July 19, 2022 • 35 mins
Jason and Mike react to Paramount Plus cutting out at the end of CONCACAF Tournament between USA vs Canada, Jason tells a story about his time as a PA back with ESPN, and there may be another Home Run Derby tomorrow night!
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they do apply. So now is the time when I
need to say, hey, we all need to be five
little fansies, right, everybody, let's all be five little Fonzies.
And what's Fonzie cool? Correct him? He's also a hell
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of a fisherman, he is. Oh my god, he's happy.
Were you and you saw with that with that picture
with that fish? Oh my god. But all those pictures
from idahome like in the world. He was so excited
I caught a fish. It's like the home run Derby
used to be. But you know, until now, the controversies,
and now they've ruined the sanctity. I can't even enjoy
home runs anymore. They've taken the pure joy and bliss
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of Dingers away from me, my garment, and I don't
like it if we keep calling him dingers? Would that
bring any have it back? The Home Run Derby tonight
was won by future met Juan Soto, who beat Julio
Rodriguez in the final round. Very exciting. We'll get to
the Juan Soto angle of this in a little bit
because this plays into Juan Soto and his potential trade
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at some point global superstardom away. It's just great, Brandy,
Sure it is, and it's probably just went up that
I'm telling you Man Scott Boris, he just added like
another two zeros to that contract. Home Run Derby champion, Oh,
I had another couple of zeros. How excited people get
winning the home run? Remember Bryce Harper when he won
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the home Run Derby, it was more excited if he
won the World Series. I want the home run derby
is a national No, No, you're living in the moment.
Come on, you celebrate all victories. But right, you were
excited coaching your daughter's softball team when you won a game.
Were you not fired up? I was fired up. Sure,
these guys just one on a grand stage. In this case,
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they're getting giant novelty cat. It's worth a lot of money.
So just going on. I was just getting up. Don't
dismiss it. But now the happiness aspect is over because
of what happened tonight during the derby. And this is
why everybody's gotta be cool, because I guarantee you tomorrow
is going to be filled with all kinds of hot
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takes and the evils of the home run derby and
the gamblers and lost a lot of money, mainly because
this is how Kyle Schwarber's round ended against Albert Poolhole
Shoreber seventeen Shoreber eighteen. Nope, yes, the Albert hool since
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Kyla stay alive. So there it is on ESPN, Albert
pool Holes beating Kyle Sharbert twenty home runs to nineteen.
After it was over, Shober went over and did that.
I'm not worthy to h you got to do that. Yeah,
pool holes went on, he got eliminated and won. Sodo
went on to win over Julio Rodriguez. Except it looks
like ESPN may have miscounted Kyle Schwarber's home run total.
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Now when you factor in that, there was a few
times tonight and last year as well, where the pitch
came potentially after the clock had struck zero and home
runs counted that didn't really count or maybe shouldn't have counted.
Maybe instead of eighteen home runs they should had seventeen
home runs. You are now seeing an absolute run of
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insanity because rigged is the number one topic on Twitter
right now. We're not talking about the election. This is
all about what happened in the whole first time rigged
has been used outside of that in like two years.
But I failed to see where this is now the
decline and fall of Western civilization. Okay, this is the
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let's let's put this into perspective, right. This is the
home run Derby. This is not the World Series, This
is not the Stanley Cup Final, this is not the
NBA Finals. This is home run Derby. Do you think
the players tonight really cared all that much? Do you
think Kyle Schoerber, really is that upset? Oh my god,
I can't believe that. Do you think he's that man? Yes,
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the winner gets a million dollars. That's a big thing.
And judging by how this went, I think we saw
the right guy take home the money. You saw big
rounds by Julio Rodriguez Juan Soto. This is going to
be portrayed as this is the worst thing in the world,
and look at what's going on with the home run.
And meanwhile it was, yeah, you want to see them
get it right. And I'm pretty sure after this year,
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the fun and enlightenment of the home run derby is
now going to be replaced by a much more clinical
here's the pitch, here's the pitch count. Maybe it's not
about uh as, however many you can hit. You're gonna
get a certain number of pitches within a certain amount
of time to do it. It will definitely be much
more corporate and clinical than it is. Hey, it's kind
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of fun. You throw as many as you can, you
hit as many as you can. That part of it
will go away because hey, I gambled a lot of
money on this, and I can't believe that enough but
it's the home run derby, right that you have to
have a proportional response to things, and everything can't be
This is the craziest, most unfair thing in the world.
Was this a hundred percent fair for Kyle Schwarburn and
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maybe a couple others for totals, Okay, not a hundred percent.
But was it a vast conspiracy? Was it something that,
Oh I can't believe this actually? How been the way that? No,
it's a television show. It's a TV show that everybody's
entertained on. We watch guys hit fingers and that's it. Yes,
I get why people are gonna be upset, but let's
respond to this proportionally and the right way, because that
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that that's one thing we have lost is that when
something not right happens, it's okay. There's no in between.
It's either Oh, I can't believe the gross, just miscarriage
of justice that we saw here. If I could go
all Jesse Ventura, I cannot believe this happened when it's
really oh man, boy, this is more. Hey, can you
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believe kyleswarberhome man? He he could have had another home run?
Maybe he beats Albert Poolholes if they have some kind
of home run derby off or something. Oh that that's
the way this should be. But you know it's gonna
be treated as this is the decline and fall of
Western civilization. It's gonna this is the worst thing in
the world. And I can't believe we actually had. This
event should be stopped. I mean I could see it.
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I could see it tomorrow on all the different shows.
And now, well we have nothing else. We can't we
can't create a topic because boy Lebron didn't say or
do anything today. So let's take this home run derby
thing and really blow it up. Even though Lebron did
do something today. I let's really blow this up. And
and I'm sorry this is guess was it something that
you wish was done a little bit better? Yeah, But
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in the end, it's home on Derby. Lebron beat up
on a bunch of plumbers and electricians in the Hey,
some of the PA plumbers, some of the best plumbers
in They He's gonna come kick your ass. He's saying
that again. I just thought i'd be funny because no question,
he is salty man, he's a plumber. He would get
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you with a plunger right in the middle of your
fort But just the idea if we're going to do
that to the players of the eighties and nineties, Lebron
literally went into a place where they got a couple
of NBA players, a couple of guys that are still trying,
and then a lot of guys that are really good
players at the park. I mean, that's it. But yeah,
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I'm going through and the all the Schwarber stuff is interesting.
You've got wondering if stat cast you get the official count.
I gotta think I I know how many I've hit
if I'm Schwarber. So legitimately he thought he got screwed.
That you might have. You might have had an instant reaction,
but you can't watch them all land because you gotta
keep hitting. So I don't know if maybe you know,
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I don't know, if you know, or somebody somebody in
your camps count. Somebody's got to. Yeah, but you know
if you're hitting. But but either way, the the idea
being that it moved on he did the bow. Is
it gonna get his corporate and buttoned up? As as
you speculate, I really hope not. I've ever understood the
fever of it altogether. Are you just watch ESPN overreacting
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now you have ruined the sanctity of this event. Yeah,
I mean it's like the home run Derby's always been
a nice that's fun. Certainly going back to the late
nineties and early two thousand's the chaos, right, you saw
the clips, the hey, we're gonna do the intentional walk
to Barry Bonds, you know, and moving on. But you know,
obviously different time, different rules, time structure and countdowns and
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bonus balls, and you're going off some estimate of how
far a ball travel, which we all can agree on
is uh do meets and best offen times like wait,
that was four five ft could be four or five
ft because that fence was four dred feet and it
landed in row. So we we certainly see some chaos there.
