July 13, 2026 • 40 mins
In Hour 3 of the show, Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn, & LaVar Arrington chat with Jon Paul Morosi as they discuss the MLB All-Star Game and some World Cup insight. Plus, the guys discuss the Seahawks finally selling the team, we have a Justin Bieber edition of The Leftovers, and more!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the show. And we will talk about somebody who's a
bit of a renaissance Man Morros. You talk about somebody
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who can do it all. You want to talk hockey,
he can do it. You want to talk soccer, John Moros,
you want to talk baseball, he can do it. And
if you want him to do all of that in Italian,
he can do that too. He is John Morous. Paul Morosi,
senior MLB network reporter, Fox Sports Radio, MLB insider and
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a World Cup contributor. Get him on x at John
Morosi JPM. How are you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Great to be with all of you. Good morning to
my dear friends. That's what I said in the Italian
just a moment ago. But love our conversations and it
is great to be back on the show today. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Awesome JP.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We've got chonge for like a number of topics though,
I mean, we've got World Cup, we've got the All
Star Game. I mean, we could mention Michigan, although we
just talked about that maybe we don't want to talk
about what's happening there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's so rady. I guess what I will. The ant
all gives you on the happenings at the University of
Michigan is probably the same two word response that has
applied to much of the last three to four years
around these parts. It's complicated. It complicated, But all I
got on that one. I mean, I think it's gonna
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take some days to settle out. I mean, it is
remarkable how in the last several years a university that
has won both the NCAA football and basketball championships are
in such great turmoil. But that appears to be the
case GP.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Obviously we're at the All Star break. Biggest I guess,
surprise both good and bad through the first half technically speaking,
not the first half, but you know what I mean,
through the first portion of the MLB season in your
mind thus far.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So I'll though with a two part surprise on the
negative side, which is that both of the American League
teams that were in the American League Championship Series just
a year ago, a classic seven gamer, Toronto and Seattle
both are under five hundred right now that I did
not see that coming. And ironically it's a couple of
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their stars that are part of the reason Vladimer Guerrero
Junior having a tough season, cal Raley and Seattle having
a tough season. Of course, also in the superstar category
in the American League, Aaron Judge is injured. Now, of course,
the Yankees are still in a playoff position, three games
back the Rays. I think on the positive side, as
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we're talking about it, think about this, who would have
said that at the All Star break in the American
League the three first place teams would be the Rays,
the White Sox, albeit in a tie with the Guardians,
and then the Texas Rangers. No one would have thought
that the Red Sox fire their manager and somehow end
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the first half on a nine game winning streak. And
then on the National League side of things, you've got
teams like the Marlins the Pirates, they're both above five
hundred right there in the wild card race. The Nationals
are there on the periphery. So it has been a
year of the unexpected. Of course, the Dodgers are the expected.
Everyone expect them to be good, and they are. But
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along the way a lot of these other teams we're
talking about gentlemen have really surprised in different ways.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I'll jump in John talk about the World Classic. It
just concluded. Obviously, the US made it to the championship round,
made a game of it late, but Venezuela ultimately came
out on top. What it seems as though, its sounds
as though the conversations that came out of the Classic
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is it's growing just as big as as a World
Cup type of sports spectacle.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
What's what's your take on it? Did you enjoy it
this year? What's like?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
What was the I guess the post conversations about the Classic?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well, I love this question, LeVar. You're asking the right guy,
because this is really it's like a fastball for me
right down the middle. I mean, I love that event
so much. What an international year it's been, by the way,
you think about the World Cup in soccer going on
right now, the US winning double goals at the Olympics
in ice hockey, and then of course the World Baseball Classic.
And it was even more in retrospect when you consider
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what Venezuela has gone through with the earthquake here in
recent weeks. Just the emotional positive point that that tournament
was for them. You think back to just what baseball
means to Venezuela in a cultural way, and that's true
of so many different countries, LeVar and Brady and Jonas
just how special the game is. And we're seeing a
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very similar type of energy right now during the World
Cup in the soccer side of things. So it's soccer
is the world game where every continent, everybody knows it
and loves it. Baseball it is followed with that same passion,
just maybe not in quite as many different places. And
so when you were watching those games and actually had
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the pleasure of bringing my parents down to a couple
of games there in Houston for them to experience it,
which was awesome. So it was a new dimension for
me to see my mom and dad up in the stands, loving,
loving the World Baseball Classic two. So it is it
is like a family. And I think the way that
this last month of World Cup soccer has gone reminds
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us what a big sports family we can be as
a world and how well we do sports if you
look at it that way. I'm a believer that the
World Baseball Classic as great as it was this year,
LeVar the best is yet to come for the event.
I think you can get even bigger you think about
more and more countries getting involved. I would love to
see the World Baseball Classic, maybe not this year because
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we're obviously focused on the World Cup, but in another year,
moving the finals of it to the All Star break
and really owning this week, owning this time here. Football
training camps haven't started yet, of course, so we've got
this narrow window to really own the sports calendar. And
a non World Cup year I hope is the next
time that we've got a World Baseball Classic. The finals,
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the semifinals, and the finals are played right now.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, I love that idea, JP, and you mentioned it
a couple of times. Speaking of more current events going
on right now. The World Cup, we were talking a
little bit about earlier. There's some talk momentum that maybe
this thing expands from forty eight to sixty four.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Like, what say you about that sort of.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Expansion, You know, Brady, it's a great question. I am
generally supportive of more teams being involved, not the least
of which if it was a sixty fourteen field that
somehow Italy might have found their way into the tournament.
This year. But that's a separate conversation about my beloved
Italian national team.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And with them in recent years.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But the big picture point is some of my favorite
stories in this World Cup were smaller countries that might
not have made it in other structures. Okay, you think
about Dr Congo, you think about Cabo Verde and Vozena,
the goalkeeper who went from having a few thousand Instagram
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followers to millions based on one performance against Spain, and
then of course he follows it up with other great performances.
So for me, the quality of soccer around the world
has been affirmed by the way this tournament has gone.
It might be when you think about expanding it to
its current form and then even more beyond that, that's
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pretty rapid and all at once. But you think about
the NCAA basketball tournament and it's still it's still magical
when you get right down to it. And for those
that would have thought that, oh my gosh, that if
you invite more and more teams, either the product is
going to suffer, well, that was not the case this time.
It was great soccer from beginning to end, and or
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they was going to skew the results. Well, if you
look at the semi finals, the four teams that probably
should have made it all made it. So it's an
interesting conversation point, Brady, but I would be generally supportive
of it, especially because this next time when they have it,
it's going to be hosted among again, multiple countries are
really big footprint, So I'm generally supportive of involving more
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of the world in this great spectacle.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
He is John Palm Morosi, senior MLB Network reporter, Fox
Sports Radio MLB insider, joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Get them on X at John Morosi JP. I'm curious
because out obviously here locally in southern California, in Los Angeles,
you know, we know sort of the love and you know,
the the love affair that the fans have with the Dodgers.
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We've seen the success they've had there in the midst
of a dynasty and all that. From your perspective, maybe
on the outside, from a national view, you look at
a move like bringing in Kyle Tucker, it's just not
gone well and it doesn't matter. It almost seems like
they are so loaded and so good that whether it's injuries,
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a signing that doesn't work out, that they paid an
insane amount of money for. They just seem to be
so far ahead of everybody else, good or bad for
the sport.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Good good for the sport in what they do and
that they set the standard. And what I'll be really
curious about, And with all three of you in your
experiences being around pro sports, I think one of the
unique dynamics of if we do get a salary cap
in this industry in the coming years, which is possible,
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that that the the advantages will increasingly be on the
things that the public does not see all the time.
