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I come on, man, you can't it. Man, this is like Michael Malone. Mike Malone. He will come and he'll try to kick your as. It's not like I say, hey, I root for the Jets or the Geets. No, it's it's Jets. It's what it well, okay, not the Jets, you'd say it's it's it's it's the chance and the chance to clears or the shans and and the chan de clear. You gotta pick one. You gotta pick one. Comes close to saying chum, so it's close that same bow the ah as in Shunce. Well, the party at Tyler Thigpenn's house has to be off the hook tonight with Carolina going to the final. How about the men's College World Series? How about yeah, well the party at on Zuna in Matt Olson's house probably a lot, Biggs, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, I will say this. I'll give you this. I'll give you this. Frostburg.
It suck.
It is not suck. Oh my god, you're you're in sane, Mandy runs. Did you scored? The Yankees scored more runs than you guys tonight. Okay, they scored two more. They're still going to lose. It has not been a banner last few days in New York baseball. We're not gonna give out the catcher's mass looking popcorn bucket for a Mets game. Oh and I forgot How can I forget his home?
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Okay, so we're still in first place. Everything is still fine when we're not in last flight everything, so you have the everything's fine is when you feel like the rails are coming off and you got a guy who's been on the disabled list. I'm sorry, the injured list a hundred times. He's going complete game on if everybody on the injury. No, no, I'm saying, Chris Sale, oh what look, listen, listen. When it came down to it, who beat the Braves to go to the playoffs last year with the Lindor home run? Okay, we're still it doesn't matter. I'm still dining out off of that. It was a new day yesterday, it's day now. It's Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull the Mets in the Yankees the last few days has not been great, great Bob, but Joe Adell hit another home run against Frostburg. Who wants to go over? Who in an hour is gonna great horror When the Dodgers are losing four nothing in the first thing, he's gonna go, oh, it's a series in June. What does it matter? And then the next hour is gonna be oh, your season's over. You're like, you should be a Yankee fan, because you would be absolutely perfect as a Yankee fan. Everything is great in my world. Yeah, what do we got? We got Colls just bought the Lakers. Well that that's a whole. Yeah. You want to talk about a celebratory winning We got Kohlik coming up here in mear moments Meanwhile, yes, the big story of the day, the Bus family is entering into an agreement to sell the majority ownership of the Lakers to Mark Walter, who also has the same agreement with the Dodgers, for a franchise valuation of approximately ten billion dollars. Shams Trani of ESPN reporting this it is the highest ever for a US professional sports franchise. So the Bus family is out, well, almost everybody is out. Genie Buss will still continue on running the team as the quote governor for a quote number of years to be determined. So basically what's going on is this, the Bus family is cashing out. Genie Buss. Okay, I've been the owner. I'm gonna stay for a few more years and still run things any day because Loo, because Mark Walter is not that kind of guy. He's got his finger in a lot of pies, right, He's got he's got big pies in front of it, all his fingers, and he's got blueberry pie and a Rudbard pie and Huckleberry pie's he's got a Laker pie, got thet Huckleberry You've won. He's got all kinds of pies, right, Pie pie pie, pie pie Right, he's got it all in there, and so she's gonna continue to run the team. But the Bus family is no longer going to be in control of the Lake. They still have a majority of minority share, kind of like Mark Cuban selling the Mavericks. We've seen now the Mavericks and the Celtics and now the Lakers being sold. So how big a deal is this? Right? Like, like on the surface, I could tell you, look, yeah, it is a bummer because I kind of like the fact that, you know, mom and pop teams. The family aspect of owning a team that's passed down from generation to generation is sort of going away, where you know, all big hedge fun guys and art dealers and whoever else I own them, I'm gonna trade two paintings for it. Like that's the eraror now of who we're buying teams. And I understand that. So that's kind of a sad thing. But in this case, it's not incredibly sad because, you know what, the Bus family ain't exactly run the Lakers great since they took over for doctor Jerry Buss in twenty thirteen. So my big takeaway from this, well, yeah, it's sad to see the mom and pop is that And I'm being honest this Frostburg is gonna love this. Maybe things will get better for the Lakers now, because yes, they won the title in twenty twenty, but that's mainly because Lebron James decided to show up as a Laker. This is not where oh we did all these different things, maneuvered the roster. No, they got Lebron James to the Lakers. Eighty wanted to be there to play with Lebron. They're able to grab lt that. This has not been a run of boy the Lakers showing we really know how to run a team. They had a five year stretch of not making the playoffs. The minute the Bus family took over and Jeanie Buss was installed as governor. They have a couple of first round exits. They win the title in twenties. I'm not saying that's right. They won the title in twenty twenty. It's legit. You want to say, bobo title. It's the hardest one to win when you play all season for home field, the home court advantage, and you don't get that in the playoffs, right, because the biggest thing the Lakers lost was home court advantage. They still won the title, but outside of that, they had the bit of a run to the Western Conference finals, but it's been first round outs. You look at the last twelve thirteen years of the Lakers since Doctor Bus passed away and his kids took over, and it's kind of you know what you would expect Logan roy in succession, right, like, Wow, this has really not been a banner last twelve or thirteen years. So my big takeaway, Okay, maybe now the Lakers can be good and Mark Walter's gonna clearly Magic Johnson is excited, and there's maybe a different way of running the team, a different way of looking at things. Maybe money is gonna flow a little bit easier, a little bit easier decision making. Maybe there's some people in the way of making some calls that that are harder to make when it's talking about getting a player or giving money to a player. That's