May 20, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith throws out a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory: The NBA Draft Lottery is rigged so most of the teams can realize they're not going to get the #1 overall pick and they'll stop tanking. Plus, the reason you can’t NOT hustle in New York!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show
with my base friend Mike Harmon. Get by from the
Fox Sports Radio studios where Dodgers making things interesting against
the Diamondbacks. Home runs from Otani and Mookie Bets make
it a seven to three game. Oh he's going, Sammy,
(00:51):
So so now we're getting there, getting there, getting there again.
Dodger's looking to avoid four in a row, with four
losses in a row after getting swept at the hands
of the Angels over the weekend, which I believe the
Angel will hang a banner for that said, sure, or
have a big bobblehead night for it where they just
you know, somehow I'm able to commemorate it. Uh, sometime
(01:12):
in July. Here's all the team and over there is
Mike Trout watching? Yeah? Is it onside? It's all there.
It's Mike Trout, That's what it is. So my NBA
lottery conspiracy theory on top of conspiracy theory in a second.
But first I just wanted to say this because I forget.
You know, look, we're waiting for the NBA Playoffs to
rea zoom again tomorrow, which gave you our picks for
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the Thunder and the and the Tea Wolves a few
minutes ago. Uh. You know what. One of the story
that I love from this weekend was watching Tray Young
trolling the Nick Fans viral. Yes stop. Tray Young put
out a tweet after the Knicks one and and you know,
people talk about how loud Madison Square Garden is. He
put out a tweet that said, sorry, sorry Nick Fans,
(01:56):
Oklahoma City is louder. Oh sorry sorry if that you know,
get you, dude. Whatever we talked about, Caitlyn Clark lives
rent free in Angel Reese's head, which clearly is part
of what goes on between the two of them. The
Knicks live rent free in Trey Young's head. Okay, he
is only relevant when Atlanta wins in New York maybe
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once a year. That's the only time Trey Young is relevant.
We don't even talk about him at the trade deadline.
But oh, I'll win a game in New York and
I'll wave to the fans or I'll pretend to celebrate
on the Knicks logo, and people pay attention to me
for all of eight seconds. Meanwhile, after this game, I'm
back to not even making the playoffs, or maybe squeaking
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into the playing round and being basically irrelevant. He's like
Reggie Miller lte right, like the way Reggie Miller gets
under Knicks fans skin, which I'm sure is gonna happen
in this series. He's gonna be broadcasting the games like
Trey Young is like Reggie Miller light. It's like, dude,
you don't annoy everybody that much. Okay, And oh, by
the way, just like Reggie Miller would have been if
the Knicks called and said, hey, we're Young, we want
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a trade for you, he would say, oh, yes, one
hundred percent. I love New York. It's my greatest dream
to play for the Knicks. I love playing in that building.
He would change, he would throw his arms around the fans,
he would go and do autographed signings at model's. He
would do anything he could to get to the Knicks
just to be relevant again. So yeah, so when Trey
Young does like, yeah whatever, he's just jealous and he's
(03:22):
Reggie Miller lights, that's what he's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean, look, I hate the Cubs, but if they
came and suddenly offered me a giant deal to be
a broadcast partner with them, all I might have to
look at it or put on a jersey long enough
to throw out a first pitch it ring. I mean, yeah,
you could do those kind of things. I man, Bernie
Mack did, and Bernie Mack can do it. So could
I look all of that to say for Trey Young?
(03:45):
I mean, he did win that playoff series in twenty
twenty one. He still has that on you. And this
really comes back to the age old. Well, let's go
into the movies, because we love to go to the
movies with our references. Let's go to the Last Crusade
when Indiana Jones helps that that old Knight finally shed
this mortal quote.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
What's he saying? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You need to exercise some demons, Knicks fans, right, this
is how you shut Reggie Miller up once and for
all because you know how many rings he got nothing,
how many Trey Young got nothing, But for the moment.
They still have those huge playoff wins and experiences that
have caused decades of angst in the case of Miller,
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and several years of you shaking your fists and getting mad.
You hate Steph Curry in his mouthpiece, and you just
don't like the sight of Trey Young because of what
he did.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He get forty years. Oh, I don't care about that anymore.
The guy okay, yeah, okay, we got to the playoffs
and we loved Let's go look at look at where
he's gone. The guy is irrelevant now. He was one
of the most exciting players in the NBA, and now
he's irrelevant again. We don't even talk with him around
the trade deadline, which when we should talk about him.
It's Hey, he wins a game, he gets a little
bit minor headlines for a night because he celebrated on MSG.
(05:01):
He would if the Knicks wanted to try, I'm telling
you man, he would show. He would ride the subway
and do PSA and say Hi, I'm Trey Young. I
ride the subway to and from MSG all the time.
Ride with me, save money, save traffic. He would do
anything New York asked of him. He would do that.
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I have to figure out the benefit to his wallet, though,
because how how big is the tax discrepancy between New
York uh and Georgia? And let's face it, I mean
the cost of real estate is going to be through
the roof five year, two hundred and fifteen million dollar
deal signed in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So he's getting close, getting close bud apartment? Man? Yeah,
how far away from uh? Massive regards? Oh dude, you're
in the Bronx. Wait what yeah? Yeah, yeah, No, you're
deep in the Bronx. Now you're talking about riding a
different type of train. I love Amtrak. Yeah, you know,
I can't get it from you. Gotta get to Penn
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Station and then you're gonna get Okay, then we'll find
we'll find a way to don't wory about it, We'll
find a way to get you. Jason.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Your comparison is a little off, though, How is that?
What the hell's wrong with Miller Light?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm gonna say he's Reggie Miller Light.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
There's nothing wrong with Miller Light eight double and it's
better than Trey Young.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Uh cold Miller Light tray. Okay, yeah, sure, okay, I'll
give you that. Yeah. Generally, the one night a year
where Trey Young maybe wins an MSG, I get Trey
Young the other three sixty four Miller Light.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
But on that night you just drink two of them.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Why stop it too? I mean if you look.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, no, no, that's only because he normally has at least
one stolen off the table.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, while he's trying to drink it. Well, yeah, exit out,
exit swollen, dumb. Jason Smith Mike har Lock for the
Fox Sports Radio. A lot of bricks at the bars, man,
I tell you, yeah, I'll tell you, man, not just
not just not just not just that Trey Young throws
up there for the most part when he's shooting, when
he goes nine for thirty six. No, no, no, But
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I've talked about this and now I'm going to give
you a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory. Okay. Uh.
We played the Shaquille O'Neill audio for you a few
minutes ago, in which he did a podcast earlier today
where he said, hey, yeah, talk about the NBA Draft
lottery potentially being fixed before the Draft lottery in nineteen
ninety two. When Shaq came out, Commissioner David Sturry, He says,
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David Stern called him into room and said, hey, where
do you want to play? Where it's hot or cold?
He will you surf for ski? Right? I got cush
la cush, latch cush. We just watched that this weekend
and he's.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Decided she wanted to watch it, but you know, random
note not to take it too far down. The Tangent
Rookie premiere was this weekend. All the photo shoots for
the trading cards and stuff out here in La Kay
Adams posted that she asked everybody about Jerry Maguire, all
the attendees, nobody knew what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'll tell you, I'm sweating, dude, sweating my contract. Sugar,
Bob Sugar telling me I'm missing opportunity by being with you.
So surfersky, kush left whatever. Jared just want to play
ball Dad, one of those agents. So Shaq says, yeah,
you know, do I want to play where it's hot
or cold? I said hot? And Tadah the Orlando Magic
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one of only a couple of teams warm weather teams
in the lottery. Everybody else is a cold weather team,
and hey, they win the draft lottery. Now, conspiracy theory
on top of conspiracy theory, conspiracy theory, the NBA Draft
lottery is fixed. Why one reason that I could throw
out there that I would say, I guarantee you that
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this would be something thought about, is that so NBA
teams will understand I'm not going to win the draft lottery,
that Sacramento's not gonna win the draft lottery, right, and
the Pistons aren't going to win the draft all these
different things. Well, pists actually won a couple years ago.
But what I'm saying is these smaller teams that, hey,
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we're gonna tank because I'd rather the ping pong balls
come our way and maybe we can get somebody big
and that would change our franchise. No. Well, with the
NBA Draft lottery again, conspiracory that it's fixed. This sends
these teams a message, don't tank because you're not gonna
get the number one pick. Oh Cooper flag is here.
Guess what Mavericks get it? Oh Man, Yeah, no, that's
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kind of how it goes. So the conspiracy theory that
the draft lottery is fixed to get teams to stop tanking,
so they give them more honest effort and they play
more for the playoffs and try to move on than
they do. Hey, we're done. We're putting it away at
game sixty five. There's no reason to try anymore, and
we're happy being the lottery where we could get the
ping pong balls fall our way. Conspiracy theory about a
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conspiracy theory. Oh I kind of like that.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, so it really the secret decoder ring says, don't
tank or just try, just try. Let's let's use the
soul savers and get them in, just try.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right on one point eight percent here one point eight percent.
