August 28, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Smith explains why he believes in his 'working lifetime' we’ll see the NBA hire a female head coach. We dissect a big NFL suspension and injury. And the Patrick Mahomes middle finger tour rolls on!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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know show Heyo Tani is pitching tonight. He could be
in line potentially in again. The Dodgers will win. They're
winning beating the Reds four to one right now, however,
would be his first win of the year. I'm looking
right now. He has been surpassed both he and Kyle
(01:10):
Schwarber have been surpassed. The new leader to win both
Cy Young and m VP is Mets starting pitcher Nolan mcleach.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Now, you're just pushing out fake news to the people.
Hate the people, mister McLain. Where are my detonate?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Is mister.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Lying? I'm not going to be anything we say the rest.
I am not.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Problems with some of the truth. Yeah, quote unquote.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Out the wrecking homes. Now, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What yesterday, I mean, he laid that all out. Now
he follows it up with this. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm going all straight scorched skirts. No, no, dude, come on, man,
best starred ever for a Mets starting pitcher. He goes
eight innings against the Phillies tonight. I'm telling you, man,
I'm stringer from the wire. I want you to get
to spread the word out there that we be up
by the air.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's what's happening right the night. You're stealing seth Rollins
theme song.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, buddy, burn it down, Yeah, buddy, Nolan McLain.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know who Jason spending the night with Nolan McLain
is a parabolic microphone.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Hey, come on, we swept the Phillies because of those
parabolic microphones. We got them strategically. Yeah, you know, that's
the thing about the Phillies. Okay, and I've said this
for a long time and all Philadelphia sports really it's
not just the Phillies, but the Eagles as well. Things
could be going as well as it could possibly be
for the Phillies, the Sixers, the Eagles, the Union, whoever
(02:42):
it is. The things could be going is what they got,
joelmb They had the process. Things could be going as
well as possibly could be. Here come the Phi seven
game lead and all, but the Phillies are always just
one step away from complete and total disaster. They have
one foot on the banana peel at all times. All
Philadelphia teams have one foot on the nan appeal. They
(03:04):
come in thinking we're gonna close up the NL East, right,
seven games up, that's it. We sweep the Mets at
the ten game League. We're done. We're getting our rotation
ready for October. This is over the Mets sweep and
what happens during the series. Let's see you get one
Phillies player who complains about a microphone and center field
that has to be moved after the game Phillies insiders
and analysts and personality saying the microphone has been there
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for seven years. What the hell are we doing blaming
their own players. Tonight, there was a point in the
game the Phillies complained that a couple of Mets players
were too close to the plate when they were in
the on deck circle, and they complaint having them moved
back to the on deck circle, like, this is what
the Phillies are concerned with, and they got swept tonight.
Get the brooms out, get the brooms out.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out
to get you. If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
It becomes that that small line that you have between
paranoia and you know, hey, are they stealing signs? Because
this guy's there and he's relaying information and just being
in your own head. There's a fine line there that
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the Phillies have crossed.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That one step away everything with three days ago, everything crossed,
they crossed the awesome and now look at them and
now look where they are now. The NL East is
up for grabs. Wow, it's not white up for grads.
Game lead with still six weeks left to go, and
you're gone.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
All right. As we look at the schedule going forward
for your New York Metropolitans, You've got a four game
set coming up against the Marlins. Okay, fine, Then we
get into September. Three games set against the Tigers on
the road, pause, three games set against these Reds, who,
if this score holds, they'll get swept for the first time.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, yeah, first time. This is Dodgers, Dodgers and Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
On the heels of that Red series is another four
game set with the pills.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That that's what that's what we take first place. That's
where it has to take. First place. That's where it happens.
Right there, that's where it is.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Should we see if we can get odds on what
day that happens, the game where it happens, the game
where it happens, the game where it happens, and you
get a home stand against the Rangers, the Padres.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh good man, we got jonah Toan coming up on Friday.
We got mcclaim, we got talking about we got everything.
Then we got everything. Now Sterns he waited until the
last possibility to bring all the kids up. And now
what day is Friday? Friday? Tong time is Friday. Tong
time is Friday. If they don't do it, can you
really though it's a Taunton, it's a Taunton.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm pretty sure his name is Tong Tong and.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He's talking about that hot dog looking guy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I thought you're talking you're talking about the thing from
Empire strikes Back, because it doesn't really end well for
then and Empire strikes Back. It really doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Everything goes back to Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Jesus it does. Yeah, I'll tell you it's it's all good.
It's we are now the new dominant form in the galaxy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes, so you had the tlalo and all those guys,
don't you didn't your timelines get inundated.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
With that about six weeks ago. Every time he burned
around it was but I thought he said ton To, No,
it's that hot dog horror. I know, I thought you said,
but I thought you said Tonton. I thought that's what
it would you say, Tong Tong is a what.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
For that?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I thought he was gonna do a Tonton impression?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Is that what he said?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
When he strikes somebody out, that's what he does. You
watch man, it's like watchings when you when you see
something about every job. We're back. We're back up, man,
We're back up. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Which which superhero is he getting the nickname of? We
had a thour, we had the Dark Night.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What's his name? Uh, well, clearly TJ the Mets, hoping
that Jonah has a whale of a start on Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I mean, tongs are a very important kitchen implement.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, people will come to the games with tongs and
they'll just yeah, I think there's no click them together.
They'll click them together. It's to help.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
But depending how cheap you go, you can get like
ones that are like a dollar or two. They don't ad,
they're not really refined, so they got sharp edges at it.
So now you got weapons.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So we'll love. We'll have more baseball on the way
tonight again Dodgers reads. It's a four to one lead
for the Dodgers right now on show. Hey, fifty to
fifty Bobblehead Night. Oh by the.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Way, second fifty to fifty Bobblehead Night.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
There's gonna be a few more. There'll be three or
four more. We'll get in fifty to fifty. The promotions
so so nice. They liked it. Thrice Monsei, who works
for the Dodgers, brought her uh uh O Tani bobble
head in from work today. I tried to steal it
twice and she and she caught me both no chance,
by the way, Yeah, I tried to steal it twice.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I tried once. She's like a ninja. Yeah theyll getting back.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah. Yeah, Like you need like you need to do
like uh like what did time in a Mission Impossible?
The first one when the one member of the team
put the stuff in the coffee and he takes the
sippy runs in the bathroom, Like that's what you need
to do that. There needs to be some sort of
and then you got to come in like through the
ceiling and put your hands out and like make sure
that no one knows that grab the grab the the
bibble head, and shoot back up through the ceiling. There's
(08:15):
one ending in five minutes over one hundred bucks. What oh,
I thought you made a Mission impossible movie? Like people
already got him out there. People, everybody got to take pictures.
Everybody gets one tonight. Everybody gets one tonight. People that
are still waiting, everybody gets one. Everybody gets one It was.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
An early game too, because of the MLB rules, the
Players Association rules, UH, collective bargaining, So you had a
five thirty start.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It was screw the Reds night right.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
A lot of people calling in sick to work. I
gotta go out to the game.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
The sun came out from the galaxy and threw out
a first pitch.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Big deal. Now, another big story that broke right before
we got him there about an hour a little bit
less than hours before we got on the air tonight
is uh. South Carolina women's basketball coach on Staley talked
about the possibility that she may have had this past
off season in coaching the Knicks. Remember, she had an
interview with the team. The Knicks obviously went with Mike Brown,
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but she said today she had a podcast with Aliah
Boston and Kennis Parker and said if the Knicks offered
her the job, she would have taken it. Quote, I
would have had to do it, not just for me,
for women to break that door open. I would have
had to. It's the Knicks. I'm from Philly. Sorry, sorry
you got swept. I'm from Philly, But it's the freaking
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New York Knicks. Right now, is This is a great
statement by down Staley because look, in my lifetime, I
mean I can't sit here and tell you in the
next three years, the next five years, but in my lifetime,
and I mean like in a time I think, before
you know, I get done and retire and all kinds
of stuff. In my working lifetime, I'll say, we're gonna
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have a women's a women's coach in basketball in one
of the big professional sports, right but most likely in basketball,
we will have it. And it's about getting close and
then having the person to break through, like Becky Hammond
who was an assistant for San Antonio for the longest time.
