive responsibility. I like the way that
we're beholding to each other. Dude, they'll be booing him
out in New York by February. That is not dude,
We're going to the finals. Man, the Knicks are going
to the finals.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
How long before they open up on Broadway Cats with
a case damn Judy Dench exit. How about a Fresco exit?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Swollen down the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live
from the tirerac dot Com studios. We got more coming
up in ninety seconds, but first with more details on
this trade that has not been agreed upon yet.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's Steve Steve, Happy Friday, Steve O. Good evening to
you both.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
But actually, Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez has just left due
to injury at Milwaukee. Hurt on the base fast they said,
bad back. According to the Brewers announcers in Milwaukee at
seven two Brewers over the Mets in the bottom of
the seventh inning in this final weekend the regular season,
Alvarez needed to walk through the dugout to the clubhouse.
Could not even do that, needed assistance through the dugout.
(29:08):
As for the updated s tweet, I guess we can
still call it on X from the Athletic. In the
NBA News tonight, the Knicks have acquired Karl Anthony Towns
from Minnesota for Julius Randall. Oh, now it's official, Dante Devenrenzoe,
It's become official now and the first round pack via Detroit.
According to the Athletic, it's not official till the team
(29:29):
says it.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Actually, so Shams doesn't have Oh no, no, Sham's got it.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Shams just got it.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
He just got it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I think I just said that two minutes ago. Yo,
how did you not come on? We're talking about this.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We was going to want to tell you it was
for Jalen Brunson. We were going to the finals before this.
We were going, we were really going when it was
almost near happening. Now that it's happened, now we're absolutely going. Now,
no doubt. Now we're going. Actually, nothing's changed. No, it
was pretty much done then, it was close to being done.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
They were near a trade. Look at that. Look at that.
But he gritty enough. We'll actually be able to get
gritty as a that's Philadelphia. Actually, yeah enough, we can
borrow you can borrow him. Just keep us. The mister
met for a little bit. He's kind of funny with
that big bald head. Yeah, we kind of like him,
you know what.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
The one of the signs in Detroit tonight and the
Tigers has they clinched a playoff Berth You can't spell
Tigers without grit. They're onto the postseason for the first
time in ten years. Detroit wins its six straight game,
beating the White Sox four to one. The White Sox
passed the expansion nineteen sixty two Mets for most losses
in a single season since nineteen hundred. Detroit's record over
(30:40):
the last month and a half thirty one and eleven.
And the Twins are getting shut out at home. It's
now Oriel seven nothing at Minnesota in the bottom of
the eighth inning. Kansas City got shut out at Atlanta
Braves three nothing over the Royals. Going into tonight for
the last ANL wildcard, Atlanta was one game out behind
Arizona and the med to mention, the Mets are losing
(31:01):
in the seventh seven to two at Milwaukee. The Padres
are leading at Arizona. Padres got four runs top of
the first. It's now four to two San Diego at
Arizona in the top of the fourth inning, and the
Dodgers are now up eleven three at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
In the top of the eighth inning.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Sho Hey Otani with his fifty fourth homer and his
fifty seventh stolen base of the season. Raiders wide receiver
DeVante Adams is out this weekend with a bad hamstring,
and defensive end Max Crosby is likely out with an
ankle injury. There's college football on Fox TV. Final minute
of the third quarter, Rutgers trying to go to four
to zho leeds Washington fourteen to ten, twelve minutes left
(31:39):
at seventh ranked Miami. Virginia Tech now up thirty four
to twenty four over the Hurricanes. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tyreck dot Com Studio.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
It is official. The Knicks get Karl Anthony Towns from
the Minnesota Timberwolves. Julius Randall, Yonte DiVincenzo, the final wait
and possibly no, you just know it's not And oh Tawani,
how about that?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh they're gonna go for the w W E though,
you get to get what's soy gonna do in Minnesota?
Man's allowing he'll get the Twins in the playoffs instead
of losing every game like they've done the last Sorry,
but that's what happened. Maybe maybe you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Should allow teams to do that. You should allow teams
from the same city to make trades with other cities
through teams like the Knicks could have gotten Karl Anthony
Towns and they could have traded away Peter Alonzo. You know, Okay,
that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna trade your Pee
Alonzo for Carl Anthony. You can trade with it, guy,
guys struck out twenty five times in his last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I mean, I'm I'm ready. I'm ready for the end
of the ped Alonzo er if it happens, I'm ready.
I'm ready. I'm ready. See how he cuts guys loose,
just like that, just like that, just like that, ruthless.
I love you till I don't love you anymore. I
love you, and then then I just want to say it,
ty shirt, it's been a good run. Guys, that says
I may not make it through. Oh stop, you're my
(33:03):
best friend. You're my best friend. But I would still
trade you for Karl Anthony Towns one hundred percent. Yeah. Absolutely.
The immediate reaction on x slash Twitter is they will
hate him.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Towns hasn't had to hang around Tims in a couple
of years. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine.
Everything's fine. We'll have more on this breaking story coming
up next, as well as a big night as we
give you a previews and our upset specials for football
this weekend. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike, this
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
On the line.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
No one's gonna get caught stealing or running here.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
How about home off.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
A long time?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
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Speaker 2 (34:28):
You're gonna get it, and you're gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So the big news, the big a Sham's bomb, that
is now official. The Athletic reporting the New York Knicks
have obtained Karl Anthony Towns from the Minnesota Timberwolves for
in exchange for Frostburg Kluyet in exchange for stop.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
No. No, people aren't gonna believe you. You're gonna believe
because I don't want the the because you're putting it
out into the universe. Something like that can happen. He's figuring,
just like the Matt's Alvarez leads.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Mike until the Knicks say it. It could happen, because
if Brunson is driving around listening, here's what I've been traded.