And what I will say, and Brady, you think about
your career and LeVar you as well. You're playing for
different teams and players know. Players know which teams treat
their their their players the right way. Players know which
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teams do it right behind the scenes, how they take
care of families, how they take care of their players.
And the Dodgers do it all right. They've got They've
got former players who didn't even play for the Dodgers
who want to then go work for the Dodgers because
they realize how great they are and treating their employees
and and just developing their their front office people. It's
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like this is the this is the Harvard of sports
organizations right now. People want to go there. They want
to learn why they do things very well, and that
that is to their credit, and the way they do
things away from the field of play impacts the way
they do it on the field of play, and players
talk they're smart. Otani wanted to play there. Tucker wanted
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to play there. Bookie Bests wanted to play there. Freddie
Freeman wanted to play there. It's not just the guy
they draft and develop. They bring in great talent because
of how they operate their organization. So they said the
standard they bring everyone else's level up. And if we're
getting to a time in the future where the marginal
dollar you can't always spend, if there's a salary cap,
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what you can still do is operate your organization in
the best possible way. And so what I'm saying is
that the Dodgers are not just a top of the
standings team. They are an industry leader, best in class.
The way they do things in just about every way,
and that I believe will make the industry and the
sport stronger in the long run.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
John, you mentioned culture, positive culture. I'm curious that, you know,
doing a little bit of research on and just you know,
I'm not a big soccer fan, but just doing some
of the conversations early on, there was the conversation points
that there were more This was the highest number concentration
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of players to play in the World Cup that had
played abroad, and that might have been the reason why
they were so competitive early on in the Cup matchups,
but they still were outclassed and for into the US, Yes,
the US, of course, and and and realizing that once
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you get down to the elite powers culturally speaking, is
is men's soccer in the US going to be able
to ever close the gap on on some of these
other powerhouse countries for the.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Sport, It's a great question, LeVar. I think that eventually
that gap will titan and within all of our lifetimes.
The US did reach a quarterfinal back in two thousand
and two. The sport wasn't as big then in the
US as it is now, but so it does. There
is at least some proof that you can make the
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final eight. In that game, it's forever ago. But if
a handball had been fairly given, the US might well
have won that game and gotten to the semi final,
so it's it's possible, it can happen. There's two things
I think about though with this number one. As much
as there's been this robust conversation around pay to play
and it's all fair, there are certainly we are not
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getting all of the best athletes and developing them all
in the best ways in the US, which is a
long discussion that we don't have time for right now.
But I do think that there are ways to help
the initial pipeline, broaden it out, bring more young people
into the sport, and make it affordable for them. I
think that is a big picture topic that all of
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us who are involved in sports, any sports parent, any
sports coach, we all have shared responsibility and making that better.
I do think that the MLS next academies, which only
recently coming to being in the last ten years or so,
we have yet to see. We have yet to just
based on the age that these players are, we have
yet to see the full benefits of that. I think
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eventually we will to where there are more players that
are developed, at least initially from within the MLS system,
that eventually they go and play in Europe. I think
we will have a more talented team four years from
now than we did this year. I really believe that,
based on the ages of some of the younger players,
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a lot of the players on this team that were
key in the formation of what this team's identity was,
they will be back, which is a good thing. By
the way, this was a good team. It was a
good team that had a bad game at the worst
possible time. That's what happened. And were they as good
as Belgium, Probably not in terms of talent and merit,
but they were a lot closer than what that game appeared.
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So I'm an optimist. I think that we're going to
continue to see more of our American players playing in
top European leagues, that the overall pipeline here domestically is
getting better, and I'm I'm a believer that the best
is yet to come. And I think one of the
things that that you look at competitively, we're a year
away from from the women's national team being back at
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the Women's World Cup, and we are one of the
dominant countries there with the way that women's soccer has
grown so well in our country, So it can be done.
The women have shown it, the men showed it right
up until the last game this time around. So I'm
a believer gentleman, that the best is still yet to
come for US soccer.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, I hope, so hope that's the case. Build up
a lot of momentum. I think this World Cup. I
want to stand on topic just to We talked about
this earlier too, the VAR replay system, if you will,
and we have credited LeVar Arrington for being who they
named the VAR.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Replace that would be like the like the Spanish way
of saying.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
It, like that's correct to watch the article.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
At the beginning, so I think LaVar you may even have.
I mean it's it's it's like a sponsorship. There's like
a marketing thing. There was something shut that offline.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Okay, all right, sounds good.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
As I said, like there's like a LeVar leap into
the VAR to like actually watch it.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
We've into the VAR.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know, there's been some controversy in regards to how
it's been used, but I would argue I think it's
actually been great because it's cleaned up some of the
flopping at least in some a couple instances, and it
feels like that that model is relatively quick compared to
other sports and how they go about do it. I
mean baseball has used kind of the strike ball, you know,
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using that technology too has been great. Is this something
you want to see expanded more upon as far as
like how I guess the World Cup or how FIFA
is implemented.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
The soccer this year?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Deil Brady, I love this question because it really it
became such a big topic and is in so many ways.
And obviously the flow Ballogan decision, which is entirely separate category,
but it was related obviously to Davar initially a couple
of thoughts in this thing number one, and it helps
you get the calls right, and I fully agree the
best part of it this World Cup has been the
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ability to properly penalize flopping. And if you're flopping in
a way that you're trying to debate the official into
giving a yellow card to the other team, but it's
found that you flopped your way into doing that, you
should get penalized. And I know the Swiss didn't like it.
I'm sorry that was that was a dive and the
way you fix that is don't dive. So that I mean,
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for me, that was a I love the way that
they've been able to actually also remove a lot of
the dead time. This hasn't been talked about quite as much,
but you would sometimes see players really delaying the throw
in or they would take it's you know, it's like
the oldest trick in the book to delay the game.
But we've seen a quicker game. I think it's been
a better product overall. There have been a couple instances
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where and again, like the Balligan ruling, I don't think
they should have made it a red initially because it
just it wasn't intentional. It was in the flow of play.
We've relitigated this innumerable times. But the point is that
to me, VAR should not be utilized to get a
little technicality and say, okay, well we didn't recognize this
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at all in the flow of play, but let's go
back and re engineer it. I didn't love the one
that was that was taken away earlier on in the
in the Egypt game, where a clear goal was removed
when it was like five plays before. So there's there's
been a little bit too excessive application of VR in
my opinion. But the flopping is the perfect application of it,
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and I hope becomes a real tent pole of the
way that we do this in the future. This just
makes the game a little more a little more honest.
I think that's one of the biggest things that as
a casual sports fan, you would look at it and say, Okay,
we got to improve this. About soccer, They've improved it.
I think as long as we put a little bit
more guardrails on what is reviewable what is not, because
even in baseball as broadly applied as we're seeing replay,
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there are still some the things that are not reviewable.
And it'd be like going into an NBA game and say,
wait a minute, they missed a travel five, you know,
ten seconds before the basket, So we got to really
go back and rewind I mean, you'd be doing it
over and over again to the point the game loses
its integrity. There's a fine line to be drawn there.
