April 11, 2025 • 40 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys break down the 2025 NBA Playoffs, focusing on the New York Knicks’ path and what a potential first-round exit could mean for the team—and for head coach Tom Thibodeau. Then, they take a deep dive into the 2025 Masters, giving golf legend Fred Couples his flowers after shooting 1-under par on Day 1. Later, they react to Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson's latest social media post. Catch all that and much more in the first hour of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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here we are, day one of the Masters the NBA.
We're looking at playoff position. I'm not gonna say, Mike,
you know tonight I begin I begin with with a
sense of acceptance, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Accept It's weird. The last few nights, you know, I've
had that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know, last night we had the Mavericks having to
accept Luca is gone, He's not coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Accept it move forward. Yeah, you know, he scored forty
five against you, except move forward.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know it's the thing, And I feel like tonight
it's acceptance, right, you know, I it's just I get
to the point now, look big NBA night. Tonight the
race for third in the East is still alive because
the Pistons beat the Knicks one fifteen, one oh six.
And of course I knew the Pacers were gonna beat
the Cavaliers. That was That was like the if I
like the bet last night of Luca over thirty points. Oh,
(01:37):
the Knicks can win by beating the Pistons or the
Pacers losing. No, no, no, that that's the easiest parlay ever.
Knicks will lose and take the Pacers to beat the
Cavaliers to keep it alive.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So the Pacers beat the Cavs. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I went into last season's playoffs with the Knicks full
of excitement and optimism and expectation because they just.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Had it working right that this was the year.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I was excited for them to get in because I
knew they'd give a lot of teams problems. And they did,
and if they didn't collapse and everybody kept getting hurt
and they were playing with four.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Guys at the end. Hey maybe, but it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, Now this year and seeing what's going on, because
of course they lose to Detroit tonight, what could be
a first round preview. I'm going into this playoffs with
a sense of dread and inevitability, like it's not gonna
it's just not their year. They're just I look at
the team and I go, not only do they look
like they're having problems right now? Only do they look
(02:33):
like the they're they're maybe they're running out of guess
a little bit, but I see that the hallmark of
the team, you know, the entire TIBs era has been defense, right,
and unless they're saving all their defense for the for
the uh for the playoffs? Like how many times can
I watch the other team shoot over fifty percent from
the floor? Right, Like, like Tibbs is there to make sure,
(02:55):
you know? And now now like the whole reason that
Tibbs is there is out the window. They now we
gotta outscore everybody with our starting five, we gotta out
you know, we have a couple of nice bench players,
but we just have to outscore everybody and They're an
incredible identity, and the reason you have the guy there
that you do is gone. It's out the window, like
they've lost the plot and I'm going to playoff going.
(03:16):
I could see the Knicks losing in the first round.
I could see him losing the Pistons in the first round.
I could see them if they drop losing the Bucks
in the first round. I could see it because defensively,
unless again, unless they're saving everything for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Which okay, now we're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, it's gonna be an easy playoff because every single
team that even the bad teams I watched the first
three quarters, How are they shooting fifty two percent from
the floor Tonight? Here's Detroit, who's a good team. Kate
Cunningham goes for thirty six and they shoot fifty two
percent from the floor, Like, how many more times can
I can I watch this happen before I realize they
they they just don't have it. And all the pushing
(03:52):
of the Knicks, like I remember where I was last
year at this point to where I am now at
this point, I'm just like, you know what, forget it,
It's it's not gonna happen. They're gonna lose, and I
feel it's fate and it's inevitable.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And why am I?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Why am I even you know, entertaining, Hey, maybe a
big run, we get the right draw on the first
and know why am I doing this?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's not happening.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, to be fair, I mean we tried to prep
you for this, what was it two and a half
months ago? Man Frostburg more more vociferously, but you always
take it with a grain of salt because he just
loves to get your goat, as the kids would say.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But the fact is that.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You guys haven't played a lick of defense in a
long long time, and you shortchanged the pistons. They shot
fifty seven percent from the field today, not even just
better than not just a little bit better than the
coin flip.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, no, no, this was where professional betters are packing it
in on them. That's how badly we're over that fifty
four and a half threshold.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
No, it's it's been tough to watch and not being
able to cultivate a bench has long been a TIBs.
Hallmark go back to Chicago, go to Minnesota, every stop
where he's been. It's a short rotation of guys that
are his guys that he trusts, and eventually it punches
you in the face repeatedly against better teams.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Guys are gas.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Fourth quarter you got nothing, and even out of the gate,
you know, some tough runs, but it's it's just been
a long slog. We talked about it and predicted that
Tibbs would no longer be your coach after the playoffs
are done. Now it'd be shocking. You know, you got
what two games left. Might as well fire him now,
man a Denver got rid of all we got like
(05:34):
shuffling up.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let's gore TIBs, Danny Hurley, Fire TIBs and hire Danny
Hurley right now that you've been trying to get him
into every job though, Hey, I saw that a double
a manager got fired.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Hey, Danny Hurley, that's where you're at. He's gonna change
the culture. He's got to revunt.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Can you imagine him just staring up and and and
and and and injuring all the all his neck muscles,
yelling at Karl Anthony Towns or whatever a rotation he
didn't pull off on defense.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Can you imagine that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Just him standing of it, him yelling at all while
catch is looking straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I mean, come on, I want to see that. I
want to see that. No, no, but it's like the
what is it do?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
You're swimming across the river insert animal here, and then
you have poisonous animal on top, and then halfway through
he bites him.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know what you were getting? You know what you
were getting? A cat? He wasn't gonna commit to defense.
Forty eight minutes a night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You're giving me the opening seat of the crying game
is how you're giving me right now, that old speech
that Forrest Whittaker get okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's it's a deep poll my garment, it's a deep pole.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I appreciate you giving me much more, much more credit
than it deserves, because that's not where I remember it from.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Although I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Movieg Yeah, Frog, you know it's in my Why did
you stay?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's in my nature? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Why can't you? Did you play defense? That's in my nature?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Guy?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You know, I'm just saying I saw that movie many
years ago. But I've seen that uh story used repeatedly
throughout history, and I would not have attributed to that movie. Oh,
there's many other things that come out of the crying
game that we need to talk about at a later
date maybe unless we don't. But when it comes down
(07:14):
to this, yeah, you know what Karl Anthony Towns is.
You want to play tough defense, you want guys to
run and kill themselves for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
He's not gonna do be that guy. He's not gonna
sign up for that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I mean, man, really, I mean it's here's you think
I'm You think I'm being over overly sensitive, overly dramatic
Nick fan. Oh, by the way, that's the only kind
of Nick fan there is.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We're gonna say, if we did as a ven diagram,
there's a crossover with a very small group of four people,
what do you do?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I like the nachos. If and that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
If the Knick, If the Knicks don't get out of
the first round of the playoffs, and that could easily happen,
I could see.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I could see there being an excuse.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
If they win, they get they win the first round
and then they lose to the Celtics or the Cavaliers
in a competitive ish series and one of those teams
moves on, right, I could see that.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, because now I think you know.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You look at the Knicks roster, it's not really it's
not put together the best way it was. Let's just
assemble all the best players we can and put put
them all in the court, and let's give up our
first round picks. And we don't need for five first
round picks. Now we have the cal Bridges. Oh okay,
but if they go out in the first round, if
they if they lose in the first round, and it's
(08:28):
a it would be a stunner, right, whether you lose
to the Pistons in the first round, whether the Pacers
jump ahead of you and you lose to the Bucks
in the first round, if you lose in the first round,
that's it for Tips, Like there's going to be a
change simply because his grip on the team is no
longer really there, right, his grip was on the team
for the last couple of years. Where I know, my guys,
(08:51):
get me these players, this is who we build around. Okay, great,
but now they're well gone from the identity that they've had,
and it's a way we don't play defense anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
We could try to outscore everybody, right, this is what
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Okay, Well, if the coach if you're not really there,
if you've left his philosophy entirely, Like, why the hell
is the guy there? So I mean, if this is
not gonna be tolerated, if they go out in the
first round, it's gonna be a new head coach, Danny Hurley,
it's gonna be a new head.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Coach for the next next season.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And boy, I'll tell you stand back and watch and
watch that happen, all right, because suddenly the Knicks are
a destination. Who's gonna want to come in and coach
Brunson and Karl Anthony Tizer. Hey, okay, all of a sudden, Man,
you're gonna see people come out of the woodwork for
this job. So it's not where Hey, if we fire Tibbs,
we can't get anybody. No, this is now a pretty
attractive job. The Knicks are a loaded team and you
could be that team that takes them to that next level.
(09:43):
So they're not gonna look into this offseason going. Boy,
if we replaced Tibbs, who are we gonna get It's
gonna be first round flame out. They're not really subscribing
to his direction anymore. We've lost our identity. There's a
lot of guys we can bring in here that might
want this could teat us to the next level. That's
absolutely going to happen. If the Nicks losing the first round.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
That would be one hell of a reality show. There's
no question about it. Obviously, Michael Malone's sitting out there.
