April 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike debate the timing of the Mike Malone firing in Denver. The guys react to Luka getting ejected. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show!
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of crazy night in the NBA. Tonight we talked about
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Michael Night. Here's the thing. I joke, He's going to
come and hate you. I joked around about this earlier
today where you know the the Nuggets fire Mike.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Malone.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Earlier today we talked about, Hey, if a guy's gotta go,
guy's gotta go, right, It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Matter if it's three games before the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
If you don't think you can win in the playoffs,
and and and a team is tuned out a coach,
you need a new energy.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
But you know, the.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Funny thing was, I'm like, you know, it would kind
of be something if today the Lakers had a big
headline that would take away from Malone's firing, because you
know how much he's like how much he's been the
last couple of years. Why the Lakers getting all the attention.
We're the chance it would be something if even on
the day he's fired, something happens with the Lakers to
wind up eclipsing it. And what did we see in
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the afternoon Malone gets fired. The Lakers announced all our
starters are playing tonight against the thunder. Yeah, in the
big rematch. We're all gonna We're all gonna play tonight.
And then in the middle of the fourth quarter, Luka
Doncics gets thrown out of the game for yelling at
a fan. A referee ridiculously throws him out of the game.
And maybe that was a plan all along. Hey, we
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didn't need this game. I got tossed.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We just wanted Michael Malone to walk around and go, oh,
come on, man, you know what, I get fired.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I can't talk about me. They're talking about the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's come on, man, it's the salty man, and no
doubt feel like his thunder has been stolen once again.
I did see one great theory about the Malone situation.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Give it to me.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Sure that all this time, especially in the last couple
of weeks, Russell Westbrook was a double agent still working
for the Lakers. He tore the Nuggets apart from the inside.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He just says to Yokis, Hey, you know what I
was hanging out with Jamal Murray the other day?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what he said about you?
That that that I didn't know he was saying some stuff.
And then he goes up to Jamal Murray, Hey, Jamal,
I've been hanging out with Yo Kicch the last few days.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah you know what he said about it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I was thinking more just in terms of terrible play
in the final minutes of games.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
He was he was saying stuff about you. Man. Oh
I don't I don't want to. I don't want to
talk out of school.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But Yokin strikes me as a guy that the first
he would dismiss Maurie's not playing anyway, he has it
played since twenty six. That also does not help things
in a slide. By the way, not having a guy
who's a twenty eight game score but tuned out certainly
tough times, but completely now overshadowed by questions emanating from
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this thunder Lakers and you know, and the thing is,
when this Malone story came out, it was so shocking,
like wait, the Nuggets fired Malone. Wait, wait, wait, I
have a new rule now that I know is going
to help me and help everybody. Everybody should should go
by this. Okay, because even though Shams Sharania had it.
You click on his Twitter account, you see it's him,
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You see this is it? You wonder, there's no reason
to not wait five minutes and then start saying your
stuff on social media.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Everything's I'm like, okay, because I saw it break.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I saw it break because I was on I was
prepping for the show tonight and everything else, and I
saw it break, and I'm like, wow, oh my god, Okay,
and I checked Sham's had like, okay, you know what,
I'm waiting five minutes because in five minutes this will
either be debunked or other people are gonna.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Pick it up.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And then Mark Stein picked it up right after that,
and I said, Okay. As soon as that happened, I knew, hey,
this is legit, it's real. And Stein actually had more
chanst No he wasn't, but he was in Sentel had.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It last year.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It was just I'm not kidding, but it's just funny,
right with the the way the news cycle works anymore.
And this again, the fact that you're like, all right,
I need Stein, I need this, like the the Insider thing.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's for a guy Glazer because he gets stuff nobody has.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Everything else gets confirmed and corroborated really fast. When ESPN
used to be on this whole rip where they didn't
want to give anybody credit for anything. So it was
like if Jay Glazer broke broke a story like hey,
you know, Dak Prescott is out for the year, and
ESPN would report by saying Dak Prescott us out for
the year, which was first reported by Fox but and
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confirmed by ESPN. They would give the first like they wanted, well, no, no,
they have to give credit, but they would say first
reported here, but confirmed by ESPN. In other words, they
want to go, hey, don't believe any of these yahoos.
We have to confirm stuff for this to happen. Oh okay,
that's that was so petty. That's that was just I'm
glad they stopped it. It was just so petty. But
it was just funny. Is this breaks that? My only
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response was just to kind of sit back in my
chair and go huh because we'd been seeing things swirling,
right the Malone video and audio that really got pushed
to the surface today, all the sideline stuff, all of
the back and forth and rumblings, especially in this four
game losing streak, because we've watched all season, i mean, defensively,
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they're awful in the month of April.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
What do you got, Yoki jaffers? You like it's a game?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Come on, now, Here's the thing is that this is
when you fire a coach. If a coach loses the
locker room, this is when you fire him. And we
have heard rumblings about it. I'm going to play this
for you. This is actually from a.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Game late in March that Malone was not quite happy
with his team following a loss, and here he was
in the postgame press conference that really just hey, maybe
you know, lights.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You up a little bit that maybe things aren't great
in Denver.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I think each guy's got looked themselves in the mirror
and start coming to each respective game with the proper
mindset and have some pride. I didn't think we played
with any pride tonight. That's not my job to evaluate
how they take things. My job is to be honest
and sometimes brutally honest. And tonight it was a brutally
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honest message. And the guys that are fully won't hear it.
You know, they'll say coaches tripping, and the guys that
maybe do really care will because they don't want they're
not going to go back and watch their minutes because
nobody watches their minutes. Nobody watches film. Okay, so we'll
have to show them the film. And I said, if
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somebody disagrees with me, please speak up, and nobody said
a work. So again, I'm not really concerned with how
they took that message. My thing is being honest with
how we just played. I just got blown out in
La come here against a team that is down three four,
five starters. That's what happens. That's exactly what happened tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
All right, So again, are you surprised at reports that
he has lost the locker?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
After you hear that standing there with the Leo DiCaprio flt.
Nobody watch a film, so we'll have to watch the
have to make them watch the film, Like are you
are you? Are you surprised that you've heard maybe they
weren't getting along. And that's the thing is if if
a team tunes out of coach, we're just not listic.
Change has to be made, right, You got to do it.
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If they're not listening, you gotta do it. Yeah, I
really thought it would just limp into the off season
and then it would just be all right, we're done well,
But good for them. I'm just saying, the hell with it.
We still think we've got enough talent here that maybe
there's just a change of voice and we can spark
something here to get them. And obviously getting Murray back
would be huge as you get to the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But they're a team that we've talked about a lot.
Is like they're a matchup problem.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And you know, to your point about the Lakers and
being bored for Denver, there have been stretches this season,
is like, all right, they're just waiting on the postseason,
right because with Oklahoma City still new, Cleveland on the
eastern side of the bragget still new and exciting, and
so every game is, hey, let's go in and put
on a show. Especially when you start getting these nationally
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televised games for Denver, it's like, we've done that. Now
just get ready and make sure we're healthy.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
For the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But you see enough bad patterns and if they're not
showing up for film review or throwing stuff at Malone
when he tries to put the film on, I mean,
you got a bad situation that you might as well
xcize right now.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So again, not that bit.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
If it's got to be made, it's gotta be ma
if it's gonna make you play better in the playoffs,
and sometimes just making that coaching change. Why teams fire
their managers mid season A they get that big spark. Meanwhile,
speaking of spark, how about this tonight U Lakers and
the Thunder. Midway through the fourth quarter, it is a
one point game, the Lakers looking to send another message
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following their win over the Thunder a couple of days ago.
This is one of the marquee games that I felt
like a Western Conference Final game. Luka Doncic makes a
big shot and it's the last shot he will shoot
in this game.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Why take a listen, sports.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Great sat all the stars that actually then opening except
for Ruy. That game management got it start stop shoot
you gonna score?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Who you got to switch? He won it again, Hardy's gone.
