Jonas Knox talks Knicks, Aaron Rodgers, and more!

Jonas Knox talks about Stephen A. Smith playing solitaire during the NBA Finals, a faulty system when talking about the Knicks, Ben Roethlisberger weighs in on Aaron Rodgers signing with the Steelers, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have to have better stop Fromaginni. Jonas Knocks. You
thought you knew me. You didn't know a thing about me.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's crazier than a girl else wrecked that guy, Jonas Knocks,
You heard me. The Prince of Darkness is lighting up
your speakers to establish an alibi for the day. No
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, here's Jonas Knox. YEP.

(00:27):
So okay, I'll be part.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Of this world. Nothing wrong with getting a good old
fashioned apology. From time to time. I'll explain why and

(00:53):
who it should be from coming up here in just
a couple of moments. From now, Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio.
You can listen to. The show is always on the
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appreciate you doing so. We are gonna take you all

(01:13):
the way up until four pm Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific,
and we are going to start out this show by
demanding an apology, maybe even a couple of apologies, but
we'll start with one. Okay, Now, I am not one
of these people who if you've done something wrong, it's

(01:34):
gonna take an apology and a gift and another apology.
I'm not gonna rake you over the coals. There are
some people like that. You may have even dated somebody
who's like that, to where one apology is not enough.
You need more, like you've literally got to kick and
scream and claw your way back into the good graces
to even feel like you're on an even playing field again.

(01:57):
Some people like that. Some people get off on stuff
like that. They love having that power. You got somebody
feeling guilty about something, and you just squeeze it for
all it's worth. I'm not like that one apology is enough,
one simple apology or acknowledgment, just something along the lines of, hey,
you know what, maybe you had a point. Maybe you

(02:20):
had a point. You see, because for at least a
couple of years now, I've been getting criticized and had
my balls broken by some of the NBA fanboys who
don't like how dismissive I am about some of the
storylines in the league. They don't like how dismissive I

(02:42):
am about maybe some of the coverage of the league.
They don't like it and my point all along was, look,
I love the NBA. Like growing up, basketball, football my
favorite sports. I love the NBA, but there is something
to the way it's covered, there is something to the

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way it's presented that it's just not all that great.
Sometimes it just isn't and instead you're a hater. Stick
to football. All you do is talk NFL blah b
look just same old sensitive NBA fanboys getting upset about

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just same old stuff. All right, So, based on what
happened last night, I'm willing to accept your apology because
if steven A. Smith is playing solitaire on his phone
while a game's going on, doesn't that tell you everything
you need to know about how they feel about it too?

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It's wonderful. Now, this is not a critique on steven A. Smith,
not even a critic. I've said this. This Finals is
fascinating to me because it is a hot take free zone.
People don't know how to react, They have no idea

(04:14):
how to wait. Wait, so what do you mean it's
like two small market teams that just play good basketball
and there's no drama? What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Woo?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
You mean we're not having a conversation about Lebron and
whether he's injured or whether he's leaving or so. You
mean we just have to like react to good basketball. Well,
where's the fun in that? And I've enjoyed it. It's
been a great series. Last night game, last night's game
was fun. It's too two. I've enjoyed this series. I've

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enjoyed this NBA Finals. It's been really fun to watch.
And this is not a knock on Stephen A. Smith.
Have we all maybe done something in the midst of
you know east he's talking about multitasking. Now, me personally,
I'm not great at multitasking all at all. I'm the
type of person that if I'm on the phone, I

(05:08):
would walk into traffic. Just I That's not my thing.
And so this is not a knock on Steven A.
Smith because listen, I've been doing sports radio and TV
for a long time, and I can assure you I've
been on the air with other hosts who have been
in the midst of doing things online or on their phone.

(05:33):
Ever heard of adult friend Finder? I've seen it while
we were on the air, somebody just sort of scanning,
getting the look, what's out there? What's a little shopping
if you with no listen. Rob's another story why. I
once did a show with Rob Parker and this is
on video somewhere. You can see the video. And I'm

(05:55):
filling in for Chris Brusard. It was back when Chris
was doing the Odd Couple and the Odd Couple side pieces,
which I was for a time, and then Rob went
on some hot take, some diatribe about what he was doing.
I'm a woman that it was my turn to go.
And when I started talking, Rob literally reached into a

(06:17):
Ralph's supermarket bag and pulled out fried chicken and a
salad and devoured it on camera while I'm trying to
give my take. You gotta have the bones, you gotta
have the structure. Had I turned to him and say
Rob your thoughts, he would have spit food all over
the mic. But I didn't do that because I'm a
kind person. I think I'm moving to Mexico. Okay, don't worry, Rob,

(06:39):
I already did. She says, I I'm a woman. She
is too, So this is not an indictment. If Steven A.
Smith doing other things, well, there's a game going on.
I've been down that road before. I've seen it with
my own two eyes on the Okay, it's not indictment,

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but doesn't it tell you everything you need to know.
I guarantee you during the Super Bowl that's not happening. Guaranteed.
I guarantee. And if there was a Super Bowl four
it to happen with probably this last one. That game
was over before halftime. But I can assure you that's

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probably not happening. And if you want to criticize or
if you want to give credit to hey, listen, you
know it's a seven game series, and okay, fine, listen whatever, whatever,
that's fine. Steven A. Smith's great. Maybe he doesn't need
to watch the game and play solitaire to give a take.

(07:43):
Maybe he doesn't. He's fantastic. I love steven A. Smith.
He deserves every penny he's ever gotten. Steven A. Smith
used to work at Fox Sports Radio. Did you know that?
He did the morning show during the week and then
this you know thing called waking up early got in
the way. But again, that's to the point. He's been tremendous.
He's had a great career. He continues to have a

(08:05):
great career. He might write and run for president for
Christ's sake, who knows, But for everybody who said, well,
you're just being a hater. You don't actually take the
time to watch, You don't actually Okay, so if I'm
being a hater, what is that? So again, when you

(08:28):
hear any of the criticism about the NBA maybe being
a little bit stale or maybe a little boring, or
maybe a little bit you had your top analyst on
the planet playing a card game on his phone during
an NBA Finals game. Again, I accept your apology if

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you want to send it via tweet, if you want
to go to Instagram, whatever, I'm willing to accept it.
I'm not asking for two apologies. I'm not asking for flowers.
I'm not even asking for a case of beer. Just
some acknowledge it. They listen, we acknowledge maybe had a
little bit of a point there at the Jonas Knox

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on X By the way, Jonas Knox Shaw on Instagram
is where you can find, uh find all the unedited
versions of the insulting tweets that will be sent over
throughout the course of the show. Now, speaking of the NBA,
you know how when you open a jack in a box,
the second you the lid pops open, chaos starts. Like

(09:36):
you open a jack in a box a second of lile,
it's like, hey, it's like that whole thing for some
reason in our system, and this is a glitch here
at Fox Sports Radio, and I don't know what it is.
I really don't know what it is. But for some reason,
whenever you say certain things, it triggers music. And again

(09:57):
we're working on that. We've got curious who does a
great job technically to try and piece all this stuff together.
We're working on We're trying to figure this out. So
bear with this here because we are doing having some
technical issues here because for some reason, every time we
say the word Nicks, it just played, and I don't know,
we don't know how to get rid of it. We're
not sure how to get rid of it. And we

(10:18):
have tried, we have done everything we possibly can, but
for some reason, when we say the word Nicks, it
just triggers this circus music. So we're just gonna have
to fight our way through it. Because apparently the Knicks
have actually found a couple of people who they can
interview for the job, because the previous three or four
they couldn't interview or were declined. And then that's when

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they did all that because they fired their head coach
even though they did something that they hadn't done in
twenty five years. Oh, so it's the same old Nicks.
So nothing has changed. Literally, nothing has changed at all.
It's the same old Nicks. It's exactly what you expected. No, no, no,
it's a new era. This is a new of Knicks basketball.

