June 29, 2022 • 38 mins
Dan Beyer filling in for Jason joins Mike reacting to Serena Williams may be ready to enter her post life after tennis, there is absolutely no cheering in the press box, and Brooks Koepka answers questions about heading towards the LIV league. Plus, celebrating the 24th anniversary from a major moment in the wrestling world!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome in final
hour of the program here at Fox Sports Radio Jason
Smith Show with Mike Armen Dampaire in for Jason Smith
to night Smith off ill expected back tomorrow, although with
the shellacking the astros gave the mats, he's not feeling
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very well. It's not gonna make anybody feel good, Stormy go.
I'm trying. I've been taking my babble and and git
by bit trying to get my Spanish back. So uh well,
we'll see how much I really don't know. Once about
the time I was fluent, Dan, that's um thirty years ago.
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Not to age myself too much. I didn't know that
you were fluent. Yeah, I did four years in high
school and I got really good at it, and I
was immersed right at south side of Chicago. UH. Adjacent
to my high school was a neighborhood with a large
Hispanic population. So on the buses and everything, you know,
I tried to tried to immerse myself, and occasionally I
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would start laughing at a bus and you could see
guys were getting nervous, like, oh, you understand, Like you
know what, I'm sorry, you don't like the color of
my pants, you know what kind of things. I went
the German route, so I had four years and look
at all. Yeah, then when took a took a semester
in college as well, and so I knew that for
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a while. And now I don't even know if I
could put a sentence together. No, that's it. I'm trying
to get better again. And with the subscription that I have,
one of the few things I did right during the
pandemic was take advantage of some of these. Hey, if
you buy now, you have lifetime access. So I'm gonna
try to relearn some of the Spanish, and then as
I want to be a Globe trott or someday, so
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I can take advantages of the Hey, the Rolling Stones
are gonna be in Berlin. Why don't you come out
and take advantage of this pre sale code that maybe
someday I'll be able to go and maybe speak a
little of the language when I do. That's all order,
no question about it. Uh. Right now around Colorado, a
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lot of celebration Uh still going off. The Stanley Cup final,
uh and all these celebration we talked about, the dented
Cup and all of those things. Certainly, Um, look, people
have their their thoughts on the They finished there and
my my parents were sadden, right, they got to celebrate
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my daughter winning a national title in soccer. I'm gonna
say that nine thousand times because it feels good to
say it. But then they're in they're just it's out
of Tampa. So they were really sad that at the
end of the night to watch their season end and
you know, no, three straight championships. See I didn't give
you seven dollars, pat Riley. But now you have a
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big controversy starting to brew, and it goes back to
the age old adage no cheering in the press box,
which we know. Come on, you've been in press boxes, Dan,
I've been in press boxes. I don't know that that's
necessarily adhered to in most places. Some with some reverence,
but oftentimes, you know, there's a little bit maybe understated.
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I'm not saying guys are pulling out the noisemakers, wove
zelas and other things, but you know, especially if you're
on a beat and you're following a squad and you're
ingrained in a community, maybe get a little excitable, as
Mike Chambers of the Denver Post did after the Cup experience.
He was handed the Stanley Cup by landa skug. Uh.
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You know, he got the picture with the captain he
handed to him and he put it over his head. Right.
He did the old Tuscan Raider Star Wars episode for
a new hope and lifted it up and did a
couple of presses, and now fans are mad. Uh. He
tweeted out, quote probably the most memorable experience of my
career hashtag Stanley Cup and everybody immediately getting onto are
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you a journalist or a jock groupie? And all the
other derogatory terms that derive out of that. Uh. Someone,
I guess we don't have to worry about maintaining object
objectivity and journalism anymore. Just do whatever you want, be
a part of the team you cover, uh, you know,
once upon a time the reporters were actually paid by
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the team that we're on the road. Uh. If you
if you go back in history, uh, and you had
to keep those relationships here. It's a different age in
terms of Big JA Little j. We talked about sports
talk radio and look, I call myself a Carnival Barker
and I try to be a realist. That comes to it. Dan,
I'm a kid from Chicago. I love sports. I grew
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up watching Chicago teams. Everybody. I watched a lot of Cubs,
but I hated them because we were we were white
Sox kids, Uh, much to my mom's chagrin. But you watched,
and that would get you interested in, well what we
do and for me to come on air as some
would try to have you believe. Oh, I don't cheer
for any teams or players or whatever. It's like, I
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call them all liars. You may not do it outwardly,
but the love of sport and some connection to your
childhood is still there. Now. You may be overly critical
of the team, and that's one of the things with Chambers.
I I can't claim to have read all his columns
and know where he stands. But I gotta believe your
long term in a market place, you know, you've got
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you know, fair and fair coverage, call out the problems
when they're there, celebrate when a team's going well, all
of those things are gonna happen. He's been covering the
team Ale and they want to cup and the captain
handed in the Cup. I don't know that a lot
of folks are waving that off. Yeah, that's the That's
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the big point to me, is is of of just
how it was done. I don't I look at this,
you know, this picture of Mike Chambers, and I don't
look at it as him celebrating the Avalanche winning the
Stanley Cup. I see a hockey writer who has the
opportunity to hold, you know, arguably the greatest trophy in
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all of sports. And when you then you go into
the background, which listen, I get if you're on NFL
network and your Ian rappaport, you're not going on there
and you're saying, guess what, I'm a Raiders fan. I
totally get that, Like, you can't do it. You're covering
the entire NFL. He writes for the Denver Post. He
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travels to every you know, Avalanche game, that there is
home or road. You are in betted with these guys.
And I think one of the misconceptions is Mike, is
that how much these reporters and these players and coaches
actually do have a relationship. And that's the point of
it to me, which is what you said at the end,
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when the captain calls you over and says, here you
go take a lift. You know this. I think it's
also him saying you've spent twenty plus years in the business.
You know, here's the greatest trophy and all of sports.
You know, this is your opportunity to do it. And
that's how I view it. And I think that we
get so I don't know, caught up in you know,
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and and when it comes to do something like this
in sports, you know, it's I think that it's almost
fake outrage, faux rages we like to call. That's that's
what I you know, what I get from all of this,
and I and I do think that there's a difference
in certain aspects. But you know, you go to Mike
and the Mad Dog as you know, the show really
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started the sports talk radio genre, and you could say
what you want about you know, Chris Russo. He's always
been a San Francisco Giants fan. That's who he is.
Loves baseball, talk baseball, your ear off. But he's a
die hard San Francisco Giants fans. Do we do we
think that he holds anything less off of that. No,
And I think it's different when you're I think it's
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different when you're a talk show host, and I think
it's different when you're a beat writer. I think the
rules are all different. So I see the outrage of
this um pretty ridiculous because I don't think people realize
how close you get to a team in the coaches
and the players when you're actually following them game after
game after game. Yeah, and just because you once upon
a time went to journalism school doesn't mean you're still
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working with the big j at least in my estimation.
And folks might argue with that as soon as you know.
Some of the debates, the inane debates that we will
have over certain circumstances here on Sports Dog Radio, and
I get it, some of them are are mind numbing.
Right when we debate some of these legacy things or whatever,
like can all we can all look it up, we'll
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do it. But You know, when we're talking about pure journalism,
you know that that's not what we do on a
day to day basis. We have insiders on to come
talk about things, right, you mentioned NFL Network. Look at
some of your hosts of your morning shows or whatever,
like you know, Kyle brand it's Bills Mafia all day long, right,
And that's fine, but that's it. He's a he's a
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morning show host, and he's wearing it on his sleeve.
