Chris Plank & Arnie Spanier Talk Bronny James In Summer League, NFL Training Camp Hype, NBA Free Agency, and More!!

Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier discuss the start of the NBA Summer League with Bronny James debuting and already sitting out for injury maintenance. Plank and Arnie also get hyped as NFL training camp is right around the corner. Plus, the guys talk more news on NBA Free Agency, Bronny James comparisons, Arnie's picks, and more!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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(00:26):
of July?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Or good? Good? Good? I sat around, I stuffed my face.
I worked that night, so it was all all good time.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Mata.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
How did we have the fireworks here on the third
of July? So that's why I worked on the fourth.
We do things backwards here, nevermne so.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, I gotta tell you we we did both. Fourth
of July. You know, is a big deal around the
Plank household. We invite everybody. I wasn't able to work
on the fourth because we had friends and everyone over
and it was pretty awesome. Man. We got it's been
a rain, meaning like crazy around here.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
You do even need a rain?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Do you do your own fireworks? No?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I can't do my own man?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
You kidding me?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Do you know not expensive fireworks are?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
They're pretty Yeah, they're pretty pricey. There's no yeah, it
is not pretty pricey. It is ridiculous, ridiculously hundreds of
dollars that could run.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
YEA, well, let me let me just put it this way.
If you are one of those people that like to
put on a show and you like to make sure
that everybody knows that you're having a fireworks display, Arnie
is more than just a couple of one hundred dollars,
that's for certain. You're you're talking like five figures. If
you really want to put on a show. That's not

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my world, Arnie. That's not my world. So I go
and enjoy it. So happy Fourth of July and listen.
I wanted to take a moment because I know we
got a lot of listeners, a lot of fans of
Arnie's down in the Houston area off the Gulf Coast.
You all buckle up. I know it's going to be
a concerning next twenty four to forty eight hours, but
hopefully we can help serve as as a bit of
a dit action as you hunker down and prepare for

(02:03):
the latest hurricane. You you came in with the Roman
numeral rundown with a hurricane of sub numbers about Bronnie James.
Why are you so fired up about this?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
And I was hoping he was gonna go ahead and
play today, and they took that away from me, the
old swollen knee routine. I knew it was gonna be
something I wish I could have bet get away from
you what I I wish I could have bet like
a million dollars that he wasn't going to play in
the second game because he was gonna come up with
some mysterious injury.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well you could have, yeah, I mean you could have
if you wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
You over r under his first game. Did you see
the over other's points his first game?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, what was it?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Fifteen and a half?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
He definitely hit that. He never hit that under, that's
for certain. Is that crazy or what seems seems relatively
high to me? Seems like he seems like it's a
little bit much. But you were also somebody that was
ready to put money on him as the top overall
pick because you thought there might be value there.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
So I don't know you, I would still go ahead
and bet him to be Rookie of the Year. Somehow,
He's two hundred and fifty to one to win Rookie
of the Year. I would still bet that. Like, they'll
change the rules halfway through and say we're gonna draw
one name out and they get to vote. It's oh,
Lebron James. Okay, So there you go. You never know
what something is. Weird's going to happen where Lebron says, Hey,

(03:22):
remember that one hundred thousand I loaned Drew. We're good
if you vote.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
For hold on, hold on, let's stop a second here.
Think about what you're doing right now. You're accusing Lebron
James in the future of trying to buy votes for
his son to win Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
If you had a billion dollars, what's one hundred thousand
to you, Chris?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I know you would do that. Listen. If he's not
gonna be worthy of the Rookie of the Year, I'm
not going to try to buy him the Rookie of
the Year. Maybe worth be different. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
He's not worthy of being in the NBA. But you
bought him into the NBA, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Wow, how many times have you ever thought about the
fifty fifth pick in the NBA draft? Have you ever
thought thought from like I'm looking. I want to read
you guys the Rundown fourteen.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
You know, back in the day, I used to Back
in the day when there was what six or seven rounds,
you did pay attention to the second round. You knew
the second round picks work. Chris so wide.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
You're going back like thirty years now? When was the
last time we did more than two rounds?

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Here?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
You could at least go back to last ten years.
I bet you couldn't even name a second round pick here. Here,
here's what we happen. Bronnie number one two for nine
four points. Number two not an NBA player. Number three
too soon, Number four should be playing college or g league.
Number five, something about atmosphere, number six, Summer league matter eleven,
No Bronni tonight swelling. You've got seven different topics you

(04:42):
want to dive into involving Bronnie James.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
For seven excuse me, seven subtopics subtopic number one. This
is why you know that you really didn't learn your
Roman numerals when.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I didn't have to. It has not helped me at
all outside of knowing what super Bowl is that? And
the metric system coming when of you used the system
for any thing.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's why I still use Roman numerals.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Then why do you care? I mean, I'm being serious
right now. Why do you care so much about brownie teams?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm talking to all of you right now. Why is
this such a big deal to you? Do you not
get to a point where you are exhausted by trying
to be outraged by everything? Can you just sit back
and say, huh, he got takeing with a fifty to
fifth pick in the draft. There might be more viable players.
He might not ever make the team. Let's see how
it plays out. I mean, why, what's the big freaking

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deal about this?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Because well, that's one of it too. A lot of
people think it's nepotism that he doesn't deserve the shot
of the NBA, that he shouldn't even be on the team,
that even if he plays bad the whole entire g
excuse me, the old entire summer league, that he's still
going to make the roster anyway. He really should be
in the G League. He should be back in another
year in college. It's it's it's just that his father

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is opening up doors for him. And I know that's
happened with other people before, but this is different. This
is talking about the world the sports, and he's gonna
take somebody's spot on that laker. And I know it
doesn't care because it's what spot number fifteen or whatever
it is. But he really should be played in the
G League, Chris, I think we both know.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
That, right. But where's the G League playing right now?
Did you see the guy who led the Sacramento Kings
in scoring in the first game.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
We're not thirty twenty seven? They were awesome, right?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
And do you know where they played the G League?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh? I thought one played in Saint Mary is my bad?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
The G League is where the Sacramento Kings guy was
with the tech Red Raiders two years ago, and he
spent last year in the G League. A lot of
these players that you're watching in the Summer League, Arny,
are going to play in the G League. He's likely
going to end up in the G League. Do you
do you know I keep all of our old notes.
I keep them all. Do you remember how you felt
about Victor wimbin Yama after his first Summer League game?

(06:54):
Do any of you remember your tweets and how you
acted after you saw one Summer League game with Wimbin Yama.
Oh my gosh, you would think he should never play
basketball again.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well, this is a little bit different. I mean, look
at it. If Yama would have put up four points,
we'd have something to discuss there. We just know you did.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
You did. You did the same thing three hundred and
sixty five days ago, only it was a different player.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
You want to take a bet on how good or
bad Bronny's going to be in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, because I don't care. I don't think he's going
to be a I don't count on the fifty fifth
player taking the NBA draft to be a difference maker
from my team.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
So I asked you this. You're a Laker fan. So
the day that Browny And by the way, there's rumors
now that Ronnie and Lebron are going to go ahead
and play at the same time in the preseason. We'll see.
I assume that that was gonna happen sometime anyway, right, Yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Does it really affect you if they play in a
preseason basketball game?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Again, you're the Laker fan. You can tell me if
if if I said, hey, Chris, tomorrow night the Lakers
are playing and the Lebron's gonna play with Bronny. You're
not going to go out of your way to watch
that game? Is that what you're trying to tell me?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Probably not, because it's a preseason basketball.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, okay, but still, this is about the historic value
of him playing with his son. That doesn't interest you whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
I couldn't care less. I am so out on this
right now. That's why I'm saying, if you want to
go off on Lebron and Bronni, and you want to,
I'm I'm outreached by it's your whole story. Whatever, Let's
let's see if he can play or not. I mean,
you're in the minority. I mean, if you ever understand that.
But I'm also not losing my mind over it, like
everyone and every other network and this one is too.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's not so much about losing your mind. I think
people just wanted to see how he was going to
be in his first summer League game. That was a
big thing, you know, and and his I mean, my goodness,
it was times that he was just lost out there, Rezie.
He really was. He he wasn't even as good. He
was the worst guy on the court many times. Was
just amazing Defensively, he got lost a whole bunch of times.

(09:00):
It was it was just you know, I know, he
had the four points, had the good layup, he did
a few things, okay, but jeez, he just didn't really
shouldn't be out there.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, any anything else you want to add to it.
I know I'm listen. I'm in the minority on this.
I couldn't care less about it.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well. When I wrote atmosphere, right, God, I wrote that,
he said that he didn't you know, it was more
of an atmosphere than he ever experienced or ever expected.
I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, if if this is
a big time atmosphere, wait till a regular season game
comes along, or are a playoff game or something like that.

(09:37):
If he thought this was big And by the way,
didn't he not play in big crowds in college when
US he played, like at UCLA or Arizona or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I don't understand, no, because it's the Pac twelve and
nobody gave a damn about Pack twelve basketball party. I
just I think you need to understand that summer league
atmospheres were more impressive than anything he played in the
McHale Center. Now, I don't know, I don't know. Maybe
he's caught up in the moment. How many thousands of
questions as you've been asked. I'm sure it felt different
when you had a Lakers uniform on Phil Chris.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know what he said, Oh, I never thought about
playing with my father. Well, we know that's a bunch
of BALLOONI I think people are looking for reasons, maybe
to pick on him, or maybe to take shots to him.
I don't know, maybe we are being too ard on him,
but he is the number one thing trending out there
every time he plays out there.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yes, sure, but again, let me let me just look
right now. Hold on, I'm gonna try to pull this
up and see if I can still do social media
like I used to. You say, he's the number one
thing trending out there.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well, maybe besides some politics, I'm sure frans the election.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
There, But right now on my Twitter feed under sports
and trending, the number one thing that is trending in
sports right now is, for some reason, Lincoln Riley. And
then don'ton connect and then Joe Hendry, who I guarantee
you've never heard of before in your life, is number three.
Those are the three things that are trending all my time.

(11:03):
So should we spend the whole show talking about Lincoln
Riley and Dalton connect and Joe Hendry. No, but you're right,
I'm not arguing with you about I think my point
is I don't really know what gets accomplished by sitting here,
and I don't know what better way to put him
bloviating about how dare Lebron that he's never gonna play
in Lake Okay, great, we'll see. It'll play itself out.

(11:26):
If he can't play, he won't play. And I have
no problem with the Lakers, have no problem with them
playing in the summer league game that nobody cares about.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Even if he can't play, I'm not so sure he
doesn't make the team anyway. I'm sure. Matter of fact,
I'm pretty sure he's going to make the team, aren't you?
Is that the way the contract is written out? Or
am I wrong on that?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
I don't think he I if he can't play, he's
not gonna make it. If he's as terrible as you're
making him sound. In his first g leave.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I didn't even make I didn't even say anything about
is not much about his play out in the court, but.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Going You literally just said he looked lost out there
a majority of the time. Do you listen to yourself a.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Little bit a little lost out there?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, he just said that he was lost and he
didn't look like he belonged to ronts Ago.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
He's not an NBA player, he really isn't. Let's let's
be honest. He's not an NBA player. Matter of fact,
I'd be interested to see what he could do in
this season in the G League. I'd be would have
been interested to see if he transferred to Ducane or
went back to US, see what he could have done
with another year of college.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Okay, let me let me read this right here, because
I think this is a fair point. This is a
fair point, but I don't agree with it.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
We're getting a lot of tweets, by the way, but
go ahead, I've.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Seen the same amount that we always Why do you
always say that we get a great amount of tweets
every single show? I know, I know, Uh, Preller right.
We care because part of the media and the Lakers
organization has been dishonest about this, his ability to compete
at this level. Just tell the truth. It's all about Lebron.
Laker fans hate what's happened to this team. It's no

(12:53):
longer about winning but play cating a forty year old
who can't get out of the first round.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Listen, you know he's right about you know.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Everybody lies to you by the way, Bernie.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Bron saying it is JJ Reddick, Rob Polinka. You know
that Bronnie with you. I never thought about playing with
my father. I think people get a little tired of that.
BS to be honest.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, then don't listen to it. I mean, there's tons
going on right now, Honestly, I know we always complain
about this time of years, like there's nothing going on.
You know, we can choose what we decide to spend
all our time out that the awful announcing stuff right
now I can't stand. I mean, they're sitting there and
they're trying to like flex on the espns and the

(13:36):
Foxes of the world for spending all this time talking
about Bronnie James, and in my mind it's like you're
literally writing NonStop about them covering this and not saying
anything about it. Look at how much they're talking about it.
We choose when we can talk about Arnie. You're part
of the problem here.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
I know, well, that's fine. I'll be part of the problem.
I don't care about being the solutionsby has is why
do you think he didn't play today? And I know
you say you don't care, but do you think he
really had swelling on the knee? Do you think he
just said my first game was so bad, I don't
want to go ahead chance having another bad game. You
tell me why he didn't play today.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Because he had swelling in his knee? I mean we
I mean, is that really what you What you want
to fight about is why.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm not fighting with you. I just want to know
if you think that all of a sudden he came
up with swelling in the knee right before the game.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let me ask you this. You came on here last
week and you said if there were things you could
do to get your son out on the ice with
say the Bruins, you would do anything you could to
get him there right right.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
But the only difference is in a goalieue, you could
only take two, so you know, if they're gonna take you,
you could play even if you're not gonna start. Even
the backup has got to be able to like being
a quarterback of the end.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Maybe maybe if you're the you're the million dollar owner,
if you're the Bee's knees aren'tie, if you're the bmo C.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well, did do you think this is? Do you think
this is like the movie Heaven Can Wait? Did you
ever see that movie?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, I've seen Heaven Can Wait?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
That was a great and that's a long time ago.
But the guy ended up buying the team because he
died and they couldn't put him back in his body,
so they put him in the body of a billionaire
that he bought the team, so you can play quarterback again.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
My point is, yes, that you were sitting here and
you're like, I'll do anything, I do anything for Mike.
I think I think even you might have stole this
from the Jason Smith promore. He's like, I do anything
for my kid to get him out there. But the
point is, I gotta tell you something. He is you
would fight like crazy to keep him on the team
and let him keep playing.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Even tho, if I'd fight like crazy to keep him
on the team, I just would want him to get
a fair chance, Just get him a shot, just let
him go to training camp.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
You've seen then you've seen one game from Ronnie James
and you're ready to say he can't play in the.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
All I need to see, Chris, Now let me loved
first sight for you? Or so you're telling me you
didn't love your wife when you first saw right. She's
listening right now, Chris, because careful what you're gonna say.
Be careful what you're gonna say.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
My wife was love at first sight. A there you go,
And I know she's not listening.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
So all I had to see was a little bit, Chris.
That's all I needed to see.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Was a little bit. And I can tell you if
the love or not. That's all I listen if but
I love. But if it was up to you and
all you needed to see was a little bit, you
would have cut Victor Win been young, you would have given.
You would have know you would you were.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
I have your notes.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'll text him back to you, and you're like, obviously
can't play. I'm like, obviously can't play. I just feel
like that we more than often, you, more than often
will just bury someone or elevate them, and I like,
there's no rhyme or reason to the why. I mean,
like I said, I always joke about the Ryan Fitzpatrick
because you Adam as a top three quarterback in the