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Look what they did. They beat the Celtics. Jason Tatum's
got one achilles, Jalen Brown's got one knee. Christop Porzingis
has got like tuberculosis or something like, who the hell knows,
but don't worry about it. Everybody climbed the stuff in
downtown New York, all right, you know, get a couple

(11:23):
of your buddies together, you know, rip like, you know,
fifteen sixteen beers each swim across, look underneath the statue
of Liberty's dress, like do all the sorts of weird
stuff you guys like to do. That's fine, because don't
worry about it. At least things have changed, and then
lo and behold, they haven't. So congratulations to the New

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York Knicks fan base. Apparently, Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins
are now going to be in for an interview and
who knows, maybe you might find somebody to actually, you know,
run anchor and run shop and run show there on
that clown that circus freak atmosphere in Madison Square Garden.

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Maybe you can find somebody to hop on the unicycle,
flip some bowling pins, and get everybody excited about what
will no doubtedly be an early exit in the postseason
next year. So congratulations, you found a couple of guys
to interview. It's awesome, good for the New York Knicks. Unbelievable,

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But again, we're trying to work that out. We're trying
to technically, we're trying to figure this stuff out. I
don't know what it is. At the Jonas Knox on
x Jonas Knox Show on Instagram, there goes and you
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By the way, we're going to be taking this show
all the way up until four pm Eastern time, one
o'clock Pacific. We are gonna have the usuals. We've got

(12:48):
another edition of Do You Care. We've also got another
edition of the Scraps. An hour two of this program.
It is all yours here on this two hour extravaganza
up next though, some by is paying a fee. You see,
there's a certain tax that comes with this team in
the NFL, and we'll explain who that is right here

(13:08):
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Speaker 1 (13:22):
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up a little over
ten minutes from now kind of an awkward place to
be adjacent to a sporting event. Kind of awkward, but
it reminded me of something. We'll get into that for
you again. A little over ten minutes from now here
on FSR. So Micah Parsons is looking for this new contract.

(13:49):
You know, he was looking for this new big deal.
He's got Michael Parsons, you got TJ Watt, you got
Trey Hendrickson. These are all pass rushers near the top
of the market. They want to be paid as such.
Miles Scared already got his done. He reset the market.
So these guys are looking to get paid. And Micah
Parsons was talking with Clarence Hill of All City DLS

(14:13):
and Clarence Hills covered the Cowboys for years and years
and years. I believe he was with the Fort Worth
Star Telegram, so he's pretty connected. He knows this stuff.
And Michael Parsons pointed out how him and Jerry Jones
are and talking with Clarence Hill, had some sort of
an agreement, some sort of soft agreement on a deal

(14:35):
back in March, but the Jerry Jones never really talked
to Michael Parsons agent, and so nothing got done. And
then the months have dragged on and here we are,
and Michael Parsons said, look, it's going to cost them more.
It's going to end up costing them more if they
continue to wait. And he's right. And the most important

(14:58):
part about all that is Jerry Jones doesn't care. He doesn't.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
I don't have the patience to jack, wait you to do.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
No, he doesn't care. Settle lamb just a little bit.
Oh it's gonna cost me more, sweet. Jerry Jones was
quoted as saying something along the lines of, well, yeah, listen,
I'd rather wait and pay more than pay early and
make a mistake, So I just wait. I like to

(15:32):
refer to it as the fashionably late tax. That's basically
what Jerry Jones is willing to pay, like he's willing
to be taxed for his decisions. It's called the fashionably
late tax because that's what he does with every contract.
This is nothing new. Dak Prescott, Costa Moore, Zeke Elliott,

(15:54):
Costa Moore, every Ceed Lamb, Costa more Like all these
contracts should have been done. We all agree these should
have been done a long ass time ago. Michael Parsons
contracts should have been done months ago. We agree. Everybody's
in agreement, and Jerry Jones doesn't care. There are certain

(16:16):
people who are late just because they're late, and then
there's certain people who are late with a purpose. Like
some people, you tell them a time and they're just
gonna keep showing up late. It just is what it is.
You tell them a time, they're just gonna show up

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either five to seven to eight to ten minutes later.
It's just the way it is. That's just how they are,
that's how they operate. For whatever reason, they procrastinate. They
don't get ready in time like whatever. You just know that.
So what you end up having to do is you
build in sort of a make believe clock to where
if they need to be there at nine. You tell them, hey,

(17:02):
make sure you're there. Everything starts at eight thirty, because
you know, ultimately they're gonna show up at age forty five,
but at least they were fifteen minutes early this time.
You know that maybe you are that, maybe you were
around somebody who's like that, but you know there are
certain people like that, And then there's other people who've
got a method to the tardiness. They've got a method going, Yeah,

(17:25):
I know I'm gonna be late, but when I walk in,
everybody's gonna notice me. I know I'm gonna be late,
but when I walk in, people are going to stop
and go, oh, the floor is yours? Got it? That's
how Jerry Jones looks at this. Jerry Jones is not

(17:46):
late just because he likes being late, or he's not
late because just how he operates. Oh, he's always late
to media. No. No, Jerry Jones is late on contracts because
he knows what it does for the brand of the Cowboys.
He's always done this. Jerry Jones shows up late and
guess what we're all gonna be talking about it. I've
brought this up a million times before in the show

(18:07):
but it bears repeating when another contract like this comes
up for the Cowboys. Jerry Jones and the Dak Prescott
contract got us through COVID. He doesn't care about waiting,
He doesn't care about pain a little bit more. He
understands that comes with the deal. Hey, it's gonna cost
me a little more, so be it. You think Jerry

(18:29):
Jones was really upset that Zekiel Elliott when Ezekiel Elliott
took off to Cabo and went to Mango Deck or
whatever place he was at there and he was quote
unquote getting ready for the season. Do you think Jerry
Jones was really bothered? Oh, you know, I wish you
would have been here, which it no, Come on, man,
that was more of the storyline. That's all anybody was

(18:49):
talking about. All anybody's gonna be. In fact, all I
would be willing to go this far. I'll bet Jerry
Jones is pissed off at TJ. Watt and Trey Hendrickson.
Hey hey, guys, like go get your deal done. Jerry
Jones is probably calling the Roonies and he's probably calling

(19:09):
the Browns and me like, hey, hey, listen, you guys,
get your deal done. Like whatever you guys want to
do like, that's fine, but get your deal done so
then I can pay my guy. I want to be last,
I want to be fashionably late. He doesn't care. Michael
Parsons can say whatever he wants. Two things are truth here.