Derek row was six percent and change for Zion Williamson.
You've got you've got to, and you help the league
by making trades in the case of Anthony Davis and
Luka Doncic.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Telling you man, just think about it. It accomplishes all
those things. Is now teams can say, all right, well
they're not gonna give us the pick, so we may
as well try. Oh hey look we got in, we
squeaked in. Hey we got out of the playing round.
Hey look we won the first round of the playoffs. Hey,
we upset the Apple card. We get more teams, more
concerted effort, better play at the end of the season, right,
more exciting play than just how many twenty five point
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burials do we see from game fifty five or sixty
on where it's like, okay, well the Knicks are playing
the Hornets tonight. This is gonna be the Knicks by
fifty because the Hornets have quit, or here's the thunder
or playing the playing the Kings. Whatever, Hey, this is
gonna be a burial. This is gonna be this is
gonna be a thirty point win. Like you don't see
that anymore? Like now suddenly we're we're we're fixing the
draft lottery to improve the caliber of play in the NBA.
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That is like chef's kiss, what just try?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean, think of all these teams perennially bad made ownership,
general manager, so many bites at the Apple and it
at no point is their hunger quenched, right, and is
it's you know, is your stomach full by any shots?
I feel like I'm in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
(11:22):
I drink and I feel nothing whatever else, But yeah,
it's because I'm thinking of all these bottom feeding organizations.
Doesn't seem to really work out for them. Man, they
can't get out of their own way. And as a
lifelong Chicago guy, I mean certainly that's kind of been
the case in my world too, Caleb Williams. It's all
(11:44):
on you, Derek Rose. You had your year, and now
we go from there. I mean I had Joe Kim Noah,
he tried harder.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah he did. We know we tried hard.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, I mean he was he was part of the
try hard generation. But I kind of like the cut
of your jib here, yeah, telling you making and going
the other way saying, all right, you might be bad,
but you at least have to give me an honest effort.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You like that, right, Yeah? Yeah, because you're not gonna
get the ping pong balls or not gonna fall your way. Yeah,
but we have a fourteen point that you have a
zero percent chance of getting the number one overall pick.
Zero point. You have a blue Tarsky GPA chance of
getting that number one overall pick, and that is zero
point zero zero. So now you're gonna go play well,
(12:28):
I guess all right, God, how fun?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But what if your team just sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, there's always that justin. It depends if your team
just sucks but they're not really relevant. You're not getting
the pick. If your team sucks but you're the Sixers
or the Bulls or the Mavericks. Hey, you got a chance.
You got a chance. Man seems to have a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But this is where you wish in the NBA you
had a team like the Packers where you at least
get some of the financial data that comes out in
terms of revenues and how it flows through. Because with
the national TV rights deal that they just saw, what
was it seventy five billion or some astronomical and out
I mean cut between thirty teams.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The hell do you care? We suck?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, fans aren't showing up. I don't get their popcorn money.
Oh no, I'm still getting a giant ass check from
the league no matter how bad I am.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, don't you know.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Joannis wants to be a Nick. He did that Q
and A on Saturday night with his fans on Twitter to.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
He likes warm weather.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They said fair, they said favorite place to play a way,
we're getting it. The Knicks are getting the Dick's gonna
get you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Honest, talk about his favorite food, his favorite movies, all
of those things.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It was really a deep and introspective kind of thing.
It was great. Yeah, Oh it's yeah. Look, everybody wants
to be a Nicknam because the Knicks are good. Look
at this, Look at Nicks are great seeds. They're holding
up the NBA playoffs by the We're sweeping the Pacers.
They're holding up the NBA playoffs by themselves by cheating.
They're not cheating. No, there is no evidence of You
can't just say that, Mary. You can't just say cheating
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if you say, hey, Cole envelope, Patrick Ewing eighty five. Okay,
but you can't say they're cheating. This year not happening.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I mean, they know where they want to play. How
cold cheating they.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Got, Mary, justedly that is true. That is true. Uh
So while we get set, we're getting set for the
Knicks Pacers four game series coming up on Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Series priced for the Knicks, uh Knicks minus one sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know for all of the all the Pacers are
really good. Here's the Pacers. They're gonna send that fan
of the game and the viral video. We'll get to
that in a late later on. All. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
everyone in that locker room knows what happened last year
with the Knicks and the Pacers and Rick Carlisle complaining
about the officiating and everybody getting hurt. No, the Knicks
got a little something something for the Pacers. I'm not
(16:36):
too worried about that. I'm not I'm not worried about
games where they're coming out flat. I'm not worting. I
got a little something something for you. We'll see on
Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Okay, but Julius Randall isn't there to exact revenge.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, we'll get Julius. Maybe we'll get Julius Randall in
another round, it's okay. Or we'll get Isaiah Hartenstein in
a round.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
We'll get we'll get one.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
He's saving all his threes for this game against Then.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I'm bringing in a camera for a different angle as
we watch those games together.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
This is gonna die right here for the fertilize it.
But this story is starting to gain some attention. Yes,
we'll talk about it the last couple of days. Everybody's
favorite seven hundred and sixty five million dollars slugger Wan
Soto has been accused with video evidence of not hustling.
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Happened against the Yankees last night, in a game where
the Yankees wound up beating the Mets, in which he
didn't run out of ground ball the second might have
been able to beat it out, you never know, might
have been able to change a game, but didn't hustle. Okay, Well,
one play not hustling, all right, that I can kind
of understand that. Then tonight against the Red Sox, he
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thought he had a home run, he did not, and
he wound up at first base.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
What did I say to the point one?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So I know, fly as one deep to laugh back
to the whoa, and it's off the fact and Soda
will have to stop at first base. Sodo barely got
to first, he's running on the first pitch and he
steals the base. So the Mets rad Yeah, okay, I
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understood that I wasn't hustling, so I stole second base? Okay. Uh.
Carlos Mendez, a Mets manager, said tonight he's going to
talk to Jan Soda about hustling out of the batter's
box after he watched what he thought was a home
run bounce off the Green Monster. Now, listen, should wan
So too be hustling one hundred percent? One hundred percent?
(18:37):
You can't. You can't not hustle in New York. Right.
There's some places that will allow that where you cannot hustle,
but certain places you can't. You can't do it in
New York, you can't do it in l A. Remember
Johnny hustling Manny Machado, Right, you can't certain places you
can't do it. Some places will overlook your transgressions. If
you're a big star, you can't do it there because
the media and the fans will hold you accountable and
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make your life miserable. So this is it, Like this
is where Juan Soto has to kind of come around to, Hey,
you got to understand, however, you did things in the
past in San Diego and and every other place that
was okay with you doing it because they wanted you
to stay right. So, hey, we don't want to upset
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the guy. We want him just want to stay here, right.
But didn't happen in San Diego, didn't happen in New York.
He's a lot with the Yankees. But now he's a
mat and he's got seven hundred and sixty five million
dollars and it's guaranteed. No, dude, he still got a hustle.
So you got a hustle, man Chase. There's nothing that's
going to get you to be have a miserable life
than not running things out. And now it's front in
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front and center, and now here's your chance to take
care of it, right, And and he kind of did
by stealing second right after. But you can't have another
instance of I'm not hustling on a ground ball or
a fly ball where I could take an extra base on.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You cannot hustle all you want as long as you're
not tied for one hundred and second in batting, tied
for fortieth at home runs, and tied for ninety seventh
and RBI.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
If you're right near the top of those.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Walk if you want, crawl, moon walk, skip down the road,
do a little burt thing like you're Dick Van Dyke
from back in the day, whatever the hell you want
to do. But if you're down in those types of numbers,
doesn't matter what the team's doing. You need to be
putting up herculean numbers. And just because it's May, you're
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not gonna be forgiven. But if suddenly, with the weather
heating up, his bat does too, Yeah, he can lollygag
all he wants. Nobody's gonna care because they're laughing because
they're going around, you know, like a merry go round
around the base paths. But for where it stands right now,
and Alonzo's errors ain't helping things, cause what are you
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looking for? All the negativity when you lose a couple
of games, particularly did the dreaded Yankees, because that's all
anybody who's looking right. The Knicks haven't played since Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, it's that game. You probably has a play again Wednesday.
That's too long, man. We need them to play tonight.
We need the Knicks to play tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But but how much attention's being paid to him if
it's a Knicks night?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
None? Yeah? Yeah, even look even even Sunday night. Look here,
here's a game. It's a Sunday. It wasn't that big
a deal. But two nights, they are all come telling
you the one thing you could suck. Okay, And I
don't think one SODA's gonna continue to suck. He's gonna
hit eventually, he's too good a player not to. But
if he sucks, he sucks. Okay, I mean, what are
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you gonna do? The guys the most dangerous hitter in
baseball for seven years be typical Mets luck. If they
get him now, he sucks. But you gotta hustle. You can't.
