April 2, 2022 • 35 mins
Jason and Mike believe that LeBron will only play in Laker games that matter the rest of the season. The guys keep you posted on the Lakers score against the Pelicans. Why Jacob deGrom is nearing the end of his stint with the Mets, and a huge trade went down in the MLB.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Listen to the cow Bell.
Listen to the Cowbell very underrated Fox Sports Radio, The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmony more Galbell. Hey,
you know what the angels are having cow Bell Day?
Later on this year, we were talking about go ahead
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and nose. I think it's taken MLB teams way too
long and minorly to have Mark Cowbell Day, more Cowbell
Day a lot longer, longer ago than that. I gotta
have more cowbell. Yeah. You know in our one, Steve
Desager talking about a top one lists that that started
with Otani and Trout at the top. I went and
looked at the promotional calendar. There are no fewer than five,
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with a couple of tvds, five promotional days celebrating the
greatness of show. Hey, Otani, three bobble heads, a snow globe,
and a hat yea, and his picture is front. Yeah,
it looks pretty good. You know, how many people are
gonna be there showing up there and the and the
video we're gonna get of them just trucking out, just
cart loads full of the snow globes and make all
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kinds of money. I'm already working on getting a case
out the back door. But no, the Hey, I gotta
take care of the people, you know. But but look
at that, the fact that you say, all right, here's
five opponents we don't like, and that nobody's gonna come. See.
Guess what, here's another promotional chot key of either Otani
or Trout. Because there's a couple of Trout days mixed.
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They're in, so good times all around. J. J. Watt
showed up and and took some BP at a nice
April fool's joke saying that he was quit to become
a member of the Cubs organization. So that was, yeah,
that's nice, okay. I mean that's like a call back
to you know, days of you know, Russell Wilson playing
baseball and stuff. Hey, look and you're saying all that,
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and I just want to go to chat for some
pizza shooters and extreme fahitas and shrimp poppers. I'm I'm
ready for that. Now. Well we get off at eleven
whatever time, you still have a chat's like place in
your neighborhood. I'm there, Get a room, you two me? Uh? Nowadays,
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that guy, they would lay the smack down on his
tandy ass. After that move, someone will become diving from
the side. Hang on, hang on all right? Yes or no?
Does ty Shirt get that reference? Does he know that
movie reference? Yes? Or no? No? No? Ty Shirt? Alright,
So the pizza shooters, shrimp poppers, extreme fahitas, chokes, get
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a room, you two? Do you get the movie reference? Uh?
It sounds like it was from The Mummy Returns. Not
that would be pretty good, but not the Mummy, but
the Mummy Returns. Yeah, the second one. It has to be.
It's like a big scorpion. Yeah yeah, yeah, No, you're
right at some of the worst c g I ever.
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By the way, Oh that was, Oh my god, the
face of him just like it's like they took a
still of his face due it was so bad. I'm like,
this is the worst thing. I feel like I could
do a better model of that in ten minutes. Yeah,
that was low budget, right there, low red. That looks
like what people do now on Twitter when they want
to make a jif and they just superimpose somebody's face
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over like a moving spider or something. But it's just
a smiling face. That was like in a movie. Hey,
we're gonna make this look that's actually this is a
ten minute jif today. This is kind of funny. No,
that was actually in a movie that would that? That's that?
That's acceptable, Jason. A video of me right now superimposes
Paul Walker and it looks better than that. Wow, okay,
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all right, Paul Walker, Fast and Furious Paul Walker, Timeline,
Paul Walker, Pleasantville like which one? No Paul Walker and
no Strings attached with Nalie Portman. Oh okay, why are
you naming the Paul Walker movies that nobody has seen? No,
that was a good one. No, No, wasn't. No dang it? No,
come on, man, wasn't that cutcher? No? What what wasn't
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the way? Wasn't no string? Course, if you look up
no string attached, I'm gonna tell you it ain't coming
up with the best there. Wow, here's the thing. Wow,
that escalated quickly. Yeah, it is Cutcher and Portman's with Kevin.
If you said to me any forgettable rom comm of
the two thousands, which I mean, we're pretty much every
rom comm in the two thousands forgettable, you'd say who
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was the female star? I would say Kate Hudson. I
would default to Kate Hudson. Every single Hudson was in that.
You how many bad rom coms Kate Hudson has been in?
All of them? It's like, after almost famous, she was
this huge star and I thought she's gonna be the
next big superstar in the world. And then she did
every bad romantic comedy script that came across her desk.
It's like, it's gonna keep doing them, gonna do all
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of them, gonna do every single one so nobody else
can do him. And I really look, I mean it's
all it's I don't know that she's made a good
movie since she was in My best Friend's Girl. That's
a great movie. Like that was a song by the Cars.
That's not a movie. Who's seen that movie? Rick, dude?
What kind of movies are you watching? Like, do you
have like the world's worst streaming service. Hey, I have
a streaming service that's all the directive video movies of
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the two thousand What that sounds like? No way, Dane
Cooks in this, Jason Biggs. It's a great movie. Take Cooking. Yes,
who was hot for a hot minute in like two
so it's still good. You can see him down at
the comedy store all the time. Now, hey, he was
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red hot for about a six months. I want it's
like two thousand three, two thousand four, like like every
day Dane Cook was big news for something his comedy
every like he was like, I kick it over. How
he was white hot? He was so hot? But that
was it. Then it was like done that. You're really
throwing Dane Cook out there at you just throwout the
my best friend's wedding a little Cameron Diaz now that
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no no, no no no, no, no no no. He
didn't say my best friend's wedding. No. I know. That's
why my best my best friend's girl. Girl, Dude, want
you'd be mine. I finally learned the term slumpbuster because
of Dude. I could have told you slumpbuster like fifteen
years you couldn't yeah, exactly, Mark Greates, Yes, yeah, we um.
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We did a spring training event for Yahoo's Sports at
one point where we had a machine, right, the pitching machine.
Get above a certain velocity, you're gonna win tickets to
you know, games or whatever. And we're outside the Giants
spring training facility and it's me, him and Jack mcdowand
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we may or may not have bent our elbows, and
they gave us some microphones to comment on guys going
up it. I wish there was tape of it. It
really you want to talk about You're like Harry Doyle.
I'll have you know. My best friend's girl got a
five point eight stars. Okay, it really is my best
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friend's girl out of fifteen out of twenty, like out
of what might be out of a hundred, I don't know. Okay, yeah, dude,
anything that's five point eight, you know, is on a
scale of one to ten. You know what sucks. I'm
looking at her ratings. She's never been in any movie
that had a seven. Of course, it's not good, dude.
I'm telling you man that the two thousands, the early
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two thousands is a vast wasteland of pop culture. It's
a it's stuff that just we don't even talk about.
It's like nothing happened. I feel like a podcast is
coming up here. It's a it's I'm telling you, it's
a vast, bast wasteline past wasteland pop culture. In the
early two thousand we went, we went from eminem in
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Green Day and then nothing for like a deck gate
and it was it was you know, Paris Hilton and
and she's on television. It was such a waste land.
I mean you you go back and go, oh my goodness.
If you were walking through the two thousands, if you
had a pop culture, let's say you had a pop
culture Old West Town, right, here's here's an Old West
town of pop culture. Right, you'd go walking through with
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your spurs and they would go jingle jangle, jingle jangle.
You would walk through and you would see these pop
culture references that would go by, like tumbleweeds, and you
would say, oh, man, wow, this is the tooth that. Yeah,
this is the two thousands Old West Town. There's nothing
here but tumbleweeds. There's no substance here. No, that was
the two thousands pop culture. There was nothing. It was
absolutely nothing. It's like when we get down, working, work
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shopping this podcast? Maybe you remember you could do it? Well,
Seinfeld did a show about nothing. We could do a podcast.