I think that we need to be a little bit
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more definitive on where that line is. But in general,
I'm with you. I think it's been a good implementation
of the expanded use of var in this tournament.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
That was one great response.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Man, very well well uh spoken, and just just that
was a great explanation.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
That's all. I mean, I was really enthralled by it. Yeah,
jp uh home run Derby, All Star Game, both in Philly.
Is this just going to be a celebration of Kyle
Schwarber as he just hits tanks, you know, hopefully out
of the stadium coming up later on tonight? Is he?
Is he your pick to win the Derby? And then
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who do you got as an MVP pick for the
All Star Game?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, so I'm with you. I think Schwarber for me,
remember the swing off a year ago. He loves the
big moment. What a great career he's had. By the way,
I think it's important people to remember, first of all,
it was ten years ago he wins the World Series
with the Cubs. But then a couple of years after that,
it was after the twenty twenty season he was he
was let go by the Cubs, just just non tender
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cut from the team. He batted one to eighty eight
that year, totally revived his career in twenty twenty one,
and is now a perennial All Star, one of the
most beloved and popular players in the game.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
He just he's gonna be John He's going to be
a Hall of Famer. Like he's trending in that.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Direction one hundred percent, and that's kind of where I'm
at with it. He's got ten years of service now,
he's already got three hundred and seventy two homers. Man,
if he and he's the kind of guy where he
played one sixty two last year, he has played his
way into that conversation. If he can get around like
another one hundred to one hundred and twenty five homers
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in his career, which is as long as he's productive
into his later thirties, I think he will be Man,
He'll be there. I mean, his his resume, and you'll
compare it to like a John Carlos Stanton's. He's got
an eight to fifty two ohps for his career right now.
I mean Jonas. I'm kind of talking my way into
this to say that he's he's a dude and now
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MVP for the All Star Game. I've got Junior Camanaro.
I think he's become a superstar with the Rays. Love
the way he plays part of the Derby two. So
I've got Schwarber winning the Derby. Junior Camanaro is the
MVP of the All Star Game. I can't wait, by
the way, for our colleagues on the TV side at Fox,
how about that Tuesday World Cup semi final and then
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the All Star Game that, my friends, is the day
to just enjoy sports fan. I just enjoy all these
great moments that we got coming up this week.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
JP.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The only issue with that, because it's gonna be a
great down with I'm right there with you, is or
will not be watching either of those two events. So unfortunately,
that's that's the stance he's taken all during the World
Cup and probably during Baseball.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
It's unfortunately, Okay, well.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
LeVar, we can we can still be friends.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It's yes, Well, I get my fixes from you. That's
why I gave you your flowers.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I mean, you gave me so much information and it
made it almost interesting enough for me want to want
to watch it on a consistent basis.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
But I love it well. Anywhere that I could be about, LeVar,
you let me know, and then obviously we'll get plenty
of good big ten of Notre Dame conversations. We can well,
I'll tell you what you know. We started by referencing
Michigan a little bit early, you know, Brady, I think CJ.
Carr made the right call by playing for the Irish.
I think they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Think he did too.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He's my Island pro runner right now. I got him
as the Eyesland pro runner right now.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Nice, I agree.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I agree with you. You know what's funny is his
little brother. I think we'll be playing sooner than later
at Michigan. Just a feeling, but based on what he
looked like in the spring game and what he's capable of,
I think Michigan might have another car back in the
in the Blue and Maze.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
What an amazing family, and I think it was just
it was great for CJ. That to have his own
path and Notre Dame. You can just tell what an
impressive young man he is. Obviously you know him. Brady
is just great young man, great family.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
And who's kid is he? John? Who's kid is he?
It's Lloyd Carr. Lloyd Carr. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
By the way, actually, on not note, JP, you could
help Lavara. Do you have any do you do you
watch Love.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Island because that seems to be a show that he's
really passionate about.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It was a season finale last night.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I do not that is I'll say this, Lavara, and
I'm I'm just I'm proud to say this without due respect.
I am not an insider on Love Island.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Well well, John, let me just say this. Let me
add this to the deal. I have a wife, she
has three daughters, and they're into Love Alan. So by default,
my my television is on Love Alan.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Is that fair?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Like? I?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Quality time depends on the time that you spend, you know,
watching stuff that you might not necessarily normally watch.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Exactly, and LeVar, I fully support this, thank you. I
also have three daughters, and I say this, thank you.
I think it is And you know, whatever, whatever your
kids are into, even if it's something that doesn't make
sense to.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You, get involved.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You gotta get all in on it that it gives
you something to talk about with the kids.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
And then there's not a guy that can sneak up
on them and be like, oh, well, your dad isn't
interested in what you're interested in, but I am.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And then they got that little gateway passage right. I
don't want any buddy, Buddy.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We are involved. We are supportive shows that Wow, dad
cares about what I care about. It's it's one of
the great powers that we have as best parents. Bam.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Let me let me just say this. If a guy
comes up to one of my daughters and tells him
he's watching Love Island, he's not a threat, not a threat.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Let me just tell you so, he's not not a
threat to any of my three daughters. All right, So
just letting you know right out the game, he's a threat.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You know what, We may have a future. This should
be like we got like the Girl Dad podcast.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Just like yeah, because he got you got three too, right, yeah? Yeah, three?
We all got three. So there you go. It'll be
called Three Guys with Three Daughters.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We just like worship. That's the name of the podcast.
We had an on air production meeting there you go
workshop this idea for a podcast on the show today.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Three guys with three daughters, and we want them to
be fat and sassy and spoiled.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Whoa whoa kids? Interesting? Well, JP, we always appreciate it.
Let's do it again soon. If you're way too long,
you're the best, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Great job, I have a wonderful I always afford to
a conversations. You guys do a great show. All the
best that as well, and look forward.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
To the next one. There he is that the great
John Palm Morosi with us here, senior MLB Network reporter,
World Cup contributor, Fox Sports Radio, MLB Insider. Always a
good conversation. Get him on x at John Morosi, good t. Yeah,
I mean you gave it your best. It's just you know,
so say what you want to say. I'll save it
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Speaker 4 (28:25):
Oh gosh, just Prisco's entrance on. This is Prisco coming on?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Is it?
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Yeah? That is Pete's new entrance song. It's a big
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Speaker 5 (28:37):
It is the perfect song to listen to with the
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that is not the case. By the way, speaking of
football teams, congratulations the Seattle Seahawks. Nice. Do you have
(29:27):
an owner? Somebody finally bought the team? There Brady Coast
Law has agreed to purchase the Seahawks, with league sources
reporting the selling price that of a little over nine
point six billion. So as part of the deal, which
is subject to owner approval, the coast Law family will
(29:51):
be required to relinquish its ownership stake and the forty
nine ers the family will become the Seahawks controlling owner.
So congratulations to them and the Allens who also bought
the team for one hundred and ninety four million in
nineteen ninety seven and then yeah, end up selling it
for nine point six billion, which is wild that that's
(30:14):
where we're at now.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
We'll think about this too. Didn't they just sell the Trailblazers?