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But when we look at this, this event and what
it is during this time of year, right, basketball, save
for the circus of the off season is done. The
NFL rookies reporting, we're starting to get into camp as
we get ready for the Hall of Fame game and
all of that fun. So you know, the final couple
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of days of that being off the radar, College football
is just a dumpster fire burning according to some with
conference realignment and I, etcetera. So there's a nice version.
Guys just going out hit home runs. You got all
stars right time. You never see sure from a dunk
contest or anything else. These guys go out and they
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swing like crazy. Alonso tried to create some new myth
for himself and his dead lifting and all gonna dead
lift in between rounds. That's what I like to do.
And now I'm meditating deadlift and hit dingers. Peter, it's
not bad dead lifting dingers, dingers and shirt dead lifting
dingers dingers. If he won the dingers and dead lift
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would be a shirt. But he didn't win, So I
don't know if ding'd still be a lifestyle choice dead
lifting dingers or dingers and dead lift dead lifting dinger's
dingers and dead lift dead lifting dingers. I don't know.
Do you want to put the home run second? I think, well, yeah,
can can we get the shirt made and somehow get
the undertaker to wear it. I'm not gonna get that
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shirted Undertaker dead man dead lift. I don't know that,
but yeah, it's it's gonna be twenty four hours of
this chatter before the next iteration of Lakers or Kyrie Irving?
Can you believe what happened? No, he's not a condission.
He had shoulder surgery. What makes you think I'm doing
somebody specific? I'm just it's just a general react. Can
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you believe this? You believe what happened? Not? Then? Know
the cadence gets too close. That's how it's going to
be presented. And it's number one. It's hard for me
to feel bad for Hey, I gambled on this. Oh okay,
I'm sorry. I just I just can't feel sympathy, you know,
I can't. I bet fifty thousand dollars on Schwarber to
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get nineteen home runs, don't bet nine. Don't bet. That's
why they call it gambling. Don't bet. No, no, no, no, no.
But that that's fine. That's fine if you just lose.
But if it's because of human error and and and
inability of people to count to twenty, we got a problem. Yeah,
but they no, no, no, no, no, don't give me
a well well wetting your money back. It's just it's
the same thing. That's that's a passing philosophy. No, no, no, no,
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no no. If I legitimately could have won if some
jackass actually went dang instead of not. That absurds the
difference between that and say, oh, I bet fifty grand
on the Bears to win. Justin Fields completely did not
fumble on the one. I can't believe replay couldn't go
back and I lost fifty grand because that's shutting their mouth,
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that's betting on the Bear. No, no, no, no, that's
a big difference. That so much different. Row that's just
as equivalent from a real game. That's a false equivalent
because he legitimately fumbled in the context of the game.
He didn't. Well, because if you're not the one they're
gonna review it, maybe he didn't. Maybe they review it
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was a bad review, and there clearly was no reason
to call the fumble on Justin Fields. You're up cause
I made it the Bears. So they're clearly no fumble
on Justin Fields. But they couldn't overturn it, and people
who bet on the Bears wound up losing, and I'm
mad about. It's still human error, it's still stuff that happens.
It's still it's still get it. Now, within the context
of reviews, you're gonna have that reasonable doubt. We've seen
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that a billion times, right, We've come to accept that
in the NFL, this is simply counting things count. This
is this? Is there? Is it a catch? Is it
not a catch? Was his knee down? Was his ass down?
What what part of a body park? Did you have
a paky down on the ground before the ball came out?
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Versus one, two, three? I think they it's incumbent upon
the second guy. What about forgetting the downs? You're counting
only the four on that? Oh, I'm sorry, We've got
an extra down there. Well, they should be firing. He
had the Auburn game a couple of But about the
downs on the midt, that's only counting. You're talking about
counting in nineteen is a lot of Frances was able
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to do it for us. This is why Ty Shirts
off his game tonight because we would have had this before. Now.
We said that we're counting like eleven times, and now
was like, oh no, it's either that or we already
going back to Sesame Street too soon. With Mike tie
Shirts doing his ono, maybe he's actually doing a podcast
while he's actually working on the show. Three of them. Actually, Hey,
I can record it while I'm on while I'm working. Man,
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It's actually no big deal. The guys are all cool. Well,
you know what a script is. It's in three different
colors for his prompter, so he's looking at camber one
for one, camber two for the and he just mixes
and matches. You want to be his next guest during
the break chair. I thought I already was. I think
I've been his guest twice already tonight. No? Actually not?
Oh no, okay, you very good. Be sure to catch
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live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. Ah app. We'll
get to more on Juan Soto coming up in a minute.
But right now, Mike Harmen, I want you to imagine something.
I want you to imagine. It's Week two of the
NFL season. Okay, Thursday night football, Chiefs and the Chargers.
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Can't wait? That would be great. That would be the
first streaming game this year on Amazon. Imagine. Okay, Chiefs
in charge? Right? Great? Say the Chargers are leading the
Chiefs with a minute left. Let's say that's going sounds
like a right who Juju Smith Schuster showing up big
man who's the star with Tyreek Hill? Because remember when
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Tyreek left, he said Patrick Mahomes wasn't gonna be any
good and he made him who he was. Imagine the
Chiefs get the ball back, Mahomes has the ball at
his own fifteen yard line as a minute left to
go in the game. You're watching, it's exciting, and the
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feed freezes and you missed the last minute that that's
not good for anybody. This is what happened tonight on
Paramount Plus for a lot of people watching the end
of the United States women's national team as they took
on Canada. Hi. This is a zero zero game, United
States popular game going on. We had the end of
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the home run derby. United States took the lead late
on a penalty. You had Rose Lavell have a nice
little dive. United States got a penalty and Alex Morgan
kid Alex park the tournament. The United States goes up
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Paramount Plus on the call. They win the game one nil.
There is a big chance that Canada has in the
final minute, uh that a save is made. But here's
a streaming service, Paramount Plus that had this game and
the feed froze for whatever reason, for a lot of people,
this feed froze. So now I take it a week
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two of the NFL season, Chiefs Chargers, Chargers le seven
Frostburg is doing the game on t NF. Herbert's got
four touchdowns. He's texting us, going, Herbert, you blanketty like Herbert,
Herbert Herbert. But mahomes as the ball and the feed
freezes and you missed the final minute. Welcome to the
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streaming era of the National Football League and sports in general. Welcome,
my friend, because you don't want that feed to freeze,
and that feed may freeze. Welcome to chaos. You and
I fortunately enjoyed a nice uninterrupted view of those final
injury time minutes and the final minutes of regulation. You
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and I were able to celebrate that. Now I'm not everybody,
but I won. Now I'm watching the play that was
called the penalty, the turf monster slash Lavelle tripped herself.
It's a good call, I really really good call. Human error.
