June 4, 2022 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike discuss NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's plan to potentially shorten the NBA season. Jason and Mike also discuss Joe Girardi's firing, and debate of he can find another job in the majors. Also, Jason talks about a very popular song in the latest season of Stranger Things.
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to where the Mets may never score again. They they
they may never score another run, at least in this series,
but they may never score again the rest of the season.
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They get shut out last night. I told you had
a horrible feeling about this series with the Dodgers. Dodgers
playing horribly swept by the Pirates, metsen playing great. I said,
they're gonna commit here, They're gonna get swept. They're gonna
lose all four games. They might not score a run,
shut out last night to nothing. They're down four nothing
in the sixth inning tonight. This is gonna They're gonna
go all weekend not score runs. How it's gonna go
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so you're gonna sit and watch that direct tomorrow because
we'll go see Top Gun for a third time. I
might if Hey, if the game starts out poorly, I'm
gonna say, listen, I'm gonna find the theater around here,
going to see Top Gun again. Then I will come
back and then we'll leave at the end of the game.
I fully anticipate at some point you will be uh
buying a guitar and a little amp just so you
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can do the firtyary dude, And that's how You're gonna
just stand on the street corner and you're gonna get
everybody all fired. I was like, oh, that's the thing.
We're job Gun and me. You know, a bruskre You're
gonna be out there and they'll be throwing money into
your guitar case. No, or I just find a place
that as a piano, walk up and start doing great
balls of fire. You shake my nerve and you right
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on my break, come on singing with the family. Bradley
and I just start doing great balls of fire like
Goose does. I just started to start doing that. That That
would be pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, look, I I
we we talked to my daughter orso and I about
the complicated history of Jerry Lee Lewis you kind of
went through a lot of the guys from this uh
Sun record, sen sessions and some of the things that
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society doesn't quite look as kindly on in their histories. Nountain.
So when that one showed up again, I was like, nah,
we got to talk about it. But I'll just dress
like cool, right, I'll dress like Goose. I'll have the mustache,
I'll have the glass. I'll go in and i'll sound
I'll do I'll do like Goose that I do the
Great Balls of Fire from the new one. Oh, it'll
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be great. Are you kidding that? That's all the people
know exactly what I'm doing. Like, Hey, why does a
guy that looks like Sting or the bald guy but
is dressed like Goose trying to play the piano that
this doesn't go right? Let's throw him out of the bar.
That's what happened to me. He's a one man man gang.
He's doing. Come on and let's do the song with me.
Come on, everybody, you chake my nerve. Man, You're come on,
you want to do it? Look, come on, let's do it.
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Let's do it. You're a lunatic. Now that would be fun.
That's something I could do tomorrownight while I'm watch the
Mets lose. But I will have to go get my
gil Hodges bobble head doll first. And I spent today
explaining to all of us who were going to the
game tomorrow who Gil Hodges was. It was kind of fun.
So for like four minutes I got to explain the
history of Gil Hodges with both the Dodgers and the Mets,
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and it was kind of cool. In the end, they
didn't care because the story wasn't that great. I was like, well,
here's the deal. Like, I really didn't have a lot
of juice to it. It It was just more for people
who like baseball. You're gonna get a gil Hodges bobble heads,
all right, it's fine. So they kind of thought it
was gonna tell us because I tell really good stories.
And then they heard this, and I can see the
light go out in their eyes, like this is not
going anywhere. This is not I don't care about this. Okay,
well are you done? Are you done? You've done? Okay,
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you're done, perfect, You're done. That's pretty funny, just the
I can see the eyes glazing over sometimes history lessons.
You know, they only want so much. Who was he?
You know, give me the quick synopsis. It's like, can
you fit it in a tweet? Can you fit when
you're gonna tell me about this individual in two characters?
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And and look to be clear, we talked about it
a little bit, the Gil Hodges bobblehead. We saw it, uh,
in all its glory. They were advertising it on the
game when we were in studio, and it looks fantastic.
And I don't take anything away from the career of
Gil Hodges. Just who who collects bobbleheads? Probably you know, kids,
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young adults. I mean not not to say that you
don't have a bunch of guys our age that have
giant bobbleheads collections like I may have, including one of myself.
You send me pictures of bobbleheads all the time, do
you said me, here's a Jack's Teller bobble head from
Sons of Anarchy, and that I'm thinking of buying. Oh no, no, no,
I've never I've never done that. I've never thought of
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buying it. Here's the Professor Grubby Plank from Harry Potter.
No buying who but yes, it's um good times, good times.
Folks will enjoy that. And then many will say, you
know what, I'm gonna go give that to my great
uncle or my grandpa because he'll remember who he is.
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Oh sure, or you know I saved it from my
dad at Christmas. Right. It's like you know what, Like now,
whenever I see free and stuff like that, I think, Okay,
if I don't want it, boom, like my head turns
into a computer. Who and my family would like this,
and I can cross off getting a Christmas present for
them because it's pretty cool. Ah boom dad boom, Yes,
gil Hodges bobble and he loved that, so I'm gonna
get it. I'm gonna make sure Zoe gets hers tomorrow. Hey,
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you're gonna give me that Bobbleheads, I'll give it to
Grandpa for Christmas. Okay, yeah, here you go Dad. She's
not gonna care. Here you go, Dad, I don't care.
Whatever whatever you want. I'm like, all right, Greg, And
then I'm done. I said, Hey, there you go. I
could cross it off and get my dad at gil
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baseball today, Joe already is out the Philadelphia Phillies firing
him as manager earlier today. And uh, this is not
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a moment that you thought, well, no, no, this was
coming for a while. You know. You asked John Paul
Morrossi about that when he visited with us a few
days ago, and certainly knew his job was tenuous. He
has let go today now to give you something different
on this, to to widen it out other than just
the Phillies fired their manager. Yes, the Phillies roster is
not put together very well. They have like five or
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six guys who can drive in runs, but they're they're
awful defensively. It's just look, there's many reasons why Joe
Girardi not the best tactician in the game. Uh, he
was supposed to succeed, but he didn't. But when you
look into the psychology of when and why managers get fired,
certain things happen. Think about something like this. When the
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Phillies did their final preparations from manager a couple of
years ago, right, because already makes about too you know,
a little over two seasons, the final three where Joe
Girardi and buckshow Walter and Dusty Baker. Right, these are
your three finalists for the job. The guy they picked
was the wrong guy, obviously, because the Phillies didn't win,
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have a big payroll, and it should work. There was
no reason to not take Joe Girardi two and a
half years ago, because Girardi was someone who would managed
the big pressure cooker of New York. Philadelphia was gonna
be fine. He was gonna have high salary. Guys, everything
was gonna be great. Right, Okay, I got it Joe Gerardy,
but it didn't work out. It's not like go back
and go, oh, look at that. You you picked the
wrong guy from beginning. As it evolved, you saw your
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guy wasn't the guy. And what happened was a year
ago you watched Dusty Baker come in and now look
at the Astros. They're back to being the Astros were
done with the sign stealing scandal, and they're winning their
top of the a L West, and they could clinch
the L West any day now because the Angels have
lost like fifty games in a row. So look at them,
look at them out there, and and they're doing well.
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And look at the Mets, who had lead the NL
East by nine and a half games, probably eight and
a half games after night, but they lead by nine
and a half games a bunch by time. It could
be more, and then we had it could be everywhere.
