Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier react to USA’s CONCACAF victory and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh let's go, stay con genius, go big boy, let's go.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
You Uh, you fired up about tonight? You didn't have
like eighty six fillings leading into today's show. Usually you're
in and out during the week or on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Seventeen seventeen. What more do you want than seventeen? We
only have twelve segments.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We only have twelve segments. I just went shows that
you were filling in on. I thought that you'd be
all over like on Saturday or on Thursday or something.
But I didn't get my extra arny this weekend. I
was a little disappointed.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
No, no, I just you know, it wasn't I was
waiting for the breaking news about Damian Lillard.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
It never came. So another week goes on by, you.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Know, another week goes by.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Now, I guess we're all soccer fans, right.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm watching the game. That's just my team. Yeah, that's
your team as we come that turner. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
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the calendar from forty eight days to forty seven days

(01:18):
away from the first college football week, and that's week
zero where there's not a lot of good games that week, and.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Feel like you skipped like one hundred days in there,
you know what I mean, all of a sudden, there's
forty seven days left.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wow, you don't do a daily show that covers college football. No,
it does not feel like we skipped one hundred days
in there. We are thirty two days away from the
start of the NFL preseason and then in that with
tonight we'll roll from eight or July ninth. In July tenth,
we are what less than two weeks away from the

(01:52):
start of NFL camp.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
So it's inching here.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's getting here, and I feel like I've noticed it
because we're not getting all of the goofy player movement stories.
We're really focused on two guys, right, We're focused on
Dalvin Cook and DeAndre Hopkins, and literally I just wait
to see what kind of drama the Pro Football Talks
of the world and those pft's not an aggregator. But

(02:16):
those places that really need NFL content even they are
having a hard time coming up with stuff right now,
because really, arenie. It seems like everyone in the NFL,
and unless you cover college football recruiting in Aisle stuff
college football, it seems like everyone has kind of said,
all right, you all take a deep breath, nobody get
in trouble, and let's get ready for the season. And

(02:37):
I feel like that's where we are right now, just
everyone making sure they're one hundred percent as we get
set for the twenty twenty three pro and college football season.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Now you're pumped up with then when I remember what
happens when your raiders get up to a bad start,
you come all crab by the end of September.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
I expect them to be bad. I'm not like you.
I'm not filling myself with false hope that we're gonna
to be good.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh, there's no false hope this year, Dad, done whatsoever?

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, you're right, you know what.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's so it's so awesome right now that the Dolphins
are getting so much preseason height because I can't wait
until we're in week ten. Whenever you try to say, well,
I was looking ahead it next year, because really two
is not the guy in this.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Mike McDaniel's not the guy either. I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
So funny is that everybody's jumping on the dolphin badwagon too.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
So everybody, So, dude, when was the last time?

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Oh, the US won the Gold Cup?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Wait?

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Did they gotta say that win in or not?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, Ephraim's channing USA. Mark Willard's confused. What this soccer
thing is that we're watching? Let's go alretie. I guess
they're gonna have to go to VR here, right, They're
gonna go to replay. Obviously, as a lifelong soccer fan
and insider, aren't you very familiar with this and what
they might do here?

Speaker 4 (03:51):
And absolutely exactly what you said, I'm pretty much sure.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
But go ahead and do that.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Absolutely, I do what I'm talking about. It doesn't look
like they're gonna look at this again.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
So it was no good. It was no good. So
USA is going to win penalty kicks.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
They advance on penalties, winning three to two after a
two to two draw. After regulation and overtime, they fell
behind two to one. And for those of you that
yelled the radio and say things like I was taping
it too bad. It was worth it here tonight, So
congratulations to the United States. You can now return to

(04:25):
your regularly scheduled non caring about the goal, not no
caring about soccer, mind you, non caring about the Gold Cup.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
And that was close.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
It hit right off the top of the crossbar and
Cannada falls in penalty kicks. But back to football real
quick on it before we dive into wimben Yaman obviously
he stinks, right, and before we talk about the Dame news,
and before we get to Major League Baseball now with
the All Star break, and we could talk about the
first place Los Angeles Dodgers got big guests coming on

(04:58):
next segment. Feel that we truly are in a news void,
and I'm not complaining about it. Right there's Hopkins and Cook.
That's what we're waiting on. We're not gonna learn anything
about the quarterback battles until camps start up. I mean, truly,
I do believe we only have one quarterback battle right now,
that's in Tampa. I think we pretty much know as

(05:20):
far as health is concerned. If guys are healthy, who's
gonna start. But right we know those angles. Is is
Brock pretty healthy and will he be ready to go
for San Francisco or could it be Trey Lance or
Sam Darnold. Is Jimmy Garoppolo healthy in Vegas? Will Tyreek kill?
Will there be ramifications for his off the field allegations
this season? I mean there's there's a few lingering storylines,

(05:43):
but exactly. But for the most part on it, it's just, Hey,
we're getting ready for football. We got two weeks of
chill and then we'll dive into training camp and then
we'll start Overreacting to NFL preseason games, I love.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
It we will see some of the younger guys playing.
What one of the preseason games you're not gonna see
been all three?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Right? So I think you'll see the younger guys in
every single one of them. Oh really?

Speaker 4 (06:05):
So you think there'll be in all three of them.
You don't want to get them hurt before the start
of the season.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
When you say younger guys, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know like.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Bryce or you know somebody like that. You don't want
to get the call, Oh.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
You mean draft picks from this show?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I was like, wait, usually they throw all the young
guys out there so they don't have to play the
veterans or anything of that nature.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
But I don't know that's a good question. That's one
of our debates.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
What are you doing?

Speaker 5 (06:28):
That's the debate for two weeks from.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Today, whenever it's our our last Sunday night show before
the exhibition games start, when we start arguing how long
should you play your starters?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
It should you.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Play them more? But as far as that's concerned, I
don't know how you feel. And we've done this for
a while and maybe I've just forgotten Arnie, right, but
I kind of think you want to play your guys
as much as you can because at the very least
a quarter, maybe a half, Bryce Young c J. Stroud
projected rookie quarterbacks are going to start from day one.
I mean, these are Anthony Richardson. These are dudes that

(07:00):
need more seat time.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Right, But I don't need a guy from FedEx, you know,
protecting his blind side or anything like that. You know,
I gotta make sure my guys are in, My good
guys are in. I'm not sure I'm putting it into
the FedEx ups guys to protect my star quarterback that
I can't have, you.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Know, I want to make this point here real quick.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I respect FedEx and UPS workers because I feel like, honestly,
they consume sports talk radio more than anybody that is
at stinking genius one who decided to open this show tonight,
at stinking genius one on Twitter, who decided to start
this show tonight by taking shots at you. But yeah,
I think you'll protect him, you'll be smart with them,
But there's no replacement for live action. I mean, you

(07:42):
can't simulate what you get in an exhibition game in practice.
And I get it, we do the what team practices
that they have now, I don't know, I just I've.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Always seen you get like if you play your guys well,
usually you get like maybe a quarter or first half
in the first game. Maybe that used to be it.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, maybe be a little bit in the second game,
third game you don't play him at all, or maybe
like a series or something. And then you get them
out there and say, Okay, we're ready for the start
of the season.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I don't know, three games. We'll see what happens. But
you know you gotta certainly protect those guys, no doubt
about that.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
But you're right back, I say, back in the day
as recently as like four or five years ago. It
would be that first game. Yeah, you might see him
for a quarter. Second game was man maybe four half.
Third game was a dress rehearsal, and then nobody played
for the fourth game.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Now we're down to three games.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I don't I mean Sean mcvain never plays his starters,
Gruden never played his starters.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Belichick does, Andy Reid does. Doesn't seem to be an
issue there. I don't know. Did McDaniel play the starters
for Miami last year? Do you even remember? I don't
even don't even remember.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, I remember what happen.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Well, but that's gonna be a storyline coming up in
a couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
So people go to these games, I don't remember if
there are they sold out crowds. I know the tickets
are sold out, as they forced you to buy them,
But are people going to these games?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I think so, I think to an exhibition game. I
would have a problem with it. No, I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna break the bank. You know, I'm not
gonna spend one hundred to two hundred bucks, I might
find a deal to go, I would, but i'd go.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Would you go? Yeah? I mean I used to go
when I was a kid. It was the only way
you can go. So was it expensive?

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Arnie, you were a kid in like the sixties? What
are you doing when you were a kid? Come on,
let's get more modern times here.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Would you go? Now?

Speaker 6 (09:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I would go. Now, I you know, make like a
family thing. But there's nothing like regular season football. We
all know that. But I would go to a game,
no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
So we start this show forty eight days until the
start of the college football season. By the time we say,
Audio Sorny, it'll be just forty seven days. And we
start this show thirty two days from the start of
the NFL pretty season for goodness sakes.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
So we're all about football tonight.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
If you want to hit us up on Twitter at
Stinking Genius one, I'm at Planks Show. Are you doing
the threads thing? Do we need to start talking about
that and giving that as well too? Are you not
doing it?

Speaker 6 (09:56):
Though?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
I haven't done it yet ause I don't figured it out,
So I'm sure I'll figure it out sooner.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'll have my wife do it for me and then
I'll go ahead and give it out.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
So I have made a decision.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I don't know if it's very controversial or not, but
I am not doing threads.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh no, yeah no.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
So that means if Twitter goes down, if Elon does
what I think he's been wanting to do from the start,
which is by this just to ruin it, I'm going
down with it. It's Twitter or nothing or else. So again,
I feel like we've done this before, Arnie. I feel
like about every two months it's everybody better go and
get a Blue Sky account, or everybody better go and

(10:31):
get a parlor account. I don't know something else. Now
all of a sudden, it's threads, and threads from what
I look.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
At, sucks.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
So as bad as as bad as Twitter is, at
least I can.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
See it chronological timeline, and at least I can see
when you're tweeting at me.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
So we'll stay with Twitter.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
For now for the time being, right with the time be.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
But until either we figure out threads or Arnie's wife
sets up his account, we'll just be talking about Twitter
dot com.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
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I want to go back to let's see Saturday morning.
Saturday morning, I was doing a radio show right here

(11:17):
on Fox Sports Radio and I got a text. It
hit my text my phone at five fifteen am, and
it reads, Wim Beignata looked unbelievable. Now I know why
you call him a generational talent, to which I replied,
you're right. They should cut him, shouldn't ever play again.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
See there's your sarcasm. There's your sarcasm. I just wanted
you to know that. And he looked okay today.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
But he looked okay today.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know what's so funny is all these people that
said he's a he's not. He's the best thing in
the history of team sports, and all that one about that.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I still want to see the tweet where it's or
anyone that said he's the best thing.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I'm gonna look that up. I am going to find that.
But he was very pedestrian. There was no doubt about that.
In his first game he was.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
He was a lot better today, but he's not going
to dominate the He's playing against guys like me. For
crying out last, I thought I was out there for
a second. No, I mean, yes, he is rude.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Basketball. I watched your rec league game today.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I didn't have today. I didn't an.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Eighty percent of the guys on that court are not
going to play in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
So he was okay.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
He did good against the you know, dreads of society,
but other than that, we'll see what he does against
the big boys in the NBA. Look, he has a
smooth shot, he's certainly good at blocking shots and stuff
like that, but he's got a lot to learn. He's
gonna get pushed around in the post, and he's not
as great. He might not even win Rookie of the Year,
to be honest with you, Chris, So you know there's

(12:54):
there's gonna be other candidates there. I I would probably
bet that he wasn't gonna win Rookie of the He's
not as great as advertised.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
He's gonna be very good.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
And you know this off of two games, one where
he scored twenty seven points, grabbed twelve boards, and was
two for four at seven foot four and a half
from three point right.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Can I ask you a question, Sure you ever buy
a car?

Speaker 4 (13:18):
No, When you buy a car, Chris, do you do
you get to drive it around like for like ten minutes?
Or do you get to drive it around for eighty
two days and then then make up your mind. You
get ten to fifteen minutes to drive it around and
you get to make up your mind?

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Right? Well, yeah, in two games. I already know. You
wonder why you want to know how?

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I already know because I got common sense and I
know basketball, and I can tell you how good he's
going to be. I know I already know he's gonna
go to be. My first prediction was exactly right. He'll
average about thirteen fourteen points a game. You might as
well bet the under eighteen and a half. He's not
gonna dominate. He's not even gonna lead San Antonio probably
to the playoffs. He's going to be a good player,

(13:58):
he'll grab a lot of rebounds, black shots, but he's
not gonna dominate offensively.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Okay, by the way, I don't know where you buy
cars from, but you don't have to make a decision
after driving it for ten minutes, Arnie, I don't know
what cars.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
You take the car forrady two days and then you return.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I've had many opportunities who are like, hey, yeah, drive around,
take your time.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't know where you're going, but I'll tell you what.
I hope your wife is listening right now. Was it
love at first sight with your wife or did you
have to wate like ten years God before you wanted
the proposer?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh well, you're not a romantic, then what can I
tell you?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
You keep saying you made your wife basically ask.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
You, yes, she had she knew right away. Hey, a
good thing when you saw it. Man, you know, Arnie,
comes on now.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm gonna stop you right now because you're gonna sound foolish.
Whenever Brandon pulls this at the end of the year
and wim bin Yama has won the Rookie of the
Year and is averaging like twenty and thirteen. The dude's good.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
He's good, he's fun, he is awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I don't know why I feel like this happens when
I someone gets built up that doesn't play for your team.
You automatical lean. A lot of people out there field,
the need to just dump all over him. I told
you what was gonna happen last week. I said, listen,
I played the cut from Uh, What's My Guy?

