Hour 2 - A Misunderstood Guy

Published Jun 28, 2025, 6:08 AM

Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier (in for Jason Smith) open hour 2 reacting to recent comments from Jets RB Breece Hall where he called Aaron Rodgers "a misunderstood guy." Then, they stay in the NFL, discussing which coaches are on the hot seat heading into this season. Plus, is Tom Brady dating Sydney Sweeney?

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Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Carman, No Jason two night off vallegant gallivanting across the Southland. I think, uh, maybe he's at the movies. I don't know, Uh, chaos ensues. Maybe you went and saw Megan, or maybe you went to take in F One once again, because you know, F One an Apple Original Films Warner Brothers Pictures. It's a heart pounding underdog story, come backstory from the director of Top Gun, Maverick.

F One. The movie.

It's in theaters now. Jason and I had a chance to see it right Brad Picture Star. We went and saw it at an Imax screening here. I got to meet Jerry Bruckheimer, so that.

Was kind of nice.

And it has every feel of the Bruckheimer movies that you know and love today, it's it's an interesting coincidence because today is the anniversary of the release of Days of Thunder.

I don't know why I wasn't asked to be in this movie. I don't understand what's going on. Well, can you I'm gonna drive?

Does Beth drive the car?

No, I wasn't a two seater Indy car. Once. That was pretty incredible.

You were not driving?

No was No, I was not driving. Can you imagine the are you drive on? And let's see how it is so incredible. I would crash into the first turn. I mean my body was leaning one way, we were turning the other way. It was I mean, I didn't know which. I couldn't tell you if I was coming or going. It was. It was incredible, absolutely crazy.

It's an incredible run. I want to sit in the rumble seats, but uh, my daughter and I are gonna go see it again, uh tomorrow in the IMAX format.

Uh.

Really, it's it's shot that way, it feels that way. The soundtracks awesome. Go on down the line. If you saw the Bansheese of Enye Sheering. Uh, Carrie Condon is in that and she's fantastic as the the technical lead. And Jave Bardam I mean he's he's brilliant and everything. I want the outtakes of what he did with Brad Pitt.

You're above my head now, I don't know.

The guy from No Country for Old Men?

Okay, okay, now, sag you gotta put it like that. You can't just be he was.

Also in the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Right, but come on, you gotta give me the you know, like the screen actor or the what party played. Otherwise I have no idea who you're talking.

Perhaps the greatest villain of all time. I don't know.

We'll have it up on the metal stand. You can make your vote. Is Sugur that guy?

I love it.

We need we need no.

Pop culture stone unturned here the Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harmon. There should be another podcast or something that flows with it with all the pop culture references to see the mister. Yeah, the rich tapestry that we weave, you know, between music and movies and television.

Right. I stayed up late till three am to watch The Bear you know.

Body, so all the way that TV show, the Arnie span yours show is moving along pretty well. I want you to know that.

Wait, hold on, hold on, wait what.

The Arnie Well, it's not called the Arnie Spaniards Show, but it's moving along pretty well.

He was just nodding along like he knows what. How do I not know what this is?

We've heard all about this on Arnie and playing.

Have you okay? So this is a Sunday This is actually pretty interesting. There's a Segars just giggling.

We talk about this every every Sunday.

Every Sunday. Are you supposed to be leaking stuff from the well as?

Absolutely not.

Are you killing this project by talking?

Probably? But I call it the Artis's Spaniard Show because you want to Well, I can't give you like all the details, but it was written about me. The main character's name is me, so you know, the whole thing is pretty much about me. That's why I call it the Arty Spaniards Show. Ephraim Salam is involved with it too, really, yeah, he's one of the writers.

You roped this.

I didn't ask. I'm not even involved with this. I don't I'm not getting paid. I don't think. I don't think I'm getting anything I don't know.

You're the guy always saying you're giving guys weeks off weekend. It's so, I mean, obviously you got somebody banks you.