You can't not do it because nothing's gonna make your
life miserable more than if the fans turn on you
if you're not hustled, because that's gonna be getting booed
all the time. And you can tell that Soda is
one of those players that I care about what the
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fans say. I care about having a relationship with them. Right,
what did he do and the Yankee fans boot him
on Friday is first at bat? He tipped his cap
to the crowd. Right, he had a lot of fun
with them. He hears what said up about him. He's
someone he's got rabbit ears. He understands that, Hey, when
people are saying stuff about me, I want it to
be positive. Doesn't like getting booed. Well guess what, man,
that's gonna happen. I mean the what you can do
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a lot of things, but not hustling isn't one of them.
Many things you can get in a fight with your teammate. Right,
remember the Jeff McNeil h Francisco Lindor thing about, oh
we saw a rat in the dugout, what are you
talking about? Well that turned out to my fight.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But you can then they showed the guy off in
the corner who is giving signs to the opposite.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean it was an actual rat. Got a hustle got,
you got, you got. I mean, that's that's one thing
that it doesn't need to be something where Mendoza, you know,
throws stuff everywhere, but it's got to be dude, you
have to hustle. Man. You don't understand. That's what I
would say, is I would say, you don't understand what
your life can be like. If you're not hustling. The
fans will turn against you, and you don't want that
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to happen, and that your teammates will turn against you
because you're not hustling. And I get that. It's different
for Soto this year, and we talked about this when
it happened. My one concern for him was he's been
a great player, right, but he's been a great player
when he's not had to worry about a lot of responsibility.
But now he's mister seven hundred and sixty five million dollars,
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things are different for him. If he doesn't hit, it's
a big front page headline. If he doesn't hustle, it's
a big headline everywhere on the internet and non social media.
How is he going to deal with the fact that
now I'm not just Jan Soto great player, I'm Juan
Soto biggest or one of the two biggest contracts in
Major League Baseball history, Like, how do I deal with
(23:32):
that now that I'm front and center? And so far
he's not been dealing with that. Great doesn't mean you can't.
I mean he's a little bit of an attitude adjustment.
But I told you the one big concern about him
was that how does he deal with the fact that
now things are incredibly different for him? He is in
a more rarefied air than any other player in baseball
not named Shoe Heyo Tani. How do you deal with it?
And so far that's not been a passing grade for him.
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So my one concern is starting to come true. The
silver lining Mets are a half game out of first place.
We've been in first place. We fall out tonight, doesn't matter,
it's May. They're ten games over five hundred. Everything is fine,
and the best record in baseball until a couple of
nights ago. That's the one thing that okay, So clearly
it's not tearing the team apart. But for Sodo, man,
that's the concern right there. Deal with the fact that
(24:16):
you were a seven or sixty five million dollar player
and understand that not hustling is something that can't happen.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, I gotta say, first off, I want to give
you great credit for subtly getting in the John Cena
attitude adjustment move.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
So good for you. Two other things related to want
soda here.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Number one go back to the booth joking Cohen he
knew he was supposed to be on second pause. But
it's a larger pattern with Sodo. He's not running hard
all the time, and this is something he really needs
to clean up.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Second thing is the fact that dude to shirking responsibilities
in ducking New York media. You can lollygag a little
bit running from first to second, maybe getting out of
the box because people are understand how he thought he
got it uh and he got got uh.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But if you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Constantly maybe make mistakes, have a subpar day at the
office and then not show up for any of the
media sessions or tell reporters, hey, I'll talk after the
game and then not show up, that ain't gonna fly
very long.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
But it will if.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, if he hits. If he hits, it doesn't matter.
All of this stuff. All of this stuff doesn't matter,
right the media all. It doesn't matter. If he hits all,
that'll go away. But the one that it won't go
away is not hustling. You get tag with that and
you become that guy. That's it. He's been crushes you,
that crushes you.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, but if you hit, if you hit well enough,
you can get by it. I mean, everybody loves Manny Machado.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Now not everybody. Well talking Dodger, I can't stand the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You hate everybody unless they're gonna be a future Dodger
or Laker. True, if you've used.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Them up and you've spit them out, say like Jason
when he loves loves loves all the Jets quarterbacks that
they draft and and and throws them away the moment
it's announced they've been released or tre.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Moving on now, I mean, like I get done. That's
the way we're gone. I moved on. Yeah, Hey, I
couldn't stand now. I love you. Hey, this is awesomere
my god, Hey, I believe it. But but there's again
not hustling in New Sir, In New York, you can't
not hustle. Right, there was a story who was Brian
Cashman actually had that going on with a with a
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play oh, when they were they were pursuing Machado, right
when Machada is gonna be a free agent, and and
Brian I think it was Brian Cash and maybe I
may be wrong, but story came out with the Yankees
where they had a meeting with him and they said, listen,
you have to hustle. You can't not hustle in New York, right,
you can't do it. You can't. You can get and
like I said, you'll get away with a lot of things.
No one's gonna care about blowing off the press, especially
(26:55):
if you're upset that every keeps asking you about Judge
going into the Yankee series. That's fine, you're a set,
you're not hitting for the first time ever. Okay, everybody
will give you some time to figure that out. But
on the field, if you do not hustle, that is
going to be the worst thing you can do. Trust me,
trust me on I know it. Trust me. If he
does that, that's gonna that's gonna absolutely torpedo his season.
(27:17):
So hopefully it disc gets taken care of. I can uh.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I've got a million White Sox quotes from the from
the years of players. My one of my favorites that
relates directly to this Julio Cruz, second baseman right Seattle
and with the White Sox h At one point he
was really struggling at the plate and like, you know, Julio,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He goes, I don't have to hit. I'm a spark.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Plug, all right, there you go, asked and answered, I
don't have to hit.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm good. Don't worry about it. I'm all good. I
get I do other things. Time out to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Wan Soto of Fox.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Sports Radio, do you dare?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He takes his own sweet time getting from his car
to the studio. It's Steve.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
The Sega Diamondbacks an nine to three at Dodger Stadium.
As they go to the ninth so La, it looks
like we'll drop to twenty nine and nineteen. Giants are
twenty eight and twenty. They've lost at home to Kansas
City three to one. Padres not playing tonight Philadelphia twenty
nine and eighteen. After a win at Colorado in a
comeback nine to three, Rockies led three to one going
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to the seventh inning. Kyle Schwarber with a late solo
homer estimated to go four hundred and sixty six feet,
his sixteenth homer of the year. Choeotani then hit his
seventeenth in the Dodger game. The leads the Majors right now.
Bottom of the eighth, Angels lead four to three at
the A's. Seattle got a grand slam in the eighth
from Julio Rodriguez and the Mariners team that just swept
(28:46):
a three game series in San Diego one again five
to one, this time at the White Sox, who've lost
five in a row. Baltimore's lost seventh straight. Milwaukee beat
him five to four with a run. Bottom of the eighth,
William Contreras went four for four, two RBIs and including
the game winner. Cleveland at Minnesota suspended by rain after
three innings. They hoped to continue tomorrow, weather permitting. Saint
(29:07):
Louis had a rain delay. Bottom of the seventh. Cardinals
led eleven nothing after seven eleven to four the final,
The Cards beat Detroit sunny Gray five and one got
the win. Houston won four to three at Tampa Bay
as the Rays with runners in scoring position, went one
for ten. The Reds have won five straight. They were
up two to one after seven innings, wound up winning
seven to one at Pittsburgh. Miami with two runs bottom
(29:29):
of the ninth edge the Cubs eight to seven Miguel Amaya.
The Cubs did have a homer and five RBIs. The
Cubs recalled third baseman Matt Shaw from triple A at
a single and an RBI double. In the defeat at Boston.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora was missing attending his daughter's
graduation at Boston College. Red Sox beat the Mets three
to one, save to e roald As Chapman the loss
(29:50):
to Codeae Sengo, who pitched six innings. Mets record now
twenty nine to nineteen. The Philadelphia Eagles gave coach Nick
Sirianni a contract extension. The forty nine Ers gave low
I'm backer Fred Warner a three year extension worth almost
fifty seven million dollars guaranteed. Brown's quarterback Shaduur Sanders signed
his rookie contract, as did Chargers first round running back
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of mari And Hampton and Green Bay wide receiver Matthew Golden.
In the NBA, Oklahoma City hosts Minnesota to start the
Western Conference Finals on Tuesday night. The East Finals start
Wednesday with Indiana at New York. The NBA Finals begin
June fifth. One WNBA game tonight Seattles seventy nine seventy
one winner at Dallas Neckaguomaka with twenty three points eighteen rebounds.
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In the NHL, Florida is in the East Final against
Carolina starting Tuesday. Then Dallas hosts Edmonton in the opener
of the West Final Wednesday. And a reminder, Fox TV
will have the Indy five hundred this Sunday. Robert Schwartzman
earned the poll, the first Indy five hundred rookies since
nineteen eighty three to win the poll. He's from Israel.
