June 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike weigh-in on Lebron James “Ring Culture” comments. The guys explain why someone needs to tell Shedeur Sanders he's taking a test every day until the regular season. And we react to the Buss family entering into an agreement to sell majority ownership of the Los Angeles Lakers!
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Dodgers lead the Padres three to one in the bottom
of the seventh Andy Pater has the red hot future
All Star. Andy pa has his hit up near his
head dirty and it seems like everything is okay now
kind of gave a nod of the pictures taken out
of the game. Wandy Perralta now in for the Padres.
(00:57):
I'm telling you, Dodgers and Padres are gonna brawl at
some point this season.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
They're gonna have to just go sprint into the dugout
and start beating the hell out of Shildt at some
point bypass the pictures. The catchers whoever may be in
on the what's being called from the dugout and just
go straight to the source.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Uh, that's frostburg actually fighting Mike Schildt. When I say
I'm gonna fight this guy, I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
That would be even more than the White Sox fans
going after the Royals first base.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Coach off these years. Yeah, no, this would be Frostburger.
Here comes with Here comes a guy in a Chargers
hat and a sandy kofex Jersey going after Mike Schiltz
raining Haymakers down. I'll stab them with my Vin Scully
bubblehead tack with a Vin Scully bubble Now that makes
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Monsey an accessory though, Oh yeah, yeah, you brought her
into it, Mike. Yeah no, no, no, yeah. If if
Moncy provided the weapon that, yeah, no, I would, I would,
I would back off. I back off it. So again,
Dodgers lead the Padres three to one. Now, Dodgers continuing
to back in the bottom of the seventh inning. Fan
favorite keyk Hernandez legend for La not called on to
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pitch just yet. No, maybe they get up big though
you might see him the ninth inning. This game gets
if it gets to like you know, ten eleven one,
you might see keyk and the ninth, especially with those
glasses he's got on. Come on, that's balling. You saw
what it was eleven nothing that weekended. Hang on a second,
got escalated quickly, it was I blink. I mean really,
you know, I'll give you a big bull prediction. Now,
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the way the Dodgers use Key k to pitch the
end of these games, this is gonna. This is gonna
for some kind of change in Major League Baseball because
you know, Baseball doesn't like that. No, no, here's position
player coming, especially when Dodgers brought him in the sixth inning. Yeah,
he gave him the sixth inning. And now he's closing
out of the ginnings. Yeah, yeah, closing out of the game.
That that's eleven. Nothing like Baseball does not want this,
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and there's gonna and it would be great because if
baseball had some kind of rule that says, hey, we're
gonna we're gonna increase the active roster by one or
two positions strictly for you to be able to bring
out two more bullpen pitchers. Okay, great, Right, if all
of a sudden it becomes Hay instead of you know,
twenty six man roster, it's gonna be We're gonna have
a certain amount. You can have x amount of position
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players and x amount of pitchers. Great those extra two
spots so you can't manipulate it, so you can have
enough relievers. So we can see that happen. And again
you're creating jobs, right, you're creating sixty more jobs and
make get League Baseball. Everybody wins. Everybody wins. Union would
like it.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Veteran players maybe not so much because you're already talking
about that that divide when you're trying to go younger.
I mean because we talked to John Paul Morosi about
that a couple of weeks ago. Right, of all the
call ups and that not just the star power call ups,
but a lot of rosters where like, wow, you got
a lot of guys in the first ninety days of
service and we're in June. So the good and the
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bad of all I had to say. But it would
be the key k Hernandez rule. So he'd get like
a little shrine in Cooperstown because of that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh that's nice. At least, you know there's his goggles
and his no no, no, they would take that helmet
that he has. It goes around his head and it's
not a full helmet because you know the top of
his head gets hot, so like like that would put
in the oh yeah, the nachos wild fall out of
the bottom though I don't know I you can do that.
You have to turn it on its side and then
have the nacha okay, turn it out.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Okay, well, but you have better scoop than your catcher
trying to h grab the ball earlier today.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm not dropping nachos. I'm not dropping no. Uh yeah,
you know, got to take care of your It's funny
because that play that happened the Mets game where Louis
Torrens tried to grab the ball with his mask, which
is which he can't do. You can't do yet, and
it's it's technically a balk like you know how many times
I've seen that in my Facebook feed go for like
craziest baseball plays in college? What's the ruling on this?
(04:41):
What is the what is the umpire? Because for some reason,
my wife Pam is like obsessed with this, like the
last years, with coaching all different things. I wanted to rules.
She asked me, why did this happen? Why did this happen?
Why couldn't you do this? Why couldn't you this Whenever
something crazy comes up rule wise, she's on it on
Facebook going, hey, why does this happen here? Why? Why
is that?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Maan?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm suddenly it's like she
wants to rewrite the Major League rule book. So I've
seen that a hundred times before. Yeah, why was this?
Why why was this play allowed to stand? Why was
this guy allowed to come in and score? Because? Yeah, because
you can't touch the ball, can't grab the ball with
your catcher's mask, and that put the first run of
the game in for the bravest.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Reminds me of a clip I saw earlier with it
was Guns and Roses concert where the drummer started playing
mister Brownstone and actual keeps yelling no, no, no, bad obsession.
That's what I'm taking bad obsession for Pam. Right there,
Bell we go into bad obsession and he's.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Like, no, no, no, and he keeps drumming. If you
can't play the right song, you can't be in this band.
I will hire Stephen Adler again. And I can't stand
the guy. At least he knew what songs to play
Happy Birthday, Dizzy Read and my mom and Paul McCartney.
(05:51):
Oh wow, that's pretty that's pretty good. Triumph. Yeah, that's
all right. Dizzy might have been yesterday and I only
saw it today, but either way, that's okay. I'm Paul
eighty three today. Yeah. So other big headlines from the
Lakers today despite in addition to the fact that they
were sold for ten billion dollars. Lebron James did a
podcast with Steve Nash in which he bemoaned ring culture.
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Says it fans and media, everybody is obsessed too much
with players having to win and getting rings, and you
can't quite appreciate their careers the way you should. Here's
Lebron from the Steve Nash podcast about ring culture.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Funny, I don't know, I don't know why I've discussed
so much in our sport and why is the all
be all of everything. You sit here and tell me,
you know, Alan Iverson and Charles Barkley and Steve Nash,
you know, you know, wasn't unbelievable, like, oh, they can't
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be talked about or discussed with these guys is because
this guy won one ring or won two rings or
one like it's just it's just weird to me, it's
like Sam Peyton Manning can't be in the same room
with Brady for mahomes and because he only has one ring,
they don't never discuss that any sport, right, or telling
me that Dan Marino is not the greatest slinger of
all time, or he can't be in a room with
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those guys because he didn't win a championship. They don't
discuss those things.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Wow, Okay, so, first of all, Peyton Manning has two.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Rings, but and categorically untrue because that's said all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Do we include Damn Britton? No, he didn't win.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
This is.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Without a doubt for his entire NBA career. Okay, this
is without a doubt. Lebron James's biggest fault. He is
too sensitive. He has wanted from the moment he has
stepped on the court to get that universal love that
Michael Jordan got when he played, and it's just not
gonna happen. But he thinks he should get it. He
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thinks he should be celebrated for everything he does. Doesn't
understand why he's polarizing, doesn't stand why people love him,
why people don't like him. Hey, you know what if
Michael Jordan came around in this era. Guess what he'd
be polarizing too. The first time he didn't win a championship,
it would be Michael Jordan's done. He's never gonna win again.
Oh look at this, he's playing baseball. This is ridiculous.
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It's a different life now that Lebron was in than
Michael Jordan was in. Michael Jordan is so happy that
that he played before the age of social media with
some of the stories that we know about in the
God out There. Lebron is playing in the social media age.
He's the first big superstar whose career is that great
and it spans the entire time from the early two
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thousands where Facebook exploded, then you had Twitter in the
late aughts to where we are now with Instagram and
TikTok and where we are this is Lebron's But he
has wanted the universal hug that Michael Jordan got. He
feels he deserves it and he's not getting it. Yeah,
I'm sorry, but you're polarizing and are you really obsessing
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over conversations that other people have about who the greatest
is of all time? I'm sorry your name is not
at the top for every conversation. Sometimes your name is
at the top. Some people say you're the greatest of
all time. Other people say Michael Jordan's the greatest. Are
you really that upset at the conversation people have. Yeah,
winning championships is kind of how we parse things out right.
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It's about winning. That's why the scoreboard is up. That's
why fans watch. Fans don't watch because I just want
to appreciate greatness. Now, fans want to see their teams win.
We are in a winning culture, right, we want to
see winning. I can't watch the Jets and just be
excited that, Hey, they get together on Sundays and do
something together, and the uniforms look good. The throwback logo
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is great. But I don't care that they lose forty
four to three. They get to run around the field
and high five each other and look like they're in it. No,
we want to see teams with this is how it goes.
And this shows you his sensitivity to something like that.
You're really you're so upset because people say, you know,
you don't have enough ring. You have enough rings, you
have enough rings. But because you know Jason Smith won
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four eight seven six, Hey, hi, JJ Reddick says something
about you or somebody else. Oh, I don't like I
don't like this as being debated that so and such
a player is not as good. These are the debates
to keep sports going. This is what keeps you paid
like you have for the past twenty five years. Because
fans want to pay money. Do they want to spend
money to go to the games? They want to spend
money on the NBA packages. This is what keeps the
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sports world going around. You really want to lose it
over conversations that are had about who the best player is.