(16:50):
league after three weeks and the dude was out of
the league like a week later. And then when oh
takes exposed, Now what's going on? No, you you broke.
You would have broken old takes exposed. They would have
never had anything else to talk about if they ever
paid attention to us. But Gena, I'm saying, Plank sounds

(17:11):
like someone who doesn't care about the debate either. You're right,
I don't I need to put ball to get here.
I don't care about the debate the fall off from it,
and I don't care about all your Bronni hate. But listen,
because you've got six subtitles.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
To seven seven seven. Wait and if you notice under
the seventh one, right, I highlighted in highlighter.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh yeah, because he didn't play, because it got added right.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Right, So I did a little yellow highlighter. Plus I
added and I put a little asterix by it too.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
That means it's a big deals.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
And I highlight. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
When we come back to the tiraq dot com studios,
there is more than Bronny going on, and believe it
or not. There's some more free agent movement to get to,
and we're also count down to NFL training camps which
are right around the corner. A lot to get to
on a busy Sunday night into a Monday with Already
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do you guys do anything on the fourth or is
it just is there any big plans that you guys
take care? I mean you have family in or anything?
Or do you just fireworks show and Vermont? What do

(19:13):
you do?

Speaker 3 (19:14):
You had? That's some fireworks show on the third? Everybody
goes downtown. Uh, you know, the boats come in and
you shoot the fireworks off.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
The news is live.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, they do the show live for like an hour,
and they do the news first, and you know, God
bless them. They're horrible, and they're just it's so bad.
They just they just can't They don't know what to
talk about. They don't know what to do. They really
would be better set having me on, but they just
you know, they get the weather man involved, and you know,

(19:45):
it's just the sports guys involved, and they try to
pretend like they're having fun. But there's there's always so
many things you can say about a fireworks show an
hour ahead of time, you know.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
So, but I've always wonder I've always wondered too, the like,
how do you lead up to it? It's like, Oh,
they're getting ready to set it off. Let's go to John.
He's over there. John what do you got. They're gonna
set the fireworks off. Mary back to you.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Pretty much the way it goes.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I love the fourth of July. I love it, so
I hope everyone got to celebrate. I'm going to celebrate
by fighting with some of you on Twitter tonight, where
you can find us at Stinking Genius Wan I'm at
Plank Show, and everyone should follow us at Fox Sports Radio.
I've been informed though by some of my friends that
if you call it twitter now, you're an old Do
you do you agree with that? Because when we have

(20:33):
the X now is that whatever you say, I don't
even hear anyone call it X. I don't all work
to be better at that? Okay. Bob Wright's a very
very well thought out, solid take slash tweet. Hey, Arnie,
four years, seven point nine million with four million guaranteed.
How does that compare it to the other fifty five

(20:55):
number fifty five picks? Sounds like he'll make the team
to me, all right, a little work on this, because
not the first time that I've heard this in this fight, right, Yeah,
he's got more than pick fifty five did the last
three or four years. But last year, Arnie Trace Jackson Davis.
Ever heard of him?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh, yeah, the trace Man.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, it's okay, because I hadn't heard of him either
until I started doing my Google work. He was taken
in last year's NBA draft as the fifty seventh overall
pick in the draft. The fifty seventh overall pick. He
signed a four year, seven point six million dollar deal
with three million guaranteed after he was drafted. Tarik by

(21:40):
the Way, I was trying to look up this Treek,
the Bopper, the Byervich. He because he went fifty sixth
last year. Bro, he looks like a six foot eleven Brian. No,
I've never seen anything like in my life. But pick
fifty seven in the draft last year was Chris Livingston.
He was He was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks. He
signed n eight million dollar contract. In fact, it was

(22:02):
called historic whenever he signed it last year, four year,
seven point six three nine million dollars. So yeah, you
can sit here and say, is he making as much
as the fifty to fifth pick over all the last
two drafts? I'm like, yeah, you know, he's making more,
but let's be fair here, dude. And I saw that
Nick Wright brought this up this week fifty seven and
fifty eight made these kinds of deals last year, and

(22:24):
there's undrafted free agents that get good deals like this too.
So is it because he's Lebron James Sunt Probably, but
I don't have a problem with that.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's not so much maybe the money. I didn't really
care about the seven point nine million, great question, Bob.
It was the four years, but again, it's not really guaranteed.
If they if they could have cut you or moved
you that, well, I guess it is guaranteed, but they
could still move you down to the G League, right,
That's the part I didn't understand. If it was because
they weren't going to take a two way contract, which

(22:54):
I thought meant that they couldn't send them down to
the G League. But if he doesn't look good enough
for the NBA squad, how could they not agree to
go ahead and send them down to the JEW League.
They're gonna find a way, because Lebron would agree to that.
He would know.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
First of all, there's only one guy that I've seen
in college where I thought there's no way this guy
is going to be a one and done, and he
ended up not only being a one and done, but
I think it's fair to say he's a superstar in
the league, and that's Trey Young. I saw Trey Young
from high school up until his time at Oklahoma and
when he came to OU. I remember you and I

(23:28):
talked about it on the show because remember he went
crazy during the season. I'm like, he's not going to
be a one and done and then he kept going crazy.
You're like, Okay, he's going to be a one and done,
but I don't know how good he's going to be
in the league. And we want and done lottery pick,
and he's been outstanding. I know Pawks fans there's a
roller coaster ride there. But Brownie Arney, you and I
even agree. We were joking about it with his destination

(23:51):
for twenty twenty four to twenty five, right, you thought
he's going to transfer. I think you even said transferring
to Arizona was one of your mini picks.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, they thought Dukane because of the.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Coach, right, du Kane too. So I mean, he's a
guy that's not ready for the NBA because he should
have stayed in college. But let's see if this development
thing that our podcast host that is now a coach
let's see iving a tournament into something special. I'm I'm
I'm willing to take that risk. Of course, I'm someone
that still believed if you would have put a little
bit more time in Andrew bind him, he could have

(24:21):
become the next Achim Elijah. And that tells you how
stupid I am when it comes to Lakers.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
But but Chris, let me say that.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
I again, Oh, I know why you're up.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
SIGs will get really uncomfortable for the Lakers if they
get off to a slow start. And I'm talking about
from the media, from the not so much from the media,
but from the fans, especially the JJ Reddick. They're gonna
get on him. They're gonna get them Lebron, even Brody's
going to hear it. And he's not even gonna get
into the games.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Got a lot of good tweets, a lot of good
exes and submissions to the show tonight, and his already
likes to say, get a lot of them, and we
are because you guys, here's the thing I consider and say,
I'm tired of it. I don't really care. I don't
have a hot take on it. I hope he's a
good player. If he's not let's move on, man Nie
this You're right, I'm very much of the minority on
this one.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
We usually get a lot, but not like this, Not
like this. It's polarizing because it is Lebron. You know,
he's perhaps the best player in the history of the NBA.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
And he guys want to talk about.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
It, and people see an injustice here, Chris. And not
only the injustice. Now it's the cover up. You know
they always say the lieing the cover up is worse
than the actual lie. Well, now they're covering it up.
You know, the JJ Reddick saying he's earned this, and
the you know, the bolognay from Rob Polinka and.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
People get upset with the hear that.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, we're just getting started on a Sunday night
into a Monday. Third member of the crew, the star
of this young very radio program, Steve the Sager, comes
strolling into the Tirack dot com stant I gave him
the fourth off. I gave the saga the fourth off.
What about the previous five days? Did you know that off?

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Just for that the saga? See, I'm working tomorrow and
I was gonna give you the day off. Now you
got to work with me tomorrow. How about that?

Speaker 2 (26:03):
You're working tomorrow? Yes, I am oh, I had asked
to work tomorrow. I didn't know you were working.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Well, now you're working tomorrow. How about that.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
By the way, it was with Bronnie James, trace swelling
in the left knee see caused him to exercise caution.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Got to be said. He did not play in the
Summer League today.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
What is trace swelling mean? I don't think I've heard.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I think that was their third round draft pick. Trace
swelling swelling minimal amo, right, I think is what we were
talking trace a little bit about.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Bronnie James had four points yesterday in his NBA Summer
League debut, two of nine shooting from the floor twenty
two minutes as the Lakers lost by double digits to Sacramento.
Lakers lost even worse to Golden State in San Francisco today.
They will be playing Wednesday. Broddie expected to play against Miami.
For what it's worth, as for the Lakers first rounder
from Tennessee, Dalton Connect Yesterday twelve points three of twelve shooting.

(26:57):
Today twelve points, three of thirteen shooting.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, six or twenty five.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
The Summer League games started yesterday, and not only Sacramento,
but San Francisco. Here the Warriors led by twenty first
half against the Lakers tonight. They had won their opener
in San Francisco by an even worse score against Miami yesterday.
The summer league that we know comes up later in Vegas.
There's a brief Salt Lake City Summer League Monday through

(27:22):
Wednesday this week. The Vegas Summer League not till July
twelfth through twenty second. Of course, US men's basketball is
in Vegas working out in anticipation of the Olympics right now.
Keep in mind there is a US Olympic exhibition on
FS one this Wednesday from Vegas, USA against Canada, and

(27:43):
then from Abu Dhabi on FS one. US exhibitions tune
ups overseas against Australia and Serbia this month. Greece is
going to the Olympics with jannisn Tenecumpo. They won their
qualifier at home today. Spain wanted home to advance.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
He was crying.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Janis was crying absolutely.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
On the bench, first time and of course for the country,
first time in over a decade.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
They're going to the games.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Sots hoops. Brazil's going Puerto Rico as well. You had mentioned,
by the way, Chris, the bad weather in Houston, and
they are certainly at Fox twenty six in Houston keeping track.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Of that all night long.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
But there was due to be a Major League soccer
match there today. LAFC had made the trip out. They said,
knowing the forecast and of course the tropical storm bearing
down on Texas, let's move up the start time two hours.
They did, and then come game time they decided, we're
not going to have a long enough window to get imagined,

(28:39):
so they just canceled the whole thing and LAFC, the opponent,
flew back to Los Angeles and they'll play somebody else
in LA next Saturday, and Houston will have another home
game next Saturday against somebody else. And we had rain
in Chicago for the NASCAR Street Race won by Alex Bowman,
so he's into the Cup Series playoffs this year. In fact,

(28:59):
all four Hendrick teams are now into the postseason. This
was the twelfth different winner of the NASCAR season for Bowman.
It snaps an eighty race winless drought dating back to
Las Vegas over two years ago. Tyler Redick finished second.
Ty Gibbs was third this race in Chicago, again a
street race delayed for almost an hour forty five due

(29:21):
to bad weather, standing water on the course, and yes,
tires were switched. Cup Series at Pocono next weekend at Wimbledon,
Coco Golf lost her fourth round match. WNBA wins for
Connecticut and Las Vegas, and tonight it was the Boston
Red Sox beating the Yankees three to nothing in New York,
solo homers top of the seventh and top of the
ninth for All Star Rafael Devers. In fact, the great

(29:44):
Baseball researcher Sarah Langs points out that the Red Sox
on Sundays this year are fourteen and one. They've played
on fifteen Sundays. To win fourteen out of your first
fifteen Sunday games had only happened once since the eight
teen hundreds. And that's what the Red Sox have done.
They could actually be a playoff team this year. Meanwhile,

(30:06):
the Yankees are three games back in the first place
team in the Al East. The Orioles Baltimore won sixty
three at Oakland.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Back to you, by the way, Arnie, I meant to
I'm meant to text you maybe I did ye good
call on Team America, the US men's national team in
the soccer.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
Or not go?

Speaker 5 (30:26):
Did I not try and tell you you're urg is
a real team?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, but they were benching everybody.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
I thought, yeah, or or they're also going to be
in the semi finals Wednesday nights on FS one in Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I think it was Team USA and the over goal
total that you wanted to take, wasn't it? Yeah? And
then I think I responded the US Men were.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Not only eliminated in the group stage at Copa America,
they've only scored five goals in their last five games totals.
You wonder why people we talked about this last night
on the show, why people are calling for the head coach,
Greg Berhalter to be let go. And I assume we'll
hear one way or the other by middle of the
week on that it's not just the one game. The

(31:12):
US Men have a losing record since October and when
they play real teams they get clobber.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I hear that's why Todd Furman isn't coming on tonight
because Arnie told him a guaranteed bet would be Team USA.
And then the Team USA over goal total and it
just went Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
It's further proof that Arnie doesn't actually wager his own
money on any of this, because he would have sold
his microphone long ago.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Oh man, uh, let's see this. Let's see some of
these tweets. It's thinking genius want them at plank show
di seg You're someone tagged a Twitter feed? Is that you? Now?
Are you on Twitter?