Lucas thrown out of again. No, Luka just got thrown
out there you go, set it technical.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Luka is saying he was talking to a fan, and
the official was saying he was talking to me.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
If saw it?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, first of all, Billy Mack Laker's radio network on
the call. That's Billy Mack's fault. What's the first thing
you hear him say in that cut? What's the first
thing he says?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Great?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Less a sports great shake all the stars in action
for much longer? Great see all the stars in action. Oh,
Luca's just been thrown out of the game. Way to go,
Billy Mack, that's your fault. All right.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So here we go from the pool reporters talking to
the officials in the post game. Why was Luca doncin
sussessed this first technical fault by jt Orr? He directed
profanity at a game official question, Why was Luca, says
to second technical fil by Orr. Was it the officials
judgment that he was speaking to him or to a fan?
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Brothers respecise, straight up quote. He looked directly at an
official and used vulgar language. Unquote that the fan the
video doesn't lie. He's looking sideways. But that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Right as we watched the video and you got.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The official coming up up the court field, Uh that
I guess he decided that was close enough in his
general direction.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
No needs to pay this. Look, this is ridiculous. It's you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You if you're gonna make a big deal if you're
the NBA about players playing and nationally televised game, big
deal to have the stars play, right, want to make
sure the stars there.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
If you're gonna throw a star.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Player out, you gotta make damn sure that there's a
reason for it. You can't be an official with rabbit ears.
It says, oh, I think you were.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Talking to me. Hang on, hang on.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I understand blowing the whistle. I understand if Luca yells
something and you think it's you, I understand blowing the whistle.
But you got to be able to stop and the
officials have people stop and say, Okay, you realize you
we just threw Luka Doncic out of this game. Let's
understand that we did it, and and we can we
can and on it and it's something that was okay.
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So let's let's research this. Let's go back and look
at the video. Let's go let let's talk to me.
Talk to me about what he said. What did you
hear him say?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Luca?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
What did you say? And you figure it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Out from there. This was I mean, it's ridiculous that
he yells because right away Luca points I was talking
to him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I was talking.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I wasn't talking to you. I wasn't talking. I was
talking him.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I was talking about If he was talking to the official,
Luca would have gotten his face right after. So you
throw me out of the game, you blanket.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
He blanks so and so, because that's usually what athletes
do if they're mad an official, they will bark at them.
The official throws them out, and then the guy goes
right at the official. Right, that's the Draymond Green anglove it.
Oh now you threw me out. I'm now you're really
going to get a piece of my mind. That's how
Stars react, Luca gets talking. He goes, waita wait, I'm
yelling at him. As much as Luca is a very
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emotional player, he's not going to get thrown out of
this game that that he everybody is playing tonight for
knowing that he's got the game tomorrow against the Mavericks.
He's not going to get thrown out of this game
by yelling at an official. Buler Heads need to prevail
in a situation like this, and it just wasn't because
no one comes to see the referees throw guys out
of games. You gotta make damn sure this is legitimate
or you get into the travesty of what you saw tonight.
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It's a quick whistle, right, so you get the first one. Fine,
big difference between all right, you get your first technical
and yes you can have the accumulation and get a
suspension all that fun stuff, But for that it's fine
in this case. Again, I want to know what the
magic word was for one. But to your point, right,
it's something that maybe the league needs to address as to, hey,
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we need to have a different review process before we
eject a guy. We certainly do it if there's any
kind of physical contact, right, when we're doing the flagrant
one flagrant two, let's go to the subpruder film and
lock down frame by frame to figure out what was intent,
what was was their contact to the head neck area,
all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Same thing here.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I know it's a war of words, but if you're
one hundred percent sure that year you can't be misconstrued
in your words that it was directed to a fan
that you were jawn with, then we need to be
able to adjudicate that. But in this case it goes
against the Lakers and they get run out of the gym.
It really is a disservice to everyone when an official
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decides I've had enough and I'm throwing you out. I really,
I've had enough and I'm throwing you out. There's nothing
from the pool reporter that says, oh, hey, he was
yelling at me all game. He was barking at the
official game. Just oh we yelled at an official. Now, dude,
you got to make sure that, man, you got to
make sure stuff like that. It's embarrassing for the NBA.
Cursed at I'm so embarrassing for the NBA exit out
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Coming up next, is it time to panic? The Dodgers
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Speaker 3 (17:00):
You will now speak for the next fifteen minutes about
the impact of Juan Soto on the Mets.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Pope, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I tell you what my friends sources say, and we
are reporting this exclusively on the Jason Smith Show, that
Juan Soto is very good at baseball. You are not
going to get insight and anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
That's a god take.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I'll tell you what a little bit of a fluky
play in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta right now, a little
bit of a fluky play tonight that led to the
Phillies losing to the Braves. So now the Mets alone
in first place. I'll be it by half a game,
and I'll be it after eleven games of the year.
But they have won six straight and I think after
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six straight wins we can resoundingly call the next decade
plus the Soto deal a win for the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh see, I thought you're going to say the Mets
magic number is because I'm trying to find what their
magic number is and I can't.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I can't find that yet.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
It's gonna be fairly significant, because again it is April
Age and their lead is a half a game. I
tell you what I will. My daughter had to take
a math exam today, so I would say that my
math right now, after helping your study for it, is
about as good as it's been in the last twenty
five years. So I'm feeling really good about my math
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right now.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh see, because I could never do all the studying
that I would help my daughter with, you know, growing
up when it came to math, I'm like, this is
not how I learn math.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
This is not common core this. I have no idea
what you're doing. Just I'll look at the answer and
tell you if it's right.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
But how you're getting it, I can't do so much.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
More so than than than than what my kids want
to listen on the on the radio too now as
they're changing the dial and making sure And but by
the way, when when we ever happen to be in
the car late at night around this time of night,
we are listening to Jason Smithshow on Fox Sports Radio.
But when when we are not doing that, we might
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be listening to what the kids are into. The other thing,
aside from the music they like now, is the way
the kids are doing long division. Now, I just I
can't wrap my mind around it. I have no idea
how to speak that language of long division. Now. I
only go back to what sister Diane taught me back
in the day. The numbers all work, but it's not
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the way the kids learning are right now.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Not said I used to take the ruler to the
knuckles if I got it wrong. So I mean it's
ingrained in me. The nuns got me too. JP back
in the day.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Thanks for a little higher for you and me, Mike
back in the day.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
There you go. All right, So let's talk fuzzy math.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Then, So Pete Alonzo, what are we getting about a
four hundred million dollar deal based on his early season
heroics If we're going to talk math.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Hey, if you're Pete Alonzo, and if you feel like
you've been underpaid, And by the way, I'm sure that
there was at some point it noted by Petere Alonzo
to his representation, an attorney named Scott Boris in Newport Beach, California,
that perhaps Pete might say, listen, I got my deal.
I'm going to opt out because did you see what
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Vladimir Gurero Junior got La Blue Jays? And now listen
Vladdie is younger than Pete, he is maybe a bit
a bit better defensively. I think we could probably all
all agree on that. But Pete may be correct in
saying he's not like three times as good as I.
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And again, this might be a little bit of fuzzy math,
and you talk about how things project out and based
on the age of a player. But I do believe
Vladimir Guerrero Junior has a pretty good argument to make
about or I would say Pete Alonzo does about where
his numbers are coming in relative to Laddie's. And listen,
Alonso's at a better start of the year than in
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Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Four RBI tonight for Pete Alonzo. So
he's gonna have to like the way things are starting
so far now that he's comfortable back in Flushing, Queens.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
John Paul Morosi with US, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Life,
TIREC dot Com Studios. Okay, so the Dodgers have lost
three in a row. Panic Level one to ten fifteen
twenty five. They've lost three, John Paul. They may not
win one hundred and twenty games this year. I mean
they may fall below one twenty.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
They may have to settle for just challenging for the
Mariners record. They may have to settle for that in
all fairness. So I'll say this, what am I panicked
about the Dodgers right now? No, I am not panicked. However,
two points to make number one. Their starting pitching depth
is again being tested by injury. And it's only April eighth.
