Jason Smith on the Epic Loss: “This is the most devastating loss in franchise history. I want to go live in the woods for a month by myself with no phone/TV or internet.”
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I was trying to figure out which movie you were gonna go to now, and it came in to the guy that had his soul taking out the back of his head.
No, butch, I'm pretty far from okay. I'm pretty far off. Okay, not great, Bob, not great, Bob, not great, not great, not great, not great, not great. After I mean it, that's one. Yeah, I mean I go back, Hey, flip side silver lining. No one's gonna be talking about Juan Soda refusing to swing his first two at bats tonight. That's fair.
I mean, we were gonna talk about that, you and I before the show. Yeah, you're having it out. Yeah they're gonna win, but no, he's not swinging the bat. Doesn't matter anymore.
But the Knicks lose tonight and I and I'm telling you as an as a Knick fan, as a as a lifelong Nick fan, are you God? I can't quit. I'm not a sports fan after tonight. Man, come on, I can't blame you. I hate basketball. We haven't heard you say that a long time. This is the most devastating Knicks loss of all time, worse than the Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller was eight points and nine seconds the Choke signed to Spike Lee. Okay, and the Knicks won the series. Okay, and the Knicks went on to win that series. This is blowing a fourteen point lead, doing something that since they were keeping track in the mid nineties, no team in the history of the game had ever blown a fourteen point lead with two minutes and forty five seconds left to go in the game. Nine hundred and seventy seven to zero. Now nine hundred and seventy seven and one that's how devastating this is. The fact that's the Pacers the Knick's biggest playoff rival for the past thirty years. Okay, if you've been watching the last couple of days, look at all the big highlights, right. The fact that Halliburton hits the shot that bounces off the back of the iron eight feet in the air back down through to force overtime, and he does the choke gesture. That's a highlight that's gonna live forever in NBA history. They're gonna play the crap out of that thing for the rest of my life, your life, and everybody unborn children are going to see that highlight and go, wow, I can't believe that. Yes, that was it. May of twenty twenty five, the miracle comeback where all they did was keep hitting threes and Aaron Nesmith hit six threes in the fourth quarter and scores twenty points. He's not even their best player. And then you go to overtime and Obi top and is making the biggest shots of the game with two dunks that give the Pacers the win. There is no more devastating loss in Knick's history than tonight. I'm done. I'm mentally shot again. I don't know how the Knicks come back from this. I don't know how anybody comes back from this. I get, hey, let's put a positive faces, but dude, sometimes you gotta just understand, what did you just see? And sometimes game ones are it's just game one, and sometimes game ones are this the whole series. If the Knicks came out lost by twenty in game two, I'd get it. I can't say this though.
This is the squad to a man that we've watched, and they're resilient. Now, obviously, the final two and a half minutes two fifty one plus overtime absolute chaos. And I know for you, after the choke signal from Halliburton, you've never wanted to win a game more because then it goes into the ether.
All right. He made the gesture.
Nick's rally finished the job in ot instead, it lives on forever.
When we talk about Ni Smith and the game that he had.
He had eight twenty point games all season long, one of which was against the Knicks going back to the end of December.
But generally a guy that is in the you know, low teens.
When you're talking about his output on a nightly basis when he is an offensive threat, and so when he finds the stroke, and they scored fifty one points between the fourth quarter and overtime, eight to fourteen from three point range and just absolutely caught fire. Eight assists, moving the ball well, and that was one of the things you saw.
Where the tired legs.
And I had thought as we came on the air two hours ago and we're watching the Knicks. They bought Jalen Brunson such precious time in the second quarter. Okay, cool, he's gonna be fresh. Then he gets in foul trouble again, they're able to weather the storm. So all things point to Nick Show. And then they have the defensive struggles, trying to close out wide open, flying at guys, leaving your feet right, all the principles of good defense. Don't give up the space. Now you gave up the high ground, and a kid I have the high ground, don't do it. And wide open looks that they would hit time and time again. So all of that to say everything that could go wrong, and those final minutes did, so I would feel confident that this isn't a team that's going to turtle that you've got you know the reset that while this is a miserable loss, it's one game.
Yeah, But the thing is, there's losses, and there's all time losses. This is an all time.