You know, this is my my squad. Okay, cool, I'm
not gonna go against that. And everybody. Everybody comes from somewhere.
Or you make a relationship with a player, even if
you're a national guy. Right, our buddy Jay Glazer, he
calls it fair, calls it balanced. He'll break news, but
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he's got relationships with guys that's pretty well established. Right,
Bruce Arians or Sean Payton or Mike Tomlin comes on
with us during the football season once a week, and
it'll reference conversations with them. Andrew Whitworth now a member
of the media, but as a player, was a guy
he got to know through his training and everything else.
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So I mean did kind of push aside that those
relationships exist you're you're living in a fantasy land. If
if if he's running around, if he's sliding along the
rink after they win the Stanley Cup and giving high
fives all around, that's one thing. You know that all right?
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You know, like okay, that's a little odd giving high
fives to players on the field, or you know, this
is the night is done. He literally has his backpack
on like he's leaving, like my job is done for
the night. I'm about to take off. Oh hey, hey,
before you go, here's a chance to lift Lord Stanley's Cup.
Like yes, please, absolutely, you know like that, like there's
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there's beer bottles, he's got a cigar. Listen, it's the
end of his season as well. You know that has
started in September and October. You know, it's just I
just I don't know why people would get up in
arms over it. It's yeah, it's jealousy. It's absolutely jealousy.
Justin Frostberg hit it on the head. Absolutely jealousy. That's
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what it comes down. I mean, who doesn't want the cup?
And look, even if he'd gone out and slid on
the ice and whatever else, the the only thing, you know,
how he can get out of it. Today announced my
retirement team. I've covered and loved and I laughed and
cried and and logged many a weary mile with they
won the Stanley Cup. Vinal I'm done. Yeah, it's going
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out in a style. And he's like skating around like
he's Chris Farley. I covered Super Bowl forty eight when
the Seahawks beat the Broncos. We talked on the show,
and I'm a Seahawks fan. I would it would have
been weird, Mike for me to go and get a
picture with the Vince Lombardi Trophy. That would have been
And boy, you want to know why, because I didn't
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follow the Seahawks, you know, day after day after day
from training camp, talking to the players. We were there
for the week for the Super Bowl, covering it, but
that was all the covering that I did of the team,
you know. But i'man like I'm in the locker room
and as I'm interviewing you know, kJ Wright or trying
to do these interviews with these players, I'm not like, hey, man,
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awesome you want Like I'm doing my reporting duties. But
that doesn't mean that these guys who are closer, who
have more personal relationships, you know, with these teams should
act how I like. I For me personally, I would
have it would have been out of line for me
to do that. But I don't have the relationship that
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Mike Chambers has, nor do I that I have the
experience covering the sport. So while it's wrong for me,
I don't think it's wrong for him. And I think
that it's not just you know, or your journalists now
or not. Like honestly, Mike, if you're a hockey journalist,
that should be like a thing that you should be
able to get to do that. I mean, to be
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able to touch the end of the Stanley cover, to
be able to do something like that that would be
part of yours. That would be like helping out fill
out your profession, you know. So for people to get mad,
Justin said the jealous, they're just looking for something to
complain about. And think part of it just comes down
to a basic tenant that exists in every business that
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we all operate in ours, you know, certainly, with you
out there listening wherever you may be, we appreciate you
giving us your time talking about Fox Sports Radio, whether
it's positive or negative. You like what we say or
don't you come back for more? Right? We we see
the numbers. We continue to grow our affiliates, listener time,
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all of those things, podcast impressions. It's it's not lost
on us. But the thing is we're building a relationship
with you. Likewise, Chambers and build relationships with all these people.
Everything is a relationship busin this right. Sometimes you have
a little bit of a transactional thing. Right, you need
your dishwasher fixed, all right, get him on, get him over,
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get him in, and maybe you don't need to see
that person again for a decade. So the relationship isn't built.
But maybe you've got pipes that need to be changed out,
maybe you've got a leak somewhere, right, and all of
a sudden you've you've got a larger project. You know
what helps that you've met someone and that you develop
a rapport not only for pricing, but just in terms
of the flow of operation to facilitate that job getting
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done to your satisfaction and to adjust with your schedules
and whatever has needed. Right. So it's the same thing
all the way through is is trying to make sure
that you foster those relationships. That's what Chambers clearly had
done a good job of here, as the captain said, Hey, dude,
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the I Heart Radio LAPP. Welcome again, Fox borns A Radio.
Jason spit you all. Mike Carmen here, hour four of
the program, cruising along, Thanks for being with us. Thanks
to our team Dave and Alex and Justin guys in
the back getting all the editing done and pulling sound
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clips making it sound so pretty. Uh, we've we had
audio from brooks Kepka kind of talking about his change
of venue and change of stance related to the live tour.
We'll do that in a few minutes. Dan, I know
that's uh, that's one that's hanging out there as well.
We were talking about lots of money earlier with all
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the free agency moves. But let's go back onto the
courts and Serena Williams playing her first singles match in
three hundred sixty four days. Uh seven five one six
seven six and at ten seven lost a harmony tan
on Tuesday, three hours, ten point third set tie break
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to decide. So she told the reporters, today I gave
you all I could do. You know today, maybe tomorrow
I could have given you more. Maybe a week ago
I could have given you more. But today that's what
I can do, and at some point you have to
be able to be okay with that, and that's all
I can do. I can't change time or anything, so
that's all I can do. On this particular day, it
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was I'll tell you why I think. I mean, any
time that Serena would take the court, it's must watch TV.
But obviously in her heyday, the first round at Wimbledon
wasn't you're like, all right, let's wait till she gets
to the quarterfinals or finals, then we're gonna watch this.
But for her to be a wild card entry, for
her to not have played for a year and then
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to lose the way that she lost today, I mean,
it's it's not meant to be hot takish because it's
not hot takish, And it's with all the respect in
the world with what Serena Williams has accomplished twenty three
Grand Slam singles titles. Her goal was to catch Margaret
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Courts four, but in the Open era, no nobody had
more than Serena Williams men's or women's. She's gonna be
forty one years old in September and to see today
what happened on the court where she had won seven times,
and it's different, Mike, like to go to go and
have to play in the heat in Australia, to go
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play on the hard courts of the US Open Um,
you know Wimbledon is it's not like the safe place,
but it would be the place that you would go
and think like okay, um. Obviously there's the most tradition,
but to lose that she was a wild card entry,
to see some of the shots that she missed yet
was rusty. She was up for love in the in
the third set tiebreak the ten and then immediately gave
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five points away and it just wasn't the Serena Williams.
