June 18, 2025 • 41 mins
The Florida Panthers are your back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions. The guys are talking about Caitlin Clark's MIDDLE FINGER TOUR. And debate if Tyrese Haliburton really suffered a strained right calf in Game 5!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight, the Jason Smith's Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Dodgers Padres bottom of the eighth. Padres
threatened in the top could not get a run across
Game of the year in Major League Baseball right now.
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I'll explain, but there's too much I will sum up.
It's been the best game of the year. There's been ejections,
there's been guys getting hit, there's been big home runs,
there's been break good ramps at second base.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's been lots of stuff. UH. Dodgers lead the Padres right.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Now eight six, and Andy pa has with his fourth
hit of the night, this a day after he got
hit in last night's game UH, in which Manny Machado
said after the game, Oh, we didn't hit him on purpose.
There's there's bigger dogs on that Dodgers roster we can
hit besides him. Well, two home runs and four hits tonight,
Andy Pa has clearly showing that yes, I am an
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All Star, which means.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He'll wear it tomorrow. In is in the seventh inning
if the Dodgers are up big.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah, go down there if that happens.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And there's wait a minute, is that Fox Sports radio
producer Justin Frosberg fighting Manny Machado.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I don't believe straight to the manager. Forget Manny.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh if you're charge into the ring?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Music there, Frostburg, what are we playing as you you
can breakstone glass?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Mike sh there you go. You're just here, dude, due,
Oh my dude, du dude, dune dune here.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Ut Frostburg comes charging out of the dug Come on,
you know I got she'll beat.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And here comes in.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Here comes in unidentified man in a Chargers hoodie who
is going to go right after Mike Shilt.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh my goodness, he is raining Haymakers.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
He's wearing a leather vest and giant knee braces as he's.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Raining bubber gum.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You hate that guy? Is he? Is he your most
hated guy in baseball right now?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I didn't think you could hate Mike Shilt all that much,
but yeah, I guess you can.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
He just can't tell who's the star and who Isn't.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
He just decided he has a punchable face.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Look, Pa has it in two ninety fifteen home runs
forty nine rbi is his OPS is now up over
eight fifty.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, guy's an All Star. Man.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Guys gotta go to the All Star Game. I was
eighty percent before tonight, now one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Guy's got way better than Peter A Lonzo.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Uh well, don't forget go voting for the All Stars.
Your votes.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, they need your votes, man, I mean not everybody
can just get to a million votes easy, Okay, keep
voting for Judge and Otani, make sure they get there
as starters. But tonight we saw one of the spring
sports crown there champion as the Florida Panthers beat the
Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup, a game that
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was really never in doubt. After the first period, Florida
blitzed out to a three to nothing, leave Sam Reinhart
four goals on the night, first person to do that
in the Stanley Cup clinching game since nineteen fifty seven.
And the Panthers win the Cup five to one over
the Oilers. And already I'm seeing the odds for next
year come in. This gets into Norway. We're not talking
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about next year. This is this gets in tonight already
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
There are.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Let's just say there, there are differences in opinion as
to who the favorite is.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
For the Cup for next year. Right. Sports books are
really divided.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
They are divided between the Panthers, the Oilers, the Avalanche,
and the Hurricanes. They are all the favorites with different
sports books, whether it's ESPN, BET or Draft Kings Fan
Duel uh.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
No, no, no, hey, fan, Duel's got the Hurricanes. FanDuel
has the Hurricanes. Dude.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
The Hurricanes are the fourth phase, man, they'd a fourth
favor right now.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They're the favorite of FanDuel.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're a really good.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Team Panthers, Oilers, Avalanche, Canes, I headed the Stars and
the Vegas Golden Knights.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, Frost Bring, It's not my fault you don't pay
attention to anything outside of your team. I'm sorry, but
that's I'm sorry. We almost we almost want well, I
said we almost wanted. We did almost almost beat the
Panthers league.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
But I'm pretty sure you didn't know who Brad Marshan
was that I told.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You we're in the Eastern Conference side, Yeah, because I
haven't watched Brad Marshan score goals against the Hurricanes for
the past fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No, that's happened. But here's the thing about this game.
Here's the thing about tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right, So Florida wins, and I'm really surprised that you're
getting all the other co favorites. And what I'm hoping
is that this is Vegas saying, okay, we don't want
to lose money on anything, you know, to have one
team that's really good with shorter odds, because quite honestly,
this Panthers team is. It's as dominant as any team
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that I've seen in hockey in maybe in the last
twenty years, right back to back Stanley Cups. And what
they remind me of is I think about three teams specifically, right,
I think about the Islanders of the eighties. They won
four Cups in a row, the Canadians won four Cups
in a row. Before they did, the Oilers won three
out of four Cups, and then the Red Wings won.
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Red Wings won three out of five Cups in the
late nineties early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Jason explain the millennials who the Red Wings aren't please?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I know, I right, I like, the Red Wings haven't
been in the playoffs in a long time, long time ago.
Hockey Town has been really bereft of playoff games. But
the thing about about those teams words that, yeah they
have star players, Yeah they had star players. But those
teams that won all those Stanley Cups in a row,
they had great one through three. Their top three lines
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were all really good. You could get a game winning
Stanley Cup goal by a third by a third liner,
you could get you could be getting an MVP cons
My Award winning performance by a third line player. Like,
the Panthers are so deep, and they've had this nucleus
together now for the last couple of years. Their defense
is really good. You see when they score the first goal,
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there's nothing you can do. This team has no weaknesses,
right and net Bobrovski is terrific. They have no weaknesses
and that's what these teams were, like as good as
the Islanders were. Yeah, they had Bossi and Trachy scoring
you know, BOSSI scoring goals especially, But hey, the third
line of Bobby Bord and Anders Kaller and Bobby Nistrom.
I'm throwing these guys out there, right, You like that, right?
The Red Wings their third line of guys like McCarty
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and Chris Draper, able to score goals, Victor Kosloff, able
to score big goals and dominate Stanley Cup series. Like,
this is why those teams won because they were so
good top to bottom. There's no weakness. You can't walk
into a series against the Florida Panthers and say, Okay,
here's how we win. Like, we have to make sure
we capitalize on the power play. We have to make
sure that we neutralize their top line because you know
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they don't have a lot of finishers. On the second effect,
there's nothing you can do. And no, by the way, yep,
they go grab Brad Marshan for nothing and he comes
in and shows yeah, I still got it. Especially in
the playoffs. They have a great mix of young players
and older stars and I look at them and I
wonder if in the next couple of years, we start
talking with them, going could they win four Cups in
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a row? Could they do what the Islanders did the
last team to win four in a row in the eighties,
because the Canadians won four in a row, then the
Islanders won four in a row.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Could they do that?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Because clearly they should be the they should be the
overwhelming Cup favorite for next year.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
And not slowing down. It's not like suddenly they're gonna
lose a lot of guys.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And these guys are hitting free agency like this is
an absolute dynasty, not in the making, but in the
middle of one two in a row. And because I
don't know who can really make that big jump next year,
we'll go grab great players.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oilers have two of the top five players in the league,
including the best player in league in Connor McDavid.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And it wasn't even close this series.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Panthers got the first goal in all the games,
which is what the Oilers used to do up until
they played the Panthers, and the Panthers said, yeah, we'll show.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You what scoring first is like. And every game starts
to nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Florida right outside of you look outside of you know,
give away a game. It happens once in a while.
This team is so much better than everybody else. I
really think in a couple of years we're saying, hey,
this could be history for the Panthers. Three cups in
a row. They're going for four, four cups in a row,
they're going for five. They're just that good.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Well, that's the beauty of the way the sport is played.
You also need a lot of luck on your side.
Right you go through their regular season. Only Katchuk was
a guy that missed significant time. They were pretty healthy.
Does do the hockey gods smile on you that each
and every year? Generally not, And obviously because we're talking
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about things on the historical historic landscape and going back
decades till you had these kind of runs and and
dominance that you know, it's hard to repeat. So you
look at off season moves projections, teams that maybe petered
out or had that that injury hit them at the
absolute wrong time. I'm not disagreeing Florida is in a
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great position to keep things rolling, But from a betting
odds perspective, you had a lot of variability and variables
to the algorithm and start rolling through. Initial wagers come
through and because it is so hard to climb that
mountain again that it'll it'll affect some of those early odds.
But we'll start seeing money coming in and we'll keep
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an eye on that as we get into the off season.
But young old, good netminding. But this series and throughout
the playoffs, I mean, what yan aren't finished with? What
fifteen goals for the postseason just absolutely insane for today
in a laugher, But the quick starts that they had
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time and time again, I gotta think physicality changes is
how you approach them as best you can. But trying
to match up with the secondary and third lines is
going to be very difficult, no question about it. But
certainly as we go into an off season, there's a
lot of change, and again health is always the big thing.