Uh So this is this is something else where you
wake up every day if you're the Philly if you're
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a team, if you're the Phillies, you're a fan, you're
the media, you work the team, your front office, you're
the owner. And every day as a reminder, we didn't
pick the right guy, because every day is the Mets
win another series. Look at their lead in the East.
You're looking up at them already because you're in the
same division, and Dusty Baker is doing great things with
the Astros. You know, it's just a matter of time
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before you're gonna replace that guy. Because every day you're
told we got it wrong, we got it wrong. We
got it wrong, and that's only gonna go for so
long before you have to fire somebody. So this was
inevitable for Joe Girardi because of that, because of the
the guys who were he came down to it at
the end, the psychology aspect of every day going look
at this another another game lead for the Mets in
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the East Astro's wind. Uh, yeah, we picked the We
could have picked either one of those other guys. And
you want to do a transitive property and say that
if we pick Dusty Baker, we'd be winning. If we'd
pick Buck shawt we winning. But you can't get it
out of your head that well, the other two guys
we didn't get both went to two different situations and
are succeeding. And the guy we picked, we thought was
the best for us is not. That's just gonna happen.
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That's a big part of why Joe Girardi got fired.
The other stuff, that baseball stuff you heard about all day, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But this gets bigger than just hey, why did this
guy get fight? It's when you see that you made
a mistake. You're only gonna go so long before you
have to erase it so you can move on because
you don't want to be reminded of a mistake every
single day. Well yeah, and you made a lot of
assumptions about what he was going to be, what he
was gonna be able to bring to the table, and
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you forget, you know, the teams he won with. With
the Yankees, you had in in clubhouse leaders, right, not
that you didn't have to manage egos, but you had
a lot of guys that were there to help in
the checks and balance is part of things. And you
had a roster that you were always like the Dodgers
now write the report of how much they're gonna have
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to pay in luxury tax and everything else. I mean
that's something the Yankees always did. We need you think
we need one more, go get one more. So certainly
Girardi benefited from that. Also, you're in a market in
Philadelphia where, let's just face it, there's a lot of
saltiness and a lot of attention that was on Doc Rivers,
Joel embiid what was going on with Ben Simmons. You
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know what, that season's over, So what do you need
in the back pages of your newspaper and on television
and on radio. Oh, we moved to the next sport
while we wait for the Eagles to get back on
the field, which means, Hi, Joe Girardi, it's your time
to shine, which means every misstep, every miscalculation, pinch hitters, uh,
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moving runners on the bases, bullpen management, everything is gonna
be there with a giant microscope and gonna be exacerbated
to the point you made. Also of here are other
choices and guys that are succeeding. One of them is
in our division. And and right now we're getting waxed.
Now you can't help but roster construction not his call.
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And obviously the Bryce Harper injury even though he's in
the lineup, and well, they put up ten runs after
Joe gir already got dumped. So I don't know what
that means. Uh in the grands, Hey, could you guys
be playing harder? Yes, sir, Mr Simpson, Uh, you know
that kind of thing went back when he was back
in uh you know with Hank Scorpio. Uh. So it's
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now the the next question of you know a guy
that still did his radio spot after being fired, which
is kind of interesting, or was it a mutual party
of ways, or do we actually use the term fire? Uh?
I just saw he was gone. No, he's fired. Okay,
well that's what we'll call. You don't have a mutual
parting of the ways in the middle of the season
when you say a couple of days ago, I'm not
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worried about my job. There's no mutual I'm miserable. You're miserable.
We're all miserable. Let's move on. But yeah, it's it's
a final and for the the Phillies, right, you got
two months where you're in the spotlight because as soon
as training camp start, it's all bets are off. You're
you're gone. So whoever is the interim probably gets a
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bit of a free pass because it's gonna be all
about Jalen hurt. Is he the guy or is he not?
See you think you think everything's my fault. Look, we
got to the playoffs. We you know it's it's stop
stop my fault, right, look at look look at what
happened at Joe Girard. Guy got fired. Right, guy didn't win.
Look I've one, I've done something. We only didn't move
up because it was it was Joe ellen Bead's decision
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to walk by Joe Girardi, and Joe Girardi punched him
in the face, and that's why you broke the orbital
bone in his eye. That's what happened. People don't know that.
I had to tell the Phillies about that, say, listen,
you gotta fire this guy now. Now. Look they're doing it,
so really, it's it's not you. You can't say, oh, hey,
the seventies six. Everybody's look, we're achieving. You know, they're
not achieving nearly what we are. Could we be achieving more? Yeah,
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we'll work on that. But uh but no, I mean,
I'm not Joe Girardi. You can't mean. We're two two
very different guys, very different. I didn't really think you
really needed to take it to physical violence, but you know,
if someone's gonna get hit in the face, well, I
did the bit before about Joe Girardi tripping him on
the way to the long room, so I wanted to
do something different this, No, no, I like it. You
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gotta you gotta, you gotta keep the audience guessing. There's
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zone uh, coming up next? Well, the Mets have scored
to run, thankfully. Peter Alonzo, it's a home run. The bet.
Let me say this, the Mets may never win again.
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So I said that they score again, right, But I
said the Mets may never score again. Alonso, it's a
home run. Now, I say the Mets may never win again,
and maybe they come from behind the wind. I put
it out in the universe. I did a test balloon,
and the Mets may never score again. A couple minutes later,
Peter Alonso, it's a home run now, I put the
test balloon out there. Okay, that seems to work. Mets
may never win again. And now we see what happens
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biggest things. That's right. Uh. Coming up next, we got
a big story out of the NBA. Come on your
way as we look ahead to Game two of the finals,
which is sometime in the month of July. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox. Be sure to catch
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live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. I can't
Escape in Mike Harmon, I can't escape this song. I
can't escape this song. I get up. I even hear
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it when I'm watching Stranger Things and and and uh,
Sadie Sink just has the headphones around her ears, not
even listening to the song. I still hear the song.
I still hear the song. Fox Sports Radio Jason's that
show with my best friend Mike Armon live from the
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Fox Sports Radio studios. Ah, I'll tell you what, uh
you know? Running up that hill? This song by Kate
Bush that's now the number one song in the country,
number one song on iTunes with run to the Hills
right now. That song I would dig and that's probably
ever appropriate for Stranger Things. Run to the Hills is
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early eighties run for an effort to hit that high note. Well,
because I like, that's my favorite party Run to the Hills.
The Hills actually goes all the way back forty years old.
Really run to uh this song that's now number one
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in the country because one of the characters and Stranger
Things needs to listen to it. It's her favorite song
and it has I'm not gonna spoil anything, but needs
to listen to this song a lot, like every single
time this character is on camera, and I'm like, could
you have picked a better song? Could you have picked
a difference? This is just what I mean. When they
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played this song, I'm like, I barely remember this song
from the eighties, and my wife is completely on board
with you. When you told me that this is a
song that one of the executive producers just loved, loved, loved,
loved this really obscure song, I said, one day, I'm
gonna put this in a in a TV show, and
there it is. Exactly. There's no question, I guarantee, especially
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if you're gonna replay it like it's one thing to
use it once, but if it's a go to and
gets repeated usage in the show's content, then yeah, that
that is a person that hasn't vendetta. And since they're
in what season four, it could also be payback for
something that got uh voisted upon them back season one
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two or three. Oh, you made me listen to this
crantastic song that I hated. But you know what, it's
my turn now and I've got editorial choice, so blank you.
Now you're gonna hear running up that Hill like forty
five thousand times during this season. I hope you like it.