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Blake Snell is on the il glass now. The battle
is way through his start over the weekend. We're not
getting close yet to the Otani return to the mound,
So there are some things worth worrying about. The other
thing that I think is I would say probably just
as important as the as the rotation question, is the
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strength of the National League West, again by mere percentage points,
and it's again April eight. The Dodgers right now are
third in their division. The Padres lead it, followed by
the Giants, followed by the Dodgers. The Dodgers of nine
and four. They're off to a fine start, but it
is worth pointing out that at the very least, the
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Giants are a much better team than anybody thought they
were going to be, probably as we're getting through screen training.
So that to me would point out it's going to
be a little bit of a tougher road, and you
might actually see a universe in which the Dodgers do
not win the Division. I think the chances are still
pretty good that they do, but you could make a
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credible argument that the Padres or Giants will instead, and
that I think points out to maybe a bit more
of a concern than the Dodgers thought they would have
when they finished two to oh there in the Tokyo
Series and came back to North America.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
JP Let's stay in Division nine years, one hundred thirty
five million dollars, Jackson Merrill.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
He goes to the IL after a hot.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Start, but a lot of rumblings at the union not
too pleased with the deal.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Well, a couple of things, and it was an interesting
point that I was actually asked earlier today by my
friends Jeff Blare and Kevin Barker in Toronto about who
the next record setting player is going to be, In
other words, which free agent out there could credibly go
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beyond what Soto got. I don't think it's going to
be Kyle Tucker. Could be wrong, but I don't think
he gets seven sixty five and certainly. I don't think
he gets eight hundred million dollars. So then you start
going down and say, well, who's next the best The
best number I can come up with is Gunner Henderson
with the Orioles, because this shortstop, he's a left handed
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hitter with power. There's a lot of unique things about
what he brings to the table. And and again, would
you advocate for Gunner Henderson to get dead and or
eight hundred million dollars when Merrill signs his extension, as
you point out, for less than two hundred million dollars.
It's a fair Listen, anytime you get your first fortune,
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anytime you get your nine figure deal, it's hard to
ever say that someone sold himselves short. But I do
think because of maybe some of the anxiety surrounding the
overall projections of the industry the next CBA negotiation after
twenty six, a lot of things like that, get your
money first. I would never begrudge a player for doing that,
but I do think Mikey, you raise a good point
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that that the players and you might be wondering whether
it's Merrill or Bobby with you or anybody that signed
an extension the last couple of years. Where is the
next record setting deal going to come from? And if
they don't have a good quick answer on that, I
do think that is of concern to the MLBPA.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, I do have the guy, John Paul, and I
think you missed it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
It's not Pete Alts.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I got the guy and it will be the first
billion dollar contract in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Oh tell me and that guy with the white sox.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I can tell you that Aaron lean Hart, the guy
that invented a torpedo bat, one billion dollars, John Paul,
billion dollars for this guy.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
He is the most popular professor in the history of
the University of Michigan. And I know some of them.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Wasn't Steve Fisher a professor there for a while they
be teaching.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
You think it might have been. They have had some
coaches that taught different classes. But I do think that
Leonard probably is the most famous professor there. How about
Bo taught a class. Now, now Bo's class, if he
taught one, would not have been as popular as Bobby
Knight's class on basketball at Indiana that that was the
ultimate class taught by a coach. But I think professor,
(25:46):
Professor Lennard probably now the most famous professor in the
history of the University of Michigan, but the most famous
voice in the history of the university of course, James
Earld Jones. On that score, he will never be passed.
James Earl Jones, the man I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Just picturing taking a class with bo Schenn Beckler. How's
the class?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
It's kind of boring.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He just talks about running the football three times every
single possession that run the football, run the football, run them,
drawing the same two.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Lines he's saying, Jamie Morris right, Jamie Morris left, running
behind Jombo Elliott. There you go. I think that was
the plan for a long time while a young man
by the name of Harball was the starting quarterback in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So is this going to kind of die down a
little bit now the torpedo bats or will it be
something that kind of comes up here and there throughout
the season.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
What do you see on this?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Well, So there was an interesting that didn't happen today
for the New York Yankees. I'm not sure if you
caught their box score, but they were playing in the
Great City of Detroit against the Detroit Tigers and in
the games today, the New York Yankees scored zero runs. Yesterday, Monday,
April the seventh, in Detroit, the Yankees scored two runs,
So two runs in two days. So clearly the torpe
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bat is still it is still a phenomenon. It is
still stimulating plenty of debate. But to those that said
that it was going to be an unfair advantage and
that you were going to see like these backyard whiffleball
bats that you would use at your hand uncle's picnic,
and they were going to be launched the ball over
the place again two days, two runs for the New
(27:21):
York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers, a good pitching team
at today faith Scooble, who's amazing, and the reigning Die
Young Award winner. But I do think it's worth pointing
out that we have not seen this explosion in runs.
There was a two nothing game, as you know, your
New York mess beat the Marvels yesterday to nothing. The
Rangers were shut out. The d Back scored one run yesterday.
(27:43):
We're still seeing plenty of low scoring games that I
think will will perry the argument that the torpedo bat
has changed the game forever.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
JP I'm gonna ask one last question of you, encapsulating
some texts and messages I've gotten from friends and family
back home in Chicago. I'm gonna the language since we
want to keep it ATCC compliant. Sure, because we love you.
I eight and two in their last ten. Now on
the road, coming out to play the Dodgers. Are they
they're going to have to suffer? This is their words?
Are they gonna have to suffer through a long season
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of the Cubs atop the central Ooh, the Cubs.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
I like the Cubs. I'm sorry on behalf of all
the great South Siders who went to Mount Carmel and
Saint Rita, all these great schools there on the South Side.
Love them all. But as you point out, the White Sox,
I've lost eight of their first ten. Some individual good stories,
and even even today they were able to only allow
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one run, but it was by Cleven dur and it
was one that cost them the game. But a great
start by Smith. There are some individual good stories. I
think Will Venable is going to be an excellent manager
one day. But I love Nick Maton. Nick Maton should
not be batting third, He should not be carrying the lineup.
Luis Roberts should not be batting one seventy six. There
(29:03):
are some concerns right now for the Chicago White Sox.
It's probably going to be a long year for the
White Sox. It's probably going to be a very good
year for the Chicago Cubs. As Kyle Tucker perhaps now
with the Vladimir grows and your extension, Kyle Tucker is
inching ever closer to his big time payday. I like
the Cubs rotation. They might win the division. Sorry about that,
(29:25):
Mike Harmen.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
MLB Network insider John Paul is always buddy appreciated. Pope,
tell us give Sternsy my best. Nice start so far.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
I will give Sernsey your very best regards. And here
in the National League West, we got the game of
our night between two NLS teams not named the Mets
in the Braves and the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Take it easy, buddy, have fun, all the best guys.
Thanks heys, Bety, you have a good call.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
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bit about the Yankees right there, and speaking of the Yankees,
joining us now to tell us what's trending is a
man who's been called the Cody Bellinger.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Of Fox Sports Radio. A couple days ago, he went
and had a bucket of wings, let home and we
didn't see.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Him for a while. It's Steve to say with what's trending.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
I was not out due to illness yesterday. Just for
the record, those Yankees got shut out today Detroit five nothing.
Trek Scoogle with the wins, six innings, six strikeouts, no walks. Meanwhile,
the White Sox lost their six game in a row
in spectacular White Sox fashion. It was a scoreless game
at Cleveland, bottom of the ninth and on a run
they came on a walk, one nothing Guardians. The final
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you see an infield single and three straight walks ended
the game from closer and I put that word in quotes.
Mike Clevenger, who has two strikeouts been walked so far
as the closer. The White Sox offense went two for
twenty seven. The Guardians were three for twenty seven and
won the game. Mets won their sixth in a row,
ten to five over Miami. Pe Alonzo two doubles, four RBIs.
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It was tied to two in the fifth by the way.
Former White Sox hurler Dylan Cease was the Padres starter
against the A's in Sacramento tonight. He gave up nine
runs nine hits in the first three innings and still
came out for the fourth. Now he's being relieved finally
in the bottom of the fifth. It's nine to four
A's over the Padres. Among the other late games, Houston
(31:35):
is scoreless at Seattle top of the seventh, and the
Reds lead won nothing in the ninth at San Francisco.
