August 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk about the Cowboys discourse between Micah Parsons and the Cowboys and what Brian Schottenheimer has recently said.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Greetings, Welcome Inside Final Hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon up uh talking about
a couple of teams that really dodged a bullet today,
the Baltimore ravens Lamar Jackson's injury. Everything is okay, Yeah,
(00:24):
everything's good. Everything's fine, Sho Hao Tani hit by a
line drive. Everything is fine, Expected to play on Friday.
Not a great start for show Hao Toni. Tonight the
Donalds lost two out of three to the Rockies, But
Sho Hao Tani seems to be okay, So everything is
alright and he expects to and hopes to play on
Friday after a day off.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Now, I saw a crazy ass stat Now, through five
hundred and nine career innings pitched, Sho Hao Tani has
a thirty eight and twenty record as a starting pitcher
that is the same and exactly the same innings pitched
as Babe Ruth. And that's one to grow on.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Wow, that's that's eerie. That that's the that that's the number.
That's so eerie that he's that close in those numbers
with Babe Ruth pitching being the being the last true
two way player, the big threat to play both way.
I mean, I mean, that's that's just again Again baseball
has been played for one hundred and fifty years now
that I've never seen that, and you may never see
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that again. Truth joined up? Where are all those big
show hey Babe ruth like AI videos like where like?
How can we haven't seen that a show? Hey meeting
Babe ruth AI? Them shaking hands, Hey, how you doing great?
And they're talking about stuff? How come we haven't seen that?
Given enough time something like that, you'll find it, all right,
I'm up with I have no doubt that asking you
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shall receive. But once you go down that path, you
have no idea what kind of portal you open Smith,
So be careful. All right. Well, I mean I look
like I think AI is good for some things. I
mean a few things. I mean I'm takering with it
for some stuff too.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, I mean there's certainly some applications that I think
there's some positivity to be had.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
No, really, and here here's the biggest positivity is that
now and this is one thing I've noticed is that
now you can I mean, it's weird to say this,
you can go to the Internet and find out anything. Right,
of course you noticed about it, but now it's so
much easier because like Google, you know, being powered by AI,
you can ask any question you want to and you'll
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get an answer. Now most of the time it's right,
because sometimes you're like, okay that that answer is not correct.
But mostly you can say, hey, like fantasy football, should
I draft Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen and you'll get
an AI answer. Right. I Clearly you should go to
people that know what they're talking about, like Mike and
some others, but you can add, hey, what was the
name of the character in pulp fiction? Who was the
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bartender that was played by? And like that had come
up without saying, Okay, how do I find this pulp fiction?
I'll go to IMDb, I'll click on the link, and
I'll click on the movie and see who it is.
Like the fact that AI can just answer any crazy
question no matter how you want to word it, like
you have to worry about wording it the right way. Like,
that's something that has made the end. It's made the
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Internet even faster to be able to find stuff out
like that. That's that's the one thing that blows me away.
And that's just something that is maybe a six last
six month phenomenon. How easy it is for for AI
to answer any of your question. And again, most of
the time they're right. I mean, but sometimes you go, oh,
I really know that's not correct. But most of the
time AI is right.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, I mean, it's a little more accelerated than the
I want a phone a friend. I mean, I know,
last week we commemorated the anniversary of the first episode
of Regis Filman asking us that very.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Question, do you want a phone friend? Let's got let's
fin and.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
All of that that we had, because otherwise I'd I'd
be calling you or a Hartman like it, just if
I didn't know it in my deep reservoir of sports,
pop culture, whatever kind of learnings through the year. I mean,
I go to on YouTube, guys, I think I've got
most things covered now.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Uh, We'll have more baseball coming up in a little bit,
because you know, look, clearly, there has been one topic
of conversation the last couple of days that is scaring
the hell out of everybody. But a couple of days
ago you and I had a conversation about Caleb Williams said,
it is twenty twenty five or bust for Caleb Williams.
If they don't win this year. If you are not,
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they don't win. If he doesn't have a good year,
they will move on from him because a number one,
the noise from the outside already, Bear's Nation is ready
to completely cut bait on Caleb Williams. Right, they want
Tyson Bajen for some reason. Tyson Bagen is so great.
He's a guy. We love this guy. We love, love love.
They're ready to cut bait on Caleb Williams. Every bad
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report from camp. Oh, he missed a receiver here, he
missed a receiver here. Hey watch the Jets practice where
Justin Fields misses receiver's routinely. And still I'm like, I
think we'll be foun Oh. I know they're ready to
move on. But at the end of this year, it's
like how you started the show. Right, If Caleb Williams
is not good, the Bears are gonna sit down in
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a room and they're gonna go. Are we sure that
year three of Caleb Williams is gonna be the best?
Are we sure that he's going to continue? Because it
would then be the case of Williams being on a
three year downturn from his first year at USC to
his last year at USC to his rookie year, which
wasn't that bad, but he wasn't Jayden Daniels and that's
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why he gets all the bad publicity. Plus he got
sacked a lot at the end of the year, but
it was a bad offensive line. Now it would be
another down year year. Two teams move on from quarterbacks,
and they've done it before with Justin Fields, where they said,
are we really gonna see something new from him? Or
should we get into the draft to get a new quarterback.
Now it's easy when you have the number one overall
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pick and you could say, sorry, Justin, we got Caleb.
But they've already set that precedent. And you know that
in three years and a year with Ben Johnson, you're
expecting things to be good and if they're not good,
they're gonna move on. Right it's Ben Johnson's team. They
believe in him. If he can't get Caleb Williams right
like that third year, I don't know how you go
into it with that sort of expectation that things are
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gonna be great for Caleb Williams. Now you disagree with
me on that, right, you disagree to know. I think
Caleb Williams is gonna get year three after today. I
want to revisit that with you. Okay, sure, Aus. Today
Tyson Bagent had his two year contract extension with the
Bears announced. Okay, he had a press conference. He there
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was an announcement for the extension of a backup quarterback.
Just think about all these things I'm gonna tell you
in the next few minutes. Right, backup quarterbacks don't usually
get an announcement, They don't get any sort of press
It's just hey, so and so signed to deal. But
not only does Tyson Bagent get his moment in the
sun where he has a media session and everything else
you're gonna hear from him coming up in a couple
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minutes is a really great moment for him. And hearing
how motionally was. But this is a backup quarterback that
you're giving a pretty good amount of money to. Oh,
by the way, it can get to sixteen million if
he had certain incentives, which would make him the highest
paid backup in the NFL. I mean not counting Kirk Cousins,
who they signed to be a starter and it is
getting big. Guys, I say this, the guy who was
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signed to be the backup quarterback, he's gonna make more
money than any other backup quarterback. So you have pageantry
and pomp and circumstance and money for Tyson Bagent, the
backup quarterback. You have Ben Johnson saying incredible things about Bagent,
where normally coaches talk about their backup quarterbacks, but it's like, yeah,
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so and so is doing a really good job. We
like them. It's great, we got a really good quarterback room.
Ben Johnson goes to the wall for all the things
to say about Tyson Pagent Ryan Poles on National TV
on Sunday nights, is this guy, He's the hardest working
guy on this team. Now, I'm not saying Tyson Binge
is not hard working, not the hardest working guy, but WHOA.
You're on National TV saying your backup quarterback is the
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hardest working guy in the team, working harder than your
starting quarterback, working harder than some of your star players.
Like you don't say that about a guy unless he
has a certain standing on the team. You don't do
this for Tyson Bagent and give him his day and
give him this kind of money and give him this
kind of attention and shower him with this kind of
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praise unless you think he's part of our future going
forward and he may have to start like I. Now.
This is why I say this is twenty twenty five
or bus for Caleb Williams, because clearly the Bears going
this all in on a young backup quarterback who look
Beigent's someone who clearly could have said, yeah, no, I
like my status right now. I can hit free agency
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and maybe get a gig someplace else and where I
can be a bridge guy. Maybe I get genoed or
I get darnoalded or something happens and I can wind
up start. Hey, this is a no, sorry guys, but
I really want my chance. Yes, you get this money
that you're getting to set you up, and it's a
lot of money for a backup quarterback, but you're playing quarterback,
and you play in the NFL to play, You don't
play to sit and carry a clipboard. The fact that
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they did this for him tells me, ay, they still
don't fully believe in Caleb Williams, because you're not doing
this unless you think Tyson Bagent may have to play
for you at some point, and maybe part of it is, hey,
we give him this kind of money, show he's a
part of our future. That maybe gives a little bit
of a push to Caleb Williams that you need to
be doing it great all the time, sort of like
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what Jerry Jones was hoping to do when he signed
Trey Lance with to come in and back up Dak Prescott,
what the Packers did by drafting Jordan Love to push
Aaron Rodgers. But no matter how you slice it, all
this stuff that they're doing right here and they've done
for Bagent, you don't do for a guy unless you think, hey,
he's part of our future going forward and he may
have to play. And we're not really sold on Caleb Williams. Well,
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a couple of things to it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Number one, the pomp and circumstance and what do we
know about the you know a Bears? Okay, what do
we know that the Bears they're gonna take every preseason
off season victory that they possibly can and anything you
want to say, Ryan Pouls, Kevin Warren, all these guys
when they're they're talking, I mean Kevin Kevin Warren at
being asked about a stadium in Chicago and goes, well,
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you know, Arlington Heights still in the same county. So
I take it all with a grain of salt. And
when you're asking me about my quarterback that's on the field,
what am I gonna say?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, he's all right, we kind of like him, he's
a good guy. No, you're gonna all right, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Sell the hell out of him. So that's what you're
gonna do. So I think that's part of the process
that you go through.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You've got a quarterback room that you're trying to build continuity,
a coach that obviously came in and liked him. Otherwise,
Tyson Bige and probably would have been gone, no, uh
they he would have found your own backup, your own guy,
brought in someone from Detroit or another guy that you're
familiar with. No, instead you said, all right, continuity and
with Bigent and with Caleb Williams, you got a quarterback
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room that you paying a whole lot enough, even if
you're a higher paid you know backup, you're still whin
you dollar cost average with what Caleb Williams getting at
on his first contract and ain't much for the quarterback
room to have a guy that you trust that's been
in the system and is learning, and he's been in
the building, I should say, and obviously is a guy
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that Ben Johnson has decided he's got some affinity towards,
as does the locker room. So yeah, the pomp and
circumstance of trotting him out and will hear the emotion
in his voice, will hear that sound bite? I mean,
it's the Bears winning another headline. Look, it's this guy.
