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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Man, oh Man,
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part of the problem. I'll explain why coming up here
just a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox, Fox
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the way tire buying should be. So I am a
big fan of carnivals. Right now, when you grow up
and you don't have a lot of money, that is
your basic pseudo vacation. We'll call it that. So, like
where I grew up, there was a little church carnival

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around the corner called the Saint Pascal's Carnival, and it
was free to get in, and my parents love taking
us there because you know, it's much cheaper than Disneyland.
I don't know if anybody's ever been to Disneyland recently.
I don't know if you if you've had a chance
to go and visit, if you have, take a loan
out before you go, because it's a problem. Everything's expensive.
You walk in there, a corn dog is like forty

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nine dollars. It's crazy. But I like carnivals. And there
was this show and I believe it's still on, and
I remember Dan Byern I actually had the host of
this show on here on Fox Sports Radio years ago,
and the show was called Carnival Eats, and the idea
was they would go to these carnivals and they would

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take normal food items that you would get at a carnival,
and they would add a bunch of crazy stuff on
top of it, and then the guy would try him
out and he would eat him. It would be a
Snickers bar deep fried with a pizza crust and cotton
candy on the outside, and he would try it, but

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then that wasn't good enough. Let's roll it in M
and m's. Let's sprinkle on some skittles and while we're
at it, put some caramel syrup with another candy bar
on top of it. And let's see how good that is.
And in fact, furthermore, just because we care about health
here at this carnival, let's wrap it in a tortilla,
you know, or a briosche bun. Why don't we just

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go ahead and get after it, and let's make this
whole thing a big presentation. That was the idea behind
the whole show. And I saw carnival eats play out
in the NBA playoffs last night, and it was phenomenal
to watch. And you might have even been a part
of it, because I don't know if you were aware
of this. Grant Williams poked the bear and woke up

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Jimmy Butler in the Miami Heat. Wo that's what it was. Yeah,
it wasn't good enough that the Heat are up to
nothing on the Celtics. No no, no, no no. It
wasn't good enough that Miami just won two games in
Boston on the road. No no, no, no no. That

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story wasn't good enough. We gotta wrap it up in
something and sprinkle something over the top of it just
to make it even better. It's Grant Williams sparked Jimmy
Butler and motivated him to bring the heat back down
nine to win the game. I got a question for you.
Did Grant Williams also poke the Caleb Martin bear that

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had twenty five points off the bench? Did he did
that too? Was that Grant Williams? I'm just curious. Was
it also Grant Williams who poked the bam on a
bio bear and gave him twenty two and seventeen last night,
including a monster putback dunk late in that game, which
basically iced it was that Grant Williams. Did he do that?

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I'm just trying to keep I've tried to keep the
story here. I'm trying to keep how many toppings we've
got on this nice little food item that we had
to go over the top with. I mean, it's not
good enough. Here's one for you. Let's try something simple,
you know, how about a simple item, you know, something
that you don't need all the bells and whistles with.

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How about the fact that just the Celtics are overrated?
How about that? Or how about the fact that the
Heat have been the best team in the East for weeks.
I mean, I don't know what anybody else is watching.
I don't know what anybody else has been watching. But
if you've paid any attention to the Boston Celtics the

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entire season, and I've been saying this, and this is
one of the rare things I get right, believe it
or not. There are sports talk radio hosts and people
on TV who can't admit that they get things wrong.
And when you call them out on it, they don't
block you on Twitter or snapface. Believe it or not.
I know, foreign language, foreign thought process says, but believe
it or not, those things are true. I've been telling

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you this about the Celtics forever. Now. This is who
they've been all year, up and down, inconsistent. This is
who they are. You ask anybody who's watched any sort
of Celtics basketball over the past three four months and
they'll tell you youet, just weird, just fall apart in

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the fourth quarter. Can't explain it. Yeah, but at least
they've got home court now throughout the playoffs, because you know,
the Milwaukee Bucks lost, ye know, that doesn't matter because
going on like three four years now, the Celtics are
a sub five hundred team in the postseason at home.
This is who they are. But that's not good enough.

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That's not enough. Would you like a slice of pizza?
Absolutely not? Why not? Because you haven't put chocolate chips
and ding dongs on top of it. So no, I'm
gonna go ahead and pas.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Hey, what about that big heat win for the Miami
Heat on the road. They're up to nothing, not and out.
That's not good enough. We got to dress this thing up.
Grant Williams poke the bear. Why do we get greedy
with this stuff? The storylines are written. We don't have
to sensationalize it. We don't have to hype it up anymore.
We don't have to dress it up with a bunch

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of little fun stuff on the side. It's all there.
We don't need to We don't need to add all
the little bells and whistles and get really creative and
funky with it. It's okay. Just have a normal food item,
all right. You want a deep fried twinkie, go for it,
all right. You don't have to sprinkle in cow feces

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or anything else you find at the fair. You don't
have to put some hay on top of it. Just
enjoy the item and move on with your day. The
Miami Heater up to nothing. It wasn't because Grant Williams
poked the bear and sparked the comeback. And it wasn't
because the Boston Celtics found themselves in a difficult spot.
There are two truths that are going on in this series.

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The Celtics are overrated and the Miami Heat have been
the best team in that conference and possibly the NBA
four weeks and as it stands right now, it looks
like Miami's going to the finals. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio,
Get me on Twitter at the Jonahs Knox at the
Jonas Knocks on Twitter. So there are some things you
know in your life that are normal to you that

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make no sense to anybody else. Right, this is just
a reality. Like, for example, my relationship with my friends
is strange because majority of the time we insult each
other whenever we see each other. It's just how things work.
And these are my dear friends. My best friends were
on a text chain together. I've been close with these

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guys and have talked to them every day for like
twenty five years. But that's hard to explain to people.
When my wife first met my friends and saw us
interact to me afterwards, I can't believe you guys like
each other. But it's hard to explain. But there are
certain things in your life that are normal that if
you try and explain or use any sort of logic

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or explain it to a reasonable person, it doesn't make
any sense whatsoever. Well, that's Jim Mersay, all right, Jim Irsay,
who's the owner of the Indianapolis Colts. He cannot be
explained using any sort of common sense or rationale. If
you follow Jim Mersay on Twitter, it is a wild ride,
random music quotes, all right, you'll get some stuff like that,

(08:33):
Jim Mersay. You know, sometimes you take a look and
you view what time a tweet was sent, and you go, okay,
is it happy hour? Is it not happy hour? Because
it just feels like a guy who's bellied up at
a bar. You know, he's got like a nice little
bowl of peanuts and pretzels next to him, and he's
just kind of rifling off tweets all this feels good.
That feels goodnother Jack and Coke Jim keep the coming. Yeah,

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that feels good. Okod Jim, you want an IPA now,
why not? It's Friday. That's what he does. And so,
upon the passing of the great Jim Brown, Jim Mersey
decided to go to social media and send out some
tweets and he listed his top five players Jim Brown,

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Tom Brady, John Elway, Deacon Jones, and Reggie White. Now,
people pointed out that Peyton Manning was not on that list,
so Jim Mersay came back and said, well, Peyton's in
my top ten, as well as Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, etc, Etc. Etc.
But the one that confused him was the John Elway.

