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Here we are to appetizer games before the main course. We will find out tonight if the Lakers are indeed back. If the Lakers are back, they win tonight. The Lakers are not back. Oh boy, it gonna get more stories about Shannon Sharp sex life.
Wow, that's yeah good. I know Paul Hayman has some thoughts coming Outsmania weekend.
I know, I know way more about Shannon Sharp sex life than I ever wanted to over the last time.
When is the docu series? I mean, I mean, there's there's evid there's videos, there's there's there's all kinds of everything is out there. Everything we know. It might be the only Hollywood production still going on here over here in the valley. They might have a film in the works.
I feel like this is this is this is one of those scandals that both sides are racing to release the stuff so people can hear it like this is insane.
Well that's it. Just keep feeding more and more information. Here's your overla parse it out and try to figure out usual where you land. Usually it's hey, nobody wants the details. I know everybody. Let's get the detail. Let's get them all out. Let's get let's everybody one side gets, but no, the other side wants to get it out more. Now we're gonna get out.
Now we're gonna get now we're this this I mean, I look at the Shannon Sharp story and I go, this is the decline and fall of Western civilization part three. This is the decline. We had the TV we had the movie in the eighties with the heavy metal and now this.
Is part three? Wasn't there part three? Didn't they already do one? No, we take that. I don't think anybody saw it. Wow, that's a whole other question. I mean it's it's like, you know, did they really did they do Hangover four? There was? U Was there a Hangover four?
No?
Okay? Was You should wash your mouth out for just saying, are they still doing like this? It's up to descendants five?
Now?
Is that what it is? Descendants? Fiveden? They just had what is it, the Red Queen or something like that Red Hulk that was a new event. No, no, no, it's a different person. That wasn't That wasn't as terrible as I thought.
I thought the Red Hulk and the Red Queen together, Maybe that's the next movie would.
Have been a good one. My end Listen. Nineteen ninety eight was a decline of Western civilization. This is part this is this is already this is more five. No, no, this is already this, this supersedes No. I mean, this just comes back to the age of all right, until there are criminal you know, charges, to the point where you're convicted, just let it play out, okay, right, I mean that that's kind of where we're at, you want to put them on TV? Put him on TV. I mean, it was gonna be one hundred million dollars man, wasn't He wasn't that there last year? Yeah? One hundred million dollar guy. Now it's a hundred million going the other way.
So, getting set for the Lakers Game two against the Tea Wolves, all of a sudden, maybe now this is the year they should run with the Hey, you know, the Anthony Edwards Michael Jordan storyline might actually be better now than it was a year ago.
We really forced it so much, but uh, Michael Jordan never get fined that much.
But that game coming up will of course keep you updated throughout the night tonight. The Lakers need to tie this series up, going back to Minnesota. Meanwhile, earlier we saw the thunderbeat the Grizzlies one eighteen ninety nine.
No surprise there.
And uh, but here I am all ready to make a coaching change for next season. I'm all ready to make because I know what's gonna happen.
Didn't we already kill this guy off early year? I know it's gonna happen.
Uh.
The Pacers lead the Bucks two games to none. Yep, they win it one twenty three, one point fifteen. Uh Siakaman Trent get into a little bit of a scuffle back and forth during this one, and the Bucks and Doc Rivers now down twos. It like I throw Duck Raddock Rivers in there. The Bucks and Doc Rivers down Two's it been this series?
Number one? It's gonna be tough because Doc can't say, oh well, not gonna blame me for blowing a three to one series lead this time. Can't do it? What are all my critic's gonna say? Now, I can't blow it three? Oh he does blow three to one series? We're down oh two? What do you think about that? You have nothing to say to you? We're down oh two?
Yeah?
Keep quiet, Yeah, I'm winning winning. How many times it's been a sweat? We're gonna get to that pretty damn quick to where this is going. Uh but yeah, I mean, look that's where we're at.
Look, Damian Lillard makes his return to I clearly not the same Damian Lillard coming back from from the blood clot. Great to see him back, I mean that's the number one thing. Great to see him back that because what he's suffering through and Wemby. It's not These aren't injuries. These are these are serious medical conditions. And to see Damian Lillard come back as.
Fast as he has is a great, great story, and you know, but clearly not the not the same player yet. He's gonna need to ramp back up into basketball shape. But I'll tell you what I'm already not only am I gonna make a coaching change, I'll tell you who's gonna get the job. Okay, So who's doc Rivers? Leave doc Rivers? So I realized that did I spoil its time? Might just leave? I might just leave. I don't know, I like to I might do the George Costanza. You can't fire him if you can't find me. So maybe I just go on vacation, believe it or not, docusing at home Doc Rivers, because this is just I mean, look, it's not getting any better for thought though, it's not. Yeah, yeah, first half was it? And they literally like it was yes, yeah, literally did. But it was another one of those situations like they're gonna play some defense, aren't they. They're gonna play a little bit of defense. And then they fought back. They end up losing by eighth, but they at least put up a fight. I mean they lost by eight, and Bobby Porters went for twenty eight and twelve off the bench tonight. I mean twenty eight and twelve and you lost. He's still playing, Oh, yes, he is.
He's gonna be ten years, He'll still be playing. He'll still be coming off the bench.