I don't think for a minute there there's anything to
say that. You know, there's a little bit of Hey,
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this guy's in the room and they push each other.
I think Caleb Williams would would agree with that as well,
that it's always good to have a guy that you
can bounce stuff off. It seems those two have gotten
along quite well in the time in Chicago. And yeah,
he's there and knows the system. If Caleb Williams does
get injured or to your circumstance and scenario that you know,
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it's break glass in case of emergency to keep the
line going for the Bears. It's been a lot of
great offseason. I mean, you called it the era of
good feelings going into last years.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh look, look I'm telling you this shot. I'm the
first I will tell you. I want to talk. Caleb
Williams is going to have a really good year, right,
He's in the position to succeed at thirty touchdowns, four
thousand yards. He's got the weapons, he's got the coach,
he's got it. But clearly the point here is that
the Bears don't seem to believe in it. Look forget
about the fans outside, like again, they want Caleb Williams out,
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they want Jim mcmahonback, right, But you know, but just
to see this, like, I think he's going to have
a really really good year, but it's really something to
see that boy. You know, the Bears don't really seem
to be all in on him. And it really reminds me,
honestly of the RG three Kirk Cousins situation in Washington
about a decade ago, where they drafted RG three Heisman
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Trophy winner out of Baylor, but they also brought in
Kirk Cousins. Now a little bit more pomp and circumstance.
Kirk Cousins a little bit more I would say, a
little bit more of a of a star coming off
out of Michigan State than Tyson Bage. It was. But
here's what you have is you have the guy who
you drafted at the top of the draft to be
your president future, and you have another guy who's kind
of a curiosity. All Kirk Cousins did and all Tyson
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Bage has done his sixth seed in every moment and
every test they've given him. And RG three was really
good as rookie year right, won the division the offensive
Rookie of the Year. But in the next couple of years,
RG three couldn't stay on the field, wasn't as effective.
Kirk Cousins slowly got his chance, and eventually the Washington
Redskins and then Redskins realized he's our guy. They go
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all in on him, and kirk cousins career was born.
Now I was gonna make, you know, half a billion
dollars over the course's NFL career. So that's kind of
where what this reminds me of, because that's sort of
what the Bears are doing. Yeah, we love Caleb Williams,
he's our guy, but we're going to the wall to
make sure we're protecting Tyson bagent right, Like this is
if you don't like Caleb Williams after this year, you're thinking, okay,
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we're going someplace else to getting a quarterback, right all right?
You would think that, so why are you going so
crazy then to lock up your backup? Then if that's
the case, right, you would be saying, well, it doesn't matter.
We're bringing somebody new in next year and they're gonna
be the unquestioned starter. Why are you bringing Beije unless
he's that's that itch that you feel like we really
have to scratch because if he does get a chance,
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he can really do something. He really it really reminds
this really hits me RG three and Kirk Cousins all
over again.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, I think there might be some some to it,
right with Caleb Williams. If he's going to keep exposing
himself to potential big hits, then yeah, you've got to
have a guy at the ready if you think your
roster is ready to compete, which the Bears and certainly
plenty of national pundits and the talking heads.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
There locally in Chicago think they can make some noise.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Now, the Vegas folks disagree with the hanging a number
that basically makes them a five hundred team if things
break right, because the divisions, I mean, you're still chasing
all three teams in the division. Even if you can
say Detroit and Minnesota settle back in right, you stole
their coach. The other coach is your guy out there
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in New York. You look at the Vikings and a
change of quarterback with Darnold leaving and JJ McCarthy what
he may or may not be. Addison suspended three games.
I drafted him today in the middle of a draft.
I just said he'll be my WR four and eventually
he'll put up big numbers. But we'll see. It's all chaos.
All that to say the Bears are still chasing Green Bay.
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You know they can't get around Green Bay. Yeah, they
won for Virginia McCaskey in the last game she ever
saw before her passing. But that's an outlier of thirty
years of my life as a Bears guy. But all
of that to say, yeah, if you think that roster
is ready to compete, then you want a guy who
knows and is ready to go cool break glass. There's
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Tyson Bagent. He's a guy that knows the system, knows
the people, knows everything and at worst if it does
break the other way, it goes a team desperate for
a quarterback and you've got a competition. You still have
case Keenum. You've got other guys that are creeping around
that can be UH backups and be that guy. If
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someone gets desperate enough, guess what, Tyson Beagent gets spun
off for another running back or wide receiver. There's lots
that can spin off of this, no.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Question about it. Exit out bout of Frasca, Exit Swallen Dome,
RG three, Kirk Cousins A decade later, here it is
Caleb Williams and Tyson Pagent.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Ain't you want another headline today in the offseason? Because
he cried?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hey, speaking of headlines, Coming up next, got a big
story out of the NFL, the latest twist and turn
in the Cowboys, Micah Parsons saga, plus what really has
a lot of baseball fans scared out of their minds?
Right now? That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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our sex Day. Uh, We'll get to the big story
out of Major League Baseball coming up in a couple
of minutes. But the latest salvo out of Cowboys camp
today in regards to the Micah Parsons saga, while the
two sides don't appear any closer to a contract extension,
was yesterday Adam Schefter said, it's clear. It's clearer the
two sides are headed towards a divorce. Today, head coach
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Brian Schottenheimer was asked about, Hey, you know, guy's gonna
have Michaeh. Parsons. You know the season opener is coming
up soon September fourth, got the Eagles, and he said, quote,
at the end of the day, we feel like Mike
is gonna be out there when we line up against
Philadelphia here in fifteen days or whatever it is. He's
then asked with or without an extension, and Brian Schottenheimer said,
I feel good that Mike's gonna be out there against
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the Philadelphia Eagles. Now, I say to you, does this
sound like confidence that, Hey, the Cowboys head coach is
standing up really strong telling everybody don't worry, this is
gonna get solved. I just this is all kinds of
stuff in the media. It's Jerry doing his thing, or
is this absolute panic? And here's Brian Shottenheimer just saying,
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hey man, Michaeh, you gotta get here. In a couple
of weeks, we got the Eagles, we're gonna get killed,
and it's my first run here the Cowboys's head coach,
and I don't want to lose thirty eight to nothing.
You really gotta get here. We just need you so bad,
can you?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Ai Shottenheimer into the courtroom scene meant at one of
many and a few good men.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hel hell, don't look at him.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Then that's how kind of what it is right there,
is like grasping at straws, like trying to be resolute,
trying to have exude confidence because it's your first rodeo
as a head coach and everybody's.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Looking at you.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Because that's one of the things I think with Jerry
in this whole scenario, it's it's been brilliant to a degree.
And I think, well, unintentionally so in that Schottenheimer taking
over as the head coach of the Cowboys has gotten
no run at all, positive negative outside of Dallas. I'm
sure there's plenty because you got to fill a lot
of sports time and sports sections at the back end
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of your newscast before you go to and none of
the Squirrel and a human interest story to cap things off. No, no, no,
he's gotten absolutely operate in anonymity. We've been talking about
Ben Johnson a lot. We've been talking about Aaron Glenn
and him having to answer all sorts of questions, even
about practices that he really didn't run like today, all
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of that we're as Schottenheimer. This is the first time
he's like, I was a step to the podium. It's
my turn to talk.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Let's go. Yeah. Look, the more time goes on and
there the sides aren't talking, I'm telling you, Yes. Jason
locking Ford joined us early in the show. He brought
up a great point about how he feels the Michaeh
Parsons thing is gonna get solved. It's the first go
around with him in Dallas. Meanwhile, Trey Hendrickson, Terry McLaurin,
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there's a lot of history there between the players and
their teams, and that's when things get personal. So those
are situations that you should monitor. But I'm telling you, man,
I talked about a divorce right away with Michah Parsons.
