February 20, 2025 • 55 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon in for C&R have all the latest on the San Antonio Spurs shutting down Victor Wembanyama for the remainder of the season. MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to get us pumped for USA/Canada and talk all things Spring Training. Jason explains why it’s just going take a while for Luka Doncic with the Lakers. And All-Pro guard Zack Martin has informed the Dallas Cowboys that he plans to retire.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Jason Smith Mike.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Harmon in for them today as we celebrate the opening
of baseball season. Yeah, Dodgers aren't celebrating. They're getting drilled.
This lineup is terrible. It's over, I mean really hot
Takes eighty seven seven ninety nine on Fox Did did
Did Dodgers blow it by spending all this money in
the off season?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You I like what you're talking about here? Is it
money poorly spent? I will say this, you know how
much I hate the Cubs Southsider for those unaware and
new to the Smith and Harmon combination, White Sox and
everything else in Chicago except the Cups. But I really
do like these light blue caps that they're wearing today.
(01:08):
And Iowa Sam, who's on the technical producer today. He smiled,
and he goes makes me want a klondike bar. Yeah,
that bear sitting.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
There, Yeah, I don't. I don't know how much I
like him because they kind of look like either like
alternate Detroit Lions hats or what's the what's the clothing company?
Where the the mascot is like the Polar Bear, but
there's like a sea in it, Like what's that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
like that's kind of what it looks like. Like it's
like what was echo? It kind of looks like it
(01:39):
kind of looks like one of those hats, like it's
kind of a cross between a Detroit Lions third uniform
hat and an Echo hat. I don't know. Okay, I
can get on board that I did, but it's it's
a rhino. I think, Iowa, Sam, It's a rhino, is
what it is? I thought it was a polar bear.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, I can see why people might think that it's
it's a rhino.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, what's what's the Polar bear on? There's a polar
Bear one too, isn't there? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm trying to know your logos.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Of course, I tried to do the search and immediately
it's like hey, would you like one hundred dollars inflatable
light blue ted costume. Oh okay, it's a weird cause
play thing. I started going down a deep, dark rabbit hole. Man,
I gotta burn my computer now.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I want you know that. Part of me wants
to see just what your search history is on the computer.
Part of me doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
No, you do, because it's really a galctic. I bring
the I bring worlds together. I mean I I am Galactus.
I am the eater of worlds.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Part of me would say, oh, hey, Harmon, can you
explain you know what? I'm not gonna wait, hip deep
into this, explain what. Okay, I am what I am.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm an open body. Let's go. I'm kind of a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, you walked into the show one day and said
the show owns part of Andre the Giants jockstrap I did,
and we do.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Till you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'm holding on for dear life.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh and you wonder why I kind of I don't
know if I want to see your search history or not.
We own one of Andre the Giants Jockstraps.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I bought the show's name. We haven't tell me. That's
not great. It's not a lot of shares. It's a
small fractional interest in it. But it's a nice conversation starter.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No property, yeah, Andre the Giants, Jockstrap.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What do you have? Oh, I have a beach house
on the coast. Oh that sounds wonderful.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
No, we have a house at casamel Oh. Yeah, No,
I have a great I own property in the Greater
Often area. What do you have? We own part of
Andre the Giants Jocksas.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm gonna be honest, most of the folks I hang with. Yeah,
there's a lot of people I know that could go
through the laundry list of properties, like you know, big
shots like you, versus the people that I'm hanging out with,
you know, in the corner of a bar that you know,
they're gonna be more in line with the property holdings
of me.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
All right, here's what I want you to do. I
want you to put that in the front of your
tinder page. I don't have and you till we get okay,
So I want you to get a tender page. Well
you can still join up. Just just put and put
that very very uh uh prominently on the front. Mike Harmon,
you know, nighttime Gabber Fox Sports Radio owner of Andre
(04:19):
the Giant Jockstrap, tell me how that goes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And then say well here's me and mine and now
we really have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Starter again, Why I don't I don't know what I
want to see about the search history on your computer.
I really don't it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
When you took us down that deep dark path, that's
your fault, not mine, And I have a new look.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
If we go down the history of the show twenty
of one.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Offs and iowa Sam, I might have to pay him
as a researcher for show history. I think there have
been a number of things that we could probably play
a couple of segments of what the hell is Jason into? Yeah,
if you want to take stuff completely out of context,
some of your things and people in places and things
(05:04):
that you've referenced, don't go coming at me. I got
receipts too, Pal, I just gave you the biggest receipt
Andre the Giants Jockstrap.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's a bit I don't know that you ever received.
You don't have. You could go to CVS and get
everybody's receipt for the day. It would look like a
big streamer like in the Olympics. When when the when?
When the dancer's going you see the big streamers going on.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think I might do that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like Will Ferrell, you wouldn't have enough as as Andre,
the Giants jockstrap would not happen.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's good times, man, good times.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Are intrepid producer justin Frostburg. What do you got?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But what's been washed? More recently the Andre jockstrap game
used or your football head coach at Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh wow, all right for those unaware, I'm storry Fran
Brown doesn't shower. The question, Well, we haven't had a
game in a while, so I want to say it's
Fran Brown. Oh, but it is actually showering now because
there there's no games and no time to not shower
after wins. Because you're superstitious, I think now in the offseason.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Okay, but you won the bowl game, so he can't
shower all off season. If that's the superstition, that's the superstition.
Think about that steak.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Big story out of the NBA promises a few minutes ago.
And I think everybody was shocked today when you you
found out somehow that Victor Webbin Yama is out for
the season. The Spurs announcing he's going to miss the
rest of the year with deep vein thrombosis in his
right shoulder, basically deep vein thrombos. You hear about this
a lot. It's a blood clot. It was discovered shortly
(06:39):
after the All Star Game. His condition is treated with
blood thinning medication, which if you know you ever on
blood thinning medication participating in contact sports, you really can't
do it right. You know, there's there's too much susceptibility
for injury. So he is. So he is out. And
the big shocker even further from this is that they're
(07:00):
hopeful he's able to be back for the beginning of
next season, Like that's the thing. And to think this
is this is much more than just Wemby's out for
the year with an This isn't an injury. This is
a medical condition. And anybody that's ever flown, you know,
you get certain, you get a certain age, and suddenly
you're saying, Hey, I'm flying, I want to wear the
(07:21):
the compression socks. My wife has me wearing compression socks
on the plane. Now that now that I'm over fifty,
they we're traveling. No, I got to get those though,
that guy. I gotta put that on my christmassiles. I
gotta get blue and orange.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
See if they have any any branded blue and orange.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Compression socks, so they could be the Knicks, they could
be Syracuse, they could be the Mets. Yeah no no,
or if you want to make it just look like stirrups,
so I could wear I look pretty cool and then
I can kind of roll my sweatpants up to the
midcalf and it looks like, oh, it looks like I'm
wearing a unifor you know what.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
You can actually get at least licensed NFL ones, so
you can get Jets ones.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Really I want ones that work. Oh sorry? Is that.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It's failure on the Jets versus other compressions.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Like when we when we yeah, yeah, they don't prevent
jets they don't work. Hey, they're great in the off season,
but when they actually have to play wear them during
the season, it doesn't work as well.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So I get anything.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It's like, what's the percentage of failure one if the
Jets up that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, that's like oh the you know the asteroid that's
going to hit Earth one point oh now it's out.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's a three point four percent well, I mean, you
still have seven years of existence, so living up people.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So like when we went to the United Kingdom last summer,
like this is the first time that I wore. Pam
was like, we have to wear them. The flights are long,
they're eight out, Like, okay, fine, so I wear them
like they're gonna be They're not gonna be uh comfortable,
I'm gonna hate them. And they were okay. I'm like, okay, great.
I mean I was happy to get take them off
when I got off the plane.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
But still it's did you feel it bullied or she
was just genuinely genuinely concerned.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, no, no, if she if she's not concerned, that's
when that's when I'm really hey, listen, wear them or
don't I don't care. Wait we're married, yeah, but I
don't care. No, that's when concerned. When your wife is
not saying things that that could help you. When it's
I don't care, that's what. Okay, red flag, red flag
going up. But IM like, this is a condition that
(09:12):
is exacerbated and I'm not lying. It's exacerbated in people
who are tall and people who fly a lot. Hey,
what does the NBA have tall people and people who
fly all the time. So if this was, hey, a
broken finger or a fractured scapula or something else, like, Okay,
he's hurt, he can come back. But this is a
(09:32):
condition he's got to manage now for the rest of
his career. Like he's on blood thinners and he's got
to be able to fly, and and and maybe it's
something to the point of he doesn't fly back to
back nights. He only you know, maybe he doesn't go
for road trips when they're really far if they have
to fly to New York, if the next game after
that they're coming back to the Midwest and they're playing
in Chicago, Like this has to be managed because this
(09:53):
is basically what ended Chris Bosh's career, right, Like Chris
Bosh couldn't come back from the blood clots in the thrombosis.
Now the flip side of it, you had Brandon Ingram
who went through it about three or four years ago,
and he's able to come out the other side, just
signed a big contract extension. He's an All star. So
it's not saying it has to be doom and gloom
for Wemby, but this is a medical condition where you
(10:14):
just you know, here's two players that suffered from it.
One had to basically retire because of it, and one
was able to come back from it. So not to
suddenly say, oh my goodness, this means he's never going
to play again, But this is more than just Hey,
here's a guy that got hurt and you look forward
to him coming back in the fall. It's a medical
condition and now they're hoping he can return in the fall.
(10:36):
And how do you manage it when it comes to flying,
when it comes to traveling, how do you go forward
on this? Like this is now a thing that's come
out of nowhere that now you have to find a
way to deal with this for the rest of your career,
Like this is a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, I thinking, at least right now isolated plot. So
you know, surgery is an option, but you start going
through the larger and you know, starting to do our
junior researchers and web md searches and everything else about
vein thrombosis deep vein thrombosis. One of the things you're
(11:11):
talking about is blood flow, and the lungs is something
that needs to be monitored. And obviously he's gonna have
the best care that you could possibly get as a
member of the NBA, and certainly a player of his status, stature,
what he means to the game, what he means to
his home country, all of these things that we start
to look in a little bit deeper, Jason. But yeah, Jarring, right,
(11:34):
we talked a lot about once Dearon Fox became a
member of the Spurs and that wild and wily trade
sequencing that we had in the NBA. It's like, all right,
they didn't give up any assets. This could be a
really interesting run, you know, to try to fight back
into at least the play in and then maybe make
some noise with the reconstituted lineup. Now you're talking about
you know where they're at, and they're they're out of
(11:56):
the top ten in the West. And this is where
Isaac bag for you, because now you get into you know,
your thinking. Cap On Cooper Flag said he was going
to go back to duke ping pong balls. Suddenly I'm
creating chaos in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
There you got. I just photo shopped him into a
Spurs jersey for you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Can you're you're you're talking about, let's see, uh they
make the big trade for Fox they got Wemby, they
got that.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Now they're gonna have Cooper, they'll be unbeatable. And you
had as On and you have let's go.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But but all of that to say, we we have
no idea, you know, how how quickly things can get resolved.
Obviously they're putting a longer time frame on it. Right
under promise, over delivered, general rule of thumb, try to
get it under under control. But for the NBA, for
the game, for a lot of the talking points that
(12:50):
that we have on a nightly basis, you know, you
and I and our our normal seven to eleven Pacific slot,
we get a lot of ends of Spurs games, and
we've been blessed to watch a lot of his development
and growth and what he means to the league. That
you hope that they find a solution and hopefully it's
just isolated, and that whatever medications and treatments he gets on,
(13:13):
that they find a solution quickly, whatever that may be.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know, And for the basketball perspective of this is
that you know, I've told you for a long time,
by the end of this year, going into next season,
it will be widely accepted that he's the best player
in the NBA because he does things that nobody else
can do. And look at how he's ascending this year.
