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Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the Tirack dot Com studios tyrac dot com. I'll hope you get there. An unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection, and over ten thousand recommended in stallers tirack dot com. He is the way tire buying should be well. Coming up in fifteen minutes, we had a great story surrounding the NFL Draft about someone who's walking in the draft with a chip on their shoulder. But I'm not quite sure why you always have to have a chip on your shoulder. It gives you that egge always though, you gotta have an edge. Yeah, I think sometimes people are self motivated and sometimes you have to have a chip on your shoulder, so okay, a dairy to knock to come on, you gotta explain the millennials. Whatever ready battery. I don't thinven think they make ever ready batteries anymore. I think if you look hard enough, you'll find I think you get Doro cell Costco and you're going to Kirkland and Energizer. Yeah, you get Kirkland, all right, you get Kirkland, you get Energizer, and you get Dasol. I think that's it. I don't think they do ever ready batteries anymore. You know, I have to look this up now. That was like, that was one of my favorite commercials when I was a kid, when they showed the starting the car in the big winter snowstorm. They show you the temperature was like minus fifty degrees below zero, and it was still like the battery would turn the car would turn on, like in the depths and the dearth of cold. Like that had to be one of the most impactful ads ever because I know, if I had a car like that's a battery, I want I live where it's you know, zero degrees and you know, in the winter all the time. Want to make sure my car starts on my car to not turn over in the morning. Yeah, okay, give me that battery. Well. I also found an ever Ready First Date eye dressing packet that you can buy two comes in a packet. Tame, I don't is it Russian dressing packet? Like what what do you mean? No? No, no, no, no, like like my dressing like you would. Oh I think you meant like Ranch. I'm like dressing like ever Ready Ranch dressing. This dressing is already great. No, I can have a salad story coming up. We do. There is a salad story on the way there is. There is a salad stand. And I can still get ever Ready batteries. But I get I bet they're really cheap. They are two forty nine. What's the tariff though? For how many? No, they're made here. Ever Ready is made here. No, no tariff. No we're good. No tech four pack four batteries for two fifty Oh yeah, I bet you they really power your stuff up. Yeah. I would put the I would put the batteries into into my into something and just watch the power baro from one hundred percent going down to zyrup. Here's a twenty four pack of Wow, some heavy duty these are you can barter that for a cardon and eggs twenty three bucks. I bought it, Like I told you, I bought eggs for five bucks. You could chase, you could trace those four batteries for one egg. Yeah, two fifty because an egg is like a new exchange rate. I mean, we got we're going back to a barter because talking to barter. I'm just waiting to go to a store now and see people trading individual cigarettes for eggs. That's what that's what I really want to see. I got this, Lucy, it's a cigarette egg train. You're you're you're selling loose cigarettes. Nah, single eggs. Minute. I got eggs. I got cigarettes, all right, and I got this plastic protection. I got it graded it's a ten. It's the guy looking for the perfect egg from clerks. What do you What do you got? I got three red pack Marlboro cigarettes? What do you got? I got three eggs, not a hide, four eggs, four eggs, three cigarettes. Done, here you go, let's go. Hey, one of them's a brown egg eggs. Uh, that's okay. I mean, you know, I don't get why people have the brown eggs tastes fine brown eggs my whole life. They taste great. I don't same when you scramble them saying they put cheese in them. Everything, that doesn't matter. That's what it is. The brown eggs, brown egg brown eggs are really good. Whole life. My wife's been I've been having broks since I've been with Pam, we've been having brown eggs. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know the difference. That's okay. Yeah, I've never really done the new diligence to figure it out. I just know that one's cheaper than the other one. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. You have to have a palette to know the difference. When you scramble them up, they're fine. They they taste, they taste the same. There's no difference, trust me. About the menu at McDonald there's not.

Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the Tirack dot Com studios tyrac dot com. I'll hope you get there. An unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection, and over ten thousand recommended in stallers tirack dot com. He is the way tire buying should be well. Coming up in fifteen minutes, we had a great story surrounding the NFL Draft about someone who's walking in the draft with a chip on their shoulder. But I'm not quite sure why you always have to have a chip on your shoulder. It gives you that egge always though, you gotta have an edge. Yeah, I think sometimes people are self motivated and sometimes you have to have a chip on your shoulder, so okay, a dairy to knock to come on, you gotta explain the millennials. Whatever ready battery. I don't thinven think they make ever ready batteries anymore. I think if you look hard enough, you'll find I think you get Doro cell Costco and you're going to Kirkland and Energizer. Yeah, you get Kirkland, all right, you get Kirkland, you get Energizer, and you get Dasol. I think that's it. I don't think they do ever ready batteries anymore. You know, I have to look this up now. That was like, that was one of my favorite commercials when I was a kid, when they showed the starting the car in the big winter snowstorm. They show you the temperature was like minus fifty degrees below zero, and it was still like the battery would turn the car would turn on, like in the depths and the dearth of cold. Like that had to be one of the most impactful ads ever because I know, if I had a car like that's a battery, I want I live where it's you know, zero degrees and you know, in the winter all the time. Want to make sure my car starts on my car to not turn over in the morning. Yeah, okay, give me that battery. Well. I also found an ever Ready First Date eye dressing packet that you can buy two comes in a packet. Tame, I don't is it Russian dressing packet? Like what what do you mean? No? No, no, no, no, like like my dressing like you would. Oh I think you meant like Ranch. I'm like dressing like ever Ready Ranch dressing. This dressing is already great. No, I can have a salad story coming up. We do. There is a salad story on the way there is. There is a salad stand. And I can still get ever Ready batteries. But I get I bet they're really cheap. They are two forty nine. What's the tariff though? For how many? No, they're made here. Ever Ready is made here. No, no tariff. No we're good. No tech four pack four batteries for two fifty Oh yeah, I bet you they really power your stuff up. Yeah. I would put the I would put the batteries into into my into something and just watch the power baro from one hundred percent going down to zyrup. Here's a twenty four pack of Wow, some heavy duty these are you can barter that for a cardon and eggs twenty three bucks. I bought it, Like I told you, I bought eggs for five bucks. You could chase, you could trace those four batteries for one egg. Yeah, two fifty because an egg is like a new exchange rate. I mean, we got we're going back to a barter because talking to barter. I'm just waiting to go to a store now and see people trading individual cigarettes for eggs. That's what that's what I really want to see. I got this, Lucy, it's a cigarette egg train. You're you're you're selling loose cigarettes. Nah, single eggs. Minute. I got eggs. I got cigarettes, all right, and I got this plastic protection. I got it graded it's a ten. It's the guy looking for the perfect egg from clerks. What do you What do you got? I got three red pack Marlboro cigarettes? What do you got? I got three eggs, not a hide, four eggs, four eggs, three cigarettes. Done, here you go, let's go. Hey, one of them's a brown egg eggs. Uh, that's okay. I mean, you know, I don't get why people have the brown eggs tastes fine brown eggs my whole life. They taste great. I don't same when you scramble them saying they put cheese in them. Everything, that doesn't matter. That's what it is. The brown eggs, brown egg brown eggs are really good. Whole life. My wife's been I've been having broks since I've been with Pam, we've been having brown eggs. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know the difference. That's okay. Yeah, I've never really done the new diligence to figure it out. I just know that one's cheaper than the other one. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. You have to have a palette to know the difference. When you scramble them up, they're fine. They they taste, they taste the same. There's no difference, trust me. About the menu at McDonald there's not.