Because he feels the same way he has. Even though
it's his first thing with the Cowboys, he has made
it personal. Not every player is gonna be okay with
Jerry Jones winning the headlines and then being okay with
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getting money at the end. The guy went on social
media and said, I no longer want to be here now.
He thinks he's doing the right thing by still hanging
out around Cowboys camp, and he looks absolutely miserable. And
I'm telling you, this is not something that's gonna suddenly, Oh,
Micah Parsons will show up because he feels a sense
of duty, or Michah Parsons will sign a contract because
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he feels Jerry Jones has misplayed this thing from the beginning.
And the more time goes on, and the more time
that Micah and his representation in the NFL realized Jerry
Jones really did him wrong by negotiating with him, which
is against the CBA rules. You can't have a guy
in a talk contract with him. Jerry Jones admitted, yeah,
we thought we had a deal. Like the more time
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that goes on, Jerry really is a guy that you
can't trust, that Micah can't trust, and he's not gonna
go back and do anything positive to try to say,
here's an olive branch like this is this is the latest,
this is the less And here's Brian Schottenheimer saying, I'm
gonna say something because I'm desperate at this point. Man,
we gotta have Micah. I don't know, I don't know
what else to tell you, but we gotta have him.
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We gotta. Like Brian Schottenheimer, his line now should be
we love Micah, we want him here. But in the end,
these are the players here and he knows how how
good he is, and you know, I gotta go forward
with these guys like he would tow that company line.
But this tells you just how the desperate times that
they're in that here he is saying, come on, man,
we need you to come in. Don't don't hold your
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breath for Michah Parsons. Don't you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Like, we haven't looked at the Schottenheimer's side of things.
I don't know how many times he's addressed this during
camp and kick the can down the road. But obviously
we're hitting towards eleventh hour as we're within two weeks
of you needing me get up to play the Philadelphia Eagles,
you know, the whole defending champion and division mate and
rival and whatever else you want to get on down
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the line with that. So, yeah, it's that curiosity of
the timeline and you're gonna get in your fields. Doesn't
help when your agent one isn't in the room and
we don't know what specificity the conversation was. Jerry thinking, yeah,
we had a deal, might have been as simple as Michael,
we need you on that field. We can't win without you,
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so we need to get this done. And it could
have been in very general terms, or he might have
pulled out a huge actuarial table to tell him how
it was in the best interest to get I don't know.
Somewhere in between the truth lies right in terms of numbers, dollars, cents, years, whatever,
and specificity there versus just a general agreement of hey,
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we want to do this with you, we want to
do that with you, and this is what you mean
to us. And you know that the devil's in the
details of all that, whether they get fined, get ducked,
a draft pick, whatever. To where Micah Parsons feels disrespected. Yeah,
you know, sometimes it's unseemly right. He's he's been part
of the media, between his podcast and what he posts
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on social media, he certainly chimed in on other people's
contracts and responsibilities or whatever. So it doesn't feel so
good when it comes back on you.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Now, does it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
And certainly something you know he's learning a little firsthand,
and and Jerry not exactly playing with the kid gloves.
You know, he used to doing these things in the media,
and then eventually you get behind closed doors when it's
time to go, it's like, boy, we really put on
a hell of a show, didn't we. You know, It's
like Rocky and Thunderlips. He's throwing them over the ropes,
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throwing them into tables and whatever else.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And then after hey, let's get that polaroid.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Okay, you know that's what Jerry Jones is hammering it out,
thinking that's what it's gonna be like. And maybe this
is one where it's different and where it doesn't get
to that point. But I gotta imagine if the dollars
in years and the pomp and circumstance and pageantry of
it all, as Jerry has been pretty good at doing,
does get to that in that eleventh hour that everybody
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smiles doesn't mean that the second time it doesn't get
worse if he's got to go back for another deal.
But I would still believe that, you know, we'd be
more likely to get to the happy ending that everybody
wants with a giant novelty check and Jerry grinning like
the cheshire Cat because it all got done, even if
he lost millions of dollars in the end.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit swollen dome. The Chase
and Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We
got more coming up in ninety seconds, but first time
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports and someone who's been called the Micah Parsons of
sports radio, she recently put a message out on social
media saying, I no longer want to be here. It's
Moncey Belogna.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
That is not true. It is not true.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Wow, men thet also man, the awesome man.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Sorry, Sorry, sorry comment the sorry. She put that post
on social media when she was in the stands of
a thirty five point Clippers loss. Sorry that's what she said. Sorry, sorry,
that is true.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
That did happen?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Dear Google AI. That is it true that Moncey Bologna
said she did want to be here?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Google sucks all right, Google AI has given me wrong information.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So screw Google AI. Whatever.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Screw that I was about to say a bad word. Okay,
let's go, guys, let's chat baseball. The Yankees have won
five in a row. They outscored the race sixty four
and ten innings, and it was John Carlos Sten coming
in clutch as a pinch hitter in the tenth innan
hitting the go ahead to run shot. The Rockies defeated
the Dodgers in Colorado eight to three. Show Hey o
Toani pitched five innings, gave a nine hits and five
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earned runs. The Padres blew out the Giants eight to one.
They hit four home runs, Fernando Tattist junior rob Drafael
Devers of a home run. San Diego is now one
game back of La in the nl wes. The Cubs
held on four to three against the Brewers, and so
in the middle of this game, it was.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Like the fifth inning and.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Milwaukee catcher William Contrera stepped up to the plate with
two men on and one out, So the Cubs broadcasters
started talking about you know, I think I feel like
Contrera's usually hits into a double play and they have
this discussion. All right, if he hits a double play,
will you buy mozzarella six for everybody?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So check it out line drive towards second by Nico Honner.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Nico Honner makes the catch.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Spirit that ball looked like a little bit of a
snow cone and the Cubs win the ball game?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
What get guys?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
That wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
My bad? Hold on?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
I know here we go here, Sorry, it was a
different Okay, ready, if he hits.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
The ground ball and the shore start the six four three,
will you buy Manzi sticks for everybody at the corner tap?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I don't know if they have Montrella sticks in the
four tap but one to one outside, I'll go have
seas with you.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Okay, one Cubs, let's go more sticks for everybody. Corner tappromta,
look and fire it Manzi sticks.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
So the corner tap room, that's where they decided to
buy everybody there cheese sticks Montrella sticks because it's located
in Iowa and that is a hometown of Cubs pitcher
Colin Reya, who induced the ground ball. So as this
what's going on. As this is going on, they were like,
let's buy montrel sticks. Okay, well if this hits a
double play. If he hits into a double play, I'll
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split it with you. And now I think you guys
should buy us Monzrelli sticks. Wow, that's what I think,
because you guys are like a broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Nobody's ever bought a meal in that. We've never picked up.
It's not enough that we buy wings and fries every week,
at least once for everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
That's not enough.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, of course it is. Listen, hey, you can ask Harmon.
I bring in breakfast.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Every Sunday, like I get it, but mozzarella sticks. We
haven't had Monzerelli sticks.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, I don't work on Sundays. Okay, great, y'all. You
know what, we'll figure that. How about tomorrow night for
ty Shirt's birthday. I'll buy food tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Oh, I won't be here.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's rough for me.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You're right, it's not your fault.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It's not your fault.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You're right. I think you need to call and get
your schedule change.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You're right, you're right. No, I'll be here right, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
National stuff the Mets five to four.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Jason Angels edge the Reds two to one, Sinceanty is
one game back of the Mets for the final walkcard
spot in the National League. When it comes to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Games in the lost column. Two games in the lost columnd.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Receiver Sky Moore to the forty nine Ers and uh
by the way, Week three of the NFL preseason does
start Thursday. Two games Stealers and Panthers, seven Eastern, then
the Patriots and the Giants. That's at eight Eastern. When
it comes to the w NBA, Kelsey Plumb hit a
game winner as the Sparks beat the Wings eighty one
to eighty. Page Beckers dropped forty four points in the loss.
And the latest with Caitlin Clark Fever Star is that
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she suffered a bone bruise on her left ankle during
a workout earlier this month and she's been rehabbing the
ankle along with her right growing injury. We're never going
to see her again, and I'm never gonna see you
guys again since I'm not here tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Wow, rests up your night, world, telling us the world is.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Ending on Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I have here Friday.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Hey, way, my week is messed up.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I have here Friday.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
If the world ends Friday, the Mets make the playoffs.
Oh my god, all right, I'm alright with that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Right, Okay, that's crazy because you have to be wearing
a sandwich board that said that the end is not earlier. Now, interesting,
if this is the right place, the Quarter tap room,
they don't actually serve food, but they have a Happy Joe's,
which is a pizza place which all sorts of menu
stuff where my cousin actually worked at one of their
locations as a teenager. I believe they do have mott
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Matzi sticks as they called them. Yeah, and in Iowa
it's going to be cheaper, so you can actually feed
a lot more people.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Your money's going to go further. It would also it
would also suck if hey, I'll buy you mozzarella sticks
from a place that doesn't serve mozzrelli sticks. You go, oh, hey, sorry,
they don't have it.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
The actual bar doesn't, but they team up with you know,
Happy Jege.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Oh the more you know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
There you go begs a bunchy bye. Speaking a baseball
something that looked that fans are scared of fans of
all ages the last few days since Rob Manford has
talked about expansion on Sunday Night Baseball, saying, hey, when
they get to thirty two teams, when they expand two
more teams, potentially there could be eight four team divisions
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and expansions coming to Major League Baseball, and realignment is coming.
