June 15, 2022 • 34 mins
Welcome into the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon! Jason and Mike react to Dodger closing pitcher Kimbrel making the fans sweat the final inning, and LeBron James tactically names a few teams he'd play for instead of the Lakers!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Well, I have made
sweating Kimberl a thing hashtag influencer. You know, a few
days ago it was Big Mac with extra cheese and
extra sauce influencer. Sweating Kimberl influencer. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox
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Sports Radio studios. Let me tell you what's going on
in the last few minutes of the Angels Dodgers game.
Craig Kimbrill comes on in the ninth inning to try
to shut the door into too nothing Dodger win. He
gets the first out and then Mike Trout breaks his
bat and he hits a flare to center field that
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somehow Gavin Lux can't get and it falls in for
a hit. Now this turned into a real scary moment
because Trout's bat shattered uh at the right in the
middle and on his back swing, the bat comes off it,
you know, breaks right, breaks right in the middle, and
it hits the umpire in the face, and the jagged
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edges of the bat got in through the umpire's helmet
and cut up his face pretty bad on the side
and on the nose. He went down. He flipped his
mask off right away. He was holding his head. There
was there was a lot of blood and the game
was stopped for a few minutes while he got taken
off the field. He couldn't umpire anymore. So, uh, he
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got very lucky. Nate Tomlinson is is the umpire. He
got very lucky that he didn't get hit anymore any
closer A loss an eye because it was really close,
like you e the scrap it is like right on
the corner of his eye. And so he has to
come out. So a new umpire has to go get
dressed to come and be the home plate umpire. So
Craig Kimberl has to stand around there for a while waiting.
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Uh sho heyo Tani doubles to put runners second and
third when they resume play. So now sweating kimberl is
happening with a full count runners at second and third,
one out in the ninth inning. Uh, this is sweating
Kimberll hashtag influencer unbelievable. Uh. Watching the slow motion replay,
you see everybody behind home plate, the fans, trying to
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figure out what's going on. And then there's a kid
there with his mom. Uh and he just like his
mouth opens is about as wide as it possibly, like,
oh my god, what am I seeing? As the umpire
turns and you start to see the results, So obviously
good thoughts with him. Uh, it's just just absolutely brutal.
But for an inch one way or another, you've got
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something completely different going on there. Um. Not that to
minimize the impact of what's transpired here, but to the
game itself. Yeah, after being listless throughout the night, all
of a sudden, some activity Uh, and well nothing comes
easy in two for the Dodgers. Uh, even if they
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are thirty seven and twenty three. Uh, it certainly doesn't
seem like it. If you listen to uh local sports
talk and listen to our friends that write for the
local papers or follow their Twitter accounts. You'd think they
were a five hundred team the way the way they're
talked about. But certainly against the Angels, who we just
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chronicled every painful moment of that losing streak that ended
in Joe Madden getting fired on the day that he
got a mohawk to inspire them, nonetheless, Uh, to open
the door for them to have a comeback here. Uh. Certainly,
Dodgers fans, this is the last thing they wanted to see, man.
And now Kimberl has walked the bases loaded, nearly gave
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up a Grand Slam home run, but the ball was
about fifteen feet foul. So yeah, sweating Kimberl has become
a thing. Jared Walsh batting with one out, bases loaded
in the top of the ninth inning for the Angels.
Love more in this game coming up in a few
minutes to tell you how uh the ninth inning shook
out for Craig Kimbrill. But meanwhile, big drama earlier tonight,
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as Miles Nicholas nearly threw a no hitter, he goes
back out on the mound for the ninth inning for
the Cardinals, who led the Pirates nine to one. Pirates
scored a run on a two base error and a
ground out. So many people didn't understand that we had
a no hitter going because the score was nine to one. Right,
you don't think someone's gonna allow a run and a
no hitter, but it was a no hitter. Nicholas goes
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back out for the ninth inning at a hundred and
fifteen pitches. He gets the first two outs and then
he gets two and to count. On the last batter.
He is one strike away from a no hitter, and
this another to two pitch, swinging a five on the center.
They in her back on this one. He can't get it.
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It's over his reach and goes over the wall for
an automatic double and cal Mitchell with a two bagger
with two strikes and two outs in the nine that
breaks up the no hitter. What a thrill? What's a
great thrill? Uh Cardinals Radio Network on the call, Harrison Bader,
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who's a gold glover in center field, didn't get a
good jump on the ball. He was playing shallow likely
to guard against a bleeder. You don't want something to
fall in the last thing you think is a guy
pitching a no hitter. Someone's gonna hit one to the wall.
But that's exactly what happened, right, the hit goes to
the wall. And again I default to this because I
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actually told the girls I coached the All Star team.
I coach this today. Had had to make sure to
mention it was an all star team. Well, yeah, I did,
because I coach all stars. Man. I mean, I'm like,
you know, that's that's me. Man, I don't I want
to tell the truth. I mean, I'm I don't wanna lie,
and I gotta tell the truth. And but but my
point is that as these are All Star players, and
I still have to tell outfielders, your first step has
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to be back. It can't be in. It's got to
be back. These are three these are thirteen year old.
And then you know they play and they're really good players.
But some of them, you know, when when you pick
the All Star team, you take the best players, and
some of them, okay, well you're not gonna play in
field because you're not quite as good as other girls
playing in field. You're gonna play outfield, which kind of
how it works, so you kind of have to teach
a little bit of nuances for outfielders. I actually told
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one of my girls today when we were we were
hitting balls and I, you know, one got hit the
center field and she came a step in and then
went back and went over her head and I told her,
I said, listen, now, you know this is why I
say this all the time. When you're an outfielder. Your
first step is always back because you can always come
in and that that's a that's a tried and true rule.
You can know it's easy to come in and catch
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a ball. But your first step is back because while
you're seeing what kind of ball it is, you default
to that because then you can get back and get
it and you watch better. And he had a horrible
jump on it. He took two steps to the side
and then started running straight back. He had no feel
for the ball whatsoever. And had he taken a step back,
he maybe comes down with it because he made a
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He made a great, incredible run to try to get there,
and he was so close to it. Had he gotten
a good jump, he catches the ball and it's a
running catch at the warning track, right. It's not a
it's not an incredible diving catch. He's gotta make because
this ball bounces about a foot in from the grass
on the dirt in the warning track, so it's about
a foot from the grass. So it's not like he
would have crashed into the wall. It would have been
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a nice running catch had he had a good jump,
but he didn't, and his first two steps were to
the side and the ball was way over his head
and he just couldn't get there. And I saw that,
and I said, oh, man, oh, Nicholas is gonna be
so pissed because it was a bad job. He had
to watch that thing after and go just say good things,
all good things, all good things, all good things. My
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defense is good. I love my defense. All good things,
all good things. But come on, man, how do you
not get a better jump on that ball? It's two well,
it's not pitching a bleep and no hitter. Yeah, I
still don't like how he was positioned. And obviously it's
armchair quarterbacking and all. I'm a believer in playing, you know,
a little bit deeper, knowing that I can break in
on the ball, like just turn it. You know, first
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step always has to be back. Obviously, that's uh something
you and I were taught, you know, the first time
we started getting onto a field, uh, and then I
started playing first base or pitching, and that was the
end of any of that necessity for any of that stuff.