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Well, there's a difference in McDonald you're well, you're talking about completely. There's the there's the Big Mac. It's not and then there's a big Man Big I don't know. I didn't go to Burger King. So this is why Rob Manford sucks the one. Which reason are you picking up at the list The Dodgers version. Rob Manford sucks Dodgers version, one of the big stories going to spring training. Now everybody's here. Now, everybody's in spring training, getting ready to go already getting big stories. Gencarlo Stanton says, my elbows are broken. The Red Socks have a guy that wants to play third base, and they have two third basemen. It's a big thing. But one of the biggest questions is now coming off this Dodgers spending spree the last couple of years, they have twenty three of their of their players on the active roster are all making thirty million dollars a year or more. How are they fitting this in? Many teams are upset because there's a disparity between what the Dodgers can spend and what they can spend. Now, the two teams spending the most this year are the Dodgers and the Mets. Now the Metro spending the most because they've just gave one Soto seven hundred and sixty million dollars, But the Dodgers has a lot of people upset. A lot of teams upset because hey, we can't compete with that. When they have guys coming in that they can give less money to him, and players like Shoeyo Tana say, I'm gonna defer my money so I can so like we can get it, build a big team in here to win World Series. Yeah, I can see why teams are upset and Rob Manford addressed that tonight, which and and again proving that he sucks. He was asked about the disparity, how do you really feel, because he does, man he does. First of all, the guy hates baseball, So I don't know what else to say. The guy hates he hates the players, right, Why know why is a commissioner of baseball? Maybe because we're gonna payment today like you did that. You did did the whole shaking the paper like you were gonna do weekend update or something. He said, he talked tonight, and well, this is why he sucks. So this is why he sucks. Uh. So, he's asked about the disparity of the Dodgers what he can do about the situation, and here's his quote, disparity should be It certainly is at the top of my list of concerns about what's occurring in the sport. Okay, so far, so good. No, that's good, Jim, I can't be critical of the Dodgers. They're doing what the system allows. Mark. If I'm going to be critical of somebody, it's not going to be the Dodgers. It's going to be the system. First thing, you're the commissioner. You're in charge of the system. What if this is you? This is not anything that predates you. This is not Hey, I showed up and there's a new system. You're not a system commissioner. Okay, I'm coming on a system commissioner. Okay. So right away he's pulling me. What can I do. I'm just the commissioner of baseball. What if he had called himself the system. I'm the system, commit I am the system. Okay, I am sending the system. I'm gonna see if I can get him to sign it with within the inscription of I am the system. Homes the system. Quarterback, I am the system. Suddenly, now, oh, it's the system. I'm not going to be critical of the Dodgers. I'm not going And he said it again, I'm not gonna be critical of the Dodgers. Mordest thing you ever said, dude, Like I get that. Look, there's nothing you do because the Dodgers are doing what's allowed here. But this is where as commissioner, you would say something like, hey, yeah, this is a big deal the Dodger do this. We have to look into this because yes, I see there's an advantage here. But instead it's, oh, hey, I'm not going to be mad at the Dodgers. And this is why Rob Banford sucks because he's completely played favorites since he became commissioner, loving the owners over the players, loving some owners and some teams over other teams. Right, well, I mean because you should own the love the owners over the players. Do the work for them. Yeah, but but not overly so to say I want to give this hunk of metal to a to a deserving owner, No no, no, you stills the players. Yeah, you still have to show some love and some for the sanctity of the game. But this is where I say he sucks like own owners over other owners because hey, oh I can't do anything. The Dodgers are doing something that is completely unprecedented with all these players that bring keep giving contracts to, and he says, can't be critical of them. Meanwhile, Steve Cohen buys the Mets a few years ago and after his first year when he ratches up the payroll up to two hundred and forty five million. What happens, They institute of Steve Cohen tax. If you go over two hundred million dollars, here's a tax you got to pay. Over two hundred and forty million dollars, you pay this packs this tax. Over two hundred and ninety five million dollars, you pay this tax. Even call it the Coen tax. So after a year of Steve Cohen owning the team where he said I'm going to spend as much as I want to on players, all of a sudden, Baseball he comes in with, oh, we have the Coen tax going on here. Oh, because the Mets were not seen as worthy enough of being a team that can outspend everybody. Steve Cohen's not coming into this game and just showing everybody that he spends all money. It's the Mets to the number two team in the in the in the city. But the Dodgers when they're doing Hey, that's okay, the Dodgers doing it. I'm not going to criticize them. But he comes up with a bleeping rule for the Mets. A year after Cohen comes in doing something that's just Hey, the payroll was a two hundred and fifty million. Think about that. Now, two fifty that's like, you know what the pirates are at. So I was like, oh, two hundred fifty million, okay, sorry, that's what the I can't say the Phillies are over three hundred million. But that's completely unfair, and it's him showing that I'm playing favorites where the Dodgers are doing this, and I'm not even going to say that it's something that's that I'm I'm gonna be critical of or say that we have to stop the He's even asked about, are you put some kind of cap in, some kind of salary thing controls? Hey, I'm not. The next negotiations are a year away. I'm not gonna get into anything else. He's basically saying, I'm not doing anything about that. I'm staying away from the Dodgers. I'm staying away from the criticism of this team. But oh boy, Steve Cohen comes in and says, I have a lot of money. I can spend it. I'm sorry your other owners are as rich as Steve Cohen. I'm sorry that certain owners aren't as rich as other owners. Don't own a baseball team. Then, but if he can come in and say, I'm okay with spending this money, Oh no, no, Now we're gonna put a tax in just because we don't want him to do it, because we don't feel the Mets are worthy If the Dot, if the Dodgers did that three years ago, or the Yankees did that three years ago, or the Red Sox did that three years ago, he would say, yeah, what he's saying now, I'm not gonna get mad at them. It's the system. It's the system. Oh no, no, But the Mets did it because they're not worthy of Oh, we can't have the Mets come in Johnny cub Lately, he's not showing up and telling us how to do things. Oh no, no, no, We're gonna make sure that we hamstring the Mets for doing this. Right, We're gonna put a speed limit on them. But now the Dodger doing it, and it's what can I do? Right? It's it's a system. I don't know what to say. I'm only the commissioner of baseball. I don't know what you want me to do. I just sit here. I served the pleasure of the owners. You have a lot of owners are man. Yeah, but you know the Dodgers are big owners, so I don't know what you want me to do. Like that's why he sucks. Well, they're still adhering to the Coen Tax, which is not an official name, just just some folks are aware. Like that's what it became. Notice after he committed and he spent, we're calling it the Coen tax is not well, Hamilton, and we're arguing with each other and giving things names to Hamilton wrote the other fifty five John Jay got sick after writing four. But to that before we're doing it, he comes in and says, I'm gonna do it. No, no, Now we have a tax. So to stop Steve Cohen, because we knew all the other owners, We're gonna at least say hey, we're gonna pretend to not spend a certain amount of money. We're gonna collude a seeps co and say, no, I want my team to win. I'm not gonna sit here and and play an unfair game. I have money to spend. I don't care. I just made ten million dollars in the last eight seconds. I have money to spend. So yeah, oh no, but we don't want him doing it and that's really unfair. Well, and you adopted the rules and everybody's got to play by him, and the Dodgers will pay the requisite taxes. But then they found the loopholes to the system, right when we talk about it, like the substance, they found the loopholes to it all, and the deferred money, which is not entirely new. I mean, guys have been doing this, just not to this level. And the fact that the Dodgers have had superstar after superstar who are willing to just come on board and say, all right, I know I'm gonna get mine. It's baseball, it's guaranteed money. Just a matter of when I think I can live on the fifteen million they're gonna give me this year. I think I'll be okay, and eventually I'll get the rest, oh down the line, and it's all good by then we're also negotiating a new deal and everything else. But to the point for Major League Baseball as a whole, the issue is that those top teams and I get your vexation and frustration with the Coen tax, because it's being done to me. That's why no, it's been go cry in the corner it's been done to you. You just wait till we buy Vlad Guerrero Junior next year. You just wait till you don't have to go to a winning team. Did you not hear him? He did say that, and we win, We were in the won. But it's a question that last year and that's not winning. How big a winner does he want? He said, championships. It's not the nuts. Yeah, no, that's fine, that's us. Your eyes got really wide as he said, no, that's us. Now you can't spend because you said mets and championships just yet ships He started thinking of that alternate earth. But all of that to say that, you just get to the point of the ten to fifteen teams who spent a little or spent nothing this offseason. You've got to bring the floor up.