And every baseball fan I know hates this idea, whether
you're eighty year years old or fifty whatever. Oh, I
hate it. And I understand that. Okay, yes, the divisions
and baseball and division rivalries. Okay, that's great, but remember
these divisions haven't been around since eighteen hundred. These's been
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around for twenty years when they move teams around a
little bit. So understand when they made a whole new
division in the NL Central, this wasn't in the eighteen hundreds. Okay,
this is what I can remember when they did it, right,
So understand that I get that baseball purists. Baseball needs
to be beholden to its legacy and certain things they
can do going to be received. Well, Realignment is fine, Okay,
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you know what you want to be scared of this
and this is where half the league is going to
be scared and the other half is going to say, yeah,
I'll roll the dice is when they realign. Right, let's
just say it's eight four team divisions, and as Rob
Manford said, we're doing it because of geography, and we
want teams to play close to each other, spend more
nights at home in their beds, and make travel easier,
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all all that stuff. Let's just take what could be
the NL East or the AL East for example, where
suddenly that division, if you're really being beholden to geography,
is the Mets, the Yankees, the Pirates, and the Phillies.
Do I want that division? No? I don't. I don't
want I don't want three of the top five teams
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that spend money every year. I don't want to fight
it out with the Yankees and the Phillies every year
for the playoffs the Pirates. Okay, that's fine. You need
to make sure these divisions are fair. Right. It's not
fair that suddenly, hey, here's these big market teams that
gotta fight tooth and nail just to get out of
their own division.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You need to make sure that, hey, these are divisions
that you have a couple of big market teams, a
couple of small market teams are not putting teams out
there that traditionally are going to be great. Three great
teams in one division. Like, that's what I'm scared of
that Baseball is gonna do this and they're gonna say, well,
this makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. But man, the Yankees
don't want to fight with the Mets and the Phillies,
none of those teas. I'm not saying this is a
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Met fan, but if that happened, Mets fans wouldn't like it,
Phillies fans wouldn't like it, and the Yankees fans surely
would hate it. Who elsewhere the Pirates fans? Oh wait,
now i gotta go against three great teams. We're only
gonna have schemes for another year and a half. So yeah,
that's what I'm afraid of, is that they go all
kinds of crazy with this, and then you could see
a division in the South that's all the Braves. They
have a bye to the playoff every year because I
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play in the Marlins and the Rays, and I mean, really,
that's what I'm scared. You want to be scared of
something realignment wise, that's what scares me.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, for schemes, it would be every outing would be
an audition against a future employer. So would you like
this guy as part of your roster? He can walk
off the cross to the other dog.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Right now, it's kind of like what's happening now too,
So I don't know that that's gonna change well, but.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It would be all in division of course. Say, look,
we talk about that time when the Brewers were in
the al right, we talk about the fact that Montreal
had a team, and we keep going on down the line.
You know, the unbalanced schedule that we had where you
were playing teams in your division nineteen times. I mean
all of those things. Interleague play is now on the
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and you play every team like all of this stuff.
It's it's look, we've already bastardized all of the traditions
and the sanctity. We've got an everyday DH in both leagues.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
All the purists hate that and go on down down
the line. So yeah, this is the next iteration. I
think it comes back to we need a spending floor
that really needs to be propped up based on the
amount of revenue everybody is taking from the national game
as they negotiate with so many of these new entities
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coming into streaming rights and everything else, and then that'll
work itself out to a degree. But I understand your consternation.
In Chicago, it's just more opportunity for the local bars
and restaurants to sell more and more and more because
Cubs White Sox brings people out in druves and it's
overtime for security guards and police people.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Exit out about a fresca exit swallen do home. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon coming up next, a rookie season that has
turned into an historic season after what was accomplished tonight,
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Hit the Shuffle Mike, Game of the Night in the WNBA,
Kelsey Plum with the runner at the Buzzer, Sparks beat
the Wings eighty one point eighty and first of all
for Kelsey Plum, a big heroic shot from her. You
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know and all you gotta if you haven't seen Kelsey
plump play and you watch and you say, yeah, I
know she's left handed. Just watch that final shot. You
can tell, boy, she's really left hand. Like I can't
get to the I can't get to the rock with
my right hand. I'm going from the right wing all
the way around to get to to get to the
hoop with my left. But still, it's a great play
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by her, made possible by the fact that, for some
ridiculous reason, defender got out of her way and gave
her an extra ten feet towards the hoop. I don't
know why she just backs out of the way thinking
she's gonna dish the ball off. There's no time left,
she's got to put a shot up, but like a
second to go. Would you rather Kelsey Plumb, who's a
terrific player and was the all time leading scorer in
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college basketball before Caitlyn Clark broke the record. Would you
rather Kelsey Plum, who's been an All Star for the
last few years in the WNBA, taking a shot from
the free throw line, or would you rather be passing
it out for a twenty footer. I don't know, but
I don't know what the defender was thinking I have
no idea, but hey, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I do appreciate Kelsey Plumb being asked about Pagebacker, said
we need to play some blank in defense show. I
ask you, is Pagebacker's greater than Caitlin Clark. Dude, I'm
telling you that's gonna be the big hot take to buy.
Guarantee you someone coming off this because look the story
of the game. Page Beckers a rookie record forty four
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points for the Dallas Wings as they lose by one.
Somebody tomorrow, get ready, Paige Becker's better than Kitlyn Clark.
Everybody's gonna forget about what Kitlyn Clark did last year.
Her impact, the assists, everything else that is Page Becker's.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Bet. I can't wait, but I guarantee you it's happening
sometime in the next twelve hours on TV, national, TV,
natural radio. It's happening. What I just did about Look
what I'll say about Paige Beckers is this. I knew
she was gonna be really good. I didn't think she
was going to be this good. I thought it would
be more of a welcome to the WNBA type year
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for her. But clearly she should be sending a thank
you note to Kitlyn Clark for saying, hey, thanks for
taking all the arrows and being someone that everybody is
jealous of. I've just kind of been able to slide
it as a number one overall picking. No one wants
to teach me a lesson or found me really hard
or talk about how there's other teams in the league
besides me. Hey, thanks for that, Caitlyn, because I wouldn't
be doing this, but she is. She has been better
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than I thought. Really, I thought she was gonna have
a lit little bit more trouble getting into the league
playing on a bad team. Clearly, rike a gunbal Wally
is the big star there. She takes a lot of shots,
but look, she's been injured for a lot of this season,
and Beckers is getting basically a free canvas to say,
I'm gonna take all the shots, I'm gonna set things
up how I want to, and this is gonna be
my rookie year. She's been even better than I thought.
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And the WNBA is saying, we are just rolling sevens
the last couple of years with people coming into this league. Man,
we have Caitlin and Angel, now we have Page, We're
gonna have Juju Watkins. Eventually, no matter how many missteps
we have with our public image or what we think
and how we trade our stars, we are getting all
superstar players that people want to see coming in every
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single year.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well, this goes back to our old friends the Simpsons.
What's pulling a homer succeeding in spite of yourself?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Really, that's kind of what the W has been. All
the problems they have had, all the Caitlin Clark, Hadeen
this and Angel Reese and everybody's upset we want more
money and all and this really big contentious CBA negotiation,
and still they keep putting a product out there that
people want to see, which shows you, no matter what
you do, you have a product that people want. People
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are gonna find their way. You could charge whatever you
want to for tickets to a Yankee game. If Aaron
judges it in seventy home runs a year, people are
gonna spend money to come see the Yankees, regardless of
whether or not the team stinks. You spent bad money
on other players. Devin Williams, it doesn't matter that people
are still gonna do that. And here's the W where
there's so much bad publicity and really showing that they
(40:34):
can't handle success. But yet still they find at everybody
keeps in on it because they have the players, they
have a product that people want to see.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
You mentioned the Yankees, was young Carlo No sipue that
steparlo Issie Homers again?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Come on, I'd mean real, well, yeah, well, look, if
the Yankees are gonna hit seven home runs at night,
I think they're gonna win a lot of game. That's it.
I'm just saying I think that's gonna happen. I wouldn't
worry about the Yankees if that's gonna happen. Now, if
they don't at seven home runs a night, Aaron Boon's
getting fired. But seven home runs a night, I think
they can find no way to pull that out. I
think they can do it. Exit out about a Fresco
(41:10):
exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Carmon coming up next,
my buddy Ben Maller. You are listening to Fox Sports
Radio Ty Shirt Birthday Show tomorrow
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Greetings, Welcome Inside Final Hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon up uh talking about
a couple of teams that really dodged a bullet today,
the Baltimore ravens Lamar Jackson's injury. Everything is okay, Yeah,
(00:24):
everything's good. Everything's fine, Sho Hao Tani hit by a
line drive. Everything is fine, Expected to play on Friday.