Speaker 5 (15:14):
Over at ESPN Brian Windhortz.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
I played the cut where he's like, listen, dude's gonna
get embarrassed some.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
He's still learning.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Quite a bit. But when he gets right and he
gets his mind right, he's gonna be special.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
And we're seeing it.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Arnie.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
You saw glimpses of it. Embrace it, enjoy it. You
don't have to hate everything.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
How Come you can see glimpses of it in one
game but I can't see glimpses the other way.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
And I just told you why. I just laid it
out to you. I just explained it to you. There's
gonna be more. Do you not think from what you
saw tonight that positive didn't overshadow the bad from what
you saw the week before?

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh? But yes, I think it goes. Okay, there you go,
let's get up.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
You understand I have common sense, and common sense is
telling me you wait till the regular season.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Stuff I've been the big boy.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is telling you that whenever you're dumping all over him
and You can't say you have common sense whenever you
pick the damn Dolphins to win the Super Bowl every year.
You can't say you have common sense when you try
to tell if Arizona should go to the SEC that
common sense.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
That's somebody idiosy.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Somebody rated you out about Arizona. Someone said that you
or you thought Arizona was going to be good and
you were picked.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I do absolutely I think Arizona and Arizona.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
You're jumping on Arizona bandwagon, on the Domphin bandwagon.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Look at you, big boy. Now that makes a picture
your own.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
First of all, you're the worst person in the world
to say something nice about because once you say, ah,
that's a good he told you. I'm a great guy.
I'm the greatest guy on the planet. I like Arizona.
I like Arizona State better. I think there are two
teams that can exceed expectations. I'm not on your Dolphins bandwagon.
You're gonna get heartbroken. But you know what, it doesn't

(16:52):
matter because you're gonna say the same mess next year
because you're not.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
A real fan.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh wow, you're a fake fan, and that's a part
of it. Then you're gonna suddenly be a Giants fan,
and they're gonna be my Giants as they're good.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Are my Cowboys? All right?

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Listen, we got a guest coming up.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
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Speaker 3 (18:02):
All right.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
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Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm Chris Plank.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Alex.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
First of all, thanks for taking time. I know it's
a little bit later. I enjoy money line, Monico, and
I always enjoy catching you on the better half hour.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
But let's go. We're at the halfway point of baseball.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
We spent the first twenty minutes fighting about women, yam
and talk a little football. But what do you feel
like we've learned. Let's just go specifically with the Mets.
What have we learned about this team? Do they have
a chance to put something together, maybe make some moves
in the second half, or are.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
They done so done in what you've seen, Alex, Chris and.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Ari, thanks for having me. Big fans of your guys
as well. Love checking out all things on the pipes
across the country. And hey, I love the Sooners ask
always too. But hey, what's the end of the mess?
Just left pack? Oh and you can hear it in
my voice. I got a New York Long Island dad,
and that household is divided between Mets and my San

(19:02):
Diego pay Brodthers. So we watched two teams really with
ridiculous luck. I always say, as a San Diego kid,
you kick on Burgundy, the weather, the you know, and
win the sports. But in New York, different kind of pressure.
And this is the most money we've ever seen in
the three of the sport for one club. I'm looking

(19:24):
more at the pitching this Verlanders today. I mean, Machada
has two homers off them. Otherwise was a good start.
But you know how it goes right in the world
of betting that I live, and it's all about momentum.
And do these guys believe in buck? Because they don't
believe in buck. I think we're talking about a really

(19:48):
really maadic August September. But you know, baseball, who I
like what they did in Arizona. I just got to
see more from Orland team salary for him. They gotta
turn it.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, you know, I I'm kind of curious.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Can you get some good value if you wanted to
take like the Mets or the Padres, or the Mariners,
even maybe the Yankees who are fighting for a wild
card spot, are getting good value there?

Speaker 9 (20:15):
Or no, well there's actually X fence value gentlemen. Well
for you, so I'm I'm locked out. I got a
call a guy who knows a guy to put something
in for me over here, I will say it, but.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let's let's get him on a better phone line, because
he's got too much juice for us to miss out
on this energy and excitement with that phone line cutting
out the way that it was. We'll try to hook
back up with Alex Monico here in just a second
so he get him on a better phone line.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
But are you turning a little bit here, Arnie?

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Are you starting to believe in the Mets?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
No?

Speaker 4 (20:53):
They lost their last two before winning six in a row,
and it's just.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Not gonna happen. They don't have enough.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
I keep thinking maybe they're good to take a run
at things, but I mean, you still got how many
games left? You still got about what seventy games, so
still a long way to go. It's possible, especially with
the wild cards and all that.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
But it's just not gonna happen. There's just too much
right now going on with them.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Were you shocked to see that I started with baseball.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
By the way I've said, seeing that.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
We were, But anyway, I already had brought up any
value there. Alex and I hope, and we wanted to
make sure we got to a better phone line because
you just got so much juice. But where is that value?
Could there be some value there in a wildcard play?

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah? I mean we're looking at a team that won
one hundred year and the starting ching is bottom five.
I imagine it'll correct itself. So on the board right
now and again away with the East. Spend me where
you shop. They're already a minus twenty thousand. I'm running
out of zero's. I'm triple checking my stigmatism here. The

(21:52):
Mets are twenty. You could forget about that. But in
this why cars, Miami's playing above their head. No one
saw this out of Arizona, and I don't believe in
San Francisco. So I think Andres and the Mets. So
the Padres. Actually I said this on my money line,
Monico bod Over the weekend, there's a plus three fifty.

(22:15):
The Mets r plus four hundred. I don't know how
you don't, Frinkle. I'm that's just them to make the playoffs.
So with three months left this payroll, I imagine they
play much worse. They gotta hit some sort of strat here, right,
I mean, and these teams are gonna taper off, I
believe in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Could be wrong.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
I could be wrong, but you have to take the
value just on four to one alone with Berley and
Jews before the season starts.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting where we're counting down to
the start of the NFL preseason and Already always likes
to joke the preseason is the free season. I feel
like Alex run a little bit of a void right
now with NFL news, but with that of mine, we're
monitoring two guys right now, Dalvin Cook and DeAndre Hopkins.
Do either one of those guys sway at teams over

(23:03):
under in your mind? Could Dalvin Cook potentially with Miami
or New York, or say DeAndre Hopkins in New England?
Could that change the way or these game changers if
you will, for a couple of franchises.

Speaker 9 (23:15):
I think they.

Speaker 8 (23:16):
I think.

Speaker 9 (23:18):
You know, I'm as far as wind almost betting New York.
Or are you talking Jets with no Saquan at the moment, Well.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
That's actually a pretty good question.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I probably wouldn't lean more towards the Jets with some
of those rumors, but you never want to count out
to Giants either, because there's just no real running back
depth there and Cook could give it to them.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (23:37):
Well, look, I mean I got I got some giant
stuff in front of me. That's awfully hard to it for.
I mean, this is touchdown percentage team in the league
and second and fewest turnovers at less than one per game.
This is what Dable brings. That's hard to cap as
a sportsbook. Right. It was number one as the against
the spread thirteen four coach in the league. There were

(23:58):
seventy one on the road covering, so I'm looking seven
and a half wins Giants. It's interesting. I don't know
if either of you guys are Yorkers, but in that
it's a New York Giants town. I would say as
far as pressure, because of what the Jets you know,
are lack thereof have done over the last decades, but
this year all the pressure. So here's the giant and

(24:21):
the kind of nuts the radars so to speak, but
just not have the normal all eyes on them in
town mode. They picked Darren Waller his fifteen tugs, five
interception at very low number, but they're not asking him
to go out and do what most of the quarterbacks
in this league do. It just all scheme there and

(24:43):
we'll see Waller and a couple of these guys. They added,
I don't know what happens with Ooh, you're cooking. De
hop if they land someone like that a half to
eight and a half. I mean, I don't know how
mon and a half wins right now.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Honestly, Hey, listen, Alex, We're gonna let you go, man.
I hope we get a chance to talk again soon.
We appreciate your time and hope you enjoyed that Padres
Mets game today. Always always a pleasure man at Alex
underscore Monaco and check him out on the Volume podcast network.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Good stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Just we were fighting that phone line, you know, and
when you get in a bad sell sometimes you can't
get out of it. I blame Ramos, It's all John
Ramos thigs All right, listen, Steve de Sager is in
the house with everything going on in the world of
sports from the Tirack dot Com studios.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
What's going on, Steve, Hello, gentlemen, And by the way,
mister Vermont, I see in the forecast thunderstorms pretty much
every day for two weeks. Yeah, flooding possible tonight. What
is going on there?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Get a little rain? Tonight. You know, it is good.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
It's not like a one hundred and fifteen degrees like
we're used to in the Arizona.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
So it's nice cool, I love it. It's yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
I read one seventeen. Next weekend in Vegas. Just for
the record, Mexico is going to be in the Gold
Cup semis in Vegas on Wednesday against Jamaica. Which one.
It's quarter five today. The US will be in a
semi final Wednesday in San Diego against Panama on FS one.
The Americans somehow advanced winning a Gold Cup quarter final
tonight on penalty kicks against Canada three to two. The

(26:13):
Americans did outshoot him for the game twenty one to five,
but trailed in overtime, but retied the game late in.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
The ot on an own goal.

Speaker 8 (26:20):
Thank you very much. The Gold Cup is the championship
for our region of the world. The final will be
at the Rams Stadium in Englewood, California, next Sunday. US
women's soccer won its final exhibition before taking off tonight
for the Women's World Cup down Under a New Zealand
two nothing Today's final over Wales thanks to two late
goals in San Jose for Trinity Rodman Australia is also

(26:41):
co host of this upcoming Women's World Cup on FS
one and Fox TV, but the three US group matches
are in New Zealand. At Wimbledon, number one Egas Fiantik
advanced to the quarterfinals saving two match points. Number four
seed Jessica Pagoula of the US won easily. Anchi winner
doubles match with Coco go Off. Men's number two Novak

(27:01):
Djokovic will conclude his match tomorrow after winning the first
two sets in tie breaks. They've had a ton of
rain Wimbledon. At England this week, number one Carlos Alcarez
plays tomorrow. American Francis Tiafo's out just lost in straight sets.
Cameron Smith won the Live Golf event in London. Sepstraka
took the PGA tournament in Illinois after a final round

(27:21):
sixty two. Alison Corpus from Hawaii won the US Women's Open.
Most NFL veterans report to training camp in just over
two weeks. NASCAR was at a rain shortened race in
Atlanta tonight, victory for William Byron his fourth of the year.
NBA Summer League started Friday. It'll go through July seventeenth,
center Victor wembin Yama of the Spurs in a loss

(27:43):
to Portland tonight at twenty seven points in twenty seven minutes.
MLB is now on All Star break. Pittsburgh got a
four to two win at Arizona save to All Star
David Bednar, his seventeenth His ERA for the first half
of the season one point twenty seven Pirates in the
win column. They had lost four straight the Diamondbacks at
home just twenty six and twenty four, and yet tied

(28:04):
for first in the NL West with the Dodgers, who
were off today but have won four in a row.
Dodgers made some news they have option second baseman Miguel
Vargas to Triple A. He was in a five for
sixty three slump the batting average down to one ninety
five after they handed him the second base job this year.
Looks like Mookie Betts or maybe Chris Taylor up from rehab,

(28:25):
going to be playing some second base in the second
half of the season. For La Vargas had hit three
h four at Triple A. Last year, San Francisco shut
out Colorado won nothing and it was a one nothing
victory for Milwaukee over Cincinnati. The Red's lead in the
NL Central now down to just a game ahead of
the Brewers. Time of that game two hours and four minutes.

(28:46):
Seattle's going to be here. We're ready for their vacation,
ready their time off. There was one game under two
hours today. It's like we begin, We're over, We're off
to our what is it now? Fifteen day break they
have for the All Star ranking. Basically, Pete Alonzo and
the Mets is the favorite for Monday's home run derby
in Seattle. The All Star Game there is Tuesday night

(29:07):
on Fox TV. Five pitchers were named as replacements already
yesterday for guys who through this weekend, like Spencer Strider,
who's having a great year for the Braves but will
not pitch on Tuesday. Speaking of great pitchers, LSU's champion
Paul Skeens was drafted number one overall by the Pirates tonight.
The three day MLB draft started this evening.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Back to you, I liked that they're making that a
bigger deal. You know, I feel like the last couple
because it used to be just be on the MLB
network and they would it would be deering the Super
Regionals it would be during like the final two weeks
of the baseball season.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Now they've pushed it back. It's a little bit more
fine tuneing.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
I don't know any how much you watched nine on Saga.
You we recovering it. But I thought they did a
really good job with the event.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
The grona short outfielder, was drafted first round Sam Lewis
Cardinals Chase Davis, correct.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Me, if far market used to be that while the
and I know you said that while the tournament or
the college serge going on, they would get drafted. But
they but they wouldn't tell you where you went or
where you got drafted until after your team got eliminated.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Or no, they would tell you.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
You know, I'm telling you that I was on the
road with teams when they got drafted.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
When McDonald was taking or any of that.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
And you know, so you say it I'm wrong.

Speaker 8 (30:21):
I'm saying, maybe you're going back to the nineteen sixty
five original draft.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Wow, I was, I.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Was at games, I was at John I'm.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Telling you I feel like I'm right about that.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Let's double check that I was at John Gray's watch
party in Baton Rouge whenever he found out that he
was like the number two or three pick in.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
The draft the Rangers picture.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
That's right, when he was drafted by Colorado. So I
don't think that you're right on.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
I wanted you apologize on the other one. Then which
one's that? Oh you know I sent the tea at
the break?

