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And ten?
This is the greatest experience I've ever had? What were the Stones?
Last night?
I put it at it and you know, a good solid seven and a half eight. Okay, man, I'm not gonna say it was the best concert I've ever been to. I just went and saw my my Afghan Wigs experience last Saturday.
So yeah, but dude, you've been to see them like five thousand times. You can't even judge them anymore. You're like, you're like a You're like a dead fan light with the Afghan Wigs, Like do you make jewelry when you go see the wigs play? Do you do all kinds of stuff outside? And dress and tight eye? Because I think, what have you seen them?
Probably he wears a different wig, not quite, but he's got the Fletch wig. Then he's got the the Daniel Boone wig, and then the one.
I don't know for a fact. I just know it's true.
I think you're I would look good in a will It is even like fifty times that doesn't count, That doesn't I would.
Say, in very different variations, probably not thirty five times, yea, But yeah, they're they're far and away the most uh in different iterations when we're talking Gutter Twins and the Twilight Singers and solo and whatever, yeah, duly, and the wigs probably the most, no question, all right, and then it's out three times for the Rolling Stones.
I remember when I remember saying this is this is what it's like. I saw the stones at the Carrier Dome in eighty eight, right when I first got to eighty eight, eighty nine, maybe eighty nine Steel Wheels. Eighty nine would have been steel Mick Jagger was seventy Yeah, so no, so Mick Jaggert.
Wait wait wait, how old was Mick Jagger at that point? Smith Jagger was hanging on eighty eight, so take off thirty.
I mean it's Mick Jagger was born in forty three, So in eighty nine he was forty three, he was forty six, Okay, in eighty nine, it's like, okay, wow, forty it's like how much luck. And I remember thinking, God, the stones have to stop. I mean, how many more tours are they really gonna have? This is in nineteen eighty nine, going to see the Steel Wheels tour, and I'm like, their hits are done. I haven't had a big hit since Start me Up.
And it's like twenty seven songs that night. Okay, yeah, I know. It was a good concert like it was fun.
I remember you got before they make me run? I got that last night.
But I remember going.
I remember thinking in eighty nine going, yeah, this is Stibban. Come on, they've been they've been together since sixty two. Come on, man, how much luck? And here it is nineties, the aughts, the teens and twenty twenty four.
They're still playing.
Me, still getting after it. I'm fortunately no more Charlie, but still getting after it.
Yeah, at some point, don't you just go I can't sing. You can't always get what you want one more time, you know what.
I'm done. I'm done getting the getting the rush and the joy of being on stage.
And so I'm done. I've said I don't. I don't care if I sing that song again. I really don't. I can't do satisfaction one more time.
I'm done.
I'm ready to just sit home and just do whatever I want to with the rest of my life.
Well, you know, he's a graduate of the London School of Economics. There were some fifty thousand people there. Dynamic pricing was in effect, so when folks bought in early, you had some hefty prices for tickets. So I think his bank accounts like it, and like Keith Richard said years ago, coming out of COVID, they're like, what the hell else am I gonna do at this point, which I think is part of it.
What the hell else you gonna do with the fill of the days.
Mick Jagger is worth six point five billion dollars. He's a soccer fan. He should buy a soccer Maybe he owns a side, maybe he don't bunch side.
I don't know.
He could buy the English Premier League if he wants to. But like he's a huge soccer fan. I would do something like that. I take this money, I'm gonna buy it there. I could still leave with juniors.
For my kids. You said estimate of billions. Yes, he's worth six six and a half billion dollars. Mick Jaggers.
He's been touring for one hundred and twenty years.
That's pretty good the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
So yeah, my great grandfather saw them.
I mean it's been a minute, but like it's a celebration. Like, my kids enjoyed the show. We had a good time.
I really wish I had some of the songs that were on the set list from Your Carrier Dome though on the cover of the night Sad Sad Sad was on. I was actually taunting Madeline with that song, thinking that maybe I could get that speak that into his exist, into exists and she goes, that's like poems that they made us write when I was like in fourth grade, Like, listen to the song and tell me that again.
Jerk and.