You know what if you bet Canada, I'm telling you,
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and I can't believe it. Oh my god, I bet
the Hiver under for goals at zero. I can't believe that.
I can't believe it didn't come in. But just think
about that potential chaos, right, particularly when you're talking about
streaming services, pay for services. Not that you don't have
outages on occasion for network television. When you get into
the satellite business, there's going to be the occasional blip
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in the machine. But certainly with all the money starting
to flow in and the cell jobs, I have no
doubt had to happen to the NFL to be like, no,
technologically we can do this, and do this on such
a much higher level because we can brand this back
into our core business and we can build out ancillary
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sites and secondary streams and all of this stuff. I
have no doubt that was part of the big Dog
and Pony show. So they were suddenly to have an outage,
Oh you got problems now. In this case, I feel
bad for the folks that that didn't get I have
no idea what the penetration is for Paramount Plus in
the greater times fast the penetrations. Yeah, it's a lot
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of peace, uh is across the US, but certainly uh,
not to the extent where we're looking at for Amazon. Right,
we could say that, but you know. But that's the
thing is that that's the danger. I'm the danger. That's
the day. Here's the danger in the other night that
that's the you call me out on strikes. That's the
danger when you give a large sporting rights to someone
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who doesn't really know how to do sports right. There's
a lot of things that go along with you. Hey,
Amazon getting the rights for t NF a awesome right there,
the future stream rights everything else? Does Amazon really know
anything about putting on big time NFL broadcast? What are
they gonna do? We're gonna hire the people who do
right every day? How many days? How many times a
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day do you see someone who's gonna be going to
Amazon uh to do NFL right? Every every day? There's
somebody new. I can't believe my name isn't in there.
And you know, the but the pre games that they
add fourteen bodies, everything that we haven't popped up on
there yet is frankly disappointing every day. Right, But does
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Amazon specialized in sports? They understand what rushes of feeds
are like and how to do it and how to
avoid things like the feed freezing? Because how many times
have you gotten gotten on Netflix? Or Amazon, and oh sorry,
we're accountable problem right now, please come back. WHOA can't
do that to me with a football game, man, you
can't give me that. With Chargers Chiefs in the middle,
left to go, you can give me that. If I'm
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trying to watch the latest episode of The Old Man,
I can go to the bathroom, make a sandwich, come back,
and the Jet working. You know, the Jets are gonna
be just fine. And what our games aren't you gonna
say you can do it out the ending? Well, well, listen,
they don't even take that. We're not stream they just
take pictures of the Jets game. It's it's just it's
just it's stock photos that go online. Uh, you can
do that for something else. If I if I I
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want to watch episode of the Boys, Oh it's having trouble.
I'll try and get in fifteen minutes. Or I'll try
and get in an hour. It's fine. Oh I can't
do it tonight. I'll watch it tomorrow. It's a temporary
inconvenience because I didn't get to watch it because something
was up at the feet. I'll watch it tomorrow. That
happens all the time, a right, that happens I probably
say in the last two months, I've had at least
three times where I try to watch something and for
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a few minutes it can't Disney. I've had it with Netflix, right,
I means Marvel people. People are gonna be watched. People
that try to watch Stranger Things. When when the surge
was there, you know, I didn't always go back you
find you finished Stranger Things. I finished it all nice?
All right, we'll talk about that. That's that we'll talk about.
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I'm not gonna say I could go into deep dive conversations,
but I did watch it all right again? And how
much do you hate running up that hill? I actually
heard it on the way in here. If I could
have taken a picture of the stereo telling me in
my car that it was playing, I would have sent
it to you. But I decided, you know what, tending
to people are driving like idiot, just gonna keep going.
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So this happens with streaming giants, you get it. This
happens that way. Can't happen in the NFL. Can happen
once in the NFL. It cannot happen once in a
situation like that, right now? Could you get by with
in the middle of the second quarter, if Jags Titans,
if the feed goes out for a couple of minutes, yeah,
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but final minute of the game. Finally the Chiefs Chargers
Week two. Uh, and it happened final minute of the
games ninety minute tonight with the United States and and
and and Canada that could terminate contract. Would love to
see what the legal eases on a lot of those,
because you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars for
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that portion of of the contract and the broadcast, right,
so you gotta deliver the end of the game. You
gotta give me a I think he to be fair.
Though you've had the y Amazon can't have any bigger
stress test then every Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season,
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right from a straight server and feed perspective. Now, when
it comes to streaming something, I I don't know the
particulars and how much different that would be, but just
from a crush on your your hardware, I don't know
that you're gonna have anything to that level, but certainly
the points well taken that right now you've got after
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this event just now, and whatever the streaming numbers are,
maybe we'll find those out tomorrow or Wednesday. But the
reality is that you have giant you have giant events,
right and the way US women's national team constitutes a
large enough event in this Conka Calf finally against Canada,
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that it's gonna be on people's radars of where the
ghosts are still in the machine. See what I did there.
Any time I can't get back to a nice old
Police album, we have to do that. But that's the
that's the issue, and it's not just about the streaming.
It's about is this entity good enough that you can trust,
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that can be able to broadcast something? Because I remember,
I'm gonna go back to the mid nineties when Fox
first got the NFL. Okay, when Fox first got the NFL.
This was when the rights came up. Everybody was stunned,
right this when I was a production assistant in the ESPN,
and I really wanted to work on NFL prime time,
Like that's was the gold standard of working on prime
time and it was my time to do it. It It
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was you know, I had been I'd been there a
year and I had done well, and this is my
time to be on prime time. Right. That was that
everybody wanted to be were walking around going it's my time,
I'm walking around going prime time time and I wanted
to work on prime time. And it was they always
took one or they took to production assistance and one
associate producer, and at the time it was a production assistant.
So you're talking about two p A s and they're
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about sixty people that want to this job, right, and
so but I wanted, I wanted. I wanted it. Did
you have a battle royal? And then it was just
how you were able to get it? And I had
a feeling. I said, I'm going to get this because
I was, you know what, like I said, as good
as I am on the radio, who I was a
phenomenal p A man, Uh, I gotta I gotta tell
the truth. I can't lie. I was a phenomenal. You
call anybody ESPN, they say, who was the best production
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assistant AP that we ever had? They say, Jason Smith.
I guarantee you they say my name. They say my
name all the time. So I was ready to be it, right,
I was ready to be But I gotta tell the truth.
I can't not lie. I can't lie about things. I
can't negative. So I was I was going to get
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the gig and then the rights come up and Fox
gets it and it's WHOA. It's usually NBCCBS had the
right for the longest time, so now Fox had it.
And there was such panic at ESPN because nobody knew
what this was gonna be like with Fox, Like what
was gonna Nobody knew what kind of year was gonna
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be with Fox having the games, what access was going
to be, anything else. No, there was so much unknown.
And when they picked the p a's they didn't pick me.
They picked a guy who was a more senior p
A that did it the year before, so he's supposed
to leave and go on and do something else. So
they picked the same guy did the year before. I'm like,
wait a minute, wait a minute, why that picked me? Wait?
You graduate that fast? He was ready to be No,
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he was ready to be promoted. After a couple of years,
you start getting the point where maybe you get promoted.
