April 22, 2022 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the biggest controversy in sports today when Aaron Boone intentionally walked Tigers DH Miguel Cabrera. Jason believes if the Jazz lose this series, Donovan Mitchell will be quick to want out! Plus, while the Arizona Cardinals and Steve Keim seem to be on the same page, Jason believes the Cardinals should offer Murray for assess anyway!
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And another large night in the NBA. You know, I
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kind of like this, Mike. Three games a night? Oh yeah,
you know, the NBA has for a long time has
had a really haphazard schedule. Just just to think for
a second, what the schedules like in years past, where
it's been, Hey, some nights we have four games, some
nights we have two games, and and yeah, when you
get to the end of a series, you can only
have so many because some series are over. But we
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got four games here and we got two games the
next night. It's like, that doesn't make sense. This is perfect.
Three games a night, right, every night is like a
mini n C a tournament night, which is kind of
like I told you, hey, if we have a playing round,
that you can expand the playing round and then every
night be like that for a week. That's fantastic. But
every night is we have the one game going on
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early early on East Coast time, and then the next
game comes about an hour and a half later, and
then the late game after that, and it is a
perfect smorgess board of the end of the first game
into the second game, and then the end of the
second game into the third game. I mean, this is
really it. It should be. It should be three games
a night as long as you can settle it. Don't
worry about games on Saturday, and let's load up here.
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Three games a night. It is absolutely perfect because four
four you kind of lose a little bit. There's games all. Hey,
we don't not paying attention so much to this one.
They've kind of hit a sweet spot here where three
games a night. No. I mean, obviously it's beautiful for us.
I mean, drifting one into the other one finishing right
as we come on air, and we get to eviserate
coaches and players for failure, uh failures then and uh well,
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extol the virtues and celebrate the victors. Uh, and then
we get to do it again and again. So yes,
greed being greedy, and you know greed can sometimes be good.
Then yes, obviously we we want to continue that as
best we can. But they're also in the business of
trying to get the most eyeballs uh Warriors nuggets. And
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you know you were talking about superstars and needing to
showcase superstars and everything else. Uh, that game just ended.
It's one o'clock on the East Coast, right, so when
you're trying to figure this stuff out, and look, you're
gonna have plenty of these games, right because it is
primetime West Coast, But where where you can make it
a weekend viewing experience? You know, to be nicer to
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the folks on the East Coast because you know they
have it so ar well, I get you know, but
I get it. But the fact is, but for the
East Coast, hey, we'll give you two games, right, you'll
get you'll get to see, but you don't get Steph
Curry game. If Lebron were in the playoffs, you wouldn't
be watching the Lakers flow. But Kawai and Leonard list
Clippers guys, you know, trying to navigate, because that's what
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I want to see Kawhi Leonard not I want to
see the guys not playing. No, but you get you
be in a nice your country. No, you give the
entire country what they want. Everybody gets three games. You
could stay up late or if you're on the West coast,
it's well, I'm gonna miss the first game because I'm
at work, because you know, it starts at four o'clock
in the afternoon, but I'm gonna get the end of
the second game in the late game at night. You know,
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it's not you know, it's not a perfect world. You
can't you can't just have games start on demand and
I'm all right, I'm ready for this game. No, this
is a perfect thing. Three games a night, you start
one for East coast, one Central time, one one West coast.
And this is it. I mean, this is this is
a perfect scenario. Any sport that wants to look and say,
how do we diminate an entire night? Uh, three games
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in the night is a perfect way to do it. Right.
If college basketball was a bigger sport during the regular season,
you could have the big triple headers and people would
love it so much it get done even sooner, because
college basketball games are done in like two hours and
fifteen minutes. NBA games a little bit longer. Um, even
with the NFL. Three games you want, you want to
start killing NFL three games, three games on Monday night, right,
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three games on person. However, you want to do it right,
have one game at four four thirty. Next one started
around six thirty or so, next one started about eight. Yeah,
why not? Three games? Is a is a great night
because if you feel like I got it, I got
full of basketball. I got my entire full of the game.
I don't feel like I missed anything. And I also
don't feel like I got cheated. Where here's the night?
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Only these two games going, and the Blazers are in
one of them. Oh sorry about that now, I don't
I don't need to watch. That happened a lot this year.
But even was hurt, here's your Blazers like they didn't
they don't have any of the guys I remember. M M.
It's a perfect night of TV watching absolutely perfect night. Well,
I like the way you set it up for the NFL,
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because you've now set it up for them to make
more money and sell off more component parts because now, hey,
did you order the Thursday night, Monday Night and Sunday tickets?
You know you say, I tell you what. We'll bundle
them all up right now for you. Oh man, I'll
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tell you a big night in the playoffs. Looking at
it was capped off by the Warriors win over the
Nuggets one eight team one thirteen, and when this game
was in doubt in the third quarter, when Denver came
back took the lead over Golden State, the Warriors not
only do they have their their players back, but they
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have their swagger back to and it was missing the
last couple of years because the team wasn't very good.
You had a bunch of injuries. Clay hasn't played in
two years, and you're missing that a little bit. You
need a little bit of that swagger, right like we
we saw it last night that the Sixers seem to
have swagger right now. That's the that's the other team
that really seems okay, Hey, we're feeling pretty good about
ourselves because we don't need James Harden to be good
because when he stinks, we can still win games without him.
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But the Warriors seem to have that swagger, and they
have zero weaknesses. Right even in a game where you
figure how are you gonna how are you gonna figure
out a way to stop Nicola Yoki doesn't matter. He
can go thirty seven eighteen, You can win the game.
You know. If it's not where Yoki is able to
control the game, we had no answer for and we
we lost by thirty. The Warriors are the one team
that can play the small ball so well, it doesn't
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matter what the other teams do. They have no weaknesses
right now. Zero you know, you know, yes, you'll get
their bench. Okay, Well, Curry's coming off the bench. You're
not gonna come off the bench for much longer because
now he's playing, he's up to thirty one minutes, which
is almost near his his normal minute capacity. So there's
gonna be some kind of adjustment to be made unless
Steph says, hey, bring me off the bench from now on.
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I I don't care for the team, I will do this.
And I wouldn't be surprised if he would do that,
because we also just happened well timed story hearkening back
to when he signed that four year, four million dollar extension.
I mean, you want to talk about a brilliant pr
spin As the playoffs start going, and this coming off
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the bench becomes a question, Hey, look what I did. Yeah,
I might have left some money on the table, but
this look at what we've been able to build and whatever.
So he looks like, you know, the whatever all truism
on a whole other level. Look what I did for
the greater good? You still got forty four million dollars
and then you you were able to build and create
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a team that went on to dominate, and here you
are again. They have no weaknesses, absolutely none. I mean
the only thing you think of is if somebody gets hurt,
something happens. Clay Thompson gets bench and he says, I
don't want to come off the bench. I'm never playing
for this team again. And he takes off. You never
say I mean that. That's what you're talking about for
the Warriors right now, and that's what it is. You know.
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I was, I like, I like that. The the extreme
of this guy starts acting like a petulant child. Well here, look,
could clearly do you how well do you think Clay
Thompson will take if he comes off the bench. He's
not because there was no reason him to come right
back in the starting lineup from missing two years. But
you know something had to go on behind the scenes,
because the right way to bring him back would have been, Okay, dude,
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you haven't played in a while. Man, you're in your thirties.
We're gonna bring you back off the bench, and we're
gonna parse out minutes for you because you want to
make sure you're okay. Nope, he was back in the
starting lineup right away and playing a bunch of minutes.