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Oh my gosh, you're such an over dramatic d back.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Everybody is saying everybody whoa was one guy said it,
and you would act it's.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
His word counts for like a hundred men.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
No, it doesn't his word whenever it comes to breaking news,
does I mean in this department.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Walter called one by the greatest prospect in the history
of teams?

Speaker 8 (31:12):
He perhaps the greatest. He couched an outlandish statement, right,
And then I'm going with and then some hosts plural
go off like, oh this guy better be all that.
That's right, This guy didn't say anything. Why are you
holding it against him?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Because because I don't think you should get too high
on him.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
I don't think you should get too low on him.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
You destroying his career after what the hell do you
call what you did in the first segment?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I said he was good, but he's not even gonna
win Rookie of the Year. How about that? Why is that?
Is that destroying him? If I don't think he's gonna
win Rookie the Year.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
He's well, well, hold on, honey, you're really softening up
what I said.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
No, I really think that if I was playing in
the little post against him, IKE could probably hurt him.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
I mean I probably way more than Oh.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
I don't disagree with that, because way more than you'd
hit him right in the knee.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah, I think I could push him around a little bit.
I'm a lot bigger than him physically. Mentally too.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I don't think you're mentally bigger than me either. But
I will just enjoy him. Why do we have to come?

Speaker 5 (32:16):
I laughed.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
There was a guy named Robin Lumberg does radio out
of New York, and I was cracking up. He had
a tweet that he sent out tonight that said, boy,
I'm really glad that when Ben Yama could save his
legacy here tonight.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
I was just crapping up because.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I was just it's so true with the way some
people were acting after Friday Night. I don't think you
should have gotten too low on him. I don't think
you should get too high on him. Well, it's one
area that I agree with you one hundred percent. Let's
wait till we get to the NBA regular season before
we decide if he's an X coming round.

Speaker 8 (32:45):
Like Arnie during the NFL preseason, that's.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Right, No, no, no, I was excited to see the
next Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant all wrapped in
the one best thing in the history of team sports.
I couldn't wait to see.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
It that bad who Yeah, But here's the any thing too.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Do you even remember what Tom Brady did the very
first time you ever saw him play?

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Do you even remember a year of Peyton Manning?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Right, Arnie, do you know what's numbers?

Speaker 5 (33:13):
Hold on a second, let me ask you a question.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
You guys are asking me if somebody questions that, ever,
I remember what ded Marino did the first time he
came in and lost to the Raiders, like twenty eight seven?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
There you go, all right?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Do you know what Sho Hao Tani's numbers were in
spring training.

Speaker 8 (33:26):
His very worst year, lost, absolutely lost, he had won
twenty five?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
I think I think I do remember that was I
think I was ripping him that you were you were
saying that.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
He's terrible and he should go back overseas was exactly
what you said.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
So and he struck out one hundred times his first
two years, even though he wasn't getting full time at
bats his first two.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yearh and I'm not even Here's the funny thing is,
I'll take I'll go score. I could take your bullets
for a whole year our two on win ben Yama
because Joelle EBII didn't even play until those third year.
He spent a whole year out of the league battling injuries,
and then he was not even one hundred percent of
second year.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
I just think you're gonna enjoy the ride. Jump on board.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
It's gonna say.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
If you're trying to tell me that it's going to
be three years before this guy reaches any type of
potential fill, there's gonna be a lot of criticism.

Speaker 8 (34:11):
Peyton Manning led the league in interceptions his rookie year.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Well, look at Troy Aikman. That guy was one in
uh whatever, one in fifteen, yeah, one in fifteen.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well, you were doing radio in thirteen, you were doing
radio in Dallas. Then were you crushing him? Did you
want him cut? At that point?

Speaker 3 (34:28):
They're never gonna win a super Bowl. That's gonna get
rid of this guy. He's horrible, lily thinking.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Don't let your highs get to ILOs too low, and
I get.

Speaker 8 (34:37):
It's all the suggestion.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
For your life. So you're so what you're telling me,
Woch doesn't know anything about basketball.

Speaker 8 (34:44):
It wasn't a news ite.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I'm just asking you to double check you two guys
who say, don't listen to the walls right now.

Speaker 8 (34:50):
No, No, Chris made the exact point that needs to be made.
Woes is a great information guy. This was a prediction
on the future, not information that happening now. He is
out of his element.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
The predictions up to us experts. Well, I don't know
if I would say us, but he get this way.

Speaker 8 (35:08):
The experts didn't say what he did.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
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Speaker 4 (35:44):
I don't like when you pick up my dolphins. That
got me aggravated. So I said, okay, I'm just gonna.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Have to teach them molested.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
I'll just go to my go to backhanded slap it
and I'll just start ripping on Oklahoma. So I'll just
pull up the schedule and we'll see how tough it
is going to be for them this year. I'm looking
at the schedule like, oh boy, they don't have any
tough games at all, Nobody.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
If they're not good this year, then there's some major problem.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
You guys play nobody this year. Are you playing high
school this year?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, I mean that's it's horrible.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
I can't even I can't even pick you a lose.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
What do you mean it's like a high school.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
That's the conference that you're tripping over your you know what,
to try to join in the big right.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
I have tried to trip over and get on it
absolutely by the way.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'm sorry that it's not gonna happen for you. But
is this the week where I can say I told
you so? Or do you want to wait a little
bit longer before I remind you that you're staying in
the PAC twelve.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Oh no, I thought you were gonna, you know, concede
and say you were right. Everybody's saying you don't want
to be in the PAC twelve. I heard Paul fied
Bob saying, this thing is gonna what is Oh my god?
Mean what every time I bring up something, you're like,
oh my goodness, it's not gonna be good for the
PAC twelve. You're good to want to get out better
sooner than later, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
You Uh, you see, Oregon's recruiting doesn't seem like they're
strung in the PAC twelve. You still gonna spot in
the playoffs? I mean, these are questions I'm asking help
me understand. We stillet to spot in the playoffs the
first twelve.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Yes, you do, but you know the money is not
going to be the same, and you know the PAC
twelve is in big trouble. Matter of fact, out of
the Power five conferences right now, it's the conference on
the most shaky ground. You know that, Chris, what's today?
What's today's day? Twenty one nine, yeah, twenty twenty three, yeah, yeah,
got plenty of time.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
And you're telling me that you're in a much better
place if you jumped to the Big twelve than what
you could be in the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I ain't buying it. And I love the Big actually,
I really do think so. To be honestly, you're.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Split in your revenue now fourteen ways instead of the
twelve that they're sitting here talking about per team. That's
less money, no offense, aren't he? But no one's going
to give you more money to bring in Arizona and
Arizona study.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
It's totally a matter of time before the PAC twelve
brings in the other schools like the Big twelve. Did
I mean what the San Diego States? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
They've already shut them down.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Is that for sure? We're one hundred percent? Say Diego
State doesn't have a conference, then is what you're gonna doll?

Speaker 5 (38:03):
Well, that's what it looks like right now.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
But again, today's day, it's it's July ninth, July ninth, Yeah,
I just I think what's gonna happen is what I've
told you all along, Right, Pac twelve's gonna stay together.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
It's not gonna be a long term thing.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
And if one of those teams can get and make
a run in the playoffs, it changes everything about inan
Diego State.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
What's gonna happen to them? Now?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Well, if Colorado leaves and I think San Diego State
slides in, I'm telling you what. The Big twelve is
not gonna add Arizona. Okay, they're not gonna add Arizona
Arizona State. It's just not happening. If the Pac twelves
adding anyone, it's gonna be Yukon in Colorado, or Yukon
and Fresno State are Yukon and Memphis or something with
Gonzaga for basketball. I just don't think Arizona and Arizona

(38:48):
State are gonna be it.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
So we're stuck in the in the Pac twelve.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Until what you always talk, well, you're a higher learning
why don't you jump on up to the Big Ten.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
They're all pompous and aragon about.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
How smart they all are.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
And now and now that Arizona's got some major recruits,
and we're all of a sudden, probably a top thirty team.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Now probably I don't know all that well probably.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, let's just get Bull eligible first, Let's get him
to bowl game.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
That's that's kind of my many year.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
This is going to be football wise by Wildcats, maybe
going to be a top ten team, and the Dolphins
go to the Super Bowl. How crazy is that? One year?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Boy, you really jumped them up from getting to a
bowl game to top ten. Rather quickly, let me pay
out my tea's real quick before we wrap our number one.
We have one minute left. Joe Ellenbiid, Joe Ellenbiid already
pushing for James Harden to come back.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Could you believe it? Listen to this, wait for it,
Wait for it, wait for it.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
But then again, I also understand, you know, it's business. Uh,
you know, people make decisions, and you know, and and
I'm more apprecious appreciative of the ways handled the whole situation. Uh,
you know, we were gonna be boys forever. Want him
to come back obviously, so we can go out and
accomplish what we want.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
So I thought that was unique because everyone talks about
this riff between he Embiid the MVP and Harden. And
here's Embiid saying, you know, we want him to come back.
I'll go more in depth on that when we come back.
Because you've got the Dame Lillard situation, you got the
James Harden situation. Those are the two big ones we're
watching in the NBA. So Arntan Plank of Fox.

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Speaker 3 (41:01):
No you didn't get yes, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
I mean we've done one hour, Arnie.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm not gonna hit all fifty six of them that
you have for the program tonight. Why was there one
that you wanted to hit in the first hour that
we didn't get to.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
No, no, no, But I do want to get to
number seventeen. I thought you would be all over that.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
I'm my gosh, let me look back now on seven
number seventeen, Robert numeral number seventeen. Okay, Roman numeral number seventeen.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
I tried to talk to you want to just drive
in the second half of the show, but you want
to do it? No more box score standings, right, that's
just the La Times though.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Well that is kind of a big story, though, isn't it.
I mean, that's kind of crazy, is it. Yeah, it is,
and it's I hate it. I absolutely hate it because
I'm a I'm a big box score guy.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I know you are and I but again, whenever I
say that, I don't know the last time I went
to the newspaper for a box score.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
No, I understood, But what exactly are they going to
replace it with? Why They're not even going to put
the standings in there? And I can understand that also
because they have a deadline the reach, so it's going
to be outdated. But what are they going to put
in its place that if you can't have stit? What
are they just gonna cover high school sports?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
I don't know what they're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
You know, Well, it's to me, arn't e spanier. I
think you ask you a great question. Usually what happens
whenever they take something away, they don't give you more
space to put something else. When they take something away,
either you print less, so it cuts down on printing costs,
which I don't know if that's an issue at the
La Times or not or Number two. They just put

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advertisements there, so I don't think you're suddenly going to
get like a feature there or what I'm sure you
would want and I would want, which is more reporting
or something of that nature.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
But yeah, I saw that story.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
And then you've got a mess right now with the
New York Times because there's the rumors that they're going
to replace the New York Times are integrate the New
York Times sports coverage with the Athletic and trim that
staff and the Times Times sports writers. I think what
together And they had a they wrote a letter to management, which,
by the way, boy, print media and TV media work.

(43:01):
It's a lot differ than radio ever has because in
radios you're like, yeah, you're fine, we'll see that.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
You think about that though, just as you mentioned, I
mean in our lifetime, newspapers were big. That's having problems magazines,
I mean almost not you know, extinct almost. People say
radio's having troubles. TV is pretty much joyving still around
that people aren't questioning you know.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Yeah, I know it's it's pretty well.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Did you say TV is the only thing they're not questioning, Well, well,
we just saw fifteen people from ESPN then we know
get fired.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Well yeah, last week. Yeah, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I don't really know if no one's questioning it, but
I would say that it seems to be the only
place that sports is thriving outside of here Arenie on
Car Sports Radio our show. But well, I mean everybody. Yeah,
I hated to hear that. I love reading the paper
for box scores, transactions, all the stupid transactions that yeah,

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I never even knew happened.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
It's just it was one of the fun things.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
But it's just not it's not really a tool that
I used the newspaper cord anymore.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
And I don't want to sound all but being honest,
this is this was like a childhood thing where you
get the paper was the New York Post of the
La Times. You opened it up right to the box
and you could read that paper for hours. I mean
literally you could look at the box scores and what
each one did, and you're looking at it, you're read it,
and you study it, and then you're looking at the

(44:26):
standings and you're figuring out which game they didn't put
in there. And yeah, I mean it was as part
of growing up. And now they're not even gonna have that.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
So but I don't think anybody, like you said, I
don't think anybody looked in the paper to find out
box scores are batting averages or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
You know what's funny is I just looked up to
see how many newspapers have done that already, because I
don't think the La Times just woke up one morning.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Was like I wouldn't know. Yeah I have no let's
get rid of the box score.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
And I also don't know how they could track how
many people were actually reading it or are using it,
because people have their papers, you don't know what they read.
But I found an article from twenty fifteen that said
the slow death of baseball box scores in newspapers.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Ohez, So this is room.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
There's been something that's been going on for eight years.
So rip box scores, Arnie and Roman numeral number seventeen done,
checked off. I want to revisit this real quick, just
because we were cutting close last hour we got we
got obviously an update on Dame Lillard maybe to get
to I think more than anything, we're starting to realize

(45:38):
that this is getting a little dicey. We'll play the
timeline coming up here in a bit. First, I want
you to hear this full cut from Joel Embiid, because
if you were to believe the buzz Arnie, there were
problems between Embiid and Harden, right, they didn't seem to
get along, didn't seem to mesh. So this was with
Rachel Nichols on at Ball don't Lie talking about the

(45:58):
relationship that he had with James Hart.

Speaker 10 (46:01):
Did you feel when James told you or someone told
you that he wanted to be out of Philadelphia?

