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Well, everything's over.
To waitest second Astro of the Mariners are still going. Top of the twelfth inning. Astros lead the Mariners two to one. Still going, still get the ghost Runner.
So we should be done with this pretty fast.
Now we'll get to Mike Malone. Mike Malone coming up in a minute. But I know you're showing me the Thank you, coach, Malone social media post by the Nuggets.
Today, Hey we fired him. I want to say thanks.
So, you know, the last few days, the last couple of days, this dire wolf thing has become a really big deal. Right. We bought back a species that last existed on the earth like ten thousand years ago.
The dire wolf is back.
You see Rodyinson reemas the two dire wolves are going really cute and hey, we're now bringing back, you know, extinct animals.
It's so gold Bloom's just time to shine minute. So you're not just the wizard.
So I wake up today and I get a bunch of text from my friends and I realized, you know, the boy my friends maybe a little bit more uh sophisticated than I am, who said to me, hey, dude, I just read it. I just read your tweet in Men's Journal. And I'm like, what, Men's Journal, what are you talking about? And and and they go, yeah, they just put your tweet in on the article on the dire wolf and Men's Journal and I'm like what And they send me the link and I look and they did an article on the dire wolf and it was hey, people, now you know, want new things now that we've brought back the dire wolf, and I put my tweet of hey, now that we've brought the dire wolf back, the three animals we need to bring back in order are one the Dodo bird, two the wooly mammoth, three the saber tooth tiger. And then I wrote, wait now I'm just doing ice age and you're either building ice age out or where's the fleas?
Here's the baby. But I feel like we need.
Because honestly, like you have to bring the dodo bird back first, because it's the one, it's the only animal, the first animal we all learned about as kids. The dodo bird's been extinct for a long time.
Yeah, they defeated the dodo bird.
Yeah, something like the Dodo bird was fun to say. They've been waiting for a long time. It's like in Beetlejuice when you're waiting at the end to talk about getting back to that life, like the Dodo bird has been waiting a long time to come back.
No, it is.
You kind of have to bring the Dodo bird back first. I'd love to see the wooly mammoth, but boy, the wooly mammoth is big and the sabertooth tiger. Ooh, sabertooth in the wild may get a little too Jurassic parkish, but uh, I mean wooly mammoth, sabertooth tiger. I mean, I'd love to see some of these, you know, animals that were extinct, if I can see him in a zoo or someplace where it's.
Safe, where I don't worry about it. I'd love to see a wooly mammoth.
Oh my goodness, man, because when I picture wooly mammoth, I picture the creatures.
That they ride in Star Wars on tattooine. Oh nice. Yeah, picture wooly mammoth walking with the big tusks. And there that's what I think. That's what I think about. That's pretty good. Yeah. Now we're recreating all the films that we love so much.
Yes, and then we've got the blueprint of how to contain all these animals, yeah, one of all the Jurassic Park movies. And that's the thing is I know that that there's a big push out there. Didn't we learn from Jurassic Park. This is a bad idea. Okay, stop for one second. They brought back a couple of wolves Okay, it's not an island that we're bringing back the most dangerous animals that ever walked the earth. Okay, number one, we're not doing it. B We're not gonna do something stupid because it was kind of lazy to go, Uh, did you use frog DNA? Yeah, just frog da Oh, well that's why they're multiplying, So not only just using frog DNA. Oh we should have known that. You would think the biggest scientists in the world who bring dinosaurs back from extinction would know, Oh, if we use frog DNA, they're gonna be able to reproduce. Not only that, but somehow you just put the frog DNA in and it works for all of them right away. It's like viagra for dinosaurs. Hey, we're all back down. He use a frog DNA. We had to get from here to here and keep it at a two hour running link.
You shut up.
We're all about not gonna happen. Not gonna happen is some because I looked. The thing is, I looked at the list of animals, and I gotta say, there's not a lot that I'm trying out to see back outside of those three. I'm like, oh, because all these other breeds of animals are like, I never heard of that.
Okay, there's another there's another butterfly.
Saber tooth ti. Yeah, it's bringing the saber tooth. Yeah, see the big teeth coming down the side. Yeah, let me see that.
I do like that.