I just want to make sure that this is where
I'm at with Lebron. You don't like conversations about who
the best because you feel like we don't appreciate their careers.
Nobody who thinks you're better than Michael Jordan doesn't appreciate
Michael Jordan's career. No One who thinks that Michael Jordan's
better than you doesn't appreciate your career. It's when you're
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putting the best of the best up against each other
you have to pick somebody like Pacers. I'm sorry. When
you're playing the Thunder, the thunder out of better record,
people are gonna pick them when you're playing the Cavaliers.
Cavaliers had a better record, people are gonna pick them.
Like the fact that he chooses to be upset about this,
this is his entire career. He has been too sensitive
to things like this, and this is a shining display
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of it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, I mean it's parenthetical at the start is look,
I'm never getting like that ship sailed, so faux outrage. Also,
if you had you know June seventeen slash eighteenth is
the day that Lebron would you know pop up during
the playoffs. Congratulations you hit that on your Bengo card.
NBA Finals not quite done yet.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
But all of this to.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Say, yeah, you're concerned with it. Do you want to
fight Windmills is a full don Quixote thing, like you're
not gonna convince everybody. This is what happens in you know,
the barber shop, which is you know, your your opportunity
that you've had with your buddies and all the the
lawsuits when you were trying to trademark Taco Tuesday everything else.
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It's all about the discussions and debates that lend to
the legend players and over time, guess what the people
that watched Lebron James career.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They're going to be the majority.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Over the old guys shouting, you know, get off my lawn.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Who watched Michael Jordan play? Right, I'm old enough to
where I remember it, But is it is it clear
as day anymore?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I was in the middle of it, and I enjoyed
the hell out him.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Went to as many games as we could possibly go
to early before it became the hardest ticket and we
didn't have the market places like you had now. You
had to go find a guy on a street corner
to get a ticket. Otherwise it was go watch it
on TV with Lebron. Eventually, those are the people you know,
who lives, who dies, who tells your story. Eventually, it's
gonna be the preponderance of folks unless someone eclipses Lebron.
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That's younger. Lebron James is gonna become the de facto king.
Michael Jordan's just gonna be that ghost that they talk
about of. Yeah, well, he's gonna be like Wilt and
Kareem are now. Well, they're in a whole other era, right,
the game was so much different, So we don't even
include them in those discussion. That's where Jordan's gonna be
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in fifteen to twenty years because everybody that watched Lebron
and loves Lebron and are gonna cite his record.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're gonna jump in.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
He just needs to be a little more patient and
and and develop a little thicker skin.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah. And the other thing too, to button this is
that I also feel like he's looking for an excuse
why he hasn't won in four or five years. Sure,
because he knows he's probably not gonna win again, and okay,
because it didn't work with Luca this year, He's probably
got one more year with the Lakers, and then who
knows the team was sold and who they're gonna want
to keep him. But I feel like he's looking, Hey,
I haven't won since twenty twenty, and people, a lot
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of people don't count that. And here's my except, why
aren't people just appreciating my greatness even though I haven't won.
Right for a guy who's been measured about go getting
the finals and winning his entire career, has been fine
with that, but now that he's not winning, Oh now
I want credit even though I'm not getting the finals.
Like I feel like he want. He's looking for an
ext year. Well, I don't win, but it doesn't matter.
I'm still great. Why why why can't we do this?
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He's irrelevant? Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Carle. If he had given up the
fact that he's never gonna get that universal hug that
Michael Jordan got his career, maybe he's got another couple
of times he could have gone on the blank You
Tour like Caitlin. But speaking of basketball, coming up next,
what does Vegas have to say about what's gonna happen
tomorrow night in Game six of the NBA Finals? What
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about who's gonna win some big time quarterback derbys in
the NFL? Keep it right here, that's next, Jason to Mike.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Dodgers lead the Padres three to one,
LA batting in the bottom of the eighth inning. Love
more in this game coming up in a bit, but
big day today in sports. The Lakers are sold for
ten billion dollars. We got Caitlin Clark playing tomorrow night.
We have the Indiana Basers playing Game six of the
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NBA Finals. Which game is gonna be moved? Joining us
now in the hotline for all the latest from Vegas.
Our man. He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, former ozmaker
at Caesars. Check out his Bet the Board podcast. See
him on CBS as well. Todd, what's happening man? How
are you tonight?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Everything is good, gentlemen and smith. I've been out for
a good portion of the night. So I just want
to know if the Knicks land to the head coach
yet or are we going to WHOOPI Goldberg ro out?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We are well okay. First of all, Whoopy Goldberg would
be fine. I saw them win big and Eddie. Secondly,
we're just starting the interviews now, We're just getting to
talk to people now. As long as we're not talking
to Doc Rivers, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I mean, that's maybe the only candidate left to try
and coach the Knicks going into next season. But if
the Knicks aren't a lot of things slow calculated and
very sought constructively out this entire process.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
This is a Nick in a microcosmy.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Dude, if they said, Okay, you're getting Gannis, but Doc
comes with him, I really would have to think about it.
I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Do you think Giannis wants to continue playing for Doc rivers?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Your question and all of this, Well, that was trying
to sell last week Todd was that Doc was going
to be the guy going to Giannis to convince him
to stay.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That seemed kind of odd.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
It's a weird state of affairs around the NBA, But
you figure some of these dominoes will start to fall,
whether it's Kevin Durant's landing spot, the Knick's head coach
Jihan is staying or leaving in Milwaukee, and it'll make
the de facto hot stove all that more intriguing as
you look at some of the dynamics in play. But
given the trade hall that we saw for Desmond Bane,
apparently Kevin Durant may go for about thirty seven first
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round pick, naming rights to unborn children and maybe even
get his name on a street and whatever county ultimately
lands in Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So before we get to the finals. We know Kevin
Durant has been mentioned with the Spurs, but potentially the
interest may or may not be mutual. What's the favorite
right now for Kevin Durant's next team.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
You know a lot of books have taken those numbers down,
but when they were up about sixteen eighteen hours ago,
and I haven't done a full survey to see if
a couple of the offshores are still trading that particular market.
It was basically throw a blanket over the heat, the Rockets,
and the Spurs as the three most likely landing.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Spots in all of it.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
The one market that was intrigued in kind of going
back to Giannis, that did catch a little bit of
buzz with the Oklahoma City Thunder at around thirty to one,
their number came down a bit. Wouldn't that be something
if the Thunder go on to win the NBA title
and land Giannis to make them that much stronger next year.
But Yeah, this Durant situation continues to get more and
more bizarre. It feels like from a basketball standpoint, Houston
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makes a world of sense because Durant won't be asked
to guard a traffic coning on the defensive end of
the court, and he may be the only guy on
that roster capable of getting them a timely bucket and
crunched on.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So let's start to the finals curiosity with the calf
and is your injury to Tyrese Haliburton. As best I
could tell, he was worth about a point to a
point and a half in the point spread.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, see at a minus six and a half last
I looked at.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It, yeah, and I think harm that's folks looking to
try and get ahead of it. We saw the number
for game six open as low as four and a half,
five get bet up as high as seven, and there
was a little bit of resistance that came in on
the underdog. I have to imagine if Tyres Haliburt gets
officially ruled out that that number will leak up to
seven again and you may actually see an appetite from
professional betters.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
To back the home underdog.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I'm not going to say that the Indiana Pacers have
a good secondary option from a minute's allotment, because I
don't think TJ McConnell can log forty five minutes on
court as the primary point guard from start to finish.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
But I do think Rick.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Carlisle is smart enough to try and figure out some
unique ways to mask what could be a gaping hole,
especially in the backcourt. But given what we saw in
the fourth quarter of Game five, you know, Tyrese Haliburt
operating at about what appeared to be forty percent capacity.
Probably better to be sitting in his street clothes than
out there logging minutes in a high leverage situation as
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a pacers trying to do everything they can to stave off elimination.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Dude, TJ McConnell can't play twenty five minutes without looking
like me when I walked to the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, I mean I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Done at the break.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
He's paying at a breakneck pace, and there's a good
chance at TJ McConnell and you may have been classmates.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
You know when you look at TJ mcconnald's age, So.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I can understand why he's not able to go out
out there and play forty plus minutes at a breakneck pace.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
All right. Now, outside of that, last night we saw
the Stanley Cup ghetto and now it's dinged up. Awarded
to the Florida Panthers after they beat the Edmonton Oilers,
And it was really weird that right after this was over,
we saw all the sports books seem kind of split
on who the favorites were for next season, Like, obviously
the Panthers got some run, the Oilers got some run,
but the Stars get some run. The Carolina Hurricanes got
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some run. Why is it so split right now?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think there are kind of five teams that oddsmaker's
believe are in that de facto top tier, and you
mentioned all of them, the Hurricanes, the Panthers, the Oilers,
the Stars and the Avalanche. So there will be slight
nuances and additional opportunities if you continue to shop around.