what I got go Hey, lots of things are gonna change, But my big thing is, Okay, I've seen how the Lakers have been run for the past twelve or thirteen years, and now maybe things can get better for them with this change ownership. That's where I'm at. Yeah, a couple of things to it. First off, you know, just when we go back to the fun and excitement world of Walt Disney World and that title, they did have one hundred days off, which was good for old legs, old tired bodies like Lebron, And it was a long time off, right, That's enough time to recover from a shoulder surgery or something like that. But all that to say, they do have the title. Folks can dislike it all they want. It's kind of like home run Leaders. You know from the quote ped Era, those guys are still listed as the leaders, aren't. They just say it anyway. But when we talk about this, you know, the the lamentation of the mom and pop operation goes both ways, because that's been the lamentation of why the Lakers might not have been able to get out of their own way at times in terms of player acquisition development, et cetera. When we look at it, you know, you have the tinfoil hat crew is out already with the Well, that's why Luca ended up a Laker, because it then pushed the valuation even no, the valuation was already set because of the fact that you watched what Dallas went for, you watched what the Celtics went for. You look at the market, the size, the scope, the brand, the history, everything of the Lakers. It's worth that much? Does it come with anything in terms of stadia, parking and all those other accouterments that you normally say, hey, that has some great value to us as well, because that's aeg. They still control that, but for Walter and Company, they take over and we watch it. With the Dodgers, you put people who know what they're doing in place, and you say what does it cost to win? And you go win because winning begets massive amounts of cash. And the Sho Heo Tani deal, the Mookie Bets deal, all those that they deferred on the Dodger side. I don't think the NBA allows the same circumvention or kicking the can down the road as it were, but certainly you get created and when you can say, well we need to go into the luxury tech and the second aprons and all these things that we talk about when it comes to roster construction. The thing with the Lakers as they've been operating is they didn't have that cash sitting in no man's land, right That wasn't a hey, just go to the cash reserve. No, the the money is actually in the banana stand as in the Lakers, that's where the money is, right And as much as they get from their their cut of TV deals and their own network and everything else, it's still going back into the business and you don't have this giant cash cow on the outside to draw from. Walter and Company. Give you that, right, you're talking tens upon tens of billions of dollars that Hey, we want to go get that guy. What's it gonna do. It's gonna push us out here to cost more money, Okay, as opposed to well, financially, that's not prudent, we can't do that. Yeah, you can take out home equity loans in the form of selling off a percentage and shaking off a little like you're at Shawshank But in this case you say, wait, we can get how much to cash out and I still get to be in charge for a couple of years. Yeah, during this transition, and we probably get out of Lebron and Clutch Sports and begin a new Oh, it's a win for everybody. Yeah, look and look it's a great Look, it's a great time to sell. Obviously, with the franchise being valued at ten billion dollars, you have Luca in place to be your next franchise player. The new TV deal is in place. It's a great it's a great time. It's the end of the Lebron era. It's the beginning of the Luca era. And all right, this is the perfect that you have a superstar in place. They have no problem giving him money. Walter's gonna commit and say, you, look, whatever you want, we have it for you. It's gonna be fine. Maybe we'll pay Shohy in Laker shares and that's gonna take care of all those balloon payments we have in about ten years. But honestly, like overall, since twenty thirteen, it's the Lakers brand has taken a huge hit. Right you think about it, it seems so long ago. But five years a row of no playoffs. They couldn't get it right. And this is with Kobe for most of it, right, you couldn't get it right. You couldn't keep it going. You couldn't even get to the playoffs. And yeah, twenty twenty, you get to the top of the mountain. You're taking thirteen years overall in retrospect and saying, okay, well we had a really disappointing first round flame out this year with Luca and Lebron and we had the time. So in the last thirteen years, it's wow, you know, this has been a they have really struggled and when you are and it's like the Lakers and the Knick struggles of the last twelve thirteen years has really been tough on the NBA because the NBA is great when these teams are terrific. Right, you saw the excitement with the Knicks finally getting good this year. Yeah, they love it, but it doesn't matter they big market. They carried in the mix. They carried the mail for the long time. Well, now you have Miami is great, and Miami is great and Diet Dallas when they're good is great. But it's not like having the Knicks in the Laker No. But then you look at where we're at right now. Normally this stuff gets pushed off. It's like, so, what do we have today? We have Lebron in this podcast and the trickle down effect of that, and we have this Lakers move, we still have a finals game. Yeah, it's like, hey, but you know, what business carrying. I feel I feel incredibly optimistic just because I look back at the last plus decade plus and go not great. Maybe this will be better. Maybe different things will shake out, different way of running things, different way of looking at things, not letting Clutch sports run things like they did for three four years. Maybe Mark Walter is a guy saying, uh, yeah, no, I don't care if Lebron and and and Ad want Westbrook. I'm not crazy. We're not doing that. Oh okay, again, different ways to run things, maybe things are different. So this is a moment of optimism. I'm I mean, I'm excited if I'm excited for the Lakers because I saw the way they run and how how business and the way that the Bus family and Jennie Bus runs things, and I go, You let Lebron and Rich Paul basically run things for a couple of years, and now you're finally taking control of the team. But okay, after another bad first round exit, another prime year of Lebron, the first time you had Luca and and it was and it was and you were out right away, Like that is a really