But it was it was always, you know, shade a
little bit deeper unless you had a guy that really
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was struggling for contact. And I guess to some degree
you can argue that from Mitchell and his two seventeen
batting average coming in, But I don't know, man, it's
it's that's just a hard one. He gave him an
off speed pitch that didn't break enough, left it up
just enough for him to go get it, and but
did give him enough loft so that you had an opportunity, uh,
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in the outfield for Bader to go make a play
and just running, I don't know, like he was running
from whatever villain in any of your favorite movies. Meanwhile,
I saw a trailer for a UM leather Face video
game coming up, which is a whole other thing that
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we need to talk about maybe in a podcast for him.
But the just the idea that he ran like a
bad out of hell and he just didn't have enough right,
he was too shallow, and then those two or three
steps just trying to find his bearings and locate the
ball was enough for him not make the play, and
he looked back almost immediately with that I'm sorry, I
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just screwed us up. Hey man, I blew that for you. Mom,
Sorry about that, But I mean like we'd be remiss
if we didn't talk about the look that Nicholas was
sporting as well. Man, he was Chaine that cool mustache
and then that look on his face like he wanted
to find every bit. Well, the mustache was great, very
rooster esque from top gun Maverick. And uh, the look
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he gave his catcher when he was walking off because
they took him out of the game after he gave
up the hit. Uh, it seemed like he was mad,
like you call for that pitch in that location? What
the hell is wrong with you? It seemed like he
was mad there too, And it's like, well, I think
if I'm the catcher, I go, you know, if you
weren't on pitch and I'd turn it to skip, I'd
be like, if he wasn't on pitch, he might have
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been having to locate that ball. So how about we
all just point at each other like where that Spider
Man meme? So everybody gets a laugh and we go
finish this game, we all just be three little fawn
Zi's okay, let's all be three little and what's Fonzie cool?
So yeah, you know you feel awful. But what I
mean that was such a bad jump batter got on
that ball. I felt so awful for him, going, he's
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not gonna catch this and it should be an out
and it should be a no hitter. But you hear
in the replay that we we played right the audio,
It's like, for a second, there's that belief of all right,
he's gonna get there. It's better he covers ground, He's
gonna get there. Come on, just trying to speak it
into existence, and then what he can't's like no. And
you know what I love is that every time a
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guy goes out there with a no hitter now and
the ninth inning, it always defaults back to Dave Roberts
taking Clayton Kersha out of a perfect game. It's at
eight pitches that just I mean, I mean, really, I mean,
Nicholas goes out there throwing fifty more pitches than Kershaw did,
but we're gonna leave him out there, and I mean
no hitters for the next five years. We can default.
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Remember when Kershaw had thrown like eight pitches and was
perfect through seven, they took him out back to you can't.
You can't not on this show. We'll be talking about
this until I retire, which is the day after the
last Bobby Been of a Day. Welcome to the Mike
Harmon Show, but the day after the Bunny a Day
thing in the calendar security. Yeah, it's all good. Yeah,
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I think they're paying me through five, So there we go.
That's what it's gonna be last. Okay, And remember when
Dave Roberts didn't didn't let Clayton Kershaw finish that perfect
game when he had only thrown eighty pitches through seven innings.
Yet other pictures are allowed to stay in when they've
thrown upwards of a hundred and twenty. Buddy, if we
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sound like that in thirteen years, that means we got
a hell of a lot of good living going on.
Take you out of your wheelchair like Walter and the
Big Lebowski. Remember when you weren't allowed to drink on
the air. I'm glad they relaxed those rules a few
years ago. Shows are getting more entertaining, But it was
a hardish beat s while ringing a bell breaking bed
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ding ding ding a. Oh that was your hottest take yet,
Mike ding ding ding ding ding ding Kings. Now, they'll
just replicate us. They're not gonna need us in a
few years. They're just gonna they're just completely gonna replicate voice,
and we'll use the algorithm. They'll just be an algorithm.
How deep we go into our diction nary and the
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saurus kind of work here as we we bring the
big words in, because the more of those that are there,
the better the AI can be. Now, speaking of the
Dodgers and Dave Roberts, Kimbrell gets out of it to
strike outs to end it. The Dodgers win two to nothing,
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despite the fact he loaded the bases the body struck
out the side he did. I'm telling you we've made
sweating Kimberl a thing. It is now officially a thing. Congratulations.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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my bass friend Mike Harmon. Hey, it's a big anniversary
for this song. Yeah, big anniverse for Christopher Cross. I
saw that today the day that it entered the charts,
and then he was on a boat with Kenny Loggin yesterday.
It's part about when news, Well, you have to be
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sailing when the anniversary comes up, because you know what
is the song? Uh, yes, we teld you Dodgers beat
the Angels to nothing again. That just ended the able
to sweat kimberl in the ninth inning. Um. Now, I
think one big question has been answered for Major League Baseball.
Uh Tony Gonslin gets the win for the Dodgers. He
improves to eight no. His ear A is one point
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four two. I feel pretty confident in saying he's gonna
be starting the All Star Game for the National League
this year at Chevez Ravine. I don't think there's anybody
else that's going to start ahead of him. That's that's
not a hot night take right now, man, I'll tell
you the cow. He might, he might. He is eight no,
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ear a is one point four m v P. How
about that? Oh no, No, Alonso is the MVP. He's
leading the league a home runs an RBI, the best
record of the National League along. But Gonsland can also
get his message out of you know, have your pets
Spader NEWTERK. I think anybody could put that. I could
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put that mess Catman, but I could put that message out. Hey,
make sure your pet Spader Newter. But bye for now,
We'll see you tomorrow. I'm i gotta have a big
stick microphone. Yeah, Godson will be starting the all segment. Yeah,
right now. He is your cy young winner in the Nationale,
not the not the m v P though, because that
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is Pete Alonzo. Can't wait to see what kind of
chaos we get to do that week. Uh. Speaking of chaos,
Lebron James decided, you know, people aren't talking about me
that much. He's he's last few days of the NBA
Finals going on, So I'm gonna do something that's gonna
make people have to talk about me. In an upcoming
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clip from the next episode of The Shop, which is
coming out later on this week, Lebron doing you know interview,
Maverick Carter there with him, asks Lebron a question. A
question Lebron James could easily have selected diffused answer differently,
But you know, Lebron, no, no, no, no, no, I
know exactly what I'm doing. When I'm gonna tell you
some teams i'd like to play for if the planets aligned,
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of the teams love playing, which one would you want
to play for? Oh my god, map shot of me
over right here? Yeah, I team I would love to
play for is not in the playoffs, which is the Lakers.
Might stop right there, I stop right there and stop
right there. Stop for a second. So there's his Laker answer,
which is all of two point five seconds. Right. This
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is where we could go on and talk about, Hey,
we got a big gear coming up, a d is
coming back, all this crappy no no, no no, no, no, okay,
So I said that, like, yeah, Lakers, that's a board one.
Now let me go in detail about the other teams
i'd like to play for. Let's pick it back up.
But if it was one team that I know, I
could make a media improse in the postseason and we
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could be very special to be to be miamire go
and stay for sure. And I like to Graymond talked
to to like, I don't mind, Yeah, I would love
that like that type of like I love with some
of my custom to like if I'm not doing like
I would love that with Draymond. Alright, First of all,
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he does not like that. He does not like that
at all. I like it when guys cuts me. I really,
I don't think you do. You're just absolutely live, especially
not with Draymond. Right those two teams he just mentioned.