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Are you ready, and we talked about this at all sports.
Are you ready come September or October for baseball? Right,
it's great to get guys back in June and July.
Don't need them till till August or September. Yeah, before
you got to start rolling in the NBA. You want
to take you want to take the Christmas month off
and go on a cruise had at it? Are you
ready for you know, the final weeks of March and
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April when you can get into the play in or
better and be ready for a playoff run to NHL.
It's a long grind too, right, it's a second season,
and we call it that for a reason. What they've
been going for a good eleven twelve weeks. Right when
it's all said and done, So are you healthy and
ready to answer the bell? And at least on early odds,
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they're putting it, spreading it across four or five teams,
and then you've got a nice bunch thereafter.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, and here's a perfect example, right, like Sam Bennett
who won the cons my award is playoff MVP, right,
fifteen goals, he's twenty eight. He's the guy up for
a big contract, right, he's one of the top free agents,
the top guys that could be out there this offseason.
Panthers have the money to sign him. The remember guy,
guys in the NHL, you don't make tons of money.
That's like, oh, they have the money to sign him.
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They will bring him back. He will want to come
back to try to win three in a row. There's
gonna be other players that Hey, maybe I take a
tiny bit less because I've won two Cups, th row on.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
But Bettett's number one guy. They have the money for him.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's not like all they got to do some creative
stuff and no, they have the money to sign him.
They will bring him back and they will reload and
be ready for next year. They again, they're gonna bring
back their most important player.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Who's there. That's happening, right, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I think they're like twenty million dollars in cap money
and I read that likely his salary is gonna be
around around ten million a year.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Okay, great, Yeah we got it. Yeah we got Oh
it's not all of our cap money. Yeah we got it.
We're good.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
They're bringing back their most important player. They're bringing back
the consum might winner. Like there's nothing Florida is not
gonna be able to do. Man, it's inspiring, and it's
also deflating because I know it's gonna be the other
year of me thinking the Hurricanes are gonna be good,
we're gonna get to the playoffs, and Rod Brenda Moore
is gonna say we're doing this, and we're doing this
and that's great, and we're gonna play the Panthers, and
the Panthers are gonna be maybe we win two games
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against the Panthers in the Eastern Conference Final and have
to watch them go win the Stanley Cup again. So yes,
it's inspiring, but it's deflating at the same time.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well, but you know that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
We love dynasties and building them up and then we
celebrate any team that can rise up to topple them.
It's like all our favorite hero movies that we go
to see in cinema.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Right, it's like, all right, how is it going to end?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But yeah, Bennett's a guy, they have the space, and
it would really take some kind of monster office offer,
I would think to pry him away. Not to mention,
you get to keep that ten percent or thereabouts depending
on the state. Right when we talk about the tax implications,
folks laugh at it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It adds up pretty fast, so you can never dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And just so you know, for Edmonton, really because I
want to say because I had great I had a
good run. So you know, I do my hit in Edmonton,
which I do with Jason Gregor fourteen forty every couple
of weeks, I go on and have some fun with
them and talk hockey, and you know what, you know,
we talk at NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Finals and stuff. So he said, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
You know from an outsider's perspective, you're not someone in
Edmonton obviously who is you know, they're all cup crazy obviously,
what do you think? And I said, well, two things.
I think you need to score the first goal of
the game at some point soon.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He's, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, I said, And I think Bill Radford needs to
be in goal tonight because Skinner doesn't, because what you
have in goal isn't working right now. It's both those ideas.
Would they have worked for Edmonton? Absolutely, score the first goal,
Bill Ranford and Gold would have worked. They had six
guys finish the playoffs with.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
At least twenty points. That's insane. Yeah, what it worked?
What it worked? Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Don just understand we could be on the precipice of
that kind of history with the Florida Panthers. Jason Smith
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we'll get to the latest involving Tyrese Halliburton coming up
in a few minutes. Are the Pacers going to be
without their biggest star for Game six? Meanwhile, the biggest
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story in basketball tonight comes out of the WNBA. Yes,
the Indiana Fever will vie for the Cup, but that's
really not the story. Caitlyn Clark, in her second game
back after injury, another big night, twenty point six assists,
had three threes. Yes, the Fever clinch a spot in
the Commissioner's Cup by beating the Sun eighty eight to
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seventy one. However, two big scuffles in this game. This
game dotted by a play in the third quarter in
which Caitlyn Clark, dribbling the basketball trying to get to
the lane.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Got poked in the eye by J. C. Sheldon.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Now, Kaitlyn Clark, who I will say for all the
great that Caitlyn Clark flops a lot, flopped a little bit,
and after the flop, the referee tries to get in
the middle, players are kind of getting close. She gets
a little upset, and then another player, Marina Maybry comes
in and bumps Katelyn Clark and knocks her to the ground.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Again, little bit of a flop, but this is what happens.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
But either way, maybe he's still with a lot of contact.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
After a whistle.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
And walking on, the announcers went on for quite a
while of yes, she's not ejected.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Why yeah, absolutely, Caitlyn Clark walks away, which we'll circle
back to that, and then later on in the game
Sophie Cunningham, but the game was well decided.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Caitlin Clark's teammate with.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Forty five seconds left, Jacey Sheldon, who pot Caitlin Clark
in the eye earlier in the game, was going on
a breakaway layup and Sophie Cunningham just absolutely puts both
hands over like bear hugs or knocks through the ground
a hard foul. Players wind up going at it the
under the stanchion. Three players get ejected. It was an
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absolute donnybrook at the end of this game. Now, the
big thing is this fever have to get used to this,
right because we told you last night by game thirty
ish of this season. They're gonna be the best team
in the WNBA. They signed many good players in the
off scene. Just have to get them go. Sophie Cunningham,
one of them. Got to get them a little bit
of time together, and Kitlyn Clark being out for the
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last couple of weeks certainly was gonna hurt the advancement
of that. But by the time we get to get Look,
you saw what they did in Caitlin Clark's return to
the Liberty on Saturday, right the abs. I mean, it
was an incredible run and they beat the Liberty, who
hadn't lost a game all season. They'll be the best
team in the w by game thirty. Teams are gonna
find it hard, find it hard trying to compete with them.
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They're going to try to physically intimidate and bully them,
and so the fever. I don't see them backing down
off of it. You saw what happened tonight. Sophie Cunningham
stands up for Caitlyn Clark. Now, before we get to
the big thing, let me just say this. The one
thing for Caitlyn Clark I could say is that this
is the second time she got involved in a physical
foul altercation. And it's the second time that she just
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walked away from it. Now, I'm not saying I want
you there starting a fight, right, we saw it with
Angel Reese and and and the Sky earlier this season.
But the second time where this happens, Caitlyn Clark gets
poked in the eye, She gets up, kind of kind
of brushes off J. C. Sheldon a little bit and
then maybe comes in and knocks for the ground and
she gets up and walks away, and the other players
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kind of stand in and there there's the first skirmish.
I don't want Caitlyn Clark to to go and start
a fight, right, I mean, like, come on that, because
that's embarrassing. But I need a little bit more than
her just walking away. And I understand that she knows
who she is, she knows she's the face League all.
I don't want to get in trouble. Anything I do
is gonna see you all kinds of scrutiny on it.
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So I want to make sure I'm making the smart play.
But you kind of have to, I mean, stand up
there a little bit and say, hey, this isn't cool, right,
don't leave your teammates to fight the battle for you.
Stand up and say, hey, you know what, no, I'll
get there's not gonna be there's not gonna be a
big brawl. The officials are gonna get in between everybody.
Fake tough guys it or you know, in brawls all
the time when something happens on the court. But you know,
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stand up for yourself a little bit, not walk away.
You can't just walk because then it looks like, well,
you're walking away and I'm letting everybody else and you're
gesticulating to the to the officials that you want to
call right. So that's the one thing I can say
is that you know, when stuff like this happens, stands
your ground a little bit, right, you know, don't suddenly
just start walking away from this and seeing it. I
think standing up for yourself a little bit. Your teammates
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want to see that if they have your back, and
clearly they have Caitlyn Clark's back. But I just one
thing I would say, I'd want to see that a
little bit from her more than just hey, when this happens,
I'm gonna walk away and and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, I mean this goes back to her days at
Iowa though.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I mean she was chirpy and chippy with players then,
and the same kind of thing. You know, Hey, crowd
gets insided, Referees start to come, teammates starts to come,
and they bail her out. She's like a wrestling manager
that talks a bunch of smack and man has to
have you know, the guys.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Take care of business.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I stirred it up and now I'm gonna I'm gonna
dip out here and and you guys now have a
tag team battle and get after it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I know a lot of folks and you know.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Watching the socials, Sophie Cunningham becoming that hero for Caitlin Clark. Certainly,
she'd already won a lot of points and you'd seen
her fit and her her history. Her arrival to Indiana
was much heralded. And now she's, you know, a cult
hero for becoming, you know, the enforcer on this squad
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where you already had a number of players that were
more than willing to stand in, but yeah, curiously officiated game.