Sure, all the stats that you've all cited, absolutely all time.
You want you another one? Yeah? Since nineteen ninety seven, okay, since nineteen ninety seven, about thirty years, teams leading by nine points with fifty seconds left to go coming into tonight were one thousand, four hundred and fourteen wins and no losses. One thousand, four hundred and fourteen and oh with fifty seconds left in a game coming into tonight? What one that? Not one hundred and h not five hundred and zh one thousand, four hundred and fourteen wins? Make that for data? No loss?
You know what's funny is I had to try to really lay out for folks why the mister overrated thing was statistically relevant because there were ninety guys.
Even if only fourteen voted for Haliburton, it's still was statistically relevant of sample as a fourteen hundred plus certainly is as well worst loss in Knick's history. And now see, because the thing is, you know, I'm a firm believer that in life when you when you have moments that shock you, that don't go your way right, and there's a different degree of moments that don't go your way that that you wind up not realizing how big they are at the time. You think, Okay, that's a big deal, but you know, okay, you know, I'll I'll get past it, and you don't realize until years later, going, man, that really changed my life. I still think about that. It's just absolutely terrible. It's awful. You don't think about, like in sports, this is one of those moments, like strictly sports wise, is what I'm saying. Yeah, like strictly sports wise, this is one of those moments. I'm never gonna get over this one. I really, I'm not. I'm really I really like that the Nick's gonna win the series and Nick's gonna win a game. Really, I mean, I don't know. I don't even have fight for crazy Rick Carlisle and smiling Tyrese Halliburton with the with the with the joke jo. I don't have fight for that right now. I am a bat guy. I am just down.
Because there were two guys that I really want beyond obviously you and I knew. We were talking to Rick Buker, who has what ridden the Lightning with us uh for a long time here on Fox Sports Radio was Tyrese Haliburton's dad, And now we're starting to get video of him and his celebration and really, well we don't know about Chala May, but we knew Spike Lee was in can for the film festival. Yeah, it's like four in the morning there.
Yeah. You think he stayed up in wat Oh sure he did, no, sure?
Yeah?
Now walking you know, did they get him a private access the louver or something?
Beauty? Yeah, he's on his way to Giannis. Hey, man, come on in. We need you. We would, we wouldn't have given up all those points at the end if we had you. Hey, at least hey, there's your silver lining. Hey, the Knicks loser series, they'll go get Giannis. There, there is that, right.
I would suspect we might have had a little bit of a sea change with the odds for his next team over the last I don't know.
But here's the thing. Right now, I want to go live in a cabin in the woods for a month with no phone, no internet, no television. I want to I want to I want to catch my own food and and hunt and and I'm not a hunter. I can't. I got Basically, I want I want to go and buy a bunch of food that that I can just say okay and and just sit by a stream and read and and no, no, no, no, I'm not not that I need lights. Yeah, no, no no. I want to just go and just not see or talk to anybody for like a month, Like that's what I want to do. I want to go for a month and just and I you know, comfortable bed, you know, other stuff going on, other people with me. No, you want your loved one to know. I want no one. I want absolutely no one. I want a bunch of books that I've wanted to read. And that's because that's something to do all day is I'm gonna go for walks and I'm gonna read books. That's all I want to do. I don't want to know nothing for a month. I'll see you in a month, because I got this series. You know that the Mets are gonna have the Dodgers for six games the Yankees again, and that's not gonna go great. And Sodo's gonna keep not swinging at pitches. No, no, I want to not see anybody for a month. See.
I just saw a promo for the upcoming Dodgers Mets series and there's a game like I'd kind of like that giveaway. Should I take the group out on a field trip and we take a day off as a group and go And it's like, I don't think that's gonna help.
So now it would be money poorly spent. Now, I really I want to not see anybody for a month. Now, I said this, so we got to hear. Look, I don't even know if I have the energy right now to fight this. You know how I feel about Rick Carlyle and all the complaining he does about New York while you were mocking him coming into the game. Rick Carlyle, who never wanted to say things to fire up the next right, he was always that guy. He's never won. I don't want to fire up another fan another group. But was asked following the game tonight about Halliburton's choke gesture following the shot at the end of regulation. What'd you think about that? Here's Rick Carlyle from just a few minutes ago in his post in his giddy postgame press conference, players can do with him will and it's it's it's it's it's an emotional thing. This is a difficult time of the year. So it's not a big deal to me. And you know, I know Tyus is erning the right to do whatever he wants. Okay. In other words, blank you nix. How do you feel about that? Do whatever? We He earn the right to do whatever the hell he wants to. Okay, Okay, that that is a guy feeling it right now.