Rock in a Hard Place was part of their I mean miss you. We did not get miss You. Yes, oh okay, yeah, so I mean the set lists changed up a bit.
You know. We had some some.
Spirituality with a couple of the songs that take you like you feel like going back to church.
So I don't know. We had a good time. It was a good road trip for us.
One day and back and now Madeline gets into the next run of soccer stuff with the big tournament, and Eleanor had to be at work.
At two o'clock. So it was very very fast turn around. Here. I am yelling at you, it's good now.
Let's as Harmon is back now from the Rolling Stones And speaking of people over the age of seventy, you didn't think we'd be talking about tonight.
Hulk Hogan brother appeared.
At the RNC tonight, final night of the RNC convention, which Donald Trump accepted the nomination for.
President as he's going to run again.
Obviously we know all this, it's every day, but Hulk Hogan was one of the keynote speakers tonight, and it's something all day you're sitting here wondering, is he really just gonna do his thing, like like he's not gonna He's gonna give a speech right and talk about what he thinks about about Trump and about running about He's not just gonna go and do his like he's not gonna do that. Oh no, no, Hulk Hogan gave you the full Hull Cogan.
Here's the end of Hogan's speech from the RNC tonight.
But what happened last week when they took a shot.
And my hero and they tried to kill the next president of the United States? Shirt is coming off?
Oh laws enough said, look stop a Meania bron wild brother.
Lookopa Meania rule again. Let tropa media night ka right again.
When I say the shirt's coming off and going yeah, no, no, no, that's not euphemistically he actually he take while he's doing it, he takes off his jay.
He's wearing a jacket.
Okay, so he's wearing an actual jacket, and you know, being over seventy, you know, it's not quite the Hulkamania. I'm gonna hold and just kind of ri rip like he did, you know growing up when you knew. But he takes off the jacket and he's in door and he takes his shirt that he's wearing on that I believe is a shirt with his picture on it.
Right, it's like a Hulkamania, a shirt with his picture on it. Real American. Yeah, let's get He already rips that shirt off that says Trump Vance on it.
So he does his entire act at the end, and everybody is going crazy for it, and I'm watching this, going, this is the only thing that would be better. The only be better is if you say, hey, let's just not do that. Let's go full into this, Like if he does that speech and then in the middle he turns heel and suddenly he goes, oh, I know, but here's the real people. And he then he rips off the Trump vance and it says Biden Harris or Harrison TBA, and he rips that off and he's like, now let's go and everybody starts booing, and then you get wrestlers running in from the dressing room and there's a big fight on stage and people are throwing stuff and there's body slamming, and at the end they hold hands up and everybody like, let's go full and do it, man, let's just not let's just go full into story lines. And then before they even throw back to the to the studio where CNN or Foxes ever go, they go wow, and then they just they just cut to mean gene.
Oakerley who goes and there it is Hulk Cogan.
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I really thought you were gonna dive to the promo being about the election day.
Don't forget to go out and vote. Oh yeah, no, can't happen.
Yeah, the rip of the shirt, I mean there was always you know, a little bit of question of whether there was a notch cut to be ready to uh yeah, Now that the.
Thing is now and look at it.
I'm not saying I'm showing you how the sausage is made here, but when if you rip a shirt right, And obviously when Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt, the shirts were already pre ripped right, so it made it much easier because he his shirts were already what.
You're doing in PROS three break you're breaking is his brain.
I don't no, no, I don't mean when look when Hogan did it when he was younger, you already had like the slashes in the shirt.
So it made it much easier. Like he had a yeah no, but but it was like a half shirt and it was a guy picked up Rocky and threw him over the ropes Adrian catch me.
So it was easy to rip that off the time. But now he's seventy, he needs a little more help.
Like if you're just.
Ripping a shirt and this is just a T shirt he's wearing, Like if I try to rip a shirt off, like I'm gonna struggle and I'm gonna really have to like yet, like yank the neck and it's gonna it's not gonna rip straight down the middle. It's gonna rip like at an angle or however the thing rips. He rips this thing straight down the middle almost like he was unzipping it. And then it comes and I'm taking you. I'm like, this is a shirt. I guarantee it. Well that's a I guarantee you that was pre ripped. And it was like right because he just goes right down to like I'm just gonna pull this off right now, and the shirt is gone.