Should you want to tie up your money for nearly
three hundred and sixty five days on any of.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
The short shots on the board.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
But this is a Florida Panthers team that does have
a couple of key decisions on me to make in
free agency. Aaron eck Blad, Brad Marsham and Sam Bennet
going to be the three biggest. We'll see if they
can retain one, two, or maybe even all three of them.
Who knows what direction the Edmonton Oilers will look to
go as they retool their roster, because anybody who watched
that Stanley Cup Final had to come away with a
similar thought process that there was a chance that the
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Oilers could have lost all six of those games if
it wasn't for a bound here or there, and they
felt further away from winning a Cup this year than
they did when they went down three games to nothing
last year against the same Panthers. And then, of course,
the NHL is a league more than any of the
other major sports, although maybe I can't say that given
the improvalle run from the Pacers, that does lend itself
the teams coming from off the pace. So I think
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if you have the foresight to identify, you know, some
of the longer shots, and never a bad idea to
start to build out that portfolio before some of the
key names hit free agency officially when we get to July.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
First, Arman in Vegas, Todd Furman, our guest at Todd
Furman on Twitter, at bet the Board pod as well
as bet the Board Podcast, longtime friend of the show
here Jason Smith and me Mike Garmon here from the
Fox Sports Radio studios in La Todd one of the
giant storylines yesterday, the Franks chaos.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
In the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Are we getting some kind of handle now when we
talk about game to game odds or is it still
a very small market.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
It's still a small niche market, but it is no
doubt grown in popularity from a betting perspective, and the
Indiana Fever, as we see in the TV ratings, generate
buzz in the betting markets as well. Anytime Caitlin Clark
is out there, healthy and able to play at her
full capacity, it's going to grab eyeballs and her prop markets,
whether they're points, rebounds, or assists.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Definitely a market.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
That has grown in popularity amongst recreational betters. But watching
that game last night, it's amazing that the Fever don't
have an enforcer on the roster.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
There has to be a female.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Equivalent of Rick Mahorn out there somewhere looking for minutes
at a key juncture of the game to try and
go out there and inflict physical harm. Because if the
league's not going to do anything about it, the Fever
coaching staff and the players on that roster need to
do everything they can to protect their face of their
franchise and make sure that she's not getting tossed around
like a rag doll on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Well, what of her MVP odds done in the last
few days as you come back from injury.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You know, it's always interesting because when a player misses
as much time as she did, you're going to see
that number drift out. And when you look at the
fisha Collier she asserted herself and as a heavy odds
on favorite or price tag right around minus three dollars.
But Klin Clark's price when she was dealing with that
quad injury drift drifted as high as five to one.
Numbers come down substantially, so if you look around, you
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can find her in that two to one, you know,
five to two price range, and that's where you fall
off a cliff to the likes of Brianna Stewart, Asia Wilson,
Sabrin nine ESQ and everybody else in the league.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
So it clearly appears to be.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
A two women race atop the board, and you can
understand why given the impact both those players have had
and the Indiana Fever now third on the odds board
to win the WNBA Championship behind the Liberty and the
Minnesota Link.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So todd as we hit these summer months, right, NHL
in the books, we still have the NBA Draft, at
least one more game for the finals. Where do people
start investing their money? We see more baseball, we s,
more golf racing, or do they just spend it on
lavish vacations.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, international table tennis. No.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
This is where sportsbooks try and figure out how fast
they can get people that were betting some of the
more traditional stick and ball sports to start playing in
the online casino, to blow through their bank rolls long before.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Football season gets here. But this is no doubt.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
The dog days of summer when you look at the
betting calendar and some of the events that are there.
You mentioned golf, and golf has one hundred percent grown
in popularity, you know, kind of really burst onto the
scene as a betting vehicle during COVID when people were
looking for other avenues. Motorsports a much smaller niche.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But until we get to the Hall.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Of Fame game in early August, and of course regular
season college football and the start of the NFL season,
you know, these are the slowest month on the betting calendar,
and it's why sportsbooks no doubt celebrate the years that
they have a euro international soccer tournament, and of course,
next year here in the state's the World Cup, which
which did do all sorts of record breaking handle, assuming
that the Red, White and Blue are able to get
out of the group stage.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman. That is Todd Underscore Furman.
Check out the Bet the Board podcast as well. See
him on CBS Todd as always, Buddy, appreciate it, man.
We'll talk to you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
You got it, gentlemen. Hopefully we catch up next week.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
The Nicks may actually know who's calling the shots on
their bench, but I'm not optimistic about it happening that quickly.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
No chance. Very good, Oh any good? Tod's Todd Furman,
not Todd Underscore froman Todd Firk got it bad fuck
Nick show. Now he had to take the swipe. Yeah,
it's nice there. It's a low hanging fruit at this point.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
As the draft creeps ever closer, getting deeper into that,
we've got a bunch of players that are saying, I
don't want to go work out with this guy, LaMelo Ball.
We've got Ace Bailey, I'm not really gonna work out
for the Sixers. So we have some intrigue at the
top of the draft, but otherwise it's that Nick's head
coaching job that really gets a lot of headlines. Buddy,
(24:55):
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. And someone who had the over on Arkansas
lsuto and celebrated the walk off.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
I didn't have the over. I feel for those Arkansas fians. Man,
that Omaha curs is real. Yeah, So LSU came back
to defeat Arkansas. As you guys are just mentioning, they're
gonna face Coastal Carolina on Saturday in the first game
of a best of three championship series. Coastal Carolina eliminated
Louisville earlier today, eleven to three. They've also won twenty
(25:26):
six in a row. In baseball, the Dodgers left the
bases loaded in the seventh inning. In fact, they the
Padres struck out show Hey O Tawny right now. They
had an opportunity to score again, but the Padres held
them up. With Andy Pajz at the plate, Dodgers are
still up though it's three to one and they're about
to start the ninth inning in La Astro, still on
(25:46):
top of the A's nine to two. It's the top
of the ninth inning.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Where are the A's playing Sacramento, sacrament.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I keep wanted to obviously say Oakland, But in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's the top of the ninth inning.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
They did had call that game that I was complaining
about because of weather. Yeah, well guys, because I complained.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
So, the Reds did beat the Twins four to two
and six innings because of the rain delay or the
weather delay. The Braves shut out the Mets five zero.
The Royals had a sixty to three win over the Rangers,
and the Guardians defeated the Giants board to two in
San Francisco. The Phillies earlier today took down the Marlins
four two. In the Red Sox defeated the Mariners three
to one. Red Sox making a trip now to San
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Francisco to take on the Giants and an old friend
by the name of Rafael Devers in the NBA. Yeah,
the Lakers are being sold ten billion dollars to Mark Walter,
who is also the CEO of the guggenheind Gret.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Great Mark Wahlberg is buying the Lakers Mark Walter.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
First first Coldstone, now Mark Wahlberg. Now, I'm just gonna
saying all the wrong things.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's gonna be a lot of good vibrations. Get up
the Lakers this year? What was the game show host
to Mark?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Mark too right?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Same w Yeah yeah, Well Mark wahlbergs yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Ten billion dollars to Mark Walter, who is the CEO
of a bunch of places, apparently including the Guggenheim group
that owns the Dodgers, But Jeanie busses expecting me to
remain with the franchise. And in college hoops, ESPN reporting
that Rutgers star Ace Bailey has canceled his workout with
the seventy six ers. Bailey remains the only US based
prospect yet to visit any NBA teams, but the Sixers
(27:25):
have not ruled out selecting Bailey with the third overall pick.
In NFL news, the Ravens signed cornerback jay Air Alexander
to a one year deal. And in the NHL, the
Panthers are going to hold their Stanley Cup championship parade
on Sunday, but the Stanley Cup is already cracked and
the bottom is dented from their celebrations, but it will
be fixed. In time for they're parade.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yay, they have a guy on call. We need you
all right, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Come with a toolkit the guy that has to go
around with Yes, absolutely, shoulder.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Crack the top of it. Yeah, and they dented the
bottom already. You had it for twenty four hours. You
cracked the top of it and dented the bottom of it. Yep.
It might pass through thousands of hands at this point.
And come on, it's impressive that it's still even intact. Yeah. No, listen,
I get that, over the course of a summer, with
every player getting one day with the cup, something's gonna happen.
But now this is twenty four hours and it's already
(28:19):
been We got to release a book. Yet we're gonna
crack in a dent, all the stuff that if I
were to tell you they don't have the real cup.
Who's got the real cup?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
We don't know what if they don't though, it's next
to the ark at the Covenant, Oh, one of those
government boxes at the end of.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So they have that guy who yelled at me once
for picking up the Stanley Cup travels with you. You
you did what the guy yelled I didn't tell you
that told you that story. Oh you did. I don't remember.
Stanley Cup. It is my best story. Okay, it's a
good story. So the guy who travels with the cup, right,
he's been traveling with the cup now for I think
thirty years. Okay, this is nineteen. No, it's two thousand,
(28:58):
two thousands and and uh this this is when I
was producing for KABC TV, right, worst job I ever had.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It was Bruce for KBC TV, and the Stanley Cup
came in. They brought it to the newsroom and we're
doing it. Was doing part of this. Uh, I don't
know why it came in with coming through Los Angeles
in the off season and the guy with the travel
the cup had the cup. So he comes into the newsroom.