Not a great start for show Hao Toni. Tonight the
Donalds lost two out of three to the Rockies, But
Sho Hao Tani seems to be okay, So everything is
alright and he expects to and hopes to play on
Friday after a day off.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Now, I saw a crazy ass stat Now, through five
hundred and nine career innings pitched, Sho Hao Tani has
a thirty eight and twenty record as a starting pitcher
that is the same and exactly the same innings pitched
as Babe Ruth. And that's one to grow on.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Wow, that's that's eerie. That that's the that that's the number.
That's so eerie that he's that close in those numbers
with Babe Ruth pitching being the being the last true
two way player, the big threat to play both way.
I mean, I mean, that's that's just again Again baseball
has been played for one hundred and fifty years now
that I've never seen that, and you may never see
(01:25):
that again. Truth joined up? Where are all those big
show hey Babe ruth like AI videos like where like?
How can we haven't seen that a show? Hey meeting
Babe ruth AI? Them shaking hands, Hey, how you doing great?
And they're talking about stuff? How come we haven't seen that?
Given enough time something like that, you'll find it, all right,
I'm up with I have no doubt that asking you
(01:47):
shall receive. But once you go down that path, you
have no idea what kind of portal you open Smith,
So be careful. All right. Well, I mean I look
like I think AI is good for some things. I
mean a few things. I mean I'm takering with it
for some stuff too.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
No, I mean there's certainly some applications that I think
there's some positivity to be had.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
No, really, and here here's the biggest positivity is that
now and this is one thing I've noticed is that
now you can I mean, it's weird to say this,
you can go to the Internet and find out anything. Right,
of course you noticed about it, but now it's so
much easier because like Google, you know, being powered by AI,
you can ask any question you want to and you'll
(02:27):
get an answer. Now most of the time it's right,
because sometimes you're like, okay that that answer is not correct.
But mostly you can say, hey, like fantasy football, should
I draft Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen and you'll get
an AI answer. Right. I Clearly you should go to
people that know what they're talking about, like Mike and
some others, but you can add, hey, what was the
name of the character in pulp fiction? Who was the
(02:49):
bartender that was played by? And like that had come
up without saying, Okay, how do I find this pulp fiction?
I'll go to IMDb, I'll click on the link, and
I'll click on the movie and see who it is.
Like the fact that AI can just answer any crazy
question no matter how you want to word it, like
you have to worry about wording it the right way. Like,
that's something that has made the end. It's made the
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Internet even faster to be able to find stuff out
like that. That's that's the one thing that blows me away.
And that's just something that is maybe a six last
six month phenomenon. How easy it is for for AI
to answer any of your question. And again, most of
the time they're right. I mean, but sometimes you go, oh,
I really know that's not correct. But most of the
time AI is right.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, I mean, it's a little more accelerated than the
I want a phone a friend. I mean, I know,
last week we commemorated the anniversary of the first episode
of Regis Filman asking us that very.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Question, do you want a phone friend? Let's got let's
fin and.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
All of that that we had, because otherwise I'd I'd
be calling you or a Hartman like it, just if
I didn't know it in my deep reservoir of sports,
pop culture, whatever kind of learnings through the year. I mean,
I go to on YouTube, guys, I think I've got
most things covered now.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Uh, We'll have more baseball coming up in a little bit,
because you know, look, clearly, there has been one topic
of conversation the last couple of days that is scaring
the hell out of everybody. But a couple of days
ago you and I had a conversation about Caleb Williams said,
it is twenty twenty five or bust for Caleb Williams.
If they don't win this year. If you are not,
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they don't win. If he doesn't have a good year,
they will move on from him because a number one,
the noise from the outside already, Bear's Nation is ready
to completely cut bait on Caleb Williams. Right, they want
Tyson Bajen for some reason. Tyson Bagen is so great.
He's a guy. We love this guy. We love, love love.
They're ready to cut bait on Caleb Williams. Every bad
(04:49):
report from camp. Oh, he missed a receiver here, he
missed a receiver here. Hey watch the Jets practice where
Justin Fields misses receiver's routinely. And still I'm like, I
think we'll be foun Oh. I know they're ready to
move on. But at the end of this year, it's
like how you started the show. Right, If Caleb Williams
is not good, the Bears are gonna sit down in
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a room and they're gonna go. Are we sure that
year three of Caleb Williams is gonna be the best?
Are we sure that he's going to continue? Because it
would then be the case of Williams being on a
three year downturn from his first year at USC to
his last year at USC to his rookie year, which
wasn't that bad, but he wasn't Jayden Daniels and that's
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why he gets all the bad publicity. Plus he got
sacked a lot at the end of the year, but
it was a bad offensive line. Now it would be
another down year year. Two teams move on from quarterbacks,
and they've done it before with Justin Fields, where they said,
are we really gonna see something new from him? Or
should we get into the draft to get a new quarterback.
Now it's easy when you have the number one overall
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pick and you could say, sorry, Justin, we got Caleb.
But they've already set that precedent. And you know that
in three years and a year with Ben Johnson, you're
expecting things to be good and if they're not good,
they're gonna move on. Right it's Ben Johnson's team. They
believe in him. If he can't get Caleb Williams right
like that third year, I don't know how you go
into it with that sort of expectation that things are
(06:15):
gonna be great for Caleb Williams. Now you disagree with
me on that, right, you disagree to know. I think
Caleb Williams is gonna get year three after today. I
want to revisit that with you. Okay, sure, Aus. Today
Tyson Bagent had his two year contract extension with the
Bears announced. Okay, he had a press conference. He there
(06:36):
was an announcement for the extension of a backup quarterback.
Just think about all these things I'm gonna tell you
in the next few minutes. Right, backup quarterbacks don't usually
get an announcement, They don't get any sort of press
It's just hey, so and so signed to deal. But
not only does Tyson Bagent get his moment in the
sun where he has a media session and everything else
you're gonna hear from him coming up in a couple
(06:57):
minutes is a really great moment for him. And hearing
how motionally was. But this is a backup quarterback that
you're giving a pretty good amount of money to. Oh,
by the way, it can get to sixteen million if
he had certain incentives, which would make him the highest
paid backup in the NFL. I mean not counting Kirk Cousins,
who they signed to be a starter and it is
getting big. Guys, I say this, the guy who was
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signed to be the backup quarterback, he's gonna make more
money than any other backup quarterback. So you have pageantry
and pomp and circumstance and money for Tyson Bagent, the
backup quarterback. You have Ben Johnson saying incredible things about Bagent,
where normally coaches talk about their backup quarterbacks, but it's like, yeah,
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so and so is doing a really good job. We
like them. It's great, we got a really good quarterback room.
Ben Johnson goes to the wall for all the things
to say about Tyson Pagent Ryan Poles on National TV
on Sunday nights, is this guy, He's the hardest working
guy on this team. Now, I'm not saying Tyson Binge
is not hard working, not the hardest working guy, but WHOA.
You're on National TV saying your backup quarterback is the
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hardest working guy in the team, working harder than your
starting quarterback, working harder than some of your star players.
Like you don't say that about a guy unless he
has a certain standing on the team. You don't do
this for Tyson Bagent and give him his day and
give him this kind of money and give him this
kind of attention and shower him with this kind of
(08:24):
praise unless you think he's part of our future going
forward and he may have to start like I. Now.
This is why I say this is twenty twenty five
or bus for Caleb Williams, because clearly the Bears going
this all in on a young backup quarterback who look
Beigent's someone who clearly could have said, yeah, no, I
like my status right now. I can hit free agency
(08:47):
and maybe get a gig someplace else and where I
can be a bridge guy. Maybe I get genoed or
I get darnoalded or something happens and I can wind
up start. Hey, this is a no, sorry guys, but
I really want my chance. Yes, you get this money
that you're getting to set you up, and it's a
lot of money for a backup quarterback, but you're playing quarterback,
and you play in the NFL to play, You don't
play to sit and carry a clipboard. The fact that
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they did this for him tells me, ay, they still
don't fully believe in Caleb Williams, because you're not doing
this unless you think Tyson Bagent may have to play
for you at some point, and maybe part of it is, hey,
we give him this kind of money, show he's a
part of our future. That maybe gives a little bit
of a push to Caleb Williams that you need to
be doing it great all the time, sort of like
(09:30):
what Jerry Jones was hoping to do when he signed
Trey Lance with to come in and back up Dak Prescott,
what the Packers did by drafting Jordan Love to push
Aaron Rodgers. But no matter how you slice it, all
this stuff that they're doing right here and they've done
for Bagent, you don't do for a guy unless you think, hey,
he's part of our future going forward and he may
have to play. And we're not really sold on Caleb Williams. Well,
(09:53):
a couple of things to it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Number one, the pomp and circumstance and what do we
know about the you know a Bears? Okay, what do
we know that the Bears they're gonna take every preseason
off season victory that they possibly can and anything you
want to say, Ryan Pouls, Kevin Warren, all these guys
when they're they're talking, I mean Kevin Kevin Warren at
being asked about a stadium in Chicago and goes, well,
(10:16):
you know, Arlington Heights still in the same county. So
I take it all with a grain of salt. And
when you're asking me about my quarterback that's on the field,
what am I gonna say?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, he's all right, we kind of like him, he's
a good guy. No, you're gonna all right, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Sell the hell out of him. So that's what you're
gonna do. So I think that's part of the process
that you go through.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You've got a quarterback room that you're trying to build continuity,
a coach that obviously came in and liked him. Otherwise,
Tyson Bige and probably would have been gone, no, uh
they he would have found your own backup, your own guy,
brought in someone from Detroit or another guy that you're
familiar with. No, instead you said, all right, continuity and
with Bigent and with Caleb Williams, you got a quarterback
(10:59):
room that you paying a whole lot enough, even if
you're a higher paid you know backup, you're still whin
you dollar cost average with what Caleb Williams getting at
on his first contract and ain't much for the quarterback
room to have a guy that you trust that's been
in the system and is learning, and he's been in
the building, I should say, and obviously is a guy
(11:21):
that Ben Johnson has decided he's got some affinity towards,
as does the locker room. So yeah, the pomp and
circumstance of trotting him out and will hear the emotion
in his voice, will hear that sound bite? I mean,
it's the Bears winning another headline. Look, it's this guy.