Yeah, at least it wasn't a belcrow. We just have the he's talking now one making the rounds is that.
Remember President Trump is a WWE Hall of Famer, So you know there's some great clips back in the day with Stone Cold Steve Austin standing there when uh, you know, Trump slapped Vince McMahon in the face. I mean, you can go full on bring them all back in and and certainly plenty of other wrestlers have chimed in wanting part of the action, and even from beyond the iron cheek with the famous message of blank the hogan became a thing trending today. So yeah, there's a lie.
Really, you know what, I really, I really could have used the iron cheek like I mean, I mean, I mean you imagine that he was around and suddenly he shows up and he walks on stage and he grabs the microphone.
He starts yelling on no better, v heat on, no better.
He's wearing the big steel toed boots and he starts kicking a cogain and he goes USA tweet look at USA, and people are booing the crap out of there, Like I could have really gone for that today, Man, I could have really gone to see it. Just go, just go all the way it. Don't get Hey, Hulk was great, but just get dive into the story line. Get He'll Billy Jim on the side clapping and then running in to do something. Get everybody going, man, bring it. And the thing is all these rethlers that I'm thinking about in my head, going no, no, he's dead, Nope, can't use it, Nope, Nope, Nope. Boy, it's a lot of holograms. Nope, that's a hologram. That's a hologram. Nope, that's a hologram. Nope, that's a hologram too. Okay, but just go bring it all in, bring it. I'll get everybody you can and just go crazy with it. That would have been the best.
Yeah, the wrestling life was not kind. The other mean that made the rounds, And of course I thought you'd be entertained by this was Terry Crews from Idiocracy two thousand and six, the Mike Judge vehicle talking about the electoral process and Terry Cruise's outfit not too far from white Hole Gogan was walking around with today.
Okay, it's got elect your lights.
Why people keep saying it's got electrolytes, I don't understand. Yeah, no, anytime idiocracy trends, I know. Okay, something happened that is crazy. Someone made a statement about the future that just is is going to be prophesied by idiocracy.
And that's a oh yeah, no Terry Crews. Okay, no, that that's pretty similar there. Okay, now I'm with you right there, it does work. Yeah, and then right right there.
But I mean think about the speeches and you know, before he did an interview, you know, went up to the podium and did the whole Hull Cogan run and what you would expect from a you know, a promo.
Shoot.
Uh, he didn't sit down with an interview and he talked about all his different concerns and it's it's it's just odd, right, It's a very jarring thing. Where here here's whole Cogan and you're expecting the over the top and he's trying to have the calm rational here I am as a concerned citizen.
It's a pretty different look. Yeah. I'm not saying he can't be, but it's a little bit jarring.
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We know be a geen man when I'm hanging in bagging in the gym and I'm thinking about taking those apeak credits in high school and I want to see if they can translate to college or do I got to go to a community college and then take those classes over again.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the tyrac dot Com studios where tonight Mike Harmon decided, Hey, I'll come into work, and because he came in, he got to see a Bronnie James three pointer cat hearing one skip the night last night missed the first two. Rich Ornberger was in for you, and he and I now are We're new best friends because we share that experience of hearing Bronnie James's first three pointer ever.
Together.
This should have been you and I, but no, no, no, I gotta go see Mick Jagger and the Stones. So I miss Bronnie James's first three pointer and as a result, we can't play the one he had tonight because you were working.
If you were not working, we could have played it. But now we can't do it. And now Harmon's not even speaking. Is order to try to steal my seat? Now or what?
Well? Apparently so maybe he turned off your microphone there for a couple of time. Might have I mean, just trying to take me down.
You shirped the role I mean, And now the audio won't play of Bronnie James hitting a three points.
Because you're well min all it is it is you miss You should have been there for an NBA moment you are never going to see again, Bronnie. The stats don't count. It doesn't matter. We said, did Bronnie James hit a three last night? Was it a professional game? Was it on television?
