October 23, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike react to LeBron and Bronny James making NBA history tonight as the first father-son duo in an NBA game. We remember the GREAT Fernando Valenzuela. And Shohei Ohtani's 50/50 home run ball sold for $4.39 million making it the most expensive ball in sports history!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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in twenty minutes, we'll get back into the big developing
story of the night. Fernando Valenzuela, Dodgers legend MLB legend
passing away tonight at the age of sixty three. The
Dodgers making the announcement a little bit less than a
couple hours ago. You're starting to see all kinds of
tributes to him. MLB network is showing some of the
best moments of Fernando's career. People running onto the field,
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woman running onto the field to kiss.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Him before its tim and he just gotta look like.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It really, it really is something. Fernando was sick. He
stepped away from his duties with the Dodgers not too
long ago. We wanted to fight his situation privately, and
the Dodgers making the announcement earlier tonight, Fernando Valenzuela passing
away at the age of sixty three. But our business,
of course, Hey, what's going on in sports tonight?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Fernando. We spent a lot of time on him.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We're going to talk about him again coming up in
a few minutes, because just to be able to talk
about his career and how electric it was is really something.
But we saw history tonight in the NBA. We watched
for the first time ever a father and son play
together with about four minutes ago in the first half,
Bronnie James checks in plays with lebron for about three
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minutes as part of the Dodgers one ten, one oh
three victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. He checks into the
game after.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The Lakers are on a nineteen to two run.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They bust out to like a seventeen point lead, and
Bronny plays the next three minutes with Lebron and it
was again the history. The moment that we saw it
was incredible because again we've never seen it.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
We've never seen in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
The last time we saw anything like it was thirty
years ago with the Griffies in Major League Baseball, and
I couldn't wait to see how things were gonna unfold.
And the three minutes that Bronny played, there's a lot
to take away from this and what it looks like
the Lakers will do going forward. Bronny comes into the
game and Lebron takes a three and missus. Next time
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down the court, Lebron takes another three in missus. Bronny
looks like he's gonna get in and sneak by everybody
and get the rebound. And he try and he gives
like one of those one of those jumps, grab it
and put back and it bounces off the rim. Or
he would have had his first NBA bucket off of
miss by his dad, which would have been really cool
because mocked him finish it like the Vincenzo yelling at
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the sideline.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I don't finish right, tips, I don't finish right.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And then he took a three and he missed. Uh.
This is after Lebron. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
After Lebron had and he had a back and forth
in which they looked like they were running a play
for each other, little two man game. Lebron puts a
pick on Joe Ingles and knocks him to the ground.
I thought Bronny was gonna get wide open for a shot,
but in the end, uh, Bronni passes it back to
Lebron and who takes a shot with the shot clock
ticking down. So it was a three minutes that was
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That was momentous. We watched them play together, and you're
watching where Bronny is at all moments, and it really
was some kind of moment. Now what we've seen and
what looks ahead, I think we got a vision tonight
of just how the lebron dynamic is going to go
going forward. Now you look at the amount of time
he played tonight. He played three minutes in the first
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half at a point where the Lakers were up by seventeen.
So here he is for a few minutes, giving somebody
a rest and they could put him in the game
at that point because he can show that, look, if
we got to get him out of the game, we
get him out of the game. If he can be
a zero sum type player and give somebody some rest, Okay,
he can play. But I think what you saw is this,
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and I think the Lakers have an idea how this
is going to go. G League hasn't started yet. G
League for the Lakers is in the same city. It's
in La here, so it's pretty easy to go back
and forth playing on both. You look at the minutes
that everybody played off the bench tonight, and everybody else
played at least eleven minutes, Bronni played three. This tells
me that the Lakers are going to go very slowly
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with him. This may be what he plays a night
for a while, and then eventually he's gonna wind up
going to the G League. Maybe he'll bounce back and
fourth earn more minutes with the Lakers as the season
goes on. But I think the Lakers have a pretty
good feel right now as to how things are gonna go.
And if this is how it goes for Bronnie, this
is fine, And the storyline is still a big story
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because Bronny's playing with lebron When's Bronny gonna get his
first bucket? When's he gonna assist.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
On his dad?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Will his dad assist on him? But it's going to
be this. Bronny's not going to play a bunch of
minutes because they're not gonna take this situation that has
so much flammability to it and go over the top
and make it awkward where suddenly, why is Bronny playing
these minutes in Dalton connect is not right? Why is
Bronny out here in a crowd? That's not gonna happen?
Seeing how the Lakers handled it tonight, Bronni comes in
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for three minutes in the first half because it was
the right time to do it. We knew they were
gonna try to bring him in the second quarter. It
worked out perfectly for the Lakers. Didn't have to bring
him in when a tie game or anything else was
a three minutes here or up seventeen. Okay, Bronnie can
come in and play three minutes, and that's what he did.
That's kind of how you'll see him play from now on.
When a team needs a rest end of a quarter,
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end of a half, he'll play a tiny bit, but
then he'll get most of his time in the G League.
He will go back and forth, and this will be
a storyline that the fire and hatred and vitriol of
the what was in the league, it's gonna go away,
and it's gonna be replaced more of the excitement of
here's Lebron and Bronnie playing together, here's potentially them. Pat
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like I said, assists It's not gonna be a lot
of minutes, right, Bronni's not gonna play a ton. It
will be a game by game situation because if Bronni
shows his time gets on that hey, you're not quite
ready for this level, they will slowly take him out
of the rotation and he will go down and play
in the G League. And what's Lebron gonna say? There
are too many eyeballs on this situation for to get
out of control. The last in the Lakers want is
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for after a you know, the Lakers third loss, and
role Lebron saying, you know, we got guys in the bench,
you could give us more minutes. Oh no, now you're
telling me I gotta play your kid. So that's the
situation the Lakers want to avoid and if they're handling
it like this, this is gonna be just fine. It's
not the end of the world. It's not Basketball Armageddon
is not the end of everything. I thought it was
the end of everything tonight when the when the Celtics
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made all those threes. But it's not the end of
everything tonight that Lebron and Bronni are playing together. Like
I said, the Lakers have a pretty good plan for
what's going forward with Browny, and I saw them manage
it well tonight. And everything was perfect tonight because it could.
It couldn't have gone any better for the Lakers. Big lead,
Bronny comes in, they keep a big lead, everybody plays well,
they win Opening Night against a really good team. Everything
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was perfect for the Lakers. But as far as Bronny goes,
this is kind of what it's gonna be, and it's
gonna be fine. It's all about perspective and nuance. Two
things were terrible at in society and even worse and
sports talk radio and television. Are we worse with perspective
or nuance? I think we're worse with nuance. Nuance, Yeah,
because we can't. We can't, I mean, we want to
come at things with different angles, but only top level. Yeah, no,
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do you want to go deeper deeper, way way down? Yeah,
folks tune out. Yeah, we can't let nuance going.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No, no, no, no, we're gonna hit you over that
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Perspective at times is bad, but sometimes it's good. It's
done okay, But nuance is a non starter, which is uh,
just leave that there.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The Lakers, they are forty to one to win the
NBA Championship.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That puts them right in the the meaty part of
the curve.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
To put it in meaedy part of the mic. But
they're undefeated in the Brownie James era.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But they are undefeated in the Bronny James era.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
How about no way, no, wait a second, how about
if you if you someone came down from a spaceship
in twenty sixteen and said, hey, the next time the
Lakers win their first game of the season, Lebron James
will be a Laker and his son will be playing
with him, you would say, get out of here, come on,
Oh no, no, it actually turned out to be true.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That should have to be true. They had one opening
night since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Might have been able to find yourself some pretty good
odds out all of that. But that that is to say,
the expectations are that if Lebron and ad are healthy,
you get a rotation together. Whatever the wild card is
of JJ Reddick as a first time head coach, of
anything of consequence like this, that that it plays together,
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then then we'll find that out in March and April, right,
because that's when winning time is. It's not on October
twenty second. As part of this grandiose hey, we're gonna
say goodbye to the inside the NBA guys because that
got muted tonight too. I mean we're seeing a bunch
of it in the pregame, you know, as they reboot
the games of the night.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, but this is gonna be a long season of goodbye.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He saved the network, He saved all those jobs.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You will kiss Charles Barkley's ass and like it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Look, the fact of the matter is you've got that.