Right Steph comes back and it's well, we're gonna bring
step off the bench. And when is when is Steph
coming off the bench? Anything other than Steph Curry saying Coach,
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I get it. I'm okay with coming off the bench, right.
I know Clay wouldn't be because if Clay was coming
off the bench, he'd be pissed. He'd be pissed, and
he wouldn't do it for the team because because you
see how upset he was. He wasn't on the top
seventy five players of all time in the NBA. I
mean that, you know I took that personally. I've said
he's on the iPad very upset, like Michael Jordan's But
you know, for for all the you know the criticism
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that I have a lot of times for Steph Curry,
you know, him him being okay with coming off the
bench and not causing waves, it's a pretty big deal.
It's a pretty big deal for him to be able
to do that. And there's not many guys that would say, yes,
I'm okay coming off the How many superstars coming back
from injury would say yeah, yeah, no, bring bring me
off the bench. I I can do it. Whoa wait,
what Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can do it. I can
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do it. Steph is one of the is one of
those guys. That's why people want to play with him. Well,
but that's it. He is a guy that sees the
big picture, right whatever you can think go back and
and the times you were demanding some airtime in San
Francisco over the system quarterback and what was built by
Steve Kerr started with Mark Jackson. Yes, uh A two
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B and then they went B to see and stayed
at sea for a long time. Uh and now are
are ready for another run as guys get healthy and
guess what the the franchise got it right in Jordan
Pool and year three has become that next guy, So
you have those opportunities. Steph Curry is a guy that,
at least outwardly it looks outside looking in and with
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you know, all the the little stories you hear around.
Is the very very much a large picture guy. Yeah,
he's gonna get he knows he's gonna get his right.
I mean, there's never a game where you feel like, wow,
he only had eight shots. How do you only have it? No? No, no,
he gets two shots up even in limited minutes. We've
seen it coming off the bench, and as the minutes
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you know, restrictions or flow of game or whatever it is,
and those get augmented. Right, He's finding his his minutes
and his opportunities to make an impact either getting to
the basket or pull it up from mars for a shot.
I mean, it's all coming back together. Clay Thompson, Yeah,
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the seventy fifth anniversary thing was was certainly kind of interesting.
But you know, you had what five different guys or
are thereabouts that had beef that they were left off
because part of its marketing. Man, man, that's one of
the you know little skins on the wall. He's got titles,
he's got you know, the Splash Brothers, Moniker all that stuff.
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I don't know he wants that up up on the
wall too. Of hey, I was one of the top
seventy five of all time. That's that's marketing and branding
and you know, legacy building kind of stuff. So yeah,
I get salty this that. As for you know, demands
to get back in the lineup here, I mean, Steve
Kerr is never gonna give us an honest answer, or
he'll give us something that's sarcasm dripped. Uh. Maybe Clay's
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dad will let it out of the bag at some
point because occasionally he gets loose lipped on some things
they talk about. But otherwise, you know, and enjoy the ride.
And if there is some problem for Steve Kerr, we
you gotta listen to every show every week. I mean,
come on, you got to know the rich tapestry that
we weave that you know, if if that is the
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biggest problem Steve Kerr is going to have, well, thus far,
it's looked pretty Uh it's looked like they've handled it
pretty well because they've got the defending heavy e p
on the ropes ready to get swept out in the
first round. Now, let me ask you a very serious
question now, because I think many many people around the
league I want to know this answer. After the last
minute of the game tonight, can NBA voters call and
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get their m VP votes for Yokis back? You know what,
I think there will be some I think there'll be
some people on morning talk shows that will be saying, see,
this is why he's not the m v P. Look
at that again. One doesn't have anything to do with
the other. But of course you know what he but
it makes for you know, great hot take nonsense. I'm see,
this is why I couldn't vote for this guy for
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the m v P because of things like this with
Steph Curry working around him or Draymond Green taking his
lunch money down the stretch. And but that's a horrendous
last minute for the m v P, right Steph Curry.
It was for a layup where it looks like all
Yoka has to put his arms out and Curry shouldn't
be able to get by him and get the ball
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up for a layup, but he does, and then he
gets his pocket picked by Draymond Green and a free
throw the other way, and that pretty much seals the game.
That's as bad a last minute as you could have
If that happened to Lebron James. Oh my god, people
want him kicked out of the league. You can't have
playing in the NBA after that. He's gotta go. Lebron's
gotta go. I told you he's not that because he's
gotta go. He's gotta go. That would be the reaction
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for Lebron James. Man. Well, right now he's getting the
reputation of being a jinx, right. I mean, there's a
couple of articles that are now making the rounds talking
about everything he's predicted or or tried to push in
terms of players and rotations and whatever. It's all kind
of gone south on him. So, uh, you know, if
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you're betting based on advice or any notes from his
Twitter account or anything you may want to think, think again.
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Sports Radio Studio. Has got more in the NBA coming
up in a few minutes, But today's most controversial story.
I really am surprised at the controversy around it because
I I get that it's emotional. I understand what people
wanted to see. I get it. I wanted to see
it too, But I I it's really not as big
a deal as people are making out to be. What
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are we talking about. We're talking about the Mets getting
the ten wins and are they the best team in baseball?
We're talking about MLB history that we may not see
again for at least twenty years. It's gonna be a minute.
Miguel Cabrera sits at again after having an over day
against the Yankees in the Tigers three nothing win at
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America Park earlier today. Cabrera comes up in the eighth inning,
runners at second and third, and of course Aaron Boone
is going to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera because it's the
right baseball play to make second and third you want
to force out double play. Now that Tigers wound up
crossing it up by getting a hit and bringing in
two runs, Tigers win the game three nothing. But when
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Mcguel Cabrera was intentionally walked with the bases loaded, even
though it was the right call, nobody was happy, and
that extended to the Tigers broadcast crew. They wouldn't dare walking,
There'd be there'd be a riot. They can't. I think
by rule, somebody's going for their three thousand hit in
first base is open, you are not allowed to walk
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that better they are not, No, they are. Oh man,
if you're the marriage the Yankees, what are you gonna do?
H okay? Sure wow, what a decision. Now, good luck
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Yankees getting on your team bus and getting out of here.
Oh man, we're gonna kick your asset. We see you
a calling calling for issues with the bus. Call it
for Boone's head. I mean, come on. It's like in
the in the Monaeil episode of The Simpsons when when
when he's riding in the plane he goes, uh North Haverbrook,
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Where have I heard that before? And they're all standing
on the ground going there he is seen seven f
go get him. Oh man, look, I understand them. You
can hear the fans are channing Yankee suck, which look
happened to me? Where so yeah you look, I I understand.
I like I said, I understand the emotion. If I
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was at that game, i'd want to see it. I
want to see history. I want to have the ticket
stub or at least whatever is printed out nicely off
my prayer. But but that's the right baseball. But this
wasn't ducking Miguel Cabrera. This wasn't I don't want him
to get his three thousand hit against US. Now, it
would have been incredibly cool if they pitched to him.
That would have been incredibly cool. Have been wow, man,
Aaron Boone, Man, you know, for you know, one forgetful
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game here out of one sixty two. I tip my
cap to a pitching Miguel Cabrera. But the guys trying
to win the game. You know, it's not a seven
one game where walking was the right play. But you're
down by six ronts. It's one nothing, right, the guys
trying to win the game. He's got to do the
right thing to try to win this baseball game. It
was out of hand one way or the other. Yeah, okay,
pitch to him, but it's one nothing. You're trying to
get out of it and come up in the last
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couple of meetings with a chance to get a run
and and tie the game. Uh So I get being upset,
but he kind of had to walk him. There were
there was really there was no other way to say it.