They let it get physical a number of times. Sheldon
takes the l once again. She's now own twelve against
Clark and her career going back to the college days.
But that hard fallow at the end. I mean Sheldon
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went to put the elbow out and Cunningham said, no,
none of that. I'm just coming over the top of
you show just a couple of inches taller. So maybe
it looks worse than it really was in the grand
scheme of things. But smothers her. It gets a little
bit spy, and for Caitlin Clark gets it's the next
in a long line. Do I need her to fight? No,
but stand in. I agree. If you're gonna talk as
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much smack as she does, you're gonna keep getting this
right because it's not. It's not without some provocation on
her side side, you know, when hitting a big shot
and things of that nature. I will ask you this though,
Fever right now third favorite behind the Liberty and Links
at five to one.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You jumping in, Ooh, I should have jumped in earlier.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I should have jumped in. I should have jumped in
before the season when they were just hey, they're on
the cost, and they made some moves. But I'm telling you,
man should jump in five to one now. It's like
I I feel like the five to one.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, I don't know. It should have been more than that.
Liberty like my dad.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh yeah, but my dad. Hey dad, the lottery is
one hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't play unless
it's at least two hundred million. Oh right, right, right,
sorry dad, five to one. I don't need five to
one if you got me harming at like twenty to one.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
A twenty to one because your dad hit more numbers
than Theankees have scored runs in the last three games.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yes, because my dad actually hit one number the last one,
So he's leading.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The Yankees.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Struggling, taking to the woodshed by the by the Angels
for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
But look, yeah, the fever before the yeah fever before
the season, they're right back where they were.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
They drifted out a little bit once Clark got hurt,
but it's it's normalized.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you think Caitlin Clark was good last year, okay,
just wait till you see the continuation of her middle
finger tour that she is doing and going to continue
to do over the rest of this season. Oh, you
hate me on social media. You're jealous of me. You
don't think I should be deserving of this success. All
the haters, the other players that don't like her. You
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watch what she is going to roll up over the
course of the next couple of months. Here in the
w Right, we see this all the time. You see
teams go on middle finger tours because they've been disrespected.
They just want to say, blank you, blake you. You could
say the Pacers are on a middle finger tour right now.
Other teams have gone on it, right, they don't respect us.
But for Caitlyn Clark, this is more of a okay, like,
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she knows the fan base she has of what she
means to the team, but social media is its own thing, right.
Most people get their news from social media, So you
would think that, oh, Kaitlyn Clark is very divisive. No,
Kaylyn Clark doesn't have nearly these men haters as a thing.
But they're all on social media and they're also playing
in the league, and they're coaches that don't like her.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
They didn't pick her for the Olympic team last year.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
She's like, okay, I got stronger in the offseason and
a bigger thing. She's already hitting threes at a bigger
rate than she did last year. She's more accurate from three,
which is gonna open up a whole new can of
worms for any opposition. You thought she was good last year,
this is the Caitlyn Clark middle Finger Tour where she
is gonna lay waste to the rest of the league
and she will bend you and make you admit, Okay,
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she's great. I'm gonna make I want to make you
quit hating me. I'm gonna make you quit doing it
because you're gonna sound stupid. That's the kind of motivation
that she had, and it's it's great to have that
kind of motivation, right Bobby Axelrod and Billions would say
that hate endless resource.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You can you can.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Dine out on hate your entire life. You'll never You'll
never have it empty. We'll always be there for you,
but especially this season for her. You think you think
you don't like me, you're jealous of me, all of
all the different things. You don't think I'm good, You
don't think I deserve my standing in the w NBA. Okay,
just wait and just watch. This is why by by
game thirty, the Fever gonna be the best team in
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the league and Caitlin Clark's gonna be the overwhelming favorite
for MVP.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Just watch, yeah, as we watch her go through this
this comeback, obviously, she's gonna have to make sure she
avoids the scuffles and they don't scratch her eyes out,
you know, like when they sent folks in and took
down the basilisk. I mean, because that was the rake
from Sheldon. I mean, that's bad. Scratch Accorney is suddenly,
I mean, how how far are you out? Or do
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you have to wear the goggles? Are you suddenly? That
would be cool if Caitlyn Clark was suddenly in goggles
see what we did? Their whole marketing opportunity because she
could team with Walton Goggins because he's got his goggles, uh,
and it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
All goes together.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Forget about she's one of the famous MVP obviously, so
you have the opportunity now to to hit your stride.
This team is still coming together. A lot of changes
we talked about last night. When you talk about a
new coach, uh, a new rotation, a lot of new players,
and you.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Gotta you gotta love that the top of the league.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Is as strong as it is because they've got mountains
to climb and and it's good for the.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
League as a whole.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Uh that this battle that she has when Angel rees
holding her own over there and you've got in SQ
and putting up big numbers, et cetera. Uh, that you're
still gonna have to run the gauntlet and they're just
getting warmed up. So these big performances with a little
bit of controversy on scuffles, it's good for the league.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh, I'll tell you man, And just think about this.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Right Wed, we talked about how, hey, you're not going
to realize how much you miss Caitlin Clark until she
comes back. Right, we talked about that, and congratulations everybody
else will stole that. Take a couple of days ago
because it happened. I got documented proof. But I told
you that. I told you, And now all of a sudden,
Caitlin Clark is back in Look. Big headline, last two games,
huge headline Saturday against the Liberty. You know, two and
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a half million people watch the game tonight. It's the
big headline in basketball, especially the physical play.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
How they respond like, I don't know what else to
tell you. I mean that you talk about a sport.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Nobody misses a player in their sport more than the
W missus, Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
That iss, No.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
We don't miss somebody. We haven't had him. We're not
getting We're not getting Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's not happening. It's not he's not on the list.
We have not called the Bucks for permission.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
To interview him. You don't know that. I don't know
how I would. Oh no, we know everybody the Knicks call. Come.
You think that would be kept a secret?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Come on, I mean, let's be real. He's the only
one that's going to say yes.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Doc would be the guy. Doc would open the window
in his office and shout down to reporters at that
on the street.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Just got a call from the next you want to
go with it. I'm your source, I'm your sort o, Cordy.
He's just walking around Manhattan. He would ask me, why
am I'm in Manhattan yet? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
He would have the sandwich board and he would ring
the bell and it would be should I be Nick's
head coach?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
And then vote Doc.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
On the back Hatchtag's just ringing the bell walking up
and down the street.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
You've got a budget, Smith, send send somebody to New
York and have them do that.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
He's he's spinning the ox logo on one of those sites.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He's just spinning it around. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
And he's got a stencil and spray paint and he's
spray paint a picture of his face.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh hey, hey, Doc, are you at the point now
where you're selling houses?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No? No, this is for the Knicks. Oh, because usually
see this for houses like.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
A no no no, no no send the back vote tuck,
watch me spin, watch me spin.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's how it goes. Oh, this is good. And don't
forget to vote for Judge and Otani.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Exit out about of Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
With my best friend Mike Carbon.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Time how to find out what's trending in the y
world of sports for man who's been called.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Steve de Saga because he is Steve de Sager.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Steve may have thrown the biggest curveball on that intro compared.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
To any of the others. Yeah you like that one.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
We did have six WNBA games, by the way, tonight,
not only Caitlin Clark with the twenty points in Indiana's
win over Connecticut, which is two and nine, but New
York and Minnesota each one again. New York ten and
one after edging Atlanta eighty six eighty one thirty four
points for Sabrina Yanescu. Minnesota is eleven in one after
beating Las Vegas seventy six sixty two for Vegas. Asia Wilson,
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still in concussion protocol, she missed a third straight game.
The late game had Seattle winning easily at La Dallas
was one and eleven but beat Golden State, and it
was Washington winning at Chicago seventy nine seventy two Chicago
three and eight. NBA Finals Game six will be Thursday
at Indiana. Oklahoma City leads the series three games to two.
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Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton reportedly as a string calf. Indiana
traded its first draft choice for next week to New Orleans,
along with a players rights for a first round or
next year. Thirteen more international players withdrew from the NBA Draft,
which starts Wednesday, twenty fifth. Fourteen international early entries still.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Remain in the draft.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
By the way, the Olympic Hockey schedule was released today
for next February in Italy, it'll be yes NHL players
at the winner games for the first time since twenty fourteen.
There will be twelve teams in the tournament. Last year,
the Stanley Cup final had Florida beating Edmonton in seven.
Florida beat Edmonton in six this year, five to one.
