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Hello, Welcome inside. Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon Chobbo live from the ti rack dot Com studios tirac dot com. I hope you get there. An unmaxed selection, fast free shipping, free road hazard protection, and over ten thousand recommended installers. Tire rack dot Com is the way tire buying should be. And yes, we have a full slate of NBA to get to tonight. We got big stuff out of the NFL. But let's understand that today earlier today was about one thing. The McRib is back in less than two weeks, well into it again, something that passes understanding why it's so popular. But the McRib is back in two weeks.
Getting people like being taunted about things coming back into their lives and leaving for a moment, right it ste we're getting ready for Thanksgiving. What happens at Thanksgiving? People go home, They go to the local bars, they go to the local restaurants. Maybe they have meetups at their old high schools or whatever, and maybe they think that those old flames still burn. Much like that is the McRib that you come back for it one more time and then you take a bite, you say this sucks, and then you walk away, just like all those old flames that you run into and you realize.
Bad idea, man, bad idea. Why are you yelling? We're not even a minute into the show and you're yelling crazy about the mccrib. What is wrong with you? What is what is that? We just started the show? Man? The bulls wronged by the Bucks.
Literally it went final as I'm sitting here and I'm salty because they then put up a little picture of your guy brunts in which means it's Nicks, Nicks Nicks the rest of the night.
So yeah, I'm on edge, I'm on tilt already. Wow, I thought you're gonna say they put him a picture of Doc Rivers, and it was yet another win by Doc Rivers over the Bulls. No, I don't know that I've seen a picture of Doc in a while. Here, Okay, they're showing everybody else.
I've seen the last man on the bench more than I've seen Doc tonight. It's almost like they were told, don't show him, don't show him, don't showhim.
He's just gonna say thing. Ah. So yeah, look big night in the NBA. Yes, the Knicks and the Suns are coming up. So you said it, I didn't You said it? I didn't.
I did It was a nice little picture of Brunson that suddenly crept into the corner of my television.
Uh sure. And and really, you know another thing we're seeing right now is, boy, the seventy six ers are really want to lead that race for all the Cooper flag ping pong balls they could possibly get as they are getting thumped by the Grizzlies by twenty midway through the fourth quarter. And look, you know something we're gonna put it up today. And is you know we talked about it last night the Joel embiid. I mean the time in Philadelphia, it's just it's just coming to an end, right. We talked about that. It's more a fadea complete than it is anything else. He's got to come back and play well for a little while and then it will be easy for them to deal him. He's got twenty nine tonight. He's having a pretty decent night, but it doesn't matter because the Sixers are getting drilled by twenty. Well. Well, George left with injury.
Yes, yeah, you rebound corralled it and they're like, oh, he's gonna turn to go up court and just stopped on a dime.
That was it? Like oh okay, so there you go. You had the under at fifteen games. There you go. Now. We talked about last night about where things are at with and the promos running on Fox Sports Radio now about how, hey, when you're getting called out and you're supposedly the MVP and the leader of this team, which is not and you get called out by somebody else about your effort, you haven't really played, you're still not in shape, you're injured, you're in and out of the lineup. How much longer is this really going to go? In Philadelphia? They're going to move on. Both sides need a fresh start. But what's going to accelerate this timeline? Because yes, it could be done by the trade deadline in February, or it could be something that happens after the season, when the Sixers get an idea of what they want to do moving forward. But what's going to accelerate this is, Hey, even with them beating the lineup, you go out and get drubbed every night. Just can't keep doing that in perpetuity, right, It's only going to go for so long and then we're gonna get out of the holidays and after Christmas it's going to be Okay, New Year. Let's see where we're at. And if we're you know, six and twenty five or whatever it's going to be, it's time to go. It's time to make a move because clearly, even with him back, there's no energy. We're losing big to teams that we shouldn't be losing big two and so it's time for us to make this move. So if you the more games you see like this from the Sixers, that's going to hasten the Jewel MB trade, which again, it's going to happen. It's just a matter of when, line now or the end of the year is playing well tonight, and the better he plays for a short amount of time, And think what the Sixers are hoping. If we're gonna do this and we're gonna make a move, he needs to play well for a short period of time and we need to get killed every game, and so tonight that's kind hey, all right, he's shooting well, he's got twenty nine points tonight. All right, he's moving okay, and we're losing by twenty. This is gonna foster this going Bay. That's exactly what we want, Joelle. We want you to be really good and we want to keep losing so you can make that trade.
Yeah, you get the audition and proof of concept there is. He's back, he's healthy. Let's go, let's make something happen. Twenty nine and nine tonight, nine of eighteen, shooting perfect from the line, Tyrese Max. He also made it back in and look, man, this is not exactly a fully loaded Grizz team that they're getting drum by either, Right, Joe Moran's still not part of the equation here. You got Desmond Vanes, got nineteen Jaron Jackson, I mean you got a solid team, right, Brandon Clark's back in in the lineup all that, but you're a one superstar isn't even there and they're still up twenty on you. So so what does that tell you where you're at in this process? Because even though Paul George left, you did have at least for the moment. You're the term that we used to use all the time. Remember we killed it big three and you still got your ass kicked. So all of that to say, here you go, he's healthy, he's motivated for the moment, Come and get him. I'd be the used car lot kind of thing right now here. It still runs, still runs. Sometimes sometimes you gotta kick it. Sometimes maybe you gotta pump the gas three times, turn the key halfway, turn it back, and then really turn it as fast as you can and maybe it'll catch.
That's where we're at with Joel Embiid. It's all of more nba oy the way, but trust me, it's going to happen and being if if you want to see our take on it last night, it's up there Fox Sports Radio on Twitter and I just reposted as well as you can catch our best of there.