difficult thing to get past when you have had star players and you still can't win. You went from from Kobe to Lebron to Luca and you got one title, right, Okay, not that you need to win every year, but it's not like, Oh, lost in the Western Conference Finals, lost an NBA finals, lost in Western Conference finals. This is no playoffs, no playoffs, no playoffs, no playoffs. Lost in first round, lost in first round, Western Conference finals, lost in first round, lost in first round. Like, that's not acceptable, Lakers. It's a different level of what you accept as this is the level we need to be at and they have been just below it for a long time. Bringing a guy who knows how to run an operation, put people in charge who know what they're doing. I find it funny that the first guy to say, hey, great job, great job was Magic Johnson. It's you and Lonzo Ball that shoot it all up. Exit out, bout of Fresca, Exit swollen dome. If you're ready to lose weight, get the expert help a PhD weight loss, No injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results. They work for me and Mike. We've nearly lost fifty pounds a piece since doing PhD weight loss. They'll work for you. Call and schedule a console today. Visit myphdweightloss dot Com. That's m Y phdweightloss dot com. Well, coming up next, we get to a big story out of football. One high profile quarterback just continues to find a way to trip and fall every time possible. That's not Aaron Rodgers. That's next right here, Jason to Mic Fox Sports Radio, Imanie.
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First pitch all the way from Blackburn, swung on and drilled deep center field. Taylor gone back all aboard that thing's leave in town a home run by Acunya head it's won nothing brains. Three to two pitch and Olson hits one a mile high to right field, a skyscraper to the chop house, head out of here, what don't it bat by Matt Olsen and he finally got one.
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Thing out a fly o one ground bought a second Assie is there flips to Alan steps on the bag, Braves win hits, a shutout of victory over the Mets five nothing the final score on a night where Chris Sale led the parade.
Oh great bonus play of the day. Oh yeah, we don't have one big home run for you for the No, we have all the Braves runs as they shut out the Mets five. Sometimes it's so special. I mean when you have a full shutout. I mean we don't get a lot of those. No, No, Chris Sale, complete game. Congratulations. We certainly don't get a lot of those. Man, that that improves your Hall of Fame candidacy right there. What a surprise Frostburg picked that? What what a suppose you upset about? What an absolute shock? I gave you an extro shock. Uh? Now, what was he's supposed to pick from? I don't know. An Angels Yankees game? Boring? Well, the Yankee scored a run. You don't think that's a player of the day. They scored today a couple of solo home runs. I'm up to havn't scored since Saturday. It's Wednesday. Come on, man, that's a big deal. In case you've been under a rock, in a coma, or otherwise detained the Yankees have finally scored again. Meanwhile, we're watching this College World Series game, which is just all sorts of craziness. So yeah, I mean, it is just a weird winds. Arkansaw is just absolutely melting down. In the ninth inning against LSU, a two run lead and they blew a ground ball play at first base. The left fielder just misjudged a fly ball that could have been the final out of the inning. Heel down and bounces off of him towards the left field line and tying runs scores we saw in the eighth inning, chaos of the first baseman for SU with a fielding gaff just absolutely insane. Everybody who bet under eleven on this game, Yeah, you're gonna lose because there's gonna be one more run. It's fine, I'm gonna get one more at least one. Uh So, Arkansas and LSU with the chance waiting in the wings for the College World Series championship. Eventually the Chanta clears. See because you said shams, but it's pronounced chams chums like it's chams but chalms. Sohos, it's a champs. Uh Now, I'm gonna give you this gift Frostburg even though you don't deserve it because you played the bleeping Braize, but I'm gonna give you this gift. Okay. So since a day ago, right, we had that big MLB the Streak story where the guy, uh this MLB dot com has had his contest now for the past few years, where all you have to do is pick somebody to get a hit every day in a row, and if you go fifty seven days in a row, you win five point six million dollars, right, Like, that's the that's the the thing. And they've done it for a long time now. And and guy got to fifty a couple of days ago and could have gotten to fifty one except a base hit to right field it turns into a force out because the runner gets caught between first and second. So what would have been a base hit to keep it going was done. How I was doing that years ago. I actually contributed to MLB dot com when they started. So my dad and I taught, and you want to do it, and we're doing it together, and I'm so excited. Right, It's like this is good. We're gonna do this every day and we're gonna take turns, right, we're gonna take turns. I go, you pick one day, I'll pick the next. That's the best way to do it. So I said, you picked the first day, all right. Now, I'm gonna give each of you a guess. Who did my dad pick the first game today? Right? I said, here's the one I'm picking, And I said, okay, who he's either a Judge or a Stanton guy. Who do you think my dad picked? I will give you each two guesses to guess who my dad this is. I can pick anybody any time in life. No, Dad, you gotta pick somebody today. They're all simulated games. Right, you each get two guesses. I'm going Volpian Bellinger, Vopian Belinger, Okay, Harmon, I would say Judge okay and Chisholm, No, you are both in correct. Remember I said, Frostburg just named like half the line. I know I'm gonna give you this gift even though you don't deserve it. So I'll let you guys guess again. You guessed four Yankees, none of them were correct, and Rice not. Why would that be a gift for Frostburg. This is a gift for Frostburg, even though you don't deserve it. What? Oh so he no, really, hold on, my dad took Andy pause to get the hit tonight to start things off for the thing. He goes, yeah, I got it my first big Andy patus I said, really, I said, you're not taking it? Wow. He goes, no, I'm picking piege. I said, yeah, it turned out so far it's okay. Right, So the way he worded it was very not good. What do you mean it was not good because you worded it like he took a yankee. No, that's why we were all guessing yankee.