He's already turned off the radio, gotten on to his agent, saying,
if they traded me, if that get me out of
New York, I don't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
That's how it happens. So don't don't you But it
could happen. No, it can't, it's not happening. The trade
is done. It's Karl Anthony town to the Knicks, Julius
Randall and Dante DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now it's
it's still my mind is blown that this is the
trade that is made. And if anything makes me a
(35:34):
little nervous about it, right for the Nick side, right
cause we'll get to the Timberworls side of it in
a second. Is that doesn't it feel a little light
for Karl Anthony Towns. It's this package feels like it's
a little light because you have Julius Randall coming off
of major surgery, right and you have Dante DiVincenzo, who
is a who is a really good player, but he's
a rotational guy. And this is a this is a
(35:55):
four time All Star, is one of the best, who's
to do it all big, you know, points, rebounds, blocks everything.
He's able to fit in on an island with whatever
you want to do. And I get that. Certain teams
they morph as the season goes on. And we mentioned
now Karl Anthony Towns's name has been in the rumor
mill the last couple of years with the Timberwolves, and
obviously the team is now more Anthony Edwards and defensively driven. Okay,
(36:18):
and I get that today you were you're a great player,
but you kind of don't fit because we have a
bigger superstar that's behind you that we're gonna build around.
But it just feels a little light that that's all
the Knicks had to give up. The Knicks had wanted
to move Julius Randall for a while and and it's
just Randall and Devincenzo, no picks, no anything else. No, hey,
we're gonna hold out for that third player if you
really want him. It feels that, Okay, why is it
(36:41):
so light for Karl Anthony Towns. Why is this package
just Julius Randall and Devin Chenn Because he was due
over two hundred and twenty million dollars in the next
what four years? Five years, and they decided they were
done with that. It's not like Julius Randall doesn't making money, no, no, no,
But but it becomes a all right, we're not locked
into him and whether Randall comes back and he's fully
(37:03):
the player because once upon a time you celebrated him
nightly when it's a long time he was a good player.
Because that's Julius Randall. He was always a really good
player on a bad team, and as the Knicks got better,
he would be in and out of the lineup. He
would take too many shots, lots of things. Hey, I'm
just happy I saved gas. You know why because I
did not have to drive Julius Random to the airport.
Like I volunteered. You did volunteer, not only did drive
(37:26):
him to the airport, volunteer to get out of your
house and out of the area, which we can't get
you to do for anything. You volunteered that you were
gonna go and get Julius Randall and transport him wherever.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
They did that for you. No, I saved gas, and
gas is expensive, right, I say. They say the Knicks
were looking out for me, Man, they were looking out
for me. I did not have to drive because I
would have if they said, hey, listen, were okay, I'll
drive him to the airport for you.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
A right, Because I mean, that's the curiosity and the
talking point that starts swirling going forward, is Cat maybe
a better player and certainly Randall coming off an injury. Sure,
Vincenzo great glue glow glue guy. Right, Absolutely no question
about it in terms of their rotation and what he
meant to that. And you're selling him at a high
point coming off of the playoff last year. He's not
(38:10):
going to have that kind of role this year with
the team. Yeah, it'll be curious to see, you know,
how he gets utilized in Minnesota. And and like we say,
I mean, you never know what's gonna get spun off
a here. I don't necessarily, you know, think there's more
than a one percent chance that Jalen Brunson gets traded.
But you put it stop, it could happen. Stop. The
answer is not zero. We always talk about it, right,
(38:33):
But people go, oh, this guy signed a contract, this
guy says he loves this whatever. It's like the winds blow.
Stuff changes guys. Guys, Hey, Luca dout, you just signed
this deal. Uh huh. Hey doesn't mean he may not
decide he hates minute I played for I know Tips. Yeah, No,
it's a different Tips, New York, different Tips. Don't worry
it later, everybody changes. Storry about a cat. But the
(38:55):
big thing is is about his contract and what it
does going or because you're looking at forty nine, fifty three,
fifty seven, sixty one and there are some restrictions. As
much as we say, we can move money around, and
it's funny money in a lot of senses. Guaranteed deals,
it it takes on a different life, especially if you
(39:15):
go to spin them off. Now that that makes me
think a little bit, but not for too long, because
I just go back, say go New York, New York Coat.
We're going to the finals. I'll think for a minute,
go New York, New York Coat. We're going to fins.
How it is seven to one for the title.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Now, Buddy, more on this breaking story, and we'll give
you our first picks on the weekend of college football.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
The NFL coming up next. Right here, Jason and Mike
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings, it is Friday.
It is Friday. How understated is what is happening? It
isn't that much closer to another Jets game. It is Friday.
It's almost another mission. We got football on the screen. Yes,
(00:47):
the White Sox are record setters. That's Friday. Today's Friday.
It is Friday. Losers, Ever, if you're going to be
the greatest at something, you gotta really go for it.
It is one hundred and twenty one losses. Come on now,
it is Friday. But Jason's Mets can't even say that. Mike, Well,
I mean they're good at losing, They're not great at losing. No,
(01:10):
we've been really good at losing for a long time,
like we are. Yeah, but you haven't been this great.
We're in the Hall of very good. Yeah, but that's shit.