Fox has all the IndyCar races this year, including the
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one on the Streets of Detroit the next weekend after
the five hundred.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Back to you, Oh man, I'm excited about that, all
the all the places I used to go. You see, Hey,
look at that. Think you're gonna have a big thing. Yeah,
I can't wait seeing Detroit. I'm so excited about that.
How don't even look at you?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Sounds like you're gonna break into the race on the
streets of Detroit.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
See, here's the thing. I don't even know if there's
gonna be like barriers, Like they may just have to
drive around other how people are driving for you. Yeah,
it's gonna be Jason Smith in the lead, but he
has stopped at Whitecastle. Always gonna lose time off this lead.
But boy, he looks.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
So happy of auto racing.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's got a crave case. Thank you, Steve. Uh you
know this quick story from Major League I love this story,
you know, because now I love that Major League Baseball
is okay with using the minor leagues to experiment with
with potential umpiring changes. And uh, starting tomorrow, major League
Baseball is gonna experiment with a technology that's going to
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be able to challenge checked swing calls. They're gonna start
this single a and they're gonna use this Hawkeye system.
So Jeremy Renner is in charge. Where a check swing
call can be challenged by either team, either hitting or
in the field. The decision's gonna be made based on
whether the bat heead is ahead of the knob by
more than forty five degrees. Shorter forty five degrees is
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called a no swing. So there's gonna be math Mike.
We're gonna be like pro tractors and stuff to figure
this stuff out. I love this story.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I love this laying the grid on, and I can't
wait to see how they they try to explain it
to you.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Well, as this.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Goes on, here you go, you can see the angle
of the bat right here and where the barrel is relative,
and it'll be like a four minute explanation.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh your chet swing. You'll see the angle right here.
It looks like it could be. This may be forty two,
forty three degrees at most. I'll tell you it's got
that forty seven degree. It might be forty eight degrees.
This could wind up being a swing. But this would
it get implemented as a coaches a slade manager's challenge? Well,
team's going to be allowed to make a challenge until
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it has one unsuccessful challenge. So that's what it is.
So if you keep winning, you keep rolling the dice
man check swaying. Hey it didn't go around. Oh that's great.
I love that.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Double up, Yeah, double up Hitwye Hawkeye system Hawkeye Hawk
not just a season two of no season two of
Hawkeye on Disney Plus we're getting the Hawkeye System Hawk.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's too bad. We needed more of Renner and Hailey Steiner.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
So if you lose the challenge, you get a bow
and arrow to your face.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You do you watch it? You get you they they
stand you up and tie you to a tree and
they shoot a bow and arrow at you. That's right.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
You get mesmerized by the tests, seract and who the
hell knows from there?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
At this point, I'd rather have another season of Hawky
than the rest of and Or? How do people and
Or is the most boring show in the world. How
do people say this is the greatest show ever? Season
two is so boring? Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Okay, you know what's great about it? I missed it?
Oh so TJ. Clearly you could watch the show and
or miss it and you'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
DJ. Coming up next, we get back into the biggest
basketball story the last forty eight hours, where one superstar
has sent a message to the rest of their league.
That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:25):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My Best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, and something a little different on
the Caitlin Clark Angel Reese play from this weekend. We'll
dive deep into the aspect of it. We have the
new investigation that's now going on over something that allegedly
was said with racial undertones to it to Angel Reese
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on the sideliner during the game on Saturday, and we
can get into the hole back and forth about what
the foul was and how it plays out. But thing
to really see that I took away from this right
one thing completely out of the realm of the rivalry
between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese, and how it's ridiculous
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that Caitlyn Clark gets called for a flagrant foul when
she would have never gotten that call last year and
probably wouldn't have gotten it this year. And it was
ridiculous that they upgraded to a flavor, which tells you
what she's gonna fight through. But just seeing her make
that play on Angel Reese very matter of factly, I'm
gonna show you how strong I am and I don't
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need to make this play where I'm helping a teammate
because you pushed her in the back for a rebound.
You know the previous play, I'm gonna I'm gonna make
a play where I'm gonna hold your arms down and
stop you from getting a layup. Right now, Angel Reese
has the size on Caitlyn Clark. But we know Caitlyn
Clark's been working out in the offseason. You saw, you
know that big video of her back in or big
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shot of her back in Iowa, and she's got her
hands in fist and you see your guns like wea.
Caitlin Clark is getting jack. She's working out. Part of
what happened on Saturday with this was this is Caitlin
Clark doing what she did to Angel Reese. Here's a
nationally televised game against her biggest quote rival, which, okay, fine,
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she is showing everyone this year ain't last year. Okay,
I'm gonna send a message rest of the w ain't
gonna be like last year. I am stronger and I'm
gonna fight back when you do something to me or
my team. I'm not gonna sit back and wonder how
I should react, because I'm I'm the golden Goose of
the league, and I wonder. I don't want to say
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things or have anything I say or do be presented
in a way that that makes me look bad, like
she's trying to figure out how to be an absolute
superstar in the face of being made one so quickly.
But I want you to I learned a lot, and
I spent some time. I didn't play a lot of
basketball in the office. I worked out a lot. I
got ready. But last year ain't this year. I am stronger,
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I am fighting back. I'm gonna show you Game one
on national TV that this is what it's gonna be.
I just want a physical confrontation with a player you
would think I'd not be able to win a physical
confrontation with with someone who gets the basketball, is a big,
physical rebounder, and I'm gonna show you that last year
is not this year. You guys got to get out
of my way. I think there was a good portion
(37:24):
of that with Caitlin Clark making that play on Angel
Reese the way she did. She could have just grabbed
her arm and kind of pulled a little bit and
stopped her from getting a layup, but she made sure.
I am putting my arms over you. Yes, to stick
up for a teammate, but also to show you how
strong I am that you think you're gonna get away
with last year and embodying me and hitting me. That
is not gonna happen this year. You are not gonna
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flagor and foul me and get away with it. You
are not going to physically intimidate me. I am fighting
back as last year, ain't this year?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I mean even look, she's never been a shrinking violet, right,
She's been more than okay with mixing it up, chirping
and the physicality going back to her college days.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I mean that is nothing new.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
What is is, to your point, a little bit of
the extra physicality to it and the strength odd display here.
She could have waited for Angel Reese to start going
up to the basket and come swatting down across her
head neck.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
She didn't, right, it.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Was challenging the basketball there Now from the reverse angle
that came out right, now we get all the Zapruva
film and here's another. Yeah, she gives her an extra
little shove to help her on her way.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Does it again?
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Does it rise to the level of flagrant in the end,
doesn't really matter. Everybody talks about it. The other stuff
that flows out of it's unfortunate, but for Caitlin Clark. Look,
she also made her point with Dewanna Barner making sure
she got her points and giving her all the flowers
to become the what third all time score, talking about
(38:57):
Aliah Boston and looking out for her, looking out for
Howard all the way through, you know, looking after the teammates,
but showing that you know strength. It's not everybody's got
to look after me. I'll be more more than capable
of holding my own and being part of this. We've
rebuilt this team and you're you're not gonna get away
with what you did last year. You could do super
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cuts last year of the extra curriculars of her going
to the basket, taking an extra hit. Even in Saturday's game,
there were a couple of Drive Buys players that just
decided I'm gonna come over and I'm just gonna hit you.
It's like, okay, sure, so she's she's certainly attuned to it.
And for the league, you know they're monitoring, but right
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now the hype is good. All the extra attention to
the w NBA in year two for an opening weekend
was all you wanted.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
And then deciding, hey, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Do the ultimate and the flipping you off by going
back into a game that's thirty points, decided.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
To get my triple double. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Uh people calling for an investigation of that, by the way,
But all of that to say, you know, it's the
dusty road slamm this sucker down to her.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah. Look, if if this was if this was a
different player, I don't think she could she I don't
think she fouls that way. If this was not Angel Reese,
was a different player who was coming that she didn't
have a past with, or someone that even if they
even if they physically, you know, push their teammate in
the back, I think it would have been a little
bit differently. It would have been something where she stops
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the play. But it's Angel Reese, and I can send
a message right here, and I can do that.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Like all I think that was whoever was if you
do that to a teammate, I think you were getting that.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Uh maybe, But she doesn't want to go too over
the top, but I this is the way to send
the message. This was the way. I don't think she
sends the message with somebody else. But she still want
to know how.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
The official doesn't call the push in the back though
you're to the stantch it, how do you not see that?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah? I know right, well, how do you upgrade that
foul to a flagrant fowl? Which is ridiculous? Right le mean?
Come on, angel Rees flopped and fell and then got mad.
Oh it's a flagrant foult. Come on. Uh. We'll lot
more on this story coming up next hour, but straight ahead,
the biggest story
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show
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Fox Sports Radio studios where Dodgers making things interesting against
the Diamondbacks. Home runs from Otani and Mookie Bets make
it a seven to three game. Oh he's going, Sammy,
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So so now we're getting there, getting there, getting there again.