Your team would have said to you, what are you doing? Skip?
What are we doing? What do we do? Why? Why
are we pitching this guy? Why? Why? Why aren't we
walking and trying to set up a force at home
or double playing? What are we doing? So? No, everything
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done was the right way. I get the fans are upset,
but they what they're supposed to do. Second time in
a week we're having the discussion, and there's been many others,
smaller but certainly at a very large scale with big
baseball moments involved. Go back to uh Dave Robertson, Clayton
Kershaw a week ago, right move, wrong move, baseball move
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short term, long term, all of those kind of impacts
and baseball fandom an emotion finding its way into the argument.
Same thing here. It's like, yeah, you want to see it.
Your home crowd, you kind of ticked off it's against
the Yankees. From the Yankee side, I'm sure they would
have been happy to just be on another part of
history because then they can claim it, you know, we
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cause that, And instead you've got the decision to use
the empty base, right baseball move, just like in very
many uh you know, permutations of the argument with Kershaw
and Roberts a week ago. Right, baseball move, gut from
the gut? Does it hurt you because you want to
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see the chance at history? Sure? But you know what,
assuming he doesn't get hurt slipping on a bath match
or something between now and the first inning of their
next game, No, why do you gotta put it out there?
If he slips on a bath match tomorrow, it's your fault.
There he is Harmon's and Seats seven f got him.
I mean, it's your fault. I was I was really
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just trying to channel the energy you've been throwing out
about injuries and everything else tonight. A guy can get
hurt tomorrow, but just the idea that he's got a
lot of baseball ahead of him. And again, you know,
I get it, the sentimentality, the home crowd, all of
those things, certainly, But the reality is the Yankees, no,
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they get it. They need to steal every win they
can and fight and claw for each one of them.
We have no idea what the home field advantage long
term is and what it will mean for the Blue Jays,
But you know what they've got a lot of games
against them and a lot on the road, so you
have to navigate and steal every other wu can because
in that division, even the Rays, right, we always talk
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about how they don't pay anybody they win games. Okay,
that's the one fundamental truth. The the A's don't have
anybody showing up to watch them, and the rate, well
the Rays really don't have a ton either, but they
don't pay anybody. But they both go and win a
pretty good amount of game each year. And for the Yankees,
they thought they still had a chance to go and
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take this one ergo you go by the book, uh,
the old manager's blackjack card of what do we do
in this situation? Basis empty? See you maybe now the
other part of this and we've had this conversation we
can take it to another level now, is that you know,
we talk about what it's like to see somebody get
three thousand hits, and you know something you and I
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have seen. You know, it happened every couple of years
for most of our lives. Yeah we had. Yeah, but
now with players coming up, their careers are shorter, we're
not seeing it as much. And we've talked a lot
about how the three thousand hit club. We may not
see a guy for a long time, for maybe another
twenty years. It's gonna be really tough. Robinson Canoe needs
nearly three hundred hits. I don't think he's gonna play
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long enough to get there. I don't know that anybody's
gonna give him a chance after this year. He's got
one another three seventy or so. Yeah, he's got Yeah,
he's got like, oh, he has got over three hundred
to go. It's gonna be tough. But at least that
you have somebody maybe on the periphery. What we may
not see again, and I mean we may not see
again ever, is someone getting three wins. We may never
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see that again. And I don't mean like twenty years.
I mean again because pictures clearly now they don't pitch
as much, they don't pitch as long into games, they
get hurt more often. It's never going back the other
way where you're going to see guys. Okay, well, no
matter what happens, we'll go We're going to go back
to the iron guys, and guys are gonna pitch every
fourth day. That's never happening again. Never happening again. And
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where where we sit right now? For three hundred games? Um,
Kershaw and Scherzer are the quote closest, but they need
about six more years of eighteen wins each, right right, Sars,
there's thirty seven. He's not getting there. Kershaw's thirty four.
He's probably not getting there. Justin Verlanders got twenty seven,
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but he's thirty nine. As much as we think maybe
he's Tom Brady, Um, you know, injuries probably robbed in
his chance to get there, because you're still talking about
you know, almost seventy five more wins. Uh, that's gonna
be almost impossible, you know, so we we we may it.
We'll get five hundred homer guys in our lifetime because
guys are going to continue to hit home runs and
we'll see that, you know, getting hit pretty regularly. But
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three thousand hits, yeah, maybe three hundred wins. I don't know.
We may have. I may have seen the last guy
win three hundred games in my lifetime. I mean, unless
on how D Graham can pitch until he's seventy because
he's only gonna start about fifteen games a year. But
I mean, really, I I don't know the guy who
the next guy to win three hundred games in Major
League Baseball hasn't started his professional career yet, maybe hasn't
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been born yet. But I I don't know how you
do it, because I don't know how you stand a
team for so long where you win enough games and
you're able to get to three hundred. You know, guys
don't win twenty games all that often anymore. Guys don't
do it every year like they used to. You don't
get the starts, you don't stay in the games as much.
It just doesn't happen. I mean that maybe we may
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not see that ever again. Somebody get to three hundred wins. No, no, no,
that's gone. That's gone. I've been saying that for years.
Any anytime we start getting excited about milestones, that's that's
the one. Like we we could see guys have crazy
streaks and challenge to that, but even then you still
have You know, all it takes is one dominant effort
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against you to wreck that or or high batting averages
or home run records. Although someone at some point might
start looking at the ball again this year with the
way some things are dying and you can't explain it
all the weather. I don't think at this point the
warning track power UH is back in full effect in
Major League Baseball for a lot of teams. But Thres
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made twenty wins fifteen times or pitching twenty like if
if you're that good, you're getting monster contracts is the motivation.
And I know guys are competitors, but are you staying
around twenty years if you're making the kind of money
that's starting pitchers do once you're in getting that second deal?
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I don't know. And just to end the way bullpens
are used at bullpens blow leads. You know that more
about that than anybody watching your mets the last seven innings.
If games are only seven innings. Though, we we'd we'd
have won the n L. E would be like the Dodgers.
We'd win the Division every year and get to the
World Series all the time. Right, But that's it, right,
I mean, you think about all those things that go
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against you in route to getting a win. So whenever
anybody threw them up as meaningless stats, I always said
that was wrongheaded, But certainly putting it as a be
all to end all that was wrong headed as well.
But now we're at a point where guys don't even
get a chance to to go for wins oft the times,
how many pitches he's in, he's gone four and four
and a third day, he's struggling. He's out like I
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let's get the Steve come quote ready here, Cardinals GM.
It looks like maybe there is some sort of olive
branch that has been extended between the Cardinals and Kyler Murray.
Carlin mur who was very upset with the team wants
a new contract, scrubbed every mention of the Cardinals office
social media page. Maybe he's softening put out a tweet
earlier today that said, hey, I love Arizona. I want
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to win Super Bowls with the Cardinals translations, No one's
calling for you. Well. He also started posting on every
insider's account that had chimed in on on this fact
and Kimes quotes or whatever else, saying, hey, I'm a
I'm a Cardinal. Yeah yeah, so just so you know
right away? Um, why is he waiting until now when
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when he scrubbed it? If it wasn't that big a deal,
why didn't he do this? What happened that suddenly now
now I want to stay? Oh yeah, nothing happened. He's
doing that out of goodness of his art. Forget it. Uh,
here's Cardinals GM. Steve Kim who was asked earlier today, hey,
what about the chances of you potentially trading Kyler Murray.