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Tonight's final. In Game six, Sam Bennett name playoff MVP
after scoring fifteen goals in the postseason. Sam Reinhardt had
four goals tonight, including a couple of empty netters. So
after the game went final, Associated Press quickly pointed out
that with a Miami team winning a title tonight, since
the Miami Dolphins last won a playoff game, the Panthers
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have won two Stanley Cup ups, the Miami Heat have
won three NBA titles, and even the Marlins have won
a World Series since the last Dolphins playoff win in
the two thousand seasons.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh wow, you the Dolphins just getting sides twice right there.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, history is what it is. These Panthers, by the way,
became one of the rare teams in NHL history to
capture the Cup after winning four series as the lower
seeded club every time LA Kings twenty twelve Devils in
nineteen ninety five. This Florida team forty seven wins. Edmonton
had forty eight wins in the regular season. PGA Tour
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commissioner Jay Monahan will step down when his contract ends
next year. At College Baseball's World Series, both UCLA and
Oregon State were eliminated. Arkansas goes into the Semis against
two and OHO LSU. By the way, the Atlanta Falcons
signed the UFL's leading rusher, Jashan Corbyn from Florida State,
and they cut running back Jase mcclell in a sixth rounder.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
A year ago.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
The Jets signed UFL kicker Harrison Meavis, known as the
thicker kicker at Missouri, where he booted a sixty one yarder.
He's listed at five eleven two thirty six. Off to
Jets camp.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Chargers training camp starts in a month. They'll be playing
in the Hall of Fame exhibition in late July. US
men's soccer plays again Thursday at the FIFA Club World Cup.
Manchester City plays a day game in Philadelphia Wednesday, the
Lake Ballgame, and the Majors went to the Dodgers over
San Diego eight six. Andy Pa has two home runs,
going four for four. Will Smith had a three hit night,
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including a homer. By the way, pitcher Showeo Tottie Starred
on Monday, set a viewing record on MLB's streaming TV.
Giants were beaten at home three to two by Cleveland,
although Rafael Devers, now with the Giants, had an RBI double,
but the team left thirteen men on base. Dodgers now
three and a half up on the Giants, five over
the Padres in the NL West Houston and the Cubs
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each one. Kansas City ended a six game losing streak,
winning six to one at Texas. Seattle got an early
Grand Slam from Rawley is twenty seventh homers. He had
a eight nothing over Boston. The Angels shut out the
Yankees for nothing. Yanks have lost five straight. Atlanta came
back and beat the Mets in ten. Miami came back
to beat Philadelphia. Toronto hit two solo homers bottom of
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the ninth, Dade Arizona five to four.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You know, I think Cal Rowly is the Anthony Santander
of this year. Where I think Anthony Santander had a
home run every night last year, I feel like Cal
Rawly has a home run every night.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's a catcher doing this. He also had a two
run double, so he's got sixty RBIs already We're in
mid June.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, it's a maazing legend. Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love and the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, will the Pacers
be without their biggest star for Game six of the
NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
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Speaker 1 (33:57):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
So we're getting set for Game six of the NBA
Finals on Thursday. The thunder goat for the closer and
all of a sudden, maybe wait a minute, the Pacers
might not have Tyres Halliburton. Halliburton dinged up his calf
last night. You played in the first you saw in
the first half he was dribbling in for an attempt
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at the basket and he fell down taking off the floor,
gets examined as his calf wrapped up, comes back and
plays plays the rest of the game. After the game,
he talked about having a calf strain. His calf wasn't
feeling good. And then Shams Tarani I had the report
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earlier today that Halliburton, with his calf strain, is going
to have an MRI to determine the severity of the strain.
Now it's a weird thing because I'm not going to
sit here and say he's not hurt, because obviously he's
he's dinged up and he hurt his calf.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You see that. How hurt is he? Right?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Because whichever the reality is for the Pacers, neither one
is good, right, because you know, Halliburton is someone who
plays on confidence, and he had a bad game in
Game five, and I don't know, is this MRI away
to try to explain and get the pressure off him
that hey, he was really hurt and so he's really
got to go get an MRI. Is just a garden
variety MRI that, hey, just to be sure, we're gonna
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have him take an MRI. He not doesn't know that
we need to, but we're just gonna have him get it.
And this gets out there because hey, look, Halliburton is
someone that reads what is said about him and watches
what's said about him. We know he talks about in
the post game, and so if all of a sudden.
The narrative is, boy Tyre's Halliburton is terrible. How do
you get the needle closer to zero? Well, he's got
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to have an MRI, okay, because.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Here's what you have to use the needle.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
You're gonna get the needle.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
So I don't think he's that dinged up, because he
played the second most minutes of anybody on the Pacers
last night. If he was really hurt, he wouldn't have
been able to play, and they would have taken him
out of the game we played it. Both of those
things would have happened. But clearly he was good enough
to play till the end of the game. So how
bad is the quad strain really? Or how bad is
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the cat strained really? And at the same time, if
it was really bad, he wouldn't have come back in
the game. He goes off, he gets examined. It's game five.
It's not a winner go home game. It's a game
you're already losing. In Hey, we want to make sure
we have two days in between games. Let's make sure
we have them for game six back in Indiana, and
we'll make it go in game six and game seven.
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Never know what could happen. Let's make sure we have that.
We don't want to put anything else at risk, because
the last thing you want is to have your star injured.
But he was looked at a couple of times and
he was still okay with going back in the game.
So how hurt is he really?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
The second part is this, let's just say this MRI
comes back and it's bad and he's out. Then you
got to turn around and say, what the hell are
the pacers doing? What the hell the pacers doctors doing
allowing him back in the game when he clearly was hurt?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Because I find it and I find it hard to
believe that that's going to be the outcome of this,
is that the pacers really blew it, because this doesn't
really happen that often, where a guy goes in, gets examined,
comes back out and plays and hurts himself even worse,
and you find out.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Whoops, yeah, we missed it.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
We mis diagnosed that, we missed we missed this cast
strain that was a blown achilles or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, we kind of didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
So if it comes out that he's really hurt, it's like, well,
what did you do How did you let him back
in the game?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
How did you let him back in?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
How did you how did he go through all these
protocols and you let him back in this game that
you didn't need to win, where now you're missing him
for the rest of the series. So no matter how
this comes out, it doesn't come out great for the Pacers.
Obviously wanted to come out that he plays, that he's
healthy and plays well, he's an exciting player, he's having
a terrific playoff and and the series is going to
be much better. They have a much better chance of
moving on to the game seven uh with him than
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without him. And obviously I never want to see a
guy hurt. But like whenever the outcome means for the Pacers,
it's boy boy, this is it's it's kind of one
way is a little weird. The other one is is
even worse. So I don't know if if you're Indiana
here that that any any answer here turns out to
be great. There is one that's much much less worse
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than the other. But I don't know how this is
gonna go.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Spread started as thunder minus five now up to minus
six uh for tomorrow or for Thursdays. I keep trying
to advance it, trying to get it done, but he
gets that extra day of rest.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, it's the curiosity. Uh do you do?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
You just do the MRI just to say, hey, let's
make sure it's all there, uh and all clear?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Could you have done it undercover of darkness? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
We always want full disclosure from teams about these things.
NFL has the UH inane finding system. Sometimes it is,
sometimes it's not, depending on what they decide on a
given UH circumstance. But in this case, the passivity of
the way Haliburton went through those thirty four minutes. Maybe
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believe it was a lot worse and maybe he shouldn't
have been out there at all, but he was there
and a non factor, So that's how we have to
judge it. In his post game, didn't really talk about
how much he was hurting, just more so that he
didn't play well and just kind of matter of factly
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stated those those things. So curious what comes out of
the MRI excuse making protection all of those things certainly
in play here. I'd like to think it's not malfeas
it's and that he sent a guy back out there hey,
shoot him up, get.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Him out there. I mean, this isn't an eighties football movie.
Get out of here. I don't want your life going on.
John Voight, what do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (39:48):
You mentioned that the Pacers might be without their best player,
but I'm not so sure about that.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I said he's out there without there. I said without
their biggest star. I didn't say he said their biggest.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Obie to Jason.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Obie Topping, Obie, what do you think of Tom Thibodeau
getting fired? I'm popping. I don't care Obi Topping, I'm popping.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I'm still playing. It doesn't matter now. Look look, obviously
I hope he plays. I hope he's okay. I want
him there.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
But you judge Offul last night, and I feel pretty
good about that. He's going to be out there for
Game six because he finished again. Rick Carlyle would have
pulled him if he really looked that bad and did
look like they would have said, you know what, he's
having a tough time movie, let's take him out. But
he handles the ball every single time the four So
I mean, I I really I don't know how much
this is. This is really going to be something that
affects Game six. You know, as far as Halliburton's availability.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Well, maybe he comes out like a house of fire.