As great as Jokich is, as great as Yiannis is,
(13:38):
as great as some of these players are. Nobody can
do what Wemby does. Nobody get the shots from the
outside and rim, protect down low and pass, and nobody
can do what he does. And he was on his
way to being that guy. And now and when it
comes to the end of the season, it's hopefully he
comes back and he's still Wemby again, like he was
on that kind of path to being the best player
(13:59):
in the lead in a couple of months and now
suddenly here we are hoping that he can come back
and play some point in the near future. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon in for Cafino and Rich Here on Fox
Sports Radio. We have breaking news coming into our studio
right now. Let's go to Dan Bayer, Who's got the
latest on it. Dan, what do you have.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
For breaking news from Fox Sports guys.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
At the end of an era in Dallas, Zach Martin
has reportedly decided to retire as a member of the
Dallas Cowboys. The guard was a nine time pro bowler,
seven time All Pro had an expiring contract this season,
a season that ended early because of ankle surgery. Zach
Martin surely a Hall of Famer mmm, retiring today at
(14:46):
the age of thirty four.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Wow, Wow, there we go. Hey, thanks Dan, big stuff there.
We'll have more on this story coming up later on
this hour. The Cowboys clearly at a crossroads. Now they're
going to move on without Zach Martin. Next, we got
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
Fox Sports Radio. Cavino and Rich Jason Smith, Mike Harmon
in for the guys today, first exhibition game of the
baseball season, Dodgers and the Cubs, someone uniquely qualified to
talk about that, the beginning of the baseball season. How
much trouble the Yankees might be in already, And the
(17:04):
biggest sporting event of the week, biggest hockey game probably
since nineteen eighty coming up tonight. It is Fox Sports
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Speaker 3 (17:20):
John Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm doing great, my friends. And let me tell you
this much this game you said the sporting event of
the week, It might be the sporting event of the year,
with all due respect to the Super Bowl, anything else
going on. I cannot wait for eight pm tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, I think. Look, it's the biggest hockey game since
probably the United States Russia in nineteen eighty. With everything
going around at the geopolitical situation about annexing Canada, annex
in California. Hey, I'm throwing this out there at John Paul.
If we win, we get Canada. If Canada wins, they
get California. Let's really ratchet things up with the stakes
of this game for the four nations.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I think the game is perfect just as it is.
We don't need to add anything else. This is about
two great hockey teams in a great hockey town in Boston, Massachusetts.
If you set aside everything else, it is just a
great game, which is honestly the way that I'm looking
at it. There may be conclusions drawn or subplots discussed
(18:24):
on x at various times, but I think it's a
transformational game for a couple of reasons. Number One, it
is the biggest best on best game between the US
and Canada since the twenty ten gold medal game in Vancouver,
and it's coming at a time where US hockey is
on the rise. The US has won a lot of
(18:46):
intermediate events like the World Junior Championships multiple times, but
we have not won an Olympic gold medal since eighty
and we have not won a best on best tournaments.
It's the ninety six World Cups. So this is a
chance for the US two. As the Herb Brooks character says,
a miracle declare that it's our time. And I think
(19:07):
the diversity of the roster says a lot. You've got
a captain who grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona. Austin Matthews
is Mexican American. His mom is from Adam Moseo, Mexico.
His dad's a former baseball player from California, and so
Austin Matthews that profile of player where he grew up,
how we learned the game. That player did not exist
(19:29):
on the nineteen eighty Olympic teams, and so in order
did it really exist on the ninety six World Cup team.
So it's a fundamentally different era. You still have the
old guard of the Canadian team with Sidney Crosby, who
I thought was their best player for a lot of
stretches of the game on Saturday, or at least certainly
their game against the Swedes, and he was all over
(19:49):
the place helping them get to the gold medal game here.
So it's I think it's there are just so many
subplots here. The US probably has the best goaltender in
the world in Connor Halibuck Canada has Cale mccarr back
in the lineup, So we can talk about this angle
from any number of different different approaches here with this
with this game, but I just think it's going to
be a magnificent hockey game that hopefully goes into overtime
(20:13):
with a dramatic conclusion. We can talk about it for
many decades to come and what a perfect appetizer for
the Olympics one year from now in Milano, Cortina, Italy.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Goals over under is five and a half when we
played on Saturday and had sixty three hits over under
on the goals.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What are you predicting here, JP, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It'll be lower scoring than that. I feel like it's
another three to one game, maybe two to one with
an empty netter either way. The thing is with the US,
I'm a little worried about the health of the forward group,
and certainly there was a lot of conversation about Matthew
could chuck Austin Matthews missing the previous game against the Swedes.
(20:55):
There obviously was the was the injury to to Brady
early on in that game. There have been a lot
of injuries that have happened with the top US forward,
so that worries me a little bit. And the thing
too is with mccarr back in the lineup and where
I think Canada will score more than one goal than
they did in the first meeting, mccar will help them
(21:15):
break the lines. There was a lot of the US
fowards did a really excellent job of backchecking and creating
a lot of pressure on the Canadian forwards. But having
a defenseman like mccarr who is so skilled at at
dictating the rush, I think will help them neutralize the
way the US forwards played. And I think Canada is
going to have a much better offensive nights to night
(21:37):
than they did in Montreal on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Really, because I have two words where I completely disagree
with you on that go two words. Connor Hellibuck the
best American goalie that we've ever had. I mean, he's
Jim Craig. He's he's going to win his third Vesna,
He's going to win the MVP. He's he's already at
thirty one at I mean, he just plays in Winnipeg,
which is you know, not his fault, but you know,
(22:00):
don't really know. But he's the best goalie that America
has ever produced. And you know, and I went back
and it was and nothing's been you know, stuck with
me the last couple of days more than when I
watched Jayon Rate talk about this. You know, you know,
big game can looking at it from Canada's perspective. I
always like looking at big games from the other team's perspective, see.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
What they think.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, and it was, And the best thing I heard
was that, Hey, no matter what Canada has the forwards,
they have more talent. But if Connor Hellibook doesn't have
a bad night, Canada is not gonna win. And Connor
Hellibook does not have bad nights like that, Like, there
is no more truer thing than that. And nothing can
flip a game more than a goalie who not only
is hot, but is the best goalie in the game. Yeah,
(22:41):
it's gonna be tough. Yeah, kinda can can dictate the pressure.
That's fine. I'll take the United States two to one.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, it may well end that way. And and everything
you said about Hellibuck is absolutely true. The one thing
is that, certainly it's hard to slow down McDavid McKinnon
and back to back games that those two players are
superb in the past they play at they're going to
(23:07):
have to I think get Hellibuck moving a bit cross crese.
Hellabuck is so tall and he takes up so much
of the net, and his agility is so superior that
you're going to have to get some movement cross crease
and some passes that get a movement right and left.
I think for Canada to be able to score some
goals in this game. So I think you are exactly right.
(23:30):
And this game comes down to Hellibuck and if he
has a great night, which he certainly did against Canada
he also did against Finland, if he does it again
against Canada, the US will be champions of the four
nations faceoff.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
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(24:04):
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Speaker 2 (24:13):
First of all, I'll try in terms of solving all
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Speaker 3 (24:18):
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Speaker 2 (24:21):
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of the Dodgers first Cactus League game is Cubs nine,
Dodgers three. Thus, the Dodgers dynasty has been greatly exaggerated
here there. They're looking at a one active league record.
My goodness, Booky belt Oh, for one, I canceled the
season at this point in time. But I say this,
(24:42):
of course in ingest. It was encouraging again for them
to get Yamamoto. He started today, he fished pretty well.
There's a lot. There is a lot of animosity in
the game toward the Dodgers, There's no question about it.
And it's interesting that it's both within the industry and
for fans, just based on the fact that they are
spending at such a high level while also developing players
(25:07):
at a very strong rate. And when we had on
MLB Network this morning, we showed a graphic of the
Dodgers starting pitching options, and you could argue that the
Dodgers second starting five is as good or better than
almost any other rotation in the National League. That means
the guys that are not even going to begin to hear.
Certainly injury is part of this on some level. Otani's
(25:28):
not quite ready to pitch yet. Kershaw is not going
to be ready on opening day either. But at some
point you're going to add two Hall of famers to
your rotation just because you can. And you've already got
Snell and Glass now and Yamamoto and Tasaki. The depth
is really something to behold. So is there jealousy, is
it envy, whatever word you want to describe, I think
(25:49):
it all applies here. And yet, what I would say
to the entire industry, the Dodgers were down to one
in the division series of the Padres, there were one
loss away from this being a very different conversation in
a lot of different ways. So it maybe they're not
quite as inevitable as some would describe them as being.
They are an exceptionally well run organization, and the way
(26:12):
in which they have done things to an extent, the
way in which the Mets have done things have contributed
to what I think is a an accurate description of
the industry as being the haves and the have not.
There's just a large percentage of teams that do not
play realistically on the highest end of the players, and
(26:33):
I do think that is contributing to what is some
angst about the overall direction of the industry as we
move towards the next TV negotiation.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
John Paul Morosi with US. John Paul, I want to
talk about the second best team in New York for
a minute, the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So with what's.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Going on it said, by the way, for our daytime audience,
Jason is a Mets fan. Just wanted to get that
out there. If you're tuting in a differ time they
normally do. He loves the method. Is therefore speaking about
the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So for the Yankees here, I mean, I know that
it's early in spring training, but to get the news
two days ago that not only is John Carlos Stanton
not swinging a bat, he hasn't swung a bat in
a month and he has two bad elbows all of
a sudden, John Paul, I'm saying, I'm waiting for the
day where we find out, hey, he's out a long time,
(27:26):
and then middle of the season it's a FATA complete.
He's gonna miss the year like this is this kind
of reminds me of cesspitous with the Bad Heels the
beginning of spring, trading Guts who didn't play again, Like
this is not something where I think, hey, little bit
of rest and Stanton's gonna be ready for Opening Day.
I really wonder how much he's even gonna play this year.
