February 4, 2026 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon reacting LIVE to the marquee game of the night between the Knicks and Nuggets. Anthony Davis traded again only this time to the Washington Wizards. We bid farewell to the Washington Post Sports Department. And Tigers ace Tarik Skubal could be pitching in a different uniform next season!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Marquee Game of the night. The NBA will jump right
in before you get to the huge NBA trade earlier today.
Nicks lead the Nuggets right now in doublet one twenty
(01:08):
five one twenty one, with three minutes left to go.
The Knicks had won this game a three, a long,
wild three was off by the Nuggets. Everybody was jumping
around on the court except on the shot.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
On the rebound, which went to nobody.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
A loose ball foul called on Mical Bridges, who was
just pushing Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Out of the way all the way through the paint.
They call the foul. He hits both free throws and
here we are in overtime. Never stand in front of
the pulling guard. What you know.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And here's the thing, And I'll be honest with you
on this, because this is one of those where you think, oh,
Jason's gonna lose his mind. Well, yes, because I lost
my mind a nice scream what I saw it. But
really it's it's it's not a foul that you call, right,
that's not something you call, right, You really don't. You
really don't call something like that. That's away from the
ball and he's pushing. However, don't don't do it. What
(02:01):
I mean, if you give him a little bit of
a push, okay, but he like rides him all the
way through the payton. Of course, it's what the officials
are looking at because that's where the ball is coming in.
So yeah, you know what, both things can be true
in that situation. You don't have to call that foul.
But wow, Bridges, you really made it easier to do it.
You really made it easier to call that foul, which
is like, are you kidding? Me on that like that,
(02:21):
like that, I'm sitting.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Here going eight in a row. It just beat the
nuggety echo New York go to and then I see going,
really we're going to do?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I had I'll tell you, Mike, I got the PTSD
flashbacks from Tyrese Haliburton. Uh the three point of that
clanged off the back of the room up and went through,
making the choke signal all the way through. I had
flashbacks that going game's over. Games are all come on, man,
I mean really, I had flashbacks to that moment.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, I understand that, and the vexation and the exasperation
of the moment because I was watching it without sound
like did they really call that foul? Wow? He's going
to the line? Is he?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Is?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He? And sure enough, there he go and you watch
the replay and it's just completely unnecessary. All he had
to do was go and stand in and let him
run into him. Instead he's full lead blocker and pushing
him out of the way. By the way, they have
let these guys get after it a bit like it
were the Eastern Conference finals of I don't know, pick
(03:19):
any year in the mid eighties or early nineties, but
that that was just degree just just completely unnecessary games.
One ball falls harmlessly instead a couple of file shots.
Now you've been helped by the fact that Jamal Murray
found his way to just fall out of bounds trying
to retrieve a ball. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was nice. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Hey oh they Oh he slipped, Spike Lee tripped him.
I think Spike Lee trim Midam. But no, dude, I
am not okay right now. Man, I am not okay.
I know we're up by six with a minute forty
five left, but either like that was a win and
we just found our way to say, nope, let's keep
in the game. Let's keep you in the game. Man,
I went I flashed back to Halliburton. Man, that is
not I am not okay, man, I'm not ok okay
(04:00):
right now. This is the only team I have in
mind that's any good right now, that's playing or that
has just played.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I mean this, this is what I have right now. Man.
The Jets, you're building back. Oh dude, we're not building back.
We're anything. We're not building anything.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Long road begins with the first stops. What they're doing
is burning the team to the ground and then burning
the ashes. I want to make sure I want to
leave no trades, so burn the team and then whatever's
left he burn the ashes as well.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Let's get that gasoline on there. Let's go and ashes.
You appeared from that to ash as you return, and
here we go back to the sea and all that stuff. Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So again we'll have more in the game of the
night again coming up in a few minutes, Nick Nuggets.
A seven point lead now for the Knicks with a
buck fifteen to go in overtime. But then again I
remember a seven point lead with fifty seconds left against
the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So again down the PTSD.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Uh But if today, well the last couple of days,
with any indication, we might get a wild trade deadline
tomorrow in the NBA, because coming off of yesterday and
all the big news and James Harden is traded, and
and and Lebron James is not going to get traded,
and all the other minor trades where the Utah Jazz
for next year may have gotten better. Anthony Davis dealt
(05:06):
earlier today in a trade no one saw coming because
we all thought, well, it's gonna be the raptors, right,
you're keeping track of things today, they're down the road.
It looks like he could be a Raptor. All right,
ad the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, yeah, you know they kind of have to make
a move with something. No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
He is sent to the Wizards in a forty seven
player trade. Anthony Davis is now a member of the
Washington Wizards. All right, And the first thing is this
is that the Wizards. You put a stamp on this,
Mike Carmon. The Wizards have officially become that team where
if you get traded there, it means you need to
look in the mirror and see what you've done to
(05:42):
get to this point in your career. Like he use
me that way with the Clippers, Right, if you're a
Clipper man, you're just hanging on what am I doing? No,
the Wizards the last years have become Hey, man, I
was up at the top. I was great, man, I
was fantastic, And look where am I just got traded
to the Wizards?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Man? They haven't been trying in years? What is happening?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Like that's the biggest look in the mirror moment you
could have, is getting traded to the Wizards. And I
hope to you know, to put positivity on this trade.
AD has that look in the mirror moment, because man,
you get traded to the Wizards. That that's the that's
like the forced intervention, Like there's nothing we could do
for you. We'll trade you to the Wizards. Maybe you
figure it out along the way, maybe you don't, but
this is your last chance.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I spoke part of it into existence last night by
mentioning all the teams that might be contenders and actually
want a trade from Lebron James's contract, the Wizards being
chief among them. Well they got one half there. Now
you rejoin with AD. Hey, I didn't really mean to
get you out of here. I'm sorry. Look, there's like
fifteen guys in the middle of this trade, and there's
(06:44):
so much going on in so many smaller trades, and
we can run through them all. But for Anthony Davis,
it goes We go back a year ago, right, we
just commemorated that year anniversary of Luka donc Anthony Davis.
And in the moment, you're looking at what the Mavericks
had on paper with the roster and the veterans Kyrie
(07:05):
irving Anthony Davis like, could be interesting if they're healthy. Blah,
blah blah. Well, we know that didn't happen. And then
you get to this year and you're rolling through and
clearly it's Cooper Flagg's show and everybody else revolves around
him as as it were. And we'll see how many
more parts get dealt before the deadline tomorrow. But Anthony
(07:26):
Davis was just a piece. He's just a guy that
clutters up the lane. At this point. Dude plays a
little bit of defense when he plays.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, this is how far he has fallen from
It's Lebron and Ad and it's gonna be the new
Dynasty LA and they win the Bubble Championship. Then it's okay,
it's still Lebron and Ad. Then it's not Lebron and Ad,
and AD's the guy in Dallas. And now he's not
the guy in Dallas. And now he's a guy right
now now twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Nine games this year, and it's back to almost like
when he was pouting and made his demands known in
New Orleans that he didn't want to be there. He
doesn't want to be the guy, and then he's pissed
when he's not the guy.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean, yeah, I mean, just just I really hope
he has that moment because he needs it, because if
he doesn't, I'll give you a both. He's out of
the league in three years if he doesn't find a
way to take care of his body and get whatever motivation,
the visible desire that he has been lacking at times
throughout his career to be the best player in the league.
Like maybe he's not gonna be that guy anymore because
(08:25):
he's thirty two, but he's got to find a way
to stay on the court and at least appear motivated
all the way through because he's got a skill set
nobody in the league has. Giannis doesn't have it, Jokic
doesn't have it, Lebron doesn't have it. He's got a
skill set nobody does, and he's gotten by on his ability.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
For so long. Like this is that moment for him, man,
Like this is okay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
After this, that's it. You got you gotta have time
where hey, you're a wizard, man and now you're a wizard, Harry,
you're a wizard. Ad you're a wizard now, and your
career now goes one of two ways. Either you find
a way to build this back or you are gonna
be out of the league in three years, because that's
gonna happen to Ad. He'll be out of the league
in three years by he's thirty five because he can't
stay on the floor and he's not the player he
was and he can't count on him. That's gonna be
(09:06):
AD's future.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Now, this one the injury a little bit different, right
ligament damage in his hand. But all all of it
to the history and everything adds up to a point
right now, and let's get to the financials of all
of this fun. He's owed fifty eight and a half
million dollars next year. Then he has, wait for it,
the dreaded player optioned in twenty seven, twenty eight for
(09:30):
sixty two point eight million dollars. Yeah, and he's eligible
for a contract extension this August. Is that what he holds?
