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He shows, Oh boy, well you know what, I'm gonna beat that ass, Frostburg. I'm a Dave Roberts Mike Shilt you, but beat that ass at some point. I'm your Poppy Chulo, so you know, but gonna beat that ass just like Dave Roberts promise. I'm gonna beat that ass up. Okay, different thing, different thing, Tyson, It's okay. Extension, Happy, Happy Friday. Welcome the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. For over forty years, Tirerack's been helping customers find the right tires or how, what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free backed by free Road, has protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation tirerac dot Com is the way tire buying should be. And yes, while I am probably about as mad as Dave Roberts was at Mike Shilt last night, the suspended Dave Roberts and Mike Shilt, which we'll get to in a second, I've already come to terms with the fact that Mets are never going to win again. So I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm expecting a loss every day for now till the end of the season. Pitcher's gonna get hurt every day. We're gonna lose every day, and that's how the season's gonna go. So I've accepted it. Mike Carmon, You're never gonna beat the streak. I mean, all of these things come together in one giant conflagration of chaos. Yeah, Seing, I got to find out the word right off. You did. It's pretty good. Yeah, I love that word conflagration. But I mean, did you make a deal with the devil about a week ago? I mean something happened that suddenly it all just went to hell? No, what playing the Dodgers that if I mad into your heads, if I made a deal with the devil, I'd have something positive to show for it. No, no, no, But did you make it for the Jets? Did you make it for a nicks Hire that wasn't Doc Rivers? I mean, there are a lot of different variables into this equation of eternal damnation that you may may have signed up for, maybe unwittingly too. Maybe you added donut no it is ill gotten, donut forever be on your head. If that was the case, I would be definitely chest or cat grinning it along, going I know something you don't know. I'm just I'm really at the fact that, okay, they're never gonna win again, they're gonna lose again. That it was a five game lead about a week and a half ago and now they're going to be trailing the Phillies by a game going into tomorrow would have just been a lot of pain until whatever it I mean, because look, you just have to go. I mean, you can build pull the full job here right, it's misery, misery, misery, and then you get salvation in the end. Whereas here in this so you met like Joe Bluth, you mean you mean job actually like from the body, No, no, no, I mean, but just always remember, like with the Lakers, situation. People were always wondering, you know how they operated. The money was actually in the banana stand. Yeah, and you have other ancillary incomes. It was all there the whole time. Come on, a guy at a five thousand dollars met T shirt, Come on. Uh, I went over, I went through my Dave Roberts phase of being upset and now just accepted that, Okay, we're just never gonna win again. Yeah, a lot of saltiness still flowing out of last night, buddy. Yeah, we saw that. You look the big headline in the last hour and a half. Look, we spent the last hour of the show on this last night because it was an insane end of the Padres Dodgers series. Uh, you saw show hey get hit in the ninth inning to tease get hit in the ninth inning. Eight hit by pitches over the course of the Dodger Padre series, which is the best rivalry outside of Ohio State Michigan in all of sports, Robert Suarez got three games and both managers got suspended. They were both serving their suspensions tonight, so Dave Roberts will not be managing the team tonight. Neither will Padres manager Mike shilt, and I really think, you know, I hope things don't cool off because I really want to see these guys go out at in August, they ran at each other in bub stomachs before Dave Roberts yelled at him, going, yeah, when it come kicked that ass. I mean, that's exactly what he was saying. I thought we were gonna see, you know what, an over fifty fight. I thought that we were as close to happening well. And then Roberts did the old day hold me back, No, really hold me back. They kind of both did. They kind of were both all the string of string. I was like a Syracuse parking lot at that two fifteen when you when I used to watch tears get settled in my younger days, Hey, these guys are gonna fight, let's go out and watch. And then he said, oh, you don't want no beef. Uh. But all of that, you know last night, I mean, the Suarez thing was absurd. Three to zero count on Otani and then hits him up in between the shoulders. And you know, Otani is the not only I mean, he's peacemaker. He should take the helmet from John Cena and just pick up season two of that series. Sorry, Sea, you're out. They can't see anyway, so it doesn't matter. Just reshoot the scenes with Otani because he told the Dodgers to calm down, went over and smiled real pretty and told the Padres in no uncertain terms, beat it. Let's stop the It stopped the insanity. But you know every Padres guy got to a microphone as fast as he could to call out Dodger fans and call out the Dodgers and Dave Roberts and you name it. I'm just so glad all my candles I lit last night for worked. Hey, you better, you better like those candles man after he got hit in the hand, look, because I mean that was that was a scary moment. You know, folks want to say, yeah, you understand whatever you say, You don't. All I wonder about the Padres, Yeah, you know I was. I was going to the baseball loving world as a whole because we need them to stay good. Frostburg and come on, he's a terrible person. I'm just upset that we couldn't extend this series to tonight, Like come on, man, you can't can't go four games at eight hit by pitches and It ends with Tatis and Otani hitting each other and then Robertson shilt bumping each other like it's a reality show where Okay, you dress up with with tires around you and you got to knock the other person off to you know, to get a you know, a meal for the night or whatever. It is like that. They're run. They're in those little roller balls that they do now where you're you're spun down a hill. Okay to wear this challenge for your team. If you knock the other person down, you win a meal for the night. The other team losing doesn't get to eat. Eat. Okay, here we go. What's the meal? It's grubs? Grubs? Everybody, lion k coming to the theater here you you mean grubhub delivers no grubs different, different things from grubub. Different from grubhub. Yeah, different. Well, I mean they may still sponsor and deliver said grubs, but no, it's actual grubs. Yeah you are getting Grubhub. Oh but it's actual grubs. Oh boy, I don't know if they deliver those. I mean, yeah, like they might eats. I mean, you know, everybody's got a price. But I mean Tatis getting hit and obviously Frostburg echoing and bringing back at the twenty twenty two suspension for ped use. His inability to get out of the way or turn his back to take that one you know in the rib cage is also on him. But got hit in the hand. Got had an anxious moment, which is why there was still, uh, you know, the the issues that we had with Oughtani getting hit. At the end, He's like, yeah, well you hit our star, We're gonna hit yours again. I mean, they here we go. I need I need to see Dave Roberts and Mike Shilt. I need to see it.