So I believe that's like over thirteen billion dollars in
sales of professional franchises, Like do we I shouldn't even
ask this question because we're on sports talk radio, But
do we have a problem in America?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Like are we two into sports?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Is this?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
This feels like a pitmos right now.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I mean it's great, but at the same time we're
in it, so maybe we're like two into it, you know,
we can't see the fact that like this isn't great
that we're that big into sports.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I had a buddy of mine who he started up
because he's really successful, does really well. But he started
up two companies and has sold both of them and
it's done really well. And I remember him telling me
years ago, you sold the first ones. Like, hey, if
you could run anything, what would it be? He told me,
a professional sports team. He said that would be He's all,
(31:08):
because you're watching them continue to go up in value,
and I remember him always telling me that. And you
just see the way that these prices have gone and
nine point six billion, I mean the Cowboys, who knows
if they ever sold them, which they won't, but what
that would go for. It's just sports, is king man.
We picked the right lane to get into, guys, right,
(31:31):
we picked the right one, So we should be proud
of ourselves.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
American pro teams are I believe the most valued franchises
in the world more than soccer.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
The Cowboys aren't, but like there's a few soccer teams
that are up there too, So.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yeah, they're up there.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
But I think the NFL has has been like what
dominated like the top five for quite some time. I
believe it was like Dallas and New England at one
point in time. I don't have the list, but man
U's got to be up there.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, man Us up there. It's Dallas and there's actually
might be some some EPL teams in there.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I'm gonna lead to you personally teach their leads.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
But but sports are important. It's always been a part
of the culture, all the way back to biblical times
and all that stuff. It's always been there. So you know,
do we overvalue it?
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Hell? Yeah? But can it be undervalued at times? Yeah?
It can be.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
So there's there's an interesting I guess maybe the middle
ground is somewhere where everybody can kind of come and agree.
But you know, some people don't like sports at all,
and some people just they can't live without it.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Those people are zeros. They don't count.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
But would you say that an overly sports like I
feel like over zealous sports fans are are kind of
like Zero's two.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I'm just I hate to say it, but the kind
of sort of like get a life. Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's like like some people can have a
drink and some people are alcoholics, correct, I get it.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Or you can have more than a drink and still
not abuse it to becoming an alcoholic. I just can't
imagine going through which, By the way, Tricia has learned
how to make a LeVar Allen after all these years,
after all these years, twenty one years together, she makes
a hell of a drink.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
She just figured out how to make the ones.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
I like an extension, all right? Oh yeah, do an extension?
Oh she'd locked in now she can do no wrong.
You mess up?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Just make me a long island. Were good? Not getting
the franchise tagore long term, give her big max contract.
I just I can't imagine. And there are people like this.
I can't imagine the human being that goes through life
during the fall, and it's like, what are you going
to do this weekend? I don't know, not watch any football?
And those people exist, and those people are those people
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are losers.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
You gotta watch some it's un American to not so
you gotta at least put it on your TV. Even
if you don't want to watch it, you gotta at least,
Like I don't always watch, but it's on my TV,
and I'm gonna have multiple views too, Like I'm gonna
have multiple games on.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I just don't always watch. But if you're not watching,
what's the point of it on your team? Why not?
It's really good.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
You just walk by, you see it and it's on,
like that's good, Like football is on, like, so just
glance at it. I definitely watched the hell out of
college football, but for some strange reason, regular season pro
unless it's like a really really good matchup, it's just
boring to me.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
It's boring. Sorry, I don't watch because I got to
talk about it with you guys.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
But I'll have it on the television if i'm if
I'm doing if I'm barbecuing or something like that, or
playing chess. You know, I did want to bring this
up what you got because we were in the midst
of the John Palmerossi LeVar Arrington love affair.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I hate a segment which is just you're a hater.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I think you're being extra negative just because he never
compliments you on any of your.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Questions, doesn't ask better questions. But I didn't want to point.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
This out with now, I got some likes in there
are greats in there.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You got yeah, love when he said he loved that
question from LeVar, that was sorry, he wins.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You know that's over.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
But love is dope, Like, that's good, that's strong. I'm
saying Jonas got well, Jonas, that's how well Jonas? That's
that's Jonas's response. I didn't want to ask better questions.
I did want to point this out. I'm gonna give
you the questions the next time to see if my
questions truly are great.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
If he says, yeah, well questions, and you know how
that'll go, We're going to see how it goes, blow
right by mine, and then whatever he gives you is
going to be a great We're going to see every time.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
We're going to do that next time we bring them on.
Because I think it's the questions, it's not the person.
So I did want to well, it's both the question
and the person. Yeah, okay, there's a lot there. You
want to mention the dolphins, No, not not the dolphins
who apparently smoke puffer fish underwater.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
According to Ar, they get frat. They pass around, pass once, yes,
Cordy LeVar make me underwater get frat? Know, like where
do you even look that up?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
It is a lie.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
It's not the truth. Far. It's like they pass them around.
They be passing the buffers, get puff up and then
they puff puffer bath. Dolphins really be having.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Ciphers underwater, don't even I'm still curious. Do marine life
drink water? Do they drink water? That's that's my next
I gotta figure that one out. I don't know do
they drink They gotta drink water, But how do you
drink it when you live in it?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
All right?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Okay, it's like do you breathe there when we live
in like you breathe there? I don't know anyway, they
do be getting hoigh off the puffer fish though.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah I do. Here you go frad that underwater tucy
DoD they be fast in their chicks or others. By
the way, coming up, we're going to do ah. No,
we are closing up shop here on a Monday morning
with another edition of The Leftovers here on FSR.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
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Speaker 3 (38:13):
Time to find out what's left sounds incredible, here's the
left over, Arlariro when we got well.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
FIFA is down to its four final teams and I
am officially excited for the final match. Nope, we do
not know who's going to be in the game, but
I do know that Justin Bieber has been added to
the halftime show lineup. Yeah, he's gonna be co headlining
with Madonna, Shakira and the Boys That Sing. So pretty
(38:42):
excited it should be about a twenty twenty five minute
musical spectacular.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
I'm sorry, is that like another group? The Boys that Sing?
Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yes, they are boys, that's pa.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
They're called BTS. Oh co oh, that's what BTS stands for.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
M hm oh, okay, I mean that's I mean, Shakira
is a big enough deal as it is, but the
Beabs too.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
That's a big Yeah, it was a big deal. I'm excited.
Can't we have every the rest of them just sit
this one out and have Shakira do it? Isn't that possible?
I mean, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Well, I'm sorry, I don't. I don't really give a
rip of that Boys that Sing? I just don't.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
I'm with you on that. I'm just saying I'm beat.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
So now, yeah, what what else? Lorena?
Speaker 8 (39:27):
Well, okay, I do, okay. I'm gonna touch on Holland
a little bit because Norway may have been eliminated, but
I just want to say he is still just the
hottest member of that team. He stayed two hours after
their final match after they were eliminated, and he signed autographs,
he met fans.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
And I think that's really cool. You a big fan
of Holland.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
I would love to meet him. Yeah, really, yeah, no,
oh no, it's good to meet people, Brady socializing.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I'm not against you meeting him. I just feel like
we got to protect haul It at all costs. I'm
not sure you, being the manator you are, you do
to them.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
You don't think Holland looks a little bit like that
guy who was in the painting and Ghostbusters too.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Don't want That doesn't change the fact that I'm concerned
for Holland's future if he runs into Lorena.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Hey, Holland, give me a call.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
No, no, head, I don't know the warrior dog. Lorena
is a warrior. He just seems like such a nice guy,
you know, and a.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Nice guy needs what. You can't have good without heaven
the ugly? Well yeah, good bad now. But I was
gonna say evil was the right response. Oh can't have
good without evil? But you know anyway, all right, that's
Lorena and Holland.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Can you imagine that we would be so cute? Yeah?