The game at Atlanta went to the Braves seven to
five over Philadelphia, even though Kyle Schwarber was three for
three with three RBIs, including a homer. Sean Murphy of Atlanta,
in his first at bat of the season, hit a
three run homer. The Cubs have won.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Seven of eight.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
They beat Texas ten to six with four unearned runs
in the bottom of the eighth, Kansas City one with
an unearned run bottom of the eighth, two to one
over Minnesota. The Twins are three and eight. Milwaukee won
seven to one at Colorado. The Rockies record two and eight,
and the Angels sends Tampa Bay to a fifth straight
loss four to three. Kenley Jansen with career save number
(32:15):
four fifty victories for Saint Louis and Washington Toronto as
well to the NBA, are there forfeits in the NBA?
Can the Suns just forfeit the rest of their games?
They haven't.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I thought this was just, Hey, the people are out here,
so we're gonna just play a little bit.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
It's kind of that, okay.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Because Golden State is leading at Phoenix eighty six fifty
four in the third quarter, this will be lost number
seven in a row for the Phoenix. This is the
definition of limping to the finish line in a season.
By the way the regular season ends this Sunday, Golden
State is gonna come up with a win. As for
the other late game, it's halftime and the Clippers are
only up two at home against the Spurs fifty four
(32:55):
to fifty two. Kawhi Leonards sitting out with the bad knee.
Milwaukee early fourth was down twenty four and still beat
Minnesota one ten to one. Zho three, Oklahoma City beat
the Lakers one thirty six to one. Twenty Boston won
in overtime at New York. And as you were talking baseball,
there was the tragedy today in the Dominican Republic and
former reliever Octavio Dotel passed away. Former playoff relief pitcher
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for the Mets and White Sox and a few others,
including the champion Cardinals in twenty eleven when they beat
Texas in the World Series. The sister of former Texas
star Nelson Cruz was in that tragedy and passed away
today as well. Nelsy Cruz was a governor of one
of the provinces there. The story is at least sixty
six people have been killed because overnight the roof of
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a nightclub there collapsed during a concert after midnight. Dotel,
apparently age fifty one, was pulled from the rubble about
six hours after the collapse and died on the way
to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
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Speaker 3 (35:04):
And then you evangelize, and then you lock it in
and you rip the knob off damn right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
So we have more on the Luca ejection tonight, the
craziness surrounding it. Wait to hear at one of Luca's
teammates said following the game tonight about what happened on
the floor for his ejection. We got that coming up
in about ten minutes. But as we said we started
the show tonight, tonight was a great night for the NBA.
It felt like a It kind of felt like a hey,
(35:30):
Eastern Conference final, Western Conference final night, right because we
had the Nicks and the Celtics, we had the Lakers
and the and the Thunder and it kind of felt
really good. Hey, Because look, once you get pass game
fifty five to sixty in the NBA, yeah, a lot
of teams are done. You get a lot of big
blowouts go kind of like we see tonight with the
with the Suns.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Suns are officially eliminated from the play in when they
sound the final horn. Man, you had a bunch of
players like, could you probably played through that pinky injury?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Sure? Yeah, but a little bit, yeah, a little gotta
have a surgery.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And every want to dismiss surgery, right, Minor surgery is
surgery that happens to someone other than you. But it's
the idea that, well, could you really play through it?
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But our team has twenty wins, we can get a
couple of more ping pong balls.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I'm out, but I'll tell you this. I so we'll
have the Laker game coming up in a few minutes.
But the Celtics winning overtime tonight one nineteen, one seventeen
over the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
And this is as as as.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
About a bad result as you could have for the Knicks,
who had a three point lead in this game with
ten seconds left to go, and for some reason, Ogianunobi
fell for Jason Tatum fake.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
To drive to the hoop, there's five seconds left. When
he puts up the shot, of course he's going for
a three. Jason Tatum hits the three, they go to overtime.
Chris tops Porzingis hits his eighth three of the night.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
To give them a three point lead with about forty
seconds left to go with the game, and the Celtics
wind up winning it one nineteen.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
To one seven for the Knicks. First, dude, let me
tell you, man, I have no expectations anymore. They get
out of the first round, they get out of the
first round. They simply can't find a way to beat
any of the best teams in the NBA, and it's
gonna be the Celtics in the second round of the
playoffs unless somehow the Cavaliers get upset in the first
round by the Magic or someone. They they just can't
(37:21):
They're just not good enough like the top level teams.
But what I am really sick of, I mean, what
I am sick of is the number of players who say, Hey,
WHOA when I play in Madison Square Garden, I feel
the juices and I perform at a higher level.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I'm sick of that crap. Man.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Play at a high bleeping level all the time. Don't
just save it for the Knicks. Porzingis tonight man eight
for thirteen from three points. Tatum, forget Tatum's great everywhere.
But guys like poor Zingis, you're saying, oh, yeah, look
at that, Yeah, playing back here is always fun. How
many guys do I have to watch Lebron say oh,
playing here in the garden is.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
So much true?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Dude, Then play this way all the bleep and time. Man,
don't just save it for us, you know, play you
this way? Don't I get an excell Nicks Square Guard. Well,
they play for the Knicks in the building you go somewhere,
play forty one times a year that instead of just
own it's so special when it come back. I don't
think they get to rent it out. I don't know
what happens to me when I play in Madison Square Guard.
(38:16):
I'm sick of guys coming in with, hey, here's my
best performance of the year because I was all juiced
up to Madison Square Garden. No one does that at
the Crip Man, we don't see We don't see that
in Boston ball, but the Madison Square Guard. It's I'm
so sick of this storyline of just who's gonna come
in tonight and have a Hall of Fame type game because.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Oh, you know, the lights are low and I really
like playing on this one. No, I'm sick of that.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
It's a load of you know who you know who
doesn't do that. It's crap o g because he didn't
play defense on that final spot. Anything is the ball fake?
But bah, yeah it look had job by him. But look,
I really thought the way you teased it ahead, I
should have known better and known it was about you
(38:57):
and your team. I really thought it was gonna make
if if I hear Charles Barkley yelling about the women
of San Antonio one more time, or if I'd hear.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Shaquille and he'll say, I think the Pistons are going
to beat the Knicks in the place.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Just stop stop with that door, or that I can
be beat the hell out of anybody who's a competence
center in today's game.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Or there's a lot of tired narratives that have gotten old, but.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
The Madison Square Garden thinking, Look, if it was still
the great Western form, maybe it would have the same juice.
The fact that it's now Crypto dot Com or the
crypt it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Work even Staples, it would be the same.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
If it was Modell's Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
It would be the same thing.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, but we'd have the cool little bass. I'm in
the MSG man in the garden, I'm in the garden.
Look how happy I am. I'm playing in the garden.
It's so cool. It's so cool. I just my game
gets amped up. No, se dude, play that way all
the time. Do you know what the second line is?
I have more wins here than the.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Knicks, do I realize, I realize what I'm saying. No,
bearing in reality of Wait, wait, so you don't want
guys to have that. No, I don't want them to
have the extra juice just because they're playing in my
I don't want that.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
I want them to just play the same.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Right if you if you're that kind of play porzingis
you didn't have games like this with the Knicks last
year and a half. You don't want to be here,
but now you're excited to be playing back in Madison
Square guard.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Look.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Look he went from the logo.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Tonight in the first half, he just took to said, yeah,
I'm hot from the heat check.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
From the logo for porzeingis done. I'm done with because
the song's not for you. Now I'm done with the silliness?
Is it because the songs don't work for you anymore?
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
No, you didn't in class, No, I didn't class.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
No, I'm done. It's it's is it a tork contest?
I've not been in a tork contest? Well, I wouldn't
want you to.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I think I could do okay to know, Yeah, No,
I could actually do okay. I did I think I'd
be Yeah, yeah. Is it an over fifty torque contest?
Oh that I would do really well, yeah, one hundred percent.
Yeah yeah, it's five seconds.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah yeah. If you had an under it, it would be fun.
