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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to Tyrese Haliburton sucking the life out of Cleveland. How irrelevant does the NBA regular season look right now? Cecil Fielder's grandson is in the minor leagues now. And Jon Paul Morosi joins the show!

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
The knickser go to the Finals, the boxer go to
the Final.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Go New York, Go New York, Go, Go New York.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Didn't matter, didn't matter, didn't have to because the pacers
are doing all.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
We'll see you.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
In the next round. Indiana, see you for some payback
with some healthy players. Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday. You got
a long road before you get there. We're almost there.
We're almost there. The BIGGT step. We are one zip
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Speaker 4 (01:22):
Jason, one question for you. Yeah, how do the Knicks
and you plan on stopping this?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Missus Halliburton, the rebound tickens.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
They do have a time out. Carleile's gonna let him
play Calliburton.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Step Hacks, Tyrese Halliburton try to take Cleveland's heart.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
Nick, fans know that one fang.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, okay, yeah, it just so happens that, you know,
we lost all our guys. We finished the series last
year again as at pace with three healthy players.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
We played three on five.

Speaker 7 (01:57):
Well, you know what history does sometimes repeat itself show
play with a six man notation, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Listen, we had the conversation last night, Hey, Knicks, Pacers
Eastern Conference Finals, all of a sudden, how does that
look today? Mix up one zip, Pacers up two zip
going home?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
How does that look?

Speaker 7 (02:18):
We talked a lot yesterday about the absences or likely
absences of the players for the Cavaliers, and all of
them declared out. Donovan Mitchell super hero kind of game
until the offensive fall that suddenly just dipped everything. Right,
here's momentum, trying to grind out the final minute, we're

(02:39):
in the free throw territory, extend the game, and then
he's flailing elbows like oh no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And away we go.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Listen, we had a conversation last night on the show
before we dive into what happened and the absolute gagfest
that the Cavaliers put up in the final fifty seconds
of this game.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
We had the conversation last night, Right, Okay, all the
big favorite everybody was played home. Teams are all down
ones at the three best teams in the NBA this season,
we're all down one zip. Right, Thunder go down to
the Nuggets last night. Nuggets have a huge comeback, the
Knicks with the big win over the Celtics.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Right, we saw it all right.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
We knew that the Cavaliers already down won nothing, and
we had that conversation, who of those three are in
the most trouble. We had the conversation twice. We had
it when both teams in the East were down one
ZI after the Knicks game, and then we had the
conversation again after the Thunder beat the Nuggets last night,
and nothing changed. It was still the team that was

(03:36):
in the most trouble, we said was the Cavaliers because
of the injury issues what they have going on. Clearly
missing three guys in their rotation. Again, we knew they
weren't playing tonight. Yes, I've been playing without Garland for
a while, but when you're missing three guys out of
a big rotation, you're gonna struggle. That being said, come on, man,
you're up by seven with forty eight seconds left to go,

(03:59):
and Siaka misses two free throws, So you're up by seven.
The Pacers missed two free throws, and you still lose
the game. And you stiff stop stop right there and said, Okay,
forty eight seconds, seven point lead for the Cavs and
Pascal Siaka misses two free throws. Wow, I'd say it's over. Nope,
they still found a way to blow that game. They

(04:19):
still found away. Forget about stuff like, hey, the Blues
trying to get past Oh man, how do we get
pay You know, we lost the game in the final
two seconds. You know, we went to it to overtime
to the Jets and we lost. We're out of the playoffs.
Forget about getting past that, like Cavaliers fans, when you're
when you're looking at this season and you're saying this
year where we were clearly the best team in the

(04:39):
Eastern Conference, second best team in the NBA, we were unstoppable,
and here you are now having to go back to
Indiana to win two games and you can't find a
way to close the last forty eight seconds with a
seven point lead. Hey, for all of us, this NBA
Playoffs so far, especially the beginning of the second round,
has been certaining as hell. Every game has been terrific.

(05:02):
It's ended in controversy, it's ended with with gasps and
and and and shrieks and calls, and it's ended terrific.
It's all great for us, But wow, you're the cat Like,
I don't know how you get over there. I don't
know how you go to bed tonight if you're a casman,
like I know losses in my life, my team, where
I just sit there, I just stare at the ceiling,
like how do I can't I can't stop thinking, I

(05:23):
can't stop seeing that. I can't stop seeing it. I
don't know how you stop seeing the last forty eight
seconds of this game, which is you let somebody ride in.
You had let Nesmith ride in for a dunk off
of Siakam. Second miss free throw, the offensive foul on
on Don Mitchell, which is an offensive foul because he
throws the elbow. Then you have the turnover. Then you
can't get a rebound on another missed free throw. Haliburton

(05:46):
hits the three to win the game. Like I really,
I don't know how you get you get past that tonight.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
You get a big block in the mix, you have
the Siakam layup, made everything that comes down to it.
You got a seven point lead, and generally it's all right,
let's do the free throw shooting contest and maybe you
extend it and make it interesting. But not often do
you get the extra possession to get over the convergence

(06:11):
of just crazy circumstances. Big time plays for the Pacers
taken advantage of opportunity and look for the Cavaliers, they
got the super superhero effort, as I said Adam Mitchell
over the course of the night, but down the stretch
we get those big plays that come back to bite.

(06:32):
The Cavaliers can't close things out, which rotationally and certainly
losing a couple of your big men in your rotation
comes up big and fourth quarter struggles twenty one points
scored after having some of their usual offensive.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Barrage.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
I mean, what we've seen all year long, the one
guy that's inserted into the starting lineup usually score off
the bench. Ty Jerome one of fourteen from the field,
and your guy Nemahar didn't have to hit a shot, No,
didn't have to hit a shot, but he had thirteen assists.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
This was the Donovan Mitchell scores forty eight. Yeah, I
mean really, no, you can sit here and say where
we have injury have this. But the other bigger, bigger
conversation to have now is that how irrelevant does the
regular season seem right now in the end. But that's
why I always say the regular season's way too long, right.
Teams pile up wins by the time you get to

(07:27):
like game fifty five. Teams don't care. The teams that
are teams are either I'm in playoff position, I'm trying
to stay in the playing round. But no one's going
crazy trying to make a big, bad run to get
to the seven through ten. No one's trying that. But
how irrelevant does the regular season seem? Now with the
three again, the three teams who are the best in
the regular season, and everybody else was so far by there.