You're in the Hall of the Fairy. Who's referend that
you think Otani watching? Otani's great? This is whose record
did they break? They broke the Mets right, Yeah, but
you were an expansion team. It's nineteen sixty two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, No, there's a lot to unpack here. There's a
lot going on. It is Friday, and that's you're gonna
get me right now because the Mets brewers anyway, we're lost.
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(01:48):
show hey, Otani a three run homer. The Dodgers are
thumping the Rockies right now, nine to two in the
sixth inning. They'll really be busting out some champagne after
this game. And Otani now a fifty four fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, guy stolen base earlier for RBI on the day
up to one hundred and thirty. And you know we
joked about him being the first.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now he is gonna be the first fifty five to
fifty five guy, potentially the last couple of days here.
But you know, I can't believe this, and you brought
this up a few minutes ago. No one has ever
hit fifty five home runs in the season in baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, it's weird if at fifty four, but it's like
he's hit fifty four. Nobody's hit fifty fifty six. But
now we have a scoring game, he's still no double Nichols, Now,
no doublem. Brady Anderson is right there, right, Not even
Brady think he was right there, not in that four
in that magical year.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, there were there's fifty four, there's fifty six, right,
Sosa had fifty six one year, but no fifty five.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Never had fifty five. Ton he could be the first one.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Of course, he's gonna be the first to do something
double Nichols, But while he's playing in Colorado, you think
he wants to stop.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
With one more old run, he could be shot. Now
he could be sixty sixty. At sixty to sixty and
with this pitch, I got a few more, We're gonna
be absolutely fine. So yeah, while major League Baseball, the
race for the postseason in the American League.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, we'll get to that in a second. In the
National League, things are looking good for the Braves because
the Braves won tonight. Uh, they won three nothing. Max
Freed and maybe his last start in Atlanta is great
through eight and two thirds beats the Royals and the
Diamondbacks and the Padres. Right now was the Padres up
four to one in the bottom of the first inning
(03:25):
over Arizona. This is key because the Mets are losing
to the Brewers six to two in the top of
the six.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Innings, are wearing some really awful uniforms and they should
be penalized for Yeah, the umpire should be penalized. Everybody's
I at baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
But let's focus on the positive before because you can't
do the positive. Uh, the big result of the night
in sports is this, And you can't get to a
bigger difference of Lady and the tiger where it comes
to how the final the final lady and the tiger? Right,
(03:59):
you know the thing you choose two doors behind one
door is a beautiful lady behind the Oh, you want
to choose a beautiful lady and not the tiger, Right, Ladies,
I thought.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You're going lady in the tramp because you were already
thinking about eating pasta. No, I was thinking about this
is a nine.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I will give you twenty five dollars for every paper
clip you have in your purse right now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Let's make a deal. I know the lady of the tiger.
It is in a second of the day where he
isn't thinking about pasta. That's a fair point hostage. No, no, no,
that's not Come on, gee, hamburger cheese or ice cream
cheese or icesta that uh yeah, yeah, Oh, I don't
have pasta without cheese on What are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Why would I do that? That makes no sense. It's like
having a hamburger with no cheese. Why would I do that?
It makes no sense. It's called the hamburger. Why would
I have a sandwich with no cheese on it? That
makes no sense. That's just stupid. To look at your
face is just like what else do you want to say?
It's just stupid. It's stupid, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
The finest most coherent logical argument you've ever made. It's
just stupid.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Game of the night in Major League Baseball, and you
saw the absolute ends of ecstasy and pain in this
flyball right center.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Feels actually.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Outside stand up that was actually that was actually the
White Sox call. I think they were very excited.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
For the Tigers to make the playoffs. Thought it was
kind of funny that there's no mention of the fact
that the outfielders run into each other. Yeah, well is
that is that new? That's nothing new. There's a fly
ball like going back, like, wow, it just crashed into
each getting grinned at each other. Is that Beneeddie on
the call there? Yeah, that's three times a week with
the with the White Sox coming out, and that one hurt.
(05:53):
That was like a double smacked on Mike to me,
to you, why I don't call that game for the
White Ah. Yeah, but it's your former guy. That's fine
calling that and calling that. So he might have daggers.
He might be, And there's a lot of other people
who have gone out of their way to throw flowers
at his feet the last year. I am not one
(06:14):
of those guys. So is he better than what replaced him?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yes, you see video of it and Benetti's standing up
middle fingers in the air extended while he's.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Making could be doing that. Yeah, like Bud Adams when
he did that at the Yeah, but it's only going
to Mic nobody else. Yeah, no, just to you, directly
to the dagger to my heart. But look, let's deal
with the Let's deal with the positives first. Let's deal
with the front side of this. First.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
The Tigers are in the playoffs. There is no better
story in baseball all season long than the Detroit Tigers,
not even close. Not there's great things. We have seen
what Shoeo Tani has done with Aaron Judge has done. That,
there's great. There is no better story. Then here's the Tigers,
who have been just at the bottom of the barrel
for a decade. They basically give up at the trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They don't. They only half gave up though, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
The.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Award winner, right, the best move, the guy you didn't
get rid of when logic dictated that, yes, you should
have sold him for all the spare parts you could
possibly get.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean they they are the best team in baseball
since the trade deadline, which shows you how overrated the
trade deadline can be. Because all the Tigers did was basically,
we traded away a couple of players and we kept
the ones we thought we could trade but we could, right,
they keep school ball, and he's going to be the
Sidon Award winner.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You've seen the pitching jump up.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, Kevin Kelly's been unbeatable out of that bullpen
over the past three four weeks. But this is this
is a team that no one expected anything of them,
and here they are at the deadline where nothing changed,
where absolutely nothing changed, and here they are the best
team in baseball since that point for a heritage team
that has stunk for a long long time. And every
(07:55):
year you're penciling the Tigers in for a hundred losses,
a hundred loss there's no better story than seeing this
happen to the Tigers making the playoffs and not just.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Squeaking in like much of a couple of weeks ago.