I know.
Now we get seven weeks of a gestation' that's too long gestation though, it's gonna feel like what it's like leading up to the Tyson Paul fight, which I'm like, oh my god, I don't care about this, but yet I'm notting bombarded with it every day. This at least i'd look forward to. Now. Dave Roberts has a pretty clean and easy signature. You could start sending letters in his name, allegedly to Mike Shilt to keep the fires burning. Dear Mike, meet me outside in ten minutes. Dave, all right, I'm outside. Where are you? Where are you?
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The calls coming from inside the building? Oh no, uh so uh Dodgers getting action in a few minutes without Dave Roberts tonight and Mike Shilt, big problem so far from the padres they trail the Royals one nothing in the bottom of the second inning. But look a big Friday tonight. We got a big look head. We had two big Bowl predictions coming your way in a few minutes. But today is a really big day. Like it feels like, okay, everybody's out of school now. It's just about everybody is out of school, whether you had your last week this week, and here everybody's getting ready, getting their summer plans and in place. And here we are today the biggest summer blockbuster, the movie that is given credit for, uh basically ushering in the modern era of filmmaking. Jaws turns fifty today. Fifty years ago today, Jaws was released in theaters. And you know, it really is amazing. You know, I mean, you've heard the stories over the years. The shark didn't really work, we couldn't use it as much and because it and you know, how does it hold up now? Over the last few years. It's a shark really look real. Yeah, that shark looked better in Jaws one than it did in any of the subsequent films. Well, because the there's a shark got beat up more by the time you get to four, Like Rocky and Rocky four. He wasn't quite the same boxer. He wasn't well. But they put no money into the shark there after. Now, no, no, Yeah, Bruce was at his best, even non functional in the first one. Hey, no spoilers. Oh sorry, I mean, and you talk about that being a divine moment because the movie is as good as it is because you don't see the shark as much until the end of the movie. I said, no spoilers. It's just I didn't say what happens to the shark. I didn't say. I didn't say what Joe Thornton is actually riding the shark. So there you go. That's what happened at the other the movie nicely, you know, and it ramps up the anxiety of the movie because it's this big shark that you just kind of see and was a whole different way to make movies and that, oh, here's a big threat that can just hang over the movie and then you give it to everybody at the end. It's like, oh my goodness. Yeah, and you've seen that be in a very popular characteristic of movies over the over the past fifty years. But like Jaws is the first one to do that. And really, you know, the era of movies is divided into into two parts, the pre nineteen seventy five era and nineteen seventy five an after because this was what ushered in the big blockbuster. This is when we started getting blockbuster movies in the summer. People go to the movies all the time, and movies started to get more adventurous and more outlandish and not just the big sweeping seventies thrillers and tear jerkers and comedies that were only could be really really smart, and you know, that was what he Allen did comedies, and that was it, Like it was a very much different world of movies. And then Jaws ushered in this entire modern era with the blockbuster that I think is more of its its lasting impact on movies because hey, Jaw's great blockbuster. You could talk about summer blockbusters that you've seen in big movies of the past and what they've made in action movies. But this was the first one that said, okay, we have a whole new era of movies that we judge for fifty years because of Jaws. No, it's it's it's brilliance at every turn. A Robert Shaw. You know, what was his temperament on a given day?
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You know, obviously he in the bottle had battles. Richard Dreyfus also a guy not not exactly warm and fuzzy. He's gotten better with things over the years. He actually appears in a shark movie that just premiered in the streaming world here in the last month, talking about old days and whatever and battles with sharks. How about that? But you know, and then obviously Roy Scheider did more than just tap dance because he was in you know, all those other all that jazz and everything else. But it's the perfect movie. And then you got, you know, the the mayor gets re elected spoiler alert, Yes, somehow. I mean, I could make a bunch of one liners, you could pick whoever you want politically to have that. But it's not, you know, it's not it's not a perfect movie. It's oh yeah, we can't close the beach because look at these seventy five people that are here on the beach. You're not making money on the beach. It's vendors are making kavs. You could have closed the beach if you wanted to. Now you'd have hot dog vendors out there in the whole nine yards. I mean, you'd have all the but I mean they didn't have the budget to go pick because they had to keep paying for Bruce trying to get into work. Where are you?
Hurry it up?