Pat Riley is laughing, going that guy wants to come
back here blank can He's not coming back? Mean well,
the Warriors are going. We're one win from the finals.
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We don't need him coming up sharing our glory. We
didn't like it when Kevin Durant shared that glory, even
though we needed him to win, because you know it
was NBA Finals. M v p oh beat it. Lebron.
But more importantly, Lebron is telling you he knows he's
going to leave. Lebron knows that the end of his
Lakers career is not gonna go as he thought it
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was going to. He thought it was going to be
here's my last stop. I'm gonna make a lot of money.
I'm gonna be a Laker legend. I'm gonna win a
couple of titles because it's the Lakers, and I'm gonna
ride off into the sunset. Not happening. He won great,
all right, it's the Bubble Championship. Didn't resonate as much.
It didn't, but it's still the championship. Since then, what
has happened. The Lakers have been bad, They've not made
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the playoffs. Lebron has not played a lot. He has
chosen uh personal maintenance over playing to try and to
fight the Lakers way even into the playing round. He
wouldn't play in games the end of this year. I
told you he was not gonna play in games at
the end when it looked like the Lakers were gonna
fall out, because he wasn't gonna get blamed for the
Lakers not making it. His relationship with the fans in
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arms length. His relationship with the Lakers is it arms like.
It's Clutch Sports versus the Bus family when they're trying
to figure things out. It is not gone how he expected.
He's not going to ride off into the sunset as
a Laker and be a beloved member of the team.
He's still he's still the higher gun to come in
say yeah, you won, great, Now go out, go someplace else.
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That's how it's going to end. And he knows that,
and he wants his career to end very celebratory for him, because,
as I've told you, he's done winning, he's done, and
now it's about individual achievement and playing with Brawny his
last year in the league. And now I gotta put
out test balloons to see just where I could wind
up going. So I put out this Miami test balloon
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to wait and see if pat Riley says, oh, hey,
you know, all would be forgiven if Lebron want all
the trust me. Lebron knows exactly what he's doing, what
he says, the Heat or the Warriors. I'm throwing this
out there just to see what happens. Maybe through back
channels we start talking. And when it comes to this
summer and the Lakers offer me the extension, I say
no because at the end of this year, I'm gonna
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be a free agent again. I'm gonna joy free agency,
and I'm gonna go where i want to finish my
career the last couple of years, where I'll be celebrated
and I'm gonna have a lot of fun, and I'll
get to play with Brawny at the end. A divorce
with the both of these sides, Mike just has to happen.
This is not hot take Jason Smith Theater. You know
this is this has to happen. The Akers aren't going
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to win with what they have right now. Lebron and
Anthony Davis aren't getting healthier. Anthony Davis his response to
new head coach Darvin Ham saying we need a d
to be healthy and be a great player this year
was for him to say, I haven't picked up a
basketball in months, right, So you know they're not suddenly
going to say, hey, we gotta get our heads on
straight and fly right and we could really wit. No,
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they're gonna stink because they can't make any changes to
the roster that they have to deal with Russell Westbrook. Again,
They're just gonna stink. The Lakers aren't going to be
able to reset until they move on from this era,
and that is no Lebron, no Anthony Davis, and no
Russell Westbrook. You're gonna have to wait out Westbrook. You
have to wait out Lebron. You should trade Anthony Davis
because you're gonna get a lot for him and he's
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not suddenly gonna get healthier and help you win games.
So for the Lakers, yes, they have to move on
because no one's coming to play with Lebron. The last
couple of years. They're just not And for Lebron, he
doesn't want his career to end this way. He wants
to be happy. He doesn't want to have to go
to practice and games and sit there and go, yeah, well,
I know the fans are mad at me for this,
and the Lakers are mad at me for that. He
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doesn't want that. He wants out and go to have
a better last couple of years in the league. This
is one of those divorces that makes sense for both sides.
It's not a hot take. It just has to happen,
and both Lebron and the Lakers will be better off
when this happens. Yeah. I think part of it is
establishing who you are. Right, We've got that. We talked
to Dan Waikey earlier in the show. You got Austin Reaves. Okay,
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so he's cheap on the books. Good, that's that's a
plus one. Uh. And then you have three guys making
a ton of money, one of whom I don't know.
No matter how many times you put it into a
trade scenario, Uh, it spits out one or two answers. Uh.
And it keeps coming back to all right, John Wall
makes about as much as Russell Westbrook. So make that happen,
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give them a draft pick or multiple draft picks, and
then there's a bunch of other, uh, lesser trades that
involve a bunch of other bad contracts, because that's truly
what you always end up doing. But for Lebron makes this, uh,
this twenty four hour maybe of the news cycle about
himself that he's gonna extend it. Don't worry. I'm just
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saying in the in the short term, right, because this
doesn't premiere to Friday, right, the series could end Thursday night.
But here it is in the midst of the NBA
Finals saying, hey, I'm over here and I can make
some noise, and I can include one of the teams
that's in the finals, so you can tie it back,
which means they're gonna have to talk about it on
the broadcast. See. So that's that's where we get it
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all together. But including the Warriors, then you could look at, okay,
maybe there's a win there. Likewise, going to Miami in
the Eastern Conference, yes, Middleton will be back with the Bucks, uh,
and you'll see some retooling, reconfiguring, but there's still an
opportunity to run I mean Brooklyn who knows what they
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are right and what what the construct? Uh? And roster
they come back with. Uh. And Doctor River is still
coaching the seventies sixers. So they'll do really well in
the regular season, so you'll be fighting for seating, but
come the playoffs. H. Well, you know, so when we
get down to it for Lebron, you know it's they
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throw it up and look, I can still move the needle.
I can get everybody excited. Anthony Davis that you you
added all the lines. That makes it a very tough sell.
The I haven't touched a basketball as long as he
was showing me a log of his fitness right in
terms of keeping stamina and how his legs are feeling
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or whatever those checks check ins are. Here's the boxes
on all that. That's fine. I'm not worried about his
jump shot. I'm worried about his availability. That's that's the
bigger issue as we go. But certainly always moving the needle.
And and for the Lakers, it's the short term versus
long term. Short term, you get Lebron and you get
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him to set some more records, uh, and some excitement.
He never got a hug because he never got to
have a parade. Think about it. They've been able to
have a parade and get a bunch of guest stars
from the music and entertainment world, right mogul, billionaire, right,
always thinking, always trying to come up with something huge.
If they'd been able to have that parade. Hell, he
was lobbying that they should have done one this year,
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two years after the fact, because he wanted a parade.
But maybe that would have made help to seal a
little bit. Maybe you'd have a nice speech, maybe you'd
have one of those moments. I love l A. I'm
sorry for what I did to Jason Smith and the
people of Culver City at that Blaze pizza, Like all
of those things could have come together to endear him
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to a city. On a whole other level, Twitter it
out about a Fresca Mike and swollen dome. This has
nothing to do with the fact that they perpetrated a fraud.
And this is just common sense at this point for Lebron.
I mean I if I could see a way out
for the Lakers this year, I'd say, all right, if
they did X, Y and Z, they do it. But
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barring a team team saying hey, boy, we feel really
bad about the Lakers not being good. Yeah, let's make
a trade that's in the best interest of the Lakers. Like,
here you go, why don't you take Zion? Who do
you want Austin Reeves? Great, we'll do it. Uh, that's
not gonna happen. I don't see a way out of it.