Dodger's looking to avoid four in a row, with four
losses in a row after getting swept at the hands
of the Angels over the weekend, which I believe the
Angel will hang a banner for that said, sure, or
have a big bobblehead night for it where they just
you know, somehow I'm able to commemorate it. Uh, sometime
(01:12):
in July. Here's all the team and over there is
Mike Trout watching? Yeah? Is it onside? It's all there.
It's Mike Trout, That's what it is. So my NBA
lottery conspiracy theory on top of conspiracy theory in a second.
But first I just wanted to say this because I forget.
You know, look, we're waiting for the NBA Playoffs to
rea zoom again tomorrow, which gave you our picks for
(01:34):
the Thunder and the and the Tea Wolves a few
minutes ago. Uh. You know what. One of the story
that I love from this weekend was watching Tray Young
trolling the Nick Fans viral. Yes stop. Tray Young put
out a tweet after the Knicks one and and you know,
people talk about how loud Madison Square Garden is. He
put out a tweet that said, sorry, sorry Nick Fans,
(01:56):
Oklahoma City is louder. Oh sorry sorry if that you know,
get you, dude. Whatever we talked about, Caitlyn Clark lives
rent free in Angel Reese's head, which clearly is part
of what goes on between the two of them. The
Knicks live rent free in Trey Young's head. Okay, he
is only relevant when Atlanta wins in New York maybe
(02:17):
once a year. That's the only time Trey Young is relevant.
We don't even talk about him at the trade deadline.
But oh, I'll win a game in New York and
I'll wave to the fans or I'll pretend to celebrate
on the Knicks logo, and people pay attention to me
for all of eight seconds. Meanwhile, after this game, I'm
back to not even making the playoffs, or maybe squeaking
(02:38):
into the playing round and being basically irrelevant. He's like
Reggie Miller lte right, like the way Reggie Miller gets
under Knicks fans skin, which I'm sure is gonna happen
in this series. He's gonna be broadcasting the games like
Trey Young is like Reggie Miller light. It's like, dude,
you don't annoy everybody that much. Okay, And oh, by
the way, just like Reggie Miller would have been if
the Knicks called and said, hey, we're Young, we want
(03:00):
a trade for you, he would say, oh, yes, one
hundred percent. I love New York. It's my greatest dream
to play for the Knicks. I love playing in that building.
He would change, he would throw his arms around the fans,
he would go and do autographed signings at model's. He
would do anything he could to get to the Knicks
just to be relevant again. So yeah, so when Trey
Young does like, yeah whatever, he's just jealous and he's
(03:22):
Reggie Miller lights, that's what he's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean, look, I hate the Cubs, but if they
came and suddenly offered me a giant deal to be
a broadcast partner with them, all I might have to
look at it or put on a jersey long enough
to throw out a first pitch it ring. I mean, yeah,
you could do those kind of things. I man, Bernie
Mack did, and Bernie Mack can do it. So could
I look all of that to say for Trey Young?
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I mean, he did win that playoff series in twenty
twenty one. He still has that on you. And this
really comes back to the age old. Well, let's go
into the movies, because we love to go to the
movies with our references. Let's go to the Last Crusade
when Indiana Jones helps that that old Knight finally shed
this mortal quote.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
What's he saying? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You need to exercise some demons, Knicks fans, right, this
is how you shut Reggie Miller up once and for
all because you know how many rings he got nothing,
how many Trey Young got nothing, But for the moment.
They still have those huge playoff wins and experiences that
have caused decades of angst in the case of Miller,
(04:29):
and several years of you shaking your fists and getting mad.
You hate Steph Curry in his mouthpiece, and you just
don't like the sight of Trey Young because of what
he did.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He get forty years. Oh, I don't care about that anymore.
The guy okay, yeah, okay, we got to the playoffs
and we loved Let's go look at look at where
he's gone. The guy is irrelevant now. He was one
of the most exciting players in the NBA, and now
he's irrelevant again. We don't even talk with him around
the trade deadline, which when we should talk about him.
It's Hey, he wins a game, he gets a little
bit minor headlines for a night because he celebrated on MSG.
(05:01):
He would if the Knicks wanted to try, I'm telling
you man, he would show. He would ride the subway
and do PSA and say Hi, I'm Trey Young. I
ride the subway to and from MSG all the time.
Ride with me, save money, save traffic. He would do
anything New York asked of him. He would do that.
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I have to figure out the benefit to his wallet, though,
because how how big is the tax discrepancy between New
York uh and Georgia? And let's face it, I mean
the cost of real estate is going to be through
the roof five year, two hundred and fifteen million dollar
deal signed in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So he's getting close, getting close bud apartment? Man? Yeah,
how far away from uh? Massive regards? Oh dude, you're
in the Bronx. Wait what yeah? Yeah, yeah, No, you're
deep in the Bronx. Now you're talking about riding a
different type of train. I love Amtrak. Yeah, you know,
I can't get it from you. Gotta get to Penn
(05:56):
Station and then you're gonna get Okay, then we'll find
we'll find a way to don't wory about it, We'll
find a way to get you. Jason.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Your comparison is a little off, though, How is that?
What the hell's wrong with Miller Light?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I'm gonna say he's Reggie Miller Light.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
There's nothing wrong with Miller Light eight double and it's
better than Trey Young.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Uh cold Miller Light tray. Okay, yeah, sure, okay, I'll
give you that. Yeah. Generally, the one night a year
where Trey Young maybe wins an MSG, I get Trey
Young the other three sixty four Miller Light.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
But on that night you just drink two of them.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Why stop it too? I mean if you look.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, no, no, that's only because he normally has at least
one stolen off the table.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, while he's trying to drink it. Well, yeah, exit out,
exit swollen, dumb. Jason Smith Mike har Lock for the
Fox Sports Radio. A lot of bricks at the bars, man,
I tell you, yeah, I'll tell you, man, not just
not just not just not just that Trey Young throws
up there for the most part when he's shooting, when
he goes nine for thirty six. No, no, no, But
(07:04):
I've talked about this and now I'm going to give
you a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory. Okay. Uh.
We played the Shaquille O'Neill audio for you a few
minutes ago, in which he did a podcast earlier today
where he said, hey, yeah, talk about the NBA Draft
lottery potentially being fixed before the Draft lottery in nineteen
ninety two. When Shaq came out, Commissioner David Sturry, He says,
(07:24):
David Stern called him into room and said, hey, where
do you want to play? Where it's hot or cold?
He will you surf for ski? Right? I got cush
la cush, latch cush. We just watched that this weekend
and he's.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Decided she wanted to watch it, but you know, random
note not to take it too far down. The Tangent
Rookie premiere was this weekend. All the photo shoots for
the trading cards and stuff out here in La Kay
Adams posted that she asked everybody about Jerry Maguire, all
the attendees, nobody knew what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'll tell you, I'm sweating, dude, sweating my contract. Sugar,
Bob Sugar telling me I'm missing opportunity by being with you.
So surfersky, kush left whatever. Jared just want to play
ball Dad, one of those agents. So Shaq says, yeah,
you know, do I want to play where it's hot
or cold? I said hot? And Tadah the Orlando Magic
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one of only a couple of teams warm weather teams
in the lottery. Everybody else is a cold weather team,
and hey, they win the draft lottery. Now, conspiracy theory
on top of conspiracy theory, conspiracy theory, the NBA Draft
lottery is fixed. Why one reason that I could throw
out there that I would say, I guarantee you that
(08:33):
this would be something thought about, is that so NBA
teams will understand I'm not going to win the draft lottery,
that Sacramento's not gonna win the draft lottery, right, and
the Pistons aren't going to win the draft all these
different things. Well, pists actually won a couple years ago.
But what I'm saying is these smaller teams that, hey,
(08:55):
we're gonna tank because I'd rather the ping pong balls
come our way and maybe we can get somebody big
and that would change our franchise. No. Well, with the
NBA Draft lottery again, conspiracory that it's fixed. This sends
these teams a message, don't tank because you're not gonna
get the number one pick. Oh Cooper flag is here.
Guess what Mavericks get it? Oh Man, Yeah, no, that's
(09:16):
kind of how it goes. So the conspiracy theory that
the draft lottery is fixed to get teams to stop tanking,
so they give them more honest effort and they play
more for the playoffs and try to move on than
they do. Hey, we're done. We're putting it away at
game sixty five. There's no reason to try anymore, and
we're happy being the lottery where we could get the
ping pong balls fall our way. Conspiracy theory about a
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conspiracy theory. Oh I kind of like that.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, so it really the secret decoder ring says, don't
tank or just try, just try. Let's let's use the
soul savers and get them in, just try.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Right on one point eight percent here one point eight percent.
Derek row was six percent and change for Zion Williamson.
You've got you've got to, and you help the league
by making trades in the case of Anthony Davis and
Luka Doncic.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Telling you man, just think about it. It accomplishes all
those things. Is now teams can say, all right, well
they're not gonna give us the pick, so we may
as well try. Oh hey look we got in, we
squeaked in. Hey we got out of the playing round.