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Coming up next,
we get back into the biggest NBA story of the night, Luca,
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Michael Night. Here's the thing. I joke, He's going to
come and hate you. I joked around about this earlier
today where you know the the Nuggets fire Mike.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Malone.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Earlier today we talked about, Hey, if a guy's gotta go,
guy's gotta go, right, It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Matter if it's three games before the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
If you don't think you can win in the playoffs,
and and and a team is tuned out a coach,
you need a new energy.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
But you know, the.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Funny thing was, I'm like, you know, it would kind
of be something if today the Lakers had a big
headline that would take away from Malone's firing, because you
know how much he's like how much he's been the
last couple of years. Why the Lakers getting all the attention.
We're the chance it would be something if even on
the day he's fired, something happens with the Lakers to
wind up eclipsing it. And what did we see in
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the afternoon Malone gets fired. The Lakers announced all our
starters are playing tonight against the thunder. Yeah, in the
big rematch. We're all gonna We're all gonna play tonight.
And then in the middle of the fourth quarter, Luka
Doncics gets thrown out of the game for yelling at
a fan. A referee ridiculously throws him out of the game.
And maybe that was a plan all along. Hey, we
(02:03):
didn't need this game. I got tossed.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We just wanted Michael Malone to walk around and go, oh,
come on, man, you know what, I get fired.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I can't talk about me. They're talking about the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's come on, man, it's the salty man, and no
doubt feel like his thunder has been stolen once again.
I did see one great theory about the Malone situation.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Give it to me.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Sure that all this time, especially in the last couple
of weeks, Russell Westbrook was a double agent still working
for the Lakers. He tore the Nuggets apart from the inside.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He just says to Yokis, Hey, you know what I
was hanging out with Jamal Murray the other day?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what he said about you?
That that that I didn't know he was saying some stuff.
And then he goes up to Jamal Murray, Hey, Jamal,
I've been hanging out with Yo Kicch the last few days.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah you know what he said about it.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I was thinking more just in terms of terrible play
in the final minutes of games.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
He was he was saying stuff about you. Man. Oh
I don't I don't want to. I don't want to
talk out of school.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But Yokin strikes me as a guy that the first
he would dismiss Maurie's not playing anyway, he has it
played since twenty six. That also does not help things
in a slide. By the way, not having a guy
who's a twenty eight game score but tuned out certainly
tough times, but completely now overshadowed by questions emanating from
(03:27):
this thunder Lakers and you know, and the thing is,
when this Malone story came out, it was so shocking,
like wait, the Nuggets fired Malone. Wait, wait, wait, I
have a new rule now that I know is going
to help me and help everybody. Everybody should should go
by this. Okay, because even though Shams Sharania had it.
You click on his Twitter account, you see it's him,
(03:48):
You see this is it? You wonder, there's no reason
to not wait five minutes and then start saying your
stuff on social media.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Everything's I'm like, okay, because I saw it break.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I saw it break because I was on I was
prepping for the show tonight and everything else, and I
saw it break, and I'm like, wow, oh my god, Okay,
and I checked Sham's had like, okay, you know what,
I'm waiting five minutes because in five minutes this will
either be debunked or other people are gonna.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Pick it up.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And then Mark Stein picked it up right after that,
and I said, Okay. As soon as that happened, I knew, hey,
this is legit, it's real. And Stein actually had more
chanst No he wasn't, but he was in Sentel had.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It last year.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It was just I'm not kidding, but it's just funny,
right with the the way the news cycle works anymore.
And this again, the fact that you're like, all right,
I need Stein, I need this, like the the Insider thing.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's for a guy Glazer because he gets stuff nobody has.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Everything else gets confirmed and corroborated really fast. When ESPN
used to be on this whole rip where they didn't
want to give anybody credit for anything. So it was
like if Jay Glazer broke broke a story like hey,
you know, Dak Prescott is out for the year, and
ESPN would report by saying Dak Prescott us out for
the year, which was first reported by Fox but and
(05:06):
confirmed by ESPN. They would give the first like they wanted, well, no, no,
they have to give credit, but they would say first
reported here, but confirmed by ESPN. In other words, they
want to go, hey, don't believe any of these yahoos.
We have to confirm stuff for this to happen. Oh okay,
that's that was so petty. That's that was just I'm
glad they stopped it. It was just so petty. But
it was just funny. Is this breaks that? My only
(05:28):
response was just to kind of sit back in my
chair and go huh because we'd been seeing things swirling,
right the Malone video and audio that really got pushed
to the surface today, all the sideline stuff, all of
the back and forth and rumblings, especially in this four
game losing streak, because we've watched all season, i mean, defensively,
(05:50):
they're awful in the month of April.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
What do you got, Yoki jaffers? You like it's a game?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Come on, now, Here's the thing is that this is
when you fire a coach. If a coach loses the
locker room, this is when you fire him. And we
have heard rumblings about it. I'm going to play this
for you. This is actually from a.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Game late in March that Malone was not quite happy
with his team following a loss, and here he was
in the postgame press conference that really just hey, maybe
you know, lights.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You up a little bit that maybe things aren't great
in Denver.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I think each guy's got looked themselves in the mirror
and start coming to each respective game with the proper
mindset and have some pride. I didn't think we played
with any pride tonight. That's not my job to evaluate
how they take things. My job is to be honest
and sometimes brutally honest. And tonight it was a brutally
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honest message. And the guys that are fully won't hear it.
You know, they'll say coaches tripping, and the guys that
maybe do really care will because they don't want they're
not going to go back and watch their minutes because
nobody watches their minutes. Nobody watches film. Okay, so we'll
have to show them the film. And I said, if
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somebody disagrees with me, please speak up, and nobody said
a work. So again, I'm not really concerned with how
they took that message. My thing is being honest with
how we just played. I just got blown out in
La come here against a team that is down three four,
five starters. That's what happens. That's exactly what happened tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
All right, So again, are you surprised at reports that
he has lost the locker?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
After you hear that standing there with the Leo DiCaprio flt.
Nobody watch a film, so we'll have to watch the
have to make them watch the film, Like are you
are you? Are you surprised that you've heard maybe they
weren't getting along. And that's the thing is if if
a team tunes out of coach, we're just not listic.
Change has to be made, right, You got to do it.
(07:52):
If they're not listening, you gotta do it. Yeah, I
really thought it would just limp into the off season
and then it would just be all right, we're done well,
But good for them. I'm just saying, the hell with it.
We still think we've got enough talent here that maybe
there's just a change of voice and we can spark
something here to get them. And obviously getting Murray back
would be huge as you get to the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But they're a team that we've talked about a lot.
Is like they're a matchup problem.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And you know, to your point about the Lakers and
being bored for Denver, there have been stretches this season,
is like, all right, they're just waiting on the postseason,
right because with Oklahoma City still new, Cleveland on the
eastern side of the bragget still new and exciting, and
so every game is, hey, let's go in and put
on a show. Especially when you start getting these nationally
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televised games for Denver, it's like, we've done that. Now
just get ready and make sure we're healthy.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
For the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
But you see enough bad patterns and if they're not
showing up for film review or throwing stuff at Malone
when he tries to put the film on, I mean,
you got a bad situation that you might as well
xcize right now.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So again, not that bit.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
If it's got to be made, it's gotta be ma
if it's gonna make you play better in the playoffs,
and sometimes just making that coaching change. Why teams fire
their managers mid season A they get that big spark. Meanwhile,
speaking of spark, how about this tonight U Lakers and
the Thunder. Midway through the fourth quarter, it is a
one point game, the Lakers looking to send another message
(09:21):
following their win over the Thunder a couple of days ago.
This is one of the marquee games that I felt
like a Western Conference Final game. Luka Doncic makes a
big shot and it's the last shot he will shoot
in this game.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Why take a listen, sports.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Great sat all the stars that actually then opening except
for Ruy. That game management got it start stop shoot
you gonna score?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Who you got to switch? He won it again, Hardy's gone.