There's a lot of speculation out there in the possibility
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of you guys trading. When you rule that out, zero chance.
Uh so, not quite the we have no intention of
trading him, which which we got. But you know that's
a little bit more to come past. When you say, hey,
uh yeah, no chance, screw it. I still call and
make an FM picks offer for Kyler Murray. It's still
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not the greatest relationship, and you know that you can
jar him loose. The overall opinion of Kyler Murray, he's
a little overrated, right. He thinks he's a top five
quarterback in the NFL, and he's not. He's more periphery
Tier two, lower end of the second tier. So he said, well,
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that's fine, but I don't want to quarter back that's
putting himself in the second tier. I want a guy
as much as we can mock Baker for some of
the stuff, he says, I still want the guy that
thinks he's the best in the room. Oh sure, well
look look, and I I get that it's just about
talking about giving giving stuff up in his Kyler Murray
worth making an f M picks off for And here's
why is because it's you know, everybody, fans and and
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and teams want to hold out going. Yes, we want
to wait and get that quarterback. We want to get
Josh Allen, Right, we want to get Patrick Mahomes. You
know what, that's ridiculous. You know, the chances of you
landing Alan or Mahomes are very slim. Right, you don't
know quarterbacks or gut fields. Some guys pan out, some
guys don't. But Kyler Murray, you already know a young
player who's a periphery top ten player, probably in the
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eight through ten uh spot for best quarterbacks in the NFL. Yeah,
you can win super Bowls with guys who are about
the eighth, ninth, or tenth best quarterback in the league. Right.
I mean, it's a big difference between the the top tier,
the top five the next five, but you can win
with those guys. And you mentioned Baker Mayfield. Kyler Murray
is a more talented Baker Mayfield because both of their
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problems are about leadership and maturity, right, And I but
I'm okay with the leadership and maturity issues of Kyler
Murray because he's done it on the field. I'm less
so for for Baker Mayfield, who is not done it
on the field. He has shown glimpses here and there,
but not nearly enough. And we've had a bigger sample
size to say that Baker Mayfield is not as good
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Kyler Murray clearly is better. So yeah, I'm okay with
getting that and bringing him in and saying, okay, change
of change of venue here. We need you to be
a little bit more of a leader, learned what it
means to be an NFL star, because look, this is
this guy who thought he was playing baseball his whole life.
Right I signed with the A's. It's awesome. I'm gonna
play one more year of football. That I'm saying goodbye.
Oh wait a minute, Heisman Trophy, number one pick in
the draft. He sorry, baseball, I'm gonna go play football.
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So the whole natural leadership think he kind of got
thrust into it pretty fast. Doesn't mean it's not his fault,
but for the ills he has to overcome. On a
new team. You're coming in, you understand, you gotta do
things a little bit differently. There's a little bit more responsibility.
We're paying you thirty five million dollars a year. No,
I'm okay with taking that gamble on Kyler Murray. Well,
that's one of the pieces, right the old with great
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power comes great responsibility. Yeah, I can, I can get
Spider Man in here, But I mean it is concerning
that you got any j. Green and and DeAndre Hopkins
kind of popping off a little bit as related to
the leadership charge of it all. Uh, what I'm curious
of is if you were to say, uncoupled Kyler Murray
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from Cliff's Cliff Kingsbury is is a different guy, you know,
second half of season. How much of that is coaching
not adjusting and because most of it gets put on
Murray time and time again, at least the last couple
of years and last year, questions of once he came
back from that ankle injury, how much he was willing
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to run and put it on his body a couple
of you know, turbo boosts, But other times it looked
like there were opportunities that he didn't take full advantage
of with that part of his game, you know, much
like we've been talking about with Deebo Samuel and what
he wants to do going forward. But that's the story
for another time. Uh in this case, yeah, I'd keep calling. Right.
If you're a team that wants to try and upgrade
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and see it, the price of poker is why why
not at least try? But you know, at least if
you're a Cardinals fan, you're feeling somewhat better. Uh that
everybody's just at least outwardly trying to get along and show, Hey,
nothing to see here. Go point at some other team
and make fun of them. Twitter at how about a fresca?
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a flourish the top story of the day that involves
a fight on an airplane, and it's actually what happened
with Mike Harmony Alex Tysher earlier tonight. No king drunk
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the NBA. Don't sleep on the Grizzlies, Don't sleep on
the Mavericks. They could have the easiest path to the
Western Conference. Five, you're channeling your old Barrio. Don't sleep,
Don't sleep on Mario the Warriors showing why they're the
overwhelming favorite to win the NBA Finals. But the day
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was kind of ruled by Mike Tyson and the altercation
he got in on a plane that was flying cross
country with a fan who initially wanted to take selfies
with him, in which I think he took a selfie
with Tyson. Then he starts berating him on the plane
and Tyson sitting down and the guys standing over his
seat and he's yelling at Tyson, and there's video of
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this and TMZ's got it. And then the next piece
of video you see is Tyson bummeling this guy because
he can't take the guy's standing over and yelling at Mike,
come on, stop back. Uh. I thought that was audio
from the plane. That was actually audio from Harmon's house. Uh.
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When when? When he beat up tie shirt. No. Uh
so the videos, the videos getting itself everywhere, and for
Tyson to lose his cool like that to want to
fight a guy. I mean, look, everybody's wrong here. I
don't know why you would want to antagonize Mike Tyson
unless unless you're an opportunist and you think he's gonna
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hit me. And if he hits me, I'm gonna get
a lot of money. Because I'm suspicious of people, you know,
That's what I am, right, I always I always say
I'm suspicious. The list of people I trust in this
world is very, very small. So when I see something
like this and I go, why is he doing this? Oh?
Is is he is he altered? Is he intoxicated? Is
what I wonder? If it's if he takes a swing
at me, man, I'm rich, I am absolutely I think
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coming my way, I think both of those could be
true in this instance. Uh, as you sorted out Jason,
but um, yeah, obviously just a bunch of wrongs. Uh
and a jackass got the big response he was looking for, right,
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I mean, Steve gave us some of the parameters of
what people and I witnesses were saying that they saw
and and believe the man to have been inebriated. Again.
All of this will come out in the wash as
it goes. As of now, all we've got is antagonism,
the speedbag effect of Mike Tyson turning around and taking
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this guy uh to school. Uh and then the battered,
beaten Oh look at him. Now that did not go
as he expected, or maybe it did, and we'll see
what kind of uh legal ease for tonight. I mean
Tyson was celebrating with Rick Flair at some kind of
party down in Florida, at least in the moment, I
mean in on the worse for wear. Yeah, I'm getting
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on the plane and I'm flying. Oh okay, great, yeah, yeah, No,
I'm good. I'm good. I don't have to worry about him.
I I feel pretty good. Oh all right, terrific. Yeah.
I mean that's next level stuff. Man. I I can
only wonder how that live in that kind of style
uh goes, And what was going through that man's mind
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when he decided to you know, jabber jaw at Mike
Tyson batch by him. Uh yeah, and and for Tyson again,
and I know you and I disagree on this, but
the fact that he's traveling by himself, and he's in
a position where no one is to stand and go, hey,
Mike stop. You know there's no bodyguard with him, there's
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no anybody. He's just sitting by himself where hey, what
could possibly go wrong? Here's a guy standing over Tyson.
See it looked like it was a funny or die
thing for a while. How is he not traveling with
somebody that's making sure, hey, stay away, stay away? Tys
into a huge selet. Pretty yeah, you just I think
you expect other folks to be smarter too. And sometimes
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we see the lowest common denominator come to the roost.