There's been some questions if Greg Popovich does not return
to the Spurs that maybe Malone is the guy that
gets named the coach there, you know, for the Spurs
as they go into this next era, wondering what you're
(10:22):
getting when when Wenby comes back and everything else. But
it's it's the curiosity of how long can you can
you run when it's stale?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We see it with teams even when they're winning. We're
asking our questions like you're only getting this far to
mix sports. We look at the NFL with Mike Tomlin
every year, it's like, all right, he's gonna be five
hundred or just above, but are you getting over With Tibbs,
it's say how long can you do this and and
run these guys into the ground. I mean, you've got
how many years of tape at this point? Again owing
(10:52):
to all those other experiences and coaching situations that he's had.
It's the same script. So for New York leadership, for
your guy Dolan, he's got to put the guitar down
and make some very difficult decisions here. And let's get
that reality show going. I want to host it.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean really, I mean I I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
If we can get a reality show, that's great. But
if they just say, hey, we're hiring Danny Hurley, we
don't need it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We don't need it. Yeah, but that's a show.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But just remember he's not coming off another title, so
he can't use them like he did the Lakers for leverage.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh, he would have to like accept the job if
they offered it. He would have to.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, Just so we're making sure we're clear
on that he doesn't have the leverage this time.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And let's be honest, the Knicks have leverage because hey,
here's a big weekend trip.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Danny Hurley and his family all took to Los Angeles. Hey,
what when are.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We ever gonna get to do that? Right here we
are is the fence is fun? Is in youcont he's
in stores. He can go to New York City anytime
he wants to right. It's not like suddenly all hey,
we're having a free weekend of this. Say no, you know,
any time you want to you go to New York.
You're recruiting there anyway, It's all good. No, no, no,
you do you go right to Danny Hurley and say, okay,
come on and do it. I really and I'm just
I could just picture a timeout and I can just
(12:03):
see Kat coming off the floor and Danny Hurley just
just pulling his neck back as far as he can
to stare up, just to scream at him like I mean,
I really Now I'm thinking, Okay, if that's the outcome
of this, that that's worth it, that's completely worth it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
No, I kinda I think I gotta dig this. I
think this really could work. We need you to start
working the beat in New York if Danny Hurley does
take that job though, Okay, and he can hate you
as much as man.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
JJ Reddick really hates me, Man, I don't. I don't
know that's.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Danny Hurley, but you know what you were bulletin board
material to use that tired cliche, you know, and you
help the Lakers on a path towards greatness.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
So I mean it's it works. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I mean, well, okay, so let's see, we've gotten the
rams of Super Bowl and Sean McVay. We may get
the Lakers a championship with Okay, so all right, I
could set my sights on the next. I think that's fine,
we can do that.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I think that. I think that's fine. I think that'll work.
With the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean, we've clearly promoted the hell out of all
of these special events days and the monetization and.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Celebrated all of that. That's got to be count for something.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I'm beau because I mean we we've zigged where everybody
else zagged, and we zigged and leaned into it and said, hey,
you don't like it, tough blank, go get him.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You know, like like Kevin Durant. You don't like it,
don't watch.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
It's all of it, right, the Lucas celebration, the Dodgers celebrations.
If if it's not for you, there's plenty of other
influencers you can go waste your time on.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'm just trying to get that rolling off the tongue, now,
you know. Look, Nick's head coach Danny Hurley said this
after the game. I kind of that kind of feels right,
doesn't it. And it kind of feels right. It really
it really works. It kind of feels right. Like Lakers
head coach Danny Hurley still see it would seem weird, right,
especially not because my buddy JJ Reddick has a job,
but like Nick's head coach Danny Hurley, that's not Yeah,
that sounds legit, like that's absolutely I could see that, yes,
(14:01):
one percent.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, well, I mean, look speaking into existence, keep putting
it out there, build your little altered to him, and
light the candles every day and maybe you can make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
The chant at tomorrow's game because you know that the
Cavaliers are gonna kill him tomorrow night, the last home
game of the regular season. He said, we had all
the fire Nico chants last night in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You're just gonna hear.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Danny Hurley, Danny Hurly, just that one guy keeps jumping
up and cheering and trying to get the crowd to.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Come along with him.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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Now we'll get to that big NFL story in a second,
But today was Day one of the Masters, a tradition
unlike any other, and a couple of really crazy stories,
really fun ones tonight. Justin Rose, of course, is your
leader after day one, just twenty two putts overall, which
(17:44):
is like I put twenty two times I think on
the front nine twenty two putts. He leads the Masters
by three shots. Scottie Scheffler, who was expected one of
the big favorites coming in Rory McElroy as well. Scheffler
had a big night, so a big day to day.
So it looks like we could have a pretty fun hey,
big name down the stretch if Day one pour tens
(18:06):
of anything but the story of the day, and it's
just insane that this happens. Is that right now, still
within shouting distance after day one and like, I don't
know how much longer it's going to be this way,
but Freddy.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Couples, Yeah, let's go boom boom.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Freddy is under par, just the second person sixty five
rover to hole carry an under par round at the Masters.
And here he is in contention after day one, and
it's like, well, I mean, what a what a blast
the wayback machine, Like, all of a sudden, here's Freddy Couples. Potentially,
hey could be a player here the first couple of
(18:44):
days of the Masters.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Tied with a very large group of people for the
eleven slot. Right now, we got five nations represented in
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
But yeah, the fred Couples thing. As soon as he
hit that, he's tied with Brian Harmon, not my brother,
m A d. For Brian Harmon, not mon as our surname.
But uh, look, I always celebrate the elder statesman in
our sports, Jason, because it means that we're still okay,
we're still not quote that old. So Freddy keep swinging it, buddy.
(19:17):
It's the highlight I played probably thirty times. Come on,
let's see it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Again, Freddy.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You want you want a great Freddie Couples story. This
is I'll never got a Freddie Couples. Oh okay, I'll
never get a chance tell the story again. Well, first
of all, it's the which I'm glad it didn't have
actually two stories. So you know, for a long time,
my dad used to uh was a marshal at the
Genesis Invitational.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh yeah, absolutely. He hasn't been able to do it
the last couple of years. They changed it. They change
the rules on him, is what he says. They change
the rules on me. Now, Oh okay, so he.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Finally has to check that box on question fourteen that
he'd avoided for years.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And he would joke around with me and I would say, oh,
what are you doing? He goes, well, one of the
things that the marshals does is people who volunteer is
you know, you get like they do the whole I
think it's like a free round of golf and and
and stay different like this has been a been a
pretty consistent thing all along for the last like twenty
thirty years. When you do this, he's his first job
was first couple of years was going to the airport
(20:13):
and picking up the golfers and bringing them to their hotel.
Or bringing them to the course wherever they needed to go,
like bring would tell the course. And I said, wow,
I said, they trust you with they trust you with that.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Course they trust He goes, well, unless I get Freddy
Couples in the car, then I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm like, oh, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, don't don't joke
around with that when you're there story time.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Just joke around with them.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's a commercial. This is like Freddy in the back
seat going this isn't the way to the golf course.
He had beef with Freddie Couples. No, not beef, like
he loved Freddy Couples like Couples, Oh no, he loved
Freddy Couples. And Bubba Watson were too. And kJ choy right,
Remember I told you he likes hit it sure, yeah, Like,
but Freddie Couples and Bubba Watson were his two favorite
golfers in the last thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
And he was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He was that Bubba is not playing this year, but boy,
if Freddy Couples is there, oh yeh, Like Dad, Dad, Dad,
don't don't say that. Don't joke around with that. At
the at the course. Just just talk to me about that.
Don't joke around with that.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Don't you're worried about a misery situation happening. Come on,
mister man.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Kind of like a nicer misery situation.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, sure, I'm not saying they were gonna he was
gonna hobble him.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think it's like like Freddy Couple.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Hey, is this Freddy Couples in this hole in the
wall bar like thirty miles outside of La and Freddie
Couples goes. Please someone call someone, make a phone call
for me. I'm fred Couples, Please help me.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
What was the uh what was that Celtic Pride?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dennis Farina was the head coach. Yeah,
the Damon Wayans was the was this?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Uh wait, so Dennis Farina coach to that too, because
he was fired as the Knicks go Eddie.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
No, that's right. He was the coaching and if he
was able to do both. Yeah, yeah, no, no, he
was the coaching. I had my aughts.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
See what I tell you that when the aughts is
such a huge, you know, it'll be in wasteland.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah. But I mean, look at that cash. You had.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Dion Sanders was in there, sure, Paul Guilfoyle before he
was hanging out with my man William Peterson on CSI.