You will kiss Charles Barkley's ass and like it. Put
that on a T shirt, put that on a tea.
That's kind of what he was telling folks the first time.
It was endearing. I didn't want to lose my family
and all this, and then he told that story in
the nine hundred time. I don't care anymore. You'll get
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it job somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
The point is that for this October twenty, you're not
losing a title here, right.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It's like the NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We have seventeen games two seventeen, and you still have
most teams that look at it as we have a
very short preseason, so the first couple games in September,
we're trying to figure things out. Likewise, here, here's three
minutes in an opening game. If he earns more minutes,
he'll get more minutes. G League does the start for
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almost two and a half weeks, So you got a
two and a half week period where he can sit
at the end of the bench, he can learn, he
can talk to his dad, he can talk to JJ Reddick,
and all the assistant coaches get a little bit of
insight of what it's like at this level and who's
getting harmed by it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Not a damn soul.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Now, the other part of this is when you want
to examine just why this situation is playing out the
way it is. It's different than any other reason you've
heard before. The Lakers and the Cowboys are the same teams.
They're the most popular teams in their sport. They are
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teams that push the conversation every year. When you're not
a championship caliber team, they want to stay in the conversation.
Both those teams want to be talked about. They don't
want to be We're not wallpaper. We want to be
talked about. So when the Cowboys struggle, Jerry Jones finds
a way to continue to make the Cowboys front page news.
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I'm all in on this season. All in wasn't anything.
It didn't work. Now, giving Dak a lot of money,
giving Ceedee Lamb a lot of money, I'm threatening radio
people's jobs.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Did you see.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I'm saying things like Derek Henry wouldn't be great
with us this year. Like he finds a way because
he knows the Cowboys are not a championship team. But
we still have to be the Cowboys and we still
have to be talked about it. And that's our championship
is continuing to be the most popular team in the NFL.
That's how Jerry Jones wins every year. Right, Lakers are
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the same way. They know they're not a championship caliber team,
as you said, forty to one odds. Now they're hoping
we get lightning in a bottle with JJ Reddick and
Reddy break her In and Hatchimoora and D'Angel Russell. These
are the two players that they brought in. JJ Reddick
sayd listen, make these guys into really good players. And
you know, D'Angel Russell more consistent, hatchimoor into a huge threat,
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and suddenly we really have something because now the team
is really deep. So it's not like they went into
this thing. Okay, we have nothing to do, but hey,
maybe that works. But we know we're not a championship team.
We know we're hamstrung with money because Lebron is not
going to take any less. And we made the mistake
of saying, yes, we'll let you get Russell Westbrook as
the third star. So how do they make up for this?
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How do they still stay the Lakers? And how is
their championship being staying the most popular team in the
NBA and being talked about. Well, we hire JJ Reddick,
a guy that had nothing past a fourth grade level
of experience. Let's draft Bronnie James. Because if we draft
Bronnie James. Hey, everybody's gonna talk about us whatever, the
Knicks and their players, the Celtics title defense, wenby all
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that crap, that's backpage. Hey, Lebron playing with Bronny is
a nightly story and it sells.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And we're going to own that. And that's what the
Lakers decided to do. That's why they drafted Bronni James.
They know winning a championship. They're not gonna tell you that,
but they know winning a championship is probably not gonna happen.
Lebron's won his last title. The Lakers are too old
to make a huge run through four rounds of playoffs
and win. But how do we stay the Lakers? This
is how we do it. Lakers and cowboys are made
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the same way. If we can't win, we find a
way to continue to be the most popular team, and
that's our championship. And this is how the Lakers have
won their championship. Where Hey, in the offseason, we make
the biggest splashing higher as a head coach, we make
the biggest draft splash and getting Bronnie James, and we're
staying that level and we're being that team that part
of the conversation all the way from now to the
end of the year.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That is done. Gene Bus can cross it off for
list to go.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Did it, did it?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
We're done.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
While we're worry about next Now, what about twenty five
twenty six? How do we become a stay that relevant
in twenty five to twenty six? But they've done it
for this season because of those moves. It all comes
down to the command in trading places. Get in there
and sell, sell, sell, exit out, bout of Fresca, exit
swollen down.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
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Speaker 1 (14:18):
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remember the life and career that was Fernando Valvenzuela with
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Speaker 2 (14:37):
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Speaker 4 (14:48):
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tirerack dot Com Studios, Opening night of the NBA. The
Celtics make ten threes in the first quarter. Don't look
back boat race the Knicks. Your offseason was great. Yeah,
a lot of hypes, a lot of excitement. Look, I
gotta be honestly before we'll get into we'll get well,
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we'll get into Fernando Valenz whale in a minute.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I mean, this is this was such a buzzkill tonight
because first of all, I spend the entire offseason waiting
for this game, right, Okay?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Great?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And and the Mets do me the great favor of saying,
don't worry about the Mets to the Jets to the Knicks, right,
because what do I say every I need the Mets
to get me to the Jets, to get me to
the Knicks, right. The Jets completely failing in that, But
the Mets flew me over the Jets to get me
right today, you didn't even need no it was like
you were a superhero. You were able to jump or
the top and then to come up tonight. I can't
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even tell you if how good the Knicks looked or
not because the Celtics just didn't miss.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yes, could the Knicks defense have been a little bit better? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And and will that come with with more familiarity with
the players?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Absolutely was.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm not happy that mckel Bridges, with his new shooting motion,
was not hitting anything in the beginners. But then he
started hitting shots in the second half, so it was fine.
But I can't even tell you because while some of
the shots okay, defensively could be a little better.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Someone were with hands in their face. Yeah, but how
much just didn't miss it at twenty nine? But how
much of Bridges in.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The second half was Yeah, go ahead, shoot the Yeah,
but I don't care that much fun to hit something.
It's zero for five in the first half. But I mean,
but they tie an NBA record with twenty nine threes, right,
I mean, that's how bad at what? The Knicks never
threatened the Celtics get their rings.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I can't even tell.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You are the Knicks? Was this a disappointing tell you
Nicks where they talk? I don't even know, because oh,
just stop, this is the only night you were putting.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
It up to the universe.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
If I don't know what he's trying to give you
a definitive answer, because it's the first time in like
four years where the Knicks don't have a better record
than the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So we say, hey, what's.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The line the show is tonight the Lakers are back?
Oh oh, we didn't even can No, you're always the
Lakers are back. You did your line justin a decade
your line, Man, you don't really have to say when.
But like, like, I can't even tell you because the
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Nick shot the ball. Well, you know, they get that,
had a good performance, but but I mean they shot
fifty five percent for the game and they lost by sixty.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Like I mean, this was I.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Mean, the Celtics just didn't miss. Had twenty two off
the bench.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Now, I don'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You like that for an old country.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, you want to know something more than you wanted
something big coming off of this. Right, the last six
minutes of the game, it was a big laugher for
the for the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Starters are out of.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The game, and they kept shooting threes because they wanted
the record. Because the record was twenty nine. They knew it, right.
So any NBA player says, oh, I didn't know what
my stats were. All I had thirty points and twelve rebounds. No,
they all know because they were all screaming for them
to hit another three in the final six minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Do you think there was like twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That someone was gonna get a spot bonus if they
hit thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They're up by twenty five points, and they start taking
threes exclusively to get to that record. Now the basketball
God say, Okay, Boston's a little bit too much, and
they missed their last ten threes, so they were twenty
nine of forty one for the night. Think about that.
That's they were from three point range. Then they missed
their last ten. So now twenty nine for fifty one
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is still otherworldly.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
But think of how.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Ben Trimble a three twenty from three point range of nine.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But I'm gonna tell you that, I'm gonna tell you this,
right this, the last six minutes of that game set
the tone for the season, Knicks Celtics, what that Eastern
Conference is gonna be like, because the Knicks are never
gonna forget the last six minutes of that game. The
Celtics were up big, they were hitting threes all night.