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And another large night in the NBA. You know, I
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kind of like this, Mike. Three games a night? Oh yeah,
you know, the NBA has for a long time has
had a really haphazard schedule. Just just to think for
a second, what the schedules like in years past, where
it's been, Hey, some nights we have four games, some
nights we have two games, and and yeah, when you
get to the end of a series, you can only
have so many because some series are over. But we
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got four games here and we got two games the
next night. It's like, that doesn't make sense. This is perfect.
Three games a night, right, every night is like a
mini n C a tournament night, which is kind of
like I told you, hey, if we have a playing round,
that you can expand the playing round and then every
night be like that for a week. That's fantastic. But
every night is we have the one game going on
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early early on East Coast time, and then the next
game comes about an hour and a half later, and
then the late game after that, and it is a
perfect smorgess board of the end of the first game
into the second game, and then the end of the
second game into the third game. I mean, this is
really it. It should be. It should be three games
a night as long as you can settle it. Don't
worry about games on Saturday, and let's load up here.
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Three games a night. It is absolutely perfect because four
four you kind of lose a little bit. There's games all. Hey,
we don't not paying attention so much to this one.
They've kind of hit a sweet spot here where three
games a night. No. I mean, obviously it's beautiful for us.
I mean, drifting one into the other one finishing right
as we come on air, and we get to eviserate
coaches and players for failure, uh failures then and uh well,
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extol the virtues and celebrate the victors. Uh, and then
we get to do it again and again. So yes,
greed being greedy, and you know greed can sometimes be good.
Then yes, obviously we we want to continue that as
best we can. But they're also in the business of
trying to get the most eyeballs uh Warriors nuggets. And
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you know you were talking about superstars and needing to
showcase superstars and everything else. Uh, that game just ended.
It's one o'clock on the East Coast, right, so when
you're trying to figure this stuff out, and look, you're
gonna have plenty of these games, right because it is
primetime West Coast, But where where you can make it
a weekend viewing experience? You know, to be nicer to
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the folks on the East Coast because you know they
have it so ar well, I get you know, but
I get it. But the fact is, but for the
East Coast, hey, we'll give you two games, right, you'll
get you'll get to see, but you don't get Steph
Curry game. If Lebron were in the playoffs, you wouldn't
be watching the Lakers flow. But Kawai and Leonard list
Clippers guys, you know, trying to navigate, because that's what
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I want to see Kawhi Leonard not I want to
see the guys not playing. No, but you get you
be in a nice your country. No, you give the
entire country what they want. Everybody gets three games. You
could stay up late or if you're on the West coast,
it's well, I'm gonna miss the first game because I'm
at work, because you know, it starts at four o'clock
in the afternoon, but I'm gonna get the end of
the second game in the late game at night. You know,
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it's not you know, it's not a perfect world. You
can't you can't just have games start on demand and
I'm all right, I'm ready for this game. No, this
is a perfect thing. Three games a night, you start
one for East coast, one Central time, one one West coast.
And this is it. I mean, this is this is
a perfect scenario. Any sport that wants to look and say,
how do we diminate an entire night? Uh, three games
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in the night is a perfect way to do it. Right.
If college basketball was a bigger sport during the regular season,
you could have the big triple headers and people would
love it so much it get done even sooner, because
college basketball games are done in like two hours and
fifteen minutes. NBA games a little bit longer. Um, even
with the NFL. Three games you want, you want to
start killing NFL three games, three games on Monday night, right,
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three games on person. However, you want to do it right,
have one game at four four thirty. Next one started
around six thirty or so, next one started about eight. Yeah,
why not? Three games? Is a is a great night
because if you feel like I got it, I got
full of basketball. I got my entire full of the game.
I don't feel like I missed anything. And I also
don't feel like I got cheated. Where here's the night?
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Only these two games going, and the Blazers are in
one of them. Oh sorry about that now, I don't
I don't need to watch. That happened a lot this year.
But even was hurt, here's your Blazers like they didn't
they don't have any of the guys I remember. M M.
It's a perfect night of TV watching absolutely perfect night. Well,
I like the way you set it up for the NFL,
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because you've now set it up for them to make
more money and sell off more component parts because now, hey,
did you order the Thursday night, Monday Night and Sunday tickets?
You know you say, I tell you what. We'll bundle
them all up right now for you. Oh man, I'll
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tell you a big night in the playoffs. Looking at
it was capped off by the Warriors win over the
Nuggets one eight team one thirteen, and when this game
was in doubt in the third quarter, when Denver came
back took the lead over Golden State, the Warriors not
only do they have their their players back, but they
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have their swagger back to and it was missing the
last couple of years because the team wasn't very good.
You had a bunch of injuries. Clay hasn't played in
two years, and you're missing that a little bit. You
need a little bit of that swagger, right like we
we saw it last night that the Sixers seem to
have swagger right now. That's the that's the other team
that really seems okay, Hey, we're feeling pretty good about
ourselves because we don't need James Harden to be good
because when he stinks, we can still win games without him.
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But the Warriors seem to have that swagger, and they
have zero weaknesses. Right even in a game where you
figure how are you gonna how are you gonna figure
out a way to stop Nicola Yoki doesn't matter. He
can go thirty seven eighteen, You can win the game.
You know. If it's not where Yoki is able to
control the game, we had no answer for and we
we lost by thirty. The Warriors are the one team
that can play the small ball so well, it doesn't
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matter what the other teams do. They have no weaknesses
right now. Zero you know, you know, yes, you'll get
their bench. Okay, Well, Curry's coming off the bench. You're
not gonna come off the bench for much longer because
now he's playing, he's up to thirty one minutes, which
is almost near his his normal minute capacity. So there's
gonna be some kind of adjustment to be made unless
Steph says, hey, bring me off the bench from now on.
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I I don't care for the team, I will do this.
And I wouldn't be surprised if he would do that,
because we also just happened well timed story hearkening back
to when he signed that four year, four million dollar extension.
I mean, you want to talk about a brilliant pr
spin As the playoffs start going, and this coming off
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the bench becomes a question, Hey, look what I did. Yeah,
I might have left some money on the table, but
this look at what we've been able to build and whatever.
So he looks like, you know, the whatever all truism
on a whole other level. Look what I did for
the greater good? You still got forty four million dollars
and then you you were able to build and create
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a team that went on to dominate, and here you
are again. They have no weaknesses, absolutely none. I mean
the only thing you think of is if somebody gets hurt,
something happens. Clay Thompson gets bench and he says, I
don't want to come off the bench. I'm never playing
for this team again. And he takes off. You never
say I mean that. That's what you're talking about for
the Warriors right now, and that's what it is. You know.
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I was, I like, I like that. The the extreme
of this guy starts acting like a petulant child. Well here, look,
could clearly do you how well do you think Clay
Thompson will take if he comes off the bench. He's
not because there was no reason him to come right
back in the starting lineup from missing two years. But
you know something had to go on behind the scenes,
because the right way to bring him back would have been, Okay, dude,
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you haven't played in a while. Man, you're in your thirties.
We're gonna bring you back off the bench, and we're
gonna parse out minutes for you because you want to
make sure you're okay. Nope, he was back in the
starting lineup right away and playing a bunch of minutes.
Right Steph comes back and it's well, we're gonna bring
step off the bench. And when is when is Steph
coming off the bench? Anything other than Steph Curry saying Coach,
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I get it. I'm okay with coming off the bench, right.