Know, it's it's my co host back in the day in Phoenix wrote a story about our days doing radio together. And her daughter is a big actress in Hollywood. Yeah, and she's gonna be in it. And they actually gave me a list of names of people that they want to play me. Very interesting. I mean, oh, it was great. It was some pretty big names out there. So hopefully we'll get on the list. I'm sure yea.

I wish man he's going to go back to being a clip booth and and and then moving there, and it's.

More like Danny DeVito is trying to play Arnie.

That's probably Wow, that's just legend going all the way back to Taxi and once over the Cuckoo's Nest. Come on, man fifty, I mean he was the penguin for crying out loud. Because we have a commemorated the anniversary of all the Batman releases, you.

You would know all the names are going after, but it's getting pushed along. I got I read the pilot and and that was good. So now it's in thease, the phase of getting pushed to the networks.

Okay, well I'm a powerful and attractive man and I can act so absolutely.

Well what you're you gotta You're in it. You're dude, You're in done, done.

Yeah.

Now I'm gonna be some guy you write into episode four that you shouted down look at how superior. My argument was, yeah, exactly, And then you read a tweet at me that told me much the same.

That we're gonna make the Sega look nutty. That's he'll be the the nutty.

He's the voice of around here? Are you kidding me?

We need more voices than if he's the voice of reason.

Well, I mean we all have enough of them.

We're in radio.

We got enough of them floating in our heads.

Of someone's gotta calm him down at Swollen Dome at Stinking Genius one where you find us on ex Ian Roddy Ian Underscore Roddy Yes, at Underscore at Ian Roddy Underscore.

Got to make sure you place that properly.

Sky other I, you gotta find that guy, shake him down, all right? So I bring Ian in because he works with us on the fantasy podcast. Obviously he works with you, you and playing Sunday nights.

Wow, I'm just kidding, go Coch.

He may jump through the microphone and choke you out because it's a Jets story, and you know, those that listen to the show regularly work on it, like Ian does or Alex or Steve for that matter, Nicks and Jets. Now, if you know it and you don't work on the show, thank you for listening as often as you do, because I know it gets referenced across the network of what we do on a nightly basis, which means you've got other things you could be doing, but you're listening to Jason and I. So thank you very much. Brice Hall making his feelings about Aaron Rodgers clear because after he leaves and he heads to the to Pittsburgh, there's always the question of, well, how did his teammates really feel about it? Right that it's seeing he seemed a loof, he seemed disconnected.

I don't think i've heard this cut obviously.

Well it's going to be me doing a dramatic read. Okay, yeah, I only saw it in print. But it's the idea that we have our our idea of who the man is, right, and we see him on McAfee.

We've had a number of.

Clips and people have decided when he talked about being vaccinated, inoculated verbiage and getting into semantics about verb choices uh and and phrasing of who he is, worried about who he's married to, or what he's doing in his personal life, all of those kind of things. But when it comes down to being a teammate, he's a guy that it's not like You've had a lot of people go on record to wag their fingers and say, hey, this guy wasn't connected to what we're doing.

Well.

Add Breese Hall to the mix, quote very misunderstood person. He said this to Troy Montgomery of Steelers Depot quote, great dude comes off to people a certain way, but once you really get to know him, you realize how good a person he is. Last year, when you're losing games, the blame gets put on the faces of the team. When you're losing, someone asks to get let go. But what people don't realize when stuff is crazy organizationally, that it's hard for players to have stability and win games. I love Aaron, me and him still have a great relationship to this day.

That's my guy.

That was another quote front that he gave to Albert Brer along the way.

So I just want to say something about that. Here he is praising Aaron Rodgers on what a great guy he is. Forget about on the field, just off the field, nice guy, misunderstood, blah blah blah. Who else does that sound like? It sounds like Bill Belichick? Remember, Oh he's misunderstood. He's that you got a great personality. He's very funny, right, Remember we hear that all the time. He's very funny. So what do these guys do. They're such great guys and they're so funny behind the scenes, but when they see media coming around, I want to act like a horse's ass. I want to be as mean and spiteful is anybody out there, and I want to go ahead and get one up on the media. And what is this all about, then, Mike, just to you know, just to one up the media, or they just hate the media so much that they can't stand them and this is the way they want acting for them. Some such great guys, you know.