And the Yankees need him, especially with Yeah, they made
additions in the offseason to pivot away from Soto, but
(27:49):
they need Stanton to be Stanton if they're gonna do
anything this year.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
They do. And you know what would be really a
convenient and interesting storyline. What if the Red Sox just
traded them Devers to be their DH. That that'd be
pretty interesting. Would I say this in jest, of course,
I'm really serious about that, because there's been a bit
of a bit of a controversy in Boston about how
Devers and Bregmann are fitting together.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But you're he wouldn't know anywhere to be a DH.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He would, he would, he would say, notice because if
they say complete third base, he would.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Say, yes, exactly. Well, and that's where perhaps the Yankees
find a way to rekindle things with with the Nolan
Arnado trade possibility, they probably have to evaluate as well
what they can expect from DJ Lemahew this year, who
missed so much time last year. Let's not forget that
the Yankees with Soto. By the way, and you may
(28:37):
have heard as you if you're just joining us, they
no longer have won Soto, but they they really needed
John Carlos Stanton to get through the Kansas City Royals
and the Cleveland Guardians last year in the playoffs. He
was honestly, after Soto, their most dangerous hitter and so
(29:02):
in the playoffs, this is a significant issue for them. Now,
does it promote some thought of maybe they end up
trading Stroman for a bat. Stroman is out there, There's
been a lot of talking about what his role is
going to be this year. This whole situation with Stroman
being available and uncertainty at third base and now uncertainty
with Stanton. While I'm excited about the fact that they've
(29:25):
got Goldschmidt and they've got Bellinger, They've got Williams to
the bullpen. They've made some good moves even though they
didn't have Soto. They have recovered nicely, but this situation
right now with Stanton is certainly concerning, and it feels
to me like there is going to be at least
a minor trade made by the Yankees between now an
opening day to address the situation, because if you can't
(29:48):
swing a bat on February twentieth, I'm real concerned about
how it's going to look on April twentieth, July twentieth,
and certainly October twentieth going forward.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
MOROSEI check him out with us here at Fox Sports Radio,
MLB Network, and tonight for the Four Nations Championship. John
Paul is always buddy appreciated man. We'll talk to you
down the road. We'll talk to you tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
And it sounds great. My friend's biggest hockey game we
have seen in more than forty years, and we cannot
wait for the US and Canada enjoy everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Thanks buddy. I mean, really to say it's this big
a deal, this game, I mean, I didn't think it
was that hot a take, because yes, we've had big
games in the Olympics before, in the World Cup of
Hockey with the United States and Canada, United States and
different Yeah, we've had that right, but this game, it's
in our window. It's in a week of sports where
(30:42):
the NBA still is coming back from the All Star
break and you know, we finished major we finished the
NFL season, Baseball spring training is just starting. It's in
a great spot on the calendar. It's it's in the
East coast window for us. We don't have to wake
up at three in the morning like I've done in
the past to watch a hockey game. I gotta wake up.
It's three in the morning across the halfway across the globe,
(31:03):
and the geopolitical aspects of it are just you can't
ignore them. You can't ignore what's been going on with
President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau and California and Canada
and all of this. This is a tremendous time for hockey,
and they'll get a big springboard coming off of this game,
almost kind of like what hockey got in nineteen eighty
(31:24):
that they dined out on for the next ten to
twelve years before Gary Bettman's deciding, hey we're locking out now,
We're running hockey all the way down. So I expect
that kind of bump from the NHL, from hockey coming
off this game.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, I mean, it just really quick. Number One?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Do I have to stay in this studio? Are we
We're not abdicating the throne?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Right?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
We get to cover this live on air?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Sure, I can lock the door and keep the odd
couple out later. Second, I'm really disappointed that none of
the news aggregators grabbed our trade.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Proposal and ran with it like it was a real
news story. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I mean I thought, think that'd be great, Like if
the United States wins, we get Canada. If Canada wins,
they get California. All right?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
With that, I'm really hoping to be interviewed all across
the globe.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, they could get they could get the whole. I mean,
if we got to add in, you know, Washington and
Oregon to make it the whole West coast. Okay, you
know it's gotta look nice on a map. So I
if we wanted to, I understand if we had to
do that, but what why not make it go?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Time to find out what's trending right now the wide
world of sports From Dan Bayer d B.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
What do you got for the.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Breaking news this hour?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Is that Dallas Cowboys guard Zach Martin is announcing his retirement.
Martin spent eleven years in the National Football League, seven
time First Team All Pro, two times second Team All Pro,
went to nine Pro Bowls, and in fact, Martin started
one hundred and sixty two games in his career, started
every game that he played. Didn't play in every game
of his eleven years, but in those that he played
(32:48):
and started every one, had just seven holding penalties throughout
those one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Zach Martin hanging him up today.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Spurs star Victor Webbin Yams going to miss the rest
of the season because of a blood clot in his shoulders.
Spurs said Wemby as deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder,
as he'd experienced symptoms lately, said that he had hoped
to be all right after the All Star break. That
was not the case, and now Victor Wembin Yama is
done for the year. Bucks forward Bobby Portis has spended
(33:17):
twenty five games for testing positive for a bandit substance.
Mavericks forward Anthony Davis is progressing from his adductor injury. However,
he'll be re evaluated in two weeks. Lakers guard Luka
Doncic out night against Portland, while Lebron James is questionable.
Yankees a given manager Aaron Booner an extension through twenty
twenty seven. An update from John Morosi giving the Cubs
(33:39):
Dodgers score. It's now twelve three Cubs on top of
the Dodgers and for play. Bobby Miller did have to
leave the game. The Dodgers pitcher struck in the forehead
by a line drive off the bat of the Cubs
Michael Bush that was going one hundred and five miles
per hour, But again, Miller was able to walk off
on his own power. Finally, guys, Texas and USCF decided
to not hold spring games this year.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Dan, appreciate it. That's
an incredible stat from Zach Martin. In his entire career,
he's made All Pro nine more times than he committed
holding penalties, seven more All Pro selections than holding penalties.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Row. That's all eady, Hello, Canton, Zach Martin, walk right in.
Can they figure out a way to make him hold
out too? Because we try to keep the cowboys out
on our show.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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after we get off the air. So last night was
the real official beginning, I guess you could say of
(36:28):
the second half, not kind of second last third of
the NBA season where the Lakers fell to the Hornets
and an incredibly embarrassing loss for the Lakers. They've now
lost their last two games of two teams with a
combined record of twenty seven and eighty and Luka Doncic
looks like he's going through all the reasons why the
(36:49):
Evericks traded him, still having trouble. He looks like he's
playing at three quarter speed. Mike. That's the best thing,
the best way I can describe. I'm not saying he's
not playing hard, but I don't know what he's capable of,
how much he's capable of playing. But he's moving a
lot slower than even Luca normally is. Because Luca's game
is about deception, about angles, about leverage, but he's just no,
(37:13):
he doesn't have a lot of separation. The Hornets allowed
him to take any three pointer he wanted. Last night,
the Lakers went to Lebron at the end of the
game for the last shot because you couldn't go to
Luca because you couldn't hit anything like. I'm confident that
the Lakers' offense is going to look just like an
absolute monster at some point, but it's going to take
a while because Luca just doesn't look the same and
(37:34):
for all of the reasons now, I think people are
finally coming around to something we talked about when the
trade happened. The Mavericks didn't just wake up one morning
and Nico Harrison said I want to trade Luka Doncic
and he did it before they talked to anybody like.
This is something that went on for a long time,
and they have their reasons. They didn't want to commit
a lot of money to him. They didn't think he'd
(37:55):
ever get in shape, they thought his body would break down,
he wouldn't listen to them when they talked about and
shaper however they felt about, you know, his beer drinking.
There was a reason why they traded him, and you
can agree or disagree with it, but it's not like
they just decided to do something Willy Nilly. There's a
reason why they traded him, and you're sort of seeing now, Oh,
(38:16):
I get why they moved on from Luca. Now I
understand what's happening. So they've gone through getting all the
arrows in the beginning going oh, look what you guys
are doing. Oh, now I kind of get it a
little bit why they traded Luca.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
The best part of that analysis you had me at
Willy Nilly, but it all comes I.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Like saying, Willy Nilly's fun.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, but with all of.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
These kind of moves, right, whenever you move on, it's
like relationships of the people that you know, Oh, I'm
sorry to hear they broke up. You don't know all
everything that's it's like you know, the old what Roosevelt, right,
the man in the arena kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
You don't know the cost Paige.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
You don't know what the conversations, what the circumstances are.
In every respect, I think Dallas is convincing me that
bit by bit they're gonna leak out everything they can.
It's like Andy dufrayn at Shawshank with the rocks. Bit
by bit, we're gonna get it all, and we're gonna
dig that a hole and we're gonna crawl through however,
many hundreds of yards of blank and we're there. But
(39:14):
all of that to say, yeah, it was he was slow,
right a couple of times. The explosiveness that you're used
to of him getting to the rims like, wow, he
got met by two guys. Right, It's like we were
watching the gain the other night, the usc UCLA game,
right when bets would get the ball down low, and
all of a sudden, here comes Juju Watkins from the
backside part of her eight blocks. Like Bets normally gets
(39:36):
turned and gets that shot right up, but not that night.
Here you're looking at, you know, Luca trying to get
the timing and also learning how to work without the ball.
He looked confused and lost in some of those possessions,
like down the stretch, I was waiting for them. If
he had pockets, his hands would have been in the
pockets as the ball went and Scott swung to Lebron
(39:57):
because he had no role in that final play.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, I mean it's I don't I don't want to
say that there. I don't think that Luca's ever going
to get back to being Luca. But it was never
gonna happen with the Mavericks. And that's what I think
people are missing, is that, well, you find a way
to hold on, We find a way to make it work.
You think for six years it didn't try to find
a way to make it work. Really, you think for
six years again, they didn't just wake up and decide, hey,
we want to trade him. Whatever lucas accomplishing with the Lakers, whatever,
(40:24):
he winds up because now he's been put on notice,
he's gotten traded that the whole conditioning and being in
shape is front burner topic with him now. It's all
anybody's going to talk about if he can't stay in
the lineup or camp. And he's already not playing again tonight,
not playing in the second of back to back. So
you again reasons why the Mavericks traded him. Whatever he does,
he simply wasn't going to do in Dallas. That relationship
(40:46):
had run its course because you were coming up on
a make or break situation, which is, do you want
to give him three hundred and thirty million dollars at
the end of this season the extension he's eligible for.
Maybe he doesn't want to take it, So yeah, you
want to move on and try to get somebody, And
you got an All NBA player in Anthony Davis, albeit
he has his own injury concerns, but still you got
(41:07):
the best player you were gonna get in this trade.
And understand that no matter how you want to slice it,
just because people don't like the trade wanted to make
it work, doesn't mean it was gonna work. Right. It's
like when you hear two people talk about breaking up
and you go, oh my god, but you guys did
so well together. You guys played off each other so much.
You guys love each other. Yeah, well it didn't work. Well,
I can't understand why you're getting divorced. You're not in
(41:28):
our marriage for the last six or seven years. Understand
Sometimes things come up that you can't get path you
from the outside. Just because you wanted to stay doesn't
mean it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing, right, You're trying to
break that down and in the end you're hoping to
get the best out of him in this next iteration.
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. But you know, I'm
always for taking a big swing, bring the best player in,
and if it doesn't work out, you can at least say, hey,
at least you tried. You get a cake, like Bart
Simmson gave a homer.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, yeah, I mean, anytime you had a cake at
the yet, it always makes it easier. Like I could
swallow this a little about that if you give me.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Cako no always right, here's some bad news. Have some ki.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah.
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should be. Now, we have that big NBA story coming
up in a second, but you've heard a couple of
times tonight in the show, the breaking news from Dan
Byer Zach Martin, Cowboys all World offensive lineman retiring at
the age of already four. There are many things you
can say about him, and he has been an absolute
(43:06):
stalwart of the offensive line his entire career. Nine time
Pro Bowl guard, nine time All Pro. But man, I
don't know, I don't know there's anything more impressive than
he's been All Pro nine times. And this from a
couple of different aggregators, NFL aggregators. He's been All Pro
nine times and he's committed seven holding penalties in his
(43:27):
career in his career, so this is less than one
holding penalty a year over a sixteen to seventeen game season.