(07:48):
It's like when you're doing tiers for your fantasy draft
in football's like, okay, these five quarterbacks are it's Tier one.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I want to get one of those. Tier two.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I have to get one of these guys like Tier
one Cave, Celtics, Thunder, and then there's a long way
to go. And then Tier two is Nick's Nuggets. That's
where you have those teams, and you look at where
you're at right now and you say, oh, my goodness,
like how irrelevant does the regular season seem? Where the
Cavaliers just machine like went through wins, and the Celtics

(08:18):
were winning enough, but you know, coming off the championship,
they're not going to extend themselves in the regular season.
And the Thunder looked absolutely unbeatable. And when you can't
in the end, and when you get to the second
round of the players and you can, you're playing a
team that matches up well against you, because right NBA
playoffs are all about matchups. All of a sudden, everything
that happened those eighty two games, that's gone. Man, that's gone, well.

Speaker 7 (08:41):
Look, every game actually counts, right for eighty two games
of a season. We've done the math a couple of times, right,
what is in game sixty three or something about that,
And that's why we're always fighting about sixty five game
seasons or sixty eight game seasons. It's all of that
to try to get to that point of irrelevancy of

(09:01):
operations shut down and just playing out the string, or
for teams that know they're going to the lottery again,
playing out the string and seeing how many ping pong
balls they can accumulate. But we get into matchups, you're
gonna have different officiating, right. We've certainly seen that through
the first few games of this round, and certainly go
back to the first round here you had that sequence

(09:23):
that was referee initiated review twice in a row, right,
because the Nesmith put back dunk took about four minutes
to get reviewed, and then in the ensuing possession after
that's upheld to make it a five point game. That's
when the Mitchell review happens. After he throws on the
elbow and they want to see, all right, was that

(09:44):
his fall is it does rise to the level of
a flagrant all of that fun stuff. Man, that was
literally three seconds off of the game clock, where all
that emotion and any momentum you had trying to close
things out was stunting, not only because of the reviews,
but both of them will go against you, uh for

(10:04):
the Cavaliers, so you know you're doing your desperation and
down the stretch they come. Can this guy hold on
and get to the finish line? Well they did not,
And we've watched that time and again, and now we'll
see if the Timberwolves can break what is now becoming
tradition of fantastic finishes and thrilling upset specials in the

(10:26):
second round of the playoffs. You know, sometimes you can
explain the end of games and say this is the
play that did it. This is this, this situation did it.
You can look at the you know, Nest Smith coming
in and and and and flying in for the rebound. Yeah,
but you could you just say okay that but no,
but you put it all together. This is just a

(10:46):
choke job. This is an absolute gag fest.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
This is I've put so much like the Blue Man
group and they put all the guy puts all the marshmallows,
and this is instead of like, you know, spewing them
back out and making a big, you know, ball of
whatever killing this game. No, what I'm saying, it's like,
that's like trying to swallow. That's what the Cavaliers did tonight.
This is this is such a challenge. This is one
of those Hey, I want to look up choke in
the twenty twenty five dictionary. Oh.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Here, here's the last minute of the Cavaliers game against
the Pacers.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
We have to keep editing that page like it's a
Wikipedia page. What do you got Frostburg To their defense,
they didn't have Lebron That is true.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
That is true. And Kyrie Kyrie.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
Well, here's the other question, though, does Kenny have to
give back the Coach of the Year award?

Speaker 3 (11:27):
And how close is he to getting fired? Now?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Record Cavaliers record before Kenny Atkinson his name, Coach of
the Year, Cavaliers record after he's named.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
I thought you were going south Park there.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh my god, they killed Kenny.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Eh what a I'd be What an absolute gagfest by
the Cavaliers for a team that was so great in
the regular season. And you know, and and here's the
thing is that you look at the teams that have
won so far here in the second round, right, the
Knicks and the Nuggets and the Pacers sent NBA history

(12:01):
going back a year, right, you had both, you had
all three of these teams, we go by a couple
of years now with the Nuggets. If you had all
three of these teams who in big series knew how
to close games, right, Like the Knicks would have been
in the East Finals last year, but they just lost
all their players and then they losing seven to the Pacers.
But the Pacers made big shots. The Pacers know how
to how to navigate the end of games. The Knicks

(12:22):
know how to navigate the end of games because you
have Jalen Brunson, who's the most clutch. But you got
mister clutch, right, I mean, he's voted most clutch player
in the NBA. And you have the Nuggets who also
know how to navigate the end of games. Whereas when
you are the big favorites, right, and that's why you
know that, that's why the Celtics is okay, that's kind
of the outlier. But the Cavaliers and the thunder who
are the big favorites, this is still new territory to them.

(12:44):
Being the big favorites.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
And that was the big question. They have been in
playoffs before, but this is now. You are overwhelming the favorites.
You are the hunted, and neither team could figure out
the end of game one of the second series.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
When you're playing a good team. It's not a rollover
seas is where you got whoever's surviving the playing round.
These are final minutes against a couple of teams that
know how to win big games. And you just melt.
The thunder melted and the Cavaliers melt. It's like it's
like the end of Wicked Melting spoiler everywhere everybody knows

(13:18):
that happens, and you got everybody, yeah they do, they
know what happens to melting. I melted, Well, you know
the Wizard of Oz, they melt the same thing. Oh,
there's a lot of melting going on. There's a lot
of melting. You could but just like Calves, right, yeah,
I'm waiting. I'm waiting for the the jiff of or
or the photoshop of you know, seeing the Wicked Witch
of the West melt and with the Calves hat on
and a thunder hat on.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Good. I mean really, I mean I saw a good gift.

Speaker 7 (13:42):
That was Killian Murphy from Oppenheimer with a white Sox
hat on after they.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Got shut out by the Royals yesterday.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
You know on that thousand yards stare, you know that
he gets Yeah, so that's going around. But certainly, if
you're a Calves fan and you're wondering what you do
wrong with the world, you sold your soul for that
Lebron James Championship, a Whilco telling you it's it's a
different thing.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's a different animal when you come into the playoffs
as the overwhelming favorite and then you see how then
you see, then we see what you're made of. Right
then we see and now we're seeing so far with
the thunder and the Calves exit, how about a Fresca
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to break down the gag fest that we just saw

(14:27):
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(14:50):
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Speaker 3 (14:54):
Cavaliers Choke Night. Yes is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
So if this song is the game, so Tony is
the Calves, right, Rico is the Pacers, and Lola are
the Cavaliers fans.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
But you know what, we got screwed because we didn't
get Halliburton's dad knows. That's another Sure was he there
with a fake mustache like Bobby Valentine.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Sure the kopa the Cavs is the game away? Halle
Burton had four shots to the fourth quarter, then.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
He won it.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Sorry Cleveland. Let him know Cleveland lost the game. Let
him know.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
It's next Fox.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, here comes Halliburton, Here come the Pacers, Here comes Rico.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Look out.

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Speaker 3 (16:18):
Now, I'm gonna ask you a question. I want you
give me a percentage chance. Please do it? Okay, what
do you got?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Percentage chance? Tyrese Halliburton's dad was not anywhere at the
game tonight. And I don't know anything. I'm not saying.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I'm not saying coffee. Wait, what did I mean?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
I'd said that he really wasn't anywhere in the building,
that he really wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
He wasn't was he? And TJ?