(19:30):
One Michael Parsons isn't going anywhere. They're getting a deal done.
It's not going anywhere. And two, Jerry Jones doesn't care
if it's going to cost him more. None of all
of that is irrelevant to the story and irrelevant to
the situation. When you deal with Jerry Jones, and you

(19:52):
deal with him when it comes to getting contracts done,
it's going to take forever, and it's intentional. He's not
trying to wait Micah Parsons out. The only thing that
could happen is Michael Parsons can say okay, fine, and
he caves to a lesser deal. But Jerry Jones doesn't
even think about it. No, I know he's not gonna

(20:13):
take this deal. I know he's not. We're gonna have
to pay him more. But that's fine because will be
the story, will be the talking point, will be the
focal point of the NFL because once again, for the
umpteenth time in a row. A Cowboys contract took way
too long. And it didn't take way too long because
the negotiations were difficult. It took way too long because

(20:35):
Jerry Jones is willing to pay a tax. It's called
the fashionably Late tax. He does it every single time
at the Jonas Knocks On X at the Jonas Knocks
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Al Right, it's coming up next here. Kind of an
interesting thing to have adjacent to a sporting event. It's
very bizarre. Didn't really make a whole lot of sense

(21:19):
to me. We will discuss it. That'll be yours next
here on FSR. But for all the latest from around
the world of sports. A man who is not bizarre,
A man are you sure? Magnificent? A man who is
sports talk radio and television royalty. A man who would
never be seen on solitaire while covering a live sporting event.

(21:44):
Don't even know how to play it. I present to THEE,
the one, the only, the magnificent Isaac Lohenkron.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Just thinking out loud here, I mean maybe you and
I should take up solitaire. I mean that might be
reflected in our paychecks. The way things are going. I'm
just saying.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now I would like to call out Steven A. Smith's
for somebody again. I defend the guy. What are we
talking about, Steven A. Smith? I defend the guy. Look,
I got it, man. The NBA is boring sometimes just
is what it is. But I would like to say this,
I would recommend doing it with an actual deck of cards.
Like you can go get one of those decks of
bicycle cards somewhere. They're like two bucks. You go get

(22:27):
a deck of bicycle cards. You're going to do it?
Do it right? Yeah, do it old school. My dad
used to play solitaire. I've never in fact, I don't
even know if you ever want a game based on
how often he played. He played Solitaire for out. He
loved it. He'd have the TV on, he'd be playing Solitaire. Now,
you loved it, Now that I think of it.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Part of the appeal of playing Solitaire is the satisfying
slap of the cards on the table.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Right, It's so fun. You can't get that on your phone. No,
you can't. It just does everything for you. It shuffles
it for you. It's like playing when you take flight,
you can play texas, hold them on the back of
a back of your seat. Yeah, it's like. No with this,
get an actual deca playing cards and play Solitaire the
real way. Play it the real way.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
I mean, I probably shouldn't ask this, and I will
remind you that we are actually on the air, because
I often have confused when you and I speak. Have
you ever had a colleague engage in non working behavior
such as playing solitaire while they were on the air.
They were on the air and they were doing something else.

(23:35):
I hate to kick our entire industry.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Under the bus. No, that's fine. I mentioned this a
little bit earlier. If somebody was on a dating app,
literally swiping on a dating app, respect not even making
that up. Well, no, not respect. They couldn't even get
that right. But if you if you're got a bumble
or one of those things, I'll let you know, like
oh a bee pops up. Hey, you match with somebody.
They didn't match with anybody, so of course you didn't matchbody.

(24:00):
Nobody wants to date your lazy ass. We're doing a show.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
I probably shouldn't mention my story, but I remember, very
early in my career, I was participating in an ancillary
role on a very very major pro sports broadcast, and
the star announcer called over to me at a commercial
break isaac very urgently, and I was like, oh, they're
going to call upon me to provide some measure of

(24:26):
important information for this big, big time, major market pro
sports broadcast. And they tossed a phone number at me
for a local restaurant and said, call over to this
restaurant and find out how late they're opened after the game?

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Did I true story? Now? Now what broadcast was this?

Speaker 6 (24:46):
I will I've already thrown our business under the bus.
I will not offer further details even for you textan okay,
I'm can you just can you get no?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I ain't talking. I've already said enough, let's go live
to our I have a dating app open right now
inside Christopher for the latest Chris, Uh, not quite, but
I do have someone else. Anyway. The point is that
I have.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
A similar story to to Ilo. In fact, we may
have mentioned him earlier, but we were at the going
away party for one of our longtime employees a couple
of years ago, and I was told while a man
was on the air, to get him to go box
and bring it over to the Fox Sports Radio studio.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh. Come, let me guess his name. Rhyme was slob Marker.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Yes, okay, and by by the way, paid for by
the company from the start, of course it was not
at of course.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
I mean listen, if it's paid for, he's getting something
there and to go. I've seen it. I've seen him
do it.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
By the way, before I before I continue to interrupt
your show even more, I'll just ask one quick thing,
jonas H, I have many stories like this earlier in
your career. Were you ever summoned to get food or
drinks for coworkers?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yes, I was. I was actually there at Fox Sports Radio.
I had not been there long and I was sort
of helping out with the afternoon show at the time,
it was The Loose Cannons with Steve Hartman and paddle'bron.
Pat O'Brien handed me a cup and said, go get
me a cup of ice, please. And I looked at
him and I said, no chance, No, you did it.

(26:24):
I swear to God you did not. And I said,
I said, sorry, man, that's not my job. One of
the legends of this business. I couldn't care less.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
And by the way he said please, By the way
he said please, by.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
The I don't believe that he did. I don't know
that he did. But it didn't matter.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
He didn't ask you to go up to the Yukon
and freeze the ice yourself.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Tough balls, listen. I would never I would never ask
anybody to go do that. Ever, I would. I would
never go get me this, go get me no, man,
like these people have jobs to do, all right, What
are we talking about? Man, you got guts.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
I understand you saying that to me, But to padd O'Brien, Wow,
that's one of the legends of this industry.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
And by the way, I want to be I've not
had any That was the only sort of awkward moment
I had with padd O'Brien and in them a lot
of them because you know they were they moved on
shortly after. Yeah, Steve Hartman is one of the legends
of our business. Never one time as Steve Hartman ever said,
hey go get me this, Hey go get me that.

(27:28):
In fact, Steve Hartman, it would take him time away
from giving you the take that he has on every
single topic going on in the world for him to
do that, And that's not happening.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
Not just the world of sports, the world. We do
have actually a new development in the world of sports
because in the NBA, ESPN has just reported that Houston
Rockets center Steven Adams has agreed to a three year,
thirty nine million dollar extension. Tonight at eight Eastern from Edmonton,
Game five of the Stanley Cup Final, Oilers in Florida,
Panthers tied to two wins apiece. In Major League Baseball
right now, the Marlins and national are tied at one

(28:01):
in the top half of the sixth inning. Meanwhile, the
Cincinnati Reds out to a seven to one lead at Detroit.
They're going to the bottom of the fifth inning. There,
Ellie de la Cruz with a home run for Cincinnati.
He now has fifteen home runs this year. He is
also homered in three straight games. Meanwhile, adding to the
home run party for Cincinnati, Tyler Stevenson a Grand Slam

(28:25):
home run, Pirates up one nothing at Chicago at Wrigley
Field after the first inning.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Finally, in golf, after two rounds of the US Opened.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
Sam Burns as a one shot lead at three under
par overall, JJ Spahn one back, Victor Hobblind two back,
and they will tee off the third round approximately one
hour from now. And Jonas, this is not to make
you sound bad. It's rather to underscore just the unfortunate
anonymity of the lack of stars really in the top

(28:53):
ten at the leader board of the US Open. Right now,
I'm going to give you four names, and I want
you to tell me if they're right now in the
top ten at the US Open, or if they're names
I've made up.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
You gain please, let's go.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Okay, we'll start with Ben Griffin. Is he in the
top ten or did I make up Ben Griffin?