Remember remember these remember these people you thought were gonna
be really big stars and they they just disappeared. Yeah,
that's the two thousands for you. You You want to know
what's that like? Really? Kate Hudson's career badge. She never
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got a seven rating on IMBD, But Harold and Kumar
Go to White Castle got a seven point to that.
Well that that was all me because it would had
the word white Castle in the type. So yeah, so
I gave him all good ratings. What are we doing
the road trip? Let's go. Kate HUD's at her career
peaked with almost famous. I mean really, it's it's the
best movie of the last thirty years. Let's see. But
you know she peaked couple of movies she was with
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Matthew mcconaugh. Yeah, How to Lose and How to Lose
a Guy, how to how to Lose a bunch of
box office money in ten Days? I think that was
the movie. The question is did she lose the guy
in ten days? Uh? Well, that's the title of the movie.
I don't think it's a spoiler. She's gonna be in
knives out too. Well, you know, because it's retro. You know,
because now now, now retro. I didn't know Bautista was
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in this. Yes, no, it's actually Jose Bautista. Joey batts
and he he commits a murder and he bat flips
and he runs around the basis. That's what happens. Spoiler
alert Katharine Hansen to come on. Yeah, well she plays
she plays Agatha Harkness. I mean they got the at Melons,
the Supernatural Knights. It was Agatha all along. Right now,
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middle of the fifth I knew you're gonna do that.
Go Cats. That's why I wanted to jump to the
NBA before you got into your Cats reference. Um, right now,
middle of the third quarter, it is the Lakers over
the Pelicans seventy to sixty nine. And there is no
bigger must win game on the Lakers schedule than this one.
Why are like, wait, await, well here they are. They're
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right in the thick of it. They're basically tied for
the last spot in the in the plan, yeah, all
of that is true, but the Lakers do not have
any winnable games after this outside of Oklahoma City, So
they absolutely need this one to draw even with the Spurs.
And still the Spurs have the tiebreaker technically because even
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though they have a tied record, the Spurs have the tiebreaker.
So the Lakers, who have now lost four in a row, uh,
they absolutely need this one because if they lose this one,
they're almost cooked because they have too many difficult games
on the way before they're one more quote winnable game
that's coming up against Oklahoma City. And it's not that
San Antonio has the easiest schedule down the stretch, but
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it's easier than the Lakers. Right there. You know, between Minnesota,
Golden State, and Dallas near the end, are those teams
gonna be playing their stars as Luca really gonna play
the final game of the regular season, as Dallas gets
ready for the first round of the playoffs? Is that
really gonna happen? So they have a game against Portland
that they won tonight. They got Portland again on Sunday.
That's another winnable game. So it's a little bit easier
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for for San Antonio, but for the Lakers, man, it's
really difficult. It's really tough. They got they got Denver,
they got, they got Golden State. Andum you know that
teams are gonna play the Lakers different than playing the Pelicans.
Different because does anybody care about seeing the Pelicans in
the playoffs? No, of course, not Pelicans that look Pelicans whatever,
they're fifteen games under five. But is there that bit of, hey,
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we don't want to wet let the Lakers in the
playoffs because of what they could do if at any
Davis is healthy and Lebron is healthy. That's scary. So
even though teams at the end of the season might
not be playing for much, they're gonna want to keep
the Lakers out of the playoffs. So when they're playing
you know, Denver and Phoenix and Golden State, even if
stuff is clinched, they're still gonna get a big effort
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because you don't they don't want to let them in
and have suddenly go, man, we let the Lakers and
now we got to play him in the first round. No, no, No.
Teams that want to keep the Lakers out, they will
lay up against the Pelicans. They will try everything they
can to keep the Lakers out. And that's why they
gotta win the two winnable games. I got left in
their schedule. This game in Oklahoma City are must wins
for the Lakers. Well, I mean that's what we we
always watch it. I mean, hell, we joked a lot
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about the the road to WrestleMania. You got a chance
to knock off a legend, right scripted or not? The
the idea is in this particular case. Hey, you talked
about the fixed being in for the n C Double
A Tournament. I can apply it to the NBA, Tim
Donneghie High. Uh. Look, the the idea being that you
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don't want to breathe any life into the Lakers for
myrriad reasons. As you said, they get in all of
a sudden. You gotta punch your chance if they're healthy. Right,
doesn't mean it's gonna work. We haven't seen it work yet.
It's still a very chaotic, uh situation, even when all
three guys were on the court, and now you're banking
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on that happening for any level of a playoff run. Well,
you know that that's a tall order. But it's more
the idea of you know, Lebron James. While you have
all this respect and certainly two decades of dominance in
the NBA, you also can be part of the reason
he's eliminated. Yeah, you're you're going full out to finish
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the job, right. This isn't United States Costa Rica. As
long as we don't lose six nothing, we're in not
at no. This is Hey, we got a chance to
just snuff these guys out here, and all you know,
take the candle and and and and there's no more light.
It's it's done. They go into the off season and
we get to be part of the takedown of the
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almighty Lakers. Are you kidding me? There's great value, there's
a great social currency in that. There's no question about it.
Lebron having himself a monster night, a d uh, closing
in on a double double already. So I mean they're
getting their best effort. But to your larger point, thinking that,
you know, with the schedule that remains, they're gonna have
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to do the unthinkable, and that's actually beat good teams.
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Lakers in a must win game against the Pelicans. I
think about me saying that about five months ago, going
come on, man, must win gameh Lebron could drop fifty tonight.
He has thirty six and seven going to the fourth quarter.
He is twelve out of nineteen from the floor. Look,
Anthony Davis having a big night too. In return, he's
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nineteen nine and four. But Lebron with thirty six, And
this would fit into the narrative of hey, uh, Lebron
is gonna play the games of Lakers can win. He
will be great in those games, and those are the
games he's gonna play the rest of the way because clearly, hey,
the the spring ankle that was so bad, Uh, he
looks to be absolutely fine. Alright, I'm staying out. I'm
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staying out, missing the games that the Lakers can't win
because the opponents are too good, playing in the games
the Lakers can win. So he looks good and he
can say, hey, I'm trying to lead this team back,
but I can't play in every game. Uh. Here he
is now thirty six, and he looks absolutely fine, absolutely fine.
Doesn't like he's favoring anything. He looks great tonight. Yeah,
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it really is the next level stuff, right, Hey, no,
get true game time decision my ass. I'm just gonna
call come on now, this is this is straight out
of w w E. Theatric. He's trying to compete with
SmackDown and Wrestlemany on the undercard. What's he gonna do
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a whole Cogan thing after he gets knocked to the
ground too. I mean, we just had the Dan Wakey
joke that we've been sharing in the the going back
and forth about jumping over David Harber. He jumped over
for a loose ball. Pretty unusual, but I've seen stranger things. Now,
you gotta do that like bourbon, and certainly I've seen
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stranger things in a game than that. It was either
that or go David Caruso and get the Roger Daltry scream.
But either way, the point being, yeah, it looks none
the worse for the wear. And I know adrenaline is
a tricky thing and Lebron's you know, built differently and
all that. But if he's just heard as everybody's been saying,
don't give me the hey, he got round the clock
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treatments for three days and suddenly it's a miracle cure.
Come on, man, do you think Lebron went by David
Harbor and they went by and said mouth breather and
then kept walking. Now that would have been pretty funny.
That would have been pretty good. Uh So before we
get into a look a very sad day. But you
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know Ball had to go for you. I'll tell you why.
