February 13, 2025 • 41 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason Smith and Mike Harmon kick off the hour by reacting to the latest moves in MLB and evaluating the Yankees' chances of making a World Series run next season. Next, the guys break down the Warriors acquiring Jimmy Butler from the Heat and analyze what’s left of the Mavericks after the Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis trade. Don’t miss all this and more in Hour 3!
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way tire buying should be. Well. The final big domino
in MLB free agency now has a home. Alex Bregman
signs a three year, one hundred and twenty million dollar
deal or agrees to a three year, one hundred and
twenty million dollar deal with the Boston Red Sox. A
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big deal for them. They put a big exclamation point
on their offseason. They needed a big signing like this,
and they go get them. Look last hour. We talked
about how this is a great signing for the Red Sox.
It is a little bit more money than you be
comfortable giving Alex Bregman. But it's for three years. There's
opt outs after every year. Okay, it's all right. And
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for the Red Sox now they they don't get as
much attention because it hasn't been a great last few
years for Boston, right it hasn't. There they're pitching is
they're still trying to come around with that, because boy,
they really have a lot to be desired. But this
lineup now they can really mash. I mean they can
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really mash with Duran and Devers and Wong and Rafaela
and now Bregman, like they can hit the baseball man.
This is are they Are they good like the Yankees? No?
Probably not the Yankees, a little bit more well rounded.
You have teams at the top of the Al East.
The Orioles are still really good. I believe in a
big bounce back year for them after you know, last year,
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not quite having the same vibes the year before. But man,
can the Red Sox hit the baseball man? You know?
I mean and O'Neill had thirty one home runs last
year and I only play I think he missed like
fifty games. So all of a sudden, this lineup can
really mash watch out for the Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, what's fun about it is, you know, we love
when the legacy teams are involved. You can love or
hate him. Hate watching can be a very real thing
for you. You can have some bad memories of the
Red Sox. Maybe you're still mad at David Ortiz or
Manny Ramirez for raking against you. Maybe you don't like
I don't know, Kurt Chilling and some of these other guys.
But you're looking at a squad.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Over the last few years.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You had a ninety two win in season in twenty
twenty one, but otherwise you're looking at eighty one, seventy eight,
seventy eight, twenty four in the in you know, the
COVID shortened twenty twenty and then another eighty four got
to go all the way back to twenty eighteen when.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
They won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Otherwise, a bunch of also ran in appearances in a
crowded Al East. You've got what is rated the number
one farm system in baseball and name you're gonna hear
a lot Roman Anthony sounds like a WWE superstar. Maybe
he shows up on RAW at some point, I don't know,
twenty years old, but a five tool guy in the
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minors a year ago. The fun part that's starting to
go around for Bregman right is things he might have
dismissed right, reports of he turned down a massive double
the length of contract deal from the Tigers, he turned
down years in money from the Cubs. He goes to
the Red Sox in twenty one games because this is
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really now a bold face everywhere in his career. Now,
it's only twenty one games, so you know what you know,
remember all your science back in the day, and for
those that don't, sample sizes usually need to be thirty
of something to be relevant. But either way, twenty one
games at Fenway Park and again facing Red Sox pitching.
So take that with a great assault three seventy five
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seven home runs, four ninety on base percentage and a
one point two four to zero ops. So some excitement
that maybe he brings the big stick with him for
the middle of that lineup and that they can really
capitalize on the youth movement and the growth of the
other players around him.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Look I'll tell you this. I'll go out they're not again. Yes,
it's nice. They can compete again. They were five hundred
last year. Right, it's not all. But this is not
the Red Sox standards that they were used to. But
this Red Sox team, now, I'll tell you, this is
a wild card team. If you are elite in one
aspect and one of the two hitting or pitching, you
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can get by with the other half of your team
being all right. Like I said, Red Sox pitching is
middle of the pack. Right, it's not great, but boy,
they can hit. You only need to win eighty five
eighty six games to get in the playoffs, now, right
that that's really where you're at. You're not a hey,
we gotta win ninety ninety two. No, you're about it.
You're in about eighty five. You're about ten games over
five Hundred's where you have to get. And this Red
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Sox team, you know, with the talent they have hitting
and they stay healthy. All of a sudden, now you
add Bregman to the middle of that lineup, I mean
this team is going to mesh his his career stats
at Fenway or greatly. He is a four hundred hitter
at Fenway Park for his career. So I'm telling you, man,
this is they're a wild card team. Book it. They're
gonna hit all year long. They'll be fun, They'll be
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back the Yankees. Red Sox really means something more than
it has the last couple of years, and it's good
for baseball at the Red Sox are back. The Red
Sox are fun again, and people will start learning some
of these guys that you know, they were household names
throughout the aughts and the and the teams, and then
you know, they won the World says okay. Then everything
got broken up and Rookie Betts got traded and David
Price moved on, and David Ortiz retired. All these things happen,
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and now watch out, here come the Red Sox. They'll
be a playoff team in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
A lot of young players on this squad, As I said,
you know the minor league projections. You know, me and
my trading card and evaluation world. Lots of headlines about
big sales and speculation and all of that. It's that
silly season and hoping that a guy breaks camp with
the squad. All of those things. So a lot of
Red Sox names there. The other fun part is going
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to be to watch. I mean, we are located in
Los Angeles after all. For me, there's a couple of
ex White Sox guys on the roster, and Giolito and
Garrett Crochet who came over via trade this offseason. But
because I mentioned Los Angeles, because Walker Bueller is going
to try to do his reclamation year there with the
Red Sox. What if suddenly he's the guy that goes
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after and he vanquishes the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
In okay, game, how great is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You just have to sit there and watch. Really the
guy that saved the world. Really, Okay, we gotta watch it?
All right? Fine?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Fine? How great? Would that be? Fine? And then he
has something to say and what's Aaron Boone gonna go? Ah?
That guy beat us? What the hell the rest of
these guys? But you know, I mean, hey, we were
being by the best son.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I don't know what to tell you. I thought it
would be good. And you know, this interview is over.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm done. I'm not talking about I'm not talking. Just
talk to Brian Cashman. We need more. We we gotta
go get more.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I always need one more.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You think we need one more because they I mean, look,
the pitching staff certainly has all guys with question marks.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh sure, Like I said, it's it's middle of the
pack and and it's and it's to be expected. But
I mean, really, we're building our team to mat like it.
It's you know, it's it's the you know, talking about Wallbangers,
you know, Wallbangers baseball. I mean, that's what it's gonna be. Man,
It's gonna be so much fun there in Boston this year.
And I'm telling you this is this is gonna make
the Yankees make a move right And and Nolan Ronado
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has been a guy that's been linked to them for
a while, and they kind of backed off in the
last few weeks. And you know, Yankee fans loved hearing
Aaron Boone say the other day, well, we got some
guys there at third base. Deed's late DJ Lemayhew was
gonna be in the mix. Oh my goodness, does watch
them start to re engage for Ronado, because this, this
is the Yankees aren't the same Yankees from years ago
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where they would spend all kinds of money and always
respond to what other teams do. But when teams that
make it personal do something, the Yankees respond. If Jan
Soto went to a team that wasn't the Mets do
the Yankees go on this huge spending spreed like they
did the week after and say, we're going Cody Bellinger
is coming and Devin Williams is coming and all that.
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Probably not, but they had to answer because, hey, the
Mets are. There are the backpage competitors, and the Mets
are gonna have all kinds of good vibes. You had
one Soto say, I think the Mets are more ready
to win the Yankees are. It's like, what are you insane?
But this is the Yankees. They had to answer that.
If Alex Bregman went someplay, if Alex Pregnan went to
the Blue Jays, if Alex Pregman went to the Braze
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or somewhere else with the Yankee No, but Alex Bregman
goes to the Red Sox and you see how good
this lineup is, and the Yankees don't let don't let
the Red Sox make a move that goes unanswered. And
and that's why that's why I really look at this
and go, hmmm, Aronado, don't shovel dirt on that yet
because the Yankees are gonna need something and and and
look at least cause even if you don't get a
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guy that that that is the same type of hitter
as he was, he can get one of the best
defensive third basement any of us have ever seen. So
you have that, you have that part as well. But
part of the Yankees is being bold and brave. And
why not, right, because you're already banking that Bellinger can
come and hit you know, hey, hey, the left field
right field at Yankee State. We're banking on Bellinger to
have a bounce back year. We're banking on Devin Williams
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to put the issues of last year, the health issues
and the big home run to Pete Alonzo behind him. Like,
the Yankees took, you know, some chances with these guys.