So don't wait for me. Hooper drives the boat. Come down here and shovel some of this. Hooper drives the boat. Chief. Yeah, I watched it again today. It had a nice introduction from Spielberg as well. Oh nice, Okay, yeah, no, it's pretty good. It's, uh, you know, one of those let's promote it as broughte the hell out of a theme parks. They're doing a bunch of you know, photo ops and all of that. Uh, and then obviously popcorn buckets being all the rage. Uh, you got to have a bunch of those. So yeah, selling the hell out of it. But you know it's still one of those that that get you. Oh it's ninety seven on rotten tomatoes. I want to know who the three percent of dopes are they voted about against it just because it's the make it the makers of of all the other shark movies that didn't make it's the people who made Orca. Remember when they tried was pretty good with Orca. After No, we're gonna do it about a killer whale. Oh, it's not gonna make any money. I think people did Free Willie. That probably is uh people at the negative reviews as well. What was the one with all the sharks and Sam Jackson not Deep impacted Deep? Was it Deep? Michael Rapaport, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were all the sharks. They were trying to all the and they were trying to make them really smart. What's his name? Sam Jackson? In the Big Thing, We're Gonna stick Together and nobody's got Oh wow, Deep Blue Deep you had because you had ll cool J with the title song deep My Head is like a shark fin Yeah, it was great. He had his bird Thomas. It was Cary Whirr was in that right from MTV Remote Control. Wasn't she in Deep Blue Sea? No? No, no, she was an anaconda. Oh that is like a Saffron Burrows. You know what I always stelling scars gard I mean one of the greatest of all time. Yeah, yeah, well because one was movie about a big snake in the river. This was I don't know that they care so much about Jaws. No, it's about the other Shark movies. Yeah. Now Anacon is coming back, I mean in pog form. But like you got all of that. It's just brilliant, right, I mean, sorry, Thomas Jane was the was the other actor. I conflated him with what's his name? Eckhart? But no, it's good. It's it's it's a classic shark movie. Uh, feel good summer blockbuster, except for the little kid because you knew. Uh, But I mean it's got one of the greatest opens ever. Yeah. And who knew that two notes could could launch a franchise and billions of dollars of commerce. I mean, come on, it's a man, it's an amazing To end, we have a big hot take coming up for Game seven the NBA Finals and also coming up next you want a big hot take on Jaws and the Jaws legacy. This is a hot take on the Jaws legacy in the modern era of movies. I'm telling you you're gonna say, WHOA, what the hell are you saying? Oh wow, I really see your point. I really see your point on that. Oh boy, it's coming up next. Jason Smith Mike harmon Fox Sports Radio. We are broadcasting live on Friday, Jaws turns fifty. That's coming up next. Right here, Jason and Mike. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Friday the thirteenth. Okay, call back to last Friday.
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We'll say, okay, they'd beare, Hey there's that adult all by himself in the theater again to watch Out to Drain. Hey no, no, no, it's still doing big box office. Okay, all right, no, it's okay. Look, fiftieth anniversary of Jaws and its legacy is really birthing the modern era of movies, right, you can, you can. You can break up the history of movies into into two time periods, from nos Feraitu to nineteen seventy five to Jaws, and then Jaws to where we are right now. Because not the terrible nest noos Ferantu that came out last year. No, no, no, no, no, the one was that way back in the beginning. Yeah, all the way back like in nineteen eight whatever. It was like, you know, the eight minute film of nos Feratu with no you know words or anything. No, it was a good one. I will I will tell you this. If you want to talk about the best movie of the modern era of lou Yeah, let's go go back to ninete so nineteen seventy five and after and you know, it's it's a conversation I've had my wife and I have this on once in a while, have this conversation and it really is hard for me to say anything other than and look, I have my favorite movies of the last fifty years. I you know, look almost famous in Caddy Shack and on Top Gun and all the ways we talk about. But if I'm good, if I'm going to ted last, Oh, this is the best song. This is my favorite song. The best movie of the modern era is Back to the Future. Now you think about you think what I mean what? The movie has absolutely everything you would want in a movie. It has great acting. It's got great action, comedy. The writing is terrific. They teach a course on it. I think at usc about it's a perfect screenplay, Like this is how you write a screenplay. It's got drama, it's just man, it's got thrills. It's the soundtrack is phenomenal. Like anything this movie you want out of a movie, Back to the Future has, it's got one liners, it's got it's got I mean, I know, I've seen the movie over a hundred times, and still the scene at the end when he's trying to plug it into the you know, plug in the clock tower, so Marty Kennet eighty eight miles an hour on the street, it's still it's still so thrilling. It's I mean again, I've seen it a hundred times at least, and it's that movie that just it's got something for everybody. Whatever you like in a movie, it is there. It's like, hey, Purple Rain is probably the greatest album in the last fifty years. It's got something for everybody. It's got a great rock song, it's got a great ballad, it's got a great top forty song, it's got a it's got one of the best dance songs out there, it's got experimental, it's got everything you want. Right. This is Back to the Future that literally has everything you would want in a movie. Like I don't know how they were able to exceed on all of those levels, to have that all in one movie, because certain movie that. Hey, our movies funnier the Back to the Future. Yeah, our movie is a little bit more thrilling than Back to the Future. Yeah. Is acting in some movies better than back Yeah, but nobody does all of that in a movie better than Back to the Future does outside of clips and reenactments at the theme park. I don't know that I've watched Back to the Future in about twenty years. Uh yeah, now Nightly Entertainment. No, it's I mean, look, I've probably watched Jaws the one hundred times that you've mentioned. I know I've I've watched The Blues Brothers forty five years ago. To Well, you're from Chicago, you kind of have to. Well, but I mean, you talk soundtrack whatever else. I do concede that, you know, we did find that sound. Marvin did get us that sound we needed for rock and roll. So we have that UCLA Dodger Frank reminds us that we also have