Well, there's a difference in McDonald you're well, you're talking about completely. There's the there's the Big Mac. It's not and then there's a big Man Big I don't know. I didn't go to Burger King. So this is why Rob Manford sucks the one. Which reason are you picking up at the list The Dodgers version. Rob Manford sucks Dodgers version, one of the big stories going to spring training. Now everybody's here. Now, everybody's in spring training, getting ready to go already getting big stories. Gencarlo Stanton says, my elbows are broken. The Red Socks have a guy that wants to play third base, and they have two third basemen. It's a big thing. But one of the biggest questions is now coming off this Dodgers spending spree the last couple of years, they have twenty three of their of their players on the active roster are all making thirty million dollars a year or more. How are they fitting this in? Many teams are upset because there's a disparity between what the Dodgers can spend and what they can spend. Now, the two teams spending the most this year are the Dodgers and the Mets. Now the Metro spending the most because they've just gave one Soto seven hundred and sixty million dollars, But the Dodgers has a lot of people upset. A lot of teams upset because hey, we can't compete with that. When they have guys coming in that they can give less money to him, and players like Shoeyo Tana say, I'm gonna defer my money so I can so like we can get it, build a big team in here to win World Series. Yeah, I can see why teams are upset and Rob Manford addressed that tonight, which and and again proving that he sucks. He was asked about the disparity, how do you really feel, because he does, man he does. First of all, the guy hates baseball, So I don't know what else to say. The guy hates he hates the players, right, Why know why is a commissioner of baseball? Maybe because we're gonna payment today like you did that. You did did the whole shaking the paper like you were gonna do weekend update or something. He said, he talked tonight, and well, this is why he sucks. So this is why he sucks. Uh. So, he's asked about the disparity of the Dodgers what he can do about the situation, and here's his quote, disparity should be It certainly is at the top of my list of concerns about what's occurring in the sport. Okay, so far, so good. No, that's good, Jim, I can't be critical of the Dodgers. They're doing what the system allows. Mark. If I'm going to be critical of somebody, it's not going to be the Dodgers. It's going to be the system. First thing, you're the commissioner. You're in charge of the system. What if this is you? This is not anything that predates you. This is not Hey, I showed up and there's a new system. You're not a system commissioner. Okay, I'm coming on a system commissioner. Okay. So right away he's pulling me. What can I do. I'm just the commissioner of baseball. What if he had called himself the system. I'm the system, commit I am the system. Okay, I am sending the system. I'm gonna see if I can get him to sign it with within the inscription of I am the system. Homes the system. Quarterback, I am the system. Suddenly, now, oh, it's the system. I'm not going to be critical of the Dodgers. I'm not going And he said it again, I'm not gonna be critical of the Dodgers. Mordest thing you ever said, dude, Like I get that. Look, there's nothing you do because the Dodgers are doing what's allowed here. But this is where as commissioner, you would say something like, hey, yeah, this is a big deal the Dodger do this. We have to look into this because yes, I see there's an advantage here. But instead it's, oh, hey, I'm not going to be mad at the Dodgers. And this is why Rob Banford sucks because he's completely played favorites since he became commissioner, loving the owners over the players, loving some owners and some teams over other teams. Right, well, I mean because you should own the love the owners over the players. Do the work for them. Yeah, but but not overly so to say I want to give this hunk of metal to a to a deserving owner, No no, no, you stills the players. Yeah, you still have to show some love and some for the sanctity of the game. But this is where I say he sucks like own owners over other owners because hey, oh I can't do anything. The Dodgers are doing something that is completely unprecedented with all these players that bring keep giving contracts to, and he says, can't be critical of them. Meanwhile, Steve Cohen buys the Mets a few years ago and after his first year when he ratches up the payroll up to two hundred and forty five million. What happens, They institute of Steve Cohen tax. If you go over two hundred million dollars, here's a tax you got to pay. Over two hundred and forty million dollars, you pay this packs this tax. Over two hundred and ninety five million dollars, you pay this tax. Even call it the Coen tax. So after a year of Steve Cohen owning the team where he said I'm going to spend as much as I want to on players, all of a sudden, Baseball he comes in with, oh, we have the Coen tax going on here. Oh, because the Mets were not seen as worthy enough of being a team that can outspend everybody. Steve Cohen's not coming into this game and just showing everybody that he spends all money. It's the Mets to the number two team in the in the in the city. But the Dodgers when they're doing Hey, that's okay, the Dodgers doing it. I'm not going to criticize them. But he comes up with a bleeping rule for the Mets. A year after Cohen comes in doing something that's just Hey, the payroll was a two hundred and fifty million. Think about that. Now, two fifty that's like, you know what the pirates are at. So I was like, oh, two hundred fifty million, okay, sorry, that's what the I can't say the Phillies are over three hundred million. But that's completely unfair, and it's him showing that I'm playing favorites where the Dodgers are doing this, and I'm not even going to say that it's something that's that I'm I'm gonna be critical of or say that we have to stop the He's even asked about, are you put some kind of cap in, some kind of salary thing controls? Hey, I'm not. The next negotiations are a year away. I'm not gonna get into anything else. He's basically saying, I'm not doing anything about that. I'm staying away from the Dodgers. I'm staying away from the criticism of this team. But oh boy, Steve Cohen comes in and says, I have a lot of money. I can spend it. I'm sorry your other owners are as rich as Steve Cohen. I'm sorry that certain owners aren't as rich as other owners. Don't own a baseball team. Then, but if he can come in and say, I'm okay with spending this money, Oh no, no, Now we're gonna put a tax in just because we don't want him to do it, because we don't feel the Mets are worthy If the Dot, if the Dodgers did that three years ago, or the Yankees did that three years ago, or the Red Sox did that three years ago, he would say, yeah, what he's saying now, I'm not gonna get mad at them. It's the system. It's the system. Oh no, no, But the Mets did it because they're not worthy of Oh, we can't have the Mets come in Johnny cub Lately, he's not showing up and telling us how to do things. Oh no, no, no, We're gonna make sure that we hamstring the Mets for doing this. Right, We're gonna put a speed limit on them. But now the Dodger doing it, and it's what can I do? Right? It's it's a system. I don't know what to say. I'm only the commissioner of baseball. I don't know what you want me to do. I just sit here. I served the pleasure of the owners. You have a lot of owners are man. Yeah, but you know the Dodgers are big owners, so I don't know what you want me to do. Like that's why he sucks. Well, they're still adhering to the Coen Tax, which is not an official name, just just some folks are aware. Like that's what it became. Notice after he committed and he spent, we're calling it the Coen tax is not well, Hamilton, and we're arguing with each other and giving things names to Hamilton wrote the other fifty five John Jay got sick after writing four. But to that before we're doing it, he comes in and says, I'm gonna do it. No, no, Now we have a tax. So to stop Steve Cohen, because we knew all the other owners, We're gonna at least say hey, we're gonna pretend to not spend a certain amount of money. We're gonna collude a seeps co and say, no, I want my team to win. I'm not gonna sit here and and play an unfair game. I have money to spend. I don't care. I just made ten million dollars in the last eight seconds. I have money to spend. So yeah, oh no, but we don't want him doing it and that's really unfair. Well, and you adopted the rules and everybody's got to play by him, and the Dodgers will pay the requisite taxes. But then they found the loopholes to the system, right when we talk about it, like the substance, they found the loopholes to it all, and the deferred money, which is not entirely new. I mean, guys have been doing this, just not to this level. And the fact that the Dodgers have had superstar after superstar who are willing to just come on board and say, all right, I know I'm gonna get mine. It's baseball, it's guaranteed money. Just a matter of when I think I can live on the fifteen million they're gonna give me this year. I think I'll be okay, and eventually I'll get the rest, oh down the line, and it's all good by then we're also negotiating a new deal and everything else. But to the point for Major League Baseball as a whole, the issue is that those top teams and I get your vexation and frustration with the Coen tax, because it's being done to me. That's why no, it's been go cry in the corner it's been done to you. You just wait till we buy Vlad Guerrero Junior next year. You just wait till you don't have to go to a winning team. Did you not hear him? He did say that, and we win, We were in the won. But it's a question that last year and that's not winning. How big a winner does he want? He said, championships. It's not the nuts. Yeah, no, that's fine, that's us. Your eyes got really wide as he said, no, that's us. Now you can't spend because you said mets and championships just yet ships He started thinking of that alternate earth. But all of that to say that, you just get to the point of the ten to fifteen teams who spent a little or spent nothing this offseason. You've got to bring the floor up.