Darvin Ham is not going to change any kind of
attitude or have some kind of locker room input. The
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stars are always gonna do whatever the hell they want to,
and that's Lebron is gonna do whatever he wants to.
He's gonna miss games. Anthony Davis is gonna play whatever
he feels like it. He's gonna miss games, and they're
just going to lose. This year is just gonna stink. Alright.
I can't cut it up any other way. This year
is just gonna stink. It's like when when I was
a kid and my grandmother would put that big hunk
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of cooked spinach on my plate with no butter on it, saying, yes,
that's your that's your vegetables for the night. I go,
How do I get around this? I can't. I just
have to eat it. I can't go because I'm not
getting up from the table, because my grandfather always say,
you don't get up from the table until you eat
the spinach. One time I was able to do it
was by that all in my mouth, and so I
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go to the bathroom and I ran and I spin
it out in the toilet. But my grandmother knew and said,
you're never gonna do that again. You can't do it again. Uh.
Sometimes you just have to suck it up, right, And
that's that's kind of what the Lakers have to do.
It's that big piece of the big hunk of of
cooked spinach on the plate that tastes terrible, and they're
just gonna have its delicious. No, raw spinach is good
(26:23):
when it's it's got all the nutrients in it. Two right,
tight shir It's going, oh my god, Jason, you're speaking
my language. Uh that's good. But that cook spinach. Yeah, man,
you gotta just drown it in butter. And then how
does that help you? It's you're negating everything else. No,
come on, amateur, amateur, but no, but no, I never
(26:46):
wanted my grandmother to cook it like that. You give
me some fresh spinach instead, all right about? Instead of that,
you give me chocolate cake. Um, but there's no way
for the Lakers to get around this, so move on order,
especially when you've got the decision makers aren't changing either.
If there aren't fresh voices and there aren't new uh
ideas coming into that room, I wouldn't even offer Lebron
(27:08):
and extension in the off season. I would say we're
gonna play this out and you're gonna go because because
it's not gonna be any better in a year when
Lebron is by himself. Okay, we're gonna get No, we're not.
We're not. You give him an offer, but you make
it on him. M well, that's probably what they will
do to make him the bad guy. Hey, we wanted
Lebron to stay. And here's the final on the Giants
(27:30):
sign on the side of Staples Center. Oh wait, I
remember it's not Staples anymore. It's gonna be Crypto dot
Com for at least another month and a half until
Crypto goes bankrupt. That'll be about the Staples Center. They're
gonna bring the state. We still got the letters for Staples.
Let's bring it back out. All those people heavily invested
(27:50):
in Crypto. That was really not not nice. Although anybody
invested heavily in anything. You just feeling the pain right now?
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(29:03):
not really, but I'm trying. I've gotten a lot of money,
so I'm at peace. I really am at peace. I'm
telling you, Uh, I really don't know how the United
States played in that mud pit against El Salvagor tonight.
It was unbelievable. It was like watching the mud ball
between the Jets and the Dolphins and eighty two. There's
(29:25):
a timely reference all over again. But it was like
your kids back on the lot. Not with all the
you know, money and energy and effort and time and
money that goes into curating a field. No, this was
you know, make sure there's some chuck on the lines
that we have the rudimentary field. Are their nets? Yeah,
(29:46):
there's a bunch of tape together parts it's gonna hold.
That's what it felt like. It was. It was like
a youth field exactly. The ball across and it would
bounce twice and then just stop. It's like what I
gotta tell the girls before a game. Okay, the field
is money. The ball is not gonna move as much.
You want to be a little more aggressive getting it.
(30:06):
It's gonna told the same thing to the us ter. Yeah,
you try to dig in a corner kick or something
like he replace that divid from where from where I
to fight? You to tell me where that turf came from? Oh?
I mean it was outstandingly bad. I mean, this is
where you're you're not only just fighting who you're playing against,
(30:27):
but you're fighting the venue. It's I think the watch though,
like I mean, that was that was some some great
soccer to watch. I mean, because obviously you know everything's contested,
but you still have the in the back of guy's
minds like alright, I'm not losing an ankle in this game.
I'm just not losing an ankle in this game. Running
(30:48):
on this field, you finally had the equalize or what
in the ninety first minute from Jordan Morris, a product
of Stanford playing for the Seattle Sounders, uh and and
eventually get your one one tie. But as the final
minutes of injury time ran out, like everybody looked at
(31:08):
each other like all right, we we got out right.
Everybody's good looking around like that. That was not fun
at all, a little bit salty. It's like, look at
where the biggest start. I mean, I was waiting for
Bolistic to take the microphone at you know, midfield and
just start cursing at everything. Not because there wasn't a
massive crowd, but really, you're putting me on this pitch.
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playing out in a bigger way. And this revolves around
Kyler Murray, who Cliff Kingsbury said late today and the
story is just starting to gain a lot of attention,
head coach of the Cardinals that he is praying that
the situation contract wise with Murray gets resolved sometime in
the summer and he's back playing quarterback. The Cardinals are
(32:36):
ready to make him the highest paid player in Arizona
Cardinals history, and Murray is saying, you forgot about that.
I want to get paid what Josh Allen does and
my homes. And he's a little bit overrated as far
as what he thinks of himself. He's not quite a
top five quarterback, but he is a periphery top ten quarterback.
And even though I'm not the biggest Kyler Murray fan, uh,
(32:58):
he disappears at the end of seasons. He's not as
dynamic as you think he is. In the end, it's
pretty easy. Yes, you give him the money, and you
extend him and you keep him. Why because it's an
easy question. How tough will he be to replace? Can
you replace him easily? You can't, all right, it's tough
to replace the guy that's periphery top ten quarterbacks. So yeah,
let's stick with Kyler Murray because he gives us a
(33:20):
great chance to win. He's in the top third of
the league. Yes, we stick with that guy at quarterback.
And for Murray, he's got to take it because when
he was upset with the Cardinals, nobody was calling Arizona saying, hey,
here's an FM picks offer for Kyler Murray. Here's three
first and two seconds. It wasn't the same thing as
when Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson when they were unhappy
(33:41):
and teams were calling with f them picks offers. Uh
so the league kind of told you what they think
about Kyler Murray. Is he good? Yeah? Am I gonna
make a big f then picks offer for him? No?
Not quite. So it makes sense for the Cardinals and
Kyler Murray, if you're smart, you take this because nobody
else has coming given up a bunch of stuff for you.
I'm gonna give you a ton of money. See I
read it more as the Cardinals there was no chance
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they were parting with him, whereas both the Packers and
the Seahawks might have been tired of their respective older
quarterbacks to say, yeah, you want to give us a
bunch of stuff, come on, we'll at least have a conversation.
And then the Packers turned around and gave a giant
novel t size check like you would get when you
claim any giant lottery or a Jack Pott in Vegas. Uh,
(34:23):
Kyler Murray will be there for a long while, Big cash. Look,
you paid Kingsbury. You've got no choice but to pay
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Well, I have made
sweating Kimberl a thing hashtag influencer. You know, a few
days ago it was Big Mac with extra cheese and
extra sauce influencer. Sweating Kimberl influencer. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox
(00:45):
Sports Radio studios. Let me tell you what's going on
in the last few minutes of the Angels Dodgers game.