You didn't even get the politically correct now, you know it's not something we really This is like, this is like getting the Thrones game where I'm not just gonna kill you.
I'm gonna kill you, cut off your head and put it on the table while we all drink from the.
From the from the get sinned, the signs of death or whatever it is. I'm gonna pass your head around. We're all gonna bat it with a pat like a pinata. That's what that was, right there.
All that happened in the Game of Thrones, right, But that happened in Game of Thrones, right, Red wedding, I don't know yet, but but I mean, you've had not the won, but you've had a decade.
I mean, they haven't really done anything new in that world. I mean, but this is not I didn't watch it, I won't watch it, so I don't care.
The only look, the only silver lining. And again I try to sell again, we're closer, to be honest, the Mets one tonight, and I do get a little bit of the Pacers feeling very self satisfied following this game. Well, it's another huge comeback. It's something that they've now made their brand, right as.
You alluded to, right three times, doing this inside a final minute.
So yeah, you're gonna lean into it. And I guess you're going to lean.
In the Shenanigans like choke signals from Halliburton.
I don't know if I don't know if I want Game two to be right now or in three months, Like, I don't know, I don't know what I want. I might, I might, dude, I'm telling you, I want to go live in the woods for a month by myself. I just want to go on myself to live. I mean, I gotta have amenities because I'm, you know, in my fifties. I gotta I gotta have a good bed. My wife likes camping. I'm like, yeah, no, glamping is my thing. No, but I need like a good bed, I need like a comfortable couch. I need camping. That's that's yeah, he wants place. The funny thing is when we did go camping this summer. We went camping with a bunch of friends and then, you know, for the night, it was really cold, and I told Pam, I said, yeah, it's great, we'll stay as late as you want. I want to stay till really late in the morning. But then we're going to a hotel to go to sleep. And that's what we did. We went. We went to the hotel. It might have been motel Sleeps. I don't know, it was only it was only like a mile away. Went we stayed in the hotel. But you know what, and my wife is like, oh, she's such a big uh like throwback camp or she love camping, and I like camping to the extent, but I'm like, I really want comfort now and I like my own bathroom in the shower all that. So we go back after the whole night. She goes, I can't believe we didn't stay. Ye, I said, everybody's going to sleep. We'll go. We'll go back at eight o'clock in the morning. It's fine. But we get back to the hote Tell and we shower and go to bed. My wife gets a Ben goes, no, I kind of like this, I kind of, I admit, I kind of like I say, I told you, I told you. That's it. But that's what I want right now. The woods for a month, Woods for a month, That's what I want. Friday game two, let's go and and and again. No no TV, no Internet. I'll you know, I'll take the internet net with no I'll take a no sports internet. That's what I'll take. A no sports internet. Can you create that world? Uh? Yeah? And and uh and a CD player so I could listen to music. I say, well, I want to have that nun I want and no sports. You're gonna have a bunch of songs that then remind you of the Knicks. I'll just take. I'll just I'll just listen, just listen to the songs that don't remind me the Nicks and all why did you put that R. E. M In HiT's the end of the world exit? Ut about a Fresco exit? Swallen do We'll continue to hear what Tyre's Halliburton Brunton in town spoke together. They were pretty glum. No, that's the locker room word of the day of New York the last couple of days. Gloom uh. An historical game in the NBA. We have more on this coming up next right here. An amazing night, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. So it's for you, Jason, Someday you'll win. Someday. Forty five is a big number, you know. I think the Knicks led by forty five in the fourth quarter of that lead. Yea. But forty five is a big number for me and Mike because this is the threshold we are on the benchmark for us. He and I have each lost almost forty five pounds now thanks to PhD weight loss. Are you ready to feel great, sleep better, no cravings. Have your joints feel better due to less pressure on them. Give PhD weight loss a call. You'll lose big pounds right away. Guys, they average losing three to five pounds a week. Ladies, two to three pounds a week. It's sustainable, it's easy to follow, and if Mike and I can follow it, you can follow it too. Take advantage of this right now. Call eight six four five oh two one triple seven. That's eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven mention Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio get two three weeks added to your weight loss program and your programs backed by PhDs get results guarantee eight six five eight six four five oh two one seven seven seven Myphdweight loss dot Com m y phdweight loss dot Com again mentioned Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio get two free weeks added to your weight loss program. That number again eight six four, five oh two one seven seven Harmon, what's that last number?