Your tweet got it got in there, not because of anything you were doing, you know physically. Yeah, Hey, I'm walking off I mean my pH D weight lot na not. Hey, he's getting himself in shape and lean and mean and he's getting ready to run a run a marathon. Now I had these three that I liked. Now my favorite list of isles and g n C and whole foods. Now here's what I like to buy. What else we got? You've never been to a g n C. I've driven by even spelled. And what's the next one? How about a sea cow? It's got guns and guns and coses gn C. That's about the Golden toad. Well last scene in nineteen eighty nine. Oh so it's not that far then there's no But that means you and I have been alive in the time that they killed off the Golden There's other animals that should be on the list to come back before the Golden I mean, I'm saying, don't bring the Golden toad back. But there's there's a Dodo bird's been waiting for millions of years. I think the comelitless birds no, useless, right, how about the Atlas Bear. Oh no, that that sounds like that sounds like someone from the WWE Atlas Bear going in against John Cena from the Mountains of Morocco. That was the last one that was doing DoD Morocco. What did you say, the Magnificent they dot Yeah, I know, yeah, not anymore though, No, no, no, no, there's one rock now, the Rock Don Morocco. Okay, Yeah, I've been going back and watching all the old WrestleManias in anticipation of my trip to Vegas for next week. Boy, I'm jacked up and my brothers will likely bludget me as they did when we were in Dallas years ago. So already trying to toughen myself up for that rock exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome Jason Smith Mike Harbon live from the tirech dot Com Studios Men's Journal. Yeah, yeah, some of them on the Picture of health. I'm like, yeah, that's me, right, here. Here's what I like to eat every single day.
I like to just eat stuff that's healthy, all empty calories. I like to have cabbage and lettuce and ice cubes.
And when I'm feeling really randy on a Friday night, I love a cucumber. And if you bring back this particular animal, I'll re extinct his.
Ass now speaking out now, maybe.
TJ, maybe not extinct, but clearly the Nuggets are in their post Malone arrow after firing their.
Head coach today.
He's a big Pokemon collector, Oh post Malone or Mike Malons Malone, Oh Post, I don't know, I know Mike, Mike Michael Michael Michael Malone collects unemployment slips. So wow, is gonna hate you too. It's it's a bit of a it's a bit of a weird story. I admit that you wake up today and see whoa wait, wait a minute, wait, Michael Malone's been fired his head coach. He's fired.
The Nuggets are not bad?
Wait wait, always fired? Yeah, the Nuggets have lost four in a row. Okay, they've not been great since the trade deadline, and the Nuggets needed to move in another direction.
Right.
You also find out the GM is not coming back as well, So it's a big organizational reset. And you've seen so many comments about this story to the ilk of what.
Are they doing?
How do you fire coach this close to the end of the regular season. It's stupid, It doesn't make sense. Hang on for a second. Just like the Mavericks didn't wake up one day and decide we're going to trade Luka Doncic, the Nuggets didn't just wake up today and say we're getting rid of Michael Malone, the only guy to win a championship for us. It was just a couple of years ago. We've heard reports that maybe he lost the locker room. This is when you get rid of a coach, right, no matter what top part of the year it's at. This is when you make a move. If a coach is not getting the players to buy in anymore, it doesn't matter who comes in, you're gonna be better off. And if he had to go, he had to go. And judging by the fact that this was the narrative that was put out there today and we've seen we've played for you tonight, Michael Malone ripping his team as recently as a couple of weeks ago not happy with his guys. Yeah, you can see where maybe we're chafing and this relationship doesn't work anymore. Oh, you can't do it this close to the playoffs. Hang on, you can absolutely do it. And if he had to go, am I am fine with this move because sometimes just changing the leadership puts a team in a different in a different stratosphere and gets the more mentally prepared for what is ahead. Regular season of Major League baseball. Managers don't get fired because they're terrible. They get fired because, well, the team is underperforming. This will get their attention. That's what happens. Oh, but you're fired right before the playoffs. If it's not gonna work, things are bad. You don't want a first round flame out because you're wasting a postseason of Nikola Jokic while he's still the most talented player in the NBA.
So there's not.