I'm gonna make you edit it so you have to
listen to it again or set executive slash writer, creator
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whatever is really good friends with Kate Bush and just
wanted to get her over man. I'll tell you, well,
I mean she's been it's been around for like forty years.
I think your money. Hey, even if it's just short
term money, it's money, it's notoriety. Whatever she's performing at
that means a few more people are going to be
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in the stands, just just the way it works. You
know you want it. You want a great story about
how how things work? I got I got one for you.
So one of my fat I think the greatest episode
of television I've ever seen was the season finale of
West Wing season two two Cathedrals, I mandis, but go ahead, O,
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but Azi Mandius was so good. But this has always
been like on the number one of my medals, I've
never seen a better hour of television than this, And
there's other ones that are up there, right like the
final ending. I don't know that that was the greatest.
It was still good. Was okay. It's better than people
thought it was. You know, it was okay. Um, but
you know the last episode of the first season, the
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True Detective, I thought is up there. Uh it looks
and yeah, I know, I know your airport buddy, I know,
I'm excited about that. It looks really good. If she's
in it, you know it's gonna be good. So she
doesn't do a lot of stuff, so she's getting it
back in front of the camera. Then yeah, some juice.
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So it's one of my favorite that that episode of
West Wing is just something that's a huge deal with
with my friends and I whatever, we just love it
so much. Just so it's a perfect hour TV. And
they used dire straits um uh uh not not money
for nothing, they use um what what's no no no
no no, um these miscolored mountains do do home now
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for me? Dune dunner new Um? What's that song they
use that? Whatever it is they used they use that
song and I got a metal block. I can't but
I can't think of I was gonna start singing, um,
I got a blank on the song Brothers and Arms.
That's what his brothers are, yes, brothers, not yes, his
brothers and arms. So they used brothers in Arms. I
just couldn't. How do we can I not think of
the name of the song Metallica cover that I have.
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But so it's a really big scene at the end
where the president's walking. You don't know if he's gonna
continue to run for president or if he's gonna step
down because it's this big scandal going on and everything
and so amongst all. But it was this big deal.
And one of my friends at the time was a writer.
He wanted to be a writer in Hollywood, and he's like,
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oh my god, this is such a good show. We've
all loved West Wing and all this stuff, like oh yeah, yeah,
And eventually started writing on this other show. And he
started writing on the show probably this is probably about
five or six years after this West Week episode airs.
This is like sometime in the mid to late auts
and uh, he wrote his first episode for the show,
and we all watched it and it comes down to
the end and the end the last scene is all
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the it was a cop show and I forget what
it was. All the police officers come out at the
end of line up and they use brothers in arms
for the song and I look at it. I go,
what are you doing? He goes, I love that song
and now it's mine. It's he just wanted to you
because he loved it so much in West Wing. He
wanted to use it the show. He was ready, it
doesn't matter that was famous and what I'm going to
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use it here. So I use it there. And I
was like, wow, okay, so yeah, you are completely right
with something with stuff like that. See claim ownership ms works.
I was I was star like, you just took this
from the end of West Wing. But then I didn't.
Then I realized, Okay, Aaron Sorkin just takes everything from
West Wing for all his future plots. It's really not
that big a deal. If someone took a song and
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or wherever you get your podcast from. Earlier today, Adam
Silver talked about something that is a great idea and
just needs to get the backing of the players, the owners,
the media, television partners. So so not many people have
to get on board. But he talked about the potential
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of having fewer games in the NBA season. Here he
is earlier today on that topic. I'm not against potentially
changing the format of the season, given me, even possibly
shortening it a bit, if we can demonstrate that that's
going to have it direct impact on injuries, on the
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money we make the guys, technology and stuff. You sound
like Rick Wild getting all nervous. Uh so, last hour
we talked about what what this would be and and
and why. What he's really trying to do is just
to start the conversation about, Hey, we need star players
to play in as many games as they can. We
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got to make sure they're available. You can't sit out games.
If we need to cut some games a little bit
so you're healthy enough to play. Hey, just to let
you know where we're going right now is not acceptable.
We need to fix something because you can't have the
best players playing sixty five out of eighty two games.
It doesn't work. But let's do this instead. Let's do this.
Let's just take money out of it, right, let's take
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revenue out of it. Let's take the players salaries out
of it. And I'm gonna give you the perfect number
of games each major sport can play. You're ready, a
perfect number of games and for all the majors. This
this is for. I'll gonna give you NBA and baseball, football,
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college football, college basketball, I'll give I'm gonna give you
all of it, the perfect numbers. You're ready, Yeah, let's
go all right, now, let me preface this by saying
that all seasons are too long, right, They're all a
little bit too bloated. They run into each other. You
want to make it a little more special. There's a lot.
So what's the best thing we can get for NBA
and NHL? Fifty games? Fifty five games is all unique.
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If you look at every single bit of standings, nothing
really changes from game fifty five all the way through
game eight two. Right, fifty five games you start Christmas Day,
you go all the way through, and everybody will play
fifty five games for the NBA in the National Hockey League,
that is your perfect number. But I've said that before.
I've told you that before. I said, is that perfect number?
So what about the other ones? All? Right? Major League
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Baseball hundred forty hundred and forty to be able to
play six games a week and teams all get one
day off a week. I don't think that's that big
a deal, you know, to make sure everybody. So if
you're giving every team one day off a week all
the way through the twenty some odd weeks of the
regular season, hundred and forty games would be perfect. You
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got twenty two games off one forty you really get enough.
You know, you know who's good and who's not by
hundred and forty. So I think hundred, especially when you're
adding playoff teams that Dodgers and the Giants. Well, when
your Mets collapse after this road trip and then't want
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to be like eighty games. Hey, that's alright, guys, we
just got another couple of games. We're all good sprint
right to the end. But one fort major league? What
do you think about that? You are you uh, you're
on board for that or not? Now? Really, I'm good.
I'm a traditionalist, which means no, I don't know, because
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like you're you're trying to extract the biggest thing that
makes it all go round. Uh and yeah, and ideals
like part of it is all right. Are you're still
gonna have the weighted schedules? Are you're not? If we're
going away from that, then it's all right. You got
twenty nine opponents and deciding you know how much you
need to play each of those over the course of
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the season, et cetera. I'm I'm okay with with shaving
some of it off from the spirit of of where
this conversation is. But you know, me in the background.
I'm still going it's all about money. It's all about money,
and they're all gonna tell you to beat it. But yeah,
if you you were to lose twenty two twenty two games,
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it's I don't know what extra couple of days off
if we're gonna talk about health, right, if if that's
where we want to put our focus of strain on pictures, arms, uh, fatigue,
the extra day off instead of arriving in a town
at three o'clock in the morning and then being there
for you know, a morning batting round. Yeah, no, I
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I can. I can get on board that, alright. So
if if that's here at the forty games from Major
League Baseball fifty five for the NBA NHL college football
ten games, ten games is what you need, because do
we need the couple of warm up games where you're
playing a smaller school And yes, you could get an
upset here and there, but and now we're at twelve
and thirteen in bowl games. Now it's a lot. It's
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blow perfect. Ten is the perfect night? Are you doing?
Let's think of the children here? Is that what you're
doing about the children? Think of the children? Now? Ten
games is perfect? I knew that the next line was
gonna be, so I had to laugh and move you
on college football ten games college basketball games? Do we
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need to warm up the preamble of here's the first
eight games? Eight? No, you know, no, twenty five games.