It counts you miss it? Yeah? I mean, in the end, you know how much sleep I'm gonna lose over this? A lot of it. You shouldn't use a lot, You should lose a lot. Tell me and I don't sleep particularly well.
But I don't think the thoughts of Bronnie James hitting it three and not me not seeing it instantly, you know, not that I didn't get a billion notifications or tweets about it. Oh look, as Broddy James becoming the player you guys said he.
Could be, Like, No, he hit a shot, not just any shot, Mike, that was three.
Well, I mean not just any shot.
Isn't that one of those where everybody would normally start screaming he was due?
He is outscoring alex Saar, the number two overall pick in the draft.
Man, come on, dude, certainly you know our guy Martin Weiss on the updates tonight, he has taken it upon himself that he will be the guy to keep saying Alexander stars.
Although the thing Rick Puker were talking.
About sars struggles from the field one of his last twenty one but the fact that Rick Bueker also brought up the body language, the ignoring of coaches, like that's a much bigger thing that's festering right when.
We start talking about it. Yeah, fifty fifth.
Pick versus second pick, and yes, the noise and the cacophony of voices not nearly loud into the bubbling cauldron effect that we have for Bronnie James. Guess what, nobody knows? Who the hell Alexander. Sorry, that's why there's a bit of difference.
I held James beers.
That's true.
That is true of the show on Tuesday. I mean, Sar did give us a lot of run and content with that effort that this guy stinks. Yeah, but not as bad as this guy. Oh hey, you're right, you stay here and be back with you in a second.
But this is where I mean, And maybe maybe this is because Bronnie James actually, you know, hit a couple of shots now the last couple of games. Yeah, but believe it or not, more bets have been placed on Brownie James to win Rookie of the Year than any other player at multiple sports books in Vegas. Now, is thatack Edie is the most popular choice to win the betting folloor realistic?
Yeah?
Well yeah, because you know he's gonna get minutes and he's gonna play, and it's gonna and there's a lot of questions about Edie coming in. Is he gonna trans this game going to translate? And so far Hey, Zach Edy's game kind of translates.
I do like the fact that he actually got drafted where you know he should have, because remember, everybody's like, I don't know if that guy's even gonna get picked. Yeah, that doesn't work in today's NBA Man the Year.
Oh well wait a minute, but more bets have been placed on Brownie than anybody else. And it's this story that makes me wish I could open up my own pop up gambling odds because I would take any bet you want on Bronnie James.
Winning Rookie of the Year.
Well, I mean I will can I will take your money and just put it in my pocket and go out and spend it right after I see you. Well, you're not gonna hold onto it just yet, No, because I'm never gonna have to pay you out because Bronnie James is not gonna win Rookie of the Year.
You're just giving money away for the social currency.
That you could tell your friends, you know what a sports book, And I bet Bronnie James win Rookie the Year. So if that thing comes put one hundred bucks on that. If that thing comes through, oh I'm gonna be rich. Bronnie Dude, Well, okay, is it worth it? You just gave away a hundred dollars. Give it to me, Give it to me and I'll pay you out. And I'm gonna take that money and go spend it right away. I will come in with new kicks and new pants and new shirts and all kinds of crazy ass new mets and jets. That's where'd you get all that money, Jason? All all the money I'm taking on people saying that, hey, they bet Bronnie James win Rookie of the Year because I'm never gonna have to pay it out because it's not gonna happen. Why wait, I'm not gonna have to save this money until the actual award is given out. I'm gonna spend it all now because no one's gonna come looking to me for it because he's not gonna win it. It's insane.
People are giving money away just because they want to be.
Able to say, yeah, yeah, I was in Vegas the other day and I or I went online to put up put some money on Bronnie to to win Rookie of the Year. Yeah, don't I sound cool by putting money on Bronnie to win Rookie the year and then five seconds lady realized, Oh yeah, I just I just gave money away. I just gave cash away for that. Well, I think part of it is at two hundred and fifty or three hundred to one.
Yes, it is something you'd be able to pocket and just run off like you're a rogue fantasy fantasy commissioner. Yeah, I'll be the guy commissioner this year. Why it's like my cash flow is a little problematic, but I get everybody, actually give me the one hundred bucks ahead up front.