Speaker 3 (31:49):
No?

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Okay, sorry, By the way, it is Twitter as long
as that they're tweets, right.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
That's right, that that is fair on Twitter? No, okay, good.
I was told I need to call it X, so
I'm glad Mary that.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
You know.

Speaker 7 (32:02):
If you're like old, yeah, you'll call it X. But
it's Twitter. Everyone Twitter.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
So in other words, this person that was trying to
call me out was the the inverse, right, like the
butterfly effect. They were trying to make me feel like yeah,
but they're actually I.

Speaker 7 (32:17):
Don't know why, like every no one's gonna call it
ex stupid agreed.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, so shady Sean for twenty That is not a
real Twitter feed for Steve de Seger, though it looks.
I mean, they got it pretty good. They've got like
a Dodger's logo. It's it's it's well done. Yeah, that's right.
No JP, JP asks the biggest question of the show,
and if you and I were working together on when
was New York? When was the fourth of July Friday?

(32:44):
If you and I were working together on Friday night,
it was great to hear you and Bernie. But there's
thank you. Yeah Thursday night and I heard you and
Bernie talking about it. I would have loved to get
your breakdown of that dude barfing up the lemonade on
the Nathan's Hot Dog any competition, Tell me you saw
I did see that.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
I saw that was at the end of the lemonade part.
That's right, and it was was it Booker that won
the lemonade thing?

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Bad Lands bad Lands Booker or something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Booker, And I'm saying to myself, I think I could
put that down. I think I could give him a
challenge for his money. And then the guy next to
him started getting sick, and the booker tries to said,
after two times he got sick, told him to just
get away and move along because you were taking away
you know, so he was taking away his photo ops,
so he moved them. Bok see That's what happened to

(33:35):
me a couple of weeks ago when I was doing
the show with you. I had too much cake.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Hey man, you were puke and rally like that guy.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Just like that guy. I'm serious, I'm not kidding around.
It was just like that guy.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
First of all, I've never thought of chugging lemonade. I
like to have like two drinks of it.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
You who I could do that. It's got your temperature. Yeah,
And I gotta this small glasses and just give me
a bunch of glasses.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Bike.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
I think you've put up a good fight against Booker.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, I'll tell you this much. The guy that was
yak and had drink like two drinks too, So I
don't know what he was thinking he was gonna do.
So to follow up on that first submission from JP,
he writes, arn't he needs to step back. Lebron quote unquote,
maybe the best of all time? Michael Jordan, never lost
in the finals, never tried to be the GM. That's
not a hot take, that's a truth take. But you

(34:26):
didn't say you would take him over Jordan. But it's undeniable.
Lebron James is one of the greatest NBA players of
all time. That's undeniable, right exactly?

Speaker 3 (34:35):
No, I understand that. But he's calling the shots. He's
calling the shots. And who the coach is gonna be
on his son being on the team. How old is
the youngest son? Is he gonna be able to make
it on the team too? Or are too young for that?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I don't think so. I think that might be getting
to play with le Bronni. I think is his only
lebrit legit, labriate, legit opportunity to play with one of
his kids. But you weren't trying to say that he
was the greatest of all time, right Lebron James.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
No, I still think it's Michael. I still think Okachel
I said that I misspoke. It is Michael in my opinion,
but I didn't remember getting into that.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
And then I had news here real quick. Little Bronnie
is a chip off the old block. He's already loaded
managing after his second game in the league. Get another
n season championship tournament banner? Ready, you gott Trey Swelling,
You got that. I put up thirty two minutes in
my game today, went one for four, Chris, I was
pretty look at me, hit a three pointer. I had

(35:34):
a block shot to rebounds. I put up better studs
than Bronny Brownie. Better look out hey. When we come
back to the Tyrock dot Com studios, I mentioned football.
There was one interesting development this weekend involving a quarterback
who might be in a make or break year with
his squad, and it's not good news. We'll dive into
it next on Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has

(35:56):
the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all
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it's already in Plank on a Fox Sports Sunday. Good
Night Baseball. The The Yankees might want to consider not
pitching the Raphaelo divers again for a while.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
He had a week in Devers is crushing it. He's
absolutely crushing it.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I I'm a fan. I'm a fan. Do you you
think they got a shot to make a run. You're
still You're still in the mix with crazy Red Sox fans.
Why not there? But I don't know about first place
seven and a half back. But in the wild card.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, Oreoles are so tough people forgetting about them. The Yankees,
I mean nobody talking about Aaron Judge at thirty two?

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Is that what he has? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Thirty two home runs, which is amazing. I don't know
if he's going to be able to keep up that
pace r acte at the halfway point now, even though the
All Star Game is not for another week and a half,
but jeez, it's gonna take a you know, obviously the
same type of pace. I don't know if he could
pull over sixty. That's gonna be pretty tough for him.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Can I nerd out on something real cool?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Well? Yeah, go ahead, knock yourself out.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
This was because I do have my football take I
want to get to. But I think it was like
Roman Numeral five, you had an elongated rant about the
stolen base going away. Dude, Elie dela Cruz has forty
three stolen bases.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, but I saw that stat where the Yankees had
not had a stolen base in what their last nineteen games,
a draft that has gone back since nineteen sixty four,
and the stolear base, I mean, except for Elie Delacruz're
right about that, but the stolar base is obsolete. I
started thinking, is it really that important? Is it something
that that's important. It should be part of somebody's repertoire.

(37:45):
Like I said, growing up, we had a lot of
great base stealers in the seventies and eighties, the Vince
Coleman's of the World and stuff like that. But I
don't think it's as important anymore. It really isn't nobody
puts a premium on base stealing anymore.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Well, Ellie day Cruz. Let's see last year the leader
at I mean seventy three for Ronald Lecuna junior. Last year,
I mean that's not as ruiz for the A's had
sixty seven. Do you know the last time we had
a player with one hundred stolen bases in a season.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Vince Coleman.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
It was Let's see, Vince. They why do they break
this down like this? They have the National League on
one side and the American League on the other.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Tim Rains, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Vince Coleman in Tim Rains, I don't have him listed
here as ever being over one hundred stolen.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Bases of a season.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Vince Coleman stole one oh seven in nineteen eighty six
and one hundred and nine in nineteen eighty seven. Ricky
Henderson had one hundred and eight in nineteen eighty three,
at one hundred and thirty in nineteen eighty two, the
last time we've even had a player in Major League
Baseball with more than one hundred stolen bases. I mean,

(38:53):
we're going back to, you know, whenever I was hip
and cool and in new new things. I mean, we're
going back to air on your Yeah, yeah, I had
had a sweet mullet. We'll going back to nineteen or
the eighties at nineteen eighty seven. So I mean, you
say a lost art. I don't think it's been a
part of the game for a while. Oh well, could
be that.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
You know, I saw that tweet that Dick Vitel put
out about why there's so many like two thirty five
hitters or two twenty hitters, and you know, I saw
Colin waighing on it, and everybody was saying, you know
that the shot the pitch clock actually helped the pitchers,
not the hitters. And then Colin suggested just lower the
mound again. They did it once, you got to do
it again. You may have to do that. I know

(39:34):
that's kind of signs kind of drastic, but you're already
out of a pitcher clock. Why not lower the mound
if they're going to continue to dominate like this.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
I just it's wild how sometimes I feel like in
this modern era of baseball, aren't these numbers? They seem
to work themselves out hitting wise, But the numbers do
look really down. Hey, it does?

Speaker 3 (39:52):
They look like they're hitting the overalls of the league.
They're hitting down?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, I agree. I agree. In our final minute here
of our number one are we had a picture of
Dak Prescott in a walking boot. Yes, now granted it
was from a trip, and he said it was a
very minor foot spring. I talked to Jeff Schwartz about
this and he said, usually you'd wear a compression socked.
This seems a little bit different. But I mean, is

(40:16):
there cause for concern here that maybe he's still a
little bit dinged up?

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yes, there's cause for concern. I don't wear a walking boot.
It does doesn't wrong with my foot. I don't go
you know what, today, Chris, I think I'm gonna put
a split on my head. Nothing wrong with it, just
feel like putting it on there. No, of course there's
something to be worried about if the guys at a
walking but what kind of question does that.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
I mean, everyone's trying to tell me it's not that
big of a deal.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
It's a big deal, not.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
That big of a deal. When we come back to
the tiraq dot com studios, we'll see how big of
a deal it actually is. Plus we've got tons of
tweets to get to you. Guys are fired up about
Brownie James, and so are we. It's Arnie in Plank
on a Sunday into a Monday on Fox Sports Radio.
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(41:04):
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Hanging with her guy Bernie Frado good.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
I always love working with Bernie. Fourth or July good time.
You know a lot of people listen even though it's
a holiday, but it's not like a holiday like Christmas
or you know something that's you know that takes up
that's holy or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
So those have got music, you've got stuff going on.
You got games going on it.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Yeah, there's plenty of it was a plenty of games
and you know, plenty of stuff happening. So we had
a good time. It was a lot of fun, and
you know, came up with that had a list. I
gave you a couple of lists today.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Do you do? Are you did? I guess I should?

Speaker 3 (41:52):
You know?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I saved one list for really when it gets into
the summer. I found the list of the top you
really want to talk about sports? The top fifty TV
shows of all time.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I saw this. This was very hotly debated between me
and my daughter whenever real because my ten year old
she's in a big daddy phase. So we spend a
lot of time together this week and she's listen, I'm
just gonna be honest with you, guys. I feel like
honesty is the best policy. I love my kids, but
sometimes I can't stand him. And if I give her
my phone, she shuts up. So I love her, I

(42:27):
mean I'll do anything, I'll die for her, Arnie, but
I just there's sometimes just stop talking. I mean, key,
you want to play on daddy's phone. And when she does,
she's like what. She comes to me. I'm not kidding,
Arnie sent this list today. Wasn't even early in the morning.
You let me sleep in, thank you, thank you. I'd
get a usual seven am text. And she comes to
me and she says, Dad, what's breaking Bad? I was like, what,

(42:50):
it's breaking bad? I'm like, it's a TV show. She goes, oh,
is it the greatest TV show of all time? Should
we watch it? So this list that Alreadie, it's it.
I don't even know where you got it from, but
it had not to spoiler alert, but that Breaking Bad
is the best TV show of all time.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
I have not seen the number two and the number
three shows.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I've got it right here. I pulled it out talking
about it.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I no, no, I have not. I have never watched
the shows.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
You never well, we couldn't watch Game of Thrones at
least live because it was on Sunday night. Well, you
could you tape it. But I never understand that. But
then that's kind of funny. That's really not a good
excuse anymore, is it right? But then everyone liked it
so much. I was like, ah, they loved it.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
There I saw a couple, you know, little bits and
pieces but I just didn't get into it.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
But listen, that's for a later date this summer. That's
for a later date this summer because we do have
a very important question to ask here tonight, and that
is when does Arnie Spanier consider the start of the
football season. Allow me to look at Roman numeral number six, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Six, Roman numeral number. I know what it starts for
you right now?

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Right? It's never right now, it's never. Do you know
where this show is coming to you live from next
Sunday night? No s see media days. Don't worry, Scott
will be good to go, Cirius, if you need me
to call you and test it, we'll be fine. I'm
gonna be out there. Do you know how long we're
gonna be there? Oh my gosh? What there for? Like
a week? Get here?

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:12):
I think, well, you've got sixteen teams now, you got
four teams a day. It's crazy. So I mean, Arnie
to me, football is here? Tomorrow? Is this start a
big twelve media days which is in Vegas? So we
could talk about your wild And.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
I thought they had the big twelve media Day?

Speaker 2 (44:27):
They have it, It's it's starting tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Oh, I thought they already had it because I what
list did I send you that at Arizona number five.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Ship a preseason media poll, something to give you something
to talk about during Big twelve media?

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Hi, gotcha? Well that it's Piloni because we're going from
Mike the PAC twelve to the Big Sky. Sure, it's
it's ridiculous. Are we still Division one in the Big twelve?

Speaker 2 (44:48):
You are considered Power four conference?

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Even in that It's like horse racing when a horse
goes down because it can't win at the level that
it's at, and then it kicks everybody who's butt in
the b racing. That's kind of what's going on with Arizona.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
I hope that's how it plays out for you. I
really do.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Oh stop it, stop it, Chris, you know it will
stop it.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I here's what I have found. This is a wildly
hot take, but teams that move conferences usually end up
being the exact same the conference that they go to
that they were in the conference they left front.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
And we are at the top of the PAC twelve
and we'll be the top of this, Uh, what's it?
The Big Sky?

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Big Sky?

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Right?

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Put in numeral the Southern League, And you know I
think they love Roman numerals. You better start embracing this.
These are your kind of people. But you know, we
all stop. I'm gonna stop. When does it start for you?
When are you someone where you start saying, all right,
I'm in daily updates, I'm looking at potential fantasy picks,
even that nerdy I'm reading I Steal for college. When

(45:50):
does it start for you?

Speaker 8 (45:51):
Well?

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Usually I was gonna say the first day of training
camp is always a good time, but for me, it
really officially starts. And I think this is going to
probably be the aza for a while lot of people.
The Hall of Fame game, right, the one week where
it's the one game before anybody else gets to play.
You get a little bit of taste. It's like going
to a party, but they're not serving dinner, just door
dervs and drinks. Okay, you get no meal. You get

(46:15):
the cocktail, weenies, maybe a few of those burrito things,
but that's it. You leave very hungry. That's what you get.
You get the Hall of Fame game. You get a little.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Bit of taste.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
That's when the season starts officially to me, when they
play the Hall of Fame Game.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Okay, now, listen, I will. You're a training camp guy.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
I know you.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
You're like, I'm non stop. Even for instance, I spent today.
I spent today trying to fight with people in my
mind about Phil Steele's top individual unit rankings for college football.
I mean, that's that's where I am right now, and
I'm trying to figure out why he has certain teams
where they are with their quarterback room or their running
back room, and where Oklahoma is and where the SEC.