It's all a big ropodope.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Oh and all of a sudden, he's absolutely fine.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
He's just shaking his leg. Yeah, look I feel fine.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Look at this right here, I'm shaking his leg like
Otani on his Instagram page showing the hit By pick.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Maybe he just people liked g oh boy, there would
have been a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Would have been a wheel It's gotta be a wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Gott a wheelchair exit out about a Fresca exit swollen
dome coming up next, My buddy, Ben Mallard.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
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Hello, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight, the Jason Smith's Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Dodgers Padres bottom of the eighth. Padres
threatened in the top could not get a run across
Game of the year in Major League Baseball right now.
(00:53):
I'll explain, but there's too much I will sum up.
It's been the best game of the year. There's been ejections,
there's been guys getting hit, there's been big home runs,
there's been break good ramps at second base.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's been lots of stuff. UH. Dodgers lead the Padres right.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Now eight six, and Andy pa has with his fourth
hit of the night, this a day after he got
hit in last night's game UH, in which Manny Machado
said after the game, Oh, we didn't hit him on purpose.
There's there's bigger dogs on that Dodgers roster we can
hit besides him. Well, two home runs and four hits tonight,
Andy Pa has clearly showing that yes, I am an
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All Star, which means.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
He'll wear it tomorrow. In is in the seventh inning
if the Dodgers are up big.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah, go down there if that happens.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And there's wait a minute, is that Fox Sports radio
producer Justin Frosberg fighting Manny Machado.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I don't believe straight to the manager. Forget Manny.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh if you're charge into the ring?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Music there, Frostburg, what are we playing as you you
can breakstone glass?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Mike sh there you go. You're just here, dude, due,
Oh my dude, du dude, dune dune here.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Ut Frostburg comes charging out of the dug Come on,
you know I got she'll beat.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And here comes in.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Here comes in unidentified man in a Chargers hoodie who
is going to go right after Mike Shilt.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh my goodness, he is raining Haymakers.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
He's wearing a leather vest and giant knee braces as he's.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Raining bubber gum.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You hate that guy? Is he? Is he your most
hated guy in baseball right now?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I didn't think you could hate Mike Shilt all that much,
but yeah, I guess you can.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
He just can't tell who's the star and who Isn't.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
He just decided he has a punchable face.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Look, Pa has it in two ninety fifteen home runs
forty nine rbi is his OPS is now up over
eight fifty.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, guy's an All Star. Man.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Guys gotta go to the All Star Game. I was
eighty percent before tonight, now one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Guy's got way better than Peter A Lonzo.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Uh well, don't forget go voting for the All Stars.
Your votes.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, they need your votes, man, I mean not everybody
can just get to a million votes easy, Okay, keep
voting for Judge and Otani, make sure they get there
as starters. But tonight we saw one of the spring
sports crown there champion as the Florida Panthers beat the
Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup, a game that
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was really never in doubt. After the first period, Florida
blitzed out to a three to nothing, leave Sam Reinhart
four goals on the night, first person to do that
in the Stanley Cup clinching game since nineteen fifty seven.
And the Panthers win the Cup five to one over
the Oilers. And already I'm seeing the odds for next
year come in. This gets into Norway. We're not talking
(03:46):
about next year. This is this gets in tonight already
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
There are.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Let's just say there, there are differences in opinion as
to who the favorite is.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
For the Cup for next year. Right. Sports books are
really divided.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
They are divided between the Panthers, the Oilers, the Avalanche,
and the Hurricanes. They are all the favorites with different
sports books, whether it's ESPN, BET or Draft Kings Fan
Duel uh.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
No, no, no, hey, fan, Duel's got the Hurricanes. FanDuel
has the Hurricanes. Dude.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
The Hurricanes are the fourth phase, man, they'd a fourth
favor right now.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They're the favorite of FanDuel.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're a really good.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Team Panthers, Oilers, Avalanche, Canes, I headed the Stars and
the Vegas Golden Knights.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, Frost Bring, It's not my fault you don't pay
attention to anything outside of your team. I'm sorry, but
that's I'm sorry. We almost we almost want well, I
said we almost wanted. We did almost almost beat the
Panthers league.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
But I'm pretty sure you didn't know who Brad Marshan
was that I told.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You we're in the Eastern Conference side, Yeah, because I
haven't watched Brad Marshan score goals against the Hurricanes for
the past fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No, that's happened. But here's the thing about this game.
Here's the thing about tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right, So Florida wins, and I'm really surprised that you're
getting all the other co favorites. And what I'm hoping
is that this is Vegas saying, okay, we don't want
to lose money on anything, you know, to have one
team that's really good with shorter odds, because quite honestly,
this Panthers team is. It's as dominant as any team
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that I've seen in hockey in maybe in the last
twenty years, right back to back Stanley Cups. And what
they remind me of is I think about three teams specifically, right,
I think about the Islanders of the eighties. They won
four Cups in a row, the Canadians won four Cups
in a row. Before they did, the Oilers won three
out of four Cups, and then the Red Wings won.
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Red Wings won three out of five Cups in the
late nineties early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Jason explain the millennials who the Red Wings aren't please?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I know, I right, I like, the Red Wings haven't
been in the playoffs in a long time, long time ago.
Hockey Town has been really bereft of playoff games. But
the thing about about those teams words that, yeah they
have star players, Yeah they had star players. But those
teams that won all those Stanley Cups in a row,
they had great one through three. Their top three lines
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were all really good. You could get a game winning
Stanley Cup goal by a third by a third liner,
you could get you could be getting an MVP cons
My Award winning performance by a third line player. Like,
the Panthers are so deep, and they've had this nucleus
together now for the last couple of years. Their defense
is really good. You see when they score the first goal,
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there's nothing you can do. This team has no weaknesses,
right and net Bobrovski is terrific. They have no weaknesses
and that's what these teams were, like as good as
the Islanders were. Yeah, they had Bossi and Trachy scoring
you know, BOSSI scoring goals especially, But hey, the third
line of Bobby Bord and Anders Kaller and Bobby Nistrom.
I'm throwing these guys out there, right, You like that, right?
The Red Wings their third line of guys like McCarty
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and Chris Draper, able to score goals, Victor Kosloff, able
to score big goals and dominate Stanley Cup series. Like,
this is why those teams won because they were so
good top to bottom. There's no weakness. You can't walk
into a series against the Florida Panthers and say, Okay,
here's how we win. Like, we have to make sure
we capitalize on the power play. We have to make
sure that we neutralize their top line because you know
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they don't have a lot of finishers. On the second effect,
there's nothing you can do. And no, by the way, yep,
they go grab Brad Marshan for nothing and he comes
in and shows yeah, I still got it. Especially in
the playoffs. They have a great mix of young players
and older stars and I look at them and I
wonder if in the next couple of years, we start
talking with them, going could they win four Cups in
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a row? Could they do what the Islanders did the
last team to win four in a row in the eighties,
because the Canadians won four in a row, then the
Islanders won four in a row.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Could they do that?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Because clearly they should be the they should be the
overwhelming Cup favorite for next year.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
And not slowing down. It's not like suddenly they're gonna
lose a lot of guys.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And these guys are hitting free agency like this is
an absolute dynasty, not in the making, but in the
middle of one two in a row. And because I
don't know who can really make that big jump next year,
we'll go grab great players.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oilers have two of the top five players in the league,
including the best player in league in Connor McDavid.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And it wasn't even close this series.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The Panthers got the first goal in all the games,
which is what the Oilers used to do up until
they played the Panthers, and the Panthers said, yeah, we'll show.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You what scoring first is like. And every game starts
to nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Florida right outside of you look outside of you know,
give away a game. It happens once in a while.
This team is so much better than everybody else. I
really think in a couple of years we're saying, hey,
this could be history for the Panthers. Three cups in
a row. They're going for four, four cups in a row,
they're going for five. They're just that good.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Well, that's the beauty of the way the sport is played.
You also need a lot of luck on your side.
Right you go through their regular season. Only Katchuk was
a guy that missed significant time. They were pretty healthy.
Does do the hockey gods smile on you that each
and every year? Generally not, And obviously because we're talking
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about things on the historical historic landscape and going back
decades till you had these kind of runs and and
dominance that you know, it's hard to repeat. So you
look at off season moves projections, teams that maybe petered
out or had that that injury hit them at the
absolute wrong time. I'm not disagreeing Florida is in a
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great position to keep things rolling, But from a betting
odds perspective, you had a lot of variability and variables
to the algorithm and start rolling through. Initial wagers come
through and because it is so hard to climb that
mountain again that it'll it'll affect some of those early odds.
But we'll start seeing money coming in and we'll keep
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an eye on that as we get into the off season.
But young old, good netminding. But this series and throughout
the playoffs, I mean, what yan aren't finished with? What
fifteen goals for the postseason just absolutely insane for today
in a laugher, But the quick starts that they had
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time and time again, I gotta think physicality changes is
how you approach them as best you can. But trying
to match up with the secondary and third lines is
going to be very difficult, no question about it. But
certainly as we go into an off season, there's a
lot of change, and again health is always the big thing.