Craig Kimbrill comes on in the ninth inning to try
to shut the door into too nothing Dodger win. He
gets the first out and then Mike Trout breaks his
bat and he hits a flare to center field that
(01:06):
somehow Gavin Lux can't get and it falls in for
a hit. Now this turned into a real scary moment
because Trout's bat shattered uh at the right in the
middle and on his back swing, the bat comes off it,
you know, breaks right, breaks right in the middle, and
it hits the umpire in the face, and the jagged
(01:28):
edges of the bat got in through the umpire's helmet
and cut up his face pretty bad on the side
and on the nose. He went down. He flipped his
mask off right away. He was holding his head. There
was there was a lot of blood and the game
was stopped for a few minutes while he got taken
off the field. He couldn't umpire anymore. So, uh, he
(01:51):
got very lucky. Nate Tomlinson is is the umpire. He
got very lucky that he didn't get hit anymore any
closer A loss an eye because it was really close,
like you e the scrap it is like right on
the corner of his eye. And so he has to
come out. So a new umpire has to go get
dressed to come and be the home plate umpire. So
Craig Kimberl has to stand around there for a while waiting.
(02:13):
Uh sho heyo Tani doubles to put runners second and
third when they resume play. So now sweating kimberl is
happening with a full count runners at second and third,
one out in the ninth inning. Uh, this is sweating
Kimberll hashtag influencer unbelievable. Uh. Watching the slow motion replay,
you see everybody behind home plate, the fans, trying to
(02:37):
figure out what's going on. And then there's a kid
there with his mom. Uh and he just like his
mouth opens is about as wide as it possibly, like,
oh my god, what am I seeing? As the umpire
turns and you start to see the results, So obviously
good thoughts with him. Uh, it's just just absolutely brutal.
But for an inch one way or another, you've got
(02:58):
something completely different going on there. Um. Not that to
minimize the impact of what's transpired here, but to the
game itself. Yeah, after being listless throughout the night, all
of a sudden, some activity Uh, and well nothing comes
easy in two for the Dodgers. Uh, even if they
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are thirty seven and twenty three. Uh, it certainly doesn't
seem like it. If you listen to uh local sports
talk and listen to our friends that write for the
local papers or follow their Twitter accounts. You'd think they
were a five hundred team the way the way they're
talked about. But certainly against the Angels, who we just
(03:42):
chronicled every painful moment of that losing streak that ended
in Joe Madden getting fired on the day that he
got a mohawk to inspire them, nonetheless, Uh, to open
the door for them to have a comeback here. Uh. Certainly,
Dodgers fans, this is the last thing they wanted to see, man.
And now Kimberl has walked the bases loaded, nearly gave
(04:03):
up a Grand Slam home run, but the ball was
about fifteen feet foul. So yeah, sweating Kimberl has become
a thing. Jared Walsh batting with one out, bases loaded
in the top of the ninth inning for the Angels.
Love more in this game coming up in a few
minutes to tell you how uh the ninth inning shook
out for Craig Kimbrill. But meanwhile, big drama earlier tonight,
(04:25):
as Miles Nicholas nearly threw a no hitter, he goes
back out on the mound for the ninth inning for
the Cardinals, who led the Pirates nine to one. Pirates
scored a run on a two base error and a
ground out. So many people didn't understand that we had
a no hitter going because the score was nine to one. Right,
you don't think someone's gonna allow a run and a
no hitter, but it was a no hitter. Nicholas goes
(04:46):
back out for the ninth inning at a hundred and
fifteen pitches. He gets the first two outs and then
he gets two and to count. On the last batter.
He is one strike away from a no hitter, and
this another to two pitch, swinging a five on the center.
They in her back on this one. He can't get it.
(05:07):
It's over his reach and goes over the wall for
an automatic double and cal Mitchell with a two bagger
with two strikes and two outs in the nine that
breaks up the no hitter. What a thrill? What's a
great thrill? Uh Cardinals Radio Network on the call, Harrison Bader,
(05:27):
who's a gold glover in center field, didn't get a
good jump on the ball. He was playing shallow likely
to guard against a bleeder. You don't want something to
fall in the last thing you think is a guy
pitching a no hitter. Someone's gonna hit one to the wall.
But that's exactly what happened, right, the hit goes to
the wall. And again I default to this because I
(05:48):
actually told the girls I coached the All Star team.
I coach this today. Had had to make sure to
mention it was an all star team. Well, yeah, I did,
because I coach all stars. Man. I mean, I'm like,
you know, that's that's me. Man, I don't I want
to tell the truth. I mean, I'm I don't wanna lie,
and I gotta tell the truth. And but but my
point is that as these are All Star players, and
I still have to tell outfielders, your first step has
(06:09):
to be back. It can't be in. It's got to
be back. These are three these are thirteen year old.
And then you know they play and they're really good players.
But some of them, you know, when when you pick
the All Star team, you take the best players, and
some of them, okay, well you're not gonna play in
field because you're not quite as good as other girls
playing in field. You're gonna play outfield, which kind of
how it works, so you kind of have to teach
a little bit of nuances for outfielders. I actually told
(06:29):
one of my girls today when we were we were
hitting balls and I, you know, one got hit the
center field and she came a step in and then
went back and went over her head and I told her,
I said, listen, now, you know this is why I
say this all the time. When you're an outfielder. Your
first step is always back because you can always come
in and that that's a that's a tried and true rule.
You can know it's easy to come in and catch
(06:50):
a ball. But your first step is back because while
you're seeing what kind of ball it is, you default
to that because then you can get back and get
it and you watch better. And he had a horrible
jump on it. He took two steps to the side
and then started running straight back. He had no feel
for the ball whatsoever. And had he taken a step back,
he maybe comes down with it because he made a
(07:12):
He made a great, incredible run to try to get there,
and he was so close to it. Had he gotten
a good jump, he catches the ball and it's a
running catch at the warning track, right. It's not a
it's not an incredible diving catch. He's gotta make because
this ball bounces about a foot in from the grass
on the dirt in the warning track, so it's about
a foot from the grass. So it's not like he
would have crashed into the wall. It would have been
(07:33):
a nice running catch had he had a good jump,
but he didn't, and his first two steps were to
the side and the ball was way over his head
and he just couldn't get there. And I saw that,
and I said, oh, man, oh, Nicholas is gonna be
so pissed because it was a bad job. He had
to watch that thing after and go just say good things,
all good things, all good things, all good things. My
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defense is good. I love my defense. All good things,
all good things. But come on, man, how do you
not get a better jump on that ball? It's two well,
it's not pitching a bleep and no hitter. Yeah, I
still don't like how he was positioned. And obviously it's
armchair quarterbacking and all. I'm a believer in playing, you know,
a little bit deeper, knowing that I can break in
on the ball, like just turn it. You know, first
(08:17):
step always has to be back. Obviously, that's uh something
you and I were taught, you know, the first time
we started getting onto a field, uh, and then I
started playing first base or pitching, and that was the
end of any of that necessity for any of that stuff.