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You know, like, how's John Elway on this list and
not Peyton Manning. And for those who don't recall this,
it was John Elway who said he didn't want to
play for the Colts. In fact, when Jim Mersey's dad
was still around and owned the Baltimore Colts, John Elway said,

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not only why not play for your franchise, I'll go
play for the Yankees and it's dead. That was a
real thing. Thus, that's why John Elway ended up in
Denver because he was threatening to go play for the
Yankees because they had already drafted him. He was in
the organization. He was going to go report to spring
training and leave his football career behind because he wanted

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nothing to do with the Colts. Yeah, but Jim Errsay
forgot all that and just threw him in his top five.
Point is who cares what the guy's list is. And
the fact that there is a little weirdness to him
in Peyton Manning. Like I've said it for a long
time now, Peyton Manning feels more connected to the Denver
Broncos than he does the Indianapolis Colts. And he played

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in Denver for what like four years, he was in Indianapolis
for over a decade. There is some weirdness there. But
when it comes to Jim Mersay and trying to understand
or use any sort of logic, it's like one of
those things in your life. You can't explain it. It's
never gonna make any sense. You just got to take
it for what it is. It was Jimmersay firing off

(11:01):
some tweets remembering the great Jim Brown, and he may
or may not have been a happy hour. That's my conclusion.
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at
the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter, and
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Oh yeah, Johnny oh Man, by the way, thank god
Iowa Sam's and Mike Honduras wherever he is. We got
the great John Ramos here. First song out of the break?
What does he play? Little German techno metal on a
Saturday Ramstein And for some reason, I know this entire

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song in English. For those of you listening on the podcast,
the song is called sone, which means sun in German.
Why do I know that? No clue? Hey, no note
to nine loof balloons, right. But by the way, I
didn't even know that that's what the lyric was until

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I saw it recently on the TV and I said, oh,
that's what they're saying. I had no idea, clearly no
clue that that's what it was. But away we go.
It is Jonas Knox or Fox Sports Radio, and we
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ten minutes from now from the ti Raq dot com studios,
there seems to be seems to be an issue with
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minute from now here on FSR. So, you know, there
was something that's been missing from our lives for a
long time. I don't even know if you were aware
of this. I don't even know if this is something
that you know, maybe you realized you didn't have it,
and then all of a sudden you looked for it
and you said, oh, it's gone. You know, it's like
that old pair of a pair of sweatpants you just
assumed you had, and then it starts to get cold

(14:20):
out again and you look for it and you go,
oh my god, I got rid of it last year,
totally forgot. But I don't know if you were aware
that something has been missing from our sports lives and
our sports news lives for quite some time now. And
it's called the Friday news dump. Man, oh man, those

(14:41):
were just tremendous. Back in the day. You got some
bad news you want to break, when's the perfect time
to do it. Eh, how about Friday at five o'clock?
Beautiful because the idea was well, at least that way,
all of the major outlets can't get their hands on
it for and so it's not until Monday when all

(15:03):
the dust settles at people, and then by that time
the news cycle nobody really cares. So this is the move.
You throw it out on a Friday, and that way,
you're hoping nobody's paying attention because they're sitting with Jim
Mersey at Happy Hour when he breaks down his top
five players, including one guy that wouldn't play for his organization.
So like you just assume, like, hey, that's the best move. Now.
Because of the juggernaut that is the Fox Sports Radio

(15:25):
weekend lineup, we got rid of that notion altogether. Like like,
if you want to dump news on a Friday, you
don't want this group of savages getting their hands on
it during the course of the weekend. Okay, because we're
gonna light it up. But somebody did try a little
Friday news dump yesterday. I don't know if anybody was
aware of this, but USC is looking for a new

(15:49):
athletic director. Yeah, because Mike Bone or his Petros Papadakus
likes to call him on the blowtorch Am five to
seventy LA Sports the Bonerino Mike Bone is gone. He
is gone. Now kind of came as a surprise. People
are scratching their head going why. I mean, UFC feels

(16:11):
like they're on the rise. They feel like the football
program is back. They've got the reigning Heisman Trophy winner,
Lincoln Riley's there. They're on their way to the Big Ten.
They're going to bring in a bunch of new money
coming up in the next several years by joining the
Big Ten. All of this stuff seem like it was
set up for success. I mean, Bronnie James is going

(16:35):
to USA like it. It felt like everything was lined
up perfectly. So why on a Friday afternoon would Mike
Boone decide to resign? That's just odd. Now. In his statement,
he was very humble, and by very humble, I mean
not humble at all about what he had done at USC,

(16:56):
you know, like this little gem. I will always be
proud of leading the program out of the most tumultuous
times in the history of the profession and at USC
with a restored reputation and national milestone accomplishments. I led
the process to join the Big Ten Conference. I hired
marquee head coaches, produced the highest graduation rate in school history,

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and won numerous national and conference championships. But again, humble guy,
down to earth, not about me, about we, Okay, we
not me. That is the saying that Mike Bone prefers
to live by now. He did go on to say
later on in moving on, it is important now that

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I focus on being present with my treasured family, addressing
ongoing health challenges, and reflecting on how I can be
impactful in the future. So you see it, you go,
all right, we get it. Just time to go at
Friday on a Friday at a quarter to two in
the afternoon local time, shortly before five Eastern time on

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the East Coast, and then all of a sudden, people
start doing some digging. So what's really going on here?
The LA Times starts to poke around a little bit.
They kind of sensed there were some issues going on there.
And then, according to some reports out there, Mike Bone
faced internal criticism for his handling of the athletic department

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and allegedly made inappropriate remarks about the physical appearance of
female staffers. Bone remarked on staffers dress, hair, and wait
in a way that made them feel uncomfortable, and the
comments allegedly continued after Bone was confronted about them. Now,
what the hell do I know. I've been out of

(18:49):
the game for quite some time, but last I checked
if this is true. If you ever decide to comment
on people's dress, hair, and wait and those people happen
to be women, it's generally not a good move, you know, like,
it's generally not something that you want to do. But

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when you're the athletic director at USC, apparently that's the move.
And then when they talk to you about it, apparently
you doubled down on it, like didn't like it never happened. Now,
there was also other stuff that came out that he
missed numerous mandatory meetings to events that he was supposed
to be at USC national championships. He wasn't available for

(19:30):
two Former coaches said that his poor leadership was a
key reason for their departures, etc. Etc. Etc. So, while
they tried to revive the Friday news dump, unfortunately people
were on this. They kind of sniffed around because they
felt like something was coming, and then USC decided no, no, no,
now's the time. But this is all about his treasured family.

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Here's where I think we all need to be appreciative, though,
USC and they don't get enough credit for this, And
this is the one thing that I would like to
give us credit for. They have provided so much comedic
material over the years that we just sort of take
it and don't really appreciate the gems that they've provided us.

(20:18):
You know, like a player climbing a building and lying
about it to cops. I mean, there was that whole thing.
How about like a cast member from Full House going
to prison for an academic scandal. I mean when I
was watching Full House growing up, you know what I thought,
man Aunt Becky is hot? Who she is hot? I

(20:43):
never pictured that she was going to be sitting in
the same cell as Andy Dufrain because she cheated to
get her kid at USC, I listened. I never thought that.
But again, maybe I'm just a surface level thinker. I
got to start thinking deeper when I'm watching these sitcoms
from my youth. Like I just assumed that her and
John Stamos were going to end up together forever. I

(21:05):
had no idea that she was going to go to
the clink, no clue or that you know, USC would
have a homeless guy fielding punts at practice and nobody
would notice. Again, all of this stuff has been served
to us on a silver platter by the USC program,

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and we just sort of scoff at it and say, well, yeah,
I keep them coming. And now you got the Friday
news dump attempt because your athletic director apparently may have
fat shamed some female staffers while they were there and
then doubled down on it when they told him to
knock it off, but decided not to show up to meetings,
so on and so forth. So for all the criticism

(21:48):
that USC gets, I just want you to know, and
I've got two fingers up. When I'm doing this right
for the people the Troy alumni, I got two fingers up.
I just want you to know I appreciate what you've
given us. For people like me who talk into a
microphone for a living, which is really hard work, especially
on the in the coal mines of sports talk radio

(22:09):
that is the weekends. I just want you to know
I appreciate what you've done because it's not every day
you can talk about a quote unquote powerhouse without mentioning
the fact that they had a bum at practice and
nobody knew about it because their coach was too busy
on his golf stimulator. I appreciate it if that means anything,

(22:30):
Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next, we are
going to get into a conversation about what may be
bad news for an NFL team for about fifteen years
to come. We'll explain what that is. But for all
the latest from around the world of sports, and an
update on a golf tournament that nobody cares about because
Tiger Woods's body is falling apart. Brian finlay Well.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Jonas, thank you so much, and it was good to see.
I didn't realize that you were moonlighting over at that
local UFC Jim as a clerk, so I enjoyed seeing
you there last night.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
It can't work part time other places. Finley, why do
you gotta judge me? I mean, I'm not I'm just
giving you some praise. I'm just complimenting you. Hey, by
the way, Finley, you can kiss my ass and let
me tell you why you like to hobnob and travel
around and call like tennis tournaments and call like major tournaments.
Like Corgi Races and all this crap, and then you
show up here and you're just dismissive to the entire staff,