They bring it into the sports office. We we do
we do a bit with it with Bill Weir was
(29:30):
the was the Bill Weird Yeah, now he's like the
climate control guy. Uh, but he was the la you know,
anchor Rob Fukazaki has been on the show. So we
take pictures with the cup and everything else. We go
on on set with it, and you know, we got
to do it and we put it on on TV.
That night on the news, and so the cup, can
you get to it? Okay, you know, I'm sorry, but
the Russ distracted. It's a great saw. It's really distracted.
(29:54):
This is the longest lead up to I'm gonna tell
you something that all of our advertisers say. The music's
too distracting. It's distracting me. I'm saying the music's too low.
So he brings it in. It's in the bullpen and
I go, oh my god. I've always wanted to see
if I could pick up the Stanley Cup. So I
pick it up and I put it over my head
and I go wow. And the guy goes, what are
(30:15):
you doing? And he tells me, I go what, just
what do you do? You can't pick up the Stanley Cup.
I go, oh, I'm sorry. I was I gonna do. No,
there's gotta be something for the players. And I go, okay,
it's not like I devalued the Stanley Cup by picking
it up. Okay, sorry, And he got mad at me.
Val he may got mad at me, like you ruined
the sanctity of the Cup. There's something for the players. Yes,
(30:36):
the NHL went out of there is not there. I
wanted to see if I could pick it up, What
am I gonna do? I'm the first guy?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
What did you think it was one hundred pounds? He
could looked a one hundred pounds right over his head.
It's like thirty seven pounds.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Like it's heavy, like like Julia Luise dry fist as
a lane.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Yeah, they hit you with the white glove.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
No, no, I challenged him to a duel. He walked
up and he slapped me with it and dropped the
gard But he yelled at me. You're like, you're surprised
that he yelled at you. He should have kicked your ass.
How is that?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
He could now it was a bigger deer than he was.
Why is that such a big deal? Really, I earn it.
It was in there. I picked it all touch What
do you mean? What do you mean? We talked like
you did not earn it, like you know the Stanley
Cup rules. I've touched the Stanley Cup, don't okayned it?
And oh you earned it? But I didn't. Oh okay,
now I see. Well he didn't yell at me. That
(31:27):
doesn't Yeah, he I don't know why yelled at me.
I don't know why yelled We know why if he said, hey,
just don't drop it. I was like, oh, okay, I
get what you're saying. But he goes, there's got to
be something for the players, like what the players aren't
allowed to pick up the Stanley Cup? Like I don't know,
like the players are I don't get.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
It because you were the kid. You know, you carry
the Stanley Cup with you.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
What have you done? You carry the cup? I see
you hold the cup and carry it. What if you do.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
In the last crusade, he's been challenged with keeping that
thing safe and there's raft like you, a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Lot more to this than he's done. Is not more?
There absolutely is more. He told you that there's more.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, no, he yelled at me. So I put it down.
I said, okay, she's a lot of do it now.
Did you try to, you know, pour some mad dog
in there?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I don't want to say, hey, you know the stories
I heard what's been done to the Stanley Cup by players,
by the precious players who lost the cup or put
stuff in it that you don't want me even to
say that I know was in there. Now you're med
that I picked it up? Yes, okay, you know what?
You know what you stop as well, jus kind of
losing his hair. Mike Harmon live, he's fall radio studios.
(32:38):
What are you talking about? Continuing his reference nicely?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And he's powerful. Yes, this whole show, this whole show
needs a time out. The entire show. All of you
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Mike Harmon. Dodgers Padres now tie that three in the
ninth The Padres put two across, So we got drama
Chavez ravine. Meanwhile, the drama today in Sports courtesy of
the Lakers, who are being sold. The Bus Family are
(33:44):
selling the Lakers to Mark Walter, who also owns part
of the LA Dodgers for a valuation of ten billion dollars. Walter, Yeah,
you know, Walter, he did his homework. Jeenie Buss is
going to stay on as governor and so she's going
to run the Lakers for at least the next few years.
The Bus family is going to keep a minority share
(34:05):
of the team just over fifteen percent for a period
of time as well. Uh So again, Mark Walter, the
franchise valuation approximately ten billion dollars. Is this your team, Walter?
Is it's not as bleeping team man. Uh Two things
on this, one bigger than the other is it's a
little sad because I kind of like the the what
(34:27):
we've seen in sports and what you and I have
grown up with that that certain teams have a hierarchy
and they have a succession plan where it stays in
one family and it's run this way, and it's a
beloved owner who the fans love and they wanted to
keep on and stay in the family, and then someone's
son or daughter inherits it and it goes on there.
And that's why we saw Indianapolis, and I like that
(34:51):
it's not always great because you know, sometimes the owner
is not a great owner and they don't win, but
still it's going to stay in the family anyway. But
I kind of missed because that's going away because it's
all hedge fun guys and people that now you're worth
in the hundreds of billions of dollars because it's no
longer well, this guy's worth five billion dollars, but now
this guy's worth three hundred and twenty billion dollars and
(35:12):
he bought a team because he felt like it today.
So I do miss that a little bit. But I
feel nothing but excited for the Lakers and Laker Nation
because my big takeaway is maybe now the Lakers will
be good because since Jeanie Buss and her brothers and
her family took over the team from after doctor Bus
(35:33):
passed in twenty thirteen, they ain't been great. Man, this
last thirteen years has not been good. Yes, they won
the title in twenty twenty, mainly because Lebron decided I
want to come to LA because I want the Lakers brand. Right, Okay, great,
And I'm not dismissing that because they won the title
as a very difficult title to win. They didn't have
any home field advantage in the bubble very hard to win,
(35:54):
and they did it. But overall, when you say, okay,
look at the last thirteen years, what do you have.
You've had Kobe into Lebron, now into Luca and you
have a title, and you have a five year stretch
of not making the playoffs. You have three first round exits,
you have one conference finals. Right, make it to the finals.
That's great, and you have a title. But by and large,
(36:15):
last thirteen years, with the superstars they have had, they
have not been able to figure it out. The bus
family not great at running the team. When Lebron came in,
he took over. He and Rich, Paul and Ad were
the shadow gms of this team. They were calling the shots.
Only finally have the Lakers sort of moved on from
that into hey, now we're moving to the Luca era
and Lebron, you don't have as much power as you did.
(36:36):
But man, I'm telling you, the Lakers have just they've
not been run great. And so yeah, the one thing
I always say you can't get passed if you're a
fan is a bad owner owner that's not winning. And so, okay,
the bus Fers had a lot of missteps. They haven't
run this team very well. You know, they've had talent
come in. So my big takeaway is that, yeah, maybe
things will be better now, maybe they'll win a little
(36:58):
bit more than they have in the past years, because
maybe it's a new way of doing business. Maybe it's
a new way of saying, hey, we're not gonna let
the players call the shots and we're not gonna say, okay,
Ad and Lebron, you want Russell Westbrook coming in, which
a Lakers still are still getting past that really bad
decision from three years ago. Like, maybe it's a different
way of doing things, different way they're gonna spend money,
different kind of player they want to go after all.
(37:20):
That's I think if possibility now because I saw what
the last thirteen years are, maybe now things can be
better for the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Well, it's the good and bad of running things as
a mom and pop. That ownership, that equity, that familiarity,
and that familial space that you've had right that long time,
long tenured and depending on where you're who you're a
fan of, and which teams you support, that can be
a good or a bad thing. Think about my love
(37:48):
hate relationship with everything Ryan's Dorfian. There have been some
great moments. There's been a lot of bad moments along
the way, right in the way those businesses have been operated.
But he's always about the bottom line with But he's
had money to spend if he so chose. With the
Bus family and with the changing economics of the NBA,
(38:09):
you have you know, been hamstrung at times, and certainly
letting and going star power bring in Lebron and Clutch
Sports in Yeah, they seeded a lot of power over
roster construction, et cetera. But they were also hamstrung in
terms of the valuation of the team being the only
real asset they had. Not that they didn't have some monies,
(38:29):
but you didn't have money. Yeah, And that's what Walter
and the Goggenheim Group and all of this they bring
to the to bear is all right, money's never an
object to buy yourself out of a problem or to
go into the marketplace and say, second, Apron, who cares,
we're about winning titles. You've seen what's happened with the Dodgers,
the string of success, the implementation of a structure that
(38:54):
brings you just star after star, and you think we
need one more into an ocean's eleven coach, best to
breed in terms of your management, in terms of your
executive and now you bring that to the Laker brand
that's so global.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
As it is. Yeah, you have to be excited about
where this this heads. If you're a Laker fan. Yeah,
optimism is great. Now Genie bus running a team, you're like, okay,
how much is gonna be more of the same. But
they didn't. He didn't buy the team just to say Okay,
the old owner is gonna do this. But that's just it.
So it hands off, but not hands off. You gotta
know what's a new day coming here, right, We're gonna
(39:29):
get Luca taken care of. We're gonna get it. And
that's when all of a sudden, Okay, thank you, great,
Genie's gonna step down and it will be you know,
Walter and whoever else is running the team.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Put in your structure and go and win again. Maybe
maybe things can be good now, maybe the Lakers can
be good.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Think about it. Maybe you're remove Bomber. Hey, big celebration.