So he was probably gonna get promoted, but they wanted
another person who had done it before because they were
nervous about exactly what was going to happen, what the
year was gonna be like. So they actually said to
me that a meeting. My boss said, listen, I'm sorry,
you're not gonna get. I'm like, I'm not gonna get.
I was so mad I wanted to go to the
almost went to the Golf Channel as a production assistant.
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So glad I didn't do that. I almost saw his
Golf Channel was hiring everybody, and I was mad. But
my boss told me, we don't know what kind of
year this is going to be, so we want somebody
who's been through and can can adjust on it. And
I'm like, Okay, in theory, I get it, but I'm like,
you don't think I could do it. But I'm like,
you know. So I was mad and like I would
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up talking to people about going to the Golf Channel.
This when many people wanted to go to the Golf Channel,
it seemed like it was so cool, and I stayed
and I'm glad I did. But that was a big concern.
And when somebody had it, and there was always what
is Fox going to be? Like they put the score
bug in the corner. Why would you put a score
bug in the corner? It ruins the game? Now can
you imagine watching a game? So now you have you
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have another entity that is getting a football contract that
you have no idea if they can hand you want
to think they can handle it, but can they? I mean,
Paramount Plus just had their feed freeze on on women's
soccer all right. Now, as popular as women's soccer is,
it's not the National Football League, right. I think we
can agree on that. And can you imagine what the
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reaction would be there? And I see the reaction right now,
how mad people are and and it was you know,
it wasn't even a World Cup game. You know, it
wasn't even a World Cup game. Right. If this happened
in the NFL, it would be it would be outer chaos.
And now you have you have an entity that has
the has a sport where you have to raise it,
(28:13):
raise your hand. That's question. Do they know what they're doing?
They know? Do they really know what they're doing? They
think they do. We're gonna hire the right people, like
that's what big companies like Amazon and Netflix. We're just
gonna hire the right people and they're gonna come in
and do it. Um. Yeah, but do you really know
the ins and outs of how to make sure everything
is done? Because this is good, this is a this
is now a big worry because streaming giants freeze all
the time, or their programming is not available. That programming
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has got to always be there, man, It's got to
always be there. Originally, it's only one game a week.
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where we watched One Soda win a controversy filled home
run derby. Tonight, we'll have more on that coming up
in a bit. But if you like home run Derby's, well,
you may not have seen the last one this week
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because it was announced today that if tomorrow's game is
tied after nine innings, it will be settled for the
home run Derby. Sweet, you have three hitters from each side,
will bat three pitches apiece, and that's going to break
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the tie. So after nine innings, not gonna be extra innings,
not gonna we are getting a home run Derby. I
think gonna bounce Schwarber from the National League side. Now
they're gonna count an extra one for him tomorrow when
he goes. Does he start with one? You know what?
After an egregious eric, I don't think it actually was
an error, but that's a whole other thing. Whether it
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was or wasn't, it's enough of a controversy. But I
like this idea. Yes, you know who had this idea
twenty years ago. This guy my first time around at Fox.
We were on the air after the Tide All Star
Game in two thousand two when both teams ran out
of pictures and bud Sea League is on television with
his arms flapping around, what do you want me to do.
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There's nothing I can do. We have to have a
tie All Star game. On the air that night, I said,
how about having a home run derby? It would be legendary.
How does no one come up with that idea? And
I come up? I'm sitting in a studio three thousand
miles away from this game. How do you not have
a home Say let's do a home run derby? Right,
Let's get five hitters, three pitches a piece. Let's load
it up and may take fifteen minutes to set up,
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but boy, will it be fun. We'll do interviews, we'll
talk to people. It'll be the greatest thing ever. Twenty
years later, Hey, we're gonna solve with a home run derby.
I mean, can I sue? Can I sue for that?
Because that was my idea years ago? Did you file
for any you know, rights, sir? I mean you really
don't own any because it would still be Major League
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Baseball marks in the league itself. I mean, do you
think they just take it. Statute of limitations is over
from that by now. Yeah, But I don't even know
what you'd be able to clean my idea, and if
it's used, I can I can I don't know that
this falls under intellectual product. I can do the whole
Scott Boris thing. Look how many more people tuned in
because it was a home run derby. So that's more
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money that I should get, and I should get part
of the part of the problem with that, that's I
should do that. It's a good argument. Yeah, I don't
know how we're gonna quantify that, but we'll try. How
do you can figure that? I gotta have a good
lays How are you going to prove it? I could
get people from the two thousand did They're all still around.
I can get people from that show in two thousand
and two. Now I'm pulling the curtain back. You did
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this thing with an eye roll, thinking as you were
saying that sentence, it's like any of them dead. I
will get Jake Warner and Tommy Bowman and Jim Daniels back.
I will get them back. And I remember when I
had that idea, and they would say, yeah, what if
they weren't rolling, It doesn't matter. Jake Warner rolls on
everything he's got, every show he's ever did in his
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entire life. Or if not, we'll make it up. My
voice still sounds the same that it was. It was
in my early thirties and that was years. Hasn't gotten
husky or now because I haven't smoked. What if they
were streaming the show that night in the cut out
during your care you know what's gonna have your selective editing.
Let me tell you guys about streaming giants and how
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that's going to be the future of television. Uh. Look,
it's a great idea. It's awesome. And maybe in the
second half of the season, that's how we break ties
in out of the runner at second base home run
derby after the ninth inning. I advocate that for that derby. Yeah,
lose this runner on second nonsense, here's the batting practice.
(33:11):
Pitcher comes out, You pick three guys if that's what
we want to do, and run it the same way. Yeah,
and I'm okay because we have Alonzo, So I'm all right. Well,
in every game, maybe every single game, now, you know,
and this is a difficult conversation, but you know, you
realize sports me. You think about the fixed idea. If
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we get we get an extra inning game tomorrow night,
and we get hey on the first the first announced,
we get a home run derby, it's tied after nine innings,
we get a home run derby. After nine innings, a
closer comes in and serves up a gopher ball, like, oh,
he took one for the team. He did the job.
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It's like tied three three in the fifth inning, and
all the other guys go and they just swing it
everything so we can get to the ninth inning tied,
and then we have a home runder. Hendrix comes into
his theme song, simple Man, and then Rob Schoreber again,
just everybody, just everybody striking out, striking out on purpose.
We can get to that, Oh, that'd be awesome. Then
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you get people going, well, maybe certain things we do
have a do We haven't a predetermined outcome here, but
it will be entertaining. Damn it sure will be. Everybody
wants the home run derby to end to win the
All Star Game. What do you want? Do you really
want a closer that you've never heard of in the
game in the ninth inning you know against but stop,
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he's he's actually having a great year against players you
don't even know that are the lone representatives of their
teams and have to decide the game that way. Already,
you want to home run derby dery, You want to
watch you to hit a few Dingers killed Simpsons episode.
They already did this. Who wants to watch me Dingers
as he's putting all the research under his Hey, the
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derby champ coming up next right here, Fox focus in
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they do apply. So now is the time when I
need to say, hey, we all need to be five
little fansies, right, everybody, let's all be five little Fonzies.
And what's Fonzie cool? Correct him? He's also a hell
(01:08):
of a fisherman, he is. Oh my god, he's happy.