You play your conference games, you play a couple of team,
you play most of the teams twice, and you can
you can put another couple of games in there. Five
is the perfect number for college basketball. I was gonna
say a nice round thirty, but yeah, I mean in
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the end, and I think there are too many games,
especially in the warm up, you know, nine games against
nobody's no disrespect to the players on those teams, but uh,
and the grand scheme, grand scheme of things they really impact,
you know, the chase for the field of sixty answers no.
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And finally the NFL how many games? I like your
idea of what what do you say? Thirty five games
for the already it's it's like the MLS. They start
in February. We're gonna end in November. As soon as
the calendar turns. Hey, guess what teams are going to
training gamp again. It's awesome. No, I really like the stuff.
The last couple of weeks. Wait, there's a championship game.
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They're still playing though, which league championship possess I'm not
I'm not sure it doesn't watch hate delay. Yeah, this
is why is it that big a deal at the
NBA is playing is thinking about a mid season tournament soccer?
There's we're taking a break for four months so we
can go play this tournament and now we're coming back
and we're gonna finish the season. Now that's how it
goes that. That isn't that it doesn't matter. People don't
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know who's playing in this how do you get in?
Doesn't or if you're on the national team, you're mad
because you didn't get enough support, you go Christian politic
and just that was not a good look. That was
not a good look. Oh I thought it was great.
Go here, go they're gonna have to love you. You're
the best thing they got. So they got no choice.
And say, you know, it's only appropriate that game that
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game was in Ohio, wouldn't it. I mean? Yeah, so
like the red Zonner that said, where else are you
gonna go? We're the only national team you've got for
the NFL games fourteen games to give everybody a chance
to be play everybody in your division twice, right, that'll
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get you. That'll get you to six. Then you play
another division, another two divisions that get you to fourteen. Right,
so that fourteen games made for TV games to give
every team. You still have the even numbers of home games.
Everybody gets a couple of buys during the year, which
is fine. I like my team having a buy because
I know the Jets can't lose. A couple of buys
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is not bad. You're still gonna get your fill of football.
You're still gonna have a certain number of weeks, but
you're just gonna have a couple of more buys built
in for the teams. And it's okay. Everybody gets two buys.
Fourteen games. Fourteen games is perfect. Right. You can start
a little bit later in September. You can let college
football start the first weekend and then the NFL could
start towards the end of the month. Doesn't have to
(31:01):
be right around Labor Day. And here we are and
we're back in it's college now. You can start a
little bit later in September and fourteen games and we
get everything we need. Seed to college football. Listen, to you,
how dare you? Wow, you're the NFL. You take every
day on the calendar that you possibly can. So that's
(31:22):
why from the fans perspective, we start playing in June.
We finish at Christmas. Everybody takes January. You want to
practice against each other? Does count as your exhibitions at
you do during training camp? Once we strap them on,
we get under the lights, we sell out of stadium.
(31:42):
That's it counts. No. I kind of like that. So
we start the season in June. We ended after Christmas.
Everybody takes January off. February is free agency, marches, the draft.
April we take off and then Maya's training camp and
we start this season. Okay, I'm with that. W oh?
I mean you look, you want to get a couple
extra bye weeks and give everybody a little vacation time. Here,
(32:05):
go to Cabo. We've got our NFL resort down there.
That's fine, that's great, But no, I've shortening my season.
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the verge of whether one game away potentially being swept.
They want to ignore the big issue and they want
to say it was everything else, but it wasn't this. Yeah,
(32:48):
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Radio app. At least it wasn't running up that hill again.
I think he's just flipping you off at this time.
At this point, well, he's going to see him on
Sunday night, right. What's her name is? Ariel? Who you
go with? Aurora Andrea ty Shirt who what's what's Amanda? Amanda? Yeah, man,
(33:34):
let's let's hear a mandake an take you Amanda. Yeah.
The Warriors are conveniently ignoring the real issue from game
one into Game two. Convenient so old. Look, look how
old you've become. Uh to a man. Last night, they
(33:57):
all said the same thing. It's just one game him,
it's the race to four, not the race to one.
Draymond Green looked at the box score and dismissed Al
Horford and Derek White all these players, which is kind
of crappy for him to do. To go, these guys
aren't gonna they're not gonna shoot like that from three
point range again. And that's kind of what we had
from everybody. Klay Thompson said the same thing, right, it said,
(34:17):
it's a race to four, not the race to one.
Everything's fine, they're not gonna do that again. And they're
so focused on the fact that, oh, there's no way
the Celtics shoot threes like they did last night. And okay,
I'll give you that because I agree they're not gonna
shoot like that. It's it's not gonna happen. But the
real issue is fourth quarter came you guys, needed points
(34:40):
and you scored sixteen, and Steph Curry couldn't get free
for his shots. Neither could Clay Thompson. Boston is a
great defensive team. And barring Scott Foster showing up a
deciding I'm gonna put you guys on the free throw
line every five minutes, um, yeah, you're in trouble. This
is the real storyline you gotta be concerned with, which
is how are you going to get away from what
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Boston can do to you defensively because Clay couldn't get
his shot, Steph couldn't get his shot, and when you
needed to go back and forth, you didn't have the
offensive punch to do it because Boston was too good defensively.
You want to sit there and blow off everything and say, yeah,
everything's fine, everything's fine, Yeah, okay, great, yeah, and then
watch what happens when Sunday shows up and you wind
up losing again. And he was like, and Ittes, just
(35:25):
watch you want to blow it off, great, but this
is why you're looking at one game away from being swept.
Because they think the real concern is, oh, the Celtics
won't shoot like that. No, the real concern is they
can stop you from scoring, and that's you should be
focused on. Well, and that's that's the billion dollar question, right,
is all right? Steph Curry had a great first quarter,
historic Right? We were comparing him to some of the
(35:47):
greatest exploits of guys uh and what they've done to
open a game, uh in in NBA Finals history. And
then what was the thirteen points the rest of the day,
one for six from three point range and really not
eager to assert himself in the fourth quarter. That's the
thing that was most confusing. Draymond took a couple of minutes,
(36:10):
breather came in, he kept shooting. It's like, all right,
you are the point forward, okay, distribute the ball. Stop
putting up shots two of twelve from the field over
four three point range. Clay Thompson playing thirty nine minutes,
that's not good for anybody. But when you've got Otto
Porter and Jordan Poole combined minus thirty seven, minus eighteen
(36:33):
and nineteen, respectively, how much trust is there for Steve
Kurry for what was the normal rotation going forward? Do
you say it's a blip? Right? We fixed the glitch,
thinking that these guys aren't gonna play defense the same way.
They were the top defensive team in the damn league.
So suddenly thinking they're gonna take a take a breather,
(36:54):
forget about it again. It comes back to early foul trouble.
If they avoid it, the Warriors are in big trouble.
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to where the Mets may never score again. They they
they may never score another run, at least in this series,
but they may never score again the rest of the season.
(00:44):
They get shut out last night. I told you had
a horrible feeling about this series with the Dodgers. Dodgers
playing horribly swept by the Pirates, metsen playing great. I said,
they're gonna commit here, They're gonna get swept. They're gonna
lose all four games. They might not score a run,
shut out last night to nothing. They're down four nothing
in the sixth inning tonight. This is gonna They're gonna
go all weekend not score runs. How it's gonna go
(01:05):
so you're gonna sit and watch that direct tomorrow because
we'll go see Top Gun for a third time. I
might if Hey, if the game starts out poorly, I'm
gonna say, listen, I'm gonna find the theater around here,
going to see Top Gun again. Then I will come
back and then we'll leave at the end of the game.