twenty eight years ago today, Batman and Robin. You want to talk about great one line? Come on, maybe, I know you can't. You can't ruin it. You can't ruin Hey, one of the greatest movies incentive by throwing out Batman and no no wait wait, no man, Frank, no no, no, I got I got a lot of this together. Right. We talked about Deep Blue Sea, which had Thomas Jane in it. Thomas Jane also starred in another movie that included sharks that is referenced in Jaws. That was the USS Indianapolis, starring Nicholas Cage. Okay, so we get that in Boom Boom and also had Mario van Peebles and Tom Sizemore. That's got an eighteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes. But I also mentioned, say eighteen percent eighteen one of my favorite films. Nineteen eighty nine also gave us the Superhero movie and that's Batman. I mean, yeah, you had Superman and Christopher, but that that was a decade prior, right, I mean, we just commemorated the release of Superman two. But what was on that soundtrack? Yeah, that's right, soundtrack was released on this day all those years ago, Prince. Because party Man was a damn jam by the way, Blues Brothers the Vulture ev the great video and then when he was roller skating around with the Batman outfit, that was cool. That was black Brothers could make when you could make songs like that, where it's us, we're just gonna have music and we're gonna just play like record scratch lines from the movie. Oh and that's a song. Yeah, we put that out great, no one's gonna sing it. Just get a Prince go Batman and then we're just gonna play Vicky Vail saying something. And Michael Keaton said, and that's a song, and it's a it's a top of the charts for a good couple of months. That that's what we can put that out there. That's a song. I see the future and it will be. By the way, the Blues Brothers, you also had the subplot that they could have done a whole movie around with the carry Fisher subplot. Well, now I wanted to see what happened to the good old Blues Boys brother's band. We could have done we could have done a spin off of them. I mean, we had all sorts of stuff. By the way, it's John Goodman's birthday, who later was in Yeah, that's right, Blues Brothers two thousand, let's go. You can't, dude, you can't talk about these movies and then give me the awful sequels that are out there. Yeah, but look at how I wrapped it all in a big hug. I'm hey, remember Back to the Future two and three, how great they were. Come on, man, I'm not No, you're ruining the sanctity of those movies by saying, oh, yeah, Blues Brothers two thousands, who can't forget Joe Morton and and whoever else was in that. I mean Joe Morton, who was later part of a Batman movie. So it all works. We also have the don't don't forget Rocky four. I mean, if we're if we're gonna go down that not one, two or three, but the fourth one, fourth one, the fourth one. Yeah. Uh so hey, there you go. I mean, like a modern era of movies. Hey, I'm like that guy in the college campus with the change my Back to the Future best movie in the modern era of the last fifty years, changed my mind. That's what I feel I feel like we should do. I mean, this is one that's perfect for a pole question or for phonees. Sure, hey, hey, but let's put up the pole question. We'll put that up there. We'll get okay, uh, time out to find out what's trending in the wide world. Of sports. But God has been called the Marty McFly of Fox Sports Radio. Oh boy, his parents want to wish he would disappear. It's Steve de Sager. He's got what's trending.
That did have a lot, including the music. I'm glad you brought up there.
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There was no baseball tonight, Steven, if you know that baseball was canceled tonight, Philly, here's a home run from Costianos.
Yeah, and another ten. Two Phillies over the Mets. Is the final thirteen hits for Philadelphia. The Cardinals had beaten the Red six to one, Marlin's a six to two winner against the Braves. White Sox were seven to one winners at the Blue Jays today Seattle a nine to four winner at the Cubs. Is cal Raley had two more homers. He has twenty nine this year. The Yankees have been beaten at home. Orioles beat him with two in the top of the eight, five to three the final. Even though Aaron Judge had three hits, including a home run his twenty seventh of the season. The Rangers and Jacob de Grom won six to two at Pittsburgh. In the late games, Nationals leading the Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw won nothing. Royals have an early home run at San Diego won nothing over the Padres, now top of the fourth and yes, Fernando Tatist Junior is playing despite being hit by pitch last night. As for the managers, they're not participating tonight. San Diego's Mike Shield, LA's Dave Roberts getting one game suspensions after what happened last night. Late in the game in La Padres, closer Robert Suarez was suspended three games for hitting shoe Atani on purpose. He has appealed. In the WNBA, Dallas was two and eleven, but gotta win at Connecticut eighty six eighty three, Page Beckers twenty one points. Connecticut now two and eleven. NBA Finals Game seven will be Sunday, Indiana at Oklahoma City. The NBA Draft starts on Wednesday. The Stanley Cup Final average just two and a half million viewers on TNT plus three point eight million in Canada. US Man soccer plays again Sunday on Fox TV against Haiti Scottie Scheffler is tied for the lead at the Travelers, as is Justin Thomas, who shot a second round sixty four. Jason Day is one shot back in Connecticut. And as far as the Brewers game tonight, this rookie for Milwaukee, Jacob Misserowski and his second major league start through six perfect innings and then allowed a lead off walk at Minnesota and a home run in the seventh, So in his big league career he's actually allowed a hit now. But yes, it is still a lead for the Milwaukee Brewers, eight to two at Minnesota in the top of the eighth.