They even questioned on the broadcast like could this be
the last time that we see Serena Williams playing a
Grand Slam event play at Wimbledon? And I think it's
all fair I I I mean, with everything that she
now could do in her post tennis life, to try
to put the commitment into getting ready and playing at
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the level. And again she competed today, but it wasn't
like she was facing the top seated person at player
at Wimbledon. She wasn't you know. She was facing another
unseated opponent and ended up falling in in three sets
in that tiebreaker. So it's just the reality of it
is just it it. It doesn't scream end of the line,
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but it's just just saying it very loudly, like we
are you know, she she doesn't want a Grand Slam
title since so it's not like all of us is
just gonna suit up at the US Open and win
like those days are done. And if you're not gonna
win a title, then what is the real motivation for
Serena to come back? And I just I don't know
what it is. Yeah, I mean, you've got family, you've
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got business, all the accomplishments that you've got off the court,
young family to roll through. You've you've battled back from
a number of injuries, right obviously in this you had
a torn hamstring that kept her off the court. So,
you know, answering the questions after the loss, Um was
asked about her future, like I don't know. I feel like,
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you know, I don't know who knows, who knows where
I'll pop up? Right, I mean that's where you're at. Right,
we've we've watched this and and it's tough to watch,
certainly in team sports, because right you start thinking about
moving chess pieces and everything else. All Right, this person
is getting older. Right. The Steelers Mike Tomlin over the
weekend talking about, hey, you know what, I don't know
what we got. I'm excited to see what it's like,
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right first year that he's not got Ben Roethlisberger, and
there's good and bad in that. Right, there's a guy,
and he talked about it's a guy you could trust. Guy,
you know what he could do, but you also know
when the limitation started and how you had to adjust.
They're in and when you've got a guy who's won
two Super Bowls, he's gonna be reticent to take some
of the criticism, some of the adjustments that might need
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to be made an individual side, I mean, what do
we got? You got a tennis And obviously everybody always
looking over at tiger Woods, right, wishing, wanting, hoping that
the guy that used to dominate every major is going
to suddenly walk through the door and with Serena, same thing. Right,
we all age ourselves. We do our best not to
age our athletes because then well that means we're getting
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that much older, which is why the draft and all
the two way signings on Thursday really kind of ticked
me off. Dan all of a sudden always got junior,
this junior that It's like I watched the dad's entire
career five years into the Hall of Fame and they've
not been a Hall of famers from multiple years, and
now the kids getting drafted. Psychologically, it really is damning
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as bad as the uh, you know, missing hair on
the back of my head? Do you know? Did you?
And if you don't know it, I don't expect it
or not. But actually I'm not even gonna hate that
when people give me on the spot quizzes. Maybe no, no,
it's all right. Serena's rankings ranking entering Wimbledon, it was
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so that I mean that, you know, I mean there's
a hundred women competing at wimbled. She got a wild
card entry, so according to the rankings, and we're not
doing it to the rankings rankings, there are a thousand
other players that are ranked higher than here that aren't
at Wimbledon seven times sheds it like absolutely, like she
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should carte blanche. If she wants an entry when she's
sixty two, she should enter, you know, like, like I
have no problem with that. But again, it's just a
matter of do you want to do She just put
three hours in and was up for love in the
third set tiebreaker and then ended up losing in the
in the first round. It's it's one of the things
that I've always felt, like why the Super Bowl hangover
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is such a real thing because you work so hard
during the season, you have to have all those breaks
go your way, and then you fall short and then
you have to go and do it again like that,
Like like to me, like the motivation after you lose
the super Bowl is so just You would think that
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it would be like there because you want to right
the wrong, But when you realize everything that you went
through the season prior to get to that point, That's
why I think it's such a real thing. And that's why,
like you look at this loss today and when she's
saying she's like I don't know, like how do you
It's not like she made a valiant run to the
quarterfinals and said to herself, you know what, I've been
off a year, but I still made it to the
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quarterfinals of Wimbledon. Maybe I can do this. Maybe if
I get back into the game. It's just a lot
to ask. So, you know, she lost another unseated player
who's making her debut at Wimbledon. No. And but that's
the thing, right, is that you know, time involves styles.
You're maybe not as confident in certain shots physically, You're
you're on the comeback, and while you've played a lot
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of practice rounds, uh and matches, you haven't been back
on this stage. And look, father time catches us all
in one way or another. And for Serena Williams has
just been a hell of a run to be able
to watch. Now. Should will Smith have won an award
for that that role, Well we can argue about that.
But should he have slapped Chris Rock? No? But the
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hole that she will leave in the sport of women's
tennis is taken up by three guys in men's tennis,
you know, like when Federal and I like, right now
Roger Federer is not playing at Wimbledon. Well, I guess
what Nate Doll and Federer end up kind of taking
some of that, and who knows that Roger Federer is
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gonna move on. But still when you go to the
women's draw, like, you can love Cocoa golf, and you can,
you know, maybe love some of the other players, but
there's no one that becomes close to the draw of
what Serena, right, I mean looking to make that equivalency again,
it was what we always said with that here, right,
unless you're really into golf, right and you're a huge fan.
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Obviously we're here at Fox Sports Radio. I'm not the
to the level of yours, but I pay attention. But
there's not that person that resonates to the general public. Right,
So if Tigers in the tournament, people pay attention. As
soon as Tiger leaves the course, either because he's injured
or because he's missed a cut or he's just not available,
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obviously things change. So and with Serena, to some degree,
that's going to be the case, right, Folks are gonna
wait for that next breakthrough dominant star. There was one
other thing and then we can move on. Yea head
on the there was a tweet that I saw of
Venus Williams and Serena's mom, uh in the box at Wimbledon.
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And again it's it's just a it's just a screenshot.
But Venus couldn't have looked less interested, and Serena's mom
looked like she was sleeping. Now again it's a screen crap.
But think about it, like does this does the family
want to do this anymore? You know? And like does
herf and family now with her husband and her child,
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Like like is this now just over for them? You know,
like doesn't doesn't even matter anymore? Like that's the other
stuff that you weigh in because it has been so
much of everyone in that family's life. And if they're
just going along with it, you know, how long do
you go along with it? So yeah, I mean at
some point you're done with it. But I gotta think
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as a family and with everything. And then certainly the
movie and uh, you know, I take the the the
joke with will Smith as they try to figure out
what's next off of that, but just their whole lives
have been in the public eye. Yep. Maybe they just
want to Jettis into an island to be done with it.
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One of the things we talked about last week, you know,
the live tour and the changes and and golfers deciding
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on their futures. And one guy in particular, Brooks kepka
Uh is one that stands up and well he took
to the podium to explain well why he changed his mind.
Did you re along with with the New York Times
for patent Brooks. So there's been a lot of complaint
from politicians, some club members who've resigned the nine even
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so libers about the Saudi in bowman in and whether
the golfers should be participating. Do you have any concerns
that about that? You know, you were being supported by
that country with really bad human rights, So no, could
you explain please, I don't have any concerns. I'm playing
golf there. This this group is provided me an opportunity
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to play golf and have a different schedule, and that's
my only concern. So yeah, I mean, I understand the
topics you're trying to bring up in their horrible events,
but I'm gonna play golf. That's that's that's my deal.
I've got out there to play golf and that's it.
So pretty much spot up. But that's the same thing.
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I mean, we're gonna play golf. We're excited about it.
We're gonna go out there and go put on the
best show we can put on. And hopefully no one
of us was up there own Saturday with the win
that that's Pat is doing most of the talking, Brooks
kept go you know in that scenario, which I'm sure
Brooks is happy with. Brooks also said that he didn't
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wasn't approached about live until after the US Open, which
is so difficult to believe, Mike, and this is no no,
no one is and and listen, I don't think people
actually care enough of of when and who's going where.
When Brooks kept ge tease it up at the Open Championship,
in a couple of weeks at St. Andrew's, I I
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think he'll have pretty much the same amount of fans
as he did when he entered the U s Open.
Maybe a few less. I don't think a few more,
but I don't think it's enough to move the needle.
My problem that's starting to come up with all of this,
because there are a lot of issues that it seems
that the media mostly has with the players playing with
live is the way that these that the players are
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a dressing these questions because I think the golf one
of the golf struggles is is it's thought of as
an up at the sports and it's only for the elite.