They're laughing on the sideline and they are shooting threes exclusively,
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not a three, every couple possessions open. It's just give
me the ball. Come on, give me the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I can hit that. Hit that thirty three ny dude.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And then they started shooting like they were Philip Seymour Hoffmann,
it grain man, the Knicks. The Knicks are not gonna
forget that. Trust me, they are not. When they play
them next to Madison Square Garden, how physical that game
is gonna be. You watch and seeing now this Knicks
Celtics rivalry is gonna hit a new level the last
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six minute. The Knicks are not gonna forget that. They're
still going to the finals. They're still gonna win. They
lose opening night, I'm telling the Nicks are going to
the finals. Everything is okay. I wish that the night
went different. But the Celtics got their rings. They're playing
at home, They're supposed to win that game. They hit
twenty nine threes. I mean, what do you want At
one point, At one point the broadcast is when they
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hit their fifteen to three in the first half, they go,
this is getting ridiculous, Like nobody ever does that, so
they did it. Hats off to them. The Knicks are
not gonna forget the last six minutes of that game.
Now we talk oftentimes the the Robberies, and we're gonna
see these teams battle. And you know how much I
hate the NFL scheduling where it's all right, I play you,
then I'll play someone else, and then I come right
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back and play you again. These teams don't meet again
to February eighth. February eighth. By then, Mike, the Knicks
will be out of it. By then, Bronnie James will
be starting for the Lakers. He'll be starting Friday night.
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JJ Reddick with announcement. Yeah, listen, D'Angelo Russell. We like
what he did, but we think coming off the bench
is what he needs to do. So Bronni is gonna
be our new point guard.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Congrat sate.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What do we got Friday night is Phoenix at home,
followed by Sacramento and then look, maybe the Knicks were
caught looking ahead to the home opener against the Pacers. Maybe,
but I mean, you throw out the records when those
two teams. I was just I was just I mean,
it was just so disappointing because I've been looking forward
to this game and in the beginning of this season
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from month because I'm so excited because I've never I've
never been as excited about the beginning of this of
a Nick.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Season since the nineties. And that's sad.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You wait, wait, Miss Haliburton gonna have the same Steve
Kerr of juice because of the Olympics that.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He brings the same anger to bear.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Thanks Steve Kerr. Thanks everything you did to make.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Jason Tatum more motivated coming off of winning the championship.
Thanks what you did during the Olympics. Steve Kerr, appreciate that.
Oh yeah, your fault, man, that's your fault.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Thanks. Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Screwed the Knicks by not coming to coach a team
ten years ago, screwing the Knicks again.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Every ten years he screws in it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And he gets to laugh about it because he's over
in the Western Conference.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Next show, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live
from the Tirack dot Com Studios. We have a play
by play call you have to hear coming up in
ninety seconds. But first let's check in with Kevin Wired
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
K um yep it has a concluding in Los Angeles
as the Los Angeles Lakers hold off the Timberwolves one
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ten to one oh three to win their first opening
night games. It's twenty sixteen and the story of the
night Bronny James making his appearance in the second quarter
with his follow Lebron James already on the court. So
they come the first duo in NBA history to appear
in a game together.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So uh Bronni.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Though didn't do a whole lot, he was in for
three minutes when two shooting. Lebron James, for his part,
also a very pedestrian performance as he had himself a
sixteen points on seven to sixteen shooting, also five rebounds.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Four.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It says Anthony Davis the big star of the game.
Four the Lakers thirty six points on eleven at twenty
three shooting, also had himself sixteen rebounds. Anthony Edwards led
the way for Minnesota with twenty seven points. Earlier tonight,
the Boston Celtics began their title defense in a big
fashion as they roll over the New York net New
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York Knicks won thirty two one h nine of the
five starters for Boston scoring more than twenty points Jason
Tatum with thirty seven on fourteen of eighteen shooting. Boston
hit twenty nine three pointers in the game, and really
the difference was the three point shooting is the Knicks
in contrast, just eleven to thirty. That's thirty six point
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seven percent. Jalen Brunson the leading scorer for the Knicks,
as he had at twenty two points. Major League Baseball.
He had some sad news today as the Los Angeles
Dodgers announcing the passing of legendary pitcher for Nando Vevenezuela,
who took the baseball world by storm in nineteen eighty one.
Started off that year eight to zero with five shutouts,
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won the Rookie of the Year the Cy Young, helped
lead the Dodgers to the World Series championship. In helped
captivate the community, in particular the Mexican American community that follows.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
The Dodgers to this day.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So he really is just a legend in Los Angeles
and in the baseball world, and he will be sorely
missed by all of the Dodgers and fans of base
ball in general.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
That's you, guys, Thanks keV to try.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
To to try to encapsulate Fernando Mania is really difficult,
but suffice to say, look, Frando Mania is forty years
old at this point. Fernando Valenzuela came up as an
unhralded rookie in nineteen eighty one, started opening day for
the Dodgers because Jerry Royce, who was going to be
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the opening day starter, had a calf injury. Tommy Lessorda,
you know, we had this story recounted to us by
by John Paul Morossi earlier in the show. Didn't want
to screw up his pitching staff and move everybody up
to date. It's just said Fernando, he was the third
starter you're going to pitch, and that began a run
for Fernando Valenzuela. His first eight starts in Major League
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Baseball eight complete games, eight and oh record four total
runs allowed, four runs allowed his first eight starts insanity.
He was a cy young winner that year. The Dodgers
won the World Series that year, and he be came
one of the great characters in all of Major League Baseball,
someone who was the mistique is what's gone now from
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players when they come into games and leagues for the
first time that were incredibly excited to see. Right, there's
no mistique about Caitlin Clark. You saw the excitement the WNBA,
but there's no mystique. We know all about her because
of what happened in Iowa. That also helped her popularity,
of course, but there's no mistique. There was no mistique
about Lebron James in two thousand and three. We knew
all about him coming into the league. We saw video
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of him in high school. The mystique is what's gone
the impact of the players. The excitement level is still there,
but there was nothing like what Fernando Mania was in
nineteen eighty one. You and I were both at the
point where were old enough to understand what it was.
I was ten and you know, developing my lifelong love
affair with Major League Baseball. And you didn't get to
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see Fernando pitch a lot because he was pitching on
the West Coast, nobody really had cable television. But every
fity you saw, here's his rookie pitcher, and he wins again,
complete game, wins again, complete game wins again, complete game
wins again, complete game. It's my good, he's five, and
oh he's got five complete game. He's six and oh
six complete games. Fernando Mania was so intense, and we
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look back at what Steven Strasburg Mania was and Schemes Mania.
Tonight we call everything mania because of Fernando Mania. That's
the godfather of all manias. That's right, everything man, Fernando Mania.
That that's what began everything. Everything we see with athletes
coming into the game, as exciting as it is, is
because of what the effect Fernando Valenzuela had on Major
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League Baseball when he came up in nineteen eighty one.
Now he was a great pitcher for a long time,
pitched a no hitter again, won the World Series with
the Dodgers. But his start is just so absolutely legendary
as a twenty year old kid from Mexico that nobody
really knew and suddenly he's everybody you want to see.
You're counting the days in between start. How do I
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I gotta see Fernando valens Whala pitch? And I remember
seeing him because his seventh win was against the Mets,
and I got to see the game for the first time,
right because I'm ten years old, I get to watch
because I didn't get to see the Dodgers play any
other games, but I get to see them playing the Mets.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, you didn't really get to see the Mets game.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And well, Fernando Valenzuela beats the Mets won nothing, and
in this game he improved a seven to zero on
the season, and his eer was point to zero point
two zero zero point two zero, or my GPA the
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first half of my freshman year at Syracuse point to zero.
Here's the final out of the game. He gets Lee
Mazilly to pop up, Le Mizoo, Yes, leem Azilly. Who
the last time you heard his name was from the
sp commercials with Jimmy Kimmel and Lebron James from ten
years ago. Hey, who do you think we could get
to host the SP's with us? Hey, my uncle Frank
knows Lee Mizilly. Lee Mozzilli pops up to end the
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game and listen to Vin Scully's call, perfectly encapsulating what
Fernando mania was at that point. Because this makes them
seven to zero. The Dodgers beat the Mets won to
nothing to win. And of course, when you need to
know something and you need something explained, Vin Scully is
the best place to go.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Three and O to Lee Mozilla fastball popped in the air,
foul Garby I think has a play and Fernando has
his fifth shutout. Unbelievable. Look at Peppe for us Rocket Peppy.
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I can't believe it. It is the most puzzling, wonderful,
rewarding thing I think we've seen in baseball in many,
many years. It is puzzling because that for all these
years looking at this game, I know how tough it is.