Will Smith will walk off home run for the Dodgers
they beat the Padres four to three. Will have more
on this game coming up in a few minutes. And
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Dodgers lead the Padres three to one in the bottom
of the seventh Andy Pater has the red hot future
All Star. Andy pa has his hit up near his
head dirty and it seems like everything is okay now
kind of gave a nod of the pictures taken out
of the game. Wandy Perralta now in for the Padres.
(00:57):
I'm telling you, Dodgers and Padres are gonna brawl at
some point this season.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
They're gonna have to just go sprint into the dugout
and start beating the hell out of Shildt at some
point bypass the pictures. The catchers whoever may be in
on the what's being called from the dugout and just
go straight to the source.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Uh, that's frostburg actually fighting Mike Schildt. When I say
I'm gonna fight this guy, I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
That would be even more than the White Sox fans
going after the Royals first base.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Coach off these years. Yeah, no, this would be Frostburger.
Here comes with Here comes a guy in a Chargers
hat and a sandy kofex Jersey going after Mike Schiltz
raining Haymakers down. I'll stab them with my Vin Scully
bubblehead tack with a Vin Scully bubble Now that makes
(01:43):
Monsey an accessory though, Oh yeah, yeah, you brought her
into it, Mike. Yeah no, no, no, yeah. If if
Moncy provided the weapon that, yeah, no, I would, I would,
I would back off. I back off it. So again,
Dodgers lead the Padres three to one. Now, Dodgers continuing
to back in the bottom of the seventh inning. Fan
favorite keyk Hernandez legend for La not called on to
(02:05):
pitch just yet. No, maybe they get up big though
you might see him the ninth inning. This game gets
if it gets to like you know, ten eleven one,
you might see keyk and the ninth, especially with those
glasses he's got on. Come on, that's balling. You saw
what it was eleven nothing that weekended. Hang on a second,
got escalated quickly, it was I blink. I mean really,
you know, I'll give you a big bull prediction. Now,
(02:26):
the way the Dodgers use Key k to pitch the
end of these games, this is gonna. This is gonna
for some kind of change in Major League Baseball because
you know, Baseball doesn't like that. No, no, here's position
player coming, especially when Dodgers brought him in the sixth inning. Yeah,
he gave him the sixth inning. And now he's closing
out of the ginnings. Yeah, yeah, closing out of the game.
That that's eleven. Nothing like Baseball does not want this,
(02:47):
and there's gonna and it would be great because if
baseball had some kind of rule that says, hey, we're
gonna we're gonna increase the active roster by one or
two positions strictly for you to be able to bring
out two more bullpen pitchers. Okay, great, Right, if all
of a sudden it becomes Hay instead of you know,
twenty six man roster, it's gonna be We're gonna have
a certain amount. You can have x amount of position
(03:09):
players and x amount of pitchers. Great those extra two
spots so you can't manipulate it, so you can have
enough relievers. So we can see that happen. And again
you're creating jobs, right, you're creating sixty more jobs and
make get League Baseball. Everybody wins. Everybody wins. Union would
like it.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Veteran players maybe not so much because you're already talking
about that that divide when you're trying to go younger.
I mean because we talked to John Paul Morosi about
that a couple of weeks ago. Right, of all the
call ups and that not just the star power call ups,
but a lot of rosters where like, wow, you got
a lot of guys in the first ninety days of
service and we're in June. So the good and the
(03:46):
bad of all I had to say. But it would
be the key k Hernandez rule. So he'd get like
a little shrine in Cooperstown because of that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh that's nice. At least, you know there's his goggles
and his no no, no, they would take that helmet
that he has. It goes around his head and it's
not a full helmet because you know the top of
his head gets hot, so like like that would put
in the oh yeah, the nachos wild fall out of
the bottom though I don't know I you can do that.
You have to turn it on its side and then
have the nacha okay, turn it out.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Okay, well, but you have better scoop than your catcher
trying to h grab the ball earlier today.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm not dropping nachos. I'm not dropping no. Uh yeah,
you know, got to take care of your It's funny
because that play that happened the Mets game where Louis
Torrens tried to grab the ball with his mask, which
is which he can't do. You can't do yet, and
it's it's technically a balk like you know how many times
I've seen that in my Facebook feed go for like
craziest baseball plays in college? What's the ruling on this?
(04:41):
What is the what is the umpire? Because for some reason,
my wife Pam is like obsessed with this, like the
last years, with coaching all different things. I wanted to rules.
She asked me, why did this happen? Why did this happen?
Why couldn't you do this? Why couldn't you this Whenever
something crazy comes up rule wise, she's on it on
Facebook going, hey, why does this happen here? Why? Why
is that?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Maan?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm suddenly it's like she
wants to rewrite the Major League rule book. So I've
seen that a hundred times before. Yeah, why was this?
Why why was this play allowed to stand? Why was
this guy allowed to come in and score? Because? Yeah, because
you can't touch the ball, can't grab the ball with
your catcher's mask, and that put the first run of
the game in for the bravest.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Reminds me of a clip I saw earlier with it
was Guns and Roses concert where the drummer started playing
mister Brownstone and actual keeps yelling no, no, no, bad obsession.
That's what I'm taking bad obsession for Pam. Right there,
Bell we go into bad obsession and he's.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Like, no, no, no, and he keeps drumming. If you
can't play the right song, you can't be in this band.
I will hire Stephen Adler again. And I can't stand
the guy. At least he knew what songs to play
Happy Birthday, Dizzy Read and my mom and Paul McCartney.
(05:51):
Oh wow, that's pretty that's pretty good. Triumph. Yeah, that's
all right. Dizzy might have been yesterday and I only
saw it today, but either way, that's okay. I'm Paul
eighty three today. Yeah. So other big headlines from the
Lakers today despite in addition to the fact that they
were sold for ten billion dollars. Lebron James did a
podcast with Steve Nash in which he bemoaned ring culture.
(06:14):
Says it fans and media, everybody is obsessed too much
with players having to win and getting rings, and you
can't quite appreciate their careers the way you should. Here's
Lebron from the Steve Nash podcast about ring culture.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Funny, I don't know, I don't know why I've discussed
so much in our sport and why is the all
be all of everything. You sit here and tell me,
you know, Alan Iverson and Charles Barkley and Steve Nash,
you know, you know, wasn't unbelievable, like, oh, they can't
(06:48):
be talked about or discussed with these guys is because
this guy won one ring or won two rings or
one like it's just it's just weird to me, it's
like Sam Peyton Manning can't be in the same room
with Brady for mahomes and because he only has one ring,
they don't never discuss that any sport, right, or telling
me that Dan Marino is not the greatest slinger of
all time, or he can't be in a room with
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those guys because he didn't win a championship. They don't
discuss those things.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Wow, Okay, so, first of all, Peyton Manning has two.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Rings, but and categorically untrue because that's said all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Do we include Damn Britton? No, he didn't win.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
This is.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Without a doubt for his entire NBA career. Okay, this
is without a doubt. Lebron James's biggest fault. He is
too sensitive. He has wanted from the moment he has
stepped on the court to get that universal love that
Michael Jordan got when he played, and it's just not
gonna happen. But he thinks he should get it. He
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thinks he should be celebrated for everything he does. Doesn't
understand why he's polarizing, doesn't stand why people love him,
why people don't like him. Hey, you know what if
Michael Jordan came around in this era. Guess what he'd
be polarizing too. The first time he didn't win a championship,
it would be Michael Jordan's done. He's never gonna win again.
Oh look at this, he's playing baseball. This is ridiculous.
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It's a different life now that Lebron was in than
Michael Jordan was in. Michael Jordan is so happy that
that he played before the age of social media with
some of the stories that we know about in the
God out There. Lebron is playing in the social media age.
He's the first big superstar whose career is that great
and it spans the entire time from the early two
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thousands where Facebook exploded, then you had Twitter in the
late aughts to where we are now with Instagram and
TikTok and where we are this is Lebron's But he
has wanted the universal hug that Michael Jordan got. He
feels he deserves it and he's not getting it. Yeah,
I'm sorry, but you're polarizing and are you really obsessing
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over conversations that other people have about who the greatest
is of all time? I'm sorry your name is not
at the top for every conversation. Sometimes your name is
at the top. Some people say you're the greatest of
all time. Other people say Michael Jordan's the greatest. Are
you really that upset at the conversation people have. Yeah,
winning championships is kind of how we parse things out right.
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It's about winning. That's why the scoreboard is up. That's
why fans watch. Fans don't watch because I just want
to appreciate greatness. Now, fans want to see their teams win.
We are in a winning culture, right, we want to
see winning. I can't watch the Jets and just be
excited that, Hey, they get together on Sundays and do
something together, and the uniforms look good. The throwback logo
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is great. But I don't care that they lose forty
four to three. They get to run around the field
and high five each other and look like they're in it. No,
we want to see teams with this is how it goes.
And this shows you his sensitivity to something like that.
You're really you're so upset because people say, you know,
you don't have enough ring. You have enough rings, you
have enough rings. But because you know Jason Smith won
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four eight seven six, Hey, hi, JJ Reddick says something
about you or somebody else. Oh, I don't like I
don't like this as being debated that so and such
a player is not as good. These are the debates
to keep sports going. This is what keeps you paid
like you have for the past twenty five years. Because
fans want to pay money. Do they want to spend
money to go to the games? They want to spend
money on the NBA packages. This is what keeps the
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sports world going around. You really want to lose it
over conversations that are had about who the best player is.