But first, uh did you see that? You know we
we played the Will Smith before. Tish has been playing
it all week. He can't get away from it. Um,
Will Smith, you. Will Smith has resigned from the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This happened earlier today. Um.
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The Academy is still moving forward in disciplinary hearings against
will Smith because he violated the Academy standards of conduct.
You know what. He slapped Chris Rock on stage. Now,
what are the ramifications for Will Smith? Not a lot?
Because he can't he can't have access to Academy screenings
and events. Okay, big deal, he can't. Jada still gets him. Yeah,
he can't vote in the You still get those screeners. Oh,
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I took the screeners and the mail on DVD. Um.
He also can't vote in the Academy Awards. Big deal.
He can still get nominated because being a member is
not a requirement for eligibility. Right, So what he's doing
is hopefully saying, Hey, I know you guys are looking
at all kinds of discipline against me. If I resigned
from the Academy, is that enough for you to not
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take my oscar away? Because that's really what it's all about. Right,
he's already resigned. Do I have to worry about banning
him from the Academy because he's already resigned. So now
if I resign, will you let me keep my oscar?
Will you let me keep it? And and maybe in return,
what the Academy says is he's banned from the ceremony
for five years. You know, we can't come to the ceremony,
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can't whatever, so I will I'll accept, he said, I'll
accept whatever punishment comes my way. But that's the one
he doesn't want. I don't want to give that. It's
like it's like Reggie Bush or whoever. Now, I don't
want to give back my heisman, Trow. You can't take
the Hisman trophy away from me. Man. You can get
you all kinds of stuff and you punish the school,
but don't take my heisman away. That's what Will Smith
is hoping. Let's whatever else you need to do. Yeah,
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I get it, but don't take my Oscar away because
that's gonna be the big thing. And that's what he's
hoping this will do. Will this be enough for you
to not allow not take the Oscar way for me
and let me keep it. That's what I'm hoping. Yeah,
I would have been very surprised if they did. I
really I'd be surprised with any disciplinary I mean, it's
not gonna cost him any jobs, right, still bankable obviously
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by winning said Oscar. What, now you have to add
one paragraph of legal into the the contract in addition
to the standards standard stuff. I'll let the jokes right
themselves there, but we'll just yeah, but beyond that, maybe
a little higher insurance premium. I don't know. But the
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idea being that this really will have any residual effect
on him other than folks going because I mean, how
many videos did you see, right? We we talked about
the Arsenio Hall one of you know, him taking ah,
you know, making a joke at one of the crew
members and then saying, why what It's just a joke, right,
because obviously more to it there, likewise him slapping a
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couple of folks at red carpet things where you kind
of gone open hand on a couple of reporters, uh,
from whatever, which is why you know sometimes the the
whole check, the qualifications and credentialing process. I'm sure it
can be a nightmare, but the point being in the end,
what's really lost, right, reputation that uh you can snap
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in a moment and decide that that's good for business, okay,
But long term, are there really any huge effects to this? Doubtful?
Just you're a punch line forever. And they've added to
this Chris game slap Chris game that I was playing
the other day, they've now added will will Smith's face,
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so you can slap Wills because my wife was upset
she couldn't get over thirty made. Maddie got to fifty.
I thought that was pretty damn impressive. My timing was bad.
I never got above twenty four. No, I can get
to like thirty five, but I can't get higher than that.
Maddie at fifty, that's pretty good. Well, you know, her
hands are probably a little bit smaller. She can manipulate
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the phone a little bit, the screen a little bit better,
so that she's also not weathered by years of workouts
and and being being beaten down by life. Like I
tell you, I used to be able to be good
at that. I used to I would ate something like
that years ago. Now, um, just past my prime, and
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I'm gonna sit down like in the Progressive commercial and
go ah, and the guy says everybody here that yeah, yeah, yeah.
That just goes back to the point of us as
being master craftsman when it comes to words smith Ing
makes that's completely at at lived. I mean, that's not
me drawing from one liners man, that that's us just
riffing here on a Friday night, having fun with you
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wherever you're at however you're listening with whomever you're listening.
Thanks for being part of the extended family. We truly
do appreciate you, and we don't take uh the ability
to do this lightly. Jason and I every night. I
loved the four hours of witty banter, back and forth,
hot take debates, uh, and trying to entertain and sometimes
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in rage y'all because you've gotta get the blood going
both ways. Yeah. Look, and now that we've had that
assign for something sad, we have to balance. We have
to we need like sad music behind it. Do you
want the succession piano? No, no, no, no, I need
the I need maybe the sad Hulk music. You know,
I need a little sad Ulk music, walking away music.
That's a good one. Today is a sad day, and
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it's sad day that I am going through that. I
know that you have gone through that everybody goes through,
because today I began what is going to be my
six months goodbye to Jacob deGrom Alright, the mets ace.
Today we find out Look, we knew it was coming yesterday. Uh,
he felt a twinge in his shoulder. His start today
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was scratched. And it turns out. He's got a scapula injury.
He's put the put clothes over his shoulder. Play to
play that sad song from The Incredible Loon Pickibi Pikibi, Bummy, mummy, Bubby,
look at me as walks away, I'm leaving, uh, stress
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reaction in his shoulder. He is now out for at
least this month. He's shut down for April. Then he'll
start throwing again, so that means he probably won't come
back until the earliest around Memorial Day. So already he's
out two months. This is the best pitcher in baseball.
And now the two things I can say, Number one
is that I know he's done. He's done as a
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Met and he's done being a dominant picture because eventually
you have you get to the point where, no matter
how talented a guy is, when he's just hurt one
too many times, you know, Okay, whatever we get from
this guy in the future, it's a bonus. We can't
count on him anymore. Mets can't. All right, stop with
the Hulk music. Now I'm done. Now it's over all right.
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Uh it's I I get to the point, and I'm
at that point with de Graham, like I know the
next few months or his last few months as a Met.
And and the excellence I've I've had three pictures in
my life with the Mets at Tom Siever, Dwight Gooden,
and now I got Jacob Degram and de Graham. This
is it because every time he can't go a month
without having something happened to his body. And it's not
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one problem spot. It's either his back or his shoulder,
his elbow, his forearm. He has, He's had all these things.
He's thirty three years old. He's not gonna get any healthier.
And and and maybe he'll be able to come back
and spurts here and there, and maybe he starts to
what ten games, maybe fifteen games, probably not fifteen, maybe
ten twelve games he starts, that's it, that's his career
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as a Met. And then he's gonna leave and he's
gonna go someplace else and the Mets aren't gonna pay
him because you can't because as as good as he is,
this is it. Athletes get to that. No matter how
good you are, you eventually there's that tipping point where
you go from your part of the solution. We can't
wait to get you back to hang with us. We're
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moving forward. We'll see how where we can fit you
in when you do come back, and whatever you bring
us is a bonus. The Mets can't go forward like
he's gonna be a part of the team, like he's
gonna be a part of the set, because you can't
count on him. You can't count him to be in
the lineup even when he does come back. I can
count on him for maybe one or two starts, maybe
then he gets hurt. I mean, I hold my breath
for him more than the Dodgers did for Kershaw, and
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they hold their breath every time he goes out to
be because of his back. But for me, it's okay.