It was hey, watch out for the Tigers. They could
get back in this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No now boom, they've clinched and they're just hanging out
the last couple of days of the regular Here's.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The data point that really just kind of stands and obvious.
It becomes the arbitrary. Let's just pick a date out
of the sky. August eleventh is the date from the
ESPN article kind of talking about this momentous occasion today
thirty one and eleven in their last forty two games
lowest dra and baseball largest run differential, and there were
(08:35):
eight games under five hundred at that point. Now, August
eleventh arbitrary, Like normally we go all right, last day,
you know, Memorial Day or July fourth, they're the trading deadline.
But the data point just say, you're already halfway through
the month of August and they're able to make this
charge and this run and everything started to click. I'd
(08:56):
be curious to see if you go back on that
date whenever we have our fun with the tankathon strength
of schedule for the remainder of the season. What the
rest of their schedule look like doesn't matter, because you
still have to play the games. And here we are today,
the momentous occasion White Sox after sweeping the Angels to
send them to season. Ever, we'll get to them. Let's
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stickin itself. And then you go on the road and
in Game one against the Tigers in this final series,
you go and you take another l right Crochet talking
about sticking around and whatever else. He's only able to
give you four innings before he departs, and once again
the bullpen and Tigers win. Well, this just shows you
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that that when you think about how bad your team
is every year and the season's over and this is
where we're at. Every year there's at least one team
that at the end of September we do a fill
in the blank with and that is what a story
team X is. Here they were fifty games under five
hundred on blank and look at the record now since
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then they have gone insert best record in baseball and
look at them all the way back in and here
they are making it to the playoffs or they get
to the very end of the season and it comes
down to the final weekend. There's a team. Every year
there's a team like that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
So everybody, no matter what kind of season you should have,
you could say, why not us? Because it's not like
the Tigers went out and did great stuff at the deadline.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They didn't that they didn't. I mean, it was it,
really it was.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They traded a couple of guys away and they kept
guys like school because well, we're not gonna we're not
excited what we could get for him. No, and look
at what they've been doing. I mean, they're a team
that nobody wants to play in the playoffs because they're
just absolutely a team with nothing to lose. Their pitching
is really good. You don't want to face Schooble once
or twice in a series because you're looking at two
losses there, because you're talking about that's how much he
(10:47):
would he would most likely pitch in a series now,
shorter series, shorter series obviously, but you don't want to
face game.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
One, you know, with him that way. So they're a
team nobody wants to play. And it's just it goes
to show you that there's always a team every year
and to think that your team is done, we're out
of it, we're here, unless you're the White Sox.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
There's always a way back and and and we always
look back and say the same things for these teams.
Here's their record on x DAX, here's their record since
day X. Here's their record. Now, what an incredible turnaround?
What is the key to this? And it's look at
that and the Tigers are that team. There is no
better story than seeing this team, the Tigers, who, like
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I said, you leave them for dead at the beginning
of every year, and here they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
They have one guy hitting better than sixty five. Kerry
Carpenter eighty eight in two hundred and fifty seven at bats,
playing in eighty five games. Riley Green, he's an All Star.
Two sixty five, twenty four, seventy four. Uh, that's his numbers.
I mean, that's that's where we're at. But you've got
a bunch of guys that you know, clutch hits, right,
(11:50):
that's and then three outcome baseball. We've seen batting averages
dip all across the league. We're talking about batting champions
maybe hitting as low as you know, three ten. So
it's it's a different one guys hitting over three hundred
the entire year. And for all the lamentation over everybody stealing,
it's so easy two guys over fifty. So all of
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that to say for the Tigers, I mean, it's a
fantastic story and for school. Look, I love south Pause,
you know, always uh e sightable and when teams just decide,
all right, we're not getting something commensurate with his talent,
so we'll just ride it out. It's kind of curious.
Goes back to the White Sox before the season when
they traded Dylan Cees. Why why unless he just threatened
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not to report, and he's gonna go fishing somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I really, it's an unbelievable the best story in baseball
Detroit Tigers, and it's not even close.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Exit.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
How about a Fresca exit Swollen Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. It is a
big football Friday. We got the big upset specials to pick,
we got big games to preview, and yes we will
get to absolute baseball history that was made by war Chicago.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
White, my Chicago white size. I do appreciate the fact that,
I mean national show. We just did a segment about
the Detroit Tigers. Detroit. You said Detroit? I did is Detroit.
Could we hear Bennetta again? God, let's hear it. Let's
hear it.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Fly ball right center beds.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You know what's great about that? He talks about it
like he's been there for all. Oh yeah, it's a
long suffering sand base. It's the worst.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And dude, you just got here.
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(14:09):
got a big night in college football as well, potentially
being upsets to talk about, and Mike Harmon's gonna wear
the fact that his White Sox are the worst team
in the history of the greatest worst team ever, the
best worst team. There's a lot of bad teams, and
I'll tell you yours is the worst. We are the worst.