(23:24):
like you're all of a sudden too good for sports
stock radio.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Coming from the guy who earlier this hour said that
he had a text chain with all of his best
friends and all they do is insult each other. I
thought I was part of being one of your friends, Jonas,
I'm fitting in with the rest of them.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
That's fair, fair point, yeah, fair point.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
By the way, that pg Championship, which is going on
right now, it is soggy, It is rainy and ever since.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
The by the way, yeah, what an awful stroke of
luck for the PGA. Hey, we're having one of our
majors this weekend. Nice mother nature, you help us out
a little bit, No problem. How about frost a weather delay.
We're gonna go have to suspend play the first round
because it got dark. And then on Saturday, don't worry

(24:09):
about it. We're gonna lighten up on you. We're gonna
put on a tsunami on the course and try and
like I saw guys with rolling squeeges out trying to
get the water off the course. It looks terrible out
there right now.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
And somebody borrowed one of your trench coats too, So
you know, back in those days wisdom fit Yeah, yeh,
the Gothic days of Jonas Knox.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
But yeah right, they're still around. Family cooks about it.
By the way, I get like a ten percent off
at hot Topics, or you need anything, let me know.
I will. I certainly will. But as far as the
leader your rather nipple, Pierce, I can hook it up
for sure.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
And then when you get your tattoo removed from your
lower back, I'll be sure to know where to go.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I'm trying to I'm trying to direct to you, what
do you want for me? O gosh.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
So we do know that the PGA Championship is happening
right now, and Bruce Keepka has taken the tea at one.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
They just showed the radar.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
As far as the weather doesn't seem to be relenting,
as far as the rain, which has been there in Rochester,
New York, where they are holding this event ever since
the sunrise. It has been rain and rain and rain,
and they're playing through this right now. We do have
a three way tie for first five under and Victor Hoblin,
Corey Connors, and Scottie Scheffler are in those positions. They

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have yet to tee off for their third round and
our moments away from doing so. Bryceon de Shambeau is
on the tea box as well. He is two off
the pace, so keep an eye on him. Of course,
tonight we've got the big Western Conference Final game three
Lakers are hosting now the Nuggets. After the Lakers in
Denver took two L's to the forehead, they'll try to

(25:39):
get things going in their favor here in Los Angeles
and Jonas. I know we've got the Preakness coming up
later on Today, another day, another horse trainer, Bob Bafford,
having to execute or excuse me euthanize one of his horses.
This happened today after one of his thoroughbreds have a meltdown,
fell down with an injury in the midst of a race,

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knocking the jockey off in one of those lead up
races to the Preakness. The horse continued to gallop and
then it was met by the vet staff, and well
we know what happened after that.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I just like, it's just I don't look horse racing
is bizarre. It is just like the whole the whole
idea of how these horse races are done. Like at
the Kentucky Derby a couple of weeks ago, we were
talking about this, Uh fin the you weren't here. I
think you were like on a yacht in Europe or
something like that, calling some equestrian race remote, but like

(26:34):
there was this. It's just so Churchill down Downs for example. Yeah,
like five horses die during the course of the week.
Another horse, you know, the favorite, pulls up a couple
hours before the race. Two more horses die on Saturday
before the race, and then a couple hours later. But like,

(26:55):
let's step over the dead bodies and everybody get a
race going while one hundred thousand people gamble on it.
Just it's like, hey, that's horse racing, and away we go.
Santa Needa add like thirty horses dying a year a
couple of years ago. Like the whole thing is bizarre,
and we just accept it. It's okay, everything's fine.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
And then you see the tent moved onto the track
and let's say you're there with your little nephew and
they say hey Brian or hey Jonas what's that tent
doing on the track.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's oh, listen, no, it's a fair point. Brady Quinn
told me this story that he was at a track
with a buddy of his and they had to put
one of the horses down, so they brought out, you know,
the tent and all that, and the guy was with
his son and his son was asking him like, what's
going on with the horse? Sya, And Brady was trying
not to laugh because the dad said to his son, Oh,

(27:42):
don't worry, son, he's just taking a dirt nap. Like
imagine having to explain that to your child. But hey,
I've got I've got the I've got the Trifecta box
on ray six coming up, so don't worry about that.
Let's step over the corpse and get everything together. It just, yeah,
the whole thing's bizarre. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
I just as I send it back to you, Jonas,
I just picture you with a roll up racing forum
in your hand, just slapping the side of your thigh,
racing and watching and hoping with a baited breath that
you're you're hit, you're able to hit with whatever Trifecta
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Ming move horse, race, the horse racers are so much fun.
One of my one of my favorite things to do
is go to the horse races. I don't do it enough.
I need to start doing it more. Unless you're the horse,
of course. Yeah that's true. Thank you, Brian. It is
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio from the tire Raq
dot com studios. All right, so coming up, if this
show wasn't positive enough, if you want us to get
a little edgy or something like that, we're going to

(28:35):
have about twelve minutes from now another edition of Do
You Care, and we're going to tell you why there
were stories that you were force fed during the course
of the week that just don't matter at all at
all whatsoever. So again that twelve minutes from now here
on FSR. SO. Isaiah McKenzie is an Indianapolis Colt. He
plays with the Colts now and you know, he was

(28:55):
discussing his time in Buffalo because he was part of
that Buffalo team last year, the team that lost to
Cincinnati at home in the playoffs, and he pointed out
that if if Buffalo had a dome, that that would
have been a completely different game. You know, like if
they would have just had a dome, just their style
of play and all that, and so of course, you know,

(29:18):
like Jamar Chase responded to it and like a couple
of things, like a Cincinnati just beat their ass, like
that's that's what happened. If you if you remember watching
that game, and people that are listening in Cincinnati right now,
or people that are Buffalo Bills fans, you knew when
Cincinnati went down and scored and went up seven to nothing,

(29:38):
it was over. It was over. Like they had to
do a pull away and pan and close up shot
of DeMar Hamlin in the press box to try and
ignite a Bill's rally. That's how bad it was. That
game was over since he went up seven to nothing
and that was a rap and you know it, and

(30:00):
so do I. But when Isaiah mackenzie says, well, if
we would have had a dome, you know what, like
things would have been different. Here's the problem. Just for
the Bills. Let's say there's some truth to this, all right,
Let's just say that there's some some validity to what's
happening here. The good news is the Bills are building

(30:23):
a new stadium. I mean, their stadium is very outdated.
I actually want to go to that Bills stadium. I
don't want to get scorted with ketchup. I'm not like,
I don't have like a fetish, like a condiment fetish
where I get scorted with ketchup and mustard before the game.
That's just weird. I don't want to throw myself through
a table. That just seems uncomfortable. But I do want
to see the stadium because if you grew up watching
nineteen nineties football, you know that the Bills were prominently featured.

(30:46):
And I want to go and see that because it'll
bring me back to my childhood. So I really want
to get there before they tear it down or do
whatever they're doing with it to build this new venue.
So the good news is the new venue is coming.
The bad news is it's not a dome. It's going
to be open air as well too. So if Isaiah
McKenzie has any sort of truth to this, if he

(31:10):
is speaking on behalf of what other players may have
talked about in Buffalo after that loss to Cincinnati, that
could be a problem because that stadium is going to
be here for the you know, the next fifteen, twenty,
twenty five, thirty, thirty five, forty plus years. So snow's
really an issue. If weather really is impacting the franchise,

(31:33):
maybe somebody should have thought about, you know, throwing a
roof on that thing, and maybe kind of pursuing the
idea of a different brand of football or a different
environment to play your brand of football if you want
to have some success. I'm just saying good news and
bad news to a lot of stuff, and definitely some
good news and bad news to this story. According to
Isaiah McKenzie Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, you can hang

(31:55):
out with us as always on the iHeartRadio app. So
and by the way, if for whatever reason, your local
affiliate switches over and goes to like some baseball game
you don't care about, again, the iHeartRadio app is where
you can go. You can find the show every single week,
so check it out. Be there. That's an option for you.
But coming up next though, from these tiraq dot com studios,
we are going to have another edition of do You

(32:17):
Care Stories in the world of sports and beyond. We'll
tell you why they matter and why they don't, and
it's yours here on FSR. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up top of next hour, we'll call it fifteen
minutes from now from the Tirak dot com studios. There
is a bizarre transformation that's taking place in the world
of sports. A man has actually turned in to an

(32:40):
animal as well. Right, true story, a man morphing in
and transitioning into an animal before your very eyes and ears.
We'll explain who that is coming up in about fifteen
minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio. But right now,
it is time for a Saturday tradition unlike any other's,
something we do every single week at this time.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.
DMZ reports, Let's get kinky. Here's some of the big
stories from the last week. But Jonas, the real question
is do you care?