Lucas thrown out of again. No, Luka just got thrown
out there you go, set it technical.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Luka is saying he was talking to a fan, and
the official was saying he was talking to me.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
If saw it?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, first of all, Billy Mack Laker's radio network on
the call. That's Billy Mack's fault. What's the first thing
you hear him say in that cut? What's the first
thing he says?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Great?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Less a sports great shake all the stars in action
for much longer? Great see all the stars in action. Oh,
Luca's just been thrown out of the game. Way to go,
Billy Mack, that's your fault. All right.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So here we go from the pool reporters talking to
the officials in the post game. Why was Luca doncin
sussessed this first technical fault by jt Orr? He directed
profanity at a game official question, Why was Luca, says
to second technical fil by Orr. Was it the officials
judgment that he was speaking to him or to a fan?
(10:52):
Brothers respecise, straight up quote. He looked directly at an
official and used vulgar language. Unquote that the fan the
video doesn't lie. He's looking sideways. But that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Right as we watched the video and you got.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The official coming up up the court field, Uh that
I guess he decided that was close enough in his
general direction.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
No needs to pay this. Look, this is ridiculous. It's you.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You if you're gonna make a big deal if you're
the NBA about players playing and nationally televised game, big
deal to have the stars play, right, want to make
sure the stars there.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
If you're gonna throw a star.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Player out, you gotta make damn sure that there's a
reason for it. You can't be an official with rabbit ears.
It says, oh, I think you were.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Talking to me. Hang on, hang on.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I understand blowing the whistle. I understand if Luca yells
something and you think it's you, I understand blowing the whistle.
But you got to be able to stop and the
officials have people stop and say, Okay, you realize you
we just threw Luka Doncic out of this game. Let's
understand that we did it, and and we can we
can and on it and it's something that was okay.
(12:03):
So let's let's research this. Let's go back and look
at the video. Let's go let let's talk to me.
Talk to me about what he said. What did you
hear him say?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Luca?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
What did you say? And you figure it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Out from there. This was I mean, it's ridiculous that
he yells because right away Luca points I was talking
to him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I was talking.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I wasn't talking to you. I wasn't talking. I was
talking him.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I was talking about If he was talking to the official,
Luca would have gotten his face right after. So you
throw me out of the game, you blanket.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
He blanks so and so, because that's usually what athletes
do if they're mad an official, they will bark at them.
The official throws them out, and then the guy goes
right at the official. Right, that's the Draymond Green anglove it.
Oh now you threw me out. I'm now you're really
going to get a piece of my mind. That's how
Stars react, Luca gets talking. He goes, waita wait, I'm
yelling at him. As much as Luca is a very
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emotional player, he's not going to get thrown out of
this game that that he everybody is playing tonight for
knowing that he's got the game tomorrow against the Mavericks.
He's not going to get thrown out of this game
by yelling at an official. Buler Heads need to prevail
in a situation like this, and it just wasn't because
no one comes to see the referees throw guys out
of games. You gotta make damn sure this is legitimate
or you get into the travesty of what you saw tonight.
(13:12):
It's a quick whistle, right, so you get the first one. Fine,
big difference between all right, you get your first technical
and yes you can have the accumulation and get a
suspension all that fun stuff, But for that it's fine
in this case. Again, I want to know what the
magic word was for one. But to your point, right,
it's something that maybe the league needs to address as to, hey,
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we need to have a different review process before we
eject a guy. We certainly do it if there's any
kind of physical contact, right, when we're doing the flagrant
one flagrant two, let's go to the subpruder film and
lock down frame by frame to figure out what was intent,
what was was their contact to the head neck area,
all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Same thing here.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I know it's a war of words, but if you're
one hundred percent sure that year you can't be misconstrued
in your words that it was directed to a fan
that you were jawn with, then we need to be
able to adjudicate that. But in this case it goes
against the Lakers and they get run out of the gym.
It really is a disservice to everyone when an official
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decides I've had enough and I'm throwing you out. I really,
I've had enough and I'm throwing you out. There's nothing
from the pool reporter that says, oh, hey, he was
yelling at me all game. He was barking at the
official game. Just oh we yelled at an official. Now, dude,
you got to make sure that, man, you got to
make sure stuff like that. It's embarrassing for the NBA.
Cursed at I'm so embarrassing for the NBA exit out
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Coming up next, is it time to panic? The Dodgers
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Speaker 3 (17:00):
You will now speak for the next fifteen minutes about
the impact of Juan Soto on the Mets.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Pope, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I tell you what my friends sources say, and we
are reporting this exclusively on the Jason Smith Show, that
Juan Soto is very good at baseball. You are not
going to get insight and anywhere else.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
That's a god take.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
I'll tell you what a little bit of a fluky
play in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta right now, a little
bit of a fluky play tonight that led to the
Phillies losing to the Braves. So now the Mets alone
in first place. I'll be it by half a game,
and I'll be it after eleven games of the year.
But they have won six straight and I think after
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six straight wins we can resoundingly call the next decade
plus the Soto deal a win for the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh see, I thought you're going to say the Mets
magic number is because I'm trying to find what their
magic number is and I can't.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
I can't find that yet.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
It's gonna be fairly significant, because again it is April
Age and their lead is a half a game. I
tell you what I will. My daughter had to take
a math exam today, so I would say that my
math right now, after helping your study for it, is
about as good as it's been in the last twenty
five years. So I'm feeling really good about my math
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right now.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh see, because I could never do all the studying
that I would help my daughter with, you know, growing
up when it came to math, I'm like, this is
not how I learn math.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
This is not common core this. I have no idea
what you're doing. Just I'll look at the answer and
tell you if it's right.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
But how you're getting it, I can't do so much.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
More so than than than than what my kids want
to listen on the on the radio too now as
they're changing the dial and making sure And but by
the way, when when we ever happen to be in
the car late at night around this time of night,
we are listening to Jason Smithshow on Fox Sports Radio.
But when when we are not doing that, we might
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be listening to what the kids are into. The other thing,
aside from the music they like now, is the way
the kids are doing long division. Now, I just I
can't wrap my mind around it. I have no idea
how to speak that language of long division. Now. I
only go back to what sister Diane taught me back
in the day. The numbers all work, but it's not
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the way the kids learning are right now.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Not said I used to take the ruler to the
knuckles if I got it wrong. So I mean it's
ingrained in me. The nuns got me too. JP back
in the day.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Thanks for a little higher for you and me, Mike
back in the day.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
There you go. All right, So let's talk fuzzy math.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Then, So Pete Alonzo, what are we getting about a
four hundred million dollar deal based on his early season
heroics If we're going to talk math.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Hey, if you're Pete Alonzo, and if you feel like
you've been underpaid, And by the way, I'm sure that
there was at some point it noted by Petere Alonzo
to his representation, an attorney named Scott Boris in Newport Beach, California,
that perhaps Pete might say, listen, I got my deal.
I'm going to opt out because did you see what
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Vladimir Gurero Junior got La Blue Jays? And now listen
Vladdie is younger than Pete, he is maybe a bit
a bit better defensively. I think we could probably all
all agree on that. But Pete may be correct in
saying he's not like three times as good as I.
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And again, this might be a little bit of fuzzy math,
and you talk about how things project out and based
on the age of a player. But I do believe
Vladimir Guerrero Junior has a pretty good argument to make
about or I would say Pete Alonzo does about where
his numbers are coming in relative to Laddie's. And listen,
Alonso's at a better start of the year than in
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Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Four RBI tonight for Pete Alonzo. So
he's gonna have to like the way things are starting
so far now that he's comfortable back in Flushing, Queens.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
John Paul Morosi with US, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Life,
TIREC dot Com Studios. Okay, so the Dodgers have lost
three in a row. Panic Level one to ten fifteen
twenty five. They've lost three, John Paul. They may not
win one hundred and twenty games this year. I mean
they may fall below one twenty.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
They may have to settle for just challenging for the
Mariners record. They may have to settle for that in
all fairness. So I'll say this, what am I panicked
about the Dodgers right now? No, I am not panicked. However,
two points to make number one. Their starting pitching depth
is again being tested by injury. And it's only April eighth.