Gonna be a big organizational reset, right. You have David Adelman coming in to take over, and I'm young enough to remember when his dad was a really good coach.
So he's coming in. There's not gonna be a big change. Not suddenly gonna say, hey, you know, Nicole, you're gonna bring the ball up more so they're gonna.
Play their same style. But just being free from whatever tension was going on. If it was a fact that the locker room was lost, just the fact that energy is different puts the Nuggets on a better level of being able to compete in the playoffs. I you give a better chance getting out of the first round, second round, and on than I did before, because if this was so bad, they weren't playing well, they weren't responding. You don't just suddenly pick it up in the first round of the playoffs, especially when the Western Conference is so deep and your first round ain't gonna be an easy round, right, and then you're talking about the second round being the thunder. So you need something. And it's it's not that David Adaman's gonna come in and suddenly say, hey, look, I'm Eric Spolstra, or I'm gonna come in I'm Danny Hurley. But I'm gonna come in and it's just gonna be different, and I'll let the guys play and you're gonna see a more freeing attitude, more freewheeling, less playing through the mud, whatever, whatever, cashit, whatever a phrase you want to throw out there, you will see a different Nuggets team and mentally not having the situation of the coaching of the coaching shadow hanging over them. They're going to play better and they're gonna give a better chance of winning in the playoffs.
Yeah.
I saw a little clip coming out from you know, ownership and talking about where the disconnect was, and clearly malone in the messaging of hey, here's how we can get better.
Let's do film review, let's do this.
Commitment on defense, commitment to listening to instruction was clearly not there. So uh, time for a change in voice. And then there was a lot of questioning about Calvin Booth and what he did in terms of surrounding Nicoley Jokic with more talent. Right, you had a good core, but it was one of the things we talked about going back to the trade deadline of all right, didn't do anything.
Is that good or is that bad?
And we've watched defensively, there's no commitment to playing consistent defense. Help defense Yokic youa times seems absolutely lost out there, and you've seen them drift down to where now they're in a three way.
Tie for fifth place or for fourth place.
It's the Clippers, the Nuggets, and the Warriors and their percentage points ahead of the Grizzlies sitting there when you get to tie breakers and all of that fun stuff. So all of that to say, yeah, you need a new voice. Whether Adaman's able to get through them. Part of it's also do you get Murray back and healthy. They're three and seven in their last ten, So yeah, shuffle up and deal. Thought it would be to the off season, but why wait, because maybe you can catch lightning in the bottle right matchups, right cohesion, and maybe more offense running.
That isn't all.
Nikoley Jokich is a one man gang. See one man Oh nice, and then he became a keem and it really got weird. Yeah, a little bit little bit. Yeah, yeah, the one man gang that was when that was the very first Survivor series.
Yeah, he was there.
He was also in World Class Championship Wrestling with the Von Erics back to Dallas before that.
Wow, very nice.
Yeah.
Mike Harmon, WWE historian brother.
I mean, I'm expecting to see you like on the History Channel and they look back at the history of the w.
W F and they interview you and I got the whole thing. I'm working in nineteen eighty seven. This is why this is a This is a really big thing that happened back then. I want to tell you back and you see.
All the whole We're going to get some videos in at WrestleMania and see if we can't build baby build exit out by the Fresco Exit, twell and' dome. If he had to go, he had to go. The timing is irrelevant, and trust me, the Nuggets will play better and freer. It will be a different team. Coming up next, we got more from the biggest story in the NBA tonight. Luca gets tossed. Should he have gotten tossed? Was it personal?
Yes?
Was it personal that the Lakers at this just to piss off Michael Malone?
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Yeah, chicken Jockey, I'm just gonna say that at odd intervals.
Now for the next few nights it works, Just chicken jockey.
I'm supposed to respond like the people in the theater, right, get this guy out of here, fellas you want more cow Bell Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh, you now get the cowbell and still in the Hobo drop. You know, we we talked about you being on the I Wait to see you in the History Channel interview on you know, here's the WWE at fifty or whatever. Yeah, because you're kind of a WW story. I'm a kind of a nerd. Yeah, I'd want to be in one of those pop culture anthology shows about stuff because I'm telling you, telling you, fella some more cowball as I'm telling you the Minecraft.
Movie is really bad.