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On the Gram, you gotta say on the Gram. On the Gram, you gotta say on the Gram.
Did they still say on the Gram on the ground, you're the arbiter of things a little younger than us.
What are you saying the gun?
Yes, they still say the Gram.
They still no, no, no, on the Gram.
Not on the Gram, just the Gram.
Just the Gram. But it's got to be something. You can't just say it's the great. You gotta say it's on the Gram. So on the ground, well.
Somewise you might just be trying to buy something on or buy the graund No, no, no.
No, you're you just say check the Gram? What was that? What was that thing? For a few years ago, that was the viral sensation where it was a they did a challenge text your mom or dad justice and see what they write back, and it was for two grams is forty dollars and then just see what they write back. Well came back.
It was expensive, saffron as I went to make my holiday roles.
But I always like, and I think all of us like it, when other people get an understanding of what your world is like, Like you know, you always say, you know, walk a mile in my shoes. I understand what my life is like, and it's really dim. You know, it's hard to do that. You have to try to understand where things are coming from from other people. Every time someone says something or does something, I try to think of it from their perspective. But it's really hard. I go, Okay, really, I don't get exactly what, you know, what what really motivates them or what what affects them every day? And today, for me was one of those days where I think many people understood, oh, this is what Jason's life is like, because today was the day that everybody found out, Oh, my goodness, Jets owner Woody Johnson is like a lower profile Jerry Jones. That's why the Jets don't when now I understand because he wanted to bench Aaron Rodgers in week four and had a meeting with everybody because he called for a practice, not the coaches, not the GM He called for a practice though, because that was a day he was going to fire Joe Douglas. Like these are the things that Woody Johnson does, like like he's too obsessed with social media. So let's make a trade. Let's go get Davonte Adam let's go get Mike william Let's go get these guys. Like people now understanding, Oh now I know, Oh man, I feel bad for Jason because now I know why the Jets don't win because that Woody Johnson is Jerry Jones, not Jerry Jones life because some of the stuff he's doing, whooh it is one comparable to Jerry Jones, sometimes even worse than Jerry Jones. But like cause I don't think Jerry Jones ever had a meeting about benching dak when he wasn't playing well. But like the fact that he does it, he's been able to do it more lower profile, like people are just finding out now going, Oh man, I just I walk that mile on Jason's shoes today and not I completely understand and feel for him because yeah, he's got he's got Jerry a low profile Jerry Jones as his owner.
It's funny because it's been happening in plain sight in New York and New Jersey for how long now, right, But because Jerry is over the top P. T. Barnum on steroids, as we've called it low so many years.
And then you add.
The resounding dumpster fires that have been Cleveland and Chicago and Jacksonville. Like Jacksonville doesn't get much much run. But because of Shod Cohn and his son in ae W, they're getting a little more juice and all of this stuff now. But yeah, but because of Jerry Jones and oh, I forgot Mark Davis. Can't forget Mark Davis. So Mark Davis and Jerry Jones are atop the metal stand. So Johnson's been able to kind of work in quasi anonymity because it's just the brand as opposed to the owner up front, because he hasn't been standing in front of a microphone and waving at you, or sitting there with a bowl cut, or being Jerry Jones showing up on radio multiple times each week. Yeah, it is now painfully apparently obvious for everybody else. And now they've walked a mile in your shoes, which means those shoes have one point two miles walked in them.
I mean, look, and this is what what I owe always say. One point to walk. I count my steps. I walk as hey, I got to one hundred steps, I got to a thousand steps. I'm feeling good for I'm gonna sit down. Done. I done my steps I'm feeling really good. Ten thousand steps to that you mean every two days? No, ten thousand steps in a day. Oh yeah, okay, not happening. But look, show Bob. It's and the thing that baffles me. And this is what happens, and this is why why you can compare, and you compare Whatody Johnson and Jerry Jones said. Hey, for a long time, Jerry Jones was successful, right, like, Hey, you know, Jimmy Johnson, they won super Bowls. They won with Barry Switzer. They still were a yearly threat to get to the super Bowl. But then as time went on and he got more and more comfortable in his role and more and more comfortable with making decisions and cutting people out of the loop and and and shortening and having short cuts towards doing things. You know, it's one of those leeching processes where little by little suddenly oh man, the last ten fifteen years, everything Jerry Jones has done has been terrible. Right, where whereas the beginning it was, Hey, there's other people that were around and they were involved as he was. And he you know, when you don't know what you don't know. But as time goes on, hey, I'm into more of the ownership part of this, and I'm making these big decisions and now I'm in in the last ten fifteen years for the Cowboys have been brutal, right, And it's the same thing for the Jets, because Whatdy Johnson took over. Up until you know, ten twelve years ago, things were pretty good, right. The Jets were making the playoffs basically every other year, and it was great. We didn't go far. We went to two AFC title games and twenty eleven and twenty twelve, which is awesome. But you know, after that happened, and Rex Ryan got fired, Like Woody Johnson is, his control over the team has gotten so much to the point where he's making all of these personnel decisions. And he cut Joe Douglas out of the loop on things. And Joe Douglas would we found out today, Loud, Let me read the reports today, Joe Douglas. Hey, I got a trade on the table. I could get Jerry Bleep and Judy for Allen Lazard and to pick No, don't want to do it. Oh, okay, Well, let's get us on Reddick. I think I can get him in. No, we're not giving him money. Oh okay, Like the stuff that he has done has just cut the Jets at the knees. And it happens when when owners get older and they get more full themselves in their power, they just get more involved. They don't get less involved because they realize, this is my dark side of the moon. This is what I'm leaving. This is what I'm leaving is my legacy, and I want to get more involved in it, and people shouldn't be involved in it. It's why I say you can get past a lot of things, but you will not get past a bad owner, bad GM, bad head coach, bad manager, bad starting pitcher, bad closer, bad quarterback, bad running back. You'll get by. You have, bad power forward, you'll get by. Bad goalkeeper you'll get Eventually, they'll all get replaced. Bad owner, and look where you're at, and you'd see why the Jets have been an absolute dumpster fire and the worst team in the NFL for the last decade plus is because stuff like this has happened. I mean, the whole benching Aaron Rodgers thing. I'm like, Okay, that's insane, but at least I understand the part of the conversation where where he wanted to at least throw that out there. But the part where I want to call for a practice and I want the Jets to practice during the bye week, Like, what the hell are you doing? Man? These are I go?