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We can fight all we want about the teams at the top and how we adjudicate uh they're spending limits, and how deferred money, how much you can have on the books for ten years hence, so whatever. We can talk about all that, but you got all these other teams that aren't doing a damn thing yet, Well, they get to siphon off one hundred and fifty dollars. But too many of the national revenue run their team too much like a business. Obviously, I'm not saying it's it's a business. Obviously, there's too many teams that run it too much like a business, and not enough of it's a business that we're trying to succeed at. Where you know teams like the Brewers or the Pirates or the Raiser. Hey, we're gonna not spend this money. We're gonna see if we catch lightning in a bottle and get a little bit of excitement over the course of a season. Okay, you're running it like a business where I'm sorry if you don't have enough money. We see if you know, there's only reason why there's only thirty of these teams out there. If you have a lot of money, this is when you buy a team. Because Steve Coles it, I don't care if I lose money. Again, the guy makes in the hundreds of millions of dollars every two weeks. That's what the guy. I'm proud of him. He's doing a great job. If you I had more teams that with owners that wanted to win as much as they want to run a successful business. Look what you have, man, look at you to have. But if you've set up a system whereby you're gonna give me one hundred and fifty million dollars for showing up, which is the national revenue. That's before I do anything locally. That's before I sell one chicken nugget, one coke, one bucket of popcorn, or I put a car in a parking spot chicken nuggets. Think about that. Good. Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon live from the tirerac dot com studios coming up next. Yeah, we get to that NFL story. Plus, the best thing the Lakers are doing is they get set to kick off the second half of the NBA season tomorrow. Hey, I'm gonna say something nice about my buddy JJ Red. Oh you're not, Yes, I am, You're a liar. That's next. Jason to Mike Fox. Now, look, I'm out of weather Man, but I'll give you my forecasts. No and ice are coming gonna make driving a challenge. Thankfully, the experts are Tireck know a thing or two about conquering winners worst rain, sleet, slush, whatever winter means to you. Ti Iraq has tires that'll elevate traction end breaking and keep you safe. All season tires, all weather tires and if you live where it snows a lot, dedicated winter tires. Go to tirec dot com. They're easy to use, shopping tools will guide you to a personalized recommendation. They got the right tires for how, what and where you drive. Choose from the full line of Firestone tires. They're shipped fast and free and backed by two years of free road hazard protection. Go to tirack dot com slash sports to see their Firestone test results and special offers. Tire Rack's got thousands of recommended installers and offers a convenience of mobile tire installations, great tires, great deals, great people. What mortgage you ask for? That's tirack dot com, slash Sports, tirack dot com, which is the way tire buying should be.

We can fight all we want about the teams at the top and how we adjudicate uh they're spending limits, and how deferred money, how much you can have on the books for ten years hence, so whatever. We can talk about all that, but you got all these other teams that aren't doing a damn thing yet, Well, they get to siphon off one hundred and fifty dollars. But too many of the national revenue run their team too much like a business. Obviously, I'm not saying it's it's a business. Obviously, there's too many teams that run it too much like a business, and not enough of it's a business that we're trying to succeed at. Where you know teams like the Brewers or the Pirates or the Raiser. Hey, we're gonna not spend this money. We're gonna see if we catch lightning in a bottle and get a little bit of excitement over the course of a season. Okay, you're running it like a business where I'm sorry if you don't have enough money. We see if you know, there's only reason why there's only thirty of these teams out there. If you have a lot of money, this is when you buy a team. Because Steve Coles it, I don't care if I lose money. Again, the guy makes in the hundreds of millions of dollars every two weeks. That's what the guy. I'm proud of him. He's doing a great job. If you I had more teams that with owners that wanted to win as much as they want to run a successful business. Look what you have, man, look at you to have. But if you've set up a system whereby you're gonna give me one hundred and fifty million dollars for showing up, which is the national revenue. That's before I do anything locally. That's before I sell one chicken nugget, one coke, one bucket of popcorn, or I put a car in a parking spot chicken nuggets. Think about that. Good. Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon live from the tirerac dot com studios coming up next. Yeah, we get to that NFL story. Plus, the best thing the Lakers are doing is they get set to kick off the second half of the NBA season tomorrow. Hey, I'm gonna say something nice about my buddy JJ Red. Oh you're not, Yes, I am, You're a liar. That's next. Jason to Mike Fox. Now, look, I'm out of weather Man, but I'll give you my forecasts. No and ice are coming gonna make driving a challenge. Thankfully, the experts are Tireck know a thing or two about conquering winners worst rain, sleet, slush, whatever winter means to you. Ti Iraq has tires that'll elevate traction end breaking and keep you safe. All season tires, all weather tires and if you live where it snows a lot, dedicated winter tires. Go to tirec dot com. They're easy to use, shopping tools will guide you to a personalized recommendation. They got the right tires for how, what and where you drive. Choose from the full line of Firestone tires. They're shipped fast and free and backed by two years of free road hazard protection. Go to tirack dot com slash sports to see their Firestone test results and special offers. Tire Rack's got thousands of recommended installers and offers a convenience of mobile tire installations, great tires, great deals, great people. What mortgage you ask for? That's tirack dot com, slash Sports, tirack dot com, which is the way tire buying should be.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Live from the tirerack dot com studios. Hey guys, you think Mick Cronan's dancing to this right now. No, Mick Cronan not happy. No, this will be salty McK cronan. Oh, it's gonna be some great posts. So just a Tuesday. Yeah, Ucla lost in Minnesota at Pauli and a half point favorites. They were and Mick Cronan looking resplendent in a uh Wooden suit coat jacket that I think he probably took from the John Wooden mannequin uh in West where you broke it with a broke the window with a with an elbow, put the jacket. So we came in with a little laser thing like the Fox. Yeah yeah yeah. Ocean, well, the bad oceans, the bad oceans. Well you know it, it got better. It's like the h It's like the Phantom Menace and stuff. Okay, it's aged better than it. No, it hasn't, because I'll tell you why too. Things twelve number one. Oh, you have to get past this and there's no pattern. How do you get past something with no pattern? How do you make the anticipatory moves when something doesn't have a pay You're a wizard. No, you can't do it. It's gotta be a really complicated pattern that youre fair. Oh, if there's no pattern, you're gonna get caught. How can you go? How can Vincent Castle go through this whole thing where I'm jumping up and over the lasers but there's no pattern. No, no pattern means it's gonna get you. So that was stupid. And then all they go through the whole thing and they have the briefcat it's on it's on the train with them, and they get distracted because a dude and a Yankee hat and the Red Sox they had get in a fight. Oh that's what it is. Really, they're the reason.

Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Live from the tirerack dot com studios. Hey guys, you think Mick Cronan's dancing to this right now. No, Mick Cronan not happy. No, this will be salty McK cronan. Oh, it's gonna be some great posts. So just a Tuesday. Yeah, Ucla lost in Minnesota at Pauli and a half point favorites. They were and Mick Cronan looking resplendent in a uh Wooden suit coat jacket that I think he probably took from the John Wooden mannequin uh in West where you broke it with a broke the window with a with an elbow, put the jacket. So we came in with a little laser thing like the Fox. Yeah yeah yeah. Ocean, well, the bad oceans, the bad oceans. Well you know it, it got better. It's like the h It's like the Phantom Menace and stuff. Okay, it's aged better than it. No, it hasn't, because I'll tell you why too. Things twelve number one. Oh, you have to get past this and there's no pattern. How do you get past something with no pattern? How do you make the anticipatory moves when something doesn't have a pay You're a wizard. No, you can't do it. It's gotta be a really complicated pattern that youre fair. Oh, if there's no pattern, you're gonna get caught. How can you go? How can Vincent Castle go through this whole thing where I'm jumping up and over the lasers but there's no pattern. No, no pattern means it's gonna get you. So that was stupid. And then all they go through the whole thing and they have the briefcat it's on it's on the train with them, and they get distracted because a dude and a Yankee hat and the Red Sox they had get in a fight. Oh that's what it is. Really, they're the reason.