I know Clay wouldn't be because if Clay was coming
off the bench, he'd be pissed. He'd be pissed, and
he wouldn't do it for the team because because you
see how upset he was. He wasn't on the top
seventy five players of all time in the NBA. I
mean that, you know I took that personally. I've said
he's on the iPad very upset, like Michael Jordan's But
you know, for for all the you know the criticism
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that I have a lot of times for Steph Curry,
you know, him him being okay with coming off the
bench and not causing waves, it's a pretty big deal.
It's a pretty big deal for him to be able
to do that. And there's not many guys that would say, yes,
I'm okay coming off the How many superstars coming back
from injury would say yeah, yeah, no, bring bring me
off the bench. I I can do it. Whoa wait,
what Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can do it. I can
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do it. Steph is one of the is one of
those guys. That's why people want to play with him. Well,
but that's it. He is a guy that sees the
big picture, right whatever you can think go back and
and the times you were demanding some airtime in San
Francisco over the system quarterback and what was built by
Steve Kerr started with Mark Jackson. Yes, uh A two
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B and then they went B to see and stayed
at sea for a long time. Uh and now are
are ready for another run as guys get healthy and
guess what the the franchise got it right in Jordan
Pool and year three has become that next guy, So
you have those opportunities. Steph Curry is a guy that,
at least outwardly it looks outside looking in and with
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you know, all the the little stories you hear around.
Is the very very much a large picture guy. Yeah,
he's gonna get he knows he's gonna get his right.
I mean, there's never a game where you feel like, wow,
he only had eight shots. How do you only have it? No? No, no,
he gets two shots up even in limited minutes. We've
seen it coming off the bench, and as the minutes
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you know, restrictions or flow of game or whatever it is,
and those get augmented. Right, He's finding his his minutes
and his opportunities to make an impact either getting to
the basket or pull it up from mars for a shot.
I mean, it's all coming back together. Clay Thompson, Yeah,
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the seventy fifth anniversary thing was was certainly kind of interesting.
But you know, you had what five different guys or
are thereabouts that had beef that they were left off
because part of its marketing. Man, man, that's one of
the you know little skins on the wall. He's got titles,
he's got you know, the Splash Brothers, Moniker all that stuff.
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I don't know he wants that up up on the
wall too. Of hey, I was one of the top
seventy five of all time. That's that's marketing and branding
and you know, legacy building kind of stuff. So yeah,
I get salty this that. As for you know, demands
to get back in the lineup here, I mean, Steve
Kerr is never gonna give us an honest answer, or
he'll give us something that's sarcasm dripped. Uh. Maybe Clay's
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dad will let it out of the bag at some
point because occasionally he gets loose lipped on some things
they talk about. But otherwise, you know, and enjoy the ride.
And if there is some problem for Steve Kerr, we
you gotta listen to every show every week. I mean,
come on, you got to know the rich tapestry that
we weave that you know, if if that is the
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biggest problem Steve Kerr is going to have, well, thus far,
it's looked pretty Uh it's looked like they've handled it
pretty well because they've got the defending heavy e p
on the ropes ready to get swept out in the
first round. Now, let me ask you a very serious
question now, because I think many many people around the
league I want to know this answer. After the last
minute of the game tonight, can NBA voters call and
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get their m VP votes for Yokis back? You know what,
I think there will be some I think there'll be
some people on morning talk shows that will be saying, see,
this is why he's not the m v P. Look
at that again. One doesn't have anything to do with
the other. But of course you know what he but
it makes for you know, great hot take nonsense. I'm see,
this is why I couldn't vote for this guy for
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the m v P because of things like this with
Steph Curry working around him or Draymond Green taking his
lunch money down the stretch. And but that's a horrendous
last minute for the m v P, right Steph Curry.
It was for a layup where it looks like all
Yoka has to put his arms out and Curry shouldn't
be able to get by him and get the ball
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up for a layup, but he does, and then he
gets his pocket picked by Draymond Green and a free
throw the other way, and that pretty much seals the game.
That's as bad a last minute as you could have
If that happened to Lebron James. Oh my god, people
want him kicked out of the league. You can't have
playing in the NBA after that. He's gotta go. Lebron's
gotta go. I told you he's not that because he's
gotta go. He's gotta go. That would be the reaction
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for Lebron James. Man. Well, right now he's getting the
reputation of being a jinx, right. I mean, there's a
couple of articles that are now making the rounds talking
about everything he's predicted or or tried to push in
terms of players and rotations and whatever. It's all kind
of gone south on him. So, uh, you know, if
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you're betting based on advice or any notes from his
Twitter account or anything you may want to think, think again.
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Sports Radio Studio. Has got more in the NBA coming
up in a few minutes, But today's most controversial story.
I really am surprised at the controversy around it because
I I get that it's emotional. I understand what people
wanted to see. I get it. I wanted to see
it too, But I I it's really not as big
a deal as people are making out to be. What
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are we talking about. We're talking about the Mets getting
the ten wins and are they the best team in baseball?
We're talking about MLB history that we may not see
again for at least twenty years. It's gonna be a minute.
Miguel Cabrera sits at again after having an over day
against the Yankees in the Tigers three nothing win at
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America Park earlier today. Cabrera comes up in the eighth inning,
runners at second and third, and of course Aaron Boone
is going to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera because it's the
right baseball play to make second and third you want
to force out double play. Now that Tigers wound up
crossing it up by getting a hit and bringing in
two runs, Tigers win the game three nothing. But when
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Mcguel Cabrera was intentionally walked with the bases loaded, even
though it was the right call, nobody was happy, and
that extended to the Tigers broadcast crew. They wouldn't dare walking,
There'd be there'd be a riot. They can't. I think
by rule, somebody's going for their three thousand hit in
first base is open, you are not allowed to walk
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that better they are not, No, they are. Oh man,
if you're the marriage the Yankees, what are you gonna do?
H okay? Sure wow, what a decision. Now, good luck
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Yankees getting on your team bus and getting out of here.
Oh man, we're gonna kick your asset. We see you
a calling calling for issues with the bus. Call it
for Boone's head. I mean, come on. It's like in
the in the Monaeil episode of The Simpsons when when
when he's riding in the plane he goes, uh North Haverbrook,
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Where have I heard that before? And they're all standing
on the ground going there he is seen seven f
go get him. Oh man, look, I understand them. You
can hear the fans are channing Yankee suck, which look
happened to me? Where so yeah you look, I I understand.
I like I said, I understand the emotion. If I
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was at that game, i'd want to see it. I
want to see history. I want to have the ticket
stub or at least whatever is printed out nicely off
my prayer. But but that's the right baseball. But this
wasn't ducking Miguel Cabrera. This wasn't I don't want him
to get his three thousand hit against US. Now, it
would have been incredibly cool if they pitched to him.
That would have been incredibly cool. Have been wow, man,
Aaron Boone, Man, you know, for you know, one forgetful
(16:53):
game here out of one sixty two. I tip my
cap to a pitching Miguel Cabrera. But the guys trying
to win the game. You know, it's not a seven
one game where walking was the right play. But you're
down by six ronts. It's one nothing, right, the guys
trying to win the game. He's got to do the
right thing to try to win this baseball game. It
was out of hand one way or the other. Yeah, okay,
pitch to him, but it's one nothing. You're trying to
get out of it and come up in the last
(17:14):
couple of meetings with a chance to get a run
and and tie the game. Uh So I get being upset,
but he kind of had to walk him. There were
there was really there was no other way to say it.
Your team would have said to you, what are you doing? Skip?