I'll be able to, you know, use that as the float.
And you can do that certainly in California obviously no legalized gambling, so you're you're not able to do that right now, Smith, but you know you go in and apply for a gaming license.
So that's why I got to do a pop up. Like that's why I do a pop up and do it that way. I have to leave if the cops come to shut me down.
I can't.
I gotta be like, you know, show, hey, guess what, Jason's going to be here for a half hour only because by then that's too long the cops might show up. So half hour come place your bets. Then I'm gone.
Man.
I have like this big cardboard thing that I stand up and I stand behind it, like line of selling the lemonade in panuts, and I just I can just pour.
It right down and go. I'm done, put it under my shoulder walking around. I'll let you know what. I'm gonna be open for business again. Guys. I'll let you know.
I was gonna say you could do it like being you know, someone operating a hot dog card outside of concert venue. Oh wait, they don't bother to legislate any of that. But the guy with the T shirt, they did chase him off. I did see him get run yesterday up in Santa Clair. But you know, in when I was in Ireland, you had the different betting operators. Basically you were betting against them. You know, they'd print out a ticket, you know John John Barley Corn's you know betting outfit, Come on and bet with me, or you could bet you know standard that was at the racetrack. So you could do that, you know, because you could shop for odds like you do online. But you know, I think this is a good venture for you to actually do that in Vegas and go through in the gaming board and get a license and start making a book on these preposterous odds. Yeah, you don't do anything else. You don't do anything that no no legitimate shot of actually coming through. It's just the you know, the Browny James Rookie of the Year, or you know, pick your favorite MBP odds, like, hey, this guy's.
A fan favorite. Let's go.
I liked about the Yankees to win the Nope, take your business someplace else.
What you're not gonna Nope, not taking a bet on that? No, no, no, no, no, this is what I'm taking a bet on.
No, I only take White Sox futures, White Sox Marlins.
You want to bet on them to win the World Series, I'm all for it.
I'll take that bet right here again, and don't worry. If you win, I will make sure to pay you. Don't worry about it. We specialize only in long shots. It's long shot betting with Jason Smith.
Odds have to be at least fifty to one for us to even let you place a place a bet on anything we're doing.
We're gonna make a big bull prediction for the second half of the Major League Baseball season coming up in seconds. But first, Martin Weiss has what's trending in the wide world of sports. Martin Weiss, who actually took all the money he's made this week from the extra update ships, has put him on Bronnie James to win rope that year in Vegas.
Well, you know, Harmon, I'm just I'm just here to do my duty, and my duty tonight is to say that Alexander Saar.
Finishing with two points on one for six shooting from the floor. You guys, you've got a baseball bat in your hands there while you're doing it.
They bat one shot made and his last twenty one attempts from the floor for the number twelve overall pick and bad body language per Rick Buker.
Hey, only one shot more than the three of us have hit.
That is you know what, Hey, you don't know what I used to do in the past. It might be not I'm just kidding, but it's also.
One more than he hit the other night. So he is getting better. I have seen improvement that is get much worse.
Even though Mike Harmon is here today, Brianni James did hit a three the future rookie of the Year, Just kidding, finished with thirteen points on five for ten. Dalton connect finish was twenty points on seven for sixteen shooting. The Clipper is trading Russell Westbrooks in a second round, picking cash to the Utah Jazz. They're getting Chris dunnback. Westbrook expected to agree to a contracted buyout with the Utah clearinghouse there and eventually signed with the Denver Nuggets. The Alabama I'm sorry University of Alabama plans to honor former coach Nick Saban. They're gonna name the football field for him there at Bryant Denny Stadium. Jacksonville Jaguars suit Amid Patel. He's a staffer who stole twenty two million dollars from the team in a three and a half year period to pay off gambling debts and fund the life of luxury. You see, guys, that's what was Mitzuhara. That's what he was missing, the life of luxury. You know, he had all the gambling debts, none of the life of luxury.
Anyways, what the.
Thing is the other guy I think was at least winning like Ebe was, Like he would win like one out of every seventeen bets, Like he was the worst better ever.
True, true, Well, Patel, he's now losing because he's being sued by the Jacksonville Jaguars for six stay six.