I mean, that's just I don't know what, I don't
know there's anything more impressive than that.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Well, I think it means that he had teammates that
were less effective and technique a little sloppier, so they
would get the call instead of him.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah, we can't look at it. We we gotta look
at this guy. Or the referees were just enamored with
the star.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Ooh, man, it's.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Like the Yankees and the uniforms you'd already lost when
you step down the veil.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
I mean, he's he's going to be a first ballot
Hall of Fame. He's a member. He's a member of
the twenty tens All Decade team. Like this is as
close to a Slam unless the guy that didn't vote
for each ro gets to vote in this. And you
know there's somebody that could happen.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Man, you get in that room, I mean, someone just
decides to be contrarian.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
We've seen some crazy stuff on the MLB side, certainly
the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but yeah, this guy
walks into the hall, and and now it's another huge
gaping hole. Not that you didn't have to already start
thinking about succession plans and and what your offensive line
was going to look like, but you got so many
other concerns in Dallas, and now it's like, oh, we
(44:40):
don't even get him back. Yeah, even if he's a
diminished form of himself at eighty percent, he's still better,
but coming off a big injury, and you know, at
some point you just say, hey, it doesn't fire the
same way anymore.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yeah, And if you're if you're Dak Prescott, you go, oh, wow,
I'm gonna really earn this money even more this year.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
But you've seen all the mock drafts, right, you got
Michael Parsons talking a bunch, you know, about his podcasts
and why people may or may not like him, and
that's all finding good, but they've got to figure out
whether they're paying him.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
You've already paid CD and Dak.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
We've seen mock drafts like, oh, they'll go and get
a running Back's like, you need a running.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Back, but do you really need one? I know, Lineman, Lineman, Lineman,
what do we learn? What do you learn from the
teams in your division.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Go find lineman and keep dak up upright and give
him an opportunity down feel.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Oh, we'll have Moore in the story coming up in
about fifteen minutes, because uh, quite honestly, this again is
more about everybody's favorite topic, which is jumping up and
down to the Dallas County. That's right. Not achieving, but
we get to kick off the second half of the
NBA seasons that are really the last third of the
NBA season. Last night Lakers lost to the Hornets and
probably the most embarrassing loss they've had all year. But
(45:53):
there's one reason why I am more excited about the
second half of the season than I even was a
few days ago.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, you're fired up.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
It's like, what happened?
Speaker 4 (46:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (46:03):
There are no games of played? Not everybody?
Speaker 3 (46:05):
The Knicks are fine everything, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (46:07):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (46:09):
They still have a six man rotation.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Come on, every We're coming back there, We're getting healthy.
Everything is open.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
You pay six guys, it doesn't. We're okay until we're not.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Then I'll worry, and then I'll worry, well until we
get to the playoffs, and as soon as they put
the banners up to say, hey, welcome to the playoffs,
then I'll worry.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
No, I get it. Hey, it doesn't matter the off season.
It's not about being able to walk in the off season.
It's about being able to play during the season. Okay,
you can sit and not walk in the off season.
But I'm so glad for the rest of the NBA
to get going because now we don't have to hear
about the stupidest thing in the world, and that's that
the NBA is in trouble and might fold because they
(46:52):
had a bad all start.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
You mean that seventy six billion dollars in checks, whatever
poors you was supposed to show up, Did it not arrive?
Did that wire get screwed up?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
This is just incredibly infuriating. And there's no better way
to dive into this by then than than talking about
the conversation you and I had with Rick Buker Fox
Sports one NBA insider last night, in which we brought
up what sport do you ever talk about the health
of a sport that is defined by its All Star game?
Speaker 5 (47:22):
None?
Speaker 1 (47:23):
All all Star games stink, We don't. We don't define.
The NFL is defined by the Pro Bowl. That's not
even a game anymore. We're defined, No, we're not. But
maybe because it was a slow news week, maybe because
there's a lot of lazy people out there that Oh,
I'm just mad that the NBA All Star Game is
an affront on me, like they did it to me personally.
The All Star games are bad now. They're just not
good anymore because we've we've just passed by the era
(47:45):
of the All Star Game being special. We have to
find the new normal, which is, hey, let's find out
what works. Let's keep throwing stuff up against the wall.
Eventually we'll find something that that everybody likes, and we'll
keep doing that format. The NBA All Star Game has
been bad for fifteen years now, but now suddenly the
players hate it. Draymond Green is getting upset when when
clearly they don't care about playing and every game is
(48:06):
one eighty four to one eighty, Like I don't get
the hole over the top hatred of the game, where
like this came out of nowhere. It's an All Star game,
it's played on Sunday, we forget about it one minute
following the game on Sunday or whatever mini games they
have on Sunday Night. Yeah, I get that it wasn't
the player's favorite, but now it's the players hated it.
(48:28):
The future of the All Star Game is in doubt.
Adam Silver is a bad commissioner. NBA ratings aren't as
high as they used to be. None of these, none,
none of these have to do with the All Star
Game being bad. It's just the All Star Game was bad.
It happens, and now we're back onto the games where
I think people are gonna watch. I think people are
gonna be into the second half of the NBA season.
(48:48):
They want to see how good Luca is ad all
the big trades that were made. I'm pretty sure we're
gonna be able to say goodbye to the storyline, which
is again why I'm most excited that all the games
are gonna go on tonight, because now this whole and
All Star Game is terrible, can go back to where
it was. It's a garbage topic and it's just something
that's brought up because you've had a lot of lazy
hosts on television radio. I want to say how bad
(49:10):
it is, because yeah, nobody seems to like it, so, yeah,
it's awful. It's irrelevant. The All Star Game is irrelevant.
That's the real takeaway of it. Now we're back to
the games that matter.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
I mean, you talk about the the NHL All Star Game,
which we're in the middle of. So yeah, new format,
I some enthusiasm fired up, Nation on Nation Great.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
What are the ratings. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
They got a four point four the other day. By
way of comparison, the Flag Football Game and this year's
NBA All Star Game four point seven million each.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
So the LUA spike, I know you bet on the
Flag Football Game.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
Well, I mean I was also betting on, you know,
which guy was going to be able to hit the
forty and fifty points, you know, yard throws in the
skills competition as they were being heckled, or they had
to answer trivia questions about teammates before they started, right,
that gave them extra time, all that stuff. To say,
I'm a big nerd when it comes to this stuff.
(50:11):
And I'll watch the T shirt and underwear Olympics next
next week and I'll have bets on guys forty times.
All of that to say for the NBA, Yeah, it
was it the best look Draymond, you know, agent provocateur.
I think that's the term that Silver used on him.
And look, Adam Silver, you may not like him depending
on where you stand in the game. His allegiance and
(50:35):
as a player's commissioner, you like that, even though he
works for the owners everybody, trying to please everybody along
the way, you can not like it. But business wise,
he'signed a seventy six billion dollar deal because everybody wants
in on live programming.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Right when you talk about all these.
Speaker 4 (50:50):
Streaming services and everything else coming to the table, the
violins playing behind Chuck and Kenny and Shaq and Ernie Johnson.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
And everything, Oh no.
Speaker 4 (51:00):
No whatever, you didn't. You didn't save Earth. You're not
the Avengers either. But all of that, you know, Draymond,
it's the sanctity of the game is ruined by the
rising stars being here on Sunday. They got clicks, They
got people to care, right, so you know that's good.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
People still care about the event. But in the end, if.
Speaker 4 (51:19):
You're expecting wall to wall forty eight minutes slapping the
floor like your old duke role players.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
It ain't happening. Wojo hey walking through that door.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Okay, So you take it for what it is, and
like Kevin Durant always reminds us, you don't like it,
don't watch.
Speaker 8 (51:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Look now, I'm about positivity. I'm about That's why I
brought up the four point seven viewers. They actually caught
the NFL in something. No, but we're gonna hang a
banner on that somewhere. Look, this is the best part
of why I can say going forward because the All
Star Game now we're in the stunt casting era of
(51:59):
All Star Games where it's what can you do to
get people to watch or to stop people from not
watching the most right, that's really what it is.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
We all get it.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
We just want to get the people who normally watch
to keep watching and not lose as many viewers. And
it's the same philosophy of a bar that says, hey,
we need more business. So on Thursday night it's gonna
be Ladies' Night. Friday night, we're going to have an
early happy hour that starts at noon. Monday nights is
gonna be fifty cent wing night during Monday night football
(52:28):
Tuesdays And Okay, we're finding a way to get people in.
But they're coming in because they have the newness of hey,
we're trying this. If they don't like the Wings. If
they don't like the crowd, they're not going to come back.
But so the NBA is still trying to find a
way to stunt cast, to find something that hey, this
is great, we can do. Hey if we do fifty
(52:48):
cent wing night every night, that works for us. Right,
maybe maybe early Happy Hour doesn't work on Friday, but
this works. And the evidence is right in front of
you because look what the NHL has done. They've been
going through the same issues with the NBA and the
NFL as far as how to make their All Star
Game relevant. No one cares. It's we're breaking up the teams. Now,
we're doing all different things. We're stunt casting every single year.
(53:09):
And now they hit on it. They hit on this
Four Nations tournament which has replaced the All Star Game
for this year. And look how what's become the biggest
event of the week, you know, outside of the super Bowl,
might be the biggest event of the first three months
of the year calendar wise, going into the NCAA tournament. Like,
everybody cares about this, whether they're hockey fans or not.
This has become a thing. Yes, part of it is
(53:31):
the political aspect of it makes it even more interesting,
which bled into what we saw in that you know,
they're bled in bled into what we saw on the
ice with three fights in the first nine seconds, United
States and Canada. It's the biggest hockey game since nineteen eighty, Right,
you want to go back to Miracle Lize. That's how
big this is. And the NHL has found that, Okay,
this works. I would cancel the All Star Game every year.
(53:52):
Play this every year. You can still name people to
all they could still become All day. We're naming the
all star teams, right, you make it all. Doesn't mean
you're playing in the in the four nations or five
nations or six nations tournament, but yeah, you're name to
an all start team. And we're gonna play this and
eventually the tournament in the next couple of years will
probably grow. Russia megan in at some point because they're
not playing here with the sanctions on them because of
(54:14):
the war with Ukraine. Germany was close to getting in,
they didn't have enough players. We'll get to a six nation,
seven nation tournament, will be like a mini Olympics. It'll
be a ton of fun. And they've also figured out
the mid season tournament thing, which you know Adam Silver loves,
how do we make this great? Like he's obsessed with
tournaments and mid season tournaments and everything. This is what's
gonna work. Well, Hey, the NHL figured it out. So okay,
(54:36):
if you are the NBA, do USA versus the World
next year? It seems to be what the players like.
It seems to be what is gonna generate the least
amount of complaining from players from fans. So if you're
giving me the least amount of complaining, hey, go with
that for a year and maybe you hit on something
and it works, right, It just it just goes to
(54:58):
show you that keep trying, keep the stuff up against
the wall, keep going trial and error, and eventually you
will hit on something that works. So yeah, I just
solved the issue for the NBA. Next year, go to
USA versus the World. It'll be absolutely fine. And then
if that doesn't hit, then you worry about twenty twenty seven.
But you know what, hey, that could be somebody else's
job because I got you through next year. So it works.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
Yeah, the only problem is that sports media and radio
television thrives and negativity and red ink. If you actually
solved this when are you gonna say, hey, it was
pretty good. You just killed in the entire industry.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
Yeah, sure, yeah I did. Yeah yeah, but that's okay.
I mean, I'm solving problems. I can only do so much, Mike.
It's a you know, somebody else has to come up
and do something at something. I can't do everything.
Speaker 3 (55:40):
Can't somebody else do it.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
I mean, if I'm a starting pitcher and I go
seven innings and I throw out oh no pitches and
you know eight, you know, sixteen strikeouts and I leave
with a two nothing lead, I need the bullpen to
come in and do the final two innings.