And look, I really wonder if she was brought in
and the whole plan was going to be Pop was
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gonna coach, and then eventually he was and Becky Hammon
was gonna be the team for so long that they
were just gonna it was gonna be an easy thing. Yes,
now Becky's the coach, okay, great, Like Becky's got the
culture and everything else. Now obviously things changed, Becky left
to go to the WNBA. Pop had to retire, he's
going upstairs. But you saw Becky Hammond get really close, right,
You saw Don Staley get an interview with the Knicks,
and there was no reason the Knicks had to interview
(10:36):
Dawn Staley. There was no one clamoring saying, how are
you not in you got to interview with That's just
not happening. They gave her an interview. She's a great coach.
You see your speak, you see your talk, you see
you're being an ambassador for the game of basketball. When
when they won the national title and she spent time
right after the game to salute Caitlin Clark and Iowa,
like that was an unbelievable, classy move to make right.
(10:56):
That was on the floor where you're this is your chance,
you're shine moment. I want to talk about Caitlin and
what's going on here, And that was an incredible moment
for her. You see the players what they say about her.
She was not brought in just say hey, this was Hey,
maybe Dawn Staley breaks through right, Like how Mike Tomlin
got the job with the with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He
wasn't a serious candidate when it first come in, but
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the Rooney rule interviewing African American candidate, he came in
blew the doors off of the Steelers. Here he is
forty five years later, still coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is
sometime before I'm done, there will be a women's coach,
and probably the NBA, just because they're the closest now,
is gonna be the first team to do it. I
don't know if it's gonna be in a big market
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like New York, be a small market, smaller market like Sacramento,
but it's gonna have We're gonna see that at some point.
We are getting closer and closer to that with every day.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, the curiosity of the crossover, and it takes a
certain mentality and skill set to want to make that
leap as well. Right, you can be a great coach, uh,
but there's a lot more than just the coaching. And
that's what she alluded to, UH in the interview that
she asked a bunch of other questions about, all right,
(12:08):
how does things how do things change around here? Are
you prepared if I'm hired? What change is here? Here, here,
and here? And that's where you're gonna start getting the
glassed over kind of eyes of well, we hadn't considered
that that or that that are suddenly going to be
part of the day to day. So curiosity, you know,
talking about being on a staff and eventually moving into
(12:30):
that role. Coaches and waiting, well, those are rare because
you got very few organizations that really allow you, uh,
the the long place in an organization anymore. Even if
you're having success, we see owners getting patient gms that
want their guys because even if the coach stays, GM
cycles out and eventually, you know, if it gets a
(12:52):
bit stagnant, that that you're gonna move. And in the
case of Becky Hammond, it became a all right, he's
never leading. I mean, how many times do we see
that in college football?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right? With men?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's like, all right, you're the coach in waiting. All right,
I'm tired of waiting. It's been six years, it's been
eight years. You saw with Beheim. We saw it in
college football going down to Bobby Bowden and a bunch
of other guys, where it was like, is he ever
actually gonna leave? Is like, what's what's my endgame here?
Can you give me any assurances? And you can get
a higher pay raise and negotiate that and that's great,
(13:23):
and maybe you're slowly but surely resting control but eventually
you want the placard under your name to read head coach.
So for Dawn Staley, I I'd love to see more opportunity, uh,
and more of the questions being asked, and I'd love
to see some video from behind the scenes exactly how
that part of the interview process went.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Look, and that's part of it too, is that the NBA.
You talk about the one league that hey, we're gonna
interview coaches outside the box, right, that's the that's the NBA, right,
Like that's what they do. Like the NBA that you
are looking who could you possibly hire?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Look at look at the look at the way sir go.
Look at the way the nick search went this offseason,
calling all these other teams for permission. All these other
teams are saying no. Like the NBA is like that,
I might be the only guy. It's a more out.
It's such an outside the box situation where hey, are
we gonna hire another retread that we may win may
or can we make a bold move and Dawn Staley
(14:18):
and see if it works like that? That's gonna be
something that happens in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, Like the Lakers bold move, bold strategy.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Let's see if it pays. That's right, exit outbouta fresca
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So as we get closer now to the beginning of
the NFL season, closing in on a week out. We
have a big suspension, we have a big injury. What's
the impact we're now getting that every day at now
we're done. Teams are having their last practice before they
start their weeks, getting ready for their opponents in week one,
(17:49):
Like now the tunnel vision begins, and now where it's
all about week one and beyond week one and beyond
winning time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Maybe let's go. We're finally through a lot of the
roster shuffling. People are ordering their custom jerseys because their
favorite guy, you know, made their team, didn't get traded,
except for that one guy that's still hanging out in
the battles.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But we'll get to him in due time.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
But but all of that to say, I mean, it
was a fun day of activity and and and transactions.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So that's good. Every day inching ever closer to that
kickoff with the Cowboys, and you're eagle, get ready, get ready?
Maybe or maybe not Micah party now. And here's the thing,
we may not have any Micah Parsons news on the
show today. This may be a Micah Parsons free day
on Fox Sports. I almost wanted to go and try
(18:37):
to get through the four hours without even saying possible
if you just brought him up. But I'm saying there
may not be any but there's no news. Really, there's
no news. I'm telling telling you there's no news. Is
not news. You bringing them up, I'm bringing him up.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It's worthy because we don't talk about nothing's here.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
There's no but there may be talked about the Mets
last segment, the hottest team in baseball. I regret everything
about it. We're all dumber for having done it. So okay,
Instead Frostburg, we're talking about the Chiefs. How's that? Is
that good? Is that good for you?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh ys? That wide receiver there is missing six games.
I'm cool, so big us. Of course, the NFL let
them off easy. It should have been the whole season.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm not thought. I thought it was a threezy but
three year Ben. I honestly thought for Rashie Rice that
the suspension came out today. We knew this was coming
for violating the NFL's Personal conduct policy. He has accepted
a six game suspension and he will bop on the
starting that at the beginning of the season, eligible to
(19:41):
return Week seven ahead of their game against the Raiders.
Raiders can't catch a brick.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There had been a disciplinary hearing scheduled for September thirtieth,
But this is what Rashie Rice is taking in July.
I remember he was sentenced to thirty days in jail
in five years probation for his role in that multi
car crash in Dallas that left a lot of people
hurt during the twenty twenty four offseason. Now, honestly, I'm surprised.
I thought it was going to be four games. I
thought that's what it would wind up being, and they're
gonna the NFLPA would try to whittle it down, but
(20:10):
it's gonna be six games. Started the Seasonmber, we thought
it was going to be into October as well, like, so.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
This is a lot wasn't going to have his hearing
and discussion points till the end of the month. So
that created a great deal of consternation because you'd add
other other suspensions announced when we go back to Jordan
Addison and others, but different parts of the rule book
at play.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So he's not going to appeal, meaning this is now set.
He's serving a six game suspension. He comes back before
Week seven and I'll be honest with you, it doesn't matter. Right,
this is not gonna change their offenses production this season.
I've told you this is the passion. This is well.
The refs is still there. I mean, the refs want
(20:53):
to be invited to the Kelsey and Teler Swift wedding, right,
so you know they're gonna happen. Just wait, I mean
you can't crush that. They're all ready practicing calling late hits.
They're on late hits on defense. They're making sure, Okay,
where are the defensive ends? Where making sure? How do
we call late hits? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I mean I say they're better as ushers and efficients
that way, right, So, I mean they're making sure you
get to your proper spot and location in the seeding chart.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But you know it all works. The Patrick Mahomes middle
Finger Tour is going to play well this season. Whether
Rashie Rice is playing Week one or not. This is
a wide receiver room that finally we've talked about. This
is the healthiest that it has been right now. Obviously
Rice is out the first six weeks, but you knew
he was gonna he was gonna miss some time. But
this is this is worthy. Xavier worthy. You had a
(21:41):
really good rookie year last year, second year in the league,
Hollywood Brown healthy, you got fort and Juju Smith Schuster.
Still Travis Kelcey and what likely is going to be
his last year in the NFL going all to the
wall for my final year before h Come on, dude,
the guy. The guy showed that, Hey, maybe I have
one more year. Maybe I have one more year. Hey,
now I could be the goat at my position. You
(22:02):
saw what happened to Tom. Are you gonna force me
off this field? No, you're not gonna try to force
me off this The dude doesn't have time. The dog
does time to play football with everything going I just
with his podcast and his marriage, and is like he
doesn't have time. This is it. This is last time.
He even say he said last year, I can't go
out like this the year he had, I can't go
out like that.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You will, which was.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Overall a pretty good year for a tight end, just
not a tight end named Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But you know, we talked about you know, Pete Futech,
who's gonna join us Friday night to preview football. We
talked about his thoughts on the University of Texas, Right,
big Texas Ohio State game coming this week, And he
said last week, I am stock up on arch Manning,
but I'm stocked down on Texas because Texas schedule is
really difficult. They stud their toe can easily lose Week
one and on and on. That's how I feel about
(22:46):
the Chiefs this year. I'm stock up on Mahomes all
the way up, but I'm stocked down on the Chiefs.
