February 21, 2025 • 40 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Arnie Spanier and Veejay Huskey are filling in for Jason and Mike! In Hour 2, the guys discuss MLB's decision to part ways with ESPN and explore the potential impact on viewership. Next, they react to Canada’s victory over the USA in the 4 Nations Face-Off Championship. Finally, the crew dives into the topic of international NFL games and debates whether the Super Bowl could ever be held outside the United States. Don’t miss all this and more in Hour 2!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh good evening, everybody. You heard the man VJ Husky,
Arnie Spad. You'r live right here on Fox Sports Radio.
We're in for the guys tonight Jason Smith and his
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at Big Vanilla Funny. I'm a stinkin genius. One hour
(00:54):
two of the show. We got a lot of NFL
to get to and it just feels like everybody's waiting
to just erupt. It's gonna go to overtime. USA Canada
all tied to two. They'll go to the intermission. I'll
come back out play five on five for twenty minutes
to see if we can get a winner through the
first overtime. I think that's what's gonna happen to be Jay?
(01:15):
They'll keep on playing until we get somebody that rising
the next goals.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right, then keep playing. No, what what are we doing?
We're not doing no shootout? Nah man, this is Canada,
USA for everything, but for nothing. But let's go hell
go next puck in wins. I wanted to tell you something.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm not the biggest authority on ratings, but I think
Thursday is a bigger TV night than Saturday, just the
overall in general. Usually network TV puts out their number
one show on the Thursday night, whether it's their drama
or sitcoms, whatever it may be for the network.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Usually they roll up their number one show on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Thursdays to get the biggest viewership. Assuming this game tonight
on Thursday is a better viewing night than the last Saturday.
Also assuming because this is the finals and that one wasn't,
they'll get about close to thirteen, fourteen, fifteen million people
gonna be watching this, and now that it's going to
(02:12):
the overtime, the ratings gonna be through the roof. Look
what's going on in hockey and look at the difference
in the NBA. NBA been to be taking notes because
this doesn't look good for them.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, not at all, not at all. Well, here's the
thing about looks good for them. Listen, man, the people
are still gonna watch that watch I think. I don't
think it. I don't think NBAU for viewership is gonna
drop below a million over the next few years. It'll
hover around this because this is what has been over
the last three to four years between one point three
one point eight one point nine in that area as
far as the average viewership for an NBA game, So
(02:45):
it'll stay steady. But I tell you, when you got
a product like this, and you got a game like
this showcasing the NHL, you gotta believe it's gonna bring
some new eyes and new viewership to the sport into
the product. And the product's good. Good, The product's not
bad at all. The product's good, you know. So I
think it's great, great for the game. But I don't
(03:05):
think you know, NBA been in trouble, so they're not
any more trouble because it's a night. But you know,
I think this could rise up to NHL a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
If you want to be honest, The NBA is in trouble.
Major League Baseball's in trouble. That's why we've changed the
rules so much to speed up the game. We've got
the pitch count, the pitch clock, I mean, now we
have the automatic that strike zone like robot umpires out there.
We're changing it all kinds of ways, trying to make
it faster and more enjoyable. NHL really never really had
(03:35):
the ratings. Are those three sports. I don't want to
say doomed, but you know, hey, there were times where
I used to go to the Sizzler, they go to Blockbuster.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Those days are god, mean, those days are over. You
go ahead to add in Montgomery Ward. Yeah too, while
you're at it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Maybe maybe those I mean exactly those days are over.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Are the days over of.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
NBA, Major League Baseball in the game NHL compared to
the NFL, I guess oh it's.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Not even close though. Those those days been over though, arey?
The NFL is king College football dwarfs those college trump
dwarfs the other three pro leagues Football's king period. NFL
is the pro level. N Cuba nil I called the NIO.
Now NIL football is the is the B level, but
it's still outrates and out views like all the NBA,
(04:23):
all mijor league baseball and hockey. I will say this
about baseball, though I like the pitch count. I don't
mind speeding up a picture where a batter is gonna
step out and adjust his gloves and his wristband, take
his hat off, wipe the brow put the hat back on,
make sure the helmets fits, step back, get put one
foot in, tap the bat, put the other foot in,
(04:45):
and the picture's standing there, just waiting. I'm glad that
part's gone. The change I didn't like was the only
throwing over the first base two rule. I don't like
that because now I get it, you want steals up,
you want the numbers of steals up, which they were
all right fine, But I don't think you need a
a to throwover rule. You know what I'm saying, the
base being bigger, you know. I didn't mind that when either,
(05:05):
but the pitchclock was one that I really like. I
just didn't like the throwover to first base two because
now you know, well, he can't throw over. I canna
take the lead of leads right, because he can't throw over,
not unless he does a quick you know, whip around
and throw the second try to get me. He's got
to throw that pitch, I have a better chance of
still in his bag.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know, it's interesting you brought that up, because today
the big news today, out of all days that we're
filling in, Major League Baseball and ESPN have decided to
go their separate ways. No longer is there gonna be
Sunday Night ESPN Baseball. ESPN has decided they have bought
the rights to college baseball, which will now be on
their Sunday night broadcast.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And I think they spend and don't call me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
On the exact price, sixty eight to seventy million dollars
right around there. Nothing extraordin, nothing big out there. I'm
not surprised. You know, baseball, when's the last time you're
sitting through a nine inning game?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I'm not just talking, I'm talking to any team.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Is the last time you see you know, you're you're
your must view a point appointment television, a regular season
game between any two teams, make them your favorite teams?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
When's the last time you did that?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
VJA?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, I'm different, Okay, I like baseball and I'm not
trying to I'm just talking about the changes that I like. Like,
I'm not talking about the game. I love baseball. I
played baseball. I still go to the band cages. I
got a bat and the ball and the glove in
my trunk now my football and basketball just in case
I want to go to the bat in cages that's
right up the street here from the studio and just
get some swings and for some some stress relief, right,
some mental you know, some some VJ time. So I
(06:33):
love the sport and I'm a big Ranger fan. I've
been a Ranger fan since the mid to late eighties.
So I grew up with Juan Wongong Gonzalez and Plad
Rodriguez and Nolan Wynan and Ruben Sierre and Will Clark
and those guys that didn't let into uh having Josh
Hamilton and and uh you know, going to back to
back World Series and then finally getting it done last
year or well two years ago. Now that the Dodgers
won last year, I guess technically, Uh So I do
(06:55):
watch baseball now? Is it on my appointment book too? No,
I have the app I can go back in on DVR.
I don't spit with two and a half hours. Yeah
you can't. I watch it time. Yeah, No, I watch
it night. I watch it night. I put it on
it night. I normally wait till the games are over.
And then when I'm at night and I'm done doing
daddy duty and I'm done doing sports and entertainment all
the other stuff that I do, my late nights are
normally with, Okay, what game I want to watch? Well,
(07:16):
of course the Rangers. I'm going to watch the Rangers.
What if the Rangers don't play? All right? Who's dope? All right?
I watched the Dogs jr. You know, let me check
what the Yankees did tonight. Let me say, Oh, you know,
the Apadre has been on a little run. They want
out of thirteen. Let me go. Let me go see
what they did tonight. So I do like to go
back and just watch the game because when the playoffs start,
I at least like to know what I'm talking about.
You know, I don't like the way till I get
to the al NLCS in the World Series. Yeah, it's
(07:37):
easy to talk about two teams or four, right, but
when the playoffs start, you know, I want to be
able to break down all the teams and know at
least something about some of the guys on the squad
and and who's doing what and what to look for
and pitch your rotation and when they go to the bullpen.
Here if you watch enough over a season, I don't
watch one sixty two. I'm not that guy. I get
in as many Ranger games as I can. I probably
watch maybe anywhere between forty to fifty other teams games
(08:00):
as far as other teams are concerned, right, Baseball, So
you know, a hundred games. I watch a lot of
Ranger games.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well, the average and the average American out there though
mostly is is not gonna sit down on a Saturday,
on a Sunday, maybe on a Tuesday night they'll have
the game on. But to try to tell the you know,
the guys with a family, like you said, you know,
are you gonna watch the game from seven pm to
ten pm? Usually not going to happen. And maybe they'll
(08:25):
get one game in, but the game is just too long.
That's why they tried to go ahead and speed it up.
That's why baseball was facing some problems out there. It's
a great summertime thing. Enjoy the game, go out there,
you know, show up a little bit late and take
the family. Uh, it's still the best ticket in town.
Spring training is the best thing for your dollar you
ever see out every hours to watch a Major League
(08:46):
Baseball game.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, I now, and I'm different there too. I love
going to games because it's more relaxing than anything else,
unless you're going to a postseason game. But a Dodger
game on Sunday afternoon or Dodger games the best. Yeah
at at a three thirty. Start here, nice and hot,
you know what I'm saying. You got people out there
with shirts off, people out there with the tank tops on,
(09:07):
and the spaghetti strapped sun dressers starts showing up. You
get you a couple of Dodger dogs. Get you one
of those the one of the big ass beers with
all the what's the what's the pepper, the peppery stuff
they put it. I don't like them, but they put
the spices around the thirty seven dollars beer. And get
you a forty two dollar bucket of nochoes and a helmet,
and just go to me. I'm I'm I'm a Dodger dog.
Get a couple of bottles of water and a pack
(09:28):
of peanuts, man, and you just put your feet up
and then you just enjoy the game like that. That's
you have to be that kind of fan. Though, I'm
not going to actually, like really see something happen. I'm
just going to watch a baseball I know I'm gonnat
show here today. I know I'm gonna get my man mook.
I know I'm gonna get well. I know I noticed
somebody gonna do something. It ain't gonna be a boring game.
And if you get a rivalry game and you get
the Giants and you get the Podreser, you know you
get the Reds. The Reds got a bunch of young
(09:50):
stars and young players. You get a chance to see
some of these kids. So I am a baseball game attendee.
I don't mind going to the game, but I don't
want to be out there in two and a half hours.