I know how tough it was for even the best
who ever played it. And somehow this youngster from Mexico,
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with a pixiest smile on his face, acts like he's
pitching batting practice in Mexico and turns in his fifth shutout.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
How hard the game is, and he's just with a
smile on his face like he's pitching batting practice in Mexico. Uh,
that was Fernando Vealezuela. That was an incredible way to
sum it up. But I want to play the beginning
of that call again, tyser, play the beginning of the
call again for a second, all right, when we rack
it back, So I want to I want to point
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something out here at the beginning of the call, Vinscully's
call here this game against the Mets, because it's very
it's very important, very important, very very important to point
something out. Uh here it is again, this is the
very beginning, and the Mets.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Sucks good.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Three and oh the leam is fastball pop in and
stop right there, stop right there.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Why the hell is Lee Mozzilly swinging a three? And
oh shit, one nothing? Giar noting the ninth inning? Down
one nothing? Why is he swinging three?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
And oh?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And it's a pitch right down the middle and he
pops it up to first pace.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Come on, man, he tried to crush it's three?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
And oh, Li Mozelle, what are you doing? And Li
Mizzilly is a lo our leadoff hitter of.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
The Mets in eighty one, Come on, man, three and
oh three and oh but nope, swinging three and oh,
let's say, not trying to get somebody on base now
three and oh and you're just gonna come right down
the middle with a pitch.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I'm gonna pop up to Steve Garvey.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Now you got Steve Garvey mixed there in them, and yeah, no,
it's it's a tough one to hear, especially when the
Mets are part of an historic run going the other
way because you had so much hope about a week ago.
But I remember seeing bits and pieces of that game.
Uh when when I was growing up and the only
running the game top of the first in Dodgers got
a run.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
No runs back in the day, though.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, we're going through just some of the crazy,
crazy stats for Fernando and we talked about it with
John Palmer Rosi a little bit. You can find that
conversation in the podcast, but just the idea of how
many innings he pitched the one year was two sixty
nine twenty complete games in eighty six with twenty one wins.
They're only twenty eight total complete games this year, to
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just show you the difference in bullpen and trust of
a starter. It's like, all right, he may not have
his best stuff because that year his ERA was a
little over a three which back then, remember yeah, how
an era of three plus was like, I don't know
how great you are?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That was pretty great?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, No, that was that was Mia Ryan whatever should
mention it though for everybody on our network and five
to seventy LA Sports during this time in the morning
six to nine Pacific, nine to twelve Eastern. They've got
Steve Sachs, nineteen eighty two Rookie of the Year who
played a good chunk of his career with Fernando. He's
on with Tim Kay. I'm sure they'll be talking about
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all those experiences and stories with Fernando in the morning.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I think it'll be worth a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Of your time. Exit.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
How about a Fresca exit Swalling Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirec dot Com Studios.
Fernando Vealezuela passing away tonight at the age of sixty three.
But coming up next, Oh boy, do we have a
show Heyo Tawny Brand news story for you who you
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
Live Fromthetireck dot Com Studios. And this has been some
kind of night. Opening night of the NBA The Celtics
cheat their way to a big win over the net Wow,
bronn and they have magnets. Bronni James scored forty for
the Lakers in their win tonight.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Wait what.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Uh, you gotta be careful man. Okay, there might be
people to just tuned and gone, wait what the hell
the Celtic lead man.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The Celtics had.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Forty threes or it seems like it. Uh. Look the
Celtics win. They had twenty nine three, set an NBA
record to beat the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Lakers set a record first time you've ever seen father
son play in the NBA lebron and Bronnie James uh
play together. The Lakers win Opening Night for the first
time since twenty sixteen. We spent some time talking a
lot about the life and career Fernando Valenzuela, who passed
away earlier tonight at the age of sixty three.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And now we have this story that has come in.
If you think you know the most expensive baseball in history,
We're gonna change that up. Until tonight, the most expensive
piece of baseball memorabilia that was an actual ball was
the Big Mark McGuire home run ball number sixty two.
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That sold for just over three million dollars. Now this
is you're going back over twenty years.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
When Todd McFarlane was buying up all the home.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Then he realized, oh man, I overpaid on so many
of them, so many of them, just over three million
dollars for the big McGuire home run ball.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, in the.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Words of Jesse Ventura, monsoon we got a new world
champion because this baseball has now just become the most
expensive baseball of all time. One two Tony says there
the other ways w kind Claire won of a kind season.
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So hey, Tony starts to fifty fifty Cob Joe Davis
on the part of Otani's three home run ten RBI day,
the first ever fifty to fifty player in baseball history.
And if people understood what that ball was going to
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be sold for, I think there would have been a
bigger scrum for it in the stands.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
It was. The other way was it was. It was a.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Big home run. That baseball was just sold tonight. Golden
Sports at the broker of this. And there's a lot
of controversies around it because this kid said I had
it, it was taken away from me and possession of the
ball is still sort of up in the air. But
that ball has just been sold for four point thirty
nine million dollars. The guy who caught that ball in
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the outfield has just sold that ball for four point
three nine million dollars. It is the most expensive baseball
in the history of the world. Now, if you want
to play, if you want to play right and wrong,
if you adjust the McGuire ball for inflation, it gets
it to over five million. It's like, but the adjust
the ten think it's okay, A wow, look at that.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
No, I'm just saying, I mean you're pointing that out.
But this is the most the most expensive baseball in
sports history, four point thirty nine million dollars. Now, baseball
always a global sport, but certainly show hey, Otani, we've
watched the crazy circumstance around Like ninety percent of folks
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that came from Japan and visited southern California found their
way to a Dodger game this year.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
All the merch and everything, they.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Delayed compensation on his contract and they've already paid it
off at least a couple of years of it. With
all the money they've made off the merchandising and such.
I just watched it from the trading card market. It's
absolutely insane. Anything that has Otani in a Dodger uniform
just flies like you would not believe. And to see
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the ball hit this mark, I'm not shocked at all.
I mean four point three nine, that means ten percent
buyers premium to golden I think that would be included there.
So a three point nine to five million dollar baseball
in the eleventh district there in Dade County. We still
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have the legal wranglings as to who actually owns the
rights to it or whether they just agree, Wow, we're
both gonna get two million minus taxes. How about we
shake hands and go away. Now, I know there's the
controversy that if you see this video, the kid in
the red shirt says he had the ball and it
was taken away from him. Look, you and I have
seen this video many times. There's a big scrum for
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the ball. Don't think anybody thought it would sell for
this kind of money. You're thinking, Okay, that's a five
hundred thousand dollars ball, but fifty to fifty I don't
see there any point any part where the kid actually
has his hand on the ball. I don't think he does.
It looks like he may be close to it, but
if he has his hand on anything for maybe like
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there's three seconds, there's a three second span from he
doesn't have the ball, you can tell, and then he
doesn't have the ball again and the guy has the ball.
So the other thing is he does had the ball,
but he doesn't go to get it with both hands.
He's got his phone in the other hand. It's like,
come on, man, to fight for the ball. Like I
thought you could potentially get to this, but I mean,
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this is this is crazy. Four million dollars and now
we're fighting over that clip of video. Like unless there's
a better video, this is one of those. If it
goes to an NFL booth, although I can't really trust
they're going to get it right, I would. I would
say the guy that put it up to Golden and said, hey,
this is my baseball auction it off.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
It's his ball, not the kids.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, no, kids, you get you get nothing, you get
a life lesson. Well, I got to think at some
point to keep this, you know, with that, do not
have lawyers get involved.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
They'll give the kids something maybe no.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You already got plenty of lawyers involved. But but yeah,
I would think at some point you just come and
you settle this and just be done with that. They're
in the largesse of the sum. I don't see him
win possession of the ball.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
I don't. I got it. It's too hard for me.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Maybe he had his hand, but the guy's got both
hands around the ball. It's tough because you know, the
kids like, oh my good, you're talking about that. It
paid for college and everything else and going going through.