So it's not like, you know, they went out and signed, Hey,
this guy is a guy you can plug in right here,
you can plug in this guy here. No, they took
some chances. So what's one more chance with Alan Arnado?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, why not? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Reports from the Boston Globe as late as yesterday's edition
that Aeronauto was a guy potentially going up as a
member of the Socks. I did like that you got
the Wallbangers in. While we might be talking about Wall
Burgers not a sponsor, but certainly we're talking Boston. So
whenever we can get Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
and Donnie and everybody in, we do so celebration.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh I can see that happening now. The wallburg Yeah sure, sure, yeah,
the Wallburger.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, Okay, I don't know do they have one installed
there yet? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But you need something like that's the ball hitting off
the wall and wall Burgers doesn't quite have to rename
it the wall the wall ball Burgers Wall, but yeah,
you gotta. It's something where it's okay, the ball hitting
the wall and denting the walls. You need something like
that would be good.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah. RV's Wallbangers.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
For those you know that really need an education, go
get yourself some Gorman Thomas and Ben Oglivie, go get
some Jim Gantner and nick Yost. I mean, let's go
mollitor getting after it. I mean, you had a fantastic
squad all around there. But you know, it's just fun
theater because as we transition way from the Super Bowl,
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pitchers and catchers starting to report, and we start getting
into these next iterations. Right, Hope springs eternal once again,
just like it does for all those thirty two NFL teams.
Same thing here, except for me by over under is
sitting at what is it, forty nine wins, So a
lot of joy and harmon dill, except I get to
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wear the merch and I'm gonna sneak home and then
at least catch a couple of games at the rate.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well we're living here in Harmon town. Dun dun dud.
They're gonna shut the bisball team down.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Hey, hey, how dare you? How dare you folks? Folks
chiming in? Because we did the story about the bulls.
You can find that Instagram and Facebook and over on tape,
I mean all over the place, any social media of course,
on x at how about a Fresca Swallen Dome as well,
talking about the bulls and the atrocity that was out
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there again the Piston yesterday. They did a good job
of backing that up and a back to back at home,
showing you how deplorable and decrepit the organization is. But
I had a bunch of messages, including a bunch of
friends who decided to be smart. Alex, Hey, you could
say that about all your teams.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'll hang out.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Now, like you know, I hate you all, even my brothers.
I'm like, dude, you keep wearing it. I'm like, what
am I gonna do? That's who I am at this point?
What am I gonna disavow my Chicago heritage. I leaned
into it and my history and my heart's on my sleeve.
I give you American and global punky a piece of myself,
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and now I auction it off.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Come on, dude, No, no, no, no. Michael Fabiano, right,
who comes on the show all the time, Fantasy Hall
of Famer all of this, right, I've known herm for
a decade, right, big Yankee fan, all this. He has
officially stopped rooting for the Cowboys. He's wearing Lions gear
when he's doing his hits now and he's doing his
show like he has left Cowboys for the Lions. He
has left the Cowboys. He's officially done. He says he's
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selling all his Cowboys gear. He's selling all his Cowboys
gear like on eBay and everything else, selling all his
Cowboys stuff. I mean, to be fair, he wasn't from Dallas.
He had no business adopting them anyway. But he's a
child of guys our age. What kind of fan are you?
I'm either a Laker or Celtics fan. I like the Yankees,
and I like the Cowboys, and maybe maybe I like
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the forty nine ers because I'd like Joe Montana or
Steve Young. Well, you know. And the thing is, as
I get sometimes being able to change, Like I changed
my hockey team in my early twenties. Like I grew up,
I was an Islanders fan right in the island. Mike
Bossy was my favorite player. The Island has won four
Stanley Cups. Like that was my team. And then I
moved to Hartford, or to move to Bristol when I
worked for ESPN, and you know, the Whalers would play
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there and I would I went to Whalers games all
the time, right, they were so much fun, And all
of a sudden, I'm like, this is my team. Like
with that without realizing, and I'm like, this is my team.
I no longer kept tabs as much with the I'm like,
this is my team now. And I been a Whaler's
Hurricanes fans. It's always a was a real special time
in my life too. It's when Pam and I first met.
We went to a lot of Whalers games together, and
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it was a whole big thing and and I'm like,
and it was I just didn't under I couldn't believe it,
just how fast it was. Well, I'm going to all
these games now, this is my team now. It was
really really weird. And when they moved to Carolina, I
stayed with them because I was already in Los Angeles
at the time. I'm like, well, I wasn't going to
games anymore anyway, because I moved across the country. So
it's not like if I was still in Connecticut, I
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would feel bad, I'm not going to games anymore. But
I was able to stay with them, And it's it's
really stunning that, you know, I see people change. How
do you do that? And I'm like, no, I can
kind of understand that a little bit. Not that I
would get so mad at my team that i'd want
to leave, because that's like a breakup, but like I
get like, how certain ways sometimes you can you can
change your teams if certain things go one way. In
your life. I get it. Yeah, that's it. Out about it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's like the school you went to. You may not
like that, you may get mad at it, but they're yours.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Take college.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Come on, college is different. No, you paid my That's
why I always I always felt that I could say
we when I say Syricus. Like there's certain sports talk
hos out there to go you can't say we. You
don't play, you can't say we. You can't say I
go no, no, no. I can say we from my college.
You know why, Because I paid a lot of money
to go there. I invested time. I can say WI.
And whenever I say that to somebody, they'll go, oh, no,
(15:24):
that makes sense. Not that Yeah, that completely makes it not.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I will always be a Wildcat and I will always
be a Bronco that they got a lot of my money.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
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So again, big big move Bregman to the Red Sox.
Get ready, they'll be in the playoffs this year and
there'll be a lot of fun getting there. Uh. Coming
up next, we'll get back into a big story out
of the NBA. How did night to go? And Game two,
go for Luca and the Lakers, And is it all
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started feuding with me if he is with me? That
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the NBA just went final in Dallas. Who needs Anthony Davis.
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The Mavericks beat the Warriors one eleven to one oh
seven thanks to forty two points from Kyrie Irving. Klay
Thompson was seventeen back in the start, you know, in
the starting lineup for the Mavericks, and suddenly he's plus
nineteen a game best plus nineteen seven rebounds, couple of assists,
and the Mavericks now three games over five hundred, and
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they've been okay since the trading deadline, even though they
haven't had their next best player in there in ad
But the Warriors, now, this is why I said when
they got Jimmy Butler, it was really important. The most
important part of this was the fact that they signed
him for two years after this. It's a lot of
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money to give a guy like Jimmy Butler. But this
is not a Warrior team that was a Jimmy Butler
away from contending for the championship this year. You look
at all the teams, teams in the West that got
much better at the deadline, are all better than they are.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This was a move to be made because in the offseason, now, hey,
all right, we have two stars. We have Steph, we
have Butler. We have to have somebody else in here
that we need. This is this is part of the
beginning of a makeover for the Warriors, because they're simply
they're not good enough to be a team that competes.
They're a team that, hey, maybe they'll there'll be a
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team that sneaks into the playing round. Maybe they win
a game here, but they're not gonna win a round
in the playoffs. It's that they're just not that team.
And you see since the trade deadline, they've not been
able to assimilate and and and get all of a sudden,
Butler comes in and they take off. It's been a look.
The Jimmy Butler move was made for the next year
in the year after, because I'm sure this is not
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going to be the end. If they're committed to keeping
Steph Curry, which honestly, Curry should probably have left. It's
a better chance of him winning and wanting to join
a great team than someone else coming to Golden State.
But this is where they're going. And I gotta say,
if they go get Jimmy Butler and they they're paying
him and they're okay with that, they gave him that
deal right away, yeah, I have confidence they can go
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out and get somebody else in the off season that's
going to be a little bit better for them, that's
going to fit in. And it may be someone where
we're taking a chance on Joel Embiid for the next
year or two that the guy is healthy and will
take a three pointer if he's absolutely unguarded and not
dribble into coverage and turn it over like he did
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last night. So they have a big move, and it's
gonna be risky because it's not suddenly where d Warriors
can go out before and say we can go get
a really great player in his prime. No, it's gonna
be risky, right Like Butler's a risk because he's in
his mid thirties. He's still a really good player. What
you have to do when you're not at the top
of the heap anymore. So they'll make another big risk
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reward type move in the offseason that maybe is going
to be something for the Warriors the next couple of years.
But remember, you know this stuff that's made right now,
they're not thinking this year. They're thinking first move of
what's going to be the offseason and after for the
next two years after this.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, I mean some of it's just the sell short term.
We're not giving up. We can go get a guy
like Jimmy Butler, who we know, look long term, he's
a guy that eventually we're gonna run into problems. They're
banking on the fact that it's a two year lease
and then we'll get some mileage on it and we'll
give it back and that'll be it. We'll spend one
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hundred and twenty million dollars on it plus whatever for
this year and then we'll move on. But in the interim,
we'll have some great road trips, we'll get some good memories.
It's some extra fun for Steph Curry. A couple of
points out of this one down the stretch is they
had opportunities. Steph Curry missed his first fourth quarter free
throw of the year with thirty seven second he've missed
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the back end of a one to one and that
ended a forty for forty streak, so that goes away.