If I'm gonna go to a game, I don't care
if it goes thirteen innings, I don't I don't care
if it goes, you know, twelve innings. That's fine because
half y'all going to leave. So then I'm gonna stay
for the game. And I'm not going to be in
traffic like you guys, So I'll be I and I
(10:11):
stayed and watch the whole game. You listen to it
on the radio on the way home. No, I'm a
baseball game in teaming. I like going to the games.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I am.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm one of those. I have to admit it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm one of those guys. I'll get into. If it's
like a four or five run game, I'm packing it in.
I'm leaving in the seventh early.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, you know what. And I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
When I did local radio in Los Angeles and I
used to go to a lot of Dodger games, a
lot of Laker games. I don't think I took full
advantage of enjoying the games, especially.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Because you know you're going for free. We have press passes.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I should have enjoyed them a lot more instead of,
you know, like, I gotta do this show now, worry
about this and then cover this. I should have just
enjoyed the experience more then worry about so much work
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Arnie, I am. Last night, I was the last person,
as far as any media member there to leave. By
the time I left last night, i'd seen them break
down half the court because Tyler the Creator had a
concert there tonight. I was there long enough to see
them take all the cheers out off the baseline, the
scores table, all that's all those baseline chairs, all all
(11:13):
the courtside seating, all the cheers behind the basket. The
baskets got got rolled away. So I literally was sitting
up there working on my video content, working on my article,
and literally watched them. By the time I walked out
of there, I might I mighta left a cryptos not
about eleven thirty PM, eleven forty five, and the game
was over at nine, like nine to fifteen. So I
literally I do that. I take it all in, man.
(11:36):
That's why I do it, because this isn't promised to me, right,
this is this is a blessing that I've been able
to do this at this point of my career where
I'm legitimately covering Major League Baseball. I do the Dodgers NHL,
I do the Kings NBA. I do the Lakers and
Clippers and NFL. I was at every home Rams and
Chargers game this year covering both those teams. I'm bless bro.
So I ain't bouncing early. I'm talking around. Yeah, I'm
(11:58):
talking to security. Yeah, you're having a good time. I
want to say. I gotta tell you one story though,
as I was.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I was out at the the Laker game and we
were doing the show before the game, and I was
actually doing the show by myself, and I noticed when
we went to a commercial break, you I could talk
into the microphone and we were doing it from Staples
and people were walking by. I mean I had a
captive audience. I mean everybody that was going to the
game was literally outside watching me do the show. Was fantastic,
(12:29):
and they could hear the show on the loud speakers.
But when we went to the commercial, they cut. They
cut the commercials off from the loudspeaker, but I could
still talk on the microphone to the crowd, so I
would get on, get on the microphone, I go, welcome
to Staples, Game six of your Lakers. Kobe Bryant out
today broke an ankle. Oh my goodness, man, I almost started.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A panic in the streets.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I was just having why would you tell the fans
that Mamba that the Black Mamba, that the Black Mamba
goat one B is not gonna play it to night.
You don't play with the thing.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Thinking back and then, probably wasn't a good idea of VJ.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But my boss called me up.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I really can't repeat what he said, and you're I
probably could repeat what he said even if we were
off the air.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Some of the stuff he said, so you know, I
had to say, okay, he's okay.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But a couple of months later, after the off season,
I'm covering the Lakers and Kobe walks on by and
it says nobody but Kobe and I and he stops
right in front of me, goes broken ankle, You couldn't
give me a handstreak so that maybe I can still play?
And he just started laughing and walked away. But I
(13:46):
just told that story because the guys actually listen. Your
big presence in the locker room, so you kind of
stand out. People see you, they notice you. Like you said,
you're at all the games and you probably stay longer
than just about everybody, so I can imagine, you know,
you you kind of make a presence of the room
when you're out there.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, no, I do, and it's purposely done because I
love doing this. This is what I want to do. Look,
I don't want to go there, and they go, oh god,
here comes that guy from Fox Sports Radio, who the
hell don't ask questions today? Tape exactly, No, no no, no, no, no,
no no. I fight with the Sharks, homie. I make
sure I raised my hand. I look at the guy
with the microphone. I waved my hand like, hey, I
know you want to get to some of the local
big name guys or whatever, but I think I have
(14:26):
a great question, and they're good, They're gonna ask you
are Fox, you are big name, right, you were in
a huge network where the largest sports talk radio network
in the world. So that alone, but my presence and
just the fun I like to have with it is
uh Draymond Green and I had a moment where I
asked them about the technical did they got when they
were here playing, and then having Jimmy Butler come in
and asking them, are you excited to help? You know,
maybe Jimmy Butler helped take some of those technicals away
(14:48):
from you. And you can see him like flip from
laughing and joke it to well, yeah, I gotta tech tonight,
because you know. A ref walked up to me with
the ball and then went on a nice little forty
five to fifth he second rant, not at me, just
about the just about you know the situation. A journalist
lean over to me, He goes yeah, thanks, thank you
(15:09):
for getting that for us.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
So you guys walcome because he was having a good time.
He was talking about playing dominoes and and he's the
Jordan Dye and he beats Jimmy Butler and dominoes and
all of this stuff. But that's when the trade was announced.
It was the day to trade deadline, so that was
a big question for him and Stephan anybody else. The
Warriors that came in there was about, you know, getting
Jimmy Butler. So no, yes, you do want to Presidents.
(15:31):
I have a thing where I stand up. I don't
sit down. I hate sitting down. You sit down, you
get lost. You stand against the wall. You try to
stand as close to the front as you can because
that's where the guy with the microphone is standing. And
once I picked that up, like my second Clipper game,
I said, oh, why am I sitting in the middle
of the middle row. He can't. He's not gonna stick
this poll all the way to me. I'll never get
my question in. And that's when I switched it. But yes, presidents,
(15:51):
of course, man. But like I said, I do it
because I enjoy and I want them to enjoy talking
to me. And getting my questions and then using my
questions the people in the back with the cameras. They
put it my course in the Stephan Kurr last year
and made it to their website and that y'all Who's Sports?
Rich Covino uh here from the from Uh yeah? Rich
A Cavino text me the next morning, say, Bro, congrat's
getting over on y'all Who's Sports? I'm like, what are
(16:12):
you talking about? They're like, your question is Steph? Like
I had no idea. They taking my question that I
usually that asked Steph and put it on their team
website and putting on y'all who Sports. So that's what
I aim for. Once I see you can get things
like that happen for you. It's like, I want my
question to ring through the world, Bro, not just in
this room. You know, sometimes it's tough to see it
on TV.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And I know you just lost a bunch of weight,
fifty pounds, So tell me because I know Luca's only
at well. The reason I'm bringing up this because Luca
is only averaging fourteen the game. They say, look's out
of shape out there.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He looked on TV? Is he is he looking big
or he's not looking big.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I don't know it's well, you can put on bigger
uniforms and well, but you could tell, can't you.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'll say this, I don't know if he's out of shape,
but I know he's not where they need him to be.
I do know that, and anybody watching the games knows
they he's not where they need him to be. So
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say the guy's out
of shape, because you know, I don't know what kind
of shape he's in. He looks like he is lagging
out there. Sometimes you can talk by their face. Yeah,
(17:11):
the energy, the energy's not out there. And when he
has the ball something else I've seen with this Laker
team so far as when him and Lebron have the ball,
it's almost like everybody is standing waiting for them to
to make something happen or make something for them happening.
So you do get a lot of standing around. The
only guy that moves around is Austin Reeves. Austin continuously
moves and if you get Jackson Hayes on the back
door cut for a lob, that's pretty much the way
(17:32):
he scores and the only way he can score he's not.
You're not gonna dump it down to him, you know, backpedal,
back pedal, backpedal, already, spin jump hook, you know, pump
fake Kevin McHale style. He's not gonna do that. That's
not his game. So that's one thing I am seeing
with Luca. He's just kind of laboring. And last night
one for nine, I've seen Lucas shoo bad. Yeah, but
he's not like that. They were they were bricks. They
were hitting the side of the rim and open one
(17:53):
hit the side and one just hit the backboard like
it didn't touch the rim, and it's like wow. And
there was one where he the guy ran from him
and they it was a defensive missus Simon from the
Hornets and no one picked him up. He had a
good three seconds to dribble, set his feet in the crowd.
You can hear the noise roar, and he shot in
just a hard break off the corner of the River's
like wow, Luca just looks like he's not He's not
there now. My only question is this, he was coming
(18:15):
in here the trade coming off of an injury. Do
you think, much like Dallas with Anthony Davis, that they
rushed him because you can't make this trade, and then
he sits right, make this trade. Yeah, you said a
game it too, but come on, we gotta get going.
And it looks like that that, you know, I think
it was the hamstring has not. I don't know. I
want to say fully hill, but he just looks like
he's laboring out there.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So I would I would agree with you. He's certainly
not one hundred percent of if you're gonna gonna put
some type of mark on it. But I think the
best is obviously gonna be better to come. But I
don't Lebron's gonna have to learn how to share the ball.
We're gonna get to that. We got to get the
Samanafel rumors. The game is still tied at two at
seventeen minutes left in the first overtime. He's vj Husky.
(18:53):
I'm already spatting. You're in for the guys, Jason Smith
and his best tread Mike Carbon right here on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (19:10):
All right, good evening, everybody. We're alive at the tyrack
dot Com studios. VJ, Husky, Arnie Span, You're in for
the guys, Jason Smith and his best friend Mike Carmon
right here on Fox Sports Radio. Best way to get
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I'm it stinking genius one USA Canada still tied at
two eleven fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Left in the first overtime. VJ.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'll give you one prediction. No way this game last
and goes into a second overtime. Too many scoring opportunities.
Both goalies are playing great, but lost opportunities also by
both the teams. No way that this thing is going
to last another eleven minutes and fifty seconds.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't think it will. Well, you know, hockey son
A is a really good old hockey band goalie out there.