But I think this guy's gonna get to keep it.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think the kids getting much
of anything else. Got chips them off a little, got
to go catch it out of baseball.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Nearly four point four million dollars for that baseball until
he goes sixty sixty next year, Ben Mall next Fox
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story of the night. Fernando Valenzuela, Dodgers legend MLB legend
passing away tonight at the age of sixty three. The
Dodgers making the announcement a little bit less than a
couple hours ago. You're starting to see all kinds of
tributes to him. MLB network is showing some of the
best moments of Fernando's career. People running onto the field,
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woman running onto the field to kiss.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Him before its tim and he just gotta look like.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It really, it really is something. Fernando was sick. He
stepped away from his duties with the Dodgers not too
long ago. We wanted to fight his situation privately, and
the Dodgers making the announcement earlier tonight, Fernando Valenzuela passing
away at the age of sixty three. But our business,
of course, Hey, what's going on in sports tonight?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Fernando. We spent a lot of time on him.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We're going to talk about him again coming up in
a few minutes, because just to be able to talk
about his career and how electric it was is really something.
But we saw history tonight in the NBA. We watched
for the first time ever a father and son play
together with about four minutes ago in the first half,
Bronnie James checks in plays with lebron for about three
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minutes as part of the Dodgers one ten, one oh
three victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. He checks into the
game after.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
The Lakers are on a nineteen to two run.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They bust out to like a seventeen point lead, and
Bronny plays the next three minutes with Lebron and it
was again the history. The moment that we saw it
was incredible because again we've never seen it.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
We've never seen in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
The last time we saw anything like it was thirty
years ago with the Griffies in Major League Baseball, and
I couldn't wait to see how things were gonna unfold.
And the three minutes that Bronny played, there's a lot
to take away from this and what it looks like
the Lakers will do going forward. Bronny comes into the
game and Lebron takes a three and missus. Next time
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down the court, Lebron takes another three in missus. Bronny
looks like he's gonna get in and sneak by everybody
and get the rebound. And he try and he gives
like one of those one of those jumps, grab it
and put back and it bounces off the rim. Or
he would have had his first NBA bucket off of
miss by his dad, which would have been really cool
because mocked him finish it like the Vincenzo yelling at
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the sideline.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I don't finish right, tips, I don't finish right.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And then he took a three and he missed. Uh.
This is after Lebron. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
After Lebron had and he had a back and forth
in which they looked like they were running a play
for each other, little two man game. Lebron puts a
pick on Joe Ingles and knocks him to the ground.
I thought Bronny was gonna get wide open for a shot,
but in the end, uh, Bronni passes it back to
Lebron and who takes a shot with the shot clock
ticking down. So it was a three minutes that was
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That was momentous. We watched them play together, and you're
watching where Bronny is at all moments, and it really
was some kind of moment. Now what we've seen and
what looks ahead, I think we got a vision tonight
of just how the lebron dynamic is going to go
going forward. Now you look at the amount of time
he played tonight. He played three minutes in the first
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half at a point where the Lakers were up by seventeen.
So here he is for a few minutes, giving somebody
a rest and they could put him in the game
at that point because he can show that, look, if
we got to get him out of the game, we
get him out of the game. If he can be
a zero sum type player and give somebody some rest, Okay,
he can play. But I think what you saw is this,
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and I think the Lakers have an idea how this
is going to go. G League hasn't started yet. G
League for the Lakers is in the same city. It's
in La here, so it's pretty easy to go back
and forth playing on both. You look at the minutes
that everybody played off the bench tonight, and everybody else
played at least eleven minutes, Bronni played three. This tells
me that the Lakers are going to go very slowly
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with him. This may be what he plays a night
for a while, and then eventually he's gonna wind up
going to the G League. Maybe he'll bounce back and
fourth earn more minutes with the Lakers as the season
goes on. But I think the Lakers have a pretty
good feel right now as to how things are gonna go.
And if this is how it goes for Bronnie, this
is fine, And the storyline is still a big story
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because Bronny's playing with lebron When's Bronny gonna get his
first bucket? When's he gonna assist.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
On his dad?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Will his dad assist on him? But it's going to
be this. Bronny's not going to play a bunch of
minutes because they're not gonna take this situation that has
so much flammability to it and go over the top
and make it awkward where suddenly, why is Bronny playing
these minutes in Dalton connect is not right? Why is
Bronny out here in a crowd? That's not gonna happen?
Seeing how the Lakers handled it tonight, Bronni comes in
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for three minutes in the first half because it was
the right time to do it. We knew they were
gonna try to bring him in the second quarter. It
worked out perfectly for the Lakers. Didn't have to bring
him in when a tie game or anything else was
a three minutes here or up seventeen. Okay, Bronnie can
come in and play three minutes, and that's what he did.
That's kind of how you'll see him play from now on.
When a team needs a rest end of a quarter,
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end of a half, he'll play a tiny bit, but
then he'll get most of his time in the G League.
He will go back and forth, and this will be
a storyline that the fire and hatred and vitriol of
the what was in the league, it's gonna go away,
and it's gonna be replaced more of the excitement of
here's Lebron and Bronnie playing together, here's potentially them. Pat
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like I said, assists It's not gonna be a lot
of minutes, right, Bronni's not gonna play a ton. It
will be a game by game situation because if Bronni
shows his time gets on that hey, you're not quite
ready for this level, they will slowly take him out
of the rotation and he will go down and play
in the G League. And what's Lebron gonna say? There
are too many eyeballs on this situation for to get
out of control. The last in the Lakers want is
(06:42):
for after a you know, the Lakers third loss, and
role Lebron saying, you know, we got guys in the bench,
you could give us more minutes. Oh no, now you're
telling me I gotta play your kid. So that's the
situation the Lakers want to avoid and if they're handling
it like this, this is gonna be just fine. It's
not the end of the world. It's not Basketball Armageddon
is not the end of everything. I thought it was
the end of everything tonight when the when the Celtics
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made all those threes. But it's not the end of
everything tonight that Lebron and Bronni are playing together. Like
I said, the Lakers have a pretty good plan for
what's going forward with Browny, and I saw them manage
it well tonight. And everything was perfect tonight because it could.
It couldn't have gone any better for the Lakers. Big lead,
Bronny comes in, they keep a big lead, everybody plays well,
they win Opening Night against a really good team. Everything
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was perfect for the Lakers. But as far as Bronny goes,
this is kind of what it's gonna be, and it's
gonna be fine. It's all about perspective and nuance. Two
things were terrible at in society and even worse and
sports talk radio and television. Are we worse with perspective
or nuance? I think we're worse with nuance. Nuance, Yeah,
because we can't. We can't, I mean, we want to
come at things with different angles, but only top level. Yeah, no,
(07:47):
do you want to go deeper deeper, way way down? Yeah,
folks tune out. Yeah, we can't let nuance going.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No, no, no, no, we're gonna hit you over that
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Perspective at times is bad, but sometimes it's good. It's
done okay, But nuance is a non starter, which is uh,
just leave that there.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
The Lakers, they are forty to one to win the
NBA Championship.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That puts them right in the the meaty part of
the curve.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
To put it in meaedy part of the mic. But
they're undefeated in the Brownie James era.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
But they are undefeated in the Bronny James era.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
How about no way, no, wait a second, how about
if you if you someone came down from a spaceship
in twenty sixteen and said, hey, the next time the
Lakers win their first game of the season, Lebron James
will be a Laker and his son will be playing
with him, you would say, get out of here, come on,
Oh no, no, it actually turned out to be true.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That should have to be true. They had one opening
night since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Might have been able to find yourself some pretty good
odds out all of that. But that that is to say,
the expectations are that if Lebron and ad are healthy,
you get a rotation together. Whatever the wild card is
of JJ Reddick as a first time head coach, of
anything of consequence like this, that that it plays together,
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then then we'll find that out in March and April, right,
because that's when winning time is. It's not on October
twenty second. As part of this grandiose hey, we're gonna
say goodbye to the inside the NBA guys because that
got muted tonight too. I mean we're seeing a bunch
of it in the pregame, you know, as they reboot
the games of the night.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, but this is gonna be a long season of goodbye.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He saved the network, He saved all those jobs.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You will kiss Charles Barkley's ass and like it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Look, the fact of the matter is you've got that.
You will kiss Charles Barkley's ass and like it. Put
that on a T shirt, put that on a tea.
That's kind of what he was telling folks the first time.