Well some of it you create a public persona, right, I mean, look, at look at our business. We got plenty of guys who, regardless of what they're talking, sports, politics, whatever, what they say and what they believe are two very different things, right, especially in our embraced debate world. All right, you got which side today? Yeah, But I don't only want to I call it in the air. I mean, that's that's where we're at, with a lot of stuff in these circles. And you know it, and I know it. We've been in this business long enough. We know how the sausage is made. So you've seen that.

But you're such a great guy. But all of a sudden, when it comes to the media, you're like, oh, I'm going to attack or debate.

But there's been a lot of guys that you know will joke and poke at the media, but behind the scenes you hear about all the things they do. Right Popovich being forced to retire because of his health concerns, What did you get story after story about how he looked after guys when they drafted international guys.

But that's a shot at that's a shot at the fans too. When you're acting like that on TV.

I don't think so as long as you're winning games and you're not treating the fans like that.

No, Well, who do you think is watching the game?

Oh, they're enjoying the hell out of you. That's my coach.

If you're winning, If you're winning, it works, right. So for Belichick it worked until they didn't win anymore. True, and then all of a sudden, you're putting, you know, the guy with the pencil behind his ear as your offensive coordinator.

Now you got problems.

For years, we didn't believe Belichick had a sense of humor because he was so you know, so snippety to the media.

We're like, oh, there's the way this guy hasn't you know what the Arnie I was always a sucker for the show he did each week, and I forget who the his host was and.

The man not the man, No, no, no, no, no.

This is long before, like when he was coaching in New England and he would do basically the chalk Talk half hour and they'd highlight big plays. He'd go on for five minutes about how they came to use a formation and what a guy you know, would say in a meeting room, and he'd give you this whole backstory and it's like it was fascinating television, like that's the guy that I believe him to be. And then you have all the stories about how funny is and you know what a limericks and whatever else. But all that to say, you know, you've got you know, public persona and then there's the people that you are when when the likes Jim.

By the way, Jason Garrett did that once, the former coach of the Cowboys. He brought in all the media people and he put up some you know, some of the film up on the board and before the play was before the ball was snapped, he'd ask a few of the media people, all right, what do you do if you're the safety the quarters? Are you blitzing? Are you backing out of it? And of course everybody was coming up with the wrong answers. You just cost us a touchdown, you just cost us the game, you just cast us the division, you just cost us the super Bowl. So it's pretty funny because the media not nearly as you know, as smart about the plays as they think they are. That's for sure.

Well, but we we recognize that, and you're trying to be that conduit and that's where you lean on the coaches.

So when you.

Don't get a gent what you believe to be a genuine response from a Belichick of Popovich. Go to your favorite coach and there's plenty of them. I mean, how much are they going to give you because they've got the next wrinkle of it for when they go to the next next team. Right, Who're only showing you so many of the looks?

Right? I was gonna say, who's more hated, coaches talking to the media or coaches talking to the officials. I mean the way they talk to the officials, it is just horrible. I mean absolutely horrible. The abused officials have to go through with some of these coaches.

Well, you know what, they get paid, and they're expected to perform at a high level. And when we walk away from games and we can point to one or two or three plays that are in the balance, because most of these games are in the balance. So as much as folks can say, ah, one get one call doesn't cost you, well, sometimes you don't have enough time to recover from a bat.

Yeah, But whether there's two hundred and eighty calls in the game or three hundred calls in the game, you gotta get all three hundred calls right, you're taking a test with three hundred, you're getting all three hundred right by friend.

Come, But does that mean you don't work them for the next call?

Oh, of course you do well.

But that's that's what you're doing, right, and your squad hits the Jets. Reese all, is this just being a good diplomat on the way out? Do you believe it? Do you buy it? Or is he is he selling you a bill of goods?

No?

I buy it that he that he's being genuine about it. I feel like all the players kind of, you know, they did seem to like Rogers, And honestly, it's kind of refreshing that the Jets are in the news and it not to be some you know, crazy story that happened that's just for the detriment of the team. Like, no, it's just you know, complimenting your former teammate. But Rogers, just like a week ago, wasn't he just roasting the Jets run game?