Bobby still still the same Bobby Port. It's former Bull and Knicks still Bobby Ports. I mean, look, is there anything that's gonna happen. I'll give you this lead pipe, certain, I'll give you this this NBA playoff guarantee. The head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks next year is Mike Malone. Oh sorry, Michael Malone. Oh you got it right, Mike. Yeah, I mean you got Mike. You know he's the job right now.
He's the head coach of the Bucks next season, right because it clearly look you're you're continuing to waste the prime of Giannis. Look, they get to the mountaintop and they win, but they've not been able to keep it going since.
And you have a lot of issues. Obviously, it's not been anything close to what you envision when you got Damian Lillard and you thought we're gonna run rough shot over the Eastern Conference. Instead, you have watched at least three teams pass you by in the Eastern, maybe four teams have passed you by in the East. Overall. That's not good man. So you know what change is coming.
But who's got the experience of coaching a big superstar, a big in the middle, had to respect won a championship. Yeah, Michael Malone's gonna come in and get this job over Doc. Because someone's gonna come in. You need a little bit of a hard ass now, right, You got to follow a player's coach kind of with a hard ass coach, and not that Doc isn't always the most players of coaches, but still you need a couple of different philosophies. And Malone coming in, that's the guy. Who else are you gonna get? Guy won a championship two years ago and he's out. Okay, maybe he's humbled a little bit. I gotta come in. But they need someone to grab a hold of this of this program and say, okay, this is what we need to be because right now the Bucks it's like they just go out there and play. You had Kyle Kuzma, who was a really dynamic player. And I'm at least he scored in this game. At least he scored twelve in this game. He didn't go zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero.
Did you have kind of feel bad for him in that game?
Though?
Hoof just a little bit like twenty two minutes and nary a stat to be found. That's almost impossible. It's only ten guys on the damn court. The ball had to hit you in the hands at some point on accident. Is that count? As an assistant bounced off his head to a teammate, does that count? I don't know. The favorite earlier in this season when it looked like Doc might have been on the hot seat was Terry Stotts. Okay, so you've got him. You you go over and look at some of the other would be Wizards of on benches elsewhere, and then Mark d'antoni's still up there, Manti Williams. So there's there's guys. How excitable you are about any of them? I don't know, but certainly sure not yet, not yet soon though maybe well we called that one about six weeks ago, long time ago. I did like there was a thing going around though, where there was a great camera angle on TIBs where it looked like he'd had a hair restoration. Okay, all right, all of a sudden it looked like he was walking with a full head of lettuce and it was just the way it blended in the background of him. But you know, he might need that he can show a renewed, youthful appearance to give him that shot at that next gig.
Look, and I'll say this, because we were both off last night. We had, you know, night with all our families at California Adventure with iHeart. Was a great night last night. You and I were there, Justin was there, Alex Tischer.
Was there, Thanks ninety eight seven, and you know the Nicks lose.
And you know all the how are you? How are Jason? Oh my god, how do you have? And I'm honest with I'm honest with you right now. I am absolutely fine because because you had a turo because well, no, because I did have. I did have shwarma last night saved the world. Then shwarma is because I have zero expectations for this next team. I told you I had zero and that this is not their year. The roster did not come together. And I'll tell you this much. The guy following TIBs out the door if they lose this round of the Pistons is mcal Bridges, and it's gonna be This is how we revamp the team for next year is taking one of the stars because it's starting five is in credit put together an incredible starting five.
It's not gelling like you would expect. And mcal Bridges is not someone that's seen the basketball enough. He's had a tough time getting hot. He has games where he absolutely disappears, and he is your most marketable asset that will bring back what you need to complete this team, because it's just how they have it now. It's this iron man basketball of Hey, we're gonna have the five stars out there as much as possible. There's still not enough flow and sometimes there's not enough touches for Karl Anthony Towns and trying to get too many people involved is really difficult. And when Brunson's has the ball most of the time and it's he and Kat all right, you're trying to bring another scorer in that's not working.
And Unobe with his three and D is great. Josh Hart finds his spots right. That's but the Bridges thing is a really difficult thing. And they traded five number one picks for him. So that so following TIBs out the door, if the Knicks lose to the Pistons, is gonna is gonna be Michal Bridges because that's the only way they get a couple of pieces that can either supplement or work better with what they have, because you just have a collection of talent right now with the Knicks. And I thought, oh, this is gonna come to that. It's gonna be unbelievably awesome. Now it's like, oh, you know, they'll win.
They'll beat the teams that are about as good as them and not quite as good, but the team's better than them, forget it right, Like I mean, and again, I have no expect and I'm not saying no, no, no. The Mets I have big time expectations for. And I'm like, okay, now I'm I'm gripping my ass off this year because this is now, this is We're we have the best record in baseball. We're not even hitting yet, and this is it. But the Knicks, I'm like, yeah, whatever, man, what they have? I have zero expectation. Whatever happened to there. If they win the series, great, it's a bonus. Right, That's how I look at a bonus. Now, what's gonna likely happen is I'm sure they're gonna they're gonna win. They're gonna lose this series and then somehow the Celtics will get upset and the cas will get upset and it will be oh, it's there for us. That's climply how it works for the mix.