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Clearly Halliburton not failing this time? TJ uh odds are
he was not? And maybe he's gonna be Rick Carlisle
like in those commercials with Barry Boswick and Halle Berry
when he unzips his face. Hey, I'm Barry Bostwick. Who's
Barry Boswick? He's gonna Carlile unzips his head.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Gay, I'm here, Tyrings, I made it. I made it
to the game. That would be something percentage chance.

Speaker 7 (17:14):
I mean, I gotta think it's got to be eighty
five ninety percent that he wasn't there, and he wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
He wasn't there.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
Okay, man, Now we got facial recognition and all that
stuff that. I mean, this guy's enhanced and I get
every ticket counter. I mean, there's a picture of his dad.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
This man is not a What if he was dressed
as Moondog or sir cc oh?

Speaker 7 (17:33):
See now you're adding, what if it was a full
on face off experience?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, I could have been face you're seeing.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Those things with those crazy that you can do now,
But wouldn't they do the retinal scan that's still gonna
get Oh.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
It doesn't go through a mask on heead No, no, no,
they would.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
It would be your assot head. You have to put
your paw, put your paw out to get it.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
For the for the fingerprints, well, there's two grids up there,
one for the mascot he just paws, one for the
actual human hand. They're getting ready to start, like middle
of third quarter of the mascot finishes routine.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Just hear him, go, Terrese, it's me. It's done, Terrese,
it's done.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's me. It's me.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm watching real close to you.

Speaker 8 (18:09):
You know what I did?

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I read it that Sudden death movie with Van Damn.
But he dressed up like a goalie and he actually.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
Got out and made a save, like like on a
penalty shot, I think, and it was really big deal.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
And he went back and he stopped the ball from
going off. So I said, I beat up.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
The mascot and as I tied him up, he's in
the back, and so I came.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Out, here's Tyrese. No, it's really me. I can't take
my head off, but it's me. What you referenced that film.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
I don't think he gets enough run when we talk
about sports films like and we talk even about bad
sports film like that Vandamn movie. Dad does not get
quite no, because that's really that's where it's Enrico Palazzo
on Stero.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
It kind of went off the red now now face off.
It was Jean Claude van dam I gotta explain he
was okay. So I got to explained to millennials with
Jean Claude van Dama.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
He was in big action movie star in the nineteen nineties.
And uh, he did a movie called Sudden Death and
it took place Game seven in the Stanley Cup Final
between the Penguins and the Blackhawks and a bomb was
supposed to go off somewhere in the arena and his
job is to prevent the bomb from going off.

Speaker 6 (19:14):
Isn't this an episode of the Office, Well.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
It did became a Yeah, that was threat level midnight.
It became yeah, this became threat level midnight. So the
uh so, the the plot goes and he's trying to
figure out who it is and somehow he winds up
having to get on the ice and he he he
figures the best way for him to do it is
to dress up as the goalie.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
So he gets the goal. So you know he's super flexible. Yeah, yeah,
the opportunity to So the.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Goalie gets hurt and he comes out, and that's where
he gets the idea. So he dresses up as the goalie.
He goes back out and of course no one knows
it's him. No one knows it's him. He's dressed up
all the goalie pants, and the coach said, you feel okay,
and John club vandam nods, Eddie goes, we'll get back
out there. So Jean Claude van dem gets to go
out and play in Game seven of the Stanley Cup Final,
and he I believe it was a penalty shot, right,

(20:02):
like he's stop like like they get called for pedaly
shot and the black Horse get a penalty shot and
he's like relying on his reflexes and he makes a
big save right just to keep.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
The game going.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
And then not only that, but after the period's over,
he gets back out, he undresses, goes back and then
he you know, he saves the arena, forgets the vice president.
But he got out to play. I mean he had
no he didn't get to play. He got make a
big save that won the game. I get got Holli
Burton's dag is the mascot like jumping around reasons me.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
You know what I just heard. I was over there,
the gams over here, the calves paddle. They said they
just gonna give the ball down of it and let
him shoot. I just so you know, I was right there.
They think I'm just the mascot, but I'm.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
Not plugging through the top cast for some death. Ready
take this down a deep dark path, all right? So
she got Dan Damn powers Booth. Yeah yeah, Raymond Barry
as the vice president. And then you go down a
couple more stars. Audra Linley really missus Roman road wearing
a mumu.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
That would have been great. Luke Robati, was it? Luke
Robotiz scores the game winning goal, I think? I think no,
I think he scores the game time goal, like the
last three seconds of regulation. Oh sorry, sorry about that,
Blues fans. He scores like the time goal with like
two seconds left in the third period because if the
game ends, the bomb goes off right and so they
needed they needed. So he scores a goal with like

(21:23):
three seconds left to send the game over.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
See, all our lives are circle.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Luke Robatai in the news having to make the press
release of the firing of Rob Blaketon.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
A way better player.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Luke's run the team now looks Do
you have anything now?

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Luke was a better player?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Ooh, Blake was a really good defenseman eight seven to seven?

Speaker 6 (21:42):
Do you not get what I'm trying to say here?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
What are you trying to say? I'm still he.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Stinks as the president.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh I didn't think he needs a better player. I think, oh, oh,
he's a better player than he was a president. Well yeah, yeah,
that's obvious. Yeah, I think I said he's a better
player than Luke Robati, Like he that would.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
Have been talking about Luke robot Yeah, I'm talking about
Luke robotide the player. Okay, you're talking about the player,
not former guest of the show. Not Rob Blake, former player,
team executive. No, no, Rob Blake out of the conversation. Okay,
all right, very good, like robotize Yeah, yeah, okay, all right,
all right.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
That's was that Van Damn stuff. Was that before his
uh accepting the visit?

Speaker 9 (22:22):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I was after that was after? Yeah, this is this
is when Van dam was like at the height of it.
This is like after what was the what was his
big movie when he when he broke out, Well, his
name was Chance. Why is your name Chance? Because my
mama took one, uh you know, blood Sport, Bloodsport. Yeah,
after blood Sports. After Blood then he had like a
he had a better Steven Sagal career, Kickbox, Yeah, double In,

(22:45):
Double Team, Sure, sure, Universal Soldier.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
He did a lot of really bad action movies. Yeah,
he was twenty seventeen spendables If you get that, that's good.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
But look, I mean this, this Cavaliers loss. I can't
get over the how it's become almost not commonplace, but
teams can't close like if you're down five for the
minute left to go, Hey, we're still in it, man,
Well but he's still in it.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
But even your you're champions, you're asking that question after
the game against the Knicks, right, coaching wise? Yeah, why
didn't you adjust? Why didn't you?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
James?