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We're getting sued a cabin with amenities because I'm in my fifties, nonsports, internet access, a CD player, fifteen books.
I'm good for a month. I'm good. I'm gonna reflect. I'm gonna reflect on some of the life choices I have made to get me to this point in my life.
Oh, I've been doing that a lot lately the last couple of days. A lot of time alone with my thoughts. There's a lot of voices fighting in there.
It's not good. It's not good talk to people. Yeah, no, I don't need to talk to I don't know. You can't go and hide.
And that's when the voices get louder. No, I'm okay to choke signaled with you. It's gonna stay with me forever, at least I have a month away from it. They're gonna play that again.
I mean, hearned the right he did. The Tyres Halliburton choke thing is gonna it's it's already one of the biggest highlights in the history of the NBA because there I know they're gonna play it. When the like when the butt fumble happened, I knew. I said, they're gonna play this thing for the rest of my life. Certain things. I know. This highlight is going to live forever, and it has and it will. And this Halliburton, the Halliburton jumper in the choke Jester, gonna live forever.
But the going because you guys and your squad could have made him look like the ultimate ass right if he did the choke job, and then you end up winning that game in overtime. He becomes, uh, yeah, but spoil the overrated whatever, spoil what you did. But you had the chance.
They ran on the court selling chest and still they won in overtime on the next floor at MS, I mean lost. It's the way. It's the shock spoiler alert. It's again, it's the worst Knicks loss, the most fourteen. Yeah, yeah, you know the you know who else was up by fourteen with two and a half left to go. A thousand other teams, nine hundred and seventy seven other teams since they've been keeping track. Only since they've been keeping track.
Yeah, and they may have been they may have all had scary moments, but they all only.
Since they've been keeping track. That's the whole point. Now, it's only going back to the mid nineties that were nine seventy seven to zero.
But you know what the other thing is that you know, I'll make you feel better because you can go and attack him you can't is Frostburg was on your side until this series started, and all of that good will.
Yeah, he said the hell with it.
He burned that bridge, he torched it and said, well I'm back over here. I mean, this is like a WWE heel turn. It's like what John Cen is going through right now. Right he had the big heel turn, sold his soul to the rock final boss, all this stuff, and now he's not used to ever being the bad guy, so psychologically he's going through it. That's what I mean. Frostburg did. He had that heel turn, and now he wants to be He went face and was on your side. He's more comfortable being the heel. He's the anti sena.
Yeah, yeah, game one. I'm trying, but nothing else. May do nothing nothing sometime. Look, you want me to just.
Yell at you some can I interrupt you a bunch? Would that make you mad? So he can be mad at me? I mean, what can I do?
Here's here's the thing, and this is this is what I always tell my team coaching them when we would lose a big game or something would happen not going our way, whatever, we we'd have a bad couple of game, whatever it was, whether it was soccer or softball, I would say the same thing. You know, I I'm not gonna say like if it was a big tournament or a playoff game we lost, and I said, I would say, Look, I said I'm not gonna sit here and tell you, hey, everything is okay, everything's fine, don't worry about it, because there is a lot to to to take away from understanding what just happened, what you just went through, and now coming back stronger from it. There's a lot to say. I'm not gonna say it's oh, don't worry, don't worry, to worry. It's like you know, like like like kids need to know and people need to know that, all right, when when bad things happen, you got to deal with them. You can't just say don't worry, don't worry and move on, no, because that's not great for your for your progression mentally, right, you got to understand when when bad things happen, I said, but just understand, digest it, and we'll come back stronger from it. And I believe and I believe that. But there's certain losses that I'm just just I just go, Okay, Uh, this is gonna be with me for the rest of this loss is going to be with me for the rest of my life. The rest of my life.