(10:35):
Are you ready, and we talked about this at all sports.
Are you ready come September or October for baseball? Right,
it's great to get guys back in June and July.
Don't need them till till August or September. Yeah, before
you got to start rolling in the NBA. You want
to take you want to take the Christmas month off
and go on a cruise had at it? Are you
ready for you know, the final weeks of March and
(10:57):
April when you can get into the play in or
better and be ready for a playoff run to NHL.
It's a long grind too, right, it's a second season,
and we call it that for a reason. What they've
been going for a good eleven twelve weeks. Right when
it's all said and done, So are you healthy and
ready to answer the bell? And at least on early odds,
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they're putting it, spreading it across four or five teams,
and then you've got a nice bunch thereafter.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, and here's a perfect example, right, like Sam Bennett
who won the cons my award is playoff MVP, right,
fifteen goals, he's twenty eight. He's the guy up for
a big contract, right, he's one of the top free agents,
the top guys that could be out there this offseason.
Panthers have the money to sign him. The remember guy,
guys in the NHL, you don't make tons of money.
That's like, oh, they have the money to sign him.
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They will bring him back. He will want to come
back to try to win three in a row. There's
gonna be other players that Hey, maybe I take a
tiny bit less because I've won two Cups, th row on.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
But Bettett's number one guy. They have the money for him.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's not like all they got to do some creative
stuff and no, they have the money to sign him.
They will bring him back and they will reload and
be ready for next year. They again, they're gonna bring
back their most important player.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Who's there. That's happening, right, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I think they're like twenty million dollars in cap money
and I read that likely his salary is gonna be
around around ten million a year.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Okay, great, Yeah we got it. Yeah we got Oh
it's not all of our cap money. Yeah we got it.
We're good.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
They're bringing back their most important player. They're bringing back
the consum might winner. Like there's nothing Florida is not
gonna be able to do. Man, it's inspiring, and it's
also deflating because I know it's gonna be the other
year of me thinking the Hurricanes are gonna be good,
we're gonna get to the playoffs, and Rod Brenda Moore
is gonna say we're doing this, and we're doing this
and that's great, and we're gonna play the Panthers, and
the Panthers are gonna be maybe we win two games
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against the Panthers in the Eastern Conference Final and have
to watch them go win the Stanley Cup again. So yes,
it's inspiring, but it's deflating at the same time.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well, but you know that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
We love dynasties and building them up and then we
celebrate any team that can rise up to topple them.
It's like all our favorite hero movies that we go
to see in cinema.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Right, it's like, all right, how is it going to end?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
But yeah, Bennett's a guy, they have the space, and
it would really take some kind of monster office offer,
I would think to pry him away. Not to mention,
you get to keep that ten percent or thereabouts depending
on the state. Right when we talk about the tax implications,
folks laugh at it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It adds up pretty fast, so you can never dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
And just so you know, for Edmonton, really because I
want to say because I had great I had a
good run. So you know, I do my hit in Edmonton,
which I do with Jason Gregor fourteen forty every couple
of weeks, I go on and have some fun with
them and talk hockey, and you know what, you know,
we talk at NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Finals and stuff. So he said, what do you think?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
You know from an outsider's perspective, you're not someone in
Edmonton obviously who is you know, they're all cup crazy obviously,
what do you think? And I said, well, two things.
I think you need to score the first goal of
the game at some point soon.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
He's, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, I said, And I think Bill Radford needs to
be in goal tonight because Skinner doesn't, because what you
have in goal isn't working right now. It's both those ideas.
Would they have worked for Edmonton? Absolutely, score the first goal,
Bill Ranford and Gold would have worked. They had six
guys finish the playoffs with.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
At least twenty points. That's insane. Yeah, what it worked?
What it worked? Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Don just understand we could be on the precipice of
that kind of history with the Florida Panthers. Jason Smith
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in a few minutes. Are the Pacers going to be
without their biggest star for Game six? Meanwhile, the biggest
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story in basketball tonight comes out of the WNBA. Yes,
the Indiana Fever will vie for the Cup, but that's
really not the story. Caitlyn Clark, in her second game
back after injury, another big night, twenty point six assists,
had three threes. Yes, the Fever clinch a spot in
the Commissioner's Cup by beating the Sun eighty eight to
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seventy one. However, two big scuffles in this game. This
game dotted by a play in the third quarter in
which Caitlyn Clark, dribbling the basketball trying to get to
the lane.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Got poked in the eye by J. C. Sheldon.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Now, Kaitlyn Clark, who I will say for all the
great that Caitlyn Clark flops a lot, flopped a little bit,
and after the flop, the referee tries to get in
the middle, players are kind of getting close. She gets
a little upset, and then another player, Marina Maybry comes
in and bumps Katelyn Clark and knocks her to the ground.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Again, little bit of a flop, but this is what happens.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
But either way, maybe he's still with a lot of contact.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
After a whistle.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
And walking on, the announcers went on for quite a
while of yes, she's not ejected.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Why yeah, absolutely, Caitlyn Clark walks away, which we'll circle
back to that, and then later on in the game
Sophie Cunningham, but the game was well decided.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Caitlin Clark's teammate with.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Forty five seconds left, Jacey Sheldon, who pot Caitlin Clark
in the eye earlier in the game, was going on
a breakaway layup and Sophie Cunningham just absolutely puts both
hands over like bear hugs or knocks through the ground
a hard foul. Players wind up going at it the
under the stanchion. Three players get ejected. It was an
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absolute donnybrook at the end of this game. Now, the
big thing is this fever have to get used to this,
right because we told you last night by game thirty
ish of this season. They're gonna be the best team
in the WNBA. They signed many good players in the
off scene. Just have to get them go. Sophie Cunningham,
one of them. Got to get them a little bit
of time together, and Kitlyn Clark being out for the
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last couple of weeks certainly was gonna hurt the advancement
of that. But by the time we get to get Look,
you saw what they did in Caitlin Clark's return to
the Liberty on Saturday, right the abs. I mean, it
was an incredible run and they beat the Liberty, who
hadn't lost a game all season. They'll be the best
team in the w by game thirty. Teams are gonna
find it hard, find it hard trying to compete with them.
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They're going to try to physically intimidate and bully them,
and so the fever. I don't see them backing down
off of it. You saw what happened tonight. Sophie Cunningham
stands up for Caitlyn Clark. Now, before we get to
the big thing, let me just say this. The one
thing for Caitlyn Clark I could say is that this
is the second time she got involved in a physical
foul altercation. And it's the second time that she just
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walked away from it. Now, I'm not saying I want
you there starting a fight, right, we saw it with
Angel Reese and and and the Sky earlier this season.
But the second time where this happens, Caitlyn Clark gets
poked in the eye, She gets up, kind of kind
of brushes off J. C. Sheldon a little bit and
then maybe comes in and knocks for the ground and
she gets up and walks away, and the other players
(19:15):
kind of stand in and there there's the first skirmish.
I don't want Caitlyn Clark to to go and start
a fight, right, I mean, like, come on that, because
that's embarrassing. But I need a little bit more than
her just walking away. And I understand that she knows
who she is, she knows she's the face League all.
I don't want to get in trouble. Anything I do
is gonna see you all kinds of scrutiny on it.
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So I want to make sure I'm making the smart play.
But you kind of have to, I mean, stand up
there a little bit and say, hey, this isn't cool, right,
don't leave your teammates to fight the battle for you.
Stand up and say, hey, you know what, no, I'll
get there's not gonna be there's not gonna be a
big brawl. The officials are gonna get in between everybody.
Fake tough guys it or you know, in brawls all
the time when something happens on the court. But you know,
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stand up for yourself a little bit, not walk away.
You can't just walk because then it looks like, well,
you're walking away and I'm letting everybody else and you're
gesticulating to the to the officials that you want to
call right. So that's the one thing I can say
is that you know, when stuff like this happens, stands
your ground a little bit, right, you know, don't suddenly
just start walking away from this and seeing it. I
think standing up for yourself a little bit. Your teammates
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want to see that if they have your back, and
clearly they have Caitlyn Clark's back. But I just one
thing I would say, I'd want to see that a
little bit from her more than just hey, when this happens,
I'm gonna walk away and and whatever happens happens.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, I mean this goes back to her days at
Iowa though.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I mean she was chirpy and chippy with players then,
and the same kind of thing. You know, Hey, crowd
gets insided, Referees start to come, teammates starts to come,
and they bail her out. She's like a wrestling manager
that talks a bunch of smack and man has to
have you know, the guys.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Take care of business.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I stirred it up and now I'm gonna I'm gonna
dip out here and and you guys now have a
tag team battle and get after it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I know a lot of folks and you know.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Watching the socials, Sophie Cunningham becoming that hero for Caitlin Clark. Certainly,
she'd already won a lot of points and you'd seen
her fit and her her history. Her arrival to Indiana
was much heralded. And now she's, you know, a cult
hero for becoming, you know, the enforcer on this squad
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where you already had a number of players that were
more than willing to stand in, but yeah, curiously officiated game.