De Grahm is pitching and it's the stress of the game,
and he's pitching. Great. Okay, Now I got hope the
bullpen doesn't blow the game. Great. Now I can hope
after the game nothing is wrong with de Graham and
he can make his next start, and then when he's
throwing two days later, he doesn't experience any kind of
soreness or some kind of thing. It's constant. It's absolutely constant,
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and it's hard to get off that ride, but you
have to at some point. I mean, I mean that's
why today is part of the six months goodbye to
the best pitcher in Major League Baseball. Now, maybe he
surprises everybody and says, well, I can't opt out of
this contract here. No one else is gonna pay me,
and I stay ament. But in the end, even if
he does stay, and you can't even count on him,
I mean, I'm counting on this is the last few
(26:35):
months until I say goodbye. He's on a new team,
and everybody's had that. Everybody's had that with one of
their favorite players on their team or a big star
that it's just, you know what, we just can't stay
healthy anymore. I just can't count on the guy. And
and it's sad and it's too bad, but it's the
reality of sports. Is some some players are hardier and
their bodies can take the pounding of professional sports longer
(26:55):
than others. And and some are like Jacob Degram, and
they they just can't because this is this is really
it for him and and and whatever it is now
when every pitch is great, But I'm going forward with
all right, all right, I mean I'm done now. Emotionally,
I have to move forward, and I gotta read that
book that has all the different stages of grief to
get it. But I feel like I'm at a cathartic
point right now where I've understood and I understand that
(27:19):
this is it and whatever happens going forward, it's just different.
And and that's the way I'm gonna go forward the
next few months. It's sad, but it's part of life
and that's how it goes. Yeah, No, I think that's it.
You know, we all have those moments in our personal
lives and certainly in our fandom where you recognize, you know,
father time and and just the wear and tear, Uh
(27:40):
come and get you right, and you don't want to
admit it, particularly if you've got a player that you're
pinning a lot of your hopes and dreams on for
the year to come before it even starts, right, you
got a hundred sixty two games, you haven't even gotten
opening day, and you've already gotten punched in the face
here or slapped to go with the theme of the week. Uh.
And then you got the other their news of Max Scherzer,
(28:02):
not as serious but still just really, this this is
how it has to start. I understand you're pained, right
now psychologically don't know. I have no time for the
sers are potentially with a tweaked hamstring, but I have
no time for that right now. That's why I mentioned. Hey,
That's why I mentioned it, and I went back to
grab it in a full bear hug like I was
(28:23):
gonna give it up and knock you on your ass.
You knew it. I knew that. Why did you make
you knew that? I knew that? Why did you need
to mention that you know that I knew that? Yeah?
But you know what? You know who else is listening
to me speak right now? Millions in upon millions of Americans,
not just you, and people globally. I didn't have it all.
(28:43):
They all know it too. They all know it to everybody.
They all we've spelled it out. They know that your
friend and misery. I like that. I get a metallicis
song in while I'm at it. But the the that's
what's a picture has an injury like this, and we're
at almost a decade in major league baseball, at his
(29:05):
minor league service, etcetera. That that's where you're at. The Alright,
we we got the best of him, and now maybe
maybe he can rediscover it. Maybe you know you you
get the Benedict Cumberbatch Comeback Player of the Year award,
you know, like Benjamin Bratt, pad and dr. But the
(29:25):
reality is that you're on the slow decline and now
it's can you get more than fifteen starts? Like that
becomes the benchmark, which means can you get half a
season out of him? And that now we're not talking
about half a season as an ace and a guy
that's pitching to us to five career e r A. No,
no, no no, Now we're talking about can I get fifteen
(29:45):
starts at three five right or or just under the
three five to where he's better than average. That's what
you have to hope for at this point, and that's
a sad reality and one that we have to face
with all our heroes, is specially you and I as
we watch and see junior juniors all coming up uh
and coming through the ranks uh in fast order. But
(30:08):
for you as a Mets fan, and I'm glad it
was still with a sports nugget because I, as you
teased it, I was really concerned you really had something
go on in your personal life to where things have
been torn asunder and the walls of reality had crashed
upon you. So the fact that it's just your fandom
and age and injury that psychologically you're coming to grips
(30:30):
with I feel better now. Not not for de graham Man.
I still feel bad for he and his family because now,
I mean they're gonna have to wear it while he's
piste off for the next couple of months. But for you,
I mean I I feel better that this this is
the low you were speaking of, because while it's low,
I mean, look, we've all experienced much lower in our
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in a few minutes. But hey, a big trade today
in Major League Baseball. That was a huge look. It
works for both teams, but it's a bigger win for
one team in a very rare one for one money
(32:16):
straight up trade. The Dodgers trade a J. Pollock to
your White Sox Mike Carbon in exchange for Craig Kimberl. Now,
good move for the for the White Sox. Anytime you
can trade a reliever and get a position player, especially
when the talented AJ Pollock, that's a great deal, great move,
great great get by the White Sox. But this is
what happens when you have an embarrassment of riches, right,
(32:38):
The Dodgers had to make room for Gavin lux one
of their up and coming players who have they been
trying to find room for the last couple of years.
He now is at the point where he has to play,
so he's got to play. The odd man out is
a J. Pollock, because the Dodgers still or go twelve
and thirteen deep with position players who can play every day.
So what they do is they trade away a J.
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Pollock who has had trouble staying health the over the
course of his career, but he's still a good player. Uh,
they're plugging in Gavin Looks and it's like they're getting
Craig Kimberle for free. I mean, this is the kind
of trade. It's like that we we we lose nothing
off our team. We still have the best lineup in baseball,
maybe the best lineup in the last twenty years, and
we're getting Craig Kimberle for free. And as long as
the Dodgers let him close and don't do ridiculously stupid
(33:21):
stuff like have him set up, which he can't do,
everything is going to be fine. And it looks like
he's gonna close for then they can move trying and
back to set up and do different things. Now this
is a good trade for both teams. I like to
move for the White Sox, but for the Dodgers. Look,
you basically got Craig Kimberle for free. You got you
got him on your team, and all you are you
doing is paying them and and this is what happens
when you're that deep of the team. Yeah, I maan,
(33:42):
you get the boos straight. We we talked about luxury
tax and all that fun when it comes to Major
League Baseball. So they added three million dollars in bay Roll.
But to your point, you get a guy who was
dominant as a closure, actually gave this speech multiple times
walking the damn dog this afternoon. You get a guy
who was dominant as a closer and went to a
(34:03):
setup role where he clearly wasn't happy. Hell, even this afternoon.
You know what he had to do, grab stuff out
of his locker and walk about a hundred yards and
he was in his new clubhouse here I am who
wants to interview me. Clearly did not like it, did
not perform well as a setup man. So going back
to the closer role, pitching in a big ballpark with
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all of that support on a team that's favored to
do what the Dodgers are. It's it's all positivity for
the White Sox. They get a guy with a good
on base percentage, some power, and they needed some help
in that outfield, another bat so especially after losing Andrew
Vaughan for the undetermined amount of time after he made
(34:46):
that diving catch but messed up his hip a bit.
So for the Dodgers, though, it's a huge win, right.
Some say, well he cost as much as Jansen. Well,
who's saying Jansen he wanted to come back and that
there wasn't someone in the front office. Do we need
to sweat Jansen again? Can we go into the marketplace
and find another guy? They found another guy? Uh so, Well,
(35:07):
what's it gonna be now? I mean, you're not sweating
Jansen anymore? And sweating sweating is is really unique to Jansen. Well,
what's it gonna be for Kimball? You're stressing kimberl your
white knuckling, Kimberrell Kimberll knuckling. I I don't know. We
gotta come up with something. Yeah, no, we we've got
a workshop because we've only got a couple of days here. Yeah,
I mean open opening day's coming up, man, man, I
(35:29):
mean's sweating Jansen Now, I don't know Twitter at How
about a Fresca Mike hat swollen dome. We gotta it's
gotta be something with Kimball. I don't know what, but
it's got to be something. Uh eight seven seven ninety
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Day a lot longer, longer ago than that. I gotta
have more cowbell. Yeah. You know in our one, Steve
Desager talking about a top one lists that that started
with Otani and Trout at the top. I went and
looked at the promotional calendar. There are no fewer than five,
(01:07):
with a couple of tvds, five promotional days celebrating the
greatness of show. Hey, Otani, three bobble heads, a snow globe,
and a hat yea, and his picture is front. Yeah,
it looks pretty good. You know, how many people are
gonna be there showing up there and the and the
video we're gonna get of them just trucking out, just
cart loads full of the snow globes and make all
(01:29):
kinds of money. I'm already working on getting a case
out the back door. But no, the Hey, I gotta
take care of the people, you know. But but look
at that, the fact that you say, all right, here's
five opponents we don't like, and that nobody's gonna come. See.
