Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz Discuss Knicks Loss, Scottie Scheffler's PGA Championship, and Tua Extension

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:28):
these Indiana Pacers. They are shooting seventy six percent from
the field in the first half. This is insane. They
outscored the Knicks seventy to fifty five in the first half.
So we load up on the Knicks in the third quarter,
do we not?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well? I did, and I'm not sure that's smart. But
this is the last stand for the Knicks right as
a third quarter right now, A lot of averages will
tell you that Indiana would come back to the Knicks
for as bad as they played in that that a half,
which we agree it wasn't great. They scored fifty five
points like they're scoring just fine without They got zero

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from Hartenstein. Heart really can't do much. Og played all
of two minutes and that was about it, which is expected.
Me and you tried our best. We should have done it.
We text beforehand about taking all his unders. We didn't
do it. We knew, we knew we should have done it.
And that being said, you know, they're still sort of
in this game, but the last stand is right now,
right because if they can't get this game to within

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about eight ten start a fourth quarter, they're just not
gonna win this game. I'm gonna win anyways. Honestly, I
don't know if they have fifteen points in there to
make up in their offense. And you know, look, Brian,
people are gonna blame injuries certainly for the Knicks issues,
and then that's a fair point to make. Indiana had

(01:50):
a lot of open shots though, but it wasn't just
that everyone's hurt, which look, I get it they are,
but there was a lot of open shots. They hit
a lot of them too. Look, they shot I think
what eight of eleven eight to twelve from three point,
which is just remarkable and not normal. But nonetheless, Nick
ser look, they're gonna battle. They're they're continuing to fight

(02:12):
and claw and they're not gonna give up there. They're
at home right now and they can't make a shot
to start the second half, which I fit's about their
their game so far today. So they they're gonna keep trying. Man,
I'll tell you that man.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
It is uh. I can't believe that the Pacers. I
was joking around with you that it looked like the
Knicks were playing defense like the Pacers typically do. The
Pacers defense is terrible, but that's what the Knicks defense
look like. And I don't want to put it only
on the Knicks defense. The Pacers were just red hot
in the first half. So you got to give them

(02:45):
their credit. At one point, what were they like at
least twenty two of twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
They were, yeah, twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
They made twenty two shots and missed five a game.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Not only that, you know it was they had they
think seventeen assists in the first half. I mean, they
were just slicing. They were just kind of slicing and
dicing up the Knicks, and the Knicks just look, they're
not gonna win this game because they don't have enough
good players healthy, right Like, it's yeah, Indiana, give them credit.
They store the historic pace that they were shooting. But
part of that is obviously is is Holly Burns healthy, right,

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you know the rest of your team is healthy. The
Knicks don't have enough players, I think to win a
game seven. It's just that, you know, and what Indiana
is doing. Give them credit. They're doing a really really
great job. I mean, the Knicks can't even score a
point right now. They're doing a really really great job
on just doubling Brunson right of making it really hard
because they know he's only one right now that can

(03:42):
generate offense on his own. De Vincenzo can shoot and
score right heart, a little beat up can't do as much.
So the Pacers deserve credit Brian for implementing a game
plan that is helping them slow the Knicks down.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, they've done a good job. Give Rick Carlyle some
credit there and we'll see. I'm expecting a push. I
just don't expect Indiana the waltz their way. Right. They've
outscored the nick They've outscored the Pacers three nothing so
far in the third quarter. So that's something, right, baby
steps here.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean, they'll they'll take it to nothing, right to
nothing to nothing. That look, look, I think they take
next to anything they can get right now. It's their
last just effort. Brian. I'm excited to be with you
today because we spend a lot of time talking about
the ball buffet with a lot of ball. And I

(04:37):
have four screens going right now, okay, and none of
them have all football, which might be a first. I
have the NBA at Game seven on, I have Giants, Rockies,
have a little college stop all little Oregon Oklahoma action,
and then I got the PJ Championship of course, and
so it is a different type of ball buffet today.
But you know, variety in in your ball is good.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
It is good. And we'll get to ball, meaning football,
because there's some news about to what to what my
guy with the Miami Dolphins. I want to run some
things by you. And also the NFL schedule was released,
so some takeaways as far as that goes. So we've
got a couple of things as far as ball goes.
But you're right, the Smorgas board today is heavily on

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non ball topics, if you will, non football topics meaning basketball, golf. Yeah,
I've got a little vested interest on Victor Hovland, Yeah,
pulling this thing out. I got him at ten to
one here, Jeff, so I'm hoping he falls through for me.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I have, I have, I'm about oh for the tournament
in the future. You actually, you're the only person who's
may be money this forms you will text. We check
each other a lot about gambling, not about life, Like
I don't want to know how Brian's doing. I'm not
at all. He's not like, hey, how your kids doing today.
It's like, no, no, no, hey, buddy, I got Hovlin ten

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to one. But your your daily text and I seek
them out. By the way, It's not like Brian just
just annoys me with him anyways. About your your unders
for your this tournament had been really good. You have
a hit on a bunch of those. I My futures
have all stunk. I did think about Havin right now
was plus one seventy to win. It's not a great deal.

(06:21):
It was like plus four hundred and a couple of
minutes ago. I'ma I'm gonna sit this one out. I
don't want to jinxt your wagers. I'll sit this one out.
But look, the PGA tournament this year. This is one
of those where you know, it's it's funny in golf.
Sometimes people root for the course and somebody's root for
the player, and this tournament definitely is a player's tournament.

(06:45):
Nineteen under right now is the leader shaffle. There's not
one of a major before, been very close. You might
be the one of the guys that are knocking on
the door the most. Right, it's so close to winning
but hasn't done it yet on a major. And greens
are soft because of lots of rain this week. Yeah,
and dude, I mean these scores are like super low.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, it's crazy because you go with some of these
round props. I love those, by the way, where it's
just the round so they'll say it whatever. Let's just
say it's at seventy and a half par Is seventy one,
so you got to be minus one, right, And I'm
cool with that. And so you go golfer by golfer,

(07:27):
and you can hit on some of those, but you
pick the wrong golfer, like, for instance, I have Keegan
Bradley today. Yeah, I needed him to be at minus two.
He was at minus two and then he went bogee
followed by double bogie and it's like, oh, thanks for that, buddy,
We're not gonna get home doing something like that.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I had brooks Keppa yet yesterday who shot like a
plus two, and then today was brilliant. I mean that's
the fun of gambling sometimes, and really the heartburger gambling,
it's never actually fun. And you know, but that look,
that's gambling. Golf is one of those where I don't
have much of a read on it. You never really know.
Sometimes your strategy I think was really brilliant because in

(08:06):
a course where everything's going low, you know, golf from
the top thirty one hunds. Well, we're asking for a
bunch of these guys and they can you know, they
can get a one under and a course that's playing
this way. Do you prefer golf like this or do
you prefer golf like a US Open?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
You know what, it's fun. It depends what I'm in
the mood for. I like this more because it's just
more fun. We got birdies left and right, eye sky
just hit an eagle, and you know, all the coverage
they just whip around. I find that to be a
lot of fun. I do like the opposite though, too,
where you get a taste of the professionals behaving like
you and I, you know what I mean, where they're

(08:46):
just struggling to make par that they're in the weeds
over here. The reactions to that, that's fun too, So.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, your boy, your boy. Back to even hal Yeah, yeah,
even with sholf. The I played golf on Friday and
I was walking, came on watching the tournament and Justin
Thomas hit that that shot from he was there was
a green side bunker sort of elevated, and behind that

(09:15):
was some some rough right and he basically flopped the ball.
So hit the ball very high over the sand trap
onto the green, and the ideas you hit it high
would hit the green sort of rolled down right, it
wouldn't roll very far, and it rolled in, It rolled
into the cup right. It was a great shot. And
I thought to myself, you know, I attempted something like

(09:39):
that earlier in the day, Brian, and it went into
the into the bunker, and I tried to hit it
out of the bunker and it just went right back
in the bunker. And then it hit it eighteen yards
past the green, and then like it there is something
where like I kind of sometimes want to see golfers
do that, which we will get the US Open and
Pinehurst in a few in a few weeks but it

(10:00):
is kind of fun to see them just play at a
high level like this sometimes, you know, like I mean,
they're just playing really at a high level, and it's
been a pleasure to watch.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, no, it has been. And the Knicks trying to
make a push right now, Jeff. They cut the lead
to eight, so that's good, you know, a little bit
of third quarter fight from from the nixt year. We
want to see a good game, right The last three
games in this series have been blowouts. The first three
games were really good, but we have had a close
game in a while here, so I'm hoping that the Knicks,

(10:32):
you know, get I In all honesty, I'd rather see
the Knicks win this game. They're just more interesting to
me going forward to the next round. But you know,
I at least want to see a close game today, Nicks.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
The thing about the Knicks though, is like if they
get to the next round, their toughness will be fun
against the Celtics, who we agree like just they might
be a tough team, but they're just hard to watch sometimes. Yeah,
Boston's gonna score one hundred and forty points in the pace.
But I will say this though, is that the way

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Boston is lethargic at times. The Pacers can certainly take
more advantage of that with the way they shoot the ball. Right,
Like if you go into into Indianapolis and you sort
of have one of those games where you know, I
just don't feel like playing as hard as I did
the other nights, like they'll put one hundred and forty
on you. Of course, of course, you know anytime the

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Indiana defense can kind of screw you. Nicks cut it
to six. Now at a six point game, which is wild,
Now back to eight. This is the run that we're
gonna have to make, right Brian, I mean, this is
gonna happen. Thankfully. I probably will hit on my wager,
which I needed to kind of make back some earlier
nixt wagers. But you know it's there at home. I mean,
this is what this happens in the postseason, right these

(11:51):
home games. Man, there's an energy. And I've been fortunate
enough when I played for the Giants to see Rangers
hockey playoff games in the Garden. Man, it is It's incredible.
The garden is so cool and the history there and
there's a there's a big energy in that place that
you know, part of it is. This is the stars
and the celebrities there, but there's just an energy man

(12:12):
in that building and once it gets going, man, it's
it's not many not many places like it.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
No, absolutely not. Well, Hey man, we got a lot
to get through on the show today and we'll just
keep it going. Coming up, there's there's a duo I
miss a ton and there's also it was a great effort,
but it didn't quite go the way it was hoped for.
We'll get to both of those things right around the corner.
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Radio man our technical producer Chris Purfett. Jeff, he is
convinced that this Vanilla Ice song led to the Go
New York Go, New York Go. That doesn't have any credit.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
That's the thing.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
Like Ninja rap from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles two came
out in nineteen ninety one, Go New York Go came
out in ninety four.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Wow, I had no idea it was inspired by Vanilla Ice.
How about that? Think about that, Jeff, where Vanilla Ice
is his hit? Ice Ice Baby was ripped off, right,
It was a David, It was Bowie first, And that's
what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Vanilla Ice ripped
it off. And now the Knicks ripped off Vanilla Ice.

(14:11):
What a turn of events here?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Uh yeah, I mean, I'm I'm stunned. I feel like
this is probably why the knickser are allowing seventy eight
percent of shots to be made today, which I mean
there there, it's still at it's still at seventy two
percent in the middle of the third quarter. Like the
Knicks are cutting this game closer because they're just like sports.

(14:36):
Like it's just sports, right, Like it's close.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Now, this is gonna make you sick, like this little
sequence that you're about to see, like I've got a
little antenna for the local channels, U and Jeff, you're
on a little bit of a delay. I'm telling you.
This sequence you're about to see is just it's utterly sickening.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's what Harnstein takes the ball out. Oh McConnell steals it.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Oh no, said then they get any an end one. Oh,
it's just so of.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Course, by the way, I was texting you about Nie
Smith the other day about how he never scores in
the second half, and now he's he makes his file
shot Hill five second half points exactly like he hasn't
he hasn't scored. The Sharps have been hitting Smith every
game the series, and he's yet been over his point total.
And now he's gonna be over today with the fact
and I didn't take his under, but I this is

(15:24):
oh boy, oh no, come on, Knicks.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, so bad the Knicks. So they were down at
by fifteen at halftime, they cut the deficit to seven. Yeah,
and then they had a couple of yeah, you're right.
It was seven at one point, and they had two
really bad turnovers. It led to a turner three yeah,
and it was a Halliburton fast break layup that led

(15:48):
to a seven to zero run. The leads back to fifteen.
We're back to where it was at halftime for the Knicks.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, I think, why didn't the Bride just take a layup?
Like I just so one thing that that's interesting about
the NBA the way it's sort of played now to
is one of the turnovers was McBride. He got in
the lane, yeah, and instead of just taking the lay up,
he tried to get the ball out for three pointer.

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And I feel like sometimes it's like just like just go,
just go take the two points.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Like it's okay, And it was like jump pass on
the top of it. It was really bad, Like.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Just take the two points. Yeah, I mean, and I
mean you might not you might miss it, of course,
but like just take the two points that they're there
to be had. They're giving you the two points, especially
when you're down. Just take points when you can get them.
And you know, obviously it's not why the next are
losing and whatnot. But sometimes I feel like this is
the way the league is. You know, it's just like
we're just shooting three, which is great, Like you gotta
shoot threes. I mean, this is this is done now

(16:45):
that the knixic kind of it was their last sort
of I think last effort right right.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Now, Halliburton nailed at three.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
This is what this one's done.