But seeing how it's been accepted, right, one hundred and fifty five million dollars in the first week, and it's a weird movie. You know how weird it is the first two minutes in during Jack Black's voiceover, and you know, obviously if you've played Minecraft, which you know, my my family we've played Minecraft now for going on ten years, it's just so much fun. So we of course we're going to see the movie. It's so bad, but the acting, everybody tries to sell it. Jack Black tries to sell it, Jason Momoa tries to sell it. Jack Black gets to sing three times in the movie. Right, it's so bad, but it's gonna be legendary bad because, and I'm telling you this, I'd go on one of these shows in a few years from now, and I would say I knew when the movie came out and Minecraft the movie was gonna be Generation z's rocky horror picture show.
Right.
Two things for this number one, we should just produce that show ourselves, okay, because we're just encyclopedias of nonsense related to pop culture in all forms. Is number two Chicken Jockey? I demanded that is it? Clinton Steel? No, No, that's number three. The second thing, guess how much it's made globally to this point.
Oh, it's a one hundred and fifty five million domestically, two eighty three.
Twenty three. My goodness, after the first week. You know, you just see the way I see the way my daughter's generation is responding the people that are getting kicked out of theaters after the Chicken Jockey moment, which is did did not despoil? But it's a moment where a zombie jumps on top of a chicken in the octagon and Jack Black just says, chicken jockey, And there's been enough enough screen grabs and recordings of that. Any social media site you're on, you've.
Run into it.
Yeah, there's there's no reason for it. It's not like it's a big thing. It's just him saying, chicken jockey with the movie and jack.
The best jokes. It's a terrible movie. What does it matter?
I know, but I'm telling you it's gonna be the Rocky Horror Picture Show where for this generation where they're going to continue to do things during them, hopefully not stuff to get thrown out of movies.
Don't do that, but where Rocky Horror.
Became the movie of a generation of going to the midnight show and yelling stuff out and having the interactive experience.
It still goes down the street from my house. Yeah, it's all the time.
Yeah, the same night showing right there. You've gone to see that in the We've gone to see that in the theater. It's it's really fun. And I will throw a toilet paper at you. Sure, yeah, riff, how do you okay?
So so can we we can go and lipstick of the.
This is what the impact and this is how this generation is gonna come to mindcraft. They're gonna go to midnight uh, screenings of Minecraft the movie. They're gonna find a way to participate in the movie while it's going on. I mean it's going to be that kind of that kind of movie where you know, Rocky, You're a picture now is fifty years old, and it was a movie that when it came out didn't really make sense. It was crazy stuff stuff happening where you're.
Like, how big is how big is this steiry? That meat Loaf is still riding a motorcycle? Yeah, how big is that Stairwell, you had to be at meat Loaf. I gotta have it. I mean, well he was Eddie.
I mean, of course, let's do the time. So, but that's gonna be this, it's gonna be different. It's not just gonna be we're gonna go to movies and shout stuff at the screen. But you're already seeing TikTok trends with with with with these kids and they're all in on it. And Zoe tells you that's all they're talking about is the Minecraft. That's all they're talking about.
She've seen it twice, she wants to see it again this weekend. She saw it with us and then went the next day with two of her best friends to go say they couldn't wait to see it.
They showed up at the theater. One of one of her best friends showed up dressed up like Minecraft Steve with a diamond sword.
There you go. That was the best.
And here I am trying to shop for a glittery coat for WrestleMania.
So I mean it all plays together.
But all of that to say, you know, the main point in all of this is find the good man. Like, if that's what you embrace, go have fun with it. Mamo and Black certainly did they get paid well, so I'm gonna get paid well for a sequel. Yeah, well you have the thing like it gonna be one of those where well we can't touch this again.
No, they're gonna do.
It's hard to touch it now they they did. Yeah, there is but boy Jack watching. There's too much money to leave it on the table.
Yeah.
I think for the two of them, the hey, let's see, let's see how the dust settles for as forward commit to.
Came back to Aquaman too, unless maybe that well that is true and the other Justice League. Yeah, and he was ready. He signed on for more. If they would have kept doing them the.