Guess what, here's another promotional chot key of either Otani
or Trout. Because there's a couple of Trout days mixed.
(01:51):
They're in, so good times all around. J. J. Watt
showed up and and took some BP at a nice
April fool's joke saying that he was quit to become
a member of the Cubs organization. So that was, yeah,
that's nice, okay. I mean that's like a call back
to you know, days of you know, Russell Wilson playing
baseball and stuff. Hey, look and you're saying all that,
(02:12):
and I just want to go to chat for some
pizza shooters and extreme fahitas and shrimp poppers. I'm I'm
ready for that. Now. Well we get off at eleven
whatever time, you still have a chat's like place in
your neighborhood. I'm there, Get a room, you two me? Uh? Nowadays,
(02:33):
that guy, they would lay the smack down on his
tandy ass. After that move, someone will become diving from
the side. Hang on, hang on all right? Yes or no?
Does ty Shirt get that reference? Does he know that
movie reference? Yes? Or no? No? No? Ty Shirt? Alright,
So the pizza shooters, shrimp poppers, extreme fahitas, chokes, get
(02:54):
a room, you two? Do you get the movie reference? Uh?
It sounds like it was from The Mummy Returns. Not
that would be pretty good, but not the Mummy, but
the Mummy Returns. Yeah, the second one. It has to be.
It's like a big scorpion. Yeah yeah, yeah, No, you're
right at some of the worst c g I ever.
(03:15):
By the way, Oh that was, Oh my god, the
face of him just like it's like they took a
still of his face due it was so bad. I'm like,
this is the worst thing. I feel like I could
do a better model of that in ten minutes. Yeah,
that was low budget, right there, low red. That looks
like what people do now on Twitter when they want
to make a jif and they just superimpose somebody's face
(03:35):
over like a moving spider or something. But it's just
a smiling face. That was like in a movie. Hey,
we're gonna make this look that's actually this is a
ten minute jif today. This is kind of funny. No,
that was actually in a movie that would that? That's that?
That's acceptable, Jason. A video of me right now superimposes
Paul Walker and it looks better than that. Wow, okay,
(03:56):
all right, Paul Walker, Fast and Furious Paul Walker, Timeline,
Paul Walker, Pleasantville like which one? No Paul Walker and
no Strings attached with Nalie Portman. Oh okay, why are
you naming the Paul Walker movies that nobody has seen? No,
that was a good one. No, No, wasn't. No dang it? No,
come on, man, wasn't that cutcher? No? What what wasn't
(04:19):
the way? Wasn't no string? Course, if you look up
no string attached, I'm gonna tell you it ain't coming
up with the best there. Wow, here's the thing. Wow,
that escalated quickly. Yeah, it is Cutcher and Portman's with Kevin.
If you said to me any forgettable rom comm of
the two thousands, which I mean, we're pretty much every
rom comm in the two thousands forgettable, you'd say who
(04:41):
was the female star? I would say Kate Hudson. I
would default to Kate Hudson. Every single Hudson was in that.
You how many bad rom coms Kate Hudson has been in?
All of them? It's like, after almost famous, she was
this huge star and I thought she's gonna be the
next big superstar in the world. And then she did
every bad romantic comedy script that came across her desk.
It's like, it's gonna keep doing them, gonna do all
(05:02):
of them, gonna do every single one so nobody else
can do him. And I really look, I mean it's
all it's I don't know that she's made a good
movie since she was in My best Friend's Girl. That's
a great movie. Like that was a song by the Cars.
That's not a movie. Who's seen that movie? Rick, dude?
What kind of movies are you watching? Like, do you
have like the world's worst streaming service. Hey, I have
a streaming service that's all the directive video movies of
(05:24):
the two thousand What that sounds like? No way, Dane
Cooks in this, Jason Biggs. It's a great movie. Take Cooking. Yes,
who was hot for a hot minute in like two
so it's still good. You can see him down at
the comedy store all the time. Now, hey, he was
(05:46):
red hot for about a six months. I want it's
like two thousand three, two thousand four, like like every
day Dane Cook was big news for something his comedy
every like he was like, I kick it over. How
he was white hot? He was so hot? But that
was it. Then it was like done that. You're really
throwing Dane Cook out there at you just throwout the
my best friend's wedding a little Cameron Diaz now that
(06:07):
no no, no no no, no, no no no. He
didn't say my best friend's wedding. No. I know. That's
why my best my best friend's girl. Girl, Dude, want
you'd be mine. I finally learned the term slumpbuster because
of Dude. I could have told you slumpbuster like fifteen
years you couldn't yeah, exactly, Mark Greates, Yes, yeah, we um.
(06:33):
We did a spring training event for Yahoo's Sports at
one point where we had a machine, right, the pitching machine.
Get above a certain velocity, you're gonna win tickets to
you know, games or whatever. And we're outside the Giants
spring training facility and it's me, him and Jack mcdowand
(06:53):
we may or may not have bent our elbows, and
they gave us some microphones to comment on guys going
up it. I wish there was tape of it. It
really you want to talk about You're like Harry Doyle.
I'll have you know. My best friend's girl got a
five point eight stars. Okay, it really is my best
(07:16):
friend's girl out of fifteen out of twenty, like out
of what might be out of a hundred, I don't know. Okay, yeah, dude,
anything that's five point eight, you know, is on a
scale of one to ten. You know what sucks. I'm
looking at her ratings. She's never been in any movie
that had a seven. Of course, it's not good, dude.
I'm telling you man that the two thousands, the early
(07:36):
two thousands is a vast wasteland of pop culture. It's
a it's stuff that just we don't even talk about.
It's like nothing happened. I feel like a podcast is
coming up here. It's a it's I'm telling you, it's
a vast, bast wasteline past wasteland pop culture. In the
early two thousand we went, we went from eminem in
(07:57):
Green Day and then nothing for like a deck gate
and it was it was you know, Paris Hilton and
and she's on television. It was such a waste land.
I mean you you go back and go, oh my goodness.
If you were walking through the two thousands, if you
had a pop culture, let's say you had a pop
culture Old West Town, right, here's here's an Old West
town of pop culture. Right, you'd go walking through with
(08:19):
your spurs and they would go jingle jangle, jingle jangle.
You would walk through and you would see these pop
culture references that would go by, like tumbleweeds, and you
would say, oh, man, wow, this is the tooth that. Yeah,
this is the two thousands Old West Town. There's nothing
here but tumbleweeds. There's no substance here. No, that was
the two thousands pop culture. There was nothing. It was
absolutely nothing. It's like when we get down, working, work
(08:41):
shopping this podcast? Maybe you remember you could do it? Well,
Seinfeld did a show about nothing. We could do a podcast.
Remember remember these remember these people you thought were gonna
be really big stars and they they just disappeared. Yeah,
that's the two thousands for you. You You want to know
what's that like? Really? Kate Hudson's career badge. She never
(09:02):
got a seven rating on IMBD, But Harold and Kumar
Go to White Castle got a seven point to that.