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah? For that, we turn it over to our executive producer,
Bo Benson to find out what the hell people have
been talking about.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
Bo Well, Jonas former Indians and Red's pitcher and no
other team. Trevor Bauer. He's not off to the best
start in Japan. He's been sent down a level, basically
demoted before his next start. I don't even know what
team he pitches for, doesn't matter, but Jonas. Do you
care about this one at all?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
I definitely don't like this is Look, even before whatever
happened with his you know, accuser and him, like and
just the details and the photos and all that other stuff.
Like even before all that happened, nobody liked him. He
was just kind of an Like the Dodgers didn't even

(34:02):
like him, Like they didn't even need to see whether
he was innocent or guilty, and they just said, yeah,
we're good here. The clubhouse was like, yeah, we don't
need this guy. He shows up the spring training, he's
got his own camera crew. He just tried so hard.
He's not funny, he's not entertaining, Like he's a pretty
good pitcher, Like he had really really good moments in

(34:24):
good years, but it just became this act, this bit,
and he just like at a certain point, like nobody
wanted to deal with it. And now, like you know,
he's in Tokyo, you know, competing for whoever it is.
Now he's been sent down a level. Who cares?

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Next, the Bay Area will reportedly be awarded Super Bowl sixty,
which is a dude to take place in the year
twenty twenty six. Do you care?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
No, I definitely don't. I mean, anybody remember the last
time the Super Bowl was in the Bay Area. What
a disaster? What? First of all, they had media row
in downtown San Francisco, so he stepped over sleeping bags
to get to the convention center. And then if you
I wanted to go actually take part in any of
the media availability, you had to hop on a bus
and like go all the way out to Santa Clara.

(35:06):
It wasn't anywhere. Just like fundamentally, nothing lined upright, nothing
was close in proximity. The whole thing was a disaster.
Hopefully they get it fixed. But if it was like
it was last time around, I'll pass.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
Next lebron James younger son Bryce will leave Siarrah Canyon
High School where Brownie is playing and is leaving this summer,
I believe, and we'll attend Campbell Hall next season to
play basketball. Do you care?

Speaker 1 (35:30):
No, I don't listen. You know what I care about?
A John Ramos? Where do your kids go to high school?
Where's your daughter go to school? South Pasadena? All right?
I care about that, not Bronnie James, Rice James or
you know Bartle's and James. I don't care about any
of that stuff, and why everybody's fixated on Lebron's kids
is weird. I'd rather be more fixated on the fact

(35:51):
that John Ramos's children are going to be superstars in life,
and I want to know what their development is throughout
the course of their schooling experience.

Speaker 6 (35:58):
Next meeting her at a Knicks game, Jets cornerback Sauce
Gardner received a customized pair of cleats that have images
of Jessica Alba painted on them. I believe it's from
the movie Honey, and then her as a Soux Storm
from The Fantastic Four. So, Jonas, do you care about
this at all?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yes, let me tell you something. There's some they say
don't meet your heroes. There's some people like like Instagram
and snapface and some of these other like TikTok. Those
are basically highlight videos, like nobody ever shows you they're
bad stuff. Like if you look up Jessica Alba, I mean,
it's very attractive, beautiful, and then you see her in

(36:36):
person and it's even more impressive. Like I remember covering
Clippers game. She was always there sitting courtside because I
think her husband was friends with some of the Clippers.
Maybe like Baron Davis or something like that, And I
remember just thinking to myself, Yeah, there's just like that.
That's just as is like as seen on TV. And
so the fact that he's got that on his cleats

(36:58):
wonderful job it to not know who the hell of
rocket ship is when you're going to a basketball game.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
Next, Tom Brady and Travis Scott shared lunch with the
quarterbacks drafted this year, Bryce Young, Cg's Drought Anthony Richardson
will Levis in order to impartner their wisdom and some
information on building their own brand to the NFL rookies there.
Do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
No, I don't listen. This is awesome. I mean, it's
great that Tom Brady's doing this. Like, I just want
to know what the next year is going to be like.
And I want to get to the point to where
Tom Brady is a part of the Fox family and
calling games. I'm fascinated to see if this is gonna work. Look,
Jay Cutler had signed on the dotted line. He was
going to be an analyst, all right, And if we're

(37:41):
gonna be truthful here, all right, tom Brady could roll
out subpar performances for like five six years it'd probably
still be better than Tony Romo. So I think that
as much as this is a fun story for all
these kids getting into the draft, what I care about
is our own personal interest here at Fox. I want
Tom Brady be part of the family as soon as possible,

(38:02):
and I want to see Tom Brady calling games in
the NFL. That's my focus here.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Next, the Arizona Coyotes have had some issues getting a
new arena built in their home state, and Connecticut's Governor
Ned Lamont wants to pitch Hartford as an alternative site.
Bring back the Whalers, Jonas, Do you care?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Not? Really? I mean, look, the Browns got it because
they had some guy in a you know, a dog
face mask crying in court, and so everybody said, we
got to bring the Browns back because the dog pound
and he had this guy with like a bowl mastiff
mask on and he had tears coming out of the
mask while he was sitting in court begging them to
bring his Browns back. And then they did bring the

(38:40):
Browns back. And then all those years later they hooked
him up and they repaid him for his loyalty to
the franchise by hiring and signing some guy to a
record contract who happens to have a fetish when it
comes to massages. So I feel like, listen, the Browns
got it done. But listen to Hartford. You chase them away,
You chase your franchise away, your friend, your former franchise
actually playing in the Eastern Conference finals right now in Carolina.

(39:03):
So the idea that now you want to team back,
Get out of my face? Next?

Speaker 6 (39:06):
All right, last one here? Fast X or Fast ten?
How do you say it? A tenth movie in the
Fast and Furious franchise is currently cruising to a three
hundred and twenty million dollars worldwide opening. Jonas, do you care?
And which one is your favorite?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Like I've never seen one.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Oh there's no way.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
There is no interest at all in seeing Fast and
Furious movies. Like I sort of like I don't get it.
I have friends, my buddies love it. They go see
it every time it comes out in the theater, Like
every reincarnation of Fast and the Furious they want to
go see it. Like they love this stuff, and I
don't get it, Like what is the appeal? Will cars

(39:47):
go real fast? Watch Daytona?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well?