And I think that the powers that be a gulf
have tried to do a lot to change that in
recent years, but I still think that there's that this
thought about it and to hear the way that these
(29:14):
guys are answering these questions, and it's not just Paperrez
and brooks Kepka, it's all the other players that have
also gone on to live. There have been very few
like thorough, meaningful uh answers to any of these questions.
And that's what's starting to rub me the wrong way.
Is we all know it's a money grab. You know
it's a money grab. I know it's a money grab.
(29:34):
Just say it's some money grab or have some sort
of like thinking by and Peperez today went off on
the PGA Tour and Patrick reed as well on the
problems with the PGA Tour and not being able to
pick your schedule. News flash, you can pick your schedule
like like and and they say it's gonna affect their
FedEx rankings and stuff, okay, whatever, you know. Like brooks
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kepn ever cared about PGA Tour events after everyone is
first major five years ago. It was actually it's not
a running joke, Mike, but it was a theory of,
you know, a theme where Kevika just wouldn't show up
in PGA Tour events. He would only get up for majors,
he misscuts, he'd finished time for sixty four, and then
next week he's in contention at the us open like that, Like,
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so we know that he's not into those sort of events,
But I just wish these people would be somewhat truthful
instead of giving us So it's better for the schedule.
It's only fifty four holes. I love the format. It's
all just garbage and googly gook and I just for
for a sport that still I think has connotations, and
a fan of that sport just bothers me to see
that you can't just have one player face the music
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and actually give a thoughtful response on why this is
happening now. The biggest thing is that he started signing
all the injuries, started dancing right, like the idea that
he wasn't approached. Yes, a lot of these guys that
played in that first event, they got calls before you
and your agent. Come on, yeah, I may be dumb
at times, right, we all make dumb decisions. Nobody's buying that,
(30:59):
like the you're you're not gonna convince me. I just
loved he dodged a lot of stuff, and at some
point he was asked why he flipped his allegiance, Well,
I just changed my opinion, man, Like he was the dude,
like he was hanging out in the Big Lebowski. Uh.
And remember, you know, a long ago it was well,
it's just a money grab. Why you know, why would
I do that? And whatever? And then now here here
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we are, you decided to go for the cash grab.
Just be ready to admit it, because I'm sure it
was substantive. Everybody wants to work less and get paid more,
and that's what these guys are doing. And it's actually
why I don't think that they've lost many fans, now
that's right. I think the media is more outraged on
their decisions than actual individual fans and all of this,
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and they ruined the sanctity of the PGA Tour, the
PGA tour, which has so many problems in its history
that that's laughable to even say it. And we talked
about last week. I think Phil Nicholson's gonna is getting
what he wants. The PIA Tour is already making changes.
Not that film Kikers is going to go back, but
that was one of his main points of making, you know,
these these changes. But again they're also deflecting it and
(32:06):
deflecting the issues by then throwing shade at the PGA
Tour but not saying why why truly, they are leaving
and playing for live golf, which is absolutely for the money.
Just take the cash and do exactly what Phil Mickelson
did when he took the Shane McMahon UH soundtrack to
his entry. He's damn buyer for Jason Smith on Mike
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your flex or on the Swollen Dome media right, in
terms of the social media fun, let me know, uh,
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get plenty of that as we go, and probably a
lot of complaining about referees sucking along the way, and
so we certainly have that. I am looking forward to it.
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I got until you got uh bitten by the bug
a couple of weeks ago, where now you're just waiting
to see training camp stuff and and uh we have
a keeper's deadline actually coming up at the end of
the week. So yeah, it's getting into full four. You
know what else comes out on on Monday? What's that?
The Phil Steel magazine. Okay, sure, so I'll get my
(34:24):
seven pages of that. But today I've got we're gonna
get to the A C. C. And how they're changing
things up in a moment. But today is the twenty
fourth anniversary of one of the finest moment in sports
entertainment history. Here it is, oh my god, don't get
them over here? Where we are? What's gonna happen here?
(34:44):
It's fun and I don't god, Oh my god. There
it is good old Jim Ross on the call man
(35:04):
kind versus the Undertaker? Hell did us sell as part
of the King of the Ring event from Pittsburgh going
all the way back to June. So where would that
rank with you? Is that like Numero uno? Is it? Uh?
Is it like top three? Like? Does it go to
(35:25):
Hogan slamming? You know? Andre the Giant? Now that is
a big one. There's no question about getting screwed. The
Screwe job probably is the first because it's it's lived
out there and that one, as much as you know,
everything is a work. That one. There was a lot
of anger and animosity that lived for years and probably
(35:46):
still does. So that one goes back that was a
year prior. So, um, yeah, I've revisit the old network stuff.
Uh quite often, Dan, So I got problems twenty twenty
four years ago. Easy half my life Dan, I don't.
I don't, I don't really like I didn't watch it live.
(36:06):
I obviously remember it happening and remember it as one
of the greatest moments, but I just did not think
it was twenty five years ago. And then when twenty
four years ago, then what do you think what's twenty
four years ago is? Then it makes a lot more
sense than you're like, oh, yeah it was. Yeah, we
are getting a little to your point, no question about it.
All the bumps and bruises, all the uh, the works
(36:26):
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three five five is coming. Yeah. It gives each school
three common opponents. Then they'll play five one year, and
then they'll play another five the next, and then they'll
rotate those five with home and away. You're basically playing
everybody in a four year span home and away, but
you'll keep three common opponents. But again, Mike, it's this
conference championship game that college football just needs to get
(37:11):
rid of. Like it really helped the a CEC a
couple of years ago when Notre Dame during the pandemic year,
ended up playing in their league and they were undefeated
and Clemson came in with one loss and they end
up playing in the title game and they both get
UH you know, bids into the UH to the College
Football Playoff. But when you really take a step back,
I just think it does more harm than good. I
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don't think we care as much outside of the SEC
about the conference title game. And it's why a twelve
team college football playoff needs to be here, because then
it could actually do something to these conference championship games.
Why would you want your team playing another game. I
know it's TV money, but it's just as ridiculous. I
think this could hurt the a SEC in the short
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term if you have, you know, a top team and
now they're gonna face a better team. It's one of
the dirty little secrets. Well, I like the idea that
you have teams that have three real rivals. All right,
let's pick three teams. Are we picking them out of
a hat? And then we're gonna rotate. But to your point, yeah,
just expand the playoffs and be done with it. The
extra potential for a loss and that any given Sunday, Yeah,
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I think it actually could hurt him in the short
term as well. We got a better opponent to play
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to night Smith off ill expected back tomorrow, although with
the shellacking the astros gave the mats, he's not feeling
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very well. It's not gonna make anybody feel good, Stormy go.
I'm trying. I've been taking my babble and and git
by bit trying to get my Spanish back. So uh well,
we'll see how much I really don't know. Once about
the time I was fluent, Dan, that's um thirty years ago.