I just want to make sure that this is where
I'm at with Lebron. You don't like conversations about who
the best because you feel like we don't appreciate their careers.
Nobody who thinks you're better than Michael Jordan doesn't appreciate
Michael Jordan's career. No One who thinks that Michael Jordan's
better than you doesn't appreciate your career. It's when you're
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putting the best of the best up against each other
you have to pick somebody like Pacers. I'm sorry. When
you're playing the Thunder, the thunder out of better record,
people are gonna pick them when you're playing the Cavaliers.
Cavaliers had a better record, people are gonna pick them.
Like the fact that he chooses to be upset about this,
this is his entire career. He has been too sensitive
to things like this, and this is a shining display
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of it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, I mean it's parenthetical at the start is look,
I'm never getting like that ship sailed, so faux outrage. Also,
if you had you know June seventeen slash eighteenth is
the day that Lebron would you know pop up during
the playoffs. Congratulations you hit that on your Bengo card.
NBA Finals not quite done yet.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
But all of this to.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Say, yeah, you're concerned with it. Do you want to
fight Windmills is a full don Quixote thing, like you're
not gonna convince everybody. This is what happens in you know,
the barber shop, which is you know, your your opportunity
that you've had with your buddies and all the the
lawsuits when you were trying to trademark Taco Tuesday everything else.
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It's all about the discussions and debates that lend to
the legend players and over time, guess what the people
that watched Lebron James career.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They're going to be the majority.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Over the old guys shouting, you know, get off my lawn.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Who watched Michael Jordan play? Right, I'm old enough to
where I remember it, But is it is it clear
as day anymore?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I was in the middle of it, and I enjoyed
the hell out him.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Went to as many games as we could possibly go
to early before it became the hardest ticket and we
didn't have the market places like you had now. You
had to go find a guy on a street corner
to get a ticket. Otherwise it was go watch it
on TV with Lebron. Eventually, those are the people you know,
who lives, who dies, who tells your story. Eventually, it's
gonna be the preponderance of folks unless someone eclipses Lebron.
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That's younger. Lebron James is gonna become the de facto king.
Michael Jordan's just gonna be that ghost that they talk
about of. Yeah, well, he's gonna be like Wilt and
Kareem are now. Well, they're in a whole other era, right,
the game was so much different, So we don't even
include them in those discussion. That's where Jordan's gonna be
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in fifteen to twenty years because everybody that watched Lebron
and loves Lebron and are gonna cite his record.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're gonna jump in.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
He just needs to be a little more patient and
and and develop a little thicker skin.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah. And the other thing too, to button this is
that I also feel like he's looking for an excuse
why he hasn't won in four or five years. Sure,
because he knows he's probably not gonna win again, and okay,
because it didn't work with Luca this year, He's probably
got one more year with the Lakers, and then who
knows the team was sold and who they're gonna want
to keep him. But I feel like he's looking, Hey,
I haven't won since twenty twenty, and people, a lot
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of people don't count that. And here's my except, why
aren't people just appreciating my greatness even though I haven't won.
Right for a guy who's been measured about go getting
the finals and winning his entire career, has been fine
with that, but now that he's not winning, Oh now
I want credit even though I'm not getting the finals.
Like I feel like he want. He's looking for an
ext year. Well, I don't win, but it doesn't matter.
I'm still great. Why why why can't we do this?
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He's irrelevant? Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Carle. If he had given up the
fact that he's never gonna get that universal hug that
Michael Jordan got his career, maybe he's got another couple
of times he could have gone on the blank You
Tour like Caitlin. But speaking of basketball, coming up next,
what does Vegas have to say about what's gonna happen
tomorrow night in Game six of the NBA Finals? What
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about who's gonna win some big time quarterback derbys in
the NFL? Keep it right here, that's next, Jason to Mike.
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (14:30):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Dodgers lead the Padres three to one,
LA batting in the bottom of the eighth inning. Love
more in this game coming up in a bit, but
big day today in sports. The Lakers are sold for
ten billion dollars. We got Caitlin Clark playing tomorrow night.
We have the Indiana Basers playing Game six of the
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NBA Finals. Which game is gonna be moved? Joining us
now in the hotline for all the latest from Vegas.
Our man. He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, former ozmaker
at Caesars. Check out his Bet the Board podcast. See
him on CBS as well. Todd, what's happening man? How
are you tonight?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Everything is good, gentlemen and smith. I've been out for
a good portion of the night. So I just want
to know if the Knicks land to the head coach
yet or are we going to WHOOPI Goldberg ro out?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We are well okay. First of all, Whoopy Goldberg would
be fine. I saw them win big and Eddie. Secondly,
we're just starting the interviews now, We're just getting to
talk to people now. As long as we're not talking
to Doc Rivers, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I mean, that's maybe the only candidate left to try
and coach the Knicks going into next season. But if
the Knicks aren't a lot of things slow calculated and
very sought constructively out this entire process.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
This is a Nick in a microcosmy.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Dude, if they said, Okay, you're getting Gannis, but Doc
comes with him, I really would have to think about it.
I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Do you think Giannis wants to continue playing for Doc rivers?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Your question and all of this, Well, that was trying
to sell last week Todd was that Doc was going
to be the guy going to Giannis to convince him
to stay.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That seemed kind of odd.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
It's a weird state of affairs around the NBA, But
you figure some of these dominoes will start to fall,
whether it's Kevin Durant's landing spot, the Knick's head coach
Jihan is staying or leaving in Milwaukee, and it'll make
the de facto hot stove all that more intriguing as
you look at some of the dynamics in play. But
given the trade hall that we saw for Desmond Bane,
apparently Kevin Durant may go for about thirty seven first
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round pick, naming rights to unborn children and maybe even
get his name on a street and whatever county ultimately
lands in Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So before we get to the finals. We know Kevin
Durant has been mentioned with the Spurs, but potentially the
interest may or may not be mutual. What's the favorite
right now for Kevin Durant's next team.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
You know a lot of books have taken those numbers down,
but when they were up about sixteen eighteen hours ago,
and I haven't done a full survey to see if
a couple of the offshores are still trading that particular market.
It was basically throw a blanket over the heat, the Rockets,
and the Spurs as the three most likely landing.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Spots in all of it.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
The one market that was intrigued in kind of going
back to Giannis, that did catch a little bit of
buzz with the Oklahoma City Thunder at around thirty to one,
their number came down a bit. Wouldn't that be something
if the Thunder go on to win the NBA title
and land Giannis to make them that much stronger next year.
But Yeah, this Durant situation continues to get more and
more bizarre. It feels like from a basketball standpoint, Houston
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makes a world of sense because Durant won't be asked
to guard a traffic coning on the defensive end of
the court, and he may be the only guy on
that roster capable of getting them a timely bucket and
crunched on.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
So let's start to the finals curiosity with the calf
and is your injury to Tyrese Haliburton. As best I
could tell, he was worth about a point to a
point and a half in the point spread.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, see at a minus six and a half last
I looked at.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It, yeah, and I think harm that's folks looking to
try and get ahead of it. We saw the number
for game six open as low as four and a half,
five get bet up as high as seven, and there
was a little bit of resistance that came in on
the underdog. I have to imagine if Tyres Haliburt gets
officially ruled out that that number will leak up to
seven again and you may actually see an appetite from
professional betters.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
To back the home underdog.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I'm not going to say that the Indiana Pacers have
a good secondary option from a minute's allotment, because I
don't think TJ McConnell can log forty five minutes on
court as the primary point guard from start to finish.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
But I do think Rick.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Carlisle is smart enough to try and figure out some
unique ways to mask what could be a gaping hole,
especially in the backcourt. But given what we saw in
the fourth quarter of Game five, you know, Tyrese Haliburt
operating at about what appeared to be forty percent capacity.
Probably better to be sitting in his street clothes than
out there logging minutes in a high leverage situation as
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a pacers trying to do everything they can to stave off elimination.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Dude, TJ McConnell can't play twenty five minutes without looking
like me when I walked to the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, I mean I'm.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Done at the break.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
He's paying at a breakneck pace, and there's a good
chance at TJ McConnell and you may have been classmates.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
You know when you look at TJ mcconnald's age, So.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I can understand why he's not able to go out
out there and play forty plus minutes at a breakneck pace.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
All right. Now, outside of that, last night we saw
the Stanley Cup ghetto and now it's dinged up. Awarded
to the Florida Panthers after they beat the Edmonton Oilers,
And it was really weird that right after this was over,
we saw all the sports books seem kind of split
on who the favorites were for next season, Like, obviously
the Panthers got some run, the Oilers got some run,
but the Stars get some run. The Carolina Hurricanes got
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some run. Why is it so split right now?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I think there are kind of five teams that oddsmaker's
believe are in that de facto top tier, and you
mentioned all of them, the Hurricanes, the Panthers, the Oilers,
the Stars and the Avalanche. So there will be slight
nuances and additional opportunities if you continue to shop around.