Speaker 7 (23:26):
Look how successful you were inside the arc in the
first half and then you abandoned it completely. But the
question of who's getting the ball in crunch time to
close things out, Jalen Brown was shooting terribly. Jason Tatum
kept inexplicably deciding he was gonna take two or three
steps back beyond the three point line. I mean all
of that to say, uh that that is the question

(23:47):
of the NBA playoffs. You're one of the only teams
that have one of those guys.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
I know.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Of course, he didn't really do much of anything in
overtime in the fourth quarter. He did, Yeah, he did
fun in the fourth quarter. Yeah, the extra stands and
not so much. Yeah, but that's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, if you there, if one game the other guys
can step up and do something, I'm okay with that.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
I'm alright with that. And he saw a defensive effort
from cat for crying out.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
How about all of a sudden, Hey, you gotta play?
How many games they play again tomorrow? But I'm exhausted.
That would be better if it was Thursday.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, yeah, Thursday, or Friday, yeah, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
That extra day. Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
The Golden State Warriors lead the Tea Wolves right now
thirty six twenty four with about five minutes to go
in the second quarter. That's the good news for the Warriors, Yep.
The bad news is Steph Curry grabbed at his left
hamstring a few minutes ago, left the game, was brought

(24:45):
to the locker room, and we have not seen him
or had any word on him since. Again, grabbed his
left hamstring and went off. Asked out today, gotta get
out And uh, it was just after he was playing
a little bit of d and he was moving to
try to try to cover a ball, try to cuver
a ball screen, and he just made a turn that

(25:07):
didn't look great, and he started grabbing at his hamstring.
Stayed in the game for another couple of minutes, tried
to go up and down the floor, but then the
next time he came back down defensively. He was limping.
He is now off the floor. He did he did
walk off the floor under his own power. However, we
are getting this in from Steve to Sager. We have
some breaking news on this. Can we get that? Can

(25:29):
we get that line here? Steve de Sager's is right,
He's got he's got it. He's like waving his arms.
He's waving his arms.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
He's got it.

Speaker 10 (25:37):
Well, they were up ten when he went out in
the first half. Steph Curry is not going to return.
It is being called a strained hamstring. Meanwhile, Draymond Green
was fourteen points to lead the team five of six shooting.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Wow, thank you, Steve. O.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
No more Steph Curry in this game, No more's he
is not going to return to the game. With this
injury and the Tea Wolves now starting to play a
little bit better. They have now cut it to eight.
So three and a half to go in the second
quarter with Draymond on fire, Maybe maybe Draymond score sixty.

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Maybe that's what happens tonight.

Speaker 7 (26:12):
Raymond score six, five to six from the field, four
or five from three point range.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Already.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
H Conversely, uh, little buddy healed back to being little
buddy heel, he's.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Zero for five.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Uh, so they're gonna have to navigate this game without
Steph kraz Hey, Hey, Warriors fans, you want your flowers.
Win this game and beat the Tea Wolves, and I
will give you some flowers because the last.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Mad at that. Look.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Look the Rob Parker come Washington, the odd couple they were
on right before us. They do last call every day, right,
last call, last call of the night. And you know
one of their big things they do, and it's the
last one. The last call came through mad at us
because I said last week that the Warriors are gonna
get thumped in game seven. Nekalos, you tell Jason Smith
and Mike Carmon to take more phone call.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
I gotta call. He said they were gonna lose.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm like, okay, all right, all right, so now you
know people calling other shows to get mad at us. Okay, uh,
but you win this hold on to win this game,
I'll give you some flowers. You want flowers, take the call,
I'll give you flowers, and I will even play Miley
Cyrus's flowers. Oh wow, we'll even play getting sued for that?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
No is she?

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (27:16):
No?

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Well, and then it's derivative of someone else, like just
like every other song that's going on out there.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
I will play some gui you stole my song?

Speaker 9 (27:25):
Why not? Right?

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Preserted from Bruno Mars. So who steals from everybody? So
what okay? Hang on, Okay, so the steal from everybody? Yeah,
yeah we do. Yeah, we just bridges. Yeah, just take
that ball away?

Speaker 9 (27:41):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (27:41):
So Mary, is it Bruno Mars suing?

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Is that?

Speaker 6 (27:44):
I don't think he is.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Okay, somebody else is suing Miley. I'll look it up.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, So Miley ray Cyrus is getting sued. So we'll
play killer songs, I said, because their lead singer is
Brandon Flowers, and I think we're okay. We could play
that song from pulp Fiction. I haven't been Flowers on
the wall for the chief at Uh. Yes, he also
Brandon Flowers Chiefs as well well, but it's a different Brandon.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
But it's Yeah, she's facing a lawsuit claiming that her
song Flowers and Fringes on the copyright of Bruno Mars.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
It is.

Speaker 7 (28:15):
But who's just gonna trust an? I Mike, But who's
suing who? But that's the thing, it doesn't have to
be him.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
He doesn't have to. But who's suing is.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Like it is this shadow company Investments? Is that a
real company that sounds like it sounds like a shell court.
It's a Showut I know way too much about It's
a dummy corporation, shell corporation, not for real that they're siphoning.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
All the money the way And again a guy, a
guy who's made made a career off of uh collaborative
efforts without the other party knowing in terms of sound style.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Et cetera. Exit out bout of Fresco. In my opinion,
you know it's okay?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Did you say that The Jason Smith Show is my
best friend? Mike Carmon time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. Guy who's been
called Tyres Halliburton's dad of Fox Sports Radio. Oh wow,
I don't even know where that goes. He's also been
banned from the NBA playoffs. Oh, Steve the Sager, so
of the Lakers.

Speaker 10 (29:11):
The Golden State is leading at Minnesota thirty eight to
twenty eight late in the second quarter, and we'll get
to that Indiana win. But of course the news, as
we'd mentioned, the Warriors will not have Steph Curry for
the rest of the night due to the hamstring strain,
but Minnesota at home to open the second round series
from three point range is oh for fourteen. Meanwhile, somehow

(29:31):
Indiana's up two games to none, winning at Cleveland again
tonight in a late comeback one twenty to one nineteen
Tyres Haliburton the game winning three pointer after his offensive rebound.
He had nineteen points nine rebounds. The Pacers were down
seven with under a minute left. The stat is in
the last twenty five plus years of the NBA postseason

(29:52):
until this year, only one team had ever come from
being down seven or more in the last minute to
win a playoff game, and the Pacers did it a
week ago, and the Pacers did it again tonight. They're
up two games to none. Out for the Cavs this
evening due to injuries. Evan Mobley, Darius Garland, DeAndre Hunter,
and Donovan Mitchell scored forty and.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Bron Kyrie, Brad Doherty and.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Anderson j Yeah.