Hey look we won the first round of the playoffs. Hey,
we upset the Apple card. We get more teams, more
concerted effort, better play at the end of the season, right,
more exciting play than just how many twenty five point
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burials do we see from game fifty five or sixty
on where it's like, okay, well the Knicks are playing
the Hornets tonight. This is gonna be the Knicks by
fifty because the Hornets have quit, or here's the thunder
or playing the playing the Kings. Whatever, Hey, this is
gonna be a burial. This is gonna be this is
gonna be a thirty point win. Like you don't see
that anymore? Like now suddenly we're we're we're fixing the
draft lottery to improve the caliber of play in the NBA.
(10:57):
That is like chef's kiss, what just try?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean, think of all these teams perennially bad made ownership,
general manager, so many bites at the Apple and it
at no point is their hunger quenched, right, and is
it's you know, is your stomach full by any shots?
I feel like I'm in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
(11:22):
I drink and I feel nothing whatever else, But yeah,
it's because I'm thinking of all these bottom feeding organizations.
Doesn't seem to really work out for them. Man, they
can't get out of their own way. And as a
lifelong Chicago guy, I mean certainly that's kind of been
the case in my world too, Caleb Williams. It's all
(11:44):
on you, Derek Rose. You had your year, and now
we go from there. I mean I had Joe Kim Noah,
he tried harder.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah he did. We know we tried hard.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, I mean he was he was part of the
try hard generation. But I kind of like the cut
of your jib here, yeah, telling you making and going
the other way saying, all right, you might be bad,
but you at least have to give me an honest effort.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You like that, right, Yeah? Yeah, because you're not gonna
get the ping pong balls or not gonna fall your way. Yeah,
but we have a fourteen point that you have a
zero percent chance of getting the number one overall pick.
Zero point. You have a blue Tarsky GPA chance of
getting that number one overall pick, and that is zero
point zero zero. So now you're gonna go play well,
(12:28):
I guess all right, God, how fun?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But what if your team just sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, there's always that justin. It depends if your team
just sucks but they're not really relevant. You're not getting
the pick. If your team sucks but you're the Sixers
or the Bulls or the Mavericks. Hey, you got a chance.
You got a chance. Man seems to have a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But this is where you wish in the NBA you
had a team like the Packers where you at least
get some of the financial data that comes out in
terms of revenues and how it flows through. Because with
the national TV rights deal that they just saw, what
was it seventy five billion or some astronomical and out
I mean cut between thirty teams.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The hell do you care? We suck?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, fans aren't showing up. I don't get their popcorn money.
Oh no, I'm still getting a giant ass check from
the league no matter how bad I am.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dumb. Jason Smith,
Mike Harbon, He's the one with a novelty check that
he wants to carry and show you damn rights, fold
it up and bring it with Coming up next, we
got a big basketball story coming your way. Plus an
emerging baseball story that we kind of have to do. Yeah,
I know, No, we gotta do it. It's a big
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deal about Babe. It is not about Babe.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Schwartz did Peter Alnzo air mill and other thrill?
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Speaker 1 (14:56):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Dance Well, more of the biggest basketball story
the last forty eight hours coming up in a couple
of minutes. But the Lakers did not know.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, don't you know.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Joannis wants to be a Nick. He did that Q
and A on Saturday night with his fans on Twitter to.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
He likes warm weather.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They said fair, they said favorite place to play a way,
we're getting it. The Knicks are getting the Dick's gonna
get you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Honest, talk about his favorite food, his favorite movies, all
of those things.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It was really a deep and introspective kind of thing.
It was great. Yeah, Oh it's yeah. Look, everybody wants
to be a Nicknam because the Knicks are good. Look
at this, Look at Nicks are great seeds. They're holding
up the NBA playoffs by the We're sweeping the Pacers.
They're holding up the NBA playoffs by themselves by cheating.
They're not cheating. No, there is no evidence of You
can't just say that, Mary. You can't just say cheating
(15:50):
if you say, hey, Cole envelope, Patrick Ewing eighty five. Okay,
but you can't say they're cheating. This year not happening.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I mean, they know where they want to play. How
cold cheating they.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Got, Mary, justedly that is true. That is true. Uh
So while we get set, we're getting set for the
Knicks Pacers four game series coming up on Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Series priced for the Knicks, uh Knicks minus one sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You know for all of the all the Pacers are
really good. Here's the Pacers. They're gonna send that fan
of the game and the viral video. We'll get to
that in a late later on. All. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
everyone in that locker room knows what happened last year
with the Knicks and the Pacers and Rick Carlisle complaining
about the officiating and everybody getting hurt. No, the Knicks
got a little something something for the Pacers. I'm not
(16:36):
too worried about that. I'm not I'm not worried about
games where they're coming out flat. I'm not worting. I
got a little something something for you. We'll see on
Wednesday night.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Okay, but Julius Randall isn't there to exact revenge.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, we'll get Julius. Maybe we'll get Julius Randall in
another round, it's okay. Or we'll get Isaiah Hartenstein in
a round.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
We'll get we'll get one.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
He's saving all his threes for this game against Then.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I'm bringing in a camera for a different angle as
we watch those games together.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
This is gonna die right here for the fertilize it.
But this story is starting to gain some attention. Yes,
we'll talk about it the last couple of days. Everybody's
favorite seven hundred and sixty five million dollars slugger Wan
Soto has been accused with video evidence of not hustling.
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Happened against the Yankees last night, in a game where
the Yankees wound up beating the Mets, in which he
didn't run out of ground ball the second might have
been able to beat it out, you never know, might
have been able to change a game, but didn't hustle. Okay, Well,
one play not hustling, all right, that I can kind
of understand that. Then tonight against the Red Sox, he
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thought he had a home run, he did not, and
he wound up at first base.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
What did I say to the point one?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
So I know, fly as one deep to laugh back
to the whoa, and it's off the fact and Soda
will have to stop at first base. Sodo barely got
to first, he's running on the first pitch and he
steals the base. So the Mets rad Yeah, okay, I
(18:17):
understood that I wasn't hustling, so I stole second base? Okay. Uh.
Carlos Mendez, a Mets manager, said tonight he's going to
talk to Jan Soda about hustling out of the batter's
box after he watched what he thought was a home
run bounce off the Green Monster. Now, listen, should wan
So too be hustling one hundred percent? One hundred percent?
(18:37):
You can't. You can't not hustle in New York. Right.
There's some places that will allow that where you cannot hustle,
but certain places you can't. You can't do it in
New York, you can't do it in l A. Remember
Johnny hustling Manny Machado, Right, you can't certain places you
can't do it. Some places will overlook your transgressions. If
you're a big star, you can't do it there because
the media and the fans will hold you accountable and
(19:00):
make your life miserable. So this is it, Like this
is where Juan Soto has to kind of come around to, Hey,
you got to understand, however, you did things in the
past in San Diego and and every other place that
was okay with you doing it because they wanted you
to stay right. So, hey, we don't want to upset
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the guy. We want him just want to stay here, right.
But didn't happen in San Diego, didn't happen in New York.
He's a lot with the Yankees. But now he's a
mat and he's got seven hundred and sixty five million
dollars and it's guaranteed. No, dude, he still got a hustle.
So you got a hustle, man Chase. There's nothing that's
going to get you to be have a miserable life
than not running things out. And now it's front in
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front and center, and now here's your chance to take
care of it, right, And and he kind of did
by stealing second right after. But you can't have another
instance of I'm not hustling on a ground ball or
a fly ball where I could take an extra base on.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You cannot hustle all you want as long as you're
not tied for one hundred and second in batting, tied
for fortieth at home runs, and tied for ninety seventh
and RBI.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
If you're right near the top of those.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Walk if you want, crawl, moon walk, skip down the road,
do a little burt thing like you're Dick Van Dyke
from back in the day, whatever the hell you want
to do. But if you're down in those types of numbers,
doesn't matter what the team's doing. You need to be
putting up herculean numbers. And just because it's May, you're
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not gonna be forgiven. But if suddenly, with the weather
heating up, his bat does too, Yeah, he can lollygag
all he wants. Nobody's gonna care because they're laughing because
they're going around, you know, like a merry go round
around the base paths. But for where it stands right now,
and Alonzo's errors ain't helping things, cause what are you
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looking for? All the negativity when you lose a couple
of games, particularly did the dreaded Yankees, because that's all
anybody who's looking right. The Knicks haven't played since Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, it's that game. You probably has a play again Wednesday.
That's too long, man. We need them to play tonight.
We need the Knicks to play tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
But but how much attention's being paid to him if
it's a Knicks night?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
None? Yeah? Yeah, even look even even Sunday night. Look here,
here's a game. It's a Sunday. It wasn't that big
a deal. But two nights, they are all come telling
you the one thing you could suck. Okay, And I
don't think one SODA's gonna continue to suck. He's gonna
hit eventually, he's too good a player not to. But
if he sucks, he sucks. Okay, I mean, what are
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you gonna do? The guys the most dangerous hitter in
baseball for seven years be typical Mets luck. If they
get him now, he sucks. But you gotta hustle. You can't.