Tone of the movie is so weird, and it takes about twenty minutes of the movie to just realize, Okay, this is just how it is. There's no change because it kind of seems like it's Jumanji, where oh, here's four friends. They get sucked into Minecraft, which is a video game, which is just like Jumanji, and it kind of is a little bit. But the tone is so weird. I know he was in a different movie.
I think he did a little bit like looking around for Kevin Hart.
Oh my, I am Bethany and I am but but the tone is just so weird, and I'm like, this is so and then I'm like, okay, about twy, I'm like, Okay, this is just how it's gonna be.
Wait, who's the Karen Gillan in this one? Just how it's gonna be.
Uh, the Karen Gillen is.
The main cast.
We all celebrate Karen get yeah, one of the main character sisters. I've never seen her in anything before, so I don't know who it is interesting, but it's that. But it's gonna have that kind of impact on this generation.
In the way.
We really should produce that show. Not to get too far away from I read a review where it where it where about Minecraft will Be saying this is gonna be the movie that brings everybody back to the cinema. And I'm like, okay, every big hit can't be the movie that brings people back. But then I'm like, no, we get a big movie, then people don't come back because I don't have to. Uh so yeah, yeah, people are always gonna come back for big movie. There's a lot of big movies coming out. Thunderbolts is coming out, You're gonna have Fantastic four. Movie is gonna be uh it's gonna come out at Animals.
Yeah, and and you got us Scarlett Johansson involved, Right, that's a big deal.
Uh.
You know.
So you're going to have you know, these big ten pole movies coming out, which is good because it's the first movie I've been to.
In a few weeks. Is that right? Yeah?
But but it you know, oh, it's bringing movies back. I'm like, wow, this is where we're at, Like, man, this is this isn't even as good as the Emoji movie, but it's going to be legendary. Okay, And if you're gonna be bad, be legendary bad. No, But that's the thing, right, if you're gonna fail fail spectacular, yeah yeah, And in this case, it's just the movie fail in terms of well it's done.
The movie's not great if it made money, Look.
How much money is making three hundred and fifty million? Will you're going to see the Minecraft movie. I'm going to see stuff like Soderberg's Black Bag. I will say, it's a different world. It looks really good. It looks like, Hey, how you want to see a live action Minecraft movie? It looks really good. So there's That's not like they went cheap on it, like it doesn't matter. It's not like it looks like Morbius, so.
You wait Morbious alone.
It does. It does look really good. It's a classic. It looks really good. I'm telling you it's gonna bess like what.
I have no idea.
It's the Rocky Horror Picture Show for gen Z telling me that's what it's gonna be. They're gonna find a way. They're already gonna find a way to do it multi screen experiences online on your front. Rocky Horror Picture Shup to the Left. Time now to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports, man has been compared to Steve from Minecraft to Fox Sports. Rightwow, you's got to picka and he keeps digging until he hits Redstone.
Pickax Pete was a hell of a game back in the day. It's Steve de Seger.
Did you say, friend, want to hit Sumner Redstone?
Sumner Redstone nicely dodge chick on the old people. Sure we know some red Stone.
Yes, I want to talk about the nineteen eighty five CBS Sunday Night lineup.
Dude, that was fantastic. That's a poll of the night right there. Just thank you good nights. Sumner Redstone died four years ago, just so you know. Yeah, at age like one hundred and ninety. I believe he was close. He was ninety seven, Ol, Well are you ninety seven? That's far off.