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But I said, it's a gift for you. Why would a Yankee be a gift for That was very misleading. I think you must be an impossible well for a birthday. But it was just that it would be a captain obvious kind of thing, like he had to take a Yankee.
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I thought he was going with the heel turn. I thought, I honestly, Once he said it again, I thought you were going to say, Paul Goldsmith, he's up going Paz I said, okay, two on runs four hits last night. Oh, guy's red hot going. I said, okay, So Andy pa has is our first guy up in this Still mad at the padres manager all of those subplots. By the way, the over under was ten and a half. For you if you thought Frostburg was kidding, uh lsu Is just walked off yes, winning tonight when it looked like all was lost. All you need was Arkansas to play defense in the top of the ninth inning. I have not seen Livy Dunn. I'm waiting to say, I whereish. I assume she's gonna be somewhere by it. She was drinking tall Boys the other day. She was hating a whole other It's like Sophie Cunningham we talked about last night, earning all sorts of new fans by becoming the enforcer on top of the fandom that she'd already built. Maybe done took next next level stuffs like wait, she's drinking a tall Boy final what she's doing cartwheels in center field? Like they're they're talking to Jared Jones, who had the walk off hit for LS. You're great, but like I mean, Livy Dunn is the one you gotta talk to. Hey, Jared, you're gonna be around for a minute. Were gonna talk to Livy first? Okay, that's great. Yeah, you're all finding good all right, I'll tell you it is really tough watching, you know, back and forth. The left fielder on Arkansas who missed the fly ball that that that could have been the final out of the ninth inning is crying and they're all talking to him off the field. Just a really difficult moment, uh for Arkansas. The game winning hit goes is as it goes off the second baseman's glove. Uh, maybe a little bit of a misstime jump, but doesn't matter. LSU are your winners tonight. The chata clears, waiting, catchable ball up the gut, everything that could go wrong in the field, did maban if you talk about having a game on on the plate for you to finish it off and send LSU home and showing the Arkansas dugout, just the reaction man to man and then back into the field, the tears in the eyes and in the emotion of you know, the gravitas of this moment for a lot of these guys, probably the last innings they're gonna play. I mean, you have a bad throat of first base behind the pitcher that that could have been an out. You had the drop fly ball in left field, you know, it kind of looked like the fly ball to play the left field remember when there that. I don't know why it became so famous, but like going back like twenty years the big Brent Brown play, sure when he dropped an easy fly ball for the Cubs and left when the Cubs were really good and he dropped an easy fly ball that would have ended the game and they lost, Like he just got under it and just lost himself, Like that's kind of what happened here. And so you had that and then you had a missed a bit of a misstime jump at second place, Like that is just an that's just an all time meltdown in the ninth inning for a team, And I feel I feel so bad for aut Aaron judged it, Oh no, if it went right to his glove he dropped, it would have been Aaron judge that this was more. Hey, I kind of got lost here and and dumble fall to dive whatever it was and then off his body into the corner. But yeah, just a brutal way to finish a game. Oh man. Absolutely, uh time out to find out what's trending in the wide world sports. We told you about the College World Series game from someone who's been called the Genie Buss of Fox Sports Radio. She's going to spend the rest of her life splitting money with her family.
It is Yes, I hope to have enough money to split it with my family.
I like that. I like that, guys.
You also missed. In this ninth inning, the Arkansas shortstop had a chance for a double play. There was a man on first and second. He fielded the ball and went for the leading runner at third.
He easily it could have ended. Yeah.
Then came the tying run, then game the walk, then came the walk off. So the shortstop was crying because he turned his hips to third base instead of going for the double play, and he probably felt it would have been over it.
It's so many things.