(46:55):
I will tell you this much. It was weird for
me whenever I was thinking about the teams I covered
day in and day out. Now, Arnie, that was a
big adjustment. I'm not gonna kid, I'm going through this
and you're like, Okay, where's Kansas State? Oh, never mind,
there's Alabama. They're no longer an issue. I think. I
think fans are gonna have a few issues just early
on getting used to it.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Are you gonna be like the rookie that's in awe
of everybody? Oh my goodness, Look who look at that?
Look who's over there? Oh my goodness, they're gonna kick
our butt over there.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Wow? I don't think so. I wasn't like that in
the in the in the bowl games they played against them,
So I don't think so. And Plus, I mean, listen,
what's the capacity of your home stadium? I mean do
you just know off the top of your head.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
For the Wildcats, I want to say about sixty I
would say fifty five thousand, I was gonna say, but I.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Mean, yeah, Oklahoma's they got eighty seven thousand fans in
every single home game. It's not like you're suddenly doubling
the capacity of games you go playing because they are
playing in that environment all the time. So I don't
think I will be will you should I be worried
about that being in of of everyone, like seeing Paul
Fine Obama going oh my gosh, well you're that dude.
I mean, is are you worried about this with me?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Because no, I just whether your Folkahoma fans are a
lot like you know, cowboy.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Fans like Cowboy fans.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
How so well, I mean, are you going to be
selling your tickets to the Alabama fans? So the end
of the game, I'm just I'll just a good.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Question, better not better not be Can you see.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
The cold you see the Okahma fans say yeah, we'll
sell it to the Alabama fans. Make somebody the next thing,
you know, half the stadium's Alabama fans there.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
It won't be half. I don't think it would ever
be half, but there would be some concern, you know.
The one quick little side note on this, since you
brought it up, did you know the one thing that
everyone in this city and I live in Norman, I
live in Oklahoma. I'm proud of it. The one thing
they had to invest in and create because they just
didn't have enough of. Do you know what it was?

(48:51):
It was r V spots Because when you go to
the SEC, I guess the SEC, they are taking r
v's everywhere.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
So d year from now an RV parking lot, I
guess so.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
So they had an absolute Did you say, what is
an RV parking lot? I said, it is RV My god,
You're scared the hell out of me there for a moment. Uh.
But yeah, they're they're investing in like a multi million
dollar RV resort here in Norman next year, because Arnie,
that's what they need in this conference, that's what these
fans need. They're crazy and I'm crazy about it. So

(49:23):
things will be different. I know what's on there.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Take the things are gonna be different because now you're
gonna have real fans. Uh. I've been to a couple
of SEC games when I lived in Atlanta, so Georgia, Tennessee.
One time. It's it's not a game, Chris, It's more
of an it's an experience. It's like it's a religion.
You think it's a religion in Oklahoma and Texas, it's
nothing until you go to the SEC. It's gonna wake up.

(49:47):
It's gonna be like smelling salts for you. You're like,
oh my goodness, I thought it was big in Oklahoma. Wow,
this is a real football. You're gonna well, I.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Know about it. Yeah, this is real football. I don't
think that's good to be the issue. But you know,
just like Team America is gonna win in the.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Oh, I saw that back in my face all the time.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Hey, well, so for you, you're not all in twenty four,
three sixty five. You try to take a break, right,
You don't try to get to we have shows we
gotta do right. You've got to put the Roman numeral
run down right. You don't allow yourself to be like me.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
No, I still have some football topics. We'll talk about
some of the news going on. We'll talk about training camp.
God forbid, somebody gets hurt if there's a cut or
anything like that. But the Hall of Fame Game comes
one week into t is it one week or two
weeks in the trading camp? I think it's. I think
it's two weeks into the first trading camp, right.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
I'll have that for you in two seconds.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
But whatever it's, and that's that gets me going. That's
what I'm like. Okay, football's here, We're ready to go.
College is around the corner from that day on. College
is only about four weeks away, I believe, before we
get to week zero or whatever they call it. So
I'm ready to roll.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
So the Hall of Fame Game this year, of course, yeah,
there he goes. It pulls up week one of the
regular season. The Hall of Fame Game is on August
eighth this year, and if you want to consider it,
it is between the Panthers and the We got two games.
Oh my gosh, we have two games on Thursday night,

(51:16):
August eighth. Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (51:18):
No? I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, stop the whoa
whoa who stop the clock. I got a week out
of myself. Thursday, August first is the preseason Hall of
Fame game, Arnie. It's the Texans and the Bears. And
if you just want to kind of get a little
context to it, veterans report for the for the Bears
on July nineteenth, So you're right, just a couple of

(51:42):
weeks after they reported it. When everyone reports like four
or five days later, then you're even closer to that
Hall of Fame game. So you're right. It's a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
And you know what everybody gets to say on that
Friday and that weekend. Well, I told you Caleb Williams
again what he did in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
I don't expect them to play, let's see, So that
would be Friday, August second, third, fourth, Scott, I might
need August fourth off, especially if kapab Williams doesn't play well. Please,
but I'd be curious a couple of you guys have
jumped in on this already. It's stinking genius one. I'm
at playing show. Everybody go follow us at Fox Sports Radio.
Scotty Oates writes, it starts for me when it never ends.

(52:20):
Being in everything school like Tennessee, you get to enjoy everything.
This is the only downtime in the year. Well, I
think it's fair to say for Scotty though, and some
you'll have a college baseball, you'll have a college basketball,
and we're not immune to that. But I just it's like,
for me, there's not a day where I'm like, hey,
I'm just thinking about baseball or softball. All right, what's

(52:41):
that depth chart look like? Em It is more like you, Arnie,
he writes. I think football starts at the Hall of
Fame game, the first game we can actually sit down
and watch. I can't wait for football this year. It's
going to be great.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Well, you know, some people say it's really week one
of the preseason, and then there's people that say, no,
it's that first Thursday game of the regular season. Preseasons belowey,
the NFL doesn't begin till Week one of the regular seasons.
That's way too late if you ask me, that's.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah, no, no, no, And I understand that we're going to
I'm just warning you guys right now, good Lord willing
health stays good and we get to keep doing this.
You're gonna hear some doozies of some takes after Sunday
night's NFL matchups. It's just we get the first chance
to react. I'm just warning you. But it's even crazier
in the preseason because we've been so hungry for football, Arnie,

(53:29):
that when you finally get that game in the preseason,
we're going to lose our ever love and mind on
everything that happens. That's what we do. So we've been
waiting to lose our mind. We finally get to and
we just let it all out.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
I didn't know the Hall of Fame. I thought it
was the end of August. It seems like it comes
later every year. You bummed me out when you told
me it was in August.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
It's August first, though.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
I thought you were gonna give me like July twenty
eighth or something. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Well, that's what happens. You're hungry for football. It's funny.
I saw a couple of different tweets over the weekend
to send him to you. It was just one of
the NFL riders. I'd give anything for a midweek Carolina
Jacksonville matchup right now. Anything and my reminders. Yeah, and
when you get that matchup, you're gonna complain like crazy.
You're like, no, it's so funny.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Every time we give up, we give a fogus matchup.
It's always like Jacksonville, Carolina. I know, I'm sorry, I
know that, but it's only because one of because of
the division, and just nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
That's what it is. All Right. When we come back
to the Tirack dot Com studios, I have to Todd
is out. Todd is out this week in his in
his place, We're gonna dive into a couple of numbers
that I saw, a couple of not really over unders,
but just a couple of statistical I guess you could
say numbers that might might help you on the gambling world.

(54:44):
So I'm gonna do my part to filling for Ted,
all right, for Ted.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Decade. Now you may have close.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Did you give ucla Dodger Frank the rundown for the
show tonight?

Speaker 3 (54:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I did not. All right, Well, he's he's almost tit
one on the dot and we'll dive into it next
right here on Fox Sports Radio. No. Now we're getting down. Oh,
it was this an Arnie pick.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
When the when the good music comes on, it's an
army pick.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
That's right. I usually get mad at you and your
social media use because you fall for fake accounts a lot, right,
But you get a home run with this one, literally
and fig During the break, Arnie found this video of
some kid. What what is this like travel ball or something.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
It looks like high school or travel I don't think
it's college.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Seems like it was a relatively old video. And the
kid hits a bomb and he's uh, he's bat flipping.
It hits the umpire in the head. Who falls looney
tune style. It's like watching a cartoon character. It's terrible.
I hope the man's okay. But that's good stuffs thinking genius.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
That's that's funny. I was laughing so hard. Oh, I
know that's wrong.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
I shouldn't do that. I couldn't help myself.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
It was genuinely funny.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Good Patrick makes me feel better about it, makes me
feel better about it. Do you know what it's funny?
They they brought this up on the on the tweets
to Mike and Jacksonville just tweeted us, I'm talking about
RV's in an RV spaces in SEC country right now.
Norman and Oklahoma's having to build a whole new multimillion
dollar RV lot Mike and Jacksonville. Hit A. Sube says,

(56:29):
RV city opens up and mostly fills up on Tuesday
of the Florida Georgia game week in Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Yeah. I've been to that also. Yeah, I've been to that.
I've broadcasted from there when I did local radio in Atlanta.
That that is, I mean, that is just unbelievable, absolutely
a joy. You know what's crazy is I did this show.
There was another guy that used to do a show
there named Buck Blue. He was the quarterback in the

(56:58):
nineteen eighties for Georgia when they won a national championship. Yep,
all he really did was handing the ball off the hurt.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
That's out that I've worked with. Buck. You gotta stop this.
I was in a fishing passer, you stop it.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
I love Buck, I really do. I think he's a
great guy. And he would walk around like like, oh
my goodness, more than he was like a star, more
than Lebron James's a stock.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
I did Georgia won the title. Baby, it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
He couldn't go through a commercial break without twenty people
coming up to him and just oh, I remember this,
Buck and I remember that and it was just impressive.
It was a great and it's a fun time out there.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
So when we were going to break, I brought up
on Twitter, how I think you sent a copy of
this week's rundown to UCLA dodger Frank.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
I saw that. I immediately checked my notes to see
what number it was at.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Frank writes, is Roman numeral sixteen for John Cena and
his sixteen world championship since he announced he'll be retiring
next year. No, no, but Roman numeral nine? Was you,
dodger Frank? I was surprised, as you know what, to
see you have this on your topic wheel to step
to a slim gym. That's not John Cena. Oh that's
not John Ceno. Okay, right? What made it? Was it?

(58:14):
Just because it's all over your Twitter timeline? What made
you think of it?

Speaker 3 (58:17):
I saw it all over Twitter, so I'm like, hey, well,
ask bike, what do you think of I goes this
really that big of a deal? Is it something that
people got all crazy about? I don't know. You tell me.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Only because he had popped in and out, he'd pretty
much been retired from full competition, I think for a
while now, right, but I mean twenty years sixteen time champion.
Dude's pretty funny. He's got to make funny movies.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Yeah, he makes funny movies.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
What's the TV show that he's uh, this is the
I'm gonna sound like you describing something. He's on a
TV show where he's an actor who pretends to be
these buddies best friend who had been so so. In
other words, these guys had this scheme, this plan right
where a movie or TV show? It's a TV show

(59:03):
John Cena actor pri I think it's a prime video
one and it's freaking hilarious. Oh yeah, Ricky Sticky. Yeah,
I saw the commercial for that Ricky thank you, Ricky Stanicky.
I think was that who yelled at me? Was that Mary?
Or was I hearing? Okay? Good thing? Ricky Stanicky. He's funny,
he's he's a good actor. I think he's a pretty

(59:25):
good speaker. I think he's got a chance to, you know,
continue his career without getting thrown around and suddenly having
to walk out and wrestle. I think he's good to go.
He had a run.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Man, He's not old school like Georgia Animill Steele, the
Iron Sheet old.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
That's not considered a gym. That's that's.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
That's not he's not alive anymore.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
That r I p that's right, as did Leap and
Lenny Poffo his brother. But no, I think he was.
He'll go down. That's one of the greats. I don't
know if he's a rushmore guy when we're talking about
WWE slash f Superstars, but I'm here for that debate
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

Speaker 9 (01:00:06):
There is no debate.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
He is my big guy that passed away, the real
big guy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Oh now, this is really the big guy, the big
guy the past.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
The big big guy, the biggest guy in wrestling.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Are you going back to Andre the Giant?

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Yeah, it's Andre the Giant.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Anyway, what a run for John Cena? Right? Mary? Great runover?

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Wait?

Speaker 7 (01:00:28):
No, here's my Oh no, no, no, not not that. My
thing is like I feel like he's already been retired.
Like I don't remember the last time, Like the last
time I watched John Cena wrestle, I was probably in
like it really had relevancy, dude, I was like ten, yeah,
and I'm twenty one right now. I feel like I've
I've known him longer as an actor and like doing

(01:00:50):
funny stuff than like an actual wrestler, So I'd like,
why song I told I think I told Patrick, I
was like, what is he exactly retiring from? Like he's
kind of been retired, Yeah, and wres so it doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I will say, though, whenever it not to go all
wrestling on you here, Arnie, because I know it's not
your thing. But when he wrestled the Miz in the
main event of WrestleMania, so good. That was so good,
and my son was all in on wrestling at that point.
He was young, he was like ten years old too,
and it was just it was cool. It was awesome.
It was something for me and my son to bond over.

(01:01:23):
So for me, that's always kind of a cool thing
with John C.

Speaker 7 (01:01:27):
Johnson will always be a staple for like a lot
of like gen zs and like like he'll always be
a staple wrestler.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
It's just like wrestling fans and the biggest diehard fans
I've ever seen. It's it's insane now, they just go
crazy when they go to some of these events.