You know the turner for goalie. They're standing on their head. Yes,
both these guys right now. I'm standing on her head
until right then and there. Monty will have to update
on that. Uh you're watching it, I'll let you take
your brother. Oh wow, No, I think.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I'm behind you guys, to be honest, and I just
saw it now. So uh yeah, Manzi will come out
and tell you what happened. Unbelievable because as we are.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It just finishes off. I can't believe it. Damn it's
the worst thing. It's the worst thing that's ever been recorded.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Here.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You've got a tissue for me. It doesn't fight enough
for that. It does a final words, MAXI, Yeah, we're
letting Ron Parker. You know, no fous turn us off,
turn us off, cut us off.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Canada has officially defeated USA at the Foreign Nations Face
Off Championship.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I think straight it too.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
But it was the goalies were just insane for both teams.
Connor Hallibuck for USA had twenty six saves. Jordan Beington
for Canada had thirty three saves.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
So Canada wins it again three to two against USA
in overtime.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Thank you Rob Parker for the assist. All right, and
you know what in USA? We had our shots. We
had our shots. You talked Arnie about when this okay,
all right, turn that off, man, goodness, gracious, turn that off.
We had our chances, man, we did. We were peppering
their goalie opportunities. Miss a punk rolls through the crease
(21:28):
and there's a swipe at it and it's missed there.
But right there, that's just a huge mistake. You can't read. Yeah,
oh cold course, come on, he's the world's best, the
world's best play that that, So don't tell like you
see it. Look at this. You see this. You'll never
see this in the NBA All Star Game. But that's
the world's best scoring the game winning goal, you know,
and it's Maini's by far the world's best players. Like,
(21:48):
it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And look at the if you saw on the sideline,
the the dejection on Team USA, exactly baghan toon the
goalie for Canada is like almost in tears, he uging
his coache.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
The face of the USA right now. Look at these guys,
So no, tell me, look at this. It feels like
the Stanley Cup final, bro, it does it does?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It feels like the Olympics, and it just I mean,
look at Team USA. It's just the dejection on their
face and the disappointment. I know a lot of our
listeners are gonna be disappointed. There's no doubt about that.
It was just fantastic. It was a fantastic little tournament.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It was a great tournament, man, And I'm looking forward
to this. They they might live. The USA guy's lips
are trembling. They're trying to fight back, tiers Man, And
this is this is essentially the NHL's All Star Game.
That's not essentially what this was for was for the
All Star break, right, and you do this for nations thing.
Hey man, move this bad boy up to six or
eight next year. Let's go give me four more teams
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added to this right here during a two week All
Star break for the NHL. Right, these guys, everybody's not
gonna play. Some guys are gonna get arrest, some guys
are gonna keep playing. But when you're great, you just
get out there plays. You see Sydney Crosby, the Ak City,
the kid who who's a legendary, He's a legend bro like,
there are some people that will put him on the
Mount Rushmore of the NHL. I I don't know if
(23:07):
I would, I'd have to sit and think about for
a second. But I noticed people that would that would
throw him on there. Mike immediately and Connor David quick
thing about Connor David. I was covering the Oilers and
the Kings playoff series. Last year, leaving late, the Oilers
were walking out and I'm walking beside their coach and
I just look up at him and I said, sir,
if you don't mim me asking, what is it like
the coach a guy like Connor McDavid. The look this
man gave me was just like he did. He couldn't,
(23:30):
he couldn't answer me, and he just shook his hand,
and I say, he's just so good right. He goes,
he's he's better than good man, and he shook my
hand and got on the bus and I walked off.
I just wanted to hit Yeah, he's just and here's
the guy on the world stage. Remember Baseball Classic, best
pitcher in the game, perceived best hitter in the game, right,
show hey against Mike trout for for the last out.
This one best player in the game, Connor McDavid overtime
(23:53):
win to win, Attorney.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I was, you know, I was a little worried about
Bighamton because he had not played well, only going to
play in every game in this reason he was. He
was picking it up in the NHL his last couple
of games. He had a great year of the year
that the Blues won the Stanley Cup. But he's not
on hellen Beck's level. It's not even close. Hellen Beck
is the best goalie in the NHL. But like you said,
(24:15):
you're only as good as uh, you know, gonna keep
you in the game. And they were standing on their heads, yeah,
just to win. And it's good to see both teams,
you know. At center he's shaking hands, of course, enjoying
the camaraderie and saying, hey, this was this was great man.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
We we gotta go ahead and it's got to be
done again.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And the NBA has got to learn from this, because
as much as I'm disappointed, I.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Just love the hell out of it.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And like I said, I'm I'm not the biggest NHL fan,
but I watched them, was my son, and I grew
up on hockey, and it was just a fantastic tournament
to watch and.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Listen, I'll say it is. Let's not forget five what
five six nights ago, these teams had like three fights
in the first nine seconds they drive everybody was talking exactly,
they dropped the gloves and the talk and this was
going on. That was Saturday night. That was going on
during NBA All Stars Saturday Night. Think about that you
had NBA All Star Saturday night. You had the Canada
USA game, the first one in the round robin last
(25:11):
Saturday night, going on at the same exact time, and
ten million people plus decided to watch a hockey game
over Matt McClung aka Opie Dunks when his third straight
come on, clip that Opie Dunks. Well come back.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We'll finish talking about this game. I know a lot
of people are disappointed. We do want to get to
those NFL rumors all that coming up. First, all, let's
see what's trending as we check it with Monsey for
the second times.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yes, fellas, I am here, and the Four Nations face
off has come to an end.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Set play McDavid scores. Conor McDavid scores the goal. Team
Canada wins Four Nations goal.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That was NHL Network Series xam.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
This is Rob Parker.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Final score against the USA was three to two in overtime.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
A championship that definitely has delivered. Okay, thank you Rob Parker.
In the NBA, we've got two games going on right now.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
The Spurs are beating the Suns ninety eight to ninety
three early in the fourth quarters. Spurs announced earlier today
that they're shutting down victor Ie Bonyama for the rest
of the season because of a blood clot in his shoulder.
Dearren Fox right now leading the way for San Antonio
though fifteen points, seven rebounds, seven assists. The Trailblazers are
losing at home to the Lakers sixty six to fifty
(26:33):
eight halfway through the third quarter. Lebron James playing in
a back to back for LA twenty three points no
Luka Doncic. In other NBA news, Anthony Davis he continues
to improve from his deductor's strain, but the Mavericks are
going to reevaluate him in two weeks. Other games that
have wrapped up like the Celtics, who handed the seventy
six ers or six straight loss of the season one
twenty four to one, twenty four to one oh four.
(26:55):
The Clippers lost to the Bucks one sixteen to.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
One ten boo.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
The Nuggets have now won nine in a row because
they beat the Hornets one twenty nine to one fifteen
Nicola Yoga's twenty nine points, seventeen rebounds, and nine assists.
Other news in the world of sports baseball, the Yankees
gave manager Aaron Boone a two year extension.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Positive news from Bobby Miller. I don't know if you
guys saw that dog. Oh that awful. Yes, take horrible.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
It's always scary when a picture takes a you know,
ball off the face, especially one hundred and five mile
per hour line drive off to the face. But he
did tweet not about an hour ago. He said thank
you to everyone who has reached out. Really means a lot.
Scary moment.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm good of the head.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It looked like he turned his head and it hit
him like on the side, so he went into can
hear you know what I mean? Yes, he went into
a concussion protocol. He was able to walk away. But
he has tweeted and the last thing he po was
can't wait to get back on the mound. So good
news coming out of Bobby Miller's Twitter account. Back to
you guys.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
All right, thank you, mons. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Bja Husky Arnie's spaniard for Jason Smith and Mike Carmon.
You want to get into Twitter, big vanilla funny, I'm
instinking genius one. Thank god he was okay. I saw that,
I heard the thump, and I'm like, my goodness, man,
the first thing that came to my mind. You got
to take some X rays, make sure nothing's hurt, you know,
no blood clots or anything like that, but it is done.
Let me ask you this, like a game like this,
(28:18):
not that we've watched the Four Nations Tour, a tournament.
If you warn't a big hockey fan, you were a
casual hockey fan and not a hockey fan at all.
Are you more likely to maybe tune into the NHL
regular season now as they finish out the season get ready.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
For the playoffs. Are you're more likely to tune in?
Or this was just a one time thing for you?
What do you think of me? Ja oh, man, that's
a tough one because you know, we're stubborn as a humanoids, right, Mary,
We're stubborn. I don't even though you just watch some
of the league's best players, including the league's best player,
But you're not getting this type of play in the
regular season though, right, No, yeah, you do, you get
(28:55):
some maybe not from everybody you know, but you know,
Connormy David plays like this all the time. I'm in
you know, you know, all the other great players in
the NHL play hard and and as pksu band said,
you know and and his rant you know you play
we play hard like we play injured. We don't just
play hurt. We play hurt and injured. It's like it's
(29:16):
a it's a culture. And if you don't buye by
the culture is a you know, you kind of get
looked at. You gotta get looked at side I by
your your colleagues. Right, Okay, your hamstring hurts, Yeah, buddy,
Well I've been punched in the face the last four nights,
so you know, put some ice on it, some icy
hot rappit. Let's go like we need you and I
we need we at least need thirteen minutes of ice
(29:36):
time for you. Are you know eight minutes of ice
time for you? What we need you?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I would have loved the cover a game like this,
would have absolutely loved it. I looked at the ticket prices.
I told you they were just short of three thousand dollars.
Now that's that's a little steep, but that's it was
a sold out place. It was a tough ticket. I'm
sure the resale ticket value was even above that. Even Ticketmaster.
You had to probably play it a little bit more.
(30:00):
I I really would have loved to cover that. You said,
you mentioned you covered the Kings. This would have been
phenomenal for you, especially in the town like Boston. Uh,
a big hockey town like that VJ.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Absolutely, and get me a lobster roll mom up, yeah too,
and a cup of chowder. Give me somebody. I don't
like club. I like lobster. But we talked about this before.