They know.

They know.

Okay, we get all look at this, something happened. Yeah, they're all common, they're all thieves. They all know something's gonna happen to cause a distraction. All here's a guy with the Yankee had and the Red Sox had. Oh, by the way, not even in the United States, and they're gonna fight and they're gonna take that was stupid. Cloney was right when he said we got to do another one. Can't go out that way. Good glad they did thirteen. They're coming back for fourteen. So there, of course they have to win. I deal with I mean, unfortunately we're missing a couple of guys. Yeah, well you come back well with a Dodger on Rob Manfred will be.

Okay, we get all look at this, something happened. Yeah, they're all common, they're all thieves. They all know something's gonna happen to cause a distraction. All here's a guy with the Yankee had and the Red Sox had. Oh, by the way, not even in the United States, and they're gonna fight and they're gonna take that was stupid. Cloney was right when he said we got to do another one. Can't go out that way. Good glad they did thirteen. They're coming back for fourteen. So there, of course they have to win. I deal with I mean, unfortunately we're missing a couple of guys. Yeah, well you come back well with a Dodger on Rob Manfred will be.

There.

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There's a guy with an astro's hat. They's trying to trying to steal the the MLB World Series, Trump and the hunk of metal. Here you go take it, and he gets distracted. Someone hits a trash can. He turns one way. They grabbed the World Series and run away with it. What am I gonna do? They fooled me? Well, uh, so this is my favorite NFL story of the day. So cam Ward of the Miami Hurricanes, who is set to go somewhere in the top three of the NFL draft, maybe number one, maybe two, maybe three, uh, had a message for any team that is going to pass on him in the draft. Now. He won the Davy O'Brien Award as a top quarterback in the country last night. It should have been calm accord. Uh but uh. He gave this speech when he was asked about, Hey, the draft is coming up. What do you think Titans pick number one, Brown's pick number two, Giants pick number three. They all need quarterbacks, he said, quote, you're either gonna draft me or you're not. If you don't draft me, that's your fault. You gotta remember you're the same team that's gotta play me for the rest of my career, and I'll remember that. So two teams, one team. I'm gonna hold it against the one team that passes by. I'm not slipping all the way down to pick twenty five. I'm gonna hold it against the one team that doesn't take me. When I play the Titans every two and a half years, you wait, or if the Browns take me, and I bet wait till I play off, the Giants take me, and I gotta play the AFC every four years when we play the Browns to the Titans, I'm really gonna come up with a big game there, dude. Come on, man, what the hell? What do you mean? You add up the teams that passed me. You may go number one overall and in that case, nobody's gonna pass on you, and maybe then you're not even motivated to play. Oh, nobody passed on me. I kind of peaked here at twenty three years old. Like this is if you were if you were falling through the first round, or you were projected to be a pick that maybe went somewhere in the teams or in the late first round, and you wanted to say you pass on me, I'm gonna find Okay, I get it, because I get the players use that as motivation, But dude, one team is gonna wind up passing on you. At most, You're gonna most likely go to the Browns because it seems like the decks are cleared for Schador standers to go to the Giants at number three, right, that's his preferred destination. That's where Shador wants to be. That's where Dion wants to be. Okay, Ward is gonna be the first quarterback off the mord, so that means he goes first or second. So really, if you pass on me, I'm it. Hold it a got you did one team, one team you're gonna play every three year? What the hell are you talking about? Yeah, I mean, Chadora is the furthest He's falling as he goes and hangs out with Brady and his buddy Mark Davis there in Las Vegas. He's he's going to the He talked about that. I'll be I'll be here. I'll be playing in this stadium in Dallas, down. I'll be playing here in a couple of years. That's his boot. When this guy's talking like he's dropping out of the first round, but he's a top three pick, I'm gonna use this his motivation. Dude, you're going I like that. I mean, you gotta find something that laterels you. You're going second right, You look in the mirror, Hey, you know what, I gotta get back to the gym. You know the chin or or maybe you're looking like you need to go pump up the biceps or whatever. You know, whatever your motivation is, you gotta do it. And in his case, he's creating imaginary teams that I kid. I could see him going at number one and saying all you teams are could have traded up for me and didn't. But that's it. You're gonna hold it again. You all chose not to come get me.

There's a guy with an astro's hat. They's trying to trying to steal the the MLB World Series, Trump and the hunk of metal. Here you go take it, and he gets distracted. Someone hits a trash can. He turns one way. They grabbed the World Series and run away with it. What am I gonna do? They fooled me? Well, uh, so this is my favorite NFL story of the day. So cam Ward of the Miami Hurricanes, who is set to go somewhere in the top three of the NFL draft, maybe number one, maybe two, maybe three, uh, had a message for any team that is going to pass on him in the draft. Now. He won the Davy O'Brien Award as a top quarterback in the country last night. It should have been calm accord. Uh but uh. He gave this speech when he was asked about, Hey, the draft is coming up. What do you think Titans pick number one, Brown's pick number two, Giants pick number three. They all need quarterbacks, he said, quote, you're either gonna draft me or you're not. If you don't draft me, that's your fault. You gotta remember you're the same team that's gotta play me for the rest of my career, and I'll remember that. So two teams, one team. I'm gonna hold it against the one team that passes by. I'm not slipping all the way down to pick twenty five. I'm gonna hold it against the one team that doesn't take me. When I play the Titans every two and a half years, you wait, or if the Browns take me, and I bet wait till I play off, the Giants take me, and I gotta play the AFC every four years when we play the Browns to the Titans, I'm really gonna come up with a big game there, dude. Come on, man, what the hell? What do you mean? You add up the teams that passed me. You may go number one overall and in that case, nobody's gonna pass on you, and maybe then you're not even motivated to play. Oh, nobody passed on me. I kind of peaked here at twenty three years old. Like this is if you were if you were falling through the first round, or you were projected to be a pick that maybe went somewhere in the teams or in the late first round, and you wanted to say you pass on me, I'm gonna find Okay, I get it, because I get the players use that as motivation, But dude, one team is gonna wind up passing on you. At most, You're gonna most likely go to the Browns because it seems like the decks are cleared for Schador standers to go to the Giants at number three, right, that's his preferred destination. That's where Shador wants to be. That's where Dion wants to be. Okay, Ward is gonna be the first quarterback off the mord, so that means he goes first or second. So really, if you pass on me, I'm it. Hold it a got you did one team, one team you're gonna play every three year? What the hell are you talking about? Yeah, I mean, Chadora is the furthest He's falling as he goes and hangs out with Brady and his buddy Mark Davis there in Las Vegas. He's he's going to the He talked about that. I'll be I'll be here. I'll be playing in this stadium in Dallas, down. I'll be playing here in a couple of years. That's his boot. When this guy's talking like he's dropping out of the first round, but he's a top three pick, I'm gonna use this his motivation. Dude, you're going I like that. I mean, you gotta find something that laterels you. You're going second right, You look in the mirror, Hey, you know what, I gotta get back to the gym. You know the chin or or maybe you're looking like you need to go pump up the biceps or whatever. You know, whatever your motivation is, you gotta do it. And in his case, he's creating imaginary teams that I kid. I could see him going at number one and saying all you teams are could have traded up for me and didn't. But that's it. You're gonna hold it again. You all chose not to come get me.

What do you take?

What do you take?

All of you? All of you failed, doesn't you. You took Abduel Carter, you took chanor Sanders, you took Travis Hunter. You could have traded up to get me hair at number one, and you didn't. Hey, Titans, you took Travis Hunter and then I went and you wait and see what happens. Yeah, Tennessee, I really wanted Nashville instead I got Cleveland. What are you doing? What do you do? You think he lives in a van down by the river.