Yeah?

Like I think he was talking to Mark Shalleira, who then you know, recounted it and saying, you want a twenty five minute DIA tribe on the Jets run game. Well, Breesehall plays running back, and he just went out of his way to compliment him. So I think he comes out looking like the bigger person, and Rogers is Rogers. He's in another place now, so you know, both sides can move on.

I guess, yeah, I guess the context right of how deep that went into the individual is actually on the field versus how it was structured.

Right, I think it was more about the run game. But even then, it's like, dude, you brought in Nate Hackett. It's all this stuff that's right.

Right, But legitimately what that would actually lend to is a kind of a distancing yourself from it because it didn't work. So so now we get into the same thing that we always do, and I'm gonna do I'm gonna pull an Arnie here, and I'm gonna pull in another great lebron James. And how much he stirs the drink as to what goes on? Is the he the shadow GM for the Lakers. Same thing here, because we all just assumed Aaron Rodgers overran anything that was going on in terms of play. Goll Selection, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, He'll overrun Arthur Smith.

Are you kidding me?

He's not overrunning Tomlin. I promise you that there's that's not happening.

Is it?

Is he getting fought on to me?

Well, this is me just a longtime observer of men in situations to say what Aaron Rodgers wants. Mike Tomlin obviously was okay with bringing him in. So maybe that means you're okay when yes, after twenty years, he's suddenly gonna be a different guy. Okay, whatever you say, Arthur. I know this play isn't gonna work, but we're gonna run it anything. No, that's not gonna happen.

No, I just I you know, if Tomlin doesn't play around though, I mean, unless he's given full ontonomy, and he may do it, be doing that to Rogers, and maybe that's the right thing to do. I don't see it that way though. I think that, you know, there's gonna be a happy medium somewhere between. But I don't think Tomlin's just heading him the keys to the car and they go go ahead, win us some ball games.

I know he did it with Russell Wilson, and I'll take my shot that Erin's a little bit more advanced than that.

We'll find We'll see if that's gonna happen. I still think they're gonna be some five hundred there.

Look, they're over under was it was baked into the cake when he finally signed the deal was eight and a half.

Yeah, that's that's exactly where they should.

Be, not not you know, showing off, not falling behind part of the curve.

Exactly eight to nine is where I see them. That's probably exactly where they're gonna be. Sub five hundred.

There you go.

Maybe maybe they'll get lucky and keep the five hundred street going for tom win to get to nine and eight. But no, no playoffs, no playoff runs, no Super Bowls. And this is Rogers last year anyway, He's this is it, It'll be gone and he'll be done after this one of an okay year average year.

On the Arnie Span your Twitter feed. He will also go game by game through the Steelers record for you because I'm not doing it here. But we will stay with the idea of the hot seat because Todd Bowles drawing a little bit of incoming and recognizing that they need to win down in Tampa. So he is not alone. Maybe Mike Tomlin finds the list. Who else are we looking at and I know already right now has already written letter to the editors for maybe a team cheers for We'll talk about all of that as we continue. It's the Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon here in the Fox Sports Radio studios. He's already spander. I'm Mike Carmon. Thanks for being with us on a Friday night.

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Here, I'm ready for football. Let's do it, Arnie.

Hold on a second though, but in the draft that the Blackhawks just selected a guy named Mason West who has a quarterback for the Adina High school team last year was thirty seven touch against four picks.

From Minnesota. Yeah yeah, well that's not bad man, all around athlete, but obviously he taking up first quarterback skills.