Like I can't believe how it ended, but yes, less he walks it off against Arkansas six to five. Jared Jones with that RBI single to walk it off. He also homered in that game. They're gonna face Coastal Carolina, who beat Louisville earlier today eleven to three in the best of three championship series. In baseball, we've got a lot of games going on, like the lawyers and the Padres. Padres have scored first here in La.
One zero, top of the second inning.
A's up on the Astros one zero. Bottom of the second, Guardians holding on to their one zero lead over the Giants. Top of the fourth, the Royals are topping the Rangers six to three. Top of the eighth, the Orioles were beating the Rays eight zero. The Rays are now up twelve to eight, and it's the top of the ninth inning. In Tampa, the Reds have afforded to lead over the Twins. Bottom of the fifth, about to start. The Rockies are beating the Nationals three to one. Bottom of the eighth inning, about to start. Should I tell you about the Mats you already heard.
I'm sorry. There was no baseball the National League. They didn't play. You're right, they did not play. That's right. Brave shut out the Mets five zero.
The Blue Jays crushed the Diamondbacks eight to one. The Angels completed a three game sweep of the Yankees after.
Their three to two win.
But at least the Yankees didn't get shut out. They did have some home runs from Jazz Chishom Junior and Cody Bellinger. The Phillies top the Marlins four to two. The Red Sox defeated the Mariners three to one. Boston is now headed to Sim Francisco, so they get to see their old friend Raphael Devers in a couple of days. The big story in the NBA, the Bus family has agreed to sell majority of the Lakers to Mark Walter, who also serves as the CEO of the Guggenheim group that owns the Dodgers. They're selling them for They're selling the Lakers for ten billion dollars in Jenie Busses expected to remain with the franchise as the team's governor. Tyrese Halliburn dealing with the strange calfs. So his status for tomorrow's Game six between the Pacers and the Thunder, well, it's going to be a game time decision. And in the NFL, the Ravens have signed cornerback Jay Yere Alexander to a one year deal.
Thank to you guys, Thank you very much, Basie, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now, as you mentioned, b a a day for Shadoor Sanders that I think he would like to forget. He was cited for going one hundred miles an hour one hundred and one miles an hour early Tuesday morning. According to police records in Ohio, he was stopped at twelve twenty four am, forty one miles over the posted sixty mile an hour speed limit in his black Dodge TRX truck. Look, I have to say this because this is where Chador Sanders. If I was giving him pr advice or if I was his agent, I would tell him, Okay, dude, remember remember in Top Gun when the bald guy, when when Stinger tells Maverick, you know your family name ain't the best in the business. Maverick, you need to be doing it better and cleaner than everybody else. Right, he tells a goods of the flyby and against the Penny Benjamin, Penny Benjamin. Okay, the guy looks like Donald Pleasure. I would say he's still alive, James can He's still a lie?
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He was strickland in in uh Back to the Future strictly didn't you ever have it? Let me give you a Nichols worth of free advice, McFly So, I would tell Shador Standers this, Look, I know that you're in the NFL now and all the drama with your draft is over and you're on the field, and it's about what you do on the field. But remember that you come with a lot of baggage, right, right or wrong. Perception is reality. You're a fifth round draft pick. The path is clear for you to be the starting quarterback here in Cleveland by October. Right, he's clearly been the best quarterback so far. Again, it's seven on seven. It's not equipment. It's okay, come on, run the numbers. People, run the numbers. Look at him throw the ball. Yeah, he has shown you that a and the desire to see him succeed, that fans want to see him succeed on is great. So yeah, Schador Sanders, Hey, everything is in front of you, Right, everything is in front of you. Have a quiet two or three months, have a quiet summer, get back in a month and compete, and worst case scenario, Joe Flacco starts for the beginning of September and eventually you take over the beginning of October. Right, everybody wants you've played really well, you've done so far, but stuff like this is just gonna kill you because the issue is is that you're a fifth round pick. Okay, everything you're going on. That's having you right now is a test? Right you're getting second team reps and later in camp? Why the Browns are testing you? How are you gonna be if you're not getting first team reps? Are you gonna show maturity? How are you gonna be away from the field? Can you ace the test of not getting a speeding ticket going one hundred miles an hour and sixty mile an hours? Can you stay out of trouble? You are taking a test every day between now and the end of training camp. That's what I would tell Shador Santos, because this is exactly what's gonna happen for you. If you pass this test every day, you'll be starting by October. Fail it, and guess what you're getting cut. You're a fifth round pick. They got four quarters in camp to the two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks that they signed and a guy they took two rounds before you. If you fail these tests, you are getting cut. Understand, come at this thing with humility and a desire to prove yourself. And if you do that, that means you are gonna have the key gate open for you. But if you fail, you're gonna get cut. And I don't know who's gonna pick you up. I don't know if there's other team that's gonna say, yeah, we want you door Sanders. He was given everything. A Cleveland went and got him. He had a chance there. He couldn't even make the roster because of all these things that happened. Now this thing. Can you get past a mile driven one hundred miles an hour and say, yeah, you can get past that. But this ain't a great start to the offseason when you've been away for the team for all of three days, right, hey, vacations here three days in guess what? Boom, here's Sdorg Sanders with a negative headline about the Browns. You don't have the cachet, you're not the number two overall picking the draft number two O row pick in the tramp and he said, oh, you gotta improve your decision making. But this is one of those things where okay, how many more check marks against you until the Browns say, yeah, you know it's not gonna work out. Well, Jimmy Haslam's looking at it, going how many jerseys we sell him? How much your sponsors come on board for him? Those Super Bowl winning quarterbacks? How much is anybody coming on for Kenny Fitton. Okay, this one's fine, but here you go Fox eight out of Ohio, because you know, we like to do the deep dive here. They say that more than eighty three thousand people last year by the Ohio State or Highway Patrol, we're giving tickets for speeding twenty miles an hour over the speed limit and more than thirty seven hundred, thirty seven one hundred in a row. See exactly received tickets for going over one hundred miles per hour thirty seven one hundred in the state. The Ie team whenever you get the Eye team involved, it's great. They've done several stories on drivers speeding over one hundred miles an hour, including a city firefighter was Clockett doing one hundred and seventeen. This will be fine, but just like with the kids, you need to be doing it better and cleaner because you're not a fireman. You're not. You are potentially the starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns and the guy that needs to prove himself and stay away from bad headlines if he wants to make the team and make that happen. Yeah. See, I think Jimmy Haslam is the invisible hand. So unless this puts him uh, you know, they can't pay the fine and he ends up behind bars for it, he'll be He'll be the quarterback for the Browns because Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett ain't hold them off for long. I mean, you've heard the stats for what he's doing in the offseason workouts.