They let it get physical a number of times. Sheldon
takes the l once again. She's now own twelve against
Clark and her career going back to the college days.
But that hard fallow at the end. I mean Sheldon
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went to put the elbow out and Cunningham said, no,
none of that. I'm just coming over the top of
you show just a couple of inches taller. So maybe
it looks worse than it really was in the grand
scheme of things. But smothers her. It gets a little
bit spy, and for Caitlin Clark gets it's the next
in a long line. Do I need her to fight? No,
but stand in. I agree. If you're gonna talk as
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much smack as she does, you're gonna keep getting this
right because it's not. It's not without some provocation on
her side side, you know, when hitting a big shot
and things of that nature. I will ask you this though,
Fever right now third favorite behind the Liberty and Links
at five to one.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You jumping in, Ooh, I should have jumped in earlier.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I should have jumped in. I should have jumped in
before the season when they were just hey, they're on
the cost, and they made some moves. But I'm telling you,
man should jump in five to one now. It's like
I I feel like the five to one.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, I don't know. It should have been more than that.
Liberty like my dad.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh yeah, but my dad. Hey dad, the lottery is
one hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't play unless
it's at least two hundred million. Oh right, right, right,
sorry dad, five to one. I don't need five to
one if you got me harming at like twenty to one.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
A twenty to one because your dad hit more numbers
than Theankees have scored runs in the last three games.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yes, because my dad actually hit one number the last one,
So he's leading.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
The Yankees.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Struggling, taking to the woodshed by the by the Angels
for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
But look, yeah, the fever before the yeah fever before
the season, they're right back where they were.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
They drifted out a little bit once Clark got hurt,
but it's it's normalized.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you think Caitlin Clark was good last year, okay,
just wait till you see the continuation of her middle
finger tour that she is doing and going to continue
to do over the rest of this season. Oh, you
hate me on social media. You're jealous of me. You
don't think I should be deserving of this success. All
the haters, the other players that don't like her. You
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watch what she is going to roll up over the
course of the next couple of months. Here in the
w Right, we see this all the time. You see
teams go on middle finger tours because they've been disrespected.
They just want to say, blank you, blake you. You could
say the Pacers are on a middle finger tour right now.
Other teams have gone on it, right, they don't respect us.
But for Caitlyn Clark, this is more of a okay, like,
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she knows the fan base she has of what she
means to the team, but social media is its own thing, right.
Most people get their news from social media, So you
would think that, oh, Kaitlyn Clark is very divisive. No,
Kaylyn Clark doesn't have nearly these men haters as a thing.
But they're all on social media and they're also playing
in the league, and they're coaches that don't like her.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
They didn't pick her for the Olympic team last year.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
She's like, okay, I got stronger in the offseason and
a bigger thing. She's already hitting threes at a bigger
rate than she did last year. She's more accurate from three,
which is gonna open up a whole new can of
worms for any opposition. You thought she was good last year,
this is the Caitlyn Clark middle Finger Tour where she
is gonna lay waste to the rest of the league
and she will bend you and make you admit, Okay,
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she's great. I'm gonna make I want to make you
quit hating me. I'm gonna make you quit doing it
because you're gonna sound stupid. That's the kind of motivation
that she had, and it's it's great to have that
kind of motivation, right Bobby Axelrod and Billions would say
that hate endless resource.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
You can you can.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Dine out on hate your entire life. You'll never You'll
never have it empty. We'll always be there for you,
but especially this season for her. You think you think
you don't like me, you're jealous of me, all of
all the different things. You don't think I'm good, You
don't think I deserve my standing in the w NBA. Okay,
just wait and just watch. This is why by by
game thirty, the Fever gonna be the best team in
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the league and Caitlin Clark's gonna be the overwhelming favorite
for MVP.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Just watch, yeah, as we watch her go through this
this comeback, obviously, she's gonna have to make sure she
avoids the scuffles and they don't scratch her eyes out,
you know, like when they sent folks in and took
down the basilisk. I mean, because that was the rake
from Sheldon. I mean, that's bad. Scratch Accorney is suddenly,
I mean, how how far are you out? Or do
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you have to wear the goggles? Are you suddenly? That
would be cool if Caitlyn Clark was suddenly in goggles
see what we did? Their whole marketing opportunity because she
could team with Walton Goggins because he's got his goggles, uh,
and it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
All goes together.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Forget about she's one of the famous MVP obviously, so
you have the opportunity now to to hit your stride.
This team is still coming together. A lot of changes
we talked about last night. When you talk about a
new coach, uh, a new rotation, a lot of new players,
and you.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Gotta you gotta love that the top of the league.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Is as strong as it is because they've got mountains
to climb and and it's good for the.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
League as a whole.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Uh that this battle that she has when Angel rees
holding her own over there and you've got in SQ
and putting up big numbers, et cetera. Uh, that you're
still gonna have to run the gauntlet and they're just
getting warmed up. So these big performances with a little
bit of controversy on scuffles, it's good for the league.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh, I'll tell you man, And just think about this.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Right Wed, we talked about how, hey, you're not going
to realize how much you miss Caitlin Clark until she
comes back. Right, we talked about that, and congratulations everybody
else will stole that. Take a couple of days ago
because it happened. I got documented proof. But I told
you that. I told you, And now all of a sudden,
Caitlin Clark is back in Look. Big headline, last two games,
huge headline Saturday against the Liberty. You know, two and
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a half million people watch the game tonight. It's the
big headline in basketball, especially the physical play.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
How they respond like, I don't know what else to
tell you. I mean that you talk about a sport.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Nobody misses a player in their sport more than the
W missus, Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
That iss, No.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
We don't miss somebody. We haven't had him. We're not
getting We're not getting Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's not happening. It's not he's not on the list.
We have not called the Bucks for permission.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
To interview him. You don't know that. I don't know
how I would. Oh no, we know everybody the Knicks call. Come.
You think that would be kept a secret?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Come on, I mean, let's be real. He's the only
one that's going to say yes.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Doc would be the guy. Doc would open the window
in his office and shout down to reporters at that
on the street.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Just got a call from the next you want to
go with it. I'm your source, I'm your sort o, Cordy.
He's just walking around Manhattan. He would ask me, why
am I'm in Manhattan yet? Yeah.
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He would have the sandwich board and he would ring
the bell and it would be should I be Nick's
head coach?
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And then vote Doc.
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On the back Hatchtag's just ringing the bell walking up
and down the street.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
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York and have them do that.
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He's he's spinning the ox logo on one of those sites.
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He's just spinning it around. Oh, I love it.
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And he's got a stencil and spray paint and he's
spray paint a picture of his face.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh hey, hey, Doc, are you at the point now
where you're selling houses?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No? No, this is for the Knicks. Oh, because usually
see this for houses like.
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watch me spin, watch me spin.
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That's how it goes. Oh, this is good. And don't
forget to vote for Judge and Otani.
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Steve may have thrown the biggest curveball on that intro compared.
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To any of the others. Yeah you like that one.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
We did have six WNBA games, by the way, tonight,
not only Caitlin Clark with the twenty points in Indiana's
win over Connecticut, which is two and nine, but New
York and Minnesota each one again. New York ten and
one after edging Atlanta eighty six eighty one thirty four
points for Sabrina Yanescu. Minnesota is eleven in one after
beating Las Vegas seventy six sixty two for Vegas. Asia Wilson,
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still in concussion protocol, she missed a third straight game.
The late game had Seattle winning easily at La Dallas
was one and eleven but beat Golden State, and it
was Washington winning at Chicago seventy nine seventy two Chicago
three and eight. NBA Finals Game six will be Thursday
at Indiana. Oklahoma City leads the series three games to two.
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Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton reportedly as a string calf. Indiana
traded its first draft choice for next week to New Orleans,
along with a players rights for a first round or
next year. Thirteen more international players withdrew from the NBA Draft,
which starts Wednesday, twenty fifth. Fourteen international early entries still.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Remain in the draft.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
By the way, the Olympic Hockey schedule was released today
for next February in Italy, it'll be yes NHL players
at the winner games for the first time since twenty fourteen.
There will be twelve teams in the tournament. Last year,
the Stanley Cup final had Florida beating Edmonton in seven.
Florida beat Edmonton in six this year, five to one.