That's well, that's just it. He has good field vision and knows how to distribute. How about we go down that road. But as we talk about the Steelers, and you know Aaron Rodgers transitioning from Breiese Hall's comments about his former quarterback and hey, good teammate, good communicator, good guy, all of those fun things. He goes to Pittsburgh and Mike Tomlin. And every year we or at least for the last three or four years, we keep having the same conversation about Mike Tomlin. Will they can they? Would they ever dismiss Mike Tomlin or does it become eventually one of those handshake deals of all right, we've gone as far as we can. I'm gonna announce that I'm stepping away either to the broadcast booth or take a sabbatical or whatever the case is. And this would be the season where we really push all in. It's been ages since they've won anything substantive. And as much as I think you as a Dolphins fan, ian as a Jets fan, me as a Bears fan, would love to be five hundred or better for a long streak, at some point you want to see the actual damn pot of gold at the end.

Of the Rainbow.

Right, Well, he's not going anywhere. The Rudis are not firing him. It doesn't make a difference. He's he's got a job for life. I mean, yeah, maybe you know ten years down the line, who knows what that magic number is gonna be. But he's not gonna walk away from it. The Ruins are not gonna fire him. He's gonna be there for as long as he wants. This year's not gonna make a difference on what he does with Aaron Rodgers. They're not gonna judge him on the last twenty years based on what this one year does with Aaron Rodgers. This is kind of like a throwaway year if you ask me. So, I don't think there's really any pressure for Tomlin on this year anyway.

So you're giving it a full Hey, anything goes carte blanche because they get the hard reset next year if I didn't.

What if they're good.

Enough that they don't get any like because next year's supposed to be a great quarterback class, right And every time we do that, I kind of get a kind of smile because I can't wait to see how it actually turns out.

Because that twenty eighteen class looks.

A lot better overall all these years later, and then we've had a couple since that.

We'll wait and see.

We were just looking at McCarthy and Caleb Williams and all these guys that we'll have to figure it out Jayden Daniels and all. But for next year, you might be too good to get one of those guys. Now, they do have some extra draft assets that you could package back together to move back up and all of those kind of things. But I think by bringing in a guy like Aaron Rodgers, that's almost what you're setting yourself up for. Oh, I mean committing extra draft capital.

They weren't going to tank, because that's not in Pittsburgh's nature. That was especially when you've been over five hundred all these years in a row, so that's not that's not their DNA. It was the right thing to do to bring in Aaron Rodgers. They wanted a couple other things to go their way, but it didn't. Free agent, they'll have to bring in another quarterback free agent wise and move on from that after Aaron Rodgers. But they're not gonna go to ground zero. Yeah, if they can get a rookie quarterback, and you know somebody they could groom, so be it. But it is tough when they're picking it in the twenties. Every year for the most part.

Still have to wonder, you know, what's the the win difference when you'd have Aaron Rodgers versus Mason Rudolph.

Probably nothing half a game the over run theres eight and a half. I think they'll win eight. But even if they win nine, and they went nine and eight last year.

But that's just it, right, you're not saying much in the way of difference. A lot of it's going to depend on the health of TJ. Watt And obviously DK Metcalf comes in, saw some of those fun little graphics, you know, fun with numbers thing about penalties, and certainly he's a demonstrative player during this time in Seattle. Of how many taunting penalties called against wide receivers the last five years, it's off the charts, like, here's the wide receivers all the way up here, something like thirty eight. And then you look at all the other positioned one here, one there, one somewhere else. So all that same, Now, how much do you think how long is the leash on your coach down in Miami.

McDaniel, how are you talking? You know, I'm surprised he didn't get canned last year. There was talk now who came out and didn't have flattering things to say about McDaniel. I can't remember who was. And another for not former player, but another guy who's familiar with McDaniel, said, I can't believe this guy's head coach. This guy's was a numbers guy, he was a math guy, and now he's a coach out there. I've done this show long enough with Plank where I tom you know Chris. Sometimes I'm watching him and he looks like the chemistry tutor or something like that. He has no idea how to stop the bleeding. I don't know if he's making any moves at aftime or any adjustments. Sometimes he just feels like he's in over his head. It drives me absolutely crazy, Baddie. I know he's had injuries with TUA, but we should have had much better, you know, not luck, but much better years than we've had. Right now, on the rim, I think this is this year. It's all or nothing for him. He better go ahead and have a remarkable year. And they didn't make too many moves, So this is pretty much running it back with him. We'll see how it works out for him, but it's all or nothing for him this year, I believe, well.