I love Are you kidding me? Man? On those nice
brioche hot dolls. Yeah, split down the middle and you
get that nice grayl buttery lobster in the middle of
that bad boy and that's it. Nothing else. You'll need
nothing else in it. Just give me to toast the
(30:31):
bread with a little bit of butter on that joint
and get me and put that lobster, tell meat in
that bad boy with a little bit of that claw
meet and let me go to town. But yes, it's
a bit cool to be in a city like Boston.
And of course, UH covered this, but that I mean,
that's what this stuff's about, right man. You You you
can say, oh yeah, that first uh you know that
first four Nations attorney, I covered that. I was there, man,
(30:52):
I covered that thing like you you get to you know,
have that memory. If as far as like a media
members concerned and.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Jason corrects me, it says here, next year is the
Olympic Games. There won't be this type of tournament. So
it's staying corrected on that. No, it'll just be a
regular It'll be the Olympics. It'll just be at the Olympics. Yeah, right,
So look, go ahead and do something even better. Oh,
which is even better? Trust me, if you thought this
stuff was fun, watch the Olympics. Watch the hockey Olympics. Man,
it's outstanding. If you want to get in big vanilla funny,
(31:21):
I'm in sticking genius one. You mentioned your Lakers are winning.
No Luca in this game?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
What is he gonna be?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Game on, game off? The rest of the way. Is
that the way it's gonna work for Luco. You're gonna
play it, They're gonna play it by year. I have
no idea, But don't ever say my Lakers ever again.
I'm a diehard beloved Detroit Pistons fan. I love we
win thirty eight to forty two. This year.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
We look like we're on pretty good. Oh absolutely, man
new coach, you know, big Staff Junior and k Motor
K Cunningham is a bona fide NBA star. They just
they need more, a couple more pieces man, they need another.
They need a Batman. They got the Superman, they ain't
got a Batman yet. They got a couple of little
Robbins and a flash you know what I'm saying. You
know Aquaman, you know Cyclops, those guys, but they ain't
got they don't got don't got it. They don't got
(32:00):
a Bruce Wayne. We need a Bruce Wayne. And that's
what I'm wing for. When they were here to play
the Lakers, I covered that game. Is the one Lebron
missed the three pointer at the buzzer to win and
the Pisces got editor what it done? Three porters right,
Well that was last night the Pistols game. He just
missed one. But I got the chance to talk to
Trajan Langdon, who was the VP, you know, a basketball
operation for the Laska former played for Duke absolutely Alaska.
(32:22):
Ssassin also too went over and won two championships in
the Spain League and one player the year, Oh I
didn't know what over in the Spanish League. The Cavaliers
drafted him. If you remember that, out of Duke and
he's just a sharp shooter, but he is now the
man calling the shots there. And we got a chance
to chat four second on the court pregame, and I
asked him about that. Say, you just need a batman,
goes we're building man, I said, But sound like our
young people, said No, I love the young pieces. I
(32:43):
love Duran. I loved the veteran of Tobias Hairs being there.
Motorcade Ivy was balling to it. He just had a
season in the injury. But if they grabbed him a
batman some way, somehow and trade and off season, he man, Hey,
carl Charlotte, see what Melo want to do? And the
slot k to the two three and let Melo run
the point. Here we go. What are they gonna do
with Luca? Now back to that? Is it long time? Yes?
(33:03):
I think he's going to play it by year. It
fails by ear, like I said, he seems the labor
and they're trying to get chemistry too. Man like a
D was you know there were a D was there? Man,
A D was the guy they He knew what to do,
he knew where to be when you get traded as
different man. He knew where to eat he knew how
to get to the facility, he knew what route to takes.
It's all new when you get traded and you I
(33:25):
can't express how much that plays into how some people
adapt to a new team. It's coming to a new city,
especially if you believe all the reports that Luca got
a phone call or text mess or whatever in the
middle of the night, and then you're moving from Dallas
to Los Angeles. Lebron's got to change his game a
little bit for Luca too. He's he's not going to, well,
he has to, he's not going to, though he's not.
(33:46):
You're right, you know, you're correct. He has to, but
he's not going. He's not going to. How many times
do we hear Lebron's gonna come off the ball? How
many times do we hear that he's supposed to come
off the ball? With Kyrie, it was still bringing the
ball up a lot, even though Kyrie was the point guing.
He about the ball up too, but Lebron had the
ball in his hands also a lot Luca. There's a
few possessions where Lebron's dribbling at the top of the
key and now Lucas standing off to the left for
the right on the arc right, and that's just that's
(34:09):
if I'm a defense, if that's what you're gonna give me. Oh,
this is cake right here, because Luca's not blowing by anybody, right,
but he's.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Got Travis Kelsey doing nothing on that playing.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah, there it is there, it is. You said. You
said it, not me, But I think it's day to day.
I think they'll just play it by here and just
see how his conditioning is. I don't even see him
on a bitch. I don't know if he traveled with
the team or not. But I agree with you. I
think I think they'll play this by here. All right,
we're gonna come back.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
We'll finish out the hour show just flying on by
almost halftime. We'll get your caught up on the games,
wrap up this hockey game, all that's next right here
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (34:50):
All right, good evening, everybody.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Of course, VJ Husky, Arnie Spaniard for Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon could reach us out, big vanilla funny.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm in stinking genius one.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
When it's all said and done, they said that this
hockey game might be the most watched hockey game ever.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So we'll have to wait for the numbers to get
on out. Well, what's the most watched game? You got
no's on? Now, what's the most watched, highest viewed hockey game?
If you can grab that floor shake and that would
be interesting to see because that shuts down the whole
discussion of has the NBA been caught by the NHL?
Right right? I think that was shut it down.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I don't know the exact number, will find out. I
was just going through it on Twitter. So just the
puliminary stuff, people say it may be down is the
most watched. I don't know what like nineteen eighty would
have brought in with USA and Russia. But back then
that game was tape delayed. We already knew the final
score before that game actually aired.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
I don't know if people actually knew that.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Matter fact, let me ask you this now that they
say it might be the most watched, only because Canada
is going to get as many viewers as the US,
probably more like they did on last Saturday. The NFL,
they're gonna be in Brazil, Germany, London, Madrid.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Don't they got They got some down Under games coming up, Mike,
they very well made. I'm just whether are you okay
with all this?
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Or is it a little too much?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Man?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Give me that we're going overseas? No give listen, let
the world have it. Why, Yeah, I don't gotta go.
I don't have to fly for nineteen hours on a
damn plane. I'm good. Yes, it's okay with me, man,
Like you would ask the players that do the players carry,
the players sick cove it, they're the ones that's gotta go.
I just think it's good to grow the game globally,
(36:37):
and eventually we need full contact football in the Olympics.
It needs to be there. I've been saying this for
twenty years. We need to put the full because the
other other nations that play rugby and Australian rules football,
they can adapt. Or maybe we have some of the
same rules, right, we make it a little different. Maybe
we bring over American football and then we add a
little few rules from Aussie football and a little few
(36:59):
rules from from rugby, and then combine and make this
one football that just happens in the Olympics. It would
get That could be a good idea. Man, that would
be beautiful. I just gave it to her. You listening
to me, IOC, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
But but to make it global, then that would truly
be the big sport. That's what everybody wants, would be
the NFL. They say, maybe even have a team perfectly over,
maybe in London or.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Spain or that thing that I don't like. No, no,
you don't like whoa I mean, do you okay? So
that team in Madrid has got to fly to America
eight times? Right, man? That's the line. Now you're asking
American athletes to have to adjust and play in an
American league but live on foreign soil. It's different if
you go over and in basketball and play in the
(37:46):
EuroLeague or play or if you're you know, if you're
an MLS and you're going you're playing La Liga a
Siria or you go playing the Champions League, Premier League?
Are you way for? It's different if you're doing it
like that. But to still be in an American league
and play for the team in London, I mean, didn't
you have NFL Europe?
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Just do that?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Well, let me ask you something that's maybe blasphemy, but
I'll ask you anyway, what happens if they said, well,
we're gonna put the Super Bowl over in one, I
mean that we can't do that, you know what.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I'm fifty to fifty. I'm fifty to fifty because I
get it right now. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's Americans, American games,
but most Americans can't afford to go. You're watching it
at home when you're you're gonna watch that game at
home when you're not chosen wings and horrible delivery pizza
and you know, and your uncle who's had way too
much tequila by the second quarter talking about a quarterback
(38:40):
that's not even in the game. It's too expensive. Yeah, man,
like the last one. The prices tremendously went down. But
go ahead. No, but if you put it overseas, you'll
still be able to let all the media is gonna
get there, networks and networks and stations will take care
of that's all the radio get there, and you'll still
have fans that can afford to Hey, maybe that's the
family trip that year. Maybe that's that one family trip
(39:00):
instead of going to Disney, are going to you know,
another country, going to the Caribbean. Mom and dad save
up because they want to get Super Bowl tickets because
it's in London this year. Well you could do in Paris,
would also go to the super Bowl. Yeah exactly, it's
the same thing. So no, I'm fifty to fifty and
I get it. And it's a money thing, dude. Do
you do you know how much more they can charge
for sponsor spots if they air a Super Bowl on
(39:22):
foreign soil.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I have, I'm sure a lot more, but I have
no idea what it would come out. Oh man, well,
well just you give you millions.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm sure the average thirty seconds, thirty four five seconds
this year was eight mil right, And that's what And
that's what I'm sure over there, there's there's there's litigation,
and there's laws, and there's f CEC and things like that.
And you know Texas got to pay and this, trust me,
I guarantee you the price goes up over there for
the network. That means, honestly, everybody's making more money. And
you give another country a chance to have a big game.
(39:50):
There have people there all week thrive their businesses, their
in restaurants, their bars, they're they're souvenir stores. They're making money, right,
You're getting more tours out there, the hotels, everybody's everybody's
making money. Bro. By the way, are we sure that
Canada did not win the gold medal?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Because TOJM covering this post game like it's the Stanley
cover something like that, I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
They all got medals around her neck. Yeah, and they
got metal celebrating.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
The fans are still there so well, the Canadian fans
are still there and they're still covering this.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
The super Bowl does not this long of a postgame. No,
it's dope.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
That just lets you know, once again, man to put
a ball on this the hockey thing. Man, the four
nations faced off. It just lets you know how big
this thing was and how good it was.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
All Right, two hours are in the buying on Buy
you want to be party, going to Big Vanilla Funny.