Should you want to tie up your money for nearly
three hundred and sixty five days on any of.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
The short shots on the board.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
But this is a Florida Panthers team that does have
a couple of key decisions on me to make in
free agency. Aaron eck Blad, Brad Marsham and Sam Bennet
going to be the three biggest. We'll see if they
can retain one, two, or maybe even all three of them.
Who knows what direction the Edmonton Oilers will look to
go as they retool their roster, because anybody who watched
that Stanley Cup Final had to come away with a
similar thought process that there was a chance that the
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Oilers could have lost all six of those games if
it wasn't for a bound here or there, and they
felt further away from winning a Cup this year than
they did when they went down three games to nothing
last year against the same Panthers. And then, of course,
the NHL is a league more than any of the
other major sports, although maybe I can't say that given
the improvalle run from the Pacers, that does lend itself
the teams coming from off the pace. So I think
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if you have the foresight to identify, you know, some
of the longer shots, and never a bad idea to
start to build out that portfolio before some of the
key names hit free agency officially when we get to July.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
First, Arman in Vegas, Todd Furman, our guest at Todd
Furman on Twitter, at bet the Board pod as well
as bet the Board Podcast, longtime friend of the show
here Jason Smith and me Mike Garmon here from the
Fox Sports Radio studios in La Todd one of the
giant storylines yesterday, the Franks chaos.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
In the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Are we getting some kind of handle now when we
talk about game to game odds or is it still
a very small market.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
It's still a small niche market, but it is no
doubt grown in popularity from a betting perspective, and the
Indiana Fever, as we see in the TV ratings, generate
buzz in the betting markets as well. Anytime Caitlin Clark
is out there, healthy and able to play at her
full capacity, it's going to grab eyeballs and her prop markets,
whether they're points, rebounds, or assists.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Definitely a market.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
That has grown in popularity amongst recreational betters. But watching
that game last night, it's amazing that the Fever don't
have an enforcer on the roster.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
There has to be a female.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Equivalent of Rick Mahorn out there somewhere looking for minutes
at a key juncture of the game to try and
go out there and inflict physical harm. Because if the
league's not going to do anything about it, the Fever
coaching staff and the players on that roster need to
do everything they can to protect their face of their
franchise and make sure that she's not getting tossed around
like a rag doll on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Well, what of her MVP odds done in the last
few days as you come back from injury.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You know, it's always interesting because when a player misses
as much time as she did, you're going to see
that number drift out. And when you look at the
fisha Collier she asserted herself and as a heavy odds
on favorite or price tag right around minus three dollars.
But Klin Clark's price when she was dealing with that
quad injury drift drifted as high as five to one.
Numbers come down substantially, so if you look around, you
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can find her in that two to one, you know,
five to two price range, and that's where you fall
off a cliff to the likes of Brianna Stewart, Asia Wilson,
Sabrin nine ESQ and everybody else in the league.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
So it clearly appears to be.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
A two women race atop the board, and you can
understand why given the impact both those players have had
and the Indiana Fever now third on the odds board
to win the WNBA Championship behind the Liberty and the
Minnesota Link.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
So todd as we hit these summer months, right, NHL
in the books, we still have the NBA Draft, at
least one more game for the finals. Where do people
start investing their money? We see more baseball, we s,
more golf racing, or do they just spend it on
lavish vacations.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, international table tennis. No.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
This is where sportsbooks try and figure out how fast
they can get people that were betting some of the
more traditional stick and ball sports to start playing in
the online casino, to blow through their bank rolls long before.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Football season gets here. But this is no doubt.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
The dog days of summer when you look at the
betting calendar and some of the events that are there.
You mentioned golf, and golf has one hundred percent grown
in popularity, you know, kind of really burst onto the
scene as a betting vehicle during COVID when people were
looking for other avenues. Motorsports a much smaller niche.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But until we get to the Hall.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Of Fame game in early August, and of course regular
season college football and the start of the NFL season,
you know, these are the slowest month on the betting calendar,
and it's why sportsbooks no doubt celebrate the years that
they have a euro international soccer tournament, and of course,
next year here in the state's the World Cup, which
which did do all sorts of record breaking handle, assuming
that the Red, White and Blue are able to get
out of the group stage.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman. That is Todd Underscore Furman.
Check out the Bet the Board podcast as well. See
him on CBS Todd as always, Buddy, appreciate it, man.
We'll talk to you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
You got it, gentlemen. Hopefully we catch up next week.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
The Nicks may actually know who's calling the shots on
their bench, but I'm not optimistic about it happening that quickly.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
No chance. Very good, Oh any good? Tod's Todd Furman,
not Todd Underscore froman Todd Firk got it bad fuck
Nick show. Now he had to take the swipe. Yeah,
it's nice there. It's a low hanging fruit at this point.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
As the draft creeps ever closer, getting deeper into that,
we've got a bunch of players that are saying, I
don't want to go work out with this guy, LaMelo Ball.
We've got Ace Bailey, I'm not really gonna work out
for the Sixers. So we have some intrigue at the
top of the draft, but otherwise it's that Nick's head
coaching job that really gets a lot of headlines. Buddy,
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now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. And someone who had the over on Arkansas
lsuto and celebrated the walk off.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
I didn't have the over. I feel for those Arkansas fians. Man,
that Omaha curs is real. Yeah, So LSU came back
to defeat Arkansas. As you guys are just mentioning, they're
gonna face Coastal Carolina on Saturday in the first game
of a best of three championship series. Coastal Carolina eliminated
Louisville earlier today, eleven to three. They've also won twenty
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six in a row. In baseball, the Dodgers left the
bases loaded in the seventh inning. In fact, they the
Padres struck out show Hey O Tawny right now. They
had an opportunity to score again, but the Padres held
them up. With Andy Pajz at the plate, Dodgers are
still up though it's three to one and they're about
to start the ninth inning in La Astro, still on
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top of the A's nine to two. It's the top
of the ninth inning.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Where are the A's playing Sacramento, sacrament.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I keep wanted to obviously say Oakland, But in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's the top of the ninth inning.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
They did had call that game that I was complaining
about because of weather. Yeah, well guys, because I complained.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
So, the Reds did beat the Twins four to two
and six innings because of the rain delay or the
weather delay. The Braves shut out the Mets five zero.
The Royals had a sixty to three win over the Rangers,
and the Guardians defeated the Giants board to two in
San Francisco. The Phillies earlier today took down the Marlins
four two. In the Red Sox defeated the Mariners three
to one. Red Sox making a trip now to San
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Francisco to take on the Giants and an old friend
by the name of Rafael Devers in the NBA. Yeah,
the Lakers are being sold ten billion dollars to Mark Walter,
who is also the CEO of the guggenheind Gret.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Great Mark Wahlberg is buying the Lakers Mark Walter.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
First first Coldstone, now Mark Wahlberg. Now, I'm just gonna
saying all the wrong things.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
That's gonna be a lot of good vibrations. Get up
the Lakers this year? What was the game show host
to Mark?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Mark too right?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Same w Yeah yeah, Well Mark wahlbergs yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Ten billion dollars to Mark Walter, who is the CEO
of a bunch of places, apparently including the Guggenheim group
that owns the Dodgers, But Jeanie busses expecting me to
remain with the franchise. And in college hoops, ESPN reporting
that Rutgers star Ace Bailey has canceled his workout with
the seventy six ers. Bailey remains the only US based
prospect yet to visit any NBA teams, but the Sixers
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have not ruled out selecting Bailey with the third overall pick.
In NFL news, the Ravens signed cornerback jay Air Alexander
to a one year deal. And in the NHL, the
Panthers are going to hold their Stanley Cup championship parade
on Sunday, but the Stanley Cup is already cracked and
the bottom is dented from their celebrations, but it will
be fixed. In time for they're parade.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yay, they have a guy on call. We need you
all right, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Come with a toolkit the guy that has to go
around with Yes, absolutely, shoulder.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Crack the top of it. Yeah, and they dented the
bottom already. You had it for twenty four hours. You
cracked the top of it and dented the bottom of it. Yep.
It might pass through thousands of hands at this point.
And come on, it's impressive that it's still even intact. Yeah. No, listen,
I get that, over the course of a summer, with
every player getting one day with the cup, something's gonna happen.
But now this is twenty four hours and it's already
(28:19):
been We got to release a book. Yet we're gonna
crack in a dent, all the stuff that if I
were to tell you they don't have the real cup.
Who's got the real cup?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
We don't know what if they don't though, it's next
to the ark at the Covenant, Oh, one of those
government boxes at the end of.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
So they have that guy who yelled at me once
for picking up the Stanley Cup travels with you. You
you did what the guy yelled I didn't tell you
that told you that story. Oh you did. I don't remember.
Stanley Cup. It is my best story. Okay, it's a
good story. So the guy who travels with the cup, right,
he's been traveling with the cup now for I think
thirty years. Okay, this is nineteen. No, it's two thousand,
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two thousands and and uh this this is when I
was producing for KABC TV, right, worst job I ever had.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It was Bruce for KBC TV, and the Stanley Cup
came in. They brought it to the newsroom and we're
doing it. Was doing part of this. Uh, I don't
know why it came in with coming through Los Angeles
in the off season and the guy with the travel
the cup had the cup. So he comes into the newsroom.