What the the owner gets to set the practice when they should practice? Really that's the owner's I want to have a practice today because I'm firing the general manager. I think there's a practice during the bobby Like that's where I go, Oh, man, were it's just never getting any better and it's just gonna be third or fourth place in the AFC East the rest of my life.
Man who writes all the checks and decided that he wanted to use a little Vegas misdirection. But to the to the point about Jerry Jones, because even like since twenty fourteen, they've had six double digit win seasons, yet it's been seen as nothing but an absolute.
Tale what tire fire the entire time?
Right, it's just but with the Jets, like we gotta go back to the Mark Sanchez two years and otherwise it's little spurts here and there, but never really consistently through a season to where they're contending. So that's where if Woody Johnson had taken up some of the oxygen. Now, remember he was out of the country for a couple of years, so he wasn't there.
Chris. You know, I thought we'd win then, and I thought we'd win him out of the country. His brother's running the team. Now we're gonna be good. Nope. I'm stunk then too.
But I bet you he was up in the you know wee hours of the morning, and when they came to work, he had his directives.
Here's the practice kitu. No, No, he's got stack. I watch. I'm on season two of The Diplomat. I know that carry Russell's got a lot of stuff going on. Man, she's got no time to watch football. If the Jets rotch, she's got no time for that. Man. It's it's enough to get her on a plane to go back to Washington, to get yelled at by the Secretary of State, then sorry spoiler, and then go back to London. No, he's got no time for that, man. There's no time. There's all kinds of crazy stuff going on, always in meetings.
But you know what might just have that extra you know, burner phone that's going back to Jets.
Jets head square you call me and you tell me who the started quarterback is. It's like when they're when they're tech, when they're texting and uh in Moneyball, when when Jodah Hill Tells tells Billy Bean h payn you again at first base? Okay, and he throws the f ye.
Like Woody Johnson, I really did not like the footwork of the left tackle on that second down play.
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Mike, we do that all positivity, all sorts of chaos, and hopefully in the end everybody leaves happy.
Yeah. I mean, look, we're not always just about sports and McRib No. We get to the big issues that happened. And there was look nothing today crazier than ESPN insider Adam Schefter, who did an interview and was asked, Hey, what's the weirdest place you've ever broken news from? And I'm sure the answer is expected to be I was in the toilet, I was sleeping, I was I was doing high knees at thirty thousand feet. Oh, you know you're gonna get one of those answers. You're showering and maybe you have Raleiota Jimmy and hey, like, I remember Jay Glazer once breaking breaking news when he was doing an interview on local TV here in LA. I think you know what it was. It was when he Breakable, right, he just opened Unbreakable right his big gym, and local channel channel eleven Fox here in LA was doing an interview with him, and so it's like, you know, Jay's an Unbreakable and they have the reporter there with him, and then they have people in the studio, and then it was it was part where the people in the studio were asking Jay Glazer a question and I asked Jay about Unbreakable and he's nodding his head and he looks down at his phone, and he looks back up, and he looks back He looks back down his phone, looks like he says, hey, sorry, guys, I missed that question. But I had to. But I had to look at this because and whatever it was, you know, the the packers just signed so and so in free agency, uh you know three years, you know, thirty five million dollars. There you go, breaking news for you right here on the show. And then like I had no idea what he was talking about, Like I don't I don't know one of the one of the Green Bay Packers. I don't understand is that a A. He's like, okay, great, six, okay, so now ask me the question again. Then they asked me a question about Unbreakably but like I remember, he broke that news on the show. But then Adam Schefter gave his answer today and it was you know, very uh uh. It didn't seem like he wanted to say it, but then at the end absolutely said it. He said that he had met a girl and he was with her for the first time in Denver long time ago, where Dale Carter had gotten suspended by the NFL for uh substance abuse Abie. He was an eight game suspension at the time. So hey, Dale Carter getting dragged into the story, and uh, he said he was right after he was with this woman that he met for the first time and laying there he broke the news and then said he got the job done in every way possible. Adam Schefter breaking news in the bedroom.
I'm gonna guess he's told that story, uh, over a round of beers, many many times. The entire time, You're just thinking of Christian Bale staring at the mirror sold in American and that's how he's delivering the news.
I mean, I'm just wondering, like was it like cause you know, because like Jay always tells us, you got to live with your phone next to you, and I tell everybody you know, my phone is it's it's my lifeline, it's everything else. Like was it right after? Like was it dooring? Like did they have to stop? And hang on? Hang on, hang on? I'm sorry, yeah, Dale Carter got suspend? Who the hell is Dale Carter? I'm sorry, Dale Carter got I'm sorry. I just got to give me a minute, Just give me a right here, hang on a second, and uh, okay, Okay, let's go back to it. Let's go back to it. Or did it happen right? Dale could be either a man or a woman's name too thin Jack the phone? Who is Dale Carter? Dale Carter? And what does it mean? They're suspended? Oh? Dale Carter got suspended? Okay, yeah, you're lying to me. I knew it right here now.