I mean, Shooter McGavin was in there for crowing. And
the great Gail oh Grady.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Love Gail ever since NYPD Blue all. And then she's
in all those Hallmark movies now, like Keel Grady's.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And a lot of them. Yeah, she's married like six times. Yeah.
Now she's like the mom in the hall I'm like, ah, really.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Well but still active, still getting after it, yeah, saying
we're not that old.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, if it's too loud, you're too old. Right. So
so here's this is this is my best friend couple story.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So this is back in ninety in ninety three, I'm
going back thirty years, right, But because I remember this
today is that I I just started working at the
ESPN as a production assistant. And you know, you go
in at like three o'clock in the afternoon and you
get assigned a game that's your game supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You're supposed to watch.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That game, take it into the edit bay and edit
the highlight that they run on Sports Center, Right. So
that's that's that was what everybody did when they first started.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
So I come at.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Three o'clock and I haven't been there that long, and
the guy in charge, the manager.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Says, oh, Jason, glad you're here. I'm like, I can't
believe you know who I am. I'd been here like
a week and a half.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Hey, you need to watch the first day at Durrell.
It's coming in right now. You're cutting a highlight for
the six o'clock sports center. It's the lead store. You
got a minute and a half. And I'm going, uh, okay,
cause you know, six o'clock at night, you know the
sports center. There's not a lot of highlights from the day.
And it just happened to be one of those days
where there was no baseball. The other side, I'm like, okay,
and I said don and I go, I know absolutely
(23:40):
nothing about golf. Oh my good, the only golfer ride
new Because then you know then obviously in the in
the years there, that's kind of where all my golf
knowledge came from, because I really started enjoying and appreciating it.
I started playing it a lot, you know, a long
time ago. I'm like, I don't know anybody like I
knew just a couple of names. I'm like, I don't
know what am I gonna look for? I have no idea,
and I gotta I'm gonna edit this, and it's the
first thing they're gonna be in the show, and it's
(24:00):
like gonna be.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Like a minute and a half highlights. I'm going, oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The only golfer I knew, really that I knew was
good was Fred Couples that was playing. That's the only one,
because he had just won the Masters and he had
the best year of his like he was gad Like,
it's hard to not know Fred Couples, right.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Sure, and your dad had his poster up on his wall.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No, no, that back then. I didn't know that. I
don't think my dad. My dad back then was probably
you know, hey, Ben and J. C. Snead are my
two biggest golfer. So I'm like, okay, I guess I
will all right, fine, yeah, okay, I'll I'll hit the highlight.
So I edit the highlight and I put in Fred
Couples like like six times, right, like in a minute,
because he's the only guy I really knew.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I'm like, okay, this guy's up at the top
of the leaderboard. But how great of a shot is this?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
So I put fred Couples in like six times, and
I'm going I don't so I'd go the highlight and
I put it in and and and I'm kind of nervous,
and I'm sitting to the back and I'm watching the
highlight as it airs on Sports Center and everything is
is fine, like Bob Lee voices over the highlight, everything
is fine. Here's another Hey, red Couples, fred Couples. Boom, Oh,
Freddy Couples, Freddy Couples.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Okay, great. I'm like oh.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And then a couple of people PA's who had been
there longer than I was like, wow, that's a lot
of Freddie Couples in that wasn't it was?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It? Was there? Better stuff? Was there? Better stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm like, blank, you man, I watched it, okay. But
and they were like, oh, should go look at it.
I'm like, oh, man, okay. So I'm thinking, okay, maybe
this's not that this wasn't the best job I did,
but who knows. And then the guy my manager says, hey, Jason,
the producer of the show, wants to talk to you now.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And I go oh no, oh boy, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So it's like it's like it's like seven o'clock and
the baseball game I'm gonna watch is starting in like
twenty minutes. I'm hoping to run to McDonald's and get food,
and I'm going, okay, wow, I'm in trouble. I'm never
gonna get a golf highlight again. They're gonna hate me
because you started on a six month probationary period. Well enough,
after six months they said you're gone. You're gone, like
they fire you. So I'm like, okay, this is the
(25:52):
first one. I want to walk in and tell them
I just did it because they gave me the assignment.
And the producer says to me, hey, uh your highlight.
He goes that you had a lot of thought in that.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
That was great. I'm so glad you spotlight fred Couples.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
He was the biggest name at the event. Like that
was pretty good. You know do you do you have?
You cut a lot of golf highlights. I go, no,
I've been here like a week now, I'm been here week.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
He goes yeah. He goes, oh, you really followed the storyline.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And apparently Freddie Couples was the biggest golfer there, Like,
there wasn't a lot of other guys he was. You know,
I know that there was a lot of him in
the highlight, but you know, hey, everybody wants to see
Fred Couples more than they want to see any of
these other guys.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
No, that was really good. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And that was the point in my life when I realized,
if someone's complimenting you, and and and you have a
lot of questions, you just say thank you and you
walk away.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Hey, thanks you. So I said, hey, thanks, really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Awesome? Okay, great, great. So I walked back, I'm like, yeah,
where's that? Where's a PA's that been there like four
months longer than.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Me going oh that highlight? That highlight. So I was
like feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
But then the next few months I became the go
to guy for golf highlights early in the day, like
every day I came in at three point thirty, it
was hey, Jason, sit down and watch the deposit guarantee. Jase,
sit down and watch a first day of the Greater
Hartford Open. Jason, You're gonna cut this. I'm like, oh
my god. I had golf like every day for like
three months.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh boy, I want to watch the Mets. Can I
go watch the Mets? Leave me me?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
But but then I started doing more research on it
and understanding more people. I'm like because of the one
highly where there were hardly anybody else there. But and
I still remember the shot I put in. A couple's
missing a putt. He like three putted, and he put
the club of the and he put his club like
on his forehead and he banged it on his forehead,
and I was like, oh my god, Like, hey, that
was a great shot to get in there. Oh my god,
that was so awesome. You put in a great reaction shot.
(27:36):
I'm like, yeah, oh great. So I became the golf
I was like the pia. I'd walk in at three
thirty because a lot of people go into three thirty
and they don't do anything. Their game is at seven
and they just get to hang around and some cause
it's a lot of people. It's like fifty people coming
in PA's and they're all different things, and there's two
people in charge. When someone needs to do something, they
grab him at the So some people you come in
from like four. I was not doing anything right that's
(27:57):
what it was. No, no, no, oh golf. Oh here, yeah,
I know I'm doing that golf. So I would sweat
my ass off cutting a highlight for this golf thing
because I didn't really know the sport. And then like, okay,
now you got a baseball game or a basketball gamer.
Oh man, all because of Freddy Couples. Freddy Couples started
to be off on that run right there.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I gotta have more couples. Gotta gotta have Freddy Couples.
I gotta have it. I gotta have Freddy Couples. You
gotta give me Trilli.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
When he came down and yeah, I mean you walk
up to the other guys, They're like, oh what you got?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Called to the principal's office, the producer. What did he
have to say? I said, I got. I gotta have
more couples. It's like, but you had six shots in
there already. It's like I didn't enough.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Who got that highlight with Freddy Couples? Oh man, that
was chasing all right, Hey, okay, give him everything else.
I'm like, please, can I walk in and just say nope, nope,
here I am Friday.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hey, it's cut down day. Jason. Let me know when
they when they make the cut. What the cuts at
the sure? Sure? Oh my, oh my god. Okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Think about the golf guys, the guys that got golfer
or the women that got golf.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Later on, it was just watch Tiger.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, yeah, oh exactly, yeah it does. Anybody else doesn't matter.
You just watched Tiger Woods. Just watch Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Get all his facial expressions. Yea tis a curse word.
Make sure we get it, you know all of that.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, what about McElroy? No, we don't need any of
those guys. Show me. I'll tell you what. Ah doesn't
matter going into the weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
He is obviously the uh the non live favorite, and
all of that heavy, heavy betting market on Rory McElroy.
You want to talk about an overweighted proposition of Hey,
who's everybody's money on that guy?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
No pressure here, that's Hey, Freddy, I hope Freddy wins.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I mean, oh no, Freddy I mean comes in like
this would be what an awful because I remember it
wasn't too long ago. What was the year when when
Watson at the Open Championship, like came down to a
putt on the last hole and he could have forced
a playoff. This when he was like in his late fifties,
and I was like, oh my goodness, Tom Watson could
actually win the He had an incredible run over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I forget where it was.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Maybe it was a Truon or Carnoustie, I forget, but
all it came down to, like if he hit which
and you know, his whole career, Tom Watson putting was
his thing, right, I told you thirty years I've been,
I've been, I've studying gold Like I think he had
a putt on eighteen that if he hit it could
have forced a playoff, and he didn't, and he lost.
I forget who won, but it was such a I mean,
(30:23):
that's kind of what I feel like for Freddy Couples here.
And look, the Masters clearly as one of those courses
where you know, hey, playing there for so long, you're
only going to stick around for a certain amount of
time because really the length and the and the scores
going low is what's really going to do it for you.