Hey extend me? Yeah? Like no, you out about the
hook for one hundred and seventeen million dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, we're gonna wait to out Ad, just so you know,
we're gonna wait out and see how things go before
we think about a new contract.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Just so you know we're gonna kind of wait things out.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
But you said a great thing, because what I want
more than anything, I didn't realize how bad, how bad
I want this because you know, retro is so popular
now and everybody loves going back, and I like going
back and looking at at at at un at errors
and sports that really need to be examined a little
bit more, right, Like, you know, I don't need another
documentary on the sixty nine Mets. I don't need anything
(10:15):
else on the two thousand and eight Celtics, Right, I
don't need anything else on I mean, Miracle on Ice awesome, Right,
But do we really need something else on.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We just got another one this night? Did we do this?
I don't need anything else on the nineties Bulls. I
don't have eighty five. But really, what I want, I
want the Wizards.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Please hold on to Anthony Davis, hold on to Trey Young,
hold on to di'angelo Russell, hold on to CJ. McCollum,
because I want to go back in time and realize
what it was like to watch the b Dream Team
from the early two thousands play, right, Because that's really
what this team is. Right when when the Dream Team
won in ninety two, ninety six, and then the guys
(10:54):
said we don't want to go anymore, right, And it
was Iver sitting a bunch of guys and lamar Odaman
and they lost. It was all my goodness, Like, that's
what this team looks like like you could. I want
to see what they're like on the floor, because I
want to go back to seeing what the b dream
team in the two thousands are like him and Trey
Young and D'Angelo Russell mccollins. That's what I want to say.
I so want to see that, Mike, You have no
idea like I would find out a way to get
(11:16):
a package of Wizards games. If I could see them
on the floor at the same time, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
They were able to get out of Anthony Davis's contract
in Dallas. This is absolutely amazing. But I like that
that lineup you just put out for the Wizards if
they retained it. I don't have enough time. We have
three hours and forty minutes ish of show left. I
don't think I could even read what everything that transpired
(11:42):
going back to the Luke of Vad trade as to
all the participants and principles involved players and draft picks
and whatever. Would take me about thirty five minutes uninterrupted
to get through that. So we'll leave that for another time.
But your all star lineup of years past, I mean
that is just fantastic and just bad money and more
(12:03):
bad money piling up. I mean the b USA b
Dream Team, you know, that was just fantastic. I mean that,
I really, I really, I want I want more on that.
I mean, I want more of that, and I'm getting
it here. I'll get It's like I'm getting it. It's
like I don't have to worry about I'm getting exactly
what it is with these guys.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
These guys who, hey, at one point they were really good,
but either they're on the other side of the mountain,
or they hit difficulties in their career.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Whatever it was, all these things, they were all star players.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now that I get to see them all on the
floor at once, playing together, I want to see that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well. The best is I mean, nobody's taking on any
of these deals. They're either hurt, have been hurt, or
have these exorbitant salaries still on the books. Like we said,
with the one hundred and seventeen million dollars that's including
that second year player option there for Anthony Davis, you
ain't going anywhere. That's your final stop. You are a wizard.
(12:55):
You're a wizard.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Ad yeah, yeah, Haggrid comes out and lets him know.
And you know, I like shorting hackoes this guy.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah that she injured a lot. Are we maybe I
could put you in Slytherin?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No, no, Slytherin her Okay, well, very talented.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let's see. I like to how about huff a Puff?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wouldn't they need be great Hufflepuff because you rarely saw
people in Hufflepuff.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's a d he'd be Hufflepuff. That that is absolutely
uh true. Every once in a while there was the
garats He's like, yeah, remember they were in Hufflepuff. It's like, yeah,
that might have been in the book, that was not
in the movie. And I'll tell you what you want.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You want you want the one thing you could change
the draft to get people watch instead of instead of
having the draft, just have the sorting hat.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Put people into the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I think, if there's something to that, you come and
just sit there with the people.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh my god, Oh my good, here comes Cooper Flag.
Oh my god, what's the sorting hat gonna say? That
would be outstanding.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That would be the best way people would like, I
don't need to watch a draft through I just need this.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I just the all the kids all they're all lining
up together.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't think it's any less legit than the one
point a percent chance they had to win the lotter.
I'm a huge Harry Potter.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And then it's it's and it's just one of those
where just like in Harry Potter, where just random kids,
you know, go again, Oh, Susan Bones, Susan Bones, Aremia
any Granger? Why am I Draco Malfoy's like, here's you know,
a bunch of guys in the second round might not
even be out there that uh Cooper flag Cooper flea
Cooper would be like Harry Potter going up the oh
Cooper flag Cooper flag.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Did we ever get the whereabouts of a couple of
those that got sorted in year one?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't I lost in the Great Battle unfortunately. I
think a lot of them, A lot of them fell
victim in the Battle of Hogwarts. Thank thanks for bringing
up a really down moment right there.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, but did they get name checked and did they
get an in memoriam?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I think they wanted to have their whole lives and
instead they had to worry about fighting alongside a bunch
of kids that didn't know how to do spell.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
They were all pawns. Anyway, Dumbledore is the most evil
character created in recent memory. He had his fight. He
had him in the Grand Paw from Willy Wonka.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Okay, Charlie, we gotta go, Charlie. I'll throw you in
the Chocolate River if you don't go there. Exit out
about a fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
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Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
When you very carelessly take a team to double overtime
and make it everybody nervous, but then find a way
to pull it out.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Because your best player is the MVP, you get to
be the play of the day to come on, man,
come on here, and then changes gets hit. The ball
is loose and it's alive. The play of the day
has to be a play from today. Out does it? Yes,
it does? Look man I've heard I've heard plays from yesterday,
(18:23):
last month.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Jason, does it say the play of today or the
play of the day. It's a play, it's today's play
of the day. I'm seeing it right here in my notes,
and it says, tell Alex tyshirt, it's the play of
the day today.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
If that buckles head gives you any more problem.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
About three fifteens ago, double overtime, Brunson pulls up right,
so I knocks down the three and the Knicks have
a four point lead.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Time outs, Denvers, you.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Get that time out, Get that time out, David Attleman
Brinston with a huge game. The Knicks beat the Nuggets
in overtime after forcing overtime on a ridiculous foul call
on Mchal Bridges that was both stupid from him and
also a ridiculous call by the officials. Both can be true.
Brunson goes for forty two, nine assists and eight rebounds
(19:13):
in the win. The Knicks now they've won forty eight
games in a row. I look, everything is awesome now
with the trade deadline tomorrow, right, I want to say
this because this is you know, we've talked about the
Knicks and the teams that are going to make moves
and not and doctor what you all. It seems to
be the conversation nashally is be what the Knicks lack,
What the Knicks lack, what they need?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What they need the.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Nixt A couple of bench players might be nice. We
told you last night. They're not going to upset the
apple cart for Giannis. Not at this point. That's a
postseason trade in the offseason where hey, we gave two
seasons to the Brunson Bridges, Karl Anthony Towns and uo
be Josh Hart Knicks and if that doesn't work, well,
guess what Kat's getting traded something else. It's an off
season thing. They're won eight in a row, so they're
(19:57):
not gonna suddenly go nuts. They had lost eight in
a row. I can see him going going after Yannis.
So anything they do, probably cosmetically it will be something.
Maybe they bring in an extra big uh you know
that that can that can play and facilitate. Maybe they
bring in another insiant offense type player off the bench.
That's kind of what I see. But for the Knicks,
what makes them absolutely deadly and and you know, I
(20:19):
don't know if you can quantify this with a stat
But I'll tell you what. Watching all the NBA this season,
there is no team that runs the final four minutes
of a close game like the Knicks. They do not
get out executed in the final four minutes of a
close game. If they're down five or seven, that's usually
how the Knicks lose. Hey, they play they're not playing well.
(20:41):
Not you do other teams playing well. They're down five
or seven, that's usually how they lose a niptuck game
down the stretch where it's a one point two point
three point game. Either way, they do not get out executed.
They have the final four minutes down pretty good, and
it's a team that they could underachieve for the first
forty four minutes of the game, and something, How is
this happening?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How are they letting this team hang around?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And then all of a sudden the last four minutes, Hey,
the Knicks wind up winning by ten. You know, it's
Brunton making big plays, bruntson it's and Unobe, it's Josh
hard who has become such a such a huge contributor,
even bigger than he was the last couple of years.
Nobody out executes the Knicks in the final four minutes.
You want to talk about what they do that's better
than anybody else. That's what the Knicks do and that's
why they're so good.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, it's curious, is you know, and again measurements and
you kind of go down the run of where you
want to start your data points. Right. We do this
with the NFL all the times, like last four games,
last six games, home games, road games, when you know,
alternating Thursdays, whatever, same thing in the NBA. Right by
(21:41):
the clutch stats, Lakers are first, and then you get
to the Knicks at eleventh, by the by some of
the metrics that give you an eleven and nine record.