Speaker 10 (30:21):
Sure, Cleveland was up twenty early second quarter and could
not put it away. The NBA's Executive of the Year
as Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presty. The thunder went
sixty eight and fourteen.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Wasn't Eko Harrison. These are awards you don't want.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Like everybody that's winning a big executive award at the
end of the season, their teams are all down big
in the playoffs.

Speaker 10 (30:41):
When they said Presty won and it was his first,
I said, are you kidding me? This guy's never won
this award before. It turns out he's finished second three times.
So congratulations and maybe not a good thing as the
series continues. Florida Gators gave coach Todd golden and extension
through twenty thirty one. He just won the national time.
His annual salary is now over six point five million dollars.

(31:03):
Couple of NHL's second round openers, Carolina in overtime wins
at Washington two to one. Vegas up after the first
period to one against Edmonton. In Major League Baseball, top
of the eleventh, the Giants are tied five to five
at the Cubs Angels hosting the Blue Jays that's tied
two to two bottom of the fourth. The Mets have
a one to nothing lead at Arizona, and the Mariners

(31:26):
lead to one at the A's in the top of
the third Atlanta in ten innings. Has beaten to Cincinnati
two to one with a run in the ninth and
one in the bottom of the tenth. Saint Louis beat
Pittsburgh and Paul Skens two to one. Each team only
had four hits. Pirates have lost six straight. Detroit at
Colorado reigned out the game at Boston at a rain
delay at the start. Eventually, Texas beat Boston and Lucas

(31:47):
Giolito took the loss six to one. Texas, Cleveland and
Washington split a doubleheader after yesterday's rain. The Padre six
game winning streak is over. They lost twelve three at
Yankee Stadium is New York. Scored ten times in the
bottom of the seventh Twel's home run for Aaron Judge.
Tonight and Miami and ten names and.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
In that game, Steve, I assume Devin Williams did not
pitch that it is why they won.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay, very good?

Speaker 6 (32:12):
Right?

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Good? Sure? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (32:13):
Or maybe he pitched for the Padres.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I just didn't know.

Speaker 10 (32:16):
Miami and ten inning's beat the Dodgers five four. LA
outfielder Tasker Hernandez we mentioned on last night's show, was injured.
They're calling it a string growing, he's on il. His
thirty four RBIs we're leading the majors. Tommy Edmund of
the Dodgers with the bad ankle could return in a week.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Golden State still with a twelve
point lead over Minnesota right now, a minute to go
before halftime. We got more NBA and the way we
have the play of the day and a story that
I guarantee you will make you feel old. You know
what I normally hear like, Oh, make me feel old?
I hear all the stories made me feel old. No,

(32:55):
this is one of those. Oh, this will cut through
and make you feel old.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Great, just what we need. It's next right here, Jason
and Mike. Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. I want my first Grammy. All right, Warriors fans,
you want your flowers? Win this game without Steph.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'll give you flowers.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
So I will give you all the fliers minus two
for the second half.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Forty four thirty one Golden State lead over Minnesota at halftime,
but Steph Curry ruled out of this game with a
hamstring injury. Second half upcoming, now this we could see
a tremendous second half. We might, we might maybe, but
we may not see anything as good as what we've

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Speaker 7 (34:03):
So let's see we have Halliburton, we have the Hurricanes.
We got Halliburton, we have the Hurricanes. Just excited. It
can't be about the Knicks. Yeah, well we go.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
We could play the final call of last night's game,
So let's see what we and the Mets are losing.
So yeah, yeah, but that's not anything new. We would
delete stuff in the day after anyway. Uh So let's
have the play the day.

Speaker 9 (34:29):
On behigh for Martin up.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
That one goes back to the point of Slaven and they.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Start Jacob Shaven through a screen.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Carolina wins Game one and over time.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
In on the call. Take that, Alex ovechkind No no, no, no,
it's press Bonanzad. This is what what do I always
say we watch hockey together. I always say the same thing.
When the defensemen have the puck and there's and there's
screens in front, and they have a shot, take it.

(35:04):
Just rip it, take it, take it, take it. Don't
look for a better shot, because chances are you're not
gonna complete three or four pas. Take a shot.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
Just throw it at the neck, because that's how you
never know what kind of bounce you're gonna get. I'd
rather have a bad shot from the point, then oh
we try to do something really cool and not get
anything off.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Just hit the.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Other team with overwhelming number of shots and the puck
is gonna hit the back of the neck.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
But spread spread the ice, right, I mean in terms
of the concentration, right, we take it from there. Take
it onto the pitch. For soccer, same thing. Take the
shot from from deeper range. At least make the goalie work.
You get an odd careen. We're talking about rebounding and
offensive rebounding in the NBA, and it all works the
same way. You get crazy bounce as crazy opportunities and

(35:49):
maybe an easy put back or the screen is just
enough to obscure the vision and give you a clear
shot on goal.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Telling you just take the shot. How you know how
many times I would I would tell my would say
shoot it. You can't dribble the ball into the net.
And these are all good shoot to jay, these are
all good players. Take the shot. You can't dribble it
into the net. Take the shot, Take the shot. Shoot
it because I say, could shoot the jay. Because you
know what's pretty is the goalie going to the back

(36:17):
of the net to pick the ball out.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
That's what's pretty. I think that's great.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
But that's what's pretty. God doesn't have to be shoot it.
Shoot shoot it. They play with shoot it. You know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (36:27):
When I would coach the same thing, that's that, I
would tell you he's just cheports. Yeah, I mean, she
doesn't coach hockey.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Roller.

Speaker 7 (36:35):
Now, remember he was a great hockey scorer. I was
so he loved making the goalie go and do the walking.
That was always the best. Oh yeah, Pam's got An's
got a bunch of video. Yeah, she got a bunch
photo shot. Not in the not in the I haven't
played in like AI with his head superimposed skater.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I think I stopped playing when I was like in
my early thirties, so I haven't played in twenty years.
But oh yeah, no, no, no, you'd see kid man, you'd
see the kid. How did he put that in? He knew,
he knew, he knew. How many hats did you take
away when you had a hat tress?

Speaker 9 (37:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
So many, so many, so many? There's why, oh that
had any distribution process. Let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
I promise this story, but I could, I can. I
can easily tell you a story about that in a
few minutes. No, boy, I promise this though. If you
want to feel old, And I always say what what did?
I always say whenever somebody I watched, whenever their grandson
it becomes a professional athlete, whatever it is, and they're
on the radar, that's when I'm gonna feel older. And

(37:34):
I always say, Tony Dorset, Right, Tony Dorset, Anthony Dorsett,
that was what I was worried about. Tony Anthony Dorsett. No, no, no,
because that's a long time ago. But this is worse
because Tony Dorsett was big in the seventies and eighties. Yeah,
but today Jaden Fielder, who was just signed by the
Milwaukee Brewers, hit a home run in his first professional

(37:55):
at bat in the Arizona Complex League. He is the
son of Princefielder, who was a worse the son of
Cecil Fielder. So now Cecil Fielder who I remember watching
so much in the nineties, back to back fifty home
run near. Cecil was one of the most fun guys
to watch it. Uh, Cecil Fielder's grandson is now potentially

(38:15):
going to be someone we hear about, maybe a major
leaguer one day. But he was just signed by the Brewers.
His first professional like bats all resarcial media today he
had a home run. This is someone's grandson play that that.
Now this is and it's worse.