Speaker 3 (55:52):
Be careful. You got the Worlds online too,
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Jason Smith Mike.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Harmon in for them today as we celebrate the opening
of baseball season. Yeah, Dodgers aren't celebrating. They're getting drilled.
This lineup is terrible. It's over, I mean really hot
Takes eighty seven seven ninety nine on Fox Did did
Did Dodgers blow it by spending all this money in
the off season?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You I like what you're talking about here? Is it
money poorly spent? I will say this, you know how
much I hate the Cubs Southsider for those unaware and
new to the Smith and Harmon combination, White Sox and
everything else in Chicago except the Cups. But I really
do like these light blue caps that they're wearing today.
(01:08):
And Iowa Sam, who's on the technical producer today. He smiled,
and he goes makes me want a klondike bar. Yeah,
that bear sitting.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
There, Yeah, I don't. I don't know how much I
like him because they kind of look like either like
alternate Detroit Lions hats or what's the what's the clothing company?
Where the the mascot is like the Polar Bear, but
there's like a sea in it, Like what's that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
like that's kind of what it looks like. Like it's
like what was echo? It kind of looks like it
(01:39):
kind of looks like one of those hats, like it's
kind of a cross between a Detroit Lions third uniform
hat and an Echo hat. I don't know. Okay, I
can get on board that I did, but it's it's
a rhino. I think, Iowa, Sam, It's a rhino, is
what it is? I thought it was a polar bear.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, I can see why people might think that it's
it's a rhino.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, what's what's the Polar bear on? There's a polar
Bear one too, isn't there? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm trying to know your logos.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Of course, I tried to do the search and immediately
it's like hey, would you like one hundred dollars inflatable
light blue ted costume. Oh okay, it's a weird cause
play thing. I started going down a deep, dark rabbit hole. Man,
I gotta burn my computer now.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I want you know that. Part of me wants
to see just what your search history is on the computer.
Part of me doesn't.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
No, you do, because it's really a galctic. I bring
the I bring worlds together. I mean I I am Galactus.
I am the eater of worlds.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Part of me would say, oh, hey, Harmon, can you
explain you know what? I'm not gonna wait, hip deep
into this, explain what. Okay, I am what I am.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm an open body. Let's go. I'm kind of a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, you walked into the show one day and said
the show owns part of Andre the Giants jockstrap I did,
and we do.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Till you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I'm holding on for dear life.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh and you wonder why I kind of I don't
know if I want to see your search history or not.
We own one of Andre the Giants Jockstraps.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I bought the show's name. We haven't tell me. That's
not great. It's not a lot of shares. It's a
small fractional interest in it. But it's a nice conversation starter.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No property, yeah, Andre the Giants, Jockstrap.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What do you have? Oh, I have a beach house
on the coast. Oh that sounds wonderful.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
No, we have a house at casamel Oh. Yeah, No,
I have a great I own property in the Greater
Often area. What do you have? We own part of
Andre the Giants Jocksas.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm gonna be honest, most of the folks I hang with. Yeah,
there's a lot of people I know that could go
through the laundry list of properties, like you know, big
shots like you, versus the people that I'm hanging out with,
you know, in the corner of a bar that you know,
they're gonna be more in line with the property holdings
of me.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
All right, here's what I want you to do. I
want you to put that in the front of your
tinder page. I don't have and you till we get okay,
So I want you to get a tender page. Well
you can still join up. Just just put and put
that very very uh uh prominently on the front. Mike Harmon,
you know, nighttime Gabber Fox Sports Radio owner of Andre
(04:19):
the Giant Jockstrap, tell me how that goes.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And then say well here's me and mine and now
we really have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Starter again, Why I don't I don't know what I
want to see about the search history on your computer.
I really don't it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
When you took us down that deep dark path, that's
your fault, not mine, And I have a new look.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
If we go down the history of the show twenty
of one.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Offs and iowa Sam, I might have to pay him
as a researcher for show history. I think there have
been a number of things that we could probably play
a couple of segments of what the hell is Jason into? Yeah,
if you want to take stuff completely out of context,
some of your things and people in places and things
(05:04):
that you've referenced, don't go coming at me. I got
receipts too, Pal, I just gave you the biggest receipt
Andre the Giants Jockstrap.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's a bit I don't know that you ever received.
You don't have. You could go to CVS and get
everybody's receipt for the day. It would look like a
big streamer like in the Olympics. When when the when?
When the dancer's going you see the big streamers going on.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think I might do that.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Like Will Ferrell, you wouldn't have enough as as Andre,
the Giants jockstrap would not happen.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's good times, man, good times.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Are intrepid producer justin Frostburg. What do you got?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But what's been washed? More recently the Andre jockstrap game
used or your football head coach at Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh wow, all right for those unaware, I'm storry Fran
Brown doesn't shower. The question, Well, we haven't had a
game in a while, so I want to say it's
Fran Brown. Oh, but it is actually showering now because
there there's no games and no time to not shower
after wins. Because you're superstitious, I think now in the offseason.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Okay, but you won the bowl game, so he can't
shower all off season. If that's the superstition, that's the superstition.
Think about that steak.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Big story out of the NBA promises a few minutes ago.
And I think everybody was shocked today when you you
found out somehow that Victor Webbin Yama is out for
the season. The Spurs announcing he's going to miss the
rest of the year with deep vein thrombosis in his
right shoulder, basically deep vein thrombos. You hear about this
a lot. It's a blood clot. It was discovered shortly
(06:39):
after the All Star Game. His condition is treated with
blood thinning medication, which if you know you ever on
blood thinning medication participating in contact sports, you really can't
do it right. You know, there's there's too much susceptibility
for injury. So he is. So he is out. And
the big shocker even further from this is that they're
(07:00):
hopeful he's able to be back for the beginning of
next season, Like that's the thing. And to think this
is this is much more than just Wemby's out for
the year with an This isn't an injury. This is
a medical condition. And anybody that's ever flown, you know,
you get certain, you get a certain age, and suddenly
you're saying, Hey, I'm flying, I want to wear the
(07:21):
the compression socks. My wife has me wearing compression socks
on the plane. Now that now that I'm over fifty,
they we're traveling. No, I got to get those though,
that guy. I gotta put that on my christmassiles. I
gotta get blue and orange.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
See if they have any any branded blue and orange.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Compression socks, so they could be the Knicks, they could
be Syracuse, they could be the Mets. Yeah no no,
or if you want to make it just look like stirrups,
so I could wear I look pretty cool and then
I can kind of roll my sweatpants up to the
midcalf and it looks like, oh, it looks like I'm
wearing a unifor you know what.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
You can actually get at least licensed NFL ones, so
you can get Jets ones.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Really I want ones that work. Oh sorry? Is that.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
It's failure on the Jets versus other compressions.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Like when we when we yeah, yeah, they don't prevent
jets they don't work. Hey, they're great in the off season,
but when they actually have to play wear them during
the season, it doesn't work as well.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So I get anything.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
It's like, what's the percentage of failure one if the
Jets up that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, that's like oh the you know the asteroid that's
going to hit Earth one point oh now it's out.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's a three point four percent well, I mean, you
still have seven years of existence, so living up people.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So like when we went to the United Kingdom last summer,
like this is the first time that I wore. Pam
was like, we have to wear them. The flights are long,
they're eight out, Like, okay, fine, so I wear them
like they're gonna be They're not gonna be uh comfortable,
I'm gonna hate them. And they were okay. I'm like, okay, great.
I mean I was happy to get take them off
when I got off the plane.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
But still it's did you feel it bullied or she
was just genuinely genuinely concerned.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, no, no, if she if she's not concerned, that's
when that's when I'm really hey, listen, wear them or
don't I don't care. Wait we're married, yeah, but I
don't care. No, that's when concerned. When your wife is
not saying things that that could help you. When it's
I don't care, that's what. Okay, red flag, red flag
going up. But IM like, this is a condition that
(09:12):
is exacerbated and I'm not lying. It's exacerbated in people
who are tall and people who fly a lot. Hey,
what does the NBA have tall people and people who
fly all the time. So if this was, hey, a
broken finger or a fractured scapula or something else, like, Okay,
he's hurt, he can come back. But this is a
(09:32):
condition he's got to manage now for the rest of
his career. Like he's on blood thinners and he's got
to be able to fly, and and and maybe it's
something to the point of he doesn't fly back to
back nights. He only you know, maybe he doesn't go
for road trips when they're really far if they have
to fly to New York, if the next game after
that they're coming back to the Midwest and they're playing
in Chicago, Like this has to be managed because this
(09:53):
is basically what ended Chris Bosh's career, right, Like Chris
Bosh couldn't come back from the blood clots in the thrombosis.
Now the flip side of it, you had Brandon Ingram
who went through it about three or four years ago,
and he's able to come out the other side, just
signed a big contract extension. He's an All star. So
it's not saying it has to be doom and gloom
for Wemby, but this is a medical condition where you
(10:14):
just you know, here's two players that suffered from it.
One had to basically retire because of it, and one
was able to come back from it. So not to
suddenly say, oh my goodness, this means he's never going
to play again, But this is more than just Hey,
here's a guy that got hurt and you look forward
to him coming back in the fall. It's a medical
condition and now they're hoping he can return in the fall.
(10:36):
And how do you manage it when it comes to flying,
when it comes to traveling, how do you go forward
on this? Like this is now a thing that's come
out of nowhere that now you have to find a
way to deal with this for the rest of your career,
Like this is a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, I thinking, at least right now isolated plot. So
you know, surgery is an option, but you start going
through the larger and you know, starting to do our
junior researchers and web md searches and everything else about
vein thrombosis deep vein thrombosis. One of the things you're
(11:11):
talking about is blood flow, and the lungs is something
that needs to be monitored. And obviously he's gonna have
the best care that you could possibly get as a
member of the NBA, and certainly a player of his status, stature,
what he means to the game, what he means to
his home country, all of these things that we start
to look in a little bit deeper, Jason. But yeah, Jarring, right,
(11:34):
we talked a lot about once Dearon Fox became a
member of the Spurs and that wild and wily trade
sequencing that we had in the NBA. It's like, all right,
they didn't give up any assets. This could be a
really interesting run, you know, to try to fight back
into at least the play in and then maybe make
some noise with the reconstituted lineup. Now you're talking about
you know where they're at, and they're they're out of
(11:56):
the top ten in the West. And this is where
Isaac bag for you, because now you get into you know,
your thinking. Cap On Cooper Flag said he was going
to go back to duke ping pong balls. Suddenly I'm
creating chaos in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
There you got. I just photo shopped him into a
Spurs jersey for you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Can you're you're you're talking about, let's see, uh they
make the big trade for Fox they got Wemby, they
got that.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Now they're gonna have Cooper, they'll be unbeatable. And you
had as On and you have let's go.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
But but all of that to say, we we have
no idea, you know, how how quickly things can get resolved.
Obviously they're putting a longer time frame on it. Right
under promise, over delivered, general rule of thumb, try to
get it under under control. But for the NBA, for
the game, for a lot of the talking points that
(12:50):
that we have on a nightly basis, you know, you
and I and our our normal seven to eleven Pacific slot,
we get a lot of ends of Spurs games, and
we've been blessed to watch a lot of his development
and growth and what he means to the league. That
you hope that they find a solution and hopefully it's
just isolated, and that whatever medications and treatments he gets on,
(13:13):
that they find a solution quickly, whatever that may be.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know, And for the basketball perspective of this is
that you know, I've told you for a long time,
by the end of this year, going into next season,
it will be widely accepted that he's the best player
in the NBA because he does things that nobody else
can do. And look at how he's ascending this year.