And then with seventeen seconds left, the aforementioned Butler clad
in what is a really bad Warriors alternate jersey drove
in and got called for a charge. After review, it
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gets held up a ver Klempt kind of befuddled. Steve
Kerr in an outfit that our guy mart Weiss did
not like, was a bit upset, but he understood, and
then they called time out and they got over it
eventually to lose to Kyrie Irving, who was masterful in
this one. But yeah, for the Warriors, they're at a
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nice even five hundred on the year, not racing ahead,
not falling behind.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Right in the meaty part.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Of the curve, we are right there for you, right
just so.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right there, We're gonna be entertaining enough to wear these
games down the stretch kind of matter and you're kind
of walked love it, and then hopefully we get one
more star in in the off season and we can
make a run, but in the interim every.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Night we're gonna get at least lay it on the
court for you for forty eight.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Meanwhile, the Lakers Game two of the Luca donsa c
Era didn't quite go as Game one went a part
of their playoff series with the Jazz. That the series
now even at one game apiece.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The Lakers win two nights ago in a blowout fashion.
Tonight it is the Jazz and the Lakers never threatened.
Lori Marketen has a huge night with thirty two points
eleven out of eighteen from the floor.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Former Bowl now good.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, and I think that's a very popular thing now
you know it used to be ex Jet now good.
Now it's Former Bowl now good.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Well, I think you heard us talking about how bad
the organization was, just like JJ Reddick listens to the show.
I think Laurie markin and heard it as well.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Eh, well, look, Bronny got to play a little bit tonight. Yeah,
how bad it went? Scored nine points tonight, Bronny, I
mean all.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
For three from three point range, baby light, but maybe
he was plus ten.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I can throw this game away for the Lakers because
they played so well they had. They were on such
a hot streak the last few nights that the energy
of the Luca trade, which they I'm sure they all
knew when they played the Knicks two saturdays ago. They
had just been bulldozing teams right their first place in
the Pacific Division. Now it's been a great, great run,
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and the trade for Luca turns the Lakers into NBA
title candidates. Now, suddenly, with that one move, this is
a team that they can get out of the West,
and they can potentially We watched Luca go to the
finals last year, and hey, I'll argue that he's got
a better team around him now than he does now.
Obviously he's got a gel. They have to figure some
things out in the low post, but clearly this is
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that Laker team. I can throw it off tonight. I mean,
they were flat and no energy from the beginning of
the game. It didn't look like they really had anything
going on. Luca looked a little bit more comfortable with
the ball, and I'm sure a part of it with
him is suddenly, here i am on this team with
Lebron James, and I'm gonna handle the ball all the time.
So I'm sure, he's getting used to that a little bit.
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That's the one part of Luca's game with the Lakers.
I think you're gonna have to wait a little bit
for the adjustment on is now just the mental part
of Hey, I'm showing up here and now I'm the guy,
and I look out of the corner of my eye
and Lebron is in the court and he's clapping, going, hey, Jay, Hey, Hey,
I'm Lebron. I'm Lebron. So there is gonna be a
little bit of that back and forth. I don't think
it'll be very long. But tonight was just a flat game, right.
(24:25):
They had no energy, they had no anything happening. They
didn't really threaten in the third quarter. I thought they'd
come out in the third quarter. Okay, hey, they're gonna
play much better here, they're gonna come out at halftime. No,
and the Jazz outscored him by ten and it wasn't
even close in the fourth quarter. Why Bronny was playing.
So I'll throw this out unless unless, and I don't
know if this is something that's a coincident. Mike Carman,
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but the Lakers from the beginning of the season until tonight,
thirty two and nineteen since JJ Reddick may or may
not have started a feud with me ozho to one
and a twelve point loss of the Jazz just saying,
I'm just saying he decided I'm not taking questions from
Jason Smith what forth? Seven eight six four and the
postgame left the other night and it said, I'm not
(25:08):
gonna answer Jason. Okay, I'm about seventy five percent. He
started a feud with me. Since that moment, look at
what happened to the lake. Look where they are since
that moment.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I believe it's one hundred percent. And now you have
a house divided because you have players and staffers and
assistant coaches that listen and support the show. Thank you
for evangelizing and being part of our ever growing audience
here four hundred plus. It's nationwide globally. We're a global
franchise on the iHeartRadio app and every day we add
(25:40):
more souls that come on board. I feel like I'm
ninety nine souls did Davy Jones Locker? I went full
bill Nai there, but you know we got we got
the idea of for for JJ Reddick, he's now got to,
you know, face the reckoning of you. You don't mess
you don't mess with you know Smith Harmon and the show.
(26:04):
You just have to wear it. Any criticism is earned
and in that moment you're you're gonna wear it. And
when you do well and you play well, and you
coach well, you look good, you feel good, all those things,
we're gonna give you the flowers too.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
But it's a night to night basis.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You take the good, you take a bad, and you
know you got the facts of life. That's the way
it works on the show. And if you happen to
catch a night where you had a bad night and
you have to wear it, that's the way it goes.
And if that's how you want to do it and
you want to take to a war, just remember the
basketball gods will not be on your side. That will
not happen. In this case, you had a Utah Jazz
(26:43):
team that you absolutely worked just just earlier this week,
and they came back and smacked you around. Yeah, home
and home all those things. Jackson Hayes less and left
with a face contusion. So you lost a big man.
Alex lenn came back and he was, oh, I mean,
let's call it. He was fairly useless in his twenty
two minutes game action. So you've got some questions that
(27:05):
you're gonna need to answer, including how is the best
way to apologize?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
To The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon HM.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Is JJ Reddick distracted by his feud with Jason Smith
eighty seven seven ninety nine on Fox I take your
gold now? Oh you got a big hot take go
to the top of the rotation. Is he distracted after
starting a feud that he shouldn't have started. I can
see it now, I can see all.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But that's it, like all of a sudden, you know,
it starts to gain a little bit of buzz. Maybe
Dan Woike asked the question, maybe someone else there? Because
you heard a lot of guys chuckling, a lot of
guys chuck He went to Jason Smith, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Who's laughing now?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Who's laughing now? In one in the feud era, Oh hey,
ty shir, let's play that audio game because I do
want to hear you. Do hear the laughing? But I
wonder is anybody laughing now? Let me know, and you
get it up because you do it, You're right. I
can't subscribes yeah, well, we do have to ask Wiki
about it. We do have to talk to him about
We have to ask him that. But yeah, there were
(28:06):
he didn't defend defend me at all, which you know
again that's another question for Dan Wiki. But uh no,
we had the We had the whole laughing thing, and
I'm like, okay, I wonder who's there take a listen.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
There was I think I know how much you love
narrative based questions, but there was a notion after the
Luca trade that.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Is coming from something on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I'm not going to no, not at all.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
It is coming from from real people, from your general
manager among them, which was all this was about the
next ten Jason Smith one four nine eight.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Hold onto it.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Just want to make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Because I'm not going to respond to Jason, I understand.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Okay, chuck it up, Fuzzball, No your columns now after
this loss, and tell me how you're chuckling now, whether
you're right for The Times, the Register, or you know,
just you know, your blog because you're back in the
basement after you're getting your credential, whatever the case is,
who's chuckling now?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I sure don't think anybody's laughing after this loss, Well.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
We'll die.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You know, I had to play it forty eight hours later,
so only played twenty three minutes tonight. Did Luka Dodgic
about Austin Reeves and is four for fifteen, one for
ten from beyond the strike?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah? Yeahah, eleven assists were great.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Look for the game. I can let it go, even
even the Jets who are absolutely terrible right and won
twelve games coming in tonight. Like it happens once in
a while. You have a game, you lay an egg
and for one reason, it has no bearing, no carryover
to the next game. They if the.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Lakers had been show tonight Smith, Yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I would say the Lakers had been me and Durans, Okay, Look,
but look they had just won what six in a row?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
They were, kid, they've been playing great basketball week it Yeah,
we talked about it, right, six great straight games where
you scored ninety plus through three quarters, operational efficiency, a
lot of chuckling.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And good vibes. Right.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
The I want the freeze frame trading card of that
first outlet that Luca had when he turned and saw
Lebron running free in that you know, his debut, just
like a giddy kid It's like, Eh, the ice cream
truck just rolled around the corner. You heard the music,
you know it was from somewhere right. As you get older,
you hear the sirens. You don't know where they are,
(30:18):
and you're driving and you're frozen because you don't know
if it's a police chase or there's an ambulance rolling through,
whatever's going on. No, but as a kid, hey, you
know that ice cream Man song and you smile and
you go running ice cream.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
That's what luka. Doncits look like when when? And I don't.