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Blake Snell is on the il glass now. The battle
is way through his start over the weekend. We're not
getting close yet to the Otani return to the mound,
So there are some things worth worrying about. The other
thing that I think is I would say probably just
as important as the as the rotation question, is the
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strength of the National League West, again by mere percentage points,
and it's again April eight. The Dodgers right now are
third in their division. The Padres lead it, followed by
the Giants, followed by the Dodgers. The Dodgers of nine
and four. They're off to a fine start, but it
is worth pointing out that at the very least, the
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Giants are a much better team than anybody thought they
were going to be, probably as we're getting through screen training.
So that to me would point out it's going to
be a little bit of a tougher road, and you
might actually see a universe in which the Dodgers do
not win the Division. I think the chances are still
pretty good that they do, but you could make a
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credible argument that the Padres or Giants will instead, and
that I think points out to maybe a bit more
of a concern than the Dodgers thought they would have
when they finished two to oh there in the Tokyo
Series and came back to North America.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
JP Let's stay in Division nine years, one hundred thirty
five million dollars, Jackson Merrill.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
He goes to the IL after a hot.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Start, but a lot of rumblings at the union not
too pleased with the deal.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Well, a couple of things, and it was an interesting
point that I was actually asked earlier today by my
friends Jeff Blare and Kevin Barker in Toronto about who
the next record setting player is going to be, In
other words, which free agent out there could credibly go
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beyond what Soto got. I don't think it's going to
be Kyle Tucker. Could be wrong, but I don't think
he gets seven sixty five and certainly. I don't think
he gets eight hundred million dollars. So then you start
going down and say, well, who's next the best The
best number I can come up with is Gunner Henderson
with the Orioles, because this shortstop, he's a left handed
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hitter with power. There's a lot of unique things about
what he brings to the table. And and again, would
you advocate for Gunner Henderson to get dead and or
eight hundred million dollars when Merrill signs his extension, as
you point out, for less than two hundred million dollars.
It's a fair Listen, anytime you get your first fortune,
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anytime you get your nine figure deal, it's hard to
ever say that someone sold himselves short. But I do
think because of maybe some of the anxiety surrounding the
overall projections of the industry the next CBA negotiation after
twenty six, a lot of things like that, get your
money first. I would never begrudge a player for doing that,
but I do think Mikey, you raise a good point
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that that the players and you might be wondering whether
it's Merrill or Bobby with you or anybody that signed
an extension the last couple of years. Where is the
next record setting deal going to come from? And if
they don't have a good quick answer on that, I
do think that is of concern to the MLBPA.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, I do have the guy, John Paul, and I
think you missed it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
It's not Pete Alts.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I got the guy and it will be the first
billion dollar contract in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Oh tell me and that guy with the white sox.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I can tell you that Aaron lean Hart, the guy
that invented a torpedo bat, one billion dollars, John Paul,
billion dollars for this guy.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
He is the most popular professor in the history of
the University of Michigan. And I know some of them.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Wasn't Steve Fisher a professor there for a while they
be teaching.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
You think it might have been. They have had some
coaches that taught different classes. But I do think that
Leonard probably is the most famous professor there. How about
Bo taught a class. Now, now Bo's class, if he
taught one, would not have been as popular as Bobby
Knight's class on basketball at Indiana that that was the
ultimate class taught by a coach. But I think professor,
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Professor Lennard probably now the most famous professor in the
history of the University of Michigan, but the most famous
voice in the history of the university of course, James
Earld Jones. On that score, he will never be passed.
James Earl Jones, the man I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Just picturing taking a class with bo Schenn Beckler. How's
the class?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
It's kind of boring.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He just talks about running the football three times every
single possession that run the football, run the football, run them,
drawing the same two.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Lines he's saying, Jamie Morris right, Jamie Morris left, running
behind Jombo Elliott. There you go. I think that was
the plan for a long time while a young man
by the name of Harball was the starting quarterback in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
So is this going to kind of die down a
little bit now the torpedo bats or will it be
something that kind of comes up here and there throughout
the season.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
What do you see on this?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Well, So there was an interesting that didn't happen today
for the New York Yankees. I'm not sure if you
caught their box score, but they were playing in the
Great City of Detroit against the Detroit Tigers and in
the games today, the New York Yankees scored zero runs. Yesterday, Monday,
April the seventh, in Detroit, the Yankees scored two runs,
So two runs in two days. So clearly the torpe
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bat is still it is still a phenomenon. It is
still stimulating plenty of debate. But to those that said
that it was going to be an unfair advantage and
that you were going to see like these backyard whiffleball
bats that you would use at your hand uncle's picnic,
and they were going to be launched the ball over
the place again two days, two runs for the New
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York Yankees against the Detroit Tigers, a good pitching team
at today faith Scooble, who's amazing, and the reigning Die
Young Award winner. But I do think it's worth pointing
out that we have not seen this explosion in runs.
There was a two nothing game, as you know, your
New York mess beat the Marvels yesterday to nothing. The
Rangers were shut out. The d Back scored one run yesterday.
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We're still seeing plenty of low scoring games that I
think will will perry the argument that the torpedo bat
has changed the game forever.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
JP I'm gonna ask one last question of you, encapsulating
some texts and messages I've gotten from friends and family
back home in Chicago. I'm gonna the language since we
want to keep it ATCC compliant. Sure, because we love you.
I eight and two in their last ten. Now on
the road, coming out to play the Dodgers. Are they
they're going to have to suffer? This is their words?
Are they gonna have to suffer through a long season
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of the Cubs atop the central Ooh, the Cubs.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
I like the Cubs. I'm sorry on behalf of all
the great South Siders who went to Mount Carmel and
Saint Rita, all these great schools there on the South Side.
Love them all. But as you point out, the White Sox,
I've lost eight of their first ten. Some individual good stories,
and even even today they were able to only allow
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one run, but it was by Cleven dur and it
was one that cost them the game. But a great
start by Smith. There are some individual good stories. I
think Will Venable is going to be an excellent manager
one day. But I love Nick Maton. Nick Maton should
not be batting third, He should not be carrying the lineup.
Luis Roberts should not be batting one seventy six. There
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are some concerns right now for the Chicago White Sox.
It's probably going to be a long year for the
White Sox. It's probably going to be a very good
year for the Chicago Cubs. As Kyle Tucker perhaps now
with the Vladimir grows and your extension, Kyle Tucker is
inching ever closer to his big time payday. I like
the Cubs rotation. They might win the division. Sorry about that,
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Mike Harmen.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
MLB Network insider John Paul is always buddy appreciated. Pope,
tell us give Sternsy my best. Nice start so far.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
I will give Sernsey your very best regards. And here
in the National League West, we got the game of
our night between two NLS teams not named the Mets
in the Braves and the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Take it easy, buddy, have fun, all the best guys.
Thanks heys, Bety, you have a good call.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
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joining us now to tell us what's trending is a
man who's been called the Cody Bellinger.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Of Fox Sports Radio. A couple days ago, he went
and had a bucket of wings, let home and we
didn't see.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Him for a while. It's Steve to say with what's trending.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
I was not out due to illness yesterday. Just for
the record, those Yankees got shut out today Detroit five nothing.
Trek Scoogle with the wins, six innings, six strikeouts, no walks. Meanwhile,
the White Sox lost their six game in a row
in spectacular White Sox fashion. It was a scoreless game
at Cleveland, bottom of the ninth and on a run
they came on a walk, one nothing Guardians. The final
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you see an infield single and three straight walks ended
the game from closer and I put that word in quotes.
Mike Clevenger, who has two strikeouts been walked so far
as the closer. The White Sox offense went two for
twenty seven. The Guardians were three for twenty seven and
won the game. Mets won their sixth in a row,
ten to five over Miami. Pe Alonzo two doubles, four RBIs.
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It was tied to two in the fifth by the way.
Former White Sox hurler Dylan Cease was the Padres starter
against the A's in Sacramento tonight. He gave up nine
runs nine hits in the first three innings and still
came out for the fourth. Now he's being relieved finally
in the bottom of the fifth. It's nine to four
A's over the Padres. Among the other late games, Houston
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is scoreless at Seattle top of the seventh, and the
Reds lead won nothing in the ninth at San Francisco.