Speaker 1 (29:14):
I'm gonna say he's in the top ten. You're right,
all right.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
I didn't think you'd get that, you know, because the
Florida Stadium is named isn't that named Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium or something like that?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't know. I'm you mean the swamp. Yeah, I
just call it the swamp. Okay? Anyway?

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Our next name, John Shaman, John Shaman, reeler, fake in
the top ten at the US Open.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I'm gonna say fake and you are right. Yeah, darn
a golf guy, through and through? Come on man, all right?
Two more?

Speaker 6 (29:45):
Can you run the table? Yesper Horst top ten fake
fake name? And finally, what damn it?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yesper horsed. That sounds like a golf Yeah, there was
a yes per part. There's a yes per part of it.
Oh that maybe that's what it was, all right?

Speaker 6 (30:04):
And final name Thriston Lawrence Thristin Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Oh you know, if you you put an F in
the front of his first name, I'm gonna say top
ten and you're right. So you go right? Three or four?
Not bad? Good job? Jonas Id. Hey, by the way,
I was going to ask you this, have you ever
been to a tanning salon?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Ilo?

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Literally? Never in my life?

Speaker 6 (30:32):
And I hope when it's all said and done, it'll
continue that way.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
All right, So you want to know, one of the
more more awkward things that I've seen. So in twenty sixteen,
we were at the US Open because it was at
Oakmont and Fox was doing the coverage, so we went
out there to help cover the event. And when you
go to these big sporting events for people that don't know,
a lot of times, how people from the media will

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get there is that the media shuttle will come and
pick you up from wherever the destinated location is and
they'll take you or dedicated location rather, and they'll take
you to the actual event. So you don't drive up
there and park yourself or anything like that. You'll meet somewhere, Hey,
the shuttle's coming at this time, and they'll take you
over there. Well, where we had to park down the

(31:19):
road from Oakmont was like this. I think it was
like a baseball field or something along those lines. But
for some reason in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, there's a tanning salon
and I'll never get out of my mind. I'm standing
there looking at I remember I was talking to Dan
Biro was like, dude, there's a tanning salon here? Are

(31:40):
we talking about? East Coast Stanning? East Coast Stanning. I remember,
I'm like I'm looking at it, going why for what?

Speaker 6 (31:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
What I mean, It's like it's like an ice cream
truck in Alaska, Like, what are you doing here? Buddy?

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well Amy Age of Pittsburgh gives it five stars, saying
I've been tanning for years and their beds always have
new bulbs.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Okay, but why and maybe they're onto something because there's
no competition anywhere. But I just remember being at the
US Open in Oakmont, We're waiting for the shuttle and
looking over there being it said, a tanning salon, like
you'll get them out here in southern California all ong place.
They're everywhere, Oh yes, but like in Oakmont next to

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a golf course.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
Meanwhile, James P from San Francisco, they knew everything from
beds to lotions to packages. I've been tanning for twenty
years and started back in nineteen ninety nine, so apparently
coming all.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
The way from San Francisco, I mean he said that
was at James P or Justin Tucker that was Thankfully
it was James P. It was not Justin t from Baltimore,
thank you goodness. I was just wondering, all right, So, yeah,
I don't know every time I think of Oak, I
always think of the Tanning Salon, so good for them.
Only show in town. All right, Uh, Jonas Knox here

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(33:28):
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Speaker 4 (33:56):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
DMZ reports, Let's get kinky.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
Here's some of the big stories from the last week.
But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 1 (34:11):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benson to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week? Bo Uh.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
David Beckham was knighted by King Charles earlier this week, Jonas,
do you care?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh god, no, no, definitely no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
definitely not no. I I don't even know what that means.
That they take like some sword out and put it
on his head or something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (34:34):
I hope he gets a cool set of armor and
he has to go fight somewhere. Really, that would be
fun if that was what happened.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I was gonna say, if you get cool armor, like
and you look like, uh, you know, something you would
see at the Excalibur casino in Vegas, Like, yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
Think I think we have to call him Sir David Beckham.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Now, oh kiss my ass. Yeah, that's what are we
talking about here? A little bit too blowhardy for me.
Not my thing, not my cup of tea or rumpets
but congratulations. I don't know what that does for you.
It seems like he's already got enough.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Next, Denver Nuggets point guard Russell Westbrook is reportedly going
to decline his player option and become a free agent
this summer, Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah? I do care, all right? Good for us, Love Russell,
and you know what the fact that the guy admitted
this past year, Hey man, in a bit of a
wild card. You're not really sure what you're gonna get.
Maybe other shot will go in, maybe it won't. Maybe
I'll turn it over, maybe I'll have or just you know,
you never know what you're gonna get with me. But
he will get a roll. He will get a contract
from somebody. And for a guy that's been criticized as

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much as he has, he's going to be a Hall
of Famer at one point. And he has been. One
thing you say about Russell Westbrook, He's never taken a
game off. He has never taken a game off or
or taken a playoff. He's always going full gear. You
just never know whether or not he's going to turn
the ball over or not.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
Next Every once in a while, Jonas, there is a
story that sends shock waves through our culture, sits us
all down, makes us think for a minute, shocks us,
surprises us. Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown has a
warrant out for his arrest for attended murder. Jonas, do
you care?

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, listen Antonio speaking of wild Cards. Antonio Brown, You're
just not really you know, he's And it's hard. It's
hard to really dispute the claim, considering on camera you
can see him holding a hand cannon like it's hard
to dispute that. I'm pretty sure that there were shots fired. Again,
I don't want to make false accusations here. I'm not

(36:28):
trying to get sued. Anybody that knows me knows I
want one thing from Antonio Brown, and that's to be
nominated for Cracker the Year. That's it. That's all I want.
And hopefully we get this stuff sorted out and there's
no other issues so that those awards will still go
on as planned.

Speaker 7 (36:43):
Next the FIFA Club World Cup starts tonight. MESSI and
inter Miami are hosting all Alie. I'm assuming that's it.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Isn't that it's al D right? Is that a supermarket?

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Yeah, maybe yeah? Good for them, Jonas, do you care, you.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Know, I actually do. Some people might be surprised by this.
I love the big soccer events. I don't know why.
I think Mexico's playing the Dominican Republic later on. My
wife is Mexican, so you know what that means. Of course,
I'm gonna bet on the Dominican Republic. What I mean,
come on, what am I supposed to do to be
a gentleman? Please? So I mean this. Any time there's

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a big soccer event, a big event like that World Cup,
euro Cup, I think they're entertaining as hell. I think
they're fun. Fox is already rolling out the big show
of support for the World Cup. When it comes here,
you're seeing a MetLife stadium, get all the grass, put
it like. These events are fun for me. It signals summertime,

(37:42):
and I think everybody should rally around, even if you
don't have a rooting interest, just take it in and
have a good time with the whole thing.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
Next, Caitlin Clark is expected to return to the Fever
lineup today as they host the New York Liberty Jonas.
Do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
No? Definitely not No, I'm sorry, Well I don't care. Yeah, Look,
I mean and this is you know, no offense. I
know some people will be outraged by that, but I
we're good. I'm good with the WNBA stuff. I'm good here. Like,
It's just it's too toxic. You can't just rally around

(38:14):
the fact that you've got somebody who's bringing eyeballs and
revenue and all the attention that comes along with it
to your league, and instead they've spent better part of
two years trying to either dismiss it, diminish it, turn
it into a race conversation. To me, it turns everybody

(38:34):
off from wanting to be entertained or wanting to discuss
or watch the league. Like, I don't understand how you
could see this, see the opportunity, and find everything within
your power to try and get rid of it before
it gives an opportunity to have the league take off
even more. You saw the ratings take a dip. You
saw I just I don't get it. I don't know

(38:56):
why they're not more welcoming to it. It's bizarre to me.
It's like, this is good for everybody, and for some reason,
they're not into it, So why should I be next.