Of course, our guy Glazer had to come back over the top.
Yeah, by saying who hasn't I say, who hasn't done that? We'll have to ask Jay about that this week. We talked to him tomorrow night. Hey, Jay, you give us a story now when you broke news that way? You think he'll tell us? Or no, you think he'll tell us. You think Rosie'll be standing over his shoe. Maybe he goes, hey guy, let me go to the other part of the house. Or I do this part of the interview and tell you about the story here. Hang on a second, Hang on. You know I did have a life before you, Just so you know, I just in my life before you was able to get out in about I was. I was who I was, and that's that's kind of all I can tell you. Uh, I really, I mean, I I don't is someone like Schefter or Jay or whoever, Like, do you get really distracted like when it's going on and the phone it's like like you start looking over, like was the phone on silent and it was vibrating or was the phone like was it like the ring came out and it was you know, like mop like like on house, like it was some kind of personalized ring.
You just gave us five jokes and double entendres there hadn't even thinking about it.
It was good. I been thinking about the story today, Like there's so many different things. There's so many different parts with that. I want to understand about that. Like I like I cause I would say, like, hey, this Dale Carter thing might become a staring at my phone looking back at her, staring at my phone, looking back, staring at my phone looking back. It's another walk a mile in my shoes moment like you brought up earlier.
Okay, breaking news finds me at any time of the day, and I've got to be ready. This is why they pay me the big bucks to break news that other people are going to aggregate and spit out as their own fourteen seconds later.
Sorry, I really gotta get to this because Ian Rappaport's then again say that he had it and I had this first, I'm not I in Rapaport. Hey, you're right, you're not even rap I am not say it to me. I'm not in Rappingport. Yeah it's okay, okay, as you're not even Rappaport. I understand. I understand, like like.
That may be the strangest thing to ever in a decade.
I'm not in Rappaport. You understand, I'm not Ian Rappaport. Yes, yes, You're not even Rappaport. Yes, I know. Okay, all right, I understand. Need a minute, you have to break this down. Okay, we're fine, We're fine. Because that's the other part that I started thinking is, you know, the other part of this is how did she feel about it? Like was it like was she like a dude, can you not look at your phone? Can you not look at your phone as a or was it like you know, kind of a hey, you're gonna break news. While oh that's I've never had never done that before. Okay, it's a big news. Oh it's only Dale Carter getting suspended. I thought it would be like, oh, but I mean she still has a story forever. Yeah, I thought it would be you know, Tom Brady, you know, Patriots changing quarterback from bled So to Brady. You know, because this is because this is in two thousand, so I'm thinking back to things that could happen in two thousand. It would be a oh hey, it's a bit of a quote sexier story than you know. It's Dale Carter gan it suspended.
Well, this is also long before he was a too common kid on an annual basis from breaking news.
This is true. I mean this one like, yeah, that guy's a big deal. Now you know what he once did. Jerk. Hey, come on, tell that story about that time. No, I don't want to tell that story. Come on, just tell him. It's a great story.
Tell everybody how you know Adam Fine, tell him how you know?
A darn Schefter? And I want to tell you how the I was the first I was a second person. I know Dale Carter got suspended for eight games for peds. You want to know, you want to know it's the second person to know that, well, actually third person, because someone texted Adam Schefter and then probably he probably told her and then I got Carter. Look at Dale Dale Carter had to be sitting around today going why is my phone blowing up? I don't understand. Why are people called? What is something happened? And he's he's on all the blogs like okay, let me let me check, let me check Yard Barker, let me check dead Spin, let me check, let me check all these different sites. Did something happened? Is there a story whenever? Oh oh oh oh oh yeah.
Anybody reach out to Dale Carter Smith? Did you reach out to him?
Reach out to the uh you know, I want I wonder is Dale Carter gonna end up on a on a Fox? Like is Dale Carter gonna be on Dan Patrick tomorrow? Could be on Dan Patrick? You know? Is he is? He gonna be on Dale Carter tomorrow? It's done Dan Patrick tomorrow. I could see that. I could see that happened went back up. But I mean, I don't know what you say, Hey, yeah, how's your life going? Like? How are things? You know? I mean, okay, you know what what's going on? What'd you think of when Schefter had to like he had to bring up like why did he bring up Dale Carter? Like I don't know why you had to bring that up? Like I broke a piece of news and this happened after, you know, a woman and I had gotten together and had Why they have to bring Dale Carter into it? It was Dale Carter and not just Dale. It was Dale Carter, Dale Carter getting suspended for no, no, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw throw you under the bus with that right there.
But when it really swing, you started this topic and it sounded like something straight out of The Newlywed Game?
Where is the strangest place that you've made? Whoopie? W? When's the last time your mother in law walked in on you making whoopee? Now? I gotta explain the Generation X what the Newlywed Game was? Okay, it was a TV bring it back at some point? Did they bring back the Newlywed Game? I gotta think they had to.
I don't know.
I mean, Bob Eubanks had that great hand, that great papadoor. That was awesome. Yeah, oh he was great.
No, he still does the show because he was part of the original British Invasion stuff with launching the Beatles in the US. Bob Eubanks was yeah, no, yeah, he was a DJ, so he does he does stuff way back from back in the day.