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Look, obviously, it's like when you tell your kids when they leave the house with the car keys, make good decisions. Same thing for Sheendior Sanders got it. Yeah, because you don't have the cachet that you think you do. You still think, oh, there's no way I should have slip. Guess what you said. You're a fifth round pick your curiosity right, and the Browns give it. Giving your curiosity, that's what you are. They understand that you have to have that that that's the way you need to attack things over the next couple of months. And this is not a great start to the offseason. This is just another way of Brown's go okay decision making right after away from the team for three days, look at what happened, just saying the next time I'm on the highway next to you, and mister Brownstone kicks in for you. I know what's happening. Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do. I was nervous driving in the autobond when we went to Germany, like twenty years ago, and I'm like, you weren't driving fast, and I think I can go one hundred. I could go that, Okay, I don't know. Hey that was great and I hit one hundred for like three seconds. Okay, I'm not gonna slow down to Guaco. I'm gonna pull over somebody else drive. I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to do it. I don't want to or or maybe you were singing WHOA. I mean, you would be speeding if that came on the radio. Wouldn't you exit out? About a Fresca exit, swalling dome? Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live and the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, A big basketball story that is starting to get overblown and overrated. That's next, Jason to Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
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According to Rick Carlisle, he has quote a game time decision for tomorrow after the left calf injury. The strain. He was at practice today moving slowly, but then again, every Pacers player was moving slowly. Wasn't a big intense practice. Apparently the MRI is fine if he's a game time decision. Do you really think he's not gonna play tomorrow? Do you really think he's not gonna play? Come on, are they really they're really gonna try to do one of these Komania kind of things back in the day where it's the rope of dope and then he starts shaking his fists and the crowd goes nuts, and that's supposed to energize everybody. I mean, like, what are we doing? I mean, really, Halliburton is coming off one of the worst finals games that we've ever seen a star have, right, and we know he hears everything. He pays attention to what's being said. His game is all about confidence. When he can import as well on the game when he is jacked up for a game, he plays great when he's not in the tank. Right, that's Tyree's Halliburton. He's not consistent enough to be a big superstar yet, and coming off this bad game, all of a sudden, his injury gets amped up. Thirty four minutes he played on that bad calf. Well, if it's that bad, why did he play thirty four minutes? Why was he out there at the end of the game. Wait, was it really that bad. Oh, but now it's an m or he's going to play? Is that an indictment of McConnell and mcconaugh. Run. He just I can't play any more minutes. Man, We would have played twenty minutes a night, and I'm exhausted. But the more time goes on, I see this and I go was this just a way to try to take the pressure off of Halliburton with two days ago? We don't want him. We don't want him moping around and and and getting in his head too much about what's happening. But we want to put out there, Hey, he's you know, he's got the calf injury. And I'm not saying he's not hurt. I'm gonna say, but guys are dinged up at this point. You played thirty four minutes. If somehow he can't play tomorrow night, well then we're gonna examine what the what the Pacers doctors did and allow him to come back in that game game five when he didn't need to. But is that really gonna happen or really gonna be talking about that, or is he gonna be playing in game six? The more time that goes on, Okay, he's at practice, he's shooting m R. We heard nothing m A right, it was a big thing. Sean's had you got MRI MRIR right? Okay, So apparently the MRI is okay. Apparently everything is all right, and he's he's at practice shooting, making shots and taking it easy to go play tomorrow night. I mean, the more time I see this, the more I look at it as is this one of those mental health breaks that the team is trying to give him because they need him at his top capacity for game six? And yeah, you are dinged up a little bit. I'm not saying he's not, but other guys are dinged up, and we really want this out there because hey, this is kind of an excuse as we could say why Tyre's Halliburton didn't play as well as he did. Right again, I'll be the most shot guy in the world if he doesn't play tomorrow night. I'll be the first guy to say while I was wrong, and I'm gonna say, hey, what are the pacers doctors doing? But again, I don't see that happening. Yeah, you look at is over unders and everything total points and rebounds and everything else. The expectation it's set high enough to be like, all right, he's going and you would expect he's gonna play. MRI is clear, but still a game time decision. It does open up all of those discussion points and defensible for Indiana in