But like, if they get out of here, great, If not, okay, I I zero expectations for.
The Jason Tatum doubtful for the next game, the Celtics with that wrist injury where they said, let him get up himself, he's really hurt, get up, rub it off. So it's that curiosity will watch you and continue to monitor your heart rate, uh and your your angst akstiness. Then the Mets helping you quite a bit because yesterday, I mean as Justin is wont to do to poke the bear, as as the Knicks go down and defeat. Yeah, but the Mets one jerk. Yeah.
I gona look at the positives, right, I gonna if I line for a ride, you have it. That's one that's the Philly is all good, man, All good.
It's like, but it comes back to the ability of a squad because you got health for the most part, for your next seventeen. Health is great. If you get sixty five in this day and age in the NBA, yeah, that means you had a healthy year, right, But when you're playing with such a short rotation, those guys are on heavy minutes, and now you try to extend that into play. It's a lot easier to shrink it down and just say, hey you you got used to your twelve minutes in the regular season. You got nothing now, versus hey, you ready to come off the bench. What's my role? Don't know? Remember, because when Brunson suddenly was out, everybody's standing around. Look at who's taking it, who's getting the ball on the inbound I don't know. Zero. Expect that's it. Expect nothing, but you'll never be disappointed. See that's not expecting nothing. I'm expecting nothing. It's all good. Expect lifetime of your sports, your sports life, and my sports life wrapped into one. Fox Sports Radios.
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Speaking of Yeah, we had some big talk today that maybe the Browns and the Giants looking to trade out of the second and third selections of the draft. The Titans and know that we're good. We're staying at number one. We took a phone call for good. We're feeling okay. Is twenty thousand when when Kem Warden said the best running backs in the NFL were the guys on our team. We figured we need to draft the guy. But could we see some move right now? Every team has their first round pick?
Will that change?
Joining us now on the hotline, longtime NFL insider. You can see him on Odyssey, read them on the Washington Post. Listen to him one of five to seven the Fan Baltimore. That's like every single way you can get to somebody TV watching listen in reading.
It's about right. We got all the senses engaged. It is Jason locking for it. Jay, what's happening?
Man?
How are you?
I'll be happy when this thing's over. I gotta be honest with you.
Yeah, but yeah, but here's the thing, though, I know the Orioles aren't playing well, so you're gonna be focused more on the Orioles on your radio show.
I don't know, man, it's it's low IQ bad baseball, man, I don't know. It's not great to talk about.
But they'll be mediocre enough, like the problem.
Is that they won't be just truly horrific, Like they're going to be mediocre enough that it's kind of like it's interesting and people won't get fired like they should, and changes won't be made like they should because you know, they've expanded the playoffs and you can keep convincing the new owner that we're still in it. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Well, let's get to some more certainty easier. Let's look at thirsday. That the week, the week we're gonna.
Get by here, h do you believe the Browns and the Giants can move from two and three or is this just smokest green, this is just.
What we do two days before the draft. I mean, people are calling each other. I don't think that qualifies as news. It's it's what happens. People set their boards over the weekend, and then they start, you know, talking to other teams and exchanging ideas and it goes from kind of being everybody in their silo to much more of a sort of ongoing dialogue. And that's part of why you see betting markets crystallized, and you start to see the kite. The kind of value, a potential value that was there a week ago, two weeks ago, a month ago, disappeared for a lot of these picks, and it basically becomes you put up a whole bunch of money to win your money back, because that's that's all you're that's all you're doing, because these these things are kind of they kind of are what they are. And I think the first really, for me, really the first five picks are pretty well set now and I don't think there's going to be a trade that changes that. I don't think we're going to see nearly as many trades as we normally do. Certainly the pace of the conversations have been slower. There's less of a consensus on who really the top players are, and it's harder to think that you know your guy Kenner can't be there because a lot of these opinions are more all over the place. I don't think it's as deep and blue chip players at most key positions. There's a lot of other drafts, but it has oodles of depth, which is another reason why people are not that inclined to trade picks to give away, you know, or a part with some of these Day two and early Day three picks where they think they can really do some damage. So I do think somebody will trade into the back end of the first round for a quarterback, and it stands the reason there'll be another trade or two where people flop spots unless deals. But I don't think we're gonna have blockbusters. Now, they'll be players, but you'll get dealt But even a Trey Hendrickson, I don't think you're getting a one straight up for him. So a lot of those trades might not happen until Day two because they're probably only gonna involve Day two picks and Thursday night. No, I don't anticipate much trade action, certainly not in the top three.
All right, so let's see this. Then I'll go through the fret. I'll start with pick one and then we'll stop and you go from where you think the picks.
Are gonna go when you disagree. Ready, okay, all right?
So number one cam Ward, Tennessee, keep going, okay. Number two Travis Hunter Cleveland ramble on.
Okay. Number three the Giants Abdul Carter proceed. Okay. Number four the Patriots, well, boy, yeah, they break the Jets heart and they go with Membu out of Missouri.
I think it's probably can't think it's probably the other offensive lineman.
You will gamble, yeah, okay.
And then five Jacksonville, Oh boy, five makeson Graham Jacksonville.