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Disappointed? But then again, also understand you know his business. Uh,
you know, people make decisions, and you know, and and
I'm more appreciative appreciative of the ways handled the whole situation. Uh,
you know, we we're gonna be boys forever. Want him
to come back, obviously, Uh, so we can go out

(46:28):
and accomplish what we want, which is to win a championship,
so hopefully that you know, his mind his mindset can
be changed.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
But other than that, you know, I'm just so happy
to be you know it's fine. Uh you know, we
we close and we've grown since it got here, and uh,
you know that's what I'm excited about. And uh, you know,
I'm excited to keep that friendship for the rest of
our lives. Now.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
I know you're pretty much a cynic Arnie and you
don't usually believe anything, but I kind of took him
be at his word there and I don't think there
were burned bridges outside of between Harden and kind of
how you felt like Daryl Morey treated him.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
But I can't help. But wonder can they fix that?

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Is this something to where it's like, listen, let's give
it a go in the first half of the season.
If it doesn't work out, we'll do our best to
movie you at the deadline. I don't know if that's
even a possibility, But what do you think about now
this growing chance at Harden could stay in Philly and
then Bean wants him there.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
I think it being said that because right now it
doesn't seem like there's really any other choice. So he's like, yeah,
you know, I we'd love to have him back. You
want to know if you really could tell if somebody
wants him back. Did he ever call up James Harden
personally and said, what are you doing? You know we're closed,
don't do this, come on back? Or did he just
kind of nonchalantly mention it with Rachel Nichols like he
did right now? Big difference between mentioning it in the

(47:42):
media and picking up the phone and calling him and saying,
you know what, let you and I have lunchles talk
this out. I want you back, and I want to
show you I want you back and we can go
do something next year.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
I don't think that happened. At least I don't feel
like that happened.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
There's a major difference between saying something in the media
and picking up the phone and calling someone right.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
There's a major difference between putting something out on Twitter.
I mean, like, I really hope that he stays, but
then following through with a text or a call and saying, Hey,
what can I do?

Speaker 5 (48:12):
How can I help make this possible?

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Because I mean, Philly, they really haven't done anything so
far this off see, right, I remember when Golden State
wanted Kevin Durant, they flew out to the Hamptons.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Right to go like all like three four players went out.
Did he did he do anything? I meet you at
the Hamptons.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
Let's talk about this, James, I meet it, I meet
you at the Strip Club and used.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
To let's talk about this. None of that, None of that, Chris,
you know well I would push back a little bit. Okay,
why they did meet at.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
The strip cloll, remember not the stripl I don't think
you go to do business with James hard at the
strip club. I think you go to have a good
time our gentleman's club. I'm sorry, proper nomenclature. Don't want
to get in trouble tonight. Yes, Arnie, the picture was
at Michael Ruben's white party of James Harden talking to
Sixers owner. So you are you saying you'd rather be

(49:00):
players because this doesn't seem to be a disconnect between
Harden and the roster. This seems to be a disconnect
between Harden and.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Ownership, right. And I did see him talking to that.
I saw that picture.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
I just don't know what he's saying, as the older saying,
we're still gonna do our best to get rid of
you and trade you.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Just bear with us, or you know, we really would
like to have you back. And you know, I don't
understand why it got to this point and something to
that effect. I'm not sure which way it went. You know.

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(49:47):
brings up a good question slash angle about our next topic,
which is Damian Lillard. He writes, Dame Lillard has overplayed
his hand, saying he only wants to go to Miami,
has allowed the Heat to try and low ball Portland.
At the end of the day, Dame can say what
he wants. Portland is going to do the deal that
is in the best interest of the team, not Lillard.

(50:10):
What have you made of the tortoise like nature of
this move?

Speaker 4 (50:15):
I agree with him one hundred percent, though can't they
get it out, Like teams, you better not go ahead
and trade for me because I won't report or I
won't play.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
I don't want to play for you.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
I don't think he would do that, but then again,
you never know what's going on. I do think he's
overplayed his hand. I think they will trade him. They
could probably get a lot of better deals for him,
especially from Philadelphia or some other teams out there.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
I don't think he'll end up in Miami because Miami
doesn't have enough to give him.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
I would let's real quick, give the week right, because
you had the trade ask, then you had you know,
the I guess understanding that he wanted to go play
in Miami and that was his preferred destination. Then you
have these these rumors of hey, Boston might be in
the mix, Utah might be in the mix. Everyone's I

(51:03):
keep an eye on Utah. They're a sneaky team. In
this conversation, there were reports of a handful of other teams.
I feel like there's an obvious one that I'm missing
right now. That was, oh, Philadelphia Sixers. Right, We're a
team that was talked about quite a bit. But then
woseh had the report on like Tuesday or Wednesday that
basically his agent had been reaching out to teams telling them, hey,

(51:26):
don't make a move for him because he's only going
to go to Miami. And nobody seemed to push back
against that report, at least from.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
What I saw.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
And now and now you're just kind of stuck. I mean,
we're literally waiting for one of the more I don't know,
popular stars in the league in a smaller market that's
waiting for that next step, and we're just we have
no idea, Arnie, we have no idea where it is,
except that he wants to go to Miami. And it
seems as if Miami has the worst deal possible on

(51:58):
the table with a bunch of pieces that Portland just
doesn't want.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
You know, a couple of things on that. First of all,
it puts him in a bad light, it really does.
The guy's getting paid a boatload of money and he's
really hamstringing this team and the fans too, think the
fans in this in this instance, So when you're telling
them I only want to go to one place, you
really really.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Are sticking it to the team out there. That's the
first thing too.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
Can you can you imagine if a team said, nobody
offer this guy a contract because we want him back.
Isn't that called collusion and not some type of collusion
when you do something like that. So imagine if it
was the other way. It really would get kind of
scary out there. People would really be dropping f bombs.

(52:41):
But when it all said and done, Miami can't give
him enough. And I got to tell you, if I'm
the owner of Portland, I'm gonna tell him. I'm gonna
sit him in a room, so there's a bunch of
people in the room, and I'm gonna say, you know,
I really don't give a damn what you want. I
would have sent you to wherever the hell I want
to send you, and goodbye. And that's all it is.
And if I find out that you calling other teams
and say that you won't report, oh there's gonna be

(53:03):
big problems now. So'll go ahead and withhold your pay
if you want to play that game.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
You can't withhold his pet and I can't.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
You could just sue me or something. I don't give
a damn. You want to play games with me? You
want to go ahead and make my.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Team and hurt my team because you only want to
get traded to one team. I'm not gonna let you
do that. I'm gonna make a big stink and I'm
gonna make you look bad in the public eye if
I well, who has the power in the NBA. I
guess the players doing this.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Players, Yes, the players, and Arnie. If you do something
like that and no one's gonna want to come play
for you, I think. I mean again, I hope I'm wrong.
I want to see them do what you're saying. I
would love that more than anything else, for the Trailblazers
to come out. And I just feel like we're in
a oh shocks, Oh golly man, whatever you want, let's
let's get you taken care of. I'd love to see

(53:52):
And I don't know how our fans of Portland Field
tonight about this.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
I feel like they've done a bit.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Of a one to eighty hell, Arnie, as far as
I'm concerned, I'm in Dame for tigue, all right. I'm
just I want this thing to and I'm only bringing
it up so we don't have to fight about Winbin
Yama again for another segment.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
But I would love to see that happen.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
I just don't think it's the reality of where this
association is right now. They're not going to allow a
governor to be able to step back and say, hey,
this guy's basically holding our feet to the fire whenever
all we've done is right by him.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
Hey, guess what we've had two years.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
We haven't made the playoffs since he's been here rookie
actually three rookie season and then we've missed the last two,
you know, and we tried, and it's just not working
right now. But we feel like we've got a good
young core and we'd love to have him help out.
But he's holding our feet to the fire to go
to just one place, and I would love to see that, Arnie,
but it's just not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
And why Miami.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
I know he says he wants to go to a
place where he thinks he could win, But come on,
we know you're not gonna win in Miami anyway.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
You want to go there? What no state income tax?
Or that's where you just want to live, or you
love Miami. It could be a boatload of reasons, but
don't tell me it's you think you're gonna win on there.
That's not opt they just.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
Went to the finals.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Oh I wouldn't he think he could win? That was
a once in a lifetime thing.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
They did it again in twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
They're not doing it again in a while. Trust me
on that.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Okay, I trust you on that. All right, Crazy Tanker
asks a very good question here. What is party's obsession
with the Hamptons that's all you've talked.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
About, like for two weeks.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Is yeah, because I saw that party I wasn't invited to.
I'm like, man, that could have that would have been
nice to go to him. I'm not a little far
from the Hamptons. It's like, what four or five hours.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
So I can't imagine anyone in professional sports not wanting
to invite you to a party.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Chris.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
You would tell them how much better you are than
them at sports and tell them how that should do
their jobs.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
I was invited to one of those white parties, white
out parties. I'm being serious. I'm not kidding around.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
All right, listen, bottle it. We'll talk about it next.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
But we're getting a break. I'm being serious though.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Okay, I want to hear the story. I want to
hear about now.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
This isn't something that showed up in your inbox on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Right, this isn't something that no, no, I got an invitation.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
All Right, we'll get into it next. Arnie in a
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(56:29):
and Steve Sager's got an update coming up here in
about oh, I don't know ten minutes from now. All
right again, US won the concre CAF Gold Cup tonight
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number one overall by Pittsburgh, and we'll go all in
on the second half of What did I say?

Speaker 3 (56:47):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 5 (56:48):
Quarterfinal?

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Quarterfinal? Sorry, sorry, so get with it. Gold Cup.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
You didn't even know what I.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Knew it was the quarterfinal. I knew.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
He's like John Rumbos, I'm just gonna tell you now,
I can't hear a word that you say in my ear,
and and BT comes out like quarterfinals.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Here's a look they put his louder than mine, Chris,
it's the way he goes. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Won the quarterfinals the Cocky CAF Cold Cup off the
San Diego for the United States Baseball and it's midway points.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Sagres got it all coming up here in just a bit.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
So justin in Cincinnati makes a very good point, he writes, Arnie,
you're an old white guy, so you better clearly explain
what a white party is. So story time with Arnie.
You actually got an invite to one of these?

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Yeah, well, who's the guy in the Hampton's what's his
first name? Ruben? Michael Rubin, Michael Rubin fanatics?

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Right, you know, had a party where everybody wears all white,
you know, shirts, jackets, pants, belts, shoes, whatever.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
And I didn't even know this was a thing.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
But many years ago, when I was working in LA
I got invited to one by the Clippers by Donald Stirling,
and I remember it being an all white party and
I really didn't understand what the hell that met. Like, Okay,
so you must have a bunch of guys all gonna
wear a white but I I thought like it was
just gonna be like ten of us. I go, what
am I going to talk to this guy about I
don't want to go to his party. So I just

(58:08):
kind of blew off the invite. I didn't go while
everybody else went. So I kind of felt bad about
that and probably kicking myself to this day.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
I didn't go to that party. What year? Oh, now
you put me? I thought I thought there was gonna
be no math today. Really, come on, I don't.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
Know what it's.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
I'm just gonna tell you right now.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
If an NBA owner, albeit as crooked and terrible as
Donald Sterling was, Yeah, had invited me to a white party, Uh, well,
number one, I have a lot of questions. But number two,
I think I would remember it like it was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
NBA owner. I didn't know it was really that big
of a thing.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Real, So you're telling me an NBA owner comes to
you and says, Artie span.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
I didn't talk. I got I got the invite. I
got an invitation.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Okay, So you get an invitation from an NBA owner
and you don't remember what year it is? Not even
I don't think I think you're making up this.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
No, I'm not making you. Ask Ben maw Or he'll
back me up on this. I think you're making because
I think he was invited to the party too. Well
did he go? I do to remember. I don't know
what he did. Why didn't you?

Speaker 5 (59:10):
Like mid nineties here?

Speaker 3 (59:12):
It could be right around It's when I was working
in La. So what years was that? I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
It was probably before right after, right after I got married.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
So I want to tell you a story. I'm not
going to remember what year the story happened. I'm going
to vaguely remember where I was.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
I was just you ask me what year it was.
I just I got invited to one of those vts.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Pramos backed me up here. It's a relevant question.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Ask ninety five degrees? Ever, what doesn't make I mean?

Speaker 2 (59:43):
I just I feel like whenever, whenever someone is saying, hey,
I got a story for you about this time I
got invited to a white party because it's popular. H
This was, you know, a couple of years ago? Which
is what you said? That was a couple of years ago?

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Oh, I didn't meet a couple of years ago?

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Thirty years promos? All is it fair John to ask
what year?

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
It is a fair question. You're fired, right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
I don't think you have that. I think has more
power than you just go around the room with this
bt fair question asked that we should get details picking
out of course.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
They always pick against me. Yeah, I think it's a
very deal. You got a ballpark it though, at least
find a ballpark it. So who was that?

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
Did you ever follow up and find out who his
hair and what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Because Donald certainly was famous for these parties, and I
think it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Was a lot of the media and like Hollywood star people,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
But it was supposedly a good party even without me,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I mean, I I would assume that if Donald Sterling's
throwing a party back in those days in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Or was it Malibu too, well that's where he lived,
of course. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Now if you try to tell me you took an
uber to it, then I know you were making it up.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
Did you see if going into his house like taking
silverware putting it in my pockets?

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
No, I absolutely could would be great. Guys.

Speaker 8 (01:00:57):
Donald Sterling used to have the white party every year,
white house, white tents, white umbrella.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Okay, so I'm not making it up. I told you.
I know.