putting him back on the court because they did close it to two. Now was he responsible for that, No, but they did close it to two, So you want to say, well, we had our best guys out there, even though he was not their best guy on that night. Passive what for six from the field, just the four free throws and really took himself out of a lot of possessions, something we talked a lot with Rick Buker about the other night. So for Indiana trying to change narrative, storylines, et cetera. Yeah, I guess they can defend their game five position. But if he doesn't come out and play, and if he plays poorly, you're gonna keep trying to go while he's hurt and he plays another thirty four minutes, Like you've got to have another answer. Someone has to be better than him at half massed. Yeah, I mean really again, if he doesn't play, I'll say, hey, wow, did I he's gonna play tomorrow night? Right, He's gonna play Exit up about a Fresco exit swallowing home. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we get back into a ten billion dollar story Jason and Mike. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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I gotta tell you, as the owner of the Cowboys, I couldn't be happier. It's like it's almost like we won the Super Bowl today. I just I just feel so good about this. This is the day I dream about it, you know, I'm just this is a fantastic day for us in Dallas. It really is like getting another ring. It really is, you know when you see this kind of transfaction and what it does for America, answer the Cowboys specifically and cowboy bees across the world. Listen, listen, we're expanding. We're expanding all over where it's paying the old. Look, that's where we're going to be next. I tell you that right now.
Your voice isn't low enough and you're going too fast to talk like Jerry Jones. You need a little bit better cadence on that. I started to get towards Hank Hill. I'll tell you what I'll sell, pro Paine and pro Paane accessive. So if if Jerry Jones.
Jerry, he bought a hold Tartan or blue pills today, that's.
How he is. If he decided to sell the Cowboys tomorrow, let's just say this, I'm going to sell the Cowboys tomorrow. How much you think he would get for him?
Fifteen billion?
Fifteen wow? Okay, it's even more than I think.
Okay, I mean because you know you're going to have to knock his socks off right to do it, because he's printing money right now. He knows that that brand is is amazing. And yeah, they haven't won a Super Bowl in a while, but all these guys who whoever wants to spend that kind of money believe in their ability to win a Super Bowl. Yeah, your problem is always going to be board this. I does that make sense? And it's gonna be it's not really an individual and once you're talking about like you know, you know, the Middle East royal families, things like that, which I don't think the NFL is all that interest in doing. But you really have to have corporate interest in this one. And the NFL doesn't allow for that much corporate interest yet. Now they're they're really interested in it, but they're not they're not quite there yet.
That's want to introduce you to new owner Megan Markle. Come on in. Megan said, a lot of money, a lot of royal money coming in from from England.
We're talking about money from Uh yeah, we're not talking about that kind of Rodney. I have traded bigger royal money than that.
I've traded the Cowboys for Buckingham Palace and also Windsor Palace. Uh So now I own them and and they own the ow Boys.
Live four Cowboys.
I'm also getting Versais Louis the fourteenth getting some other places, and uh yeah, it's a very exciting trade.
Here that we have going on the Cowboys for Verfly you're.
Gonna go living Versailles into Louis the fourteenth bedroom. Very excited about that turn it to do it all in cowboy colors. In the garden, I'm gonna say the garden. The gardens take up a lot of upkeep. That's a lot of overhead. I bought the hanging gardens of Babylonia as well. I bought that from top Babylonia in the figure skater. Uh so I have leaving no stone unturned tie Babylonia looking up people out there. Jason Gold with us here, Jason Smith Show would Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, pretty soon we'll have to captain to Tineo mixed batch okay, Fanta six stuff? How do how do we dance over there to Cleveland? Sad Or Sanders is the one hundred and one mile an hour citation? Any any blip on the radar there for Cleveland?
Okay? Other than we're going to make up Stanley Hagar reverence that I can't drive fifty five. But no, come on, it's a dumb thing to do. But come on, I've driven. I've driven than that.
You realize you're thirty seven hundred people went over one hundred miles an hour on the roads of Ohio last year.
This is not This is not that big of deal. Let's move on to something that actually means something. I mean again, it's a dumb thing to do, it's dangerous, it's all those other things that you want to say to say. But he ain't alone by any measure in doing that. I mean, I remember Ricky Williams did that year years ago. Ricky was just fine as a player. He had other issues, but as a player, he was fine.
I've also want to let you know that I have bought Atlantic, that big city underwater.
While a while, and they're throwing in Wisconsin and all the roadways, and I've made things cleared up there for that.
I bought Root sixty six, that.