Speaker 7 (01:01:44):
It's it's so good though, Like my Grandma put me
out cause I think she used to watch it in Africa,
so then when she came to America, that's how I
got into like wrestling and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Really yeah, what a story man. So there you go, Arnie,
there's an answer to Roman numeral number nine nine Roman
numeral nine.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
So there.

Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
I didn't think it was so big. I'm glad I
put it on the Roman numeral list.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Well, and again, if if we were to say, gosh,
what does this mean for WWE and what are you
gonna do? He hasn't been involved in any storylines, So
that's I mean. If Roman Rains came out tomorrow and
said he was retiring, if Cody Rhoades came out and
said he was retiring, then we'd have a conversation.

Speaker 9 (01:02:22):
Upset about Cody Rhods, then about Roman Rains.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
By the way, Mike and Jacksonville tweeted you, I don't
know what it means, but you could. It says sixteen
time champion, don't you mean sixteen time lead actor?

Speaker 9 (01:02:35):
I agree? I agree, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
It's wrestling. It's scripted. I'm not trying to tell you
that it's real. Mary and I are sitting here goes
stop it. He really hurt him and when he fell
through that glass window, it really did break. No, we understand,
I mean, yeah breaking.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
It was one of those things where it's kind of
like you find out Santa Claus, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
I've told you the story about me trying out for
the announcing job that they had.

Speaker 9 (01:03:00):
I would actually have done a really good time. I
think he would have been good at yeah, the voice
for it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
One of the guys that was picking the job used
to listen to me when I was in Phoenix, and
he really really wanted me to put my name in.
I put my name in. There was a lot of
people that put their name in, so I just said
find the Yeah, I want to. And it got narrowed
down the twenty and they did interviews and it got
narrowed down to ten, and do it there, and it
got narrowed down the five. And that's when I said, Okay,

(01:03:27):
I'm not quitting my job. I'm not going on the road.
I'm not doing this. You I'm not doing you have
a thing of mustard on me or whatever and throw
me through the ring and hit me with a chair
by accident. I go I don't know what happens to me,
but I'm out. I don't know what I would have
had to have done. But it just got too much.
I kept saying, which I kept saying it. But I

(01:03:49):
don't know any of the wrestlers. I really don't know.
Like you guys, that's okay, that's okay. There's a special
thing we're gonna do. I'm like, you know, I just
don't like this. I don't want to do.

Speaker 9 (01:03:59):
Tell you with Drew, Yes, Withdrew, you're such a loser, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Yeah, I know that's hitting the job. You have a job.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
I walked out a play by play job to a
blind guy. So I mean, I know that's a true story.
That's a true story. We just get I'm serious, that's
a true story. Well, when Miami Miracle, it was the team.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
When do we come back to the DIRAC dot com
studios less John Cena more over, underwind totals and I
got two rookie props. I think you need to keep
an eye on and Todd, Steve, I've got you covered
with some gambling numbers. But first Steve Sager comes rolling
in with everything that's going on in the world of sports.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
What's up Steve all of this and more in the
upcoming Arnie autobiography.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
That's got some stories. Now, I don't know you're a
true or not when you've been around this long.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
When they wrote that book on sports Talk, I was
like five of the chapters out of like out of
like twelve of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
I don't believe you were five of the chick I
was break that. Oh god, I was five.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Jackson book out, Break It Out, where I wish I
had one with me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Okay, we'll just say yes and move on. Then, I
guess I think that's okay. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:05:12):
We had baseball at Yankee Stadium tonight in Boston, shutout
rival New York three nothing. The Yankees have lost fifteen
of their last twenty games. They only had four hits
as a team tonight. All star Rafael Devers had three
for Boston. The rest of his team was three for
twenty eight. But Devers hit a solo homer, top of
the seventh, solo homer, top of the ninth, three zip
the final. Baltimore, the first place team in the Al East,

(01:05:34):
now three games up on the Yankees. The Orioles win
at Oakland six ' three today, winning pitcher Grayson Rodriguez
is eleven and three to save to Craig Kimbrel his
twenty third. Toronto won in ten innings at Seattle, five
to four. The Mariners left fifteen men on base. Milwaukee
took care of the Dodgers nine to two. In LA
All Star Christian Yellich from the LA area, had three hits,

(01:05:56):
three RBIs, including a home run. The Brewers are the
first place team in the NL Central five games over
Saint Louis. Arizona was tied one to one at San
Diego going to the seventh inning nine to one Diamondbacks
the final. The Padres offense went.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Four for thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
Texas a thirteen to two winner over Tampa Bay. The
win the Nathan Evaldise six and three, went seven innings. Today,
the Rangers have won three in a row. Texas will
be the host for All Star Week. The All Star
Game is on Fox TV a week from Tuesday, but
it's almost a whole week worth of events. We've got
the HBCU All Star Game coming up this Friday at

(01:06:32):
the Texas Rangers Stadium. Saturday is the All Star Futures
Game and the Celebrity Softball Game. The home Run Derby
is there on Monday night, and of course, the All
Star Game itself Tuesday in Arlington, Texas. The complete All
Star Game rosters came out today. Philadelphia has seven All Stars,
the most of any team. At Wimbledon. Coco Golf lost

(01:06:53):
her fourth rounder against fellow American Emma Navarro six four
to sixty three. American Madison Keys had to retire from
her match due to injury when it was tied five
all in the third set. Number one Vegas Fiontek lost
yesterday in three sets. On the men's side. Number one
Yanick center at one today so to number three Carlos Alcarez.
Number two Novak Djokovic plays tomorrow. NASCAR Street Race was

(01:07:16):
in the rain in Chicago. Alex Bowman the winner, snapping
an eighty race victory drought Tyler Reddick finished second a
weather delay of about an hour forty five. In this one,
it turned into a timed event. It ended at about
eight thirty pm Central time. WNBA had four games the
league is off tomorrow and just one game for him
on Tuesday, but Connecticut won again today seventeen and four

(01:07:38):
record after beating Atlanta, Las Vegas down Dallas which is
now five and seventeen for Vegas, Asia Wilson twenty eight
points Kelsey Plumb with twenty three. Seattle won its home
game over Chicago, although Angel Reese had her thirteenth straight
double double seventeen points fourteen rebounds, but Seattle wins the
game and is now fourteen and seven. Phoenix took the

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lay game at La by the Way. In about two weeks,
the US Olympic Women's team has its sendoff game against
a team of WNBA Stars and then the league will
be off for about a month. The Women's Soccer League
in WSL is now off for a month and a half.
US Women's Soccer has one of its pre Olympic exhibitions
in New Jersey this Saturday against Mexico. A reminder, the

(01:08:22):
Copa America Semifinals start on FS one Tuesday night. Fox
TV has the euro Semis which start on Tuesday with
Spain versus France.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Back to you, all right, thanks a lot, Steve, as
we call you live from the Tyraq dot com studio.
Steve's back in about ten minutes when we go in
depth on that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Can I just defend myself one more time on something
that just said to now we're number one. That's kind
of getting at me a little bit. Now. When you said,
what did you say about Wembaama after one game? Yeah,
same thing you're saying about Brody James after.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
One game, right. He said the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
And I said, oh, sometimes, you know, Chris, if i'd
never seen this one person I'm going to talk about,
if I didn't see his highlights and stuff like that.
If I just saw one preseason game, or one summer
weekue game or a G League game. Today today I
saw a highlight. I'm like, that kid can play. If
I never saw a highlight of him, and I saw

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this one highlight today, I'm like, that kid's a baller.
I'm talking about Cooper Flag. Did you see him dunk
on the Olympic team today when he got a shot blocked,
didn't cry, didn't mope, got the ball right back and
slammed it down. I'm like, that kid's a baller. That's
all I need to see. I know he could play.
Need to see ten you need to see ten seconds.

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I knew that kid could play.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Have you seen him play yet? Though?

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Beyond that, yeah, I've seen I've seen the highlights from.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
His so what what I mean are you trying to
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
See If I didn't see the highlights at all I
saw was this. I'd say, now that kid's a ball
or that can good ball.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Well, I mean, congrats on thinking that the top recruit
in the country is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
I mean, I just say, sometimes you can tell right
off the bat, Chris. Sometimes it just takes one game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Sometimes just like a couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
I understand that. But I think you need to be
more patient in some instance.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Super flat kids pretty good. Did you see did you
see him slam dug?

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Did you see that high I did not see that.
I need to go watch.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
He got the ball, he tried to raise up, he
got a shot block by I might have been Anthony Davis,
I'm not not sure. And then the ball went to
one of his teammates on the block. He cut to
the basket, they gave him to him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Right back and he slammed it down. So it was good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
It was. It was just the one highlight I saw
that was though.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Unfortunately, he's going to be a Duke Blue devil next
year and probably make your life hell. At some point.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
I'm hoping it's not too late. To transfer to Arizona.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
But I think it might be too late for that.
Might hit a couple of these X submissions to the show. Yeah,
Brito rights, He's on fire tonight. Cut Brownie some slack.
His knee pain is legit, legit from falling down after
being crossed over and all the flopping he learned from
his daddy. Your knee would hurt too. Shame on Jeanie

(01:11:07):
Buzz for giving Lebum the team.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Wow wow ouch.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Uh, I had news right. I know Plank loves reports
about practices and workout scrimmages. Tamar Hamlin reportedly picked off
Tom Brady at the Hampton Celebrity White Stuard.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Did, Yes, he did.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
C J.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Stroud leads his A team to the dub over the goat.
Could it be a sign of things to come? Did
the party?

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
I didn't get invited to the White Party, though I
have been invited to the White Party with Donald's throwing
at it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
This is much different, just so we're very clear.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
So it's not the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
It's this is much much different. Oh so it's not
the same crowd or I I do well, No, it's
a very similar crowd. It's I mean you've got a
lot of NBA players you got. I mean, it's fanatics,
it's it's it's Mike Rumans. He's a rock star. But
it's so funny because I keep waiting for that hot
take ahead news. I really do well. I saw, you know,
Deamar Hamlin run around the beach. Does it seemed like

(01:12:04):
he has that same closing speed or someone's gonna have
something to say about something from the beach, Late night
drug tester.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
I was ready for someone that said that Brady's coming
back because he got the itch after playing in the
beach football game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
That one's better than mine, better than mine, Late night
drug Tester, Any surprise Clay chose the Mavericks over the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Yeah, I thought it was a surprise. I didn't think
that money would be an issue. He made it seem
like money was an issue because of the tax reasons too.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
That tax reasons absolutely well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
But two, I think it was mostly because he didn't
want to play with Lebron and he really would have
been third fiddle. Though you could be third fiddle in Dallas.
I just don't think he wanted to deal with that
whole show, that whole circus, and it must have been
tough to pass up because his father was a big
time Wakers star. But I was surprised about that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Steve Kerr, by the way, who lost one of the
better players that he's had in his run, not over
the last few years, but in his run. Here's what
Steve Kerr said about Clay's choice.

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
You know, Clay and I have talked, you know, during
this time of his decision, and so we've we've been
able to share some things and he, you know, gave
me a really good description of his frame of mind.
And so you know, I completely understand. You know, sometimes
in life we all need a shift, the just a

(01:13:26):
fresh start whatever it is, you know, no matter what profession,
and sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
You just need to change.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
And I think, you know, that's that's it.

Speaker 8 (01:13:35):
That's the easiest way to describe why I play is leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
So Steve Kerb obviously live right behind a bouncing basketball hole, smunks.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
Did you hear the rumor that Clay before he signed
with Dallas with the Golden State with one more final
offer two year, forty million or something.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
To that effect. No, I didn't hear that. That's juicy.
Is it real?

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
I think it's real. I don't know about the numbers,
but the part where he went to back to Golden
State right before he signed with Dallas, I believe that
was the real part. I think it was two year
forty million. What did he sign with the Dallas do?

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
You don't have to Oh, I don't have it off
the top of my head, but I.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Had that sounds kind of that sounds kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Three years fifty three years fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Wow. And they turned that down. So geez, I would
think that if you're a Golden State, two year forty
millions quite the bargain. I would think they would take that.
If that's true. If that's true, Hey, let me tell
you something. Yeah, I listen.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I was listening to Willard. He kind of had me
doing a little bit of a one eighty on this. Yeah,
that's kind of like, okay, Clay, maybe it's okay that
you're moving on. He missed two seasons with an injury
after they gave him a massive contract. He hasn't been
the same guy the last two seasons.

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
Nobody did play well the last two to three months.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
He did not. He did, but you also are on
a team that missed the playoffs this year, was knocked
out of the play in tournament last year. And those
are the two years after a championship where you thought,
all right, let's maximize this teph Curry window.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
Well, then you're really showing how valuable he is because
he was hurt at just coming back, you know, so
you're really showing his value to the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
I will say this much. I am absolute awe of
how we somehow turn that signing into a six team deal.
No idea how it happened, no idea how they got
everyone together on it. But somehow the MAVs, Warriors, Charlotte, Denver, Minnesota,
and Philadelphia we're all somehow involved in the Klay Thompson
signing trade. Go figure. All right, when we come back

(01:15:37):
to the ti rack dot com studios, we're just getting
started on the NBA. Does Russell Westbrook potentially a avenue home.
We'll dive into it, coming up right here on Fox
Sports Radio. Here he comes. Sorry, playing on a Fox
Sports Sunday. Steve the Sega is in the house. What's
going on, Steve.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
NFL rookies report to training camp for Baltimore this Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
Report dates for some of the other teams are the
next week. Including some reporting on the sixteenth. But the
Hall of Fame exhibition, as you mentioned, is August first,
exactly because they're not in the Hall of Fame game
this year. Apparently they've seen their postseason Texans against the Bears.
Is the exhibition? Please let me say this in advance.
As much as we're all and I mean that we

(01:16:20):
are all excited for football, please stop telling me that
August is the actual NFL product. It's good to see
bodies and the laundry that we know on the field.
It's not an NFL product, and it's often darn near unwatchable.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
So what do you saying? So the NFL didn't start
to you to that first Thursday Week one?