Speaker 8 (16:54):
I've led a lot of money on this game now,
but so be it. And the golf stuff, well, I'm
doing good in baseball today, so I might, I might,
I might end up being okay. But I mean the
Knicks have tried their best and just I mean, do
you even Chanda just just shot the ball left handed
over the backboard.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
On a lab potent and it got stuck up.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
This this was about This was about done.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Bad golf stuff. By the way, though, Jeff we got
Sanders Shoffley and Victor Hovelin. They're tied at minus nineteen.
Bryson deshambo Is lurking at minus eighteen. So we're seeing
some low scores going on at the PGA Championship. It's
been a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
I don't want to see Pacer Celtics.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
But you're about to. And hey, listen, give Indiana credit
because the Knicks punched back. This was the first sign
of life. Early in the third quarter. They went on
a run. They cut a fifteen point lead down to six. Yeah,
and the Pacers punched right back and they're ahead by eighteen.
So I give them credit for weathering that storm right there.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
And you know, part of it was again like just
the Knicks have just made a lot of mistakes tonight.
And maybe that's because of the players they're playing, right,
they're playing there a lot of players they didn't expect
to play a lot in this in this you know,
in this game. But you know, Heart can't really do
much and I mean Howard and Stein doesn't even look
to score anymore. He just looks to pass the ball immediately.
So you just a lot of guys aren't playing with

(18:21):
confidence and just a lot of mistakes and India has
just taken advantage again. They're shooting. It's a ridiculous amounts
still it's in the seventies, which is again insane to
shoot seventy percent on the road in a game seven.
If I told you that was at home in January,
you'd be like, oh my god, this on the on
the road in game seven is incredible.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
It really is. It's just insane that we've been waiting
and waiting and waiting and waiting for some type of
cold streak for the Pacers and it just hasn't happened. Yeah,
so that's pretty crazy performance. We mentioned this too with
og N Andobi. He gave it a go. He has
that hamstring ish you with the knicks. So Josh Hart started,

(19:02):
Ogn Andoby started, and you're like, okay, let's just see
how they look. Though. Ogn Andoby hit what his only
two shots of the game, Jeff, But the way he
was moving around out there, it looked uncomfortable to even
watch the guy. It was like, I don't know, like
he was he couldn't move his legs.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
It was here he played like I play at the
local JCC, where you run from one corner to the
other corner. You hope to get the ball at some point,
and if you do, you give your best effort, which
he did, but like otherwise that that's like, that's all
he had. He was running from corner to corner like

(19:45):
there was no other He wasn't he he wasn't playing
no defense. But he couldn't. He couldn't move. And now
look he made some let me. He did a great
job when he was in. But again, you have no og,
you have a beat up heart. Brunson's exhausted, can't do
very much. He scored much even the second the third quarter.
He's been out for a couple of minutes right now,

(20:07):
and just it's hard. Man. They're given their best effort,
but they just don't have enough right now.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, they just don't. They don't. And I'll tell you what,
man I mentioned this yesterday, but I wanted to throw
it your way, Jeff is I think the new commentating
crew on ABC, and this is going to be the
crew for the finals, right It's gonna be Mike Breen
along with Doris Burke and JJ Reddick.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, and they do a good job.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I love Doris and JJ Reddick. He obviously knows a
ton about basketball, But man, I miss the zaniness and
the fun of Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson. It
is so much more fun with those guys. They would
talk about the most random stuff. I miss that, I
really do, because it's so serious.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Right now, Well, I missed the I missed the Van
Gundy where he laments parts of the game that have
like I.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Guess the Van Gundy rants. Yeah, sure like these.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
And I understand. Look, I'm not at all knocking the
use of analytics or things like that in sports. I mean,
I haven't I covered the NFL and we talk about
it all the time, but you know, this telecast is
very you know, kind of pro new age, which again
it's Doris Burkin and Reddick right like it's gonna be.
But I think to your point, like we sort of

(21:24):
missed the curmudgeon part of the telecast sometimes, which as
much as you might say, like I don't like that,
you can sort of kind of do like that a
little bit. Guys come on and yeah, it's it's not
gonna be there. But look it's I I the game's on. Mute.
I mean I don't. I don't listen to a lot
of games, even NFL games for the broadcasting crew.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Are you gonna are you looking forward to Tom Brady's
debut doing a Cowboys game.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
I will listen to Thomas first time out. I think
Tom's gonna be really good. I don't. I don't think
Tom does anything like not one hundred percent, you know,
like I don't really expect him to just not do
this the best of his ability. I mean, dude, Indiana
is at almost one hundred points in the middle and
in the third quarter. Yeah, I know, it's just like
they haven't sol done at all.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's crazy. I keep waiting and waiting and waiting, and
it's hasn't happened. It's not going to happen.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
We all keep waiting. They just haven't done it.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, this is like we say this all the time, Jeff.
Where sports lie to you. You know, you're watching the Pacers,
good example, You're watching the Pacers just score and score
and score and score, and so you're thinking sometimes the
square side is like, they're just gonna keep scoring. They're
gonna score and score and score, and a lot of
times it's dead wrong. That's why you want to You

(22:35):
want to bet the exact opposite of what you're currently watching.
And this is the game where the hey, they're gonna
keep scoring. That has actually been true. They have not stopped,
and I don't think they will.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Crazy. I mean, I I'm I always go to the opposite, right,
I mean I think, like to myself, there's just no
way they're gonna keep shooting the same percentage, like at
some point. Typically love averages work in sports, and I
mean it hasn't worked. I mean, McConnell is the best
play of the court. He can't be stopped. And by
the way, the Knicks are gonna are gonna score one
hundred and ten and fifty points of It's like, it's

(23:08):
not like they're not scoring either, it's the Indiana just
won't stop scoring.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
How crazy is that too?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Where?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Man, a lot of these Game sevens, it's a rock fight.
It's a low scoring, grinded out type game. And we
texted before this game. I was like, you know, I'm
not expecting that, but the scoring could be a little
bit less than what we're used to seeing from the Pacers.
That could not have.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Been more wrong. I have to think that, like the
sharp side was the under in this game, right, I
would imagine I didn't see you look at the totals,
was the under in this game. But it it's just
obviously clearly not hit unless Indiana and New York have
just the worst second half of all time. But look,
I mean that was what did Devencenzo do there?

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, he was contesting a shot and came down.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Funny was that shot blocked?

Speaker 2 (24:03):
No, he tried to block McConnell, and I think he
came down on his knee a little funny maybe. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I'm just a pointer that like went four feet in
front of him. That was interesting to end the half. Well,
I had a chance there if he made that three
to cover my my uh my spread. But jeez, he
didn't want to just bleed. Just bleeding today from this game.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Brutal? Is that?

Speaker 7 (24:23):
Man?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
The Knicks. So the Knicks were trailing by fifteen out
of the half, they cut the lead to six, the
Pacers grew the lead back up to seventeen. They won
the quarter. That's crazy, man. I give the Pacers credit.
I give him credit. I also give Manzi Bolano's credit
because I heard a rumor that she's all in on cheese.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's new.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
I don't know if that's ah. Is that true?

Speaker 7 (24:47):
No, total total rumor, total rumor, not at all, not
even a little bit.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
No false hope, guys.

Speaker 6 (24:58):
Yeah, I didn't have not not have this on my
bingo card.

Speaker 7 (25:01):
With the Pacers playing like this in Game seven at
Madison Square Garden, it is just nuts. They just end
at the third quarter one oh one to eighty four.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Pascal Siakam fifteen points.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
I mean, I know Tyr's Halliburn is the leading scorer
for them twenty four points, but it really is like
a team effort. Shooting seventy percent from the field, still
fifty seven.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Point nine from the three point line. Jalen Brunson though
for the Knicks, he is six of seventeen last sid
checked from the field, so it's just been all Pacers.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
All Pacers so far. Jalen Brnson. Yeah, six is seventeen.
He's got seventeen points and nine assists. They're about to
start the fourth quarter down by sixteen seventeen points, So
we'll see what happens here.

Speaker 6 (25:45):
Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
We do have games seven of the Western Conference semi
Finals later today from Denver timber wwooves Nuggets. Tip Off
is at eight pm Eastern time at the PGA Championship.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
This one is getting fun.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Too.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Xander Schoffley.

Speaker 7 (25:58):
Victor Hovlin currently in the lead nineteen under par overall.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Bryson Deshamba is one shot back.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
It looks like Justin Rose is two shots back, but
Victor Hovlin now and the lead alongside as Ander Shoffley.
In Major League Baseball, a lot of games going on today.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Three currently going on.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Like Andy Pahz, rookie for the Dodgers, with a two
run homer. They're beating the Reds two to one top
of the six inning. The Giants were down, not anymore.
They're on top of the Rockies three to one top
of the sixth inning, and the Diamondbacks are beating the
Tigers four to two. It's the bottom of the fifth inning.
The games that have finished. The Red Sox avoided the sweep.
They crushed the Cardinals, sorry, Brian. Eleven to three was

(26:36):
the final score. The Yankees have won seven in a row.
They defeated the White Sox seven to two to complete
the sweep. Aaron Judge with the two run homer. That's
number thirteen on the season. The Orioles beat the Mariners
six ' three. Gunner Henderson with home run fifteen of
the season.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
That leads Major League Baseball along with Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 7 (26:52):
He had two homers for the Astros, bringing his total
to fifteen, as Houston beat the Brewers nine to four.
The Mets top the Marlins seven to three. The Guardians,
they walked it off thanks to Will Brennan had a
three run homer, and they beat the Twins five to
two to complete the sweep. The Blue Jays. The Blue
Jays avoided the sweep. They topped the Rays five to two,
and I think that's it. Oh and the Angels they beat.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
The Rangers four to one.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
So a lot of baseball today, guys, But back to you.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thank you MONI. Man, it's crazy. The Astros are playing better. Yeah,
and now the Rangers thinking.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
Yeah, Rangers, and like nobody's talking about them. They're they're
they're they're the defending champions, and nobody's even mentioning that
they are struggling.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Losen to the Angels, to the Angels. Yeah, right there. Uh,
I got a theory here, Jeff Schwartz. Yes, so I'm
thinking about this. We got another Game seven coming up
here with the Timberwolves and the Nuggets, very much looking
forward to that. This is a good example with the
Knicks here. Okay, so think of the Knicks and think

(27:53):
of the Timberwolves. All right, You're not going to hear
Nicks fans like, let's just say, let's play this out
late in the fourth quarter. Knicks are down by a lot,
they're down by double digits. They're not really within striking distance.
You're not gonna hear Knicks fans cheer for free chicken

(28:15):
because the Pacers missed two free throws in a rect
you know what I mean, Like they have standards over there.
The Timberwolves were just doing that Game four, they're getting crushed,
they get killed by the Nuggets, and at home they're
cheering because they get free chicken. My theory is this,
when the playoffs roll around, any fan base who's cheering

(28:38):
for freed chicken late in the fourth quarter when their
team's getting blasted, it's a loser team.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Man.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
They've never won anything of significance.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I mean, the Minnesota sports scene has not, so that
would that would count, right? I mean there's that that's
a torture sports sports scene. I Also, we talked about
last week, like the boot of Jamal Murray made no sense.
I'm less they're unless like unless they're all manufacturers of
heating pads. I mean, like, like, what are they? What
do you what are you upset about? Like that he

(29:08):
threw a heating pad on the floor, And I don't
understand why he's the villain for you guys. And look
this game tonight. It fascinates me. I think that Jokic
could have like one of those games when we're like,
oh my god, here's why. Did you see the look

(29:30):
on his face at the end of that game. He
the entire fourth quarter, not the entire but most of
the fourth quarter of that blowout on in Game six,
he was standing on the edge of the bench, wasn't
sitting And the look on that face is like, I
gotta do this myself because my teammates aren't helping me.
He has not gone the help that he needs. The
last couple of games. Jamal Murray is so up and down,

(29:52):
Michael Porter, Junr so up and down. You know, he
has not gone the help that he needs to win
these games. And I think to and I think the
Timberwolves know this too. You're gonna see just him have
to do it all. I don't know if he can.
If Jamal Murray shows up, I mean, the Nuggets win
this game, and it might not be within the spread,

(30:14):
you know, like ten point win, right if Jamal Murray
shows up. If he doesn't show up, then it be
it's gonna be a grind man like it's it feels
like it's sort of that simple for this game. If
Murray's there, they have a chance to do it. If
Murray's not gonna not gonna win.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, I hear you on that. And man, that's the thing.
I think that's what makes it so difficult tonight for
the Timberwolves to win Game seven is what Game six
was like. You know, when you win by forty five points,
that's great for that game, but for the next game,
you're playing the defending champs on the road in Denver

(30:53):
at altitude, and that was the worst ever playoff loss
by a defending champion. I think it makes it so
oh much more difficult for the Timberwolves. And like everything
they're chanting at home, Wolves in seven, there's all the
motivation right there, the additional motivation. And I know lace
is Game seven, They're gonna be motivated anyway. It's not