The division is younger, it's more athletic, the teams are better.
It's gonna be a fight just for them to get
a wild card this year. Right that the dynasty and
we talked about Kansas City. You are seeing the ending
embers of it now. But this offensive production you're gonna see.
Mahomes has been waiting. It's been two years of being
(23:09):
a game manager. He's not like he's thirty seven, thirty
eight years old where I have to move to that
part of my career. It just had to be a
point where hey, my weapons are healthy again, right, and
I can still get out there, I can still spray
the ball over the field. I can't just throw anybody,
you know. For a couple of years, the Chiefs thought, yeah,
we don't need Tyreek Hill. We don't need these guys.
We can just throw anybody out there and Mahomes are
(23:30):
gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I think we saw when Tyreek Hill left, Hey, Mahomes
still struggled. The team was still good. Team won a
Super Bowl with Mahomes being a game manager. So okay,
but af far as this year. Now, Hey, the weapons
are there, but the other teams are better. I don't
know the Chiefs have gotten so much better. They'll score
a ton of points, but they're gonna be one of
those teams where, hey, don't get an aerial dogfight with them. Right,
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that's gonna be the thing for the Chiefs. But this
year for Mahomes with all his players, with the weapons
out there, finally what he thought Hollywood Brown is what
they thought he was gonna be when they first signed Xavi.
Youre worthy a second year in the offense. Now you're
bringing Juju Smith Schuster back to a team where he's
familiar with the system. Thornton's had some big play so
far in the preseason. Right, Kelsey a tight end, You
you have what you need on that team. And now
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this is the best weapons room that the Chiefs have
had in three years. Patrick Mahomes is back to being
Patrick Holmes. The middle Finger tour continues for Mahomes this year. Yeah,
what's gonna be interesting to watch as this develops. Right,
you've got continuity in an offensive line. You return virtually
your entire starting line. Great, always a good starting point
because there's plenty of teams we'll be talking about leading
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up to kick off a week from tomorrow. That that's
the biggest area of concern, Right, can you address this?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
How does that front five coalesce? Well? For Patrick Mahomes,
we watched last year Rashie Rice missed a good chunk
of the year. It didn't matter, right, next man up
and we watch worthy the second half of the year.
Started to get in Hollywood Brown if he's healthy, which
has been the big knock the last couple of years. Right,
he great flashes, great depth receiver and a guy that
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can take it to the house. Well, we got to
keep him on the field. So training room, it's all
on you, Juju Thornton. You brought up all of those guys.
You got Noah Gray there the tight end and waiting
who will have his share of catches in between the
twenties Now it's a matter of what you find in
the painted grass. The key with the Chiefs doall of it.
Is two teams in the AFC West, by the odds
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makers and by all eye tests, are catching up.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
In short order.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Talk about the Chargers and the expectation of that next
leap forward. Justin Herbert, whatever some of the metrics say
about fourth quarters and whatever else, he's a guy that
he is now becoming your quarterback's favorite quarterback. Now he's
got to show it with Jim Harbaugh at the helm.
And then you look at what's going on in Denver,
a team that is getting a lot of noise, a
(25:51):
lot of love. Bo Nicks was a guy finished what
twelfth or back end top ten in terms of yardage
a year ago, and they're only better better back room defense,
which is top three and by any anybody's evaluation coming in.
And then you got the Raiders who are going to
be just good enough to piss you off over the
course of the year. Right, they'll steal the game or two,
(26:12):
or test you deep into fourth quarters that maybe you
see some residual effects in a game off a short
week whatever else. But but all of that to say
fifty two percent to win the division. Off the current odds,
you're still looking at an over under win total into
the double digits. For Patrick Mahomes, Yeah, I think there's
a lot of noise because remember it started getting really
(26:34):
loud about that he's nowhere near Brady. Now it's back.
He's just a guy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you turn
you add all of those things that are going on.
Travis Kelsey had to hear it and he wore it,
and he's dating and and now he's engaged with Taylor Swift.
So I don't know how much that truly affected him
mentally in the offseason. Mean, you're in love, man, that'll
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cloud a lot of things. Make you feel like you've
been drinking jack and coke all morning. Yeah yeah, and
beautiful girls, but you know, all of those things to say,
you got the division coming at you in the AFCs. Uh,
there's they're not slouches throughout that conference, so it'll be
a tougher road. But uh, probably the best supporting cast
he's had in three years. And eventually Rashie Rice will
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get back on the field.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Meanwhile, big injury news in Houston. Now suddenly the Texans
don't know when Joe Mixon is going to play this season,
you know, obviously a big deal. You know, the other
the other day that the story was, hey, he's gonna
miss the first four games, right with teams had to
get down to their roster's gonna miss the first four
games of the year. Okay, we're seeing the running game
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in the hands now, Nick Chubb, is there still a
gunba Wally is there? Okay? Fine? Uh, you know they
drafted a guy in the fourth round two, Okay, we have.
But now today it was we're hoping to get him back.
They they couldn't say when he's going to come back
to play this season. And again I'll say what I
said a couple of minutes ago. Doesn't matter. Texans bound
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back offensively and it and it doesn't matter because they
are so defensive line and defensive back driven. You look
at any of the analysis of their defense, and their
defensive line and defensive backfield are in the top three
of anybody's list. This is a huge bounce back year
for Houston. And offensively, yes, CJ. Strouds terrific quarterback. They
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have depth offensively, even though they're trying to overcome injuries. Look,
Tank Della's out for the year, but they brought in
a couple of receivers and it look Nico Collins is fantastic.
It's not a great division. I distinctly expect at the
end of the season the Texans to have home field
advantage in the playoffs, simply because their division is the
path of least resistance to winning and having the best record.
(28:44):
AFC West, they're gonna They're gonna all gonna cannibalize themselves, right,
same thing in the in the AFC North with the
Steelers and the Bengals, I mean, not the Browns and
the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The South is there, and the AFC East will be
tougher for the Bills, who will be this is one
of those years where hey, we're sort of playing the
AFC Championship game again during the season. I think that
division is gonna be a little bit tougher than they expect,
And for the Bills, who have been there so many times,
it's hard to keep that focused through the entire regular season,
(29:13):
where hey want to make sure the games are at home.
We're gonna play at home all here. I think it'll
be a little bit too tough for the Bills and
easier for the Texans to be able to run rough
shot over that division. I expect them to have home
field advantage at the end of the season. That's funny
because I have him missing the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
There you go, because I think the rest of the teams,
going with what we just said about the ANFC West,
is that the other teams in the division start to
come back at him. You don't have the depth that
wide receiver. The running back position will be fine. Nick Chubb,
Damian Pierce, Woody Marx is a guy that started flying
up fantasy draft boards. So that's all find of good.
The offensive line still scares me. They still rank last
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by a considerable margin in terms of what they gave
last year. That really created issues for the timing down
distance for CJ. Stroud, and he didn't have his his
escape plans last year with the receivers outside of Nico Collins,
and I don't know that he necessarily has those this year,
So tough go. I expect better from cam Ward Duval
(30:16):
rises and actually we get some competent play on both
sides of the ball there in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And then we both talked about the Colts. Like the Colts. Yeah,
I liked I like Drake.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I like the Colts to make one of those, like
I said, to make one of those, hey wild cardish
runs right to do that. And like I said, the
other divisions man AFC North and the AFC Westman, they're
gonna beat the crap out of him.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That's why have home field advantage, because your team still
stinks no matter what's gonna be, We're gonna we're every
game like Rabel's gonna beat everybody up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We're gonna run for two hundred and fifty yards. We're
gonna be like the Nebraska off into the nine point
Sure we are, yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, We're
gonna scale, oh be terrific again. So draft the Justin
Fields will run for a thousand yards and throw for
a thousand yards. That's gonna be his season.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Do you think he's throwing for one thousand yards last season?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Thousand yards? Exit album Out of Fresco, Exit, swollen down.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
home field for the Texans end of the regular season.