Because we've gotten through the bulk of the off season and Tyreek Hill's still there.

Yes he is.

I love the little interaction he had with Cody Rhoades at the Fanatics Fest. Anytimes guys start hanging out and dapping up wrestlers, it's always fun to me because you just see the little kid fan in him and it's a nice reminder.

And I hope for a lot of these athletes they they're people that are with them.

Show them those videos back to say, this is how people treat you, So remember that as as you go into your day to day existences. How about Dable and Shane in in with the Giants.

What I mean, what type of year you think? Don't have?

No, no, no, no, whatever. It's six wins, that's division that's going to be relentless.

Come on that, that's you know that's not been back to back winners in twenty years in that division. Sure that will change.

Are you trying to say that they have a shot just based on that?

No? No, that's that's gonna change this year, so that that's not gonna make it. It's gonna be Philadelphia. Matter of fact, Philadelphia has already clinched that division. Oh nice, Yeah, that's that's already there.

Crystal Ball is already working overtime.

That you don't have to be a you know, a rocket sciight just to figure that one out. Who else? Who else was going to win that division? Washington's good, but they're not as good as Philadelphia, and it was certainly not going to be the Giants. Like I said, six wins, and we know Alas is even on the same par as the other two teams, so that that divisions pretty much.

I just want to see Russ versus Jamis versus Dark.

That that's that's where you want to see work and see how it works out.

I don't really I mean, I really care about what they're battling on the field. I want to see the meeting rooms and what they're just kind of hanging out. I think there's plenty of good outtakes that will flow out of that. And the guy that two guys I think that are interesting to me. Also that that rate a mention in this vein Sean McDermott. We've been hearing for years they're gonna get over and this is in theory that year right with change afoot and looking at what the Kansas City Chiefs were last year, they still won, still had their run, but it wasn't a dominant performance week to week, no question about it. But for McDermott and for the Bills, the time would seem to be. Now it's another year of Josh Shanning at the top and the other is and I hate to do it to him because I know my guy Andy Furman on his he'll hear about it, is Zach Taylor. Now there are a couple of years removed from the Super Bowl, but you only get a couple of years to trade on that, particularly when your team's not ready to play the first month of the season.

Well, they signed they signed their wide receivers, right, there was a point there.

We didn't Are they going to sign their defenders?

Yeah, well that's that's the big story, your.

Top draft pick and your top pass rusher.

But you know, well, but they did get the receivers. That was a big thing.

Keeping Tea hitt. Joe Joe Burrow was happy.

He was that was. I mean, if Joe Burrow is happy, that's all that makes a difference there.

So they did play defense, and.

They did win their last five games. They did make a little bit of a run at this So, uh, I believe it's Baltimore and Cincinnati. That's the way that will finish. It's it's pretty much going to be that division is not even going to be much of a battle because Pittsburgh and Cleveland are going to be miserable and and Baltimore and Cincinnati pretty much have have won that it's gonna be Baltimore. We know that Baltimore is gonna win the division.

Are you already writing up your primer for.

Six divisions already been won already? Yes? Pretty much six divisions out of the eight. That might not be an exciting year because we know that Buffalo, Baltimore, the Texans, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Detroit are all gonna win the division. Right, They're all favorites too. I'm not giving you anything that you don't know, Mike. It's not like, oh, look at that's a hot sports opinion. That's not a hot sports opinion. All those teams are are favorite and overwhelming favorites.

It just tells me you like chalk well.

Not only that, there's even the second place teams not gonna make much of a run. The only second place team maybe make it a run could be the Washington Commanders, and they're not as good as Philadelphia. Otherwise, those divisions are gonna be done. It's only the NFC South and the NFC West, and the West probably gonna be San Francisco. We're gonna win that division.

AFC South Houston plus one, ten, Jacksonville at plus two sixty, Duval in Indianapolis at plus three point fifty, and then Tennessee with cam Ward at plus eight hundred.

Texans the big favorite in that one. And now they will win their division. They'll win running away that that's not even gonna be close. They would buy about three games and pull away from him.