You can't not do it because nothing's gonna make your
life miserable more than if the fans turn on you
if you're not hustled, because that's gonna be getting booed
all the time. And you can tell that Soda is
one of those players that I care about what the
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fans say. I care about having a relationship with them. Right,
what did he do and the Yankee fans boot him
on Friday is first at bat? He tipped his cap
to the crowd. Right, he had a lot of fun
with them. He hears what said up about him. He's
someone he's got rabbit ears. He understands that, Hey, when
people are saying stuff about me, I want it to
be positive. Doesn't like getting booed. Well guess what, man,
that's gonna happen. I mean the what you can do
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a lot of things, but not hustling isn't one of them.
Many things you can get in a fight with your teammate. Right,
remember the Jeff McNeil h Francisco Lindor thing about, oh
we saw a rat in the dugout, what are you
talking about? Well that turned out to my fight.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But you can then they showed the guy off in
the corner who is giving signs to the opposite.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean it was an actual rat. Got a hustle got,
you got, you got. I mean, that's that's one thing
that it doesn't need to be something where Mendoza, you know,
throws stuff everywhere, but it's got to be dude, you
have to hustle. Man. You don't understand. That's what I
would say, is I would say, you don't understand what
your life can be like. If you're not hustling. The
fans will turn against you, and you don't want that
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to happen, and that your teammates will turn against you
because you're not hustling. And I get that. It's different
for Soto this year, and we talked about this when
it happened. My one concern for him was he's been
a great player, right, but he's been a great player
when he's not had to worry about a lot of responsibility.
But now he's mister seven hundred and sixty five million dollars,
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things are different for him. If he doesn't hit, it's
a big front page headline. If he doesn't hustle, it's
a big headline everywhere on the internet and non social media.
How is he going to deal with the fact that
now I'm not just Jan Soto great player, I'm Juan
Soto biggest or one of the two biggest contracts in
Major League Baseball history, Like, how do I deal with
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that now that I'm front and center? And so far
he's not been dealing with that. Great doesn't mean you can't.
I mean he's a little bit of an attitude adjustment.
But I told you the one big concern about him
was that how does he deal with the fact that
now things are incredibly different for him? He is in
a more rarefied air than any other player in baseball
not named Shoe Heyo Tani. How do you deal with it?
And so far that's not been a passing grade for him.
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So my one concern is starting to come true. The
silver lining Mets are a half game out of first place.
We've been in first place. We fall out tonight, doesn't matter,
it's May. They're ten games over five hundred. Everything is fine,
and the best record in baseball until a couple of
nights ago. That's the one thing that okay, So clearly
it's not tearing the team apart. But for Sodo, man,
that's the concern right there. Deal with the fact that
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you were a seven or sixty five million dollar player
and understand that not hustling is something that can't happen.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, I gotta say, first off, I want to give
you great credit for subtly getting in the John Cena
attitude adjustment move.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
So good for you. Two other things related to want
soda here.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Number one go back to the booth joking Cohen he
knew he was supposed to be on second pause. But
it's a larger pattern with Sodo. He's not running hard
all the time, and this is something he really needs
to clean up.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Second thing is the fact that dude to shirking responsibilities
in ducking New York media. You can lollygag a little
bit running from first to second, maybe getting out of
the box because people are understand how he thought he
got it uh and he got got uh.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But if you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Constantly maybe make mistakes, have a subpar day at the
office and then not show up for any of the
media sessions or tell reporters, hey, I'll talk after the
game and then not show up, that ain't gonna fly
very long.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
But it will if.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, if he hits. If he hits, it doesn't matter.
All of this stuff. All of this stuff doesn't matter,
right the media all. It doesn't matter. If he hits all,
that'll go away. But the one that it won't go
away is not hustling. You get tag with that and
you become that guy. That's it. He's been crushes you,
that crushes you.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, but if you hit, if you hit well enough,
you can get by it. I mean, everybody loves Manny Machado.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Now not everybody. Well talking Dodger, I can't stand the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You hate everybody unless they're gonna be a future Dodger
or Laker. True, if you've used.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Them up and you've spit them out, say like Jason
when he loves loves loves all the Jets quarterbacks that
they draft and and and throws them away the moment
it's announced they've been released or tre.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Moving on now, I mean, like I get done. That's
the way we're gone. I moved on. Yeah, Hey, I
couldn't stand now. I love you. Hey, this is awesomere
my god, Hey, I believe it. But but there's again
not hustling in New Sir, In New York, you can't
not hustle. Right, there was a story who was Brian
Cashman actually had that going on with a with a
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play oh, when they were they were pursuing Machado, right
when Machada is gonna be a free agent, and and
Brian I think it was Brian Cash and maybe I
may be wrong, but story came out with the Yankees
where they had a meeting with him and they said, listen,
you have to hustle. You can't not hustle in New York, right,
you can't do it. You can't. You can get and
like I said, you'll get away with a lot of things.
No one's gonna care about blowing off the press, especially
(26:55):
if you're upset that every keeps asking you about Judge
going into the Yankee series. That's fine, you're a set,
you're not hitting for the first time ever. Okay, everybody
will give you some time to figure that out. But
on the field, if you do not hustle, that is
going to be the worst thing you can do. Trust me,
trust me on I know it. Trust me. If he
does that, that's gonna that's gonna absolutely torpedo his season.
(27:17):
So hopefully it disc gets taken care of. I can uh.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I've got a million White Sox quotes from the from
the years of players. My one of my favorites that
relates directly to this Julio Cruz, second baseman right Seattle
and with the White Sox h At one point he
was really struggling at the plate and like, you know, Julio,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He goes, I don't have to hit. I'm a spark.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Plug, all right, there you go, asked and answered, I
don't have to hit.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm good. Don't worry about it. I'm all good. I
get I do other things. Time out to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Wan Soto of Fox.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Sports Radio, do you dare?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He takes his own sweet time getting from his car
to the studio. It's Steve.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
The Sega Diamondbacks an nine to three at Dodger Stadium.
As they go to the ninth so La, it looks
like we'll drop to twenty nine and nineteen. Giants are
twenty eight and twenty. They've lost at home to Kansas
City three to one. Padres not playing tonight Philadelphia twenty
nine and eighteen. After a win at Colorado in a
comeback nine to three, Rockies led three to one going
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to the seventh inning. Kyle Schwarber with a late solo
homer estimated to go four hundred and sixty six feet,
his sixteenth homer of the year. Choeotani then hit his
seventeenth in the Dodger game. The leads the Majors right now.
Bottom of the eighth, Angels lead four to three at
the A's. Seattle got a grand slam in the eighth
from Julio Rodriguez and the Mariners team that just swept
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a three game series in San Diego one again five
to one, this time at the White Sox, who've lost
five in a row. Baltimore's lost seventh straight. Milwaukee beat
him five to four with a run. Bottom of the eighth,
William Contreras went four for four, two RBIs and including
the game winner. Cleveland at Minnesota suspended by rain after
three innings. They hoped to continue tomorrow, weather permitting. Saint
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Louis had a rain delay. Bottom of the seventh. Cardinals
led eleven nothing after seven eleven to four the final,
The Cards beat Detroit sunny Gray five and one got
the win. Houston won four to three at Tampa Bay
as the Rays with runners in scoring position, went one
for ten. The Reds have won five straight. They were
up two to one after seven innings, wound up winning
seven to one at Pittsburgh. Miami with two runs bottom
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of the ninth edge the Cubs eight to seven Miguel Amaya.
The Cubs did have a homer and five RBIs. The
Cubs recalled third baseman Matt Shaw from triple A at
a single and an RBI double. In the defeat at Boston.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora was missing attending his daughter's
graduation at Boston College. Red Sox beat the Mets three
to one, save to e roald As Chapman the loss
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to Codeae Sengo, who pitched six innings. Mets record now
twenty nine to nineteen. The Philadelphia Eagles gave coach Nick
Sirianni a contract extension. The forty nine Ers gave low
I'm backer Fred Warner a three year extension worth almost
fifty seven million dollars guaranteed. Brown's quarterback Shaduur Sanders signed
his rookie contract, as did Chargers first round running back
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of mari And Hampton and Green Bay wide receiver Matthew Golden.
In the NBA, Oklahoma City hosts Minnesota to start the
Western Conference Finals on Tuesday night. The East Finals start
Wednesday with Indiana at New York. The NBA Finals begin
June fifth. One WNBA game tonight Seattles seventy nine seventy
one winner at Dallas Neckaguomaka with twenty three points eighteen rebounds.
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In the NHL, Florida is in the East Final against
Carolina starting Tuesday. Then Dallas hosts Edmonton in the opener
of the West Final Wednesday. And a reminder, Fox TV
will have the Indy five hundred this Sunday. Robert Schwartzman
earned the poll, the first Indy five hundred rookies since
nineteen eighty three to win the poll. He's from Israel.