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
Yes, actual games, Wow, actual starters playing four quarters instead of.

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
No plakas is starting right, It started last week.

Speaker 5 (01:16:48):
I enjoy the excitement. I enjoy the kickoff. I enjoy
the one quarter that I'm going to see people that
I know and will still see playing NFL football, you know,
a few months hence and have a job. By the way,
after the August first exhibition, every other team starts the
preseason at least a week later. We've got the All
Star Game in baseball, coming up on Fox TV a

(01:17:09):
week from Tuesday. It's at Texas this year, the complete
All Star Game rosters came out today. Thirty two ballplayers
are now first time All Stars.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
Bored met at tears.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
Ten NL pitchers have never been in the All Star
Game before. Not boring at all that Pittsburgh rookie Paul Skeens.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Is one of them. Saw that. More on him in
a moment.

Speaker 5 (01:17:29):
But do you know that Juan Soto now with the Yankees,
has made the All Star Game three straight seasons with
three different teams, and Luisa Riaz going for another batting
title this year. He's now a Padres also in the
All Star Game three straight years with three different teams.
Apparently that's not as unique as I thought, because people
like Lee Smith and Guskasig and others are on the

(01:17:51):
list for having done that before. But Paul Skenes was
just drafted last summer and now the first player to
be an All Star exactly the one year after being
drafted in the June amateur draft, he was taking number
one overall out of LSU. He had been at air
Force before. That Southern California native, and he's up to
the Majors already. He's undefeated at five and zero, about

(01:18:13):
fifty eight innings pitched and seventy eight strikeouts. He's from
El Toro High School, which also produced Gold Glove third
baseman Nolan Arenado and Gold Glove third baseman Matt Chapman.
I remember when quarterback Rob Johnson was the El Toro
quarterback before going to USC and he played for his
dad as his high school coach. Rather great Rob, Yeah,

(01:18:35):
I might be better known for Buffalo, but okay, and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Be a Lebron was the coach that Briany would be
playing all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Well, or just find a way to get drafted? Is
that how that works?

Speaker 5 (01:18:46):
Longtime NBA writer Mark Stein went to El Toro High
School a guest on some of our shows. Anyway, kudos
to El Toro because I didn't realize. I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Of course, high school baseball you don't hear about as much.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
I went to high school with Jeff Schwartz, specific palisades.

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
Jeff Schwartz, our Jeff Schwartz, Jeff Schwartz about That's the
team that has the most All Stars this summer, the
Philadelphia Phillies with seven. Because Bryce Harper is due to start,
although he's currently out with the hamstring injury. He was
the NL's leading vote getter. Two of his teammates from
Philly will start in the infield, Trey Turner and Alec Bohm.

(01:19:21):
Dodgers have six All Stars, but that includes the injured
Mookie Betts, selected for an eighth straight year, Freddie Freeman
for an eighth year in his career. Atlanta pitcher Chris
Sale is an All Star for the eighth time. That's
unbelievable that he's back and healthy.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
He's back after what he's been doing at the end
of the Red Sox contract.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
It was just that guy's career was ov R.

Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
That's been sensational and well deserving of this, as is
Kansas City Salador Perez, the catcher, is an American League
All Star for the ninth time in his career. As
for the al outfield, it's due to be Juan Soto
and Aaron Judge from the Yankees, Stephen Kuwan of Cleveland.
Gunner Henderson shortstop is the starter from the Orioles, and

(01:20:02):
Henderson's also going to be in the home run Derby
along with Alec Baum of Philadelphia and Pete Alonzo as
officially gonna be there. You know, the first round of
the Home Run Derby is no longer going to be
a head to head bracket like March Madness. You're just
gonna have eight hitters in the first round. Whoever are
the top four the ones advancing and trying to get
people to not be so exhausted at the end of

(01:20:23):
each round. They change the rules. Also, it's just forty
pitches within each player's three minute round instead of saying, hurry,
throw it again and I'll you know, because batters were
averaging forty three swings per round last year. Anyway, Boston
won the Sunday Night Game three nothing against the Yanks.
Yanks have lost fifteen of twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
We're counting down NFL training camps. Thanks Steve, great stuff.
As always, that a reminder, it's here. I've got props
that you need to keep an eye on. I got
a couple over underwin totals that I'm really intrigued by.
I'll throw them in front of Arnie. Get his takes,
plus your tweets and your thoughts on a is a
Sunday Night into a Monday with Arnie and Plank on
Fox Sports Radio Power Hour. Yes power hour, Let's go

(01:21:08):
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well we talked about it earlier, the prop that was
out there about Lebron or Brownie being the number one
overall picking the draft right, and how You're like, well,
why is this out here and why would people bet
on it? G you hear knows theory on it. I
don't know if this is a proven fact or not,
but you, being someone who I'm sure is on a
lot of watch lists for casinos places, were like, don't

(01:21:49):
let this guy in, he'll take our money. Knows theory
was that some of the sharps that these offshore places
try to minimize the amount of money let them that
they would actually bet it because they know how stupid
it is that they're worth willing to risk that money.
It's worth it to them to risk and lose that
money just to try to look dumb. In the eyes

(01:22:10):
of the bookmakers, so they'll let them bet more. Have
you ever heard of that? No, that's a new theory
out of me. I kind of bought it a little bit, Okay,
is it making sense? In other words, there's people that
they bet either they're so good at it or they've
made so much money that they limit how much they
can spend. Right, So they bet on a prop like

(01:22:31):
that to try to look stupid, so maybe they'll get
a chance to bet more in the long run.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
Well, then, if you want to look stupid and I
told you this, Broddy's two hundred and fifty to one
of the one rookie of the year. But you know
that I would actually put some money down. You never
know when they're going to change your rules of the
NBA makes it easier for Broddy to win it for
some reason. And it's not like it's a great class,
to be honest with you. Sure, so I would take

(01:22:59):
a fifty one. I would drop down and let's say
like ten thousand if I was a big dive gambler.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Well, since we've started this hour with somewhat of Bronnie talk,
sit a couple of texts on this that have come
in to the show tonight at Stinking Genius Wanham at
playing show, everyone go follow us at Fox Sports Radio LJ.
This just hit, he writes. The Lakers used to be
a destination for free agents. No longer LA is either

(01:23:25):
interested or connected to everyone, but signs no one. Players
don't want to go to it. Its functional team whose
priority is having a superstar name rather than winning.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Can you name a superstar other than Lebron? Where players
did not want to play with that superstar. Players wanted
to play with Kobe, players wanted to play with MJ.
Players wanted to play with Shak. As much as MJ
was a real harsh guy in practice it could really
get after you, people still wanted to play for him.

(01:23:57):
People do not want to play with Lebron. It seems
I can't think of any other free agent or actually
be any big time athlete where people was like, oh,
I'm out, I can't play with that guy. Maybe in
Aaron Rodgers, but I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
But they still get some guy. I'm in denial, aren't I?
It is people don't want to play with him.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
They don't want to play with Lebron. I mean, I
can't you know, I always talk about how Boston doesn't
get the big time free agents because the city gets
a bad knock. The Lakers are not getting the big
time I mean, look, cowpany people pass them up when
they know they're really Some people think they're just that
one guy away, that third option from you know, becoming
a legitimate contender.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
They got to find a new way to sell themselves.
They have to because right now the Lakers are still
trying to sell on La. The sizzle the Lakers, it's
just well hot there right now.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
Wait a minute, how have the Cowboys kept their sizzle
but the Lakers have it? The Cowboys don't have flashing
Dak Prescott's not a flashing guy. How many playoff wins
do the Cowboys have? At least the Lakers have a championship,
albeit it's in the bunk.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
The Lakers have been infinitely more successful in the postseason
than the Cowboys have. I don't know what are you.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
Comparing, no, but I'm saying, how come the Cowboys have
been able to keep their sizzle but the Lakers have it?

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
People still want to play.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
For the Cowboys, who well, everybody would love to play
for the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
Who's the last big free agent signing, they got Ezekiel
Elliott exactly. I don't. I don't think that's a comparison.
That's me. I could be wrong, but I mean, we
talked just as much. What do you mean by that success?
We talk just as much about the Lakers as we
do the Cowboys. Wait, we talked just as much about

(01:25:49):
the Cowboys as we do the Lakers. The Lakers have
won infinitely more in the postseason the last five years
in the CAW. I don't know what you're trying to say. No,
maybe I didn't say it right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
I'm just saying that because you know, you're saying that
the Lakers now they just don't have that sizzle anymore.
They're just self free agents on yeah, well but the okay,
it's the self free agents. But overall though, the Cowboys
have kept their persona, kept their sizzle, kept their you know,
America's team persona out there, and I and the Lakers

(01:26:19):
have lost theirs. It's just interesting the way they.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
I don't think that's the truth. I think they're both
at about the same spot. I don't think you see
a rash of free agents. What did you sit here
and yellow Jerry Jones for well.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
The reason I say that is when the Cowboys play
on TV, their ratings are significantly higher than all the
other teams. But I guess the are the Lakers not
much higher than all the other teams in the NBA?

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
I I don't know. I want. I want you to
be right on this. I want you. I'm trying to
find ways for you to be right. The Laker fan
in me cannot allow that to happen. Right now, You're
still the Lakers, By god, You're still the show in
Los Angeles. You have a billionaire who bought a team
and built a brand new area, and you'll still lap
them in success and in fandom. I mean, the most

(01:27:06):
famous Clipper fan is big Ben Mallard. For goodness sakes,
I mean, let's go well, you know we're in good
shape here.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
You know we're gonna go out of tweets and people
selling the Genie should sell the team. If gen ever
sells the team, she's not gonna have much of a choice.
You know who's going to buy it, don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Bezos? Jeff Bezos? Yeah, because he's not going to be
able to buy the Celtics. Why not the owner?

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
I thought that owner Wick is going to sell his
share to one of the other minority owners that wants
to buy it. He feels an obligation to sell to
that guy first.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Okay, maybe, so I'll take whoever wants to spend money.
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
Come on, Bezos, you got enough money to buy it.
I mean, he'd be happier with the Lakers if you
ask me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Well, I think anyone would be happier with the Lakers
as an investment. They have the fandom over the Celtics.
Over the Celtics. Well, okay, well over the Celtics. Yeah,
that might be tough, especially since Boston just want a
title and the Lakers don't look anywhere close to one
right now. But I think my point more than anything, Arnie,
they've got to find a better way to sell themselves.
If you want to say they've lost sizzle or anything

(01:28:12):
like that, fine, I mean, I won't try to fight
you too much on it, but they've got to find
a way to sell themselves as a placer. You're gonna
go and win titles. That seems to be important to people, right,
That seems to be important to him. Lakers aren't there.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
Oh, you got to be like Jerry Jones and saying
we're all in this year. Genie's got to say. Genie's
got to speak to the public more. She's got to
be in front of the cameras more, talk and talk
to the to the fans more like Jerry Jones does.
That's that's what they want to hear. People want to
hear what Genie's got to say.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Well, as we come to you live from the tirach
dot com studios, I think the one thing that we
can all agree upon. No one really thinks Bronnie's going
to be a superstar and Arnie. Nobody really thinks the
Lakers are headed in the right direction right now. That
that's pretty much the slam dunk with where we are,
oh right now. I don't think they're that far off.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
I mean, let's be honest, if they and I know
if in that and this and that, but you know,
you're talking about two big shots against Denver in the playoffs,
those two are missed. Lakers pull those games out. Who
knows how that series goes and what happens after that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Chris all right. A couple of other tweets on other topics.

Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
Am I wrong? Am I right? Am I crazy on that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
I don't think you're crazy on that at all. Colin
Wright's true NFL fans would pray play preseason fantasy football.
Picking twice the amount of players in three games played
would be the ultimate challenge. See, there you go. I'm
not turning on it. I'm just not as into fantasy football.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Some people don't football then started until the fantasy football
draft starts, so.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
You don't put any work into it. You don't study.
Come on, you gotta study a little bit ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
I'm not as much into it as I used to be.
Also I used to be. I used to love fantasy football.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
I love it. I just for me, I'd much rather
sit here and talk about out how my team's doing
and hopefully my team's winning. But now my fantasy team
my real life team. I want to see the Raiders win,
and I find too many times I'm rooting against them
in fantasy situation.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
I gave you that thing on the Raiders, right, that
bet that was placed on the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Do you know what I didn't realize when you send
these to me, there's actually a reporter that covers this world.
Yeah it's and I give you real careful saying his
name's Ben Fox. He's very good at his job at
b FAWKS twenty two, and he finds massive bets. He's
got a substack. It's it's pretty wild some of these.

(01:30:34):
I think people steal from him, but it's it's really
wild information. Because one better at FanDuel Sportsbook wager two
hundred and fifty dollars on Sam Darnold at three hundred
to one to win the MVP this year. To suit
me that one, and then also you add another better
at the Caesars Sportsbook in Nevada wager thirty one thousand

(01:30:57):
dollars on the Raiders to win the Super Bowl at
eighty to one odds. If it happens, he would win
two point four eight million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
I wonder what the rational I'd love to be in
the room or listen to him, you know, before he
puts down the thirty one thousand exactly what is going
through his mind? Why he's doing it?

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
How much got thirty one thousand dollars to burn? I
think that's what it looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Well, he may say, he's like, you know what, I
remember that seven million I won the two weeks ago.
I would have taken thirty one thousands been on the Raiders.
I go, fine, knock yourself out. But I'm just you know,
as he's thinking, well if they get off to a
quick start that I like the way they look. They
don't even really have a quarterback. I maybe know something.
Maybe he knows that Brady's coming back, and then he's

(01:31:39):
gonna leave the Raiders. I don't know why you'd bet
thirty one thousand on the Raiders?