I think it's shinty, it's Genty or Graham, but I would I believe it's.
Sent Oh okay, I like that him sneaking in the top five. Go out of their work to make that happen, do you the Raiders don't try to do something to get up to get Genty?
I don't think so. I mean, it's not out of the Roman possibility, but like, I don't know, like I think I just have a hunch that they take McMillan and that they make their offense better that way, and that they think they can get a pretty good back at the at the top of the second round. But this receiver class, you know, and there's not even uniformity about the top three and how how high those ceilings may be. But I've just had this theory, and I've run it by some people who are on other teams, and they don't think I'm crazy. That this is tom Brady's pick, and Tom Brady sees the games through the eyes of a quarterback. And tom Brady, you know, for the better part of his first twenty years in the league, was under a guy's thumb who didn't want to do anything for his offense, who wanted tom Brady to do more with less, and who was you know, would never give tom Brady this kind of capital in the first round on a pass catcher, you know, even Gronk, you got him lower than you probably should have because of you know, concerns about his body even then. And so yeah, I just think Tom Brady and they've already got to Brock Bowers. You know, if they didn't have a Bowers, then I would say that they jump all over Warren. But I just have a theory that he's trying to build a monster there for Gino and that's his call way more than it's Pete Carroll's, and that that McMillan kid he thinks is the best wide receiver in this in this.
Draft interesting because I would have doubled up and gone back to what he had. And you know, the human must not be named in Aaron Hernandez alongside Gronk, so you'd have the dual tight ends to go out there and dominate.
I mean, that would that would be something. I just think that they feel like those parts of the field are already pretty well covered and we need people to, you know, to compliment that we're looking for a little different skill set.
Yeah, but we'll see.
Does Kirk Cousins get traded day one or day two?
I mean he gets cradd in the next like he gets traded his offseason. I don't believe it has to happen this weekend. It's complicated. He's got a full no trade, you know. The how willing are the Falcons to negotiate the sort of rework the contract they're going to have to do facilitated trade. But are those conversations that are cann be going on, you know while all this activity is going on during the draft. I mean, you can walk and true come at the same time. But I don't think that trade is I don't think it's it's sort of incumbent on them getting this year's draft picks for him. If that's what it was all about, it should have already been done. They should have, you know, stopped being fools about not wanting to eat any of the money to get a real pick in return, and it should have already been done. So I don't know.
Jason Locking for NFL inside of our guest Jason Smith, Mike Carmon Lot from the tirec dot Com studios. All right, fill in the blank here for me. Well, that's what it would take to get it when it's all said and done. Shador Sanders is on what team? And what round does he go in?
Oh, come on roundly tomorrow night. I right now would say twenty one to Pittsburgh.
Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I'm completely with you.
And they walk Mike Tomlin gets to walk around like he's the smartest guy in the room.
See, look at what I did. Look at what I did I did as a quarterback.
Well, look, I don't think he gets past my Tom. And I'll put it that way. I think Mike tomins very comfortable with him. I think that some of the brashness and boldness and whatever that other people could talk themselves out of, I think Mike Tom would have no problem sort of harnessing and using to his advantage. They obviously have an overt needt at quarterback. And I started picking up over the weekend talking to coaches and gms and and you know, you know, doubts evaluators. I mean, too many people being convinced that Tellen Moore really does have a fixation on Jackson Die and that the Saints are in fact inclined to go that way. No one knows, right, I mean, like you, no, very few people actually know inside that building. And sometimes these things are completely right, and sometimes there are smoke that's done out there that people believe, and sometimes it was right until an owner or somebody else stepped in and said, no, that's not what we're going to do. So no one would sit there, you know, rival gms and say we absolutely know that pick. But there are people who you know that to the best of their determination, for their internal draft boards and mock drafts, they think Jackson Dart is the pick at nine. So I'm who am I to say?
No?
Does Jerry Jones upset the Apple card to prove and shut everybody up and to prove to himself that he's still the smartest guy in.
The room by doing what?
Would he make it?
Make it a giant trade, you know, one of those let's go for Broke.
For who who is this draft would like for Truvit Hunt. I mean, I mean that would be the only person that I think you could really make that case. He doesn't need a quarterback. He just gave a guy sixty million dollars a year, sure but grudgingly, but he did it. No, I would be really surprised if he. I just think he stays where he is and he probably takes a wide receiver.
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is at Jason Locke and four. Check him out on Odyssey one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore, Washington. Post Jay has always buddy appreciated man enjoyed the draft on Thursday. We'll talk to you always.
My pleasure thank you, Jason.
Ay, there he goes. Now, I'm telling you, man, it's gonna wind up. It's like I put it out in the universe that that somehow Shador Sanders is gonna fall to the Steelers and Mike Tomlin's gonna get to walk around like see all he doubted me, think I didn't know what I was doing, which they don't. Oh, we're gonna win. I'm telling you it's gonna wind up happening. And Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is like that kid that doesn't study for a test in your class and winds up getting a higher grade than you did when you go. I studied until two in the morning, and I didn't eat, and I even go to sleep. I just kept drinking red Bull to stay up because my test was an eight, and I want him getting to sixty seven.
You don't even look.
At a book and you got a ninety eight.