We do have a final in the late game Major League Baseball. It went twelve innings. Houston won at Seattle to one as the Mariners offense with runners in scoring physition was won for nineteen oh boy, just put them out of their misery. Mariners outfielder Victor Roebliss made a sensational catch in recent days, but was injured on it and could miss at least twelve weeks with a dislocated shoulder, and they found a small fracture as well. Red second baseman Matt McLean's on the il with a strain hamstring. Padres outfielder Jackson Merrill on the inter list with a strain hamstring. Tonight in Sacramento, A's over the Padres ten to four, the loss to Dylan ceec, who gave up six runs in the first. Cincinnati won one nothing at San Francisco. The Giants offense went four for thirty. Arizona beat Baltimore and Charlie Morton four to three, Morton oh to three. The Colorado Rockies have a two to eight record after Milwaukee won at Colorado seven to one, Kansas City two to one winners against the Twins. Minnesota is three to eight, giving up an unearned run in the eighth, so the Royals went three for twenty eight at the plate and still won the game as the Twins committed three airs. Kansas City starter Cole Reagan's with eleven strikeouts in his six innings no decision. The Cubs have won seven of eight. They got four unearned runs bottom of the eighth to beat Texas ten to six, Atlanta over Philadelphia seven to five in a game that had Chris Saale against Zach Wheeler as the starter, Neither was effective. Sean Murphy first at bat of the season, three run homer for the Braves Angels sent Tampa Bay to a fifth straight loss, four to three, with a run in the eighth and a run in the ninth. Kenley Jansen with career save number four fifty. Toronto won six to one at Boston. Garrett Crochet took the loss, giving up one earned run in four five and two thirds. The Dodgers had a pitcher up from the miners, starting Justin Robleski was down eight to nothing in the fourth. Washington eight to the final over LA. The Dodgers have.
Rodgers had eleven All star starting pitchers when the season started.
Now they're already bringing guys up from the miners.
Actually, it's probably eleven injured pitchers, no kidding. They've lost four or five after the eight no start, that's nine and four now, and I assume it's a bullpen game tomorrow. Blake Snail missing at least two starts for LA with shoulder inflammation. Saint Louis beat the Pirates in Paul Skenes five to three. Cleveland with a run bottom of the ninth edge the White Sox one nothing. White Sox have lost six straight. Mets have won six straight, ten to five. The final against Miami pe Alonso two doubles, four RBIs, and Detroit was a five to nothing winner over the Yankees behind six great innings from Trek Scooble. Paul Goldschmid had three hits for the Yankees, Aaron Judge two hits, but the rest of the team won for twenty four. US women's soccer lost two to one to Brazil tonight on a late goal. NHL talk about late goals. Vancouver was down five to two at Dallas with a minute left in regulation, still beat the Stars in overtime.
Six to five.
Colorado went a shootout edge Vegas three to two. In the NBA, Boston won in overtime at New York one nineteen one seventeen. Jason Tatum had been questionable for the game due to his ankle. Thirty two points he played. He had the game tying three pointer late in regulation. Indiana won it's fifth straight. Clippers won their fifth in a row. Milwaukee won its fifth straight. Even though the Bucks at home were down by twenty four early fourth quarter, they beat Minnesota Anyway one ten, one to oh three.
And they shouted out chicken Jockey and one of a three to eight run.
Only eight points in the last ten minutes for Minnesota. And this is the team that had won five in a row. Oklahoma City got forty two points from Shake Gilgess Alexander. It beat the Lakers one thirty six point twenty. Luka Doncic was kicked out in the fourth quarter. Lakers were up at the time. Golden State won easily at Phoenix one thirty three.
Ninety five. Sons have lost seven in a row. Back to you, Chicken Jockey, Thank you Steve.
Though.
Now we talked about Luca getting tossed from the game tonight one point game in the fourth quarter and it turns into a burial.
Uh.
After Luca gets tossed yelling at a fan, the official thought that he was yelling at him. Yeah, so he throws him out of the game. Luke jock in personally, Luki Yell's right away, I was yelling at the fan. The official said, no, no, no, you throw me out of the game. Look, it's It's hard because you want the officials to not take crap from the players. You want this to happen, and it's their only way of really keeping a lid on the game, and you don't want to impugne their power because once you begin to chip away at it, the power of the referee goes away, and then then you open up a can of worms to stuff where it's are we gonna even listen to calls that happened? Are we gonna listen when when someone gets thrown out of a game, or we gonna listen? We always gonna get pushback when we call a foul. So I get that part of it, But I mean, I maintain this all night if you aren't gonna go crazy for players sitting out back to back games, sitting out nationally televised games. And the Lakers tonight decided we're gonna have all our stars play.
They have a.