It was endearing. I didn't want to lose my family
and all this, and then he told that story in
the nine hundred time. I don't care anymore. You'll get
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it job somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
The point is that for this October twenty, you're not
losing a title here, right.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It's like the NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We have seventeen games two seventeen, and you still have
most teams that look at it as we have a
very short preseason, so the first couple games in September,
we're trying to figure things out. Likewise, here, here's three
minutes in an opening game. If he earns more minutes,
he'll get more minutes. G League does the start for
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almost two and a half weeks, So you got a
two and a half week period where he can sit
at the end of the bench, he can learn, he
can talk to his dad, he can talk to JJ Reddick,
and all the assistant coaches get a little bit of
insight of what it's like at this level and who's
getting harmed by it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Not a damn soul.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Now, the other part of this is when you want
to examine just why this situation is playing out the
way it is. It's different than any other reason you've
heard before. The Lakers and the Cowboys are the same teams.
They're the most popular teams in their sport. They are
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teams that push the conversation every year. When you're not
a championship caliber team, they want to stay in the conversation.
Both those teams want to be talked about. They don't
want to be We're not wallpaper. We want to be
talked about. So when the Cowboys struggle, Jerry Jones finds
a way to continue to make the Cowboys front page news.
(11:30):
I'm all in on this season. All in wasn't anything.
It didn't work. Now, giving Dak a lot of money,
giving Ceedee Lamb a lot of money, I'm threatening radio
people's jobs.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Did you see.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I'm saying things like Derek Henry wouldn't be great
with us this year. Like he finds a way because
he knows the Cowboys are not a championship team. But
we still have to be the Cowboys and we still
have to be talked about it. And that's our championship
is continuing to be the most popular team in the NFL.
That's how Jerry Jones wins every year. Right, Lakers are
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the same way. They know they're not a championship caliber team,
as you said, forty to one odds. Now they're hoping
we get lightning in a bottle with JJ Reddick and
Reddy break her In and Hatchimoora and D'Angel Russell. These
are the two players that they brought in. JJ Reddick
sayd listen, make these guys into really good players. And
you know, D'Angel Russell more consistent, hatchimoor into a huge threat,
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and suddenly we really have something because now the team
is really deep. So it's not like they went into
this thing. Okay, we have nothing to do, but hey,
maybe that works. But we know we're not a championship team.
We know we're hamstrung with money because Lebron is not
going to take any less. And we made the mistake
of saying, yes, we'll let you get Russell Westbrook as
the third star. So how do they make up for this?
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How do they still stay the Lakers? And how is
their championship being staying the most popular team in the
NBA and being talked about. Well, we hire JJ Reddick,
a guy that had nothing past a fourth grade level
of experience. Let's draft Bronnie James. Because if we draft
Bronnie James. Hey, everybody's gonna talk about us whatever, the
Knicks and their players, the Celtics title defense, wenby all
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that crap, that's backpage. Hey, Lebron playing with Bronny is
a nightly story and it sells.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And we're going to own that. And that's what the
Lakers decided to do. That's why they drafted Bronni James.
They know winning a championship. They're not gonna tell you that,
but they know winning a championship is probably not gonna happen.
Lebron's won his last title. The Lakers are too old
to make a huge run through four rounds of playoffs
and win. But how do we stay the Lakers? This
is how we do it. Lakers and cowboys are made
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the same way. If we can't win, we find a
way to continue to be the most popular team, and
that's our championship. And this is how the Lakers have
won their championship. Where Hey, in the offseason, we make
the biggest splashing higher as a head coach, we make
the biggest draft splash and getting Bronnie James, and we're
staying that level and we're being that team that part
of the conversation all the way from now to the
end of the year.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That is done. Gene Bus can cross it off for
list to go.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Did it, did it?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
We're done.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
While we're worry about next Now, what about twenty five
twenty six? How do we become a stay that relevant
in twenty five to twenty six? But they've done it
for this season because of those moves. It all comes
down to the command in trading places. Get in there
and sell, sell, sell, exit out, bout of Fresca, exit
swollen down.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
The Jason Smith Show with.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
My best friend Mike Carmon live from the Tireck dot
Com studios. So now you understand just exactly how the
Lakers are winning. With Brownie James coming up next, we
remember the life and career that was Fernando Valvenzuela with
a couple of stats that are gonna blow you away.
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
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 4 (14:48):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tirerack dot Com Studios, Opening night of the NBA. The
Celtics make ten threes in the first quarter. Don't look
back boat race the Knicks. Your offseason was great. Yeah,
a lot of hypes, a lot of excitement. Look, I
gotta be honestly before we'll get into we'll get well,
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we'll get into Fernando Valenz whale in a minute.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I mean, this is this was such a buzzkill tonight
because first of all, I spend the entire offseason waiting
for this game, right, Okay?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Great?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And and the Mets do me the great favor of saying,
don't worry about the Mets to the Jets to the Knicks, right,
because what do I say every I need the Mets
to get me to the Jets, to get me to
the Knicks, right. The Jets completely failing in that, But
the Mets flew me over the Jets to get me
right today, you didn't even need no it was like
you were a superhero. You were able to jump or
the top and then to come up tonight. I can't
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even tell you if how good the Knicks looked or
not because the Celtics just didn't miss.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yes, could the Knicks defense have been a little bit better? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
And and will that come with with more familiarity with
the players?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Absolutely was.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm not happy that mckel Bridges, with his new shooting motion,
was not hitting anything in the beginners. But then he
started hitting shots in the second half, so it was fine.
But I can't even tell you because while some of
the shots okay, defensively could be a little better.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Someone were with hands in their face. Yeah, but how
much just didn't miss it at twenty nine? But how
much of Bridges in.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The second half was Yeah, go ahead, shoot the Yeah,
but I don't care that much fun to hit something.
It's zero for five in the first half. But I mean,
but they tie an NBA record with twenty nine threes, right,
I mean, that's how bad at what? The Knicks never
threatened the Celtics get their rings.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I can't even tell.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You are the Knicks? Was this a disappointing tell you
Nicks where they talk? I don't even know, because oh,
just stop, this is the only night you were putting.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
It up to the universe.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
If I don't know what he's trying to give you
a definitive answer, because it's the first time in like
four years where the Knicks don't have a better record
than the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So we say, hey, what's.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The line the show is tonight the Lakers are back?
Oh oh, we didn't even can No, you're always the
Lakers are back. You did your line justin a decade
your line, Man, you don't really have to say when.
But like, like, I can't even tell you because the
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Nick shot the ball. Well, you know, they get that,
had a good performance, but but I mean they shot
fifty five percent for the game and they lost by sixty.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Like I mean, this was I.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Mean, the Celtics just didn't miss. Had twenty two off
the bench.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Now, I don'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You like that for an old country.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, you want to know something more than you wanted
something big coming off of this. Right, the last six
minutes of the game, it was a big laugher for
the for the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Starters are out of.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The game, and they kept shooting threes because they wanted
the record. Because the record was twenty nine. They knew it, right.
So any NBA player says, oh, I didn't know what
my stats were. All I had thirty points and twelve rebounds. No,
they all know because they were all screaming for them
to hit another three in the final six minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Of the game.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Do you think there was like twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That someone was gonna get a spot bonus if they
hit thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They're up by twenty five points, and they start taking
threes exclusively to get to that record. Now the basketball
God say, Okay, Boston's a little bit too much, and
they missed their last ten threes, so they were twenty
nine of forty one for the night. Think about that.
That's they were from three point range. Then they missed
their last ten. So now twenty nine for fifty one
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is still otherworldly.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
But think of how.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Ben Trimble a three twenty from three point range of nine.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But I'm gonna tell you that, I'm gonna tell you this,
right this, the last six minutes of that game set
the tone for the season, Knicks Celtics, what that Eastern
Conference is gonna be like, because the Knicks are never
gonna forget the last six minutes of that game. The
Celtics were up big, they were hitting threes all night.