Fox has all the IndyCar races this year, including the
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one on the Streets of Detroit the next weekend after
the five hundred.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Back to you, Oh man, I'm excited about that, all
the all the places I used to go. You see, Hey,
look at that. Think you're gonna have a big thing. Yeah,
I can't wait seeing Detroit. I'm so excited about that.
How don't even look at you?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Sounds like you're gonna break into the race on the
streets of Detroit.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
See, here's the thing. I don't even know if there's
gonna be like barriers, Like they may just have to
drive around other how people are driving for you. Yeah,
it's gonna be Jason Smith in the lead, but he
has stopped at Whitecastle. Always gonna lose time off this lead.
But boy, he looks.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
So happy of auto racing.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's got a crave case. Thank you, Steve. Uh you
know this quick story from Major League I love this story,
you know, because now I love that Major League Baseball
is okay with using the minor leagues to experiment with
with potential umpiring changes. And uh, starting tomorrow, major League
Baseball is gonna experiment with a technology that's going to
(31:56):
be able to challenge checked swing calls. They're gonna start
this single a and they're gonna use this Hawkeye system.
So Jeremy Renner is in charge. Where a check swing
call can be challenged by either team, either hitting or
in the field. The decision's gonna be made based on
whether the bat heead is ahead of the knob by
more than forty five degrees. Shorter forty five degrees is
(32:20):
called a no swing. So there's gonna be math Mike.
We're gonna be like pro tractors and stuff to figure
this stuff out. I love this story.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I love this laying the grid on, and I can't
wait to see how they they try to explain it
to you.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Well, as this.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Goes on, here you go, you can see the angle
of the bat right here and where the barrel is relative,
and it'll be like a four minute explanation.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh your chet swing. You'll see the angle right here.
It looks like it could be. This may be forty two,
forty three degrees at most. I'll tell you it's got
that forty seven degree. It might be forty eight degrees.
This could wind up being a swing. But this would
it get implemented as a coaches a slade manager's challenge? Well,
team's going to be allowed to make a challenge until
(33:04):
it has one unsuccessful challenge. So that's what it is.
So if you keep winning, you keep rolling the dice
man check swaying. Hey it didn't go around. Oh that's great.
I love that.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Double up, Yeah, double up Hitwye Hawkeye system Hawkeye Hawk
not just a season two of no season two of
Hawkeye on Disney Plus we're getting the Hawkeye System Hawk.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's too bad. We needed more of Renner and Hailey Steiner.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
So if you lose the challenge, you get a bow
and arrow to your face.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You do you watch it? You get you they they
stand you up and tie you to a tree and
they shoot a bow and arrow at you. That's right.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
You get mesmerized by the tests, seract and who the
hell knows from there?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
At this point, I'd rather have another season of Hawky
than the rest of and Or? How do people and
Or is the most boring show in the world. How
do people say this is the greatest show ever? Season
two is so boring? Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Okay, you know what's great about it? I missed it?
Oh so TJ. Clearly you could watch the show and
or miss it and you'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
DJ. Coming up next, we get back into the biggest
basketball story the last forty eight hours, where one superstar
has sent a message to the rest of their league.
That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My Best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, and something a little different on
the Caitlin Clark Angel Reese play from this weekend. We'll
dive deep into the aspect of it. We have the
new investigation that's now going on over something that allegedly
was said with racial undertones to it to Angel Reese
(34:49):
on the sideliner during the game on Saturday, and we
can get into the hole back and forth about what
the foul was and how it plays out. But thing
to really see that I took away from this right
one thing completely out of the realm of the rivalry
between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese, and how it's ridiculous
(35:11):
that Caitlyn Clark gets called for a flagrant foul when
she would have never gotten that call last year and
probably wouldn't have gotten it this year. And it was
ridiculous that they upgraded to a flavor, which tells you
what she's gonna fight through. But just seeing her make
that play on Angel Reese very matter of factly, I'm
gonna show you how strong I am and I don't
(35:33):
need to make this play where I'm helping a teammate
because you pushed her in the back for a rebound.
You know the previous play, I'm gonna I'm gonna make
a play where I'm gonna hold your arms down and
stop you from getting a layup. Right now, Angel Reese
has the size on Caitlyn Clark. But we know Caitlyn
Clark's been working out in the offseason. You saw, you
know that big video of her back in or big
(35:55):
shot of her back in Iowa, and she's got her
hands in fist and you see your guns like wea.
Caitlin Clark is getting jack. She's working out. Part of
what happened on Saturday with this was this is Caitlin
Clark doing what she did to Angel Reese. Here's a
nationally televised game against her biggest quote rival, which, okay, fine,
(36:20):
she is showing everyone this year ain't last year. Okay,
I'm gonna send a message rest of the w ain't
gonna be like last year. I am stronger and I'm
gonna fight back when you do something to me or
my team. I'm not gonna sit back and wonder how
I should react, because I'm I'm the golden Goose of
the league, and I wonder. I don't want to say
(36:40):
things or have anything I say or do be presented
in a way that that makes me look bad, like
she's trying to figure out how to be an absolute
superstar in the face of being made one so quickly.
But I want you to I learned a lot, and
I spent some time. I didn't play a lot of
basketball in the office. I worked out a lot. I
got ready. But last year ain't this year. I am stronger,
(37:02):
I am fighting back. I'm gonna show you Game one
on national TV that this is what it's gonna be.
I just want a physical confrontation with a player you
would think I'd not be able to win a physical
confrontation with with someone who gets the basketball, is a big,
physical rebounder, and I'm gonna show you that last year
is not this year. You guys got to get out
of my way. I think there was a good portion
(37:24):
of that with Caitlin Clark making that play on Angel
Reese the way she did. She could have just grabbed
her arm and kind of pulled a little bit and
stopped her from getting a layup, but she made sure.
I am putting my arms over you. Yes, to stick
up for a teammate, but also to show you how
strong I am that you think you're gonna get away
with last year and embodying me and hitting me. That
is not gonna happen this year. You are not gonna
(37:46):
flagor and foul me and get away with it. You
are not going to physically intimidate me. I am fighting
back as last year, ain't this year?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I mean even look, she's never been a shrinking violet, right,
She's been more than okay with mixing it up, chirping
and the physicality going back to her college days.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I mean that is nothing new.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
What is is, to your point, a little bit of
the extra physicality to it and the strength odd display here.
She could have waited for Angel Reese to start going
up to the basket and come swatting down across her
head neck.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
She didn't, right, it.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Was challenging the basketball there Now from the reverse angle
that came out right, now we get all the Zapruva
film and here's another. Yeah, she gives her an extra
little shove to help her on her way.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Does it again?
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Does it rise to the level of flagrant in the end,
doesn't really matter. Everybody talks about it. The other stuff
that flows out of it's unfortunate, but for Caitlin Clark. Look,
she also made her point with Dewanna Barner making sure
she got her points and giving her all the flowers
to become the what third all time score, talking about
(38:57):
Aliah Boston and looking out for her, looking out for
Howard all the way through, you know, looking after the teammates,
but showing that you know strength. It's not everybody's got
to look after me. I'll be more more than capable
of holding my own and being part of this. We've
rebuilt this team and you're you're not gonna get away
with what you did last year. You could do super
(39:17):
cuts last year of the extra curriculars of her going
to the basket, taking an extra hit. Even in Saturday's game,
there were a couple of Drive Buys players that just
decided I'm gonna come over and I'm just gonna hit you.
It's like, okay, sure, so she's she's certainly attuned to it.
And for the league, you know they're monitoring, but right
(39:41):
now the hype is good. All the extra attention to
the w NBA in year two for an opening weekend
was all you wanted.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
And then deciding, hey, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Do the ultimate and the flipping you off by going
back into a game that's thirty points, decided.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
To get my triple double. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Uh people calling for an investigation of that, by the way,
But all of that to say, you know, it's the
dusty road slamm this sucker down to her.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah. Look, if if this was if this was a
different player, I don't think she could she I don't
think she fouls that way. If this was not Angel Reese,
was a different player who was coming that she didn't
have a past with, or someone that even if they
even if they physically, you know, push their teammate in
the back, I think it would have been a little
bit differently. It would have been something where she stops
(40:32):
the play. But it's Angel Reese, and I can send
a message right here, and I can do that.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Like all I think that was whoever was if you
do that to a teammate, I think you were getting that.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Uh maybe, But she doesn't want to go too over
the top, but I this is the way to send
the message. This was the way. I don't think she
sends the message with somebody else. But she still want
to know how.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
The official doesn't call the push in the back though
you're to the stantch it, how do you not see that?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah? I know right, well, how do you upgrade that
foul to a flagrant fowl? Which is ridiculous? Right le mean?
Come on, angel Rees flopped and fell and then got mad.
Oh it's a flagrant foult. Come on. Uh. We'll lot
more on this story coming up next hour, but straight ahead,
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