Point six million, triple the loss tripple Loody stole for the embarrassment of looking like a bunch of dopes because they lost track at twenty two million dollars.
That this guy, they're.
Trying to say that he's Satan suing him for sixty six point six Yeah, that's it.
That's in a Florida state court.
Looking at the open right now. Daniel Brown at six under leads after the first round, Shane Lowry's five under, Justin Thomas three unders, Andrew Softley two, Brooks Kopka and Scottie Scheffler both one under, Tiger Woods eight over, Roy McRoy seven over, Bryson d. Chambeau five over. That second round is about to get started any minute now. The Dolphins placed Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips on the pup list, and Saint Petersburg has approved plans for the Ray's new one point three billion dollars stadium. It will have thirty thousand seats and other news, just ten thousand more than the largest high school football stadium in Texas, which is Happy State Banks Stadium and Kenyon to capacity twenty thousand. Well the race, and I raise you ten thousand seats from my major league team. It's got a fixed roof as well, and expect it to be ready for Opening Day twenty twenty eight. I know the Tampa area is just waiting with baited breath for that one. Back to you guys, Thanks so much, Marty, appreciate it, buddy.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirech dot Com Studios. So at this time tomorrow night, we'll be in full swing with the second half of the Major League Baseball season second halffish. Obviously we're through ninety inch games, but with the All Star break looking ahead, the next couple of nights are gonna have big, bold predictions.
Going ahead for the rest of the year. And I'll tell you this, this this big one. For now.
My concern for a team that's in a World Series or bus season is about it a ten. And it's not because they're terrible team that's in first place. My concern for them is about a ten because the Dodgers have a lot of problems right now, all right, They started out the season exactly how we thought they were going to. Right, They're going to roll over everybody, big lead in the West show. Hey, Otani is hitting exactly how they hoped he would hit. It was a great start. But the Dodgers have been five hundred under five hundred for the last two plus months. The Mets have had a better record than the Dodgers the last two months. Dodgers sitting around meander around of twenty three and twenty four. And the reason my concern is out of ten is because their needs are not going to be met at the deadline. They have zero starting pitching.
Zero.
And this is in an off season where it's an a we save money on Otani's let's go give Yoshinobu Yamamoto three hundred million dollars. What do I always say, Mike, I'm never going to be upset if I lose a bidding war for a starting pitcher, because it's such a dicey investment.
You're down that road, come through, right, you've been down that road.
Remember, you had the greatest rotation that we'd seen since the what nineteen seventy Orioles assembled. They were going to dominate for years. Ye one by one, Yeah, oh went away.
The one guy they should have kept was the one guy they trade. We'll keep everybody but Zach Wheeler.
No, he was a guy to keep. He was the guy to keep. But the Dodgers they have no starting pitching right none. And you're they're banking right.
Now that Clayton Kershaw will come back whenever he comes back, and he will be great.
Okay, Clayton's been look.
Obviously first ballot Hall of Fame pitcher, best left handed pitcher I've seen in thirty years. He is just unreal. But he's thirty six, coming off yet another injury, and you're banking on him, who has had playoff failures his entire career. You're banking on Kershaw. You're banking on Walker Buehler, who came back from after being gone for two years and got racked up and down. He's now in the minor leagues trying to figure it out. You're banking that he's gonna come back and be able to do something. You're banking that Bobby Miller's gonna come back up from the miners and get it, because he's someone that you thought was gonna be great. No, not him, Yamamoto Now sixty day d L and when's he going to Is he gonna even pitch again this year?
Yeah, but you're talking about these are this is what you thought.
Your starting pitch, you're starting rotation was gonna be in addition to Tyler Glass now and Glass now has been great, but he's hurt now I gotta think. Look, it's not suddenly. Hey, Glass now looks like he's gonna be fine. He'll be back to pitch in a week or so, so I'm fine with him. But all of this, you're not gonna fix this because look at the starting pitching that's available to deadline.
There's nobody.
There's no star players, there's no Verlander, there's no Sures or there's no guy. Hey, we'll go get these guys the deadline and get somebody because it's gonna help us. Because there's no big names, you're gonna have to take chances on smaller names that you're gonna have to give up big prospects for.