They're laughing on the sideline and they are shooting threes exclusively,
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not a three, every couple possessions open. It's just give
me the ball. Come on, give me the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I can hit that. Hit that thirty three ny dude.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
And then they started shooting like they were Philip Seymour Hoffmann,
it grain man, the Knicks. The Knicks are not gonna
forget that. Trust me, they are not. When they play
them next to Madison Square Garden, how physical that game
is gonna be. You watch and seeing now this Knicks
Celtics rivalry is gonna hit a new level the last
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six minute. The Knicks are not gonna forget that. They're
still going to the finals. They're still gonna win. They
lose opening night, I'm telling the Nicks are going to
the finals. Everything is okay. I wish that the night
went different. But the Celtics got their rings. They're playing
at home, They're supposed to win that game. They hit
twenty nine threes. I mean, what do you want At
one point, At one point the broadcast is when they
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hit their fifteen to three in the first half, they go,
this is getting ridiculous, Like nobody ever does that, so
they did it. Hats off to them. The Knicks are
not gonna forget the last six minutes of that game.
Now we talk oftentimes the the Robberies, and we're gonna
see these teams battle. And you know how much I
hate the NFL scheduling where it's all right, I play you,
then I'll play someone else, and then I come right
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back and play you again. These teams don't meet again
to February eighth. February eighth. By then, Mike, the Knicks
will be out of it. By then, Bronnie James will
be starting for the Lakers. He'll be starting Friday night.
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JJ Reddick with announcement. Yeah, listen, D'Angelo Russell. We like
what he did, but we think coming off the bench
is what he needs to do. So Bronni is gonna
be our new point guard.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Congrat sate.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What do we got Friday night is Phoenix at home,
followed by Sacramento and then look, maybe the Knicks were
caught looking ahead to the home opener against the Pacers. Maybe,
but I mean, you throw out the records when those
two teams. I was just I was just I mean,
it was just so disappointing because I've been looking forward
to this game and in the beginning of this season
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from month because I'm so excited because I've never I've
never been as excited about the beginning of this of
a Nick.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Season since the nineties. And that's sad.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
You wait, wait, Miss Haliburton gonna have the same Steve
Kerr of juice because of the Olympics that.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
He brings the same anger to bear.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Thanks Steve Kerr. Thanks everything you did to make.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Jason Tatum more motivated coming off of winning the championship.
Thanks what you did during the Olympics. Steve Kerr, appreciate that.
Oh yeah, your fault, man, that's your fault.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Thanks. Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Screwed the Knicks by not coming to coach a team
ten years ago, screwing the Knicks again.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Every ten years he screws in it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And he gets to laugh about it because he's over
in the Western Conference.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Next show, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live
from the Tirack dot Com Studios. We have a play
by play call you have to hear coming up in
ninety seconds. But first let's check in with Kevin Wired
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
K um yep it has a concluding in Los Angeles
as the Los Angeles Lakers hold off the Timberwolves one
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ten to one oh three to win their first opening
night games. It's twenty sixteen and the story of the
night Bronny James making his appearance in the second quarter
with his follow Lebron James already on the court. So
they come the first duo in NBA history to appear
in a game together.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So uh Bronni.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Though didn't do a whole lot, he was in for
three minutes when two shooting. Lebron James, for his part,
also a very pedestrian performance as he had himself a
sixteen points on seven to sixteen shooting, also five rebounds.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Four.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It says Anthony Davis the big star of the game.
Four the Lakers thirty six points on eleven at twenty
three shooting, also had himself sixteen rebounds. Anthony Edwards led
the way for Minnesota with twenty seven points. Earlier tonight,
the Boston Celtics began their title defense in a big
fashion as they roll over the New York net New
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York Knicks won thirty two one h nine of the
five starters for Boston scoring more than twenty points Jason
Tatum with thirty seven on fourteen of eighteen shooting. Boston
hit twenty nine three pointers in the game, and really
the difference was the three point shooting is the Knicks
in contrast, just eleven to thirty. That's thirty six point
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seven percent. Jalen Brunson the leading scorer for the Knicks,
as he had at twenty two points. Major League Baseball.
He had some sad news today as the Los Angeles
Dodgers announcing the passing of legendary pitcher for Nando Vevenezuela,
who took the baseball world by storm in nineteen eighty one.
Started off that year eight to zero with five shutouts,
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won the Rookie of the Year the Cy Young, helped
lead the Dodgers to the World Series championship. In helped
captivate the community, in particular the Mexican American community that follows.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
The Dodgers to this day.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So he really is just a legend in Los Angeles
and in the baseball world, and he will be sorely
missed by all of the Dodgers and fans of base
ball in general.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
That's you, guys, Thanks keV to try.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
To to try to encapsulate Fernando Mania is really difficult,
but suffice to say, look, Frando Mania is forty years
old at this point. Fernando Valenzuela came up as an
unhralded rookie in nineteen eighty one, started opening day for
the Dodgers because Jerry Royce, who was going to be
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the opening day starter, had a calf injury. Tommy Lessorda,
you know, we had this story recounted to us by
by John Paul Morossi earlier in the show. Didn't want
to screw up his pitching staff and move everybody up
to date. It's just said Fernando, he was the third
starter you're going to pitch, and that began a run
for Fernando Valenzuela. His first eight starts in Major League
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Baseball eight complete games, eight and oh record four total
runs allowed, four runs allowed his first eight starts insanity.
He was a cy young winner that year. The Dodgers
won the World Series that year, and he be came
one of the great characters in all of Major League Baseball,
someone who was the mistique is what's gone now from
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players when they come into games and leagues for the
first time that were incredibly excited to see. Right, there's
no mistique about Caitlin Clark. You saw the excitement the WNBA,
but there's no mystique. We know all about her because
of what happened in Iowa. That also helped her popularity,
of course, but there's no mistique. There was no mistique
about Lebron James in two thousand and three. We knew
all about him coming into the league. We saw video
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of him in high school. The mystique is what's gone
the impact of the players. The excitement level is still there,
but there was nothing like what Fernando Mania was in
nineteen eighty one. You and I were both at the
point where were old enough to understand what it was.
I was ten and you know, developing my lifelong love
affair with Major League Baseball. And you didn't get to
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see Fernando pitch a lot because he was pitching on
the West Coast, nobody really had cable television. But every
fity you saw, here's his rookie pitcher, and he wins again,
complete game, wins again, complete game wins again, complete game
wins again, complete game. It's my good, he's five, and
oh he's got five complete game. He's six and oh
six complete games. Fernando Mania was so intense, and we
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look back at what Steven Strasburg Mania was and Schemes Mania.
Tonight we call everything mania because of Fernando Mania. That's
the godfather of all manias. That's right, everything man, Fernando Mania.
That that's what began everything. Everything we see with athletes
coming into the game, as exciting as it is, is
because of what the effect Fernando Valenzuela had on Major
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League Baseball when he came up in nineteen eighty one.
Now he was a great pitcher for a long time,
pitched a no hitter again, won the World Series with
the Dodgers. But his start is just so absolutely legendary
as a twenty year old kid from Mexico that nobody
really knew and suddenly he's everybody you want to see.
You're counting the days in between start. How do I
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I gotta see Fernando valens Whala pitch? And I remember
seeing him because his seventh win was against the Mets,
and I got to see the game for the first time,
right because I'm ten years old, I get to watch
because I didn't get to see the Dodgers play any
other games, but I get to see them playing the Mets.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, you didn't really get to see the Mets game.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
And well, Fernando Valenzuela beats the Mets won nothing, and
in this game he improved a seven to zero on
the season, and his eer was point to zero point
two zero zero point two zero, or my GPA the
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first half of my freshman year at Syracuse point to zero.
Here's the final out of the game. He gets Lee
Mazilly to pop up, Le Mizoo, Yes, leem Azilly. Who
the last time you heard his name was from the
sp commercials with Jimmy Kimmel and Lebron James from ten
years ago. Hey, who do you think we could get
to host the SP's with us? Hey, my uncle Frank
knows Lee Mizilly. Lee Mozzilli pops up to end the
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game and listen to Vin Scully's call, perfectly encapsulating what
Fernando mania was at that point. Because this makes them
seven to zero. The Dodgers beat the Mets won to
nothing to win. And of course, when you need to
know something and you need something explained, Vin Scully is
the best place to go.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Three and O to Lee Mozilla fastball popped in the air,
foul Garby I think has a play and Fernando has
his fifth shutout. Unbelievable. Look at Peppe for us Rocket Peppy.
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I can't believe it. It is the most puzzling, wonderful,
rewarding thing I think we've seen in baseball in many,
many years. It is puzzling because that for all these
years looking at this game, I know how tough it is.
