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Three balls, two strikes on Soto and he Strain. 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 I'm gonna beat that ass just like Dave Roberts promise.
I'm gonna beat that ass up.
Okay, different thing, different thing, ty shirt, 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 Shult last night the suspended Dave Roberts and Mike Shult, 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. U 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, yeah, I gotta fight the word right off. You did.
It's pretty good. 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? Now, what playing the Dodgers That if I made 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 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 add a donut, No itll gotten donut forever be on your head. If that was the case, I would be definitely chess.
Your 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 at at In August, they ran at each other in bump 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 string.
I was like a Syracuse parking lot at that two fifteen when you when I used to watch teas get settled in my younger days, Hey, these guys are gon 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 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, Sna 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.
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 to meet 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 they're 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. Okay, here we go. What's the meal?
It's grubs? Grubs everybody lion coming to the theater. Hear you?
You mean grubhub delivers no grubs different different things for grubub, different from Grubhuba different.
Well, I mean they may still sponsor and deliver said grubs, but no, it's actual grubs.
Yeah, you are getting grub Hub. 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 e 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 ends, 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 noting 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? Wait 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 for 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 ahead. 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. No, No, yeah, Bruce was at his best, even being 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 I 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 and 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 brilliance at every turn. A Robert Shaw, you know, what was his temperament on a given day? You know, obviously he in the bottle their 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 happens. I mean, I could make a bunch of one liners and you could pick whoever you want politically to that, but it's not, you know, it's 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 money there. It's not like 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 yard.
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 up not tying on? So don't wait for me.
Hooper drives the boat.
Come down here and shovel some of this man. 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 it at the 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 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 Sea?
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 wh 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, percent it's a man, it's an amazing To end, we have a big hot take coming up for Game seven into 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.
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Did you wind up going seeing it last night?
No?
No, no, well we had an early soccer game out in Norcast, so I put the kibosh on it. I got it. May see it over the weekend. I might go see How to Train Your Dragon again. I don't know, we'll see.
Okay, 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, eighth 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, no.
The one was that the ways 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 Luke, Yeah, let's go, okay, go back to nineteen 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 the ted Lassoh, 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 the 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 as 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 than 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, 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.
Today. You're from Chicago, you kind of have to.
Well, but I mean, you talk about 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 you know you can't you can't win, you can't ruin.
Hey, one of the greatest movies incentive by throwing out Batman and no no wait, wait.
No no man fran 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 yeh. 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 Reid, 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 Van 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 just 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 Veil 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 to spin off of them. I mean, we had all sorts 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 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 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 whole question or for phones.
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.
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That did have a lot, including the music. I'm glad you brought up to everything and everything.
Kuey Lewis rules.
Sure did the Mets have anything tonight?
They things were going so well.
There was no baseball tonight, Steven if you know that baseball was handled tonight.
Philly's all run from costianos.
Yea 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 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 Rawley 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 Tetist 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 Otani 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. Hanley Cup Final average just two and a half million viewers on TNT plus three point eight million in Canada. US men 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 in 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 Smiths row with 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. We'll all get back on the board, maybe the nixill hire or coach. We had NBA free agency coming up in 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 poker night. 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 li 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 pool.
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 relevance. 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 fine.
Kid around like that. That's not funny.
All right, Well I'll be out. Well, Mike Brown's are pretty good. 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 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, that is, you're one of the few people to ever do it.
He's gonna go for.
Fifty on Sunday against the Pacers free throws. It 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 leting 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, Cee 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 doesn't. You know, it hits the brakes really hard and decides to rebuild, restructure, retool things going forward. I'll take the thunder to win. I don't. 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 about the 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. We 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 Yanna has had what he scored when they won 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 that'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 minus far. I think he gets saddled with a minus forty. Well, you know what you contribute by sucking ready for a new job. Let Express Employment professionals help. While Express helps people in all industries, fine work. Our sweet spot is logistics roles. Express never charges job seekers a fee, so go to expresspros dot com. All right, we'll coming up next. There's your first big prediction. What is next in regards to the biggest story of the week. We'll tell you what the future holds Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Whoever run? Is any two more guys running? Signs? What time of the paint? 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, no, 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, hey, guts, who is the best? Right? No, it either matters or it doesn't. But you got to pick a lane. You gotta pick a late. It either matters or it doesn't.
It's over. I mean right now it matters.
No, no, no, no, no, pick a lane either.
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 its June. It's just because it's a series. No longer have it. You 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 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's Frank the Tank's fault. Okay, Well, I always want to try to. 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. I'm well, you're you chose the Mets your full I'm digging it, man.
I'm digging you did it. You've made it a lifetime and said, you know, pity me. I'm a white I'm a white Sox fan. So what you look, who's talking? But all of 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. Uh, what's going to happen next?
Right, everyone's know 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, 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 Uh, maybe that was part of the deal. Is that Genie Buss 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 have happened, 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 and 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 huh.
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 Kaka Amy 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 Finny 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, yeah, 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, all 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 to Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we get back into the biggest controversial topic that doesn't seem like it's.
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