(01:06):
Not to age myself too much. I didn't know that
you were fluent. Yeah, I did four years in high
school and I got really good at it, and I
was immersed right at south side of Chicago. UH. Adjacent
to my high school was a neighborhood with a large
Hispanic population. So on the buses and everything, you know,
I tried to tried to immerse myself, and occasionally I
(01:28):
would start laughing at a bus and you could see
guys were getting nervous, like, oh, you understand, Like you
know what, I'm sorry, you don't like the color of
my pants, you know what kind of things. I went
the German route, so I had four years and look
at all. Yeah, then when took a took a semester
in college as well, and so I knew that for
(01:49):
a while. And now I don't even know if I
could put a sentence together. No, that's it. I'm trying
to get better again. And with the subscription that I have,
one of the few things I did right during the
pandemic was take advantage of some of these. Hey, if
you buy now, you have lifetime access. So I'm gonna
try to relearn some of the Spanish, and then as
I want to be a Globe trott or someday, so
(02:10):
I can take advantages of the Hey, the Rolling Stones
are gonna be in Berlin. Why don't you come out
and take advantage of this pre sale code that maybe
someday I'll be able to go and maybe speak a
little of the language when I do. That's all order,
no question about it. Uh. Right now around Colorado, a
(02:31):
lot of celebration Uh still going off. The Stanley Cup final,
uh and all these celebration we talked about, the dented
Cup and all of those things. Certainly, Um, look, people
have their their thoughts on the They finished there and
my my parents were sadden, right, they got to celebrate
(02:51):
my daughter winning a national title in soccer. I'm gonna
say that nine thousand times because it feels good to
say it. But then they're in they're just it's out
of Tampa. So they were really sad that at the
end of the night to watch their season end and
you know, no, three straight championships. See I didn't give
you seven dollars, pat Riley. But now you have a
(03:12):
big controversy starting to brew, and it goes back to
the age old adage no cheering in the press box,
which we know. Come on, you've been in press boxes, Dan,
I've been in press boxes. I don't know that that's
necessarily adhered to in most places. Some with some reverence,
but oftentimes, you know, there's a little bit maybe understated.
(03:36):
I'm not saying guys are pulling out the noisemakers, wove
zelas and other things, but you know, especially if you're
on a beat and you're following a squad and you're
ingrained in a community, maybe get a little excitable, as
Mike Chambers of the Denver Post did after the Cup experience.
He was handed the Stanley Cup by landa skug. Uh.
(04:01):
You know, he got the picture with the captain he
handed to him and he put it over his head. Right.
He did the old Tuscan Raider Star Wars episode for
a new hope and lifted it up and did a
couple of presses, and now fans are mad. Uh. He
tweeted out, quote probably the most memorable experience of my
career hashtag Stanley Cup and everybody immediately getting onto are
(04:22):
you a journalist or a jock groupie? And all the
other derogatory terms that derive out of that. Uh. Someone,
I guess we don't have to worry about maintaining object
objectivity and journalism anymore. Just do whatever you want, be
a part of the team you cover, uh, you know,
once upon a time the reporters were actually paid by
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the team that we're on the road. Uh. If you
if you go back in history, uh, and you had
to keep those relationships here. It's a different age in
terms of Big JA Little j. We talked about sports
talk radio and look, I call myself a Carnival Barker
and I try to be a realist. That comes to it. Dan,
I'm a kid from Chicago. I love sports. I grew
(05:04):
up watching Chicago teams. Everybody. I watched a lot of Cubs,
but I hated them because we were we were white
Sox kids, Uh, much to my mom's chagrin. But you watched,
and that would get you interested in, well what we
do and for me to come on air as some
would try to have you believe. Oh, I don't cheer
for any teams or players or whatever. It's like, I
(05:25):
call them all liars. You may not do it outwardly,
but the love of sport and some connection to your
childhood is still there. Now. You may be overly critical
of the team, and that's one of the things with Chambers.
I I can't claim to have read all his columns
and know where he stands. But I gotta believe your
long term in a market place, you know, you've got
(05:48):
you know, fair and fair coverage, call out the problems
when they're there, celebrate when a team's going well, all
of those things are gonna happen. He's been covering the
team Ale and they want to cup and the captain
handed in the Cup. I don't know that a lot
of folks are waving that off. Yeah, that's the That's
(06:09):
the big point to me, is is of of just
how it was done. I don't I look at this,
you know, this picture of Mike Chambers, and I don't
look at it as him celebrating the Avalanche winning the
Stanley Cup. I see a hockey writer who has the
opportunity to hold, you know, arguably the greatest trophy in
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all of sports. And when you then you go into
the background, which listen, I get if you're on NFL
network and your Ian rappaport, you're not going on there
and you're saying, guess what, I'm a Raiders fan. I
totally get that, Like, you can't do it. You're covering
the entire NFL. He writes for the Denver Post. He
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travels to every you know, Avalanche game, that there is
home or road. You are in betted with these guys.
And I think one of the misconceptions is Mike, is
that how much these reporters and these players and coaches
actually do have a relationship. And that's the point of
it to me, which is what you said at the end,
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when the captain calls you over and says, here you
go take a lift. You know this. I think it's
also him saying you've spent twenty plus years in the business.
You know, here's the greatest trophy and all of sports.
You know, this is your opportunity to do it. And
that's how I view it. And I think that we
get so I don't know, caught up in you know,
(07:39):
and and when it comes to do something like this
in sports, you know, it's I think that it's almost
fake outrage, faux rages we like to call. That's that's
what I you know, what I get from all of this,
and I and I do think that there's a difference
in certain aspects. But you know, you go to Mike
and the Mad Dog as you know, the show really
(08:00):
started the sports talk radio genre, and you could say
what you want about you know, Chris Russo. He's always
been a San Francisco Giants fan. That's who he is.
Loves baseball, talk baseball, your ear off. But he's a
die hard San Francisco Giants fans. Do we do we
think that he holds anything less off of that. No,
And I think it's different when you're I think it's
(08:21):
different when you're a talk show host, and I think
it's different when you're a beat writer. I think the
rules are all different. So I see the outrage of
this um pretty ridiculous because I don't think people realize
how close you get to a team in the coaches
and the players when you're actually following them game after
game after game. Yeah, and just because you once upon
a time went to journalism school doesn't mean you're still
(08:44):
working with the big j at least in my estimation.
And folks might argue with that as soon as you know.
Some of the debates, the inane debates that we will
have over certain circumstances here on Sports Dog Radio, and
I get it, some of them are are mind numbing.
Right when we debate some of these legacy things or whatever,
like can all we can all look it up, we'll
(09:06):
do it. But You know, when we're talking about pure journalism,
you know that that's not what we do on a
day to day basis. We have insiders on to come
talk about things, right, you mentioned NFL Network. Look at
some of your hosts of your morning shows or whatever,
like you know, Kyle brand it's Bills Mafia all day long, right,
And that's fine, but that's it. He's a he's a
(09:29):
morning show host, and he's wearing it on his sleeve.
You know, this is my my squad. Okay, cool, I'm
not gonna go against that. And everybody. Everybody comes from somewhere.
Or you make a relationship with a player, even if
you're a national guy. Right, our buddy Jay Glazer, he
calls it fair, calls it balanced. He'll break news, but
(09:50):
he's got relationships with guys that's pretty well established. Right,
Bruce Arians or Sean Payton or Mike Tomlin comes on
with us during the football season once a week, and
it'll reference conversations with them. Andrew Whitworth now a member
of the media, but as a player, was a guy
he got to know through his training and everything else.
(10:12):
So I mean did kind of push aside that those
relationships exist you're you're living in a fantasy land. If
if if he's running around, if he's sliding along the
rink after they win the Stanley Cup and giving high
fives all around, that's one thing. You know that all right?
(10:34):
You know, like okay, that's a little odd giving high
fives to players on the field, or you know, this
is the night is done. He literally has his backpack
on like he's leaving, like my job is done for
the night. I'm about to take off. Oh hey, hey,
before you go, here's a chance to lift Lord Stanley's Cup.