Are y'all selling tickets?
Speaker 8 (40:54):
Oh and we're both like technically Norwegian, so you know,
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Speaker 2 (01:59):
Great to be with all of you. Good morning to
my dear friends. That's what I said in the Italian
just a moment ago. But love our conversations and it
is great to be back on the show today. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Awesome JP.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We've got chonge for like a number of topics though,
I mean, we've got World Cup, we've got the All
Star Game. I mean, we could mention Michigan, although we
just talked about that maybe we don't want to talk
about what's happening there right now.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's so rady. I guess what I will. The ant
all gives you on the happenings at the University of
Michigan is probably the same two word response that has
applied to much of the last three to four years
around these parts. It's complicated. It complicated, But all I
got on that one. I mean, I think it's gonna
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take some days to settle out. I mean, it is
remarkable how in the last several years a university that
has won both the NCAA football and basketball championships are
in such great turmoil. But that appears to be the
case GP.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Obviously we're at the All Star break. Biggest I guess,
surprise both good and bad through the first half technically speaking,
not the first half, but you know what I mean,
through the first portion of the MLB season in your
mind thus far.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So I'll though with a two part surprise on the
negative side, which is that both of the American League
teams that were in the American League Championship Series just
a year ago, a classic seven gamer, Toronto and Seattle
both are under five hundred right now that I did
not see that coming. And ironically it's a couple of
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their stars that are part of the reason Vladimer Guerrero
Junior having a tough season, cal Raley and Seattle having
a tough season. Of course, also in the superstar category
in the American League, Aaron Judge is injured. Now, of course,
the Yankees are still in a playoff position, three games
back the Rays. I think on the positive side, as
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we're talking about it, think about this, who would have
said that at the All Star break in the American
League the three first place teams would be the Rays,
the White Sox, albeit in a tie with the Guardians,
and then the Texas Rangers. No one would have thought
that the Red Sox fire their manager and somehow end
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the first half on a nine game winning streak. And
then on the National League side of things, you've got
teams like the Marlins the Pirates, they're both above five
hundred right there in the wild card race. The Nationals
are there on the periphery. So it has been a
year of the unexpected. Of course, the Dodgers are the expected.
Everyone expect them to be good, and they are. But
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along the way a lot of these other teams we're
talking about gentlemen have really surprised in different ways.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I'll jump in John talk about the World Classic. It
just concluded. Obviously, the US made it to the championship round,
made a game of it late, but Venezuela ultimately came
out on top. What it seems as though, its sounds
as though the conversations that came out of the Classic
(05:15):
is it's growing just as big as as a World
Cup type of sports spectacle.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
What's what's your take on it? Did you enjoy it
this year? What's like?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
What was the I guess the post conversations about the Classic?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Well, I love this question, LeVar. You're asking the right guy,
because this is really it's like a fastball for me
right down the middle. I mean, I love that event
so much. What an international year it's been, by the way,
you think about the World Cup in soccer going on
right now, the US winning double goals at the Olympics
in ice hockey, and then of course the World Baseball Classic.
And it was even more in retrospect when you consider
(05:52):
what Venezuela has gone through with the earthquake here in
recent weeks. Just the emotional positive point that that tournament
was for them. You think back to just what baseball
means to Venezuela in a cultural way, and that's true
of so many different countries, LeVar and Brady and Jonas
just how special the game is. And we're seeing a
(06:15):
very similar type of energy right now during the World
Cup in the soccer side of things. So it's soccer
is the world game where every continent, everybody knows it
and loves it. Baseball it is followed with that same passion,
just maybe not in quite as many different places. And
so when you were watching those games and actually had
(06:36):
the pleasure of bringing my parents down to a couple
of games there in Houston for them to experience it,
which was awesome. So it was a new dimension for
me to see my mom and dad up in the stands, loving,
loving the World Baseball Classic two. So it is it
is like a family. And I think the way that
this last month of World Cup soccer has gone reminds
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us what a big sports family we can be as
a world and how well we do sports if you
look at it that way. I'm a believer that the
World Baseball Classic as great as it was this year,
LeVar the best is yet to come for the event.
I think you can get even bigger you think about
more and more countries getting involved. I would love to
see the World Baseball Classic, maybe not this year because
(07:18):
we're obviously focused on the World Cup, but in another year,
moving the finals of it to the All Star break
and really owning this week, owning this time here. Football
training camps haven't started yet, of course, so we've got
this narrow window to really own the sports calendar. And
a non World Cup year I hope is the next
time that we've got a World Baseball Classic. The finals,
(07:40):
the semifinals, and the finals are played right now.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, I love that idea, JP, and you mentioned it
a couple of times. Speaking of more current events going
on right now. The World Cup, we were talking a
little bit about earlier. There's some talk momentum that maybe
this thing expands from forty eight to sixty four.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Like, what say you about that sort of.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Expansion, You know, Brady, it's a great question. I am
generally supportive of more teams being involved, not the least
of which if it was a sixty fourteen field that
somehow Italy might have found their way into the tournament.
This year. But that's a separate conversation about my beloved
Italian national team.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And with them in recent years.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But the big picture point is some of my favorite
stories in this World Cup were smaller countries that might
not have made it in other structures. Okay, you think
about Dr Congo, you think about Cabo Verde and Vozena,
the goalkeeper who went from having a few thousand Instagram
(08:39):
followers to millions based on one performance against Spain, and
then of course he follows it up with other great performances.
So for me, the quality of soccer around the world
has been affirmed by the way this tournament has gone.
It might be when you think about expanding it to
its current form and then even more beyond that, that's
(09:00):
pretty rapid and all at once. But you think about
the NCAA basketball tournament and it's still it's still magical
when you get right down to it. And for those
that would have thought that, oh my gosh, that if
you invite more and more teams, either the product is
going to suffer, well, that was not the case this time.
It was great soccer from beginning to end, and or
(09:21):
they was going to skew the results. Well, if you
look at the semi finals, the four teams that probably
should have made it all made it. So it's an
interesting conversation point, Brady, but I would be generally supportive
of it, especially because this next time when they have it,
it's going to be hosted among again, multiple countries are
really big footprint, So I'm generally supportive of involving more
(09:44):
of the world in this great spectacle.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
He is John Palm Morosi, senior MLB Network reporter, Fox
Sports Radio MLB insider, joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Get them on X at John Morosi JP. I'm curious
because out obviously here locally in southern California, in Los Angeles,
you know, we know sort of the love and you know,
the the love affair that the fans have with the Dodgers.
(10:08):
We've seen the success they've had there in the midst
of a dynasty and all that. From your perspective, maybe
on the outside, from a national view, you look at
a move like bringing in Kyle Tucker, it's just not
gone well and it doesn't matter. It almost seems like
they are so loaded and so good that whether it's injuries,
(10:29):
a signing that doesn't work out, that they paid an
insane amount of money for. They just seem to be
so far ahead of everybody else, good or bad for
the sport.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Good good for the sport in what they do and
that they set the standard. And what I'll be really
curious about, And with all three of you in your
experiences being around pro sports, I think one of the
unique dynamics of if we do get a salary cap
in this industry in the coming years, which is possible,
(11:00):
that that the the advantages will increasingly be on the
things that the public does not see all the time.