Speaker 7 (38:30):
Like I said, it's worse cause it's not like, well,
if someone was an athlete in the seventies.

Speaker 9 (38:34):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
Yes, right, this this is when I met Pam Like
this one. Cecilfielder is sixty one years old. We watched Prince,
I mean that he and his son in the weird coincidence, right,
same number of home runs in major leagues and now
and now you've got.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Prince's son, well, Jason, yeah crazy.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
Prince was twenty one when he had Prince.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah. No, he was young, so young. It's okay, he
was young. He's okay, he was up there. I'm not
judging too.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
But still that's like, but that's the passage that that's
two generations, but it's two.

Speaker 7 (39:09):
Full careers, is the point, right, It's not like Prince
Fielder's still roaming the Yankee.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Great Cecil field Yeah no, no. And it's not like
he only had like a cup of coffee in the may.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh he made it.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
He played a couple of seasons and he left. Now,
Cecil Fielder had a great long career. Prince Fielder had
a great long career. And now here's this.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
Psychologically, it's damn it, I'm telling you. You collect trading cards,
you get nervous, you start flipping cards over. You're like, wait,
what Now you got David Ortiz's kid. Do you think
he's showing up in the twenty five Bowman set? You're like,
come on, man, you.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Think people thought about this like twenty five years ago
with the yeah, with the Boone family when they had
like because it was like that was three generations.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
It was Ray, Bob and Brett. Right, that's three generals.
That's it. But I remember Ray Boone and Bob Boone. Yeah,
and Brett Boone.

Speaker 7 (39:54):
Congratulations on the new gig bread Yeah boy, I'll tell
you man.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
But yeah, three hundred nineteen her home runs for Prince Fielder.
He had a minute. What have I been doing? Eight
hundred career at bats?

Speaker 7 (40:04):
What have any of us been doing with our lives?
What have we been doing in here? Yapping on the radio?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
We get back to the biggest story of the night
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, it's my favorite Chili Pepper song. I love the
guitar soul that that kicks us off right here. You're
the one coming up, coming up right here?

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Oh, I just love that. There, down down, down, down,
dirt dirt Down't.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
Darren, you know we should have had Friend of the
Show flee on to discuss the Lakers exit.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Oh we might well well well, Speaking of exits. We
have to have our next guest on right now.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah. He is the Pride of Michigan. Oh boy.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
He is Fox Sports Radio MLB Network insider extraordinaire. He
is the Pope John Paul Morosi, who John Paul, Welcome
to the show once again. As always, I have a
question for you. My Internet is down currently and I
know I'm putting you on the screen.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Who won the Knicks Piston series? I can't find that.

Speaker 9 (41:21):
M Well, good evening. Hi buddy knows that with with
me and the building, the Pistons run defeated, So evidently
I should have gone to all the games. Now, I
would also flip it around and say, Jason and to
New York Dicks fans everywhere, you're welcome because the Knicks
have not lost since we had our conversation on the

(41:43):
show one night ago, or one week ago this very night,
they have They have not lost since the the MSG
security guards were very much on their game and decided
to throw me out of the building. And so ever
since then, the Knicks have adopted their tenacity and and

(42:04):
now I think that's the reason why they won Game one.
By the way, it was amazing. I'm speaking to you
from New Jersey. Of course we're here covering the Yankees
and Padres this week. And uh so I was driving
to the ballpark yesterday. Let's just say that there was
not a majority of New Yorkers who believed that they

(42:24):
would prevail in Game one, just based on my my
little driving around listening to talk radio here, listening to
the callers gauging it was not exactly an an all
for one, one for all idea that they were they
were about to go up to Boston and and and
take on the parquet floor and defeat the defense of

(42:44):
the defending world champions. And yet they did it. And
so basically now I'm sure the attitude is well, of course, hey,
we had we believed in you all along next venue
you were going to do it. So it is definitely
interesting for me to ride the waves of the New
York fan as to the has a bit of an
outside observer, who is who was joined join the flock
for at least this week.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Oh no, Look, if I was back in New York
where I grew up, and I'd be on the radio
call and go okay, so we got a fire attempts.

Speaker 7 (43:11):
We got to get rid of Bridges. He stinks we
got to make these change. I'd make the changes right
now because we ain't beating the Celtics.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
I'll hang up.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
They were advocating for the dismissal of the coach before
the series.

Speaker 7 (43:28):
That is.

Speaker 9 (43:29):
I listened to this and I said, wow, I am.
I am now a very different place. They hadn't even
say it. Just beating the Pistons in a fairly you know,
fairly highly contested series, and the whole idea was was, oh, well,
are we gonna fire a Cimino? And I've been like, guys,
let him play game one, Like, well, let them let

(43:50):
him at least have the opening tip before we start
firing the guy. Come on. So it was it was
an interesting insight for me.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
I would say, welcome to New York.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
But you had a very current You had a very
un New York moment last night because you know, you
did the Yankees game with it with the padres and
all the rain that came down. I watched your postgame
interview with Manny Michada where you interviewed him while you
held an umbrella over Manny Michado's head, not over your
own head. John Paul Morosi but you looked out for
your fellow man holding umbrella over.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Manny Michado's had. That has a very very nice thing
to do.

Speaker 9 (44:23):
Well, I appreciate that. The funny thing is that at
the beginning of the interview I said to Manny, I said, Manny,
I'm sorry that I'm short. I'm gonna have to sort
of extend my arm about as high as it goes
to be able to get this over your head. He
was like, he laughed, But I think it's first of all,
how about this, I've got a credit the one and
only Susan Waldman. That was actually Susan's umbrella. So we

(44:45):
were down at the so the rain was pouring down.
Susan was there had the Yankees prevailed, and we were
standing next to each other, and Susan said, well, I'm
not going to go on the field because the padres once.
So do you want the umbrella to your you know,
for your on field. I said, well, sure, Susan, thank you.
I appreciate that. So I'll get it back to the Prescott.
So I brought it out of the field that Susan's

(45:08):
umbrella so big thanks to Susan, and I interviewed Manny,
I think as I watched it back later on that night,
I realized you couldn't even see my face, which many
would say, I've never looked better on TV. I mean,
you can't see my face. That that's how indeed most
would prefer to see me on television not having to
see my face. So I just hold the old the
umbrella up there interviewing Manny. Uh, there was quite a

(45:29):
comeback by the by the Padres that was I'm sure
it warmed your Mets loving heart to see the Yankees
fall in such fashion. And then I got the umbrella
back to Susan and the Yankees responded with a thorough
victory tonight. So we'll see what happens in the rubber
game tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (45:45):
Evening jap we talked about using the protective layer of
an umbrella to shield you from the storm. How soon
do we start seeing more fielders with you know, helmets
or other security purposes. After watching with Chase, my dropped
of the White Sox tonight in a ninth inning that
led to the White Sox downfall.