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
What if? What if the Raiders start three? I'm just
giving you hypothetical. The Raiders start three and zero, and
then they do it with defense. It's like they win
one game like ten to two or so. I'm just
making up numbers. But then the quarterback gets hurt and
then all of a sudden it's pretty good team three
you oh, four and two maybe something like that. Then

(01:32:06):
all of a sudden, it's like, hey, Tom, what are
you doing? Bud get back in here. Then my man's
BET's pretty damn smart. You're right, you're right, But yeah,
why would you wipe your backside with thirty one grand
like that? Aren't you? Like, what do we do?

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
We must have a bowload of money then, so you
I'd rather bet Brady a t fifty to one on
Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
This is pretty good. It's pretty good. From a head news.
We're rolling through some tweets here on Fox Sports Radio.
They're right, folks going folks because a lot of college
football people are folks going nuts online about an editorial
comparing Browny to Tim Tebow. I think the media reaction
may be sort of similar, but the comparison is not
exactly ac.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
Oh, it's boloni. It's absolutely ridiculous. I saw people talking.
I don't know who started that. First of all, Tim
Tebow is one of the most established college football players
quarterbacks in college football all time. I mean, it's ridiculous.
What has Broady he ever accomplished in college Nothing? I
just just stuff the comparison right there. Plus, when he

(01:33:05):
did get to the NFL, t BO at least won
a playoff game. When did he win like six games
in a row or something. He I mean, he showed.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Some good flashes.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Granted, I mean he wasn't a great quarterback, maybe average,
but he was still a lot better than what Bronni's
showing any potential for.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Well, no, no, let's pause for a moment. I don't
care about the NFL. Who cares Tim Tebow won a
Heisman Trophy, Rational championship, Right, there's no comparison in this conversation, right,
you know what, that website used to be so good
and it's just it's trash right now, it's just not good.
Their podcasts are terrible, it's a hard read. The website

(01:33:46):
never loads upright, and then everyone's now going for these
click baity, hot taky headlines. I understand that the intent
was to try to talk about ESPN's losing their mind
over Brownie James like they did against Tim Tebow, But
Arnie is he Tim Tebow was one of the greatest
college football players of all time right when we're when
we're talking about Mount Rushmore's of college football players. Tim

(01:34:09):
Tebow is a guy that's in that conversation. You can't
compare any type of coverage on him to anyone like
Brian right now.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
I woun't say, like, yeah, top twenty five, he maybe
higher the top twenty, maybe top twenty, maybe top ten
of all time with his yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
I think he might be one of the top five
players of all could could very well be.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
I may be underestimator, but that's just when you compare him,
and then you have the nerve that compare you know,
Browny to him. That's that's absolutely right. Maybe I don't
even know how it could be comparable, to be honest,
that's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Nick Wright. So they're going to need a bigger stadium
to hold Caitlin Clark's fans. Another day, another eighteen thousand
seats sell out. Tremendous, amazing, tremendous.

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
I watch the uh Them come back and beat the
was it the Aces I watched. I watched that game
and saw Sabrina get all salty after the game.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
I loved it. That was they played great.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
They were They were done by seven, and they made
a run, they took the lead. It was. It was
a fun game. They went back and forth. It was.
It was a good game to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
You know two things that I don't watch a ton
that I watched this, well, I watch a lot of NASCAR.
Let me rephrase that. Two things that well, one thing
I watch a ton, One thing I don't watch a
ton and the one thing that I watch a ton
I usually end up napping during really caught my attention
this weekend. I was finding myself watching a lot of
the women's basketball, watching a lot of Caitlin Clark, watching

(01:35:37):
a lot of what Angel Reese is becoming, and I
found myself watching NASCAR today. NASCAR was freaking awesome today.
You have the debate over the the rain tithe called
weather tires versus the slicks. You got guys crashing all
over the place Arnie, where you hugely have a certain
number of laps that are left. They have a timer
because it's gonna get dark, and they're running through the

(01:35:59):
streets of chicag It was wold. I thought it was
one of the coolest moments for NASCAR this week.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
And I used to do a lot of I used
to do a lot of stuff when when I lived
in Dallas with NASCAR, I got to drive in an
Indy car, in a two seater Indy car and almost
passed out. I just I don't know, I don't know
how you do that. It's like it's like gravity in
your faces. I'm like, oh no, I and I raised.
I got in the car with a guy that finished

(01:36:27):
like in the top twenty in the Indy five hundred
or something, and he was pushing it to They're like,
go ahead, take him a little faster than the rest
of them. I'm like, no, you don't have to do that.
You know, you don't have to put us into the
wall or anything like that. I was scared Chris period.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
By the way, it's funny that we were talking about
to bounce around from topic to topic, because that's what
we do when we retweet, you know, you send me
a list of the top thirty greatest college football players
of all time?

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
This, oh I did? Yeah it was tbo I didn't.
I didn't bother looking it up. Was t Bow on
that list? Umber nine on that Okay, so on top ten.

Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
Not bad. Well, I mean no offense to people to
put this list together, but for the guys would not
be ranked above Tim Tebow or Vince Young in my mind.
They got herschel Walker number one in Archie Grape. Number two, well,
that's the number three.

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
Tommy Fraser number three. Well that's a mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
I mean, listen, he won a couple titles. And I'm
a Nebraska guy. But Tommy Fraser, Tommy Fraser, yeah, he
won a couple of titles in Nebraska. He was something.
Tommy Fraser. Yeah, Tommy Fraser. Look him up, Google it up.

Speaker 3 (01:37:27):
I know he is.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Why are you acting shocked? And they would consider him
one of the best football players of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't have ahead of him of Tebow
or Vin Young or or maybe even dianor gosh O J.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
Simpson. Yeah, he's number three on their lists. It is
number sixteen. This is per This is per Bleacher Report.
So if you went to their website, you'd have to
click through all thirty individual players with a picture of them,
so that way they can get all their clicks in.
This is a good point by moneyline bet. Before we
grab a break, who writes Roman numer seventeen, how much

(01:38:01):
of that cheesecake did you leave? And Roman numeral eighteen?
How the Utah Utes are going to be top five
this season in college football? Actually that's roman numeral four.
Roman numeral four tonight is how utah is going to
be top five this season in college football?

Speaker 3 (01:38:17):
Yeah, I had that in the big drub. I hate
a lot of I've been a big piece of cheesecake
mixed berry my wife. I really let her have it
from bringing home fruit a couple of days ago before
my Thursday show, said that's unacceptable. You better bring something
back from Costco and of course she failed miserably and
just probably the same cheesecake as I had before.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
I think you got to mix.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
It, got to mix it up, got to mix it up. Absolutely.
And yeah, the Big twelve you said, now, the Big twelve,
the predictions that came out, that's still the same predictions
that we're gonna get when when the media day starts, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
Which starts tomorrow in fact today, I guess on the
Central and Eastern time zones. Well, yeah, well, the.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Media they don't know the new kid on the black.
It's good. They don't know the new kid in school
that's Arizona.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
Those eight remaining teams, they don't know what they what
they're about to learn about.

Speaker 3 (01:39:07):
What lows the team that we play in week one?
Kansas State?

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
You play Kansas State in week one, and they're gonna
be we should roll them. Don't listen. I'm just going
I try to tell you about I try to tell
you about this with Boise State in Arizona and the bowls.
What's this before? I'm sure Kansas State is probably like
a five and a half six point favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
No, I saw it was like seven and a half,
and then it went up to nine and a half,
which is ridiculous because people are betting more on Kansas State.
I'll just get rich. I'm gonna get so rich in
this football season. Just give me my Miami Dolphins and
my Arizona Wildcats. We're gonna We're gonna get rich this year, just.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Like last year. All right, when we come back.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
To the can I just say something real quick about that.
Of course I saw a stat maybe I'm not giving
you the exact year. If you bet every team since
two thousand in the NFL against the spread, only four
teams have winning records.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
I saw that?

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
Is that crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
Was?

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
It? Only four?

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
Yes, four teams since if you had them all together
from twenty to twenty twenty three, if you bet every
team against the spread, only four will have winning records.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
It's a lot of money you'd be gambling. And when
we come back to the tyrack dot Com Studios, oh,
we've got a week's or at the free agent moves
to recap and some spreads to keep an eye on.
Next on Fox Sports Radio, all right, it's Arny in
Plank on a Fox Sports Sunday. But remember, as soon
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(01:41:05):
air tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Give Patrick a couple hours afterwards. Because he's not the quickest.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
And grinding man. He's been working a lot. I wouldn't
I wouldn't test you.

Speaker 9 (01:41:14):
Guys are so lucky. He's not here to defend himself.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
I know that's what I'm saying. Did you go home
early today?

Speaker 9 (01:41:19):
He just walked out of this.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Let's get some audio for it. So we have, But
I want to correct one thing I keep saying Monday.
The actual true Big twelve media Day gets underway Tuesday.
So it's July ninth and tenth, all out in Vegas,
and let me see when can I hear from the
Arizona Wildcats. Boy Brenton Brennan looks like he's the last
guy that's going to talk on Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
By drive the way, the Kansas State game is the
third game of the year for Arizona.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
So you open up with what NORTHNX, Clacky State, eastcorn State,
like that New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
So we'll beat them like a drum, probably the Northern
Arizona and we'll beat them like a drum, and then
we'll beat Kansas State. We'll be three and oh heading
into the Utah game looking good.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
You care about what Steph Curry had to say on
the Clay Thompson departure. I guess this would be the
first time publicly that he's talked about.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
I saw a little bit about that worrying that stupid hat,
but yeah, go ahead to me.

Speaker 2 (01:42:17):
Well this is he just did this with ESPN, so
I haven't seen anything with a hat. But here's what
he had to say about Clay leaving.

Speaker 6 (01:42:26):
I mean, we talked about it a lot, just in
the sense of the journey that we've been on, obviously
me since nine, Clay's twenty eleven draft Draymond, and then
when coach came in twenty fourteen, and what's happened since.
We would have loved to maintain, you know, the core

(01:42:47):
and finish out together, but we obviously understand the league
and things change and you know, having Clay Head on
the Dallas it's tough. It's it's something that I never
would be a reality. But you know, you want him
to be happy. You want him to be able to
enjoy at the game of basketball. It does suck and

(01:43:08):
losing Clay and there's no two ways around it. So
you have to be able to celebrate what we accomplished
but then be able to move on.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
Not much, but I mean, what more would you expect
from him?

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
As shooting backcourt in the history of the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Be hard to debate that. Yeah, thirteen seasons, went to
the final six times, won four championships. Change the game,
Change the game. I'm old enough to remember someone on
this network making fun of the Splash Brothers. Col Splash Brothers.
You how are you going to stop anyone? They ended up,
thank you. They ended up being one of the most

(01:43:42):
dominant backcourts that we've seen. And I hate when people
say scoring the ball, but here we go in scoring
the basketball. They're unreal, unreal, can't shoot, you can't play
things to Clay and Steph. All right, let's get to
saga in here and then we'll hit some tweets. I
know you got your top five list. We got to
get to. But first, Steve de seger get S caught
up on a busy day in sports.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
I believe that's a Huey Brown scoring the basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:44:04):
Scoring the basketball.

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
Yes For example, Bronnie James really didn't score the basketball
yesterday in his NBA Summer League debut two of nine
shooting in twenty two minutes four points, lost to Sacramento.
Did not play for the Lakers as they lost to
Golden State today. We assume he'll play Wednesday against Miami.
The Lakers first round are Dalton, connect Yesterday three of

(01:44:26):
twelve shooting twelve points, today three of thirteen shooting twelve points.
WNBA Connecticut now seventeen and four after beating Atlanta. Las
Vegas beat a Dallas team that's now five and seventeen.
Asia Wilson twenty eight points. Seattle at home down Chicago,
but rookie Angel Reese had her thirteenth straight double double.
Phoenix won the late game at LA. By the way,

(01:44:48):
the NBA's Las Vegas Summer League goes from July twelfth
to twenty second meantime. As you mentioned, the US Olympic
basketball players are in Vegas and are remind they have
an exhibition on FS one this week Wednesday against Canada.
Then from Abu Dhabi on FS one it'll be the
US men against Australia and Serbia after that, again tuning

(01:45:11):
up for the end of this month when Aaron France
and Yes, the US men's Olympic roster includes Lebron James
and Anthony Davis, Jason Tatum, Drew.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
Holliday bet those games, like, can you bet what the exhibitions?

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:45:24):
Yeah, I'm the wrong person to ask im. Sure you
can games in Las Vegas on Wednesday with the US
team playing. I'm I would assume that you could bet
that because.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
The practice game like they have today, probably.

Speaker 5 (01:45:35):
Not you could bet preseason football. This is like a
sanctioned regular exhibition game. Yeah, exactly. I got to say
that Bahamas came this close to going to the Olympics.
They had a really good week. DeAndre Eighten in defeat
at Spain today, had seventeen points fourteen rebounds. Buddy Healed
had nineteen points, but from three point range he was

(01:45:56):
two of ten. Spain won the game eighty six seventy eight.
Eric Gordon was playing for Bahamas. He had fifteen points,
but Spain went four to oh at home. They're headed
to Paris. Greece is going. Their men's basketball team qualified
for this month's Olympic tournament, beating Croatia eighty to sixty nine.
Jannisantenacunpo twenty three points in twenty eight minutes. Grease went
four and oh at home this week. Yesterday, Greece eliminated Slovenia.

(01:46:19):
So Luka Donsich is not going to the Olympics. He
had five assists ten turnovers yesterday his hurts. His team
was down eighteen after the first quarter against Greece. Brazil
won its tournament final at Latvia. In fact, in the
first quarter, Brazil was eight of eight on three pointers.
They had a nineteen oho run late first quarter. Puerto
Rico's going after beating Lithuania. These four winners today got

(01:46:43):
the last four spots in Paris for later this month.
The other eight teams had already qualified, including the US.
A reminder, the Copa America Soccer semifinals start on Tuesday
night on FS one Argentina VERSUS Canada from New Jersey.
Wednesday night, Columbia against Uruguay in Charlotte, columb be unbeaten
in its last twenty seven games over the last two

(01:47:03):
and a half years, and instead of beating up on
the US on Saturday, it beat up on Panama Instace.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
That's my pick to win it all now five.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
Nothing was the Columbia win. Over the weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
Brazil got eliminated by Uruguay on penalty kicks Saturday on
Fox TV. The Euros semi start on Tuesday with Spain
against France. Then Wednesday on Fox somehow England is still alive.
They'll play Netherlands. England won its quarterfinal on PKS At Wimbledon,
Coco Goff lost her fourth round match. NASCAR had the
Street Race in the rain at Chicago. Alex Bowman the winner.