Well that that was all me because it would had
the word white Castle in the type. So yeah, so
I gave him all good ratings. What are we doing
the road trip? Let's go. Kate HUD's at her career
peaked with almost famous. I mean really, it's it's the
best movie of the last thirty years. Let's see. But
you know she peaked couple of movies she was with
(09:23):
Matthew mcconaugh. Yeah, How to Lose and How to Lose
a Guy, how to how to Lose a bunch of
box office money in ten Days? I think that was
the movie. The question is did she lose the guy
in ten days? Uh? Well, that's the title of the movie.
I don't think it's a spoiler. She's gonna be in
knives out too. Well, you know, because it's retro. You know,
because now now, now retro. I didn't know Bautista was
(09:45):
in this. Yes, no, it's actually Jose Bautista. Joey batts
and he he commits a murder and he bat flips
and he runs around the basis. That's what happens. Spoiler
alert Katharine Hansen to come on. Yeah, well she plays
she plays Agatha Harkness. I mean they got the at Melons,
the Supernatural Knights. It was Agatha all along. Right now,
(10:08):
middle of the fifth I knew you're gonna do that.
Go Cats. That's why I wanted to jump to the
NBA before you got into your Cats reference. Um, right now,
middle of the third quarter, it is the Lakers over
the Pelicans seventy to sixty nine. And there is no
bigger must win game on the Lakers schedule than this one.
Why are like, wait, await, well here they are. They're
(10:28):
right in the thick of it. They're basically tied for
the last spot in the in the plan, yeah, all
of that is true, but the Lakers do not have
any winnable games after this outside of Oklahoma City, So
they absolutely need this one to draw even with the Spurs.
And still the Spurs have the tiebreaker technically because even
(10:49):
though they have a tied record, the Spurs have the tiebreaker.
So the Lakers, who have now lost four in a row, uh,
they absolutely need this one because if they lose this one,
they're almost cooked because they have too many difficult games
on the way before they're one more quote winnable game
that's coming up against Oklahoma City. And it's not that
San Antonio has the easiest schedule down the stretch, but
(11:11):
it's easier than the Lakers. Right there. You know, between Minnesota,
Golden State, and Dallas near the end, are those teams
gonna be playing their stars as Luca really gonna play
the final game of the regular season, as Dallas gets
ready for the first round of the playoffs? Is that
really gonna happen? So they have a game against Portland
that they won tonight. They got Portland again on Sunday.
That's another winnable game. So it's a little bit easier
(11:32):
for for San Antonio, but for the Lakers, man, it's
really difficult. It's really tough. They got they got Denver,
they got, they got Golden State. Andum you know that
teams are gonna play the Lakers different than playing the Pelicans.
Different because does anybody care about seeing the Pelicans in
the playoffs? No, of course, not Pelicans that look Pelicans whatever,
they're fifteen games under five. But is there that bit of, hey,
(11:55):
we don't want to wet let the Lakers in the
playoffs because of what they could do if at any
Davis is healthy and Lebron is healthy. That's scary. So
even though teams at the end of the season might
not be playing for much, they're gonna want to keep
the Lakers out of the playoffs. So when they're playing
you know, Denver and Phoenix and Golden State, even if
stuff is clinched, they're still gonna get a big effort
(12:16):
because you don't they don't want to let them in
and have suddenly go, man, we let the Lakers and
now we got to play him in the first round. No, no, No.
Teams that want to keep the Lakers out, they will
lay up against the Pelicans. They will try everything they
can to keep the Lakers out. And that's why they
gotta win the two winnable games. I got left in
their schedule. This game in Oklahoma City are must wins
for the Lakers. Well, I mean that's what we we
always watch it. I mean, hell, we joked a lot
(12:38):
about the the road to WrestleMania. You got a chance
to knock off a legend, right scripted or not? The
the idea is in this particular case. Hey, you talked
about the fixed being in for the n C Double
A Tournament. I can apply it to the NBA, Tim
Donneghie High. Uh. Look, the the idea being that you
(12:59):
don't want to breathe any life into the Lakers for
myrriad reasons. As you said, they get in all of
a sudden. You gotta punch your chance if they're healthy. Right,
doesn't mean it's gonna work. We haven't seen it work yet.
It's still a very chaotic, uh situation, even when all
three guys were on the court, and now you're banking
(13:19):
on that happening for any level of a playoff run. Well,
you know that that's a tall order. But it's more
the idea of you know, Lebron James. While you have
all this respect and certainly two decades of dominance in
the NBA, you also can be part of the reason
he's eliminated. Yeah, you're you're going full out to finish
(13:40):
the job, right. This isn't United States Costa Rica. As
long as we don't lose six nothing, we're in not
at no. This is Hey, we got a chance to
just snuff these guys out here, and all you know,
take the candle and and and and there's no more light.
It's it's done. They go into the off season and
we get to be part of the takedown of the
(14:02):
almighty Lakers. Are you kidding me? There's great value, there's
a great social currency in that. There's no question about it.
Lebron having himself a monster night, a d uh, closing
in on a double double already. So I mean they're
getting their best effort. But to your larger point, thinking that,
you know, with the schedule that remains, they're gonna have
(14:24):
to do the unthinkable, and that's actually beat good teams.
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(15:05):
Lakers in a must win game against the Pelicans. I
think about me saying that about five months ago, going
come on, man, must win gameh Lebron could drop fifty tonight.
He has thirty six and seven going to the fourth quarter.
He is twelve out of nineteen from the floor. Look,
Anthony Davis having a big night too. In return, he's
(15:27):
nineteen nine and four. But Lebron with thirty six, And
this would fit into the narrative of hey, uh, Lebron
is gonna play the games of Lakers can win. He
will be great in those games, and those are the
games he's gonna play the rest of the way because clearly, hey,
the the spring ankle that was so bad, Uh, he
looks to be absolutely fine. Alright, I'm staying out. I'm
(15:48):
staying out, missing the games that the Lakers can't win
because the opponents are too good, playing in the games
the Lakers can win. So he looks good and he
can say, hey, I'm trying to lead this team back,
but I can't play in every game. Uh. Here he
is now thirty six, and he looks absolutely fine, absolutely fine.
Doesn't like he's favoring anything. He looks great tonight. Yeah,
(16:08):
it really is the next level stuff, right, Hey, no,
get true game time decision my ass. I'm just gonna
call come on now, this is this is straight out
of w w E. Theatric. He's trying to compete with
SmackDown and Wrestlemany on the undercard. What's he gonna do
(16:30):
a whole Cogan thing after he gets knocked to the
ground too. I mean, we just had the Dan Wakey
joke that we've been sharing in the the going back
and forth about jumping over David Harber. He jumped over
for a loose ball. Pretty unusual, but I've seen stranger things. Now,
you gotta do that like bourbon, and certainly I've seen
(16:51):
stranger things in a game than that. It was either
that or go David Caruso and get the Roger Daltry scream.
But either way, the point being, yeah, it looks none
the worse for the wear. And I know adrenaline is
a tricky thing and Lebron's you know, built differently and
all that. But if he's just heard as everybody's been saying,
don't give me the hey, he got round the clock
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treatments for three days and suddenly it's a miracle cure.
Come on, man, do you think Lebron went by David
Harbor and they went by and said mouth breather and
then kept walking. Now that would have been pretty funny.
That would have been pretty good. Uh So before we
get into a look a very sad day. But you
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know Ball had to go for you. I'll tell you why.
But first, uh did you see that? You know we
we played the Will Smith before. Tish has been playing
it all week. He can't get away from it. Um,
Will Smith, you. Will Smith has resigned from the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This happened earlier today. Um.