But the thing I like watching them at this point
is you've got buy in from all the guys that,
let's just say sometimes that's in question. Right, Carl Anthony Towns,
I don't know if he just knew the eyes of
(22:01):
a nation were on him because there's nothing coming out
of the Super Bowl and we're past all the Hall
of Fame talk or whatever else, like, Hey, they're gonna
talk about me if I body up Yo Kich today.
So I'm gonna body up Yell Kich today. So you
actually saw him throwing his ass around and when it mattered,
and late in regulation and overtime and in double o
(22:22):
D where he's clogging up the lane, he's making it difficult.
They're just saying, all right, let the big guys get
after it. And it was good basketball. It was fun
to watch uh.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And Karl Anthony Town's is gonna say, Hey, they'll talk
about me not as a as a piece of trade bait.
They'll talk to me as an about an All star,
Like I'm a feeling pretty good about it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But that's just it. I asked, when you get an
effort like this, and to your point, yeah, there would be.
It would be nice to go find another rotational player,
someone that gives you some more offense. Shaman is generally
your your best score coming off the bench. Right he's
back with at sixteen in his thirty six minutes tonight.
But it's it's the idea of when you know Joannis
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And we'll have Rick Buker on later on tonight to
talk about it a little bit more. It's the if
I'm the Bucks, I want the best offer I can
get And how many teams are really just gonna overload
to bring in Yannis right now? Could happen in the
next twenty four hours. But it's not happened from the Knicks. No,
they have to give to make that work.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's it's it again. It's
where you are at. The deadline is such a big deal.
And when you're beating everybody and you're out, Look, the
Knicks have shown hey when they made their defensive adjustments,
because they did they made a couple of pretty big
defensive adjustments a few weeks ago, and look at where
they are now. Man, I mean, I know it's January,
but hey, when you're unbeatable right before the deadline, it's
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really hard to say.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Man, ah, do we really want to do that?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
We really want to trade everybody away to go get
Yanni's and we sure that's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Again, it's an off season thing. Well, but it's a team.
It's a team that is gelled because they don't run
that deep. It's seven and sometimes an eighth or ninth.
All right, whether Kolek has to start a game or
and play heavy minutes or whatever they need to do
on the front line. But when you've got Kat who's
bought in for an extended period, now will that be
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able to continue down the stretch. Will he be able
to play heavy minutes on both ends of the court
and continue to commit that way? I don't know, but
he is right now. It looks like the little General
has him working.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So again, we got more NBA on the way again.
Rick Bucher gonna join us next hour. We got a
big night ahead of us as far as what we
could be seeing trade deadline, Wife, you saw some other
deals earlier to day.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I mean the Clippers play in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I did to get ready, get read the Clipper
and they'll find some way to get to get Garland
and Harden on the court against each other. We're gonna
find but they're not going out and we'll get him
out there.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Don't worry about it. We'll get about Clippers Cavaliers. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But the biggest story in sports today I think took
a lot of people by surprise. It certainly isn't the
first newspaper closure we've heard about, but certainly it's been
the most high profile. But Washington Post is shuddering its
sports department. The announcement was made earlier today. No more
sports than the Washington Post. There's gonna have a couple
of people around. They have people out there covering the
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Olympics right now and the Super Bowl that we're told, hey, sorry,
we've done this, now this again.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's not the first, not the last.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I still can't believe the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, which is
shutting down for good, didn't get much more, didn't get
more play. But here Washington Post tried and true, one
of the biggest papers in the history of the United States,
and how important they are important, They've been high profile
the last few years. They are shutting down and eliminating
their sports department. Now there's a couple of things from
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here and a big narrative that got out of control
today that I feel like, Okay, people just don't understand
a longer look at things. It's awful for all the
people involved are getting laid off, people that gave their
entire lives to the sports department, that loved doing what
they did. I mean, you hear the stories about Tony
Cordenheiser and Michael Wilbon and John Feinstein, all these legends,
these guys that have come through for the past thirty
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forty years, all through.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But seeing the headline that, oh, the Internet killed the
Washington Posts and the Internet is killing all the newspapers.
That's not quite accurate. Okay, it really isn't because just
think about this from this perspective for a second. Just
because something is incredibly successful for a long time doesn't
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mean that it's going to be successful forever. Nobody thought
Toys r Uss was going to close. Everybody wants to
buy toy up. But guess what Toys r Russ closed. Wow,
that amazing. Well, they had a great run. They had
a great fifty year run. But guess what Toys r
Russ closed. Didn't think that would happen. Yeah, radio Shack.
Everybody goes to radio every guy goes to radio Shack
every day. Guess what Radio Shack close. Some organizations, businesses,
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sports teams have runs that you think are gonna go forever,
and they're not because the world changes. And for the
world of newspapers, really, the world of newspapers demise has
really been a slow situation, going back to when color
Team went television and color TV first became part of
everybody's household, right because beginning of the twentieth century, there
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were twenty five thousand daily newspapers. And you think about that,
twenty five thousand daily newspapers in the United States, twenty
five thousand. But that was back when that was the
only way people got to get news. It was the newspapers, right,
So the newspapers ran unopposed for a long time. Radio
comes in a little bit, but still, Hey, these are
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shorter programs, and I still get all my news from
the newspaper, but they're starting to be a little bit
of an alternative for newspaper. Then television takes over, and
from nineteen fifty to nineteen sixty in the United States
nine percent of homes had televisions to ninety percent of
the homes had TVs. Okay, so now you're getting news
on television.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay. Still people are.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Buying newspapers, not nearly as many as that were beginning
of the twentieth century, but there's still people are buying newspapers.
But now you have competition a couple of different ways.
Then you get to the eighties and the advent of
cable news, and news suddenly is the big competitor to newspapers.
Well wait a minute, I get everything here on television. Guy,
I turn it on I get to see it. And
still newspapers were important. But this is another arm biting
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at this entity. And and it's it's it's like a
big fish in the ocean that's getting attacked by three
somewhat large fish, but not as menace, right like you
have like if you have a shark, but it's being
attacked by by three, by by two big barracudas and
a you know, and and a and a at a
baby whale or whatever you want to say. Uh, yeah,
(28:33):
eventually the shark is going to succumb. And so now
you've had So you go from radio TV, which started
to eat away because as you see, as we go on,
and they're adding different ways to consume uh, to consume
news and sports, you see, okay, radio TV, cable news.
Then the Internet came and the internet really uh just
(28:54):
the Internet was more. Hey, we are giving you the
coup de gras. Right, this is what is because now
people can get their new any time from anywhere. They
don't have to wait for the newspaper. So this is
what it is. It's not the Internet didn't show up
and all of a sudden, boy, the newspapers got killed
because newspapers were still doing well. Even in the advent
of cable news, they were still winning big awards. They
were still breaking big stories everywhere across the country. Right,
(29:16):
go watch Spotlight. You want to see the impact the
newspaper can have. So it's really it's not the Internet killed.
It's the Internet came along and it was the final blow.
Newspapers were wounded for a long time, and it's just
the final blow. And really because newspapers couldn't adjust, because
how can you adjust? Right, all these other news entities
are able to adjust somehow.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Uh, this is what did it.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And the ones that are still surviving now, I mean,
you have like less than a thousand newspapers left in
the United States. Now, are all the ones that were
able to take advantage of the Internet in the early days,
Like when the Internet came around it said to say no, no, no,
we're not going to embrace it. Those newspapers that embrace
the Internet are all still doing well. Right, you've seen them,
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Washington postb the Internet, the rest of the newspaper going on.
All these papers that embrace the Internet put their content online. Hey,
they're doing great. The ones that didn't are the ones
that wind up get getting shuttered like this. It's a
sad story today. But to say the internet did it, No,
the Internet more just hey, we came in with the
killing blow. But this was something that was really, you know,
fifty sixty years on the making. It wasn't just it
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wasn't going to be forever for newspapers and sports sections
of newspapers.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Look, in general, folks don't read. They scan headlines, misconstrued headlines,
blurbs that are pulled out by whatever source. And then
either you click in and actually read the article or
you don't. I mean, look at what we put up
from content here at Fox Sports Radio and then you
(30:44):
read the comments like you didn't listen to a minute
of it. But just to that point, right, if you
put a transcription up, right, do they actually read the
second paragraph that gets into the deeper point all of this.