I'll wear a crown for it. Down you are the
biggest loser. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's coming up next right here. Happy Friday, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
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 2 (14:45):
Fox Sports Radio. On an unbelievably wonderful Friday night, Oh
look at you? How do things change so quickly? You
had down? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Hold on to your hats, everybody, all onto your hats.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Did you have Rutgers? You can hear the shout. You
can hear the roar if you open your ears, open
your windows, and just listen. You can hear it rattling
in the dell. Go New York, Go New York. Go,
go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Go.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
The shouts get louder as it gets closer. The torches
light up the sky, and then you can hear it.
Go New York, Go New York. Don't walking through. Don't
You don't really get arrested for those things. Well, if
you're going you should be. If you're going to Frankenstein,
you're fine, but don't interrupt my Go New York, Go
New York. Oh, go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Go.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
According to Shams Trania, all of a sudden, Sham's bomb,
thanks WOJ, good luck at Saint Bonaventure.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Sham's bomb, Sham's bomb. No, he got credit for something
earlier today that he Shouldham's bomb. What because he deciphered
initials and a press release. According to Sham Adams, again,
what happened? Oh whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't know that
was true, didn't She says she was dating Daniel Jones. No,
I said again, Wow, go New York Go, New York Go.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
According to Shams Jams, this is about five minutes old.
The New York Knicks are nearing a trade with the
Minnesota Timberwolves. The Knicks would trade away Jalen Bronson's no.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Stop, don't say wow. People are gonna think that's real.
It's not really. I'm here. No, that's not I'm gonna
start singing across the universe.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, no, no, no, pay no attention to the producer
behind the glass.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You can see the wizard.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The Knicks and t Wolves are nearing a deal that
would send Jalen Bronson. No, stop, that's not true. Stop
don't stop telling lies. Stop li stop lying.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I mean, this is all theoretical anyway, so he can no,
but this is not true. Shams has the report.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But you guys just telling you're not hearing anything, Okay,
you're just hearing in your head the kicker, Dick of
the kicker, Dick of the kicker. He's a beast player,
Dick of the kicker. He's a brest player. That's what
you're hanging in your head.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
In my head, the New.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves are nearing a trade that
would send Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo. Pour went out
for Dante to the Timberwolves in exchange for Carl Anthony Towns.
(17:30):
This five minutes ago from chams Nick's nearing a trade
to send a package around Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo
to Minnesota for Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Now the fact already lost Hartenstein. Now you lose, did Evincenzo?
I mean you're losing all the heart of this squad. No, No,
it's tough losing a villanova guy. I mean that might
break the change. Well now we now we find out,
like you know, the Agatha all along you need five
witches or whatever it is. I mean he lost one
of the villanova Let's go to NBA and sider Adam
(18:01):
ty shirt here. Yeah, swods retired Jason. I have the insight.
It's actually a straight up for Jalen Bronson Brunson Charles Bronton,
I dare you to KNOCKDJ clearly mixed with a death wish,
wanting to trace Ronson at a coming he can jump
in his roundhouse kick is off the charts and oh
(18:22):
just kill me.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The next trading Bronson pin show away. Now clearly he
and the Knicks will be perfect strangers for.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
The rest of the time he plays in the lab.
Remember when cousin Larry was was on Law and Order
and he went down in a bad scheme with Joe
Piscopo because I got involved with the bob. Oh uh wow.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Let me just say first first, now you know of
the Villanova guys, who the one guy who's on the
outside of the club, obviously Steven Ccenzo. Hey, listen, one
of the Villanova guys got to go, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Devincenzo voted out.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
But this is they are losing Julius Randall and his
salary and the fact that Randall is look didn't really
fit with what this team was. And now you bring
in a big one of the best bigs in the league.
I told you the end of last year they get
mcal Bridges. They're going to the finals.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Now they're really going. Everybody's gonna jump I've been driving
this bus for a while. I will stop and let
people on, and people are gonna jump on. Like I'm
driving the bus and there's the big zombie that are
really fast running after you come on.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Get on the bus. I could take you to safety.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
All right, let's go, and everybody's jumping on and I'm
driving that bus. That's how people are gonna get on
this Knicks Finals bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
This is it. They are bringing one of the best
big men in the game, and to go with the
offseason acquisition of Bridges and the nucleus they had.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
This is amazing. This shows you the Knicks. Hey, we
think we're really good. We're not stopping until we realize
we need to be able to say we can play
any kind of game. And I don't know that they
would have made this if you didn't find out that
Mitchell Robinson was gonna be out the first couple of
months at LEAs of this year.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right Knicks big man who got hurt the end of
last year.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Really talented right rebounds, blocks, he's a guy, he's one
of the best rim protectors in the league. But you
lost Hartenstein and you were counting on Mitchell Robinson. And
now I don't know why, because he's hurt all the time.
He just can't stay healthy. So I wouldn't be surprised
if that news reignited these talks. Now I'm playing an
NBA insider, but There's been nothing about this the last
(20:25):
until just this bomb from Shams comes in. So this
Mitchell Robinson news is kind of under the radar a
couple of days ago. I mean I saw it and
I'm like, great, now we're gonna have have you income
back to play center at sixty years old. But I
guarantee you with that happening, the Knicks new And I
give the Knicks a lot of credit because it's Hey,
this is a championship window we have opened here, even
though we didn't make it out of the second round.
(20:45):
Championship window. We need to make sure.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
We have it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And not only do you go get Karl Anthony town
do you get another player that can take big shots,
that can play in big moments and do big things.
I'm gonna miss I would miss Devincenzo and the threes he.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Was able to hit, and and how great he was
in the playoffs last year, but in the end adding bridges,
how much more room was there for him offensively. And
when you can upgrade to Karl Anthony Towns, forget it, man,
this is telling you Nicks are going to the finals.