(31:14):
like they need that, but those additional layers matters. If
you're a competitive athlete, You're definitely gonna take that into account.
So I think it makes life a lot more difficult
from Minnesota tonight to win a game seven on the
road like that.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, it doesn't look the Nuggets have been here before,
They've won big games, they won a championship. The t
Wolves haven't a lot of times when you're playing in
a game seven like this and you you don't have
the experience of it and you're on the road, you
tend to lose now. And the Pacers and Nicks are

(31:50):
different because both teams don't have this experience. And I
would argue that Pacers, you know, with Siakham and you know,
they have some guys that have been there before, right,
and again they're healthier. That makes it big difference, you
know it in this game, I mean, the Wolves have
to play an extraordinary game, I think to win this
one because again I think I think you look at

(32:12):
the role players of the Nuggets and Murray and Porter
and Cord I mean typically again at home, you get
a little bit more juice from those guys, right, And
I think you think we're going to see it tonight.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, It's like can it happen? Absolutely? You've got a
superstar and Anthony Edwards. You've got one of the best
defenses in basketball. We saw, Jeff, remember how Game two
went where they just shut down the Nuggets and you
mentioned it. What are we gonna see from Jamal Murray tonight?
Does he respond? Does he look pretty iffy? He's had

(32:46):
some bad games in this series. So we've got we've
got some breaking news here. Let's dive into this.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Year breaking news from Fox Sports fellas.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
It looks like the New York Knicks will be playing
the rest of their game without their star Jalen Brunson.
Multiple reports a fractured left hand.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
Nick's losing right now to the Pacers one O nine
to ninety two with less than ten minutes to go
in the fourth quarter. No more, Jalen Brunson. Fractured left hand.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Wow, that's terrible. Luckily it's not a lower body injury.
But that's injury to insult today.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
I legit almost said a minute ago we were talking
about the other game, like why is Brunson not in?
This is like coach malpractice? What's Tim's doing and being hurt?
I mean, dude, okay, I give the Nicks crumming Devincenzo's
still busting his butt. I mean they're they're oh geez.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Alec Burks Man Alec Burks said a.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Day Yeah, wow, I'm gonna have to tell my wife
about this gambling experience in this year, and everything just
has gone exact opposite of what I which which would
be love averages, would mean. Tonight, I do well, I'm
not a bad gambler, So tonight I think I should
hopefully get back to to h to rally time. The
thing is, you just can't you can't chase, right, That's

(34:07):
that's just can't chase. So that's that's the key. So
we got McBride just shooting, spinning, fading away bank shots
that aren't even close. This is bad. I feel bad
for the Knicks, ma. I mean, you're you're down now down,
you know, Brunson, you're down, o g. You have heart
at half strength essentially, Randall's already out and you're just

(34:29):
trying to string this thing together against Indiana team. That's
you know, shooting a ridiculous If you're shooting, you had
a chance, yeah, but not not not the way that
the Pacers are playing.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
No, doesn't look like it's in the cards. Tonight for
the Knicks. Hey, coming up next little According to Mansei, huh,
at least three topics, three strong stances. We'll have some
fun with that. Right around the corner, He's Jeff Schwartz.
I'm Brian. Note, we're coming to you live from the
Tirack dot com studios on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Chef Schwartz. I'm Brian. No,
coming to your live from the tyreck dot com studios.
Let's dive into this.

Speaker 6 (35:15):
Corrige and now it's time for absolutely.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
According to Monci, I love it all right.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
According to Manci, OKC fans are the real MVPs all.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
Right, So they are officially the best fan base. There
is no question about it. Throughout the playoffs, you could
argue that they were.

Speaker 6 (35:37):
The best fan base. They're the only ones that wear
those free T shirts every single game.

Speaker 7 (35:42):
You could see the sea of blue when OKC was playing.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
Those fans didn't care what they look like on camera.
They were there to support their team.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
But I mean, be real, you know, not Clipper games,
I'm not putting that shirt on. None of us are
putting those shirts on. No, But even other places.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Ok.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
They were putting it on every single game. The best
part though, guys, they.

Speaker 7 (36:04):
Were at the airport last night waiting for OK Seed
to come back from.

Speaker 6 (36:10):
Their loss to the Dallas Mavericks. Like what, who does that?

Speaker 7 (36:14):
It just goes to show that they believe in their
young team and they were there to say thank you.
I mean, the youngest team to secure the number one
seed in league history. I feel like this is such
a big psychological win for shake Gil, just Alexander Ludd
or all of them to get home and see all
of those fans there just smiling saying thank you for

(36:35):
a great season. Like they must have gone home and
felt a little bit better. And it's like you couldn't have,
you know, paid to feel better after a loss like that,
Yet I bet you they did. OKAC fans, you guys
are the real MVP. I'm like, that's so sweet.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
I love them. I love them.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
According to Monsey, Kaitlyn Clark has already moved the needle
for the WNBA.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
Yeah, Like, I didn't even want to talk about Kaitlin Clark,
but I have I do. Like it is incredible. Yeah,
let's talk about her twenty one turnovers. It doesn't matter.
That is the most turnovers for a rookie in their
first three games. Honestly, it really doesn't matter. The Fever
have lost three games in a row to start the season.
Yesterday it was to the star studded Liberty, but you
know what, the Liberty shattered the all time single game

(37:20):
ticket revenue record with more than two.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
Million dollars in sales. And we all know why. Her
name is Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 7 (37:28):
After the game, raining league MVP Breanna Stewart, she even said,
like what Kaitlin has brought from Iowa now to the WNBA,
it's a collective win for all, and it's so true.

Speaker 6 (37:38):
She is already moving the needle.

Speaker 7 (37:40):
Earlier in the week, the Dream announced that they're both
both of their games against the Fever. They're gonna be
played at State Farm Arena where the Hawks play. Y'all,
the needle has been moved. And let's also say that
Clark has become the fourth player in league history to
record fifty to fifty points fifteen assists in her first
career three career games like regular season.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
Only Kansas Parker Super and Nicki McCray have done that.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
So who cares about the twenty one turnovers, y'all, she
is all ready moving the needle.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
According to Monsey, plagiarism is not funny, y'all.

Speaker 6 (38:13):
This is so good.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
I mean, like, I don't know if you saw this,
but I'm gonna blame this Knicks loss on John Liguizamo
because he is not funny and plagiarism is not funny.
So there is a guy named Tommy Beer who is
the author of What's on Tap on Substack, and he
has like seventy thousand followers. He posted this thing hours
ago basically telling Knicks fans. He's a Knicks fan, and

(38:36):
he's like, guys, we have to appreciate this. We haven't
had a Game seven at Madison Square Garden in over
ten thousand days, in maybe another ten thousand days until
we do it.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
There was like a lot of details of like a.

Speaker 7 (38:48):
Real fan John Liguizamo copy and tweeted or copy and pasted.

Speaker 9 (38:54):
Excuse me, the exact words that this guy tweeted, didn't
repost it, didn't give credit to the guy literally just
copied it, pasted it with the picture of himself wearing
a Knicks hat.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
What are we doing?

Speaker 7 (39:09):
Did we not think we were gonna get caught John
it wiz Onmo.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Does he think he's doing that himself or you think
that's just his person doing that?

Speaker 6 (39:17):
Oh my gosh. Now that's another great question.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
Jeff, because if it was his assistant fire audios, that's
the dumbest thing you could have done.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
If we're talking about firing, can we fire like the
rest of the Fever players? Yes to awesome?

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Right?

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Did should just take for like Page Beckers next year?
I mean, can you imagine, Oh my gosh, and like
it was that some of the turnovers are because their
teammates didn't catch Yes.

Speaker 9 (39:41):
Because she's too fast for them, She's too ahead of
the game.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Really, it's really hard to watch her teammates are not
up to the same level.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Didn't it look like Varsity was playing freshman? It was
so bad. I'm so I so agree with you.

Speaker 7 (39:54):
I Mean, there's a reason the Fever had had have
had the number one pick two years in a row.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
They they should take for pitchbackers.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
I mean yeah, because she's already moving the needles. It
doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
They need more sponsorship deals, you know what I mean,
Like like the Aces, that's what they need. Some better players.
That way, the circumvents the salary cap. Yeah, as long
as they can get away with it, all right, we
got a lot to do here. Right around the corner.
Sometimes the blame game is really really stupid. Maybe the

(40:26):
best example of that, We'll hit you with that right
around the corner.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Next you're listening to sports.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
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(40:58):
I hope that Tom Thibodeaux does get blamed here. I
know the knicks are the walking wounded, and plenty of
people have criticized him for the amount of minutes some
of his main guys play. But the latest injury, Jalen
Brunson broke his hand. Yeah, right, like that has nothing
to do with workload minutes, nothing like. It's just an injury.

(41:18):
Sometimes injuries happen, but for whatever reason, every injury that
a Tom Thibodeaux coached team suffers it's Tibbs's fault somehow,
So I don't know it's Tibbs's fault. I hope you're
not hearing any of these stupid comments about Brunson being
the latest victim of a heavy workload. Has nothing to
do with that at all.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Well, I don't think for Brunson, but I think there's
a pattern now over the years, right if his players
getting hurt. Look, some of that just comes with like
wear and tear, right, and that's just part of player
with professional sports. It just seems to happen a lot
with his teams.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Sure, hey, listen, some of that stuff is right, Like
if you're looking at Og with a hamstring, OG's always
banged up. But at least that's an injury you could have.
You could point to that and say, hey, maybe that's
the workload. Okay, a shoulder injury, right for Julius Randall,
nothing to do with workload, hand injury, nothing to do

(42:12):
with workload.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
But unless you argue think like that, I mean, look,
the argument against it obviously is that you know, just
it's sort of the prolonged minutes lead your body to
be to wear down and not be as strong and
maybe that leads your hand getting broken. I mean I'm
stretching a little bit now, right.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
I like, does that even sound legit?

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Right there? No imagine coming in the game right now
if you're a Knicks player, like you have a minute
left in this game, Like, what do you what's the
what's the goal?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Here?

Speaker 3 (42:43):
There was? I looked at the props for the points
and uh, Indiana went over for the even just from
four minutes ago. Like, I don't even know why I
didn't hit it. Oh wow, I should I should have hit.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
It, but I did. I was like, you know what, fine,
I'll just I'll take Indiana's you know, uh total, like
team total.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Over one and a half with three minutes left, and
I was like it was plus money. Yes, I've bled
enough money in this game, buddy. I can't. I couldn't
do it.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
I just I hate when that happens, right, You're like,
I feel like I'm chasing. I'm not gonna do that
chase today.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
With a third quarter. But look, man, it's I think
the Knicks they play like a New York team should play,
right with with that toughness and great and physicality and defense.
They ran out of steam man too. Many guys hurt. Right, Man,
the Knicks brought all the celebrities out for this game too,

(43:40):
I know everyone everyone was there.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
This is what a quarter of a century. We've got
a chance to go to the Eastern Conference Finals. It's
go time. They lose by twenty one points, man, they
get smacked around like that. That's rough.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
And the Pacers still shot like what sixty percent, even
even like in the fourth quarter when they and most
start was putting most of the game. But still, I mean,
the Pacers today were sixty seven percent from the from
the field. That's got to be a record, right, I
mean in a game's in any playoff game, sixty seven
percent fifty from three. They had thirty three assists on

(44:20):
their fifty three made baskets. I mean, it just wildly
successful game for them.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I really do wonder how much of the conversation will
be Thibodeaux, right, and the workload for these guys, and look, Jeff,
I think a lot of people make far too much
of that. But to lose by twenty one, it's not
just you know, Brunson in the hand or Julius Randall
in the shoulder. I think you absolutely have to take

(44:50):
that into account. But they're the absolute walking wounded out there,
and it had some effect, I think on today's game,
but I think it's more so we always just want
to blame someone. I think you got to look at
the Pacers who absolutely shot the freaking lights out, Like
you just said, that could be an all time playoff record.