I fully anticipate at some point you will be uh
buying a guitar and a little amp just so you
(01:27):
can do the firtyary dude, And that's how You're gonna
just stand on the street corner and you're gonna get
everybody all fired. I was like, oh, that's the thing.
We're job Gun and me. You know, a bruskre You're
gonna be out there and they'll be throwing money into
your guitar case. No, or I just find a place
that as a piano, walk up and start doing great
balls of fire. You shake my nerve and you right
(01:49):
on my break, come on singing with the family. Bradley
and I just start doing great balls of fire like
Goose does. I just started to start doing that. That That
would be pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, look, I I
we we talked to my daughter orso and I about
the complicated history of Jerry Lee Lewis you kind of
went through a lot of the guys from this uh
Sun record, sen sessions and some of the things that
(02:12):
society doesn't quite look as kindly on in their histories. Nountain.
So when that one showed up again, I was like, nah,
we got to talk about it. But I'll just dress
like cool, right, I'll dress like Goose. I'll have the mustache,
I'll have the glass. I'll go in and i'll sound
I'll do I'll do like Goose that I do the
Great Balls of Fire from the new one. Oh, it'll
(02:33):
be great. Are you kidding that? That's all the people
know exactly what I'm doing. Like, Hey, why does a
guy that looks like Sting or the bald guy but
is dressed like Goose trying to play the piano that
this doesn't go right? Let's throw him out of the bar.
That's what happened to me. He's a one man man gang.
He's doing. Come on and let's do the song with me.
Come on, everybody, you chake my nerve. Man, You're come on,
you want to do it? Look, come on, let's do it.
(02:53):
Let's do it. You're a lunatic. Now that would be fun.
That's something I could do tomorrownight while I'm watch the
Mets lose. But I will have to go get my
gil Hodges bobble head doll first. And I spent today
explaining to all of us who were going to the
game tomorrow who Gil Hodges was. It was kind of fun.
So for like four minutes I got to explain the
history of Gil Hodges with both the Dodgers and the Mets,
(03:15):
and it was kind of cool. In the end, they
didn't care because the story wasn't that great. I was like, well,
here's the deal. Like, I really didn't have a lot
of juice to it. It It was just more for people
who like baseball. You're gonna get a gil Hodges bobble heads,
all right, it's fine. So they kind of thought it
was gonna tell us because I tell really good stories.
And then they heard this, and I can see the
light go out in their eyes, like this is not
going anywhere. This is not I don't care about this. Okay,
well are you done? Are you done? You've done? Okay,
(03:37):
you're done, perfect, You're done. That's pretty funny, just the
I can see the eyes glazing over sometimes history lessons.
You know, they only want so much. Who was he?
You know, give me the quick synopsis. It's like, can
you fit it in a tweet? Can you fit when
you're gonna tell me about this individual in two characters?
(03:59):
And and look to be clear, we talked about it
a little bit, the Gil Hodges bobblehead. We saw it, uh,
in all its glory. They were advertising it on the
game when we were in studio, and it looks fantastic.
And I don't take anything away from the career of
Gil Hodges. Just who who collects bobbleheads? Probably you know, kids,
(04:20):
young adults. I mean not not to say that you
don't have a bunch of guys our age that have
giant bobbleheads collections like I may have, including one of myself.
You send me pictures of bobbleheads all the time, do
you said me, here's a Jack's Teller bobble head from
Sons of Anarchy, and that I'm thinking of buying. Oh no, no, no,
I've never I've never done that. I've never thought of
(04:42):
buying it. Here's the Professor Grubby Plank from Harry Potter.
No buying who but yes, it's um good times, good times.
Folks will enjoy that. And then many will say, you
know what, I'm gonna go give that to my great
uncle or my grandpa because he'll remember who he is.
(05:04):
Oh sure, or you know I saved it from my
dad at Christmas. Right. It's like you know what, Like now,
whenever I see free and stuff like that, I think, Okay,
if I don't want it, boom, like my head turns
into a computer. Who and my family would like this,
and I can cross off getting a Christmas present for
them because it's pretty cool. Ah boom dad boom, Yes,
gil Hodges bobble and he loved that, so I'm gonna
get it. I'm gonna make sure Zoe gets hers tomorrow. Hey,
(05:24):
you're gonna give me that Bobbleheads, I'll give it to
Grandpa for Christmas. Okay, yeah, here you go Dad. She's
not gonna care. Here you go, Dad, I don't care.
Whatever whatever you want. I'm like, all right, Greg, And
then I'm done. I said, Hey, there you go. I
could cross it off and get my dad at gil
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baseball today, Joe already is out the Philadelphia Phillies firing
him as manager earlier today. And uh, this is not
(06:07):
a moment that you thought, well, no, no, this was
coming for a while. You know. You asked John Paul
Morrossi about that when he visited with us a few
days ago, and certainly knew his job was tenuous. He
has let go today now to give you something different
on this, to to widen it out other than just
the Phillies fired their manager. Yes, the Phillies roster is
not put together very well. They have like five or
(06:29):
six guys who can drive in runs, but they're they're
awful defensively. It's just look, there's many reasons why Joe
Girardi not the best tactician in the game. Uh, he
was supposed to succeed, but he didn't. But when you
look into the psychology of when and why managers get fired,
certain things happen. Think about something like this. When the
(06:49):
Phillies did their final preparations from manager a couple of
years ago, right, because already makes about too you know,
a little over two seasons, the final three where Joe
Girardi and buckshow Walter and Dusty Baker. Right, these are
your three finalists for the job. The guy they picked
was the wrong guy, obviously, because the Phillies didn't win,
(07:10):
have a big payroll, and it should work. There was
no reason to not take Joe Girardi two and a
half years ago, because Girardi was someone who would managed
the big pressure cooker of New York. Philadelphia was gonna
be fine. He was gonna have high salary. Guys, everything
was gonna be great. Right, Okay, I got it Joe Gerardy,
but it didn't work out. It's not like go back
and go, oh, look at that. You you picked the
wrong guy from beginning. As it evolved, you saw your
(07:33):
guy wasn't the guy. And what happened was a year
ago you watched Dusty Baker come in and now look
at the Astros. They're back to being the Astros were
done with the sign stealing scandal, and they're winning their
top of the a L West, and they could clinch
the L West any day now because the Angels have
lost like fifty games in a row. So look at them,
look at them out there, and and they're doing well.
(07:54):
And look at the Mets, who had lead the NL
East by nine and a half games, probably eight and
a half games after night, but they lead by nine
and a half games a bunch by time. It could
be more, and then we had it could be everywhere.
Uh So this is this is something else where you
wake up every day if you're the Philly if you're
(08:15):
a team, if you're the Phillies, you're a fan, you're
the media, you work the team, your front office, you're
the owner. And every day as a reminder, we didn't
pick the right guy, because every day is the Mets
win another series. Look at their lead in the East.
You're looking up at them already because you're in the
same division, and Dusty Baker is doing great things with
the Astros. You know, it's just a matter of time
(08:35):
before you're gonna replace that guy. Because every day you're
told we got it wrong, we got it wrong. We
got it wrong, and that's only gonna go for so
long before you have to fire somebody. So this was
inevitable for Joe Girardi because of that, because of the
the guys who were he came down to it at
the end, the psychology aspect of every day going look
at this another another game lead for the Mets in
(08:57):
the East Astro's wind. Uh, yeah, we picked the We
could have picked either one of those other guys. And
you want to do a transitive property and say that
if we pick Dusty Baker, we'd be winning. If we'd
pick Buck shawt we winning. But you can't get it
out of your head that well, the other two guys
we didn't get both went to two different situations and
are succeeding. And the guy we picked, we thought was
the best for us is not. That's just gonna happen.