Like yes, please, absolutely, you know like that, like there's
(10:57):
there's beer bottles, he's got a cigar. Listen, it's the
end of his season as well. You know that has
started in September and October. You know, it's just I
just I don't know why people would get up in
arms over it. It's yeah, it's jealousy. It's absolutely jealousy.
Justin Frostberg hit it on the head. Absolutely jealousy. That's
(11:19):
what it comes down. I mean, who doesn't want the cup?
And look, even if he'd gone out and slid on
the ice and whatever else, the the only thing, you know,
how he can get out of it. Today announced my
retirement team. I've covered and loved and I laughed and
cried and and logged many a weary mile with they
won the Stanley Cup. Vinal I'm done. Yeah, it's going
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out in a style. And he's like skating around like
he's Chris Farley. I covered Super Bowl forty eight when
the Seahawks beat the Broncos. We talked on the show,
and I'm a Seahawks fan. I would it would have
been weird, Mike for me to go and get a
picture with the Vince Lombardi Trophy. That would have been
And boy, you want to know why, because I didn't
(12:02):
follow the Seahawks, you know, day after day after day
from training camp, talking to the players. We were there
for the week for the Super Bowl, covering it, but
that was all the covering that I did of the team,
you know. But i'man like I'm in the locker room
and as I'm interviewing you know, kJ Wright or trying
to do these interviews with these players, I'm not like, hey, man,
(12:23):
awesome you want Like I'm doing my reporting duties. But
that doesn't mean that these guys who are closer, who
have more personal relationships, you know, with these teams should
act how I like. I For me personally, I would
have it would have been out of line for me
to do that. But I don't have the relationship that
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Mike Chambers has, nor do I that I have the
experience covering the sport. So while it's wrong for me,
I don't think it's wrong for him. And I think
that it's not just you know, or your journalists now
or not. Like honestly, Mike, if you're a hockey journalist,
that should be like a thing that you should be
able to get to do that. I mean, to be
(13:04):
able to touch the end of the Stanley cover, to
be able to do something like that that would be
part of yours. That would be like helping out fill
out your profession, you know. So for people to get mad,
Justin said the jealous, they're just looking for something to
complain about. And think part of it just comes down
to a basic tenant that exists in every business that
(13:27):
we all operate in ours, you know, certainly, with you
out there listening wherever you may be, we appreciate you
giving us your time talking about Fox Sports Radio, whether
it's positive or negative. You like what we say or
don't you come back for more? Right? We we see
the numbers. We continue to grow our affiliates, listener time,
(13:47):
all of those things, podcast impressions. It's it's not lost
on us. But the thing is we're building a relationship
with you. Likewise, Chambers and build relationships with all these people.
Everything is a relationship busin this right. Sometimes you have
a little bit of a transactional thing. Right, you need
your dishwasher fixed, all right, get him on, get him over,
(14:07):
get him in, and maybe you don't need to see
that person again for a decade. So the relationship isn't built.
But maybe you've got pipes that need to be changed out,
maybe you've got a leak somewhere, right, and all of
a sudden you've you've got a larger project. You know
what helps that you've met someone and that you develop
a rapport not only for pricing, but just in terms
of the flow of operation to facilitate that job getting
(14:31):
done to your satisfaction and to adjust with your schedules
and whatever has needed. Right. So it's the same thing
all the way through is is trying to make sure
that you foster those relationships. That's what Chambers clearly had
done a good job of here, as the captain said, Hey, dude,
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the I Heart Radio LAPP. Welcome again, Fox borns A Radio.
Jason spit you all. Mike Carmen here, hour four of
the program, cruising along, Thanks for being with us. Thanks
to our team Dave and Alex and Justin guys in
the back getting all the editing done and pulling sound
(15:15):
clips making it sound so pretty. Uh, we've we had
audio from brooks Kepka kind of talking about his change
of venue and change of stance related to the live tour.
We'll do that in a few minutes. Dan, I know
that's uh, that's one that's hanging out there as well.
We were talking about lots of money earlier with all
(15:35):
the free agency moves. But let's go back onto the
courts and Serena Williams playing her first singles match in
three hundred sixty four days. Uh seven five one six
seven six and at ten seven lost a harmony tan
on Tuesday, three hours, ten point third set tie break
(15:56):
to decide. So she told the reporters, today I gave
you all I could do. You know today, maybe tomorrow
I could have given you more. Maybe a week ago
I could have given you more. But today that's what
I can do, and at some point you have to
be able to be okay with that, and that's all
I can do. I can't change time or anything, so
that's all I can do. On this particular day, it
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was I'll tell you why I think. I mean, any
time that Serena would take the court, it's must watch TV.
But obviously in her heyday, the first round at Wimbledon
wasn't you're like, all right, let's wait till she gets
to the quarterfinals or finals, then we're gonna watch this.
But for her to be a wild card entry, for
her to not have played for a year and then
(16:40):
to lose the way that she lost today, I mean,
it's it's not meant to be hot takish because it's
not hot takish, And it's with all the respect in
the world with what Serena Williams has accomplished twenty three
Grand Slam singles titles. Her goal was to catch Margaret
(17:01):
Courts four, but in the Open era, no nobody had
more than Serena Williams men's or women's. She's gonna be
forty one years old in September and to see today
what happened on the court where she had won seven times,
and it's different, Mike, like to go to go and
have to play in the heat in Australia, to go
(17:22):
play on the hard courts of the US Open Um,
you know Wimbledon is it's not like the safe place,
but it would be the place that you would go
and think like okay, um. Obviously there's the most tradition,
but to lose that she was a wild card entry,
to see some of the shots that she missed yet
was rusty. She was up for love in the in
the third set tiebreak the ten and then immediately gave
(17:46):
five points away and it just wasn't the Serena Williams.
They even questioned on the broadcast like could this be
the last time that we see Serena Williams playing a
Grand Slam event play at Wimbledon? And I think it's
all fair I I I mean, with everything that she
now could do in her post tennis life, to try
to put the commitment into getting ready and playing at
(18:08):
the level. And again she competed today, but it wasn't
like she was facing the top seated person at player
at Wimbledon. She wasn't you know. She was facing another
unseated opponent and ended up falling in in three sets
in that tiebreaker. So it's just the reality of it
is just it it. It doesn't scream end of the line,
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but it's just just saying it very loudly, like we
are you know, she she doesn't want a Grand Slam
title since so it's not like all of us is
just gonna suit up at the US Open and win
like those days are done. And if you're not gonna
win a title, then what is the real motivation for
Serena to come back? And I just I don't know
what it is. Yeah, I mean, you've got family, you've
(18:53):
got business, all the accomplishments that you've got off the court,
young family to roll through. You've you've battled back from
a number of injuries, right obviously in this you had
a torn hamstring that kept her off the court. So,
you know, answering the questions after the loss, Um was
asked about her future, like I don't know. I feel like,
(19:14):
you know, I don't know who knows, who knows where
I'll pop up? Right, I mean that's where you're at. Right,
we've we've watched this and and it's tough to watch,
certainly in team sports, because right you start thinking about
moving chess pieces and everything else. All Right, this person
is getting older. Right. The Steelers Mike Tomlin over the
weekend talking about, hey, you know what, I don't know
what we got. I'm excited to see what it's like,
(19:36):
right first year that he's not got Ben Roethlisberger, and
there's good and bad in that. Right, there's a guy,
and he talked about it's a guy you could trust. Guy,
you know what he could do, but you also know
when the limitation started and how you had to adjust.