I don't think for a minute there there's anything to
say that. You know, there's a little bit of Hey,
(11:42):
this guy's in the room and they push each other.
I think Caleb Williams would would agree with that as well,
that it's always good to have a guy that you
can bounce stuff off. It seems those two have gotten
along quite well in the time in Chicago. And yeah,
he's there and knows the system. If Caleb Williams does
get injured or to your circumstance and scenario that you know,
(12:02):
it's break glass in case of emergency to keep the
line going for the Bears. It's been a lot of
great offseason. I mean, you called it the era of
good feelings going into last years.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh look, look I'm telling you this shot. I'm the
first I will tell you. I want to talk. Caleb
Williams is going to have a really good year, right,
He's in the position to succeed at thirty touchdowns, four
thousand yards. He's got the weapons, he's got the coach,
he's got it. But clearly the point here is that
the Bears don't seem to believe in it. Look forget
about the fans outside, like again, they want Caleb Williams out,
(12:32):
they want Jim mcmahonback, right, But you know, but just
to see this, like, I think he's going to have
a really really good year, but it's really something to
see that boy. You know, the Bears don't really seem
to be all in on him. And it really reminds me,
honestly of the RG three Kirk Cousins situation in Washington
about a decade ago, where they drafted RG three Heisman
(12:53):
Trophy winner out of Baylor, but they also brought in
Kirk Cousins. Now a little bit more pomp and circumstance.
Kirk Cousins a little bit more I would say, a
little bit more of a of a star coming off
out of Michigan State than Tyson Bage. It was. But
here's what you have is you have the guy who
you drafted at the top of the draft to be
your president future, and you have another guy who's kind
of a curiosity. All Kirk Cousins did and all Tyson
(13:15):
Bage has done his sixth seed in every moment and
every test they've given him. And RG three was really
good as rookie year right, won the division the offensive
Rookie of the Year. But in the next couple of years,
RG three couldn't stay on the field, wasn't as effective.
Kirk Cousins slowly got his chance, and eventually the Washington
Redskins and then Redskins realized he's our guy. They go
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all in on him, and kirk cousins career was born.
Now I was gonna make, you know, half a billion
dollars over the course's NFL career. So that's kind of
where what this reminds me of, because that's sort of
what the Bears are doing. Yeah, we love Caleb Williams,
he's our guy, but we're going to the wall to
make sure we're protecting Tyson bagent right, Like this is
if you don't like Caleb Williams after this year, you're thinking, okay,
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we're going someplace else to getting a quarterback, right all right?
You would think that, so why are you going so
crazy then to lock up your backup? Then if that's
the case, right, you would be saying, well, it doesn't matter.
We're bringing somebody new in next year and they're gonna
be the unquestioned starter. Why are you bringing Beije unless
he's that's that itch that you feel like we really
have to scratch because if he does get a chance,
(14:19):
he can really do something. He really it really reminds
this really hits me RG three and Kirk Cousins all
over again.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, I think there might be some some to it,
right with Caleb Williams. If he's going to keep exposing
himself to potential big hits, then yeah, you've got to
have a guy at the ready if you think your
roster is ready to compete, which the Bears and certainly
plenty of national pundits and the talking heads.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
There locally in Chicago think they can make some noise.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Now, the Vegas folks disagree with the hanging a number
that basically makes them a five hundred team if things
break right, because the divisions, I mean, you're still chasing
all three teams in the division. Even if you can
say Detroit and Minnesota settle back in right, you stole
their coach. The other coach is your guy out there
(15:06):
in New York. You look at the Vikings and a
change of quarterback with Darnold leaving and JJ McCarthy what
he may or may not be. Addison suspended three games.
I drafted him today in the middle of a draft.
I just said he'll be my WR four and eventually
he'll put up big numbers. But we'll see. It's all chaos.
All that to say the Bears are still chasing Green Bay.
(15:26):
You know they can't get around Green Bay. Yeah, they
won for Virginia McCaskey in the last game she ever
saw before her passing. But that's an outlier of thirty
years of my life as a Bears guy. But all
of that to say, yeah, if you think that roster
is ready to compete, then you want a guy who
knows and is ready to go cool break glass. There's
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Tyson Bagent. He's a guy that knows the system, knows
the people, knows everything and at worst if it does
break the other way, it goes a team desperate for
a quarterback and you've got a competition. You still have
case Keenum. You've got other guys that are creeping around
that can be UH backups and be that guy. If
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someone gets desperate enough, guess what, Tyson Beagent gets spun
off for another running back or wide receiver. There's lots
that can spin off of this, no.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Question about it. Exit out bout of Frasca, Exit Swallen Dome,
RG three, Kirk Cousins A decade later, here it is
Caleb Williams and Tyson Pagent.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Ain't you want another headline today in the offseason? Because
he cried?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Hey, speaking of headlines, Coming up next, got a big
story out of the NFL, the latest twist and turn
in the Cowboys, Micah Parsons saga, plus what really has
a lot of baseball fans scared out of their minds?
Right now? That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
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(18:01):
our sex Day. Uh, We'll get to the big story
out of Major League Baseball coming up in a couple
of minutes. But the latest salvo out of Cowboys camp
today in regards to the Micah Parsons saga, while the
two sides don't appear any closer to a contract extension,
was yesterday Adam Schefter said, it's clear. It's clearer the
two sides are headed towards a divorce. Today, head coach
(18:26):
Brian Schottenheimer was asked about, Hey, you know, guy's gonna
have Michaeh. Parsons. You know the season opener is coming
up soon September fourth, got the Eagles, and he said, quote,
at the end of the day, we feel like Mike
is gonna be out there when we line up against
Philadelphia here in fifteen days or whatever it is. He's
then asked with or without an extension, and Brian Schottenheimer said,
I feel good that Mike's gonna be out there against
(18:47):
the Philadelphia Eagles. Now, I say to you, does this
sound like confidence that, Hey, the Cowboys head coach is
standing up really strong telling everybody don't worry, this is
gonna get solved. I just this is all kinds of
stuff in the media. It's Jerry doing his thing, or
is this absolute panic? And here's Brian Shottenheimer just saying,
(19:08):
hey man, Michaeh, you gotta get here. In a couple
of weeks, we got the Eagles, we're gonna get killed,
and it's my first run here the Cowboys's head coach,
and I don't want to lose thirty eight to nothing.
You really gotta get here. We just need you so bad,
can you?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Ai Shottenheimer into the courtroom scene meant at one of
many and a few good men.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Hel hell, don't look at him.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Then that's how kind of what it is right there,
is like grasping at straws, like trying to be resolute,
trying to have exude confidence because it's your first rodeo
as a head coach and everybody's.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Looking at you.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Because that's one of the things I think with Jerry
in this whole scenario, it's it's been brilliant to a degree.
And I think, well, unintentionally so in that Schottenheimer taking
over as the head coach of the Cowboys has gotten
no run at all, positive negative outside of Dallas. I'm
sure there's plenty because you got to fill a lot
of sports time and sports sections at the back end
(20:14):
of your newscast before you go to and none of
the Squirrel and a human interest story to cap things off. No, no, no,
he's gotten absolutely operate in anonymity. We've been talking about
Ben Johnson a lot. We've been talking about Aaron Glenn
and him having to answer all sorts of questions, even
about practices that he really didn't run like today, all
(20:38):
of that we're as Schottenheimer. This is the first time
he's like, I was a step to the podium. It's
my turn to talk.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Let's go. Yeah. Look, the more time goes on and
there the sides aren't talking, I'm telling you, Yes. Jason
locking Ford joined us early in the show. He brought
up a great point about how he feels the Michaeh
Parsons thing is gonna get solved. It's the first go
around with him in Dallas. Meanwhile, Trey Hendrickson, Terry McLaurin,
(21:07):
there's a lot of history there between the players and
their teams, and that's when things get personal. So those
are situations that you should monitor. But I'm telling you, man,
I talked about a divorce right away with Michah Parsons.