It's you know, if you're going to really stick around
as an older golfer, it's got to be where the
(30:44):
elements work at you, or the course works at you
and takes away the advantage other people have, Like you know,
I mean, Freddy Couple's one of the most was the
longest hitter on the tour for so long, and now,
of course.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
He's sixty five.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
He watches guys just you know, fly by him obviously,
so I hope he sticks around. I doubt it, but
it would be an unbelievable story.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
If he does.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
You were taking us back to two thousand and nine
Open Championship. Is that what we're looking to do over
at turn Party short in Scotland?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Ah? Very nice? Okay, all right, that's where it was.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay, And he had a putt on eighteen that wasn't
It wasn't a really it wasn't like it was incredibly difficult.
It was like a fifteen footer or something, I think,
and if he hit it would have been.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Oh my god. Tom Watson's like sixteen. He's in a playoff. Yeah,
ends up with Stuart Sink. Yeah. And there you.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Go, exit out bout a fresca exit swollen dome that
walk down memory Lane.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
How about that thirty years ago of Freddy Couples.
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Speaker 1 (31:54):
Thirty thirty time out to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. But guy who's been called
the Fred Couples of Fox Sports Radio, he walks around
the hallway and everybody says, hey, boom, boom, it's Isaac Lowhenkron.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Jason Jason. Thank goodness that you have the knowledge to
cut highlights. This is a miracle. I actually need Justin
Rose's eighth birdie of the day.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I need his.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Birdie put on the sixteenth hole, and I need it
in the next five seconds.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Can you do it?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You think, Okay, everything you just said right there, If
instead of five seconds you said two and a half minutes, that's.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
How too bad?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Sorry, I need it. I need it in five seconds.
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I was reading into a lot of subtexts there. I love.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Justin Rose leads the Masters a three shot lead after
a seven under sixty five today.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Needs the pace. Annie's got it? What a putt from
Justin Rose? Can you believe it? Ned? There's no stopping
him right now.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
That's unbelievable. Jason, how'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
You know you asked me? You know what I did?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Now, with the technology and now everything is on server
instead of video tape, it's a lot easier.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
You can't to the rescue there.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
You know, I took an extra ten seconds I think
it was. It was more fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In a five. Oh, we film a bustard nicely. Yeah,
that's all good.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
It's like riding a bicycle, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
That's right, that's right. He's never ridden a bicycle in
his life. I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But here's the thing, honestly, is that when you think
about what it was like to edit a highlight in
the nineties versus now, Oh my god, here's a videotape.
You record it, you pop it out of the out
of the system, you bring it into a room, you
dub it over, you tell them where to edit, get
in and out. Then you take it out, bring it
into the room like you need five or ten minutes.
Whereas now it's like, oh, this highlight just happened. Oh yeah,
(33:44):
give me thirty seconds and you can have the highlight.
Oh great, that's technology.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It was hell back then, wasn't it. I tell my kids,
we actually had to get up and walk over to
the TV uphill in the snow both ways.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Justin Rose three shot lead A Rascottifler, Corey Cotters and
Ludwig Oberg, all of them shot a sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Today.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
In the NBA, the Indiana Pacers held off the Cleveland
Cavaliers one fourteen to one twelve for their sixth straight win.
They also clinch a top four seed in the Eastern Conference.
Kate Kuttagam scored thirty six of the Pistons one to
fifteen to one oh six win over the New York Knicks.
Bucks winning over New Orleans won thirty six to one eleven.
Giannis On Tetakupo twenty eight points, eleven rebounds, five assists.
(34:26):
One game going on right now at halftime. The Memphis
Grizzlies lead the Minnesota Timberwolves seventy two to sixty seven. Baseball,
they're still in a rain delay. In Atlanta, Phillies and
Braves tied at one you know the seventh. Then in
Kyle Schwarbroo a home run for Philadelphia, his sixth of
the season to lead the National League. Finally, in the NFL,
it was announced today that Brent Musburger has been inducted
(34:49):
into the Broadcasters wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Musburger spent sixteen years as the host of the NFL Today,
a program that really set the standard for modern sports
television pregame shows. Here's how it sounded in nineteen eighty
seven when Musburger set the stage for Super Bowl twenty one.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
You are looking live at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
One hundred and one thousand fans will gather in this
venerable stadium for the biggest singles sporting event of the year.
The American Football Conference champion Denver Broncos meet the National
Football Conference champion New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
This is the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
And that was actually edited twenty seconds ago by Jason
back to you.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
You know. The funny thing is my dad.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Every time you would see that, like I'd watch games
of my dad, he always had a great line, Like
you would hear that line, and that was always Brent
Musburger saying you are looking live here, he would say,
And my dad, would you allow and go No crap, Brent, Oh,
I thought this was a tape of.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The Super Bowl. Well, I won't say that.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
If it was an NBA Finals game at the time,
it would have been every single.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Time you are looking, Oh, it's not a tape ball.
That's great, We're looking live, all right, great, thanks, thank you,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Buddy, Wow, hateful on good old Brett Musburger. Congratulation.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Go cat.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
By the way, if you need some Freddy couple's action
twenty five hundred to one right now, get it on
boom boom right.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Now, baby, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
ILove Jason and Mike live FROMTHATIREC dot coms. He was
all right, So we wanted to get to that Freddy
couple that was said. That was guragage deal today, I
mean Freddy Couples and the Masters. This is such an
amazing story. But coming up next. Yes, an NFL quarterback
had an Instagram message for all of the haters and
non believers today. That's not Aaron Rodgers. I think he's
gonna get a message right back at him. And it's
(36:29):
coming up next.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 7 (36:42):
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Speaker 1 (36:56):
A big story out of the NFL Today, Deshaun Watson
remember him like jamoy ad Watson decides to put a
message on Instagram. He's been rehabbing after retearing his right
achilles tendon, a situation that's gonna sideline him for most,
if not all, of the twenty twenty five season. Remember
(37:17):
was just a couple weeks ago, Jimmy Haslim, owner the
brown said, Hey, listen, it was a swing and a
miss on Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Well, Deshaun Watson is still.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Working out rehabbing at the Browns facility, and he wants
people to know that, Hey, you haters and downers, wait
till I come back strong. Okay, by that, you mean
twenty twenty right, likes, I'm going to be back to it.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
You mean like twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
You mean, like six years ago is what it's gonna
be when you're ready to play again, that you're gonna
be that good again. Deshaun Watson has to understand his
NFL career is over. It's he's not going to take
another snap in the league because he can't stay healthy.
He's been hurt all three of the years he's with
(37:59):
the Browns, never played more than seven games in a season,
He's out all of this year. He is no good,
he's been bad, he's been unmotivated, and so okay, those
two things enough is gonna tell you. And he's still
nuclear because of the massage situation. Who's going to bring
in a guy that is nuclear, who stinks and hasn't
(38:21):
been good in five years now six years and can't
stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Who's gonna say, yep, let's bring him in.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I mean, I know that there's lots of teams that
are gonna say, hey, we'll try to get a great
quarterback cheap. But it is helen gone for Deshaun Watson,
Like I mean, this is here, he is saying, I'm
gonna dude, you're not playing in the NFL again. If
he's lucky, you can play in the CFL. It'll play there,
you know, try try to you know, re rehabilitate his career,
has image everything else.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Go play in the CFL. No one you are.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
You are not playing in the NFL again. You have
taken your last snap in the league.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Well, we watch how difficult it is for veteran quarterbacks
who still have a bit of something to get a job, right.
Whatever the dance is going on with Aaron Rodgers. Before
that it was Russell Wilson. Is he getting a job?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
All right?
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Eventually he gets a deal with the Giants who had
already signed Jamis Winston, who already have been tangentially linked
to some of these quarterbacks in this draft. Right, So,
I mean you go all the way through. It's still
a tough road. He hasn't played, as you said, meaningful
football since twenty twenty. Then they had the operation shutdown. Yere,
(39:31):
whatever the hell that was back in twenty twenty one.
You want to talk about documentaries, I kind of want
to watch, because I say kind I'd be doing something
else while it was on in the background.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I'm not gonna lie to you of what really.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
What transpired that twenty twenty one season where he sat down,
and then he goes to Cleveland gets the bag. Maybe
he's in the Hall of Fame for NFL business based
on getting that deal. But in terms of being a
quality players been what's the one word that we always say,
it comes.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
There's only one thing wrong with him. There's only one
thing wrong. Really, all those things I just said, it's
really only one thing. You know, all those things, put
them all into one pot. There's only one thing wrong.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know what that is? What is that, buddy?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
He stinks That's what it comes down to all of this. Yes,
we can rehabilitate you. We can find a way to
sign you if you were any good and he's not
been any good.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
You think you're terrible and you bring all sorts of
smoke that the team that has to deal with.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, but it'll be in the best shape of his life.