(45:12):
And that's not just the Knicks being banged up. It's
hard to shoot like that with nobody guarding you.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
It's certainly not. But early in the game, I think
the speed was just Indiana plays fast, but the speed
of the game was just different, right, I mean, there
was a speed that was played by the Pacers that
wasn't played by the Knicks. And you can make the
case that the injuries and the wear and tear of
the team sort of finally caught up to the Knicks

(45:43):
early in this game. And when Indiana got confident and
look Hally burd I think no one expected this game
from him today. I mean did you? I certainly did.
When he's going, the rest of the team goes right,
and that I think led to the gradual build up
to where they just they just gout confident, buddy and
just couldn't miss. After the confidence, you know, And that's

(46:05):
what happens when you play fast, get out an early lead,
and you just let it ride. And then we talked
about this when we first started the show. They weathered
that third quarter storem the Knicks at which I think
we all thought we'd see a kind of a push
from the Knicks out of the locker locker at halftime,
and they just did a great job of with standing,
got down to six points from fifteen a halftime, and

(46:25):
they did a fantastic job of being able to play
through what imagine is a pretty fared up Gardner at
that moment.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Yeah. Right, they did a great job. That was the
turning point. We thought it was maybe turning toward the
Knicks when they cut into it and the deficit was
only six, and the Pacers just punched right back. Man,
next thing you knew, you blinked and it was up
to eighteen. Again. That was the game right there. Let
me throw something else at you know what we're talking about, hoops.
I find this to be pretty interesting, Jeff. So there's

(46:55):
this sponsorship deal that the Las Vegas Aces had, Right,
it's a WNBA team, and so they have a deal
with the Las Vegas Convention in Visitors Authority, it's the
LVCVA whatever. They're willing to pay one hundred thousand dollars

(47:17):
as a sponsorship deal for every Aces player for this
season and also next season in twenty twenty five. And
so this is what's interesting. The NBA is in the
WNBA is investigating this because they're like, should this be allowed?
And if this is the stat of stats here, Jeff,
The current WNBA salary cap is set at one point

(47:38):
four million dollars, okay for each team. This sponsorship deal
that the Aces have that totals one point two million
dollars for the team. It's almost worth the amount of
the salary cap.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
What's wrong with this deal? I mean, if you're a
New York Nikki, you can get a sponsorship in the
city right from the company and brand what I guess
it's from the city specifically. I don't really I understand
the idea that it might be violate the salary cap, right,
but if the team is not paying it, that doesn't
valve the salary cap.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
It doesn't.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
But it's sponsorship deal.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
It's one of those deals where Okay, we hit the
off season and there's a free agent who's thinking about
playing for whatever the Las Vegas Aces. Yeah, where they
can get paid and also get this one hundred thousand
dollars per that's actual that's actually more money than six
players making salary on the A's that they're making more

(48:37):
of this sponsorship, and good for them. But you can't
tell me it isn't an unfair advantage when there's a
salary cap and you've got a deal in place that
in a lot of instances pays you more than your
actual contract.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Well they should. Other teams should find a valuable sponsorships.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
For their It's like nil, right, it's like having a
collective and.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Just get in trouble for something for another some of
their salary cap violations. Right, they were, they did, they
were doing something like this already. Right, Look, I think
this is great for the league. You know, I watched
w NBA yesterday. I watched Kaitland Clark play. It was
not the prettiest of basketball games. Her team is, uh,

(49:22):
it's rough. But look the amount of of money this
league is about to come into. Remember the collecton bargaining agreement.
I believe what's gonna get redone or is up after
the season, So they're gonna have more money for the players,
which is fantastic, and maybe they won't need to be
sponsored by you know, a city's tourist and the tourism

(49:43):
board to generate more money to want for free agents
to want to come be part of your team. So,
I mean, it feels like we're moving in the right
direction as far as the sport and the popularity and
what that could mean for the players in a couple
of years. But right now, they're just trying to make
these deals. Look a lot we talk this a lot.
A lot of these players have to play in in

(50:05):
in other countries in the offseason. Yeah, to make a salary,
to make a living.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
And that's the thing is, it's tough to make this.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I want to make this point so it's clear. I
would love every player in the WNBA to have this
same sponsorship opportunity where you're making one hundred k on
the side, might even be more than your actual salary. Great,
have at it. If you've got a company that wants
to pay you that, you should absolutely make it. But
I'm just saying in a sport where the salary cap

(50:36):
is one point four million dollars, to have a sponsorship
deal in place that totals one point two million dollars
when other teams don't have that. That's completely an unfair advantage.
Like what's the point of having a salary cap if
you can do that on the side.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
The problem that I think you're having with it is
not that they got it right, it's the amount of money.
Because if if this happened to Patrick Mahomes, the chiefs
in the City Kansas City, it was like, we're giving
you one hundred grand to spon sponsoring, like you'd be like, okay, fine,
he's making five hundred million, right, like whatever. But because

(51:12):
the number is so large compared to the salary of
the players, it's very striking. I mean they look. The
best thing the King Hark has done for WNBA is
have a discussion almost daily weekly about the salary of
the players in the league. I think a lot of
people would be surprised to learn her salary is like
seventy six thousand dollars this season. Now, of course she
has a deal with Nike and other sponsorships. I mean,

(51:34):
she's making money. It's not like she is out there,
you know, poor. But the fact is, I think people
would be shocked to learn the salary for the salaries
for crazy yeah, for rookie players essentially right on those
rookie contracts the n W So, the the awareness raised
because of her essentially is it's been remarkable. Okay, it's

(51:56):
so funny these you know, these old heads that were
hating on her, have hated on her for a game.
And look, absolutely she was gonna struggle early as a rookie.
I mean I followed I've followed Sabrina and Escue pretty
closely as an organ grad and she struggled as a
rookie too. I mean it's it's you're you're playing against
grown adults with like if you've seen, you know, some

(52:17):
of the coverage like kids and families and husbands and wives.
I mean like it's I remember walking in the NFL
walker room, Brian no girlfriend, you know, like and they're
thirty seven year old kicker with a twelve year old
kid like it is. It is a it's a it's
a it's a business man. It's it's a grown a
grown folks sport. And Kaitlin Clark's gonna have to learn

(52:38):
how to play in this league. But all these old
heads hating on her, and she's got on private planes.
She's gonna get a new CBA that's gonna have more
money for everyone. Yeah, you have, and I'm not sure that. Look,
the Aces have won three Champers in a row without
the help of Kaylyn Clark. But the popularity is only
gonna help the Aces get deals like they just got right. Yeah,

(52:59):
and so all these things are gonna help the league.
And yet the old heads are hating on her, which
is just it makes no sense to me.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
It makes no sense because she is It was like
Don Staley, remember after South Carolina beat Iowa in the
National Championship. Yeah, she thanked her and she said she's
gonna lift the WNBA, just like she lifted women's college basketball.
She was completely right about that.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
So absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Caitlin Clark means a ton to that league. It's jarring.
What's she making like seventy six cas something like that,
and her Nike shoe deal is twenty eight million dollars.
That disparity between what your contract is and what she's
making on the side. That's why if you go back
to the Aces deal, I love that they're making this money.

(53:47):
I'm not hating on them having a sponsorship deal and
making money on the side. It's just look, man, if
if I if you play in the WNBA and you've
got a chance to play for whoever, the Chicago Sky, right,
and you could make eighty K. Or you could play
for the Las Vegas Aces and you can make eighty

(54:07):
K in salary and one hundred K on the side,
who are you playing for?

Speaker 4 (54:13):
Right?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Like, it's so that that's the thing that I am
I have an issue with where I just needed to
be uniform across the board or there's no reason to
have a salary cap at all.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
No, I'm I'm in agreement with with with what you
said about that. I'll tell you what, man, We talk
a lot about damage like this in college sports, and
it's I don't know if it's helped fans of football,
I mean certain teams specifically, probably, but I think it's
helped the women's game so much. And it starts with

(54:45):
it can come as a great example, right because I
think there would have been excitement to watch her anyways, right,
But her ability to do national TV ads and her
ability to be so front facing for the league is
because of name Aagel, Right, It's because she's allowed to
now college athinks weren't allowed to do this three or

(55:06):
four years ago, and that carries over into one. And
to watch her, Dude, I have not watched it whether
she's in w NBA game in a long time. I
watched the postseason every now and then, and I made
sure like to put it on yesterday. I wanted to
watch her play. And that's why I was so striking
about the rest of her teammates. But that that starts

(55:27):
from the job that she did and IOWA did and
the networks did of promoting her and her brand. And
it was electric brand too. I mean, she was incredible
and even after like they didn't they did. One of
the crazy parts too, about is she didn't win a championship, right?
She even win? Yeah, and we want to watch her play.
So she's a rock star and she's also handling it

(55:50):
with a lot of grace. And I think it's really
hard at that age to have this pressure put on you.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
I also think you could easily punch back. You know,
you could easily say, do you realize what I'm doing
for this league? You know what I mean, It'd be
tempting to go down that road with like you said,
some of the old heads and former players just hating
on her where she she could absolutely punch back and say,
do you realize what I'm doing for this game overall here?

(56:16):
And she's not. And I think that's a credit to her.
By the way, Robert McIntyre, Oh he Eagles boom, Let's go. Jeff,
I got home.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I took I took it. I took it too. But uh,
I tried to use that boost that you use and
it would limit it to the twenty five bucks. So
hey man, after after this Nick's fiasco today, I'll take it.
I'll take any money I can get. I mean, I
had a great day in baseball though, so that really helps.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Eighteen and we get there by one stroke.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Jeff, how about you think about wagering this is this
is this is the thing, guys. Obviously, the only wager
what you can afford to lose. Right, that's a disclaimer,
But I'm doing this.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
To Jeff, just wager stuff you can't afford that I.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Am doing this season long fade of the White Sox,
the Rockies in the Martins.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
You're still committed to it. Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
But here's why I had a bag like two days
I want May three or four days. I lost a
couple grand I'll just be honest.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
But just stick with it.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
You stick with it. I made it mostly back now
boom because the White Sox got swept. The Rockies are
about to get swept, like you're back on the Mets.
Al jeez, they want today at least, But like you
have to. If you have a system, you gotta stick
to it, man. Otherwise, this how I get you? Right?

Speaker 2 (57:31):
He is jes As you don't You also know who's
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(57:53):
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Speaker 4 (57:57):
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Speaker 2 (58:09):
It is Fox Sports Radio, Jeff Schwartz, Brian know with
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Adam Kaplan FSR NFL Insider Inside the Birds podcast and
a huge Slayer fan. Is that last? Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:27):
I haven't know about that.

Speaker 10 (58:28):
I know my old friend, the late great uh John
Clayton was definitely into the uh the hairbands. I remember
John's commercial. Yeah, yeah, but which is pretty amazing by
the way. But it's good be with you guys. Is
we get through May here and also good to hear
you guys before I came on here and Jeff talk
about his gambling exploitations there.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
That was fascinating.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
I did not know that.

Speaker 10 (58:51):
Well, I knew Jeff like the gambling scene, but uh
fade playing the teams that are fading.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
I love that, like the Barlins in particular.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
It buddy, otherwise you're gonna lose money.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
You should see our text threat here cap you know,
good lord man, it is just it's degenerate gambling. One
oh one. You know, Jeff and I are covering everything,
so I've written.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
An article about Week one NFL lines already, so I'm wow,
what do you think?

Speaker 2 (59:22):
By the way, what do your thought in the Packer
Eagle game?

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Jeff I would think Eagles to cover that game just
as of right as of right now, but I like
the Browns. My favorite one is Brown's minus one at home.
It's the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Oh wow, Okay, with Tom Brady on the call, cap,
what do you think about this? The Jets? So it's
been talked about a lot, six primetime games. They actually
play a game in London also, so seven standalone games
in the first eleven weeks. That's a big bet on
the Jets by the NFL. What do you think about
the league putting them on primetime that much to start

(59:56):
the season.

Speaker 10 (59:56):
So I was on a media call with Mike North,
whoever sees scheduling for the NFL. Mike's usually really good,
He's pretty straight up, and it was just kind of funny.
His reaction goes like the Jets kind of os one
for what happened with obviously Rogers, because there we could
talk about the Jets futility for decades. But as my
North said, look, the networks wanted him one of the Jets.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
They want them on.

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
So obviously everyone's backing on Roger's staying healthy somehow at
forty years old, which he turns this year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
So yeah, I thought that was interesting. I was not
expecting that.

Speaker 10 (01:00:28):
Now I thought the best story of the schedule, and
when I talk about this one, this is one of
the most amazing stories. I thought this had a chance,
and the Texans rise here to be on primetime. Think
about this last year, sixteen games at one Eastern Folks sixteen,
that's a little that the league thought about the Texans.
Now think at four primetime games, and it's great when

(01:00:50):
a team comes out of nowhere no one expected. Obviously,
the league is telling you what they thought last year.
Coming into the season. They didn't think much of the Texans,
and now they truly do.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
That happened to me with the Chiefs twenty thirteen. We
were coming off of two and fourteen season and we
had one primetime game the following year. It's actually wonderful
if you're a player to play all your games at
twelfth Central. But that's you know, that's the way it works, right.
I don't know, Adam, if the NFL intentionally sets up

(01:01:19):
schedules for success for certain teams. If you're a Bears fan,
you might think so. No division games until Week eleven.
You know, it's a tough schedule, and the NFL is tough,
but it feels like the Bears got a little bit
of like, you know, we'll kind of ease in some
some Caleb Williams did the NFL do the Bears a
solid here?

Speaker 10 (01:01:40):
When I look at their schedule, I think it's I
think it's when you really go through it there by way,
they're bias. In Week seven, you don't see a game
where all but they got no chance. I mean, the
Week two at the against the Texas in Houston will
certainly be tough. It's not like the text are like
a juggernaut. We think they're good. They're not becoming a team,
no question about it. But yeah, they've kind of they've

(01:02:02):
got a very they got it what I call winnable schedule.
There's not a game honestly. The game against green Bay
in Week eleven will be very difficult. Green bay'na I'm
gonna probably want to pick in green Bay over Detroit.
Detroit is my breakout team last season. Green Bay kind
of surprised me when they wanted Dallas in the playoff
where they blow them out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
But uh yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
You know what.