Speaker 9 (46:03):
I'm first of all, I feel bad for Chase, and
there was a replay after For those who have not
yet seen it. There was a pop up that just
planked our man Chase right on the top of the dome.
There's just there's no other way to describe it.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I've not seen John Paul. It was Jose Conseco in
ninety three. Was the last time somebody got hit with
a fly ball or a pop up and it hit
them in the head.

Speaker 9 (46:27):
It was. It was as much of a direct hit
of a pop up as you're probably gonna see the
major league game. It was even with ken Seko was
more of a glancing bloke. He was moving this. This
was my drop was almost camped underneath it. It was a
fairly extraordinary moment. So I feel badly for Chase. And
there was a there was a moment after We're used

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where the camera goes in there and looks at his
reaction to the play itself, and you almost you could
almost see on his face that he was thinking, Yeah,
this this replay is going to be around for a while,
and you could just kind of tell it he's having
that thought. Of course, he came over in the Garrett
Crochet trade. I'm a big fan of him. I think
he's gonna be a good contact bat for the White

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Sox for a while. But my goodness, that was that
was not the kind of contact he was looking for.
And uh and by the way, so speaking of speaking
of I can't believe I didn't bring this up earlier.
Speaking of also was listening to the to the s
An post game show a couple of days ago of
Sunday Sunday and and and there was literally a twelve

(47:30):
year old called up and demanded the removal of Aaron
Boone as the Yankees manager. And I said, to myself,
you got twelve year old caught up? And the host
basically said, like do you even were you even alive
when Joe Girardi was the manager of this team, Like
that wasn't that long ago? Were you even alive when
that happened? I just I couldn't believe it. I had
to I forgot that earlier. That was that was one

(47:52):
of my other favorite New York moments, Like a middle
schooler legit calling up and saying that Boo should be dismissed.
I just I thought that was. I did not mention
this Aaron the next day when I went in for
the meeting a day by the way, is as a
twelve year old from from Suffer, New York, who thinks
you should be you should be let go? And I didn't.
I didn't mention that. I just gotta let that go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Now that was my son's best friend. He calls the
shows all the time. Yeah, is that a relative? Is
that a yeah?

Speaker 7 (48:21):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Speaking of speaking of calling, you know, making predictions, wanting
things happen. Did I read this right in your in
your Twitter account? Did you do another interview where you
said how much you like the Mariners to make the postseason?
Did you did you do that again? The year fourteen
in a row? John Paul? Are you are you still

(48:42):
that bullish picking how much you like the Mariners for
the playoffs?

Speaker 9 (48:47):
Well, if the question is did I say that today?
The better question is does this day and in why?
And if I and if I made this prediction this year,
the question is does the year begin somehow with the
number two? And if it does, then basically, yeah, I've
said it. I mean it's the year. It's two zero two,
five hundred percent. I said the marriage making the playoffs,

(49:09):
and I might actually be right. But can I can
I tell you? Can I tell you the team that's
making me the most worried right now about my pick.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Ok.

Speaker 9 (49:17):
So the West Sacramento Athletics, my friend, they have got
a good thing going. Kurtz Wilson, Butler Ruker. If you
don't know these names, you better learn them. Soderstrom, Langeliers,
they've got some guys that can hit. Now, pitching wise
that they're probably an arm short. But they had a

(49:37):
walk off went over the Mariners last night, and and
the A's have me a little bit concerned. The Mariner's
pitching has got me a little bit worried to Kirby
Gilbert on the injured list. But yes, I like what
Edgar Martinez has done as the hitting coach, so much
so that the Texas Rangers have now hired Brett Boone,
who was known as z Boone, to be their hitting coach.

(50:00):
Now that they're basically all two thousand and one Mariners
are now up to be hitting coaches in Major League Baseball.
So Mark Maclamore, carlos Ki, and Jade Buner, we're coming
for you to get back on the field.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
I'm gonna leave the legacy question since you mentioned Boom
there there for a second. But we have big news
in Los Angeles right, Clayton Gershaw's on the comeback trail,
but ta Oscar Hernandez goes to the I L and
now we get the next coming of James Outman, the
injuries piling up, and Dodgers still.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
You know, pacing through.

Speaker 7 (50:38):
But got to be a bit concerning early May with
the number of guys that they've had cycle in and
out of the lineup.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yes, indeed, Outman back in, and you're right, the best
record in the game, they still have I think fairly
a fairly clear path to do a playoff for the
Booth League that it was good a.

Speaker 9 (50:54):
Good degree of certainty. But let's not forget Cool leads
the Los Angeles Dodgers and RBI, and not by a little,
by a lot after and Endez leads the major leagues
in fact thirty four RBI, which is ten more than
Tommy Edmond, who is number two, by the way in
this category. Otani has thirteen for him this season. So,

(51:17):
but tay Oscar is the guy who I think in
a lot of ways makes this lineup go. He gives
protection for Freeman, he lengthens the lineup. He is a
natural run producer. There are not many bats in the
game now who have just different plate appearances when there's
a man in scoring position and ta Oskar does it.
Freeman does it too. But I think part of the

(51:38):
reason why the Dodgers have been so good lately is
they've got both of them, and now with only having Freddie,
I mean only, of course, they also have Otani's bets
and Edmund as well. But I think ta Oscar is
a massive, massive loss. He is to the lineup. He
is about as important as probably right now anybody, with
the exception of Freeman. That's again o Toanni's the reigning MVP.

(52:01):
I got that, But the way the lineup has set
up this season, I think he is the co most
important player along with Freeman, and this is a massive
absence with the Dodger staff to handle right now.

Speaker 7 (52:12):
All right, lastly, John Paul, I want to ask you
you you have turned forty one forty two.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
How old are you right now?

Speaker 9 (52:18):
I'm forty two, forty twenty three. Next week, I think
I got I gotta get the county. Yes, bots turned
forty three, and I'm already forgetting about it. I'm getting old, guys.

Speaker 7 (52:28):
Okay, So I asked you, guys, how old did you
feel today? When you saw that Prince Fielder's son, Cecil
Fielder's grandson just hit his first UH Minor League homer
and his first at bat. That now Cecil Fielder's grandson
could be on his way to the majors.