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve the Jason smithz Row is Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right, so now we're looking ahead to Game seven, which we get Sunday, finally, mercifully, the NBA season is about to come to an end, and everybody's looking forward to the draft because we'll all get back on the board, maybe the nixill hire or coach. We had NBA free agency coming up and a week or two after that, which could see a lot of big names moved. It's kind of like it's weird. We kind of have to get past the pesky finals to get to where Okay, now we're all back in right. Like it's like when you go go to someone's house to play poker and they say, we're having a big pokernight. All right, great, and there's like fifteen people there and there's like two tables and you're playing, uh, you're playing no limit texas hold them and as the games go on, okay, and all right, well, one person gets a limited limit and then like the people on the couch hanging out talking are just waiting for the game to end because it's down to two people, and you're like, okay, can we do this week and start another game? And we're all just sitting around waiting for you two to somehow finish this and it takes forever because the pre people want to win, and then you wind up having to split the pot. All right, it's one of the things Hey we want to get and then okay, hey it's over, bool everybody gets back in. Like that's where we're at right now. We're waiting to get back in, waiting. But just that, like that all those teams that had been vanquished and we're on the boat all those uh weeks ago. Suddenly they have relevant. Suddenly guys are gonna get that uncomfortable call from their agent. By the way, you're getting packaged and you're getting sent to Sacramento. Who is it is today? My birthday is today? Come on, guys, come on, that's fun kid around like that. That's not funny man. All right, well I'll be out. Well, Mike Brown's are pretty Oh no, he's oh oh wow, okay. Uh. But going into game seven, I said from the beginning the way these games are gonna go five, six and seven, home home, home, Thunder win Game seven. This is where shay Gilgess Alexander has a Yannis twenty twenty one Game six like performance in the championship game right, I said earlier in this series, he's got to come out and go for forty in this next game and put the team on his shoulders. He did. He actually went for thirty five, but he scored the last thirteen points. This is gonna be one of those nights where, yes, a guy that's averaging over thirty points in the NBA playoffs, this people to ever do it. He's gonna go for fifty on Sunday against the Pacers. Free throws will be twenty out of twenty two from the line. Fifty points for SGA as they win the title. The Thunder win big and he puts a big exclamation point on the season. He's got it in him. I kind of feel like we're still waiting for the for him to explode, even though he's had a great NBA Finals. He's scoring thirty thirty five a game, and we're kind of feel like we're waiting for him to explode and have that big trademark game to win it all. He is due for an all timer. We're due for an All timer. SGA goes for fifty on Sunday in Game seven. Wow looking pooh, Yeah that'd be Friday. See, you know picked him before this series right to win in six. The no show just really kind of frankly pisses me off, Like I'm still mad about Game six and that lack of effort just and I'm not letd to go. So I hope they both lose because I don't want Haliburton to win either from his no show on Game five. So right now I'm hoping for a push, well not in the betting markets, because that's just not good for anybody minus eight, minus nine, depending on when you're getting in on your okay, ce love there. I'd love to see Sga do it with that kind of kind of proficiency because it'll drive everybody nuts. Since he only hits a couple of threes every once in a while, this would be all mid range and free throws, which is what the everybody's told us doesn't work in the NBA, so maybe everybody does. You know, it hits the brakes really hard and decides to rebuild, restructure, retool things going forward. I'll take the thunder to win, and I don't think you're getting the heroics there. I think this is where some of your secondary cast dials things in. But I will say you can just make your bold prediction now he'll have more field goals made than turnovers on like game six. Oh, I thought you're gonna say he'll have more He'll have more field goals made than free throws, which I don't know. I don't know. No, there's no chance it's gonna be a twenty free throw kind of night, There is no question about it. It will be a march to immortality for Shay Gilgess Alexander. He's at home, He's gonna get to the line the bench. What look, the support players will play better, right, the entire the entire game six strategy went out the window early. Well, I mean when when TJ McConnell out rebounded Isaiah Hartenstein for that ball in the second quarter, I knew they had quit and they were done right, So you know, they know they laid an egg and they let the Pacers play the game. The Pacers have wanted to play the whole series. This is gonna be a different story. They have always rebounded, They've always bounced back. I said it was going set. Nothing has changed my mind. Everything is going according to plan. But give me that big time Sunday Wow, all time great performance. We'll compare it. Hey, what was better SGA in a clinching game? Yan is in a clinching game because he was like I think he had like fifteen rebounds in that game that yann has had what he scored when they won it in twenty twenty one. So yeah, no, I'm all in on SGA having an all time performance on Sunday. Well he owes he owes America. Well yeah, yeah, everybody who voted for him for MVP, because now they're going, maybe I should have voted for TJ McConnell for MVP. Maybe he's the real guy. No, and then I mean Jalen Williams. Everybody was trying to coronate and raise him up to some level. Even Scotty Pippa's like, what are we doing? What are we doing? Like it's not quite the Brady or Jordan thing, but it's damn close when we're talking about decorated historical figures in these games, like, hey, let's compare this guy. Has he wont anything yet? No, he went for forty. What do you do the next night he went for minus forty and his plus minus. I don't think you go for minas far. I think he gets saddled with a minus forty. 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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. What is next when it comes to the biggest story of the week. That's coming up a minute, but first time for the Play of the day. Brought to you by ti Iraq. For over forty years, tire Rack's been open. Customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free, backed by free Road, has protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot Com is the way tire buying should be. Well, when you score twice on the same play, you get to be the play of the day. Left center field pretty dead, Taylor's pack at the wall, top the wall? Who runs heady? Two more guys running sign by sign those what turn of the pint? That's how bad the Mets are. The Phillies score twice at the same time that show Apple TV on the call, Yes, the Phillies part of what was it? Twenty six to two today. Uh, I don't like it. The Mets are just not going to win again. They're they're just not going to win again. Mike, you know what, we no longer have to hear ever again? What's that point? Who has the best record in the National League? That is true? Oh no, no, no, no, now that would be the Dodgers. You can't sit here and say it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter again this year when fortune favors you, you decide to say, oh, he gets who is the best?
Right?