Because he feels the same way he has. Even though
it's his first thing with the Cowboys, he has made
it personal. Not every player is gonna be okay with
Jerry Jones winning the headlines and then being okay with
(21:30):
getting money at the end. The guy went on social
media and said, I no longer want to be here now.
He thinks he's doing the right thing by still hanging
out around Cowboys camp, and he looks absolutely miserable. And
I'm telling you, this is not something that's gonna suddenly, Oh,
Micah Parsons will show up because he feels a sense
of duty, or Michah Parsons will sign a contract because
(21:52):
he feels Jerry Jones has misplayed this thing from the beginning.
And the more time goes on, and the more time
that Micah and his representation in the NFL realized Jerry
Jones really did him wrong by negotiating with him, which
is against the CBA rules. You can't have a guy
in a talk contract with him. Jerry Jones admitted, yeah,
we thought we had a deal. Like the more time
(22:13):
that goes on, Jerry really is a guy that you
can't trust, that Micah can't trust, and he's not gonna
go back and do anything positive to try to say,
here's an olive branch like this is this is the latest,
this is the less And here's Brian Schottenheimer saying, I'm
gonna say something because I'm desperate at this point. Man,
we gotta have Micah. I don't know, I don't know
what else to tell you, but we gotta have him.
(22:35):
We gotta. Like Brian Schottenheimer, his line now should be
we love Micah, we want him here. But in the end,
these are the players here and he knows how how
good he is, and you know, I gotta go forward
with these guys like he would tow that company line.
But this tells you just how the desperate times that
they're in that here he is saying, come on, man,
we need you to come in. Don't don't hold your
(22:57):
breath for Michah Parsons. Don't you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Like, we haven't looked at the Schottenheimer's side of things.
I don't know how many times he's addressed this during
camp and kick the can down the road. But obviously
we're hitting towards eleventh hour as we're within two weeks
of you needing me get up to play the Philadelphia Eagles,
you know, the whole defending champion and division mate and
rival and whatever else you want to get on down
(23:21):
the line with that. So, yeah, it's that curiosity of
the timeline and you're gonna get in your fields. Doesn't
help when your agent one isn't in the room and
we don't know what specificity the conversation was. Jerry thinking, yeah,
we had a deal, might have been as simple as Michael,
we need you on that field. We can't win without you,
(23:43):
so we need to get this done. And it could
have been in very general terms, or he might have
pulled out a huge actuarial table to tell him how
it was in the best interest to get I don't know.
Somewhere in between the truth lies right in terms of numbers, dollars, cents, years, whatever,
and specificity there versus just a general agreement of hey,
(24:03):
we want to do this with you, we want to
do that with you, and this is what you mean
to us. And you know that the devil's in the
details of all that, whether they get fined, get ducked,
a draft pick, whatever. To where Micah Parsons feels disrespected. Yeah,
you know, sometimes it's unseemly right. He's he's been part
of the media, between his podcast and what he posts
(24:25):
on social media, he certainly chimed in on other people's
contracts and responsibilities or whatever. So it doesn't feel so
good when it comes back on you.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Now, does it.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
And certainly something you know he's learning a little firsthand,
and and Jerry not exactly playing with the kid gloves.
You know, he used to doing these things in the media,
and then eventually you get behind closed doors when it's
time to go, it's like, boy, we really put on
a hell of a show, didn't we. You know, It's
like Rocky and Thunderlips. He's throwing them over the ropes,
(24:57):
throwing them into tables and whatever else.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And then after hey, let's get that polaroid.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Okay, you know that's what Jerry Jones is hammering it out,
thinking that's what it's gonna be like. And maybe this
is one where it's different and where it doesn't get
to that point. But I gotta imagine if the dollars
in years and the pomp and circumstance and pageantry of
it all, as Jerry has been pretty good at doing,
does get to that in that eleventh hour that everybody
(25:23):
smiles doesn't mean that the second time it doesn't get
worse if he's got to go back for another deal.
But I would still believe that, you know, we'd be
more likely to get to the happy ending that everybody
wants with a giant novelty check and Jerry grinning like
the cheshire Cat because it all got done, even if
he lost millions of dollars in the end.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit swollen dome. The Chase
and Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We
got more coming up in ninety seconds, but first time
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports and someone who's been called the Micah Parsons of
sports radio, she recently put a message out on social
media saying, I no longer want to be here. It's
Moncey Belogna.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
That is not true. It is not true.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Wow, men thet also man, the awesome man.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Sorry, Sorry, sorry comment the sorry. She put that post
on social media when she was in the stands of
a thirty five point Clippers loss. Sorry that's what she said. Sorry, sorry,
that is true.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
That did happen?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Dear Google AI. That is it true that Moncey Bologna
said she did want to be here?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Google sucks all right, Google AI has given me wrong information.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So screw Google AI. Whatever.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Screw that I was about to say a bad word. Okay,
let's go, guys, let's chat baseball. The Yankees have won
five in a row. They outscored the race sixty four
and ten innings, and it was John Carlos Sten coming
in clutch as a pinch hitter in the tenth innan
hitting the go ahead to run shot. The Rockies defeated
the Dodgers in Colorado eight to three. Show Hey o
Toani pitched five innings, gave a nine hits and five
(27:01):
earned runs. The Padres blew out the Giants eight to one.
They hit four home runs, Fernando Tattist junior rob Drafael
Devers of a home run. San Diego is now one
game back of La in the nl wes. The Cubs
held on four to three against the Brewers, and so
in the middle of this game, it was.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Like the fifth inning and.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Milwaukee catcher William Contrera stepped up to the plate with
two men on and one out, So the Cubs broadcasters
started talking about you know, I think I feel like
Contrera's usually hits into a double play and they have
this discussion. All right, if he hits a double play,
will you buy mozzarella six for everybody?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So check it out line drive towards second by Nico Honner.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Nico Honner makes the catch.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Spirit that ball looked like a little bit of a
snow cone and the Cubs win the ball game?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
What get guys?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
That wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
My bad? Hold on?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
I know here we go here, Sorry, it was a
different Okay, ready, if he hits.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
The ground ball and the shore start the six four three,
will you buy Manzi sticks for everybody at the corner tap?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I don't know if they have Montrella sticks in the
four tap but one to one outside, I'll go have
seas with you.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Okay, one Cubs, let's go more sticks for everybody. Corner tappromta,
look and fire it Manzi sticks.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
So the corner tap room, that's where they decided to
buy everybody there cheese sticks Montrella sticks because it's located
in Iowa and that is a hometown of Cubs pitcher
Colin Reya, who induced the ground ball. So as this
what's going on. As this is going on, they were like,
let's buy montrel sticks. Okay, well if this hits a
double play. If he hits into a double play, I'll
(28:52):
split it with you. And now I think you guys
should buy us Monzrelli sticks. Wow, that's what I think,
because you guys are like a broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Nobody's ever bought a meal in that. We've never picked up.
It's not enough that we buy wings and fries every week,
at least once for everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
That's not enough.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, of course it is. Listen, hey, you can ask Harmon.
I bring in breakfast.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Every Sunday, like I get it, but mozzarella sticks. We
haven't had Monzerelli sticks.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Okay, I don't work on Sundays. Okay, great, y'all. You
know what, we'll figure that. How about tomorrow night for
ty Shirt's birthday. I'll buy food tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Oh, I won't be here.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's rough for me.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You're right, it's not your fault.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It's not your fault.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You're right. I think you need to call and get
your schedule change.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You're right, you're right. No, I'll be here right, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
National stuff the Mets five to four.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Jason Angels edge the Reds two to one, Sinceanty is
one game back of the Mets for the final walkcard
spot in the National League. When it comes to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Games in the lost column. Two games in the lost columnd.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Receiver Sky Moore to the forty nine Ers and uh
by the way, Week three of the NFL preseason does
start Thursday. Two games Stealers and Panthers, seven Eastern, then
the Patriots and the Giants. That's at eight Eastern. When
it comes to the w NBA, Kelsey Plumb hit a
game winner as the Sparks beat the Wings eighty one
to eighty. Page Beckers dropped forty four points in the loss.
And the latest with Caitlin Clark Fever Star is that
(30:14):
she suffered a bone bruise on her left ankle during
a workout earlier this month and she's been rehabbing the
ankle along with her right growing injury. We're never going
to see her again, and I'm never gonna see you
guys again since I'm not here tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Wow, rests up your night, world, telling us the world is.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Ending on Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I have here Friday.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Hey, way, my week is messed up.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I have here Friday.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
If the world ends Friday, the Mets make the playoffs.