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
I believe I got an invitation as well before I
worked here ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Christy invited the media too, invited like a lot of
guys from our station because we covered the clip that
were the home of the Clippers. So I'm pretty sure
Ben got invited.

Speaker 8 (01:01:20):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. And I don't know if it
was related to the draft or it was after the draft.
I know Blake Griffin, Yeah, Blake Griffin had a very
uncomfortable experience attending.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
I should have went to the party. What could I say?

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Well, I know, I just I was hoping that you'd
have a little bit more like I snuck in or
but I.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
Snuck in in a beautiful starlet was hitting I thought
was gonna be.

Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
I thought we're not the number one draft pick. Therefore
nobody was paid to hit on you.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
That's funny, that's funny. Well, I hate that you didn't go, Arnie,
but too.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
I think about it to this day. That would have
been one out of a party.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
He's in one of those that I mean, would you
have were you married at this point? Yeah, I was
would you have taken bath or would it be one
of those that you tell her, hey babe, we got
a work thing.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
No, this is this is a work thing. Tonight I
did go. I did go to a party. Uh, I
told you this a playboy party and went and wild
in Las Vegas before I married.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Oh, you went to a playboy You went to a
playboy party in Las Vegas while you were married.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
No, before I was. It was a went and wild
the girls were I was watching topless volleyball for a
couple of hours. Sport and what you're gonna do? Oh,
I can't tell this story.

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
I mean, Ramos is the guy responsible for the siding
and be.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
Me and another me and another host were talking to
these two girls and we're like, hey, we should go
back to my place, and like, yeah, let's get out
of here.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
And just as we were going to leave, Pauli.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Shore came by talk to them and they went off
with Pauli Shore. I'm serious, I thought making that up.
That's a true story.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
You got you got, yes, yes, yes, Paulie, Sure it happens.
Sometimes think about him and friends.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
You know, it was kind of the place to be.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Well, uh, fun and partying with Arnie and fun and
not partying with Arnie.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
The times he chose to go and the times he
chose not to go.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Wild party was a good party. I do have to
tell you that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
I don't think I could disagree with it, and it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Was all free booze and food too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
You've got a lot of instant reaction to your white
party story.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
I'm sure U c l a Dodger.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Frank writes, I think and Donald Sterling white party has
a whole different meaning, if you know what I mean.
The White Party is old news. Arnie New Hotness, Josh
Allen and Haley Seinfeld PDA all over Mexico.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
I can't say.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
I can't say that justin in Cincinnati, but let's just
say I think we all kind of are thinking the
same thing. Whenever Arnie starts talking about a white party
and Donald stirring Sterling, you're like, oh my god, well.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Let the sagre packed me up. He said he used
to have a lot of parties like that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
I mean, nobody's doubting that they had the parties. We're
just wondering the relevance. If you're saying I got invited once,
like I wasn't. I didn't go.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
If I knew it was gonna be such a big thing,
I would have went. I would have probably stuffed by
pockets with some of his stuff. Cup links or something
like that. I would have left a batter luck next time.
Maybe your boy fanatics can invite you next year.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
This would be great if Michael Ruby can do that.

Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
But see, you wouldn't go because you never leave your house.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
I do, but I would like could you imagine me
just walking up to Tom Brady going, hey, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Tom? No, I can't to be honest with you. Oh,
I would just start badgering him or something like that.
I would love to talk to like that. Matt Damon,
ben Aflack guy going hey, you know your Boston team suck.
You know that, don't you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
I would imagine that would end well for you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
Well, either, what are you talking about? I go what
you didn't on the standards. I don't have a Boston accent.
Your knuckle ahead, that's already Spaniard.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
I'm Chris.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
We come to you live from the tire Rock dot
Com studios.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Thankfully, Steve de Seger is here to save the day,
and he has what's trending?

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
What's going on? Steve?

Speaker 8 (01:05:05):
Well, I don't think they're having a similar party, but
the draft for Major League Baseball is ongoing in Seattle.
They had the first round tonight. Round two starts with
selection number forty tomorrow. Finishing up the first round pick
number thirty nine including compensatory picks, was a third baseman
from a high school in Canada, Miles Naylor, whose brothers

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Josh and Bow are already major leaguers. Oakland A's with
that draft pick. And yes, the Oakland A's played today
and lost today again, They've lost four in a row.
They hit the All Star break with a record of
twenty five and sixty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:05:38):
They lost a close one at Boston four to three.
Red Sox have won five in a row Oakland with
runners in scoring possession Ozer for thirteen. Kansas City had
a road record of twelve and thirty four this year
until getting a win at Cleveland today four to one. Cleveland,
despite being a five hundred team, is alone in first
place in the AL Central at the break, half game

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over the Twins, Aoston home fifteen to two to Baltimore.
Five straight wins for the Orioles. Milwaukee won nothing over Cincinnati,
the Reds first in the NL Centriy Central, now a
game ahead of the Brewers. I mentioned the quick games
today time of this one nothing Milwaukee game was two
hours and four minutes Wow. San Diego has six to
two win against the Mets, beating Max Schurzer, is Manny Machat.

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Nay Machado had two home runs against Shrzer and five RBIs.
San Francisco a one nothing winner over Colorado. Logan Web
the winning pitcher, a complete game with ten strikeouts Seattle
and Washington with victories Pittsburgh as well four to two
winner at Arizona, and then tonight the Pirates drafted number
one overall LSU pitcher, Paul Skeins. MLB All Star Game

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is in Seattle Tuesday night on Fox TV. Five pitchers
were named as replacements already. Alex Cobb was named from
San Francisco for Bryce Elder for Atlanta. Elder took the
loss today ten to four at Tampa Bay and yesterday
for Atlanta. Spencer Streider pitch, so he's not going to
pitch Tuesday. A Corbyn Burns and Milwaukee replaces him. Devin Williams,

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the Milwaukee closer, is out for the All Star Game.
He got his twentieth save today. Craig Kimberl, the Philadelphia closer,
will take his place. Code I Singa, the Mets will
be on the NL roster instead of pitcher Marcus Stroman
and in the al taking Kevin Gosman's place he pitched yesterday.
Is Minnesota's Pablo Lopez. US men's soccer in the Gold
Cup quarterfinal tonight beat Canada on penalty kicks three to two.

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US semifinal will be in San Diego Wednesday against Panama,
then Mexico on Wednesday will be in Vegas against Jamaica.
Mexico won its quarterfinal last night in Dallas two nothing
over Costa Rica. US women's soccer is in the air
on the way to the Women's World Cup, flying to
New Zealand. They played an exhibition the US did in
San Jose today. The sendoff game wound up a victory

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two nothing over Wales thanks to two late goals from
Trinity Rodman in Vegas. Summer League started Friday. It'll go
through July seventeenth. Tonight Center victor Wembin Yama. The Spurs
had twenty seven points in twenty seven minutes in a
loss to Portland. NASCAR victory for William Byron at a
rain shortened race at Atlanta his fourth victory of the year.
They completed one hundred and eighty five of the two

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hundred and sixty laps. Daniel Suarez finished second, and in golf,
Cameron Smith won the Live Golf event in London, while
Alison Corpus took the US Women's Open.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Back to you, thanks, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Steve's got a little bit more coming up here in
a bit, we'll go in depth on everything and get
some numbers for you. Can I throw a couple more
questions questions here off Twitter for you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Yeah, we're getting a lot of tweets today, a lot
of tweets. I don't understand this all.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Right, Nature boy Eddie has a two parter.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
He starts with, we confirmed that you told your wife
Beth that you were having coffee with the guys.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Better make sure she's not listening, and.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
He adds, hopefully when you were in Vegas, you didn't
enter a wet T shirt contest at the party?

Speaker 5 (01:08:53):
Can you confirm that?

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Yeah? No, there was no what T shirt contests there?
That's for sure. Well you just said they were, oh,
you're what toplessolleyball?

Speaker 4 (01:09:00):
Yeah, it was topless volleyball. But you know, I'm very
much into volleyball, so I had to watch it for
a while.

Speaker 8 (01:09:05):
Right, back.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Speaking of that, how did basketball go today? I watched
a little bit. It's so painful. I mean, you look
like you're just in pain out there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
What are you doing? Yeah, why do you say that
about me?

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
I just I mean, if you're going to talk this
way about Wimbin Yama, I think we need to hold
you to the same standard. You look out of shape,
you look slow. You got these guys not getting the basketball.
I mean, how you doing it?

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
I was very mad that they didn't get me the ball.
We lost today. We add it down to a four
point lead late in the game. Our number one guy
who's such a dope, his name is Jackson. I said, hey, dude,
you got three fouls. Don't pick up your fourth foul
before that next thing he does, he picks up the
fourth foul files out of the game. So now I'm

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in for like the last ten minutes of the game,
and we we closed the lead a little bit. But
I they don't give me the ball to shoot it enough.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
I need to. I need the ball in my hand,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
Griz, you need you need to set up the offense.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
I do, I do. It's got to run through me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
I still would be concerned though, that if I was
playing in a rec league that they weren't playing me enough.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
I think I would just go, well, we only had
six guys today, That's why I got to play. If
we had eight guys, I'd be on the bench all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Back to sports, Uh, Colin brings this up, so it's
reasonable to assume. He writes on Twitter dot com that
the Saints will be better this year. But now that
your guy's Jason McIntyre is doubling down on Peter King's
twenty twenty two Saints winning the NFC prediction, it makes
me stoked for the season to start.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Is Peter King picking the Saints again? Also? Or no?

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
I think our boy Jason McIntyre, for I saw the
Hour Show, says that the winner of the NFC will
beat the Saints. Not the NFC South, not the wild Card,
but the NFC period. So shoot a gun in the
air enough times, eventually you'll hit a duck. I guess
in this one.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
But I think so. I do like the Saints.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
I just I don't think I'm gonna put I don't
think I'm want to put that roster in Super Bowl contingent.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
I like it. I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
I think they're good, but I think there's a different
level to being a good football team and being a
super Bowl caliber team. And I don't know if anyone's
got anything for Philly right now in the NFC.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
To be honest with you, you know, for the first
time in a long time, I feel good about my
Dolphins Dallas Cowboys prediction. I feel like that's gonna be
it this year. Feel good about that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
What do you like about Dallas over Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
I think there's gonna be a year where Dak puts
it all together. You know, I've been rough on him
and I'm thinking, Okay, you know, I understand he's a
good quarterback, He's had injuries.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
I'm hoping he puts it all together this year. That
was a good year, to be honest with you, and
I don't think it. I don't think the Giants are
gonna be as tough as they were last year. They
just had a real easy schedule, so I think that's
gonna help benefit them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Also, here's my question with Dallas right now, where have
they improved from last year?

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
We're personnel wise.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Do you look at the Dallas Cowboys and you're like, man,
I think they're better here. If you want to argue,
here's my pushback, be.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
A subtraction by the rig of Ezekiel Elliott. I don't
think Zeke was what was holding them up well, giving
him the ball was?

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
Did they give it to him twenty twenty five times
a game.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
They gave it to him enough. He just didn't have
it anymore. They're gonna obviously go with power, and they should.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
I so you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Think the biggest benefit to the Cowboys is that Ezekiel
Elliott isn't on the team anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
I think that's a I think it's a big plus.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
A guy that almost that literally carried the ball two
hundred and thirty one times, the lowest number in his career.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
A guy that nobody else's touching with a toch.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Nearly had a thousand. Well, no one's touching Dalvin Cook
or DeAndre Hopkins, and you're losing your mind to try
to go sign Dalvin Cook.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Right, Yes, I am.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
I that averaged almost four yards per carry and score
twelve touchdowns.

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
The subtraction of him makes them.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
Well, you know, the Cowboys could sign him back. There's
a jen Z he could go back. I just don't
think they want.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
To I just, I don't know where Dallas is better. Yeah,
I don't know where they've improved. Stefan Gilmour good, added corner.
I'll take your heat on that. A healthy, a healthy
Tyron Smith, that left tackle, that's big time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
They had big time offensive lineman problems too, didn't they
other than him? So Brandon Cooks all right, I mean, eh,
he gets bounced around a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:13:19):
It's just I don't know to where.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
I look at Philadelphia and I think, yeah, holy smokes man.

Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
They add more.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
They maybe get the best defensive tackle in the draft.
They get a guy that probably should have gone number
one in the Super Bowl runner ups get a guy
that should have gone number one in the draft in
Jalen Carter, who is probably an instant starter right around
right next to Fletcher Cox.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
DeAndre Swift.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
To me, it'll be interesting to see if he is
an upgraded running back, but I like him. Another year
with Jalen hurts, you shore up your backup. You go
get Marcus Mariota. I don't know, Arnie. I just I
feel like Philadelphia did a couple of things to upgrade
that I'm not really buying Dallas did right now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
So you're picking the Dolphins in Philadelphia, then.

Speaker 5 (01:14:04):
Right, sure, I'm picking the Dolphins in Philadelpha.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
How could you not pick the Dolphins?

Speaker 6 (01:14:09):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
How could you not pick that?

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
How could I not?

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Whenever someone's crammed him down your throat for ten years
and they've constantly underachieved. All right, when we come back
to Saga is going to get a scot up on
everything going on in the world of sports as we
come to you live from the tyrack dot com studios
with Arni and Plank on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
Alright, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
It's Arni in Plank live from the tyrack dot Com studios.

Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
What's going on? Steve Sager?