As great as Jokich is, as great as Yiannis is,
(13:38):
as great as some of these players are. Nobody can
do what Wemby does. Nobody get the shots from the
outside and rim, protect down low and pass, and nobody
can do what he does. And he was on his
way to being that guy. And now and when it
comes to the end of the season, it's hopefully he
comes back and he's still Wemby again, like he was
on that kind of path to being the best player
(13:59):
in the lead in a couple of months and now
suddenly here we are hoping that he can come back
and play some point in the near future. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon in for Cafino and Rich Here on Fox
Sports Radio. We have breaking news coming into our studio
right now. Let's go to Dan Bayer, Who's got the
latest on it. Dan, what do you have.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
For breaking news from Fox Sports guys.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
At the end of an era in Dallas, Zach Martin
has reportedly decided to retire as a member of the
Dallas Cowboys. The guard was a nine time pro bowler,
seven time All Pro had an expiring contract this season,
a season that ended early because of ankle surgery. Zach
Martin surely a Hall of Famer mmm, retiring today at
(14:46):
the age of thirty four.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Wow, Wow, there we go. Hey, thanks Dan, big stuff there.
We'll have more on this story coming up later on
this hour. The Cowboys clearly at a crossroads. Now they're
going to move on without Zach Martin. Next, we got
a big visit from John Paul Morosi on the Way,
a man uniquely qualified to talk about the biggest event
in sports this week. That, oh, by the way, is
(15:08):
happening tonight, and all the latest on Major League Baseball
or teams really met at the Dodgers on the Yankees
in way more trouble than we think they are just
at the beginning of the exhibition season. All that and
more coming up next right here. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
Fox Sports Radio. Cavino and Rich Jason Smith, Mike Harmon
in for the guys today, first exhibition game of the
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talk about that, the beginning of the baseball season. How
much trouble the Yankees might be in already, And the
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biggest sporting event of the week, biggest hockey game probably
since nineteen eighty coming up tonight. It is Fox Sports
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Speaker 3 (17:20):
John Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm doing great, my friends. And let me tell you
this much this game you said the sporting event of
the week, It might be the sporting event of the year,
with all due respect to the Super Bowl, anything else
going on. I cannot wait for eight pm tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, I think. Look, it's the biggest hockey game since
probably the United States Russia in nineteen eighty. With everything
going around at the geopolitical situation about annexing Canada, annex
in California. Hey, I'm throwing this out there at John Paul.
If we win, we get Canada. If Canada wins, they
get California. Let's really ratchet things up with the stakes
of this game for the four nations.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I think the game is perfect just as it is.
We don't need to add anything else. This is about
two great hockey teams in a great hockey town in Boston, Massachusetts.
If you set aside everything else, it is just a
great game, which is honestly the way that I'm looking
at it. There may be conclusions drawn or subplots discussed
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on x at various times, but I think it's a
transformational game for a couple of reasons. Number One, it
is the biggest best on best game between the US
and Canada since the twenty ten gold medal game in Vancouver,
and it's coming at a time where US hockey is
on the rise. The US has won a lot of
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intermediate events like the World Junior Championships multiple times, but
we have not won an Olympic gold medal since eighty
and we have not won a best on best tournaments.
It's the ninety six World Cups. So this is a
chance for the US two. As the Herb Brooks character says,
a miracle declare that it's our time. And I think
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the diversity of the roster says a lot. You've got
a captain who grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona. Austin Matthews
is Mexican American. His mom is from Adam Moseo, Mexico.
His dad's a former baseball player from California, and so
Austin Matthews that profile of player where he grew up,
how we learned the game. That player did not exist
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on the nineteen eighty Olympic teams, and so in order
did it really exist on the ninety six World Cup team.
So it's a fundamentally different era. You still have the
old guard of the Canadian team with Sidney Crosby, who
I thought was their best player for a lot of
stretches of the game on Saturday, or at least certainly
their game against the Swedes, and he was all over
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the place helping them get to the gold medal game here.
So it's I think it's there are just so many
subplots here. The US probably has the best goaltender in
the world in Connor Halibuck Canada has Cale mccarr back
in the lineup, So we can talk about this angle
from any number of different different approaches here with this
with this game, but I just think it's going to
be a magnificent hockey game that hopefully goes into overtime
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with a dramatic conclusion. We can talk about it for
many decades to come and what a perfect appetizer for
the Olympics one year from now in Milano, Cortina, Italy.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Goals over under is five and a half when we
played on Saturday and had sixty three hits over under
on the goals.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What are you predicting here, JP, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It'll be lower scoring than that. I feel like it's
another three to one game, maybe two to one with
an empty netter either way. The thing is with the US,
I'm a little worried about the health of the forward group,
and certainly there was a lot of conversation about Matthew
could chuck Austin Matthews missing the previous game against the Swedes.
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There obviously was the was the injury to to Brady
early on in that game. There have been a lot
of injuries that have happened with the top US forward,
so that worries me a little bit. And the thing
too is with mccarr back in the lineup and where
I think Canada will score more than one goal than
they did in the first meeting, mccar will help them
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break the lines. There was a lot of the US
fowards did a really excellent job of backchecking and creating
a lot of pressure on the Canadian forwards. But having
a defenseman like mccarr who is so skilled at at
dictating the rush, I think will help them neutralize the
way the US forwards played. And I think Canada is
going to have a much better offensive nights to night
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than they did in Montreal on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Really, because I have two words where I completely disagree
with you on that go two words. Connor Hellibuck the
best American goalie that we've ever had. I mean, he's
Jim Craig. He's he's going to win his third Vesna,
He's going to win the MVP. He's he's already at
thirty one at I mean, he just plays in Winnipeg,
which is you know, not his fault, but you know,
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don't really know. But he's the best goalie that America
has ever produced. And you know, and I went back
and it was and nothing's been you know, stuck with
me the last couple of days more than when I
watched Jayon Rate talk about this. You know, you know,
big game can looking at it from Canada's perspective. I
always like looking at big games from the other team's perspective, see.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
What they think.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, and it was, And the best thing I heard
was that, Hey, no matter what Canada has the forwards,
they have more talent. But if Connor Hellibook doesn't have
a bad night, Canada is not gonna win. And Connor
Hellibook does not have bad nights like that, Like, there
is no more truer thing than that. And nothing can
flip a game more than a goalie who not only
is hot, but is the best goalie in the game. Yeah,
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it's gonna be tough. Yeah, kinda can can dictate the pressure.
That's fine. I'll take the United States two to one.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, it may well end that way. And and everything
you said about Hellibuck is absolutely true. The one thing
is that, certainly it's hard to slow down McDavid McKinnon
and back to back games that those two players are
superb in the past they play at they're going to
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have to I think get Hellibuck moving a bit cross crese.
Hellabuck is so tall and he takes up so much
of the net, and his agility is so superior that
you're going to have to get some movement cross crease
and some passes that get a movement right and left.
I think for Canada to be able to score some
goals in this game. So I think you are exactly right.
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And this game comes down to Hellibuck and if he
has a great night, which he certainly did against Canada
he also did against Finland, if he does it again
against Canada, the US will be champions of the four
nations faceoff.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
As we transition away from the Joni Mitchell approach, Jason
takes to life of looking at life and love through
both sides. Now it's Jean Paul Morosi with us here
Fox Sports and Radio, Cavino and Rich Jason and I
in Today at John Morosi where you find him on Twitter.
Leave out the age because Mom said so, Hi Mom,
MLB Network, NHL Network. A man uniquely qualified to tell
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us all about and really sort out all of life's problems.
Why does everybody hate the Dodgers or is it debt
media fabrication.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
First of all, I'll try in terms of solving all
the issues. I'll work on that.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You're a smart man, Come on, Well, all I can.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Report to you right now exclusively is that the score
of the Dodgers first Cactus League game is Cubs nine,
Dodgers three. Thus, the Dodgers dynasty has been greatly exaggerated
here there. They're looking at a one active league record.
My goodness, Booky belt Oh, for one, I canceled the
season at this point in time. But I say this,
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of course in ingest. It was encouraging again for them
to get Yamamoto. He started today, he fished pretty well.
There's a lot. There is a lot of animosity in
the game toward the Dodgers, There's no question about it.
And it's interesting that it's both within the industry and
for fans, just based on the fact that they are
spending at such a high level while also developing players
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at a very strong rate. And when we had on
MLB Network this morning, we showed a graphic of the
Dodgers starting pitching options, and you could argue that the
Dodgers second starting five is as good or better than
almost any other rotation in the National League. That means
the guys that are not even going to begin to hear.
Certainly injury is part of this on some level. Otani's
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not quite ready to pitch yet. Kershaw is not going
to be ready on opening day either. But at some
point you're going to add two Hall of famers to
your rotation just because you can. And you've already got
Snell and Glass now and Yamamoto and Tasaki. The depth
is really something to behold. So is there jealousy, is
it envy, whatever word you want to describe, I think
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it all applies here. And yet, what I would say
to the entire industry, the Dodgers were down to one
in the division series of the Padres, there were one
loss away from this being a very different conversation in
a lot of different ways. So it maybe they're not
quite as inevitable as some would describe them as being.
They are an exceptionally well run organization, and the way
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in which they have done things to an extent, the
way in which the Mets have done things have contributed
to what I think is a an accurate description of
the industry as being the haves and the have not.
There's just a large percentage of teams that do not
play realistically on the highest end of the players, and
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I do think that is contributing to what is some
angst about the overall direction of the industry as we
move towards the next TV negotiation.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
John Paul Morosi with US. John Paul, I want to
talk about the second best team in New York for
a minute, the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So with what's.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Going on it said, by the way, for our daytime audience,
Jason is a Mets fan. Just wanted to get that
out there. If you're tuting in a differ time they
normally do. He loves the method. Is therefore speaking about
the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So for the Yankees here, I mean, I know that
it's early in spring training, but to get the news
two days ago that not only is John Carlos Stanton
not swinging a bat, he hasn't swung a bat in
a month and he has two bad elbows all of
a sudden, John Paul, I'm saying, I'm waiting for the
day where we find out, hey, he's out a long time,
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and then middle of the season it's a FATA complete.
He's gonna miss the year like this is this kind
of reminds me of cesspitous with the Bad Heels the
beginning of spring, trading Guts who didn't play again, Like
this is not something where I think, hey, little bit
of rest and Stanton's gonna be ready for Opening Day.
I really wonder how much he's even gonna play this year.