I'm a stinking genius one. We'll come back. We'll put
a rap on this hockey game. I want to get
to Travis Kelcey a little bit. Will he retires, Should
he retire?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
All that?
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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two of the show. We got a lot of NFL
to get to and it just feels like everybody's waiting
to just erupt. It's gonna go to overtime. USA Canada
all tied to two. They'll go to the intermission. I'll
come back out play five on five for twenty minutes
to see if we can get a winner through the
first overtime. I think that's what's gonna happen to be Jay?
(01:15):
They'll keep on playing until we get somebody that rising
the next goals.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right, then keep playing. No, what what are we doing?
We're not doing no shootout? Nah man, this is Canada,
USA for everything, but for nothing. But let's go hell
go next puck in wins. I wanted to tell you something.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm not the biggest authority on ratings, but I think
Thursday is a bigger TV night than Saturday, just the
overall in general. Usually network TV puts out their number
one show on the Thursday night, whether it's their drama
or sitcoms, whatever it may be for the network.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Usually they roll up their number one show on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Thursdays to get the biggest viewership. Assuming this game tonight
on Thursday is a better viewing night than the last Saturday.
Also assuming because this is the finals and that one wasn't,
they'll get about close to thirteen, fourteen, fifteen million people
gonna be watching this, and now that it's going to
(02:12):
the overtime, the ratings gonna be through the roof. Look
what's going on in hockey and look at the difference
in the NBA. NBA been to be taking notes because
this doesn't look good for them.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
No, not at all, not at all. Well, here's the
thing about looks good for them. Listen, man, the people
are still gonna watch that watch I think. I don't
think it. I don't think NBAU for viewership is gonna
drop below a million over the next few years. It'll
hover around this because this is what has been over
the last three to four years between one point three
one point eight one point nine in that area as
far as the average viewership for an NBA game, So
(02:45):
it'll stay steady. But I tell you, when you got
a product like this, and you got a game like
this showcasing the NHL, you gotta believe it's gonna bring
some new eyes and new viewership to the sport into
the product. And the product's good. Good, The product's not
bad at all. The product's good, you know. So I
think it's great, great for the game. But I don't
(03:05):
think you know, NBA been in trouble, so they're not
any more trouble because it's a night. But you know,
I think this could rise up to NHL a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
If you want to be honest, The NBA is in trouble.
Major League Baseball's in trouble. That's why we've changed the
rules so much to speed up the game. We've got
the pitch count, the pitch clock, I mean, now we
have the automatic that strike zone like robot umpires out there.
We're changing it all kinds of ways, trying to make
it faster and more enjoyable. NHL really never really had
(03:35):
the ratings. Are those three sports. I don't want to
say doomed, but you know, hey, there were times where
I used to go to the Sizzler, they go to Blockbuster.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Those days are god, mean, those days are over. You
go ahead to add in Montgomery Ward. Yeah too, while
you're at it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Maybe maybe those I mean exactly those days are over.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Are the days over of.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
NBA, Major League Baseball in the game NHL compared to
the NFL, I guess oh it's.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Not even close though. Those those days been over though, arey?
The NFL is king College football dwarfs those college trump
dwarfs the other three pro leagues Football's king period. NFL
is the pro level. N Cuba nil I called the NIO.
Now NIL football is the is the B level, but
it's still outrates and out views like all the NBA,
(04:23):
all mijor league baseball and hockey. I will say this
about baseball, though I like the pitch count. I don't
mind speeding up a picture where a batter is gonna
step out and adjust his gloves and his wristband, take
his hat off, wipe the brow put the hat back on,
make sure the helmets fits, step back, get put one
foot in, tap the bat, put the other foot in,
(04:45):
and the picture's standing there, just waiting. I'm glad that
part's gone. The change I didn't like was the only
throwing over the first base two rule. I don't like
that because now I get it, you want steals up,
you want the numbers of steals up, which they were
all right fine, But I don't think you need a
a to throwover rule. You know what I'm saying, the
base being bigger, you know. I didn't mind that when either,
(05:05):
but the pitchclock was one that I really like. I
just didn't like the throwover to first base two because
now you know, well, he can't throw over. I canna
take the lead of leads right, because he can't throw over,
not unless he does a quick you know, whip around
and throw the second try to get me. He's got
to throw that pitch, I have a better chance of
still in his bag.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know, it's interesting you brought that up, because today
the big news today, out of all days that we're
filling in, Major League Baseball and ESPN have decided to
go their separate ways. No longer is there gonna be
Sunday Night ESPN Baseball. ESPN has decided they have bought
the rights to college baseball, which will now be on
their Sunday night broadcast.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And I think they spend and don't call me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
On the exact price, sixty eight to seventy million dollars
right around there. Nothing extraordin, nothing big out there. I'm
not surprised. You know, baseball, when's the last time you're
sitting through a nine inning game?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I'm not just talking, I'm talking to any team.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Is the last time you see you know, you're you're
your must view a point appointment television, a regular season
game between any two teams, make them your favorite teams?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
When's the last time you did that?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
VJA?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, I'm different, Okay, I like baseball and I'm not
trying to I'm just talking about the changes that I like. Like,
I'm not talking about the game. I love baseball. I
played baseball. I still go to the band cages. I
got a bat and the ball and the glove in
my trunk now my football and basketball just in case
I want to go to the bat in cages that's
right up the street here from the studio and just
get some swings and for some some stress relief, right,
some mental you know, some some VJ time. So I
(06:33):
love the sport and I'm a big Ranger fan. I've
been a Ranger fan since the mid to late eighties.
So I grew up with Juan Wongong Gonzalez and Plad
Rodriguez and Nolan Wynan and Ruben Sierre and Will Clark
and those guys that didn't let into uh having Josh
Hamilton and and uh you know, going to back to
back World Series and then finally getting it done last
year or well two years ago. Now that the Dodgers
won last year, I guess technically, Uh So I do
(06:55):
watch baseball now? Is it on my appointment book too? No,
I have the app I can go back in on DVR.
I don't spit with two and a half hours. Yeah
you can't. I watch it time. Yeah, No, I watch
it night. I watch it night. I put it on
it night. I normally wait till the games are over.
And then when I'm at night and I'm done doing
daddy duty and I'm done doing sports and entertainment all
the other stuff that I do, my late nights are
normally with, Okay, what game I want to watch? Well,
(07:16):
of course the Rangers. I'm going to watch the Rangers.
What if the Rangers don't play? All right? Who's dope? All right?
I watched the Dogs jr. You know, let me check
what the Yankees did tonight. Let me say, Oh, you know,
the Apadre has been on a little run. They want
out of thirteen. Let me go. Let me go see
what they did tonight. So I do like to go
back and just watch the game because when the playoffs start,
I at least like to know what I'm talking about.
You know, I don't like the way till I get
to the al NLCS in the World Series. Yeah, it's
(07:37):
easy to talk about two teams or four, right, but
when the playoffs start, you know, I want to be
able to break down all the teams and know at
least something about some of the guys on the squad
and and who's doing what and what to look for
and pitch your rotation and when they go to the bullpen.
Here if you watch enough over a season, I don't
watch one sixty two. I'm not that guy. I get
in as many Ranger games as I can. I probably
watch maybe anywhere between forty to fifty other teams games
(08:00):
as far as other teams are concerned, right, Baseball, So
you know, a hundred games. I watch a lot of
Ranger games.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well, the average and the average American out there though
mostly is is not gonna sit down on a Saturday,
on a Sunday, maybe on a Tuesday night they'll have
the game on. But to try to tell the you know,
the guys with a family, like you said, you know,
are you gonna watch the game from seven pm to
ten pm? Usually not going to happen. And maybe they'll
(08:25):
get one game in, but the game is just too long.
That's why they tried to go ahead and speed it up.
That's why baseball was facing some problems out there. It's
a great summertime thing. Enjoy the game, go out there,
you know, show up a little bit late and take
the family. Uh, it's still the best ticket in town.
Spring training is the best thing for your dollar you
ever see out every hours to watch a Major League
(08:46):
Baseball game.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, I now, and I'm different there too. I love
going to games because it's more relaxing than anything else,
unless you're going to a postseason game. But a Dodger
game on Sunday afternoon or Dodger games the best. Yeah
at at a three thirty. Start here, nice and hot,
you know what I'm saying. You got people out there
with shirts off, people out there with the tank tops on,
(09:07):
and the spaghetti strapped sun dressers starts showing up. You
get you a couple of Dodger dogs. Get you one
of those the one of the big ass beers with
all the what's the what's the pepper, the peppery stuff
they put it. I don't like them, but they put
the spices around the thirty seven dollars beer. And get
you a forty two dollar bucket of nochoes and a helmet,
and just go to me. I'm I'm I'm a Dodger dog.
Get a couple of bottles of water and a pack
(09:28):
of peanuts, man, and you just put your feet up
and then you just enjoy the game like that. That's
you have to be that kind of fan. Though, I'm
not going to actually, like really see something happen. I'm
just going to watch a baseball I know I'm gonnat
show here today. I know I'm gonna get my man mook.
I know I'm gonna get well. I know I noticed
somebody gonna do something. It ain't gonna be a boring game.
And if you get a rivalry game and you get
the Giants and you get the Podreser, you know you
get the Reds. The Reds got a bunch of young
(09:50):
stars and young players. You get a chance to see
some of these kids. So I am a baseball game attendee.
I don't mind going to the game, but I don't
want to be out there in two and a half hours.
If I'm gonna go to a game, I don't care
if it goes thirteen innings, I don't I don't care
if it goes, you know, twelve innings. That's fine because
half y'all going to leave. So then I'm gonna stay
for the game. And I'm not going to be in
traffic like you guys, So I'll be I and I
(10:11):
stayed and watch the whole game. You listen to it
on the radio on the way home. No, I'm a
baseball game in teaming. I like going to the games.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I am.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm one of those. I have to admit it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm one of those guys. I'll get into. If it's
like a four or five run game, I'm packing it in.