Were you and you saw with that with that picture
with that fish? Oh my god. But all those pictures
from idahome like in the world. He was so excited
I caught a fish. It's like the home run Derby
used to be. But you know, until now, the controversies,
and now they've ruined the sanctity. I can't even enjoy
home runs anymore. They've taken the pure joy and bliss
(01:32):
of Dingers away from me, my garment, and I don't
like it if we keep calling him dingers? Would that
bring any have it back? The Home Run Derby tonight
was won by future met Juan Soto, who beat Julio
Rodriguez in the final round. Very exciting. We'll get to
the Juan Soto angle of this in a little bit
because this plays into Juan Soto and his potential trade
(01:53):
at some point global superstardom away. It's just great, Brandy,
Sure it is, and it's probably just went up that
I'm telling you Man Scott Boris, he just added like
another two zeros to that contract. Home Run Derby champion, Oh,
I had another couple of zeros. How excited people get
winning the home run? Remember Bryce Harper when he won
(02:13):
the home Run Derby, it was more excited if he
won the World Series. I want the home run derby
is a national No, No, you're living in the moment.
Come on, you celebrate all victories. But right, you were
excited coaching your daughter's softball team when you won a game.
Were you not fired up? I was fired up. Sure,
these guys just one on a grand stage. In this case,
(02:36):
they're getting giant novelty cat. It's worth a lot of money.
So just going on. I was just getting up. Don't
dismiss it. But now the happiness aspect is over because
of what happened tonight during the derby. And this is
why everybody's gotta be cool, because I guarantee you tomorrow
is going to be filled with all kinds of hot
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takes and the evils of the home run derby and
the gamblers and lost a lot of money, mainly because
this is how Kyle Schwarber's round ended against Albert Poolhole
Shoreber seventeen Shoreber eighteen. Nope, yes, the Albert hool since
(03:19):
Kyla stay alive. So there it is on ESPN, Albert
pool Holes beating Kyle Sharbert twenty home runs to nineteen.
After it was over, Shober went over and did that.
I'm not worthy to h you got to do that. Yeah,
pool holes went on, he got eliminated and won. Sodo
went on to win over Julio Rodriguez. Except it looks
like ESPN may have miscounted Kyle Schwarber's home run total.
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Now when you factor in that, there was a few
times tonight and last year as well, where the pitch
came potentially after the clock had struck zero and home
runs counted that didn't really count or maybe shouldn't have counted.
Maybe instead of eighteen home runs they should had seventeen
home runs. You are now seeing an absolute run of
(04:05):
insanity because rigged is the number one topic on Twitter
right now. We're not talking about the election. This is
all about what happened in the whole first time rigged
has been used outside of that in like two years.
But I failed to see where this is now the
decline and fall of Western civilization. Okay, this is the
(04:25):
let's let's put this into perspective, right. This is the
home run Derby. This is not the World Series, This
is not the Stanley Cup Final, this is not the
NBA Finals. This is home run Derby. Do you think
the players tonight really cared all that much? Do you
think Kyle Schoerber, really is that upset? Oh my god,
I can't believe that. Do you think he's that man? Yes,
(04:46):
the winner gets a million dollars. That's a big thing.
And judging by how this went, I think we saw
the right guy take home the money. You saw big
rounds by Julio Rodriguez Juan Soto. This is going to
be portrayed as this is the worst thing in the world,
and look at what's going on with the home run.
And meanwhile it was, yeah, you want to see them
get it right. And I'm pretty sure after this year,
(05:08):
the fun and enlightenment of the home run derby is
now going to be replaced by a much more clinical
here's the pitch, here's the pitch count. Maybe it's not
about uh as, however many you can hit. You're gonna
get a certain number of pitches within a certain amount
of time to do it. It will definitely be much
more corporate and clinical than it is. Hey, it's kind
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of fun. You throw as many as you can, you
hit as many as you can. That part of it
will go away because hey, I gambled a lot of
money on this, and I can't believe that enough but
it's the home run derby, right that you have to
have a proportional response to things, and everything can't be
This is the craziest, most unfair thing in the world.
Was this a hundred percent fair for Kyle Schwarburn and
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maybe a couple others for totals, Okay, not a hundred percent.
But was it a vast conspiracy? Was it something that,
Oh I can't believe this actually? How been the way that? No,
it's a television show. It's a TV show that everybody's
entertained on. We watch guys hit fingers and that's it. Yes,
I get why people are gonna be upset, but let's
respond to this proportionally and the right way, because that
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that that's one thing we have lost is that when
something not right happens, it's okay. There's no in between.
It's either Oh, I can't believe the gross, just miscarriage
of justice that we saw here. If I could go
all Jesse Ventura, I cannot believe this happened when it's
really oh man, boy, this is more. Hey, can you
(06:32):
believe kyleswarberhome man? He he could have had another home run?
Maybe he beats Albert Poolholes if they have some kind
of home run derby off or something. Oh that that's
the way this should be. But you know it's gonna
be treated as this is the decline and fall of
Western civilization. It's gonna this is the worst thing in
the world. And I can't believe we actually had. This
event should be stopped. I mean I could see it.
(06:53):
I could see it tomorrow on all the different shows.
And now, well we have nothing else. We can't we
can't create a topic because boy Lebron didn't say or
do anything today. So let's take this home run derby
thing and really blow it up. Even though Lebron did
do something today. I let's really blow this up. And
and I'm sorry this is guess was it something that
you wish was done a little bit better? Yeah, But
(07:14):
in the end, it's home on Derby. Lebron beat up
on a bunch of plumbers and electricians in the Hey,
some of the PA plumbers, some of the best plumbers
in They He's gonna come kick your ass. He's saying
that again. I just thought i'd be funny because no question,
he is salty man, he's a plumber. He would get
(07:36):
you with a plunger right in the middle of your
fort But just the idea if we're going to do
that to the players of the eighties and nineties, Lebron
literally went into a place where they got a couple
of NBA players, a couple of guys that are still trying,
and then a lot of guys that are really good
players at the park. I mean, that's it. But yeah,
(07:57):
I'm going through and the all the Schwarber stuff is interesting.
You've got wondering if stat cast you get the official count.
I gotta think I I know how many I've hit
if I'm Schwarber. So legitimately he thought he got screwed.
That you might have. You might have had an instant reaction,
but you can't watch them all land because you gotta
keep hitting. So I don't know if maybe you know,
(08:19):
I don't know, if you know, or somebody somebody in
your camps count. Somebody's got to. Yeah, but you know
if you're hitting. But but either way, the the idea
being that it moved on he did the bow. Is
it gonna get his corporate and buttoned up? As as
you speculate, I really hope not. I've ever understood the
fever of it altogether. Are you just watch ESPN overreacting
(08:42):
now you have ruined the sanctity of this event. Yeah,
I mean it's like the home run Derby's always been
a nice that's fun. Certainly going back to the late
nineties and early two thousand's the chaos, right, you saw
the clips, the hey, we're gonna do the intentional walk
to Barry Bonds, you know, and moving on. But you know,
obviously different time, different rules, time structure and countdowns and
(09:06):
bonus balls, and you're going off some estimate of how
far a ball travel, which we all can agree on
is uh do meets and best offen times like wait,
that was four five ft could be four or five
ft because that fence was four dred feet and it
landed in row. So we we certainly see some chaos there.