I'm not fat shaming him. I'm just calling it what
it is.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'm trying to take you back to a happy place
in your lives as children.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
See you're saying that, and I'm thinking of Reddick in
the huddle, going, come on, guys, we're down twenty of
the jazz. I don't want Jason Smith on Fox Sports
fraid to start saying all kinds of crap. Man, let's
get it together, coach.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Well, I'm going on that Twitter account that I made
up for you right now.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
You gotta get a good speech, coach.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You gotta get a new speech. Time to find out
right now, what's trending in the wide world of sports,
because clearly the biggest and best game of the night
was the Knicks absolutely destroying the Hawks in overtime. Martin
Weiss has the latest on that game in More Right
Now and Up.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
In Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox and third
baseman Alex Bregman have agreed to a three year, one
hundred and twenty million dollars deal. That forty million dollars
average annual value ties him with Aaron Judge for the
fourth highest in baseball, as Juan Soto, Shoheio Tani, and
Zach Wheeler in the top three. The Oklahoma City Thunder
out scored the Miami Heat thirty two to eight in
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the fourth quarter on the way to a one one
hundred and fifteen to one oh one win. Shake Gilders
Alexander had thirty two points and nine assists. The Knicks
beat the Hawks in overtime one forty nine to one
forty eight. Karl Anthony Towns had forty four points to
ten rebounds. Trey Young with thirty eight points and nineteen
assists in the loss. The Lakers fall to one and
one in the Luka Doncs Era, with a one thirty
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one to one nineteen loss to the Utah Jazz Lebron
James had eighteen points, six rebounds, seven assists. Luka Danciez
sixteen points, four assists, four rebounds and twenty three minutes
of action.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
The Dallas Mavericks beat.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
The Golden State Warriors one to eleven to one oh seven.
Kyrie Irving had forty two points to seven rebounds in
the win. Jimmy Butler near a triple double with twenty
one points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Free agent garden
former number one overall pick Markel Foltz, has agreed to
a deal to join.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
The Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Canada beat Sweden in the first game of the Four
Nations face saw four to three. Third ranked Duke nineteenth
ranked All miss and twenty first ranked Missouri all winners
in men's college basketball. Villanova upset ninth ranked Saint John's
seventy three to seventy one.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch, park appreciate it.
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Lovethtireck dot Com Studios. I probably
curse Saint John's all the great talk we had about
them last week. Rick Patino's coach the year they lose
to Villanova.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
The show was that night. I mean we had to
celebrate it as it was. I mean, looking at him
because remember it was supposed to be his last coaching
stop at Iowa. That's it, I'm done, and everybody had
dismissed Tim. Here he is on the rebound massive year
and yeah, it's kind of like all those guys that
came on the show when they were number one.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Mm hmm. Your hex just keeps going exit out about
a Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmon Live from the tyrack dot Com Studios After
big news today, do we now have a new leader
for worst contract in baseball history? That's next, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon OHO Live from the tyreck dot Com Studios.
Tighter are you okay? Under distress? TiSER sounded like in
the horror movie when when like the the girl comes
in and says like Jim, Jim, and like Jim, and
(34:00):
Jason's like like about to snap his head and like
you get. All he can say is hey, hey, are
you okay?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
And it's like that, like you know that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Then the head gets crushed and the eyeballs pop out.
But that's it. Sounded like ty Shirt was fighting with somebody,
fighting to the deaths when he jumped in with that.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I worry about the boy.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
What can I say? He's okay now, I ty Shirt,
It's okay, Now, it's these fine sometimes I mean, I mean,
I think he's all right. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We had big baseball news breaking earlier tonight, and we'll
have more on this coming up next hour. Alex Bregman,
the last great free agent on the market, signs of
the Red Sox three years, one hundred and twenty million
dollar contract. I love great things ahead for the Red
Sox this year. But the big baseball story earlier today
in my goodness, Anthony Rendone, who signed a seven year,
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two hundred and forty five million dollar contract with the
Angels before the abbreviated pandemic abbreviated twenty twenty baseball season.
It was announced today that he is having hip surgery
and he is going to miss quote a significant amount
of time since he has come to the Angels coming
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off a huge year ops was over one thousand, thirty
four home runs. He led the majors in RBI with
the Nationals in twenty nineteen with one hundred and twenty
six I mean, it was an insane year. Since signing
with the Angels, he has not played more than fifty
eight games in a season. In fact, he has played
(35:34):
in two hundred and fifty seven games and missed four
hundred and fifty one games since he came over to
the Angels. How many, Mike Harmon, how many stints on
the injured list for the Angels since twenty twenty one?
Right now? In twenty twente, remember they only played a
handful of games.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Only played thirty twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
How many times has he been on the injured list?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Well, I mean they're long stints. So U yeah, I'll go,
I'll go eight.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Uh you have underbid that number how greatly? Uh, Well
go again and I'll tell you where thirteen. You have
just overbid twelve times. Okay, he has been on the
injured twelve times and three years four.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Which man, all right, fallse start, I'm coming back. That's
not ready yet.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
He's averaging three injured list stints a year and he's
never hit even when he's playing, he's never hit. And
he's and he still has a few more years left
on this thing. This is this is just an insanely
bad contract. And now you're in the annals of is
this the worst baseball contract that we've ever seen? I
(36:42):
question about it because the other wars was right, this
blows away like the guys that had the really bad ones,
like Mike Hampton and Barry Zito. Now he's like, oh,
that was in one hundred and twenty millions, but okay, uh,
but now you're looking at guys like he's up there
with Miguel Cabrera and Chris Davis with the worst contracts ever.
Now I still kind of default. I've always defaulted to
(37:02):
Miguel Cabrera because boy, they gave him all that cash
right after he won the Triple Crowd and look what
he did, Like he was just done. He was just
a guy for the rest of his career. But at
least he at least he played like rendn't get even
get on the field. So it's not like you're spending money.
It's one thing to put money into something that's not performing, well,
(37:24):
it's not that you put money to something that doesn't
perform at all. They're like, there's nothing we get, there's
nothing we The guy can't stay in the lineup. It's
absolutely awful. Like and now I say, Rendon is probably
the worst contract of all times, probably surpassing Miguel Cabrera,
just because he can't stay in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, I'm looking at one. Historically, I wanted to make
sure I got my facts and figures right. Remember how
Strasburg signed that big deal and then yeah, but they
won the World Series. But they did win the World Series.
They did win the World Series, so they get it.
But is that you know, that's still a seven year
to forty five so what's that worth to you? But
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all of that to say, yeah, I remember when rendon't
signed the deal.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You and I were live and talking about it.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I hated the deal then and he was coming off
a big year and I still yeah, yeah, dude, I
remember ranting about it before his first of twelve stars
on the injuryest.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Oh ah, what a terrible, terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Hey, I mean already morena.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I mean, I give him credit.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
He tried, and maybe maybe when you and you break
it all down right, the abuse that he suffered over
the you didn't trade show, Hey, you couldn't re sign show?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Hey, maybe he.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Held out hope that the baseball gods in the.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Universe were gonna reward him for.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
The craptastic contract he gave Rendon't it's gonna work out
right well?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
And that other one he gave Trout.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, I would say, now it's probably a wrestling match
between Rosburg and Rendon. I would say it's probably it's
probably a wrestling match between between them because because at.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Least with Cabrera he got the three thousand hits. Yeah,
whatever that's worth.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yeah, I don't know it was it fine, yay Cabrera.
But I mean, look, and you did you know, it's
the same thing. You got the World Series out of
Anthony Rendon and you got the World Series out of
Steven Straw. Oh, by the way, how much did the
Nationals dodge, you know, dodge a bullet by letting the
hell Yeah, guys, yeah, we already figured our thing out.
(39:31):
But at least for the most part, after Cabrera signed
that deal, he was mainly healthy. There's a couple of
years where he didn't play in a lot of only
one year he really played in less than like one
hundred and twelve undred and twenty games. He just wasn't
quite the same guy. And when he wasn't the same guy,
I mean he was like sixteen and sixty, you know,
or any any but he hit three hundred. So it's
(39:51):
not like, you know, for most of those years he's
absolutely awful. I mean, this is where you know, you
just got a little you got just got diminished returns
to where he was at earlier in his career, where
for Rendona Strasburg it's like it's like you got nothing,
you know, from either of them.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, you'll take the decline versus the lack of availability. Right,
it's always the cliche that we've thrown up, right, your best,
best ability availability and two guys saman Strasburg unfortunately breaks
down and rendon like a lot of I L stints
and a lot of chuckling and drina. I I don't know,
(40:28):
like there there have been questions about whether he could
have gotten back on the field right. He's made some
some off comments to reporters asking about his health and
return to the lineup in the past that were kind
of dismissive to lead you down the path of kind
of questioning his work ethic and desire to be back
(40:49):
on the on the field. So all of that to say,
only two more years of it before Ardie Moreno can
finally wash his hands of it and move on that
it's not a lingering bad debt to any potential suitors.