The game at Atlanta went to the Braves seven to
five over Philadelphia, even though Kyle Schwarber was three for
three with three RBIs, including a homer. Sean Murphy of Atlanta,
in his first at bat of the season, hit a
three run homer. The Cubs have won.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Seven of eight.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
They beat Texas ten to six with four unearned runs
in the bottom of the eighth, Kansas City one with
an unearned run bottom of the eighth, two to one
over Minnesota. The Twins are three and eight. Milwaukee won
seven to one at Colorado. The Rockies record two and eight,
and the Angels sends Tampa Bay to a fifth straight
loss four to three. Kenley Jansen with career save number
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four fifty victories for Saint Louis and Washington Toronto as
well to the NBA, are there forfeits in the NBA?
Can the Suns just forfeit the rest of their games?
They haven't.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I thought this was just, Hey, the people are out here,
so we're gonna just play a little bit.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
It's kind of that, okay.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Because Golden State is leading at Phoenix eighty six fifty
four in the third quarter, this will be lost number
seven in a row for the Phoenix. This is the
definition of limping to the finish line in a season.
By the way the regular season ends this Sunday, Golden
State is gonna come up with a win. As for
the other late game, it's halftime and the Clippers are
only up two at home against the Spurs fifty four
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to fifty two. Kawhi Leonards sitting out with the bad knee.
Milwaukee early fourth was down twenty four and still beat
Minnesota one ten to one. Zho three, Oklahoma City beat
the Lakers one thirty six to one. Twenty Boston won
in overtime at New York. And as you were talking baseball,
there was the tragedy today in the Dominican Republic and
former reliever Octavio Dotel passed away. Former playoff relief pitcher
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for the Mets and White Sox and a few others,
including the champion Cardinals in twenty eleven when they beat
Texas in the World Series. The sister of former Texas
star Nelson Cruz was in that tragedy and passed away
today as well. Nelsy Cruz was a governor of one
of the provinces there. The story is at least sixty
six people have been killed because overnight the roof of
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a nightclub there collapsed during a concert after midnight. Dotel,
apparently age fifty one, was pulled from the rubble about
six hours after the collapse and died on the way
to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
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Speaker 3 (35:04):
And then you evangelize, and then you lock it in
and you rip the knob off damn right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
So we have more on the Luca ejection tonight, the
craziness surrounding it. Wait to hear at one of Luca's
teammates said following the game tonight about what happened on
the floor for his ejection. We got that coming up
in about ten minutes. But as we said we started
the show tonight, tonight was a great night for the NBA.
It felt like a It kind of felt like a hey,
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Eastern Conference final, Western Conference final night, right because we
had the Nicks and the Celtics, we had the Lakers
and the and the Thunder and it kind of felt
really good. Hey, Because look, once you get pass game
fifty five to sixty in the NBA, yeah, a lot
of teams are done. You get a lot of big
blowouts go kind of like we see tonight with the
with the Suns.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Suns are officially eliminated from the play in when they
sound the final horn. Man, you had a bunch of
players like, could you probably played through that pinky injury?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Sure? Yeah, but a little bit, yeah, a little gotta
have a surgery.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
And every want to dismiss surgery, right, Minor surgery is
surgery that happens to someone other than you. But it's
the idea that, well, could you really play through it?
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But our team has twenty wins, we can get a
couple of more ping pong balls.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I'm out, but I'll tell you this. I so we'll
have the Laker game coming up in a few minutes.
But the Celtics winning overtime tonight one nineteen, one seventeen
over the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
And this is as as as.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
About a bad result as you could have for the Knicks,
who had a three point lead in this game with
ten seconds left to go, and for some reason, Ogianunobi
fell for Jason Tatum fake.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
To drive to the hoop, there's five seconds left. When
he puts up the shot, of course he's going for
a three. Jason Tatum hits the three, they go to overtime.
Chris tops Porzingis hits his eighth three of the night.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
To give them a three point lead with about forty
seconds left to go with the game, and the Celtics
wind up winning it one nineteen.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
To one seven for the Knicks. First, dude, let me
tell you, man, I have no expectations anymore. They get
out of the first round, they get out of the
first round. They simply can't find a way to beat
any of the best teams in the NBA, and it's
gonna be the Celtics in the second round of the
playoffs unless somehow the Cavaliers get upset in the first
round by the Magic or someone. They they just can't
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They're just not good enough like the top level teams.
But what I am really sick of, I mean, what
I am sick of is the number of players who say, Hey,
WHOA when I play in Madison Square Garden, I feel
the juices and I perform at a higher level.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I'm sick of that crap. Man.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Play at a high bleeping level all the time. Don't
just save it for the Knicks. Porzingis tonight man eight
for thirteen from three points. Tatum, forget Tatum's great everywhere.
But guys like poor Zingis, you're saying, oh, yeah, look
at that, Yeah, playing back here is always fun. How
many guys do I have to watch Lebron say oh,
playing here in the garden is.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
So much true?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Dude, Then play this way all the bleep and time. Man,
don't just save it for us, you know, play you
this way? Don't I get an excell Nicks Square Guard. Well,
they play for the Knicks in the building you go somewhere,
play forty one times a year that instead of just
own it's so special when it come back. I don't
think they get to rent it out. I don't know
what happens to me when I play in Madison Square Guard.
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I'm sick of guys coming in with, hey, here's my
best performance of the year because I was all juiced
up to Madison Square Garden. No one does that at
the Crip Man, we don't see We don't see that
in Boston ball, but the Madison Square Guard. It's I'm
so sick of this storyline of just who's gonna come
in tonight and have a Hall of Fame type game because.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Oh, you know, the lights are low and I really
like playing on this one. No, I'm sick of that.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
It's a load of you know who you know who
doesn't do that. It's crap o g because he didn't
play defense on that final spot. Anything is the ball fake?
But bah, yeah it look had job by him. But look,
I really thought the way you teased it ahead, I
should have known better and known it was about you
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and your team. I really thought it was gonna make
if if I hear Charles Barkley yelling about the women
of San Antonio one more time, or if I'd hear.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Shaquille and he'll say, I think the Pistons are going
to beat the Knicks in the place.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Just stop stop with that door, or that I can
be beat the hell out of anybody who's a competence
center in today's game.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Or there's a lot of tired narratives that have gotten old, but.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
The Madison Square Garden thinking, Look, if it was still
the great Western form, maybe it would have the same juice.
The fact that it's now Crypto dot Com or the
crypt it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Work even Staples, it would be the same.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
If it was Modell's Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
It would be the same thing.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, but we'd have the cool little bass. I'm in
the MSG man in the garden, I'm in the garden.
Look how happy I am. I'm playing in the garden.
It's so cool. It's so cool. I just my game
gets amped up. No, se dude, play that way all
the time. Do you know what the second line is?
I have more wins here than the.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Knicks, do I realize, I realize what I'm saying. No,
bearing in reality of Wait, wait, so you don't want
guys to have that. No, I don't want them to
have the extra juice just because they're playing in my
I don't want that.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
I want them to just play the same.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Right if you if you're that kind of play porzingis
you didn't have games like this with the Knicks last
year and a half. You don't want to be here,
but now you're excited to be playing back in Madison
Square guard.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Look.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Look he went from the logo.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Tonight in the first half, he just took to said, yeah,
I'm hot from the heat check.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
From the logo for porzeingis done. I'm done with because
the song's not for you. Now I'm done with the silliness?
Is it because the songs don't work for you anymore?
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
No, you didn't in class, No, I didn't class.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
No, I'm done. It's it's is it a tork contest?
I've not been in a tork contest? Well, I wouldn't
want you to.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I think I could do okay to know, Yeah, No,
I could actually do okay. I did I think I'd
be Yeah, yeah. Is it an over fifty torque contest?
Oh that I would do really well, yeah, one hundred percent.
Yeah yeah, it's five seconds.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah yeah. If you had an under it, it would be fun.
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Coming up next,
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