(09:27):
But when we look at this, this event and what
it is during this time of year, right, basketball, save
for the circus of the off season is done. The
NFL rookies reporting, we're starting to get into camp as
we get ready for the Hall of Fame game and
all of that fun. So you know, the final couple
(09:48):
of days of that being off the radar, College football
is just a dumpster fire burning according to some with
conference realignment and I, etcetera. So there's a nice version.
Guys just going out hit home runs. You got all
stars right time. You never see sure from a dunk
contest or anything else. These guys go out and they
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swing like crazy. Alonso tried to create some new myth
for himself and his dead lifting and all gonna dead
lift in between rounds. That's what I like to do.
And now I'm meditating deadlift and hit dingers. Peter, it's
not bad dead lifting dingers, dingers and shirt dead lifting
dingers dingers. If he won the dingers and dead lift
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would be a shirt. But he didn't win, So I
don't know if ding'd still be a lifestyle choice dead
lifting dingers or dingers and dead lift dead lifting dinger's
dingers and dead lift dead lifting dingers. I don't know.
Do you want to put the home run second? I think, well, yeah,
can can we get the shirt made and somehow get
the undertaker to wear it. I'm not gonna get that
(10:53):
shirted Undertaker dead man dead lift. I don't know that,
but yeah, it's it's gonna be twenty four hours of
this chatter before the next iteration of Lakers or Kyrie Irving?
Can you believe what happened? No, he's not a condission.
He had shoulder surgery. What makes you think I'm doing
somebody specific? I'm just it's just a general react. Can
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you believe this? You believe what happened? Not? Then? Know
the cadence gets too close. That's how it's going to
be presented. And it's number one. It's hard for me
to feel bad for Hey, I gambled on this. Oh okay,
I'm sorry. I just I just can't feel sympathy, you know,
I can't. I bet fifty thousand dollars on Schwarber to
(11:38):
get nineteen home runs, don't bet nine. Don't bet. That's
why they call it gambling. Don't bet. No, no, no, no, no.
But that that's fine. That's fine if you just lose.
But if it's because of human error and and and
inability of people to count to twenty, we got a problem. Yeah,
but they no, no, no, no, no, don't give me
a well well wetting your money back. It's just it's
the same thing. That's that's a passing philosophy. No, no, no, no,
(12:03):
no no. If I legitimately could have won if some
jackass actually went dang instead of not. That absurds the
difference between that and say, oh, I bet fifty grand
on the Bears to win. Justin Fields completely did not
fumble on the one. I can't believe replay couldn't go
back and I lost fifty grand because that's shutting their mouth,
(12:25):
that's betting on the Bear. No, no, no, no, that's
a big difference. That so much different. Row that's just
as equivalent from a real game. That's a false equivalent
because he legitimately fumbled in the context of the game.
He didn't. Well, because if you're not the one they're
gonna review it, maybe he didn't. Maybe they review it
(12:46):
was a bad review, and there clearly was no reason
to call the fumble on Justin Fields. You're up cause
I made it the Bears. So they're clearly no fumble
on Justin Fields. But they couldn't overturn it, and people
who bet on the Bears wound up losing, and I'm
mad about. It's still human error, it's still stuff that happens.
It's still it's still get it. Now, within the context
of reviews, you're gonna have that reasonable doubt. We've seen
(13:09):
that a billion times, right, We've come to accept that
in the NFL, this is simply counting things count. This
is this? Is there? Is it a catch? Is it
not a catch? Was his knee down? Was his ass down?
What what part of a body park? Did you have
a paky down on the ground before the ball came out?
(13:30):
Versus one, two, three? I think they it's incumbent upon
the second guy. What about forgetting the downs? You're counting
only the four on that? Oh, I'm sorry, We've got
an extra down there. Well, they should be firing. He
had the Auburn game a couple of But about the
downs on the midt, that's only counting. You're talking about
counting in nineteen is a lot of Frances was able
(13:52):
to do it for us. This is why Ty Shirts
off his game tonight because we would have had this before. Now.
We said that we're counting like eleven times, and now
was like, oh no, it's either that or we already
going back to Sesame Street too soon. With Mike tie
Shirts doing his ono, maybe he's actually doing a podcast
while he's actually working on the show. Three of them. Actually, Hey,
I can record it while I'm on while I'm working. Man,
(14:14):
It's actually no big deal. The guys are all cool. Well,
you know what a script is. It's in three different
colors for his prompter, so he's looking at camber one
for one, camber two for the and he just mixes
and matches. You want to be his next guest during
the break chair. I thought I already was. I think
I've been his guest twice already tonight. No? Actually not?
Oh no, okay, you very good. Be sure to catch
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live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. Ah app. We'll
get to more on Juan Soto coming up in a minute.
But right now, Mike Harmen, I want you to imagine something.
I want you to imagine. It's Week two of the
NFL season. Okay, Thursday night football, Chiefs and the Chargers.
(14:58):
Can't wait? That would be great. That would be the
first streaming game this year on Amazon. Imagine. Okay, Chiefs
in charge? Right? Great? Say the Chargers are leading the
Chiefs with a minute left. Let's say that's going sounds
like a right who Juju Smith Schuster showing up big
man who's the star with Tyreek Hill? Because remember when
(15:21):
Tyreek left, he said Patrick Mahomes wasn't gonna be any
good and he made him who he was. Imagine the
Chiefs get the ball back, Mahomes has the ball at
his own fifteen yard line as a minute left to
go in the game. You're watching, it's exciting, and the
(15:41):
feed freezes and you missed the last minute that that's
not good for anybody. This is what happened tonight on
Paramount Plus for a lot of people watching the end
of the United States women's national team as they took
on Canada. Hi. This is a zero zero game, United
States popular game going on. We had the end of
(16:02):
the home run derby. United States took the lead late
on a penalty. You had Rose Lavell have a nice
little dive. United States got a penalty and Alex Morgan
kid Alex park the tournament. The United States goes up
(16:24):
Paramount Plus on the call. They win the game one nil.
There is a big chance that Canada has in the
final minute, uh that a save is made. But here's
a streaming service, Paramount Plus that had this game and
the feed froze for whatever reason, for a lot of people,
this feed froze. So now I take it a week
(16:48):
two of the NFL season, Chiefs Chargers, Chargers le seven
Frostburg is doing the game on t NF. Herbert's got
four touchdowns. He's texting us, going, Herbert, you blanketty like Herbert,
Herbert Herbert. But mahomes as the ball and the feed
freezes and you missed the final minute. Welcome to the
(17:08):
streaming era of the National Football League and sports in general. Welcome,
my friend, because you don't want that feed to freeze,
and that feed may freeze. Welcome to chaos. You and
I fortunately enjoyed a nice uninterrupted view of those final
injury time minutes and the final minutes of regulation. You
(17:33):
and I were able to celebrate that. Now I'm not everybody,
but I won. Now I'm watching the play that was
called the penalty, the turf monster slash Lavelle tripped herself.
It's a good call, I really really good call. Human error.
You know what if you bet Canada, I'm telling you,
(17:55):
and I can't believe it. Oh my god, I bet
the Hiver under for goals at zero. I can't believe that.