He's done.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, when he played, he goes to play in the
CFL or someplace else. Right, that's what he's gonna have
to do. That's that's gonna be it for him. Exit
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here we are, day one of the Masters the NBA.
We're looking at playoff position. I'm not gonna say, Mike,
you know tonight I begin I begin with with a
sense of acceptance, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Accept It's weird. The last few nights, you know, I've
had that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know, last night we had the Mavericks having to
accept Luca is gone, He's not coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Accept it move forward. Yeah, you know, he scored forty
five against you, except move forward.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know it's the thing, And I feel like tonight
it's acceptance, right, you know, I it's just I get
to the point now, look big NBA night. Tonight the
race for third in the East is still alive because
the Pistons beat the Knicks one fifteen, one oh six.
And of course I knew the Pacers were gonna beat
the Cavaliers. That was That was like the if I
like the bet last night of Luca over thirty points. Oh,
(01:37):
the Knicks can win by beating the Pistons or the
Pacers losing. No, no, no, that that's the easiest parlay ever.
Knicks will lose and take the Pacers to beat the
Cavaliers to keep it alive.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So the Pacers beat the Cavs. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I went into last season's playoffs with the Knicks full
of excitement and optimism and expectation because they just.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Had it working right that this was the year.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I was excited for them to get in because I
knew they'd give a lot of teams problems. And they did,
and if they didn't collapse and everybody kept getting hurt
and they were playing with four.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Guys at the end. Hey maybe, but it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, Now this year and seeing what's going on, because
of course they lose to Detroit tonight, what could be
a first round preview. I'm going into this playoffs with
a sense of dread and inevitability, like it's not gonna
it's just not their year. They're just I look at
the team and I go, not only do they look
like they're having problems right now? Only do they look
(02:33):
like the they're they're maybe they're running out of guess
a little bit, but I see that the hallmark of
the team, you know, the entire TIBs era has been defense, right,
and unless they're saving all their defense for the for
the uh for the playoffs? Like how many times can
I watch the other team shoot over fifty percent from
the floor? Right, Like, like Tibbs is there to make sure,
(02:55):
you know? And now now like the whole reason that
Tibbs is there is out the window. They now we
gotta outscore everybody with our starting five, we gotta out
you know, we have a couple of nice bench players,
but we just have to outscore everybody and They're an
incredible identity, and the reason you have the guy there
that you do is gone. It's out the window, like
they've lost the plot and I'm going to playoff going.
(03:16):
I could see the Knicks losing in the first round.
I could see him losing the Pistons in the first round.
I could see them if they drop losing the Bucks
in the first round. I could see it because defensively,
unless again, unless they're saving everything for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Which okay, now we're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, it's gonna be an easy playoff because every single
team that even the bad teams I watched the first
three quarters, How are they shooting fifty two percent from
the floor Tonight? Here's Detroit, who's a good team. Kate
Cunningham goes for thirty six and they shoot fifty two
percent from the floor, Like, how many more times can
I can I watch this happen before I realize they
they they just don't have it. And all the pushing
(03:52):
of the Knicks, like I remember where I was last
year at this point to where I am now at
this point, I'm just like, you know what, forget it,
It's it's not gonna happen. They're gonna lose, and I
feel it's fate and it's inevitable.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And why am I?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Why am I even you know, entertaining, Hey, maybe a
big run, we get the right draw on the first
and know why am I doing this?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's not happening.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, to be fair, I mean we tried to prep
you for this, what was it two and a half
months ago? Man Frostburg more more vociferously, but you always
take it with a grain of salt because he just
loves to get your goat, as the kids would say.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But the fact is that.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
You guys haven't played a lick of defense in a
long long time, and you shortchanged the pistons. They shot
fifty seven percent from the field today, not even just
better than not just a little bit better than the
coin flip.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, no, no, this was where professional betters are packing it
in on them. That's how badly we're over that fifty
four and a half threshold.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
No, it's it's been tough to watch and not being
able to cultivate a bench has long been a TIBs.
Hallmark go back to Chicago, go to Minnesota, every stop
where he's been. It's a short rotation of guys that
are his guys that he trusts, and eventually it punches
you in the face repeatedly against better teams.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Guys are gas.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Fourth quarter you got nothing, and even out of the gate,
you know, some tough runs, but it's it's just been
a long slog. We talked about it and predicted that
Tibbs would no longer be your coach after the playoffs
are done. Now it'd be shocking. You know, you got
what two games left. Might as well fire him now,
man a Denver got rid of all we got like
(05:34):
shuffling up.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let's gore TIBs, Danny Hurley, Fire TIBs and hire Danny
Hurley right now that you've been trying to get him
into every job though, Hey, I saw that a double
a manager got fired.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Hey, Danny Hurley, that's where you're at. He's gonna change
the culture. He's got to revunt.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Can you imagine him just staring up and and and
and and and injuring all the all his neck muscles,
yelling at Karl Anthony Towns or whatever a rotation he
didn't pull off on defense.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Can you imagine that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Just him standing of it, him yelling at all while
catch is looking straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I mean, come on, I want to see that. I
want to see that. No, no, but it's like the
what is it do?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
You're swimming across the river insert animal here, and then
you have poisonous animal on top, and then halfway through
he bites him.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know what you were getting? You know what you
were getting? A cat? He wasn't gonna commit to defense.
Forty eight minutes a night.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You're giving me the opening seat of the crying game
is how you're giving me right now, that old speech
that Forrest Whittaker get okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's it's a deep poll my garment, it's a deep pole.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I appreciate you giving me much more, much more credit
than it deserves, because that's not where I remember it from.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Although I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Movieg Yeah, Frog, you know it's in my Why did
you stay?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's in my nature? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Why can't you? Did you play defense? That's in my nature?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Guy?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You know, I'm just saying I saw that movie many
years ago. But I've seen that uh story used repeatedly
throughout history, and I would not have attributed to that movie. Oh,
there's many other things that come out of the crying
game that we need to talk about at a later
date maybe unless we don't. But when it comes down
(07:14):
to this, yeah, you know what Karl Anthony Towns is.
You want to play tough defense, you want guys to
run and kill themselves for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
He's not gonna do be that guy. He's not gonna
sign up for that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I mean, man, really, I mean it's here's you think
I'm You think I'm being over overly sensitive, overly dramatic
Nick fan. Oh, by the way, that's the only kind
of Nick fan there is.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We're gonna say, if we did as a ven diagram,
there's a crossover with a very small group of four people,
what do you do?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I like the nachos. If and that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
If the Knick, If the Knicks don't get out of
the first round of the playoffs, and that could easily happen,
I could see.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I could see there being an excuse.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
If they win, they get they win the first round
and then they lose to the Celtics or the Cavaliers
in a competitive ish series and one of those teams
moves on, right, I could see that.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Okay, because now I think you know.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You look at the Knicks roster, it's not really it's
not put together the best way it was. Let's just
assemble all the best players we can and put put
them all in the court, and let's give up our
first round picks. And we don't need for five first
round picks. Now we have the cal Bridges. Oh okay,
but if they go out in the first round, if
they if they lose in the first round, and it's
(08:28):
a it would be a stunner, right, whether you lose
to the Pistons in the first round, whether the Pacers
jump ahead of you and you lose to the Bucks
in the first round, if you lose in the first round,
that's it for Tips, Like there's going to be a
change simply because his grip on the team is no
longer really there, right, his grip was on the team
for the last couple of years. Where I know, my guys,
(08:51):
get me these players, this is who we build around. Okay, great,
but now they're well gone from the identity that they've had,
and it's a way we don't play defense anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
We could try to outscore everybody, right, this is what
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Okay, Well, if the coach if you're not really there,
if you've left his philosophy entirely, Like, why the hell
is the guy there? So I mean, if this is
not gonna be tolerated, if they go out in the
first round, it's gonna be a new head coach, Danny Hurley,
it's gonna be a new head.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Coach for the next next season.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And boy, I'll tell you stand back and watch and
watch that happen, all right, because suddenly the Knicks are
a destination. Who's gonna want to come in and coach
Brunson and Karl Anthony Tizer. Hey, okay, all of a sudden, Man,
you're gonna see people come out of the woodwork for
this job. So it's not where Hey, if we fire Tibbs,
we can't get anybody. No, this is now a pretty
attractive job. The Knicks are a loaded team and you
could be that team that takes them to that next level.
(09:43):
So they're not gonna look into this offseason going. Boy,
if we replaced Tibbs, who are we gonna get It's
gonna be first round flame out. They're not really subscribing
to his direction anymore. We've lost our identity. There's a
lot of guys we can bring in here that might
want this could teat us to the next level. That's
absolutely going to happen. If the Nicks losing the first round.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
That would be one hell of a reality show. There's
no question about it. Obviously, Michael Malone's sitting out there.