When you go back to the evening local news followed
by Copple or Cronkite or or Peter Jennings or whoever
(31:07):
you watched, that was an hour. That's it. I got
all my news. I got a nice nutty the squirrel
that's surfing at the local boat show. I got a
couple of squirrel the square I did. And then and
then you're gonna take out, you know, your local sports.
Here's the weather, see y'all later. Now it's on the
wheel of fortune or whatever your next show was. And
(31:28):
you moved on here, sitting down, finding time to really
concentrate and read, you know, and and focus on that
versus its secondary experience. Right, you're not totally locked in
going all the way back to those days. Then you'd
have the the advent of the internet. And I always
joke about the Tom Petty line from the last DJ.
(31:51):
You know how much you'll pay for what you used
to get for free? Well ads and Java pop up
ads and all that stuff paid early on, and then
everything got put behind paywalls. Guess what, you can unring
that bell once I'm getting it for free. I'm not
gonna suddenly start forking out money. And so that hurts
as well. Circulation right now, ninety seven thousand daily for
(32:15):
the Washington Post, so many greats through the years, and
we saw all the tales today. So I feel for
everybody there. It's the sign of where we're at, and
it's a changing landscape and economy and look business time
and again you mentioned toys, r us how many people
wander either a Target or the Amazon Toy store during
(32:37):
the holiday holiday holiday season? Why because I don't have
to leave my.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
House, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason
Smith Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
We have more on this because if there's so many
things to talk about on a day like this, and again,
even people I've never met, my heart goes out to you.
Everything you put into your life and career for this.
It just it sucks time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
From a guy who has a lot.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
In common with fraanber Valdez, he loves Detroit, it's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I was about to say, that's about where starts and stops.
I'm right handed, he's left handed. I'm he's rich. I'm
I'm here at work. So that's about where it starts.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Rich and he's rich because he works and he does
very well. It's not like the guy doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
No, I'm not saying he's not today.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
He didn't do much, but sign he did earn it though.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That was one hundred and fifteen million dollars signature. I
mean he did definitely earned it. Then we'll get to
that in just a second.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Twenty seconds left in overtime, the Bucks have a two
point lead over the Pelicans, one thirty nine to one,
thirty seven Trey Murphy with forty four, six rebounds and
six assists, Kevin Porter Junior sixteen points, six rebounds and
nine assists. At the half, the Spurs have a big
lead on a thunder seventy three to fifty eight victim
Winbniabo with eleven points and six rebounds. Eleven minute left
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in the first half for the Grizzlies and the Kings,
Sacramento with a thirty five to thirty two leads to
Bonus with quick ten points. On the early going, we
have a few games already in the books. The Timberwolves
beat the Raptors one twenty eight to one twenty six
Anthony Edwards with thirty points in eight rebound Scottie Barnes
with twenty two to ten and eight. Celtics beat the
Rockets one fourteen to ninety three Alprinchingoon with thirteen points
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and nine rebounds, and of course, in double overtime, the
Knicks beat the Nuggets one thirty four to one twenty
seven Jalen Bruntson with forty two points, eight rebounds and
nine assists. The Charlotte Hornets have been super active ahead
of the trade deadline. They made another trade today, trading
for Tyas Jones from the Orlando Magic. They also received
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two second round picks in the deal, Magic now getting
under the luxury tax with that one. Earlier today, they
acquired Kobe White, Mike Conley Junior, and Mason Plumbley and
other deals. Former Arizona Cardinals quarterback coach Israel wolf Fork
will take the same position on Jesse Menser's Baltimore Raven
staff defense. Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stalin is retiring
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Eagles defensive coordinator Vicfangol returning to the team, and earlier today,
Jay Glazer from Fox Sports was asked if he felt
Max Crosby's time with the Raiders is done. Glazier responded
to saying I do, and then predicted that Max Crosby
will fetch more in the trade market than Michael Parsons did.
Drake May was a full participant in practice today. He
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does have was had on the injury report with that
shoulder injury Nick Eamon Warrie, Seahawks rookie safety injured his
ankle at practice today, The severity of the injury unknown.
And again fran Burvaldes three years, one hundred and fifteen
million dollars to become the next left hander in Detroit.
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That's the highest average annual value ever for a left
handed pitcher.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
How long? How long is that going to stand? You think, guys,
Mets overpay for somebody in a year? Here you go,
that's how long it'll stand.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Thanks, Martin Wise, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios coming up next. You want some
positivity on a Wednesday? Hey, all sorts of props to
one team who made a.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Big move today.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
However, however, there's another side to it as well.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike fuck.
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
So bit a positivity on a Wednesday night, the final
big free agent in Major League Baseball is off the board.
Framber Valdez signed sealed, delivered three years, one hundred and
fifteen million dollars to the Detroit Tigers. But that is
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what happened, the team that doesn't pay anybody. Right now,
he's getting paid more than everybody on the team one
through twenty five. Uh, they don't do this. They don't
pay anybody, but they pay Framber Valdez three years, one
hundred and fifteen million dollars. And it's a stunner, right
It's an absolute stunner. I'm thinking at this point, Baldez
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has been out there a while, thirty two years old.
He's pretty dependable, good playoff performer. I miss some team
is gonna get him on the cheap. Nope, Tigers come
in and say, okay, three years, one hundred and fifteen million.
So big move for them, big move for the Tigers
right now, all of a sudden, they become one of
the top teams to beat major League Baseball because one
two with him and Tarik Schooble.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Look out.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
But just so you know, the positivity is there's a
little bit of a dark side here for this story
and it's good for you know, twenty nine of the
teams in Major League Baseball. The Tigers don't pay anybody, right,
they don't pay anybody. My family right now in Detroit,
they are so happy around yeah, yeah, come get us,
come get okay, okay. First of all, the Tiger's gonna
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be pissed if his arbitration result comes back and they're
gonna pay him thirty million this year instead of nineteen million,
So understand that. But the Tigers didn't go out to
get Fraanbervaldez to say, hey, now with him in Tarik
School the next five years, next three years, good luck
beating both of them. No, they don't pay a lot
of people. If they wanted to pay and keep Tarik School,
they would have. They would have done that already. But
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everything seems to be at arm's length. The Tigers seemed
to be all in on this year, and who knows,
maybe if the arbitration number goes way up, the Tigers say, okay,
we don't want to pay this. We just paid one
guy thirty million dollars a year, or ready to trade him.
But no matter what, no matter how you cut it up,
this year, last year for School with the Tigers, maybe
by the deadline if the season goes south, because the
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Tigers didn't pay Valdez to be the number two with School. Again,
they don't give guys like this a lot of money.
They paid Valdez to be their ace sometime from between
this year and for the next two years after that.
That's what they're paying him for. They have a pretty
good team, you know, the way that they are constructed.
They're constructed extremely well for playoff baseball. They're not a
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team that's gonna win one hundred and fifteen games, but
ninety wins they get in the playoffs, they become a
really tough team. They grind out at bats awesome. They
signed Valdez to be that guy. School will be way
more expensive. They didn't want to do it. What are
we gonna miss or were really gonna miss a lot
the difference between Schooble and Valdez the next couple of years.
But that's what this signing does, is tells you that
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he is gonna be out there maybe next year, definitely,
maybe by the deadline, and if his arbitration comes in
more than that, maybe sooner than that. But you can
count you can count the remaining starts to reiku Schooble
has with the Tigers and at least on a new team.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Since we were talking basketball a little bit earlier, when
Martin was finishing his update, he threw the lob up
and it was like someone pulled the plug out of
the TV, going no, no, no, no no, because he said, hey,
who's going to be that? How long does that left
hand or record stand? Well, the obvious answer is when
does schoobl get his massive deal? And remember who his
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agent is. It's got boor us everybody, So you know,
whatever the arbitration number is, the likelihood of the two
of them being paired beyond October of twenty twenty six
is about zero. They are twelve to one to win
the AL after a slight O odds adjustment took him
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from fifteen to one to twelve to one in a
couple of the sites that I that I saw. But
you're looking at schoobl whether he makes nineteen, whether he
makes thirty at the deadline, if they're not running away
in that division and looking like they're cruising towards a
playoff berth, he'll get dealt and plenty of teams will
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come up and offer sacrifice for him, or it'll get
to the end of the year and he'll get his
two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Telling you maybe the number of starts for school ball
as a Tiger is thirty, maybe it's fifteen, maybe it's zero,
because again he gets that thirty, you get that thirty.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Two million dollars. Well, we don't want to pay that
much money.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I'm telling you watch out, but Tarik's Schooble new uniform,
it's coming coming up. Next, we get into a big
story from the Super Bowl where someone says they don't
have a rooting interest, which tells you they're really rooting
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Marquee Game of the night. The NBA will jump right
in before you get to the huge NBA trade earlier today.