(17:51):
The Academy is still moving forward in disciplinary hearings against
will Smith because he violated the Academy standards of conduct.
You know what. He slapped Chris Rock on stage. Now,
what are the ramifications for Will Smith? Not a lot?
Because he can't he can't have access to Academy screenings
and events. Okay, big deal, he can't. Jada still gets him. Yeah,
he can't vote in the You still get those screeners. Oh,
(18:13):
I took the screeners and the mail on DVD. Um.
He also can't vote in the Academy Awards. Big deal.
He can still get nominated because being a member is
not a requirement for eligibility. Right, So what he's doing
is hopefully saying, Hey, I know you guys are looking
at all kinds of discipline against me. If I resigned
from the Academy, is that enough for you to not
(18:34):
take my oscar away? Because that's really what it's all about. Right,
he's already resigned. Do I have to worry about banning
him from the Academy because he's already resigned. So now
if I resign, will you let me keep my oscar?
Will you let me keep it? And and maybe in return,
what the Academy says is he's banned from the ceremony
for five years. You know, we can't come to the ceremony,
(18:55):
can't whatever, so I will I'll accept, he said, I'll
accept whatever punishment comes my way. But that's the one
he doesn't want. I don't want to give that. It's
like it's like Reggie Bush or whoever. Now, I don't
want to give back my heisman, Trow. You can't take
the Hisman trophy away from me. Man. You can get
you all kinds of stuff and you punish the school,
but don't take my heisman away. That's what Will Smith
is hoping. Let's whatever else you need to do. Yeah,
(19:15):
I get it, but don't take my Oscar away because
that's gonna be the big thing. And that's what he's
hoping this will do. Will this be enough for you
to not allow not take the Oscar way for me
and let me keep it. That's what I'm hoping. Yeah,
I would have been very surprised if they did. I
really I'd be surprised with any disciplinary I mean, it's
not gonna cost him any jobs, right, still bankable obviously
(19:38):
by winning said Oscar. What, now you have to add
one paragraph of legal into the the contract in addition
to the standards standard stuff. I'll let the jokes right
themselves there, but we'll just yeah, but beyond that, maybe
a little higher insurance premium. I don't know. But the
(20:00):
idea being that this really will have any residual effect
on him other than folks going because I mean, how
many videos did you see, right? We we talked about
the Arsenio Hall one of you know, him taking ah,
you know, making a joke at one of the crew
members and then saying, why what It's just a joke, right,
because obviously more to it there, likewise him slapping a
(20:22):
couple of folks at red carpet things where you kind
of gone open hand on a couple of reporters, uh,
from whatever, which is why you know sometimes the the
whole check, the qualifications and credentialing process. I'm sure it
can be a nightmare, but the point being in the end,
what's really lost, right, reputation that uh you can snap
(20:47):
in a moment and decide that that's good for business, okay,
But long term, are there really any huge effects to this? Doubtful?
Just you're a punch line forever. And they've added to
this Chris game slap Chris game that I was playing
the other day, they've now added will will Smith's face,
(21:07):
so you can slap Wills because my wife was upset
she couldn't get over thirty made. Maddie got to fifty.
I thought that was pretty damn impressive. My timing was bad.
I never got above twenty four. No, I can get
to like thirty five, but I can't get higher than that.
Maddie at fifty, that's pretty good. Well, you know, her
hands are probably a little bit smaller. She can manipulate
(21:28):
the phone a little bit, the screen a little bit better,
so that she's also not weathered by years of workouts
and and being being beaten down by life. Like I
tell you, I used to be able to be good
at that. I used to I would ate something like
that years ago. Now, um, just past my prime, and
(21:49):
I'm gonna sit down like in the Progressive commercial and
go ah, and the guy says everybody here that yeah, yeah, yeah.
That just goes back to the point of us as
being master craftsman when it comes to words smith Ing
makes that's completely at at lived. I mean, that's not
me drawing from one liners man, that that's us just
riffing here on a Friday night, having fun with you
(22:11):
wherever you're at however you're listening with whomever you're listening.
Thanks for being part of the extended family. We truly
do appreciate you, and we don't take uh the ability
to do this lightly. Jason and I every night. I
loved the four hours of witty banter, back and forth,
hot take debates, uh, and trying to entertain and sometimes
(22:31):
in rage y'all because you've gotta get the blood going
both ways. Yeah. Look, and now that we've had that
assign for something sad, we have to balance. We have
to we need like sad music behind it. Do you
want the succession piano? No, no, no, no, I need
the I need maybe the sad Hulk music. You know,
I need a little sad Ulk music, walking away music.
That's a good one. Today is a sad day, and
(22:53):
it's sad day that I am going through that. I
know that you have gone through that everybody goes through,
because today I began what is going to be my
six months goodbye to Jacob deGrom Alright, the mets ace.
Today we find out Look, we knew it was coming yesterday. Uh,
he felt a twinge in his shoulder. His start today
(23:16):
was scratched. And it turns out. He's got a scapula injury.
He's put the put clothes over his shoulder. Play to
play that sad song from The Incredible Loon Pickibi Pikibi, Bummy, mummy, Bubby,
look at me as walks away, I'm leaving, uh, stress
(23:44):
reaction in his shoulder. He is now out for at
least this month. He's shut down for April. Then he'll
start throwing again, so that means he probably won't come
back until the earliest around Memorial Day. So already he's
out two months. This is the best pitcher in baseball.
And now the two things I can say, Number one
is that I know he's done. He's done as a
(24:06):
Met and he's done being a dominant picture because eventually
you have you get to the point where, no matter
how talented a guy is, when he's just hurt one
too many times, you know, Okay, whatever we get from
this guy in the future, it's a bonus. We can't
count on him anymore. Mets can't. All right, stop with
the Hulk music. Now I'm done. Now it's over all right.
(24:28):
Uh it's I I get to the point, and I'm
at that point with de Graham, like I know the
next few months or his last few months as a Met.
And and the excellence I've I've had three pictures in
my life with the Mets at Tom Siever, Dwight Gooden,
and now I got Jacob Degram and de Graham. This
is it because every time he can't go a month
without having something happened to his body. And it's not
(24:49):
one problem spot. It's either his back or his shoulder,
his elbow, his forearm. He has, He's had all these things.
He's thirty three years old. He's not gonna get any healthier.
And and and maybe he'll be able to come back
and spurts here and there, and maybe he starts to
what ten games, maybe fifteen games, probably not fifteen, maybe
ten twelve games he starts, that's it, that's his career
(25:10):
as a Met. And then he's gonna leave and he's
gonna go someplace else and the Mets aren't gonna pay
him because you can't because as as good as he is,
this is it. Athletes get to that. No matter how
good you are, you eventually there's that tipping point where
you go from your part of the solution. We can't
wait to get you back to hang with us. We're
(25:31):
moving forward. We'll see how where we can fit you
in when you do come back, and whatever you bring
us is a bonus. The Mets can't go forward like
he's gonna be a part of the team, like he's
gonna be a part of the set, because you can't
count on him. You can't count him to be in
the lineup even when he does come back. I can
count on him for maybe one or two starts, maybe
then he gets hurt. I mean, I hold my breath
for him more than the Dodgers did for Kershaw, and
(25:52):
they hold their breath every time he goes out to
be because of his back. But for me, it's okay.