There's been some questions if Greg Popovich does not return
to the Spurs that maybe Malone is the guy that
gets named the coach there, you know, for the Spurs
as they go into this next era, wondering what you're
(10:22):
getting when when Wenby comes back and everything else. But
it's it's the curiosity of how long can you can
you run when it's stale?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We see it with teams even when they're winning. We're
asking our questions like you're only getting this far to
mix sports. We look at the NFL with Mike Tomlin
every year, it's like, all right, he's gonna be five
hundred or just above, but are you getting over With Tibbs,
it's say how long can you do this and and
run these guys into the ground. I mean, you've got
how many years of tape at this point? Again owing
(10:52):
to all those other experiences and coaching situations that he's had.
It's the same script. So for New York leadership, for
your guy Dolan, he's got to put the guitar down
and make some very difficult decisions here. And let's get
that reality show going. I want to host it.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean really, I mean I I don't know. Man.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
If we can get a reality show, that's great. But
if they just say, hey, we're hiring Danny Hurley, we
don't need it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We don't need it. Yeah, but that's a show.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
But just remember he's not coming off another title, so
he can't use them like he did the Lakers for leverage.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh, he would have to like accept the job if
they offered it. He would have to.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, Just so we're making sure we're clear
on that he doesn't have the leverage this time.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And let's be honest, the Knicks have leverage because hey,
here's a big weekend trip.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Danny Hurley and his family all took to Los Angeles. Hey,
what when are.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We ever gonna get to do that? Right here we
are is the fence is fun? Is in youcont he's
in stores. He can go to New York City anytime
he wants to right. It's not like suddenly all hey,
we're having a free weekend of this. Say no, you know,
any time you want to you go to New York.
You're recruiting there anyway, It's all good. No, no, no,
you do you go right to Danny Hurley and say, okay,
come on and do it. I really and I'm just
I could just picture a timeout and I can just
(12:03):
see Kat coming off the floor and Danny Hurley just
just pulling his neck back as far as he can
to stare up, just to scream at him like I mean,
I really Now I'm thinking, Okay, if that's the outcome
of this, that that's worth it, that's completely worth it.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
No, I kinda I think I gotta dig this. I
think this really could work. We need you to start
working the beat in New York if Danny Hurley does
take that job though, Okay, and he can hate you
as much as man.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
JJ Reddick really hates me, Man, I don't. I don't
know that's.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Danny Hurley, but you know what you were bulletin board
material to use that tired cliche, you know, and you
help the Lakers on a path towards greatness.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
So I mean it's it works. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I mean, well, okay, so let's see, we've gotten the
rams of Super Bowl and Sean McVay. We may get
the Lakers a championship with Okay, so all right, I
could set my sights on the next. I think that's fine,
we can do that.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I think that. I think that's fine. I think that'll work.
With the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I mean, we've clearly promoted the hell out of all
of these special events days and the monetization and.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Celebrated all of that. That's got to be count for something.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I'm beau because I mean we we've zigged where everybody
else zagged, and we zigged and leaned into it and said, hey,
you don't like it, tough blank, go get him.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You know, like like Kevin Durant. You don't like it,
don't watch.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
It's all of it, right, the Lucas celebration, the Dodgers celebrations.
If if it's not for you, there's plenty of other
influencers you can go waste your time on.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'm just trying to get that rolling off the tongue, now,
you know. Look, Nick's head coach Danny Hurley said this
after the game. I kind of that kind of feels right,
doesn't it. And it kind of feels right. It really
it really works. It kind of feels right. Like Lakers
head coach Danny Hurley still see it would seem weird, right,
especially not because my buddy JJ Reddick has a job,
but like Nick's head coach Danny Hurley, that's not Yeah,
that sounds legit, like that's absolutely I could see that, yes,
(14:01):
one percent.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, well, I mean, look speaking into existence, keep putting
it out there, build your little altered to him, and
light the candles every day and maybe you can make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
The chant at tomorrow's game because you know that the
Cavaliers are gonna kill him tomorrow night, the last home
game of the regular season. He said, we had all
the fire Nico chants last night in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You're just gonna hear.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Danny Hurley, Danny Hurly, just that one guy keeps jumping
up and cheering and trying to get the crowd to.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Come along with him.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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Now we'll get to that big NFL story in a second,
But today was Day one of the Masters, a tradition
unlike any other, and a couple of really crazy stories,
really fun ones tonight. Justin Rose, of course, is your
leader after day one, just twenty two putts overall, which
(17:44):
is like I put twenty two times I think on
the front nine twenty two putts. He leads the Masters
by three shots. Scottie Scheffler, who was expected one of
the big favorites coming in Rory McElroy as well. Scheffler
had a big night, so a big day to day.
So it looks like we could have a pretty fun hey,
big name down the stretch if Day one pour tens
(18:06):
of anything but the story of the day, and it's
just insane that this happens. Is that right now, still
within shouting distance after day one and like, I don't
know how much longer it's going to be this way,
but Freddy.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Couples, Yeah, let's go boom boom.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Freddy is under par, just the second person sixty five
rover to hole carry an under par round at the Masters.
And here he is in contention after day one, and
it's like, well, I mean, what a what a blast
the wayback machine, Like, all of a sudden, here's Freddy Couples. Potentially,
hey could be a player here the first couple of
(18:44):
days of the Masters.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Tied with a very large group of people for the
eleven slot. Right now, we got five nations represented in
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
But yeah, the fred Couples thing. As soon as he
hit that, he's tied with Brian Harmon, not my brother,
m A d. For Brian Harmon, not mon as our surname.
But uh, look, I always celebrate the elder statesman in
our sports, Jason, because it means that we're still okay,
we're still not quote that old. So Freddy keep swinging it, buddy.
(19:17):
It's the highlight I played probably thirty times. Come on,
let's see it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Again, Freddy.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You want you want a great Freddie Couples story. This
is I'll never got a Freddie Couples. Oh okay, I'll
never get a chance tell the story again. Well, first
of all, it's the which I'm glad it didn't have
actually two stories. So you know, for a long time,
my dad used to uh was a marshal at the
Genesis Invitational.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh yeah, absolutely. He hasn't been able to do it
the last couple of years. They changed it. They change
the rules on him, is what he says. They change
the rules on me. Now, Oh okay, so he.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Finally has to check that box on question fourteen that
he'd avoided for years.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And he would joke around with me and I would say, oh,
what are you doing? He goes, well, one of the
things that the marshals does is people who volunteer is
you know, you get like they do the whole I
think it's like a free round of golf and and
and stay different like this has been a been a
pretty consistent thing all along for the last like twenty
thirty years. When you do this, he's his first job
was first couple of years was going to the airport
(20:13):
and picking up the golfers and bringing them to their hotel.
Or bringing them to the course wherever they needed to go,
like bring would tell the course. And I said, wow,
I said, they trust you with they trust you with that.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Course they trust He goes, well, unless I get Freddy
Couples in the car, then I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm like, oh, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, don't don't joke
around with that when you're there story time.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Just joke around with them.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's a commercial. This is like Freddy in the back
seat going this isn't the way to the golf course.
He had beef with Freddie Couples. No, not beef, like
he loved Freddy Couples like Couples, Oh no, he loved
Freddy Couples. And Bubba Watson were too. And kJ choy right,
Remember I told you he likes hit it sure, yeah, Like,
but Freddie Couples and Bubba Watson were his two favorite
golfers in the last thirty five years.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
And he was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He was that Bubba is not playing this year, but boy,
if Freddy Couples is there, oh yeh, Like Dad, Dad, Dad,
don't don't say that. Don't joke around with that. At
the at the course. Just just talk to me about that.
Don't joke around with that.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Don't you're worried about a misery situation happening. Come on,
mister man.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Kind of like a nicer misery situation.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No, sure, I'm not saying they were gonna he was
gonna hobble him.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
No.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think it's like like Freddy Couple.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Hey, is this Freddy Couples in this hole in the
wall bar like thirty miles outside of La and Freddie
Couples goes. Please someone call someone, make a phone call
for me. I'm fred Couples, Please help me.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
What was the uh what was that Celtic Pride?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dennis Farina was the head coach. Yeah,
the Damon Wayans was the was this?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Uh wait, so Dennis Farina coach to that too, because
he was fired as the Knicks go Eddie.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
No, that's right. He was the coaching and if he
was able to do both. Yeah, yeah, no, no, he
was the coaching. I had my aughts.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
See what I tell you that when the aughts is
such a huge, you know, it'll be in wasteland.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah. But I mean, look at that cash. You had.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Dion Sanders was in there, sure, Paul Guilfoyle before he
was hanging out with my man William Peterson on CSI.
I mean, Shooter McGavin was in there for crowing. And
the great Gail oh Grady.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Love Gail ever since NYPD Blue all. And then she's
in all those Hallmark movies now, like Keel Grady's.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And a lot of them. Yeah, she's married like six times. Yeah.