Look at you, You're already on board. Then New York
as we get ready for training camps to open. That's
been kind of the ground swell. A lot of people
(21:20):
have to go recut their videos just change the names
because they were coming on board your Nick's excitement as
it were. For Karl Anthony Towns. How much of this
was I don't want to play with Rudy Gobert anymore.
I'm done with this situation in Minnesota, could be right,
I mean, just a level of dissatisfaction on that side
of things, you know, as well as good as things
(21:40):
have been for Minnesota the last couple of years, now
with all the young player obviously, look with they're now
more Anthony Edwards driven than they are. This is the
Carl Anthony Towns's name has been been floated around in
trades for the better.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Of the last year years.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like as good as he is, it's wow, there's still
so you knew that at some point point that what
they were planning on as a franchise he didn't really
mesh and they were looking for because you don't. You
don't put a guy like that in the trade block
for that long unless you really want to try to
find a way to move him because the team is
morphed and it's been It's different every invention of the team.
There's some players who were on the inside now find
(22:17):
their way on the outside. Now, Julius Randold's coming in
a guy that con hit a three once in a while. Look,
he's he was always been a really good player on
a bad team.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Now you know, can he be a really really good
player on a really really good team. That's the big question.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, we look at the t Wolves and obviously the
Western Conference being a gauntlet as it were, we talked
about it. You know, the playoffs this last year, how
deep it went, and coming down the stretch last year
you had the t Wolves win fifty six and twenty six,
losing the conference finals. And now you move on from
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one of your big identifying players these last couple of years,
and you know, just going back and thinking about sequences
off the court and you know, flowing in his minutes
that you trade him out of conference for the Knicks,
you take your shot right because you look at the Celtics,
they come back a lot of questions surrounding them porzingis
(23:12):
how quickly he'll be ready, and also coming out of
all of the Olympic stuff and off court fun and excitement,
how much drama carries in and look defending champions oftentimes
we see it in all sports where that next year
is a little difficult after the banquet circuit and everything else.
How hungry are you? How much changes with the dynamics
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within a squad, And then you go through the rest
of the Eastern Conference. There's good teams? Are there? Great
teams in the Sixers? They're gonna be the Sixers, same bit.
I mean, the only thing you're mad about is that
you didn't get Joel Embiid just to vanquish them once
and for all. But I mean the Bucks will be good,
But are they great?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I mean like Western Conference high depth all the way
through the conference here on the East. Yeah, you take
your show that you could at least run through and
get past that pesky second round, now, can't you.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
According to Jake Fisher, NBA insider, Nicks had been talking
around the league in search of center improvement. Obviously, with
the an injury of Mitchell Robinson, they made it known
Julius Randall was available. They had interest in additions like
Clint Cappella. However, Karl Anthony Towns, Hey, uh, that's an upgrade. No,
one's gonna say no to and that really it's it's
(24:27):
I don't know how you say a team other than
the Knicks right now or the overwhelming favorites for the
NBA Finals in either conference, Well they're losing. Jalen Brunson,
stop that, don't don't mix. No no, no is no
allegedly doing. That's even wrong to say allegedly. I could
sue you for just saying alleged. I mean, look, then, look,
he could put it out there. He did say he
(24:48):
can't put words in Sham's mouth. He could just say
it himself. I got a text thing with the guy
in the place.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He doesn't have to reveal his sources, don't you know sources?
You could just say whatever the hell you want and
have big time jobs, don't you know, texting Frostburg about
the next nobody? Come on, you're GM No, you know
this all right? Look at the odds and Weston's texting
you about this. Yes, let's see we begin this season
October twenty fourth futures odds. I'm curious how quickly these
(25:16):
get reflected the update, but the Celtics were the favorites
at about three to one, thunder coming in at seven
to one, the Knick's right behind him seven and a half,
eight to one, as as high as nine to one
on one service as low as five to one, So
variants always a reminders shop beyond them sixers, the great
(25:39):
bearded Nicola Yo gets ready to get back to work,
and then you have the Mavericks, well, the t Wolves
and then the Bucks. As we said, lots of Western
Conference teams where folks are placing their bets.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, yeah, the path of least resistance still goes through
the Eastern Conference, correct, right, And I mean, really, this
is a Nicks franchise now that outside of the injuries,
if they didn't have the injuries last year, I mean,
and they did, so I can't tell you they had
the injuries last year, they would have gotten the Eastern
Conference Finals. They would have probably lost to the Celtics. Right,
The Celtics probably would have vanquished them. The Celtics had
(26:14):
home court.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I get the word vanquished in yes. I just remember,
you're still running another season under the Tom tibodeaut watch. Yeah,
so let's see what that grind was in another year.
And I don't think it matters.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think I think Tibbs is like this has become
his team and the guys that he has decided these
are the guys I'm going to win with.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
How could you say no? I mean, this is the
Thics have been in two decades. Like, it's Tibbs's team,
Like this is like it's I'm not saying they don't
love him. I'm not saying that he hasn't found a
collection of players that buy in that each each of
the eighty two actually matters, which is a very rare
commodity in this NBA of twenty twenty four, twenty five.