He couldn't he couldn't get a better gig than hosting the Newlywed game, like that was. That was where the Beatles came on, went on the global superstartup, and he hosted the Newlywed Game. Damned he had a good run. I mean, this story, this story is just insane. I mean, the thing is, I could actually picture it happening like pig reaching for the funky I gotta stop, wait for okay, fine, Like I could see it like as part of a you know what I would picture you know it Wou'd be great if this is it was a scene in a movie. You know'd be great playing Adam Schefter. Jason Siegel. Jason Siegel would be great if they that was in a movie and he was playing in NFL ins if they made a movie about the NFL insider, Jason Siegel would be great in that scene. And Schefter's appeared in movies, right yeah, yeah, but he's he's appeared as himself. I mean, like, if you know Jason Siegel, that was he was the main character. Like kind of like, you know, we need another Jerry Maguire movie where it's about sports but not really you know what, He's an insider breaking news, and that happens, and Jason Jason Siegel would pull that scene off.
I'm gonna write that AI movie by time we get back on air tomorrow.
Exit Out About of Fresco, Exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike harmon Time Now to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. And I got some tough news because Manci Bolangjo's right now told me she bet Phoenix. She's getting fifteen and it's real difficult right now, Monsie, tell everybody what's going on.
You know, I did bet.
I did bet Phoenix because that's my girl Breeze team, you know, I'm saying, so I got to support That's what girls do.
So I'm mosy look at that.
Yes, I know in other places women don't support women, but Brion I support each other.
So I ask you this. If you lose tonight, lose a lot, when's the next time you will support her by betting the sun?
Oh, when she.
Buys me a drink, I'll forgive her she buys go yeah, yeah, yah yeah.
You can lose about one thousand dollars on a bet and she buys you a drink for eight dollars in your evening.
And you know that's friends, hashtag friends.
You know Los Angeles, there's no eight dollars drink. That's water. Yeah, then water. I bought to buy you a heavy water water water.
Not having water, I'm gonna have a nineteen forty two on the rocks.
You know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also, Jason, I was listening to you guys yesterday.
Was it your birthday recently?
Did I hear that?
Right?
It was? It was my birthday on Monday.
Happy birthday?
Thank you? Yeah, I was.
I tuned into you guys while I was driving home from my volleyball game, and I was like, oh, I gotta tell Jason happy birthday. You were at Disney, right, No, no, but oh okay. Then I thought you guys were talking about Disney, but it must have been a different conversation. But happy belated birthday, Jason.
Thank you. Ed Brianna, your friend who works here, gave me a diet coke for my birthday, wrapped it up for me and everything. Got a diet coke. A Arman gave me a two liter bottle of diet coke for my birthday.
Nobody gave you McDonald's double double or whatever you like.
Quarter pounder. Well, you know we have to talk about that.
Okay, back on, Okay, I'll come all right, all right, Well, Jason and your knicks are winning right now against Breeze Sons. It's forty two twenty six less than one minute ago. In the first quarter of this one. The Hawks are losing to the Warriors forty one to twenty two. After the first quarter, the Cavaliers already crushed the Pelicans one twenty eight to one hundred. If you didn't know who was playing for the Pelicans, none of us did because they have eight players on the injury report, including Cetia McCollum, de Jontay Murray, Brandon and Grim and Zion Williamson. So yeah, Ty Jerome led the way with twenty nine points for the Calves.
There the Bucks defeated the Bulls one twenty two to one oh six.
Janna Sante Toombo forty one points, nine rebounds and eight assists in the win. The Rockets beat the Pacers one thirty to one thirteen, and the Grizzlies outscored the seventy six ers one, seventeen to one eleven. Paul George left in the fourth quarter. You guys were talking about it with the hyper extended knee, the same knee he hyper extended a month ago. So there we go. Two points and four rebounds for Paul George in the loss. The Thunder top the Trailblazers one oh nine ten ninety nine. Yukon women's basketball coach Gino Ariema is officially the winningest coach in NC DOUBLEA history with one thy two hundred and seventeen wins. After the Huskies defeated Fairley Dickinson eighty five to forty one. He surpasses Stanford legend Tara van Derveer. So that's eleven NC DOUBLEA titles, twenty three Final four appearances, and twenty eight conference regular season titles. Congratulations to him. Let's check in in the NHL right now. The Stars are beating the Sharks five to two, thirty seconds to go, and that one, Predators and Kraken are scoreless halfway through the first period. The Maple Leafs defeated the Golden Knights three zero, and the Hurricanes beat the Flyers four to one.
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Some Cy Young Award winners.
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Detroit Tigers Trek Scuba was named the unanimous al Cy Young Award winner, and Braves pitcher Chris Saille was named the National League Cy Young Award winner.
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch, mon jez hey really quick. He congratulates to Gino Orima again as you just heard Monty talk about it. Twenty three final fours, fifteen in the last sixteen years, win streaks of ninety eight, one hundred and eleven games, like what he has done. Like just to think about what he's done for a second. You think about winning streaks of ninety eight hundred eleven games like the stuff that Gino Oriema has done throughout his career at Yukon, and he kind of doesn't get the credit that he should deserve because the popularity of women's basketball. He's kind of the conduit, right, Like he's the guy that was the main He and Pat Summit were the main coaches when women's college basketball, which is the biggest women's sport, went from hey, you know what sport is going to break through and suddenly a okay, women's college basketball gets kind of a seat at the table, and it became pretty popular in the two thousands and the twenty tens, and obviously the Yukon Tennessee rivalry made it a big deal. But now the last few years where it's absolutely exploded to the point where it's outrating college basketball on television. Obviously a lot thanks to Caitlin Clark, but we have a lot of great players that are coming to the WNBA now that we care about Logan and Geno Oriema's got Paige Becker's and you know Juju Watkins here in usc like the superstars just keep coming. Now it's become bigger than it ever was. And he put up numbers like in these kind of stats right here that you would expect to hear. If I told you this is what a college coach accomplished, twenty three Final four berths, fifteen and sixteen years, different win streaks of ninety eight hundred eleven games, you would say, well, that's got to be in the fifties, right, that's got to be John Wooden. Right, this's got to be when they were like eight teams and you just had a factory and you were able to get everybody. No, this is stuff that's in the turn of the century. This is stuff that's like since two thousand that he's been able to accomplish as it and it kind of goes under the radar because the big explosion. He doesn't get the credit as much because Yukon hasn't won in the last few years. Like he needs that. He needs that title this year. Man, you talk about somebody that needs a title in the new modern, modern era of women's college basketball, it's Gene. It's Gina Orima. He's got Yukon's gotta win this year. They have the player to do it in Becker's that you know, that's still a superstar school. But he needs that win to say, hey, I'm able to bridge the era and continue to play well in the era we're in right now.