Speaker 8 (01:14:32):
Good evening once again, gentlemen. You mentioned earlier in the
show the news from the La Times Sports department. Today,
you will no longer see box scores or standings in
the paper. More importantly, you will no longer see traditional
game stories. It's going to be more like a magazine section.
If you want to find that type of stuff, it'll
be on their app or you can find it online.
And on this same day, the New York Times Sports

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department sent out a letter to its own leadership asking
for answers about the future of their our sports section,
concerned that it could be shut down in an ongoing
effort to further integrate the athletic into the New York Times. Because,
as the letter stated, for eighteen months, The New York
Times has left its sports staff twisting in the wind.

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We have watched the company by a competitor, a competitor
with hundreds of sports writers and way decisions about the
future of sports coverage here at The New York Times.
Well a reminder, Fox TV will have the MLB All
Star Game from Seattle on Tuesday night. The All Star
rosters include eight Atlanta Braves, which ties a National League record.
When they first named the rosters, it was twenty six

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total first time All Stars, including fifteen from the n
OL But the Braves leading the way, and why not
because on the road they were thirty and thirteen until
the loss.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Today.

Speaker 8 (01:15:46):
Even with the l they lost ten four at Tampa Bay.
The Braves at the All Star break have a record
of sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
And twenty nine.

Speaker 8 (01:15:53):
I believe they've lost five games in the last five
weeks something like that. The Rays had lost seven in
a row but got this home win against Atlanta and
The Rays do have a home record of thirty five
and fifteen, so they've been slumping. Baltimore's been getting closer,
but Tampa Bay is still a first place team. At
the break, the Baltimore Orioles have won five in a row.
Where is this team come from? The team that finally

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Orioles fans, Baltimore fans had a chance to get excited
about starting the last year or two. They could see
the youth movement coming to Fruition and now they're only
two games out in the Al East.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
At the breaks.

Speaker 8 (01:16:27):
They have a great road record twenty eight to seventeen. Today,
the Orioles hit six home runs and won fifteen to
two at Minnesota. Joe Ryan the loss, the win to
Kyle Gibson. He had eleven strikeouts in seven innings Gibson
nine and six. At the break, Baltimore has won five straight.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
You know, we got a tweet about that, someone said
that the oiol scored fifteen runs but they struck out
sixteen times. Has to be a record. That's crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:16:51):
We've had more strikeouts than that in games this weekend
by teams, just for the record, but wow, So yeah,
five straight wins for Baltimore. Five straight wins for Boston
mentioned earlier. They edged Oakland four to three. It was
on a solo homer bottom of the eighth by Masatake Yoshida,
who won with Japan in the World Baseball Classic in
March and then started his Red Sox career. Former Dodger

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closer Kennley Jansen got the save at Fenway Pac. Today
is nineteenth of the first half of the season, and
somebody's going to make the playoffs out of the AL
Central right now alone in first with a five hundred record.
The Cleveland Guardians at forty five and forty five. They
lost at home to Kansas City today four to one,

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the Secanas City team that had a road record of
twelve and thirty four, but they won at Cleveland and
the Guardian's still a half game. That's crazy, not quite that,
but they are a five hundred club and I repeat literally,
somebody from that division, whatever the record, is going to
the postseason. Pittsburgh and San Francisco with wins, and the

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Padres beat Max Scherzer and the Mets six to two.
Two huge stories going into the season where the payrolls
of the Andres and Mets and just write them in
and pen for the postseason. They might both get to
the postseason. It's only July the ninth, but the Padres record,
even with this weekend's wins, is forty three and forty
seven and the Mets record is forty two and forty eight.

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And Suerziers era is four point three one after giving
up the two home runs to Manny Machado today. Machada
with five RBIs San Diego native Joe Musgrove with the win,
he is eight and two. And what's with the Saint
Louis Cardinals dead last in the NL Central and it's
really not that close. Cardinals did win in ten innings
at the White Sox today four to three, got a

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run in the ninth, one in the tenth. But the
Cards record is thirty eight and fifty two. So that's
three teams Padres, Mets, Cardinals that you really didn't see
this coming. US men's soccer won on the penalty kicks
against Canada tonight at a Gold Cup quarterfinal. The Gold
Cup is the championship for our region of the world
every couple years. Two years ago the final was the
US beating Mexico in overtime, so come Wednesday on FS

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one the US semifinals in San Diego, then Mexico plays
in Las Vegas. US women's soccer is in an airplane.
They've left for the Women's World Cup. Their opener in
New Zealand on Fox TV is a week from Friday.
There will be some odd times with the time difference,
but cowing to the Americans and American TV, no doubt,

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they got a nine pm Eastern time for their first
couple games of the tournament. Nice for openers against Vietnam,
which needless to say, has never been to the Women's
World Cup and is not ranked in the top twenty
five in the world. Item number two on the schedule.
US women at the World Cup will face a top
ten Netherlands team that was their opponent in the final
four years ago. Third game will be US against Portugal.

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The American women in their sendoff game in San Jose today,
my goodness, they were not great. The first seventy five
minutes it was scoreless against Wales. Trinity Rodman eventually had
two late goals for a two to nothing win, and
this was again in the Bay Area. Five of the
US women on this summer's roster played in the Bay
Area at Stanford Plus. Alex Morgan played for cal Plus Juliar.

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It's played at Santa Clair.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
Not too shabby, Thanks Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
All right, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
When we come back, we'll hit all of Twitter. There's
a major NBA story we haven't gone in depth on.
Plus Arnie's picks. It's all coming up in the final hour.
It's Arney Spanier, Chris Plank, John Ramos is in tonight bet,
Steve de Sager, tons of audios well coming up in
the final hour on Fox Sports Radio.

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Victor Win, Benana Win, Benyama has a big bounce back night,
though Arnie still thinks he sucks. We are now forty
seven days away from the start of the college football season,
and just thirty one days away from preseason NFL play.
By the way, two quick college notes, not necessarily related
to college football. What'd you make of Well, one of

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them college football, one of them basketball. What'd you make
of this Northwestern story? I say not related to college
football because this seems to be like a broader issue.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
You have the story, you have the suspension, nobody knew
what happened. Then the Northwestern student paper had a report
of what happened. Then the president said we're going to
reevaluate it. Then the players had a page long letter
in support of their coach, Pat Fitzgerald. Now you go
fighting all over the internet about it, he said, he said,
type of thing. ESPN has talked to the accuser here

(01:21:58):
in this instant. I don't know what's what's going on here,
but holy smokes, what an absolute mess right now for
Northwestern football. What'd you make of the last thirty six
hours without report?

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
Well, no, it is a mess. I mean, you can't
have bullying.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
And even if Pat Fitzgerald knew about it or not,
he's supposed to know about it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
It's his team. And now there's reports that he did
know about it, and there was. There's proof on that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:21):
Also, I don't know how bad it got, but there's
no room for that, for bullying and hazing, And I mean,
my goodness, you think people would have learned their lesson
by now. I just don't know what type of punishment
it should be and how bad it really got. You know,
I've heard a few things that are pretty graphic. But
if it's that bad, he may be he may have
to lose his job. So I'm not sure what's going

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to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
To the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Does it matter whenever you get the support of the players.
In other words, when the letter that was pinned by
the players that makes the rounds that it said, hey,
this is BS we support our coach. And by the way,
the suspension was ridiculous to begin with.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
All right, because it's not during the football season.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Well, Arnie, it's not. I'm gonna use a lot of
negatives here. My second grade teacher, missus Been Venudo, would
be so mad. It's not that it's you know, not
a big suspension. I mean, it's two weeks, right, that'd
be huge if it was during the season, right, and
you had to miss a couple of games. Arnie, we're
in the middle of a dead period. You can't even

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call recruits or anything of that nature. Now we're in
a debt. You're suspending a guy two weeks during a
time when you can't be around your players or do
a lot of recruiting anyway. So I've I thought it
was one of the softest things from a penalty perspective
I'd ever seen. But then again, at that point when
it was announced, Arnie, no one knew what the accusations

(01:23:49):
were surrounding, right We didn't know what the I guess
with the players had done or what they were accused
of doing. And then you get the one story that
gets a little bit more corroborated. I don't know what
to believe right now.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
But the president. But the President gave him, you know,
the punishment, so he must have felt good that he
got all the information, unless they were keeping it from him. Also,
that's very concerning, you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Know, or or Arnie, because they had hired an outside
fir him to do this. Maybe they didn't have all
the information. Maybe they hadn't talked to this guy. I'm
trying to I'm trying to see the good in all
of this, which I know there isn't a lot of good, right,
but just I'm trying to give everyone the benefit of
the doubt.

Speaker 5 (01:24:30):
I don't think that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:32):
But and this guy, being as open as he is,
he talked to the paper, and then he went and
talked to Adam Rittenberg over at ESPN and gave him
the full story. Something tells me that if he was
this open, then they had to talk to him right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:44):
Right, exactly exactly. If he's that open, maybe he feels
like he didn't do anything wrong, or he's not as
culpable as everybody else's is making him out.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
To me, I'm talking about the kid that got bullied.
They got bully That's what I'm talking about. Because if
he's if he's out talking to the school newspaper, and
if he's talking to ESPN, then you would have to
assume that they talked to him so they knew they
knew all of this and then handed out a two
week suspension.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Who knows you ever been bullied before? Oh? Quite often,
I'm afraid quite often. I get bullied a lot on
this show.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
I feel like you must take out all your bullying
frustration on me, so we'll see. It's a very college
football story right now, College sports story. We'll see if
it costs Pat Fitzgerald's job. But everyone is just kind
of confused right now as to why the suspension before
it seemed like you had all the information. And then

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if you had this information, why was it such a
light suspension? So that's out there. And then the other one,
did Bob Huggins try to pull a George Costanza on it?

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
Wow? Is that just coming back and saying, I don't
know what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
I didn't quit.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
So I'm wondering if he does have a legal leg
to stand on, because if it was really his wife,
that's that And is she allowed to do that for him?

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Is he throwing her under the buzz? I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
I'm not an attorney, but I'm wondering if he's got
some legal recourse to this, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Oh, and I'll say this and again I'm very partial here.
One of my buddies is the athletic director at West Virginia,
and from the moment he took over Bob Huggins, not
maybe directly, but inadvertently, has made this job a nightmare. Right,
He had his top assistant, they got fired, he fired,

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but yet he claimed, you know, a lot of things
are out of my control.

Speaker 5 (01:26:36):
It's like, you're Bob freaking Huggins Man.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
You own, you run West Virginia, you control an assistant
getting fired, So yeah, don't give me that. Then he
goes on and says this stupid thing on the Cincinnati
radio station, and then Arnie, he gets arrested for a
DUI and his daughter, Bless her heart. I hope my
daughters have my back. But tried to sell that the
beer cans were a recycling project.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Right right, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
I'm shocked that he's doing this because I thought they
had reached an agreement on a payout. And so maybe
I'm wrong on that because if they had reached an agreement,
I don't know how we can come back and say
that he didn't resign or anything to that fact. It's
I'm so curious how this will turn out, or does
he want more money to go away. I'm not sure
how this is really going to play out.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
I have no clue.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
I have no clue, and I'm not gonna lie to you.
You can't bring him back. You can't, No, you can't.
He's gone. And so those were two big stories we
haven't hit on yet.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
But Arnie.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
I do feel like I've not been a good host
tonight because I haven't brought you the biggest story from
the NBA outside of women Yama Bass, outside of Dame
Lillard still in limbo, outside of James Harden, really no options.
We had the mid season tournament announced and then we

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finally got some of the details, and I don't I
don't know why, but I think I'm back in on
this thing. I'm still confused as hell. You know, what
does it accomplish? What are we really going to do here?
But what do you make of the mid season tournament
for the NBA?

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Now? Again, it's just what a glorified regular season game
in a way, to be honest with you, And they're saying,
and the winner gets five hundred thousand dollars, What the
hell do I care what the players are gonna get
like that? That's gonna make me tune in because I
know that the winner of this game is gonna get
a half a million dollars that's riding on the line here. Look,
I understand what they're trying to do.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
They're trying to get interest in these games, and they're
trying to go ahead and say the final fours in
Las Vegas. So the players are gonna have some interest also,
and that's that's fine and dandy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
But has it come to the point now where we
have to do these gimmicks just to have some relevance
in the regular season just so these players don't do
load management and take all this time off. Boy, it
seems pretty extreme that we have to go to this.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
You know, well, okay, I'll just I don't disagree with you,
but I think they're not thinking that you would care more.
They're trying to make sure that the right exactly the
players are there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:06):
I guess it's very soccer.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
It's very soccer right where all of a sudden it's like,
wait a minute, this team is not playing in another
tournament in the middle of this season. I don't even
know what this means, but I guess my biggest question
I have how big of a deal is it gonna be?

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Is Lebron is Kevin Durant? Is I mean Nicole Jokic?
Are they gonna play? Or is it gonna be the
younger guys that play and maybe another opportunity to let
these guys rest.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Is it go?

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Arnie?

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Load management isn't just a player problem, its owners, it's
athletic trainers, it's coaches. I mean, if our boss man,
Scott Shapiro, came to us and said, I'm still gonna
pay you guys, I'm gonna give you the night off,
I'd probably take.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
That night off. Oh I think I would.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
Yes, And I think that's what you are seeing with
a lot of these players. You know at athletic try
we're gonna give you a night off. Or a strength guy,
We're gonna give you a night off. You know what.
I'm good with that. Am I still getting paid?

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
So is this just going to be something that I mean,
if everyone gets five hundred thousand dollars, if you're on
the roster, I mean, are they gonna say you have
to play play a certain amount of minutes to get
that five hundred grand if your team wins.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
I don't know if this is a big deal or not.
But I guess you have to give the NBA credit
for trying.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
So maybe if you're Lebroad and Anthony Davis, do you
feel like you have to play to help some of
the guys that don't make a lot of money to
get that extra half billion and say we owe it
to you. So let's go out there and you know,
for these guys, make an NBA minimum.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
We want to get you the half billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
That's a great question. I don't have an answer, you know,
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
But but also, are you willing to risk those let's see,
what is this going to run December fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
and ninth. Are you willing to risk those four days
in Vegas for the potential love a national chamber, a title.