But it was it was always, you know, shade a
little bit deeper unless you had a guy that really
(08:38):
was struggling for contact. And I guess to some degree
you can argue that from Mitchell and his two seventeen
batting average coming in, But I don't know, man, it's
it's that's just a hard one. He gave him an
off speed pitch that didn't break enough, left it up
just enough for him to go get it, and but
did give him enough loft so that you had an opportunity, uh,
(09:02):
in the outfield for Bader to go make a play
and just running, I don't know, like he was running
from whatever villain in any of your favorite movies. Meanwhile,
I saw a trailer for a UM leather Face video
game coming up, which is a whole other thing that
(09:23):
we need to talk about maybe in a podcast for him.
But the just the idea that he ran like a
bad out of hell and he just didn't have enough right,
he was too shallow, and then those two or three
steps just trying to find his bearings and locate the
ball was enough for him not make the play, and
he looked back almost immediately with that I'm sorry, I
(09:44):
just screwed us up. Hey man, I blew that for you. Mom,
Sorry about that, But I mean like we'd be remiss
if we didn't talk about the look that Nicholas was
sporting as well. Man, he was Chaine that cool mustache
and then that look on his face like he wanted
to find every bit. Well, the mustache was great, very
rooster esque from top gun Maverick. And uh, the look
(10:07):
he gave his catcher when he was walking off because
they took him out of the game after he gave
up the hit. Uh, it seemed like he was mad,
like you call for that pitch in that location? What
the hell is wrong with you? It seemed like he
was mad there too, And it's like, well, I think
if I'm the catcher, I go, you know, if you
weren't on pitch and I'd turn it to skip, I'd
be like, if he wasn't on pitch, he might have
(10:27):
been having to locate that ball. So how about we
all just point at each other like where that Spider
Man meme? So everybody gets a laugh and we go
finish this game, we all just be three little fawn
Zi's okay, let's all be three little and what's Fonzie cool?
So yeah, you know you feel awful. But what I
mean that was such a bad jump batter got on
that ball. I felt so awful for him, going, he's
(10:49):
not gonna catch this and it should be an out
and it should be a no hitter. But you hear
in the replay that we we played right the audio,
It's like, for a second, there's that belief of all right,
he's gonna get there. It's better he covers ground, He's
gonna get there. Come on, just trying to speak it
into existence, and then what he can't's like no. And
you know what I love is that every time a
(11:10):
guy goes out there with a no hitter now and
the ninth inning, it always defaults back to Dave Roberts
taking Clayton Kersha out of a perfect game. It's at
eight pitches that just I mean, I mean, really, I mean,
Nicholas goes out there throwing fifty more pitches than Kershaw did,
but we're gonna leave him out there, and I mean
no hitters for the next five years. We can default.
(11:31):
Remember when Kershaw had thrown like eight pitches and was
perfect through seven, they took him out back to you can't.
You can't not on this show. We'll be talking about
this until I retire, which is the day after the
last Bobby Been of a Day. Welcome to the Mike
Harmon Show, but the day after the Bunny a Day
thing in the calendar security. Yeah, it's all good. Yeah,
(11:56):
I think they're paying me through five, So there we go.
That's what it's gonna be last. Okay, And remember when
Dave Roberts didn't didn't let Clayton Kershaw finish that perfect
game when he had only thrown eighty pitches through seven innings.
Yet other pictures are allowed to stay in when they've
thrown upwards of a hundred and twenty. Buddy, if we
(12:17):
sound like that in thirteen years, that means we got
a hell of a lot of good living going on.
Take you out of your wheelchair like Walter and the
Big Lebowski. Remember when you weren't allowed to drink on
the air. I'm glad they relaxed those rules a few
years ago. Shows are getting more entertaining, But it was
a hardish beat s while ringing a bell breaking bed
(12:40):
ding ding ding a. Oh that was your hottest take yet,
Mike ding ding ding ding ding ding Kings. Now, they'll
just replicate us. They're not gonna need us in a
few years. They're just gonna they're just completely gonna replicate voice,
and we'll use the algorithm. They'll just be an algorithm.
How deep we go into our diction nary and the
(13:01):
saurus kind of work here as we we bring the
big words in, because the more of those that are there,
the better the AI can be. Now, speaking of the
Dodgers and Dave Roberts, Kimbrell gets out of it to
strike outs to end it. The Dodgers win two to nothing,
(13:21):
despite the fact he loaded the bases the body struck
out the side he did. I'm telling you we've made
sweating Kimberl a thing. It is now officially a thing. Congratulations.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with
(13:41):
my bass friend Mike Harmon. Hey, it's a big anniversary
for this song. Yeah, big anniverse for Christopher Cross. I
saw that today the day that it entered the charts,
and then he was on a boat with Kenny Loggin yesterday.
It's part about when news, Well, you have to be
(14:01):
sailing when the anniversary comes up, because you know what
is the song? Uh, yes, we teld you Dodgers beat
the Angels to nothing again. That just ended the able
to sweat kimberl in the ninth inning. Um. Now, I
think one big question has been answered for Major League Baseball.
Uh Tony Gonslin gets the win for the Dodgers. He
improves to eight no. His ear A is one point
(14:24):
four two. I feel pretty confident in saying he's gonna
be starting the All Star Game for the National League
this year at Chevez Ravine. I don't think there's anybody
else that's going to start ahead of him. That's that's
not a hot night take right now, man, I'll tell
you the cow. He might, he might. He is eight no,
(14:44):
ear a is one point four m v P. How
about that? Oh no, No, Alonso is the MVP. He's
leading the league a home runs an RBI, the best
record of the National League along. But Gonsland can also
get his message out of you know, have your pets
Spader NEWTERK. I think anybody could put that. I could
(15:05):
put that mess Catman, but I could put that message out. Hey,
make sure your pet Spader Newter. But bye for now,
We'll see you tomorrow. I'm i gotta have a big
stick microphone. Yeah, Godson will be starting the all segment. Yeah,
right now. He is your cy young winner in the Nationale,
not the not the m v P though, because that
(15:25):
is Pete Alonzo. Can't wait to see what kind of
chaos we get to do that week. Uh. Speaking of chaos,
Lebron James decided, you know, people aren't talking about me
that much. He's he's last few days of the NBA
Finals going on, So I'm gonna do something that's gonna
make people have to talk about me. In an upcoming
(15:47):
clip from the next episode of The Shop, which is
coming out later on this week, Lebron doing you know interview,
Maverick Carter there with him, asks Lebron a question. A
question Lebron James could easily have selected diffused answer differently,
But you know, Lebron, no, no, no, no, no, I
know exactly what I'm doing. When I'm gonna tell you
some teams i'd like to play for if the planets aligned,
(16:11):
of the teams love playing, which one would you want
to play for? Oh my god, map shot of me
over right here? Yeah, I team I would love to
play for is not in the playoffs, which is the Lakers.
Might stop right there, I stop right there and stop
right there. Stop for a second. So there's his Laker answer,
which is all of two point five seconds. Right. This
(16:32):
is where we could go on and talk about, Hey,
we got a big gear coming up, a d is
coming back, all this crappy no no, no no, no, no, okay,
So I said that, like, yeah, Lakers, that's a board one.
Now let me go in detail about the other teams
i'd like to play for. Let's pick it back up.
But if it was one team that I know, I
could make a media improse in the postseason and we
(16:52):
could be very special to be to be miamire go
and stay for sure. And I like to Graymond talked
to to like, I don't mind, Yeah, I would love
that like that type of like I love with some
of my custom to like if I'm not doing like
I would love that with Draymond. Alright, First of all,
(17:14):
he does not like that. He does not like that
at all. I like it when guys cuts me. I really,
I don't think you do. You're just absolutely live, especially
not with Draymond. Right those two teams he just mentioned.