Speaker 7 (39:04):
The Washington Nationals called it their top prospect the other
day Bruce the bat retrieving dog. He made his major
league debut Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Okay? Yeah, and not about retrieving dog. I couldn't care less.
It's and I had a dog. He's dead. I did so.
But I mean, was this a dog that like was
Did something happen to the other dog? Did the other
dog die and they had to go to the go
to the miners, to well to call one up or well?

Speaker 7 (39:30):
I think this is probably the first time there's been
a Major League bat retrieving dog. I don't think it's
happened before.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
So, by the way, how lazy are the kids in
DC that nobody wants to be a bat boy? Or
huh Jesus boy? I mean maybe maybe they're playing solitaire.
Once you get off your lazy asses and go go
pick a Louisville slugger up and bring it back to
one of the players in the dugout. For God's sake,
they're having to They're having to go to a dog
pound to find dogs to do the job for humans.

(39:58):
This is disgusting. This, this is worse than AI taking
over for humans. You got to be ashamed of yourselves.
You know you're gonna have to retrain your brain when
it comes to one topic, one storyline, one league in
the world of sports. That'll be yours here coming up
in just a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox,
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appreciate you doing so. We'll be taking you all the
way up until the end of this hour four pm
Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific. And you know, we open
up the show talking about a very interesting development when

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it comes to the coverage of the NBA. Very interesting.
And I was simply making the point that, you know,
I should be a I should get an apology from
all the NBA fanboys, all the NBA ball washers out
there who get upset every time I'm critical of the league,
Because look, man, if you're a guy Steven A. Smith

(41:02):
is playing solitaire during an NBA Finals game, not out
to tell you everything you need to know. I'm sorry,
like I should be exonerated on all charges. Hater, you
just suck up to the NFL. Okay, all right, but
your own guy is playing a card game on his phone. Now.

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The other best part about that whole story is how
Steven A took to social media and tried to say, yeah, listen,
I was playing during a commercial break, big deal, which
he's right. The problem is they also showed another clip
where there was actual game action taking place while he
was playing, So you know, he didn't He kind of
fibbed a little bit there, maybe didn't tell the truth,

(41:49):
but that is, you know, does stand to support the
notion that maybe the NBA has seen better days. It
doesn't mean it's it's doom and gloom or over whatever.
It just is what it is. And so the conversation
then turns to what about the ratings. Well, I can
assure you the ratings are down this year. They are
they are down. The Game three numbers are up from

(42:13):
Game two, but the series is down like twenty percent
from it. Just like you know that, you're going to
see it dip in the ratings now because we are
going to get an extended series, those numbers will go up, right,
The numbers are going to go up because we have
not had a six game NBA Finals series in a
couple of years, and the last time we did was

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Celtic's Warriors. And I mean, if you notice what happened
with Celtic's Warriors, it's very similar to what happened in
this series. Where Boston was in control, was up in
Game four, leading the series two games to one, looked
like they were going to take it, and all of

(42:58):
a sudden steph Curry willed the Warriors to that win
and Boston never really recovered. Now I don't know if
that's going to happen with Indiana here. Indiana looked like
they were in control of that game. SGA and company
kept it close, kept it close, and ultimately took over
and the better team won the game. Does that mean
this is the end for Indiana? If you want to
write them off, go be it. So be it. You

(43:18):
go have fun with that. But they've proved a lot
of people wrong in this postseason. So for me, listen,
we're going to get an extended series. Obviously that's good
news for the NBA, but it also is a sign
that people got to retrain their brains. You just have
to when it comes to talking about this NBA Finals.
You got to retrain your brain because you can't just

(43:39):
use and go to the same tired stuff that you
go to all the time before. You can't you can't
just look for the same old, typical storylines that you
look for when it comes to the NBA, because they're
not there. It's a hot take free and finals, and

(44:01):
there are some people who really don't know how to
handle that because what's the juicy storyline? You don't have
Lebron You're not looking around going well, who's leaving for
a free agency? Uh? Well, what does this mean for
this guy? Afterwards? What does this mean for so and
so's legacy? What you know? You don't have that with anything.

(44:26):
Nobody's legacy is on the line here. Nobody thought Indiana
was going to be here. Nobody thought Tyrese Halliburton was
going to be here. Nobody's legacy is on the line. Well,
what about SGA's legacy. What do you mean SGA's legacy?
Guy won an MVP And here they are, and the
way that roster's built, you look at it and go

(44:46):
all right, well, maybe they'll be around for a while.
You don't have the same typical tired angle and narrative
about this finals that you did everywhere else. You just don't.
So some people are scrambling a little bit. Some people

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are looking around like, Okay, anybody gonna do anything here? Anybody? No.
You get what you get. You get good basketball. Maybe
it's not as juicy, maybe it's not as fun to
talk about or cover. Maybe it's not as fun to
watch for some people who want to play on their phone.
That's fine, but this is what you get. I've enjoyed it.

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You can't tell me this hasn't been one of the
more from a game standpoint, one of the more NBA
finals that we've seen in a long time. It is,
But the problem is people don't know how to retrain
their brain because they need some storyline built into a series.

(45:50):
They need an La or a Boston, or in a
perfect world in La versus Boston, they need Lebron. They
need a Steph Curry. Then you don't have any of that,
and people don't know what to do. They don't they're
not sure to handle it. What do we do? I mean,

(46:11):
for Christ's sake, you got Stephen A. Smith playing solitaire,
Like dude, they don't know what to do. Everyone scrambled like, wa, wait,
how do we how do we comprehend this. No, this
is the good old days, just good basketball. These are
two good teams. All these games are going to be entertaining,
they're going to be good, but they're not going to

(46:33):
give you the juicy, typical storyline that you've gotten in
previous years that the NBA has really banked on and
counted on for years and years. This is kind of
a glimpse into the future because one of these days
Lebron's gonna retire. One of these days, Lebron James is

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going to walk away from the game and he's not
going to be there, and one of these days they're
going to have to look around and find somebody else
to latch onto to try and carry the sport and
carry the league. I mean, even when you did have Lebron,

(47:15):
you couldn't let Michael Jordan go. All you did was
comparing to Michael Jordan. So maybe this will be a
good thing. Maybe this is going to retrain people who
cover the NBA about like, hey, listen, man, you can't
just you can't just depend on the same old typical
crap to carry the sport and carry the coverage of
the sport. You got to actually pay attention to really

(47:36):
good stories, stories like Oklahoma City versus Indiana. You can't
just count on the same guy and the same narratives
and storylines to carry your league. So I look at it,
I go all right, sweet changing of the guard. Adam
Silver might not be happy with it. He might not

(47:59):
be happy with the fact that the ratings are down,
and you know, his pre eminent analyst, his most well
known analyst who covers the sport for a network that
paid billions for the league and the rights to the league.
He might not be happy with the fact that that
guy's uninterested in the game and he's sitting there playing
card games on his phone. But this is sort of