And not only one. You're the Dodgers. You need two starters.
You don't need one, and you I would even go for three because you know after you say, how much can you count on guys coming back? But if you're going to be the World Series or bust here because if you're not in the World Series, if you're the Dodgers, this year, this year.
Is a failure.
What you went out, the money you went out to spend getting Hernandez to throwing him the money you spent. This has to be a World Series year or it's an absolute failure. And I don't see where things get better. The Dodgers, Hey, well they get to the playoffs. Of course they're a team. They're regular season good. We know they've been regular season good for a decade. But in the playoffs, look what happens to them. Look what happened last year. We thought they were gonna roll through the first round of the playoffs. Kershaw gives up five in the first inning of Game one and the Dodgers never recover. The Dodgers look like they could be a first round and out again. Because I just don't see how they're gonna solve the starting pitching thing, Mike.
I don't see how suddenly players will shake loose.
Oh boy, these are guys are gonna give you in the twelve or thirteen starts they're gonna make. They're gonna give you ten quality ones. I just don't see that being out there for the Dodgers to go get. And because of the situation they're in, I bet you they shy away from it and they rely and say, well, we'll hope our guys coming back. We'll hold our breath and hope they can wind up doing it for us. My concern for the Dodgers is about at a ten. Yeah, the curiosity it becomes for the deadline.
With the second wildcard, we've seen so many more teams that just lean into the we're a potential contender and if we get in, who the hell knows, right, So you don't see a massive amount of deals necessarily to be swung here, and the starters that are out there, you're gonna have great competition for those teams that are all in. I mentioned the Oriels just for the fact that they're looking for another starter. So now there's the competition for Crochet or School or Flaherty or whoever else it might be there. But it dips pretty fast in terms of quality options, and the price of poker goes up, right, because you've got some serious contenders that wanted to want to go into this limited space right position scarcity that we always talk about in fantasy comes to major League Baseball in terms of quality options that can help you. And again for the Dodgers, it's not that you need one more arm. You really do need some help. You need some help probably at the back end of your lineup as well. I mean, you've had some great performances thus far. Freeman and obviously Otani and Tao scar Or however we're pronouncing his first name, Hernandez, who's one of the great bargains who you know, didn't get his his off big off season deal, a guy who becomes a priority. But beyond that, Will Smith's been great, and Spurts knows how to handle the staff and maybe you know, some experience with handling some of these other guys gives you an opportunity. But you're looking at, you know, banking on two or three fifths of your starting rotation to come back from injury and immediately go back to form. Did you imagine Glass now? All right, probably the most likely to step back in. Kershaw had another good rehab start, so is you know his start to the twenty twenty four campaign does that mean he's able to finish it and finish it well, I don't know a lot of question mark, and I'm not banking on Yamamoto back based on the recent move to the sixty day even if they say mid August. So well, hey, it's a lot of wishing and hoping. Right, Mookie's gonna come back. That's good. So we'll get to say Mooky bleeping bets again down the stretch and maybe that'll help jump start some things.
But yeah, nervousness certainly there.
But you know, across the National League outside of the Phills, is there a team that stands out that you're really that in Atlanta? I guess that you're really that nervous about me, and.
It's the Mets. Sure, shut up. There you go. There's summary statement right there.
Concern for the Dodgers is about because it's only because it's World Series or bust. It's that, look, they'll make the playoffs, like but World's yeah, out of the ten exit, out out of Fresco exit, swalling down. The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon coming up next. We had a big train in the NBA to day and the big question to ask is why next?
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Studios, where we saw big trade in the NBA today.
And I say big and I go eh, and I really want to say, well, why I don't understand. Russell Westbrook is going to eventually end up with the Denver Nuggets. The Clippers making a move, deciding to move on trade into the Utah Jazz. The Jazz are going to buy out the remainder of his contract, which is only four million, So it's not like we're talking about a thirty million dollar buy out.
It's four million. It's a rounding error for the Utah Jazz.