(09:18):
That's a big part of why Joe Girardi got fired.
The other stuff, that baseball stuff you heard about all day, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But this gets bigger than just hey, why did this
guy get fight? It's when you see that you made
a mistake. You're only gonna go so long before you
have to erase it so you can move on because
you don't want to be reminded of a mistake every
single day. Well yeah, and you made a lot of
assumptions about what he was going to be, what he
was gonna be able to bring to the table, and
(09:40):
you forget, you know, the teams he won with. With
the Yankees, you had in in clubhouse leaders, right, not
that you didn't have to manage egos, but you had
a lot of guys that were there to help in
the checks and balance is part of things. And you
had a roster that you were always like the Dodgers
now write the report of how much they're gonna have
(10:02):
to pay in luxury tax and everything else. I mean
that's something the Yankees always did. We need you think
we need one more, go get one more. So certainly
Girardi benefited from that. Also, you're in a market in
Philadelphia where, let's just face it, there's a lot of
saltiness and a lot of attention that was on Doc Rivers,
Joel embiid what was going on with Ben Simmons. You
(10:23):
know what, that season's over, So what do you need
in the back pages of your newspaper and on television
and on radio. Oh, we moved to the next sport
while we wait for the Eagles to get back on
the field, which means, Hi, Joe Girardi, it's your time
to shine, which means every misstep, every miscalculation, pinch hitters, uh,
(10:44):
moving runners on the bases, bullpen management, everything is gonna
be there with a giant microscope and gonna be exacerbated
to the point you made. Also of here are other
choices and guys that are succeeding. One of them is
in our division. And and right now we're getting waxed.
Now you can't help but roster construction not his call.
(11:05):
And obviously the Bryce Harper injury even though he's in
the lineup, and well, they put up ten runs after
Joe gir already got dumped. So I don't know what
that means. Uh in the grands, Hey, could you guys
be playing harder? Yes, sir, Mr Simpson, Uh, you know
that kind of thing went back when he was back
in uh you know with Hank Scorpio. Uh. So it's
(11:27):
now the the next question of you know a guy
that still did his radio spot after being fired, which
is kind of interesting, or was it a mutual party
of ways, or do we actually use the term fire? Uh?
I just saw he was gone. No, he's fired. Okay,
well that's what we'll call. You don't have a mutual
parting of the ways in the middle of the season
when you say a couple of days ago, I'm not
(11:49):
worried about my job. There's no mutual I'm miserable. You're miserable.
We're all miserable. Let's move on. But yeah, it's it's
a final and for the the Phillies, right, you got
two months where you're in the spotlight because as soon
as training camp start, it's all bets are off. You're
you're gone. So whoever is the interim probably gets a
(12:10):
bit of a free pass because it's gonna be all
about Jalen hurt. Is he the guy or is he not?
See you think you think everything's my fault. Look, we
got to the playoffs. We you know it's it's stop
stop my fault, right, look at look look at what
happened at Joe Girard. Guy got fired. Right, guy didn't win.
Look I've one, I've done something. We only didn't move
up because it was it was Joe ellen Bead's decision
(12:33):
to walk by Joe Girardi, and Joe Girardi punched him
in the face, and that's why you broke the orbital
bone in his eye. That's what happened. People don't know that.
I had to tell the Phillies about that, say, listen,
you gotta fire this guy now. Now. Look they're doing it,
so really, it's it's not you. You can't say, oh, hey,
the seventies six. Everybody's look, we're achieving. You know, they're
not achieving nearly what we are. Could we be achieving more? Yeah,
(12:54):
we'll work on that. But uh but no, I mean,
I'm not Joe Girardi. You can't mean. We're two two
very different guys, very different. I didn't really think you
really needed to take it to physical violence, but you know,
if someone's gonna get hit in the face, well, I
did the bit before about Joe Girardi tripping him on
the way to the long room, so I wanted to
do something different this, No, no, I like it. You
(13:15):
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to run, thankfully. Peter Alonzo, it's a home run. The bet.
Let me say this, the Mets may never win again.
(13:56):
So I said that they score again, right, But I
said the Mets may never score again. Alonso, it's a
home run. Now, I say the Mets may never win again,
and maybe they come from behind the wind. I put
it out in the universe. I did a test balloon,
and the Mets may never score again. A couple minutes later,
Peter Alonso, it's a home run now, I put the
test balloon out there. Okay, that seems to work. Mets
may never win again. And now we see what happens
(14:17):
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Harmon will never be a millionaire, so we can get
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a millionaire. Now a crypt Now, a crypto guy is
gonna come knocking on your door going, hey, I got
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just just take just take it from me. Yeah. I'm
not as deeply involved and invested in crypto as you
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may think, but I'll let you use your imagination the
way you were. You were all you were all crypto
crazy a couple of months ago. No, I had a
lot of knowledge about the space. I hardly owned anything
you own. You owned all this harmon coin. You kept
saying harmon coin is gonna be the next big thing.
Hard No, no, no, I'm eventually started selling my own
n f T s and my artwork. Okay, you're gonna
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get made with my Franken Stine hand. You said doge
coin and harmon coin they were gonna be the two
biggest things. That's right. Uh. Coming up next, we got
a big story out of the NBA. Come on your
way as we look ahead to Game two of the finals,
which is sometime in the month of July. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox. Be sure to catch
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live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. I can't
Escape in Mike Harmon, I can't escape this song. I
can't escape this song. I get up. I even hear
(15:44):
it when I'm watching Stranger Things and and and uh,
Sadie Sink just has the headphones around her ears, not
even listening to the song. I still hear the song.
I still hear the song. Fox Sports Radio Jason's that
show with my best friend Mike Armon live from the
(16:04):
Fox Sports Radio studios. Ah, I'll tell you what, uh
you know? Running up that hill? This song by Kate
Bush that's now the number one song in the country,
number one song on iTunes with run to the Hills
right now. That song I would dig and that's probably
ever appropriate for Stranger Things. Run to the Hills is
(16:25):
early eighties run for an effort to hit that high note. Well,
because I like, that's my favorite party Run to the Hills.
The Hills actually goes all the way back forty years old.
Really run to uh this song that's now number one
(16:53):
in the country because one of the characters and Stranger
Things needs to listen to it. It's her favorite song
and it has I'm not gonna spoil anything, but needs
to listen to this song a lot, like every single
time this character is on camera, and I'm like, could
you have picked a better song? Could you have picked
a difference? This is just what I mean. When they
(17:14):
played this song, I'm like, I barely remember this song
from the eighties, and my wife is completely on board
with you. When you told me that this is a
song that one of the executive producers just loved, loved, loved,
loved this really obscure song, I said, one day, I'm
gonna put this in a in a TV show, and
there it is. Exactly. There's no question, I guarantee, especially
(17:38):
if you're gonna replay it like it's one thing to
use it once, but if it's a go to and
gets repeated usage in the show's content, then yeah, that
that is a person that hasn't vendetta. And since they're
in what season four, it could also be payback for
something that got uh voisted upon them back season one
(18:00):
two or three. Oh, you made me listen to this
crantastic song that I hated. But you know what, it's
my turn now and I've got editorial choice, so blank you.
Now you're gonna hear running up that Hill like forty
five thousand times during this season. I hope you like it.