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the transitional phase away from Lebron James and into the
new era, and some people have got to retrain their
brain to do it, and some people can and some
people can't. It does show you, though, a big difference
between the NFL and the NBA. We're in the NFL,
I mean, small market, big market whatever. Like Patrick Mahomes

(48:45):
plays in Kansas City, Like, yeah, the Cowboys get a
lot of topics and a lot of discussion, a lot
of storyline, of course, But this is why the NFL
is king. Patrick Mahomes plays in Kansas City. One of
your more popular teams plays in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Like

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the market doesn't really matter. It doesn't like you're gonna
like teams that are good teams are gonna get talked
about and gonna get plenty of coverage. And then there's
other teams and other divisions aka the AFC South that
aren't aren't interesting at all, no offense. But I'll tell

(49:27):
you what, if they're good enough, the NFL is not
gonna be like, damn sucks that we got Jet. No,
you'll find enough meat on the bone to be able
to take whatever storyline with whatever team and run with it.
It's just a changing in the guard. And you got
a lot of hot take artists out there that have
got to retrain their brain. Some will be able to

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of Famer weigh in on another future Hall of Famer, right,
that Hall of Famer would be Ben Roethlisberger weigh in
on Aaron Rodgers and the situation with Aaron Rodgers now
taking over in Pittsburgh. In case you were wondering, Ben
Roethlisberger has a Football with Ben Roethlisberger podcast, and he

(53:22):
was discussing what he believes will be the swan song
for one Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 8 (53:28):
I don't think he's got much more after this year.
I think this might be it for him. Could personally,
I have no reason. You could ask, well, how do
I know?

Speaker 4 (53:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (53:35):
I'm just guessing in terms of you coming off an achilles,
coming off my elbow, my first year back, I felt
like I was one hundred. I wasn't even You don't
realize that you're not one hundred till the next year
when you are a hundred. You know what I'm saying,
Like i'd say, wait a second, oh, I wasn't there.
And so he's coming one year, last year off his achilles,
he's probably like I felt pretty good. This year, he's

(53:55):
going to be better like in the sense of body
feeling better doesn't mean he will play better.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Never know that.

Speaker 8 (54:00):
There's a lot of other factors on that. But he's
going to feel better, But it doesn't mean that he's
going to have two or three years left. I think
this might be his last go I think it's.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
His last year too. I think that's an indication with
him signing a one year deal, it's more than likely
going to be Aaron Rodgers last year. And one of
the points that they also made on that podcast was well,
you know, maybe he's just, you know, he out he
thinks he can win a super Bowl. Okay, I'm sure
that's that's part of the appeal, Like I want to
go win a Super Bowl. I'd like to win another one.

(54:33):
I don't think Rogers is even focused on that, to
be honest with you, I think this has got everything
to do with him wanting to go out similar to
the way that he came in. And I've mentioned this
before that his time with the Jets and whether it
be the injury, coming back from the injury, the way

(54:57):
that all played out national television, out with the American flag,
and then four plays in he goes down with the
Achilles like all of that stuff to come back in
year two and have all of the camp from the
get go. It was chaos in year two with the Jets.
He's trying to work his way back from an injury.

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He misses mini camp and it becomes a story did
Robert Sala throw shade at him? Did he? All they
get to the season, they're losing games they probably should
should win. He struggles a bit early on, He's taken
a beating, his coach gets fired. There's all this speculation

(55:42):
about Nathaniel Hackett, all this story about Aaron Rodgers. Did
he get Robert Salah fired? Woody Johnson's like lurking around
the building. You get the stories about Woody Johnson's kids
doing using Madden ratings to evaluate players, like all of
the crap that he had to deal with. I think Rogers,

(56:05):
in going through it last year, is like, dude, I
just want to go play one more year in an
environment similar to the one I came up in. What
place is most similar to Green Bay when it comes
to legacy history tradition, It's Pittsburgh, So this isn't I

(56:33):
don't even think he needs to play well or needs
to set any more records or needs to go out
of his way to I don't think anything's about that.
I just think he wants to go out on his
terms in a different environment. That's it. Super Bowl, that'd
be sweet if not already won one. I threw my
five hundred touchdown last year. I did it with the Jets.

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I think last year was so unapp appealing because of
the culture that is the Jets, and he's like, dude,
I just want to get somewhere. That's kind of cool.
Mike Tomlin's cool, like I just wanted. That's it. No drama,
no nothing. Steelers keep everything pretty quiet, even their receivers

(57:18):
who get fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, like George Pickens.
You don't really find out about all the real details
of what weren't wrong until afterwards. Same with Antonio Brown
when he was there, you didn't find out about a
lot of it until afterwards. I think all that is
appealing to Rogers. This has nothing to do with Super Bowls.
It's got nothing to do with whether or not his
body feels right. I just think he wants to go

(57:38):
out the way he came in. I think he wants
to bookend his career with as little drama as possible,
because even with Rogers at best, Pittsburgh is the third
best team in the division. At best. Now that's if

(57:59):
Cincinnati can, you know, figure out what they want to
do on defense, like maybe give the guy who deserves
a contract extension his contract extension, or maybe work to
sign your first round pick and not change the language
of a contract that you did last year to the
one you want to do this year to be able
to avoid some stuff. It's like, you know, but you've

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got Baltimore, you've got Cincinnati. Cleveland's there, but who the
hell knows? With Cleveland, Pittsburgh at best is still the
third best team in the division. We had Jared Smith
on the show or a few weeks ago Fox Sports
Radio betting analyst. He broke down their schedule. Pittsburgh's is
going to be up against it. They're looking like a
nine win team. But I don't think I don't think

(58:41):
that's going to impact any decision Rogers has moving forward.
I don't think Rogers deep down believes, yeah, this team
can win a Super Bowl. I don't think he thinks that.
I think he looks it and says man it's either
this TI I'm going to retire. I could go retire
right now and be perfectly happy. He's got his money,
he's got his Super Bowl, he's got his leg. He'll
be in the Hall of Fame in five years. He

(59:02):
already said it. He's going to be in the Packers
Hall of Fame. I just think he wants to rid
himself of that awful taste that is the Jets, and
he looks at this as an opportunity to go out
similar to how he came in, in an environment without
all the bs, all the drama, all the garbage, just

(59:22):
old school tradition. Go out the way you came in,
and he rides off into the sunset. Jonas Knox here
Fox Sports Radio, at the Jonas Knocks on X, at
the Jonas Knox on X and again you can find
us on Instagram at Jonas Knox Show. All right, so
coming up next, I mean, look, people aren't gonna like this,

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but there's somebody who has already won. Even though he hasn't,
there is somebody who actually has already won. We'll explain
who that is in the NFL coming up here in
just a couple of moments from now, but for all
the latest from around the world of sports, Ladies and gentlemen,
open up your ears and shut your mouths for the
magnific Same for the radio royalty, that is, Sir Isaac Longcroft.

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
Indeed, and someone else who is cashing in in a
royally equivalent way Steven Adams, because in the NBA, ESPN
reported today at Steven Adams the Rocket Center has agreed
to a three year, thirty nine million dollar extension to
remain in Houston. In Major League Baseball, right now, the
Miami Marlins a four to one lead at Washington after

(01:00:27):
eight innings. The Cincinnati Reds, meanwhile, now have a ten
to one lead at Detroit. In the top half of
the ninth inning, Cincinnati's at four home runs today, Elie
de la Cruz homered for the third consecutive game, and
the fourth inning now is fifteen this year. Red scored
six in the fifth inning, including a grand slam home
run by Tyler Stevenson. Spencer Steer then went deep and

(01:00:50):
Matt McClean added a three run home run the Pittsburgh Pirates.
In Chicago, Cubs tied at one of the bottle of
the fifth inning at Wrigley Andrew McCutcheon his seventh home
out of the season for the Pirates. Finally, in golf,
in the third round of the US Open, Sam Burns
has a one shot lead at three under par overall,
JJ Spawn one shot back. Victor Hoblin is two shots back.