They're going to buy him out and that's going to clear his way to sign with the Nuggets. The Nuggets have talked about adding another member of the backcourt. Some look, they need a little bit more depth. They want somebody a little more dynamic to come in back up Jamal Murray, and they're gonna go with Russell Westbrook and I get it. I understand, but I look at us and I go, how to teams? What's still the fascination with Russell Westbrook? Right? It's you know, I always go back to dude. People just look at the back of his basketball card and go, boy, we can get this guy. Dude, he's thirty six y. He hasn't been really good for years, and even then, he's a hard guy to fit in to whatever you want to do, unless you have a second unit where it's going to be Russ's gonna come in and he's gonna play a certain number of minutes and it's only with the second unit, and it's gonna be he's gonna get subbed out when everybody comes out.
How's he going to fit in? He's always been a difficult fit.
Like we talked to Rick Buker about it a couple hours ago on the show and he said, you know, the love that players have for him is insane, and I go, you know, that's great, but you want to try to win, and don't players see that, Hey, no one's a Russell Westbrook away from winning anything like this is okay. It's great that the Nuggets went in and there they're getting someone in the backcourt here. But you see Russell Westbrook and I go, eh, it's it's just a move. And is it something that's gonna work or is it something where we tried and we have to move on because the Clippers thought he was going to be a big addition to the team. And now at least they've moved on from two of the overpriced older guys. They had to move on from Uvan, from Paul George, which was great. They move on from Westbrook, which is great. They're still sunk in on Kawhi and James Harden, which is not great. But hey, okay, at least I got rid of two of the guys. But you know, when I see Westbrook go wow, Okay, Westbrook got traded. But really, the the impact of it for me is kind of man. Okay, yeah, Nuggets went and got a backup point guard, and the Clippers probably did better by moving on from him and getting into something else. But you know, I mean, look, it's been years since it is and nobody can look back and say, hey, going and getting Russell Westbrook, that turned our season around, going bringing him in, that turned us into a great team. Nobody can say that. And he's had a few teams now he's put up great numbers that four years where he's average triple doubles. But nobody can walk back, cal walk around and say, hey, going to get him. That was the move that put us over the top. It's not an over the top move that Denver nuggets and simply we need a guy playing. That's what they may think. It's bigger than that, and we're gonna run him out there and the mile high air and he's go up and down the floor and everybody tired, and all these things are gonna happen. None of those things are gonna happen. Right, this is you're adding Russell Westbrook. Okay, it's a man move.
Well, you take your shot based on history. And if you're Michael Malone and staff Calvin Booth, you know, alluding to the imminent move in his presser that you can coach some of the best out of him, maybe you get a little bit of that Kyrie Irving kind of turn again.
The Bucker thing is really fascinating.
I can't wait to either hear the podcast recapping his findings or reading an article about it, because it is one of those situations whereby he moves around and players are reverential.
You know, we've talked about it.
I love the the effort that he gives on a court results and how how it flows in terms of actual winning.
That's a whole other thing. So when we look at Denver trying.
To get some depth at a piece, can he be that that guy like we watch Gyrie in Dallas where he gets some positive performance, but also that that he is a leader and takes on that role. I don't know, because clearly they didn't have enough depth to get after it this last year and now trying to shuffle deck chairs to bring in a guy, uh, to to re establish some of that bench because because this is not.
A guy that you're bringing in to say, hey, he's coming in and we need a point guard. Right, Like that's where Hey, the fit with Washington in five years ago was actually pretty good. Right, that means average a triple double for the last time in his career. Hey, that that worked out really well. But when you're trying to win a championship, look at the teams that have done this and said, hey, we're gonna go after him to win a championship. Houston didn't work right, the Lakers didn't work, Clippers didn't work.
Okay, So really, like like what are you doing?
Like like championship teams that have this, this fascination that a Russell, Will Russell, Wilson, Russell Westbrook's gonna come in he ain you either.
No, he's not.
He's not either. He'll lose his job to Justin Fields. It will happen. Uh, you know, I just I just look at it, and I don't.
I don't get the fascination with it, and and and and why teams say, yes, this is a move we have to make, especially teams that are going after and saying this is our over the top championship move.
We can fix him. We can always fix him.
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