I can't believe it didn't come in. But just think
about that potential chaos, right, particularly when you're talking about
streaming services, pay for services. Not that you don't have
outages on occasion for network television. When you get into
the satellite business, there's going to be the occasional blip
(18:19):
in the machine. But certainly with all the money starting
to flow in and the cell jobs, I have no
doubt had to happen to the NFL to be like, no,
technologically we can do this, and do this on such
a much higher level because we can brand this back
into our core business and we can build out ancillary
(18:42):
sites and secondary streams and all of this stuff. I
have no doubt that was part of the big Dog
and Pony show. So they were suddenly to have an outage,
Oh you got problems now. In this case, I feel
bad for the folks that that didn't get I have
no idea what the penetration is for Paramount Plus in
the greater times fast the penetrations. Yeah, it's a lot
(19:08):
of peace, uh is across the US, but certainly uh,
not to the extent where we're looking at for Amazon. Right,
we could say that, but you know. But that's the
thing is that that's the danger. I'm the danger. That's
the day. Here's the danger in the other night that
that's the you call me out on strikes. That's the
danger when you give a large sporting rights to someone
(19:34):
who doesn't really know how to do sports right. There's
a lot of things that go along with you. Hey,
Amazon getting the rights for t NF a awesome right there,
the future stream rights everything else? Does Amazon really know
anything about putting on big time NFL broadcast? What are
they gonna do? We're gonna hire the people who do
right every day? How many days? How many times a
(19:56):
day do you see someone who's gonna be going to
Amazon uh to do NFL right? Every every day? There's
somebody new. I can't believe my name isn't in there.
And you know, the but the pre games that they
add fourteen bodies, everything that we haven't popped up on
there yet is frankly disappointing every day. Right, But does
(20:16):
Amazon specialized in sports? They understand what rushes of feeds
are like and how to do it and how to
avoid things like the feed freezing? Because how many times
have you gotten gotten on Netflix? Or Amazon, and oh sorry,
we're accountable problem right now, please come back. WHOA can't
do that to me with a football game, man, you
can't give me that. With Chargers Chiefs in the middle,
left to go, you can give me that. If I'm
(20:38):
trying to watch the latest episode of The Old Man,
I can go to the bathroom, make a sandwich, come back,
and the Jet working. You know, the Jets are gonna
be just fine. And what our games aren't you gonna
say you can do it out the ending? Well, well, listen,
they don't even take that. We're not stream they just
take pictures of the Jets game. It's it's just it's
just it's stock photos that go online. Uh, you can
do that for something else. If I if I I
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want to watch episode of the Boys, Oh it's having trouble.
I'll try and get in fifteen minutes. Or I'll try
and get in an hour. It's fine. Oh I can't
do it tonight. I'll watch it tomorrow. It's a temporary
inconvenience because I didn't get to watch it because something
was up at the feet. I'll watch it tomorrow. That
happens all the time, a right, that happens I probably
say in the last two months, I've had at least
three times where I try to watch something and for
(21:21):
a few minutes it can't Disney. I've had it with Netflix, right,
I means Marvel people. People are gonna be watched. People
that try to watch Stranger Things. When when the surge
was there, you know, I didn't always go back you
find you finished Stranger Things. I finished it all nice?
All right, we'll talk about that. That's that we'll talk about.
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I'm not gonna say I could go into deep dive conversations,
but I did watch it all right again? And how
much do you hate running up that hill? I actually
heard it on the way in here. If I could
have taken a picture of the stereo telling me in
my car that it was playing, I would have sent
it to you. But I decided, you know what, tending
to people are driving like idiot, just gonna keep going.
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So this happens with streaming giants, you get it. This
happens that way. Can't happen in the NFL. Can happen
once in the NFL. It cannot happen once in a
situation like that, right now? Could you get by with
in the middle of the second quarter, if Jags Titans,
if the feed goes out for a couple of minutes, yeah,
(22:28):
but final minute of the game. Finally the Chiefs Chargers
Week two. Uh, and it happened final minute of the
games ninety minute tonight with the United States and and
and and Canada that could terminate contract. Would love to
see what the legal eases on a lot of those,
because you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars for
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that portion of of the contract and the broadcast, right,
so you gotta deliver the end of the game. You
gotta give me a I think he to be fair.
Though you've had the y Amazon can't have any bigger
stress test then every Thanksgiving weekend and the holiday season,
(23:10):
right from a straight server and feed perspective. Now, when
it comes to streaming something, I I don't know the
particulars and how much different that would be, but just
from a crush on your your hardware, I don't know
that you're gonna have anything to that level, but certainly
the points well taken that right now you've got after
(23:31):
this event just now, and whatever the streaming numbers are,
maybe we'll find those out tomorrow or Wednesday. But the
reality is that you have giant you have giant events,
right and the way US women's national team constitutes a
large enough event in this Conka Calf finally against Canada,
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that it's gonna be on people's radars of where the
ghosts are still in the machine. See what I did there.
Any time I can't get back to a nice old
Police album, we have to do that. But that's the
that's the issue, and it's not just about the streaming.
It's about is this entity good enough that you can trust,
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that can be able to broadcast something? Because I remember,
I'm gonna go back to the mid nineties when Fox
first got the NFL. Okay, when Fox first got the NFL.
This was when the rights came up. Everybody was stunned,
right this when I was a production assistant in the ESPN,
and I really wanted to work on NFL prime time,
Like that's was the gold standard of working on prime
time and it was my time to do it. It It
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was you know, I had been I'd been there a
year and I had done well, and this is my
time to be on prime time. Right. That was that
everybody wanted to be were walking around going it's my time,
I'm walking around going prime time time and I wanted
to work on prime time. And it was they always
took one or they took to production assistance and one
associate producer, and at the time it was a production assistant.
So you're talking about two p A s and they're
(24:58):
about sixty people that want to this job, right, and
so but I wanted, I wanted. I wanted it. Did
you have a battle royal? And then it was just
how you were able to get it? And I had
a feeling. I said, I'm going to get this because
I was, you know what, like I said, as good
as I am on the radio, who I was a
phenomenal p A man, Uh, I gotta I gotta tell
the truth. I can't lie. I was a phenomenal. You
call anybody ESPN, they say, who was the best production
(25:20):
assistant AP that we ever had? They say, Jason Smith.
I guarantee you they say my name. They say my
name all the time. So I was ready to be it, right,
I was ready to be But I gotta tell the truth.
I can't not lie. I can't lie about things. I
can't negative. So I was I was going to get
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the gig and then the rights come up and Fox
gets it and it's WHOA. It's usually NBCCBS had the
right for the longest time, so now Fox had it.
And there was such panic at ESPN because nobody knew
what this was gonna be like with Fox, Like what
was gonna Nobody knew what kind of year was gonna
(26:02):
be with Fox having the games, what access was going
to be, anything else. No, there was so much unknown.
And when they picked the p a's they didn't pick me.
They picked a guy who was a more senior p
A that did it the year before, so he's supposed
to leave and go on and do something else. So
they picked the same guy did the year before. I'm like,
wait a minute, wait a minute, why that picked me? Wait?