Huge emotional game tomorrow night with Luca's return to the Maverick to to Dallas to play the Mavericks. So they got to turn the page on this one pretty fast. And they're still trying to finish third in the Western Conference. You had everybody play. They put everybody out there that Peluca out there, Lebron is there not. This doesn't mean you let them go and you let them say. Hey, whatever happens happens. But if you're gonna throw Luka Doncic out of the game, you gotta make damn sure you're throwing him out for a good reason, not because I thought he yelled something at me, which clearly he didn't. You saw his reaction, you saw the Lakers reaction. He didn't yell at the official.
And this is.
Something that needs to be looked at better than just a knee jerk reaction from an official who says, oh, hey, people want to see me blow the whistle and throw Luca out of the game. Because there's too much at stake. And when you're throwing a star out, I'm not saying you can't do it, but wow, you gotta be really careful. Most of the time, it's obvious, right if someone yells something Draymond Green gets in your face, you throw him out. He stays in your face. I get it from most players, but this is a situation where come on, man, the guy saying something, he's going back down the court. He's not embarrassing even if he's yelling at you, he's not embarrassing you. He's doing it with his head turn, which is how you do it, which is how players at baton Major League Baseball. Disagree with it with the umpires, they kind of talk when they're not looking at They don't want to show him up. But in the end, he wasn't even talking to the official. But you gotta makedamn sure that if we're throwing a guy out, can we look at this and say, let's look at all the evidence we can to make sure we're making the right call. This is just as big a call of hey, who's this ball out of bounds? Off of in a one point game with five seconds left to go? It's a big deal. Is the final two minute review and you can go back and look at things. Was this a three pointer? Was his foot on the line? I'm okay. Was taken five minutes saying are we throwing Luca Dancich out of this game? Do we have the reason to? And that whatever you come to after there, okay, agree or disagree, But at least we went to the wall. We went as far as we could to figure this out. This was you're out of the game. And I'm sorry, we can't fit. No, no, no.
That needs to be figured out because if you're saying, hey, it's important that you guys play, it's important that the officials know when they make big decisions like this that it's the best decision they can make and not something knee jerk like that.
No.
I really hope for there are saying tomorrow with this big game against Dallas, that you get a special guest referee like it is a WWE event, or suddenly walks Danny Davis is gonna come into referee dangerous Danny Davis. Nicely done. But no, that or is part of the mix. But in all seriousness, it comes back to the old mantra of the show.
One of the many is this is a.
TV show, right, I e. Why you want your stars out there and why you're upset about load management and missing those windows. Remember that big issue that came to a head. What was it four or five years ago when you had a month of ABC Saturday games where one after another the team's were like, yeah, the hell with it, our stars aren't playing, and then the Warriors sat down everybody and that was it. That was the typic On was like we're done. Same thing here with the officials, is it's a TV show. Calm the hell down, make sure you get the call right, Calm and convening, Convene the officiating crew and figured out. But until those rules are in place, he thought he called them a dirty name, so he ran him. Got tired of Luca trying to wear him out for forty minutes at a time.
And I mean, is there history of beef man? Lucas says he don't want to beef but maybe maybe he's not charred vernible to the game. Say that.
After the first technical, the official said, I'll talk to anybody but Lucas, so you know it's personal.
Yeah, I can't officiate. Kennedy went after his family. I get it. Well, you say one thing and you get a technical. Okay, I got it. Back up.
Do you really think Luca after getting that first technical, just with that without seeing any evidence, do you really think Luca after getting that first technical with a one point game in a big game where all the Lakers day, we're all we're all gonna play tonight, we got a big game tomorrow, we're all gonna play. And do you really think he's gonna lose his mind and say something to the referee to get thrown out.
Sometimes the emotions get to you. He's been he's been around. He's been around a little bit. He's been around a little bit.
I think, and you also think that you can probably push the official where he's not gonna throw you out because you're Luca Dutch. If this is an early February game where you're playing at Detroit and it's a ten point deficit in the fourth quarter, I get blowing your top.
It's a one point game where you have no idea what or went through to really try.
Let's be sive. I can't even say that with this, I don't think lucas doing I don't think Luca's doing it.
I really.
I mean it's a it's an awful decision by the official to do this, and hopefully the NBA figures out Okay, we can't.
It was a game.
Changer, firmly establishing Rockets as your number two seed on the Western.
Conflop one they lost by fifteen. There you go, that's family unraveled.