(26:54):
That said, that's a lot of grind. So you better
have enough depth. You better be able to deal a
few games during the course of the stretch where guys
have some light minutes. Otherwise we'll be back in the
same situation with you pulling out follicles out of your
eyebrows or whatever as we get to the playoffs. And
because the same thing's gonna happen. Okay, Well, and here's
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the other part of it though, to say that, yes,
it has Tibbs's coaching style the last fifteen years. Have
you seen it great on teams? Yeah, he's been really
good for a couple of years and then he has
to move on. But he's found the situation, just like
how players find. Hey, I'm in the right situation, the
right system with a team. He's found in New York,
and he's gotten the right guys to buy in. Right,
(27:37):
He's got his leaders and Jalen brunts and heart. These
are your emotional leaders in brunts and obviously leading by example.
Now you bring in a couple of new guys that
have not been open and have have had anything to
do with TIBs over the course of the last few years.
There's a new situation.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So now if it's Karl Anthony Towns and now Bridges
coming in, it's okay. This is my first couple of
years under Tom Tibber.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
What you're saying is you'd go terribly wrong because they
don't buy you one percent. See what he did.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
He already predicted the Niott. Dude, we're going to the finals. Man,
you brought two guys in like, hey, yeah, I'm okay
with all.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I like this.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I like this defensive responsibility. I like the way that
we're beholding to each other. Dude, they'll be booing him
out in New York by February. That is not dude,
We're going to the finals. Man, the Knicks are going
to the finals.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
How long before they open up on Broadway Cats with
a case damn Judy Dench exit. How about a Fresco exit?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Swollen down the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live
from the tirerac dot Com studios. We got more coming
up in ninety seconds, but first with more details on
this trade that has not been agreed upon yet.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's Steve Steve, Happy Friday, Steve O. Good evening to
you both.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
But actually, Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez has just left due
to injury at Milwaukee. Hurt on the base fast they said,
bad back. According to the Brewers announcers in Milwaukee at
seven two Brewers over the Mets in the bottom of
the seventh inning in this final weekend the regular season,
Alvarez needed to walk through the dugout to the clubhouse.
Could not even do that, needed assistance through the dugout.
(29:08):
As for the updated s tweet, I guess we can
still call it on X from the Athletic. In the
NBA News tonight, the Knicks have acquired Karl Anthony Towns
from Minnesota for Julius Randall. Oh, now it's official, Dante Devenrenzoe,
It's become official now and the first round pack via Detroit.
According to the Athletic, it's not official till the team
(29:29):
says it.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Actually, so Shams doesn't have Oh no, no, Sham's got it.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Shams just got it.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
He just got it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I think I just said that two minutes ago. Yo,
how did you not come on? We're talking about this.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
We was going to want to tell you it was
for Jalen Brunson. We were going to the finals before this.
We were going, we were really going when it was
almost near happening. Now that it's happened, now we're absolutely going. Now,
no doubt. Now we're going. Actually, nothing's changed. No, it
was pretty much done then, it was close to being done.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
They were near a trade. Look at that. Look at that.
But he gritty enough. We'll actually be able to get
gritty as a that's Philadelphia. Actually, yeah enough, we can
borrow you can borrow him. Just keep us. The mister
met for a little bit. He's kind of funny with
that big bald head. Yeah, we kind of like him,
you know what.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
The one of the signs in Detroit tonight and the
Tigers has they clinched a playoff Berth You can't spell
Tigers without grit. They're onto the postseason for the first
time in ten years. Detroit wins its six straight game,
beating the White Sox four to one. The White Sox
passed the expansion nineteen sixty two Mets for most losses
in a single season since nineteen hundred. Detroit's record over
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the last month and a half thirty one and eleven.
And the Twins are getting shut out at home. It's
now Oriel seven nothing at Minnesota in the bottom of
the eighth inning. Kansas City got shut out at Atlanta
Braves three nothing over the Royals. Going into tonight for
the last ANL wildcard, Atlanta was one game out behind
Arizona and the med to mention, the Mets are losing
(31:01):
in the seventh seven to two at Milwaukee. The Padres
are leading at Arizona. Padres got four runs top of
the first. It's now four to two San Diego at
Arizona in the top of the fourth inning, and the
Dodgers are now up eleven three at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
In the top of the eighth inning.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Sho Hey Otani with his fifty fourth homer and his
fifty seventh stolen base of the season. Raiders wide receiver
DeVante Adams is out this weekend with a bad hamstring,
and defensive end Max Crosby is likely out with an
ankle injury. There's college football on Fox TV. Final minute
of the third quarter, Rutgers trying to go to four
to zho leeds Washington fourteen to ten, twelve minutes left
(31:39):
at seventh ranked Miami. Virginia Tech now up thirty four
to twenty four over the Hurricanes. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tyreck dot Com Studio.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
It is official. The Knicks get Karl Anthony Towns from
the Minnesota Timberwolves. Julius Randall, Yonte DiVincenzo, the final wait
and possibly no, you just know it's not And oh Tawani,
how about that?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh they're gonna go for the w W E though,
you get to get what's soy gonna do in Minnesota?
Man's allowing he'll get the Twins in the playoffs instead
of losing every game like they've done the last Sorry,
but that's what happened. Maybe maybe you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Should allow teams to do that. You should allow teams
from the same city to make trades with other cities
through teams like the Knicks could have gotten Karl Anthony
Towns and they could have traded away Peter Alonzo. You know, Okay,
that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna trade your Pee
Alonzo for Carl Anthony. You can trade with it, guy,
guys struck out twenty five times in his last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I mean, I'm I'm ready. I'm ready for the end
of the ped Alonzo er if it happens, I'm ready.
I'm ready. I'm ready. See how he cuts guys loose,
just like that, just like that, just like that, ruthless.