Speaker 10 (01:02:25):
I'm glad And by the way, that first game for
Kayleb Williams is at home against the Titans, so that
I like that. I like that for them, and I
talk of the Titans. They feel pretty good about their offseason.
They're very aggressive, by the way, but I'm lik at
Caleb Williams and this revised past target group probably the
best pass target group the Bears are put together in
like twenty plus years.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
I'm looking at the Packers' schedule cap and it's really
interesting how it lays out with their primetime games. So
you mentioned the very first one, it's on that Friday,
it's in Brazil against the Eagles, and then they don't
have a primetime game until Thanksgiving. We're talking the end
of November, and they have four primetime games in a
row from late November to later December. I don't know

(01:03:09):
if they're gonna be any good. Like, what do you
think about four primetime games in a row for the Packers.
We're talking weeks thirteen through sixteen. Just what do you
think about the Packers in twenty twenty four. Do you
think they're gonna be an even better team than last season?

Speaker 10 (01:03:24):
Well, look, here's here's why they're going to be better.
Because what they did was interesting. They changed defensive coordinator
Joe Barries out. Jeff Halfley is in. Halfley was the
former Boston College head coach. We get debate why he
left a head coaching job in college, and we can
talk about nil and whatever, but the fact of the
matter is, now he comes in, they're going to change

(01:03:45):
their scheme to forty three front, which is I don't
want to say historic, but they haven't run a forty
three in probably a decade, if not longer, and they're
gonna be Aaron Kampman, right right, Aaron, Yeah, that's and
that's in the two thousand. That's in like the mid
two thousand, so it's been a while. The game, by
the way, the game in Brazil is technically a home
game for the Eagles. Packer and Eagle fans really travel well.

(01:04:07):
And that's a game if you're the Eagles, you probably
would have wanted to have that at home and like
in a financial stadium and that spread. By the way,
it'd open at four, it's down to one and a half,
and that it tells you where the public is that
they think the Packers are going to be pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Good, but the Packers have they're another team.

Speaker 10 (01:04:22):
Boy, what a really good schedule they have after the
Eagle game, the Colts, Titans, Vikings, Rams, Cardinals, Texans, Jaguars.
Really not a terrible schedule. I think, a very winnable schedule,
and that that's going to be a great race between
them and Alliance An Alliance or Lines are a fun team.
It's so cool. It took them thirty years to be relevant,

(01:04:43):
but they're certainly very relevant right now.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
I am a little surprised the NFL went Chiefs Ravens
and then Chiefs Bangles in past one and two. Those
are games that we've seen play at the end of
the season because those matter for NFC playoff seedings. Do
you think, especially the Bengals game, was more about Burrow's
health and that he has not been healthy at the
end of the season, and they just want to play
that game when we assume he's one hundred.

Speaker 10 (01:05:08):
Percent that one. I wasn't sure because I was listening
to the schedule. The schedule makers talk about this. They
love that matchup because you know, the Bengals and Chiefs
matchups with Burrow and Mahomes have been incredibly just just
great watch.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Could go either way.

Speaker 10 (01:05:23):
They've got a butting rivalry here, there's no question about
playing the same conference. Yeah, I don't know why they
put it so early, but look, it's kind of interesting
because you talked about it, Jeff, when you were with
the Chief.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
In twenty thirteen, Andy Reid comes in. Andy Reid was
fired by the Eagles.

Speaker 10 (01:05:40):
Nobody knows what to think, and leaving the Eagles it
did not end well for Andy. They were a disaster
and he had personnel control. Then he comes into thirteen
with Alex Smith being the quarterback, nobody knows what to expect,
and he got things turned around there. And Jeff, you
could obvious speak about what Andy did when he came
in there, but they've been relevant and since then, and

(01:06:01):
quite frankly, they've been They had been a disaster or
very up and down. They they had a little bit
of runner Scott Pioli the GM, but it did that
that that situation ended not very well. And then you
go into the next situation with Andy Reid and you
just look at what he's done and Brett Veach, by
the way, who we brought in from Philly with him.
Then Brett would want up being their general manager, maybe

(01:06:23):
one of the best GM head coaching Tanems in NFL history,
quite frankly and very quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Sorry, Brian. The thing that I think is important about
Andy Reid is obviously he's a great coach, but he
is adapted to the game better than any coach that
I can recall. And part of that adapting is saying,
like I can't be in control of all the player
personnel decisions, like he did that affiliate. To your point,
it didn't go well. He came again't say now, he

(01:06:51):
let he has some control, but he let John Dorsey
do a lot of it. He let Brett Veach do
a lot of it, and they work together to build
this really good team. And I appreciate his ability to say,
you know what, I'm really good at coaching. I'm gonna
do that. I'm gonna hire people that I trust to
run the personnel department. I'm gonna make that change. I'm
not gonna do that anymore because that that cost me

(01:07:11):
my job in Philly.

Speaker 10 (01:07:13):
Yeah, and Belichick should have done that. Bill I think
might still be their head coach. And with New England,
had he giving up some stuff, well, I mean, we
don't have time to do it, because I know we're
pressed for time here. But the drafts of the last
four to five years with the Patriots were not very good,
to say the least, and that that's part of what
cost him his job. But and he doesn't really I'm
told by some of the chiefs that he doesn't really

(01:07:34):
get involved very much in personnel. He's handed off the
reatz Feach really makes the call. So it's it's pretty amazing,
and I got to give any recredit. One thing I
do want to mention when when when they traded Tyreek Kill,
I'm like, well, that's that's gonna be a problem. It
hasn't really been much of a problem, although they've addressed
the speed situation pretty significantly this offseason. But pretty amazing.

(01:07:54):
What a special coach, Jeff. And obviously you have a
first hand account of it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Yeah, no doubt about that. Well, hey, Cap, let you
get back to uh, you know, listening to Slayer. I
don't know if that's on the agenda today, but I
always love catching up with the man. I hope you
have a great, great evening, man you too, Thank you,
Thank you. There he is Adam Kaplan FSR NFL Insider
Inside the Birds podcast, And how about that, Jeff, A
little week one line movement talk from Cap that was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Talking about which game you mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
He mentioned, Uh, there was a spread that went from
four points to one point, and I think it was
the Eagles game. It might have been that one and
a half, that Packers Eagles game.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
Yeah, like I I wrote, I liked I like the
Eagles in that game. It's not at home. I get that,
But I think we are overreacting to the way the
Eagles ended last season. There's still a really good team,
and they changed their coordinators, which is I think a
pretty big deal for them. Yeah. Yeah, they lost Kelsey,
I get that, Fletcher hawks retired, but they can still
rush the passers. Jayalen Hurts say kwon, They're going to

(01:08:54):
be healthy. I think it's going to be a mistake
to overlook the Eagles in a week one given up
whole Austin to steal on the way this season ended.
I mentioned I like the Browns to beat the Cowboys
and cover that. Dallas is fair by point and a half.
Now even better, dude, this is a this is wild.
The Cowboys are not. Jeez, Brian, I might bet the Bengal.

(01:09:18):
I bet Browns minus one and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Right, you know, It's funny. It just shows us that
we're not the only ones. Right, we're talking about week
one line movement. It's May nineteenth. You know what I'm saying.
We didn't move the lines that much. There are a
lot of people like us, Jeff moving.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
When lines dropped. I'll tell you what crack Textera Group
chiefs minus two.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
And a half he was, Now I love that now.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Immediately he was ready to go all We've.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Got Mancy Blos with us now, right, Maybe I should
do that each time you come in at the bottom
of the hour. I'm not sure, moncey. But what should
we be aware of here?

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
Now? What should he be aware now?

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:09:56):
Okay, well let's start with the PGA Championship, because I
thought for a second there was gonna be a three
way tie at the top of the leaderboard. Victor Hovlin
in his eighteenth hole, had a chance to birdie. He
missed it, and then he had that moment like happy
Gilmour looked like he was talking to the ball, like
go home, Why didn't you go.

Speaker 6 (01:10:14):
To your home?

Speaker 7 (01:10:15):
Unfortunately, the ball did not go home, and he ends
up bogeing on the final eighteenth hole. So now he
is two shots off of the lead and he is done.
So it's Bryson Deshamba Xander Schaffley in the lead at
twenty under part overall, Shaffley is the only one still
in still golfing. He's had it's seventeenth headed to his eighteenth.

Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
Hole, So Deshambo was done.

Speaker 7 (01:10:36):
It's only Xander Shaffley who could either win it or
that we go to overtime to extra time, which is
a confusing thing in the PGA Championship that I can't
explain it.

Speaker 6 (01:10:45):
But I'll figure it out if this happens and I
can explain it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:47):
Then. In the NBA, the Pacers eliminated the Knicks in
Game seven of the Eastern Conference semi Finals in Madison
Square Garden.

Speaker 6 (01:10:55):
One thirty to one oh nine was the final score.

Speaker 7 (01:10:58):
Indiana shot the lights out sixty seven pc from the field,
fifty four percent from the three point line. Tyrese Haliburn
led the way with twenty six points, including six three pointers.
Paul Pierce, on his Instagram story has posted a video
of him stomping on a Jalen Brunson jersey. So if
you go to Paul Pierce's Instagram, he says, oh were

(01:11:21):
you talking, who's talking?

Speaker 6 (01:11:22):
What you got to say?

Speaker 7 (01:11:23):
And you can see him stomping and kicking and just yes,
a Jalen Brunson jersey on the floor.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
Paul Pierce at his finest.

Speaker 7 (01:11:32):
Let's move on to baseball, where it's a tie game
in La between the Reds and the Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:11:36):
They are tied at two a piece. It's the top
of the eighth inning.

Speaker 7 (01:11:39):
The Diamondbacks and the Tigers are now tied in Arizona
at four a piece, bottom of the seventh inning and
the Giants holding onto their lead over the Rockies. It
is four to one in San Francisco. They're about to
start the bottom of the eighth inning. Earlier today, Gunner
Henderson for the Orioles hit his major league leading fifteenth
homer of the season as they beat the Mariners sixth

(01:12:00):
to three, and then Kyle Tucker of the Astros hit
two homers, bringing his total to fifteen as well, so
he also now leads major League Baseball in home runs
as the Astros beat the Brewers nine to four.

Speaker 6 (01:12:11):
Back to you, guys, what is.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
Wrong with Paul Pierce.

Speaker 6 (01:12:15):
I'm not entirely sure.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
I just found the video, Like, what what a weirdo, Like,
I don't understand did we miss like a is this
like a Drake Kendrick Lamar, think we like missed? I
missed like a beef that was happening.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Like a Celtics mix thing right, Celtics Knicks. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:12:30):
I'm with you, Jeff. I was like, did I miss something?

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Were the Knicks competitive when Paul Pierce was in Boston?

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
They've been bad for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Yeah, I don't really understand that. What this is a
I that make any sense to me? I mean, I
don't have the volume on. Did he say anything?

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
He he just says like, oh, you're talking smack?

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
Were you talking smack?

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:12:52):
So something was said, But I don't know what. I'm
with you.

Speaker 7 (01:12:54):
I didn't know there was a beef going on, and
I thought, like a couple of weeks ago, Paul Pierce
gave the Knick they're flowers like saying that they were
playing well.

Speaker 6 (01:13:03):
So I'm confused. I'm confused as well by this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
It's a bad look too. The dude broke his hand.

Speaker 5 (01:13:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Bet with Knicks fans, if New York made out of
the first round, he would purchase and wear brunts and Jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Oh okay, so that's why he's stomping on it. It's like
I don't have to wear this thing.

Speaker 6 (01:13:24):
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
It's just a weird behavior for a grown adult like
who has NBA championship. It's just like weird. I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
By the way, real fast, what do you guys like
the most? So I just I was checking out the
playoff formats in case we need one today. We'll see
where uh Xander Schaffley, he's on the eighteenth hole. He'd
have to burny this hole to win it, otherwise there's
going to be a playoff. So these are the four
majors in the four different playoff formats. So the PGA,
it's a three hole playoff aggregate, meaning they play three holes,

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whoever has the best or that's the tiebreaker. Like that's
the way they do the playoff. Same concept where it's
the British Open or the Open Championship four holes. Lowest
score over four holes that would be the playoff masters.
They just alternate between playing the eighteenth and tenth holes
until there's a winner. So eighteenth okay, tenth, okay, eighteenth

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tenth whatever pg are the US Open eighteen holes. We're
doing a whole other round here. That's the playoff. Which
playoff format do you like the most?

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
I think actually have to play two full more rounds,
just all night and the lights on and play all night.
The agroget feels best are just three holes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Yeah, that's for the PGA. That's what they would do today.
That'd be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Also, I mean it's that play It's five forty five,
the sun's still pretty high. It looks like they could
get in three holes. I think coming back tomorrow and
doing the US Open one which we had a very
was the classic like Woods Rock Omdia was that the Woods? Right?
That was the US Open on the bum knee we
had to go eighteen. That's too much golf. But it's

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just too much. Just just have these dudes, uh, or
make it like something weird, just like non.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
You know what I like. Here's my weird idea. How
about this coin flip. Let's say get a little hairy
if there are more than two golfers. But if it's
two golfers, coin flip, you choose the hole if you
win the toss. I like that, right, I like it?

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Yeah? Yeah, agree?