Nicks lead the Nuggets right now in doublet one twenty
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five one twenty one, with three minutes left to go.
The Knicks had won this game a three, a long,
wild three was off by the Nuggets. Everybody was jumping
around on the court except on the shot.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
On the rebound, which went to nobody.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
A loose ball foul called on Mical Bridges, who was
just pushing Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Out of the way all the way through the paint.
They call the foul. He hits both free throws and
here we are in overtime. Never stand in front of
the pulling guard. What you know.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And here's the thing, And I'll be honest with you
on this, because this is one of those where you think, oh,
Jason's gonna lose his mind. Well, yes, because I lost
my mind a nice scream what I saw it. But
really it's it's it's not a foul that you call, right,
that's not something you call, right, You really don't. You
really don't call something like that. That's away from the
ball and he's pushing. However, don't don't do it. What
(02:01):
I mean, if you give him a little bit of
a push, okay, but he like rides him all the
way through the payton. Of course, it's what the officials
are looking at because that's where the ball is coming in.
So yeah, you know what, both things can be true
in that situation. You don't have to call that foul.
But wow, Bridges, you really made it easier to do it.
You really made it easier to call that foul, which
is like, are you kidding? Me on that like that,
(02:21):
like that, I'm sitting.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Here going eight in a row. It just beat the
nuggety echo New York go to and then I see going,
really we're going to do?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I had I'll tell you, Mike, I got the PTSD
flashbacks from Tyrese Haliburton. Uh the three point of that
clanged off the back of the room up and went through,
making the choke signal all the way through. I had
flashbacks that going game's over. Games are all come on, man,
I mean really, I had flashbacks to that moment.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, I understand that, and the vexation and the exasperation
of the moment because I was watching it without sound
like did they really call that foul? Wow? He's going
to the line? Is he?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Is?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He? And sure enough, there he go and you watch
the replay and it's just completely unnecessary. All he had
to do was go and stand in and let him
run into him. Instead he's full lead blocker and pushing
him out of the way. By the way, they have
let these guys get after it a bit like it
were the Eastern Conference finals of I don't know, pick
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any year in the mid eighties or early nineties, but
that that was just degree just just completely unnecessary games.
One ball falls harmlessly instead a couple of file shots.
Now you've been helped by the fact that Jamal Murray
found his way to just fall out of bounds trying
to retrieve a ball. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was nice. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Hey oh they Oh he slipped, Spike Lee tripped him.
I think Spike Lee trim Midam. But no, dude, I
am not okay right now. Man, I am not okay.
I know we're up by six with a minute forty
five left, but either like that was a win and
we just found our way to say, nope, let's keep
in the game. Let's keep you in the game. Man,
I went I flashed back to Halliburton. Man, that is
not I am not okay, man, I'm not ok okay
(04:00):
right now. This is the only team I have in
mind that's any good right now, that's playing or that
has just played.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I mean this, this is what I have right now. Man.
The Jets, you're building back. Oh dude, we're not building back.
We're anything. We're not building anything.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Long road begins with the first stops. What they're doing
is burning the team to the ground and then burning
the ashes. I want to make sure I want to
leave no trades, so burn the team and then whatever's
left he burn the ashes as well.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Let's get that gasoline on there. Let's go and ashes.
You appeared from that to ash as you return, and
here we go back to the sea and all that stuff. Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So again we'll have more in the game of the
night again coming up in a few minutes, Nick Nuggets.
A seven point lead now for the Knicks with a
buck fifteen to go in overtime. But then again I
remember a seven point lead with fifty seconds left against
the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So again down the PTSD.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Uh But if today, well the last couple of days,
with any indication, we might get a wild trade deadline
tomorrow in the NBA, because coming off of yesterday and
all the big news and James Harden is traded, and
and and Lebron James is not going to get traded,
and all the other minor trades where the Utah Jazz
for next year may have gotten better. Anthony Davis dealt
(05:06):
earlier today in a trade no one saw coming because
we all thought, well, it's gonna be the raptors, right,
you're keeping track of things today, they're down the road.
It looks like he could be a Raptor. All right,
ad the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, yeah, you know they kind of have to make
a move with something. No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
He is sent to the Wizards in a forty seven
player trade. Anthony Davis is now a member of the
Washington Wizards. All right, And the first thing is this
is that the Wizards. You put a stamp on this,
Mike Carmon. The Wizards have officially become that team where
if you get traded there, it means you need to
look in the mirror and see what you've done to
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get to this point in your career. Like he use
me that way with the Clippers, Right, if you're a
Clipper man, you're just hanging on what am I doing? No,
the Wizards the last years have become Hey, man, I
was up at the top. I was great, man, I
was fantastic, And look where am I just got traded
to the Wizards?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Man? They haven't been trying in years? What is happening?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Like that's the biggest look in the mirror moment you
could have, is getting traded to the Wizards. And I
hope to you know, to put positivity on this trade.
AD has that look in the mirror moment, because man,
you get traded to the Wizards. That that's the that's
like the forced intervention, Like there's nothing we could do
for you. We'll trade you to the Wizards. Maybe you
figure it out along the way, maybe you don't, but
this is your last chance.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I spoke part of it into existence last night by
mentioning all the teams that might be contenders and actually
want a trade from Lebron James's contract, the Wizards being
chief among them. Well they got one half there. Now
you rejoin with AD. Hey, I didn't really mean to
get you out of here. I'm sorry. Look, there's like
fifteen guys in the middle of this trade, and there's
(06:44):
so much going on in so many smaller trades, and
we can run through them all. But for Anthony Davis,
it goes We go back a year ago, right, we
just commemorated that year anniversary of Luka donc Anthony Davis.
And in the moment, you're looking at what the Mavericks
had on paper with the roster and the veterans Kyrie
(07:05):
irving Anthony Davis like, could be interesting if they're healthy. Blah,
blah blah. Well, we know that didn't happen. And then
you get to this year and you're rolling through and
clearly it's Cooper Flagg's show and everybody else revolves around
him as as it were. And we'll see how many
more parts get dealt before the deadline tomorrow. But Anthony
(07:26):
Davis was just a piece. He's just a guy that
clutters up the lane. At this point. Dude plays a
little bit of defense when he plays.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, this is how far he has fallen from
It's Lebron and Ad and it's gonna be the new
Dynasty LA and they win the Bubble Championship. Then it's okay,
it's still Lebron and Ad. Then it's not Lebron and Ad,
and AD's the guy in Dallas. And now he's not
the guy in Dallas. And now he's a guy right
now now twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Nine games this year, and it's back to almost like
when he was pouting and made his demands known in
New Orleans that he didn't want to be there. He
doesn't want to be the guy, and then he's pissed
when he's not the guy.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I mean, yeah, I mean, just just I really hope
he has that moment because he needs it, because if
he doesn't, I'll give you a both. He's out of
the league in three years if he doesn't find a
way to take care of his body and get whatever motivation,
the visible desire that he has been lacking at times
throughout his career to be the best player in the league.
Like maybe he's not gonna be that guy anymore because
(08:25):
he's thirty two, but he's got to find a way
to stay on the court and at least appear motivated
all the way through because he's got a skill set
nobody in the league has. Giannis doesn't have it, Jokic
doesn't have it, Lebron doesn't have it. He's got a
skill set nobody does, and he's gotten by on his ability.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
For so long. Like this is that moment for him, man,
Like this is okay.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
After this, that's it. You got you gotta have time
where hey, you're a wizard, man and now you're a wizard, Harry,
you're a wizard. Ad you're a wizard now, and your
career now goes one of two ways. Either you find
a way to build this back or you are gonna
be out of the league in three years, because that's
gonna happen to Ad. He'll be out of the league
in three years by he's thirty five because he can't
stay on the floor and he's not the player he
was and he can't count on him. That's gonna be
(09:06):
AD's future.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Now, this one the injury a little bit different, right
ligament damage in his hand. But all all of it
to the history and everything adds up to a point
right now, and let's get to the financials of all
of this fun. He's owed fifty eight and a half
million dollars next year. Then he has, wait for it,
the dreaded player optioned in twenty seven, twenty eight for
(09:30):
sixty two point eight million dollars. Yeah, and he's eligible
for a contract extension this August. Is that what he holds?
Hey extend me? Yeah? Like no, you out about the
hook for one hundred and seventeen million dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, we're gonna wait to out Ad, just so you know,
we're gonna wait out and see how things go before
we think about a new contract.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Just so you know we're gonna kind of wait things out.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
But you said a great thing, because what I want
more than anything, I didn't realize how bad, how bad
I want this because you know, retro is so popular
now and everybody loves going back, and I like going
back and looking at at at at un at errors
and sports that really need to be examined a little
bit more, right, Like, you know, I don't need another
documentary on the sixty nine Mets. I don't need anything
(10:15):
else on the two thousand and eight Celtics, Right, I
don't need anything else on I mean, Miracle on Ice awesome, Right,
But do we really need something else on.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We just got another one this night? Did we do this?