Pat Riley is laughing, going that guy wants to come
back here blank can He's not coming back? Mean well,
the Warriors are going. We're one win from the finals.
(17:34):
We don't need him coming up sharing our glory. We
didn't like it when Kevin Durant shared that glory, even
though we needed him to win, because you know it
was NBA Finals. M v p oh beat it. Lebron.
But more importantly, Lebron is telling you he knows he's
going to leave. Lebron knows that the end of his
Lakers career is not gonna go as he thought it
(17:56):
was going to. He thought it was going to be
here's my last stop. I'm gonna make a lot of money.
I'm gonna be a Laker legend. I'm gonna win a
couple of titles because it's the Lakers, and I'm gonna
ride off into the sunset. Not happening. He won great,
all right, it's the Bubble Championship. Didn't resonate as much.
It didn't, but it's still the championship. Since then, what
has happened. The Lakers have been bad, They've not made
(18:17):
the playoffs. Lebron has not played a lot. He has
chosen uh personal maintenance over playing to try and to
fight the Lakers way even into the playing round. He
wouldn't play in games the end of this year. I
told you he was not gonna play in games at
the end when it looked like the Lakers were gonna
fall out, because he wasn't gonna get blamed for the
Lakers not making it. His relationship with the fans in
(18:37):
arms length. His relationship with the Lakers is it arms like.
It's Clutch Sports versus the Bus family when they're trying
to figure things out. It is not gone how he expected.
He's not going to ride off into the sunset as
a Laker and be a beloved member of the team.
He's still he's still the higher gun to come in
say yeah, you won, great, Now go out, go someplace else.
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That's how it's going to end. And he knows that,
and he wants his career to end very celebratory for him, because,
as I've told you, he's done winning, he's done, and
now it's about individual achievement and playing with Brawny his
last year in the league. And now I gotta put
out test balloons to see just where I could wind
up going. So I put out this Miami test balloon
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to wait and see if pat Riley says, oh, hey,
you know, all would be forgiven if Lebron want all
the trust me. Lebron knows exactly what he's doing, what
he says, the Heat or the Warriors. I'm throwing this
out there just to see what happens. Maybe through back
channels we start talking. And when it comes to this
summer and the Lakers offer me the extension, I say
no because at the end of this year, I'm gonna
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be a free agent again. I'm gonna joy free agency,
and I'm gonna go where i want to finish my
career the last couple of years, where I'll be celebrated
and I'm gonna have a lot of fun, and I'll
get to play with Brawny at the end. A divorce
with the both of these sides, Mike just has to happen.
This is not hot take Jason Smith Theater. You know
this is this has to happen. The Akers aren't going
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to win with what they have right now. Lebron and
Anthony Davis aren't getting healthier. Anthony Davis his response to
new head coach Darvin Ham saying we need a d
to be healthy and be a great player this year
was for him to say, I haven't picked up a
basketball in months, right, So you know they're not suddenly
going to say, hey, we gotta get our heads on
straight and fly right and we could really wit. No,
(20:21):
they're gonna stink because they can't make any changes to
the roster that they have to deal with Russell Westbrook. Again,
They're just gonna stink. The Lakers aren't going to be
able to reset until they move on from this era,
and that is no Lebron, no Anthony Davis, and no
Russell Westbrook. You're gonna have to wait out Westbrook. You
have to wait out Lebron. You should trade Anthony Davis
because you're gonna get a lot for him and he's
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not suddenly gonna get healthier and help you win games.
So for the Lakers, yes, they have to move on
because no one's coming to play with Lebron. The last
couple of years. They're just not And for Lebron, he
doesn't want his career to end this way. He wants
to be happy. He doesn't want to have to go
to practice and games and sit there and go, yeah, well,
I know the fans are mad at me for this,
and the Lakers are mad at me for that. He
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doesn't want that. He wants out and go to have
a better last couple of years in the league. This
is one of those divorces that makes sense for both sides.
It's not a hot take. It just has to happen,
and both Lebron and the Lakers will be better off
when this happens. Yeah. I think part of it is
establishing who you are. Right, We've got that. We talked
to Dan Waikey earlier in the show. You got Austin Reaves. Okay,
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so he's cheap on the books. Good, that's that's a
plus one. Uh. And then you have three guys making
a ton of money, one of whom I don't know.
No matter how many times you put it into a
trade scenario, Uh, it spits out one or two answers. Uh.
And it keeps coming back to all right, John Wall
makes about as much as Russell Westbrook. So make that happen,
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give them a draft pick or multiple draft picks, and
then there's a bunch of other, uh, lesser trades that
involve a bunch of other bad contracts, because that's truly
what you always end up doing. But for Lebron makes this, uh,
this twenty four hour maybe of the news cycle about
himself that he's gonna extend it. Don't worry. I'm just
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saying in the in the short term, right, because this
doesn't premiere to Friday, right, the series could end Thursday night.
But here it is in the midst of the NBA
Finals saying, hey, I'm over here and I can make
some noise, and I can include one of the teams
that's in the finals, so you can tie it back,
which means they're gonna have to talk about it on
the broadcast. See. So that's that's where we get it
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all together. But including the Warriors, then you could look at, okay,
maybe there's a win there. Likewise, going to Miami in
the Eastern Conference, yes, Middleton will be back with the Bucks, uh,
and you'll see some retooling, reconfiguring, but there's still an
opportunity to run I mean Brooklyn who knows what they
(22:51):
are right and what what the construct? Uh? And roster
they come back with. Uh. And Doctor River is still
coaching the seventies sixers. So they'll do really well in
the regular season, so you'll be fighting for seating, but
come the playoffs. H. Well, you know, so when we
get down to it for Lebron, you know it's they
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throw it up and look, I can still move the needle.
I can get everybody excited. Anthony Davis that you you
added all the lines. That makes it a very tough sell.
The I haven't touched a basketball as long as he
was showing me a log of his fitness right in
terms of keeping stamina and how his legs are feeling
(23:34):
or whatever those checks check ins are. Here's the boxes
on all that. That's fine. I'm not worried about his
jump shot. I'm worried about his availability. That's that's the
bigger issue as we go. But certainly always moving the needle.
And and for the Lakers, it's the short term versus
long term. Short term, you get Lebron and you get
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him to set some more records, uh, and some excitement.
He never got a hug because he never got to
have a parade. Think about it. They've been able to
have a parade and get a bunch of guest stars
from the music and entertainment world, right mogul, billionaire, right,
always thinking, always trying to come up with something huge.
If they'd been able to have that parade. Hell, he
was lobbying that they should have done one this year,
(24:18):
two years after the fact, because he wanted a parade.
But maybe that would have made help to seal a
little bit. Maybe you'd have a nice speech, maybe you'd
have one of those moments. I love l A. I'm
sorry for what I did to Jason Smith and the
people of Culver City at that Blaze pizza, Like all
of those things could have come together to endear him
(24:39):
to a city. On a whole other level, Twitter it
out about a Fresca Mike and swollen dome. This has
nothing to do with the fact that they perpetrated a fraud.
And this is just common sense at this point for Lebron.