Yeah I should have got that last one, right, that's a little careless at the end.
I just I should have got one hundred. Yeah, that's all me. That's who, that's who. The Steelers are always works out from. This is gonna work out for them too well. But it's the perfect narrative too, because what's the one thing you can't question about shudor Sanders his toughness. Right, we watched that time and again, and where else can that be sold. It's a great fit, and it's a great and the thing is, it's a great fit on an allion.
Right.
They got Jalen Warren to come back cheap, so they've got a bunch of They made the trades, the splashy moves to upgrade the receiving corps this offseason. So yeah, it would be a perfect fall to opportunity. Probably not gonna be so thrilled that he goes twenty first psychologically, but they're gonna start, They're gonna start pushing the fit. This is where he's on. This is the best fit for him. This is the best place for him to go, and it is.
The thing is it is, it's the perfect place for him to go. And they're gonna luck into it. They're just gonna back into it and fall over and find a briefcase full of money, because that's what happens.
They're not in your division yet, I know, but still it upset the Patres. Tomlins just starting to irk me the last couple of years with the whole. Yeah, I'm smarter than you, and look what I do at quarterback. It's not working. Doesn't matter. I'm still smarter than you. It's not working. It's not working. It's not working. He's smarter, No, he's not is he is not? Stop he is if an'thing else, Look, man, he may have a lucky rabbit's foot or whatever the hell he's got going on, and he still has that streak going. How is it even with the quarterback position being what it's been.
I told him, I told everybody that would listen last year, Russell Wilson stinks he's done.
No, no, no, no, I'm smarter. I'm smart, sow goes. So what is sorry, buddy that goes?
Yeah?
Uh, it's time to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. And the guy who is the smartest guy in the world, it's Steve to.
Say hi, Steve Therap, smart enough not to say that, like fifteen, twenty, fifteen, thirty, what'd you get.
Let's see one thousand thut No, I know it was nothing close to that, Thank you. Really, although I'm smart enough to know fourteen the max is and it's yeah, it's like sixteen hundred.
The max you get Fred for writing your name correctly. You have to write it correct you can't. Maybe he saw you get four points write in your name. You got to write your name correctly. You screw that. I still, yeah, el some.
Recruits were prop forty eight. Even so, by the way, Tomlin with his William and Mary education, so you got to add that into the conversation. Mister smart guy.
Well we're talking. He needed to kill people. He needed kill people sid William, William and Mary hed I got by with like a half day full of Mary Falcons.
Quarterback Kirk Cousins reported to voluntary workouts today. Michael Pennix is now the starter there. Bill's running back James Cook did not attend the start of his team's voluntary off season program in San Francisco. Quarterback Brock Party showed. Tight end George Kittle did not. Seventeen NFL teams open voluntary off season workouts yesterday, eight more did so today. The Bengals reached preliminary agreement with Hamilton County for stadium improvements for next year. And I must mention former ESPN Sunday Night foot announcer Mike Patrick died at the age of eighty. He had a thirty five year career on cable and Yes, Sunday Night Football used to be on cable to the NBA, and he.
Was the voice of Sunday Night Football for many other twenty years. Yeah, he did lots of other there, but him and Joe Thisman and Paul McGuire were from almost seven until the mid two.
About twenty years ago. Yeh, yeah, exactly, and a lot of other sports. I mean, I'd see him on college basketball a lot over the years. He had a long and great career at play by play in the NBA Playoffs, the first quarter is over in LA and the Lakers lead Minnesota thirty four to fifteen. Minnesota five of eighteen shooting from the floor five baskets in the first twelve minutes. Timberwolves had taken game one of the series. Over the weekend. Oklahoma City's up two games to none and its first rounder after beating Memphis again one eighteen ninety nine. Indiana leads two games to none after defeating Milwaukee again one twenty three to one fifteen. Despite Janis Antennacumpo's thirty four points and fifteen eighteen rebounds. Boston's Jason Tatum is doubtful for Wednesday with the Bruce wrist to the NHL playoffs. The late game is still about a half an hour away Minnesota at Vegas. Right now, Florida through two leads five to two at Tampa Bay and they're early in overtime. Ottawa tied at Toronto two two. Carolina leads two games to none after beating New Jersey three to one to Major League Baseball.
What a ballgame at.
Wrigley Field tonight. Bottom of the eighth inning, the Dodgers are leading ten to nine against the Cubs. LA got a three run homer top of the first from Tommy Edmund. Cubs answered with five in the bottom of the first against starter Dustin May. Eventually the Dodgers with five in the seventh to take the lead, Freddie Freeman with a two run double. Kyle Tucker though with a two run shot to get the Cubs close, maybe still cheating. They go to the ninth ten to nine Dodgers lead at Wrigley Kansas City has won an eleven innings over Colorado four to three. Rockies with a four an eighteen record. Minnesota beat the White Sox four to two, White Sox five and eighteen. Saint Louis ended a five game losing streak with a comeback win at Atlanta ten to four. Got three runs in the eighth, three and the ninth. The Mets won there sixth in a row, five to one over Philadelphia, was a two to one lead.
In the seventh.