What are we doing? What do we do? Why? Why
are we pitching this guy? Why? Why? Why aren't we
walking and trying to set up a force at home
or double playing? What are we doing? So? No, everything
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done was the right way. I get the fans are upset,
but they what they're supposed to do. Second time in
a week we're having the discussion, and there's been many others,
smaller but certainly at a very large scale with big
baseball moments involved. Go back to uh Dave Robertson, Clayton
Kershaw a week ago, right move, wrong move, baseball move
(17:55):
short term, long term, all of those kind of impacts
and baseball fandom an emotion finding its way into the argument.
Same thing here. It's like, yeah, you want to see it.
Your home crowd, you kind of ticked off it's against
the Yankees. From the Yankee side, I'm sure they would
have been happy to just be on another part of
history because then they can claim it, you know, we
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cause that, And instead you've got the decision to use
the empty base, right baseball move, just like in very
many uh you know, permutations of the argument with Kershaw
and Roberts a week ago. Right, baseball move, gut from
the gut? Does it hurt you because you want to
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see the chance at history? Sure? But you know what,
assuming he doesn't get hurt slipping on a bath match
or something between now and the first inning of their
next game, No, why do you gotta put it out there?
If he slips on a bath match tomorrow, it's your fault.
There he is Harmon's and Seats seven f got him.
I mean, it's your fault. I was I was really
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just trying to channel the energy you've been throwing out
about injuries and everything else tonight. A guy can get
hurt tomorrow, but just the idea that he's got a
lot of baseball ahead of him. And again, you know,
I get it, the sentimentality, the home crowd, all of
those things, certainly, But the reality is the Yankees, no,
(19:19):
they get it. They need to steal every win they
can and fight and claw for each one of them.
We have no idea what the home field advantage long
term is and what it will mean for the Blue Jays,
But you know what they've got a lot of games
against them and a lot on the road, so you
have to navigate and steal every other wu can because
in that division, even the Rays, right, we always talk
(19:42):
about how they don't pay anybody they win games. Okay,
that's the one fundamental truth. The the A's don't have
anybody showing up to watch them, and the rate, well
the Rays really don't have a ton either, but they
don't pay anybody. But they both go and win a
pretty good amount of game each year. And for the Yankees,
they thought they still had a chance to go and
(20:03):
take this one ergo you go by the book, uh,
the old manager's blackjack card of what do we do
in this situation? Basis empty? See you maybe now the
other part of this and we've had this conversation we
can take it to another level now, is that you know,
we talk about what it's like to see somebody get
three thousand hits, and you know something you and I
(20:23):
have seen. You know, it happened every couple of years
for most of our lives. Yeah we had. Yeah, but
now with players coming up, their careers are shorter, we're
not seeing it as much. And we've talked a lot
about how the three thousand hit club. We may not
see a guy for a long time, for maybe another
twenty years. It's gonna be really tough. Robinson Canoe needs
nearly three hundred hits. I don't think he's gonna play
(20:44):
long enough to get there. I don't know that anybody's
gonna give him a chance after this year. He's got
one another three seventy or so. Yeah, he's got Yeah,
he's got like, oh, he has got over three hundred
to go. It's gonna be tough. But at least that
you have somebody maybe on the periphery. What we may
not see again, and I mean we may not see
again ever, is someone getting three wins. We may never
(21:07):
see that again. And I don't mean like twenty years.
I mean again because pictures clearly now they don't pitch
as much, they don't pitch as long into games, they
get hurt more often. It's never going back the other
way where you're going to see guys. Okay, well, no
matter what happens, we'll go We're going to go back
to the iron guys, and guys are gonna pitch every
fourth day. That's never happening again. Never happening again. And
(21:30):
where where we sit right now? For three hundred games? Um,
Kershaw and Scherzer are the quote closest, but they need
about six more years of eighteen wins each, right right, Sars,
there's thirty seven. He's not getting there. Kershaw's thirty four.
He's probably not getting there. Justin Verlanders got twenty seven,
(21:51):
but he's thirty nine. As much as we think maybe
he's Tom Brady, Um, you know, injuries probably robbed in
his chance to get there, because you're still talking about
you know, almost seventy five more wins. Uh, that's gonna
be almost impossible, you know, so we we we may it.
We'll get five hundred homer guys in our lifetime because
guys are going to continue to hit home runs and
we'll see that, you know, getting hit pretty regularly. But
(22:13):
three thousand hits, yeah, maybe three hundred wins. I don't know.
We may have. I may have seen the last guy
win three hundred games in my lifetime. I mean, unless
on how D Graham can pitch until he's seventy because
he's only gonna start about fifteen games a year. But
I mean, really, I I don't know the guy who
the next guy to win three hundred games in Major
League Baseball hasn't started his professional career yet, maybe hasn't
(22:35):
been born yet. But I I don't know how you
do it, because I don't know how you stand a
team for so long where you win enough games and
you're able to get to three hundred. You know, guys
don't win twenty games all that often anymore. Guys don't
do it every year like they used to. You don't
get the starts, you don't stay in the games as much.
It just doesn't happen. I mean that maybe we may
(22:56):
not see that ever again. Somebody get to three hundred wins. No, no, no,
that's gone. That's gone. I've been saying that for years.
Any anytime we start getting excited about milestones, that's that's
the one. Like we we could see guys have crazy
streaks and challenge to that, but even then you still
have You know, all it takes is one dominant effort
(23:19):
against you to wreck that or or high batting averages
or home run records. Although someone at some point might
start looking at the ball again this year with the
way some things are dying and you can't explain it
all the weather. I don't think at this point the
warning track power UH is back in full effect in
Major League Baseball for a lot of teams. But Thres
(23:42):
made twenty wins fifteen times or pitching twenty like if
if you're that good, you're getting monster contracts is the motivation.
And I know guys are competitors, but are you staying
around twenty years if you're making the kind of money
that's starting pitchers do once you're in getting that second deal?
(24:03):
I don't know. And just to end the way bullpens
are used at bullpens blow leads. You know that more
about that than anybody watching your mets the last seven innings.
If games are only seven innings. Though, we we'd we'd
have won the n L. E would be like the Dodgers.
We'd win the Division every year and get to the
World Series all the time. Right, But that's it, right,
I mean, you think about all those things that go
(24:26):
against you in route to getting a win. So whenever
anybody threw them up as meaningless stats, I always said
that was wrongheaded, But certainly putting it as a be
all to end all that was wrong headed as well.
But now we're at a point where guys don't even
get a chance to to go for wins oft the times,
how many pitches he's in, he's gone four and four
and a third day, he's struggling. He's out like I
(24:48):
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let's get the Steve come quote ready here, Cardinals GM.
It looks like maybe there is some sort of olive
branch that has been extended between the Cardinals and Kyler Murray.
Carlin mur who was very upset with the team wants
a new contract, scrubbed every mention of the Cardinals office
social media page. Maybe he's softening put out a tweet
earlier today that said, hey, I love Arizona. I want
(26:14):
to win Super Bowls with the Cardinals translations, No one's
calling for you. Well. He also started posting on every
insider's account that had chimed in on on this fact
and Kimes quotes or whatever else, saying, hey, I'm a
I'm a Cardinal. Yeah yeah, so just so you know
right away? Um, why is he waiting until now when
(26:37):
when he scrubbed it? If it wasn't that big a deal,
why didn't he do this? What happened that suddenly now
now I want to stay? Oh yeah, nothing happened. He's
doing that out of goodness of his art. Forget it. Uh,
here's Cardinals GM. Steve Kim who was asked earlier today, hey,
what about the chances of you potentially trading Kyler Murray.