I mean I if I could see a way out
for the Lakers this year, I'd say, all right, if
they did X, Y and Z, they do it. But
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barring a team team saying hey, boy, we feel really
bad about the Lakers not being good. Yeah, let's make
a trade that's in the best interest of the Lakers. Like,
here you go, why don't you take Zion? Who do
you want Austin Reeves? Great, we'll do it. Uh, that's
not gonna happen. I don't see a way out of it.
Darvin Ham is not going to change any kind of
attitude or have some kind of locker room input. The
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stars are always gonna do whatever the hell they want to,
and that's Lebron is gonna do whatever he wants to.
He's gonna miss games. Anthony Davis is gonna play whatever
he feels like it. He's gonna miss games, and they're
just going to lose. This year is just gonna stink. Alright.
I can't cut it up any other way. This year
is just gonna stink. It's like when when I was
a kid and my grandmother would put that big hunk
(25:41):
of cooked spinach on my plate with no butter on it, saying, yes,
that's your that's your vegetables for the night. I go,
How do I get around this? I can't. I just
have to eat it. I can't go because I'm not
getting up from the table, because my grandfather always say,
you don't get up from the table until you eat
the spinach. One time I was able to do it
was by that all in my mouth, and so I
(26:01):
go to the bathroom and I ran and I spin
it out in the toilet. But my grandmother knew and said,
you're never gonna do that again. You can't do it again. Uh.
Sometimes you just have to suck it up, right, And
that's that's kind of what the Lakers have to do.
It's that big piece of the big hunk of of
cooked spinach on the plate that tastes terrible, and they're
just gonna have its delicious. No, raw spinach is good
(26:23):
when it's it's got all the nutrients in it. Two right,
tight shir It's going, oh my god, Jason, you're speaking
my language. Uh that's good. But that cook spinach. Yeah, man,
you gotta just drown it in butter. And then how
does that help you? It's you're negating everything else. No,
come on, amateur, amateur, but no, but no, I never
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wanted my grandmother to cook it like that. You give
me some fresh spinach instead, all right about? Instead of that,
you give me chocolate cake. Um, but there's no way
for the Lakers to get around this, so move on order,
especially when you've got the decision makers aren't changing either.
If there aren't fresh voices and there aren't new uh
ideas coming into that room, I wouldn't even offer Lebron
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and extension in the off season. I would say we're
gonna play this out and you're gonna go because because
it's not gonna be any better in a year when
Lebron is by himself. Okay, we're gonna get No, we're not.
We're not. You give him an offer, but you make
it on him. M well, that's probably what they will
do to make him the bad guy. Hey, we wanted
Lebron to stay. And here's the final on the Giants
(27:30):
sign on the side of Staples Center. Oh wait, I
remember it's not Staples anymore. It's gonna be Crypto dot
Com for at least another month and a half until
Crypto goes bankrupt. That'll be about the Staples Center. They're
gonna bring the state. We still got the letters for Staples.
Let's bring it back out. All those people heavily invested
(27:50):
in Crypto. That was really not not nice. Although anybody
invested heavily in anything. You just feeling the pain right now?
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(29:03):
not really, but I'm trying. I've gotten a lot of money,
so I'm at peace. I really am at peace. I'm
telling you, Uh, I really don't know how the United
States played in that mud pit against El Salvagor tonight.
It was unbelievable. It was like watching the mud ball
between the Jets and the Dolphins and eighty two. There's
(29:25):
a timely reference all over again. But it was like
your kids back on the lot. Not with all the
you know, money and energy and effort and time and
money that goes into curating a field. No, this was
you know, make sure there's some chuck on the lines
that we have the rudimentary field. Are their nets? Yeah,
(29:46):
there's a bunch of tape together parts it's gonna hold.
That's what it felt like. It was. It was like
a youth field exactly. The ball across and it would
bounce twice and then just stop. It's like what I
gotta tell the girls before a game. Okay, the field
is money. The ball is not gonna move as much.
You want to be a little more aggressive getting it.
(30:06):
It's gonna told the same thing to the us ter. Yeah,
you try to dig in a corner kick or something
like he replace that divid from where from where I
to fight? You to tell me where that turf came from? Oh?
I mean it was outstandingly bad. I mean, this is
where you're you're not only just fighting who you're playing against,
(30:27):
but you're fighting the venue. It's I think the watch though,
like I mean, that was that was some some great
soccer to watch. I mean, because obviously you know everything's contested,
but you still have the in the back of guy's
minds like alright, I'm not losing an ankle in this game.
I'm just not losing an ankle in this game. Running
(30:48):
on this field, you finally had the equalize or what
in the ninety first minute from Jordan Morris, a product
of Stanford playing for the Seattle Sounders, uh and and
eventually get your one one tie. But as the final
minutes of injury time ran out, like everybody looked at
(31:08):
each other like all right, we we got out right.
Everybody's good looking around like that. That was not fun
at all, a little bit salty. It's like, look at
where the biggest start. I mean, I was waiting for
Bolistic to take the microphone at you know, midfield and
just start cursing at everything. Not because there wasn't a
massive crowd, but really, you're putting me on this pitch.
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(32:15):
into tomorrow, there's a big NFL story that's gonna start
playing out in a bigger way. And this revolves around
Kyler Murray, who Cliff Kingsbury said late today and the
story is just starting to gain a lot of attention,
head coach of the Cardinals that he is praying that
the situation contract wise with Murray gets resolved sometime in
the summer and he's back playing quarterback. The Cardinals are
(32:36):
ready to make him the highest paid player in Arizona
Cardinals history, and Murray is saying, you forgot about that.
I want to get paid what Josh Allen does and
my homes. And he's a little bit overrated as far
as what he thinks of himself. He's not quite a
top five quarterback, but he is a periphery top ten quarterback.
And even though I'm not the biggest Kyler Murray fan, uh,
(32:58):
he disappears at the end of seasons. He's not as
dynamic as you think he is. In the end, it's
pretty easy. Yes, you give him the money, and you
extend him and you keep him. Why because it's an
easy question. How tough will he be to replace? Can
you replace him easily? You can't, all right, it's tough
to replace the guy that's periphery top ten quarterbacks. So yeah,
let's stick with Kyler Murray because he gives us a
(33:20):
great chance to win. He's in the top third of
the league. Yes, we stick with that guy at quarterback.
And for Murray, he's got to take it because when
he was upset with the Cardinals, nobody was calling Arizona saying, hey,
here's an FM picks offer for Kyler Murray. Here's three
first and two seconds. It wasn't the same thing as
when Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson when they were unhappy
(33:41):
and teams were calling with f them picks offers. Uh
so the league kind of told you what they think
about Kyler Murray. Is he good? Yeah? Am I gonna
make a big f then picks offer for him? No?
Not quite. So it makes sense for the Cardinals and
Kyler Murray, if you're smart, you take this because nobody
else has coming given up a bunch of stuff for you.
I'm gonna give you a ton of money. See I
read it more as the Cardinals there was no chance
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they were parting with him, whereas both the Packers and
the Seahawks might have been tired of their respective older
quarterbacks to say, yeah, you want to give us a
bunch of stuff, come on, we'll at least have a conversation.
And then the Packers turned around and gave a giant
novel t size check like you would get when you
claim any giant lottery or a Jack Pott in Vegas. Uh,
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Kyler Murray will be there for a long while, Big cash. Look,
you paid Kingsbury. You've got no choice but to pay
Kyler Murray. They're they're inextricably linked at the hips, Twitter
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