Time out to check in with someone who's been called
the show. Heyo Tani of Fox Sports Radio. She's got
(31:30):
her own bobblehead. They give him out of games. It's oh,
that's a that's a compliment.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Thank you. Do people line up for me eight hours before.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We want We all lined up for you.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Thank you you.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
What a tall would the would the Moncey Bologos bobblehead.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
By live size. I'm one of the few people that
you can't.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Make okay, sure just carry it with you one of.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Gruden and Eric Dickerson. They were like four feet high exactly.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
That's like life just.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
A little bit higher.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Busy day, yeah, ye, no, of course appreciate it, but
definitely a busy day at the stadium guys today.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Happy to be hanging out with you.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Right now, we'll check out what's going on at Dodger Stadium.
It's Dodgers up on the Reds right now, four to one.
It's the top of the seventh inning here. It all
started with a Keke Hernandez two RBI single that put
the Dodgers on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
And his bobblehead is coming up soon. The bobblehead that
you're gonna get for me, I need two bobbleheads. He's
still minus three.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
He's minus one, he's minus one.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, he's we have food coming well, yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
So by the end of food, maybe he'll be an
even back to zero. All right, Rangers, guys have twenty
hits and twenty runs scored against the Angels. It's twenty
twenty to three, top of the eighth inning. Cubs had
tied the game, but now Giants are back on top.
In San Francisco, four to three is the score bottom
of the third as hutting out the Tigers at home
three zero, wherever home is bottom of the second inning.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Earlier today, what happened?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
The Mets completed a three games sweep of the Phillies,
shutting them out six zero. The Mariners held on against
the Padres four to three, Diamondbacks edged the Brewers three
to two, Astro shut out the Rockies. Yeah, that one
just wrapped up right now, four zero, Pirates edge the
Cardinals two to one, Royals all over the White Sox
twelve to one, and the Red Sox top the Orioles
three to two. But earlier in today's day of baseball,
(33:28):
Yange's hit six home runs, including Aaron Judge who hit
home rund number forty one. On the season and they
beat the Nationals eleven to two. When it comes to
the NFL, you guys were just talking about Chiefs wide
receiver Rashi Rice first six games of the season has
been suspended for violating the league's personal conduct policy. On
Jaguars receiver and quarterback Travis Hunter, who has been dealing
with an upper body injury since mid August.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He didn't play in the final two preseason games. He's healthy.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
He's gonna play in their season opener against Carolina. Also,
Travis Hunter and Leanne is the name of his wife.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I think their parents.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
About two hours ago, they put out a video on YouTube,
three minute video telling in the world that they are
new parents. So they've welcomed a healthy baby boy. Congratulations
to a.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Because Travis Hunter plays offensive defense, they would have had twins.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
You would have thought it would have been better we had.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
A boy and a girl. Yeah, you do them both.
I mean, did you have a boy or girlt No,
we had both because.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
We do both because we worked that way.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Every day is in competition, covering each other and no
doubt's your turn to cover exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
And the US open guys.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Ben Shelton, American succeeed he's up right now when his
first two sets and up in the third set three
games to know they're tied. Had three games apiece, and
this is the second round of the US Opemen.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
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I put that in air quotes that I am extremely
jealous of and stand by everything this quote athlete plans
to do for the rest of their life. Quote. It's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
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Speaker 4 (36:04):
Well, I can't, I can't play it.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, I mean it took it a lie to America.
I mean he can't endorse that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Sorry. Sorry. When when when your team can't get anybody
to pitch into the eighth inning and you not only
pitch into the eighth inning, you finish it, you get
to be the play of the day. Bitter, it's a dribbler.
Bought the man.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
McClane s retire eight scorless timings.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Nolan McClain.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Mets TV on the Call. Nolan McLain three and oh
first pitcher in Mets history to do that. He has
single handedly brought the Mets back from the abyss that
was the last seven weeks he has single handedly done it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Just turned twenty four, three great starts. I was showing
you the secondary market on trading cards of him and
the other guy that's coming up at the end of
the week and all of this fun stuff. People spending
thousands because they've got the Mets insigny attached to them.
But no, look, we love when we get young hurlers,
(37:10):
and then we just pray that they stay healthy, right,
particularly you. Yes, you and I have been doing this
show long enough to have watched what was supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, you're on borrow time. Now let's just say long
as just keep going as long as you can. But
I understand it's going to end.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But that's it, right, men like Mike McDaniel told us,
I mean, we're one day closer to death. But here
you got, you know, breathing some life back into the
to the Mets. Now, you still have four games to
catch up division wise, but we got a crowded house
for your fun and exciting wildcard. So yeah, every little
positivity step you can take good for you.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
And here's why I'm even more positive. I haven't my
team lost twelve to one. Yeah, I know at least
you're not the I mean the Rangers are winning twenty
to three. I don't think they're actually the Angels though.
I don't think the Angels are actually using a position player.
I think they are hitting off a team out of
this playing right now, it's coach pitch. My new idol
is the now retired Ralphie the sixth, the Colorado Buffalo's mascot,
(38:13):
who was announced was retiring to the mascot that runs
on the field of games and running on the field
for years. But Ralphie is okay. This is why Ralphie
the sixth is my hero because and I love this.
It was reported the reason he is retired now after running,
you know, on the field for the last four years,
is because of his quote indifference to running. That's why
(38:36):
he is retiring. I choose to run the quote. Ralphie
would rather walk in the meadow and sniff the flowers
and relax, which is his right, you sugar, not his dad.
So there is a new Ralphie, Ralphie this up, which
will be taking the field for Colorado. Ralphie is retiring
because he has an indifference to running. This is my hero.
(38:56):
I've told you running is the worst again the Matt
Damon philosophy at the end of air. This is stupid.
Why would anyone do this? Yes, Ralphie is my Why
would Ralphie's like, why am I running? Why would I
want to run? Running is awful? No, I'm done. I'm
gonna I'm gonna run around in the meadow and I'm gonna,
you know, find a couple of cows and have some
fun and just you know whatever, gonna run around each
(39:18):
other and just you know, sing the Colorado fight song
and fuk up talk about Kayden Salter taking over a
quarterback for Shador Sanders. We're gonna, yeah, We're gonna have
a great time here in the meadow. Yeah. Running, I'm
not running anymore, man, Ralphie the sixth indifference to running?
Be honest?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Would you eat Ralphie the six No?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
No, come on man, no, no, I be honest, No, no,
it can't.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Man, He's not it's not gonna be too uh too
bound with muscle and all of that, because he's not
the athlete.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
He's he's just a sedentary buffalo man. And you know
what that's be that's saying nice to r really well.
And he's gott an indifference from I out and out
hate running. I I don't. I I have a I
wouldn't be Jason Smith in difference right strong hatred for running.
Never would would like to never run again. That's like,
that's like me running. That's how I feel about it.
(40:10):
Never gonna go running, Not gonna do that. Ralphie the
sixth has it right by you, say, Ralphie, Ralphie the
sixth is a she. You'll let me do it? Okay,
Ralphie that she's my hair.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Here's what they put out seeubuffs dot com. Okay, University
of Colorado's iconic buffalo, nicknamed Embers, retiring after four years
of service as the college football's greatest masscot But the
headline was University of Colorado's beloved buffalo hangs up her
halter to spend more time on her ranch.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And damn skippy, you show why do.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
They not have specificity in the T shirt business?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Here?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
That it's Ralphie the sixth. Well, I think instead of
just run Ralphie run, I mean there should be one
that that gives you. Hey, here's a picture of the
sixth or a nickname, so you know, like which you
would celebrate? Well, I think, yeah, yeah, ralfre celebrates Ralphie
the sixth, and then nickname would be slow.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
You know there's something Well that's the one that didn't
like to run. Yeah, okay, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
That's it should go in the Wikipedia. Pick how many
times do you think they had the sixth? Like, what
do you think they did to realize we had to
get into it? Like did they try to run? Come on,
come on, and Ralphie, you're trying to training, right, because
that's where the handlers are. They've got to get the
timing down. Here comes Raffy. Then the crowd response, right,
pumpings and crowd noise. See how the buffalo responds. By
(41:25):
the way, to answer your question about the nicknames, first
one ralph second one moonshine, third one tequila, fourth rowdy,
fifth was blackout, sixth was Ember. Okay, now we'll see
when the puff of smoke comes out and they choose
a new buffalo.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Well, what the nickname is? But you all name Ralfie, George,
You're all all the King George's are all King George,
You're all George George's kid could exit exit swollen dumb. Hey,
Ralphie the sixth, go gentle into that retirement and the
meadow and sniffing and eating flowers or anywhere else that
(42:04):
buffalo's like to do. Coming up next, a bizarre story
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know show Heyo Tani is pitching tonight. He could be
in line potentially in again. The Dodgers will win. They're
winning beating the Reds four to one right now, however,
would be his first win of the year. I'm looking
right now. He has been surpassed both he and Kyle
(01:10):
Schwarber have been surpassed. The new leader to win both
Cy Young and m VP is Mets starting pitcher Nolan mcleach.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Now, you're just pushing out fake news to the people.