Speaker 1 (39:52):
But you know Vin Diesel's in it. He's wearn't a
wife beater, like who cares? And I don't even know
if you could say that anymore, but I have no
interest to seeing this. What's so, however, it's a waste
of money. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. We've got ourselves
a transformation that is happening in the world of sports.
We'll tell you who that is. You'll hear from them,

(40:12):
and you'll hear the transformation before your very years. Coming
up here in just a couple of moments from now.
You can listen to this show as always on the
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It is a strange transformation. And I tease this a
short time ago. You know some radio formatics here for
you kids out there, a little radio formatics. I tease this,

(40:58):
there is somebody who is art man, part animal apparently
right now. If you don't believe me, if you think
I'm lying, if you think I'm just like you know,
trying to spin yarns here on a Saturday and tell
tales and just try and keep you entertained while you
drive around trying to get your kid to go to sleep. No, no, no, no, listen,

(41:18):
there's no lies being told here. There is a man
in the world of sports that is transforming into an animal.
They're transforming into a rabbit. I swear to you not
making that up. That man is Mike Malone. And if
you don't think that he's got a pair of rabbit ears,
I don't know what the hell you've been doing with

(41:40):
your time, but I've got the proof. It's right here.
Let's be honest.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
That was a national narrative was, Hey, the Lakers are fine,
they're down one oh, but they figured something out. No
one talked about Nicole. It just had a historic performance.
He's got thirteen Chipple doubles now third all time. What
he's doing is just incredible. But the narrative wasn't about
the Nuggets. The narrative wasn't about Nicola. The narrative is
about the Lakers and their adjustments. So you know, you

(42:06):
put that in your pipe, you smoke it, and you
come back and you know what we're gonna go up to.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Oh what what? Like I listen, I'm all for like,
I'm all for the Lakers narrative. I've been saying that
for the long. Look, let's let's be truthful about this.
The NBA and ESPN and ABC, they want Celtics Lakers

(42:33):
in the finals. Apologies to the Nuggets in the heat,
but this is what they want. They want Lakers Celtics,
they want ratings. There is a Lakers narrative. All of
that is true. Okay, all like, he's one hundred percent
spot on with that, But dude, the reason why there
was a conversation about what Game two was going to
look like and people were focusing on the fact that,

(42:55):
you know, not in Nikola, Jokic's triple double and all
the other the reason why they were focusing on the
Lakers is because you were up twenty one at one point,
and the Lakers cut the lead down to three twice
in the fourth quarter. That's why that conversation was happening.
It wasn't like people just made it up at a
thin air. It wasn't like Denver blew out LA by

(43:15):
thirty five in Game one, and then everybody opened up
their shows the next morning saying, ooof rough one for
the Nuggets, hope they can rebound. In game two, you
were up twenty one and the lead got slashed to
three twice. It was a three point lead with like
a minute and change to go in the game. So

(43:38):
if you actually watched how game one went, Denver got
off to a hot start, Jokic had an unbelievable first half,
unbelievable first three quarters, and then he kind of no
showed the fourth. That's the truth. Anthony Davis outplayed him
down the stretch. That's the truth. The Lakers outplay Denver

(44:00):
down the stretch. All of that is true. The only
reason there was any sort of a discussion about what
Game two was gonna look like and the Laker narrative
is because that game got a lot closer and a
lot more uncomfortable for a lot of Denver fans, and
if you don't think so, listen to the crowd late
in game one and what happened Game two rolled around.

(44:23):
Denver got off to a slow start, Jamal Murray found
his shot late, and thus Denver goes up to nothing
but Mike Malone all of a sudden popping up with
rabbit ears like man, you won the game. Everybody's happy.
It's all good, Like listen, we get it. But two
things can be true. Yes, there's a Laker narrative, and
yes it was warranted this time because the Lakers almost

(44:47):
won Game one. I mean, when you're up by that
much and they cut it down to what they did
after a historic performance by Jokic during the first three
quarters of the game. Yes, of course people are gonna
discuss it. Of course that's going to be a talking point.
And if you think that there are talking points between
games one and two of the playoffs, you ought to

(45:08):
try the regular season in the NFL on for size,
When people like me and people like other hosts here
at Fox Sports Radio and ESPN have a whole week
to break down games. I mean, why do you think
the second week of time off between the conference championship
games and the Super Bowl kind of drag on for
a lot of people because we've already broken down every

(45:29):
angle we're looking for anything. Could somebody please get arrested
for trying to solicit a prostitute? Please, like, somebody give
us a different angle at the Super Bowl, Like, this
is what comes with the territory. So, yeah, Mike Belone,
there's a Laker narrative, but it's not like there's made
up at a thin air, dude, like, And for those
of you wondering, the Los Angeles Lakers and that Laker

(45:53):
narrative are a five and a half point favorite later
on tonight against the Denver Nuggets, just saying, now, I
think Denver is gonna win the series. Obviously, I think
Denver's the better team. But the discussion about what happened
Game one to Game two was warranted. And now we
come back Game three and we see whether or not
Lebron will have his legs in the fourth quarter of
that game, and thus maybe the Lakers make this a series.

(46:15):
Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio, there's also another thing that's
happening that I don't get. I don't understand, and we
talked about this last hour, just this whole like everybody
like going with the Grant Williams sparked the Jimmy Butler,
you know, come back in the Miami Heat. Come back.
Oh he poked the bear. Like, everybody's got to add

(46:36):
some new element to it other than the fact that
Miami's just a better team right now than Boston and
the Celtics stink at home during the course of the playoffs,
So the past couple of years they're a sub five
hundred team. Those are just that's the truth. Like, so
everybody wants to add another layer to it. They're not
satisfied with just Miami being a better team right now.
They've got to add Grant Williams poke the bear, blah

(46:58):
blah blah blah blah. Since nationalized the whole thing. But
here's what's so odd about what is happening with the
Boston Celtics. They're favorite in Game three on the road
right now. They're a three point favorite, all right, So
there's that, and then you look at just some of

(47:20):
the like the series props, and then who's projected to
you know, to win, and who's pretty like you look
at the series and Miami's not that big of a favorite,
like a minus one seventy. So if you bet one
hundred and seventy dollars, or you bet one hundred and
seventy dollars, you'll want one hundred bucks. Or in my case,
if you bet seventeen dollars, you'll win ten. It kind

(47:42):
of seems like a no brainer. But it also tells
you that Miami is sitting here up to oh and
there's still a feeling that Boston's the better team. And
I don't get it. And furthermore, what's weird about it
is if you go to the odds, if you go
to the actual NBA title odds, the Celtics have better

(48:04):
odds in the Heat. Why the Celtics shouldn't have better
odds than the Lakers? In fact, I got news for you,
the Celtics shouldn't have better odds in the Clippers. Right now.
I don't get it. What is everybody seeing that I'm
not They're an overrated basketball team? Like, what is everybody

(48:24):
watching that I'm not seeing They're down to nothing in
the Eastern Conference Finals but have better odds to win
the NBA Finals. Huh, none of it makes sense. It's
like the person that swears to God that they see
something like they walk by a bag of chips in

(48:45):
the supermarket and they go, oh my god, it's the
Virgin Mary. Hmm right there. Can't you see it? No,
I see doritos? No, no, no, you got to look closer.
I'm looking you see it now?

Speaker 2 (49:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (49:01):
What about over there? And I see ruffles? Okay, oh
there went. It went right over there. You don't see that.
It's right over there. That's the Virgin Mary. No, no, no,
that's a that's a bag of bugles. I didn't know
they still made them. But I can assure you that's's
not what you see. It's what I see, Like I
can assure you like people are looking at the Boston
Celtics and they're trying to tell me, oh my god,
this is this team should still be favored, and never

(49:24):
mind being down two oh never Like, what more do
you need to see before you realize Miami's a better
team right now and Boston's overrated. I don't get it.
It doesn't make any sense. And if the Celtics come
back and win this series, we're deleting this entire segment
from the podcast. That's all I know right now. Jonas
Knox Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at the

(49:44):
Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. All right's
coming up next? There is apparently a major change taking
place not only in the NFL, but to your holiday schedule.
I'll tell you what that is. That's next. Oh Man,

(50:04):
screw you, Iowa, Sam God. I hope he gets food
poisoning in Indonesia wherever he's at. Oh. Banger after banger
from John Ramos here. Now we got Duran Duran. Hey,

(50:25):
by the way, this I think this song came out
in like ninety three. John, Does this sound like a
nineteen ninety three song? It does not. It's not great,
doesn't it. Yeah, it's it's it's that word of the
favorite word of always is it's timeless. It is exactly
what I thought. That's what I was going for. Jonas
Knox here, Fox Sports Radio. By the way, if you

(50:46):
would like to get John on Twitter at JS Ramo
zero six at JS Ramo zero six. I didn't even
look that up. I think that's I just remember that
because we would give out that Twitter handle, and then
when it came time for John to give out our
Twitter handle, he would make one up and knockive out
the right Twitter handles. So at Jsramo zero six if
you want to follow along by the way coming up
in we'll call it a little over ten minutes from

(51:08):
now from the tiraq dot com studios. Things are a
little weird. There's a quarterback situation in the NFL that's
a little weird. We're going to tell you what that
is because it does feel like somebody's not all the
way on board with their starter there. So we'll get
into that for you again a little over ten minutes
from now on Fox Sports Radio. So this sort of

(51:30):
flew under the radar, and I don't think a lot
of people discussed it. I don't think a lot of
people got into the nuts and bolts of what this
could mean moving forward. But it is going to have
a major impact, a major impact on what is happening
not only in the NFL, but also for your holiday
schedule moving forward. So you know the NFL is going

(51:50):
to be scheduling games on Christmas coming up, like that's
going to happen. And I don't know if it's an
indicator that the NFL is going to do this permanently
to where they just tell the NBA. Listen played nice
for long enough? Can you just get out of here?
Just please go away? Like we let you hang out
during our season. We let you hang out and enjoy
a couple of primetime games here and there. But we're

(52:12):
good now, let's you know, it's like kicking you know,
the people that haven't paid their rent out, you know,
you let them slide for a couple of months, and
then finally a month, three year rolls around. It's like, hey,
how's that rent coming along?