Speaker 9 (52:45):
Yeah, it is amazing. I remember so I covered Prince.
Prince played two years in Detroit twelve and thirteen, and
so Jaden and Haven were both around the ballpark fair
amount at that point. They were also around. I covered
Prince a bit during his time in Milwaukee, was around
the ballpark then too, So I've I've seen Jaden and

(53:07):
Haven since they were probably eight years old, seven, eight,
nine years old. So it is it's time is catching
up to me. Families are beginning to lap me, guys,
my years of covering the game. It used to be that,
it used to be that I always thought it was
unbelievable that when I was a kid growing up, that

(53:27):
that the the teachers at at Little Saint John Elementary
would tell would tell the kids. I used to tell
your parents this. I told yourant uncle this, And now
I'm covering players, I said, I used to talk to
your dad about this, and I'm I'm I'm getting up
there guys, I'm not getting any younger, but I tell
you what it's it's it's a lot of fun to
cover this game, and the families and the connections generation

(53:50):
the generation are are a huge part of the reason why.
So I love that part of the game, and certainly
I wish the Fielder family all the best. Prince was
always a wonderful guy to deal with, and I wish
that for the next generation too.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
the Pope John Paul Morosi. Check him out on MLB Network.
John Paul is always appreciated, and thank you for being
the NIXT good luck charm.

Speaker 9 (54:12):
Yeah, I am. I know that Halliburton broke the hearts
of the Calves. I mean, you guys have got me
watching more basketball in the last month than I'd watched
in a long time before. So I'm I'm back in
the NBA family. That feels pretty good.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
There. You go, tell you that we're bringing viewers to
the NBA.

Speaker 7 (54:31):
Hey, Silver think you he's a John Paul mcgret JP
have a good goal.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
And Jayden Field, I mean really, Cecil Fielter's grand kid.
I just can't get over going and he's twenty.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
He's not like, hey, he's seventeen.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
He's playing and you know what, No, no, no, he's
t what like, hey, he has a couple of big years,
a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Heason the major dude.

Speaker 7 (54:52):
I mean, you open a pack of new baseball cards
and guys birthdays, you look on the back, it's.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Like, oh seven, yeah, oh seven, come on yeah, come
on man. Uh, it's time now to find out what's
trending in the wide role of sports man has been
called the Jaden Fielder of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
He's a third generation of Fox Sports Radio anchors. In
his family is Steve di Seger.

Speaker 10 (55:16):
You're gonna say because he also was once twenty years old.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Happen.

Speaker 10 (55:21):
By the way, JP mentioned that the injured Dodgers outfielder
ta Oscar Hernandez, with his thirty four RBIs led the
majors at Yankee Stadium, Aaron Judge Homer tonight that gives
him thirty four ribies and the Mets Pee Alonzo with
an early basis loaded walk tonight his thirty fourth RBI.
But at Arizona it's the Diamondbacks ahead of the Mets

(55:42):
four to one in the bottom of the seventh inning,
Angels Blue Jays go to the eighth tied two to two,
the only scoring each team with a two run homer
in the first, and the Mariners are tied two to
two at the A's in the bottom of the sixth.
Everything else final, including the Yankee victory twelve three over
San Diego with ten in the bottom of the seventh
that ends the Padres six game winning streak. Aaron Judge's

(56:04):
twelfth home run Austin Wells a grand slam. Miami in
ten innings beat La five to four. Shoey Otani did
have a solo homer and RBI double, but the Dodgers
with runners in scoring position were one for ten. Meanwhile,
the Giants in eleven innings won fourteen to five at
the Cubs. Reliever Ryan Presley takes the loss, so the
Giants record is twenty three and fourteen. Padres now twenty

(56:28):
three and twelve, Dodgers twenty four and twelve. Cleveland and
Washington split a doubleheader road wins for Philadelphia and Texas.
Atlanta got a run in the ninth one in the
bottom of the tenth to beat the Reds two to one.
Saint Louis a two to one winner over the Pirates
and Paul Skeins. Pittsburgh has lost six in a row.
Detroit at Colorado reigned out. They'll play a doubleheader on Thursday.

(56:49):
Wins for Minnesota, Milwaukee, and Kansas City with two unearned
runs in the bottom of the ninth beat the White
Sox four to three. The White Sox record now ten
and twenty six to the NBA playoff game. Still a
blowout for Golden State up eighty three sixty three at
Minnesota with about ten minutes to go. Steph Curry left
in the first half of the Warriors with a strained

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hamstring and will not return.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Jonathan Kaminga just hit a three. That's how bad it
is for the Wolves.

Speaker 10 (57:15):
In fact, Golden State shooting fifty percent from three point
range fifteen to thirty and Minnesota in the first half
was ozh of fifteen from long distance. They're right now
three for twenty three as a team.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
At least, things so bad. Tom Googliata is checking into
the game.

Speaker 10 (57:32):
They could use his trees. Actually, Anthony Edwards up to
ten points. This is the opener of a second round series. Meanwhile,
in the East, Pacers up two games to none in
a second round series. After winning at Cleveland again one
twenty to one, nineteen Tyrese Haliburton the game winning three
pointer after his offensive rebound. He had nineteen points, nine rebounds.
Donovan Mitchell, with three injured teammates out had forty eight

(57:55):
points in defeat. The NBA's Executive of the Year as
Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presty. The NHL with a
couple of second round openers. Tonight end of two, Vegas
still up tow to one on Edmonton Carolina in overtime
one two to one at Washington. Notre Dame football signed
to play Clemson for twelve years starting in twenty twenty seven.
The annual matchups we'll count toward Notre Dames required five

(58:18):
games per season versus acc opponents. The Big Twelve Conference
gave commissioner Brett Yormark an extension through twenty thirty and
Kentucky Derby winner sovereignty will not run into freakness that
don't take place a week from Saturday. He could run
in the Belmont Back to you.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Thank you, Steve O.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
You know that my best Tom Googliatta story is a
quick one. Like twenty years ago, We did an interview
with this back before I was a radio host, so
maybe twenty years ago. So Kevin Garnett's playing for the
t Wolves and we just did a lifestyle interview with
him and whatever NBA game he played, he played the
game with four Kevin Garnetts and one Tom Googliatta like

(58:55):
that was his team. Like so sure he had four
Kevin Garnetts and one Tom Googliat And we asked him
why one Tom Googliata and he just deadpans and goes
because Goog's is money.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
For Kevin Gardnets and one Tom goo Ah.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Exit out about a Fresco exit, swollen dome, still a
blowout lead for the Warriors over the Wolves. Will have
more on this, but straight ahead, a bit of an
NBA playoff controversy that uh has people both fans of
the league and outside of the league a little upset.
That's next right here, Fox, Yeah, the next stole that

(59:32):
was legal, all legal and

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Semi