It's gonna be Remember when Letterman had to take a leave of absence here he had the heart issue he came back, and he goes, describe it this way. They say that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right, he goes, No, I'd like to change that. It messes you up and you're lucky to ever get it together again.
Yeah, yeah, the hole, it doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Like No, I think it can wear you all the way down to where, hey, you're really you're really close. Man. You can start quote the Wicked if you want to. Yeah, I change for the better. We had enough with I think we had enough with from yeah right there. I mean, we can quote some random Chicago Peter Sata songs while we're I'm really there's nowhere to go man, that the pacers are jumping up and down on the knicks right now, and Carlisle's jumping up and down and halliburt I mean, really, so many twists and turns in this and it's just it's just it's just bad.
This is like at the end of the First Terminator when when Schwarzenegger gets crushed and the light goes out. That's what nineteen eighty four, Boiler eighty four. You haven't seen it by now? Is it nineteen eighty four or.
Is it the future?
You just blew my people who were born in twenty fifty that came back to now and haven't seen it yet because it's about the future.
Just broke my mind. Nothing we could do. We'll have more on the more on this game coming up in a little bit. I have one one other.
Question first though, go ahead, What the hell happened to the court in the fourth quarter where suddenly everybody was slipping?
Josh Hart lost his feet? How many times? I think? I think clearly, Rick Carlisle, you didn't see he was wetting the floor with the water.
A little sprits going out there. And let's not forget the goaltend that should have been called. Yeah, that turned into a three point mate going the other way. Now there was no Stoppagen play again.
All of this falls under the umbrella of most devastating loss in Knick's history. Throw miss. Like when I think back now in my life to the worst losses my teams have had in my life, Like I go back, like the Jets, I can give you, like I can give you like fifty enough and we don't have that much time. Like like the Knicks, I go back to Game seven of the NBA Finals when John Starks just stopped shooting. Man, it's not your night, right. I go back to that. I go back to the Church and Miller game, and this game is right there, Like, this game is right there. It's right there with okay because of everything that went on and again since the mid nineties, team's up by nine points with fifty seconds left. Say one thousand, four hundred and fourteen wins and no losses until tonight. That should tell you about, Oh yeah, we'll get over for the next game. Now, how do you get over that? How do you get over fourteen fourteen? And oh, it's like the Globe Trotter's record against the Generals, they were two. Come on, man, he spit in a bag. Take it. Uh No, it doesn't mean this is the only thing we had drama in because we had big drama in the NFL earlier. Today. Oh we are more. There's a line up in a few big owners meetings today in the NFL, and the biggest thing we found out is that the tush push sticking around. We thought it was gonna be done, but Jeffrey Lorie, a Eagles owner, spoke for about an hour about the importance of keeping the tush push, said a couple of things that, according to reports, may not be so super cool, talked about his dreams. But the tush push is staying now. Overall it would The vote was twenty two to ten, needed twenty four votes to ban the tush push. That the Eagles run to near perfection. Well not so much in the last year or so. But now the tush push gets to stay. And the first thing I'll tell you is, this is such an overblown story. The tush push is such an overblown story. When the Eagles first started doing it, yes, it was really almost unstoppable, but teams have started to stop it. You have three or four teams do it better than everyone. I guess it right, But the Eagles came up with a play that is legal that you can do. Now. It doesn't work all the time for the Eagles. The Eagles and the Bills are the two teams that it works the best for. But ask Josh Allen and the Bills how the tush push works. And you're trying to get a first down in Kansas City, when you think you've passed the first down line and the referee from the other side of the field overrules the referee on your side of the field and says sorry, no first down, say football. Ask him how that is. It's not as overwhelming. It's not as overwhelmingly stoppable as it was a year ago. Right. Teams are starting to figure it out, and there's no reason to ban something just because a team figures out a way to do it. It would be just upset teams. A boy, we can't figure out a way to do it. You have to figure out way to do it. Get the heaviest guys in the league on your offensive line. That's the Eagles have, right. You see all that beef on the offensive line that can move the piles forward. They're just as good as it with Jason Kelsey retired. Right, No, supposedly Jason Kelce is a key to all of it. No, it's not. He steps the football and falls down, right, That's how it works. That's