Yeah, you just go down the list of players though More and stewartr. Former guest of the show, Sue Byrd Tarasi, I mean, Rebecca Lobo and all these high profile folks that are still around the game. But here's the thing for Gena Arima, he's gonna be most remembered because everybody is the they came to the table this last year, Right, that's the big criticism. You're gonna pay attention all these years you just got here. They're only gonna remember him from when he was on with Dan Patrick and predicted that Caitlin Clark would.
Be mid Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that's what that's his calling card right now. Even remember he was really Gregg coach over here. It's like, no, he said that about Caitlin Clark. How dare you well again.
That's the other thing too, is that he has always spent a lot of time like I feel like he did, like he knew this is when when women's college basketball is on the ascension, they were going to be a story for the final four, right that's when women's college basketball was was at the biggest part of the year. And he would always take that time to launch some sort of of die a tribe on something that didn't make him happy. And sometimes it was really important. Sometimes it was dude, just enjoy you're in the final four winning a national championship. But he would always take that time and it was always all, here's Geno Orima. So I think a lot of people have the connotation of Geno Orima, ah guy that's not happy about something when it comes to the final four, And that's sort of the impression we have of him when you have to understand what he's done. Winning has been something that no one's won like this in any sport ever, and this is how he's won and he's still doing it now at seventy years old.
Yeah, and he's one of the last of you know, one of the things we've lamented a little bit the changing of the collegiate landscape is how many of these men and women have just said I'm done with this. Right, long time, long tenured coaches have just decided, all right, I'm not playing by these new rules. You know, that's someone else's game. I'm gonna keep quoting Wicked, I guess unintentionally, and then I was like, I'm really running, you know, define gravity lines. But just the idea that he's still trying to battle, still trying to figure out this next phase. And he's got he's got a heavyweight team, as you talk about with Paige Becker's a lot of eyeballs, and the bully pulpit is still his to use. Now, it's just do you make the most of it. With more eyes on the women's college game than ever.
Exit out about a Fresca X at swollen down. The Jason Smith's are with Mike Carmon Lai from the Tirect Studios. I'll have more basketball throughout the show, but coming up next, there's a big couple of awards that we're giving out today and one may take a player from Hey, he's really good to potentially be in a Hall of Famer. Yeah, that's next right here, Jason Mike Fox.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Livethetirack dot Com Studios. Got more football on the way coming up in a few minutes. But big news in Major League Baseball today. We're gonna get the MVPs coming up twenty four hours. Find out just how much Shoho Tani and Aaron Judge won by, what's.
The margin of victory? And did anybody else get a second place?
Again? Beyond your guy and the only Francisco Lindora is going to be the first unanimous second player in MLB history for MVP Unani its second place. But today we got the Cy Young Awards, right Tarik schoobl in the American League and Chris Sale and National League. Neither is surprising because they each won the pitching Triple Crown wins, R and strikeouts. Each led the league a little bit tougher in the National League because you had the superstar power of Paul Skeins who was a finalist, and Zach Wheeler, who had a very comparable season to Chris Sale. However, Sale wins the Triple Crown again wins, RAY and strikeouts. It's kind of tough to argue that, well, the other guy was bet no wins ERA strikeouts. Well, that's kind of tough. But the big question is this now is because what did this mean for Chris Sale? Now the guys become a Hall of Famer. And that's what this Cy Young has done for Chris Sale. This is a guy who from twenty twelve through two eighteen, for that decade with the White Sox, in a couple of years with Boston, he's one of the top three pitchers in baseball at worst for the entire run. And then that's an incredible amount of time to be that dominant as a pitcher. Right seven All Star All seven years now eight time All Star here with the Braves. But when you can put that finishing touch on your career and say, okay, here's here's the punctuity, here, here's the exclamation. Whit again, he's still got some time. Looking you're thirty five and you're finally healthy after a couple of years of being injured. Maybe you have a couple more really good years left. I don't think Chris sale is suddenly going to fall off the planet. You know, he's still going to be really good. But you're saying eight years and now a Cy Young Award to go along with being an eight time All Star. And when you look back at the at the last decade plus in Major League Baseball, who's been a more consistent dominant pitcher, the list is really really short because all the other guys that are up there with him, Yeah, okay, you assures it was really good, but kind of a he's kind of falling off. And Verlander, who's gonna be a Hall of Famer as well, But he stacks up with everybody. You know, his career pitching war stacks up with just about everybody in in in Major League Baseball history. So Chris sale By by winning this I'm look and here I'm telling you. I mean, he's he was your guy for a long time. Yeah, he's going to the Hall of Fame. He's he's not gonna have an unbelievable number of wins. He's got one hundred and thirty eight right now, what is he gonna finish at? At most maybe one hundred and seventy maybe, you know, because guys don't win as many games, But like hes one thirty eight and eighty three right now, Like that's a pretty good bleeping record. That's like Pedro Martinez esque, you know, being being that being fifty games over five hundred for your career in Major League baseball. I mean, I don't even think it's gonna be a question. I think Chris Sale's gonna go. And if it's not the first year ballot for him, it'll be the second year for him.