If he did go back into the marketplace to try
to sell the team again.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
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way tire buying should be. Well. The final big domino
in MLB free agency now has a home. Alex Bregman
signs a three year, one hundred and twenty million dollar
deal or agrees to a three year, one hundred and
twenty million dollar deal with the Boston Red Sox. A
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big deal for them. They put a big exclamation point
on their offseason. They needed a big signing like this,
and they go get them. Look last hour. We talked
about how this is a great signing for the Red Sox.
It is a little bit more money than you be
comfortable giving Alex Bregman. But it's for three years. There's
opt outs after every year. Okay, it's all right. And
(01:31):
for the Red Sox now they they don't get as
much attention because it hasn't been a great last few
years for Boston, right it hasn't. There they're pitching is
they're still trying to come around with that, because boy,
they really have a lot to be desired. But this
lineup now they can really mash. I mean they can
(01:52):
really mash with Duran and Devers and Wong and Rafaela
and now Bregman, like they can hit the baseball man.
This is are they Are they good like the Yankees? No?
Probably not the Yankees, a little bit more well rounded.
You have teams at the top of the Al East.
The Orioles are still really good. I believe in a
big bounce back year for them after you know, last year,
(02:14):
not quite having the same vibes the year before. But man,
can the Red Sox hit the baseball man? You know?
I mean and O'Neill had thirty one home runs last
year and I only play I think he missed like
fifty games. So all of a sudden, this lineup can
really mash watch out for the Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, what's fun about it is, you know, we love
when the legacy teams are involved. You can love or
hate him. Hate watching can be a very real thing
for you. You can have some bad memories of the
Red Sox. Maybe you're still mad at David Ortiz or
Manny Ramirez for raking against you. Maybe you don't like
I don't know, Kurt Chilling and some of these other guys.
But you're looking at a squad.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Over the last few years.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You had a ninety two win in season in twenty
twenty one, but otherwise you're looking at eighty one, seventy eight,
seventy eight, twenty four in the in you know, the
COVID shortened twenty twenty and then another eighty four got
to go all the way back to twenty eighteen when.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
They won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Otherwise, a bunch of also ran in appearances in a
crowded Al East. You've got what is rated the number
one farm system in baseball and name you're gonna hear
a lot Roman Anthony sounds like a WWE superstar. Maybe
he shows up on RAW at some point, I don't know,
twenty years old, but a five tool guy in the
(03:29):
minors a year ago. The fun part that's starting to
go around for Bregman right is things he might have
dismissed right, reports of he turned down a massive double
the length of contract deal from the Tigers, he turned
down years in money from the Cubs. He goes to
the Red Sox in twenty one games because this is
(03:50):
really now a bold face everywhere in his career. Now,
it's only twenty one games, so you know what you know,
remember all your science back in the day, and for
those that don't, sample sizes usually need to be thirty
of something to be relevant. But either way, twenty one
games at Fenway Park and again facing Red Sox pitching.
So take that with a great assault three seventy five
(04:12):
seven home runs, four ninety on base percentage and a
one point two four to zero ops. So some excitement
that maybe he brings the big stick with him for
the middle of that lineup and that they can really
capitalize on the youth movement and the growth of the
other players around him.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Look I'll tell you this. I'll go out they're not again. Yes,
it's nice. They can compete again. They were five hundred
last year. Right, it's not all. But this is not
the Red Sox standards that they were used to. But
this Red Sox team, now, I'll tell you, this is
a wild card team. If you are elite in one
aspect and one of the two hitting or pitching, you
(04:50):
can get by with the other half of your team
being all right. Like I said, Red Sox pitching is
middle of the pack. Right, it's not great, but boy,
they can hit. You only need to win eighty five
eighty six games to get in the playoffs, now, right
that that's really where you're at. You're not a hey,
we gotta win ninety ninety two. No, you're about it.
You're in about eighty five. You're about ten games over
five Hundred's where you have to get. And this Red
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Sox team, you know, with the talent they have hitting
and they stay healthy. All of a sudden, now you
add Bregman to the middle of that lineup, I mean
this team is going to mesh his his career stats
at Fenway or greatly. He is a four hundred hitter
at Fenway Park for his career. So I'm telling you, man,
this is they're a wild card team. Book it. They're
gonna hit all year long. They'll be fun, They'll be
(05:31):
back the Yankees. Red Sox really means something more than
it has the last couple of years, and it's good
for baseball at the Red Sox are back. The Red
Sox are fun again, and people will start learning some
of these guys that you know, they were household names
throughout the aughts and the and the teams, and then
you know, they won the World says okay. Then everything
got broken up and Rookie Betts got traded and David
Price moved on, and David Ortiz retired. All these things happen,
(05:54):
and now watch out, here come the Red Sox. They'll
be a playoff team in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
A lot of young players on this squad, As I said,
you know the minor league projections. You know, me and
my trading card and evaluation world. Lots of headlines about
big sales and speculation and all of that. It's that
silly season and hoping that a guy breaks camp with
the squad. All of those things. So a lot of
Red Sox names there. The other fun part is going
(06:20):
to be to watch. I mean, we are located in
Los Angeles after all. For me, there's a couple of
ex White Sox guys on the roster, and Giolito and
Garrett Crochet who came over via trade this offseason. But
because I mentioned Los Angeles, because Walker Bueller is going
to try to do his reclamation year there with the
Red Sox. What if suddenly he's the guy that goes
(06:42):
after and he vanquishes the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
In okay, game, how great is that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You just have to sit there and watch. Really the
guy that saved the world. Really, Okay, we gotta watch it?
All right? Fine?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Fine? How great? Would that be? Fine? And then he
has something to say and what's Aaron Boone gonna go? Ah?
That guy beat us? What the hell the rest of
these guys? But you know, I mean, hey, we were
being by the best son.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I don't know what to tell you. I thought it
would be good. And you know, this interview is over.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I'm done. I'm not talking about I'm not talking. Just
talk to Brian Cashman. We need more. We we gotta
go get more.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I always need one more.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You think we need one more because they I mean, look,
the pitching staff certainly has all guys with question marks.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh sure, Like I said, it's it's middle of the
pack and and it's and it's to be expected. But
I mean, really, we're building our team to mat like it.
It's you know, it's it's the you know, talking about Wallbangers,
you know, Wallbangers baseball. I mean, that's what it's gonna be. Man,
It's gonna be so much fun there in Boston this year.
And I'm telling you this is this is gonna make
the Yankees make a move right And and Nolan Ronado
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has been a guy that's been linked to them for
a while, and they kind of backed off in the
last few weeks. And you know, Yankee fans loved hearing
Aaron Boone say the other day, well, we got some
guys there at third base. Deed's late DJ Lemayhew was
gonna be in the mix. Oh my goodness, does watch
them start to re engage for Ronado, because this, this
is the Yankees aren't the same Yankees from years ago
(08:10):
where they would spend all kinds of money and always
respond to what other teams do. But when teams that
make it personal do something, the Yankees respond. If Jan
Soto went to a team that wasn't the Mets do
the Yankees go on this huge spending spreed like they
did the week after and say, we're going Cody Bellinger
is coming and Devin Williams is coming and all that.
(08:31):
Probably not, but they had to answer because, hey, the
Mets are. There are the backpage competitors, and the Mets
are gonna have all kinds of good vibes. You had
one Soto say, I think the Mets are more ready
to win the Yankees are. It's like, what are you insane?
But this is the Yankees. They had to answer that.
If Alex Bregman went someplay, if Alex Pregnan went to
the Blue Jays, if Alex Pregman went to the Braze
(08:52):
or somewhere else with the Yankee No, but Alex Bregman
goes to the Red Sox and you see how good
this lineup is, and the Yankees don't let don't let
the Red Sox make a move that goes unanswered. And
and that's why that's why I really look at this
and go, hmmm, Aronado, don't shovel dirt on that yet
because the Yankees are gonna need something and and and
look at least cause even if you don't get a
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guy that that that is the same type of hitter
as he was, he can get one of the best
defensive third basement any of us have ever seen. So
you have that, you have that part as well. But
part of the Yankees is being bold and brave. And
why not, right, because you're already banking that Bellinger can
come and hit you know, hey, hey, the left field
right field at Yankee State. We're banking on Bellinger to
have a bounce back year. We're banking on Devin Williams
(09:35):
to put the issues of last year, the health issues
and the big home run to Pete Alonzo behind him. Like,
the Yankees took, you know, some chances with these guys.