You graduate that fast? He was ready to be No,
(26:25):
he was ready to be promoted. After a couple of years,
you start getting the point where maybe you get promoted.
So he was probably gonna get promoted, but they wanted
another person who had done it before because they were
nervous about exactly what was going to happen, what the
year was gonna be like. So they actually said to
me that a meeting. My boss said, listen, I'm sorry,
you're not gonna get. I'm like, I'm not gonna get.
I was so mad I wanted to go to the
almost went to the Golf Channel as a production assistant.
(26:46):
So glad I didn't do that. I almost saw his
Golf Channel was hiring everybody, and I was mad. But
my boss told me, we don't know what kind of
year this is going to be, so we want somebody
who's been through and can can adjust on it. And
I'm like, Okay, in theory, I get it, but I'm like,
you don't think I could do it. But I'm like,
you know. So I was mad and like I would
(27:09):
up talking to people about going to the Golf Channel.
This when many people wanted to go to the Golf Channel,
it seemed like it was so cool, and I stayed
and I'm glad I did. But that was a big concern.
And when somebody had it, and there was always what
is Fox going to be? Like they put the score
bug in the corner. Why would you put a score
bug in the corner? It ruins the game? Now can
you imagine watching a game? So now you have you
(27:32):
have another entity that is getting a football contract that
you have no idea if they can hand you want
to think they can handle it, but can they? I mean,
Paramount Plus just had their feed freeze on on women's
soccer all right. Now, as popular as women's soccer is,
it's not the National Football League, right. I think we
can agree on that. And can you imagine what the
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reaction would be there? And I see the reaction right now,
how mad people are and and it was you know,
it wasn't even a World Cup game. You know, it
wasn't even a World Cup game. Right. If this happened
in the NFL, it would be it would be outer chaos.
And now you have you have an entity that has
the has a sport where you have to raise it,
(28:13):
raise your hand. That's question. Do they know what they're doing?
They know? Do they really know what they're doing? They
think they do. We're gonna hire the right people, like
that's what big companies like Amazon and Netflix. We're just
gonna hire the right people and they're gonna come in
and do it. Um. Yeah, but do you really know
the ins and outs of how to make sure everything
is done? Because this is good, this is a this
is now a big worry because streaming giants freeze all
the time, or their programming is not available. That programming
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has got to always be there, man, It's got to
always be there. Originally, it's only one game a week.
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where we watched One Soda win a controversy filled home
run derby. Tonight, we'll have more on that coming up
in a bit. But if you like home run Derby's, well,
you may not have seen the last one this week
(29:37):
because it was announced today that if tomorrow's game is
tied after nine innings, it will be settled for the
home run Derby. Sweet, you have three hitters from each side,
will bat three pitches apiece, and that's going to break
(29:59):
the tie. So after nine innings, not gonna be extra innings,
not gonna we are getting a home run Derby. I
think gonna bounce Schwarber from the National League side. Now
they're gonna count an extra one for him tomorrow when
he goes. Does he start with one? You know what?
After an egregious eric, I don't think it actually was
an error, but that's a whole other thing. Whether it
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was or wasn't, it's enough of a controversy. But I
like this idea. Yes, you know who had this idea
twenty years ago. This guy my first time around at Fox.
We were on the air after the Tide All Star
Game in two thousand two when both teams ran out
of pictures and bud Sea League is on television with
his arms flapping around, what do you want me to do.
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There's nothing I can do. We have to have a
tie All Star game. On the air that night, I said,
how about having a home run derby? It would be legendary.
How does no one come up with that idea? And
I come up? I'm sitting in a studio three thousand
miles away from this game. How do you not have
a home Say let's do a home run derby? Right,
Let's get five hitters, three pitches a piece. Let's load
it up and may take fifteen minutes to set up,
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but boy, will it be fun. We'll do interviews, we'll
talk to people. It'll be the greatest thing ever. Twenty
years later, Hey, we're gonna solve with a home run derby.
I mean, can I sue? Can I sue for that?
Because that was my idea years ago? Did you file
for any you know, rights, sir? I mean you really
don't own any because it would still be Major League
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Baseball marks in the league itself. I mean, do you
think they just take it. Statute of limitations is over
from that by now. Yeah, But I don't even know
what you'd be able to clean my idea, and if
it's used, I can I can I don't know that
this falls under intellectual product. I can do the whole
Scott Boris thing. Look how many more people tuned in
because it was a home run derby. So that's more
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money that I should get, and I should get part
of the part of the problem with that, that's I
should do that. It's a good argument. Yeah, I don't
know how we're gonna quantify that, but we'll try. How
do you can figure that? I gotta have a good
lays How are you going to prove it? I could
get people from the two thousand did They're all still around.
I can get people from that show in two thousand
and two. Now I'm pulling the curtain back. You did
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this thing with an eye roll, thinking as you were
saying that sentence, it's like any of them dead. I
will get Jake Warner and Tommy Bowman and Jim Daniels back.
I will get them back. And I remember when I
had that idea, and they would say, yeah, what if
they weren't rolling, It doesn't matter. Jake Warner rolls on
everything he's got, every show he's ever did in his
(32:27):
entire life. Or if not, we'll make it up. My
voice still sounds the same that it was. It was
in my early thirties and that was years. Hasn't gotten
husky or now because I haven't smoked. What if they
were streaming the show that night in the cut out
during your care you know what's gonna have your selective editing.
Let me tell you guys about streaming giants and how
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that's going to be the future of television. Uh. Look,
it's a great idea. It's awesome. And maybe in the
second half of the season, that's how we break ties
in out of the runner at second base home run
derby after the ninth inning. I advocate that for that derby. Yeah,
lose this runner on second nonsense, here's the batting practice.
(33:11):
Pitcher comes out, You pick three guys if that's what
we want to do, and run it the same way. Yeah,
and I'm okay because we have Alonzo, So I'm all right. Well,
in every game, maybe every single game, now, you know,
and this is a difficult conversation, but you know, you
realize sports me. You think about the fixed idea. If
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we get we get an extra inning game tomorrow night,
and we get hey on the first the first announced,
we get a home run derby, it's tied after nine innings,
we get a home run derby. After nine innings, a
closer comes in and serves up a gopher ball, like, oh,
he took one for the team. He did the job.
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It's like tied three three in the fifth inning, and
all the other guys go and they just swing it
everything so we can get to the ninth inning tied,
and then we have a home runder. Hendrix comes into
his theme song, simple Man, and then Rob Schoreber again,
just everybody, just everybody striking out, striking out on purpose.
We can get to that, Oh, that'd be awesome. Then
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you get people going, well, maybe certain things we do
have a do We haven't a predetermined outcome here, but
it will be entertaining. Damn it sure will be. Everybody
wants the home run derby to end to win the
All Star Game. What do you want? Do you really
want a closer that you've never heard of in the
game in the ninth inning you know against but stop,
(34:35):
he's he's actually having a great year against players you
don't even know that are the lone representatives of their
teams and have to decide the game that way. Already,
you want to home run derby dery, You want to
watch you to hit a few Dingers killed Simpsons episode.
They already did this. Who wants to watch me Dingers
as he's putting all the research under his Hey, the
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derby champ coming up next right here, Fox focus in
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