Any concerned about the offseason reports CJ. Stroud's shoulder.

I was disappointed with his play last year.

Really really disappointment was shoddies.

But they they had the receivers. They had injuries, yes they did to the wide receivers, but they certainly had good talent at the running back position. They should have been a lot better if he would have put up better statistics and played better. They would have had more than ten wins like they had ten and seven and he was average. I really thought he took a major step backwards last year.

I keep getting sucked into Jacksonville that somehow away. Eventually, it's gonna get over.

Why we we were done with them, I thought, right or no.

Well you got them and you got Indianapolis.

Indianapolis has a lot of talents, just a question of whether you got a quarterback that can utilize it.

Well, Jacksonville gave the big mo what he got in his extension, right, So we'll see how it works out for them. They did go to the playoffs, didn't They beat Dallas with Trevor Lawrence has got to go ahead and put up some big numbers this year.

Well, we can only keep blaming Urban Meyer for so long. He's already spanniar in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Carmen. As we continue, let's turn it over to the news desk and our guy, Steve Desaga with an update of everything going on in our sporting universe.

Hello again, gentlemen, We've got four ball games still going on. This late Friday night, Philadelphia was in a raindo lay of over two hours at the start in Atlanta, Phillies in the third lit eleven nothing. It is still an eleven nothing advantage for the Phills bottom of the sixth, bottom of the twelfth inning. Mariners lead at Texas seven to six. Nationals tied nine to nine in Anaheim against the Angels going to the bottom of the six. Angel skipper Ron Washington will remain on medical leave for the rest of the season. Washington is seventy three years old in his second year there. Marlins lead at Arizona six to four. In the bottom of the six, Milwaukee beat Colorado ten to six. The Rockies have a record of eighteen and sixty four. The losing pitcher Tonight, Kyle Freeland, is one and nine. Houston won its fifth straight game, seven to four over the Cubs. It was seven to nothing in the fourth. Jeremy Paine, you did leave hit by a pitch. Rib soreness the problem. Houston at home is won nine straight. In fact, the Astros home record this year thirty one and thirteen. The Dodgers won their fifth straight holding on five to four at Kansas City Show. Hey Otani, a leoff homer is twenty ninth, he had an RBI triple as well. The rest of the Dodgers went two for twenty nine at the plate, and they still held on for a victory as the Royals had bases loaded bottom of the ninth, but grounded into a double play to end the game, an incredible pick at first by Freddie Freeman. Kansas City's lost sixth straight victories on the road for me, Minnesota, San Francisco, and Saint Louis, which got a complete game one hitter from Sunny Gray, winning five to nothing at Cleveland, Cincinnati eight one over the Padres, three homers for the Red Spencer Steer, the win the Nick Martinez, who had a no hitter until no out's in the ninth. Toronto and Baltimore each one. That Orioles win was twenty two to eight over Tampa Bay. Victories for Pittsburgh and the Yankees in the WNBA Indiana a winner at Dallas ninety four eighty six, although Caitlin Clark was out again with a groin injury. Pagebeckers of Dallas twenty seven points in the loss. Minnesota in overtime, won in Atlanta ninety six to ninety two, and among the late games New York with an eleven and three record, losing ninety nine eighty five at Phoenix that game with under four minutes to go to the NBA. Minnesota's Nod Reed will reportedly re sign four years plus a player option. The Utah Jazz say first rounder Ace Bailey will report on Saturday. Messiu Cheery is out as president of the Raptors thirteen years.

There and Florida.

The Panthers playoff MVP Sam Bennett signed an eight year extension. Well. The NHL and it's players Union agreed to an extension of the CBA through twenty thirty, so that league's regular season will increase to eighty four games per team in a year.

Bick to you, Thanks so much, Steve.

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You you got what I need? But you say he's just the friend. And you say he's just the friend. Oh baby, you got what I need.

My ears are bleeding, shake its head and shame.

Welcome back here.

In Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show would be Mike Harmon throwing up right now. Alex may have just thrown up in his mouth a little bit. The dulcent tones of the stinking genius himself and.