And what I will say, and Brady, you think about
your career and LeVar you as well. You're playing for
different teams and players know. Players know which teams treat
their their their players the right way. Players know which
(11:23):
teams do it right behind the scenes, how they take
care of families, how they take care of their players.
And the Dodgers do it all right. They've got They've
got former players who didn't even play for the Dodgers
who want to then go work for the Dodgers because
they realize how great they are and treating their employees
and and just developing their their front office people. It's
(11:44):
like this is the this is the Harvard of sports
organizations right now. People want to go there. They want
to learn why they do things very well, and that
that is to their credit, and the way they do
things away from the field of play impacts the way
they do it on the field of play, and players
talk they're smart. Otani wanted to play there. Tucker wanted
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to play there. Bookie Bests wanted to play there. Freddie
Freeman wanted to play there. It's not just the guy
they draft and develop. They bring in great talent because
of how they operate their organization. So they said the
standard they bring everyone else's level up. And if we're
getting to a time in the future where the marginal
dollar you can't always spend, if there's a salary cap,
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what you can still do is operate your organization in
the best possible way. And so what I'm saying is
that the Dodgers are not just a top of the
standings team. They are an industry leader, best in class.
The way they do things in just about every way,
and that I believe will make the industry and the
sport stronger in the long run.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
John, you mentioned culture, positive culture. I'm curious that, you know,
doing a little bit of research on and just you know,
I'm not a big soccer fan, but just doing some
of the conversations early on, there was the conversation points
that there were more This was the highest number concentration
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of players to play in the World Cup that had
played abroad, and that might have been the reason why
they were so competitive early on in the Cup matchups,
but they still were outclassed and for into the US, Yes,
the US, of course, and and and realizing that once
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you get down to the elite powers culturally speaking, is
is men's soccer in the US going to be able
to ever close the gap on on some of these
other powerhouse countries for the.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Sport, It's a great question, LeVar. I think that eventually
that gap will titan and within all of our lifetimes.
The US did reach a quarterfinal back in two thousand
and two. The sport wasn't as big then in the
US as it is now, but so it does. There
is at least some proof that you can make the
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final eight. In that game, it's forever ago. But if
a handball had been fairly given, the US might well
have won that game and gotten to the semi final,
so it's it's possible, it can happen. There's two things
I think about though with this number one. As much
as there's been this robust conversation around pay to play
and it's all fair, there are certainly we are not
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getting all of the best athletes and developing them all
in the best ways in the US, which is a
long discussion that we don't have time for right now.
But I do think that there are ways to help
the initial pipeline, broaden it out, bring more young people
into the sport, and make it affordable for them. I
think that is a big picture topic that all of
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us who are involved in sports, any sports parent, any
sports coach, we all have shared responsibility and making that better.
I do think that the MLS next academies, which only
recently coming to being in the last ten years or so,
we have yet to see. We have yet to just
based on the age that these players are, we have
yet to see the full benefits of that. I think
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eventually we will to where there are more players that
are developed, at least initially from within the MLS system,
that eventually they go and play in Europe. I think
we will have a more talented team four years from
now than we did this year. I really believe that,
based on the ages of some of the younger players,
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a lot of the players on this team that were
key in the formation of what this team's identity was,
they will be back, which is a good thing. By
the way, this was a good team. It was a
good team that had a bad game at the worst
possible time. That's what happened. And were they as good
as Belgium, Probably not in terms of talent and merit,
but they were a lot closer than what that game appeared.
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So I'm an optimist. I think that we're going to
continue to see more of our American players playing in
top European leagues, that the overall pipeline here domestically is
getting better, and I'm I'm a believer that the best
is yet to come. And I think one of the
things that that you look at competitively, we're a year
away from from the women's national team being back at
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the Women's World Cup, and we are one of the
dominant countries there with the way that women's soccer has
grown so well in our country, So it can be done.
The women have shown it, the men showed it right
up until the last game this time around. So I'm
a believer gentleman, that the best is still yet to
come for US soccer.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, I hope, so hope that's the case. Build up
a lot of momentum. I think this World Cup. I
want to stand on topic just to We talked about
this earlier too, the VAR replay system, if you will,
and we have credited LeVar Arrington for being who they
named the VAR.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Replace that would be like the like the Spanish way
of saying.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
It, like that's correct to watch the article.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
At the beginning, so I think LaVar you may even have.
I mean it's it's it's like a sponsorship. There's like
a marketing thing. There was something shut that offline.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Okay, all right, sounds good.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
As I said, like there's like a LeVar leap into
the VAR to like actually watch it.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
We've into the VAR.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know, there's been some controversy in regards to how
it's been used, but I would argue I think it's
actually been great because it's cleaned up some of the
flopping at least in some a couple instances, and it
feels like that that model is relatively quick compared to
other sports and how they go about do it. I
mean baseball has used kind of the strike ball, you know,
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using that technology too has been great. Is this something
you want to see expanded more upon as far as
like how I guess the World Cup or how FIFA
is implemented.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
The soccer this year?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Deil Brady, I love this question because it really it
became such a big topic and is in so many ways.
And obviously the flow Ballogan decision, which is entirely separate category,
but it was related obviously to Davar initially a couple
of thoughts in this thing number one, and it helps
you get the calls right, and I fully agree the
best part of it this World Cup has been the
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ability to properly penalize flopping. And if you're flopping in
a way that you're trying to debate the official into
giving a yellow card to the other team, but it's
found that you flopped your way into doing that, you
should get penalized. And I know the Swiss didn't like it.
I'm sorry that was that was a dive and the
way you fix that is don't dive. So that I mean,
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for me, that was a I love the way that
they've been able to actually also remove a lot of
the dead time. This hasn't been talked about quite as much,
but you would sometimes see players really delaying the throw
in or they would take it's you know, it's like
the oldest trick in the book to delay the game.
But we've seen a quicker game. I think it's been
a better product overall. There have been a couple instances
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where and again, like the Balligan ruling, I don't think
they should have made it a red initially because it
just it wasn't intentional. It was in the flow of play.
We've relitigated this innumerable times. But the point is that
to me, VAR should not be utilized to get a
little technicality and say, okay, well we didn't recognize this
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at all in the flow of play, but let's go
back and re engineer it. I didn't love the one
that was that was taken away earlier on in the
in the Egypt game, where a clear goal was removed
when it was like five plays before. So there's there's
been a little bit too excessive application of VR in
my opinion. But the flopping is the perfect application of it,
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and I hope becomes a real tent pole of the
way that we do this in the future. This just
makes the game a little more a little more honest.
I think that's one of the biggest things that as
a casual sports fan, you would look at it and say, Okay,
we got to improve this. About soccer, They've improved it.
I think as long as we put a little bit
more guardrails on what is reviewable what is not, because
even in baseball as broadly applied as we're seeing replay,
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there are still some the things that are not reviewable.
And it'd be like going into an NBA game and say,
wait a minute, they missed a travel five, you know,
ten seconds before the basket, So we got to really
go back and rewind I mean, you'd be doing it
over and over again to the point the game loses
its integrity. There's a fine line to be drawn there.
I think that we need to be a little bit
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more definitive on where that line is. But in general,
I'm with you. I think it's been a good implementation
of the expanded use of var in this tournament.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
That was one great response.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Man, very well well uh spoken, and just just that
was a great explanation.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
That's all. I mean, I was really enthralled by it. Yeah,
jp uh home run Derby, All Star Game, both in Philly.