Now she's like the mom in the hall I'm like, ah, really.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Well but still active, still getting after it, yeah, saying
we're not that old.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, if it's too loud, you're too old. Right. So
so here's this is this is my best friend couple story.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
So this is back in ninety in ninety three, I'm
going back thirty years, right, But because I remember this
today is that I I just started working at the
ESPN as a production assistant. And you know, you go
in at like three o'clock in the afternoon and you
get assigned a game that's your game supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
You're supposed to watch.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That game, take it into the edit bay and edit
the highlight that they run on Sports Center, Right. So
that's that's that was what everybody did when they first started.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
So I come at.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Three o'clock and I haven't been there that long, and
the guy in charge, the manager.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Says, oh, Jason, glad you're here. I'm like, I can't
believe you know who I am. I'd been here like
a week and a half.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Hey, you need to watch the first day at Durrell.
It's coming in right now. You're cutting a highlight for
the six o'clock sports center. It's the lead store. You
got a minute and a half. And I'm going, uh, okay,
cause you know, six o'clock at night, you know the
sports center. There's not a lot of highlights from the day.
And it just happened to be one of those days
where there was no baseball. The other side, I'm like, okay,
and I said don and I go, I know absolutely
(23:40):
nothing about golf. Oh my good, the only golfer ride
new Because then you know then obviously in the in
the years there, that's kind of where all my golf
knowledge came from, because I really started enjoying and appreciating it.
I started playing it a lot, you know, a long
time ago. I'm like, I don't know anybody like I
knew just a couple of names. I'm like, I don't
know what am I gonna look for? I have no idea,
and I gotta I'm gonna edit this, and it's the
first thing they're gonna be in the show, and it's
(24:00):
like gonna be.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Like a minute and a half highlights. I'm going, oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
The only golfer I knew, really that I knew was
good was Fred Couples that was playing. That's the only one,
because he had just won the Masters and he had
the best year of his like he was gad Like,
it's hard to not know Fred Couples, right.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Sure, and your dad had his poster up on his wall.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No, no, that back then. I didn't know that. I
don't think my dad. My dad back then was probably
you know, hey, Ben and J. C. Snead are my
two biggest golfer. So I'm like, okay, I guess I
will all right, fine, yeah, okay, I'll I'll hit the highlight.
So I edit the highlight and I put in Fred
Couples like like six times, right, like in a minute,
because he's the only guy I really knew.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And I'm like, okay, this guy's up at the top
of the leaderboard. But how great of a shot is this?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
So I put fred Couples in like six times, and
I'm going I don't so I'd go the highlight and
I put it in and and and I'm kind of nervous,
and I'm sitting to the back and I'm watching the
highlight as it airs on Sports Center and everything is
is fine, like Bob Lee voices over the highlight, everything
is fine. Here's another Hey, red Couples, fred Couples. Boom, Oh,
Freddy Couples, Freddy Couples.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Okay, great. I'm like oh.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And then a couple of people PA's who had been
there longer than I was like, wow, that's a lot
of Freddie Couples in that wasn't it was?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It? Was there? Better stuff? Was there? Better stuff?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I'm like, blank, you man, I watched it, okay. But
and they were like, oh, should go look at it.
I'm like, oh, man, okay. So I'm thinking, okay, maybe
this's not that this wasn't the best job I did,
but who knows. And then the guy my manager says, hey, Jason,
the producer of the show, wants to talk to you now.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And I go oh no, oh boy, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So it's like it's like it's like seven o'clock and
the baseball game I'm gonna watch is starting in like
twenty minutes. I'm hoping to run to McDonald's and get food,
and I'm going, okay, wow, I'm in trouble. I'm never
gonna get a golf highlight again. They're gonna hate me
because you started on a six month probationary period. Well enough,
after six months they said you're gone. You're gone, like
they fire you. So I'm like, okay, this is the
(25:52):
first one. I want to walk in and tell them
I just did it because they gave me the assignment.
And the producer says to me, hey, uh your highlight.
He goes that you had a lot of thought in that.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
That was great. I'm so glad you spotlight fred Couples.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
He was the biggest name at the event. Like that
was pretty good. You know do you do you have?
You cut a lot of golf highlights. I go, no,
I've been here like a week now, I'm been here week.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
He goes yeah. He goes, oh, you really followed the storyline.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And apparently Freddie Couples was the biggest golfer there, Like,
there wasn't a lot of other guys he was. You know,
I know that there was a lot of him in
the highlight, but you know, hey, everybody wants to see
Fred Couples more than they want to see any of
these other guys.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
No, that was really good. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And that was the point in my life when I realized,
if someone's complimenting you, and and and you have a
lot of questions, you just say thank you and you
walk away.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Hey, thanks you. So I said, hey, thanks, really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Awesome? Okay, great, great. So I walked back, I'm like, yeah,
where's that? Where's a PA's that been there like four
months longer than.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Me going oh that highlight? That highlight. So I was
like feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
But then the next few months I became the go
to guy for golf highlights early in the day, like
every day I came in at three point thirty, it
was hey, Jason, sit down and watch the deposit guarantee. Jase,
sit down and watch a first day of the Greater
Hartford Open. Jason, You're gonna cut this. I'm like, oh
my god. I had golf like every day for like
three months.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh boy, I want to watch the Mets. Can I
go watch the Mets? Leave me me?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
But but then I started doing more research on it
and understanding more people. I'm like because of the one
highly where there were hardly anybody else there. But and
I still remember the shot I put in. A couple's
missing a putt. He like three putted, and he put
the club of the and he put his club like
on his forehead and he banged it on his forehead,
and I was like, oh my god, Like, hey, that
was a great shot to get in there. Oh my god,
that was so awesome. You put in a great reaction shot.
(27:36):
I'm like, yeah, oh great. So I became the golf
I was like the pia. I'd walk in at three
thirty because a lot of people go into three thirty
and they don't do anything. Their game is at seven
and they just get to hang around and some cause
it's a lot of people. It's like fifty people coming
in PA's and they're all different things, and there's two
people in charge. When someone needs to do something, they
grab him at the So some people you come in
from like four. I was not doing anything right that's
(27:57):
what it was. No, no, no, oh golf. Oh here, yeah,
I know I'm doing that golf. So I would sweat
my ass off cutting a highlight for this golf thing
because I didn't really know the sport. And then like, okay,
now you got a baseball game or a basketball gamer.
Oh man, all because of Freddy Couples. Freddy Couples started
to be off on that run right there.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I gotta have more couples. Gotta gotta have Freddy Couples.
I gotta have it. I gotta have Freddy Couples. You
gotta give me Trilli.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
When he came down and yeah, I mean you walk
up to the other guys, They're like, oh what you got?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Called to the principal's office, the producer. What did he
have to say? I said, I got. I gotta have
more couples. It's like, but you had six shots in
there already. It's like I didn't enough.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Who got that highlight with Freddy Couples? Oh man, that
was chasing all right, Hey, okay, give him everything else.
I'm like, please, can I walk in and just say nope, nope,
here I am Friday.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Hey, it's cut down day. Jason. Let me know when
they when they make the cut. What the cuts at
the sure? Sure? Oh my, oh my god. Okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Think about the golf guys, the guys that got golfer
or the women that got golf.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Later on, it was just watch Tiger.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, yeah, oh exactly, yeah it does. Anybody else doesn't matter.
You just watched Tiger Woods. Just watch Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Get all his facial expressions. Yea tis a curse word.
Make sure we get it, you know all of that.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, what about McElroy? No, we don't need any of
those guys. Show me. I'll tell you what. Ah doesn't
matter going into the weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
He is obviously the uh the non live favorite, and
all of that heavy, heavy betting market on Rory McElroy.
You want to talk about an overweighted proposition of Hey,
who's everybody's money on that guy?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
No pressure here, that's Hey, Freddy, I hope Freddy wins.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I mean, oh no, Freddy I mean comes in like
this would be what an awful because I remember it
wasn't too long ago. What was the year when when
Watson at the Open Championship, like came down to a
putt on the last hole and he could have forced
a playoff. This when he was like in his late fifties,
and I was like, oh my goodness, Tom Watson could
actually win the He had an incredible run over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I forget where it was.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Maybe it was a Truon or Carnoustie, I forget, but
all it came down to, like if he hit which
and you know, his whole career, Tom Watson putting was
his thing, right, I told you thirty years I've been,
I've been, I've studying gold Like I think he had
a putt on eighteen that if he hit it could
have forced a playoff, and he didn't, and he lost.
I forget who won, but it was such a I mean,
(30:23):
that's kind of what I feel like for Freddy Couples here.
And look, the Masters clearly as one of those courses
where you know, hey, playing there for so long, you're
only going to stick around for a certain amount of
time because really the length and the and the scores
going low is what's really going to do it for you.