Hate the people, mister McLain. Where are my detonate?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Is mister.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Lying? I'm not going to be anything we say the rest.
I am not.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Problems with some of the truth. Yeah, quote unquote.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Out the wrecking homes. Now, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
What yesterday, I mean, he laid that all out. Now
he follows it up with this. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm going all straight scorched skirts. No, no, dude, come on, man,
best starred ever for a Mets starting pitcher. He goes
eight innings against the Phillies tonight. I'm telling you, man,
I'm stringer from the wire. I want you to get
to spread the word out there that we be up
by the air.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's what's happening right the night. You're stealing seth Rollins
theme song.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, buddy, burn it down, Yeah, buddy, Nolan McLain.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You know who Jason spending the night with Nolan McLain
is a parabolic microphone.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Hey, come on, we swept the Phillies because of those
parabolic microphones. We got them strategically. Yeah, you know, that's
the thing about the Phillies. Okay, and I've said this
for a long time and all Philadelphia sports really it's
not just the Phillies, but the Eagles as well. Things
could be going as well as it could possibly be
for the Phillies, the Sixers, the Eagles, the Union, whoever
(02:42):
it is. The things could be going is what they got,
joelmb They had the process. Things could be going as
well as possibly could be. Here come the Phi seven
game lead and all, but the Phillies are always just
one step away from complete and total disaster. They have
one foot on the banana peel at all times. All
Philadelphia teams have one foot on the nan appeal. They
(03:04):
come in thinking we're gonna close up the NL East, right,
seven games up, that's it. We sweep the Mets at
the ten game League. We're done. We're getting our rotation
ready for October. This is over the Mets sweep and
what happens during the series. Let's see you get one
Phillies player who complains about a microphone and center field
that has to be moved after the game Phillies insiders
and analysts and personality saying the microphone has been there
(03:27):
for seven years. What the hell are we doing blaming
their own players. Tonight, there was a point in the
game the Phillies complained that a couple of Mets players
were too close to the plate when they were in
the on deck circle, and they complaint having them moved
back to the on deck circle, like, this is what
the Phillies are concerned with, and they got swept tonight.
Get the brooms out, get the brooms out.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out
to get you. If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
It becomes that that small line that you have between
paranoia and you know, hey, are they stealing signs? Because
this guy's there and he's relaying information and just being
in your own head. There's a fine line there that
(04:11):
the Phillies have crossed.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That one step away everything with three days ago, everything crossed,
they crossed the awesome and now look at them and
now look where they are now. The NL East is
up for grabs. Wow, it's not white up for grads.
Game lead with still six weeks left to go, and
you're gone.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
All right. As we look at the schedule going forward
for your New York Metropolitans, You've got a four game
set coming up against the Marlins. Okay, fine, Then we
get into September. Three games set against the Tigers on
the road, pause, three games set against these Reds, who,
if this score holds, they'll get swept for the first time.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, yeah, first time. This is Dodgers, Dodgers and Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
On the heels of that Red series is another four
game set with the pills.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That that's what that's what we take first place. That's
where it has to take. First place. That's where it happens.
Right there, that's where it is.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Should we see if we can get odds on what
day that happens, the game where it happens, the game
where it happens, the game where it happens, and you
get a home stand against the Rangers, the Padres.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Oh good man, we got jonah Toan coming up on Friday.
We got mcclaim, we got talking about we got everything.
Then we got everything. Now Sterns he waited until the
last possibility to bring all the kids up. And now
what day is Friday? Friday? Tong time is Friday. Tong
time is Friday. If they don't do it, can you
really though it's a Taunton, it's a Taunton.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm pretty sure his name is Tong Tong and.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He's talking about that hot dog looking guy.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I thought you're talking you're talking about the thing from
Empire strikes Back, because it doesn't really end well for
then and Empire strikes Back. It really doesn't.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Everything goes back to Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Jesus it does. Yeah, I'll tell you it's it's all good.
It's we are now the new dominant form in the galaxy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes, so you had the tlalo and all those guys,
don't you didn't your timelines get inundated.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
With that about six weeks ago. Every time he burned
around it was but I thought he said ton To, No,
it's that hot dog horror. I know, I thought you said,
but I thought you said Tonton. I thought that's what
it would you say, Tong Tong is a what.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
For that?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I thought he was gonna do a Tonton impression?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Is that what he said?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
When he strikes somebody out, that's what he does. You
watch man, it's like watchings when you when you see
something about every job. We're back. We're back up, man,
We're back up. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Which which superhero is he getting the nickname of? We
had a thour, we had the Dark Night.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What's his name? Uh, well, clearly TJ the Mets, hoping
that Jonah has a whale of a start on Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I mean, tongs are a very important kitchen implement.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, people will come to the games with tongs and
they'll just yeah, I think there's no click them together.
They'll click them together. It's to help.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
But depending how cheap you go, you can get like
ones that are like a dollar or two. They don't ad,
they're not really refined, so they got sharp edges at it.
So now you got weapons.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So we'll love. We'll have more baseball on the way
tonight again Dodgers reads. It's a four to one lead
for the Dodgers right now on show. Hey, fifty to
fifty Bobblehead Night. Oh by the.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Way, second fifty to fifty Bobblehead Night.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
There's gonna be a few more. There'll be three or
four more. We'll get in fifty to fifty. The promotions
so so nice. They liked it. Thrice Monsei, who works
for the Dodgers, brought her uh uh O Tani bobble
head in from work today. I tried to steal it
twice and she and she caught me both no chance,
by the way, Yeah, I tried to steal it twice.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
I tried once. She's like a ninja. Yeah theyll getting back.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah. Yeah, Like you need like you need to do
like uh like what did time in a Mission Impossible?
The first one when the one member of the team
put the stuff in the coffee and he takes the
sippy runs in the bathroom, Like that's what you need
to do that. There needs to be some sort of
and then you got to come in like through the
ceiling and put your hands out and like make sure
that no one knows that grab the grab the the
bibble head, and shoot back up through the ceiling. There's
(08:15):
one ending in five minutes over one hundred bucks. What oh,
I thought you made a Mission impossible movie? Like people
already got him out there. People, everybody got to take pictures.
Everybody gets one tonight. Everybody gets one tonight. People that
are still waiting, everybody gets one. Everybody gets one It was.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
An early game too, because of the MLB rules, the
Players Association rules, UH, collective bargaining, So you had a
five thirty start.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It was screw the Reds night right.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
A lot of people calling in sick to work. I
gotta go out to the game.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
The sun came out from the galaxy and threw out
a first pitch.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Big deal. Now, another big story that broke right before
we got him there about an hour a little bit
less than hours before we got on the air tonight
is uh. South Carolina women's basketball coach on Staley talked
about the possibility that she may have had this past
off season in coaching the Knicks. Remember, she had an
interview with the team. The Knicks obviously went with Mike Brown,
(09:11):
but she said today she had a podcast with Aliah
Boston and Kennis Parker and said if the Knicks offered
her the job, she would have taken it. Quote, I
would have had to do it, not just for me,
for women to break that door open. I would have
had to. It's the Knicks. I'm from Philly. Sorry, sorry
you got swept. I'm from Philly, But it's the freaking
(09:31):
New York Knicks. Right now, is This is a great
statement by down Staley because look, in my lifetime, I
mean I can't sit here and tell you in the
next three years, the next five years, but in my lifetime,
and I mean like in a time I think, before
you know, I get done and retire and all kinds
of stuff. In my working lifetime, I'll say, we're gonna
(09:51):
have a women's a women's coach in basketball in one
of the big professional sports, right but most likely in basketball,
we will have it. And it's about getting close and
then having the person to break through, like Becky Hammond
who was an assistant for San Antonio for the longest time.
And look, I really wonder if she was brought in
and the whole plan was going to be Pop was
(10:14):
gonna coach, and then eventually he was and Becky Hammon
was gonna be the team for so long that they
were just gonna it was gonna be an easy thing. Yes,
now Becky's the coach, okay, great, Like Becky's got the
culture and everything else. Now obviously things changed, Becky left
to go to the WNBA. Pop had to retire, he's
going upstairs. But you saw Becky Hammond get really close, right,
You saw Don Staley get an interview with the Knicks,
and there was no reason the Knicks had to interview
(10:36):
Dawn Staley. There was no one clamoring saying, how are
you not in you got to interview with That's just
not happening. They gave her an interview. She's a great coach.