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
That's just the final four? Right, you have to play
your way to Vegas too, Like it's a big deal,
Like they can'timber ninth title game. Yeah, Like you can't
afford to go to Vegas on your own. So I
better witness was we really want to go to Vegas? Well,
you know, maybe you go on your own on your own.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
Dime when it's all said and done. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
The one thing that I will say, I don't like
the timing of it, because you're you're in the midst
of the best time of the NFL season, You're heading
down the home stretch, you're getting to the playoffs. I
think from a college football perspective.

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
Yeah, I think it happens.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
And it starts up the week a few days after
the conference championship Saturday, so it is kind of dumping
all over. Army Navy shouts out to the Army Knights,
let's go and let's see. The December second is the
SEC title games, so that means all the title games
will be on the second. So you're not interfering with

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all the college football conference championship games. But I mean,
I don't why wouldn't you wait and try to do
something like this. I don't know when you're not having
competition when with the NFL, well you're not having competition
with football, I mean, you're you're in direct competition with
the National Football League.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Maybe they feel like that's going to get some of
their reviewers back. Also, maybe they feel like they've got
the viewers when there's no NFL, so we might as
well try to get back our viewers, you know, when
this is all going on.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
So, in other words, their thought is right is a
little bit I guess right. They're saying, all right, NFL,
we'll show you. We're gonna put this mid season tournament,
and we're gonna show people the NBA still have some teeth.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
Bold strategy Cotton. But again, I.

Speaker 3 (01:32:49):
Think that's the way I look at it. I don't
know if that's true, though, but that's the way I
look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
I think the biggest question in all of this is
going to be who will play right well? The play
not by teams, I mean players. Will Mike Malone give
two you know what about this mid season tournament or
will he trot out? I can't even name a couple backups.
A Cantagious Caldwell Pope as the number one option for

(01:33:13):
Denver or Michael Porter Junior.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
Will Lebron care or will it be.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
The the Pippins show, the Pippins kid that's playing in
the lake?

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
Another?

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Will it be like the Summer League, Arnie? Or are we
gonna treat it like a true all star event? And
I think that's that's the question that has to be asked.
And I don't know if that's the question we're gonna
have an answer to until we get there, right right?

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
No, I agree, I I look, I'm not gonna say
it's gonna be glorified. People are still gonna miss games,
but I don't think they're gonna go out of their
way to bust their chops and win this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
It's just another game to them.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
I'm thinking, all right, when we come back, it is
time to dive into Twitter dot com. We are just
thirty minutes away from Arnie's picks. You you got what
you're picking?

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
You got three? Yeah, I got three.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:33:57):
We got the Baseball All Star Game and we got
that going.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
Oh you know Baseball All Star Game?

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Wow? You don't like that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
No, I've turned on it. It's like, just get the
game over, let's go. Let's get to the second half
of the season. And they stretch out the break too long.
They stretch out the break. Remember back in my day,
shall watch in nineteen ninety three highlights or watching ninety
three highlights? Do you know what the All Star break
was in nineteen to ninety three? Monday Wednesday? Right, Monday,
Tuesday Wednesday. You had the home run Derby on Monday, Yeah,

(01:34:28):
the All Star Game on Tuesday. On Wednesday, everyone traveled
to where they needed to go, and we played baseball
on Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:34:35):
Now it's like, oh, you know, let's get a couple extra.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Days in here.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Maybe some teams on Saturday, some on Friday. I don't
I don't get it, but we'll talk All Star Game
in Arnie's picks coming up in just a bit. But
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before I get to the tweets, was there anything else
numerically that you wanted me to get to tonight that
we have not yet?

Speaker 4 (01:35:37):
Well, yeah, you really didn't go to Well we did
a little bit at number fifteen to San Diego State story.
I was still confused on what the heck is that's
going to happen to them. I still can't believe that
they don't have a conference. Don't you have to come
up with the schedule too.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
So well, here's the thing is, if there is one
thing from years Arnie years of covering conference realignment, it
is everybody talk tough. Early San Diego State was talking tough,
thanking they were getting Packed twelve or maybe a Big
twelve offer, And now the Mountain West is talking tough.
I like the Mountain West san Diego State. It's pretty

(01:36:13):
crucial to the Mountain West so they can be all
Barney badass and be like, oh, you're out. You know
we're not, You're not coming back. Eventually, cooler heads prevail,
right and attorneys get involved, and something tells me neither
one of these entities, the Mountain West or San Diego
State want to spend a lot of time fighting with
lawyers in court so it will get figured out. I'm

(01:36:35):
still not giving up on San Diego State ending up
in the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
I'm really not.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
But this is I mean, my gosh, the Big twelve fighting.
We're not letting o you in Texas leave early. I mean,
cal the systems, the university systems had hearings on trying
to block UCLA from going. You know, all this conference
realignment stuff is really the people that either get burned

(01:37:02):
and try to show that they're gonna make you pay,
but eventually realizing, you know, we're okay if we move on.

Speaker 4 (01:37:07):
And we're okay if we move on and we didn't
get the Popovich who got a extension five year, eighty
million after four straight losing seasons. So now you know
he'll ride one by Yama to go ahead and show
everbody what a great coach he is.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
Right, but he sucks though, Right, so with women Yama sucking,
maybe he'll be okay and he'll just prove he's terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
Why should he get an extension after four straight losing
seasons though?

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
Because he's Greg Popovich, aren he and they believe in him?

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
I mean they.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
I don't know what san Antonio's plan was over the
last few years. I don't I don't know if it
was to inevitably get lucky and land Victor wimbin Yama,
because if it was, it worked. But it's still a dude,
that's been there since nineteen ninety six and has won
five NBA titles.

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
I mean, does that not mad I for anything?

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
No, it does matter. I mean obviously though, is it
his coaching or is it Robinson and Duncan? So you
tell him, well, it's always a combination of both. Yeah,
is it?

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Who do you think is the best coach of all time?
If Varney Spaniers said this guy is the best coach
of all time.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
The best coach of all time, Well, I guess I'd
have to give that the Belichick right now, even though
he hasn't done it without Brady.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
You just spent the entire show last week dumping all
over Belichick.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
Yeah, who else am I gonna give it to? If
I'm not gonna give it to him?

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
My point is none of these great coaches are great
coaches without talent. Look what happened when Bill Wallash tried
to go to Stanford and he no longer had great talent.

Speaker 5 (01:38:37):
Didn't work.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
He has a great offensive system, awesome mind, didn't work.
So you can say, is it the coach of the player.
I mean, you do need great coaching, but Johnson need
great players to make it work.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
So right, Well, you could say, Phil Jackson, but he
had had players too. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:38:54):
How did he do when he was in New York?

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Yeah? Right, not too. But he wasn't the coach there he.

Speaker 5 (01:38:58):
Was now he was more the general manager.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
Okay, how did you deal with the Lakers whenever they
went through their swoon without without Shaq?

Speaker 3 (01:39:05):
I live that.

Speaker 5 (01:39:05):
It was a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
Let me get some of these tweets in here, because
Jason's on this right. It's a good question. Jason B.
Diamond at Champing dad zero right, Okay, let me ask
a question. Is there any chance Pat Fitzgerald or any
coach could keep his job with the accusations made against him?

(01:39:27):
Can you please add some insight, Arnie, as a parent
of a college athlete, I can't think of a better
person to ask, how would you handle this if this
was Shay, if this.

Speaker 4 (01:39:38):
Was well, first of all, I'd have to go to
my son and find out the exact truth, so I'd
have a little bit more information than the average person
out there. And then you know, I could find out,
you know, if this guy did something that was just
made my skin crawl, I'd be calling for his job.
I'd have to say, no, you can't keep him around you.
You got to go ahead and get rid of him
and move on out. And this two week suspension is

(01:40:02):
ridiculous considering nothing that's going on. Matter of fact, they
must have heard the evidence the first time around and
thought it was not that big of a deal. So
I'm curious what they didn't here the first time that
they heard the second time.

Speaker 3 (01:40:16):
That's what I'm curious about it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
Well, I mean, at the core of it, it's not
as if anyone was.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
I don't even say not violated.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
But it's not like anyone got beat up or no
one got paunched or you know, I've heard of you know,
things involving pencils and things of that nature in hazing.
This involved, you know, a humiliating act, but it wasn't
as if anyone took an elbow shot to the face.
So I wonder if they looked at it and said, well,
it's not like he got punched or anything like that.

(01:40:49):
That's the only thing I can come away with. But
now seeing the reaction to it and how people are responding,
I think the Northwestern president is looking back and thinking,
all right, maybe this is a little bit worse.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
First, were you in a fraternity, did you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
I was, I was a proud I am I'm a
proud Sigmkay, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Did you do a lot of hazing back then or what? No?

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Because our fraternity had got in trouble for hazing a
couple of years before we got there, So it was
incredibly easy because they couldn't. I don't want to say
it was easy, but it was just a little bit
softer than what maybe our forefathers went through.

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
Arnie Spaniard, Well, we yeah, I was gonna say, we
do mind stuff, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
Like mine, like holding your hands.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Out, Oh mine, mine might like?

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:41:33):
So, like we would make them stand on a chair
and underneath them would be a box of glass, right right,
and then we'd blindfold them when we'd take away the
glass and put potato chips there, so when they would
step into it, they would think they were stepping into
the glass.

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
Are we sure that the uh? What's the rule?

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Whenever a crime has been committed after a certain amount
of time, you can't get in trouble for it.

Speaker 6 (01:41:58):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:41:59):
Is that hazing? Still? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
You had him blindfolded. Were you just talking nice to
him or were you yelling at him?

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
I'm sure there was some. Well, I'll tell you I
was part of one. I don't know if I'll get
in trouble for this.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
What house were you in? Alpha Kapa Lambda, I don't
even know. Is that real? Yeah? Akl Yeah, they fill
Revenge of the Nerds there. But listen to this. I
had a great thing going on. We would get the
pledges all in a room and they'd be sitting down,
nothing'd be going on, and I'd be in the room
and I pretend like I was typing up the hell
Week rules, right, and the guys would come in and

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take a look at some of the rules that we'd
start laughing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:37):
It was totally focused. And then someone go, you got
an emergency on the phone.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
I would run out and they would read the stuff
on the on the piece of paper, which was all
lies my terrible stuff too, oh terrible, terrible, terrible stuff.
I mean, I had kids puking when I came back in, like, oh,
I'm not doing this. You can't make me do this.

Speaker 6 (01:42:57):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
It was hysterical, Thank you very much, Brandon. Statue of limitations.
Aren't you better be careful in this new era? If
they can find that piece of paper somewhere you used
your word processors.

Speaker 4 (01:43:10):
Not that there was no physical or you know, anything
like that. I mean, just just a little harmless fun.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
But to Jason's point, if if you heard that these
were if Shay said it was a problem Dad they
did this, I mean, I think you would have a
problem with it too.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
I think you'd be going after the coach too if
you could.

Speaker 3 (01:43:27):
Yeah, you're probably right on that all.

Speaker 4 (01:43:29):
So again, we have to figure out how bad it
is and how bad it got.

Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
And how specific it is.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
I'm starting to worry that it's a lot worse than
some of the people are letting it on to be.

Speaker 3 (01:43:38):
So I guess we'll have to find out. But I
think they're probably gonna give me a new punishment.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
I just and I wonder too, I mean, what are
we doing whenever your way of hazing a guy is
dry humping him? I mean, what are we even doing Northwestern?

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Anyway, we'll get to more of your tweets coming up
in just a bit, including this from UCLA Dodger Frank,
who writes Wimby is either Darko Milichick or Wilt Chamberlain,
no in between. There's no gray area. He can't be
Kevin Durant. He better be the best ever? All right,
Steve de Seger get us caught up on everything going
on in the world of sports.

Speaker 5 (01:44:12):
A final trending here for our show tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:44:14):
Good evening once again. US men's soccer went to penalty
kicks in its Gold Cup quarterfinal in Cincinnati tonight and
eliminated Canada three to two. The Americans outshot him in
the game, twenty one to five, but it took an
own goal late in overtime to retie the game. The
Americans advance to a Wednesday semifinal in San Diego against
Panama that'll also be on FS one. Then Wednesday nights

(01:44:37):
in Vegas, Mexico has its semifinal against Jamaica. The Gold Cup,
our championship for our region of the world, two years ago,
had a final of US beating Mexico in overtime. US
women's soccer has left for the Women's World Cup, flying
to New Zealand today in San Jose. The American women
ascendoff exhibition two nothing over Wales Trinity Rodman two late goals.

(01:45:00):
Perkins outshot him twenty two to two in the game,
and yet it was scoreless through seventy five minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
That's Dennis Rodman's girl, right.