how you do it. How you get that point and you push. If you have an offensive line that is built that big, you're gonna be able to pull this off. It's why the Eagles do. Right. You want to stop it, put the big guys on the defensive line. Put your biggest guys out there when it gets to fourth and one for the touch push. This is such an overblown story, and I feel like this is taken on in proportion of how big a play it is in the NFL. It's not that big a deal. Yes, you find the toush push, but you gotta do it when it's fourth and one, fourth in less than the yard. You can't do it on fourth and two. You can't do it on fourth and three. Right, you do it both, but fourth and one or less. Yeah, certain teams can do it. Now you realize it's not going anywhere, you will find a better way to stop it. And teams have stopped it more last year than they have not. Like again, three or four teams do it really successfully. But I could go back and say, well, guess what. All these other teams execute these specific plays better than anybody else. And these are not plays that people want banned. Right, You're talking about certain certain running plays, certain passing plays that team's right because the quarterback is that go to the wide receivers. Hey, guess what, you could back shoulder fade because they know the communication. It's an unstoppable play when you can back shoulder fade the way when you can put the ball in a spot where the dB has to stop one way or the other when you get it. But that's not a play that people want banned. This is I really I think the attention on this play was is just way too much for where it should be. I mean, all these meetings and owners getting mad and getting mad at each other and and cursing in the meeting today when Jeffrey Lorie talks for an hour about keeping this play, I'm like, is it really worth this? I mean, is it really? Is it really work? And obviously it's something that the league is split on because supposedly, going into the vote today it was sixteen sixteen, right, which is not even close to getting it together. But it got a little bit closer at twenty two to ten, So okay, you were able to sway a couple of people. Even Jerry Jones said, I flip flop on the thing. But yeah, I don't know. But you know, he's still voted to ban it because it's the Eagles, so of course he's not gonna not ban it. Well, the Eagles do it, we can't, So yeah, I'm gonna still ban that, even though I'm saying a flip flop on it. So yeah, I mean this, this whole thing. I feel like from the beginning, the tush push, it's it's being treated like like it's too big a deal. All right, Yeah, I get that it's a story, but I feel like the tush push is a story, Like, hey, should we keep the toush push? Should we reseed the playoffs so the teams are the best records have the higher seeds than the teams are the worst record just because you want a division. Like I feel like all these rule changes are on the same wavelength, like, hey, let's let teams have the on side kick anytime they want to. Now they're doing that this year. Still have to tell people it's tell them it's coming, and you can line up a yard closer to uh to where. So that's gonna make things more interesting, but maybe we get a little bit of chaos. Yeah, that's kind of where I feel like the whole tush push should be. Like it's like, Okay, here's a rule change, but it's really it's not. It's not like the Eagles are are are winning every single game because they can. They can accomplish the tush push, right, they Yes, it helps on fourth and ones. But you know what other teams have fourth and one place. You should be able to execute a fourth and one play, whether it's a toush push or not. You should have a play for one yard in your playbook that you can make it. If you don't make it, it's because you didn't execute.
Yeah, I mean, look, they might be able to do a fourth and two, fourth and three because you go to the rugby scrumm of at all and Ben Jonson saying, well, I like something.
That's more explosive.
It's like, I can't wait until they fail on fourth and one for that quote to start coming back when the Bears, Ah, you ran a fourth and one didn't work?
Huh?
I mean, because how many teams have been looking for years? What was one of the criticisms with Philip Rivers You couldn't run a quarterback sneak.
It's an elegant play. It's not sexy, but it's effective.
And especially when we're still at the point where we haven't fully integrated the chip and a ball to tell us exactly where someone was down, which is still going to be a problem, by the way, under a pile that we're looking at a play that is always going to have an issue. Are you gonna ban quarterback sneaks all together? You know what, you can't run that play. It's Tom Brady ran it so effectively rolling off tackle for all those years, and you saw it with great success for Roethlisberger and others bigger quarterbacks. Josh Allen, as you mentioned, still does like that place sucks. I mean, it's not sexy. Do you ban that all together? Tyreek Hill, you can outrun all guys in one on one coverage. We can't run it because it requires a safety to roll over the top to help.
Is that like? And I know that's been brought up in the past and as.