You see your speak, you see your talk, you see
you're being an ambassador for the game of basketball. When
when they won the national title and she spent time
right after the game to salute Caitlin Clark and Iowa,
like that was an unbelievable, classy move to make right.
(10:56):
That was on the floor where you're this is your chance,
you're shine moment. I want to talk about Caitlin and
what's going on here, And that was an incredible moment
for her. You see the players what they say about her.
She was not brought in just say hey, this was Hey,
maybe Dawn Staley breaks through right, Like how Mike Tomlin
got the job with the with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He
wasn't a serious candidate when it first come in, but
(11:18):
the Rooney rule interviewing African American candidate, he came in
blew the doors off of the Steelers. Here he is
forty five years later, still coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is
sometime before I'm done, there will be a women's coach,
and probably the NBA, just because they're the closest now,
is gonna be the first team to do it. I
don't know if it's gonna be in a big market
(11:38):
like New York, be a small market, smaller market like Sacramento,
but it's gonna have We're gonna see that at some point.
We are getting closer and closer to that with every day.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, the curiosity of the crossover, and it takes a
certain mentality and skill set to want to make that
leap as well. Right, you can be a great coach, uh,
but there's a lot more than just the coaching. And
that's what she alluded to, UH in the interview that
she asked a bunch of other questions about, all right,
(12:08):
how does things how do things change around here? Are
you prepared if I'm hired? What change is here? Here, here,
and here? And that's where you're gonna start getting the
glassed over kind of eyes of well, we hadn't considered
that that or that that are suddenly going to be
part of the day to day. So curiosity, you know,
talking about being on a staff and eventually moving into
(12:30):
that role. Coaches and waiting, well, those are rare because
you got very few organizations that really allow you, uh,
the the long place in an organization anymore. Even if
you're having success, we see owners getting patient gms that
want their guys because even if the coach stays, GM
cycles out and eventually, you know, if it gets a
(12:52):
bit stagnant, that that you're gonna move. And in the
case of Becky Hammond, it became a all right, he's
never leading. I mean, how many times do we see
that in college football?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Right? With men?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's like, all right, you're the coach in waiting. All right,
I'm tired of waiting. It's been six years, it's been
eight years. You saw with Beheim. We saw it in
college football going down to Bobby Bowden and a bunch
of other guys, where it was like, is he ever
actually gonna leave? Is like, what's what's my endgame here?
Can you give me any assurances? And you can get
a higher pay raise and negotiate that and that's great,
(13:23):
and maybe you're slowly but surely resting control but eventually
you want the placard under your name to read head coach.
So for Dawn Staley, I I'd love to see more opportunity, uh,
and more of the questions being asked, and I'd love
to see some video from behind the scenes exactly how
that part of the interview process went.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Look, and that's part of it too, is that the NBA.
You talk about the one league that hey, we're gonna
interview coaches outside the box, right, that's the that's the NBA, right,
Like that's what they do. Like the NBA that you
are looking who could you possibly hire?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Look at look at the look at the way sir go.
Look at the way the nick search went this offseason,
calling all these other teams for permission. All these other
teams are saying no. Like the NBA is like that,
I might be the only guy. It's a more out.
It's such an outside the box situation where hey, are
we gonna hire another retread that we may win may
or can we make a bold move and Dawn Staley
(14:18):
and see if it works like that? That's gonna be
something that happens in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, Like the Lakers bold move, bold strategy.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Let's see if it pays. That's right, exit outbouta fresca
exit swollen dump. I mean, great, great story tonight Don
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So as we get closer now to the beginning of
the NFL season, closing in on a week out. We
have a big suspension, we have a big injury. What's
the impact we're now getting that every day at now
we're done. Teams are having their last practice before they
start their weeks, getting ready for their opponents in week one,
(17:49):
Like now the tunnel vision begins, and now where it's
all about week one and beyond week one and beyond
winning time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Maybe let's go. We're finally through a lot of the
roster shuffling. People are ordering their custom jerseys because their
favorite guy, you know, made their team, didn't get traded,
except for that one guy that's still hanging out in
the battles.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But we'll get to him in due time.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
But but all of that to say, I mean, it
was a fun day of activity and and and transactions.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So that's good. Every day inching ever closer to that
kickoff with the Cowboys, and you're eagle, get ready, get ready?
Maybe or maybe not Micah party now. And here's the thing,
we may not have any Micah Parsons news on the
show today. This may be a Micah Parsons free day
on Fox Sports. I almost wanted to go and try
(18:37):
to get through the four hours without even saying possible
if you just brought him up. But I'm saying there
may not be any but there's no news. Really, there's
no news. I'm telling telling you there's no news. Is
not news. You bringing them up, I'm bringing him up.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It's worthy because we don't talk about nothing's here.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
There's no but there may be talked about the Mets
last segment, the hottest team in baseball. I regret everything
about it. We're all dumber for having done it. So okay,
Instead Frostburg, we're talking about the Chiefs. How's that? Is
that good? Is that good for you?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh ys? That wide receiver there is missing six games.
I'm cool, so big us. Of course, the NFL let
them off easy. It should have been the whole season.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I'm not thought. I thought it was a threezy but
three year Ben. I honestly thought for Rashie Rice that
the suspension came out today. We knew this was coming
for violating the NFL's Personal conduct policy. He has accepted
a six game suspension and he will bop on the
starting that at the beginning of the season, eligible to
(19:41):
return Week seven ahead of their game against the Raiders.
Raiders can't catch a brick.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
There had been a disciplinary hearing scheduled for September thirtieth,
But this is what Rashie Rice is taking in July.
I remember he was sentenced to thirty days in jail
in five years probation for his role in that multi
car crash in Dallas that left a lot of people
hurt during the twenty twenty four offseason. Now, honestly, I'm surprised.
I thought it was going to be four games. I
thought that's what it would wind up being, and they're
gonna the NFLPA would try to whittle it down, but
(20:10):
it's gonna be six games. Started the Seasonmber, we thought
it was going to be into October as well, like, so.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
This is a lot wasn't going to have his hearing
and discussion points till the end of the month. So
that created a great deal of consternation because you'd add
other other suspensions announced when we go back to Jordan
Addison and others, but different parts of the rule book
at play.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So he's not going to appeal, meaning this is now set.
He's serving a six game suspension. He comes back before
Week seven and I'll be honest with you, it doesn't matter. Right,
this is not gonna change their offenses production this season.
I've told you this is the passion. This is well.
The refs is still there. I mean, the refs want
(20:53):
to be invited to the Kelsey and Teler Swift wedding, right,
so you know they're gonna happen. Just wait, I mean
you can't crush that. They're all ready practicing calling late hits.
They're on late hits on defense. They're making sure, Okay,
where are the defensive ends? Where making sure? How do
we call late hits? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I mean I say they're better as ushers and efficients
that way, right, So, I mean they're making sure you
get to your proper spot and location in the seeding chart.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But you know it all works. The Patrick Mahomes middle
Finger Tour is going to play well this season. Whether
Rashie Rice is playing Week one or not. This is
a wide receiver room that finally we've talked about. This
is the healthiest that it has been right now. Obviously
Rice is out the first six weeks, but you knew
he was gonna he was gonna miss some time. But
this is this is worthy. Xavier worthy. You had a
(21:41):
really good rookie year last year, second year in the league,
Hollywood Brown healthy, you got fort and Juju Smith Schuster.
Still Travis Kelcey and what likely is going to be
his last year in the NFL going all to the
wall for my final year before h Come on, dude,
the guy. The guy showed that, Hey, maybe I have
one more year. Maybe I have one more year. Hey,
now I could be the goat at my position. You
(22:02):
saw what happened to Tom. Are you gonna force me
off this field? No, you're not gonna try to force
me off this The dude doesn't have time. The dog
does time to play football with everything going I just
with his podcast and his marriage, and is like he
doesn't have time. This is it. This is last time.
He even say he said last year, I can't go
out like this the year he had, I can't go
out like that.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You will, which was.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Overall a pretty good year for a tight end, just
not a tight end named Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But you know, we talked about you know, Pete Futech,
who's gonna join us Friday night to preview football. We
talked about his thoughts on the University of Texas, Right,
big Texas Ohio State game coming this week, And he
said last week, I am stock up on arch Manning,
but I'm stocked down on Texas because Texas schedule is
really difficult. They stud their toe can easily lose Week
one and on and on. That's how I feel about
(22:46):
the Chiefs this year. I'm stock up on Mahomes all
the way up, but I'm stocked down on the Chiefs.