Victories for Boston and Washington, wins for Miami and Cleveland. The Guardians have won five straight, beat the Yankees three to two, and San Diego won again two nothing at Detroit. The Padres have posted seven shutouts this season, and the Tigers in the defeat three for thirty at the plate.
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So far tonight, reports of the Lakers' demise has been greatly exaggerated. Already half of the Timberwolves rosters in foul trouble. Yeah, we just started the second quarter. Devincenzo already has three and the Lakers lead the Tea Wolves forty to twenty one. Lucas hitting threes, not even looking to see if the ball goes in the net. This has been a much different Laker team than Game one. Will have more on this game coming up in a few minutes. Again, eight and a half before halftime, and it kind of looks like a thunder Grizzlies Game one right now, forty to twenty one. It is everything Lakers and the Lakers need this to tie the series up a one game of PA.
I just want more of those hard picks like nas Reed just set like he was bron breaker taking someone out with a spear. We need more of that because then we'll get some volatility or he's you know, some excitement in a blowout scenario.
Eventually you're gonna you're You're gonna come down from your big wrestling Udia weekend.
Eventually you're gonna come down from that. No. I mean, I'm doing crossovers here. We're trying to grab the entire Okay, everybody, I give you the sports, we get some wrestling in. I give you some hot takes because I could speak better on the microphone than ninety five percent of the guys that are that are doing the wrestling business right now. So maybe they can make me a manager. It's also an audition. And don't forget Nico Harrison. A lot of people speak better than Nico hes as soon as he opens his mouth, he loses. That's trouble. But I'll give you this hot take, bold prediction for the NFL Draft. You think I'm crazy, Okay, but that's OKAYNA be the first time I don't. It's very hard to believe Jerry Jones when he says anything. It's very hard, right, Sure.
I'm gonna do it, No nopem just gonna go just gonna wait a few months and go against it.
That's all it's gonna happen. I'm gonna do it. Ma Way and ma Way is terrible. Okay, So this is the deal, he says today. He's working on a couple of big moves. Right.
The team is working on some big trades to make in the NFL Draft, A couple of big things they could be going on now. Normally you would say, yeah, whatever Jerry Jones, Yeah whatever. Yeah, we're all in too, right Jerry, Okay, right, no, no, But this I believe him because this is what he likes to do. He likes to make that big draft day trade. Now he hasn't made the biggest one. You gotta go back to Amari Cooper a few years ago. But he likes you gotta look down just thirty five years of Jerry Jones when he can. He likes to make those moves. He likes to get up and do something really, really bold, and he needs to do that. Right, So what's the big bold move to make in the draft. The cowboy sit right now, and for the first round of the draft we're talking about they're picking twelve. Who is the new apple of the eye of NFL teams? What's the one position that is crying out for cowboy need? Because if you add this guy, you can say, well, maybe we're back to the team we were and we drafted Dak and he was a rookie, and watch Dak and Ezekiel Elliot run nuts up and down the field. Hey, I just watched Sakuon Barkley go from one team in the division to another team in the division and the Eagles won the bleep in Super Bowl. Jerry Jones is gonna go up to four or five. He will make a deal with the Patriots or the Jaguars and they will draft Ashton Genty Like that is your big surprise move because at four and five the Patriots really want to take Ashton Genty. Well, they gave him Andre Stevenson some money. They're kind of Drake made driven. Ashton Genty would be nice there.
But when you're starting over, Jerry Jones, I'm sure overpay because it's what he does in trades. Same thing for the Jaguars. Right, you have a couple of guys you like, not great, but okay, Is Ashton Genty gonna be the guy? Or will you be able since you're starting over as well? Hey, if I overpay for you with picks there one of those teams he will move up for and take Ashton Genty who doesn't get out of the top five. And that's the big shiny move of the NFL draft. And Ashton Genty's got a star in the side of his head, and he goes, I'm gonna be Barkley.
I'm gonna be Charles Barkley and Saquon Barkley. I'm gonna even be I Ran Barkley, that boxer from the eighties. In fact, I'm gonna be Barkley, who was the butler and soap. I'm gonna be all these Barkley's is one. Yeah, I'll even he win, So I'll even be Elizabeth Berkley, which is close to Barkley.
That's what he's gonna say, and it's gonna be the story. So excited that's gonna be I'm so excited. Oh I'm sorry too far. That's everything. That is everything. No, I did that, I mean We just had Jason locking for on a little earlier in the hour, and I asked about Jerry Jones because I know the the hot buttons went, we want to get a visceral response to something from Jason Locamora. You got the Shed or Sanders questions. I didn't really care to ask anything about Aaron Rodgers, so I went Jerry Jones. They're like, come on, what's he gonna go do? This is exactly what Jerry Jones would do. It's the reverse hoshal Walker. I'll give you a bunch of stuff to go up there, because right the Patriots, right now they need to go and build the interior. Well, you can get the other offensive lineman right if you don't get the one on the board. We know that's one of the areas of depth, and that's not sexy, that's not moving the needle. It's good for long term success. We're talking about this a little bit with the draft. There's a lot of depth, there's a lot of greatness to be had in teams to be built, but it's not sexy and headline grabbing, which is why Jerry Jones can cut through the mess and go get it. If the Jaguars are so far from being a contender to anything, no matter how bad the AFC South is. Yeah, yeah, agents coming there is not solving anything. No. No, It's like we said with Saquar Barkley, if he'd stayed with the Giant, where do they go? Five over or under? Five and a half week? Look at the right decide. It's not a difference maker. You have to have everything else in place.