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (52:21):
I got you next month? You do? No, Actually, you
got a cardboard box. Next month is what you got.
It's like the NFL is looking at the NBA like, hey,
we've let, you know, let you slip on rent, you know,
for a couple of years. Now we're gonna ahead and
take over Christmas. I don't know if we're going to
get to that point permanently or at least not yet,
but it does seem like the NFL is kind of
sniffing around at some other spots and going, hmm, well,

(52:44):
maybe we'll throw a game on this day, and maybe
we'll throw a game on that day, and maybe we'll
even throw a game on Black Friday. You know, We
normally don't do Friday games. That's normally not our style.
But you know what, maybe we will. Maybe we'll go
ahead and we'll venture into that territory. And then it
comes out that the NFL is going to have a

(53:06):
Black Friday game. They're gonna have the Jets and they're
gonna have the Dolphins coming up this Black Friday. And
then this little thing sort of flew under the radar.
This week. We're NFL VP of Broadcasting Mike North. No,
not Fox Sports Radios. On Mike North, one of the
all time radio graades. Dear friend of mine. He'll be
in the FSR Hall of Fame that should be coming

(53:28):
up sometime soon. Uh not that Mike North. This Mike North.
He's part of the planning of the scheduling that comes
out in the NFL each year. And he was on
the Adam Shefter podcast and he said that the Jets
and the Bengals were among teams who volunteered to host

(53:49):
Black Friday games annually. So this whole we're just gonna listen,
we're just poking around here for a year. Just want
to throw something on a black No no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. This is here to stay, and your
holidays have now changed because of this Black Friday game.
Now for those of you who get conned and having
to go to the mall with your with your better

(54:10):
half because they want to do some shopping, because you
can get a blender or like a hula hoop for
fifteen percent off that you can't get, you know, any
other time of year when you go out and shop
on Black Friday. For those of you that are into
that sort of thing, or maybe if you're not into
that sort of thing, at least we're giving you another option,
right because a lot of guys have to come up
with an excuse like That's one of the great things
about working in sports radio and sports television. The go

(54:33):
to is always, I gotta work, honey, we've got this
get together. We're gonna go to the in laws. It's
you know, the thirteenth Kinsineta in a row. I know
you haven't seen your family, but let's go ahead and
make it happen. Sorry, babe, I gotta work. Why what's on?
There's a tennis tournament in Denmark? I gotta cover. Okay,
I get it. It's work. Well like now you got

(54:55):
something like now the Black Friday Game, which is going
to be here to stay. Now, you got something that
you can go to so you don't have to partake
in some of the shenanigans that take place on a
Black Friday. Now, if you're into seeing people getting fistfights
over like the last TwixT bar, you know, go right ahead,
do what you gotta do. But at least you're gonna
have some Black Friday football that you can enjoy. But

(55:17):
the fact that you've got multiple teams volunteering to be
a part of this just tells you everything you need
to know about where the NFL is headed. This is
all about branding, This is all about placement. This is
all about how can I get the most people to
see my product? And I also think this is a

(55:39):
sign that not only are we going to have Black
Friday games moving forward, I think we're going to have
multiple Black Friday games moving forward, because it's rare that
anything is just done singularly in the NFL. Now, like
you've got Thursday Night, like that's kind of you know,
that's the thing, and it's Amazon and all that. But
if you notice they're doing now to Monday night games

(56:00):
three times this upcoming season, like have you noticed, like
whenever there's a Saturday game in the NFL, it's rare
that it's just one Saturday game. I think what we're
seeing is the NFL look around and realizing there's an
opportunity to take from other places. There's an opportunity to

(56:20):
display our product to even more people. And it's not
about the streaming, it's about the day of the week.
I think the fact that you had multiple teams volunteering, right, Like,
you don't get a lot of teams volunteering to be
a part of Thursday Night Football. You don't even get
teams volunteering to be on Hard Knocks, and that's a

(56:42):
television show. Nobody wants to be a part of that.
In fact, you've got teams making sure they're not part
of that. Hey listen, we don't want any any part
of this. This is not our thing. We've got some
stuff going on, nobody, but you've got multiple teams volunteering
to play on a short week on Friday. The NFL
is gonna look at that and say, well, if we've

(57:02):
got so many teams that want in on this, why
don't we just run multiple games, like do a doubleheader.
Remember when Thanksgiving just used to be two games. It
was Dallas, it was Detroit, and it was every single year.
And then the NFL is like, man, what about a third?
Why don't we just throw a third on there? This
is the beginning stages of what is going to change

(57:24):
not only the NFL but also your holiday schedule. I'm
not complaining. You shouldn't be complaining either, but I think
it's a sign of the times that the NFL is
definitely going in a different direction than we grew up with,
and it's happening sooner rather than later. Jonas Knox here
Fox Sports Radio. By the way, we do have some
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(58:53):
for one team in the NFL who apparently apparently not
sold on their starting quarterback. So we'll tell you who
that is coming up here shortly. But for all the
latest from around the world of sports, ladies and gentlemen,
we now go over to a man who is making
jokes at the expense of horses who have passed away recently.
Brian Finley.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Well, that was just a wonderful intro, Jonas, And that's
one way that I can really improve and increase my
fanship here of people who support me based on that. Hey,
I will say that we are watching the PGA Championship
is third round action and at two way tie for second.
We've got for first. It's Victor Hovelin and Corey Conners,

(59:32):
both at five under it and both are on the
course third round. Here has mentioned Hovelin and Connors. They
are through three holes and are even on the Dave
bris and Deshamble is four under for the tournament. He
is one under on the day. He had that two
on the par three third hole. Scottie Scheffler has fallen
down with a plus two showing so far through two

(59:54):
holes bogey's on one and two. He started the day
amongst the leaders at five under. Brooks kept good. Don't
forget about him. Reminds me of Jonas knocks. Kind of
looks like Jonas knocks too, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Definitely does not he does. Okay, he just radio I'll
play a long yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep yeah. Three
shots behind and so Brooks kak, you keep this up.
I'll look like Brooks from Shawshank. I thought you already did, no,
just kidding.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Rory McElroy is one under, so he is four shots
off the pace.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Don't forget that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
We do have Game three of the Western Conference Finals tonight.
It is the Lakers hosting the Nuggets eight thirty Eastern
Time from Crypto dot Com Arena Nuggets taking the first
two games in Denver. We also know that the Preakness
is coming up. And yes, Jonas, as he mentioned in
his segue in the lead up into introducing me, trainer

(01:00:49):
Bob Bafford had one of his horses. I guess euthanized
would be the right term in one of today's ablimity.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Maybe you slipped up and said executed last hour, if
we're going to be clear about it, Yeah, I believe
that's what is that different than euthanized? Well? Yeah, is it? Yeah?
I mean, yeah, is it? I think? I think one is,
you know, against against your will and as a punishment,
and the other is to you know, put you out
of your misery. I believe. But again, what do I know? Yeah,

(01:01:18):
I've never been euthanized. Just saying finley, okay, we're trying
to you know, we're trying to do a deep dive
here on the Preakness. I want to make sure we
get all our facts straight.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
Yeah, and make sure that you get your bets in
because that is the seventh horse that has died since
I believe Churchill downs and the Kentucky Derby. If you're
counting that number at home.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
I actually think it's closer to ten. Is it? Because
I think there were I think there was another one
that died at Churchill Downs, and then there was one
that died earlier this week. I mean the fact that
we're up to this point, it's like the you know
never I didn't want to go there. But point is
also can I tell you something? Yeah, you want to know?
Like this will make everybody feel good? Who can't stand me?