Boy, I'm hoping to see that. Add Mark Burley to the list, and Harmon celebrates all over the place because his lefties get into the Hall. Yeah, I mean, you look at Pedro for his career to nineteen and one hundred when it was all said and done.
Yeah.
The thing with Sale is the fact that you've got that long block between the last time he was this dominant, right, this is the most innings he's pitched since twenty seventeen. And I'm all with you in all of those things. The All Star appearances, seven times he's finished inside the top ten in era. He's also finished I think it's six or seven times with the most hit batman batsman in a year, which is good too.
Sure, he's got to get people off the plate. Hey, everybody off the plate. I'm going to plunk you if you get checks.
But all of that to say, yeah, it's he's an interesting case, right, because you did have that six year block where he was fifth or sixth in Cy Young balloting for a six year stretch, right, six or better every year, and now you get one on the comeback trail a couple more years like this, staying in on this side of the equation. In terms of the Atlanta Braves and their winning machine. Yeah, perhaps perhaps we get there. I don't know that this solidifies it, but I'd vote for him, damn it, I would. I'll museum celebrate greatness.
It doesn't make him any more of a cab, but winning sometimes those things absolutely do it for you. When you have this triple crown. Sigh young, Yeah, Okay, that's the last thing you need. You need that little bit to cut through the clutter that sends you there. Well, do you?
Double digit win season is different than anybody else is going anymore.
If you think this Hall of Fame conversation was good, how about an NFL one we're gonna have next.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Halftime, The knickt lead the Sun seventy six to fifty eight, seventy of benches, whoop nix yo uh? Jalen Brunson's got twenty three? This Knicks offense, Wow, this Knicks defense. Joining us down the hotline for all the big news in the NBA. Fox Sports won NBA Insider Extraordinary. You can follow him on Twitter at Rick Buker. It is the aforementioned Rick Buker. What's happening? Bud yo yo.
Yo yo yo yo yo?
Yeah, all right, So, because you we've talked about this a few times here and here we are, you know, halftime of this game, you said you were all in on the Knicks, just like I was still all in on the Knicks? Or boy, is there something?
H what do you mean by by all in? I think I pulled back a little bit last time we spoke.
By the way, Well, you said all in, they're gonna it's gonna be faux faux fo like Moses Malone all the way to the NBA finals.
That was you let you did not bet on the winner, Jerry Jones, and he laid that out all in.
Sometimes I think that when I come on the show, there must be like a voice modulator like that they have, and it translates what I say. Maybe no, maybe it's just in Jason's ear. There's certain things I say and then they go through the ear canal and what actually hits his brain is not exactly what I've said. It's there's sort of like there's this interpretation machine in there. I can take what he said there and I can turn it into this, and then you spit it back at me, and I'm like, I don't even recognize that.
But well, yeah, but in the past, Rick, I would have to do that. But now we have AI, so I can just make it sound like you said, whatever the hell I wanted to make you say.
That's exactly That's exactly what is going on here, and the first time that anybody has connected artificial intelligence with Jason sith. But in any case, in any case, no, I look, I actually I'm more into the Nicks as a result of the teams that are falling out pH Philadelphia obviously has fallen on its face and I don't expect them to get up Milwaukee's in spite of the wind tonight and the winning streak, I still think that they've got major issues. So it really comes down to, you know's a handful of teams that that that I have that I think have a chance. Obviously Boston in New York, I would say, I would throw Orlando uh in that in that mix, and I'm forgetting somebody. There's a there's a fourth team that we have to we have to keep in keep in mind here and Cleveland, I think that you you have to put them in that mix. So, you know, being one of the top four teams without question, I mean, I don't see anybody else even breaking into that top four. Uh certainly puts the Micks in in great position. If you talk about Orlando, they don't have a whole lot of experience. Cleveland maybe a little bit more. Uh So I would say that the Knicks are are in great position. The one thing that is baffling is that Mikale Bridges when when he was acquired, you would have assumed that he was going to that he was going to improve their defense and their defense was good, and that it was going to be great, and it's it's actually gone the other direction. And I don't think we can put all that at the feet of Karl Anthony Towns, because if you look at the ratings and what the team has done when Michale is on the floor, he has one of the worst defensive ratings on the team and one of the worst offensive ratings on the team. So maybe this is just a matter of the expectations are really high and this is the team that was already kind of set and they're trying to adjust to Karl Anthony town and then Michale has to find his way in between those two things, an established way plus a new star that they're trying to incord rate because I've always been a big Michale fan. I've always thought that he's he's one of the better two way wings in the league. But for all that they gave up and what the expectations are, I would say that he's probably the biggest disappointment. You tell me he's going to get back to what we are used to seeing, then, Nick yo yo.
Yo yo yo.
Yeah, this will be fun as soon as they actually have to use those guys beyond number six on the depth chop.
What do you happens?
What do you mean you know that's not happening? What do you talk about?
Oh, I'm saying because it has to happen, not because he wants it to.
No, they should just they should just gray out, like on the bench. You know how you have color everywhere and then you just like things that don't work, they just you just grat them out. That's an event. It's not it's not operable. They're not No, he's not doing that.
Unavailable.
All right, let's go back you mentioned and we got into the sixers there briefly, Maxie calling out embiid. That gets out tonight. Paul George leaves again with injury Joel Embiid in your mind's eye, what's the next jersey he's wearing and how soon will he be wearing it?