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Burns and Spawn will tee off the final pairing of
round three about five minutes from now and Trekap what
we were talking about earlier, we were mentioning that unfortunately
it's not exactly a star studded leader board in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
The US Open right now. So Jonas, I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:01:30):
Gonna give you four more names, right and you tell
me whether they are actual, real time members of the
top ten leader board at the US Open right now
or whether I just made him up. The first name
is Wade Strauss Reeler.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Fake. Is he in the top ten at the US
Open right now? Or did I make him up? You
made him up? You are correct?

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
Well, I actually didn't make him up. I actually went
to high school with a guy named way Straush.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Yeah, Well, unfortunately Wade's not on Facebook, so I haven't heard.
I mean, there's so few people who are not on
Facebook these days. But anyway, yes, I did go to
high school with him?

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Next name, I'm not on Facebook.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Well you have a reason to be, because you know,
got to stay away from all your trolls. Next name,
Sam Stevens.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Top ten. You're right, so you're two for two. Good
for you? All right? Name three?

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
Is he in the top ten? Or is he made up?
Troy Stecher I'll say top ten?

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
You are wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Ahwever.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
Troy Stetcher is a professional athlete. He will be involved
in Game five of the Stanley Cup Final tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
For the Edmonton Oilers. Well listen, you know, so you
were close and the final name Reelers. Probably golfs Does
that count? Oh? All hockey players? Golf? Good lord? By
the way, you know, I'll let you finish, but I
have the story. All you fish? What's the problem with you?
Was your show? Yeah? We had one more to go?
We had another another. Is he in the top ten

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or not? To Carlos or tease, I'll think he was
at my wedding. Sorry, I'm gonna say not in the
top ten. He sounds like a boxer. He has tied
for sixth place, two under through six today. So you
got two out of four? So what was that that

(01:03:31):
was five out of eight for the day. Nicely done.
Now you were saying you had a story. Yeah, so
you mentioned hockey players. All hockey players golf, which which
that is, there's probably a high percentage of hockey players
to do golf. But at so at that same US
Open in twenty sixteen where they had the Tanning salon
light up the road East Coast Tanning. Yeah, so the

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Pittsburgh Penguins had just won the Stanley Couch. Sure, so
all their players were getting the royal treatment. Those guys
were walking around because you know, like it's Oakmont Country Club,
so like this is prestigious stuff. You've got to have
it on the right attire. You can't act a fool.
Members of the Pittsburgh Penguins were walking around the golf
course in short and flip flops with a beer in

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each hand, just getting annihilated, like straight off the championship
parade float or whatever they were on and literally walked
onto the course and were boozing hard, all of them,
and nobody was going to say a damn thing to them.
They just want a Stanley Cup. You can't say a
damn thing to this team or these players and they

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all just sort of cruised around. Nobody's hitting golf balls,
just ripping beers beer in each hand. Now did fly
Did they have Lord Stanley with them? I don't believe.
So I didn't see it. Yeah, even if I did
see it, I wouldn't touch it. Lord Stanley. This is
good for you because that's the tradition.

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
Now, had they that year not won the Stanley Cup
and yet we're doing the same thing, would that have
been allowed.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
All they would have been kicked out exactly? Yeah, no
you would Yeah, yeah, you would have been kicked out. Yeah,
it's not happening. It's not happening. Very difficult course, by
the way, from my understanding. Yeah, only three guys under par,
which I don't know how. I don't know how I
feel about that, because I don't like the courses where
guys are shooting twenty five under. But I also don't

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like the ones where they're making it so difficult that
you know the best score is going to be like
a two or three under or whatever it is. You
got to find a happy happy medium. Yeah you got
and then and then you know, at least that way
makes it more entertaining, or just turn into the miniature
golf and throw like windmills in front with the clown's mouth. Yeah,

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I want to golf and stuff not that long ago.
It's great, boy.

Speaker 6 (01:05:43):
I'd never had you peg for a miniature golfer. Oh yeah,
my son loves it. Oh okay, so you take your sign.
Oh yeah, you're just not out there like on your
own kind of in a creepy way. Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Oh yeah, he goes into the arcade. I'm playing miniature golf. Okay, good, good, good.
I got one glove and everything. I got my own bag.
That's all right, thank you, Iilo. It is Jonas Knox
here on Fox Sports Radio. By the way, we are
going to have another edition of the Scraps Things in
the World of Sports and beyond. We've not had a

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chance to get to. That'll be yours here again about
twelve minutes from now here on FSR. All right, So
we were mentioning earlier that Micah Parsons has got his
own issue. Guy's trying to get a deal done, all right.
He is trying to get a deal done. He wants
to get this deal done, and for some reason, it's
just dragging along and dragging along and he told Clarence Hill,

(01:06:35):
who covers the Cowboys, He said, look, I mean it's
just gonna cost him more. And my own point on
that was, well, yeah, of course it is. And Jerry
Jones doesn't care. It's called the fashionably late tax. But
Jerry Jones is good with this. He does not care. Oh,
we're gonna be the last one to sign our guy.
We're gonna have to pay more, darn guests, We'll just

(01:06:58):
be talked about some more. Doesn't care. That doesn't matter
to Jerry Jones that all of that is beneath him.
This is a fashionably late tax. Now, somebody who does
also know about the fashionably late tax that Jerry Jones
is willing to pay is none other than Dak Prescott.
And Dak Prescott was asked recently about winning a Super

(01:07:21):
Bowl what it would do for his legacy, how he
would feel about it. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 9 (01:07:26):
I want to win a championship. The legacy, the things
whatever comes after I've finished plan will take care of itself.
Be damned if it's just for my legacy or for
it's for this teams, for my personal being, for my sanity. Yeah,
the legacy will take care of itself. I have to
stay with my feet on.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Yeah, I got news for you. I know that people
want to look at this and say, well, look, you know,
he hasn't won a super Bowl, He's never won a suit.
It's like, okay, all right, all right, got you. He's
never won a super Bowl understood, probably never going to
win a super Bowl. For being honest, it's probably never
gonna happen. If Dak Prescott just plays out without asking

(01:08:10):
for a raise, without anything, If Dak Prescott plays until
he's thirty five years old and just plays out his
current deal, at the end of his NFL career, he
will have made just over four hundred and thirty six
million dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
I bump those numbers up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Those are rookie numbers. The super Bowl can kiss my ass,
The ring can kiss my ass. The Lombardi Trophy all
due respect can follow suit. Four hundred thirty six million dollars.
You know where his feet are, wherever the hell he

(01:08:54):
wants him to be, and we could sit here and
talk about what you know, if Dak doesn't win a
super Bowl, he doesn't start. I mean, if he doesn't
bring the Cowboys a super Bowl, what's his legacy going
to be dude, let's just call it what it is.
Their best chance to win a super Bowl was his
rookie year. His rookie year, he Zeke Elliott. That team

(01:09:16):
who had a buy and then lost that game to
the Packers at home. That team that lost that game
to the Packers probably should have gone to the super Bowl.
They were one of the odds on favorites to win
the Super Bowl that year. That was their best chance
and Aaron Rodgers in company cost Remember that was the

(01:09:38):
one where Mason Crosby hit like two fifty plus yard
field goals to win it. That was their best chance.
Forget about the Super Bowl. Who cares if he just
plays standard football, which is good football. He's been a
good quarterback. He just plays standard football based on where
he's come from, round quarterback like Dak Prescott. Like you know,

(01:10:05):
there was a video floating around when he was in college.
He was at spring break. He got jumped by some
guys in Daytona. I was like, oh my god, what's
he doing? You know this and that he gets taken
in the fourth round. Well, you're not really expecting much.
All these events took place. Injuries. Next thing you know,
Dak Prescott's a starter, and he never looked back. And
if he never looks back and never looks ahead to

(01:10:27):
a super Bowl and never looks ahead to any sort
of playoff success and just plays out his current deal,
just plays out his current deal. At thirty five years old,
he will have pocketed four hundred and thirty six million
dollars super Bowl. Who gives a rip about a Super Bowl.