No, it either matters or it doesn't. But you gotta pick a lane. You gotta pick alate. It either matters, it does. It's over. I mean right now, it matters. I mean no, no, no, no, no, pick a lane. You're asking him to make a steps judgment right now, so obviously, I mean his opinion could have changed. Oh no, no, I'm just gonna get over. I'm just gonna say what you have to go. It's June. It's because the Mets. It's a series. No longer know what there's I celebrate championships. It's a series in June. There is evidently a series something you can point to that caused the Mets to start flailing as they did. Look, I keep going back to blowing that four to one lead in the eighth inning a week ago, the first game against the Rays. It's been take from a week agos not making the playoffs. That's gonna be That's good, No, it is. It is aging. Well, but you know, based on the recent circumstance. But evidently Mike Francis met Frank the Tank and was hanging out with him last last week and they haven't won since. Oh, okay, so it's a Frank Frank the Tank's fault. Okay, Well, I want to try I always want to try to. I'll blame him too, I always want to try to find blame. It's got to be somebody else's fault. That's not my own. So I like that. Well, you're you chose the Mets your fault. I'm digging it, man, I'm digging it. You did it, you made it a lifetime and said, you know, pity me. I'm a white so I'm a white Sox fan. So what you look, who's taking? But all that, you know, the deal with the devil, whatever it is, I can't wait to see it come to fruition, whatever that payoff is for you in your sporting universe. I'm so digging that may. It's all everybody else's fault, not me. Uh Now. The biggest story of the week in the NBA, and and something that sent shockwaves through because nobody really knew it was coming, was obviously the sale of the Lakers for ten billion dollars to Mark Walter, who owns part of the Dodgers as well. What's going to happen next? Right, Everyone's no what's gonna happen now? Mark Walter is in, Jeanie Buss is staying on as governor for an indetermined amount of time. All Right, I'll be able to tell you what's gonna happen next. And Frostburg doesn't deserve this, but I'm gonna give it to him. First of all, this is going to be the last time owners don't buy teams to let somebody else run the team. Okay, if that doesn't happen, But Mark Walter wants to get used to the NBA. He wants to come in and douce Walter, Okay, And maybe that was part of the h Maybe that was part of the deal, is that Genie Bus gets to be on for a little while. And kind of ride off into the sunset whatever kind of tour she wants to have. But she's not gonna be around more than a year, all right. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised the next season finishes very quietly Genie bus walks away, or it's announced at some point, because again, people don't buy teams to have other other people run them, right, especially someone that already owns the team. How awkward is that? This sounds like it's something that's pr that was put in the contract. It's probably gonna be a year and that's it. Now. The best news for the Lakers, as I will tell you this, he's not gonna come in here. New ownership doesn't come in and say, well, we want to see how things go for a little while. No, no, no, Not with Lebron James nearing the end of a window where he can win, Not with Luka doncic here and the excitement that you have. He's gonna come in and I'll tell you what two things are gonna happen, because I went when when the sale was made, I said, this could be good news for the Lakers because maybe they're they're new. It's gonna be a new way of doing things. They will probably spend more money. It's not gonna be run mom and pop wise. Uh you know, maybe it's gonna be good for the Lakers that they're sold and they're gonna come in with a bang and I'll give you this. I'll give you this Mike Breen double bang off of here. Number one. Luca gets his extension this summer. He gets his he gets his three year extension with the Lakers this summer, and they go out and spend on another star or big roster editions. They make a splash. Mark Walter is not gonna wade in and dip his tone into the water and see what the temperature is and wait it all out. Uh uh. They're gonna come in. They're gonna say Luca is our guy. They're gonna go get the guys they want to and say, let's go with this championship window because they understand, look, how many more years is Lebron gonna be the guy he is. Let's go let's do it now, and then the year after this they'll get money back because Lebron will probably retire or go play somewhere else. So it's not like all of a sudden they're stuck with all this money. They get out of Lebron after but they will go out this year Luca gets that extension and they go get another star player or big additions to help them win. They spend a lot. Well, I'm working on getting my PhD to understand this Kakamami system that they have about aprons and caps and what's what's fuzzy math, because they're thirty million dollars over the cap if Finney Smith and Lebron James opt in. So now now you've got to start playing having fun with numbers. And then they still have to figure out how to get back that hundred million for Luca off the books that the Mavericks stole from him by giving him away. Yeah, well, I mean you well, we'll solve one problem at a time. There's one problem there. Look at Luca's gonna be there a long long time. It's okay, right, Luke, if you're really if you want to be NBA owner rich, you're gonna have to wait a couple more years, Okay. Just it's just fun because you have the all right, who is that basketball executive that rivals what they did with Andrew Friedman and that brain trust. Just the Lakers will get big splashes this offseason and Luca's extension is going to be at the top of it. Exit out by the Fresco Exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike Carmon Coming up next, we get back into the biggest controversial topic that doesn't seem like it's going away in Major League Baseball. Fox.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. I'm an as man true, So happy fiftieth anniversary to Jaws. Right the ushering in the era of the modern cinema. Right movies can be broken up into two categories, the era before nineteen seventy five now the modern era, which Jaws birth blockbuster, Jaws turning fifty years old today now last hour in the show gave a big hot take for the weekend. Think about this in the modern era since Jaws Blockbuster, you know birth that era best movie of the last fifty years. I gave it to you. Back to the future everything you want in it, acting, writing, drama, comedy, memorable one liners, thrills, great soundtrack, everything you would want in a movie. Back to the Future gives you other movies have. Other movies are funnier, wees have a little more rag, but nothing does everything as well as Back to the Future. And now someone joins us with a bone to pick on that topic. He is longtime NBA insider friend of the show. You can fall him on Twitter at the Steinline. Check him out on substack. It is Mark Stein. Happy Friday, man, How are you listen. I'm trying to get work done here.
We got a game seven coming up. Yeah, the whole league is wait on a Kevin Durant trade. The draft is in a.
Matter of days.
I live in Cooper Flag's New City. It's Friday night. I'm tethered to the desk, just trying to publish, publish my story, get some work done. And then you guys are start tweeting about the best movie of all time since nineteen seventy five, and you just threw off my whole workflow and I had to call in.
All right, We'll go ahead, my friend the floor fult since jawsin seventy five. What do you got?
The answer is nineteen eighty two's Rocky three. And that is the end of the discussion.
Lumber Laying Thunderlips. I mean, you got a lot, There's no question about it. I think I probably watched that nearly one hundred times.
Yeah, it is one of those movies at the minute, the second you accidentally find it as you're flipping through the channels. Whatever you had to be, whatever you were doing is scrap, and you must watch the whole thing. You incredible villain, incredible story. I mean, it's the best, it's the best. It's it's the best of the Rocky movies. I will die on that hill. And it is if if if the time frame is nineteen seventy five until now, there's your winner. I've settled it for you. I'll go off back to the we can go back to the NBA playoffs now.