Oh? Wow, Look I don't know that. I mean, what can you do with him? Honestly, I who's gonna who wants to inherit that at this point? It's because it's so much on him, And I do think that the Sixers are stuck because like it or not, he's your best player. And tyres maact he is telling it saying that our best player is not our hardest worker and not our most detail oriented player, and that is that you have no chance of winning or going anywhere significant unless your best player is your hardest worker. There's a lot of things, there's a lot of adjustments to the formulas, the winning formulas in the NBA, but that name to constant where if your best player is not your hardest worker, you are not going to you're not going to compete for a championship because and it's not the only thing that has to be there. But if you go down the line, the teams that are are always there and the teams that have won, you can look at their best player and they're the hardest worker. And conversely, you can I don't know, I'm the hate to pick on this guy, but he just he immediately comes to mind like Tracy McGrady, most people would say most talented player in the league, or you could take your l MB, you know, I mean, he's MVP. There's times where you look at his his what he's able to do. He is going to make a case he's the all around best player in the league. But when that guy is not your hardest worker, then there's a price to be paid for the entire team because he's not setting the standard and he gives everybody an out, so when things get hard, he's not going to have the wherewithal to stand up to it, and the rest of the team is inclined to take the easy way out too, So he's I don't see him going anywhere, honestly, because I don't see anybody wanting to sign up for that.
And all that comes with is Rick Buker our guest Fox Sports One NBA insider Jason Smith Mike Harmon, live from the tirec dot Com studios. All right, from Joel Embiid, let's head west, where you know, we talked about this on the show the last couple of nights, remember the painter Bob Ross would have the happy accidents where, oh hey, look we really stumbled into something here on this painting. I kind of feel like that's what the Lakers have done, right. JJ Reddick wants to send the message to D'Angelo Russell about a week and a half ago, Hey, what you're doing is not right. I'm gonna bench you, and now you're coming off the bench. And I don't think that that was made to be a permanent thing. It was I got to teach you a lesson. But what the Lakers have realized is, wait a minute. With Lebron playing point guard, he's getting everybody involved. He is deferring to a d as the number one option, and now Russell can come off the bench and do his thing and score points and not kill them. And some of the Lakers have stumbled onto something where I think this was just kind of a happy accident for them.
Yeah, no, there's no there's there's no doubt that that this mix is is better and that everything fits. Having Dangela come off off the bench and it gives him a little more freedom, allows him to play to his strength, which is really like, I'm going to play pick and roll and I'm going to look for my shot and then if I get stuck, then I'm going to give it up. But I'm not really trying to get everybody involved or be conscious of who's hot. And he's not an orchestrator. He's a pretty good pick and roll guard. And that's the strength and that works for you off the bend. The problem that the issue is you're playing Lebron thirty five minutes, and can you do that the entire season? Like right now, he's playing thirty five, AD's playing thirty five, Austin Reeves is playing almost thirty five, and they've played every game and they've taken advantage of they've had a fairly easy schedule, and they've beaten the teams that they're supposed to beat. And so I don't want to just the one thing I don't want to discount is what JJ Reddick has done, whether it's moving a d LO to the bench or just you know, bringing in detail and being a communicator and setting standards and expectations. And I think he's been terrific on all that. I sometimes wonder like if they and you saw it when they had the tough road trip and I think they lost four out of five on that road trip, and you know, he's slamming chairs and he's you know, he's expressing his frustration like they're going to hit rough patches. And one of the things that coaches have to become good at is biting their tongue and not letting their frustration boil over because that gets old in a hurry. Players players will turn you off at some point if you're you're reacting to everything, And that's just something you know naturally that that a young coach who's wasn't that long long ago, that wasn't what was still a player, is understandable that he would have that. But look, you know, they're they're they're right there in the mix. They're about where I thought that actually they're they're maybe a little bit better than I thought they would be. The big question is just is simply going to be they don't have a whole lot of depth. So you have to have a d Lebron and Reeve's healthy and playing every night in order for this team to win. And can they do that for eighty two games and then go into the postseason that that is going to be the challenge and for anybody who would say, man, I don't know if that's a good bet because of the history of those guys understandable, you know. So I'm enjoying it while I can and not putting too much expectations on where they're going to be in April based on what I'm seeing in November.
Hey, Riic, besides lighting up an Arumo's defense for you know, the continued failure, what do you got going on the On the Ball podcast this week?
Uh? Well, a couple of things. One I want to talk about Jason Tatum in terms of being like, you know how we were having the debate last year about who was better and who was the MVP between Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum has come back and is demonstrating that he is the guy. He's the guy with that team. And I've seen this with guys before, where I used to think that you were just kind of born with the confidence of I'm a champion, I'm going to go win championships. And if you didn't have it that you couldn't you couldn't develop it. You either had that belief in yourself that unshakable belief or you didn't. And I've come to see Lebron didn't have that state early on, and he kind of developed it. Even Steph Curry developed it, and now we're seeing Jason Tatum do the same thing. So combination of that and then looking at the Calves, I broke down the Calves fifteen game winning streak to try to diagnose, like, exactly how good should we consider them based on the fact that they did something historic and if you look at who they played and when they played them, it was right for them, maybe not to go fifteen to O, but it was right for them to have a great start. I do think that they've taken another step from last year, but I don't know that fifteen and O establishes them as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference. As the Boston Celtics demonstrated just the other night, they are still the team to beat. But I do think Cleveland is in the mix, certainly to have home court advantage going into the postseason. They're They're not a mirage. They're just not the taz Mahal.
So that's what's on the On the Ball podcast. Get it on Rick's Twitter page at Rick Buker. Nothing on the On the Ball Podcast about the strangest place you've broken news like Adam Schefter at earlier today. Nothing on that from you is this?
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