All of you? All of you failed, doesn't you. You took Abduel Carter, you took chanor Sanders, you took Travis Hunter. You could have traded up to get me hair at number one, and you didn't. Hey, Titans, you took Travis Hunter and then I went and you wait and see what happens. Yeah, Tennessee, I really wanted Nashville instead I got Cleveland. What are you doing? What do you do? You think he lives in a van down by the river.

You could.

You could.

I don't know what that's all about, because I get I get the using the your draft position is motivation, right, I understand that. Right. You talk on running all the teams that passed on him, right, I get that, and it works right, and it works for some people I get. I am a motivational speaker. Okay, I'm gonna sit here and go through the teams that passed on me in the draft. Titans. Okay, let's go play. All done, All done? My my pregame stuff is already. I'm done. I'm done. Remember the Titans right here?

I don't know what that's all about, because I get I get the using the your draft position is motivation, right, I understand that. Right. You talk on running all the teams that passed on him, right, I get that, and it works right, and it works for some people I get. I am a motivational speaker. Okay, I'm gonna sit here and go through the teams that passed on me in the draft. Titans. Okay, let's go play. All done, All done? My my pregame stuff is already. I'm done. I'm done. Remember the Titans right here?

Come on?

Come on?

Nothing else? I mean, really, he's gonna he's gonna have less teams passing. And then the Titans had plays? How many? What? What? What?

Nothing else? I mean, really, he's gonna he's gonna have less teams passing. And then the Titans had plays? How many? What? What? What?

What?

What?

What? Denzil watches that have five plays? How do not stop a team with five offensive plays? You practice against the five plays? You know what they are? Honest? Come on, obviously, it's the end of grade school before things get too complicated. And every once in a while we had a wrinkle, we ran eight of the time, we ran three, running the same three running plays. When he says I only have these plays, I only have We all only run five plays? Really, why do you need to practice? Then? Once we get the five plays down, I think we're pretty good the excellence. We're good of execution. We're good where I gotta keep your cardio up. Come on, remember Luca, all right, would you forget that story we did? You gotta keep your cardio up. Man ran those five plays pretty good. You guys all take laps. Now, let's do defense because I know Goslin you've got trouble covering people. Right, You're gonna have to come out of a dance really well, I couldn't sing. We saw that he lived in a van down by the river. Good, good luck with it. I mean, cam Moore, come on, like he's inventing. I'm inventing this chip that I'm gonna put on. I actually think he just wanted he doesn't have a chip on his show. There's no chip there yet because he could go number one. He could, but somebody disrespected him. In his opinion, we haven't had the draft yet. Who has we haven't even had the combine yet who is disrespect well? But people are maybe in their mock drafts they've got him going a bit later. I'm gonna get you mel Kiper and I'll get you Todd McShay. When I go out there, I'm gonna make sure I'm thinking about you not having me. Come mean, the guy did play at three different colleges. At some point he heard something in the in the rooms where they he wasn't loved what the same way he needed to be. He won the Davey O'Brien doesn't matter. I mean, why don't know what you're talking He won in the it's about the four years before that. It's about the long hard road before that. The court should have won. But still he did it. And and cam Wore's a terrific talent, right, this guy, he's one. He's like a he's like a better Anthony Richardson who can put points on the board in a hurry. Right, Like, here's a big difference. This guy's played a lot. He's actually on the no, he's on the field. It doesn't throw as many interceptions, but he I mean, he's instant offense. He'll fit with any system. He's terrific player. It's like, I mean, like when you have to invent an imaginary opponent when you're twenty three years old, twenty two years old. Dude, Come on, man, you got to be motivated for something else before you say, hey, I gotta find a way to stand about. How many people have you known in your life? Hey, you got it. You got a steady job. Maybe maybe you've got a man or a woman at your side. It seems okay from the outside, a couple of kids, they're not juvenile delinquents. You got a dog that hasn't been attacking anybody on the walks, got a nice car that hasn't broken down. You don't live in a you know, a rambu, you know, in a van down by the river, in a van or a shack like all of that. But you don't know what's going on between the years. You don't know. I mean every day. That guy may still feel like compared to siblings, compared to you know, friends, might feel like he needs some extra motivation. For cam Warton, he may be looking around shootors, getting a lot of headlines, getting a lot of love. Maybe this was his way of saying what about me? No, it isn't fair. I've had enough. I want my share. I've had enough. I've had enough of winning the award for Best Quarterback. I've had enough of all the nil money I got to come to Miami. I've had enough. It wasn't enough. Maybe there was a sponsor, they had talks with it. It broke down because they've fought over money and they've had enough. Who wronged you? Nobody, but they might, so I'm getting ahead of it. This is the equivalent of somebody getting mad at you because they had a dream and in their dream you did something wrong. So they're mad at you when they wake up. But just because your paranoid doesn't mean that they're not after you. You did it my dream. You did it, but I would never do that real But you did it my dream. I'm mad at you. Okay that maybe they're thinking it's a moment of foreshadowing. Right, you're having your h what was that Stephen King thing? What was the plenty of movies that kind of went to shiny No, no, no, the one with Christopher Walking oh oh oh and Martin Sheen right, yeah, where you're seeing Martin was a president. Sorry, before he was a president, he was the president a lot. Yeah, Tilson, Oh yeah, he could tell the futures. Is that the dead zone? Dead zone? Dead zone? Yeah, so you see the future. So I see you're going to wrong me. I don't know when, but now as I go in my conscious day the next day, I'm waiting for you to turn on me, like you're gonna make a heel turn like it's w w E about me. That's where cam Ward is. He's waiting for the other shoe to drop it for you, you, Lieutenant Weinberg. I'm pretty your Yes, yeah, I could, you know. And I always tell certain days, like when I wake up, I know that, okay, whatever today is like like something's happened in the morning, like Pam's had some something happen or go on because she gets up before I hear and everything else, and I go, okay, I could tell right away and go okay, something is, something happens, something's and and I am preemptively getting getting getting mad at she's getting mad, and I want to say, okay, what happened? Because I have not done What did I do? I've been sleeping. I know, I just got up. I got up. I didn't do anything today. What I would enter this happened to you, Okay, I feel like that. That's what cam Ward is doing. I'm making I'm making up. I'm making up people who may wrong me at some point in the future. But I may not be wronged. But that's the thing. He may not he may may not be all, but he also may drop like a rock. Maybe maybe that's what the intelly's got, that things could go badly here. I don't know. You're the Davy Oprah in a winner. You're great, but exit out bout a fresca, exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Carmon Live the Tirack dot Com studios. Let's find out what's trending right now for the man who's been called the cam Ward of Fox Sports Radio. He is talented but has imaginary beefs with a lot of people here.