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
And then if we just do snake order. It's like
a fantasy football draft. If we're even after that hole,
the other guy he gets to pick the next hole.
I think that'd be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:15:42):
Oh yeah, because then you have to do like you
have to do the math of like, Okay, well do
I take an easy hole? It's both gonna be easy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Then you have to look at like his score for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
The weekend strategy. We need to implement that. Let's let's
replace the masters goofy format if we just do the
eighteenth and the tenth holes until there's a winner. I
like the coin toss. You pick, I pick, you know,
I think that'd be a lot more I like that
a lot more fun right there. Okay, coming up right
around the corner. It's a growing trend in sports. Should

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more leagues do the same thing. We'll throw that at you.
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian No. Keep you liked right

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian No here on Fox Sports Radio.
We're coming see you from the tire Raq dot Com studios. Okay,
so I got more ideas for you Jeff, Okay, I
want to see if you're a fan of this. So
first things first, the news this week is that NASCAR
is gonna take a page from the NBA. The NBA

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has the in season tournament, right, NASCAR is gonna do
the same thing. Five races in season tournament, left, thirty
two drivers. They'll compete for a million bucks. Okay, that's fine. Great.
It got me thinking about other sports. It'd be hard
to do this in the NFL. I don't really think
it would work in the NFL. But how about baseball?

(01:17:08):
How about Major League Baseball? Jeff, Now, think of this.
We could put it in a central location. Let's have
right after the NBA finals in June. We always talk
about the dog days of the sports calendar, June, July, August,
right somewhere around there, right. I don't know. You work

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it out with the All Star Game out of a
few things to iron out here, But think about the
entire baseball world. Thirty teams in a central location, we'll
say Vegas. And you have a team in the AL
in the NL they get by weeks, single elimination tournament, okay,

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and so you go down first batch of games, boom,
we're down to sixteen teams, then down to eight, down
to four, and so fourth and so on, to take
about five days, single elimination tournament in season action. I
think it would be great and it would break up
the monotony of one hundred and sixty two freaking games.

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I think it would be a good thing for baseball
to consider an n season tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
The question I have is would they manage the games
like their playoff games? Not really, because I think that
changes obviously how that how those games go. Are you
playing five five days in a row to just just
rolling out.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Just banging them out five days in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Yep, see, but that feels like regular I feel like
regular season baseball, right Like you're not gonna get the
same relief pictures you get every you know in the postseason,
right because the postseason, you know, we get days off
and guys get the rest.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
We could work in an off day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
You know, the thing about baseball is that the baseball
fans that already watched the game don't need an incentive
to watch the game anymore. I don't think a mid
season tournament is going to get a casual non baseball
walter to be like I'm watching baseball now. The NBA
did it for their players to care more about the

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regular season, which again is not a baseball problem, right,
And as not a fan of the regional sports networks,
I know that there's issues with them currently, a lot
of them, but baseball is like what keeps them afloat
BASEketball as good as good like your Cardinals, matt in
Saint Louis, Hey, the city watches them every night. So

(01:19:28):
I don't know if it's I think baseball needs for
their season, they needed to be shorter, but that's that's
not a playoff, doesn't This in tournament doesn't help, doesn't
help at all.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
That's true, But I think that with the NBA. Yeah,
some of it was to have a tournament where their
players are invested in and all that, but it's also man,
there are a lot of people that say, until football
season is over, I'm not really paying attention to basketball,
and that in season tournament was a hit for them. Yeah,
there were people paying attention to that thing.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
The Lakers playing in it was that helped as well. Sure,
if you have a missis tournament for baseball and it's
like Brewers, you know, and uh and and Angels end
up winning the Tourney's probably you're probably not getting the
viewerships if you helpe right, Yeah, you hope it's Dodgers Yanks.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Maybe those teams aren't getting the outside strike the same way.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
You know, he help it's Dodgers Yankees. Shoftly. As we
go to break to put to win.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
He's gotta he's gotta look, gotta look.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
About a six seven man?

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Is he is? It's right down to the here we go,
and it's it's in. It's over, and we have other
things right around the corner, sports radio man. The Pacers

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crazy against the Knicks. Jeff beat him by twenty one points,
one thirty to oneh nine. Yes, not just the Pacers
red hot. How about Xander Schoffley PGA Championship winner. He
went six hundred today, Jeff for the tournament. He was
minus twenty one, yeah, twenty one under for the tournament,

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and Deshambo was crazy. Bryceon Deshambo was tied and Xander
Schoffley's on the eighteenth total. He's got a putt to
win the tournament. And you just saw the Shamba watching.
There's this big screen TV there and he's watching hoping
that this putt lips out and there's a playoff, and

(01:21:54):
Shoffley made it and that's it, wins the PGA Championship.
That was fun drama.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
Yeah, that's the low. This was major score in history
of a golf major. That's the graphic on the telecast said.
It was one of those weekends where the greens were soft,
they were easy to navigate. It wasn't much you know,
there wasn't much much toughness in the putts. And you'll
be eighteen right, I mean everyone down the stretch basically,

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you know, burn eighteen on the way in. So really
impressive performance by Shawfley wired a wire winner as well,
and you know he's been close, right, a lot of
top ten finishes, a guy that everyone has sort of said,
like it's it's due, he's due for that that moment
and it finally happened. It happened this weekend, and good
for him.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
I love the guy. We were doing the show last week,
remember the whole story where I needed him to hit
about a seven foot putt to get me there, and
he made it and I won the round by one stroke,
and I'm like, my guy. So he rode that momentum
from the eighteenth hole of the Wells Fargo Championship. I've

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been right on into a major, Jeff, I think is
what happened exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Therefore, that's absolutely what happened. And again he's been on
the cusp of doing that for a while now, and
so it's good to see him sort of get this
under his belt now and imagine he'll play a little
more free in majors moving forward. I have to imagine
the golf world felt pretty happy about having this leaderboard.
I know that you know, d Chambeau's a live guy

(01:23:25):
and that, but they had a lot of sort of young,
not up and comers, but just young, recognizable names at
the top of this leaderboard. I think it's probably healthy
for golf to see the you know, Shaffley and Hovelin
and and and Bryson there and call Moore Cowa. I mean,
these guys that you know should should be sort of

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like the next wave of of the popular golfers.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Man, I'll tell you a playoff would have been a
lot of fun. If it was Xander Schaffley and Bryson
de Shambeau playing three holes. We'll see if that settles
it or not. That would have been a time.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
But which would have been the holes? Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
I don't know. I really don't. I'm not sure if
they I'm sure they have it set up where it's
three particular holes, but I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Yeah, it's three it's it's three particular holes that they
I was just curious.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
If you had an idea of what they Yeah, it
says they'll just play three holes. Uh, they'll continue playing
hole by hole, so it might be one, two, three.
I really don't know. Off the top of my head, I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Think it was like it's it's specifically for I think
a certain certain you know, certain holes. I don't know
how they do it, but yeah, it would have been
It would have been fun to see. But look, we'll
get the US Open in a couple of weeks at Pineers.
That will not be minus twenty one I think if
you're what five to six to seven under, you probably

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win the tournament. Playing at Pineers, so well, a very different,
very different tournament. I would say in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
The text thread for round props, Jeff, I'll just be
over taking this guy over. I'm taking that guy over.
This guy over. How about Scotty Scheffler. So Scotty Chef,
we'll get to the arrest on Friday. But his tournament.
He shot six under today, Jeff, and he finishes minus
thirteen for the tournament. His only bad day was on

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was on Saturday. Was yesterday he was two over, he
was seventy three. So think about this. He was arrested
early Friday morning. So tragically, there was a fatality. There
was a guy who got hit by a shuttle bus
and he passed away, and so there were there's this
crazy scene, as you can imagine, there were police security

(01:25:37):
and Scotti Scheffler's trying to make his way to the
golf course and he doesn't obey in order, and the
next thing you know, he's arrested. And then he gets out.
He makes it to the golf course and he shot
a sixty six. He shot five under the day he
was arrested in the morning, and then the next day

(01:25:59):
that's when he had his sucky round, the only bad
round of the tournament where he's two over everything else
he's four under, five under today six under. It was
weird where he was great the day he was arrested.
The next day was the day that he struggled.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
That that adrenaline from being a from the thug wife
of being in jail. What a What a surreal press
conference on Friday after his round, by the way of
him talking about being arrested, that he never even he
never even gave like the hey, I'm Scotti Scheffler, like
don't ask me type of thing. Yeah, he never There's
anyone Brian that arrest and subsequent you know it. It

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is shocking to me that, setting aside the history of
the Louisville Police Department, but just in this this specific,
specific incident, I'm a former professional athlete that the PGA,
to start with this, that the PGA Tour did not

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so sort of have it set up where in the
event of something unforeseen, essentially right in a tragic accident
of someone passing away, that they didn't have an alternate
plan ready to go for their drivers. Now their for
their golfers. But I think people are learnning this now.
Most golfers drive themselves to all their rounds because they

(01:27:23):
have sponsors that give them cars. But part of it
is that they all have sort of different schedules. Some
stay after in practice, some don't. Some want to be
there a certain times that they just simply drive to
most of their events, which I think people learn for
the first time Brian on Friday. But the fact is,
your number one player in the world got arrested, like

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that's on you. You have to make sure your players get
there to the course, even with a strategy like you're
juggle with a buddy. I mean, do you think if
if this happened at an NFL stadium, like the Chiefs
wouldn't get into Arrowhead course? To get into Arrowhead, the
PGA Tour has they have to fix this. Yeah, you

(01:28:06):
can blame the lous of a police department, certainly you
can't I guess the situation for not handling it maybe
in a way you want them to, But the tour
has to make sure their players get there, and they
failed in getting one of their best players there. And look,
I think that the charges will will be dropped, and
we'll find out that the police report wasn't quite accurate.

(01:28:28):
At least the reports are wasn't quite as accurate as
as it made out to be. I'm not surprised by that.
But the fact is, Brian, is that it was left
up to a player to get arrested entering You're major,
a major, your your PG championship because you were not
prepared for the worst thing to happen, which was a

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delay and unfortunately a tragic accident.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Yeah, that's interesting because we weren't there. We don't have
bodycam footage, right, which I would love to see, especially
in this incident with Scottish.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Why it's getting dropped, Like come on, come on, I mean, yeah, look,
if if you if the original report was accurate, which
was that he was you know, the officer was violently
dragged by he was violently dragged by the Scottis Shuffer's car.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
Yea, he attached himself to attaching your car.

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
Yeah, yeah, he was violently dragged. No, I don't care
who you are, You're not getting out of jail thirty
minutes after you get arrested, Like you know what I mean,
Like it's just if you if you violently assaulted a
police officer, you're you're staying in for a little bit
longer than thirty minutes and making and you're not making
your tea time. I mean, that was sort of the
I think a dead giveaway right there. That probably wasn't

(01:29:43):
quite exactly what was first reported.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
I wish we had footage. I would love to see
it because look, as Scheffler said, he basically said, this
is a big misunderstanding is and maybe but I look
at it like this, Jeff, whether it was malicious or unintentional.
If he was told to stop and he didn't stop,
it's not a suggestion, it is a direct order, you know,

(01:30:06):
And so he could be at fault. I know he's
the number one golfer and we like Scottie Scheffler, he
could have messed up, you know. I want to leave
that door open to the possibility that he messed up.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
Yeah, but I don't know if that if that again,
like I guess should be, you should be arrested for that.
I don't know. I guess we'll never find out because
the footage never an avent it. Reports are today they're
going to drop the charges, which again I'm not surprised
by because Louisville, imagine would like to have this tournament again.
And if they if the number one player in the

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world is going to you know, to to your you know,
to your courthouse on Tuesday pleading not guilty to a
fellony assault of an officer, I would imagine that doesn't
get to your tournament back the every time soon, especially
if it didn't actually happen in the way it was reported. Right.
But again, I mean, look, I go back to to
to the tour again. The NFL makes sure it look different,

(01:30:57):
set up, we take a bus, and all those things
that I told acknowledge that the PGA two has to
make sure that the players get there and even in
the face of a tragic accident, which we all agree
is terrible. Man, got I get your number one player
in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
There, No, it's it's an interesting take because I hadn't
thought about it like that. I put it more so
on Scottie where Look, man, if you if you didn't know,
and I don't know, I'm just trying to leave the
doors open because I wasn't there. I don't have footage,
I didn't see it. So you think this was a
security guy and not a cob. Okay, all right, Like

(01:31:32):
was this embellished a little bit and he wasn't exactly dragged.
I don't know. Maybe it's possible.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
There's a there's a there's a report on on golf
dot com today from Bob was schoosing who was a ESPN.
He was in the car with Jeff Darlington and he
spoke about what he saw and it said he looked,
He's like, I didn't see any officer get dragged. I
saw an officer sort of run after the car and
maybe lose his balance and fall down right by the way.