So it's not like, you know, they went out and signed, Hey,
this guy is a guy you can plug in right here,
you can plug in this guy here. No, they took
some chances. So what's one more chance with Alan Arnado?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, why not? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Reports from the Boston Globe as late as yesterday's edition
that Aeronauto was a guy potentially going up as a
member of the Socks. I did like that you got
the Wallbangers in. While we might be talking about Wall
Burgers not a sponsor, but certainly we're talking Boston. So
whenever we can get Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
and Donnie and everybody in, we do so celebration.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh I can see that happening now. The wallburg Yeah sure, sure, yeah,
the Wallburger.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Yeah, Okay, I don't know do they have one installed
there yet? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But you need something like that's the ball hitting off
the wall and wall Burgers doesn't quite have to rename
it the wall the wall ball Burgers Wall, but yeah,
you gotta. It's something where it's okay, the ball hitting
the wall and denting the walls. You need something like
that would be good.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah. RV's Wallbangers.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
For those you know that really need an education, go
get yourself some Gorman Thomas and Ben Oglivie, go get
some Jim Gantner and nick Yost. I mean, let's go
mollitor getting after it. I mean, you had a fantastic
squad all around there. But you know, it's just fun
theater because as we transition way from the Super Bowl,
(11:02):
pitchers and catchers starting to report, and we start getting
into these next iterations. Right, Hope springs eternal once again,
just like it does for all those thirty two NFL teams.
Same thing here, except for me by over under is
sitting at what is it, forty nine wins, So a
lot of joy and harmon dill, except I get to
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wear the merch and I'm gonna sneak home and then
at least catch a couple of games at the rate.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well we're living here in Harmon town. Dun dun dud.
They're gonna shut the bisball team down.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Hey, hey, how dare you? How dare you folks? Folks
chiming in? Because we did the story about the bulls.
You can find that Instagram and Facebook and over on tape,
I mean all over the place, any social media of course,
on x at how about a Fresca Swallen Dome as well,
talking about the bulls and the atrocity that was out
(11:59):
there again the Piston yesterday. They did a good job
of backing that up and a back to back at home,
showing you how deplorable and decrepit the organization is. But
I had a bunch of messages, including a bunch of
friends who decided to be smart. Alex, Hey, you could
say that about all your teams.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I'll hang out.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Now, like you know, I hate you all, even my brothers.
I'm like, dude, you keep wearing it. I'm like, what
am I gonna do? That's who I am at this point?
What am I gonna disavow my Chicago heritage. I leaned
into it and my history and my heart's on my sleeve.
I give you American and global punky a piece of myself,
(12:38):
and now I auction it off.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Come on, dude, No, no, no, no. Michael Fabiano, right,
who comes on the show all the time, Fantasy Hall
of Famer all of this, right, I've known herm for
a decade, right, big Yankee fan, all this. He has
officially stopped rooting for the Cowboys. He's wearing Lions gear
when he's doing his hits now and he's doing his
show like he has left Cowboys for the Lions. He
has left the Cowboys. He's officially done. He says he's
(13:01):
selling all his Cowboys gear. He's selling all his Cowboys
gear like on eBay and everything else, selling all his
Cowboys stuff. I mean, to be fair, he wasn't from Dallas.
He had no business adopting them anyway. But he's a
child of guys our age. What kind of fan are you?
I'm either a Laker or Celtics fan. I like the Yankees,
and I like the Cowboys, and maybe maybe I like
(13:24):
the forty nine ers because I'd like Joe Montana or
Steve Young. Well, you know. And the thing is, as
I get sometimes being able to change, Like I changed
my hockey team in my early twenties. Like I grew up,
I was an Islanders fan right in the island. Mike
Bossy was my favorite player. The Island has won four
Stanley Cups. Like that was my team. And then I
moved to Hartford, or to move to Bristol when I
worked for ESPN, and you know, the Whalers would play
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there and I would I went to Whalers games all
the time, right, they were so much fun, And all
of a sudden, I'm like, this is my team. Like
with that without realizing, and I'm like, this is my team.
I no longer kept tabs as much with the I'm like,
this is my team now. And I been a Whaler's
Hurricanes fans. It's always a was a real special time
in my life too. It's when Pam and I first met.
We went to a lot of Whalers games together, and
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it was a whole big thing and and I'm like,
and it was I just didn't under I couldn't believe it,
just how fast it was. Well, I'm going to all
these games now, this is my team now. It was
really really weird. And when they moved to Carolina, I
stayed with them because I was already in Los Angeles
at the time. I'm like, well, I wasn't going to
games anymore anyway, because I moved across the country. So
it's not like if I was still in Connecticut, I
(14:27):
would feel bad, I'm not going to games anymore. But
I was able to stay with them, And it's it's
really stunning that, you know, I see people change. How
do you do that? And I'm like, no, I can
kind of understand that a little bit. Not that I
would get so mad at my team that i'd want
to leave, because that's like a breakup, but like I
get like, how certain ways sometimes you can you can
change your teams if certain things go one way. In
your life. I get it. Yeah, that's it. Out about it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
It's like the school you went to. You may not
like that, you may get mad at it, but they're yours.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Take college.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Come on, college is different. No, you paid my That's
why I always I always felt that I could say
we when I say Syricus. Like there's certain sports talk
hos out there to go you can't say we. You
don't play, you can't say we. You can't say I
go no, no, no. I can say we from my college.
You know why, Because I paid a lot of money
to go there. I invested time. I can say WI.
And whenever I say that to somebody, they'll go, oh, no,
(15:24):
that makes sense. Not that Yeah, that completely makes it not.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I will always be a Wildcat and I will always
be a Bronco that they got a lot of my money.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the tirerac dot Com Studio.
So again, big big move Bregman to the Red Sox.
Get ready, they'll be in the playoffs this year and
there'll be a lot of fun getting there. Uh. Coming
up next, we'll get back into a big story out
of the NBA. How did night to go? And Game two,
go for Luca and the Lakers, And is it all
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jj Reddick's fault? Wait? What? Uh? Maybe you shouldn't have
started feuding with me if he is with me? That
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friend Mike Harmon, UH bub Live from the tirerac dot
Com studios, and uh couple of big stories out of
the NBA just went final in Dallas. Who needs Anthony Davis.
(17:25):
The Mavericks beat the Warriors one eleven to one oh
seven thanks to forty two points from Kyrie Irving. Klay
Thompson was seventeen back in the start, you know, in
the starting lineup for the Mavericks, and suddenly he's plus
nineteen a game best plus nineteen seven rebounds, couple of assists,
and the Mavericks now three games over five hundred, and
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they've been okay since the trading deadline, even though they
haven't had their next best player in there in ad
But the Warriors, now, this is why I said when
they got Jimmy Butler, it was really important. The most
important part of this was the fact that they signed
him for two years after this. It's a lot of
(18:08):
money to give a guy like Jimmy Butler. But this
is not a Warrior team that was a Jimmy Butler
away from contending for the championship this year. You look
at all the teams, teams in the West that got
much better at the deadline, are all better than they are.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
This was a move to be made because in the offseason, now, hey,
all right, we have two stars. We have Steph, we
have Butler. We have to have somebody else in here
that we need. This is this is part of the
beginning of a makeover for the Warriors, because they're simply
they're not good enough to be a team that competes.
They're a team that, hey, maybe they'll there'll be a
(18:43):
team that sneaks into the playing round. Maybe they win
a game here, but they're not gonna win a round
in the playoffs. It's that they're just not that team.
And you see since the trade deadline, they've not been
able to assimilate and and and get all of a sudden,
Butler comes in and they take off. It's been a look.
The Jimmy Butler move was made for the next year
in the year after, because I'm sure this is not
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going to be the end. If they're committed to keeping
Steph Curry, which honestly, Curry should probably have left. It's
a better chance of him winning and wanting to join
a great team than someone else coming to Golden State.
But this is where they're going. And I gotta say,
if they go get Jimmy Butler and they they're paying
him and they're okay with that, they gave him that
deal right away, yeah, I have confidence they can go
(19:24):
out and get somebody else in the off season that's
going to be a little bit better for them, that's
going to fit in. And it may be someone where
we're taking a chance on Joel Embiid for the next
year or two that the guy is healthy and will
take a three pointer if he's absolutely unguarded and not
dribble into coverage and turn it over like he did
(19:44):
last night. So they have a big move, and it's
gonna be risky because it's not suddenly where d Warriors
can go out before and say we can go get
a really great player in his prime. No, it's gonna
be risky, right Like Butler's a risk because he's in
his mid thirties. He's still a really good player. What
you have to do when you're not at the top
of the heap anymore. So they'll make another big risk
(20:04):
reward type move in the offseason that maybe is going
to be something for the Warriors the next couple of years.
But remember, you know this stuff that's made right now,
they're not thinking this year. They're thinking first move of
what's going to be the offseason and after for the
next two years after this.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, I mean some of it's just the sell short term.
We're not giving up. We can go get a guy
like Jimmy Butler, who we know, look long term, he's
a guy that eventually we're gonna run into problems. They're
banking on the fact that it's a two year lease
and then we'll get some mileage on it and we'll
give it back and that'll be it. We'll spend one
(20:39):
hundred and twenty million dollars on it plus whatever for
this year and then we'll move on. But in the interim,
we'll have some great road trips, we'll get some good memories.
It's some extra fun for Steph Curry. A couple of
points out of this one down the stretch is they
had opportunities. Steph Curry missed his first fourth quarter free
throw of the year with thirty seven second he've missed
(21:01):
the back end of a one to one and that
ended a forty for forty streak, so that goes away.