But when we were talking about the birth of the blockbuster coming out of Jaws, I mean this also gave us the lead in for WrestleMania one. I mean, so we've got all of that. Yeah, there you go. Culture never the same. I remember being so scared of me. I was like, I was ten years old. I remember being it's like, oh my god, this mister t is so scary. Then I found out later in life always like five six, Oh okay, but he was here's scary. He was so stiffy.
First it is the first movie I ever went to the cinema without parental supervision, and it was it was like it was and it was life changing. I did not see to that point. I had not seen the first two. And I watched that and became a lifelong addict of the whole Rocky franchise, Creed franchise. I mean it just that was a that was a life changing trip to the theater in nineteen eighty two.
So you jumped right in and in the middle said, who's this guy coming to help? Rockies? Named Apollo? Who is this guy? Why is he coming to help?
I was mesmerized instantly. To this day, there is an Apollo Creed doll in my office over my shoulder. Almost every word I type, I'm looking at it right, look at him going at it right now?
All right? All right? So here, So here's so you had Rocky three or may not have the thunderlips cape Mark tweet out a picture of that Apollo Creed doll. Can you do that? And when we're done, you just tweet out a picture behind.
I think I've done that before. In fact, when like I said, Carl Weather's playing Apollo Creed, I mean just I loved that character beyond words. And when we lost Carl Weathers, I wrote a whole story. I've written multiple stories just about my my love of the Rocky franchise, but I wrote I wrote a whole tribute to him. I will try to find it because, like I said, I definitely put a picture of it in that story if I remember right, so I will. I will try to find it.
That is awesome. Mark Stein on the board with Rocky three. Wow. So okay. So now it is it disappointing to have to get back to the NBA Finals after this? Or are you okay getting back to the NBA Final? I mean no, I was just mad.
I was just really mad at you guys for I mean, just like like I'm trying to concentrate, and I mean, I mean, I can't believe that Rocky three wasn't the automatic answer. But now that we've sorted that out, I think we can get back on course and start talking about Game seven.
All right, so what do you see now going into Game seven? I went after after the first couple of games, I thought, this is gonna You're gonna see point counterpoint, and teams are going to be able to counterbalance from game to game. You're going to see adjustments. I see Oklahoma City on Sunday. What do you see on Sunday?
Well, look, I think people would point to the Denver series and say, remember how good OKAC looked in that Game seven. But I feel like at this point this thing is all bets off. I mean, nobody knows what's going to happen. I mean, the home team is fifteen and four all time in Game seven, but this Indiana team, like, look, they're one win away from what would be the most improbable championship that we've ever seen in the NBA. I'm not going to try to judge it against the other leagues and you know, because it's too hard to do that. But in look in the NBA, you know, the Rockets won it as a number six seed, but they were they were defending champions, and they traded for Clyde Drexler at mid season. The first NBA season that I really remember being locked to locked into as a kid. Seventy seven seventy eight, that was a That was the year I truly became an you know, an NBA fan really following it. Washington won it all with a with only they were only forty four and thirty eight, but the league was in such a different place, and really Portland was your defending champion. They were fifty to ten when Bill Walton got hurt, they were overwhelmingly the best team in the league. They lose Walton and you know it throws the playoffs open and yeah, okay, so a forty four win team winning a championship. I mean that is crazy on paper. But again, where the NBA was in seventy seven seventy eight, to compare the you know where it is the stature that the league has now. If the Pacers can win one more we have never seen anything like this, if the Pacers, if the Pacers can win one more game. Look, it is an extremely tall order to go into OKAC, which is probably the noisiest building in the league or certainly in the conversation. But here's the thing. The Thunder just looked rattled and discombobulated in Game six, and that has created doubt that didn't exist in the Denver series. The Thunder are gonna have to show us that they're ready for this moment. And you know the Pacers, that was the first elimination game they've played in these playoffs. They rose to the moment. I mean, what's the state of Halliburton's calf on Sunday? I mean, that's another I mean there's so many variables, but like, I can't tell you what's gonna happen. I genuinely don't know. We don't know. That's what makes it so delicious.
Well, let me stay with that for a second, right because I just want a one on one contest between the Game five and Game six. No shows of SGA and Tyrese Haliburton going back to Game five. Let's just let them battle it out. What do you I think the status of that cap really is.
I mean, I don't see how it can be good. But obviously he gritted through it yesterday and then people are gonna say, oh, he's not really hurt. I mean I think it's clear there's something wrong there. You know, is it as bad as they said?
You know?
Is it gamesmanship? I I I don't know. I mean, look, I'm you know, in full disclosure, Game two is the only game I've been at in person. I am. I am tracking this thing from afar like you guys. But I mean, if do you guys believe in team of destiny stuff? I mean with all of the Pacers comebacks and escapes and again first time in this postseason that they're facing win or go home, and the way they responded in that situation, I mean, it has been. It has been an incredible ride. And you know, if if they win, they are in the history books forever. And if they lose, if Oklahoma City does what it's supposed to do and win Game seven at home and validate the incredible regular season that the thunder have had, it's going to be a fascinating question to see how history history remembers this Pacers team, because like, it's been such a great playoff run again, the likes of which we just we've never seen, you know, like you want to talk about that Rockets team that was the sixth seed in ninety five, but again they were defending chance. They had a team and Clyde Drexler, who they traded for at mid season. I was talking, I was on the Gottlieb Show earlier today and Jay stew was like, well, what about the Raptors winning in twenty nineteen. Okay, the Raptors traded for a Finals MVP before that season, bringing in Kawhi Leonard, and at mid season they traded for Mark Gasol, one of the best defensive centers of his generation and an All Star. Like so that Raptors team was loaded. I mean, Fiako, who's one of the two best players on the Pacers, you know, one of the two or three best players on that Raptors team. I mean, that Raptors team was really good. And again you're adding Kawhi Leonard an MVP this Pacers team. I mean, where do you rank Halliburton in Siakam two of the twenty five best players in the league? Is it two of the top twenty? I mean we can argue that all night, but like they are not built like a traditional champion. Halliburton and Siakam, we're not top ten picks, and it's nothing but depth surrounding them. Really, Rick Carlisle is you know, he probably has the most accomplished resume out of any Pacer. It's been a great story guy. Seriously, I mean, you know, all joking aside from the beginning like this, this has been just a ridiculously good run for the Pacers. And but now they have the very difficult assignment that you got to go to OKC and win on their floor. I mean, it's you know again, the home team is fifteen and four in Game seven in the finals for a reason.