I'm gonna make you edit it so you have to
listen to it again or set executive slash writer, creator
(18:24):
whatever is really good friends with Kate Bush and just
wanted to get her over man. I'll tell you, well,
I mean she's been it's been around for like forty years.
I think your money. Hey, even if it's just short
term money, it's money, it's notoriety. Whatever she's performing at
that means a few more people are going to be
(18:45):
in the stands, just just the way it works. You
know you want it. You want a great story about
how how things work? I got I got one for you.
So one of my fat I think the greatest episode
of television I've ever seen was the season finale of
West Wing season two two Cathedrals, I mandis, but go ahead, O,
(19:05):
but Azi Mandius was so good. But this has always
been like on the number one of my medals, I've
never seen a better hour of television than this, And
there's other ones that are up there, right like the
final ending. I don't know that that was the greatest.
It was still good. Was okay. It's better than people
thought it was. You know, it was okay. Um, but
you know the last episode of the first season, the
(19:27):
True Detective, I thought is up there. Uh it looks
and yeah, I know, I know your airport buddy, I know,
I'm excited about that. It looks really good. If she's
in it, you know it's gonna be good. So she
doesn't do a lot of stuff, so she's getting it
back in front of the camera. Then yeah, some juice.
(19:47):
So it's one of my favorite that that episode of
West Wing is just something that's a huge deal with
with my friends and I whatever, we just love it
so much. Just so it's a perfect hour TV. And
they used dire straits um uh uh not not money
for nothing, they use um what what's no no no
no no, um these miscolored mountains do do home now
(20:12):
for me? Dune dunner new Um? What's that song they
use that? Whatever it is they used they use that
song and I got a metal block. I can't but
I can't think of I was gonna start singing, um,
I got a blank on the song Brothers and Arms.
That's what his brothers are, yes, brothers, not yes, his
brothers and arms. So they used brothers in Arms. I
just couldn't. How do we can I not think of
the name of the song Metallica cover that I have.
(20:34):
But so it's a really big scene at the end
where the president's walking. You don't know if he's gonna
continue to run for president or if he's gonna step
down because it's this big scandal going on and everything
and so amongst all. But it was this big deal.
And one of my friends at the time was a writer.
He wanted to be a writer in Hollywood, and he's like,
(20:55):
oh my god, this is such a good show. We've
all loved West Wing and all this stuff, like oh yeah, yeah,
And eventually started writing on this other show. And he
started writing on the show probably this is probably about
five or six years after this West Week episode airs.
This is like sometime in the mid to late auts
and uh, he wrote his first episode for the show,
and we all watched it and it comes down to
the end and the end the last scene is all
(21:17):
the it was a cop show and I forget what
it was. All the police officers come out at the
end of line up and they use brothers in arms
for the song and I look at it. I go,
what are you doing? He goes, I love that song
and now it's mine. It's he just wanted to you
because he loved it so much in West Wing. He
wanted to use it the show. He was ready, it
doesn't matter that was famous and what I'm going to
(21:39):
use it here. So I use it there. And I
was like, wow, okay, so yeah, you are completely right
with something with stuff like that. See claim ownership ms works.
I was I was star like, you just took this
from the end of West Wing. But then I didn't.
Then I realized, Okay, Aaron Sorkin just takes everything from
West Wing for all his future plots. It's really not
that big a deal. If someone took a song and
(21:59):
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or wherever you get your podcast from. Earlier today, Adam
Silver talked about something that is a great idea and
just needs to get the backing of the players, the owners,
the media, television partners. So so not many people have
to get on board. But he talked about the potential
(23:05):
of having fewer games in the NBA season. Here he
is earlier today on that topic. I'm not against potentially
changing the format of the season, given me, even possibly
shortening it a bit, if we can demonstrate that that's
going to have it direct impact on injuries, on the
(23:28):
money we make the guys, technology and stuff. You sound
like Rick Wild getting all nervous. Uh so, last hour
we talked about what what this would be and and
and why. What he's really trying to do is just
to start the conversation about, Hey, we need star players
to play in as many games as they can. We
(23:48):
got to make sure they're available. You can't sit out games.
If we need to cut some games a little bit
so you're healthy enough to play. Hey, just to let
you know where we're going right now is not acceptable.
We need to fix something because you can't have the
best players playing sixty five out of eighty two games.
It doesn't work. But let's do this instead. Let's do this.
Let's just take money out of it, right, let's take
(24:09):
revenue out of it. Let's take the players salaries out
of it. And I'm gonna give you the perfect number
of games each major sport can play. You're ready, a
perfect number of games and for all the majors. This
this is for. I'll gonna give you NBA and baseball, football,
(24:31):
college football, college basketball, I'll give I'm gonna give you
all of it, the perfect numbers. You're ready, Yeah, let's
go all right, now, let me preface this by saying
that all seasons are too long, right, They're all a
little bit too bloated. They run into each other. You
want to make it a little more special. There's a lot.
So what's the best thing we can get for NBA
and NHL? Fifty games? Fifty five games is all unique.
(24:55):
If you look at every single bit of standings, nothing
really changes from game fifty five all the way through
game eight two. Right, fifty five games you start Christmas Day,
you go all the way through, and everybody will play
fifty five games for the NBA in the National Hockey League,
that is your perfect number. But I've said that before.
I've told you that before. I said, is that perfect number?
So what about the other ones? All? Right? Major League
(25:17):
Baseball hundred forty hundred and forty to be able to
play six games a week and teams all get one
day off a week. I don't think that's that big
a deal, you know, to make sure everybody. So if
you're giving every team one day off a week all
the way through the twenty some odd weeks of the
regular season, hundred and forty games would be perfect. You
(25:38):
got twenty two games off one forty you really get enough.
You know, you know who's good and who's not by
hundred and forty. So I think hundred, especially when you're
adding playoff teams that Dodgers and the Giants. Well, when
your Mets collapse after this road trip and then't want
(26:00):
to be like eighty games. Hey, that's alright, guys, we
just got another couple of games. We're all good sprint
right to the end. But one fort major league? What
do you think about that? You are you uh, you're
on board for that or not? Now? Really, I'm good.
I'm a traditionalist, which means no, I don't know, because
(26:22):
like you're you're trying to extract the biggest thing that
makes it all go round. Uh and yeah, and ideals
like part of it is all right. Are you're still
gonna have the weighted schedules? Are you're not? If we're
going away from that, then it's all right. You got
twenty nine opponents and deciding you know how much you
need to play each of those over the course of
(26:43):
the season, et cetera. I'm I'm okay with with shaving
some of it off from the spirit of of where
this conversation is. But you know, me in the background.
I'm still going it's all about money. It's all about money,
and they're all gonna tell you to beat it. But yeah,
if you you were to lose twenty two twenty two games,
(27:04):
it's I don't know what extra couple of days off
if we're gonna talk about health, right, if if that's
where we want to put our focus of strain on pictures, arms, uh, fatigue,
the extra day off instead of arriving in a town
at three o'clock in the morning and then being there
for you know, a morning batting round. Yeah, no, I
(27:26):
I can. I can get on board that, alright. So
if if that's here at the forty games from Major
League Baseball fifty five for the NBA NHL college football
ten games, ten games is what you need, because do
we need the couple of warm up games where you're
playing a smaller school And yes, you could get an
upset here and there, but and now we're at twelve
and thirteen in bowl games. Now it's a lot. It's
(27:50):
blow perfect. Ten is the perfect night? Are you doing?