Is this just going to be a celebration of Kyle
Schwarber as he just hits tanks, you know, hopefully out
of the stadium coming up later on tonight? Is he?
Is he your pick to win the Derby? And then
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who do you got as an MVP pick for the
All Star Game?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, so I'm with you. I think Schwarber for me,
remember the swing off a year ago. He loves the
big moment. What a great career he's had. By the way,
I think it's important people to remember, first of all,
it was ten years ago he wins the World Series
with the Cubs. But then a couple of years after that,
it was after the twenty twenty season he was he
was let go by the Cubs, just just non tender
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cut from the team. He batted one to eighty eight
that year, totally revived his career in twenty twenty one,
and is now a perennial All Star, one of the
most beloved and popular players in the game.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
He just he's gonna be John He's going to be
a Hall of Famer. Like he's trending in that.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Direction one hundred percent, and that's kind of where I'm
at with it. He's got ten years of service now,
he's already got three hundred and seventy two homers. Man,
if he and he's the kind of guy where he
played one sixty two last year, he has played his
way into that conversation. If he can get around like
another one hundred to one hundred and twenty five homers
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in his career, which is as long as he's productive
into his later thirties, I think he will be Man,
He'll be there. I mean, his his resume, and you'll
compare it to like a John Carlos Stanton's. He's got
an eight to fifty two ohps for his career right now.
I mean Jonas. I'm kind of talking my way into
this to say that he's he's a dude and now
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MVP for the All Star Game. I've got Junior Camanaro.
I think he's become a superstar with the Rays. Love
the way he plays part of the Derby two. So
I've got Schwarber winning the Derby. Junior Camanaro is the
MVP of the All Star Game. I can't wait, by
the way, for our colleagues on the TV side at Fox,
how about that Tuesday World Cup semi final and then
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the All Star Game that, my friends, is the day
to just enjoy sports fan. I just enjoy all these
great moments that we got coming up this week.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
JP.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
The only issue with that, because it's gonna be a
great down with I'm right there with you, is or
will not be watching either of those two events. So unfortunately,
that's that's the stance he's taken all during the World
Cup and probably during Baseball.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
It's unfortunately, Okay, well.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
LeVar, we can we can still be friends.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
It's yes, Well, I get my fixes from you. That's
why I gave you your flowers.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
I mean, you gave me so much information and it
made it almost interesting enough for me want to want
to watch it on a consistent basis.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
But I love it well. Anywhere that I could be about, LeVar,
you let me know, and then obviously we'll get plenty
of good big ten of Notre Dame conversations. We can well,
I'll tell you what you know. We started by referencing
Michigan a little bit early, you know, Brady, I think CJ.
Carr made the right call by playing for the Irish.
I think they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Think he did too.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He's my Island pro runner right now. I got him
as the Eyesland pro runner right now.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Nice, I agree.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I agree with you. You know what's funny is his
little brother. I think we'll be playing sooner than later
at Michigan. Just a feeling, but based on what he
looked like in the spring game and what he's capable of,
I think Michigan might have another car back in the
in the Blue and Maze.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
What an amazing family, and I think it was just
it was great for CJ. That to have his own
path and Notre Dame. You can just tell what an
impressive young man he is. Obviously you know him. Brady
is just great young man, great family.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
And who's kid is he? John? Who's kid is he?
It's Lloyd Carr. Lloyd Carr. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
By the way, actually, on not note, JP, you could
help Lavara. Do you have any do you do you
watch Love.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Island because that seems to be a show that he's
really passionate about.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It was a season finale last night.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I do not that is I'll say this, Lavara, and
I'm I'm just I'm proud to say this without due respect.
I am not an insider on Love Island.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Well well, John, let me just say this. Let me
add this to the deal. I have a wife, she
has three daughters, and they're into Love Alan. So by default,
my my television is on Love Alan.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Is that fair?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Like? I?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Quality time depends on the time that you spend, you know,
watching stuff that you might not necessarily normally watch.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Exactly, and LeVar, I fully support this, thank you. I
also have three daughters, and I say this, thank you.
I think it is And you know, whatever, whatever your
kids are into, even if it's something that doesn't make
sense to.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You, get involved.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You gotta get all in on it that it gives
you something to talk about with the kids.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
And then there's not a guy that can sneak up
on them and be like, oh, well, your dad isn't
interested in what you're interested in, but I am.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And then they got that little gateway passage right. I
don't want any buddy, Buddy.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
We are involved. We are supportive shows that Wow, dad
cares about what I care about. It's it's one of
the great powers that we have as best parents. Bam.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Let me let me just say this. If a guy
comes up to one of my daughters and tells him
he's watching Love Island, he's not a threat, not a threat.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
Let me just tell you so, he's not not a
threat to any of my three daughters. All right, So
just letting you know right out the game, he's a threat.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You know what, We may have a future. This should
be like we got like the Girl Dad podcast.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Just like yeah, because he got you got three too, right, yeah? Yeah, three?
We all got three. So there you go. It'll be
called Three Guys with Three Daughters.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We just like worship. That's the name of the podcast.
We had an on air production meeting there you go
workshop this idea for a podcast on the show today.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Three guys with three daughters, and we want them to
be fat and sassy and spoiled.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Whoa whoa kids? Interesting? Well, JP, we always appreciate it.
Let's do it again soon. If you're way too long,
you're the best, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Great job, I have a wonderful I always afford to
a conversations. You guys do a great show. All the
best that as well, and look forward.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
To the next one. There he is that the great
John Palm Morosi with us here, senior MLB Network reporter,
World Cup contributor, Fox Sports Radio, MLB Insider. Always a
good conversation. Get him on x at John Morosi, good t. Yeah,
I mean you gave it your best. It's just you know,
so say what you want to say. I'll save it
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Speaker 4 (28:25):
Oh gosh, just Prisco's entrance on. This is Prisco coming on?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Yeah? That is Pete's new entrance song. It's a big
David Hasselhoff guyn.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
It is the perfect song to listen to with the
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Speaker 4 (28:42):
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that is not the case. By the way, speaking of
football teams, congratulations the Seattle Seahawks. Nice. Do you have
(29:27):
an owner? Somebody finally bought the team? There Brady Coast
Law has agreed to purchase the Seahawks, with league sources
reporting the selling price that of a little over nine
point six billion. So as part of the deal, which
is subject to owner approval, the coast Law family will
(29:51):
be required to relinquish its ownership stake and the forty
nine ers the family will become the Seahawks controlling owner.
So congratulations to them and the Allens who also bought
the team for one hundred and ninety four million in
nineteen ninety seven and then yeah, end up selling it
for nine point six billion, which is wild that that's
(30:14):
where we're at now.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
We'll think about this too. Didn't they just sell the Trailblazers?
So I believe that's like over thirteen billion dollars in
sales of professional franchises, Like do we I shouldn't even
ask this question because we're on sports talk radio, But
do we have a problem in America?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Like are we two into sports?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Is this?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
This feels like a pitmos right now.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I mean it's great, but at the same time we're
in it, so maybe we're like two into it, you know,
we can't see the fact that like this isn't great
that we're that big into sports.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I had a buddy of mine who he started up
because he's really successful, does really well. But he started
up two companies and has sold both of them and
it's done really well. And I remember him telling me
years ago, you sold the first ones. Like, hey, if
you could run anything, what would it be? He told me,
a professional sports team. He said that would be He's all,
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because you're watching them continue to go up in value,
and I remember him always telling me that. And you
just see the way that these prices have gone and
nine point six billion, I mean the Cowboys, who knows
if they ever sold them, which they won't, but what
that would go for. It's just sports, is king man.