A joke, But the whole time Lourie's presentation, did you not picture Richard gear in Chicago, right, wearing a glittery suit and tap dancing and singing.
The whole time? It was an hour and which owner said, dude, is there any more blank you need to say about this?
Like you really need the forty nine ers finally spoke up said hey, what.
The heller on it? Like you need five minutes on? And you had to bring Jason Kelsey. I know, right, we need five So yes, Star look out from to number two five minutes on the toach post, and really he spoke. I can't believe guys just didn't leave the room going dude, I'm leaving. And I get it.
You don't want it to become like what Washington did, where it's trying to dive and duck in whatever to where you got multiple penalties, and now it becomes the final two minutes of a college football game or a college buckets game that takes forever, but whatever, way too much. Figure out the other parts of the game. Go back to the chip and the ball, the pylon, all of these things where we can figure out where balls should be spotted. Far more important than the tush push time not to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone who's been called the Jerry Jones of Fox Sports Radio, she also flip flops a lot.
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Facts, facts, Uh yeah, the NBA Playoffs, Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals didn't go is I think most of us expected. With about two minutes to go, as the Knicks were up fourteen points, Pacers force ote on a comeback that included a ridiculous long two from Tyrese Halibur, and Indiana goes on to win one thirty eight to one thirty five. Haliburn, who ended with thirty one points and eleven assists and did the Reggie Miller choke gesture, did say after the game that he thought it was a three because I would have ended the game. He said if he knew it was a two, he would not have done that and that he probably won't do it again. Aaron Nee Smith hit eight threes, scored twenty points in the fourth quarter, ended with thirty points. Jalen Brunson and the loss had forty three points.
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Guildris Alexander won the NBA's MVP Award. No surprise there. In the NHL, the Stars came back to defeat the Oilers six to three. Dallas scored five goals in the third period. Game two is going to be on Friday. In baseball, one game still going on The Angels just added another run. Little insurance. Now they're up on the A's seven to five. It's the top of the eighth inning, and they do have a man on first and second and all their outs to go for this inning. The Dodgers have defeated the Diamondbacks three to one. They just got Hane This had a three shot grant, a three shot home run. The Phillies had back to back home runs run from Trey Turner and Bryce Harper as they defeated the Rockies nine to five. The Blue Jays shut out the Padres fourteen zero. The Yankees they walked it off on a Jason Diminge's home run to beat the Rangers four to three, while the Mets outscored the Red Sox five to one and the Oil the Orioles. They won one guys, they snapped their eight game losing streak. They beat the Brewers earlier today eight to four in eleven innings. And other news in the NFL, Yes, you were just talking about the pushbush still gonna stay legal. In twenty twenty five, the Lions withdrew their proposal to change playoff receding, and teams are now allowed to do an on side kick at any point if they are trailing in the game.
Back to you guys, Thank you very much, Moncie. I get some thoughts on on that on sidekick, because I think that's a really big deal. But we'll get to that coming up in a bit. But how about this straight ahead, a huge NBA story from today that I absolutely love. I absolutely love this story. It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. I'm bringing the Pacers back. You're not playing. No, no, no, no no, I will yeah, no, no, no, no, come on, no stop this song right away. I'll tell you why. Stop the song right away. I'll tell you why stop this rite and stop stop you can't dance. Two thousand and six stop no stop. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you the story. I'll tell you why. You just now I got PTSD from this and now it's your fault. Tight shirt. Two thousands to stop. Two thousand and six Mets and the Cardinals NLCS right Yeah, as you know, Cardinals won and went to the World Series Okay, this was the Timo Perez. He makes one of the great catches in baseball history. But of course the Mets lose the game, so it just gets lost. The game where Carlos Beltran struck out looking with the bases loaded in two outs, the Mets losing by a run, and that ends game seven, right, I mean, noted cheater, but future Hall of Famer Carlos Beltran watching that pitch on three and two, and I could see the hump of the curveball and I'm I want to yell, curveball, curveball, and Beltran sits and watch it strike three. The Mets lose and the Cardinals go to the World Series that day. That day, flew back to New York for vacation. Okay, I flew back to New York for vacation. And I flew back. I hadn't seen my family in a while. Okay, had to my family in a while. We go back. Everybody's excited. Everybody in the plane get off the plane wearing Mets hats on it. It's it's amazing, right, the energy of the city. And I just go back to New York. I'm not going to the game. Let's go back to watch. All of my family goes out to watch this game. Right, my cousins, all my cousins I grew up with. I hadn't seen them. And we go to this bar. Then my cousin, she's ten years younger than I, and she goes, Oh, I got this great ball we're gonna go to. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. I go, well, are we all?