It's you know, if you're going to really stick around
as an older golfer, it's got to be where the
(30:44):
elements work at you, or the course works at you
and takes away the advantage other people have, Like you know,
I mean, Freddy Couple's one of the most was the
longest hitter on the tour for so long, and now,
of course.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
He's sixty five.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
He watches guys just you know, fly by him obviously,
so I hope he sticks around. I doubt it, but
it would be an unbelievable story.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
If he does.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
You were taking us back to two thousand and nine
Open Championship. Is that what we're looking to do over
at turn Party short in Scotland?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Ah? Very nice? Okay, all right, that's where it was.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Okay, And he had a putt on eighteen that wasn't
It wasn't a really it wasn't like it was incredibly difficult.
It was like a fifteen footer or something, I think,
and if he hit it would have been.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Oh my god. Tom Watson's like sixteen. He's in a playoff. Yeah,
ends up with Stuart Sink. Yeah. And there you.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Go, exit out bout a fresca exit swollen dome that
walk down memory Lane.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
How about that thirty years ago of Freddy Couples.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
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Speaker 1 (31:54):
Thirty thirty time out to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. But guy who's been called
the Fred Couples of Fox Sports Radio, he walks around
the hallway and everybody says, hey, boom, boom, it's Isaac Lowhenkron.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Jason Jason. Thank goodness that you have the knowledge to
cut highlights. This is a miracle. I actually need Justin
Rose's eighth birdie of the day.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I need his.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Birdie put on the sixteenth hole, and I need it
in the next five seconds.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Can you do it?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You think, Okay, everything you just said right there, If
instead of five seconds you said two and a half minutes, that's.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
How too bad?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Sorry, I need it. I need it in five seconds.
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I was reading into a lot of subtexts there. I love.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Justin Rose leads the Masters a three shot lead after
a seven under sixty five today.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Needs the pace. Annie's got it? What a putt from
Justin Rose? Can you believe it? Ned? There's no stopping
him right now.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
That's unbelievable. Jason, how'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
You know you asked me? You know what I did?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Now, with the technology and now everything is on server
instead of video tape, it's a lot easier.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
You can't to the rescue there.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
You know, I took an extra ten seconds I think
it was. It was more fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In a five. Oh, we film a bustard nicely. Yeah,
that's all good.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
It's like riding a bicycle, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
That's right, that's right. He's never ridden a bicycle in
his life. I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But here's the thing, honestly, is that when you think
about what it was like to edit a highlight in
the nineties versus now, Oh my god, here's a videotape.
You record it, you pop it out of the out
of the system, you bring it into a room, you
dub it over, you tell them where to edit, get
in and out. Then you take it out, bring it
into the room like you need five or ten minutes.
Whereas now it's like, oh, this highlight just happened. Oh yeah,
(33:44):
give me thirty seconds and you can have the highlight.
Oh great, that's technology.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
It was hell back then, wasn't it. I tell my kids,
we actually had to get up and walk over to
the TV uphill in the snow both ways.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Justin Rose three shot lead A Rascottifler, Corey Cotters and
Ludwig Oberg, all of them shot a sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Today.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
In the NBA, the Indiana Pacers held off the Cleveland
Cavaliers one fourteen to one twelve for their sixth straight win.
They also clinch a top four seed in the Eastern Conference.
Kate Kuttagam scored thirty six of the Pistons one to
fifteen to one oh six win over the New York Knicks.
Bucks winning over New Orleans won thirty six to one eleven.
Giannis On Tetakupo twenty eight points, eleven rebounds, five assists.
(34:26):
One game going on right now at halftime. The Memphis
Grizzlies lead the Minnesota Timberwolves seventy two to sixty seven. Baseball,
they're still in a rain delay. In Atlanta, Phillies and
Braves tied at one you know the seventh. Then in
Kyle Schwarbroo a home run for Philadelphia, his sixth of
the season to lead the National League. Finally, in the NFL,
it was announced today that Brent Musburger has been inducted
(34:49):
into the Broadcasters wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Musburger spent sixteen years as the host of the NFL Today,
a program that really set the standard for modern sports
television pregame shows. Here's how it sounded in nineteen eighty
seven when Musburger set the stage for Super Bowl twenty one.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
You are looking live at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
One hundred and one thousand fans will gather in this
venerable stadium for the biggest singles sporting event of the year.
The American Football Conference champion Denver Broncos meet the National
Football Conference champion New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
This is the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
And that was actually edited twenty seconds ago by Jason
back to you.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
You know. The funny thing is my dad.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Every time you would see that, like I'd watch games
of my dad, he always had a great line, Like
you would hear that line, and that was always Brent
Musburger saying you are looking live here, he would say,
And my dad, would you allow and go No crap, Brent, Oh,
I thought this was a tape of.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The Super Bowl. Well, I won't say that.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
If it was an NBA Finals game at the time,
it would have been every single.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Time you are looking, Oh, it's not a tape ball.
That's great, We're looking live, all right, great, thanks, thank you,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Buddy, Wow, hateful on good old Brett Musburger. Congratulation.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Go cat.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
By the way, if you need some Freddy couple's action
twenty five hundred to one right now, get it on
boom boom right.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Now, baby, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
ILove Jason and Mike live FROMTHATIREC dot coms. He was
all right, So we wanted to get to that Freddy
couple that was said. That was guragage deal today, I
mean Freddy Couples and the Masters. This is such an
amazing story. But coming up next. Yes, an NFL quarterback
had an Instagram message for all of the haters and
non believers today. That's not Aaron Rodgers. I think he's
gonna get a message right back at him. And it's
(36:29):
coming up next.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 7 (36:42):
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Speaker 1 (36:56):
A big story out of the NFL Today, Deshaun Watson
remember him like jamoy ad Watson decides to put a
message on Instagram. He's been rehabbing after retearing his right
achilles tendon, a situation that's gonna sideline him for most,
if not all, of the twenty twenty five season. Remember
(37:17):
was just a couple weeks ago, Jimmy Haslim, owner the
brown said, Hey, listen, it was a swing and a
miss on Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Well, Deshaun Watson is still.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Working out rehabbing at the Browns facility, and he wants
people to know that, Hey, you haters and downers, wait
till I come back strong. Okay, by that, you mean
twenty twenty right, likes, I'm going to be back to it.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
You mean like twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
You mean, like six years ago is what it's gonna
be when you're ready to play again, that you're gonna
be that good again. Deshaun Watson has to understand his
NFL career is over. It's he's not going to take
another snap in the league because he can't stay healthy.
He's been hurt all three of the years he's with
(37:59):
the Browns, never played more than seven games in a season,
He's out all of this year. He is no good,
he's been bad, he's been unmotivated, and so okay, those
two things enough is gonna tell you. And he's still
nuclear because of the massage situation. Who's going to bring
in a guy that is nuclear, who stinks and hasn't
(38:21):
been good in five years now six years and can't
stay healthy.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Who's gonna say, yep, let's bring him in.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I mean, I know that there's lots of teams that
are gonna say, hey, we'll try to get a great
quarterback cheap. But it is helen gone for Deshaun Watson,
Like I mean, this is here, he is saying, I'm
gonna dude, you're not playing in the NFL again. If
he's lucky, you can play in the CFL. It'll play there,
you know, try try to you know, re rehabilitate his career,
has image everything else.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Go play in the CFL. No one you are.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
You are not playing in the NFL again. You have
taken your last snap in the league.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Well, we watch how difficult it is for veteran quarterbacks
who still have a bit of something to get a job, right.
Whatever the dance is going on with Aaron Rodgers. Before
that it was Russell Wilson. Is he getting a job?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
All right?
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Eventually he gets a deal with the Giants who had
already signed Jamis Winston, who already have been tangentially linked
to some of these quarterbacks in this draft. Right, So,
I mean you go all the way through. It's still
a tough road. He hasn't played, as you said, meaningful
football since twenty twenty. Then they had the operation shutdown. Yere,
(39:31):
whatever the hell that was back in twenty twenty one.
You want to talk about documentaries, I kind of want
to watch, because I say kind I'd be doing something
else while it was on in the background.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I'm not gonna lie to you of what really.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
What transpired that twenty twenty one season where he sat down,
and then he goes to Cleveland gets the bag. Maybe
he's in the Hall of Fame for NFL business based
on getting that deal. But in terms of being a
quality players been what's the one word that we always say,
it comes.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
There's only one thing wrong with him. There's only one
thing wrong. Really, all those things I just said, it's
really only one thing. You know, all those things, put
them all into one pot. There's only one thing wrong.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know what that is? What is that, buddy?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
He stinks That's what it comes down to all of this. Yes,
we can rehabilitate you. We can find a way to
sign you if you were any good and he's not
been any good.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
You think you're terrible and you bring all sorts of
smoke that the team that has to deal with.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, but it'll be in the best shape of his life.
He's done.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, when he played, he goes to play in the
CFL or someplace else. Right, that's what he's gonna have
to do. That's that's gonna be it for him. Exit
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