De Grahm is pitching and it's the stress of the game,
and he's pitching. Great. Okay, Now I got hope the
bullpen doesn't blow the game. Great. Now I can hope
after the game nothing is wrong with de Graham and
he can make his next start, and then when he's
throwing two days later, he doesn't experience any kind of
soreness or some kind of thing. It's constant. It's absolutely constant,
(26:14):
and it's hard to get off that ride, but you
have to at some point. I mean, I mean that's
why today is part of the six months goodbye to
the best pitcher in Major League Baseball. Now, maybe he
surprises everybody and says, well, I can't opt out of
this contract here. No one else is gonna pay me,
and I stay ament. But in the end, even if
he does stay, and you can't even count on him,
I mean, I'm counting on this is the last few
(26:35):
months until I say goodbye. He's on a new team,
and everybody's had that. Everybody's had that with one of
their favorite players on their team or a big star
that it's just, you know what, we just can't stay
healthy anymore. I just can't count on the guy. And
and it's sad and it's too bad, but it's the
reality of sports. Is some some players are hardier and
their bodies can take the pounding of professional sports longer
(26:55):
than others. And and some are like Jacob Degram, and
they they just can't because this is this is really
it for him and and and whatever it is now
when every pitch is great, But I'm going forward with
all right, all right, I mean I'm done now. Emotionally,
I have to move forward, and I gotta read that
book that has all the different stages of grief to
get it. But I feel like I'm at a cathartic
point right now where I've understood and I understand that
(27:19):
this is it and whatever happens going forward, it's just different.
And and that's the way I'm gonna go forward the
next few months. It's sad, but it's part of life
and that's how it goes. Yeah, No, I think that's it.
You know, we all have those moments in our personal
lives and certainly in our fandom where you recognize, you know,
father time and and just the wear and tear, Uh
(27:40):
come and get you right, and you don't want to
admit it, particularly if you've got a player that you're
pinning a lot of your hopes and dreams on for
the year to come before it even starts, right, you
got a hundred sixty two games, you haven't even gotten
opening day, and you've already gotten punched in the face
here or slapped to go with the theme of the week. Uh.
And then you got the other their news of Max Scherzer,
(28:02):
not as serious but still just really, this this is
how it has to start. I understand you're pained, right
now psychologically don't know. I have no time for the
sers are potentially with a tweaked hamstring, but I have
no time for that right now. That's why I mentioned. Hey,
That's why I mentioned it, and I went back to
grab it in a full bear hug like I was
(28:23):
gonna give it up and knock you on your ass.
You knew it. I knew that. Why did you make
you knew that? I knew that? Why did you need
to mention that you know that I knew that? Yeah?
But you know what? You know who else is listening
to me speak right now? Millions in upon millions of Americans,
not just you, and people globally. I didn't have it all.
(28:43):
They all know it too. They all know it to everybody.
They all we've spelled it out. They know that your
friend and misery. I like that. I get a metallicis
song in while I'm at it. But the the that's
what's a picture has an injury like this, and we're
at almost a decade in major league baseball, at his
(29:05):
minor league service, etcetera. That that's where you're at. The Alright,
we we got the best of him, and now maybe
maybe he can rediscover it. Maybe you know you you
get the Benedict Cumberbatch Comeback Player of the Year award,
you know, like Benjamin Bratt, pad and dr. But the
(29:25):
reality is that you're on the slow decline and now
it's can you get more than fifteen starts? Like that
becomes the benchmark, which means can you get half a
season out of him? And that now we're not talking
about half a season as an ace and a guy
that's pitching to us to five career e r A. No,
no, no no, Now we're talking about can I get fifteen
(29:45):
starts at three five right or or just under the
three five to where he's better than average. That's what
you have to hope for at this point, and that's
a sad reality and one that we have to face
with all our heroes, is specially you and I as
we watch and see junior juniors all coming up uh
and coming through the ranks uh in fast order. But
(30:08):
for you as a Mets fan, and I'm glad it
was still with a sports nugget because I, as you
teased it, I was really concerned you really had something
go on in your personal life to where things have
been torn asunder and the walls of reality had crashed
upon you. So the fact that it's just your fandom
and age and injury that psychologically you're coming to grips
(30:30):
with I feel better now. Not not for de graham Man.
I still feel bad for he and his family because now,
I mean they're gonna have to wear it while he's
piste off for the next couple of months. But for you,
I mean I I feel better that this this is
the low you were speaking of, because while it's low,
I mean, look, we've all experienced much lower in our
(30:51):
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in a few minutes. But hey, a big trade today
in Major League Baseball. That was a huge look. It
works for both teams, but it's a bigger win for
one team in a very rare one for one money
(32:16):
straight up trade. The Dodgers trade a J. Pollock to
your White Sox Mike Carbon in exchange for Craig Kimberl. Now,
good move for the for the White Sox. Anytime you
can trade a reliever and get a position player, especially
when the talented AJ Pollock, that's a great deal, great move,
great great get by the White Sox. But this is
what happens when you have an embarrassment of riches, right,
(32:38):
The Dodgers had to make room for Gavin lux one
of their up and coming players who have they been
trying to find room for the last couple of years.
He now is at the point where he has to play,
so he's got to play. The odd man out is
a J. Pollock, because the Dodgers still or go twelve
and thirteen deep with position players who can play every day.
So what they do is they trade away a J.
(32:58):
Pollock who has had trouble staying health the over the
course of his career, but he's still a good player. Uh,
they're plugging in Gavin Looks and it's like they're getting
Craig Kimberle for free. I mean, this is the kind
of trade. It's like that we we we lose nothing
off our team. We still have the best lineup in baseball,
maybe the best lineup in the last twenty years, and
we're getting Craig Kimberle for free. And as long as
the Dodgers let him close and don't do ridiculously stupid
(33:21):
stuff like have him set up, which he can't do,
everything is going to be fine. And it looks like
he's gonna close for then they can move trying and
back to set up and do different things. Now this
is a good trade for both teams. I like to
move for the White Sox, but for the Dodgers. Look,
you basically got Craig Kimberle for free. You got you
got him on your team, and all you are you
doing is paying them and and this is what happens
when you're that deep of the team. Yeah, I maan,
(33:42):
you get the boos straight. We we talked about luxury
tax and all that fun when it comes to Major
League Baseball. So they added three million dollars in bay Roll.
But to your point, you get a guy who was
dominant as a closure, actually gave this speech multiple times
walking the damn dog this afternoon. You get a guy
who was dominant as a closer and went to a
(34:03):
setup role where he clearly wasn't happy. Hell, even this afternoon.
You know what he had to do, grab stuff out
of his locker and walk about a hundred yards and
he was in his new clubhouse here I am who
wants to interview me. Clearly did not like it, did
not perform well as a setup man. So going back
to the closer role, pitching in a big ballpark with
(34:25):
all of that support on a team that's favored to
do what the Dodgers are. It's it's all positivity for
the White Sox. They get a guy with a good
on base percentage, some power, and they needed some help
in that outfield, another bat so especially after losing Andrew
Vaughan for the undetermined amount of time after he made
(34:46):
that diving catch but messed up his hip a bit.
So for the Dodgers, though, it's a huge win, right.
Some say, well he cost as much as Jansen. Well,
who's saying Jansen he wanted to come back and that
there wasn't someone in the front office. Do we need
to sweat Jansen again? Can we go into the marketplace
and find another guy? They found another guy? Uh so, Well,
(35:07):
what's it gonna be now? I mean, you're not sweating
Jansen anymore? And sweating sweating is is really unique to Jansen. Well,
what's it gonna be for Kimball? You're stressing kimberl your
white knuckling, Kimberrell Kimberll knuckling. I I don't know. We
gotta come up with something. Yeah, no, we we've got
a workshop because we've only got a couple of days here. Yeah,
I mean open opening day's coming up, man, man, I
(35:29):
mean's sweating Jansen Now, I don't know Twitter at How
about a Fresca Mike hat swollen dome. We gotta it's
gotta be something with Kimball. I don't know what, but
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