I know how tough it was for even the best
who ever played it. And somehow this youngster from Mexico,
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with a pixiest smile on his face, acts like he's
pitching batting practice in Mexico and turns in his fifth shutout.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
How hard the game is, and he's just with a
smile on his face like he's pitching batting practice in Mexico. Uh,
that was Fernando Vealezuela. That was an incredible way to
sum it up. But I want to play the beginning
of that call again, tyser, play the beginning of the
call again for a second, all right, when we rack
it back, So I want to I want to point
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something out here at the beginning of the call, Vinscully's
call here this game against the Mets, because it's very
it's very important, very important, very very important to point
something out. Uh here it is again, this is the
very beginning, and the Mets.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Sucks good.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Three and oh the leam is fastball pop in and
stop right there, stop right there.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Why the hell is Lee Mozzilly swinging a three? And
oh shit, one nothing? Giar noting the ninth inning? Down
one nothing? Why is he swinging three?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
And oh?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And it's a pitch right down the middle and he
pops it up to first pace.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Come on, man, he tried to crush it's three?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
And oh, Li Mozelle, what are you doing? And Li
Mizzilly is a lo our leadoff hitter of.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
The Mets in eighty one, Come on, man, three and
oh three and oh but nope, swinging three and oh,
let's say, not trying to get somebody on base now
three and oh and you're just gonna come right down
the middle with a pitch.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I'm gonna pop up to Steve Garvey.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Now you got Steve Garvey mixed there in them, and yeah, no,
it's it's a tough one to hear, especially when the
Mets are part of an historic run going the other
way because you had so much hope about a week ago.
But I remember seeing bits and pieces of that game.
Uh when when I was growing up and the only
running the game top of the first in Dodgers got
a run.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
No runs back in the day, though.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, we're going through just some of the crazy,
crazy stats for Fernando and we talked about it with
John Palmer Rosi a little bit. You can find that
conversation in the podcast, but just the idea of how
many innings he pitched the one year was two sixty
nine twenty complete games in eighty six with twenty one wins.
They're only twenty eight total complete games this year, to
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just show you the difference in bullpen and trust of
a starter. It's like, all right, he may not have
his best stuff because that year his ERA was a
little over a three which back then, remember yeah, how
an era of three plus was like, I don't know
how great you are?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That was pretty great?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, No, that was that was Mia Ryan whatever should
mention it though for everybody on our network and five
to seventy LA Sports during this time in the morning
six to nine Pacific, nine to twelve Eastern. They've got
Steve Sachs, nineteen eighty two Rookie of the Year who
played a good chunk of his career with Fernando. He's
on with Tim Kay. I'm sure they'll be talking about
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all those experiences and stories with Fernando in the morning.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I think it'll be worth a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Of your time. Exit.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
How about a Fresca exit Swalling Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirec dot Com Studios.
Fernando Vealezuela passing away tonight at the age of sixty three.
But coming up next, Oh boy, do we have a
show Heyo Tawny Brand news story for you who you
are not going to believe the numbers involved in this story.
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That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
Live Fromthetireck dot Com Studios. And this has been some
kind of night. Opening night of the NBA The Celtics
cheat their way to a big win over the net Wow,
bronn and they have magnets. Bronni James scored forty for
the Lakers in their win tonight.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Wait what.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Uh, you gotta be careful man. Okay, there might be
people to just tuned and gone, wait what the hell
the Celtic lead man.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The Celtics had.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Forty threes or it seems like it. Uh. Look the
Celtics win. They had twenty nine three, set an NBA
record to beat the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Lakers set a record first time you've ever seen father
son play in the NBA lebron and Bronnie James uh
play together. The Lakers win Opening Night for the first
time since twenty sixteen. We spent some time talking a
lot about the life and career Fernando Valenzuela, who passed
away earlier tonight at the age of sixty three.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And now we have this story that has come in.
If you think you know the most expensive baseball in history,
We're gonna change that up. Until tonight, the most expensive
piece of baseball memorabilia that was an actual ball was
the Big Mark McGuire home run ball number sixty two.
(34:06):
That sold for just over three million dollars. Now this
is you're going back over twenty years.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
When Todd McFarlane was buying up all the home.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Then he realized, oh man, I overpaid on so many
of them, so many of them, just over three million
dollars for the big McGuire home run ball.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Well, in the.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Words of Jesse Ventura, monsoon we got a new world
champion because this baseball has now just become the most
expensive baseball of all time. One two Tony says there
the other ways w kind Claire won of a kind season.
(34:50):
So hey, Tony starts to fifty fifty Cob Joe Davis
on the part of Otani's three home run ten RBI day,
the first ever fifty to fifty player in baseball history.
And if people understood what that ball was going to
(35:11):
be sold for, I think there would have been a
bigger scrum for it in the stands.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
It was. The other way was it was. It was a.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Big home run. That baseball was just sold tonight. Golden
Sports at the broker of this. And there's a lot
of controversies around it because this kid said I had
it, it was taken away from me and possession of the
ball is still sort of up in the air. But
that ball has just been sold for four point thirty
nine million dollars. The guy who caught that ball in
(35:40):
the outfield has just sold that ball for four point
three nine million dollars. It is the most expensive baseball
in the history of the world. Now, if you want
to play, if you want to play right and wrong,
if you adjust the McGuire ball for inflation, it gets
it to over five million. It's like, but the adjust
the ten think it's okay, A wow, look at that.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
No, I'm just saying, I mean you're pointing that out.
But this is the most the most expensive baseball in
sports history, four point thirty nine million dollars. Now, baseball
always a global sport, but certainly show hey, Otani, we've
watched the crazy circumstance around Like ninety percent of folks
(36:28):
that came from Japan and visited southern California found their
way to a Dodger game this year.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
All the merch and everything, they.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Delayed compensation on his contract and they've already paid it
off at least a couple of years of it. With
all the money they've made off the merchandising and such.
I just watched it from the trading card market. It's
absolutely insane. Anything that has Otani in a Dodger uniform
just flies like you would not believe. And to see
(36:59):
the ball hit this mark, I'm not shocked at all.
I mean four point three nine, that means ten percent
buyers premium to golden I think that would be included there.
So a three point nine to five million dollar baseball
in the eleventh district there in Dade County. We still
(37:19):
have the legal wranglings as to who actually owns the
rights to it or whether they just agree, Wow, we're
both gonna get two million minus taxes. How about we
shake hands and go away. Now, I know there's the
controversy that if you see this video, the kid in
the red shirt says he had the ball and it
was taken away from him. Look, you and I have
seen this video many times. There's a big scrum for
(37:41):
the ball. Don't think anybody thought it would sell for
this kind of money. You're thinking, Okay, that's a five
hundred thousand dollars ball, but fifty to fifty I don't
see there any point any part where the kid actually
has his hand on the ball. I don't think he does.
It looks like he may be close to it, but
if he has his hand on anything for maybe like
(38:01):
there's three seconds, there's a three second span from he
doesn't have the ball, you can tell, and then he
doesn't have the ball again and the guy has the ball.
So the other thing is he does had the ball,
but he doesn't go to get it with both hands.
He's got his phone in the other hand. It's like,
come on, man, to fight for the ball. Like I
thought you could potentially get to this, but I mean,
(38:21):
this is this is crazy. Four million dollars and now
we're fighting over that clip of video. Like unless there's
a better video, this is one of those. If it
goes to an NFL booth, although I can't really trust
they're going to get it right, I would. I would
say the guy that put it up to Golden and said, hey,
this is my baseball auction it off.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
It's his ball, not the kids.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, no, kids, you get you get nothing, you get
a life lesson. Well, I got to think at some
point to keep this, you know, with that, do not
have lawyers get involved.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
They'll give the kids something maybe no.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You already got plenty of lawyers involved. But but yeah,
I would think at some point you just come and
you settle this and just be done with that. They're
in the largesse of the sum. I don't see him
win possession of the ball.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
I don't. I got it. It's too hard for me.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Maybe he had his hand, but the guy's got both
hands around the ball. It's tough because you know, the
kids like, oh my good, you're talking about that. It
paid for college and everything else and going going through.
But I think this guy's gonna get to keep it.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think the kids getting much
of anything else. Got chips them off a little, got
to go catch it out of baseball.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Nearly four point four million dollars for that baseball until
he goes sixty sixty next year, Ben Mall next Fox
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