They're in and when you've got a guy who's won
two Super Bowls, he's gonna be reticent to take some
of the criticism, some of the adjustments that might need
(19:59):
to be made an individual side, I mean, what do
we got? You got a tennis And obviously everybody always
looking over at tiger Woods, right, wishing, wanting, hoping that
the guy that used to dominate every major is going
to suddenly walk through the door and with Serena, same thing. Right,
we all age ourselves. We do our best not to
age our athletes because then well that means we're getting
(20:22):
that much older, which is why the draft and all
the two way signings on Thursday really kind of ticked
me off. Dan all of a sudden always got junior,
this junior that It's like I watched the dad's entire
career five years into the Hall of Fame and they've
not been a Hall of famers from multiple years, and
now the kids getting drafted. Psychologically, it really is damning
(20:43):
as bad as the uh, you know, missing hair on
the back of my head? Do you know? Did you?
And if you don't know it, I don't expect it
or not. But actually I'm not even gonna hate that
when people give me on the spot quizzes. Maybe no, no,
it's all right. Serena's rankings ranking entering Wimbledon, it was
(21:09):
so that I mean that, you know, I mean there's
a hundred women competing at wimbled. She got a wild
card entry, so according to the rankings, and we're not
doing it to the rankings rankings, there are a thousand
other players that are ranked higher than here that aren't
at Wimbledon seven times sheds it like absolutely, like she
(21:31):
should carte blanche. If she wants an entry when she's
sixty two, she should enter, you know, like, like I
have no problem with that. But again, it's just a
matter of do you want to do She just put
three hours in and was up for love in the
third set tiebreaker and then ended up losing in the
in the first round. It's it's one of the things
that I've always felt, like why the Super Bowl hangover
(21:53):
is such a real thing because you work so hard
during the season, you have to have all those breaks
go your way, and then you fall short and then
you have to go and do it again like that,
Like like to me, like the motivation after you lose
the super Bowl is so just You would think that
(22:13):
it would be like there because you want to right
the wrong, But when you realize everything that you went
through the season prior to get to that point, That's
why I think it's such a real thing. And that's why,
like you look at this loss today and when she's
saying she's like I don't know, like how do you
It's not like she made a valiant run to the
quarterfinals and said to herself, you know what, I've been
off a year, but I still made it to the
(22:33):
quarterfinals of Wimbledon. Maybe I can do this. Maybe if
I get back into the game. It's just a lot
to ask. So, you know, she lost another unseated player
who's making her debut at Wimbledon. No. And but that's
the thing, right, is that you know, time involves styles.
You're maybe not as confident in certain shots physically, You're
you're on the comeback, and while you've played a lot
(22:55):
of practice rounds, uh and matches, you haven't been back
on this stage. And look, father time catches us all
in one way or another. And for Serena Williams has
just been a hell of a run to be able
to watch. Now. Should will Smith have won an award
for that that role, Well we can argue about that.
But should he have slapped Chris Rock? No? But the
(23:20):
hole that she will leave in the sport of women's
tennis is taken up by three guys in men's tennis,
you know, like when Federal and I like, right now
Roger Federer is not playing at Wimbledon. Well, I guess
what Nate Doll and Federer end up kind of taking
some of that, and who knows that Roger Federer is
(23:42):
gonna move on. But still when you go to the
women's draw, like, you can love Cocoa golf, and you can,
you know, maybe love some of the other players, but
there's no one that becomes close to the draw of
what Serena, right, I mean looking to make that equivalency again,
it was what we always said with that here, right,
unless you're really into golf, right and you're a huge fan.
(24:06):
Obviously we're here at Fox Sports Radio. I'm not the
to the level of yours, but I pay attention. But
there's not that person that resonates to the general public. Right,
So if Tigers in the tournament, people pay attention. As
soon as Tiger leaves the course, either because he's injured
or because he's missed a cut or he's just not available,
(24:27):
obviously things change. So and with Serena, to some degree,
that's going to be the case, right, Folks are gonna
wait for that next breakthrough dominant star. There was one
other thing and then we can move on. Yea head
on the there was a tweet that I saw of
Venus Williams and Serena's mom, uh in the box at Wimbledon.
(24:48):
And again it's it's just a it's just a screenshot.
But Venus couldn't have looked less interested, and Serena's mom
looked like she was sleeping. Now again it's a screen crap.
But think about it, like does this does the family
want to do this anymore? You know? And like does
herf and family now with her husband and her child,
(25:08):
Like like is this now just over for them? You know,
like doesn't doesn't even matter anymore? Like that's the other
stuff that you weigh in because it has been so
much of everyone in that family's life. And if they're
just going along with it, you know, how long do
you go along with it? So yeah, I mean at
some point you're done with it. But I gotta think
(25:29):
as a family and with everything. And then certainly the
movie and uh, you know, I take the the the
joke with will Smith as they try to figure out
what's next off of that, but just their whole lives
have been in the public eye. Yep. Maybe they just
want to Jettis into an island to be done with it.
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One of the things we talked about last week, you know,
the live tour and the changes and and golfers deciding
(26:39):
on their futures. And one guy in particular, Brooks kepka
Uh is one that stands up and well he took
to the podium to explain well why he changed his mind.
Did you re along with with the New York Times
for patent Brooks. So there's been a lot of complaint
from politicians, some club members who've resigned the nine even
(26:59):
so libers about the Saudi in bowman in and whether
the golfers should be participating. Do you have any concerns
that about that? You know, you were being supported by
that country with really bad human rights, So no, could
you explain please, I don't have any concerns. I'm playing
golf there. This this group is provided me an opportunity
(27:23):
to play golf and have a different schedule, and that's
my only concern. So yeah, I mean, I understand the
topics you're trying to bring up in their horrible events,
but I'm gonna play golf. That's that's that's my deal.
I've got out there to play golf and that's it.
So pretty much spot up. But that's the same thing.
(27:45):
I mean, we're gonna play golf. We're excited about it.
We're gonna go out there and go put on the
best show we can put on. And hopefully no one
of us was up there own Saturday with the win
that that's Pat is doing most of the talking, Brooks
kept go you know in that scenario, which I'm sure
Brooks is happy with. Brooks also said that he didn't
(28:08):
wasn't approached about live until after the US Open, which
is so difficult to believe, Mike, and this is no no,
no one is and and listen, I don't think people
actually care enough of of when and who's going where.
When Brooks kept ge tease it up at the Open Championship,
in a couple of weeks at St. Andrew's, I I
(28:31):
think he'll have pretty much the same amount of fans
as he did when he entered the U s Open.
Maybe a few less. I don't think a few more,
but I don't think it's enough to move the needle.
My problem that's starting to come up with all of this,
because there are a lot of issues that it seems
that the media mostly has with the players playing with
live is the way that these that the players are
(28:52):
a dressing these questions because I think the golf one
of the golf struggles is is it's thought of as
an up at the sports and it's only for the elite.
And I think that the powers that be a gulf
have tried to do a lot to change that in
recent years, but I still think that there's that this
thought about it and to hear the way that these
(29:14):
guys are answering these questions, and it's not just Paperrez
and brooks Kepka, it's all the other players that have
also gone on to live. There have been very few
like thorough, meaningful uh answers to any of these questions.
And that's what's starting to rub me the wrong way.