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Tonight's final. In Game six, Sam Bennett name playoff MVP
after scoring fifteen goals in the postseason. Sam Reinhardt had
four goals tonight, including a couple of empty netters. So
after the game went final, Associated Press quickly pointed out
that with a Miami team winning a title tonight, since
the Miami Dolphins last won a playoff game, the Panthers
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have won two Stanley Cup ups, the Miami Heat have
won three NBA titles, and even the Marlins have won
a World Series since the last Dolphins playoff win in
the two thousand seasons.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh wow, you the Dolphins just getting sides twice right there.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Well, history is what it is. These Panthers, by the way,
became one of the rare teams in NHL history to
capture the Cup after winning four series as the lower
seeded club every time LA Kings twenty twelve Devils in
nineteen ninety five. This Florida team forty seven wins. Edmonton
had forty eight wins in the regular season. PGA Tour
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commissioner Jay Monahan will step down when his contract ends
next year. At College Baseball's World Series, both UCLA and
Oregon State were eliminated. Arkansas goes into the Semis against
two and OHO LSU. By the way, the Atlanta Falcons
signed the UFL's leading rusher, Jashan Corbyn from Florida State,
and they cut running back Jase mcclell in a sixth rounder.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
A year ago.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
The Jets signed UFL kicker Harrison Meavis, known as the
thicker kicker at Missouri, where he booted a sixty one yarder.
He's listed at five eleven two thirty six. Off to
Jets camp.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Chargers training camp starts in a month. They'll be playing
in the Hall of Fame exhibition in late July. US
men's soccer plays again Thursday at the FIFA Club World Cup.
Manchester City plays a day game in Philadelphia Wednesday, the
Lake Ballgame, and the Majors went to the Dodgers over
San Diego eight six. Andy Pa has two home runs,
going four for four. Will Smith had a three hit night,
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including a homer. By the way, pitcher Showeo Tottie Starred
on Monday, set a viewing record on MLB's streaming TV.
Giants were beaten at home three to two by Cleveland,
although Rafael Devers, now with the Giants, had an RBI double,
but the team left thirteen men on base. Dodgers now
three and a half up on the Giants, five over
the Padres in the NL West Houston and the Cubs
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each one. Kansas City ended a six game losing streak,
winning six to one at Texas. Seattle got an early
Grand Slam from Rawley is twenty seventh homers. He had
a eight nothing over Boston. The Angels shut out the
Yankees for nothing. Yanks have lost five straight. Atlanta came
back and beat the Mets in ten. Miami came back
to beat Philadelphia. Toronto hit two solo homers bottom of
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the ninth, Dade Arizona five to four.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You know, I think Cal Rowly is the Anthony Santander
of this year. Where I think Anthony Santander had a
home run every night last year, I feel like Cal
Rawly has a home run every night.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's a catcher doing this. He also had a two
run double, so he's got sixty RBIs already We're in
mid June.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, it's a maazing legend. Thank you, Steve.
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
So we're getting set for Game six of the NBA
Finals on Thursday. The thunder goat for the closer and
all of a sudden, maybe wait a minute, the Pacers
might not have Tyres Halliburton. Halliburton dinged up his calf
last night. You played in the first you saw in
the first half he was dribbling in for an attempt
(34:20):
at the basket and he fell down taking off the floor,
gets examined as his calf wrapped up, comes back and
plays plays the rest of the game. After the game,
he talked about having a calf strain. His calf wasn't
feeling good. And then Shams Tarani I had the report
(34:42):
earlier today that Halliburton, with his calf strain, is going
to have an MRI to determine the severity of the strain.
Now it's a weird thing because I'm not going to
sit here and say he's not hurt, because obviously he's
he's dinged up and he hurt his calf.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You see that. How hurt is he? Right?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Because whichever the reality is for the Pacers, neither one
is good, right, because you know, Halliburton is someone who
plays on confidence, and he had a bad game in
Game five, and I don't know, is this MRI away
to try to explain and get the pressure off him
that hey, he was really hurt and so he's really
got to go get an MRI. Is just a garden
variety MRI that, hey, just to be sure, we're gonna
(35:24):
have him take an MRI. He not doesn't know that
we need to, but we're just gonna have him get it.
And this gets out there because hey, look, Halliburton is
someone that reads what is said about him and watches
what's said about him. We know he talks about in
the post game, and so if all of a sudden.
The narrative is, boy Tyre's Halliburton is terrible. How do
you get the needle closer to zero? Well, he's got
(35:44):
to have an MRI, okay, because.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Here's what you have to use the needle.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
You're gonna get the needle.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
So I don't think he's that dinged up, because he
played the second most minutes of anybody on the Pacers
last night. If he was really hurt, he wouldn't have
been able to play, and they would have taken him
out of the game we played it. Both of those
things would have happened. But clearly he was good enough
to play till the end of the game. So how
bad is the quad strain really? Or how bad is
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the cat strained really? And at the same time, if
it was really bad, he wouldn't have come back in
the game. He goes off, he gets examined. It's game five.
It's not a winner go home game. It's a game
you're already losing. In Hey, we want to make sure
we have two days in between games. Let's make sure
we have them for game six back in Indiana, and
we'll make it go in game six and game seven.
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Never know what could happen. Let's make sure we have that.
We don't want to put anything else at risk, because
the last thing you want is to have your star injured.
But he was looked at a couple of times and
he was still okay with going back in the game.
So how hurt is he really?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
The second part is this, let's just say this MRI
comes back and it's bad and he's out. Then you
got to turn around and say, what the hell are
the pacers doing? What the hell the pacers doctors doing
allowing him back in the game when he clearly was hurt?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Because I find it and I find it hard to
believe that that's going to be the outcome of this,
is that the pacers really blew it, because this doesn't
really happen that often, where a guy goes in, gets examined,
comes back out and plays and hurts himself even worse,
and you find out.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Whoops, yeah, we missed it.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
We mis diagnosed that, we missed we missed this cast
strain that was a blown achilles or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah, we kind of didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
So if it comes out that he's really hurt, it's like, well,
what did you do How did you let him back
in the game?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
How did you let him back in?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
How did you how did he go through all these
protocols and you let him back in this game that
you didn't need to win, where now you're missing him
for the rest of the series. So no matter how
this comes out, it doesn't come out great for the Pacers.
Obviously wanted to come out that he plays, that he's
healthy and plays well, he's an exciting player, he's having
a terrific playoff and and the series is going to
be much better. They have a much better chance of
moving on to the game seven uh with him than
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without him. And obviously I never want to see a
guy hurt. But like whenever the outcome means for the Pacers,
it's boy boy, this is it's it's kind of one
way is a little weird. The other one is is
even worse. So I don't know if if you're Indiana
here that that any any answer here turns out to
be great. There is one that's much much less worse
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than the other. But I don't know how this is
gonna go.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Spread started as thunder minus five now up to minus
six uh for tomorrow or for Thursdays. I keep trying
to advance it, trying to get it done, but he
gets that extra day of rest.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, it's the curiosity. Uh do you do?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
You just do the MRI just to say, hey, let's
make sure it's all there, uh and all clear?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Could you have done it undercover of darkness? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
We always want full disclosure from teams about these things.
NFL has the UH inane finding system. Sometimes it is,
sometimes it's not, depending on what they decide on a
given UH circumstance. But in this case, the passivity of
the way Haliburton went through those thirty four minutes. Maybe
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believe it was a lot worse and maybe he shouldn't
have been out there at all, but he was there
and a non factor, So that's how we have to
judge it. In his post game, didn't really talk about
how much he was hurting, just more so that he
didn't play well and just kind of matter of factly
(39:23):
stated those those things. So curious what comes out of
the MRI excuse making protection all of those things certainly
in play here. I'd like to think it's not malfeas
it's and that he sent a guy back out there hey,
shoot him up, get.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Him out there. I mean, this isn't an eighties football movie.
Get out of here. I don't want your life going on.
John Voight, what do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (39:48):
You mentioned that the Pacers might be without their best player,
but I'm not so sure about that.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I said he's out there without there. I said without
their biggest star. I didn't say he said their biggest.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Obie to Jason.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Obie Topping, Obie, what do you think of Tom Thibodeau
getting fired? I'm popping. I don't care Obi Topping, I'm popping.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I'm still playing. It doesn't matter now. Look look, obviously
I hope he plays. I hope he's okay. I want
him there.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
But you judge Offul last night, and I feel pretty
good about that. He's going to be out there for
Game six because he finished again. Rick Carlyle would have
pulled him if he really looked that bad and did
look like they would have said, you know what, he's
having a tough time movie, let's take him out. But
he handles the ball every single time the four So
I mean, I I really I don't know how much
this is. This is really going to be something that
affects Game six. You know, as far as Halliburton's availability.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Well, maybe he comes out like a house of fire.
It's all a big ropodope.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Oh and all of a sudden, he's absolutely fine.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
He's just shaking his leg. Yeah, look I feel fine.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Look at this right here, I'm shaking his leg like
Otani on his Instagram page showing the hit By pick.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Maybe he just people liked g oh boy, there would
have been a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Would have been a wheel It's gotta be a wheelchair.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
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