There's a lot of speculation out there in the possibility
(26:57):
of you guys trading. When you rule that out, zero chance.
Uh so, not quite the we have no intention of
trading him, which which we got. But you know that's
a little bit more to come past. When you say, hey,
uh yeah, no chance, screw it. I still call and
make an FM picks offer for Kyler Murray. It's still
(27:18):
not the greatest relationship, and you know that you can
jar him loose. The overall opinion of Kyler Murray, he's
a little overrated, right. He thinks he's a top five
quarterback in the NFL, and he's not. He's more periphery
Tier two, lower end of the second tier. So he said, well,
(27:39):
that's fine, but I don't want to quarter back that's
putting himself in the second tier. I want a guy
as much as we can mock Baker for some of
the stuff, he says, I still want the guy that
thinks he's the best in the room. Oh sure, well
look look, and I I get that it's just about
talking about giving giving stuff up in his Kyler Murray
worth making an f M picks off for And here's
why is because it's you know, everybody, fans and and
(28:03):
and teams want to hold out going. Yes, we want
to wait and get that quarterback. We want to get
Josh Allen, Right, we want to get Patrick Mahomes. You
know what, that's ridiculous. You know, the chances of you
landing Alan or Mahomes are very slim. Right, you don't
know quarterbacks or gut fields. Some guys pan out, some
guys don't. But Kyler Murray, you already know a young
player who's a periphery top ten player, probably in the
(28:27):
eight through ten uh spot for best quarterbacks in the NFL. Yeah,
you can win super Bowls with guys who are about
the eighth, ninth, or tenth best quarterback in the league. Right.
I mean, it's a big difference between the the top tier,
the top five the next five, but you can win
with those guys. And you mentioned Baker Mayfield. Kyler Murray
is a more talented Baker Mayfield because both of their
(28:48):
problems are about leadership and maturity, right, And I but
I'm okay with the leadership and maturity issues of Kyler
Murray because he's done it on the field. I'm less
so for for Baker Mayfield, who is not done it
on the field. He has shown glimpses here and there,
but not nearly enough. And we've had a bigger sample
size to say that Baker Mayfield is not as good
(29:09):
Kyler Murray clearly is better. So yeah, I'm okay with
getting that and bringing him in and saying, okay, change
of change of venue here. We need you to be
a little bit more of a leader, learned what it
means to be an NFL star, because look, this is
this guy who thought he was playing baseball his whole life.
Right I signed with the A's. It's awesome. I'm gonna
play one more year of football. That I'm saying goodbye.
Oh wait a minute, Heisman Trophy, number one pick in
the draft. He sorry, baseball, I'm gonna go play football.
(29:31):
So the whole natural leadership think he kind of got
thrust into it pretty fast. Doesn't mean it's not his fault,
but for the ills he has to overcome. On a
new team. You're coming in, you understand, you gotta do
things a little bit differently. There's a little bit more responsibility.
We're paying you thirty five million dollars a year. No,
I'm okay with taking that gamble on Kyler Murray. Well,
that's one of the pieces, right the old with great
(29:53):
power comes great responsibility. Yeah, I can, I can get
Spider Man in here, But I mean it is concerning
that you got any j. Green and and DeAndre Hopkins
kind of popping off a little bit as related to
the leadership charge of it all. Uh, what I'm curious
of is if you were to say, uncoupled Kyler Murray
(30:17):
from Cliff's Cliff Kingsbury is is a different guy, you know,
second half of season. How much of that is coaching
not adjusting and because most of it gets put on
Murray time and time again, at least the last couple
of years and last year, questions of once he came
back from that ankle injury, how much he was willing
(30:37):
to run and put it on his body a couple
of you know, turbo boosts, But other times it looked
like there were opportunities that he didn't take full advantage
of with that part of his game, you know, much
like we've been talking about with Deebo Samuel and what
he wants to do going forward. But that's the story
for another time. Uh in this case, yeah, I'd keep calling. Right.
If you're a team that wants to try and upgrade
(30:59):
and see it, the price of poker is why why
not at least try? But you know, at least if
you're a Cardinals fan, you're feeling somewhat better. Uh that
everybody's just at least outwardly trying to get along and show, Hey,
nothing to see here. Go point at some other team
and make fun of them. Twitter at how about a fresca?
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(31:21):
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was kind of ruled by Mike Tyson and the altercation
he got in on a plane that was flying cross
country with a fan who initially wanted to take selfies
with him, in which I think he took a selfie
with Tyson. Then he starts berating him on the plane
and Tyson sitting down and the guys standing over his
seat and he's yelling at Tyson, and there's video of
(32:47):
this and TMZ's got it. And then the next piece
of video you see is Tyson bummeling this guy because
he can't take the guy's standing over and yelling at Mike,
come on, stop back. Uh. I thought that was audio
from the plane. That was actually audio from Harmon's house. Uh.
(33:09):
When when? When he beat up tie shirt. No. Uh
so the videos, the videos getting itself everywhere, and for
Tyson to lose his cool like that to want to
fight a guy. I mean, look, everybody's wrong here. I
don't know why you would want to antagonize Mike Tyson
unless unless you're an opportunist and you think he's gonna
(33:33):
hit me. And if he hits me, I'm gonna get
a lot of money. Because I'm suspicious of people, you know,
That's what I am, right, I always I always say
I'm suspicious. The list of people I trust in this
world is very, very small. So when I see something
like this and I go, why is he doing this? Oh?
Is is he is he altered? Is he intoxicated? Is
what I wonder? If it's if he takes a swing
at me, man, I'm rich, I am absolutely I think
(33:57):
coming my way, I think both of those could be
true in this instance. Uh, as you sorted out Jason,
but um, yeah, obviously just a bunch of wrongs. Uh
and a jackass got the big response he was looking for, right,
(34:17):
I mean, Steve gave us some of the parameters of
what people and I witnesses were saying that they saw
and and believe the man to have been inebriated. Again.
All of this will come out in the wash as
it goes. As of now, all we've got is antagonism,
the speedbag effect of Mike Tyson turning around and taking
(34:38):
this guy uh to school. Uh and then the battered,
beaten Oh look at him. Now that did not go
as he expected, or maybe it did, and we'll see
what kind of uh legal ease for tonight. I mean
Tyson was celebrating with Rick Flair at some kind of
party down in Florida, at least in the moment, I
mean in on the worse for wear. Yeah, I'm getting
(35:01):
on the plane and I'm flying. Oh okay, great, yeah, yeah, No,
I'm good. I'm good. I don't have to worry about him.
I I feel pretty good. Oh all right, terrific. Yeah.
I mean that's next level stuff. Man. I I can
only wonder how that live in that kind of style
uh goes, And what was going through that man's mind
(35:23):
when he decided to you know, jabber jaw at Mike
Tyson batch by him. Uh yeah, and and for Tyson again,
and I know you and I disagree on this, but
the fact that he's traveling by himself, and he's in
a position where no one is to stand and go, hey,
Mike stop. You know there's no bodyguard with him, there's
(35:45):
no anybody. He's just sitting by himself where hey, what
could possibly go wrong? Here's a guy standing over Tyson.
See it looked like it was a funny or die
thing for a while. How is he not traveling with
somebody that's making sure, hey, stay away, stay away? Tys
into a huge selet. Pretty yeah, you just I think
you expect other folks to be smarter too. And sometimes
(36:07):
we see the lowest common denominator come to the roost.
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