And then with seventeen seconds left, the aforementioned Butler clad
in what is a really bad Warriors alternate jersey drove
in and got called for a charge. After review, it
(21:22):
gets held up a ver Klempt kind of befuddled. Steve
Kerr in an outfit that our guy mart Weiss did
not like, was a bit upset, but he understood, and
then they called time out and they got over it
eventually to lose to Kyrie Irving, who was masterful in
this one. But yeah, for the Warriors, they're at a
(21:42):
nice even five hundred on the year, not racing ahead,
not falling behind.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Right in the meaty part.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Of the curve, we are right there for you, right
just so.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right there, We're gonna be entertaining enough to wear these
games down the stretch kind of matter and you're kind
of walked love it, and then hopefully we get one
more star in in the off season and we can
make a run, but in the interim every.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Night we're gonna get at least lay it on the
court for you for forty eight.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Meanwhile, the Lakers Game two of the Luca donsa c
Era didn't quite go as Game one went a part
of their playoff series with the Jazz. That the series
now even at one game apiece.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The Lakers win two nights ago in a blowout fashion.
Tonight it is the Jazz and the Lakers never threatened.
Lori Marketen has a huge night with thirty two points
eleven out of eighteen from the floor.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Former Bowl now good.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, and I think that's a very popular thing now
you know it used to be ex Jet now good.
Now it's Former Bowl now good.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Well, I think you heard us talking about how bad
the organization was, just like JJ Reddick listens to the show.
I think Laurie markin and heard it as well.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Eh, well, look, Bronny got to play a little bit tonight. Yeah,
how bad it went? Scored nine points tonight, Bronny, I
mean all.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
For three from three point range, baby light, but maybe
he was plus ten.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I can throw this game away for the Lakers because
they played so well they had. They were on such
a hot streak the last few nights that the energy
of the Luca trade, which they I'm sure they all
knew when they played the Knicks two saturdays ago. They
had just been bulldozing teams right their first place in
the Pacific Division. Now it's been a great, great run,
(23:24):
and the trade for Luca turns the Lakers into NBA
title candidates. Now, suddenly, with that one move, this is
a team that they can get out of the West,
and they can potentially We watched Luca go to the
finals last year, and hey, I'll argue that he's got
a better team around him now than he does now.
Obviously he's got a gel. They have to figure some
things out in the low post, but clearly this is
(23:45):
that Laker team. I can throw it off tonight. I mean,
they were flat and no energy from the beginning of
the game. It didn't look like they really had anything
going on. Luca looked a little bit more comfortable with
the ball, and I'm sure a part of it with
him is suddenly, here i am on this team with
Lebron James, and I'm gonna handle the ball all the time.
So I'm sure, he's getting used to that a little bit.
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That's the one part of Luca's game with the Lakers.
I think you're gonna have to wait a little bit
for the adjustment on is now just the mental part
of Hey, I'm showing up here and now I'm the guy,
and I look out of the corner of my eye
and Lebron is in the court and he's clapping, going, hey, Jay, Hey, Hey,
I'm Lebron. I'm Lebron. So there is gonna be a
little bit of that back and forth. I don't think
it'll be very long. But tonight was just a flat game, right.
(24:25):
They had no energy, they had no anything happening. They
didn't really threaten in the third quarter. I thought they'd
come out in the third quarter. Okay, hey, they're gonna
play much better here, they're gonna come out at halftime. No,
and the Jazz outscored him by ten and it wasn't
even close in the fourth quarter. Why Bronny was playing.
So I'll throw this out unless unless, and I don't
know if this is something that's a coincident. Mike Carman,
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but the Lakers from the beginning of the season until tonight,
thirty two and nineteen since JJ Reddick may or may
not have started a feud with me ozho to one
and a twelve point loss of the Jazz just saying,
I'm just saying he decided I'm not taking questions from
Jason Smith what forth? Seven eight six four and the
postgame left the other night and it said, I'm not
(25:08):
gonna answer Jason. Okay, I'm about seventy five percent. He
started a feud with me. Since that moment, look at
what happened to the lake. Look where they are since
that moment.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I believe it's one hundred percent. And now you have
a house divided because you have players and staffers and
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for evangelizing and being part of our ever growing audience
here four hundred plus. It's nationwide globally. We're a global
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(25:40):
more souls that come on board. I feel like I'm
ninety nine souls did Davy Jones Locker? I went full
bill Nai there, but you know we got we got
the idea of for for JJ Reddick, he's now got to,
you know, face the reckoning of you. You don't mess
you don't mess with you know Smith Harmon and the show.
(26:04):
You just have to wear it. Any criticism is earned
and in that moment you're you're gonna wear it. And
when you do well and you play well, and you
coach well, you look good, you feel good, all those things,
we're gonna give you the flowers too.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
But it's a night to night basis.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You take the good, you take a bad, and you
know you got the facts of life. That's the way
it works on the show. And if you happen to
catch a night where you had a bad night and
you have to wear it, that's the way it goes.
And if that's how you want to do it and
you want to take to a war, just remember the
basketball gods will not be on your side. That will
not happen. In this case, you had a Utah Jazz
(26:43):
team that you absolutely worked just just earlier this week,
and they came back and smacked you around. Yeah, home
and home all those things. Jackson Hayes less and left
with a face contusion. So you lost a big man.
Alex lenn came back and he was, oh, I mean,
let's call it. He was fairly useless in his twenty
two minutes game action. So you've got some questions that
(27:05):
you're gonna need to answer, including how is the best
way to apologize?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
To The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon HM.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Is JJ Reddick distracted by his feud with Jason Smith
eighty seven seven ninety nine on Fox I take your
gold now? Oh you got a big hot take go
to the top of the rotation. Is he distracted after
starting a feud that he shouldn't have started. I can
see it now, I can see all.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But that's it, like all of a sudden, you know,
it starts to gain a little bit of buzz. Maybe
Dan Woike asked the question, maybe someone else there? Because
you heard a lot of guys chuckling, a lot of
guys chuck He went to Jason Smith, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Who's laughing now?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Who's laughing now? In one in the feud era, Oh hey,
ty shir, let's play that audio game because I do
want to hear you. Do hear the laughing? But I
wonder is anybody laughing now? Let me know, and you
get it up because you do it, You're right. I
can't subscribes yeah, well, we do have to ask Wiki
about it. We do have to talk to him about
We have to ask him that. But yeah, there were
(28:06):
he didn't defend defend me at all, which you know
again that's another question for Dan Wiki. But uh no,
we had the We had the whole laughing thing, and
I'm like, okay, I wonder who's there take a listen.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
There was I think I know how much you love
narrative based questions, but there was a notion after the
Luca trade that.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Is coming from something on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I'm not going to no, not at all.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
It is coming from from real people, from your general
manager among them, which was all this was about the
next ten Jason Smith one four nine eight.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Hold onto it.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Just want to make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Because I'm not going to respond to Jason, I understand.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Okay, chuck it up, Fuzzball, No your columns now after
this loss, and tell me how you're chuckling now, whether
you're right for The Times, the Register, or you know,
just you know, your blog because you're back in the
basement after you're getting your credential, whatever the case is,
who's chuckling now?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I sure don't think anybody's laughing after this loss, Well.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
We'll die.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You know, I had to play it forty eight hours later,
so only played twenty three minutes tonight. Did Luka Dodgic
about Austin Reeves and is four for fifteen, one for
ten from beyond the strike?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yeah? Yeahah, eleven assists were great.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Look for the game. I can let it go, even
even the Jets who are absolutely terrible right and won
twelve games coming in tonight. Like it happens once in
a while. You have a game, you lay an egg
and for one reason, it has no bearing, no carryover
to the next game. They if the.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Lakers had been show tonight Smith, Yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I would say the Lakers had been me and Durans, Okay, Look,
but look they had just won what six in a row?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
They were, kid, they've been playing great basketball week it Yeah,
we talked about it, right, six great straight games where
you scored ninety plus through three quarters, operational efficiency, a
lot of chuckling.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And good vibes. Right.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
The I want the freeze frame trading card of that
first outlet that Luca had when he turned and saw
Lebron running free in that you know, his debut, just
like a giddy kid It's like, Eh, the ice cream
truck just rolled around the corner. You heard the music,
you know it was from somewhere right. As you get older,
you hear the sirens. You don't know where they are,
(30:18):
and you're driving and you're frozen because you don't know
if it's a police chase or there's an ambulance rolling through,
whatever's going on. No, but as a kid, hey, you
know that ice cream Man song and you smile and
you go running ice cream.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
That's what luka. Doncits look like when when? And I don't.