(01:32:00):
The police support having on there that he damaged his
pants was just the most the best part of all
of it is pants are damaged. But you know, like
the again this are reports right, well again a clear
pictures that you know there was the accident and there
was a they were diverting PJ personnel to a certain
route which Scheffler was following to get there. But again

(01:32:23):
I go back to the idea that that if you're
a PGA tournament and you you need to have like
someone there to tell your players exactly what to do
and working with the police department to figure out a
way to get your players to the tournament, acknowledging that

(01:32:43):
there was a tragedy and that that has to be
properly investigated and dealt with, but also we have to
get our players to the course on time. Again, like
if there was an accident Arrowhead Stadium, there's like one
not one entrance, but one main entrance. If there's a
they would find a way to get players into the stadium.
In this instance, you there was a report that players

(01:33:05):
had to walk two miles. Again, it's not the end
of the world. Okay, they can walk, right, But the
point is you're a professional sports league that is worth
millions of dollars billion of dollars tournament probably would I
Magic gave out five million to the winner. I don't
even know what the final purse was, Brian. But to
not have alternate plans, concrete plans that to get your

(01:33:27):
players there and it ended with right or wrong, your
number one player in the world to getting taken away
in handcuffs is a bad look for the tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
It is, and it's a good take by you. It's
interesting to play Devil's advocate. I do agree with you,
but why was Scotty the only one, you know what
I mean, Like, why was he the only guy that
ran into an issue here? So it can't be on yeah,
the PGA Tour or certainly right right, the PGA Championship.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
But they should have but but the again, the but
it wasn't just him, right because two golfers had to
walk well then get in right there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
Now that's now that's a good argument where it's like
they're walking enough. Man, you know, so we're playing eighteen
here today, you know you don't need to get before hid.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Yeah. I just think that this was not handled well
by them. It appears not. And look, I would imagine
I think you're right, there was probably some fault to
Shuffler at some point not maybe not listening to instructions
or maybe you know, look, I would imagine in the
confusion of the scene there could be some misunderstanding about
what was said and maybe you know what what what
actions had he had to take to get to get

(01:34:33):
to the course on time and in a safe manner.
But yeah, it it just not it's just not gonna
look for the tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
By the way, they're just showing it right now. Xander
Schaffley makes three point three three million dollars. Uh, the
Shambo gets basically two million dollars for a second place finish.
So your point is well taken, Like, we're not exactly
you know, this isn't a minimum wage type tour. We're
giving millions of dollars away to the people who finished

(01:35:03):
in first, second, top five. You know, we're giving away
a lot of money. At least we can do is
get him.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
There, correct. So uh that that I think I think
this won't happen again obviously, and I don't think they're
gonna have a player get arrested. But it's like Scotty
Shuffler too, who was so nice that he didn't even
tell the police officers who he was.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
That was great, Like the question was hysterical. Is like,
did you at any point say hey, I'm Scottie Scheffler
And he was like, no, I never did.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Yeah, I've been picturing what it was like for the
police chief who might have been sleeping, the mayor who
was might have been sleeping, And they get a call
from someone from an unknown number, maybe an attorney someone
else who's like, hey man, yeah, we just arrested Scotty Scheffler.

(01:35:56):
Can can you let him out? Like, can we can
we get this down? I mean, it's wild that it
came to this really.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Yeah, No, it absolutely is all right. We got a
lot to do here. We've got a man that has
caused quite the reaction. We've got another game seven today.
It's the ball buffet is not over here, Jeff. We've
got football to discuss as well, a couple of things
we have to throw out there, so we will get
to everything right around the corner. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm

(01:36:23):
Brian though. We're live from the Tirack dot Com studios

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
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Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Brian, No, he's Jeff Schwartz here on Fox Sports Radio.
We're coming to you live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
So ball is still on the brain here, Jeff. You
know we got golf going on baseball. Your plays have
been magnificent today. You know, we had basketball earlier today
pays one Game seven. We'll definitely preview t Wolves Nuggets

(01:37:03):
Game seven tonight. But we're still thinking football over here.
You know, call me, yeah, but you know me. I'm
a Dolphins guy, and my guy to what he has
skipped some offseason workouts here, Jeff and the absences they're
believed to be related to his contract status. He's in

(01:37:24):
line for a fancy new deal and the Dolphins are reluctant.
They're dragging their heels cold feet, however you want to
say it. And here's the deal. I'm curious what you
think about this, because here's where I stand on Tua. Okay,
I'm putting my Dolphins allegiance to the side as much
as possible, and I'm just gonna speak to you as
if Tua played for another team. I really like Tua.

(01:37:47):
He's put up numbers. He played every game last season,
but the playoff performance against the Chiefs was a total dud.
He's had some shaky performances in big games as well.
And just because there was one healthy season doesn't mean
I still have injury concerns. Right, So all that together,
I don't love the idea of him getting a mega contract,

(01:38:13):
but that's what you have to do. Yeah, if you're
not giving the mega contract, you've got to move off
Tua and then you're in plan B mode, and I
don't know what the plan would be at that point.
So this is just what you have to do is
move forward with Tua and hope for the best.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
I'm with you here. Here's I think the hardest part
about you know, the quarterback discussion, right is is you
have to sort of take the money I think not
out of it, but the next quarterback gets the next
big contract. So like, we're gonna get a deal for Tua.
It's gonna be some number of the people want to

(01:38:50):
be like, just what we've got Jared goff right, Like,
oh my god, Jared goffits. But that's sort of the
next That's how the contracts work, right, next up in line,
you typically get the next deal, right, and that deal
is going to be whatever it is for Tua. The
Dolphins have to do it because what choice do you
have the best quarterback you've had in years. You're a

(01:39:10):
playoff team. You're in the playoff hunt. Teams pay a
lot of money to be in the playoff hunt every year,
and there are teams that would love to be the
playoff hunt every season, and too allows you that opportunity
every year. The hard part is when you're spending all
this money. It's a big number. Right. Again, it's not
out of line with the rest of the contracts for

(01:39:31):
that position. It's a big number. Is you want super Bowls,
you want championships. And I think it's fair to say
that the Dolphins are unlikely. There's always a never or
nottherwards I really use So I'm not gonna say they're
never gonna win, but it's unlikely that they win a
championship with Tua considering I think his limitations what we've

(01:39:56):
seen so far of any cold weather game that he
has to play in, which is not terribly great, even
though to be fair, he did play well in that
snow game in Buffalo that one year. Right, that was
late in the season. It was two years though Right
played well in that snow game. There's injury concerns there
as well. But you look at the rest of the
of the AFC. I mean, he is what how many

(01:40:18):
guys is he behind in the AFC conference as far
as just quarterback play? I mean unlikely. So you're paying
him knowing all of us knowing not the Dolphins, and
the Dolphins legitimately probably think they're gonna win a championship,
but the rest of us saying, yeah, you know, yeah,
good for two, but you're not gonna win a championship.

(01:40:39):
But you paid him a lot of money, like good
for two, just not gonna win a championship. And that's
I think where a lot of us are at right now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
It's an interesting spot because, man, you look around the
AFC and it's Mahomes, it's Josh Allen, it's Joe Burrow,
Oh yeah, mar, it's c. J. Stroud, it's Herbert Like,
there are some really good quarterbacks AFC. And I'm waiting
for the time that a team says, hey, we're we're

(01:41:07):
good at quarterback. And the Dolphins are They're good at quarterback.
They're not great, but they're certainly not a disaster. Yeah,
but these teams get comfortable and they're like, hey, good's
better than awful, so let's give them a mega contract.
And I'm waiting. This might not necessarily be about the
Dolphins in Tua, but you could make it about him

(01:41:28):
the Giants and Daniel Jones, you know what I mean, Like,
why are you giving him one hundred and sixty million.
I'm waiting for the team that says, hey, we're good
like the Chiefs. The Chiefs said, hey, we're at least
the good with Alex Smith. Let's try to be great
and get Mahomes. Why don't more teams try to do
that instead of paying a quarterback who's all right, but

(01:41:49):
he's not worth backing up the brinks truck. He's not
gonna give you that type of production.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Yeah, this is a take I have long made. I
made this take with the Brown to Baker Mayfield that
they should trade him and not give him a second
contract and draft a quarterback. I am a firm believer
in this idea that you just have to sort of
keep swinging for that franchise guy. Yeah, but I to

(01:42:17):
push back. And why I think teams don't do it?
I mean I don't. I don't think. I'm fairly sorry.
I know I haven't talked to him about it. Is
the idea of just staying competitive for your fan base.
Would you rather have a team that makes the playoffs
every year? Your fans are engaged and your fans look,

(01:42:39):
I think rightfully, so think okay, this is our year.
Of course, fans think there, like, what if there's a
bunch of injuries and this is this is Dolphins year,
It's certainly possible, right, And look, the Niners went to
Super Bowl with Brock Purty, who is not much different
than to him. I mean he's a little bit better
deep passer, but like not not that different, right, Brian,
I think is that different than than than than to
So certainly there's some idea that a quarterback in this

(01:43:01):
offense can can get the Super Bowl? So would you
rather have that or hope a young quarterback that you
draft is good?

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
You know, Like, I get it, But that's exactly what
the Chiefs did, right, But.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
The Chiefs that I don't know if the Chiefs the
outlier mature is the best example of this. It's what
the Chiefs did and it worked. Yeah, but it was
also different because it wasn't a quarterback who was young,
Like if they did this Alex Smith after four years

(01:43:38):
right on this Wicki contract. Yeah, but this is done
what you know, he's in year twelve. So that's why
I think it's a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
It is different. But it's like what you were saying
with Baker Mayfield. You know, even after four years, you
have a pretty good judgment, Yeah, have enough to go
on to project, Hey, where is this going you know,
what are we likely to do with this quarterback leading
our franchise? And you just said it with Tua, you know,

(01:44:07):
the odds are better than not that he doesn't win
a Super Bowl. And so I'm just waiting for these
teams that they have a quarterback that's good, that's serviceable.
Maybe he's Tane Hill esque, you know, going back years ago,
not to Tannehill now, but I'm just waiting for the
team that says, you know what, instead of getting comfortable
to a fault and paying a guy more than he's

(01:44:29):
going to be able to produce, let's move on. Because
if you're overpaying your quarterback and he's not producing to
the same level, you're screwed that way too. And granted
you might be a nine to ten win team, maybe
you sneak into the playoffs. If that's good enough for you, okay,
But if that's not good enough for you, you've got to

(01:44:50):
go in a different direction.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Well, you're you're a Dolphins fan. What would you do?

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Well, I think it's too late for the here and now.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
If they let's talk about March. You're in March. Yeah,
what do you what do you do?

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Because that's the thing. Man, look at where you're at
in the draft. So it's you're right, you trade up. Yeah,
they traded up from twenty seven to ten and they
got Mahomes. So in theory, that's something the Dolphins could
have done. But if that's where you get into this
where it's like, do we want to pay Tua a

(01:45:24):
ton or do we want to pay a ton in
draft capital to move up to get JJ McCarthy to
get Michael Pennix junior or we better off with Penix
junior or two?

Speaker 7 (01:45:36):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:45:36):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
Like, that's what you get into and if you don't
love the alternative, then you end up paying the guy
that you have.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
Well, so this is the hard part about the discussion, right, Like,
I don't know if at the time you obviously you
know Mahomes' turner to who he is. But at that time,
I mean, this was obviously a wild swing by the Chiefs. Now,
I do not think that Michael Pennox or two or
Bo Nicks or taking McCarthy or Patrick Mahomes, Right, So yeah,

(01:46:06):
when you try it for those guys, know, But I
mean I feel like people would have said saything about like, oh,
you should try it for Patrick Mahomes, like what are
you doing? But but the difference a little bit here
is you take the the arm talent of Mahomes. McCarthy
doesn't have that bo Nicks doesn't. There's a case that
Michael Penix does different type of arm talent and playing

(01:46:26):
Mahomes does. So maybe you can make the case that
trade out for Penox would have been the call. But
again I keep conjurring myself here, Pennix feels like a
little bit like two of though, so.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
The right guy to do that for I'll put it
this way, Jeff, I think you'd agree with this. In
the moment before you have access to the results, it's
like you're gritting your teeth, like, which do we go with?
You know? Now, give it five years later from now,
and you might be like, it was obvious they should

(01:46:59):
have drafted. It's junior, he's a stud. But the here
and now that is a tough call. I'll tell you this.
There are a lot of people would have been dead
wrong with the Texans, like what do you at the
time is like, what do you do when you're trading
Deshaun Watson? Why would you do? Look at him?

Speaker 3 (01:47:16):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
With c J. Stroud, Oh, yeah, you heard a much
better spot.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
So no, you're right, You're right about about the Texans.
That's why it's tough, man like, it's it's tough to
find the quarterback. It's tough to and when you do,
you're the Texans, right, you change your franchise immediately. I
don't think there was a guy in this draft. And look,
if the Bears are open for business, or the or
the Patriots, you know, maybe uh you make a call,

(01:47:41):
you know, yeah, but neither were were open for business.
I think he Williams is a guy that you trained
up for. Like I I think that if he was
available to trade up for, you would you would absolutely
do that at a heartbeat. But who else in this
draft that That's only what I would Yeah, And and
in mind you again, the Chiefs are always the outlier

(01:48:02):
here because a lot of trade ups end up being
bad trads, Like trading up in the draft is Unlessia
Patrick Mahomes is generally a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
The Panthers in your backyard.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
Oh yeah, and by the way, the Panthers. Everyone would
have drafted Bryce Young though like this with this revisions
history of like people being like, oh no, everyone would
have taken Bryce Young. So stop with this idea that
like the Panthers did something that the idea is that
they traded too much for him and should have traded up.
But everyone would have taken Bryce Young last year, and

(01:48:34):
Bryce Sung might turn out to be okay. I don't
know how good he will be, but I think he
could definitely get better. Right, there's a lot of room
for improvement there. Non Nonetheless, I think the Dolphins are
gonna pay to h They have to. They know, have
a choice, and they're probably gonna regret it, but that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
Has to be done right. When you say it out loud,
that's probably accurate. How how it's like, yeah, let's get married.
It's probably gonna be something that doesn't work out, but
maybe it could, but it probably won't, but let's do
it anyway. That's what we're saying about the Dolphins play
into it. It's rough, but it's probably accurate. Hey, someone

(01:49:15):
who's not rough at all. We love Moncy Bolangyo. She
is with us this evening to spin us around the
sporting landscape. What is going on, Moncey Brian.