The division is younger, it's more athletic, the teams are better.
It's gonna be a fight just for them to get
a wild card this year. Right that the dynasty and
we talked about Kansas City. You are seeing the ending
embers of it now. But this offensive production you're gonna see.
Mahomes has been waiting. It's been two years of being
(23:09):
a game manager. He's not like he's thirty seven, thirty
eight years old where I have to move to that
part of my career. It just had to be a
point where hey, my weapons are healthy again, right, and
I can still get out there, I can still spray
the ball over the field. I can't just throw anybody,
you know. For a couple of years, the Chiefs thought, yeah,
we don't need Tyreek Hill. We don't need these guys.
We can just throw anybody out there and Mahomes are
(23:30):
gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I think we saw when Tyreek Hill left, Hey, Mahomes
still struggled. The team was still good. Team won a
Super Bowl with Mahomes being a game manager. So okay,
but af far as this year. Now, Hey, the weapons
are there, but the other teams are better. I don't
know the Chiefs have gotten so much better. They'll score
a ton of points, but they're gonna be one of
those teams where, hey, don't get an aerial dogfight with them. Right,
(23:51):
that's gonna be the thing for the Chiefs. But this
year for Mahomes with all his players, with the weapons
out there, finally what he thought Hollywood Brown is what
they thought he was gonna be when they first signed Xavi.
Youre worthy a second year in the offense. Now you're
bringing Juju Smith Schuster back to a team where he's
familiar with the system. Thornton's had some big play so
far in the preseason. Right, Kelsey a tight end, You
you have what you need on that team. And now
(24:12):
this is the best weapons room that the Chiefs have
had in three years. Patrick Mahomes is back to being
Patrick Holmes. The middle Finger tour continues for Mahomes this year. Yeah,
what's gonna be interesting to watch as this develops. Right,
you've got continuity in an offensive line. You return virtually
your entire starting line. Great, always a good starting point
because there's plenty of teams we'll be talking about leading
(24:34):
up to kick off a week from tomorrow. That that's
the biggest area of concern, Right, can you address this?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
How does that front five coalesce? Well? For Patrick Mahomes,
we watched last year Rashie Rice missed a good chunk
of the year. It didn't matter, right, next man up
and we watch worthy the second half of the year.
Started to get in Hollywood Brown if he's healthy, which
has been the big knock the last couple of years. Right,
he great flashes, great depth receiver and a guy that
(25:02):
can take it to the house. Well, we got to
keep him on the field. So training room, it's all
on you, Juju Thornton. You brought up all of those guys.
You got Noah Gray there the tight end and waiting
who will have his share of catches in between the
twenties Now it's a matter of what you find in
the painted grass. The key with the Chiefs doall of it.
Is two teams in the AFC West, by the odds
(25:23):
makers and by all eye tests, are catching up.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
In short order.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Talk about the Chargers and the expectation of that next
leap forward. Justin Herbert, whatever some of the metrics say
about fourth quarters and whatever else, he's a guy that
he is now becoming your quarterback's favorite quarterback. Now he's
got to show it with Jim Harbaugh at the helm.
And then you look at what's going on in Denver,
a team that is getting a lot of noise, a
(25:51):
lot of love. Bo Nicks was a guy finished what
twelfth or back end top ten in terms of yardage
a year ago, and they're only better better back room defense,
which is top three and by any anybody's evaluation coming in.
And then you got the Raiders who are going to
be just good enough to piss you off over the
course of the year. Right, they'll steal the game or two,
(26:12):
or test you deep into fourth quarters that maybe you
see some residual effects in a game off a short
week whatever else. But but all of that to say
fifty two percent to win the division. Off the current odds,
you're still looking at an over under win total into
the double digits. For Patrick Mahomes, Yeah, I think there's
a lot of noise because remember it started getting really
(26:34):
loud about that he's nowhere near Brady. Now it's back.
He's just a guy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you turn
you add all of those things that are going on.
Travis Kelsey had to hear it and he wore it,
and he's dating and and now he's engaged with Taylor Swift.
So I don't know how much that truly affected him
mentally in the offseason. Mean, you're in love, man, that'll
(26:55):
cloud a lot of things. Make you feel like you've
been drinking jack and coke all morning. Yeah yeah, and
beautiful girls, but you know, all of those things to say,
you got the division coming at you in the AFCs. Uh,
there's they're not slouches throughout that conference, so it'll be
a tougher road. But uh, probably the best supporting cast
he's had in three years. And eventually Rashie Rice will
(27:18):
get back on the field.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Meanwhile, big injury news in Houston. Now suddenly the Texans
don't know when Joe Mixon is going to play this season,
you know, obviously a big deal. You know, the other
the other day that the story was, hey, he's gonna
miss the first four games, right with teams had to
get down to their roster's gonna miss the first four
games of the year. Okay, we're seeing the running game
(27:39):
in the hands now, Nick Chubb, is there still a
gunba Wally is there? Okay? Fine? Uh, you know they
drafted a guy in the fourth round two, Okay, we have.
But now today it was we're hoping to get him back.
They they couldn't say when he's going to come back
to play this season. And again I'll say what I
said a couple of minutes ago. Doesn't matter. Texans bound
(28:00):
back offensively and it and it doesn't matter because they
are so defensive line and defensive back driven. You look
at any of the analysis of their defense, and their
defensive line and defensive backfield are in the top three
of anybody's list. This is a huge bounce back year
for Houston. And offensively, yes, CJ. Strouds terrific quarterback. They
(28:21):
have depth offensively, even though they're trying to overcome injuries. Look,
Tank Della's out for the year, but they brought in
a couple of receivers and it look Nico Collins is fantastic.
It's not a great division. I distinctly expect at the
end of the season the Texans to have home field
advantage in the playoffs, simply because their division is the
path of least resistance to winning and having the best record.
(28:44):
AFC West, they're gonna They're gonna all gonna cannibalize themselves, right,
same thing in the in the AFC North with the
Steelers and the Bengals, I mean, not the Browns and
the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The South is there, and the AFC East will be
tougher for the Bills, who will be this is one
of those years where hey, we're sort of playing the
AFC Championship game again during the season. I think that
division is gonna be a little bit tougher than they expect,
And for the Bills, who have been there so many times,
it's hard to keep that focused through the entire regular season,
(29:13):
where hey want to make sure the games are at home.
We're gonna play at home all here. I think it'll
be a little bit too tough for the Bills and
easier for the Texans to be able to run rough
shot over that division. I expect them to have home
field advantage at the end of the season. That's funny
because I have him missing the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
There you go, because I think the rest of the teams,
going with what we just said about the ANFC West,
is that the other teams in the division start to
come back at him. You don't have the depth that
wide receiver. The running back position will be fine. Nick Chubb,
Damian Pierce, Woody Marx is a guy that started flying
up fantasy draft boards. So that's all find of good.
The offensive line still scares me. They still rank last
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by a considerable margin in terms of what they gave
last year. That really created issues for the timing down
distance for CJ. Stroud, and he didn't have his his
escape plans last year with the receivers outside of Nico Collins,
and I don't know that he necessarily has those this year,
So tough go. I expect better from cam Ward Duval
(30:16):
rises and actually we get some competent play on both
sides of the ball there in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And then we both talked about the Colts. Like the Colts. Yeah,
I liked I like Drake.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I like the Colts to make one of those, like
I said, to make one of those, hey wild cardish
runs right to do that. And like I said, the
other divisions man AFC North and the AFC Westman, they're
gonna beat the crap out of him.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That's why have home field advantage, because your team still
stinks no matter what's gonna be, We're gonna we're every
game like Rabel's gonna beat everybody up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We're gonna run for two hundred and fifty yards. We're
gonna be like the Nebraska off into the nine point
Sure we are, yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, We're
gonna scale, oh be terrific again. So draft the Justin
Fields will run for a thousand yards and throw for
a thousand yards. That's gonna be his season.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Do you think he's throwing for one thousand yards last season?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Thousand yards? Exit album Out of Fresco, Exit, swollen down.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
home field for the Texans end of the regular season.