And the Yankees need him, especially with Yeah, they made
additions in the offseason to pivot away from Soto, but
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they need Stanton to be Stanton if they're gonna do
anything this year.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
They do. And you know what would be really a
convenient and interesting storyline. What if the Red Sox just
traded them Devers to be their DH. That that'd be
pretty interesting. Would I say this in jest, of course,
I'm really serious about that, because there's been a bit
of a bit of a controversy in Boston about how
Devers and Bregmann are fitting together.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
But you're he wouldn't know anywhere to be a DH.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He would, he would, he would say, notice because if
they say complete third base, he would.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Say, yes, exactly. Well, and that's where perhaps the Yankees
find a way to rekindle things with with the Nolan
Arnado trade possibility, they probably have to evaluate as well
what they can expect from DJ Lemahew this year, who
missed so much time last year. Let's not forget that
the Yankees with Soto. By the way, and you may
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have heard as you if you're just joining us, they
no longer have won Soto, but they they really needed
John Carlos Stanton to get through the Kansas City Royals
and the Cleveland Guardians last year in the playoffs. He
was honestly, after Soto, their most dangerous hitter and so
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in the playoffs, this is a significant issue for them. Now,
does it promote some thought of maybe they end up
trading Stroman for a bat. Stroman is out there, There's
been a lot of talking about what his role is
going to be this year. This whole situation with Stroman
being available and uncertainty at third base and now uncertainty
with Stanton. While I'm excited about the fact that they've
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got Goldschmidt and they've got Bellinger, They've got Williams to
the bullpen. They've made some good moves even though they
didn't have Soto. They have recovered nicely, but this situation
right now with Stanton is certainly concerning, and it feels
to me like there is going to be at least
a minor trade made by the Yankees between now an
opening day to address the situation, because if you can't
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swing a bat on February twentieth, I'm real concerned about
how it's going to look on April twentieth, July twentieth,
and certainly October twentieth going forward.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
MOROSEI check him out with us here at Fox Sports Radio,
MLB Network, and tonight for the Four Nations Championship. John
Paul is always buddy appreciated man. We'll talk to you
down the road. We'll talk to you tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
And it sounds great. My friend's biggest hockey game we
have seen in more than forty years, and we cannot
wait for the US and Canada enjoy everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Thanks buddy. I mean, really to say it's this big
a deal, this game, I mean, I didn't think it
was that hot a take, because yes, we've had big
games in the Olympics before, in the World Cup of
Hockey with the United States and Canada, United States and
different Yeah, we've had that right, but this game, it's
in our window. It's in a week of sports where
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the NBA still is coming back from the All Star
break and you know, we finished major we finished the
NFL season, Baseball spring training is just starting. It's in
a great spot on the calendar. It's it's in the
East coast window for us. We don't have to wake
up at three in the morning like I've done in
the past to watch a hockey game. I gotta wake up.
It's three in the morning across the halfway across the globe,
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and the geopolitical aspects of it are just you can't
ignore them. You can't ignore what's been going on with
President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau and California and Canada
and all of this. This is a tremendous time for hockey,
and they'll get a big springboard coming off of this game,
almost kind of like what hockey got in nineteen eighty
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that they dined out on for the next ten to
twelve years before Gary Bettman's deciding, hey we're locking out now,
We're running hockey all the way down. So I expect
that kind of bump from the NHL, from hockey coming
off this game.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, I mean, it just really quick. Number One?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Do I have to stay in this studio? Are we
We're not abdicating the throne?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Right?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
We get to cover this live on air?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Sure, I can lock the door and keep the odd
couple out later. Second, I'm really disappointed that none of
the news aggregators grabbed our trade.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Proposal and ran with it like it was a real
news story. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I mean I thought, think that'd be great, Like if
the United States wins, we get Canada. If Canada wins,
they get California. All right?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
With that, I'm really hoping to be interviewed all across
the globe.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, they could get they could get the whole. I mean,
if we got to add in, you know, Washington and
Oregon to make it the whole West coast. Okay, you
know it's gotta look nice on a map. So I
if we wanted to, I understand if we had to
do that, but what why not make it go?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Time to find out what's trending right now the wide
world of sports From Dan Bayer d B.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
What do you got for the.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Breaking news this hour?
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Is that Dallas Cowboys guard Zach Martin is announcing his retirement.
Martin spent eleven years in the National Football League, seven
time First Team All Pro, two times second Team All Pro,
went to nine Pro Bowls, and in fact, Martin started
one hundred and sixty two games in his career, started
every game that he played. Didn't play in every game
of his eleven years, but in those that he played
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and started every one, had just seven holding penalties throughout
those one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Zach Martin hanging him up today.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Spurs star Victor Webbin Yams going to miss the rest
of the season because of a blood clot in his shoulders.
Spurs said Wemby as deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder,
as he'd experienced symptoms lately, said that he had hoped
to be all right after the All Star break. That
was not the case, and now Victor Wembin Yama is
done for the year. Bucks forward Bobby Portis has spended
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twenty five games for testing positive for a bandit substance.
Mavericks forward Anthony Davis is progressing from his adductor injury. However,
he'll be re evaluated in two weeks. Lakers guard Luka
Doncic out night against Portland, while Lebron James is questionable.
Yankees a given manager Aaron Booner an extension through twenty
twenty seven. An update from John Morosi giving the Cubs
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Dodgers score. It's now twelve three Cubs on top of
the Dodgers and for play. Bobby Miller did have to
leave the game. The Dodgers pitcher struck in the forehead
by a line drive off the bat of the Cubs
Michael Bush that was going one hundred and five miles
per hour, But again, Miller was able to walk off
on his own power. Finally, guys, Texas and USCF decided
to not hold spring games this year.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Dan, appreciate it. That's
an incredible stat from Zach Martin. In his entire career,
he's made All Pro nine more times than he committed
holding penalties, seven more All Pro selections than holding penalties.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Row. That's all eady, Hello, Canton, Zach Martin, walk right in.
Can they figure out a way to make him hold
out too? Because we try to keep the cowboys out
on our show.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
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the real official beginning, I guess you could say of
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the second half, not kind of second last third of
the NBA season where the Lakers fell to the Hornets
and an incredibly embarrassing loss for the Lakers. They've now
lost their last two games of two teams with a
combined record of twenty seven and eighty and Luka Doncic
looks like he's going through all the reasons why the
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Evericks traded him, still having trouble. He looks like he's
playing at three quarter speed. Mike. That's the best thing,
the best way I can describe. I'm not saying he's
not playing hard, but I don't know what he's capable of,
how much he's capable of playing. But he's moving a
lot slower than even Luca normally is. Because Luca's game
is about deception, about angles, about leverage, but he's just no,
(37:13):
he doesn't have a lot of separation. The Hornets allowed
him to take any three pointer he wanted. Last night,
the Lakers went to Lebron at the end of the
game for the last shot because you couldn't go to
Luca because you couldn't hit anything like. I'm confident that
the Lakers' offense is going to look just like an
absolute monster at some point, but it's going to take
a while because Luca just doesn't look the same and
(37:34):
for all of the reasons now, I think people are
finally coming around to something we talked about when the
trade happened. The Mavericks didn't just wake up one morning
and Nico Harrison said I want to trade Luka Doncic
and he did it before they talked to anybody like.
This is something that went on for a long time,
and they have their reasons. They didn't want to commit
a lot of money to him. They didn't think he'd
(37:55):
ever get in shape, they thought his body would break down,
he wouldn't listen to them when they talked about and
shaper however they felt about, you know, his beer drinking.
There was a reason why they traded him, and you
can agree or disagree with it, but it's not like
they just decided to do something Willy Nilly. There's a
reason why they traded him, and you're sort of seeing now, Oh,
(38:16):
I get why they moved on from Luca. Now I
understand what's happening. So they've gone through getting all the
arrows in the beginning going oh, look what you guys
are doing. Oh, now I kind of get it a
little bit why they traded Luca.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
The best part of that analysis you had me at
Willy Nilly, but it all comes I.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Like saying, Willy Nilly's fun.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, but with all of.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
These kind of moves, right, whenever you move on, it's
like relationships of the people that you know, Oh, I'm
sorry to hear they broke up. You don't know all
everything that's it's like you know, the old what Roosevelt, right,
the man in the arena kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
You don't know the cost Paige.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
You don't know what the conversations, what the circumstances are.
In every respect, I think Dallas is convincing me that
bit by bit they're gonna leak out everything they can.
It's like Andy dufrayn at Shawshank with the rocks. Bit
by bit, we're gonna get it all, and we're gonna
dig that a hole and we're gonna crawl through however,
many hundreds of yards of blank and we're there. But
(39:14):
all of that to say, yeah, it was he was slow,
right a couple of times. The explosiveness that you're used
to of him getting to the rims like, wow, he
got met by two guys. Right, It's like we were
watching the gain the other night, the usc UCLA game,
right when bets would get the ball down low, and
all of a sudden, here comes Juju Watkins from the
backside part of her eight blocks. Like Bets normally gets
(39:36):
turned and gets that shot right up, but not that night.
Here you're looking at, you know, Luca trying to get
the timing and also learning how to work without the ball.
He looked confused and lost in some of those possessions,
like down the stretch, I was waiting for them. If
he had pockets, his hands would have been in the
pockets as the ball went and Scott swung to Lebron
(39:57):
because he had no role in that final play.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, I mean it's I don't I don't want to
say that there. I don't think that Luca's ever going
to get back to being Luca. But it was never
gonna happen with the Mavericks. And that's what I think
people are missing, is that, well, you find a way
to hold on, We find a way to make it work.
You think for six years it didn't try to find
a way to make it work. Really, you think for
six years again, they didn't just wake up and decide, hey,
we want to trade him. Whatever lucas accomplishing with the Lakers, whatever,
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he winds up because now he's been put on notice,
he's gotten traded that the whole conditioning and being in
shape is front burner topic with him now. It's all
anybody's going to talk about if he can't stay in
the lineup or camp. And he's already not playing again tonight,
not playing in the second of back to back. So
you again reasons why the Mavericks traded him. Whatever he does,
he simply wasn't going to do in Dallas. That relationship
(40:46):
had run its course because you were coming up on
a make or break situation, which is, do you want
to give him three hundred and thirty million dollars at
the end of this season the extension he's eligible for.
Maybe he doesn't want to take it, So yeah, you
want to move on and try to get somebody, And
you got an All NBA player in Anthony Davis, albeit
he has his own injury concerns, but still you got
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the best player you were gonna get in this trade.
And understand that no matter how you want to slice it,
just because people don't like the trade wanted to make
it work, doesn't mean it was gonna work. Right. It's
like when you hear two people talk about breaking up
and you go, oh my god, but you guys did
so well together. You guys played off each other so much.
You guys love each other. Yeah, well it didn't work. Well,
I can't understand why you're getting divorced. You're not in
(41:28):
our marriage for the last six or seven years. Understand
Sometimes things come up that you can't get path you
from the outside. Just because you wanted to stay doesn't
mean it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing, right, You're trying to
break that down and in the end you're hoping to
get the best out of him in this next iteration.
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. But you know, I'm
always for taking a big swing, bring the best player in,
and if it doesn't work out, you can at least say, hey,
at least you tried. You get a cake, like Bart
Simmson gave a homer.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, yeah, I mean, anytime you had a cake at
the yet, it always makes it easier. Like I could
swallow this a little about that if you give me.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Cako no always right, here's some bad news. Have some ki.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah.
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should be. Now, we have that big NBA story coming
up in a second, but you've heard a couple of
times tonight in the show, the breaking news from Dan
Byer Zach Martin, Cowboys all World offensive lineman retiring at
the age of already four. There are many things you
can say about him, and he has been an absolute
(43:06):
stalwart of the offensive line his entire career. Nine time
Pro Bowl guard, nine time All Pro. But man, I
don't know, I don't know there's anything more impressive than
he's been All Pro nine times. And this from a
couple of different aggregators, NFL aggregators. He's been All Pro
nine times and he's committed seven holding penalties in his
(43:27):
career in his career, so this is less than one
holding penalty a year over a sixteen to seventeen game season.