This is like the Barman play for suddenly your short stuff can't field, your left fielder is jumping up and down like a three year old who was told he can't go to a birthday party because he can clean his room, and then your pitcher melts down on the mound. Dude, forget about SGA. This fan should be the NBA MVP this year. Hey, I got Luca thrown though, right because he said he'd had beef with them before he did it when he was in Dallas.
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Three days ahead. I don't think we're three days ahead.
And I used to have Wednesdays and thursdays off when I was first starting in sports, right, But.
The actual Friday is three days away, so even no, But I used to work Friday through through Tuesday. Yeah, but the day is still Friday. How do you know? Because I know you don't. I look at a calendar. It's five pm somewhere. I look at a calendar. I look at a calendar. Calendar says time for big mac. That's time for a big mac.
So file this under the category of bizarre sports injuries for twenty five. Okay, Cody Bell, you missed the Yankee game earlier because of a case of food poisoning, which has been attributed to a bad order of chicken wings. Chicken jockey a bad order of chicken wings that he had the night before. Well, now here's the thing I want to do. I want to I want exam because we put this on. We had this injury, and you got Freddy Freeman slipping in the shower and being hurt.
Yeah.
Remember back in the day, you had Clinton Barmeus of the Rockies carrying Jimmy Eat up a flight of stairs after hunting.
If you have.
Bad wings, I gotta think that I'm thinking about the wings being undercooked, right, Like that's something you'd be able to tell pretty quickly.
Right, I mean, I don't know.
There's enough sauce, but you're biting, you're seeing it, You're looking at going, oh, this looks like this is not done.
I mean, I can't believe you're a liar.
No, no, know.
What I'm saying is like.
Could it have been like the dry rub or could it have been the sauce like I mean, if it's like could have been bad? Because I gotta think that if it was the chicken, it's a chicken jockey, if it was the chicken itself, that you'd be able to know, like I think I would like to know. I'd be able to Okay, this is no, this chicken is not done.
Can't have it.
Maybe you were just hungry. Maybe it was late, you weren't paying attention, you just started eating chicken. I think again, texture, texture was enough, and it was covered with sauces and whatever. You bite into bad chicken, you know, like you know this is oh this is cold.
Bad chicken mess. You up, chicken jockey.
Uh, I got it would taste different enough to know I got it.
I don't know. Maybe maybe Tody Bellinger doesn't have a sensitive palate. It's a weird thing.
I again, maybe it's a bad Maybe it's a cover up, something else.
To cover up. Blame it on the chicken. I love the chicken, Jerry, I love it. Blaming the chicken, and there's something else going on. I love the chicken. Jack. Maybe you just need it a day off and they found that excuse for it.
That weird if you're saying that this doesn't, if this doesn't, you know, pass the smell test, no pun intended weirder injury. Yeah, Cody Bellinger or Freddie Freeman, Oh this this oh yeah, yeah, you know everybody's i mean slipped in a shower, yeah, you know. And then you can have a lot of guesses as to how that comes into play. Whether you're repairing something and maybe you slips as you're working on it, or I don't know, bad footing. I'm with you, badfooting, mess you up, I'm with you. You don't have one of those mats down for grip.
Okay, well you're not. Okay, you know, you know stepping on this, Uh you might. Uh.
The thing is is that, like I have this not a fear of it, but I think like you know every sy like when you turn forty, what do you do when you turn Someone.
Asked me once, Hey, what do you do differently? What's the biggest thing from turning fifty?
And I said, I make sure I wash one foot of the time in the shower, like I make sure like before, I just i'd washed both feet yet done down, finished up. I'm like, no, no, no, I'm not gonna s so I watched wash and washing up anyway.
You know what I'm saying.
I watched foot, put it down, get, you know, stand up, wash the other foot.
I'm just making sure that. Okay, I am going to make sure I wash one foot nice, stand up, make sure it's all good. Then I'll watch the.
Other foot slipping in the showers. One of those terrifying kind of things. Been plenty of folks met their bitter end in horror films through the years. Downstairs, Yeah, I mean it can happen that way, Joe. Now to finish up here, Frostburg, you have something that we need to hear from Kevin Harlan. Yes, this is what happens when an announcer reinvents an entire company's business model.
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