Speaker 8 (01:45:07):
Yes it is, although Dennis Rodman, being what he is,
she grew up with her mom. The US had seventy
two percent of the possession of this game. The American
women this year now eight to zero, outscoring opponents nineteen
to one. At Wimbledon, number one Egas Fiantec advanced to
the quarterfinals saving two match points. Men's number one Carlos
Alcarez plays tomorrow. Cameron Smith won the Live Golf event

(01:45:30):
in London. Now he'll try to defend his British Open
titles starting in a week and a half. Today he
held on to win by one stroke. So this season
with Live Golf, Cameron Smith has now earned over nine
and a half million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
Wow Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:45:44):
Patrick Reid tied for second today. Just second place today
earned him nearly one point nine million dollars for three
days of golf. Meanwhile, the winner of the PGA event
got one point three million dollars or so. Sepstraka in
Illinois shot a final round sixty two despite a double
bogie on the final hole. Alison Corpus won the US

(01:46:05):
Women's Open, the first ever held at Pebble Beach. It's
her first victory on the tour. She won by three strokes,
claimed the two million dollar first prize, a record for
a women's major. She was the only player to break
par all four days. Two stories from the women's golf
this weekend. Won Corpus from Hawaii, apparently went to Michelle
Wee's high school, played golf at usc She is the

(01:46:26):
first player representing the US to win the US Women's
Open since twenty sixteen. Rose Zang from Stanford, someone who
just won a second straight individual NCAA title, recently just
turned twenty. In her LB HELPGA Pro debut, she won
the event a few weeks ago, earned four hundred thousand dollars,
then played in a major few weeks ago, finished top

(01:46:49):
ten only three shots back, tied for eight, and then
at this major tied for ninth, another top ten finish,
another two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Not just
this season college golf, she won eight times in ten starts,
breaking Tiger Woods Stanford record. She was the top ranked
amagur in the world for a record one hundred and
forty one consecutive weeks. At the Vegas Summer League, which

(01:47:11):
started Friday tonight. It was center Victor wembin Yama of
the Spurs getting twenty seven points in twenty seven minutes
in an eighty five eighty loss to Portland. Blazer's rookie
guard Scoot Henderson did not play due to a strange shoulder.
NASCAR victory Atlanta rain shortened for William Byron. Baseball's now
on All Star Break Pittsburgh was a four to two
winner at Arizona. The lost to Zach Davies, who's one

(01:47:33):
in five eer over six Arizona. Not such a great
home record, and yet they are tied for first in
the NST with the Dodgers, who were off today. LA's
option second baseman Miguel Vargas to triple a batting one
ninety five. Giants won nothing over Colorado. Time of the
game an hour fifty six nice a complete game for

(01:47:53):
Logan Web with ten strikeouts. Giants are only two and
a half games out in the Division, Colorado, the worst
record in the National League. San Diego beat the Mets
in Max schurz Ers six to two. Seattle a three
to one winner at Houston. The Angels were off. They've
lost nine of their last ten games. Angels forty five
and forty six, and yes, the trade deadline comes up

(01:48:14):
in less than a month. Washington and Seattle with wins.
Kansas City won four to one at Cleveland. Ryan Yarborough
the winning pitcher in his return from facial fractures. Who's
back on the field. Cleveland, as we mentioned earlier, as
a five hundred team and yet alone and first in
the AL Central at the break. Minnesota lost at home
fifteen to two to Baltimore, which is won five in

(01:48:34):
a row. Boston won at fifth in a row. Milwaukee
won nothing over Cincinnati. The Reds are still first in
the NL Central, just one game ahead of the Brewers.
Now Tampa Bay beat Atlanta finally, ten to four. Cubs
a seven to four winner at the Yankees. I don't
know if you've seen Yankee baseball this year. It's not
worth riding home about Gencarlo Stantono for four. He's batting

(01:48:55):
two oh three. Of course, Aaron Judge still injured. The
Yankees fired their hitting coach today, Dylan Lawson. Team batting
average is two thirty one, and the Yankees are batting
two eighteen since the Judge injury. Speaking of batting averages.
Luis a Riah is at three point eighty three at
the break for the Marlins, even with the for four today,
Miami beat Philadelphia seven three. Miami has a great record

(01:49:16):
at All Star break fifty three and thirty nine. Toronto
and Saint Louis each one in ten innings. LSU pitcher
Paul Skens was drafted number one overall by the Pirates.
The three day MLB draft started tonight. It's twenty rounds
total in Seattle. Seattle will be hosting the home run
derby Monday night. Pete Alonzo the Mets, the favorite. The
All Star Game in Seattle Tuesday night on Fox TV.

(01:49:39):
Dusty Baker of Houston will manage the AL. Rob Thompson
of the Phillies managing the NL. They were the two
World Series managers last year and coming out the announcement
Monday of the AL and NL starting pitchers for the
game Tuesday, along with the starting lineups. This will be
the third straight year players wear an All Star Game
uniform and not their own team uniform. Some are not

(01:50:01):
fans of that, but marketing sales really, there you go.
The American League has won nine straight All Star Games
in fact, it has lost just three times since nineteen
ninety six.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
You sure about that? I thought it was six.

Speaker 8 (01:50:14):
Since nineteen ninety six, he said, if you want to
go back to the eighties, I'm sure it's six losses.
More games equals more chances at else. Next year, the
All Star Game will be at Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
Back to you, thanks Steve. Texas is going to be awesome.
I might go to that. I've never been to an
All Star weekend. I wanted to go in Saint Louis
when they were there. Then I'd have to be around
Cardinal fan and my family, and I don't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
Are you watching more baseball now that it's faster or not? Really?
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
That hasn't really effect That hasn't really been a factor
for me. And is it going to be terrible When
I say I haven't really noticed it, say I noticed
it early on Arnie because we were talking about it
so much. Well, it was cutting off like twenty minutes
to a happen. But I'm not noticing it when I'm
watching the game right. There's not a part of me
where it's like, dang, this game is cooking right. And

(01:51:02):
maybe part of that is because I have watched so
much softball over the last seven years.

Speaker 3 (01:51:06):
I just, hey, let's go, let's let's move.

Speaker 5 (01:51:10):
But I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
I don't really Maybe I'm alone in it. I don't
notice it too much, do you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:16):
I.

Speaker 4 (01:51:16):
I do notice it, but I don't know if I'm
watching more baseball for it, you know. I I do
tune in to see what's going on with my Mets,
but I do notice the games go by fast.

Speaker 5 (01:51:26):
Do you sit and watch a Mets game?

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
Not of the whole nine nine things? I mean see
it depends on the game, but no, not the whole nine.

Speaker 5 (01:51:33):
Inne maybe here's maybe here's where I'm noticing it. I'll
sit and watch a whole Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
Game, right, I'll watch eight nothing or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
Well, no, I'm going to bed if they're down eight
nothing because it's late at night. But I'll watch a
whole Dodgers game right if it's if it's close, if
it's not close, whatever, I'll watch it. What I've noticed
is I'm getting to bed earlier because in the Central
time zone, if you're a fan of a team on
the West Coast, you usually aren't going to bed until
midnight one am, and the games are over right now,

(01:52:01):
I feel like a game will start at you know,
eight thirty nine o'cl usually nine o'clock, and I'm in
bed by eleven thirty. And that's so that's a lot better. Also,
the Dodgers kind of made me angry, but hey, their
first place, first place Los Angeles Dodgers heading into the
All Stars.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
You still have not been the Dodgers stadium too, so.

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
I've never even been there walking into the stadium. Let's
go all right, quick break. When we come back, Arnie
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Oh man, what a show tonight. We wrap it with
our progressive play of the day, final regular season game
before the All Star break, and what a day for
Manny Machada.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Two and too. Now Suzer is set. Here's the pitch,
and Many gets a hanging breaking ball hits it a
ton deep to left field.

Speaker 11 (01:53:07):
Way back, good to go, second level of balconies in
the western metal building and a three run homer in
the bottom of the first for Manny Machado.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
Manny Machada with add another home run, five runs batted in,
six to two.

Speaker 5 (01:53:25):
The Padres get to win.

Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
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(01:53:48):
great job as always in Steve Sager on updates, plus
the millions and millions of editors behind the scenes putting
together great audio.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
Oh do I have a piece of audio for you
before we get out?

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
But first, yes, it's time for your picks twas well,
not a lot to bet on.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
So that's why Todd is on vacation. But that's okay.
We got the All Star Game and it has been
clear that the American League has just dominated the game
what the last nine years.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
I think they won in a row. Not that right.
They are just on a tear. And if I do
the quick math, I think out of those nine games,
maybe three have gone over. I'm going against the trend here.

Speaker 4 (01:54:33):
I think the National League finally ends this little run
and I like the over. Give me the National League
six to five over the American League. And of course
the home run derby gotta get a little action that.
You know who I'm taking to the home run derby,
don't you, Chriz Rookie Betts, Pete Alonzo and Pete we

(01:54:55):
trust so having a pretty good year home run wise.
His batting average is not so hot, that's for sure.
But I'm gonna go with Pete on the home run contest.
I do think Hopkins is gonna end up with New England.
But I have a change of heart. Remember when I
told you that Dovid Cook was gonna end up with
my Dolphins. I'm starting thinking he's gonna end up with
the Jets. I get that bad feeling.

Speaker 5 (01:55:14):
He wants to go play for the team that's gonna
win the East.

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
Well, then you go to the Dolphins. If he wanted
to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:55:20):
Well, he has that opportunity. He's choosing not to.

Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
He's doing it about money. So there you have my picks.
Do with the mission? Please?

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Don't you could make more money in Miami than he
could make with the Jets.

Speaker 4 (01:55:29):
For entertainment purposes only, Caddy. I hope he can, because
I don't know what he's waiting for. I wish you
would just signed with Miami already.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
Twenty one of the last twenty four All Star Games
that didn't end in a tie have been won by
the American League.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
That's crazy, is it?

Speaker 5 (01:55:45):
How was that even possible?

Speaker 4 (01:55:47):
And the American League is barely They're only minus one
twenty five favorite over under seven and a half. The
number of seven a half just makes you want to
bet the over, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
With all the great yes, whenever I was a kid
growing up, the National League seemed like they won them all.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
And then in nineteen my dad and my dad loved
my dad's still alive, but we would watch the All
Star Game, and he loved the intro of the starting lineups.
Because we didn't get to see all the games right right,
and we didn't even get cardinal games. We'd have to
listen to him. I'm old, guys, I'm forty eight. But
in nineteen eighty three, I'll never forget the American League
had finally broke through.

Speaker 5 (01:56:21):
The National League had won.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
My gosh, the National League had won every game from
nineteen seventy two to nineteen eighty two. And the star
in that game was fred Linn who had a Grand
Slam home run off of Attlee Hammacker and some reason, Arnie,
It's one of those sports memories that stayed with me forever.
The fireworks went off on the Kamiski scoreboard. I was like, ooh,

(01:56:43):
this is crazy plays and the American League won at
thirteen to three, and since then they really haven't slowed down.
Since Fredlin's Grand Slam home run in nineteen eighty three,
the American League has only lost the All Star Game
nine times. I mean, they have just been absolutely dominant.

(01:57:04):
So I'm with you, Arnie. I'm kind of leaning towards
the American League to get this thing done. U Are
they gonna play it on Wednesday? Now They're gonna move
to Thursday, take another week off. And by the way, ESPN,
you know there is more famous people from Seattle than Maclamore.
I don't know if you know this or not, but
we we could have a mixed bag of previews. Not

(01:57:26):
Maclamore dressed up in baggy blue jeans and ill fitting
mariners wrapping some terrible song and goodness.

Speaker 4 (01:57:33):
And I don't like the al NL jerseys. I like
for theult in.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
Their own jersey. So I want to ask again, Arnie Spaniard,
are you a fan of the in season NBA quote
unquote tournament.

Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
I'm a basketball fan. This doesn't change anything for me.
It's not like I'm like, oh Wow, this is must
watch TV. I can't wait till this comes around, and
I got it it marked in my calendar. To me,
it's just like another glorified regular season game.

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
To be honest, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Here was Steve Kerr talking about his excitement level for
the NBA In Season Tournament.

Speaker 3 (01:58:12):
I'm excited. You know.

Speaker 5 (01:58:14):
The playing tournament has been awesome.

Speaker 10 (01:58:16):
You know we've been part of that as a team,
both being in the playing tournament and trying to avoid it,
and I think being creative with the regular season has
been really successful. I'm excited about this mid season tournament too.
I think it's going to add an element of energy
and excitement for the players and the coaches and the fans.

Speaker 3 (01:58:35):
So I think it's a great idea, great idea. Well,
if he thinks it's a great idea, that I'm with him.
All right now you're turning. I see it. I saw
it happening. You're turning.

Speaker 4 (01:58:45):
No, no, I I just look it. It's not that
I think it's a bad idea, a great idea. I
just it doesn't make the needle move for me. I'm
just to me, it's just like another glorified regular season game.
That's all really means to me.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Julian writes on Twitter to put a rap. This hate
BS is getting out of hand. It's approaching humiliation and
psychological harm. Throughout time, it has gotten more serious and
more ridiculous, almost like these fraternities are bored.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
Well, let me just.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
Say right now, what the Northwestern football team is being
accused of is minor compared to some of the hazing
incidents that we've seen. It's humiliating and it's wrong, but
we've seen a lot worse things done to people in
hazing situations.

Speaker 3 (01:59:32):
Now it's bat they know they can't do that. They know, right,
you know people are gonna find out and it's frowned
upond So why deal? With something like that. That's what
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
Make man, it's probably gonna end up costing Pat Fitzgerald's job.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Could He's gonna get fired.

Speaker 2 (01:59:48):
But it's also interesting because I'm surprised it took this
long for someone to come out against it. If this
has been going on this long, and if it's that humiliating,
why did it take so long for it to come out?
That's how that blows my mind. All Right, Hey, Ramos,
it's always fun to.

Speaker 3 (02:00:04):
Have you, man. I appreciate all your hard to work.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
Have fun with Doug this week, even though you know,
I'm sure he's mad about Kelly Maxwell transferring. Tell him
not to try to take away her oh jacket. You'll
get that. No one else will. For Brandon, for Steve,
to Seger, for Ardie Spaniards. I'm Chris playing stick around.
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