We picked the right lane to get into, guys, right,
(31:31):
we picked the right one, So we should be proud
of ourselves.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
American pro teams are I believe the most valued franchises
in the world more than soccer.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
The Cowboys aren't, but like there's a few soccer teams
that are up there too, So.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yeah, they're up there.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
But I think the NFL has has been like what
dominated like the top five for quite some time. I
believe it was like Dallas and New England at one
point in time. I don't have the list, but man
U's got to be up there.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, man Us up there. It's Dallas and there's actually
might be some some EPL teams in there.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I'm gonna lead to you personally teach their leads.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
But but sports are important. It's always been a part
of the culture, all the way back to biblical times
and all that stuff. It's always been there. So you know,
do we overvalue it?
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Hell? Yeah? But can it be undervalued at times? Yeah?
It can be.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
So there's there's an interesting I guess maybe the middle
ground is somewhere where everybody can kind of come and agree.
But you know, some people don't like sports at all,
and some people just they can't live without it.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Those people are zeros. They don't count.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
But would you say that an overly sports like I
feel like over zealous sports fans are are kind of
like Zero's two.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I'm just I hate to say it, but the kind
of sort of like get a life. Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's like like some people can have a
drink and some people are alcoholics, correct, I get it.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Or you can have more than a drink and still
not abuse it to becoming an alcoholic. I just can't
imagine going through which, By the way, Tricia has learned
how to make a LeVar Allen after all these years,
after all these years, twenty one years together, she makes
a hell of a drink.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
She just figured out how to make the ones.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
I like an extension, all right? Oh yeah, do an extension?
Oh she'd locked in now she can do no wrong.
You mess up?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Just make me a long island. Were good? Not getting
the franchise tagore long term, give her big max contract.
I just I can't imagine. And there are people like this.
I can't imagine the human being that goes through life
during the fall, and it's like, what are you going
to do this weekend? I don't know, not watch any football?
And those people exist, and those people are those people
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are losers.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
You gotta watch some it's un American to not so
you gotta at least put it on your TV. Even
if you don't want to watch it, you gotta at least,
Like I don't always watch, but it's on my TV,
and I'm gonna have multiple views too, Like I'm gonna
have multiple games on.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I just don't always watch. But if you're not watching,
what's the point of it on your team? Why not?
It's really good.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
You just walk by, you see it and it's on,
like that's good, Like football is on, like, so just
glance at it. I definitely watched the hell out of
college football, but for some strange reason, regular season pro
unless it's like a really really good matchup, it's just
boring to me.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
It's boring. Sorry, I don't watch because I got to
talk about it with you guys.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
But I'll have it on the television if i'm if
I'm doing if I'm barbecuing or something like that, or
playing chess. You know, I did want to bring this
up what you got because we were in the midst
of the John Palmerossi LeVar Arrington love affair.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I hate a segment which is just you're a hater.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I think you're being extra negative just because he never
compliments you on any of your.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Questions, doesn't ask better questions. But I didn't want to point.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
This out with now, I got some likes in there
are greats in there.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You got yeah, love when he said he loved that
question from LeVar, that was sorry, he wins.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You know that's over.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
But love is dope, Like, that's good, that's strong. I'm
saying Jonas got well, Jonas, that's how well Jonas? That's
that's Jonas's response. I didn't want to ask better questions.
I did want to point this out. I'm gonna give
you the questions the next time to see if my
questions truly are great.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
If he says, yeah, well questions, and you know how
that'll go, We're going to see how it goes, blow
right by mine, and then whatever he gives you is
going to be a great We're going to see every time.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
We're going to do that next time we bring them on.
Because I think it's the questions, it's not the person.
So I did want to well, it's both the question
and the person. Yeah, okay, there's a lot there. You
want to mention the dolphins, No, not not the dolphins
who apparently smoke puffer fish underwater.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
According to Ar, they get frat. They pass around, pass once, yes,
Cordy LeVar make me underwater get frat? Know, like where
do you even look that up?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
It is a lie.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
It's not the truth. Far. It's like they pass them around.
They be passing the buffers, get puff up and then
they puff puffer bath. Dolphins really be having.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Ciphers underwater, don't even I'm still curious. Do marine life
drink water? Do they drink water? That's that's my next
I gotta figure that one out. I don't know do
they drink They gotta drink water, But how do you
drink it when you live in it?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
All right?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Okay, it's like do you breathe there when we live
in like you breathe there? I don't know anyway, they
do be getting hoigh off the puffer fish though.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah I do. Here you go frad that underwater tucy
DoD they be fast in their chicks or others. By
the way, coming up, we're going to do ah. No,
we are closing up shop here on a Monday morning
with another edition of The Leftovers here on FSR.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
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a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn, LeVar Arrington, and
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Speaker 4 (37:40):
It's two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you here. We
are going to be back on the air, coming up tomorrow,
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Speaker 3 (38:13):
Time to find out what's left sounds incredible, here's the
left over, Arlariro when we got well.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
FIFA is down to its four final teams and I
am officially excited for the final match. Nope, we do
not know who's going to be in the game, but
I do know that Justin Bieber has been added to
the halftime show lineup. Yeah, he's gonna be co headlining
with Madonna, Shakira and the Boys That Sing. So pretty
(38:42):
excited it should be about a twenty twenty five minute
musical spectacular.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
I'm sorry, is that like another group? The Boys that Sing?
Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yes, they are boys, that's pa.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
They're called BTS. Oh co oh, that's what BTS stands for.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
M hm oh, okay, I mean that's I mean, Shakira
is a big enough deal as it is, but the
Beabs too.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
That's a big Yeah, it was a big deal. I'm excited.
Can't we have every the rest of them just sit
this one out and have Shakira do it? Isn't that possible?
I mean, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Well, I'm sorry, I don't. I don't really give a
rip of that Boys that Sing? I just don't.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
I'm with you on that. I'm just saying I'm beat.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
So now, yeah, what what else? Lorena?
Speaker 8 (39:27):
Well, okay, I do, okay. I'm gonna touch on Holland
a little bit because Norway may have been eliminated, but
I just want to say he is still just the
hottest member of that team. He stayed two hours after
their final match after they were eliminated, and he signed autographs,
he met fans.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
And I think that's really cool. You a big fan
of Holland.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
I would love to meet him. Yeah, really, yeah, no,
oh no, it's good to meet people, Brady socializing.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I'm not against you meeting him. I just feel like
we got to protect haul It at all costs. I'm
not sure you, being the manator you are, you do
to them.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
You don't think Holland looks a little bit like that
guy who was in the painting and Ghostbusters too.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Don't want That doesn't change the fact that I'm concerned
for Holland's future if he runs into Lorena.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Hey, Holland, give me a call.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
No, no, head, I don't know the warrior dog. Lorena
is a warrior. He just seems like such a nice guy,
you know, and a.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
Nice guy needs what. You can't have good without heaven
the ugly? Well yeah, good bad now. But I was
gonna say evil was the right response. Oh can't have
good without evil? But you know anyway, all right, that's
Lorena and Holland.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Can you imagine that we would be so cute? Yeah?
Are y'all selling tickets?
Speaker 8 (40:54):
Oh and we're both like technically Norwegian, so you know,
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