(01:10:51):
Guy's got almost a half billion dollars in his bank
before taxes, of course, but his taxa is clinked. So
this whole discussion about well Man Deck, he's over. Okay,
you call whatever you want to call him. I'll gladly
take being quote unquote overpaid and unproven and not a
top ten guy and not deserving of the money. If

(01:11:13):
that's the type of money I'm living with the rest
of my life. At the Jonas Knox on X at
Jonas Knox Show on Instagram and up next, we were
going to close up shop on this Saturday with another
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wondering what sort of positive reviews we've gotten on this show,
there's been several booby right now. Hey Jonas, you should

(01:12:03):
be the one apologizing for that made up ice story.
I heard that when Pat O'Brien would ask for ice
it was cool. It was to cool off his balls
after you shaved him bald and shined his shoes hashtag
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Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
DM.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
Jonas you moron, how could you not get to these stories?

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
Moron?

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
These are the scraps and for that we turn it
over to our executive producer Bo Benzon to find out
what the hell we've missed so far.

Speaker 7 (01:13:48):
On the show, Bo well, Jonas Isaac mentioned it, but
a tough start to the NBA off season for your Lakers.
The Rockets and Steven Adams have agreed to a three year,
thirty nine million dollar deal, so that is one center
option for the Lakers off the market already.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
By the way, talk about a guy who's had sort
of an underrated career, Steven Adams, and how old is
he let me just look this up really quick. I'm
gonna say.

Speaker 7 (01:14:14):
Under thirty four.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
Steven Adams is thirty one. Yet there you go. That
guy seems like he's been in the league since the eighties. Yeah,
Steven Adams is only thirty one. Good god, I mean
he's had a hell of a run. He's made a
ton of money in his career. Good teammate. Everyone seems
to like him totally. Chill doesn't get like you ever know,
Steven Adams hardly ever gets pissed off.

Speaker 8 (01:14:38):
One of the.

Speaker 7 (01:14:40):
All those guys from Australia and New Zealand, those are
the last guys that I think you want to upset
in their respective sport. Like Jordan my lot of the
Eagles is a psycho, and I would not want to
piss him off.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Yeah, I mean you don't. And like, no, you never
see them really get pi. It's almost like when you
if you ask anybody who you know, like a lot
of guys who get into fighting, whether it's miss Mixed,
Marshall Arts or or boxing or just Brazilian jiu jitsu,
a lot of them will tell you, yeah, I used
to get in fights all the time as a kid,
and so my parents decided to put me in either

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MMA training or in boxing whatever, just so I could
get it, get the energy out. And once they do that,
they realize, oh, I'm never getting another street fight. I'm
just it's never gonna You have no desire to there's
no because they realized, yeah, I am tough and if
I wanted to, I could put somebody to sleep in
a heartbeat. Steven Adams is probably looking around, going, dude,
I'd crush these guys. There's no like. I don't need

(01:15:35):
to get upset. I don't need to get pissy about anything.
I already know the answer to the question, so I
don't need to prove it to anybody. But good for him, man.
And by the way, VERRYA. The Rockets are a fun team.
That's a that's a fun team and maybe a potential
landing spot for.

Speaker 7 (01:15:49):
Kevin Durrhay about to get maybe more fun with Kevin
Duranta next week. Uh, the Oilers have named Calvin Picard
is our starter for tonight's Game five, replacing Stuart Skinner.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
And that now I've said this on the air before,
and listen, I love the USA, right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
We got fourth of July coming up, We got American
flags all over our house. We've got an American flag
pinwheel going like I listen, I love the USA. I
am rooting for Edmonton in the series simply because Brady
Quinn and Pete Prisco are Florida Panther fans.

Speaker 7 (01:16:28):
Oh yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
So and and a lot of people don't understand that.
They're like, well, how could you go against your own country? Well,
it's easy if you're a guy. And and women don't understand.
Like I've tried to explain this to my wife. She
doesn't understand how how our minds work. Bo tell me,
there's nothing better than rooting against your buddy's favorite. Oh,
it's literally like the greatest thing in the world. Like

(01:16:51):
other people like, hey, what's like becoming a father? Not
as good as that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:54):
I send my friend my friend Eagles highlights all the time.
He hates the Eagles for no no real he's a
Vikings fan and it pisses him off so much. And
it's such a joy to do. It's so much fun.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
It's the best. It's like, I don't and it's such
a guy thing. It's such a guy thing to do,
but it's the best. You literally root even if you
don't have a rooting it. I meant I mentioned it earlier.
My wife's Mexican. Mexico's playing the Dominican Republic later tonight,
I'm going to be cheering for the Dominican Republic. I

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have to. She'll get upset. I'm like, you don't understand.
You're not a guy. You don't get what this is. Like,
you have to do it. You have to do it
just to be an a hole. There's nothing better in
the world.

Speaker 7 (01:17:38):
Yeah, that's so much fun. Speaking of nothing better in
the world, Caitlyn Clark is back. She has in the
first half here for the Fever, She's got twenty points
on seven to ten shooting, three assists, four rebounds. Kind
of feels like one of the first real Caitlin Clark
type games that she's had in the WNBA. So welcome back, Caitlyn.

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Do you think that uh you think that Iowa Sam
is uh yeah, Iowa Sam's probably like four or five
I p a s deep.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
He's got his Caitlin Clark jersey on like he's probably
got like a fake cornfield background behind him, like he's got.

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
I think when he comes to Sam and watching this,
the question is does he have pants on at this point?

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Oh geez, maybe by that Bo, Well.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
I mean it's hot. I don't know if Sam has everything?

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
Mean so yeah, fair enough, Okay, that makes a lot
of sense. Yeah, you never you never know what Iowa Sam,
but he he is one of those guys. By the way,
we mentioned you love rooting against their other team. Iowa
Sam is made has made everyone at Fox Sports Radio
love and hate the state of Iowa at the same time.
It's a It's an amazing move that he's pulled off here.

(01:18:51):
Oh my god. I love rooting for Iowa State. I
love rooting for Angel Reese. Anything anti Iowa Sam make
it worthwhile. It's just one of the people don't understand.
But it's just one of those things. Man. It's a
sick and twisted world we live in and we can't
get enough. This has been a fun show for Ilo,
for Bo, for Chris Purfett, for everybody listening, anybody who

(01:19:13):
tweeted it, and even the insults. We appreciate you. We'll
be back next week here on FSR.

Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
Shonas Son of a Bitch