Speaker 6 (01:49:24):
I'm not gonna lie to you. I think your Dolphins
are in a tough situation. I'm not gonna lie to you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Who's in a better or worse situation, your clippers or.

Speaker 6 (01:49:32):
My Oh, I think we're like the same.

Speaker 7 (01:49:34):
You know, you're still you're still not sure what you're
gonna do. Kawhi Leonard is holding us hostage for at
least the next two three years.

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
So we're kind of the Spider Man meme. Yeah, we're
pointing at each other.

Speaker 6 (01:49:46):
We're pointing at each other right now. Yes, it's exactly right, fellas.

Speaker 7 (01:49:50):
We're about what twenty ish minutes away from tip off
in Denver, Game seven of the Western Conference semi finals
between the Nuggets and the Timberwolves. I'm expecting a good one,
a close one. Hopefully we know what's gonna happen in
the Eastern Conference. Because the Pacers have defeated the Knicks
at Madison Square Garden one thirty to one oh nine,

(01:50:11):
Indiana headed to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first
time since twenty fourteen, where they're gonna face the Boston Celtics.
Tyrese Halliburn led the way for Indiana twenty six points,
including six three pointers, and in his postgame interview he
is wearing a Reggie Miller hoodie where he's doing the
choke sign. That the infamous choke sign that Reggie Miller

(01:50:34):
did against the Knicks. That is what he is wearing
for his postgame interview of Game seven. Jalen Brunson Nick
Starr did not play. I still have a lot of
questions about this. He had a fractured hand, but I
don't know when it happened. He also did he come
in with the bad hand?

Speaker 6 (01:50:48):
I don't know. But Jalen Brunson didn't play at all
in the fourth quarter a fractured hand.

Speaker 7 (01:50:54):
Then we move move on to golf where Xander Schoffley
won the PGA Championship, ending twenty one under par, his
his first career major victory. Bryson Deshambo finishes second in
Major League Baseball. It was a showtime in LA won.

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
Two pitch, Oh TONI swedge pace hit right field.

Speaker 6 (01:51:13):
There comes Hayard.

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
Around third, He'll score and the Dodgers won it three
to two.

Speaker 7 (01:51:18):
The second career walk off hit for show Hey, Old
Tony and a show rolls on at Dodgers Stadium.

Speaker 6 (01:51:26):
In five seventy LA Sports on the call.

Speaker 7 (01:51:29):
After ten innings, they beat the Reds thanks to show
Hey Toni's walk off single.

Speaker 6 (01:51:33):
Can you believe it's only his second walk off in
his career?

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
He played for the Angels.

Speaker 6 (01:51:38):
He's right, you may get an excellent point about that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
I don't know if that's like, you know, that's Angels.

Speaker 6 (01:51:43):
I guess I was just thinking out of the.

Speaker 7 (01:51:45):
Games that the Angels won, that he was the one that,
you know, walked it off for them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
So it was just a double for the Angels, you know, right,
they got to walk off exactly that.

Speaker 6 (01:51:57):
I just didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
Are you an Angels fan too, A Clippers angel? No?

Speaker 6 (01:52:01):
I am a Dodgers fan. I yes, Unfortunately, it's a
tough life.

Speaker 7 (01:52:05):
I live.

Speaker 6 (01:52:06):
It's a tough life.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
Decisions it's okayeah.

Speaker 6 (01:52:11):
And I'm a Chargers fan, so yeah, it's just I'm
a mess. I'm a mess of a fan all over
the place.

Speaker 7 (01:52:16):
Draft the other games in baseball, the Diamondbacks beat the
Tigers six four.

Speaker 6 (01:52:20):
The Giants came back to beat the Rockies four to one.
The Angels they beat the raining Chants the Rangers today
four to one.

Speaker 7 (01:52:26):
The Pirates edge of the Cubs three to two. Royals
beat the A's eight four. The Astros Kyle Tucker two
homers in this one, bringing his total to fifteen, which
is a major league leading best, but also Gunner Henderson
from the Orioles.

Speaker 6 (01:52:40):
He also now has fifteen.

Speaker 7 (01:52:41):
So the Astros beat the Brewers nine four, Mets beat
the Marlins seven to three. The Guardians walked it off
to take down the Twins five to two. The Blue
Jays outscored the race five to two as well. Phillies
all over the Nationals eleven five was the final. The
Orioles Gunner Henderson six to three over the Mariners. The
Yankees have won seven in a row, and they beat
the White Sox seven two to Aaron Judge with this
thirteenth homer of the season. The Red Sox crushed the Cardinals,

(01:53:04):
Sorry Brian, eleven to three, and the game.

Speaker 6 (01:53:06):
Going on right now.

Speaker 7 (01:53:07):
Padres off to an early uh an early leader of
the Braves, Jake Cronenworth with a two run homer.

Speaker 6 (01:53:13):
They're beating the Braves in Atlanta three zero. It is
the second inning.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Back to you, guys, good stuff, Moncey, right back.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
At you, a Chargers, Clippers, Dodgers fan. It's probably very
unique in Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 (01:53:28):
A little bit, yes, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:53:30):
I'm from LA. I don't really know any Clippers fans.

Speaker 6 (01:53:32):
Yeah, there's only like seven of us.

Speaker 2 (01:53:35):
I'm a question for both of you guys here. Yeah,
I would assume Manzi you love because we played the
audio with Randy Newman and I love LA when they
have the walk, I'm assuming you love that, right.

Speaker 6 (01:53:45):
It's fine?

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
Ye, I love It's fine. Jeff, as a San Francisco
Giants fan, how do you feel about that music?

Speaker 3 (01:53:52):
I've been in that stadium way too much to hear
that music. It's it's actually, it's actually I preferred the
end of Laker games. That's when I prefer that it's.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
But it works, right, does it not? I love that music.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
The thing about the Dodgers is that I feel very
comfortable knowing that I was born nineteen eighty six. They
won an eighty eight. Obviously, I mean that I was
two years old. But they've won only a third of
a championship since then. So it's good to know that
that a franchise that is supposedly the best ever, like Cave,
even win championships. So and my Giants have won three,

(01:54:24):
So I'll take it.

Speaker 6 (01:54:25):
Catch strays over here.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
Yeah, this is what I wonder about myself. There's occasionally
something that I don't even know about myself. I really don't.
So I love the Saint Louis Cardinals. My dad was
born outside of Saint Louis in Alton, Illinois, so he
passed it down to me. I love the Redbirds. I
freaking hate the Cubs, okay, and I hate the Go
Cubs Go song that they'll sing if they win it.

(01:54:51):
I freaking hate it. Now Here's the question I have,
and I don't know the answer. Would I feel the
same way if I rooted for or whoever the Baltimore Orioles?
Would I even care what I think of it? Like
we love like I love La and I'm like, it's
kind of cool. I really don't know. What do you think, Jeff?

Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
Do you know? I think I think that you only
just like it because you just like the Cups, Like
I would think that a team like the Dodgers. And
I've said this before, like I would love to like Clint.
Like like Clint Kershaw. He seems like a very nice
human and someone that I would have liked to watch pitch,
except his career whip against the Giants was zero point eight.
Like he dominated us for fifteen years straight. I don't

(01:55:31):
like the guy, but I feel like I would like
him a lot if I didn't hate the Dodgers, you know,
like it's just like said, sort of fandom, right.

Speaker 4 (01:55:38):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
Here's the thing, though, I love the Miami Dolphins. I
hate their theme music or their fight song whatever you
call it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47):
NFL fight songs are sort of lame. I like school,
like the.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
School that one's cool. I like that a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
They're pretty late. It's NFL. They shouldn't they shouldn't have anything.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
So that's why I hate the Dolphins song, and I
love the team. So I think I I hate the
Cub song, but I hate it even more because it's
the Cub song. Does that make sense to you? I
think I would hate it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
Anyway, I I am. It is it is more fun
to hate than it is like to love your team.
Like it is like it's like there's my buddy as
a saying, like it's a you know, I love to
hate more than I love to love my favorite team.
Basically sports, right, like like you like like you just
that's the way it is, right, Like you're just you're

(01:56:28):
much bigger hater than you are, like a lover of
your own team. Now obviously winning a championship for your
own team like Oregon Washington. Like Washington loss last season,
I took a lot of pride and joy and happiness
and their loss, I would take more happiness of Oregon
won a championship, right, But like, very clearly though, like
there is a part of fandom where hatred is a

(01:56:50):
big driving force.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
For sure, I would have seen the Dolphins win a championship,
but the undefeated Patriots losing in the Super Bowl? Was
this a next best thing?

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
Who's the Dolphins rival?

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
Well, it was the Patriots, but they've been Dolphin's been
so far out of contention it doesn't even really count
right now. So it's unfortunate. All right, Jeff, we got
to do this. Uh, we gotta get your set for
Game seven. And I've got I've got a theory here.
I've got a theory I want to see if you're
on board here, I'll give you a hint ball buffet.

(01:57:23):
That's all I'm gonna give you. All Right, it's coming up.
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian Now live from the Tireck
dot Com studios here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:57:31):
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listen live.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian
no man, Jeff. So we only have a couple of minutes.
We go rapid fire style here to get on out
of here. I felt bad for SGA last night. Shay
Gil just Alexander. He had a great game and he

(01:58:03):
fouled PJ. Washington, Yeah, with like two point five seconds left,
and he was kicking himself. I thought it was a
great thing. It's what stars do. He was like, hey, man,
I should have lived with it. If he makes it,
you tip your cap. If he doesn't, we're probably moving on.
I like that he's thinking that way. I just hate
that he's kicking himself because he played so great and yeah,

(01:58:23):
it was a good challenge of the shot just got
him follow with.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Competitors, that's what they say, right, I mean, I saw
Brunston just talk about the season wasn't successful because they
didn't win a championship, right, even that competitors, Uh, you know,
we compeeded last night and took the PJ Washington over
points and at one point and it hit for us.
He made what two threes and three three something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
The fourth quarter he fouled trouble right away, right barely
played in the first half. Were like, let's take over
five and a half points.

Speaker 3 (01:58:51):
Doing about Metzell party last I didn't watch it. I
didn't see a second in the game last night. When
I got home, I watched the highlights on my phone,
but I was at it. I missed everything, didn't watch
the entire thing live, was following on my phone and
texting you when I got a chance to get off
the dance floor and was like, PJ Washington no points
at halftime, like one shot attempt. This is not this
is not right. So SGA, man, look, I think if

(01:59:12):
you're the Thunder, you're young. I feel great about your future.
You're gonna get rid of Gidea. I would imagine this
offseason and you know, find a different, you know, kind
of different approach to that position. And I think you're
right where you want to be though. Your future is
pretty bright there.

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
Very bright, yeah, especially with SG a legitimate star. It's
funny Dante divincen So I didn't realize this. The guy
dropped thirty nine points for the Knicks today, thirty nine.
It's a footnote because they got blown out knowing he
went crazy. But we got another Game seven.

Speaker 1 (01:59:48):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:59:48):
I say this, Jeff, the two second best words in sports,
Game seven, the two best words in sports, super Bowl.
That's how I see it with me on that.

Speaker 3 (02:00:01):
I know you're a Game seven today. Wasn't that great
of a game? So I don't know everyone loves saying that, right.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
Yeah, everyone's all two greatest words in sports. Stop and
think about that. Huh are the ratings going to be close?

Speaker 8 (02:00:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:00:11):
Are you gonna have a party here for Game seven
like you do the Super Bowl? No, you're not gonna
do that.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
We don't have a super game in that. We even
a close game in this series, by the way, No
we haven't. It's well, tonight be the night, I hope.
So I think we know fairly early. The nugget if
the if the Wolves have it, I feel much better
with if the Nuggets starts slow. They're at home. They've
started slow in many games this postseason. Yeah, but if
it's like twenty eight seventeen and the first quarter and

(02:00:37):
the Nuggets are winning the Wolves just aren't aren't built
to come back like.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
That, and the total is crept up. For the gambling
degenerates out there, I wonder if they watched game seven
right at the Knicks and Pacers, it's up to two
hundred and a half. Yeah, it was like, it was like, yeah,
it's ticked up.

Speaker 3 (02:00:54):
I'm not touching that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:55):
No, you don't want to go rock Fight game seven.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
Not after my next game today, break, Brian.

Speaker 2 (02:01:01):
Okay, not all bad. I'll text you if there's anything
we need to be invested on. Everybody, have a great evening.
We'll see you

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