Fine fella, because you know, you know, beyond to my heart, that's the last time we won anything, was we had.
All the way across Route sixty six. I bought too, so Latin McQueen can get all the way to the Piston Cup, all the way crop. We bought that whole thing to have all of that real estate there now the whole thing, you know what what you do said? The thing about your Sanders is that I feel like every day is a test for him from the Browns. Okay, can you handle everything we threw? Can you handle getting second team wraps and show us you're responsible? And here you are away from the team for three days, and here's a and here's a bad optic and a bad headline. Oh, by the way, you know, the same time, Henry Ruggs has a meeting telling everybody, I'm sorry, I drove as fast as I did and I killed a woman and her dog. So I mean, I feel like this is a bad This is a bad optic that Shador Sanders can't really afford to have. In the end, he's a fifth round pick. And if she's show, if he shows good decision making, yeah guess what, he could probably start for the Browns by October. He could also get cut the beginning of camp if if his decision making isn't the best, isn't the.
Best he can be Joe Flacco for a job. I mean, come on, like, you know, the little of that little just that they that they drafted along with him, Joe Flacco and like a couple of cans of corn, and you know, like we're worried about this kind of it's standard whether he can actually play football, especially with the garbage that they have on that roster. That's that's that's how I feel about this one. Yeah, like the decision making that great, you know, you call them and say, hey, can we think about this a little bit better? You know that kind of thing. But after that, it's like, how can he actually play football or not? That's my that's my point, especially when I've got you know, seventy five year old Joe Flack. I'm going against them, right, Let's let's let's really be serious about this and not over read into it. That's all I mean. And I'm not trying to say that she understands it. There's anything interesting to me. He's like a poor man is Jameis Winston with you know, who can't really run, can't really move that well, and makes question of both decisions when he throws the ball and tries to do too much with it. Okay, that's a class of Jamis Winston thing. But like Jameis Winston, is also had a pretty good career. He's not been what he was supposed to be at the number one overall pick. But we're talking about round pick, so let's just keep it.
Well, I get Jamis and Russell Wilson and Jackson Dart, tell me you don't want to be around that quarterback rooms.
That's some spectacular stuff. Man.
Come on, jameson Russell Wilson going off each other. I mean that that'll be some of the most captivating conversations you'll have.
It's the second only to the Jets quarterback room.
Right.
Never mind, so.
Heyton Field is going to run for twelve hundred yards this year. You just watch. He's also gonna throw for twelve hundred yards. Just watch.
That's very likely seventy five yards the game.
That's all we need, man, all we did.
Okay, came how Garrett Wilson's going to fail at the end of this season after everything that he's gone through, Like Carrot was like, he's just getting me any gonna break? Are you any gonna break?
Dude? Garret Wilson's going to be so excited. He's going to catch ninety of Justin Field's ninety five completed passes this year. It's going to be fine.
Ninety catches for three hundred and seventy five yards. That's a wide receiver dream. Yeah, he should. He should be all on top of everybody's fantasy board. Hopefully you're playing a PPR league.
It's the only way to go at this point. Hey, Travis Kelcey down twenty five pounds, he's not on tour and drinking beer. And it was euro Taylor Swift deals. I turned back to block.
It can only help. I mean, like he was, he was out of shape for the first eight games last year. He just wasn't ready to play. I mean they flashed a little bit in the second half of the season and it just wasn't a good and playoffs. But like as much as that is, it's cool and nice and they've you know, kind of refocused and everything did for him. How did that offensive.
Line well, especially now that he's twenty five pounds later, he can't stand in and block.
Mean, you better get open really fast because they ain't gonna have any time to block them block for my homes Like, so he's going to be getting rid of the ball, you know, as soon as he touches it. So that's the biggest question in me, Like they they could have won the super Bowl last year, and they almost did, you know, I mean not the super Bowl game itself. They didn't really have much of a chance to win. But they got to a super Bowl with a substandard Travis Kelcey where they lost the super Bowl and they really have a problem. Is that that is substandard offensive line and I don't know that that stick Kelsey. They just they survived. Its fine, not so much. That's what I'm really concerned about.
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is at Jason Cole sixty two Third Team. Jay Cole is always buddy. Appreciate him.
Man, we're putting up Super Bowl rings right now.
There you go, not gonna have. But I bought some other property I want to tell you about. Oh, he was so excited. He doled out four hundred percent raises to the cheerleaders too. Bought. I bought Scotland Yard, So now I'm up on anything, all investigations that are going on. Uh, I bought them so excited about bought the Hollywood sign. Here you're gonna have a show on brit Box. Now that guy got a couple of shows come back. Yeah, bught by all these things. Yeah, so uh uh yes, where all the money's going. And you got the Hollywood sign, got the Hollywood side. Now it's gonna say, Hollywood Cowboys, did you own the original land? Did you take that when they truncated? And I sold it to Cleveland and uh for a couple of billion and they have that. So that that's some of my seed money that I was able to put out there to get some other things going on. Jerry Jones's Hollywood Cowboys lance. What is gonna say? How do I subscribe to your newsletter