And the insider Mark Stein, our guest Jason Smith, Mike Carmon Love from the Fox Sports radio studios. All right, now, as you said, I know you got a lot going on. We got free agency coming, we got KD situation for this week. The Lakers are sold for ten billion dollars. Genie Bus supposedly is staying on for a while. I can't see that being very long. What do you see for the Lakers this summer? Does Mark Walter come in? Do they get aggressive? They do they say screw it, We're gonna spend money. Are they gonna remake.
The robbe Look you I remember in the NBA there are limits to what you can spend that the Dodgers don't face. So in the short term, I don't know that that much is going to change Because Lebron James is almost certainly going to opt in, and the Lakers just don't have the flexibility to go out and start making dodgers like moves that just that can't happen in the NBA. And look, it's not even about a willingness. Steve Olmer is willing to spend anything he can to make the Clippers, to get the Clippers to the Championship Promised Land. But remember in the NBA, it's all about once you go into that second apron, you can't aggregate salaries in trades, your draft picks get frozen, you lose all these team building tools. That's what Phoenix is going through right now. Phoenix is so far buried in the second apron and it just makes doing anything difficult. But the infrastructure of the Lakers is certainly going to change, and I like you, they will invest top dollar in everything they can everywhere else to modernize the franchise. There's no way it's a bad thing. Like it's going to take the Lakers to the next step. And ultimately, when they do have the financial flexibility to make moves, you know they're going to swing big and make Yep, it's the Lakers. They're never going to have trouble getting getting players. I mean, that's the thing is like, in the short term, it's very hard to put the pieces around Luka Doncic to optimize him. But eventually they will get flexibility and then they will put a great team around him, because that is the hardest part. Getting the Luka dantic is the hardest part. They've got that figured out. It might it might not happen immediately because of you know, hap limitations and luxury tax concerns, but ultimately nobody in the league, in the other twenty nine front offices, is very, very happy about this. I mean, this is not with anybody, not what any of the Lakers rivals wanted to see.
Mark other than Kevin Durant going back and forth with Boogie Cousins about possible fistfights in the Sun's locker room last year. What happens next with him.
Well, look, the Sons want to do this, but by the draft, I mean something that has mattered to Phoenix. Phoenix would love to have a trade for Kevin Durant that it likes, but that also gives them at least one first round pick in Wednesday's draft, which of course they don't have the Houston Rockets at number ten have what would have been the Sun's pick via Brooklyn. So at this point the Suns don't have a first. But the reality too here is everyone all these teams know that the Suns are operating from a position of desperation. They've decided that they have to trade Kevin Durant and they want to get something resembling the hall that they gave up to get for him. And it's like, how they're not going to get They're not going to come close to matching that. I mean that was four firsts, the pick swap and Bridges and Cam Johnson. I mean, they gave up a ton to get him. But they have to try to find the best deal they can make as opposed to trying to where that's where I think the Suns end up going, rather than prioritizing Katie's desires in terms of a landing spot. But all these teams they're talking to, they're not putting some monster offer on the table, and it's not because they don't like Kevin Durant or Kevin Durant is a future Hall of Famer. He's the number eight all time score in league history, and he's an absolute all time great. But the reality is in September he'll be thirty seven and if you're not on his preferred wish list, you have to resign him to a contract extension. He only has one year left on his deal. So how much can the Suns really get here? To this point, they have not gotten an offer that they consider palatable. Can that happen this weekend? Can that happen before Wednesday's draft? And we're going to have to sit tight and see. But the Suns might have to say we if we're not getting enough, are we better off walking away from the table? And that's you know, that's the kind of stuff they're mulling right now.
He is working feverishly on the finals on the draft. On Kevin Durant. You can follow him on Twitter at the Steinline. That is, at the steinline, he is Mark stein Lien here. Since your mane ain't got no heart here? You'd like to see a real man? I bet you stay him lead.
There you go.
Likes to run all the time.
Guy, should you guys should see my kids watching me do every line of that movie?
That is?
That is a press conference. I wish I would have been at. I can tell you.
I think I had to test.
I had to settle for I had to settle for watching that on the big screen. But come on, characters, boundtrack action. I mean, it is just ninety minutes of.
Glory running on the beach. Oh yeah, yeah, Mark, thanks so much as always for stopping by. Hey, just think about next week when we talk, we're gonna be talking about the draft. Right all the season final, we're talking about the draft because it's right around the corner. We will have it.
We will have it. The next time we talk, we will have an NBA champion.
Take it easy to enjoy the weekend. Enjoy game seven, my friend. Thank you so much. There goes mark Stein. Rocky three from Mark Stein. You got that on the board. Wow, oh that's four. No, that's that. Yeah, that's that's the movie after the movie after Yes,