I don't need anything else on the nineties Bulls. I
don't have eighty five. But really, what I want, I
want the Wizards.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Please hold on to Anthony Davis, hold on to Trey Young,
hold on to di'angelo Russell, hold on to CJ. McCollum,
because I want to go back in time and realize
what it was like to watch the b Dream Team
from the early two thousands play, right, Because that's really
what this team is. Right when when the Dream Team
won in ninety two, ninety six, and then the guys
(10:54):
said we don't want to go anymore, right, And it
was Iver sitting a bunch of guys and lamar Odaman
and they lost. It was all my goodness, Like, that's
what this team looks like like you could. I want
to see what they're like on the floor, because I
want to go back to seeing what the b dream
team in the two thousands are like him and Trey
Young and D'Angelo Russell mccollins. That's what I want to say.
I so want to see that, Mike, You have no
idea like I would find out a way to get
(11:16):
a package of Wizards games. If I could see them
on the floor at the same time, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
They were able to get out of Anthony Davis's contract
in Dallas. This is absolutely amazing. But I like that
that lineup you just put out for the Wizards if
they retained it. I don't have enough time. We have
three hours and forty minutes ish of show left. I
don't think I could even read what everything that transpired
(11:42):
going back to the Luke of Vad trade as to
all the participants and principles involved players and draft picks
and whatever. Would take me about thirty five minutes uninterrupted
to get through that. So we'll leave that for another time.
But your all star lineup of years past, I mean
that is just fantastic and just bad money and more
(12:03):
bad money piling up. I mean the b USA b
Dream Team, you know, that was just fantastic. I mean that,
I really, I really, I want I want more on that.
I mean, I want more of that, and I'm getting
it here. I'll get It's like I'm getting it. It's
like I don't have to worry about I'm getting exactly
what it is with these guys.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
These guys who, hey, at one point they were really good,
but either they're on the other side of the mountain,
or they hit difficulties in their career.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Whatever it was, all these things, they were all star players.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now that I get to see them all on the
floor at once, playing together, I want to see that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well. The best is I mean, nobody's taking on any
of these deals. They're either hurt, have been hurt, or
have these exorbitant salaries still on the books. Like we said,
with the one hundred and seventeen million dollars that's including
that second year player option there for Anthony Davis, you
ain't going anywhere. That's your final stop. You are a wizard.
(12:55):
You're a wizard.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Ad yeah, yeah, Haggrid comes out and lets him know.
And you know, I like shorting hackoes this guy.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah that she injured a lot. Are we maybe I
could put you in Slytherin?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
No, no, Slytherin her Okay, well, very talented.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let's see. I like to how about huff a Puff?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Wouldn't they need be great Hufflepuff because you rarely saw
people in Hufflepuff.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's a d he'd be Hufflepuff. That that is absolutely
uh true. Every once in a while there was the
garats He's like, yeah, remember they were in Hufflepuff. It's like, yeah,
that might have been in the book, that was not
in the movie. And I'll tell you what you want.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You want you want the one thing you could change
the draft to get people watch instead of instead of
having the draft, just have the sorting hat.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Put people into the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I think, if there's something to that, you come and
just sit there with the people.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh my god, Oh my good, here comes Cooper Flag.
Oh my god, what's the sorting hat gonna say? That
would be outstanding.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That would be the best way people would like, I
don't need to watch a draft through I just need this.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I just the all the kids all they're all lining
up together.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't think it's any less legit than the one
point a percent chance they had to win the lotter.
I'm a huge Harry Potter.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And then it's it's and it's just one of those
where just like in Harry Potter, where just random kids,
you know, go again, Oh, Susan Bones, Susan Bones, Aremia
any Granger? Why am I Draco Malfoy's like, here's you know,
a bunch of guys in the second round might not
even be out there that uh Cooper flag Cooper flea
Cooper would be like Harry Potter going up the oh
Cooper flag Cooper flag.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Did we ever get the whereabouts of a couple of
those that got sorted in year one?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't I lost in the Great Battle unfortunately. I
think a lot of them, A lot of them fell
victim in the Battle of Hogwarts. Thank thanks for bringing
up a really down moment right there.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, but did they get name checked and did they
get an in memoriam?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I think they wanted to have their whole lives and
instead they had to worry about fighting alongside a bunch
of kids that didn't know how to do spell.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
They were all pawns. Anyway, Dumbledore is the most evil
character created in recent memory. He had his fight. He
had him in the Grand Paw from Willy Wonka.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Okay, Charlie, we gotta go, Charlie. I'll throw you in
the Chocolate River if you don't go there. Exit out
about a fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
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Speaker 1 (17:55):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
When you very carelessly take a team to double overtime
and make it everybody nervous, but then find a way
to pull it out.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Because your best player is the MVP, you get to
be the play of the day to come on, man,
come on here, and then changes gets hit. The ball
is loose and it's alive. The play of the day
has to be a play from today. Out does it? Yes,
it does? Look man I've heard I've heard plays from yesterday,
(18:23):
last month.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Jason, does it say the play of today or the
play of the day. It's a play, it's today's play
of the day. I'm seeing it right here in my notes,
and it says, tell Alex tyshirt, it's the play of
the day today.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
If that buckles head gives you any more problem.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
About three fifteens ago, double overtime, Brunson pulls up right,
so I knocks down the three and the Knicks have
a four point lead.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Time outs, Denvers, you.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Get that time out, Get that time out, David Attleman
Brinston with a huge game. The Knicks beat the Nuggets
in overtime after forcing overtime on a ridiculous foul call
on Mchal Bridges that was both stupid from him and
also a ridiculous call by the officials. Both can be true.
Brunson goes for forty two, nine assists and eight rebounds
(19:13):
in the win. The Knicks now they've won forty eight
games in a row. I look, everything is awesome now
with the trade deadline tomorrow, right, I want to say
this because this is you know, we've talked about the
Knicks and the teams that are going to make moves
and not and doctor what you all. It seems to
be the conversation nashally is be what the Knicks lack,
What the Knicks lack, what they need?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What they need the.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Nixt A couple of bench players might be nice. We
told you last night. They're not going to upset the
apple cart for Giannis. Not at this point. That's a
postseason trade in the offseason where hey, we gave two
seasons to the Brunson Bridges, Karl Anthony Towns and uo
be Josh Hart Knicks and if that doesn't work, well,
guess what Kat's getting traded something else. It's an off
season thing. They're won eight in a row, so they're
(19:57):
not gonna suddenly go nuts. They had lost eight in
a row. I can see him going going after Yannis.
So anything they do, probably cosmetically it will be something.
Maybe they bring in an extra big uh you know
that that can that can play and facilitate. Maybe they
bring in another insiant offense type player off the bench.
That's kind of what I see. But for the Knicks,
what makes them absolutely deadly and and you know, I
(20:19):
don't know if you can quantify this with a stat
But I'll tell you what. Watching all the NBA this season,
there is no team that runs the final four minutes
of a close game like the Knicks. They do not
get out executed in the final four minutes of a
close game. If they're down five or seven, that's usually
how the Knicks lose. Hey, they play they're not playing well.
(20:41):
Not you do other teams playing well. They're down five
or seven, that's usually how they lose a niptuck game
down the stretch where it's a one point two point
three point game. Either way, they do not get out executed.
They have the final four minutes down pretty good, and
it's a team that they could underachieve for the first
forty four minutes of the game, and something, How is
this happening?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How are they letting this team hang around?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And then all of a sudden the last four minutes, Hey,
the Knicks wind up winning by ten. You know, it's
Brunton making big plays, bruntson it's and Unobe, it's Josh
hard who has become such a such a huge contributor,
even bigger than he was the last couple of years.
Nobody out executes the Knicks in the final four minutes.
You want to talk about what they do that's better
than anybody else. That's what the Knicks do and that's
why they're so good.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, it's curious, is you know, and again measurements and
you kind of go down the run of where you
want to start your data points. Right. We do this
with the NFL all the times, like last four games,
last six games, home games, road games, when you know,
alternating Thursdays, whatever, same thing in the NBA. Right by
(21:41):
the clutch stats, Lakers are first, and then you get
to the Knicks at eleventh, by the by some of
the metrics that give you an eleven and nine record.