(01:01:59):
I'm so bad at betting on horse racing. I'm like,
there's nobody worse. I bet on six different horses to
win the Kentucky Derby last time around, because I said, listen,
there's no way one of these won't hit. Not only
did none of them hit, none of them finish in
the top three. You know how hard that is to do.
It's insanity. And for some reason, I'm still probably gonna

(01:02:23):
bet on the Preakness later on.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
Is that why it's always suggested that whoever you bet on,
that our listeners go the other way at all times.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
It would be a wise move. I mean, if you're smart,
but I you know, sometimes people aren't smart. I don't
have to tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
Well, I honestly thought you were a jockey in that race.
You do strike me as a jockey.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Very I mean whatever whatever that means. Yeah, I'll leave
that right there, yes, y, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
But by the way, as far as the jockey they
got thrown off the horse today, the one that was euthanized,
it was have a meltdown. That's the name of the
throw bright have a meltdown. And yeah, so I'm gonna
just leave that one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
They're too seems appropriate, Yes, all right, yeah, so there
it is. That is the great Brian Finley with us
here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, Jonas Knox with
you here on FSR. Coming up, we are going to
have it about fifteen minutes from now another edition of
the Scraps Things in the world of sports and beyond
we have not had a chance to get to. And
that's yours coming up fifteen minutes from now here, Fox

(01:03:21):
Sports Radio. So things are kind of weird with the
Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't know if anybody has noticed what
has gone on, or if anybody is paid attention to
what is going on in Pittsburgh, but it's kind of odd.
So they bring back Mitch Trubisky on a three year
contract extension. You're thinking, well, they want to make sure

(01:03:42):
the backup role is solid, so they give them a
three year deal. But they also brought back Mason Rudolph,
who's been there for years. I mean, the fact that
he's still playing football after, you know, being clubbed over
the head with his own helmet by Miles Garrett years ago.
I mean, that's a whole nother conversation for a whole

(01:04:02):
nother day. But so they bring back mitchter Bisky, they
bring back Mason Rudolph, and Kenny Pickett's still the starter, right,
because it is a bit odd that you would make
the decision to announce that you've got multiple quarterbacks that
are going to be backing up the starter. Everybody's happy,

(01:04:24):
and everybody is is good to go, and everybody's you know, fine,
and we're good here in Pittsburgh, and we're all solid,
and it seems to me like the Pittsburgh Steelers are
questioning what the hell's going on with Kenny Pickett. And
one of the things that doesn't get talked about a
lot is the fact that Kenny Pickett also suffered multiple

(01:04:47):
concussions last year in Pittsburgh, like everybody focuses on Tua.
Everybody talks about Tua and the hand signals and all
the stuff that went on on Thursday Night Football, and
they talked about Tua and why was he allowed back
in the game and what is his future going to be?
Like Kenny Pickett suffered the same number of concussions, and
that sort of gets buried, And I just wonder if

(01:05:11):
maybe the Pittsburgh Steelers are making these moves at quarterback,
if maybe the Pittsburgh Steelers are making these moves to
try and solidify the backup spot because they're not sure
whether or not Kenny Pickett is going to be the
guy now. He struggled last year. The numbers aren't great.
He had more picks than touchdowns, but he did show
some signs of developing and some signs of promise late

(01:05:34):
in the season. But it's not like he blew anybody away.
But I don't even think it's that. I really think
there's some concern about whether or not he's going to
be able to hold up, about whether or not his
health is going to be able to be sustainable for
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Moving forward, because you would assume, all right,
now that you've got the guy, maybe you'd want to
trade Mitch Trubisky. He's a serviceable backup. He's won games

(01:05:57):
in the NFL before. Mitch Trubisky can play. Like if
you're a team out there in the NFL and you've
got a quarterback who's a mobile guy, and you're not
sure whether or not he's gonna hold up, Mitch Trubisky
makes all the sense in the world, given his abilities
to be a backup quarterback. You've already got Mason Rudolph.
You would assume one of those guys would be gone,
And yet Pittsburgh made it a point not only to

(01:06:17):
keep both those guys, but to add on years to
both of their deals. Like if Kenny Pickett's the guy,
wouldn't it make sense to maybe go in a different direction.
And they're not. And I just wonder if part of
it is because what happened last year, the concussions that
don't get discussed a lot, and the concern that Pittsburgh
may have over their starter starting quarterback in his health.

(01:06:40):
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. But right now it
is time for the progressive play of the day. That's
the deal with Butler, puck fake spin another fire.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
And out play him with the remat and the throwdown. O.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Come on, put them on a bio has take it over.
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call there, that's crazy, man, because I thought for sure

(01:07:16):
it was Jimmy Butler who was doing all that stuff
after Grant Williams talk trash to him, Like, I'm just
so confused by this whole thing. I thought Grant Williams
poked the bear? Which bear? Did he poke again? I'm
just I'm trying to figure this whole thing out. Was
it Jimmy Butler? Like if not for Grant Williams getting
in Jimmy Butler's face, Miami wouldn't have won that game.

(01:07:37):
Never Mind the fact that that was a crucial play
in the game, more important than any sort of trash
talk that took place before. Never mind all that. No no, no, no, no,
no no, story's not good enough. Story is not good enough.
Never mind the fact that bam One Bayo had twenty
two points and seventeen rebounds. Now, never mind all that,
None of that is good enough. No, we got to
dress this up and make it real pretty. We got

(01:07:59):
to add some more toppings to this one. Now we've
got to really go over the top when it comes
to this stuff. We got to add in that. Grant
Williams spark the comeback by talking trash to Jimmy Butler, like,
come on, dude, can we can we not do better
in that, Like there's enough, there's enough meat on the bone.
We don't have to come like fixate on this crap.

(01:08:19):
Like and by the way, if the Celtics do go
out and win Game three, then what man, Grant Williams,
it was all a plan he got in Jimmy Butler's
face because he wanted to lose Game two but then
come back in game three, Like, come on, dude, you
know what else is is pretty evident, though it does
seem like Miami has a clear advantage when it comes

(01:08:42):
to coaching, like it does feel like and you're even
seeing people question it during the broadcast, like at late
stages of that game, Boston didn't even call a time out.
They could advance the ball up to half court, didn't
even bother didn't call a timeout. And there's moments where
people are asking about coaching and all that, and Jason
Tatum and Marcus and these guys have defended Joe Miszoula.

(01:09:02):
They've defended him and said, well, listen, you know he's
you know, he's he's not out there missing shots, he's
not turning the ball over, he's not et cetera. They're
defending their saying all the right things. But it just
goes to show you that maybe Boston kind of overreacted
when they fired Emai Udoka. Now I'm not condoning what

(01:09:25):
happened with him where apparently he's slept with a female
staffer and ruined a marriage and all that. Like, none
of that stuff is good, all right, I know that,
But you know they were consenting adults. They fooled around
a little bit. And I got news for you. If
we're going to all of a sudden take away jobs
and start firing people and publicly embarrassing people for having

(01:09:49):
affairs in the world of sports, then you're probably going
to see a lot more firings and a lot more
embarrassing moments in public for a lot of people, if
that's the punishment we're going to give people, like because
I don't know if you knew this or not, but
you know, people sometimes fool around in the world of
professional sports. Again, not sure if you're aware, not sure

(01:10:10):
if that's some you know, the way the Celtics would
have it, he may Udoka is the only guy in
the history of professional sports who's ever slept around on
his better half and ruined a marriage. According to the Celtics,
because they thought it was you know, because of all that,
they needed to make a drastic change at head coach.
And it does appear like at some moments in these
playoffs that the lack of experience for Joe Missoula has

(01:10:32):
shown up. But again, again, maybe he was the first
guy ever to be accused of this or to be
found guilty of this. All this stuff he made Udoka, apparently,
according to the Celtics. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, get
me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas
Knox on Twitter. All right, it's coming up next. We
are going to put a bow on this bad boy,
it's another edition of the scraps things in the world