Is we all know it's a money grab. You know
it's a money grab. I know it's a money grab.
(29:34):
Just say it's some money grab or have some sort
of like thinking by and Peperez today went off on
the PGA Tour and Patrick reed as well on the
problems with the PGA Tour and not being able to
pick your schedule. News flash, you can pick your schedule
like like and and they say it's gonna affect their
FedEx rankings and stuff, okay, whatever, you know. Like brooks
(29:54):
kepn ever cared about PGA Tour events after everyone is
first major five years ago. It was actually it's not
a running joke, Mike, but it was a theory of,
you know, a theme where Kevika just wouldn't show up
in PGA Tour events. He would only get up for majors,
he misscuts, he'd finished time for sixty four, and then
next week he's in contention at the us open like that, Like,
(30:15):
so we know that he's not into those sort of events,
But I just wish these people would be somewhat truthful
instead of giving us So it's better for the schedule.
It's only fifty four holes. I love the format. It's
all just garbage and googly gook and I just for
for a sport that still I think has connotations, and
a fan of that sport just bothers me to see
that you can't just have one player face the music
(30:37):
and actually give a thoughtful response on why this is
happening now. The biggest thing is that he started signing
all the injuries, started dancing right, like the idea that
he wasn't approached. Yes, a lot of these guys that
played in that first event, they got calls before you
and your agent. Come on, yeah, I may be dumb
at times, right, we all make dumb decisions. Nobody's buying that,
(30:59):
like the you're you're not gonna convince me. I just
loved he dodged a lot of stuff, and at some
point he was asked why he flipped his allegiance, Well,
I just changed my opinion, man, Like he was the dude,
like he was hanging out in the Big Lebowski. Uh.
And remember, you know, a long ago it was well,
it's just a money grab. Why you know, why would
I do that? And whatever? And then now here here
(31:21):
we are, you decided to go for the cash grab.
Just be ready to admit it, because I'm sure it
was substantive. Everybody wants to work less and get paid more,
and that's what these guys are doing. And it's actually
why I don't think that they've lost many fans, now
that's right. I think the media is more outraged on
their decisions than actual individual fans and all of this,
(31:44):
and they ruined the sanctity of the PGA Tour, the
PGA tour, which has so many problems in its history
that that's laughable to even say it. And we talked
about last week. I think Phil Nicholson's gonna is getting
what he wants. The PIA Tour is already making changes.
Not that film Kikers is going to go back, but
that was one of his main points of making, you know,
these these changes. But again they're also deflecting it and
(32:06):
deflecting the issues by then throwing shade at the PGA
Tour but not saying why why truly, they are leaving
and playing for live golf, which is absolutely for the money.
Just take the cash and do exactly what Phil Mickelson
did when he took the Shane McMahon UH soundtrack to
his entry. He's damn buyer for Jason Smith on Mike
(32:29):
Armen here Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmen. Hey, coming out next. I need to celebrate
an anniversary tonight because well, we're the We're the show
that talks more about wrestling, uh than anything. But also,
you know, we won the feud. Now let's talk about
the story and the changes afoot in terms of how
a championship will be decided. That's next on Fox. Be
(32:51):
sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Hey,
welcome back and Fox Sports Radio Mike Harmon alongside Dan
Buyer coming up in about ten minutes from now. Ben
Miller over these airways, uh, the as he says, the
vast Fox Sports Radio network. That's true. Four hunder plus
(33:15):
affiliates Nation. Why we appreciate you keep evangelizing, telling your
friends and family all about the goodness. Uh, and well
the stuff you don't like, uh, it all counts just
the same. Just don't be indifferent, shake your fist or
laugh along, whatever the case may be. At Dan Buyer
on Foxes where you find him. Uh, find me over
at Swollen Dome if you have thoughts of what you'd
like to see in this year's iteration of I Watch
(33:39):
your flex or on the Swollen Dome media right, in
terms of the social media fun, let me know, uh,
stat poles and well just pithy commentary on games. You
get plenty of that as we go, and probably a
lot of complaining about referees sucking along the way, and
so we certainly have that. I am looking forward to it.
(34:01):
I got until you got uh bitten by the bug
a couple of weeks ago, where now you're just waiting
to see training camp stuff and and uh we have
a keeper's deadline actually coming up at the end of
the week. So yeah, it's getting into full four. You
know what else comes out on on Monday? What's that?
The Phil Steel magazine. Okay, sure, so I'll get my
(34:24):
seven pages of that. But today I've got we're gonna
get to the A C. C. And how they're changing
things up in a moment. But today is the twenty
fourth anniversary of one of the finest moment in sports
entertainment history. Here it is, oh my god, don't get
them over here? Where we are? What's gonna happen here?
(34:44):
It's fun and I don't god, Oh my god. There
it is good old Jim Ross on the call man
(35:04):
kind versus the Undertaker? Hell did us sell as part
of the King of the Ring event from Pittsburgh going
all the way back to June. So where would that
rank with you? Is that like Numero uno? Is it? Uh?
Is it like top three? Like? Does it go to
(35:25):
Hogan slamming? You know? Andre the Giant? Now that is
a big one. There's no question about getting screwed. The
Screwe job probably is the first because it's it's lived
out there and that one, as much as you know,
everything is a work. That one. There was a lot
of anger and animosity that lived for years and probably
(35:46):
still does. So that one goes back that was a
year prior. So, um, yeah, I've revisit the old network stuff.
Uh quite often, Dan, So I got problems twenty twenty
four years ago. Easy half my life Dan, I don't.
I don't, I don't really like I didn't watch it live.
(36:06):
I obviously remember it happening and remember it as one
of the greatest moments, but I just did not think
it was twenty five years ago. And then when twenty
four years ago, then what do you think what's twenty
four years ago is? Then it makes a lot more
sense than you're like, oh, yeah it was. Yeah, we
are getting a little to your point, no question about it.
All the bumps and bruises, all the uh, the works
(36:26):
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talked about in the feud, the new scheduling model of
(36:48):
three five five is coming. Yeah. It gives each school
three common opponents. Then they'll play five one year, and
then they'll play another five the next, and then they'll
rotate those five with home and away. You're basically playing
everybody in a four year span home and away, but
you'll keep three common opponents. But again, Mike, it's this
conference championship game that college football just needs to get
(37:11):
rid of. Like it really helped the a CEC a
couple of years ago when Notre Dame during the pandemic year,
ended up playing in their league and they were undefeated
and Clemson came in with one loss and they end
up playing in the title game and they both get
UH you know, bids into the UH to the College
Football Playoff. But when you really take a step back,
I just think it does more harm than good. I
(37:32):
don't think we care as much outside of the SEC
about the conference title game. And it's why a twelve
team college football playoff needs to be here, because then
it could actually do something to these conference championship games.
Why would you want your team playing another game. I
know it's TV money, but it's just as ridiculous. I
think this could hurt the a SEC in the short
(37:53):
term if you have, you know, a top team and
now they're gonna face a better team. It's one of
the dirty little secrets. Well, I like the idea that
you have teams that have three real rivals. All right,
let's pick three teams. Are we picking them out of
a hat? And then we're gonna rotate. But to your point, yeah,
just expand the playoffs and be done with it. The
extra potential for a loss and that any given Sunday, Yeah,
(38:16):
I think it actually could hurt him in the short
term as well. We got a better opponent to play
exactly well, thanks for having out, Buddy, good things. We'll
talk to you soon. I watch Flex coming Back, Mike
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