But the thing I like watching them at this point
is you've got buy in from all the guys that,
let's just say sometimes that's in question. Right, Carl Anthony Towns,
I don't know if he just knew the eyes of
(22:01):
a nation were on him because there's nothing coming out
of the Super Bowl and we're past all the Hall
of Fame talk or whatever else, like, Hey, they're gonna
talk about me if I body up Yo Kich today.
So I'm gonna body up Yell Kich today. So you
actually saw him throwing his ass around and when it mattered,
and late in regulation and overtime and in double o
(22:22):
D where he's clogging up the lane, he's making it difficult.
They're just saying, all right, let the big guys get
after it. And it was good basketball. It was fun
to watch uh.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And Karl Anthony Town's is gonna say, Hey, they'll talk
about me not as a as a piece of trade bait.
They'll talk to me as an about an All star,
Like I'm a feeling pretty good about it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But that's just it. I asked, when you get an
effort like this, and to your point, yeah, there would be.
It would be nice to go find another rotational player,
someone that gives you some more offense. Shaman is generally
your your best score coming off the bench. Right he's
back with at sixteen in his thirty six minutes tonight.
But it's it's the idea of when you know Joannis
(23:02):
And we'll have Rick Buker on later on tonight to
talk about it a little bit more. It's the if
I'm the Bucks, I want the best offer I can
get And how many teams are really just gonna overload
to bring in Yannis right now? Could happen in the
next twenty four hours. But it's not happened from the Knicks. No,
they have to give to make that work.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's it's it again. It's
where you are at. The deadline is such a big deal.
And when you're beating everybody and you're out, Look, the
Knicks have shown hey when they made their defensive adjustments,
because they did they made a couple of pretty big
defensive adjustments a few weeks ago, and look at where
they are now. Man, I mean, I know it's January,
but hey, when you're unbeatable right before the deadline, it's
(23:43):
really hard to say.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Man, ah, do we really want to do that?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
We really want to trade everybody away to go get
Yanni's and we sure that's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Again, it's an off season thing. Well, but it's a team.
It's a team that is gelled because they don't run
that deep. It's seven and sometimes an eighth or ninth.
All right, whether Kolek has to start a game or
and play heavy minutes or whatever they need to do
on the front line. But when you've got Kat who's
bought in for an extended period, now will that be
(24:12):
able to continue down the stretch. Will he be able
to play heavy minutes on both ends of the court
and continue to commit that way? I don't know, but
he is right now. It looks like the little General
has him working.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So again, we got more NBA on the way again.
Rick Bucher gonna join us next hour. We got a
big night ahead of us as far as what we
could be seeing trade deadline, Wife, you saw some other
deals earlier to day.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I mean the Clippers play in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I did to get ready, get read the Clipper
and they'll find some way to get to get Garland
and Harden on the court against each other. We're gonna
find but they're not going out and we'll get him
out there.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Don't worry about it. We'll get about Clippers Cavaliers. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But the biggest story in sports today I think took
a lot of people by surprise. It certainly isn't the
first newspaper closure we've heard about, but certainly it's been
the most high profile. But Washington Post is shuddering its
sports department. The announcement was made earlier today. No more
sports than the Washington Post. There's gonna have a couple
of people around. They have people out there covering the
(25:09):
Olympics right now and the Super Bowl that we're told, hey, sorry,
we've done this, now this again.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
It's not the first, not the last.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I still can't believe the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, which is
shutting down for good, didn't get much more, didn't get
more play. But here Washington Post tried and true, one
of the biggest papers in the history of the United States,
and how important they are important, They've been high profile
the last few years. They are shutting down and eliminating
their sports department. Now there's a couple of things from
(25:36):
here and a big narrative that got out of control
today that I feel like, Okay, people just don't understand
a longer look at things. It's awful for all the
people involved are getting laid off, people that gave their
entire lives to the sports department, that loved doing what
they did. I mean, you hear the stories about Tony
Cordenheiser and Michael Wilbon and John Feinstein, all these legends,
these guys that have come through for the past thirty
(25:58):
forty years, all through.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But seeing the headline that, oh, the Internet killed the
Washington Posts and the Internet is killing all the newspapers.
That's not quite accurate. Okay, it really isn't because just
think about this from this perspective for a second. Just
because something is incredibly successful for a long time doesn't
(26:22):
mean that it's going to be successful forever. Nobody thought
Toys r Uss was going to close. Everybody wants to
buy toy up. But guess what Toys r Russ closed. Wow,
that amazing. Well, they had a great run. They had
a great fifty year run. But guess what Toys r
Russ closed. Didn't think that would happen. Yeah, radio Shack.
Everybody goes to radio every guy goes to radio Shack
every day. Guess what Radio Shack close. Some organizations, businesses,
(26:43):
sports teams have runs that you think are gonna go forever,
and they're not because the world changes. And for the
world of newspapers, really, the world of newspapers demise has
really been a slow situation, going back to when color
Team went television and color TV first became part of
everybody's household, right because beginning of the twentieth century, there
(27:07):
were twenty five thousand daily newspapers. And you think about that,
twenty five thousand daily newspapers in the United States, twenty
five thousand. But that was back when that was the
only way people got to get news. It was the newspapers, right,
So the newspapers ran unopposed for a long time. Radio
comes in a little bit, but still, Hey, these are
(27:27):
shorter programs, and I still get all my news from
the newspaper, but they're starting to be a little bit
of an alternative for newspaper. Then television takes over, and
from nineteen fifty to nineteen sixty in the United States
nine percent of homes had televisions to ninety percent of
the homes had TVs. Okay, so now you're getting news
on television.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay. Still people are.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Buying newspapers, not nearly as many as that were beginning
of the twentieth century, but there's still people are buying newspapers.
But now you have competition a couple of different ways.
Then you get to the eighties and the advent of
cable news, and news suddenly is the big competitor to newspapers.
Well wait a minute, I get everything here on television. Guy,
I turn it on I get to see it. And
still newspapers were important. But this is another arm biting
(28:12):
at this entity. And and it's it's it's like a
big fish in the ocean that's getting attacked by three
somewhat large fish, but not as menace, right like you
have like if you have a shark, but it's being
attacked by by three, by by two big barracudas and
a you know, and and a and a at a
baby whale or whatever you want to say. Uh, yeah,
(28:33):
eventually the shark is going to succumb. And so now
you've had So you go from radio TV, which started
to eat away because as you see, as we go on,
and they're adding different ways to consume uh, to consume
news and sports, you see, okay, radio TV, cable news.
Then the Internet came and the internet really uh just
(28:54):
the Internet was more. Hey, we are giving you the
coup de gras. Right, this is what is because now
people can get their new any time from anywhere. They
don't have to wait for the newspaper. So this is
what it is. It's not the Internet didn't show up
and all of a sudden, boy, the newspapers got killed
because newspapers were still doing well. Even in the advent
of cable news, they were still winning big awards. They
were still breaking big stories everywhere across the country. Right,
(29:16):
go watch Spotlight. You want to see the impact the
newspaper can have. So it's really it's not the Internet killed.
It's the Internet came along and it was the final blow.
Newspapers were wounded for a long time, and it's just
the final blow. And really because newspapers couldn't adjust, because
how can you adjust? Right, all these other news entities
are able to adjust somehow.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Uh, this is what did it.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And the ones that are still surviving now, I mean,
you have like less than a thousand newspapers left in
the United States. Now, are all the ones that were
able to take advantage of the Internet in the early days,
Like when the Internet came around it said to say no, no, no,
we're not going to embrace it. Those newspapers that embrace
the Internet are all still doing well. Right, you've seen them,
(29:59):
Washington postb the Internet, the rest of the newspaper going on.
All these papers that embrace the Internet put their content online. Hey,
they're doing great. The ones that didn't are the ones
that wind up get getting shuttered like this. It's a
sad story today. But to say the internet did it, No,
the Internet more just hey, we came in with the
killing blow. But this was something that was really, you know,
fifty sixty years on the making. It wasn't just it
(30:19):
wasn't going to be forever for newspapers and sports sections
of newspapers.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Look, in general, folks don't read. They scan headlines, misconstrued headlines,
blurbs that are pulled out by whatever source. And then
either you click in and actually read the article or
you don't. I mean, look at what we put up
from content here at Fox Sports Radio and then you
(30:44):
read the comments like you didn't listen to a minute
of it. But just to that point, right, if you
put a transcription up, right, do they actually read the
second paragraph that gets into the deeper point all of this.
When you go back to the evening local news followed
by Copple or Cronkite or or Peter Jennings or whoever
(31:07):
you watched, that was an hour. That's it. I got
all my news. I got a nice nutty the squirrel
that's surfing at the local boat show. I got a
couple of squirrel the square I did. And then and
then you're gonna take out, you know, your local sports.