I love you till I don't love you anymore. I
love you, and then then I just want to say it,
ty shirt, it's been a good run. Guys, that says
I may not make it through. Oh stop, you're my
(33:03):
best friend. You're my best friend. But I would still
trade you for Karl Anthony Towns one hundred percent. Yeah. Absolutely.
The immediate reaction on x slash Twitter is they will
hate him.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Towns hasn't had to hang around Tims in a couple
of years. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine.
Everything's fine. We'll have more on this breaking story coming
up next, as well as a big night as we
give you a previews and our upset specials for football
this weekend. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike, this
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
On the line.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
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So the big news, the big a Sham's bomb, that
is now official. The Athletic reporting the New York Knicks
have obtained Karl Anthony Towns from the Minnesota Timberwolves for
in exchange for Frostburg Kluyet in exchange for stop.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
No. No, people aren't gonna believe you. You're gonna believe
because I don't want the the because you're putting it
out into the universe. Something like that can happen. He's figuring,
just like the Matt's Alvarez leads.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Mike until the Knicks say it. It could happen, because
if Brunson is driving around listening, here's what I've been traded.
He's already turned off the radio, gotten on to his agent, saying,
if they traded me, if that get me out of
New York, I don't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
That's how it happens. So don't don't you But it
could happen. No, it can't, it's not happening. The trade
is done. It's Karl Anthony town to the Knicks, Julius
Randall and Dante DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now it's
it's still my mind is blown that this is the
trade that is made. And if anything makes me a
(35:34):
little nervous about it, right for the Nick side, right
cause we'll get to the Timberworls side of it in
a second. Is that doesn't it feel a little light
for Karl Anthony Towns. It's this package feels like it's
a little light because you have Julius Randall coming off
of major surgery, right and you have Dante DiVincenzo, who
is a who is a really good player, but he's
a rotational guy. And this is a this is a
(35:55):
four time All Star, is one of the best, who's
to do it all big, you know, points, rebounds, blocks everything.
He's able to fit in on an island with whatever
you want to do. And I get that. Certain teams
they morph as the season goes on. And we mentioned
now Karl Anthony Towns's name has been in the rumor
mill the last couple of years with the Timberwolves, and
obviously the team is now more Anthony Edwards and defensively driven. Okay,
(36:18):
and I get that today you were you're a great player,
but you kind of don't fit because we have a
bigger superstar that's behind you that we're gonna build around.
But it just feels a little light that that's all
the Knicks had to give up. The Knicks had wanted
to move Julius Randall for a while and and it's
just Randall and Devincenzo, no picks, no anything else. No, hey,
we're gonna hold out for that third player if you
really want him. It feels that, Okay, why is it
(36:41):
so light for Karl Anthony Towns. Why is this package
just Julius Randall and Devin Chenn Because he was due
over two hundred and twenty million dollars in the next
what four years? Five years, and they decided they were
done with that. It's not like Julius Randall doesn't making money, no, no, no,
But but it becomes a all right, we're not locked
into him and whether Randall comes back and he's fully
(37:03):
the player because once upon a time you celebrated him
nightly when it's a long time he was a good player.
Because that's Julius Randall. He was always a really good
player on a bad team, and as the Knicks got better,
he would be in and out of the lineup. He
would take too many shots, lots of things. Hey, I'm
just happy I saved gas. You know why because I
did not have to drive Julius Random to the airport.
Like I volunteered. You did volunteer, not only did drive
(37:26):
him to the airport, volunteer to get out of your
house and out of the area, which we can't get
you to do for anything. You volunteered that you were
gonna go and get Julius Randall and transport him wherever.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
They did that for you. No, I saved gas, and
gas is expensive, right, I say. They say the Knicks
were looking out for me, Man, they were looking out
for me. I did not have to drive because I
would have if they said, hey, listen, were okay, I'll
drive him to the airport for you.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
A right, Because I mean, that's the curiosity and the
talking point that starts swirling going forward, is Cat maybe
a better player and certainly Randall coming off an injury. Sure,
Vincenzo great glue glow glue guy. Right, Absolutely no question
about it in terms of their rotation and what he
meant to that. And you're selling him at a high
point coming off of the playoff last year. He's not
(38:10):
going to have that kind of role this year with
the team. Yeah, it'll be curious to see, you know,
how he gets utilized in Minnesota. And and like we say,
I mean, you never know what's gonna get spun off
a here. I don't necessarily, you know, think there's more
than a one percent chance that Jalen Brunson gets traded.
But you put it stop, it could happen. Stop. The
answer is not zero. We always talk about it, right,
(38:33):
But people go, oh, this guy signed a contract, this
guy says he loves this whatever. It's like the winds blow.
Stuff changes guys. Guys, Hey, Luca dout, you just signed
this deal. Uh huh. Hey doesn't mean he may not
decide he hates minute I played for I know Tips. Yeah, No,
it's a different Tips, New York, different Tips. Don't worry
it later, everybody changes. Storry about a cat. But the
(38:55):
big thing is is about his contract and what it
does going or because you're looking at forty nine, fifty three,
fifty seven, sixty one and there are some restrictions. As
much as we say, we can move money around, and
it's funny money in a lot of senses. Guaranteed deals,
it it takes on a different life, especially if you
(39:15):
go to spin them off. Now that that makes me
think a little bit, but not for too long, because
I just go back, say go New York, New York Coat.
We're going to the finals. I'll think for a minute,
go New York, New York Coat. We're going to fins.
How it is seven to one for the title.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Now, Buddy, more on this breaking story, and we'll give
you our first picks on the weekend of college football.
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