I mean, that's just I don't know what, I don't
know there's anything more impressive than that.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Well, I think it means that he had teammates that
were less effective and technique a little sloppier, so they
would get the call instead of him.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah, we can't look at it. We we gotta look
at this guy. Or the referees were just enamored with
the star.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Ooh, man, it's.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Like the Yankees and the uniforms you'd already lost when
you step down the veil.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
I mean, he's he's going to be a first ballot
Hall of Fame. He's a member. He's a member of
the twenty tens All Decade team. Like this is as
close to a Slam unless the guy that didn't vote
for each ro gets to vote in this. And you
know there's somebody that could happen.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
Man, you get in that room, I mean, someone just
decides to be contrarian.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
We've seen some crazy stuff on the MLB side, certainly
the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but yeah, this guy
walks into the hall, and and now it's another huge
gaping hole. Not that you didn't have to already start
thinking about succession plans and and what your offensive line
was going to look like, but you got so many
other concerns in Dallas, and now it's like, oh, we
(44:40):
don't even get him back. Yeah, even if he's a
diminished form of himself at eighty percent, he's still better,
but coming off a big injury, and you know, at
some point you just say, hey, it doesn't fire the
same way anymore.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yeah, And if you're if you're Dak Prescott, you go, oh, wow,
I'm gonna really earn this money even more this year.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
But you've seen all the mock drafts, right, you got
Michael Parsons talking a bunch, you know, about his podcasts
and why people may or may not like him, and
that's all finding good, but they've got to figure out
whether they're paying him.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
You've already paid CD and Dak.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
We've seen mock drafts like, oh, they'll go and get
a running Back's like, you need a running.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Back, but do you really need one? I know, Lineman, Lineman, Lineman,
what do we learn? What do you learn from the
teams in your division.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
Go find lineman and keep dak up upright and give
him an opportunity down feel.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Oh, we'll have Moore in the story coming up in
about fifteen minutes, because uh, quite honestly, this again is
more about everybody's favorite topic, which is jumping up and
down to the Dallas County. That's right. Not achieving, but
we get to kick off the second half of the
NBA seasons that are really the last third of the
NBA season. Last night Lakers lost to the Hornets and
probably the most embarrassing loss they've had all year. But
(45:53):
there's one reason why I am more excited about the
second half of the season than I even was a
few days ago.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, you're fired up.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
It's like, what happened?
Speaker 4 (46:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (46:03):
There are no games of played? Not everybody?
Speaker 3 (46:05):
The Knicks are fine everything, what's wrong?
Speaker 1 (46:07):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (46:09):
They still have a six man rotation.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Come on, every We're coming back there, We're getting healthy.
Everything is open.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
You pay six guys, it doesn't. We're okay until we're not.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Then I'll worry, and then I'll worry, well until we
get to the playoffs, and as soon as they put
the banners up to say, hey, welcome to the playoffs,
then I'll worry.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
No, I get it. Hey, it doesn't matter the off season.
It's not about being able to walk in the off season.
It's about being able to play during the season. Okay,
you can sit and not walk in the off season.
But I'm so glad for the rest of the NBA
to get going because now we don't have to hear
about the stupidest thing in the world, and that's that
the NBA is in trouble and might fold because they
(46:52):
had a bad all start.
Speaker 4 (46:54):
You mean that seventy six billion dollars in checks, whatever
poors you was supposed to show up, Did it not arrive?
Did that wire get screwed up?
Speaker 1 (47:03):
This is just incredibly infuriating. And there's no better way
to dive into this by then than than talking about
the conversation you and I had with Rick Buker Fox
Sports one NBA insider last night, in which we brought
up what sport do you ever talk about the health
of a sport that is defined by its All Star game?
Speaker 5 (47:22):
None?
Speaker 1 (47:23):
All all Star games stink, We don't. We don't define.
The NFL is defined by the Pro Bowl. That's not
even a game anymore. We're defined, No, we're not. But
maybe because it was a slow news week, maybe because
there's a lot of lazy people out there that Oh,
I'm just mad that the NBA All Star Game is
an affront on me, like they did it to me personally.
The All Star games are bad now. They're just not
good anymore because we've we've just passed by the era
(47:45):
of the All Star Game being special. We have to
find the new normal, which is, hey, let's find out
what works. Let's keep throwing stuff up against the wall.
Eventually we'll find something that that everybody likes, and we'll
keep doing that format. The NBA All Star Game has
been bad for fifteen years now, but now suddenly the
players hate it. Draymond Green is getting upset when when
clearly they don't care about playing and every game is
(48:06):
one eighty four to one eighty, Like I don't get
the hole over the top hatred of the game, where
like this came out of nowhere. It's an All Star game,
it's played on Sunday, we forget about it one minute
following the game on Sunday or whatever mini games they
have on Sunday Night. Yeah, I get that it wasn't
the player's favorite, but now it's the players hated it.
(48:28):
The future of the All Star Game is in doubt.
Adam Silver is a bad commissioner. NBA ratings aren't as
high as they used to be. None of these, none,
none of these have to do with the All Star
Game being bad. It's just the All Star Game was bad.
It happens, and now we're back onto the games where
I think people are gonna watch. I think people are
gonna be into the second half of the NBA season.
(48:48):
They want to see how good Luca is ad all
the big trades that were made. I'm pretty sure we're
gonna be able to say goodbye to the storyline, which
is again why I'm most excited that all the games
are gonna go on tonight, because now this whole and
All Star Game is terrible, can go back to where
it was. It's a garbage topic and it's just something
that's brought up because you've had a lot of lazy
hosts on television radio. I want to say how bad
(49:10):
it is, because yeah, nobody seems to like it, so, yeah,
it's awful. It's irrelevant. The All Star Game is irrelevant.
That's the real takeaway of it. Now we're back to
the games that matter.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
I mean, you talk about the the NHL All Star Game,
which we're in the middle of. So yeah, new format,
I some enthusiasm fired up, Nation on Nation Great.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
What are the ratings. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
They got a four point four the other day. By
way of comparison, the Flag Football Game and this year's
NBA All Star Game four point seven million each.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
So the LUA spike, I know you bet on the
Flag Football Game.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
Well, I mean I was also betting on, you know,
which guy was going to be able to hit the
forty and fifty points, you know, yard throws in the
skills competition as they were being heckled, or they had
to answer trivia questions about teammates before they started, right,
that gave them extra time, all that stuff. To say,
I'm a big nerd when it comes to this stuff.
(50:11):
And I'll watch the T shirt and underwear Olympics next
next week and I'll have bets on guys forty times.
All of that to say for the NBA, Yeah, it
was it the best look Draymond, you know, agent provocateur.
I think that's the term that Silver used on him.
And look, Adam Silver, you may not like him depending
on where you stand in the game. His allegiance and
(50:35):
as a player's commissioner, you like that, even though he
works for the owners everybody, trying to please everybody along
the way, you can not like it. But business wise,
he'signed a seventy six billion dollar deal because everybody wants
in on live programming.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Right when you talk about all these.
Speaker 4 (50:50):
Streaming services and everything else coming to the table, the
violins playing behind Chuck and Kenny and Shaq and Ernie Johnson.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
And everything, Oh no.
Speaker 4 (51:00):
No whatever, you didn't. You didn't save Earth. You're not
the Avengers either. But all of that, you know, Draymond,
it's the sanctity of the game is ruined by the
rising stars being here on Sunday. They got clicks, They
got people to care, right, so you know that's good.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
People still care about the event. But in the end, if.
Speaker 4 (51:19):
You're expecting wall to wall forty eight minutes slapping the
floor like your old duke role players.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
It ain't happening. Wojo hey walking through that door.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Okay, So you take it for what it is, and
like Kevin Durant always reminds us, you don't like it,
don't watch.
Speaker 8 (51:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
Look now, I'm about positivity. I'm about That's why I
brought up the four point seven viewers. They actually caught
the NFL in something. No, but we're gonna hang a
banner on that somewhere. Look, this is the best part
of why I can say going forward because the All
Star Game now we're in the stunt casting era of
(51:59):
All Star Games where it's what can you do to
get people to watch or to stop people from not
watching the most right, that's really what it is.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
We all get it.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
We just want to get the people who normally watch
to keep watching and not lose as many viewers. And
it's the same philosophy of a bar that says, hey,
we need more business. So on Thursday night it's gonna
be Ladies' Night. Friday night, we're going to have an
early happy hour that starts at noon. Monday nights is
gonna be fifty cent wing night during Monday night football
(52:28):
Tuesdays And Okay, we're finding a way to get people in.
But they're coming in because they have the newness of hey,
we're trying this. If they don't like the Wings. If
they don't like the crowd, they're not going to come back.
But so the NBA is still trying to find a
way to stunt cast, to find something that hey, this
is great, we can do. Hey if we do fifty
(52:48):
cent wing night every night, that works for us. Right,
maybe maybe early Happy Hour doesn't work on Friday, but
this works. And the evidence is right in front of
you because look what the NHL has done. They've been
going through the same issues with the NBA and the
NFL as far as how to make their All Star
Game relevant. No one cares. It's we're breaking up the teams. Now,
we're doing all different things. We're stunt casting every single year.
(53:09):
And now they hit on it. They hit on this
Four Nations tournament which has replaced the All Star Game
for this year. And look how what's become the biggest
event of the week, you know, outside of the super Bowl,
might be the biggest event of the first three months
of the year calendar wise, going into the NCAA tournament. Like,
everybody cares about this, whether they're hockey fans or not.
This has become a thing. Yes, part of it is
(53:31):
the political aspect of it makes it even more interesting,
which bled into what we saw in that you know,
they're bled in bled into what we saw on the
ice with three fights in the first nine seconds, United
States and Canada. It's the biggest hockey game since nineteen eighty, Right,
you want to go back to Miracle Lize. That's how
big this is. And the NHL has found that, Okay,
this works. I would cancel the All Star Game every year.
(53:52):
Play this every year. You can still name people to
all they could still become All day. We're naming the
all star teams, right, you make it all. Doesn't mean
you're playing in the in the four nations or five
nations or six nations tournament, but yeah, you're name to
an all start team. And we're gonna play this and
eventually the tournament in the next couple of years will
probably grow. Russia megan in at some point because they're
not playing here with the sanctions on them because of
(54:14):
the war with Ukraine. Germany was close to getting in,
they didn't have enough players. We'll get to a six nation,
seven nation tournament, will be like a mini Olympics. It'll
be a ton of fun. And they've also figured out
the mid season tournament thing, which you know Adam Silver loves,
how do we make this great? Like he's obsessed with
tournaments and mid season tournaments and everything. This is what's
gonna work. Well, Hey, the NHL figured it out. So okay,
(54:36):
if you are the NBA, do USA versus the World
next year? It seems to be what the players like.
It seems to be what is gonna generate the least
amount of complaining from players from fans. So if you're
giving me the least amount of complaining, hey, go with
that for a year and maybe you hit on something
and it works, right, It just it just goes to
(54:58):
show you that keep trying, keep the stuff up against
the wall, keep going trial and error, and eventually you
will hit on something that works. So yeah, I just
solved the issue for the NBA. Next year, go to
USA versus the World. It'll be absolutely fine. And then
if that doesn't hit, then you worry about twenty twenty seven.
But you know what, hey, that could be somebody else's
job because I got you through next year. So it works.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
Yeah, the only problem is that sports media and radio
television thrives and negativity and red ink. If you actually
solved this when are you gonna say, hey, it was
pretty good. You just killed in the entire industry.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
Yeah, sure, yeah I did. Yeah yeah, but that's okay.
I mean, I'm solving problems. I can only do so much, Mike.
It's a you know, somebody else has to come up
and do something at something. I can't do everything.
Speaker 3 (55:40):
Can't somebody else do it.
Speaker 1 (55:41):
I mean, if I'm a starting pitcher and I go
seven innings and I throw out oh no pitches and
you know eight, you know, sixteen strikeouts and I leave
with a two nothing lead, I need the bullpen to
come in and do the final two innings.
Speaker 3 (55:52):
Be careful. You got the Worlds online too,
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