Here's the weather, see y'all later. Now it's on the
wheel of fortune or whatever your next show was. And
(31:28):
you moved on here, sitting down, finding time to really
concentrate and read, you know, and and focus on that
versus its secondary experience. Right, you're not totally locked in
going all the way back to those days. Then you'd
have the the advent of the internet. And I always
joke about the Tom Petty line from the last DJ.
(31:51):
You know how much you'll pay for what you used
to get for free? Well ads and Java pop up
ads and all that stuff paid early on, and then
everything got put behind paywalls. Guess what, you can unring
that bell once I'm getting it for free. I'm not
gonna suddenly start forking out money. And so that hurts
as well. Circulation right now, ninety seven thousand daily for
(32:15):
the Washington Post, so many greats through the years, and
we saw all the tales today. So I feel for
everybody there. It's the sign of where we're at, and
it's a changing landscape and economy and look business time
and again you mentioned toys, r us how many people
wander either a Target or the Amazon Toy store during
(32:37):
the holiday holiday holiday season? Why because I don't have
to leave my.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
House, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason
Smith Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
We have more on this because if there's so many
things to talk about on a day like this, and again,
even people I've never met, my heart goes out to you.
Everything you put into your life and career for this.
It just it sucks time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
From a guy who has a lot.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
In common with fraanber Valdez, he loves Detroit, it's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I was about to say, that's about where starts and stops.
I'm right handed, he's left handed. I'm he's rich. I'm
I'm here at work. So that's about where it starts.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Rich and he's rich because he works and he does
very well. It's not like the guy doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
No, I'm not saying he's not today.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
He didn't do much, but sign he did earn it though.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
That was one hundred and fifteen million dollars signature. I
mean he did definitely earned it. Then we'll get to
that in just a second.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Twenty seconds left in overtime, the Bucks have a two
point lead over the Pelicans, one thirty nine to one,
thirty seven Trey Murphy with forty four, six rebounds and
six assists, Kevin Porter Junior sixteen points, six rebounds and
nine assists. At the half, the Spurs have a big
lead on a thunder seventy three to fifty eight victim
Winbniabo with eleven points and six rebounds. Eleven minute left
(34:00):
in the first half for the Grizzlies and the Kings,
Sacramento with a thirty five to thirty two leads to
Bonus with quick ten points. On the early going, we
have a few games already in the books. The Timberwolves
beat the Raptors one twenty eight to one twenty six
Anthony Edwards with thirty points in eight rebound Scottie Barnes
with twenty two to ten and eight. Celtics beat the
Rockets one fourteen to ninety three Alprinchingoon with thirteen points
(34:25):
and nine rebounds, and of course, in double overtime, the
Knicks beat the Nuggets one thirty four to one twenty
seven Jalen Bruntson with forty two points, eight rebounds and
nine assists. The Charlotte Hornets have been super active ahead
of the trade deadline. They made another trade today, trading
for Tyas Jones from the Orlando Magic. They also received
(34:47):
two second round picks in the deal, Magic now getting
under the luxury tax with that one. Earlier today, they
acquired Kobe White, Mike Conley Junior, and Mason Plumbley and
other deals. Former Arizona Cardinals quarterback coach Israel wolf Fork
will take the same position on Jesse Menser's Baltimore Raven
staff defense. Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stalin is retiring
(35:08):
Eagles defensive coordinator Vicfangol returning to the team, and earlier today,
Jay Glazer from Fox Sports was asked if he felt
Max Crosby's time with the Raiders is done. Glazier responded
to saying I do, and then predicted that Max Crosby
will fetch more in the trade market than Michael Parsons did.
Drake May was a full participant in practice today. He
(35:29):
does have was had on the injury report with that
shoulder injury Nick Eamon Warrie, Seahawks rookie safety injured his
ankle at practice today, The severity of the injury unknown.
And again fran Burvaldes three years, one hundred and fifteen
million dollars to become the next left hander in Detroit.
(35:50):
That's the highest average annual value ever for a left
handed pitcher.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
How long? How long is that going to stand? You think, guys,
Mets overpay for somebody in a year? Here you go,
that's how long it'll stand.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Thanks, Martin Wise, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios coming up next. You want some
positivity on a Wednesday? Hey, all sorts of props to
one team who made a.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Big move today.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
However, however, there's another side to it as well.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike fuck.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
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Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, well it's still coplay. Let's donill fix you. It's
not that Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
So bit a positivity on a Wednesday night, the final
big free agent in Major League Baseball is off the board.
Framber Valdez signed sealed, delivered three years, one hundred and
fifteen million dollars to the Detroit Tigers. But that is
(37:17):
what happened, the team that doesn't pay anybody. Right now,
he's getting paid more than everybody on the team one
through twenty five. Uh, they don't do this. They don't
pay anybody, but they pay Framber Valdez three years, one
hundred and fifteen million dollars. And it's a stunner, right
It's an absolute stunner. I'm thinking at this point, Baldez
(37:37):
has been out there a while, thirty two years old.
He's pretty dependable, good playoff performer. I miss some team
is gonna get him on the cheap. Nope, Tigers come
in and say, okay, three years, one hundred and fifteen million.
So big move for them, big move for the Tigers
right now, all of a sudden, they become one of
the top teams to beat major League Baseball because one
two with him and Tarik Schooble.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Look out.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
But just so you know, the positivity is there's a
little bit of a dark side here for this story
and it's good for you know, twenty nine of the
teams in Major League Baseball. The Tigers don't pay anybody, right,
they don't pay anybody. My family right now in Detroit,
they are so happy around yeah, yeah, come get us,
come get okay, okay. First of all, the Tiger's gonna
(38:20):
be pissed if his arbitration result comes back and they're
gonna pay him thirty million this year instead of nineteen million,
So understand that. But the Tigers didn't go out to
get Fraanbervaldez to say, hey, now with him in Tarik
School the next five years, next three years, good luck
beating both of them. No, they don't pay a lot
of people. If they wanted to pay and keep Tarik School,
they would have. They would have done that already. But
(38:41):
everything seems to be at arm's length. The Tigers seemed
to be all in on this year, and who knows,
maybe if the arbitration number goes way up, the Tigers say, okay,
we don't want to pay this. We just paid one
guy thirty million dollars a year, or ready to trade him.
But no matter what, no matter how you cut it up,
this year, last year for School with the Tigers, maybe
by the deadline if the season goes south, because the
(39:04):
Tigers didn't pay Valdez to be the number two with School. Again,
they don't give guys like this a lot of money.
They paid Valdez to be their ace sometime from between
this year and for the next two years after that.
That's what they're paying him for. They have a pretty
good team, you know, the way that they are constructed.
They're constructed extremely well for playoff baseball. They're not a
(39:25):
team that's gonna win one hundred and fifteen games, but
ninety wins they get in the playoffs, they become a
really tough team. They grind out at bats awesome. They
signed Valdez to be that guy. School will be way
more expensive. They didn't want to do it. What are
we gonna miss or were really gonna miss a lot
the difference between Schooble and Valdez the next couple of years.
But that's what this signing does, is tells you that
(39:46):
he is gonna be out there maybe next year, definitely,
maybe by the deadline, and if his arbitration comes in
more than that, maybe sooner than that. But you can
count you can count the remaining starts to reiku Schooble
has with the Tigers and at least on a new team.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Since we were talking basketball a little bit earlier, when
Martin was finishing his update, he threw the lob up
and it was like someone pulled the plug out of
the TV, going no, no, no, no no, because he said, hey,
who's going to be that? How long does that left
hand or record stand? Well, the obvious answer is when
does schoobl get his massive deal? And remember who his
(40:21):
agent is. It's got boor us everybody, So you know,
whatever the arbitration number is, the likelihood of the two
of them being paired beyond October of twenty twenty six
is about zero. They are twelve to one to win
the AL after a slight O odds adjustment took him
(40:43):
from fifteen to one to twelve to one in a
couple of the sites that I that I saw. But
you're looking at schoobl whether he makes nineteen, whether he
makes thirty at the deadline, if they're not running away
in that division and looking like they're cruising towards a
playoff berth, he'll get dealt and plenty of teams will
(41:03):
come up and offer sacrifice for him, or it'll get
to the end of the year and he'll get his
two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Telling you maybe the number of starts for school ball
as a Tiger is thirty, maybe it's fifteen, maybe it's zero,
because again he gets that thirty, you get that thirty.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Two million dollars. Well, we don't want to pay that
much money.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I'm telling you watch out, but Tarik's Schooble new uniform,
it's coming coming up. Next, we get into a big
story from the Super Bowl where someone says they don't
have a rooting interest, which tells you they're really rooting
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