What? Denzil watches that have five plays? How do not stop a team with five offensive plays? You practice against the five plays? You know what they are? Honest? Come on, obviously, it's the end of grade school before things get too complicated. And every once in a while we had a wrinkle, we ran eight of the time, we ran three, running the same three running plays. When he says I only have these plays, I only have We all only run five plays? Really, why do you need to practice? Then? Once we get the five plays down, I think we're pretty good the excellence. We're good of execution. We're good where I gotta keep your cardio up. Come on, remember Luca, all right, would you forget that story we did? You gotta keep your cardio up. Man ran those five plays pretty good. You guys all take laps. Now, let's do defense because I know Goslin you've got trouble covering people. Right, You're gonna have to come out of a dance really well, I couldn't sing. We saw that he lived in a van down by the river. Good, good luck with it. I mean, cam Moore, come on, like he's inventing. I'm inventing this chip that I'm gonna put on. I actually think he just wanted he doesn't have a chip on his show. There's no chip there yet because he could go number one. He could, but somebody disrespected him. In his opinion, we haven't had the draft yet. Who has we haven't even had the combine yet who is disrespect well? But people are maybe in their mock drafts they've got him going a bit later. I'm gonna get you mel Kiper and I'll get you Todd McShay. When I go out there, I'm gonna make sure I'm thinking about you not having me. Come mean, the guy did play at three different colleges. At some point he heard something in the in the rooms where they he wasn't loved what the same way he needed to be. He won the Davey O'Brien doesn't matter. I mean, why don't know what you're talking He won in the it's about the four years before that. It's about the long hard road before that. The court should have won. But still he did it. And and cam Wore's a terrific talent, right, this guy, he's one. He's like a he's like a better Anthony Richardson who can put points on the board in a hurry. Right, Like, here's a big difference. This guy's played a lot. He's actually on the no, he's on the field. It doesn't throw as many interceptions, but he I mean, he's instant offense. He'll fit with any system. He's terrific player. It's like, I mean, like when you have to invent an imaginary opponent when you're twenty three years old, twenty two years old. Dude, Come on, man, you got to be motivated for something else before you say, hey, I gotta find a way to stand about. How many people have you known in your life? Hey, you got it. You got a steady job. Maybe maybe you've got a man or a woman at your side. It seems okay from the outside, a couple of kids, they're not juvenile delinquents. You got a dog that hasn't been attacking anybody on the walks, got a nice car that hasn't broken down. You don't live in a you know, a rambu, you know, in a van down by the river, in a van or a shack like all of that. But you don't know what's going on between the years. You don't know. I mean every day. That guy may still feel like compared to siblings, compared to you know, friends, might feel like he needs some extra motivation. For cam Warton, he may be looking around shootors, getting a lot of headlines, getting a lot of love. Maybe this was his way of saying what about me? No, it isn't fair. I've had enough. I want my share. I've had enough. I've had enough of winning the award for Best Quarterback. I've had enough of all the nil money I got to come to Miami. I've had enough. It wasn't enough. Maybe there was a sponsor, they had talks with it. It broke down because they've fought over money and they've had enough. Who wronged you? Nobody, but they might, so I'm getting ahead of it. This is the equivalent of somebody getting mad at you because they had a dream and in their dream you did something wrong. So they're mad at you when they wake up. But just because your paranoid doesn't mean that they're not after you. You did it my dream. You did it, but I would never do that real But you did it my dream. I'm mad at you. Okay that maybe they're thinking it's a moment of foreshadowing. Right, you're having your h what was that Stephen King thing? What was the plenty of movies that kind of went to shiny No, no, no, the one with Christopher Walking oh oh oh and Martin Sheen right, yeah, where you're seeing Martin was a president. Sorry, before he was a president, he was the president a lot. Yeah, Tilson, Oh yeah, he could tell the futures. Is that the dead zone? Dead zone? Dead zone? Yeah, so you see the future. So I see you're going to wrong me. I don't know when, but now as I go in my conscious day the next day, I'm waiting for you to turn on me, like you're gonna make a heel turn like it's w w E about me. That's where cam Ward is. He's waiting for the other shoe to drop it for you, you, Lieutenant Weinberg. I'm pretty your Yes, yeah, I could, you know. And I always tell certain days, like when I wake up, I know that, okay, whatever today is like like something's happened in the morning, like Pam's had some something happen or go on because she gets up before I hear and everything else, and I go, okay, I could tell right away and go okay, something is, something happens, something's and and I am preemptively getting getting getting mad at she's getting mad, and I want to say, okay, what happened? Because I have not done What did I do? I've been sleeping. I know, I just got up. I got up. I didn't do anything today. What I would enter this happened to you, Okay, I feel like that. That's what cam Ward is doing. I'm making I'm making up. I'm making up people who may wrong me at some point in the future. But I may not be wronged. But that's the thing. He may not he may may not be all, but he also may drop like a rock. Maybe maybe that's what the intelly's got, that things could go badly here. I don't know. You're the Davy Oprah in a winner. You're great, but exit out bout a fresca, exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Carmon Live the Tirack dot Com studios. Let's find out what's trending right now for the man who's been called the cam Ward of Fox Sports Radio. He is talented but has imaginary beefs with a lot of people here.

Don't you hope he just slides down the list, giving him more fun.

Don't you hope he just slides down the list, giving him more fun.

Oh that should be great. Yeah, and he's up there. I hate you. Yeah, and he's just instead of shaking Goodell's hand or giving him the hug, he grabs the microphone as search, yelling, here's the one.

Oh that should be great. Yeah, and he's up there. I hate you. Yeah, and he's just instead of shaking Goodell's hand or giving him the hug, he grabs the microphone as search, yelling, here's the one.

Guy that could literally list all the guys drafted before him years later.

Guy that could literally list all the guys drafted before him years later.

I mean, this is a real thing with some of you. Goodell comes out and says, with the third pick in the NFL draft, here did he diddy the ding? The Giants select, not you, cam Ward Shador Sanders quarterbacks.

I mean, this is a real thing with some of you. Goodell comes out and says, with the third pick in the NFL draft, here did he diddy the ding? The Giants select, not you, cam Ward Shador Sanders quarterbacks.

Calm directly look at him.

Calm directly look at him.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Carolina Panthers re signed thirty seven year old quarterback Andy Dalton. Dalton started five games for him last year. Texan's running back Joe Mixon won his appeal to have a playoff fine rescented. He was accused of publicly criticizing the officials. The Browns kept running back Nyam Hines, who has not played a game in the past two seasons. Cincinnati gave punter Ryan Recco a two year deal. Novak Djokovic lost his first match at the Qatar Open. The Toronto Blue Jays failed to sign All star of Vladimir Guerrero Junior to an extension. The first baseman's deadline was last night. The Cubs agreed to sign veteran infielder Justin Turner to a one year deal. He's forty years old. The Cubs and Dodgers will be opening the regular season in March in Tokyo. Games on Fox and then FS one six a m. Eastern time, Steve, Happy early rookie day to you. Roki Sasaki. What's his day?

Carolina Panthers re signed thirty seven year old quarterback Andy Dalton. Dalton started five games for him last year. Texan's running back Joe Mixon won his appeal to have a playoff fine rescented. He was accused of publicly criticizing the officials. The Browns kept running back Nyam Hines, who has not played a game in the past two seasons. Cincinnati gave punter Ryan Recco a two year deal. Novak Djokovic lost his first match at the Qatar Open. The Toronto Blue Jays failed to sign All star of Vladimir Guerrero Junior to an extension. The first baseman's deadline was last night. The Cubs agreed to sign veteran infielder Justin Turner to a one year deal. He's forty years old. The Cubs and Dodgers will be opening the regular season in March in Tokyo. Games on Fox and then FS one six a m. Eastern time, Steve, Happy early rookie day to you. Roki Sasaki. What's his day?

Tomorrow? He's pitching.

Tomorrow? He's pitching.

Oh, that's right, we're starting.

Oh, that's right, we're starting.

Well not tomorrow.

Well not tomorrow.

Oh yeah, he's throwing tomorrow. Well you mean he's throwing. He's actually pitching. I think the Dodgers just traded him for Vlad Junior. I didn't fight you into the party that.

Oh yeah, he's throwing tomorrow. Well you mean he's throwing. He's actually pitching. I think the Dodgers just traded him for Vlad Junior. I didn't fight you into the party that.

We do have actual spring training games going on starting in a couple of days though. In college hoops, number two Florida dominated Oklahoma eighty five sixty three. Gators led by twenty four just after halftime. Fifth ranked Houston won easily at Arizona State eighty to sixty five. Houston led by twenty late in the first half. Cougar's now fourteen and one in the Big Twelve Conference ASU three and twelve, and the only coach in America that's actually madder than Bobby Hurley right now would be mc cronin. As UCLA gagged in early seventeen point lead and lost at home to Minnesota in the late game on FS one sixty four sixty one, the Bruins on free throws nine for nineteen number seven Texas A and M was beaten at number twenty one Mississippi State, which had trailed early second half, but won the game seventy to fifty four. The Bulldogs worse six and six in conference aggies with nineteen turnovers. Eighth ranked Iowa State destroyed Colorado seventy nine sixty five was the final, but it was a twenty to five lead early, and Colorado's now one and fourteen in conference talk about destroyd BYU all over number twenty three Kansas ninety one fifty seven. Cougar's after seven minutes led twenty two to seven. Jayhawks record now eight and seven in conference. TCUs won five of six at home. TCU beat number nine Texas Tech sixty nine sixty six. Tech had been eleven and three in the Big Twelve Conference. On FS one, eleventh ranked Wisconsin over Illinois ninety five seventy four. Sixteenth rank Marquette led by twenty late first half and beat up Seaton Hall eighty to fifty six. And in a top twenty matchup at Michigan State, Spartans over produced seventy five sixty six. Michigan State shot fifty eight percent from the floor. This sets up the Friday night game on Fox TV. Number twelve Michigan will host number fourteen Michigan State, and the Spartans are now only a half game behind first place Michigan. The NBA is off until the Wednesday makeup game Hornets at Lakers. NHL is off until this Saturday. Of course, Hockey's Four Nations faceoff has the final in Boston Thursday, US against Canada.