Let's think of the children here? Is that what you're
doing about the children? Think of the children? Now? Ten
games is perfect? I knew that the next line was
gonna be, so I had to laugh and move you
on college football ten games college basketball games? Do we
(28:10):
need to warm up the preamble of here's the first
eight games? Eight? No, you know, no, twenty five games.
You play your conference games, you play a couple of team,
you play most of the teams twice, and you can
you can put another couple of games in there. Five
is the perfect number for college basketball. I was gonna
say a nice round thirty, but yeah, I mean in
(28:31):
the end, and I think there are too many games,
especially in the warm up, you know, nine games against
nobody's no disrespect to the players on those teams, but uh,
and the grand scheme, grand scheme of things they really impact,
you know, the chase for the field of sixty answers no.
(28:53):
And finally the NFL how many games? I like your
idea of what what do you say? Thirty five games
for the already it's it's like the MLS. They start
in February. We're gonna end in November. As soon as
the calendar turns. Hey, guess what teams are going to
training gamp again. It's awesome. No, I really like the stuff.
The last couple of weeks. Wait, there's a championship game.
(29:14):
They're still playing though, which league championship possess I'm not
I'm not sure it doesn't watch hate delay. Yeah, this
is why is it that big a deal at the
NBA is playing is thinking about a mid season tournament soccer?
There's we're taking a break for four months so we
can go play this tournament and now we're coming back
and we're gonna finish the season. Now that's how it
goes that. That isn't that it doesn't matter. People don't
(29:35):
know who's playing in this how do you get in?
Doesn't or if you're on the national team, you're mad
because you didn't get enough support, you go Christian politic
and just that was not a good look. That was
not a good look. Oh I thought it was great.
Go here, go they're gonna have to love you. You're
the best thing they got. So they got no choice.
And say, you know, it's only appropriate that game that
(29:56):
game was in Ohio, wouldn't it. I mean? Yeah, so
like the red Zonner that said, where else are you
gonna go? We're the only national team you've got for
the NFL games fourteen games to give everybody a chance
to be play everybody in your division twice, right, that'll
(30:17):
get you. That'll get you to six. Then you play
another division, another two divisions that get you to fourteen. Right,
so that fourteen games made for TV games to give
every team. You still have the even numbers of home games.
Everybody gets a couple of buys during the year, which
is fine. I like my team having a buy because
I know the Jets can't lose. A couple of buys
(30:39):
is not bad. You're still gonna get your fill of football.
You're still gonna have a certain number of weeks, but
you're just gonna have a couple of more buys built
in for the teams. And it's okay. Everybody gets two buys.
Fourteen games. Fourteen games is perfect. Right. You can start
a little bit later in September. You can let college
football start the first weekend and then the NFL could
start towards the end of the month. Doesn't have to
(31:01):
be right around Labor Day. And here we are and
we're back in it's college now. You can start a
little bit later in September and fourteen games and we
get everything we need. Seed to college football. Listen, to you,
how dare you? Wow, you're the NFL. You take every
day on the calendar that you possibly can. So that's
(31:22):
why from the fans perspective, we start playing in June.
We finish at Christmas. Everybody takes January. You want to
practice against each other? Does count as your exhibitions at
you do during training camp? Once we strap them on,
we get under the lights, we sell out of stadium.
(31:42):
That's it counts. No. I kind of like that. So
we start the season in June. We ended after Christmas.
Everybody takes January off. February is free agency, marches, the draft.
April we take off and then Maya's training camp and
we start this season. Okay, I'm with that. W oh?
I mean you look, you want to get a couple
extra bye weeks and give everybody a little vacation time. Here,
(32:05):
go to Cabo. We've got our NFL resort down there.
That's fine, that's great, But no, I've shortening my season.
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up next, the Warriors are conveniently ignoring why they're on
the verge of whether one game away potentially being swept.
They want to ignore the big issue and they want
to say it was everything else, but it wasn't this. Yeah,
(32:48):
we'll get to that coming up next, as I'm just
gonna hear the song forever Fox Sports Radio whoo whoa, whoa, whoa.
I want her walkman to run out of back to
Reese so I don't have to listen to this song.
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Radio app. At least it wasn't running up that hill again.
I think he's just flipping you off at this time.
At this point, well, he's going to see him on
Sunday night, right. What's her name is? Ariel? Who you
go with? Aurora Andrea ty Shirt who what's what's Amanda? Amanda? Yeah, man,
(33:34):
let's let's hear a mandake an take you Amanda. Yeah.
The Warriors are conveniently ignoring the real issue from game
one into Game two. Convenient so old. Look, look how
old you've become. Uh to a man. Last night, they
(33:57):
all said the same thing. It's just one game him,
it's the race to four, not the race to one.
Draymond Green looked at the box score and dismissed Al
Horford and Derek White all these players, which is kind
of crappy for him to do. To go, these guys
aren't gonna they're not gonna shoot like that from three
point range again. And that's kind of what we had
from everybody. Klay Thompson said the same thing, right, it said,
(34:17):
it's a race to four, not the race to one.
Everything's fine, they're not gonna do that again. And they're
so focused on the fact that, oh, there's no way
the Celtics shoot threes like they did last night. And okay,
I'll give you that because I agree they're not gonna
shoot like that. It's it's not gonna happen. But the
real issue is fourth quarter came you guys, needed points
(34:40):
and you scored sixteen, and Steph Curry couldn't get free
for his shots. Neither could Clay Thompson. Boston is a
great defensive team. And barring Scott Foster showing up a
deciding I'm gonna put you guys on the free throw
line every five minutes, um, yeah, you're in trouble. This
is the real storyline you gotta be concerned with, which
is how are you going to get away from what
(35:01):
Boston can do to you defensively because Clay couldn't get
his shot, Steph couldn't get his shot, and when you
needed to go back and forth, you didn't have the
offensive punch to do it because Boston was too good defensively.
You want to sit there and blow off everything and say, yeah,
everything's fine, everything's fine, Yeah, okay, great, yeah, and then
watch what happens when Sunday shows up and you wind
up losing again. And he was like, and Ittes, just
(35:25):
watch you want to blow it off, great, but this
is why you're looking at one game away from being swept.
Because they think the real concern is, oh, the Celtics
won't shoot like that. No, the real concern is they
can stop you from scoring, and that's you should be
focused on. Well, and that's that's the billion dollar question, right,
is all right? Steph Curry had a great first quarter,
historic Right? We were comparing him to some of the
(35:47):
greatest exploits of guys uh and what they've done to
open a game, uh in in NBA Finals history. And
then what was the thirteen points the rest of the day,
one for six from three point range and really not
eager to assert himself in the fourth quarter. That's the
thing that was most confusing. Draymond took a couple of minutes,
(36:10):
breather came in, he kept shooting. It's like, all right,
you are the point forward, okay, distribute the ball. Stop
putting up shots two of twelve from the field over
four three point range. Clay Thompson playing thirty nine minutes,
that's not good for anybody. But when you've got Otto
Porter and Jordan Poole combined minus thirty seven, minus eighteen
(36:33):
and nineteen, respectively, how much trust is there for Steve
Kurry for what was the normal rotation going forward? Do
you say it's a blip? Right? We fixed the glitch,
thinking that these guys aren't gonna play defense the same way.
They were the top defensive team in the damn league.
So suddenly thinking they're gonna take a take a breather,
(36:54):
forget about it again. It comes back to early foul trouble.
If they avoid it, the Warriors are in big trouble.
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