Oh my god, all right, I'm alright with that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Right, Okay, that's crazy because you have to be wearing
a sandwich board that said that the end is not earlier. Now, interesting,
if this is the right place, the Quarter tap room,
they don't actually serve food, but they have a Happy Joe's,
which is a pizza place which all sorts of menu
stuff where my cousin actually worked at one of their
locations as a teenager. I believe they do have mott
(31:06):
Matzi sticks as they called them. Yeah, and in Iowa
it's going to be cheaper, so you can actually feed
a lot more people.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Your money's going to go further. It would also it
would also suck if hey, I'll buy you mozzarella sticks
from a place that doesn't serve mozzrelli sticks. You go, oh, hey, sorry,
they don't have it.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
The actual bar doesn't, but they team up with you know,
Happy Jege.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Oh the more you know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
There you go begs a bunchy bye. Speaking a baseball
something that looked that fans are scared of fans of
all ages the last few days since Rob Manford has
talked about expansion on Sunday Night Baseball, saying, hey, when
they get to thirty two teams, when they expand two
more teams, potentially there could be eight four team divisions
(31:50):
and expansions coming to Major League Baseball, and realignment is coming.
And every baseball fan I know hates this idea, whether
you're eighty year years old or fifty whatever. Oh, I
hate it. And I understand that. Okay, yes, the divisions
and baseball and division rivalries. Okay, that's great, but remember
these divisions haven't been around since eighteen hundred. These's been
(32:11):
around for twenty years when they move teams around a
little bit. So understand when they made a whole new
division in the NL Central, this wasn't in the eighteen hundreds. Okay,
this is what I can remember when they did it, right,
So understand that I get that baseball purists. Baseball needs
to be beholden to its legacy and certain things they
can do going to be received. Well, Realignment is fine, Okay,
(32:36):
you know what you want to be scared of this
and this is where half the league is going to
be scared and the other half is going to say, yeah,
I'll roll the dice is when they realign. Right, let's
just say it's eight four team divisions, and as Rob
Manford said, we're doing it because of geography, and we
want teams to play close to each other, spend more
nights at home in their beds, and make travel easier,
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all all that stuff. Let's just take what could be
the NL East or the AL East for example, where
suddenly that division, if you're really being beholden to geography,
is the Mets, the Yankees, the Pirates, and the Phillies.
Do I want that division? No? I don't. I don't
want I don't want three of the top five teams
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that spend money every year. I don't want to fight
it out with the Yankees and the Phillies every year
for the playoffs the Pirates. Okay, that's fine. You need
to make sure these divisions are fair. Right. It's not
fair that suddenly, hey, here's these big market teams that
gotta fight tooth and nail just to get out of
their own division.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You need to make sure that, hey, these are divisions
that you have a couple of big market teams, a
couple of small market teams are not putting teams out
there that traditionally are going to be great. Three great
teams in one division. Like, that's what I'm scared of
that Baseball is gonna do this and they're gonna say, well,
this makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. But man, the Yankees
don't want to fight with the Mets and the Phillies,
none of those teas. I'm not saying this is a
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Met fan, but if that happened, Mets fans wouldn't like it,
Phillies fans wouldn't like it, and the Yankees fans surely
would hate it. Who elsewhere the Pirates fans? Oh wait,
now i gotta go against three great teams. We're only
gonna have schemes for another year and a half. So yeah,
that's what I'm afraid of, is that they go all
kinds of crazy with this, and then you could see
a division in the South that's all the Braves. They
have a bye to the playoff every year because I
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play in the Marlins and the Rays, and I mean, really,
that's what I'm scared. You want to be scared of
something realignment wise, that's what scares me.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Well, for schemes, it would be every outing would be
an audition against a future employer. So would you like
this guy as part of your roster? He can walk
off the cross to the other dog.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Right now, it's kind of like what's happening now too,
So I don't know that that's gonna change well, but.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It would be all in division of course. Say, look,
we talk about that time when the Brewers were in
the al right, we talk about the fact that Montreal
had a team, and we keep going on down the line.
You know, the unbalanced schedule that we had where you
were playing teams in your division nineteen times. I mean
all of those things. Interleague play is now on the
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and you play every team like all of this stuff.
It's it's look, we've already bastardized all of the traditions
and the sanctity. We've got an everyday DH in both leagues.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
All the purists hate that and go on down down
the line. So yeah, this is the next iteration. I
think it comes back to we need a spending floor
that really needs to be propped up based on the
amount of revenue everybody is taking from the national game
as they negotiate with so many of these new entities
(35:32):
coming into streaming rights and everything else, and then that'll
work itself out to a degree. But I understand your consternation.
In Chicago, it's just more opportunity for the local bars
and restaurants to sell more and more and more because
Cubs White Sox brings people out in druves and it's
overtime for security guards and police people.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Exit out about a fresca exit swallen do home. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon coming up next, a rookie season that has
turned into an historic season after what was accomplished tonight,
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (36:20):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Hit the Shuffle Mike, Game of the Night in the WNBA,
Kelsey Plum with the runner at the Buzzer, Sparks beat
the Wings eighty one point eighty and first of all
for Kelsey Plum, a big heroic shot from her. You
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know and all you gotta if you haven't seen Kelsey
plump play and you watch and you say, yeah, I
know she's left handed. Just watch that final shot. You
can tell, boy, she's really left hand. Like I can't
get to the I can't get to the rock with
my right hand. I'm going from the right wing all
the way around to get to to get to the
hoop with my left. But still, it's a great play
(37:03):
by her, made possible by the fact that, for some
ridiculous reason, defender got out of her way and gave
her an extra ten feet towards the hoop. I don't
know why she just backs out of the way thinking
she's gonna dish the ball off. There's no time left,
she's got to put a shot up, but like a
second to go. Would you rather Kelsey Plumb, who's a
terrific player and was the all time leading scorer in
(37:24):
college basketball before Caitlyn Clark broke the record. Would you
rather Kelsey Plum, who's been an All Star for the
last few years in the WNBA, taking a shot from
the free throw line, or would you rather be passing
it out for a twenty footer. I don't know, but
I don't know what the defender was thinking I have
no idea, but hey, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I do appreciate Kelsey Plumb being asked about Pagebacker, said
we need to play some blank in defense show. I
ask you, is Pagebacker's greater than Caitlin Clark. Dude, I'm
telling you that's gonna be the big hot take to buy.
Guarantee you someone coming off this because look the story
of the game. Page Beckers a rookie record forty four
(38:02):
points for the Dallas Wings as they lose by one.
Somebody tomorrow, get ready, Paige Becker's better than Kitlyn Clark.
Everybody's gonna forget about what Kitlyn Clark did last year.
Her impact, the assists, everything else that is Page Becker's.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Bet. I can't wait, but I guarantee you it's happening
sometime in the next twelve hours on TV, national, TV,
natural radio. It's happening. What I just did about Look
what I'll say about Paige Beckers is this. I knew
she was gonna be really good. I didn't think she
was going to be this good. I thought it would
be more of a welcome to the WNBA type year
(38:35):
for her. But clearly she should be sending a thank
you note to Kitlyn Clark for saying, hey, thanks for
taking all the arrows and being someone that everybody is
jealous of. I've just kind of been able to slide
it as a number one overall picking. No one wants
to teach me a lesson or found me really hard
or talk about how there's other teams in the league
besides me. Hey, thanks for that, Caitlyn, because I wouldn't
be doing this, but she is. She has been better
(38:57):
than I thought. Really, I thought she was gonna have
a lit little bit more trouble getting into the league
playing on a bad team. Clearly, rike a gunbal Wally
is the big star there. She takes a lot of shots,
but look, she's been injured for a lot of this season,
and Beckers is getting basically a free canvas to say,
I'm gonna take all the shots, I'm gonna set things
up how I want to, and this is gonna be
my rookie year. She's been even better than I thought.
(39:19):
And the WNBA is saying, we are just rolling sevens
the last couple of years with people coming into this league. Man,
we have Caitlin and Angel, now we have Page, We're
gonna have Juju Watkins. Eventually, no matter how many missteps
we have with our public image or what we think
and how we trade our stars, we are getting all
superstar players that people want to see coming in every
(39:41):
single year.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well, this goes back to our old friends the Simpsons.
What's pulling a homer succeeding in spite of yourself?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Really, that's kind of what the W has been. All
the problems they have had, all the Caitlin Clark, Hadeen
this and Angel Reese and everybody's upset we want more
money and all and this really big contentious CBA negotiation,
and still they keep putting a product out there that
people want to see, which shows you, no matter what
you do, you have a product that people want. People
(40:12):
are gonna find their way. You could charge whatever you
want to for tickets to a Yankee game. If Aaron
judges it in seventy home runs a year, people are
gonna spend money to come see the Yankees, regardless of
whether or not the team stinks. You spent bad money
on other players. Devin Williams, it doesn't matter that people
are still gonna do that. And here's the W where
there's so much bad publicity and really showing that they
(40:34):
can't handle success. But yet still they find at everybody
keeps in on it because they have the players, they
have a product that people want to see.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
You mentioned the Yankees, was young Carlo No sipue that
steparlo Issie Homers again?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Come on, I'd mean real, well, yeah, well, look, if
the Yankees are gonna hit seven home runs at night,
I think they're gonna win a lot of game. That's it.
I'm just saying I think that's gonna happen. I wouldn't
worry about the Yankees if that's gonna happen. Now, if
they don't at seven home runs a night, Aaron Boon's
getting fired. But seven home runs a night, I think
they can find no way to pull that out. I
think they can do it. Exit out about a Fresco
(41:10):
exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Carmon coming up next,
my buddy Ben Maller. You are listening to Fox Sports
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