We do have actual spring training games going on starting in a couple of days though. In college hoops, number two Florida dominated Oklahoma eighty five sixty three. Gators led by twenty four just after halftime. Fifth ranked Houston won easily at Arizona State eighty to sixty five. Houston led by twenty late in the first half. Cougar's now fourteen and one in the Big Twelve Conference ASU three and twelve, and the only coach in America that's actually madder than Bobby Hurley right now would be mc cronin. As UCLA gagged in early seventeen point lead and lost at home to Minnesota in the late game on FS one sixty four sixty one, the Bruins on free throws nine for nineteen number seven Texas A and M was beaten at number twenty one Mississippi State, which had trailed early second half, but won the game seventy to fifty four. The Bulldogs worse six and six in conference aggies with nineteen turnovers. Eighth ranked Iowa State destroyed Colorado seventy nine sixty five was the final, but it was a twenty to five lead early, and Colorado's now one and fourteen in conference talk about destroyd BYU all over number twenty three Kansas ninety one fifty seven. Cougar's after seven minutes led twenty two to seven. Jayhawks record now eight and seven in conference. TCUs won five of six at home. TCU beat number nine Texas Tech sixty nine sixty six. Tech had been eleven and three in the Big Twelve Conference. On FS one, eleventh ranked Wisconsin over Illinois ninety five seventy four. Sixteenth rank Marquette led by twenty late first half and beat up Seaton Hall eighty to fifty six. And in a top twenty matchup at Michigan State, Spartans over produced seventy five sixty six. Michigan State shot fifty eight percent from the floor. This sets up the Friday night game on Fox TV. Number twelve Michigan will host number fourteen Michigan State, and the Spartans are now only a half game behind first place Michigan. The NBA is off until the Wednesday makeup game Hornets at Lakers. NHL is off until this Saturday. Of course, Hockey's Four Nations faceoff has the final in Boston Thursday, US against Canada.

Back to you, Stee, Thanks Steve. How's you see LAFE fired Mick Cronan yet?

Back to you, Stee, Thanks Steve. How's you see LAFE fired Mick Cronan yet?

Oh?

Oh?

No? Seven hundred winning percentage? He is here? Has Mick Cronin fired any players yet? No? He's blaming the crowd tonight. Oh oh the crowds. Yeah, the crowd tonight. Jacket to the Wooden Foundation. Yet I'm waiting for him to blame John Wooden. If you don't win all those championships, people wouldn't care as much. It's all Wooden's distress and Paulie is crazy. How about help the guy. Cheer for the guy. He's not trying to miss the free throw. Everyone's mind's on the wrong stuff.

No? Seven hundred winning percentage? He is here? Has Mick Cronin fired any players yet? No? He's blaming the crowd tonight. Oh oh the crowds. Yeah, the crowd tonight. Jacket to the Wooden Foundation. Yet I'm waiting for him to blame John Wooden. If you don't win all those championships, people wouldn't care as much. It's all Wooden's distress and Paulie is crazy. How about help the guy. Cheer for the guy. He's not trying to miss the free throw. Everyone's mind's on the wrong stuff.

When you missed ten free throws in a close game.

When you missed ten free throws in a close game.

Oh sorry, Jason Spencer with Mike Carmen Life, The tirec Dot Comes to You is coming up next. A late breaking update on Luka doncic end. Why salad might not be something you want to eat? That's next, Nu Ty Shirt, That's next Jason and Mike Fox or inside whatever you want. Wea don't judge here.

Oh sorry, Jason Spencer with Mike Carmen Life, The tirec Dot Comes to You is coming up next. A late breaking update on Luka doncic end. Why salad might not be something you want to eat? That's next, Nu Ty Shirt, That's next Jason and Mike Fox or inside whatever you want. Wea don't judge here.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith's Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith's Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox.

Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. We'll get to the salad in a second tossick. It's kind of weird. It's like we're, you know, we're gonna finish with salad, Like where we should you know, start with South Well, if done well, it's it's a meal. By this time tomorrow night, we will have begun the next stretch of I can't say the second half, as we're well into the second half of the rest of the NBA regular season. We have the first game underway. It's gonna be a makeup game between the Lakers and the Hornets. The game was postponed because of the fires in Los Angeles. Willyams, Yeah, Mark, He's gonna play set to play tomorrow failed as physical with the Lakers, but we'll play for the Hornets tomorrow the revenge game, Manute, let's go. And I gotta say, I love what the Lakers are doing, how they're hitting the ground running with Luka Doncic going for the second half. JJ Reddick, my buddy, right, my buddy, J Reddick, Right, Hey, Hey, we're feuding. JJ Reddick said, no minutes restrictions on Luca. They expect to have him no restrictions, ready to go tomorrow night. And I love this because this is what Luca needs, the Mavericks. Because you come up with a team, they're going to give you rope. They're gonna give you a lot of time to figure stuff out. We're gonna try to get you to listen to us. And they couldn't. They couldn't get him to stay in shape. They couldn't get him not drink beer because they didn't want him drinking enough. That amount of beer, whatever it was, it's ridiculous, but they were never going to get him to do what they wanted him to do, and that's stay in shape and take care of your body. But when you get that wake up call, why you get traded, and now everybody knows the reason was because they didn't want to pay you three hundred million dollars, because they didn't think you would ever keep yourself in shape, thought your body would break down. That's a big wake up call. And the Lakers could have taken the tack of hey, you're our next superstar, come in, slide in here a little bit, get used to things, or worry about your your condition and nutrition later on. No, instead it's hey, you came here, We gave you a couple of days to get used to things. Souse, you got trade. We understand it's a big hurdle. Mentally, you played a few minutes for us in a couple of games, then you had some time off for the All Star break. Now now it's time to go, you go. It's time for you to put up and do exactly what we expect you to do here for the Lakers. And I love them not babying him, and they're going forward. See JJ Reddick, I'm not always saying critical things Lakers. I love the way they're doing things here. I just I'm curious. I mean. JJ Reddick also said he didn't watch any of that blank that was the quote about the All Star weekend, so respect, just be honest. But in this case, now you'll be curious to watch Luka Donc's minutes and how he's utilized tomorrow. Right, is Lebron going to be available or is the ankle still an issue? Because if Lebron's not available, how much you really need to get after Charlotte? The answer is, I don't know. Let Austin Reefs take forty five shit. But for for Luca, I mean, how many heavy minutes does he play in this one jumping into the second half? Right, that that's gonna be one of the great things. Like I'm tired, keep going, but I can get hurt. Doesn't matter. We got to prove a point tough love. So we get Luca tomorrow. Yeah, and now too salad. Dustin May has been a player for the Dodgers the last few years that always seems to be on the cusp of being one of their next great pitchers. But missed, you know, missed everything last year because of an esophagus injury because a piece of what he's having, he was having a meal and a piece of lettuce got stuck in his throat and he had trouble getting it out head, I almost died. Uh, And he hurt his esophagus so bad that he couldn't he couldn't pitch the rest of the season. So, I mean, really, this is the tight shirt, the dangers of eating salad tearing his esophagus yshy Jason, you the salad. Well, I'm sure he ate a salad that was made for him, but it was it was in a restaurant. I mean, I don't believe that he's not the restaurant. I don't know. I don't know, Jason. How have you ever heard of somebody choking on salad? This is a story right here. It's a baseball player too. We get a lot of weird injuries in baseball players.