The great words of STEVEA.

Sager those who sing shouldn't.

That's pretty good. Thank you, thank the idea that you have no shame.

I that's like sitting on the plaza outside of the forum and saying, hey.

Laker fans, Lakers.

Or what was it?

As I recall you telling me a story once upon a time talking about one of the all time greats having a broken leg or something.

Yeah, Kobe, I said, you had a broken I got in big trouble for that was a shock. Yeah, there you go.

Uh so, yeah, that was one that Tysher played for me. I said, well, I mean, now that we know it exists, it has to show up again, all right. So we go back to the fun and exciting world of celebrity marriages. Something we played the game of who's attending the Bezos Sanchez wedding over the weekend?

fIF Well, that's like, you know, year, that's a budget.

I don't care. I don't care how much money you have. I don't care how much money you have. That's obscene to have a wedding for fifty million dollars.

Did they help the economy locally and provide a lot of money towards jobs and people's livelihood? Yet it was like, could that have been better used here in the United States in America. You quit say, but what, I'm gonna fault a guy for spending money on a web So.

There was like seventy private jets there too, I mean people were everybody was taking their own private jets.

Well, they don't like each other, so they couldn't coordinate. Maybe they didn't have anybody's numbers, but it seems like everybody's exchanging numbers. Now, see what I did there. Orlando Bloom, recently separated from Katie Perry's, saw that he's out wanding around with Tom Brady. Tom Brady reportedly, according to TMZ, something you found very fascinating. Ernie Spaniard may or may not be making some time. And you interpret that as you will. With Holly would Starlet Sydney Sweeney.

Yeah, she's a big deal, right, I mean I don't know exactly what she's done to become such a big deal.

But she's like saying she's a big deal. She is a pondered for a second.

But he's like twenty years older than so, right, what do you mean? So what that's quite a difference, isn't it. Yeah?

Does it make it wrong?

No, I'm not saying it's wrong.

I don't know.

You you'll get into a pejoratives, you know, space.

He's forty two, she's twenty two.

Okay, well he can't.

Find anybody in his own age group that's hot or anything like that or what even though she's very good looking, there's no doubt.

Yeah, why why Sarney Sweeny's twenty seven, she's twenty two.

Yeah, oh, she's twenty seven. How old is Tom forty five?

Right?

Forty seven? He's forty forty seven, seven to twenty seven. So I do have the twenty year age gap.

That's not as bad as forty two is in twenty two, I guess.

But see, now you're just kind of arbitrarily deciding where when that twenty year difference is.

Okay, well, I guess what do they just set it.

Right and they say your brain is fine after twenty five?

Right here? Now they're not dating. They're just chatting it up. Yeah, they're just chatting it up whatever whatever that means. I don't know what.

I don't know. But you're hanging out. Look, you're looking for love.

You're at a wedding, you know, you give into the feelings of the ceremony and the pomp and stuff.

But what are you saying, Hey, I're.

In a foreign country, you're having fun.

What do you say, Let's go for a boat ride just you and not.

Let's go on the gondolene, have a little bit of fun.

I guess. I guess.

Hav a canola in a nice coffee at a little cafe on the side of the road.

They got the money. That was money for the lifestyle the rich and famous.

Well, a lot of what they're doing I think could be done on no money. What coffee doesn't cost much?

No, But how you gotta get there? I mean, geez, everybody who was invited. Can you imagine the money? Oprah was there. Everybody was there was crazy. Yeah, insane, man, that was insane.

Good for them, Like, look, I don't wallet watch only if it's affecting my money. Yeah, nothing Tom Brady, Sydney Sweeney or Oprah Winfrey is doing right now is affecting my cheddar. Maybe it's like our old Pao, my my old co host for some Fantasy seasons, Carrisa Thompson, Yeah, rand of Lauren Sanchez.

She's at the wedding.

Oh, she was at the wedding.

It's also part of the Amazon coverage.

Right. Oh wow, God, I wish I could go. I'd be wedding crashers. I'd do that.

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