No, And and the Cowboys feel like we have everything in place. We get a big star player, and I not only do I win the draft, I win making my team even better for the fall. And suddenly Micah Parsons is doing a podcast saying, oh, let's go, let's go pay me else go let's call it guy, I want money, what money?
I want to stay.
All of a sudden, Ashton the Cowboys trade up for Ashton Gent.
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Good evening.
That was an all time introduction, But you neglected to say that you know what Morosi might have been right when he said the Pistons would find a way to be the Nicks, because we feel pretty good in Michigan right now.
Somehow, Now I got, I got? Have you explained this to me? Jason?
Beasley and Hardaway combined for two points in Game two, and somehow.
The Pistons out a way to win at the Garden?
Jason Smith, how did that happen?
Here's how I explain this. Here's how I explain this is pretty easy. The Mets have the best record in baseball. That's how I explained and.
So so as basically my understanding is the only reason why I am on the show tonight is because new Piston's icon Dennis Shrewder was not available. He is he is, basically you surpd Vinnie Johnson as Michigan's favorite purveyor of late, late second, late fourth quarter clutch shots.
Though we're still early on in the series, Jason, a lot of.
Basketball is still left to be played, and Mets do. Indeed, sources say they have a better record than the Dodgers, and that is something that is all the more true after that wild walk off win for the Cubs at Wrigley this evening.
Well, and I will tell you this, John Paul, you are the ninth person today from the state or the last twenty four hours, from the state of Michigan to trash talk me about the Pistons, and the next because my wife's entire family has been busy doing that the last twenty four hours.
Well, I know this well.
And of course, as you also know, the Pistons have not done a whole lot of winning of series since Rashid Wallace inexplicably left Robert or open for a three pointer late in the two thousand and five NBA Finals. Not that we still think about that in Michigan, that we still think about that, but very little, very little good has happened to the Pistons since then. But they are now back in the conversation, as are the Mets, as are the Cubbies. And this is really a great time here for sports. I am I am loving it as both a broadcaster and a fan.
So as we look at the first couple of weeks in the books, obviously Smith's all excited, Mets tied with the Padres for the best record in baseball. Wan Sotos still not hitting, as he's so often telling me, what's your biggest surprise.
Question. I think the couple things.
The struggles of the Braves are really surprising me.
I think on the on the negative side, and I.
Certainly understand all the back and forth now about Jared Kalmick and Robin Lacunya Junior. It really it takes it takes a special skill to become the dominant debate in baseball when you're not even on the active roster. But that seems to have occurred with the Kuni in the last couple of days. So I think the struggles of the Braves are are probably the most surprising thing I've seen. I did not think the Dodgers would have as much competition and company atop the NL West as they have right now with the Padres uh and the Giants. The Padres Tonight, Nick Pavetta, for me, he's on his way to an All Star appearance, a one point two oere even after signing late. Usually that's not a beat as usually a indication that the pitcher's gonna get up to a slow start.
But you got a credit Pavetta versus preparation.
Coming in and being really good very early on. And and so I think that the way the Cubs have played has certainly impressed me. They're they're leading the NL Central tonight, Amaya was a was a key hero for them. They get Kyle fucker and the deal with Houston's. I like the way the Cubs have played, and I think that the AL East being pretty winnable. It appears is also a bit of a surprise that the Orioles I did not expect would be as bad as they've been.
They they and And the thing.
About the Orioles two guys is I just don't know how quick that they can fix this. A lot of their pitching is either looking overwhelmed or is just frankly injured.
And I I don't know how.
Quickly Michaelias and Brandon Hyde can correct the reasons why the Orioles right now are struggling so much.
You know you mentioned the AL East, John Paul and the Yankees lead the AL East right now at fourteen and ten. If you didn't know the scores of the games, and all you did was read about the Yankees online right whether it's New York Post, you know, I'm up every day. If you didn't know the scores, you would think, oh, the Yankees are what what two and twenty one like if they even won to more wins in the Rockies right now. But the Yankees, despite the fact that they're not clicking, they have a lot of issues, they're still in first place in the Al East.
Yeah, that's a good point.
And obviously when you look at the big picture, they've gotten zero starts from Garrett Cole and Luis Heal at this point in the season. Devin Williams has struggled in the ninth inning. I think that's that is the story. It's certainly it is a correctable story, and I believe I believe Devin will correct it. But that's a concern. Aaron Judge has been just otherworldly, and I think that's that's the key part of the story here, is just how great he continues to be and and he is now I think when Aaron Judge and you're looking at the way that he is elevating this this franchise, even amid all the injuries and not having Guan Soto. Obviously he is now moving into the inner circle of the greatest Yankees ever.
And I know that there is this instinct with the Yankees.
To always defer to the to the players who were who were on television screens in black and white.
But he obviously has.
He's already hit more home runs in a single season than anybody in that uniform, including Ruth, Gerig, Demaggio, Mantle.
Everybody, and and so that's part A.