I'm not fat shaming him. I'm just calling it what
it is.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'm trying to take you back to a happy place
in your lives as children.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
See you're saying that, and I'm thinking of Reddick in
the huddle, going, come on, guys, we're down twenty of
the jazz. I don't want Jason Smith on Fox Sports
fraid to start saying all kinds of crap. Man, let's
get it together, coach.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Well, I'm going on that Twitter account that I made
up for you right now.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
You gotta get a good speech, coach.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You gotta get a new speech. Time to find out
right now, what's trending in the wide world of sports,
because clearly the biggest and best game of the night
was the Knicks absolutely destroying the Hawks in overtime. Martin
Weiss has the latest on that game in More Right
Now and Up.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
In Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox and third
baseman Alex Bregman have agreed to a three year, one
hundred and twenty million dollars deal. That forty million dollars
average annual value ties him with Aaron Judge for the
fourth highest in baseball, as Juan Soto, Shoheio Tani, and
Zach Wheeler in the top three. The Oklahoma City Thunder
out scored the Miami Heat thirty two to eight in
(31:32):
the fourth quarter on the way to a one one
hundred and fifteen to one oh one win. Shake Gilders
Alexander had thirty two points and nine assists. The Knicks
beat the Hawks in overtime one forty nine to one
forty eight. Karl Anthony Towns had forty four points to
ten rebounds. Trey Young with thirty eight points and nineteen
assists in the loss. The Lakers fall to one and
one in the Luka Doncs Era, with a one thirty
(31:54):
one to one nineteen loss to the Utah Jazz Lebron
James had eighteen points, six rebounds, seven assists. Luka Danciez
sixteen points, four assists, four rebounds and twenty three minutes
of action.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
The Dallas Mavericks beat.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
The Golden State Warriors one to eleven to one oh seven.
Kyrie Irving had forty two points to seven rebounds in
the win. Jimmy Butler near a triple double with twenty
one points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Free agent garden
former number one overall pick Markel Foltz, has agreed to
a deal to join.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
The Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Canada beat Sweden in the first game of the Four
Nations face saw four to three. Third ranked Duke nineteenth
ranked All miss and twenty first ranked Missouri all winners
in men's college basketball. Villanova upset ninth ranked Saint John's
seventy three to seventy one.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch, park appreciate it.
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Lovethtireck dot Com Studios. I probably
curse Saint John's all the great talk we had about
them last week. Rick Patino's coach the year they lose
to Villanova.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
The show was that night. I mean we had to
celebrate it as it was. I mean, looking at him
because remember it was supposed to be his last coaching
stop at Iowa. That's it, I'm done, and everybody had
dismissed Tim. Here he is on the rebound massive year
and yeah, it's kind of like all those guys that
came on the show when they were number one.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Mm hmm. Your hex just keeps going exit out about
a Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmon Live from the tyrack dot Com Studios After
big news today, do we now have a new leader
for worst contract in baseball history? That's next, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon OHO Live from the tyreck dot Com Studios.
Tighter are you okay? Under distress? TiSER sounded like in
the horror movie when when like the the girl comes
in and says like Jim, Jim, and like Jim, and
(34:00):
Jason's like like about to snap his head and like
you get. All he can say is hey, hey, are
you okay?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
And it's like that, like you know that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Then the head gets crushed and the eyeballs pop out.
But that's it. Sounded like ty Shirt was fighting with somebody,
fighting to the deaths when he jumped in with that.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I worry about the boy.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
What can I say? He's okay now, I ty Shirt,
It's okay, Now, it's these fine sometimes I mean, I mean,
I think he's all right. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We had big baseball news breaking earlier tonight, and we'll
have more on this coming up next hour. Alex Bregman,
the last great free agent on the market, signs of
the Red Sox three years, one hundred and twenty million
dollar contract. I love great things ahead for the Red
Sox this year. But the big baseball story earlier today
in my goodness, Anthony Rendone, who signed a seven year,
(34:52):
two hundred and forty five million dollar contract with the
Angels before the abbreviated pandemic abbreviated twenty twenty baseball season.
It was announced today that he is having hip surgery
and he is going to miss quote a significant amount
of time since he has come to the Angels coming
(35:13):
off a huge year ops was over one thousand, thirty
four home runs. He led the majors in RBI with
the Nationals in twenty nineteen with one hundred and twenty
six I mean, it was an insane year. Since signing
with the Angels, he has not played more than fifty
eight games in a season. In fact, he has played
(35:34):
in two hundred and fifty seven games and missed four
hundred and fifty one games since he came over to
the Angels. How many, Mike Harmon, how many stints on
the injured list for the Angels since twenty twenty one?
Right now? In twenty twente, remember they only played a
handful of games.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Only played thirty twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
How many times has he been on the injured list?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Well, I mean they're long stints. So U yeah, I'll go,
I'll go eight.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Uh you have underbid that number how greatly? Uh, Well
go again and I'll tell you where thirteen. You have
just overbid twelve times. Okay, he has been on the
injured twelve times and three years four.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Which man, all right, fallse start, I'm coming back. That's
not ready yet.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
He's averaging three injured list stints a year and he's
never hit even when he's playing, he's never hit. And
he's and he still has a few more years left
on this thing. This is this is just an insanely
bad contract. And now you're in the annals of is
this the worst baseball contract that we've ever seen? I
(36:42):
question about it because the other wars was right, this
blows away like the guys that had the really bad ones,
like Mike Hampton and Barry Zito. Now he's like, oh,
that was in one hundred and twenty millions, but okay, uh,
but now you're looking at guys like he's up there
with Miguel Cabrera and Chris Davis with the worst contracts ever.
Now I still kind of default. I've always defaulted to
(37:02):
Miguel Cabrera because boy, they gave him all that cash
right after he won the Triple Crowd and look what
he did, Like he was just done. He was just
a guy for the rest of his career. But at
least he at least he played like rendn't get even
get on the field. So it's not like you're spending money.
It's one thing to put money into something that's not performing, well,
(37:24):
it's not that you put money to something that doesn't
perform at all. They're like, there's nothing we get, there's
nothing we The guy can't stay in the lineup. It's
absolutely awful. Like and now I say, Rendon is probably
the worst contract of all times, probably surpassing Miguel Cabrera,
just because he can't stay in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, I'm looking at one. Historically, I wanted to make
sure I got my facts and figures right. Remember how
Strasburg signed that big deal and then yeah, but they
won the World Series. But they did win the World Series.
They did win the World Series, so they get it.
But is that you know, that's still a seven year
to forty five so what's that worth to you? But
(38:05):
all of that to say, yeah, I remember when rendon't
signed the deal.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You and I were live and talking about it.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I hated the deal then and he was coming off
a big year and I still yeah, yeah, dude, I
remember ranting about it before his first of twelve stars
on the injuryest.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Oh ah, what a terrible, terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Hey, I mean already morena.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I mean, I give him credit.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
He tried, and maybe maybe when you and you break
it all down right, the abuse that he suffered over
the you didn't trade show, Hey, you couldn't re sign show?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Hey, maybe he.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Held out hope that the baseball gods in the.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Universe were gonna reward him for.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
The craptastic contract he gave Rendon't it's gonna work out
right well?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
And that other one he gave Trout.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, I would say, now it's probably a wrestling match
between Rosburg and Rendon. I would say it's probably it's
probably a wrestling match between between them because because at.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Least with Cabrera he got the three thousand hits. Yeah,
whatever that's worth.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yeah, I don't know it was it fine, yay Cabrera.
But I mean, look, and you did you know, it's
the same thing. You got the World Series out of
Anthony Rendon and you got the World Series out of
Steven Straw. Oh, by the way, how much did the
Nationals dodge, you know, dodge a bullet by letting the
hell Yeah, guys, yeah, we already figured our thing out.
(39:31):
But at least for the most part, after Cabrera signed
that deal, he was mainly healthy. There's a couple of
years where he didn't play in a lot of only
one year he really played in less than like one
hundred and twelve undred and twenty games. He just wasn't
quite the same guy. And when he wasn't the same guy,
I mean he was like sixteen and sixty, you know,
or any any but he hit three hundred. So it's
(39:51):
not like, you know, for most of those years he's
absolutely awful. I mean, this is where you know, you
just got a little you got just got diminished returns
to where he was at earlier in his career, where
for Rendona Strasburg it's like it's like you got nothing,
you know, from either of them.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, you'll take the decline versus the lack of availability. Right,
it's always the cliche that we've thrown up, right, your best,
best ability availability and two guys saman Strasburg unfortunately breaks
down and rendon like a lot of I L stints
and a lot of chuckling and drina. I I don't know,
(40:28):
like there there have been questions about whether he could
have gotten back on the field right. He's made some
some off comments to reporters asking about his health and
return to the lineup in the past that were kind
of dismissive to lead you down the path of kind
of questioning his work ethic and desire to be back
(40:49):
on the on the field. So all of that to say,
only two more years of it before Ardie Moreno can
finally wash his hands of it and move on that
it's not a lingering bad debt to any potential suitors.
If he did go back into the marketplace to try
to sell the team again.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
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