They bring it into the sports office. We we do
we do a bit with it with Bill Weir was
(29:30):
the was the Bill Weird Yeah, now he's like the
climate control guy. Uh, but he was the la you know,
anchor Rob Fukazaki has been on the show. So we
take pictures with the cup and everything else. We go
on on set with it, and you know, we got
to do it and we put it on on TV.
That night on the news, and so the cup, can
you get to it? Okay, you know, I'm sorry, but
the Russ distracted. It's a great saw. It's really distracted.
(29:54):
This is the longest lead up to I'm gonna tell
you something that all of our advertisers say. The music's
too distracting. It's distracting me. I'm saying the music's too low.
So he brings it in. It's in the bullpen and
I go, oh my god. I've always wanted to see
if I could pick up the Stanley Cup. So I
pick it up and I put it over my head
and I go wow. And the guy goes, what are
(30:15):
you doing? And he tells me, I go what, just
what do you do? You can't pick up the Stanley Cup.
I go, oh, I'm sorry. I was I gonna do. No,
there's gotta be something for the players. And I go, okay,
it's not like I devalued the Stanley Cup by picking
it up. Okay, sorry, And he got mad at me.
Val he may got mad at me, like you ruined
the sanctity of the Cup. There's something for the players. Yes,
(30:36):
the NHL went out of there is not there. I
wanted to see if I could pick it up, What
am I gonna do? I'm the first guy?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
What did you think it was one hundred pounds? He
could looked a one hundred pounds right over his head.
It's like thirty seven pounds.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Like it's heavy, like like Julia Luise dry fist as
a lane.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Yeah, they hit you with the white glove.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
No, no, I challenged him to a duel. He walked
up and he slapped me with it and dropped the
gard But he yelled at me. You're like, you're surprised
that he yelled at you. He should have kicked your ass.
How is that?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
He could now it was a bigger deer than he was.
Why is that such a big deal? Really, I earn it.
It was in there. I picked it all touch What
do you mean? What do you mean? We talked like
you did not earn it, like you know the Stanley
Cup rules. I've touched the Stanley Cup, don't okayned it?
And oh you earned it? But I didn't. Oh okay,
now I see. Well he didn't yell at me. That
(31:27):
doesn't Yeah, he I don't know why yelled at me.
I don't know why yelled We know why if he said, hey,
just don't drop it. I was like, oh, okay, I
get what you're saying. But he goes, there's got to
be something for the players, like what the players aren't
allowed to pick up the Stanley Cup? Like I don't know,
like the players are I don't get.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
It because you were the kid. You know, you carry
the Stanley Cup with you.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
What have you done? You carry the cup? I see
you hold the cup and carry it. What if you do.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
In the last crusade, he's been challenged with keeping that
thing safe and there's raft like you, a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Lot more to this than he's done. Is not more?
There absolutely is more. He told you that there's more.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, no, he yelled at me. So I put it down.
I said, okay, she's a lot of do it now.
Did you try to, you know, pour some mad dog
in there?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I don't want to say, hey, you know the stories
I heard what's been done to the Stanley Cup by players,
by the precious players who lost the cup or put
stuff in it that you don't want me even to
say that I know was in there. Now you're med
that I picked it up? Yes, okay, you know what?
You know what you stop as well, jus kind of
losing his hair. Mike Harmon live, he's fall radio studios.
(32:38):
What are you talking about? Continuing his reference nicely?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And he's powerful. Yes, this whole show, this whole show
needs a time out. The entire show. All of you
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Mike Harmon. Dodgers Padres now tie that three in the
ninth The Padres put two across, So we got drama
Chavez ravine. Meanwhile, the drama today in Sports courtesy of
the Lakers, who are being sold. The Bus Family are
(33:44):
selling the Lakers to Mark Walter, who also owns part
of the LA Dodgers for a valuation of ten billion dollars. Walter, Yeah,
you know, Walter, he did his homework. Jeenie Buss is
going to stay on as governor and so she's going
to run the Lakers for at least the next few years.
The Bus family is going to keep a minority share
(34:05):
of the team just over fifteen percent for a period
of time as well. Uh So again, Mark Walter, the
franchise valuation approximately ten billion dollars. Is this your team, Walter?
Is it's not as bleeping team man. Uh Two things
on this, one bigger than the other is it's a
little sad because I kind of like the the what
(34:27):
we've seen in sports and what you and I have
grown up with that that certain teams have a hierarchy
and they have a succession plan where it stays in
one family and it's run this way, and it's a
beloved owner who the fans love and they wanted to
keep on and stay in the family, and then someone's
son or daughter inherits it and it goes on there.
And that's why we saw Indianapolis, and I like that
(34:51):
it's not always great because you know, sometimes the owner
is not a great owner and they don't win, but
still it's going to stay in the family anyway. But
I kind of missed because that's going away because it's
all hedge fun guys and people that now you're worth
in the hundreds of billions of dollars because it's no
longer well, this guy's worth five billion dollars, but now
this guy's worth three hundred and twenty billion dollars and
(35:12):
he bought a team because he felt like it today.
So I do miss that a little bit. But I
feel nothing but excited for the Lakers and Laker Nation
because my big takeaway is maybe now the Lakers will
be good because since Jeanie Buss and her brothers and
her family took over the team from after doctor Bus
(35:33):
passed in twenty thirteen, they ain't been great. Man, this
last thirteen years has not been good. Yes, they won
the title in twenty twenty, mainly because Lebron decided I
want to come to LA because I want the Lakers brand. Right, Okay, great,
And I'm not dismissing that because they won the title
as a very difficult title to win. They didn't have
any home field advantage in the bubble very hard to win,
(35:54):
and they did it. But overall, when you say, okay,
look at the last thirteen years, what do you have.
You've had Kobe into Lebron, now into Luca and you
have a title, and you have a five year stretch
of not making the playoffs. You have three first round exits,
you have one conference finals. Right, make it to the finals.
That's great, and you have a title. But by and large,
(36:15):
last thirteen years, with the superstars they have had, they
have not been able to figure it out. The bus
family not great at running the team. When Lebron came in,
he took over. He and Rich, Paul and Ad were
the shadow gms of this team. They were calling the shots.
Only finally have the Lakers sort of moved on from
that into hey, now we're moving to the Luca era
and Lebron, you don't have as much power as you did.
(36:36):
But man, I'm telling you, the Lakers have just they've
not been run great. And so yeah, the one thing
I always say you can't get passed if you're a
fan is a bad owner owner that's not winning. And so, okay,
the bus Fers had a lot of missteps. They haven't
run this team very well. You know, they've had talent
come in. So my big takeaway is that, yeah, maybe
things will be better now, maybe they'll win a little
(36:58):
bit more than they have in the past years, because
maybe it's a new way of doing business. Maybe it's
a new way of saying, hey, we're not gonna let
the players call the shots and we're not gonna say, okay,
Ad and Lebron, you want Russell Westbrook coming in, which
a Lakers still are still getting past that really bad
decision from three years ago. Like, maybe it's a different
way of doing things, different way they're gonna spend money,
different kind of player they want to go after all.
(37:20):
That's I think if possibility now because I saw what
the last thirteen years are, maybe now things can be
better for the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Well, it's the good and bad of running things as
a mom and pop. That ownership, that equity, that familiarity,
and that familial space that you've had right that long time,
long tenured and depending on where you're who you're a
fan of, and which teams you support, that can be
a good or a bad thing. Think about my love
(37:48):
hate relationship with everything Ryan's Dorfian. There have been some
great moments. There's been a lot of bad moments along
the way, right in the way those businesses have been operated.
But he's always about the bottom line with But he's
had money to spend if he so chose. With the
Bus family and with the changing economics of the NBA,
(38:09):
you have you know, been hamstrung at times, and certainly
letting and going star power bring in Lebron and Clutch
Sports in Yeah, they seeded a lot of power over
roster construction, et cetera. But they were also hamstrung in
terms of the valuation of the team being the only
real asset they had. Not that they didn't have some monies,
(38:29):
but you didn't have money. Yeah, And that's what Walter
and the Goggenheim Group and all of this they bring
to the to bear is all right, money's never an
object to buy yourself out of a problem or to
go into the marketplace and say, second, Apron, who cares,
we're about winning titles. You've seen what's happened with the Dodgers,
the string of success, the implementation of a structure that
(38:54):
brings you just star after star, and you think we
need one more into an ocean's eleven coach, best to
breed in terms of your management, in terms of your
executive and now you bring that to the Laker brand
that's so global.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
As it is. Yeah, you have to be excited about
where this this heads. If you're a Laker fan. Yeah,
optimism is great. Now Genie bus running a team, you're like, okay,
how much is gonna be more of the same. But
they didn't. He didn't buy the team just to say Okay,
the old owner is gonna do this. But that's just it.
So it hands off, but not hands off. You gotta
know what's a new day coming here, right, We're gonna
(39:29):
get Luca taken care of. We're gonna get it. And
that's when all of a sudden, Okay, thank you, great,
Genie's gonna step down and it will be you know,
Walter and whoever else is running the team.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
Put in your structure and go and win again. Maybe
maybe things can be good now, maybe the Lakers can
be good.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Think about it. Maybe you're remove Bomber. Hey, big celebration.
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they beat the Padres four to three. Will have more
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