Time out to check in with someone who's been called
the show. Heyo Tani of Fox Sports Radio. She's got
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her own bobblehead. They give him out of games. It's oh,
that's a that's a compliment.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Thank you. Do people line up for me eight hours before.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We want We all lined up for you.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Thank you you.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
What a tall would the would the Moncey Bologos bobblehead.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
By live size. I'm one of the few people that
you can't.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Make okay, sure just carry it with you one of.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Gruden and Eric Dickerson. They were like four feet high exactly.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
That's like life just.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
A little bit higher.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Busy day, yeah, ye, no, of course appreciate it, but
definitely a busy day at the stadium guys today.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Happy to be hanging out with you.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Right now, we'll check out what's going on at Dodger Stadium.
It's Dodgers up on the Reds right now, four to one.
It's the top of the seventh inning here. It all
started with a Keke Hernandez two RBI single that put
the Dodgers on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
And his bobblehead is coming up soon. The bobblehead that
you're gonna get for me, I need two bobbleheads. He's
still minus three.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
He's minus one, he's minus one.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, he's we have food coming well, yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
So by the end of food, maybe he'll be an
even back to zero. All right, Rangers, guys have twenty
hits and twenty runs scored against the Angels. It's twenty
twenty to three, top of the eighth inning. Cubs had
tied the game, but now Giants are back on top.
In San Francisco, four to three is the score bottom
of the third as hutting out the Tigers at home
three zero, wherever home is bottom of the second inning.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Earlier today, what happened?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
The Mets completed a three games sweep of the Phillies,
shutting them out six zero. The Mariners held on against
the Padres four to three, Diamondbacks edged the Brewers three
to two, Astro shut out the Rockies. Yeah, that one
just wrapped up right now, four zero, Pirates edge the
Cardinals two to one, Royals all over the White Sox
twelve to one, and the Red Sox top the Orioles
three to two. But earlier in today's day of baseball,
(33:28):
Yange's hit six home runs, including Aaron Judge who hit
home rund number forty one. On the season and they
beat the Nationals eleven to two. When it comes to
the NFL, you guys were just talking about Chiefs wide
receiver Rashi Rice first six games of the season has
been suspended for violating the league's personal conduct policy. On
Jaguars receiver and quarterback Travis Hunter, who has been dealing
with an upper body injury since mid August.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He didn't play in the final two preseason games. He's healthy.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
He's gonna play in their season opener against Carolina. Also,
Travis Hunter and Leanne is the name of his wife.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I think their parents.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
About two hours ago, they put out a video on YouTube,
three minute video telling in the world that they are
new parents. So they've welcomed a healthy baby boy. Congratulations
to a.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Because Travis Hunter plays offensive defense, they would have had twins.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
You would have thought it would have been better we had.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
A boy and a girl. Yeah, you do them both.
I mean, did you have a boy or girlt No,
we had both because.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
We do both because we worked that way.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Every day is in competition, covering each other and no
doubt's your turn to cover exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
And the US open guys.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Ben Shelton, American succeeed he's up right now when his
first two sets and up in the third set three
games to know they're tied. Had three games apiece, and
this is the second round of the US Opemen.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch of mons. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
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the play of the day end and a fleet and
I put that in air quotes that I am extremely
jealous of and stand by everything this quote athlete plans
to do for the rest of their life. Quote. It's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, my new athletic hero coming up
in a minute. But first, the Play of the day
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Speaker 4 (36:04):
Well, I can't, I can't play it.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, I mean it took it a lie to America.
I mean he can't endorse that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Sorry. Sorry. When when when your team can't get anybody
to pitch into the eighth inning and you not only
pitch into the eighth inning, you finish it, you get
to be the play of the day. Bitter, it's a dribbler.
Bought the man.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
McClane s retire eight scorless timings.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Nolan McClain.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Mets TV on the Call. Nolan McLain three and oh
first pitcher in Mets history to do that. He has
single handedly brought the Mets back from the abyss that
was the last seven weeks he has single handedly done it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Just turned twenty four, three great starts. I was showing
you the secondary market on trading cards of him and
the other guy that's coming up at the end of
the week and all of this fun stuff. People spending
thousands because they've got the Mets insigny attached to them.
But no, look, we love when we get young hurlers,
(37:10):
and then we just pray that they stay healthy, right,
particularly you. Yes, you and I have been doing this
show long enough to have watched what was supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, you're on borrow time. Now let's just say long
as just keep going as long as you can. But
I understand it's going to end.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But that's it, right, men like Mike McDaniel told us,
I mean, we're one day closer to death. But here
you got, you know, breathing some life back into the
to the Mets. Now, you still have four games to
catch up division wise, but we got a crowded house
for your fun and exciting wildcard. So yeah, every little
positivity step you can take good for you.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
And here's why I'm even more positive. I haven't my
team lost twelve to one. Yeah, I know at least
you're not the I mean the Rangers are winning twenty
to three. I don't think they're actually the Angels though.
I don't think the Angels are actually using a position player.
I think they are hitting off a team out of
this playing right now, it's coach pitch. My new idol
is the now retired Ralphie the sixth, the Colorado Buffalo's mascot,
(38:13):
who was announced was retiring to the mascot that runs
on the field of games and running on the field
for years. But Ralphie is okay. This is why Ralphie
the sixth is my hero because and I love this.
It was reported the reason he is retired now after running,
you know, on the field for the last four years,
is because of his quote indifference to running. That's why
(38:36):
he is retiring. I choose to run the quote. Ralphie
would rather walk in the meadow and sniff the flowers
and relax, which is his right, you sugar, not his dad.
So there is a new Ralphie, Ralphie this up, which
will be taking the field for Colorado. Ralphie is retiring
because he has an indifference to running. This is my hero.
(38:56):
I've told you running is the worst again the Matt
Damon philosophy at the end of air. This is stupid.
Why would anyone do this? Yes, Ralphie is my Why
would Ralphie's like, why am I running? Why would I
want to run? Running is awful? No, I'm done. I'm
gonna I'm gonna run around in the meadow and I'm gonna,
you know, find a couple of cows and have some
fun and just you know whatever, gonna run around each
(39:18):
other and just you know, sing the Colorado fight song
and fuk up talk about Kayden Salter taking over a
quarterback for Shador Sanders. We're gonna, yeah, We're gonna have
a great time here in the meadow. Yeah. Running, I'm
not running anymore, man, Ralphie the sixth indifference to running?
Be honest?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Would you eat Ralphie the six No?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
No, come on man, no, no, I be honest, No, no,
it can't.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Man, He's not it's not gonna be too uh too
bound with muscle and all of that, because he's not
the athlete.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
He's he's just a sedentary buffalo man. And you know
what that's be that's saying nice to r really well.
And he's gott an indifference from I out and out
hate running. I I don't. I I have a I
wouldn't be Jason Smith in difference right strong hatred for running.
Never would would like to never run again. That's like,
that's like me running. That's how I feel about it.
(40:10):
Never gonna go running, Not gonna do that. Ralphie the
sixth has it right by you, say, Ralphie, Ralphie the
sixth is a she. You'll let me do it? Okay,
Ralphie that she's my hair.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Here's what they put out seeubuffs dot com. Okay, University
of Colorado's iconic buffalo, nicknamed Embers, retiring after four years
of service as the college football's greatest masscot But the
headline was University of Colorado's beloved buffalo hangs up her
halter to spend more time on her ranch.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
And damn skippy, you show why do.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
They not have specificity in the T shirt business?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Here?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
That it's Ralphie the sixth. Well, I think instead of
just run Ralphie run, I mean there should be one
that that gives you. Hey, here's a picture of the
sixth or a nickname, so you know, like which you
would celebrate? Well, I think, yeah, yeah, ralfre celebrates Ralphie
the sixth, and then nickname would be slow.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
You know there's something Well that's the one that didn't
like to run. Yeah, okay, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
That's it should go in the Wikipedia. Pick how many
times do you think they had the sixth? Like, what
do you think they did to realize we had to
get into it? Like did they try to run? Come on,
come on, and Ralphie, you're trying to training, right, because
that's where the handlers are. They've got to get the
timing down. Here comes Raffy. Then the crowd response, right,
pumpings and crowd noise. See how the buffalo responds. By
(41:25):
the way, to answer your question about the nicknames, first
one ralph second one moonshine, third one tequila, fourth rowdy,
fifth was blackout, sixth was Ember. Okay, now we'll see
when the puff of smoke comes out and they choose
a new buffalo.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Well, what the nickname is? But you all name Ralfie, George,
You're all all the King George's are all King George,
You're all George George's kid could exit exit swollen dumb. Hey,
Ralphie the sixth, go gentle into that retirement and the
meadow and sniffing and eating flowers or anywhere else that
(42:04):
buffalo's like to do. Coming up next, a bizarre story
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