(01:47:33):
Tyler Reddick finished second. Davis Thompson won the PGA's John
Deer Classic in Illinois by four strokes and a tournament
record twenty eight under par for his first tour title.
He's from the University of Georgia. This victory gets him
into the next three Majors, also gets them about one
point four million dollars. And there were two spots to
go to the British Open in a week and a half.

(01:47:56):
One went to the winner but there was a three
way tie for second play. That second spot to the
British Open goes to ct PAN placed on World Golf rankings,
so the two college golfers that tied for second do
not get the spot in the majors. One of those
was Stanford's Michael thorpe Jornson rank number one and the
tour's university rankings. The other is a junior at Florida State.

(01:48:18):
Golfer Luke Clinton, tied for second. Became the first amateur
since back in the nineteen fifties to go top ten
and consecutive PGA sanctioned tournaments, So these finishes the last
two weeks would be worth over eight hundred thousand dollars
if only he had been a pro golfer. No money
to the amateur despite his top tens in the last

(01:48:39):
couple of weeks. The next live golf event is next
weekend in Spain. The complete MLB All Star Game rosters
came out today. Philadelphia has seven All Stars the most.
Dodgers have six, including the injured Mookie Bets. Boston won
three to nothing over the Yankees tonight. Baltimore a sixty
to three winner at Oakland Orioles, now three games up
on the Yanks for first in the AL. Toronto won

(01:49:01):
in ten innings, five to four at Seattle. Atlanta shut
out Philadelphia six nothing, the Mets with two runs in
the top of the ninth, beating phil three to the final.
They beat Eraldus Chapman, who's still in the majors. And
let's say it out loud, not pitching well. Francisco Lindora
to runs singly at.

Speaker 3 (01:49:20):
To a couple of games now in the second half.

Speaker 5 (01:49:22):
You are also promising in what's this now baseball? You
can add this Chris to all the other sports he
promises to go in other states. He never leaves his home. Okay,
I just know that I don't think that he would
go out like in his own front yard. If there
was a game going up. He probably think there was there.
He would make his wife shovel the snow. First. Minnesota

(01:49:44):
with a solo homer bottom of the ninth, ed Houston
three to two, and Texas, which will host All Star
Week one, thirteen to two at home against Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Back to you, hey, I can say that, Arnie, I
can say next week will be live from the All
Star Game. Add that one too in the O Live
from the All Kids, I'll be in Dallas. Wow, you see,
media days are just I'm in the hub of the
sports world next Sunday night. In the meantime, why are
you there.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
For a week though? I mean, isn't it just like
a one day affair?

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
Sixteen teams four days, four teams a day? Wow? Yeah?
And I want to say, Oklahoma's on Tuesday and I
get to see Caitlin de boor so. I mean, it's
gonna be a fun week. Man. There's a lot to
learn about the old SEC.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
And you do you ask like crazy questions or no?

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
No, I just I try to get in and get out, Arnie.
I I want to go home. I want to go home. Nothing.
I don't want to be there.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
Oh, come beating you guys five years in a row.
Are you a little nervous about them coming into the
SEC now or something like that?

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
You know the last three times you've played Oklahoma, you've
lost thoughts on playing them again Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (01:50:49):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Yeah? Should I go with something like that?

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Yes? Yes? Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:50:53):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
You'll you'll be viral.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
I promise you.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
I don't want to be viral. I just want to
get good answers. I mean, you'll get a good answer too.

Speaker 3 (01:51:03):
I robise you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
I'm the kind of person where if they go viral,
I mean, what the girl that did talk too and
they're doing a life documentary on her, I'd be that's
just too crazy. I'd be fired if I go viral's ooh,
well he's got to go. So that's uh. I'm trying
to be smart about it. How about your top five list, Darnie.
I can't believe that it took me until now to
get to it. But before we get to your picks,

(01:51:26):
great John tonight to Seger, and before we put a
rap on this, yere bad boy, Arnie. Top five most
overrated teams in twenty twenty four. Sorry Eddie, Yeah, my
bad for not doing this in the top of the hour.

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
My five most overrated NFL teams heading into twenty twenty four.
Number five is Everybody's new as Starling. Everybody's jumped on
the bandwagon. They're like the sentimental favorite to go to
the Super Bowl. I'm talking about the Detroit Lions. Are there?
Are there gonna be a one hit wonder? Everybody tells
me that the Packers are better, Minnesota's gonna get better,

(01:51:59):
and the Bears I have to get better with Caleb Williams.
I'm not so sure that Detroit is gonna be able
to put up the numbers like they did last year.
Plus they're gonna have that first place schedule. I think
they're overrated heading into the year, but that's because everybody
but everybody's on that bandwagon. So I have Detroit at
number five, number four, the fourth most overrated team heading

(01:52:20):
into twenty twenty four. How about your Cleveland Browns? Now?
I know they've made some moves, but they still have
Deshan Watson at quarterback. Is this guy gonna be able
to go ahead, be healthy for an entire year? Is
he gonna be able to put up big numbers? Plus,
look at that division, it's brutal when you have the
Bengals and last and they're a game above five hundred
and nine and eight. So I would have put Cleveland

(01:52:42):
at number four, number three, the Green Bay Packers, and
solely because I just don't believe that Jordan love Is
is great as everybody's making them out to be. Wow,
give him the big contract. Look what he's done. He's
been fantastic. Hey, he's a good quarterback. He's waited his turn.
He had a good Remember, they had to win their

(01:53:04):
last three games of the year. Last year there were
six and eight, So if they lose the last three,
then there's six and eleven. Nobody's saying crap about how
great he is. I'd say the Green Bay Packers, the
third most overrated team are heading into twenty twenty four
number two. Gosh, if I had a dollar for everybody

(01:53:25):
talking about how this team's going to go to the
super Bowl, I'd have a gazillion dollars. I'd have more
money than Bezos. And that's the New York Jets. Stop.
And I heard Brian No talking about this. If the
Jets could win seven games with quarterbacks that do like
ten touchdown passes and Aaron Rodgers can throw thirty, how

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could the Jets not be better?

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
I agree, and all the Jet fans.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
I just wanted to lose strictly for Jason Smith, but
all the Jet fans out there think that this is
their year with a quarterback that's coming back from an
injury that's pretty harsh to come back from. I don't
care what retreat you went on to make yourself healthy
and what drug you're taking to make yourself healthy. I
don't think Aaron Rodgers is gonna have a good year.
So Jets are overrated, and you know it was the

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most overrated team heading into.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Twenty twenty four. Drumroll please and they and let me
tell you something.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
They made no moves whatsoever. The I should say your
Dallas Cowboys. That's right, Dak the Cowboys to go to
the super Bowl last year. Well this year, I'm not
gonna pick them. They're overrated. They have no weapons. You know,
Dak is not If you have the list of top
five quarterbacks, maybe I'll do that next week. Not so

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sure I would have Dak in my top five. But
Cowboys overrated in that division. You get a little bit
of a break because of the Giants not going to
be that good. But Cowboys number one of my most
overrated team.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
They haven't picked her next. It's already in Plank on
Fox Sports Radio. Wow, that's how you go home, Arnie
shout out to Mary on the Ones in TUESA all
night long. Appreciate it. You know, I think sometimes well
we I say we you don't give Patrick his due.

(01:55:16):
But Patrick's been grinding all week. I think this is
like twenty days in a row. But he crushed it tonight.
The Seger Oh no, Datrick as always, and the millions
and millions of editors behind the scenes. Well you remember
his name when I called him by the wrong name
two weeks ago? Wow, Kyle, two weeks ago. Now you
don't remember it?

Speaker 9 (01:55:35):
Pluck it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:36):
Yeah, I'm very confused by your mindset. Right, I got you.
But it's kind of funny this week is u It
was a wild fourth of July on a Thursday, right,
so everyone should have got an extra day. I don't
think I'm ready to go back to work tomorrow, Arnie.
I want another day off. Should we have a vacation
from my vacation.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
I can't believe it. You're you're You're always working. You're
missed the work.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
I loved having days off, though, I'm not gonna lie.
They're really fun. You know what I did on my
day off Saturday? I didn't work on Saturday, Ordie. I
didn't do anything. You know what I did? What I
played on my phone for like ten hours and I
didn't feel bad about it at all.

Speaker 3 (01:56:13):
On your sofa with your underwear on, and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
Well, I mean, I put I have I have clothes on,
I have daughters. Oh yeah, played on my phone and
play golf. It's all I did.

Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
So you're a golfer.

Speaker 9 (01:56:23):
Wait, what games do you have on your phone?

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
It's Instagram reels. I'm sorry, See I'm.

Speaker 9 (01:56:27):
Not young for on your phone that is.

Speaker 2 (01:56:30):
Playing on my phone Instagram reels. Man, the whole day, I'm.

Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
Thinking you were like subway surfers something.

Speaker 2 (01:56:36):
I do have games, Candy Crush. Now, I do have games.
I'm playing. I'm playing two K So I've got that right.
But outside of that, it's all just pa.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
You know what I was doing all day? Working?

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
Bro?

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
No, I'm always working.

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
You're not working. You're making desserts or eating desserts. Working
life work. Yeah, I mean you don't work, but you
do bring your picks every Sunday night to wrap up
the show. So take it away, stinking genius. Where do
you want to start on this sum.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
Where the heck am I gonna get some picks? O?
There's well, there's a few things I guess I could
pick out there. First of all, USA will be Canada
like a drum that's gonna be Wednesday by twenty five.
I tried looking up blinds. I don't think there's any
lines out there.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
So I'm sure you can find him, you think so? Oh? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
All right, Evan Navarro is going to win Wimbledon. Do
you care about that?

Speaker 6 (01:57:24):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
I watched that was That was the third thing. I
watched a lot of Wimbledon this week and I liked it.
It was fun.

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
She's gonna win. Remember when it used to be a
big time event.

Speaker 2 (01:57:33):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:33):
Maybe I'll do my five events that are no longer
big time?

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
Where does that Kentucky Derby Prize fighting? What else we got?

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Uh? Yeah, I mean you can certainly do that. You
could do women's tennis, men's tennis, A lot of stuff
you could do on that. Carlos alc is going to
win for the men. I got my Columbia.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
Did he lose?

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
Did he lose already? No, he didn't lose. Okay, all right,
Columbia will win in the KOPA.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
Are you are you winging this right now? Are you
googling this up while you talk?

Speaker 1 (01:58:12):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:58:12):
And Canada is gonna win it an upset they play Argentina.

Speaker 2 (01:58:17):
Okay, so there you have my picks.

Speaker 3 (01:58:18):
Do with them as please? No, longer strictly Fred the
taping purposes all. You know, I'm the soccer expert.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
No, yeah, especially after that big US pick last week
at this time that way, why.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
Don't you keep saying I picked us?

Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
Are you sure? Yeah? I'm pretty certain? Or did I
just pick him to win that game?

Speaker 9 (01:58:35):
The fact that you don't even remember.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
I don't think I picked the win the whole thing.
I just picked them to win that one game and
they got beat.

Speaker 3 (01:58:45):
You're like, got one game wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
You didn't just pick them. You guarantee them, Adam. He's like,
it was your blood bank guarantee and this happened, you know.
Jason B. Diamond, great contributor to the show. This is
the final thought for both of us, because I was
thinking about all the baseball talk today and it was awesome.
On thirty two, first time Major League Baseball All Star

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is so coolson, Jason writes, it was one hundred and
eight degrees in Sacramento today, So the A's playing three there,
three years there in an open air stadium isn't exactly great.
Do you see how it was in Las Vegas too?
On one hundred and twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
Yeah, you talk to Bernie, that's insane. You know, my
wife and I were joking about it. We used to
live in Phoenix and went to school in Tucson. It's
it's just harsh. I remember when I was living in Phoenix.
They used to call me up and go, hey, you
want to come play golf. It's free, nobody's on the course. Sure,
nobody's in the course. It's one hundred and fifteen degrees out.
You gonna You're gotta burn yourself to death.

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
It is so tough. And then you know, people say
it's a dry heat, but just still sweat. When you're
sitting on a like a leather chair or something and
you're got that back sweat's going on. You gotta keep
like three shirts in your car. You got the big
under arm pit sweats going and gosh, it's horrible, absolutely
horrible when it gets to something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
Well, I uh, it was amazing here this week because
I was that guy that constantly said, boy, we really
needed this. What was raining for two days because Arnie,
we'd gone like a month without rain and it was
one hundred and ten degrees And I'm just happy that
we got a little cool.

Speaker 3 (02:00:24):
Geez, you had it bad.

Speaker 2 (02:00:26):
I'm living on the Sun. That's where I've relocated to.
Well listen, I hope all your picks hit this week.
I hope we have the will more events to pick
next week. But don't forget Arnie. What are you on
this week during jar Smith Show with Harmon? All Right,
I'm on with Harmon on Friday night, so you can
catch us doing our solo acts this week on Monday

(02:00:48):
and Friday with a great Mike Carmen. Arnie. I will
be back next Sunday night. I'll be light from Dallas
for the All Star Game and for sec meety days
until then. Have a great week joining Arnie. You have
a good one. Big Ben Malord is coming up next
and you're going to be inundated with a lot of
Team USA basketball over the next few days. But I
think you're embracing it. You'll have a great week. We'll
see you next Sunday night right here on Fox Sports Radio.