But then look at the consistency year after year. I just think that the way that he leads, the way that he sets the tone on and off the field, is really extraordinary.
Even when he's been getting these these odd questions.
About Toto, still where that that story won't go away.
He's not going to about fifteen more years, John Paul, he's a fit. That story's not going away for fifteen years.
That's right, Jason.
And something tells me that when when the Mets and Yankees played for the first time in the Bronx, it'll be it might be brought up by a couple couple of tribes in New York as as the season is unfolding. But I just think Aaron, I think the world of him and the way that he's handling things, I think is the biggest reason why that their record is running quite counter to the narrative that you've.
Read in the media there well, and that's the curiosity going for how much do we expect You know, Stanton's starting to ramp up a little bit with batting practice, but is that something that we expect a longer lead with him coming back, so they don't potentially lose them all together.
Well, Mike, it's a really good point. And the other piece of that is is that to this point, and I realize he's missed some time with injury, but Ben Rice has been, aside from Judge, one of the most important bats and I just cannot and I know.
We've talked about it.
Tom Berducci has mentioned this on our on our network as well. It's going to be interesting to see what Rice's role is once Stanton comes back and how they're able to make it all work. And Aaron Boom's done a really good job of balancing everybody's playing time. But when you consider how important Rice has been in the lineup, and also the success they've had in batting gold Schmidt leadoff, which was really on nobody's being go card to begin the year. But Paul's a really good base runner and he gets on base and it gives you an excellent at bat, and so in some ways, he's a you can look past the fact that he's not Ricky Henderson on the bass pass, but he's a good base runner and he's a and he gives you a solid that bat. So but again, he's another guy who's who's a corner type bat that will impact, perhaps on some level, the workload that Stan's gonna have. So for me, Mike, I would be very very careful, very cautious with Stanton because is honestly, once he's active, I don't know what that's going to mean for the complexity of the lineup when you consider how much Ben Rice has earned his spot on this team.
John Paul, when when do you start your NHL coverage? When do you start your playoff stuff?
So good question.
I as at this moment in time, I am. I am strictly planning on doing my MLB Network showcase games every week.
However, however, whenever I am.
In a situation where I can sneak over and get to a game, I will do that. It was actually in an OHL game over the weekend.
I've got some.
Features still coming up for the Under eighteen World Championship, so I still got.
Some hockey stuff going. But the bulk of my travel right now.
My friends is all focused at the Diamond and uh, and that'll be the case I've got.
And and by the way, well in the Pistons and the Pistons and.
The Pistons, trust me, I'm working on the Pistons. We're trying to find a way for me to be able to call in live from from MSG. It's a point next week, which would be a lot of fun.
So I'm gonna work on that.
But the other piece of it is talking about baseball. Next week, I've got the Mets at City Field on on MLB Network, so I will be personally, I'm gonna I'm gonna reach out to David and see if we could do a Sternsey in the Pope Show.
Maybe he's you know, maybe pregame sometime at Cityfield.
All right, now, good, I'm glad because you know I don't I don't cash in this chip very often. But you told me last year, you and David Sterns roommates in college. It's a great story, and you said, hey, once in a while, I will pass along a note too. Have you passed along a note to the Tigers from your dad a lot? And so you said, hey, if you got something, you know you have something, let me know it. I'll pass along to David Stearns. So I have a note for you to pass along to David Stearns.
You got it.
The longer he waits, the more money it's gonna be to give alon So to come back after, it's just gonna get more and more expensive. Todd Paul his olbs is almost one and a half.
And by the way, and it seems it seems to me, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, but that there there there was a comment I believe from Juan Soto saying that it does matter who's batting behind him, and that is that is a thing. And so you want to keep one Soto happy, probably keep pid Alonzo around. And and uh, I think it's a point well taken.
If it's not pid Alonzo, who's it gonna be?
It better be somebody else could. And I don't think the Yankees are going to trade Aaron Judge to the Mets. There's about as much of a chance of Jason Smith or John Morossi batting behind Juan Sota as there is there in Judge right now. So, uh, I think we we've gotta we've gotta uh maybe have a little bit of a real conversation.
There with David about his options right now for the best line up.
No, I can see that happening. And there's John Palmrosi still wearing his suit and dress shoes with a bat in his hand. He's gonna hit behind Soto home up. He's got the bonds for his point appearance.
Let's go.
That was almost scullyesque.
And look who's.
He's on Twitter on John Morosi. Pope is always buddy, appreciative man. We'll talk to you next week. I have a great one.
Love the conversation. Guys, thanks for everything, and they look forward to next week.
He'll get that note to David Stearns. There's no question about it. It's just going to be more expensive. Man, he is on a mission right now here. I thought you were going to try to get a box of commemorative merch. Oh, this is a big an opportunity to be mister met No, I can playoff game. I could get that from I could get that from a No. No, this I get this.
I got a cash in man. This is like this is a you know, we have expectations now. The best record in baseball with Padres. I mean that that's a big thing now for us, better record than the Dodgers, best record in baseball time with the Padres, it's a big thing.
Man.
We got, we got, we got all kinds of stuff. It's great though. You got balance in the forest because everything is going wrong for the Knicks. Yeah, and you got the It's good, it's okay.