I'm leaving in the seventh early.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, you know what. And I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
When I did local radio in Los Angeles and I
used to go to a lot of Dodger games, a
lot of Laker games. I don't think I took full
advantage of enjoying the games, especially.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Because you know you're going for free. We have press passes.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I should have enjoyed them a lot more instead of,
you know, like, I gotta do this show now, worry
about this and then cover this. I should have just
enjoyed the experience more then worry about so much work
and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Arnie, I am. Last night, I was the last person,
as far as any media member there to leave. By
the time I left last night, i'd seen them break
down half the court because Tyler the Creator had a
concert there tonight. I was there long enough to see
them take all the cheers out off the baseline, the
scores table, all that's all those baseline chairs, all all
(11:13):
the courtside seating, all the cheers behind the basket. The
baskets got got rolled away. So I literally was sitting
up there working on my video content, working on my article,
and literally watched them. By the time I walked out
of there, I might I mighta left a cryptos not
about eleven thirty PM, eleven forty five, and the game
was over at nine, like nine to fifteen. So I
literally I do that. I take it all in, man.
(11:36):
That's why I do it, because this isn't promised to me, right,
this is this is a blessing that I've been able
to do this at this point of my career where
I'm legitimately covering Major League Baseball. I do the Dodgers NHL,
I do the Kings NBA. I do the Lakers and
Clippers and NFL. I was at every home Rams and
Chargers game this year covering both those teams. I'm bless bro.
So I ain't bouncing early. I'm talking around. Yeah, I'm
(11:58):
talking to security. Yeah, you're having a good time. I
want to say. I gotta tell you one story though,
as I was.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I was out at the the Laker game and we
were doing the show before the game, and I was
actually doing the show by myself, and I noticed when
we went to a commercial break, you I could talk
into the microphone and we were doing it from Staples
and people were walking by. I mean I had a
captive audience. I mean everybody that was going to the
game was literally outside watching me do the show. Was fantastic,
(12:29):
and they could hear the show on the loud speakers.
But when we went to the commercial, they cut. They
cut the commercials off from the loudspeaker, but I could
still talk on the microphone to the crowd, so I
would get on, get on the microphone, I go, welcome
to Staples, Game six of your Lakers. Kobe Bryant out
today broke an ankle. Oh my goodness, man, I almost started.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A panic in the streets.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I was just having why would you tell the fans
that Mamba that the Black Mamba, that the Black Mamba
goat one B is not gonna play it to night.
You don't play with the thing.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Thinking back and then, probably wasn't a good idea of VJ.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But my boss called me up.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I really can't repeat what he said, and you're I
probably could repeat what he said even if we were
off the air.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Some of the stuff he said, so you know, I
had to say, okay, he's okay.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But a couple of months later, after the off season,
I'm covering the Lakers and Kobe walks on by and
it says nobody but Kobe and I and he stops
right in front of me, goes broken ankle, You couldn't
give me a handstreak so that maybe I can still play?
And he just started laughing and walked away. But I
(13:46):
just told that story because the guys actually listen. Your
big presence in the locker room, so you kind of
stand out. People see you, they notice you. Like you said,
you're at all the games and you probably stay longer
than just about everybody, so I can imagine, you know,
you you kind of make a presence of the room
when you're out there.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, no, I do, and it's purposely done because I
love doing this. This is what I want to do. Look,
I don't want to go there, and they go, oh god,
here comes that guy from Fox Sports Radio, who the
hell don't ask questions today? Tape exactly, No, no no, no, no, no,
no no. I fight with the Sharks, homie. I make
sure I raised my hand. I look at the guy
with the microphone. I waved my hand like, hey, I
know you want to get to some of the local
big name guys or whatever, but I think I have
(14:26):
a great question, and they're good, They're gonna ask you
are Fox, you are big name, right, you were in
a huge network where the largest sports talk radio network
in the world. So that alone, but my presence and
just the fun I like to have with it is
uh Draymond Green and I had a moment where I
asked them about the technical did they got when they
were here playing, and then having Jimmy Butler come in
and asking them, are you excited to help? You know,
maybe Jimmy Butler helped take some of those technicals away
(14:48):
from you. And you can see him like flip from
laughing and joke it to well, yeah, I gotta tech tonight,
because you know. A ref walked up to me with
the ball and then went on a nice little forty
five to fifth he second rant, not at me, just
about the just about you know the situation. A journalist
lean over to me, He goes yeah, thanks, thank you
(15:09):
for getting that for us.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
So you guys walcome because he was having a good time.
He was talking about playing dominoes and and he's the
Jordan Dye and he beats Jimmy Butler and dominoes and
all of this stuff. But that's when the trade was announced.
It was the day to trade deadline, so that was
a big question for him and Stephan anybody else. The
Warriors that came in there was about, you know, getting
Jimmy Butler. So no, yes, you do want to Presidents.
(15:31):
I have a thing where I stand up. I don't
sit down. I hate sitting down. You sit down, you
get lost. You stand against the wall. You try to
stand as close to the front as you can because
that's where the guy with the microphone is standing. And
once I picked that up, like my second Clipper game,
I said, oh, why am I sitting in the middle
of the middle row. He can't. He's not gonna stick
this poll all the way to me. I'll never get
my question in. And that's when I switched it. But yes, presidents,
(15:51):
of course, man. But like I said, I do it
because I enjoy and I want them to enjoy talking
to me. And getting my questions and then using my
questions the people in the back with the cameras. They
put it my course in the Stephan Kurr last year
and made it to their website and that y'all Who's Sports?
Rich Covino uh here from the from Uh yeah? Rich
A Cavino text me the next morning, say, Bro, congrat's
getting over on y'all Who's Sports? I'm like, what are
(16:12):
you talking about? They're like, your question is Steph? Like
I had no idea. They taking my question that I
usually that asked Steph and put it on their team
website and putting on y'all who Sports. So that's what
I aim for. Once I see you can get things
like that happen for you. It's like, I want my
question to ring through the world, Bro, not just in
this room. You know, sometimes it's tough to see it
on TV.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And I know you just lost a bunch of weight,
fifty pounds, So tell me because I know Luca's only
at well. The reason I'm bringing up this because Luca
is only averaging fourteen the game. They say, look's out
of shape out there.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
He looked on TV? Is he is he looking big
or he's not looking big.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I don't know it's well, you can put on bigger
uniforms and well, but you could tell, can't you.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'll say this, I don't know if he's out of shape,
but I know he's not where they need him to be.
I do know that, and anybody watching the games knows
they he's not where they need him to be. So
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say the guy's out
of shape, because you know, I don't know what kind
of shape he's in. He looks like he is lagging
out there. Sometimes you can talk by their face. Yeah,
(17:11):
the energy, the energy's not out there. And when he
has the ball something else I've seen with this Laker
team so far as when him and Lebron have the ball,
it's almost like everybody is standing waiting for them to
to make something happen or make something for them happening.
So you do get a lot of standing around. The
only guy that moves around is Austin Reeves. Austin continuously
moves and if you get Jackson Hayes on the back
door cut for a lob, that's pretty much the way
(17:32):
he scores and the only way he can score he's not.
You're not gonna dump it down to him, you know, backpedal,
back pedal, backpedal, already, spin jump hook, you know, pump
fake Kevin McHale style. He's not gonna do that. That's
not his game. So that's one thing I am seeing
with Luca. He's just kind of laboring. And last night
one for nine, I've seen Lucas shoo bad. Yeah, but
he's not like that. They were they were bricks. They
were hitting the side of the rim and open one
(17:53):
hit the side and one just hit the backboard like
it didn't touch the rim, and it's like wow. And
there was one where he the guy ran from him
and they it was a defensive missus Simon from the
Hornets and no one picked him up. He had a
good three seconds to dribble, set his feet in the crowd.
You can hear the noise roar, and he shot in
just a hard break off the corner of the River's
like wow, Luca just looks like he's not He's not
there now. My only question is this, he was coming
(18:15):
in here the trade coming off of an injury. Do
you think, much like Dallas with Anthony Davis, that they
rushed him because you can't make this trade, and then
he sits right, make this trade. Yeah, you said a
game it too, but come on, we gotta get going.
And it looks like that that, you know, I think
it was the hamstring has not. I don't know. I
want to say fully hill, but he just looks like
he's laboring out there.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
So I would I would agree with you. He's certainly
not one hundred percent of if you're gonna gonna put
some type of mark on it. But I think the
best is obviously gonna be better to come. But I
don't Lebron's gonna have to learn how to share the ball.
We're gonna get to that. We got to get the
Samanafel rumors. The game is still tied at two at
seventeen minutes left in the first overtime. He's vj Husky.
(18:53):
I'm already spatting. You're in for the guys, Jason Smith
and his best tread Mike Carbon right here on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (19:10):
All right, good evening, everybody. We're alive at the tyrack
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I'm it stinking genius one USA Canada still tied at
two eleven fifty.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Left in the first overtime. VJ.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'll give you one prediction. No way this game last
and goes into a second overtime. Too many scoring opportunities.
Both goalies are playing great, but lost opportunities also by
both the teams. No way that this thing is going
to last another eleven minutes and fifty seconds.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't think it will. Well, you know, hockey son
A is a really good old hockey band goalie out there.
You know the turner for goalie. They're standing on their head. Yes,
both these guys right now. I'm standing on her head
until right then and there. Monty will have to update
on that. Uh you're watching it, I'll let you take
your brother. Oh wow, No, I think.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I'm behind you guys, to be honest, and I just
saw it now. So uh yeah, Manzi will come out
and tell you what happened. Unbelievable because as we are.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
It just finishes off. I can't believe it. Damn it's
the worst thing. It's the worst thing that's ever been recorded.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Here.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You've got a tissue for me. It doesn't fight enough
for that. It does a final words, MAXI, Yeah, we're
letting Ron Parker. You know, no fous turn us off,
turn us off, cut us off.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Canada has officially defeated USA at the Foreign Nations Face
Off Championship.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I think straight it too.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
But it was the goalies were just insane for both teams.