(01:10:53):
of sports and beyond we have not had a chance
to get to and it's yours right here on FSR
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Stick around a little over
fifteen minutes from now from the tire rack dot com studios,
Steve Hartman and Bucky Brooks will take over the airwaves,
and if you are a USC fan, Steve Hartman is

(01:11:18):
going to feed you your heart over this Mike Bone
disaster little Friday news dump ploy by USC mutually agree
to part ways and you find out he may or
may not have been fat shaving female staffers, making people
feel uncomfortable, not showing up to events. But again, he's

(01:11:40):
got ongoing health concerns and he wants to, you know,
spend more time with his family after forty plus years.
I love how that, like is the all of a sudden,
the revelation after forty years, I'd like to spend more
time with my family. Sweet, I mean you know, I
mean just forty years. Don't worry about it, all right.
If you missed any this program, you can check out

(01:12:01):
the podcast at Fox Sports Radio dot com. Get in
you can find the link on Twitter. I'll send that
out as well too at the Jonas Knox at the
Jonas Knocks on Twitter. This fun little two hour extravaganza
will be yours via the podcast link shortly after we
go off the air. But right now it is time
to put a bow on this bad boy was something
we'd do on the show every single week.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
Jonas, moron, how could you not get to these stories?
You morons are the scraps.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Bo Benson to find out what the hell we've missed
so far. Bo.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
All right, So, forty nine Ers running back Christian McCaffrey
made an appearance on Good Morning NFL I Believe or
Good Morning Football, whatever it's called.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
And on the fourth of product.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
Yeah right, jeez, he said the trade that sent him
to the forty nine Ers was the greatest thing that
ever happened to him, although he did later say that
he made he made it clear that he had nothing
against the team that drafted him in the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
I mean, what a liar. You've seen your seen his fiance.
Oh yeah, yeah that's that's the one, not the trade, dude. Yeah, Okay,
like that's's let's be clear here, all right, there's you know,
everybody's got priorities in life. That should be number one
right there. I forget about football, forget about all that.
And also look, he's getting like all the ties to
the Bay Area, all the connections there to Shanahan and

(01:13:21):
you know, his dad and being coached by Kyle Shanahan's
dad and all that others, Like he could not have
landed in a better spot than with the San Francisco
forty nine ers. It is. It is interesting though. He
sure seems to be a lot healthier with the forty
nine ers than he was with Carolina. I don't know
what it is, like, I don't know, you know, is
it the weather? Is it? You know, it rains a

(01:13:43):
little bit more, it's a little bit mistier in the
Bay Area as opposed to Carolina where it's human. I
don't know what it is, but bo, it does feel
like he's a little healthier there.

Speaker 6 (01:13:51):
Yeah, I mean, I do kind of wonder if the
forty nine ers could do it over, if they would
not trade a bunch of draft capital for a running
back scene as they churn them out there regularly. And
then I wonder where he would have ended up if
he didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
I think the one that they probably lament or look
back on is the trailer.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
Yes, traight, I don't think they would go back and
do that one again.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
How about, like, this is what I don't know what
to do with the forty nine ers. Do I give
him credit or criticism? Because on one hand they did
find a starting quarterback with the last pick of the draft,
and on the other hand, they drafted a quarterback third
overall and gave up three first round picks, and apparently

(01:14:32):
they like the guy who was picked last more than him.
I don't know what to do with myself, Like do
I It's like somebody who makes this extravagant meal. The
food is tremendous, and in the process they burned down
the entire house.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
Can I bounce a hot take I have off of
you and see what you think about it about the
forty nine ers.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Only if it's spicy, Let's hear it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:53):
I am not convinced that Kirk Cousins is not going
to be in San Francisco by training camp.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:15:00):
I think that there's something there, and I think the
forty nine ers should probably honestly consider that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
No, I mean yes, he would be an upgrade over
anybody there.

Speaker 6 (01:15:09):
His relationship with Shanahan already. Look, the Vikings aren't giving
him a big extension. They're moving on after this year.
Everybody knows it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
I think Kirk Cousins gets a lot of the blame
in Minnesota. I think he's a much better quarterback than
people give him credit for. It's just he's kind of nerdy. Yeah,
so everybody you know makes jokes about him. Man it
there's outside of Jalen Hurts, who really were going on
one year, Kirk Cousins is the best quarterback in the NFC. Like,

(01:15:37):
I mean seriously, like you if you go through it
through the NFC and you look at all the starting quarterbacks,
Kirk Cousins outside of Jalen Hurts is the best quarterback. Yeah,
I would take I've always I've always liked Dak Prescott.
I'll take Kirk Cousins over that.

Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
I think so too. I mean if you're talking like, oh,
Kirk's not clutch, well Dak's not either, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
I mean yeah. And also Minnesota's defense has been awful,
like them losing that playoff game to the Giants, that
wasn't kirk cousins fault. He had like like twelve comebacks
last year some some crazy number like that. Like, So,
if Kirk Cousins is available and San Francisco pulls off
the deal, I mean, then I'll start buying into the
hype as it is right now. I don't understand how

(01:16:17):
everybody can look at the quarterback situation with the forty
nine ers and say, oh, but don't worry about it.
That's a legit Super Bowl contender. Yes, their entire position
is in flux. And then you've got Sam Darnold and
who the hell knows what's going to go on with.

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
Yeah, with you headed out to fabulous Las Vegas. Devin
Haney takes on Vasili Lomanchenko tonight in a big boxing match.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Yes, here's the problem. Lomachenko's on one of the better
boxers of this era, but he's thirty five, Devin Haney's younger.
He apparently is going to be fined by the Nevada
State Athletic Commission because he shoved Vasilli Lomachenko yesterday at
the way in which nobody expected. Vasili Lomachenko didn't really
do anything, he was just smiling at him and Devin Hante,

(01:17:00):
and he was like, you know what, I really got
to sell this fight. Let me shove the guy. The
problem is he's now going to get fined by the
by the NSAC, And so now you're looking at it going, okay,
was it worth all the trouble? I'll be watching. It's
pay per view, but it's a good fight. I love
me some fight nights. And you've got that. You've got
the Laker game, you got the NHL game. We're set
up for a nice little pinata of sports coming up

(01:17:21):
later on tonight. There Bo Benson.

Speaker 6 (01:17:23):
Oh yeah, I will definitely be watching the Laker game
for sure. That's what I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Be doing big.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:17:27):
Well you're a Denver Nuggets fan, Yeah, huge, And me
and Ramos huge Nuggets fans out here at FSR.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
Yeah. For those of you that aren't aware, Bo's actually
doing the show in a vintage Kiki Vandawa jersey.

Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
Wow. So that's a pol I left my Carmelo at home.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
You're my Alex English is also, by the way, he
John You remember that movie Alex English was in what
was it called? He Starting a movie like he was
a ghost. He had passed away, he like died in
a plane crash or some crap like that. God, what
the hell was that movie? What the hell?

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Bo?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Could you look at? What the hell was that? Look
right now? That Alex English movie? Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:18:04):
Amazing Grace and Chucks?

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Amazing Grace and Chuck rolls right off the tongue. What
a great title? What did it beat out the Alex
English Plain Adventures? Jesus he came up in that movie too,
he was I remember watching that and and yeah, that
was a That was a movie from my childhood. Alex English,

(01:18:27):
Jamie Lee curis amazing Grace and Chuck.

Speaker 6 (01:18:31):
What a Speaking of movies, real quick, Jurassic Park is
celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. That's the first movie I ever
saw in theaters. So I now feel really old. And
of course Universal is going all out to celebrate merchandise
everything at all the fat parks.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
I'd rather be really old than a loser. I've never
seen the first dress. I still to this day have
never seen the first one. Man, So like, have you
seen the other ones? Yeah, whenever, I've seen the other ones.
So I just don't get the references because you're you're
in a theater and all of a sudden, somebody made
like Jeff Goldbloom steps off the set of the Fly

(01:19:08):
and makes an appearance. Everyone's like, oh my god, he's back.
I'm like, he's back from what the guy was an
insect in a movie, Like back from what that awful
movie he did about Doomsdays with Will Smith. Come on,
I got

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