Yeah?
No, I go here all the time. I know the owner. It's a Wednesday night. We're gonna get because you know she has a big New York accent. Sure, it's a Wednesday night. We'll get big tables. We'll get take care. They got like they got like all the big beer pong tables we could play at. They got the game on all the TVs. Trust me, trust me. I go, but is it gonna be a big crowd. No, they'll take care. Don't worry. We grab So we go to the bar and it's great, right because nobody is there. It's a great place. Wednesday night. We have the run of the whole place. Right. So we're watching the game. It comes down to the end and we're basically the whole bar right here at it like, there's like twenty of us. It's like a family reunion, right for this game, there's like twenty of us, and I'm staying. I'm on the and I'm on the edge of my seat. Everybody is yelling and screaming. And then that pitch happens and I close my eyes because as soon as that ball landed in Molina's glove, I said, that's strike three. And I see the ump call and I just go I can't believe that, right, So I am just absolutely gutted. So it was my closest chance at the world. Sere like, Okay, we're back, we're back, We're back the pit. The game is not over for not even five seconds. Okay, not even five seconds. And the owner of the bar, who is devastated to who knows how devastated we are, grabs a microphone and says, hey, just because the game ends doesn't mean we can't have fun.
And he plays that song, yeah, the beginning of Sex Come Back, and he plays it just like this, I mean.
We can't have a good time. Hey, we're here. You know we still left drinks two for one about what? No, dude, the night is over.
The night is over. Wait, let's go. It's over. It's over. Bar closes at three forty five, last call, let's get it on, It's over.
You got o five and a half hours of chaos. It is, it was over everything that people are gonna spill in in sexy time. And every time I hear this song, Troy, you make a friend, I'm brought back to that moment of seeing that strike three and I close my eyes and I think, and I just get depressed, and I get sports depressed. And every time I hear the beginning, every time I hear it because it's so but I can just hear it. Not five seconds strike three, The Cardinals are going to the World Series, Hey everybody, And then boom, song comes in. You had now Okay, So this song, this song out of rotation, out of rotation, yeah, at least till.
The end of this next year. Almost sounds like a guy from Storage Horse. Yeah over, I've already done.
Yeah it is I yeah, Oh you played that tight shirt like that's just like now I'm thinking of the worst losses that I've done you since too that why don't you play?
Doug Bryant's two missed field goals against the Steelers in the playoff game in two thousand and seven to play that. Give him a minute. I mean he's gonna second minute to find it, but he'll he'll get there.
That was That was, you know. I was ready to come on and talk about an NBA story that I love, which a lot to do now in a few minutes, ready to but Tysher played that. It brought me back. It's like in the movie when the when when the guy hears a song or someone says something and then and then you get the flashback because it reminds him of something like, That's what happened to me right there as soon as I get a.
Thousand yards stare and it's one of those like the uh you ever see the mashup of Saving Private Ryan with Metallica's one Yes the Bat Damon standing there?
Yeah? What it is?
Burner not to be confused with the original Metallica video for one with Johnny got his Gun Tonight.
I really I didn't need that tonight, man, I didn't. If you like I'm close to breaking, man, you're gonna actually took you far to break.
Me, too much further down the the to the ledge, like you're walking the plank more so than you were. Like the actual game. I was amazed watching you as we're going through it.
And while you.
Were very angry and terse in your verbiage, your demeanor did not change. I was pretty impressed. You didn't let yourself get too high or too low, at least externally. But I can see the inner torment has really come and the lights of your eyes have gone out.
I'm in that that dolls. I'm in that adventure movie where the person tries to make it through the military and all the all the leaders try to do is just try to break you. Yeah, and if they don't break you, know, you could be a Navy seal Like I'm at that breaking point right now. So hey, time to get happy. Coming up next, a huge NBA story from today that I love Fox Never that Saw