Connor Hallibuck for USA had twenty six saves. Jordan Beington
for Canada had thirty three saves.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
So Canada wins it again three to two against USA
in overtime.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Thank you Rob Parker for the assist. All right, and
you know what in USA? We had our shots. We
had our shots. You talked Arnie about when this okay,
all right, turn that off, man, goodness, gracious, turn that off.
We had our chances, man, we did. We were peppering
their goalie opportunities. Miss a punk rolls through the crease
(21:28):
and there's a swipe at it and it's missed there.
But right there, that's just a huge mistake. You can't read. Yeah,
oh cold course, come on, he's the world's best, the
world's best play that that, So don't tell like you
see it. Look at this. You see this. You'll never
see this in the NBA All Star Game. But that's
the world's best scoring the game winning goal, you know,
and it's Maini's by far the world's best players. Like,
(21:48):
it's not even close.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And look at the if you saw on the sideline,
the the dejection on Team USA, exactly baghan toon the
goalie for Canada is like almost in tears, he uging
his coache.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
The face of the USA right now. Look at these guys,
So no, tell me, look at this. It feels like
the Stanley Cup final, bro, it does it does?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It feels like the Olympics, and it just I mean,
look at Team USA. It's just the dejection on their
face and the disappointment. I know a lot of our
listeners are gonna be disappointed. There's no doubt about that.
It was just fantastic. It was a fantastic little tournament.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It was a great tournament, man, And I'm looking forward
to this. They they might live. The USA guy's lips
are trembling. They're trying to fight back, tiers Man, And
this is this is essentially the NHL's All Star Game.
That's not essentially what this was for was for the
All Star break, right, and you do this for nations thing.
Hey man, move this bad boy up to six or
eight next year. Let's go give me four more teams
(22:46):
added to this right here during a two week All
Star break for the NHL. Right, these guys, everybody's not
gonna play. Some guys are gonna get arrest, some guys
are gonna keep playing. But when you're great, you just
get out there plays. You see Sydney Crosby, the Ak City,
the kid who who's a legendary, He's a legend bro like,
there are some people that will put him on the
Mount Rushmore of the NHL. I I don't know if
(23:07):
I would, I'd have to sit and think about for
a second. But I noticed people that would that would
throw him on there. Mike immediately and Connor David quick
thing about Connor David. I was covering the Oilers and
the Kings playoff series. Last year, leaving late, the Oilers
were walking out and I'm walking beside their coach and
I just look up at him and I said, sir,
if you don't mim me asking, what is it like
the coach a guy like Connor McDavid. The look this
man gave me was just like he did. He couldn't,
(23:30):
he couldn't answer me, and he just shook his hand,
and I say, he's just so good right. He goes,
he's he's better than good man, and he shook my
hand and got on the bus and I walked off.
I just wanted to hit Yeah, he's just and here's
the guy on the world stage. Remember Baseball Classic, best
pitcher in the game, perceived best hitter in the game, right,
show hey against Mike trout for for the last out.
This one best player in the game, Connor McDavid overtime
(23:53):
win to win, Attorney.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I was, you know, I was a little worried about
Bighamton because he had not played well, only going to
play in every game in this reason he was. He
was picking it up in the NHL his last couple
of games. He had a great year of the year
that the Blues won the Stanley Cup. But he's not
on hellen Beck's level. It's not even close. Hellen Beck
is the best goalie in the NHL. But like you said,
(24:15):
you're only as good as uh, you know, gonna keep
you in the game. And they were standing on their heads, yeah,
just to win. And it's good to see both teams,
you know. At center he's shaking hands, of course, enjoying
the camaraderie and saying, hey, this was this was great man.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
We we gotta go ahead and it's got to be
done again.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And the NBA has got to learn from this, because
as much as I'm disappointed, I.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Just love the hell out of it.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And like I said, I'm I'm not the biggest NHL fan,
but I watched them, was my son, and I grew
up on hockey, and it was just a fantastic tournament
to watch and.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Listen, I'll say it is. Let's not forget five what
five six nights ago, these teams had like three fights
in the first nine seconds they drive everybody was talking exactly,
they dropped the gloves and the talk and this was
going on. That was Saturday night. That was going on
during NBA All Stars Saturday Night. Think about that you
had NBA All Star Saturday night. You had the Canada
USA game, the first one in the round robin last
(25:11):
Saturday night, going on at the same exact time, and
ten million people plus decided to watch a hockey game
over Matt McClung aka Opie Dunks when his third straight
come on, clip that Opie Dunks. Well come back.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We'll finish talking about this game. I know a lot
of people are disappointed. We do want to get to
those NFL rumors all that coming up. First, all, let's
see what's trending as we check it with Monsey for
the second times.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yes, fellas, I am here, and the Four Nations face
off has come to an end.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Set play McDavid scores. Conor McDavid scores the goal. Team
Canada wins Four Nations goal.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That was NHL Network Series xam.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
This is Rob Parker.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Final score against the USA was three to two in overtime.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
A championship that definitely has delivered. Okay, thank you Rob Parker.
In the NBA, we've got two games going on right now.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
The Spurs are beating the Suns ninety eight to ninety
three early in the fourth quarters. Spurs announced earlier today
that they're shutting down victor Ie Bonyama for the rest
of the season because of a blood clot in his shoulder.
Dearren Fox right now leading the way for San Antonio
though fifteen points, seven rebounds, seven assists. The Trailblazers are
losing at home to the Lakers sixty six to fifty
(26:33):
eight halfway through the third quarter. Lebron James playing in
a back to back for LA twenty three points no
Luka Doncic. In other NBA news, Anthony Davis he continues
to improve from his deductor's strain, but the Mavericks are
going to reevaluate him in two weeks. Other games that
have wrapped up like the Celtics, who handed the seventy
six ers or six straight loss of the season one
twenty four to one, twenty four to one oh four.
(26:55):
The Clippers lost to the Bucks one sixteen to.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
One ten boo.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
The Nuggets have now won nine in a row because
they beat the Hornets one twenty nine to one fifteen
Nicola Yoga's twenty nine points, seventeen rebounds, and nine assists.
Other news in the world of sports baseball, the Yankees
gave manager Aaron Boone a two year extension.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Positive news from Bobby Miller. I don't know if you
guys saw that dog. Oh that awful. Yes, take horrible.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
It's always scary when a picture takes a you know,
ball off the face, especially one hundred and five mile
per hour line drive off to the face. But he
did tweet not about an hour ago. He said thank
you to everyone who has reached out. Really means a lot.
Scary moment.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'm good of the head.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It looked like he turned his head and it hit
him like on the side, so he went into can
hear you know what I mean? Yes, he went into
a concussion protocol. He was able to walk away. But
he has tweeted and the last thing he po was
can't wait to get back on the mound. So good
news coming out of Bobby Miller's Twitter account. Back to
you guys.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
All right, thank you, mons. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Bja Husky Arnie's spaniard for Jason Smith and Mike Carmon.
You want to get into Twitter, big vanilla funny, I'm
instinking genius one. Thank god he was okay. I saw that,
I heard the thump, and I'm like, my goodness, man,
the first thing that came to my mind. You got
to take some X rays, make sure nothing's hurt, you know,
no blood clots or anything like that, but it is done.
Let me ask you this, like a game like this,
(28:18):
not that we've watched the Four Nations Tour, a tournament.
If you warn't a big hockey fan, you were a
casual hockey fan and not a hockey fan at all.
Are you more likely to maybe tune into the NHL
regular season now as they finish out the season get ready.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
For the playoffs. Are you're more likely to tune in?
Or this was just a one time thing for you?
What do you think of me? Ja oh, man, that's
a tough one because you know, we're stubborn as a humanoids, right, Mary,
We're stubborn. I don't even though you just watch some
of the league's best players, including the league's best player,
But you're not getting this type of play in the
regular season though, right, No, yeah, you do, you get
(28:55):
some maybe not from everybody you know, but you know,
Connormy David plays like this all the time. I'm in
you know, you know, all the other great players in
the NHL play hard and and as pksu band said,
you know and and his rant you know you play
we play hard like we play injured. We don't just
play hurt. We play hurt and injured. It's like it's
(29:16):
a it's a culture. And if you don't buye by
the culture is a you know, you kind of get
looked at. You gotta get looked at side I by
your your colleagues. Right, Okay, your hamstring hurts, Yeah, buddy,
Well I've been punched in the face the last four nights,
so you know, put some ice on it, some icy
hot rappit. Let's go like we need you and I
we need we at least need thirteen minutes of ice
(29:36):
time for you. Are you know eight minutes of ice
time for you? What we need you?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I would have loved the cover a game like this,
would have absolutely loved it. I looked at the ticket prices.
I told you they were just short of three thousand dollars.
Now that's that's a little steep, but that's it was
a sold out place. It was a tough ticket. I'm
sure the resale ticket value was even above that. Even Ticketmaster.
You had to probably play it a little bit more.
(30:00):
I I really would have loved to cover that. You said,
you mentioned you covered the Kings. This would have been
phenomenal for you, especially in the town like Boston. Uh,
a big hockey town like that VJ.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Absolutely, and get me a lobster roll mom up, yeah too,
and a cup of chowder. Give me somebody. I don't
like club. I like lobster. But we talked about this before.
I love Are you kidding me? Man? On those nice
brioche hot dolls. Yeah, split down the middle and you
get that nice grayl buttery lobster in the middle of
that bad boy and that's it. Nothing else. You'll need
nothing else in it. Just give me to toast the
(30:31):
bread with a little bit of butter on that joint
and get me and put that lobster, tell meat in
that bad boy with a little bit of that claw
meet and let me go to town. But yes, it's
a bit cool to be in a city like Boston.
And of course, UH covered this, but that I mean,
that's what this stuff's about, right man. You You you
can say, oh yeah, that first uh you know that
first four Nations attorney, I covered that. I was there, man,
(30:52):
I covered that thing like you you get to you know,
have that memory. If as far as like a media
members concerned and.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Jason corrects me, it says here, next year is the
Olympic Games. There won't be this type of tournament. So
it's staying corrected on that. No, it'll just be a
regular It'll be the Olympics. It'll just be at the Olympics. Yeah, right,
So look, go ahead and do something even better. Oh,
which is even better? Trust me, if you thought this
stuff was fun, watch the Olympics. Watch the hockey Olympics. Man,
it's outstanding. If you want to get in big vanilla funny,
(31:21):
I'm in sticking genius one. You mentioned your Lakers are winning.
No Luca in this game?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
What is he gonna be?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Game on, game off? The rest of the way. Is
that the way it's gonna work for Luco. You're gonna
play it, They're gonna play it by year. I have
no idea, But don't ever say my Lakers ever again.
I'm a diehard beloved Detroit Pistons fan. I love we
win thirty eight to forty two. This year.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
We look like we're on pretty good. Oh absolutely, man
new coach, you know, big Staff Junior and k Motor
K Cunningham is a bona fide NBA star. They just
they need more, a couple more pieces man, they need another.
They need a Batman. They got the Superman, they ain't
got a Batman yet. They got a couple of little
Robbins and a flash you know what I'm saying. You
know Aquaman, you know Cyclops, those guys, but they ain't
got they don't got don't got it. They don't got
(32:00):
a Bruce Wayne. We need a Bruce Wayne. And that's
what I'm wing for. When they were here to play
the Lakers, I covered that game. Is the one Lebron
missed the three pointer at the buzzer to win and
the Pisces got editor what it done? Three porters right,
Well that was last night the Pistols game. He just
missed one. But I got the chance to talk to
Trajan Langdon, who was the VP, you know, a basketball
operation for the Laska former played for Duke absolutely Alaska.
(32:22):
Ssassin also too went over and won two championships in
the Spain League and one player the year, Oh I
didn't know what over in the Spanish League. The Cavaliers
drafted him. If you remember that, out of Duke and
he's just a sharp shooter, but he is now the
man calling the shots there. And we got a chance
to chat four second on the court pregame, and I
asked him about that. Say, you just need a batman,
goes we're building man, I said, But sound like our
young people, said No, I love the young pieces. I
(32:43):
love Duran. I loved the veteran of Tobias Hairs being there.
Motorcade Ivy was balling to it. He just had a
season in the injury. But if they grabbed him a
batman some way, somehow and trade and off season, he man, Hey,
carl Charlotte, see what Melo want to do? And the
slot k to the two three and let Melo run
the point. Here we go. What are they gonna do
with Luca? Now back to that? Is it long time? Yes?
(33:03):
I think he's going to play it by year. It
fails by ear, like I said, he seems the labor
and they're trying to get chemistry too. Man like a
D was you know there were a D was there? Man,
A D was the guy they He knew what to do,
he knew where to be when you get traded as
different man. He knew where to eat he knew how
to get to the facility, he knew what route to takes.
It's all new when you get traded and you I
(33:25):
can't express how much that plays into how some people
adapt to a new team. It's coming to a new city,
especially if you believe all the reports that Luca got
a phone call or text mess or whatever in the
middle of the night, and then you're moving from Dallas
to Los Angeles. Lebron's got to change his game a
little bit for Luca too. He's he's not going to, well,
he has to, he's not going to, though he's not.
(33:46):
You're right, you know, you're correct. He has to, but
he's not going. He's not going to. How many times
do we hear Lebron's gonna come off the ball? How
many times do we hear that he's supposed to come
off the ball? With Kyrie, it was still bringing the
ball up a lot, even though Kyrie was the point guing.
He about the ball up too, but Lebron had the
ball in his hands also a lot Luca. There's a
few possessions where Lebron's dribbling at the top of the
key and now Lucas standing off to the left for
the right on the arc right, and that's just that's
(34:09):
if I'm a defense, if that's what you're gonna give me. Oh,
this is cake right here, because Luca's not blowing by anybody, right,
but he's.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Got Travis Kelsey doing nothing on that playing.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah, there it is there, it is. You said. You
said it, not me, But I think it's day to day.
I think they'll just play it by here and just
see how his conditioning is. I don't even see him
on a bitch. I don't know if he traveled with
the team or not. But I agree with you. I
think I think they'll play this by here. All right,
we're gonna come back.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
We'll finish out the hour show just flying on by
almost halftime. We'll get your caught up on the games,
wrap up this hockey game, all that's next right here
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (34:50):
All right, good evening, everybody.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Of course, VJ Husky, Arnie Spaniard for Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon could reach us out, big vanilla funny.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm in stinking genius one.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
When it's all said and done, they said that this
hockey game might be the most watched hockey game ever.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
So we'll have to wait for the numbers to get
on out. Well, what's the most watched game? You got
no's on? Now, what's the most watched, highest viewed hockey game?
If you can grab that floor shake and that would
be interesting to see because that shuts down the whole
discussion of has the NBA been caught by the NHL?
Right right? I think that was shut it down.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I don't know the exact number, will find out. I
was just going through it on Twitter. So just the
puliminary stuff, people say it may be down is the
most watched. I don't know what like nineteen eighty would
have brought in with USA and Russia. But back then
that game was tape delayed. We already knew the final
score before that game actually aired.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
I don't know if people actually knew that.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Matter fact, let me ask you this now that they
say it might be the most watched, only because Canada
is going to get as many viewers as the US,
probably more like they did on last Saturday. The NFL,
they're gonna be in Brazil, Germany, London, Madrid.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Don't they got They got some down Under games coming up, Mike,
they very well made. I'm just whether are you okay
with all this?
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Or is it a little too much?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Man?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Give me that we're going overseas? No give listen, let
the world have it. Why, Yeah, I don't gotta go.
I don't have to fly for nineteen hours on a
damn plane. I'm good. Yes, it's okay with me, man,
Like you would ask the players that do the players carry,
the players sick cove it, they're the ones that's gotta go.
I just think it's good to grow the game globally,
(36:37):
and eventually we need full contact football in the Olympics.
It needs to be there. I've been saying this for
twenty years. We need to put the full because the
other other nations that play rugby and Australian rules football,
they can adapt. Or maybe we have some of the
same rules, right, we make it a little different. Maybe
we bring over American football and then we add a
little few rules from Aussie football and a little few
(36:59):
rules from from rugby, and then combine and make this
one football that just happens in the Olympics. It would
get That could be a good idea. Man, that would
be beautiful. I just gave it to her. You listening
to me, IOC, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
But but to make it global, then that would truly
be the big sport. That's what everybody wants, would be
the NFL. They say, maybe even have a team perfectly over,
maybe in London or.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Spain or that thing that I don't like. No, no,
you don't like whoa I mean, do you okay? So
that team in Madrid has got to fly to America
eight times? Right, man? That's the line. Now you're asking
American athletes to have to adjust and play in an
American league but live on foreign soil. It's different if
you go over and in basketball and play in the
(37:46):
EuroLeague or play or if you're you know, if you're
an MLS and you're going you're playing La Liga a
Siria or you go playing the Champions League, Premier League?
Are you way for? It's different if you're doing it
like that. But to still be in an American league
and play for the team in London, I mean, didn't
you have NFL Europe?
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Just do that?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Well, let me ask you something that's maybe blasphemy, but
I'll ask you anyway, what happens if they said, well,
we're gonna put the Super Bowl over in one, I
mean that we can't do that, you know what.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I'm fifty to fifty. I'm fifty to fifty because I
get it right now. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's Americans, American games,
but most Americans can't afford to go. You're watching it
at home when you're you're gonna watch that game at
home when you're not chosen wings and horrible delivery pizza
and you know, and your uncle who's had way too
much tequila by the second quarter talking about a quarterback
(38:40):
that's not even in the game. It's too expensive. Yeah, man,
like the last one. The prices tremendously went down. But
go ahead. No, but if you put it overseas, you'll
still be able to let all the media is gonna
get there, networks and networks and stations will take care
of that's all the radio get there, and you'll still
have fans that can afford to Hey, maybe that's the
family trip that year. Maybe that's that one family trip
(39:00):
instead of going to Disney, are going to you know,
another country, going to the Caribbean. Mom and dad save
up because they want to get Super Bowl tickets because
it's in London this year. Well you could do in Paris,
would also go to the super Bowl. Yeah exactly, it's
the same thing. So no, I'm fifty to fifty and
I get it. And it's a money thing, dude. Do
you do you know how much more they can charge
for sponsor spots if they air a Super Bowl on
(39:22):
foreign soil.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I have, I'm sure a lot more, but I have
no idea what it would come out. Oh man, well,
well just you give you millions.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm sure the average thirty seconds, thirty four five seconds
this year was eight mil right, And that's what And
that's what I'm sure over there, there's there's there's litigation,
and there's laws, and there's f CEC and things like that.
And you know Texas got to pay and this, trust me,
I guarantee you the price goes up over there for
the network. That means, honestly, everybody's making more money. And
you give another country a chance to have a big game.
(39:50):
There have people there all week thrive their businesses, their
in restaurants, their bars, they're they're souvenir stores. They're making money, right,
You're getting more tours out there, the hotels, everybody's everybody's
making money. Bro. By the way, are we sure that
Canada did not win the gold medal?
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Because TOJM covering this post game like it's the Stanley
cover something like that, I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
They all got medals around her neck. Yeah, and they
got metal celebrating.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
The fans are still there so well, the Canadian fans
are still there and they're still covering this.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
The super Bowl does not this long of a postgame. No,
it's dope.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
That just lets you know, once again, man to put
a ball on this the hockey thing. Man, the four
nations faced off. It just lets you know how big
this thing was and how good it was.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
All Right, two hours are in the buying on Buy
you want to be party, going to Big Vanilla Funny.
I'm a stinking genius one. We'll come back. We'll put
a rap on this hockey game. I want to get
to Travis Kelcey a little bit. Will he retires, Should
he retire?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
All that?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
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